A Dog in Georgia
by
Lauren Grodstein
Algonquin Books, 08/05/2025
Which is why she is currently in the republic of Georgia, on a mission to find a lost dog named Angel, and, more importantly, the life's purpose she ...
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Literary Fiction
Automatic Noodle
by
Annalee Newitz
Tordotcom, 08/05/2025
You don't have to eat food to know the way to a city's heart is through its stomach. So when a group of deactivated robots come back online in an ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dwelling: A Novel
by
Emily Hunt Kivel
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/05/2025
The world is ending. It has been ending for some time. When did the ending begin? Perhaps when Evie's mother died, or when her father died soon after....
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Every Summer After: Deluxe Edition
by
Carley Fortune
Berkley Books, 08/05/2025
They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too ...
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Romance
Debut Author
Extinction Capital of the World: Stories
by
Mariah Rigg
Ecco, 08/05/2025
In ten vibrant, affecting stories, Mariah Rigg immerses readers in contemporary Hawai'i. By turns heartbreaking and hopeful, these stories of love, ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
God and Sex
by
Jon Raymond
Simon & Schuster, 08/05/2025
What if God spoke to you? Would you hear Him? Would you obey His command?
Arthur Zinn, an author of high-end spiritual texts, has fallen in love ...
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Literary Fiction
House of the Beast
by
Michelle Wong
Harper, 08/05/2025
Born out of wedlock and shunned by society, Alma learned to make her peace with solitude, so long as she had her mother by her side. When her mother ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
L.A. Women
by
Ella Berman
Berkley Books, 08/05/2025
After a steady descent from literary stardom, Lane Warren is back. She's secured a new book deal based off the life of her sometimes friend and more ...
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Historical Fiction
Mindscape
by
Andrea Hairston
Tor Books, 08/05/2025
The world has been divided by the Barrier. For 115 years this extraterrestrial, epidimensional entity has divided the earth into warring zones. Power-...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Mistress of Bones: A Novel
by
Maria Z. Medina
Wednesday Books, 08/05/2025
It's been thousands of years since the gods lifted the continents into the air so humanity could thrive, chaining the lands down with their bones and ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Moderation: A Novel
by
Elaine Castillo
Viking, 08/05/2025
Girlie Delmundo is the greatest content moderator in the world, and despite the setbacks of financial crises, climate catastrophe, and a global ...
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Literary Fiction
Murder by the Book: A Novel
by
Amie Schaumberg
MIRA, 08/05/2025
She's been posed to look like a painting of Ophelia from Shakespeare's Hamlet, the scene taunting the police with messages that they don't understand....
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Thrillers
Debut Author
Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses (Embers)
by
M. G. Sheftall
Dutton, 08/05/2025
On August 6, 1945, the United States unleashed a weapon unlike anything the world had ever seen. Then, just three days later, when Japan showed no ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
People Like Us: A Novel
by
Jason Mott
Dutton, 08/05/2025
People Like Us is Jason Mott's electric new novel. It is not memoir, yet it has deeply personal connections to Jason's life. And while rooted in ...
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Putting Myself Together: Writing 1973–
by
Jamaica Kincaid
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/05/2025
This collection of Jamaica Kincaid's nonfiction writing, including early pieces from publications such as
The New Yorker, The Village Voice, and
Ms., ...
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Essays
Sunbirth
by
An Yu
Grove Press, 08/05/2025
In Five Poems Lake, a small village surrounded by impenetrable deserts, the sun is slowly disappearing overhead. A young woman keeps one apprehensive ...
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Literary Fiction
Tantrum
by
Rachel Eve Moulton
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/05/2025
Thea's third pregnancy was her easiest. She wasn't consumed with anxiety about the baby. She wasn't convinced it was going to be born green, or have a...
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Literary Fiction
The Art of a Lie: A Novel
by
Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Atria Books, 08/05/2025
Following the murder of her husband in what looks like a violent street robbery, Hannah Cole is struggling to keep her head above water. Her ...
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Historical Fiction
The Hounding: A Novel
by
Xenobe Purvis
Henry Holt and Company, 08/05/2025
Even before the rumors about the Mansfield girls begin, Little Nettlebed is a village steeped in the uncanny, from strange creatures that wash up on ...
