Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers' Rights
by
Ashley Hope Pérez
Holiday House, 03/04/2025
Books are disappearing from shelves across the country.
What does this mean for authors, illustrators, and—most crucially—for young ...
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Blood Moon
by
Sandra Brown
Grand Central Publishing, 03/04/2025
Detective John Bowie is one misstep away from being fired from the Auclair Police Department in coastal Louisiana. Recently divorced and slightly ...
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Broken Country (Reese's Book Club)
by
Clare Leslie Hall
Simon & Schuster, 03/04/2025
"The farmer is dead. He is dead, and all anyone wants to know is who killed him."
Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, ...
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Connecting Dots: A Blind Life
by
Joshua A. Miele
Hachette Books, 03/04/2025
At the age of four, Joshua Miele was blinded and badly burned when a delusional neighbor poured sulfuric acid over his head in a crime that shocked ...
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Biography/Memoir
Days of Shattered Faith: The Tyrant Philosophers #3
by
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Head of Zeus, 03/04/2025
Loret is fresh off the boat, and just in time.
As Cohort-Invigilator of Correct Appreciation, Outreach department, she's here as aide to the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Divining the Leaves
by
Shveta Thakrar
HarperCollins Publishers, 03/04/2025
Plant-loving Ridhi Kapadia and popular Nilesh Batra were friends once.
Now, seventeen and alone, Ridhi blends natural perfumes, wears flower crowns...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dream Count: A Novel
by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Knopf, 03/04/2025
Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices ...
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Expect Great Things!: How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women
by
Vanda Krefft
Algonquin Books, 03/04/2025
It's a safe bet that most of the secretaries on the TV series
Mad Men would have attended the Katharine Gibbs School in New York City. The iconic...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Firstborn Girls: A Memoir
by
Bernice L. McFadden
Dutton, 03/04/2025
On her second birthday in 1967, Bernice McFadden died in a car crash near Detroit, only to be resuscitated after her mother pulled her from the ...
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Guatemalan Rhapsody: Stories
by
Jared Lemus
Ecco, 03/04/2025
Ranging from a custodian at an underfunded college to a medicine man living in a temple dedicated to San Simon, the patron saint of alcohol and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
How to Feed the World: The History and Future of Food
by
Vaclav Smil
Viking, 03/04/2025
We have never had to feed as many people as we do today. And yet, we misunderstand the essentials of where our food really comes from, how our dietary...
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Science, Health and the Environment
I Leave It Up to You: A Novel
by
Jinwoo Chong
Ballantine Books, 03/04/2025
A coma can change a man, but the world Jack Jr. awakens to is one he barely recognizes. His advertising job is history, his Manhattan apartment is ...
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Kills Well with Others
by
Deanna Raybourn
Berkley Books, 03/04/2025
After more than a year of laying low, Billie, Helen, Mary Alice, and Natalie are called back into action. They have enjoyed their time off, but the ...
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Kirby's Lessons for Falling (in Love)
by
Laura Gao
HarperAlley, 03/04/2025
Now she's forced to join the newspaper club for some desperately needed extra credit. Worse, she's recruited by crystal-wearing, tarot-reading Bex ...
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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 ...
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Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today
by
Scott Spillman
Basic Books, 03/04/2025
In recent years, from school board meetings to the halls of Congress, Americans have engaged in fierce debates about how slavery and its legacies ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War
by
Jill Eicher
Pegasus Books, 03/04/2025
Andrew Mellon, one of the most accomplished businessmen of his era, is almost unknown today. To this shy, diffident (but brilliant) man fell the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Nightweaver: Nightweaver #1
by
R.M. Gray
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/04/2025
Six hundred years ago, Nightweavers, cursed beings with untamed power, claimed the continents for their own. The ocean was meant to be a safe haven ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Oathbound: The Legendborn Cycle #3
by
Tracy Deonn
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 03/04/2025
Severed from the Legendborn. Oathbound to a monster.
Bree Matthews is alone. She exiled herself from the Legendborn Order, cut her ancestral ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
On the Clock
by
Claire Baglin
New Directions Publishing, 03/04/2025
Claire Baglin's
On the Clock packs a family saga, a penetrating picture of social inequality, and a coming-of-age story into a compact tale told in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Once Was Willem
by
M. R. Carey
Orbit, 03/04/2025
Eleven hundred and some years after the death of Christ, in the kingdom that had but recently begun to call itself England, I,
Once Was Willem, rose ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
One Step Forward
by
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
HarperCollins Publishers, 03/04/2025
Raised in a politically divided family, Matilda wondered if she could be as courageous as her older sister who fought for suffrage. Joining the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Optional Practical Training: A Novel
by
Shubha Sunder
Graywolf Press, 03/04/2025
Told as a series of conversations,
Optional Practical Training follows Pavitra, a young Indian woman who came to the US for college from Bangalore, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Pieces You'll Never Get Back: A Memoir of Unlikely Survival
by
Samina Ali
Catapult, 03/04/2025
At 29, as a young writer working on her first novel, Samina Ali nearly died giving birth to her son. Miraculously, she survived the unchecked ...
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Raising Hare: A Memoir
by
Chloe Dalton
Pantheon Books, 03/04/2025
Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Red Dog Farm: A Novel
by
Nathaniel Ian Miller
Little Brown & Company, 03/04/2025
Growing up on his family's cattle farm in western Iceland, young Orri has gained an appreciation for the beauty found in everyday things: the ...
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Remember This: A Novel
by
Anthony Giardina
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/04/2025
Even though Miranda Rando, a forty-year-old writer living in Brooklyn, is making breakthroughs in her biography of a powerful woman artist, she can't ...
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Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope
by
Amanda Nguyen
AUWA, 03/04/2025
In 2013, the trajectory of Amanda Nguyen's life was changed forever when she was raped at Harvard.
Determined to not let her assault derail her ...
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See Friendship: A Novel
by
Jeremy Gordon
Harper Perennial, 03/04/2025
Ahead of looming layoffs within the ongoing decimation of media, Jacob Goldberg, a culture writer in New York, knows what will save him: a podcast.&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Seven Social Movements That Changed America
by
Linda Gordon
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 03/04/2025
How do social movements arise, wield power, and bring about meaningful change? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon investigates these and other salient ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Stone Angels
by
Helena Rho
Grand Central Publishing, 03/04/2025
Angelina Lee feels like she doesn't belong. Newly divorced, and completely unmoored by the sudden and tragic death of her mother, she hopes studying ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Strange Bedfellows
by
Ariel Slamet Ries
HarperAlley, 03/04/2025
In the not-too-distant future, most of humanity resides on its last-ditch effort at utopia: Meridian, a remote alien planet where you're more likely ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
by
Russell Shorto
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/04/2025
In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Boxcar Librarian: A Novel
by
Brianna Labuskes
William Morrow, 03/04/2025
When Works Progress Administration (WPA) editor Millie Lang finds herself on the wrong end of a potential political scandal, she's shipped off to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Dream Hotel: A Novel
by
Laila Lalami
Pantheon Books, 03/04/2025
Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The King's Messenger
by
Susanna Kearsley
Sourcebooks Landmark, 03/04/2025
It is the year 1613, and King James is sending his messenger Andrew Logan into Scotland with secret orders to arrest Sir David Moray, close friend and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball
by
John W. Miller
Avid Reader Press, 03/04/2025
Long before the
Moneyball-era, the Earl of Baltimore reigned over baseball. History's feistiest and most colorful manager, Earl Weaver transformed the...
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The Persians: A Novel
by
Sanam Mahloudji
Scribner, 03/04/2025
Meet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they're nobodies.
First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The River Has Roots
by
Amal El-Mohtar
Tordotcom, 03/04/2025
"Oh what is stronger than a death? Two sisters singing with one breath."
In the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, dwells the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Scorpion and the Night Blossom: The Three Realms #1
by
Amélie Wen Zhao
Delacorte Press, 03/04/2025
Nine years ago, the war between the Kingdom of Night and the Kingdom of Rivers tore Àn'yīng's family apart, leaving her mother barely alive ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir
by
Martha S. Jones
Basic Books, 03/04/2025
Suspicious of the color of her skin and the texture of her hair, he confronted her with a question that inspired a lifetime of introspection: "Who do ...
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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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The Vanishing Kind: Alex Carter Series #4
by
Alice Henderson
William Morrow, 03/04/2025
When wildlife biologist Alex Carter is tasked with locating jaguars on a vast desert preserve in New Mexico, she is ecstatic. While jaguars once ...
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Thrillers
They Bloom at Night
by
Trang Thanh Tran
Bloomsbury YA, 03/04/2025
Since the hurricane, the town of Mercy, Louisiana has been overtaken by a strange red algae bloom. Noon and her mother have carved out a life in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women's Ascent of Denali
by
Cassidy Randall
Abrams Press, 03/04/2025
Cassidy Randall draws on extensive archival research and original interviews to tell an engrossing, edge-of-the-seat adventure story about a forgotten...
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Biography/Memoir
Ultramarine
by
Mariette Navarro
Deep Vellum Publishing, 03/04/2025
A female captain in a male-dominated field, the unnamed narrator of
Ultramarine has secured her success through strict adherence to protocol; she...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Universality: A Novel
by
Natasha Brown
Random House, 03/04/2025
Late one night on a Yorkshire farm, in the midst of an illegal rave, a young man is nearly bludgeoned to death with a solid gold bar.
An ambitious...
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We Pretty Pieces of Flesh: A Novel
by
Colwill Brown
Henry Holt and Company, 03/04/2025
"Ask anyone non-Northern, they'll only know Donny as punchline of a joke or place they changed trains once ont way to London." But Doncaster's also ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
When the Bones Sing
by
Ginny Myers Sain
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/04/2025
The past three years have been tough for Lucifer's Creek, Arkansas, a small town quietly tucked away in the Ozark mountains. More than two dozen ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Wild Dark Shore: A Novel
by
Charlotte McConaghy
Flatiron Books, 03/04/2025
A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon.
Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Woodworking
by
Emily St. James
Zando, 03/04/2025
Erica Skyberg is thirty-five years old, recently divorced―and trans. Not that she's told anyone yet. Mitchell, South Dakota, isn't exactly ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
33 Place Brugmann
by
Alice Austen
Grove Press, 03/11/2025
On the eve of the Nazi occupation, in the heart of Brussels, life for the residents of eight apartments at 33 Place Brugmann is about to change ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe
by
Mahogany L. Browne
Crown Books for Young Readers, 03/11/2025
In New York City, teens, their families, and their communities feel the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic. Amidst the fear and loss, these teens and the ...
more
All the Other Mothers Hate Me
by
Sarah Harman
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/11/2025
Florence Grimes is a thirty-one-year-old party girl who always takes the easy way out. Single, broke and unfulfilled after the humiliating end to her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
America, Let Me In: A Choose Your Immigration Story
by
Felipe Torres Medina
Abrams Image, 03/11/2025
Born in Colombia, Felipe Torres Medina moved to the US at the age of 21 and has spent over ten years of his life both navigating the chaos and ...
more
Care and Feeding: A Memoir
by
Laurie Woolever
Ecco, 03/11/2025
In this moving, hilarious, and insightful memoir, Laurie Woolever traces her path from a small-town childhood to working at revered restaurants and ...
more
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
by
Sarah Wynn-Williams
Flatiron Books, 03/11/2025
From trips on private jets and encounters with world leaders to shocking accounts of misogyny and double standards behind the scenes, this searing ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Close to Home: The Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door
by
Thor Hanson
Basic Books, 03/11/2025
We all live on nature's doorstep, but we often overlook it. From backyards to local parks, the natural places we see the most may well be the ones we ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin
by
Andre Dubus III
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/11/2025
During childhood summers in Louisiana, Andre Dubus III's grandfather taught him that men's work is hard. As an adult, whether tracking down a drug ...
