Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers' Rights
by
Ashley Hope Pérez
Holiday House, 03/04/2025
Books are disappearing from shelves across the country.
What does this mean for authors, illustrators, and—most crucially—for young ...
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Blood Moon
by
Sandra Brown
Grand Central Publishing, 03/04/2025
Detective John Bowie is one misstep away from being fired from the Auclair Police Department in coastal Louisiana. Recently divorced and slightly ...
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Broken Country
by
Clare Leslie Hall
Simon & Schuster, 03/04/2025
"The farmer is dead. He is dead, and all anyone wants to know is who killed him."
Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, ...
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Connecting Dots: A Blind Life
by
Joshua A. Miele
Hachette Books, 03/04/2025
At the age of four, Joshua Miele was blinded and badly burned when a delusional neighbor poured sulfuric acid over his head in a crime that shocked ...
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Biography/Memoir
Days of Shattered Faith: The Tyrant Philosophers #3
by
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Head of Zeus, 03/04/2025
Loret is fresh off the boat, and just in time.
As Cohort-Invigilator of Correct Appreciation, Outreach department, she's here as aide to the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Divining the Leaves
by
Shveta Thakrar
HarperCollins Publishers, 03/04/2025
Plant-loving Ridhi Kapadia and popular Nilesh Batra were friends once.
Now, seventeen and alone, Ridhi blends natural perfumes, wears flower crowns...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dream Count: A Novel
by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Knopf, 03/04/2025
Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices ...
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Expect Great Things!: How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women
by
Vanda Krefft
Algonquin Books, 03/04/2025
It's a safe bet that most of the secretaries on the TV series
Mad Men would have attended the Katharine Gibbs School in New York City. The iconic...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Firstborn Girls: A Memoir
by
Bernice L. McFadden
Dutton, 03/04/2025
On her second birthday in 1967, Bernice McFadden died in a car crash near Detroit, only to be resuscitated after her mother pulled her from the ...
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Guatemalan Rhapsody: Stories
by
Jared Lemus
Ecco, 03/04/2025
Ranging from a custodian at an underfunded college to a medicine man living in a temple dedicated to San Simon, the patron saint of alcohol and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
How to Feed the World: The History and Future of Food
by
Vaclav Smil
Viking, 03/04/2025
We have never had to feed as many people as we do today. And yet, we misunderstand the essentials of where our food really comes from, how our dietary...
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Science, Health and the Environment
I Leave It Up to You: A Novel
by
Jinwoo Chong
Ballantine Books, 03/04/2025
A coma can change a man, but the world Jack Jr. awakens to is one he barely recognizes. His advertising job is history, his Manhattan apartment is ...
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Kills Well with Others
by
Deanna Raybourn
Berkley Books, 03/04/2025
After more than a year of laying low, Billie, Helen, Mary Alice, and Natalie are called back into action. They have enjoyed their time off, but the ...
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Kirby's Lessons for Falling (in Love)
by
Laura Gao
HarperAlley, 03/04/2025
Now she's forced to join the newspaper club for some desperately needed extra credit. Worse, she's recruited by crystal-wearing, tarot-reading Bex ...
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Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star
by
Mayukh Sen
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/04/2025
Merle Oberon attained Hollywood immortality with a nomination for a Best Leading Actress Oscar for her role in the 1935 film
The Dark Angel. It was ...
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Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today
by
Scott Spillman
Basic Books, 03/04/2025
In recent years, from school board meetings to the halls of Congress, Americans have engaged in fierce debates about how slavery and its legacies ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War
by
Jill Eicher
Pegasus Books, 03/04/2025
Andrew Mellon, one of the most accomplished businessmen of his era, is almost unknown today. To this shy, diffident (but brilliant) man fell the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Nightweaver: Nightweaver #1
by
R.M. Gray
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/04/2025
Six hundred years ago, Nightweavers, cursed beings with untamed power, claimed the continents for their own. The ocean was meant to be a safe haven ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Oathbound: The Legendborn Cycle #3
by
Tracy Deonn
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 03/04/2025
Severed from the Legendborn. Oathbound to a monster.
