The First Witch of Boston: A Novel
by
Andrea Catalano
Lake Union Publishing, 09/01/2025
Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1646. Thomas and Margaret Jones arrive from England to build a life in the New World. Though of differing temperaments, ...
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Historical Fiction
A Guide to Falling Off the Map
by
Zanni Arnot
Scholastic, 09/02/2025
Outgoing Vinnie Smith has her NYC future planned with her best friend Lilah. Meanwhile, her childhood friend Roo Carpenter is barely getting by, ...
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A Land So Wide: A Novel
by
Erin A. Craig
Pantheon Books, 09/02/2025
Like everyone else in the settlement of Mistaken, Greer Mackenzie is trapped. Founded by an ambitious lumber merchant, the village is blessed with ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
All Things Under the Moon: A Novel
by
Ann Yu-Kyung Choi
Simon & Schuster, 09/02/2025
"Women need other women to survive."
In 1924, Korea is an occupied country. In Seoul's secret, underground networks and throughout the ...
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Historical Fiction
Amity: A Novel
by
Nathan Harris
Little Brown & Company, 09/02/2025
New Orleans, 1866. The Civil War might be over, but formerly enslaved Coleman and June have yet to find the freedom they've been promised. Two years ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Apostle's Cove: Cork O'Connor Mystery Series #21
by
William Kent Krueger
Atria Books, 09/02/2025
A few nights before Halloween, as Cork O'Connor gloomily ruminates on his upcoming birthday, he receives a call from his son, Stephen, who is working ...
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At Last: A Novel
by
Marisa Silver
Simon & Schuster, 09/02/2025
Helene Simonauer and Evelyn Turner are two formidable women whose paths cross when their children marry. Both women are sharp, cunning, and unwavering...
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Literary Fiction
Bees in June: A hope-filled historical novel set in a 1960s small town and infused with magical realism
by
Elizabeth Bass Parman
Harper Muse, 09/02/2025
It's 1969, and the town of Spark Tennessee, is just as excited about the moon landing as the rest of the country. Rennie Hendricks is grieving and ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Buckeye: A Novel
by
Patrick Ryan
Random House, 09/02/2025
In Bonhomie, Ohio, a stolen moment of passion, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe, binds Cal Jenkins, a man wounded ...
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Discontent: A Novel
by
Beatriz Serrano
Vintage, 09/02/2025
On the surface, Marisa's life looks enviable. She lives in a beautiful apartment in the center of Madrid, she has a hot neighbor who is always around ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Happiness and Love: A Novel
by
Zoe Dubno
Scribner, 09/02/2025
Years after escaping New York and the center of its artistic world—a group of self-important, depraved, and unscrupulous artists, curators, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Hot Desk
by
Laura Dickerman
Gallery Books, 09/02/2025
In the post-pandemic publishing industry, two rival editors are forced to share a "hot desk" on different days of the week, much to their chagrin. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Mercy
by
Joan Silber
Counterpoint Press, 09/02/2025
In the gritty East Village of 1970s New York, Ivan and his best friend, Eddie, a popular local bartender, are dabbling in drugs following a short tour...
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Moonflow
by
Bitter Karella
Run For It, 09/02/2025
I see something out there, in the woods. It does not have a face.
They call it the King's Breakfast. One bite and you can understand the full ...
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Mother Mary Comes to Me
by
Arundhati Roy
Scribner, 09/02/2025
Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy's first work of memoir, is a soaring account, both intimate and inspirational, of how the author became the ...
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Night Watch: Poems
by
Kevin Young
Knopf, 09/02/2025
Following on his exquisite Stones, Kevin Young's new collection, written over the span of sixteen years, shapes stories of loss and legacy, inspired ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
No Ordinary Bird: Drug Smuggling, a Plane Crash, and a Daughter's Quest for the Truth
by
Artis Henderson
Harper, 09/02/2025
Artis was five when a plane crash killed her beloved father. For years, it was simply called "the accident."
But many things weren't getting ...
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Peter Pulaski Must Pay: A Novel
by
Jen Lancaster
Little A, 09/02/2025
Call to order the Friday Night Doom Crew.
They're an eclectic group of true-crime enthusiasts―a forensic psychologist, historian, and popular...
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Literary Fiction
Reasons to Hate Me
by
Susan Metallo
Candlewick Press, 09/02/2025
There are countless good reasons to hate seventeen-year-old Jess Lanza, Stone Bridge High's premier autistic theater nerd and Champion of Questionable...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Silenced Voices: Reclaiming Memories from the Guatemalan Genocide
by
Pablo Leon
HarperAlley, 09/02/2025
Langley Park, Maryland, 2013
Brothers Jose and Charlie know very little about their mother's life in Guatemala, until Jose grows curious about the...
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Sisters in the Wind
by
Angeline Boulley
Henry Holt and Company, 09/02/2025
Ever since Lucy Smith's father died five years ago; "home" has been more of an idea than a place. She knows being on the run is better than anything ...
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Sweet Heat
by
Bolu Babalola
William Morrow Paperbacks, 09/02/2025
Twenty-eight-year-old Kiki Banjo hosts the popular podcast
The HeartBeat, solving romantic conundrums and dishing out life advice. Behind the scenes, ...
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The Big One: How We Must Prepare for Future Deadly Pandemics
by
Michael T. Osterholm PhD MPH, Mark Olshaker
Little, Brown Spark, 09/02/2025
The Covid-19 pandemic was the most devastating natural event of the last century, killing more than 7 million people around the globe, straining the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Cut: A Novel
by
Richard Armitage
Pegasus Books, 09/02/2025
You can't escape your past. The cut always reopens.
In the sleepy village of Barton Mallet, the old ruins of Blackstone Mill watch over the ...
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Thrillers
The Girl in the Green Dress: A Mystery Featuring Zelda Fitzgerald
by
Mariah Fredericks
Minotaur Books, 09/02/2025
New York, 1920.
Zelda Fitzgerald is bored, bored, bored. Although she's newly married to the hottest writer in America, and one half of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Girl with Ice in Her Veins: A Lisbeth Salander Novel
by
Karin Smirnoff
Knopf, 09/02/2025
Sweden's far north is growing colder; even in springtime, the town of Gasskas is buried under a relentless snow. As temperatures drop, tensions rise ...
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The Hallmarked Man: A Cormoran Strike Novel
by
Robert Galbraith
Mulholland, 09/02/2025
One of them is Decima Mullins, who calls on the help of private detective Cormoran Strike as she's certain the body in the silver vault was that of ...
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Thrillers
The Improbable Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and the First Woman to Run for President
by
Eden Collinsworth
Doubleday, 09/02/2025
In 1894, a remarkably self-possessed American woman, with no formal education to speak of, stood before a British court seeking damages for libel from...
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The Long Walk
by
Stephen King
Scribner, 09/02/2025
In a dystopian near-future, America has fallen on hard times. Sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina...
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Thrillers
The Shadow of the Mammoth: Stories
by
Fabio Morábito
Other Press, 09/02/2025
Why is grass in airports so important? Can you be an extraordinary copyist without knowing how to read or write? Are there successful musicians who ...
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Literary Fiction
To the Moon and Back: A Novel
by
Eliana Ramage
Simon & Schuster, 09/02/2025
My mother took my sister and me, and she drove through the night to a place she felt a claim to, a place on earth she thought we might be safe. I ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Tracker
by
Alexis Wright
New Directions Publishing, 09/02/2025
"How do you tell an impossible story, one that is almost too big to contain in a single book?"
In
Tracker, Alexis Wright tells the story of ...
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Trip: A Novel
by
Amie Barrodale
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/02/2025
Sandra dies unexpectedly at a conference in Nepal. Across the world, her teenage son, Trip, has run away from a treatment center in the American ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Troubling Tonsils!
by
Aaron Reynolds
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 09/02/2025
Jasper the Rabbit is back! A little older and wiser, he collects creepy stories to share as cautionary tales. If you're ready for some chills and ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Vianne: A Novel
by
Joanne Harris
Pegasus Books, 09/02/2025
Secrets. Chocolate. A touch of magic.
On the evening of July 4th, a young woman scatters her mother's ashes in New York and follows the call of ...
