Against the Country
by
Ben Metcalf
Random House, 01/06/2015
Against the Country is a gift for fans of Southern Gothic and metafiction alike. Set in the Virginia pines, and overrun with failed parents, racist ...
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All the Bright Places
by
Jennifer Niven
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 01/06/2015
Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Almost Famous Women: Stories
by
Megan Mayhew Bergman
Scribner, 01/06/2015
From "a top-notch emerging writer with a crisp and often poetic voice and wily, intelligent humor" (
The Boston Globe): a collection of stories that ...
more
Short Stories
Arrows of Rain
by
Okey Ndibe
Soho Press, 01/06/2015
In the country of Madia (based in part on Ndibe's native Nigeria) a young prostitute runs into the sea and drowns. The last man who spoke to her, the ...
more
Before I Go
by
Colleen Oakley
Gallery Books, 01/06/2015
Twenty-seven-year-old Daisy already beat breast cancer three years ago. How can this be happening to her again?
On the eve of what was supposed to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Doing the Devil's Work: A Maureen Coughlin Novel
by
Bill Loehfelm
Simon & Schuster, 01/06/2015
"You have a temper, Officer Coughlin, and a propensity for violence ... You're a bit of a hazard. To others. To yourself."
Maureen Coughlin is a ...
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Driving the King
by
Ravi Howard
Harper, 01/06/2015
The war is over, the soldiers are returning, and Nat King Cole is back in his hometown of Montgomery, Alabama, for a rare performance. His childhood ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Frostfire: The Kanin Chronicles
by
Amanda Hocking
St. Martin's Press, 01/06/2015
Hidden deep in the heart of a snow-covered wilderness lies the secret kingdom of the Kanin - a magical realm as beautiful as it is treacherous…
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Galapagos Regained
by
James Morrow
St. Martin's Press, 01/06/2015
Galápagos Regained centers on the fictional Chloe Bathurst, an unemployed Victorian actress who finds work on Charles Darwin's estate, nurturing ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Hellhole
by
Gina Damico
Houghton Mifflin Books For Younger Readers, 01/06/2015
A devil is a bad influence...
There was a time when geeky, squeaky-clean Max Kilgore would never lie or steal or even
think about murder.
Then ...
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Her
by
Harriet Lane
Little Brown & Company, 01/06/2015
On the face of it, Emma and Nina have very little in common. Isolated and
exhausted by early motherhood, Emma finds her confidence is fading fast. ...
more
Hold Tight, Don't Let Go
by
Laura Rose Wagner
Amulet Books, 01/06/2015
Hold Tight, Don't Let Go follows the vivid story of two teenage cousins, raised as sisters, who survive the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti. ...
more
Monkey Wars
by
Richard Kurti
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, 01/06/2015
A dark fable in the vein of
Animal Farm, Watership Down, and
The Wave, this action-packed page-turner is told entirely from ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Murder
by
Sarah Pinborough
Quercus, 01/06/2015
In this gripping sequel to the acclaimed
Mayhem, author Sarah Pinborough continues the adventures of troubled Victorian forensics expert Dr. Thomas ...
more
Thrillers
Rare: The High-Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest Metals on Earth
by
Keith Veronese
Prometheus Books, 01/06/2015
How will your life change when the supply of tantalum dries up? You may have never heard of this unusual metal, but without it smartphones would be ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Tesla: A Portrait with Masks: A Novel
by
Vladimir Pistalo
Graywolf Press, 01/06/2015
Nikola Tesla was a man forever misunderstood. From his boyhood in what is present-day Croatia, where his father, a Serbian Orthodox ...
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The Abduction of Smith and Smith
by
Rashad Harrison
Atria Books, 01/06/2015
The Civil War is over, though for Jupiter Smith, a former slave and Union soldier, many battles still lie ahead. He returns to the plantation he ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Ghosts of Heaven
by
Marcus Sedgwick
Roaring Brook Press, 01/06/2015
Timeless, beautiful, and haunting, spirals connect the four episodes of
The Ghosts of Heaven, the mesmerizing new novel from Printz ...
more
The Guard
by
Peter Terrin, David Colmer (translator)
MacLehose Press, 01/06/2015
In the near future, Harry and Michel live in the basement of a luxury apartment block, guarding the inhabitants. No one goes outside. The world might ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge
by
Michael Punke
Picador, 01/06/2015
The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is among the company's finest men, an ...
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Literary Fiction
The Winter People
by
Jennifer McMahon
Anchor Books, 01/06/2015
West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908,...
more
The Witch Hunter's Tale: A Midwife Mystery
by
Sam Thomas
Minotaur Books, 01/06/2015
Winter has come to the city of York, and with it the threat of witchcraft. As women and children sicken and die, midwife Bridget Hodgson is pulled ...
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Historical Fiction
Uncle Janice: A Novel
by
Matt Burgess
Doubleday, 01/06/2015
A New York City cop who can last eighteen months in Narcotics, without getting killed or demoted first, will automatically get promoted to ...
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Vivian Apple at the End of the World
by
Katie Coyle
Houghton Mifflin Books For Younger Readers, 01/06/2015
Seventeen-year-old Vivian Apple never believed in the evangelical Church of America, unlike her recently devout parents. But when Vivian returns ...
more
X: A Novel
by
Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon
Candlewick Press, 01/06/2015
Malcolm Little's parents have always told him that he can achieve anything, but from what he can tell, that's a pack of lies - after all, his father's...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude: Pitt Poetry Series
by
Ross Gay
University of Pittsburgh Press, 01/07/2015
Winner, 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize
Winner, 2015 National Book Award, poetry category
Finalist, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, poetry...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Bred to Kill: A Thriller
by
Franck Thilliez
Viking, 01/08/2015
Syndrome E's Lucie Henebelle and Inspector Sharko have reunited to take on the case of the brutal murder of Eva Louts, a promising graduate student ...
more
Hall of Small Mammals: Stories
by
Thomas Pierce
Riverhead Books, 01/08/2015
The stories in Thomas Pierce's
Hall of Small Mammals take place at the confluence of the commonplace and the cosmic, the intimate and the infinite.&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Last Stop on Market Street
by
Matt de la Peña
Putnam Juvenile, 01/08/2015
A 2016 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book
A
New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2015
A
Wall Street Journal Best Children's Book...
more
The Law of Loving Others
by
Kate Axelrod
Razorbill, 01/08/2015
THE LAW OF LOVING OTHERS . . .
Hours after Emma returns home from boarding school, she realizes that her mom is suffering from a schizophrenic break....
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
White Magic: The Age of Paper
by
Lothar Müller
Wiley, 01/12/2015
Paper is older than the printing press, and even in its unprinted state it was the great network medium behind the emergence of modern civilization. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Amnesia: A novel
by
Peter Carey
Knopf, 01/13/2015
When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into Australia's prison computer system, hundreds of asylum-seekers walk free. And because the Americans ...
more
An Appetite for Violets: A Novel
by
Martine Bailey
Thomas Dunne Books, 01/13/2015
"That's how it is for us servants. No one pays you much heed; mostly you're invisible as furniture. Yet you overhear a conversation here, and add a ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Bonita Avenue
by
Peter Buwalda
Hogarth Books, 01/13/2015
Professor Siem Sigerius - maths genius, jazz lover, judo champion, Renaissance man. When Aaron meets his girlfriend Joni's family for the first time, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Done in One: A Novel
by
Grant Jerkins and Jan Thomas
Thomas Dunne Books, 01/13/2015
One bullet equals one kill.
For SWAT sniper Jake Denton, the bullet casings he saves as grim reminders of his "kills" are beginning to add up. His wife...
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Thrillers
Everlasting Lane: A Novel
by
Andrew Lovett
Melville House, 01/13/2015
In a timeless coming-of-age tale as charming and haunting as the movie
Stand By Me, Andrew Lovett's
Everlasting Lane tells the story of what happens ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Harraga: A Novel
by
Boualem Sansal, Frank Wynne (translator)
Bloomsbury USA, 01/13/2015
Harraga. The term means "to burn," and it refers to those Algerians in exile, who burn their identity papers to seek asylum in Europe. But for Boualem...
more
In Some Other World, Maybe: A Novel
by
Shari Goldhagen
St. Martin's Press, 01/13/2015
In December 1992, three groups of teenagers head to the theater to see the movie version of the famed Eons & Empires comic books. For Adam it's a last...
more
Lillian on Life
by
Alison Jean Lester
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/13/2015
This is the story of Lillian, a single woman reflecting on her choices and imagining her future. Born in the Midwest in the 1930s; Lillian lives...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Refund: Stories
by
Karen Bender
Counterpoint Press, 01/13/2015
We think about it every day, sometimes every hour: Money. Who has it. Who doesn't. How you get it. How you don't.
In
Refund, Bender creates an award-...
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Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary
by
Anita Anand
Bloomsbury USA, 01/13/2015
In 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into Indian royalty. Her father, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs, one of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Tasty: The Art and Science of What We Eat
by
John McQuaid
Scribner, 01/13/2015
A fascinating and deeply researched investigation into the mysteries of flavor—from the first bite taken by our ancestors to scientific advances ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Business of Naming Things
by
Michael Coffey
Bellevue Literary Press, 01/13/2015
Among these eight stories, a fan of writer (and fellow adoptee) Harold Brodkey gains an audience with him at his life's end; two pals take a Joycean ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Darkest Part of the Forest
by
Holly Black
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 01/13/2015
Hazel and her brother, Ben, live in Fairfold, where humans and the Folk exist side by side. Tourists drive in to see the lush wonders of Faerie and, ...
more
The Devil You Know: A Novel
by
Elisabeth de Mariaffi
Touchstone, 01/13/2015
The year is 1993. Rookie crime beat reporter Evie Jones is haunted by the unsolved murder of her best friend Lianne Gagnon who was killed in 1982, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The First Bad Man: A Novel
by
Miranda July
Scribner, 01/13/2015
From the acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and bestselling author of
No One Belongs Here More Than You, a spectacular debut novel that is so heartbreaking,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Girl from Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family
by
Roger Cohen
Knopf, 01/13/2015
In this luminous memoir, award-winning
New York Times columnist Roger Cohen turns a compassionate yet discerning eye on the legacy of his own ...
more
The Honest Folk of Guadeloupe
by
Timothy Williams
Soho Press, 01/13/2015
April 1990: French-Algerian judge Anne Marie Laveaud has been living and working in the French Caribbean
département of Guadeloupe for more than ...
more
The Ice Queen: A Novel
by
Nele Neuhaus
Minotaur Books, 01/13/2015
The body of 92-year-old Jossi Goldberg, Holocaust survivor and American citizen, is found shot to death execution style in his house near ...
more
Mysteries
The Magician's Lie: A Novel
by
Greer Macallister
Sourcebooks, 01/13/2015
The Amazing Arden is the most famous female illusionist of her day, renowned for her notorious trick of sawing a man in half on stage. One night in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Seventh Day: A Novel
by
Yu Hua
Pantheon Books, 01/13/2015
Yang Fei was born on a moving train, lost by his mother, adopted by a young switchman, raised with simplicity and love—utterly unprepared for the...
more
The Undertaker's Daughter
by
Kate Mayfield
Gallery Books, 01/13/2015
What if the place you called "home" happened to be a funeral home? Kate Mayfield explores what it meant to be the daughter of a small-town undertaker ...
more
West of Sunset: A Novel
by
Stewart O'Nan
Viking, 01/13/2015
In 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long over. In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental ...
more
The Curse of the House of Foskett: The Gower Street Detective: Book 2
by
M. R. C. Kasasian
Pegasus Books, 01/15/2015
125 Gower Street, 1882:
Sidney Grice once had a reputation as London's most perspicacious personal detective. But since his last case led an innocent ...
more
The Match Girl and the Heiress
by
Seth Koven
Princeton University Press, 01/18/2015
Nellie Dowell was a match factory girl in Victorian London who spent her early years consigned to orphanages and hospitals. Muriel Lester, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Bad Character: A novel
by
Deepti Kapoor
Knopf, 01/20/2015
A highly charged debut novel about a young woman in India, and the love that both shatters and transforms her.
She is twenty and restless in New ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France
by
Miranda Richmond Mouillot
Crown, 01/20/2015
In 1948, after surviving World War II by escaping Nazi-occupied France for refugee camps in Switzerland, the author's grandparents, Anna and Armand, ...
more
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
by
Johann Hari
Bloomsbury USA, 01/20/2015
January, 2015 will mark a century of the war on drugs in the United States: one hundred years since the first arrests under the Harrison Act. Facing ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Don't Let Him Know
by
Sandip Roy
Bloomsbury USA, 01/20/2015
When Romola Mitra, a young Indian bride in the United States, stumbles upon a letter she was not meant to open, it changes her life. Decades later, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Etta and Otto and Russell and James: A Novel
by
Emma Hooper
Simon & Schuster, 01/20/2015
Eighty-two-year-old Etta has never seen the ocean. So early one morning she takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boots, and begins walking the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Fear the Darkness: A Brigid Quinn Thriller (Book 2)
by
Becky Masterman
Minotaur Books, 01/20/2015
It's hard to recognize the devil when his hand is on your shoulder. That's because a psychopath is just a person before he becomes a headline…....more
First Frost
by
Sarah Addison Allen
St. Martin's Press, 01/20/2015
From the New York Times bestselling author of
Garden Spells comes a story of the Waverley family, in a novel as sparkling as the first dusting of ...
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Literary Fiction
Glow: A novel
by
Ned Beauman
Knopf, 01/20/2015
South London, May 2010: foxes are behaving strangely, Burmese immigrants are going missing, and everyone is trying to get hold of a new party drug ...
more
If I Fall, If I Die
by
Michael Christie
Hogarth Books, 01/20/2015
Will has never been outside, at least not since he can remember. And he has certainly never gotten to know anyone other than his mother, a fiercely ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Mobile Library: A Novel
by
David Whitehouse
Scribner, 01/20/2015
From the award-winning novelist David Whitehouse, hailed by
The New York Times as "a writer to watch," a tragicomic adventure about a troubled ...
more
Mort(e)
by
Robert Repino
Soho Press, 01/20/2015
The "war with no name" has begun, with human extinction as its goal. The instigator of this war is the Colony, a race of intelligent ants who, for ...
more
See How Small: A Novel
by
Scott Blackwood
Little Brown & Company, 01/20/2015
One late autumn evening in a Texas town, two strangers walk into an ice cream shop shortly before closing time. They bind up the three teenage girls ...
more
The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
by
David J. Morris
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 01/20/2015
Just as polio loomed over the 1950s, and AIDS stalked the 1980s and '90s, post-traumatic stress disorder haunts us in the early years of the twenty-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Sweetheart: A Novel
by
Angelina Mirabella
Simon & Schuster, 01/20/2015
A debut, coming-of-age novel in which a teenage girl from Philadelphia leaves her old life behind to become The Sweetheart, one of America's most ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully
by
Allen Kurzweil
Harper, 01/20/2015
Equal parts childhood memoir and literary thriller,
Whipping Boy chronicles prize-winning author Allen Kurzweil's search for his twelve-year-old ...
more
Blood-Drenched Beard: A Novel
by
Daniel Galera, Alison Entrekin (translator)
Penguin Press, 01/22/2015
So why did they kill him?
I'm getting there. Patience, tchê. I wanted to give you the context. Because it's a good story, isn't it?
A young man...
more
Dirty Chick: Adventures of an Unlikely Farmer
by
Antonia Murphy
Gotham Books, 01/22/2015
"One month into our stay, we'd managed to dispatch most of our charges. We executed the chickens. One of the cats disappeared, clearly disgusted with ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Frog: A Novel
by
Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt (translator)
Viking, 01/22/2015
In 2012, the Nobel committee confirmed Mo Yan's position as one of the greatest and most important writers of our time. In his much-anticipated new ...
more
Unbecoming: A Novel
by
Rebecca Scherm
Viking, 01/22/2015
On the grubby outskirts of Paris, Grace restores bric-a-brac, mends teapots, re-sets gems. She calls herself Julie, says she's from California, and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Burning Nation: Divided We Fall Book 2
by
Trent Reedy
Scholastic, 01/27/2015
At the end of
Divided We Fall, Danny Wright's beloved Idaho had been invaded by the federal government, their electricity shut off, their rights ...
more
Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea
by
Jang Jin-sung
37 Ink/Atria Books, 01/27/2015
As North Korea's State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions (even as the country suffered through its great famine), ...
more
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
by
Jill Leovy
Spiegel & Grau, 01/27/2015
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Los Angeles Times discusses the hundreds of murders that occur in the city each year, and focuses on the ...
more
I Was Here
by
Gayle Forman
Viking, 01/27/2015
Cody and Meg were inseparable.
Two peas in a pod.
Until... they weren't anymore.
When her best friend Meg drinks a bottle of industrial-strength ...
more
Lost & Found
by
Brooke Davis
Dutton, 01/27/2015
Millie Bird, seven years old and ever hopeful, always wears red gumboots to match her curly hair. Her struggling mother, grieving the death of Millie'...
more
One Step Too Far
by
Tina Seskis
William Morrow, 01/27/2015
The #1 international bestseller reminiscent of
After I'm Gone, Sister, Before I Go to Sleep, and
The Silent Wife - an intricately plotted, thoroughly ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order
by
Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey
St. Martin's Press, 01/27/2015
Bitcoin became a buzzword overnight. A cyber-enigma with an enthusiastic following, it pops up in headlines and fuels endless media debate. You can ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Italians
by
John Hooper
Viking, 01/29/2015
How can a nation that spawned the Renaissance have produced the Mafia? How could people concerned with
bella figura (keeping up appearances) have ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
At Death's Window: A Shaw and Valentine police procedural
by
Jim Kelly
Crème de la Crime, 02/01/2015
When a body is discovered beneath the waves off Scolt Head Island, the contents of the dead man's pockets lead Detective Inspector Peter Shaw to ...
more
Mysteries
Among Thieves
by
John Clarkson
Minotaur Books, 02/03/2015
They thought they could cover up what an out-of-control trader at a Manhattan brokerage firm did to Olivia Sanchez. She worked hard, played by the ...
more
Beastkeeper
by
Cat Hellisen
Henry Holt and Company, 02/03/2015
Sarah has always been on the move. Her mother hates the cold, so every few months her parents pack their bags and drag her off after the sun. She's ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Before He Finds Her
by
Michael Kardos
Mysterious Press, 02/03/2015
Everyone in the quiet Jersey Shore town of Silver Bay knows the story: on a Sunday evening in September 1991, Ramsey Miller threw a blowout block ...
more
Bet Your Life: Jess Tennant Mysteries
by
Jane Casey
St. Martin's Griffin, 02/03/2015
Jess Tennant has now been living in a tiny town on the English seaside for three months, and is just beginning to relax and think of it as home after ...
more
Girl Runner
by
Carrie Snyder
HarperCollins Publishers, 02/03/2015
As a young runner, Aganetha Smart defied everyone's expectations to win a gold medal for Canada in the 1928 Olympics. It was a revolutionary victory, ...
more
God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican
by
Gerald Posner
Simon & Schuster, 02/03/2015
From a master chronicler of legal and financial misconduct, a magnificent investigation nine years in the making, this book traces the political ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy
by
Frank Close
Basic Books, 02/03/2015
Bruno Pontecorvo dedicated his career to hunting for the Higgs boson of his day: the neutrino, a nearly massless particle considered essential to the ...
more
Jam on the Vine: A Novel
by
LaShonda Barnett
Grove Press, 02/03/2015
A new American classic: a dynamic tale of triumph against the odds and the compelling story of one woman's struggle for equality that belongs ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
by
Judd Trichter
Thomas Dunne Books, 02/03/2015
Bad luck for Eliot Lazar, he fell in love with an android, a beautiful C-900 named Iris Matsuo. That's the kind of thing that can get you killed ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Single, Carefree, Mellow: Stories
by
Katherine Heiny
Knopf, 02/03/2015
Single, Carefree, Mellow is that rare and wonderful thing: a debut that is superbly accomplished, endlessly entertaining, and laugh-out-loud funny.
