Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women's Bank That Empowered a Generation
by
Grace L. Williams
Little A, 01/01/2025
In the 1970s, a new wave of feminism was sweeping America. But in the boys' club of banking and finance, women were still infantilized―no credit...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Look Homeward, Angel
by
Thomas Wolfe
Independently published, 01/01/2025
Thomas Wolfe's
Look Homeward, Angel is a monumental American coming-of-age tale that captures the restless spirit of youth, the weight of family ties,...
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Literary Fiction
What the Light Touches: A Novel
by
Xavier Bosch
AmazonCrossing, 01/01/2025
Seventeen-year-old Margaux doesn't realize one photo could change the course of her life. But in German-occupied Paris, nothing makes sense anymore. ...
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Historical Fiction
99% Perspiration: A New Working History of the American Way of Life
by
Adam Chandler
Pantheon Books, 01/07/2025
"
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." This phrase, arguably Thomas Edison's most famous quote, has been drilled ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Traitorous Heart
by
Erin Cotter
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 01/07/2025
Paris, 1572. Seventeen-year-old Jacqueline "Jac" d'Argenson-Aunis is lady-in-waiting to her best friend and former lover, the French Princess ...
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Historical Fiction
After Life
by
Gayle Forman
Quill Tree Books, 01/07/2025
Because Amber died seven years ago, hit by a car while on the very same bicycle she's inexplicably riding now.
This return doesn't only impact ...
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All the Water in the World: A Novel
by
Eiren Caffall
St. Martin's Press, 01/07/2025
All the Water in the World is told in the voice of a girl gifted with a deep feeling for water. In the years after the glaciers melt, Nonie, her older...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Among Serpents: Above the Black #2
by
Marc J Gregson
Peachtree Teen, 01/07/2025
It takes guts to rise to the top of Meritocracy. It'll take sheer ruthlessness to stay there. As militants and monsters lay waste to the Skylands, ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Another Man in the Street: A Novel
by
Caryl Phillips
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 01/07/2025
In London's swinging sixties, Victor Johnson, a young immigrant from the Caribbean, arrives in Britain with dreams of becoming a journalist in the "...
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Baltic Souls: Fate in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
by
Jan Brokken
Scribe US, 01/07/2025
A remarkable number of talented people have come from this relatively small, sparsely populated area, many of them Jewish in origin. Brokken looks at ...
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Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King
by
Preston Lauterbach
Hachette Books, 01/07/2025
After Baz Luhrmann's movie, Elvis, hit theaters, audiences and critics alike couldn't help but question the Black origins of Elvis Presley's ...
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Breath of the Dragon: Breathmarked #1
by
Shannon Lee, Fonda Lee
Wednesday Books, 01/07/2025
Sixteen-year-old Jun dreams of proving his worth as a warrior in the elite Guardian's Tournament, held every six years to entrust the magical Scroll ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
City Time: On Being Sentenced to Rikers Island
by
David Campbell
New York University Press, 01/07/2025
While most people behind bars at Rikers Island are detainees awaiting the settlement of their cases, a smaller population have already been convicted ...
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Confidential: A Novel
by
Miko?aj Grynberg
The New Press, 01/07/2025
Confidential follows on the success of acclaimed photographer, psychologist, and writer Mikołaj Grynberg's highly acclaimed short story ...
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Darkmotherland
by
Samrat Upadhyay
Soho Press, 01/07/2025
In
Darkmotherland, Nepali writer Samrat Upadhyay has created a novel of infinite embrace—filled with lovers and widows, dictators and dissidents...
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Homeseeking
by
Karissa Chen
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/07/2025
A single choice can define an entire life.
Haiwen is buying bananas at a 99 Ranch Market in Los Angeles when he looks up and sees Suchi, his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
How to Sleep at Night: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Harris
William Morrow, 01/07/2025
Meet Ethan and Gabe. A devoted couple for years, they have successful careers, an adorable daughter, and a house in the New Jersey suburbs. Sure, they...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
I'll Come to You
by
Rebecca Kauffman
Counterpoint Press, 01/07/2025
With empathy, insight, and humor, Rebecca Kauffman explores overlapping narratives involving a couple whose struggle to become pregnant has both ...
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In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space
by
Irvin Weathersby Jr.
Viking, 01/07/2025
Amid the ongoing reckoning over America's history of anti-Black racism, scores of monuments to slaveowners and Confederate soldiers still proudly dot ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Mothers and Sons: A Novel
by
Adam Haslett
Little Brown & Company, 01/07/2025
At forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to ...
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Mystery Royale
by
Kaitlyn Cavalancia
Disney-Hyperion, 01/07/2025
The only thing sixteen-year-old Mullory Prudence has left of her mom is a warning: "Run if the strange finds you." But mysterious warnings don't pay ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Playworld: A Novel
by
Adam Ross
Knopf, 01/07/2025
"In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah fell in love with me. She was thirty-six, a mother of two, and ...more
Rosarita
by
Anita Desai
Scribner, 01/07/2025
Away from her home in India to study Spanish, Bonita sits on a bench in El Jardin de San Miguel, Mexico, basking in the park's lush beauty, when she ...
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Sweet Fury
by
Sash Bischoff
Simon & Schuster, 01/07/2025
Lila Crayne is America's sweetheart: she's generous and kind, gorgeous and magnetic. She and her fiancé, visionary filmmaker Kurt Royall, have ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Assassin's Guide to Babysitting
by
Natalie C. Parker
Candlewick Press, 01/07/2025
Tru has been hiding all her life. Her parents taught her to conceal her bastion Talent: indestructible skin, muscles, and bones. In a world where ...
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The Capital of Dreams: A Novel
by
Heather O'Neill
Harper, 01/07/2025
Sofia Bottom lives in Elysia, a small country forgotten by Europe. But inside its borders, the old myths of trees that come alive and faeries who live...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
by
Marlene L. Daut
Knopf, 01/07/2025
Slave, revolutionary, king, Henry Christophe was, in his time, popular and famous the world over. Born to an enslaved mother on the Caribbean island ...
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The Granddaughter: A Novel
by
Bernhard Schlink
HarperVia, 01/07/2025
It is only after the sudden death of his wife, Birgit, that Kaspar discovers the price she paid years earlier when she fled East Germany to join him: ...
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The Heart of Winter: A Novel
by
Jonathan Evison
Dutton, 01/07/2025
Abe Winter and Ruth Warneke were never meant to be together—at least if you ask Ruth. Yet their catastrophic blind date in college evolved into ...
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The Lady of the Mine
by
Sergei Lebedev
New Vessel Press, 01/07/2025
The bodies of dead Jews lying in its depths seem to attract still more present-day crimes. Acclaimed Russian author Sergei Lebedev portrays a ghostly ...
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The Last Bookstore on Earth
by
Lily Braun-Arnold
Delacorte Press, 01/07/2025
The world is about to end. Again.
Ever since the first Storm wreaked havoc on civilization as we know it, seventeen-year-old Liz Flannery has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Lotus Shoes: A Novel
by
Jane Yang
Park Row, 01/07/2025
1800s China. Tightly bound feet, or "golden lilies," are the mark of an honorable woman, eclipsing beauty, a rich dowry and even bloodline in the ...
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Historical Fiction
The Naming of the Birds
by
Paraic O'Donnell
Tin House Books, 01/07/2025
Something is troubling Inspector Henry Cutter. Sergeant Gideon Bliss is accustomed to his ill-tempered outbursts, but lately the inspector has grown ...
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The Note: A Novel
by
Alafair Burke
Knopf, 01/07/2025
It was meant to be a harmless prank.
Growing up, May Hanover was a good girl, always. Well-behaved, top of her class, a compulsive rule-follower....
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The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne
by
Kate Winkler Dawson
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/07/2025
On a cold winter day in 1832, Sarah Maria Cornell was found dead in a quiet farmyard in a small New England town. When her troubled past and a secret ...
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The Stolen Queen: A Novel
by
Fiona Davis
Dutton, 01/07/2025
Egypt, 1936: When anthropology student Charlotte Cross is offered a coveted spot on an archaeological dig in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, she leaps at...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Things We Didn't Know
by
Elba Iris Pérez
Gallery Books, 01/07/2025
Andrea Rodríguez is nine years old when her mother whisks her and her brother, Pablo, away from Woronoco, the tiny Massachusetts factory town ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Three Lives of Cate Kay: A Novel
by
Kate Fagan
Atria Books, 01/07/2025
Cate Kay knows how to craft a story. As the creator of a bestselling book trilogy that struck box office gold as a film series, she's one of the most ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Unbecoming of Margaret Wolf
by
Isa Arsén
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/07/2025
Up-and-coming stage actress Margaret Shoard has just taken a bow as Lady Macbeth, the role she has always believed was destined for her. At home, she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
This Is the Year
by
Gloria Muñoz
Holiday House, 01/07/2025
"In outer space, no one will know me as the girl with the dead sister."
Seventeen-year-old self-proclaimed Goth and aspiring writer Julieta ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Who Owns the Moon?: And Other Conundrums of Exploring and Using Space
by
Cynthia Levinson
Margaret Quinlin Books, 01/07/2025
For teens who are space fans, this book is loaded with fascinating facts, great stories, and new ways of thinking about the challenges of space. It ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Y2K: A Witty and Poignant Reflection on Recent History Through a Contemporary Lens, Perfect for Winter 2025, See How Y2K Shaped Our Past, Present, and Future
by
Colette Shade
Dey Street Books, 01/07/2025
THE EARLY 2000s conjures images of inflatable furniture, flip phones, and low-rise jeans. It was a new millennium and the future looked bright, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
You'll Never Believe Me: A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist
by
Kari Ferrell
St. Martin's Press, 01/07/2025
Before Anna Delvey, before the Tinder Swindler, there was Kari Ferrell. Adopted at a young age by a Mormon family in Utah, Kari struggled with ...
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The Magic Island
by
William Seabrook
Independently published, 01/13/2025
In
The Magic Island, William Seabrook transports readers to the heart of the Caribbean, unraveling the secrets of voodoo rituals, the concept of ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Calamity of Noble Houses
by
Amira Ghenim
Europa Editions, 01/14/2025
Tunisia, 1930s. Against the backdrop of a country in turmoil, in search of its identity, the lives and destinies of the members of two important upper...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage: A Novel
by
Asia Mackay
Bantam Books, 01/14/2025
I wasn't smashing the patriarchy; I was killing it. Literally.
Hazel and Fox are an ordinary married couple with a baby. Except for one small thing...
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Thrillers
Aflame: Learning from Silence
by
Pico Iyer
Riverhead Books, 01/14/2025
Pico Iyer has made more than one hundred retreats over the past three decades to a small Benedictine hermitage high above the sea in Big Sur, ...
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American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
by
Kyle Paoletta
Pantheon Books, 01/14/2025
Albuquerque. Phoenix. Tucson. El Paso. Las Vegas. Iconic American cities surrounded by desert and rust. Teeming metropolises that seem to exist ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Andromeda: A Novel
by
Therese Bohman
Other Press, 01/14/2025
The publishing house is anchored like a ship along Stockholm's main street, a large, bright building with an impressive rooftop terrace. The facade is...
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Babylonia: A Novel
by
Costanza Casati
Sourcebooks Landmark, 01/14/2025
Babylonia across the centuries has become the embodiment of lust, excess, and dissolute power that ruled Ancient Assyria. In this world you had to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Beautiful Ugly: A Novel
by
Alice Feeney
Flatiron Books, 01/14/2025
Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.
Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby...
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Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman
by
Brooke Shields
Flatiron Books, 01/14/2025
Brooke Shields has spent a lifetime in the public eye. Growing up as a child actor and model, her every feature was scrutinized, her every decision ...
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Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels
by
Caroline Eden
Bloomsbury Publishing, 01/14/2025
"With its union of practicality and magic," Caroline Eden understands a kitchen as a portal, "offering opportunities to cook, imagine and create ways ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Confessions: A Novel
by
Catherine Airey
Mariner Books, 01/14/2025
New York City, late September 2001. The walls of the city are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Brady's father is there, the poster she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Death of the Author: A Novel
by
Nnedi Okorafor
William Morrow, 01/14/2025
The future of storytelling is here.
Disabled, disinclined to marry, and more interested in writing than a lucrative career in medicine or law, ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dirtbag Queen
by
Andy Corren
Grand Central Publishing, 01/14/2025
So began Andy Corren's unforgettable obituary for his mother, Renay Mandel Corren, a tribute that went on to touch the hearts of millions around the ...
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Dreamover
by
Dani Diaz
Top Shelf Productions, 01/14/2025
Amber's a headstrong goofball with a temper. Nico's a shy, self-conscious emo boy. But they've been best friends since third grade, and she can't hide...
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Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
Everything Is Poison
by
Joy McCullough
Dutton for Young Readers, 01/14/2025
Early Seventeenth-Century Rome
For as long as she can remember, Carmela Tofana has desperately wanted one thing: to be a part of La Tofana's, her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Going Home: A Novel
by
Tom Lamont
Knopf, 01/14/2025
Téo Erskine, now in his thirties, has moved on from childish things: He has a good job, a slick apartment in London, and when he heads back to ...
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Good Girl: A Novel
by
Aria Aber
Hogarth Books, 01/14/2025
In Berlin's artistic underground, where techno and drugs fill warehouses still pockmarked from the wars of the twentieth century, nineteen-year-old ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Hello Stranger: Musings on Modern Intimacies
by
Manuel Betancourt
Catapult, 01/14/2025
"Hello stranger." As an opening line, you really can't ask for better.
Hello Stranger is a book about chance encounters—at a bar, through ...
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Honeysuckle and Bone
by
Trisha Tobias
Zando, 01/14/2025
Carina Marshall is looking to reinvent herself, and what better place to do it than Jamaica, her mother's alluring homeland where she conveniently has...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free
by
Lee Hawkins
Amistad, 01/14/2025
I Am Nobody's Slave tells the story of one Black family's pursuit of the American Dream through the impacts of systemic racism and racial violence. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Isaac's Song: A Novel
by
Daniel Black
Hanover Square Press, 01/14/2025
Isaac is at a crossroads in his young life. Growing up in Missouri, the son of a caustic, hard-driving father, he was conditioned to suppress his ...
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Literary Fiction
Karma Doll: The Doll Series #3
by
Jonathan Ames
Mulholland, 01/14/2025
After narrowly escaping with his life at the hands of a murderous Hollywood pimp, detective Happy Doll, bullet-ridden but healing, has landed on a ...
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Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies
by
Michael Albertus
Basic Books, 01/14/2025
For millennia, land has been a symbol of wealth and privilege. But the true power of land ownership is even greater than we might think. In
Land Power...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
My Darling Boy: A Novel
by
John Dufresne
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/14/2025
Aided by his terminally ill girlfriend and the colorful inhabitants of a local motel―including a doomsday prepper, an ex-nun, a pair of blind ...
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Literary Fiction
Old As Stone, Hard As Rock: Of Humans and War
by
Alessandro Sanna
Unruly, 01/14/2025
A stone falls to the Earth. It picks up speed, rolling down the steep side of a mountain until it comes to rest in an empty plain. But the plain won't...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Presumed Guilty: Presumed Innocent #3
by
Scott Turow
Grand Central Publishing, 01/14/2025
Rusty is a retired judge attempting a third act in life with a loving soon-to-be wife, Bea, with whom he shares both a restful home on an idyllic lake...
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Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
by
Matthew Pearl
Harper, 01/14/2025
On December 10, 1887, a shark fishing boat disappeared. On board the doomed vessel were the Walkers—the ship's captain Frederick, his wife ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Strange Pictures: A Novel
by
Uketsu
HarperVia, 01/14/2025
An exploration of the macabre, where the seemingly mundane takes on a terrifying significance... .
