Anna O: A Novel
by
Matthew Blake
Harper, 01/02/2024
What if your nightmares weren't really nightmares at all?
We spend an average of 33 years of our lives asleep. But what really happens, and what ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Diary of a Confused Feminist
by
Kate Weston
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 01/02/2024
At fifteen, Kat Evans is still sorting it all out, and that includes being a good feminist (and, by extension, a good human).
She promises herself ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish
by
Francesca Peacock
Pegasus Books, 01/02/2024
"My ambition is not only to be Empress, but Authoress of a whole world." —Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish, then Lucas, was born in 1623...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Sky's End: Above the Black
by
Marc J Gregson
Peachtree Publishers, 01/02/2024
Exiled to live as a Low, sixteen-year-old Conrad refuses to become heir to his murderous uncle. But Meritocracy is a harsh and unforgiving rule on the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors
by
Erika Howsare
Catapult, 01/02/2024
Deer have been an important part of the world that humans occupy for millennia. They're one of the only large animals that can thrive in our presence....
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Storm We Made: A Novel
by
Vanessa Chan
Marysue Rucci Books, 01/02/2024
Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Verdigris
by
Michele Mari
And Other Stories, 01/02/2024
At the tail end of the 1960s, the thirteen-year-old Michelino spends his summers at his grandparents' modest estate in Nasca, near Lake Maggiore, ...
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Literary Fiction
Aednan: An Epic
by
Linnea Axelsson
Knopf, 01/09/2024
In Northern Sámi, the word Ædnan means the land, the earth, and my mother. These are all crucial forces within the lives of the Indigenous ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
Cold Victory
by
Karl Marlantes
Grove Press, 01/09/2024
Helsinki, 1947. Finland teeters between the Soviet Union and the West. Everyone is being watched. A wrong look or a wrong word could end in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Goldenseal
by
Maria Hummel
Counterpoint Press, 01/09/2024
Downtown Los Angeles, 1990. Alone in her luxury hotel suite, the reclusive Lacey Crane receives a message: Edith is waiting for her in the lobby. ...
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Inside Knowledge: Incarcerated People on the Failures of the American Prison
by
Doran Larson
New York University Press, 01/09/2024
Inside Knowledge is the first book to examine the American prison system through the eyes of those who are trapped within it. Drawing from the ...
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Essays
Invisible Woman: A Novel
by
Katia Lief
Atlantic Monthly Press, 01/09/2024
Joni Ackerman's decision to raise children, 25 years ago, came with a steep cost. She was then a pioneering filmmaker, one of the few women to break ...
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Lunar New Year Love Story
by
Gene Luen Yang
First Second, 01/09/2024
She was destined for heartbreak. Then fate handed her love.
Val is ready to give up on love. It's led to nothing but secrets and heartbreak, and ...
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My Friends: A Novel
by
Hisham Matar
Random House, 01/09/2024
One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat...
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Northwoods: A Novel
by
Amy Pease
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 01/09/2024
Eli North is not okay.
His drinking is getting worse by the day, his emotional wounds after a deployment to Afghanistan are as raw as ever, his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
by
Hannah Ritchie
Little, Brown Spark, 01/09/2024
It's become common to tell kids that they're going to die from climate change. We are constantly bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Old Crimes
by
Jill McCorkle
Algonquin Books, 01/09/2024
Jill McCorkle, author of the
New York Times bestselling
Life After Life and the widely acclaimed
Hieroglyphics ("One of our wryest, warmest, wisest ...
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Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence
by
Yaroslav Trofimov
Penguin Press, 01/09/2024
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
River East, River West: A Novel
by
Aube Rey Lescure
William Morrow, 01/09/2024
Shanghai, 2007: Fourteen-year-old Alva has always longed for more. Raised by her American expat mother, she's never known her Chinese father, and is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Shut Up, This Is Serious
by
Carolina Ixta
Quill Tree Books, 01/09/2024
Belén Dolores Itzel del Toro wants the normal stuff: to experience love or maybe have a boyfriend or at least just lose her virginity. But ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
by
Kohei Saito
Astra House, 01/09/2024
Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs and are nevertheless unable to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Sugar, Baby
by
Celine Saintclare
Bloomsbury Publishing, 01/09/2024
Sugar, Baby follows Agnes, a mixed-race 21-year-old whose life seems to be heading nowhere. Still living at home, she works as a cleaner and spends ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Termush: A Novel
by
Sven Holm
FSG Originals, 01/09/2024
Termush caters to every need of its wealthy patrons―first among them, a coveted spot at this exclusive seaside getaway, a resort designed for ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Atlas of Us
by
Kristin Dwyer
HarperTeen, 01/09/2024
Atlas has lost her way.
