Little Sanctuary
by
Randy Boyagoda
Tradewind Books, 02/01/2025
Teenaged Sabel and her younger siblings are sent for safekeeping to a boarding school on a distant island. After discovering their guardians mean to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Voice Like a Hyacinth: A Novel
by
Mallory Pearson
47North, 02/01/2025
Art student Jo Kozak and her fellow classmates and best friends, Caroline, Finch, Amrita, and Saz, are one another's muses―so close they have ...
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Thrillers
A Burning in the Bones: Waxways #3
by
Scott Reintgen
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 02/04/2025
After taking control of House Brood, Ren and Theo dreamed of using their newfound influence to change the rest of Kathor, but now they find their ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Forty Year Kiss: A Novel
by
Nickolas Butler
Sourcebooks Landmark, 02/04/2025
Charlie and Vivian parted ways after just four years of marriage. Too many problems, too many struggles, even though the love didn't quite die. When ...
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A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt
by
Tess Chakkalakal
St. Martin's Press, 02/04/2025
In
A Matter of Complexion, Tess Chakkalakal gives readers the first comprehensive biography of Charles W. Chesnutt. A complex and talented man, ...
more
Biography/Memoir
A Season of Light
by
Julie Iromuanya
Algonquin Books, 02/04/2025
When 276 schoolgirls are abducted from their school in Nigeria, Fidelis Ewerike, a Florida-based barrister, poet, and former POW of the Nigerian Civil...
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Literary Fiction
Adam and Eve in Paradise
by
Eça de Queirós
New Directions Publishing, 02/04/2025
Gloriously translated by Margaret Jull Costa,
Adam and Eve in Paradise by Eça de Queirósis not the rosy prelapsarian tale of your childhood ...
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Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe
by
Natasha Hakimi Zapata
The New Press, 02/04/2025
A new generation of Americans has declared that another world is possible. And yet, the stubborn problems of inequality, climate change, and declining...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Anoxia: A Novel
by
Miguel Ángel Hernández
Other Press, 02/04/2025
What is our relationship with the dead? How do we remember them? What dark secrets do our images of them hold? How do we emerge from grief to face the...
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Bibliophobia: A Memoir
by
Sarah Chihaya
Random House, 02/04/2025
Books can seduce you. They can, Sarah Chihaya believes, annihilate, reveal, and provoke you. And anyone incurably obsessed with books understands this...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
by
Jennifer Finney Boylan
Celadon, 02/04/2025
Jennifer Finney Boylan's
She's Not There was the first bestselling work written by a transgender American. Since its publication twenty years ago, she...
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Code Noir: Fictions
by
Canisia Lubrin
Soft Skull Press, 02/04/2025
Its structure, deceptively simple, is based on the infamous Code Noir, a set of real historical decrees originally passed in 1685 by King Louis XIV of...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Dengue Boy: A Novel
by
Michel Nieva
Astra House, 02/04/2025
The protagonist of this story has no understanding of the words "winter," "cold," or "snow" because he has never experienced the phenomena they ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
by
Neil Shubin
Dutton, 02/04/2025
Renowned scientist Neil Shubin has made extraordinary discoveries by leading scientific expeditions to the sweeping ice landscapes of the Arctic and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Fearless and Free: A Memoir
by
Josephine Baker
Tiny Reparations, 02/04/2025
After stealing the spotlight as a teenaged Broadway performer during the height of the Harlem Renaissance, Josephine then took Paris by storm, ...
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Biography/Memoir
Gettysburg: The Tide Turns: An Oral History
by
Bruce Chadwick
Pegasus Books, 02/04/2025
In late June of 1863, one month after his victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, Virginia, General Robert E. Lee, head of the Army of Northern...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Gliff: A Novel
by
Ali Smith
Pantheon Books, 02/04/2025
An uncertain near-future. A story of new boundaries drawn between people daily. A not-very brave new world.