A pregnant woman's sketches on a seemingly ...
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The Big Empty: An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel
by
Robert Crais
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/14/2025
Traci Beller was thirteen when her father disappeared in the sleepy town of Rancha, not far from Los Angeles. The evidence says Tommy Beller abandoned...
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The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North
by
Michelle Adams
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 01/14/2025
In 1974, the Supreme Court issued a momentous decision: In the case of
Milliken v. Bradley, the justices brought a halt to school desegregation across...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Forger's Requiem
by
Bradford Morrow
Atlantic Monthly Press, 01/14/2025
Literary forger Henry Slader, assaulted and presumed dead by his longtime nemesis, Will, awakens in a shallow grave, suffocating in dirt. Concussed ...
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The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy - and Why It Failed
by
Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch
Flatiron Books, 01/14/2025
Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States, is often ranked among Americans' most well-liked presidents. Yet what most Americans don't ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Kennedy Girl: A Novel
by
Julia Bryan Thomas
Sourcebooks, 01/14/2025
1960. New York, Paris and Milan fashion culture is starting to make an impression on the average American woman. When a mysterious bakery customer ...
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Historical Fiction
The Last Room on the Left
by
Leah Konen
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/14/2025
It's the perfect getaway to finish her book and start fresh.
But as she hunkers down in a blizzard, she spots something through the window: a pale ...
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The Last Word: A Novel
by
Elly Griffiths
Mariner Books, 01/14/2025
Natalka and Edwin are perfect if improbable partners in a detective agency. At eighty-four, Edwin regularly claims that he's the oldest detective in ...
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Mysteries
The Queen's Spade
by
Sarah Raughley
HarperCollins Publishers, 01/14/2025
A young lady can take only so many injuries before humiliation and insult forge a vow of revenge ...
The year is 1862 and murderous desires are ...
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The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey: A Novel
by
Astrid Dahl
Simon & Schuster, 01/14/2025
Meet the Garden State Goddesses, the cast of Huzzah's third most popular show:
"I may play for both teams, but when it comes to being real, I ...
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The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story
by
Pagan Kennedy
Vintage, 01/14/2025
In 1972, Martha "Marty" Goddard volunteered at a crisis hotline, counseling girls who had been molested by their fathers, their teachers, their uncles...
more
the space between men
by
Mia S. Willis
Penguin Books, 01/14/2025
These piercing, surprising poems look to familial history, rituals of faith, and the natural world to explore how the intersecting cultures of ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Suicides
by
Antonio Di Benedetto
New York Review Books, 01/14/2025
A reporter's boss assigns him to cover three unconnected suicides. The news agency wants to syndicate the story to color magazines, "For the blood, so...
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The Swans of Harlem (Adapted for Young Adults): Five Black Ballerinas, a Legacy of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
by
Karen Valby
Delacorte Press, 01/14/2025
At the peak of the civil rights movement, Lydia Abarca was the first ballerina in a Black ballet company to grace the cover of
Dance magazine. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
by
Stephen Witt
Viking, 01/14/2025
In June of 2024, spurred by the frenzy of investment following the launch of ChatGPT, and thirty-one years after its founding in a Denny's restaurant,...
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Science, Health and the Environment
The Way Up is Death
by
Dan Hanks
Angry Robot, 01/14/2025
As a grieving teacher, a reclusive artist, and a narcissistic celebrity children's author lead the others in trying to understand why they've been ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
This Love: A Novel
by
Lotte Jeffs
Harper Perennial, 01/14/2025
When Mae and Ari meet outside a crowded gay bar during their final year of university, their connection is instant, sparking a lifetime friendship. ...
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Truth, Lies, and the Questions in Between
by
L.M. Elliott
Algonquin Young Readers, 01/14/2025
Patty Appleton is making history. As one of the Senate's first female Congressional Pages, she's not only paving the way for other politically minded ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Unassimilable: An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century
by
Bianca Mabute-Louie
Harper, 01/14/2025
In this hard-hitting and deeply personal book, a combination of manifesto and memoir, scholar, sociologist, and activist Bianca Mabute-Louie ...
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Biography/Memoir
Vantage Point: A Novel
by
Sara Sligar
MCD, 01/14/2025
The old-money Wieland family has it all―wealth, status, power. They're also famously cursed.
Clara and her brother, Teddy, grew up on a ...
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We Lived on the Horizon: A Novel
by
Erika Swyler
Atria Books, 01/14/2025
The city of Bulwark is aptly named: a walled city built to protect and preserve the people who managed to survive a series of great cataclysms, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Wiseguys and the White House: Gangsters, Presidents, and the Deals They Made
by
Eric Dezenhall
Harper, 01/14/2025
Gangsters and presidents have long captured the American imagination, but how much does the underworld actually affect presidential power? How deep ...
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True Crime
Thrillers
The Screwtape Letters
by
C. S. Lewis
Independently published, 01/15/2025
Screwtape teaches Wormwood the best ways to seduce and corrupt human souls, which are called "sick" and Take it away from God. The letters provide ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Gorgeous Excitement: A Novel
by
Cynthia Weiner
Crown, 01/21/2025
It was the summer of 1986, when the girl was found dead in Central Park behind the Metropolitan Museum—half-naked, legs splayed, arms flung over...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir
by
Vidyan Ravinthiran
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/21/2025
Vidyan Ravinthiran was born in the north of England to Sri Lankan Tamils, and moved to the United States five years ago. Considering identity in both ...
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Biography/Memoir
Ballerina
by
Patrick Modiano
Yale University Press, 01/21/2025
Paris, 1960s. A young dancer and single mother, who might or might not be the narrator's love interest, is revisited by menacing figures from her past...
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Boudicca: A Novel
by
P. C. Cast
William Morrow, 01/21/2025
In Roman-occupied Britain, the Iceni tribe crowns an extraordinary new queen. Tall and flame-haired, Boudicca is devoted to Andraste, the Iceni's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
by
Tao Leigh Goffe
Doubleday, 01/21/2025
In 1492, Christopher Columbus arrived on the Caribbean Island of Guanahaní to find an Edenic scene that was soon mythologized. But behind the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Finding Normal
by
Jen Doktorski
Fitzroy Books, 01/21/2025
Right after she escapes Children' s Hospital in Harrisburg, where she' s being treated for anorexia. Enter Lucas Polizzi, a high school wrestler with ...
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How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty
by
Bonny Reichert
Ballantine Books, 01/21/2025
When you're raised by someone who once survived on potato peels and coffee grounds, you develop a pretty healthy respect for food.
Bonny Reichert...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust
by
Julian Borger
Other Press, 01/21/2025
In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out advertisements offering their children into the safe keeping of ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Let's Call Her Barbie
by
Renée Rosen
Berkley Books, 01/21/2025
When Ruth Handler walks into the boardroom of the toy company she co-founded and pitches her idea for a doll unlike any other,
she knows what she's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Mask of the Deer Woman
by
Laurie L. Dove
Berkley Books, 01/21/2025
At rock bottom following her daughter's death, ex–Chicago detective Carrie Starr has nowhere to go but back to her roots. Starr's father never ...
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Mona Acts Out: A Novel
by
Mischa Berlinski
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 01/21/2025
Celebrated stage actress Mona Zahid wakes up on Thanksgiving morning to the clamor of guests packed into her Manhattan apartment and to a wave of ...
more
No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference
by
Cheryl L. Neely
Beacon Press, 01/21/2025
When Black women and girls are targeted and murdered their cases are often categorized by police officers as "N.H.I." – "No Humans Involved." ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Only If You're Lucky: A Novel
by
Stacy Willingham
Minotaur Books, 01/21/2025
Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a...
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Power of Persuasion
by
Stacey Abrams
Berkley Books, 01/21/2025
A.J. Grayson has come a long way from adopted orphan to fast-rising executive at a cutting-edge technology firm. Now an anti-terrorist agency wants to...
more
Romance
Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union
by
Richard Carwardine
Knopf, 01/21/2025
How did slavery figure in God's plan? Was it the providential role of government to abolish this sin and build a righteous nation? Or did such a ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Save Me, Stranger: Stories
by
Erika Krouse
Flatiron Books, 01/21/2025
Erika Krouse's debut memoir,
Tell Me Everything, was hailed by the
New York Times Book Review as "lyrical, jarring, propulsive," and the
Washington ...more
Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present
by
Mary Frances Berry
Beacon Press, 01/21/2025
While the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, white southerners established a system of apprenticeship after the Civil War that entrapped Black ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Something Rotten: A Novel
by
Andrew Lipstein
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 01/21/2025
Cecilie is a fed-up
New York Times reporter. Her husband, Reuben, is a disgraced former NPR host and grudging stay-at-home dad. Neither can wait to ...
more
Song of a Blackbird
by
Maria van Lieshout
First Second, 01/21/2025
In the present day, teenage Annick is desperate to find a bone marrow donor that could save the life of her grandmother, Johanna. She turns to her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
Take My Name But Say It Slow: Essays
by
Thomas Dai
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/21/2025
Thomas Dai has never gone by his Chinese name, Nuocheng, fashioned from the Knoxville (Chinese: Nuokeshiweier) of his childhood and the Chengdu his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
The New Internationals
by
David Wright Falade
Atlantic Monthly Press, 01/21/2025
Paris, 1947. The city, recovering from the Nazi occupation, suffers from an economy in shambles and an unraveled social fabric. Alongside the wary and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The White Peril: A Family Memoir
by
Omo Moses
Beacon Press, 01/21/2025
In
The White Peril, Omo Moses deftly interweaves his own life story with excerpts from both his great-grandfather's sermons and the writings of his ...
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Biography/Memoir
Those Fatal Flowers: A Novel
by
Shannon Ives
Dell, 01/21/2025
Before, Scopuli. It has been centuries since Thelia made the mistake that cost her the woman she loved—Proserpina, the goddess of spring. As the...
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Historical Fiction
Debut Author
To Save the Man
by
John Sayles
Melville House, 01/21/2025
In September of 1890, the academic year begins at the Carlisle School, a military-style boarding school for Indians in Pennsylvania, founded and run ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
We Do Not Part: A Novel
by
Han Kang
Hogarth Books, 01/21/2025
One winter morning, Kyungha receives an urgent message from her friend Inseon to visit her at a hospital in Seoul. Inseon has injured herself in an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Where the Heart Should Be
by
Sarah Crossan
Greenwillow Books, 01/21/2025
Ireland is starving, and a poor Irish scullery maid falls in love with the British heir to the land. Can their romance stay hidden during the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Another Zionism, Another Judaism: The Unrequited Love of Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis
by
Göran Rosenberg
Other Press, 01/28/2025
Born in what is now Lviv, Ukraine, in 1869, Marcus Ehrenpreis was the secretary of Theodor Herzl at the First Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897, a ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Beast of the North Woods: Monster Hunter Mysteries #3
by
Annelise Ryan
Berkley Books, 01/28/2025
An ice fisherman is savagely mauled to death in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, and an eyewitness claims the man was attacked by a hodag. There's just one ...
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Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
by
Imani Perry
Ecco, 01/28/2025
Throughout history, the concept of Blackness has been remarkably intertwined with another color: blue. In daily life, it is evoked in countless ways. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Blob: A Love Story
by
Maggie Su
Harper, 01/28/2025
The daughter of a Taiwanese father and white mother, Vi Liu has never quite fit into her Midwestern college town. Aimless after getting dumped by her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Carving Shadows into Gold: Forging Silver into Stars #2
by
Brigid Kemmerer
Bloomsbury YA, 01/28/2025
The King's Courier Tycho has made a treacherous bargain. Now beholden to the magical scraver who saved King Gray's life, one false move could end ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dead Money: A Novel
by
Jakob Kerr
Bantam Books, 01/28/2025
Don't call me a fixer. This isn't HBO.
In her job as unofficial "problem solver" for Silicon Valley's most ruthless venture capitalist, Mackenzie ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
elseship: an unrequited affair
by
Tree Abraham
Soft Skull Press, 01/28/2025
This story begins where most end.
elseship deftly and courageously recounts the starts and stops of a transitioning relationship. Having recorded the ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World
by
Dorian Lynskey
Pantheon Books, 01/28/2025
As Dorian Lynskey writes, "People have been contemplating the end of the world for millennia." In this immersive and compelling cultural history, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard to Reclaim My Legacy
by
Tamara Lanier
Crown, 01/28/2025
Tamara Lanier grew up listening to her mother's stories about her ancestors. As Black Americans descended from enslaved people brought to America, ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Good Dirt: A Novel
by
Charmaine Wilkerson
Ballantine Books, 01/28/2025
When ten-year-old Ebby Freeman heard the gunshot, time stopped. And when she saw her brother, Baz, lying on the floor surrounded by the shattered ...
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Head Cases: A Novel
by
John McMahon
Minotaur Books, 01/28/2025
FBI Agent Gardner Camden is an analytical genius with an affinity for puzzles. He also has a blind spot on the human side of investigations, a ...
more
Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope
by
Catherine Coleman Flowers
Spiegel & Grau, 01/28/2025
Described by Bryan Stevenson as "the center of the quest for environmental justice in America," Catherine Coleman Flowers has dedicated her life to ...
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I Am Not Jessica Chen
by
Ann Liang
HarperCollins Publishers, 01/28/2025
Jessica Chen is so beautiful people stop in the hallway to stare at her. Jessica Chen is so perfect she got into Harvard.
And Jenna Chen will only ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
I Think They Love You: A Novel
by
Julian Winters
St. Martin's Griffin, 01/28/2025
When Denzel "Denz" Carter's workaholic father and CEO of 24 Carter Gold unexpectedly announces his retirement, the competition is on for who will ...
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Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Parts
by
Helen King
Basic Books, 01/28/2025
Breasts, clitoris, hymen, and womb. Across history, these body parts have told women who they are and what they should do. Although knowledge of each ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Johnny Careless: A Novel
by
Kevin Wade
Celadon, 01/28/2025
Police Chief Jeep Mullane has been bounced back home to Long Island's North Shore by a heartbreaking case that both earned him his NYPD detective's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Old Soul
by
Susan Barker
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/28/2025
In Osaka, two strangers, Jake and Mariko, miss a flight, and over dinner, discover they've both brutally lost loved ones whose paths crossed with the ...
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On the Wings of la Noche
by
Vanessa L. Torres
Knopf, 01/28/2025
Death waits for Estrella (Noche) Villanueva. In her human form, she is a lonely science girl grieving the tragic accidental drowning of her girlfriend...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Our Winter Monster
by
Dennis Mahoney
Hell's Hundred, 01/28/2025
For the last year, Holly and Brian have been out of sync. Neither can forget what happened that one winter evening; neither can forgive what's ...
more
Out of Your Mind: The Biggest Mysteries of the Human Brain
by
Jorge Cham, Dwayne Godwin
Pantheon Books, 01/28/2025
Why do you love? Why do you lie? What makes you happy? Every single thought you have comes from one place: your brain. But what makes it tick? How ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Pretend We're Dead: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Women in Rock in the '90s
by
Tanya Pearson
Hachette Books, 01/28/2025
In 2018, during an interview with journalist Tanya Pearson, Shirley Manson lamented: "It's a blanket fact that after September 11th, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Tangled Fortunes: The Hidden History of Interracial Marriage in the Segregated South
by
Kathryn Schumaker
Basic Books, 01/28/2025
Interracial marriage was already illegal in some American colonies as early as the 1690s. But long before the Supreme Court declared that interracial ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The English Problem: A Novel
by
Beena Kamlani
Crown, 01/28/2025
Shiv Advani is an eighteen-year-old growing up in India. But he is no ordinary young man. Shiv has been personally chosen by Mahatma Gandhi to come to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir
by
Neko Case
Grand Central Publishing, 01/28/2025
Neko Case has long been revered as one of music's most influential artists, whose authenticity, lyrical storytelling, and sly wit have endeared her to...
more
The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood
by
Stacy Horn
Zando, 01/28/2025
On a warm summer evening in 1991, seventeen-year-old Julia Parker was murdered in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York. An area known for an ...
more
The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir
by
Edmund White
Bloomsbury Publishing, 01/28/2025
I'm at an age when writers are supposed to say finally what mattered most to them-for me it would be thousands of sex partners.
