True Crime
1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World
by
Liaquat Ahamed
Penguin Press, 06/02/2026
Over the course of the 1850s and 1860s, during the first era of globalization, the world experienced an unprecedented economic boom. Fueling this ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Pair of Aces
by
Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
Berkley Books, 06/02/2026
Eunice Carter, assistant district attorney for the City of New York and Manhattan's first Black female prosecutor, has her sights set on the one and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Alan Opts Out: A Novel
by
Courtney Maum
Little Brown & Company, 06/02/2026
Alan Anderson is a powerful advertising executive who has built a successful life and thriving business by making people buy stuff they don't actually...
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An Artful Dodge
by
Karen Odden
Soho Crime, 06/02/2026
London, 1879: Twenty-year-old Kit Jimeson has fingers so nimble she can nick a necklace off a lady in a crowded theater without raising alarm. Kit and...
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Bad Queer
by
Gayathiri Kamalakanthan
Faber and Faber, 06/02/2026
I feel invincible.
Like I could run and run
and never stop for breath.
I feel a power in me
I didn't know I had.
The ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
Called by the Hills: A Wild Flowering in the Himalaya
by
Anuradha Roy
HarperOne, 06/02/2026
When acclaimed novelist Anuradha Roy and her husband stumble upon a derelict cottage in the hill station of Ranikhet, they decide it is where they ...
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Checkmate: Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess
by
Ben Mezrich
Grand Central Publishing, 06/02/2026
In September 2022, the unthinkable happened: nineteen-year-old American chess prodigy Hans Niemann defeated world champion Magnus Carlsen in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Collapse: A Novel
by
Édouard Louis
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/02/2026
Édouard's brother spent much of his life dreaming. He lived in a poor, working-class world, where he imagined that he would become one of the ...
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Crescendo: A Novel
by
Jane Healey
Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/02/2026
Max Kitson is a world-renowned pianist, and his twin sister, Natasha, is his manager and minder. But when, in 1957, at age 20, the former prodigy ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Decoding the Devil: Black Women Codebreakers and the Secret War Against Stalin's Bomb
by
Sarah Valentine
Harper, 06/02/2026
Facing the global threat of a rising Communist world power in the aftermath of World War II, the U.S. employed hundreds of Black Americans to speed ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Girl's Girl: A Novel
by
Sonia Feldman
The Dial Press, 06/02/2026
Fifteen-year-old Mina's whole world is her two best friends, but after an unexpected kiss, the established dynamics of their trio quickly unravel. ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Goldenborn
by
Ama Ofosua Lieb
Scholastic Press, 06/02/2026
Akoma Addo has one rule: don't get too close to the supernatural.
Ever since a blazing orb of light left her father in a coma, she's buried herself...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Hunger and Thirst: A Novel
by
Claire Fuller
Ballantine Books, 06/02/2026
1987: After a childhood trauma and years in and out of the care system, sixteen-year-old Ursula finds herself with a new job delivering mail at a ...
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I Wanna Be Loved By You: Marilyn Monroe: A Life in 100 Takes
by
Andrew Wilson
Grand Central Publishing, 06/02/2026
Dreamer. Bombshell. Icon. Featuring a wealth of unpublished material,
I Wanna Be Loved By You presents Marilyn in a startling new light. It draws upon...
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Land: A Novel
by
Maggie O'Farrell
Knopf, 06/02/2026
On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Lovers XXX
by
Allie Rowbottom
Soho Press, 06/02/2026
Los Angeles, 1982. Jude is eighteen, newly out of reform school and hungry for more than her small-town past can offer. Searching for her best friend,...
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Mad Eden: A Novel
by
Morgan Thomas
MCD, 06/02/2026
Ro and Liam live in a ramshackle cabin in a secluded stretch of Florida. Neither their home nor their sometimes-tumultuous relationship is what the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Medicine Wheels
by
Byron Graves
Heartdrum, 06/02/2026
When Bryce's mom walks out on her abusive boyfriend and back into jail for breaking her probation, he's left facing the summer of his junior year with...
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Meeting New People: A Novel
by
Daniel M. Lavery
HarperVia, 06/02/2026
Sixty something, twice-divorced Barbara is at a crossroads. In the midst of her emotional uncertainty, she looks back on the dissolution of the nine ...
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Monique Escapes: A Novel
by
Édouard Louis
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/02/2026
Late one night, Édouard receives a telephone call from his mother. In tears, she tells him that her partner, her first since her abusive marriage...
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Muñeca
by
Cynthia Gómez
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/02/2026
It is 1968 Oakland, and Natalia Fuentes has been hearing rumors about the beautiful Violeta Miramontes. The young heiress to Spanish colonial wealth ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Puck: A Novel
by
Samantha Allen
Zando, 06/02/2026
Meet Puck: the nonbinary, thirty-year-old mastermind behind
Homewreckers, a dating show that puts troubled couples through hell—with a little ...
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Rabbit, Fox, Tar: A Novel
by
P.C. Verrone
Catapult, 06/02/2026
When Baby appears in Original Hill, her name is on everyone's lips. A young Black woman is a rare sight in this part of town, and she sits all day on ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Rebellious: The Story of Keith Haring in 12 Pictures
by
Michael G. Long
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/02/2026
As an artist and activist, one theme remained a constant throughout Keith Haring's life: rebellion. In this young adult biography, acclaimed author ...
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Restrung: A Memoir of Music and Transformation
by
Vijay Gupta
Da Capo, 06/02/2026
By age twenty-five, Vijay Gupta had lived several lifetimes: he played Carnegie Hall at eight, studied at Juilliard and Yale before most had finished ...
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Shadow Reaper
by
Lynette Noni
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 06/02/2026
The city of Aravell is in peril, plagued by a deadly blackmist and reapers who roam the streets, stealing magic from innocent children in their thirst...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Shakespeare's Margaret: The Dramatic Life of a Warrior Queen
by
Charles O'Malley, Scott W. Stern
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/02/2026
She is more violent than Lady Macbeth, more complex than Ophelia, more strategic than King Lear's daughters. She is the only Shakespearean character, ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Sisters of a Halved Heart: A Novel
by
Nayantara Roy
Algonquin Books, 06/02/2026
Indian-American Mira Guhathakurta is a poetry editor at a distinguished literary magazine in New York. She reconnects with Jack, an old acquaintance ...
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Stolen Revolution: Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran
by
Yeganeh Torbati, Bozorgmehr Sharafedin
Doubleday, 06/02/2026
In 1979, a revolution in Iran swept aside a monarchy, fueled by the Iranian people's dreams of social justice and political freedom. But in the years ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Sublimation
by
Isabel J. Kim
Tor Books, 06/02/2026
The border cuts you in two.
When you immigrate, you leave a copy of yourself behind. One person enters their new country, the other stays trapped ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Summerland Cove: A Novel
by
Ellen Baker
Mariner Books, 06/02/2026
Lindy has the summer of a lifetime planned at her family's beloved cottage in Summerland Cove, Maine, where she's spent summers all her life and where...
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Literary Fiction
Tell Your Friends: A Novel
by
Lauren Wilson
Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar, 06/02/2026
University was meant to be Crystal's way out. Growing up, there was nothing in her life that couldn't be turned into content for her mother's popular ...
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The Adventures of Juan Planchard
by
Jonathan Jakubowicz
Grand Central Publishing, 06/02/2026
"My name is Juan Planchard. I'm twenty-nine years old, and I have five million dollars in my account. I own a house in Caracas, another in Madrid, and...more
The Beasts of the East: The Fall and Rise of America's Eastern Wilderness
by
Andrew Moore
Mariner Books, 06/02/2026
Before skyscrapers and smokestacks rose across the eastern U.S., elk, bison, wolves, and cougars roamed. Typically imagined as icons of the West, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Bookseller: A DS George Cross Mystery
by
Tim Sullivan
Atlantic Crime, 06/02/2026
Detective Sergeant George Cross has a knack for dismissing red herrings: He goes by the cold hard facts, and nothing else. But with a concerning ...
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Thrillers
The Children: A Novel
by
Melissa Albert
William Morrow, 06/02/2026
Guinevere Sharpe has two childhoods. In one, she and her brother, Ennis, live in the wooded shadow of their family's isolated Vermont farmhouse; in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Dog's Gaze: A Visual History
by
Thomas W. Laqueur
Penguin Books, 06/02/2026
Long before the phrase man's best friend became common parlance, dogs were already standing beside us in art as in life. In
The Dog's Gaze, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Double Dutch Fuss: A Memoir
by
Phill Branch
Amistad, 06/02/2026
Long before every moment of our lives was tracked by technology, Phill Branch was under surveillance. His father was a football-playing, weed-smoking,...
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The Game of Oaths
by
S. C. Bandreddi
Candlewick Press, 06/02/2026
It's 1896. Beneath a hotel in the heart of Paris is the famed le Cirque des Ombres, led by ringmaster and Enchanteur Jean-Pierre. But behind the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Hidden Nations of Animals: A Grand Tour of Earth's Wild Civilizations
by
Ryan Huling
Avery, 06/02/2026
From far-flung forest settlements in Canada's "beaver belt" to disputed territories of clashing Argentine ant armies, Ryan Huling's around-the-world ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
The Jellyfish Problem
by
Tessa Yang
Berkley Books, 06/02/2026
Dr. Jo Ness prefers jellyfish to people. Her best friend, Aldo, was the exception, but he died seven months ago. So she spends her days hidden away at...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Man Who Stole the Gods: A True Story of War, Obsession, and a Global Art Conspiracy
by
Matthew Campbell
Portfolio, 06/02/2026
Amidst the chaos of Cambodia's brutal genocide, a new crime wave emerged—one that would sweep across borders and entangle the world's most ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Ocean Would Paint Me Blue
by
Zoulfa Katouh
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 06/02/2026
Seventeen-year-old Jihad Dabbagh has always seen life with a heightened sense for colors, one of many magical blessings the women in her family ...
