If you’re reading this, it’s safe to guess you’re fond of books, reading, and being transported to different times, places, experiences, and viewpoints. We invite you to check out what others are reading and share your recommendations for favorite titles with us.
Kin
by Tayari Jones
An unforgettable story about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy. The novel explores themes of motherhood, friendship, identity, and the social complexities of womanhood in the American South. (2026; Fiction)
Trash!: A Garbageman’s Story
by Simon Pare-Poupart
This fascinating no-baloney account of twenty years in waste management paints a vivid portrait of the heroic labor, anarchic spirit, and violent conditions of the people who keep our cities clean. (2026; Nonfiction)
The Marriage Bed
by Tommy Hays
A freak accident comes on the heels of a startling revelation, laying bare the foundation of a marriage, and a husband is left to grapple with the aftermath. A poetry professor at a small college in Asheville, NC, Asa Flowers, comes home one stormy evening to find his wife Betsy inexplicably distraught. As the evening goes on, the couple end up in a heated argument that sends Asa to sleep out in their garage apartment for the first time in twenty-five years of marriage. (2026; Fiction)
True Crime: A Memoir
by Patricia Cornwell
Cornwell leaves no stone unturned in this deeply candid account of her life, offering inspiring insight into what made her into the international sensation she is today. (2026; Nonfiction)
Rules for Aging and Larceny
by Julia London
Ocean’s Eleven meets the Golden Girls when an all-female group of chaotic, elderly thieves come out of retirement for one last heist against a young Crypto-loving DudeBro-type while trying to repair their fractured friendship along the way. (2026; Fiction)
Whistler
by Ann Patchett
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, fifty-three-year-old Daphne Fuller unexpectedly reunites with Eddie Triplett, the former stepfather she has not seen since childhood. Though Eddie was married to Daphne’s mother for only a brief period, their bond profoundly shaped both of their lives. As they reconnect decades later, the novel reflects on memory, loss, love, and the lasting effects of choices and relationships across time. (2026; Fiction)
American Rambler: Walking the Trail of Johnny Appleseed
by Isaac Fitzgerald
A moving blend of memoir, history, and travelogue, this is at once an ode to the American heartland, a meditation on escaping the breakneck pace of modern life, and a clear-eyed look at the myths– often violent, sometimes hopeful, frequently romanticized– at the very core of American identity and history. (2026; Nonfiction)
Shadow Strike
by Brad Taylor
After its proxies are devastated and its offensive capability pummeled in the latest war in the Middle East, a rogue group of Iranian regime officials create a brazen plot to strike back at their hated enemies once and for all. (2026; Fiction)
John of John
by Douglas Stuart
Set in the Isle of Harris, John of John is a tender and devastating story of love and religion, of a father and son, art and landscape, and the corrosive effects of living a secret life. It confirms Douglas Stuart as one of Britain’s greatest contemporary novelists. (2026; Fiction)
The Things We Never Say
by Elizabeth Strout
Artie Dam is a man with a secret. He goes about his days teaching American history to high schoolers, correcting their casual ignorance, and lending a kind word to those who need it most. With exquisite prose and gentle intimacy, Artie Dam takes one man’s fears and loneliness and makes them universal. And in the same breath, Strout captures the mysterious love that sustains and holds us through it all. (2026; Fiction)
The Nature of Fragile Things
by Susan Meissner
The fates of three women intertwine on the eve of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake, thrusting them onto a perilous journey that will test their resiliency and resolve and, ultimately, their belief that love can overcome fear… a gripping novel about the bonds of friendship and mother love, and the power of female solidarity. (2021; Fiction)
Tinkers
by Paul Harding
An old man lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder and pain of his impoverished New England youth. (2019; Fiction)
Land
by Maggie O’Farrell
The award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger. (2026; Fiction)
Upward Bound
by Woody Brown
Brown’s compassionate debut delves with great insight into the lives and minds of the disabled residents of an adult day care center in Southern California. Each chapter tells a client or staff member’s story, and together they reveal a hidden world of the disenfranchised. This captivating work illuminates a world too often ignored. (2026; Fiction)
We look forward to hearing about the books you or your book club recommend.
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–Tidelines Editors
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