A Family Matter: A Novel
by
Claire Lynch
Scribner, 06/03/2025
1982. Dawn is a young mother, still adjusting to life with her husband, when Hazel lights up her world like a torch in the dark. Theirs is the kind of...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A First Time for Everything
by
K. L. Walther
Sourcebooks Fire, 06/03/2025
Madeline has always been extremely close to her family, so she is shocked when her older brother gets engaged without including them (or even giving ...
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A Forgery of Fate
by
Elizabeth Lim
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 06/03/2025
Truyan Saigas didn't choose to become a con artist, but after her father is lost at sea, it's up to her to support her mother and two younger sisters....
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Language of Limbs: A Novel
by
Dylin Hardcastle
Dutton, 06/03/2025
Newcastle, Australia, 1972. On a sticky summer night, a choice must be made: To give in to queer desire or suppress it? To venture into the unknown or...
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A Song of Legends Lost: Invoker Trilogy #1
by
M. H. Ayinde
Saga Press, 06/03/2025
A SONG OF REBELLION. A SONG OF WAR. A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST.
The people of Nine Lands know their history. The kingdom once belonged to the Scathed ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Albion: A Novel
by
Anna Hope
Harper, 06/03/2025
The Brookes are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home—twenty bedrooms of carved Sussex sandstone—to bury their patriarch, ...
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Atmosphere: A Love Story
by
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Ballantine Books, 06/03/2025
Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor ...
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Beast: A Novel
by
Richard Van Camp
Douglas & McIntyre, 06/03/2025
Lawson Sauren's life has always been entwined with the lives of the Cranes brothers. Cody Cranes became an unexpected friend when they shared a tent ...
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Best of All Worlds
by
Kenneth Oppel
Scholastic, 06/03/2025
Xavier Oaks doesn't particularly want to go to the cabin with his dad and his dad's pregnant new wife, Nia. But family obligations are family ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care
by
Shelley Sella
Beacon Press, 06/03/2025
Within both the anti-abortion and pro-choice movements, third-trimester abortion is often stigmatized and misunderstood. For 20 years, Dr. Shelley ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Blonde Dust
by
Tatiana de Rosnay
Grand Central Publishing, 06/03/2025
Pauline, a young chambermaid who works at the legendary Mapes Hotel in Reno, Nevada, is asked to step in for a colleague and clean Suite 614. Although...
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Historical Fiction
Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation
by
Zaakir Tameez
Henry Holt and Company, 06/03/2025
Charles Sumner is mainly known as the abolitionist statesman who suffered a brutal caning on the Senate floor by the proslavery congressman Preston ...
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Charlottesville: An American Story
by
Deborah Baker
Graywolf Press, 06/03/2025
Within an hour of their arrival, the city's historic downtown was a scene of bedlam as armored far right cadres battled activists in the streets. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Clam Down: A Metamorphosis
by
Anelise Chen
One World, 06/03/2025
We've all heard the story about waking up as a cockroach—but what if a crisis turned you into a clam? After the dissolution of her marriage, a ...
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Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
by
Alice Bolin
Mariner Books, 06/03/2025
In seven stunning original essays, Alice Bolin turns her gaze to the myriad ways femininity is remixed and reconstructed by the pop culture of the ...
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Dan in Green Gables: A Graphic Novel: A Modern Reimagining of Anne of Green Gables
by
Rey Terciero
Penguin Books, 06/03/2025
Despite a life on the road with his free-spirited mother, fifteen-year-old Dan Stewart-Álvarez has always wanted to settle down. He just didn't ...
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Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told
by
Jeremy Atherton Lin
Little Brown & Company, 06/03/2025
It's 1996, and Jeremy Atherton Lin has met the boy of his dreams — a mumbling, starry-eyed Brit — just as, amid a media frenzy, US ...
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Devils Like Us
by
L.T. Thompson
Bloomsbury YA, 06/03/2025
Cas has a rule:
Don't tell anyone. Not about the nagging gender discomfort, and certainly not about the prophetic visions of untimely deaths. Cas ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dining Out: First Dates, Defiant Nights, and Last Call Disco Fries at America's Gay Restaurants
by
Erik Piepenburg
Grand Central Publishing, 06/03/2025
Dining Out explores how gay people came of age, came out, and fought for their rights not just in gay bars or the streets, but in restaurants, from ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Endling: A Novel
by
Maria Reva
Doubleday, 06/03/2025
Ukraine, 2022. Yeva is a loner and a maverick scientist who lives out of her mobile lab, trying and failing to breed rare snails while her relatives ...
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Fight AIDS!: How Activism, Art, and Protest Changed the Course of a Deadly Epidemic and Reshaped a Nation
by
Michael G. Long
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/03/2025
Act up! Fight back! Fight AIDS!
