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Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming
by Abdelrahman ElGendy
Hogarth Books, 09/01/2026
 
In 2013, two years after the January 25 revolution, seventeen-year-old Abdelrahman ElGendy was a budding student activist in Cairo. Hope for a free ...more
Biography/Memoir
The Pirate Queen
by Ariel Lawhon
Doubleday, 09/08/2026
 
Grace O'Malley was born to be a sea captain. But despite her natural skill on the water, Grace learns early that her dreams of a life at the helm are ...more
Literary Fiction
Exit Party: A Novel
by Emily St. John Mandel
Knopf, 09/15/2026
 
Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city, the Jacaranda trees blossom, ...more
Literary Fiction
American Hagwon
by Min Jin Lee
Cardinal, 09/29/2026
 
In schools and churches, hotel rooms and nail salons, law firms and fried-fish shops; in cramped, dingy apartments and luxury, gated communities, the ...more
Literary Fiction
Lady of Uncanny Charms (Whimbrel House)
by Charlie N. Holmberg
47North, 09/29/2026
 
Owein arrives in England to marry Lady Cora of Leiningen, his dearest friend and confidante he's known mostly through letters. However, Queen Victoria...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Sweet Pea
by Kit de Waal
St. Martin's Griffin, 11/03/2026
 
When Paulette arrived on English shores as a young girl, she left behind a grandmother in St. Kitts who called her "Sweet Pea," taught her to cook, ...more
Literary Fiction
Notes on Postcards: A Memoir
by Jennifer Croft
Catapult, 11/10/2026
 
Postcards have accompanied Jennifer Croft throughout her life, providing comfort, beauty, humor, and inspiration. When she left her hometown for the ...more
Biography/Memoir
The Conversions of Edward Gibbon: A Modern Biography
by Martha Saxton
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/24/2026
 
The Enlightenment-era, six-volume epic The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is to history what In Search of Lost Time is to fiction...more
Biography/Memoir
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