The 85-year-old "...
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The Oligarch's Daughter: A Novel
by
Joseph Finder
Harper, 01/28/2025
Paul Brightman is a man on the run, living under an assumed name in a small New England town with a million-dollar bounty on his head. When his ...
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The Outcast Mage: The Shattered Lands #1
by
Annabel Campbell
Orbit, 01/28/2025
In the glass city of Amoria, magic is everything. And Naila, student at the city's legendary academy, is running out of time to prove she can control ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
by
Manisha Sinha
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 01/28/2025
In
The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, acclaimed historian Manisha Sinha expands our view beyond the accepted temporal and spatial ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Romantic Tragedies of a Drama King
by
Harry Trevaldwyn
Wednesday Books, 01/28/2025
Patch Simmons has decided that this is the year he will get a boyfriend, so it's goodbye to his French pen-pal Jean-Pierre and hello to the world!
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Scorpion Queen: Limited Sprayed Edge Edition
by
Mina Fears
Flatiron Books, 01/28/2025
Deep within the imperial palace at Timbuktu, Amie has suffered a devastating loss. Once the daughter of a prosperous salt merchant Amie's life was ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
by
Chris Hayes
Penguin Press, 01/28/2025
We all feel it—the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. We bump into the zombies on their ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Vanishing Point: Stories
by
Paul Theroux
Mariner Books, 01/28/2025
The stories in Paul Theroux's fascinating new collection are both exotic and domestic, their settings ranging from Hawaii to Africa and New England. ...
more
Too Soon: A Novel
by
Betty Shamieh
Simon & Schuster, 01/28/2025
Arabella gets an unexpected chance at love when she's thrust into a conflict and history she's tried to avoid all her life.
Zoya is playing ...
more
Trust Issues: A Novel
by
Elizabeth McCullough Keenan, Greg Wands
Dutton, 01/28/2025
Hazel and Kagan have never really gotten along, but the siblings have certain things in common: they've both been cut off from the family fund, they'...
more
We Rip the World Apart: A Novel
by
Charlene Carr
Sourcebooks Landmark, 01/28/2025
When 24-year-old Kareela discovers she's pregnant with a child she isn't sure she wants, her struggle to understand her place in the world as a person...
more
Written in the Waters: A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging
by
Tara Roberts
National Geographic, 01/28/2025
When Tara Roberts first caught sight of a photograph at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History depicting the underwater ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Dark Fable
by
Katherine Harbour
Bloomsbury YA, 01/30/2025
The Dark Fable is an urban legend come to life. The notorious crew of thieves with magical abilities are known for secreting away obscure and occult ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Little Sanctuary
by
Randy Boyagoda
Tradewind Books, 02/01/2025
Teenaged Sabel and her younger siblings are sent for safekeeping to a boarding school on a distant island. After discovering their guardians mean to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Voice Like a Hyacinth: A Novel
by
Mallory Pearson
47North, 02/01/2025
Art student Jo Kozak and her fellow classmates and best friends, Caroline, Finch, Amrita, and Saz, are one another's muses―so close they have ...
more
Thrillers
A Burning in the Bones: Waxways #3
by
Scott Reintgen
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 02/04/2025
After taking control of House Brood, Ren and Theo dreamed of using their newfound influence to change the rest of Kathor, but now they find their ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Forty Year Kiss: A Novel
by
Nickolas Butler
Sourcebooks Landmark, 02/04/2025
Charlie and Vivian parted ways after just four years of marriage. Too many problems, too many struggles, even though the love didn't quite die. When ...
more
A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt
by
Tess Chakkalakal
St. Martin's Press, 02/04/2025
In
A Matter of Complexion, Tess Chakkalakal gives readers the first comprehensive biography of Charles W. Chesnutt. A complex and talented man, ...
more
Biography/Memoir
A Season of Light
by
Julie Iromuanya
Algonquin Books, 02/04/2025
When 276 schoolgirls are abducted from their school in Nigeria, Fidelis Ewerike, a Florida-based barrister, poet, and former POW of the Nigerian Civil...
more
Literary Fiction
Adam and Eve in Paradise
by
Eça de Queirós
New Directions Publishing, 02/04/2025
Gloriously translated by Margaret Jull Costa,
Adam and Eve in Paradise by Eça de Queirósis not the rosy prelapsarian tale of your childhood ...
more
Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe
by
Natasha Hakimi Zapata
The New Press, 02/04/2025
A new generation of Americans has declared that another world is possible. And yet, the stubborn problems of inequality, climate change, and declining...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Anoxia: A Novel
by
Miguel Ángel Hernández
Other Press, 02/04/2025
What is our relationship with the dead? How do we remember them? What dark secrets do our images of them hold? How do we emerge from grief to face the...
more
Bibliophobia: A Memoir
by
Sarah Chihaya
Random House, 02/04/2025
Books can seduce you. They can, Sarah Chihaya believes, annihilate, reveal, and provoke you. And anyone incurably obsessed with books understands this...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
by
Jennifer Finney Boylan
Celadon, 02/04/2025
Jennifer Finney Boylan's
She's Not There was the first bestselling work written by a transgender American. Since its publication twenty years ago, she...
more
Code Noir: Fictions
by
Canisia Lubrin
Soft Skull Press, 02/04/2025
Its structure, deceptively simple, is based on the infamous Code Noir, a set of real historical decrees originally passed in 1685 by King Louis XIV of...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Dengue Boy: A Novel
by
Michel Nieva
Astra House, 02/04/2025
The protagonist of this story has no understanding of the words "winter," "cold," or "snow" because he has never experienced the phenomena they ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
by
Neil Shubin
Dutton, 02/04/2025
Renowned scientist Neil Shubin has made extraordinary discoveries by leading scientific expeditions to the sweeping ice landscapes of the Arctic and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Fearless and Free: A Memoir
by
Josephine Baker
Tiny Reparations, 02/04/2025
After stealing the spotlight as a teenaged Broadway performer during the height of the Harlem Renaissance, Josephine then took Paris by storm, ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Gettysburg: The Tide Turns: An Oral History
by
Bruce Chadwick
Pegasus Books, 02/04/2025
In late June of 1863, one month after his victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, Virginia, General Robert E. Lee, head of the Army of Northern...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Gliff: A Novel
by
Ali Smith
Pantheon Books, 02/04/2025
An uncertain near-future. A story of new boundaries drawn between people daily. A not-very brave new world.
Add two children. And a horse.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Grave Empire: The Great Silence #1
by
Richard Swan
Orbit, 02/04/2025
A new age of exploration and innovation has dawned, and the Empire of the Wolf stands to take its place as the foremost power in the known world. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Harlem Rhapsody
by
Victoria Christopher Murray
Berkley Books, 02/04/2025
In 1919, as civil unrest grips the county, in a flourishing part of New York City called Harlem, something special is stirring. Here, the New Negro is...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Heaven and Hell: The Trilogy About the Boy #1
by
Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Biblioasis, 02/04/2025
When the friend, absorbed in a borrowed copy of
Paradise Lost, forgets his oilskin one morning and the crew is unexpectedly caught at sea in a savage ...
more
How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying: Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko's Fight for Ukraine
by
Lara Marlowe
Melville House, 02/04/2025
Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko, a commander in the Ukrainian army serving on the front line of battle, embodies her country's resistance to the Russian ...
more
How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy
by
Julian Baggini
Pegasus Books, 02/04/2025
How we live is shaped by how we eat. You can see this in the vastly different approaches to growing, preparing and eating food around the world, such ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Immemorial
by
Lauren Markham
Transit Books, 02/04/2025
"I am in need of a word," writes Lauren Markham in an email to the Bureau of Linguistical Reality, an organization that coins neologisms. She ...
more
Isola: A Novel
by
Allegra Goodman
The Dial Press, 02/04/2025
Heir to a fortune, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and gentility. Then she is orphaned, and her guardian—an enigmatic and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Junie: A Novel
by
Erin Crosby Eckstine
Ballantine Books, 02/04/2025
Sixteen years old and enslaved since she was born, Junie has spent her life on Bellereine Plantation in Alabama, cooking and cleaning alongside her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Last Twilight in Paris: A Novel
by
Pam Jenoff
Park Row, 02/04/2025
London, 1953. Louise is still adjusting to her postwar role as a housewife when she discovers a necklace in a box at a secondhand shop. The box is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Memorial Days: A Memoir
by
Geraldine Brooks
Viking, 02/04/2025
Many cultural and religious traditions expect those who are grieving to step away from the world. In contemporary life, we are more often met with red...
more
More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI
by
John Warner
Basic Books, 02/04/2025
In the age of artificial intelligence, drafting an essay is as simple as typing a prompt and pressing enter. What does this mean for the art of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Mutual Interest
by
Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
Bloomsbury Publishing, 02/04/2025
At the turn of the 20th century, Vivian Lesperance is determined to flee her origins in Utica, New York, and avoid repeating her parents' dull, ...
more
No One Knows
by
Osamu Dazai
New Directions Publishing, 02/04/2025
No one really understands how we suffer. One day, when we're adults, we may come to recall this suffering, this misery, as silly and laughable, but ...more
Open Season: An Alex Delaware Novel
by
Jonathan Kellerman
Ballantine Books, 02/04/2025
People come to Los Angeles to chase their dreams. Sometimes they find themselves cast into a nightmare. And sometimes, the most ardent dreamers turn ...
more
Oromay
by
Baalu Girma
Soho Press, 02/04/2025
December 1981, Ethiopia. Tsegaye Hailemaryam, a well-known journalist for the state-run media, has just landed in Asmara. He is on assignment as the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Paris Undercover: A Wartime Story of Courage, Friendship, and Betrayal
by
Matthew Goodman
Ballantine Books, 02/04/2025
Etta Shiber and Kitty Bonnefous are the unlikeliest of heroines: two seemingly ordinary women, an American widow and an English divorcée, living ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Punished: A Novel
by
Ann-Helén Laestadius
Scribner, 02/04/2025
In the 1950s near the Arctic Circle, seven-year-olds Jon-Ante, Else-Maj, Nilsa, Marge, and Anne-Risten are taken from their families. As children of S...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Reading the Waves: A Memoir
by
Lidia Yuknavitch
Riverhead Books, 02/04/2025
"I believe our bodies are carriers of experience," Lidia Yuknavitch writes in her provocative memoir
Reading the Waves. "I mean to ask if there is a ...
more
Saint of the Narrows Street
by
William Boyle
Soho Crime, 02/04/2025
Gravesend, Brooklyn, 1986: Risa Franzone lives in a ground-floor apartment on Saint of the Narrows Street with her bad-seed husband, Saverio, and ...
more
Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America
by
Jeff Hobbs
Scribner, 02/04/2025
In the tradition of
Evicted and
Invisible Child, Jeff Hobbs masterfully explores America's housing crisis through the real-life story of Evelyn. This ...
more
Shattered: A Memoir
by
Hanif Kureishi
Ecco, 02/04/2025
In late 2022, in Rome, Hanif Kureishi had a fall. When he came to, he realized he could no longer walk. He could do nothing without the help of others...
more
Shoot the Moon: Rainey Hall Mysteries
by
Ava Barry
Pegasus Books, 02/04/2025
While in high school, Rainey spent a summer taking advantage of the wildfires near Los Angeles to break into the empty houses of the rich and famous ...
more
Soft Core: A Novel
by
Brittany Newell
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/04/2025
Ruth is lost. She's living in a drafty Victorian with her ex-boyfriend Dino, a ketamine dealer with a lingerie habit, overdosing on television and ...
more
Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling
by
Henry Lien
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/04/2025
Discussions in the West around diversity in the arts often focus on the identities of characters and creators. Speculative fiction author and writing ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Black Orb: A Novel
by
Ewhan Kim
MIRA, 02/04/2025
The object was a black orb, roughly two meters in diameter. Despite its large size, it made no sound as it moved. Although it wasn't chasing Jeong-su ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Bones Beneath My Skin
by
TJ Klune
Tor Books, 02/04/2025
There's nothing more human than a broken heart.
In the spring of 1995, Nate Cartwright has lost everything: his parents are dead, his only ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Dissenters: A Novel
by
Youssef Rakha
Graywolf Press, 02/04/2025
Certain as I've never been of anything in the world that you have a right or a duty to know, that you absolutely must know, I sail through the mouth ...more
Literary Fiction
The Edge of Water
by
Olufunke Grace Bankole
Tin House Books, 02/04/2025
In Ibadan, Nigeria, a mother receives a divination that foretells danger for her daughter in America. In spite of this warning, she allows her to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Lamb: A Novel
by
Lucy Rose
Harper, 02/04/2025
Margot and Mama have lived by the forest ever since Margot can remember.
When Margot is not at school, they spend quiet days together in their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Rose Bargain
by
Sasha Peyton Smith
HarperCollins Publishers, 02/04/2025
London, 1848—For four hundred years, England has been under the control of an immortal fae queen who tricked her way onto the throne. To ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Sable Cloak
by
Gail Milissa Grant
Grand Central Publishing, 02/04/2025
In the South, justice is swift and absolute.
Jordan Sable, a prosperous undertaker turned political boss, has controlled the Black vote in ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Secret Public: How Music Moved Queer Culture From the Margins to the Mainstream
by
Jon Savage
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 02/04/2025
Jon Savage, the author of the canonical
England's Dreaming, explodes new ground in this electrifying history of pop music from 1955 through 1979. In ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years of Sex, Gender, and Mating Shape Modern Relationships
by
Nathan H. Lents
Mariner Books, 02/04/2025
Evolutionary biologist Nathan H. Lents knows what makes humans unique—and it's most definitely not our sexual diversity. A professor ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Traitor of Arnhem
by
Robert Verkaik
Pegasus Books, 02/04/2025
The end of World War II is in sight.
Following the overwhelming victory on D-Day, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin all seek to shape the future ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Underwood Tapes
by
Amanda DeWitt
Peachtree Teen, 02/04/2025
Thirty years ago, Grace's mom left her hometown of Hermitage, Florida and never looked back—which is exactly why Grace thinks it's the safest ...
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This Ends in Embers: The Divine Traitors #2
by
Kamilah Cole
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 02/04/2025
Faron Vincent was once the saint of San Irie. Now, she's done the unthinkable: betrayed her country. Alone, disgraced, and kidnapped, Faron is forced ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
This Is a Love Story: A Novel
by
Jessica Soffer
Dutton, 02/04/2025
For fifty years, Abe and Jane have been coming to Central Park, as starry-eyed young lovers, as frustrated and exhausted parents, as artists watching ...
more
Under the Same Stars
by
Libba Bray
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/04/2025
It was said that if you write to the Bridegroom's Oak, the love of your life will answer back. Now, the tree is giving up its secrets at last.
In...more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Victorian Psycho: A Novel
by
Virginia Feito
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 02/04/2025
Virginia Feito's
Mrs. March was hailed as "a brilliant debut ... [by] a writer who keeps pace with the grandees she invokes" (Sarah Ditum,
Guardian)&#...
more
Who I Always Was: A Memoir
by
Theresa Okokon
Atria Books, 02/04/2025
When Theresa Okokon was nine, her father traveled to his hometown in Nigeria to attend his mother's funeral…and never returned. His mysterious ...
more
Essays
Debut Author
Howards End
by
E. M. Forster
Independently published, 02/06/2025
We read
Howard's End for the merciless skill which E. M. Forster shows in laying bare the soul of Leonard Bast, the clerk in the insurance office, who...
more
Literary Fiction
(S)Kin
by
Ibi Zoboi
Versify, 02/11/2025
"Our new home with its
thick walls and locked doors
wants me to stay trapped in my skin—
but I am fury and flame."
