A Drop of Corruption: An Ana and Din Mystery (Shadow of the Leviathan #2)
by
Robert Jackson Bennett
Del Rey, 04/01/2025
In the canton of Yarrowdale, at the very edge of the Empire's reach, a Treasury officer has disappeared into thin air—vanishing from a room ...
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A Hole in the Story: A Novel
by
Ken Kalfus
Milkweed Editions, 04/01/2025
At his desk one day, prominent Washington commentator Adam Zweig receives a text message. "
Btw want to give you a heads-up abt some breaking news," it...
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A/S/L
by
Jeanne Thornton
Soho Press, 04/01/2025
1998: Lilith, Sash, and Abraxa are teenagers, scattered across the country but joined by the Internet. They are making
Saga of the Sorceress, a video ...
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Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World's Greatest Museum
by
Elaine Sciolino
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/01/2025
The Louvre is the most famous museum in the world, attracting millions of visitors every year with its masterpieces. In
Adventures in the Louvre, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
All That Life Can Afford
by
Emily Everett
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/01/2025
I would arrive, blank like a sheet of notebook paper, and write myself new.
Anna first fell in love with London at her hometown library—its...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Attila
by
Aliocha Coll
Open Letter, 04/01/2025
In this groundbreaking "untranslatable" work, he channels Joycean experimentalism to explore the fragility of empires, the future of the city, and the...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Bad Nature: A Novel
by
Ariel Courage
Henry Holt and Company, 04/01/2025
When Hester is diagnosed with terminal cancer on her fortieth birthday, she knows immediately what she must do: abandon her possessions and drive to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Cat's People: A Novel
by
Tanya Guerrero
Delacorte Press, 04/01/2025
Núria, a single-by-choice barista with a resentment for the "crazy cat lady" label, is a member of The Meow-Yorkers, a group in Brooklyn who ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Flesh: A Novel
by
David Szalay
Scribner, 04/01/2025
Teenaged István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. Shy and new in town, he is a stranger to the social rituals ...
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Gifted & Talented
by
Olivie Blake
Tor Books, 04/01/2025
Where there's a will, there's a war.
Thayer Wren, the brilliant CEO of Wrenfare Magitech and so-called father of modern technology, is dead. Any ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Holy Terrors: Little Thieves #3
by
Margaret Owen
Henry Holt and Company, 04/01/2025
As the
Pfennigeist, she bucks the law in order to help the desperate and haunt the corrupt all across the empire―and no matter what, she works ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Home of the Happy: A Murder on the Cajun Prairie
by
Jordan LaHaye Fontenot
Mariner Books, 04/01/2025
On January 16, 1983, Aubrey LaHaye's body was found floating in the Bayou Nezpique. His kidnapping ten days before sparked "the biggest manhunt in the...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Huda F Wants to Know?: A Graphic Novel
by
Huda Fahmy
Dial Books, 04/01/2025
Huda Fahmy is ready for junior year. She's got a plan to join all the clubs, volunteer everywhere, ace the ACTs, write the most awe-inspiring essay ...
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I See You've Called in Dead: A Novel
by
John Kenney
Zibby Books, 04/01/2025
Bud Stanley is an obituary writer who is afraid to live. Yes, his wife recently left him for a "far more interesting" man. Yes, he goes on a ...
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Literary Fiction
Insignificant Others: A Novel
by
Sarah Jio
William Morrow, 04/01/2025
What if you could have a second chance to say "yes" to the one who got away?
Lena Westbrook, a perfectionist and workaholic, has carefully planned...
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Romance
Messy Perfect
by
Tanya Boteju
Quill Tree Books, 04/01/2025
Cassie Perera is a star student in St. Luke's junior class. But the new school year brings an unwelcome surprise—the return to St. Luke's of ...
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Nine Minds: Inner Lives on the Spectrum
by
Daniel Tammet
The Experiment, 04/01/2025
Exploding the tired stereotypes of autism, Daniel Tammet―acclaimed author and an autistic savant himself―draws out the inner worlds of ...
