A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart: A Novel
by
Nishant Batsha
Ecco, 07/01/2025
At a party near Stanford University's campus in 1917, Cora Trent, a graduate student raised in the rugged mining towns of the American West, meets ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
After We Burned
by
Marieke Nijkamp
Sourcebooks Fire, 07/01/2025
A terrible accident. A horrible loss. A regrettable tragedy. That's all anyone in Fenix can talk about when a fire consumes the local high school, ...
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Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution
by
Molly Beer
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/01/2025
Few women of the American Revolution have come through 250 years of US history with such clarity and color as Angelica Schuyler Church. She was ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Archive of Unknown Universes: A Novel
by
Ruben Reyes Jr.
Mariner Books, 07/01/2025
Cambridge, 2018. Ana and Luis's relationship is on the rocks, despite their many similarities, including their mothers who both fled El Salvador ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe
by
C. B. Lee
Feiwel & Friends, 07/01/2025
When Brenda's internet goes out right before an important scholarship deadline, she stumbles right into Kat's family's coffeeshop. Brenda is swept ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
End of Empire
by
Marissa Davis
Penguin Books, 07/01/2025
A collection as remarkable for the force of its feeling as for the range of its vision,
End of Empire explores the tensions of Black and American ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Hot Girls with Balls: A Novel
by
Benedict Nguyen
Catapult, 07/01/2025
Six is 6'7", scheming to rejoin the starting lineup, and barely checks her phone. Green is 6'1", always building her brand, and secretly jealous of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays
by
Maris Kreizman
Ecco, 07/01/2025
At the heart of this funny, acerbic, and bravely honest book of essays is Maris Kreizman, a former rule follower and ambition monster who once ...
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Oddbody: Stories
by
Rose Keating
Simon & Schuster, 07/01/2025
In her debut collection, Rose Keating takes you on a bold journey through the intricacies of sex, shame, and womanhood. With ten enchanting short ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Our Last Vineyard Summer
by
Brooke Lea Foster
Gallery Books, 07/01/2025
After suffering through her first year of graduate school at Columbia following her senator father's death, Betsy Whiting is hoping to spend the ...
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Literary Fiction
Port Anna
by
Libby Buck
Simon & Schuster, 07/01/2025
Just about everything has gone wrong for Gwen Gilmore over the past year. She's lost her mother, her teaching job, and been dumped by her—albeit...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Send Flowers: A Novel
by
Emily Buchanan
Park Row, 07/01/2025
Fiona, better known as eco-influencer @FoliageFifi, hasn't left her apartment since her boyfriend, Ed, died. It's easy to self-isolate when your heart...
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Literary Fiction
The Art of Vanishing: A Novel
by
Morgan Pager
Ballantine Books, 07/01/2025
Jean's life is the same day in and day out. Frozen in time by his painter father, the legendary Henri Matisse, Jean observes the ebb and flow of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Original: A Novel
by
Nell Stevens
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/01/2025
Brought to her uncle's decaying Oxfordshire estate when she was a child, Grace has grown up on the periphery of a once-great household, an outsider in...
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Historical Fiction
The Satisfaction Café: A Novel
by
Kathy Wang
Scribner, 07/01/2025
Joan Liang's life is a series of surprising developments: she never thought she would leave Taiwan for California, nor did she expect her first ...
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The White Crow: Philomena McCarthy #2
by
Michael Robotham
Scribner, 07/01/2025
Philomena McCarthy has defied the odds to become a young officer with the Metropolitan Police despite her father and her uncles being notorious London...
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This Book Might Be About Zinnia
by
Brittney Morris
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 07/01/2025
Two moments in time. Two very different girls. And one story that connects them both.
It's the year 2024, and Zinnia Davis is on a mission to ace ...
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Typewriter Beach: A Novel
by
Meg Waite Clayton
Harper, 07/01/2025
1957. Isabella Giori is ten months into a standard seven-year studio contract when she auditions with Hitchcock. Just weeks later, she is sequestered ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Wanting: A Novel
by
Claire Jia
Tin House Books, 07/01/2025
Ye Lian is thriving in Beijing. She has a well-paid job, a nice boyfriend, and plans to marry and move into a luxury high-rise apartment. She's ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate
by
Michael Grunwald
Simon & Schuster, 07/01/2025
Humanity has cleared a land mass the size of Asia plus Europe to grow food, and our food system generates a third of our carbon emissions. By 2050, we...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Woman on the Verge: A Novel
by
Kim Hooper
Lake Union Publishing, 07/01/2025
Some women, with their perfect children and pricey athleisure, make motherhood look easy. But not Nicole. She never wanted to be a stay-at-home parent...
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Literary Fiction
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
by
Sophie Elmhirst
Riverhead Books, 07/08/2025
Maurice and Maralyn make an odd couple. He's a loner, awkward and obsessive; she's charismatic and ambitious. But they share a horror of wasting their...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People
by
Dean Spears
Simon & Schuster, 07/08/2025
The world's population has surged over the past 200 years—not due to increased fertility, but thanks to improvements in survival. Since then, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Romance
Bring the House Down: A Novel
by
Charlotte Runcie
Doubleday, 07/08/2025
Alex Lyons always has his mind made up by the time the curtain comes down at a performance—the show either deserves a five-star rave or a one-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Daikon: A Novel
by
Samuel Hawley
Simon & Schuster, 07/08/2025
War has taken everything from physicist Keizo Kan. His young daughter was killed in the Great Tokyo Air Raid, and now his Japanese American wife, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Recreating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
by
Sam Kean
Little Brown & Company, 07/08/2025
Whether it's the mighty pyramids of Egypt or the majestic temples of Mexico, we have a good idea of what the past looked like. But what about our ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Fools for Love: Stories
by
Helen Schulman
Knopf, 07/08/2025
The wide-ranging and inventive stories that make up Helen Schulman's
Fools for Love are funny, sexy, sometimes sad, and always surprising. A single ...
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Heal the Beasts: A Jaunt Through the Curious History of the Veterinary Arts
by
Philipp Schott DVM
ECW Press, 07/08/2025
Sharing the stories of 22 different animal healers and veterinarians from across eras and continents, Dr. Schott examines the always fascinating, ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Island Creatures
by
Margarita Engle
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 07/08/2025
Every day, Vida reads to the creatures at the wildlife rescue center and dreams of her childhood in Cuba, where she and her best friend Adán ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Long Distance: Stories
by
Aysegül Savas
Bloomsbury Publishing, 07/08/2025
A researcher abroad in Rome eagerly awaits a visit from her long distance lover, only to find he is not the same man she remembers. An expat meets a ...
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Love Spells Trouble
by
Nia Davenport
Bloomsbury YA, 07/08/2025
Witches and humans have always had issues. Cayden is well aware of that: her witch mom was shunned by her high-society parents when she fell in love ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
No Sense in Wishing: Essays
by
Lawrence Burney
Atria Books, 07/08/2025
There are moments throughout our lives when we discover an artist, an album, a film, or a cultural artifact that leaves a lasting impression, helping ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's Sports
by
Christine Brennan
Scribner, 07/08/2025
America has never seen an athlete quite like Caitlin Clark. Attracting record-shattering attendance and TV ratings, she has riveted the nation with ...
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Slanting Towards the Sea: A Novel
by
Lidija Hilje
Simon & Schuster, 07/08/2025
Ivona divorced the love of her life, Vlaho, a decade ago. They met as students at the turn of the millennium, when newly democratic Croatia was alive ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Bloodless Queen
by
Joshua Phillip Johnson
DAW Books, 07/08/2025
On the autumnal equinox of 1987, after fencing off half of the Earth's land for huge nature reserves called Harbors, the leaders of the world called ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Great Misfortune of Stella Sedgwick
by
S. Isabelle
Storytide, 07/08/2025
Stella Sedgwick is a lost cause.
