By BookPage | Jamie Orsini | 8/19/2025 1:00 AM

Jo Nichols’ cozy mystery The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective boasts a sun-drenched Santa Barbara setting, but it also asks complicated questions about justice and morality. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Eric A. Ponce | 8/19/2025 1:00 AM

In his beautiful, incisive Baldwin: A Love Story, Nicholas Boggs trains his eye on James Baldwin’s most intimate relationships, illuminating the literary titan’s life and work. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Deborah Mason | 8/19/2025 1:00 AM

Gwen Strauss’ Milena and Margarete delicately unfolds the miraculous true story of two women who found love in a Nazi concentration camp. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Kelly Blewett | 8/19/2025 1:00 AM

In his remarkable debut memoir, The Quiet Ear, Raymond Antrobus explores his experiences with deafness, language and the people who helped him find himself. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Jessica Peng | 8/19/2025 1:00 AM

Hemlock & Silver, T. Kingfisher’s retelling of Snow White, has a complex plot that’s grounded by a funny and curious narrator. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Laura Hubbard | 8/19/2025 1:00 AM

A daughter teaches her mother witchcraft in Charlie Jane Anders’ Lessons in Magic and Disaster—but this is no cozy fantasy. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Laura Hubbard | 8/19/2025 1:00 AM

Creating a fictional work allowed Anders to incorporate real queer history into her modern-day fantasy. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Jessica Peng | 8/18/2025 1:00 AM

Maria Reva is heartfelt and scalding in her tour de force, Endling, an audiobook illuminating both the invasion of Ukraine and the complexities of making art during war. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Deborah Mason | 8/18/2025 1:00 AM

The full cast production of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil breathes life into V. E. Schwab’s elegant and sensual gothic writing with nuance and assurance. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Eric A. Ponce | 8/18/2025 1:00 AM

Addie E. Citchens’ debut novel, Dominion, sets the stage for a powerful cultural analysis of masculinity, sexuality and spirituality. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Freya Sachs | 8/18/2025 1:00 AM

In Natalie Bakopoulos’ third novel, Archipelago, a translator goes on a meditative journey through Greece toward self-understanding. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Alden Mudge | 8/18/2025 1:00 AM

In her illuminating, uplifting biography of Octavia E. Butler, Susana M. Morris explores how the trailblazing sci-fi author became a “midwife of contemporary Black feminism.” ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Alden Mudge | 8/18/2025 1:00 AM

In Positive Obsession, Morris explores the rich internal life of the visionary sci-fi author of Kindred and The Parable of the Sower, whose books “charge us all with creating the future we want to see.” ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Bruce Tierney | 8/14/2025 1:00 AM

Samantha Downing’s latest suspense novel is a darkly hilarious look at an analog killer in a digital world, plus Flavia Alba investigates a murder in Pompeii. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Christie Ridgway | 8/13/2025 1:00 AM

Plus, a sailing adventure rom-com and a pop star finds love in this month’s best romances. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Katie Garaby | 8/13/2025 1:00 AM

Sangu Mandanna might actually be a witch herself: The long-anticipated follow-up to The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches is here, and it is well worth the wait. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Matthew Jackson | 8/12/2025 1:00 AM

Sexy, complex and confident, A Game in Yellow explores a three-way relationship gone horribly wrong thanks to a madness-inducing play. You’ve never read another horror novel like this one. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | the editors of BookPage | 8/12/2025 1:00 AM

A couple turns to The King in Yellow to spice up their love life, and The Haunting of Hill House takes a Floridian vacation. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Editors | 8/12/2025 1:00 AM

Alice Chen’s Reality Check and The Re-Write pull apart the layers of reality dating shows. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Alice Cary | 8/12/2025 1:00 AM

Young readers will be enthralled with Shana Keller’s storytelling in CeeCee, while Laura Freeman’s illustrations seamlessly blend the historical realities of slavery on Maryland’s Eastern Shore plantations with the fairy-tale dreams of the book’s young enslaved protagonist. ... Read full Story