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Our City That Year: A Novel
by
Geetanjali Shree
HarperVia, 04/01/2025
"
That year, in our city, Hindus abandoned their pacifism. We've run out of other cheeks to turn,
they proclaimed. We're helpless!
they screamed. They ...more
Literary Fiction
Rabbit Moon: A Novel
by
Jennifer Haigh
Little Brown & Company, 04/01/2025
Four years after their bitter divorce, Claire and Aaron Litvak get a phone call no parent is prepared for: their 22-year-old daughter Lindsey, ...
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Renegade Girls: A Queer Tale of Romance and Rabble-Rousing
by
Nora Neus
Little, Brown Ink, 04/01/2025
Seventeen-year-old Helena "Nell" Cusack came to New York this summer looking for a story—a real story. She dreams of one day writing hard-...
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Run Away With Me
by
Brian Selznick
Scholastic Press, 04/01/2025
"I'm going to call you Danny. What are you going to name me?"
"Angelo."
Danny is spending his sixteenth summer in Rome. As his mother spends the...
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Romance
Shots Heard Round the World: America, Britain, and Europe in the Revolutionary War
by
John Ferling
Bloomsbury Publishing, 04/01/2025
In April 1775, British troops marched to Lexington, where an armed group of Yankees awaited them. Despite an order to disperse, shots rang out. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Small Ceremonies: A Novel
by
Kyle Edwards
Pantheon Books, 04/01/2025
Word on the street is that this is the Tigers' last season. For Tomahawk "Tommy" Shields, an Indigenous, image-obsessed high school student from ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sour Cherry
by
Natalia Theodoridou
Tin House Books, 04/01/2025
The tale begins with Agnes. After losing her baby, Agnes is called to the great manor house to nurse the local lord's baby boy. But something is wrong...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Surreal: The Extraordinary Life of Gala Dali
by
Michele Gerber Klein
Harper, 04/01/2025
Using previously undiscovered material,
Surreal tells the riveting story of Gala Dalí, (1894-1982) who broke away from her cultured but penurious...
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The Beauty of the End: A Novel
by
Lauren Stienstra
Little A, 04/01/2025
Charlie Tannehill and her twin sister, Maggie, are just eight years old when an unfortunate scientific discovery upends their world―and the ...
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Literary Fiction
The Ephemera Collector: A Novel
by
Stacy Nathaniel Jackson
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 04/01/2025
In near-future Los Angeles, Xandria Brown works diligently as an archivist at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Descended ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Gatsby Gambit: A Novel
by
Claire Anderson Wheeler
Viking, 04/01/2025
Freshly twenty-one and sporting a daring new bob, Greta Gatsby--younger sister to the infamous Jay—is finally free of her dull finishing school,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Last American Road Trip
by
Sarah Kendzior
Flatiron Books, 04/01/2025
It is one thing to study the fall of democracy, another to have it hit your homeland — and yet another to raise children as it happens. The Last...
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The Railway Conspiracy: A Dee and Lao Mystery
by
SJ Rozan
Soho Press, 04/01/2025
London, 1924. Following several months abroad, Judge Dee Ren Jie has returned to the city to foil a transaction between a Russian diplomat and a ...
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The River Knows Your Name: A Novel
by
Kelly Mustian
Sourcebooks Landmark, 04/01/2025
For nearly thirty years, Nell has kept a childhood promise to never reveal what she and Evie found tucked inside a copy of
Jane Eyre in their mother's...
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Literary Fiction
The Scientist and the Serial Killer: The Search for Houston's Lost Boys
by
Lise Olsen
Random House, 04/01/2025
Houston, Texas, in the early 1970s was an exciting place—the home of NASA, the city of the future. But a string of missing teenage boys, many ...
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True Crime
The Snares: A Novel
by
Rav Grewal-Kök
Random House, 04/01/2025
"Are you happy where you are? Toiling in the trenches of the Justice Department?"
In the waning months of George W. Bush's presidency, Neel Chima...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Stars and Their Light: A Novel
by
Olivia Hawker
Lake Union Publishing, 04/01/2025
It's 1947 when Sister Mary Agnes arrives in New Mexico. Her mission is to establish a monastery in the town of Roswell, where weeks before rumors of ...
