Rewriting the Record (DDL Summer 2026)

Updated June 13, 2026
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America, América : a new history of the New World
Grandin, Greg
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller * A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, 2025 Kirkus Prize, 2025 Cundill History Prize, and 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker,The New Republic,...
Call me Ishmaelle
Guo, Xiaolu
Paper Book
Call Me Ishmaelle reimagines the epic battle between man and nature in Herman Melville's Moby Dick from a female perspective. 'Brilliantly written... ambitious, brave, strange' Philip Hoare 'A clever and original skewering of a classic' i
The chosen and the beautiful
Vo, Nghi
Paper Book
An Instant National Bestseller! An Indie Next Pick! A Best of Summer Pick for TIME Magazine | CNN | NBC News | CBS News | Book Riot | The Daily Beast | Lambda Literary | The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Goodreads |...
Cinder house
Marske, Freya
Paper Book
Sparks fly and lovers dance in this gorgeous, yearning Cinderella retelling from bestselling author Freya Marske - a queer Gothic romance novella perfect for fans of Naomi Novik and T. Kingfisher. You think you know Cinderella's story: the ball, the magical shoes, the handsome prince.You're...
Circe : a novel
Miller, Madeline
Paper Book
This #1 New York Times bestseller is a "bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story" that brilliantly reimagines the life of Circe, formidable sorceress of The Odyssey (Alexandra Alter, TheNew York Times). In the house of Helios,...
Cleopatra
El-Arifi, Saara
Paper Book
An enthralling, groundbreaking reimagining of an iconic queen, from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author 'Enchanting, smart, and subversive - El-Arifi's masterpiece' R. F. Kuang 'Lush world-building and lyrical prose burn brightly on every page' JENNIFER SAINT 'Addictive...
The daughter of Doctor Moreau : a novel
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico. "This is...
Fagin the thief : a novel
Epstein, Allison
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION ● EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST NOVEL ● A thrilling reimagining of the world of Charles Dickens, as seen through the eyes of the infamous Jacob Fagin, London's most gifted pickpocket, liar, and rogue. "Fagin the...
Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage
Thompson, Heather Ann
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE * In this masterful, groundbreaking work, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Heather Ann Thompson shines surprising new light on an infamous 1984 New York subway shooting that...
Hamnet : a novel of the plague
O'Farrell, Maggie
Paper Book
The heiress : privileged, protected, poisoned? : the untold life of Miss Anne de Bourgh
Greeley, Molly
Paper Book
**An Oprah Magazine Most Anticipated Historical Novel of 2021** **A Buzzfeed 'Book You're Going to Love in 2021'** 'With stunningly lyrical writing, Greeley elevates Austen-inspired fiction onto a whole new plane.' - Natalie Jenner,...
I, Medusa : a novel
Gray, Ayana
Paper Book
A powerful re-imagining of Medusa as a young Black woman caught in the crossfire of cruel games played by the Olympian gods from a New York Times bestselling author.
It Girl
Pataki, Allison
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER . A sweeping, sensational novel of America's first "It Girl," whose dramatic journey to center stage echoes through the decades-from the New York Times bestselling author of The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post "As stunning as the...
James : a novel
Everett, Percival
Paper Book
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view * In development as a feature film to be...
Lady Macbeth
Reid, Ava
Paper Book
'Channelling the dark magic at the heart of one of Shakespeare's most intriguing anti-heroes, this reimagining of Lady Macbeth is full of witchcraft, deadly power games, dark schemes, supernatural elements, and a touch of romance.' Cosmopolitan 'A...
Lady Tremaine
Hochhauser, Rachel
Paper Book
The life of Herod the Great : a novel
Hurston, Zora Neale
Paper Book
A never before published novel from beloved author Zora Neale Hurston, revealing the historical Herod the Great--not the villain the Bible makes him out to be but a religious and philosophical man who lived a life of valor and vision. In the 1950s, as a continuation of Moses, Man of...
