Call of the Camino: A Novel
by
Suzanne Redfearn
Lake Union Publishing, 10/01/2025
Reina Watkins lost her father when she was eight. Seventeen years later, she still carries that grief. When her budding journalism career takes an ...
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Literary Fiction
Dating After the End of the World
by
Jeneva Rose
Montlake, 10/01/2025
Casey Pearson grew up with a doomsday-prepping father. At eighteen, tired of living an unconventional life, she left home, vowing never to return.
...
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Romance
Death of an Ordinary Man
by
Sarah Perry
Jonathan Cape, 10/02/2025
Death of an Ordinary Man opens on a charming, merry seaside scene in late August. Perry, her husband, and her father-in-law David are at the Yarmouth ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Neverending Book
by
Naoki Matayoshi
Michael Joseph Ltd, 10/02/2025
A book that makes the sound of turning pages fractionally too early, infuriating its readers; a diary shared by two children with painful secrets; a ...
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Graphic Novels
38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia
by
Philippe Sands
Knopf, 10/07/2025
On the evening of October 16, 1998, Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested at a medical clinic in London. After a brutal, seventeen-year reign...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Mouthful of Dust: The Singing Hills Cycle #6
by
Nghi Vo
Tordotcom, 10/07/2025
Wandering Cleric Chih of Singing Hills and their hoopoe companion Almost Brilliant come to the river town of Baolin chasing stories of a legendary ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Alchemy of Secrets
by
Stephanie Garber
Flatiron Books, 10/07/2025
Folklore 517: Local Legends and Urban Myths, taught by a woman called the Professor.
Most students believe the Professor's stories are just fiction...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
And I'll Take Out Your Eyes: A Novel
by
Allan Martín Nava Sosa
Algonquin Books, 10/07/2025
A boy wakes up with a knife in his hand. It's the early '90s in Stockton, CA, when Christian is caught sleepwalking in the kitchen by his family—...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
And the River Drags Her Down
by
Jihyun Yun
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 10/07/2025
When her older sister is found mysteriously drowned in the river that cuts through their small coastal town, Soojin Han disregards every rule and uses...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Angelica and the Bear Prince
by
Trung Le Nguyen
Random House Graphic, 10/07/2025
Angelica was the girl who could do it all—until suddenly, she couldn't. Burnout hit hard. Now, after some very low moments, she's ready to get ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance (Pantheon Graphic Library)
by
Ben Passmore
Pantheon Books, 10/07/2025
It's the summer of 2020, and downtown Philly is up in flames. "You're not out in the streets with everyone else?" Ronnie asks his ambivalent son, Ben,...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Cinder House
by
Freya Marske
Tordotcom, 10/07/2025
Ella is a haunting.
Murdered at sixteen, her ghost is furiously trapped in her father's house, invisible to everyone except her stepmother and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dear New York
by
Brandon Stanton
St. Martin's Press, 10/07/2025
Creator of the global sensation "Humans of New York" and author of four #1
New York Times bestsellers, Brandon Stanton has shown us a unique side of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Death and the Gardener
by
Georgi Gospodinov
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 10/07/2025
"
My father was a gardener. Now he is a garden."
Death and the Gardener traces the final month of a father's life, a dying father in a dying world....
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Thrillers
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
by
Francesca Wade
Scribner, 10/07/2025
Gertrude Stein's salon at 27 rue de Fleurus in the 6th arrondissement of Paris is the stuff of literary legend. Many have tried to capture the spirit ...
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Girl Warrior: A Coming of Age Handbook
by
Joy Harjo
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/07/2025
In her best-selling memoir
Poet Warrior, renowned poet and activist Joy Harjo led readers through her lifelong process of artistic evolution. In
Girl ...more
Herculine: A Novel
by
Grace Byron
Saga Press, 10/07/2025
Herculine's narrator has demons. Sure, her life includes several hallmarks of the typical trans girl sob story—conversion therapy, a string of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Hole in the Sky: A Novel
by
Daniel H. Wilson
Doubleday, 10/07/2025
On the Great Plains of Oklahoma—in the heart of the Cherokee Nation—a strange atmospheric disturbance is noticed by Jim Hardgray, a down-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
How to Fake a Haunting
by
Christa Carmen
Thomas & Mercer, 10/07/2025
Lainey Taylor is being pushed to the brink by her alcoholic husband, Callum. Prone to hallucinations and erratic behavior, it's only a matter of time ...
