Romance is back on the Monthly Staff Pick menu with our selection for Adults this month, Mazey Eddings’s ‘Well, Actually’. Filled with favorite tropes like second chances, enemies to lovers, and black cat & golden retriever energy all while tackling toxic masculinity, trauma, and forgiveness; this recent release from the fan-favorite author features all of the witty dialogue, strong characters, and a dash of spice that make it a perfect pick for Romance readers of all types.
Middle-grade readers, it’s time to journey to the Archipelago! Katherine Rundell’s ‘Impossible Creatures’ is now available in paperback in a special Griffin Edition featuring sprayed edges, while supplies last. This launch of a new fantasy series was an immediate favorite, and with the next entry ‘The Poisoned King’ just a few short weeks away, there’s no better time to pick up a copy.
‘Sync’, the latest novel in verse from Ellen Hopkins, is our Young Adult selection this month. Using her trademark voice and deft handling of topics that have resonated with readers for decades, ‘Sync’ follows twins separated in the foster care system on their own journeys as told through their unsent letters to each other.
Our picture book selection needs little introduction, the all-ages Classic ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ by Maurice Sendak is our pick this September in celebration of this month’s release of ‘Hansel and Gretel’, the collaboration between the late Sendak and horror icon Stephen King (available tomorrow, September 2nd).
All four of our Monthly Staff Picks this September are available for 20% off, while supplies last!
New Releases | March 25th, 2025
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Adult Fiction
Twist - McCann, Colum
Beautyland - Bertino, Marie-Helene
Mother Doll - Apekina, Katya
Tilt - Pattee, Emma
Paradise Logic - Kemp, Sophie
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert - Bob the Drag Queen
Adult Science
Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea - Ridley, Matt
Biography
Free: My Search for Meaning - Knox, Amanda
Board Books
The Going to Bed Book (Sound Book) - Boynton, Sandra
My Mama Bear and Me - Beer, Sophie
Cookbooks
Pizza from the Heart: 100 Recipes for Pies, Pasta, Salads, and More - Giannone, Paulie
You Got This!: Recipes Anyone Can Make and Everyone Will Love (a Cookbook) - Morrisey, Diane
Graphic Novels
Bad Kitty Takes the Test (Full-Color Edition) - Bruel, Nick
Great Outdoors
The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map - Hutchinson, Alex
History
The Britannias: An Archipelago's Tale - Albinia, Alice
Homestead
Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand - Chu, Jeff
Grow Your Groceries: 40 Hacks for Growing Plants from Supermarket Foods - Akeroyd, Simon
Herbs in Every Season: 48 Edible and Medicinal Herbs for the Kitchen, Garden, and Apothecary - Cohen, Bevin
Horror
Blood on Her Tongue (Deluxe Edition) (Special) - Van Veen, Johanna
Manga & Adult Graphic Novels
Captain America: The Winter Soldier [Marvel Premier Collection] (Marvel Premier Collection) - Brubaker, Ed
Middle Readers
River of Spirits (The Underwild #1) - Targosz, Shana
Isle of Ever (Isle of Ever #1) - Calonita, Jen
Mystery & Thriller
One Perfect Couple - Ware, Ruth
Close to Death (A Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery #5) - Horowitz, Anthony
Nobody’s Fool - Coben, Harlan
This Book Will Bury Me - Winstead, Ashley
Home is Where the Bodies Are - Rose, Jeneva
Picture Books
Little Blue Truck and Racer Red - Schertle, Alice
This Is a Moment - Player, Micah
Nellie's Big Splash - Doerrfeld, Cori
Disney Snow White (Little Golden Book) - Martinez, Susana Illera
Llama Llama Loves His Teacher - Dewdney, Anna
Bearsuit Turtle Makes a Friend: A Picture Book - Shea, Bob
Signs of Friendship - Silvestro, Annie
Political Science
Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax of the Century, Its Enduring Impact, and What It Reveals about America Today - Tinline, Phil
Puzzle Books
Armchair Puzzlers: Large Print Crosswords - Games, University
Romance
Summer in the City (Deluxe Limited Edition) - Aster, Alex
Slaying the Vampire Conqueror: A Crowns of Nyaxia Novel (The Crowns of Nyaxia) - Broadbent, Carissa
The Fine Print (Collector's Edition) (Special) (Dreamland Billionaires #1) - Asher, Lauren
My Demon Hunter: Deluxe Limited Edition (Hell Bent) - Ascher, Aurora
Exquisite Ruin (Labyrinth #1) - May, Adrianne
Science & Nature
Magic in a Drop of Water: How Ruth Patrick Taught the World about Water Pollution - Winterbottom, Julie
When Tree Became a Tree - Hodgson, Rob
Turn This Book Into a Bird Feeder!: And 19 Other Activities to Explore the Amazing World of Birds - Brunelle, Lynn
Growing Green: A First Book of Gardening - Candlewick Press
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Elphie (Deluxe Limited Edition): A Wicked Childhood - Maguire, Gregory
When the Moon Hits Your Eye - Scalzi, John
The Familiar - Bardugo, Leigh
Social Sciences
The Portable Feminist Reader - Gay, Roxane
Our Top 5 Picks
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The collector's hardcover features stenciled edges and a color illustrated map of Oz.
