Category: Books

The Poet’s Game
by Paul Vidich
Alex Matthews thought he had left it all behind: his CIA career, the viper’s den of bureaucracy at headquarters, the deceits of the cat-and-mouse game of double agents, and the sudden trips to Russia, which poisoned his marriage and made him an absentee husband and father, with tragic results. But then the Director came asking for a favor. Something that only Alex could do. (2025; Fiction)

The News from Dublin
by Colm Toibin
Here’s a brilliant collection of nine short stories, many never before published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America–about the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love. (2026; Fiction)

Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey
In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing and impeccably researched true stories of wrongful convictions. (2024; Nonfiction)

Penitence
by Kristen Koval
Penitence is a sweeping debut novel that follows the lives of two estranged families in rural Colorado after an unimaginable tragedy forces them back together. (2025; Fiction)

Anatomy of an Alibi
by Ashley Elston
Camille needs an alibi. Aubrey agrees to give her one. A tense, feverish thriller about two women’s lives that are forever intertwined when a murder threatens to expose them both. (2026; Fiction)

The Calamity Club
by Kathryn Stockett
The author of The Help returns with a bold, big-hearted novel about a group of unbreakable women, fighting for what’s rightfully theirs–and the power of friendship to change everything. (2026; Fiction)

London Falling
by Patrick Radden Keefe
From the bestselling, prize-winning author of Say Nothing, a powerfully compelling account of a family devastated by the apparent suicide of their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover he had created a separate identity which drew him into the dangerous international criminal underworld underlying London’s glittering surface. (2026; Nonfiction)

The Doorman
by Chris Pavone
Chicky Diaz is everyone’s favorite doorman at the Bohemia, the most famous apartment house in the world, home of celebrities, financiers, and New York’s cultural elite. As Chicky changes into his uniform for tonight’s shift, he finds himself breaking a cardinal rule of the job: tonight, he’ll be carrying a gun, bought only hours earlier, before he had any idea what’s about to happen at the Bohemia. Tonight in the city, enemies will clash, loyalties will be tested, secrets will be revealed–and lives will be lost. (2025; Fiction)

Queen Esther
by John Irving
Irving’s 16^th novel returns to the setting of The Cider House Rules. The story begins in the early 1900s at an orphanage in Maine, where Dr. Larch takes in three-year-old Esther Nacht, a Viennese-born Jew orphaned after her father dies at sea and her mother is murdered by anti-Semites. Considered unadoptable because of her heritage, Esther eventually finds refuge with the Winslows, a fiercely secular and philanthropic New England family. The story follows Esther’s lifelong journey of gratitude and survival. (2025; Fiction)

That Last Carolina Summer
by Karen White
As a child, Phoebe Manigault developed the gift of premonition after she was struck by lightning in the creek near her Charleston home. Plagued throughout her life by mysterious dreams and always living in the shadow of her beautiful sister, Addie, Phoebe eventually moves to the West Coast, as far from her family as possible. This is an unforgettable story about the unbreakable bonds of family and the gift of second chances. (2025; Fiction)

The Golden Boy
by Patricia Finn
After an involuntary retirement from his high-flying Hollywood career, Stafford Hopkins has retreated to a luxury estate on Maui, along with his wife Agnes, both grimly resigned to life in a paradise where neither feels fully at home. Stafford is ready to retreat into himself, too, when a letter arrives with shocking news. Stafford has been named guardian of four children he didn’t know existed. Slyly funny and deeply moving, this is a captivating debut about love, mercy, and second chances. (2026; Fiction)

The Keeper
by Tana French
On a cold night in the remote Irish village of Arknakelty, a girl goes missing. Sweet, loving Rachel Holohan was about to be engaged to the son of the local big shot. Instead, she’s dead in the river. In a close-knit small town, a death like this isn’t simple. It comes wrapped in generations and it splits the town in two. Retired Chicago detective Cal Hooper has friends here now, and he owes them loyalty, but his fiancée Lena wants nothing to do with Arknakelty’s tangles. As the feud becomes more vicious, their settled peace starts to crack apart. (2026; Fiction)

What We Can Know
by Ian McEwan
The author of Atonement and, most recently, Lessons (2022), McEwan offers up a heady, intellectual tale that takes a searing look at how history is created–and distorted. (2025; Fiction)