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Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Invention of Charlotte Brontë: A New Life
by
Graham Watson
Pegasus Books, 08/05/2025
Charlotte Brontë had a life as seemingly dramatic as her heroine Jane Eyre. Turning her back on her tragic past, Charlotte reinvented herself as ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why
by
Madeleine Beekman
Simon & Schuster, 08/05/2025
Journeying to the dawn of
Homo sapiens, evolutionary biologist Madeleine Beekman reveals the "happy accidents" hidden in our molecular biology—...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire
by
Don Martin
Page Street YA, 08/05/2025
The rules here are simple:
Don't look in the trees.
Don't whistle in the woods at night.
Don't answer if you hear your
name called.
And ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
We Should All Be Birds: A Memoir
by
Brian Buckbee
Tin House Books, 08/05/2025
On a spring evening in Montana, Brian Buckbee encounters an injured baby pigeon. Heartbroken after the loss of the love of his life and increasingly ...
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Biography/Memoir
When the Cranes Fly South: A Novel
by
Lisa Ridzén
Vintage, 08/05/2025
Bo is running out of time. Yet time is one of the few things he's got left. These days, his quiet existence is broken up only by daily visits from his...
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Literary Fiction
A Game in Yellow
by
Hailey Piper
Saga Press, 08/12/2025
A kink-fixated couple, Carmen and Blanca, have been in a rut. That is until Blanca discovers the enigmatic Smoke in an under-street drug den, who ...
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Thrillers
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History
by
Moudhy Al-Rashid
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/12/2025
Thousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time.
What they...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State
by
Caleb Gayle
Riverhead Books, 08/12/2025
In this paradigm-shattering work of American history, Caleb Gayle recounts the extraordinary tale of Edward McCabe, a Black man who championed the ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dogs: A Novel
by
C. Mallon
Scribner, 08/12/2025
As night falls on the city of Carbon, Hal and his friends are cruising the backroads in their terrible car. From the wrestling gym to the gas station,...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Fonseca: A Novel
by
Jessica Francis Kane
Penguin Press, 08/12/2025
Winter 1952. Penelope Fitzgerald's husband is a struggling alcoholic, their literary journal is on the brink, and she is pregnant with their third ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Hotshot
by
River Selby
Atlantic Monthly Press, 08/12/2025
From 2000 to 2010, River Selby was a wildland firefighter whose given name was Anastasia. This is a memoir of that time in their life—of Ana, ...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
I Found a Body: A Novel
by
Becky C. Brynolf
Crooked Lane Books, 08/12/2025
Detective Sergeant Mona Hendricks has a lot on her plate: she's getting divorced, her teen daughter is punishing her for it, and she's shooting for a ...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
The Dime Museum: A novel in stories
by
Joyce Hinnefeld
Unbridled Books, 08/12/2025
He's struggling to understand how his significant privilege has destroyed a romantic relationship, but he draws unwanted interest from other quarters ...
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Short Stories
What Hunger
by
Catherine Dang
Little Simon, 08/12/2025
It's the summer before high school, and Ronny Nguyen finds herself too young for work, too old for cartoons. Her days are spent in a small backyard, ...
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Literary Fiction
White Lies: How the South Lost the Civil War, Then Rewrote the History
by
Ann Bausum
Roaring Brook Press, 08/12/2025
Warning: This is not your average U.S. history book.
After the Civil War, the Confederates may have laid down their arms, but they were far from ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lessons in Magic and Disaster
by
Charlie Jane Anders
Tor Books, 08/19/2025
A young witch teaches her mother how to do magic—with very unexpected results—in this relatable, resonant novel about family, identity, ...more
Literary Fiction
Ruth: A Novel
by
Kate Riley
Riverhead Books, 08/19/2025
Ruth is raised in a snow globe of Christian communism, a world without private property, television, or tolerance for idle questions. Every morning ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Possession of Alba Díaz
by
Isabel Cañas
Berkley Books, 08/19/2025
In 1765, plague sweeps through Zacatecas. Alba flees with her wealthy merchant parents and fiancé, Carlos, to his family's isolated mine for ...
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Thrillers
Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories
by
Cynthia Leitich Smith
Heartdrum, 08/26/2025
The road to Sandy June's Legendary Frybread Drive-In slips through every rez and alongside every urban Native hangout. The menu offers a rotating ...
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Short Stories
My Perfect Family
by
Khadijah VanBrakle
Holiday House, 08/26/2025
"Lonely Leena" is close with her young single mother. Still, she's always secretly dreamed of more (and, when she was a kid, asked Santa for it). A ...
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Roar of the Lambs
by
Jamison Shea
Henry Holt and Company, 08/26/2025
Sixteen-year-old Winnie Bray is a liar. As the resident psychic at an oddities shop, Winnie truly can see the future. But her customers only want ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