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Historical Fiction
The Usual Desire to Kill: A Novel
by
Camilla Barnes
Scribner, 04/01/2025
Miranda's parents live in a dilapidated house in rural France that they share with two llamas, eight ducks, five chickens, two cats, and a freezer ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer's Families and the Search for a Cure
by
Jennie Erin Smith
Riverhead Books, 04/01/2025
In the 1980s, a neurologist named Francisco Lopera traveled on horseback into the mountains seeking families with symptoms of dementia. For centuries,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine
by
Chris Hedges
Seven Stories Press, 04/08/2025
A Genocide Foretold confronts the stark realities of life under siege in Gaza and the heroic effort ordinary Palestinians are waging to resist and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Audition: A Novel
by
Katie Kitamura
Riverhead Books, 04/08/2025
Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She's an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He's attractive, troubling,...
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Authority: Essays
by
Andrea Long Chu
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/08/2025
Since her canonical 2017 essay "On Liking Women," the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself as a public ...
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Big Chief
by
Jon Hickey
Simon & Schuster, 04/08/2025
Mitch Caddo, a young law school graduate and aspiring political fixer, is an outsider in the homeland of his Anishinaabe ancestors. But alongside his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Don't Sleep with the Dead
by
Nghi Vo
Tordotcom, 04/08/2025
Nick Carraway―paper soldier and novelist―has found a life and a living watching the mad magical spectacle of New York high society in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Fearless: The Powerless Trilogy
by
Lauren Roberts
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 04/08/2025
Paedyn Gray and Kai Azer return to the Kingdom of Ilya…
And Paedyn has a life-altering choice to make. Whatever she decides will determine ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Forget the Camel: The Madcap World of Animal Festivals and What They Say about Being Human
by
Elizabeth MeLampy
Apollo Publishers, 04/08/2025
As the gates open at the racetrack in Virginia City, Nevada, three camels stumble out, ridden by amateur jockeys. A crowd of roaring spectators looks ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Hail Mary: Stories
by
Funmi Fetto
Harper, 04/08/2025
From a Nigerian migrant worker conned out of her earnings in London to a recently widowed housewife rediscovering her suppressed African heritage, a ...
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Short Stories
Happy Land
by
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Berkley Books, 04/08/2025
Nikki Berry hasn't seen her grandmother in years, due to a mysterious estrangement inherited from her mother. So when the elder calls out of the blue ...
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Make Sure You Die Screaming: A Novel
by
Zee Carlstrom
Flatiron Books, 04/08/2025
The newly nameless narrator of
Make Sure You Die Screaming has rejected the gender binary, has flamed out with a vengeance at their corporate gig, is ...
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Thrillers
My Documents: A Novel
by
Kevin Nguyen
One World, 04/08/2025
Ursula, Alvin, Jen, and Duncan grew up as cousins in the sprawling Nguyen family, but the truth about their family is much more complicated. As young ...
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No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
by
Gardiner Harris
Random House, 04/08/2025
One day in 2004, Gardiner Harris, a pharmaceutical reporter for
The New York Times, was early for a flight and sat down at an airport bar. He struck ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Passion Project: A Novel
by
London Sperry
Penguin Books, 04/08/2025
Where's that zest she keeps hearing about? She's a temp worker in New York City with no direction, no future, and no social life. And at the painful ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy: City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room
by
Paul Auster
Pantheon Books, 04/08/2025
In 1994, Paul Auster's
City of Glass was adapted into a graphic novel and became an immediate cult classic, published in over 30 editions worldwide, ...
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Plum
by
Andy Anderegg
Hub City Press, 04/08/2025
Told entirely in the second person,
Plum follows J as she grows from kid to teen in a house ruled by her alcoholic dad and complicit mother. Her older...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Precious Rubbish
by
Kayla E.
Fantagraphics Books, 04/08/2025
"If an exorcism can ever be slow and quiet, then every panel I've finished has felt something like an exorcism. The gutters give me space to make ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
by
Vauhini Vara
Pantheon Books, 04/08/2025
When it was released to the public in November 2022, ChatGPT awakened the world to a secretive project: teaching AI-powered machines to write. Its ...