...
more
Soulprint
by
Megan Miranda
Bloomsbury USA, 02/03/2015
Seventeen-year-old Alina Chase has spent her entire life imprisoned on a secluded island—not for a crime she committed in this lifetime, but one ...
more
The Beige Man: An Irene Huss Investigation
by
Helene Tursten
Soho Press, 02/03/2015
Göteborg, Sweden: The high-speed chase of a stolen BMW takes a chilling turn when the two police officers involved witness a gruesome hit-and-run...
more
The Evening Chorus
by
Helen Humphreys
Mariner Books, 02/03/2015
Downed during his first mission, James Hunter is taken captive as a German POW. To bide the time, he studies a nest of redstarts at the edge of camp. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Forgotten Girls
by
Sara Blaedel
Grand Central Publishing, 02/03/2015
Four days later, Louise Rick still had no answers.
The body of an unidentified woman was discovered in a local forest. A large, unique scar on one...
more
The Hunger of the Wolf
by
Stephen Marche
Simon & Schuster, 02/03/2015
A breakout book from Stephen Marche,
The Hunger of the Wolf is a novel about the way we live now: a sweeping, genre-busting tale of money, morality, ...
more
The Kind Worth Killing
by
Peter Swanson
William Morrow, 02/03/2015
On a night flight from London to Boston, Ted Severson meets the stunning and mysterious Lily Kintner. Sharing one too many martinis, the strangers ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Scapegoat
by
Sophia Nikolaidou
Melville House, 02/03/2015
In 1948, the body of an American journalist is found floating in the bay off Thessaloniki. A Greek journalist is tried and convicted for the murder .....
more
This Is the Life
by
Alex Shearer
Washington Square Press, 02/03/2015
This is the life: Not the one you thought you had yesterday. Or the one that might not be here tomorrow. Just this one. Here and now…
This is ...
more
This Side of Home
by
Renée Watson
Bloomsbury USA, 02/03/2015
Identical twins Maya and Nikki have always agreed on the important things-their friends, the right boys, their plans for college and the future. But ...
more
Literary Fiction
Turtleface and Beyond: Stories
by
Arthur Bradford
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/03/2015
Darkly funny stories by the man David Sedaris calls "the most outlandish and energetic writer I can think of."
Paddling down a remote, meandering ...
more
Will Starling
by
Ian Weir
Steerforth Press, 02/03/2015
The Reckoning of WM. STARLING, Esq., a Foundling, concerning Monstrous Crimes and Infernal Aspirations, with Perpetrators Named and Shrouded Infamies ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Head of State
by
Andrew Marr
Overlook, 02/05/2015
It's September 2017, and the United Kingdom is on the verge of a crucial referendum that will determine, once and for all, if the country remains a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
by
Lynsey Addario
Penguin Press, 02/05/2015
Lynsey Addario was just finding her way as a young photographer when September 11 changed the world. One of the few photojournalists with experience ...
more
Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History
by
Richard Wightman Fox
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/09/2015
In a stunning feat of scholarship, insight, and engaging prose,
Lincoln's Body explores how a president ungainly in body and downright "ugly" of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Amherst
by
William Nicholson
Simon & Schuster, 02/10/2015
From an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and the author of
Motherland, a novel about two love affairs set in Amherst - one in the present, one in the past...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Dreamless: An Odd Singsaker Novel
by
Jørgen Brekke
Minotaur Books, 02/10/2015
A promising young singer is found dead in a clearing in a forest, gruesomely murdered - her larynx cut out, and an antique music box placed carefully ...
more
Get in Trouble: Stories
by
Kelly Link
Random House, 02/10/2015
Link has won an ardent following for her ability, with each new short story, to take readers deeply into an unforgettable, brilliantly constructed ...
more
Lies, First Person
by
Gail Hareven
Open Letter, 02/10/2015
From the 2010 winner of the Best Translated Book Award comes a harrowing, controversial novel about a woman's revenge, Jewish identity, and how to ...
more
My Documents
by
Alejandro Zambra
McSweeney’s Books, 02/10/2015
Archived in a folder on award-winning author Alejandro Zambra's desktop are 11 stories of liars and ghosts, armed bandits and young lovers. Intimate, ...
more
My Heart and Other Black Holes
by
Jasmine Warga
Balzer + Bray, 02/10/2015
A stunning novel about the transformative power of love, perfect for fans of Jay Asher and Laurie Halse Anderson.
Sixteen-year-old physics nerd Aysel ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Peaks on the Horizon: Two Journeys in Tibet
by
Charlie Carroll
Soft Skull Press, 02/10/2015
Charlie Carroll's obsession began with his chance discovery of Seven Years in Tibet in the "Adult Reading" section of his grade school library. The ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Screening Room: Family Pictures
by
Alan Lightman
Pantheon Books, 02/10/2015
Alan Lightman's grandfather M.A. Lightman was the family's undisputed patriarch: it was his movie theater empire that catapulted the family to ...
more
She Weeps Each Time You're Born
by
Quan Barry
Pantheon Books, 02/10/2015
Quan Barry's luminous fiction debut brings us the tumultuous history of modern Vietnam as experienced by a young girl born under mysterious ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Sweet Nothing: Stories
by
Richard Lange
Mulholland, 02/10/2015
In these gripping and intense stories, Richard Lange returns to the form that first landed him on the literary map.
These are edge-of-your-seat ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Forgetting Place
by
John Burley
William Morrow Paperbacks, 02/10/2015
Menaker State Hospital is a curse, a refuge, a prison, a necessity, a nightmare, a salvation.
When Dr. Lise Shields arrived at the correctional ...
more
The Last Good Paradise
by
Tatjana Soli
St. Martin's Press, 02/10/2015
From
New York Times bestselling author, Tatjana Soli, comes
The Last Good Paradise…
On a small, unnamed coral atoll in the South Pacific, a ...
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The Long and Faraway Gone: A Novel
by
Lou Berney
William Morrow, 02/10/2015
In the summer of 1986, two tragedies rocked Oklahoma City. Six movie-theater employees were killed in an armed robbery, while one inexplicably ...
more
The Tell-Tale Heart: A Novel
by
Jill Dawson
Harper Perennial, 02/10/2015
After years of excessive drink and sex, Patrick's heart has collapsed. Only fifty, he has been given six months to live. But a tragic accident ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Wonders
by
Paddy O'Reilly
Washington Square Press, 02/10/2015
From the author of the "funny, irreverent, and highly entertaining" (Liane Moriarty, author of
The Husband's Secret)
Fine Color of Rust comes a ...
more
When Reason Breaks
by
Cindy L. Rodriguez
Bloomsbury USA, 02/10/2015
A Goth girl with an attitude problem, Elizabeth Davis must learn to control her anger before it destroys her. Emily Delgado appears to be a smart, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Killing Season: A Carter Blake Novel
by
Mason Cross
Pegasus Books, 02/15/2015
The first thing you should know about me is that my name is not Carter Blake.
When Caleb Wardell, the infamous 'Chicago Sniper', escapes from death...
more
All the Wrong Places: A Life Lost and Found
by
Philip Connors
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/16/2015
In his debut
Fire Season, Philip Connors recounted with lyricism, wisdom, and grace his decade as a fire lookout high above remote New Mexico. Now he ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Blue Stars
by
Emily Gray Tedrowe
St. Martin's Press, 02/17/2015
Emily Gray Tedrowe has written an extraordinary novel about ordinary people, a graceful and gritty portrayal of what it's like for the women whose ...
more
Green on Blue
by
Elliot Ackerman
Scribner, 02/17/2015
From a decorated veteran of the Iraq and Afghan Wars, and White House Fellow, a stirring debut novel about a young Afghan orphan and the harrowing, ...
more
He Wanted the Moon: The Madness and Medical Genius of Dr. Perry Baird, and His Daughter's Quest to Know Him
by
Mimi Baird with Eve Claxton
Crown, 02/17/2015
A mid-century doctor's raw, unvarnished account of his own descent into madness, and his daughter's attempt to piece his life back together and make ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Lies That Bind: A Maeve Conlon Novel
by
Maggie Barbieri
Minotaur Books, 02/17/2015
In the acclaimed
Once Upon a Lie, Maggie Barbieri introduced Maeve Conlon, a single mother and bakery owner hiding dark secrets behind her cookie-...
more
Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli: A Strange Romance
by
Daisy Hay
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/17/2015
When Mary Anne Lewis met Benjamin Disraeli, she was married to Wyndham Lewis, a rich, mildly successful politician at the center of nineteenth-...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Nobody Walks
by
Mick Herron
Soho Press, 02/17/2015
Tom Bettany is working at a meat processing plant in France when he gets a voicemail from an Englishwoman he doesn't know telling him that his ...
more
The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game
by
Mary Pilon
Bloomsbury USA, 02/17/2015
The Monopolists reveals the unknown story of how Monopoly came into existence, the reinvention of its history by Parker Brothers and multiple media ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Whites
by
Harry Brandt (Richard Price)
Henry Holt and Company, 02/17/2015
Back in the run-and-gun days of the mid-90s, when Billy Graves worked in the South Bronx as part of an anti-crime unit known as the Wild Geese, he ...
more
A Higher Form of Killing: Six Weeks in World War I That Forever Changed The Nature of Warfare
by
Diana Preston
Bloomsbury USA, 02/24/2015
In six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever altered the way war would be fought. On April 22, at Ypres, German ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Murder of Magpies
by
Judith Flanders
Minotaur Books, 02/24/2015
It's just another day at the office for London book editor Samantha "Sam" Clair. Checking jacket copy for howlers, wondering how to break it to her ...
more
Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947
by
Bruce Hoffman
Knopf, 02/24/2015
Anonymous Soldiers brilliantly re-creates a crucial period in the establishment of Israel, chronicling three decades of growing anti-colonial ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dreamfire
by
Kit Alloway
St. Martin's Griffin, 02/24/2015
Unlike most 17-year-olds, Joshlyn Weaver has a sacred duty. She's the celebrated daughter of the dream walkers, a secret society whose members ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Eleanor Marx: A Life
by
Rachel Holmes
Bloomsbury USA, 02/24/2015
Unrestrained by convention, lionhearted and free, Eleanor Marx (1855–98) was an exceptional woman. Hers was the first English translation of ...
more
Fancy
by
Jeremy M. Davies
Dzanc Books, 02/24/2015
An elderly shut-in delivers a series of pet-sitting instructions to a young couple who've come to watch over his many, many cats. A story (or series ...
more
Literary Fiction
Finding Jake
by
Bryan Reardon
William Morrow, 02/24/2015
While his successful wife goes off to her law office each day, Simon Connolly takes care of their kids, Jake and Laney. Now that they are in high ...
more
Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It
by
Marc Goodman
Doubleday, 02/24/2015
Technological advances have benefited our world in immeasurable ways, but there is an ominous flip side: our technology can be turned against us. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Hush Hush: A Tess Monaghan Novel
by
Laura Lippman
William Morrow, 02/24/2015
On a searing August day, Melisandre Harris Dawes committed the unthinkable: she left her two-month-old daughter locked in a car while she sat nearby ...
more
I Am Radar
by
Reif Larsen
Penguin Press, 02/24/2015
The moment just before Radar Radmanovic is born, all of the hospital's electricity mysteriously fails. The delivery takes place in total darkness. ...
more
Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story
by
Mac McClelland
Flatiron Books, 02/24/2015
"I had nightmares, flashbacks. I dissociated... Changes in self-perception and hallucinations - those are some of my other symptoms. You are poison, I...
more
Lamentation: Matthew Shardlake #6
by
C.J. Sansom
Mulholland, 02/24/2015
Summer, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councilors are engaged in a final and decisive power struggle; ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Lucky Alan: And Other Stories
by
Jonathan Lethem
Doubleday, 02/24/2015
Jonathan Lethem's third collection of stories uncovers a father's nervous breakdown at SeaWorld in "Pending Vegan"; a foundling child rescued from the...
more
Mark of the Thief: Praetor War Book 1
by
Jennifer A. Nielsen
Scholastic, 02/24/2015
When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing the lost treasures of Julius Caesar, he finds much more ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Mightier Than the Sword: The Clifton Chronicles #5
by
Jeffrey Archer
St. Martin's Press, 02/24/2015
Mightier than the Sword opens with an IRA bomb exploding during the MV
Buckingham's maiden voyage across the Atlantic - but how many passengers lose ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country
by
Shelby Steele
Basic Books, 02/24/2015
The United States today is hopelessly polarized; the political Right and Left have hardened into rigid and deeply antagonistic camps, preventing any ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Shame and the Captives
by
Thomas Keneally
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 02/24/2015
Based on true events, this beautifully rendered novel from the author of
Schindler's List and
The Daughters of Mars brilliantly explores a World War ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Life I Left Behind
by
Colette McBeth
Minotaur Books, 02/24/2015
Six years ago, Melody Pieterson was attacked and left for dead. Only a chance encounter with a dog walker saved her life. Melody's neighbor and close ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Star Fall: A Bill Slider British Police Procedural
by
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Severn House, 03/01/2015
'It's quiet out there,' says DS Atherton, at Bill Slider's office window. 'Too quiet.' Right on cue, the phone rings. 'Now look what you've done,' ...
more
Above Us Only Sky
by
Michele Young-Stone
Simon & Schuster, 03/03/2015
From the author of
The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors, which
Library Journal called, "ripe for Oprah or fans of Elizabeth Berg or Anne Tyler,...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Act of God
by
Jill Ciment
Pantheon Books, 03/03/2015
It's the summer of 2015, Brooklyn. The city is sweltering from another record-breaking heat wave, this one accompanied by biblical rains. Edith,...
more
Bone Gap
by
Laura Ruby
Balzer + Bray, 03/03/2015
When young, beautiful Roza went missing, the people of Bone Gap weren't surprised. But Finn knows what really happened to Roza. He knows she was ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Cat Out of Hell
by
Lynne Truss
Melville House, 03/03/2015
For people who both love and hate cats comes the tale of Alec Charlesworth, a librarian who finds himself suddenly alone: he's lost his job, his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Crow Fair: Stories
by
Thomas McGuane
Knopf, 03/03/2015
From one of our most deeply admired storytellers, author of the richly acclaimed
Gallatin Canyon, his first collection in nine years.
Set in ...
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Dark Rooms
by
Lili Anolik
William Morrow, 03/03/2015
Death sets the plot in motion: the murder of Nica Baker, beautiful, wild, enigmatic, and only sixteen. The crime is solved, and quickly - a lonely ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Leaving Berlin
by
Joseph Kanon
Atria Books, 03/03/2015
Berlin 1948. Almost four years after the war's end, the city is still in ruins, a physical wasteland and a political symbol about to rupture. In the ...
more
Mosquitoland
by
David Arnold
Viking, 03/03/2015
I am a collection of oddities, a circus of neurons and electrons: my heart is the ringmaster, my soul is the trapeze artist, and the world is my ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
My Best Everything
by
Sarah Tomp
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/03/2015
An Appalachian summer walks the line between toxic and intoxicating in this debut novel about first loves, broken hearts, and moonshine.
Luisa "Lulu"...
more
Past Crimes: A Van Shaw Novel
by
Glen Erik Hamilton
William Morrow, 03/03/2015
Van Shaw was raised to be a thief, but at eighteen he suddenly broke all ties to that life and joined the military - abandoning his illicit past and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Rebel Queen: A Novel
by
Michelle Moran
Touchstone, 03/03/2015
From the internationally bestselling author of
Nefertiti and
Cleopatra's Daughter comes the breathtaking story of Queen Lakshmi - India's Joan of Arc ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Suitcase City
by
Sterling Watson
Akashic Books, 03/03/2015
A man gets himself into a little bit of trouble, then a little bit more, then a lot. And then his whole world becomes a nightmare. How does he get ...
more
The Bookseller
by
Cynthia Swanson
HarperTrophy, 03/03/2015
A provocative and hauntingly powerful debut novel reminiscent of
Sliding Doors, The Bookseller follows a woman in the 1960s who must reconcile her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Buried Giant
by
Kazuo Ishiguro
Knopf, 03/03/2015
An extraordinary new novel from the author of
Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning
The Remains of the Day
"You've long set ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Dead I Know
by
Scot Gardner
Houghton Mifflin Books For Younger Readers, 03/03/2015
Aaron Rowe walks in his sleep and is haunted by dreams he can't explain and memories he can't recover. Death doesn't scare him - his new job with a ...
more
The Fifth Gospel
by
Ian Caldwell
Simon & Schuster, 03/03/2015
In Ian Caldwell's masterful follow-up to his international sensation
The Rule of Four, a lost gospel, a contentious relic, and a dying pope's final ...
more
The House of Wolfe: A Border Noir
by
James Carlos Blake
Mysterious Press, 03/03/2015
On a rainy winter night in Mexico City, a ten-member wedding party is kidnapped in front of the groom's family mansion. The perpetrator is a small-...
more
The Musical Brain: And Other Stories
by
César Aira, Chris Andrews (translator)
New Directions Publishing, 03/03/2015
The Musical Brain & Other Stories consists of twenty stories about oddballs, freaks, and crazy people from the writer
The New York Review of Books ...
more
The Winner's Crime: The Winner's Trilogy #2
by
Marie Rutkoski
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/03/2015
Following your heart can be a crime
A royal wedding is what most girls dream about. It means one celebration after another: balls, fireworks, and ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
To Kill a Mockingbird
by
Harper Lee
Harper, 03/03/2015
One of the most cherished stories of all time,
To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million ...
more
Literary Fiction
Young Skins: Stories
by
Colin Barrett
Grove Press, 03/03/2015
Winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
Winner of the Guardian First Book Award
Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
A Fireproof Home for the Bride
by
Amy Scheibe
St. Martin's Press, 03/10/2015
Emmaline Nelson and her sister Birdie grow up in the hard, cold rural Lutheran world of strict parents, strict milking times, and strict morals. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
All the Old Knives
by
Olen Steinhauer
Minotaur Books, 03/10/2015
Nine years ago, terrorists hijacked a plane in Vienna. Somehow, a rescue attempt staged from the inside went terribly wrong and everyone on board was ...
more
American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest
by
Hannah Nordhaus
Harper, 03/10/2015
The dark-eyed woman in the long black gown was first seen in the 1970s, standing near a fireplace. She was sad and translucent, present and absent at ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Barefoot Dogs: Stories
by
Antonio Ruiz-Camacho
Scribner, 03/10/2015
An unforgettable debut of linked stories that follow the members and retinue of a wealthy Mexican family forced into exile after the patriarch is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Bettyville: A Memoir
by
George Hodgman
Viking, 03/10/2015
When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he finds himself an unlikely caretaker and near-lethal cook in a head-on ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Confess: A Novel
by
Colleen Hoover
Atria Books, 03/10/2015
At age twenty-one, Auburn Reed has already lost everything important to her. In her fight to rebuild her shattered life, she has her goals in sight ...
more
Romance
Detained and Deported: Stories of Immigrant Families Under Fire
by
Margaret Regan
Beacon Press, 03/10/2015
The United States is detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants at an unprecedented rate. Thousands languish in immigration detention ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
For Today I Am a Boy
by
Kim Fu
Mariner Books, 03/10/2015
A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection for Spring 2014
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
Longlisted for the 2014 ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science
by
Alice Dreger
Penguin Press, 03/10/2015
An investigation of some of the most contentious debates of our time,
Galileo's Middle Finger describes Alice Dreger's experiences on the front lines ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Lacy Eye
by
Jessica Treadway
Grand Central Publishing, 03/10/2015
Hanna Schutt never suspected that her younger daughter's happiness would lead to her husband's death and the destruction of their family. When Dawn ...
more
Man at the Helm
by
Nina Stibbe
Little Brown & Company, 03/10/2015
Soon after her parents' separation, nine-year-old Lizzie Vogel moves with her siblings and newly single mother to a tiny village in the English ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City
by
Mark Adams
Dutton, 03/10/2015
A few years ago, Mark Adams made a strange discovery: Everything we know about the lost city of Atlantis comes from the work of one man, the Greek ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Read Between the Lines
by
Jo Knowles
Candlewick Press, 03/10/2015
Thanks to a bully in gym class, unpopular Nate suffers a broken finger - the middle one, splinted to flip off the world. It won't be the last time a ...
more
Shadow Scale: Seraphina Book 2
by
Rachel Hartman
Random House Children's Publishing, 03/10/2015
The kingdom of Goredd: a world where humans and dragons share life with an uneasy balance, and those few who are both human
and dragon must hide the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry
by
Jeffrey A. Lieberman
Little Brown & Company, 03/10/2015
Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping public. But, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Signs Preceding the End of the World
by
Yuri Herrera, Lisa Dillman (translator)
And Other Stories, 03/10/2015
Signs Preceding the End of the World is one of the most arresting novels to be published in Spanish in the last ten years. Yuri Herrera does not ...
more
Literary Fiction
Silent Alarm
by
Jennifer Banash
Putnam Juvenile, 03/10/2015
Alys's whole world was comprised of the history project that was due, her upcoming violin audition, being held tightly in the arms of her boyfriend, ...
more
Small Mercies
by
Eddie Joyce
Viking, 03/10/2015
A startling and tender portrait of one family's struggle to make peace with their son's death
An ingeniously layered narrative, told over the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Dream of My Return
by
Horacio Castellanos Moya
New Directions Publishing, 03/10/2015
Drinking way too much and breaking up with his wife, an exiled journalist in Mexico City dreams of returning home to El Salvador. But is it ...
more
The Prince
by
Vito Bruschini
Atria Books, 03/10/2015
A web of love, betrayal, and murder is at the heart of this riveting story of the Mafia's beginnings.
