TO OUR UNTAMED CORE de Sonora Reyes

The stunning first YA fantasy novel from award-winning author Sonora Reyes! The Hunger Games meets Chain Gang All Stars in this tournament to the death.

TO OUR UNTAMED CORE
by Sonora Reyes
HarperCollins, September 2026
(via Writers House)

Centuries after a plague arrived alongside the conquistadores, Temo’s people are left largely infertile and with a fraction of their former strength. But as a gift from the people of El Centro, where many of the conquistadores now live, Temo and all other residents of the afueras take a daily capsule that allows them to live a civilized life, uninhibited by their untamed nature.

But the sacrament doesn’t work on everyone and every ten years, El Centro hosts El Torneo, where any afueras who were unable to be tamed by the sacraments must fight to the death in a labyrinth of a temple that once belonged to their ancestors. Hundreds of afuereños compete against each other and one conquistador champion. And each games, the conquistador champion from El Centro inevitably wins, earning his title as their next king, and proving to the people of the afueras how barbaric and inferior they are without the sacraments.

Everything changes when Temo’s boyfriend, Ollin, is unjustly arrested and sent to a certain death in El Torneo. But instead of hiding, Temo gets himself arrested too, willingly entering El Torneo knowing this will be the only way to save his gentle boyfriend from a gruesome fate, if Temo even manages to survive himself.

Sonora Reyes is the bestselling and award-winning author of The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School, The Luis Ortega Survival Club,  The Broposal, and The Golden Boy’s Guide to Bipolar. Born and raised in Arizona, they write fiction celebrating queer and Mexican stories in a variety of genres, across ages. Outside of writing, Sonora loves breaking their body and vocal cords by playing with their baby niblings and dancing/singing karaoke at the same time.

POSSESSION ISLAND de Sarah McCarry

Interview with a Vampire meets Heavenly Creatures in Sara McCarry’s queer gothic New Adult thriller. Full of undying loyalty, loss, and creatures with teeth, Possession Island is a darkly funny ode to the lengths we’ll go to for the people (and monsters) we love.

POSSESSION ISLAND
by Sarah McCarry
Wednesday Books, Fall 2026
(via Writers House)

What was it my mother said? Like a woman, a vampire is made, not born. She is a creature of her own invention.
And in all the best stories, the monster always wins.
As she should.

Twenty-year-old Angela Bell comes home from college to her family’s mansion on a remote Pacific Northwest island, haunted by the legacy – and fans – of her late mother’s wildly successful vampire novel. When her estranged best friend Mo is murdered, Angie winds up in the crosshairs of the bungled police investigation.

Determined to clear her name and avenge Mo’s death, Angie finds herself entangled with Sally, a high school nemesis with more than a few secrets of her own. As Angie and Sally delve deeper into the sinister underbelly of their small town, Angie’s forced to reckon with one question: How far is she willing to go for the women she loves?

Fiendishly clever, sharp-sighted, and surprising, POSSESSION ISLAND combines the knife-edge suspense and revamped gender stereotypes of Gone Girl with a gothic horror twist.

Sarah McCarry is the author of the novels All Our Pretty Songs, Dirty Wings, About A Girl, and The Darling Killers; the editor and publisher of the chapbook series Guillotine; and the Executive Director of the Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Foundation. Her work has been shortlisted for the Lambda Award, the Norton Award, and the Tiptree Award. She received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Joint Quantum Institute, the Launchpad Writers’ Workshop, and The Arctic Circle. She’s taught letterpress printing, writing, and zine-making across the United States.

SPARKS FLY de Hazel Henry

Three girls, one summer—and the perfect beach read for fans of Gilmore Girls, Jenny Han, and Elin Hilderbrand!

SPARKS FLY
by Hazel Henry
Avon/HarperCollins, May 2026

The Hollidays are having a summer to remember . . .

Georgia can’t wait to get back to Laurel Lake, where she’ll be too busy lifeguarding to miss her boyfriend, Rhys. Besides, he’ll visit every weekend. It’ll be perfect. She certainly won’t get distracted by the local boy who seems determined to catch her eye …

Daisy is finally old enough for a summer job at the local club, which is good because it will take her mind off the confusing way she and Owen said goodbye—by kissing. A lot. Are they dating now? And if so, should she not be spending time with Mateo, the hot older guy who’s always available to give her a ride home from work?