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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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Goddess Complex: A Novel
by
Sanjena Sathian
Penguin Press, 03/11/2025
Sanjana Satyanandais trying to recover her life. It's been a year since she walked out on her husband, a struggling actor named Killian, at a commune ...
more
Just Want You Here: A Novel
by
Meredith Turits
Little A, 03/11/2025
The only love Ari has known is Morgan. Engaged and planning a life with him in New York, Ari is shocked when Morgan sits her down one rainy afternoon ...
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Literary Fiction
Liquid: A Love Story
by
Mariam Rahmani
Algonquin Books, 03/11/2025
The unnamed Iranian-Indian American narrator of
Liquid has always believed herself to be the smartest person in the room. And from an early age, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy
by
Bridgett M. Davis
Harper, 03/11/2025
In
Love, Rita, Bridgett M. Davis tells the story of her beloved older sister, a vivacious woman who in leaving home to attend Fisk ...
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Luminous
by
Silvia Park
Simon & Schuster, 03/11/2025
In a reunified Korea of the future, robots have been integrated into society as surrogates, servants, children, and even lovers. Though boundaries ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful
by
David Enrich
Mariner Books, 03/11/2025
It was a quiet way to announce a revolution: In an obscure 2019 case that the Supreme Court refused to even hear, Justice Clarence Thomas raised the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
On Air: The Triumph and Tumult of NPR
by
Steve Oney
Avid Reader Press, 03/11/2025
Founded in 1970, NPR is America's most powerful broadcast news network. Despite being overshadowed by the larger and more glamorous PBS, public radio ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Rebel Queen: The Cold War, Misogyny, and the Making of a Grandmaster
by
Susan Polgar
Grand Central Publishing, 03/11/2025
Born to a poor Jewish family in Cold War Budapest, Susan Polgar would emerge as the one of the greatest female chess players the world had ever seen.
...
more
Biography/Memoir
Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories
by
Torrey Peters
Random House, 03/11/2025
In this collection of one novel and three novellas, Torrey Peters's keen eye for the rough edges of community and desire push the limits of trans ...
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Sucker Punch
by
Scaachi Koul
St. Martin's Press, 03/11/2025
Scaachi Koul's first book was a collection of raw, perceptive, and hilarious essays reckoning with the issues of race, body image, love, friendship, ...
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The Anatomy of Magic: A Novel
by
J.C. Cervantes
Park Row, 03/11/2025
Lilian Estrada seemingly has it all: an ob-gyn star on the rise, a master at balancing work with whirlwind romances and part of a family of fiercely ...
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The Antidote: A Novel
by
Karen Russell
Knopf, 03/11/2025
The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Broken King
by
Michael Thomas
Grove Press, 03/11/2025
In 2007, Michael Thomas launched into the literary world with his award-winning first novel
Man Gone Down, a beautiful and devastating story of a ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Californians: A Novel
by
Brian Castleberry
Mariner Books, 03/11/2025
It's 2024, and Tobey Harlan—college dropout, temporary waiter, recently dumped—steals from the wall of his father's house three ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Four Queens of Crime
by
Rosanne Limoncelli
Crooked Lane Books, 03/11/2025
1938, London. The four queens of British crime fiction, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, and Margery Allingham, are hosting a gala to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Jackal's Mistress: A Novel
by
Chris Bohjalian
Doubleday, 03/11/2025
Virginia, 1864—Libby Steadman's husband has been away for so long that she can barely conjure his voice in her dreams. While she longs for him ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York
by
Elon Green
Celadon, 03/11/2025
At twenty-five years old, Michael Stewart was a young Black aspiring artist, deejay, and model, looking to make a name for himself in the vibrant ...
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The Trouble Up North
by
Travis Mulhauser
Grand Central Publishing, 03/11/2025
The Sawbrooks have lived on prime real estate on the lakes of Michigan since before there was prime real estate. A family of smugglers and bootleggers...
more
Thrillers
The Wild Dark
by
Katherine Harbour
Bloomsbury YA, 03/11/2025
Once an outcast and an orphan, Evie Wilder now finds herself as the new leader of the Dark Fable. But the secret group of globetrotting thieves is not...
more
Thrillers
The Women on Platform Two
by
Laura Anthony
Gallery Books, 03/11/2025
Dublin, 1969: Maura has just married Dr. Christy Davenport and they look forward to growing their family. But as her husband's vicious temper emerges,...
more
These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means
by
Christopher Summerfield
Viking, 03/11/2025
In this accessible, up-to-date, and authoritative examination of the world's most radical technology, neuroscientist and AI researcher Christopher ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Tongues, Volume 1
by
Anders Nilsen
Pantheon Books, 03/11/2025
Set in a version of modern Central Asia,
Tongues is a retelling of the Greek myth of Prometheus. It follows the captive god's friendship with the ...
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Unusual Fragments: Japanese Stories
by
Inagaki Taruho
Two Lines Press, 03/11/2025
A young storm-chaser welcomes a jaded woman into the eye of a storm. The last man of a peculiar family, implausibly tiny in stature, attends a Mozart ...
more
Short Stories
Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses
by
Peter Wolf
Little Brown & Company, 03/11/2025
Peter Wolf grew up in the Bronx, a child of "fellow travelers" whose artistic inclinations influenced both his love of music and his initial desire to...
more
Biography/Memoir
Warbody: A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Modern Warfare
by
Joshua Howe, Alexander Lemons
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/11/2025
Alexander Lemons is a Marine Corps scout sniper who, after serving multiple tours during the Iraq War, returned home seriously and mysteriously ill. ...
more
You Deserve to Know
by
Aggie Blum Thompson
Forge Books, 03/11/2025
Neighbors Gwen, Aimee, and Lisa share more than playdates and coffee mornings on their tranquil street in East Bethesda. They confide their deepest ...
more
A Catalog of Burnt Objects
by
Shana Youngdahl
Dial Books, 03/18/2025
Seventeen-year-old Caprice wants to piece her family back together now that her older brother has returned home, even as she resents that he ever ...
more
A Map to Paradise
by
Susan Meissner
Berkley Books, 03/18/2025
With her name on the Hollywood blacklist and her life on hold, starlet Melanie Cole has little choice in company. There is her next-door neighbor, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Abundance
by
Ezra Klein
Avid Reader Press, 03/18/2025
To trace the history of the twenty-first century so far is to trace a history of unaffordability and shortage. After years of refusing to build ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Alive: Our Bodies and the Richness and Brevity of Existence
by
Gabriel Weston
David R. Godine, 03/18/2025
What does it mean to live in a body? For Gabriel Weston, there was always something missing from the anatomy she was taught at medical school. She'd ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Animal Instinct
by
Amy Shearn
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/18/2025
It's spring of 2020 and Rachel Bloomstein—mother of three, recent divorcée, and Brooklynite—is stuck inside. But her newly awakened ...
more
Chloe: A Novel of Secrets and Lies
by
Connie Briscoe
Amistad, 03/18/2025
A mansion haunted by the ghost of a cool, charismatic first wife. A second bride from a small Southern town who may be in over her head. A brooding ...
more
Thrillers
Edgar Allan Poe: A Life
by
Richard Kopley
University of Virginia Press, 03/18/2025
Edgar Allan Poe: A Life is the most comprehensive critical biography of Poe yet produced, exploring his fascinating life, his extraordinary work, and ...
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Everybody Says It's Everything: A Novel
by
Xhenet Aliu
Random House, 03/18/2025
Raised in Connecticut, adopted twins Drita and Petrit (aka Pete) had no connection to their Albanian heritage. Their lives were all about Barbie dolls...
more
Literary Fiction
Firstborn: A Memoir
by
Lauren Christensen
Penguin Press, 03/18/2025
"Some days I still think this is all just a sad story I'll tell Simone one day."
Lauren Christensen is a thirtysomething editor in New York City ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust
by
Lucy Adlington
Harper, 03/18/2025
Jock Heidenstein, Anita Lasker, Chana Zumerkorn, and Regina Feldman all faced the Holocaust in different ways. While they did not know each other&#...
more
Hangry Hearts
by
Jennifer Chen
Wednesday Books, 03/18/2025
Julie Wu and Randall Hur used to be best friends. Now they only see each other on Saturdays at the Pasadena Farmers Market where their once close ...
more
His Mortal Demise: The Last Bloodcarver #2
by
Vanessa Le
Roaring Brook Press, 03/18/2025
Kochin is a heartsooth — a rare being with the ability to heal any wound. Any wound, that is, except death.
Intent on defying nature and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Hot Air: A Novel
by
Marcy Dermansky
Knopf, 03/18/2025
Joannie hadn't been on a date in seven years when Johnny invites Joannie and her daughter to dinner. His house is beautiful, his son is sweet, and ...
more
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 ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
If You Were My Daughter: A Memoir of Healing an Unmothered Heart
by
Marianne Richmond
Sourcebooks, 03/18/2025
At nine years old, Marianne Richmond's life is upended when she collapses on her kitchen floor with full-body convulsions. "Pinched nerve," says the ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
In My Remaining Years
by
Jean Grae
Flatiron Books, 03/18/2025
In My Remaining Years, by creative juggernaut Jean Grae, debunks the myth that coming-of-age narratives should be reserved for the kids, providing a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children
by
Noliwe Rooks
Pantheon Books, 03/18/2025
On May 17, 1954 the landmark case
Brown v. Board of Education determined that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. Heralded as a ...
more
Killer Potential: A Novel
by
Hannah Deitch
William Morrow, 03/18/2025
A scholarship kid with straight As and big dreams, Evie Gordon always thought she was special, that she'd be someone. But after graduating from an ...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War
by
Michael Vorenberg
Knopf, 03/18/2025
We set out on the James River, March 25, 1865, aboard the paddle steamboat River Queen. President Lincoln is on his way to General Grant's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
O Sinners!: A Novel
by
Nicole Cuffy
One World, 03/18/2025
Faruq Zaidi, a young journalist processing the recent death of his father, a devout Muslim, takes the opportunity to embed himself in a cult called "...
more
Our Beautiful Boys: A Novel
by
Sameer Pandya
Ballantine Books, 03/18/2025
Vikram Shastri has always been a good kid. He's got a 4.6 GPA, listens to his parents, barely hits the parties, and is on track for a fancy college. ...
more
Literary Fiction
Rooms for Vanishing: A Novel
by
Stuart Nadler
Dutton, 03/18/2025
Everyone had been survived into different futures and I would never see any of them again. I could sense this. I would hear them in their separate ...more
Stop Me If You've Heard This One: A Novel
by
Kristen Arnett
Riverhead Books, 03/18/2025
Cherry Hendricks might be down on her luck, but she can write the book on what makes something funny: she's a professional clown who creates raucous, ...
more
The Girl Who Flew Away
by
Lee Dean
Iron Circus Comics, 03/18/2025
Bunking with total strangers to await and hide the birth of her boss's child, she finds herself unmoored and friendless in the sun-and-fun-obsessed ...
more
The House No One Sees
by
Adina King
Feiwel & Friends, 03/18/2025
After a text from her estranged mother rips her away from a night with friends, Penny is forced into a kaleidoscope of memories locked inside the dark...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Hymn to Dionysus
by
Natasha Pulley
Bloomsbury Publishing, 03/18/2025
Raised in a Greek legion, Phaidros has been taught to follow his commander's orders at all costs. But when Phaidros rescues a baby from a fire at ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Love We Found
by
Jill Santopolo
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/18/2025
It's been ten years. In case you're out there somewhere. In case you're listening, I'm here. And I have so much to tell you.
