A Sky Full of Love: A Novel
by
Lorna Lewis
Lake Union Publishing, 06/01/2025
After fifteen years in captivity, Nova Lefleur is free, back home, and reunited with her Louisiana family. Through her ordeal, she never forgot them. ...
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Romance
A Family Matter: A Novel
by
Claire Lynch
Scribner, 06/03/2025
1982. Dawn is a young mother, still adjusting to life with her husband, when Hazel lights up her world like a torch in the dark. Theirs is the kind of...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A First Time for Everything
by
K. L. Walther
Sourcebooks Fire, 06/03/2025
Madeline has always been extremely close to her family, so she is shocked when her older brother gets engaged without including them (or even giving ...
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A Forgery of Fate
by
Elizabeth Lim
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 06/03/2025
Truyan Saigas didn't choose to become a con artist, but after her father is lost at sea, it's up to her to support her mother and two younger sisters....
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Language of Limbs: A Novel
by
Dylin Hardcastle
Dutton, 06/03/2025
Newcastle, Australia, 1972. On a sticky summer night, a choice must be made: To give in to queer desire or suppress it? To venture into the unknown or...
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A Song of Legends Lost: Invoker Trilogy #1
by
M. H. Ayinde
Saga Press, 06/03/2025
A SONG OF REBELLION. A SONG OF WAR. A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST.
The people of Nine Lands know their history. The kingdom once belonged to the Scathed ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Albion: A Novel
by
Anna Hope
Harper, 06/03/2025
The Brookes are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home—twenty bedrooms of carved Sussex sandstone—to bury their patriarch, ...
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Beast: A Novel
by
Richard Van Camp
Douglas & McIntyre, 06/03/2025
Lawson Sauren's life has always been entwined with the lives of the Cranes brothers. Cody Cranes became an unexpected friend when they shared a tent ...
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Best of All Worlds
by
Kenneth Oppel
Scholastic, 06/03/2025
Xavier Oaks doesn't particularly want to go to the cabin with his dad and his dad's pregnant new wife, Nia. But family obligations are family ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care
by
Shelley Sella
Beacon Press, 06/03/2025
Within both the anti-abortion and pro-choice movements, third-trimester abortion is often stigmatized and misunderstood. For 20 years, Dr. Shelley ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Blonde Dust
by
Tatiana de Rosnay
Grand Central Publishing, 06/03/2025
Pauline, a young chambermaid who works at the legendary Mapes Hotel in Reno, Nevada, is asked to step in for a colleague and clean Suite 614. Although...
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Historical Fiction
Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation
by
Zaakir Tameez
Henry Holt and Company, 06/03/2025
Charles Sumner is mainly known as the abolitionist statesman who suffered a brutal caning on the Senate floor by the proslavery congressman Preston ...
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Charlottesville: An American Story
by
Deborah Baker
Graywolf Press, 06/03/2025
Within an hour of their arrival, the city's historic downtown was a scene of bedlam as armored far right cadres battled activists in the streets. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Clam Down: A Metamorphosis
by
Anelise Chen
One World, 06/03/2025
We've all heard the story about waking up as a cockroach—but what if a crisis turned you into a clam? After the dissolution of her marriage, a ...
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Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
by
Alice Bolin
Mariner Books, 06/03/2025
In seven stunning original essays, Alice Bolin turns her gaze to the myriad ways femininity is remixed and reconstructed by the pop culture of the ...
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Dan in Green Gables: A Graphic Novel: A Modern Reimagining of Anne of Green Gables
by
Rey Terciero
Penguin Books, 06/03/2025
Despite a life on the road with his free-spirited mother, fifteen-year-old Dan Stewart-Álvarez has always wanted to settle down. He just didn't ...
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Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told
by
Jeremy Atherton Lin
Little Brown & Company, 06/03/2025
It's 1996, and Jeremy Atherton Lin has met the boy of his dreams — a mumbling, starry-eyed Brit — just as, amid a media frenzy, US ...
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Devils Like Us
by
L.T. Thompson
Bloomsbury YA, 06/03/2025
Cas has a rule:
Don't tell anyone. Not about the nagging gender discomfort, and certainly not about the prophetic visions of untimely deaths. Cas ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dining Out: First Dates, Defiant Nights, and Last Call Disco Fries at America's Gay Restaurants
by
Erik Piepenburg
Grand Central Publishing, 06/03/2025
Dining Out explores how gay people came of age, came out, and fought for their rights not just in gay bars or the streets, but in restaurants, from ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Fight AIDS!: How Activism, Art, and Protest Changed the Course of a Deadly Epidemic and Reshaped a Nation
by
Michael G. Long
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/03/2025
Act up! Fight back! Fight AIDS!
This was the slogan for ACT UP―or AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power―an activist organization that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Gaysians
by
Michael Curato
Algonquin Books, 06/03/2025
When AJ moves to Seattle in the early aughts, he's ready to reinvent himself as a gay Asian man—but his dreams hit reality fast with no friends,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
Heir of Storms: Storm Weaver #1
by
Lauryn Hamilton Murray
Roaring Brook Press, 06/03/2025
The very day Blaze came into the world, she almost drowned it. A Rain Singer born into one of the most powerful fire-wielding families in the empire, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
I'll Tell You When I'm Home: A Memoir
by
Hala Alyan
Simon & Schuster, 06/03/2025
After a decade of yearning for parenthood, years marked by miscarriage after miscarriage, Hala Alyan makes the decision to use a surrogate. In this ...
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In the Family Way: A Novel
by
Laney Katz Becker
Harper, 06/03/2025
In 1965 America, women can't have their own bank accounts, credit cards, or sign their own leases; divorce is scandalous and difficult; and abortion ...
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Historical Fiction
It's Not the End of the World: A Novel
by
Jonathan Parks-Ramage
Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/03/2025
It's 2044 and life is bleak for many Americans, but not for Mason Daunt. Safe in his Los Angeles mansion, Mason can remain blissfully unaware of the ...
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Lady's Knight
by
Amie Kaufman
Storytide, 06/03/2025
Gwen is sick of hiding—hiding the fact that she's taken over her father's blacksmithing duties, hiding her attraction to girls, hiding her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Lincoln's Lady Spymaster: The Untold Story of the Abolitionist Southern Belle Who Helped Win the Civil War
by
Gerri Willis
Harper, 06/03/2025
Wealthy Southern belle Elizabeth Van Lew had it all. Money, charm, wit—the biggest mansion in Richmond. So why risk everything to become the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lone Wolf: Walking the Line Between Civilization and Wildness
by
Adam Weymouth
Crown, 06/03/2025
In 2011, a wolf named Slavc left his home territory of Slovenia for a wide-ranging journey across the Alps. Tracked by a GPS collar, he traveled over ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Madame Queen: The Life and Crimes of Harlem's Underground Racketeer, Stephanie St. Clair
by
Mary Kay McBrayer
Park Row, 06/03/2025
In her heyday, Stephanie St. Clair went by many names, but one was best known by all:
Madame Queen. The undeniable queen of the Harlem numbers game, ...
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Biography/Memoir
Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church
by
Kevin Sack
Crown, 06/03/2025
Few people beyond South Carolina's Lowcountry knew of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston—Mother Emanuel—before the ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Motherland: A Journey through 500,000 Years of African Culture and Identity
by
Luke Pepera
Pegasus Books, 06/03/2025
Historian, archaeologist, and anthropologist Luke Pepera takes us on a personal journey discovering 500,000 years of African history and cultures in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy
by
Edward Hirsch
Knopf, 06/03/2025
"My grandparents taught me to write my sins on paper and cast them into the water... . They didn't expect an entire book," Hirsch says in the "...
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Never Thought I'd End Up Here
by
Ann Liang
Scholastic, 06/03/2025
Leah Zhang has spent her whole life in LA ― it's all she's ever known. But after accidentally wishing her cousin ill health and a very ...
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Notes on Infinity: A Novel
by
Austin Taylor
Celadon, 06/03/2025
Zoe, the daughter of an MIT professor who grew up in her brother's shadow, can envision her future anew at Harvard. Jack, a boy in Zoe's organic ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Park Avenue: A Novel
by
Renée Ahdieh
Flatiron Books, 06/03/2025
Jia Song has always been destined for greatness. As the daughter of Korean bodega owners, she promised herself that she would have every Fifth Avenue ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Pioneer Summer: A Novel
by
Kateryna Sylvanova
The Overlook Press, 06/03/2025
The year is 1986, and Yurka Konev, 16, has been sent off for another summer at Pioneer Camp. Impulsive, forthright, and unfairly branded as a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sick and Dirty: Hollywood's Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness
by
Michael Koresky
Bloomsbury USA, 06/03/2025
From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Motion Picture Production Code severely restricted what Hollywood cinema could depict. This included "any inference" ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Skipshock
by
Caroline O'Donoghue
Walker Books US, 06/03/2025
Margo is a troubled schoolgirl. After the death of her father, she's on her way to a new boarding school in a new city.
Moon is a salesman. He ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
So Happy Together: A Novel
by
Olivia Worley
Minotaur Books, 06/03/2025
For twenty-four-year-old Jane, finding love in New York City is even harder than making it as a playwright. So when Jane meets Colin, she can't ...
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Thrillers
Songs of No Provenance: A Novel
by
Lydi Conklin
Catapult, 06/03/2025
Songs of No Provenance tells the story of Joan Vole, an indie folk singer forever teetering on the edge of fame, who flees New York after committing a...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Strange Houses: A Novel
by
Uketsu
HarperVia, 06/03/2025
A writer fascinated by the macabre is approached by an acquaintance who is considering purchasing a second-hand house in Tokyo. With its bright and ...
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Thrillers
Sycorax
by
Nydia Hetherington
Pegasus Books, 06/03/2025
Outcast by society and all alone in the world, Sycorax must find a way to understand her true nature. But as her powers begin to grow, so too do the ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Ten Incarnations of Rebellion: A Novel
by
Vaishnavi Patel
Ballantine Books, 06/03/2025
Kalki Divekar grows up a daughter of Kingston—a city the British built on the ashes of Bombay. The older generation, including her father, have ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
That Devil, Ambition
by
Linsey Miller
Storytide, 06/03/2025
There is only one school worth graduating from, and it creates as many magicians as it does graves…
First in his class and last in his noble ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
That's How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor
by
Damon Young
Pantheon Books, 06/03/2025
A critic explores the paradox of finding community in "the dozens" while grieving. A violent town ritual causes an all-too-familiar moral panic. An ...
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The Catch: A Novel
by
Yrsa Daley-Ward
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 06/03/2025
Twin sisters Clara and Dempsey have always struggled to relate, their familial bond severed after their mother vanished into the Thames. In adulthood,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Ghostwriter: A Novel
by
Julie Clark
Sourcebooks Landmark, 06/03/2025
June, 1975.
The Taylor family shatters in a single night when two teenage siblings are found dead in their own home. The only surviving sibling, ...
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The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History
by
Maggie Gram
Basic Books, 06/03/2025
Design has penetrated every dimension of contemporary society, from classrooms to statehouses to corporate boardrooms. It's seen as a kind of mega-...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Listeners: A Novel
by
Maggie Stiefvater
Viking, 06/03/2025
January 1942. The Avallon Hotel & Spa has always offered elegant luxury in the wilds of West Virginia, its mountain sweetwater washing away all of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick: Sex and the Supreme Court in the Age of AIDS
by
Martin Padgett
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/03/2025
When a police officer stood at his bedroom door on August 3, 1982, Michael Hardwick had no idea that he would become an avatar of the gay rights ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Phoenix Pencil Company: A Novel
by
Allison King
William Morrow, 06/03/2025
Monica Tsai spends most days on her computer, journaling the details of her ordinary life and coding...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The River's Daughter
by
Bridget Crocker
Spiegel & Grau, 06/03/2025
After Bridget Crocker's parents' volatile divorce, she moved with her mother from Southern California to Wyoming. Her life was idyllic, growing up in ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983-1994
by
Thomas Mallon
Knopf, 06/03/2025
In 1983, Thomas Mallon was still unknown. A literature professor at Vassar College, he spent his days traveling from Manhattan to campus, reviewing ...
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Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System
by
Brando Simeo Starkey
Doubleday, 06/03/2025
Their Accomplices Wore Robes takes readers from the Civil War era to the present and describes how the Supreme Court—even more than the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
There Are Reasons For This
by
Nini Berndt
Tin House Books, 06/03/2025
But Lucy has only just arrived, and too late. She arrives in search of Helen, a woman Mikey loved. But when Lucy moves in across the hall, she finds ...