Bree Matthews is alone. She exiled herself from the Legendborn Order, cut her ancestral ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
On the Clock
by
Claire Baglin
New Directions Publishing, 03/04/2025
Claire Baglin's
On the Clock packs a family saga, a penetrating picture of social inequality, and a coming-of-age story into a compact tale told in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Once Was Willem
by
M. R. Carey
Orbit, 03/04/2025
Eleven hundred and some years after the death of Christ, in the kingdom that had but recently begun to call itself England, I,
Once Was Willem, rose ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
One Step Forward
by
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
HarperCollins Publishers, 03/04/2025
Raised in a politically divided family, Matilda wondered if she could be as courageous as her older sister who fought for suffrage. Joining the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Optional Practical Training: A Novel
by
Shubha Sunder
Graywolf Press, 03/04/2025
Told as a series of conversations,
Optional Practical Training follows Pavitra, a young Indian woman who came to the US for college from Bangalore, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Pieces You'll Never Get Back: A Memoir of Unlikely Survival
by
Samina Ali
Catapult, 03/04/2025
At 29, as a young writer working on her first novel, Samina Ali nearly died giving birth to her son. Miraculously, she survived the unchecked ...
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Raising Hare: A Memoir
by
Chloe Dalton
Pantheon Books, 03/04/2025
Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Red Dog Farm: A Novel
by
Nathaniel Ian Miller
Little Brown & Company, 03/04/2025
Growing up on his family's cattle farm in western Iceland, young Orri has gained an appreciation for the beauty found in everyday things: the ...
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Remember This: A Novel
by
Anthony Giardina
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/04/2025
Even though Miranda Rando, a forty-year-old writer living in Brooklyn, is making breakthroughs in her biography of a powerful woman artist, she can't ...
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Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope
by
Amanda Nguyen
AUWA, 03/04/2025
In 2013, the trajectory of Amanda Nguyen's life was changed forever when she was raped at Harvard.
Determined to not let her assault derail her ...
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See Friendship: A Novel
by
Jeremy Gordon
Harper Perennial, 03/04/2025
Ahead of looming layoffs within the ongoing decimation of media, Jacob Goldberg, a culture writer in New York, knows what will save him: a podcast.&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Seven Social Movements That Changed America
by
Linda Gordon
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 03/04/2025
How do social movements arise, wield power, and bring about meaningful change? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon investigates these and other salient ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Stone Angels
by
Helena Rho
Grand Central Publishing, 03/04/2025
Angelina Lee feels like she doesn't belong. Newly divorced, and completely unmoored by the sudden and tragic death of her mother, she hopes studying ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Strange Bedfellows
by
Ariel Slamet Ries
HarperAlley, 03/04/2025
In the not-too-distant future, most of humanity resides on its last-ditch effort at utopia: Meridian, a remote alien planet where you're more likely ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
by
Russell Shorto
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/04/2025
In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Boxcar Librarian: A Novel
by
Brianna Labuskes
William Morrow, 03/04/2025
When Works Progress Administration (WPA) editor Millie Lang finds herself on the wrong end of a potential political scandal, she's shipped off to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Dream Hotel: A Novel
by
Laila Lalami
Pantheon Books, 03/04/2025
Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The King's Messenger
by
Susanna Kearsley
Sourcebooks Landmark, 03/04/2025
It is the year 1613, and King James is sending his messenger Andrew Logan into Scotland with secret orders to arrest Sir David Moray, close friend and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball
by
John W. Miller
Avid Reader Press, 03/04/2025
Long before the
Moneyball-era, the Earl of Baltimore reigned over baseball. History's feistiest and most colorful manager, Earl Weaver transformed the...
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The Persians: A Novel
by
Sanam Mahloudji
Scribner, 03/04/2025
Meet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they're nobodies.