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Sky Daddy: A Novel
by
Kate Folk
Random House, 04/08/2025
Linda is doing her best to lead a life that would appear normal to the casual observer. Weekdays, she earns $20 an hour moderating comments for a ...
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Terrestrial History: A Novel
by
Joe Mungo Reed
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/08/2025
Hannah is a fusion scientist working in a cottage off the coast of Scotland when she's approached by a visitor from the future, a young man from a ...
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The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road
by
E.A. Hanks
Gallery Books, 04/08/2025
In her trusted loaded-up minivan "Minnie," E.A. Hanks follows the same route as a long-ago road trip with her mother in an attempt to better ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Baker of Lost Memories: A Novel
by
Shirley Russak Wachtel
Little A, 04/08/2025
Growing up in 1960s Brooklyn, Lena wants to be a baker just like her mother was back in Poland prior to World War II. But questions about those days, ...
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Historical Fiction
The Creation of Half-Broken People: A Novel
by
Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
House of Anansi Press, 04/08/2025
Showcasing African Gothic at its finest,
The Creation of Half-Broken People is the extraordinary tale of a nameless woman plagued by visions. She ...
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The Float Test: A Novel
by
Lynn Steger Strong
Mariner Books, 04/08/2025
The Kenner siblings are at odds. Jenn is a harried mom struggling under the weight of family obligations. Fred is a novelist who can't write, maybe ...
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The Impossible Thing
by
Belinda Bauer
Atlantic Monthly Press, 04/08/2025
How do you find something that doesn't exist?
1926. On the cliffs of Yorkshire, men are lowered on ropes to steal the eggs of the sea birds who ...
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The Mademoiselle Alliance: A Novel
by
Natasha Lester
Dell, 04/08/2025
Marie-Madeleine is not the kind of woman who goes through life sitting down, and it's a trait that not everyone is a fan of—including her ...
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Historical Fiction
The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
by
Evie Woods
HarperCollins Publishers, 04/08/2025
Nestled among the cobblestone streets of Compiègne, there existed a bakery unlike any other.
Rumours were whispered through the town that ...more
Historical Fiction
The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West
by
Amitav Acharya
Basic Books, 04/08/2025
Since the dawn of the twenty-first century, the West has been in crisis. Social unrest, political polarization, and the rise of other great powers&#...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
All the Noise at Once
by
DeAndra Davis
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 04/15/2025
All Aiden has ever wanted to do was play football just like his star quarterback brother, Brandon. An overstimulation meltdown gets in the way of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
American Spirits: The Famous Fox Sisters and the Mysterious Fad that Haunted a Nation
by
Barb Rosenstock
Calkins Creek, 04/15/2025
Rap. Rap. Rap. The eerie sound was first heard in March of 1848 at the home of the Fox family in Hydesville, New York. The family's two daughters, ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Bitter Texas Honey: A Novel
by
Ashley Whitaker
Dutton, 04/15/2025
It's 2011, and twenty-three-year-old Joan West is not like the rest of her liberal peers in Austin, nor is she quite like her Tea Party Republican, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It
by
Andre M. Perry
Metropolitan Books, 04/15/2025
Historically, Black Americans' quest for power has been understood as an attempt to gain equal protections under the law. But power in America ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Coram House: A Novel
by
Bailey Seybolt
Atria Books, 04/15/2025
On a blistering summer day in 1968, nine-year-old Tommy vanishes without a trace from
Coram House, an orphanage on the shores of Lake Champlain. Some ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life
by
Dan Nadel
Scribner, 04/15/2025
Robert Crumb is often credited with single-handedly transforming the comics medium into a place for adult expression, in the process pioneering the ...
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Hellions: Stories
by
Julia Elliott
Tin House Books, 04/15/2025
From the acclaimed author of
The Wilds comes an electric story collection that blends folklore, fairy tales, Southern Gothic, and horror, reveling in ...