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Waterline: A Novel
by
Aram Mrjoian
HarperVia, 06/03/2025
Outside Detroit on the island of Gross Ile, the Kurkjians receive news that Mari, the eldest of their youngest generation, has swum into the depths of...
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Literary Fiction
We Are Green and Trembling
by
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
New Directions Publishing, 06/03/2025
Deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso begins to write a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the Basque convent he escaped as a young ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
What Is Queer Food?: How We Served a Revolution
by
John Birdsall
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/03/2025
The food on our plates has long been designed, twisted, and elevated by queer hands. Piecing together a dazzling mosaic of queer lives, spaces, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
When Devils Sing
by
Xan Kaur
Henry Holt and Company, 06/03/2025
When Dawson Sumter goes missing, all he leaves behind is a smattering of blood in room 4 of the debt-ridden motel owned by Neera Singh's family. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
When We Ruled: The Rise and Fall of Twelve African Queens and Warriors
by
Paula Akpan
Pegasus Books, 06/03/2025
Njinga Mbande. Nana Yaa Asantewaa. Makobo Modjadji VI. Ranavalona the First.
These queens and warriors ruled vast swathes of the African continent,...
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Biography/Memoir
Your Final Moments
by
Jay Coles
Scholastic, 06/03/2025
Hakeem goes to Narcotics Anonymous meetings to keep his addictions in check. But when his best friend Miles kills himself, Hakeem finds the days ...
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The Crucible
by
Arthur Miller
Independently published, 06/07/2025
The story follows a small puritan community that is consumed by fear and doubt when a group of young girls are caught dancing in the forest and ...
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Historical Fiction
A Girl Walks into the Forest
by
Madeleine Roux
Quill & Quire, 06/10/2025
For as long as she can remember, Valla's been told her beauty would give her a life most people only dreamed of. So when the mysterious Count Leonid ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Murder for Miss Hortense: A Mystery
by
Mel Pennant
Pantheon Books, 06/10/2025
She takes great pride in her home, starching her lace curtains bright white, and she can tell if she's being shortchanged on turmeric before she's ...
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Mysteries
Amelia, If Only
by
Becky Albertalli
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/10/2025
Okay, maybe her friends are right: She's slightly parasocially infatuated. But Amelia just knows sparks would fly—if only she could connect with...
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Art Above Everything: One Woman's Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life
by
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Beacon Press, 06/10/2025
Is the all-encompassing quest to become a self-sustaining artist worth the sacrifices it often requires? Throughout her 20s and 30s, Stephanie ...
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Audition
by
Pip Adam
Coffee House Press, 06/10/2025
A spaceship called
Audition is hurtling through the cosmos. Squashed immobile into its largest room are three giants: Alba, Stanley, and Drew. If they...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Cooler Than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard
by
C. M. Kushins
Mariner Books, 06/10/2025
Over the course of his sixty-year career, Elmore Leonard, "the Dickens of Detroit," published forty-five novels that have had enduring appeal to ...
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Days of Light
by
Megan Hunter
Grove Press, 06/10/2025
She marvels at the way a single day can unravel everything, like ribbon pulled from a present.
In 2017, Megan Hunter burst onto the literary scene...
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Death at the White Hart: A Novel
by
Chris Chibnall
Pamela Dorman Books, 06/10/2025
Nothing keeps a village together like secrets.
The villagers of Fleetcombe like to think of it as one of the most picturesque spots on England's ...
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Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age
by
Frank Close
Basic Books, 06/10/2025
Although Henri Becquerel didn't know it at the time, he changed history in 1895 when he left photographic plates and some uranium rocks in a drawer. ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Expert Witness: The Weight of Our Testimony When Justice Hangs in the Balance
by
Ann Wolbert Burgess
Hachette Books, 06/10/2025
For decades, when criminal cases of the most unprecedented nature went to trial, one woman took the stand to separate truth from fiction.
Expert ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Far and Away: A Novel
by
Amy Poeppel
Atria Books, 06/10/2025
Perfect strangers Lucy and Greta have agreed to a house swap—and boy, are they going to regret it.
Lucy's hometown of Dallas has gone from ...
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Literary Fiction
Florenzer: A Novel
by
Phil Melanson
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 06/10/2025
Leonardo da Vinci, twelve years old and a bastard, leaves the Tuscan countryside to join his father in Florence with dreams of becoming a painter. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Grand Finales: The Creative Longevity of Women Artists
by
Susan Gubar
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/10/2025
Despite the losses generally associated with aging, quite a few writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, and dancers have managed to extend and ...
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Great Black Hope: A Novel
by
Rob Franklin
Summit Books, 06/10/2025
An arrest for cocaine possession on the last day of a sweltering New York summer leaves Smith, a queer Black Stanford graduate, in a state of turmoil....
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Homework: A Memoir
by
Geoff Dyer
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/10/2025
The only child of a sheet-metal worker and a dinner lady who worked at the canteen of the local school, Geoff Dyer grew up in a world shaped by ...
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Biography/Memoir
Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance
by
A'Lelia Bundles
Scribner, 06/10/2025
Dubbed the "joy goddess of Harlem's 1920s" by poet Langston Hughes, A'Lelia Walker, daughter of millionaire entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker and the ...
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Kakigori Summer: A Novel
by
Emily Itami
Mariner Books, 06/10/2025
Rei, Kiki, and Ai are three sisters divided by distance and circumstance. Ambitious Rei works in finance in London; Kiki is the single mother of a ...
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Kill Your Darlings: A Novel
by
Peter Swanson
William Morrow, 06/10/2025
Thom and Wendy Graves have been married for over twenty-five years. They live in a beautiful Victorian on the north shore of Massachusetts. Wendy is a...
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King of Ashes: A Novel
by
S. A. Cosby
Flatiron Books, 06/10/2025
When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father's car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals...
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Kuleana: A Story of Family, Land, and Legacy in Old Hawai'i
by
Sara Kehaulani Goo
Flatiron Books, 06/10/2025
From an early age, Sara Kehaulani Goo has always been enchanted by her family's land in Hawai'i. The vast area along the rugged shores of Maui's east ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Love, Misha
by
Askel Aden
First Second, 06/10/2025
Can this road trip get any worse?
Yes, Mom (Audrey) wanted to spend time with Misha. And yes, she's never around and they don't even live together, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Making Friends Can Be Murder
by
Kathleen West
Berkley Books, 06/10/2025
It feels like kismet when Sarah Jones, newly relocated to Minneapolis after abruptly calling off her engagement, gets invited to join a group of women...
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Meet Me on Love Street
by
Farah Heron
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 06/10/2025
Sana Merali is a certified hopeless romantic.
It's inevitable when she literally lives on Love Street, a cute side-street full of mom-and-pop shops...
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Romance
Midnight at the Cinema Palace: A Novel
by
Christopher Tradowsky
Simon & Schuster, 06/10/2025
Walter Simmering is searching for love and purpose in a city he doesn't realize is fading away—San Francisco in 1993, at the height of the AIDS ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Ordinary Love: A Novel
by
Marie Rutkoski
Knopf, 06/10/2025
Emily has, by all appearances, a perfect life: a townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side, two healthy children, and a husband who showers her with ...
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The English Masterpiece: A Novel
by
Katherine Reay
Harper Muse, 06/10/2025
As the recently promoted assistant to the Tate's Modern Collections keeper Diana Gilden, Lily helps plan a world-class Picasso exhibit to honor the ...
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Thrillers
The Great Mann: A Novel
by
Kyra Davis Lurie
Crown, 06/10/2025
In 1945, Charlie Trammell steps off a cross-country train into the vibrant tapestry of Los Angeles. Lured by his cousin Marguerite's invitation to the...
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Literary Fiction
The Lamplighter's Bookshop
by
Sophie Austin
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/10/2025
When Evelyn Seaton answers an advertisement for an assistant at a forgotten bookshop in York, she is not the only one with something to hide.
There...
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Historical Fiction
Debut Author
This Is Not a Ghost Story: A Novel
by
Amerie
William Morrow, 06/10/2025
John's House provides all he needs. Surrounded by a vast, beautiful ocean under a void of sky, the House is John's haven. He is alone, but never ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Vesuvius
by
Cass Biehn
Peachtree Publishers, 06/10/2025
Clever thief Felix slips from city to city to survive the present and escape a past he can't remember. When Felix steals a divine artifact—...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
We Can Never Leave: A Novel
by
H.E. Edgmon
Wednesday Books, 06/10/2025
You can never go home…
Every day, all across the world, inhuman creatures are waking up with no memory of who they are or where they came ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Welcome to Murder Week: A Novel
by
Karen Dukess
Gallery/Scout Press, 06/10/2025
When thirty-four-year-old Cath loses her mostly absentee mother, she is ambivalent. With days of quiet, unassuming routine in Buffalo, New York, Cath ...
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Mysteries
What Kind of Paradise: A Novel
by
Janelle Brown
Random House, 06/10/2025
The first thing you have to understand is that my father was my entire world.
Growing up in an isolated cabin in Montana in the mid-1990s, Jane ...
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With a Vengeance: A Novel
by
Riley Sager
Dutton, 06/10/2025
In 1942, six people destroyed Anna Matheson's family. Twelve years later, she's ready for retribution.
Under false pretenses, Anna has lured those ...
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A Far Better Thing
by
H. G. Parry
Tor Books, 06/17/2025
I feared this was the best of times; I hoped it could not get any worse.
The faeries stole Sydney Carton as a child, and made him a mortal ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Novel Murder: A Mystery
by
E. C. Nevin
Knopf, 06/17/2025
In the quaint English town of Hoslewit, the biggest names in crime writing have congregated to celebrate all things bookish and murderous. Author Jane...
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A Promise to Arlette: A Novel
by
Serena Burdick
Atria Books, 06/17/2025
Sidney and Ida Whipple are living the suburban 1950s American dream, complete with two children and a white picket fence, which didn't seem possible ...
more
Historical Fiction
American Scare: Florida's Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives
by
Robert W. Fieseler
Dutton, 06/17/2025
In January 1959, Art Copleston was escorted out of his college accounting class by three police officers. In a motel room, blinds drawn, he sat in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Before Dorothy
by
Hazel Gaynor
Berkley Books, 06/17/2025
Chicago, 1924: Emily and her new husband, Henry, yearn to leave the bustle of Chicago for the promise of their own American dream among the harsh ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Bug Hollow: A Novel
by
Michelle Huneven
Penguin Press, 06/17/2025
When Sally Samuelson was eight years old, her golden boy brother Ellis went missing the summer he graduated high school. Ellis finally turned up at ...
more
Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free
by
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
Simon & Schuster, 06/17/2025
Claire McCardell forever changed American fashion. In fact, much of what we wear today can be traced back to her: ballet flats, mix-and-match ...
more
Crown
by
Evanthia Bromiley
Grove Press, 06/17/2025
Jude Woods is on the brink of eviction. Pregnant, jobless, and mother to Evan and Virginia, she has three days to box up her family's life and find a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Fulfillment: A Novel
by
Lee Cole
Knopf, 06/17/2025
Fulfillment tells the story of two half brothers—Joel, a successful academic and author, whose marriage is in deep trouble, and his younger ...
more
Girls Girls Girls
by
Shoshana von Blanckensee
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/17/2025
It's the summer of '96 and best friends (and secret girlfriends) Hannah and Sam are driving across the country from Long Beach, New York, to the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Goodbye, My Princess
by
Fei Wo Si Cun
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 06/17/2025
There is no room for love in an empire.
Qu Xiaofeng has been living in Shangjing for three years now. A naïve, happy-go-lucky treaty bride ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Hazel Says No: A Novel
by
Jessica Berger Gross
Hanover Square Press, 06/17/2025
Hazel Blum, please report to the principal's office. Hazel Blum.