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Romance
Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane
by
Devoney Looser
St. Martin's Press, 09/02/2025
Thieves! Spies! Abolitionists! Ghosts! If we ever truly believed Jane Austen to be a quiet spinster, scholar Devoney Looser puts that myth to rest at ...
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Of Blood and Banes
by
Courtney Whims
Courtney Whims, 09/04/2025
Katerina Blackwind and Daeja made it to the Dragon Lands. It should have been the key to their freedom.
Instead, it's only the beginning.
The ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Silent Treatment: A Memoir
by
Jeannie Vanasco
Tin House Books, 09/09/2025
Jeannie Vanasco's mother starts using the silent treatment not long after moving into the renovated apartment within Jeannie's home. The silences ...
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A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Black Life in America
by
Trymaine Lee
St. Martin's Press, 09/09/2025
A few years ago, Trymaine Lee, though fit and only 38, nearly died of a heart attack. When his then five-year-old daughter, Nola, asked her daddy why,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation
by
Elizabeth Gilbert
Riverhead Books, 09/09/2025
In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was ...
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All This Could Be Yours: A Novel
by
Hank Phillippi Ryan
Minotaur Books, 09/09/2025
Debut sensation Tessa Calloway is on a whirlwind book tour for her instant bestseller,
All This Could Be Yours. In a different city every night, Tessa...
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Thrillers
Clown Town: Slough House #11
by
Mick Herron
Soho Crime, 09/09/2025
"Old spies grow ridiculous, River. Old spies aren't much better than clowns." Or so David Cartwright, the late retired head of MI5, used to tell his ...
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Coffin Moon: A Novel
by
Keith Rosson
Random House, 09/09/2025
It's the winter of 1975, and Portland, Oregon, is all sleet and neon. Duane Minor is back home after a tour in Vietnam, a bartender just trying to ...
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Crooks
by
Lou Berney
William Morrow, 09/09/2025
You've never met a family like the Mercurios.
They say the American dream is going farther in life than your parents ever did. But how does that ...
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Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
by
Stephen Greenblatt
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/09/2025
In brutally repressive sixteenth-century England, artists had been frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners were suspect; popular ...
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Daughter of the Underworld: House of Shadows #1
by
Katharine Corr, Elizabeth Corr
Candlewick Press, 09/09/2025
Deina is trapped. As one of the Soul Severers serving the god Hades on earth, her future is tied to the task of shepherding the dying from the mortal ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Flip
by
Rebecca Fraser
Rhiza Edge, 09/09/2025
Issues and themes flowing through
Flip are timely and relevant, including a housing crisis, bullying, loss and grief, finding yourself and a sense of ...
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Literary Fiction
Hot Wax: A Novel
by
M.L. Rio
Simon & Schuster, 09/09/2025
Summer, 1989: ten-year-old Suzanne is drawn like a magnet to her father's forbidden world of electric guitars and tricked-out cars. When her mother ...
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How to Survive a Horror Movie
by
Scarlett Dunmore
Union Square & Co., 09/09/2025
That is, until someone starts killing off the senior class. From elaborate scare tactics to severed heads in fridges, these gruesome murders are ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
It Was the Way She Said It: Short Stories, Essays, and Wisdom
by
Terry McMillan
Ballantine Books, 09/09/2025
For the first time ever, renowned author Terry McMillan brings together her previously published short fiction and nonfiction pieces, as well as never...
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Lauryn Harper Falls Apart: A Novel
by
Shauna Robinson
Sourcebooks, 09/09/2025
Lauryn Harper had a plan. A high achieving, perfectly constructed, five-year plan. But after a (totally blown out of proportion) mishap at work that ...
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Literary Fiction
Little Alleluias: Collected Poetry and Prose
by
Mary Oliver
Grand Central Publishing, 09/09/2025
For the many admirers of Mary Oliver's breathtaking poetry of touch and transcendence, as well as for those coming to her words for the first time,
...more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Little Movements: A Novel
by
Lauren Morrow
Random House, 09/09/2025
Thirty-something Layla Smart was raised by her mother to
dream medium. But all Layla's ever wanted was a career in dance, which requires dreaming big....
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Marrow
by
Samantha Browning Shea
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/09/2025
The day Oona was kicked out of her mother's coven, she gave up on her dreams of harnessing the witchcraft that was her birthright. Years later, she's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Martha's Daughter
by
David Haynes
McSweeney's Books, 09/09/2025
Steeped in everyday gossip and lives, this collection ranges from the magically real life of a city's crumbling superhero to a rundown motel whose ...
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Middle Spoon: A Novel
by
Alejandro Varela
Viking, 09/09/2025
The narrator of
Middle Spoon appears to be living the dream: He has a doting husband, two precocious children, all the comforts of a quiet bourgeois ...
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Play Nice
by
Rachel Harrison
Berkley Books, 09/09/2025
Clio Louise Barnes leads a picture-perfect life as a stylist and influencer, but beneath the glossy veneer she harbors a not-so glamorous secret: she ...
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Thrillers
Red Pockets: A Tale of Inheritance, Ghosts and the Future
by
Alice Mah
Bond Street Books, 09/09/2025
"
Part of me knew what the hungry ghosts wanted all along, what they still want. It is not vengeance. No, they want something else, but we refuse to ...more
Split the Sky
by
Marie Arnold
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 09/09/2025
Fifteen-year-old Lala Russell is doing a bad job at being a Black girl. She has social justice fatigue, and she doesn't want to join the Black ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Starlight and Moonshine
by
Joseph O'Malley
Delphinium Books, 09/09/2025
During a Detroit winter's final snowfall in 1980, feeling fine after a few too many drinks, Hannah Fallon crashes her car through a cyclone fence and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Swallows: A Novel
by
Natsuo Kirino
Knopf, 09/09/2025
Nothing has ever gone right for Riki. She left her boring hometown in Hokkaido, where she worked at a nursing home, for a better life in Tokyo. But as...
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The Belles: A Novel
by
Lacey N. Dunham
Atria Books, 09/09/2025
Belles never tell…
It's 1951 at the secluded Bellerton College, and Deena Williams is an outsider doing her best to blend in with her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Elements: A Novel
by
John Boyne
Henry Holt and Company, 09/09/2025
In
The Elements, acclaimed Irish novelist John Boyne has created an epic saga that weaves together four interconnected narratives, each representing a...
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The Glass Eel
by
J.J. Viertel
Mysterious Press, 09/09/2025
Caterpillar Island is off the central coast of Maine―beloved vacationland of lobster bakes and quaint fried clam shacks, kayaking and country ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Lack of Light: A Novel of Georgia
by
Nino Haratischwili
HarperVia, 09/09/2025
They are four, as different as can be: the romantic Nene, the clever outsider Ira, the idealistic Dina, and the sensitive Keto. Inseparable since ...
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The Last Extinction: The Real Science Behind the Death of the Dinosaurs
by
Dr. Gerta Keller
Diversion Books, 09/09/2025
Part scientific detective story, part personal odyssey,
The Last Extinction is the definitive account of a radical theory that has reshaped how we ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Macabre
by
Kosoko Jackson
Harper Voyager, 09/09/2025
A picture is worth a thousand nightmares.
Art has always been an escape for struggling painter Lewis Dixon. But other than his mom, who has ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Maiden and Her Monster
by
Maddie Martinez
Tor Books, 09/09/2025
The forest eats the girls who wander out after dark.
As the healer's daughter, Malka has seen how the wood's curse has plagued her village, but the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Most Unusual Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy
by
Roan Parrish
Sourcebooks Casablanca, 09/09/2025
Jamie Wendon-Dale (transmasc they/them) creates haunted houses for a living. Haunting is their life―but nobody working New Orleans' spooky ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny
by
Laura Bates
Sourcebooks, 09/09/2025
We like to believe we're moving closer to equality, riding the wave of technological progress into a brighter, fairer future. But beneath the glossy ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Secret of Secrets: A Novel
by
Dan Brown
Doubleday, 09/09/2025
Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, travels to Prague to attend a groundbreaking lecture by Katherine Solomon—a prominent noetic ...
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Thrillers
Touch Me, I'm Sick: A Memoir in Essays
by
Margeaux Feldman
Beacon Press, 09/09/2025
The forms of intimacy and care that we've been sold are woefully inadequate and problematic. In a world that treats those who are sick and traumatized...
