Books on my to-read list, 24

Just want to share some books I'm looking forward to! Once every 4 weeks, I'll post 4 super short previews of books I'm excited to read. 

1. Mad Mabel: A Novel by Sally Hepworth (St. Martin's Press, 2026): Mabel does what she’s always done best―she takes matters into her own hands. Is she a cantankerous old lady with a shady past? A cold-blooded killer with arthritis? Or just someone who’s finally ready to tell her side of the story?
2. We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune (Tor Books, 2026): A heart-wrenching standalone novel that follows an elder gay couple on an end-of-the-world road-trip.
3. Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive by Eliot Stein (St. Martin's Press, 2024): A vivid look at 10 astonishing people who are maintaining some of the world's oldest and rarest cultural traditions.
4. Portrait of a Thief: A Novel by Grace D. Li (Tiny Reparations Books, 2022): Ocean's Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums; about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity.