Fair and Tender Ladies: A Richard Nottingham Mystery
by
Chris Nickson
Crème de la Crime, 01/01/2014
1734. A young man arrives in Leeds searching for his missing sister - and ends up dead, his throat slit. Then the girl the young man came seeking is ...
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Soy Sauce for Beginners
by
Kirstin Chen
New Harvest, 01/01/2014
Gretchen Lin leaves her heart (or at least her floundering marriage) in San Francisco, moves back to her childhood home in Singapore and finds herself...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Dead Man's Fancy: A Sean Stranahan Mystery
by
Keith McCafferty
Viking, 01/02/2014
Wolves howl as a riderless horse returns at sunset to the Culpepper Dude Ranch in the Madison Valley. The missing woman, Nanika Martinelli, is better ...
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Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West
by
Bryce Andrews
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 01/07/2014
"Mine might have been a simple, pretty story, if not for the wolves. In late July, they emerged from the foothills..."
In this gripping memoir of ...
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Before I Burn
by
Gaute Heivoll
Graywolf Press, 01/07/2014
An international literary sensation about an arsonist on the loose in rural Norway and the young man haunted by the story.
In 1970s Norway, an...
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Bingo's Run
by
James A. Levine
Spiegel & Grau, 01/07/2014
Meet Bingo, the greatest drug runner in the slums of Kibera, Nairobi, and maybe the world. A teenage grifter, often mistaken for a younger boy, he ...
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House of Bathory
by
Linda Lafferty
Lake Union Publishing, 01/07/2014
In the early 1600s, Elizabeth Báthory, the infamous Blood Countess, ruled Cachtice Castle in the hinterlands of Slovakia. During bizarre nightly ...
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Historical Fiction
In the Blood
by
Lisa Unger
Touchstone, 01/07/2014
Ana Granger Lives a Life of Lies.
She has told so many lies about where she comes from and who she is that the truth is like a cloudy nightmare ...
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No One Else Can Have You
by
Kathleen Hale
HarperTeen, 01/07/2014
A quiet town like Friendship, Wisconsin, keeps most of its secrets buried... but when local teen Ruth Fried is found murdered in a cornfield, her best...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France
by
Nicholas Shakespeare
Harper, 01/07/2014
When Nicholas Shakespeare stumbled across a trunk full of his late aunt's personal belongings, he was unaware of where this discovery would take him ...
more
Radiance of Tomorrow
by
Ishmael Beah
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 01/07/2014
When Ishmael Beah's
A Long Way Gone was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account ...
more
Rebellion: A Thriller in Napoleon's Paris
by
James McGee
Pegasus Books, 01/07/2014
October 1812: Britain and France are still at war.
France is engaged on two battle fronts - Spain and Russia - and her civilians are growing ...
more
Searching for Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl in America
by
Tonya Bolden
Harry N. Abrams Inc., 01/07/2014
Sarah Rector was once famously hailed as"the richest black girl in America." Set against the backdrop of American history, her tale encompasses the ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo
by
Anjan Sundaram
Doubleday, 01/07/2014
In the powerful travel-writing tradition of Ryszard Kapuscinski and V.S. Naipaul, a haunting memoir of a dangerous and disorienting year of self-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Debut Author
The Forbidden Stone: The Copernicus Legacy
by
Tony Abbott
Katherine Tegan Books, 01/07/2014
Wade, Lily, Darrell, and Becca fly from Texas to Germany for the funeral of an old family friend. But instead of just paying their respects, they wind...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Harlot's Tale: A Midwife Mystery
by
Samuel Thomas
Minotaur Books, 01/07/2014
It is August, 1645, one year since York fell into Puritan hands. As the city suffers through a brutal summer heat, Bridget Hodgson and Martha Hawkins ...
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Historical Fiction
The Secret History of Las Vegas
by
Chris Abani
Penguin Books, 01/07/2014
Before he can retire, Las Vegas detective Salazar is determined to solve a recent spate of murders. When he encounters a pair of conjoined twins with ...
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Thrillers
Things I've Learned from Dying: A Book About Life
by
David R. Dow
Twelve Books, 01/07/2014
"Every life is different, but every death is the same. We live with others. We die alone."
In his riveting, artfully written memoir
The ...more
Unremarried Widow: A Memoir
by
Artis Henderson
Simon & Schuster, 01/07/2014
In this powerful memoir, a young woman loses her husband twenty years after her own mother was widowed, and overcomes two generations of tragedy to ...
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What I Had Before I Had You
by
Sarah Cornwell
Harper, 01/07/2014
In
What I Had Before I Had You by Sarah Cornwell, a woman must face the truth about her past in this luminous, evocative literary novel of parents and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
When I Was the Greatest
by
Jason Reynolds
Atheneum Books, 01/07/2014
In Bed Stuy, New York, a small misunderstanding can escalate into having a price on your head - even if you're totally clean. This gritty, triumphant ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books
by
Wendy Lesser
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 01/07/2014
"Wendy Lesser's extraordinary alertness, intelligence, and curiosity have made her one of America's most significant cultural critics," writes Stephen...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond
by
Brenda Woods
Nancy Paulsen Books, 01/09/2014
Coretta Scott King Honor winner Brenda Woods' moving, uplifting story of a girl finally meeting the African American side of her family explores ...
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A Curious Madness: An American Combat Psychiatrist, a Japanese War Crimes Suspect, and an Unsolved Mystery from World War II
by
Eric Jaffe
Scribner, 01/14/2014
In the wake of World War II, the Allied forces charged twenty-eight Japanese men with crimes against humanity. Correspondents at the Tokyo trial ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Medal for Leroy
by
Michael Morpurgo
Feiwel & Friends, 01/14/2014
When Michael's aunt passes away, she leaves behind a letter that will change everything.
It starts with Michael's grandfather Leroy, a black ...
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Literary Fiction
Andrew's Brain
by
E.L. Doctorow
Random House, 01/14/2014
This brilliant new novel by an American master, the author of
Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and
The March, takes us on a radical trip ...
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Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation
by
Judith Mackrell
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 01/14/2014
A new look at the movement that shattered the boundaries of conventional femininity
Glamorized, mythologized, and demonized, the women of the 1920s...
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Foreign Gods, Inc.
by
Okey Ndibe
Soho Press, 01/14/2014
Foreign Gods, Inc., tells the story of Ike, a New York-based Nigerian cab driver who sets out to steal the statue of an ancient war deity from his ...
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Mayhem
by
Sarah Pinborough
Quercus, 01/14/2014
A virtuoso fantasy writer, Sarah Pinborough has won numerous awards including the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story. In
Mayhem Pinborough ...
more
Mercy Snow
by
Tiffany Baker
Grand Central Publishing, 01/14/2014
In the tiny town of Titan Falls, New Hampshire, the paper mill dictates a quiet, steady rhythm of life. But one day a tragic bus accident sets two ...
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Perfect
by
Rachel Joyce
Random House, 01/14/2014
A spellbinding novel that will resonate with readers of Mark Haddon, Louise Erdrich, and John Irving,
Perfect tells the story of a young boy who is ...
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Pig's Foot
by
Carlos Acosta
Bloomsbury USA, 01/14/2014
Oscar Kortico, great-grandchild of the founders of a small hamlet in the Cuban hinterland, is a sardonic teller of tales - some taller than others - ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew
by
Alan Lightman
Pantheon Books, 01/14/2014
From the acclaimed author of
Einstein's Dreams and
Mr g, a meditation on the unexpected ways in which recent scientific findings have shaped our ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches: A Flavia de Luce Novel
by
Alan Bradley
Delacorte Press, 01/14/2014
On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting ...
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The Death Class: A True Story About Life
by
Erika Hayasaki
Simon & Schuster, 01/14/2014
Why does a college course on death have a three-year waiting list?
When nurse Norma Bowe decided to teach a course on death at a college in New ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Poisoned Island
by
Lloyd Shepherd
Washington Square Press, 01/14/2014
London 1812. On a dull, gray June morning, the
Solander, a ship containing breathtaking plants and natural specimens brought back from Tahiti for the ...
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Vitro
by
Jessica Khoury
Razorbill, 01/14/2014
On a remote island in the Pacific, Corpus scientists have taken test tube embryos and given them life. These beings - the Vitros - have knowledge and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Flyover Lives
by
Diane Johnson
Viking, 01/16/2014
Growing up in the small river town of Moline, Illinois, Diane Johnson always dreamed of floating down the Mississippi and off to see the world. Years ...
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Arik: The Life of Ariel Sharon
by
David Landau
Knopf, 01/21/2014
From the former editor in chief of
Haaretz, the first in-depth, comprehensive biography of Ariel Sharon, the most dramatic and imposing Israeli ...
more
Bad Wolf
by
Nele Neuhaus
Minotaur Books, 01/21/2014
On a hot June day the body of a sixteen-year-old girl washes up on a river bank outside of Frankfurt. She has been brutally murdered, but no one comes...
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Carthage
by
Joyce Carol Oates
Ecco, 01/21/2014
Zeno Mayfield's daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks. But when the community of Carthage joins a ...
more
Fake ID
by
Lamar Giles
Amistad, 01/21/2014
Fake ID is a compelling story full of twists and turns - sure to appeal to fans of James Patterson, Harlan Coben, and John Grisham.
Nick Pearson is...
more
Field Notes from a Hidden City: An Urban Nature Diary
by
Esther Woolfson
Counterpoint Press, 01/21/2014
Field Notes From a Hidden City is set against the background of the austere, grey and beautiful northeast Scottish city of Aberdeen. In it, Esther ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Hidden Girl: The True Story of a Modern-Day Child Slave
by
Shyima Hall
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 01/21/2014
Shyima Hall was born in Egypt on September 29, 1989, the seventh child of desperately poor parents. When she was eight, her parents sold her into ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Hunting Shadows: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery
by
Charles Todd
William Morrow, 01/21/2014
A society wedding at Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire becomes a crime scene when a man is murdered. After another body is found, the baffled local ...
more
Lost Lake
by
Sarah Addison Allen
St. Martin's Press, 01/21/2014
The first time Eby Pim saw Lost Lake, it was on a picture postcard. Just an old photo and a few words on a small square of heavy stock, but when she ...
more
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
by
Steve Sheinkin
Roaring Brook Press, 01/21/2014
On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked the segregated Navy base at Port Chicago, California, killing more than 300 sailors who were at the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Secret of Magic
by
Deborah Johnson
Amy Einhorn Books, 01/21/2014
In 1946, a young female attorney from New York City attempts the impossible: attaining justice for a black man in the Deep South.
Regina Robichard ...
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The Ways of Evil Men: A Chief Inspector Mario Silva Novel
by
Leighton Gage
Soho Press, 01/21/2014
The Awana tribe, who live in the remote Amazon jungle in the Brazilian state of Pará, have dwindled to only 41 members - and now 39 of them have ...
more
What We've Lost Is Nothing
by
Rachel Louise Snyder
Scribner, 01/21/2014
Nestled on the edge of Chicago's gritty west side, Oak Park is a suburb in flux. To the west, theaters and shops frame posh homes designed by Frank ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Worthy Brown's Daughter
by
Phillip Margolin
Harper, 01/21/2014
Known for his critically acclaimed contemporary thrillers,
New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin explores intriguing new territory in
...more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
by
Sarah Churchwell
Penguin Books, 01/23/2014
The autumn of 1922 found F. Scott Fitzgerald at the height of his fame, days from turning twenty-six years old, and returning to New York for the ...
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Lydia's Party
by
Margaret Hawkins
Viking, 01/23/2014
Lydia is having a party - it's a party she hosts every year for six women friends who treasure the midwinter bash. Over a table laden with a feast of ...
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North of Boston
by
Elisabeth Elo
Pamela Dorman Books, 01/23/2014
Dennis Lehane meets
Smilla's Sense of Snow: a big discovery in the world of female suspense, about an edgy young woman with the rare ability to ...
more
Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming
by
McKenzie Funk
Penguin Press, 01/23/2014
A fascinating investigation into how people around the globe are cashing in on a warming world.
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
A Darkling Sea
by
James Cambias
Tor Books, 01/28/2014
On the planet Ilmatar, under a roof of ice a kilometer thick, a team of deep-sea diving scientists investigates the blind alien race that lives ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
An Officer and a Spy
by
Robert Harris
Knopf, 01/28/2014
Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Arcanum
by
Simon Morden
Orbit, 01/28/2014
Rome was the center of the most powerful empire the world had ever seen, but that didn't stop it falling to Alaric the Goth, his horde of barbarian ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Divided We Fall: Divded We Fall Trilogy: Book 1
by
Trent Reedy
Scholastic, 01/28/2014
Danny Wright never thought he'd be the man to bring down the United States of America. In fact, he enlisted in the Idaho National Guard because he ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dust
by
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Knopf, 01/28/2014
Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi. His grief-stricken sister, Ajany, just returned from Brazil, and their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Firstborn
by
Lorie Ann Grover
HarperCollins Publishers, 01/28/2014
Where does a firstborn girl fit in a world dominated by men? When Tiadone was born, her parents had two choices: leave their daughter outside the ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Moriarty Returns a Letter: A Baker Street Mystery
by
Michael Robertson
Minotaur Books, 01/28/2014
Michael Robertson has delighted mystery readers and Sherlock Holmes aficionados everywhere with his charming and innovative Baker Street mystery ...
more
Mysteries
My Life in Middlemarch
by
Rebecca Mead
Crown, 01/28/2014
A
New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth -
Middlemarch - and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to ...
more
Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy
by
Karen Foxlee
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 01/28/2014
Unlikely heroine Ophelia Jane Worthington-Whittard doesn't believe in anything that can't be proven by science. She and her sister Alice are still ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Ripper
by
Isabel Allende
Harper, 01/28/2014
The Jackson women, Indiana and Amanda, have always had each other. Yet, while their bond is strong, mother and daughter are as different as night and ...
more
Still Life with Bread Crumbs
by
Anna Quindlen
Random House, 01/28/2014
Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca ...
more
The Guest Cat
by
Takashi Hiraide
Newmarket, 01/28/2014
A bestseller in France and winner of Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Award,
The Guest Cat, by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, is a subtly moving ...
more
The Last Enchantments
by
Charles Finch
St. Martin's Press, 01/28/2014
After graduating from Yale, William Baker, scion of an old line patrician family, goes to work in presidential politics. But when the campaign into ...
more
The Man Who Loved Dogs
by
Leonardo Padura
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 01/28/2014
A gripping novel about the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940
In his youth, Iván Cárdenas Maturell was the great ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
This Dark Road to Mercy
by
Wiley Cash
William Morrow, 01/28/2014
After their mother's unexpected death, twelve-year-old Easter and her six-year-old sister Ruby are adjusting to life in foster care when their errant ...
more
Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
by
Stanislas Dehaene
Viking, 01/30/2014
How does our brain generate a conscious thought? And why does so much of our knowledge remain unconscious? Thanks to clever psychological and brain-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Minders
by
Michele Jaffe
Razorbill, 01/30/2014
Q: If the boy you love commits a crime, would you turn him in?
Sadie Ames is a type-A teenager from the wealthy suburbs. She's been accepted to the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Nigerians in Space
by
Deji Bryce Olukotun
The Unnamed Press, 02/01/2014
Then comes an outlandish order: steal a piece of the moon. With both personal and national glory at stake, Wale manages to pull off the near ...
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Thrillers
The Line: Witching Savannah, Book One
by
J. D. Horn
47North, 02/01/2014
Savannah is considered a Southern treasure, a city of beauty with a rich, colorful past. Some might even call it magical…
To the uninitiated, ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
I Am Abraham: A Novel of Lincoln and the Civil War
by
Jerome Charyn
Liveright / WW Norton, 02/03/2014
Narrated in Lincoln's own voice, the tragicomic
I Am Abraham promises to be the masterwork of Jerome Charyn's remarkable career.
Since publishing ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Life in Men: A Novel
by
Gina Frangello
Algonquin Books, 02/04/2014
The friendship between Mary and Nix had endured since childhood, a seemingly unbreakable bond, until the mid-1980s, when the two young women embarked ...
more
Annihilation: Southern Reach Trilogy, Book 1
by
Jeff VanderMeer
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/04/2014
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition...
more
Burn: The Pure Trilogy, Part 3
by
Julianna Baggott
Grand Central Publishing, 02/04/2014
The fate of the world is more fragile than ever as Pures battle Wretches and former allies become potential enemies.
Inside the Dome Patridge has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
By Blood We Live
by
Glen Duncan
Knopf, 02/04/2014
First Glen Duncan gave us his monstrously thrilling, genre-reinventing
The Last Werewolf: the tale of Jake, a werewolf with a profoundly human heart, ...
more
Caught
by
Lisa Moore
Grove Press, 02/04/2014
Lisa Moore, "Canada Reads" latest winner and a
New Yorker Best Book of the Year author, is known for subtly crafted narratives that are at once sharp ...
more
Codename Zero: The Codename Conspiracy
by
Chris Rylander
HarperCollins Children's Books, 02/04/2014
There are places in the world where heroes are born. There are places where brave men and women fight a never-ending battle against evil in order to ...
more
Thrillers
Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam's Most Infamous Prison, the Women Who Fought for Them, and the One Who Never Returned
by
Alvin Townley
Thomas Dunne Books, 02/04/2014
During the Vietnam War, hundreds of American prisoners-of-war faced years of brutal conditions and horrific torture at the hands of North Vietnamese ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Doing Harm
by
Kelly Parsons
St. Martin's Press, 02/04/2014
Steve Mitchell, happily married with a wife and two kids, is in line for a coveted position at Boston's University Hospital when his world goes awry.&...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Empress of the Sun: Everness series
by
Ian McDonald
Pyr, 02/04/2014
World-hopping, high-action adventure starring a smart boy with computer skills and a tough girl who pilots a blimp
The airship
Everness ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Golden State: A Novel
by
Michelle Richmond
Bantam Books, 02/04/2014
Paperback Original
Perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult, Jacquelyn Mitchard, and Anna Quindlen,
Golden State is a powerful, mesmerizing new novel that ...
more
Literary Fiction
I Always Loved You
by
Robin Oliveira
Viking, 02/04/2014
The young Mary Cassatt never thought moving to Paris after the Civil War to be an artist was going to be easy, but when, after a decade of work, her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
I Forgot to Remember: A Memoir of Amnesia
by
Su Meck and Daniel de Visé
Simon & Schuster, 02/04/2014
What would you do if you lost your past?
In 1988 Su Meck was twenty-two and married with two children when a ceiling fan in her kitchen fell and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Karate Chop: Stories
by
Dorthe Nors
Graywolf Press, 02/04/2014
Karate Chop, Dorthe Nors's acclaimed story collection, is the debut book in the collaboration between Graywolf Press and
A Public Space. These fifteen...
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Marshlands
by
Matthew Olshan
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/04/2014
After years alone in a cell, an aging prisoner is released without explanation, expelled into a great city now utterly unfamiliar to him. Broken by ...
more
Praying Drunk
by
Kyle Minor
Sarabande Books, 02/04/2014
The characters in
Praying Drunk speak in tongues, torture their classmates, fall in love, hunt for immortality, abandon their children, keep machetes ...
more
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
by
Janet Mock
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 02/04/2014
In 2011,
Marie Claire magazine published a profile of Janet Mock in which she stepped forward for the first time as a trans woman. Those twenty-three ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Somerset
by
Leila Meacham
Grand Central Publishing, 02/04/2014
One hundred fifty years of
Roses - Tolivers, Warwicks, and DuMonts! We begin in the antebellum South on Plantation Alley in South Carolina, where ...
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Strange Bodies
by
Marcel Theroux
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/04/2014
Whatever this is, it started when Nicholas Slopen came back from the dead.
In a locked ward of a notorious psychiatric hospital sits a man who ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Teen Spirit
by
Francesca Lia Block
HarperTeen, 02/04/2014
After Julie's grandmother passes away, she is forced to move across town to the not-so-fancy end of Beverly Hills and start over at a new school. The ...
more
The Book of Jonah
by
Joshua Max Feldman
Henry Holt and Company, 02/04/2014
The modern-day Jonah at the center of Joshua Max Feldman's brilliantly conceived retelling of the book of Jonah is a young Manhattan lawyer named ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Contractors: A Jon Cantrell Thriller
by
Harry Hunsicker
Thomas & Mercer, 02/04/2014
Private military contractors. They're not just for foreign wars anymore. Jon Cantrell, a disgraced ex-cop, works for one such company. He's a DEA ...
more
The Deepest Secret
by
Carla Buckley
Bantam Books, 02/04/2014
For fans of Jodi Picoult, Kim Edwards, and William Landay,
The Deepest Secret is part intimate family drama, part gripping page-turner, exploring the ...
more
The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing
by
Sheila Turnage
Kathy Dawson Books, 02/04/2014
Small towns have rules. One is, you got to stay who you are - no matter how many murders you solve.
When Miss Lana makes an Accidental Bid at the ...
more
The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity
by
Prof. Pedro G. Ferreira
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 02/04/2014
At the core of Einstein's general theory of relativity are a set of equations that explain the relationship among gravity, space, and time - ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Sun and Other Stars
by
Brigid Pasulka
Simon & Schuster, 02/04/2014
Brigid Pasulka's PEN/Hemingway award-winning debut novel was compared to the works of Jonathan Safran Foer by the
New York Times and hailed by Elle as...
more
The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America
by
Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld
Penguin Press, 02/04/2014
That certain groups do much better in America than others as measured by income, occupational status, test scores, and so on is difficult to talk ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Under Your Skin
by
Sabine Durrant
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 02/04/2014
Gaby Mortimer is the woman who has it all. But everything changes when she finds a body on the common near her home. She's shaken and haunted by the ...
more
Wildwood Imperium: The Wildwood Chronicles, Book III
by
Colin Meloy
Balzer + Bray, 02/04/2014
A young girl's midnight séance awakens a long-slumbering malevolent spirit...A band of runaway orphans allies with an underground collective of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dancing Fish and Ammonites: A Memoir
by
Penelope Lively
Viking, 02/06/2014
"The memory that we live with... is the moth-eaten version of our own past that each of us carries around, depends on. It is our ID; this is how we ...
more
Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century
by
Kevin Fong M.D.