This was the slogan for ACT UP―or AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power―an activist organization that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Flashlight: A Novel
by
Susan Choi
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/03/2025
One night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the beach. He's carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later Louisa is found washed up by the tide, ...
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Gaysians
by
Michael Curato
Algonquin Books, 06/03/2025
When AJ moves to Seattle in the early aughts, he's ready to reinvent himself as a gay Asian man—but his dreams hit reality fast with no friends,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
Heir of Storms: Storm Weaver #1
by
Lauryn Hamilton Murray
Roaring Brook Press, 06/03/2025
The very day Blaze came into the world, she almost drowned it. A Rain Singer born into one of the most powerful fire-wielding families in the empire, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
I'll Tell You When I'm Home: A Memoir
by
Hala Alyan
Simon & Schuster, 06/03/2025
After a decade of yearning for parenthood, years marked by miscarriage after miscarriage, Hala Alyan makes the decision to use a surrogate. In this ...
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In the Family Way: A Novel
by
Laney Katz Becker
Harper, 06/03/2025
In 1965 America, women can't have their own bank accounts, credit cards, or sign their own leases; divorce is scandalous and difficult; and abortion ...
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Historical Fiction
It's Not the End of the World: A Novel
by
Jonathan Parks-Ramage
Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/03/2025
It's 2044 and life is bleak for many Americans, but not for Mason Daunt. Safe in his Los Angeles mansion, Mason can remain blissfully unaware of the ...
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Lady's Knight
by
Amie Kaufman
Storytide, 06/03/2025
Gwen is sick of hiding—hiding the fact that she's taken over her father's blacksmithing duties, hiding her attraction to girls, hiding her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Lincoln's Lady Spymaster: The Untold Story of the Abolitionist Southern Belle Who Helped Win the Civil War
by
Gerri Willis
Harper, 06/03/2025
Wealthy Southern belle Elizabeth Van Lew had it all. Money, charm, wit—the biggest mansion in Richmond. So why risk everything to become the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lone Wolf: Walking the Line Between Civilization and Wildness
by
Adam Weymouth
Crown, 06/03/2025
In 2011, a wolf named Slavc left his home territory of Slovenia for a wide-ranging journey across the Alps. Tracked by a GPS collar, he traveled over ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Madame Queen: The Life and Crimes of Harlem's Underground Racketeer, Stephanie St. Clair
by
Mary Kay McBrayer
Park Row, 06/03/2025
In her heyday, Stephanie St. Clair went by many names, but one was best known by all:
Madame Queen. The undeniable queen of the Harlem numbers game, ...
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Biography/Memoir
Meet Me at the Crossroads: A Novel
by
Megan Giddings
Amistad, 06/03/2025
On an ordinary summer morning, the world is changed by the appearance of seven mysterious doors that seemingly lead to another world. People are, of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church
by
Kevin Sack
Crown, 06/03/2025
Few people beyond South Carolina's Lowcountry knew of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston—Mother Emanuel—before the ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Motherland: A Journey through 500,000 Years of African Culture and Identity
by
Luke Pepera
Pegasus Books, 06/03/2025
Historian, archaeologist, and anthropologist Luke Pepera takes us on a personal journey discovering 500,000 years of African history and cultures in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy
by
Edward Hirsch
Knopf, 06/03/2025
"My grandparents taught me to write my sins on paper and cast them into the water... . They didn't expect an entire book," Hirsch says in the "...
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Never Thought I'd End Up Here
by
Ann Liang
Scholastic, 06/03/2025
Leah Zhang has spent her whole life in LA ― it's all she's ever known. But after accidentally wishing her cousin ill health and a very ...
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Notes on Infinity: A Novel
by
Austin Taylor
Celadon, 06/03/2025
Zoe, the daughter of an MIT professor who grew up in her brother's shadow, can envision her future anew at Harvard. Jack, a boy in Zoe's organic ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Park Avenue: A Novel
by
Renée Ahdieh
Flatiron Books, 06/03/2025
Jia Song has always been destined for greatness. As the daughter of Korean bodega owners, she promised herself that she would have every Fifth Avenue ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Pioneer Summer: A Novel
by
Kateryna Sylvanova
The Overlook Press, 06/03/2025
The year is 1986, and Yurka Konev, 16, has been sent off for another summer at Pioneer Camp. Impulsive, forthright, and unfairly branded as a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sick and Dirty: Hollywood's Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness
by
Michael Koresky
Bloomsbury USA, 06/03/2025
From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Motion Picture Production Code severely restricted what Hollywood cinema could depict. This included "any inference" ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Skipshock
by
Caroline O'Donoghue
Walker Books US, 06/03/2025
Margo is a troubled schoolgirl. After the death of her father, she's on her way to a new boarding school in a new city.
