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Under This Red Rock

by Mindy McGinnis

Hardcover: Mar 2024 | Paperback: Oct 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From award-winning author Mindy McGinnis comes a mesmerizing YA psychological mystery following a teen girl who is grappling with the death of her brother as she starts a new job in the caverns of Ohio—only to become the number one suspect in ...

The Sequel

The Book Series #2

by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Hardcover: Oct 2024 | Paperback: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

After the "insanely readable" (Stephen King) and "perfectly told" (Malcolm Gladwell) New York Times bestseller The Plot comes Jean Hanff Korelitz's equally captivating new novel: The Sequel.

The House on Buzzards Bay

A Novel

by Dwyer Murphy

Hardcover: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

When a group of old college friends reunites for a summer vacation at a beach house in coastal Massachusetts, a sudden disappearance and the arrival of a seductive stranger threaten to unearth the darkest secrets of their relationships.

Holy City

by Henry Wise

Hardcover: Jun 2024 | Paperback: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Holy City is the captivating debut from Henry Wise about a deputy sheriff who must work alongside an unpredictable private detective after he finds himself on the outs from his sheriff's department over his unwillingness to look the other way when an...

The Night of Baba Yaga

by Akira Otani, Sam Bett

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment to the yakuza princess she's been forced to protect in this explosive queer thriller: Kill Bill meets The Handmaiden meets Thelma and Louise.

Julie Chan Is Dead

A Novel

by Liann Zhang

Hardcover: Apr 2025

Critics' Consensus:

In this razor-sharp, diabolical debut thriller, a young woman steps into her deceased twin's influencer life, only to discover dark secrets hidden behind her social media façade.

All the Other Mothers Hate Me

by Sarah Harman

Hardcover: Mar 2025

Critics' Consensus:

"The missing boy is 10-year-old Alfie Risby, and to be perfectly honest with you, he's a little shit."

Saint of the Narrows Street

by William Boyle

Hardcover: Feb 2025 | Paperback: Jan 2026

Critics' Consensus:

As an Italian American family's decades-old secret begins to unravel, they will have to bear the consequences—and face each other—in this thrilling southern Brooklyn-set tragic opera of the highest caliber from crime ...

Ilium

A Novel

by Lea Carpenter

Hardcover: Jan 2024 | Paperback: Feb 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Set in the dark world of international espionage, from London to Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap Ferret: the gripping and suspenseful story of a young woman who unwittingly becomes a perfect asset in the long overdue finale of a covert special op

A Gorgeous Excitement

A Novel

by Cynthia Weiner

Hardcover: Jan 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A dazzling novel about one young woman's summer of infinite possibility...

A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

A Novel

by Asia Mackay

Hardcover: Jan 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Two former serial killers trying to keep their past buried realize that old habits die hard in this "wildly original, razor-sharp thriller" (Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the Dark).

Hot Springs Drive

by Lindsay Hunter

Hardcover: Nov 2023 | Paperback: Nov 2024

Critics' Consensus:

The third title in Roxane Gay Books' inaugural list, Hot Springs Drive is an urgent, vicious blade of a novel about a shocking betrayal and its aftermath, asking just how far you'll go to have everything you want

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