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HIIIIII HONEYS 🤗

It’s time for RETREAT RADAR, our colorful quarterly roundup of ANTICIPATED NOVELS to read together… on a RETREAT! 📚

After the fastest summer of our lives, we’re ready to slow down and cozy up with one (or a dozen) of these ICONICCCC new releases! 🔥

Tell us which one you’re most excited to read 👀 and we might just choose it for our next retreat!

@fsgoriginals @unionsqandco @algonquinbooks @akashicbooks @astrahousebooks @eccobooks @yalebooks @henryholtbooks @softskullpress @mcswys @pushkinpress_us @catapult @bloomsburybooksus @bloomsburypublishing @fsgbooks @williammorrowbooks @harperbooks @graywolfpress

#pagebreak #retreatradar #bookrecs #newbook #tbr

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My favorite books of 2026, part 3!! Featuring my most-anticipated book of the year, Min Jin Lee’s new novel, and several other Big Books, but also several incredible debuts (Patmeena Sabit!) and deeply original fictions that shook me out of my early summer reading slump!

This summer, my reading has slowed a bit, as I go deeper into my own new book, and also because, as happens sometimes, I started and put down a number of books that just weren’t for me, which led to a rare-for-me reading slump. So this third installment of 2026 favorites is a bit late but includes some of the most exciting and original novels I’ve read in years, which I know I’ll be thinking about, well, forever, and one—Julie Buntin’s Famous Men—that I’ve already dipped into a second time.

I may have delayed posting because one of the books on this list is somewhat divisive: Belle Burden’s Strangers. And, in fact, I avoided reading it for months because of the class-centered discourse about it, which led me to think it might not be for me. But I was wrong. I loved it. (More thoughts further in!)

I have a massive stack of 2026 galleys crowding out the cookbook shelf in my dining room—next to the even larger piles of campus novels and books on writing!—and also a list in Notes of already-out new titles I’m dying to read, but I’d really love to know your 2026 favorites so far. No matter how attuned I think I am to new releases, some always slip by me. (Many.)

And I’ve been receiving a lot of requests for specialized reading lists: books set in New England, thrillers, mysteries, romances, laugh out loud funny books, many for beach reads of all types. I’m putting these together, in my usual overthinking fashion, but please tell me if there’s anything you’d like to see. ❤️

If you know me, you know there are few novelists with whom I feel as deep a kinship as Min Jin Lee, whom I first discovered during the auction for A Fortunate Age, when several editors compared it to her first novel, Free Food for Millionaires, in that both bear the influence of Victorian and Edwardian social realism, and both look at the invisible societal forces—economic, political, ideological—that shape every aspect of o Bestselling writer Joanna Rakoff, author of the memoir My Salinger Year, basis for the Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley movie, in a turquoise dress embroidered with hydrangeas, in her Cambridge, MA bedroom. Text says, My favorite books of 2026. Part 2.

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Coming this November from McSweeney’s and acclaimed author Rebecca Handler: In the Round, an unstoppable feminist Kafkaesque literary mystery.

Have you ever been dead certain that you’re being observed, that maybe your very existence is predicated on how others see you? At once an avant-garde thriller, a meditation on motherhood and mortality, a full-throated endorsement of gut-level intuition, and a tribute to the rapture of live theater in a post-pandemic world, Rebecca Handler’s In the Round is a lively, inventive, and completely singular story.

“I read the opening pages of this remarkable book with a thrill of finding myself in the hands of a gifted conjuror, and finished in a state of total enchantment, profoundly moved.”
—Michael Chabon

“What a beguiling storyteller Rebecca Handler is! In the Round gives the readers an enthralling pleasure of being inside a character and watching the character from outside, which is perhaps akin to the most important experience of living with attention and reflection.”
—Yiyun Li

Preorder now (link in bio)

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One week from today! We welcome Emeline Atwood to celebrate her debut novel, A REAL ANIMAL. Atwood will be joined in-conversation by author and Green Apple fave, Rebecca Handler.

Free to attend, please RSVP at the link in our bio or at greenapplebooks.com/events. See you then!

🔺About A Real Animal🔺
A Real Animal follows Lucy through the decade dividing college and real adulthood, as she navigates three distinct romantic relationships, reckons with the false promise of family intimacy, and seeks connection with the sublime and natural worlds. Lucy wants her life to be extraordinary. But this desire never seems to graft easily onto the smallness of her world. As a senior in college struggling to quell the destructive effects of a sexual assault, she gets a glimpse of a different plane of existence—more wild, physical, animal. She moves away from home, breaks up with her long term boyfriend, stops speaking to her mother, and starts dating a complicated, violent man.

As she changes cities, friends, and partners, there is a persistent sense of wildness in Lucy and in her world that’s only ever barely being controlled. The thrum of a nonhuman existential force in the back of her mind urges her to reject the ordinary, but also reminds her that she is alone in the world. She feels it in the depths of the ocean while deep sea diving, in the cold silences on phone calls with her sister and her mom, in the misunderstanding gaze of a man she thought would love her forever.
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[ID: Graphic reads “Emeline Atwood joined in-conversation by Rebecca Handler. Tuesday, July 28. 7pm. 1231 9th Ave (Inner Sunset). Free, RSVP at the link in bio. Green Apple Books.” The graphic features author photos of Atwood and Handler along with the cover of Atwood’s book, A Real Animal, a soft coral watercolor with a bull in the center, its back to the viewer, looking into the distance at an almost-human figure.]