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Thrillers
If the Dead Belong Here: A Novel
by
Carson Faust
Viking, 10/07/2025
When six-year-old Laurel Taylor vanishes without a trace, her family is left shattered, struggling to navigate the darkness of grief and unanswered ...
more
Kicking the Hornet's Nest: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East from Truman to Trump
by
Daniel Zoughbie
Simon & Schuster, 10/07/2025
Kicking the Hornet's Nest is a riveting exploration of how twelve US presidents have shaped the Middle East, often unleashing instability and conflict...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lou with the Band
by
Alexandra Leigh Young
Walker Books US, 10/07/2025
When Lou enlists her best friend, Molly, to shave her head, it's partly so she doesn't have to deal with washing her hair all the time while on tour&#...
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Love, Sex, and Frankenstein: A Novel
by
Caroline Lea
Pegasus Books, 10/07/2025
Villa Diodati, Lake Geneva, 1816: the dark summer that birthed a monster.
Eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley has fled London with her lover, Percy ...
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Historical Fiction
Mirage City: Evander Mills #4
by
Lev AC Rosen
Minotaur Books, 10/07/2025
Private Investigator Evander "Andy" Mills' next case takes him out of his comfort zone in San Francisco―and much to his dismay, back home to Los...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Mothers: A Novel
by
Brenda Lozano
Catapult, 10/07/2025
When the kidnapping of a little girl shocks the Mexican capital, the lives of two very different women become forever intertwined. Gloria Felipe lives...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
by
Beth Macy
Penguin Press, 10/07/2025
Urbana, Ohio, was not a utopia when Beth Macy grew up there in the '70s and '80s, certainly not for her family. Her dad was known as the town drunk, ...
more
Schott's Significa: A Miscellany of Secret Languages
by
Ben Schott
Workman, 10/07/2025
Here is an obsessive and fascinating look at the systems of language and knowledge that surrounds us. Ben Schott breaks down the lingo, slang, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Sea, Poison
by
Caren Beilin
New Directions Publishing, 10/07/2025
Cumin Baleen is a forty-one-year-old writer living in Philadelphia―
this city of hospitals―who works at the upscale grocery Sea & Poison ...
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The Elopement: A Novel
by
Gill Hornby
Pegasus Books, 10/07/2025
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
1820. Mary Dorothea ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Four Spent the Day Together
by
Chris Kraus
Scribner, 10/07/2025
On the Iron Range of northern Minnesota, at the end of the last decade, three teenagers shot and killed an older acquaintance after spending the day ...
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The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
by
John U. Bacon
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 10/07/2025
For three decades following World War II, the Great Lakes overtook Europe as the epicenter of global economic strength. The region was the beating ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal
by
Yossi Yovel
St. Martin's Press, 10/07/2025
With nearly 1500 species, bats account for more than twenty percent of mammalian species. The most successful and most diverse group of mammals, bats ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The High Heaven: A Novel
by
Joshua Wheeler
Graywolf Press, 10/07/2025
In 1967, on the night of the first Apollo mission, a child named Izzy is orphaned when the doomsday cult she was born into clashes with the sheriff in...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Hitchhikers: A Novel
by
Chevy Stevens
St. Martin's Press, 10/07/2025
It's the summer of 1976 and Alice and Tom set out on the remote Canadian highways in their new RV, hoping to heal their broken hearts after a ...
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The Hong Kong Widow
by
Kristen Loesch
Berkley Books, 10/07/2025
In 1950s Hong Kong, Mei is a young refugee of the Chinese Communist revolution struggling to put her past in Shanghai behind her. When she receives a ...
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Historical Fiction
The Intruder
by
Freida McFadden
Poisoned Pen Press, 10/07/2025
Who knows what the storm will blow in…
Casey's cabin in the wilderness is not built for a hurricane. Her roof shakes, the lights flicker, and...