What happened to young Elphaba before her witchy powers took hold in Wicked? Almost 30 years after the publication of the original novel, for the first time Gregory Maguire reveals the story of prickly young Elphie, the future Wicked Witch of the West--setting the stage for the blockbuster international phenomenon that is Wicked: The Musical.
Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, will grow to have a feisty and somewhat uncompromising character in adult life. But she is always a one-off, from her infancy; Elphie is the riveting coming-of-age story of a very peculiar and relatable young girl.
Young Elphie is shaped and molded by the behaviors of her promiscuous mother, Melena, and her pious father, Frex. She suffers ordinary childhood jealousies when her sister, saintly Nessarose, and brother, junior felon Shell, arrive. She first encounters the mistreatment of the Animal populations of Oz, which live adjacent to but not intertwined with human settlements, haunted by a Monkey and receiving aid from Dwarf Bears. She thrashes through her first bruising attempts at friendship, a possible lifeline from her tricky family life. And she gleans the benefits of an education, haphazard though it must be--until she arrives at the doors of Shiz University, about to meet the radiant creature that is Galinda.
Elphie is destined to be a witch; she bears the markings from childhood--most evidently in her green skin but more obscurely and profoundly in her cunning and perhaps amoral behaviors, as she seeks to make do, to slip by, to sneak out, to endure, and to aspire.
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This collector's hardcover features gorgeous sprayed edges with stenciled artwork, illustrated color endpapers, and special design features on the case.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Alex Aster comes her adult debut novel Summer in the City--a swoony, fast-paced rom-com set in New York City in which a screenwriter and a sexy tech CEO go from lovers to enemies and back to lovers again...
Twenty-seven-year-old screenwriter Elle has the chance of a lifetime to write a big-budget movie set in New York City. The only problem? She's had writer's block for months, and her screenplay is due at the end of the summer.
In a desperate attempt at inspiration, Elle ends up back in the city she swore she would never return to, in an apartment she could never afford (floor-to-ceiling windows, skyline views, and a new coffee shop to haunt included). It's the perfect place to write her screenplay...until she realizes her new neighbor is tech "Billionaire Bachelor" Parker Warren, her stairwell hookup from two years ago. It's been a lovers-to-enemies situation ever since.
When seeing him again turns into a full night of hate-fueled writing, Elle realizes her enemy/twisted muse might just be the key to finishing her screenplay... if she can stand being around her polar opposite. She writes anonymously, and he's on the cover of every business magazine. He frequents fancy red carpeted events, and she doesn't like leaving her emotional support five block radius.
One summer. One wall apart. He needs to fake a buzzy relationship during his company's precarious acquisition. She needs to write a movie around a list of NYC locations. Both need a break from their unrelenting schedules, and a chance to rediscover the skyscraper glimmering, pizza crusted, sunlit charms of the city.
Summers always end, and so will this agreement. It's all pretend. Promise.
Until it isn't.
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"Gothic horror for the ages...Combining shiver-inducing horror with sharp-fanged social commentary, this more that merits comparison to Dracula and other genre titans."-- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"I'm in your blood, and you are in mine..."
The Netherlands, 1887. Lucy's twin sister Sarah is unwell. She refuses to eat, mumbles nonsensically, and is increasingly obsessed with a centuries-old corpse recently discovered on her husband's grand estate. The doctor has diagnosed her with temporary insanity caused by a fever of the brain. To protect her twin from a terrible fate in a lunatic asylum, Lucy must unravel the mystery surrounding her sister's condition, but it's clear her twin is hiding something. Then again, Lucy is harboring secrets of her own, too.
Then, the worst happens. Sarah's behavior takes a turn for the strange. She becomes angry... and hungry.
Lucy soon comes to suspect that something is trying to possess her beloved sister. Or is it madness? As Sarah changes before her very eyes, Lucy must reckon with the dark, monstrous truth, or risk losing her forever.