Penguin Press, 02/06/2014
Little more than one hundred years ago, maps of the world still boasted white space: places where no human had ever trod. Within a few short decades ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Pioneer Girl
by
Bich Minh Nguyen
Viking, 02/06/2014
Jobless with a PhD, Lee Lien returns home to her Chicago suburb from grad school, only to find herself contending with issues she's evaded since ...
more
The Mangle Street Murders: The Gower Street Detectives: Book 1
by
Martin Kasasian
Pegasus Books, 02/06/2014
After her father dies, March Middleton has to move to London to live with her guardian, Sidney Grice, the country's most famous private detective.
...
more
The Sound of Letting Go
by
Stasia Ward Kehoe
Viking, 02/06/2014
For sixteen years, Daisy has been good. A good daughter, helping out with her autistic younger brother uncomplainingly. A good friend, even ...
more
The Swan Gondola
by
Timothy Schaffert
Riverhead Books, 02/06/2014
On the eve of the 1898 Omaha World's Fair, Ferret Skerritt, ventriloquist by trade, con man by birth, isn't quite sure how it will change him or his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Plenty of Time When We Get Home: Love and Recovery in the Aftermath of War
by
Kayla Williams
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/10/2014
When SPC Kayla Williams and SGT Brian McGough met at a mountain outpost in Iraq in 2003, only their verbal sparring could have betrayed a hint of ...
more
After I'm Gone
by
Laura Lippman
William Morrow, 02/11/2014
When Felix Brewer meets Bernadette "Bambi" Gottschalk at a Valentine's Dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually ...
more
Before My Eyes
by
Caroline Bock
St. Martin's Press, 02/11/2014
In Caroline Bock's
Before My Eyes, Claire has spent the last few months taking care of her six-year-old sister, Izzy, as their mother lies in a ...
more
Children of Paradise: A Novel
by
Fred D'Aguiar
Harper, 02/11/2014
In this beautifully imagined work of literary fiction, he returns to the territory of Jim Jones's utopian commune, interweaving magical realism and ...
more
Literary Fiction
Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America
by
Howard Blum
Harper, 02/11/2014
Combining the pulsating drive of Showtime's
Homeland with the fascinating historical detail of such of narrative nonfiction bestsellers as
Double ...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Girl on the Golden Coin: A Novel of Frances Stuart
by
Marci Jefferson
Thomas Dunne Books, 02/11/2014
In 1660, the Restoration of the Stuart Monarchy in England returns Frances Stuart and her family to favor. Frances discards threadbare gowns and goes ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Glitter and Glue: A Memoir
by
Kelly Corrigan
Ballantine Books, 02/11/2014
From the
New York Times bestselling author of
The Middle Place comes a new memoir that examines the bond - sometimes nourishing, sometimes ...
more
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
by
Svante Pääbo
Basic Books, 02/11/2014
What can we learn from the genomes of our closest evolutionary relatives?
Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Pääbo's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood
by
Joachim C. Fest
Other Press, 02/11/2014
Few writers have deepened our understanding of the Third Reich as much as German historian, biographer, journalist, and critic Joachim Fest. His ...
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Pieces of Me
by
Amber Kizer
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, 02/11/2014
When high school oddball and introvert Jessica Chai is killed in a car accident, her parents decide that Jessica would have wanted her organs donated ...
more
Literary Fiction
Prayers for the Stolen
by
Jennifer Clement
Hogarth Books, 02/11/2014
A haunting story of love and survival that introduces an unforgettable literary heroine
Ladydi Garcia Martínez is fierce, funny and ...
more
Quesadillas
by
Juan Pablo Villalobos
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/11/2014
It's the 1980s in Lagos de Moreno - a town where there are more cows than people, and more priests than cows - and a poor family struggles to overcome...
more
The Dealer and the Dead
by
Gerald Seymour
Thomas Dunne Books, 02/11/2014
Sometimes surviving a war can almost seem worse than dying in it.
Vukovar, 1992 - a small Croatian village near the Serbian border. In a moonlit ...
more
The Deliverance of Evil: A Commissario Balistreri Mystery
by
Roberto Costantini
Quercus, 02/11/2014
The Deliverance of Evil is a masterful psychological thriller about an edgy policeman's personal evolution - or devolution - as seen through the lens ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Glass Casket
by
McCormick Templeman
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, 02/11/2014
Death hasn't visited Rowan Rose since it took her mother when Rowan was only a little girl. But that changes one bleak morning, when five horses and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Golden Thread: A History of Writing
by
Ewan Clayton
Counterpoint Press, 02/11/2014
From the simple representative shapes used to record transactions of goods and services in ancient Mesopotamia, to the sophisticated typographical ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Hybrid Tiger: Secrets of the Extraordinary Success of Asian-American Kids
by
Quanyu Huang
Prometheus Books, 02/11/2014
Why do Asian and Asian-American students consistently perform so well on standardized tests? Why are students of Asian descent disproportionately ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Quiet Streets of Winslow
by
Judy Troy
Counterpoint Press, 02/11/2014
When the murdered body of a young woman is found in a river wash in Black Canyon City, Arizona, Deputy Sheriff Sam Rush begins an investigation that ...
more
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
by
Elizabeth Kolbert
Henry Holt and Company, 02/11/2014
Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer for Nonfiction
A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Traitor's Wife
by
Allison Pataki
Howard Books, 02/11/2014
Everyone knows Benedict Arnold - the Revolutionary War general who betrayed America and fled to the British - as history's most notorious turncoat. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Thirty Girls
by
Susan Minot
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 02/11/2014
Esther is a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities, who is struggling to ...
more
Where Monsters Dwell
by
Jørgen Brekke
Minotaur Books, 02/11/2014
An international bestseller - A brutal murder in Norway, a murder in Virginia - both connected to sixteenth century palimpsest of a serial murderer's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Make Me a Mother: A Memoir
by
Susanne Antonetta
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/17/2014
In
Make Me a Mother, acclaimed memoirist Susanne Antonetta adopts an infant from Seoul, South Korea. After meeting their six-month-old son, Jin, at ...
more
Chance
by
Kem Nunn
Scribner, 02/18/2014
Dr. Eldon Chance is a brilliant, lonely, forensic neuropsychologist with a long track record of getting involved with damaged, complicated women. ...
more
Love Story, With Murders
by
Harry Bingham
Delacorte Press, 02/18/2014
D.C. Fiona Griffiths is facing the prospect of a dull weekend when the call comes in, something about illegal dumping in a Cardiff suburb. But when ...
more
Maybe One Day
by
Melissa Kantor
HarperTeen, 02/18/2014
A person's whole life, she's lucky to have one or two real friends. Friends who are like family... for Zoe that someone is Olivia. So when Olivia is ...
more
Runner: A Sam Dryden Novel
by
Patrick Lee
Minotaur Books, 02/18/2014
Sam Dryden, retired special forces, lives a quiet life in a small town on the coast of Southern California. While out on a run in the middle...
more
The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond
by
Michael Sims
Bloomsbury USA, 02/18/2014
The Adventures of Henry Thoreau-chronicling the ten years in his life beginning with Harvard in 1837 and ending as he walked away from Walden Pond ...
more
The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America
by
Edward White
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/18/2014
The Tastemaker explores the many lives of Carl Van Vechten, the most influential cultural impresario of the early twentieth century: a patron and ...
more
Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero
by
Douglas Perry
Viking, 02/20/2014
The true story of Eliot Ness, the legendary lawman who led the Untouchables, took on Al Capone, and saved a city's soul
Eliot Ness is famous for ...
more
A Snicker of Magic
by
Natalie Lloyd
Scholastic, 02/25/2014
Introducing an extraordinary new voice - a magical debut that will make your skin tingle, your eyes glisten...and your heart sing.
Midnight Gulch ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Boy on the Edge
by
Fridrik Erlings
Candlewick Press, 02/25/2014
Henry has a clubfoot and is the target of relentless bullying. One day, in a violent fit of anger, Henry lashes out at the only family he has — ...
more
Faking Normal
by
Courtney C. Stevens
HarperTeen, 02/25/2014
Alexi Littrell hasn't told anyone what happened to her over the summer by her backyard pool. Instead, she hides in her closet, counts the slats in the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Free Falling, As If in a Dream: The Story of a Crime
by
Leif GW Persson
Pantheon Books, 02/25/2014
It's August 2007, and Lars Martin Johansson, chief of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Sweden has opened the files on the unsolved ...
more
Grandmaster
by
David Klass
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/25/2014
Freshman Daniel Pratzer gets a chance to prove himself when the chess team invites him and his father to a weekend-long parent-child tournament. ...
more
Half a Chance
by
Cynthia Lord
Scholastic, 02/25/2014
When Lucy's family moves to an old house on a lake, Lucy tries to see her new home through her camera's lens, as her father has taught her - he's a ...
more
Long Man
by
Amy Greene
Knopf, 02/25/2014
A river called Long Man has coursed through East Tennessee from time immemorial, bringing sustenance to the people who farm along its banks and who ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Raiders of the Nile: The Ancient World
by
Steven Saylor
Minotaur Books, 02/25/2014
In 88 B.C. it seems as if all the world is at war. From Rome to Greece and to Egypt itself, most of civilization is on the verge of war. The young ...
more
The Hit
by
Melvin Burgess
The Chicken House, 02/25/2014
A new drug is on the street. Everyone's buzzing about it. Take the hit. Live the most intense week of your life. Then die. It's the ultimate high at ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Well's End
by
Seth Fishman
Putnam Juvenile, 02/25/2014
Sixteen-year-old Mia Kish's small town of Fenton, Colorado is known for three things: being home to the world's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
What's Important Is Feeling: Stories
by
Adam Wilson
Harper Perennial, 02/25/2014
Bankers prowl Brooklyn bars on the eve of the stock market crash. A debate over Young Elvis versus Vegas Elvis turns existential. Detoxing junkies use...
more
Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
by
Mark Harris
Penguin Press, 02/27/2014
In
Pictures at a Revolution, Mark Harris turned the story of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967 into a landmark work of cultural ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Grasshopper Jungle
by
Andrew A. Smith
Penguin Young Readers Group, 02/27/2014
If you're a fan of John Green, Michael Grant, Stephen King or David Levithan, get your pincers stuck into this. In the small town of Ealing, Iowa, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Seven Flowers: And How They Shaped Our World
by
Jennifer Potter
Overlook, 02/27/2014
The lotus. The lily. The sunflower. The opium poppy. The rose. The tulip. The orchid. Seven flowers, each with its own story full of surprises and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Tsarina
by
J. Nelle Patrick
Razorbill, 02/27/2014
Natalya knows a secret.
A magical Faberge egg glows within the walls of Russia's Winter Palace. It holds a power rooted in the land...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Dynamite Room
by
Jason Hewitt
Simon & Schuster, 03/01/2014
July 1940. Eleven-year-old Lydia walks through a village in rural Suffolk on a baking hot day. She is wearing a gas mask. The shops and houses are ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Devotion and Defiance: My Journey in Love, Faith and Politics
by
Humaira Awais Shahid with Kelly Horan
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/03/2014
In the fall of 2001, a newlywed English professor took on a job editing the "women's section" of one of Pakistan's leading Urdu newspapers. She soon ...
more
Biography/Memoir
A Circle of Wives
by
Alice LaPlante
Atlantic Monthly Press, 03/04/2014
When Dr. John Taylor is found dead in a hotel room in his hometown, the local police find enough incriminating evidence to suspect foul play. ...
more
Above
by
Isla Morley
Gallery Books, 03/04/2014
Blythe Hallowell is sixteen when she is abducted by a survivalist and locked away in an abandoned missile silo in Eudora, Kansas. At first, she ...
more
All Our Names
by
Dinaw Mengestu
Knopf, 03/04/2014
From Dinaw Mengestu, a recipient of the National Book Foundation's 5 under 35 Award, the
New Yorker's 20 under 40 Award, and a 2012 MacArthur ...
more
Clever Girl
by
Tessa Hadley
Harper, 03/04/2014
Like Alice Munro and Colm Tóibin, Tessa Hadley brilliantly captures the beauty, innocence, and irony of ordinary lives - an ability to transform ...
more
Dangerous
by
Shannon Hale
Bloomsbury USA, 03/04/2014
How far would you go to save the world?
When Maisie Danger Brown nabbed a spot at a NASA-like summer boot camp, she never expected to uncover a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Half Bad: The Half Bad Trilogy
by
Sally Green
Viking, 03/04/2014
In modern-day England, witches live alongside humans: White witches, who are good; Black witches, who are evil; and sixteen-year-old Nathan, who is ...
more
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
by
Megan Marshall
Houghton Mifflin, 03/04/2014
Pulitzer Prize finalist Megan Marshall recounts the trailblazing life of Margaret Fuller: Thoreau's first editor, Emerson's close friend, daring war ...
more
Money: The Unauthorized Biography
by
Felix Martin
Knopf, 03/04/2014
From ancient currency to Adam Smith, from the gold standard to shadow banking and the Great Recession: a sweeping historical epic that traces the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Panic
by
Lauren Oliver
HarperCollins Publishers, 03/04/2014
From
New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver comes an extraordinary novel of fear, friendship, courage, and hope.
Panic began as so many ...
more
Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
by
Rebecca Goldstein
Pantheon Books, 03/04/2014
Is philosophy obsolete? Are the ancient questions still relevant in the age of cosmology and neuroscience, not to mention crowd-sourcing and cable ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Precious Thing
by
Colette McBeth
Minotaur Books, 03/04/2014
I know her inside out. I know what she's thinking, I know what she wants. So I can't give up on her, she knows I never will.
Some friendships...
more
Safe with Me
by
Amy Hatvany
Washington Square Press, 03/04/2014
A "compelling and thought-provoking" (Kristin Hannah) novel about two mothers and one daughter who are linked by tragedy and bound by secrets, from ...
more
Sailor Twain: Or: The Mermaid in the Hudson
by
Mark Siegel
First Second, 03/04/2014
Graphic Novel
One hundred years ago. On the foggy Hudson River, a riverboat captain rescues an injured mermaid from the waters of the busiest port ...
more
Graphic Novels
The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Philip Marlowe Novel
by
Benjamin Black
Henry Holt and Company, 03/04/2014
Raymond Chandler's incomparable private eye is back, pulled by a seductive young heiress into the most difficult and dangerous case of his career.
...
more
The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
by
Dayo Olopade
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 03/04/2014
Africa is a continent on the move. It's often hard to notice, though—the western focus on governance and foreign aid obscures the individual ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Enchanted
by
Rene Denfeld
Harper, 03/04/2014
"This is an enchanted place. Others don't see it, but I do." The enchanted place is an ancient stone prison, viewed through the eyes of a death row ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The End of Eve: A Memoir
by
Ariel Gore
Hawthorne Books, 03/04/2014
At age 39, Ariel Gore has everything she's always wanted: a successful writing career, a long-term partnership, a beautiful if tiny home, a daughter ...
more
The Ghost Apple
by
Aaron Thier
Bloomsbury USA, 03/04/2014
"Every college I looked at, the students were like, 'Whoa, this place is awesome!' Then I came to Tripoli and everyone was like, 'I don't know. You ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Lie
by
Hesh Kestin
Scribner, 03/04/2014
Dahlia Barr does not suffer fools - or her own government, with which she is normally at odds. Shrewd, brash, and as tough as she is beautiful, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Man Who Walked Away
by
Maud Casey
Bloomsbury USA, 03/04/2014
In a trance-like state, Albert walks - from Bordeaux to Poitiers, from Chaumont to Macon, and farther afield to Turkey, Austria, Russia - all over ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Winner's Curse: Winner's Trilogy Book 1
by
Marie Rutkoski
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/04/2014
Winning what you want may cost you everything you love
As a general's daughter in a vast empire that revels in war and enslaves those it conquers, ...
more
Three Brothers
by
Peter Ackroyd
Nancy Paulsen Books, 03/04/2014
Three Brothers follows the fortunes of Harry, Daniel, and Sam Hanway, a trio of brothers born on a postwar council estate in Camden Town. Marked from...
more
Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel
by
Helen Oyeyemi
Riverhead Books, 03/06/2014
In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty - the opposite of the life she'...
more
Death in Sardinia: An Inspector Bordelli Mystery
by
Marco Vichi
Pegasus Books, 03/06/2014
Florence, 1965. A man is found murdered, a pair of scissors stuck through his throat. Only one thing is known about him - he was a loan shark, who ...
more
Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by their Trace Fossils
by
Anthony J. Martin
Pegasus Books, 03/06/2014
What if we woke up one morning and all of the dinosaur bones in the world were gone? How would we know these iconic animals had a165-million year ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Savage Girl
by
Jean Zimmerman
Viking, 03/06/2014
Jean Zimmerman's new novel tells of the dramatic events that transpire when an alluring, blazingly smart eighteen-year-old girl named Bronwyn, ...
more
The Letter Bearer
by
Robert Allison
Counterpoint Press, 03/06/2014
The Rider has no memory of who he is, or how he came to be lying - dying - in the brutal heat of the North African desert. Rescued by a band of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
by
Walter Kirn
Liveright / WW Norton, 03/10/2014
In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn - then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriage - set out on a peculiar,...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Be Careful What You Wish For: The Clifton Chronicles #4
by
Jeffrey Archer
St. Martin's Press, 03/11/2014
When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma Clifton wants to replace him. But Don Pedro Martinez ...
more
Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love
by
Wendy Ruderman and Barbara Laker
Harper, 03/11/2014
In the vein of
Erin Brockovich, The Departed, and T. J. English's
Savage City comes
Busted, the shocking true story of the biggest police corruption ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
City of the Sun
by
Juliana Maio
Greenleaf Book Group Press, 03/11/2014
Espionage, love, and power play upon the shifting sands of wartime Cairo
CAIRO, EGYPT 1941. As the Second World War rages, the city known as the '...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
by
Elizabeth A. Fenn
West Hills Press, 03/11/2014
A book that radically changes our understanding of North America before and after the arrival of Europeans.
Encounters at the Heart of the World ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Never Ending
by
Martyn Bedford
Wendy Lamb Books, 03/11/2014
Shiv's best mate, her brother Declan, is dead. It's been all over the news. Consumed by grief and guilt, she agrees to become an inpatient at the ...
more
On the Cancer Frontier: One Man, One Disease, and a Medical Revolution
by
Paul Marks and James Sterngold
Public Affairs, 03/11/2014
In 1950, a diagnosis of cancer was all but a death sentence. Mortality rates only got worse, and as late as 1986, an article in
the New England ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
by
Brigid Schulte
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/11/2014
Overwhelmed is a book about time pressure and modern life. It is a deeply reported and researched, honest and often hilarious journey from ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Accident
by
Chris Pavone
Crown, 03/11/2014
As dawn approaches in New York, literary agent Isabel Reed is turning the final pages of a mysterious, anonymous manuscript, racing through the ...
more
The Dead of Summer: The Anders Knutas Series #4
by
Mari Jungstedt
Stockholm Text, 03/11/2014
While vacationing on the Swedish island Gotland, a young father of two is shot on the beach while jogging. Assistant commissioner Karin Jacobsson, who...
more
The Heaven of Animals: Stories
by
David James Poissant
Simon & Schuster, 03/11/2014
In this masterful debut, an award-winning writer and first-rate storyteller explores the tenuous bonds of family - fathers and sons, husbands and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Lost Sisterhood
by
Anne Fortier
Ballantine Books, 03/11/2014
From the author of the
New York Times bestseller
Juliet comes a mesmerizing novel about a young scholar who risks her reputation - and her life - on a...
more
The Outcast Dead: Ruth Galloway Mysteries
by
Elly Griffiths
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 03/11/2014
Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway uncovers the bones of a Victorian murderess while a baby snatcher threatens modern-day Norfolk in this exciting ...
more
The Weight of Blood
by
Laura McHugh
Spiegel & Grau, 03/11/2014
For fans of Gillian Flynn, Scott Smith, and Daniel Woodrell comes a gripping, suspenseful novel about two mysterious disappearances a generation apart...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Visitors
by
Patrick O'Keeffe
Viking, 03/13/2014
As he did so masterfully in the connected novellas of
The Hill Road, Patrick O'Keeffe's first novel moves back and forth in time and place to weave ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning
by
Kate Sweeney
University of Georgia Press, 03/15/2014
Someone dies. What happens next?
One family inters their matriarch's ashes on the floor of the ocean. Another holds a memorial weenie roast each ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Strongwood: A Crime Dossier
by
Larry Millett
University of Minnesota Press, 03/15/2014
The place is Minneapolis, the year is 1903, and Michael Masterson has fallen in love, or so he claims, with Addie Strongwood, a beautiful working-...
more
Mannequin Girl
by
Ellen Litman
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/17/2014
"A perfect little figure," he says. "Our mannequin girl." She knows who mannequin girls are. They are in her grandmother's
Working Woman magazines, ...
more
The Demolished Man
by
Alfred Bester
iBooks, 03/17/2014
"Bester's two superb books have stood the test of time. For nearly sixty years they've held their place on everybody's list of the ten greatest sf ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Double Life of Paul De Man
by
Evelyn Barish
Liveright / WW Norton, 03/17/2014
Over thirty years after his death in 1983, Paul de Man, a hugely charismatic intellectual who created with deconstruction an ideology so pervasive ...
more
A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran
by
Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 03/18/2014
In summer 2009, Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, and Sarah Shourd were hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan when they unknowingly crossed into Iran and were captured ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security
by
Todd Miller
City Lights Publishers, 03/18/2014
Armed authorities watch from a military-grade surveillance tower as lines of people stream toward the security checkpoint, tickets in hand, anxious ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Cambridge
by
Susanna Kaysen
Knopf, 03/18/2014
"It was probably because I was so often taken away from Cambridge when I was young that I loved it as much as I did..."
So begins this novel-from-...
