Sarah Penner’s latest novel, THE AMALFI CURSE, debuted on The New York Times Bestsellers list for the week of May 18, 2025, appearing at #8 on the Hardcover Fiction list. Park Row published the novel on April 29, 2025.

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Giovanni De Feo’s THE SECRET MARKET OF THE DEAD was awarded a starred review from Publishers Weekly: “De Feo crafts a sumptuous folkloric excursion into the depths of human creativity…The worldbuilding is lush and extraordinary, and a welter of motives and schemes keep the pages flying. It’s a feast for the imagination.” The novel will be published by Saga Press on July 8, 2025.

FIFTY BEASTS TO BREAK YOUR HEART by GennaRose Nethercott is the winner of the Vermont Book Award in Fiction. The ceremony took place at the College Hall chapel in Montpelier on May 3. The collection was published by Vintage on February 6, 2024.

Ling Ling Huang’s new novel, IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, is receiving lots of praise ahead of its highly anticipated release. BookPage has given it a starred review, calling it “a frightening, enlightening powerhouse of a book.” In a review for Shelf Awareness, editor Elizabeth DeNoma writes: “IMMACULATE CONCEPTION is a dazzlingly ambitious feat of storytelling…Huang's style is as captivating and distinctive as the story itself, with incisive prose that is alternately evocative, funny, and caustic…a simmering rumination on covetousness, resilience, and atonement…[It] is a virtuosic work beaming the spectrum of human emotions through a prism of indifferent technology.” The book also received a nod on Shelf Awareness’ “Reading with…” feature with Kevin Nguyen, who calls it a “ twistily structured send-up of the art world.” Goodreads recommends the book to viewers of SEVERANCE on its “What to Read Based on Your Pop Culture Obsessions” round up. Elle and Reader’s Digest featured the book on their must-read lists for 2025. Lastly, the novel is a May Book Club Pick for both Aardvark Book Club and The Good Housekeeping Book Club. IMMACULATE CONCEPTION will be published by Dutton on May 13, 2025.

Kailee Pedersen’s SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS has been honored by the Otherwise Award as one of five works on its 2024 Long List. The Otherwise Award (formerly known as the Tiptree Award), founded in 1991, is a juried award for speculative fiction works that explore gender. The novel and other honored works will be celebrated at the WisCon 2025 convention gala on May 25. SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS was published by St. Martin’s Press on August 20, 2024.

Joan Didion’s posthumous book NOTES TO JOHN debuted on The New York Times Bestsellers list for the week of May 11, 2025, appearing at #6 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list and #4 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list. Knopf published the book on April 22, 2025.

The paperback edition of SOCIOPATH by Patric Gagne debuted at #9 on the Paperback Nonfiction New York Times Bestsellers list for the week of April 27, 2025. Simon and Schuster published the hardcover edition on April 2, 2024, and the paperback on April 8, 2025.

HABITATIONS author Sheila Sundar joined co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast to discuss “the targeting of international university students, especially those involved in pro-Palestine speech or protests, by the Trump administration…[and] international students’ contributions to American intellectual life and how the current assault on diversity damages academia.” Sundar also read an excerpt from HABITATIONS. Simon & Schuster published the hardcover edition of HABITATIONS on April 2, 2024, and the paperback on April 8, 2025.

In an exclusive piece with People magazine, Padma Lakshmi shared details about her new cookbook, PADMA’S ALL AMERICAN: “Dishes featured in the upcoming release include Indian coconut rice, Peruvian tamales with chicken, Afghani dumplings with leeks and scallions, Oaxacan mushroom tacos and a strawberry, cardamom and cream cake…[and] Lakshmi’s 15-year-old daughter, Krishna, made her own contribution. ‘Krishna has her own recipe in there, and you can also see in the photos how she’s grown just in the years it took me to put this book together,’ the author says. ‘This book is a scrapbook of our lives in food over the last six-seven years.’” The book was also featured on Eater: “Arriving at a time when immigrant communities around the U.S. find themselves increasingly under scrutiny and threat, Padma’s All American describes itself as ‘a joyful book — a reflection of who we truly are as a nation, from one of our most essential culinarians.’” Knopf will publish PADMA’S ALL AMERICAN on November 4, 2025.