Moon is a salesman. He ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
So Happy Together: A Novel
by
Olivia Worley
Minotaur Books, 06/03/2025
For twenty-four-year-old Jane, finding love in New York City is even harder than making it as a playwright. So when Jane meets Colin, she can't ...
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Thrillers
Songs of No Provenance: A Novel
by
Lydi Conklin
Catapult, 06/03/2025
Songs of No Provenance tells the story of Joan Vole, an indie folk singer forever teetering on the edge of fame, who flees New York after committing a...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Strange Houses: A Novel
by
Uketsu
HarperVia, 06/03/2025
A writer fascinated by the macabre is approached by an acquaintance who is considering purchasing a second-hand house in Tokyo. With its bright and ...
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Thrillers
Sycorax
by
Nydia Hetherington
Pegasus Books, 06/03/2025
Outcast by society and all alone in the world, Sycorax must find a way to understand her true nature. But as her powers begin to grow, so too do the ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Ten Incarnations of Rebellion: A Novel
by
Vaishnavi Patel
Ballantine Books, 06/03/2025
Kalki Divekar grows up a daughter of Kingston—a city the British built on the ashes of Bombay. The older generation, including her father, have ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
That Devil, Ambition
by
Linsey Miller
Storytide, 06/03/2025
There is only one school worth graduating from, and it creates as many magicians as it does graves…
First in his class and last in his noble ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
That's How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor
by
Damon Young
Pantheon Books, 06/03/2025
A critic explores the paradox of finding community in "the dozens" while grieving. A violent town ritual causes an all-too-familiar moral panic. An ...
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The Catch: A Novel
by
Yrsa Daley-Ward
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 06/03/2025
Twin sisters Clara and Dempsey have always struggled to relate, their familial bond severed after their mother vanished into the Thames. In adulthood,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
by
Melissa Febos
Knopf, 06/03/2025
In the wake of a catastrophic two-year relationship, Melissa Febos decided to take a break—for three months she would abstain from dating, from ...
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The Ghostwriter: A Novel
by
Julie Clark
Sourcebooks Landmark, 06/03/2025
June, 1975.
The Taylor family shatters in a single night when two teenage siblings are found dead in their own home. The only surviving sibling, ...
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The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History
by
Maggie Gram
Basic Books, 06/03/2025
Design has penetrated every dimension of contemporary society, from classrooms to statehouses to corporate boardrooms. It's seen as a kind of mega-...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Listeners: A Novel
by
Maggie Stiefvater
Viking, 06/03/2025
January 1942. The Avallon Hotel & Spa has always offered elegant luxury in the wilds of West Virginia, its mountain sweetwater washing away all of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick: Sex and the Supreme Court in the Age of AIDS
by
Martin Padgett
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/03/2025
When a police officer stood at his bedroom door on August 3, 1982, Michael Hardwick had no idea that he would become an avatar of the gay rights ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Slip: A Novel
by
Lucas Schaefer
Simon & Schuster, 06/03/2025
Austin, Texas: It's the summer of 1998, and there's a new face on the scene at Terry Tucker's Boxing Gym. Sixteen-year-old Nathaniel Rothstein has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983-1994
by
Thomas Mallon
Knopf, 06/03/2025
In 1983, Thomas Mallon was still unknown. A literature professor at Vassar College, he spent his days traveling from Manhattan to campus, reviewing ...
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Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System
by
Brando Simeo Starkey
Doubleday, 06/03/2025
Their Accomplices Wore Robes takes readers from the Civil War era to the present and describes how the Supreme Court—even more than the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
There Are Reasons For This
by
Nini Berndt
Tin House Books, 06/03/2025
But Lucy has only just arrived, and too late. She arrives in search of Helen, a woman Mikey loved. But when Lucy moves in across the hall, she finds ...
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Waterline: A Novel
by
Aram Mrjoian
HarperVia, 06/03/2025
Outside Detroit on the island of Gross Ile, the Kurkjians receive news that Mari, the eldest of their youngest generation, has swum into the depths of...
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Literary Fiction
We Are Green and Trembling
by
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
New Directions Publishing, 06/03/2025
Deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso begins to write a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the Basque convent he escaped as a young ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
What Is Queer Food?: How We Served a Revolution
by
John Birdsall
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/03/2025
The food on our plates has long been designed, twisted, and elevated by queer hands. Piecing together a dazzling mosaic of queer lives, spaces, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
When Devils Sing
by
Xan Kaur
Henry Holt and Company, 06/03/2025
When Dawson Sumter goes missing, all he leaves behind is a smattering of blood in room 4 of the debt-ridden motel owned by Neera Singh's family. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
When We Ruled: The Rise and Fall of Twelve African Queens and Warriors
by
Paula Akpan
Pegasus Books, 06/03/2025
Njinga Mbande. Nana Yaa Asantewaa. Makobo Modjadji VI. Ranavalona the First.