When Hazel Blum's father gets a tenured job at a prestigious college, she and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet
by
Kate Marvel
Ecco, 06/17/2025
Dr. Kate Marvel is a renowned climate scientist and researcher whose work on climate change led her to grapple with strong, complicated emotions. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
If We Survive This
by
Racquel Marie
Feiwel & Friends, 06/17/2025
Flora Braddock Paz is not the girl who survives. A colorful creative who spends as much time fearing death as she does trying to hide that fear from ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
June in the Garden: A Novel
by
Eleanor Wilde
Crown, 06/17/2025
After her mother's unexpected death, June must vacate her home. But when the social worker urges her to move into a flat with no garden—clearly,...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Liberation Summer: The Moment That Changed the Women's Movement and the Future of American Politics
by
Micki McElya
Simon & Schuster, 06/17/2025
Of the many pivotal years in United States history studied and recreated by historians, journalists, and filmmakers, 1968, in particular, is widely ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia,from Revolution to Autocracy
by
Julia Ioffe
Ecco, 06/17/2025
In 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family fled the Soviet Union. Nearly twenty years later, Ioffe returned to Moscow—only to discover ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Murder Takes a Vacation: A Riveting Mystery of Deception, Art Theft, and Unexpected Romance on a Parisian Cruise?Perfect for Summer Reading
by
Laura Lippman
William Morrow, 06/17/2025
Mrs. Blossom has a knack for blending into the background, which was an asset during her days assisting private investigator Tess Monaghan. But when ...
more
Thrillers
Shaw Connolly Lives to Tell: A Novel
by
Gillian French
Minotaur Books, 06/17/2025
Shaw Connolly is no stranger to trauma. As a fingerprints analyst, she's one of the first on-site for crimes, including murder scenes and a mysterious...
more
Sound Affects: How Sound Shapes Our Lives, Our Wellbeing and Our Planet
by
Julian Treasure
Grand Central Publishing, 06/17/2025
Hearing is the first sense we develop—a primary warning sense hardwired into our brains. And yet, in an increasingly noisy and distracted world,...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Summers in Squid Tickle: A Newfoundland Odyssey
by
Robert Finch
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/17/2025
Robert Finch arrived in Newfoundland in the summer of 1995 heartsick, directionless, his old life on Cape Cod in tatters. Burnside―traditionally...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Cost of Being Undocumented: One Woman's Reckoning with America's Inhumane Math
by
Alix Dick
Beacon Press, 06/17/2025
An inhumane math pervades this country: even as our government extracts labor and often taxes from undocumented workers, it excludes these same ...
more
The Lost Masterpiece: A Novel
by
B. A. Shapiro
Algonquin Books, 06/17/2025
Stretching from the late-nineteenth century to the present day,
The Lost Masterpiece is wrapped around an enigmatic and powerful painting, Party on ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Mercy Makers: The Moon Heresies #1
by
Tessa Gratton
Orbit, 06/17/2025
Can an empire trip and fall on a mere strand of silk?
Iriset is a prodigy and an outlaw. The daughter of a powerful criminal, she dons her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Möbius Book
by
Catherine Lacey
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/17/2025
Adrift in the winter of 2021 after a sudden breakup and the ensuing depression, the novelist Catherine Lacey began cataloguing the wreckage of her ...
more
The Poppy Fields: A Novel
by
Nikki Erlick
William Morrow, 06/17/2025
Welcome to the Poppy Fields, where there's hope for even the most battered hearts to heal.
Here, in a remote stretch of the California desert, lies...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science
by
Carly Anne York
Basic Books, 06/17/2025
Why would anyone research how elephants pee? Or study worms who tie themselves into a communal knot? Or quantify the squishability of a cockroach? It ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Scrapbook: A Novel
by
Heather Clark
Pantheon Books, 06/17/2025
The traumas of the past and the aftershocks of fascism echo and reverberate through the present in this story of a lifechanging seduction.
Harvard...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Second Chance Convenience Store: A Novel
by
Ho-Yeon Kim
Harper Perennial, 06/17/2025
Dok-go lives in Seoul Station. He can't remember his past, and the only thing he knows for certain is that he could really use a drink. When he finds ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Sisters: A Novel
by
Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/17/2025
Meet the Mikkola sisters: Ina, Evelyn, and Anastasia. Their mother is a Tunisian carpet seller, their father a mysterious Swede who left them when ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Teacher of Auschwitz: A Novel
by
Wendy Holden
Harper, 06/17/2025
Fredy built a wall against suffering in their hearts ...
Amid the brutality of the Holocaust, one bright spot shone inside the Nazi death camp of ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Tournament
by
Rebecca Barrow
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 06/17/2025
Gardner isn't like other boarding schools. They take in those who've been rejected everywhere else, they offer a survival skills class that has ...
more
The Uproar: A Novel
by
Karim Dimechkie
Little Brown & Company, 06/17/2025
Sharif is a good person. He knows that he is good because he's aware of the privilege that he holds as a white man. He knows he is good because he ...
more
These Heathens: A Novel
by
Mia McKenzie
Random House, 06/17/2025
Where do you get an abortion in 1960 Georgia, especially if your small town's midwife goes to the same church as your parents? For seventeen-year-old ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship
by
Dana A. Williams
Amistad, 06/17/2025
A multifaceted genius, Toni Morrison transcended her role as an author, helping to shape an important period in American publishing and literature as ...
more
We Might Just Make It After All: My Best Friendship with Kate Spade
by
Elyce Arons
Gallery Books, 06/17/2025
When Elyce Arons first met Katy Brosnahan in a University of Kansas dorm room, she had no idea that this polo shirt–wearing Missouri girl would ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Weepers: A Novel
by
Peter Mendelsund
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/17/2025
Ed is a weeper. A professional weeper.
He's a card-carrying member of an eccentric union hired to cry at funerals, wakes, services and burials. It'...
more
When the Music Hits: A Novel
by
Amber Oliver
Ballantine Books, 06/17/2025
Growing up in the Bronx, Billie Grand sought solace in music, finding herself in the pulsing beats, striking lyrics, and mesmerizing voices that saved...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
You've Awoken Her
by
Ann Davila Cardinal
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/17/2025
All Gabi wants is to spend the summer in his room, surrounded by his Funkos and books, but with his mom traveling, his bags are packed for the last ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
When the Sky Turned to Dust
by
Catherine Matthias
Moon Glow Books LLC, 06/21/2025
When the Sky Turned to Dust follows the journey of the courageous Dolan family as they face the ultimate test of strength and resilience and struggle ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Treachery of Swans
by
A. B. Poranek
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 06/24/2025
Can two girls—one enchanted, one the enchantress—save their kingdom and each other?
Two hundred years ago, a slighted deity stole the ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom
by
Rebecca Grant
Simon & Schuster, 06/24/2025
When it comes to the fight for bodily autonomy and women's rights in America, there are names and stories that we recognize—Gloria Steinem, Flo ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Among Friends: A Novel
by
Hal Ebbott
Riverhead Books, 06/24/2025
It's an autumn weekend at a comfortable New York country house where two deeply intertwined families have gathered to mark the host's fifty-second ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Arcana: The Lost Heirs (Arcana #1)
by
Sam Prentice-Jones
Feiwel & Friends, 06/24/2025
James, Daphne, Koko, and Sonny have all grown up surrounded by magic in the Arcana, an organization of witches that protects the magical world, run by...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
Belle Starr: The Truth Behind the Wild West Legend
by
Michael Wallis
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 06/24/2025
In the annals of legendary Wild West desperados, Belle Starr is remembered to this day as the Bandit Queen. Shortly after her murder in 1889, a highly...
more
Don't Let Him In: A Novel
by
Lisa Jewell
Atria Books, 06/24/2025
Restauranteur Paddy Swann was the life of the party until the day a man pushed him in the path of an oncoming train, leaving his twenty-something ...
more
El Dorado Drive
by
Megan Abbott
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/24/2025
All I want is to be innocent again. But that's not how it works. Especially not after the Wheel.
The three Bishop sisters grew up in privilege in...
more
Fan Favorite
by
Adrienne Gunn
Grand Central Publishing, 06/24/2025
Thirty-five year old Edie Pepper, a rosé loving, reality TV obsessed copywriter from Chicago, dreams of plucking her soulmate from the depths of ...
more
Romance
Fresh, Green Life: A Novel
by
Sebastian Castillo
Soft Skull Press, 06/24/2025
After experiencing a mysterious heart-related health scare, our narrator, Sebastian Castillo, who shares his name with this book's author, resolves to...
more
I'll Be Right Here: A Novel
by
Amy Bloom
Random House, 06/24/2025
Immigrating alone from Paris to New York after the crucible of World War II, young Gazala becomes friends with two spirited sisters, Anne and Alma. ...
more
Murder on Sex Island: Luella Van Horn Mysteries #1
by
Jo Firestone
Bantam Books, 06/24/2025
When a cast member goes missing from the hit reality show
Sex Island, producers hire detective Luella van Horn to go undercover as a contestant and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Tempest
by
K. Ibura
Quill & Quire, 06/24/2025
After Veronique's parents died, her grandmother raised her on a farm in rural Louisiana. For sixteen years, it's just been Veronique, MawMaw, and an ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Accidental Favorite: A Novel
by
Fran Littlewood
Henry Holt and Company, 06/24/2025
Vivienne and Patrick Fisher have done an excellent job raising their three daughters, Alex, Nancy, and Eva. They're well-adjusted women with ...
more
The Colony of Lost Souls
by
Kelsey James
A John Scognamiglio Book, 06/24/2025
Born a year apart, May and June Anderson were once as close as twins. Time and a loveless marriage changed the once vibrant May into June's timid ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Girls Who Grew Big: A Novel
by
Leila Mottley
Knopf, 06/24/2025
Adela Woods is sixteen years old and pregnant. Her parents banish her from her comfortable upbringing in Indiana to her grandmother's home in the ...
more
The Great White Hoax: Two Centuries of Selling Racism in America
by
Philip Kadish
The New Press, 06/24/2025
Fake news, outright political lies, a shamelessly partisan press, and the collapse of truth, civility, and shared facts, Philip Kadish argues, are ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Master Jeweler: A Novel
by
Weina Dai Randel
Lake Union Publishing, 06/24/2025
Harbin, China, 1925. Fifteen-year-old Anyu Zhang discovers a priceless Fabergé egg in the snow and returns it to the owner, Isaac Mandelburg, a ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Medusa Protocol: Assassins Anonymous #2
by
Rob Hart
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/24/2025
When Astrid, known in her assassin days as Azrael, stopped showing up to Assassins Anonymous, the group assumed her past had caught up with her. Only ...
more
The Place of Tides
by
James Rebanks
Mariner Books, 06/24/2025
We are all in need of lights to follow.
One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and ...
more
The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation's Fight Over Its Future
by
Carter Sherman
Gallery Books, 06/24/2025
As a college student, award-winning journalist Carter Sherman, along with several members of her sorority, was interviewed by a writer eagerly looking...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Tiny Things are Heavier
by
Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo
Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/24/2025
The Tiny Things are Heavier follows Sommy, a Nigerian woman who comes to the United States for graduate school two weeks after her brother, Mezie, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Whyte Python World Tour: A Novel
by
Travis Kennedy
Doubleday, 06/24/2025
It's Los Angeles, 1986, and metal rules the world. For aspiring drummer Rikki Thunder, life is good—even if he is sleeping in a condemned paint ...
more
Thus with a Kiss I Die: Daughter of Montague
by
Christina Dodd
A John Scognamiglio Book, 06/24/2025
"Woe, for I am the bug that meets the windshield's might,
No longer the speeding glass, smooth, clean and bright ..."
You're right. I, Rosie...
more
Mysteries
Trailblazer: Perseverance in Life and Politics
by
Carol Moseley Braun
Hanover Square Press, 06/24/2025
The first Black woman ever elected to the Senate. The first woman to represent the state of Illinois. The first Black woman to serve as a US ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
What We Leave Behind: A Novel
by
Sue Halpern
Harper, 06/24/2025
It's the perennial question: are we a product of how we were raised, or is our identity hardwired by our genetic inheritance? When her adoptive mother...
more
Lolly Willowes or, The Loving Huntsman
by
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Zinc Read, 06/25/2025
The story follows Lolly Willowes, a woman who defies the expectations of her family and society by choosing to live alone in the English countryside. ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Thinning
by
Inga Simpson
Sphere Books, 06/30/2025
Fin grew up by an observatory, learning about telescopes and planets, inspired by the passions of her mother and father, then leaders in their fields ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart: A Novel
by
Nishant Batsha
Ecco, 07/01/2025
At a party near Stanford University's campus in 1917, Cora Trent, a graduate student raised in the rugged mining towns of the American West, meets ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
After We Burned
by
Marieke Nijkamp
Sourcebooks Fire, 07/01/2025
A terrible accident. A horrible loss. A regrettable tragedy. That's all anyone in Fenix can talk about when a fire consumes the local high school, ...
more
Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution
by
Molly Beer
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/01/2025
Few women of the American Revolution have come through 250 years of US history with such clarity and color as Angelica Schuyler Church. She was ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Archive of Unknown Universes: A Novel
by
Ruben Reyes Jr.