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Citadel: A Novel (Languedoc Trilogy)
by
Kate Mosse
William Morrow, 03/18/2014
Combining the rugged action of
Labyrinth with the haunting mystery of
Sepulchre, #1 bestselling author Kate Mosse's eagerly awaited
Citadel is a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Elusion
by
Claudia Gabel
Katherine Tegan Books, 03/18/2014
A new technology is sweeping the country. To enter Elusion®, you need an app, a visor, and a wristband and you'll be virtually transported to an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Maybe Someday (1)
by
Colleen Hoover
Atria Books, 03/18/2014
At twenty-two years old, Sydney is enjoying a great life: She's in college, working a steady job, in love with her wonderful boyfriend, Hunter, and ...
more
Romance
Mother of God: An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon
by
Paul Rosolie
Harper, 03/18/2014
For fans of
The Lost City of Z, Walking the Amazon, and
Turn Right at Machu Picchu comes naturalist and explorer Paul Rosolie's extraordinary ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Murder at Cape Three Points
by
Kwei Quartey
Soho Press, 03/18/2014
At Cape Three Points on the beautiful Ghanaian coast, a canoe washes up at an oil rig site. The two bodies in the canoe - who turn out to be a ...
more
Raising Steam: A Discworld Novel
by
Terry Pratchett
Doubleday, 03/18/2014
Steam is rising over Discworld, driven by Mister Simnel, the man with a flat cap and a sliding rule. He has produced a great clanging monster of a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art
by
Carl Hoffman
William Morrow, 03/18/2014
The mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in New Guinea in 1961 has kept the world and his powerful, influential family guessing for years. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Side Effects May Vary
by
Julie Murphy
Balzer + Bray, 03/18/2014
When sixteen-year-old Alice is diagnosed with leukemia, she vows to spend her final months righting wrongs. So she convinces her best friend to help ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Cairo Affair
by
Olen Steinhauer
Minotaur Books, 03/18/2014
Sophie Kohl is living her worst nightmare. Minutes after she confesses to her husband, Emmett, a mid-level diplomat at the ...
more
The Crossover
by
Kwame Alexander
Houghton Mifflin Books For Younger Readers, 03/18/2014
"With a bolt of lightning on my kicks ... The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I'm delivering," ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Divorce Papers
by
Susan Rieger
Crown, 03/18/2014
Witty and wonderful, sparkling and sophisticated, this debut romantic comedy brilliantly tells the story of one very messy, very high-profile divorce,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic
by
John Demos
Knopf, 03/18/2014
The astonishing story of a unique missionary project - and the America it embodied - from award-winning historian John Demos.
Near the start ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Last Wild
by
Piers Torday
Viking, 03/18/2014
In a world where animals no longer exist, twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes sometimes feels like he hardly exists either. Locked away in a home for ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Map of Enough: One Woman's Search for Place
by
Molly May
Counterpoint Press, 03/18/2014
Molly Caro May grew up as part of a nomadic family, one proud of their international sensibilities, a tribe that never settled in one place for very ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
by
Adam Braun
Scribner, 03/18/2014
Adam Braun began working summers at hedge funds when he was just sixteen years old, sprinting down the path to a successful Wall Street career. But ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD
by
Simon Schama
Ecco, 03/18/2014
In this magnificently illustrated cultural history - the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series
The Story of the Jews - Simon Schama details the story of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Under the Egg
by
Laura Marx Fitzgerald
The Dial Press, 03/18/2014
When Theodora Tenpenny spills a bottle of rubbing alcohol on her late grandfather's painting, she discovers what seems to be an old Renaissance ...
more
Visible City: A Novel
by
Tova Mirvis
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 03/18/2014
Nina is a harried young mother who spends her evenings spying on the older couple across the street through her son's Fisher-Price binoculars. She is ...
more
You Should Have Known
by
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Grand Central Publishing, 03/18/2014
Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. Devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, ...
more
Dakota
by
Gwen Florio
The Permanent Press, 03/21/2014
Former foreign correspondent Lola Wicks is getting a little bored in Magpie, Montana, where she landed at a small local newspaper after being ...
more
All I Have in This World
by
Michael Parker
Algonquin Books, 03/25/2014
Two strangers meet over the hood of a used car in Texas: Marcus, who is fleeing both his financial and personal failures; and Maria, who after years ...
more
Congo: The Epic History of a People
by
David Van Reybrouck
Ecco, 03/25/2014
Hailed as "a monumental history... more exciting than any novel" (NRC Handelsblad),David van Reybrouck's rich and gripping epic, in the tradition of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Empress of the Night: A Novel of Catherine the Great
by
Eva Stachniak
Bantam Books, 03/25/2014
A critically acclaimed historical drama and instant #1 international bestseller,
The Winter Palace brilliantly reimagined the rise of Catherine the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Falling Out of Time
by
David Grossman
Knopf, 03/25/2014
Following his magisterial
To the End of the Land, the universally acclaimed Israeli author brings us an incandescent fable of parental grief - concise...
more
Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival
by
Marcel Prins and Peter Steenhuis
Arthur A. Levine Books, 03/25/2014
Fourteen unforgettable true stories of children hidden away during World War II
Jaap Sitters was only eight years old when his mother cut the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Kicking the Sky
by
Anthony De Sa
Algonquin Books, 03/25/2014
It was 1977 when a shoeshine boy, Emanuel Jaques, was brutally murdered in Toronto. In the aftermath of the crime, twelve-year-old Antonio Rebelo ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Mind of Winter
by
Laura Kasischke
Harper, 03/25/2014
On a snowy Christmas morning, Holly Judge awakens with the fragments of a nightmare floating on the edge of her consciousness.
Something followed them...more
Nearly Gone
by
Elle Cosimano
Kathy Dawson Books, 03/25/2014
Nearly Boswell knows how to keep secrets. Living in a DC trailer park, she knows better than to share anything that would make her a target with her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Stay Where You Are And Then Leave
by
John Boyne
Henry Holt and Company, 03/25/2014
The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day....
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
by
Craig Nelson
Scribner, 03/25/2014
When Marie Curie, Enrico Fermi, and Edward Teller forged the science of radioactivity, they created a revolution that arced from the end of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Wicked
by
Douglas Nicholas
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 03/25/2014
Something evil has come to reside in a castle by the chill waters of the North Sea: men disappear and are found as horribly wizened corpses, knights ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
American Romantic
by
Ward Just
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 04/01/2014
Harry Sanders is a young foreign service officer in 1960s Indochina when a dangerous and clandestine meeting with insurgents - ending in quiet ...
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And the Dark Sacred Night: A Novel
by
Julia Glass
Pantheon Books, 04/01/2014
Kit Noonan is an unemployed art historian with twins to help support and a mortgage to pay—and a wife frustrated by his inertia. Raised by a ...
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Black Chalk
by
Christopher J. Yates
Random House, 04/01/2014
One game. Six students. Five survivors. It was only ever meant to be a game. A game of consequences, of silly forfeits, childish dares. A game to be ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit
by
Dane Huckelbridge
William Morrow, 04/01/2014
Popular history with a whiskey-soaked edge:
Bourbon is Dane Huckelbridge's artful and imaginative biography of our most well-liked, and at times ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Dear Killer
by
Katherine Ewell
Katherine Tegan Books, 04/01/2014
Rule One: Nothing is right, nothing is wrong. Kit looks like your average seventeen-year-old high school student, but she has a secret: she's London's...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Destroyer Angel: An Anna Pigeon Novel
by
Nevada Barr
Minotaur Books, 04/01/2014
Anna Pigeon, a ranger for the U.S. Park Services, sets off on vacation - an autumn canoe trip in the to the Iron Range in upstate Minnesota. ...
more
I Am Livia
by
Phyllis T. Smith
Lake Union Publishing, 04/01/2014
Rome's maligned and adored first empress tells her own story. At the tender age of fourteen, Livia Drusilla becomes her father's chief political asset...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire: How a Visionary and the Glaciers of Alaska Changed America
by
Kim Heacox
The Lyons Press, 04/01/2014
John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire takes two of the most compelling elements in the narrative of wild America, John Muir and Alaska, and ...
more
Ketchup Is a Vegetable: And Other Lies Moms Tell Themselves
by
Robin O'Bryant
St. Martin's Press, 04/01/2014
If you don't have anything nice to say about motherhood, then… read this book. Robin O'Bryant offers a no holds barred look at the day to day ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Love Letters to the Dead
by
Ava Dellaira
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/01/2014
It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
My Family and Other Superheroes
by
Jonathan Edwards
Seren, 04/01/2014
Leaping from the pages, jostling for position alongside the Valleys mams, dads, and bamps, and described with great warmth, the superheroes in ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Sedition
by
Katharine Grant
Henry Holt and Company, 04/01/2014
The setting of
Sedition by Katharine Grant: London, 1794.
The problem: Four nouveau rich fathers with five marriageable daughters.
The plan: The...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Sekret
by
Lindsay Smith
Roaring Brook Press, 04/01/2014
An empty mind is a safe mind.
Yulia's father always taught her to hide her thoughts and control her emotions to survive the harsh realities of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Empathy Exams: Essays
by
Leslie Jamison
Graywolf Press, 04/01/2014
From personal loss to phantom diseases, a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize
Beginning with her ...
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The Last Forever
by
Deb Caletti
Simon Pulse, 04/01/2014
Nothing lasts forever, and no one gets that more than Tessa. After her mother died, it's all she can do to keep her friends, her boyfriend, her ...
more
The Lie
by
Helen Dunmore
Atlantic Monthly Press, 04/01/2014
Cornwall, 1920. Daniel Branwell has survived the First World War and returned to the small fishing town where he was born. Behind him lie the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Marrying of Chani Kaufman
by
Eve Harris
Grove Press, 04/01/2014
London, 2008. Chani Kaufman is a nineteen-year-old woman, betrothed to Baruch Levy, a young man whom she has seen only four times before their wedding...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Secret Life of William Shakespeare
by
Jude Morgan
St. Martin's Press, 04/01/2014
There are so few established facts about how the son of a glove maker from Warwickshire became one of the greatest writers of all time that some ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Train to Warsaw: A Novel
by
Gwen Edelman
Grove Press, 04/01/2014
Jascha and Lilka separately fled from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942. Reunited years later, they live in London where Jascha has become a celebrated writer...
more
The Whiskey Baron
by
Jon Sealy
Hub City Press, 04/01/2014
South Carolina, 1932. One man's whiskey empire is on the verge of collapse following two shots from a 12-gauge.
Late one night at the end of a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir
by
Frances Mayes
Crown, 04/01/2014
The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including
Under the Tuscan Sun and
Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes revisits the turning...
more
West of the Moon
by
Margi Preus
Amulet Books, 04/01/2014
In
West of the Moon, award-winning and
New York Times bestselling author Margi Preus expertly weaves original fiction with myth and folktale to tell ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
When the Cypress Whispers
by
Yvette Manessis Corporon
Harper, 04/01/2014
On a beautiful Greek island, myths, magic, and a colorful cast of characters come together in
When the Cypress Whispers, Yvette Manessis Corporon's ...
more
Worst. Person. Ever.
by
Douglas Coupland
Blue Rider Press, 04/03/2014
Raymond Gunt likes to think of himself as a pretty decent guy - he believes in karma, and helping his fellow man, and all that other good stuff. Sure,...
more
Acts of God
by
Ellen Gilchrist
Algonquin Books, 04/08/2014
The human race. You have to love it and wish it well and not preach or think you have any reason to think you are better than anyone else. Amen. Good-...more
Astonish Me
by
Maggie Shipstead
Knopf, 04/08/2014
Astonish Me is the irresistible story of Joan, a young American dancer who helps a Soviet ballet star, the great Arslan Rusakov, defect in 1975. ...
more
Between Two Worlds
by
Katherine Kirkpatrick
Wendy Lamb Books, 04/08/2014
On the treeless shores of Itta, Greenland, as far north as humans can settle, sixteen-year-old Inuit Billy Bah spots a ship far out among the icebergs...
more
Historical Fiction
Can't and Won't: Stories
by
Lydia Davis
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/08/2014
A new collection of short stories from the woman Rick Moody has called "the best prose stylist in America."
Her stories may be literal one-liners: ...
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Far From You
by
Tess Sharpe
Hyperion, 04/08/2014
Sophie Winters nearly died. Twice.
The first time, she's fourteen, and escapes a near-fatal car accident with scars, a bum leg, and an addiction to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
In Paradise
by
Peter Matthiessen
Riverhead Books, 04/08/2014
A profoundly searching new novel by a writer of incomparable range, power, and achievement.
In the winter of 1996, more than a hundred women and men ...
more
In Praise of Hatred
by
Khaled Khalifa
Thomas Dunne Books, 04/08/2014
In 1980s Syria, a young Muslim girl lives a secluded life behind the veil in the vast and perfumed house of her grandparents. Her three aunts - ...
more
Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
by
Amir Alexander
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/08/2014
On August 10, 1632, five leaders of the Society of Jesus convened in a somber Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a simple idea: that a continuous line ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
by
Barbara Ehrenreich
Twelve Books, 04/08/2014
In middle age, Ehrenreich came across the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence and set out to reconstruct that quest, which had ...
more
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
by
Martin J. Blaser
Henry Holt and Company, 04/08/2014
A critically important and startling look at the harmful effects of overusing antibiotics, from the field's leading expert
Tracing one scientist's...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Talking to Ourselves
by
Andrés Neuman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/08/2014
One trip. Two love stories. Three voices.
Lito is ten years old and is almost sure he can change the weather when he concentrates very hard. His ...
more
The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
by
Russell Gold
Simon & Schuster, 04/08/2014
Russell Gold, a brilliant and dogged investigative reporter at
The Wall Street Journal, has spent more than a decade reporting on one of the biggest ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Cold Song
by
Linn Ullmann
Other Press, 04/08/2014
Ullmann's characters are complex and paradoxical: neither fully guilty nor fully innocent
Siri Brodal, a chef and restaurant owner, is married to ...
more
The Collector of Dying Breaths: A Novel of Suspense
by
M. J. Rose
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 04/08/2014
Florence, Italy - 1533:
An orphan named René le Florentin is plucked from poverty to become Catherine de Medici's perfumer. Traveling with ...
more
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
by
Matt Taibbi
Spiegel & Grau, 04/08/2014
Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery:
Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Here and Now
by
Ann Brashares
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, 04/08/2014
Follow the rules. Remember what happened. Never fall in love.
This is the story of seventeen-year-old Prenna James, who immigrated to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Other Language
by
Francesca Marciano
Pantheon Books, 04/08/2014
Hailed by
The New York Times as "a natural-born storyteller," the acclaimed author of
Rules of the Wild gives us nine incandescently smart stories, ...
more
The Plover
by
Brian Doyle
Thomas Dunne Books, 04/08/2014
Declan O Donnell has sailed out of Oregon and deep into the vast, wild ocean, having had just finally
enough of other people and their problems. He ...
more
The Price of Silence: The Duke Lacrosse Scandal, the Power of the Elite, and the Corruption of Our Great Universities
by
William D. Cohan
Scribner, 04/08/2014
Bestselling author William D. Cohan, whose reporting and writing have been hailed as "gripping" (the
New York Times), "authoritative" (the
Washington ...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Shadow Queen: A Novel
by
Sandra Gulland
Doubleday, 04/08/2014
From the author of the beloved
Josephine B. Trilogy, comes a spellbinding novel inspired by the true story of a young woman who rises from poverty to ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Venetian Bargain
by
Marina Fiorato
St. Martin's Griffin, 04/08/2014
Venice, 1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy
by
Kate Hattemer
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 04/08/2014
Witty, sarcastic Ethan and his three friends decide to take down the reality TV show,
For Art's Sake, that is being filmed at their high school, the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Word Exchange
by
Alena Graedon
Doubleday, 04/08/2014
A fiendishly clever dystopian novel for the digital age,
The Word Exchange is a fresh, stylized, and decidedly original debut about the dangers of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Up at Butternut Lake: The Butternut Lake Trilogy, Book 1
by
Mary McNear
William Morrow Paperbacks, 04/08/2014
It's summer, and after ten years away, Allie Beckett has returned to her family's cabin beside tranquil Butternut Lake, where as a teenager she spent ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Curiosity
by
Gary Blackwood
The Dial Press, 04/10/2014
Philadelphia, PA, 1835. Rufus, a twelve-year-old chess prodigy, is recruited by a shady showman named Maelzel to secretly operate a mechanical chess ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Pointe
by
Brandy Colbert
Putnam Juvenile, 04/10/2014
Theo is better now.
She's eating again, dating guys who are
almost appropriate, and well on her way to becoming an elite ballet dancer. But when ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Man Who Couldn't Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought
by
David Adam
Palgrave Macmillan, 04/10/2014
This book offers an intimate look at the power of intrusive thoughts, how our brains can turn against us and what it means to live with obsessive ...
more
The Museum of Intangible Things
by
Wendy Wunder
Razorbill, 04/10/2014
Loyalty. Envy. Obligation. Dreams. Disappointment. Fear. Negligence. Coping. Elation. Lust. Nature. Freedom. Heartbreak. Insouciance. Audacity. ...
more
All the Birds, Singing
by
Evie Wyld
Pantheon Books, 04/15/2014
From one of
Granta's Best Young British Novelists, a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful new novel about an outsider haunted by an inescapable...
more
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
by
Thomas Piketty
Belknap Press, 04/15/2014
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Casebook
by
Mona Simpson
Knopf, 04/15/2014
From the acclaimed and award-winning author of
Anywhere But Here and
My Hollywood, a powerful new novel about a young boy's quest to uncover the ...
more
Cocaina: A Book on Those Who Make It
by
Magnus Linton
Soft Skull Press, 04/15/2014
When Pablo Escobar, Colombia's "King of Cocaine," was killed, the world thought? or hoped? the cocaine industry would crumble. But ten years later the...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dreamer, Wisher, Liar
by
Charise Mericle Harper
Balzer + Bray, 04/15/2014
When her best friend is moving away and her mom has arranged for some strange little girl to come and stay with them, Ash - who is petrified of change...
more
Earth Star: Earth Girl, #2
by
Janet Edwards
HarperCollins Publishers, 04/15/2014
Only She Can Save the World.
Eighteen-year-old Jarra has a lot to prove. After being awarded one of the military's highest honors for her role in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Ember Island
by
Kimberley Freeman
Touchstone, 04/15/2014
In 1891, Tilly Kirkland is reeling with shock and guilt after her tempestuous marriage ends in horrific circumstances. Fleeing to the farthest place ...
more
Far Gone
by
Laura Griffin
Gallery Books, 04/15/2014
To save her only brother, Andrea Finch must face down a criminal mastermind, the FBI, and her own demons in this thrilling novel from the author of ...
more
Thrillers
Gandhi Before India
by
Ramachandra Guha
Knopf, 04/15/2014
The first volume of a magisterial biography: the definitive portrait of the life and work of one of the most abidingly influential-and controversial-...
more
In the Course of Human Events
by
Mike Harvkey
Soft Skull Press, 04/15/2014
Clyde Twitty could use a break, a helping hand. He's a young man lost - in his finances, in his family - and stuck deep within the fast-settling muck ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Axe Factor: A Jimm Juree Mystery
by
Colin Cotterill
Minotaur Books, 04/15/2014
Since Jimm Juree moved, under duress, with her family to a rural village on the coast of Southern Thailand, she misses the bright lights of Chiang Mai...
more
The Expedition to the Baobab Tree
by
Wilma Stockenstrom
Archipelago Books, 04/15/2014
Paperback original.
Learning to survive in the harsh interior of Southern Africa, a former slave seeks shelter in the hollow of a baobab ...
more
The Other Story
by
Tatiana de Rosnay
St. Martin's Press, 04/15/2014
Vacationing at a luxurious Tuscan island resort, Nicolas Duhamel is hopeful that the ghosts of his past have finally been put to rest… Now a ...
more
The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
by
Astra Taylor
Metropolitan Books, 04/15/2014
The Internet has been hailed as an unprecedented democratizing force, a place where everyone can be heard and all can participate equally. But how ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Sea House
by
Elisabeth Gifford
St. Martin's Press, 04/15/2014
In 1860, Alexander Ferguson, a newly ordained vicar and amateur evolutionary scientist, takes up his new parish, a poor, isolated patch on the remote ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Steady Running of the Hour: A Novel
by
Justin Go
Simon & Schuster, 04/15/2014
A quest novel and a historical tour de force,
The Steady Running of the Hour unravels a tale of passion, legacy, and courage reaching across the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
by
Jenny Han
Simon & Schuster, 04/15/2014
What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them…all at once?
Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her ...
more
Undermining: A Wild Ride in Words and Images through Land Use Politics in the Changing West
by
Lucy R. Lippard
Newmarket, 04/15/2014
Award-winning author, curator, and activist Lucy R. Lippard is one of America's most influential writers on contemporary art, a pioneer in the fields ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots
by
Ian Morris
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/15/2014
"War!.../ What is it good for? / Absolutely nothing," says the famous song - but archaeology, history, and biology show that war in fact has been good...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Paris Apartment
by
Michelle Gable
Thomas Dunne Books, 04/22/2014
When April Vogt's boss tells her about the discoveries in a cramped, decrepit
ninth arrondissement apartment, the Sotheby's continental furniture ...
more
Literary Fiction
Blood Brotherhoods: A History of Italy's Three Mafias
by
John Dickie
Public Affairs, 04/22/2014
MAFIA. CAMORRA. 'NDRANGHETA.
The Sicilian mafia, known as Cosa Nostra, is far from being Italy's only dangerous criminal fraternity. The country ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace
by
Nikil Saval
Doubleday, 04/22/2014
You mean this place we go to five days a week has a
history?
