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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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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Thrillers
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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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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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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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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Essays
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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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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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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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Historical Fiction
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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Literary Fiction
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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Thrillers
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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Literary Fiction
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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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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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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Science, Health and the Environment
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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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
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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Short Stories
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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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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Short Stories
My Train Leaves at Three: A Novel
by
Natalie Guerrero
One World, 07/08/2025
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
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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Biography/Memoir
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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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
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 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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Literary 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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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 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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Literary Fiction
Visions and Temptations
by
Harald Voetmann
New Directions Publishing, 07/08/2025
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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Literary Fiction
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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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
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
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
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
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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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
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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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
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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Thrillers
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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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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Thrillers
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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Science, Health and the Environment
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
Biography/Memoir
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
by
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
Salt Bones: A Novel
by
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
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 Tapestry of Time
by
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
by
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
by
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
by
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
by
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
Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy
by
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
Lonely Crowds: A Novel
by
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
by
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 Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive
by
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