Miss Austen
Hornby, Gill
Paper Book
The Sunday Times bestseller, and set to be a major TV drama ________________________ 'You can't help feeling that Jane would have approved.' OBSERVER 'So good, so intelligent, so clever, so entertaining - I adored it.' CLAIRE TOMALIN<...
Mother of Rome
Bear, Lauren J. A.
Paper Book
A powerful and fierce reimagining of the earliest Roman legend: the twins, Romulus and Remus, mythical founders of history's greatest empire, and the woman whose sacrifice made it all possible. The names Romulus and Remus may be immortalized in map and stone and chronicle, but...
Outlawed
North, Anna
Paper Book
A people's history of the United States
Zinn, Howard
Paper Book
THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A wonderful, splendid book--a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future." -Howard Fast Historian Howard Zinn's A People's...
The red winter
Sullivan, Cameron
Paper Book
A bewitching historical fantasy from a debut author, and the next global sensation from Tor. A blood-drenched hunt for purpose, power and redemption.A devastating love story.A bewitching twist on history.A blood-drenched hunt for purpose, power, and redemption.<...
A Resistance History of the United States
Stoermer, Tad
Paper Book
* INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER! * #1 ABA Indie Bookstores (PB Nonfiction) * #6 New York Times (combined HC and PB Nonfiction) * #9 Publishers Weekly (overall PB) * #16 USA Today overall (all genres, formats) * An urgent, bracing new...
Son of Nobody
Martel, Yann.
Paper Book
'The past is never done with- always the song continues.' Harlow Donne has sacrificed his life to the study of the Classical world. So when he is invited to Oxford University to work on an obscure collection of papyrus fragments it is an academic's dream come true. He must leave behind...
A spindle splintered
Harrow, Alix E.
Paper Book
USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story. Featuring Arthur Rackham's original illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty, fractured and reimagined. "A vivid, subversive and...
Stone blind
Haynes, Natalie
Paper Book
'So to mortal men, we are monsters. Because of our flight, our strength. They fear us, so they call us monsters.'Medusa is the only mortal in a family of gods. Growing up with her sisters, she quickly realizes that she is the only one who gets older, experiences change, feels weakness. Her mortal...
Story of a murder : the wives, the mistress, and Dr. Crippen
Rubenhold, Hallie
Paper Book
*The International Bestseller* *Winner of the Clue Award - True Crime Book of the Year* This is the story of a murder, not a murderer . . . In this epic examination of one of the most infamous murders of the twentieth century, bestselling...
This motherless land
May, Nikki
Paper Book
A READ WITH JENNA PICK! From the prize-winning author of WAHALA, a powerful de-colonial retelling of MANSFIELD PARK, exploring identity, culture, race and love 'A spirited exploration of culture and kinship' BONNIE GARMUS 'Deeply emotional and...
A thousand ships
Haynes, Natalie
Paper Book
In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective. This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of all of them. . .In the middle of the night, Creusa wakes to find her beloved Troy engulfed in flames....
Vinegar girl : The taming of the shrew retold
Tyler, Anne
Paper Book
Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies   Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity,...
The weaver and the witch queen
Gornichec, Genevieve
Paper Book
The lives of two women--one desperate only to save her missing sister, the other a witch destined to become queen of Norway--intertwine in this spellbinding, powerful Viking Age historical fantasy novel from the acclaimed author of The Witch's Heart. Oddny and Gunnhild meet...
Wicked : the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West, a novel
Maguire, Gregory.
Paper Book
When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch Where did she come from How did she become so wicked Gregory Maguire has created a fantasy...
The Windsor Affair
Benjamin, Melanie
Paper Book
A scandalous affair. A power struggle for the throne. A sensational rivalry between an English queen and an American social climber. In this electrifying novel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue tells the story of the Abdication of Edward VIII--and...
The witch's heart
Gornichec, Genevieve
Paper Book
Angrboda's story begins where most witch's tales end: with a burning. A punishment from Odin for refusing to give him knowledge of the future, the fire leaves Angrboda injured and powerless, and she flees into a remote forest. There she is found by a man Loki, and her initial distrust grows into a...

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