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The Booker Prize 2025

The 2025 Booker Prize has been awarded to David Szalay for his novel, FLESHA collection of intimate moments over the course of decades, the book chronicles a man at odds with himself --- estranged from and by the circumstances and demands of a life not entirely under his control and the roles that he is asked to play. Click here to read more about David Szalay, who is the first Hungarian-British author to win the award, and FLESH, which Roddy Doyle, Chair of the judges, calls "an extraordinary, singular novel --- a dark book that is a joy to read."

Week of May 4, 2026

Paperback releases for the week of May 4th include DON'T LET HIM IN, a kaleidoscopic thriller from Lisa Jewell in which three women are connected by one man; Megan Miranda's YOU BELONG HERE, a gripping work of psychological suspense featuring a decades-old secret that haunts a mother and her college-bound daughter; MY NAME IS EMILIA DEL VALLE by Isabel Allende, a spellbinding historical novel about a young writer who journeys to South America to uncover the truth about her father --- and herself; THE VIEW FROM LAKE COMOa bighearted, hilarious novel from Adriana Trigiani that revolves around one woman’s quest to build her own life before it’s too late; and THE END IS THE BEGINNING, a lyrical portrait of the life of Jill Bialosky's mother, told in reverse order from burial to birth.