In this remarkable novel based on a true ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
by
Teresa Toten
Delacorte Press, 03/10/2015
Adam's Goals:
Grow immediately.
Find courage.
Keep courage.
Get normal.
Marry Robyn Plummer.
The instant Adam Spencer ...
more
Romance
The Unraveling of Mercy Louis
by
Keija Parssinen
Harper, 03/10/2015
In Port Sabine, the air is thick with oil, superstition reigns, and dreams hang on making a winning play. All eyes are on Mercy Louis, the star of the...
more
What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley
by
Kim Cross
Atria Books, 03/10/2015
Immersive reporting and dramatic storytelling set you right in the middle of the horrific superstorm of April 2011, a weather event that killed 348 ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
World Gone By
by
Dennis Lehane
William Morrow, 03/10/2015
Ten years have passed since Joe Coughlin's enemies killed his wife and destroyed his empire, and much has changed. Prohibition is dead, the world is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Delicious Foods
by
James Hannaham
Little Brown & Company, 03/17/2015
Darlene, once an exemplary wife and a loving mother to her young son, Eddie, finds herself devastated by the unforeseen death of her husband. Unable ...
more
Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story
by
David Levithan
Dutton, 03/17/2015
It's Tiny Cooper's turn in the spotlight in this companion novel to
New York Times bestseller
Will Grayson, Will Grayson.
Jazz hands at the ready!...
more
Lincoln and the Jews: A History
by
Jonathan D. Sarna, Benjamin Shapell
Thomas Nelson, 03/17/2015
One hundred and fifty years after Abraham Lincoln's death, the full story of his extraordinary relationship with Jews is told here for the first time....
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Snowblind: Stories of Alpine Obsession
by
Daniel Arnold
Counterpoint Press, 03/17/2015
In this powerful debut story collection, veteran travel writer and adventurer Dan Arnold brings to life the men and women whose lives are defined by ...
more
Short Stories
Debut Author
Stillwater
by
Nicole Lea Helget
Mariner Books, 03/17/2015
Raised in the same small community, Clement and Angel, fraternal twins separated at birth, grow up in different worlds. He lives among orphans, nuns, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Bullet
by
Mary Louise Kelly
Gallery Books, 03/17/2015
Two words: The bullet.
That's all it takes to shatter her life.
Caroline Cashion is beautiful, intelligent, a professor of French literature. ...
more
The Dragon of Handale: An Abbess Hildegard of Meaux Mystery
by
Cassandra Clark
Minotaur Books, 03/17/2015
Hildegard, no longer a member of the Cistercian order of nuns, has returned to the priory after more than a year from her ...
more
The Last Days of Video
by
Jeremy Hawkins
Soft Skull Press, 03/17/2015
The video stores are dying. But most of you don't care. You've got your Netflix and your Redbox and your DVR, so why deal with VHS tapes or scratched ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Last Flight of Poxl West
by
Daniel Torday
St. Martin's Press, 03/17/2015
All his life, Elijah Goldstein has idolized his charismatic Uncle Poxl. Intensely magnetic, cultured and brilliant, Poxl takes Elijah under his ...
more
The Witch of Painted Sorrows: A Daughters of La Lune Novel
by
M. J. Rose
Atria Books, 03/17/2015
Sandrine Salome flees New York for her grandmother's Paris mansion to escape her dangerous husband, but what she finds there is even more menacing. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Wrong Side of Right
by
Jenn Marie Thorne
Dial Books, 03/17/2015
Kate Quinn's mom died last year, leaving Kate parentless and reeling. So when the unexpected shows up in her living room, Kate must confront another ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Under a Painted Sky
by
Stacey Lee
Putnam Juvenile, 03/17/2015
Missouri, 1849: Samantha dreams of moving back to New York to be a professional musician - not an easy thing if you're a girl, and harder still if you...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Whisper Hollow
by
Chris Cander
Other Press, 03/17/2015
Set in a small coal-mining town, a debut novel full of secrets, love, betrayal, and suspicious accidents, where Catholicism casts a long shadow and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Boswell's Enlightenment
by
Robert Zaretsky
Belknap Press, 03/23/2015
Throughout his life, James Boswell struggled to fashion a clear account of himself, but try as he might, he could not reconcile the truths of his era ...
more
Night at the Fiestas: Stories
by
Kirstin Valdez Quade
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/23/2015
The deadbeat father of a pregnant teenager tries to transform his life by playing the role of Jesus in a bloody penitential Passion. A young man ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Inspector of the Dead: Thomas De Quincey Mystery #2
by
David Morrell
Mulholland, 03/24/2015
Amid this crisis comes opium-eater Thomas De Quincey, one of the most notorious and brilliant personalities of Victorian England. Along with his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Liars, Inc.
by
Paula Stokes
HarperTeen, 03/24/2015
Max Cantrell has never been a big fan of the truth, so when the opportunity arises to sell lies to his classmates, it sounds like a good way to make a...
more
Someone Is Watching
by
Joy Fielding
Ballantine Books, 03/24/2015
As a special investigator for a hotshot Miami law firm, Bailey Carpenter is smart, savvy, and fearless. When she's assigned to spy on a deadbeat dad ...
more
That's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms, and What Our English Says About Us
by
Erin Moore
Gotham Books, 03/24/2015
In
That's Not English, the seemingly superficial differences between British and American English open the door to a deeper exploration of a historic ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Illuminations
by
Andrew O'Hagan
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/24/2015
Anne Quirk's life is built on stories - both the lies she was told by the man she loved and the fictions she told herself to survive. Nobody remembers...
more
The Lost Boys Symphony
by
Mark Ferguson
Little Brown & Company, 03/24/2015
After Henry's girlfriend Val leaves him and transfers to another school, his grief begins to manifest itself in bizarre and horrifying ways. Cause and...
more
The Porcelain Thief: Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China
by
Huan Hsu
Crown, 03/24/2015
In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu's great-great-grandfather Liu's Yangtze River hometown of Xingang, Liu was forced to bury his valuables...
more
We All Looked Up
by
Tommy Wallach
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 03/24/2015
Four high school seniors put their hopes, hearts, and humanity on the line as an asteroid hurtles toward Earth in this contemporary novel.
They ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Woman Who Read Too Much: A Novel
by
Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
Stanford University Press, 03/25/2015
Gossip was rife in the capital about the poetess of Qazvin. Some claimed she had been arrested for masterminding the murder of the grand Mullah, her ...
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Literary Fiction
Ozone Journal: Phoenix Poets
by
Peter Balakian
University Of Chicago Press, 03/26/2015
from "Ozone Journal" Bach's cantata in B-flat minor in the cassette,
we lounged under the greenhouse-sky, the UVBs hacking
at the acids and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
At the Water's Edge: A Novel
by
Sara Gruen
Spiegel & Grau, 03/31/2015
At the Water's Edge is a gripping and poignant love story about a privileged young woman's awakening as she experiences the devastation of World War ...
more
Black Dove, White Raven
by
Elizabeth Wein
Hyperion, 03/31/2015
Emilia and Teo's lives changed in a fiery, terrifying instant when a bird strike brought down the plane their stunt pilot mothers were flying. Teo's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Scent of Triumph: A Novel of Perfume and Passion
by
Jan Moran
St. Martin's Press, 03/31/2015
Perfume is the essence of beauty, the heart of illusion, the soul of desire. It is my past, my present, my future. —from the journal of Danielle ...more
Historical Fiction
The Architect's Apprentice
by
Elif Shafak
Viking, 03/31/2015
From the acclaimed author of
The Bastard of Istanbul, a colorful, magical tale set during the height of the Ottoman Empire
In her latest novel, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Day We Met
by
Rowan Coleman
Ballantine Books, 03/31/2015
A gorgeous husband, two beautiful children, a job she loves - Claire's got it all. And then some. But lately, her mother hovers more than a helicopter...
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Literary Fiction
The Fortune Hunter
by
Daisy Goodwin
St. Martin's Press, 03/31/2015
Empress Elizabeth of Austria, known as "Sisi," is the Princess Diana of
nineteenth century Europe. Famously beautiful, as captured in a portrait ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Harder They Come
by
T.C. Boyle
Ecco, 03/31/2015
Acclaimed
New York Times bestselling author T.C. Boyle makes his Ecco debut with a powerful, gripping novel that explores the roots of violence and ...
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The World Before Us
by
Aislinn Hunter
Hogarth Books, 03/31/2015
Deep in the woods of northern England, somewhere between a dilapidated estate and an abandoned Victorian asylum, fifteen-year-old Jane Standen lived ...
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The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
by
Matthew B. Crawford
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/31/2015
In his bestselling book
Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford explored the ethical and practical importance of manual competence, as expressed ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime
by
Scott Simon
Flatiron Books, 03/31/2015
"I'm getting a life's lesson about grace from my mother in the ICU.
We never stop learning from our mothers, do we?"
Unforgettable is a son's ...
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Vincent: Art Masters Series
by
Barbara Stok
SelfMadeHero, 03/31/2015
This graphic biography documents the brief and intense period of creativity Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) spent in Arles, Provence, in southern ...
more
Biography/Memoir
I, Migrant: A Comedian's Journey from Karachi to the Outback
by
Sami Shah
Allen & Unwin, 04/01/2015
Despite nearly being killed by a kangaroo and almost lynched and run out of town after his comedy was taken far too seriously, Sami Shah is very happy...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Story of My Teeth: A Novel in Six Instalments
by
Valeria Luiselli
Coffee House Press, 04/02/2015
Gustavo 'Highway' Sanchez is a man with a mission: he is planning to replace every last one of his unsightly teeth. He has a few skills that might ...
more
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
by
Mary Norris
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/06/2015
Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast ...
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A Slant of Light
by
Jeffrey Lent
Bloomsbury USA, 04/07/2015
At the close of the Civil War, weary veteran Malcolm Hopeton returns to his home in western New York State to find his wife and hired man missing and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf
by
Norah Vincent
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 04/07/2015
From a
New York Times best-selling author, a boldly imagined portrait of Virginia Woolf that sheds new light on the events that preceded her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
American Warlord: A True Story
by
Johnny Dwyer
Knopf, 04/07/2015
Chucky Taylor is the American son of the infamous African dictator Charles Taylor.
Raised by his mother in the Florida suburbs, at the age of 17 ...
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Lies I Told
by
Michelle Zink
HarperTeen, 04/07/2015
Grace Fontaine has everything: beauty, money, confidence, and the perfect family. But it's all a lie.
Grace has been adopted into a family of ...
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Little Bastards in Springtime
by
Katja Rudolph
Steerforth Press, 04/07/2015
Spring, 1992. Jevrem Andric is eleven years old and war is erupting in Sarajevo. As the shelling worsens, Jevrem's journalist father and teenaged ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
by
Becky Albertalli
Balzer + Bray, 04/07/2015
Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sisters of Heart and Snow
by
Margaret Dilloway
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/07/2015
The award-winning author of
How to Be an American Housewife returns with a poignant story of estranged sisters, forced together by family tragedy, who...
more
The Arc of the Swallow
by
S.J. Gazan
Quercus, 04/07/2015
Danish author S.J. Gazan established herself as an international talent to watch with her debut thriller novel,
The Dinosaur Feather. In addition to ...
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The Children's Crusade
by
Ann Packer
Scribner, 04/07/2015
Bill Blair finds the land by accident, three wooded acres in a rustic community south of San Francisco. The year is 1954, long before anyone will call...
more
The Distant Marvels
by
Chantel Acevedo
Europa Editions, 04/07/2015
Maria Sirena tells stories. She does it for money - she was a favorite in the cigar factory where she worked as a
lettora - and for love, spinning ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Lady from Zagreb: A Bernie Gunther Novel
by
Philip Kerr
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/07/2015
A beautiful actress, a rising star of the giant German film company UFA, now controlled by the Propaganda Ministry. The very clever, very dangerous ...
more
The Library of Unrequited Love
by
Sophie Divry (Author), Sian Reynolds (Translator)
MacLehose Press, 04/07/2015
El Pais called
The Library of Unrequited Love "a thrilling soliloquy, an exciting breath of love." The librarian, a single, middle-aged woman, a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Perfume Garden
by
Kate Lord Brown
Thomas Dunne Books, 04/07/2015
High in the hills of Valencia, a forgotten house guards its secrets. Untouched since Franco's forces tore through Spain in 1936, the whitewashed walls...
more
The Water Museum: Stories
by
Luis Alberto Urrea
Little Brown & Company, 04/07/2015
From one of America's preeminent literary voices comes a new story collection that proves once again why the writing of Luis Alberto Urrea has been ...
more
All the Rage
by
Courtney Summers
St. Martin's Press, 04/14/2015
The sheriff's son, Kellan Turner, is not the golden boy everyone thinks he is, and Romy Grey knows that for a fact. Because no one wants to believe a ...
more
Diamond Head
by
Cecily Wong
HarperTrophy, 04/14/2015
A sweeping debut spanning from China to Hawaii that follows four generations of a wealthy shipping family whose rise and decline is riddled with ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
First There Was Forever
by
Juliana Romano
The Dial Press, 04/14/2015
Lima and Hailey have always been best friends: Lima shy and sensitive, Hailey funny and free-spirited. But Hailey abandons Lima to party with the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Gutshot: Stories
by
Amelia Gray
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/14/2015
A woman creeps through the ductwork of a quiet home. A medical procedure reveals an object of worship. A carnivorous reptile divides and cauterizes a ...
more
Her Name Is Rose
by
Christine Breen
St. Martin's Press, 04/14/2015
People used to say Iris Bowen was beautiful, what with the wild weave of her red hair, the high cheekbones, and the way she carried herself like a ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
House of Echoes: A Novel
by
Brendan Duffy
Ballantine Books, 04/14/2015
In this enthralling and atmospheric thriller, one young family's dream of a better life is about to become a nightmare.
Ben and Caroline Tierney ...
more
I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives
by
Martin Ganda (Author), Caitlin Alifirenka (Author), Liz Welch (Contributor)
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 04/14/2015
The true story of an all-American girl and a boy from Zimbabwe and the letter that changed both of their lives forever.
It started as an assignment...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Nowhere to Be Found
by
Bae Suah
Amazon Crossing, 04/14/2015
For her, time and identity blur, and all action is reaction. She can't quite understand what motivates others to take life seriously enough to focus ...
more
Literary Fiction
Shocking Paris: Soutine, Chagall and the Outsiders of Montparnasse
by
Stanley Meisler
Palgrave Macmillan, 04/14/2015
Upon fleeing the religious persecution, political oppression, and economic hardship of Eastern Europe in the first years of the 20th century, many ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Dead Lands
by
Benjamin Percy
Grand Central Publishing, 04/14/2015
In Benjamin Percy's new thriller, a post-apocalyptic reimagining of the Lewis and Clark saga, a super flu and nuclear fallout have made a husk of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Dream Lover
by
Elizabeth Berg
Random House, 04/14/2015
At the beginning of this powerful novel, we meet Aurore Dupin as she is leaving her estranged husband, a loveless marriage, and her family's estate in...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain
by
John Kounios, Ph.D and Mark Beeman, Ph.D
Random House, 04/14/2015
Eureka or aha moments are sudden realizations that expand our understanding of the world and ourselves, conferring both personal growth and practical ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Fishermen
by
Chigozie Obioma
Little Brown & Company, 04/14/2015
Told from the point of view of nine year old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers,
The Fishermen is the Cain and Abel-esque story of an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Given World
by
Marian Palaia
Simon & Schuster, 04/14/2015
A sweeping portrait of post-Vietnam America seen through the eyes of a young woman searching for the courage to go home again.
It is 1968. Riley is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch
by
Jonathan Gottschall
Penguin Press, 04/14/2015
When a mixed martial arts (MMA) gym moves in across the street from his office, Jonathan Gottschall sees a challenge, and an opportunity. Pushing ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Truth Commission
by
Susan Juby
Viking, 04/14/2015
Open secrets are the heart of gossip - the obvious things that no one is brave or tactless enough to ask. Except for Normandy Pale and her friends. ...
more
Three Many Cooks: One Mom, Two Daughters: Their Shared Stories of Food, Faith & Family
by
Pam Anderson, Maggy Keet & Sharon Damelio
Ballantine Books, 04/14/2015
When the women behind the popular blog Three Many Cooks gather in the busiest room in the house, there are
never too many cooks in the kitchen. Now ...