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Thrillers
The Last Supper: How to Overcome the Future Food Crisis
by
Sam Kass
Crown, 10/07/2025
As a chef in high-end restaurants, and later, in the home of then Senator Barack and Michelle Obama, Sam Kass read a lot about how eating organic and ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It's Too Late
by
Wim Carton, Andreas Malm
Verso, 10/07/2025
The world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Lucky Ride: A Novel Full of Opportunity
by
Yasushi Kitagawa
HarperOne, 10/07/2025
After losing multiple contracts, Shuichi must make restitution to his company. Faced with this large, unanticipated debt, the trip to Paris he and his...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Salvage: A Novel
by
Anbara Salam
Tin House Books, 10/07/2025
It is 1962, and Marta Khoury, a trailblazing marine archaeologist, has been called to Cairnroch, a small island off the east coast of Scotland. A ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Second Chance Cinema: A Novel
by
Thea Weiss
Atria Books, 10/07/2025
At the end of a fog-covered alley, glitters a glamorous cinema. It's nearly impossible to find. When Ellie and her fiancé, Drake, stumble upon it...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Things That Disappear
by
Jenny Erpenbeck
New Directions Publishing, 10/07/2025
Things that Disappear is an exciting collection of interlinked miniature prose pieces that grapple with the phenomenon of disappearance on scales both...
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Twice: A Novel
by
Mitch Albom
Harper, 10/07/2025
When he is eight years old, Alfie Logan discovers the magical ability to get a second chance at everything. He can undo any moment and live it again. ...
more
Unfit
by
Ariana Harwicz
New Directions Publishing, 10/07/2025
Lisa has lost custody of her young twin boys. Caught between the French legal system's sluggish bureaucracy and her sinister, scheming in-laws, she's ...
more
Venetian Vespers: A Novel
by
John Banville
Knopf, 10/07/2025
Everything was a puzzle, everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me... .
1899. As the new century approaches, struggling English writer ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Who Gets to Be Indian?: Ethnic Fraud, Disenrollment, and Other Difficult Conversations About Native American Identity
by
Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Beacon Press, 10/07/2025
Settler capitalism has been so effective that the very identities of Indigenous people have been usurped, misconstrued, and weaponized. In
Who Gets to...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Big Kiss, Bye-Bye: A Novel
by
Claire-Louise Bennett
Riverhead Books, 10/09/2025
The things that hold life in place have been lifted off and put away. Uprooted by circumstance from city to deep countryside, a woman lives in ...
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1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
by
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Viking, 10/14/2025
In
1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out fortunes and igniting a depression ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Wooded Shore: And Other Stories
by
Thomas McGuane
Knopf, 10/14/2025
In these nine peerless stories, a family boating trip veers into emotional disaster while very narrowly avoiding the physical; a would-be cheater ...
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All That We See or Seem: Julia Z #1
by
Ken Liu
Simon & Schuster, 10/14/2025
Julia Z, a young woman who gained notoriety at fourteen as the "orphan hacker," is trying to live a life of digital obscurity in a quiet Boston suburb...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
An Ocean Apart
by
Jill Tew
Joy Revolution, 10/14/2025
Eden Lowell has plenty to be frustrated about. In the flooded Marshes of former Miami, each day is about survival. Even her feelings for her best ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation
by
Marla A. Ramírez
Harvard University Press, 10/14/2025
From 1921 to 1944, approximately one million ethnic Mexicans living in the United States were removed across the border to Mexico. What officials ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Boleyn Traitor: A Thrilling Story of Ambition, Power and the Dark Side of the Tudor Court
by
Philippa Gregory
William Morrow, 10/14/2025
Jane Boleyn watches from the shadows of the Tudor court, where secrets are currency, every choice is dangerous, and even the faintest whisper can seal...
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Historical Fiction
Broken
by
X. Fang
Tundra Books, 10/14/2025
When Mei Mei accidentally breaks her ama's favorite cup, she's convinced it's the end of the world. What if Ama is angry? What if she yells? What if ...