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Away for a while and came back to some exciting book mail! New novels coming from our alums and friends in the next few months! ⁣
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“ARC” stands for Advanced Reader’s Copy (also known as “ARE,” Advanced Reader’s Edition, or a galley). Here’s my current reading list:⁣
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1. In the Round ARC by 2020 alum @onewomanparty. Bless Rebecca for writing a novel in under 200 pages because I read it in a day and am STILL thinking about it. Cannot wait to discuss this one with others!⁣
2. In the Round acknowledgements page, with a shoutout to the retreat and the “Poppies”—the writing group formed through the retreat!⁣
3. Take What You Can ARC by @naimacoster, a book I’ve been so eager to read, via Naima’s editor @smahanian (thank you, Seema!).⁣
4. This Much is True ARC by 2026 alum @kazzese. She’ll be on the podcast in November and this is next up on my list!!⁣
5. Finished copy of The Lake Club by 2018 alum @linapatton (you can listen to our Book Journey chat now!). Perfect summer read if you’re looking for something for your beach bag!⁣
6. Please Enjoy Your Stay ARC by my friend @taragoedjen! This is Tara’s first foray into adult (she wrote YA before). I’m halfway through and can’t wait to get back to it!⁣
7. The Parisian Heist ARC by 2026 Author-in-Residence @jopiazzaauthor. This technically didn’t arrive while I was away because I took it with me (this photo was taken in Lisbon). Super fun heist novel set in Paris, and around the life of Jo Van Gogh (i.e. the reason we even know about Van Gogh the artist). My finished copy is on its way over here from @oliviadaisybooks!
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#amreading #writersretreat #writingretreat #bookjourney

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A Summer for Moths - out August 4th. Pre-order link in bio 🦋

#bookreview #bookrecommendations #asummerformoths #bookstagram #summerreads

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July, July, July-y-y-y! Summer is officially here, which means our summer author programming is under way. Check out what we have coming up in the Inner Sunset. In the coming month.

[ID: Graphic reads “Upcoming Events, Upcoming Events, in the Inner Sunset July 2026” and features a photo of two authors at our store with the Green Apple Books banner behind them and an audience looking on at them from our bleacher seating. The photo is colorized green.]

First, Jonathan Weber joins us to discuss his book, Technology, Politics, and the Fight for the Soul of San Francisco, with journalist Quentin Hardy.

[ID: Graphic reads “Jonathan Weber, City on the Edge, joined by Quentin Hardy. Wednesday, July 1. 7pm. 1231 9th Ave (Inner Sunset). Free, RSVP at the link in bio. Presented by Green Apple Books.” The graphic features author photos of Weber and Hardy, as well as the book’s cover, which features a gauzy photo of San Francisco’s skyline, the Trans America building cutting through the book’s title.]

Join us this coming Thursday at the SF Botanical Garden when we welcome Gary Paul Nabhan, father of the local food movement and a founder of Earth Day, to celebrate his latest book, Water in the Desert: A Pilgrimage, with Air Copeland!

[ID: Graphic reads “Gary Paul Nabhan, Water in the Desert, joined in-conversation by Air Copeland. Thursday, July 2 at 5:30pm. San Francisco Botanical Garden/1199 9th Ave. Free with Garden Admission. Gardens of Golden Gate Park, Green Apple Books” The graphic features the cover of Water in the Desert as well as Nabhan and Copeland’s author photos.

Tuesday, July 7 we go back in time with Maria Lenhart to celebrate Lost Treasures of San Francisco: Restaurants, Drive-Ins, Concert Halls, and Other Favorites from the Past! Expect a trip down memory lane and insights for the SF enthusiast with facts and trivia.

[ID: Graphic reads “Green Apple Books presents Maria Lenhart, Tuesday, July 7. 7pm. 1231 9th Ave (Inner Sunset). Free, RSVP at the link in bio. Favorite Places from the Past for Those Who Remember and Those Who Wish To” The graphic features the cover of Lost Treasures of San Francisco, with a retro-style light up sign.]

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“My body was a collection of muscle and bones and a thing I had done.”
EDIE RICHTER IS NOT ALONE brought out so many feelings and thoughts and personal stories—what a powerful novel and what a great discussion we had!
And loved having book club on the beach. Thanks, @neeneemac, for hosting. ❤️
Thanks, @christineroseamoroso, for capturing our group in this video. ❤️
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#edierichterisnotalone #rebeccahandler #bookclub #bookclubonthebeach #read #readmorebooks #newportbeach

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This Friday!

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For Women’s History Month, we’ve put together a stack of books by women featuring delightfully complex characters. “Wrong” is really relative, right? And that is the reason, among many others, these books are so compelling. Enjoy!

•Nevada by Imogen Binnie
•My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Mosfegh
•Sula by Toni Morrison
•Edie Richter is Not Alone by Rebecca Handler
•My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
•Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
•The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
•Eve’s Hollywood by Eve Babitz
•The Fetishist by Katherine Min
•I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel
•The Price of Salt, or Carol by Patricia Highsmith
•The Coin by Yasmin Zaher
•Good Girl by Aria Aber
•Soft Core by Brittany Newell
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[image description: a stack of books, listed in the caption above, sits at the front counter of Green Apple Books on the Park with a handwritten note that says “Support Women’s Rights (and Wrongs)” on it.]

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Such a great afternoon on the Double Cross Trail. Views of SF were incredible. #doublecrosstrail #sanfrancisco #california #lovethesehikesaroundsf #suchabeautifulcity #crazywindytoday #greatconversations #wewalkedfar #sofuntohangwithmycousinandfriend ❤️

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