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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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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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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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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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 Reimagining of Thornwood House
by
Jaleigh Johnson
Ace Books, 06/09/2026
Evelyn Sharpe is accustomed to dealing with natural disasters as a land witch, but she longs for a life with a little less danger for her and her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Traveler
by
Joseph Eckert
Tor Books, 06/09/2026
It's a day like any other when Scott Treder first jumps forward through time. One moment, he's on his way to work, fingers drumming the steering wheel...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
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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History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Year of Marvelous Ways
by
Sarah Winman
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/16/2026
Marvelous Ways has lived alone alongside a winding creek near the rugged Cornwall coast for nearly all her life, and has recently taken to spending ...
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Historical Fiction
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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Literary Fiction
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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Biography/Memoir
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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Graphic Novels
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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Literary Fiction
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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Literary Fiction
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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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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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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Essays
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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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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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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Thrillers
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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Thrillers
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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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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Literary Fiction
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
Short Stories
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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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Missed Connection
by
Tia Williams
Grand Central Publishing, 06/16/2026
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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Romance
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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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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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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Biography/Memoir
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 ...
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Biography/Memoir
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
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
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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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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Literary Fiction
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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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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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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Essays
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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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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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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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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Biography/Memoir
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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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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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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History, Current Affairs and Religion
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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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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Literary Fiction
Five
by
César Aira
New Directions Publishing, 06/30/2026
Five, selected from over 100 untranslated novels and stories by "the Duchamp of Latin America" (Natasha Wimmer), brings together―each an ...
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Literary Fiction
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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Short Stories
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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Literary Fiction
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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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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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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Thrillers
Sex on Murder Island: Luella van Horn Mysteries #2
by
Jo Firestone
Bantam Books, 06/30/2026
Marie Jones has hit rock bottom. Just three months ago, her crime solving alter-ego Luella van Horn cracked the case of a murdered contestant on the ...
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Mysteries
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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Thrillers
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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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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Literary Fiction
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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Literary Fiction
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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Thrillers
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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Mysteries