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The Queen's Coronation: A Novel
by
Jennifer Ryan
Ballantine Books, 06/02/2026
London, 1953. Buckingham Palace and the many employees vital to the smooth running of the monarchy find themselves in bedlam as the Queen's coronation...
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Historical Fiction
The Return of the Great Powers
by
Brendan Simms
Basic Books, 06/02/2026
From the dawn of the modern era to the end of the Cold War, global history was defined by rivalries between Great Powers. In the West, this meant the ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Spiritualists
by
Kristin O'Donnell Tubb
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 06/02/2026
Stella Bohdan is never alone—never—and yet she is the loneliest person she knows, dead or alive. A gifted psychic who can hear the voices ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Summer of Death: The Great Heat Wave of 1936 and the Making of Modern-Day America
by
Geoff Williams
Pegasus Books, 06/02/2026
In 1936, ironically after one of the coldest winters on record, North America experienced a heat wave that remains unmatched today. Thanks to a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Typing Lady: And Other Fictions
by
Ruth Ozeki
Viking, 06/02/2026
In this spirited and emotionally resonant collection, award-winning novelist Ruth Ozeki turns her singular gaze to the short story, exploring ...
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The Unicorn Hunters: A Novel
by
Katherine Arden
Del Rey, 06/02/2026
Anne of Brittany was a child when France invaded and drove her royal father to his death. Now she is a young woman, sovereign duchess of an occupied ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Wilder Way: A Memoir of Adventure, Freedom, and an Uncharted Life
by
Eva zu Beck
Gallery Books, 06/02/2026
Are you living with a capital "L"? When was the last time you truly felt you were your wildest, most free, most alive self? Eva zu Beck, professional ...
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The Windsor Affair: A Novel
by
Melanie Benjamin
Delacorte Press, 06/02/2026
Feuding Windsor brothers and their wives—some things, it seems, never change.
The Windsor Affair recreates the cataclysmic events that nearly ...
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Historical Fiction
The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
by
Eric Jay Dolin
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 06/02/2026
From the best–selling author of
Black Flags, Blue Waters comes the story of the American whaleship
Mentor, wrecked in 1832 on a remote reef in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
There's Only One Sin in Hollywood: A Novel
by
Rasheed Newson
Flatiron Books, 06/02/2026
Xavier C. Barlow, one of Hollywood's young Black stars taking the industry by storm in the late 1950s, is Skyline Studios's ambitious attempt to rival...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
They All Fall in Love at the End: A Novel
by
Haili Blassingame
Scribner, 06/02/2026
It's the fall of 2024, and twenty-four-year-old Cat isn't asking for too much: all she wants is three boyfriends, to write her little novels, and to ...
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Literary Fiction
Unreasonable Women: Three Stories of Violence, Imprisonment, and Extraordinary Survival
by
Justine van der Leun
Ecco, 06/02/2026
When award-winning journalist Justine van der Leun began looking into the issue of criminalized survival, she was astonished to see how women were ...
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Valley of the Moms: A Novel
by
Hannah Selinger
Little Brown & Company, 06/02/2026
Hamilton, Massachusetts is one of those suburban towns that appears untouched by the outside world where stay-at-home moms wear 2ct diamond studs to ...
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What Came West: A Novel
by
Josh Weil
Doubleday, 06/02/2026
Sierra Nevada, 1840s, just before the Gold Rush ignites. Silas Hall has never belonged anywhere except the wild. Bullied as a child and uneasy even ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class
by
Chris Smalls
Pantheon Books, 06/02/2026
In the early days of the Covid pandemic, warehouse worker Chris Smalls and his colleagues continued showing up as the rest of the world was shutting ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Where You'll Find Us
by
Jen St. Jude
Bloomsbury YA, 06/02/2026
Calla Quick has no future. At least, that's how it feels. Her parents disowned her via text message, and now she can't afford to go to an all-women's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Whistler: A Novel
by
Ann Patchett
Harper, 06/02/2026
When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following them. The man...
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Without Terminus: untraining an archive
by
Chaun Webster
Graywolf Press, 06/02/2026
In his first work of nonfiction, poet chaun webster blends memoir, archival research, visual poetics, and cultural criticism to trace the ways ...
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Just Another Dead Boy
by
Kelly Mccaughrain
Candlewick Press, 06/04/2026
In a world where everyone knows the date they will die, wild-child Regan works at a luxury resort as a "Juliet" for the Romeo & Juliet Service, ...
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Men in Love: A Novel
by
Irvine Welsh
Pegasus Books, 06/04/2026
Choose life. Choose love? The
Trainspotting crew fall for rave and romance in Irvine Welsh's blazing new novel.
It is the late 1980s, the ...
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Literary Fiction
A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religion in America
by
Brook Wilensky-Lanford
Atlantic Monthly Press, 06/09/2026
Ever since conquistadores claimed Taino land in the name of their Catholic God and New England Puritans formed their strictly Protestant "city on a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Way Home: A Memoir of Losing Yourself, and the Beauty of Returning
by
Cinelle Barnes
Little A, 06/09/2026
In 2023, Cinelle Barnes is writing a travelogue about journeying home to the Philippines after a twenty-year separation when she suffers a traumatic ...
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Biography/Memoir
Baby in a Box: Stories
by
Sarah Braunstein
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/09/2026
These stunning stories, steeped in dark humor, startle and dismay, and introduce us to a cast of eccentric and wholly believable characters. ...
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Short Stories
Based on a True Story: A Novel
by
Sarah Vaughan
Harper, 06/09/2026
All families have secrets. But it's the lies that can kill.
A lavish seventieth birthday party. A body found on a storm-lashed beach. And a secret ...
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Beard Science
by
Penny Reid
Sourcebooks Casablanca, 06/09/2026
Jennifer Sylvester wants one thing, and that one thing is NOT to be Tennessee's reigning Banana Cake Queen. Ever the perpetual good girl and obedient ...
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Romance
Blue Beach
by
Karyn Parsons
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 06/09/2026
Fifteen-year-old Blue Collins's parents own the only Black beach in Santa Monica in 1929. She loves spending time there with her handsome friend Ben ...
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Cat Love: A Novel
by
Tomás Q. Morín
Pantheon Books, 06/09/2026
The indelible cat heroine of this unexpected tale recalls her life with "the Mustache," her beloved owner. Trapped in a one-way mirrored box, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Children of the Wild: A Novel
by
Kevin Powers
Harper, 06/09/2026
Ewer's Rock, Virginia, 1917. Roy Young is restless, eager to leave this isolated rural valley for university and return with the technical knowledge ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Cleanup on Aisle Five: Essential Work, Poverty Wages, and the View from Behind the Supermarket Register
by
Ann Larson
One Signal, 06/09/2026
Grocery stores may all seem the same. But the supermarket as an institution is anything but ordinary or one-dimensional. At the supermarket where I ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Contrapposto: A Novel
by
Dave Eggers
Knopf, 06/09/2026
Cricket Dib, born on the American prairie, has no particular prospects or ambitions until, in grade school, he realizes he can draw. He soon meets a ...
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Daughters of the Sun and Moon: A Novel
by
Lisa See
Scribner, 06/09/2026
In 1870, three Chinese women arrive in the small, dusty, and violent pueblo of Los Angeles. Dove, the bound-footed daughter of an imperial scholar, is...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Earth 7: A Novel
by
Deb Olin Unferth
Graywolf Press, 06/09/2026
Well, that's about it for the story of planet Earth, poor Earth, reduced to not much more than a piece of burnt coal. But, as Deb Olin Unferth shows ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Fairfield County: A Novel
by
DéLana R. A. Dameron
The Dial Press, 06/09/2026
A sprawling landscape of sand, red clay, and pine trees, South Carolina's Fairfield County is the only place the Bolton family has ever called home. ...
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Literary Fiction
Feast
by
Catherine Kurtz
Berkley Books, 06/09/2026
Minha is born on the backstreets of late-nineteenth-century London, daughter of an Indian spice merchant and an English prostitute. She has a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Freedom: Essays
by
Zinzi Clemmons
Viking, 06/09/2026
Weaving personal reflections with piercing insight and expansive vision across nine brilliant essays, Zinzi Clemmons explores the complexities of the ...
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Heather: A Novel
by
Caitlin Mullen
Celadon, 06/09/2026
1994. In the myth-riddled woods of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, sixteen-year-old Annabelle Riley's twin sister, Sabrina, has been having an affair ...
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Kingdom of Devils: A Tale of Murder in the Shadow of the American Revolution
by
Katherine Grandjean
Random House, 06/09/2026
Kentucky, 1798: A harrowing series of murders begins. The first body, discovered by cattle drovers, lies bloody at the bottom of a ridge. Then another...
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Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age
by
James M. Tabor
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/09/2026
In 1854, the American entrepreneur Cyrus Field set out to lay a 2,000-mile telegraph cable across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Nothing like it ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Nymph: A Novel
by
Sofia Montrone
Avid Reader Press, 06/09/2026
To ten-year-old Leo, life is a collection. She spends her mornings tidying the rooms of her Nonna Tina's timeworn Italian agriturismo, carefully ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Obstetrix
by
Naomi Kritzer
Tordotcom, 06/09/2026
O Lord, deliver us.
Doctor Liz has just been acquitted for performing the last abortion in North Dakota when she's kidnapped.
They're not just ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Pool House: A Novel
by
Mary H.K. Choi
Flatiron Books, 06/09/2026
Stevie cannot escape her mother. Abandoning college plans to work a dead-end job, her days are a purgatorial bore. Many dream of moving to L.A. and ...
