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Welcome back to The Edit our column about buzzy forthcoming titles. This will be the last edition of 2025. As best of the year lists wind down, 2026 most anticipated lists are just getting started. Time Magazine released one of the first, naming titles by Colson Whitehead, George Saunders, Colleen Hoover, and more. PW put out its spring Fiction & Nonfiction Preview. Other early lists can be found at Oprah Daily, People, and Debutiful. Medaya Ocher, editor-in-chief of Los Angeles Review of Books and host of LARB Radio Hour, told PL she is looking forward to On the Calculation of …
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