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Biography/Memoir
Waseem: A Novel
by
Lilas Taha
Arcade Publishing, 09/09/2025
In the crowded, streets of a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, Waseem has learned to navigate life with quiet resilience. Born with a disability ...
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Literary Fiction
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
by
Andrew Joseph White
Simon & Schuster, 09/09/2025
Festering masses of worms and flies have taken root in dark corners across Appalachia. In exchange for unwavering loyalty and fresh corpses, these ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Young Fools: A Novel
by
Liza Palmer
Lake Union Publishing, 09/09/2025
Helen Hicks may not have any friends, but she does have a plan: prove her doubting, elitist parents wrong and become a literary sensation before she ...
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Literary Fiction
Under: Stories
by
Glen Pourciau
Four Way, 09/15/2025
He scours their interiors for the granular details of consciousness that accrue to a person's singular point of view, shape patterns of behavior, and ...
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Short Stories
A Murderous Business: A Harriman & Mancini Mystery
by
Cathy Pegau
Minotaur Books, 09/16/2025
There can be a blurry line between what is ethical and what is legal.
Margot Baxter Harriman took the reins of B&H Foods after her father passed....
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Among the Burning Flowers: The Roots of Chaos #3
by
Samantha Shannon
Bloomsbury Publishing, 09/16/2025
It has been centuries since the Draconic Army took wing, almost extinguishing humankind.
Marosa Vetalda is a prisoner in her own home, controlled ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice
by
Rachel Renee Kolb
Ecco, 09/16/2025
Rachel Kolb was born profoundly deaf the same year that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed, and she grew up as part of the first ...
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Bird School: A Beginner in the Wood
by
Adam Nicolson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/16/2025
Poets and scientists, saints and naturalists, stalk through these pages. Neighboring cock robins duel almost to the death. Tawny owl widows are seen ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Boy from the North Country: A Novel
by
Sam Sussman
Penguin Press, 09/16/2025
When Evan, twenty-six, is suddenly called home from his life abroad to the secluded farmhouse where he was raised by his mother, June, there is so ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Exiles
by
Mason Coile
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/16/2025
The human crew sent to prepare the first colony on Mars arrives to find the new base half-destroyed and the three robots sent to set it up in disarray...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Fiend
by
Alma Katsu
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/16/2025
Imagine if the Sackler family had a demon at their beck and call.
The Berisha family runs one of the largest import-export companies in the world, ...
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Firebird
by
Elizabeth Wein
Union Square & Co., 09/16/2025
Nastia is no traitor. She is a fearless pilot, the daughter of revolutionaries, and now, as the Second World War descends on Russia, she must fight ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran's Women-Led Uprising
by
Fatemeh Jamalpour
Pantheon Books, 09/16/2025
In September 2022, a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Jîna Amini, died after being beaten by police officers who arrested her for not adhering to the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Good and Evil and Other Stories
by
Samanta Schweblin
Knopf, 09/16/2025
The characters of
Good and Evil find themselves at a point of no return, dazzled by the glare of impending tragedy. Vulnerable and profoundly human, ...
more
Guest Privileges
by
Gaar Adams
Dzanc Books, 09/16/2025
When journalist Gaar Adams first arrives in the Gulf States—where four out of five residents are non-citizens, and where the penalties for queer...
more
I Wish I Didn't Have to Tell You This: A Graphic Memoir
by
Eugene Yelchin
Candlewick Press, 09/16/2025
No longer the creative little boy under his grandmother's table, Yevgeny is now a young adult, pursuing his artistic dreams under the constant threat ...
more
Night People: How to Be a DJ in '90s New York City
by
Mark Ronson
Grand Central Publishing, 09/16/2025
Lady Gaga, Adele, Amy Winehouse, Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars, Miley Cyrus, the Barbie soundtrack—behind some of the biggest musical moments in the past...
more
One Boat
by
Jonathan Buckley
Fitzcarraldo Editions, 09/16/2025
On losing her father, Teresa returns to a small town on the Greek coast – the same place she visited when grieving her mother nine years ago. ...
more
Literary Fiction
Penitential Cries
by
Susan Howe
New Directions Publishing, 09/16/2025
What labor to live forever. Speak of the elect what can you do in all this world so much life in the little of it.
In four parts, Susan Howe...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
She's Under Here: A Memoir
by
Karen Palmer
Algonquin Books, 09/16/2025
"Once upon a time, I disappeared." So begins Karen Palmer's harrowing and redemptive memoir,
She's Under Here.
In 1989, shortly after her second ...
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Biography/Memoir
Small Scale Sinners: Stories
by
Mahreen Sohail
1stBooks Library, 09/16/2025
In twelve electric, potent stories, Mahreen Sohail explores the facets of women's lives, as daughters, siblings, and mothers, in marriage, and alone. ...
more
Short Stories
Surviving Paris: A Memoir of Healing in the City of Light
by
Robin Allison Davis
Amistad, 09/16/2025
Surviving Paris is not
Emily in Paris. It's not a story of moving to the City of Light, meeting a dashing Frenchman, and raising beret-wearing enfants...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Academy: A Novel (The Academy Series, 1)
by
Elin Hilderbrand, Shelby Cunningham
Little Brown & Company, 09/16/2025
It's move-in day at Tiffin Academy and amidst the happy chaos of friends reuniting, selfies uploading, and cars unloading, shocking news arrives: ...
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Romance
The Austen Affair: A Novel
by
Madeline Bell
St. Martin's Griffin, 09/16/2025
Tess Bright just scored her dream role starring in an adaptation of Jane Austen's
Northanger Abbey. It's not just the role of a lifetime, but it's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Book of Guilt
by
Catherine Chidgey
Grand Central Publishing, 09/16/2025
After a very different outcome to WWII than the one history recorded, 1979 England is a country ruled by a government whose aims have sinister ...
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The Dead of Summer: The Dead of Summer #1
by
Ryan La Sala
PUSH, 09/16/2025
Two Days Before
Ollie Veltman is finally coming home to the quaint island of Anchor's Mercy after a year away while his mom battled cancer. It ...
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The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore
by
Anika Fajardo
Gallery Books, 09/16/2025
In the span of a year, Dolores Moore has become a thirty-five-year-old orphan. After the funeral of the last living member of her family, Dorrie has ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Shattering Peace: Old Man's War #7
by
John Scalzi
Tor Books, 09/16/2025
The Peace is Shattering.
For a decade, peace has reigned in interstellar space. A tripartate agreement between the Colonial Union, the Earth, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Story of My Anger
by
Jasminne Mendez
Dial Books, 09/16/2025
Yulieta Lopez is angry. Angry at her racist drama teacher who refuses to cast Black students in lead roles. Angry at the school board threatening her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Summer War
by
Naomi Novik
Del Rey, 09/16/2025
Celia discovered her talent for magic on the day her beloved oldest brother, Argent, left home. Furious at him for abandoning her in a war-torn land, ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story
by
Daniel Nayeri
Levine Querido, 09/16/2025
1941. The German armies are storming across Europe. Iran is a neutral country occupied by British forces on one side, Soviet forces on another. ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Vanishing Place
by
Zoë Rankin
Berkley Books, 09/16/2025
A child who ran from the forest.
A woman who must return to it.
Growing up with her younger siblings in the unforgiving New Zealand bush, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Wasp Trap: A Novel
by
Mark Edwards
Atria Books, 09/16/2025
Six friends reunite in London to celebrate the life of their recently deceased ex-employer, a professor that brought them together in 1999 to help ...
more
The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters
by
Sasha Bonét
Knopf, 09/16/2025
Betty Jean, the author's grandmother, had a house along a bayou in Texas, a home paid for and run without a man by her side. This home served as the ...
more
The Wilderness: A Novel
by
Angela Flournoy
Mariner Books, 09/16/2025
Desiree, Danielle, January, Monique, and Nakia are in their early twenties and at the beginning. Of their careers, of marriage, of motherhood, and of ...
more
The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival
by
Anne Sebba
St. Martin's Press, 09/16/2025
In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra be formed among the female prisoners. Almost fifty women and ...
more
To Clutch a Razor: Curse Bearer #2
by
Veronica Roth
Tor Books, 09/16/2025
A funeral. A heist. A mission born of desperation.