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Hyo the Hellmaker
by
Mina Ikemoto Ghosh
Scholastic Press, 04/15/2025
Hyo Hakai is a hellmaker, hired to create customized hells and unlucky days for your worst enemies.
When a demon destroys her village, Hyo and her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir With Appearances by Virginia Woolf
by
Heather Christle
Algonquin Books, 04/15/2025
When Heather Christle realizes that she, her mother, and Virginia Woolf share a traumatic history, she begins to rewrite and intertwine each of their ...
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Into the Ice: The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery
by
Mark Synnott
Dutton, 04/15/2025
Only a few hundred vessels have ever transited the Northwest Passage, stretching through Canada's north from Maine to Alaska—and substantially ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Lost at Sea: Poverty and Paradise Collide at the Edge of America
by
Joe Kloc
Dey Street Books, 04/15/2025
In the wake of the financial crisis, the number of anchor-outs living in Richardson Bay more than doubles as their long-simmering feud with the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Midnight in Soap Lake: A Novel
by
Matthew Sullivan
Hanover Square Press, 04/15/2025
When Abigail agreed to move to Soap Lake, Washington, for her husband's research, she expected old-growth forests and craft beer, folksy neighbors and...
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Thrillers
Nahia
by
Emily Jones
Holiday House, 04/15/2025
Spain, 8,000 years ago. As Headwoman's daughter, eighteen-year-old Nahia was born to lead. But when she speaks aloud a forbidden truth—that her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Notes from a Regicide
by
Isaac Fellman
Tor Books, 04/15/2025
When your parents die, you find out who they really were.
Griffon Keming's second parents saved him from his abusive family. They taught him how to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
One Death at a Time
by
Abbi Waxman
Berkley Books, 04/15/2025
When Julia Mann, a bad-tempered ex-actress and professional thorn in the side of authority, runs into Natasha Mason at an AA meeting, it's anything ...
more
Open, Heaven: A Novel
by
Seán Hewitt
Knopf, 04/15/2025
Set in a remote village in the north of England,
Open, Heaven unfolds over the course of one year in which two teenage boys meet and transform each ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Somadina
by
Akwaeke Emezi
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 04/15/2025
Somadina and her twin brother, Jayaike, are practically the same person: they finish each other's sentences and make each other whole. When the twins ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
stay with me
by
Hanne Orstavik
Archipelago Books, 04/15/2025
Fear is a second skin for the unnamed narrator of Hanne Ørstavik's
Stay With Me. A successful writer at 53, her father may be a frail twig, but ...
more
Strangers in Time: A World War 2 Novel
by
David Baldacci
Grand Central Publishing, 04/15/2025
Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, ducking school but barred from ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Eights
by
Joanna Miller
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/15/2025
Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its one-thousand-year history, Oxford University officially admits female students. Burning with dreams of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Fairbanks Four: Murder, Injustice, and the Birth of a Movement
by
Brian Patrick O’Donoghue
Sourcebooks, 04/15/2025
October, 1997. Late one night in Fairbanks, Alaska, a passerby finds a teenager unconscious, collapsed on the edge of the road, beaten nearly beyond ...
more
True Crime
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Proof of My Innocence
by
Jonathan Coe
Europa Editions, 04/15/2025
Post-university life doesn't suit Phyl. Time passes slowly living back home with her parents, working a zero-hour contract serving Japanese food to ...
more
The Raven Scholar: Eternal Path Trilogy #1
by
Antonia Hodgson
Orbit, 04/15/2025
Let us fly now to the empire of Orrun, where after twenty-four years of peace, the reign of Bersun the Brusque has come to an end. In the dizzying ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Seven O'Clock Club
by
Amelia Ireland
Berkley Books, 04/15/2025
In a perfectly ordinary building, four strangers who couldn't be more different meet for the first time. Their skepticism of this new kind of grief ...
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Literary Fiction
Things Left Unsaid: A Novel
by
Sara Jafari
St. Martin's Press, 04/15/2025
When twenty-six year old Shirin Bayat bumps into Kian at a house party in London, she is taken aback by the immediate feelings that resurface. It's ...
