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Updated April 4, 2026
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Vigil
George Saunders
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "After his spectacular Lincoln in the Bardo, Saunders returns . . . with a new novel even more spectacular than the last."--Los Angeles Times A "daring" (Time) novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize...
Kin
Tayari Jones
Paper Book
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage--Tayari Jones has written an unforgettable novel that sparkles with wit and intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends...
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai
Paper Book
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF PEOPLE'S TOP 5 BOOKS OF THE YEAR BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ...
This Is Not About Us: Fiction
Allegra Goodman
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A kaleidoscopic portrait of a modern American family--steadfast, complicated, begrudging, and loving--from the bestselling author of Isola "Wise, witty . . . a deliciously readable book [about] the delicate minutiae of family life, played beautifully,...
Brawler: Stories
Lauren Groff
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 BY NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER, PEOPLE, TIME, HARPER'S BAZAAR, OPRAH DAILY, AND VULTURE "Groff is one of this country's most successful and versatile...
A Far-Flung Life
M. L. Stedman
Paper Book
From the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Light Between Oceans comes a breathtaking and epic novel set in the vast outback of Australia--about tragedy, family secrets, and the enduring power of love. When we do something that can't be undone or mended, how do we go...
The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories
Salman Rushdie
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From internationally renowned, award-winning author Salman Rushdie, a spellbinding exploration of life, death, and what comes into focus at the proverbial eleventh hour of life "An inventive and engrossing collection of stories which, though death-tinged,...
Is This a Cry for Help?
Emily Austin
Paper Book
Emily Austin, the bestselling "queen of darkly quirky, endearingly flawed heroines" (Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus), returns with a luminous new novel following a librarian who comes back to work after a mental breakdown only to confront book-banning crusaders in an empowering story...
A Guardian and a Thief
Megha Majumdar
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE * Megha Majumdar's electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning, is set in a near-future Kolkata, India in which two families seeking to protect their children...
The Complex: A Novel
Karan Mahajan
Paper Book
A New York Times Editors' Choice * A New Yorker Best Book of the Year So Far * A Most Anticipated Book of 2026: The Washington Post, Vulture, Lit Hub, The Millions, Chicago Review of Books "A sweeping tale of political machinations,...
John of John: The extraordinary new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
Paper Book
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, LOS ANGELES TIMES, TIME, OPRAH DAILY, AND VOGUE "So immersive, so all-encompassing, that I felt like I was living in it."--Ann Patchett From the...
Good People
Patmeena Sabit
Paper Book
"[A] gorgeous and powerful debut."--Tommy Orange, The New York Times "Good People is the year's first great novel."--The Minnesota Star Tribune "A stunning read. I could not recommend it more enthusiastically. . . . What a spectacular triumph...
A Better Life: A Novel
Lionel Shriver
Paper Book
In a provocative novel addressing contemporary immigration by the sharply observant Lionel Shriver, a New York family takes in a Honduran migrant--who may or may not be the innocent paragon she claims to be. Gloria Bonaventura, a divorced mother of three living with her 26-year-old son...
The Golden Boy
finnpatricia
Paper Book
"The Golden Boy is not just an astoundingly ambitious novel, but also--and more importantly, in my opinion--a wildly entertaining one, by turns hilarious and heartbreaking. Bravo, Patricia Finn!" ―Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and...
This Is Where the Serpent Lives
Daniyal Mueenuddin
Paper Book
A stunning new work from universally acclaimed Daniyal Mueenuddin, whose debut short story collection won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE. NAMED A...
Mule Boy
Andrew Krivak
Paper Book
NPR "BOOK OF THE DAY" An elegiac novel of men lost in a coal mining disaster and the boy who survives to tell the story On New Year's Day, 1929, Ondro Prach, the thirteen-year-old son of Slovak immigrants in Pennsylvania coal country, begins a new job as mule...
Eradication: A Fable
Jonathan Miles
Paper Book
A blackly comic literary gem in which a broken man confronts a broken world on an uninhabited Pacific island, where a conservation assignment becomes a moral reckoning. "An instant classic." --The Washington Post * "Excellent " --The New York Times * "Urgent and lyrical...