First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The River Has Roots
by
Amal El-Mohtar
Tordotcom, 03/04/2025
"Oh what is stronger than a death? Two sisters singing with one breath."
In the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, dwells the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Scorpion and the Night Blossom: The Three Realms #1
by
Amélie Wen Zhao
Delacorte Press, 03/04/2025
Nine years ago, the war between the Kingdom of Night and the Kingdom of Rivers tore Àn'yīng's family apart, leaving her mother barely alive ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir
by
Martha S. Jones
Basic Books, 03/04/2025
Suspicious of the color of her skin and the texture of her hair, he confronted her with a question that inspired a lifetime of introspection: "Who do ...
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The Unworthy: A Novel
by
Agustina Bazterrica
Scribner, 03/04/2025
From her cell in a mysterious convent, a woman writes the story of her life in whatever she can find—discarded ink, dirt, and even her own blood...
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The Vanishing Kind: Alex Carter Series #4
by
Alice Henderson
William Morrow, 03/04/2025
When wildlife biologist Alex Carter is tasked with locating jaguars on a vast desert preserve in New Mexico, she is ecstatic. While jaguars once ...
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Thrillers
They Bloom at Night
by
Trang Thanh Tran
Bloomsbury YA, 03/04/2025
Since the hurricane, the town of Mercy, Louisiana has been overtaken by a strange red algae bloom. Noon and her mother have carved out a life in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women's Ascent of Denali
by
Cassidy Randall
Abrams Press, 03/04/2025
Cassidy Randall draws on extensive archival research and original interviews to tell an engrossing, edge-of-the-seat adventure story about a forgotten...
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Biography/Memoir
Ultramarine
by
Mariette Navarro
Deep Vellum Publishing, 03/04/2025
A female captain in a male-dominated field, the unnamed narrator of
Ultramarine has secured her success through strict adherence to protocol; she...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Universality: A Novel
by
Natasha Brown
Random House, 03/04/2025
Late one night on a Yorkshire farm, in the midst of an illegal rave, a young man is nearly bludgeoned to death with a solid gold bar.
An ambitious...
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We Pretty Pieces of Flesh: A Novel
by
Colwill Brown
Henry Holt and Company, 03/04/2025
"Ask anyone non-Northern, they'll only know Donny as punchline of a joke or place they changed trains once ont way to London." But Doncaster's also ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
When the Bones Sing
by
Ginny Myers Sain
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/04/2025
The past three years have been tough for Lucifer's Creek, Arkansas, a small town quietly tucked away in the Ozark mountains. More than two dozen ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Wild Dark Shore: A Novel
by
Charlotte McConaghy
Flatiron Books, 03/04/2025
A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon.
Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Woodworking
by
Emily St. James
Zando, 03/04/2025
Erica Skyberg is thirty-five years old, recently divorced―and trans. Not that she's told anyone yet. Mitchell, South Dakota, isn't exactly ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
33 Place Brugmann
by
Alice Austen
Grove Press, 03/11/2025
On the eve of the Nazi occupation, in the heart of Brussels, life for the residents of eight apartments at 33 Place Brugmann is about to change ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe
by
Mahogany L. Browne
Crown Books for Young Readers, 03/11/2025
In New York City, teens, their families, and their communities feel the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic. Amidst the fear and loss, these teens and the ...
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All the Other Mothers Hate Me
by
Sarah Harman
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/11/2025
Florence Grimes is a thirty-one-year-old party girl who always takes the easy way out. Single, broke and unfulfilled after the humiliating end to her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
America, Let Me In: A Choose Your Immigration Story
by
Felipe Torres Medina
Abrams Image, 03/11/2025
Born in Colombia, Felipe Torres Medina moved to the US at the age of 21 and has spent over ten years of his life both navigating the chaos and ...
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Care and Feeding: A Memoir
by
Laurie Woolever
Ecco, 03/11/2025
In this moving, hilarious, and insightful memoir, Laurie Woolever traces her path from a small-town childhood to working at revered restaurants and ...
