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"Albanian author Lea Ypi returns with a family biography that is part investigative history, part philosophical allegory, and completely captivating."

When Lea Ypi's grandfather Asllan was imprisoned and charged with espionage, most of the family's belongings—including photos—were confiscated by the communist regime. Her grandmother Leman's vivid stories of growing up in Greece, moving ...

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December 15, 2025

Reading and Publishing Predictions: Book Trends to Watch for in 2026

What will happen in the book world in 2026? Which genres will be popular? Which reading and publishing trends will continue or fall off? What do readers and book clubs need to know going into the new year? Let us be your crystal ball. Here are some ...

The Magic of Untamed Hearts

by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

After years as a ghost, Sky Flores finds her way back to life and love with a charming neighbor.

The Age of Calamities

"Senaa Ahmad's The Age of Calamities is a strange, singular collection of short stories that thrives in the dark places."

An eternal battle of wills ensues between King Henry VIII and an unkillable Anne Boleyn. Several clones of Napoleon live together in a small English house. A housekeeper in the 1920s allows her body to be occupied by the spirit of Joan of Arc. A ...

Lost Lambs

"In this absurd, comic novel, a dysfunctional family accidentally unearths a conspiracy in their small town while also navigating the parents' separation, teenage relationships, internet radicalization, and more."

Madeline Cash's debut novel, Lost Lambs, takes place in an unnamed coastal town in an unspecified year, an ambiguous setting that gives the story the twinge of an alternate reality. Against this backdrop, the five members of the Flynn family are ...

Book of Lives

"The grande dame of Canadian literature releases her memoir—of sorts."

When publishing industry contacts first approached Margaret Atwood about writing her memoir, she demurred. "[M]y 'literary memoir' would go, 'I wrote a book, I wrote a second book, I wrote another book, I wrote another book…&#...

Some Bright Nowhere

"In Ann Packer's psychologically astute and compassionate fifth novel, a man is hurt when his terminally ill wife chooses her best friends to be her caregivers instead of him."

The title of Ann Packer's sixth work of fiction, an Oprah's Book Club selection, comes from a Christian Wiman poem in which a man sits at a woman's deathbed feeling time counting down. The speaker imagines the afterlife as "some bright nowhere / of ...

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Cape Fever

"A taut, claustrophobic look at race and colonialism through the lens of a housemaid's fraught relationship with her employer, blended seamlessly with hints of the supernatural."

In Nadia Davids' Cape Fever, it's 1920 and the world is still reeling from the First World War. Soraya lives with her family in the Muslim Quarter of an unnamed colonial city, and though she longs to stay in a community that understands her culture ...

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This Must Be the Place

by Maggie O'Farrell

A dazzling novel from bestselling writer Maggie O'Farrell, winner of the Costa Novel Award—an irresistible love story that crisscrosses continents and time zones as it captures an extraordinary ...

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January 14, 2026

This issue of The BookBrowse Review contains reviews and "beyond the book" articles for 14 titles, including Book of Lives by Margaret Atwood, Palaver by Bryan Washington, and A Danger to the Minds of...

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A Crown of Stars

by Shana Abe

"Poignant and captivating"

Captivating historical fiction based on a real person, Marguerite "Rita" Jolivet who survived the sinking of the Lusitania. That sinking is often lost to history because of the Titanic's similar fate ...

Evelyn in Transit

by David Guterson

A crystalline short novel about defying expectations, hitting the road, and seeking the right way to live.

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

by James McBride

From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah's Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who ...

When We Were Brilliant

by Lynn Cullen

Blond bombshell Marilyn Monroe and photographer Eve Arnold strike a life-changing deal in this dazzling novel.

Saints of the Household

Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town - beautifully told by a debut Indigenous Costa Rican-American writer - that will take your breath away.

Dandelion Is Dead

by Rosie Storey

“Funny, honest, and heartbreaking, Dandelion Is Dead is deeply alive.” —Jenny Jackson, author of Pineapple Street

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