The best recent hardcover books, each with an excerpt, reviews, author information and more.
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UnWorld: A Novel
by Jayson Greene
Hardcover: Jun 2025
From the author of Once More We Saw Stars comes a gripping novel about four intertwined lives that collide in the wake of a mysterious tragedy. Set in a near-future world where the boundaries between human and AI blur, the story challenges our ...
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How to Dodge a Cannonball: A Novel
by Dennard Dayle
Hardcover: Jun 2025
A cutting, revealing caricature of the American Civil War, told through the eyes of a white teenager who joins an all-Black regiment of soldiers, for fans of Colson Whitehead and James McBride.
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These Heathens: A Novel
by Mia McKenzie
Hardcover: Jun 2025
In this vibrant, gratifying novel, a pious, small-town teenager travels to Atlanta to get an abortion and finds herself smack in the middle of the civil rights movement and the secret lives of queer Black people.
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So Far Gone: A Novel
by Jess Walter
Hardcover: Jun 2025
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins—and in the propulsive spirit of Charles Portis' True Grit—comes a hilarious, empathetic, and brilliantly provocative adventure through life in modern America, about a ...
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
by Victoria E. Schwab
Hardcover: Jun 2025
From V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger.
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Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
by Caroline Fraser
Hardcover: Jun 2025
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Prairie Fires comes a terrifying true-crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond—a gripping investigation of how a new strain of psychopath emerged out of a toxic ...
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Flashlight: A Novel
by Susan Choi
Hardcover: Jun 2025
A novel tracing a father's disappearance across time, nations, and memory, from the author of Trust Exercise.
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Atmosphere: A Love Story
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Hardcover: Jun 2025
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s Space Shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love ...
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Endling: A Novel
by Maria Reva
Hardcover: Jun 2025
Set in Ukraine, an eccentric scientist breeding rare snails crosses paths with sisters posing as members of the marriage industry to find their activist mother. As Russia invades, they embark on a wild journey with kidnapped bachelors and a last-of-...
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The Slip: A Novel
by Lucas Schaefer
Hardcover: Jun 2025
For readers of Jonathan Franzen and Nathan Hill comes a haymaker of an American novel about a missing teenage boy, cases of fluid and mistaken identity, and the transformative power of boxing.
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Meet Me at the Crossroads: A Novel
by Megan Giddings
Hardcover: Jun 2025
From the award-winning, critically-acclaimed author of Lakewood and The Women Could Fly, a dazzling novel about two brilliant sisters and what happens to their undeniable bond when a mysterious and possibly perilous new world beckons.
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Meet Me at the Crossroads: A Novel
by Megan Giddings
Hardcover: Jun 2025
From the award-winning, critically-acclaimed author of Lakewood and The Women Could Fly, a dazzling novel about two brilliant sisters and what happens to their undeniable bond when a mysterious and possibly perilous new world beckons.
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The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
by Melissa Febos
Hardcover: Jun 2025
From the national bestselling author of Girlhood, an examination of the solitude, freedoms, and feminist heroes Melissa Febos discovered during a year of celibacy. A wise and transformative look at relationships and self-knowledge.
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The True Happiness Company: A Memoir
by Veena Dinavahi
Hardcover: May 2025
In this darkly humorous and wrenchingly sincere memoir, a young Indian American woman's dreams of being a well-adjusted college student get wildly derailed when her struggles with mental health land her in the office of a charismatic alternative ...
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Spent: A Comic Novel
by Alison Bechdel
Hardcover: May 2025
The celebrated and beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Fun Home presents a laugh-out-loud, brilliant, and passionately political work of autofiction.
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Awake in the Floating City: A Novel
by Susanna Kwan
Hardcover: May 2025
An utterly transporting debut novel about the unexpected relationship between an artist and the 130-year-old woman she cares for—two of the last people living in a flooded San Francisco of the future, the home neither is ready to leave.
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So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color
by Caro De Robertis
Hardcover: May 2025
Award-winning novelist Caro De Robertis offers a first-of-its-kind, deeply personal, and moving oral history of a generation of queer and trans elders of color, from leading activists to artists to ordinary citizens to tell their stories of ...
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The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon's Enduring Impact on America
by Mark Whitaker
Hardcover: May 2025
Published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the first major study of Malcolm X's influence in the sixty years since his assassination, exploring his enduring impact on culture, politics, and civil rights.
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The Emperor of Gladness: A Novel
by Ocean Vuong
Hardcover: May 2025
Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
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My Friends: A Novel
by Fredrik Backman
Hardcover: May 2025
#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger's life twenty-five years later.
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