When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop?

No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there. The chance to re-live the moments that meant most.

For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the love of his life. On his honeymoon in Venice.

Before he gave it all away.

He wishes he could go back and live differently. But to do so risks everything . . .

A magical, time-travelling love story, from the world of The Midnight Library.

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Penguin Random House/Viking | 304 pages | May 26, 2026 | ISBN:9780593833377 | Science Fiction

"Coyoteland promises to be as dynamic and explosive a suburban drama as LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE." -LitHub (MOST ANTICIPATED)

"Written with WITH, EMPATHY, and HEART." -Electric Lit (MOST ANTICIPATED)

"Totally PROPULSIVE." -Ingrid Rojas Contreras - "A TOUR DE FORCE." -Kirstin Chen - "A tremendous, MESMERIZING gift." -R. O. Kwon - "UNFORGETTABLE." -Jean Kwok - "RIVETING."-Angie Kim

From the BESTSELLING author of A River of Stars comes a FUNNY, HEARTFELT novel set in an affluent Bay Area suburb where a Chinese American family moves in and sets off a series of scandals

Living in El Nido, a privileged community in the hills east of Berkeley, is supposed to mean you've made it. So when Jin Chang moves there with his wife and daughters after years of scraping by, he hopes it will finally be the end of his bad luck. What his family doesn't know is that he's bending the rules for one final scheme: to make it big in real estate. Next door, Blair Belle prides herself on her progressive politics. After all, she treats their new nanny, Ana Rodriguez, and her daughter like family-even if she doesn't know them all that well. But she can't help but feel skeptical of the new neighbors, especially when she begins to suspect that Jin's plans might interfere with the Belle's own luxury development.

Jin's teenage daughter Jane can tell her dad is keeping a secret, but she's also struggling to navigate El Nido's cliques. Tasha Washington has always felt isolated, too, as one of the only Black girls at the school. In the wake of a coyote attack, Jane and Tasha bond. Together, they hatch a plot to expose the town's hypocrisies. The shockwaves will rock their own families. As fire season escalates, and the roaming coyote continues to unleash chaos, the characters become embroiled in a series of scandals that will change El Nido-and their own fates-forever.

Urgent, riveting, and deeply heartfelt, full of sharp wit and keen empathy, Coyoteland is at once a delicious suburban drama and an unflinching exploration of our current moment.

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Macmillan/Flatiron Books | 336 pages | May 12, 2026 | ISBN:9781250395511 | Science Fiction

"Alexandra Andrews is monied Manhattan's very own Agatha Christie."-Ada Calhoun

From the critically acclaimed author of Who is Maud Dixon? comes a riveting new novel about a young wife and mother thrust into a world of wealth and privilege, whose rash mistake sets off a domino effect of murder and betrayal.

In the beginning, there was art.

It was Clare Bast's love of art that saved her from a bleak, predictable life in upstate New York, and drew her to the cultured world of Manhattan's Upper East Side where she met Jed, her doting, affluent husband.

Despite her best efforts-including a half-finished PhD, abandoned when her daughter Sadie was born-Clare secretly can't help but feel like an imposter in Jed's one-percent, Park-Avenue life.

When the well-connected wife of Jed's new boss introduces her to influential friends-a curator here, a gallerist there, an aficionado abroad-Clare feels an essential part of herself coming alive again. And when she discovers that an important work painted by the subject of her unfinished dissertation is hanging in the brownstone of a seductively attractive dealer, she believes fate is leading her where she belongs ... until she finds herself at the scene of a gruesome murder and a stolen masterpiece. Caught in the perfectly wrong place at the perfectly wrong time, every clue the investigation uncovers points back to her.

Suddenly, Clare is trapped inside a dark and treacherous art world filled with unscrupulous dealers and international criminals. What, exactly, has she gotten herself into . . . and how is she going to get herself, and her family, out?

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Harper Collins/Harper | 320 pages | May 5, 2026 | ISBN:9780063472075 | Pyschological Thriller

A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY - "An unputdownable adventure that was both heartwarming and thrilling! Everything I've come to expect from Gillian McAllister!" -Freida McFadden, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author

How far would you go to rescue your child? A mother races against the clock-and finds herself on the wrong side of the law-in a desperate fight to save her teenage daughter in this pulse-pounding thriller from the author of Reese's Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller Wrong Place Wrong Time.

