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
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 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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Historical Fiction
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 ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
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
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
The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey: A Novel
by
Astrid Dahl
Simon & Schuster, 01/14/2025
Meet the Garden State Goddesses, the cast of Huzzah's third most popular show:
"I may play for both teams, but when it comes to being real, I ...
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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
The White Peril: A Family Memoir
by
Omo Moses
Beacon Press, 01/21/2025
In
The White Peril, Omo Moses deftly interweaves his own life story with excerpts from both his great-grandfather's sermons and the writings of his ...
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Biography/Memoir
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 ...
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Romance
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
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 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
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, ...
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Thrillers
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
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
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. ...
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Thrillers
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...
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Literary Fiction
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 ...
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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 ...
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Thrillers
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
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.
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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 ...
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Literary Fiction
Firstborn: A Memoir
by
Lauren Christensen
Penguin Press, 03/18/2025
"Some days I still think this is all just a sad story I'll tell Simone one day."
Lauren Christensen is a thirtysomething editor in New York City ...
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Biography/Memoir
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
