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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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
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
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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Literary Fiction
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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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
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 ...
more
Biography/Memoir
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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Literary Fiction
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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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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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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Literary Fiction
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 ...
more
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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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
Literary Fiction
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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Literary Fiction
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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Biography/Memoir
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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Literary Fiction
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 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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Mysteries
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....
more
Thrillers
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 ...
more
True Crime
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
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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Biography/Memoir
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 ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
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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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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Thrillers
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
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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Literary Fiction
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
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 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 ...
more
Mysteries
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...
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True Crime
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 ...
more
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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Thrillers
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
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 ...
more
Biography/Memoir
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
Beast of the North Woods: A Monster Hunter Mystery
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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Mysteries
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 ...
more
Romance
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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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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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
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...
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Literary Fiction
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
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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Historical Fiction
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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Thrillers
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 ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Dark Fable
by
Katherine Harbour
Bloomsbury YA, 02/04/2025
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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Literary Fiction
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
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
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...
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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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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
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
Historical Fiction
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
Literary Fiction
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
Biography/Memoir
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
Short Stories
Debut Author
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
Historical Fiction
Biography/Memoir
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
Literary Fiction
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
Biography/Memoir
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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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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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
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
Literary Fiction
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 ...
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Literary Fiction
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 ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
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
Literary Fiction
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
Thrillers
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, ...
more
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 ...
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Biography/Memoir
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 ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
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
Short Stories
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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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
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 ...
more
Historical Fiction
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
Historical Fiction
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 ...
more
Biography/Memoir
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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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
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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Literary Fiction
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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Literary Fiction
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
Literary Fiction
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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Literary Fiction
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 ...
more
Literary Fiction
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
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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Thrillers
Debut Author
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
Literary Fiction
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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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
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
Literary Fiction
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 ...
more
Literary Fiction
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 ...
more
Literary Fiction
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, ...
more
Literary Fiction
One Death at a Time
by
Abbi Waxman
Berkley Books, 04/15/2025
When Julia Mann, a bad-tempered ex-actress and professional thorn in the side of authority, runs into Natasha Mason at an AA meeting, it's anything ...
more
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 ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Fairbanks Four: Murder, Injustice, and the Birth of a Movement
by
Brian Patrick O’Donoghue
Sourcebooks, 04/15/2025
October, 1997. Late one night in Fairbanks, Alaska, a passerby finds a teenager unconscious, collapsed on the edge of the road, beaten nearly beyond ...
more
True Crime
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 ...
more
Literary Fiction
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,...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
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 ...
more
Historical Fiction
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, ...
more
Historical Fiction
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
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 ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Manicurist's Daughter: A Memoir
by
Susan Lieu
Celadon, 04/29/2025
Susan Lieu has long been searching for answers. About her family's past and about her own future. Refugees from the Vietnam War, Susan's family ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Original Daughter: A Novel
by
Jemimah Wei
Doubleday, 05/06/2025
Before Arin, Genevieve Yang was an only child. Living with her parents and grandmother in a single-room flat in working-class Bedok, Genevieve is ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
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 ...
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Mysteries
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia,from Revolution to Autocracy
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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 ...
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