Banished from etiquette lessons and unsure of her future, Stella dreams of a writing career and independence, but ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb, and the Fateful Decision to Use It
by
Iain MacGregor
Scribner, 07/08/2025
At 8:15 a.m. on August 6th, 1945,the Japanese port city of Hiroshima was struck by the world's first atomic bomb. Built in the US by the top-secret ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Jailhouse Lawyer
by
Calvin Duncan
Penguin Press, 07/08/2025
Calvin Duncan was nineteen when he was incarcerated for a 1981 New Orleans murder he didn't commit. The victim of a wildly incompetent public defense ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Last Empress of France: The Rebellious Life of Eugénie de Montijo
by
Petie Kladstrup
Hanover Square Press, 07/08/2025
Although a nineteenth-century woman, her almost twenty-first century outlook was key to the creation of modern France. Viewed frequently as a mere "...
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Biography/Memoir
The Man Who Would Be King: Mohammed bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia
by
Karen Elliott House
Harper, 07/08/2025
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former
Wall Street Journal publisher, Karen House has gained unprecedented insights into Saudi Arabia and its ...
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The Rabbit Club: A Novel
by
Christopher J. Yates
Hanover Square Press, 07/08/2025
When Ali McCain, an eighteen-year-old from Los Angeles, is accepted at Oxford, it's a chance to fulfill his dreams. To study English literature in ...
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The Rebel Girls of Rome
by
Jordyn Taylor
HarperCollins Publishers, 07/08/2025
NOW:
Grieving the loss of her mother, college student Lilah is hoping to reconnect with her ever-distant grandfather who refuses to talk about ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Roma: A Traveling History
by
Madeline Potter
Harper, 07/08/2025
The word Roma conjures images of free-spirited nomads, creative and easy-going people who choose to eschew social conformity for personal independence...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Secret Market of the Dead
by
Giovanni De Feo
Saga Press, 07/08/2025
Just beyond the waking edges of Lucerìa, an 18th-century town in the kingdom of Naples, lies the Night: an enigmatic fiefdom governed by seven ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Silence and the Rage
by
Pierre Lemaitre
Little Brown & Company, 07/08/2025
It is 1952 and the grown children of Louis Pelletier, a prominent businessman with a dark past, have settled in Paris. Jean, the menacing eldest ...
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Historical Fiction
The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them
by
Ekow Eshun
Harper, 07/08/2025
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
These Summer Storms: A Novel
by
Sarah MacLean
Ballantine Books, 07/08/2025
Alice Storm hasn't been welcome at her family's magnificent private island off the Rhode Island coast in five years—not since she was cast out ...
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Vera, or Faith: A Novel
by
Gary Shteyngart
Random House, 07/08/2025
The Bradford-Shmulkin family is falling apart. A very modern blend of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP, they love one another deeply but ...
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A Blacklist Education: American History, a Family Mystery, and a Teacher Under Fire
by
Jane S. Smith
Rutgers University Press, 07/15/2025
Jane S. Smith tells the story of the anticommunist witch hunt that sent shockwaves through New York City's public schools as more than a thousand ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
by
Haley Cohen Gilliland
Simon & Schuster, 07/15/2025
In the early hours of March 24th, 1976, the streets of Buenos Aires rumbled with tanks as soldiers seized the presidential palace, overthrowing ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile
by
Aatish Taseer
Catapult, 07/15/2025
In 2019, the government of Prime Minister Narenda Modi revoked Aatish Taseer's Indian citizenship, thereby exiling him from the country where he grew ...
