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The books are selected by tracking Goodreads members' early reviews and the titles that your fellow readers are adding to their Want to Read shelves. We’ve sorted the list into the usual genres, but as always, some books resist easy classification. Which is a good thing! We did our best. Everything below is slated to be published in the U.S. between now and the end of December.

Finally, the nonfiction stacks are particularly intriguing this year. Look for memoirs from authors Arundhati Roy and Elizabeth Gilbert, plus some incredible real-life stories about World War II spies, online entropy, and replaceable body parts. Not in the same book. But still.

Prepare your frontal lobes, because there are a lot of interesting books on the way. Lily King is back on shelves in September with Heart the Lover, concerning a passionate love triangle among English majors—the most lovable of all undergraduates. Author Oyinkan Braithwaite writes of strange magic in her Nigerian family with the heartfelt and humorous Cursed Daughters. And Ian McEwan imagines life in the year 2119 with the literary speculation of What We Can Know.