Eden is on thin ice with her parents, who think that learning to survive in the woods will “fix” her. Sure, being at the lake with Georgia and Daisy is great. A backpacking class? No. A backpacking class with her ex infatuation and forever arch nemesis, Leo? She’d rather hike all the way back to New York City.

The Holliday sisters have so many questions: about love, friendship, and who they want to be. Luckily, they also have each other.

Hazel Henry spends her summers close to several beautiful lakes, though she rarely meets cute boys there. Her favorite warm-weather traditions are beach bonfires, sunset ice cream runs (strawberry, but only if it’s with real strawberries), and lazing in the hammock with a good book.

THE ALGORITHM de Jon McNeill

From a former President of Tesla comes The Algorithm—the first book written by any of Elon Musk’s direct reports—a transformative guide for leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators who want to emulate the paradigm-shattering approach Musk used to launch Tesla and SpaceX to meteoric success.

THE ALGORITHM:
The Hypergrowth Formula that will Revolutionize Any Business
by Jon McNeill
Portfolio/PRH, March 2026
(via Levine Greenberg Rostan)

Jonathan McNeill had already founded and sold six startups when Sheryl Sandberg introduced him to Elon Musk, who was looking for help at Tesla. McNeill was steeped in the lean principles that had made Toyota a global powerhouse—principles focused on achieving efficiency and optimization by incrementally improving existing systems and processes. What he learned from Elon at Tesla was its antithesis, an approach that required radical rethinking to explode the status quo, attack complexity, and set seemingly unrealistic goals. Elon called this five-step framework “The Algorithm.”

1. Question every requirement.
2. Delete every possible step in the process.
3. Simplify and optimize.
4. Accelerate cycle time.
5. Automate.

In this book, McNeill details this tremendously powerful set of tools, which brought Tesla from a production crisis that threatened to derail it to a period of hypergrowth. During his tenure, revenue boomed from $2B to $20B in just 30 months. Since his departure from Tesla, McNeill has used The Algorithm in every enterprise he has worked with to supercharge speed, efficiency, innovation, and growth. Featuring case studies from Tesla and SpaceX, as well as from Lululemon, GM, and companies of various sizes across industries, he reveals how any business can do the same and achieve the unimaginable.

Jonathan McNeill is the cofounder and CEO of venture capital firm DVx Ventures. A serial entrepreneur and business leader with a proven track record of boosting revenue and scaling companies, he served as the president of Tesla, Inc., and the COO of Lyft. McNeill currently holds positions on the board of directors of General Motors, CrossFit, and Lululemon, among others. A sought-after speaker, he is a frequent contributor to CNBC and is regularly quoted in business publications such as Fortune, Semafor, and TechCrunch.

ECONOMICS WITHOUT NUMBERS de Peter Coy

Economics rules our lives, but we don’t fully understand how. People can’t easily grasp the big ideas of economics because they’re put off by the graphs, equations, and specialized terminology. This book explains economics through a powerful and underused teaching tool – the metaphor.

ECONOMICS WITHOUT NUMBERS:
A Guide for the Perplexed
by Peter Coy
W.W. Norton, Winter 2027
(via Levine Greenberg Rostan)

Economics and metaphors go together like pasta and clam sauce. The free market is an invisible hand. A rising tide lifts all boats (supposedly). There’s pushing on a string, which describes the difficulty of fighting deflation by lowering interest rates. Trickle down, the benighted notion that the best way to help the poor is to help the rich first. Real estate bubbles, stock market liquidity, price inflation, the random walk of stock prices.

If you understand the metaphors of economics, you’ll be able to make more sense of the latest report on the CPI or the GDP, and you’ll carry your weight in conversations about inflation or the national debt. “Metaphors are markers that orient the discovering wanderer,” two economists once wrote.

Each metaphor is illustrated. Skipping around is highly encouraged. There’s also a detailed index for people who want to look up a puzzling term. (What’s all this about the “velocity” of money?) For casual readers there’s a quick overview in large type. People who want to read more deeply can continue to the main text.

Peter Coy is a writer for the Opinion section of The New York Times, where he has a newsletter on econonmics and adjacent topics. He writes about big macro topics of economic growth, unemployment, and inflation, and also delves into business, markets, trade, government policy, and personal finance.