Fifteen-year-...more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart
by
Megan Marshall
Mariner Books, 02/11/2025
Megan Marshall's innovative books, including
The Peabody Sisters and the Pulitzer Prize–winning
Margaret Fuller, are treasured ...
more
Essays
After the North Pole: A Story of Survival, Mythmaking, and Melting Ice
by
Erling Kagge
HarperOne, 02/11/2025
The North Pole looms large in our collective psyche—the ultimate Otherland in a world mapped and traversed. It is the center of our planet's ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays
by
Edgar Gomez
Crown, 02/11/2025
In Florida, one of the first things you're taught as a child is that if you're ever chased by a wild alligator, the only way to save yourself is to ...
more
Beartooth: A Novel
by
Callan Wink
Spiegel & Grau, 02/11/2025
In an aging, timber house hand-built into the Absaroka-Beartooth mountains, two brothers are struggling to keep up with their debts. They live off the...
more
Beauty in the Blood: A Novel
by
Charlotte Carter
Vintage, 02/11/2025
Sarah Toomey is a successful young black lawyer, lovely but straitlaced– and afraid that she is losing her mind. Since the death of her mother, ...
more
Thrillers
Beta Vulgaris: A Novel
by
Margie Sarsfield
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/11/2025
Elise and her boyfriend, Tom, set off for Minnesota, hoping the paycheck from the sugar beet harvest will cover the rent on their Brooklyn apartment. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Black Woods, Blue Sky: A Novel
by
Eowyn Ivey
Random House, 02/11/2025
Birdie's keeping it together; of course she is. So she's a little hungover, sometimes, and she has to bring her daughter, Emaleen, to her job waiting ...
more
Blood Ties: A Novel
by
Jo Nesbo
Knopf, 02/11/2025
By all accounts, Carl and Roy Opgard are doing quite well for themselves. Or at least they're doing as well as can be expected in a small town like Os...
more
Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health
by
Adam Ratner MD MPH
Avery, 02/11/2025
Every single child diagnosed with measles represents a system failure—an inexcusable unforced error. The technology to prevent essentially 100 ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Brother Brontë: A Novel
by
Fernando A. Flores
MCD, 02/11/2025
The year is 2038, and the formerly bustling town of Three Rivers, Texas, is a surreal wasteland. Under the authoritarian thumb of its tech ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Casualties of Truth
by
Lauren Francis-Sharma
Atlantic Monthly Press, 02/11/2025
Prudence Wright seems to have it all: a loving husband, Davis; a spacious home in Washington, D.C.; and the former glories of a successful career at ...
more
Ibis: A Novel
by
Justin Haynes
The Overlook Press, 02/11/2025
There is bad luck in New Felicity. The people of the small coastal village have taken in Milagros, an 11-year-old Venezuelan refugee, just as Trinidad...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Idle Grounds: A Novel
by
Krystelle Bamford
Scribner, 02/11/2025
Lingering at the edge of a family party, a troop of cousins loses track of the youngest child among them. With their parents preoccupied with ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Jesus Wept: Seven Popes and the Battle for the Soul of the Catholic Church
by
Philip Shenon
Knopf, 02/11/2025
When the jolly Italian peasant-turned-cardinal Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli of Venice was elected Pope John XXIII in 1958, change was in the air. The ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Life Hacks for a Little Alien
by
Alice Franklin
Little Brown & Company, 02/11/2025
"Climb up here, Little Alien. Sit next to me. I will tell you about life on this planet. I will tell you how it goes."
Before she thinks of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Loca
by
Alejandro Heredia
Simon & Schuster, 02/11/2025
It's 1999, and best friends Sal and Charo are striving to hold on to their dreams in a New York determined to grind them down. Sal is a book-loving ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Mainline Mama: A Memoir
by
Keeonna Harris
Amistad, 02/11/2025
Keeonna and Jason met as young teens. Only fourteen, Keeonna had never had a boyfriend before, dreamed of attending Spelman to become an obstetrician,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Mazeltov: A Novel
by
Eli Zuzovsky
Henry Holt and Company, 02/11/2025
At a banquet hall, at the onset of war, Adam Weizmann's bar mitzvah party turns into a glorious catastrophe. On the cusp of manhood―and the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
On My Honor: The Secret History of the Boy Scouts of America
by
Kim Christensen
Grand Central Publishing, 02/11/2025
Since its founding in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America has been the nation's premier youth organization, espousing self-reliance and honor. More than ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
by
Eve L. Ewing
Junie B Jones, 02/11/2025
If all children could just get an education, the logic goes, they would have the same opportunities later in life. But this historical tour de force ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Out of the Blank
by
Elaine Equi
Coffee House Press, 02/11/2025
From acclaimed poet Elaine Equi comes her latest provocatively playful collection. "Thoughtful, witty, curious" (The
New York Times), Equi's ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
People of Means: A Novel
by
Nancy Johnson
William Morrow, 02/11/2025
Two women. Two pivotal moments. One dream for justice and equality.
In the fall of 1959, Freda Gilroy arrives on the campus of Fisk University ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History
by
Rich Benjamin
Pantheon Books, 02/11/2025
Rich Benjamin's mother, Danielle Fignolé, grew up the eldest in a large family living a comfortable life in Port-au-Prince. Her mother was a ...
more
The Last Hamilton: A Novel
by
Jenn Bregman
Crooked Lane Books, 02/11/2025
The more they know, the more danger they're in.
When Elizabeth Walker, the last heir of the Alexander Hamilton line, is tragically killed by a ...
more
The Lost and the Found: A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances
by
Kevin Fagan
One Signal, 02/11/2025
Kevin Fagan's
The Lost and the Found, set in San Francisco—one of the wealthiest cities in America—takes an empathic, character-driven ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Queens of Crime: A Novel
by
Marie Benedict
St. Martin's Press, 02/11/2025
London, 1930. The five greatest women crime writers have banded together to form a secret society with a single goal: to show they are no longer ...
more
The Riveter: A Novel
by
Jack Wang
HarperVia, 02/11/2025
Vancouver, 1942. Josiah Chang arrives in the bustling city ready to make a new life for himself. The Second World War is in full swing, and Josiah, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story, 1790-1958
by
David Levering Lewis
Penguin Press, 02/11/2025
Sitting beneath a stained glass window dedicated to his grandmother in the Atlanta church where his family had prayed for generations, preeminent ...
more
The Watermark
by
Sam Mills
Melville House, 02/11/2025
Rachel and Jaime: their story isn't simple. It might not even be their story.
Augustus Fate, a once-lauded novelist and now renowned recluse, is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The World After Gaza: A History
by
Pankaj Mishra
Penguin Press, 02/11/2025
The postwar global order was in many ways shaped in response to the Holocaust. That event became the benchmark for atrocity, and, in the Western ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
There's No Turning Back: A Novel
by
Alba De Céspedes
Washington Square Press, 02/11/2025
A coming-of-age novel that is as relevant today as it was nearly ninety years ago,
There's No Turning Back centers on eight women with radically ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Three Days in June: A Novel
by
Anne Tyler
Knopf, 02/11/2025
Gail Baines is having a bad day. To start, she loses her job—or quits, depending on whom you ask. Tomorrow her daughter, Debbie, is getting ...
more
Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories
by
Amanda Peters
Catapult, 02/11/2025
In this intimate collection, Amanda Peters melds traditional storytelling with beautiful, spare prose to describe the dignity of the traditional way ...
more
We All Live Here: A Novel
by
Jojo Moyes
Pamela Dorman Books, 02/11/2025
Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to ...
more
We Would Never: A Novel
by
Tova Mirvis
Avid Reader Press, 02/11/2025
No one appears more surprised than Hailey Gelman when she comes under suspicion for the murder of her soon-to-be ex-husband Jonah. Hailey—...
more
What's Real about Race?: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society
by
Rina Bliss
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/11/2025
Biologically, race does not exist. But in our social world, it remains decidedly important. Mainstream scientists embrace these truths, yet ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Where Shadows Bloom
by
Catherine Bakewell
HarperCollins Publishers, 02/11/2025
Ofelia has lived her life dreaming of entering Le Château Enchanté—the mysterious court of the gods-blessed King Léo, where the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
by
Kelsey McKinney
Grand Central Publishing, 02/11/2025
Can you keep a secret? It's harder than it seems – after all, it's only human to thirst after the juicy updates, jaw-dropping stories, and...
more
A Curse for the Homesick: A Novel
by
Laura Brooke Robson
MIRA, 02/18/2025
Skeld season comes around without warning, and while each window of time lasts only three months, anyone a skeld turns to stone is very much dead.
...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood's First Stuntwoman
by
Mallory O'Meara
Hanover Square Press, 02/18/2025
Helen Gibson was a woman willing to do anything to give audiences a thrill. Advertised as "The Most Daring Actress in Pictures," Helen emerged in the ...
more
Elegy, Southwest: A Novel
by
Madeleine Watts
Simon & Schuster, 02/18/2025
In November 2018, Eloise and Lewis rent a car in Las Vegas and take off on a two-week road trip across the American southwest. While wildfires rage, ...
more
How to Be Avant-Garde: Modern Artists and the Quest to End Art
by
Morgan Falconer
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/18/2025
"Art has poisoned our life," proclaimed Dutch artist and De Stijl cofounder Theo van Doesburg. Reacting to the tumultuous crises of the twentieth ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary
by
Victoria Amelina
St. Martin's Press, 02/18/2025
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Victoria Amelina was busy writing a novel, taking part in the country's literary scene, and ...
more
Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost's Poetry
by
Adam Plunkett
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/18/2025
By the middle of the twentieth century, Robert Frost was the best-loved poet in America. He was our nation's bard, simple and sincere, accompanying us...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Maya & Natasha: A Novel
by
Elyse Durham
Mariner Books, 02/18/2025
Maya and Natasha are twin sisters born in the midst of the Siege of Leningrad in 1941 and immediately abandoned by their mother, a prima ballerina at ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy
by
Katherine Stewart
Bloomsbury Publishing, 02/18/2025
Why have so many Americans turned against democracy? In this deeply reported book, Katherine Stewart takes us to conferences of conspiracy-mongers, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Nesting: A Novel
by
Roisín O'Donnell
Algonquin Books, 02/18/2025
On a bright spring afternoon, Ciara Fay makes a split-second decision that will change everything. Grabbing an armful of clothes off the clothesline, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce
by
Haley Mlotek
Viking, 02/18/2025
Divorce was everything for Haley Mlotek. As a child, she listened to her twice-divorced grandmother tell stories about her "husbands." As a pre-teen, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Penitence: A Novel
by
Kristin Koval
Celadon, 02/18/2025
When a shocking murder occurs in the home of Angie and David Sheehan, their lives are shattered. Desperate to defend their family, they turn to small-...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Rebel Witch: The Crimson Moth #2
by
Kristen Ciccarelli
Wednesday Books, 02/18/2025
A WITCH...
Rune Winters is on the run. Ever since the boy she loved, Gideon Sharpe, revealed who she was and delivered her into enemy hands, ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Snowy Day and Other Stories
by
Lee Chang-dong
Penguin Press, 02/18/2025
Much like Lee Chang-dong's internationally renowned films (
Burning, Secret Sunshine, and
Poetry), these brilliant, unsettling tales, originally ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Dressmakers of London
by
Julia Kelly
Gallery Books, 02/18/2025
Isabelle Shelton has always found comfort in the predictable world of her mother's dressmaking shop, Mrs. Shelton's Fashions, while her sister Sylvia ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Echoes: A Novel
by
Evie Wyld
Knopf, 02/18/2025
Max didn't believe in an afterlife. Until he died. Now, as a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he is still here, he watches his girlfriend, ...
more
The Girl You Know
by
Elle Gonzalez Rose
Bloomsbury YA, 02/18/2025
The week before Luna's twin sister Solina was supposed to head back for her final semester at Kingswood Academy, an elite boarding school in the ...
more
The Revolutionary Self: Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770-1800
by
Lynn Hunt
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/18/2025
The eighteenth century was a time of cultural friction: individuals began to assert greater independence and there was a new emphasis on social ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Theory & Practice: A Novel
by
Michelle de Kretser
Catapult, 02/18/2025
It's 1986, and "beautiful, radical ideas" are in the air. The narrator of
Theory & Practice, a young woman originally from Sri Lanka, arrives in ...
more
Unhallowed Halls
by
Lili Wilkinson
Delacorte Press, 02/18/2025
Page Whittaker has always been an outcast. And after the deadly incident that destroyed her single friendship at her old school, she needs a fresh ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Upon a Starlit Tide
by
Kell Woods
Tor Books, 02/18/2025
Saint-Malo, Brittany, 1758. To Lucinde Leon, the youngest daughter of a wealthy French shipowner, the high walls of Saint-Malo are more hindrance than...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Yours, Eventually: A Novel
by
Nura Maznavi
Dutton, 02/18/2025
The Ibrahim family is facing a crucial moment: Their patriarch just lost his fortune as the result of a Ponzi scheme, and the family is picking up the...
more
Romance
Debut Author
A Circle of Uncommon Witches: A Novel
by
Paige Crutcher
St. Martin's Griffin, 02/25/2025
Doreen MacKinnon is doomed to die of a broken heart - if she can't break the centuries old curse placed on her family.
Three hundred years ago, ...
more
A House for Miss Pauline: A Novel
by
Diana McCaulay
Algonquin Books, 02/25/2025
When the stones of her house begin to rattle and shift and call out mysterious messages to her in the middle of the night, Pauline Sinclair, age ...
more
A Touch of Blood: A Venom Novel
by
Sajni Patel
Rick Riodan Presents, 02/25/2025
Before Manisha, the youngest of three sisters, was sent to hide on the floating mountain, her eldest sister, Eshani, made a deal with the shades. In ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
All the Parts We Exile
by
Roza Nozari
Knopf Canada, 02/25/2025
As the youngest of three daughters, and the only one born in Canada soon after her parents' emigration from Iran, Roza Nozari began her life hungry ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Boy
by
Nicole Galland
William Morrow, 02/25/2025
Alexander "Sander" Cooke is the most celebrated "boy player" in the Chamberlain's Men, William Shakespeare's theatre company. Indeed, Sander's ...
more
Historical Fiction
Death Takes Me: A Novel
by
Cristina Rivera Garza
Hogarth Books, 02/25/2025
A city is always a cemetery.
A professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles upon the corpse of a mutilated man in a dark alley and reports it ...
more
Deep Cuts: A Novel
by
Holly Brickley
Crown, 02/25/2025
It's a Friday night in a campus bar in Berkeley, fall of 2000, and Percy Marks is pontificating about music again. Hall and Oates is on the jukebox, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact in Fiction
by
Andrea Barrett
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/25/2025
In this thoughtful collection of essays, Andrea Barrett draws from her experiences writing some of the most acclaimed historical fiction of our time ...
more
Fagin the Thief: A Novel
by
Allison Epstein
Doubleday, 02/25/2025
Long before Oliver Twist stumbled onto the scene, Jacob Fagin was scratching out a life for himself in the dark alleys of nineteenth-century London. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Famous Last Words: A Novel
by
Gillian McAllister
William Morrow, 02/25/2025
It is June 21st, the longest day of the year, and new mother Camilla's life is about to change forever. After months of maternity leave, she will drop...
more
Fundamentally: A Novel
by
Nussaibah Younis
Tiny Reparations, 02/25/2025
When Dr. Nadia Amin, a long-suffering academic, publishes an article on the possibility of rehabilitating ISIS brides, the United Nations comes ...
more
Literary Fiction
Knucklehead: Poems
by
Tony Keith Jr.