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Viper Wine
by
Hermione Eyre
Hogarth Books, 04/14/2015
Venetia Stanley was the great beauty of her day, so dazzling she inspired Ben Jonson to poetry and Van Dyck to painting. But now she is married, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Voices in the Night: Stories
by
Steven Millhauser
Knopf, 04/14/2015
From the Pulitzer and Story Prize winner: sixteen new stories - provocative, funny, disturbing, enchanting - that delve into the secret lives and ...
more
What You Left Behind
by
Samantha Hayes
Crown, 04/14/2015
Two years after a terrifying spate of teenage suicides, the remote village of Radcote has just begun to heal. Then a young man is killed in a freak ...
more
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past
by
Jennifer Teege
The Experiment, 04/15/2015
The internationally bestselling memoir hailed as "unforgettable" (
Publishers Weekly) and "a stunning memoir of cultural trauma and personal identity" ...
more
Secret Warriors: The Spies, Scientists and Code Breakers of World War I
by
Taylor Downing
Pegasus Books, 04/15/2015
World War I is often viewed as a war fought by armies of millions living and fighting in trenches, aided by brutal machinery that cost the lives of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Edge of the World: A Cultural History of the North Sea and the Transformation of Europe
by
Michael Pye
Pegasus Books, 04/15/2015
Saints and spies, pirates and philosophers, artists and intellectuals: they all criss-crossed the grey North Sea in the so-called "dark ages," the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Language of the Dead: A World War II Mystery
by
Stephen Kelly
Pegasus Books, 04/15/2015
German bombers are arriving daily, seeking to crush England. But in a rural Hampshire village, things have remained fairly quiet—until an elderly...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
by
David Gessner
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/20/2015
Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, award-winning nature...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Paris Red
by
Maureen Gibbon
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/20/2015
Paris, 1862. A young girl in a threadbare dress and green boots, hungry for experience, meets the mysterious and wealthy artist Édouard Manet. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A June of Ordinary Murders
by
Conor Brady
Minotaur Books, 04/21/2015
In the 1880s the Dublin Metropolitan Police classified crime in two distinct categories. Political crimes were classed as "special," whereas theft, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Challenger Deep
by
Neal Shusterman
HarperTeen, 04/21/2015
A captivating story about mental illness that lingers long beyond the last page, the novel features haunting interior illustrations by Neal Shusterman...
more
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
by
Sam Quinones
Bloomsbury USA, 04/21/2015
With a great reporter's narrative skill and the storytelling ability of a novelist, acclaimed journalist Sam Quinones weaves together two classic ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
by
Jon Krakauer
Doubleday, 04/21/2015
Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, with a highly regarded state university, bucolic surroundings, a lively social scene, and an excellent ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide
by
Eric Bogosian
Little Brown & Company, 04/21/2015
In 1921, a small group of self-appointed patriots set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They named ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Still Waters
by
Ash Parsons
Philomel, 04/21/2015
High school senior Jason knows how to take a punch. Living with an abusive father will teach a kid that. But he's also learned how to hit back, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Silver Witch
by
Paula Brackston
Thomas Dunne Books, 04/21/2015
A year after her husband's sudden death, ceramic artist Tilda Fordwells finally moves into the secluded Welsh cottage that was to be their new ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
When the Night Comes
by
Favel Parrett
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 04/21/2015
From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of
Past the Shallows comes a remarkable new novel that weaves together the lives of a young ...
more
When We Were Animals
by
Joshua Gaylord
Mulholland, 04/21/2015
When Lumen Fowler looks back on her childhood, she wouldn't have guessed she would become a kind suburban wife, a devoted mother. In fact, she never ...
more
A Passion for Paris: Romanticism and Romance in the City of Light
by
David Downie
St. Martin's Press, 04/28/2015
A unique combination of memoir, history, and travelogue, this is author David Downie's irreverent quest to uncover why Paris is the world's most ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir
by
Jamie Brickhouse
St. Martin's Press, 04/28/2015
"A blisteringly funny, wrenching account of wrestling way too close to - and later loose from - booze, sex and drugs and his adorable, infuriating ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons From a Small-Town Obituary Writer
by
Heather Lende
Algonquin Books, 04/28/2015
As the obituary writer in a spectacularly beautiful but often dangerous spit of land in Alaska, Heather Lende knows something about last words and ...
more
On the Move: A Life
by
Oliver Sacks
Knopf, 04/28/2015
When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: "Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far." It is now ...
more
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
by
Charlotte Gordon
Random House, 04/28/2015
Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley have each been the subject of numerous biographies, yet no one has ever examined their lives in one book - until ...
more
The Last Bookaneer
by
Matthew Pearl
Penguin Press, 04/28/2015
A golden age of publishing on the verge of collapse. For a hundred years, loose copyright laws and a hungry reading public created a unique ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Memory Painter
by
Gwendolyn Womack
Picador, 04/28/2015
Two lovers who have traveled across time. A team of scientists at the cutting edge of memory research. A miracle drug that unlocks an ancient mystery....
more
Minnow
by
James E. McTeer II
Hub City Press, 05/01/2015
Minnow is an otherworldly story of a small boy who leaves his dying father's bedside hunting a medicine for a mysterious illness. Sent by his mother ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Baby City: An Inside Look into Labor & Delivery
by
Freida McFadden
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 05/04/2015
On a typical day in Baby City, Emily delivers more babies than the number of hours of sleep she manages to squeeze in that night. And definitely more ...
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Literary Fiction
Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back
by
Janice P. Nimura
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/04/2015
In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Pig Tales: An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat
by
Barry Estabrook
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/04/2015
Barry Estabrook, author of the New York Times bestseller
Tomatoland and a writer of "great skill and compassion" (Eric Schlosser), now explores the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Hurry Please I Want to Know
by
Paul Griner
Sarabande Books, 05/05/2015
A stylized and otherworldly short story collection filled with sidelined characters placed at center stage. A low-ranking soldier is forced to milk a ...
more
I Take You
by
Eliza Kennedy
Crown, 05/05/2015
Meet Lily Wilder: New Yorker, lawyer extraordinaire, blushing bride. And totally incapable of being faithful to one man.
Lily's fiancé Will is...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Orient
by
Christopher Bollen
Harper, 05/05/2015
Orient is an isolated town on the north fork of Long Island, its future as a historic village newly threatened by the arrival of wealthy transplants ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Re Jane
by
Patricia Park
Pamela Dorman Books, 05/05/2015
For Jane Re, half-Korean, half-American orphan, Flushing, Queens, is the place she's been trying to escape from her whole life. Sardonic yet ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
See Also Murder: A Marjorie Trumaine Mystery
by
Larry D. Sweazy
Prometheus Books, 05/05/2015
1964 - Life on the North Dakota farm hasn't always been easy for Marjorie Trumaine. She has begun working as a professional indexer to help with the ...
more
The Argonauts
by
Maggie Nelson
Graywolf Press, 05/05/2015
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family - Maggie Nelson's.
The Argonauts is a genre-bending...
more
The Art of Baking Blind
by
Sarah Vaughan
St. Martin's Press, 05/05/2015
There are many reasons to bake: to feed; to create; to impress; to nourish; to define ourselves; and, sometimes, it has to be said, to perfect. But ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Daylight Marriage
by
Heidi Pitlor
Algonquin Books, 05/05/2015
Hannah was the kind of woman who turned heads. Tall and graceful, naturally pretty, often impulsive, always spirited, the upper-class girl who picked,...
more
The Devil's Making: A Mystery
by
Seán Haldane
Minotaur Books, 05/05/2015
In the ramshackle capital of one of the last colonies in North America, a few thousand settlers aspire to the values of the Victorian age while ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Ghost Network
by
Catie Disabato
Melville House, 05/05/2015
Has the world's hottest pop star been kidnapped, brainwashed, or simply gone into hiding? The answer lies in the abandoned subway stations of Chicago....
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Ladies of Managua: A Novel
by
Eleni N. Gage
St. Martin's Press, 05/05/2015
When Maria Vazquez returns to Nicaragua for her beloved grandfather's funeral, she brings with her a mysterious package from her grandmother's past--...
more
The Mapmaker's Children
by
Sarah McCoy
Crown, 05/05/2015
When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Spy's Son: The True Story of the Highest-Ranking CIA Officer Ever Convicted of Espionage and the Son He Trained to Spy for Russia
by
Bryan Denson
Atlantic Monthly Press, 05/05/2015
Investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Bryan Denson tells the riveting story of the Nicholsons - father and son co-conspirators who ...
more
The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos
by
Leonard Mlodinow
Pantheon Books, 05/05/2015
In this fascinating and illuminating work, Leonard Mlodinow guides us through the critical eras and events in the development of science, all of which...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Valley of the Shadow
by
Ralph Peters
Forge Books, 05/05/2015
In the Valley of the Shadow, they wrote their names in blood.
From a daring Confederate raid that nearly seized Washington, D.C., to a stunning ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Golden Age of Murder
by
Martin Edwards
HarperCollins Publishers, 05/07/2015
Detective stories of the Twenties and Thirties have long been stereotyped as cosily conventional. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The Golden ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Come to Harm
by
Catriona McPherson
Midnight Ink, 05/08/2015
For Keiko Nishisato, leaving Tokyo is a rare adventure, but it's living in the quiet little town of Painchton, Scotland, that shows her how far she is...
more
The Green Road
by
Anne Enright
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/11/2015
From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast.
The Green Road is a tale ...
more
Boo
by
Neil Smith
Vintage, 05/12/2015
Do you ever wonder, dear Mother and Father, what kind of toothpaste angels use in heaven? I will tell you... This book I am writing to you about my ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Darjeeling: The Colorful History and Precarious Fate of the World's Greatest Tea
by
Jeff Koehler
Bloomsbury USA, 05/12/2015
Darjeeling's tea bushes run across a mythical landscape steeped with the religious, the sacred, and the picturesque. Planted at high elevation in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Fell of Dark
by
Patrick Downes
Philomel, 05/12/2015
A book that challenges the word "powerful" and obliterates it
Written in searing prose, this is the story of two boys: Erik, who performs miracles...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Founding Grammars: How Early America's War Over Words Shaped Today's Language
by
Rosemarie Ostler
St. Martin's Press, 05/12/2015
Who decided not to split infinitives? With whom should we take issue if in fact, we wish to boldly write what no grammarian hath writ before?
In
...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
by
Sally Mann
Little Brown & Company, 05/12/2015
In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape ...
more
Only the Strong
by
Jabari Asim
Agate Bolden, 05/12/2015
Jabari Asim's debut novel returns readers to Gateway City, the fictional Midwestern city first explored in his acclaimed short story collection,
Taste...more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Our Town
by
Kevin Jack McEnroe
Counterpoint Press, 05/12/2015
Our Town is the debut of a striking literary voice, one that captures the disillusion at the fringes of Hollywood as seen through a haze of drugs, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Black Snow
by
Paul Lynch
Little Brown & Company, 05/12/2015
The startling new novel from a brilliant young Irish novelist on the rise, who "has a sensational gift for a sentence" (Colum McCann).
In Donegal in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Boys of Fire and Ash
by
Meaghan McIsaac
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, 05/12/2015
Abandoned at birth, the Brothers of the Ikkuma Pit know no mothers. They fend for themselves, each training their Little Brother to survive until they...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Cost of All Things
by
Maggie Lehrman
Balzer + Bray, 05/12/2015
What would you pay to cure your heartbreak? Banish your sadness? Transform your looks? The right spell can fix anything…. When Ari's boyfriend ...
more
The Fatal Flame
by
Lyndsay Faye
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/12/2015
No one in 1840s New York likes fires, but Copper Star Timothy Wilde least of all. So when an arsonist with an agenda begins threatening Alderman ...
more
The Guest Cottage: A Novel
by
Nancy Thayer
Ballantine Books, 05/12/2015
Sensible thirty-six-year-old Sophie Anderson has always known what to do. She knows her role in life: supportive wife of a successful architect and ...
more
The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley
by
Jeremy Massey
Riverhead Books, 05/12/2015
Paddy Buckley is a grieving widower who has worked for years for Gallagher's, a long-established - some say the best - funeral home in Dublin. One ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Mercy of the Sky: The Story of a Tornado
by
Holly Bailey
Viking, 05/12/2015
Oklahomans have long been known for their fatalism and grit, but even old-timers are troubled by the twisters that are devastating the state with ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Rose Hotel: A Memoir of Secrets, Loss, and Love From Iran to America
by
Rahimeh Andalibian
National Geographic, 05/12/2015
In this searing memoir, Iran-born author Rahimeh Andalibian tells the story of her family: their struggle to survive the 1979 revolution, their move ...
more
The World's Largest Man: A Memoir
by
Harrison Scott Key
Harper, 05/12/2015
Harrison Scott Key was born in Memphis, but he grew up in Mississippi, among pious, Bible-reading women and men who either shot things or got women ...
more
Biography/Memoir
1920: The Year that Made the Decade Roar
by
Eric Burns
Pegasus Books, 05/15/2015
"The Roaring Twenties" is the only decade in American history with a widely applied nickname, and our collective fascination with this era continues. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Death Ex Machina: An Athenian Mystery
by
Gary Corby
Soho Press, 05/19/2015
It's the time of the Great Dionysia, the largest arts festival of the ancient world, held each year in honor of Dionysos, the god of wine. But there's...
more
Disclaimer
by
Renée Knight
HarperTrophy, 05/19/2015
Finding a mysterious novel at her bedside plunges documentary filmmaker Catherine Ravenscroft into a living nightmare. Though ostensibly fiction,
The ...more
Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
by
Dean Jobb
Algonquin Books, 05/19/2015
It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Speakeasies thrived, gang war ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Flick
by
Abigail Tarttelin
Atria Books, 05/19/2015
From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of
Golden Boy comes Abigail Tarttelin's debut novel, written when she was just nineteen and never ...
more
Head Case: My Brain and Other Wonders
by
Cole Cohen
Henry Holt and Company, 05/19/2015
The summer before she was set to head out-of-state to pursue her MFA, twenty-six-year-old Cole Cohen submitted herself to a battery of tests. For as ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
by
Margaret Lazarus Dean
Graywolf Press, 05/19/2015
Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a breathtaking elegy to the waning days of human spaceflight as we have known it.
In the 1960s, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lifted by the Great Nothing
by
Karim Dimechkie
Bloomsbury USA, 05/19/2015
Max doesn't remember his mother, who was murdered by burglars before they emigrated from Beirut to New Jersey. He lives with his father, Rasheed, who ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Little Black Lies
by
Sharon Bolton
Minotaur Books, 05/19/2015
In such a small community as the Falkland Islands, a missing child is unheard of. In such a dangerous landscape it can only be a terrible tragedy, ...
more
The Gracekeepers
by
Kirsty Logan
Crown, 05/19/2015
As a Gracekeeper, Callanish administers shoreside burials, laying the dead to their final resting place deep in the depths of the ocean. Alone on her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Ice Twins
by
S.K. Tremayne
Grand Central Publishing, 05/19/2015
One of Sarah's daughters died. But can she be sure which one?
A year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Jesus Cow
by
Michael Perry
Harper, 05/19/2015
New York Times bestselling humorist Michael Perry makes his fiction debut with this hilarious and big-hearted tale, a comic yet sincere exploration of...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Last Good Day of the Year
by
Jessica Warman
Bloomsbury USA, 05/19/2015
Ten years ago, seven-year-old Samantha and her next door neighbor Remy watched helplessly as Sam's little sister was kidnapped. Later, Remy and Sam ...
more
The Maintenance of Headway
by
Magnus Mills
Bloomsbury USA, 05/19/2015
From the Booker-shortlisted author acclaimed as having "no literary precedent" (Independent) comes a gently absurd examination of the systems that ...
more
The Sweetheart Deal
by
Polly Dugan
Little Brown & Company, 05/19/2015
The poignant story of what happens when a woman who thinks she's lost everything has the chance to love again.
Leo has long joked that, in the ...
more
The Well
by
Catherine Chanter
Atria Books, 05/19/2015
From the winner of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, a brilliantly haunting and suspenseful debut set in modern-day Britain where water is running out...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Uprooted
by
Naomi Novik
Del Rey, 05/19/2015
"Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
War of the Encyclopaedists
by
Christopher Robinson & Gavin Kovite
Scribner, 05/19/2015
In a superb, rare literary collaboration, two major new talents join their voices to tell the story of a generation at a crossroads, and a friendship ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World
by
Richard C. Francis
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/25/2015
We would still be living at subsistence level as hunter-gatherers if not for domestication. It is no accident that the cradle of civilization - the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Dietland
by
Sarai Walker
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 05/26/2015
The diet revolution is here. And it's armed.
Plum Kettle does her best not to be noticed, because when you're fat, to be noticed is to be judged. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Independence Day: A Dewey Andreas Novel
by
Ben Coes
St. Martin's Press, 05/26/2015
Dewey Andreas, former Delta and newly recruited intelligence agent, is sidelined after screwing up his last two operations. Still drowning in grief ...
more
Kissing in America
by
Margo Rabb
HarperCollins Publishers, 05/26/2015
In the two years since her father died, sixteen-year-old Eva has found comfort in reading romance novels - 118 of them, to be exact - to dull the pain...
more
Remember Me This Way
by
Sabine Durrant
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 05/26/2015
Everyone keeps telling me I have to move on. And so here I am, walking down the road where he died, trying to remember him the right way.
A year ...
more
The Rocks
by
Peter Nichols
Riverhead Books, 05/26/2015
Set against dramatic Mediterranean Sea views and lush olive groves,
The Rocks opens with a confrontation and a secret: What was the mysterious, ...
more
The Shore: A Novel
by
Sara Taylor
Hogarth Books, 05/26/2015
The Shore: a group of small islands in the Chesapeake Bay, just off the coast of Virginia. The Shore is clumps of evergreens, wild ponies, oyster-...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Storm Murders
by
John Farrow
Minotaur Books, 05/26/2015
On the day after a massive blizzard, two policemen are called to an isolated farm house sitting all by itself in the middle of a pristine snow-...
more
The Travels of Daniel Ascher
by
Déborah Lévy-Bertherat (author), Adriana Hunter (translator)
Other Press, 05/26/2015
Who is the real author of The Black Insignia? Is it H. R. Sanders, whose name is printed on the cover of every installment of the wildly successful ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Water Knife: A novel
by
Paolo Bacigalupi
Knopf, 05/26/2015
The American Southwest has been decimated by drought. Nevada and Arizona skirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado River, while California ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Things You Won't Say
by
Sarah Pekkanen
Washington Square Press, 05/26/2015
In this timely and provocative novel, internationally bestselling author Sarah Pekkanen takes us inside a family in crisis and a marriage on the brink...
more
Zodiac Station
by
Tom Harper
HarperPaperbacks, 05/26/2015
Deep in the Arctic, the US Coast Guard icebreaker
Terra Nova batters its way through the frozen sea. A gaunt figure skis out of the fog on the pack ...
more
Ink and Ashes
by
Valynne E. Maetani
Tu Books, 06/01/2015
Claire Takata has never known much about her father, who passed away ten years ago. But on the anniversary of his death, she finds a letter from her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War
by
Brandon R. Brown
Oxford University Press, 06/01/2015
Planck's Law, an equation used by physicists to determine the radiation leaking from any object in the universe, was described by Albert Einstein as "...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
A Head Full of Ghosts
by
Paul Tremblay
William Morrow, 06/02/2015
The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute ...
more
Dinner with Buddha
by
Roland Merullo
Algonquin Books, 06/02/2015
In Roland Merullo's
Breakfast with Buddha an inveterate skeptic and a world-renowned spiritual master set off across America; the Boston Globe raved, ...
more
Eight Hundred Grapes: A Novel
by
Laura Dave
Simon & Schuster, 06/02/2015
There are secrets you share, and secrets you hide…
Growing up on her family's Sonoma vineyard, Georgia Ford learned some important secrets. The ...
more
Finders Keepers
by
Stephen King
Scribner, 06/02/2015
"Wake up, genius." So begins King's instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a ...
more
Freedom's Child: A Novel
by
Jax Miller
Crown, 06/02/2015
Freedom Oliver has plenty of secrets. She lives in a small Oregon town and keeps mostly to herself. Her few friends and neighbors know she...
more
Hell's Gate: A Detective Mollel Novel
by
Richard Crompton
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/02/2015
It must have been Otieno's idea of a joke. Too many offended egos back at headquarters, too many influential people unhappy with him in Nairobi. And ...more
Hotel Moscow: A Novel
by
Talia Carner
William Morrow, 06/02/2015
Brooke Fielding, a thirty-eight year old New York investment manager and daughter of Jewish Holocaust survivors, finds her life suddenly upended in ...