Add two children. And a horse.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Grave Empire: The Great Silence #1
by
Richard Swan
Orbit, 02/04/2025
A new age of exploration and innovation has dawned, and the Empire of the Wolf stands to take its place as the foremost power in the known world. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Harlem Rhapsody
by
Victoria Christopher Murray
Berkley Books, 02/04/2025
In 1919, as civil unrest grips the county, in a flourishing part of New York City called Harlem, something special is stirring. Here, the New Negro is...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Heaven and Hell: The Trilogy About the Boy #1
by
Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Biblioasis, 02/04/2025
When the friend, absorbed in a borrowed copy of
Paradise Lost, forgets his oilskin one morning and the crew is unexpectedly caught at sea in a savage ...
more
How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying: Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko's Fight for Ukraine
by
Lara Marlowe
Melville House, 02/04/2025
Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko, a commander in the Ukrainian army serving on the front line of battle, embodies her country's resistance to the Russian ...
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How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy
by
Julian Baggini
Pegasus Books, 02/04/2025
How we live is shaped by how we eat. You can see this in the vastly different approaches to growing, preparing and eating food around the world, such ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Immemorial
by
Lauren Markham
Transit Books, 02/04/2025
"I am in need of a word," writes Lauren Markham in an email to the Bureau of Linguistical Reality, an organization that coins neologisms. She ...
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Isola: A Novel
by
Allegra Goodman
The Dial Press, 02/04/2025
Heir to a fortune, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and gentility. Then she is orphaned, and her guardian—an enigmatic and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Junie: A Novel
by
Erin Crosby Eckstine
Ballantine Books, 02/04/2025
Sixteen years old and enslaved since she was born, Junie has spent her life on Bellereine Plantation in Alabama, cooking and cleaning alongside her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Last Twilight in Paris: A Novel
by
Pam Jenoff
Park Row, 02/04/2025
London, 1953. Louise is still adjusting to her postwar role as a housewife when she discovers a necklace in a box at a secondhand shop. The box is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Memorial Days: A Memoir
by
Geraldine Brooks
Viking, 02/04/2025
Many cultural and religious traditions expect those who are grieving to step away from the world. In contemporary life, we are more often met with red...
more
More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI
by
John Warner
Basic Books, 02/04/2025
In the age of artificial intelligence, drafting an essay is as simple as typing a prompt and pressing enter. What does this mean for the art of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Mutual Interest
by
Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
Bloomsbury Publishing, 02/04/2025
At the turn of the 20th century, Vivian Lesperance is determined to flee her origins in Utica, New York, and avoid repeating her parents' dull, ...
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No One Knows
by
Osamu Dazai
New Directions Publishing, 02/04/2025
No one really understands how we suffer. One day, when we're adults, we may come to recall this suffering, this misery, as silly and laughable, but ...more
Open Season: An Alex Delaware Novel
by
Jonathan Kellerman
Ballantine Books, 02/04/2025
People come to Los Angeles to chase their dreams. Sometimes they find themselves cast into a nightmare. And sometimes, the most ardent dreamers turn ...
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Oromay
by
Baalu Girma
Soho Press, 02/04/2025
December 1981, Ethiopia. Tsegaye Hailemaryam, a well-known journalist for the state-run media, has just landed in Asmara. He is on assignment as the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Paris Undercover: A Wartime Story of Courage, Friendship, and Betrayal
by
Matthew Goodman
Ballantine Books, 02/04/2025
Etta Shiber and Kitty Bonnefous are the unlikeliest of heroines: two seemingly ordinary women, an American widow and an English divorcée, living ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Punished: A Novel
by
Ann-Helén Laestadius
Scribner, 02/04/2025
In the 1950s near the Arctic Circle, seven-year-olds Jon-Ante, Else-Maj, Nilsa, Marge, and Anne-Risten are taken from their families. As children of S...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Reading the Waves: A Memoir
by
Lidia Yuknavitch
Riverhead Books, 02/04/2025
"I believe our bodies are carriers of experience," Lidia Yuknavitch writes in her provocative memoir
Reading the Waves. "I mean to ask if there is a ...
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Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America
by
Jeff Hobbs
Scribner, 02/04/2025
In the tradition of
Evicted and
Invisible Child, Jeff Hobbs masterfully explores America's housing crisis through the real-life story of Evelyn. This ...