These queens and warriors ruled vast swathes of the African continent,...
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Biography/Memoir
Your Final Moments
by
Jay Coles
Scholastic, 06/03/2025
Hakeem goes to Narcotics Anonymous meetings to keep his addictions in check. But when his best friend Miles kills himself, Hakeem finds the days ...
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A Girl Walks into the Forest
by
Madeleine Roux
Quill & Quire, 06/10/2025
For as long as she can remember, Valla's been told her beauty would give her a life most people only dreamed of. So when the mysterious Count Leonid ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Amelia, If Only
by
Becky Albertalli
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/10/2025
Okay, maybe her friends are right: She's slightly parasocially infatuated. But Amelia just knows sparks would fly—if only she could connect with...
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Art Above Everything: One Woman's Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life
by
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Beacon Press, 06/10/2025
Is the all-encompassing quest to become a self-sustaining artist worth the sacrifices it often requires? Throughout her 20s and 30s, Stephanie ...
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Audition
by
Pip Adam
Coffee House Press, 06/10/2025
A spaceship called
Audition is hurtling through the cosmos. Squashed immobile into its largest room are three giants: Alba, Stanley, and Drew. If they...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Cooler Than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard
by
C. M. Kushins
Mariner Books, 06/10/2025
Over the course of his sixty-year career, Elmore Leonard, "the Dickens of Detroit," published forty-five novels that have had enduring appeal to ...
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Days of Light
by
Megan Hunter
Grove Press, 06/10/2025
She marvels at the way a single day can unravel everything, like ribbon pulled from a present.
In 2017, Megan Hunter burst onto the literary scene...
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Death at the White Hart: A Novel
by
Chris Chibnall
Pamela Dorman Books, 06/10/2025
Nothing keeps a village together like secrets.
The villagers of Fleetcombe like to think of it as one of the most picturesque spots on England's ...
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Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age
by
Frank Close
Basic Books, 06/10/2025
Although Henri Becquerel didn't know it at the time, he changed history in 1895 when he left photographic plates and some uranium rocks in a drawer. ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Expert Witness: The Weight of Our Testimony When Justice Hangs in the Balance
by
Ann Wolbert Burgess
Hachette Books, 06/10/2025
For decades, when criminal cases of the most unprecedented nature went to trial, one woman took the stand to separate truth from fiction.
Expert ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Florenzer: A Novel
by
Phil Melanson
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 06/10/2025
Leonardo da Vinci, twelve years old and a bastard, leaves the Tuscan countryside to join his father in Florence with dreams of becoming a painter. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Grand Finales: The Creative Longevity of Women Artists
by
Susan Gubar
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/10/2025
Despite the losses generally associated with aging, quite a few writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, and dancers have managed to extend and ...
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Great Black Hope: A Novel
by
Rob Franklin
Summit Books, 06/10/2025
An arrest for cocaine possession on the last day of a sweltering New York summer leaves Smith, a queer Black Stanford graduate, in a state of turmoil....
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Homework: A Memoir
by
Geoff Dyer
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/10/2025
The only child of a sheet-metal worker and a dinner lady who worked at the canteen of the local school, Geoff Dyer grew up in a world shaped by ...
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Biography/Memoir
Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance
by
A'Lelia Bundles
Scribner, 06/10/2025
Dubbed the "joy goddess of Harlem's 1920s" by poet Langston Hughes, A'Lelia Walker, daughter of millionaire entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker and the ...
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Kakigori Summer: A Novel
by
Emily Itami
Mariner Books, 06/10/2025
Rei, Kiki, and Ai are three sisters divided by distance and circumstance. Ambitious Rei works in finance in London; Kiki is the single mother of a ...
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Kill Your Darlings: A Novel
by
Peter Swanson
William Morrow, 06/10/2025
Thom and Wendy Graves have been married for over twenty-five years. They live in a beautiful Victorian on the north shore of Massachusetts. Wendy is a...
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King of Ashes: A Novel
by
S. A. Cosby
Flatiron Books, 06/10/2025
When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father's car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals...
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Kuleana: A Story of Family, Land, and Legacy in Old Hawai'i
by
Sara Kehaulani Goo
Flatiron Books, 06/10/2025
From an early age, Sara Kehaulani Goo has always been enchanted by her family's land in Hawai'i. The vast area along the rugged shores of Maui's east ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Love, Misha
by
Askel Aden
First Second, 06/10/2025
Can this road trip get any worse?
Yes, Mom (Audrey) wanted to spend time with Misha. And yes, she's never around and they don't even live together, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Making Friends Can Be Murder
by
Kathleen West
Berkley Books, 06/10/2025
It feels like kismet when Sarah Jones, newly relocated to Minneapolis after abruptly calling off her engagement, gets invited to join a group of women...