more
Land Where I Flee
by
Prajwal Parajuly
Quercus, 06/02/2015
Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, Prajwal Parajuly has established himself as a distinctive voice in literature about the South Asian diaspora. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Let Me Die in His Footsteps: A Novel
by
Lori Roy
Dutton, 06/02/2015
On a dark Kentucky night in 1952 exactly halfway between her fifteenth and sixteenth birthdays, Annie Holleran crosses into forbidden territory. ...
more
Palace of Treason
by
Jason Matthews
Scribner, 06/02/2015
From the bestselling, Edgar Award–winning author of the "terrifically good" (
The New York Times)
Red Sparrow, a compulsively readable new novel ...
more
The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty: A Novel
by
Vendela Vida
Ecco, 06/02/2015
In Vendela Vida's taut and mesmerizing novel of ideas, a woman travels to Casablanca, Morocco, on mysterious business. While checking into her hotel, ...
more
The Governor's Wife
by
Michael Harvey
Knopf, 06/02/2015
It's been two years since disgraced Illinois governor Ray Perry disappeared from a federal courthouse in Chicago moments after being sentenced to ...
more
The Last Leaves Falling
by
Sarah Benwell
Little Simon, 06/02/2015
A teen grapples with ALS and his decision to die in this devastatingly beautiful debut novel infused with the haunting grace of samurai death poetry ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Meursault Investigation
by
Kamel Daoud
Other Press, 06/02/2015
He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who ...
more
The Pinch
by
Steve Stern
Graywolf Press, 06/02/2015
It's the late 1960s. The Pinch, once a thriving Jewish community centered on North Main Street in Memphis, has been reduced to a single tenant. Lenny ...
more
The Sunlit Night
by
Rebecca Dinerstein
Bloomsbury USA, 06/02/2015
Shortly after her college graduation, Frances flees a painful breakup and her claustrophobic childhood home in Manhattan, which has become more ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Surfacing
by
Cormac James
Bellevue Literary Press, 06/02/2015
Far from civilization, on the hunt for Sir John Franklin's recently lost Northwest Passage expedition, Lieutenant Morgan and his crew find themselves ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Theft of Memory: Losing My Father, One Day at a Time
by
Jonathan Kozol
Crown, 06/02/2015
National Book Award winner Jonathan Kozol is best known for his fifty years of work among our nation's poorest and most vulnerable children. Now, in ...
more
The Ways of the World: A James Maxted Thriller
by
Robert Goddard
Mysterious Press, 06/02/2015
Four years of horrific fighting have finally ended on the battlefield, but in the spring of 1919, Paris is filled with delegates from around the world...
more
Thrillers
The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future
by
Peter Moore
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/02/2015
A history of weather forecasting, and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible
By the 1800s, a century of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Under the Same Sky: From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America
by
Joseph Kim, Stephan Talty
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 06/02/2015
Inside the hidden and mysterious world of North Korea, Joseph Kim lived a young boy's normal life until he was five. Then disaster struck: the first ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
by
Eimear McBride
Hogarth Books, 06/09/2015
In scathing, furious, unforgettable prose, Eimear McBride tells the story of a young girl's devastating adolescence as she and her brother, who ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
American Meteor
by
Norman Lock
Bellevue Literary Press, 06/09/2015
In this panoramic tale of Manifest Destiny, Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that he crosses on the Union Pacific, just as the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West
by
Matthew Dennison
St. Martin's Press, 06/09/2015
In this stunning new biography of Vita Sackville-West, Matthew Dennison traces the triumph and contradictions of Vita's extraordinary life. His ...
more
Book of Numbers
by
Joshua Cohen
Random House, 06/09/2015
The enigmatic billionaire founder of Tetration, the world's most powerful tech company, hires a failed novelist, Josh Cohen, to ghostwrite his memoirs...
more
Crazy Mountain Kiss: A Sean Stranahan Mystery
by
Keith McCafferty
Viking, 06/09/2015
It's April, but there's still snow on the Montana mountains the day a member of the Madison River Liar and Fly Tiers club finds a Santa hat in the ...
more
Delicate Monsters
by
Stephanie Kuehn
St. Martin's Griffin, 06/09/2015
When nearly killing a classmate gets seventeen-year-old Sadie Su kicked out of her third boarding school in four years, she returns to her family's ...
more
Louisa Meets Bear
by
Lisa Gornick
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/09/2015
When Louisa and Bear meet at Princeton in 1975, sparks fly. Louisa is the sexually adventurous daughter of a geneticist, Bear the volatile son of a ...
more
Second Life
by
S. J. Watson
Harper, 06/09/2015
How well can you really know another person? How far would you go to find the truth about someone you love?
When Julia learns that her sister has ...
more
Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle
by
Kristen Green
Harper, 06/09/2015
Combining hard-hitting investigative journalism and a sweeping family narrative, this provocative true story reveals a little-known chapter of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Astrologer's Daughter
by
Rebecca Lim
Text Publishing Company, 06/09/2015
Avicenna Crowe's mother is missing.
The police suspect foul play. Joanne is an astrologer, predicting strangers' futures from their star charts. ...
more
The Household Spirit
by
Tod Wodicka
Pantheon Books, 06/09/2015
In this remarkable novel, Tod Wodicka, author of
All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well, has crafted a ...
more
The Invasion of the Tearling: A Queen of the Tearling Novel
by
Erika Johansen
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/09/2015
With each passing day, Kelsea Glynn is growing into her new responsibilities as Queen of the Tearling. By stopping the shipments of slaves to the ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Jezebel Remedy: A novel
by
Martin Clark
Knopf, 06/09/2015
Lisa and Joe Stone, married for twenty years and partners in their small law firm in Henry County, Virginia, handle less-than-glamorous cases, whether...
more
The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack: and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution
by
Ian Tattersall
Palgrave Macmillan, 06/09/2015
In his new book
The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack, human paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall argues that a long tradition of "human ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Third Wife
by
Lisa Jewell
Atria Books, 06/09/2015
For fans of Liane Moriarty and Jojo Moyes comes a riveting family drama with a dark mystery at its core, from the internationally bestselling author ...
more
The Truth According to Us: A Novel
by
Annie Barrows
Atheneum Books, 06/09/2015
Annie Barrows once again evokes the charm and eccentricity of a small town filled with extraordinary characters. Her new novel,
The Truth According to...more
Under a Dark Summer Sky
by
Vanessa Lafaye
Sourcebooks Landmark, 06/09/2015
Florida, 1935. In Heron Key, relationships are as tangled as the swamp's mangrove roots. It's been eighteen long years since Henry went away to war. ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Valley Fever
by
Katherine Taylor
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/09/2015
Ingrid Palamede never returns to the places she's lived. For her, "whole neighborhoods, whole cities, can be ruined by the reasons you left." But when...
more
The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World
by
Joel K. Bourne Jr
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/15/2015
When the demographer Robert Malthus (1766–1834) famously outlined the brutal relationship between food and population, he never imagined the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Blackbird
by
Tom Wright
Europa Editions, 06/16/2015
In a small town in Ark-La-Tex, Detective Jim Bonham has been assigned to a new case. On the outskirts of the town, a woman has been found brutalized ...
more
China Rich Girlfriend
by
Kevin Kwan
Doubleday, 06/16/2015
On the eve of her wedding to Nicholas Young, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Asia, Rachel should be over the moon. She has a flawless Asscher-...
more
Every Last Word
by
Tamara Ireland Stone
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 06/16/2015
Second-guessing every move, thought, and word makes daily life a struggle, and it doesn't help that her lifelong friends will turn toxic at the first ...
more
Literary Fiction
Here Are the Young Men
by
Rob Doyle
Bloomsbury USA, 06/16/2015
Meet Matthew, Rez, Cocker, and Kearney. They've just finished school, and are facing the great void of the future, celebrating their freedom in this ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
In the Country: Stories
by
Mia Alvar
Knopf, 06/16/2015
A powerful, globe-trotting debut short-story collection from an exciting new writer - vivid, character-driven stories about Filipinos from every walk ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Roomies
by
Sara Zarr
Little Brown & Company, 06/16/2015
When Elizabeth receives her freshman-year roommate assignment at the beginning of summer, she shoots off an email to coordinate the basics: TV, ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Cost of Courage
by
Charles Kaiser
Other Press, 06/16/2015
In the autumn of 1943, André Boulloche became de Gaulle's military delegate in Paris, coordinating all the Resistance movements in the nine ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Precipice: A Novel (Mike Bowditch Mysteries)
by
Paul Doiron
Minotaur Books, 06/16/2015
In this riveting new novel from Edgar finalist Paul Doiron, Bowditch joins a desperate search for two missing hikers as Maine wildlife officials deal ...
more
The Rumor: A Novel
by
Elin Hilderbrand
Little Brown & Company, 06/16/2015
Madeline King and Grace Pancik are best friends and the envy of Nantucket for their perfect marriages, their beautiful kids, their Saturday night ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Seven Good Years: A Memoir
by
Etgar Keret
Riverhead Books, 06/16/2015
The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret's son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born...
more
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
by
Sarah Hepola
Grand Central Publishing, 06/23/2015
"It's such a savage thing to lose your memory, but the crazy thing is, it doesn't hurt one bit. A blackout doesn't sting, or stab, or leave a scar ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Music for Wartime: Stories
by
Rebecca Makkai
Viking, 06/23/2015
Rebecca Makkai's first two novels,
The Borrower and
The Hundred-Year House, have established her as one of the freshest and most imaginative voices in...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Book of Speculation
by
Erika Swyler
St. Martin's Press, 06/23/2015
"Dear Mr. Watson, I came across this book at auction as part of a larger lot I purchased on speculation. The damage renders it useless to me, but a ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Little Paris Bookshop
by
Nina George
Crown, 06/23/2015
"There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies - I mean books - that were written for one...more
The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom
by
Nancy Goldstone
Little Brown & Company, 06/23/2015
Set in magnificent Renaissance France, this is the story of two remarkable women, a mother and daughter driven into opposition by a terrible betrayal ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Truth and Other Lies
by
Sascha Arango
Atria Books, 06/23/2015
Dark, witty, and suspenseful, this literary crime thriller reminiscent of
The Dinner and
The Silent Wife follows a famous author whose wife - the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Viral: Stories
by
Emily Mitchell
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/29/2015
A guidebook introduces foreign visitors to a recognizable but dreamlike America, where mirrors are haunted and the Statue of Liberty wears a bowler ...
more
Ana of California
by
Andi Teran
Penguin Books, 06/30/2015
In the grand tradition of
Anne of Green Gables,
Bridget Jones's Diary, and
The Three Weissmanns of Westport, Andi Teran's captivating debut novel ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Black Valley
by
Charlotte Williams
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/30/2015
Jessica Mayhew has enough problems without getting wrapped up in her patients' drama. Her separation from her husband doesn't seem as amicable as she ...
more
How Did I Get Here?: Making Peace with the Road Not Taken
by
Jesse Browner
HarperWave, 06/30/2015
Jesse Browner, a novelist with a full-time job at the United Nations, has written a book reminiscent of the
Talking Heads classic song "Once in a ...
more
Shadowshaper
by
Daniel José Older
Arthur A. Levine Books, 06/30/2015
Paint a mural. Start a battle. Change the world.
Sierra Santiago planned an easy summer of making art and hanging out with her friends. But ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Mountain Story: A Novel
by
Lori Lansens
Simon & Schuster, 06/30/2015
Four lost hikers are about to discover they're capable of something extraordinary.
Nola has gone up the mountain to commemorate her wedding anniversary...
more
The Star Side of Bird Hill
by
Naomi Jackson
Penguin Books, 06/30/2015
This lyrical novel of community, betrayal, and love centers on an unforgettable matriarchal family in Barbados. Two sisters, ages ten and sixteen, are...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
What Doesn't Kill Her: A Reeve LeClaire Series Novel
by
Carla Norton
Minotaur Books, 06/30/2015
Reeve LeClaire is a college student, dammit, not Daryl Wayne Flint's victim. Not anymore - not when Reeve is finally recovering a life of her own ...
more
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
by
Robert Louis Stevenson
Fingerprint! Publishing, 07/01/2015
Delve into the dark depths of human nature with Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. This gripping novella explores the ...
more
Thrillers
An Englishman in Madrid
by
Eduardo Mendoza (Author), Nick Caistor (Translator)
MacLehose Press, 07/07/2015
Anthony Whitelands, an English art historian, is invited to Madrid to value an aristocrat's collection. At a welcome lunch he encounters Jose Antonio ...
more
Literary Fiction
At Hawthorn Time
by
Melissa Harrison
Bloomsbury USA, 07/07/2015
It is dawn on a May morning. On a long straight road between two sleeping fields a car slows as it arrives at the scene of an accident.
Howard and ...
more
Aurora
by
Kim Stanley Robinson
Orbit, 07/07/2015
A major new novel from one of science fiction's most powerful voices,
AURORA tells the incredible story of our first voyage beyond the solar system.
...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex
by
Michael Hiltzik
Simon & Schuster, 07/07/2015
From a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and
Los Angeles Times contributor, the untold story of how science went "big," built the bombs that ...
more
Bradstreet Gate
by
Robin Kirman
Crown, 07/07/2015
Georgia, Charlie and Alice each arrive at Harvard with hopeful visions of what the future will hold. But when, just before graduation, a classmate is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Forever for a Year
by
B. T. Gottfred
Henry Holt and Company, 07/07/2015
When Carolina and Trevor meet on their first day of school, something draws them to each other. They gradually share first kisses, first touches, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Landline
by
Rainbow Rowell
St. Martin's Press, 07/07/2015
Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble. That it's been in trouble for a long time. She still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves ...
more
Maybe in Another Life
by
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Washington Square Press, 07/07/2015
From the acclaimed author of
Forever, Interrupted and
After I Do comes a breathtaking new novel about a young woman whose fate hinges on the choice ...
more
Paperweight
by
Meg Haston
HarperTeen, 07/07/2015
In the vein of Laurie Halse Anderson's
Wintergirls, this emotionally haunting and beautifully written young adult debut delves into the devastating ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Pretty Is: A Novel
by
Maggie Mitchell
Henry Holt and Company, 07/07/2015
Everyone thought we were dead. We were missing for nearly two months; we were twelve. What else could they think? -Lois
It's always been hard to ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
by
David E. Hoffman
Doubleday, 07/07/2015
While getting into his car on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA's Moscow station was handed an envelope by an unknown Russian. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Captive Condition: A Novel
by
Kevin P. Keating
Pantheon Books, 07/07/2015
For years Normandy Falls has been haunted by its strange history and the aggrieved spirits said to roam its graveyards. Despite warnings, Edmund ...
more
The Flying Circus: A Novel
by
Susan Crandall
Gallery Books, 07/07/2015
Set in the rapidly changing world of 1920s America, this is a story of three people from very different backgrounds: Henry "Schuler" Jefferson, son of...
more
Literary Fiction
The Gods of Tango
by
Carolina De Robertis
Knopf, 07/07/2015
February 1913: seventeen-year-old Leda, clutching a suitcase and her father's cherished violin, leaves her small Italian village for a new home (and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Thrillers
The Sunrise
by
Victoria Hislop
HarperPaperbacks, 07/07/2015
Summer 1972 - Famagusta is Cyprus's most glamorous city and the most desirable tourist destination in the Mediterranean, and the Papacostas are right ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Swede: A Novel
by
Robert Karjel
Harper, 07/07/2015
Ernst Grip of the Swedish security police has no idea why he's been dispatched to a remote American military base in the Indian Ocean. Met by FBI ...
more
The Way Things Were
by
Aatish Taseer
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/07/2015
The Way Things Were opens with the death of Toby, the Maharaja of Kalasuryaketu, a Sanskritist who has not set foot in India for two decades. It falls...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Wild Girl
by
Kate Forsyth
Thomas Dunne Books, 07/07/2015
One of six sisters, Dortchen Wild lives in the small German kingdom of Hesse-Cassel in the early 19th century. She finds herself irresistibly ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Those Girls
by
Chevy Stevens
St. Martin's Griffin, 07/07/2015
Life has never been easy for the three Campbell sisters. Jess, Courtney, and Dani live on a remote ranch in Western Canada where they work hard and ...
more
Vanishing Games: A Novel
by
Roger Hobbs
Knopf, 07/07/2015
It's just before dawn on the South China Sea when three experienced pirates open fire on a small smuggling yacht. Their target: a bag of uncut ...
more
Thrillers
Prophets of Eternal Fjord
by
Kim Leine
Liveright / WW Norton, 07/13/2015
From the swarming streets of Copenhagen to the frozen villages of Greenland,
The Prophets of Eternal Fjord is a grand, magisterial story of epic ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
All This Life
by
Joshua Mohr
Soft Skull Press, 07/14/2015
Morning rush hour on the Golden Gate Bridge. Amidst the river of metal and glass a shocking event occurs, leaving those who witnessed it desperately ...
more
Another Kind of Hurricane
by
Tamara Ellis Smith
Schwartz & Wade (Random House), 07/14/2015
In this stunning debut novel for younger readers, two very different characters—a black boy who loses his home in Hurricane Katrina and a white ...
more
Between the World and Me
by
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Spiegel & Grau, 07/14/2015
A bold and personal literary exploration of America's racial history by "the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States" (
The New ...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
by
Carl Safina
Henry Holt and Company, 07/14/2015
I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so-close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the ...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bombs Away: The Hot War
by
Harry Turtledove
Del Rey, 07/14/2015
In his acclaimed novels of alternate history, Harry Turtledove has scrutinized the twisted soul of the twentieth century, from the forces that set ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Confession of the Lioness
by
Mia Couto (Author), David Brookshaw (Translator)
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/14/2015
A dark, poetic mystery about the women of the remote village of Kulumani and the lionesses that hunt them
Told through two haunting, interwoven ...
more
Crush
by
Phoef Sutton
Prospect Park Books, 07/14/2015
Caleb Rush, a. k. a. Crush, is the toughest, coolest bodyguard/bouncer in Los Angeles, a man who lives strictly by his own moral code, which doesn't ...
more
Go Set a Watchman
by
Harper Lee
Harper, 07/14/2015
Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from
To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, ...
more
Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas
by
Christian Kracht
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/14/2015
In 1902, a radical vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg named August Engelhardt set sail for what was then called the Bismarck Archipelago. His ...
more
Maud's Line
by
Margaret Verble
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 07/14/2015
A debut novel chronicling the life and loves of a headstrong, earthy, and magnetic heroine
Eastern Oklahoma, 1928. Eighteen-year-old Maud Nail ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Open Grave: An Ann Lindell Mystery
by
Kjell Eriksson
Minotaur Books, 07/14/2015
Kjell Eriksson has made a huge splash around the globe with his series set in his native Sweden. Already a star in Europe and the Nordic countries, ...
more
The New Spymasters: Inside the Modern World of Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror
by
Stephen Grey
St. Martin's Press, 07/14/2015
The old world of spying - dead-letter boxes, microfilm cameras, an enemy reporting to the Moscow Center, and a hint of sexual blackmail - is history. ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The New World
by
Andrew Motion
Crown, 07/14/2015
Washed ashore after escaping Treasure Island, young Jim Hawkins and his companion Natty find themselves stranded on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Their ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Rebel of Rangoon: A Tale of Defiance and Deliverance in Burma
by
Delphine Schrank
Kodansha International, 07/14/2015
Once the shining promise of Southeast Asia, Burma in May 2009 ranks among the world's most repressive and impoverished nations. Its ruling military ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
A Cure for Suicide
by
Jesse Ball
Pantheon Books, 07/21/2015
A man and a woman have moved into a small house in a small village. The woman is an "examiner," the man, her "claimant." The examiner is both doctor ...
more
A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea
by
Eunsun Kim, Sébastien Falletti
St. Martin's Press, 07/21/2015
Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her country......
