A Real Animal: A Novel
by
Emeline Atwood
Catapult, 07/07/2026
A Real Animal follows Lucy through the decade dividing college and real adulthood, as she navigates three distinct romantic relationships, reckons ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Vast Horizon: Artists and Lovers, Freedom and War
by
Anna Thomasson
Pegasus Books, 07/07/2026
Late summer 1937. Europe is inching toward war. In the South of France a group of friends picnic in a secluded clearing. The women have peeled down ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
An Infinite Love Story
by
Chanel Cleeton
Berkley Books, 07/07/2026
When Joe Mitchell launches into space, the world is watching. It's 1968, and the country waits with anticipation and excitement for another successful...
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Romance
Augusta Pine Does Not Exist
by
Emily Lloyd-Jones
Balzer + Bray, 07/07/2026
I was fifteen when I became a murderer.
After a hack gone tragically wrong, a teen girl is given an ultimatum: accept a harsh prison sentence or ...
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Babylon: The Biography of a Metropolis
by
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Pegasus Books, 07/07/2026
'Babylon' is a name that has a double life: it denotes the great ancient Mesopotamian city with a long and complex history, and it is also a fictive ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Buried Feelings
by
Kit Rosewater
Delacorte Romance, 07/07/2026
Cam was the one who discovered the hunt. He brought it to Ivy like an offering, took her hand as they combed through San Francisco, searching for ...
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Romance
Coming Out Perfect: #1 A Graphic Novel
by
Richard Mercado
Graphix, 07/07/2026
When Kevin's parents ignore his attempts to come out of the closet, he devises a plan to become more like Raymond, the popular gay kid at his high ...
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Graphic Novels
Debut Author
Country People: A Novel
by
Daniel Mason
Random House, 07/07/2026
Miles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a ...
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Literary Fiction
Every Version of You: A Novel
by
Natalie Messier
Gallery Books, 07/07/2026
Joey Vasquez's life is the definition of good on paper. At thirty-two, she's a Los Angeles lawyer on the cusp of making partner, but while she's a ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt: A Novel
by
Ben Reeves
Avid Reader Press, 07/07/2026
Travis is Death in the modern world. He wears jeans and a T-shirt and lives in a small, grey town. His job is to offer people comfort in their final ...
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Literary Fiction
Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
by
Mark B. Smith
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/07/2026
To those of us in the West, the Soviet Union is synonymous with Stalinism. The common view of the USSR is of a brutal regime that squelched dissent ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Helpless: A Novel
by
Jessica Knoll
Scribner, 07/07/2026
Now, Faye is one half of a power-producing duo with her Hollywood husband. Henry is a married father running the family business. On the surface, both...
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Thrillers
Hidden Creatures: Luscious Leeches, Bashful Botflies, and the Wondrous, History-Shaping World of Parasites
by
Dino J. Martins
Knopf, 07/07/2026
"
May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard" is the oldest sentence ever written using an alphabet. Inscribed onto an ivory comb from ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Hide and Seek: A Novel
by
Soren Sveistrup
Harper, 07/07/2026
Count to one, count to two ...
A strange voice from inside the woods, repeating a child's counting rhyme.
Count to four, count to five ....more
Thrillers
Man Overboard!: A Novel
by
Kathleen Rooney
Gallery Books, 07/07/2026
Patrick "Kick" Kilpatrick hates the ocean. Has always been terrified of it. And now he's in a real pickle.
Drifting alone in the sea after falling ...
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Literary Fiction
Marzahn, Mon Amour
by
Katja Oskamp
Peirene Press, 07/07/2026
From her intimate vantage point at the foot of the clinic chair, she observes her clients and co-workers, listening to their stories with empathy and ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Men in Love: A Novel
by
Irvine Welsh
Pegasus Books, 07/07/2026
Choose life. Choose love? The
Trainspotting crew fall for rave and romance in Irvine Welsh's blazing new novel.