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Meet Me on Love Street
by
Farah Heron
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 06/10/2025
Sana Merali is a certified hopeless romantic.
It's inevitable when she literally lives on Love Street, a cute side-street full of mom-and-pop shops...
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Romance
Midnight at the Cinema Palace: A Novel
by
Christopher Tradowsky
Simon & Schuster, 06/10/2025
Walter Simmering is searching for love and purpose in a city he doesn't realize is fading away—San Francisco in 1993, at the height of the AIDS ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
by
Caroline Fraser
Penguin Press, 06/10/2025
Caroline Fraser grew up in the shadow of Ted Bundy, the most notorious serial murderer of women in American history, surrounded by his hunting grounds...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Ordinary Love: A Novel
by
Marie Rutkoski
Knopf, 06/10/2025
Emily has, by all appearances, a perfect life: a townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side, two healthy children, and a husband who showers her with ...
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So Far Gone: A Novel
by
Jess Walter
Harper, 06/10/2025
Rhys Kinnick has gone off the grid. At Thanksgiving a few years back, a fed-up Rhys punched his conspiracy-theorist son-in-law in the mouth, chucked ...
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The Great Mann: A Novel
by
Kyra Davis Lurie
Crown, 06/10/2025
In 1945, Charlie Trammell steps off a cross-country train into the vibrant tapestry of Los Angeles. Lured by his cousin Marguerite's invitation to the...
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Literary Fiction
The Lamplighter's Bookshop
by
Sophie Austin
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/10/2025
When Evelyn Seaton answers an advertisement for an assistant at a forgotten bookshop in York, she is not the only one with something to hide.
There...
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Historical Fiction
Debut Author
This Is Not a Ghost Story: A Novel
by
Amerie
William Morrow, 06/10/2025
John's House provides all he needs. Surrounded by a vast, beautiful ocean under a void of sky, the House is John's haven. He is alone, but never ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Vesuvius
by
Cass Biehn
Peachtree Publishers, 06/10/2025
Clever thief Felix slips from city to city to survive the present and escape a past he can't remember. When Felix steals a divine artifact—...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
We Can Never Leave: A Novel
by
H.E. Edgmon
Wednesday Books, 06/10/2025
You can never go home…
Every day, all across the world, inhuman creatures are waking up with no memory of who they are or where they came ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
What Kind of Paradise: A Novel
by
Janelle Brown
Random House, 06/10/2025
The first thing you have to understand is that my father was my entire world.
Growing up in an isolated cabin in Montana in the mid-1990s, Jane ...
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With a Vengeance: A Novel
by
Riley Sager
Dutton, 06/10/2025
In 1942, six people destroyed Anna Matheson's family. Twelve years later, she's ready for retribution.
Under false pretenses, Anna has lured those ...
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A Far Better Thing
by
H. G. Parry
Tor Books, 06/17/2025
I feared this was the best of times; I hoped it could not get any worse.
The faeries stole Sydney Carton as a child, and made him a mortal ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Novel Murder: A Mystery
by
E. C. Nevin
Knopf, 06/17/2025
In the quaint English town of Hoslewit, the biggest names in crime writing have congregated to celebrate all things bookish and murderous. Author Jane...
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A Promise to Arlette: A Novel
by
Serena Burdick
Atria Books, 06/17/2025
Sidney and Ida Whipple are living the suburban 1950s American dream, complete with two children and a white picket fence, which didn't seem possible ...
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Historical Fiction
American Scare: Florida's Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives
by
Robert W. Fieseler
Dutton, 06/17/2025
In January 1959, Art Copleston was escorted out of his college accounting class by three police officers. In a motel room, blinds drawn, he sat in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Before Dorothy
by
Hazel Gaynor
Berkley Books, 06/17/2025
Chicago, 1924: Emily and her new husband, Henry, yearn to leave the bustle of Chicago for the promise of their own American dream among the harsh ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Bug Hollow: A Novel
by
Michelle Huneven
Penguin Press, 06/17/2025
When Sally Samuelson was eight years old, her golden boy brother Ellis went missing the summer he graduated high school. Ellis finally turned up at ...
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Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free
by
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
Simon & Schuster, 06/17/2025
Claire McCardell forever changed American fashion. In fact, much of what we wear today can be traced back to her: ballet flats, mix-and-match ...
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Crown
by
Evanthia Bromiley
Grove Press, 06/17/2025
Jude Woods is on the brink of eviction. Pregnant, jobless, and mother to Evan and Virginia, she has three days to box up her family's life and find a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Ecstasy
by
Ivy Pochoda
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/17/2025
Lena wants her life back. Her wealthy, controlling, humorless husband has just died, and now she contends with her controlling, humorless son, Drew. ...