In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, she's working on a community service program rehabbing trails in the ...
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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years: A Novel
by
Shubnum Khan
Viking, 01/09/2024
Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Nearly a century later, it stands in ruins: an isolated boardinghouse for eclectic...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Waters: A Novel
by
Bonnie Jo Campbell
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/09/2024
On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp―an area known as "The Waters" to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan―herbalist and ...
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You Dreamed of Empires: A Novel
by
Álvaro Enrigue
Riverhead Books, 01/09/2024
One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés enters the city of Tenochtitlan – today's Mexico City. Later that day, he will meet ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Drop of Venom
by
Sajni Patel
Rick Riodan Presents, 01/16/2024
All monsters and heroes have beginnings. This is mine.
Sixteen-year-old Manisha is no stranger to monsters—she's been running from them for ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Place for Vanishing
by
Ann Fraistat
Delacorte Press, 01/16/2024
The house was supposed to be a fresh start. That's what Libby's mom said. And after Libby's recent bipolar III diagnosis and the tragedy that preceded...
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American Wings: Chicago's Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky
by
Sherri L. Smith
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 01/16/2024
In the years between World War I and World War II, aviation fever was everywhere, including among Black Americans. But what hope did a Black person ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Behind You Is the Sea: A Novel
by
Susan Muaddi Darraj
HarperVia, 01/16/2024
Funny and touching,
Behind You Is the Sea brings us into the homes and lives of three main families—the Baladis, the Salamehs, and the Ammars&#...
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City of Laughter
by
Temim Fruchter
Grove Press, 01/16/2024
An ambitious, delirious novel that tangles with queerness, spirituality, and generational silence,
City of Laughter announces Temim Fruchter as a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
by
Kyle Chayka
Doubleday, 01/16/2024
From trendy restaurants to city grids, to TikTok and Netflix feeds the world round, algorithmic recommendations dictate our experiences and choices. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
If I Promise You Wings
by
A.K. Small
Algonquin Young Readers, 01/16/2024
Seventeen-year-old Alix Leclaire dreams of becoming a renowned feather artist, creating statement pieces that define glamour and high fashion. As an ...
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Ilium: A Novel
by
Lea Carpenter
Knopf, 01/16/2024
The young English narrator of Lea Carpenter's dazzling new novel has grown up unhappily in London, dreaming of escape, pretending to be someone else ...
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Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age
by
Chip Conley
Little, Brown Spark, 01/16/2024
The midlife crisis is the butt of so many jokes, but this long-derided life stage has an upside. What if we could reframe our thinking about the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
by
Rebecca Boyle
Random House, 01/16/2024
Many of us know that the Moon pulls on our oceans, driving the tides, but did you know that it smells like gunpowder? Or that it was essential to the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery
by
Annie Liontas
Scribner, 01/16/2024
Annie Liontas suffered multiple concussions in her thirties. In
Sex with a Brain Injury, she writes about what it means to be one of the "walking ...
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So Let Them Burn: Divine Traitors # 1
by
Kamilah Cole
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 01/16/2024
Faron Vincent can channel the power of the gods. Five years ago, she used her divine magic to liberate her island from its enemies, the dragon-riding ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy
by
Nick Romeo
Public Affairs, 01/16/2024
Confronted by the terrifying trends of the early twenty-first century – widening inequality, environmental destruction, and the immiseration of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Best That You Can Do: Stories
by
Amina Gautier
Soft Skull Press, 01/16/2024
Primarily told from the perspective of women and children in the Northeast who are tethered to fathers and families in Puerto Rico, these stories ...
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The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History
by
Manjula Martin
Pantheon Books, 01/16/2024
Told in luminous, perceptive prose,
The Last Fire Season is a deeply incisive inquiry into what it really means—now—to live in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
This Wretched Valley
by
Jenny Kiefer
Quirk Books, 01/16/2024
Take only pictures. Leave only bones.