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Shattered: A Memoir
by
Hanif Kureishi
Ecco, 02/04/2025
In late 2022, in Rome, Hanif Kureishi had a fall. When he came to, he realized he could no longer walk. He could do nothing without the help of others...
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Shoot the Moon: Rainey Hall Mysteries
by
Ava Barry
Pegasus Books, 02/04/2025
While in high school, Rainey spent a summer taking advantage of the wildfires near Los Angeles to break into the empty houses of the rich and famous ...
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Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling
by
Henry Lien
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/04/2025
Discussions in the West around diversity in the arts often focus on the identities of characters and creators. Speculative fiction author and writing ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Black Orb: A Novel
by
Ewhan Kim
MIRA, 02/04/2025
The object was a black orb, roughly two meters in diameter. Despite its large size, it made no sound as it moved. Although it wasn't chasing Jeong-su ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Bones Beneath My Skin
by
TJ Klune
Tor Books, 02/04/2025
There's nothing more human than a broken heart.
In the spring of 1995, Nate Cartwright has lost everything: his parents are dead, his only ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Dissenters: A Novel
by
Youssef Rakha
Graywolf Press, 02/04/2025
Certain as I've never been of anything in the world that you have a right or a duty to know, that you absolutely must know, I sail through the mouth ...more
Literary Fiction
The Edge of Water
by
Olufunke Grace Bankole
Tin House Books, 02/04/2025
In Ibadan, Nigeria, a mother receives a divination that foretells danger for her daughter in America. In spite of this warning, she allows her to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Lamb: A Novel
by
Lucy Rose
Harper, 02/04/2025
Margot and Mama have lived by the forest ever since Margot can remember.
When Margot is not at school, they spend quiet days together in their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Rose Bargain
by
Sasha Peyton Smith
HarperCollins Publishers, 02/04/2025
London, 1848—For four hundred years, England has been under the control of an immortal fae queen who tricked her way onto the throne. To ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Sable Cloak
by
Gail Milissa Grant
Grand Central Publishing, 02/04/2025
In the South, justice is swift and absolute.
Jordan Sable, a prosperous undertaker turned political boss, has controlled the Black vote in ...
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Historical Fiction
The Secret Public: How Music Moved Queer Culture From the Margins to the Mainstream
by
Jon Savage
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 02/04/2025
Jon Savage, the author of the canonical
England's Dreaming, explodes new ground in this electrifying history of pop music from 1955 through 1979. In ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years of Sex, Gender, and Mating Shape Modern Relationships
by
Nathan H. Lents
Mariner Books, 02/04/2025
Evolutionary biologist Nathan H. Lents knows what makes humans unique—and it's most definitely not our sexual diversity. A professor ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Traitor of Arnhem
by
Robert Verkaik
Pegasus Books, 02/04/2025
The end of World War II is in sight.
Following the overwhelming victory on D-Day, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin all seek to shape the future ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Underwood Tapes
by
Amanda DeWitt
Peachtree Teen, 02/04/2025
Thirty years ago, Grace's mom left her hometown of Hermitage, Florida and never looked back—which is exactly why Grace thinks it's the safest ...
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This Ends in Embers: The Divine Traitors #2
by
Kamilah Cole
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 02/04/2025
Faron Vincent was once the saint of San Irie. Now, she's done the unthinkable: betrayed her country. Alone, disgraced, and kidnapped, Faron is forced ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
This Is a Love Story: A Novel
by
Jessica Soffer
Dutton, 02/04/2025
For fifty years, Abe and Jane have been coming to Central Park, as starry-eyed young lovers, as frustrated and exhausted parents, as artists watching ...
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Under the Same Stars
by
Libba Bray
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/04/2025
It was said that if you write to the Bridegroom's Oak, the love of your life will answer back. Now, the tree is giving up its secrets at last.
