Bestseller Watch

Mark your calendars for the releases of these blockbuster titles.
Available 01/06/2025

In James Patterson’s sequel to the bestselling Holmes, Marple & Poe, the crime-solving trio must get to the bottom of a series of child abductions.

Available 01/07/2025

The author of Mr. Peanut makes his long-awaited return to fiction in this coming-of-age story starring a young actor in 1980s New York City.

Available 01/07/2025

What do the 1978 Met Gala and a 1936 Egyptian archeological dig have in common? According to the latest historical novel from Fiona Davis, the answer might be an ancient curse.

Available 01/14/2025

Lisa Genova (Still Alice) is known for novels that take on medical issues with both heart and accuracy. Her latest follows a college student who’s learning to manage bipolar disorder while launching a career in stand-up.

Available 01/14/2025

The everyday horrors of a home for unwed mothers in the 1970s mingle with the supernatural in the latest eerie release from the bestselling author of The Final Girl Support Group.

Available 01/28/2025

Falling in love with a Russian photographer seemed like a blessing to Paul Brightman—until threats from her oligarch father have him running for his life.

Recent starred reviews

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The Loves of My Life

Novelist, biographer, playwright, essayist and queer icon Edmund White (The Humble Lover, A Saint From Texas) has spent his long career writing about love and

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Safe Crossing

Author-illustrator Kari Percival’s Safe Crossing is an exciting, informative call to action for budding scientists and environmental activists.

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Pavlo Gets the Grumps

Natalia Shaloshvili’s finely tuned visual humor in Pavlo Gets the Grumps dovetails nicely with her comforting, uplifting message to any reader who’s ever been a

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Lifeform

Comedian Jenny Slate’s Lifeform is insightful, witty and definitely binge worthy. She writes, and reads, these essays with immense imagination.

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Magnum America

Flipping through any given section of the exceptional photography tome Magnum America is like watching history pass before your eyes.

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Lost Found Kept

Deborah Derrickson Kossmann reckons with family trauma and her mother’s hoarding disorder in her piercing, empathetic debut memoir, Lost Found Kept.

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Homeseeking

Karissa Chen’s Homeseeking is both a love story and a family story, capturing the ever-present yearning for “people, people who shared the same ghosts as

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A Man on Fire

Douglas R. Egerton’s magnificent, exhaustively researched and beautifully written A Man on Fire charts the extraordinary life of multitalented abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

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