It is the late 1980s, the ...
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Literary Fiction
Miss Bates: Emma Revisited: A Novel
by
Catherine Cliff
Pegasus Books, 07/07/2026
Henrietta Bates, the iconic bore of Austen's Emma, is the opposite of handsome, clever, and rich Emma: she is plain, ill-educated, and impoverished. ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Most Ardently Yours: A Novel
by
Freya Sampson
Sourcebooks Landmark, 07/07/2026
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of many romance novels, must be in want of a book boyfriend."
...
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Romance
Nightjar: Stories
by
Emily Ruskovich
Random House, 07/07/2026
Five years after moving into the isolated house in rural Oregon where her husband lived as a child, the protagonist of "Victor's Room" begins to doubt...
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Perverts: Stories
by
Mac Crane
The Dial Press, 07/07/2026
An employee at a hunting ground where people pay to act out hate crimes prepares to meet their girlfriend's parents for the first time. A self-...
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Short Stories
Scavenging Beauty: A Memoir in Walks
by
Angelica Glass
Riverhead Books, 07/07/2026
Angelica Glass spent decades as a social worker helping families struggling with poverty, addiction, abuse and neglect. Needing relief from work-...
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Biography/Memoir
Some People: A Novel
by
Parini Shroff
Ballantine Books, 07/07/2026
Malti Patel is absolutely fine. Concussed and bruised, maybe, but fine. Certainly fine enough to not need her daughter's soon-to-be-ex-husband, Nathan...
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Literary Fiction
Summer of Love
by
Kerri Maher
Berkley Books, 07/07/2026
1967: Concerts, hippies, and war protests define the counter-culture revolution that flourishes during the Summer of Love in San Francisco. No one is ...
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Historical Fiction
The Bird Tribe: The Dreambird Chronicles #3
by
Lucinda Roy
Tor Books, 07/07/2026
Yearning is the only compass you need to fly a way home.
Two years after Ji-ji's miraculous flight on her own impossible wings, the Dream of ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Great Wherever: A Novel
by
Shannon Sanders
Henry Holt and Company, 07/07/2026
At thirty-two, Aubrey Lamb is stumbling into adulthood. An underpaid gig worker in Washington, DC, she's grieving the end of a serious relationship ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Lure of Wolves and Whispers: The Martyred Isle #1
by
Amanda Connolly
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 07/07/2026
On the mist-shrouded Isle of Eireann, buying magic comes with a price.
But when her beloved older sister is gravely injured, Maeve risks everything...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Man
by
Laura Sims
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/07/2026
The photos Judith Stanley takes are just for her, a private passion to fill her suburban days. But when she shares them with Paul Sorenson, her new ...
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Thrillers
Tin Can Coast: A History of Industry, Greed, and Fishing in the Golden State
by
Joseph Ogilvy
Bloomsbury Publishing, 07/07/2026
Look west from San Francisco or Monterey, past the surfers and cargo ships. This is the California Current, 1,900 miles of the most productive waters ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
We Will See You Bleed
by
Ron Currie
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/07/2026
A strike at the paper mill has dragged on for a year, pitting neighbor against neighbor, leaving everyone broke and exhausted.
As head of the union...
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Thrillers
Wisdom Corner: A Novel
by
David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Ecco, 07/07/2026
Virgil Wounded Horse is desperately trying to escape his past as a hired vigilante on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. But when a legendary figure from...
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Thrillers
You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
by
Rachel Aviv
Knopf, 07/07/2026
You Won't Get Free of It tells the stories of mothers and daughters searching for each other (and for themselves). With uncanny depth of perception, ...
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Essays
Across the Widest Sea
by
Jean Cremers
Maverick, 07/14/2026
Abandoned in the middle of the ocean by her parents to learn to fend for herself, Léonie must find dry land. She meets Balthazar, a teenager ...
