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In her bold debut, Dietland, Sarai Walker took on the beauty industry, gender equality and America’s weight loss obsession, all in one deliciously funny, skewering bite. With her sophomore effort, The Cherry Robbers, Walker put a twisted feminist spin on gothic novels in a story about the lone survivor in a family of six cursed

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After admiring the late Pat Conroy’s novels and memoirs for decades—and relating to the “father issues so boldly on display”—Matthew Quick began telling himself, “Your life has become a Pat Conroy book.” Quick and his wife had moved to Lady’s Island, South Carolina, to help care for his aging parents. Now, the author of The

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You only need to glance at Textiles x Art: How Textiles Are Shaping Contemporary Art to see that it’s special. The cover is designed to look like a woven textile, and the motif continues across the book’s printed edges. Authors Ramona Barry and Beck Jobson have compellingly assembled 44 contemporary textile artists whose work expands

Since 2006, the Center for Fiction has been highlighting the best debut novels of the year through its First Novel Prize. This year’s 180 eligible titles were published in the US between January 1st and December 31st, and were narrowed down to 19 books by more than 500 writers, librarians, booksellers, and others. The shortlist

In the 1970s, an intensive program to eradicate drug addiction made waves. Synanon was at first seen as a positive force, endorsed by celebrities and politicians. Soon, however, darker truths were revealed about the group’s “healing” methodologies and the trauma it forced on innocent adults and children. Rowan Beaird’s sophomore novel, Tenderness, chronicles the 1976

Rebecca is channeling a bard, Jeff’s referencing multiple epics, Vanessa’s making noises about the score. The nerd factor is turned all the way up today, because we’ve all officially seen The Odyssey. We always do the homework here at Book Riot, and we won’t even try to pretend that we don’t love it when the

Ice cream conjures up images of summer: cooling frozen pops from the ice cream truck, double scoop cones on the boardwalk or soft serve custard at a carnival. But ice cream and other frozen indulgences are delicious year-round and can be made in your own kitchen. In The Art of Frozen Desserts: Ice Cream, Sorbets,

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During swelling fascist tides, queer love subverts hegemonic power, creating new hierarchies of value altogether. Aruni Kashyap’s How to Date a Fanatic follows Rohit as he seeks love while Hindu nationalism is on the rise in Narendra Modi’s India. While this novel faces hatred and oppression head on, its most moving moments come in the

Rebecca Yarros has announced the fourth addition to the mega-bestselling Empyrean series on Instagram. The book is titled Threshing Day and will be available on September 29th this year. Threshing Day is a little different from the other books in the series, though. It is not a sequel to the third book, Onyx Storm. Instead,

★ Just for the Season In Just for the Season, Rachel Griffiths offers up a read to treasure. Forced to marry to avoid social ruin, Lady Charlotte Aveton invites a succession of suitors to her family’s country home. One snag in her plan to find the best husband? Her brother’s friend, the Duke of Warrick,

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Femme Feral Ellie is counting the days to her boss’s retirement, when he’ll finally hand over the reins of the meditation app company they built from the ground up. After all, she’s running the place already. And she deserves something positive after taking care of her older father-in-law and teenage daughter with little help from

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Shannon Sanders’ first novel, The Great Wherever, is an ingenious meditation on inheritances material, spiritual and emotional, and a worthy successor to her much-lauded short story collection, Company. Aubrey Lamb has long felt like the underdog in her own story, the problematic black sheep of a successful Black family. A year after her father’s death,

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Brigitte Knightley’s Dearly Beloathed duology comes to a close with The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy. Full of action, intrigue and a slow-burn romance that finally ignites, Osric and Aurienne’s adventure will leave readers breathless. Osric is part of the Fyren Order, a morally gray guild of assassins who only answer to money. When

Editors over at The Millions are staying true to their publication’s name with their whopping list of 130 new books to read this summer. With help from editors over at Publishers Weekly, The Millions has compiled a list that is full of buzzy fiction, biting nonfiction, translated psychological thrillers, and more. Below is a sampling

Storm Tide Paul Doiron’s mysteries featuring Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch now number 16 with the release of his latest, Storm Tide. This time out, Bowditch is doing penance, demoted to patrol status after having overstepped both his job mandate and the Canadian border, a big no-no for U.S. law enforcement officers. As the novel

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Wisdom Corner sees the return of amateur sleuth Virgil Wounded Horse, a former vigilante on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. In David Heska Wanbli Weiden’s previous novel, Winter Counts, Virgil had set his intention to walk the Red Road—leave his violent past behind and commit to a more spiritually healthy life—but in Wisdom

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The first half of 2026 brought memoirs by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw and Ada Ferrar, biographies of Emily Brontë and Mary Todd Lincoln, and more. View original source here.

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What makes a toxic-relationship story so irresistible? Just as the characters can’t seem to stay away from each other despite knowing it’s a Very Bad Idea, we can’t stop turning the pages to see what happens next, even if we suspect that finding out will be both electrifying and aggravating—perhaps even disturbing.  Readers in search

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When Faye Heron flies from L.A. to her alma mater in New York’s Finger Lakes region, it’s a homecoming of the saddest kind: the funeral for her beloved film professor and mentor, Patrick Toner (PT for short). It’s been 12 years since Faye left New York and her then-boyfriend, Henry Spalding, to pursue a career

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