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Rasputin Swims the Potomac: A Novel
by
Ben Fountain
Flatiron Books, 06/09/2026
Reporter Clarence Thomas Jr. is looking for a great story, former country music teen star Faith Spack has parlayed her fame into a job at the White ...
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San Quentin Exodus
by
Bill Smoot
Apprentice House, 06/09/2026
His only friend is a pit bull he rescues from dog fighting. On the cusp of college, James commits a crime that results in a prison term of thirty to ...
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Literary Fiction
Strangers Behind Closed Doors: A Novel
by
Catherine Adel West
Park Row, 06/09/2026
Giovanni Mason worked hard to become the first Black head concierge at Chicago's exclusive and glamorous Ivory Hotel. It's a job that requires ...
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Summer's Never Over
by
Darby Bozeman
Berkley Books, 06/09/2026
Five years ago, Greer left her family's summer camp in the mountains of Georgia and vowed she'd never return. An idyllic season had turned into a ...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
Swell
by
Bo-mi Son
Two Lines Press, 06/09/2026
But they're often filtered through the perspective of someone else: documentarians, novelists, storytellers, gossips. Then, as the stories build atop ...
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Short Stories
The Animal Room
by
Lauren Acampora
Grove Press, 06/09/2026
Tensions simmer in small-town Connecticut. A city transplant is haunted by the deer carcass hanging in her neighbor's garage. A psychiatric patient ...
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The Art of Becoming a Citizen: A Memoir
by
Gail Godwin
Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/09/2026
"He just had the presidency stolen from him."
It's November 1960, and a crush of reporters eagerly await the first postelection meeting ...
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The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss
by
Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/09/2026
The Book of Birds is a field guide with a difference: It shows readers not just how to identify birds, but also how to identify with them. Robert ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Daffodil Days: A Novel
by
Helen Bain
Scribner, 06/09/2026
In the early 1960s in a small English town, the church bells ring. The people go about their days, catching glimpses of one another.
There's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Fervent Whites: A Novel
by
De'Shawn Charles Winslow
One World, 06/09/2026
The year is 1982 and the people of Fervent-on-Hudson have begun to move on from a local double homicide that upended the once-quiet town. But when ...
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The Missed Connection
by
Tia Williams
Grand Central Publishing, 06/09/2026
Sasha Cruz knows types. As a booked-and-busy casting agent, she's always casting—at happy hour, the grocery store, everywhere. She's all about ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Traveler: One Man's Epic Quest to Discover Our Shared Humanity
by
Andrea Wulf
Knopf, 06/09/2026
From an early age, it was clear that George Forster possessed a brilliant mind. At just ten years old, he became a botanist when he accompanied his ...
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The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria's Romance Scammers
by
Carlos Barragán
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/09/2026
Ikotun, one of Lagos's poorest neighborhoods, lies ten miles and a world away from the towers and beaches at the heart of Nigeria's megacity. By day, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
This Immortal Heart: A Novel of Aphrodite
by
Jennifer Saint
Ballantine Books, 06/09/2026
From the moment Aphrodite emerges fully formed from the sea, she is devastatingly beautiful and imbued with ancient power. Driven by passion yet ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Two Ships: Jamestown 1619, Plymouth 1620, and the Struggle for the Soul of America
by
David S. Reynolds
Penguin Press, 06/09/2026
In the bitterly polarized decades leading up to the American Civil War, it was commonplace to argue that America's strife could be traced back to the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Villa Coco: A Novel
by
Andrew Sean Greer
Doubleday, 06/09/2026
Broke and directionless, our young man (the chosen moniker of
Villa Coco's narrator) takes a job in the Italian countryside as the all-purpose ...
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We Want So Much to Be Ourselves
by
Stephen O'Connor
Bellevue Literary Press, 06/09/2026
Günter Zeitz, psychoanalyst-in-training and the son of a Catholic country doctor, and Josine Rosen, Sigmund Freud's patient and the daughter of a...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe
by
Katja Hoyer
Basic Books, 06/09/2026
The Central German town of Weimar is perhaps most familiar to non-Germans for giving its name to the Weimar Republic. After Germany's inglorious ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
You, Me, and Infinity
by
Deb Caletti
Labyrinth Road, 06/09/2026
When Margaret sees Mars for the first time, it doesn't feel like love at first sight so much as future at first sight—she just knows right away ...
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A Second Sight: How the Wonder and Vision of Black Mediamakers Push America Toward Freedom
by
Sarah J. Jackson
Mariner Books, 06/16/2026
When Black mediamakers raise their voices and speak uncomfortable truths about America, they shape memories of the nation and push us toward a future ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Arrivals and Departures: A Novel
by
Amanda Eyre Ward
Ballantine Books, 06/16/2026
The Perkins family has problems. They're scattered across the globe. Lee, a glamorous reality-TV star, is struggling with her mental health in the ...
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As If: A Novel
by
Isabel Waidner
FSG Originals, 06/16/2026
Lewis is grieving his dead wife; Korine is hiding from his very-much-alive one. Lewis never had children; Korine has just walked out on his. Lewis is ...
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Blood River Witch: A Novel
by
T J Martinson
Counterpoint Press, 06/16/2026
Deputy Sheriff Alicia Moore is thrust into the center of a chilling murder investigation when she discovers a victim identifiable only by his ...
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Thrillers
Catching Sight: How a Guide Dog Helped Me See Myself
by
Deni Elliott
Beacon Press, 06/16/2026
For years, renowned ethics scholar Deni Elliott lived with her own moral dilemma: though severely visually impaired since birth, she spent decades ...
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Cece Downing's Start Over Summer: A Novel
by
Soon Wiley
Dutton, 06/16/2026
Recently fired from her dependable career as an actuary, and recovering from a messy breakup with her fiancé, thirty-two-year-old Cece Downing is...
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Literary Fiction
Charity and Sylvia
by
Tillie Walden
Drawn & Quarterly, 06/16/2026
The month is February in the year 1807. The place is Weybridge, Vermont: small, cold, lonely, and beautiful. Sylvia Drake is exhausted. As an unwed ...
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Come Undone: A Novel
by
Eddie Huang
One World, 06/16/2026
Hubie lives an exciting life. He hosts a traveling food show, works with his best friend, and samples the best the world has to offer. There's only ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Empire of Ink: The Printers, Rogues, and Radicals Who Invented the American Newspaper
by
Alex Wright
Basic Books, 06/16/2026
No society had ever generated so much ink and paper in so little time. Between the Revolutionary War and the dawn of the twentieth century, the number...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Ghost-Eye: A Novel
by
Amitav Ghosh
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/16/2026
Varsha Gupta wants fish for lunch. Her family is shocked; the three-year-old has never tasted fish in her life. The Guptas are strict vegetarians and ...
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Good Company: A Novel
by
Kate Christensen
Harper, 06/16/2026
Ever since her father broke her heart when she was nine, Julia Heimdahl has tried to be good company for bad men: a jovial drinking companion, an ...
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I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World
by
Sarah Wilson
Penguin Books, 06/16/2026
It's hard to escape the feeling that something is deeply wrong ... that life has become precariously off-balance. We are hit hourly with headlines ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Little Blue Dot: How GPS Shaped the Modern World
by
Katherine Dunn
Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/16/2026
Gone are the days when we pulled off to the side of the road, twisted a map this way and that and squinted in exasperation before saying, "We're lost....
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Monster of a Land: On the Road in Search of Modern America
by
Lauren Hough
Pantheon Books, 06/16/2026
Lauren Hough has always been haunted by the road trips she never got to take: no money, no vacation days, no car capable of making the trip. So, upon ...
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Never Tell a Black Girl How to Black Girl: Essays
by
Amena Brown
Tiny Reparations, 06/16/2026
Black women always find a place to meet: in the natural hair aisle, at Beyoncé concerts, even online in memes and catchphrases. This book is one ...
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Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex
by
Perrin Roosevelt Ireland
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/16/2026
In delightful watercolor comics of pregnant seahorse dads, spider oral sex, and the four-headed echidna penis, Perrin Roosevelt Ireland takes us on a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body
by
Erin Maglaque
Astra House, 06/16/2026
Today, we understand the mind and the body to be distinct; that the mind exercises control over the flesh. But as Erin Maglaque experienced the ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Radical Duke: How One Aristocrat-and the American Revolution-Transformed Britain
by
Danielle Allen
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 06/16/2026
When Danielle Allen unearthed a parchment of the Declaration of Independence buried away in Sussex, England, little did she know that she had ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Self-Help for Serial Killers: A Novel
by
Asia Mackay
Bantam Books, 06/16/2026
This couple's midlife crisis is murder ... literally.
Hazel and Fox have it all: two children, a beautiful home, and a late-night habit of ...
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Six Savage Thrones: Queens of Elben #2
by
Holly Race
Orbit, 06/16/2026
The kingdom of Elben is in turmoil. One of its magical palaces lies in ruins at the bottom of the ocean and the king is on the hunt for the traitor ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Somebody Worth Killing
by
Jessica Payne
Berkley Books, 06/16/2026
Nadia Davis is living the dream as a successful working mom with a career she loves, two adorable little girls, and a devoted husband who has no idea ...
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The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State
by
Emmaia Gelman
University of California Press, 06/16/2026
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is a major US political organization, yet its politics have gone largely unexamined. While the ADL is often portrayed...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Cruelty of Nice Folks: On Being Black in America's Liberal Heartland
by
Justin Ellis
Harper, 06/16/2026
It's the "North," they like to say, not the Midwest. It's different. We're nice here, progressive; Minneapolis is a city for everyone. But in 2020, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Emilys: A Novel
by
Heather Abel
Random House, 06/16/2026
"And if we weren't afraid of the darkness? What world would we make then?"