In...more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Victorian Psycho: A Novel
by
Virginia Feito
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 02/04/2025
Virginia Feito's
Mrs. March was hailed as "a brilliant debut ... [by] a writer who keeps pace with the grandees she invokes" (Sarah Ditum,
Guardian)&#...
more
Who I Always Was: A Memoir
by
Theresa Okokon
Atria Books, 02/04/2025
When Theresa Okokon was nine, her father traveled to his hometown in Nigeria to attend his mother's funeral…and never returned. His mysterious ...
more
Essays
Debut Author
Howards End
by
E. M. Forster
Independently published, 02/06/2025
We read
Howard's End for the merciless skill which E. M. Forster shows in laying bare the soul of Leonard Bast, the clerk in the insurance office, who...
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Literary Fiction
(S)Kin
by
Ibi Zoboi
Versify, 02/11/2025
"Our new home with its
thick walls and locked doors
wants me to stay trapped in my skin—
but I am fury and flame."
Fifteen-year-...more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart
by
Megan Marshall
Mariner Books, 02/11/2025
Megan Marshall's innovative books, including
The Peabody Sisters and the Pulitzer Prize–winning
Margaret Fuller, are treasured ...
more
Essays
After the North Pole: A Story of Survival, Mythmaking, and Melting Ice
by
Erling Kagge
HarperOne, 02/11/2025
The North Pole looms large in our collective psyche—the ultimate Otherland in a world mapped and traversed. It is the center of our planet's ...
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Biography/Memoir
Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays
by
Edgar Gomez
Crown, 02/11/2025
In Florida, one of the first things you're taught as a child is that if you're ever chased by a wild alligator, the only way to save yourself is to ...
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Beartooth: A Novel
by
Callan Wink
Spiegel & Grau, 02/11/2025
In an aging, timber house hand-built into the Absaroka-Beartooth mountains, two brothers are struggling to keep up with their debts. They live off the...
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Beauty in the Blood: A Novel
by
Charlotte Carter
Vintage, 02/11/2025
Sarah Toomey is a successful young black lawyer, lovely but straitlaced– and afraid that she is losing her mind. Since the death of her mother, ...
more
Thrillers
Beta Vulgaris: A Novel
by
Margie Sarsfield
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/11/2025
Elise and her boyfriend, Tom, set off for Minnesota, hoping the paycheck from the sugar beet harvest will cover the rent on their Brooklyn apartment. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Black Woods, Blue Sky: A Novel
by
Eowyn Ivey
Random House, 02/11/2025
Birdie's keeping it together; of course she is. So she's a little hungover, sometimes, and she has to bring her daughter, Emaleen, to her job waiting ...
more
Blood Ties: A Novel
by
Jo Nesbo
Knopf, 02/11/2025
By all accounts, Carl and Roy Opgard are doing quite well for themselves. Or at least they're doing as well as can be expected in a small town like Os...
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Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health
by
Adam Ratner MD MPH
Avery, 02/11/2025
Every single child diagnosed with measles represents a system failure—an inexcusable unforced error. The technology to prevent essentially 100 ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Brother Brontë: A Novel
by
Fernando A. Flores
MCD, 02/11/2025
The year is 2038, and the formerly bustling town of Three Rivers, Texas, is a surreal wasteland. Under the authoritarian thumb of its tech ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Casualties of Truth
by
Lauren Francis-Sharma
Atlantic Monthly Press, 02/11/2025
Prudence Wright seems to have it all: a loving husband, Davis; a spacious home in Washington, D.C.; and the former glories of a successful career at ...
more
Ibis: A Novel
by
Justin Haynes
The Overlook Press, 02/11/2025
There is bad luck in New Felicity. The people of the small coastal village have taken in Milagros, an 11-year-old Venezuelan refugee, just as Trinidad...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Idle Grounds: A Novel
by
Krystelle Bamford
Scribner, 02/11/2025
Lingering at the edge of a family party, a troop of cousins loses track of the youngest child among them. With their parents preoccupied with ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Jesus Wept: Seven Popes and the Battle for the Soul of the Catholic Church
by
Philip Shenon
Knopf, 02/11/2025
When the jolly Italian peasant-turned-cardinal Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli of Venice was elected Pope John XXIII in 1958, change was in the air. The ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Life Hacks for a Little Alien
by
Alice Franklin
Little Brown & Company, 02/11/2025
"Climb up here, Little Alien. Sit next to me. I will tell you about life on this planet. I will tell you how it goes."
