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Women's Hotel

A Novel

by Daniel M. Lavery

Hardcover: Oct 2024 | Paperback: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the New York Times bestselling author and advice columnist, a poignant and funny debut novel about the residents of a women's hotel in 1960s New York City.

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

A Novel

by James McBride

Hardcover: Aug 2023 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah's Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them.

Nicked

A Novel

by M.T. Anderson

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction debut, about the quest to steal the mystical bones of a long-dead saint

The Bright Sword

A Novel of King Arthur

by Lev Grossman

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians trilogy returns with a triumphant reimagining of the King Arthur legend for the new millennium.

The Briar Club

A Novel

by Kate Quinn

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era.

The Original

A Novel

by Nell Stevens

Hardcover: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

In a grand English country house in 1899, an aspiring art forger must unravel whether the man claiming to be her long-lost cousin is an impostor.

The Heart in Winter

A Novel

by Kevin Barry

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry's first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romantic tale of young lovers on the lam in 1890s Montana.

How to Dodge a Cannonball

A Novel

by Dennard Dayle

Hardcover: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A cutting, revealing caricature of the American Civil War, told through the eyes of a white teenager who joins an all-Black regiment of soldiers, for fans of Colson Whitehead and James McBride.

These Heathens

A Novel

by Mia McKenzie

Hardcover: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

In this vibrant, gratifying novel, a pious, small-town teenager travels to Atlanta to get an abortion and finds herself smack in the middle of the civil rights movement and the secret lives of queer Black people.

The Palace of Eros

A Novel

by Caro De Robertis

Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Perfect for fans of Circe and Black Sun, this bold and subversive feminist retelling of the Greek myth of Psyche and Eros explores the power of queer joy and freedom.

The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye

A Novel

by Briony Cameron

Hardcover: Jun 2024 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

This epic, dazzling tale based on true events illuminates a woman of color's rise to power as one of the few purported female pirate captains to sail the Caribbean, and the forbidden love story that will shape the course of history.

Daughters of Shandong

by Eve J. Chung

Hardcover: May 2024 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story.

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