Quill Tree Books, 02/25/2025
There are poems about the power of language to transcend the racist and homophobic constructs of a society prejudging Black boys. There are poems that...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Living in Your Light
by
Abdellah Taïa
Seven Stories Press, 02/25/2025
Three moments in the life of Malika, a Moroccan countrywoman. From 1954 to 1999. From French colonization to the death of King Hassan II.
It is her...
more
Literary Fiction
Mornings Without Mii
by
Mayumi Inaba
FSG Originals, 02/25/2025
On a cool summer evening in 1977, Mayumi Inaba hears a forlorn cry carried by the breeze off Tokyo's Tamagawa River. She follows the sound to the ...
more
Notes on Surviving the Fire: A Novel
by
Christine Murphy
Knopf, 02/25/2025
At a Ph.D. program in Southern California, Sarah and her best friend, Nathan, spend their time working on their theses, getting high, and keeping ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments
by
Kenneth Roth
Knopf, 02/25/2025
In three decades under the leadership of Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch grew to a staff of more than 500, conducting investigations in 100 countries...
more
Show Don't Tell: Stories
by
Curtis Sittenfeld
Random House, 02/25/2025
In her second story collection, Sittenfeld shows why she's as beloved for her short fiction as she is for her novels. In these dazzling stories, she ...
more
The Boyhood of Cain
by
Michael Amherst
Riverhead Books, 02/25/2025
In the shadow of an ancient abbey nestled between rivers, Daniel is growing up. He is highly intelligent but little understood by his parents, and a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Café with No Name
by
Robert Seethaler
Europa Editions, 02/25/2025
Summer 1966. Robert Simon is in his early thirties and has a dream. Raised in a home for war orphans, Robert has nonetheless grown into a warm-hearted...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Fourth Consort: A Novel
by
Edward Ashton
St. Martin's Griffin, 02/25/2025
Dalton Greaves is a hero. He's one of humankind's first representatives to Unity, a pan-species confederation working to bring all sentient life into ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Last American Heiresses
by
Stephen Greco
A John Scognamiglio Book, 02/25/2025
The press dubs them "the Gold Dust twins." Born within a week of one another in Manhattan in 1912, Doris Duke and Barbara Hutton both inherit ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Other March Sisters
by
Linda Epstein, Ally Malinenko, Liz Parker
Kensington Publishing, 02/25/2025
I'm sure you believe you know their story from reading that other book, which told you an inspiring tale about four sisters. It told you a story, but ...more
Historical Fiction
The Otherwhere Post
by
Emily J. Taylor
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 02/25/2025
Seven years ago, Maeve Abenthy lost everything: her world, her father, even her name. Desperate to escape the stain of her father's crimes, she lives ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe
by
Nancy Goldstone
Little Brown & Company, 02/25/2025
When they married Emperors Franz Joseph and Napoleon III, respectively, Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France became two of the most famous ...
more
The Talent
by
Daniel D'Addario
Gallery/Scout Press, 02/25/2025
As Hollywood prepares for its most glamorous evening, five actresses compete to see who will claim the top prize.
Adria, a dignified and highly ...
more
Tilda Is Visible: A Novel
by
Jane Tara
Crown, 02/25/2025
Tilda Finch is a successful businesswoman, a mother to two wonderful adult daughters, and besides an unexpected divorce, she's living a relatively ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
What You Make of Me: A Novel
by
Sophie Madeline Dess
Penguin Press, 02/25/2025
On the eve of her first solo show, Ava is feeling defiant. The art gallery acolytes have insisted on writing 'explanations' of her paintings for an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
by
Riley Black
St. Martin's Press, 02/25/2025
Fossils plants allow us to touch the lost worlds from billions of years of evolutionary backstory. Each petrified leaf and root show us that dinosaurs...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
When We Grow Up: A Novel
by
Angelica Baker
Flatiron Books, 02/25/2025
Clare is supposed to be the grown-up one. Married to the love of her life, with a major deal for her first novel, she has everything she thought she ...
more
Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers' Rights
by
Ashley Hope Pérez
Holiday House, 03/04/2025
Books are disappearing from shelves across the country.
What does this mean for authors, illustrators, and—most crucially—for young ...
more
Blood Moon
by
Sandra Brown
Grand Central Publishing, 03/04/2025
Detective John Bowie is one misstep away from being fired from the Auclair Police Department in coastal Louisiana. Recently divorced and slightly ...
more
Broken Country
by
Clare Leslie Hall
Simon & Schuster, 03/04/2025
"The farmer is dead. He is dead, and all anyone wants to know is who killed him."
Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, ...
more
Connecting Dots: A Blind Life
by
Joshua A. Miele
Hachette Books, 03/04/2025
At the age of four, Joshua Miele was blinded and badly burned when a delusional neighbor poured sulfuric acid over his head in a crime that shocked ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Days of Shattered Faith: The Tyrant Philosophers #3
by
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Head of Zeus, 03/04/2025
Loret is fresh off the boat, and just in time.
As Cohort-Invigilator of Correct Appreciation, Outreach department, she's here as aide to the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Divining the Leaves
by
Shveta Thakrar
HarperCollins Publishers, 03/04/2025
Plant-loving Ridhi Kapadia and popular Nilesh Batra were friends once.
Now, seventeen and alone, Ridhi blends natural perfumes, wears flower crowns...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dream Count: A Novel
by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Knopf, 03/04/2025
Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices ...
more
Expect Great Things!: How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women
by
Vanda Krefft
Algonquin Books, 03/04/2025
It's a safe bet that most of the secretaries on the TV series
Mad Men would have attended the Katharine Gibbs School in New York City. The iconic...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Firstborn Girls: A Memoir
by
Bernice L. McFadden
Dutton, 03/04/2025
On her second birthday in 1967, Bernice McFadden died in a car crash near Detroit, only to be resuscitated after her mother pulled her from the ...
more
Guatemalan Rhapsody: Stories
by
Jared Lemus
Ecco, 03/04/2025
Ranging from a custodian at an underfunded college to a medicine man living in a temple dedicated to San Simon, the patron saint of alcohol and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
How to Feed the World: The History and Future of Food
by
Vaclav Smil
Viking, 03/04/2025
We have never had to feed as many people as we do today. And yet, we misunderstand the essentials of where our food really comes from, how our dietary...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
I Leave It Up to You: A Novel
by
Jinwoo Chong
Ballantine Books, 03/04/2025
A coma can change a man, but the world Jack Jr. awakens to is one he barely recognizes. His advertising job is history, his Manhattan apartment is ...
more
Kills Well with Others
by
Deanna Raybourn
Berkley Books, 03/04/2025
After more than a year of laying low, Billie, Helen, Mary Alice, and Natalie are called back into action. They have enjoyed their time off, but the ...
more
Kirby's Lessons for Falling (in Love)
by
Laura Gao
HarperAlley, 03/04/2025
Now she's forced to join the newspaper club for some desperately needed extra credit. Worse, she's recruited by crystal-wearing, tarot-reading Bex ...
more
Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star
by
Mayukh Sen
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/04/2025
Merle Oberon attained Hollywood immortality with a nomination for a Best Leading Actress Oscar for her role in the 1935 film
The Dark Angel. It was ...
more
Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today
by
Scott Spillman
Basic Books, 03/04/2025
In recent years, from school board meetings to the halls of Congress, Americans have engaged in fierce debates about how slavery and its legacies ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War
by
Jill Eicher
Pegasus Books, 03/04/2025
Andrew Mellon, one of the most accomplished businessmen of his era, is almost unknown today. To this shy, diffident (but brilliant) man fell the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Nightweaver: Nightweaver #1
by
R.M. Gray
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/04/2025
Six hundred years ago, Nightweavers, cursed beings with untamed power, claimed the continents for their own. The ocean was meant to be a safe haven ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Oathbound: The Legendborn Cycle #3
by
Tracy Deonn
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 03/04/2025
Severed from the Legendborn. Oathbound to a monster.
Bree Matthews is alone. She exiled herself from the Legendborn Order, cut her ancestral ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
On the Clock
by
Claire Baglin
New Directions Publishing, 03/04/2025
Claire Baglin's
On the Clock packs a family saga, a penetrating picture of social inequality, and a coming-of-age story into a compact tale told in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Once Was Willem
by
M. R. Carey
Orbit, 03/04/2025
Eleven hundred and some years after the death of Christ, in the kingdom that had but recently begun to call itself England, I,
Once Was Willem, rose ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
One Step Forward
by
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
HarperCollins Publishers, 03/04/2025
Raised in a politically divided family, Matilda wondered if she could be as courageous as her older sister who fought for suffrage. Joining the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Optional Practical Training: A Novel
by
Shubha Sunder
Graywolf Press, 03/04/2025
Told as a series of conversations,
Optional Practical Training follows Pavitra, a young Indian woman who came to the US for college from Bangalore, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Pieces You'll Never Get Back: A Memoir of Unlikely Survival
by
Samina Ali
Catapult, 03/04/2025
At 29, as a young writer working on her first novel, Samina Ali nearly died giving birth to her son. Miraculously, she survived the unchecked ...
more
Raising Hare: A Memoir
by
Chloe Dalton
Pantheon Books, 03/04/2025
Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Red Dog Farm: A Novel
by
Nathaniel Ian Miller
Little Brown & Company, 03/04/2025
Growing up on his family's cattle farm in western Iceland, young Orri has gained an appreciation for the beauty found in everyday things: the ...
more
Remember This: A Novel
by
Anthony Giardina
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/04/2025
Even though Miranda Rando, a forty-year-old writer living in Brooklyn, is making breakthroughs in her biography of a powerful woman artist, she can't ...
more
Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope
by
Amanda Nguyen
AUWA, 03/04/2025
In 2013, the trajectory of Amanda Nguyen's life was changed forever when she was raped at Harvard.
Determined to not let her assault derail her ...
more
See Friendship: A Novel
by
Jeremy Gordon
Harper Perennial, 03/04/2025
Ahead of looming layoffs within the ongoing decimation of media, Jacob Goldberg, a culture writer in New York, knows what will save him: a podcast.&#...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Seven Social Movements That Changed America
by
Linda Gordon
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 03/04/2025
How do social movements arise, wield power, and bring about meaningful change? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon investigates these and other salient ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Stone Angels
by
Helena Rho
Grand Central Publishing, 03/04/2025
Angelina Lee feels like she doesn't belong. Newly divorced, and completely unmoored by the sudden and tragic death of her mother, she hopes studying ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Strange Bedfellows
by
Ariel Slamet Ries
HarperAlley, 03/04/2025
In the not-too-distant future, most of humanity resides on its last-ditch effort at utopia: Meridian, a remote alien planet where you're more likely ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
by
Russell Shorto
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/04/2025
In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Boxcar Librarian: A Novel
by
Brianna Labuskes
William Morrow, 03/04/2025
When Works Progress Administration (WPA) editor Millie Lang finds herself on the wrong end of a potential political scandal, she's shipped off to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Dream Hotel: A Novel
by
Laila Lalami
Pantheon Books, 03/04/2025
Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The King's Messenger
by
Susanna Kearsley
Sourcebooks Landmark, 03/04/2025
It is the year 1613, and King James is sending his messenger Andrew Logan into Scotland with secret orders to arrest Sir David Moray, close friend and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball
by
John W. Miller
Avid Reader Press, 03/04/2025
Long before the
Moneyball-era, the Earl of Baltimore reigned over baseball. History's feistiest and most colorful manager, Earl Weaver transformed the...
more
The Persians: A Novel
by
Sanam Mahloudji
Scribner, 03/04/2025
Meet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they're nobodies.
First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The River Has Roots
by
Amal El-Mohtar
Tordotcom, 03/04/2025
"Oh what is stronger than a death? Two sisters singing with one breath."
In the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, dwells the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Scorpion and the Night Blossom: The Three Realms #1
by
Amélie Wen Zhao
Delacorte Press, 03/04/2025
Nine years ago, the war between the Kingdom of Night and the Kingdom of Rivers tore Àn'yīng's family apart, leaving her mother barely alive ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir
by
Martha S. Jones
Basic Books, 03/04/2025
Suspicious of the color of her skin and the texture of her hair, he confronted her with a question that inspired a lifetime of introspection: "Who do ...
more
The Unworthy: A Novel
by
Agustina Bazterrica
Scribner, 03/04/2025
From her cell in a mysterious convent, a woman writes the story of her life in whatever she can find—discarded ink, dirt, and even her own blood...
more
The Vanishing Kind: Alex Carter Series #4
by
Alice Henderson
William Morrow, 03/04/2025
When wildlife biologist Alex Carter is tasked with locating jaguars on a vast desert preserve in New Mexico, she is ecstatic. While jaguars once ...
more
Thrillers
They Bloom at Night
by
Trang Thanh Tran
Bloomsbury YA, 03/04/2025
Since the hurricane, the town of Mercy, Louisiana has been overtaken by a strange red algae bloom. Noon and her mother have carved out a life in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women's Ascent of Denali
by
Cassidy Randall
Abrams Press, 03/04/2025
Cassidy Randall draws on extensive archival research and original interviews to tell an engrossing, edge-of-the-seat adventure story about a forgotten...
more
Biography/Memoir
Ultramarine
by
Mariette Navarro
Deep Vellum Publishing, 03/04/2025
A female captain in a male-dominated field, the unnamed narrator of
Ultramarine has secured her success through strict adherence to protocol; she...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Universality: A Novel
by
Natasha Brown
Random House, 03/04/2025
Late one night on a Yorkshire farm, in the midst of an illegal rave, a young man is nearly bludgeoned to death with a solid gold bar.
An ambitious...
more
We Pretty Pieces of Flesh: A Novel
by
Colwill Brown
Henry Holt and Company, 03/04/2025
"Ask anyone non-Northern, they'll only know Donny as punchline of a joke or place they changed trains once ont way to London." But Doncaster's also ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
When the Bones Sing
by
Ginny Myers Sain
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/04/2025
The past three years have been tough for Lucifer's Creek, Arkansas, a small town quietly tucked away in the Ozark mountains. More than two dozen ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Wild Dark Shore: A Novel
by
Charlotte McConaghy
Flatiron Books, 03/04/2025
A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon.
Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Woodworking
by
Emily St. James
Zando, 03/04/2025
Erica Skyberg is thirty-five years old, recently divorced―and trans. Not that she's told anyone yet. Mitchell, South Dakota, isn't exactly ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
33 Place Brugmann
by
Alice Austen
Grove Press, 03/11/2025
On the eve of the Nazi occupation, in the heart of Brussels, life for the residents of eight apartments at 33 Place Brugmann is about to change ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe
by
Mahogany L. Browne
Crown Books for Young Readers, 03/11/2025
In New York City, teens, their families, and their communities feel the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic. Amidst the fear and loss, these teens and the ...
more
All the Other Mothers Hate Me
by
Sarah Harman
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/11/2025
Florence Grimes is a thirty-one-year-old party girl who always takes the easy way out. Single, broke and unfulfilled after the humiliating end to her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
America, Let Me In: A Choose Your Immigration Story
by
Felipe Torres Medina
Abrams Image, 03/11/2025
Born in Colombia, Felipe Torres Medina moved to the US at the age of 21 and has spent over ten years of his life both navigating the chaos and ...
more
Care and Feeding: A Memoir
by
Laurie Woolever
Ecco, 03/11/2025
In this moving, hilarious, and insightful memoir, Laurie Woolever traces her path from a small-town childhood to working at revered restaurants and ...
more
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
by
Sarah Wynn-Williams
Flatiron Books, 03/11/2025
From trips on private jets and encounters with world leaders to shocking accounts of misogyny and double standards behind the scenes, this searing ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Close to Home: The Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door
by
Thor Hanson
Basic Books, 03/11/2025
We all live on nature's doorstep, but we often overlook it. From backyards to local parks, the natural places we see the most may well be the ones we ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin
by
Andre Dubus III
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/11/2025
During childhood summers in Louisiana, Andre Dubus III's grandfather taught him that men's work is hard. As an adult, whether tracking down a drug ...
more
Girl Falling: A Novel
by
Hayley Scrivenor
Flatiron Books, 03/11/2025
Torn between her girlfriend, Magdu, and her best friend, Daphne, Finn is looking forward to a day of rock climbing and bonding for the three women on ...
more
Goddess Complex: A Novel
by
Sanjena Sathian
Penguin Press, 03/11/2025
Sanjana Satyanandais trying to recover her life. It's been a year since she walked out on her husband, a struggling actor named Killian, at a commune ...
more
Just Want You Here: A Novel
by
Meredith Turits
Little A, 03/11/2025
The only love Ari has known is Morgan. Engaged and planning a life with him in New York, Ari is shocked when Morgan sits her down one rainy afternoon ...
more
Literary Fiction
Liquid: A Love Story
by
Mariam Rahmani
Algonquin Books, 03/11/2025
The unnamed Iranian-Indian American narrator of
Liquid has always believed herself to be the smartest person in the room. And from an early age, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy
by
Bridgett M. Davis
Harper, 03/11/2025
In
Love, Rita, Bridgett M. Davis tells the story of her beloved older sister, a vivacious woman who in leaving home to attend Fisk ...
more
Luminous
by
Silvia Park
Simon & Schuster, 03/11/2025
In a reunified Korea of the future, robots have been integrated into society as surrogates, servants, children, and even lovers. Though boundaries ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful
by
David Enrich
Mariner Books, 03/11/2025
It was a quiet way to announce a revolution: In an obscure 2019 case that the Supreme Court refused to even hear, Justice Clarence Thomas raised the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
On Air: The Triumph and Tumult of NPR
by
Steve Oney
Avid Reader Press, 03/11/2025
Founded in 1970, NPR is America's most powerful broadcast news network. Despite being overshadowed by the larger and more glamorous PBS, public radio ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Rebel Queen: The Cold War, Misogyny, and the Making of a Grandmaster
by
Susan Polgar
Grand Central Publishing, 03/11/2025
Born to a poor Jewish family in Cold War Budapest, Susan Polgar would emerge as the one of the greatest female chess players the world had ever seen.
...
more
Biography/Memoir
Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories
by
Torrey Peters
Random House, 03/11/2025
In this collection of one novel and three novellas, Torrey Peters's keen eye for the rough edges of community and desire push the limits of trans ...
more
Sucker Punch
by
Scaachi Koul
St. Martin's Press, 03/11/2025
Scaachi Koul's first book was a collection of raw, perceptive, and hilarious essays reckoning with the issues of race, body image, love, friendship, ...
more
The Anatomy of Magic: A Novel
by
J.C. Cervantes
Park Row, 03/11/2025
Lilian Estrada seemingly has it all: an ob-gyn star on the rise, a master at balancing work with whirlwind romances and part of a family of fiercely ...
more
The Antidote: A Novel
by
Karen Russell
Knopf, 03/11/2025
The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Broken King
by
Michael Thomas
Grove Press, 03/11/2025
In 2007, Michael Thomas launched into the literary world with his award-winning first novel
Man Gone Down, a beautiful and devastating story of a ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Californians: A Novel
by
Brian Castleberry
Mariner Books, 03/11/2025
It's 2024, and Tobey Harlan—college dropout, temporary waiter, recently dumped—steals from the wall of his father's house three ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Four Queens of Crime
by
Rosanne Limoncelli
Crooked Lane Books, 03/11/2025
1938, London. The four queens of British crime fiction, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, and Margery Allingham, are hosting a gala to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Jackal's Mistress: A Novel
by
Chris Bohjalian
Doubleday, 03/11/2025
Virginia, 1864—Libby Steadman's husband has been away for so long that she can barely conjure his voice in her dreams. While she longs for him ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York
by
Elon Green
Celadon, 03/11/2025
At twenty-five years old, Michael Stewart was a young Black aspiring artist, deejay, and model, looking to make a name for himself in the vibrant ...
more
The Trouble Up North
by
Travis Mulhauser
Grand Central Publishing, 03/11/2025
The Sawbrooks have lived on prime real estate on the lakes of Michigan since before there was prime real estate. A family of smugglers and bootleggers...
more
Thrillers
The Wild Dark
by
Katherine Harbour
Bloomsbury YA, 03/11/2025
Once an outcast and an orphan, Evie Wilder now finds herself as the new leader of the Dark Fable. But the secret group of globetrotting thieves is not...
more
Thrillers
The Women on Platform Two
by
Laura Anthony
Gallery Books, 03/11/2025
Dublin, 1969: Maura has just married Dr. Christy Davenport and they look forward to growing their family. But as her husband's vicious temper emerges,...
more
These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means
by
Christopher Summerfield
Viking, 03/11/2025
In this accessible, up-to-date, and authoritative examination of the world's most radical technology, neuroscientist and AI researcher Christopher ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Tongues, Volume 1
by
Anders Nilsen
Pantheon Books, 03/11/2025
Set in a version of modern Central Asia,
Tongues is a retelling of the Greek myth of Prometheus. It follows the captive god's friendship with the ...
more
Unusual Fragments: Japanese Stories
by
Inagaki Taruho
Two Lines Press, 03/11/2025
A young storm-chaser welcomes a jaded woman into the eye of a storm. The last man of a peculiar family, implausibly tiny in stature, attends a Mozart ...
more
Short Stories
Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses
by
Peter Wolf
Little Brown & Company, 03/11/2025
Peter Wolf grew up in the Bronx, a child of "fellow travelers" whose artistic inclinations influenced both his love of music and his initial desire to...
more
Biography/Memoir
Warbody: A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Modern Warfare
by
Joshua Howe, Alexander Lemons
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/11/2025
Alexander Lemons is a Marine Corps scout sniper who, after serving multiple tours during the Iraq War, returned home seriously and mysteriously ill. ...
more
You Deserve to Know
by
Aggie Blum Thompson
Forge Books, 03/11/2025
Neighbors Gwen, Aimee, and Lisa share more than playdates and coffee mornings on their tranquil street in East Bethesda. They confide their deepest ...
more
A Catalog of Burnt Objects
by
Shana Youngdahl
Dial Books, 03/18/2025
Seventeen-year-old Caprice wants to piece her family back together now that her older brother has returned home, even as she resents that he ever ...
more
A Map to Paradise
by
Susan Meissner
Berkley Books, 03/18/2025
With her name on the Hollywood blacklist and her life on hold, starlet Melanie Cole has little choice in company. There is her next-door neighbor, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Abundance
by
Ezra Klein
Avid Reader Press, 03/18/2025
To trace the history of the twenty-first century so far is to trace a history of unaffordability and shortage. After years of refusing to build ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Alive: Our Bodies and the Richness and Brevity of Existence
by
Gabriel Weston
David R. Godine, 03/18/2025
What does it mean to live in a body? For Gabriel Weston, there was always something missing from the anatomy she was taught at medical school. She'd ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Animal Instinct
by
Amy Shearn
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/18/2025
It's spring of 2020 and Rachel Bloomstein—mother of three, recent divorcée, and Brooklynite—is stuck inside. But her newly awakened ...
more
Chloe: A Novel of Secrets and Lies
by
Connie Briscoe
Amistad, 03/18/2025
A mansion haunted by the ghost of a cool, charismatic first wife. A second bride from a small Southern town who may be in over her head. A brooding ...
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Thrillers
Edgar Allan Poe: A Life
by
Richard Kopley
University of Virginia Press, 03/18/2025
Edgar Allan Poe: A Life is the most comprehensive critical biography of Poe yet produced, exploring his fascinating life, his extraordinary work, and ...
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Everybody Says It's Everything: A Novel
by
Xhenet Aliu
Random House, 03/18/2025
Raised in Connecticut, adopted twins Drita and Petrit (aka Pete) had no connection to their Albanian heritage. Their lives were all about Barbie dolls...
more
Literary Fiction
Firstborn: A Memoir
by
Lauren Christensen
Penguin Press, 03/18/2025
"Some days I still think this is all just a sad story I'll tell Simone one day."
Lauren Christensen is a thirtysomething editor in New York City ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust
by
Lucy Adlington
Harper, 03/18/2025
Jock Heidenstein, Anita Lasker, Chana Zumerkorn, and Regina Feldman all faced the Holocaust in different ways. While they did not know each other&#...
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Hangry Hearts
by
Jennifer Chen
Wednesday Books, 03/18/2025
Julie Wu and Randall Hur used to be best friends. Now they only see each other on Saturdays at the Pasadena Farmers Market where their once close ...
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His Mortal Demise: The Last Bloodcarver #2
by
Vanessa Le
Roaring Brook Press, 03/18/2025
Kochin is a heartsooth — a rare being with the ability to heal any wound. Any wound, that is, except death.
Intent on defying nature and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Hot Air: A Novel
by
Marcy Dermansky
Knopf, 03/18/2025
Joannie hadn't been on a date in seven years when Johnny invites Joannie and her daughter to dinner. His house is beautiful, his son is sweet, and ...
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Hunchback: A Novel
by
Saou Ichikawa
Hogarth Books, 03/18/2025
Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka spends her days in her room in a care home outside Tokyo, relying on an electric wheelchair to get ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
If You Were My Daughter: A Memoir of Healing an Unmothered Heart
by
Marianne Richmond
Sourcebooks, 03/18/2025
At nine years old, Marianne Richmond's life is upended when she collapses on her kitchen floor with full-body convulsions. "Pinched nerve," says the ...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
In My Remaining Years
by
Jean Grae
Flatiron Books, 03/18/2025
In My Remaining Years, by creative juggernaut Jean Grae, debunks the myth that coming-of-age narratives should be reserved for the kids, providing a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children
by
Noliwe Rooks
Pantheon Books, 03/18/2025
On May 17, 1954 the landmark case
Brown v. Board of Education determined that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. Heralded as a ...
more
Killer Potential: A Novel
by
Hannah Deitch
William Morrow, 03/18/2025
A scholarship kid with straight As and big dreams, Evie Gordon always thought she was special, that she'd be someone. But after graduating from an ...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War
by
Michael Vorenberg
Knopf, 03/18/2025
We set out on the James River, March 25, 1865, aboard the paddle steamboat River Queen. President Lincoln is on his way to General Grant's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
O Sinners!: A Novel
by
Nicole Cuffy
One World, 03/18/2025
Faruq Zaidi, a young journalist processing the recent death of his father, a devout Muslim, takes the opportunity to embed himself in a cult called "...
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Our Beautiful Boys: A Novel
by
Sameer Pandya
Ballantine Books, 03/18/2025
Vikram Shastri has always been a good kid. He's got a 4.6 GPA, listens to his parents, barely hits the parties, and is on track for a fancy college. ...
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Literary Fiction
Rooms for Vanishing: A Novel
by
Stuart Nadler
Dutton, 03/18/2025
Everyone had been survived into different futures and I would never see any of them again. I could sense this. I would hear them in their separate ...more
Stop Me If You've Heard This One: A Novel
by
Kristen Arnett
Riverhead Books, 03/18/2025
Cherry Hendricks might be down on her luck, but she can write the book on what makes something funny: she's a professional clown who creates raucous, ...
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The Girl Who Flew Away
by
Lee Dean
Iron Circus Comics, 03/18/2025
Bunking with total strangers to await and hide the birth of her boss's child, she finds herself unmoored and friendless in the sun-and-fun-obsessed ...
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The House No One Sees
by
Adina King
Feiwel & Friends, 03/18/2025
After a text from her estranged mother rips her away from a night with friends, Penny is forced into a kaleidoscope of memories locked inside the dark...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Hymn to Dionysus
by
Natasha Pulley
Bloomsbury Publishing, 03/18/2025
Raised in a Greek legion, Phaidros has been taught to follow his commander's orders at all costs. But when Phaidros rescues a baby from a fire at ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Love We Found
by
Jill Santopolo
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/18/2025
It's been ten years. In case you're out there somewhere. In case you're listening, I'm here. And I have so much to tell you.
It's been nearly ten...
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Romance
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
by
Joshua Hammer
Simon & Schuster, 03/18/2025
It was one of history's great vanishing acts.
Around 3,400 BCE—as humans were gathering in complex urban settlements—a scribe in the ...
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The Paris Express: A Novel
by
Emma Donoghue
Summit Books, 03/18/2025
Based on an 1895 disaster that went down in history when it was captured in a series of surreal, extraordinary photographs,
The Paris Express is a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Theft: A Novel
by
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Riverhead Books, 03/18/2025
At the turn of the twenty-first century, three young people come of age in Tanzania. Karim returns to his sleepy hometown after university with new ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
True Life in Uncanny Valley
by
Deb Caletti
Labyrinth Road, 03/18/2025
Eleanor, like so many others, is used to watching her famous father from afar. To the world, Hugo Harrison is the brilliant and charismatic tech ...
more
All Our Beautiful Goodbyes: A Novel
by
Julianne MacLean
Lake Union Publishing, 03/25/2025
1946: World War II is over, and Emma Clarkson is poised to take flight. With dreams of attending university, she's ready to leave behind the wild ...
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Literary Fiction
Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets and the Fever Dream of the American New Age
by
Leah Sottile
Grand Central Publishing, 03/25/2025
Known for deep dives into true crime, extremist ideologies and fringe subcultures, journalist Leah Sottile turns her investigative eye toward American...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Blood on Her Tongue
by
Johanna van Veen
Poisoned Pen Press, 03/25/2025
The Netherlands, 1887. Lucy's twin sister Sarah is unwell. She refuses to eat, mumbles nonsensically, and is increasingly obsessed with a centuries-...
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Counting Backwards
by
Binnie Kirshenbaum
Soho Press, 03/25/2025
It begins with hallucinations. From their living room window, Leo sees a man on stilts, an acting troupe, a pair of swans paddling on the street. ...
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Free: My Search for Meaning
by
Amanda Knox
Grand Central Publishing, 03/25/2025
Though she was exonerated, it's taken more than a decade for her to reclaim her identity and truly feel free.
Free recounts how Knox survived ...
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Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert: A Novel
by
Bob the Drag Queen
Gallery Books, 03/25/2025
In an age of miracles where our greatest heroes from history have magically, unexplainably returned to shake us out of our confusion and hate, Harriet...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
I Am the Swarm
by
Hayley Chewins
Viking, 03/25/2025
As far back as anyone can remember, the women of the Strand family have been magical.
Their gifts manifest when they each turn fifteen, always in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South
by
Jeanne Theoharis
The New Press, 03/25/2025
The Martin Luther King Jr. of popular memory vanquished Jim Crow in the South. But in this myth-shattering book, award-winning and
New York Times...more
Lucky Night: A Novel
by
Eliza Kennedy
Crown, 03/25/2025
Nick Holloway is forty-six. A successful partner at a law firm, he has a gorgeous wife, a precious daughter, and a big house. If he also has gnawing ...
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Retreat: A Novel
by
Krysten Ritter
Harper, 03/25/2025
Liz Dawson weaves through a crowd with the ease of a tropical breeze, moving seamlessly through elite circles, sparking instant connections and making...
more
Saltwater: A Novel
by
Katy Hays
Ballantine Books, 03/25/2025
In 1992, Sarah Lingate is found dead below the cliffs of Capri, leaving behind her three-year-old daughter, Helen. Despite suspicions that the old-...