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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
by
Sarah Wynn-Williams
Flatiron Books, 03/11/2025
From trips on private jets and encounters with world leaders to shocking accounts of misogyny and double standards behind the scenes, this searing ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Close to Home: The Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door
by
Thor Hanson
Basic Books, 03/11/2025
We all live on nature's doorstep, but we often overlook it. From backyards to local parks, the natural places we see the most may well be the ones we ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin
by
Andre Dubus III
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/11/2025
During childhood summers in Louisiana, Andre Dubus III's grandfather taught him that men's work is hard. As an adult, whether tracking down a drug ...
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Girl Falling: A Novel
by
Hayley Scrivenor
Flatiron Books, 03/11/2025
Torn between her girlfriend, Magdu, and her best friend, Daphne, Finn is looking forward to a day of rock climbing and bonding for the three women on ...
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Goddess Complex: A Novel
by
Sanjena Sathian
Penguin Press, 03/11/2025
Sanjana Satyanandais trying to recover her life. It's been a year since she walked out on her husband, a struggling actor named Killian, at a commune ...
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Just Want You Here: A Novel
by
Meredith Turits
Little A, 03/11/2025
The only love Ari has known is Morgan. Engaged and planning a life with him in New York, Ari is shocked when Morgan sits her down one rainy afternoon ...
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Literary Fiction
Liquid: A Love Story
by
Mariam Rahmani
Algonquin Books, 03/11/2025
The unnamed Iranian-Indian American narrator of
Liquid has always believed herself to be the smartest person in the room. And from an early age, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy
by
Bridgett M. Davis
Harper, 03/11/2025
In
Love, Rita, Bridgett M. Davis tells the story of her beloved older sister, a vivacious woman who in leaving home to attend Fisk ...
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Luminous
by
Silvia Park
Simon & Schuster, 03/11/2025
In a reunified Korea of the future, robots have been integrated into society as surrogates, servants, children, and even lovers. Though boundaries ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful
by
David Enrich
Mariner Books, 03/11/2025
It was a quiet way to announce a revolution: In an obscure 2019 case that the Supreme Court refused to even hear, Justice Clarence Thomas raised the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
On Air: The Triumph and Tumult of NPR
by
Steve Oney
Avid Reader Press, 03/11/2025
Founded in 1970, NPR is America's most powerful broadcast news network. Despite being overshadowed by the larger and more glamorous PBS, public radio ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Rebel Queen: The Cold War, Misogyny, and the Making of a Grandmaster
by
Susan Polgar
Grand Central Publishing, 03/11/2025
Born to a poor Jewish family in Cold War Budapest, Susan Polgar would emerge as the one of the greatest female chess players the world had ever seen.
...
more
Biography/Memoir
Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories
by
Torrey Peters
Random House, 03/11/2025
In this collection of one novel and three novellas, Torrey Peters's keen eye for the rough edges of community and desire push the limits of trans ...
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Sucker Punch
by
Scaachi Koul
St. Martin's Press, 03/11/2025
Scaachi Koul's first book was a collection of raw, perceptive, and hilarious essays reckoning with the issues of race, body image, love, friendship, ...
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The Anatomy of Magic: A Novel
by
J.C. Cervantes
Park Row, 03/11/2025
Lilian Estrada seemingly has it all: an ob-gyn star on the rise, a master at balancing work with whirlwind romances and part of a family of fiercely ...
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The Antidote: A Novel
by
Karen Russell
Knopf, 03/11/2025
The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Broken King
by
Michael Thomas
Grove Press, 03/11/2025
In 2007, Michael Thomas launched into the literary world with his award-winning first novel
Man Gone Down, a beautiful and devastating story of a ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Californians: A Novel
by
Brian Castleberry
Mariner Books, 03/11/2025
It's 2024, and Tobey Harlan—college dropout, temporary waiter, recently dumped—steals from the wall of his father's house three ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Four Queens of Crime
by
Rosanne Limoncelli
Crooked Lane Books, 03/11/2025
1938, London. The four queens of British crime fiction, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, and Margery Allingham, are hosting a gala to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Jackal's Mistress: A Novel
by
Chris Bohjalian
Doubleday, 03/11/2025
Virginia, 1864—Libby Steadman's husband has been away for so long that she can barely conjure his voice in her dreams. While she longs for him ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York
by
Elon Green
Celadon, 03/11/2025
At twenty-five years old, Michael Stewart was a young Black aspiring artist, deejay, and model, looking to make a name for himself in the vibrant ...