Before she thinks of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Loca
by
Alejandro Heredia
Simon & Schuster, 02/11/2025
It's 1999, and best friends Sal and Charo are striving to hold on to their dreams in a New York determined to grind them down. Sal is a book-loving ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Mainline Mama: A Memoir
by
Keeonna Harris
Amistad, 02/11/2025
Keeonna and Jason met as young teens. Only fourteen, Keeonna had never had a boyfriend before, dreamed of attending Spelman to become an obstetrician,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Mazeltov: A Novel
by
Eli Zuzovsky
Henry Holt and Company, 02/11/2025
At a banquet hall, at the onset of war, Adam Weizmann's bar mitzvah party turns into a glorious catastrophe. On the cusp of manhood―and the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
On My Honor: The Secret History of the Boy Scouts of America
by
Kim Christensen
Grand Central Publishing, 02/11/2025
Since its founding in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America has been the nation's premier youth organization, espousing self-reliance and honor. More than ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
by
Eve L. Ewing
Junie B Jones, 02/11/2025
If all children could just get an education, the logic goes, they would have the same opportunities later in life. But this historical tour de force ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Out of the Blank
by
Elaine Equi
Coffee House Press, 02/11/2025
From acclaimed poet Elaine Equi comes her latest provocatively playful collection. "Thoughtful, witty, curious" (The
New York Times), Equi's ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
People of Means: A Novel
by
Nancy Johnson
William Morrow, 02/11/2025
Two women. Two pivotal moments. One dream for justice and equality.
In the fall of 1959, Freda Gilroy arrives on the campus of Fisk University ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History
by
Rich Benjamin
Pantheon Books, 02/11/2025
Rich Benjamin's mother, Danielle Fignolé, grew up the eldest in a large family living a comfortable life in Port-au-Prince. Her mother was a ...
more
The Last Hamilton: A Novel
by
Jenn Bregman
Crooked Lane Books, 02/11/2025
The more they know, the more danger they're in.
When Elizabeth Walker, the last heir of the Alexander Hamilton line, is tragically killed by a ...
more
The Lost and the Found: A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances
by
Kevin Fagan
One Signal, 02/11/2025
Kevin Fagan's
The Lost and the Found, set in San Francisco—one of the wealthiest cities in America—takes an empathic, character-driven ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Queens of Crime: A Novel
by
Marie Benedict
St. Martin's Press, 02/11/2025
London, 1930. The five greatest women crime writers have banded together to form a secret society with a single goal: to show they are no longer ...
more
The Riveter: A Novel
by
Jack Wang
HarperVia, 02/11/2025
Vancouver, 1942. Josiah Chang arrives in the bustling city ready to make a new life for himself. The Second World War is in full swing, and Josiah, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story, 1790-1958
by
David Levering Lewis
Penguin Press, 02/11/2025
Sitting beneath a stained glass window dedicated to his grandmother in the Atlanta church where his family had prayed for generations, preeminent ...
more
The Watermark
by
Sam Mills
Melville House, 02/11/2025
Rachel and Jaime: their story isn't simple. It might not even be their story.
Augustus Fate, a once-lauded novelist and now renowned recluse, is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The World After Gaza: A History
by
Pankaj Mishra
Penguin Press, 02/11/2025
The postwar global order was in many ways shaped in response to the Holocaust. That event became the benchmark for atrocity, and, in the Western ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
There's No Turning Back: A Novel
by
Alba De Céspedes
Washington Square Press, 02/11/2025
A coming-of-age novel that is as relevant today as it was nearly ninety years ago,
There's No Turning Back centers on eight women with radically ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Three Days in June: A Novel
by
Anne Tyler
Knopf, 02/11/2025
Gail Baines is having a bad day. To start, she loses her job—or quits, depending on whom you ask. Tomorrow her daughter, Debbie, is getting ...
more
Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories
by
Amanda Peters
Catapult, 02/11/2025
In this intimate collection, Amanda Peters melds traditional storytelling with beautiful, spare prose to describe the dignity of the traditional way ...