Cubed reveals the unexplored yet surprising story of the places where most of the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
My Accidental Jihad
by
Krista Bremer
Algonquin Books, 04/22/2014
Fifteen years ago, Krista Bremer would not have been able to imagine her life today: married to a Libyan-born Muslim, raising two children with Arabic...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Past the Shallows
by
Favel Parrett
Washington Square Press, 04/22/2014
Joe, Miles, and Harry are growing up on the remote southern coast of Tasmania - a stark, untamed landscape swathed by crystal blue waters. The rhythm ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Prisoner of Night and Fog
by
Anne Blankman
Balzer + Bray, 04/22/2014
A gripping historical thriller set in 1930s Munich,
Prisoner of Night and Fog is the evocative story of an ordinary girl faced with an extraordinary ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Ruin Falls: A Novel
by
Jenny Milchman
Ballantine Books, 04/22/2014
Liz Daniels has every reason to be happy about setting off on a rare family vacation, leaving behind her remote home in the Adirondack Mountains for a...
more
Thrillers
She Is Not Invisible
by
Marcus Sedgwick
Roaring Brook Press, 04/22/2014
Laureth Peak's father has taught her to look for recurring events, patterns, and numbers - a skill at which she's remarkably talented. Her secret: She...
more
Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel
by
Jason Padgett and Maureen Seaberg
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 04/22/2014
No one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Terms & Conditions
by
Robert Glancy
Bloomsbury USA, 04/22/2014
Frank has been in a serious car accident and he's missing memories - of the people around him, of the history they share, and of how he came to be in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Art of Secrets
by
James Klise
Algonquin Books, 04/22/2014
When Saba Khan's apartment burns in a mysterious fire, possibly a hate crime, her Chicago high school rallies around her. Her family moves rent-free ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Chance You Won't Return
by
Annie Cardi
Candlewick Press, 04/22/2014
When your mom thinks she's Amelia Earhart, navigating high school, first love, and family secrets is like flying solo without a map.
Driver's ed ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
There Will Be Bears
by
Ryan Gebhart
Candlewick Press, 04/22/2014
Tyson is determined to hunt an elk - even if it means sneaking his grandpa out of a nursing home - in a debut novel sparked with dry wit and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
You Are Not Special: ... And Other Encouragements
by
Jr., David McCullough
Ecco, 04/22/2014
A profound expansion of David McCullough, Jr.'s popular commencement speech—a call to arms against a prevailing, narrow, conception of success ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Advice
Debut Author
Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World
by
Gillen D'Arcy Wood
Princeton University Press, 04/27/2014
When Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees
by
Dave Goulson
Picador, 04/29/2014
Dave Goulson became obsessed with wildlife as a small boy growing up in rural Shropshire, starting with an increasingly exotic menagerie of pets. When...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Crowded Orbits: Conflict and Cooperation in Space
by
James Clay Moltz
Columbia University Press, 04/29/2014
Space has become increasingly crowded since the end of the Cold War, with new countries, companies, and even private citizens operating satellites and...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Fallout
by
Sadie Jones
Harper, 04/29/2014
Leaving behind an emotionally disastrous childhood in a provincial northern town, budding playwright Luke Kanowski begins a new life in London that ...
more
Monday, Monday: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Crook
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/29/2014
On an oppressively hot Monday in August of 1966, a student and former marine named Charles Whitman hauled a footlocker of guns to the top of the ...
more
Russian Roulette: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Plot for Global Revolution
by
Giles Milton
Bloomsbury USA, 04/29/2014
In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Tsar Nicholas II - a dramatic and explosive act marking that Vladimir Lenin'...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Tease
by
Amanda Maciel
Balzer + Bray, 04/29/2014
Emma Putnam is dead, and it's all Sara Wharton's fault. At least, that's what everyone seems to think. Sara, along with her best friend and three ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Book of You
by
Claire Kendal
Harper, 04/29/2014
A mesmerizing tale of psychological suspense about a woman who must fight to escape an expert manipulator determined to possess her, Claire Kendal's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Marathon Conspiracy
by
Gary Corby
Soho Press, 04/29/2014
Nicolaos, Classical Athens's favorite sleuth, and his partner in investigation, the clever ex-priestess Diotima, have taken time out of their ...
more
The One Safe Place
by
Tania Unsworth
Algonquin Books, 04/29/2014
In this near-future dystopia with echoes of
The Giver and
Among the Hidden, Tania Unsworth has created an unsettling page-turner - fast-paced, smooth,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Poor Boy's Game
by
Dennis Tafoya
Minotaur Books, 04/29/2014
When US Marshal Frannie Mullen gets one of her best friends shot during a routine apprehension, her career is over. Still reeling from the loss, ...
more
The Sea Inside
by
Philip Hoare
Melville House, 04/29/2014
In colorful prose and lively line drawings, Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea and its islands, birds, and beasts. Starting at his home on the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Time to Dance
by
Padma Venkatraman
Nancy Paulsen Books, 05/01/2014
Veda, a classical dance prodigy in India, lives and breathes dance? - so when an accident leaves her a below-knee amputee, her dreams are shattered. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Love and Other Foreign Words
by
Erin McCahan
The Dial Press, 05/01/2014
Can anyone be truly herself--or truly in love--in a language that's not her own?
Sixteen-year-old Josie lives her life in translation. She speaks ...
more
Rene's War: Memoirs of French Resistance in WWII
by
Michel Mockers
Amazon, 05/01/2014
The coin goes up .... it comes down, and the destiny of two brothers is decided. One faces prison in Spain before being released to join the French ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Confabulist
by
Steven Galloway
Riverhead Books, 05/01/2014
What is real and what is an illusion? Can you trust your memory to provide an accurate record of what has happened in your life?
The Confabulist is...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The End: or Something Like That
by
Ann Dee Ellis
The Dial Press, 05/01/2014
Emmy's best friend Kim had promised to visit from the afterlife after she died. But so far Kim hasn't shown up even once. Emmy blames herself for not ...
more
The Secret Hum of a Daisy
by
Tracy Holczer
Putnam Juvenile, 05/01/2014
Twelve-year-old Grace and her mother have always been their own family, traveling from place to place like gypsies. But Grace wants to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Temporary Gentleman
by
Sebastian Barry
Viking, 05/01/2014
In this highly anticipated new novel, Irishman Jack McNulty is a "temporary gentleman" - an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
by
Anand Giridharadas
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/05/2014
Imagine that a terrorist tried to kill you. If you could face him again, on your terms, what would you do?
The True American tells the story of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
After the End
by
Amy Plum
HarperTeen, 05/06/2014
Juneau grew up fearing the outside world. The elders told her that beyond the borders of their land in the Alaskan wilderness, nuclear war had ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
American Innovations: Stories
by
Rivka Galchen
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/06/2014
In one of the intensely imaginative stories in Rivka's Galchen's
American Innovations, a young woman's furniture walks out on her. In another, the ...
more
Authority: A Novel (Southern Reach Trilogy)
by
Jeff VanderMeer
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/06/2014
In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened...
In
Annihilation, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Bred in the Bone: A Jasmine Sharp and Catherine McLeod Novel
by
Christopher Brookmyre
Atlantic Monthly Press, 05/06/2014
Bred in the Bone is the stunning third novel in Brookmyre's series featuring private investigator Jasmine Sharp and Detective Superintendent Catherine...
more
Buzz Kill
by
Beth Fantaskey
Houghton Mifflin Books For Younger Readers, 05/06/2014
Putting the dead in deadline
To Bee or not to Bee? When the widely disliked Honeywell Stingers football coach is found murdered, 17-year-old Millie...
more
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir
by
Roz Chast
Bloomsbury USA, 05/06/2014
In her first memoir,
New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their ...
more
Glorious: A Novel of the American West
by
Jeff Guinn
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/06/2014
We've all got mistakes in our past we'd rather forget.
Cash McLendon has always had an instinct for self-preservation, one that was honed by an ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Harlequin's Millions
by
Bohumil Hrabal
Archipelago Books, 05/06/2014
By the writer Milan Kundera called Czechoslovakia's greatest contemporary writer comes a novel (now in English for the first time) peopled with ...
more
History of the Rain
by
Niall Williams
Bloomsbury USA, 05/06/2014
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. That's how it seems to me, being alive for a ...more
John Quincy Adams: American Visionary
by
Fred Kaplan
Harper, 05/06/2014
Fred Kaplan, the acclaimed, award-winning author of
Lincoln, returns with
John Quincy Adams, an illuminating biography of one of the most overlooked ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Prayer
by
Philip Kerr
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/06/2014
Gil Martins, an agent with the FBI's Domestic Terrorism Unit in Houston, confronts the violence generated by extremism within our nation's borders ...
more
Since You've Been Gone
by
Morgan Matson
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 05/06/2014
Before Sloane, Emily didn't go to parties, she barely talked to guys, and she didn't do anything crazy. Enter Sloane, social tornado and the best kind...
more
Suddenly, Love: A Novel
by
Aharon Appelfeld
Schocken Books, 05/06/2014
A poignant, heartbreaking new work by "one of the best novelists alive" (Irving Howe)—the story of a lonely older man and his devoted young ...
more
Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America
by
Donald L. Miller
Simon & Schuster, 05/06/2014
While F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, Manhattan was transformed by jazz, night clubs, radio, skyscrapers, movies, and the ferocious energy of the 1920s, as...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The End of Always
by
Randi Davenport
Twelve Books, 05/06/2014
A stunning debut novel, The End of Always tells the story of one young woman's struggle to rise above a vicious family legacy and take charge of her ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Garden of Burning Sand
by
Corban Addison
Quercus, 05/06/2014
Zoe Fleming, an accomplished young human rights attorney, has made a life for herself in Zambia, far from her estranged father - an American business ...
more
The Memory Garden
by
Mary Rickert
Sourcebooks, 05/06/2014
Bay Singer has bigger secrets than most. She doesn't know about them, though. Her mother, Nan, has made sure of that. But one phone call from the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
by
Colson Whitehead
Doubleday, 05/06/2014
"I have a good poker face because I am half dead inside." So begins the hilarious and unexpectedly moving adventures of an amateur player who lucked ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Roman Search for Wisdom
by
Michael K. Kellogg
Prometheus Books, 05/06/2014
The Roman "philosophy of life" as mirrored in the literature of ten outstanding representative authors
Though Rome conquered much of the world and ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
by
Sam Kean
Little Brown & Company, 05/06/2014
Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike -- strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents -...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Time Present, and Time Past
by
Deirdre Madden
Europa Editions, 05/06/2014
A quiet but emotionally resonant portrait of a middle-class family in pre-crash Ireland, Deirdre Madden's latest novel is understated and gorgeously ...
more
Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
by
Will Harlan
Grove Press, 05/06/2014
Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She eats road kill, wrestles alligators, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Wonderland
by
Stacey D'Erasmo
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 05/06/2014
Anna Brundage is a rock star. She is tall and sexy, with a powerhouse voice and an unforgettable mane of red hair. She came out of nowhere, an ...
more
The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century
by
David Reynolds
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/12/2014
One of the most violent conflicts in the history of civilization, World War I has been strangely forgotten in American culture. It has become a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
by
Evan Osnos
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/13/2014
From abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly dedicated students destined to rule the global ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Bird Box
by
Josh Malerman
Ecco, 05/13/2014
Something is out there...
Something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Bittersweet
by
Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
Crown, 05/13/2014
Suspenseful and cinematic,
Bittersweet exposes the gothic underbelly of an idyllic world of privilege and an outsider's hunger to belong.
On ...
more
Girl in Reverse
by
Barbara Stuber
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 05/13/2014
When Lily was three, her mother put her up for adoption, then disappeared without a trace. Or so Lily was told. Lily grew up in her new family and ...
more
Hot Lead, Cold Iron
by
Ari Marmell
Titan Books, 05/13/2014
Chicago, 1932. Mick Oberon may look like just another private detective, but beneath the fedora and the overcoat, he's got pointy ears and he's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Remember Me Like This
by
Bret Anthony Johnston
Random House, 05/13/2014
A gripping novel with the pace of a thriller but the nuanced characterization and deep empathy of some of the literary canon's most beloved novels,
...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sidewalks
by
Valeria Luiselli
Coffee House Press, 05/13/2014
Valeria Luiselli is an evening cyclist; a literary tourist in Venice, searching for Joseph Brodsky's tomb; an excavator of her own artifacts, ...
more
Snow in May: Stories
by
Kseniya Melnik
Henry Holt and Company, 05/13/2014
A remote Siberian town with a darkly fascinating history teems with life in this luminous linked debut collection
Kseniya Melnik's
Snow in May ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Boy in His Winter: An American Novel
by
Norman Lock
Bellevue Literary Press, 05/13/2014
Launched into existence by Mark Twain in 1835, Huck Finn and Jim have now been transported by Norman Lock through three vital, violent, and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942
by
Nigel Hamilton
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 05/13/2014
Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Possibilities
by
Kaui Hart Hemmings
Simon & Schuster, 05/13/2014
In this highly anticipated novel from the bestselling author of
The Descendants, a grieving mother struggles to overcome her son's death, when a ...
more
The Son
by
Jo Nesbo
Knopf, 05/13/2014
The author of the best-selling Harry Hole series now gives us an electrifying stand-alone novel set inside Oslo's maze of especially venal, high-level...
more
The Tao of Humiliation: American Readers Series
by
Lee Upton
BOA Editions, Ltd., 05/13/2014
Alternately chilling, funny, devastating, and hopeful, these seventeen stories introduce us to a theater critic who winds up in a hot tub with the ...
more
The Year She Left Us
by
Kathryn Ma
Harper, 05/13/2014
From the winner of the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Prize - comes the extraordinary, unexpected debut tale of three generations of Chinese-American women ...
more
War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt
by
Kwasi Kwarteng
Public Affairs, 05/13/2014
War and Gold tells the history of money. It illustrates in rich historical detail how governments' desire to accumulate and conquer must be funded by ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
We Were Liars
by
E. Lockhart
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, 05/13/2014
A beautiful and distinguished family.
A private island.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four friends - the Liars - ...
more
Everything Leads to You
by
Nina LaCour
Dutton Children's Books, 05/15/2014
A wunderkind young set designer, Emi has already started to find her way in the competitive Hollywood film world.
Emi is a film buff and a true ...
more
The Hidden Child
by
Camilla Lackberg
Pegasus Books, 05/15/2014
Crime writer Erica Falck is shocked to discover a Nazi medal among her late mother's possessions. Haunted by a childhood of neglect, she resolves to ...
more
The Poisoner: The Life and Crimes of Victorian England's Most Notorious Doctor
by
Stephen Bates
Overlook, 05/15/2014
In 1856, a baying crowd of over 30,000 people gathered outside Stafford prison to watch the hanging of Dr. William Palmer, "the greatest villain that ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Black Lake
by
Johanna Lane
Little Brown & Company, 05/20/2014
A debut novel about a family losing grip of its legacy: a majestic house on the cliffs of Ireland.
The Campbells have lived happily at Dulough - ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa
by
Howard W. French
Knopf, 05/20/2014
A prizewinning foreign correspondent and former
New York Times bureau chief in Shanghai and in West and Central Africa, Howard French is uniquely ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Closed Doors
by
Lisa O'Donnell
Harper, 05/20/2014
A young boy on a small Scottish island where everyone knows everything about everyone else, will discover that a secret is a dangerous thing in this ...
more
Highfell Grimoires
by
Langley Hyde
Blind Eye Books, 05/20/2014
Born to privilege and gifted in languages and spells, Neil Franklin has planned his brilliant future well. From academic accolades to finding a proper...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Infinite Sky
by
C. J. Flood
Atheneum Books, 05/20/2014
True love is never lost - but how much loss can it endure? Iris confronts the complexities of family and prejudice in this exquisite and searing debut...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Devil's Workshop: Scotland Yard's Murder Squad (Book 3)
by
Alex Grecian
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/20/2014
London, 1890. Four vicious murderers have escaped from prison, part of a plan gone terribly wrong, and now it is up to Walter Day, Nevil Hammersmith, ...
more
The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames
by
Kai Bird
Crown, 05/20/2014
The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird's compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important ...
more
The Man with the Compound Eyes
by
Wu Ming-Yi
Pantheon Books, 05/20/2014
When a tsunami sends a massive island made entirely of trash crashing into the Taiwanese coast, two very different people - an outcast from a mythical...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Night Gardener
by
Jonathan Auxier
Amulet Books, 05/20/2014
This much-anticipated follow-up to Jonathan Auxier's exceptional debut,
Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes, is a Victorian ghost story with shades of...
more
The Search
by
Geoff Dyer
Graywolf Press, 05/20/2014
Walker meets Rachel at a glamorous party by the bay. When she turns up at his apartment two days later, there is a hint of erotic promise in the air. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
V is for Villain
by
Peter Moore
Hyperion, 05/20/2014
Brad Baron is used to looking lame compared to his older brother, Blake. Though Brad's basically a genius, Blake is a superhero in the elite Justice ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Wynne's War
by
Aaron Gwyn
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 05/20/2014
When Corporal Elijah Russell's superb horsemanship is revealed during a firefight in northern Iraq, the young Army Ranger is assigned to an elite ...
more
Above the East China Sea
by
Sarah Bird
Knopf, 05/27/2014
In her most ambitious, moving, and provocative novel to date, Sarah Bird makes a stunning departure.
Above the East China Sea tells the entwined ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Drunk Mom: A Memoir
by
Jowita Bydlowska
Penguin Books, 05/27/2014
Three years after giving up drinking, Jowita Bydlowska found herself throwing back a glass of champagne like it was ginger ale. It was a special ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Fourth of July Creek: A Novel
by
Smith Henderson
Ecco, 05/27/2014
After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral eleven-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow ...
more
Girls Like Us
by
Gail Giles
Candlewick Press, 05/27/2014
We understand stuff. We just learn it slow. And most of what we understand is that people what ain't Speddies think we too stupid to get out our own ...more
Loitering with Intent
by
Muriel Spark
New Directions Publishing, 05/27/2014
Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with the intent of gathering material for her writing, Fleur Talbot finds a job "on the grubby edge of the ...
more
Literary Fiction
Mrs. Hemingway
by
Naomi Wood
Penguin Books, 05/27/2014
The Paris Wife was only the beginning of the story...
Paula McLain's
New York Times bestselling novel piqued readers' interest about Ernest ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
My Struggle: Book Three
by
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Archipelago Books, 05/27/2014
A family of four - mother, father and two boys - move to the South Coast of Norway to a new house on a newly developed site. It is the early 1970s and...
more
Never Love a Gambler
by
Keith Ridgway
New Directions Publishing, 05/27/2014
Marvelous stories by the Irish writer acclaimed by Zadie Smith as "idiosyncratic and fascinating",
Never Love a Gambler is a showcase for the ...
more
Short Stories
Night Heron
by
Adam Brookes
Orbit, 05/27/2014
A lone man, Peanut, escapes a labor camp in the dead of night, fleeing across the winter desert of north-west China.
Two decades earlier, he was a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Bones Beneath: A Tom Thorne Novel
by
Mark Billingham
Atlantic Monthly Press, 05/27/2014
The Bones Beneath, the twelfth novel in the internationally bestselling Tom Thorne series shows Thorne facing perhaps the most dangerous killer he has...
more
The Lobster Kings
by
Alexi Zentner
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/27/2014
The Kings family has lived on Loosewood Island for three hundred years, blessed with the bounty of the sea. But for the Kings, this blessing comes ...
more
The Orpheus Descent
by
Tom Harper
HarperPaperbacks, 05/27/2014
The greatest thinker in human history, Plato, travels to Italy seeking initiation into the Orphic mysteries: the secret to the Underworld known only ...
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The Phantom of Fifth Avenue: The Mysterious Life and Scandalous Death of Heiress Huguette Clark
by
Meryl Gordon
Grand Central Publishing, 05/27/2014
Born in 1906, Huguette Clark grew up in her family's 121-room Beaux Arts mansion in New York and was one of the leading celebrities of her day. Her ...
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The Stranger on the Train
by
Abbie Taylor
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 05/27/2014
A mother's worst nightmare: the subway doors close with her baby son still on the train. In this suspenseful debut novel, a woman goes to unimaginable...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life
by
Tom Robbins
Ecco, 05/27/2014
Tom Robbins' warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels—including
Still Life With Woodpecker,
Jitterbug Perfume, and
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot ...more
Dreaming for Freud: A Novel
by
Sheila Kohler
Penguin Books, 05/28/2014
Acclaimed for her spare prose and exceptional psychological insights in her novels
Becoming Jane Eyre and
Love Child, Sheila Kohler's latest is ...
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Sundance
by
David Fuller
Riverhead Books, 05/29/2014
Legend has it that bank robber Harry Longbaugh and his partner Robert Parker were killed in a shootout in Bolivia. That was the supposed end of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps
by
Michael Blanding
Gotham Books, 05/29/2014
Maps have long exerted a special fascination on viewers - both as beautiful works of art and as practical tools to navigate the world. But to those ...
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The Untold
by
Courtney Collins
Amy Einhorn Books, 05/29/2014
It is 1921. In a mountain-locked valley, Jessie is on the run.
Born wild and brave, by twenty-six she has already lived life as a circus rider, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Vacationers
by
Emma Straub
Riverhead Books, 05/29/2014
For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim are ...
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The Disestablishment of Paradise
by
Phillip Mann
Gollancz, 06/01/2014
Something has gone wrong on the planet of Paradise. The human settlers—farmers and scientists—are finding that their crops won't grow and ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Director
by
David Ignatius
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/02/2014
Graham Weber has been the director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty T-shirt walks into the American consulate in Hamburg ...
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At the Point of a Cutlass: The Pirate Capture, Bold Escape, and Lonely Exile of Philip Ashton
by
Gregory N. Flemming
University Press of New England, 06/03/2014
Based on a rare manuscript from 1725,
At the Point of a Cutlass uncovers the amazing voyage of Philip Ashton - a nineteen-year old fisherman who was ...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Chasing the Sun: A Novel
by
Natalia Sylvester
Lake Union Publishing, 06/03/2014
Andres suspects his wife has left him—again. Then he learns that the unthinkable has happened: she's been kidnapped. Too much time and too many ...
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Literary Fiction
FaceOff
by
Lee Child, Michael Connelly, John Sandford, Lisa Gardner, Dennis Lehane, and 19 more
Simon & Schuster, 06/03/2014
Edited by #1
New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci and including stories by Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, and more, this one...
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Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York
by
Ted Steinberg
Simon & Schuster, 06/03/2014
This is the story of the monumental struggle between New York and the natural world. From Henry Hudson's discovery of Mannahatta to Hurricane Sandy,
...more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Hell With the Lid Blown Off: An Alafair Tucker Mystery
by
Donis Casey
Poisoned Pen Press, 06/03/2014
In the summer of 1916, a big twister brings destruction to the land around Boynton OK. Alafair Tucker's family and neighbors are not spared the ...