Mariner Books, 07/01/2025
Cambridge, 2018. Ana and Luis's relationship is on the rocks, despite their many similarities, including their mothers who both fled El Salvador ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe
by
C. B. Lee
Feiwel & Friends, 07/01/2025
When Brenda's internet goes out right before an important scholarship deadline, she stumbles right into Kat's family's coffeeshop. Brenda is swept ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
End of Empire
by
Marissa Davis
Penguin Books, 07/01/2025
A collection as remarkable for the force of its feeling as for the range of its vision,
End of Empire explores the tensions of Black and American ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays
by
Maris Kreizman
Ecco, 07/01/2025
At the heart of this funny, acerbic, and bravely honest book of essays is Maris Kreizman, a former rule follower and ambition monster who once ...
more
My Sister and Other Lovers: A Novel
by
Esther Freud
Ecco, 07/01/2025
For as long as Lucy can remember, she's been caught between love for her rootless mother and devotion to her fierce and exacting sister, Bea. From ...
more
Literary Fiction
Oddbody: Stories
by
Rose Keating
Simon & Schuster, 07/01/2025
In her debut collection, Rose Keating takes you on a bold journey through the intricacies of sex, shame, and womanhood. With ten enchanting short ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Our Last Vineyard Summer
by
Brooke Lea Foster
Gallery Books, 07/01/2025
After suffering through her first year of graduate school at Columbia following her senator father's death, Betsy Whiting is hoping to spend the ...
more
Literary Fiction
Port Anna
by
Libby Buck
Simon & Schuster, 07/01/2025
Just about everything has gone wrong for Gwen Gilmore over the past year. She's lost her mother, her teaching job, and been dumped by her—albeit...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Send Flowers: A Novel
by
Emily Buchanan
Park Row, 07/01/2025
Fiona, better known as eco-influencer @FoliageFifi, hasn't left her apartment since her boyfriend, Ed, died. It's easy to self-isolate when your heart...
more
Literary Fiction
Spectacular Things: Reese's Book Club: A Novel
by
Beck Dorey-Stein
The Dial Press, 07/01/2025
What would you give up for the person you love most? What would you expect in return?
Mia and Cricket have always been close. The gifted ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Art of Vanishing: A Novel
by
Morgan Pager
Ballantine Books, 07/01/2025
Jean's life is the same day in and day out. Frozen in time by his painter father, the legendary Henri Matisse, Jean observes the ebb and flow of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Red Queen (Richard Jury Mystery, 26)
by
Martha Grimes
Atlantic Monthly Press, 07/01/2025
One calm night in Twickenham, a businessman named Tom Treadnor is shot off his barstool at The Queen pub. Superintendent Richard Jury is called in to ...
more
Mysteries
The Satisfaction Café: A Novel
by
Kathy Wang
Scribner, 07/01/2025
Joan Liang's life is a series of surprising developments: she never thought she would leave Taiwan for California, nor did she expect her first ...
more
The White Crow: Philomena McCarthy #2
by
Michael Robotham
Scribner, 07/01/2025
Philomena McCarthy has defied the odds to become a young officer with the Metropolitan Police despite her father and her uncles being notorious London...
more
This Book Might Be About Zinnia
by
Brittney Morris
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 07/01/2025
Two moments in time. Two very different girls. And one story that connects them both.
It's the year 2024, and Zinnia Davis is on a mission to ace ...
more
Typewriter Beach: A Novel
by
Meg Waite Clayton
Harper, 07/01/2025
1957. Isabella Giori is ten months into a standard seven-year studio contract when she auditions with Hitchcock. Just weeks later, she is sequestered ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Wanting: A Novel
by
Claire Jia
Tin House Books, 07/01/2025
Ye Lian is thriving in Beijing. She has a well-paid job, a nice boyfriend, and plans to marry and move into a luxury high-rise apartment. She's ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate
by
Michael Grunwald
Simon & Schuster, 07/01/2025
Humanity has cleared a land mass the size of Asia plus Europe to grow food, and our food system generates a third of our carbon emissions. By 2050, we...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Woman on the Verge: A Novel
by
Kim Hooper
Lake Union Publishing, 07/01/2025
Some women, with their perfect children and pricey athleisure, make motherhood look easy. But not Nicole. She never wanted to be a stay-at-home parent...
more
Literary Fiction
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
by
Sophie Elmhirst
Riverhead Books, 07/08/2025
Maurice and Maralyn make an odd couple. He's a loner, awkward and obsessive; she's charismatic and ambitious. But they share a horror of wasting their...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
A Room of One's Own: Penguin Vitae
by
Virginia Woolf
Penguin Books, 07/08/2025
A Room of One's Own is her investigation of the woman artist as a writer. Speculating on the imaginary life of Shakespeare's equally talented sister, ...
more
Essays
After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People
by
Dean Spears
Simon & Schuster, 07/08/2025
The world's population has surged over the past 200 years—not due to increased fertility, but thanks to improvements in survival. Since then, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Romance
Culpability: A Novel
by
Bruce Holsinger
Spiegel & Grau, 07/08/2025
When the Cassidy-Shaws' autonomous minivan collides with an oncoming car, seventeen-year-old Charlie is in the driver's seat, with his father, Noah, ...
more
Literary Fiction
Daikon: A Novel
by
Samuel Hawley
Simon & Schuster, 07/08/2025
War has taken everything from physicist Keizo Kan. His young daughter was killed in the Great Tokyo Air Raid, and now his Japanese American wife, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Recreating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
by
Sam Kean
Little Brown & Company, 07/08/2025
Whether it's the mighty pyramids of Egypt or the majestic temples of Mexico, we have a good idea of what the past looked like. But what about our ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Finding Grace: A Novel
by
Loretta Rothschild
St. Martin's Press, 07/08/2025
Honor seems to have everything: she adores her bright and beautiful daughter, Chloe, and her charming, handsome husband, Tom, even if he works one ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Fools for Love: Stories
by
Helen Schulman
Knopf, 07/08/2025
The wide-ranging and inventive stories that make up Helen Schulman's
Fools for Love are funny, sexy, sometimes sad, and always surprising. A single ...
more
Heal the Beasts: A Jaunt Through the Curious History of the Veterinary Arts
by
Philipp Schott DVM
ECW Press, 07/08/2025
Sharing the stories of 22 different animal healers and veterinarians from across eras and continents, Dr. Schott examines the always fascinating, ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
How to Survive a Horror Story: A Novel
by
Mallory Arnold
Poisoned Pen Press, 07/08/2025
When legendary horror author Mortimer Queen passes, a group of writers find themselves invited to his last will and testament reading expecting a ...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
Island Creatures
by
Margarita Engle
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 07/08/2025
Every day, Vida reads to the creatures at the wildlife rescue center and dreams of her childhood in Cuba, where she and her best friend Adán ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Long Distance: Stories
by
Aysegül Savas
Bloomsbury Publishing, 07/08/2025
A researcher abroad in Rome eagerly awaits a visit from her long distance lover, only to find he is not the same man she remembers. An expat meets a ...
more
Love Spells Trouble
by
Nia Davenport
Bloomsbury YA, 07/08/2025
Witches and humans have always had issues. Cayden is well aware of that: her witch mom was shunned by her high-society parents when she fell in love ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home
by
Stephen Starring Grant
Simon & Schuster, 07/08/2025
Steve Grant was laid off in March of 2020. He was fifty and had cancer, so he needed health insurance, fast. Which is how he found himself a rural ...
more
Biography/Memoir
No Sense in Wishing: Essays
by
Lawrence Burney
Atria Books, 07/08/2025
There are moments throughout our lives when we discover an artist, an album, a film, or a cultural artifact that leaves a lasting impression, helping ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's Sports
by
Christine Brennan
Scribner, 07/08/2025
America has never seen an athlete quite like Caitlin Clark. Attracting record-shattering attendance and TV ratings, she has riveted the nation with ...
more
Rose in Chains
by
Julie Soto
Forever, 07/08/2025
The war is over, the dark forces have won, and the hero who was supposed to save them is dead.
Captured as her castle is overrun by the enemy, the ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Slanting Towards the Sea: A Novel
by
Lidija Hilje
Simon & Schuster, 07/08/2025
Ivona divorced the love of her life, Vlaho, a decade ago. They met as students at the turn of the millennium, when newly democratic Croatia was alive ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Bloodless Queen
by
Joshua Phillip Johnson
DAW Books, 07/08/2025
On the autumnal equinox of 1987, after fencing off half of the Earth's land for huge nature reserves called Harbors, the leaders of the world called ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Great Misfortune of Stella Sedgwick
by
S. Isabelle
Storytide, 07/08/2025
Stella Sedgwick is a lost cause.
Banished from etiquette lessons and unsure of her future, Stella dreams of a writing career and independence, but ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb, and the Fateful Decision to Use It
by
Iain MacGregor
Scribner, 07/08/2025
At 8:15 a.m. on August 6th, 1945,the Japanese port city of Hiroshima was struck by the world's first atomic bomb. Built in the US by the top-secret ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Jailhouse Lawyer
by
Calvin Duncan
Penguin Press, 07/08/2025
Calvin Duncan was nineteen when he was incarcerated for a 1981 New Orleans murder he didn't commit. The victim of a wildly incompetent public defense ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Last Empress of France: The Rebellious Life of Eugénie de Montijo
by
Petie Kladstrup
Hanover Square Press, 07/08/2025
Although a nineteenth-century woman, her almost twenty-first century outlook was key to the creation of modern France. Viewed frequently as a mere "...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Man Who Would Be King: Mohammed bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia
by
Karen Elliott House
Harper, 07/08/2025
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former
Wall Street Journal publisher, Karen House has gained unprecedented insights into Saudi Arabia and its ...
more
The Rabbit Club: A Novel
by
Christopher J. Yates
Hanover Square Press, 07/08/2025
When Ali McCain, an eighteen-year-old from Los Angeles, is accepted at Oxford, it's a chance to fulfill his dreams. To study English literature in ...
more
The Rebel Girls of Rome
by
Jordyn Taylor
HarperCollins Publishers, 07/08/2025
NOW:
Grieving the loss of her mother, college student Lilah is hoping to reconnect with her ever-distant grandfather who refuses to talk about ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Roma: A Traveling History
by
Madeline Potter
Harper, 07/08/2025
The word Roma conjures images of free-spirited nomads, creative and easy-going people who choose to eschew social conformity for personal independence...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Secret Market of the Dead
by
Giovanni De Feo
Saga Press, 07/08/2025
Just beyond the waking edges of Lucerìa, an 18th-century town in the kingdom of Naples, lies the Night: an enigmatic fiefdom governed by seven ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Silence and the Rage
by
Pierre Lemaitre
Little Brown & Company, 07/08/2025
It is 1952 and the grown children of Louis Pelletier, a prominent businessman with a dark past, have settled in Paris. Jean, the menacing eldest ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them
by
Ekow Eshun
Harper, 07/08/2025
In the western imagination, a Black man is always a stranger, outsider, foreigner, intruder, alien; one who remains associated with their origins ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The View From Lake Como: A Novel
by
Adriana Trigiani
Dutton, 07/08/2025
Jess Capodimonte Baratta is not living the life of her dreams. Not even close.
