Alfred A. Knopf

The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy

Cormac McCarthy

The second McCarthy border novel — a young man crosses into Mexico to return a wolf to the wild. The wolf doesn’t survive. Neither does the old world McCarthy is eulogizing. If McCarthy’s your jam, the prose is as good…

Yesteryear

Caro Claire Burke

This might have been the most talked-about book of 2026, and it brought the term tradwife to the consciousness of the many thousands of people who had no idea. Natalie Heller Mills is an influencer who sells the pioneer life…