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
by
William Finnegan
Penguin Press, 07/21/2015
Barbarian Days is William Finnegan's memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something ...
more
Between the Tides
by
Susannah Marren
St. Martin's Press, 07/21/2015
Lainie Smith Morris is perfectly content with her life in New York City: she has four children, a handsome surgeon husband, and good friends.&#...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells
by
Helen Scales
Bloomsbury USA, 07/21/2015
Seashells, stretching from the deep past into the present day, are touchstones leading into fascinating realms of the natural world and cutting-edge ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Kindness
by
Polly Samson
Bloomsbury USA, 07/21/2015
He followed her eyes skyward to a bird that was falling, turning and turning, like a heart that had leapt free. It fell, and as it did it became a ...more
The Other Son: A Sophie Brinkmann Novel
by
Alexander Soderberg
Crown, 07/21/2015
From the moment Hector Guzman entered a coma, Sophie Brinkmann has regretted joining his crime family. Hector's right hand, Aron Geisler, is doing all...
more
The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives
by
Stephen Buchmann
Scribner, 07/21/2015
Cultural history at its best - the engaging, lively, and definitive story of the beauty, sexuality, ecology, myths, lore, and economics of the world's...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word
by
Matthew Battles
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/27/2015
Why does writing exist? What does it mean to those who write? Born from the interplay of natural and cultural history, the seemingly magical act of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Adrift
by
Paul Griffin
Scholastic, 07/28/2015
Matt and John are best friends working out in Montauk for the summer. When Driana, JoJo and Stef invite the boys to their Hamptons mansion, Matt...
more
Badlands
by
C. J. Box
Minotaur Books, 07/28/2015
Twenty miles across the North Dakota border, where the scenery goes from rolling grass prairie to pipeline fields, detective Cassie Dewell has been ...
more
Broken Promise: A Thriller
by
Linwood Barclay
NAL, 07/28/2015
From the
New York Times bestselling author of
No Safe House comes an explosive novel about the disturbing secrets of a quiet small town.…
...
more
Brush Back: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
by
Sara Paretsky
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/28/2015
No one would accuse V. I. Warshawski of backing down from a fight, but there are a few she'd be happy to avoid. High on that list is tangling with ...
more
Dancing with the Devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro on the Brink
by
Juliana Barbassa
Touchstone, 07/28/2015
In the tradition of
Detroit: An American Autopsy and
Maximum City comes a deeply reported and beautifully written biography of the seductive and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Kitchens of the Great Midwest
by
J. Ryan Stradal
Pamela Dorman Books, 07/28/2015
When Lars Thorvald's wife, Cynthia, falls in love with wine - and a dashing sommelier - he's left to raise their baby, Eva, on his own. He's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
by
Susan Southard
Viking, 07/28/2015
On August 9, 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, a small port city on ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Dying Grass: A Novel of the Nez Perce War
by
William T Vollmann
Viking, 07/28/2015
In this new installment in his acclaimed series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League
by
Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Penguin Books, 07/28/2015
Dan-el Padilla Peralta has lived the American dream. As a boy, he came here legally with his family. Together they left Santo Domingo behind, but life...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Daughters
by
Adrienne Celt
Liveright / WW Norton, 08/03/2015
Lulu can't sing. Since the traumatic birth of her daughter, the internationally renowned soprano hasn't dared utter a note. She's afraid that her body...
more
All That Followed
by
Gabriel Urza
Henry Holt and Company, 08/04/2015
It's 2004 in Muriga, a quiet town in Spain's northern Basque Country, a place with more secrets than inhabitants. Five years have passed since the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris
by
Alex Kershaw
Crown, 08/04/2015
The leafy Avenue de Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, was Paris's hotbed of daring spies, murderous secret ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Days of Awe
by
Lauren Fox
Knopf, 08/04/2015
Only a year ago Isabel Moore was married, was the object of adoration for her ten-year-old daughter, and thought she knew everything about her wild, ...
more
Flood of Fire: The Ibis Trilogy #3
by
Amitav Ghosh
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/04/2015
It is 1839 and China has embargoed the trade of opium, yet too much is at stake in the lucrative business and the British Foreign Secretary has ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
by
Ari Berman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/04/2015
On the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a riveting and alarming account of the continuing battle over the right to vote
The adoption ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
In a Dark, Dark Wood
by
Ruth Ware
Gallery/Scout Press, 08/04/2015
Leonora, known to some as Lee and others as Nora, is a reclusive crime writer, unwilling to leave her "nest" of an apartment unless it is absolutely ...
more
Thrillers
Infinite Home
by
Kathleen Alcott
Riverhead Books, 08/04/2015
Edith is a widowed landlady who rents apartments in her Brooklyn brownstone to an unlikely collection of humans, all deeply in need of shelter. ...
more
Into the Valley
by
Ruth Galm
Soho Press, 08/04/2015
Into the Valley opens on the day in July 1967 when B. decides to pass her first counterfeit check and flee San Francisco for the Central Valley. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Lamp Black, Wolf Grey
by
Paula Brackston
St. Martin's Griffin, 08/04/2015
Artist Laura Matthews finds her new home in the Welsh mountains to be a place so charged with tales and legends that she is able to reach through the ...
more
Historical Fiction
Make Your Home Among Strangers
by
Jennine Capó Crucet
St. Martin's Press, 08/04/2015
Lizet, a daughter of Cuban immigrants and the first in her family to graduate from high school, secretly applies and is accepted to an ultra-...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase
by
Louise Walters
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/04/2015
Roberta, a lonely thirty-four-year-old bibliophile, works at The Old and New Bookshop in England. When she finds a letter inside her centenarian ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
No. 4 Imperial Lane
by
Jonathan Weisman
Twelve Books, 08/04/2015
It's 1988 at the University of Sussex, where kids sport Mohawks and light up to the otherworldly sounds of the Cocteau Twins, as conversation drifts ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Fifth Season: The Broken Earth #1
by
N. K. Jemisin
Orbit, 08/04/2015
It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Girl Who Slept with God
by
Val Brelinski
Viking, 08/04/2015
An entrancing debut about two sisters exiled by their parents when the eldest becomes pregnant
Set in Arco, Idaho, in 1970, Val Brelinski's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Madagaskar Plan
by
Guy Saville
Henry Holt and Company, 08/04/2015
Guy Saville's
The Madagaskar Plan imagines a disturbing alternate history in which Nazi victory in World War II brings their "Final Solution" ever ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories
by
China Miéville
Del Rey, 08/04/2015
The fiction of multiple award–winning author China Miéville is powered by intelligence and imagination. Like George Saunders, Karen Russell,...
more
Trust No One: A Thriller
by
Paul Cleave
Atria Books, 08/04/2015
In the exciting new psychological thriller by the Edgar-nominated author of
Joe Victim, a famous crime writer struggles to differentiate between his ...
more
Two Across
by
Jeffrey Bartsch
Grand Central Publishing, 08/04/2015
Highly awkward teenager Stanley Owens meets his match in beautiful, brainy Vera Baxter when they tie for first place in the annual National Spelling ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Walking with Abel: Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah
by
Anna Badkhen
Riverhead Books, 08/04/2015
An intrepid journalist joins the planet's largest group of nomads on an annual migration that, like them, has endured for centuries.
Anna Badkhen ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
by
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Milkweed Editions, 08/11/2015
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings―asters and goldenrod, strawberries and ...
more
In the Language of Miracles
by
Rajia Hassib
Viking, 08/11/2015
A mesmerizing debut novel of an Egyptian American family and the wrenching tragedy that tears their lives apart.
Samir and Nagla Al-Menshawy appear...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Katrina: After the Flood
by
Gary Rivlin
Simon & Schuster, 08/11/2015
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana—on August 29, 2005—journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storm's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Still Life Las Vegas
by
James Sie
St. Martin's Press, 08/11/2015
Recent high school graduate and aspiring artist Walter Stahl lives with his ailing father in the dregs of Las Vegas, their lives overshadowed by the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Blue
by
Lucy Clarke
Touchstone, 08/11/2015
Lana and her best friend Kitty leave home looking for freedom - and that's exactly what they find when they are invited onto
The Blue, a fifty-foot ...
more
The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream
by
Katharine Norbury
Bloomsbury USA, 08/11/2015
Katharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by a loving adoptive family, she grew into a wanderer, drawn by the landscape...
more
The Race for Paris
by
Meg Waite Clayton
Harper, 08/11/2015
Normandy, 1944. To cover the fighting in France, Jane, a reporter for the
Nashville Banner, and Liv, an Associated Press photographer, have endured ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The State We're In: Maine Stories
by
Ann Beattie
Scribner, 08/11/2015
From a multiple prize–winning master of the short form: a stunning collection of brand-new, linked stories that perfectly capture the zeitgeist ...
more
Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books
by
Michael Dirda
Pegasus Books, 08/15/2015
Michael Dirda has been hailed as "the best-read person in America" (
The Paris Review) and "the best book critic in America" (
The New York Observer). ...
more
The Darkest Heart: A Novel
by
Dan Smith
Pegasus Books, 08/15/2015
Leaving behind his life of violence in Brazil's darkest shadows, Zico is determined to become a better man. But it seems his old life isn't quite done...
more
Sonic Wind: The Story of John Paul Stapp and How a Renegade Doctor Became the Fastest Man on Earth
by
Craig Ryan
Liveright / WW Norton, 08/17/2015
Sixty years ago, cars and airplanes were still deathtraps waiting to happen. Today, both are safer than ever, thanks in part to one pioneering air ...
more
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
by
Lucia Berlin
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/18/2015
The stories in
A Manual for Cleaning Women make for one of the most remarkable unsung collections in twentieth-century American fiction. With ...
more
Eileen
by
Ottessa Moshfegh
Penguin Books, 08/18/2015
So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a ...more
Everybody Rise
by
Stephanie Clifford
St. Martin's Press, 08/18/2015
An extraordinary debut novel by New York Times reporter Stephanie Clifford - a
Bonfire of the Vanities for the 21st century mixed with Curtis ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Literary Fiction
I Was a Revolutionary: Stories
by
Andrew Malan Milward
Harper, 08/18/2015
A richly textured, diverse collection of stories that illuminate the heartland and America itself, exploring questions of history, race, and identity....
more
Last Bus to Wisdom
by
Ivan Doig
Riverhead Books, 08/18/2015
The final novel from a great American storyteller.
Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii
by
Susanna Moore
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/18/2015
The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals - from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below, the first hardy ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Sea Lovers: Selected Stories
by
Valerie Martin
Nan A. Talese, 08/18/2015
For four decades Valerie Martin has been publishing novels and stories that demonstrate her incredible range as a writer, moving between realism and ...
more
The Admissions
by
Meg Mitchell Moore
Doubleday, 08/18/2015
The Admissions brilliantly captures the frazzled pressure cooker of modern life as a seemingly perfect family comes undone by a few desperate ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Automobile Club of Egypt
by
Alaa Al Aswany
Knopf, 08/18/2015
From the most popular Egyptian novelist of his generation ("a suitable heir to the mantle worn by Naguib Mahfouz" -
The Guardian), a rollicking, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Girl from the Garden
by
Parnaz Foroutan
Ecco, 08/18/2015
For all his wealth and success, Asher Malacouti - the head of a prosperous Jewish family living in the Iranian town of Kermanshah - cannot have the ...
more
The Intruder: A Crime Novel
by
Hakan Ostlundh (Author), Paul Norlen (Translator)
Minotaur Books, 08/18/2015
The Intruder is an unusual story about betrayal and dark secrets. The Andersson family is being sent scary letters without a sender's name. Who could ...
more
Voracious: A Hungry Reader Cooks Her Way through Great Books
by
Cara Nicoletti (Author), Marion Bolognese (Illustrator)
Little Brown & Company, 08/18/2015
An irresistible literary feast
Stories and recipes inspired by the world's great books
As a young bookworm reading in her grandfather's butcher ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
A Good Family
by
Erik Fassnacht
St. Martin's Press, 08/25/2015
Meet the Brunsons of Downers Grove, Illinois. Henry is the once-magical father, whose fear of aging and endangered career lead him to the nightclubs ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Window Opens
by
Elisabeth Egan
Simon & Schuster, 08/25/2015
In
A Window Opens, Elisabeth Egan brings us Alice Pearse, a compulsively honest, longing-to-have-it-all, sandwich generation heroine for our social-...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Spy Games
by
Adam Brookes
Nation Books, 08/25/2015
Fearing for his life, journalist Philip Mangan has gone into hiding from the Chinese agents who have identified him as a Western spy. His reputation ...
more
The Drowned Boy: An Inspector Sejer Mystery
by
Karin Fossum
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 08/25/2015
Carmen and Nicolai failed to resuscitate their son, Tommy, after finding him floating in their backyard pond. When Inspector Skarre arrives on ...
more
The Fall of Princes
by
Robert Goolrick
Algonquin Books, 08/25/2015
With the literary chops of
Bonfire of the Vanities and the dizzying decadence of
The Wolf of Wall Street, The Fall of Princes takes readers into a ...
more
Zero Night: The Untold Story of World War Two's Greatest Escape
by
Mark Felton
Thomas Dunne Books, 08/25/2015
On August 30, 1942 - 'Zero Night' - 40 Allied officers staged the most audacious mass escape of World War II. Months of meticulous planning and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Late Fragments: Everything I Want to Tell You (About This Magnificent Life)
by
Kate Gross
William Collins, 08/27/2015
At thirty, she was CEO of a charity working with fragile democracies in Africa. She had married 'the best looking man I've ever kissed' – and ...
more
Biography/Memoir
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
by
Kathryn J. Edin
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 09/01/2015
A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't think it exists
Jessica Compton's family of four would ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Cut Both Ways
by
Carrie Mesrobian
HarperCollins Publishers, 09/01/2015
From William C. Morris YA Debut Award nominee Carrie Mesrobian,
Cut Both Ways is an unflinching look at a high school senior who must come to terms ...
more
Dryland
by
Sara Jaffe
Ballantine Books, 09/01/2015
Jaffe's engrossing debut novel,
Dryland, is a smart coming-of-age novel that charts the murky waters of adolescence.
Anything can happen when Julie...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Game of Queens: A Novel of Vashti and Esther
by
India Edghill
St. Martin's Press, 09/01/2015
You may know part of the story already, but you only know what history has passed along. The story of how Vashti, Queen of Queens, the most beautiful ...
more
Historical Fiction
Hollow Man
by
Mark Pryor
Prometheus Books, 09/01/2015
Dominic is a prosecutor, a musician, and an Englishman living in Texas. He's also a psychopath.
His main goal is to hide his condition and lead a ...
more
Infinite in Between
by
Carolyn Mackler
HarperTeen, 09/01/2015
Printz Honor author Carolyn Mackler returns with this striking new novel that chronicles the lives of five teenagers through the thrills, heartbreaks,...
more
Jimmy Bluefeather
by
Kim Heacox
Alaska Northwest Books, 09/01/2015
Old Keb Wisting is somewhere around ninety-five years old (he lost count awhile ago) and in constant pain and thinks he wants to die. He also thinks ...
more
Literary Fiction
Men Explain Things to Me
by
Rebecca Solnit
Haymarket Books, 09/01/2015
She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars ...
more
Essays
Out of Darkness
by
Ashley Hope Pérez
Carolrhoda Books, 09/01/2015
"This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines you cross, lines you don't cross. That clear?"
New London, Texas. 1937. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Blue Between Sky and Water
by
Susan Abulhawa
Bloomsbury USA, 09/01/2015
In the small Palestinian farming village of Beit Daras, the women of the Baraka family inspire awe. Nazmiyeh is brazen and fiercely protective of her ...
more
The Gates of Evangeline
by
Hester Young
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/01/2015
When New York journalist and recently bereaved mother Charlotte "Charlie" Cates begins to experience vivid dreams about children she's sure that she's...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Gilded Hour
by
Sara Donati
Berkley Books, 09/01/2015
The international bestselling author of
Into the Wilderness makes her highly anticipated return with
a remarkable epic about two female doctors in ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Girl in the Spider's Web: A Lisbeth Salander novel, continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series
by
David Lagercrantz
Knopf, 09/01/2015
Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return
She is the girl with the dragon tattoo - a genius hacker and uncompromising misfit. He is a crusading ...
more
Thrillers
The Making of Asian America: A History
by
Erika Lee
Simon & Schuster, 09/01/2015
The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject.
In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Middle of Somewhere
by
Sonja Yoerg
NAL, 09/01/2015
With her thirtieth birthday looming, Liz Kroft is heading for the hills—literally. Her emotional baggage weighs her down more than her backpack, ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Story of the Lost Child: Neapolitan Novels, Book Four
by
Elena Ferrante
Europa Editions, 09/01/2015
"Nothing quite like this has ever been published before," proclaimed
The Guardian newspaper about the Neapolitan Novels in 2014.
Those Who Leave and ...more
Literary Fiction
The Telling
by
Jo Baker
Vintage, 09/01/2015
A ghost story of the most unusual kind,
The Telling is a thrilling - and sometimes chilling - tale about two women, separated by almost two centuries,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Wake: A Novel
by
Paul Kingsnorth
Graywolf Press, 09/01/2015
"A work that is as disturbing as it is empathetic, as beautiful as it is riveting." - Eimear McBride,
New StatesmanIn the aftermath of the Norman ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Vengeance Road
by
Erin Bowman
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 09/01/2015
When Kate Thompson's father is killed by the notorious Rose Riders for a mysterious journal that reveals the secret location of a gold mine, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Killing in Zion: An Art Oveson Mystery
by
Andrew Hunt
Minotaur Books, 09/08/2015
In the scorching, drought-plagued summer of 1934, as wildfires burn across Utah, Detective Lieutenant Art Oveson faces a unique assignment. Salt Lake ...
more
Above the Waterfall
by
Ron Rash
Ecco, 09/08/2015
In this poetic and haunting tale set in contemporary Appalachia,
New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash illuminates lives shaped by violence and a...
more
Beauty Is a Wound
by
Eka Kurniawan (Author), Annie Tucker (translator)
New Directions Publishing, 09/08/2015
The epic novel
Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. The beautiful Indo ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dark Shimmer
by
Donna Jo Napoli
Wendy Lamb Books, 09/08/2015
Set in medieval Venice, this captivating fairy tale retelling by award-winning author Donna Jo Napoli explores belonging, beauty, and the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Edgewater
by
Courtney Sheinmel
Amulet Books, 09/08/2015
Lorrie Hollander used to be a rich girl, but now she's lost everything because of the secrets and lies of the people around her. It's been 12 years ...
more
Fans of the Impossible Life
by
Kate Scelsa
Balzer + Bray, 09/08/2015
Mira is starting over at Saint Francis Prep. She promised her parents she would at least try to pretend that she could act like a functioning human ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Fear of Dying
by
Erica Jong
St. Martin's Press, 09/08/2015
Fear of Dying is a hilarious, heart wrenching, and beautifully told story about what happens when one woman steps reluctantly into the afternoon of ...
more
Mysteries of the Mall: And Other Essays
by
Witold Rybczynski
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/08/2015
Following
How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski casts a seasoned critical eye over the modern scene with
Mysteries of the Mall. His subject is ...
more
Negroland: A Memoir
by
Margo Jefferson
Pantheon Books, 09/08/2015
A New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015
New York Times: Dwight Garner's Best Books of 2015
Washington Post: 10 Best Books of 2015
Los Angeles ...
more
The Child Garden
by
Catriona McPherson
Midnight Ink, 09/08/2015
Eden was its name. "An alternative school for happy children." But it closed in disgrace after a student's suicide. Now it's a care home, its grounds ...
more
The Courtesan: A Novel
by
Alexandra Curry
Dutton, 09/08/2015
The Courtesan is an astonishing tale inspired by the real life of a woman who lived and loved in the extraordinary twilight decades of the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Double Life of Liliane
by
Lily Tuck
Atlantic Monthly Press, 09/08/2015
Lily Tuck has had a wonderful and accomplished career as a National Book Award winning novelist, story writer, essayist and biographer. She is one of...
more
The Hired Girl
by
Laura Amy Schlitz
Candlewick Press, 09/08/2015
Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century America in a moving yet comedic tour de force.