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Literary Fiction
Vanishing World
by
Sayaka Murata
Grove Press, 04/15/2025
Sayaka Murata has proven herself to be one of the most exciting chroniclers of the strangeness of society, x-raying our contemporary world to bizarre ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
When the Harvest Comes: A Novel
by
Denne Michele Norris
Random House, 04/15/2025
"I got tired of running away from what I should've been running toward."
The venerated Reverend Doctor John Freeman did not raise his son, Davis,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Training School for Elephants
by
Sophy Roberts
Atlantic Monthly Press, 04/22/2025
In 1879, King Leopold II of Belgium launched an ambitious plan to plunder Africa's resources. The key to cracking open the continent, or so he thought...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
America, América: A New History of the New World
by
Greg Grandin
Penguin Press, 04/22/2025
The story of how the United States' identity was formed is almost invariably told by looking east to Europe. But as Greg Grandin vividly demonstrates,...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Atavists: Stories
by
Lydia Millet
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/22/2025
From Lydia Millet―"the American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselves" (
Chicago Tribune)―comes an inventive new ...
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Short Stories
Calm
by
S. J. Baker
Neem Tree Press, 04/22/2025
In a near-future Britain, societyʼs calm facade conceals a sinister truth: the state maintains its control by meddling with the nationʼs ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Cope Field
by
T. L. Simpson
Flux, 04/22/2025
When Craw is sentenced to community service for hitting his father in the head with a baseball bat, he accepts his punishment without objection, ...
more
Down in the Sea of Angels
by
Khan Wong
Angry Robot, 04/22/2025
In the year 2106, climate change has altered the world, transforming borders, cities, and socioeconomic structures. Additionally, a cosmic event known...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Eat the Ones You Love
by
Sarah Maria Griffin
Tor Books, 04/22/2025
After losing her job and her fiancé and moving back from the city to live with her parents, Shell Pine needs some help. And according to the sign...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Fair Play: A Novel
by
Louise Hegarty
Harper, 04/22/2025
A group of friends gather at an Airbnb on New Year's Eve. It is Benjamin's birthday, and his sister Abigail is throwing him a jazz-age Murder Mystery ...
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Great Big Beautiful Life
by
Emily Henry
Berkley Books, 04/22/2025
Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they'...
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Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future
by
Alan Weisman
Dutton, 04/22/2025
In this profoundly human and moving narrative, the bestselling author of
The World Without Us returns with a book ten years in the making: a study of ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
If We Were a Movie
by
Zakiya N. Jamal
HarperCollins Publishers, 04/22/2025
Lights. Camera. Love?
Rochelle "the Shell" Coleman is laser focused on only three things: becoming valedictorian, getting into Wharton, and, of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools
by
Mary Annette Pember
Pantheon Books, 04/22/2025
From the mid-19th century to the late 1930s, tens of thousands of Native children were pulled from their families to attend boarding schools that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
by
Adam Becker
Basic Books, 04/22/2025
Tech billionaires have decided that they should determine our futures for us. According to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, and more, the only good ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Rakesfall
by
Vajra Chandrasekera
Tor Books, 04/22/2025
Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through the ages, friendships that outpace the claws of death, loves that...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson
by
Claire Hoffman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/22/2025
On a spring day in 1926, Aimee Semple McPherson wandered into the Pacific Ocean and vanished. Weeks later she reappeared in the desert, claiming to ...
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Slither: How Nature's Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World
by
Stephen S. Hall
Grand Central Publishing, 04/22/2025
For millennia, depictions of snakes as alternatively beautiful and menacing creatures have appeared in religious texts, mythology, poetry, and beyond....
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The Bright Years
by
Sarah Damoff
Simon & Schuster, 04/22/2025
Ryan and Lillian Bright are deeply in love, recently married, and now parents to a baby girl, Georgette. But Lillian has a son she hasn't told Ryan ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Corruption of Hollis Brown
by
K. Ancrum
HarperCollins Publishers, 04/22/2025
Hollis Brown is stuck. Born to a blue-collar American Dream, Hollis lives in a rotting small town where no one can afford to leave. Hollis's only ...
