New Arrivals for the Week of April 7
This week’s standout releases include Katie Kitamura’s razor-sharp new novel, powerful nonfiction from Pulitzer winner Andrea Long Chu and finalist Vauhini Vara, and a fresh take on the Lennon–McCartney genius that changed music forever.

Audition
Katie Kitamura“Kitamura’s novels are short, sharp, and deadly. I’m not sure there’s anyone better writing in America today,” declared The Guardian in their roundup of fiction to watch in 2025. In Audition, an accomplished actress and an attractive younger man meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. As the encounter unfolds, competing narratives emerge, questioning the roles we play and the truths we conceal.


Hardcover, 2025
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Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
Vauhini VaraIn a book that Booklist calls “provocative, challenging, and concerning,” Pulitzer finalist Vauhini Vara unpacks how tech companies have both fulfilled and exploited our desire for understanding and belonging.


Hardcover, 2025
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Happy Land
Dolen Perkins-ValdezThe bestselling author of Take My Hand returns with an intergenerational epic inspired by true events. When a woman visits her estranged grandmother in the North Carolina hills, she uncovers the story of a lost kingdom of freed people—and her family’s deep ties to it. As she unearths the past, she must fight to protect its legacy before it disappears forever.


Hardcover, 2025
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Heart Lamp: Winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize
Banu MushtaqBanu Mushtaq, a lawyer, activist, and champion of Muslim women, uses literature to highlight the struggles of marginalized communities in India. Heart Lamp, her first collection in English and recently nominated for the 2025 International Booker Prize, was praised by judges for its "unforgettable characters" and its ability to "speak truth to power, slicing through fault lines of caste, class, and religion while exposing the rot within: corruption, oppression, and injustice."

Paperback, 2025
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John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs
Ian LeslieFrom their earliest days to the height of Beatlemania and beyond, John Lennon and Paul McCartney shaped the sound of a generation. In this groundbreaking book, writer and human behavior expert Ian Leslie uses their songs to explore the evolution of their artistry—before, during, and after The Beatles. Drawing on newly released recordings and footage, Leslie offers a fresh, insightful portrait of two cultural icons and the creative force that changed music forever.

Hardcover, 2025
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These Days
Lucy CaldwellThe prize-winning Irish author of Where They Were Missed whisks readers to war-ravaged Belfast in 1941, where two sisters try to carry on amid the bombing and the rubble. SJP hailed this “intimate celebration of sisterhood and a moving tribute to childhoods cut short by war. Rich in voice and beautifully rooted in place, Lucy Caldwell's characters leap from the page in all their joy and devastation. The result is a novel of stunning ambition."

Hardcover, 2025
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Authority: Essays
Andrea Long ChuPulitzer Prize-winning critic Andrea Long Chu explores the question of authority in today’s world, where everyone has an opinion on everything. Authority gathers her essays on novels, TV, theater, and more, including two major pieces that trace the history of criticism from the Enlightenment to the present. "Intellectually rigorous and lucidly argued, this affirms Chu's status as one of the most incisive critics working today," raved Publishers Weekly.
Hardcover, 2025
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Open Up: Stories
Thomas MorrisIn these five short stories from the We Don't Know What We're Doing author, a boy's first football match is complicated by family and magic; a young man's vacation comes under threat from a dark visitor, and a family of seahorses struggles to understand their place in the world. "Across the collection, the clarity and feeling with which Morris writes about south Wales, and his broader commitment to using short fiction to examine a place and its people, put me in mind of James Joyce's landmark 1914 collection Dubliners," hailed the Financial Times.
Hardcover, 2025
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The Float Test
Lynn Steger StrongSet in the heavy heat of a Florida summer, this layered novel follows four adult siblings reuniting after their mother’s death. "Not only does the story yield a fascinating meditation on the nature of fiction, but it exhibits profound empathy for each of the characters," praised Publisher's Weekly. "This is Strong’s best yet."
Hardcover, 2025
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My Documents
Kevin NguyenIn a speculative twist on recent history, a national panic leads to government-run camps for Vietnamese Americans. Four cousins face separation, surveillance, and survival as ambition, journalism, and family bonds collide. Rolling Stone calls it “no better, or scarier,” for this political moment.

Hardcover, 2025
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