...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs
by
Matthew Dicks
St. Martin's Press, 09/08/2015
Caroline Jacobs has lost herself. She's a wife, mother (to a tattooed teenage daughter she avoids), Sears Portrait Studio photographer, and wimp. ...
more
The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories
by
Joy Williams
Knopf, 09/08/2015
Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing as a given from one generation to the next even ...
more
Short Stories
The Scribe
by
Matthew Guinn
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/14/2015
After leaving Atlanta in disgrace three years before, detective Thomas Canby is called back to the city on the eve of Atlanta's 1881 International ...
more
'Til the Well Runs Dry: A Novel
by
Lauren Francis-Sharma
Picador, 09/15/2015
A glorious and moving multigenerational, multicultural saga that sweeps from the 1940s through the 1960s in Trinidad and the United States.
'Til the ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Free State: A Novel
by
Tom Piazza
Harper, 09/15/2015
The author of
City of Refuge returns with a startling and powerful novel of race, violence, and identity set on the eve of the Civil War.
The year is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Breakaway
by
Kat Spears
St. Martin's Griffin, 09/15/2015
When Jason Marshall's younger sister passes away, he knows he can count on his three best friends and soccer teammates - Mario, Jordie, and Chick - to...
more
Come Hell or Highball: A Discreet Retrieval Agency Mysteries
by
Maia Chance
Minotaur Books, 09/15/2015
31-year-old society matron Lola Woodby has survived her loveless marriage with an unholy mixture of highballs, detective novels, and chocolate layer ...
more
Dumplin'
by
Julie Murphy
Balzer + Bray, 09/15/2015
Dubbed "Dumplin'" by her former beauty queen mom, Willowdean has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini body?...
more
Fates and Furies
by
Lauren Groff
Riverhead Books, 09/15/2015
Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative ...
more
House of Thieves
by
Charles Belfoure
Sourcebooks, 09/15/2015
In 1886 New York, a respectable architect shouldn't have any connection to the notorious gang of thieves and killers that rules the underbelly of the ...
more
One
by
Sarah Crossan
Greenwillow Books, 09/15/2015
Tippi and Grace. Grace and Tippi. For them, it's normal to step into the same skirt. To hook their arms around each other for balance. To fall asleep ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Only the Animals: Stories
by
Ceridwen Dovey
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/15/2015
The souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century and connected to both famous and little-known writers in surprising ways ...
more
Shanghai Redemption: An Inspector Chen Novel #9
by
Qiu Xiaolong
Minotaur Books, 09/15/2015
"The system has no place for a cop who puts justice above the interests of the Party. It's a miracle that I survived as long as I did."
For years,...
more
So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood
by
Patrick Modiano
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 09/15/2015
A haunting novel of suspense from the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature
In the stillness of his Paris apartment, Jean Daragane has ...
more
The Constable's Tale: A Novel of Colonial America
by
Donald Smith
Pegasus Books, 09/15/2015
When a traveling peddler discovers the murder of a farm family in colonial North Carolina whose bodies have been left in bizarre positions, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Drowning: A Novel
by
Camilla Lackberg
Pegasus Books, 09/15/2015
Christian Thydell's dream has come true. His debut novel,
The Mermaid, has been published to rave reviews. So why is he as distant and unhappy as ...
more
The Killing Kind
by
Chris Holm
Mulholland, 09/15/2015
A hitman who only kills other hitmen winds up a target himself.
Michael Hendricks kills people for money. That aside, he's not so bad a guy.
Once ...
more
The Last September
by
Nina de Gramont
Algonquin Books, 09/15/2015
"When I look back now, it hurtles toward us like a meteor. But at the time we were too wrapped up in our day-to-day life to see it. Charlie and I ...
more
The Storms of War
by
Kate Williams
Pegasus Books, 09/15/2015
For fans of
Atonement,
Birdsong, and
Downton Abbey, the first of three novels about a privileged British family enduring the trials of World War I, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Suicide of Claire Bishop
by
Carmiel Banasky
Dzanc Books, 09/15/2015
Greenwich Village, 1959. Claire Bishop sits for a portrait - a gift from her husband - only to discover that what the artist has actually depicted is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Tokyo Zodiac Murders (Pushkin Vertigo)
by
Soji Shimada
Pushkin Press Classics, 09/15/2015
Astrologer, fortune teller, and self-styled detective Kiyoshi Mitarai must solve a macabre murder mystery that has baffled Japan for 40 years—in...
more
Mysteries
The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra: A Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation, #1
by
Vaseem Khan
Redhook, 09/15/2015
On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits two unexpected mysteries.
The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death ...
more
The Zig Zag Girl
by
Elly Griffiths
Houghton Mifflin Books For Younger Readers, 09/15/2015
In the first installment of a compelling new series by Elly Griffiths, a band of magicians who served together in World War II track a killer who's ...
more
The Lower Quarter
by
Elise Blackwell
Unbridled Books, 09/21/2015
A man murdered during Katrina in a hotel room two blocks from her art-restoration studio was closely tied to a part of Johanna's past that she would ...
more
Binti: Binti #1
by
Nnedi Okorafor
Tor Books, 09/22/2015
But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Juniors
by
Kaui Hart Hemmings
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/22/2015
Lea Lane has lived in between all her life.
Part Hawaiian, part Mainlander. Perpetual new girl at school. Hanging in the shadow of her ...
more
Not on Fire, but Burning
by
Greg Hrbek
Melville House, 09/22/2015
Twenty-year-old Skyler saw the incident out her window: Some sort of metallic object hovering over the Golden Gate Bridge just before it collapsed and...
more
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
by
M.T. Anderson
Candlewick Press, 09/22/2015
National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer ...
more
The Great Swindle
by
Pierre Lemaitre (author), Frank Wynne (translator)
MacLehose Press, 09/22/2015
The year is 1918, the war on the Western Front all but over. An ambitious officer, Lieutenant Henry D'Aulnay-Pradelle, sends two soldiers over the top...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Murdstone Trilogy
by
Mal Peet
Candlewick Press, 09/22/2015
Award-winning YA author Philip Murdstone is in trouble. His star has waned. The world is leaving him behind. His agent, the ruthless Minerva Cinch, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude
by
Howard Axelrod
Beacon Press, 09/22/2015
After losing vision in one eye during his junior year at Harvard, Howard Axelrod found himself in a world where nothing was solid, where the smooth ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives
by
Theresa Brown
Algonquin Books, 09/22/2015
A moving story unfolds in real time as practicing nurse and
New York Times columnist Theresa Brown reveals the individual struggles as well as the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Thing About Jellyfish
by
Ali Benjamin
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 09/22/2015
After her best friend dies in a drowning accident, Suzy is convinced that the true cause of the tragedy was a rare jellyfish sting. Retreating into a ...
more
Those We Left Behind: The Belfast Novels #4
by
Stuart Neville
Soho Press, 09/22/2015
For two brothers, a debt of violence will be paid over a lifetime
Ciaran Devine, who made Belfast headlines seven years ago as the "schoolboy ...
more
What We Saw
by
Aaron Hartzler
HarperTeen, 09/22/2015
This honest, authentic debut novel - inspired by the events in the Steubenville rape case - will resonate with readers who've ever walked that razor-...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
White Light
by
Vanessa Garcia
Shade Mountain Press, 09/23/2015
Just before her father's sudden death, Cuban-American artist Veronica Gonzalez is offered her first gallery exhibit, a real chance to break into the ...
more
Literary Fiction
A Song of Shadows: A Charlie Parker Thriller #13
by
John Connolly
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 09/29/2015
Still recovering from his life-threatening wounds, private detective Charlie Parker investigates a case that has its origins in a Nazi concentration ...
more
After You
by
Jojo Moyes
Pamela Dorman Books, 09/29/2015
How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living?
Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living...
more
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
by
Joby Warrick
Doubleday, 09/29/2015
When the government of Jordan granted amnesty to a group of political prisoners in 1999, it little realized that among them was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science
by
Richard Dawkins
Ecco, 09/29/2015
In this hugely entertaining sequel to the
New York Times bestselling memoir
An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins delves deeply into his ...
more
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
by
Paul Theroux
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 09/29/2015
Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the far away. Now, for the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Early One Morning
by
Virginia Baily
Little Brown & Company, 09/29/2015
Chiara Ravello is about to flee occupied Rome when she locks eyes with a woman being herded on to a truck with her family.
Claiming the woman's son...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Everland
by
Rebecca Hunt
Europa Editions, 09/29/2015
1913. Dinners, Millet-Bass, and Napps-three explorers bound not by friendship, but by a dependence founded on survival-volunteer to leave their ship, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Pretty Girls
by
Karin Slaughter
William Morrow, 09/29/2015
#1 internationally bestselling author Karin Slaughter returns with a sophisticated and chilling psychological thriller of dangerous secrets, cold ...
more
Six of Crows
by
Leigh Bardugo
Henry Holt and Company, 09/29/2015
Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price - and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Heart Healers: The Misfits, Mavericks, and Rebels Who Created the Greatest Medical Breakthrough of Our Lives
by
James Forrester
St. Martin's Griffin, 09/29/2015
At one time, heart disease was a death sentence. In
The Heart Healers, world renowned cardiologist Dr. James Forrester tells the story of the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Untwine
by
Edwidge Danticat
Scholastic, 09/29/2015
Giselle Boyer and her identical twin, Isabelle, are as close as sisters can be, even as their family seems to be unraveling. Then the Boyers have a ...
more
Voyage of the Sable Venus: and Other Poems
by
Robin Coste Lewis
Knopf, 09/29/2015
Robin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems considering the roles desire and race play in the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
by
John Seabrook
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/05/2015
There's a reason hit songs offer guilty pleasure - they're designed that way.
Over the last two decades a new type of hit song has emerged, one ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Madness So Discreet
by
Mindy McGinnis
Katherine Tegan Books, 10/06/2015
Grace Mae is already familiar with madness when family secrets and the bulge in her belly send her to an insane asylum - but it is in the darkness ...
more
Bats of the Republic: An Illuminated Novel
by
Zachary Thomas Dodson
Doubleday, 10/06/2015
In 1843, fragile naturalist Zadock Thomas must leave his beloved in Chicago to deliver a secret letter to an infamous general on ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Carry On
by
Rainbow Rowell
St. Martin's Griffin, 10/06/2015
Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke...
more
Literary Fiction
Daydreams of Angels: Stories
by
Heather O'Neill
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/06/2015
The fantastic has always been at the edges of Heather O'Neill's work. In her bestselling novels
Lullabies for Little Criminals and
The Girl Who Was ...more
Death by Water
by
Kenzaburo Oe
Grove Press, 10/06/2015
Kenzaburo Oe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture ...
more
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
by
David Wong
Thomas Dunne Books, 10/06/2015
A world in which at least one cat smells like a seafood shop's dumpster on a hot summer day.
This is the world in which Zoey Ashe finds herself, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
God's Kingdom
by
Howard Frank Mosher
St. Martin's Press, 10/06/2015
God's Kingdom explores the Kinneson family through the coming of age of the heir, Jim, and its rich and complicated history. Earnest and innocent, a ...
more
Historical Fiction
Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We
by
Harriet A. Washington
Little Brown & Company, 10/06/2015
Is it possible to catch autism or OCD the same way we catch the flu? Can a child's contact with cat litter lead to schizophrenia? In her eye-opening ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Katherine Carlyle
by
Rupert Thomson
Other Press, 10/06/2015
Katherine Carlyle is Rupert Thomson's breakthrough novel. Written in the beautifully spare, lucid, and cinematic prose Thomson is known for, and ...
more
Literary Fiction
Parrotfish
by
Ellen Wittlinger
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 10/06/2015
Angela Katz-McNair never felt quite right as a girl. So she cuts her hair short, purchases some men's clothes and chose a new name: Grady. While ...
more
Literary Fiction
Pop Goes the Weasel: A Detective Helen Grace Thriller
by
M. J. Arlidge
NAL, 10/06/2015
A man's body is found in an empty house.
A gruesome memento of his murder is sent to his wife and children.
He is the first victim, and Detective ...
more
Thrillers
Romancing the Dark in the City of Light: A Novel
by
Ann Jacobus
Thomas Dunne Books, 10/06/2015
Summer Barnes just moved to Paris to repeat her senior year of high school. After being kicked out of four boarding schools, she has to get on the ...
more
Stones in the Road
by
E.B. Moore
NAL, 10/06/2015
1867. Growing up among the Pennsylvania Amish, eleven-year-old Joshua knows that his father is a respected church deacon who has the ear of God. But ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Clasp
by
Sloane Crosley
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/06/2015
Part comedy of manners, part treasure hunt, the first novel from the writer whom David Sedaris calls "perfectly, relentlessly funny"
Kezia, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Gap of Time: Hogarth Shakespeare series
by
Jeanette Winterson
Hogarth Books, 10/06/2015
The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's "late plays." It tells the story of a king whose jealousy results in the banishment of his baby daughter and...
more
The Guise of Another
by
Allen Eskens
Prometheus Books, 10/06/2015
A Medal of Valor winner, Alexander is now under subpoena by a grand jury on suspicion of corruption. He's been reassigned to the Frauds Unit, where he...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Secret Chord: A Novel
by
Geraldine Brooks
Viking, 10/06/2015
With more than two million copies of her novels sold,
New York Times bestselling author Geraldine Brooks has achieved both popular and critical ...
more
The Sword of Summer: Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 1
by
Rick Riordan
Disney-Hyperion, 10/06/2015
Magnus Chase has always been a troubled kid. Since his mother's mysterious death, he's lived alone on the streets of Boston, surviving by his wits, ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Ville Rat: A Sergeants Sueño and Bascom Novel
by
Martin Limon
Soho Press, 10/06/2015
South Korea, 1970s: A young Korean woman dressed in a traditional
chima-jeogori is found strangled to death on the frozen banks of the Sonyu River ...
more
The War Reporter
by
Martin Fletcher
Thomas Dunne Books, 10/06/2015
The year is 1994, and Tom Layne, a famous American TV journalist, and his crew are reporting in Sarajevo. Usually Tom is good at avoiding trouble, ...
more
The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World
by
David Jaher
Crown, 10/06/2015
The 1920s are famous as the golden age of jazz and glamour, but it was also an era of fevered yearning for communion with the spirit world, after the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Question of the Unfamiliar Husband: An Asperger's Mystery
by
E. J. Copperman, Jeff Cohen
Midnight Ink, 10/08/2015
For Samuel Hoenig, Asperger's isn't so much a syndrome as it is a set of personality traits. And as the sole proprietor of a business called Questions...
more
A Song for Ella Grey
by
David Almond
Delacorte Press, 10/13/2015
Written in lyrical prose, this novel for fans of epic romances and mythology retellings explores themes of love, loss, fate, and destiny set against ...
more
Blue Voyage
by
Diana Renn
Viking, 10/13/2015
Zan is a politician's daughter and an adrenaline junkie. Whether she's rock climbing or shoplifting, she loves to live on the edge. But she gets more ...
more
Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage
by
Kathleen Winter
Counterpoint Press, 10/13/2015
In 2010, bestselling author Kathleen Winter embarked on a journey across the storied Northwest Passage, among marine scientists, historians, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Calf
by
Andrea Kleine
Soft Skull Press, 10/13/2015
The year was 1981. The US was entering a deep recession, Russia was our enemy, and John Hinckley, Jr.'s assassination attempt on President Ronald ...
more
Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of A Man, His Wife, and Her Alligator
by
Homer Hickam
William Morrow, 10/13/2015
Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields, graduating just as the Great ...
more
Biography/Memoir
City on Fire
by
Garth Risk Hallberg
Knopf, 10/13/2015
New York City, 1976. Meet Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's great fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for ...
more
Dark Reservations: A Mystery
by
John Fortunato
Minotaur Books, 10/13/2015
In John Fortunato's
Dark Reservations, Bureau of Indian Affairs Special Agent Joe Evers still mourns the death of his wife and, after a bungled ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Frank & Ava: In Love and War
by
John Brady
Thomas Dunne Books, 10/13/2015
The story begins in Hollywood's golden age when Ava, ever insecure, was emerging as a movie star. But she fell in (and out of) love too easily. Mickey...
more
MARTians
by
Blythe Woolston
Candlewick Press, 10/13/2015
Last girl Zoë Zindleman, numerical ID 009-99-9999, is starting work at AllMART, where "your smile is the AllMART welcome mat." Her living ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing
by
Jamie Holmes
Crown, 10/13/2015
Life today feels more overwhelming and chaotic than ever. Whether it's a confounding work problem or a faltering relationship or an unclear medical ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
by
Shane White
St. Martin's Griffin, 10/13/2015
In the middle decades of the nineteenth century Jeremiah G. Hamilton was a well-known figure on Wall Street. Cornelius Vanderbilt, America's first ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Devil in Jerusalem
by
Naomi Ragen
St. Martin's Press, 10/13/2015
Two brothers are admitted to Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital with horrific injuries. Their mother, a young American heiress, devoutly recites Pslams, ...
more
Mysteries
The Education of a Poker Player
by
James McManus
BOA Editions, Ltd., 10/13/2015
Persuaded at age eight by his grandmother that entering the priesthood will guarantee salvation for every member of his family, Vince eagerly commits ...
more
The Good Neighbor
by
Amy Sue Nathan
St. Martin's Griffin, 10/13/2015
She's an excellent mother, has loyal friends, and a rich career as a school counselor. Fresh from a new divorce, however, Izzy feels like she needs a ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science (TED Books)
by
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Simon & Schuster, 10/13/2015
Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young, exhausted, and isolated medical resident, he discovered a book that would forever change the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Masked Truth
by
Kelley Armstrong
Doubleday, 10/13/2015
Riley Vasquez is haunted by the brutal murder of the couple she was babysitting for.
Max Cross is suffering under the shadow of a life-altering ...
more
The Mystics of Mile End
by
Sigal Samuel
William Morrow, 10/13/2015
"This is not an ordinary tree I am making.
"This," he said, "this is the Tree of Knowledge."
In the half-Hasidic, half-hipster Montreal ...
more
The Rose Society: A Young Elites Novel
by
Marie Lu
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/13/2015
Once upon a time, a girl had a father, a prince, a society of friends. Then they betrayed her, and she destroyed them all.
Adelina Amouteru's heart ...
more
Twain's End
by
Lynn Cullen
Gallery Books, 10/13/2015
In March of 1909, Mark Twain cheerfully blessed the wedding of his private secretary, Isabel V. Lyon, and his business manager, Ralph Ashcroft. One ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
We That Are Left
by
Clare Clark
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 10/13/2015
It is 1910. Jessica and Phyllis Melville have grown up at Ellinghurst, their family estate. A headstrong beauty, Jessica longs for ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Weird Girl and What's His Name
by
Meagan Brothers
Three Rooms Press, 10/13/2015
In the tiny podunk town of Hawthorne, North Carolina, seventeen-year-old geeks Lula and Rory share everything - sci-fi and fantasy fandom, Friday ...
more
Romance
A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking: How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas
by
Adam Briggle
Liveright / WW Norton, 10/19/2015
When philosophy professor Adam Briggle moved to Denton, Texas, he had never heard of fracking. Only five years later he would successfully lead a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
by
Roger Lowenstein
Penguin Press, 10/20/2015
Until the election of Woodrow Wilson the United States—alone among developed nations - lacked a central bank. Ever since the Revolutionary War, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Golden Age: A Last Hundred Years: a Family Saga Novel
by
Jane Smiley
Knopf, 10/20/2015
A lot can happen in one hundred years, as Jane Smiley shows to dazzling effect in her Last Hundred Years trilogy. But as
Golden Age, its final ...
more
Home Is Burning: A Memoir
by
Dan Marshall
Flatiron Books, 10/20/2015
Meet Dan Marshall. 25, good job, great girlfriend, and living the dream life in sunny Los Angeles without a care in the world. Until his mother calls....