The Lost Voice
by Greta Morgan
A poignant, tenacious memoir by musician Greta Morgan chronicles how she rediscovered her artistic voice after losing her ability to sing. (2025; Nonfiction)

The Traitor’s Circle
by Jonathan Friedland
When the whole world is lying, someone must tell the truth. Berlin, 1943: A group of high society anti-Nazi dissenters meet for a tea party one late summer’s afternoon. They do not know that, sitting around the table, is someone poised to betray them all to the Gestapo. They form a circle of unlikely rebels, drawn from the German elite. (2025; Nonfiction)

Playground
by Richard Powers
The tiny atoll of French Polynesia has been chosen for humanity’s next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea; first, the island’s residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away. (2024; Fiction)

The Life She Was Given
by Ellen Marie Wiseman
A vivid, daring novel about the devastating power of family secrets–beginning in the poignant, lurid world of a Depression-era traveling circus and coming full circle in the transformative 1950s. (2017; Fiction)

The Instrumentalist
by Harriet Constable
A stunning debut novel of music, intoxication, and betrayal inspired by the true story of Anna Maria della Pietà, a Venetian orphan and violin prodigy who studied under Antonio Vivaldi and ultimately became his star musician–and his biggest muse. (2024; Fiction)

Careless People
by Sarah Wynn Williams
An insider account charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them. (2025; Nonfiction)

Night Watch
by Jayne Anne Phillips
The setting here is striking: the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in rural West Virginia. In 1874, 12-year-old ConaLee and her mother, Eliza, who trauma has rendered mute, are dropped off there by a man ConaLee calls Papa, although he isn’t her father. They are brought inside by the night watchman, one of many characters with a hidden past. Contrary to reader expectations, the facility (an actual place) provides humane treatment for mental illness. Posing as her mother’s maid, ConaLee sees her make improvements under the compassionate doctor’s care. The story unflinchingly reveals the tragedy that befell them after Eliza’s husband never returned from the Civil War, and how a wandering con man invaded their isolated mountain sanctuary. (2023; Fiction)

Mother Mary Comes to Me
by Arundhati Roy
Mother Mary Comes to Me, Roy’s first work of memoir, is a soaring account, both intimate and inspirational, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her complex relationship to the extraordinary, singular mother she describes as “my shelter and my storm.” (2025; Nonfiction)

The Proving Ground
by Michael Connelly
Following his “resurrection walk” and need for a new direction, Mickey Haller turns to public interest litigation, filing a civil lawsuit against an artificial intelligence company whose chatbot told a sixteen-year-old boy that it was okay for him to kill his ex-girlfriend for her disloyalty. Representing the victim’s family, Mickey’s case explores the mostly unregulated and exploding AI business and the lack of training guardrails. (2025; Fiction)

Skylark
by Paula McLain
It’s 1664. Alouette Voland is the daughter of a master dyer at the famed Gobelin Tapestry Works, who secretly dreams of escaping her circumstances and creating her own masterpiece. When her father is unjustly imprisoned, Alouette’s efforts to save him lead to her own confinement in the notorious Salpãetriáere asylum, where thousands of women are held captive and cruelly treated. But within its grim walls, she discovers a small group of brave allies, and the possibility of a life bigger than she ever imagined. (2026; Fiction)

The Road to Tender Hearts
by Annie Hartnett
At sixty-three years old, million-dollar lottery winner PJ Halliday would be the luckiest man in Pondville, Massachusetts, if it weren’t for the tragedies of his life: the sudden death of his eldest daughter and the way his marriage fell apart after that. But when PJ reads the obituary of his old romantic rival, he realizes his high school sweetheart, Michelle Cobb, is finally single again. Filled with a new enthusiasm for life, PJ decides he’s going to drive across the country to the Tender Hearts Retirement Community in Arizona to win Michelle back. (2025; Fiction)

Breakfast with Seneca
by David Fideler
The first clear and faithful guide to the timeless, practical teachings of the Stoic philosopher Seneca. Stoicism, the most influential philosophy of the Roman Empire, offers refreshingly modern ways to strengthen our inner character in the face of an unpredictable world. (2022; Nonfiction)