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Graphic Novels
Aging Out: An Exploration of Caregiving, Community, and How Americans Grow Old
by
Lucy Schiller
Flatiron Books, 07/14/2026
Unlike many other cultures, our collective stance toward older people in the United States has long been one of casual avoidance and neglect. This ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Air: A Novel
by
Christian Kracht
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 07/14/2026
Paul, a Swiss interior designer living alone in the remote Orkney Islands, receives an unusual commission from
Kuki, a prestigious design magazine: ...
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Literary Fiction
All We Have Is Time: A Novel
by
Amy Tordoff
Atria Books, 07/14/2026
1605, London.Beatrix lives a solitary life in the shadows, wandering the city streets looking for ways to forget. Forget that everyone she has ever ...
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Literary Fiction
Astronaut!: A Novel
by
Oana Aristide
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/14/2026
Romania, 1989, the twilight of Ceausescu's dictatorship: A time when every neighbor, every friend, every family member may be an informant for the ...
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Historical Fiction
Bedlam
by
Jennifer Higgie
Verso, 07/14/2026
Jennifer Higgie presents a year in the life of Richard Dadd, infamous inmate of one of England's most notorious sanitariums, London's Bethlem ...
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Historical Fiction
Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast
by
Pamela Colloff
Knopf, 07/14/2026
For more than three decades, Paul Skalnik roamed the Gulf Coast lying about who he was. He passed himself off as a fighter pilot, a high-rolling ...
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True Crime
Chosen Family: A Novel
by
Madeleine Gray
Mariner Books, 07/14/2026
Nell Argall and Eve Bowman are both brilliant, odd, and friendless. When they meet on the brutal battlefield that is their posh all girls' high school...
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Literary Fiction
Dominion: The Silk and Iron Trilogy #1
by
Jean Kwok
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/14/2026
In a world divided into four rival Dominions, power is everything—and Rubi Morningtail has almost none. Three years after the Annihilation ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Everything to the Sea: A Novel
by
Alicia Upano
William Morrow, 07/14/2026
This is how the story goes: Jane will fall in love. And then all of this will vanish.
Home for one final summer, Jane is working and saving cash ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Famous Men: A Novel
by
Julie Buntin
Random House, 07/14/2026
The right book at the right time can change your life.
Will Miles is trapped. Trapped in tiny Greening, Michigan, where a toxic high school ...
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Hustle, Baby: A Novel
by
Priya Guns
Doubleday, 07/14/2026
It's hard enough to be a teenager at the turn of the millennium, and especially so for Dilo, who on top of juggling school and caring for her baby-...
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Literary Fiction
I Want You to Be Happy: A Novel
by
Jem Calder
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/14/2026
Chuck and Joey meet in a bar. He's in his mid-thirties; she's twelve years younger. He long ago abandoned his ambition of being a novelist and works ...
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Literary Fiction
It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories
by
Sigrid Nunez
Riverhead Books, 07/14/2026
Over the course of thirty years, Sigrid Nunez has become one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive voices, producing nine penetrating, profound ...
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Lady X: A Novel
by
Molly Fader
Ballantine Books, 07/14/2026
Los Angeles, 2024. After learning that her A-List actor husband sent explicit photos to multiple girls on social media, Margot Cooper runs away from ...
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Living, Together: Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection
by
Samantha Paige Rosen
Beacon Press, 07/14/2026
At age 29, when Samantha Paige Rosen made an unexpected move back home, she was surprised to find how much she loved living with her parents again. ...
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Essays
Men Like Us: A Novel
by
Carson Markland
Algonquin Books, 07/14/2026
The seventh of nine children, he's long been overlooked by his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., who governs his children with the same firm hand that ...
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Historical Fiction
Misery's Wife: A Novel
by
Joan Tierney
Flatiron Books, 07/14/2026
Elixane lives in a village ravaged by waves, storms, and the encroaching forest. When she was too young to remember, her elder sisters each picked a ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Please Don't Touch the Body: Stories
by
Emily Doyle
Bloomsbury Publishing, 07/14/2026
The 11 stories in
Please Don't Touch the Body are at once dry and comic, grounded and surreal as they play deftly with genre and expectation to ...
