New and Notable: July 2026Like this list

24 items

• Beginning Middle End : A Novel

  Luiselli, Valeria

  Add Beginning Middle End : A Novel to your for later shelf

  A mother and her teenage daughter arrive in Sicily during a summer of rapidly-changing winds, volcanic rumbles and sudden tempests. They've landed near the ancient ruins where the narrator's grandmother worked long ago on an archaeological dig. How…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Biological War : A Scenario

  Jacobsen, Annie

  Add Biological War : A Scenario to your for later shelf

  A ticking-clock roadmap to the hours, days and weeks following the release of a biological agent, one that serves as the most essential, forward-looking journalism in preparation for urgent societal upheaval.

• Catch the Devil

  a True Story of Murder and Deception on the Gulf Coast

  Colloff, Pamela,

  Add Catch the Devil to your for later shelf

  For more than three decades, Paul Skalnik roamed the Gulf Coast lying about who he was. When Skalnik got caught, as he invariably did, he would run a different con. Locked up with other men awaiting trial, he claimed they confessed their crimes to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cool Machine

  Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

  Add Cool Machine to your for later shelf

  Successful business owner/master fence Ray Carney has just been named Sterling Furniture's Dealer of the Month. When the banks won't give his beloved wife Elizabeth a loan for her new travel agency, however, Carney gambles on one last heist and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Country People

  Mason, Daniel (Daniel Philippe),

  Add Country People to your for later shelf

  A year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown (aka Vermont), leaving all the comforts of home behind. Joyous, absurd and life-affirming, Country People is a luminous exploration of marriage and parenthood, the nature of belief,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daggermouth

  Wolfe, H. M.

  Add Daggermouth to your for later shelf

  Set in a corrupt surveillance state ruled by the masked elite, this true enemies-to-lovers dystopian romance that's Conform meets V for Vendetta follows a mercenary who botches the assassination of the president's son and ends up forced to marry him.

• Getting Away With Murder : A Novel

  Lapena, Shari

  Add Getting Away With Murder : A Novel to your for later shelf

  Jill and Ted adore their New York brownstone. With the grand mahogany staircase and state-of-the-art kitchen, it is the stuff of glossy magazines and real-estate dreams. When Ted's inheritance runs out and he makes a bad investment, they panic. How…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Helpless

  Knoll, Jessica,

  Add Helpless to your for later shelf

  When a former and beloved college professor suddenly passes away, Faye and Henry find themselves back on campus for the funeral, circling something old and dangerous. Something, if Faye is honest with herself, she has been trying to duplicate for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hot Girl Murder Club

  Winstead, Ashley,

  Add Hot Girl Murder Club to your for later shelf

  Ten years ago, aspiring singer-actress Scout Sage lost the only thing that mattered: her sister, Georgia. Ever since Georgia's mysterious death at a Hollywood party, Scout's done her best to honor her memory, clawing her way through the industry.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Want You to Be Happy

  Calder, Jem,

  Add I Want You to Be Happy to your for later shelf

  Chuck and Joey meet in a bar. He's in his mid-thirties; she's twelve years younger. He's long abandoned his ambition of becoming a novelist and now works as a copywriter at a big ad agency. Joey lives paycheck to paycheck on her barista wages and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love You More

  Giffin, Emily,

  Add Love You More to your for later shelf

  Billie has built the perfect life. Her practice as a doctor in New York City is thriving and she's finally found the right partner in Dean after years spent trying to move on from her high-school sweetheart, Mick. Then one morning, just after…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Meet Me in Paris : A Novel

  Harmel, Kristin

  Add Meet Me in Paris : A Novel to your for later shelf

  Nine Americans in Paris. Seven intertwined love stories. One City of Light. Love Actually meets The Notebook in a tale of love, loss and finding your way home, all set over the course of one life-changing week in Paris.

• Mistress of the Persian Boarding House

  Nemat, Marina,

  Add Mistress of the Persian Boarding House to your for later shelf

  When a class war breaks out and Russia falls to the Bolsheviks, Zina narrowly escapes with her husband and adopted daughter. But once they arrive in Tehran, tragedy strikes again and she finds herself alone and impoverished. At a modest boarding…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Our Wild Familiars

  How Animals Are Adapting to Cities and Reshaping the Natural World

  Werb, Dan,

  Add Our Wild Familiars to your for later shelf

  Through vivid storytelling, Our Wild Familiars brings to spectacular life the world's most successful synanthropes, from bats, raccoons and crows, to some of its weirdest, including the Giant Pacific Octopus. Acting as a guide to the curious, Dan…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Paris Thief

  Rochon, Lisa,

  Add The Paris Thief to your for later shelf

  1940: As the enemy marches into Paris, Mathilde, an archivist at the Louvre working quietly under a new identity, is tasked with the evacuation of hundreds of priceless masterpieces to the sprawling Château de Chambord in the Loire Valley. With her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ransom

  Silva, Daniel, 1960-

  Add Ransom to your for later shelf

  Alice Winter, one of Britain’s most dazzling socialites, seemingly has the perfect life—a lavish home in posh Knightsbridge, a grand estate in Devon, millions of followers on social media who eagerly await her next post. But when she disappears…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Renoir Girls

  a Hidden History of Art, War, and Betrayal

  Ostler, Catherine,

  Add The Renoir Girls to your for later shelf

  The true story of one of impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir's most famous paintings and an astonishing exploration of the rise and fall of a prominent French Jewish family from the Belle epoque to World War II.

• The Romance Revival

  Lauren, Christina,

  Add The Romance Revival to your for later shelf

  Three years ago, Emery Finch did something completely out of character: she got married to Luca, the impossibly charming landscaper she met on one blistering night in Vegas who made her laugh, made her dance, made her feel. But now, Emery is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Solo Honeymoon

  a Brief Beautiful True Love Story

  Murphy, Laura (Author of The solo honeymoon),

  Add The Solo Honeymoon to your for later shelf

  A romantic, life-affirming memoir about a young woman's solo honeymoon to Europe after her fiancé's sudden death and the community of hope and wonder she builds along the way.

• A Sudden Flicker of Light

  a Revisionist History of Movies

  Thomson, David, 1941-

  Add A Sudden Flicker of Light to your for later shelf

  From one of cinema's wisest and most penetrating observers, an arresting new perspective on the sweep of film history. In tracing the progress, from the Lumiere Brothers to the Coens, David Thomson glories in the great movies, but admits to…Read moreRead more of this annotation