When someone in Dymitr's family dies, he's called back home for the Empty Night, a funeral rite ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Trigger Warning: A Novel
by
Jacinda Townsend
Graywolf Press, 09/16/2025
She'd gotten no trigger warning. And her entire life, she wanted to scream now, had deserved a trigger warning.
Early in life, Ruth survived a ...
more
Literary Fiction
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
by
Jill Lepore
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 09/16/2025
The U.S. Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world but also one of the most difficult to amend. Jill Lepore, Harvard professor of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights
by
Keisha N. Blain
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/16/2025
Over the course of two hundred years, they were at the forefront of national and international movements for social change, weaving connections ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wolf Bells: A Novel
by
Leni Zumas
Algonquin Books, 09/16/2025
On a bluff above a river rises The House, where elderly and disabled residents live alongside young people who help out in exchange for free rent. The...
more
Her Spell That Binds Me
by
Luna Oblonsky
Luna Oblonsky Books, 09/20/2025
Iona's magic thrives in ways that defy explanation.
The threads of fate pull Iona to Lysander College, an illustrious school for aristocratic ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
107 Days
by
Kamala Harris
Simon & Schuster, 09/23/2025
Your Secret Service code name is Pioneer.
You are the first woman in history to be elected vice president of the United States.
On July 21, ...more
Biography/Memoir
A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories
by
Jonathan Lethem
Ecco, 09/23/2025
This dazzling, genre-defying collection from Jonathan Lethem features seven major stories published since his last collection, along with his best ...
more
A Killer Wedding: A Luxurious Wedding Turns Into a Murder Mystery Amidst Unraveling Twisted Secrets
by
Joan O'Leary
William Morrow, 09/23/2025
The iconic Gloria Beaufort, founder of the billion-dollar beauty empire Glo, has personally chosen her to cover her grandson's wedding for
Bespoke, ...
more
Thrillers
A Slowly Dying Cause: A Lynley Novel
by
Elizabeth George
Viking, 09/23/2025
Michael Lobb has just been found dead on the floor of his family's tin & pewter workshop. It's suspicious enough that his body was found by a ...
more
Mysteries
Against the Machine
by
Paul Kingsnorth
Thesis, 09/23/2025
In
Against the Machine, "furiously gifted" (
The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly original—and ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Alchemised
by
SenLinYu
Del Rey, 09/23/2025
"What is it you think you're protecting in that brain of yours? The war is over. Holdfast is dead. The Eternal Flame extinguished. There's no one left...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Amanda: A Novel
by
H. S. Cross
Europa Editions, 09/23/2025
Post-WWI England is a nation in upheaval, its foundations shaken by the Great War and the collapse of genteel Edwardian society. The streets are ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Anathema: A Dark Gothic Fantasy (The Eating Woods, 1)
by
Keri Lake
Bloom Books, 09/23/2025
Only the banished know what lies beyond the woods...
There are whispers about what lurks in Witch Knell―the forest where sinners go to die. ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Archipelago of the Sun
by
Yoko Tawada
New Directions Publishing, 09/23/2025
The Archipelago of the Sun finds Hiruko still searching for her lost country, traveling around the Baltic on a mail boat. With her are Knut, a Danish ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Awake: A Memoir
by
Jen Hatmaker
Avid Reader Press, 09/23/2025
At 2:30 a.m. on July 11th, 2020, Jen Hatmaker woke up to her husband of twenty-six years whispering in his phone to another woman from their bed. It ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Beings: A Novel
by
Ilana Masad
Bloomsbury Publishing, 09/23/2025
In 1961, an interracial couple drove through the dark mountains of New Hampshire when a mysterious light began to follow them. Years later, through ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Best Woman: A Novel
by
Rose Dommu
Ballantine Books, 09/23/2025
Julia Rosenberg loves her brother. Really loves him. Enough to: be the "best woman" at his wedding; leave behind her hard-won New York life, brilliant...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Cécé
by
Emmelie Prophète
Archipelago Books, 09/23/2025
Cécé La Flamme, as she's known by her loyal Facebook friends, captures photographs of still bodies. Figures scorched and bruised, left to ...
more
Circle of Days
by
Ken Follett
Grand Central Publishing, 09/23/2025
A flint miner with a gift
Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Flip
by
Ngozi Ukazu
First Second, 09/23/2025
Enter Flip Henderson, the most popular boy at school, who receives Chi-Chi's private video proposal to go to senior prom.
But when Flip rejects Chi...
more
Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
by
Luke Kemp
Knopf, 09/23/2025
12,000 years ago, human history changed forever when the egalitarian groups of hunter-gathering humans began to settle down and organize themselves ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Humanish: What Talking to Your Cat or Naming Your Car Reveals About the Uniquely Human Need to Humanize
by
Justin Gregg
Little Brown & Company, 09/23/2025
It's a cognitive bias baked into the human mind that distorts our view of the world. But it doesn't just affect our understanding of animals. ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
It's Me They Follow: A Novel
by
Jeannine Cook
Amistad, 09/23/2025
It's Me They Follow is a meta-romance about love in the time of mass upheaval and uncertainty. It follows The Shopkeeper, a bookseller and reluctant ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Ladies in Hating
by
Alexandra Vasti
St. Martin's Griffin, 09/23/2025
Celebrated authoress Lady Georgiana Cleeve has achieved fame and fortune. Unfortunately, she's also acquired an enemy: the enigmatic Lady Darling, ...
more
Lion Hearts: Essex Dogs #3
by
Dan Jones
Viking, 09/23/2025
1353. The Hundred Years' War erupts again, and the band of brothers known as the Essex Dogs are thrown into the fray once more. The Black Death rages ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
More Weight: A Salem Story
by
Ben Wickey
Top Shelf Productions, 09/23/2025
1692 is a year of terror. In Salem, Massachusetts, Giles and Martha Corey are forced to confront their troubled past when accusations of witchcraft ...
more
Graphic Novels
Raiding the Heartland: An American Story of Deportation and Resistance
by
William D. Lopez
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 09/23/2025
Across the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) upends small towns and rural communities by staging dramatic raids and rounding up...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis
by
Priscilla Presley
Grand Central Publishing, 09/23/2025
Priscilla Presley's divorce from Elvis left his fans incredulous. How could she leave the man every woman wanted? From the outside, life in Elvis's ...
more
The Devil's Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry's Troubled History Reverberates Today
by
Susanne Paola Antonetta
Counterpoint Press, 09/23/2025
In
The Devil's Castle, Susanne Paola Antonetta weaves a haunting narrative that confronts the darkest chapters of psychiatric history while offering a...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Guest in Room 120: A Novel
by
Sara Ackerman
MIRA, 09/23/2025
1905 As the mother of a university and a woman with an iron will, Jane Stanford has made her share of enemies. After a scare at her mansion in San ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park: A Novel
by
Michiko Aoyama
Hanover Square Press, 09/23/2025
Nestled at the bottom of a five-story apartment block in the community of Advance Hill is the children's playground in Hinode Park. If you look to the...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Killer Question: A Novel
by
Janice Hallett
Atria Books, 09/23/2025
Sue and Mal Eastwood run an isolated rural pub called The Case is Altered where a weekly trivia game has revived its flagging fortunes—that is, ...
more
Thrillers
The Mires: A Novel
by
Tina Makereti
HarperVia, 09/23/2025
Three women give birth in different countries and different decades. They eventually become neighbors in a coastal town in Aotearoa—New Zealand....
more
Literary Fiction
The Other Girl
by
Annie Ernaux
Seven Stories Press, 09/23/2025
In the summer of 1950, when Annie Ernaux is ten, she inadvertently learns she had a sister who died at six, two years before her own birth. Having ...
more
The Phoebe Variations: A Novel
by
Jane Hamilton
Zibby Books, 09/23/2025
Seventeen-year-old Phoebe was never interested in her birth family. But on the cusp of her high school graduation, her adoptive mother, Greta, insists...
more
Truth Is: A Novel in Verse
by
Hannah V. Sawyerr
Amulet Books, 09/23/2025
Seventeen-year-old Truth Bangura wants nothing more than to know a life beyond her hometown. Writing and performing is her only solace in a life ...
more
Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America
by
Jeff Chang
Mariner Books, 09/23/2025
More than a half-century after his passing, Bruce Lee is as towering a figure to people around the world as ever. On his path to becoming a global ...
more
What Remains After a Fire: Stories
by
Kanza Javed
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/23/2025
In eight unflinching and stunningly crafted stories, Kanza Javed unspools the lives of characters desperately trying to forge a path for themselves on...
more
Short Stories
What We Can Know: A Novel
by
Ian McEwan
Knopf, 09/23/2025
2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife's birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to ...
more
59 Minutes: A Novel
by
Holly Seddon
Atria Books, 09/25/2025
Nuclear missile threat to South England. 59 minutes until impact. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a test.
