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The Abyss of Oblivion Paco Roca and Rodrigo Terrasa
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The Abyss of Oblivion By Paco Roca and Rodrigo Terrasa
Translated by Andrea Rosenberg
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The Abyss By Jeyamohan
Translated by Suchitra Ramachandran
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ The Case of the Pilfered Pearls Margi Preus
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The Case of the Pilfered Pearls By Margi Preus
Illustrated by Junyi Wu
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ And Then We Saw the Bag...: Trash to Them, Treasure to Us Emma AdBåge
2026 · Best Books · Selected book
And Then We Saw the Bag...: Trash to Them, Treasure to Us By Emma AdBåge
Translated by Melissa Bowers
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ As I Dream of You Jennifer Lee
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As I Dream of You By Jennifer Lee
Illustrated by LeUyen Pham
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ 99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid Them Ashely Alker
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99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid Them By Ashely Alker
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ The Amateur Chris Bohjalian
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The Amateur By Chris Bohjalian
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ 1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World Liaquat Ahamed
2026 · Best Books · Selected book
1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World By Liaquat Ahamed
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ Be Easy: New and Selected Poems Adrian Matejka
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Be Easy: New and Selected Poems By Adrian Matejka
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ Braving the Truth: Essential Essays for Reckoning with and Reimagining Faith Rachel Held Evans
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Braving the Truth: Essential Essays for Reckoning with and Reimagining Faith By Rachel Held Evans
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ Bad Words Ríoghnach Robinson
2026 · Best Books · Selected book
Bad Words By Ríoghnach Robinson
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ As You Wake, Break the Shell Becky Chambers
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As You Wake, Break the Shell By Becky Chambers
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence Kevin Roose
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The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence By Kevin Roose
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ The Castle: Adventures in a World of Unraveling Men Jon Ronson
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The Castle: Adventures in a World of Unraveling Men By Jon Ronson
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ Bury Me Already (It’s Nice Down Here): Comics on Pregnancy and Parenthood Julia Wertz
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Bury Me Already (It’s Nice Down Here): Comics on Pregnancy and Parenthood By Julia Wertz
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ Acid Green Velvet Grace Krilanovich
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Acid Green Velvet By Grace Krilanovich
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ Chernobyl, Life, and Other Disasters Yevgenia Nayberg
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Chernobyl, Life, and Other Disasters By Yevgenia Nayberg
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Dad By Christian Robinson
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Beth Is Dead By Katie Bernet
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ Eat (Like) the Rich: A Cookbook Olivia Tiedemann
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Eat (Like) the Rich: A Cookbook By Olivia Tiedemann
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Backwater By James Sallis
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America Kim Phillips-Fein
2026 · Best Books · Selected book
Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America By Kim Phillips-Fein
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Intifadas By Edward Salem
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ Enemies to Lovers Alisha Rai
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Enemies to Lovers By Alisha Rai
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ Defy the Dusk Danielle L. Jensen
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Defy the Dusk By Danielle L. Jensen
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living Dara Horn
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The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living By Dara Horn
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ Cool Machine Colson Whitehead
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Cool Machine By Colson Whitehead
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ The Case of David Zimmerman Lucas Harari and Arthur Harari
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The Case of David Zimmerman By Lucas Harari and Arthur Harari
Translated by David Homel
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ Aside from My Heart, All Is Well Héctor Abad
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Aside from My Heart, All Is Well By Héctor Abad
Translated by Anne McLean
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Hometown By Shaun Tan
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Goodbye, Koi By Jack Wong
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ Call of the Dragon Natasha Bowen
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Call of the Dragon By Natasha Bowen
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ My Jamaican Table: Vibrant Recipes from a Sun-Drenched Island Andre Fowles
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My Jamaican Table: Vibrant Recipes from a Sun-Drenched Island By Andre Fowles
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Die Famous By Michael Koryta
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
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End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World By Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ Still House in the Desert: An Eco-Contemplation Brenda Hillman
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Still House in the Desert: An Eco-Contemplation By Brenda Hillman
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ Pretend You Believe: How to Enter Religion Noa Kushner
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Pretend You Believe: How to Enter Religion By Noa Kushner
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ How to Kill a Guy in 10 Dates Shailee Thompson
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How to Kill a Guy in 10 Dates By Shailee Thompson
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ Honeysuckle Bar Fridman-Tell
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Honeysuckle By Bar Fridman-Tell
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ The Danger to Be Sane: Creativity and the Eccentric Mind Rosa Montero
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The Danger to Be Sane: Creativity and the Eccentric Mind By Rosa Montero
Translated by Lindsey Ford
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ Charity and Sylvia Tillie Walden
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Charity and Sylvia By Tillie Walden
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ Country People Daniel Mason
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Country People By Daniel Mason