In blue-collar Lake Como, New Jersey, family comes first. Recently ...
more
Romance
These Summer Storms: A Novel
by
Sarah MacLean
Ballantine Books, 07/08/2025
Alice Storm hasn't been welcome at her family's magnificent private island off the Rhode Island coast in five years—not since she was cast out ...
more
Vera, or Faith: A Novel
by
Gary Shteyngart
Random House, 07/08/2025
The Bradford-Shmulkin family is falling apart. A very modern blend of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP, they love one another deeply but ...
more
A Blacklist Education: American History, a Family Mystery, and a Teacher Under Fire
by
Jane S. Smith
Rutgers University Press, 07/15/2025
Jane S. Smith tells the story of the anticommunist witch hunt that sent shockwaves through New York City's public schools as more than a thousand ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
by
Haley Cohen Gilliland
Simon & Schuster, 07/15/2025
In the early hours of March 24th, 1976, the streets of Buenos Aires rumbled with tanks as soldiers seized the presidential palace, overthrowing ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
A Resistance of Witches: A Novel
by
Morgan Ryan
Viking, 07/15/2025
Stubborn, plain-spoken and from an unimpressive family, Lydia Polk never expected to be accepted into the Royal Academy of Witches. Now, with Hitler's...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile
by
Aatish Taseer
Catapult, 07/15/2025
In 2019, the government of Prime Minister Narenda Modi revoked Aatish Taseer's Indian citizenship, thereby exiling him from the country where he grew ...
more
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
by
Sangu Mandanna
Berkley Books, 07/15/2025
Sera Swan used to be one of the most powerful witches in Britain. Then she resurrected her great-aunt Jasmine from the (very recently) dead, lost most...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Year with the Seals: Unlocking the Secrets of the Sea's Most Charismatic and Controversial Creatures
by
Alix Morris
Algonquin Books, 07/15/2025
It might be their large, strangely human eyes or their dog-like playfulness, but seals have long captured people's interest and affection, making them...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
by
Adam Aleksic
Knopf, 07/15/2025
From the rise of leetspeak and words such as
unalive to the trend of adding "-core" to different influencer aesthetics, the Internet has ushered in an...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Ashes to Ashes
by
Thomas Maltman
Soho Press, 07/15/2025
In the prairie town of Andwhen, Minnesota, a small congregation doesn't know if they've been blessed or cursed when the ashes administered during an ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Black Soldiers, White Laws: The Tragedy of the 24th Infantry in 1917 Houston
by
John Haymond
Atlantic Monthly Press, 07/15/2025
On the sweltering, rainy night of August 23, 1917, one of the most consequential events affecting America's long legacy of racism and injustice began ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Carved in Blood: Hana Westerman Thrillers #3
by
Michael Bennett
Atlantic Monthly Press, 07/15/2025
When Detective Inspector Jaye Hamilton stops at an Auckland liquor store for a bottle of champagne, it is supposed to be celebratory: his daughter ...
more
Chilco
by
Daniela Catrileo
FSG Originals, 07/15/2025
Chilco is the name of Pascale's home island. It is also the Mapudungun word for fuchsia: a word that evokes tropical lushness, wetness, the deep ...
more
Literary Fiction
Coded Justice: A Thriller (Avery Keene)
by
Stacey Abrams
Doubleday, 07/15/2025
Former Supreme Court clerk Avery Keene is back ... trying to put the past behind her at a prestigious high-end law firm in Washington, D.C. Head down ...
more
Thrillers
Everyone Is Lying to You: A Thriller
by
Jo Piazza
Dutton, 07/15/2025
Lizzie and Bex were best friends in college. After graduation, Bex vanished, leaving Lizzie confused and devastated.
Fifteen years later, Bex is ...
more
Thrillers
Fateless
by
Julie Kagawa
HarperCollins Publishers, 07/15/2025
When seventeen-year-old Sparrow joined the Thieves Guild she made a vow of binding loyalty to their cause. So when a mission comes along from The ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Her Many Faces: A Novel
by
Nicci Cloke
William Morrow, 07/15/2025
When four influential members are poisoned at London's most exclusive private club, a young waitress is arrested. Her personal life and upbringing are...
more
House of Beth
by
Kerry Cullen
Simon & Schuster, 07/15/2025
After a heart-wrenching breakup with her girlfriend and a shocking incident at her job, Cassie flees her life as an overworked assistant in New York ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
House of Frost and Feathers: A Folkloric Fantasy
by
Lauren Wiesebron
Harper Voyager, 07/15/2025
Marisha's time is running out. She's already lost her family to the sleeping plague, and she fears she'll be next. Penniless and desperate for ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
I DON'T KNOW HOW TO TELL YOU THIS
by
Marian Thurm
Delphinium Books, 07/15/2025
I Don't Know How to Tell You This focuses on Judge Rachel Sugarman and her life both inside and outside the courtroom. Rachel is part of a close...
more
Literary Fiction
Inner Space: A Novel
by
Jakub Szamalek
HarperVia, 07/15/2025
When an ammonia leak threatens the astronauts on the International Space Station, NASA directs Lucy Poplasky, one of the ISS's first female commanders...
more
Thrillers
Jamaica Road: A Novel
by
Lisa Smith
Knopf, 07/15/2025
South London, 1981: Daphne is the only Black girl in her class. All she wants is to keep her head down, preferably in a book. The easiest way to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Make Your Way Home: Stories
by
Carrie R. Moore
Tin House Books, 07/15/2025
In eleven stories that span Florida marshes, North Carolina mountains, and Southern metropolitan cities,
Make Your Way Home follows Black men and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Matchmaking for Psychopaths
by
Tasha Coryell
Berkley Books, 07/15/2025
Lexie was expecting a nice evening with her fiancé for her birthday. Instead, her best friend is sitting next to her man, and what's worse: They'...
more
Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America
by
Scott Ellsworth
Dutton, 07/15/2025
Told with a page-turning pace,
New York Times bestselling author and historian Scott Ellsworth has written the most compelling new book about the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Monopoly X: How Top-Secret World War II Operations Used the Game of Monopoly to Help Allied POWs Escape, Conceal Spies, and Send Secret Codes
by
Philip E. Orbanes
Harper, 07/15/2025
Monopoly X is the fascinating true story of what is arguably the most unusual and daring secret operation of World War II. The masterminds at England'...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
My Train Leaves at Three: A Novel
by
Natalie Guerrero
One World, 07/15/2025
How much of yourself are you willing to sacrifice in order to chase your dreams?
After her sister Nena's sudden death, Xiomara, an Afro-Latina ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
No Body No Crime: A Novel
by
Tess Sharpe
MCD, 07/15/2025
Murder either bonds you or breaks you.
Rural PI Mel Tillman knows this well. She's seen her fair share of bloody cases and botched cover-ups. But ...
more
Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity
by
Joseph Lee
One Signal, 07/15/2025
Before Martha's Vineyard became one of the most iconic vacation destinations in the country, it was home to the Wampanoag people. Today, as tourists ...
more
Of Flame and Fury
by
Mikayla Bridge
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/15/2025
On an island built from ash and shrouded in fire, phoenix racing is a sport just as profitable as it is deadly.
Kel Varra and her team of underdogs...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
One Yellow Eye: A Novel
by
Leigh Radford
Gallery Books, 07/15/2025
How far would you go to save your marriage? For British scientist Kesta Shelley, there is no limit.
Having always preferred the company of microbes...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Raging Clouds
by
Yudori
Fantagraphics Books, 07/15/2025
Amélie is a brilliant woman trapped in the restricting social mores of high Dutch society in the mid-16th century. Her marriage to Hans, a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
Tangled Darkness
by
MM Desch
Independently published, 07/15/2025
When a psychiatric clinical assistant turns up dead, Dr. Leslie Schoen finds herself a suspect in the case—and facing allegations which could ...
more
Thrillers
The Club: Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Époque Paris
by
Jennifer Dasal
Bloomsbury Publishing, 07/15/2025
In Belle Époque Paris, the Eiffel Tower was newly built, France was experiencing remarkable political stability, and American women were painting...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Enchanted Greenhouse (The Spellshop)
by
Sarah Beth Durst
Bramble, 07/15/2025
Terlu Perna broke the law because she was lonely. She cast a spell and created a sentient spider plant. As punishment, she was turned into a wooden ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Felons' Ball: A Novel
by
Polly Stewart
Harper, 07/15/2025
In their younger years, Trey Macready and his best friend Ben Marsh were distributors and enforcers for the local distillers who made their small ...
more
The Greatest Possible Good: A Novel
by
Ben Brooks
Simon & Schuster, 07/15/2025
Meet the Candlewicks.
Seventeen-year-old Evangeline (a.k.a Dubbin), wants to change the world, has a penchant for throwing fake blood during ...
more
The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction and a Search for Relief: Chronic Head Pain, the Mystery of Its Origins, and the Search for Effective Relief
by
Tom Zeller Jr.
Mariner Books, 07/15/2025
Virtually everyone has experienced a headache—a nuisance arising from occasional stress or as payback for last night's overindulgence. But for ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The House at Devil's Neck: Joseph Spector Series #4
by
Tom Mead
Mysterious Press, 07/15/2025
An apparent suicide in a London townhouse uncannily mirrors a similar incident from twenty-five years ago, prompting Scotland Yard's George Flint to ...
more
The Knowing: How the Oppression of Indigenous Peoples Continues to Echo Today
by
Tanya Talaga
Hanover Square Press, 07/15/2025
For generations, Indigenous People have known that their family members disappeared, many of them after being consigned to a coordinated system ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Nightshade God: The Nightshade Crown #3
by
Hannah Whitten
Orbit, 07/15/2025
Lore has failed. She couldn't save King Bastian from the rotten god speaking voices in his mind. She couldn't save her allies from being scattered ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Other Wife: A Novel
by
Jackie Thomas-Kennedy
Riverhead Books, 07/15/2025
Zuzu met her best friend Cash on the first day of college, and nothing was ever the same. Tall, witty, and popular, his friendship represented a kind ...
more
The Payback: A Novel
by
Kashana Cauley
Atria Books, 07/15/2025
Jada Williams is good at judging people by their looks. From across the mall, she can tell not only someone's inseam and pants size, but exactly what ...
more
These Blue Mountains
by
Sarah Loudin Thomas
Bethany House Publishers, 07/15/2025
German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States ...
more
Historical Fiction
This Stays Between Us: A Novel
by
Sara Ochs
Sourcebooks Landmark, 07/15/2025
Ten years ago
A study abroad program like no other: a month-long trip of education and adventure, exploring everything Australia has to offer. And ...
more
Literary Fiction
Wayward Girls: A Novel
by
Susan Wiggs
William Morrow, 07/15/2025
In 1968 we meet six teens confined at the Good Shepherd—a dark and secretive institution controlled by Sisters of Charity nuns—locked ...
more
Gunner: His War Isn't Over ... It's Closer to Home (The Joseph Gunner Thrillers)
by
Alan Parks
Pegasus Crime, 07/17/2025
March 1941. Joseph Gunner is back on the streets of Glasgow after being wounded on the front lines in France.
Keeping the pain in his leg at bay ...
more
Thrillers
Seascraper
by
Benjamin Wood
Viking, 07/17/2025
Thomas lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, working his grandpa's trade as a shanker. He rises early to take his horse and cart...
more
Historical Fiction
Coercion: Surviving and Resisting Abortion Bans
by
Kylie Cheung
Pluto Press, 07/20/2025
These laws have become a tool for abusers, as pregnant people face legal harassment, reproductive coercion, and life-threatening medical trauma.
...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
First Time, Long Time
by
Amy Silverberg
Grand Central Publishing, 07/22/2025
When aspiring writer Allison moved to L.A., she expected her life to finally take shape. After years of dwelling in grief over her brother's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Greenwich: A Novel
by
Kate Broad
St. Martin's Press, 07/22/2025
Her glamorous aunt is struggling to heal from an injury, and Rachel wants to help―and escape her own troubles back home. But her aunt is oddly ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Love Is a War Song
by
Danica Nava
Berkley Books, 07/22/2025
Pop singer Avery Fox has become a national joke after posing scantily clad on the cover of
Rolling Stone in a feather warbonnet. What was meant to be ...
more
Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar: A Novel
by
Katie Yee
Simon & Schuster, 07/22/2025
A man and a woman walk into a restaurant. The woman expects a lovely night filled with endless plates of samosas. Instead, she finds out her husband ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Mendell Station
by
J.B. Hwang
Bloomsbury Publishing, 07/22/2025
It's January 2020, and Miriam is already getting a sense that the world might be ending. First, she learns that her best friend, Esther, has died. ...
more
Necessary Fiction: A Novel
by
Eloghosa Osunde
Riverhead Books, 07/22/2025
In
Necessary Fiction, Eloghosa Osunde poses these provocative questions and many more while exploring the paths and dreams, hopes and fears of more ...
more
Not Quite Dead Yet: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel
by
Holly Jackson
Bantam Books, 07/22/2025
In seven days, Jet Mason will be dead.
Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old and back...
more
Thrillers
Pan: A Novel
by
Michael Clune
Penguin Press, 07/22/2025
Nicholas is fifteen when he forgets how to breathe. He had plenty of reason to feel unstable already: He's been living with his dad in the bleak ...
more
Pariah: A Novel
by
Dan Fesperman
Knopf, 07/22/2025
Hal Knight, a comedian and movie star-turned politician, is no stranger to controversy. But after a disastrous #MeToo encounter on set, Knight resigns...
more
Salt Bones: A Novel
by
Jennifer Givhan
Mulholland, 07/22/2025
At the edge of the Salton Sea, in the blistering borderlands, something is out hunting...