more
We All Live Here: A Novel
by
Jojo Moyes
Pamela Dorman Books, 02/11/2025
Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to ...
more
We Would Never: A Novel
by
Tova Mirvis
Avid Reader Press, 02/11/2025
No one appears more surprised than Hailey Gelman when she comes under suspicion for the murder of her soon-to-be ex-husband Jonah. Hailey—...
more
What's Real about Race?: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society
by
Rina Bliss
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/11/2025
Biologically, race does not exist. But in our social world, it remains decidedly important. Mainstream scientists embrace these truths, yet ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Where Shadows Bloom
by
Catherine Bakewell
HarperCollins Publishers, 02/11/2025
Ofelia has lived her life dreaming of entering Le Château Enchanté—the mysterious court of the gods-blessed King Léo, where the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
by
Kelsey McKinney
Grand Central Publishing, 02/11/2025
Can you keep a secret? It's harder than it seems – after all, it's only human to thirst after the juicy updates, jaw-dropping stories, and...
more
A Curse for the Homesick: A Novel
by
Laura Brooke Robson
MIRA, 02/18/2025
Skeld season comes around without warning, and while each window of time lasts only three months, anyone a skeld turns to stone is very much dead.
...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood's First Stuntwoman
by
Mallory O'Meara
Hanover Square Press, 02/18/2025
Helen Gibson was a woman willing to do anything to give audiences a thrill. Advertised as "The Most Daring Actress in Pictures," Helen emerged in the ...
more
Elegy, Southwest: A Novel
by
Madeleine Watts
Simon & Schuster, 02/18/2025
In November 2018, Eloise and Lewis rent a car in Las Vegas and take off on a two-week road trip across the American southwest. While wildfires rage, ...
more
How to Be Avant-Garde: Modern Artists and the Quest to End Art
by
Morgan Falconer
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/18/2025
"Art has poisoned our life," proclaimed Dutch artist and De Stijl cofounder Theo van Doesburg. Reacting to the tumultuous crises of the twentieth ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary
by
Victoria Amelina
St. Martin's Press, 02/18/2025
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Victoria Amelina was busy writing a novel, taking part in the country's literary scene, and ...
more
Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost's Poetry
by
Adam Plunkett
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/18/2025
By the middle of the twentieth century, Robert Frost was the best-loved poet in America. He was our nation's bard, simple and sincere, accompanying us...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Maya & Natasha: A Novel
by
Elyse Durham
Mariner Books, 02/18/2025
Maya and Natasha are twin sisters born in the midst of the Siege of Leningrad in 1941 and immediately abandoned by their mother, a prima ballerina at ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy
by
Katherine Stewart
Bloomsbury Publishing, 02/18/2025
Why have so many Americans turned against democracy? In this deeply reported book, Katherine Stewart takes us to conferences of conspiracy-mongers, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce
by
Haley Mlotek
Viking, 02/18/2025
Divorce was everything for Haley Mlotek. As a child, she listened to her twice-divorced grandmother tell stories about her "husbands." As a pre-teen, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Penitence: A Novel
by
Kristin Koval
Celadon, 02/18/2025
When a shocking murder occurs in the home of Angie and David Sheehan, their lives are shattered. Desperate to defend their family, they turn to small-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Rebel Witch: The Crimson Moth #2
by
Kristen Ciccarelli
Wednesday Books, 02/18/2025
A WITCH...
Rune Winters is on the run. Ever since the boy she loved, Gideon Sharpe, revealed who she was and delivered her into enemy hands, ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Snowy Day and Other Stories
by
Lee Chang-dong
Penguin Press, 02/18/2025
Much like Lee Chang-dong's internationally renowned films (
Burning, Secret Sunshine, and
Poetry), these brilliant, unsettling tales, originally ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Dressmakers of London
by
Julia Kelly
Gallery Books, 02/18/2025
Isabelle Shelton has always found comfort in the predictable world of her mother's dressmaking shop, Mrs. Shelton's Fashions, while her sister Sylvia ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Echoes: A Novel
by
Evie Wyld
Knopf, 02/18/2025
Max didn't believe in an afterlife. Until he died. Now, as a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he is still here, he watches his girlfriend, ...