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LIMITED EDITION FIRST PRINTING featuring sprayed edges, designed chapter headers, full color inside covers, and front cover foil with spot gloss--while supplies last!
For fans of Jenna Levine, Hannah Nicole Maehrer, and K.F. Breene, the steamy, laugh-out-loud paranormal romance about learning how to love--including the darkest parts of ourselves--complete with HEA, clothes-ripping-hot love scenes, and a crew of devilish demon brothers who are supposed to be the bad guys . . .
From the instant New York Times bestselling author of SANCTUARY OF THE SHADOW and MY FUNNY DEMON VALENTINE!
The hunter shall become the hunted . . . And the timid shall become the fierce.
Enslaved to an evil demon queen for millennia, Mishetsumephtai has only ever served one purpose. He is the Hunter, the one who drags the guilty back to Hell. But finally tasting freedom on Earth has changed him, and for the first time, Mist questions his duty. The human female who smiles at him with no idea what a monster he is, draws him in, and he'll do anything to possess her.
Lily Donovan thought the most dangerous thing about running to the corner store at night would be the aisles of junk food. She didn't bargain on encountering chaos in the form of a man with unusual tattoos and beguiling amber eyes, stalking her through the ice cream section. Since the death of her parents, Lily has tried to forget what she is. But denial is not an option when she's confronted with everything she's been running from.
Neither Mist nor Lily can ignore the burning magnetism between them. But Mist's reprieve from Hell was always temporary, and the punishment for disobedience will be worse than death. Yet he can't relinquish the woman whose scent calls to him like nothing he's hunted before.
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The TikTok sensation from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Asher. This collector's edition hardcover will feature a specially designed case, beautiful printed edges, exclusive full-color art, and foiled endsheets.
Rowan
I'm in the business of creating fairy tales.
Theme parks. Production companies. Five-star hotels.
Everything could be all mine if I renovated Dreamland.
My initial idea of hiring Zahra was good in theory, but then I kissed her.
Things spiraled out of control once I texted her using an alias.
By the time I realized where I went wrong, it was too late.
People like me don't get happy endings.
Not when we're destined to ruin them.
Zahra
After submitting a drunk proposal criticizing Dreamland's most expensive ride, I should have been fired.
Instead, Rowan Kane offered me a dream job.
The catch? I had to work for the most difficult boss I'd ever met.
Rowan was rude and completely off-limits, but my heart didn't care.
At least not until I discovered his secret.
It was time to teach the billionaire that money couldn't fix everything.
Especially not us.
New Releases | March 18th, 2025
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Adult Fiction
The Paris Express - Donoghue, Emma (Author)
The Story She Left Behind - Callahan Henry, Patti (Author)
Theft (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - Gurnah, Abdulrazak (Author)
Twelve Stories by American Women - Zibrak, Arielle (Editor) , Zibrak, Arielle (Introduction by)
Adult Science
Carbon: The Book of Life - Hawken, Paul (Author)
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction - Gee, Henry (Author)
Biography
One Way Back: A Memoir - Ford, Christine Blasey (Author)
Board Books
Baby Axolotl: Finger Puppet Book - Huang, Yu-Hsuan (Illustrator)
Baby Snail: Finger Puppet Book - Huang, Yu-Hsuan (Illustrator)
Body, Mind & Spirit
Life: My Story Through History - Pope Francis (Author) , Botsford, Aubrey (Translator)
Children’s Poetry
Words with Wings and Magic Things - Burgess, Matthew (Author) , Salati, Doug (Illustrator)
Coloring Books
Creative Haven Road Trip USA Color by Number - Toufexis, George (Author)
Cookbooks
Family Style: Elegant Everyday Recipes Inspired by Home and Heritage - Som, Peter (Author)
Fun & Games
Lonely Planet Kids Explorer's Nature Journal - Planet, Lonely (Author)
Graphic Novels
I Witnessed: The Lizzie Borden Story - Kraatz, Jeramey (Author) , Jayme, Crystal (Illustrator)
History
Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America - Risen, Clay (Author)
Everything Is Tuberculosis (Signed Edition): The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection - Green, John (Author)
Homestead
Martha Stewart's Gardening Handbook: The Essential Guide to Designing, Planting, and Growing - Stewart, Martha (Author)
Horror
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Jones, Stephen Graham (Author)
Bless Your Heart (Bless Your Heart Novel #1) - Ryan, Lindy (Author)
The Haunting of Velkwood - Kiste, Gwendolyn (Author)
Just the Facts
Birdlore: The Iridescent Life of Florence Merriam Bailey - Keating, Jess (Author) , Holzwarth, Devon (Illustrator)
Local Interest
A History Lover's Guide to New Hampshire - Bailey, Kathleen D (Author) , Bailey, Sheila R (Author)
Middle Readers
Wolf Girl #1: Into the Wild (Wolf Girl #1) - Do, Anh (Author)
Mystery & Thriller
The Writer: A Thriller - Patterson, James (Author) , Barker, J D (Author)
Camino Ghosts - Grisham, John (Author)
Nature
The Living Mountain - Shepherd, Nan (Author) , MacFarlane, Robert (Introduction by) , Odell, Jenny (Afterword by)
Personal Growth
The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More - Fisher, Jefferson (Author)
Picture Books
Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave - Beckmeyer, Drew (Author) , Beckmeyer, Drew (Illustrator)
So Tortoise Dug - Kastner, Emmy (Author) , Kastner, Emmy (Illustrator)
Pop! Goes the Nursery Rhyme - Bird, Betsy (Author) , Tsurumi, Andrea (Illustrator)
What Would Bluey's Mum Do?