Malamar Veracruz has never left the dust-choked ...
more
Sisters of Fortune: A Novel
by
Esther Chehebar
Random House, 07/22/2025
The Cohen sisters are at a crossroads. And not just because the middle sister, Fortune, is starting to question her decision to get married in just a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
That Last Carolina Summer
by
Karen White
Park Row, 07/22/2025
As a child, Phoebe Manigault developed the gift of premonition after she was struck by lightning in the creeks near her Charleston home. Plagued ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Boys in the Light: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival, Faith, and Brotherhood
by
Nina Willner
Dutton, 07/22/2025
The Boys in the Light follows the parallel journeys of Company D and Eddie Willner, the author's father, as they are caught up on two sides of World ...
more
The Feather Detective: Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne
by
Chris Sweeney
Simon & Schuster, 07/22/2025
In 1960, an Eastern Airlines flight had no sooner lifted from the runway at Boston Logan Airport when it struck a flock of birds and took a nosedive ...
more
The Sleep Room: A Sadistic Psychiatrist and the Women Who Survived Him
by
Jon Stock
Abrams Press, 07/22/2025
The Sleep Room is thriller novelist Jon Stock's investigation into one of the most revered figures in British postwar medicine, the private world of ...
more
The Tilting House
by
Ivonne Lamazares
Counterpoint Press, 07/22/2025
In the summer of 1993, Yuri, a teenage orphan, lives with her strict, religious Aunt Ruth in a Havana suburb when Mariela, a thirty-four-year-old ...
more
A Club of One's Own
by
BookBrowse
BookBrowse, 07/23/2025
Expanding on our 2019 Inner Lives of Book Clubs, BookBrowse—a trusted voice in the world of reading groups—offers a practical, inclusive, ...
more
Advice
A Mastery of Monsters
by
Liselle Sambury
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 07/29/2025
When August's brother disappears before his sophomore semester, everyone thinks the stress of college got to him. But August knows her brother would ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Twist of Fate: A Novel
by
Se-Ah Jang
Bantam Books, 07/29/2025
Jae-young has just left everything she's ever known, not that it was much. Her thankless job, her infested apartment, her abusive boyfriend—who ...
more
Thrillers
Beasts of Carnaval: A Novel
by
Rosália Rodrigo
MIRA, 07/29/2025
Within the shores of Isla Bestia, guests from around the world discover a utopia of ever-changing performances, sumptuous feasts and beautiful ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Beautiful Nights: A Novel
by
Nina George
Ballantine Books, 07/29/2025
Claire is one of Paris's most esteemed behavioral biologists, with an enviable career and family, but she has become increasingly frustrated by the ...
more
Literary Fiction
Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy
by
Tre Johnson
Dutton, 07/29/2025
Black genius sits at the heart of the American story. In his probing essay collection,
Black Genius, cultural critic Tre Johnson examines how Black ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Bones at the Crossroads: Blood at the Root #2
by
LaDarrion Williams
Labyrinth Road, 07/29/2025
It's Homecoming season at Caiman University, and all 17-year-old Malik Baron wants to do is be a regular college student…or as regular as he can...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Fascism or Genocide: How a Decade of Political Disorder Broke American Politics
by
Ross Barkan
Verso, 07/29/2025
Fascism or Genocide is
New York Times Magazine writer Ross Barkan's sweeping report on the 2024 US election and the decade of political upheaval ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Fine Young People
by
Anna Bruno
Algonquin Books, 07/29/2025
Frankie is a good daughter, a loyal best friend, and a model student, coasting through her final semester at an elite Catholic prep school in a ...
more
Guess Again
by
Charlie Donlea
Kensington Publishing, 07/29/2025
A missing girl: 17-year-old Callie Jones was the all-American sweetheart of her small Wisconsin community. No one could have guessed that one summer ...
more
Thrillers
Immortal Consequences: The Souls of Blackwood Academy #1
by
I. V. Marie
Delacorte Press, 07/29/2025
Welcome to Blackwood Academy: the legendary school located on the fringes of the afterlife. Once a pupil enters the academy's arched gates, there is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Lonely Crowds: A Novel
by
Stephanie Wambugu
Little Brown & Company, 07/29/2025
Ruth, an only child of recent immigrants to New England, lives in an emotionally cold home and attends the local Catholic girl's school on a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Love Forms: A Novel
by
Claire Adam
Hogarth Books, 07/29/2025
For much of her life, Dawn has felt as if something is missing. Now, at the age of fifty-eight, with a divorce behind her and her two grown-up sons ...
more
Simplicity: A Novel
by
Mattie Lubchansky
Pantheon Books, 07/29/2025
In 1977, a group called The Spiritual Association of Peers decamps to the woods of the Catskills, taking over an abandoned summer camp. They name ...
more
Soul of Shadow
by
Emma Noyes
Wednesday Books, 07/29/2025
Charlie Hudson is just trying to survive junior year, navigating the halls of school and the chaos of parties like a ghost. But her world is about to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women's Magic
by
Lindsey Stewart
Legacy Lit, 07/29/2025
Emerging first on plantations in the American South, enslaved conjure women used their magic to treat illnesses. These women combined their ancestral ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Game Is Murder
by
Hazell Ward
Berkley Books, 07/29/2025
You are invited to a very special murder mystery party. The game is simple: Listen to the witnesses. Examine the evidence. Solve the case. Be careful....
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Mysteries
Debut Author
The Good Liar: A Novel
by
Denise Mina
Mulholland, 07/29/2025
A year ago, a father and his fiancée were brutally murdered in their opulent London townhouse, sparking the most high-profile murder ...
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The Lies They Told
by
Ellen Marie Wiseman
Kensington Publishing, 07/29/2025
When Lena Conti—a young, unwed mother—sees immigrant families being forcibly separated on Ellis Island, she vows not to let the officers ...
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Historical Fiction
The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World
by
J.R. Dawson
Tor Books, 07/29/2025
At the edge of Chicago, nestled on the shores of Lake Michigan, there is a waystation for the dead. Every night, the newly-departed travel through the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive
by
Mathelinda Nabugodi
Knopf, 07/29/2025
A scrap of Coleridge's handwriting. The sugar that Wordsworth stirred into his teacup. A bracelet made of Mary Shelley's hair. Percy Shelley's gilded ...
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Biography/Memoir
Literary Fiction
Under the Stars: A Novel
by
Beatriz Williams
Ballantine Books, 07/29/2025
Audrey Fisher has struggled all her life to emerge from the shadow of her famous mother by forging a career as a world-class chef. Meredith Fisher's ...
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Historical Fiction
The Fourth Daughter: A Novel
by
Lyn Liao Butler
Lake Union Publishing, 08/01/2025
Chef Liv Kuo's star is on the rise…until a traumatic incident leaves her emotionally unable to venture outside her Manhattan apartment. But an ...
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Literary Fiction
The Women of Arlington Hall: A Novel
by
Jane Healey
Lake Union Publishing, 08/01/2025
1947: Adventurous Radcliffe graduate Catherine "Cat" Killeen cancels her wedding and upends a future that no longer suits her. At the behest of her ...
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Historical Fiction
A Dog in Georgia
by
Lauren Grodstein
Algonquin Books, 08/05/2025
Which is why she is currently in the republic of Georgia, on a mission to find a lost dog named Angel, and, more importantly, the life's purpose she ...
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Atomic Hearts: A Novel
by
Megan Cummins
Ballantine Books, 08/05/2025
I'd been raised on secrets, I knew they weren't a good idea.
She and Cindy have been bonded since birth by the fact their fathers are addicts, and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Black Flame
by
Gretchen Felker-Martin
Tor Nightfire, 08/05/2025
The Baroness, an infamous exploitation film long thought destroyed by Nazi fire, is discovered fifty years later. When lonely archivist Ellen Kramer&#...
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Thrillers
Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama
by
Alexis Okeowo
Henry Holt and Company, 08/05/2025
"In Alabama, we exist at the border of blessing and disaster…."
Alexis Okeowo grew up in Montgomery, Alabama―the former seat of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
by
Robert B. Reich
Knopf, 08/05/2025
A thought-provoking, principled, clear-eyed chronicle of the culture, politics, and economic choices that have landed us where we are today—with...
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Biography/Memoir
Dwelling: A Novel
by
Emily Hunt Kivel
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/05/2025
The world is ending. It has been ending for some time. When did the ending begin? Perhaps when Evie's mother died, or when her father died soon after....
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Extinction Capital of the World: Stories
by
Mariah Rigg
Ecco, 08/05/2025
In ten vibrant, affecting stories, Mariah Rigg immerses readers in contemporary Hawai'i. By turns heartbreaking and hopeful, these stories of love, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Flashout: A Novel
by
Alexis Soloski
Flatiron Books, 08/05/2025
New York, 1972. A cloistered college student slips out of the dorms to attend a performance by a legendary experimental performance troupe. Within ...
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Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time: How Mamie Fish, Queen of the Gilded Age, Partied Her Way to Power
by
Jennifer Wright
Grand Central Publishing, 08/05/2025
Marion Graves Anthon Fish, known by the nicknames "Mamie" and "The Fun-Maker," threw the most epic parties in American history. Whether hosting at her...
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Biography/Memoir
God and Sex
by
Jon Raymond
Simon & Schuster, 08/05/2025
What if God spoke to you? Would you hear Him? Would you obey His command?
Arthur Zinn, an author of high-end spiritual texts, has fallen in love ...
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Literary Fiction
House of the Beast
by
Michelle Wong
Harper, 08/05/2025
Born out of wedlock and shunned by society, Alma learned to make her peace with solitude, so long as she had her mother by her side. When her mother ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Indian Country: A Novel
by
Shobha Rao
Crown, 08/05/2025
Janavi and Sagar were never meant to end up married. Janavi is a wonderfully independent, young modern Indian woman. She works for an organization ...
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Jenny Cooper Has a Secret: A Novel
by
Joy Fielding
Ballantine Books, 08/05/2025
Reeling from her husband's death and best friend's dementia diagnosis, seventy-six-year-old Linda Davidson feels lost and alone. Her beloved daughter ...
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Joy Is My Middle Name: Poems
by
Sasha Debevec-McKenney
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/05/2025
In her best imitation of a historian, poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney combs through the past.
Joy Is My Middle Name is about crawling through your ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
by
Scott Anderson
Doubleday, 08/05/2025
On New Year's Eve, 1977, on a state visit to Iran, President Jimmy Carter toasted Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, King of Kings, Light of the Aryans, ...
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Knocking on Windows: A Memoir
by
Jeannine Atkins
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 08/05/2025
Night darkens the window to mirror.
I'm back in my old bedroom.
Six weeks after the start of her freshman year of college, Jeannine Atkins ...
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L.A. Women
by
Ella Berman
Berkley Books, 08/05/2025
After a steady descent from literary stardom, Lane Warren is back. She's secured a new book deal based off the life of her sometimes friend and more ...
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Mistress of Bones: A Novel
by
Maria Z. Medina
Wednesday Books, 08/05/2025
It's been thousands of years since the gods lifted the continents into the air so humanity could thrive, chaining the lands down with their bones and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
More and More and More
by
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
Harper, 08/05/2025
We have long been taught that humanity's relationship with energy is one of progress, with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear—...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
My Father's House: A Novel
by
Ulf Kvensler
Hanover Square Press, 08/05/2025
Isak works in home care in a small town in Småland. One day, he is contacted by his father, an internationally known artist, who left Isak when ...
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Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses (Embers #2)
by
M. G. Sheftall
Dutton, 08/05/2025
On August 6, 1945, the United States unleashed a weapon unlike anything the world had ever seen. Then, just three days later, when Japan showed no ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent
by
Iain Pears
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/05/2025
Best-selling novelist and art historian Iain Pears enchants readers with the real-life romance between Larissa Salmina, a Russian art curator, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Putting Myself Together: Writing 1973–
by
Jamaica Kincaid
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/05/2025
This collection of Jamaica Kincaid's nonfiction writing, including early pieces from publications such as
The New Yorker, The Village Voice, and
Ms., ...
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Regaining Unconsciousness: Poems
by
Harryette Mullen
Graywolf Press, 08/05/2025
In
Regaining Unconsciousness, her first new collection in twelve years, Mullen confronts the imminent dangers of our present to sound an alarm for our...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Ring of Fire: A New History of the World at War: 1914
by
Alexandra Churchill, Nicolai Eberholst
Pegasus Books, 08/05/2025
Most countries did not know what they were getting into during the precarious days of 1914. Global citizens believed they were going to get a short ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Six Weeks by the Sea: A Novel
by
Paula Byrne
Pegasus Books, 08/05/2025
When Jane Austen hears the news that her family is to leave their beloved country home for the city of Bath, she faints with surprise and horror. But ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Slow Violence: Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom
by
Ranita Ray
St. Martin's Press, 08/05/2025
In 2017, sociologist Ranita Ray stepped inside a fourth-grade classroom in one of the nation's largest majority-minority districts in Las Vegas, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse
by
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Knopf, 08/05/2025
In this provocative book, Thomas Chatterton Williams, one of the most revered and reviled social commentators of our time, paints a clear and detailed...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Sunbirth
by
An Yu
Grove Press, 08/05/2025
In Five Poems Lake, a small village surrounded by impenetrable deserts, the sun is slowly disappearing overhead. A young woman keeps one apprehensive ...
