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Book Jacket: Saints of the Household

Saints of the Household

by Ari Tison

Hardcover: Mar 2023 | Paperback: Nov 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town - beautifully told by a debut Indigenous Costa Rican-American writer - that will take your breath away.

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Book Jacket: Before the Mango Ripens

Before the Mango Ripens

by Afabwaje Kurian

Hardcover: Sep 2024 | Paperback: Oct 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Set against the backdrop of 1970s Nigeria teetering between post-colonial dependency and self-rule, Before the Mango Ripens examines the enduring themes of faith, disillusionment, and the search for belonging. Both epic and intimate, Afabwaje Kurian'...

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Book Jacket: Bright Objects

Bright Objects

by Ruby Todd

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Oct 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A young widow grapples with the arrival of a once-in-a-lifetime comet and its tumultuous consequences, in a debut novel that blends mystery, astronomy, and romance, perfect for fans of Emma Cline's The Girls and Ottessa Moshfegh's Death in Her Hands....

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Book Jacket: Absolution

Absolution

Southern Reach, book 4

by Jeff VanderMeer

Hardcover: Oct 2024 | Paperback: Oct 2025

Critics' Consensus:

The surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series―and the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time.

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Book Jacket: Under This Red Rock

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 ...

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Book Jacket: The Book of George

The Book of George

A Novel

by Kate Greathead

Hardcover: Oct 2024 | Paperback: Oct 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the author of the critically acclaimed Laura & Emma comes a The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. for our times: Kate Greathead's razor-sharp but big-hearted excavation of millennial masculinity, The Book of George.

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Book Jacket: Blood Test

Blood Test

A Comedy

by Charles Baxter

Hardcover: Oct 2024 | Paperback: Oct 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune) comes a comic novel about a divorced Midwestern dad who takes a cutting-edge medical test and learns that he has a predisposition to murder.

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Book Jacket: The Sequel

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.

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