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
If You're Lucky
by
Yvonne Prinz
Algonquin Books, 10/20/2015
When seventeen-year-old Georgia's brother drowns while surfing halfway around the world in Australia, she refuses to believe Lucky's death was just ...
more
Illuminae (The Illuminae Files)
by
Amie Kaufman
Knopf, 10/20/2015
This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she'd have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded.
The year is 2575, ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Mendocino Fire: Stories
by
Elizabeth Tallent
Harper, 10/20/2015
Beginning in the 1980s, Elizabeth Tallent's work, appeared in some of our most prestigious literary publications, including
The New Yorker, Esquire, ...
more
The Deer Park: A Novel
by
Norman Mailer
Random House, 10/20/2015
It is a place for starlets, directors, studio execs, and the well-groomed lowlifes who cater to them. And, as imagined by Norman Mailer in this ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Lake House
by
Kate Morton
Atria Books, 10/20/2015
Living on her family's idyllic lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented ...
more
The Mark and the Void
by
Paul Murray
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/20/2015
The Mark and the Void is Paul Murray's madcap new novel of institutional folly, following the success of his wildly original breakout hit,
Skippy Dies...more
We Were Brothers: A Memoir
by
Barry Moser
Algonquin Books, 10/20/2015
Preeminent illustrator Barry Moser and his brother, Tommy, were born of the same parents, were raised in the same small Tennessee community, and were ...
more
Welcome to Night Vale
by
Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
Harper, 10/20/2015
Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government ...
more
Willful Machines
by
Tim Floreen
Little Simon, 10/20/2015
In the near future, scientists create what may be a new form of life: an artificial human named Charlotte. All goes well until Charlotte escapes, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Witches of America
by
Alex Mar
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/20/2015
Witches of America follows Mar on her immersive five-year trip into the occult, charting modern Paganism from its roots in 1950s England to its ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wolf by Wolf
by
Ryan Graudin
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 10/20/2015
To commemorate their Great Victory over Britain and Russia, Hitler and Emperor Hirohito host the Axis Tour: an annual motorcycle race across their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Death in the Family: A Detective Kubu Mystery
by
Michael Stanley
Minotaur Books, 10/27/2015
Faced with the violent death of his own father, Assistant Superintendent David 'Kubu' Bengu, the smartest detective in the Botswana police, is baffled...
more
A House in St John's Wood: In Search of My Parents
by
Matthew Spender
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/27/2015
Stephen Spender's life, with all its secrets, successes, and contradictions, is a vivid prism through which to view the twentieth century. He ...
more
After Alice
by
Gregory Maguire
William Morrow, 10/27/2015
When Alice toppled down the rabbit-hole 150 years ago, she found a Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rules and abrasive egos as the world she left ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
by
Sonia Purnell
Viking, 10/27/2015
By Winston Churchill's own admission, victory in the Second World War would have been "impossible without her." Until now, however, the only existing ...
more
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
by
T.J. Stiles
Knopf, 10/27/2015
In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer's ...
more
Dark Corners: A Novel
by
Ruth Rendell
Scribner, 10/27/2015
When his father dies, Carl Martin inherits a house in an increasingly rich and trendy London neighborhood. Carl needs cash, however, so he rents the ...
more
My Life on the Road
by
Gloria Steinem
Random House, 10/27/2015
Gloria Steinem - writer, activist, organizer, and one of the most inspiring leaders in the world - now tells a story she has never told before, a ...
more
Playing with Fire
by
Tess Gerritsen
Ballantine Books, 10/27/2015
In a shadowy antiques shop in Rome, violinist Julia Ansdell happens upon a curious piece of music - the
Incendio waltz - and is immediately entranced ...
more
Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture
by
Matt Goulding
Harper Wave, 10/27/2015
In this 5000-mile journey through the noodle shops, tempura temples, and teahouses of Japan, Matt Goulding, co-creator of the enormously popular
Eat ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
The Circle
by
Bernard Minier
Minotaur Books, 10/27/2015
June 2010. In the middle of a World Cup match, Martin Servaz receives a call from a long-lost lover. A few miles away in the town of Marsac, Classics ...
more
The Givenness of Things: Essays
by
Marilynne Robinson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/27/2015
The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency. As a culture we have become less interested in the exploration of the glorious mind, ...
more
The Witches: Salem, 1692
by
Stacy Schiff
Little Brown & Company, 10/27/2015
It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
These Shallow Graves
by
Jennifer Donnelly
Delacorte Press, 10/27/2015
For fans of Elizabeth George and Libba Bray,
These Shallow Graves is the story of how much a young woman is willing to risk and lose in order to find ...
more
Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future
by
Lauren Redniss
Random House, 10/27/2015
Weather is the very air we breathe - it shapes our daily lives and alters the course of history. In
Thunder & Lightning, Lauren Redniss tells the ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
See No Color
by
Shannon Gibney
Carolrhoda Books, 11/01/2015
For as long as she can remember, sixteen-year-old Alex Kirtridge has known two things:
1. She has always been Little Kirtridge, a stellar baseball ...
more
40 Sonnets
by
Don Patterson
Faber and Faber, 11/03/2015
While some take a traditional form, and some are highly experimental, all the poems in this collection display the cool intelligence and lyric gift ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Along the Infinite Sea
by
Beatriz Williams
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 11/03/2015
Each of the three Schuyler sisters has her own world-class problems, but in the autumn of 1966, Pepper Schuyler's problems are in a class of their own...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
American Copper
by
Shann Ray
Unbridled Books, 11/03/2015
As Evelynne Lowry, the daughter of a copper baron, comes of age in early 20th century Montana, the lives of horses dovetail with the lives of people ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Avenue of Mysteries
by
John Irving
Little Simon, 11/03/2015
In
Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego - a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico - has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, ...
more
It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History
by
Jennifer Wright
Henry Holt and Company, 11/03/2015
In the throes of heartbreak, Emperor Nero had just about everyone he ever loved - from his old tutor to most of his friends - put to death. Oscar ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lost Souls: Reviver Trilogy #2
by
Seth Patrick
Thomas Dunne Books, 11/03/2015
JONAH MILLER, REVIVER. Able to wake the recently dead for testimony that is accepted in courts worldwide, the use of revivers has become a routine ...
more
Thrillers
Numero Zero
by
Umberto Eco
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 11/03/2015
A newspaper committed to blackmail and mud slinging, rather than reporting the news.
A paranoid editor, walking through the streets ...
more
Sword of Honor
by
David Kirk
Doubleday, 11/03/2015
Having survived the cataclysmic battle of Sekigahara, which established the mighty Tokugawa Shogunate, young Musashi Miyamoto travels through Japan ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Bottom of Your Heart: Inferno for Commissario Ricciardi
by
Maurizio de Giovanni
Europa Editions, 11/03/2015
In the middle of a summer heat wave, as Naples prepares for one of its most important holy days, a renowned surgeon falls to his death from the window...
more
The Death of Cancer: After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable--and How We Can Get There
by
Vincent T. DeVita
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/03/2015
In
The Death of Cancer, Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr. - former director of the National Cancer Institute, former physician-in-chief at Memorial Sloan ...
more
The Heart You Carry Home
by
Jennifer Miller
Mariner Books, 11/03/2015
Becca Keller is no stranger to the way war can change a man. Her Vietnam vet father, King, has been more out of her life than in. Her mother boycotts ...
more
The Improbability of Love
by
Hannah Rothschild
Knopf, 11/03/2015
In
The Improbability of Love we meet Annie McDee, thirty-one, who is working as a chef for two rather sinister art dealers. Recovering from the end of...
more
The Japanese Lover
by
Isabel Allende
Atria Books, 11/03/2015
In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their ...
more
The Mare
by
Mary Gaitskill
Pantheon Books, 11/03/2015
Velveteen Vargas is eleven years old, a Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York: Ginger, a failed artist on ...
more
The Mulberry Bush
by
Charles McCarry
Mysterious Press, 11/03/2015
In a rose garden in Buenos Aires, an unnamed American spy meets the beautiful daughter of a famous Argentinean revolutionary. He becomes infatuated, ...
more
The Pickle Index
by
Eli Horowitz
Sudden Oak Books, 11/03/2015
A hapless circus troupe tours the countryside of a downtrodden nation, trying to earn a living the best way they know - even though their best isn't ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The White Road: Journey into an Obsession
by
Edmund de Waal
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/03/2015
In
The White Road, bestselling author and artist Edmund de Waal gives us an intimate narrative history of his lifelong obsession with porcelain, or "...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Tightrope
by
Simon Mawer
Other Press, 11/03/2015
As Allied forces close in on Berlin in spring 1945, a solitary figure emerges from the wreckage that is Germany. It is Marian Sutro, whose existence ...
more
Twain & Stanley Enter Paradise
by
Oscar Hijuelos
Grand Central Publishing, 11/03/2015
Hijuelos was fascinated by the Twain-Stanley connection and eventually began researching and writing a novel that used the scant historical record of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Wherever There Is Light
by
Peter Golden
Atria Books, 11/03/2015
Julian Rose is only fifteen when he leaves his family and Germany for a new life in 1920s America. Lonely at first, he eventually finds his way - ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
by
Mary Beard
Liveright / WW Norton, 11/09/2015
Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
All the Major Constellations
by
Pratima Cranse
Viking, 11/10/2015
Andrew is leaving high school behind and looking ahead to a fresh start at college and distance from his not-so-secret infatuation: Laura Lettel. But ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Crucifixion Creek: A Belltree Mystery
by
Barry Maitland
Minotaur Books, 11/10/2015
For Sydney homicide detective Harry Belltree, not long out of the military and a grueling tour of Afghanistan, these three deaths appear to be just ...
more
Home by Nightfall: A Charles Lenox Mystery
by
Charles Finch
Minotaur Books, 11/10/2015
It's London in 1876, and the whole city is abuzz with the enigmatic disappearance of a famous foreign pianist. Lenox has an eye on the matter - as a ...
more
Hostage: A Fredrika Bergman Series Novel
by
Kristina Ohlsson
Atria Books, 11/10/2015
Shortly after a crowded New York-bound Boeing 747 takes off from Stockholm, a bomb threat is found in one of the aircraft's lavatories. The demands ...
more
November 9: A Novel
by
Colleen Hoover
Atria Books, 11/10/2015
Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon's last ...
more
Romance
The Boys
by
Toni Sala
Two Dollar Radio, 11/10/2015
The once-bucolic Catalonian village of Vidreres has been ravaged by a harsh recession, and now two of its young men have died in a horrible car crash....
more
Literary Fiction
Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
by
Lauret Savoy
Counterpoint Press, 11/10/2015
One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Woman with a Blue Pencil: A Novel
by
Gordon McAlpine
Prometheus Books, 11/10/2015
On the eve of Pearl Harbor, Sam Sumida, a Japanese-American academic, has been thrust into the role of amateur P.I., investigating his wife's murder, ...
more
A Different Lie
by
Derek Haas
Pegasus Books, 11/15/2015
Now a new dad, the infamous Silver Bear finds himself staying up late for feedings and changing diapers - all while leading the double life of a ...
more
The Whispering City
by
Sara Moliner
Pegasus Books, 11/15/2015
Barcelona, 1952.
General Franco's fascist government is at the height of its oppressive powers, casting a black shadow across the city. When ...
more
Written in Stone: A Journey Through the Stone Age and the Origins of Modern Language
by
Christopher Stevens
Pegasus Books, 11/15/2015
Half the world's population speaks a language that has evolved from a single, prehistoric mother tongue. A mother tongue first spoken in Stone Age ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Calvin
by
Martine Leavitt
FSG Books for Young Readers, 11/17/2015
Seventeen-year-old Calvin has always known his fate is linked to the comic book character from Calvin & Hobbes. He was born on the day the last strip ...
more
Memory Theater
by
Simon Critchley
Other Press, 11/17/2015
A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished papers mysteriously appear in Simon Critchley's office. ...
more
Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories
by
Rob Brotherton
Bloomsbury USA, 11/17/2015
Conspiracy theorists aren't just a handful of people who wear tin-foil hats and have bizarre ideas about shape-shifting reptilian aliens. Conspiracy ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Mistletoe Inn: A Mistletoe Collection Novel
by
Richard Paul Evans
Simon & Schuster, 11/17/2015
At thirty-two Kimberly Rossi, a finance officer at a Lexus car dealership, has had her heart broken more times than she wants to remember. With two ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free
by
Alex Perry
Little Brown & Company, 11/17/2015
Africa has long been misunderstood--and abused--by outsiders. Correspondent Alex Perry traveled the continent for most of a decade, meeting with ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
This Old Man: All in Pieces
by
Roger Angell
Doubleday, 11/17/2015
Long known for his range and supple prose (he is the only writer elected to membership in both the Baseball Hall of Fame and the American Academy of ...
more
Up Against the Night
by
Justin Cartwright
Bloomsbury USA, 11/17/2015
Frank McAllister has long since dropped "Retief" as his middle name, but the legacy of his family's history proves harder to shake. His ancestor Piet ...
more
The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
by
Lisa McGirr
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/30/2015
Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Blood, Salt, Water: An Alex Morrow Novel
by
Denise Mina
Little Brown & Company, 12/01/2015
A wealthy businesswoman disappears from her Glasgow home without a trace, leaving her husband and children panicked but strangely resistant to ...
more
Literary Fiction
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
by
Roger Crowley
Random House, 12/01/2015
In
Empires of the Sea and
City of Fortune,
New York Times bestselling author Roger Crowley established himself as our generation's preeminent ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Harbour Street: A Vera Stanhope Mystery
by
Ann Cleeves
Minotaur Books, 12/01/2015
As the snow falls thickly on Newcastle, the shouts and laughter of Christmas revelers break the muffled silence. Detective Joe Ashworth and his ...
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His Right Hand: A Linda Wallheim Mystery
by
Mette Ivie Harrison
Soho Press, 12/01/2015
Linda Wallheim, the wife of the ward's bishop, can't rest as long as the ward is suffering. She is particularly worried about Carl's grieving family. ...
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Like Family
by
Paolo Giordano
Pamela Dorman Books, 12/01/2015
Paolo Giordano's prizewinning debut novel,
The Solitude of Prime Numbers, catapulted the young Italian author into the literary spotlight. His new ...
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Médicis Daughter: A Novel of Marguerite de Valois
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Sophie Perinot
Thomas Dunne Books, 12/01/2015
Winter, 1564. Beautiful young Princess Margot is summoned to the court of France, where nothing is what it seems and a wrong word can lead to ruin. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
MemoRandom: A Thriller
by
Anders de la Motte
Atria Books, 12/01/2015
David Sarac is a handler at the Intelligence Unit of the Stockholm Police Force, identifying, recruiting, and wrangling anyone who can support the ...
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Riot Most Uncouth: A Lord Byron Mystery
by
Daniel Friedman
Minotaur Books, 12/01/2015
1807, Cambridge, England.
A young woman is murdered in a boarding house, and nobody knows what to do about it. The volunteer watchman who patrols ...
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The Blizzard: A Novel
by
Vladimir Sorokin
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 12/01/2015
Vladimir Sorokin is one of Russia's most popular and provocative novelists. In his scabrous dystopian satire
Day of the Oprichnik, American readers ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Curse of Jacob Tracy
by
Holly Messinger
Thomas Dunne Books, 12/01/2015
St. Louis in 1880 is full of ghosts - mangled soldiers, tortured slaves, the innocent victims of war - and Jacob Tracy can see them all. Ever since ...
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Literary Fiction
The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by
William Shakespeare
Simon & Schuster, 12/01/2015
Prospero is exiled on an island, where his only companions are his daughter, Miranda, the spirit Ariel, and the monster Caliban. When his enemies are ...
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Literary Fiction
The Last Volcano: A Man, a Romance, and the Quest to Understand Nature's Most Magnificent Fury
by
John Dvorak
Pegasus Books, 12/07/2015
Volcanoes have fascinated - and terrified - people for ages. They have destroyed cities and ended civilizations. John Dvorak, the acclaimed author of ...
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The Merman
by
Carl-Johan Vallgren
Pegasus Books, 12/07/2015
Nella and her brother Robert live a difficult life with their mother and father in a small town on the west coast of Sweden. Robert is bullied at ...
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Instructions for the End of the World
by
Jamie Kain
St. Martin's Griffin, 12/08/2015
When Nicole Reed's father forces her family to move to a remote area of the Sierra Foothills, one without any modern conveniences, it's too much to ...
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Paradise City
by
Elizabeth Day
Bloomsbury USA, 12/08/2015
Four disparate characters find themselves linked together in
Paradise City. Howard Pink is a wildly successful businessman still struggling to cope ...
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The Dawning Moon of the Mind: Unlocking the Pyramid Texts
by
Susan Brind Morrow
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 12/08/2015
Buried in the Egyptian desert some 4,000 years ago, the Pyramid Texts are among the world's oldest poetry. Yet ever since the discovery of these ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution
by
David Wootton
HarperCollins Publishers, 12/08/2015
We live in a world transformed by scientific discovery. Yet today, science and its practitioners have come under political attack. In this fascinating...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Tipping Point: A Dan Lenson Novel
by
David Poyer
St. Martin's Press, 12/08/2015
Captain Dan Lenson is under fire both at sea, and in Washington. His command of the first antiballistic-missile-capable cruiser in the Fleet, USS Savo...
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We Have the Technology: How Biohackers, Foodies, Physicians, and Scientists Are Transforming Human Perception, One Sense at a Time
by
Kara Platoni
Basic Books, 12/08/2015
We Have the Technology introduces us to researchers who are changing the way we experience the world, whether creating scents that stimulate the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The House of the Spirits: A Novel
by
Isabel Allende
Atria Books, 12/15/2015
The House of the Spirits, which introduced Isabel Allende as one of the world's most gifted storytellers, brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of...
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Literary Fiction
The Verdict
by
Nick Stone
Pegasus Books, 12/15/2015
Terry Flynt is a struggling legal clerk, desperately trying to get promoted. And then he is given the biggest opportunity of his career: to help ...
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Web of Deceit: An Ella Marconi Mystery
by
Katherine Howell
Minotaur Books, 12/15/2015
When a frantic man refuses to leave the car that witnesses say he deliberately crashed, paramedics Jane and Alex think it's a desperate cry for help. ...
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Emperor's Soul
by
Brandon Sanderson
Gollancz, 12/17/2015
Shai is a Forger, a foreigner who can flawlessly copy and re-create any item by rewriting its history with skillful magic. Though condemned to death ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother
by
Ulinka Rublack
Oxford University Press, 12/22/2015
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Secrets of Midwives
by
Sally Hepworth
St. Martin's Press, 12/29/2015
Neva Bradley, a third-generation midwife, is determined to keep the details surrounding her own pregnancy - including the identity of the baby's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Undoing
by
Averil Dean
Mira Books, 12/29/2015
Best friends since childhood, Eric, Rory and Celia have always been inseparable. Together they've coped with broken homes and damaged families, ...
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