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Tantrum
by
Rachel Eve Moulton
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/05/2025
Thea's third pregnancy was her easiest. She wasn't consumed with anxiety about the baby. She wasn't convinced it was going to be born green, or have a...
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Literary Fiction
The Afghans: Three Lives through War, Love, and Revolt
by
Åsne Seierstad
Bloomsbury Publishing, 08/05/2025
From Soviet occupation to the rise of the Taliban, from the outbreak of the War on Terror to its disastrous fallout,
The Afghans is an extraordinary ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Art of a Lie: A Novel
by
Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Atria Books, 08/05/2025
Following the murder of her husband in what looks like a violent street robbery, Hannah Cole is struggling to keep her head above water. Her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Cover Girl: A Novel
by
Amy Rossi
MIRA, 08/05/2025
Birdie Rhodes was only thirteen when legendary modeling agent Harriet Goldman discovered her in a department store and transformed her into one of ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Dead Husband Cookbook
by
Danielle Valentine
Sourcebooks Landmark, 08/05/2025
When infamous chef, restauranter, and television personality Maria Capello's husband died, the media circus was intense…and quick to cast the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
by
Garrett M. Graff
Simon & Schuster, 08/05/2025
The building of the atomic bomb is the most audacious undertaking in human history: a rush by a small group of scientists and engineers in complete ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Hounding: A Novel
by
Xenobe Purvis
Henry Holt and Company, 08/05/2025
Even before the rumors about the Mansfield girls begin, Little Nettlebed is a village steeped in the uncanny, from strange creatures that wash up on ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Invention of Charlotte Brontë: A New Life
by
Graham Watson
Pegasus Books, 08/05/2025
Charlotte Brontë had a life as seemingly dramatic as her heroine Jane Eyre. Turning her back on her tragic past, Charlotte reinvented herself as ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The L.O.V.E. Club
by
Lio Min
Flatiron Books, 08/05/2025
Three years ago, Elle (the "E" in the self-proclaimed L.O.V.E. Club) disappeared from Calendula, an affluent Chinese American suburb in inland ...
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The Locked Ward: A Novel
by
Sarah Pekkanen
St. Martin's Press, 08/05/2025
A shocking psychological thriller about the complex bonds of sisterhood―and what happens when they are stretched to the breaking point,
The ...more
Thrillers
The Man No One Believed: The Untold Story of the Georgia Church Murders
by
Joshua Sharpe
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/05/2025
In 1985, a white man walked into a South Georgia church and brutally murdered Harold and Thelma Swain, two pillars of the area's Black community. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
True Crime
Debut Author
The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why
by
Madeleine Beekman
Simon & Schuster, 08/05/2025
Journeying to the dawn of
Homo sapiens, evolutionary biologist Madeleine Beekman reveals the "happy accidents" hidden in our molecular biology—...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
We Should All Be Birds: A Memoir
by
Brian Buckbee
Tin House Books, 08/05/2025
On a spring evening in Montana, Brian Buckbee encounters an injured baby pigeon. Heartbroken after the loss of the love of his life and increasingly ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Curse of Gods: The Curse of Saints #3
by
Kate Dramis
Sourcebooks Casablanca, 08/07/2025
Aya has gone missing, and no one has heard whisper of her―not even Will. Desperately searching the continent for some sign of his lost love, he'...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Diary of Lies: Shona Sandison Investigations #3
by
Philip Miller
Soho Crime, 08/07/2025
In a post-COVID Britain, investigative reporter Shona Sandison is seeking meaning and the next big story; her reclusive contact inside the government ...
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Rules of the Heart: A Novel
by
Janice Hadlow
Henry Holt and Company, 08/09/2025
England, 1794. Now in her thirties, Lady Harriet Bessborough, already the veteran of several liaisons, finds herself pursued by a much younger man. ...
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Historical Fiction
A Game in Yellow
by
Hailey Piper
Saga Press, 08/12/2025
A kink-fixated couple, Carmen and Blanca, have been in a rut. That is until Blanca discovers the enigmatic Smoke in an under-street drug den, who ...
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A Noble Madness: The Dark Side of Collecting from Antiquity to Now
by
James Delbourgo
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/12/2025
Collectors are often praised for their taste in art or contributions to science, but there can be a darker side: their passion is sometimes driven by ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Augustine the African
by
Catherine Conybeare
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 08/12/2025
Augustine of Hippo (354–430), also known as Saint Augustine, was one of the most influential theologians in history. His writings, including the...
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Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State
by
Caleb Gayle
Riverhead Books, 08/12/2025
In this paradigm-shattering work of American history, Caleb Gayle recounts the extraordinary tale of Edward McCabe, a Black man who championed the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color
by
Denne Michele Norris
HarperOne, 08/12/2025
Featuring fifteen new essays by trans people of color—spanning writers, scientists, actors, activists, and drag queens—
Both/And explores ...
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Essays
Clodia of Rome: Champion of the Republic
by
Douglas Boin
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/12/2025
A pioneering political voice, with charisma and power that rivaled many of her male contemporaries, Clodia of Rome was a pivotal figure in the late ...
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Biography/Memoir
House of Monstrous Women
by
Daphne Fama
Berkley Books, 08/12/2025
In this game, there's one rule: survive.
Orphaned after her father's political campaign ended in tragedy, Josephine is alone taking care of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
I Found a Body: A Novel
by
Becky C. Brynolf
Crooked Lane Books, 08/12/2025
Detective Sergeant Mona Hendricks has a lot on her plate: she's getting divorced, her teen daughter is punishing her for it, and she's shooting for a ...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
If You Don't Like This, I Will Die
by
Lee Tilghman
Simon & Schuster, 08/12/2025
Lee Tilghman—also known as @LeeFromAmerica—was one of the first wellness influencers. To her nearly 400,000 followers, she posted about ...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Lucky Day
by
Chuck Tingle
Tor Nightfire, 08/12/2025
After a global disaster prompts thousands of comically unlikely deaths, a bisexual statistics professor―who has convinced herself she might not ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Mesopotopia
by
Anne Waldman
Penguin Books, 08/12/2025
Mesopotopia explores the vast sweep of our accelerating, precipitous world. From the cradle to the grave, from the mysterious poetic origins of ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Tall Water
by
SJ Sindu
HarperAlley, 08/12/2025
Ever since she turned sixteen, Nimmi has wanted to see her mother. Though she has a loving but overprotective father and a budding relationship, she ...
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The Aeneid
by
Virgil
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 08/12/2025
Like Emily Wilson's celebrated translations of Homer, this new
Aeneid―the first collaborative translation of the poem in English―is ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Dilemmas of Working Women: Stories
by
Fumio Yamamoto
HarperVia, 08/12/2025
The Dilemmas of Working Women is Fumio Yamamoto's darkly witty look at modern Japanese women who are ambivalent about their lives and jobs. In "Naked,...
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The Dime Museum: A Novel in Stories
by
Joyce Hinnefeld
Unbridled Books, 08/12/2025
He's struggling to understand how his significant privilege has destroyed a romantic relationship, but he draws unwanted interest from other quarters ...
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Short Stories
The El: A Novel
by
Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
Vintage, 08/12/2025
An ordinary day in August 1979 dawns hot and humid in Chicago. Teenager Teddy is living with his dad after being kicked out of his mom's house due to ...
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Literary Fiction
The Fight for Sex Ed: The Century-Long Battle Between Truth and Doctrine
by
Margaret Grace Myers
Beacon Press, 08/12/2025
The U.S. has some of the highest rates of STIs and teen pregnancies in the industrialized world. A comprehensive sex education curriculum—which ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Frequency of Living Things: A Novel
by
Nick Fuller Googins
Atria Books, 08/12/2025
Josie may be the youngest sister, but she takes care of everyone. She is the left-brained scientist to her twin sisters' right-brained artistic chaos....
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The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990
by
Jonathan Mahler
Random House, 08/12/2025
New York entered 1986 as a city reborn. Record profits on Wall Street sent waves of money splashing across Manhattan, bringing a battered city roaring...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Gossip Columnist's Daughter
by
Peter Orner
Little Brown & Company, 08/12/2025
Jed Rosenthal hasn't published a book in fourteen years, the mother of his child left him in a "trial separation" that has stretched on indefinitely, ...
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The Island of Last Things
by
Emma Sloley
Flatiron Books, 08/12/2025
Camille has always preferred animals to people. The wild has nearly disappeared, but as a zookeeper at the last zoo in the world, on Alcatraz Island, ...
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The Midnight Shift
by
Seon-Ran Cheon
Bloomsbury Publishing, 08/12/2025
When four isolated elderly people commit suicide back-to-back at the same hospital by jumping out of the sixth-floor window, Su-Yeon doesn't ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding
by
Osita Nwanevu
Random House, 08/12/2025
Frustrated with our political dysfunction, wearied by the thinness of contemporary political discourse, and troubled by the rise of anti-democratic ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Sunflower Boys: A Novel
by
Sam Wachman
Harper, 08/12/2025
In many ways, twelve-year-old Artem's life in Chernihiv, Ukraine, is normal. He spends his days helping on his grandfather's sunflower farm, drawing ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Truth Is in the Detours: A Novel
by
Mara Williams
Lake Union Publishing, 08/12/2025
Ophelia Dahl has just buried her beloved father when she finds among his personal effects a blindsiding document. The mother Ophelia thought died ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Unbroken Coast: A Novel
by
Nalini Jones
Knopf, 08/12/2025
In Varuna, a devout Catholic fishing community in Bombay, life centers around Our Lady of the Navigators, the local church. The fishing boats go out ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
These Memories Do Not Belong to Us: A Constellation Novel
by
Yiming Ma
Mariner Books, 08/12/2025
When I was a boy, my mother used to tell me stories of a world before memories could be shared between strangers…
Decades from now, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Too Old for This
by
Samantha Downing
Berkley Books, 08/12/2025
Lottie Jones thought her crimes were behind her.
Decades earlier, she changed her identity and tucked herself away in a small town. Her most ...
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Vulture: A Novel
by
Phoebe Greenwood
Europa Editions, 08/12/2025
Catch-22 on speed and set in the Middle East,
Vulture is a fast-paced satire of the war news industry and a tragi-comic coming-of-age novel.
In ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
We Are All Guilty Here: A Novel
by
Karin Slaughter
William Morrow, 08/12/2025
Welcome to North Falls—a small town where everyone knows everyone. Or so they think.
Until the night of the fireworks. When two teenage girls...
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White Lies: How the South Lost the Civil War, Then Rewrote the History
by
Ann Bausum
Roaring Brook Press, 08/12/2025
Warning: This is not your average U.S. history book.
After the Civil War, the Confederates may have laid down their arms, but they were far from ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Women, Seated
by
Zhang Yueran
Riverhead Books, 08/12/2025
Enter the world of an elite Chinese couple: a life of luxury, wealth, and around-the-clock service, which includes their trusted nanny, Yu Ling. ...
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All the Tomorrows After
by
Joanne Yi
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 08/19/2025
Each night, Winter Moon counts her earnings dreaming of escape. Once she's saved enough, she and her grandmother can finally take flight and disappear...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Archipelago
by
Natalie Bakopoulos
Tin House Books, 08/19/2025
Along the way to a translation writing residency on the Dalmatian coast, Archipelago's unnamed narrator has an unsettling, aggressive encounter with a...
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Baldwin: A Love Story
by
Nicholas Boggs
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/19/2025
As the first major biography of the iconic figure in more than three decades,
Baldwin: A Love Story tells the overlapping stories of Baldwin's most ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
by
Bench Ansfield
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/19/2025
"Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!" Supposedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Dot Slash Magic
by
Liz Shipton
Angry Robot, 08/19/2025
When twenty-something coder Seven Jones goes back to school at a community college in San Diego, the last thing she wants is to join some stupid club....
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty
by
Kaila Yu
Crown, 08/19/2025
No one fetishized Kaila Yu more than she fetishized herself. As a young girl, she dreamt of beauty. But none of the beautiful women on television ...
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Hemlock & Silver
by
T. Kingfisher
Tor Books, 08/19/2025
Healer Anja regularly drinks poison.
Not to die, but to save―seeking cures for those everyone else has given up on.
But a summons from the...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Influenced
by
Sarah Darer Littman
Scholastic, 08/19/2025
Tenth grade isn't going according to plan for Lainey. Her twin brother moved across the country to live with their dad and stepmom, leaving Lainey &#...
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Literary Fiction
Leaving the Station
by
Jake Maia Arlow
Storytide, 08/19/2025
Zoe's life has gone off the rails.