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Here's Looking At You
by
Mhairi McFarlane
Avon Books, 06/03/2014
Anna Alessi – history expert, possessor of a lot of hair and an occasionally filthy mouth – seeks nice man for intelligent conversation ...
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Romance
Home Leave
by
Brittani Sonnenberg
Grand Central Publishing, 06/03/2014
Chris Kriegstein is a man on the move, with a global career that catapults his family across North America, Europe, and Asia. For his wife, Elise, the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
by
Jordan Ellenberg
Penguin Press, 06/03/2014
The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In
How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
In The Wolf's Mouth
by
Adam Foulds
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/03/2014
Set in North Africa and Sicily at the end of World War II,
In the Wolf's Mouth follows the Allies' botched "liberation" attempts as they chased the&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Indefensible
by
Lee Goodman
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 06/03/2014
In the bestselling tradition of
Defending Jacob, this taut legal thriller follows the trail of a man determined to protect his community - and his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Laidlaw: Laidlaw Trilogy
by
William McIlvanney
Europa Editions, 06/03/2014
In
Laidlaw, the first book of the series, we are introduced to Jack Laidlaw, a hard-drinking philosopher-detective whose tough exterior only partly ...
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Let Me See It: Stories
by
James Magruder
Northwestern University Press, 06/03/2014
James Magruder's collection of linked stories follows two gay cousins, Tom and Elliott, from adolescence in the 1970s to adulthood in the early '90s. ...
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Short Stories
Midnight in Europe: A Novel
by
Alan Furst
Random House, 06/03/2014
Paris, 1938. As the shadow of war darkens Europe, democratic forces on the Continent struggle against fascism and communism, while in Spain the war ...
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Mr. Mercedes: Bill Hodges Trilogy
by
Stephen King
Scribner, 06/03/2014
In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without ...
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Present Darkness: An Emmanuel Cooper Mystery
by
Malla Nunn
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 06/03/2014
Five days before Christmas, Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper sits at his desk at the Johannesburg major crimes squad, ready for his holiday in ...
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Problems with People: Stories
by
David Guterson
Knopf, 06/03/2014
Ten sharply observed, funny, and wise new stories from the best-selling author of
Snow Falling on Cedars: stunning explorations of the mysteries of ...
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Reckless Disregard: A Parker Stern Novel
by
Robert Rotstein
Prometheus Books, 06/03/2014
Former topnotch attorney Parker Stern, still crippled by courtroom stage fright, takes on a dicey case for an elusive video game designer known to the...
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Say What You Will
by
Cammie McGovern
HarperTeen, 06/03/2014
John Green's
The Fault in Our Stars meets Rainbow Rowell's
Eleanor & Park in this beautifully written, incredibly honest, and emotionally poignant ...
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That Summer
by
Lauren Willig
St. Martin's Press, 06/03/2014
2009: When Julia Conley hears that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt, she assumes it's a joke. She hasn't been back ...
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The Antiquarian
by
Gustavo Faverón Patriau
Grove Press, 06/03/2014
Three years have passed since Gustavo, a renowned psycholinguist, last spoke to his closest friend Daniel, who's been interned in a mental institution...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Devil May Care: A Mckenzie Novel
by
David Housewright
St. Martin's Press, 06/03/2014
Riley Brodin is the granddaughter of Walter Muehlenhaus—a man as rich, powerful, and connected as anyone since the days of J. P. Morgan. Despite ...
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The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success
by
Martin Dugard
Simon & Schuster, 06/03/2014
In 1856, two intrepid adventurers, Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke, set off to unravel mankind's greatest geographical mystery: finding ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Farm
by
Tom Rob Smith
Grand Central Publishing, 06/03/2014
The Farm
If you refuse to believe me, I will no longer consider you my son.
Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement...
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The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
by
Marcelo Gleiser
Basic Books, 06/03/2014
Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth?
To be human is to want to know, ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
The Murder Farm
by
Andrea Maria Schenkel
Quercus, 06/03/2014
The first author to achieve a consecutive win of the German Crime Prize, Schenkel has won first place for both
The Murder Farm and
Ice Cold.
The ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Stories of Jane Gardam
by
Jane Gardam
Europa Editions, 06/03/2014
From the inimitable Jane Gardam, whose
Old Filth trilogy cemented her status as one of England's greatest living novelists, comes a collection of ...
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The Unexpected Waltz
by
Kim Wright
Gallery Books, 06/03/2014
Kelly Wilder becomes recently widowed from a much older wealthy man with whom she spent her married life doing charity work, building a lovely home, ...
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Those Who Wish Me Dead
by
Michael Koryta
Simon & Schuster, 06/03/2014
When 13-year-old Jace Wilson witnesses a brutal murder, he's plunged into a new life, issued a false identity and hidden in a wilderness skills ...
more
Black Vodka: Ten Stories
by
Deborah Levy
Bloomsbury USA, 06/10/2014
The stories in
Black Vodka, by acclaimed author Deborah Levy, are perfectly formed worlds unto themselves, written in elegant yet economical prose. ...
more
Brutal Youth
by
Anthony Breznican
Thomas Dunne Books, 06/10/2014
Three freshmen must join forces to survive at a troubled, working-class Catholic high school with a student body full of bullies and zealots, and a ...
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Dark Angel: The Anders Knutas Series
by
Mari Jungstedt
Stockholm Text, 06/10/2014
Reckless in the grip of passion, a successful event planner leaves his wife and children for his new lover. When he turns up murdered after a big ...
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Elizabeth Is Missing
by
Emma Healey
Harper, 06/10/2014
In this darkly riveting debut novel - a sophisticated psychological mystery that is also an heartbreakingly honest meditation on memory, identity, and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution
by
Thomas P. Slaughter
West Hills Press, 06/10/2014
An important new interpretation of the American colonists' 150-year struggle to achieve independence.
"What do we mean by the Revolution?" John ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Land of Shadows
by
Rachel Howzell Hall
Forge Books, 06/10/2014
Along the ever changing border of gentrifying Los Angeles, seventeen year old Monique Darson is found dead at a condominium construction site, hanging...
more
Memory of Water
by
Emmi Itäranta
Harper Voyager, 06/10/2014
Global warming has changed the world's geography and its politics. Wars are waged over water, and China rules Europe, including the Scandinavian Union...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Never Look Back: A Mike Lockyer Novel
by
Clare Donoghue
Minotaur Books, 06/10/2014
Three young women have been found brutally murdered in south London, their bodies discarded in plain view, the victims only yards away from help ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
O, Africa!
by
Andrew Lewis Conn
Hogarth Books, 06/10/2014
In the summer of 1928, twin brothers Micah and Izzy Grand are at the pinnacle of their movie-making careers. From their roots as sons of Brooklyn ...
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So Much a Part of You
by
Polly Dugan
Little Brown & Company, 06/10/2014
Two young women who've dated the same man navigate love, destiny, loss, and choice in this powerful debut.
Anna Riley and Anne Cavanaugh have had a...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Tequila Sunset
by
Sam Hawken
Serpent’s Tail, 06/10/2014
El Paso, Texas. Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
Two cities. Different sides of the border.
They share streets. They share families.
But most of ...
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The Death of Lucy Kyte: A New Mystery Featuring Josephine Tey (Josephine Tey Mysteries)
by
Nicola Upson
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/10/2014
In this atmospheric, intriguing historical mystery brimming with psychological tension, an unexpected inheritance plunges beloved British mystery ...
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The Devil in the Marshalsea
by
Antonia Hodgson
Mariner Books, 06/10/2014
It's 1727. Tom Hawkins is damned if he's going to follow in his father's footsteps and become a country parson. Not for him a quiet life of prayer and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
by
Alex Bellos
Simon & Schuster, 06/10/2014
From the bestselling author of
Here's Looking at Euclid, a dazzling new book that turns even the most complex math into a brilliantly entertaining ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Late Starters Orchestra
by
Ari L. Goldman
Algonquin Books, 06/10/2014
If you thought a fiddler on a roof was in a precarious position, imagine what happens when a middle-aged professor with a bad back takes up the cello....
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Biography/Memoir
The Matchmaker
by
Elin Hilderbrand
Little Brown & Company, 06/10/2014
Forty-eight-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability mystical, while others, her husband...
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Romance
The Silent History
by
Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby, and Kevin Moffett
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/10/2014
Sometime right around now, doctors, nurses, and - most of all - parents begin to notice an epidemic spreading among children. Children who are ...
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The Spanish Armada
by
Robert Hutchinson
Thomas Dunne Books, 06/10/2014
After the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, Protestant England was beset by the hostile Catholic powers of Europe, including Spain. In October 1585, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Things I Don't Want to Know: On Writing
by
Deborah Levy
Bloomsbury USA, 06/10/2014
Blending personal history, gender politics, philosophy, and literary theory into a luminescent treatise on writing, love, and loss,
Things I Don't ...more
Trouble
by
Non Pratt
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 06/10/2014
In this dazzling debut novel, a pregnant teen learns the meaning of friendship - from the boy who pretends to be her baby's father.
When the entire...
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When Mr. Dog Bites
by
Brian Conaghan
Bloomsbury USA, 06/10/2014
All Dylan Mint has ever wanted is to keep his Tourette's in check and live life as a "normal" teenager. The swearing, the tics, the howling "dog" that...
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Without You
by
Saskia Sarginson
Orbit, 06/10/2014
1984 - Suffolk, England.
When 17-year-old Eva goes missing at sea, everyone presumes that she drowned. Her parents' relationship is falling apart,...
more
Wolf Hunt: The Napoleonic Murders
by
Armand Cabasson
Gallic Books, 06/10/2014
The forces of Napoleon's Grande Armée are in Austria. For Lieutenant Lukas Relmyer, it is hard to return to the place where he and fellow orphan ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
You Animal Machine: (The Golden Greek)
by
Eleni Sikelianos
Coffee House Press, 06/10/2014
This is the tale of Melena, five times married, mother of three, burlesque dancer, and "the toughest, hardest-assed woman to ever eat wood and bite ...
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A Long Way Home: A Memoir
by
Saroo Brierley
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/12/2014
At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last ...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Chasing the Milky Way
by
Erin E. Moulton
Philomel, 06/12/2014
Lucy Peevy has a dream - to get out of the trailer park she lives in and become a famous scientist. And she's already figured out how to do that: ...
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Saints of New York
by
R.J. Ellory
Overlook, 06/12/2014
The death of a young heroin dealer causes no great concern for NYPD Detective Frank Parrish? - Danny Lange is just another casualty of the drug war. ...
more
Starbird Murphy and the World Outside
by
Karen Finneyfrock
Viking, 06/12/2014
In her sixteen years of life, Starbird has never touched a dollar bill. She's never been in a car. She's never used a cell phone.
That's because ...
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The Glass Sentence: The Mapmakers Trilogy Book 1
by
S. E. Grove
Viking, 06/12/2014
She has only seen the world through maps. She had no idea they were so dangerous.
Boston, 1891. Sophia Tims comes from a family of explorers...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Stones of Contention: A History of Africa's Diamonds
by
Todd Cleveland
Ohio University Press, 06/15/2014
Africa supplies the majority of the world's diamonds, yet consumers generally know little about the origins and history of these precious stones ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Redefining Contemporary Art
by
Arthur I. Miller
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/16/2014
In recent decades, an exciting new art movement has emerged in which artists utilize and illuminate the latest advances in science. Some of their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Replay
by
Marc Levy
Europa Editions, 06/16/2014
On the morning of July 9th 2012,
New York Times investigative reporter Andrew Stilman is jogging along the Hudson River when he feels a sudden, sharp ...
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Coldsleep Lullaby: A Mystery
by
Andrew Brown
Minotaur Books, 06/17/2014
In the sleepy Cape Winelands of South Africa the body of a young woman is found drifting in a river, and Detective Eberard Februarie is called in to ...
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Dead Heading: A Sloan and Crosby Mystery
by
Catherine Aird
Minotaur Books, 06/17/2014
When Jack Haines reports a break-in at his greenhouse, the motive of the intruder is unclear. Other than the destruction of some expensive orchids, no...
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Flying Shoes
by
Lisa Howorth
Bloomsbury USA, 06/17/2014
Mary Byrd Thornton could understand how a reporter couldn't resist the story: a nine-year-old boy sexually molested and killed on Mother's Day, 1966. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
No Country
by
Kalyan Ray
Simon & Schuster, 06/17/2014
Spanning two centuries and three continents, from famine-stricken Ireland to colonial India to modern-day upstate New York,
No Country is a riveting, ...
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Otherbound
by
Corinne Duyvis
Amulet Books, 06/17/2014
Nolan doesn't see darkness when he closes his eyes. Instead, he's transported into the mind of Amara, a girl living in a different world. Nolan's...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
That Night
by
Chevy Stevens
St. Martin's Press, 06/17/2014
As a teenager, Toni Murphy had a life full of typical adolescent complications: a boyfriend she adored, a younger sister she couldn't relate to, a ...
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The Fever
by
Megan Abbott
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 06/17/2014
The Nash family is close-knit. Tom is a popular teacher, father of two teens: Eli, a hocky star and girl magnet, and his sister Deenie, a diligent ...
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The Good Suicides: A Thriller
by
Antonio Hill
Crown, 06/17/2014
After a company retreat in a remote country house, senior employees of Alemany Cosmetics return with a dark secret. They've each received an anonymous...
more
The Late Scholar: The New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery
by
Jill Paton Walsh
Minotaur Books, 06/17/2014
When a dispute among the Fellows of St. Severin's College, Oxford University, reaches a stalemate, Lord Peter Wimsey discovers that as ...
more
The Quick
by
Lauren Owen
Random House, 06/17/2014
An astonishing debut, a novel of epic scope and suspense that conjures up all the magic and menace of Victorian London
London, 1892: James Norbury,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book
by
Peter Finn
Pantheon Books, 06/17/2014
In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to the Russian countryside to visit the country's most beloved poet, Boris Pasternak. He left ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Silkworm: A Cormoran Strike Novel
by
Robert Galbraith
Mulholland, 06/19/2014
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off ...
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Literary Fiction
Em and the Big Hoom
by
Jerry Pinto
Penguin Books, 06/24/2014
First published by a small press in India, Jerry Pinto's devastatingly original debut novel has already taken the literary world by storm. Suffused ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Loot
by
Jude Watson
Scholastic, 06/24/2014
On a foggy night in Amsterdam, a man falls from a rooftop to the wet pavement below. It's Alfie McQuinn, the notorious cat burglar, and he's dying. As...
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The Arsonist: A novel
by
Sue Miller
Knopf, 06/24/2014
From the best-selling author of
While I Was Gone and
The Senator's Wife, a superb new novel about a family and a community tested when an arsonist ...
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The Madonna and the Starship
by
James Morrow
Tachyon Publications, 06/24/2014
Who will save us from the lobsters from outer space?
It is New York City, 1953. Young pulp-fiction writer Kurt Jastrow's world is thrown into ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Things You Kiss Goodbye
by
Leslie Connor
Katherine Tegan Books, 06/24/2014
Bettina Vasilis can hardly believe it when star basketball player Brady Cullen convinces her strict father to let them date. That summer, Bettina ...
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The American Mission
by
Matthew Palmer
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/26/2014
After a devastating experience in Darfur strips Alex Baines, former rising star of the State Department, of his security clearances, he is faced with ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1944: Collaboration, Resistance, and Daily Life in Occupied Paris
by
Jean Guéhenno (Author), David Ball (Translator)
Oxford University Press, 06/27/2014
Jean Guéhenno's
Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1945 is the most oft-quoted piece of testimony on life in occupied France. A sharply observed ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Possibility of Violence: An Avraham Avraham Novel
by
D. A. Mishani
Harper, 07/01/2014
Haunted by the past and his own limitations, Israeli Detective Avraham Avraham must stop a criminal ruthless enough to target children in this ...
more
After the Exhibition: A Jack Haldean 1920s Mystery
by
Dolores Gordon-Smith
Severn House, 07/01/2014
'Art, my dear boy,' said Mr Askern, 'especially sacred art, needs tradition. Tradition is the bedrock of our art…'
He broke off, staring at ...
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All Those Vanished Engines
by
Paul Park
Tor Books, 07/01/2014
In
All Those Vanished Engines, Paul Park returns to science fiction after a decade spent on the impressive four-volume
A Princess of Roumania fantasy,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Conversion
by
Katherine Howe
Putnam Juvenile, 07/01/2014
It's senior year at St. Joan's Academy, and school is a pressure cooker. College applications, the battle for valedictorian, deciphering boys' texts: ...
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Friendship
by
Emily Gould
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/01/2014
Bev Tunney and Amy Schein have been best friends for years; now, at thirty, they're at a crossroads. Bev is a Midwestern striver still mourning a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
God Is an Astronaut
by
Alyson Foster
Bloomsbury USA, 07/01/2014
The day of the accident, Jess is in the backyard with a chainsaw, clearing space to build the greenhouse she's always wanted. And, as always, she is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Inside Man: A Sam Capra Novel
by
Jeff Abbott
Grand Central Publishing, 07/01/2014
Sam Capra's friend Steve has been murdered, shot dead in the rain outside of his Miami bar. The only lead: a mysterious, beautiful stranger Steve ...
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Joe and Marilyn: Legends in Love
by
C. David Heymann
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 07/01/2014
When Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe eloped in January of 1954, they became an international sensation.
Joe and Marilyn reveals the true inside story ...
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Mating for Life
by
Marissa Stapley
Washington Square Press, 07/01/2014
With pitch-perfect honesty and heartwarming humor, this captivating debut explores marriage, motherhood, identity, and what it takes to love someone -...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
by
Matthew Stewart
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/01/2014
Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy?
Not only the erudite Thomas Jefferson, the wily and elusive Ben ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
One Plus One
by
Jojo Moyes
Pamela Dorman Books, 07/01/2014
American audiences have fallen in love with Jojo Moyes. Ever since she debuted Stateside she has captivated readers and reviewers alike, and hit the
...more
Red Joan
by
Jennie Rooney
Europa Editions, 07/01/2014
Inspired by the true story of Melita Norwood, an eighty-seven-year old woman who was unmasked as the KGB's longest serving British spy in 1999, Red ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Rollover: A Dan Mahoney Mystery
by
Susan Slater
Poisoned Pen Press, 07/01/2014
A bank heist turns sleepy little Wagon Mound, New Mexico on its ear. It's no straight-forward, demand all the money at gun-point, and run out the ...
more
Mysteries
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The City
by
Dean Koontz
Bantam Spectra, 07/01/2014
#1
New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz is at the peak of his acclaimed powers with this major new novel.
The city changed my life and ...more
Literary Fiction
The Fracking King: A Novel
by
James Browning
University Press of New England, 07/01/2014
When the tap water at the Hale Boarding School for Boys bursts into flames, people blame fracking. Life at Hale has always been fraught—the swim ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle East
by
Juan Cole
Simon & Schuster, 07/01/2014
The renowned blogger and Middle East expert Juan Cole illuminates the role of today's Arab youth - who they are, what they want, and how they will ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Pale House: A Gregor Reinhardt Novel
by
Luke McCallin
Berkley Books, 07/01/2014
As the Nazi war machine is pushed back across Europe, defeat has become inevitable. But there are those who seek to continue the fight beyond the ...
more
Thrillers
The Sacred River
by
Wendy Wallace
Scribner, 07/01/2014
A romantic, vivid novel about three women who leave Victorian London for Egypt - a tale of female empowerment, self-discovery, love, and the ...
more
The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing
by
Mira Jacob
Random House, 07/01/2014
With depth, heart, and agility, debut novelist Mira Jacob takes us on a deftly plotted journey that ranges from 1970s India to suburban 1980s New ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
War of the Whales: A True Story
by
Joshua Horwitz
Simon & Schuster, 07/01/2014
War of the Whales is the gripping tale of a crusading attorney who stumbles on one of the US Navy's best-kept secrets: a submarine detection system ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wildflower
by
Alecia Whitaker
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 07/01/2014
The best songs come from broken hearts.
Bird Barrett has grown up on the road, singing backup in her family's bluegrass band and playing everywhere...
more
Alice Paul: Claiming Power
by
J.D. Zahniser
Oxford University Press, 07/02/2014
Alice Paul has long been an elusive figure in the political history of American women. Raised by Quaker parents in Moorestown, New Jersey, she would ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Great Glass Sea
by
Josh Weil
Grove Press, 07/02/2014
Twins Yarik and Dima have been inseparable since childhood. Living on their uncle's farm after the death of their father, the boys once spent their ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle
by
Francisco Goldman
Grove Press, 07/02/2014
The Interior Circuit is Goldman's story of his emergence from grief five years after his wife's death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear ...
more
Latitude Zero
by
Diana Renn
Viking, 07/03/2014
"I have to run," said Juan Carlos. "You will call? Please. It is very important."
"Yes. I will call. Definitely. At two."
That's what Tessa ...
more
Never Coming Back
by
Tim Weaver
Viking, 07/03/2014
Emily Kane arrives at her sister Carrie's house to find the front door unlocked, dinner on the table, and the family nowhere to be found. Carrie, her ...
more
Sorrow Bound: Detective Sergeant McAvoy Novel
by
David Mark
Blue Rider Press, 07/03/2014
It's a sweltering summer in Hull, gray storm clouds gather ominously over this small English city, yet refuse to break. Detective Sergeant Aector ...
more
The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades
by
Paul M. Cobb
Oxford University Press, 07/03/2014
In 1099, when the first Frankish invaders arrived before the walls of Jerusalem, they had carved out a Christian European presence in the Islamic ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Archangel: Fiction
by
Andrea Barrett
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/07/2014
In this magnificent new book, she unfolds five pivotal moments in the lives of her characters and in the history of knowledge.
