The 2026 Pulitzer Prize

A stylistically bold and innovative, cinematic horror novel about greed and paranoia, set amongst the grit and mud of the trenches in WW1. Perfect for fans of Stephen Graham Jones and Alma Katsu. From the New York Times bestselling author of Whalefall, and the co-author of The Shape of Water alongside Guillermo del Toro. Private Cyril Bagger has managed to...

A remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance from acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist Yiyun Li as she considers the loss of her son James. 'There is no good way to say this,' Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book. 'There is no good way to state these facts, which must be acknowledged. My husband and I had two children...

In this groundbreaking contribution to American history spanning three tumultuous centuries—beginning in the 1780s and concluding with the Supreme Court era of Chief Justice Roberts—Jill Lepore, the bestselling author of These Truths, notes that the Constitution has not been meaningfully amended since 1971. This was the same year that conservatives invented a theory of constitutional "originalism," which has since provided...

Adventurous, mind-expanding, and provocative - BERNARDINE EVARISTO Unlike anything I'd ever read - YAEL VAN DER WOUDEN, Women's Prize-winning author of The Safekeep Innovative, insightful, funny and confronting - INDEPENDENT, Best Books to Look Out for in 2025 A shining talent - STYLIST Best Books of 2025 Deep in the forest, a band of lumberjacks on an illegal logging operation...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND VOGUE • The first biography of Peter Matthiessen, the novelist, naturalist, and Zen roshi, whose trailblazing work championed Native American rights and helped usher in the modern environmental movement, by award-winning writer Lance...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025 • THE WASHINGTON POST’S 5 BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2025 • THE ATLANTIC’S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2025 • THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 • TIME MAGAZINE’S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 • NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 “[An] astonishing story…Powerful…Harrowing…Absorbing and lucid…You would have to...

At first, Hala’s baby is the size of a poppyseed. Then a grain of rice, then a lime. After years of trying for a baby, with one miscarriage followed by another, Hala watches from afar as her daughter grows in the body of another woman, in another country. Hala is not just awaiting news from the surrogate. She is also...

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!" Supposedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, the phrase encapsulated an entire chaotic era in this nation’s history. Across the 1970s, a wave of arson coursed through American cities, levelling poor communities of colour. However, as historian Bench Ansfield demonstrates in Born in Flames, the...

Clam Down is a wondrously unusual memoir about a woman who, in the midst of mourning her divorce, retreats into her shell and renegotiates her relationship to solitude, shame, and connection—from an acclaimed 5 Under 35 National Book Foundation honouree. In this unique memoir, a woman withdraws into her shell following her divorce and must navigate the pleasures and perils...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, comes a spellbinding narrative history of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and its devastating consequences. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'If you want to understand the turmoil in Gaza, Syria and beyond, the Iranian Revolution of 1979 is a good place to start.' - The Times 'Excellent' - Telegraph 'Brilliant' -...

When twenty-nine-year-old Frank Stanford put three bullets in his chest on June 3, 1978, he ended a life that had been inextricably linked with poetry since childhood. Deeply influential but largely unknown outside his corner of the poetry world, this prodigy of the American South inspired a cult following that has kept his reputation and work flickering on the periphery...