Migrations
by Charlotte McConaghy
Propelled by a narrator as fierce and fragile as the terns she is following, Charlotte McConaghy’s Migrations is both an ode to our threatened world and a breathtaking page-turner about the lengths we will go for the people we love. (2020; Fiction)

Wild Dark Shore
by Charlotte McConaghy
Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers, but with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants… until, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman mysteriously washes ashore. (2025; Fiction)

A Fall of Marigolds
by Susan Meissner
Taryn Michaels specializes in hard-to-find patterns at an Upper West Side fabric shop. She is haunted by her failure to find a match for a scarf covered in bright marigolds, the same scarf she was holding when the Twin Towers fell in 2001. Unbeknownst to Taryn, the scarf began its life in New York on Ellis Island in 1911, when a very recently widowed Welshman carried it into the scarlet fever ward of nurse Clara Wood. Meissner seamlessly weaves a connection between Taryn and Clara, whose broken hearts have left them in an in-between place. (2014; F)

The Life We Bury
by Allen Eskens
College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe’s life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran — and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder. As Joe writes about Carl’s life, especially Carl’s valor in Vietnam, he cannot reconcile the heroism of the soldier with the despicable acts of the convict. (2014; F)

One Good Thing
by Georgia Hunter
Hunter pens an unforgettable story of hardship and hope, courage and resilience, that follows one young woman’s journey through war-torn Italy. Hunter is also the author of We Were the Lucky Ones, published in 2017. (2025; F)

Memorial Days
by Geraldine Brooks
It was Memorial Day 2019, when Geraldine Brooks received news that her husband, Tony Horwitz, had collapsed and died, far from home, in the middle of his book tour. The complex tasks required in the face of such a sudden death left her no time to properly grieve for him. Three years later, still feeling broken and bereft, she booked a flight to a remote island off the coast of Tasmania. Alone on a rugged stretch of coast, she revisited a thirty-five-year marriage filled with risk, adventure, humor, and love. (2025; NF)

Raising Hare
by Chloe Dalton
A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world explored through the story of one woman’s unlikely friendship with a wild hare. (2025; NF)

Heartwood
by Amity Gaige
In the heart of the Maine woods, forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker, goes missing. She vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the elements and struggles to keep hoping. At the heart of the investigation is Beverly, the determined Maine State Game Warden tasked with finding Valerie, who leads the search on the ground. Meanwhile, Lena, a seventy-six-year-old birdwatcher in a Connecticut retirement community, becomes an unexpected armchair detective. Roving between these compelling narratives, a puzzle emerges, intensifying the frantic search, as Valerie’s disappearance may not be accidental. (2025; F)

Beautiful Ugly
by Alice Feeney
Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life. He calls his wife, Abby, to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes when she sees something in the road ahead. Over Grady’s protests, Abby gets out of the car. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge, the headlights are on, the driver’s door is open, her phone is still there… but his wife has disappeared. A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can’t sleep, and he can’t write, so he travels to a tiny, remote Scottish island to try to get his life back. And then he sees the impossible: a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife. (2025; F)

Broken Country
by Clare Leslie Hall
Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth’s brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn’t realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to none other than Gabriel Wolfe, the man Beth loved as a teenager–the man who broke her heart years ago. Gabriel has returned to the village with his young son Leo, a boy who reminds Beth very much of her own son, who died in a tragic accident. As Beth is pulled back into Gabriel’s life, tensions around the village rise, and dangerous secrets and jealousies from the past resurface, this time with deadly consequences. Beth is forced to choose between the woman she once was and the woman she has become. (2025; F)

The Friend
by Sigrid Nunez
Becoming the guardian of her late best friend’s enormous Great Dane, a grieving woman is evicted from her no-pets apartment and forges a deep bond with the equally distraught animal in ways that initially disturb her friends. (2018; F)

Theo of Golden
by Allen Levi
Questions linger about Theo, a pleasant, mysterious stranger, after he arrives in the southern city of Golden. Who is he, and why is he here? Levi spins a story about the power of creative generosity, the importance of wonder to a purposeful life, and the far-reaching possibilities of anonymous kindness. (2023; F)

Everything Is Tuberculosis
by John Green
Green intertwines the scientific and social aspects of tuberculosis (TB) with the story of Henry, a young man with TB whom Green met in Sierra Leone, to illustrate the human impact of the disease and the challenges faced by those affected. (2025; NF)