New Books

“Alone. Underneath the stars. Lost somewhere in the cinematic universe.” On a basement floor in suburbia, Tom Sawyer and Erin Morrison sit eager in front of an old Toshiba to bear witness to televisi... (Shane)

Barr and Dava are married professors at a university, with Barr’s writing winning awards and Dava plugging along at academic research. After Dava suffers early-onset dementia and moves into a facility... (Doree)

Wilbert Cooper comes from cops: his father and his mother were both Cleveland police officers, black cops in a city that long resisted giving any such power to African Americans. It was, their son rec... (Tom)

Scanning my shelves for something short and fun, I figured this was a safe bet. Set in England between the World Wars, it focuses on that perennial set-piece from the past two centuries—a girl’s “comi... (Liz)

Holy Land is about a grid—the planned suburb of Lakewood, California, whose small, identical homes were produced with conveyor-belt efficiency in the early '50s and where Waldie has lived in the same... (Tom)

This is my favorite book of 2026, and I doubt that anything I read in the next three months will knock it off the tippy top of my yearly top ten list. I feel like this book was written for me—and anyo... (Liz)

For everyone waiting for Bonnie Garmus’s follow-up to her brilliant Lessons in Chemistry in 2022, it’s finally here. Peck & Peck is a New York poetry journal run by twin brothers, who also hate ea... (Doree)

The phrase that kept coming to mind as I read Lady X was “incandescent female rage.” Set in 1977 and 2024, the ingrained sexism inherent in both times sets the stage for women taking matters into thei... (Doree)

The Solo-Millers are complacently wealthy, inevitably good-looking, and eccentrically old-fashioned. Are they paragons of good behavior and high standards? Or are they smug monsters? And is Polly, the... (Tom)

Gabby, decked out in a tutu, cape, crown, and spatula, proclaims it's time for a parade. And whatever Gabby says, people tend to listen. She and her gramma make their way down the city street, adding... (Haley)

More than half a million people walk the Camino de Santiago each year, and each person has their own reason for doing so. Lotte, a middle-aged wife, mother, and chocolatier from the Netherlands, is wa... (Doree)

Katie Clapham is an author and bookstore owner in the small English seaside town of Lytham St Annes. I've been enjoying her weekly Substack newsletter, where she recounts the highs, the lows, the quir... (Haley)

What would you do to have more time with the people you love most? Would you go to the ends of the earth? Test new scientific theories about time? Laurel and Eli are scientists who face an unimaginabl... (Doree)

This masterclass in historical fiction has a long, slow-burning fuse and a culmination that blew me away. Along with expert world (re)building and insightful character (re)animation is a key feature o... (Liz)

Braiding has taken elementary school class 203 by storm—they're even braiding shoelaces! But Noah doesn't have anything to braid. His teacher tears a classroom rag into strips, which become the start... (Haley)