Happiness and Love: A Novel
by
Zoe Dubno
Scribner, 09/02/2025
Years after escaping New York and the center of its artistic world—a group of self-important, depraved, and unscrupulous artists, curators, and ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Mercy
by
Joan Silber
Counterpoint Press, 09/02/2025
In the gritty East Village of 1970s New York, Ivan and his best friend, Eddie, a popular local bartender, are dabbling in drugs following a short tour...
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Literary Fiction
Mother Mary Comes to Me
by
Arundhati Roy
Scribner, 09/02/2025
Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy's first work of memoir, is a soaring account, both intimate and inspirational, of how the author became the ...
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Biography/Memoir
A Land So Wide: A Novel
by
Erin A. Craig
Pantheon Books, 09/09/2025
Like everyone else in the settlement of Mistaken, Greer Mackenzie is trapped. Founded by an ambitious lumber merchant, the village is blessed with ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Middle Spoon: A Novel
by
Alejandro Varela
Viking, 09/09/2025
The narrator of
Middle Spoon appears to be living the dream: He has a doting husband, two precocious children, all the comforts of a quiet bourgeois ...
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Literary Fiction
Play Nice
by
Rachel Harrison
Berkley Books, 09/09/2025
Clio Louise Barnes leads a picture-perfect life as a stylist and influencer, but beneath the glossy veneer she harbors a not-so glamorous secret: she ...
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The Hunter's Daughter
by
Nicola Solvinic
Berkley Books, 09/09/2025
Anna Koray escaped her father's darkness long ago. When she was a girl, her childhood memories were sealed away from her conscious mind by a ...
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Thrillers
The Last Time We Spoke: A Story of Loss
by
Jesse Mechanic
Street Noise Books, 09/09/2025
Grief never goes away.
When he was a teenager, Jesse Mechanic's mother passed away after a long struggle with cancer. In this memoir, he looks ...
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Graphic Novels
For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran's Women-Led Uprising
by
Fatemeh Jamalpour
Pantheon Books, 09/16/2025
In September 2022, a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Jîna Amini, died after being beaten by police officers who arrested her for not adhering to the ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories
by
Jonathan Lethem
Ecco, 09/23/2025
This dazzling, genre-defying collection from Jonathan Lethem features seven major stories published since his last collection, along with his best ...
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Literary Fiction
Literary Fiction
Dinner at the Night Library: A Novel
by
Hika Harada
Hanover Square Press, 09/30/2025
All Otaha Higuchi wants to do is work with books. However, the exhausting nature of her work at a chain bookstore, combined with her paltry salary and...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Great Disasters: A Novel
by
Grady Chambers
Tin House Books, 09/30/2025
This is the story of how we became. I write those words but remain uncertain what they mean... . Drinking was a part of it. But as much as it was ...more
Literary Fiction
Historical Fiction
The Midnight Timetable: A Novel in Ghost Stories
by
Bora Chung
Algonquin Books, 09/30/2025
The acclaimed Korean horror and sci-fi writer's goosebump-inducing new book follows an employee on the night shift at the Institute. They soon learn ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Last Supper: How to Overcome the Future Food Crisis
by
Sam Kass
Crown, 10/07/2025
As a chef in high-end restaurants, and later, in the home of then Senator Barack and Michelle Obama, Sam Kass read a lot about how eating organic and ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Happy People Don't Live Here: A Novel
by
Amber Sparks
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 10/14/2025
Just past the edge of summer, Alice and Fern arrive at the Pine Lake Apartments―a former sanitorium occupied by an ensemble of peculiar ...
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Mysteries
Crawl: Stories
by
Max Delsohn
Graywolf Press, 10/21/2025
What to do when starting testosterone unlocks a newfound desire for men? How to respond when your boss's boss asks if you've had "the surgery" and ...
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Thrillers
The Sister's Curse
by
Nicola Solvinic
Berkley Books, 10/21/2025
Lieutenant Anna Koray thought she'd finally found solid ground and escaped her past as the daughter of a notorious serial killer. A loving boyfriend, ...
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Thrillers
The Ten Year Affair: A Novel
by
Erin Somers
Simon & Schuster, 10/21/2025
When Cora meets Sam at a baby group in their small town, the chemistry between them is undeniable. Both are happily married young parents with two ...
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Literary Fiction
The Bone Thief
by
Vanessa Lillie
Berkley Books, 10/28/2025
In the hours before dawn at a local summer camp, Bureau of Indian Affairs archaeologist Syd Walker receives an alarming call: newly discovered ...
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Thrillers
Lightbreakers: A Novel
by
Aja Gabel
Riverhead Books, 11/04/2025
In the beginning, there was happiness. Maya, an artist obsessed with the nature of beauty, and Noah, a quantum physicist preoccupied by the mysteries ...
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Literary Fiction
Beasts of the Sea: A Novel
by
Iida Turpeinen
Little Brown & Company, 11/18/2025
In 1741, thirty-two-year-old naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller joins Captain Bering's Great Northern Expedition to scout out a sea route from Asia to ...
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Historical Fiction
Every Moment Was You: Notes on Loving and Parting
by
Taewoan Ha
Harper, 11/18/2025
Every Moment Was You is a deeply moving collection of poems and lyrical essays about the beauty of youth and the pain that comes with transitioning ...
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Romance
I, Medusa: A Novel
by
Ayana Gray
Random House, 11/18/2025
Meddy has spent her whole life as a footnote in someone else's story. Out of place next to her beautiful, immortal sisters and her parents—both ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Book of Women's Friendship
by
Rachel Cooke
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/18/2025
As Marilynne Robinson writes in her 1980 novel
Housekeeping, "having a sister or friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house." Bringing ...
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Other
The Botanist's Assistant
by
Peggy Townsend
Berkley Books, 11/18/2025
Plenty of people consider Margaret Finch odd. Six-feet-tall and big-boned, she lives alone in a small cabin in the woods, drives a 20-year-old truck, ...
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Mysteries