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Other
Butterfly Heart
by
Moa Backe Åstot
Levine Querido, 10/14/2025
It's never been a big deal to Vilda that her mother's side of the family is Sámi and her father's is Swedish, but as summer vacation starts, she ...
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Literary Fiction
Christmas at the Women's Hotel: A Biedermeier Story (Women's Hotel #1.5)
by
Daniel M. Lavery
HarperVia, 10/14/2025
Christmas at the Biedermeier Hotel means work. For much of the year, employment comes infrequently to Biedermeier residents. But during the Advent ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic
by
Harmonia Rosales
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/14/2025
In
Chronicles of Ori, her debut book, Harmonia Rosales retells the African myths she has long treasured, crafting an enthralling epic that spans the ...
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Conform: A Novel (The Reform Series)
by
Ariel Sullivan
Ballantine Books, 10/14/2025
A lifelong outcast, twenty-seven-year-old Emeline spends her days alone, sorting ancient art for destruction. Centuries after a catastrophic war ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Devils' Advocates: How Washington Lobbyists Get Rich Enabling Dictators, Oligarchs, and Arms Dealers (While Thwarting Democracy)
by
Kenneth P. Vogel
William Morrow, 10/14/2025
It has been the source of some of the most explosive scandals in American politics over the last century, quietly shaping U.S. foreign policy while ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Gone Before Goodbye
by
Harlan Coben, Reese Witherspoon
Grand Central Publishing, 10/14/2025
Maggie McCabe is teetering on the brink. A highly skilled and renowned Army combat surgeon, she has always lived life at the edge, where she could ...
more
Thrillers
Happy Bad: A Novel
by
Delaney Nolan
Astra House, 10/14/2025
Beatrice works at Twin Bridge, a chronically underfunded residential treatment center in near-future East Texas, teeming with enraged teenage girls on...
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Happy People Don't Live Here: A Novel
by
Amber Sparks
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 10/14/2025
Just past the edge of summer, Alice and Fern arrive at the Pine Lake Apartments―a former sanitorium occupied by an ensemble of peculiar ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
by
Mariama J. Lockington
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/14/2025
High school senior Lyric has always found Christmas to be the hardest season. While other kids got presents and family time by the fire, she was in ...
more
Intemperance: A Novel
by
Sonora Jha
HarperVia, 10/14/2025
A woman who has left two husbands announces she will celebrate her 55th birthday by holding a swayamvar. Drawn from an ancient custom in her Indian ...
more
Joyride
by
Susan Orlean
Simon & Schuster, 10/14/2025
"The story of my life is the story of my stories," writes Susan Orlean in this extraordinary, era-defining memoir from one of the greatest ...
more
Little F
by
Michelle Tea
Feminist Press, 10/14/2025
In Spencer's fantasies, the breezy, queer streets of Provincetown, MA, are utopia, a place where he can be free. Yet when a violent attack in his ...
more
Lost in the Forest of Mechanical Birds
by
Christian Moody
Dzanc Books, 10/14/2025
Best friends George and Elly start a hide-and-go-seek club inspired by their love of the game, which goes too far when Elly stays hidden for years. An...
more
Short Stories
Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History
by
Oren Harman
Basic Books, 10/14/2025
"How many creatures walking on this earth / Have their first being in another form?" the Roman poet Ovid asked two thousand years ago. He could not ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
My Name Means Fire: A Memoir
by
Atash Yaghmaian
Beacon Press, 10/14/2025
When she was a child, Atash Yaghmaian's home life was unpredictable: a confusing mix of love and terror. Outside of her home, Iran was also on fire. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Next of Kin: A Memoir
by
Gabrielle Hamilton
Random House, 10/14/2025
"
We were a family veined through with certain brutalities, rifts, and unresolved conflicts, as well as some remarkable violences and some decades-long...more
Red City: The New Alchemists #1
by
Marie Lu
Tor Books, 10/14/2025
Alchemy is the hidden art of transformation. An exclusive power wielded by crime syndicates that market it to the world's elites in the form of sand, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Remain: A Novel
by
Nicholas Sparks
Random House, 10/14/2025
When New York architect Tate Donovan arrives in Cape Cod to design his best friend's summer home, he is hoping to make a fresh start. Recently ...
more
Sex of the Midwest
by
Robyn Ryle
Galiot Press, 10/14/2025
One foggy morning, an email appears in inboxes across the small town of Lanier, Indiana. "Invitation to Participate: Sexual Practices in a Small ...