During the summer of...
more
Short Stories
Dry Bones in the Valley
by
Tom Bouman
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/07/2014
In Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, secrets and feuds go back generations. The lone policeman in a small township on the sparse northern border, Henry ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall
by
Will Chancellor
Harper, 07/08/2014
Owen Burr, a towering athlete at Stanford University, son of renowned classicist Professor Joseph Burr, was destined to compete in the Athens Olympic ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Cataract City
by
Craig Davidson
Graywolf Press, 07/08/2014
A searing novel about two friends on opposite sides of the law, from the author of
Rust and Bone, "a writer of immense power" (Peter Straub)
On the...
more
From a Distance
by
Raffaella Barker
Bloomsbury USA, 07/08/2014
In April 1946 Michael returns from war and finds he cannot face the life that awaits him at home. Impulsively he leaps on a train to the western tip ...
more
Mr. Gwyn
by
Alessandro Baricco, Ann Goldstein (Translator)
McSweeney’s Books, 07/08/2014
After celebrated author Jasper Gwyn suddenly and publicly announces that he will never write another book, he embarks on a strange new career path as ...
more
Sisters of Treason
by
Elizabeth Fremantle
Simon & Schuster, 07/08/2014
From the author of
Queen's Gambit, which
People magazine called, "A must-read for Philippa Gregory fans," a gripping historical novel about two ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Starlight Detectives: How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe
by
Alan Hirshfeld
Bellevue Literary Press, 07/08/2014
In 1929, Edwin Hubble announced the greatest discovery in the history of astronomy since Galileo first turned a telescope to the heavens. The galaxies...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Accidental Apprentice
by
Vikas Swarup
Minotaur Books, 07/08/2014
In life you never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate.
A business empire worth ten billion dollars. This is the tantalizing offer made...
more
The Black Hour
by
Lori Rader-Day
Prometheus Books, 07/08/2014
For Chicago sociology professor Amelia Emmet, violence was a research topic - until a student she'd never met shot her.
He also shot himself....
more
The Dead Will Tell: A Kate Burkholder Novel
by
Linda Castillo
Minotaur Books, 07/08/2014
Everyone in Painters Mill knows the abandoned Hochstetler farm is haunted. But only a handful of the residents remember the terrible secrets lost...
more
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
by
Candace Fleming
Random House Children's Publishing, 07/08/2014
Here is the riveting story of the Russian Revolution as it unfolded. When Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II, inherited the throne in 1894, he was ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Half Life of Molly Pierce
by
Katrina Leno
HarperTeen, 07/08/2014
For all of her seventeen years, Molly feels like she's missed bits and pieces of her life. Now she's figuring out why. Now she's remembering her own ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Queen of the Tearling: A Queen of the Tearling Novel
by
Erika Johansen
HarperCollins Publishers, 07/08/2014
Magic, adventure, mystery, and romance combine in this epic debut in which a young princess must reclaim her dead mother's throne, learn to be a ruler...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Symmetry Teacher
by
Andrei Bitov
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/08/2014
One of Russia's finest novelists and an heir to the literature of Gogol, Bulgakov, and Nabokov, Andrei Bitov has been widely hailed as a progenitor of...
more
The Visitors
by
Sally Beauman
Harper, 07/08/2014
Based on a true story of discovery,
The Visitors is New York Times bestselling author Sally Beauman's brilliant recreation of the hunt for Tutankhamun...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Walk Home
by
Rachel Seiffert
Pantheon Books, 07/08/2014
Stevie comes from a long line of people who have cut and run. Just like he has.
Only he's not so sure he was right to go. He's been to London, ...
more
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
by
Alastair Bonnett
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 07/08/2014
At a time when Google Maps Street View can take you on a virtual tour of Yosemite's remotest trails and cell phones double as navigational systems, it...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Last Stories and Other Stories
by
William T. Vollmann
Viking, 07/10/2014
In this magnificent new work of fiction, his first in nine years, celebrated author William T. Vollmann offers a collection of ghost stories linked by...
more
Suicide Med
by
Freida McFadden
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 07/10/2014
Nobody wants to go to a school nicknamed Suicide Med.
One suicide. Every year.
Heather McKinley has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. She...
more
Thrillers
When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation
by
Francois Furstenberg
Penguin Press, 07/10/2014
In 1789, as the French Revolution shook Europe to the core, the new United States was struggling for survival in the face of financial ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
All I Love and Know
by
Judith Frank
William Morrow, 07/15/2014
Told with the storytelling power and emotional fidelity of Wally Lamb, this is a searing drama of a modern American family on the brink of dissolution...
more
Dirty Wings
by
Sarah McCarry
St. Martin's Press, 07/15/2014
In
Dirty Wings by Sarah McCarry, Maia is a teenage piano prodigy and dutiful daughter, imprisoned in the oppressive silence of her adoptive parents' ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Evergreen
by
Rebecca Rasmussen
Knopf, 07/15/2014
From the celebrated author of
The Bird Sisters, a gorgeously rendered and emotionally charged novel that spans generations, telling the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Everyone Lies
by
A.D. Garrett
Minotaur Books, 07/15/2014
In
Everyone Lies by AD Garrett, DCI Kate Simms is on the fast track to nowhere. Five years ago she helped a colleague when she shouldn't have. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town
by
Beth Macy
Little Brown & Company, 07/15/2014
With over $500 million a year in sales, the Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Motor City Burning
by
Bill Morris
Pegasus Books, 07/15/2014
Willie Bledsoe, once an idealistic young black activist, is now a burnt-out case. After leaving a snug berth at Tuskegee Institute to join the Student...
more
Red Winter
by
Dan Smith
Pegasus Books, 07/15/2014
1920, central Russia. The Red Terror tightens its hold. Kolya has deserted his Red Army unit and returns home to bury his brother and reunite with his...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Bone Orchard: A Mike Bowditch Mystery
by
Paul Doiron
Minotaur Books, 07/15/2014
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, Mike Bowditch has left the Maine Warden Service and is working as a fishing guide in the North Woods. But when ...
more
The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China
by
David Eimer
Bloomsbury USA, 07/15/2014
In 1949, Mao Zedong announced the birth of the People's Republic of China, a proclamation to the world that, after centuries of war and social ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Hour of Lead
by
Bruce Holbert
Counterpoint Press, 07/15/2014
After losing both his twin and his father in a brutal, unexpected snowstorm, Matt Lawson must take over the family ranch. As his mother disappears ...
more
The House of Small Shadows
by
Adam Nevill
St. Martin's Press, 07/15/2014
Catherine's last job ended badly. Corporate bullying at a top antiques publication saw her fired and forced to leave London, but she was determined to...
more
The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee
by
Marja Mills
Penguin Press, 07/15/2014
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel's celebrated ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Wayfaring Stranger
by
James Lee Burke
Simon & Schuster, 07/15/2014
It is 1934 and the Depression is bearing down when sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
White Beech: The Rainforest Years
by
Germaine Greer
Bloomsbury USA, 07/15/2014
One bright day in December 2001, sixty-two-year-old Germaine Greer found herself confronted by an irresistible challenge in the shape of sixty ...
more
Riders of the Purple Sage
by
Zane Grey
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 07/17/2014
Withersteen is supported by a number of Gentile friends, including Bern Venters and Lassiter, a famous gunman and killer of Mormons. Unlike many ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
by
Arthur Allen
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/21/2014
Few diseases are more gruesome than typhus. Transmitted by body lice, it afflicts the dispossessed - refugees, soldiers, and ghettoized peoples - ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Marina
by
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 07/22/2014
"We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. This is mine."
When Fifteen-year-old Oscar Drai suddenly vanishes from ...
more
One Past Midnight
by
Jessica Shirvington
Bloomsbury USA, 07/22/2014
Sabine isn't like anyone else. For as long as she can remember, she's had two lives. Every twenty-four hours she 'Shifts', living each day twice. In ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black
by
Chris Tomlinson
Thomas Dunne Books, 07/22/2014
Foreign correspondent Chris Tomlinson returns to Texas to discover the truth about his family's slave owning history.
Tomlinson Hill tells the story ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Big Little Lies
by
Liane Moriarty
Amy Einhorn Books, 07/29/2014
Sometimes it's the little lies that turn out to be the most lethal...
A murder... a tragic accident... or just parents behaving badly?
What's ...
more
Lessons in French: A Novel
by
Hilary Reyl
Simon & Schuster, 07/29/2014
An evocative, coming-of-age story about a Yale graduate's year in Paris as an assistant to a legendary American photographer: "An appealing debut ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Lucky Us
by
Amy Bloom
Random House, 07/29/2014
"My father's wife died. My mother said we should drive down to his place and see what might be in it for us."
So begins this remarkable novel by ...
more
The Angel of Losses: A Novel
by
Stephanie Feldman
Ecco, 07/29/2014
The Tiger's Wife meets
A History of Love in this inventive, lushly imagined debut novel that explores the intersections of family secrets, Jewish ...
more
The Art of Adapting
by
Cassandra Dunn
Touchstone, 07/29/2014
In this warm and winning first novel, a recently divorced woman rises to the challenge and experiences the exhilaration of independence with the ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Good Girl
by
Mary Kubica
Harlequin Mira, 07/29/2014
"I've been following her for the past few days. I know where she buys her groceries, where she has her dry cleaning done, where she works. I don't ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
This Is the Water
by
Yannick Murphy
Harper Perennial, 07/29/2014
In a quiet New England community members of swim team and their dedicated parents are preparing for a home meet. The most that Annie, a swim-mom of ...
more
Tigerman
by
Nick Harkaway
Knopf, 07/29/2014
Sergeant Lester Ferris is a good man in need of a rest. After a long career of being shot at, he's about to be retired. The mildly larcenous, ...
more
Academic Exercises
by
K. J. Parker
Subterranean Press, 07/31/2014
Academic Exercises is the first collection of shorter work by master novelist K.J. Parker, and it is a stunner. Weighing in at over 500 pages, this ...
more
Dear Daughter
by
Elizabeth Little
Viking, 07/31/2014
Former "It Girl" Janie Jenkins is sly, stunning, and fresh out of prison. Ten years ago, at the height of her fame, she was incarcerated for the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Panic in a Suitcase
by
Yelena Akhtiorskaya
Riverhead Books, 07/31/2014
A dazzling debut novel about a Russian immigrant family living in Brooklyn and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream.
In this...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
As Red as Blood: The Snow White Trilogy #1
by
Salla Simukka
Amazon Publishing, 08/01/2014
In the midst of the freezing Arctic winter, seventeen-year-old Lumikki Andersson walks into her school's dark room and finds a stash of wet, crimson-...
more
Inamorata
by
Megan Chance
Lake Union Publishing, 08/01/2014
American artist Joseph Hannigan and his alluring sister, Sophie, have arrived in enchanting nineteenth-century Venice with a single-minded goal. The ...
more
Historical Fiction
Knockout Games
by
G. Neri
Carolrhoda Books, 08/01/2014
When Erica moves with her mother to St. Louis to start over, she quickly finds herself caught up in a violent and popular local pastime, the knockout ...
more
The Devil's Intern
by
Donna Hosie
Holiday House, 08/01/2014
Seventeen-year-old Mitchell Johnson swipes a time-travel device so he can escape his internship in Hell's accounting office, but his plans to return ...
more
Literary Fiction
Up for Sale: Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
by
Alison Marie Behnke
Twenty-First Century Books, 08/01/2014
"Trafficking thrives in the shadows. And it can be easy to dismiss it as something that happens to someone else, somewhere else. But that is not the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Bad Feminist: Essays
by
Roxane Gay
Harper Perennial, 08/05/2014
"Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be
cool, but it is pink—all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it ...
more
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph
by
Jan Swafford
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 08/05/2014
Jan Swafford's biographies of Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects ...
more
Bluff City Pawn
by
Stephen Schottenfeld
Bloomsbury USA, 08/05/2014
Huddy Marr, the proprietor of Bluff City Pawn shop in Memphis, is good at what he does: he knows jewelry, he knows guns and guitars. But the ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Further Out Than You Thought: A Novel
by
Michaela Carter
William Morrow Paperbacks, 08/05/2014
Combining the eloquence and raw sensuality of Jeanette Winterson with the romantic, renegade spirit of Patti Smith,
Further Out Than You Thought is a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Journalism from Around the World
by
Anya Schiffrin (Editor)
University Press of New England, 08/05/2014
Crusading journalists from Sinclair Lewis to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have played a central role in American politics: checking abuses of power...
more
Painted Horses
by
Malcolm Brooks
Grove Press, 08/05/2014
In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to the horizon, while the West was still very much wild...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War
by
Helen Thorpe
Scribner, 08/05/2014
From an award-winning, "meticulously observant" (
The New Yorker), and "masterful" (
Booklist) writer comes a groundbreaking account of three women ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Dog: Stories
by
Jack Livings
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/05/2014
Set in the shifting landscape of contemporary China, Jack Livings's
The Dog explodes the country's cultural and social fault lines, revealing a nation...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Girl from the Well
by
Rin Chupeco
Sourcebooks, 08/05/2014
I am where dead children go.
Okiku is a lonely soul. She has wandered the world for centuries, freeing the spirits of the murdered-dead. Once a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Magician's Land: A Novel (Magicians Trilogy)
by
Lev Grossman
Viking, 08/05/2014
The stunning conclusion to the
New York Times bestselling Magicians trilogy
Quentin Coldwater has lost everything. He has been cast out of Fillory, the...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Scatter Here Is Too Great
by
Bilal Tanweer
Harper, 08/05/2014
A vivid and intricate novel-in-stories,
The Scatter Here Is Too Great explores the complicated lives of ordinary people whose fates unexpectedly ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Ugly Love: A Novel
by
Colleen Hoover
Atria Books, 08/05/2014
When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn't think it's love at first sight. They wouldn't even go so far as to consider themselves...
more
Romance
What We See When We Read
by
Peter Mendelsund
Vintage, 08/05/2014
A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading - how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944
by
Ronald C. Rosbottom
Little Brown & Company, 08/05/2014
On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
When the World Was Young
by
Elizabeth Gaffney
Random House, 08/05/2014
Wally Baker is no ordinary girl. Living in her grandparents' Brooklyn Heights brownstone, she doesn't like dresses, needlepoint, or manners. Her love ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
by
David Shafer
Mulholland, 08/05/2014
The Committee, an international cabal of industrialists and media barons, is on the verge of privatizing all information. Dear Diary, an idealistic ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Blind
by
Rachel DeWoskin
Viking, 08/07/2014
When Emma Sasha Silver loses her eyesight in a nightmare accident, she must relearn everything from walking across the street to recognizing her own ...
more
Forget Me
by
K.A. Harrington
Putnam Juvenile, 08/07/2014
Morgan never minded her boyfriend Flynn's dark and private nature. She found it mysterious and alluring. But now he's dead, and she can't move on. She...
more
Three Bargains
by
Tania Malik
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/11/2014
By the banks of the River Yamuna in northern India, where rice paddies of basmati merge into fields of sugarcane, twelve-year-old Madan lives with his...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
29
by
Mary Sojourner
Torrey House Press, 08/12/2014
Nell Walker, an L.A. executive who believed she had everything and learns she had nothing, finds herself boarding a bus rolling away from bitter loss ...
more
Ancient Oceans of Central Kentucky
by
David Connerley Nahm
Two Dollar Radio, 08/12/2014
The boys howled. In their pockets, eye droppers of gin. They skipped to their car with eyes wide open and sped into the night, down gray county roads,...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Dirty Work
by
Gabriel Weston
Little Brown & Company, 08/12/2014
Nancy Mullion, an obstetrician-gynecologist whose botched surgery has put a patient in a life-threatening coma, must face a medical tribunal to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
How the World Was: A California Childhood
by
Emmanuel Guibert
First Second, 08/12/2014
In 1994, French cartoonist Emmanuel Guibert befriended an American veteran named Alan Cope and began creating his new friend's graphic biography.
Alan...more
Graphic Novels
I Can See in the Dark
by
Karin Fossum
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 08/12/2014
Riktor doesn't like the way the policeman storms into his home without even knocking. He doesn't like the arrogant way he walks around the house, ...
more
Looking for Jack Kerouac
by
Barbara Shoup
Lacewing Books, 08/12/2014
It wasn't Duke Walczak's fault that I took off for Florida, like Kathy thought. The truth is, we started getting sideways with each other on our class...more
Historical Fiction
Small Blessings
by
Martha Woodroof
St. Martin's Press, 08/12/2014
Tom Putnam, an English professor at a Virginia women's college, has resigned himself to a quiet and half-fulfilled life. For more than ten years, his ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The House We Grew Up In
by
Lisa Jewell
Atria Books, 08/12/2014
"Clever, intelligent…wonderful" (Jojo Moyes,
New York Times bestselling author of
Me Before You).
Meet the Bird family. They live in a honey-...
more
The Rush: America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853
by
Edward Dolnick
Little Brown & Company, 08/12/2014
In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Big Sleep
by
Raymond Chandler
Penguin Books, 08/14/2014
''I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn''t care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling ...more
Literary Fiction
Blind Moon Alley: A Jersey Leo Novel
by
John Florio
Prometheus Books, 08/19/2014
It's Prohibition. It's Philadelphia. And Jersey Leo doesn't fit in.
Jersey is an albino of mixed race. Known as "Snowball" on the street, he tends...
more
Confessions
by
Kanae Minato
Mulholland, 08/19/2014
After calling off her engagement in the wake of a tragic revelation, Yuko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old child...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Dear Committee Members
by
Julie Schumacher
Doubleday, 08/19/2014
Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts ...
more
One of Us
by
Tawni O'Dell
Gallery Books, 08/19/2014
Dr. Sheridan Doyle - a fastidiously groomed and TV-friendly forensic psychologist - is the go-to shrink for the Philadelphia District Attorney's ...
more
Sweetness #9
by
Stephan Eirik Clark
Little Brown & Company, 08/19/2014
It's 1973, and David Leveraux has landed his dream job as a Flavorist-in-Training, working in the secretive industry where chemists create the flavors...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Windigo Island: A Novel (Cork O'Connor Mystery Series)
by
William Kent Krueger
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 08/19/2014
When the body of a teenage Ojibwe girl washes up on the shore of an island in Lake Superior, the residents of the nearby Bad Bluff reservation whisper...
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The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity
by
Sandra M. Gilbert
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/25/2014
In this stunning and important work, the prominent critic, poet, and memoirist Sandra M. Gilbert explores our relationship with food and eating ...
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Bombay Blues
by
Tanuja Desai Hidier
Scholastic, 08/26/2014
Dimple Lala thought that growing up would give her all the answers, but instead she has more questions than ever. Her boyfriend is distant, her ...
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Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms
by
Katherine Rundell
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 08/26/2014
Even a life on the untamed plains of Africa can't prepare Wilhelmina for the wilds of an English boarding school in this lovely and lyrical novel from...
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Every Blade of Grass: a novel
by
Thomas Wharton
Imaginary Books, 08/26/2014
The recipient, Martha Geddes, is a neophyte journalist from New York, the sender, James Weaver, a young ecologist from Vancouver. Over the years, ...
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Literary Fiction
F
by
Daniel Kehlmann
Pantheon Books, 08/26/2014
F is for family. F is for fortune. F is for fraud. F is for fate.
From the internationally acclaimed author of
Measuring the World, here is a ...
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Fives and Twenty-Fives
by
Michael Pitre
Bloomsbury USA, 08/26/2014
It's the rule - always watch your fives and twenty-fives. When a convoy halts to investigate a possible roadside bomb, stay in the vehicle and scan ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Frida & Diego: Art, Love, Life
by
Catherine Reef
Clarion, 08/26/2014
Nontraditional, controversial, rebellious, and politically volatile, the Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are remembered for their ...
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Heroes Are My Weakness
by
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
William Morrow, 08/26/2014
Deepest winter.
An isolated island off the coast of Maine.
A man.
A woman.
Puppets. (Yes, puppets…)
And…
A mysterious house looming ...more
Lisette's List
by
Susan Vreeland
Random House, 08/26/2014
From Susan Vreeland, bestselling author of such acclaimed novels as
Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Luncheon of the Boating Party, and
Clara and Mr. Tiffany, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Mr. Tall: A Novella and Stories
by
Tony Earley
Little Brown & Company, 08/26/2014
Two decades after his debut collection
Here We Are in Paradise heralded Tony Earley as one of the most accomplished writers of his generation, the ...
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The Furies
by
Natalie Haynes
St. Martin's Press, 08/26/2014
After losing her fiancé in a shocking tragedy, Alex Morris moves from London to Edinburgh to make a break with the past. Formerly an actress, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Iron Sickle: Sergeants Sueno & Bascom Mystery
by
Martin Limon
Soho Press, 08/26/2014
Early one rainy morning, the head of the 8th United States Army Claims Office in Seoul, South Korea, is brutally murdered by a Korean man in a trench ...
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Mysteries
The Swap
by
Megan Shull
Katherine Tegan Books, 08/26/2014
With one random wish, Jack and Ellie are living life in each other's shoes. He's her. And she's him. ELLIE assumed popular guys didn't worry about ...
more
The Thing About December
by
Donal Ryan
Steerforth Press, 08/26/2014
While the Celtic Tiger rages, and greed becomes the norm, Johnsey Cunliffe desperately tries to hold on to the familiar, even as he loses those who ...
more
Brown Girl Dreaming
by
Jacqueline Woodson
Nancy Paulsen Books, 08/28/2014
Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Margery Allingham's Mr Campion's Farewell: The Return of Albert Campion Completed by Mike Ripley
by
Mike Ripley
Severn House, 08/28/2014
"The idyllic English village of Lindsay Carfax isn't run by the parish council, the rating authority, the sanitary inspector nor the local cops as you...
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Beetle Boy
by
Margaret Willey
Carolrhoda Books, 09/01/2014
When he was seven, Charlie Porter never intended to become the world's youngest published author. He just wanted his father to stop crying. So he told...
more
Jesus Jackson
by
James Daley
The Poisoned Pencil, 09/01/2014
Jonathan Stiles is a 14 year-old atheist who is coping with his first day of ninth grade at the fervently religious St. Soren's Academy when his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
10:04: A Novel
by
Ben Lerner
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/02/2014
In the last year, the narrator of
10:04 has enjoyed unlikely literary success, has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal medical condition, and has ...
more
Literary Fiction
Accidents of Marriage
by
Randy Susan Meyers
Atria Books, 09/02/2014
From the bestselling author of
The Comfort of Lies, an engrossing look at the darker side of a marriage - and at how an ordinary family responds to an...