Carrie is a young mother desperate to...
more
Thrillers
Tender
by
Lauren DuPlessis
Influx Press, 09/25/2025
She's convinced that her veneer of perfection will mask the parts of her she'd rather not think about. When two 'bog bodies' are discovered in ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Comic Book Apocalypse!: The Death of Pre-Code Comics and Why It Happened, 1940–1955
by
David J. Hogan
Schiffer, 09/28/2025
From 1940 to 1955, American society and culture underwent dramatic changes, including the introduction of the Comics Code in October 1954, which ...
more
Graphic Novels
Dinner at the Night Library: A Novel
by
Hika Harada
Hanover Square Press, 09/30/2025
All Otaha Higuchi wants to do is work with books. However, the exhausting nature of her work at a chain bookstore, combined with her paltry salary and...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Fake Skating
by
Lynn Painter
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 09/30/2025
Growing up, Dani couldn't help but follow around the adorable son of her mom's best friend. Funny, kind of nerdy, and a little soft, Alec was always ...
more
Romance
Fireblooms
by
Alexandra Villasante
Nancy Paulsen Books, 09/30/2025
When seventeen-year-old Sebastian agrees to come to New Gault to care for his absent and abusive mother after her cancer diagnosis, he is not prepared...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
From Language to Language: The Hospitality of Translation
by
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Other Press, 09/30/2025
Informed by his own multicultural background—African, French, and American—Souleymane Bachir Diagne interrogates the practice of ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Great Disasters: A Novel
by
Grady Chambers
Tin House Books, 09/30/2025
This is the story of how we became. I write those words but remain uncertain what they mean... . Drinking was a part of it. But as much as it was ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Guilty by Definition: A Novel
by
Susie Dent
Sourcebooks Landmark, 09/30/2025
Oxford, England. After a decade abroad, Martha Thornhill has returned home to the city whose ancient institutions have long defined her family. But ...
more
Thrillers
Heart the Lover
by
Lily King
Grove Press, 09/30/2025
You knew I'd write a book about you someday.
Our narrator understands good love stories—their secrets and subtext, their highs and free ...
more
Hollow
by
Taylor Grothe
Peachtree Publishers, 09/30/2025
After a meltdown in her school cafeteria prompts an unwanted autism diagnosis, Cassie Davis moves back to her hometown in upstate New York, where her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
by
Zoe Venditozzi, Claire Mitchell
Sourcebooks, 09/30/2025
Scotland, 1563: Crops failed. People starved. And the Devil's influence was stronger than ever―at least, that's what everyone believed. If you ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
I Am You
by
Victoria Redel
SJP Lit, 09/30/2025
At eight years old, Gerta Pieters is forced to disguise herself as a boy and sent to work for a genteel Dutch family. When their brilliant and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Make Me a Monster
by
Kalynn Bayron
Bloomsbury YA, 09/30/2025
Meka is used to death. After all, it's the family business.
As a newly certified mortician's assistant at her parents' funeral home, her days are ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
On Starlit Shores: A Graphic Novel
by
Bex Glendining
Abrams Fanfare, 09/30/2025
Alex Wilson hasn't been back to Indigo Harbor, the seaside village where she grew up, in years. In fact, she can barely remember anything about it. ...
more
Pick a Color: A Novel
by
Souvankham Thammavongsa
Little Brown & Company, 09/30/2025
"I live in a world of Susans. I got name tags for everyone who works at this nail salon, and on every one is printed the name 'Susan.'"
Ning is a ...
more
Picket Line: The Lost Novella
by
Elmore Leonard
Mariner Books, 09/30/2025
"
If a man comes out of the field and goes on the picket line, even for one day, he'll never be the same..."
Chino and Paco Rojas ...
more
Playing Wolf: A Novel
by
Zuzana Ríhová
Catapult, 09/30/2025
Husband and wife Bohumil and Bohumila, together with their son, move from Prague to a remote village with the hopes of salvaging their marriage. In ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam
by
Lana Lin
Dorothy, a publishing project, 09/30/2025
In her 1933
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein invented a new literary form by narrating her own story from the perspective of her ...
more
The Captive
by
Kit Burgoyne
Hell's Hundred, 09/30/2025
For months, Luke and his underground revolutionary group have been planning their biggest operation yet: kidnapping 23-year-old Adeline Woolsaw. They ...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Cartographer of Absences: A Novel
by
Mia Couto
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/30/2025
Diogo Santiago is a celebrated Mozambican poet and intellectual, a well-known professor at the university in his country's capital. In 2019, on the ...
more
The Eternal Forest: A Memoir of the Cuban Diaspora
by
Elena Sheppard
St. Martin's Press, 09/30/2025
History is undeniably dominated by its men, but the stories Elena Sheppard was brought up on were almost always about Cuba's women―everyday ...
more
The Future of Truth
by
Werner Herzog
Penguin Press, 09/30/2025
For over half a century, Werner Herzog has challenged, enriched, and expanded our understanding of the truth. His films and books have mixed fiction ...
more
The Heist of Hollow London
by
Eddie Robson
Tor Books, 09/30/2025
Arlo and Drienne are 'mades'―clones of company executives, deemed important enough to be saved should their health fail. Mades work around the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Impossible Fortune: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery
by
Richard Osman
Pamela Dorman Books, 09/30/2025
It's been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce is busy with table plans and first dances. Elizabeth is grieving. Ron is dealing with ...
more
Thrillers
The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems
by
Patricia Smith
Scribner, 09/30/2025
The Intentions of Thunder gathers, for the first time, the essential work from across Patricia Smith's decorated career. Here, Smith's poems, affixed ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Irish Goodbye: A Novel
by
Heather Aimee O'Neill
Henry Holt and Company, 09/30/2025
It's been years since the three Ryan sisters were all together at their beloved family home on the eastern shore of Long Island. Two decades ago, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Killing Stones: A Detective Jimmy Perez Novel
by
Ann Cleeves
Minotaur Books, 09/30/2025
It's been several years since Detective Jimmy Perez left Shetland. He has settled into his new home in Orkney, the group of islands, off the northern ...
more
The Last Time We Spoke: A Story of Loss
by
Jesse Mechanic
Street Noise Books, 09/30/2025
Grief never goes away.
When he was a teenager, Jesse Mechanic's mother passed away after a long struggle with cancer. In this memoir, he looks ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Librarians
by
Sherry Thomas
Berkley Books, 09/30/2025
Sometimes a workplace isn't just a workplace but a place of safety, understanding, and acceptance. And sometimes murder threatens the sanctity of that...
more
Historical Fiction
The Mad Wife: A Novel
by
Meagan Church
Sourcebooks Landmark, 09/30/2025
They called it hysteria. She called it survival.
Lulu Mayfield has spent the last five years molding herself into the perfect 1950s housewife. ...
more
Thrillers
The Midnight Timetable: A Novel in Ghost Stories
by
Bora Chung
Algonquin Books, 09/30/2025
The acclaimed Korean horror and sci-fi writer's goosebump-inducing new book follows an employee on the night shift at the Institute. They soon learn ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Portrait: A Novel
by
Danielle Steel
Delacorte Press, 09/30/2025
Devon Darcy's reputation precedes her. As a highly sought-after portrait artist, she seems to have the ability to peer into the souls of her subjects ...
more
Romance
The Shocking Experiments of Miss Mary Bennet: A Novel
by
Melinda Taub
Grand Central Publishing, 09/30/2025
Mary Bennet is the middlest middle child of all time. Awkward, plain, and overlooked, she's long been out of favor not only with her own family but ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights
by
Lisa Graves
Bold Type Books, 09/30/2025
In the last twenty years the US Supreme Court has radically curtailed voting rights, undermined anti-corruption measures, encouraged extreme political...
more
You Will Not Kill Our Imagination: A Memoir of Palestine and Writing in Dark Times
by
Saeed Teebi
Scribner Canada, 09/30/2025
Imagination is a more powerful force than hope.