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The Trouble Up North
by
Travis Mulhauser
Grand Central Publishing, 03/11/2025
The Sawbrooks have lived on prime real estate on the lakes of Michigan since before there was prime real estate. A family of smugglers and bootleggers...
more
Thrillers
The Wild Dark
by
Katherine Harbour
Bloomsbury YA, 03/11/2025
Once an outcast and an orphan, Evie Wilder now finds herself as the new leader of the Dark Fable. But the secret group of globetrotting thieves is not...
more
Thrillers
The Women on Platform Two
by
Laura Anthony
Gallery Books, 03/11/2025
Dublin, 1969: Maura has just married Dr. Christy Davenport and they look forward to growing their family. But as her husband's vicious temper emerges,...
more
These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means
by
Christopher Summerfield
Viking, 03/11/2025
In this accessible, up-to-date, and authoritative examination of the world's most radical technology, neuroscientist and AI researcher Christopher ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Tongues, Volume 1
by
Anders Nilsen
Pantheon Books, 03/11/2025
Set in a version of modern Central Asia,
Tongues is a retelling of the Greek myth of Prometheus. It follows the captive god's friendship with the ...
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Unusual Fragments: Japanese Stories
by
Inagaki Taruho
Two Lines Press, 03/11/2025
A young storm-chaser welcomes a jaded woman into the eye of a storm. The last man of a peculiar family, implausibly tiny in stature, attends a Mozart ...
more
Short Stories
Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses
by
Peter Wolf
Little Brown & Company, 03/11/2025
Peter Wolf grew up in the Bronx, a child of "fellow travelers" whose artistic inclinations influenced both his love of music and his initial desire to...
more
Biography/Memoir
Warbody: A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Modern Warfare
by
Joshua Howe, Alexander Lemons
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/11/2025
Alexander Lemons is a Marine Corps scout sniper who, after serving multiple tours during the Iraq War, returned home seriously and mysteriously ill. ...
more
You Deserve to Know
by
Aggie Blum Thompson
Forge Books, 03/11/2025
Neighbors Gwen, Aimee, and Lisa share more than playdates and coffee mornings on their tranquil street in East Bethesda. They confide their deepest ...
more
A Catalog of Burnt Objects
by
Shana Youngdahl
Dial Books, 03/18/2025
Seventeen-year-old Caprice wants to piece her family back together now that her older brother has returned home, even as she resents that he ever ...
more
A Map to Paradise
by
Susan Meissner
Berkley Books, 03/18/2025
With her name on the Hollywood blacklist and her life on hold, starlet Melanie Cole has little choice in company. There is her next-door neighbor, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Abundance
by
Ezra Klein
Avid Reader Press, 03/18/2025
To trace the history of the twenty-first century so far is to trace a history of unaffordability and shortage. After years of refusing to build ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Alive: Our Bodies and the Richness and Brevity of Existence
by
Gabriel Weston
David R. Godine, 03/18/2025
What does it mean to live in a body? For Gabriel Weston, there was always something missing from the anatomy she was taught at medical school. She'd ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Animal Instinct
by
Amy Shearn
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/18/2025
It's spring of 2020 and Rachel Bloomstein—mother of three, recent divorcée, and Brooklynite—is stuck inside. But her newly awakened ...