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A Year with the Seals: Unlocking the Secrets of the Sea's Most Charismatic and Controversial Creatures
by
Alix Morris
Algonquin Books, 07/15/2025
It might be their large, strangely human eyes or their dog-like playfulness, but seals have long captured people's interest and affection, making them...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
by
Adam Aleksic
Knopf, 07/15/2025
From the rise of leetspeak and words such as
unalive to the trend of adding "-core" to different influencer aesthetics, the Internet has ushered in an...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Ashes to Ashes
by
Thomas Maltman
Soho Press, 07/15/2025
In the prairie town of Andwhen, Minnesota, a small congregation doesn't know if they've been blessed or cursed when the ashes administered during an ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Black Soldiers, White Laws: The Tragedy of the 24th Infantry in 1917 Houston
by
John Haymond
Atlantic Monthly Press, 07/15/2025
On the sweltering, rainy night of August 23, 1917, one of the most consequential events affecting America's long legacy of racism and injustice began ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Carved in Blood: Hana Westerman Thrillers #3
by
Michael Bennett
Atlantic Monthly Press, 07/15/2025
When Detective Inspector Jaye Hamilton stops at an Auckland liquor store for a bottle of champagne, it is supposed to be celebratory: his daughter ...
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Thrillers
Fateless
by
Julie Kagawa
HarperCollins Publishers, 07/15/2025
When seventeen-year-old Sparrow joined the Thieves Guild she made a vow of binding loyalty to their cause. So when a mission comes along from The ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Her Many Faces: A Novel
by
Nicci Cloke
William Morrow, 07/15/2025
When four influential members are poisoned at London's most exclusive private club, a young waitress is arrested. Her personal life and upbringing are...
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House of Beth
by
Kerry Cullen
Simon & Schuster, 07/15/2025
After a heart-wrenching breakup with her girlfriend and a shocking incident at her job, Cassie flees her life as an overworked assistant in New York ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
House of Frost and Feathers: A Folkloric Fantasy
by
Lauren Wiesebron
Harper Voyager, 07/15/2025
Marisha's time is running out. She's already lost her family to the sleeping plague, and she fears she'll be next. Penniless and desperate for ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
I DON'T KNOW HOW TO TELL YOU THIS
by
Marian Thurm
Delphinium Books, 07/15/2025
I Don't Know How to Tell You This focuses on Judge Rachel Sugarman and her life both inside and outside the courtroom. Rachel is part of a close...
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Literary Fiction
Literary Fiction
Inner Space: A Novel
by
Jakub Szamalek
HarperVia, 07/15/2025
When an ammonia leak threatens the astronauts on the International Space Station, NASA directs Lucy Poplasky, one of the ISS's first female commanders...
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Thrillers
Jamaica Road: A Novel
by
Lisa Smith
Knopf, 07/15/2025
South London, 1981: Daphne is the only Black girl in her class. All she wants is to keep her head down, preferably in a book. The easiest way to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Make Your Way Home: Stories
by
Carrie R. Moore
Tin House Books, 07/15/2025
In eleven stories that span Florida marshes, North Carolina mountains, and Southern metropolitan cities,
Make Your Way Home follows Black men and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Matchmaking for Psychopaths
by
Tasha Coryell
Berkley Books, 07/15/2025
Lexie was expecting a nice evening with her fiancé for her birthday. Instead, her best friend is sitting next to her man, and what's worse: They'...
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Thrillers
Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America
by
Scott Ellsworth
Dutton, 07/15/2025
Told with a page-turning pace,
New York Times bestselling author and historian Scott Ellsworth has written the most compelling new book about the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Monopoly X: How Top-Secret World War II Operations Used the Game of Monopoly to Help Allied POWs Escape, Conceal Spies, and Send Secret Codes
by
Philip E. Orbanes
Harper, 07/15/2025
Monopoly X is the fascinating true story of what is arguably the most unusual and daring secret operation of World War II. The masterminds at England'...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Moonstorm
by
Yoon Ha Lee
Delacorte Press, 07/15/2025
Hwa Young was just ten years old when imperial forces destroyed her rebel moon home. Now, six years later, she is a citizen of the very empire that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
My Train Leaves at Three: A Novel
by
Natalie Guerrero
One World, 07/15/2025
How much of yourself are you willing to sacrifice in order to chase your dreams?
After her sister Nena's sudden death, Xiomara, an Afro-Latina ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
No Body No Crime: A Novel
by
Tess Sharpe
MCD, 07/15/2025
Murder either bonds you or breaks you.
Rural PI Mel Tillman knows this well. She's seen her fair share of bloody cases and botched cover-ups. But ...