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Short Stories
Mysteries
The Intrigue
by
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Del Rey, 07/14/2026
Handsome con artist Ulises has long charmed lonely women via letters in order to steal their money, but money is hard to come by in 1940s Mexico. ...
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Thrillers
The Renoir Girls: A Hidden History of Art, War, and Betrayal
by
Catherine Ostler
Atria Books, 07/14/2026
Paris, 1881. The artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir knocks on the door of a wealthy Jewish family's home in the 8th arrondissement, the grandest quarter of ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy
by
Lauren Collins
Penguin Press, 07/14/2026
After the Civil War, Reconstruction ushered in an era of political equality and economic opportunity for Black people, and it lasted longer in ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide
by
Eyal Weizman
Penguin Press, 07/14/2026
Eyal Weizman is one of the world's leading experts on the relationship between violence, conflict, and the built and natural environment. As director ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Up All Night: A World History of Nightlife
by
Imogen Willetts
Grove Press, 07/14/2026
There is a specific energy to it. Cafes and shops close their shutters. Darkness descends. "The air begins to tingle," wrote John Dos Passos of ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Armor for Liars
by
S. E. Grove
Simon & Schuster, 07/21/2026
In a world where magic is drawn from the realm of the dead, enchanters—always men—go to great lengths to steal it. Voyaging to the spirit ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Cool Machine: The Harlem Trilogy #3
by
Colson Whitehead
Doubleday, 07/21/2026
1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by rampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained ...
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Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America
by
Kim Phillips-Fein
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/21/2026
We think of the United States as a nation committed, at least on paper, to ideals of human equality, under God and/or under the law. But as robust as ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dooneen
by
Keith Ridgway
New Directions Publishing, 07/21/2026
Bartholomew Port, known to all as Mew, steps into the bushes in a London park and steps out of the bushes in a Dublin one. Not only that―there ...
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Give Me Everything You've Got: A Novel
by
Imogen Crimp
Henry Holt and Company, 07/21/2026
In the midst of an unrelenting heat wave, up-and-coming filmmaker Ruby arrives at the summer home of her idol. Ellen, an iconoclastic feminist ...
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Literary Fiction
Henry Tudor Must Die
by
Jillian Laine
Berkley Books, 07/21/2026
Anne Boleyn is going to die, and neither her cleverness nor her witchery can save her. So when her late rival, Catalina de Aragón, miraculously ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes from Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown
by
Roberta Kwok
Sourcebooks, 07/21/2026
In
Lost in Curiosity, award-winning journalist Roberta Kwok pulls back the curtain on what scientific discovery actually looks like… Not a ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Lovecraft's Brood: Nineteen Tales of Cosmic Horror
by
Ellen Datlow
Tachyon Publications, 07/21/2026
A prison guard and a convict have an affair fueled by the hallucinations of fungal spores. Squatters arrive in a weird train station, where they ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Salvage: A Graphic Novel
by
Renée Nault
Forgotten Books, 07/21/2026
Paolo lives in the Flats, a dangerous, water-logged community where families survive by salvaging materials from skyscrapers hidden just beneath the ...
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Graphic Novels
Tenderness: A Novel
by
Rowan Beaird
Flatiron Books, 07/21/2026
On a remote island off the coast of Virginia, family and friends gather to celebrate the wedding of Shay O'Connor and Andrew Pruitt. From the moment ...
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Literary Fiction
The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory
by
Emily Eakin
Penguin Press, 07/21/2026
When Emily Eakin arrived at Harvard in the late 1980s, she fell under the spell of an eclectic body of philosophical texts by a handful of French ...
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Biography/Memoir
The New People: A Novel
by
Andrea Uptmor
Little Brown & Company, 07/21/2026
Months after the housing bubble bursts, newlywed Chicagoans Emma and Rachel move into a charming little house in a conservative Indiana college town, ...