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Chloe: A Novel of Secrets and Lies
by
Connie Briscoe
Amistad, 03/18/2025
A mansion haunted by the ghost of a cool, charismatic first wife. A second bride from a small Southern town who may be in over her head. A brooding ...
more
Thrillers
Edgar Allan Poe: A Life
by
Richard Kopley
University of Virginia Press, 03/18/2025
Edgar Allan Poe: A Life is the most comprehensive critical biography of Poe yet produced, exploring his fascinating life, his extraordinary work, and ...
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Everybody Says It's Everything: A Novel
by
Xhenet Aliu
Random House, 03/18/2025
Raised in Connecticut, adopted twins Drita and Petrit (aka Pete) had no connection to their Albanian heritage. Their lives were all about Barbie dolls...
more
Literary Fiction
Firstborn: A Memoir
by
Lauren Christensen
Penguin Press, 03/18/2025
"Some days I still think this is all just a sad story I'll tell Simone one day."
Lauren Christensen is a thirtysomething editor in New York City ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust
by
Lucy Adlington
Harper, 03/18/2025
Jock Heidenstein, Anita Lasker, Chana Zumerkorn, and Regina Feldman all faced the Holocaust in different ways. While they did not know each other&#...
more
Hangry Hearts
by
Jennifer Chen
Wednesday Books, 03/18/2025
Julie Wu and Randall Hur used to be best friends. Now they only see each other on Saturdays at the Pasadena Farmers Market where their once close ...
more
His Mortal Demise: The Last Bloodcarver #2
by
Vanessa Le
Roaring Brook Press, 03/18/2025
Kochin is a heartsooth — a rare being with the ability to heal any wound. Any wound, that is, except death.
Intent on defying nature and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Hot Air: A Novel
by
Marcy Dermansky
Knopf, 03/18/2025
Joannie hadn't been on a date in seven years when Johnny invites Joannie and her daughter to dinner. His house is beautiful, his son is sweet, and ...
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Hunchback: A Novel
by
Saou Ichikawa
Hogarth Books, 03/18/2025
Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka spends her days in her room in a care home outside Tokyo, relying on an electric wheelchair to get ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
If You Were My Daughter: A Memoir of Healing an Unmothered Heart
by
Marianne Richmond
Sourcebooks, 03/18/2025
At nine years old, Marianne Richmond's life is upended when she collapses on her kitchen floor with full-body convulsions. "Pinched nerve," says the ...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
In My Remaining Years
by
Jean Grae
Flatiron Books, 03/18/2025
In My Remaining Years, by creative juggernaut Jean Grae, debunks the myth that coming-of-age narratives should be reserved for the kids, providing a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children
by
Noliwe Rooks
Pantheon Books, 03/18/2025
On May 17, 1954 the landmark case
Brown v. Board of Education determined that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. Heralded as a ...
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Killer Potential: A Novel
by
Hannah Deitch
William Morrow, 03/18/2025
A scholarship kid with straight As and big dreams, Evie Gordon always thought she was special, that she'd be someone. But after graduating from an ...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War
by
Michael Vorenberg
Knopf, 03/18/2025
We set out on the James River, March 25, 1865, aboard the paddle steamboat River Queen. President Lincoln is on his way to General Grant's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
O Sinners!: A Novel
by
Nicole Cuffy
One World, 03/18/2025
Faruq Zaidi, a young journalist processing the recent death of his father, a devout Muslim, takes the opportunity to embed himself in a cult called "...
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Our Beautiful Boys: A Novel
by
Sameer Pandya
Ballantine Books, 03/18/2025
Vikram Shastri has always been a good kid. He's got a 4.6 GPA, listens to his parents, barely hits the parties, and is on track for a fancy college. ...
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Literary Fiction
Rooms for Vanishing: A Novel
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Stuart Nadler
Dutton, 03/18/2025
Everyone had been survived into different futures and I would never see any of them again. I could sense this. I would hear them in their separate ...more
Stop Me If You've Heard This One: A Novel
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Kristen Arnett
Riverhead Books, 03/18/2025
Cherry Hendricks might be down on her luck, but she can write the book on what makes something funny: she's a professional clown who creates raucous, ...