It's been nearly ten...
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Romance
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
by
Joshua Hammer
Simon & Schuster, 03/18/2025
It was one of history's great vanishing acts.
Around 3,400 BCE—as humans were gathering in complex urban settlements—a scribe in the ...
more
The Paris Express: A Novel
by
Emma Donoghue
Summit Books, 03/18/2025
Based on an 1895 disaster that went down in history when it was captured in a series of surreal, extraordinary photographs,
The Paris Express is a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Theft: A Novel
by
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Riverhead Books, 03/18/2025
At the turn of the twenty-first century, three young people come of age in Tanzania. Karim returns to his sleepy hometown after university with new ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
True Life in Uncanny Valley
by
Deb Caletti
Labyrinth Road, 03/18/2025
Eleanor, like so many others, is used to watching her famous father from afar. To the world, Hugo Harrison is the brilliant and charismatic tech ...
more
All Our Beautiful Goodbyes: A Novel
by
Julianne MacLean
Lake Union Publishing, 03/25/2025
1946: World War II is over, and Emma Clarkson is poised to take flight. With dreams of attending university, she's ready to leave behind the wild ...
more
Literary Fiction
Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets and the Fever Dream of the American New Age
by
Leah Sottile
Grand Central Publishing, 03/25/2025
Known for deep dives into true crime, extremist ideologies and fringe subcultures, journalist Leah Sottile turns her investigative eye toward American...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Blood on Her Tongue
by
Johanna van Veen
Poisoned Pen Press, 03/25/2025
The Netherlands, 1887. Lucy's twin sister Sarah is unwell. She refuses to eat, mumbles nonsensically, and is increasingly obsessed with a centuries-...
more
Counting Backwards
by
Binnie Kirshenbaum
Soho Press, 03/25/2025
It begins with hallucinations. From their living room window, Leo sees a man on stilts, an acting troupe, a pair of swans paddling on the street. ...
more
Free: My Search for Meaning
by
Amanda Knox
Grand Central Publishing, 03/25/2025
Though she was exonerated, it's taken more than a decade for her to reclaim her identity and truly feel free.
Free recounts how Knox survived ...
more
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert: A Novel
by
Bob the Drag Queen
Gallery Books, 03/25/2025
In an age of miracles where our greatest heroes from history have magically, unexplainably returned to shake us out of our confusion and hate, Harriet...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
I Am the Swarm
by
Hayley Chewins
Viking, 03/25/2025
As far back as anyone can remember, the women of the Strand family have been magical.
Their gifts manifest when they each turn fifteen, always in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South
by
Jeanne Theoharis
The New Press, 03/25/2025
The Martin Luther King Jr. of popular memory vanquished Jim Crow in the South. But in this myth-shattering book, award-winning and
New York Times...more
Lucky Night: A Novel
by
Eliza Kennedy
Crown, 03/25/2025
Nick Holloway is forty-six. A successful partner at a law firm, he has a gorgeous wife, a precious daughter, and a big house. If he also has gnawing ...
more
Retreat: A Novel
by
Krysten Ritter
Harper, 03/25/2025
Liz Dawson weaves through a crowd with the ease of a tropical breeze, moving seamlessly through elite circles, sparking instant connections and making...
more
Saltwater: A Novel
by
Katy Hays
Ballantine Books, 03/25/2025
In 1992, Sarah Lingate is found dead below the cliffs of Capri, leaving behind her three-year-old daughter, Helen. Despite suspicions that the old-...
more
Sister Europe: A Novel
by
Nell Zink
Knopf, 03/25/2025
Naema, an elderly princess dedicated to her pet causes, is in a bind: struck by a malady that maroons her in Montreux, she's unable to host an ...
more
Sons and Daughters: A Novel
by
Chaim Grade
Knopf, 03/25/2025
"It is me the prophet laments when he cries out, 'My enemies are the people in my own home.'" The Rabbi ignored his borscht and instead chewed on a ...more
The Agonies
by
Ben Faulkner
Arcade Publishing, 03/25/2025
Armand Bernal is breaking apart. The trials of youth become a torrential odyssey of dislocation and disorientation. In this bildungsroman for our ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The BookBrowse Anthology
by
BookBrowse
BookBrowse, 03/25/2025
Where can you find Pulitzer, Nobel, Booker, and National Book Award Winners alongside bestsellers and hidden gems? For over 20 years, BookBrowse has ...
more
Other
The Evening Shades
by
Lee Martin
Melville House, 03/25/2025
One afternoon in the autumn of 1972, a lonely widow in Mt. Gilead, Illinois, makes the impromptu decision to rent out a room in her house to a ...
more
The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue: A Story of Climate and Hope on One American Street
by
Mike Tidwell
St. Martin's Press, 03/25/2025
In 2023, author and activist Mike Tidwell decided to keep a record for a full year of the growing impacts of climate change on his one urban block ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Reluctant Sheriff: The Mick Hardin Novels #4
by
Chris Offutt
Grove Press, 03/25/2025
Lauded as a "masterclass in the craft of crime fiction" (
CrimeReads), Chris Offutt's beloved and critically acclaimed Mick Hardin series is an ...
more
The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree
by
India Hayford
A John Scognamiglio Book, 03/25/2025
Genevieve Charbonneau talks to ghosts and has a special relationship with rattlesnakes. In her travels, she's wandered throughout the South, escaping ...
more
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Unwanted: A Novel
by
Boris Fishman
Harper, 03/25/2025
Susanna, George, and their eight-year-old daughter, Dina, have been lucky, so far, in these four years since war broke out in their country. Even as ...
more
Thrilled to Death: Selected Stories
by
Lynne Tillman
Soft Skull Press, 03/25/2025
Among the vanguard of American literary writers, Lynne Tillman's work has defied categorization throughout her legendary career—a singular body ...
more
Tilt: A Novel
by
Emma Pattee
Simon & Schuster, 03/25/2025
Last night, you and I were safe. Last night, in another universe, your father and I stood fighting in the kitchen.
Annie is nine months pregnant ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
To Steal from Thieves
by
M.K. Lobb
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/25/2025
Within the dazzling halls of London's Crystal Palace, the event of the season has arrived: The Great Exhibition. An opportunity for the greatest minds...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Trauma Plot: A Life
by
Jamie Hood
Pantheon Books, 03/25/2025
In the thick of lockdown, 2020, poet, critic, and memoirist Jamie Hood published her debut,
How to Be a Good Girl, an interrogation of modern ...
more
Twist: A Novel
by
Colum McCann
Random House, 03/25/2025
"Everything gets fixed, and we all stay broken."
Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the underwater cables ...
more
When the Moon Hits Your Eye
by
John Scalzi
Tor Books, 03/25/2025
The moon has turned into cheese.
Now humanity has to deal with it.
For some it's an opportunity. For others it's a moment to question their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
When We Ride: A Novel
by
Rex Ogle
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/25/2025
Diego Benevides works hard. His single mother encourages him to stay focused on school, on getting into college, on getting out of their crumbling ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
A Drop of Corruption: An Ana and Din Mystery (Shadow of the Leviathan #2)
by
Robert Jackson Bennett
Del Rey, 04/01/2025
In the canton of Yarrowdale, at the very edge of the Empire's reach, a Treasury officer has disappeared into thin air—vanishing from a room ...
more
A Hole in the Story: A Novel
by
Ken Kalfus
Milkweed Editions, 04/01/2025
At his desk one day, prominent Washington commentator Adam Zweig receives a text message. "
Btw want to give you a heads-up abt some breaking news," it...
more
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 ...
more
Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World's Greatest Museum
by
Elaine Sciolino
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/01/2025
The Louvre is the most famous museum in the world, attracting millions of visitors every year with its masterpieces. In
Adventures in the Louvre, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
All That Life Can Afford
by
Emily Everett
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/01/2025
I would arrive, blank like a sheet of notebook paper, and write myself new.
Anna first fell in love with London at her hometown library—its...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Attila
by
Aliocha Coll
Open Letter, 04/01/2025
In this groundbreaking "untranslatable" work, he channels Joycean experimentalism to explore the fragility of empires, the future of the city, and the...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Bad Nature: A Novel
by
Ariel Courage
Henry Holt and Company, 04/01/2025
When Hester is diagnosed with terminal cancer on her fortieth birthday, she knows immediately what she must do: abandon her possessions and drive to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Cat's People: A Novel
by
Tanya Guerrero
Delacorte Press, 04/01/2025
Núria, a single-by-choice barista with a resentment for the "crazy cat lady" label, is a member of The Meow-Yorkers, a group in Brooklyn who ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Flesh: A Novel
by
David Szalay
Scribner, 04/01/2025
Teenaged István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. Shy and new in town, he is a stranger to the social rituals ...
more
Gifted & Talented
by
Olivie Blake
Tor Books, 04/01/2025
Where there's a will, there's a war.
Thayer Wren, the brilliant CEO of Wrenfare Magitech and so-called father of modern technology, is dead. Any ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Holy Terrors: Little Thieves #3
by
Margaret Owen
Henry Holt and Company, 04/01/2025
As the
Pfennigeist, she bucks the law in order to help the desperate and haunt the corrupt all across the empire―and no matter what, she works ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Home of the Happy: A Murder on the Cajun Prairie
by
Jordan LaHaye Fontenot
Mariner Books, 04/01/2025
On January 16, 1983, Aubrey LaHaye's body was found floating in the Bayou Nezpique. His kidnapping ten days before sparked "the biggest manhunt in the...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Huda F Wants to Know?: A Graphic Novel
by
Huda Fahmy
Dial Books, 04/01/2025
Huda Fahmy is ready for junior year. She's got a plan to join all the clubs, volunteer everywhere, ace the ACTs, write the most awe-inspiring essay ...
more
I See You've Called in Dead: A Novel
by
John Kenney
Zibby Books, 04/01/2025
Bud Stanley is an obituary writer who is afraid to live. Yes, his wife recently left him for a "far more interesting" man. Yes, he goes on a ...
more
Literary Fiction
Insignificant Others: A Novel
by
Sarah Jio
William Morrow, 04/01/2025
What if you could have a second chance to say "yes" to the one who got away?