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Literary Fiction
The Story Keeper: A Gothic Mystery of Family Secrets Unveiled Across Three Timelines
by
Kelly Rimmer
Graydon House, 07/21/2026
When a curious book,
The Midnight Estate, catches her attention in her late uncle's library, Fiona is plunged into a tale that mirrors her own—a...
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Historical Fiction
The Talking Bone: A Novel
by
Rene Denfeld
Harper, 07/21/2026
Ruby Spencer is known as "the exonerator." Her job as an investigator is to free innocent men from death row, and she's good at what she does. What ...
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Thrillers
Unsayable: A Life in Writing
by
Michael Cunningham
Random House, 07/21/2026
Go ahead. Try using language to slit the skin of mortality to see what's on the other side.
At the age of three, Michael Cunningham began ...
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Biography/Memoir
Yellow Pine: A Novel
by
Claire Vaye Watkins
Riverhead Books, 07/21/2026
In her homestead deep in the Mojave, Rose has found a way to live "on the other side of the portal," with an intentionality that's brought her hard-...
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Literary Fiction
Beginning Middle End: A Novel
by
Valeria Luiselli
Knopf, 07/28/2026
Valeria Luiselli's novel opens the morning a mother and her teenage daughter arrive in Sicily, during a summer of rapidly-changing winds, volcanic ...
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Literary Fiction
Evamar
by
Margarita Engle
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 07/28/2026
Just before she was transformed
into an invisible spirit
my grandmother whispered her last wishes
into my ear:
Sprinkle my ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Fishbone Cinderella: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Lim
Del Rey, 07/28/2026
1940s Hong Kong
When Japanese soldiers invade her hometown, Ha Yut Ying makes an unlikely escape—by turning invisible. But her miraculous ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Flickerstate
by
F. A. Davidson
Sourcebooks Fire, 07/28/2026
Norah Sullivan has just discovered she's a navigator: a person who can manipulate probability. The same day Norah's navigation manifests, she and her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
I Made You Up Inside My Head: A Novel
by
Marta Pérez-Carbonell
Riverhead Books, 07/28/2026
On an overnight train from London to Edinburgh, a translator becomes engrossed in the stories of the strangers who share her compartment. One has ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Obsessed
by
Lizzie Buehler
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/28/2026
Astrid is obsessed with the Russian American novelist Sofiya Sova, whose life trajectory serendipitously parallels Astrid's own and whose writing ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Red Earth: A Novel
by
Morgana Kretzmann
HarperVia, 07/28/2026
On the lush Brazil-Argentina border, whispers of greed run deep, finally having come to claim the last sanctuary. A hydroelectric dam promises ...
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Literary Fiction
The Winds of Maracaibo: A Novel
by
María Elena Morán
Knopf, 07/28/2026
It was too late, y la ternura no basta—now that she'd tasted the gunpowder, and the gunpowder was bolivariano, revolutionary. And that ...more
Literary Fiction
When Mikan Road Was Ours: A Novel
by
D.K. Furutani
Atria Books, 07/28/2026
Amidst a sweltering Los Angeles heat wave, Murano, a reclusive high school English teacher, is muddling through life. Reeling from his father's sudden...
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Historical Fiction
You Only Live Twice
by
Autumn Allen
Kokila, 07/28/2026
Barely one week into senior year of high school, Boston native Zakiyyah is making her 2012-2013 Get Free Plan.
Step one: quit high school. (PSA: ...
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Inspiration from 9,000 Miles Away: An Improbable Gift, a Resilient Cuisine, and Life Lessons Learned
by
Meena Cheng
Impact 9000 LLC, 07/30/2026
For me, it arrived at 5 a.m. on a winter morning, crossing oceans and time from 9,000 miles away to find me — in a voice I had never heard, ...
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Biography/Memoir