Eve is at a breaking point. Alone with her two children in ...
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The Frenzy: Stories
by
Joyce Carol Oates
Hogarth Books, 06/16/2026
Frenzy (noun): a temporary madness; a violent mental or emotional agitation; intense usually wild and often disorderly compulsive or agitated activity...more
The Lady Imam
by
Carla Power
One World, 06/16/2026
A fierce feminist, single mother of five, an advocate for and member of the LGBTQ+ community, and a respected scholar, amina wadud has led a revolt ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Lowe Job: A Novel
by
Grace Alexander
William Morrow, 06/16/2026
When Lili Lowe gets caught having an affair with her married boss, an admired local politician, she finds herself at the epicenter of a scandal that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
This Is Also a Love Story: A Reporter's Search for Goodness in a Cruel World
by
Sally Hayden
Scribner, 06/16/2026
We live in an era defined by crisis—whether it be war and displacement, climate collapse, or growing inequality, and how the powerful profit ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Voyagers: A Novel
by
Meg Charlton
Harper, 06/16/2026
With many believing it could be first contact with extraterrestrial life, humanity holds its breath. But for Alex, a thirtysomething lawyer ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Agnes Lives!: A Novel
by
Hallie Elizabeth Newton
Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/23/2026
New York City, 2014. Agnes Maurer is seeking the appropriate killer. Candidates include: an icy magazine editor with a special cutlery set; a ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
All This Want (and I Can't Get None)
by
T Clark
One World, 06/23/2026
Set mostly in and around a small working class neighborhood, Clark explores the lives of young Black girls, women, and nonbinary characters, slicing ...
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Short Stories
Debut Author
Becoming George: The Invention of George Sand
by
Fiona Sampson
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/23/2026
By the age of thirty, the young woman who was born Aurore Dupin in 1804 in a Paris garret had become the internationally renowned George Sand. In ...
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Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage
by
Matthew Wolfe
Viking, 06/23/2026
In the early hours of October 28, 1996, a driver in rural Oregon spotted flames rising from a federal ranger station. Firefighters quickly ...
more
Green City Wars
by
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Tor Books, 06/23/2026
In the solar cities of the future, the humans relax in the sun and the animals work in the shadows. Genetically engineered Little Helpers, serving ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
It Could Have Been Her: A Novel
by
Lisa Jewell
Atria Books, 06/23/2026
Jane Trevally is walking her dogs on her country estate one May afternoon when a small white dog appears. The teenaged girl that had been staying ...
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It's All River: A Novel
by
Carla Madeira
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 06/23/2026
"Lucy was a virgin-whore. A dreamer. She wanted to test her power. She wanted men to fast for her, to grovel, to pay tithes."
Lusted after by ...
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Literary Fiction
Little Wild: A Novel
by
Laura Evans
Henry Holt and Company, 06/23/2026
Suffolk, 1937. As the English countryside swelters in a historic heat wave, preparations for a party at Snare House are in full swing. The Winthers' ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Long Island Girls: A Novel
by
Gabrielle Korn
St. Martin's Press, 06/23/2026
The only thing Susan loves more than music is Eliza, and both keep breaking her heart.
The first time Susan and Eliza meet, it's 2005, and Susan is...
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Mendo: How an Unlikely Group of Rebels Turned Cannabis into California's Cash Crop
by
Charlie Harris
Counterpoint Press, 06/23/2026
California's homegrown weed industry helped launch the solar power industry, and that's not all. Mendocino county--or Mendo--sits within California's ...
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True Crime
Debut Author
Names Have Been Changed: A Novel
by
Yu-Mei Balasingamchow
Tiny Reparations, 06/23/2026
Ophir's tale begins in Singapore, where a petty crime spins out of control, estranging her from home and family. Resorting to false identities and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Nebraska
by
Monica Datta
Astra House, 06/23/2026
Anna Chatterjee has just been released from prison. Her husband, Prabir, has arrived to take her home and found her already gone; their flighty and ...
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Nine Lives: A Novel
by
Catherine Steadman
Bantam Books, 06/23/2026
These are your neighbors. One is a killer.
Reeling from a very recent divorce, Frankie has moved into a glamorous London neighborhood. This is a ...
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Thrillers
Nothing to My Name: A Novel
by
Kangkang Li Kovacs
Viking, 06/23/2026
Nothing to My Name chronicles the intertwined fates of three generations of Chinese women: Ah Xue, Mimosa, and Fei. The Grandmother, Ah Xue, witnesses...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Noticing: Intimate Encounters With the Natural World
by
Richard Louv
Algonquin Books, 06/23/2026
Long beloved for his insightful, inspiring nature writing, Richard Louv returns with his most personal book yet. Noticing is about discovering who you...
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Obstinate Daughters: The Rebels, Writers, and Renegade Women Who Ignited the American Revolution
by
Denise Kiernan
Dutton, 06/23/2026
History has always celebrated the "Founding Fathers"—the sly but victorious tactics of Washington, the daring exploits of Lafayette, the grand ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Rainsong
by
Lila Riesen
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 06/23/2026
Mendocino is not the quaint coastal California town Zayn Pereira imagined. It's shrouded in a fog that never lets up. Posters of a missing teen girl ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Retro: A Novel
by
Jessica M. Goldstein
Ballantine Books, 06/23/2026
When Ash spots an ad for Retro during a depressing Instagram scroll—she's in debt and unemployed; everyone else is, evidently, thriving—...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Rule of Lies: My Wild Ride Through Chaos, Corruption, and Murder in Putin's Russia
by
Jamison R. Firestone
Harper, 06/23/2026
Raised by his father, a multimillionaire conman and crack addict who owned Manhattan's most expensive brothel, twenty-four- year-old Jamison Firestone...
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The Door in Penrose Forest: A Novel
by
Sean David Robinson
Crooked Lane Books, 06/23/2026
As a boy, Nico once accompanied his mother on a research trip to investigate a stalled migration of monarch butterflies. One night, upon hearing her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Future Perfect: A Novel
by
Cay Kim
Riverhead Books, 06/23/2026
Before you are anything, you are a daughter.
At first you are at home inside your pregnant mother: a beloved daughter, a vision of the future. But ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Housewives Underground: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the JFK Assassination Our Most Enduring Mystery
by
Kaitlyn Tiffany
Crown, 06/23/2026
In the winter of 1967, the official account of the Kennedy assassination was beginning to unravel. A scattered group of Americans had pointed to major...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America's Culture Wars
by
Isaac Butler
Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/23/2026
It's 1988, the final year of the Reagan presidency, and the curtain is closing on the Cold War. In the absence of external adversaries, the American ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Tinder Box
by
M. R. Carey
Orbit, 06/23/2026
Wounded in his county's endless wars, former soldier Mag Tresti finds work in the home of a reclusive widow, Jannae Mirchella. But Jannae is more than...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Tillinghast: A Novel
by
Clare Cavenagh
Viking, 06/23/2026
Stutley Tillinghast lives a solitary life, ostensibly as the minister of a remote rural parish in Rhode Island. For many decades now, what little ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
4 Janes: A Novel
by
Marian Yee
Little A, 06/30/2026
Jane Eyre is a missionary's wife.
A bookseller in Vietnam.
A time traveler.
A hero in a modern gothic tale.
What if Jane's story didn't ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Chelsea Girls
by
Catherine Lloyd
Kensington Publishing, 06/30/2026
Post-war London is a city in flux, with burned-out buildings serving as vivid reminders of the past. But beneath those scars is a sense of resurging ...
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Historical Fiction
Days of Sun and Shadow
by
India Hayford
A John Scognamiglio Book, 06/30/2026
Alabama, 1813: In the midst of the battle and massacre at Fort Mims, a baby is born. It's a portentous beginning for Emilie McCain, who has inherited ...
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Historical Fiction
Everybody's Perfect
by
Jo Walton
Tor Books, 06/30/2026
The Serenissima is built from mist and belief, a mythical shadow sister to Venice and crossroads of the nine worlds.
When a laborer called Tiry has...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
July Sun: Stories
by
Aamina Ahmad
Riverhead Books, 06/30/2026
In these seven powerful stories, Aamina Ahmad finds a world of pathos in the narrowest circumstances, from the fugitive intimacies of villages where ...
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Main Characters: A Novel
by
Bobby Palmer
Little Brown & Company, 06/30/2026
When Clara and Seb first cross paths in a London square, it's the start of something exciting. Clara, an aspiring director stuck in an entry-level job...
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Moss'd in Space
by
Rebecca Thorne
Bramble, 06/30/2026
Torian Razner finally bought a starship, and contrary to Amelia's assessment, it was not "a meteoric sign of stupidity." Sure, the alien starship may ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Not Built in a Day: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire
by
Emma Southon
Simon & Schuster, 06/30/2026
When Julius Caesar conquered Gaul he boasted that he killed a million Gauls and enslaved a million more. This is the truth about the Roman empire: ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
On the Origin of Sex: The Weird and Wonderful Science of Reproduction
by
Dr. Lixing Sun
Basic Books, 06/30/2026
Let's talk about sex. Not boring, human sex, but the endlessly fascinating, varied, and complex forms of reproduction in the rest of the natural world...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
RED X
by
David Demchuk
Hell's Hundred, 06/30/2026
In 1984, a young gay man vanishes without a trace, leaving behind a community of friends and lovers desperate for answers. Instead, they face ...
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The Au Pair: A Novel
by
Teddy Wayne
Harper, 06/30/2026
Steven Hammer was once an acclaimed literary star. Now, his career is floundering, his marriage to a high-powered woman is crumbling, and the only ...