Bad Asians
Lillian Li
Paper Book
From the acclaimed author of Number One Chinese Restaurant comes an affecting novel about an unforgettable group of friends trying to make their way in the world without losing themselves, or one another. Diana, Justin, Errol, and Vivian were always told that success is...
Python's Kiss: Stories
Louise Erdrich
Paper Book
"Pulitzer winner Erdrich dives deep into the American psyche in this spectacular collection. . . . A staggering sense of empathy infuses the stories. With its range of voices and styles, this puts Erdrich's powers on full display." -- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) From...
The Ferryman and His Wife: A Novel
Frode Grytten
Paper Book
A LIBRARY READS PICK AND ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 For everyone who loved The Correspondent and When the Cranes Fly South, the renowned, bestselling Norwegian author Frode Grytten takes readers on a quietly epic journey: ferry driver Nils...
So Old, So Young
Grant Ginder
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Most Anticipated Novel of 2026 by Time, Town & Country, Bustle, and Zibby Media * A Best New Book by People, New York Post, Library Journal, and BookBub * February Book Club Pick by Good...
Saoirse
Charleen Hurtubise
Paper Book
For readers of Colm Tóibín and Claire Keegan, Saoirse is a powerful novel set between the United States and Ireland about a woman who runs from her traumatic past and the secrets she carries to survive. In Michigan, Sarah's childhood was defined by fear and silence. As...
Discipline
Larissa Pham
Paper Book
A taut, electrifying debut about a woman forced to confront unsettling truths about herself, her past, and the life she rebuilt following a ruinous affair with her former mentor, from "a writer to keep a close eye on" (The New York Times Book Review) "Precise and...
Every Happiness: A Novel
Reena Shah
Paper Book
"A bold and moving novel . . . marks the arrival of a radiant new voice." - Megha Majumdar, author of A Guardian and a Thief Every Happiness is a dazzling debut that explores the ties that bind two women across decades and continents despite rivalry, class...
The Adjunct
Maria Adelmann
Paper Book
A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2026 * Glamour's Best Books for Book Clubs 2026 * Bustle's Best New Books of March From the acclaimed author of "" background-color:="">How to Be Eaten, a fresh take on the campus novel that...
All the World Can Hold
Jung Yun
Paper Book
Let the Great World Spin meets My Name Is Lucy Barton in this novel set aboard an aging cruise ship bound for Bermuda, where growing tensions lead three strangers to confront their past regrets and imagine different futures. It's Sunday, September 16, 2001. Franny...
Some Bright Nowhere: A Novel
Ann Packer
Paper Book
AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK "Extraordinary. Books like this are why I love reading. This novel about marriage and friendship and life and dying is a marvel." --Elin Hilderbrand "Profound and moving and real."--Andrew Sean Greer "Some Bright...
Evelyn in Transit: A Novel
David Guterson
Paper Book
Radically open-minded, formidably strong, and unusually clear-eyed about herself and others, Evelyn Bednarz has always been a misfit. She's easily bored, unsuited to life at school, asks odd questions about faith and time, and sees through conventions others take for granted. Seeking to be true...
Cleaner
shannonjess
Paper Book
"Forget the rock and roll, this debut is about sex, drugs and a serious obsession with cleaning." --ELLE "[A] gem of a debut novel...funny, vibrant, and utterly unpredictable." --Service95 A disaffected young woman's work as a cleaner...
What We Can Know
Ian McEwan
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the Booker prize-winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be...
Westward Women
Alice Martin
Paper Book
For fans of Emma Cline and Emily St. John Mandel, Westward Women is a hypnotic and hopeful debut--part fever dream, part dystopian road trip that claws its way towards a jaw-dropping finale. "An audacious first novel to set beside Margaret Atwood." -...
Rebel English Academy
Mohammed Hanif
Paper Book
"Unnervingly funny and subversive . . . this account of life under authoritarian siege is fiercely local and incontestably universal, harrowing and mutinously entertaining: a sure-fire Booker contender."--The Guardian From the brilliant Booker-longlisted Mohammed...
The Renovation: A Novel
Kenan Orhan
Paper Book
A woman discovers that her bathroom has been remodeled into a prison cell--where she is an unlikely inmate--in this surreal novel of exile, grief, memory, and migration. In Salerno, Italy, Dilara spends her days caring for her aging father and her hypochondriac husband. Since...