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The Girl You Know
by
Elle Gonzalez Rose
Bloomsbury YA, 02/18/2025
The week before Luna's twin sister Solina was supposed to head back for her final semester at Kingswood Academy, an elite boarding school in the ...
more
The Revolutionary Self: Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770-1800
by
Lynn Hunt
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/18/2025
The eighteenth century was a time of cultural friction: individuals began to assert greater independence and there was a new emphasis on social ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Theory & Practice: A Novel
by
Michelle de Kretser
Catapult, 02/18/2025
It's 1986, and "beautiful, radical ideas" are in the air. The narrator of
Theory & Practice, a young woman originally from Sri Lanka, arrives in ...
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Unhallowed Halls
by
Lili Wilkinson
Delacorte Press, 02/18/2025
Page Whittaker has always been an outcast. And after the deadly incident that destroyed her single friendship at her old school, she needs a fresh ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Upon a Starlit Tide
by
Kell Woods
Tor Books, 02/18/2025
Saint-Malo, Brittany, 1758. To Lucinde Leon, the youngest daughter of a wealthy French shipowner, the high walls of Saint-Malo are more hindrance than...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Yours, Eventually: A Novel
by
Nura Maznavi
Dutton, 02/18/2025
The Ibrahim family is facing a crucial moment: Their patriarch just lost his fortune as the result of a Ponzi scheme, and the family is picking up the...
more
Romance
Debut Author
A Circle of Uncommon Witches: A Novel
by
Paige Crutcher
St. Martin's Griffin, 02/25/2025
Doreen MacKinnon is doomed to die of a broken heart - if she can't break the centuries old curse placed on her family.
Three hundred years ago, ...
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A House for Miss Pauline: A Novel
by
Diana McCaulay
Algonquin Books, 02/25/2025
When the stones of her house begin to rattle and shift and call out mysterious messages to her in the middle of the night, Pauline Sinclair, age ...
more
A Touch of Blood: A Venom Novel
by
Sajni Patel
Rick Riodan Presents, 02/25/2025
Before Manisha, the youngest of three sisters, was sent to hide on the floating mountain, her eldest sister, Eshani, made a deal with the shades. In ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
All the Parts We Exile
by
Roza Nozari
Knopf Canada, 02/25/2025
As the youngest of three daughters, and the only one born in Canada soon after her parents' emigration from Iran, Roza Nozari began her life hungry ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Boy
by
Nicole Galland
William Morrow, 02/25/2025
Alexander "Sander" Cooke is the most celebrated "boy player" in the Chamberlain's Men, William Shakespeare's theatre company. Indeed, Sander's ...
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Historical Fiction
Death Takes Me: A Novel
by
Cristina Rivera Garza
Hogarth Books, 02/25/2025
A city is always a cemetery.
A professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles upon the corpse of a mutilated man in a dark alley and reports it ...
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Deep Cuts: A Novel
by
Holly Brickley
Crown, 02/25/2025
It's a Friday night in a campus bar in Berkeley, fall of 2000, and Percy Marks is pontificating about music again. Hall and Oates is on the jukebox, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact in Fiction
by
Andrea Barrett
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/25/2025
In this thoughtful collection of essays, Andrea Barrett draws from her experiences writing some of the most acclaimed historical fiction of our time ...
more
Fagin the Thief: A Novel
by
Allison Epstein
Doubleday, 02/25/2025
Long before Oliver Twist stumbled onto the scene, Jacob Fagin was scratching out a life for himself in the dark alleys of nineteenth-century London. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Famous Last Words: A Novel
by
Gillian McAllister
William Morrow, 02/25/2025
It is June 21st, the longest day of the year, and new mother Camilla's life is about to change forever. After months of maternity leave, she will drop...
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Fundamentally: A Novel
by
Nussaibah Younis
Tiny Reparations, 02/25/2025
When Dr. Nadia Amin, a long-suffering academic, publishes an article on the possibility of rehabilitating ISIS brides, the United Nations comes ...