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Anatomy of a Misfit
by
Andrea Portes
HarperTeen, 09/02/2014
In this
Mean Girls meets
The Perks of Being a Wallflower tale, narrator Anika Dragomir is the third most popular girl at Pound High School. But inside...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer
by
Bettina Stangneth
Knopf, 09/02/2014
A total and groundbreaking reassessment of the life of Adolf Eichmann - a superb work of scholarship that reveals his activities and notoriety among a...
more
Expo 58: A Novel
by
Jonathan Coe
New Harvest, 09/02/2014
Handsome, unassuming Thomas Foley is an employee at the Central Office of Information whose particular biography (Belgian mother, pub-owning father) ...
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Girl Defective
by
Simmone Howell
Atheneum Books, 09/02/2014
This is the story of a wild girl and a ghost girl; a boy who knew nothing and a boy who thought he knew everything.
It's a story about Skylark ...
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Literary Fiction
Once a Hussar: A Memoir of Battle, Capture, and Escape in World War II
by
Ray Ellis
Skyhorse Publishing, 09/02/2014
Once a Hussar is a vivid account of the wartime experiences of Ray Ellis, a gunner who in later life recorded this well-written, candid, and ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Beat of My Own Drum: A Memoir
by
Sheila E. with Wendy Holden
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 09/02/2014
From the Grammy Award–nominated singer, drummer, and percussionist who has shared the stage with countless musicians and is renowned for her ...
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The Emerald Light in the Air: Stories
by
Donald Antrim
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/02/2014
Nothing is simple for the men and women in Donald Antrim's stories. As they do the things we all do - bum a cigarette at a party, stroll with a ...
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The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification
by
Paul Roberts
Bloomsbury USA, 09/02/2014
The Impulse Society is an ambitious, audacious work that gathers together a series of familiar, but seemingly disparate stories into a single master ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Lewis Man: The Lewis Trilogy
by
Peter May
Quercus, 09/02/2014
Marilyn Stasio in
The New York Times raved: "Peter May is a writer I'd follow to the ends of the earth." Among the many honors received,
The ...more
The Mathematician's Shiva
by
Stuart Rojstaczer
Penguin Books, 09/02/2014
Alexander "Sasha" Karnokovitch and his family would like to mourn the passing of his mother, Rachela, with modesty and dignity. But Rachela, a famous ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Secret Sky: A Novel of Forbidden Love in Afghanistan
by
Atia Abawi
Philomel, 09/02/2014
Fatima is a Hazara girl, raised to be obedient and dutiful. Samiullah is a Pashtun boy raised to defend the traditions of his tribe. They were not ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Thief-Taker Hangings: How Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Wild, and Jack Sheppard Captivated London and Created the Celebrity Criminal
by
Aaron Skirboll
The Lyons Press, 09/02/2014
In the early 1700s, lawlessness ruled England, and highwaymen, thieves, and prostitutes thrived. When notorious burglar Jack Sheppard finally met the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The White Van
by
Patrick Hoffman
Atlantic Monthly Press, 09/02/2014
At a dive bar in San Francisco's edgy Tenderloin district, drug-hustling Emily Rosario is drinking whiskey and looking for an escape from her ...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
Literary Fiction
Just Call My Name
by
Holly Goldberg Sloan
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 09/04/2014
Emily Bell finally has everything she wants. The boy she loves, Sam Border, lives just down the road, and they're now in a healthy, committed ...
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The Barter
by
Siobhan Adcock
Dutton, 09/04/2014
The Barter is a ghost story and a love story, a riveting emotional tale that also explores motherhood and work and feminism. Set in Texas, in present ...
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The Golden Hour
by
Todd Moss
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/04/2014
The Golden Hour: In international politics, the hundred hours following a coup, when there is still a chance that diplomacy, a secret back channel, ...more
Thrillers
Debut Author
Wittgenstein Jr
by
Lars Iyer
Melville House, 09/04/2014
The unruly undergraduates at Cambridge have a nickname for their new lecturer: Wittgenstein Jr. He's a melancholic, tormented genius who seems ...
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The Mystery of the Invisible Hand: A Henry Spearman Mystery
by
Marshall Jevons
Princeton University Press, 09/07/2014
Henry Spearman, the balding economics professor with a knack for solving crimes, returns in
The Mystery of the Invisible Hand - a clever whodunit of ...
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Mysteries
Barracuda
by
Christos Tsiolkas
Hogarth Books, 09/09/2014
Fourteen-year-old Daniel Kelly is special. Despite his upbringing in working-class Melbourne, he knows that his astonishing ability in the swimming ...
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Dog Beach
by
John Fusco
Touchstone, 09/09/2014
Acclaimed screenwriter John Fusco's thriller follows the exploits of Louie Mo, once Hong Kong's greatest stuntman turned Los Angeles knee-breaker, as ...
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Egg and Spoon
by
Gregory Maguire
Candlewick Press, 09/09/2014
In this tour de force, master storyteller Gregory Maguire offers a dazzling novel for fantasy lovers of all ages.
Elena Rudina lives in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems
by
Louise Glück
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/09/2014
A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fearless" (
The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize–winning poet
Louise Glück is one of the finest ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Father and Son: A Lifetime
by
Marcos Giralt Torrente
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/09/2014
"This is a story about two people, but I'm the only one telling it."
Many authors have wrestled with the death of a father in their writing, but ...
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Fighting Chance: A Gregor Demarkian Novel
by
Jane Haddam
Minotaur Books, 09/09/2014
Gregor Demarkian grew up in the Armenian-American enclave in Philadelphia known as Cavanaugh Street. Even though he left to go to college, and then ...
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Five Days Left
by
Julie Lawson Timmer
Amy Einhorn Books, 09/09/2014
Mara Nichols is a successful lawyer, devoted wife, and adoptive mother who has received a life-shattering diagnosis. Scott Coffman, a middle school ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Gangsterland
by
Tod Goldberg
Counterpoint Press, 09/09/2014
Sal Cupertine is a legendary hit man for the Chicago Mafia, known for his ability to get in and out of a crime without a trace. Until now, that is. ...
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Nine Days: A Mystery
by
Minerva Koenig
Minotaur Books, 09/09/2014
She's short, round, and pushing forty, but Julia Kalas is a damned good criminal. For 17 years she renovated historic California buildings as a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Pale Harvest
by
Braden Hepner
Torrey House Press, 09/09/2014
Jack Selvedge works a dying trade in a dead town. When the lovely Rebekah Rainsford returns on the run from her father, her dark history consumes him,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Perfidia
by
James Ellroy
Knopf, 09/09/2014
It is December 6, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Rare Bird: A Memoir of Loss and Love
by
Anna Whiston-Donaldson
Convergent, 09/09/2014
I wish I had nothing to say on the matter of loss, but I do. Because one day I encouraged my two kids to go out and play in the rain, and only one ...more
Biography/Memoir
Rites of Passage
by
Joy N. Hensley
HarperTeen, 09/09/2014
In this fast-paced, high-stakes debut novel, sixteen-year-old Sam McKenna discovers that becoming one of the first girls to attend a revered military ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Cat at the Wall
by
Deborah Ellis
Groundwood Books, 09/09/2014
On Israel's West Bank, a cat sneaks into a small Palestinian house that has been commandeered by two Israeli soldiers. The house seems empty, until ...
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The Distance: A Thriller
by
Helen Giltrow
Doubleday, 09/09/2014
Charlotte Alton is an elegant socialite. But behind the locked doors of her sleek, high-security apartment in London's Docklands, she becomes Karla. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Dog: A Novel
by
Joseph O'Neill
Pantheon Books, 09/09/2014
The author of the best-selling and award-winning
Netherland now gives us his eagerly awaited, stunningly different new novel: a tale of alienation and...
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
by
Edward E. Baptist
Basic Books, 09/09/2014
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution - the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Marco Effect: A Department Q Novel
by
Jussi Adler-Olsen
Dutton, 09/09/2014
All fifteen-year-old Marco Jameson wants is to become a Danish citizen and go to school like a normal teenager. But his uncle Zola rules his former ...
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The Moor's Account
by
Laila Lalami
Pantheon Books, 09/09/2014
In 1527, the conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez sailed from the port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda with a crew of six hundred men and nearly a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
by
Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
Knopf, 09/09/2014
An extraordinarily vivid and personal portrait of America's greatest political family and its enormous impact on our nation - the tie-in volume to the...
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The Search for Heinrich Schlögel
by
Martha Baillie
Tin House Books, 09/09/2014
Martha Baillie's hypnotic novel follows Heinrich Schlögel from Germany to Canada, where he sets out on a two-week hike into the isolated interior...
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Literary Fiction
The Swallow: A Ghost Story
by
Charis Cotter
Random House Children's Publishing, 09/09/2014
In 1960s Toronto, two girls retreat to their attics to escape the loneliness and isolation of their lives. Polly lives in a house bursting at the ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Twyning
by
Terence Blacker
Candlewick Press, 09/09/2014
Efren is a young rat, unnoticed and timid among the kingdom of rats living in the London sewers. When the king dies, leaving the kingdom in upheaval, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Victus: The Fall of Barcelona, a Novel
by
Albert Sanchez Pinol
Harper, 09/09/2014
Why do the weak fight against the strong? At 98, Martí Zuviría ponders this question as he begins to tell the extraordinary tale of ...
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Historical Fiction
Yesterday's Kin
by
Nancy Kress
Tachyon Publications, 09/09/2014
The news is not good.
Geneticist Marianne Jenner is having a career breakthrough, yet her family is tearing itself apart. Her children Elizabeth ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Word for Word: A Memoir
by
Lilianna Lungina
Overlook, 09/11/2014
A bestselling sensation in Russia, where it was called "the most significant cultural event of the year,"
Word for Word is nothing less than the story...
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Biography/Memoir
Gaza: A History
by
Jean-Pierre Filiu
Oxford University Press, 09/12/2014
Gaza has become synonymous with conflict and dispute. Though only slightly larger than Omaha, Nebraska at 140 square miles, the small territory of ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Epilogue: A Memoir
by
Will Boast
Liveright / WW Norton, 09/15/2014
Having already lost his mother and only brother, twenty-four-year-old Will Boast finds himself absolutely alone when his father dies of alcoholism. ...
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My Life as a Foreign Country: A Memoir
by
Brian Turner
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/15/2014
In 2003, Sergeant Brian Turner crossed the line of departure with a convoy of soldiers headed into the Iraqi desert.
Now he lies awake each night ...
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Study in Perfect: Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction
by
Sarah Gorham
University of Georgia Press, 09/15/2014
Study in Perfect is an exploration of perfection. In "Moving Horizontal" a Victorian house loses its charm over time, especially when compared to a ...
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An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America
by
Nick Bunker
Knopf, 09/16/2014
Written from a strikingly fresh perspective, this new account of the Boston Tea Party and the origins of the American Revolution shows how a lethal ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Blackbird
by
Anna Carey
HarperTeen, 09/16/2014
Things I know are true:
- I am in Los Angeles
- I woke up on the train tracks at the Vermont/Sunset station
- I am a teenage girl
- I have ...
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Thrillers
Broadchurch
by
Erin Kelly and Chris Chibnall
Minotaur Books, 09/16/2014
In the sleepy British seaside town of Broadchurch, Detective Ellie Miller has just returned from vacation, only to learn that she's been passed over ...
more
Broken Monsters
by
Lauren Beukes
Mulholland, 09/16/2014
A criminal mastermind creates violent tableaus in abandoned Detroit warehouses in Lauren Beukes's new genre-bending novel of suspense.
Detective ...
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Edge of Eternity: Book Three of The Century Trilogy
by
Ken Follett
Dutton, 09/16/2014
East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers she's been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for ...
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Jackaby
by
William Ritter
Algonquin Books, 09/16/2014
"Miss Rook, I am not an occultist," Jackaby said. "I have a gift that allows me to see truth where others see the illusion--and there are many ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Our Lady of the Nile
by
Scholastique Mukasonga, Melanie Mauthner (translator)
Archipelago Books, 09/16/2014
For her most recent work and first novel -
Notre-Dame du Nil, originally published in March 2012 with Gallimard in French - Mukasonga immerses us in a...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Sway
by
Kat Spears
St. Martin's Press, 09/16/2014
In Kat Spears's hilarious and often poignant debut, high school senior Jesse Alderman, or "Sway," as he's known, could sell hell to a bishop. He also ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Anatomy of Dreams
by
Chloe Benjamin
Atria Books, 09/16/2014
It's 1998, and Sylvie Patterson, a bookish student at a Northern California boarding school, falls in love with a spirited, elusive classmate named ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Golem of Hollywood
by
Jonathan & Jesse Kellerman
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/16/2014
From Jonathan Kellerman, the #1
New York Times bestselling author and master of psychological suspense, and Jesse Kellerman, the international #1 ...
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The Way Inn
by
Will Wiles
Harper Perennial, 09/16/2014
Neil Double is a "conference surrogate," hired by his clients to attend industry conferences so that they don't have to. It's a life of budget travel,...
more
Literary Fiction
Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution
by
Laurie Penny
Bloomsbury USA, 09/16/2014
Smart, clear-eyed, and irreverent,
Unspeakable Things is a fresh look at gender and power in the twenty-first century, which asks difficult questions ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wildlife
by
Fiona Wood
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 09/16/2014
During a semester in the wilderness, sixteen-year-old Sib expects the tough outdoor education program and the horrors of dorm life, but friendship ...
more
Wolf in White Van
by
John Darnielle
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/16/2014
Welcome to Trace Italian, a game of strategy and survival! You may now make your first move.
Isolated by a disfiguring injury since the age of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
by
John Lahr
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/22/2014
This astute, deeply researched biography sheds a light on Tennessee Williams's warring family, his guilt, his creative triumphs and failures, his ...
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A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention
by
Matt Richtel
William Morrow, 09/23/2014
In this ambitious, compelling, and beautifully written book, Matt Richtel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the
New York Times, examines the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bitter Greens
by
Kate Forsyth
Thomas Dunne Books, 09/23/2014
The amazing power and truth of the Rapunzel fairy tale comes alive for the first time in this breathtaking tale of desire, black magic and the ...
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Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
by
Isabel Quintero
Cinco Puntos Press, 09/23/2014
July 24My mother named me Gabriella, after my grandmother who, coincidentally, didn't want to meet me when I was born because my mother was unmarried,...more
How to Build a Girl
by
Caitlin Moran
Harper, 09/23/2014
What do you do in your teenage years when you realize what your parents taught you wasn't enough? You must go out and find books and poetry and pop ...
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Juliet's Nurse
by
Lois Leveen
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 09/23/2014
An enthralling new telling of Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet - told from the perspective of Juliet's nurse.
In Verona, a city ravaged by plague and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
On a Clear Day
by
Walter Dean Myers
Crown Children's Books, 09/23/2014
Young heroes decide that they are not too young or too powerless to change their world in this gripping, futuristic young adult novel by the
New York ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Rooms
by
Lauren Oliver
Ecco, 09/23/2014
Wealthy Richard Walker has just died, leaving behind his country house full of rooms packed with the detritus of a lifetime. His estranged family - ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science
by
Armand Marie Leroi
Viking, 09/25/2014
The philosophical classics of Aristotle loom large over the history of Western thought, but the subject he most loved was biology. He wrote vast ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends
by
Ellen T. Harris
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/29/2014
During his lifetime, the sounds of Handel's music reached from court to theater, echoed in cathedrals, and filled crowded taverns, but the man himself...
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A Cool and Lonely Courage: The Untold Story of Sister Spies in Occupied France
by
Susan Ottaway
Little Brown & Company, 09/30/2014
When elderly recluse Eileen Nearne died, few suspected that the quiet little old lady was a decorated WWII war hero. Volunteering to serve for British...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Belzhar
by
Meg Wolitzer
Dutton, 09/30/2014
If life were fair, Jam Gallahue would still be at home in New Jersey with her sweet British boyfriend, Reeve Maxfield. She'd be watching&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Enough: Our Fight to Keep America Safe from Gun Violence
by
Gabrielle Giffords
Scribner, 09/30/2014
Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, share their impassioned argument for responsible gun ownership.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
by
Steven Johnson
Riverhead Books, 09/30/2014
In this illustrated volume, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Love Is the Drug
by
Alaya Dawn Johnson
Reagan Arthur, 09/30/2014
Emily Bird was raised not to ask questions. She has perfect hair, the perfect boyfriend, and a perfect Ivy-League future. But a chance meeting with ...
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Mr. Bones: Twenty Stories
by
Paul Theroux
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 09/30/2014
A family watches in horror as their patriarch transforms into the singing, wise-cracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. A renowned art collector ...
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Murder on the Ile Sordou: A Verlaque and Bonnet Provençal Mystery
by
M. L. Longworth
Penguin Books, 09/30/2014
Like Donna Leon and Andrea Camilleri, M. L. Longworth's books enchant mystery lovers with a taste for good food and gorgeous landscapes. In
Murder on ...more
On Immunity: An Inoculation
by
Eula Biss
Graywolf Press, 09/30/2014
Upon becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear - fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what is in your ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Proof Positive: A Joe Gunther Novel
by
Archer Mayor
Minotaur Books, 09/30/2014
Ben Kendall was a troubled man. Coming back from Vietnam with PTSD and scars that no one else could see, he hid away from the world, filling...
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Short Stories
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
by
Steven Pinker
Viking, 09/30/2014
Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today ...
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Perfectly Good White Boy
by
Carrie Mesrobian
Carolrhoda Books, 10/01/2014
"You never know where we'll end up. There's so much possibility in life, you know?" Hallie said. Sean Norwhalt can read between the lines. He knows ...
more
The Carnival at Bray
by
Jessie Ann Foley
Elephant Rock Productions, 10/01/2014
It's 1993, and Generation X pulses to the beat of Kurt Cobain and the grunge movement. Sixteen-year-old Maggie Lynch is uprooted from big-city Chicago...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Wallcreeper
by
Nell Zink
Dorothy, a publishing project, 10/01/2014
Nell Zink's debut novel follows a downwardly mobile secretary from Philadelphia who marries an ambitious soon-to-be-expat pharmaceutical researcher in...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle
by
Andreas Wagner
Current, 10/02/2014
"Natural selection can preserve innovations, but it cannot create them. Nature's many innovations - some uncannily perfect - call for natural ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Breakfast at Sotheby's: An A-Z of the Art World
by
Philip Hook
Overlook, 10/02/2014
When you stand in front of a work of art in a museum or exhibition, the first two questions you normally ask yourself are 1) Do I like it? and 2) Who'...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Human Body
by
Paolo Giordano
Pamela Dorman Books, 10/02/2014
In Paolo Giordano's highly awaited new novel, a platoon of young men and one woman soldier leaves Italy for one of the most dangerous places on earth....
more
The Madness of July: A Thriller
by
James Naughtie
Overlook, 10/02/2014
Set in the endgame of the Cold War,
The Madness of July is an instant classic: an explosive, brilliantly written spy novel, by an author who has spent...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
by
Ruth Goodman
Liveright / WW Norton, 10/06/2014
Ruth Goodman believes in getting her hands dirty. Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created Victorian conditions, Goodman serves as our ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe
by
J. W. Ocker
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/06/2014
Edgar Allan Poe was an oddity. His life was odd, his literature is odd, his legacy is odd. Actually, his legacy is the oddest part about him. In ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Curious History of Food and Drink
by
Ian Crofton
Quercus, 10/07/2014
Ever wondered where noodles came from? How Worcester Sauce was invented? Or even who the "Cucumber King of Burma" was? Beginning with the hippo soup ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Citizen: An American Lyric
by
Claudia Rankine
Graywolf Press, 10/07/2014
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book
Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric....
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Deadline: A Virgil Flowers Novel
by
John Sandford
Putnam Juvenile, 10/07/2014
In Southeast Minnesota, down on the Mississippi, a school board meeting is coming to an end. The board chairman announces that the rest of the meeting...
more
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
by
Héctor Tobar
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/07/2014
The exclusive, official story of the survival, faith, and family of Chile's thirty-three trapped miners.
When the San José mine collapsed...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Digest: Stahlecker Selections
by
Gregory Pardlo
Four Way, 10/07/2014
Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
From Epicurus to Sam Cook, the Daily News to Roots, Digest draws from the present and the past to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Finding the Dragon Lady: The Mystery of Vietnam's Madame Nhu
by
Monique Brinson Demery
Public Affairs, 10/07/2014
In November 1963, the president of South Vietnam and his brother were brutally executed in a coup that was sanctioned and supported by the American ...
more
Full Measure
by
T. Jefferson Parker
St. Martin's Press, 10/07/2014
Patrick Norris has seen the worst that Afghanistan has to offer – excruciating heat, bitter cold, and death waiting behind every rock as comrades...
more
Malice: A Detective Galileo Mystery
by
Keigo Higashino
Minotaur Books, 10/07/2014
Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to...
more
Nora Webster
by
Colm Toibin
Scribner, 10/07/2014
From one of contemporary literature's bestselling, critically acclaimed and beloved authors, a magnificent new novel set in Ireland, about a fiercely ...
more
Rain Reign
by
Ann M. Martin
Feiwel & Friends, 10/07/2014
Rose Howard is obsessed with homonyms. She's thrilled that her own name is a homonym, and she purposely gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (...
more
Sleep in Peace Tonight
by
James MacManus
Thomas Dunne Books, 10/07/2014
It's January 1941, and the Blitz is devastating England. Food supplies are low, Tube stations in London have become bomb shelters, and U-boats have ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Straight White Male
by
John Niven
Grove Press, 10/07/2014
Irish novelist Kennedy Marr is a first rate bad boy. When he is not earning a fortune as one of Hollywood's most sought after script writers, he is ...
more
Literary Fiction
Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel
by
Sara Farizan
Algonquin Books, 10/07/2014
High-school junior Leila has made it most of the way through Armstead Academy without having a crush on anyone, which is something of a relief. Her ...
more
The Birds of Pandemonium
by
Michele Raffin
Algonquin Books, 10/07/2014
Each morning at first light, Michele Raffin awakens to the bewitching music that heralds another day at Pandemonium Aviaries - a symphony that swells ...
more
The Boy Who Drew Monsters
by
Keith Donohue
Picador, 10/07/2014
From the New York Times bestselling author of
The Stolen Child comes a hypnotic literary horror novel about a young boy trapped inside his own world, ...
more
The Delta
by
Tony Park
St. Martin's Press, 10/07/2014
Assassin-for-hire Sonja Kurtz is on the run. Kurtz, an ex-soldier turned mercenary, is given a high profile job - to kill the president of Zimbabwe. ...
more
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by
Walter Isaacson
Simon & Schuster, 10/07/2014
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs,
The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Luminous Heart of Jonah S.
by
Gina B. Nahai
Akashic Books, 10/07/2014
From Tehran to Los Angeles,
The Luminous Heart of Jonah S. is a sweeping saga that tells the story of the Soleymans, an Iranian Jewish family ...
more
The Young Elites: A Young Elites Novel
by
Marie Lu
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/07/2014
I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside.Adelina Amouteru is a survivor of the blood fever. A decade ago, the deadly illness swept through her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Althea and Oliver
by
Cristina Moracho
Viking, 10/09/2014
What if you live for the moment when life goes off the rails - and then one day there's no one left to help you get it back on track?