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The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music
by
Colin Asher
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/30/2026
In American popular music, we often glorify rebellious artists and "outlaws." But in
The Midnight Special, Colin Asher tells a deeper story about the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Summer of the Serpent
by
Cecilia Eudave
Soho Press, 06/30/2026
Guadalajara, Mexico, 1977. In a quiet residential neighborhood, children witness things they can never forget: a serpent girl weeping in a carnival ...
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The Top of the World: A Novel
by
Ethan Joella
Scribner, 06/30/2026
June 1975. Maggie Bishop has just graduated high school, the future hers to embrace—but she's still reeling from the death of her older brother,...
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These Immortal Truths: Peaches & Honey #1
by
Rachelle Raeta
Tor Books, 06/30/2026
"Did I not tell you, Anna? Death will not come for you."
Anna is used to hunger and hardship. Ever since the pale shadows on her skin were mistaken...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Thornbird
by
E. Kennedy
Delacorte Press, 06/30/2026
Ten years after her father—the infamous serial killer Gabriel Thorn—was caught, Ryan Shipley is back in Starling, Tennessee, trying to lay...
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Winners & Liars
by
Aleema Omotoni
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/30/2026
Derin's acceptance into Cambridge University is the end of an era—just not the one she expected.
When she and her ultra-competitive Uni prep ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
A Real Animal: A Novel
by
Emeline Atwood
Catapult, 07/07/2026
A Real Animal follows Lucy through the decade dividing college and real adulthood, as she navigates three distinct romantic relationships, reckons ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Vast Horizon: Artists and Lovers, Freedom and War
by
Anna Thomasson
Pegasus Books, 07/07/2026
Late summer 1937. Europe is inching toward war. In the South of France a group of friends picnic in a secluded clearing. The women have peeled down ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
American Alt: A True Story of Madness and Friendship in a Fractured Country
by
Chris Lockhart
Bloomsbury Publishing, 07/07/2026
On the eve of January 6, 2021, Michael Dodd and his three friends found themselves in a stolen vehicle on the grounds of the Washington State Capitol,...
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An Infinite Love Story
by
Chanel Cleeton
Berkley Books, 07/07/2026
When Joe Mitchell launches into space, the world is watching. It's 1968, and the country waits with anticipation and excitement for another successful...
more
Augusta Pine Does Not Exist
by
Emily Lloyd-Jones
Balzer + Bray, 07/07/2026
I was fifteen when I became a murderer.
After a hack gone tragically wrong, a teen girl is given an ultimatum: accept a harsh prison sentence or ...
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Babylon: The Biography of a Metropolis
by
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Pegasus Books, 07/07/2026
'Babylon' is a name that has a double life: it denotes the great ancient Mesopotamian city with a long and complex history, and it is also a fictive ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Buried Feelings
by
Kit Rosewater
Delacorte Romance, 07/07/2026
Cam was the one who discovered the hunt. He brought it to Ivy like an offering, took her hand as they combed through San Francisco, searching for ...
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Coming Out Perfect: #1 A Graphic Novel
by
Richard Mercado
Graphix, 07/07/2026
When Kevin's parents ignore his attempts to come out of the closet, he devises a plan to become more like Raymond, the popular gay kid at his high ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
Country People: A Novel
by
Daniel Mason
Random House, 07/07/2026
Miles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a ...
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Literary Fiction
Every Version of You: A Novel
by
Natalie Messier
Gallery Books, 07/07/2026
Joey Vasquez's life is the definition of good on paper. At thirty-two, she's a Los Angeles lawyer on the cusp of making partner, but while she's a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt: A Novel
by
Ben Reeves
Avid Reader Press, 07/07/2026
Travis is Death in the modern world. He wears jeans and a T-shirt and lives in a small, grey town. His job is to offer people comfort in their final ...
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Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
by
Mark B. Smith
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/07/2026
To those of us in the West, the Soviet Union is synonymous with Stalinism. The common view of the USSR is of a brutal regime that squelched dissent ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Fabulous Bodies
by
Chuck Tingle
Tor Nightfire, 07/07/2026
Poppy Stringer was born to be a star.
An aspiring fashion influencer by day, Poppy moonlights as a grave robber to make ends meet, wheeling and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Helpless: A Novel
by
Jessica Knoll
Scribner, 07/07/2026
Now, Faye is one half of a power-producing duo with her Hollywood husband. Henry is a married father running the family business. On the surface, both...
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Hidden Creatures: Luscious Leeches, Bashful Botflies, and the Wondrous, History-Shaping World of Parasites
by
Dino J. Martins
Knopf, 07/07/2026
"
May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard" is the oldest sentence ever written using an alphabet. Inscribed onto an ivory comb from ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Hide and Seek: A Novel
by
Soren Sveistrup
Harper, 07/07/2026
Count to one, count to two ...
A strange voice from inside the woods, repeating a child's counting rhyme.
Count to four, count to five ....more
Man Overboard!: A Novel
by
Kathleen Rooney
Gallery Books, 07/07/2026
Patrick "Kick" Kilpatrick hates the ocean. Has always been terrified of it. And now he's in a real pickle.
Drifting alone in the sea after falling ...
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Marzahn, Mon Amour
by
Katja Oskamp
Peirene Press, 07/07/2026
From her intimate vantage point at the foot of the clinic chair, she observes her clients and co-workers, listening to their stories with empathy and ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Miss Bates: Emma Revisited: A Novel
by
Catherine Cliff
Pegasus Books, 07/07/2026
Henrietta Bates, the iconic bore of Austen's Emma, is the opposite of handsome, clever, and rich Emma: she is plain, ill-educated, and impoverished. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Most Ardently Yours: A Novel
by
Freya Sampson
Sourcebooks Landmark, 07/07/2026
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of many romance novels, must be in want of a book boyfriend."
...
more
Nightjar: Stories
by
Emily Ruskovich
Random House, 07/07/2026
Five years after moving into the isolated house in rural Oregon where her husband lived as a child, the protagonist of "Victor's Room" begins to doubt...
more
Perverts: Stories
by
Mac Crane
The Dial Press, 07/07/2026
An employee at a hunting ground where people pay to act out hate crimes prepares to meet their girlfriend's parents for the first time. A self-...
more
Short Stories
Scavenging Beauty: A Memoir in Walks
by
Angelica Glass
Riverhead Books, 07/07/2026
Angelica Glass spent decades as a social worker helping families struggling with poverty, addiction, abuse and neglect. Needing relief from work-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Some People: A Novel
by
Parini Shroff
Ballantine Books, 07/07/2026
Malti Patel is absolutely fine. Concussed and bruised, maybe, but fine. Certainly fine enough to not need her daughter's soon-to-be-ex-husband, Nathan...
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Literary Fiction
Summer of Love
by
Kerri Maher
Berkley Books, 07/07/2026
1967: Concerts, hippies, and war protests define the counter-culture revolution that flourishes during the Summer of Love in San Francisco. No one is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Bird Tribe: The Dreambird Chronicles #3
by
Lucinda Roy
Tor Books, 07/07/2026
Yearning is the only compass you need to fly a way home.
Two years after Ji-ji's miraculous flight on her own impossible wings, the Dream of ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Great Wherever: A Novel
by
Shannon Sanders
Henry Holt and Company, 07/07/2026
At thirty-two, Aubrey Lamb is stumbling into adulthood. An underpaid gig worker in Washington, DC, she's grieving the end of a serious relationship ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Language of Knives: Stories
by
Haralambi Markov
Mythic Delirium Books, 07/07/2026
The mall has opened its doors, and nothing, not even certain death, will keep the shoppers away. A dead man's curse drives his descendants to drown ...
more
The Lure of Wolves and Whispers: The Martyred Isle #1
by
Amanda Connolly
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 07/07/2026
On the mist-shrouded Isle of Eireann, buying magic comes with a price.
But when her beloved older sister is gravely injured, Maeve risks everything...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Man
by
Laura Sims
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/07/2026
The photos Judith Stanley takes are just for her, a private passion to fill her suburban days. But when she shares them with Paul Sorenson, her new ...
more
The Red Sacrament
by
Sara Hinkley
Titan Books, 07/07/2026
Paris, 1869. The Théâtre Saint-Siméon is the place to be, if you can get in. The black slips of paper that guarantee entry are rare and...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Tree of Knowledge: Poems
by
Victoria Chang
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/07/2026
Joan Mitchell said,
When I talk about love, I mean loving a tree. When I talk about love, I mean loving where a tree used to be.
Men assess ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
We Will See You Bleed
by
Ron Currie
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/07/2026
A strike at the paper mill has dragged on for a year, pitting neighbor against neighbor, leaving everyone broke and exhausted.