Acclaimed author Saeed Teebi was at work on his first novel when the attacks on Gaza began in late ...
more
Biography/Memoir
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 ...
more
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.
...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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...
more
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 ...
more
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...
more
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—...
more
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...
more
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 ...
more
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,...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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....
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
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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, ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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....
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
more
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. ...
more
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 ...
more
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-...
more
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 ...
more
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, ...
more
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 ...
more
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,...
more
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...
more
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
The Night Guests: A Novel
by
Marina Scott
Lake Union Publishing, 11/01/2025
Once a prominent fixture in Omaha's high society, Nina Wilson is now drowning in debt and disgrace following the untimely death of her father. Her ...
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Thrillers
What She Saw
by
Mary Burton
Montlake, 11/01/2025
Cold case reporter Sloane Grayson has come to a small mountain town in Virginia to solve a mystery.
Thirty years ago, her mother was one of four ...
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Thrillers
A Fate So Cold: A Fate So Cold #1
by
Amanda Foody, C.L. Herman
Tor Teen, 11/04/2025
For most of the year, Summer reigns peacefully over Alderland. Then, for six brutal weeks, Winter rages, obliterating towns and wreaking casualties. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Time Traveler's History of Tomorrow
by
Kendall Kulper
Holiday House, 11/04/2025
Genevieve Newhouse and Ash Hargreaves weren't supposed to meet like this. Unless it was always meant to be ...
Gen is a fastidious science ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Bitter Honey: A Novel
by
Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström
William Morrow, 11/04/2025
1978: A scholarship draws Nancy from Gambia's warmth into Stockholm's frigid winter. When her friendship with charismatic scholar Lars ...
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Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
by
Char Adams
Tiny Reparations, 11/04/2025
Black-Owned celebrates small businesses and their role in community building—and in liberation. Journalist Char Adams reports on how Black ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bread of Angels: A Memoir
by
Patti Smith
Random House, 11/04/2025
God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post–World War II ...
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Biography/Memoir
Cursed Daughters: A Novel
by
Oyinkan Braithwaite
Doubleday, 11/04/2025
When Ebun gives birth to her daughter, Eniiyi, on the day they bury her cousin Monife, there is no denying the startling resemblance between the child...
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False War: A Novel
by
Carlos Manuel Álvarez
Graywolf Press, 11/04/2025
The characters in
False War are ambivalent castaways living lives of deep estrangement from their home country, stranded in an existential no-man's ...
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Flat Earth: A Novel
by
Anika Jade Levy
Catapult, 11/04/2025
Avery is a grad student in New York working on a collection of cultural reports and flailing financially and emotionally. She dates older men for ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Grape Juice: An 831 Stories Romance
by
Eliza Dumais
831 Stories, 11/04/2025
Alice is bored—romantically, professionally, creatively. So when her boss, a prominent wine importer, suggests she work a grape harvest in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Helm: A Novel
by
Sarah Hall
Mariner Books, 11/04/2025
Helm is a ferocious, mischievous wind — a subject of folklore and awe, part-elemental god, part-aerial demon blasting through the sublime ...
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Her One Regret
by
Donna Freitas
Soho Crime, 11/04/2025
When successful Rhode Island real estate agent Lucy Mendoza vanishes, leaving her baby behind in a grocery store parking lot, the news quickly makes ...
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Last Call at the Savoy
by
Brisa Carleton
Grand Central Publishing, 11/04/2025
Six years ago, Cinnamon Scott was a young writer on the rise in New York City. But since the sudden loss of her parents, she's been stuck in place, ...
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Historical Fiction
Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World
by
Elizabeth Kolbert
Crown, 11/04/2025
"To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth,"
Rolling Stone has advised, "you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert." From her National Magazine Award-...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Lightbreakers: A Novel
by
Aja Gabel
Riverhead Books, 11/04/2025
In the beginning, there was happiness. Maya, an artist obsessed with the nature of beauty, and Noah, a quantum physicist preoccupied by the mysteries ...
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Like Family: A Novel
by
Erin O. White
The Dial Press, 11/04/2025
It was too much to ask. But sometimes too much is what we ask of the people we love most.
Radclyffe, New York, is an idyllic upstate town, nestled ...
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Literary Fiction
Only Son
by
Kevin Moffett
McSweeney's Books, 11/04/2025
His PE teacher says he runs like a pregnant ostrich. His mother takes out a personal ad. Everyone is trying to teach him a lesson but he is, it seems,...
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Literary Fiction
Other People's Fun: A Novel
by
Harriet Lane
Little Brown & Company, 11/04/2025
"I look. I can't stop looking. That's the deal, isn't it? We all know that's how it works. If someone wants to be seen—and oh, how they want to ...more
Otherwise Engaged: A Novel
by
Susan Mallery
MIRA, 11/04/2025
When Shannon gets engaged, her beloved mom, Cindy, is the first person she wants to tell—and the last. Cindy's engaged, too, and has already ...
more
Literary Fiction
Palace of Deception: Museum Men and the Rise of Scientific Racism
by
Darrin Lunde
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/04/2025
From 1908 to 1933, the American Museum of Natural History launched more scientific field expeditions than at any other time in its existence. ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Queen Esther
by
John Irving
Simon & Schuster, 11/04/2025
Esther Nacht is born in Vienna in 1905. Her father dies on board the ship to Portland, Maine; her mother is murdered by anti-Semites in Portland. Dr. ...
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Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore
by
Ashley D. Farmer
Pantheon Books, 11/04/2025
In the world of Black radical politics, the name Audley Moore commands unquestioned respect. Across the nine decades of her life, Queen Mother Moore ...
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Self Portrait
by
Ludwig Volbeda
Levine Querido, 11/04/2025
Yet Jip's thoughts keep wandering. To the new boy in class, to beetles and fireflies, to twilight dreaming, to the party next Friday, and especially ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Shade is a place
by
MaKshya Tolbert
Penguin Books, 11/04/2025
Shade is a place meanders east–west along Charlottesville's Downtown Mall, seeking "a Black sense of place" at the pace of stressed shade and ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
That's Not How It Happened: A Novel
by
Craig Thomas
Hanover Square Press, 11/04/2025
Paige didn't set out to be a stay-at-home mom, but when her husband's screenwriting career took off right before they had a son with Down syndrome, ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity
by
Tim Wu
Knopf, 11/04/2025
Our world is dominated by a handful of tech platforms. They provide great conveniences and entertainment, but also stand as some of the most effective...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Dinner Party: A Novel
by
Viola van de Sandt
Little Brown & Company, 11/04/2025
Franca left the Netherlands behind to start her new life in England with Andrew. Andrew, whose parents lived in South Kensington but had a flat their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories
by
Salman Rushdie
Random House, 11/04/2025
Rushdie turns his extraordinary imagination to life's final act with a quintet of stories that span the three countries in which he has made his work&...
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The Fight of His Life: Joe Louis's Battle for Freedom During World War II
by
Randy Roberts
Basic Books, 11/04/2025
During the 1930s and 1940s, no African American athlete commanded the spotlight more than heavyweight boxer Joe Louis. His 1938 knockout victory over ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Forget-Me-Not Library: A Novel
by
Heather Webber
St. Martin's Press, 11/04/2025
Juliet Nightingale is lucky to be alive. Months after a freak accident involving lightning, she's fully recovered but is left feeling that something ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Ganymedan
by
R.T. Ester
Solaris, 11/04/2025
Verden Dotnet made an easy living mixing drinks for the creator of all sentient tech in the galaxy—until he decided to kill the creator. Now ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Good Daughters: A Novel
by
Brigitte Dale
Pegasus Books, 11/04/2025
In 1912, three young women from wildly different backgrounds are bound together by their desire to have a say in their future.
Charlotte, ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss, and Kitchen Objects
by
Bee Wilson
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/04/2025
One August day, months after her marriage abruptly ended, a heart-shaped baking tin fell at Bee Wilson's feet: the same one she had used to bake her ...
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The Hidden City: Charles Lenox Mysteries #15
by
Charles Finch
Minotaur Books, 11/04/2025
It's 1879, and Lenox is convalescing from the violent events of his last investigation. But a desperate letter from an old servant forces him to pick ...