Lena Westbrook, a perfectionist and workaholic, has carefully planned...
more
Romance
Messy Perfect
by
Tanya Boteju
Quill Tree Books, 04/01/2025
Cassie Perera is a star student in St. Luke's junior class. But the new school year brings an unwelcome surprise—the return to St. Luke's of ...
more
Nine Minds: Inner Lives on the Spectrum
by
Daniel Tammet
The Experiment, 04/01/2025
Exploding the tired stereotypes of autism, Daniel Tammet―acclaimed author and an autistic savant himself―draws out the inner worlds of ...
more
Our City That Year: A Novel
by
Geetanjali Shree
HarperVia, 04/01/2025
"
That year, in our city, Hindus abandoned their pacifism. We've run out of other cheeks to turn,
they proclaimed. We're helpless!
they screamed. They ...more
Literary Fiction
Rabbit Moon: A Novel
by
Jennifer Haigh
Little Brown & Company, 04/01/2025
Four years after their bitter divorce, Claire and Aaron Litvak get a phone call no parent is prepared for: their 22-year-old daughter Lindsey, ...
more
Renegade Girls: A Queer Tale of Romance and Rabble-Rousing
by
Nora Neus
Little, Brown Ink, 04/01/2025
Seventeen-year-old Helena "Nell" Cusack came to New York this summer looking for a story—a real story. She dreams of one day writing hard-...
more
Run Away With Me
by
Brian Selznick
Scholastic Press, 04/01/2025
"I'm going to call you Danny. What are you going to name me?"
"Angelo."
Danny is spending his sixteenth summer in Rome. As his mother spends the...
more
Romance
Shots Heard Round the World: America, Britain, and Europe in the Revolutionary War
by
John Ferling
Bloomsbury Publishing, 04/01/2025
In April 1775, British troops marched to Lexington, where an armed group of Yankees awaited them. Despite an order to disperse, shots rang out. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Small Ceremonies: A Novel
by
Kyle Edwards
Pantheon Books, 04/01/2025
Word on the street is that this is the Tigers' last season. For Tomahawk "Tommy" Shields, an Indigenous, image-obsessed high school student from ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sour Cherry
by
Natalia Theodoridou
Tin House Books, 04/01/2025
The tale begins with Agnes. After losing her baby, Agnes is called to the great manor house to nurse the local lord's baby boy. But something is wrong...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Surreal: The Extraordinary Life of Gala Dali
by
Michele Gerber Klein
Harper, 04/01/2025
Using previously undiscovered material,
Surreal tells the riveting story of Gala Dalí, (1894-1982) who broke away from her cultured but penurious...
more
The Beauty of the End: A Novel
by
Lauren Stienstra
Little A, 04/01/2025
Charlie Tannehill and her twin sister, Maggie, are just eight years old when an unfortunate scientific discovery upends their world―and the ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Ephemera Collector: A Novel
by
Stacy Nathaniel Jackson
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 04/01/2025
In near-future Los Angeles, Xandria Brown works diligently as an archivist at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Descended ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Gatsby Gambit: A Novel
by
Claire Anderson Wheeler
Viking, 04/01/2025
Freshly twenty-one and sporting a daring new bob, Greta Gatsby--younger sister to the infamous Jay—is finally free of her dull finishing school,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Last American Road Trip
by
Sarah Kendzior
Flatiron Books, 04/01/2025
It is one thing to study the fall of democracy, another to have it hit your homeland — and yet another to raise children as it happens. The Last...
more
The Railway Conspiracy: A Dee and Lao Mystery
by
SJ Rozan
Soho Press, 04/01/2025
London, 1924. Following several months abroad, Judge Dee Ren Jie has returned to the city to foil a transaction between a Russian diplomat and a ...
more
The River Knows Your Name: A Novel
by
Kelly Mustian
Sourcebooks Landmark, 04/01/2025
For nearly thirty years, Nell has kept a childhood promise to never reveal what she and Evie found tucked inside a copy of
Jane Eyre in their mother's...
more
Literary Fiction
The Scientist and the Serial Killer: The Search for Houston's Lost Boys
by
Lise Olsen
Random House, 04/01/2025
Houston, Texas, in the early 1970s was an exciting place—the home of NASA, the city of the future. But a string of missing teenage boys, many ...
more
True Crime
The Snares: A Novel
by
Rav Grewal-Kök
Random House, 04/01/2025
"Are you happy where you are? Toiling in the trenches of the Justice Department?"
In the waning months of George W. Bush's presidency, Neel Chima...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Stars and Their Light: A Novel
by
Olivia Hawker
Lake Union Publishing, 04/01/2025
It's 1947 when Sister Mary Agnes arrives in New Mexico. Her mission is to establish a monastery in the town of Roswell, where weeks before rumors of ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Usual Desire to Kill: A Novel
by
Camilla Barnes
Scribner, 04/01/2025
Miranda's parents live in a dilapidated house in rural France that they share with two llamas, eight ducks, five chickens, two cats, and a freezer ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer's Families and the Search for a Cure
by
Jennie Erin Smith
Riverhead Books, 04/01/2025
In the 1980s, a neurologist named Francisco Lopera traveled on horseback into the mountains seeking families with symptoms of dementia. For centuries,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine
by
Chris Hedges
Seven Stories Press, 04/08/2025
A Genocide Foretold confronts the stark realities of life under siege in Gaza and the heroic effort ordinary Palestinians are waging to resist and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Audition: A Novel
by
Katie Kitamura
Riverhead Books, 04/08/2025
Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She's an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He's attractive, troubling,...
more
Authority: Essays
by
Andrea Long Chu
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/08/2025
Since her canonical 2017 essay "On Liking Women," the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself as a public ...
more
Big Chief
by
Jon Hickey
Simon & Schuster, 04/08/2025
Mitch Caddo, a young law school graduate and aspiring political fixer, is an outsider in the homeland of his Anishinaabe ancestors. But alongside his ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Don't Sleep with the Dead
by
Nghi Vo
Tordotcom, 04/08/2025
Nick Carraway―paper soldier and novelist―has found a life and a living watching the mad magical spectacle of New York high society in the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Fearless: The Powerless Trilogy
by
Lauren Roberts
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 04/08/2025
Paedyn Gray and Kai Azer return to the Kingdom of Ilya…
And Paedyn has a life-altering choice to make. Whatever she decides will determine ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Forget the Camel: The Madcap World of Animal Festivals and What They Say about Being Human
by
Elizabeth MeLampy
Apollo Publishers, 04/08/2025
As the gates open at the racetrack in Virginia City, Nevada, three camels stumble out, ridden by amateur jockeys. A crowd of roaring spectators looks ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Hail Mary: Stories
by
Funmi Fetto
Harper, 04/08/2025
From a Nigerian migrant worker conned out of her earnings in London to a recently widowed housewife rediscovering her suppressed African heritage, a ...
more
Short Stories
Happy Land
by
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Berkley Books, 04/08/2025
Nikki Berry hasn't seen her grandmother in years, due to a mysterious estrangement inherited from her mother. So when the elder calls out of the blue ...
more
Make Sure You Die Screaming: A Novel
by
Zee Carlstrom
Flatiron Books, 04/08/2025
The newly nameless narrator of
Make Sure You Die Screaming has rejected the gender binary, has flamed out with a vengeance at their corporate gig, is ...
more
Thrillers
My Documents: A Novel
by
Kevin Nguyen
One World, 04/08/2025
Ursula, Alvin, Jen, and Duncan grew up as cousins in the sprawling Nguyen family, but the truth about their family is much more complicated. As young ...
more
No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
by
Gardiner Harris
Random House, 04/08/2025
One day in 2004, Gardiner Harris, a pharmaceutical reporter for
The New York Times, was early for a flight and sat down at an airport bar. He struck ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Passion Project: A Novel
by
London Sperry
Penguin Books, 04/08/2025
Where's that zest she keeps hearing about? She's a temp worker in New York City with no direction, no future, and no social life. And at the painful ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy: City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room
by
Paul Auster
Pantheon Books, 04/08/2025
In 1994, Paul Auster's
City of Glass was adapted into a graphic novel and became an immediate cult classic, published in over 30 editions worldwide, ...
more
Plum
by
Andy Anderegg
Hub City Press, 04/08/2025
Told entirely in the second person,
Plum follows J as she grows from kid to teen in a house ruled by her alcoholic dad and complicit mother. Her older...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Precious Rubbish
by
Kayla E.
Fantagraphics Books, 04/08/2025
"If an exorcism can ever be slow and quiet, then every panel I've finished has felt something like an exorcism. The gutters give me space to make ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
by
Vauhini Vara
Pantheon Books, 04/08/2025
When it was released to the public in November 2022, ChatGPT awakened the world to a secretive project: teaching AI-powered machines to write. Its ...
more
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
Terrestrial History: A Novel
by
Joe Mungo Reed
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/08/2025
Hannah is a fusion scientist working in a cottage off the coast of Scotland when she's approached by a visitor from the future, a young man from a ...
more
The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road
by
E.A. Hanks
Gallery Books, 04/08/2025
In her trusted loaded-up minivan "Minnie," E.A. Hanks follows the same route as a long-ago road trip with her mother in an attempt to better ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Baker of Lost Memories: A Novel
by
Shirley Russak Wachtel
Little A, 04/08/2025
Growing up in 1960s Brooklyn, Lena wants to be a baker just like her mother was back in Poland prior to World War II. But questions about those days, ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Creation of Half-Broken People: A Novel
by
Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
House of Anansi Press, 04/08/2025
Showcasing African Gothic at its finest,
The Creation of Half-Broken People is the extraordinary tale of a nameless woman plagued by visions. She ...
more
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
The Impossible Thing
by
Belinda Bauer
Atlantic Monthly Press, 04/08/2025
How do you find something that doesn't exist?
1926. On the cliffs of Yorkshire, men are lowered on ropes to steal the eggs of the sea birds who ...
more
The Mademoiselle Alliance: A Novel
by
Natasha Lester
Dell, 04/08/2025
Marie-Madeleine is not the kind of woman who goes through life sitting down, and it's a trait that not everyone is a fan of—including her ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
by
Evie Woods
HarperCollins Publishers, 04/08/2025
Nestled among the cobblestone streets of Compiègne, there existed a bakery unlike any other.
Rumours were whispered through the town that ...more
Historical Fiction
The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West
by
Amitav Acharya
Basic Books, 04/08/2025
Since the dawn of the twenty-first century, the West has been in crisis. Social unrest, political polarization, and the rise of other great powers&#...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
All the Noise at Once
by
DeAndra Davis
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 04/15/2025
All Aiden has ever wanted to do was play football just like his star quarterback brother, Brandon. An overstimulation meltdown gets in the way of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
American Spirits: The Famous Fox Sisters and the Mysterious Fad that Haunted a Nation
by
Barb Rosenstock
Calkins Creek, 04/15/2025
Rap. Rap. Rap. The eerie sound was first heard in March of 1848 at the home of the Fox family in Hydesville, New York. The family's two daughters, ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Bitter Texas Honey: A Novel
by
Ashley Whitaker
Dutton, 04/15/2025
It's 2011, and twenty-three-year-old Joan West is not like the rest of her liberal peers in Austin, nor is she quite like her Tea Party Republican, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It
by
Andre M. Perry
Metropolitan Books, 04/15/2025
Historically, Black Americans' quest for power has been understood as an attempt to gain equal protections under the law. But power in America ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Coram House: A Novel
by
Bailey Seybolt
Atria Books, 04/15/2025
On a blistering summer day in 1968, nine-year-old Tommy vanishes without a trace from
Coram House, an orphanage on the shores of Lake Champlain. Some ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life
by
Dan Nadel
Scribner, 04/15/2025
Robert Crumb is often credited with single-handedly transforming the comics medium into a place for adult expression, in the process pioneering the ...
more
Hellions: Stories
by
Julia Elliott
Tin House Books, 04/15/2025
From the acclaimed author of
The Wilds comes an electric story collection that blends folklore, fairy tales, Southern Gothic, and horror, reveling in ...
more
Hyo the Hellmaker
by
Mina Ikemoto Ghosh
Scholastic Press, 04/15/2025
Hyo Hakai is a hellmaker, hired to create customized hells and unlucky days for your worst enemies.