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Sister Europe: A Novel
by
Nell Zink
Knopf, 03/25/2025
Naema, an elderly princess dedicated to her pet causes, is in a bind: struck by a malady that maroons her in Montreux, she's unable to host an ...
more
Sons and Daughters: A Novel
by
Chaim Grade
Knopf, 03/25/2025
"It is me the prophet laments when he cries out, 'My enemies are the people in my own home.'" The Rabbi ignored his borscht and instead chewed on a ...more
The Agonies
by
Ben Faulkner
Arcade Publishing, 03/25/2025
Armand Bernal is breaking apart. The trials of youth become a torrential odyssey of dislocation and disorientation. In this bildungsroman for our ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The BookBrowse Anthology
by
BookBrowse
BookBrowse, 03/25/2025
Where can you find Pulitzer, Nobel, Booker, and National Book Award Winners alongside bestsellers and hidden gems? For over 20 years, BookBrowse has ...
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Other
The Evening Shades
by
Lee Martin
Melville House, 03/25/2025
One afternoon in the autumn of 1972, a lonely widow in Mt. Gilead, Illinois, makes the impromptu decision to rent out a room in her house to a ...
more
The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue: A Story of Climate and Hope on One American Street
by
Mike Tidwell
St. Martin's Press, 03/25/2025
In 2023, author and activist Mike Tidwell decided to keep a record for a full year of the growing impacts of climate change on his one urban block ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Reluctant Sheriff: The Mick Hardin Novels #4
by
Chris Offutt
Grove Press, 03/25/2025
Lauded as a "masterclass in the craft of crime fiction" (
CrimeReads), Chris Offutt's beloved and critically acclaimed Mick Hardin series is an ...
more
The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree
by
India Hayford
A John Scognamiglio Book, 03/25/2025
Genevieve Charbonneau talks to ghosts and has a special relationship with rattlesnakes. In her travels, she's wandered throughout the South, escaping ...
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Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Unwanted: A Novel
by
Boris Fishman
Harper, 03/25/2025
Susanna, George, and their eight-year-old daughter, Dina, have been lucky, so far, in these four years since war broke out in their country. Even as ...
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Thrilled to Death: Selected Stories
by
Lynne Tillman
Soft Skull Press, 03/25/2025
Among the vanguard of American literary writers, Lynne Tillman's work has defied categorization throughout her legendary career—a singular body ...
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Tilt: A Novel
by
Emma Pattee
Simon & Schuster, 03/25/2025
Last night, you and I were safe. Last night, in another universe, your father and I stood fighting in the kitchen.
Annie is nine months pregnant ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
To Steal from Thieves
by
M.K. Lobb
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/25/2025
Within the dazzling halls of London's Crystal Palace, the event of the season has arrived: The Great Exhibition. An opportunity for the greatest minds...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Trauma Plot: A Life
by
Jamie Hood
Pantheon Books, 03/25/2025
In the thick of lockdown, 2020, poet, critic, and memoirist Jamie Hood published her debut,
How to Be a Good Girl, an interrogation of modern ...
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Twist: A Novel
by
Colum McCann
Random House, 03/25/2025
"Everything gets fixed, and we all stay broken."
Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the underwater cables ...
more
When the Moon Hits Your Eye
by
John Scalzi
Tor Books, 03/25/2025
The moon has turned into cheese.
Now humanity has to deal with it.
For some it's an opportunity. For others it's a moment to question their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
When We Ride: A Novel
by
Rex Ogle
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/25/2025
Diego Benevides works hard. His single mother encourages him to stay focused on school, on getting into college, on getting out of their crumbling ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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, ...
more
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-...
more
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...
more
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 ...
more
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,...
more
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...
more
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 ...
more
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...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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,...
more
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 ...
more
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,...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
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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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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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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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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Short Stories
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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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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Biography/Memoir
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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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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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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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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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 ...
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Mysteries
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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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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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 ...
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Literary Fiction
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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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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Literary Fiction
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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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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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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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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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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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, ...
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Literary Fiction
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...
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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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Mysteries
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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Happiness and Love: A Novel
by
Zoe Dubno
Scribner, 04/22/2025
Years after escaping New York and the center of its artistic world—a group of self-important, depraved, and unscrupulous artists, curators, and ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
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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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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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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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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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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Biography/Memoir
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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Essays
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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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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Thrillers
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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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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Biography/Memoir
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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Biography/Memoir
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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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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Biography/Memoir
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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Historical Fiction
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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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI
by
John Cassidy
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/29/2025
At a time when artificial intelligence, climate change, and inequality are raising fundamental questions about the economic system,
Capitalism and Its...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
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
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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Biography/Memoir
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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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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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
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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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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Romance
Debut Author
Sleeping Children: A Novel
by
Anthony Passeron
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/29/2025
Writing is the only way for my uncle's story, my family's story, not to disappear with them, with the town. To show them that Désiré's life ...more
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
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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Short Stories
The Boy from the Sea: A Novel
by
Garrett Carr
Knopf, 04/29/2025
In Donegal, Ireland, 1973, a baby boy is found on the beach of a close-knit fishing village. After the baby has been carried through the crowd of ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
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 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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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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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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Literary Fiction
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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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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Literary Fiction
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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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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Literary Fiction
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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Biography/Memoir
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
The Best We Could Hope For: A Novel
by
Nicola Kraus
Little A, 05/01/2025
When Bunny Linden abandons her three children with her older sister, Jayne, in 1972, she knows Jayne will be the perfect mother. The mother Bunny, a ...
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Literary Fiction
All the Mothers: A Novel
by
Domenica Ruta
Random House, 05/06/2025
Sandy thought she was making her greatest mistake yet when she got unexpectedly pregnant in her mid-thirties by a dating-app flop. Now, her baby Rosie...
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Literary Fiction
Are You Happy?: Stories
by
Lori Ostlund
Astra House, 05/06/2025
An aspiring veterinarian survives a plane crash and starts life over in California. A woman mourns the loss of her childhood friend's innocence and ...
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Backroom Deals in Our Backyards: How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back
by
Miranda S. Spivack
The New Press, 05/06/2025
Most Americans are likely to encounter the effects of government malfeasance or neglect close to home—from their governors, mayors, town ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Daughters: A Novel
by
Kirsty Capes
The Overlook Press, 05/06/2025
When Mattie and Nora's mother, the brilliant, troubled, and world-renowned Norwegian painter Ingrid Olssen, was on her deathbed, there was one promise...
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Literary Fiction
Dianaworld: An Obsession
by
Edward White
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/06/2025
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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Biography/Memoir
Forged: A Novel
by
Danielle Teller
Pegasus Books, 05/06/2025
In the Gilded Age, a time of abject poverty and obscene wealth, a desperate and ambitious young woman strikes out for a new life in the rising ...
more
Historical Fiction
Four Mothers: An Intimate Journey through the First Year of Parenthood in Four Countries
by
Abigail Leonard
Algonquin Books, 05/06/2025
Utterly moving and addictively readable from page one, the book begins with the pregnancies and labor experiences of Anna in Finland, Tsukasa in Japan...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Girls with Long Shadows: A Novel
by
Tennessee Hill
Harper, 05/06/2025
Identical triplets Baby A, Baby B, and Baby C Binderup were welcomed into the world as their mother was ushered out of it, leaving them nameless and ...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
His Face Is the Sun: Throne of Khetara #1
by
Michelle Jabès Corpora
Sourcebooks Fire, 05/06/2025
Desire, War, Magic, Monsters...a forgotten oracle will unite them against an ancient enemy. But who will be on the throne when the red dust of Khetara...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Home of the American Circus: A Novel
by
Allison Larkin
Gallery Books, 05/06/2025
After an emergency leaves her short on rent, thirty-year-old Freya Arnalds bails on her lackluster life as bartender in Maine and returns to her ...
more
Literary Fiction
Lessons from My Teachers: From Preschool to the Present
by
Sarah Ruhl
Simon & Schuster, 05/06/2025
Based on her popular class at Yale, this masterful, intimate essay collection from one of our greatest living playwrights and teachers, Sarah Ruhl, is...
more
Essays
Michael Without Apology: A Novel
by
Catherine Ryan Hyde
Lake Union Publishing, 05/06/2025
Michael Woodbine was seven years old when a near-fatal fireworks accident scarred him and led to his placement in foster care. Now a college freshman,...
more
Literary Fiction
Misophonia: A Novel
by
Dana Vowinckel
HarperVia, 05/06/2025
It's the hottest of summers in Chicago, and fifteen-year-old Margarita is spending her vacation as usual, under the not-so-watchful eyes of her aging ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
My Name Is Emilia del Valle: A Novel
by
Isabel Allende
Ballantine Books, 05/06/2025
In San Francisco in 1866, an Irish nun, abandoned following a torrid relationship with a Chilean aristocrat, gives birth to a daughter named Emilia ...
more
Historical Fiction
Old School Indian: A Novel
by
Aaron John Curtis
Zando, 05/06/2025
Abe Jacobs is Kanien'kehá:ka from Ahkwesáhsne―or, as white people say, a Mohawk Indian from the Saint Regis Tribe. At eighteen, Abe ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age
by
Amanda Hess
Doubleday, 05/06/2025
In the summer of 2020, a routine ultrasound detected a mysterious abnormality in Hess's baby. Without hesitation, she reached for her phone, looking ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger during World War II
by
Becky Aikman
Bloomsbury Publishing, 05/06/2025
They were crop dusters and debutantes, college girls and performers in flying circuses-all of them trained as pilots. Because they were women, they ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Director: A Novel
by
Daniel Kehlmann
Summit Books, 05/06/2025
An artist's life, a pact with the devil, and the dangerous illusions of the silver screen.
G.W. Pabst, one of cinema's greatest directors of the ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Invisible Wild
by
Nikki Van De Car
Running Press Publishers, 05/06/2025
According to legend, when the kanaka 'ōiwi sailed over two thousand miles across untraveled seas to the most remote island chain in the world, ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Manor of Dreams
by
Christina Li
Avid Reader Press, 05/06/2025
Vivian Yin is dead. The first Chinese actress to win an Oscar, the trailblazing ingénue rose to fame in the eighties, only to disappear from the ...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Names: A Novel
by
Florence Knapp
Pamela Dorman Books, 05/06/2025
In the wake of a catastrophic storm, Cora sets off with her nine-year-old daughter, Maia, to register her son's birth. Her husband, Gordon, a local ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Ones We Loved: A Novel
by
Tarisai Ngangura
Park Row, 05/06/2025
On a bus moving across rural landscapes from town to town, two young people are escaping with nothing to hold except hope. She has committed a ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The River Is Waiting: A Novel
by
Wally Lamb
Simon & Schuster, 05/06/2025
Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Wanderer's Curse: A Memoir
by
Jennifer Hope Choi
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/06/2025
When Jennifer Hope Choi first stumbled upon the "curse" known as yeokmasal―an allegedly inheritable affliction causing one to roam farther and ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Words of Dr. L: & Other Stories
by
Karen E. Bender
Counterpoint Press, 05/06/2025
Grounded in both the contemporary United States and a variety of dystopias, the new stories in Karen E. Bender's third collection examine the evolving...
more
Short Stories
This Is Your Mother: A Memoir
by
Erika J. Simpson
Scribner, 05/06/2025
Growing up, Erika Simpson's mother loomed large, almost biblical in her life. A daughter of sharecroppers, middle child of ten, her origin story ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
This Thing of Ours
by
Frederick Joseph
Candlewick Press, 05/06/2025
In an instant, Ossie Brown's entire future is in jeopardy when a torn ACL ends his promising basketball career. Now that basketball is no longer a ...
more
Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing
by
Lili Taylor
Crown, 05/06/2025
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. ...
more
Essays
Twelve Post-War Tales
by
Graham Swift
Knopf, 05/06/2025
Here are the soldiers and doctors and veterans, wives and lovers and children, who have been affected in ways both subtle and profound by the ...
more
Short Stories
Wake the Wild Creatures
by
Nova Ren Suma
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 05/06/2025
Three years ago, Talia lived happily in the ruins of the Neves, a once-grand hotel in the wilds of the Catskill Mountains, with her mother Pola and ...
more
Literary Fiction
Warhol's Muses: The Artists, Misfits, and Superstars Destroyed by the Factory Fame Machine
by
Laurence Leamer
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/06/2025
"Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil," Andy Warhol confessed, "of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Anima Rising: A Novel
by
Christopher Moore
William Morrow, 05/13/2025
Vienna, 1911. Gustav Klimt, the most famous painter in the Austrian Empire, the darling of Viennese society, spots a woman's nude body in the Danube ...
more
Historical Fiction
Awake in the Floating City: A Novel
by
Susanna Kwan
Pantheon Books, 05/13/2025
Bo knows she shouldgo. Years of rain have drowned the city and almost everyone else has fled. Her mother was carried away in a storm surge and ever ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Bear Witness: A Crusade for Justice in a Violent Land
by
Ross Halperin
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 05/13/2025
As young men, Kurt Ver Beek, an American sociologist, and Carlos Hernández, a Honduran schoolteacher, devoted their lives to helping the poor. ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Eliza, from Scratch
by
Sophia Lee
Quill & Quire, 05/13/2025
Eliza Park's senior year will be perfect: She's going to be salutatorian, give a tear-jerking graduation speech in front of her parents, and enjoy her...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Family & Other Calamities: A Novel
by
Leslie Gray Streeter
Lake Union Publishing, 05/13/2025
Entertainment journalist Dawn Roberts has a lot to work through: a widow's grief, betrayals of family and friends, and scandals that almost tanked her...
more
Literary Fiction
Home Has No Borders
by
Samira Ahmed
HarperCollins Publishers, 05/13/2025
From first crushes to first heartbreaks, complicated family dynamics to community relationships, this powerful collection of stories explores race, ...
more
Literary Fiction
Insectopolis: A Natural History
by
Peter Kuper
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/13/2025
This visually immersive work of graphic nonfiction dives into a world where ants, cicadas, bees, and butterflies visit a library exhibition that ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil: A Novel
by
Oliver Darkshire
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/13/2025
This debut novel by beloved rare bookseller and memoirist Oliver Darkshire reimagines the
Decameron heroine Isabella (with her creepy pot of basil) in...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Marble Hall Murders: A Novel
by
Anthony Horowitz
Harper, 05/13/2025
Editor Susan Ryeland has left her Greek island, her hotel, and her Greek boyfriend Andreas in search of a new life back in England.
Freelancing ...
more
Mysteries
Metallic Realms: A Novel
by
Lincoln Michel
Atria Books, 05/13/2025
Perennially single, socially awkward, and drowning in debt, Michael Lincoln's life has turned out nothing like the intergalactic pulp heroes of his ...
more
Literary Fiction
Run for the Hills: A Novel
by
Kevin Wilson
Ecco, 05/13/2025
Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago, it's just been Madeline Hill and her mom on their farm in Coalfield, Tennessee. While she sometimes ...
more
Literary Fiction
Sleep: A Novel
by
Honor Jones
Riverhead Books, 05/13/2025
Every parent exists inside of two families simultaneously – the one she was born into, and the one she has made.
Ten-year-old Margaret hides ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color
by
Caro De Robertis
Algonquin Books, 05/13/2025
So Many Stars knits together the voices of trans, nonbinary, genderqueer and two-spirit elders of color as they share authentic, intimate ...
more
Biography/Memoir
State Champ
by
Hilary Plum
Bloomsbury Publishing, 05/13/2025
A high-school state champion runner turned college dropout, Angela is working as a receptionist at an abortion clinic when a "heartbeat law" ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon's Enduring Impact on America
by
Mark Whitaker
Simon & Schuster, 05/13/2025
Malcolm X has become as much of an American icon as Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, or Martin Luther King. But when he was murdered in 1965, he was ...
more
The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin
by
Daniel Brook
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/13/2025
More than a century ago, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld first argued that gender and sexuality were fluid. Dubbed "the Einstein of Sex," Hirschfeld grew famous...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Emperor of Gladness: A Novel
by
Ocean Vuong
Penguin Press, 05/13/2025
One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting ...
