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Emanuela Anechoum

Translated by

Lucy Rand

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICENew York Times and Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2026“Italian literature has been waiting years for a novel like this.”—Vincenzo Latronico, author of PerfectionA luminous debut about the search for belonging, the tension between departure and return, and the legacy of migration, Tangerinn is a novel of memory, a stirring meditation...

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Irene Graziosi

Narrated by

Barrie Kealoha

Translated by

Lucy Rand

A brilliant and darkly funny story of a friendship and its unraveling, and a powerful examination on the disruptive impact of social media on our livesOnce an ambitious and promising student at an elite university in Paris, Maia is now 26, living in Milan, and stuck in a dead-end job at a cafe and a dysfunctional relationship with an older man. Until one day her life seems to change: thanks to a friend’s recommendation, and despite not knowing anything about social...

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Lucy Rowland

A reassuring read for any little one who has ever worried about getting lost or trying something new.The Unicorn Babies were the very best of friendsThey lived beside the river where the magic rainbow ends.There was Pinky. There was Inky. There was one called Little Bea.And they all played in the meadow by the sleepy willow tree.When one little unicorn gets separated from her friends, she needs to face her f...

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Emanuela Anechoum

Narrated by

Dominique Franceschi

Translated by

Lucy Rand

A luminous debut about the search for belonging, the tension between departure and return, and the legacy of migration, Tangerinn is a novel of memory, a stirring meditation on culture, identity, and inheritance set between London and the windswept beaches of southern Italy.Mina is thirty and living in London. She fled there at twenty to reinvent herself to escape her small-town past, but a decade later she is drifting, un...

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Laura Imai Messina

Narrated by

Kenichiro Thomson

Translated by

Lucy Rand

A tender, contemplative, and uplifting novel about grief, friendship, and the many ways we heal, by the internationally bestselling author of The Phone Booth at the Edge of the WorldOn the peaceful Japanese island of Teshima there is a library where the heartbeats of visitors from all around the world are collected. In this small, isolated building, the pulses of people who are still alive or have already passed away continue to echo.Several miles away, in the ancient city ...

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Binnie Kirshenbaum

Narrated by

Cassandra Campbell

A middle-aged couple struggles with the husband’s descent into early-onset Lewy Body dementia in this profound and deeply moving novel shot through with Kirshenbaum’s lacerating humor.It begins with hallucinations. From their living room window, Leo sees a man on stilts, an acting troupe, a pair of swans paddling on the street. Initially, Leo believes the visions are related to visual impairment—they are something he and his wife, Addie, can joke about. Then, he starts to experienc...

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Shobha Rao

Narrated by

Neil Shah

From the award-winning author of Girls Burn Brighter, a couple from India—so different from generations of white colonialists who came before them—move to Montana, only to discover the secrets the land holds in this stunning literary novel.Janavi and Sagar were never meant to end up married. Janavi is a wonderfully independent, young modern Indian woman. She works for an organizaiton in India that helps street children, often lost to the world of human tra...

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Emily Nemens

Narrated by

Maggi-Meg Reed

Emily Nemens’s Clutch follows a group of five friends as they navigate the biggest challenges of their lives, asking: When you’re hanging on by your fingernails, how can you extend a hand to the ones you love?As undergrads, Gregg, Reba, Hillary, Bella, and Carson formed the kind of rare bond that college brochures promise—friendship that lasts a lifetime. Two decades later, the women are spread across the country but remain firmly tethered through...

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Brandon Taylor

Narrated by

Andre Santana

**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR!From “literary superstar” (The Boston Globe) and Booker Prize finalist Brandon Taylor, his “most accomplished novel” (The New York Times): the story of a gay Black painter navigating the worlds of art, desire, and creativity**New York simmers with heat and unrest as Wyeth, a painter, finds himself at an impasse in his own work.After attending a dubious show put on by a collective of careerist artists, he retre...

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Claire Oshetsky

Narrated by

Kimberly Farr

Finalist for the CALIBA Golden Poppy Award in Fiction"[A] noir delight of a novel . . . . Evil Genius is deceptively light on its feet, skittering across the page to deliver its scorpion sting.”— New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)A Recommended Read from: Alta * Bustle * Electric Literature * Forbes * LitHub * Los Angeles Times * Kirkus * New York Times * People * VultureIt...

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Jason Mott

Narrated by

Jason Mott, Ronald Peet, JD Jackson

**ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—Time—Atlanta Journal-Constitution—Star Tribune (Minneapolis)—Library Journal—KirkusLonglisted for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionFinalist for the Zora Neale Hurston Legacy Literary Fiction AwardFinalist for the Willie Morris Awards for Southern FictionFinalist for the BookTube Prize for FictionOne of TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 20...

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Elif Shafak

A “vivid and entertaining” (Chicago Tribune) tale about the tangled history of two families, from the author of The Island of Missing Trees (a Reese's Book Club Pick)"Zesty, imaginative . . . a Turkish version of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club." —USA TodayAs an Armenian American living in San Francisco, Armanoush feels like part of her identity is missing and that she must make a journey back to the past, to...