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New This Week

  • The Busybody Book Club
    Freya Sampson
    Published 5/27/25

    They can't even agree on what to read, so how are they going to solve a murder?
  • Consider Yourself Kissed
    Jessica Stanley
    Published 5/27/25

    A literary love story told through ten years in the life of one woman as she tries to build a longed-for family without also losing herself — an entertaining portrayal ...
  • Deep Breath
    Rita Halász
    Published 5/27/25

    A visceral and stirring novel exploring free will, memory, faith, and constructions of reality and the self, following a woman faced with the question of whether her marriage ...

Publishing Soon

  • A Song of Legends Lost
    M. H. Ayinde
    Published 6/3/25

    An unforgettable tale of revenge and rebellion unfolds when a reckless king implements an ill-fated plan to end a thousand-year war in this relentlessly gripping epic fantasy ...
  • Beyond Limits
    Shelley Sella
    Published 6/3/25

    A compassionate perspective on late-term abortion that challenges preconceived notions of who gets abortions and why.
  • Dining Out
    Erik Piepenburg
    Published 6/3/25

    As gay restaurants--rare spaces of safety and celebration for the LGBTQ+ community — evolve and chart new futures, New York Times journalist Erik Piepenburg takes ...

First Impressions: Readers Recommend

  • Awake in the Floating City
    Susanna Kwan
    Published 5/13/25

    An utterly transporting debut novel about the unexpected relationship between an artist and the 130-year-old woman she cares for—two of the last people living in a ...
  • Songs of Summer
    Jane L. Rosen
    Published 5/20/25

    A young woman crashes the wedding of the summer on Fire Island in search of her birth mother—and gets a whole lot more than she bargained for—in this warm, heart-...
  • Erased
    Anna Malaika Tubbs
    Published 5/20/25

    In Erased, Anna Malaika Tubbs recovers all that American patriarchy has tried to destroy.

Latest "Beyond the Book" Articles

  • A Short History of the Cooking Show
    Beyond the book article for Lessons in Chemistry
    In Lessons In Chemistry, the main character is the reluctant host of a popular TV cooking show.

    Gordon Ramsay, Bobby Flay and Rachael Ray are just a few of the many modern TV chefs who’ve become household names. Cooking shows are now not only daytime television staples; they're featured...
  • Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) and Our Town
    Beyond the book article for Tom Lake
    In Ann Patchett's novel Tom Lake, the main character fondly remembers starring in a production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. This is Wilder's best-known play, which debuted in 1938 to mixed reviews but earned him a Pulitzer Prize that same year, making him the only writer to have received the award...
  • "Native American" Is Complicated
    Beyond the book article for Old School Indian
    In the 1960s and 1970s, the term 'Native American' was popularized. It became the politically correct way to refer to the hundreds of tribes that make up the Native population in the United States, often replacing 'Indian.' But many Indigenous people resent the classification of Native American ...

New in Hardcover

  • The True Happiness Company
    Veena Dinavahi
    Published 5/20/25

    In this darkly humorous and wrenchingly sincere memoir, a young Indian American woman's dreams of being a well-adjusted college student get wildly derailed when her struggles ...
  • Spent
    Alison Bechdel
    Published 5/20/25

    The celebrated and beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Fun Home presents a laugh-out-loud, brilliant, and passionately political work of ...
  • The Afterlife of Malcolm X
    Mark Whitaker
    Published 5/13/25

    Published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the first major study of Malcolm X's influence in the sixty years since his assassination, exploring his ...

New in Paperback

  • The Wide Wide Sea
    Hampton Sides
    Published 5/27/25

    From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in...
  • Move Like Water
    Hannah Stowe
    Published 5/27/25

    A book to sweep you away from the shore, into a wild world of water, whale, storm, and starlight— to experience what it's like to sail for weeks at a time with life set ...
  • Mood Swings
    Frankie Barnet
    Published 5/25/25

    In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a California billionaire who's promised a time machine that will make everything ...

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