Trial by Ambush: Murder, Injustice, and the Truth about the Case of Barbara Graham
by
Marcia Clark
Thomas & Mercer, 12/01/2024
Unwanted and neglected from birth, Barbara Graham had to overcome the odds just to survive. Her beauty was both a blessing and a curse―offering ...
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True Crime
White Mulberry: A Novel
by
Rosa Kwon Easton
Lake Union Publishing, 12/01/2024
1928, Japan-occupied Korea. Eleven-year-old Miyoung has dreams too big for her tiny farming village near Pyongyang: to become a teacher, to avoid an ...
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Historical Fiction
Debut Author
A History of the Big House: A Novel
by
Charif Majdalani
Other Press, 12/03/2024
At the end of the 19th century, a man is forced to flee his village after a quarrel. Starting over with nothing, the banished, audacious Wakim Nassar ...
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Historical Fiction
Alter Ego: A Novel
by
Alex Segura
Flatiron Books, 12/03/2024
Annie Bustamante is a cultural force like none other: an acclaimed filmmaker, an author, a comic book artist known for one of the all time best ...
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Apartment Women: A Novel
by
Gu Byeong-mo
Hanover Square Press, 12/03/2024
When Yojin moves with her husband and daughter into the Dream Future Pilot Communal Apartments, she's ready for a fresh start. Located on the ...
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Ardent Violet and the Infinite Eye: The Starmetal Symphony #2
by
Alex White
Orbit, 12/03/2024
Ultra-glam enby pop star Ardent Violet thought they could catch a break and enjoy some time with their new boyfriend August Kitko after defeating the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Bellevue: A Medical Thriller
by
Robin Cook
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 12/03/2024
Twenty-three-year-old Michael "Mitt" Fuller starts his surgical residency with great anticipation at the nearly three-hundred-year-old, iconic ...
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Berlin Atomized: A Novel
by
Julia Kornberg
Astra House, 12/03/2024
Berlin Atomized begins in Buenos Aires of the early 2000s with the self-baptisms of Nina Goldstein. She bathes too frequently, washing with fervor and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
CABIN: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman
by
Patrick Hutchison
St. Martin's Press, 12/03/2024
Wit's End isn't just a state of mind. It's the name of a gravel road, the address of a run-down off-the-grid cabin, 120 shabby square feet of fixer-...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Deadbeat: A Novel
by
Adam Hamdy
Atria Books, 12/03/2024
Peyton Collard was a good man once, but his life changed after a horrific car accident. Divorced, drunk, and severely damaged, Peyton is offered a ...
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Dust: A Novel
by
Alison Stine
Wednesday Books, 12/03/2024
After her father has a premonition, Thea and her family move to the Bloodless Valley of southern Colorado, hoping to make a fresh start. But the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Gabriel's Moon
by
William Boyd
Atlantic Monthly Press, 12/03/2024
Gabriel Dax is a young man haunted by the memories of a fire that took his mother's life. Every night, when sleep finally comes, he dreams about his ...
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Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film
by
Julie Gilbert
Pantheon Books, 12/03/2024
The stupendous publication of Edna Ferber's
Giant in 1952 set off a storm of protest over the novel's portrayal of Texas manners, money and mores with...
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Havoc: A Novel
by
Christopher Bollen
Harper, 12/03/2024
The war between age and youth has never been so vicious.
Eighty-one-year-old widow Maggie Burkhardt came to the Royal Karnak to escape. But not in...
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I Might Be in Trouble
by
Daniel Aleman
Grand Central Publishing, 12/03/2024
A few years ago, David Alvarez had it all: a six-figure book deal, a loving boyfriend, and an exciting writing career. His debut novel was a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Kingdom of No Tomorrow
by
Fabienne Josaphat
Algonquin Books, 12/03/2024
Nettie Boileau joins the Black Panthers' Free Health Clinics in Oakland in 1968 and is soon swept up in an all-consuming love affair with Melvin ...
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Historical Fiction
My Fairy God Somebody
by
Charlene Allen
HarperCollins Publishers, 12/03/2024
The way Clae's mom tells it, her dad took off when Clae was a baby, end of story. Ever since, it's just been the two of them, living in the coastal ...
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Nobody's Hero: Ben Koenig #2
by
M. W. Craven
Flatiron Books, 12/03/2024
The man who can't feel fear is back...
When a shocking murder and abduction on the streets of London leads investigators to open a safe in ...
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Rental House: A Novel
by
Weike Wang
Riverhead Books, 12/03/2024
Keru and Nate are college sweethearts who marry despite their family differences: Keru's strict, Chinese, immigrant parents demand perfection ("To use...
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Sister Snake: A Novel
by
Amanda Lee Koe
Ecco, 12/03/2024
Sisterhood is difficult for Su and Emerald. Su leads a sheltered, moneyed life as the picture-perfect wife of a conservative politician in Singapore. ...