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Literary Fiction
Splendid Liberators: Heroism, Betrayal, Resistance, and the Birth of American Empire
by
Joe Jackson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/14/2025
In 1898, the United States won an empire, and―many allege―lost its soul. In
Splendid Liberators, Joe Jackson offers an epic narrative of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Tenderheaded: A Memoir
by
Michaela Angela Davis
Simon & Schuster, 10/14/2025
As
VIBE's founding fashion editor and a CNN correspondent, Michaela Angela Davis has been at the forefront of cultural shifts, working alongside ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Last Spirits of Manhattan: A Novel
by
John A McDermott
Atria Books, 10/14/2025
After fleeing her mundane life in the Midwest, Carolyn Banks finds herself in her enigmatic great-aunts' eerie mansion on Manhattan's Upper East Side....
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Leaving Room
by
Amber McBride
Feiwel & Friends, 10/14/2025
Gospel is the Keeper of the Leaving Room―a place all young people must phase through when they die. The young are never ready to leave; they ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Missing Pages
by
Alyson Richman
Union Square & Co., 10/14/2025
1912: Harry Widener, a promising and passionate book collector, boards the
Titanic holding tight to a priceless volume he's just purchased in ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Monsters We Make: Murder, Obsession, and the Rise of Criminal Profiling
by
Rachel Corbett
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/14/2025
Criminal profiling―the delicate art of collecting and deciphering the psychological "fingerprints" of the monsters among us―holds an ...
more
The Once and Future Riot
by
Joe Sacco
Metropolitan Books, 10/14/2025
Compared to other episodes of lethal Indian communal violence, the clashes in Uttar Pradesh in 2013, the Muzaffarnagar Riot, were a relatively small-...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Princess Knight
by
Cait Jacobs
Harper Voyager, 10/14/2025
Domhnall and Clía are an ideal match—or so everyone says. Heirs to neighboring kingdoms, they are an alliance the gods will smile on. Until...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America
by
John Fabian Witt
Simon & Schuster, 10/14/2025
In 1922, a young idealist named Charles Garland rejected a million-dollar inheritance. In a world of shocking wealth disparities, shameless racism, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Unveiling: A Novel
by
Quan Barry
Grove Press, 10/14/2025
Striker isn't entirely sure she should be on this luxury Antarctic cruise. A Black film scout, her mission is to photograph potential locations for a ...
more
The Wayfinder: A Novel
by
Adam Johnson
MCD, 10/14/2025
Talking corpses, poetic parrots, and a fan that wafts the breath of life―this is the world young Kōrero finds herself thrust into when a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
by
Siddharth Kara
St. Martin's Press, 10/14/2025
In late October 1780, a slave ship set sail from the Netherlands, bound for Africa's Windward and Gold Coasts, where it would take on its human cargo....
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Vagabond: A Memoir
by
Tim Curry
Grand Central Publishing, 10/14/2025
There are few stars in Hollywood today that can boast the kind of resume Tony award-nominated actor Tim Curry has built over the past five decades. ...
more
We Survived the Night
by
Julian Brave NoiseCat
Knopf, 10/14/2025
Julian Brave NoiseCat's childhood was rich with culture and contradictions. When his Secwépemc and St'at'imc father, an artist haunted by a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Workhorse: A Novel
by
Caroline Palmer
Flatiron Books, 10/14/2025
At the turn of the millennium, editorial assistant Clodagh "Clo" Harmon wants nothing more than to rise through the ranks at the world's most ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Ever Since We Small
by
Celeste Mohammed
Ig Publishing, 10/16/2025
Written in a blend of Standard English and several flavors of Trinidad
kriol, Ever Since We Small follows the bloodline of a young woman, Jayanti, ...
more
Red Flags and Butterflies
by
Sheryl Azzam
DCB Young Readers, 10/18/2025
She's even got a shot at a swimming scholarship. Everyone she loves is supportive of her application.