When a demon destroys her village, Hyo and her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir With Appearances by Virginia Woolf
by
Heather Christle
Algonquin Books, 04/15/2025
When Heather Christle realizes that she, her mother, and Virginia Woolf share a traumatic history, she begins to rewrite and intertwine each of their ...
more
Into the Ice: The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery
by
Mark Synnott
Dutton, 04/15/2025
Only a few hundred vessels have ever transited the Northwest Passage, stretching through Canada's north from Maine to Alaska—and substantially ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Lost at Sea: Poverty and Paradise Collide at the Edge of America
by
Joe Kloc
Dey Street Books, 04/15/2025
In the wake of the financial crisis, the number of anchor-outs living in Richardson Bay more than doubles as their long-simmering feud with the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Midnight in Soap Lake: A Novel
by
Matthew Sullivan
Hanover Square Press, 04/15/2025
When Abigail agreed to move to Soap Lake, Washington, for her husband's research, she expected old-growth forests and craft beer, folksy neighbors and...
more
Thrillers
Nahia
by
Emily Jones
Holiday House, 04/15/2025
Spain, 8,000 years ago. As Headwoman's daughter, eighteen-year-old Nahia was born to lead. But when she speaks aloud a forbidden truth—that her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Notes from a Regicide
by
Isaac Fellman
Tor Books, 04/15/2025
When your parents die, you find out who they really were.
Griffon Keming's second parents saved him from his abusive family. They taught him how to...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
One Death at a Time
by
Abbi Waxman
Berkley Books, 04/15/2025
When Julia Mann, a bad-tempered ex-actress and professional thorn in the side of authority, runs into Natasha Mason at an AA meeting, it's anything ...
more
Open, Heaven: A Novel
by
Seán Hewitt
Knopf, 04/15/2025
Set in a remote village in the north of England,
Open, Heaven unfolds over the course of one year in which two teenage boys meet and transform each ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Somadina
by
Akwaeke Emezi
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 04/15/2025
Somadina and her twin brother, Jayaike, are practically the same person: they finish each other's sentences and make each other whole. When the twins ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
stay with me
by
Hanne Orstavik
Archipelago Books, 04/15/2025
Fear is a second skin for the unnamed narrator of Hanne Ørstavik's
Stay With Me. A successful writer at 53, her father may be a frail twig, but ...
more
Strangers in Time: A World War 2 Novel
by
David Baldacci
Grand Central Publishing, 04/15/2025
Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, ducking school but barred from ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Eights
by
Joanna Miller
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/15/2025
Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its one-thousand-year history, Oxford University officially admits female students. Burning with dreams of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Fairbanks Four: Murder, Injustice, and the Birth of a Movement
by
Brian Patrick O’Donoghue
Sourcebooks, 04/15/2025
October, 1997. Late one night in Fairbanks, Alaska, a passerby finds a teenager unconscious, collapsed on the edge of the road, beaten nearly beyond ...
more
True Crime
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Proof of My Innocence
by
Jonathan Coe
Europa Editions, 04/15/2025
Post-university life doesn't suit Phyl. Time passes slowly living back home with her parents, working a zero-hour contract serving Japanese food to ...
more
The Raven Scholar: Eternal Path Trilogy #1
by
Antonia Hodgson
Orbit, 04/15/2025
Let us fly now to the empire of Orrun, where after twenty-four years of peace, the reign of Bersun the Brusque has come to an end. In the dizzying ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Seven O'Clock Club
by
Amelia Ireland
Berkley Books, 04/15/2025
In a perfectly ordinary building, four strangers who couldn't be more different meet for the first time. Their skepticism of this new kind of grief ...
more
Literary Fiction
Things Left Unsaid: A Novel
by
Sara Jafari
St. Martin's Press, 04/15/2025
When twenty-six year old Shirin Bayat bumps into Kian at a house party in London, she is taken aback by the immediate feelings that resurface. It's ...
more
Literary Fiction
Vanishing World
by
Sayaka Murata
Grove Press, 04/15/2025
Sayaka Murata has proven herself to be one of the most exciting chroniclers of the strangeness of society, x-raying our contemporary world to bizarre ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
When the Harvest Comes: A Novel
by
Denne Michele Norris
Random House, 04/15/2025
"I got tired of running away from what I should've been running toward."
The venerated Reverend Doctor John Freeman did not raise his son, Davis,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Training School for Elephants
by
Sophy Roberts
Atlantic Monthly Press, 04/22/2025
In 1879, King Leopold II of Belgium launched an ambitious plan to plunder Africa's resources. The key to cracking open the continent, or so he thought...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
America, América: A New History of the New World
by
Greg Grandin
Penguin Press, 04/22/2025
The story of how the United States' identity was formed is almost invariably told by looking east to Europe. But as Greg Grandin vividly demonstrates,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Atavists: Stories
by
Lydia Millet
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/22/2025
From Lydia Millet―"the American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselves" (
Chicago Tribune)―comes an inventive new ...
more
Short Stories
Calm
by
S. J. Baker
Neem Tree Press, 04/22/2025
In a near-future Britain, societyʼs calm facade conceals a sinister truth: the state maintains its control by meddling with the nationʼs ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Cope Field
by
T. L. Simpson
Flux, 04/22/2025
When Craw is sentenced to community service for hitting his father in the head with a baseball bat, he accepts his punishment without objection, ...
more
Down in the Sea of Angels
by
Khan Wong
Angry Robot, 04/22/2025
In the year 2106, climate change has altered the world, transforming borders, cities, and socioeconomic structures. Additionally, a cosmic event known...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Eat the Ones You Love
by
Sarah Maria Griffin
Tor Books, 04/22/2025
After losing her job and her fiancé and moving back from the city to live with her parents, Shell Pine needs some help. And according to the sign...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Fair Play: A Novel
by
Louise Hegarty
Harper, 04/22/2025
A group of friends gather at an Airbnb on New Year's Eve. It is Benjamin's birthday, and his sister Abigail is throwing him a jazz-age Murder Mystery ...
more
Great Big Beautiful Life
by
Emily Henry
Berkley Books, 04/22/2025
Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they'...
more
Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future
by
Alan Weisman
Dutton, 04/22/2025
In this profoundly human and moving narrative, the bestselling author of
The World Without Us returns with a book ten years in the making: a study of ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
If We Were a Movie
by
Zakiya N. Jamal
HarperCollins Publishers, 04/22/2025
Lights. Camera. Love?
Rochelle "the Shell" Coleman is laser focused on only three things: becoming valedictorian, getting into Wharton, and, of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools
by
Mary Annette Pember
Pantheon Books, 04/22/2025
From the mid-19th century to the late 1930s, tens of thousands of Native children were pulled from their families to attend boarding schools that ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
by
Adam Becker
Basic Books, 04/22/2025
Tech billionaires have decided that they should determine our futures for us. According to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, and more, the only good ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Rakesfall
by
Vajra Chandrasekera
Tor Books, 04/22/2025
Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through the ages, friendships that outpace the claws of death, loves that...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson
by
Claire Hoffman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/22/2025
On a spring day in 1926, Aimee Semple McPherson wandered into the Pacific Ocean and vanished. Weeks later she reappeared in the desert, claiming to ...
more
Slither: How Nature's Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World
by
Stephen S. Hall
Grand Central Publishing, 04/22/2025
For millennia, depictions of snakes as alternatively beautiful and menacing creatures have appeared in religious texts, mythology, poetry, and beyond....
more
The Bright Years
by
Sarah Damoff
Simon & Schuster, 04/22/2025
Ryan and Lillian Bright are deeply in love, recently married, and now parents to a baby girl, Georgette. But Lillian has a son she hasn't told Ryan ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Corruption of Hollis Brown
by
K. Ancrum
HarperCollins Publishers, 04/22/2025
Hollis Brown is stuck. Born to a blue-collar American Dream, Hollis lives in a rotting small town where no one can afford to leave. Hollis's only ...
more
The Dissident Club: Chronicle of a Pakistani Journalist in Exile
by
Taha Siddiqui
Arsenal Pulp Press, 04/22/2025
In Islamabad in 2018, Pakistani investigative journalist Taha Siddiqui is kidnapped at gunpoint and barely escapes being killed. He flees the country ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Fantasies of Future Things: A Novel
by
Doug Jones
Simon & Schuster, 04/22/2025
Daily interactions between Jacob and Daniel are a powder keg of sexual tension and uncertainty. A recent Morehouse graduate and Brooklyn transplant, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood
by
Matthew Specktor
Ecco, 04/22/2025
Matthew Specktor grew up in the film industry: the son of legendary CAA superagent Fred Specktor, his childhood was one where Beau Bridges came over ...
more
The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders
by
Sarah Aziza
Catapult, 04/22/2025
"You were dead, Sarah, you were dead." In October 2019, Sarah Aziza, daughter and granddaughter of Gazan refugees, is narrowly saved after being ...
more
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
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The World of Nancy Kwan: A Memoir by Hollywood's Asian Superstar
by
Nancy Kwan
Hachette Books, 04/22/2025
When Nancy Kwan burst onto the scene in the early 1960s, Asian characters in film were portrayed by white actors in makeup playing "yellowface," and ...
more
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
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Mind of Her Own: A Novel
by
Danielle Steel
Delacorte Press, 04/29/2025
Alexandra Bouvier is born in Paris in 1900, at the dawn of a new century. From an early age, she is encouraged to think for herself by her enlightened...
more
Romance
Ancestors: Identity and DNA in the Levant
by
Pierre Zalloua
Random House, 04/29/2025
In recent years, as companies like 23andMe and Ancestry.com have made genetic testing available across the globe, it has become relatively simple to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Awakened
by
A.E. Osworth
Grand Central Publishing, 04/29/2025
On a morning much like any other, 30-something queer Brooklynite Wilder makes the miraculous discovery: suddenly, as if by magic, they can understand ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown
by
Candace Fleming
Anne Schwartz Books, 04/29/2025
Using riveting first-person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming reveals the makings of a monster: from Jones's humble origins as a child of...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dianaworld: An Obsession
by
Edward White
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/29/2025
Over the last forty years, the mythology of Princess Diana has turned the woman who was born Diana Spencer into a symbol for almost anything. From a ...
more
Favorite Daughter: A Novel
by
Morgan Dick
Viking, 04/29/2025
Mickey and Arlo are half sisters. But they've never spoken and never met. Arlo adored her father—but always lived in the shadow of his magnetic ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Ginseng Roots: A Memoir
by
Craig Thompson
Pantheon Books, 04/29/2025
When
Blankets first published in 2003, Craig Thompson's seminal memoir about first love and faith lost in rural Wisconsin debuted to rapturous acclaim...
more
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
by
Sophie Gilbert
Penguin Press, 04/29/2025
What happened to feminism in the twenty-first century? This question feels increasingly urgent after a period of cultural and legislative backlash, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Julie Chan Is Dead: A Novel
by
Liann Zhang
Atria Books, 04/29/2025
Julie Chan has nothing. Her twin sister has everything. Except a pulse.
