Matt Haig’s The Life Impossible is part fantasy, part travel saga and part romance with one’s self, and that makes it well worth reading for anyone seeking a hopeful, warm journey that crackles with magic.
In We Solve Murders, Richard Osman accomplishes the seemingly impossible: a cozy mystery-thriller mashup.
Elyse Graham’s thrilling history of how scholars and librarians helped the U.S. outsmart the Nazis is a pulpy delight.
The careful balance between Intermezzo’s brisk pace and its quite fearless exploration of sexual desire makes Sally Rooney’s fourth novel her most ambitious yet.
Olga Tokarczuk’s deft, dark satirical wit is on full display in The Empusium, which challenges the rigid patriarchal world of pre-WWI Europe with horror and humor.
Based on the eponymous poem by Ada Limon that will be carried into space by the Europa Clipper, In Praise of Mystery is like falling into a dream—vibrant and vast, joyful and curious.
Amber McBride stunned us with her young adult debut, Me (Moth), then did so again with her first foray into middle grade, Gone Wolf—”There is nothing quite like it,” we declared in a starred review. Needless to say, we’re eager to see what the incisive National Book Award finalist will do in her next middle grade offering, Onyx & Beyond.
Readers seeking big ideas and colorful splashes of language will love exploring Alan Moore’s two parallel Londons in The Great When.
Ta-Nehisi Coates wrestles with the weighty responsibility of being a writer in The Message, a powerful collection of essays.
Following a teen love triangle in a North Dakota community dominated by sugar beet farming, Louise Erdrich’s The Mighty Red might just be a new American classic.
Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of Maus, brings his charismatic illustration style to this wacky, metafictional picture book, which claims it’s not a book. Actually, it’s a dog, who has been transformed by an angry wizard’s curse. Kids are sure to delight in how much Kids are sure to delight in how much Open Me . . . I’m a Dog commits to the bit: It even features fuzzy pages and a leash.
Freya Marske’s dazzling Swordcrossed is an immersive fantasy with a rich love story at its heart.
Cornelia Funke has delighted audiences across the globe with her spellbinding novels, and Inkheart and its sequels are arguably the most beloved entries on a legendary bibliography. Fans of Meggie and Mo’s storytelling exploits will be thrilled to learn that the original trilogy is getting a follow-up with Inkworld, in which the conniving Orpheus returns to get back at our iconic heroes.
It’s perhaps easier to list the entertainment roles Keke Palmer hasn’t held than those she has. (The Emmy winner and Nope star probably has not been a gaffer—though we wouldn’t put it past her.) Whether she’s acting, producing, recording music, writing scripts or hosting a variety of TV shows, Palmer dominates the industry. In Master of Me, Palmer goes behind the scenes of her extraordinary career, revealing personal challenges and the tools she has used to move forward. Her story is sure to inspire.
The Icon and the Idealist is a compelling, warts-and-all dual biography of the warring leaders of the early 20th-century birth control movement: Margaret Sanger and
Part oral history, part cultural analysis, Believe is an entertaining and insightful examination of Ted Lasso.
John Straley’s nonstop, high-octane Big Breath In introduces the unforgettable Delphine, a 68-year-old cancer patient-turned-investigator.
Eliot Stein’s vivid Custodians of Wonder documents the last people maintaining some of the world’s ancient cultural traditions, and proves that comfort, community and beauty
Frank DeCaro has crafted a visual and written love letter to everything disco that encourages us to recognize how music both creates and reflects culture—and
As good poetry often does, Forest of Noise will require you to ask some of the most difficult questions of our time: What kind of
Paleoecologist Kathy Willis explores the surprising physiological and psychological benefits of plants on human health in her entertaining, absorbing Good Nature.
While the masterful poems in Grace Notes evoke the specific history of her mother’s life, Nye never leaves readers out of the frame, encouraging them