Everyone, that is, except her dad.
Lexie's...
more
Literary Fiction
Binding 13
by
Chloe Walsh
Bloom Books, 10/21/2025
Johnny Kavanagh is the definition of popular. He is an all-star rugby player with loads of friends, which means he should be enjoying the many perks ...
more
Romance
Crawl: Stories
by
Max Delsohn
Graywolf Press, 10/21/2025
What to do when starting testosterone unlocks a newfound desire for men? How to respond when your boss's boss asks if you've had "the surgery" and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
DILF: Did I Leave Feminism?
by
Jude Doyle
Melville House, 10/21/2025
When Jude Doyle began his transition in the summer of 2020, he had a very public career as a feminist—winning awards from women's organizations,...
more
Futility
by
Nuzo Onoh
Titan Books, 10/21/2025
Betrayed by the men in their lives, two women seethe with rage and bitterness. When a trickster spirit offers them the gift of revenge, they cannot ...
more
Thrillers
Gathered: On Foraging, Feasting, and the Seasonal Life
by
Gabrielle Cerberville
Harper, 10/21/2025
Foraging is becoming increasingly popular, from TikTok to tasting menus at the most exclusive restaurants around the world. People are discovering ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Girl Dinner
by
Olivie Blake
Tor Books, 10/21/2025
Good girls deserve a treat.
Every member of The House, the most exclusive sorority on campus, and all its alumni, are beautiful, high-achieving, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Keeping 13
by
Chloe Walsh
Bloom Books, 10/21/2025
Johnny Kavanagh has been living a different life since his injury sidelined him. He's never known life without his beloved number 13 jersey, and he ...
more
Romance
King Sorrow: A Novel
by
Joe Hill
William Morrow, 10/21/2025
Arthur Oakes is a reader, a dreamer, and a student at Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters, exceptional library, and beautiful ...
more
Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View
by
Edward McPherson
Astra House, 10/21/2025
Look Out is an exploration of long-distance mapping, aerial photography, and top-down and far-ranging perspectives—from pre–Civil War ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Nobody's Girl
by
Virginia Roberts Giuffre
Knopf, 10/21/2025
The world knows Virginia Roberts Giuffre as Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's most outspoken victim: the woman whose decision to speak out ...
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Biography/Memoir
Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur
by
Jeff Pearlman
Mariner Books, 10/21/2025
Despite a multitude of books, documentaries, and even a feature film, much about Tupac's story remains shrouded and misunderstood. Like many icons who...
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Our Vicious Descent
by
Hayley Dennings
Sourcebooks Fire, 10/21/2025
It's 1927, and shocking upheavals have rocked Harlem's most powerful factions and left Elise Saint estranged from the reaper she loves, Layla Quinn. ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution
by
Amanda Vaill
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/21/2025
Angelica and Elizabeth Schuyler, born to wealth and privilege in New York's Hudson Valley during the latter half of the eighteenth century, were ...
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The Isle in the Silver Sea
by
Tasha Suri
Orbit, 10/21/2025
In an England fuelled by stories, the knight and the witch are fated to fall in love and doom each other over and over, the same tale retold over ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays
by
Harper Lee
Harper, 10/21/2025
Harper Lee remains a landmark figure in the American canon – thanks to Scout, Jem, Atticus, and the other indelible characters in her Pulitzer-...
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Short Stories
The Midnight Knock: A Novel
by
John Fram
Atria Books, 10/21/2025
In the frigid west Texas desert, weary travelers converge at a lonely roadside motel nestled at the foot of a massive mountain. Ethan and Hunter have ...
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Thrillers
The Proving Ground: A Lincoln Lawyer Novel
by
Michael Connelly
Little Brown & Company, 10/21/2025
Following his "resurrection walk" and need for a new direction, Mickey Haller turns to public interest litigation, filing a civil lawsuit against an ...
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Thrillers
The Sister's Curse
by
Nicola Solvinic
Berkley Books, 10/21/2025
Lieutenant Anna Koray thought she'd finally found solid ground and escaped her past as the daughter of a notorious serial killer. A loving boyfriend, ...