Julie Chan, a supermarket cashier with nothing to lose, finds herself ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Love at Second Sight
by
F.T. Lukens
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 04/29/2025
Fifteen-year-old Cam Reynolds wants to spend his sophomore year flying under the radar. That shouldn't be too hard, considering he's a human going to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats
by
Courtney Gustafson
Crown, 04/29/2025
When Courtney Gustafson moved into a rental house in the Poets Square neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona, she didn't know that the property came with ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Polybius
by
Collin Armstrong
Gallery Books, 04/29/2025
October, 1982. Forced to move to the quiet seaside town of Tasker Bay by her mother, the only thing on high schooler Andi's mind is saving up enough ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Serial Killer Games
by
Kate Posey
Berkley Books, 04/29/2025
Dolores dela Cruz has been dying to spot one in the wild, and he fits the mold perfectly: strangler gloves, calculated charm, dashing good looks that ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Sleeping Children: A Novel
by
Anthony Passeron
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/29/2025
It's 1981. As a wave of mysterious infections sweeps across the United States, a doctor in Paris encounters something unexpected: a case of a disease ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs--and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease
by
Thomas Levenson
Random House, 04/29/2025
Two out of three soldiers who perished in the Civil War died of infected wounds, typhoid, and other infectious diseases. But no doctor truly ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America
by
Michael Luo
Doubleday, 04/29/2025
Strangers in the Land tells the story of a people who, beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, migrated by the tens of thousands to a ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Accidentals: Stories
by
Guadalupe Nettel
Bloomsbury Publishing, 04/29/2025
Acclaimed for her piercing insights and razor-sharp prose, award winning author Guadalupe Nettel introduces us to eight characters who are each in ...
more
The Determined
by
Rachel Rueckert
Kensington Publishing, 04/29/2025
1721, Spanish Town, Jamaica. Captured, convicted, and pregnant, twenty-three-year-old Anne Bonny faces the gallows. When writer Captain Charles ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Edge of Yesterday
by
Rita Woods
Forge Books, 04/29/2025
Greer Coffey is a principal dancer with a renowned Harlem company. Sebastian Coffey is an architect with a prestigious Midtown firm. The Coffeys are ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
by
Rick Atkinson
Crown, 04/29/2025
The first twenty-one months of the American Revolution—which began at Lexington and ended at Princeton—was the story of a ragged group of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
by
William Dalrymple
Bloomsbury Publishing, 04/29/2025
For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilization, creating around it a vast empire of ideas. Indian art, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Lilac People
by
Milo Todd
Counterpoint Press, 04/29/2025
In 1932 Berlin, Bertie, a trans man, and his friends spend carefree nights at the Eldorado Club, the epicenter of Berlin's thriving queer community. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Road to Tender Hearts: A Novel
by
Annie Hartnett
Ballantine Books, 04/29/2025
At sixty-three years old, million-dollar lottery winner PJ Halliday would be the luckiest man in Pondville, Massachusetts, if it weren't for the ...
more
The Story of Astrophysics in Five Revolutions
by
Ersilia Vaudo
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/29/2025
When Neil Armstrong first set foot in the lunar dust, his action forever changed our view of what was possible. Once something new alters our ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Summer I Remembered Everything
by
Catherine Con Morse
Crown Books for Young Readers, 04/29/2025
Emily Chen-Sanchez can't do anything right. She's been grounded for a bad grade; she can't stop fighting with her perfect older sister; everyone's ...
more
Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing
by
Lili Taylor
Crown, 04/29/2025
Most people don't really know birds—or rather, they aren't aware of them. Lili Taylor used to be one of those people. She knew birds existed. ...
more
Essays
When the Tides Held the Moon
by
Venessa Vida Kelley
Erewhon Books, 04/29/2025
Benigno "Benny" Caldera knows an orphaned Boricua blacksmith in 1910s New York City can't call himself an artist. But the ironwork tank he creates for...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Where Was Goodbye?
by
Janice Lynn Mather
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 04/29/2025
Karmen is about to start her last year of high school, but it's only been six weeks since her brother, Julian, died by suicide. How is she supposed to...
more
Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis
by
Suzanne Cope
Dutton, 04/29/2025
From underground soldiers to intrepid spies,
Women of War unearths the hidden history of the brave women who risked their lives to overthrow the Nazi ...
more
You Can Never Die: A Graphic Memoir
by
Harry Bliss
Celadon, 04/29/2025
New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss loved his sweet dog Penny, a joyful part of his life for seventeen years. Every day that he cared for his beloved ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Best We Could Hope For: A Novel
by
Nicola Kraus
Little A, 05/01/2025
When Bunny Linden abandons her three children with her older sister, Jayne, in 1972, she knows Jayne will be the perfect mother. The mother Bunny, a ...
more
Literary Fiction
A Thousand Natural Shocks
by
Omar Hussain
Blackstone Publishing, 05/06/2025
Dash, a reporter in Monterey, California, is desperate to outrun his past. During the day, he investigates the reemergence of a long-dormant serial ...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
All the Mothers: A Novel
by
Domenica Ruta
Random House, 05/06/2025
Sandy thought she was making her greatest mistake yet when she got unexpectedly pregnant in her mid-thirties by a dating-app flop. Now, her baby Rosie...
more
Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures
by
Lizzie Wade
Harper, 05/06/2025
A drought lasts for decades, a disease rips through a city, a civilization collapses. When we finally uncover the ruins, we ask: what happened? The ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Are You Happy?: Stories
by
Lori Ostlund
Astra House, 05/06/2025
An aspiring veterinarian survives a plane crash and starts life over in California. A woman mourns the loss of her childhood friend's innocence and ...
more
Austen at Sea: A Novel
by
Natalie Jenner
St. Martin's Press, 05/06/2025
In Boston, 1865, Charlotte and Henrietta Stevenson, daughters of a Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice, have accomplished as much as women are allowed...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Backroom Deals in Our Backyards: How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back
by
Miranda S. Spivack
The New Press, 05/06/2025
Most Americans are likely to encounter the effects of government malfeasance or neglect close to home—from their governors, mayors, town ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Daughters: A Novel
by
Kirsty Capes
The Overlook Press, 05/06/2025
When Mattie and Nora's mother, the brilliant, troubled, and world-renowned Norwegian painter Ingrid Olssen, was on her deathbed, there was one promise...
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Literary Fiction
Dear Teacher: A Novel
by
Maddalena Vaglio Tanet
HarperVia, 05/06/2025
One morning, a teacher disappears into the woods. As whispers fill her classroom and relatives scour the streets, she melts into a wild landscape, a ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Disco Witches of Fire Island: A Novel
by
Blair Fell
Alcove Press, 05/06/2025
It's 1989, and Joe Agabian and his best friend Ronnie set out to spend their first summer working in the hedonistic gay paradise of Fire Island Pines....
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
by
Zachary Leader
Belknap Press, 05/06/2025
Richard Ellmann's
James Joyce, published in 1959, was hailed by Anthony Burgess as "the greatest literary biography of the twentieth century." Frank ...
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Biography/Memoir
Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange
by
Katie Goh
Tin House Books, 05/06/2025
What begins as a curiosity into the origins of the orange soon becomes a far-reaching odyssey of citrus for Katie Goh. Katie follows the complicated ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Forged: A Novel
by
Danielle Teller
Pegasus Books, 05/06/2025
In the Gilded Age, a time of abject poverty and obscene wealth, a desperate and ambitious young woman strikes out for a new life in the rising ...
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Historical Fiction
Four Mothers: An Intimate Journey through the First Year of Parenthood in Four Countries
by
Abigail Leonard
Algonquin Books, 05/06/2025
Utterly moving and addictively readable from page one, the book begins with the pregnancies and labor experiences of Anna in Finland, Tsukasa in Japan...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Girls with Long Shadows: A Novel
by
Tennessee Hill
Harper, 05/06/2025
Identical triplets Baby A, Baby B, and Baby C Binderup were welcomed into the world as their mother was ushered out of it, leaving them nameless and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
His Face Is the Sun: Throne of Khetara #1
by
Michelle Jabès Corpora
Sourcebooks Fire, 05/06/2025
Desire, War, Magic, Monsters...a forgotten oracle will unite them against an ancient enemy. But who will be on the throne when the red dust of Khetara...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Home of the American Circus: A Novel
by
Allison Larkin
Gallery Books, 05/06/2025
After an emergency leaves her short on rent, thirty-year-old Freya Arnalds bails on her lackluster life as bartender in Maine and returns to her ...
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Literary Fiction
Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk
by
Faiz Siddiqui
St. Martin's Press, 05/06/2025
What happened to Elon Musk? In six years, he turned Tesla into the world's most valuable automaker and cast himself as a savior of humanity, an ...
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I Can't Even Think Straight
by
Dean Atta
Quill Tree Books, 05/06/2025
Kai knows who he is to others: The good grandson, the reliable best friend, the romantic backup. But he doesn't quite know who he is to himself.
...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Lessons from My Teachers: From Preschool to the Present
by
Sarah Ruhl
Simon & Schuster, 05/06/2025
Based on her popular class at Yale, this masterful, intimate essay collection from one of our greatest living playwrights and teachers, Sarah Ruhl, is...
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Michael Without Apology: A Novel
by
Catherine Ryan Hyde
Lake Union Publishing, 05/06/2025
Michael Woodbine was seven years old when a near-fatal fireworks accident scarred him and led to his placement in foster care. Now a college freshman,...
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Literary Fiction
Misophonia: A Novel
by
Dana Vowinckel
HarperVia, 05/06/2025
It's the hottest of summers in Chicago, and fifteen-year-old Margarita is spending her vacation as usual, under the not-so-watchful eyes of her aging ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
My Name Is Emilia del Valle: A Novel
by
Isabel Allende
Ballantine Books, 05/06/2025
In San Francisco in 1866, an Irish nun, abandoned following a torrid relationship with a Chilean aristocrat, gives birth to a daughter named Emilia ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Ocean: Earth's Last Wilderness
by
Sir David Attenborough
Grand Central Publishing, 05/06/2025
Through personal stories, history and cutting-edge science,
Ocean uncovers the mystery, the wonder and the frailty of the most unexplored habitat on ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Old School Indian: A Novel
by
Aaron John Curtis
Zando, 05/06/2025
Abe Jacobs is Kanien'kehá:ka from Ahkwesáhsne―or, as white people say, a Mohawk Indian from the Saint Regis Tribe. At eighteen, Abe ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Other Worlds: Stories
by
André Alexis
FSG Originals, 05/06/2025
A Trinidadian obeah man finds himself reborn, a hundred years after his death, in the body of a Canadian child; a writer takes up a seasonal job as a ...