This trip is going to be Dylan's big break. Her geologist friend Clay has discovered an untouched cliff face ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science of Life
by
Nell Greenfieldboyce
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/16/2024
In her career as a science reporter, Nell Greenfieldboyce has reported from inside a space shuttle, the bottom of a coal mine, and the control room of...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Where You End: A Novel
by
Abbott Kahler
Henry Holt and Company, 01/16/2024
When Kat Bird wakes up from a coma, she sees her mirror image: Jude, her twin sister. Jude's face and name are the only memories Kat has from before ...
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Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
by
Marion Gibson
Scribner, 01/16/2024
Witchcraft is a dramatic journey through thirteen witch trials across history, some famous—like the Salem witch trials—and some lesser-...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
by
József Debreczeni
St. Martin's Press, 01/23/2024
József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944; had he been selected to go "left," his life ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Dead in Long Beach, California: A Novel
by
Venita Blackburn
MCD, 01/23/2024
Coral is the first person to discover her brother Jay's dead body in the wake of his suicide. There's no note, only a drably furnished bachelor pad in...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs
by
Benjamin Herold
Penguin Press, 01/23/2024
Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Family Family: A Novel
by
Laurie Frankel
Henry Holt and Company, 01/23/2024
"Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don't we ever get that movie?"
India Allwood grew up...
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In Utero
by
Chris Gooch
Top Shelf Productions, 01/23/2024
Twelve years after a disastrous explosion, young Hailey is dropped off by her mum at a holiday camp in a dilapidated shopping mall. Alienated from the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Into the Sunken City
by
Dinesh Thiru
HarperTeen, 01/23/2024
In the slowly sinking city of Coconino, Arizona, the days are long, the money is tight, and the rain never stops.
For Jin Haldar, this life is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
by
Uché Blackstock MD
Viking, 01/23/2024
Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicians. In ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story
by
Keren Blankfeld
Little Brown & Company, 01/23/2024
Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia were captivated by each other from the moment they first exchanged glances across the work floor. It was the beginning ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
by
Antonia Hylton
Legacy Lit, 01/23/2024
On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
No One Can Know: A Novel
by
Kate Alice Marshall
Flatiron Books, 01/23/2024
Emma hasn't told her husband much about her past. He knows her parents are dead and she hasn't spoken to her sisters in years. Then they lose their ...
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Picasso's Lovers
by
Jeanne Mackin
Berkley Books, 01/23/2024
The women of Picasso's life are glamorous and elusive, existing in the shadow of his fame—until 1950s aspiring journalist Alana Olson determines...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Radiant Heat
by
Sarah-Jane Collins
Berkley Books, 01/23/2024
The blaze came out of nowhere one summer afternoon, a wall of fire fed by blustering wind. Yet, somehow, Alison is alive. She rode out the fire on the...
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The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers
by
Jim Morris
Beacon Press, 01/23/2024
A gripping narrative in the tradition of
A Civil Action and
Toms River.
Working at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company chemical plant in Niagara ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee
by
Ellen Oh
Crown Books for Young Readers, 01/23/2024
Mina has become the hero of her own story. Literally.
When Mina Lee woke up on Saturday morning for SAT prep, she did NOT expect to:
1. Nearly ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History
by
Dan Stone
Mariner Books, 01/23/2024
The Holocaust is much discussed, much memorialized, and much portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Sanctuary
by
Andrew Hunter Murray
Blackstone Publishing, 01/23/2024
Ben is a painter from the crowded, turbulent city. For six months his fiancée, Cara, has been working on the remote island of Sanctuary Rock, the...
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Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s
by
Sarah Ditum
Abrams Press, 01/23/2024
Welcome to celebrity culture in the early aughts: the reign of Perez Hilton, celebrity sex tapes, and dueling tabloids fed by paparazzi who were ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Twilight Territory: A Novel
by
Andrew X. Pham
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/23/2024
The peak of the hot season, 1942: The wars in Europe and Asia and the Japanese occupation have upset the uneasy balance of French Indochina. In the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Womb City
by
Tlotlo Tsamaase
Erewhon Books, 01/23/2024
Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1
by
Angela Y. Davis
Haymarket Books, 01/30/2024
For over fifty years, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for abolition and feminism and the fight against state ...
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Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
by
Jake Johnston
St. Martin's Press, 01/30/2024
Haiti's state is near-collapse: armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after the 2021 assassination of President ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World - and How You Can, Too
by
Ijeoma Oluo
HarperOne, 01/30/2024
In the #1
New York Times bestseller
So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo offered a vital guide for how to talk about important issues of race ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Come and Get It
by
Kiley Reid
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/30/2024
It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha ...
