This combination of book cover images shows "American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump” by Kai Bird, "Music Against the Night: A Novel" by Yiyun Li, “Promise Me, America” by Joe Biden, "Switzy" by Emma Cline, and "The Disappearers" by Marlon James. (Scribner/FSG/Little, Brown & Co./Random House/Riverhead via AP)

This combination of images show, top row from left, "A Court of Splintered Harmony" by Sarah J. Maas, "American Hagwon" by Min Jin Lee, "American Scoundrel" by Kai Bird, "Birth of a Culture" by Grandmaster Flash with Scoop Jackson, "Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea" by Emily Wilson, "Exit Party," by Emily St. John Mandel, second row from left, "In Latin America You Could Be Free" by Yesenia Barragan, "Life of M" by Rachel Cusk, "Music Against the Night" by Yiyun Li, "Partita" by Barbara Kingsolver, "Peculiar Stars" by Rebecca Yarros, "Ply" by Hernan Diaz, third row from left, "Renaissance Men" by Harriet A Washington, "Staying Still" by Hieu Minh Nguyen, "Taipei Story" by R.F. Kuang, "The Brightness" by Chad Harbach, "The Disappearers" by Marlon James, "The French Illusion" by John Grisham, bottom row from left, "The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State" by Jill Lepore, "The Rush" by Nathaniel Philbrick, "The Telephone" by James Gleick, "The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman" by Deeshaw Philyaw, "Threshing Day" by Rebecca Yarros, and "The Witches of Cambridge" by Alice Hoffman. (AP Photo)

Manfred Honeck, conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, left, appears with his brother Rainer Honeck, concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, as the two worked together on a production of Richard Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos" at the Salzburg Festival in Salzburg, Austria on Aug. 7, 2026. (Marco Borrelli/Salzburg Festival via AP)

Manfred Honeck, conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, right, appears with his brother Rainer Honeck, concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, as the two worked together on a production of Richard Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos" at the Salzburg Festival in Salzburg, Austria on Aug. 7, 2026. (Marco Borrelli/Salzburg Festival via AP)

FILE - Actors Hayden Panettiere, right, and Charles Esten participate in a BUILD Speaker Series to discuss the television series "Nashville" in New York on Jan. 5, 2017, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

The National Music Academy, right, is reflected on a metro entrance at Independence square where Ukrainian flags and photographs are placed in memory of civilians and soldiers killed during the war with Russia, in central Kyiv, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

FILE - Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) Gianandrea Noseda conducts the orchestra during a rehearsal at Milan's La Scala theatre, Italy, on Feb. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)

Madonna appears at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York on May 5, 2025, left, and Taylor Swift appears at the MTV Video Music Awards in Elmont, N.Y., on Sept. 11, 2024. (Photos by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)