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Fox: A Novel
by
Joyce Carol Oates
Hogarth Books, 06/17/2025
Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his ...
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Fulfillment: A Novel
by
Lee Cole
Knopf, 06/17/2025
Fulfillment tells the story of two half brothers—Joel, a successful academic and author, whose marriage is in deep trouble, and his younger ...
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Girls Girls Girls
by
Shoshana von Blanckensee
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/17/2025
It's the summer of '96 and best friends (and secret girlfriends) Hannah and Sam are driving across the country from Long Beach, New York, to the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Goodbye, My Princess
by
Fei Wo Si Cun
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 06/17/2025
There is no room for love in an empire.
Qu Xiaofeng has been living in Shangjing for three years now. A naïve, happy-go-lucky treaty bride ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Hazel Says No: A Novel
by
Jessica Berger Gross
Hanover Square Press, 06/17/2025
Hazel Blum, please report to the principal's office. Hazel Blum.
When Hazel Blum's father gets a tenured job at a prestigious college, she and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
How to Dodge a Cannonball: A Novel
by
Dennard Dayle
Henry Holt and Company, 06/17/2025
Razor-sharp and hilarious,
How to Dodge a Cannonball tells the story of Anders, a white teenager who volunteers to be a Union Army flag-twirler to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet
by
Kate Marvel
Ecco, 06/17/2025
Dr. Kate Marvel is a renowned climate scientist and researcher whose work on climate change led her to grapple with strong, complicated emotions. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
If We Survive This
by
Racquel Marie
Feiwel & Friends, 06/17/2025
Flora Braddock Paz is not the girl who survives. A colorful creative who spends as much time fearing death as she does trying to hide that fear from ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
June in the Garden: A Novel
by
Eleanor Wilde
Crown, 06/17/2025
After her mother's unexpected death, June must vacate her home. But when the social worker urges her to move into a flat with no garden—clearly,...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Liberation Summer: The Moment That Changed the Women's Movement and the Future of American Politics
by
Micki McElya
Simon & Schuster, 06/17/2025
Of the many pivotal years in United States history studied and recreated by historians, journalists, and filmmakers, 1968, in particular, is widely ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia,from Revolution to Autocracy
by
Julia Ioffe
Ecco, 06/17/2025
In 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family fled the Soviet Union. Nearly twenty years later, Ioffe returned to Moscow—only to discover ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Shaw Connolly Lives to Tell: A Novel
by
Gillian French
Minotaur Books, 06/17/2025
Shaw Connolly is no stranger to trauma. As a fingerprints analyst, she's one of the first on-site for crimes, including murder scenes and a mysterious...
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Sound Affects: How Sound Shapes Our Lives, Our Wellbeing and Our Planet
by
Julian Treasure
Grand Central Publishing, 06/17/2025
Hearing is the first sense we develop—a primary warning sense hardwired into our brains. And yet, in an increasingly noisy and distracted world,...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Summers in Squid Tickle: A Newfoundland Odyssey
by
Robert Finch
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/17/2025
Robert Finch arrived in Newfoundland in the summer of 1995 heartsick, directionless, his old life on Cape Cod in tatters. Burnside―traditionally...
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Biography/Memoir
The Cost of Being Undocumented: One Woman's Reckoning with America's Inhumane Math
by
Alix Dick
Beacon Press, 06/17/2025
An inhumane math pervades this country: even as our government extracts labor and often taxes from undocumented workers, it excludes these same ...
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The Lost Masterpiece: A Novel
by
B. A. Shapiro
Algonquin Books, 06/17/2025
Stretching from the late-nineteenth century to the present day,
The Lost Masterpiece is wrapped around an enigmatic and powerful painting, Party on ...
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Historical Fiction
The Mercy Makers: The Moon Heresies #1
by
Tessa Gratton
Orbit, 06/17/2025
Can an empire trip and fall on a mere strand of silk?
Iriset is a prodigy and an outlaw. The daughter of a powerful criminal, she dons her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Möbius Book
by
Catherine Lacey
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/17/2025
Adrift in the winter of 2021 after a sudden breakup and the ensuing depression, the novelist Catherine Lacey began cataloguing the wreckage of her ...
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The Poppy Fields: A Novel
by
Nikki Erlick
William Morrow, 06/17/2025
Welcome to the Poppy Fields, where there's hope for even the most battered hearts to heal.
Here, in a remote stretch of the California desert, lies...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science
by
Carly Anne York
Basic Books, 06/17/2025
Why would anyone research how elephants pee? Or study worms who tie themselves into a communal knot? Or quantify the squishability of a cockroach? It ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Scrapbook: A Novel
by
Heather Clark
Pantheon Books, 06/17/2025
The traumas of the past and the aftershocks of fascism echo and reverberate through the present in this story of a lifechanging seduction.