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Confrontations
by
Simone Antangana Bekono
Bloomsbury Publishing, 01/30/2024
Salomé Atabong is the sixteen-year-old daughter of a Cameroonian father and a Dutch mother, living in the Netherlands. She arrives at a juvenile ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds
by
Michelle Horton
Grand Central Publishing, 01/30/2024
In September 2017, a knock on the door upends Michelle Horton's life forever: her sister had just shot her partner and was now in jail. During the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect: A Novel
by
Benjamin Stevenson
Mariner Books, 01/30/2024
Ernest Cunningham returns in a deliciously witty locked room (train) mystery.
When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their ...
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
by
Jonathan Blitzer
Penguin Press, 01/30/2024
Everyone who makes the journey faces an impossible choice. Hundreds of thousands of people who arrive every year at the US-Mexico border travel far ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Hard by a Great Forest: A Novel
by
Leo Vardiashvili
Riverhead Books, 01/30/2024
Saba is just a child when he flees the fighting in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia with his older brother, Sandro, and father, Irakli, for ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Held: A Novel
by
Anne Michaels
Knopf, 01/30/2024
1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts...
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How We Named the Stars
by
Andrés N. Ordorica
Tin House Books, 01/30/2024
When Daniel de La Luna arrives as a scholarship student at an elite East Coast university, he bears the weight of his family's hopes and dreams, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Mockingbird Summer: A Novel
by
Lynda Rutledge
Lake Union Publishing, 01/30/2024
In segregated High Cotton, Texas, in 1964, the racial divide is as clear as the railroad tracks running through town. It's also where two girls are ...
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Literary Fiction
Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA
by
Patrick Winn
Public Affairs, 01/30/2024
In Asia's narcotics-producing heartland, the Wa reign supreme. They dominate the Golden Triangle, a mountainous stretch of Burma between Thailand and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
One Hour of Fervor
by
Muriel Barbery
Europa Editions, 01/30/2024
Haru, a successful Japanese art dealer, loves beauty, harmony, art, balance, intriguing women, sophisticated conversation, and elegance. Months after ...
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One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy
by
Dominic Erdozain
Crown, 01/30/2024
More than a hundred lives are lost to firearms every day in America. The cost is more than the numbers—it is the fear, the anxiety, the dread of...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology
by
Amber McBride, Erica Martin, Taylor Byas
HarperTeen, 01/30/2024
Come, claim your wings.
Lift your life above the earth,
return to the land of your father's birth.
What exactly is it to be Black in America?...more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Spectral Evidence: Poems
by
Gregory Pardlo
Knopf, 01/30/2024
Elegant, profound, and intoxicating—
Spectral Evidence, Gregory Pardlo's first major collection of poetry after winning the Pulitzer Prize for
...more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Swanna in Love: A Novel
by
Jennifer Belle
Akashic Books, 01/30/2024
It's the summer of 1982 and fourteen-year-old Swanna Swain is the only one left at camp. The place is a ghost town by the time her mother Val finally ...
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The Cleaner: A Novel
by
Brandi Wells
Hanover Square Press, 01/30/2024
Every night, she cleans. On the fourth floor of an unnamed office in an unnamed city, the night cleaner comes and does what she does best—sorts ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Excitements: A Novel
by
CJ Wray
William Morrow Paperbacks, 01/30/2024
Meet the Williamson sisters, Britain's most treasured World War II veterans. Now in their late nineties, Josephine and Penny are in huge demand, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Mountain King: Asker Series #1
by
Anders de la Motte
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 01/30/2024
Criminal inspector Leonore Asker seems to have the leading position at Malmö's Major Crime Division within reach. But things go awry when, in the...
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The Ukraine
by
Artem Chapeye
Seven Stories Press, 01/30/2024
The Ukraine is a collection of 26 pieces that deliberately blur the line between nonfiction and fiction, conjuring the essence of a beloved country ...
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Wander in the Dark
by
Jumata Emill
Delacorte Press, 01/30/2024
Amir Trudeau only goes to his half brother Marcel's birthday party because of Chloe Danvers. Chloe is rich, and hot, and fits right into the perfect ...
