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  • Book Jacket: House of Beth
    House of Beth
    Kerry Cullen
    Published 7/15/25

    A haunting and seductive tale of a young career woman who slides quickly into the role of stepmother, in a life that may still belong to someone else. "Vivid, addictive, and ...
  • Book Jacket: I DON'T KNOW HOW TO TELL YOU THIS
    I DON'T KNOW HOW TO TELL YOU THIS
    Marian Thurm
    Published 7/15/25

    A complex family drama with a Manhattan family court judge at its center.
  • Book Jacket: If You Love It, Let It Kill You
    If You Love It, Let It Kill You
    Hannah Pittard
    Published 7/15/25

    A refreshingly irreverent novel about art, desire, domesticity, freedom, and the intricacies of the twenty-first-century female experience, by the acclaimed writer Hannah ...

Publishing Soon

  • Book Jacket: That Last Carolina Summer
    That Last Carolina Summer
    Karen White
    Published 7/22/25

    Beloved New York Times bestselling author Karen White returns with a brand-new contemporary stand-alone novel about sisterhood, secrets and one woman's reckoning with the past...
  • Book Jacket: Pan
    Pan
    Michael Clune
    Published 7/22/25

    A strange and brilliant teenager's first panic attacks lead him down the rabbit hole in this wild, highly anticipated debut novel from one of our most distinctive literary ...
  • Book Jacket: Sisters of Fortune
    Sisters of Fortune
    Esther Chehebar
    Published 7/22/25

    In this hilarious, heart-warming debut novel, three Syrian Jewish sisters chase love and grapple with the growing pains of young womanhood as they seek their place within and ...

First Impressions: Readers Recommend

  • Book Jacket: Angelica
    Angelica
    Molly Beer
    Published 7/1/25

    A women-centric view of revolution through the life of Angelica Schuyler Church, Alexander Hamilton's influential sister-in-law.
  • Book Jacket: The Original
    The Original
    Nell Stevens
    Published 7/1/25

    In a grand English country house in 1899, an aspiring art forger must unravel whether the man claiming to be her long-lost cousin is an impostor.
  • Book Jacket: The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant
    The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant
    Liza Tully
    Published 7/8/25

    A great detective's young assistant yearns for glory, but first they have learn to get along in this delightful feel good mystery.

Latest "Beyond the Book" Articles

  • Miranda July: The Essential Works
    Beyond the book article for All Fours
    Miranda July is an artist who works successfully in multiple mediums, perhaps equally well-known for her films and her fiction. Born in 1974 in Barre, Vermont, and raised in Berkeley, California, July dropped out of college in her early twenties and moved to Portland, Oregon, where she began ...
  • Flag Bearers of the Civil War
    Beyond the book article for How to Dodge a Cannonball
    Anders, the protagonist of Dennard Dayle's How to Dodge a Cannonball, describes himself as a 'flag-twirler': he twirls flags for the Union, then the Confederacy, then the Union again. Throughout the novel, Anders name-drops increasingly baroque flag-twirling maneuvers, including the Sumter Two-Step,...
  • A Percival Everett Starter List
    Beyond the book article for Erasure
    Percival Everett's 2001 novel Erasure was adapted for film as American Fiction in 2023, leading to director Cord Jefferson's Oscar win for Best Adapted Screenplay. The year after, Everett's new novel James scooped up major awards, including the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. While these...

New in Hardcover

  • Book Jacket: The Bewitching
    The Bewitching
    Silvia Moreno-Garcia
    Published 7/15/25

    Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.
  • Book Jacket: Archive of Unknown Universes
    Archive of Unknown Universes
    Ruben Reyes
    Published 7/1/25

    From the author of There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven, a piercing debut novel following two families in alternative timelines of the Salvadoran civil war—a stunning ...
  • Book Jacket: Hot Girls with Balls
    Hot Girls with Balls
    Benedict Nguyen
    Published 7/1/25

    In this outrageous and deeply serious satire, two star indoor volleyball players juggle unspoken jealousies in their off-court romance ahead of their rival teams' first ...

New in Paperback

  • Book Jacket: Colored Television
    Colored Television
    Danzy Senna
    Published 7/15/25

    A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial- identity-industrial complex from the bestselling author of Caucasia.
  • Book Jacket: A Sorceress Comes to Call
    A Sorceress Comes to Call
    T. Kingfisher
    Published 7/15/25

    From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes A Sorceress Comes to Call―a dark reimagining of the Brothers Grimm's The Goose Girl, ...
  • Book Jacket: The Coin
    The Coin
    Yasmin Zaher
    Published 7/15/25

    A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags, and ...

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