Echo - Rex, Adam (Author)
Poetry
Poyums (Main) - Pennie, Len (Author)
Political Science
Abundance - Klein, Ezra (Author) , Thompson, Derek (Author)
Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics - Reeve, Elle (Author)
Antisemitism in America: A Warning - Schumer, Chuck (Author)
Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service - Lewis, Michael (Editor)
Romance
The Bane Witch - Morgyn, Ava (Author)
Beneath the Hood (Sugarlake #3) - McIntire, Emily (Author)
The Strawberry Patch Pancake House (Dream Harbor #4) - Gilmore, Laurie (Author)
Science & Nature
When a Tree Falls: Nurse Logs and Their Incredible Forest Power - Pendreigh, Kirsten (Author) , Boschinger, Elke (Illustrator)
In the Desert - Elliott, David (Author) , Wright, Gordy (Illustrator)
Science Fiction & Fantasy
The Prince Without Sorrow: Book One of the Obsidian Throne (Obsidian Throne #1) - Wijesekara, Maithree (Author)
Social Sciencea
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew - Acho, Emmanuel (Author) , Tishby, Noa (Author)
Young Adult
Sunrise on the Reaping (a Hunger Games Novel) - Collins, Suzanne (Author)
Our Top 5 Picks
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The phenomenal fifth book in the Hunger Games series!
When you've been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for?
As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes.
Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves.
When Haymitch's name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He's torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who's nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he's been set up to fail. But there's something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.
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"Consider blocking out a few hours of uninterrupted reading time" for The Writer, #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson's "Excellent...perfectly executed...genuinely suspenseful" (Booklist) thriller about a true-crime author swept up in a murder plot.
"Entertaining...one gonzo plot twist follows the next...loads of fun."(Publishers Weekly)
NYPD Detective Declan Shaw gets a call:How fast can you get to the Beresford building on Central Park West?
In the tower apartment, Shaw finds a woman waiting for him. She's covered in blood. A body is lying dead on the floor of the luxurious living room.
Every book in the apartment's floor-to-ceiling shelves is by the same author: bestselling true-crime writer Denise Morrow.
"This is you?" Shaw asks the woman. "You're a writer?"
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Escape to Camino Island, where bookseller Bruce Cable and novelist Mercer Mann always manage to find trouble in paradise.
Don't miss Framed, John Grisham's first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man!Mercer Mann, a popular writer from Camino Island, is back on the beach, marrying her boyfriend, Thomas, in a seaside ceremony. Bruce Cable, infamous owner of Bay Books, performs the wedding. Afterward, Bruce tells Mercer that he has stumbled upon an incredible story. Mercer desperately needs an idea for her next novel, and Bruce now has one.
The true story is about Dark Isle, a sliver of a barrier island not far off the North Florida coast. It was settled by freed slaves three hundred years ago, and their descendants lived there until 1955, when the last one was forced to leave. That last descendant is Lovely Jackson, elderly now, who loves her birthplace and its remarkable history. But now Tidal Breeze, a huge, ruthless corporate developer, wants to build a resort and casino on the island, which Lovely knows, deep down, is rightfully hers.
Mercer befriends Lovely, and they plunge into an enormous fight over who owns Dark Isle, taking on Tidal Breeze Corporation, its lawyers, lobbyists, and powerful Florida politicians. But Lovely knows something about the island that could seriously cloud the dollar signs in the developer's eyes: the island is cursed. It has remained uninhabited for nearly a century for some very real and very troubling reasons. The deep secrets of the past are about to collide with the enormous ambitions of the present, and the fate of Dark Isle--and Camino Island, too--hangs in the balance.
