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
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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Literary Fiction
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 ...
more
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...
more
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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Literary Fiction
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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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: ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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
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
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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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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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 ...
more
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...
more
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, ...
more
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
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 ...
more
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
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 ...
more
Biography/Memoir
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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Biography/Memoir
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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
In Our Midst
by
Nancy Jensen
Dzanc Books, 01/14/2025
Nina and Otto Aust, along with their teenage sons, feel the foundation of their American lives crumbling when, in the middle of the annual St. Nikolas...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical 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 ...
more
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
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...
more
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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Thrillers
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 ...
more
Thrillers
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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
Thrillers
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...
more
Mysteries
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,...
more
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. ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
True Crime
Thrillers
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
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 ...
more
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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Literary Fiction
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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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 ...
more
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 ...
more
Literary Fiction
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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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 ...
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 ...
more
Thrillers
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." ...
more
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...
more
Thrillers
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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
Literary Fiction
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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...
more
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 ...
more
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...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
Mysteries
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. ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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, ...
more
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 ...
more
Literary Fiction
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
Thrillers
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 ...
more
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
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 ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Isaac's Song: A Novel
by
Daniel Black
Hanover Square Press, 01/28/2025
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 ...
more
Literary Fiction
Johnny Careless: A Novel
by
Kevin Wade
Celadon, 01/28/2025
olice 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 ...
more
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 ...
more
Thrillers
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...
more
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
Thrillers
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 ...
more
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, ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Short Stories
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...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
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 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 "...
more
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 ...
more
Thrillers
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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!
...
more
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 ...
more
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
Short Stories
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
Literary Fiction
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
Thrillers
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
Literary Fiction
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 ...
more
Thrillers
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
Literary Fiction
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
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
Literary Fiction
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...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
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
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.
...
more
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. ...
more
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...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
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
Biography/Memoir
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
Travel & Adventure
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 ...
more
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
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 ...
more
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
Biography/Memoir
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 ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
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
Literary Fiction
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
Short Stories
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
Thrillers
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 ...
more
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...
more
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
Biography/Memoir
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
Biography/Memoir
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
Mysteries
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 ...
more
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
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
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 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 ...
more
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
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
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 ...
more
Thrillers
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
Literary 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
Thrillers
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
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
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
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
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
Thrillers
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 ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
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 ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
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
Idle Grounds: A Novel
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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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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Life Hacks for a Little Alien
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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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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Living in Your Light
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Abdellah Taïa
Seven Stories Press, 02/11/2025
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...
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Literary Fiction
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
Mainline Mama: A Memoir
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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,...
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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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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
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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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History, Current Affairs and Religion
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Thrillers
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 ...
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Mysteries
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, ...
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Historical Fiction
The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story, 1790-1958
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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 ...
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Biography/Memoir
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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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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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 ...
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Literary Fiction
Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories
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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 ...
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Short Stories
We Would Never: A Novel
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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—...
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Thrillers
What's Real about Race?: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society
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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 ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood's First Stuntwoman
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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 ...
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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, ...
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Short Stories
Debut Author
Fagin the Thief: A Novel
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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. ...
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Historical 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...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Biography/Memoir
Dream Count: A Novel
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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 ...
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Literary Fiction
Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star
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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 ...
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Biography/Memoir
Optional Practical Training: A Novel
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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 Dream Hotel: A Novel
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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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Literary Fiction
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
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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...
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Literary Fiction
Universality: A Novel
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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
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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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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe
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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 ...
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Literary Fiction
Girl Falling: A Novel
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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 ...
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Thrillers
Literary Fiction
Liquid: A Love Story
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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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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy
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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
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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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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Rebel Queen: The Cold War, Misogyny, and the Making of a Grandmaster
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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.
...
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Biography/Memoir
Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories
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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 ...
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Short Stories
The Antidote: A Novel
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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
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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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Historical Fiction
A Map to Paradise
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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, ...
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Historical Fiction
Everybody Says It's Everything: A Novel
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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...
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Literary Fiction
Firstborn: A Memoir
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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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Biography/Memoir
Hunchback: A Novel
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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
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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
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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
The Paris Express: A Novel
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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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Historical Fiction
Sister Europe: A Novel
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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 ...
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Literary Fiction
A/S/L
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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
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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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Literary Fiction
Our City That Year: A Novel
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Geetanjali Shree
HarperVia, 04/01/2025
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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
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Katie Kitamura
Riverhead Books, 04/08/2025
Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She's an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He's attractive, troubling,...
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Literary Fiction
Don't Sleep with the Dead
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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
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Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Berkley Books, 04/08/2025
Nikki Berry hasn't seen her grandmother in years, due to a mysterious estrangement inherited from her mother. So when the elder calls out of the blue ...
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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 ...
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Literary Fiction
The Float Test: A Novel
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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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Literary Fiction
The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris: An enchanting and escapist novel for 2025 from the internationally bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop
by
Evie Woods
One More Chapter, 04/08/2025
Nestled among the cobblestone streets of Compiègne, there existed a bakery unlike any other.
Rumours were whispered through the town that its...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
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
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
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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
The Fairbanks Four: Murder, Injustice, and the Birth of a Movement
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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 Manicurist's Daughter: A Memoir
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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 ...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Original Daughter: A Novel
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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
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 ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
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