Harvard...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Second Chance Convenience Store: A Novel
by
Ho-Yeon Kim
Harper Perennial, 06/17/2025
Dok-go lives in Seoul Station. He can't remember his past, and the only thing he knows for certain is that he could really use a drink. When he finds ...
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Literary Fiction
The Sisters: A Novel
by
Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/17/2025
Meet the Mikkola sisters: Ina, Evelyn, and Anastasia. Their mother is a Tunisian carpet seller, their father a mysterious Swede who left them when ...
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Historical Fiction
The Teacher of Auschwitz: A Novel
by
Wendy Holden
Harper, 06/17/2025
Fredy built a wall against suffering in their hearts ...
Amid the brutality of the Holocaust, one bright spot shone inside the Nazi death camp of ...
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Historical Fiction
The Tournament
by
Rebecca Barrow
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 06/17/2025
Gardner isn't like other boarding schools. They take in those who've been rejected everywhere else, they offer a survival skills class that has ...
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The Uproar: A Novel
by
Karim Dimechkie
Little Brown & Company, 06/17/2025
Sharif is a good person. He knows that he is good because he's aware of the privilege that he holds as a white man. He knows he is good because he ...
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These Heathens: A Novel
by
Mia McKenzie
Random House, 06/17/2025
Where do you get an abortion in 1960 Georgia, especially if your small town's midwife goes to the same church as your parents? For seventeen-year-old ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship
by
Dana A. Williams
Amistad, 06/17/2025
A multifaceted genius, Toni Morrison transcended her role as an author, helping to shape an important period in American publishing and literature as ...
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UnWorld: A Novel
by
Jayson Greene
Knopf, 06/17/2025
Anna is shattered by the violent death of her son, Alex, and tormented by the question of whether it was an accident or a suicide. Samantha is Alex's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Weepers: A Novel
by
Peter Mendelsund
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/17/2025
Ed is a weeper. A professional weeper.
He's a card-carrying member of an eccentric union hired to cry at funerals, wakes, services and burials. It'...
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When the Music Hits: A Novel
by
Amber Oliver
Ballantine Books, 06/17/2025
Growing up in the Bronx, Billie Grand sought solace in music, finding herself in the pulsing beats, striking lyrics, and mesmerizing voices that saved...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
You've Awoken Her
by
Ann Davila Cardinal
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/17/2025
All Gabi wants is to spend the summer in his room, surrounded by his Funkos and books, but with his mom traveling, his bags are packed for the last ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Treachery of Swans
by
A. B. Poranek
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 06/24/2025
Can two girls—one enchanted, one the enchantress—save their kingdom and each other?
Two hundred years ago, a slighted deity stole the ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom
by
Rebecca Grant
Simon & Schuster, 06/24/2025
When it comes to the fight for bodily autonomy and women's rights in America, there are names and stories that we recognize—Gloria Steinem, Flo ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Among Friends: A Novel
by
Hal Ebbott
Riverhead Books, 06/24/2025
It's an autumn weekend at a comfortable New York country house where two deeply intertwined families have gathered to mark the host's fifty-second ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Arcana: The Lost Heirs (Arcana #1)
by
Sam Prentice-Jones
Feiwel & Friends, 06/24/2025
James, Daphne, Koko, and Sonny have all grown up surrounded by magic in the Arcana, an organization of witches that protects the magical world, run by...
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Graphic Novels
Debut Author
Belle Starr: The Truth Behind the Wild West Legend
by
Michael Wallis
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 06/24/2025
In the annals of legendary Wild West desperados, Belle Starr is remembered to this day as the Bandit Queen. Shortly after her murder in 1889, a highly...
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Biography/Memoir
Don't Let Him In: A Novel
by
Lisa Jewell
Atria Books, 06/24/2025
Restauranteur Paddy Swann was the life of the party until the day a man pushed him in the path of an oncoming train, leaving his twenty-something ...
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Thrillers
El Dorado Drive
by
Megan Abbott
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/24/2025
All I want is to be innocent again. But that's not how it works. Especially not after the Wheel.
The three Bishop sisters grew up in privilege in...
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Thrillers
Fan Favorite
by
Adrienne Gunn
Grand Central Publishing, 06/24/2025
Thirty-five year old Edie Pepper, a rosé loving, reality TV obsessed copywriter from Chicago, dreams of plucking her soulmate from the depths of ...
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Romance
Fresh, Green Life: A Novel
by
Sebastian Castillo
Soft Skull Press, 06/24/2025
After experiencing a mysterious heart-related health scare, our narrator, Sebastian Castillo, who shares his name with this book's author, resolves to...
