Reviews of the best new books, and previews of dozens of books publishing soon

New This Week

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  Before I Forget
  Tory Henwood Hoen
  Published 12/2/25
  
  A funny, heartfelt, late coming-of-age story that examines the role of memory in holding us back―and in moving us forward―for fans of The Collected Regrets of ...
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  House of Day, House of Night
  Olga Tokarczuk
  Published 12/2/25
  
  In the mode of Flights, a novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author.
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  Television
  Lauren Rothery
  Published 12/2/25
  
  Bojack Horseman meets Joan Didion in this smart, sly, and irresistibly stylish debut novel about a jaded movie star and the two differently conflicted women in his orbit.

Publishing Soon

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  Cape Fever
  Nadia Davids
  Published 12/9/25
  
  From award-winning South African author Nadia Davids comes a gothic psychological thriller set in the 1920s, where a young maid finds herself entangled with the spirits of a ...
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  Far from the A-List
  Stephanie Burns
  Published 12/9/25
  
  In this fresh, propulsive take on fame in the tabloid era of the '00s, a former child star struggles to figure out who she is beyond the characters she's played—on ...
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  Three Stories of Forgetting
  Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida
  Published 12/9/25
  
  A haunting exploration of the memories of three men and the reverberations of slavery, colonialism, and empire.

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Latest "Beyond the Book" Articles

• Saint Thomas Christians
  Beyond the book article for The Covenant of Water
  One of the overarching themes in Abraham Verghese's The Covenant of Water is faith, in all its various guises. For the character Big Ammachi and her family, it is their proud history as Saint Thomas Christians that sustains them in their bleakest hours.
  
  The novel refers to the legend of Saint ...
• The Sociological Work of Pierre Bourdieu
  Beyond the book article for Change
  In addition to being a novelist, Édouard Louis, author of Change, is a scholar of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Louis's scholarly work has explicitly informed his novels, which are about the violence and indignity of poverty, the racism and homophobia of his working-class childhood, ...
• Chernozem: The National Soil of Ukraine
  Beyond the book article for Endling
  In Endling, Maria Reva centers Ukrainian identity, whether her focus is on romance tours or the snail conservation efforts of one of the central 'brides' named Yeva. Through Yeva's work, we learn about the topography and life forms that shape Ukraine. One detail that stuck with me was the discussion...

New in Hardcover

New in Paperback

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  Kent State
  Brian VanDeMark
  Published 11/25/25
  
  A definitive history of the fatal clash between Vietnam War protestors and the National Guard, illuminating its causes and lasting consequences.
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  Saints of the Household
  Ari Tison
  Published 11/25/25
  
  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...
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  We Refuse
  Kellie Carter Jackson
  Published 11/4/25
  
  A radical reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to white supremacy.