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Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity
by
Joseph Lee
One Signal, 07/15/2025
Before Martha's Vineyard became one of the most iconic vacation destinations in the country, it was home to the Wampanoag people. Today, as tourists ...
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Of Flame and Fury
by
Mikayla Bridge
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/15/2025
On an island built from ash and shrouded in fire, phoenix racing is a sport just as profitable as it is deadly.
Kel Varra and her team of underdogs...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
One Yellow Eye: A Novel
by
Leigh Radford
Gallery Books, 07/15/2025
How far would you go to save your marriage? For British scientist Kesta Shelley, there is no limit.
Having always preferred the company of microbes...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Raging Clouds
by
Yudori
Fantagraphics Books, 07/15/2025
Amélie is a brilliant woman trapped in the restricting social mores of high Dutch society in the mid-16th century. Her marriage to Hans, a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
Seesaw Monster: A Novel
by
Kotaro Isaka
The Overlook Press, 07/15/2025
In
Seesaw Monster, international bestselling author Kotaro Isaka employs his hallmarks of kinetic pacing, high-stakes action, and great characters to ...
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The Bewitching
by
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Del Rey, 07/15/2025
"Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches": That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Club: Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Époque Paris
by
Jennifer Dasal
Bloomsbury Publishing, 07/15/2025
In Belle Époque Paris, the Eiffel Tower was newly built, France was experiencing remarkable political stability, and American women were painting...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Convenience Store by the Sea
by
Sonoko Machida
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/15/2025
A quaint seaside town in Kitakyushu, Mojiko is full of hidden delights. And one unexpected treasure is the 24/7 convenience store, Tenderness.
Sure...
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Literary Fiction
The Felons' Ball: A Novel
by
Polly Stewart
Harper, 07/15/2025
In their younger years, Trey Macready and his best friend Ben Marsh were distributors and enforcers for the local distillers who made their small ...
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The Greatest Possible Good: A Novel
by
Ben Brooks
Simon & Schuster, 07/15/2025
Meet the Candlewicks.
Seventeen-year-old Evangeline (a.k.a Dubbin), wants to change the world, has a penchant for throwing fake blood during ...
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Literary Fiction
The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction and a Search for Relief: Chronic Head Pain, the Mystery of Its Origins, and the Search for Effective Relief
by
Tom Zeller Jr.
Mariner Books, 07/15/2025
Virtually everyone has experienced a headache—a nuisance arising from occasional stress or as payback for last night's overindulgence. But for ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The House at Devil's Neck: Joseph Spector Series #4
by
Tom Mead
Mysterious Press, 07/15/2025
An apparent suicide in a London townhouse uncannily mirrors a similar incident from twenty-five years ago, prompting Scotland Yard's George Flint to ...
more
The Knowing: How the Oppression of Indigenous Peoples Continues to Echo Today
by
Tanya Talaga
Hanover Square Press, 07/15/2025
For generations, Indigenous People have known that their family members disappeared, many of them after being consigned to a coordinated system ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Nightshade God: The Nightshade Crown #3
by
Hannah Whitten
Orbit, 07/15/2025
Lore has failed. She couldn't save King Bastian from the rotten god speaking voices in his mind. She couldn't save her allies from being scattered ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Other Wife: A Novel
by
Jackie Thomas-Kennedy
Riverhead Books, 07/15/2025
Zuzu met her best friend Cash on the first day of college, and nothing was ever the same. Tall, witty, and popular, his friendship represented a kind ...
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Literary Fiction
The Payback: A Novel
by
Kashana Cauley
Atria Books, 07/15/2025
Jada Williams is good at judging people by their looks. From across the mall, she can tell not only someone's inseam and pants size, but exactly what ...
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These Blue Mountains
by
Sarah Loudin Thomas
Bethany House Publishers, 07/15/2025
German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States ...
more
Historical Fiction
They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals
by
Mariah Blake
Crown, 07/15/2025
In 2014, after losing several friends and relatives to cancer, an unassuming insurance underwriter in Hoosick Falls, New York, began to suspect that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
This Stays Between Us: A Novel
by
Sara Ochs
Sourcebooks Landmark, 07/15/2025
Ten years ago
A study abroad program like no other: a month-long trip of education and adventure, exploring everything Australia has to offer. And ...