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The Insider: Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature
by
Gerald Howard
Penguin Books, 11/04/2025
Malcolm Cowley is not a household name today, but the American literary canon would look very different without him. A prototypical "man of letters" ...
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Biography/Memoir
The King Must Die
by
Kemi Ashing-Giwa
Saga Press, 11/04/2025
Fen's world is crumbling. Newearth, a once-promising planet gifted by the all-powerful alien Makers, now suffers from failed terraforming, leaving its...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Predicament: A Gabriel Dax Novel
by
William Boyd
Atlantic Crime, 11/04/2025
1963, Guatemala. The country is in turmoil, with a presidential election looming and a charismatic, left-wing ex-priest and trade union leader ...
more
The Tortoise's Tale: A Novel
by
Kendra Coulter
Simon & Schuster, 11/04/2025
Snatched from her ancestral lands, a giant tortoise finds herself in an exclusive estate in southern California where she becomes an astute observer ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The War Beyond: The Hollow Covenant #2
by
Andrea Stewart
Orbit, 11/04/2025
Hakara risked her life to find her long-lost sister Rasha, only to lose her all over again. Now she and her Unanointed rebels hunt for the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Year of the Wind: A Novel
by
Karina Pacheco Medrano
Graywolf Press, 11/04/2025
Nina, a Peruvian writer in Spain on the eve of the pandemic, is pulled back into her nation's fraught history after a fleeting encounter with a woman ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Town & Country: A Novel
by
Brian Schaefer
Atria Books, 11/04/2025
The trendy rural town of Griffin has become a popular destination for weekenders and the city's second homeowners, but now a congressional race in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Under a Fire-Red Sky: A Novel
by
Geraldine McCaughrean
Flatiron Books, 11/04/2025
With World War II on their doorstep, the children of Greenwich, England, are being evacuated. But on the train meant to take them to safety, four of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Under a Metal Sky: A Journey Through Minerals, Greed, and Wonder
by
Philip Marsden
Counterpoint Press, 11/04/2025
The ground beneath our feet is full of riches: the ocher that allowed prehistoric humans to paint on cave walls; the tin that drove the early ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
We Fell Apart: A We Were Liars Novel
by
E. Lockhart
Delacorte Press, 11/04/2025
The invitation arrives out of the blue.
In it, Matilda discovers a father she's never met. Kingsley Cello is a visionary, a reclusive artist. And ...
more
We're Not Safe Here
by
Rin Chupeco
Sourcebooks Fire, 11/04/2025
Wispy Falls is safe. The town motto is even "You'll be safe here!" But you aren't safe in the woods that surround the town. In the woods there are ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Merge: A Novel
by
Grace Walker
Mariner Books, 11/06/2025
How far would you go to never say goodbye?
Laurie is sixty-five and living with Alzheimer's. Her daughter Amelia, a once fiery and strong-willed ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
A Long Winter
by
Colm Toibin
Scribner, 11/11/2025
A young man named Miquel returns to his family in the Catalan Pyrenees upon completing his military service. His younger brother, Jordi, will be ...
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Literary Fiction
Aphrodite: A Novel
by
Phoenicia Rogerson
Hanover Square Press, 11/11/2025
Aphrodite saw the gods on Mount Olympus and decided she wanted a piece of what they had. Only problem is, she's not a goddess, just a lowly being who'...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms
by
Stacie Shannon Denetsosie, Kinsale Drake, Darcie Little Badger
Torrey House Press, 11/11/2025
The collection brings together twenty-two emerging and established writers whose poems and stories expand the imagination an. From a museum heist 177 ...
more
Break Wide the Sea
by
Sara Holland
Wednesday Books, 11/11/2025
In the treacherous waters surrounding Kirkrell, sailors hunting magic whales live in fear of the finfolk--bloodthirsty sea fae who sink ships and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Carnaval Fever: A Novel
by
Yuliana Ortiz Ruano
Soft Skull Press, 11/11/2025
Ainhoa lives a protected life within the walls of her grandmother's house in the neighborhood of Limones. Surrounded by a gaggle of aunts who love, ...
more
Literary Fiction
Daughter of the Otherworld: Gael Song #4
by
Shauna Lawless
Bloomsbury Publishing, 11/11/2025
Over a hundred years after she went missing, Isolde, born to the family of a famous Irish king and a powerful immortal, inexplicably reappears.
Her...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Evensong
by
Stewart O'Nan
Atlantic Monthly Press, 11/11/2025
The Humpty Dumpty Club is distraught when their powerhouse leader, Joan Hargrove, takes a bad fall down her stairs, knocking her out of commission. ...
more
Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation
by
Jen Percy
Doubleday, 11/11/2025
What does it mean to endure as a woman? Percy, who has written extensively on trauma responses and PTSD, revisits these subjects using her personal ...
more
Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World
by
John Blair
Princeton University Press, 11/11/2025
Killing the Dead provides the first in-depth, global account of one of the world's most widespread yet misunderstood forms of mass hysteria—the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Listen: A Novel
by
Sacha Bronwasser
Penguin Books, 11/11/2025
In 1989, twenty-year-old Marie jumps at the chance to work as au pair in Paris—even though it means dropping out of her prestigious art program ...
more
Lucky Girl: A Novel
by
Allie Tagle-Dokus
Tin House Books, 11/11/2025
Lucy Gardiner felt like she was put on earth to dance.
Amid the chaos of her Massachusetts upbringing―her loving, erratic brothers; her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Lucky Seed: A Novel
by
Justinian Huang
MIRA, 11/11/2025
The billionaire Sun Clan of Greater Los Angeles is your typical American family, with power-struggling aunties, emasculated uncles, scheming cousins, ...
more
Next Time Will Be Our Turn
by
Jesse Q. Sutanto
Berkley Books, 11/11/2025
Izzy Chen is dreading her family's annual Chinese New Year celebration, where they all come together at a Michelin-starred restaurant to flaunt their ...
more
Radical Cartography: How Changing Our Maps Can Change Our World
by
William Rankin
Viking, 11/11/2025
Maps are ubiquitous in contemporary life—not just for navigation, but for making sense of our society, our environment, and even ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Terry Dactyl
by
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Coffee House Press, 11/11/2025
Terry Dactyl has lived many lives. Raised by boisterous lesbian mothers in Seattle, she comes of age as a trans girl in the 1980s in a world of ...
more
The Burning Grounds: Wyndham & Banerjee Mysteries #6
by
Abir Mukherjee
Pegasus Books, 11/11/2025
In The Burning Ghats of Calcutta, where the dead are laid to rest, a man is found murdered, his throat cut from ear to ear.
The body is that of a ...
more
The Dark Side of the Earth: Russia's Short-lived Victory over Totalitarianism
by
Mikhail Zygar
Scribner, 11/11/2025
Russian-born journalist Mikhail Zygar was ten years old when the Soviet Union collapsed. Now, after nearly ten years of research, he offers a timely ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Emergency: A Novel
by
George Packer
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/11/2025
George Packer's bestselling nonfiction work exploring American life has won many prizes, including the National Book Award. With
The Emergency, he ...
more
The History of Money: A Story of Humanity
by
David McWilliams
Henry Holt and Company, 11/11/2025
The story of humanity is inextricable from that of money. No innovation has defined our own evolution so thoroughly and changed the direction of our ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Land in Winter
by
Andrew Miller
Europa Editions, 11/11/2025
December 1962: In an English village deep in the West Country, two couples on neighboring farms begin their day. Local doctor Eric Parry, keeping ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Name on the Wall: A Novel
by
Hervé Le Tellier
Other Press, 11/11/2025
Struck by a name written on a facade of his new home, acclaimed author Hervé Le Tellier embarked on a quest to recover the history of André ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Pentecost Papers
by
Ferdinand Mount
Bloomsbury Publishing, 11/11/2025
His accomplices in this irresistible safari through the late modern world are two reformed alcoholics, the lovely and brilliant Lee 'Lethal' Thorold, ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Plan of Chicago: A City in Stories
by
Barry Pearce
Cornerstone Press, 11/11/2025
The edgy enclave he fled haunts a South Side exile, upending his life. A boy who helps his father fake accidents for insurance claims reaches a ...
more
The Silver Book: A Novel
by
Olivia Laing
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/11/2025
It is September 1974. Two men meet in Venice. One, Nicholas, is a young artist, plausible, English, desperate. The other is Danilo Donati, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Sunshine Man: A Novel
by
Emma Stonex
Viking, 11/11/2025
Birdie Keller wakes one freezing January morning to the news she's been waiting eighteen years to hear. Jimmy Maguire, the man who killed her sister, ...
more
The White Hot: A Novel
by
Quiara Alegria Hudes
One World, 11/11/2025
April is a young mother raising her daughter in an intergenerational house of unspoken secrets and loud arguments. Her only refuge is to hide away in ...
more
There Is No Antimemetics Division
by
qntm
Ballantine Books, 11/11/2025
They're all around us, hiding in plain sight.
