The best recent hardcover books, each with an excerpt, reviews, author information and more.
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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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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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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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This Is Your Mother: A Memoir
by Erika J. Simpson
Hardcover: May 2025
From "a writer who's absolutely going places" (Roxane Gay), a remarkable, inventive debut memoir about a mother-daughter relationship across cycles of poverty, separation, and illness, exploring how we forge identity in the face of imminent loss.
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Are You Happy?: Stories
by Lori Ostlund
Hardcover: May 2025
Nine exquisite stories that explore class, desire, identity, and the specter of violence that looms daily over women and the LGBTQ+ community.
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The Names: A Novel
by Florence Knapp
Hardcover: May 2025
The extraordinary novel that asks: Can a name change the course of a life?
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Old School Indian: A Novel
by Aaron John Curtis
Hardcover: May 2025
A coming-of-middle-age novel about an Ahkwesáhsne man's reluctant return home and what it takes to heal.
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So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs--and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease
by Thomas Levenson
Hardcover: Apr 2025
The centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease reveals as much about human reasoning—and the pitfalls of ego—as it does about microbes.
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The Accidentals: Stories
by Guadalupe Nettel
Hardcover: Apr 2025
From the International Booker Shortlisted author of Still Born, a powerful collection of stories about characters coping with estrangement, isolation, and the unknown.
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Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown
by Candace Fleming
Hardcover: Apr 2025
How did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more than 900 of his followers to commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced punch? From a master of narrative nonfiction comes a chilling chronicle of one of the most notorious ...
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Julie Chan Is Dead: A Novel
by Liann Zhang
Hardcover: Apr 2025
In this razor-sharp, diabolical debut thriller, a young woman steps into her deceased twin's influencer life, only to discover dark secrets hidden behind her social media façade.
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