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Literary Fiction
Wayward Girls: A Novel
by
Susan Wiggs
William Morrow, 07/15/2025
In 1968 we meet six teens confined at the Good Shepherd—a dark and secretive institution controlled by Sisters of Charity nuns—locked ...
more
Coercion: Surviving and Resisting Abortion Bans
by
Kylie Cheung
Pluto Press, 07/20/2025
These laws have become a tool for abusers, as pregnant people face legal harassment, reproductive coercion, and life-threatening medical trauma.
...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
First Time, Long Time
by
Amy Silverberg
Grand Central Publishing, 07/22/2025
When aspiring writer Allison moved to L.A., she expected her life to finally take shape. After years of dwelling in grief over her brother's ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Girl, 1983: A Novel
by
Linn Ullmann
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/22/2025
Paris, a winter's night in 1983. The girl is sixteen years old, lost in unfamiliar streets. On a scrap of paper in her pocket is the address of a ...
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Literary Fiction
Greenwich: A Novel
by
Kate Broad
St. Martin's Press, 07/22/2025
Her glamorous aunt is struggling to heal from an injury, and Rachel wants to help―and escape her own troubles back home. But her aunt is oddly ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Biography/Memoir
Love Is a War Song
by
Danica Nava
Berkley Books, 07/22/2025
Pop singer Avery Fox has become a national joke after posing scantily clad on the cover of
Rolling Stone in a feather warbonnet. What was meant to be ...
more
Romance
Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar: A Novel
by
Katie Yee
Simon & Schuster, 07/22/2025
A man and a woman walk into a restaurant. The woman expects a lovely night filled with endless plates of samosas. Instead, she finds out her husband ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Mendell Station
by
J.B. Hwang
Bloomsbury Publishing, 07/22/2025
It's January 2020, and Miriam is already getting a sense that the world might be ending. First, she learns that her best friend, Esther, has died. ...
more
Literary Fiction
Necessary Fiction: A Novel
by
Eloghosa Osunde
Riverhead Books, 07/22/2025
In
Necessary Fiction, Eloghosa Osunde poses these provocative questions and many more while exploring the paths and dreams, hopes and fears of more ...
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Literary Fiction
Pan: A Novel
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Michael Clune
Penguin Press, 07/22/2025
Nicholas is fifteen when he forgets how to breathe. He had plenty of reason to feel unstable already: He's been living with his dad in the bleak ...
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Literary Fiction
Pariah: A Novel
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Dan Fesperman
Knopf, 07/22/2025
Hal Knight, a comedian and movie star-turned politician, is no stranger to controversy. But after a disastrous #MeToo encounter on set, Knight resigns...
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Thrillers
Salt Bones: A Novel
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Jennifer Givhan
Mulholland, 07/22/2025
At the edge of the Salton Sea, in the blistering borderlands, something is out hunting...
Malamar Veracruz has never left the dust-choked ...
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Thrillers
Sisters of Fortune: A Novel
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Esther Chehebar
Random House, 07/22/2025
The Cohen sisters are at a crossroads. And not just because the middle sister, Fortune, is starting to question her decision to get married in just a ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
That Last Carolina Summer
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Karen White
Park Row, 07/22/2025
As a child, Phoebe Manigault developed the gift of premonition after she was struck by lightning in the creeks near her Charleston home. Plagued ...
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Literary Fiction
The Boys in the Light: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival, Faith, and Brotherhood
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Nina Willner
Dutton, 07/22/2025
The Boys in the Light follows the parallel journeys of Company D and Eddie Willner, the author's father, as they are caught up on two sides of World ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Feather Detective: Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne
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Chris Sweeney
Simon & Schuster, 07/22/2025
In 1960, an Eastern Airlines flight had no sooner lifted from the runway at Boston Logan Airport when it struck a flock of birds and took a nosedive ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Midnight Estate
by
Kelly Rimmer
Graydon House, 07/22/2025
When a misshelved book,
The Midnight Estate, catches her attention in her late uncle's library, Fiona is plunged into a tale that mirrors her own&#...