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The Girl Who Flew Away
by
Lee Dean
Iron Circus Comics, 03/18/2025
Bunking with total strangers to await and hide the birth of her boss's child, she finds herself unmoored and friendless in the sun-and-fun-obsessed ...
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The House No One Sees
by
Adina King
Feiwel & Friends, 03/18/2025
After a text from her estranged mother rips her away from a night with friends, Penny is forced into a kaleidoscope of memories locked inside the dark...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Hymn to Dionysus
by
Natasha Pulley
Bloomsbury Publishing, 03/18/2025
Raised in a Greek legion, Phaidros has been taught to follow his commander's orders at all costs. But when Phaidros rescues a baby from a fire at ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Love We Found
by
Jill Santopolo
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/18/2025
It's been ten years. In case you're out there somewhere. In case you're listening, I'm here. And I have so much to tell you.
It's been nearly ten...
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Romance
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
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Joshua Hammer
Simon & Schuster, 03/18/2025
It was one of history's great vanishing acts.
Around 3,400 BCE—as humans were gathering in complex urban settlements—a scribe in the ...
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The Paris Express: A Novel
by
Emma Donoghue
Summit Books, 03/18/2025
Based on an 1895 disaster that went down in history when it was captured in a series of surreal, extraordinary photographs,
The Paris Express is a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Theft: A Novel
by
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Riverhead Books, 03/18/2025
At the turn of the twenty-first century, three young people come of age in Tanzania. Karim returns to his sleepy hometown after university with new ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
True Life in Uncanny Valley
by
Deb Caletti
Labyrinth Road, 03/18/2025
Eleanor, like so many others, is used to watching her famous father from afar. To the world, Hugo Harrison is the brilliant and charismatic tech ...
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All Our Beautiful Goodbyes: A Novel
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Julianne MacLean
Lake Union Publishing, 03/25/2025
1946: World War II is over, and Emma Clarkson is poised to take flight. With dreams of attending university, she's ready to leave behind the wild ...
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Literary Fiction
Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets and the Fever Dream of the American New Age
by
Leah Sottile
Grand Central Publishing, 03/25/2025
Known for deep dives into true crime, extremist ideologies and fringe subcultures, journalist Leah Sottile turns her investigative eye toward American...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Blood on Her Tongue
by
Johanna van Veen
Poisoned Pen Press, 03/25/2025
The Netherlands, 1887. Lucy's twin sister Sarah is unwell. She refuses to eat, mumbles nonsensically, and is increasingly obsessed with a centuries-...
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Counting Backwards
by
Binnie Kirshenbaum
Soho Press, 03/25/2025
It begins with hallucinations. From their living room window, Leo sees a man on stilts, an acting troupe, a pair of swans paddling on the street. ...
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Free: My Search for Meaning
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Amanda Knox
Grand Central Publishing, 03/25/2025
Though she was exonerated, it's taken more than a decade for her to reclaim her identity and truly feel free.
Free recounts how Knox survived ...
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Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert: A Novel
by
Bob the Drag Queen
Gallery Books, 03/25/2025
In an age of miracles where our greatest heroes from history have magically, unexplainably returned to shake us out of our confusion and hate, Harriet...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
I Am the Swarm
by
Hayley Chewins
Viking, 03/25/2025
As far back as anyone can remember, the women of the Strand family have been magical.
Their gifts manifest when they each turn fifteen, always in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South
by
Jeanne Theoharis
The New Press, 03/25/2025
The Martin Luther King Jr. of popular memory vanquished Jim Crow in the South. But in this myth-shattering book, award-winning and
New York Times...more
Lucky Night: A Novel
by
Eliza Kennedy
Crown, 03/25/2025
Nick Holloway is forty-six. A successful partner at a law firm, he has a gorgeous wife, a precious daughter, and a big house. If he also has gnawing ...