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Literary Fiction
Knucklehead: Poems
by
Tony Keith Jr.
Quill Tree Books, 02/25/2025
There are poems about the power of language to transcend the racist and homophobic constructs of a society prejudging Black boys. There are poems that...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Living in Your Light
by
Abdellah Taïa
Seven Stories Press, 02/25/2025
Three moments in the life of Malika, a Moroccan countrywoman. From 1954 to 1999. From French colonization to the death of King Hassan II.
It is her...
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Literary Fiction
Mornings Without Mii
by
Mayumi Inaba
FSG Originals, 02/25/2025
On a cool summer evening in 1977, Mayumi Inaba hears a forlorn cry carried by the breeze off Tokyo's Tamagawa River. She follows the sound to the ...
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Notes on Surviving the Fire: A Novel
by
Christine Murphy
Knopf, 02/25/2025
At a Ph.D. program in Southern California, Sarah and her best friend, Nathan, spend their time working on their theses, getting high, and keeping ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments
by
Kenneth Roth
Knopf, 02/25/2025
In three decades under the leadership of Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch grew to a staff of more than 500, conducting investigations in 100 countries...
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Show Don't Tell: Stories
by
Curtis Sittenfeld
Random House, 02/25/2025
In her second story collection, Sittenfeld shows why she's as beloved for her short fiction as she is for her novels. In these dazzling stories, she ...
more
The Boyhood of Cain
by
Michael Amherst
Riverhead Books, 02/25/2025
In the shadow of an ancient abbey nestled between rivers, Daniel is growing up. He is highly intelligent but little understood by his parents, and a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Café with No Name
by
Robert Seethaler
Europa Editions, 02/25/2025
Summer 1966. Robert Simon is in his early thirties and has a dream. Raised in a home for war orphans, Robert has nonetheless grown into a warm-hearted...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Fourth Consort: A Novel
by
Edward Ashton
St. Martin's Griffin, 02/25/2025
Dalton Greaves is a hero. He's one of humankind's first representatives to Unity, a pan-species confederation working to bring all sentient life into ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Last American Heiresses
by
Stephen Greco
A John Scognamiglio Book, 02/25/2025
The press dubs them "the Gold Dust twins." Born within a week of one another in Manhattan in 1912, Doris Duke and Barbara Hutton both inherit ...
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Historical Fiction
The Other March Sisters
by
Linda Epstein, Ally Malinenko, Liz Parker
Kensington Publishing, 02/25/2025
I'm sure you believe you know their story from reading that other book, which told you an inspiring tale about four sisters. It told you a story, but ...more
Historical Fiction
The Otherwhere Post
by
Emily J. Taylor
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 02/25/2025
Seven years ago, Maeve Abenthy lost everything: her world, her father, even her name. Desperate to escape the stain of her father's crimes, she lives ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe
by
Nancy Goldstone
Little Brown & Company, 02/25/2025
When they married Emperors Franz Joseph and Napoleon III, respectively, Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France became two of the most famous ...
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The Talent
by
Daniel D'Addario
Gallery/Scout Press, 02/25/2025
As Hollywood prepares for its most glamorous evening, five actresses compete to see who will claim the top prize.
Adria, a dignified and highly ...
more
Tilda Is Visible: A Novel
by
Jane Tara
Crown, 02/25/2025
Tilda Finch is a successful businesswoman, a mother to two wonderful adult daughters, and besides an unexpected divorce, she's living a relatively ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
What You Make of Me: A Novel
by
Sophie Madeline Dess
Penguin Press, 02/25/2025
On the eve of her first solo show, Ava is feeling defiant. The art gallery acolytes have insisted on writing 'explanations' of her paintings for an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
by
Riley Black
St. Martin's Press, 02/25/2025
Fossils plants allow us to touch the lost worlds from billions of years of evolutionary backstory. Each petrified leaf and root show us that dinosaurs...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
When We Grow Up: A Novel
by
Angelica Baker
Flatiron Books, 02/25/2025
Clare is supposed to be the grown-up one. Married to the love of her life, with a major deal for her first novel, she has everything she thought she ...
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