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ La Bandera: Poems of Resistance and Pride Anika Aldamuy Denise
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La Bandera: Poems of Resistance and Pride By Anika Aldamuy Denise
Illustrated by Ericka Lugo
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ The Celestial Seas T.A. Chan
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The Celestial Seas By T.A. Chan
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ Padma’s All American: Tales, Travels, and Recipes from Taste the Nation and Beyond Padma Lakshmi
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Padma’s All American: Tales, Travels, and Recipes from Taste the Nation and Beyond By Padma Lakshmi
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ The Fervent Whites De’Shawn Charles Winslow
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The Fervent Whites By De’Shawn Charles Winslow
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory Emily Eakin
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The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory By Emily Eakin
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Buy on Amazon ↗︎ Swirl & Vortex Larry Levis
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Swirl & Vortex By Larry Levis
Edited by David St. John
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The Abyss of Oblivion — Paco Roca and Rodrigo Terrasa (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Abyss — Jeyamohan (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Case of the Pilfered Pearls — Margi Preus (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source And Then We Saw the Bag...: Trash to Them, Treasure to Us — Emma AdBåge (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source As I Dream of You — Jennifer Lee (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source 99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid Them — Ashely Alker (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Amateur — Chris Bohjalian (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source 1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World — Liaquat Ahamed (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Be Easy: New and Selected Poems — Adrian Matejka (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Braving the Truth: Essential Essays for Reckoning with and Reimagining Faith — Rachel Held Evans (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Bad Words — Ríoghnach Robinson (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source As You Wake, Break the Shell — Becky Chambers (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence — Kevin Roose (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Castle: Adventures in a World of Unraveling Men — Jon Ronson (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Bury Me Already (It’s Nice Down Here): Comics on Pregnancy and Parenthood — Julia Wertz (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Acid Green Velvet — Grace Krilanovich (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Chernobyl, Life, and Other Disasters — Yevgenia Nayberg (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Dad — Christian Robinson (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Beth Is Dead — Katie Bernet (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Eat (Like) the Rich: A Cookbook — Olivia Tiedemann (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Backwater — James Sallis (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America — Kim Phillips-Fein (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Intifadas — Edward Salem (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Enemies to Lovers — Alisha Rai (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Defy the Dusk — Danielle L. Jensen (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living — Dara Horn (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Cool Machine — Colson Whitehead (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Case of David Zimmerman — Lucas Harari and Arthur Harari (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Aside from My Heart, All Is Well — Héctor Abad (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Hometown — Shaun Tan (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Goodbye, Koi — Jack Wong (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Call of the Dragon — Natasha Bowen (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source My Jamaican Table: Vibrant Recipes from a Sun-Drenched Island — Andre Fowles (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Die Famous — Michael Koryta (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World — Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Still House in the Desert: An Eco-Contemplation — Brenda Hillman (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Pretend You Believe: How to Enter Religion — Noa Kushner (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source How to Kill a Guy in 10 Dates — Shailee Thompson (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Honeysuckle — Bar Fridman-Tell (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Danger to Be Sane: Creativity and the Eccentric Mind — Rosa Montero (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Charity and Sylvia — Tillie Walden (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Country People — Daniel Mason (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source La Bandera: Poems of Resistance and Pride — Anika Aldamuy Denise (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Celestial Seas — T.A. Chan (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Padma’s All American: Tales, Travels, and Recipes from Taste the Nation and Beyond — Padma Lakshmi (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Fervent Whites — De’Shawn Charles Winslow (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory — Emily Eakin (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Swirl & Vortex — Larry Levis (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Jezebel List — Alisa Dean (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Mazywood — Tananarive Due (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The House with Nobody in It — Jon Klassen (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source We Mend with Gold: An Immigrant Daughter’s Reckoning with American Christianity — Kristin T. Lee (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Nightingales — Emil Wilson (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Desperate Bodies — Lydia Mathis (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Licorice — Kara LaReau (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source I Am Here — Kim Hyo-eun (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Children of Owl — Darcie Little Badger (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Perfect Birth Myth: Pushing Back Against a Broken Industry — Avital Norman Nathman, with Deborah Wage (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Fruit Fly — Josh Silver (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund — Molly Crabapple (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source We — Layli Long Soldier (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Score — Kennedy Ryan (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Palaces of the Crow — Ray Nayler (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Disappearers — Marlon James (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Palm House — Gwendoline Riley (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Dèy — Edwidge Danticat (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Listen to the Girls — Chrystal