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Retreat: A Novel
by
Krysten Ritter
Harper, 03/25/2025
Liz Dawson weaves through a crowd with the ease of a tropical breeze, moving seamlessly through elite circles, sparking instant connections and making...
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Saltwater: A Novel
by
Katy Hays
Ballantine Books, 03/25/2025
In 1992, Sarah Lingate is found dead below the cliffs of Capri, leaving behind her three-year-old daughter, Helen. Despite suspicions that the old-...
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Sister Europe: A Novel
by
Nell Zink
Knopf, 03/25/2025
Naema, an elderly princess dedicated to her pet causes, is in a bind: struck by a malady that maroons her in Montreux, she's unable to host an ...
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Sons and Daughters: A Novel
by
Chaim Grade
Knopf, 03/25/2025
"It is me the prophet laments when he cries out, 'My enemies are the people in my own home.'" The Rabbi ignored his borscht and instead chewed on a ...more
The Agonies
by
Ben Faulkner
Arcade Publishing, 03/25/2025
Armand Bernal is breaking apart. The trials of youth become a torrential odyssey of dislocation and disorientation. In this bildungsroman for our ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The BookBrowse Anthology
by
BookBrowse
BookBrowse, 03/25/2025
Where can you find Pulitzer, Nobel, Booker, and National Book Award Winners alongside bestsellers and hidden gems? For over 20 years, BookBrowse has ...
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Other
The Evening Shades
by
Lee Martin
Melville House, 03/25/2025
One afternoon in the autumn of 1972, a lonely widow in Mt. Gilead, Illinois, makes the impromptu decision to rent out a room in her house to a ...
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The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue: A Story of Climate and Hope on One American Street
by
Mike Tidwell
St. Martin's Press, 03/25/2025
In 2023, author and activist Mike Tidwell decided to keep a record for a full year of the growing impacts of climate change on his one urban block ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Reluctant Sheriff: The Mick Hardin Novels #4
by
Chris Offutt
Grove Press, 03/25/2025
Lauded as a "masterclass in the craft of crime fiction" (
CrimeReads), Chris Offutt's beloved and critically acclaimed Mick Hardin series is an ...
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The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree
by
India Hayford
A John Scognamiglio Book, 03/25/2025
Genevieve Charbonneau talks to ghosts and has a special relationship with rattlesnakes. In her travels, she's wandered throughout the South, escaping ...
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Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Unwanted: A Novel
by
Boris Fishman
Harper, 03/25/2025
Susanna, George, and their eight-year-old daughter, Dina, have been lucky, so far, in these four years since war broke out in their country. Even as ...
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Thrilled to Death: Selected Stories
by
Lynne Tillman
Soft Skull Press, 03/25/2025
Among the vanguard of American literary writers, Lynne Tillman's work has defied categorization throughout her legendary career—a singular body ...
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Tilt: A Novel
by
Emma Pattee
Simon & Schuster, 03/25/2025
Last night, you and I were safe. Last night, in another universe, your father and I stood fighting in the kitchen.
Annie is nine months pregnant ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
To Steal from Thieves
by
M.K. Lobb
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/25/2025
Within the dazzling halls of London's Crystal Palace, the event of the season has arrived: The Great Exhibition. An opportunity for the greatest minds...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Trauma Plot: A Life
by
Jamie Hood
Pantheon Books, 03/25/2025
In the thick of lockdown, 2020, poet, critic, and memoirist Jamie Hood published her debut,
How to Be a Good Girl, an interrogation of modern ...
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Twist: A Novel
by
Colum McCann
Random House, 03/25/2025
"Everything gets fixed, and we all stay broken."
Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the underwater cables ...
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When the Moon Hits Your Eye
by
John Scalzi
Tor Books, 03/25/2025
The moon has turned into cheese.
Now humanity has to deal with it.
For some it's an opportunity. For others it's a moment to question their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
When We Ride: A Novel
by
Rex Ogle
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/25/2025
Diego Benevides works hard. His single mother encourages him to stay focused on school, on getting into college, on getting out of their crumbling ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