As head of the union...
more
Wisdom Corner: A Novel
by
David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Ecco, 07/07/2026
Virgil Wounded Horse is desperately trying to escape his past as a hired vigilante on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. But when a legendary figure from...
more
You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
by
Rachel Aviv
Knopf, 07/07/2026
You Won't Get Free of It tells the stories of mothers and daughters searching for each other (and for themselves). With uncanny depth of perception, ...
more
Across the Widest Sea
by
Jean Cremers
Maverick, 07/14/2026
Abandoned in the middle of the ocean by her parents to learn to fend for herself, Léonie must find dry land. She meets Balthazar, a teenager ...
more
Ada
by
Mark Haber
Coffee House Press, 07/14/2026
In a remote country in Europe, Gerard Desacroux IV, petty tyrant and French nationalist, wants nothing more than to be reunited with Ada, the object ...
more
Aging Out: An Exploration of Caregiving, Community, and How Americans Grow Old
by
Lucy Schiller
Flatiron Books, 07/14/2026
Unlike many other cultures, our collective stance toward older people in the United States has long been one of casual avoidance and neglect. This ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Air: A Novel
by
Christian Kracht
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 07/14/2026
Paul, a Swiss interior designer living alone in the remote Orkney Islands, receives an unusual commission from
Kuki, a prestigious design magazine: ...
more
Literary Fiction
All We Have Is Time: A Novel
by
Amy Tordoff
Atria Books, 07/14/2026
1605, London.Beatrix lives a solitary life in the shadows, wandering the city streets looking for ways to forget. Forget that everyone she has ever ...
more
Literary Fiction
Astronaut!: A Novel
by
Oana Aristide
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/14/2026
Romania, 1989, the twilight of Ceausescu's dictatorship: A time when every neighbor, every friend, every family member may be an informant for the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast
by
Pamela Colloff
Knopf, 07/14/2026
For more than three decades, Paul Skalnik roamed the Gulf Coast lying about who he was. He passed himself off as a fighter pilot, a high-rolling ...
more
Chosen Family: A Novel
by
Madeleine Gray
Mariner Books, 07/14/2026
Nell Argall and Eve Bowman are both brilliant, odd, and friendless. When they meet on the brutal battlefield that is their posh all girls' high school...
more
Cloudthief: A Novel
by
Nathaniel Rich
MCD, 07/14/2026
Forget banks, casinos, museums―society's most valuable treasure sits in the giant, anonymous data centers that power modern life. There, in ...
more
Conviction
by
Elizabeth H. Winthrop
Grove Press, 07/14/2026
Maggie is gone. And her mother, Ann, is reeling.
In the aftermath of 9/11, eleven-year-old Maggie's first instinct was rage. But when her parents ...
more
Data Empire: The Power of Information to Organize, Control, and Dominate
by
Roopika Risam
Harper, 07/14/2026
Historians have pointed to guns, germs, steel, religion, agriculture, and the female body as the engines of human history. But what do they all have ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Die for Me: A Novel
by
Shirlene Obuobi
Penguin Books, 07/14/2026
What my eyes are showing me can't be possible. Can't be real. Because if they are, then I have to accept that Julian Conrad has been alive for a very ...more
Dominion: The Silk and Iron Trilogy #1
by
Jean Kwok
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/14/2026
In a world divided into four rival Dominions, power is everything—and Rubi Morningtail has almost none. Three years after the Annihilation ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Everything to the Sea: A Novel
by
Alicia Upano
William Morrow, 07/14/2026
This is how the story goes: Jane will fall in love. And then all of this will vanish.
Home for one final summer, Jane is working and saving cash ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Famous Men: A Novel
by
Julie Buntin
Random House, 07/14/2026
The right book at the right time can change your life.
Will Miles is trapped. Trapped in tiny Greening, Michigan, where a toxic high school ...
more
Fierce Country: The Untold Story of Three Women Who Ignited America's Love for the Wild
by
Heather Hansman
Hanover Square Press, 07/14/2026
In the spring of 1945, when just a handful of people had been through the Grand Canyon in boats, Georgie White jumped into the river in just a ...
more
Hustle, Baby: A Novel
by
Priya Guns
Doubleday, 07/14/2026
It's hard enough to be a teenager at the turn of the millennium, and especially so for Dilo, who on top of juggling school and caring for her baby-...
more
It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories
by
Sigrid Nunez
Riverhead Books, 07/14/2026
Over the course of thirty years, Sigrid Nunez has become one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive voices, producing nine penetrating, profound ...
more
Lady X: A Novel
by
Molly Fader
Ballantine Books, 07/14/2026
Los Angeles, 2024. After learning that her A-List actor husband sent explicit photos to multiple girls on social media, Margot Cooper runs away from ...
more
Living, Together: Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection
by
Samantha Paige Rosen
Beacon Press, 07/14/2026
At age 29, when Samantha Paige Rosen made an unexpected move back home, she was surprised to find how much she loved living with her parents again. ...
more
Essays
Debut Author
Make Nice: A Novel
by
Ryan Effgen
Knopf, 07/14/2026
When the Pickford siblings arrive at The Grand Hotel—a nostalgic tourist paradise of horse-drawn carriages, muddled cocktails, and white ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Men Like Us: A Novel
by
Carson Markland
Algonquin Books, 07/14/2026
The seventh of nine children, he's long been overlooked by his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., who governs his children with the same firm hand that ...
more
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Misery's Wife: A Novel
by
Joan Tierney
Flatiron Books, 07/14/2026
Elixane lives in a village ravaged by waves, storms, and the encroaching forest. When she was too young to remember, her elder sisters each picked a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Our Knives Will Save Us: Dispatches from a White Mountain Apache Chef
by
Nephi Craig
Penguin Press, 07/14/2026
When Nephi Craig enrolled in the culinary program at Scottsdale Community College, it was out of necessity after a felony arrest led to a judge's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
People Watching in the Desert: A Novel
by
Cali Adeline
Harper, 07/14/2026
Sonny Magee has spent most of her life alone, finding comfort in quiet solitude and scribbling in the private pages of her notebook. She lost her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Please Don't Touch the Body: Stories
by
Emily Doyle
Bloomsbury Publishing, 07/14/2026
The 11 stories in
Please Don't Touch the Body are at once dry and comic, grounded and surreal as they play deftly with genre and expectation to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Should the Waters Take Us: A Novel
by
Stephanie Soileau
Doubleday, 07/14/2026
In the shifting bayous of coastal Louisiana, on a rapidly disappearing spit of land, generations of Acadians have kept their heads above water. When ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sisters of the Midnight Sun: A Murder in Arctic Alaska
by
Rebecca Wright Stevens
Counterpoint Press, 07/14/2026
Rebecca Wright is a defense attorney living in the Lower 48 when she suddenly finds herself a widow and an empty nester. In need of a radical change, ...
more
The Assassin's Guide to Dating
by
Natalie C. Parker
Candlewick Press, 07/14/2026
At the secretive Underhill agency for those with superhuman abilities, Tru and Lila—a virtually indestructible bastion and an explosive ...
more
The Cloak and Dagger Club: Cloak and Dagger Club Mysteries #1
by
Jackie McMahon
Berkley Books, 07/14/2026
London, 1930. Lucy Hubbard is on the cusp of achieving her dreams. With her first mystery novel debuting with strong sales and glowing reviews, she's ...
more
The Earth Said Remember Me: How to Revive Our Memories and Restore the Planet
by
Jason Dove Mark
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/14/2026
As the climate emergency worsens and biodiversity shrinks, we humans get used to it―we adapt, we normalize, we forget. Scientists call this "...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Forest Becomes Her
by
Julie Carrick Dalton
St. Martin's Press, 07/14/2026
In historic, bucolic Concord, Massachusetts, a centuries-old forest has been removed to make way for a new, eco-friendly housing development. The ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Half Life: A Novel
by
Rachel Beanland
Simon & Schuster, 07/14/2026
When twenty-three-year-old Eileen O'Malley meets charismatic naval officer Paul Archer in a Charleston department store, she doesn't expect to fall so...
more
The Haul: A Heist Novel
by
Gary Phillips
Soho Crime, 07/14/2026
After years of close calls, O'Conner—the former "Warlord of Willow Ridge"—spends most of his time in semi-retirement, running his ...
more
The Intrigue
by
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Del Rey, 07/14/2026
Handsome con artist Ulises has long charmed lonely women via letters in order to steal their money, but money is hard to come by in 1940s Mexico. ...
more
The Parisian Heist: A Novel
by
Jo Piazza
Dutton, 07/14/2026
Emma, a struggling American artist in Paris, thought she had left her dreams behind when she took a job cleaning for the city's wealthy elite. Then ...
more
The Renoir Girls: A Hidden History of Art, War, and Betrayal
by
Catherine Ostler
Atria Books, 07/14/2026
Paris, 1881. The artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir knocks on the door of a wealthy Jewish family's home in the 8th arrondissement, the grandest quarter of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy
by
Lauren Collins
Penguin Press, 07/14/2026
After the Civil War, Reconstruction ushered in an era of political equality and economic opportunity for Black people, and it lasted longer in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
To Dance the Moon and Stars: A Graphic Novel
by
Tasia M S, Barbara Perez Marquez
Joy Revolution, 07/14/2026
Eighteen-year-old Myra has spent her entire life training to succeed her grandmother as high priestess. But with her ascension rapidly approaching, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide
by
Eyal Weizman
Penguin Press, 07/14/2026
Eyal Weizman is one of the world's leading experts on the relationship between violence, conflict, and the built and natural environment. As director ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Up All Night: A World History of Nightlife
by
Imogen Willetts
Grove Press, 07/14/2026
There is a specific energy to it. Cafes and shops close their shutters. Darkness descends. "The air begins to tingle," wrote John Dos Passos of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Armor for Liars
by
S. E. Grove
Simon & Schuster, 07/21/2026
In a world where magic is drawn from the realm of the dead, enchanters—always men—go to great lengths to steal it. Voyaging to the spirit ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Blood Gilt
by
Jessica Housand
Little Studios Films Publishing Company, 07/21/2026
Alejandro Whitmore Santiago is the reluctant heir to a criminal dynasty forged through war, influence, and bloodshed. Displaced by El Salvador's civil...
more
Literary Fiction
Cool Machine: The Harlem Trilogy #3
by
Colson Whitehead
Doubleday, 07/21/2026
1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by rampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained ...
more
Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America
by
Kim Phillips-Fein
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/21/2026
We think of the United States as a nation committed, at least on paper, to ideals of human equality, under God and/or under the law. But as robust as ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dooneen
by
Keith Ridgway
New Directions Publishing, 07/21/2026
Bartholomew Port, known to all as Mew, steps into the bushes in a London park and steps out of the bushes in a Dublin one. Not only that―there ...