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The Ten Year Affair: A Novel
by
Erin Somers
Simon & Schuster, 10/21/2025
When Cora meets Sam at a baby group in their small town, the chemistry between them is undeniable. Both are happily married young parents with two ...
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The Widow: A Novel
by
John Grisham
Doubleday, 10/21/2025
Simon Latch is a lawyer in rural Virginia, making just enough to pay his bills while his marriage slowly falls apart. Then into his office walks ...
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Thrillers
The Women of Artemis: A Novel
by
Hannah Lynn
Sourcebooks Landmark, 10/21/2025
When she first married at fourteen, Otrera imagined a relationship full of love. A partnership. Years later, living in destitution with her abusive ...
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Historical Fiction
This Is the Only Kingdom: A Novel
by
Jaquira Díaz
Algonquin Books, 10/21/2025
When Maricarmen meets Rey el Cantante, beloved small-time Robin Hood and local musician on the rise, she begins to envision a life beyond the tight-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
When They Burned the Butterfly
by
Wen-yi Lee
Tor Books, 10/21/2025
Singapore, 1972: Newly independent, a city of immigrants grappling for power in a fast-modernizing world. Here, gangsters are the last conduits of the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
LIT
by
Tim Sandlin
Brash Books, 10/22/2025
In a small town in the woods of northwest Wyoming, Kasey Cobb lives alone in a cabin, runs a drive-through coffee kiosk, and hangs out at the library,...
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Mysteries
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (And Why It Matters)
by
Map Men
Hanover Square Press, 10/23/2025
Hello, we're the Map Men and in the following pages, we've selected what we believe to be some of the very best wrong maps. Some of them are decades ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
A Short History of the Gaza Strip
by
Anne Irfan
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/28/2025
The Gaza Strip is one of the most widely reported-on regions in the world―yet misinformation about its history and people abound. In this vital ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
An Unlikely Coven: Green Witch Cycle #1
by
AM Kvita
Orbit, 10/28/2025
After seven long years Joan Greenwood is finally returning home. Unfortunately, her family totally forgot about it.
Joan's homecoming is lukewarm ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Ask for Andrea
by
Noelle West Ihli
Kensington Publishing, 10/28/2025
He hunted them online, masquerading as an eligible bachelor. Then he played the perfect gentleman, a thick layer of charm and a thousand-watt smile ...
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Thrillers
Blood for the Undying Throne: The Bleeding Empire #2
by
Sung-il Kim
Tor Books, 10/28/2025
The Empire scorns all invisible gods.
The Empire kills all visible ones.
The Empire continues to enforce its so-called peace with massive ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Chasing Stardust: A Novel
by
Erica Lucke Dean
Lake Union Publishing, 10/28/2025
A crazy promise is still a promise. Zoey Jones is spreading her late mother's ashes along a path her eccentric grandma G-Lo followed in 1972: David ...
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Literary Fiction
Dead and Alive: Essays
by
Zadie Smith
Penguin Press, 10/28/2025
In the past two decades, few writers have mastered the craft and art of the essay in the way that Zadie Smith has. Her writing, at once an occasion ...
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Hazelthorn
by
CG Drews
Feiwel & Friends, 10/28/2025
Evander has lived like a ghost in the forgotten corners of the Hazelthorn estate ever since he was taken in by his reclusive billionaire guardian, ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
In Deadly Fashion: Gilded Age Mysteries #10
by
Rosemary Simpson
Kensington Publishing, 10/28/2025
August 1891: Prudence has her heart set on wearing her mother's wedding gown on the happy day, but she soon discovers the material has deteriorated so...
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Mysteries
Let My Country Awake: Indian Revolutionaries in America and the Fight to Overthrow the British Raj
by
Scott Miller
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/28/2025
WANTED: Brave soldiers to stir up revolt in India;
REMUNERATIONS: Death;
PRIZE: Martyrdom;
PENSION: Freedom
In November 1913, a ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Murdoku
by
Manuel Garand
Puzzlewright Press, 10/28/2025
These visually appealing, addictive puzzles drop solvers into immersive mini murder mysteries, combining the elegant simplicity of games like sudoku ...
