A New York editor Maris Matherly-Reed receives a partial manuscript from an anonymous writer traced to a Georgia island and travels to meet him. She meets Parker Evans, a wheelchair-bound man who hides his past, and coaxes from him a tale about a boat trip that leaves only one person returning. Troubled by her attraction to Parker and doubts about her marriage, Maris returns home when new chapters suggest the tale is real and pursues a truth tied to a crime and vengeful man.

Three people have been killed: one pushed to her death, one who suffered a fatal overdose, and one shot in the heart. The victims are people labeled as obstacles and deserving of death. Cissy Cahill's family is unraveling as members die and she begins to feel watched. She hears footsteps, smells a woman's perfume, notices small personal items missing, and must uncover a shocking family secret rooted in the past before more blood is shed.

The Cahills are a wealthy San Francisco family with twisted secrets. Marla Cahill wakes from a coma after a highway crash with no memory and a reconstructed face while another woman died. Her family calls her Marla, but they are strangers as she recuperates in an isolated mansion and grows increasingly certain she is not who they say and that her life is in danger.

Sisters Cassie and Allie leave Oregon to pursue acting in Los Angeles, but Allie becomes a star while Cassie remains stuck in bit parts. When Allie's body double is shot and Allie goes missing, police trace a last call to Cassie though she has no memory of placing it, and she is confined to a Portland psych ward amid public suspicion. Cassie checks out to find Allie, but macabre murders that mimic her family make her doubt everyone and herself.

A Harvard symbologist awakens in a Florentine hospital with no memory and finds himself thrust into a frantic international chase after a reclusive scientist obsessed with Dante, following a trail of art, architecture and cryptic puzzles drawn from the Divine Comedy; aided by a young physician, he races through Florence, Venice and Istanbul to decipher clues and stop a plot to release a bioengineered agent intended to address catastrophic population growth, all while confronting fraught ethical questions about sacrifice, security and the value of human life.

A candid insider account by an early employee that blends behind-the-scenes anecdotes about the company’s quirky culture, the founders’ personalities and priorities, and the chaos of rapid growth; it follows efforts to craft a public image and introduce commercialization, the tensions that arose between engineering purity and business realities (especially around advertising and partnerships), clashes with investors and executives, and the author’s personal struggles and decisions as the once-scrappy research project transformed into a global commercial powerhouse.

From Nobel Prize winner Han Kang comes her first work of nonfiction published in English—a singular collection of writings including her inspiring Nobel Lecture.A LITERARY HUB AND ELECTRIC LIT MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEARIn this light-filled and multi-faceted book, Han Kang draws together the threads of her work and life, tracing the connections between her interior and exterior worlds through a sequence of essays, poems, photographs, and diaries, brilliantly translated by Maya West and e. yaewon & Paige Aniyah Morris.A book of reflections, of words and light, it has at its heart the tiny, north-facing courtyard garden at her home, cultivated solely through the reflected sunlight of the mirrors which she must move throughout the day, as the earth turns on its axis.In a poem written at eight years old, Han Kang imagined a “gold thread” of connection—an idea which she explores here with luminous attention, beginning with her Nobel Lecture. She writes of the wonder of following the thread we call language into the depths of other hearts, and her profound sense of an electric current which joins writer and reader.Both intimate and illuminating, Light and Thread is a book for all readers of Han Kang’s unique body of work.

A white South African woman fleeing her past sets up a small cake shop in Kigali and, through baking and quiet hospitality, becomes entwined with a diverse circle of neighbors—Rwandan survivors of the 1994 genocide, people living with HIV/AIDS, and other displaced souls—learning to confront grief, guilt and cultural difference while discovering unexpected friendships, love and the slow, fragile work of healing in a country rebuilding itself.

Spring 1947. Indian independence is imminent and the British flag will soon be lowered across India. Thousands who made their lives there as planters, civil servants, or in the Indian army prepare to return to England, including Will and Flo Sutherland, who fell in love at the end of the war. India has been the defining experience of their lives and they must find how to make a new life now.

At eight, Alfie discovers he can undo any moment and live it again, but he must accept the consequences of his second attempt. He uses the gift to erase embarrassments, test risky near-death experiences, and shape his love life until he falls for Gianna, but he learns one caveat: once he undoes a love, that person can never love him again. Years later, an ailing Alfie is arrested after allegedly cheating at roulette, and a detective's interrogation gradually reveals his life and its outcome.

A year after his best friend Sam died, Oliver still texts Sam's number and cannot stop, especially as the anniversary approaches. When he accidentally calls, someone else answers: Ben, an astronomy student in Seattle who has been reading Oliver's private messages after the number was reassigned. They meet and feel an undeniable spark, but Oliver discovers something strange that could keep them apart.

Little Blue Encyclopedia follows a queer trans narrator processing unrequited love for a straight trans friend who died. The novel mixes narrative with encyclopedia-style entries about a fictional TV show set on an isolated island. This experimental form examines how pop culture and small pleasures such as karaoke, birding, and butt toys can soothe grief while revealing who the narrator loved, why, and the extent of her loss.

A searing, epistolary account in which a mother writes to her estranged husband to trace their son’s life from infancy to the moment he orchestrates a school massacre, examining her ambivalence toward motherhood, the unraveling of family life, and the wrenching questions of nature versus nurture, responsibility, and the social consequences of violence.