Lost Lambs
Madeline Cash
Paper Book
National bestseller. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by Vulture, Bustle, Good Housekeeping, Playboy, The Times (UK), Our Culture, Vol. 1 Brooklyn and Harper's Bazaar. A Book Club Pick from...
Palaver
Bryan Washington
Paper Book
Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction "A heart-wrenchingly honest, often luminescent exploration of how to find and cultivate true connections, sometimes in the unlikeliest of places . . . [...
The River Is Waiting
Wally Lamb
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK A USA TODAY BESTSELLER #1 New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb, celebrated for two prior Oprah Book Club selections, returns with an exceptional third pick, a...
A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing
Alice Evelyn Yang
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION A dark, magical realist debut family saga that moves through the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, the Cultural Revolution, and the present day to explore the effects of intergenerational trauma, the legacy of colonialism, and the...
I Hope You Find What You're Looking For: A Novel
Bsrat Mezghebe
Paper Book
The year is 1991. Eritrea is on the verge of liberation from Ethiopian rule and in Washington, D.C.'s tight-knit Eritrean community, change is in the air. Thirteen-year-old Lydia and her family are grappling with what peace after decades of war might mean for their future, just as they welcome...
Queen Esther
John Irving
Paper Book
After forty years, John Irving returns to the world of his bestselling classic novel and Academy Award-winning film, The Cider House Rules, revisiting the orphanage in St. Cloud's, Maine, where Dr. Wilbur Larch takes in Esther--a Viennese-born Jew whose life is shaped by anti-Semitism....
The Optimists: A Novel
Brian Platzer
Paper Book
A beloved schoolteacher chronicles the meteoric rise of his most dazzling student in this ambitious, big-hearted story of learning and legacy. Mr. Keating is an extraordinary teacher: brilliant, dedicated, and possibly a few pages ahead in a...
Every Exit Brings You Home: A Novel
Naeem Murr
Paper Book
Readers are rarely lukewarm on Naeem Murr's work, which has been compared by critics to an astonishing array of greats: Margaret Atwood, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Flannery O' Connor, Robert Penn Warren, William Faulker, Vladimir Nabokov, and more. His novels are likely to elicit wonderment, as...
The Copywriter: A Novel
Daniel Poppick
Paper Book
A portrait of the poet as an office worker, plumbing the depths of the spiritual gulf between art and work. It's the summer of 2017 and D__, a poet working by day as a copywriter at a retail start-up, can't dispel a creeping sense of dissolution on the horizon. Whether it be the...
Pick a Color
Souvankham Thammavongsa
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE A USA Today Bestseller From O. Henry Award winner and two-time Giller Prize winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labor, and class, an intimate and sharply...
Half His Age
Jennette McCurdy
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I'm Glad My Mom Died comes "a thorny examination of power, lust, shame and rage" (Los Angeles Times) from "a writer able to capture some of the darkest parts of human nature with unflinching...
Flashlight
Susan Choi
Paper Book
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker * Time * New York * The Washington Post * NPR * Los Angeles Times * The Boston Globe * The Guardian * Vanity Fair * Elle *...
Minor Black Figures: A Novel
Brandon Taylor
Paper Book
A newcomer to New York, Wyeth is a Black painter who grew up in the South and is trying to find his place in the contemporary Manhattan art scene. It's challenging. Gallery shows displaying bad art. Pretentious artists jockeying for attention. The gossip and the backstabbing. While his part-time...
The Wilderness
Angela Flournoy
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITIC CIRCLES AWARD FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE ...
Helm
Sarah Hall
Paper Book
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, The Guardian, The Observer, Financial Times, Daily Mail, The Independent, and the Chicago Public Library * From the twice-Booker-nominated writer of Burntcoat, a bold and astonishing literary masterpiece that...
Before I Forget
Tory Henwood Hoen
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "A tender, funny portrait of love in its myriad forms." --Mikki Brammer, bestselling author of The Collected Regrets of Clover A funny, heartfelt, late coming-of-age story that examines the role of memory in holding us back--and in moving us...
Television
Lauren Rothery
Paper Book
"A glamorous, intriguing novel" (New York Times) about a jaded movie star and the two differently conflicted women in his orbit. Some people you meet them and you imagine this movie together. The two of you make a kind of movie and then it's over. Other people, what you...
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