D. Giles (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source An Expanse of Blue — Kauakanilehua Māhoe Adams (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Furious Violet — Sarai Walker (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Holding Lightning: The Life, Loves, and Art of Whitney Houston — Emily Lordi (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source You & Me and You & Me and You & Me — Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Persona — Aoife Josie Clements (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source I Am the Mountain — Steven Weinberg (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Public Access Afterworld — Jane Schoenbrun (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Dooneen — Keith Ridgway (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Lost in Peach Blossom Paradise — Xiong Liang (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source I Will Eat You in the End — David Duff (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Few Blue Skies — Carolina Ixta (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Midnight Taxi — Yosha Gunasekera (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World — Sarah Wilson (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Poet Empress — Shen Tao (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State — Jill Lepore (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Frenzy — Joyce Carol Oates (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Moon Without Stars — Chanel Miller (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Loops — Jashar Awan (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source My Name Was Gerry Sass — Tiffany Hanssen (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source In Trees: An Exploration — Robert Moor (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source To Bewitch a Hunter — Luciano Lamberti (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Fight of Our Lives: AIDS in America — Gabriel Duckels and David Levithan (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark — Craig Fehrman (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source It Will Come Back to You — Sigrid Nunez (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Queen’s Granddaughter — Diane Zahler (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Muéganos — Jaque Jours (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Queen of Faces — Petra Lord (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Paper Cut — Rachel Taff (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America — Howard Bryant (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Left and the Lucky — Willy Vlautin (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Raise the Bar — Fernanda Frick H. (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Navigating Night — Julie Leung (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source A Scar Like a River — Lisa Graff (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source A Past Without Pictures — Jonathan Ames (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour — Mark Haddon (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Life of M — Rachel Cusk (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Second Life of Snap — Erin Entrada Kelly (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Night Ride — Christopher Myers (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Thornbird — E. Kennedy (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source A Violent Masterpiece — Jordan Harper (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Man in the Mirror: Hope, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City — Anand Giridharadas (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Lovers XXX — Allie Rowbottom (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Sisters Alone — Shifa Saltagi Safadi (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Ones Who Came Before — Kevin Maillard (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Traitors’ Nest — Frances Hardinge (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us — Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Windowman — Christopher Goffard (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Nebraska — Monica Datta (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source This Is a Door — Daniel Nayeri (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Open: Every Seed Has Its Moment — Robert Agis (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Wake Now in the Fire — Jarrett Dapier (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People’s Team — A.M. Gittlitz (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Occidental Book of the Dead — T. Geronimo Johnson (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Where the Wild Horses Are — Amy Alznauer (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source A Riddle of Eels — Nicholas Day (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Where You’ll Find Us — Jen St. Jude (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Nothing Random: Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built — Gayle Feldman (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source One Leg on Earth — ’Pemi Aguda (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source You Are Now Old Enough to Hear This — Aaron Starmer (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Story Rug — Sophie Blackall (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Words Spoken True — Anne Broyles (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source On Morrison — Namwali Serpell (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Paradiso 17 — Hannah Lillith Assadi (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Sweetest of Lemons — Daniel Nayeri (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Our Arab: On Longing, Belonging, and Hope — Zaina Arafat (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The School of Night — Karl Ove Knausgaård (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Troubled Waters: A River’s Journey Toward Justice — Carole Boston Weatherford (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Proof in the Code: How a Truth Machine Is Transforming Math and AI — Kevin Hartnett (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Transcription — Ben Lerner (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Sisters in Yellow — Mieko Kawakami (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Q: The Hidden Power of Questions in a World That Wants Answers — Lani Watson (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source A Very Good Parade — Eleanor Davis (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Song of Stork and Dromedary — Anjet Daanje (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source While We’re Here — Anne Wynter (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World — Nathaniel Philbrick (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Wise Pickle — Sarah Howden (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s Game — C. Thi Nguyen (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source A Tender Age — Chang-rae Lee (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Small Town Girls: A Writer’s Memoir — Jayne Anne Phillips (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood — Joseph Osmundson (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source When the World Sleeps: Stories, Words, and Wounds of Palestine — Francesca Albanese (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers — Carlos Barragán (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source A Year with Gilbert White: The First Great Nature Writer — Jenny Uglow (2026) · Best Books · selection · Source