Look for all of John Grisham's rollicking Camino novels:
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Uniquely New Hampshire
New Hampshire has always been fiercely independent, and its history, museums and festivals reflect that trait. Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe broke baseball's color barrier with the Nashua Dodgers in 1946, and Holman Stadium is now a stop on the Black Heritage Trail. Three of the state's historic mansions--the Fells, the Castle in the Clouds and the Saint-Gaudens historic site--remain as impressive today as when they were built. Portsmouth's historic homes give a portrait of life in colonial and Revolutionary times. From the New England Telephone Museum in Warner to the Exeter UFO Festival, the state has a wealth of history on display.
Kathleen D. Bailey and Sheila R. Bailey lead a trip through the past and present of the Granite State's most memorable sites.
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Learn how to be the very best mum! Based on the award-winning animated series Bluey, as seen on Disney+
Why is Mum so great? Is it because she has the best dance moves, or because she always knows what to say to make things better, or because she makes the best granny? Read along to find how to be best mum you can be! This book is the perfect gift to show your mum how much you care.
New Releases | June 18th, 2024
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Adult Fiction
- Roman Stories - Jhumpa Lahiri
- Holding Pattern - Jenny Xie
- Caledonian Road - Andrew O'Hagan
- Talking at Night - Claire Daverley
- The Glass Maker - Tracy Chevalier
- The Same as it Ever Was - Claire Lombardo
- Sandwich - Catherine Newman
- Parade - Rachel Cusk
- Little Rot - Akwaeke Emezi
Biography
- On Call - Anthony Fauci
Board Books
- Hello Hello Shapes - Wenzel
Body, Mind & Spirit
- A History of Witchcraft - Jeffrey B. Russel, Brooks Alexander
Children's Classics
- A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Current Events & Politics
- When the Clock Broke - John Ganz
Horror
- Middle of the Night - Riley Sager
- How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive - Craig Dilouie
- Camp Damascus - Chuck Tingle
Humor
- Well, This Is Me - Asher Perlman
Mystery & Thriller
- The Midnight Feast - Lucy Foley
- Everyone Here is Lying - Shari Lapena
- Judgment Prey - John Sandford
Picture Books
- Help Wanted One Rooster - Julie Falatko, Andrea Stegmaier
- What Love Looks Like - Laura Obuobi, Anna Cunha
- A Big Day for Bike - Emily Jenkins, Brian Karas
- Once Upon a Friend - Dan Gemeinhart, Shinyeon Moon
- The Girl and the Mermaid - Hollie Hughes, Sarah Massini
Romance
- Love Unwritten - Lauren Asher
- The Art of Catching Feelings - Alicia Thompson
Science Fiction & Fantasy
- The Carnivale of Curiosities - Amiee Gibbs
Travel
- Lonely Planet Canada 16
Young Adult
- Something More - Jackie Khalilieh
New Titles for April 23rd, 2024
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Adult Fiction
The End of Drum-Time -Hanna Pylvainen
The Late Americans - Brandon Taylor
Lessons in Chemistry Special Edition - Bonnie Garmus
The Skin and Its Girl - Sarah Cypher
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece - Tom Hanks
Lucky - Jane Smiley
Art & Crafts
Acrylic Landscapes for Beginners - Sarah Johnston
Ink & Wash in the Garden - Camilla Damsbo Brix
Arts & Entertainment
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent - Judi Dench
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma - Claire Dederer
Biography
The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters - Susan Page
Business
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society - Joseph E. Stiglitz
Cookbooks
Newt: A Cookbook for All - Newt Nguyen
The Meateater Outdoor Cookbook - Steven Rinella, Krista Ruane
Horror
The Dead Zone - Stephen King
Humor
Gay Science - Rob Anderson
Manga & Adult Graphic Novels
Avengers Inc.: Action, Mystery, Adventure - Al Ewing, Leonard Kirk, Daniel Acuna
Spine-Tingling Spider-Man - Salain Ahmed, Juan Ferreyra
Mystery & Thriller
Extinction - Douglas Preston
Dead Mountain - Preston & Child
The Secret: A Jack Reacher Novel - Lee Child
Nature
The Backyard Bird Chronicles Amy Tan
Picture Books
The Truth About the Couch - Adam Rubin, Liniers
Floof - Heidi McKinnon
Romance
The Reality of Everything - Rebecca Yarros
Funny Story - Emily Henry
Better By Far - Hazel Hayes
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Ascension - Nicholas Binge
Light Bringer: A Red Rising Novel - Pierce Brown
The Stone Road - Trent Jamieson