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Literary Fiction
I'll Be Right Here: A Novel
by
Amy Bloom
Random House, 06/24/2025
Immigrating alone from Paris to New York after the crucible of World War II, young Gazala becomes friends with two spirited sisters, Anne and Alma. ...
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Literary Fiction
Essays
Murder on Sex Island: Luella Van Horn Mysteries #1
by
Jo Firestone
Bantam Books, 06/24/2025
When a cast member goes missing from the hit reality show
Sex Island, producers hire detective Luella van Horn to go undercover as a contestant and ...
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Mysteries
Debut Author
Room on the Sea: Three Novellas
by
André Aciman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/24/2025
The short fictions in
Room on the Sea deal with the heart-wrenching vicissitudes of amorous ambivalence, in André Aciman's inimitably nostalgic, ...
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Tempest
by
K. Ibura
Quill & Quire, 06/24/2025
After Veronique's parents died, her grandmother raised her on a farm in rural Louisiana. For sixteen years, it's just been Veronique, MawMaw, and an ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Accidental Favorite: A Novel
by
Fran Littlewood
Henry Holt and Company, 06/24/2025
Vivienne and Patrick Fisher have done an excellent job raising their three daughters, Alex, Nancy, and Eva. They're well-adjusted women with ...
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Literary Fiction
The Colony of Lost Souls
by
Kelsey James
A John Scognamiglio Book, 06/24/2025
Born a year apart, May and June Anderson were once as close as twins. Time and a loveless marriage changed the once vibrant May into June's timid ...
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Historical Fiction
The Compound: A Novel
by
Aisling Rawle
Random House, 06/24/2025
Lily—a bored, beautiful twenty-something—wakes up on a remote desert compound, alongside nineteen other contestants competing on a ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Girls Who Grew Big: A Novel
by
Leila Mottley
Knopf, 06/24/2025
Adela Woods is sixteen years old and pregnant. Her parents banish her from her comfortable upbringing in Indiana to her grandmother's home in the ...
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Literary Fiction
The Great White Hoax: Two Centuries of Selling Racism in America
by
Philip Kadish
The New Press, 06/24/2025
Fake news, outright political lies, a shamelessly partisan press, and the collapse of truth, civility, and shared facts, Philip Kadish argues, are ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The House on Buzzards Bay: A Novel
by
Dwyer Murphy
Viking, 06/24/2025
As they hurtle into midlife, Jim and his closest college friends get together to rekindle the bonds of their friendship in his family's beautiful, ...
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Thrillers
The Master Jeweler: A Novel
by
Weina Dai Randel
Lake Union Publishing, 06/24/2025
Harbin, China, 1925. Fifteen-year-old Anyu Zhang discovers a priceless Fabergé egg in the snow and returns it to the owner, Isaac Mandelburg, a ...
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Historical Fiction
The Medusa Protocol: Assassins Anonymous #2
by
Rob Hart
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/24/2025
When Astrid, known in her assassin days as Azrael, stopped showing up to Assassins Anonymous, the group assumed her past had caught up with her. Only ...
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The Place of Tides
by
James Rebanks
Mariner Books, 06/24/2025
We are all in need of lights to follow.
One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Plunge: A Novel
by
Lila Raicek
MIRA, 06/24/2025
Following the death of her disgraced fiancé, Liv returns to New York City where she finds shelter in the apartment of a former mentor. Lonely and...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation's Fight Over Its Future
by
Carter Sherman
Gallery Books, 06/24/2025
As a college student, award-winning journalist Carter Sherman, along with several members of her sorority, was interviewed by a writer eagerly looking...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Tiny Things are Heavier
by
Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo
Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/24/2025
The Tiny Things are Heavier follows Sommy, a Nigerian woman who comes to the United States for graduate school two weeks after her brother, Mezie, ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Whyte Python World Tour: A Novel
by
Travis Kennedy
Doubleday, 06/24/2025
It's Los Angeles, 1986, and metal rules the world. For aspiring drummer Rikki Thunder, life is good—even if he is sleeping in a condemned paint ...
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Thrillers
Thus with a Kiss I Die: Daughter of Montague
by
Christina Dodd
A John Scognamiglio Book, 06/24/2025
"Woe, for I am the bug that meets the windshield's might,
No longer the speeding glass, smooth, clean and bright ..."
You're right. I, Rosie...
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Mysteries
Trailblazer: Perseverance in Life and Politics
by
Carol Moseley Braun
Hanover Square Press, 06/24/2025
The first Black woman ever elected to the Senate. The first woman to represent the state of Illinois. The first Black woman to serve as a US ...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
What We Leave Behind: A Novel
by
Sue Halpern
Harper, 06/24/2025
It's the perennial question: are we a product of how we were raised, or is our identity hardwired by our genetic inheritance? When her adoptive mother...
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Literary Fiction