Althea Carter...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures
by
Christine Kenneally
Viking, 10/09/2014
We are doomed to repeat history if we fail to learn from it, but how are we affected by the forces that are invisible to us? In
The Invisible History ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty
by
Robert P. Crease and Alfred Scharff Goldhaber
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/13/2014
The discovery of the quantum—the idea, born in the early 1900s in a remote corner of physics, that energy comes in finite packets instead of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age
by
James Essinger
Melville House, 10/14/2014
Over 150 years after her death, a widely-used scientific computer program was named "Ada," after Ada Lovelace, the only legitimate daughter of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen
by
Garth Nix
HarperCollins Publishers, 10/14/2014
Award-winning author Garth Nix returns to the Old Kingdom with a thrilling prequel complete with dark magic, royalty, dangerous action, a strong ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
I Did Not Kill My Husband: A Novel
by
Liu Zhenyun
Arcade Publishing, 10/14/2014
Li Xuelian, married to Qin Yuhe, is pregnant with their second child. Happy news? Not in China, with its one-child policy. It is a crime. What is she ...
more
Literary Fiction
Leaving Time
by
Jodi Picoult
Ballantine Books, 10/14/2014
Throughout her blockbuster career, #1
New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult has seamlessly blended nuanced characters, riveting plots, and ...
more
Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
by
Katha Pollitt
Picador, 10/14/2014
Forty years after the landmark
Roe v. Wade ruling, "abortion" is still a word that is said with outright hostility by many, despite the fact that one ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Ruth's Journey: The Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind
by
Donald McCaig
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 10/14/2014
Before Tara, before Scarlett and Rhett, before the war that would divide a nation... there was Ruth.
Ruth's Journey, authorized by the Margaret ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941
by
Roger Moorhouse
Basic Books, 10/14/2014
History remembers the Soviets and the Nazis as bitter enemies and ideological rivals, the two mammoth and opposing totalitarian regimes of World War ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Doubt Factory
by
Paolo Bacigalupi
Little Brown & Company, 10/14/2014
Everything Alix knows about her life is a lie. At least that's what a mysterious young man who's
stalking her keeps saying. But then she begins ...
more
The Fortunes of Africa: A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor
by
Martin Meredith
Public Affairs, 10/14/2014
Africa has been coveted for its riches ever since the era of the Pharaohs. In past centuries, it was the lure of gold, ivory, and slaves that drew ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Goddess of Small Victories
by
Yannick Grannec
Other Press, 10/14/2014
Princeton University, 1980. A young and unambitious librarian named Anna Roth is assigned the task of retrieving the records of Kurt Gödel - the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Lost Tribe of Coney Island: Headhunters, Luna Park, and the Man Who Pulled Off the Spectacle of the Century
by
Claire Prentice
New Harvest, 10/14/2014
The Lost Tribe of Coney Island unearths the forgotten story of the Igorrotes, a group of "headhunting, dog-eating savages" from the Philippines, ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Prince's Boy
by
Paul Bailey
Bloomsbury USA, 10/14/2014
In May 1927, nineteen-year-old Dinu Grigorescu, a skinny boy with literary ambitions, is newly arrived in Paris. He has been sent from Bucharest, the ...
more
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
by
Dan Jones
Viking, 10/14/2014
The crown of England changed hands five times over the course of the fifteenth century, as two branches of the Plantagenet dynasty fought to the death...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Wilds
by
Julia Elliott
Tin House Books, 10/14/2014
At an obscure South Carolina nursing home, a lost world reemerges as a disabled elderly woman undergoes newfangled brain-restoration procedures and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
by
Kara Cooney
Crown, 10/14/2014
Hatshepsut - the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt's throne and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty - was born into a privileged position...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Thrown
by
Kerry Howley
Sarabande Books, 10/14/2014
In this darkly funny work of literary nonfiction, a bookish young woman insinuates herself into the lives of two cage fighters - one a young prodigy, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
by
William J. Mann
Harper, 10/14/2014
By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new favorite pastime, and one of the nation's largest industries. Never before had a medium ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Literary Fiction
Pandora's DNA: Tracing the Breast Cancer Genes Through History, Science, and One Family Tree
by
Lizzie Stark
Chicago Review Press, 10/15/2014
Would you cut out your healthy breasts and ovaries if you thought it might save your life? That's not a theoretical question for journalist Lizzie ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
by
Lucy Worsley
Pegasus Books, 10/15/2014
Murder - a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange, very English obsession. But where ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent
by
Mandy Aftel
Riverhead Books, 10/16/2014
Mandy Aftel is widely acclaimed as a trailblazer in natural perfumery. Over two decades of sourcing the finest aromatic ingredients from all over the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Heap House: The Iremonger Trilogy: Book One
by
Edward Carey
Overlook, 10/16/2014
Young Clod is an Iremonger. He lives in at
Heap House, his family's mansion at the center of the Heaps, a vast sea of lost and discarded items whose ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Stories of My Life
by
Katherine Paterson
The Dial Press, 10/16/2014
Told with her trademark humor and heart, Paterson's tales reveal details about her life from her childhood with missionary parents, to living as a ...
more
Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia
by
David Greene
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/20/2014
Far away from the trendy cafés, designer boutiques, and political protests and crackdowns in Moscow, the real Russia exists.
Midnight in ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Debut Author
Alphabet
by
Kathy Page
Biblioasis, 10/21/2014
Simon Austen has the names people have called him tattooed all over his body.
Dumb Cunt.
Waste of Space.
A Threat to Women.
Murderer. Simon Austen has...
more
Bathing the Lion
by
Jonathan Carroll
St. Martin's Press, 10/21/2014
In Jonathan Carroll's surreal masterpiece,
Bathing the Lion, five people who live in the same New England town go to sleep one night and all share the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries
by
Rory MacLean
St. Martin's Press, 10/21/2014
Why are we drawn to certain cities? Perhaps because of a story read in childhood. Or a chance teenage meeting. Or maybe simply because the place ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Five Minutes Alone: A Thriller (Christchurch Noir Crime Series)
by
Paul Cleave
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 10/21/2014
In the latest thriller by the Edgar-nominated author of
Joe Victim, someone is helping rape victims exact revenge on their attackers, prompting an ...
more
How It Went Down
by
Kekla Magoon
Henry Holt and Company, 10/21/2014
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter, Jack Franklin,...
more
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by
Bryan Stevenson
Spiegel & Grau, 10/21/2014
Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Lamentation
by
Joe Clifford
Oceanview Publishing, Inc, 10/21/2014
In a frigid New Hampshire winter, Jay Porter is trying to eke out a living and maintain some semblance of a relationship with his former girlfriend ...
more
Limonov: The Outrageous Adventures of the Radical Soviet Poet Who Became a Bum in New York, a Sensation in France, and a Political Antihero in Russia
by
Emmanuel Carrère
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/21/2014
This is how Emmanuel Carrère, the magnetic journalist, novelist, filmmaker, chameleon, describes his subject: "Limonov is not a fictional ...
more
Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution
by
Peter Ackroyd
Thomas Dunne Books, 10/21/2014
Peter Ackroyd has been praised as one of the greatest living chroniclers of Britain and its people. In
Rebellion, he continues his dazzling account of...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books
by
Azar Nafisi
Viking, 10/21/2014
Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller,
Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the ...
more
Wait for Signs: Twelve Longmire Stories
by
Craig Johnson
Viking, 10/21/2014
Ten years ago, Craig Johnson wrote his first short story, the Hillerman Award-winning "Old Indian Trick." This was one of the earliest appearances of ...
more
Victoria: A Life
by
A. N. Wilson
Penguin Press, 10/23/2014
Both the longest reigning British monarch and female sovereign in history, Queen Victoria was a figure of profound paradox who has mystified ...
more
Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life (Ackroyd's Brief Lives)
by
Peter Ackroyd
Nancy Paulsen Books, 10/28/2014
He was the very first icon of the silver screen and is one of the most recognizable of Hollywood faces, even a hundred years after his first film. But...
more
Falling from Horses
by
Molly Gloss
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 10/28/2014
In 1938, nineteen-year-old ranch hand Bud Frazer sets out for Hollywood. His little sister has been gone a couple of years now, his parents are ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence
by
Karen Armstrong
Knopf, 10/28/2014
From the renowned and best-selling author of
A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion and the history of human violence.
For the first ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Isabella: The Warrior Queen
by
Kirstin Downey
Nan A. Talese, 10/28/2014
Born at a time when Christianity was dying out and the Ottoman Empire was aggressively expanding, Isabella was inspired in her youth by tales of Joan ...
more
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story
by
Barbara Leaming
Thomas Dunne Books, 10/28/2014
The untold story of how one woman's life was changed forever in a matter of seconds by a horrific trauma.
Barbara Leaming's extraordinary and ...
more
Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured
by
Kathryn Harrison
Doubleday, 10/28/2014
Every era must retell and reimagine the Maid of Orleans's extraordinary story in its own way, and in
Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured, the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Disappearance Boy
by
Neil Bartlett
Bloomsbury USA, 10/28/2014
Reggie Rainbow got his name at the orphanage. He had polio as a child, and seventeen years of using crutches have given him strong hands and nimble ...
more
The Killer Next Door
by
Alex Marwood
Penguin Books, 10/28/2014
Alex Marwood's debut novel,
The Wicked Girls, earned her lavish praise from the likes of Stephen King, Laura Lippman, and Erin Kelly, and won the ...
more
The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man: A Novel
by
W. Bruce Cameron
Forge Books, 10/28/2014
Ruddy McCann, former college football star, has experienced a seismic drop in popularity; he is now Kalkaska, Michigan's full-time repo man and ...
more
The Peripheral
by
William Gibson
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/28/2014
Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran's benefits, for neural damage...
more
Thrillers
The Wolf in Winter: A Charlie Parker Thriller
by
John Connolly
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 10/28/2014
The next pulse-pounding thriller in John Connolly's internationally bestselling Charlie Parker series.
The community of Prosperous, Maine has ...
more
Beijing Bastard: Into the Wilds of a Changing China
by
Val Wang
Gotham Books, 10/30/2014
Raised in a strict Chinese-American household in the suburbs, Val Wang dutifully got good grades, took piano lessons, and performed in a Chinese dance...
more
Biography/Memoir
Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind
by
Sarah Wildman
Riverhead Books, 10/30/2014
Years after her grandfather's death, journalist Sarah Wildman stumbled upon a cache of his letters in a file labeled "Correspondence: Patients A-G." ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Scratched: An Algy Temple Mystery
by
J.J. Partridge
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 11/01/2014
When Algy Temple, pool player, sleuth and Ivy League university lawyer, investigates the highly suspicious death of a retired university don, his ...
more
Mysteries
Mermaids in Paradise
by
Lydia Millet
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/03/2014
On the grounds of a Caribbean island resort, newlyweds Deb and Chip - our opinionated, skeptical narrator and her cheerful jock husband who's friendly...
more
Bed of Nails
by
Antonin Varenne, Sian Reynolds (translator)
MacLehose Press, 11/04/2014
Winner of the Prix Quai du Polar, Antoin Varenne is a rising star in the exciting new wave of French crime fiction. Hard-boiled Paris police ...
more
By Night the Mountain Burns
by
Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel
And Other Stories, 11/04/2014
By Night The Mountain Burns recounts the narrator's
childhood on a remote island off the West African
coast, living with his mysterious grandfather,...
more
Literary Fiction
Citizens Creek
by
Lalita Tademy
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 11/04/2014
Cow Tom, born into slavery in Alabama in 1810 and sold to a Creek Indian chief before his tenth birthday, possessed an extraordinary gift: the ability...
more
Historical Fiction
Far As the Eye Can See
by
Robert Bausch
Bloomsbury USA, 11/04/2014
Bobby Hale is a Union veteran several times over. After the war, he sets his sights on California, but only makes it to Montana. As he stumbles around...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Hope: Entertainer of the Century
by
Richard Zoglin
Simon & Schuster, 11/04/2014
The first definitive biography of Bob Hope, featuring exclusive and extensive reporting that makes the persuasive case that he was most important ...
more
Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age
by
Cory Doctorow
McSweeney’s Books, 11/04/2014
In sharply argued, fast-moving chapters, Cory Doctorow's
Information Doesn't Want to Be Free takes on the state of copyright and creative success in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Into a Raging Blaze
by
Andreas Norman
Quercus, 11/04/2014
Andreas Norman, a former diplomat in Sweden's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was deeply involved in counter-terrorism work and Sweden's role in the Arab...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book
by
Richard Ford
Ecco, 11/04/2014
In his trio of world-acclaimed novels portraying the life of an entire American generation, Richard Ford has imagined one of the most indelible and ...
more
Limbo
by
Melania G. Mazzucco, Virginia Jewiss (translator)
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/04/2014
It's Christmas Eve and twenty-seven-year-old Manuela Paris is returning home to a seaside town outside Rome. Years ago, she left to become a soldier. ...
more
Napoleon: A Life
by
Andrew Roberts
Viking, 11/04/2014
Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute ...
more
New York 1, Tel Aviv 0: Stories
by
Shelly Oria
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/04/2014
Enter the world of
New York 1, Tel Aviv 0, where the characters are as intelligent and charming as they are lonely. A couple discovers the ability to ...
more
Shark
by
Will Self
Grove Press, 11/04/2014
May 4th, 1970. A week earlier President Nixon has ordered American ground forces into Cambodia to pursue the Vietcong. By the end of the day four ...
more
Literary Fiction
Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories
by
Ron Rash
Ecco, 11/04/2014
No one captures the complexities of Appalachia—a rugged, brutal landscape of exquisite beauty—as evocatively and indelibly as author and ...
more
Short Stories
The Forgers
by
Bradford Morrow
Mysterious Press, 11/04/2014
The rare book world is stunned when a reclusive collector, Adam Diehl, is found on the floor of his Montauk home: hands severed, surrounded by ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Siege
by
Arturo Perez-Reverte
Random House, 11/04/2014
Cádiz, 1811: The Spanish port city has been surrounded by Napoleon's army for a year. Their backs to the sea, its residents endure routine ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
by
Kim Zetter
Crown, 11/11/2014
In January 2010, inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency noticed that centrifuges at an Iranian uranium enrichment plant were failing ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
by
Carrie Gibson
Atlantic Monthly Press, 11/11/2014
After that fateful landing in 1492, the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, and even the Swedes, Scots, and Germans sought their ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014
by
Alice Munro
Knopf, 11/11/2014
From the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature - and one of our most beloved writers - a new selection of her peerless short fiction, gathered ...
more
Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
by
Marilyn Johnson
Harper, 11/11/2014
Pompeii, Machu Picchu, the Valley of the Kings, the Parthenon - the names of these legendary archaeological sites conjure up romance and mystery. The ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Loitering: New and Collected Essays
by
Charles D'Ambrosio
Tin House Books, 11/11/2014
Charles D'Ambrosio's essay collection
Orphans spawned something of a cult following. In the decade since the tiny limited-edition volume sold out its ...
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Sex on Earth: A Celebration of Animal Reproduction
by
Jules Howard
Bloomsbury USA, 11/11/2014
One thousand million years ago, a huge revolution occurred on Earth - sex happened for the first time. From that moment on, the world became ever more...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Final Recollections of Charles Dickens: A Novel
by
Thomas Hauser
Counterpoint Press, 11/11/2014
England, 1870: His health failing, his most important work all but done, Charles Dickens is readying for the final bed. But there is one more story ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Heart Has Its Reasons
by
Maria Dueñas
Atria Books, 11/11/2014
A talented college professor in Madrid, Blanca Perea seems to have it all. But her world is suddenly shattered when her husband of twenty years leaves...
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The Three-Body Problem: The Three-Body Problem Series #1
by
Cixin Liu
Tor Books, 11/11/2014
Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Missing Reels
by
Farran Smith Nehme
Overlook, 11/13/2014
New York in the late 1980s. Ceinwen Reilly has just moved from Yazoo City, Mississippi, and she's never going back, minimum wage job (vintage store ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
by
Adam Tooze
Viking, 11/13/2014
In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation
by
Laura Kipnis
Metropolitan Books, 11/18/2014
It's no secret that men often behave in intemperate ways, but in recent years we've witnessed so many spectacular public displays of male excess ...
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Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
by
Hermione Lee
Knopf, 11/18/2014
Penelope Fitzgerald was a great English writer - many say the greatest in recent years - whose career didn't begin until she was nearly sixty. Her ...
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Sins of Our Fathers
by
Shawn Lawrence Otto
Milkweed Editions, 11/18/2014
JW is a small-town banker. His specialty: teaching other bankers in towns near Indian reservations how to profit from casino deposits without exposing...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Why Homer Matters
by
Adam Nicolson
Henry Holt and Company, 11/18/2014
In a spectacular journey through mythical and modern landscapes, Adam Nicolson explores the places forever haunted by their Homeric heroes. From ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Backyard
by
Norman Draper
Kensington, 11/25/2014
Backyard peels back the placid, Miracle-Gro-soaked sod of gardening to reveal a culture of yucca fetishes, monarda mutilations, and herbivore-induced ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Cities of Empire: The British Colonies and the Creation of the Urban World
by
Tristram Hunt
Metropolitan Books, 11/25/2014
At its peak, the British Empire was an urban civilization of epic proportions, leaving behind a network of cities which now stand as the economic and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Soul of the Fire: An Inspector Shan Tao Yun Novel
by
Eliot Pattison
Minotaur Books, 11/25/2014
In Eliot Pattison's
Soul of the Fire, When Shan Tao Yun and his old friend Lokesh are abruptly dragged away by Public Security, he is convinced that ...
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Mysteries
The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story (Oxford World's Classics)
by
Horace Walpole
Oxford University Press, 12/01/2014
The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. It inaugurated a ...
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Literary Fiction
Diamond Boy
by
Michael Williams
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 12/02/2014
My father says that a journey should always change your life in some way. Well, when you have nothing, I suppose a journey promises everything.
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Enter Pale Death: A Detective Joe Sandilands Mystery
by
Barbara Cleverly
Soho Press, 12/02/2014
One morning before dawn in the stables of her country estate, Lady Truelove meets a violent death in an encounter with a dangerous horse. Classified ...
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The Sweetness of Life
by
Paulus Hochgatterer, Jamie Bulloch (translator)
MacLehose Press, 12/02/2014
A German bestseller, winner of the European Union Prize for Literature, and longlisted for the German Book Prize in 2006, Paulus Hochgatterer has ...
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The Wall
by
H. G. Adler
Random House, 12/02/2014
Compared by critics to Kafka, Joyce, and Musil, H. G. Adler is becoming recognized as one of the towering figures of twentieth-century fiction. Nobel ...
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Asylum City
by
Liad Shoham
Harper, 12/09/2014
When young social activist Michal Poleg is found dead in her Tel Aviv apartment, her body showing signs of severe violence, officer Anat Nachmias is ...
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Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist
by
Chad Orzel
Basic Books, 12/09/2014
Even in the twenty-first century the popular image of a scientist is a reclusive genius in a lab coat, mixing formulas or working out equations ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Five
by
Ursula Archer
Minotaur Books, 12/09/2014
A woman's corpse is discovered in a meadow. A strange combination of letters and numbers has been tattooed on the soles of her feet. Detective ...
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Here
by
Richard McGuire
Pantheon Books, 12/09/2014
From one of the great comic innovators, the long-awaited fulfillment of a pioneering comic vision. Richard McGuire's
Here is the story of a corner of ...
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Irene: The Commandant Camille Verhoeven Trilogy
by
Pierre Lemaitre
MacLehose Press, 12/09/2014
Camille Verhoeven, whose diminutive stature belies his fierce intensity, has reached an unusually content (for him) place in life. He is respected by ...
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Moriarty: A Novel
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Anthony Horowitz
Harper, 12/09/2014
Internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's nail-biting new novel plunges us back into the dark and complex world of detective Sherlock ...
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The Devil is a Black Dog: Stories from the Middle East and Beyond
by
Sandor Jaszberenyi
Steerforth Press, 12/09/2014
In the nineteen extraordinary stories that comprise
The Devil Is a Black Dog and Other Stories, writer and photojournalist Sándor Jászber&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
You Know Who Killed Me: An Amos Walker Novel
by
Loren D. Estleman
Forge Books, 12/09/2014
In
You Know Who Killed Me, by multiple award-winning author Loren D. Estleman, Amos Walker is at low ebb. Just released from a rehab clinic, the ...
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Last Days in Shanghai
by
Casey Walker
Counterpoint Press, 12/16/2014
Luke Slade, a young Congressional aide, begins this business trip to China like all other international travel he's endured with "Lyin' Leo": buried ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Dogs are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan
by
Graeme Smith
Counterpoint Press, 12/30/2014
The Dogs are Eating Them Now is a highly personal narrative of our war in Afghanistan and how it went dangerously wrong. Written by a respected and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Life Intended
by
Kristin Harmel
Gallery Books, 12/30/2014
In this richly told story where
Sliding Doors meets
P.S. I Love You, Kristin Harmel weaves a heart-wrenching tale that asks: what does it take to move...
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