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Updated March 25, 2026
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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...
JOHN OF JOHN
Stuart, Douglas
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...
ERADICATION: A FABLE
Miles, Jonathan
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...
THE GOLDEN BOY
Finn, Patricia
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...
A FAR-FLUNG LIFE
Stedman, M L
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...
ALL THE WORLD CAN HOLD
Yun, Jung
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...
SAOIRSE
Hurtubise, Charleen
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...
CLEANER
Shannon, Jess
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...
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...
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...
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,...
WESTWARD WOMEN
Martin, Alice
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." -...
EVERY EXIT BRINGS YOU HOME
Murr, Naeem
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 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...
REBEL ENGLISH ACADEMY
Hanif, Mohammed
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...
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...
So Old, So Young: A Novel
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...
Dream count : a novel /
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi,
Paper Book
* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST A searing, exquisite new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists--the story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires <...
Encounters with Unexpected Animals: Stories
Bret Anthony Johnston
Paper Book
An imaginative, moving collection of stories infused with the magic and enigma of the human condition and drenched in Texas heat, from the best-selling author of We Burn Daylight. Encounters with Unexpected Animals takes readers deep into the heart of bestselling...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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 ...
Hemlock: A Novel
Melissa Faliveno
Paper Book
A woman haunted by a dark inheritance returns to the woods where her mother vanished, in this queer Gothic novel-a butch Black Swan. Sam, finally sober and stable with a cat and a long-term boyfriend in Brooklyn, returns alone to Hemlock, her family's deteriorating...
THE ADJUNCT
Adelmann, Maria.
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...
Where the Wildflowers Grow: A Novel
Terah Shelton Harris
Paper Book
From acclaimed author Terah Shelton Harris comes a poignant story of survival and redemption that questions what it means to stop existing and start living. Leigh is the last of the Wildes. She knows this because she watched them all die. Grief never truly fades and even as the...
THE FOUNTAIN
Scieszka, Casey
Paper Book
"Casey Scieszka's debut novel is absolutely delicious, like Tuck Everlasting for grown-ups. The premise is so good--an immortal woman's search for the fountain of youth--that the writing, crisp and funny, feels like an extra treat. An excellent debut."--Emma Straub, bestselling author...
I Could Be Famous: Stories
Sydney Rende
Paper Book
Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue. Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Debutiful. "A terrific debut: fresh, original, and surprising." --George Saunders, Booker-Prize winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo From a...
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...
A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF
Majumdar, Megha
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 Pelican Child: Stories
Joy Williams
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD * FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD * NAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST * A razor-sharp new collection of stories of visionary childhood misfits and struggling adult dreamers from this legendary writer of ...
The Ferryman and His Wife: A Novel
Frode Grytten
Paper Book
A LIBRARY READS PICK AND ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 In the spirit of Amor Towles and George Saunders, the renowned, bestselling Norwegian author Frode Grytten takes readers on a quietly epic journey: ferry driver Nils Vik's last route along the fjord, on...
UPWARD BOUND
Brown, Woody
Paper Book
A wondrous, deeply affecting portrait of the interlocking lives at an adult day care center in Southern California, depicting an often overlooked community with extraordinary wit and grace--by a major new literary voice hailed as a "groundbreaking debut novelist" (Publishers Weekly) <...
The Glowing Hours
Leila Siddiqui
Paper Book
A mind-bending, revisionist gothic horror story about the fabled summer Mary Shelley began work on Frankenstein, as told by her Indian housemaid, Mehrunissa "Mehr" Begum. For fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Isabel Cañas, and Kathe Koja. "Strange how one can find they are an...
FLASHLIGHT
Choi, Susan
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 *...
Family Drama: A Novel
Rebecca Fallon
Paper Book
A vibrant debut and powerful meditation on family, motherhood, and the cost of holding on to your dreams, reminiscent of Ann Napolitano. In New England, Susan Bliss is a young mother married to a professor. In LA, Susan Byrne stars in a soap opera beloved coast to...
THE TAKE
Yang, Kelly.
Paper Book
A provocative, fast-paced novel about two creative women--a young writer fighting to be heard and an older producer clinging to relevancy--and the age reversal treatment that intertwines both of their lives...from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the beloved Front Desk...
NIGHT NIGHT FAWN
Rosenberg, Jordy
Paper Book
From the author of Confessions of the Fox comes a novel in which a yenta on her deathbed gives an unrepentant account of all her failures--including her child. "From one of our most fearless living novelists comes this extraordinary book. No half measures here, just big...
THE SILENT PERIOD
Manfredi, Francesca
Paper Book
Cristina Martino is twenty-eight and adrift. Underemployed at a university library in Turin, Italy, she still lives at home with her parents, in the shadow of her successful, married elder sister, Elena. One night, listlessly scrolling through Instagram, Cristina decides to delete her social...
THE RIVER IS WAITING
Lamb, Wally.
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...
The White Hot: A Novel
Quiara Alegría Hudes
Paper Book
The story of a runaway mother's ten days of freedom--and the pain, desire, longing, and wonder we find on the messy road to enlightenment--from Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes. "The White Hot has the effect of pressing your hand to a barbed live wire. April's is one...
How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder: A Novel
Nina Mcconigley
Paper Book
A bold, inventive, and fiercely original debut novel that begins with an uncle dead and his tween niece's private confession to the reader--she and her sister killed him, and they blame the British. "I have been waiting for Nina McConigley's debut novel for years and it's even better...
THE BODY BUILDERS
Clarke, Albertine
Paper Book
"If Philip K. Dick had written The Bell Jar" (Camille Bordas) it would resemble Albertine Clarke's mesmerizing debut about the frayed borders between our bodies and minds. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by Debutiful, Lit Hub, and Our Culture ...
HELM
Hall, Sarah
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...
Run for the hills : a novel /
Wilson, Kevin,
Paper Book
"A touching and generous romp of a novel . . . Wilson makes a bold and convincing case that every real family is one you have to find and, at some point, choose, even if it's the one you're born into." -- New York Times Book Review An unexpected road trip across America...
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