She banked on college being a fresh start, but instead she's leaving for fall break with zero friends and an ex-...
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Lessons in Magic and Disaster
by
Charlie Jane Anders
Tor Books, 08/19/2025
A young witch teaches her mother how to do magic—with very unexpected results—in this relatable, resonant novel about family, identity, ...more
Leverage: A Novel
by
Amran Gowani
Atria Books, 08/19/2025
Ali "Al" Jafar is a rising star at notorious hedge fund Prism Capital, but fortunes change fast on Wall Street. When his biggest investment goes up in...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Milena and Margarete: A Love Story in Ravensbrück
by
Gwen Strauss
St. Martin's Press, 08/19/2025
From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbrück concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Mounted: On Horses, Blackness, and Liberation
by
Bitter Kalli
Amistad, 08/19/2025
Drawing on their personal history as a former urban equestrian, Black queer person, and child of Jamaican and Filipino immigrants, essayist and art ...
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Murder by the Book: A Novel
by
Amie Schaumberg
MIRA, 08/19/2025
She's been posed to look like a painting of Ophelia from Shakespeare's
Hamlet, the scene taunting the police with messages that they don't understand....
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
My Fair Monster
by
Adrienne Rivera
Page Street YA, 08/19/2025
But her real dream is to use that success to become a horror movie scream queen. Except for one small complication: Corie is struggling with ADHD ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
by
Susana M. Morris
Amistad, 08/19/2025
As the first Black woman to consistently write and publish in the field of science fiction, Octavia Butler was a trailblazer. With her deft pen, she ...
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The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand
by
Christopher Golden
Gallery Books, 08/19/2025
Since its initial publication in 1978,
The Stand has been considered Stephen King's seminal masterpiece of apocalyptic fiction, with millions of ...
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Short Stories
Mysteries
The Missionary Kids: Unmasking the Myths of White Evangelicalism
by
Holly Berkley Fletcher
Broadleaf Books, 08/19/2025
As sidekicks to their parents' and churches' ambitions, missionary kids (MKs) face questions many white Christians eventually ask: about God's calling...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Once and Future Me: A Novel
by
Melissa Pace
Henry Holt and Company, 08/19/2025
When a woman wakes up on a transport bus arriving at Hanover State Psychiatric Hospital, she remembers nothing of her life up to that moment, none of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Possession of Alba Díaz
by
Isabel Cañas
Berkley Books, 08/19/2025
In 1765, plague sweeps through Zacatecas. Alba flees with her wealthy merchant parents and fiancé, Carlos, to his family's isolated mine for ...
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The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound: A Memoir
by
Raymond Antrobus
Hogarth Books, 08/19/2025
I live with the aid of deafness. Like poetry, it has given me an art, a history, a culture and a tradition to live through. This book charts that art ...more
The Surrogate Mother
by
Freida McFadden
Poisoned Pen Press, 08/19/2025
Abby wants a baby more than anything.
But after years of failed infertility treatments and adoptions that have fallen through, it seems like ...
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Thrillers
This Place Kills Me: A Graphic Novel
by
Mariko Tamaki
Abrams Fanfare, 08/19/2025
At Wilberton Academy, few students are more revered than the members of the elite Wilberton Theatrical Society—a.k.a. the WTS—and no one ...
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Tripping Over You: Tripping Over You #1
by
Suzana Harcum
First Second, 08/19/2025
The infamous theater kid Milo and wallflower Liam are unlikely friends connected by a mutual feeling of being misfits in their boarding school. As ...
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Visions and Temptations
by
Harald Voetmann
New Directions Publishing, 08/19/2025
Spurning carnal desire and earthly temptations all his life, the mystic Othlo is now in the care of his brother monks including the odious and semen-...
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When the Cranes Fly South: A Novel
by
Lisa Ridzén
Vintage, 08/19/2025
Bo is running out of time. Yet time is one of the few things he's got left. These days, his quiet existence is broken up only by daily visits from his...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories
by
Nicole Nehrig
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/19/2025
In this captivating work, psychologist and knitter Nicole Nehrig delves into the myriad ways that art forms such as knitting, sewing, and embroidery ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
World Pacific: A Novel
by
Peter Mann
Harper, 08/19/2025
In 1939, just as the clouds of war are gathering, Richard Halifax—boys' adventure writer of manly bravado and the breeziest of prose styles&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Wrath of The Reapers
by
Jessa Halliwell
Independently published, 08/20/2025
I was nothing to The Reapers...
That is, until I became everything.
Atlas, Ezra, Tristan, and Cyrus fell for me. Hard.
And against my better ...
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Romance
A New New Me: A Novel
by
Helen Oyeyemi
Riverhead Books, 08/26/2025
Kinga is a woman who is just trying to make it through the week. There's a Kinga for every day: On Mondays, you can catch Kinga-A deleting food ...
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A Truce That Is Not Peace
by
Miriam Toews
Bloomsbury Publishing, 08/26/2025
"Why do you write?" the organizer of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempted answer from Toews-all of them unsatisfactory to...
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Buff Soul
by
Moa Romanova
Fantagraphics Books, 08/26/2025
How do you prevent history from repeating itself, and is it possible to protect the one you love from themselves? When cartoonist Moa Romanova joins ...
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Days You Were Mine: A Novel
by
Clare Leslie Hall
Simon & Schuster, 08/26/2025
Luke and Hannah live a happy and stable life in London, working in jobs they love as they prepare for the arrival of their first child, Samuel. All ...
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Literary Fiction
Deepwater Creek
by
Michael Regina
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 08/26/2025
There's nothing that Wade and his younger brother, Andrew, love more than fishing together. As summer draws to a close, they're excited for one last ...
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Graphic Novels
Dire Bound
by
Sable Sorensen
Requited, 08/26/2025
Only the worthy survive the Bonding Trials. She'll risk her life—and her heart—to be one of them.
Meryn Cooper has always hated the ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Doll Parts: A Novel
by
Penny Zang
Sourcebooks Landmark, 08/26/2025
Some stories refuse to stay buried.
For best friends Nikki and Sadie, college was supposed to be a fresh start, a way to blast Courtney Love from ...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
Empty Heaven
by
Freddie Kölsch
Union Square & Co., 08/26/2025
Darian Sabine Arden is haunted by a monster who claims to love her.
Her only respite is the New England village where she spends summers with her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Forget Me Not
by
Stacy Willingham
Minotaur Books, 08/26/2025
Twenty-two years ago, Claire Campbell's older sister, Natalie, disappeared shortly after her eighteenth birthday. Days later, her blood was found in a...
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If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You: A Novel
by
Leigh Stein
Ballantine Books, 08/26/2025
After her boyfriend dumps her in a Reddit post, unemployed thirty-nine-year-old Dayna accepts an unusual opportunity from a man she stopped speaking ...
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In Another Life
by
Imogen Clark
Lake Union Publishing, 08/26/2025
When Loretta Ashton dies suddenly, her family is shattered. As a devoted wife and mother, Loretta was their rock―a woman admired by the entire ...
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Literary Fiction
Isabella's Not Dead
by
Beth Morrey
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/26/2025
Isabella's NOT dead.
That's what Gwen tells anyone who asks about the friend who ghosted them all fifteen years ago. But if Isabella's not dead, ...
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Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories
by
Cynthia Leitich Smith
Heartdrum, 08/26/2025
The road to Sandy June's Legendary Frybread Drive-In slips through every rez and alongside every urban Native hangout. The menu offers a rotating ...
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Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon: A Novel (A Lost Souls Novel)
by
Mizuki Tsujimura
Scribner, 08/26/2025
I bring together the living and the departed. I am the go-between.
When a young woman from Tokyo contacts the go-between to request a meeting with ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Mona's Eyes
by
Thomas Schlesser
Europa Editions, 08/26/2025
While the doctors can find no explanation for Mona's brief episode of blindness, they agree that the threat of permanent vision loss cannot be ruled ...
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Literary Fiction
Mrs. Christie at the Mystery Guild Library
by
Amanda Chapman
Berkley Books, 08/26/2025
Tory Van Dyne is the most down-to-earth member of a decidedly eccentric old-money New York family. For one thing, as book conservator at Manhattan's ...
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My Perfect Family
by
Khadijah VanBrakle
Holiday House, 08/26/2025
"Lonely Leena" is close with her young single mother. Still, she's always secretly dreamed of more (and, when she was a kid, asked Santa for it). A ...
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Narrow the Road: A Novel
by
James Wade
Blackstone Publishing, 08/26/2025
With his father missing and his mother gravely ill, William Carter is struggling to keep his family's cotton farm afloat in the face of drought and ...
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Historical Fiction
Resting Bitch Face: Poems
by
Taylor Byas
Soft Skull Press, 08/26/2025
Resting Bitch Face is a book for women, for Black women, for lovers of art and film criticism, and for writers interested in work that finds a middle ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Roar of the Lambs
by
Jamison Shea
Henry Holt and Company, 08/26/2025
Sixteen-year-old Winnie Bray is a liar. As the resident psychic at an oddities shop, Winnie truly can see the future. But her customers only want ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues: A Novel
by
Kim de l'Horizon
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/26/2025
A glorious, tender, unsparing exploration of language, family, history, class, and the very idea of the self and the human,
Sea, Mothers, Swallow, ...more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Starting from Here: A Novel
by
Paula Saunders
Random House, 08/26/2025
She could look in the mirror and see it all happening, everything she'd dreamed of, the potential everyone had seen in her blossoming right in front ...more
Literary Fiction
Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City
by
LaShawn Harris
Beacon Press, 08/26/2025
On October 29, 1984, 66-year-old beloved Black disabled grandmother Eleanor Bumpurs was murdered in her own home. A public housing tenant 4 months ...
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The Answer Is in the Wound
by
Kelly Sundberg
Roxane Gay Books, 08/26/2025
The trauma of surviving an abusive marriage didn't make Kelly Sundberg stronger. In fact, it nearly broke her. But leaving the abuse behind was not ...
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The Book of Lost Hours: A Novel
by
Hayley Gelfuso
Atria Books, 08/26/2025
Nuremberg, 1938: On the night of Kristallnacht, eleven-year-old Lisavet Levy is hidden by her father from approaching forces in a mysterious place ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Break-In
by
Katherine Faulkner
Gallery/Scout Press, 08/26/2025
Alice, a professional mother of one, is hosting a playdate with friends at her upscale London home when a disturbed man breaks in. With her child in ...
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The Burial Place: Jake Jackson Mysteries #3
by
Stig Abell
Harper Perennial, 08/26/2025
A beautiful landscape ...
It began as the project of a lifetime—a group of archaeologists, uncovering the remains of a Roman settlement on a...
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Mysteries
The Call of the Honeyguide: What Science Tells Us about How to Live Well with the Rest of Life
by
Rob Dunn
Basic Books, 08/26/2025
In the woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa, sometime deep in our species' past, something strange happened: a bird called out, not to warn others of human...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Devil's in the Dancers
by
Catherine Yu
Page Street YA, 08/26/2025
Mars's annoyingly attractive roommate, Alex Bechler, has everything: she's effortlessly cool and easily one of the best dancers in the school. Her big...
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The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America
by
David Baron
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 08/26/2025
This
New York Times headline was no joke.
In the early 1900s, many Americans actually believed we had discovered intelligent life on Mars, as ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide
by
Howard W. French
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 08/26/2025
Determined that readers fully understand Nkrumah's legacy, bestselling author of
Born in Blackness Howard W. French newly dramatizes the Nkrumah ...
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The Secret Book Society: A Novel
by
Madeline Martin
Hanover Square Press, 08/26/2025
You are cordially invited to the Secret Book Society…
London, 1885: Trapped by oppressive marriages and societal expectations, three women ...
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Historical Fiction
The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World
by
Peter Brannen
Ecco, 08/26/2025
Carbon dioxide: this seemingly simple and ubiquitous substance is fundamental to how our planet works. All life is made from CO2, and its behavior on ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
We Were Not Kings: A Novel
by
Robert de la Chevotière
Little A, 08/26/2025
Eighteen-year-old Salomon Destin graduates high school and anxiously trades life on Guadeloupe in the Caribbean for France to continue his studies.
...
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Literary Fiction
Wish You Were Her
by
Elle McNicoll
Wednesday Books, 08/26/2025
18-year-old Allegra Brooks has skyrocketed to fame after starring in a hit television show, and she's the overnight success that everyone's talking ...
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Leviathan Beach
by
Joseph Earl Thomas
Grand Central Publishing, 08/28/2025
In
Leviathan Beach the thin veil between fantasy and reality ceases to exist. Thomas' concerns with war, labor, sex and the shared prospects of ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