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Other
Right Where We Belong
by
Farrah Penn
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 10/28/2025
Delaney Carmichael's final year of boarding school at Ivernia is not off to a great start. Losing her father has left her feeling completely unmoored&...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Sacrament: A Novel
by
Susan Straight
Counterpoint Press, 10/28/2025
In August 2020, a group of nurses are working in the ICU at a hospital in San Bernardino at the height of a Covid surge: Larette Embers, whose husband...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Anthony Bourdain Reader: New, Classic, and Rediscovered Writing
by
Anthony Bourdain
Ecco, 10/28/2025
Anthony Bourdain represented many things to many people—and he had many sides. But no part of his identity was more important to him than that ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Black Wolf: Chief Inspector Gamache Novel #20
by
Louise Penny
Minotaur Books, 10/28/2025
Somewhere out there, in the darkness, a black wolf is feeding.
Several weeks ago, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Qu&#...
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The Bone Thief
by
Vanessa Lillie
Berkley Books, 10/28/2025
In the hours before dawn at a local summer camp, Bureau of Indian Affairs archaeologist Syd Walker receives an alarming call: newly discovered ...
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The Brood: A Novel
by
Rebecca Baum
Thomas & Mercer, 10/28/2025
Cutthroat NYC lawyer Mary Whelton just buried her problematic old mentor. But as she leaves the mourners and protesters behind, the press stays hot on...
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Thrillers
The Devil Is a Southpaw: A Novel
by
Brandon Hobson
Ecco, 10/28/2025
Milton Muleborn has envied Matthew Echota, a talented Cherokee artist, ever since they were locked up together in a dangerous juvenile detention ...
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The Everlasting
by
Alix E. Harrow
Tor Books, 10/28/2025
It begins where it ends: beneath the yew tree―a girl not yet a knight, and a boy without a story.
That is where she pulls a sword from the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding
by
Joseph J. Ellis
Knopf, 10/28/2025
"
How does it appear in the sight-of-heaven," wrote Samuel Hopkins of Newport, "that these States, who have been fighting for liberty, cannot agree in ...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Uncool: A Memoir
by
Cameron Crowe
David Fickling Books, 10/28/2025
Cameron Crowe was an unlikely rock and roll insider. Born in 1957 to parents who strictly banned the genre from their house, he dove headfirst into ...
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The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family's Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life
by
Amy Bowers Cordalis
Little Brown & Company, 10/28/2025
The Water Remembers is the story of Indigenous resistance and an American family's fight to preserve its legacy. For more than half a century, between...
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The White Octopus Hotel
by
Alexandra Bell
Del Rey, 10/28/2025
"Have you travelled a long way?" she asked carefully..
A smile twitched at the corner of his mouth. "Well, yes," he said slowly. "Yes, you could say ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Torchfire: The Torch Trilogy #2
by
Moira Buffini
Storytide, 10/28/2025
Lark fled Northaven with her mother and is seeking safe haven, Nightingale is forced to use her songlight against her people, Piper's been promoted ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
What Have They Done to Liza McLean?
by
Amy Doak
Penguin Press, 10/28/2025
Meg McLean is a scholarship student at the ultra-elite Douglas College. Meg's younger sister, Liza, is along for the ride, and everything Liza has ...
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Literary Fiction
When All the Men Wore Hats: Susan Cheever on the Stories of John Cheever
by
Susan Cheever
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/28/2025
The Stories of John Cheever, published in 1978, brought together some of the finest short fiction ever written. The collection was honored with the ...
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Wreck: A Novel
by
Catherine Newman
Harper, 10/28/2025
If you loved Rocky and her family on vacation on Cape Cod, wait until you join them at home two years later. (And if this is your first meeting with ...
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New York 2020: Architecture and Urbanism at the Beginning of a New Century
by
Robert A.M. Stern
The Monacelli Press, 10/29/2025
A landmark in architectural publishing,
New York 2020 explores the planning and politics of building in New York City during the first decades of the ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
