Riverhead Books

  • Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution

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    A major new book overturning our assumptions about how evolution works

    Earth’s natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards

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    • Author: Losos, Jonathan B.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: August 07 2018
    • ISBN10: 052553413X
    • Language: English
  • Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori Book One

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    An international bestseller, Across the Nightingale Floor is the first book in the Tales of the Otori series by Lian Hearn. Don’t miss the related series, The Tale of Shikanoko.

    In his black-walled fo

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    • Series: Tales of the Otori #1
    • Author: Hearn, Lian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: June 03 2003
    • ISBN10: 1573223328
    • Language: English
  • The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

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    The tumultuous life and radical science of a revolutionary thinker, and the history of an idea that changed the world

    In the early nineteenth century, the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck propo

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    • Author: Riskin, Jessica
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: March 24 2026
    • ISBN10: 0593852575
    • Language: English
  • Under Water

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    An intense, atmospheric novel about the devastating power of friendship, set against the backdrop of two cataclysmic events.

    After Marissa loses her mother at six, the most intimate relationship of he

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    • Author: Menon, Tara
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: March 17 2026
    • ISBN10: 9798217048311
    • Language: English
  • Stone Yard Devotional

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    A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR
    A WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR

    Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, a novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be good, from the awar

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    • Author: Wood, Charlotte
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: February 10 2026
    • ISBN10: 9798217047369
    • Language: English
  • Now I Surrender

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    A woman’s desperate flight from an Apache raid unfolds into a sweeping tale of the Mexico-US border wars.

    Orchestrated with a stunningly imagined cast of characters, both historical and purely fictiona… [more below]

    • Author: Enrigue, Ãlvaro
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: March 03 2026
    • ISBN10: 0593084071
    • Language: English
  • The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America

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    From the bestselling author of How We Got To Now, The Ghost Map and Farsighted, a new national bestseller: the “exhilarating”( Los Angeles Times) story of Joseph Priestley, “a founding father long for[more below]

    • Author: Johnson, Steven
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: September 29 2009
    • ISBN10: 1594484015
    • Language: English
  • Revealing: The Underrated Power of Oversharing

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    A groundbreaking book on the surprising potential of revealing more of ourselves to others, from a celebrated Harvard Business School professor and expert on the psychology of self-disclosure decision[more below]

    • Author: John, Leslie
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: February 24 2026
    • ISBN10: 0593545389
    • Language: English
  • Brawler: Stories

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    A stunning, fierce collection from a master of the short story and one of the most important writers of our time

    Read alone, each story in Lauren Groff’s electric collection is an individual triumph,

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    • Author: Groff, Lauren
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: February 24 2026
    • ISBN10: 0593418425
    • Language: English
  • Everyday Movement

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    A powerful, award-winning novel that follows the lives of two women as democracy starts to crumble in Hong Kong

    On a weekend morning, college roommates Ah Lei and Panda wake up with very different rea

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    • Author: Leung, Gigi L.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: February 10 2026
    • ISBN10: 059385537X
    • Language: English
  • Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

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    • Author: Nestor, James
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: December 30 2025
    • ISBN10: 0735213623
    • Language: English
  • Crux

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    “Tender, immersive, and thrilling.” –Gabrielle Zevin

    “One of the best novels I’ve ever read about friendship.” –Stephen King

    “I can’t remember the last time I cared about fictional characters as de

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    • Author: Tallent, Gabriel
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: January 20 2026
    • ISBN10: 0593714180
    • Language: English
  • The Other Side of Change: Who We Become When Life Makes Other Plans

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    A revelatory exploration of how we can find meaning in the tumult of change, from a renowned cognitive scientist and host of the critically acclaimed podcast A Slight Change of Plans

    Life has a way of

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    • Author: Shankar, Maya
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: January 13 2026
    • ISBN10: 0593713680
    • Language: English
  • Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing

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    “Wonderful… Physicans would do well to learn this most important lesson about caring for patients.” The New York Times Book Review

    Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, “health… [more below]

    • Author: Sweet, Victoria
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: October 16 2018
    • ISBN10: 0399573313
    • Language: English
  • Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bible!

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    A hilarious re-imagining of the heroes of the Old Testament for a modern world-and the neurotic, demanding reader.

    In the beginning…there was humor.

    Sure, it’s the foundation for much of Western mor

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    • Author: Goldstein, Jonathan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: April 07 2009
    • ISBN10: 1594483671
    • Language: English
  • The God of the Woods

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    ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2024

    A NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLER OF 2024

    A NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF 2024

    PEOPLE MAGAZINE’S #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR

    ONE OF NPR’S “BOOKS WE LOVE” 20

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    • Author: Moore, Liz
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 576
    • Publish Date: October 28 2025
    • ISBN10: 0593418921
    • Language: English
  • House of Day, House of Night

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    A novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Books of Jacob and Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead

    A woman settles in

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    • Author: Tokarczuk, Olga
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: December 02 2025
    • ISBN10: 0593716388
    • Language: English
  • The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

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    AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER!

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

    “A folk horror story with a deceptively light and knowing tone … elegant and genuinely unsettling.” –The New York Times Book

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    • Author: Tokarczuk, Olga
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: September 23 2025
    • ISBN10: 0593712951
    • Language: English
  • From a Crooked Rib

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    Written with complete conviction from a woman’s point of view, Nuruddin Farah’s spare, shocking first novel savagely attacks the traditional values of his people yet is also a haunting celebration of … [more below]

    • Author: Farah, Nuruddin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: June 27 2006
    • ISBN10: 0143037269
    • Language: English
  • Digital Exhaustion: Simple Rules for Reclaiming Your Life

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    A revelatory examination of why you’re feeling so worn out–and practical daily strategies to change your relationship with your devices.

    Unplugging is not a long-term solution for the stress caused

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    • Author: Leonardi, Paul
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: October 07 2025
    • ISBN10: 0593851234
    • Language: English
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