| |  | | | A stunning Read with Jenna pick with ‘one of the best high-concept hooks of the year’ (Esquire) | | WHY IT’S READWORTHY: | - A woman’s dreams land her in a frightening facility in this example of speculative fiction at its “brilliant” best (Ann Patchett)
- Longlisted for the 2025 Women’s Prize, and penned by a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–nominated author
- Gives a glimpse into a near-future that’s “gripping, Kafkaesque” (Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad)
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 | | | This high-octane series starter is a certified BookTok hit! | | WHY IT’S READWORTHY: | - Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, this instant New York Times bestseller is “dystopian romance at its absolute best” (Town & Country)
- Decades after an earth-shattering war, Wren is conscripted into an elite force — where hiding her powerful abilities puts her life at risk
- “I need the next book in the series injected into my vein right now,” says Ali Hazelwood
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 | | | The time-bending masterpiece on every major reading list this year | | WHY IT’S READWORTHY: | - At The Sea — where time and space have no bearing — Lina and her father meet fellow displaced migrants from across centuries
- Like “Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven and Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land, Thien’s new work almost seamlessly integrates literary, historical, and science fiction” (Los Angeles Times)
- Expect to see this “inventive and ambitious” work (The Boston Globe) on 2025 award ballots
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 | | | This explosive return to the world of The Hunger Games is coming to the big screen | | WHY IT’S READWORTHY: | - Everyone is buzzing about this long-awaited dystopian in one of the all-time biggest science fiction series
- It’s the 50th annual Hunger Games, and District 12 tribute Haymitch Abernathy is determined to shock the world
- Take it from Stephen King: “I couldn’t stop reading”
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 | | | Two stranded researchers realize a seemingly uninhabitable moon is teeming with strange life | | WHY IT’S READWORTHY: | - A propulsive deep space adventure from the modern master behind Children of Time
- “Bizarre ecologies, nonhuman intelligences, and the genius of everyday people — this is the quintessential Tchaikovsky novel” (Library Journal)
- First-contact sci-fi at its best, with complex concepts and inventive extraterrestrial worlds
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 | | | An ‘irresistible,’ genre-bending #1 New York Times bestseller (Booklist) | | WHY IT’S READWORTHY: | - In 1532 Santo Domingo, 1827 London, and 2019 Boston, three women’s lives intertwine as they face immortality
- One of 2025’s most anticipated books according to USA Today, Goodreads, and more
- From the author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
- In a starred review, Library Journal raves, “Schwab’s haunting prose and character-driven plot will keep readers up until the very last page”
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 | | | Chaos ensues when the moon turns to cheese in the latest from a Hugo Award–winning legend | | WHY IT’S READWORTHY: | - “The most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today” (Joe Hill) delivers an instant USA Today bestseller
- As ordinary humans wrestle with the impossible, a cheesy new development threatens the apocalypse
- “Chock-full of Scalzi’s trademark humor… [Readers] are going to be rolling on the floor laughing out loud” (Library Journal)
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 | | | An instant New York Times bestseller and ‘devilishly good time’ (People) | | WHY IT’S READWORTHY: | - A group of vulnerable teenage girls who meet at Wellwood House finally get a taste of power when they come across a book about witchcraft… but what will it cost them?
- Imagine Rosemary’s Baby set in 1970s Florida
- “There’s spells, there’s witches, and then there’s the magic Grady Hendrix conjures up in this amazing novel” (Stephen Graham Jones)
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