One could be in the room with you now, just to your left. You could be seeing it right now—but ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Who Knows You by Heart: A Novel
by
C. J. Farley
William Morrow, 11/11/2025
Octavia Crenshaw, a Jamaican-American coder living in Manhattan, is broke, burned out, and haunted by her parents' deaths. Desperate to pay off some ...
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At Midnight Comes the Cry: A Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mystery (Fergusson/Van Alstyne Mysteries, 10)
by
Julia Spencer-Fleming
Minotaur Books, 11/18/2025
It's Christmas time in Millers Kill, and Reverend Clare Fergusson and her husband Russ van Alstyne - newly resigned from his position as chief of ...
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Thrillers
Beasts of the Sea: A Novel
by
Iida Turpeinen
Little Brown & Company, 11/18/2025
In 1741, thirty-two-year-old naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller joins Captain Bering's Great Northern Expedition to scout out a sea route from Asia to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
by
W. David Marx
Viking, 11/18/2025
Over the past twenty-five years, pop culture has suffered from a perplexing lack of reinvention. We've entered a cultural "blank space"—an era ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dog Show: Poems
by
Billy Collins
Random House, 11/18/2025
Billy Collins's
Dog Show celebrates the joy of our canine best friends, honoring the love we feel for the animals who play such vital roles in our ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction
by
Marissa van Uden
Violet Lichen, 11/18/2025
Featuring works by rising stars and established names, this anthology is an exploration of humanity's deep relationships with other species and of our...
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Short Stories
Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult
by
Ellen Huet
MCD, 11/18/2025
OneTaste hoped orgasm would change the world. Emerging in the midst of the late-aughts for-profit wellness boom, the company was unwavering in its ...
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True Crime
Evil Bones: Temperance Brennan Novels #24
by
Kathy Reichs
Scribner, 11/18/2025
Small creatures—a rat, a rabbit, a squirrel—have been turning up throughout Charlotte, North Carolina, mutilated and displayed in the same...
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Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times
by
Tracy K. Smith
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/18/2025
Drawing on deep passion and personal experience, former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith demystifies the art form that has too often been ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Haven't Killed in Years
by
Amy K. Green
Berkley Books, 11/18/2025
Marin Haggerty, the daughter of a notorious serial killer, was only a child when they arrested her father. Ripped from her home and given a new ...
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How Girls Are Made
by
Mindy McGinnis
HarperCollins Publishers, 11/18/2025
Fallon is a fixer. From planning prom to organizing her college applications, she's got it all figured out…except for when her younger sister ...
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I, Medusa: A Novel
by
Ayana Gray
Random House, 11/18/2025
Meddy has spent her whole life as a footnote in someone else's story. Out of place next to her beautiful, immortal sisters and her parents—both ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1971–2024
by
John Edgar Wideman
Scribner, 11/18/2025
John Edgar Wideman, renowned for his award-winning fiction and memoirs, first made waves in American literature with his sharp, insightful commentary....
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Leave It on the Track
by
Margot Fisher
Dutton for Young Readers, 11/18/2025
Morgan "Moose" Shaker barely survived the fire that killed her fathers in their beloved roller rink in small-town Utah. Now she has to move to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Mexico: A 500-Year History
by
Paul Gillingham
Atlantic Monthly Press, 11/18/2025
At the beginning of his masterful work of scholarship and narration, Paul Gillingham writes, from its outset "Mexico was more profoundly, globally ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
My Ex-Husband's Ex-Husband: A Novel
by
Rachel Cohn, Melissa de la Cruz
Little A, 11/18/2025
Audrey and Ian were best friends―until they fell in love with the same man. To be precise, they fell in love with, married, and divorced the ...
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Literary Fiction
My Little Donkey: And Other Essays
by
Martha Cooley
Catapult, 11/18/2025
In 2021, in her mid-sixties, Martha Cooley moved with her husband from the United States to Castiglione del Terziere, a village in northernmost ...
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P.S. You're the Worst: A Novel
by
Chloe Seager
William Morrow Paperbacks, 11/18/2025
Everyone knows the death card in a tarot reading isn't a literal death sentence. Well, everyone except Becky.
Becky is not doing well. Her dreaded ...
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Slow Gods
by
Claire North
Orbit, 11/18/2025
My name is Mawukana na-Vdnaze, and I am a very poor copy of myself.
In telling my story, there are certain things I should perhaps lie about. I ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Bookshop Below
by
Georgia Summers
Redhook, 11/18/2025
If you want a story that will change your life, Chiron's bookshop is where you go. For those lucky enough to grace its doors, it's a glimpse into a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Botanist's Assistant
by
Peggy Townsend
Berkley Books, 11/18/2025
Plenty of people consider Margaret Finch odd. Six-feet-tall and big-boned, she lives alone in a small cabin in the woods, drives a 20-year-old truck, ...
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The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
by
Simon Winchester
Harper, 11/18/2025
What is going on with our atmosphere? The headlines are filled with news of devastating hurricanes, murderous tornadoes, and cataclysmic fires ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Burning Library
by
Gilly Macmillan
William Morrow, 11/18/2025
On a frigid, windswept day in Scotland's Western Hebrides, Eleanor Bruton's body is discovered on the shore. To her family Eleanor was an ordinary ...
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The Color of Hope
by
Danielle Steel
Delacorte Press, 11/18/2025
Following the unexpected death of her beloved husband, art gallery owner Sabrina Thompson finds herself adrift in their Malibu beach house. Her three ...
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Literary Fiction
The Ferryman and His Wife: A Novel
by
Frode Grytten
Algonquin Books, 11/18/2025
Nils Vik wakes up on November the 18th and knows it will be the day he dies. He follows his morning routine as voices from his past echo in his mind, ...
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Literary Fiction
The Pelican Child: Stories
by
Joy Williams
Knopf, 11/18/2025
"Night was best, for, as everyone knows, but does not tell, the sobbing of the earth is most audible at night." "Men are but unconscious machines and ...
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Wheel of Wrath: The Fifth Realm #2
by
A. A. Vora
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 11/18/2025
Mayana is burning. Following the rupture of the barrier protecting the peaceful upper realm, soldiers from the lower realm of Malin invade and wage ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
To My Dearest Self
by
Nimna Vijay
Harper, 11/22/2025
Aditi always fought for everyone else-at home, at work, in love. But she never knew how to speak up for herself. And when heartbreak shatters her ...
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Romance
As Many Souls as Stars
by
Natasha Siegel
William Morrow, 11/25/2025
1592. Cybil Harding is a First Daughter. Cursed to bring disaster to those around her, she is trapped in a house with a mother paralyzed by grief...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Best Offer Wins: A Novel
by
Marisa Kashino
Celadon, 11/25/2025
Eighteen months and 11 lost bidding wars into house-hunting in the overheated Washington, DC suburbs, 37-year-old publicist Margo Miyake gets a tip ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Capitalism: A Global History
by
Sven Beckert
Penguin Press, 11/25/2025
No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others,...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Disinheritance: The Rediscovered Stories
by
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Counterpoint Press, 11/25/2025
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala began publishing fiction in 1956 and continued to do so until her death in 2013.
Disinheritance showcases some of the finest of ...
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Family of Spies
by
Christine Kuehn
Celadon, 11/25/2025
It began with a letter from a screenwriter, asking about a story.
Your family. World War II. Nazi spies. Christine Kuehn was shocked and confused. ...
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Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford
by
Carla Kaplan
Harper, 11/25/2025
Who could predict that a British aristocrat would so energize American antifascist and civil rights struggles that
Time magazine would crown...
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Biography/Memoir
