Literary Fiction
4.5Dream Count
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Four women, three continents, and the private accounting each of them keeps of the life they meant to have.
Released 4 March 2025
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Science Fiction
4.3Death of the Author
by Nnedi Okorafor
A disabled Nigerian American novelist writes a robot epic that becomes the biggest book on Earth - and then the book starts writing her.
Released 14 January 2025
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Historical Fiction
4.2The Antidote
by Karen Russell
Dust Bowl Nebraska, 1935: a 'prairie witch' banks the memories her neighbours cannot bear to keep.
Released 11 March 2025
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Literary Fiction
4.4We Do Not Part
by Han Kang
A writer travels through a blizzard to save a friend's bird, and walks into the buried history of Jeju Island.
Released 21 January 2025
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Literary Fiction
4.3Flesh
by David Szalay
From a Hungarian housing estate to Mayfair money, a life told almost entirely in what its owner will not say.
Released 3 April 2025
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Literary Fiction
4.1Theft
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Three young Tanzanians come of age as tourism, NGOs and old family debts rearrange Zanzibar around them.
Released 18 March 2025
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Historical Fiction
4.2Isola
by Allegra Goodman
A sixteenth-century French heiress is marooned on an island in the Gulf of St Lawrence with a lover, a nurse and no plan.
Released 4 February 2025
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Thriller
4.0Beartooth
by Callan Wink
Two broke brothers in Montana take a job poaching antlers from Yellowstone. It is a bad idea and they know it.
Released 8 April 2025
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Mystery
4.1The Note
by Alafair Burke
Three friends leave a petty, joking note on a stranger's windscreen. By morning the driver is missing.
Released 14 January 2025
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Nonfiction
4.2Abundance
by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
Why rich countries stopped building things, and what it would take to start again.
Released 18 March 2025
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Self Help
3.9The Let Them Theory
by Mel Robbins
Two words for the energy you spend managing other people's opinions of you.
Released 24 December 2024
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Fantasy
4.4Onyx Storm
by Rebecca Yarros
Book three of the Empyrean: Violet Sorrengail leaves the continent to find the one ally nobody believes still exists.
Released 21 January 2025
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Young Adult
4.6Sunrise on the Reaping
by Suzanne Collins
The fiftieth Hunger Games, told from inside Haymitch Abernathy's worst year.
Released 18 March 2025
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Romance
4.3Great Big Beautiful Life
by Emily Henry
Two journalists, one reclusive heiress, and a single month to win the story of a lifetime.
Released 22 April 2025
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Historical Fiction
4.5Atmosphere: A Love Story
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
NASA, 1980. An astronomer joins the shuttle programme and falls for someone she cannot be seen to love.
Released 3 June 2025
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Literary Fiction
4.2The Emperor of Gladness
by Ocean Vuong
A nineteen-year-old and an eighty-two-year-old widow keep each other alive in a forgotten Connecticut town.
Released 13 May 2025
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Fantasy
4.1Katabasis
by R. F. Kuang
Two rival Cambridge magicians descend into Hell to retrieve their dead supervisor's soul - and his letter of reference.
Released 26 August 2025
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Thriller
4.0Never Flinch
by Stephen King
A letter promises thirteen innocents and one guilty. Holly Gibney has weeks to work out what that means.
Released 27 May 2025
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Literary Fiction
4.3Broken Country
by Clare Leslie Hall
A dead man, a farming village, and a first love that never quite ended.
Released 4 March 2025
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Memoir
3.9Source Code: My Beginnings
by Bill Gates
Before Microsoft: a memoir of an odd, obsessive Seattle childhood.
Released 4 February 2025
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Literary Fiction
4.4Vigil
by George Saunders
An oil executive dies, and the people around his body argue about what a life is worth.
Released 27 January 2026
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Mystery
4.1Wolf Hour
by Jo Nesbø
Two investigators, six years, and a run of Minnesota murders nobody has connected.
Released 3 February 2026
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Literary Fiction
4.2This Is Not About Us
by Allegra Goodman
Three sisters, one apple cake, and a decade-long rift nobody can explain to outsiders.
Released 10 February 2026
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Historical Fiction
4.4Keeper of Lost Children
by Sadeqa Johnson
Post-war Germany, and the mixed-race children history agreed to forget.
Released 10 February 2026
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Memoir
4.0One Aladdin Two Lamps
by Jeanette Winterson
A life in reading, told through One Thousand and One Nights.
Released 20 January 2026
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Literary Fiction
3.9Evelyn in Transit
by David Guterson
A drifter in the Pacific Northwest and a Tibetan monk ascending to power, in one braided novel.
Released 20 January 2026
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Literary Fiction
4.1I Give You My Silence
by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Nobel laureate's final novel: a failed writer, an eccentric musician, and an obsession.
Released 24 February 2026
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Fantasy
4.2The Poet Empress
by Shen Tao
In a dying dynasty where poetry is magic, a silenced woman writes her way to the throne.
Released 20 January 2026
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Literary Fiction
The Salt Road
by Marisol Vega
Three generations, one crossing, and the things a family agrees never to say.
Released 12 March 2026
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Fantasy
The Lantern Grammar
by Priya Ramanathan
In a city where sentences hold light, one translator learns what her language has been hiding.
Released 16 September 2025
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Romance
Small Hours in Lagos
by Nneka Adeyemi
They only ever meet after midnight. Neither has admitted why.
Released 2 February 2026
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Historical Fiction
The Cartographer's Widow
by Callum Wrenn
Her husband mapped a coastline that does not exist. She has to find out why.
Released 9 October 2025
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Science Fiction
Grid Fault
by Desmond Okafor
The city stopped asking permission.
Released 4 May 2026
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Mystery
The Thornbury Jam Incident
by Hattie Brennan
Nobody dies. Someone still has a great deal to answer for.
Released 20 January 2026
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Short Stories
What the Tide Owes
by Marisol Vega
Eleven stories about debts that were never written down.
Released 3 June 2024
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Historical Fiction
Signal Fires
by Callum Wrenn
Two brothers, four hundred miles of coast, and a chain of beacons neither is allowed to explain.
Released 11 April 2023
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Literary Fiction
4.6The Names
by Florence Knapp
One walk to the register office, three possible names, and three whole lives that follow from the choice.
Released 6 May 2025
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Literary Fiction
4.3Audition
by Katie Kitamura
An actress meets a young man in a Manhattan restaurant. Who he is to her changes halfway through the book.
Released 8 April 2025
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Literary Fiction
4.5My Friends
by Fredrik Backman
A famous painting of four teenagers on a pier, and the girl who works out what really happened that summer.
Released 6 May 2025
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Literary Fiction
4.4The Correspondent
by Virginia Evans
A seventy-three year old woman conducts her entire life by letter, including the one she has avoided writing for decades.
Released 29 April 2025
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Thriller
4.2Culpability
by Bruce Holsinger
The family minivan was driving itself when it killed two people. Everyone in it has a different idea of who is to blame.
Released 8 July 2025
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Thriller
4.1Fever Beach
by Carl Hiaasen
Florida, dark money, and a spectacularly incompetent set of extremists who cannot organise a barbecue, let alone a coup.
Released 13 May 2025
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Memoir
4.4Careless People
by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Seven years inside the world's largest social network, told by the diplomat who was in the room.
Released 11 March 2025
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Nonfiction
4.0Original Sin
by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson
A reported account of the 2024 campaign and the questions nobody around the president wanted asked out loud.
Released 20 May 2025
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