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The Dissident Club: Chronicle of a Pakistani Journalist in Exile
by
Taha Siddiqui
Arsenal Pulp Press, 04/22/2025
In Islamabad in 2018, Pakistani investigative journalist Taha Siddiqui is kidnapped at gunpoint and barely escapes being killed. He flees the country ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Fantasies of Future Things: A Novel
by
Doug Jones
Simon & Schuster, 04/22/2025
Daily interactions between Jacob and Daniel are a powder keg of sexual tension and uncertainty. A recent Morehouse graduate and Brooklyn transplant, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood
by
Matthew Specktor
Ecco, 04/22/2025
Matthew Specktor grew up in the film industry: the son of legendary CAA superagent Fred Specktor, his childhood was one where Beau Bridges came over ...
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The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders
by
Sarah Aziza
Catapult, 04/22/2025
"You were dead, Sarah, you were dead." In October 2019, Sarah Aziza, daughter and granddaughter of Gazan refugees, is narrowly saved after being ...
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The Pretender: A Novel
by
Jo Harkin
Knopf, 04/22/2025
In 1480 John Collan's greatest anxiety is how to circumvent the village's devil goat on his way to collect water. But the arrival of a well-dressed ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The World of Nancy Kwan: A Memoir by Hollywood's Asian Superstar
by
Nancy Kwan
Hachette Books, 04/22/2025
When Nancy Kwan burst onto the scene in the early 1960s, Asian characters in film were portrayed by white actors in makeup playing "yellowface," and ...
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Zeal: A Novel
by
Morgan Jerkins
Harper, 04/22/2025
Harlem, 2019. Ardelia and Oliver are hosting their engagement party. As the guests get ready to leave, he hands her a love letter on a yellowing, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Mind of Her Own: A Novel
by
Danielle Steel
Delacorte Press, 04/29/2025
Alexandra Bouvier is born in Paris in 1900, at the dawn of a new century. From an early age, she is encouraged to think for herself by her enlightened...
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Romance
Ancestors: Identity and DNA in the Levant
by
Pierre Zalloua
Random House, 04/29/2025
In recent years, as companies like 23andMe and Ancestry.com have made genetic testing available across the globe, it has become relatively simple to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Awakened
by
A.E. Osworth
Grand Central Publishing, 04/29/2025
On a morning much like any other, 30-something queer Brooklynite Wilder makes the miraculous discovery: suddenly, as if by magic, they can understand ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown
by
Candace Fleming
Anne Schwartz Books, 04/29/2025
Using riveting first-person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming reveals the makings of a monster: from Jones's humble origins as a child of...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dianaworld: An Obsession
by
Edward White
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/29/2025
Over the last forty years, the mythology of Princess Diana has turned the woman who was born Diana Spencer into a symbol for almost anything. From a ...
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Favorite Daughter: A Novel
by
Morgan Dick
Viking, 04/29/2025
Mickey and Arlo are half sisters. But they've never spoken and never met. Arlo adored her father—but always lived in the shadow of his magnetic ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Ginseng Roots: A Memoir
by
Craig Thompson
Pantheon Books, 04/29/2025
When
Blankets first published in 2003, Craig Thompson's seminal memoir about first love and faith lost in rural Wisconsin debuted to rapturous acclaim...
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Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
by
Sophie Gilbert
Penguin Press, 04/29/2025
What happened to feminism in the twenty-first century? This question feels increasingly urgent after a period of cultural and legislative backlash, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Julie Chan Is Dead: A Novel
by
Liann Zhang
Atria Books, 04/29/2025
Julie Chan has nothing. Her twin sister has everything. Except a pulse.