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Wolves of Winter: Essex Dogs #2
by
Dan Jones
Penguin Books, 01/30/2024
1347. Bruised and bloodied by an epic battle at Crécy, six soldiers known as the Essex Dogs pick through the wreckage of the fighting—and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Your Utopia: Stories
by
Bora Chung
Algonquin Books, 01/30/2024
In "The Center for Immortality Research," a low-level employee runs herself ragged planning a fancy gala for donors, only to be blamed for a crime she...
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Yours from the Tower
by
Sally Nicholls
Walker Books, 01/30/2024
Tirzah, Sophia, and Polly are best friends who've left boarding school and gone back to very different lives.
The year is 1896, and Polly is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
by
Tia Williams
Grand Central Publishing, 02/06/2024
Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. And for some, even a single February can be life-changing.
Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a ...
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Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir
by
Walela Nehanda
Kokila, 02/06/2024
When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into the unsympathetic world of tubes and pills, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Bright Red Fruit
by
Safia Elhillo
Make Me a World, 02/06/2024
Bad girl. No matter how hard Samira tries, she can't shake her reputation. She's never gotten the benefit of the doubt—not from her mother or ...
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Burma Sahib: A Novel
by
Paul Theroux
Mariner Books, 02/06/2024
At age nineteen, young Eton graduate Eric Blair set sail for India, dreading the assignment ahead. Along with several other young conscripts, he would...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Cahokia Jazz: A Novel
by
Francis Spufford
Scribner, 02/06/2024
Like his earlier novel
Golden Hill, Francis Spufford's
Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, now through the lens of a subtly altered ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons
by
Sarah Scoles
Bold Type Books, 02/06/2024
Nuclear weapons are, today, as important as they were during the Cold War, and some experts say we could be as close to a nuclear catastrophe now as ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Dead Girls Don't Say Sorry
by
Alex Ritany
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 02/06/2024
Friendship, at least for me, has never been anything but complicated.
Before:
One year ago, best friends Nora and Julia were starting their senior...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
by
Tania De Rozario
Harper Perennial, 02/06/2024
Tania De Rozario was just twelve years old when she was gay-exorcised. Convinced that her boyish style and demeanor were a sign of something wicked, ...
more
Even If It Breaks Your Heart: A Novel
by
Erin Hahn
Wednesday Books, 02/06/2024
The only thing keeping nineteen-year-old Case Michaels together after the death of his best friend, Walker, is a list Walker left behind of things he ...
more
Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories
by
GennaRose Nethercott
Vintage, 02/06/2024
The stories in
Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart are about the abomination that resides within us all. That churning, clawing, ravenous yearning: the ...
more
Float Up, Sing Down
by
Laird Hunt
Bloomsbury Publishing, 02/06/2024
Candy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika. Turner Davis needs to get his zinnias in. Della Dorner told her mother she was going to the Galaxy ...
more
Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
by
Bianca Bosker
Viking, 02/06/2024
An award-winning journalist obsessed with obsession, Bianca Bosker's existence was upended when she wandered into the art world—and couldn't ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir
by
Shayla Lawson
Tiny Reparations, 02/06/2024
In their new book, Shayla Lawson reveals how traveling can itself be a political act, when it can be a dangerous world to be Black, femme, nonbinary, ...
more
Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
by
Ruha Benjamin
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/06/2024
A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn't strangle the life out of people? ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Infinity Alchemist: Infinity Alchemist # 1
by
Kacen Callender
Tor Teen, 02/06/2024
For Ash Woods, practicing alchemy is a crime.
Only an elite few are legally permitted to study the science of magic—so when Ash is rejected ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Last Seen in Havana: Havana Mysteries
by
Teresa Dovalpage
Soho Crime, 02/06/2024
Newly widowed baker Mercedes Spivey flies from Miami to her native Cuba in 2019 to care for her ailing paternal grandmother. Mercedes's life has been ...
more
Livin' Just to Find Emotion: Journey and the Story of American Rock
by
David Hamilton Golland
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 02/06/2024
Since exploding on the scene in the late 1970s, Journey has inspired generations of fans with hit after hit. But hidden under this rock 'n' roll glory...
more
Nightwatching: A Novel
by
Tracy Sierra
Pamela Dorman Books, 02/06/2024
Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. She hears a noise—old ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Ordinary Human Failings: A Novel
by
Megan Nolan
Little Brown & Company, 02/06/2024
It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants" —...
more
Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
by
Allen C. Guelzo
Knopf, 02/06/2024
Abraham Lincoln grappled with the greatest crisis of democracy that has ever confronted the United States. While many books have been written about ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Out of Body
by
Nia Davenport
Balzer + Bray, 02/06/2024
Seventeen-year-old Megan Allen has been jumping from friend group to friend group in her high school, trying on identities like outfits. Nothing ever ...
