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A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping

Sangu Mandanna’s darling debut, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, was one of those books that slowly but surely became omnipresent, recommended for lovers of rom-coms and paranormal romances alike. Her eagerly awaited follow-up stars an innkeeper who was once one of the most powerful witches in Britain on a quest to reclaim her magic with the help of a very hot and very grumpy historian. We can’t wait to check in (sorry).

Great Big Beautiful Life

By Emily Henry

After the joyfully messy, sexy joys of Funny Story, Emily Henry is returning to the meta, “books about book people” vibe of Book Lovers and Beach Read, featuring a grumpy/sunshine pairing. Great Big Beautiful Life will follow aspiring novelist Alice Scott (our sunshine) and acclaimed author Hayden Anderson (our grump) as they compete for the chance to write the life story of infamous heiress Margaret Ives.

The Cartoonists Club

By Raina Telgemeier, Illustrated by Scott McCloud

Raina Telgemeier has captured the hearts of countless readers and critics with her bestselling graphic memoirs, Smile, Sisters and Guts (she won Eisner Awards for the first two). Now she teams up with Scott McCloud, author of the bestselling Understanding Comics and member of the Eisner Awards Hall of Fame, for this new graphic series, which depicts a group of young comics creators as they learn more about the art form that has enthralled so many of Telgemeier and McCloud’s fans.

Everything Is Tuberculosis

By John Green

Apart from his literary accomplishments (The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All the Way Down), John Green is a notable philanthropist, having created a string of nonprofit charity projects and a foundation alongside his brother, Hank. Green is an advocate for health care equality and, most notably, has been using his platform to address policies and regulations regarding tuberculosis, a preventable and curable disease that is nonetheless a leading cause of death in Africa, especially among children. Everything Is Tuberculosis asks readers to join the fight to save them.

Sunrise on the Reaping

By Suzanne Collins

Suzanne Collins continued the legacy of the Hunger Games series through yet another smash hit with The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Sunrise on the Reaping extends this young adult saga, which has received a rare outpouring of both critical and commercial acclaim. This prequel explores the tragic backstory of fan favorite Haymitch Abernathy during his own Hunger Games, years before the original series.

Wild Dark Shore

By Charlotte McConaghy

Bestselling Australian author Charlotte McConaghy does a lot of research for her ecologically informed novels: Her first two books to be published in the U.S., Migrations and Once There Were Wolves, required her to investigate Arctic terns and Scotland’s gray wolves. Her latest, Wild Dark Shore, takes a seed bank on an island near Antarctica as its setting, where rising sea levels have driven away all human caretakers except for one man, Dominic Salt, and his children . . . until a mysterious woman named Rowan washes ashore in a storm.

(S)Kin

By Ibi Zoboi

Ibi Zoboi racked up accolades with American Street (a National Book Award finalist) and Nigeria Jones (a Coretta Scott King Award winner), among others in the bestselling author’s extensive bibliography. (S)kin sees Zoboi pivot to fantasy as this novel-in-verse follows two girls grappling with the magic they have inherited as soucouyants: fireball witches who, every new moon, shed their skin in order to fly into the night and feed on human blood.

Pure Innocent Fun

By Ira Madison III

Pop culture maven, TV writer and podcaster Ira Madison III serves his cultural critiques with a side of spit take-inducing humor. His debut essay collection is like a brunch date with your sharpest, most hilarious friend—the one who never holds back their opinions. Here, Madison riffs on everything from the bewildering appeal of Tom Cruise to his identification with Daria to boy bands of yesteryear (err . . . the early aughts). Pure Innocent Fun promises to be a worthy romp.

All the Blues in the Sky

By Renée Watson

With her unique propensity for writing about complex emotions and difficult situations for young audiences, Renee Watson might be the queen of middle grade. It’s no wonder that we’re excited for her newest offering, All the Blues in the Sky, which explores grief as it follows its 13-year-old protagonist, Sage, through the aftermath of her best friend’s death.

Black in Blues

By Imani Perry

Imani Perry showed her ability to weave historical research with sharp, sparkling analysis in 2022’s National Book Award-winning South to America. In Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, she explores how the color blue has been intertwined with Black life: in the dyeing of indigo, the religious traditions of various African cultures, the literature of Zora Neale Hurston, the revolutionary politics of Black freedom fighters and much more.

The Oligarch’s Daughter

By Joseph Finder

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.

Three Wild Dogs (and the truth)

By Markus Zusak

Not long before Markus Zusak completed his book tour for his chart-topping novel, The Book Thief, he and his wife decided to adopt a dog languishing at the local pound. Then another. And finally, after the first pair eventually died, a third. All three were so-called “difficult dogs”: “Gangsters, gunmen. Soldiers,” he writes. “ADHD on legs.” In this debut memoir, Zusak tells the story of his writing and family life through these beasts, who were indefatigable perpetrators of lawlessness and intimidation—but still worthy of love.

We Do Not Part

By Han Kang, Translated by e. yaewon, Translated by Paige Aniyah Morris

Han Kang’s novels reflect human nature across what she described—in an interview with BookPage about The Vegetarian—as “a spectrum that stretches from holiness to horror.” Han was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for the fierceness with which she “confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” Her abilities are at their most undeniable and radiant in We Do Not Part, which tells the story of an author haunted by having written a book about the 1980 massacre in Gwangju, Korea, who braves an overpowering snowstorm to do a favor for her friend.

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