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Short Stories
Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II
by
Paul Thomas Chamberlin
Basic Books, 05/06/2025
In popular memory, the Second World War was an unalloyed victory for freedom over totalitarianism, marking the demise of the age of empires and the ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age
by
Amanda Hess
Doubleday, 05/06/2025
In the summer of 2020, a routine ultrasound detected a mysterious abnormality in Hess's baby. Without hesitation, she reached for her phone, looking ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Shopgirls: A Novel
by
Jessica Anya Blau
Mariner Books, 05/06/2025
Nineteen-year-old Zippy can hardly believe it: she's the newest and youngest salesgirl at I. Magnin, "San Francisco's Finest Department Store." Every ...
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Snowglobe 2: The Snowglobe Duology #2
by
Soyoung Park
Delacorte Press, 05/06/2025
Chobahm's perfect life in Snowglobe came crashing down when she discovered the truth about Haeri; the girl she watched faithfully on television was ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger during World War II
by
Becky Aikman
Bloomsbury Publishing, 05/06/2025
They were crop dusters and debutantes, college girls and performers in flying circuses-all of them trained as pilots. Because they were women, they ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Adventures of Mary Darling
by
Pat Murphy
Tachyon Publications, 05/06/2025
Mary Darling is a pretty wife whose boring husband is befuddled by her independent ways. But one fateful night, Mary becomes the distraught mother ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Director: A Novel
by
Daniel Kehlmann
Summit Books, 05/06/2025
An artist's life, a pact with the devil, and the dangerous illusions of the silver screen.
G.W. Pabst, one of cinema's greatest directors of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Invisible Wild
by
Nikki Van De Car
Running Press Publishers, 05/06/2025
According to legend, when the kanaka 'ōiwi sailed over two thousand miles across untraveled seas to the most remote island chain in the world, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Manor of Dreams
by
Christina Li
Avid Reader Press, 05/06/2025
Vivian Yin is dead. The first Chinese actress to win an Oscar, the trailblazing ingénue rose to fame in the eighties, only to disappear from the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Mother Code: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Myths That Shape Us
by
Ruthie Ackerman
Random House, 05/06/2025
Ruthie Ackerman had long believed that the decision to not have children was a radical act. She'd grown up being told that she came from a long line ...
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The Names: A Novel
by
Florence Knapp
Pamela Dorman Books, 05/06/2025
In the wake of a catastrophic storm, Cora sets off with her nine-year-old daughter, Maia, to register her son's birth. Her husband, Gordon, a local ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings from History
by
Laurence Rees
Public Affairs, 05/06/2025
How could the SS have committed the crimes they did? How were the killers who shot Jews at close quarters able to perpetrate this horror? Why ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Night Birds: A Novel
by
Christopher Golden
St. Martin's Press, 05/06/2025
Charlie Book and Ruby Cahill have history. After their love ended in heartbreak years ago, they never expected to see each other again.
Now, as ...
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The Ones We Loved: A Novel
by
Tarisai Ngangura
Park Row, 05/06/2025
On a bus moving across rural landscapes from town to town, two young people are escaping with nothing to hold except hope. She has committed a ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The 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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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Retirement Plan
by
Sue Hincenbergs
William Morrow, 05/06/2025
After thirty years of friendship, Pam dreams of her perfect retirement with Nancy, Shalisa, Marlene, and their husbands—until their husbands ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The River Is Waiting: A Novel
by
Wally Lamb
Simon & Schuster, 05/06/2025
Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into ...
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The Sun Blessed Prince: A Tale of Two Crowns #1
by
Lindsey Byrd
Random House Canada, 05/06/2025
Separated by war, united by fate...
Prince Elician is a Giver. He can heal any wound and bring the dead back to life. He also can't be killed, so ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Wanderer's Curse: A Memoir
by
Jennifer Hope Choi
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/06/2025
When Jennifer Hope Choi first stumbled upon the "curse" known as yeokmasal―an allegedly inheritable affliction causing one to roam farther and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Words of Dr. L: & Other Stories
by
Karen E. Bender
Counterpoint Press, 05/06/2025
Grounded in both the contemporary United States and a variety of dystopias, the new stories in Karen E. Bender's third collection examine the evolving...
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Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir
by
Craig Mod
Random House, 05/06/2025
Photographer and essayist Craig Mod is a veteran of long solo walks. But in 2021, during the pandemic shutdown of Japan's borders, one particular walk...
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This Is Your Mother: A Memoir
by
Erika J. Simpson
Scribner, 05/06/2025
Growing up, Erika Simpson's mother loomed large, almost biblical in her life. A daughter of sharecroppers, middle child of ten, her origin story ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
This Thing of Ours
by
Frederick Joseph
Candlewick Press, 05/06/2025
In an instant, Ossie Brown's entire future is in jeopardy when a torn ACL ends his promising basketball career. Now that basketball is no longer a ...
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Twelve Post-War Tales
by
Graham Swift
Knopf, 05/06/2025
Here are the soldiers and doctors and veterans, wives and lovers and children, who have been affected in ways both subtle and profound by the ...
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Up in Smoke
by
Nick Brooks
Henry Holt and Company, 05/06/2025
Unmask a murderer or take the fall.
After Cooper King is pressured by big brother figure Jason to go on a looting spree during a local march, the ...
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Wake the Wild Creatures
by
Nova Ren Suma
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 05/06/2025
Three years ago, Talia lived happily in the ruins of the Neves, a once-grand hotel in the wilds of the Catskill Mountains, with her mother Pola and ...
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Warhol's Muses: The Artists, Misfits, and Superstars Destroyed by the Factory Fame Machine
by
Laurence Leamer
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/06/2025
"Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil," Andy Warhol confessed, "of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could ...
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What My Father and I Don't Talk About: Sixteen Writers Break the Silence
by
Michele Filgate
Simon & Schuster, 05/06/2025
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About has become a rare gem in the literary world. Both a viral sensation online and chosen by
Oprah Daily as one of ...
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32 Days in May
by
Betty Corrello
Avon Books, 05/13/2025
Nadia Fabiola wants to lose herself in Evergreen—the Jersey Shore town where she grew up vacationing with her family—and never look back ...
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Romance
Anima Rising: A Novel
by
Christopher Moore
William Morrow, 05/13/2025
Vienna, 1911. Gustav Klimt, the most famous painter in the Austrian Empire, the darling of Viennese society, spots a woman's nude body in the Danube ...
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Historical Fiction
Awake in the Floating City: A Novel
by
Susanna Kwan
Pantheon Books, 05/13/2025
Bo knows she shouldgo. Years of rain have drowned the city and almost everyone else has fled. Her mother was carried away in a storm surge and ever ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Bear Witness: A Crusade for Justice in a Violent Land
by
Ross Halperin
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 05/13/2025
As young men, Kurt Ver Beek, an American sociologist, and Carlos Hernández, a Honduran schoolteacher, devoted their lives to helping the poor. ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI
by
John Cassidy
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/13/2025
At a time when artificial intelligence, climate change, and inequality are raising fundamental questions about the economic system,
Capitalism and Its...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Captain Kidd: A True Story of Treasure and Betrayal
by
Samuel Marquis
Diversion Books, 05/13/2025
Captain William Kidd stands as one of the most notorious "pirate" outlaws ever, but his notorious legend is tainted by a bed of lies. Captain Kidd has...
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Biography/Memoir
Eliza, from Scratch
by
Sophia Lee
Quill & Quire, 05/13/2025
Eliza Park's senior year will be perfect: She's going to be salutatorian, give a tear-jerking graduation speech in front of her parents, and enjoy her...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Family & Other Calamities: A Novel
by
Leslie Gray Streeter
Lake Union Publishing, 05/13/2025
Entertainment journalist Dawn Roberts has a lot to work through: a widow's grief, betrayals of family and friends, and scandals that almost tanked her...
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Literary Fiction
Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea
by
Marcus Rediker
Viking, 05/13/2025
As many as 100,000 enslaved people fled successfully from the horrors of bondage in the antebellum South, finding safe harbor along a network of ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Happiness Forever: A Novel
by
Adelaide Faith
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/13/2025
"It's maybe six hundred times a day," Sylvie says, and then she stops and the therapist tilts her head. "That I think about you," Sylvie goes on, the ...more
Literary Fiction
Home Has No Borders
by
Samira Ahmed
HarperCollins Publishers, 05/13/2025
From first crushes to first heartbreaks, complicated family dynamics to community relationships, this powerful collection of stories explores race, ...
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Short Stories
Hunger Like a Thirst: From Food Stamps to Fine Dining, a Restaurant Critic Finds Her Place at the Table
by
Besha Rodell
Celadon, 05/13/2025
When Besha Rodell moved from Australia to the United States with her mother at fourteen, she was a foreigner in a new land, missing her friends, her ...
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Biography/Memoir
Insectopolis: A Natural History
by
Peter Kuper
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/13/2025
This visually immersive work of graphic nonfiction dives into a world where ants, cicadas, bees, and butterflies visit a library exhibition that ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth
by
Karen G. Lloyd
Princeton University Press, 05/13/2025
Life thrives in the deepest, darkest recesses of Earth's crust—from methane seeps in the ocean floor to the highest reaches of Arctic permafrost...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil: A Novel
by
Oliver Darkshire
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/13/2025
This debut novel by beloved rare bookseller and memoirist Oliver Darkshire reimagines the
Decameron heroine Isabella (with her creepy pot of basil) in...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Marble Hall Murders: A Novel
by
Anthony Horowitz
Harper, 05/13/2025
Editor Susan Ryeland has left her Greek island, her hotel, and her Greek boyfriend Andreas in search of a new life back in England.
Freelancing ...
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Mysteries
Mark Twain
by
Ron Chernow
Penguin Press, 05/13/2025
Ron Chernow, the highly lauded biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and Ulysses S. Grant, brings his considerable powers to bear on ...
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Biography/Memoir
Metallic Realms: A Novel
by
Lincoln Michel
Atria Books, 05/13/2025
Perennially single, socially awkward, and drowning in debt, Michael Lincoln's life has turned out nothing like the intergalactic pulp heroes of his ...
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Literary Fiction
My Father's House: An Ode to America's Longest-Serving Black Congressman
by
John Conyers III
Amistad, 05/13/2025
A respectful, thoughtful, yet clear-eyed reframing of a national hero's personal and political odyssey,
My Father's House is John Conyers III's love ...
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Biography/Memoir
Of Earthly Delights
by
Goldy Moldavsky
Henry Holt and Company, 05/13/2025
Aspiring artist Rose Pauly is not happy moving from her home in New York City right before her senior year of high school. But on her first miserable ...
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Romantic Thrillers
One of the Boys
by
Victoria Zeller
Levine Querido, 05/13/2025
As senior year begins, Grace is struggling to find her place in early transition, new social circles, and a life without football. But when her skills...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Parallel Lines: A Novel
by
Edward St. Aubyn
Knopf, 05/13/2025
It's the summer, and Sebastian is in treatment following a breakdown that has left him grappling with his fragile grip on reality and his persistent ...
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Literary Fiction
Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece
by
James Romm
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/13/2025
Plato is one of history's most influential thinkers, the "sublime philosopher" whose writings remain foundational to Western culture. He is known for ...
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Biography/Memoir
Run for the Hills: A Novel
by
Kevin Wilson
Ecco, 05/13/2025
Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago, it's just been Madeline Hill and her mom on their farm in Coalfield, Tennessee. While she sometimes ...
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Literary Fiction
Shampoo Unicorn
by
Sawyer Lovett
Hyperion, 05/13/2025
In the small town of Canon, West Virginia, most people care about three things: God, country, and football.
Brian is more into
Drag Race, Dolly ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sleep: A Novel
by
Honor Jones
Riverhead Books, 05/13/2025
Every parent exists inside of two families simultaneously – the one she was born into, and the one she has made.
Ten-year-old Margaret hides ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color
by
Caro De Robertis
Algonquin Books, 05/13/2025
So Many Stars knits together the voices of trans, nonbinary, genderqueer and two-spirit elders of color as they share authentic, intimate ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
State Champ
by
Hilary Plum
Bloomsbury Publishing, 05/13/2025
A high-school state champion runner turned college dropout, Angela is working as a receptionist at an abortion clinic when a "heartbeat law" ...
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Literary Fiction
Take to the Trees: A Story of Hope, Science, and Self-Discovery in America's Imperiled Forests
by
Marguerite Holloway
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/13/2025
Journalist Marguerite Holloway arrives at the Women's Tree Climbing Workshop as a climbing novice, but with a passion for trees and a deep concern ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon's Enduring Impact on America
by
Mark Whitaker
Simon & Schuster, 05/13/2025
Malcolm X has become as much of an American icon as Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, or Martin Luther King. But when he was murdered in 1965, he was ...
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The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
by
Emily M. Bender
Harper, 05/13/2025
Is artificial intelligence going to take over the world? Have big tech scientists created an artificial lifeform that can think on its own? Is it ...
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Other
The Boy from the Sea: A Novel
by
Garrett Carr
Knopf, 05/13/2025
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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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Dark Maestro: A Novel
by
Brendan Slocumb
Doubleday, 05/13/2025
Curtis Wilson is a cello prodigy, growing up in the Southeast D.C. projects with a drug dealer for a father. But through determination and talent, and...
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The Duke Steals Hearts & Other Body Parts
by
Elias Cold
Page Street YA, 05/13/2025
Wielding a magic that allows him to pop off limbs, con artist Phyllis steals body parts and his partner Lucent ransoms them. Everyone who knows about ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Education of Kia Greer
by
Alanna Bennett
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 05/13/2025
Growing up in the public eye, Kia would gladly give up her privileged life as the daughter of a reality star for the freedom to find her own way—...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin
by
Daniel Brook
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/13/2025
More than a century ago, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld first argued that gender and sexuality were fluid. Dubbed "the Einstein of Sex," Hirschfeld grew famous...
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Biography/Memoir
The Emperor of Gladness: A Novel
by
Ocean Vuong
Penguin Press, 05/13/2025
One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting ...
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Literary Fiction
The Incandescent
by
Emily Tesh
Tor Books, 05/13/2025
"
Look at you, eating magic like you're one of us."
Doctor Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood School and one of the most powerful magicians...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story
by
Brandy Schillace
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/13/2025
Set in interwar Germany,
The Intermediaries tells the forgotten story of the Institute for Sexual Science, the world's first center for homosexual and...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties
by
Dennis McNally
Da Capo, 05/13/2025
Few cities represent the countercultural movement of the 1960s more than San Francisco. By that decade, the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood was home to ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Last Secret Agent: My Life as a Spy Behind Nazi Lines
by
Pippa Latour
St. Martin's Press, 05/13/2025
From a unique and singular voice comes the incredible true story of the last surviving undercover British female operative in WW2. Pippa Latour ...
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Biography/Memoir
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
The Remembered Soldier
by
Anjet Daanje
New Vessel Press, 05/13/2025
After serving as a soldier in the Great War, Noon Merckem has lost his memory and lives in a psychiatric asylum. Countless women, responding to a ...
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Historical Fiction
The Romance Rivalry
by
Susan Lee
HarperCollins Publishers, 05/13/2025
Irene Park loves romance novels—so much so she's made a career of them as an online book reviewer with a massive following. But Irene's real ...
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Romance
The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them
by
Ekow Eshun
Harper, 05/13/2025
In the western imagination, a Black man is always a stranger, outsider, foreigner, intruder, alien; one who remains associated with their origins ...
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Biography/Memoir
Trans History: A Graphic Novel: From Ancient Times to the Present Day
by
Alex L. Combs
Candlewick Press, 05/13/2025
What does "trans" mean, and what does it mean to be trans? Diversity in human sex and gender is not a modern phenomenon, as readers will discover ...
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Graphic Novels
You and Me on Repeat
by
Mary Shyne
Henry Holt and Company, 05/13/2025
Chris O'Brien has a genius plan: If he can share the perfect first kiss with his crush, Andy, then of course he'll break free from the time loop that ...
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Graphic Novels
You Are Not a Kinesthetic Learner: The Troubled History of the Learning Style Idea
by
Thomas Fallace
University Of Chicago Press, 05/19/2025
The widely embraced notion that we all process information in one of three distinct modes—visual, auditory, or kinesthetic—has informed ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Everyone Sux But You
by
K. Wroten
Henry Holt and Company, 05/20/2025
High school senior Carson Flynn doesn't give a damn―about you, about school, or about her future. The only thing she cares about is jumping into...
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Graphic Novels
Gingko Season: A Novel
by
Naomi Xu Elegant
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/20/2025
After suffering her first big heartbreak two years earlier, Penelope Lin has built a quiet life with no romantic entanglements. She spends her days ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Hardly Creatures: Poems
by
Rob Macaisa Colgate
Tin House Books, 05/20/2025
Brilliant and innovative, Rob Macaisa Colgate's debut poetry collection,
Hardly Creatures, takes the form―visually and metaphorically―of ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
Is a River Alive?
by
Robert Macfarlane
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/20/2025
Hailed as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler" (Holly Morris,
New York Times), Robert Macfarlane ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
My Friends: A Novel
by
Fredrik Backman
Atria Books, 05/20/2025
Most people don't even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the...
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Literary Fiction
Sike: A Novel
by
Fred Lunzer
Celadon, 05/20/2025
Adrian earns his living writing lyrics for rappers he never meets, and finds success with a hit song about his own fruitless search for love. After ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sing to Me: A Novel
by
Jesse Browner
Little Brown & Company, 05/20/2025
His family farm and the surrounding community now emptied by war, young Hani embarks on an epic quest – assisted by a brooding yet brilliant ...
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Historical Fiction
Spent: A Comic Novel
by
Alison Bechdel
Mariner Books, 05/20/2025
In Alison Bechdel's hilariously skewering and gloriously cast new comic novel confection, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel, running a pygmy goat ...
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The Book of Records: A Novel
by
Madeleine Thien
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/20/2025
Lina and her father arrive at an enclave called The Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mysterious and shape-...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Doorman: A Novel
by
Chris Pavone
MCD, 05/20/2025
Chicky Diaz is everyone's favorite doorman at the Bohemia, the most famous apartment house in the world, home of celebrities, financiers, and New York...
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Thrillers
The Fate of Others: Stories
by
Richard Bausch
Knopf, 05/20/2025
In ten piercing new stories, Richard Bausch fleshes out the rich inner worlds of his characters and plumbs the nuances of infidelity, loss, and ...
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Short Stories
Historical Fiction
The Gone Book
by
Helena Close
Little Island Books, 05/20/2025
Matt's mom left home when he was 10. He writes letters to her but doesn't send them. He keeps them in his Gone Book, which he hides in his room. Five ...
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Literary Fiction
The True Happiness Company: A Memoir
by
Veena Dinavahi
Random House, 05/20/2025
It is hard for Veena Dinavahi to live while her classmates keep dying. The high-achieving daughter of loving Indian immigrants, Veena lives in a ...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Things in Nature Merely Grow
by
Yiyun Li
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/20/2025
"There is no good way to say this," Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book.
"There is no good way to state these facts, which must be ...
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Biography/Memoir
What Will People Think?: A Novel
by
Sara Hamdan
Henry Holt and Company, 05/20/2025
Mia Almas has a secret. By day, she works at a respectable job as a media fact checker―a position her conservative, Arab grandparents approve of...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Autocorrect: Stories
by
Etgar Keret
Riverhead Books, 05/27/2025
Etgar Keret is the world's most famous living Israeli writer, known for writing short stories that are lean and accessible in style, and whimsical, ...
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Short Stories
Consider Yourself Kissed: A Novel
by
Jessica Stanley
Riverhead Books, 05/27/2025
When she first meets Adam, Coralie is new to London and feeling adrift. But Adam is clever, witty, and (he insists) a quarter inch taller than the ...
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Literary Fiction
Deep Breath
by
Rita Halász
Catapult, 05/27/2025
When we meet Vera, her body and mind are on a precipice. She's just left her marital home to live with her father after her husband's violent ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Disappoint Me: A Novel
by
Nicola Dinan
Dial Books, 05/27/2025
I don't know why I feel like I've been caught doing something dirty. Cheating on queerness. Fell down the stairs and woke up a trad wife.
Thirty ...
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Literary Fiction
Dreaming of Home: A Young Latina's Journey to Pride, Power, and Belonging
by
Cristina Jiménez
St. Martin's Press, 05/27/2025
Dreaming of Home is a coming-of-age story both for a young woman finding her true self and for a social movement of immigrant youth trailblazers who ...
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Biography/Memoir
Harmattan Season: A Novel
by
Tochi Onyebuchi
Tor Books, 05/27/2025
Veteran and private eye Boubacar doesn't need much―least of all trouble―but trouble always seems to find him. Work has dried up, and he'd ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Maybe This Will Save Me: A Memoir of Art, Addiction and Transformation
by
Tommy Dorfman
Hanover Square Press, 05/27/2025
On a hot summer day, twenty-eight-year-old Tommy Dorfman was enjoying a beautiful outing on a boat. But inside she felt unmoored. After a lifetime of ...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Busybody Book Club
by
Freya Sampson
Berkley Books, 05/27/2025
Having recently moved from London to a small Cornish seaside village, Nova Davies started a book club at the local community center, but so far it's a...
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Mysteries
The Gravedigger's Almanac: A Novel (A Leopold von Herzfeldt Case, 1)
by
Oliver Pötzsch
HarperVia, 05/27/2025
Vienna, 1893. A gravedigger at the city's famous Central Cemetery, Augustin Rothmayer is an unorthodox yet highly educated oddball who finds solace ...
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Thrillers
The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club: A Novel
by
Martha Hall Kelly
Ballantine Books, 05/27/2025
2016: Thirty-four-year-old Mari Starwood is still grieving as she travels to the storied island of Martha's Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts. ...
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Literary Fiction
The South: A Novel
by
Tash Aw
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/27/2025
When his grandfather dies, Jay travels south with his family to the property they've inherited, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair...
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Literary Fiction
The Stalker
by
Paula Bomer
Soho Press, 05/27/2025
Robert Doughten Savile, aka "Doughty," is the son of a once-wealthy, now hard-up family from Darien, Connecticut. Doughty lives in a perpetual cloud ...
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Thrillers
This Moth Saw Brightness
by
A. A. Vacharat
Dutton for Young Readers, 05/27/2025
"The invisible D in my name is my mother's second most lasting contribution to my life."
'Wayne Le—known as "Invisible-D 'Wayne" at school&...
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Literary Fiction
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