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Literary Fiction
The Incandescent
by
Emily Tesh
Tor Books, 05/13/2025
"
Look at you, eating magic like you're one of us."
Doctor Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood School and one of the most powerful magicians...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties
by
Dennis McNally
Da Capo, 05/13/2025
Few cities represent the countercultural movement of the 1960s more than San Francisco. By that decade, the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood was home to ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Red House: A Novel
by
Mary Morris
Doubleday, 05/13/2025
Thirty years ago, Laura's mother, Viola, went missing. She left behind her purse, her keys and her mysterious paintings of a red house. Viola was ...
more
Mysteries
The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them
by
Ekow Eshun
Harper, 05/13/2025
In the western imagination, a Black man is always a stranger, outsider, foreigner, intruder, alien; one who remains associated with their origins ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Trans History: A Graphic Novel: From Ancient Times to the Present Day
by
Alex L. Combs
Candlewick Press, 05/13/2025
What does "trans" mean, and what does it mean to be trans? Diversity in human sex and gender is not a modern phenomenon, as readers will discover ...
more
Graphic Novels
You Are Not a Kinesthetic Learner: The Troubled History of the Learning Style Idea
by
Thomas Fallace
University Of Chicago Press, 05/19/2025
The widely embraced notion that we all process information in one of three distinct modes—visual, auditory, or kinesthetic—has informed ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Everyone Sux But You
by
K. Wroten
Henry Holt and Company, 05/20/2025
High school senior Carson Flynn doesn't give a damn―about you, about school, or about her future. The only thing she cares about is jumping into...
more
Graphic Novels
Gingko Season: A Novel
by
Naomi Xu Elegant
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/20/2025
After suffering her first big heartbreak two years earlier, Penelope Lin has built a quiet life with no romantic entanglements. She spends her days ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Hardly Creatures: Poems
by
Rob Macaisa Colgate
Tin House Books, 05/20/2025
Brilliant and innovative, Rob Macaisa Colgate's debut poetry collection,
Hardly Creatures, takes the form―visually and metaphorically―of ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
Is a River Alive?
by
Robert Macfarlane
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/20/2025
Hailed as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler" (Holly Morris,
New York Times), Robert Macfarlane ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
My Friends: A Novel
by
Fredrik Backman
Atria Books, 05/20/2025
Most people don't even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the...
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Literary Fiction
Sike: A Novel
by
Fred Lunzer
Celadon, 05/20/2025
Adrian earns his living writing lyrics for rappers he never meets, and finds success with a hit song about his own fruitless search for love. After ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sing to Me: A Novel
by
Jesse Browner
Little Brown & Company, 05/20/2025
His family farm and the surrounding community now emptied by war, young Hani embarks on an epic quest – assisted by a brooding yet brilliant ...
more
Historical Fiction
Spent: A Comic Novel
by
Alison Bechdel
Mariner Books, 05/20/2025
In Alison Bechdel's hilariously skewering and gloriously cast new comic novel confection, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel, running a pygmy goat ...
more
The Book of Records: A Novel
by
Madeleine Thien
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/20/2025
Lina and her father arrive at an enclave called The Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mysterious and shape-...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Doorman: A Novel
by
Chris Pavone
MCD, 05/20/2025
Chicky Diaz is everyone's favorite doorman at the Bohemia, the most famous apartment house in the world, home of celebrities, financiers, and New York...
more
Thrillers
The Fate of Others: Stories
by
Richard Bausch
Knopf, 05/20/2025
In ten piercing new stories, Richard Bausch fleshes out the rich inner worlds of his characters and plumbs the nuances of infidelity, loss, and ...
more
Short Stories
Historical Fiction
The Gone Book
by
Helena Close
Little Island Books, 05/20/2025
Matt's mom left home when he was 10. He writes letters to her but doesn't send them. He keeps them in his Gone Book, which he hides in his room. Five ...
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Literary Fiction
The True Happiness Company: A Memoir
by
Veena Dinavahi
Random House, 05/20/2025
It is hard for Veena Dinavahi to live while her classmates keep dying. The high-achieving daughter of loving Indian immigrants, Veena lives in a ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Things in Nature Merely Grow
by
Yiyun Li
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/20/2025
"There is no good way to say this," Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book.
"There is no good way to state these facts, which must be ...
more
Biography/Memoir
What Will People Think?: A Novel
by
Sara Hamdan
Henry Holt and Company, 05/20/2025
Mia Almas has a secret. By day, she works at a respectable job as a media fact checker―a position her conservative, Arab grandparents approve of...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Autocorrect: Stories
by
Etgar Keret
Riverhead Books, 05/27/2025
Etgar Keret is the world's most famous living Israeli writer, known for writing short stories that are lean and accessible in style, and whimsical, ...
more
Short Stories
Consider Yourself Kissed: A Novel
by
Jessica Stanley
Riverhead Books, 05/27/2025
When she first meets Adam, Coralie is new to London and feeling adrift. But Adam is clever, witty, and (he insists) a quarter inch taller than the ...
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Literary Fiction
Deep Breath
by
Rita Halász
Catapult, 05/27/2025
When we meet Vera, her body and mind are on a precipice. She's just left her marital home to live with her father after her husband's violent ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Disappoint Me: A Novel
by
Nicola Dinan
Dial Books, 05/27/2025
I don't know why I feel like I've been caught doing something dirty. Cheating on queerness. Fell down the stairs and woke up a trad wife.
Thirty ...
more
Literary Fiction
Dreaming of Home: A Young Latina's Journey to Pride, Power, and Belonging
by
Cristina Jiménez
St. Martin's Press, 05/27/2025
Dreaming of Home is a coming-of-age story both for a young woman finding her true self and for a social movement of immigrant youth trailblazers who ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Harmattan Season: A Novel
by
Tochi Onyebuchi
Tor Books, 05/27/2025
Veteran and private eye Boubacar doesn't need much―least of all trouble―but trouble always seems to find him. Work has dried up, and he'd ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Maybe This Will Save Me: A Memoir of Art, Addiction and Transformation
by
Tommy Dorfman
Hanover Square Press, 05/27/2025
On a hot summer day, twenty-eight-year-old Tommy Dorfman was enjoying a beautiful outing on a boat. But inside she felt unmoored. After a lifetime of ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Busybody Book Club
by
Freya Sampson
Berkley Books, 05/27/2025
Having recently moved from London to a small Cornish seaside village, Nova Davies started a book club at the local community center, but so far it's a...
more
Mysteries
The Gravedigger's Almanac: A Novel (A Leopold von Herzfeldt Case, 1)
by
Oliver Pötzsch
HarperVia, 05/27/2025
Vienna, 1893. A gravedigger at the city's famous Central Cemetery, Augustin Rothmayer is an unorthodox yet highly educated oddball who finds solace ...
more
Thrillers
The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club: A Novel
by
Martha Hall Kelly
Ballantine Books, 05/27/2025
2016: Thirty-four-year-old Mari Starwood is still grieving as she travels to the storied island of Martha's Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts. ...
more
Literary Fiction
The South: A Novel
by
Tash Aw
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/27/2025
When his grandfather dies, Jay travels south with his family to the property they've inherited, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair...
more
Literary Fiction
The Stalker
by
Paula Bomer
Soho Press, 05/27/2025
Robert Doughten Savile, aka "Doughty," is the son of a once-wealthy, now hard-up family from Darien, Connecticut. Doughty lives in a perpetual cloud ...
more
Thrillers
This Moth Saw Brightness
by
A. A. Vacharat
Dutton for Young Readers, 05/27/2025
"The invisible D in my name is my mother's second most lasting contribution to my life."
'Wayne Le—known as "Invisible-D 'Wayne" at school&...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care
by
Shelley Sella
Beacon Press, 06/03/2025
Within both the anti-abortion and pro-choice movements, third-trimester abortion is often stigmatized and misunderstood. For 20 years, Dr. Shelley ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Flashlight: A Novel
by
Susan Choi
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/03/2025
One night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the beach. He's carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later Louisa is found washed up by the tide, ...
more
Literary Fiction
Lincoln's Lady Spymaster: The Untold Story of the Abolitionist Southern Belle Who Helped Win the Civil War
by
Gerri Willis
Harper, 06/03/2025
Wealthy Southern belle Elizabeth Van Lew had it all. Money, charm, wit—the biggest mansion in Richmond. So why risk everything to become the ...
more
Historical Fiction
Madame Queen: The Life and Crimes of Harlem's Underground Racketeer, Stephanie St. Clair
by
Mary Kay McBrayer
Park Row, 06/03/2025
In her heyday, Stephanie St. Clair went by many names, but one was best known by all:
Madame Queen. The undeniable queen of the Harlem numbers game, ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Strange Houses: A Novel
by
Uketsu
HarperVia, 06/03/2025
A writer fascinated by the macabre is approached by an acquaintance who is considering purchasing a second-hand house in Tokyo. With its bright and ...
more
Thrillers
The Catch: A Novel
by
Yrsa Daley-Ward
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 06/03/2025
Twin sisters Clara and Dempsey have always struggled to relate, their familial bond severed after their mother vanished into the Thames. In adulthood,...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
by
Melissa Febos
Knopf, 06/03/2025
In the wake of a catastrophic two-year relationship, Melissa Febos decided to take a break—for three months she would abstain from dating, from ...
more
The Ghostwriter: A Novel
by
Julie Clark
Sourcebooks Landmark, 06/03/2025
June, 1975.
The Taylor family shatters in a single night when two teenage siblings are found dead in their own home. The only surviving sibling, ...
more
Thrillers
The Slip: A Novel
by
Lucas Schaefer
Simon & Schuster, 06/03/2025
Austin, Texas: It's the summer of 1998, and there's a new face on the scene at Terry Tucker's Boxing Gym. Sixteen-year-old Nathaniel Rothstein has ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
There Are Reasons For This
by
Nini Berndt
Tin House Books, 06/03/2025
But Lucy has only just arrived, and too late. She arrives in search of Helen, a woman Mikey loved. But when Lucy moves in across the hall, she finds ...
more
Literary Fiction
When Devils Sing
by
Xan Kaur
Henry Holt and Company, 06/03/2025
When Dawson Sumter goes missing, all he leaves behind is a smattering of blood in room 4 of the debt-ridden motel owned by Neera Singh's family. ...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Lamplighter's Bookshop: The Lost Bookshop meets The Lost Apothecary in this spellbinding historical romance
by
Sophie Austin
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/10/2025
When Evelyn Seaton answers an advertisement for an assistant at a forgotten bookshop in York, she is not the only one with something to hide.
There...
more
Historical Fiction
We Can Never Leave: A Novel
by
H.E. Edgmon
Wednesday Books, 06/10/2025
You can never go home…
Every day, all across the world, inhuman creatures are waking up with no memory of who they are or where they came ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Novel Murder: A Mystery
by
E. C. Nevin
Knopf, 06/17/2025
In the quaint English town of Hoslewit, the biggest names in crime writing have congregated to celebrate all things bookish and murderous. Author Jane...
more
Thrillers
Fox: A Novel
by
Joyce Carol Oates
Hogarth Books, 06/17/2025
Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his ...
more
Literary Fiction
Goodbye, My Princess
by
Fei Wo Si Cun
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 06/17/2025
There is no room for love in an empire.
Qu Xiaofeng has been living in Shangjing for three years now. A naïve, happy-go-lucky treaty bride ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
How to Dodge a Cannonball: A Novel
by
Dennard Dayle
Henry Holt and Company, 06/17/2025
Razor-sharp and hilarious,
How to Dodge a Cannonball tells the story of Anders, a white teenager who volunteers to be a Union Army flag-twirler to ...
more
Historical Fiction
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia,from Revolution to Autocracy
by
Julia Ioffe
Ecco, 06/17/2025
In 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family fled the Soviet Union. Nearly twenty years later, Ioffe returned to Moscow—only to discover ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Whyte Python World Tour: A Novel
by
Travis Kennedy
Doubleday, 06/24/2025
It's Los Angeles, 1986, and metal rules the world. For aspiring drummer Rikki Thunder, life is good—even if he is sleeping in a condemned paint ...
more
Thrillers
Every Summer After: Deluxe Edition
by
Carley Fortune
Berkley Books, 08/05/2025
They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too ...
more
Romance
Debut Author
God and Sex
by
Jon Raymond
Simon & Schuster, 08/05/2025
What if God spoke to you? Would you hear Him? Would you obey His command?
Arthur Zinn, an author of high-end spiritual texts, has fallen in love ...
more
Romance
Mistress of Bones: A Novel
by
Maria Z. Medina
Wednesday Books, 08/05/2025
It's been thousands of years since the gods lifted the continents into the air so humanity could thrive, chaining the lands down with their bones and ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Murder by the Book: A Novel
by
Amie Schaumberg
MIRA, 08/05/2025
She's been posed to look like a painting of Ophelia from Shakespeare's Hamlet, the scene taunting the police with messages that they don't understand....
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses (Embers)
by
M. G. Sheftall
Dutton, 08/05/2025
On August 6, 1945, the United States unleashed a weapon unlike anything the world had ever seen. Then, just three days later, when Japan showed no ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Hounding: A Novel
by
Xenobe Purvis
Henry Holt and Company, 08/05/2025
Even before the rumors about the Mansfield girls begin, Little Nettlebed is a village steeped in the uncanny, from strange creatures that wash up on ...
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Historical Fiction
The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why
by
Madeleine Beekman
Simon & Schuster, 08/05/2025
Journeying to the dawn of
Homo sapiens, evolutionary biologist Madeleine Beekman reveals the "happy accidents" hidden in our molecular biology—...
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Science, Health and the Environment
We Should All Be Birds: A Memoir
by
Brian Buckbee
Tin House Books, 08/05/2025
On a spring evening in Montana, Brian Buckbee encounters an injured baby pigeon. Heartbroken after the loss of the love of his life and increasingly ...
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Biography/Memoir
White Lies: How the South Lost the Civil War, Then Rewrote the History
by
Ann Bausum
Roaring Brook Press, 08/12/2025
Warning: This is not your average U.S. history book.
After the Civil War, the Confederates may have laid down their arms, but they were far from ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Ruth: A Novel
by
Kate Riley
Riverhead Books, 08/19/2025
Ruth is raised in a snow globe of Christian communism, a world without private property, television, or tolerance for idle questions. Every morning ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Possession of Alba Díaz
by
Isabel Cañas
Berkley Books, 08/19/2025
In 1765, plague sweeps through Zacatecas. Alba flees with her wealthy merchant parents and fiancé, Carlos, to his family's isolated mine for ...
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Thrillers
Play Nice
by
Rachel Harrison
Berkley Books, 09/09/2025
Clio Louise Barnes leads a picture-perfect life as a stylist and influencer, but beneath the glossy veneer she harbors a not-so glamorous secret: she ...
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Crawl: Stories
by
Max Delsohn
Graywolf Press, 10/21/2025
What to do when starting testosterone unlocks a newfound desire for men? How to respond when your boss's boss asks if you've had "the surgery" and ...
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Thrillers
Three Stories of Forgetting
by
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida
FSG Originals, 12/09/2025
The discrete yet overlapping tales in Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida's
Three Stories of Forgetting explore the lives of three men―perhaps already ...
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Literary Fiction