more
Give Me Everything You've Got: A Novel
by
Imogen Crimp
Henry Holt and Company, 07/21/2026
In the midst of an unrelenting heat wave, up-and-coming filmmaker Ruby arrives at the summer home of her idol. Ellen, an iconoclastic feminist ...
more
Literary Fiction
Henry Tudor Must Die
by
Jillian Laine
Berkley Books, 07/21/2026
Anne Boleyn is going to die, and neither her cleverness nor her witchery can save her. So when her late rival, Catalina de Aragón, miraculously ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
How to Kill a Crime Writer
by
Sarah Lotz
Berkley Books, 07/21/2026
After the tragic death of bestselling crime writer Annie Morrisey, her daughter, Niamh, moves into her mother's country cottage to take care of her ...
more
Mysteries
Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes from Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown
by
Roberta Kwok
Sourcebooks, 07/21/2026
In
Lost in Curiosity, award-winning journalist Roberta Kwok pulls back the curtain on what scientific discovery actually looks like… Not a ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Lovecraft's Brood: Nineteen Tales of Cosmic Horror
by
Ellen Datlow
Tachyon Publications, 07/21/2026
A prison guard and a convict have an affair fueled by the hallucinations of fungal spores. Squatters arrive in a weird train station, where they ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Promise Me Never: A Novel
by
Liv Constantine
Bantam Books, 07/21/2026
Aspiring writer Savannah's scheme to meet superstar horror novelist Bennett Bryson turns out better than she ever imagined: not only does her charming...
more
Thrillers
Salvage: A Graphic Novel
by
Renée Nault
Forgotten Books, 07/21/2026
Paolo lives in the Flats, a dangerous, water-logged community where families survive by salvaging materials from skyscrapers hidden just beneath the ...
more
Graphic Novels
Tenderness: A Novel
by
Rowan Beaird
Flatiron Books, 07/21/2026
On a remote island off the coast of Virginia, family and friends gather to celebrate the wedding of Shay O'Connor and Andrew Pruitt. From the moment ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Biggest Lie: The Prehistory of American Fascism, 1818-1915
by
Joseph Kelly
Bloomsbury Publishing, 07/21/2026
When American fascists suddenly goosestepped down Main Street in the 1930s, fascism was seen by the rest of the country as a terrifying and ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory
by
Emily Eakin
Penguin Press, 07/21/2026
When Emily Eakin arrived at Harvard in the late 1980s, she fell under the spell of an eclectic body of philosophical texts by a handful of French ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The New People: A Novel
by
Andrea Uptmor
Little Brown & Company, 07/21/2026
Months after the housing bubble bursts, newlywed Chicagoans Emma and Rachel move into a charming little house in a conservative Indiana college town, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Shadow Step: A Detective Miller Novel
by
Mark Billingham
Atlantic Crime, 07/21/2026
The Shadow Step: One taken simultaneously by a pair of dancers facing the same direction, one of them behind and slightly shifted leftwards ("in the ...more
Thrillers
The Story Keeper: A Gothic Mystery of Family Secrets Unveiled Across Three Timelines
by
Kelly Rimmer
Graydon House, 07/21/2026
When a curious book,
The Midnight Estate, catches her attention in her late uncle's library, Fiona is plunged into a tale that mirrors her own—a...
more
Historical Fiction
The Talking Bone: A Novel
by
Rene Denfeld
Harper, 07/21/2026
Ruby Spencer is known as "the exonerator." Her job as an investigator is to free innocent men from death row, and she's good at what she does. What ...
more
Thrillers
The Winter Folk
by
Jen Julian
Run For It, 07/21/2026
This is the story of Moth, who earned her name working for the Winter Folk.
Every year, the mythical Winter Folk gather at a secret lodge, a place ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Thighs Wide Shut: A Novel
by
Hayley Fleming
Dial Press Trade Paperbacks, 07/21/2026
Emma thought her late twenties couldn't get more complicated. But then she quit her teaching job and moved across the country—only to find ...
more
Romance
Debut Author
Three Reasons for Revenge: A Novel
by
Dervla McTiernan
William Morrow, 07/21/2026
Someone's watching. Someone's waiting.
Alexis Turner walks into the police station to report an assault. By the end of the day, she is nowhere to ...
more
Thrillers
Tides of Fortune: Storm Weaver #2
by
Lauryn Hamilton Murray
Roaring Brook Press, 07/21/2026
Having survived three treacherous trials to win her crown, Blaze is soon to become Queen of the Aquatori. However, before she can take the throne, she...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Tin Can Coast: A History of Industry, Greed, and Fishing in the Golden State
by
Joseph Ogilvy
Bloomsbury Publishing, 07/21/2026
Look west from San Francisco or Monterey, past the surfers and cargo ships. This is the California Current, 1,900 miles of the most productive waters ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Unsayable: A Life in Writing
by
Michael Cunningham
Random House, 07/21/2026
Go ahead. Try using language to slit the skin of mortality to see what's on the other side.
At the age of three, Michael Cunningham began ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Yellow Pine: A Novel
by
Claire Vaye Watkins
Riverhead Books, 07/21/2026
In her homestead deep in the Mojave, Rose has found a way to live "on the other side of the portal," with an intentionality that's brought her hard-...
more
Literary Fiction
All That's Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir
by
Emilee Hackney
Penguin Books, 07/28/2026
Born and raised deep in the hollers of the Appalachian Mountains, Emilee Hackney knew little beyond the ridgelines and coalfields of southwest ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Beginning Middle End: A Novel
by
Valeria Luiselli
Knopf, 07/28/2026
Valeria Luiselli's novel opens the morning a mother and her teenage daughter arrive in Sicily, during a summer of rapidly-changing winds, volcanic ...
more
Black Point
by
Jacqueline West
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 07/28/2026
Lucia Sorenson holds on hard to the things she loves. Her tiny hometown clings to the bluffs above the Mississippi River, threatened by weather and ...
more
Thrillers
Evamar
by
Margarita Engle
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 07/28/2026
Just before she was transformed
into an invisible spirit
my grandmother whispered her last wishes
into my ear:
Sprinkle my ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Evie and Her Nightmares
by
Francesca Zappia
Greenwillow Books, 07/28/2026
Without her best friend by her side, nothing feels important to Evie Leigh. Running on the track team isn't worth the effort, none of her other ...
more
Literary Fiction
Fishbone Cinderella: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Lim
Del Rey, 07/28/2026
1940s Hong Kong
When Japanese soldiers invade her hometown, Ha Yut Ying makes an unlikely escape—by turning invisible. But her miraculous ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Five
by
César Aira
New Directions Publishing, 07/28/2026
Five, selected from over 100 untranslated novels and stories by "the Duchamp of Latin America" (Natasha Wimmer), brings together―each an ...
more
Literary Fiction
Flickerstate
by
F. A. Davidson
Sourcebooks Fire, 07/28/2026
Norah Sullivan has just discovered she's a navigator: a person who can manipulate probability. The same day Norah's navigation manifests, she and her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Furious Violet: A Novel
by
Sarai Walker
Harper, 07/28/2026
Violet "West" Shelley has unwillingly spent her life in the spotlight as the only daughter of a legendary poet and feminist icon who died tragically ...
more
Harbour of Hungry Ghosts: Chronicles of the Yiugwai Hunters #1
by
Eliza Chan
Orbit, 07/28/2026
The Au family serve the people of Hong Kong: blessing shrines, honouring the dead and dealing with dangerous monster incursions. The expectations on ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
I Made You Up Inside My Head: A Novel
by
Marta Pérez-Carbonell
Riverhead Books, 07/28/2026
On an overnight train from London to Edinburgh, a translator becomes engrossed in the stories of the strangers who share her compartment. One has ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Lovers of the Empire: Vol. 1
by
Yudori
Takumigraphics, 07/28/2026
South Korea, 1929. Arisa Jo, the daughter of a wealthy merchant, is the most eligible bachelorette in all of Gyeongsung (the capital city). With her ...
more
Graphic Novels
Meet Me in Paris: A Novel
by
Kristin Harmel
Gallery Books, 07/28/2026
Nine Americans in Paris. Seven intertwined love stories. One City of Light.
Love Actually meets
The Notebook in a tale of love, loss, and finding ...
more
Literary Fiction
Shrink Solves Murder: Her three o'clock just became a murder case ...
by
Philippa Perry
Crown, 07/28/2026
Living in picturesque coastal Sussex, Patricia Philipps enjoys her quiet life—walking the cliffs, shouting at poorly disciplined dog owners, ...
more
Mysteries
The Night Hunter
by
Natalie Moss
Berkley Books, 07/28/2026
When their conservationist mother passes, Danielle and her estranged sister Grace must return to their isolated family house nestled within a wild-...
more
Thrillers
The Obsessed
by
Lizzie Buehler
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/28/2026
Astrid is obsessed with the Russian American novelist Sofiya Sova, whose life trajectory serendipitously parallels Astrid's own and whose writing ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Red Earth: A Novel
by
Morgana Kretzmann
HarperVia, 07/28/2026
On the lush Brazil-Argentina border, whispers of greed run deep, finally having come to claim the last sanctuary. A hydroelectric dam promises ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness
by
Cal Flyn
Viking, 07/28/2026
From the black sand beaches of Iceland, to river crossings deep in the Amazon jungle, to the barren beauty of Antarctica, wildernesses make up some of...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
The Winds of Maracaibo: A Novel
by
María Elena Morán
Knopf, 07/28/2026
It was too late, y la ternura no basta—now that she'd tasted the gunpowder, and the gunpowder was bolivariano, revolutionary. And that ...more
Literary Fiction
When Mikan Road Was Ours: A Novel
by
D.K. Furutani
Atria Books, 07/28/2026
Amidst a sweltering Los Angeles heat wave, Murano, a reclusive high school English teacher, is muddling through life. Reeling from his father's sudden...
more
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
You Only Live Twice
by
Autumn Allen
Kokila, 07/28/2026
Barely one week into senior year of high school, Boston native Zakiyyah is making her 2012-2013 Get Free Plan.