There is nothing that Simone won't do for her daughter, Lucy. The two have always been close, and with Lucy about to leave home for university, they depart the UK for a vacation to Texas to spend some quality time together. But when Simone awakens on their first morning in the desert, Lucy is gone, missing from their rental cabin. In her place is a cell phone, and a voice on the other line issues a shocking ransom demand. Don't tell the police. Come to this location. And be prepared to do a deal... Though Simone's husband urges her to bring in the authorities for help, she knows she can't take any chances. The kidnappers might kill Lucy if she tells anyone. No mother would take that risk. Instead, that night, she drives to the isolated meet-up. What she finds there changes everything. The mysterious kidnapper doesn't want money. They want Simone to do something. The unthinkable.

A catastrophic chain of events is set in motion, with chilling consequences that extend beyond Simone and her family. What follows is a heart-pounding journey through the small towns and punishing deserts of remote Texas, in which Simone's courage-and morality-is pushed to the brink as she discovers what it truly means to be a mother.

Unbearably tense, compassionately told, and full of well-crafted moral dilemmas, Caller Unknown proves once again why Gillian McAllister's thrillers are "the best of the best" (Lisa Jewell).

In this novel of friendship and hard-won hope, four lives are entangled across time by one story, saved to a floppy disk in the 1980s and destined to ripple across the centuries.

"A joy-at once a gripping mystery that confidently spans centuries, and a hauntingly beautiful exploration of what makes us human...It kept me up all night!" -Madeline Miller, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Circe and Song of Achilles

It's 1983 and Becks can't wait to get the hell out of Cincinnati. She's nineteen, blasting her Walkman, and hiding from the fact that her beloved uncle, the only person who understood her, is dead. But she has work to do: he left her a half-finished game to complete-one last collaboration to find her way out of loneliness.

Little does she know, what Becks is making will echo far into the future and shape the lives of a scientist, a sentient automaton, and a flinty sea captain in ways she cannot imagine. All are bound together by their search for connection-and by a futuristic traveler on a mysterious mission through space.

A novel about our deep interconnectedness, Homebound is a clear-eyed, hopeful adventure into humanity's future and capacity for love.

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Simon & Schuster/Scribner | May 05, 2026 | 304 pages | ISBN:9781668201732 | Science Fiction/Literary Fiction

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by GQ - The New York Times - The Guardian - Esquire - Chicago Review of Books - The Sydney Morning Herald - Time - Oprah Daily - Vogue - ELLE - Kirkus Reviews - Los Angeles Times - Literary Hub - Washington Post - Goodreads - Publishers Weekly - USA Today - Service95 - A Globe and Mail Spring 2026 Read

From the Booker-winning author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo comes a vivid, moving, and beautifully crafted novel following a young man returning to his Hebridean island home, a portrait of a close-knit community and a fraying family, of a father's expectations and a son's desires.

"Douglas Stuart's John of John has the emotional range and sense of sympathy of his earlier books, but this book is special, it has an urgency, an immediacy, a brilliant sense of place, the drama of fierce emotion repressed, concealed and volcanically exposed." -Colm Toibin

"To read John of John is to move to the Isle of Harris and take up residence in the family croft. The novel is so immersive, so all-encompassing, that I felt like I was living in it. Douglas Stuart has written something brilliant and rare." -Ann Patchett

Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry back home to the island of Harris to find that little has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where he grew up, Cal begrudgingly resumes his old life, stuck between the two poles of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, tweed weaver, and pillar of their local Presbyterian church, and his maternal grandmother Ella, a profanity-loving Glaswegian who has kept a faltering peace with her son-in-law for several decades. Cal wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, while John is dismayed by his son's long hair and how he seems unwilling to be Saved. As lambing season turns to shearing season, everything seems poised to change as the threads holding together the fragile community become increasingly knotted.

John of John is a singular novel about duty and patience and the transformative power of the truth. It is a magnificent literary work that shows Douglas Stuart working at an even higher level of artistic creation.

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Grove Atlantic / Grove Hardcover | 416 pages | May 5, 2026 | ISBN:978-0-8021-6719-4 | Literary Fiction