Julie Chan, a supermarket cashier with nothing to lose, finds herself ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Love at Second Sight
by
F.T. Lukens
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 04/29/2025
Fifteen-year-old Cam Reynolds wants to spend his sophomore year flying under the radar. That shouldn't be too hard, considering he's a human going to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats
by
Courtney Gustafson
Crown, 04/29/2025
When Courtney Gustafson moved into a rental house in the Poets Square neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona, she didn't know that the property came with ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Polybius
by
Collin Armstrong
Gallery Books, 04/29/2025
October, 1982. Forced to move to the quiet seaside town of Tasker Bay by her mother, the only thing on high schooler Andi's mind is saving up enough ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Serial Killer Games
by
Kate Posey
Berkley Books, 04/29/2025
Dolores dela Cruz has been dying to spot one in the wild, and he fits the mold perfectly: strangler gloves, calculated charm, dashing good looks that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Sleeping Children: A Novel
by
Anthony Passeron
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/29/2025
It's 1981. As a wave of mysterious infections sweeps across the United States, a doctor in Paris encounters something unexpected: a case of a disease ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs--and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease
by
Thomas Levenson
Random House, 04/29/2025
Two out of three soldiers who perished in the Civil War died of infected wounds, typhoid, and other infectious diseases. But no doctor truly ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America
by
Michael Luo
Doubleday, 04/29/2025
Strangers in the Land tells the story of a people who, beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, migrated by the tens of thousands to a ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Accidentals: Stories
by
Guadalupe Nettel
Bloomsbury Publishing, 04/29/2025
Acclaimed for her piercing insights and razor-sharp prose, award winning author Guadalupe Nettel introduces us to eight characters who are each in ...
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The Determined
by
Rachel Rueckert
Kensington Publishing, 04/29/2025
1721, Spanish Town, Jamaica. Captured, convicted, and pregnant, twenty-three-year-old Anne Bonny faces the gallows. When writer Captain Charles ...
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Historical Fiction
The Edge of Yesterday
by
Rita Woods
Forge Books, 04/29/2025
Greer Coffey is a principal dancer with a renowned Harlem company. Sebastian Coffey is an architect with a prestigious Midtown firm. The Coffeys are ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
by
Rick Atkinson
Crown, 04/29/2025
The first twenty-one months of the American Revolution—which began at Lexington and ended at Princeton—was the story of a ragged group of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
by
William Dalrymple
Bloomsbury Publishing, 04/29/2025
For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilization, creating around it a vast empire of ideas. Indian art, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Lilac People
by
Milo Todd
Counterpoint Press, 04/29/2025
In 1932 Berlin, Bertie, a trans man, and his friends spend carefree nights at the Eldorado Club, the epicenter of Berlin's thriving queer community. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Road to Tender Hearts: A Novel
by
Annie Hartnett
Ballantine Books, 04/29/2025
At sixty-three years old, million-dollar lottery winner PJ Halliday would be the luckiest man in Pondville, Massachusetts, if it weren't for the ...
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The Story of Astrophysics in Five Revolutions
by
Ersilia Vaudo
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/29/2025
When Neil Armstrong first set foot in the lunar dust, his action forever changed our view of what was possible. Once something new alters our ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Summer I Remembered Everything
by
Catherine Con Morse
Crown Books for Young Readers, 04/29/2025
Emily Chen-Sanchez can't do anything right. She's been grounded for a bad grade; she can't stop fighting with her perfect older sister; everyone's ...
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Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing
by
Lili Taylor
Crown, 04/29/2025
Most people don't really know birds—or rather, they aren't aware of them. Lili Taylor used to be one of those people. She knew birds existed. ...
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Essays
When the Tides Held the Moon
by
Venessa Vida Kelley
Erewhon Books, 04/29/2025
Benigno "Benny" Caldera knows an orphaned Boricua blacksmith in 1910s New York City can't call himself an artist. But the ironwork tank he creates for...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Where Was Goodbye?
by
Janice Lynn Mather
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 04/29/2025
Karmen is about to start her last year of high school, but it's only been six weeks since her brother, Julian, died by suicide. How is she supposed to...
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Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis
by
Suzanne Cope
Dutton, 04/29/2025
From underground soldiers to intrepid spies,
Women of War unearths the hidden history of the brave women who risked their lives to overthrow the Nazi ...
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You Can Never Die: A Graphic Memoir
by
Harry Bliss
Celadon, 04/29/2025
New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss loved his sweet dog Penny, a joyful part of his life for seventeen years. Every day that he cared for his beloved ...
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Biography/Memoir