Step one: quit high school. (PSA: ...
more
Inspiration from 9,000 Miles Away: An Improbable Gift, a Resilient Cuisine, and Life Lessons Learned
by
Meena Cheng
Impact 9000 LLC, 07/30/2026
For me, it arrived at 5 a.m. on a winter morning, crossing oceans and time from 9,000 miles away to find me — in a voice I had never heard, ...
more
Biography/Memoir
All We Hide
by
Robyn Gigl
Soho Crime, 08/04/2026
When Lieutenant Lauren Kelly is exiled to the Homicide Cold Case Unit at the DA's office, she knows her superiors are sticking her there as punishment...
more
Thrillers
Appraisals: A Novel
by
Claire Boyles
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/04/2026
Maggie Brandt, a third-generation farmer, is cultivating a few acres of organic vegetables in rural Colorado—a place where industrial farming ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Awake Awake: A Novel
by
Fiona Mozley
Algonquin Books, 08/04/2026
A writer in her 30s struggling to make rent, Mary has moved back to her childhood town to bartend and save money, when she starts remembering absurd ...
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Literary Fiction
Etna: A Novel
by
Paul Yoon
Scribner, 08/04/2026
Set in a fictional country in the present day, this is a story told through the eyes of an ex-military dog, Etna. After surviving years of a ...
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Everything That Is Beautiful: A Novel
by
Louise Nealon
Harper, 08/04/2026
For Niamh Ryan, the Foleys are family. Her childhood flew by on their farm, playing with her best friend Peter and his sister Kate—while being ...
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Literary Fiction
Find My Way Down to You
by
Julian Winters
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 08/04/2026
Eighteen-year-old August is trying to navigate life after the sudden death of his boyfriend left him devastated, aimless, and feeling guilty. Years ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Local Gods
by
Melinda Salisbury
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 08/04/2026
When a bone-white crow lands in Sylvie Singer's backyard, she knows trouble is coming. And after an FBI raid reveals her father's double life, Sylvie'...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Majestic Hills: A Novel
by
Dawn Turner
Scribner, 08/04/2026
Tired of the daily drama in his emergency room, Dr. Langdon Blaque is in search of a place where he can leave the world behind. He loves his job and ...
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Literary Fiction
Meet Me in the Garden: A Novel
by
Nina LaCour
Flatiron Books, 08/04/2026
New Orleans, 1944. Odette has always been one of the Honore sisters, glamorous and admired in their Creole community. But while Odette's older sisters...
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Literary Fiction
Plant Lady
by
Kang Minyoung
Berkley Books, 08/04/2026
Tucked away in the corner of a neighborhood in Dosan, South Korea, is the Plant Shop. Shop owner Yoohee has started anew, and her meticulously grown ...
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Thrillers
Queen Mab: A Novel
by
Emily McBride
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/04/2026
There is a changeling in this story―but who is it?
Madeleine is young for motherhood, a promising grad student in Victorian and modernist ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Soft Spots: A Novel
by
Leila Renee
Amistad, 08/04/2026
After miraculously securing a teaching job at a dysfunctional high school, loner Robin moves to South Bend, Indiana, where she's paired with an eerily...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sunlight Finds You: A Novel
by
Laura Moriarty
Riverhead Books, 08/04/2026
It's 1949, early in the Cold War, but St. Petersburg, Florida, is warm and lush. For seventeen-year-old Nora, it's paradise, especially after she ...
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Literary Fiction
The Amateur: A Novel
by
Chris Bohjalian
Doubleday, 08/04/2026
1978: It is the first Thursday in August and temperatures are flirting with ninety when Mira Winston, eighteen years old, drives a golf ball from her ...
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The Seekers of Deer Creek: A Novel
by
Thao Thai
Mariner Books, 08/04/2026
Aside from the fact they are sisters, Vivi and Calla Nguyễn have little in common.
Vivi, the eldest, lives an orderly and predictable life. ...
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Literary Fiction
The Wound Is Where the Light Enters: A Memoir of Resilience
by
Chris Young
Little Brown & Company, 08/04/2026
If our world were more just, Chris Young would have been crossing a stage at college graduation at the age of 22. Instead, he was marched into a ...
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Biography/Memoir
Three Rivers: The Extraordinary Waterways that Created Europe
by
Robert Winder
Pegasus Books, 08/04/2026
Three of Europe's greatest rivers share the same geological cradle: one fertile patch of Alpine ice in the jagged heights of central Switzerland. ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Time Travel for Beginners
by
Jaclyn Moriarty
Berkley Books, 08/04/2026
On a bustling road in Sydney, Australia, lies a nondescript storefront known simply as the Time Travel Agency. Inside, you'll be welcomed by the smell...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Whenever You Are
by
Martine Leavitt
Groundwood Books, 08/04/2026
Two teens in juvenile detention may have found a way to free themselves ― not just from their cells, but from the mistakes that got them locked ...
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A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving: Lessons on Love, Care, and Survival: A Memoir
by
Virginia Eubanks
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/11/2026
Only if you are a very able swimmer trained in open-water rescue should you approach drowning victims ... Reach with a rope or branch, rowout and ...more
Biography/Memoir
A Tender Age: A Novel
by
Chang-rae Lee
Riverhead Books, 08/11/2026
A spellbinding exploration of American masculinity and family dynamics as seen through the confused eyes of a prepubescent child of immigrants,
A ...more
Dreamland
by
Olivie Blake
Tor Books, 08/11/2026
The headlines are calling it the "summer of exsanguination" in LA―girls are being murdered, the Santa Ana winds are blowing a strange energy ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Mia: A Novel
by
Leslie Bazzett
Scribner, 08/11/2026
There's no one, there's only you.
When Sally, an American living in San Miguel de Allende, meets Louise outside her children's school, she's ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
My Person
by
Téa Mutonji
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/11/2026
Best friends of over twenty years, Tania and Margot are preparing to host their monthly Sunday Loaf dinner party, when Tania tells Margot this isn't ...
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Literary Fiction
Night Songs: A Novel
by
Alli Dyer
Atria Books, 08/11/2026
On the morning of Rhea's eighteenth birthday, she makes a shocking discovery—her mother was the famed singer of some of country music's most ...
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Literary Fiction
Such Great Heights
by
Rajani LaRocca
Quill Tree Books, 08/11/2026
Part of the reason Siya joins her school's mock trial team is to honor the memory of her mother, a lawyer who was killed in a car accident when Siya ...
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Literary Fiction
Sunrise: A Novel
by
Téa Obreht
Random House, 08/11/2026
In 2024, Nina's small-engine plane crashes into a lake in the Wyoming mountains. Her boyfriend Ben, who was flying it, is nowhere to be found. Lost ...
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The Hill in the Dark Grove: A Novel
by
Liam Higginson
Hogarth Books, 08/11/2026
Carwyn and his wife, Rhian, have lived a quiet life as sheep farmers in the remote Welsh mountains for decades, tending to ancestral land that has ...
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Literary Fiction
The Responsible Party: A Novel
by
Claire Carusillo
Henry Holt and Company, 08/11/2026
Claire grew up with the legend of the Unsinkable Mounsey Women. Her great-great-grandmother Fanny made headlines in 1915 for washing ashore in England...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Witches of Cambridge: A Novel
by
Alice Hoffman
Scribner, 08/11/2026
Once upon a time, women were drowned in the river and the only witnesses were the crows in the trees. The Puritans blamed Eve for the sins of the ...more
Historical Fiction
Suffer a Witch: A Memoir
by
Joy McCullough
Dutton for Young Readers, 08/18/2026
Joy McCullough's earliest memories are of time spent in church, moments when she climbed the steps to recite from the pulpit, just like her preacher ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Salt King: A Novel
by
Natasha Pulley
Bloomsbury Publishing, 08/18/2026
Jesuit priest Avelyn Brocken was born into a mining family in Hreodwater, a small, totally isolated salt town in the Fens of England. At age 16, he ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Unprecedented Times: A Novel
by
Malavika Kannan
Henry Holt and Company, 08/18/2026
Which comes first: experience or narrative? Rishi thinks she knows the answer as she arrives on campus for her first year at Stanford. A burnt-out ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Dèy: A Novel
by
Edwidge Danticat
Knopf, 08/25/2026
"Is home the place where we are born? Or is it the place where we die?" These questions haunt Magnolia, a successful Haitian American real estate ...
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Literary Fiction
Life of M: A Novel
by
Rachel Cusk
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/25/2026
M is a famous actor. She has been famous since she was a child. With such fame, her life has the appearance of freedom: people are instantly obliging,...
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Literary Fiction
The Anniversary: A Novel
by
Andrea Bajani
Other Press, 08/25/2026
Can you leave your family behind? Can you slam the door, walk down the stairs, and decide never to see them again? Can you ever escape the grip of ...
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Literary Fiction
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time?and How to Fix It
by
Annie Lowrey
Ecco, 08/25/2026
Everyone knows that dealing with government bureaucracy can be a nightmare. Doing your taxes is bad enough, but for those applying for financial aid, ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
They Say a Girl Died Here: A Novel
by
Sarah Pinborough
Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar, 08/25/2026
Anna Maybourne never imagined herself living in a place like Harper's Creek, a nowhere town full of dusty farmland plagued by drought. It's supposed ...
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Thrillers