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The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever
by
Lydia Reeder
St. Martin's Press, 12/03/2024
After Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school, more women demanded a chance to study medicine. Barred entrance to ...
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The Memory Library
by
Kate Storey
HarperCollins Publishers, 12/03/2024
For forty-two years, Sally Harrison has been building a library.
Each year, on her daughter's birthday, she adds a new book to her shelves –...
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Literary Fiction
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Rivals: A Novel
by
Jane Pek
Vintage, 12/03/2024
Claudia Lin—mystery novel superfan and, until recently, clichéd underemployed English major—has scored her dream job: co-running ...
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The Shutouts: A Novel
by
Gabrielle Korn
St. Martin's Press, 12/03/2024
The year is 2041, and it's a dangerous time to be a woman driving across the United States alone. Deadly storms and uncontrollable wildfires are ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Voyage Home: Women of Troy #3
by
Pat Barker
Doubleday, 12/03/2024
I never saw Cassandra as a victim. I saw a woman as focused on a single aim as any raptor stooping to its prey; but then, I had more opportunities to ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The World With Its Mouth Open
by
Zahid Rafiq
Tin House Books, 12/03/2024
From a shopkeeper's encounter with a mannequin, to an expectant mother walking on a precarious road, to a young boy wavering between dreams and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
This Plague of Souls
by
Mike McCormack
Soho Press, 12/03/2024
Nealon returns from prison to his house in the West of Ireland to find it empty. No heat or light, no sign of his wife or child. It is as if the world...
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When the Mapou Sings
by
Nadine Pinede
Candlewick Press, 12/03/2024
Sixteen-year-old Lucille hopes to one day open a school alongside her best friend where girls just like them can learn what it means to be Haitian: to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon
by
Alex Cuadros
Grand Central Publishing, 12/03/2024
Growing up in a remote corner of the world's largest rainforest, Pio, Maria, and Oita learned to hunt wild pigs and tapirs, gathering Brazil nuts and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Woo Woo: A Novel
by
Ella Baxter
Catapult, 12/03/2024
Woo Woo follows Sabine, a conceptual artist on the verge of a photo exhibition she hopes will be pivotal, as she plunges deeper into her neuroses and ...
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A Monsoon Rising: A Novel
by
Thea Guanzon
Harper Voyager, 12/10/2024
After a lifetime of war, Alaric and Talasyn were thrust into an alliance between their homelands that was supposed to end the fighting; however, being...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Mothers and Sons: A Memoir
by
Theodor Kallifatides
Other Press, 12/10/2024
Theodor Kallifatides, an acclaimed Greek author exiled in Sweden for more than 4 decades at age 68, visits his 92-year-old mother, who still resides ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Door-to-Door Bookstore: A Novel
by
Carsten Henn
Hanover Square Press, 12/10/2024
Small-town German bookseller Carl Kollhoff delivers his books to special customers in the evening hours after closing time, walking through the ...
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The Prisoner of Ankara: A Novel
by
Suat Dervis
Other Press, 12/10/2024
Dreaming of a better life for her son, Vasfi's mother encourages him to attend medical school, so he can become a great doctor. But Vasfi's ...
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The Rest Is Memory: A Novel
by
Lily Tuck
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 12/10/2024
First glimpsed riding on the back of a boy's motorcycle, fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by Lily Tuck, who imagines...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
What the Woods Took: A Novel
by
Courtney Gould
Wednesday Books, 12/10/2024
Devin Green wakes in the middle of the night to find two men in her bedroom. No stranger to a fight, she calls to her foster parents for help, but it ...
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How to Be Heard
by
Roxane Gay
Harper, 12/15/2024
All writing advice is terrible, Roxane Gay states early in
How to Be Heard. And still, with her latest book, she steps forward with practical writing ...
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Essays
A Cruel Thirst
by
Angela Montoya
Joy Revolution, 12/17/2024
Carolina Fuentes wants to join her family in hunting the bloodthirsty vampiros that plague her pueblo. Her father, however, wishes to marry her off to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
After the Ocean
by
Lauren E. Rico
Kensington Publishing, 12/24/2024
Thirty years ago, musicians Emilia Oliveras and Paul Winstead were married in Puerto Rico. Forty-eight hours later, Paul vanished from their honeymoon...
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Literary Fiction
Heavenly Tyrant: Iron Widow #2
by
Xiran Jay Zhao
Tundra Books, 12/24/2024
After suffering devastating loss and making drastic decisions, Zetian finds herself on the seat of power in Huaxia, but she has also learned that her ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Knife Skills for Beginners
by
Orlando Murrin
Kensington Publishing, 12/24/2024
"Some people are natural dancers, others marvelous in bed, but—not wishing to boast—I'm good with a knife. Most chefs are."
The ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