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Historical Fiction
The Phoenix Pencil Company: A Novel
by
Allison King
William Morrow, 07/22/2025
Monica Tsai spends most days on her computer, journaling the details of her ordinary life and coding...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Sleep Room: A Sadistic Psychiatrist and the Women Who Survived Him
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Jon Stock
Abrams Press, 07/22/2025
The Sleep Room is thriller novelist Jon Stock's investigation into one of the most revered figures in British postwar medicine, the private world of ...
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True Crime
The Tapestry of Time
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Kate Heartfield
Harper360, 07/22/2025
There's a tradition in the Sharp family that some possess the Second Sight. But is it superstition, or true psychic power?
Kit Sharp is in Paris, ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Tilting House
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Ivonne Lamazares
Counterpoint Press, 07/22/2025
In the summer of 1993, Yuri, a teenage orphan, lives with her strict, religious Aunt Ruth in a Havana suburb when Mariela, a thirty-four-year-old ...
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Literary Fiction
A Club of One's Own
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BookBrowse
BookBrowse, 07/29/2025
Expanding on our 2019 Inner Lives of Book Clubs, BookBrowse—a trusted voice in the world of reading groups—offers a practical, inclusive, ...
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Advice
An Oral History of Atlantis: Stories
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Ed Park
Random House, 07/29/2025
In "Machine City," a college student's role in a friend's movie causes lines to blur between his character and his true self. In "Slide to Unlock," a ...
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Angel Down: A Novel
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Daniel Kraus
Atria Books, 07/29/2025
Private Cyril Bagger has managed to survive the unspeakable horrors of the Great War through his wits and deception, swindling fellow soldiers at ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Beasts of Carnaval: A Novel
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Rosália Rodrigo
MIRA, 07/29/2025
Within the shores of Isla Bestia, guests from around the world discover a utopia of ever-changing performances, sumptuous feasts and beautiful ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy
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Tre Johnson
Dutton, 07/29/2025
Black genius sits at the heart of the American story. In his probing essay collection,
Black Genius, cultural critic Tre Johnson examines how Black ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Fine Young People
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Anna Bruno
Algonquin Books, 07/29/2025
Frankie is a good daughter, a loyal best friend, and a model student, coasting through her final semester at an elite Catholic prep school in a ...
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Thrillers
Kicking the Hornet's Nest: Thirteen U.S. Presidents in the Middle East
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Daniel Zoughbie
Simon & Schuster, 07/29/2025
Kicking the Hornet's Nest is a riveting exploration of how twelve US presidents have shaped the Middle East, often unleashing instability and conflict...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lonely Crowds: A Novel
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Stephanie Wambugu
Little Brown & Company, 07/29/2025
Ruth, an only child of recent immigrants to New England, lives in an emotionally cold home and attends the local Catholic girl's school on a ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Simplicity: A Novel
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Mattie Lubchansky
Pantheon Books, 07/29/2025
In 1977, a group called The Spiritual Association of Peers decamps to the woods of the Catskills, taking over an abandoned summer camp. They name ...
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Graphic Novels
The Good Liar: A Novel
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Denise Mina
Mulholland, 07/29/2025
A year ago, a father and his fiancée were brutally murdered in their opulent London townhouse, sparking the most high-profile murder ...
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The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive
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Mathelinda Nabugodi
Knopf, 07/29/2025
A scrap of Coleridge's handwriting. The sugar that Wordsworth stirred into his teacup. A bracelet made of Mary Shelley's hair. Percy Shelley's gilded ...
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Biography/Memoir
Visions and Temptations
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Harald Voetmann
New Directions Publishing, 07/29/2025
Spurning carnal desire and earthly temptations all his life, the mystic Othlo is now in the care of his brother monks including the odious and semen-...
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