more
Praiseworthy
by
Alexis Wright
New Directions Publishing, 02/06/2024
In a small town in the north of Australia, a mysterious cloud heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors. A crazed ...
more
Redwood Court: Fiction
by
DéLana R. A. Dameron
The Dial Press, 02/06/2024
"Mika, you sit at our feet all these hours and days, hearing us tell our tales. You have all these stories inside you: all the stories everyone in our...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Significant Others: A Novel
by
Zoë Eisenberg
Mira Books, 02/06/2024
Roommates since college, Jess and Ren have built a strong—if at times codependent—friendship. Now navigating their late thirties, the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Smoke Kings
by
Jahmal Mayfield
Melville House, 02/06/2024
Nate Evers, a young black political activist, struggles with rage as his people are still being killed in the streets 62 years after Emmett Till. When...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Absinthe Underground
by
Jamie Pacton
Peachtree Publishers, 02/06/2024
After running away from home, Sybil Clarion is eager to embrace all the freedom the Belle Époque city of Severon has to offer. Instead, she's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Adversary: A Novel
by
Michael Crummey
Doubleday, 02/06/2024
In an isolated outport on Newfoundland's northern coastline, Abe Strapp is about to marry the daughter of a rival merchant to cement his hold on the ...
more
The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
by
Michael Wolraich
Union Square & Co., 02/06/2024
Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The End of Love: Sex and Desire in the Twenty-First Century
by
Tamara Tenenbaum
Europa Editions, 02/06/2024
Born and raised in an Orthodox Jewish community in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tamara Tenenbaum approached the sexual and affective habits of the secular...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature
by
Ludovic Slimak
Pegasus Books, 02/06/2024
What do we really know about our cousins, the Neanderthals?
For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. More recently, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Road from Belhaven: A Novel
by
Margot Livesey
Knopf, 02/06/2024
Growing up in the care of her grandparents on Belhaven Farm, Lizzie Craig discovers as a small child that she can see into the future. But her gift is...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster
by
John O’Connor
Sourcebooks, 02/06/2024
Bigfoot is an instantly recognizable figure. Through the decades, this elusive primate has been featured in movies and books, on coffee mugs, beer ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Tainted Cup
by
Robert Jackson Bennett
Del Rey, 02/06/2024
In Daretana's greatest mansion, a high imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a tree erupted from his body. Even here at ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Teacher
by
Freida McFadden
Poisoned Pen Press, 02/06/2024
Lesson #1: trust no one
Eve has a good life. She gets up each day, gets a kiss from her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high...
more
The Thefts of the Mona Lisa: The Complete Story of the World's Most Famous Artwork
by
Noah Charney
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 02/06/2024
Leonardo da Vinci's portrait, called the Mona Lisa, is without doubt the world's most famous painting. It achieved its fame not only because it is a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Things We Didn't Know
by
Elba Iris Pérez
Gallery Books, 02/06/2024
Andrea Rodríguez is nine years old when her mother whisks her and her brother, Pablo, away from Woronoco, the tiny Massachusetts factory town ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Women: A Novel
by
Kristin Hannah
St. Martin's Press, 02/06/2024
"Women can be heroes, too."
When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised...
more
Trondheim
by
Cormac James
Bellevue Literary Press, 02/06/2024
In Norway, thousands of miles from home, a student drops dead on the street. A passerby revives his heart, but he remains in a coma from which he may ...
more
Ways and Means: A Novel
by
Daniel Lefferts
The Overlook Press, 02/06/2024
Alistair McCabe comes to New York with a plan. Young, handsome, intelligent, and gay, he hopes to escape his Rust Belt poverty and give his mother a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
You Glow in the Dark
by
Liliana Colanzi
New Directions Publishing, 02/06/2024
The seven stories of
You Glow in the Dark unfold in a Latin America wrecked and poisoned by human greed, and yet Colanzi's writing—at once sleek...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging
by
Lauren Markham
Riverhead Books, 02/13/2024
When and how did migration become a crime? Why does ancient Greece remain so important to the West's idea of itself? How does nostalgia fuel the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic
by
Yi Shun Lai
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 02/13/2024
November 1914.
Clara Ketterling-Dunbar is one of twenty-eight crew members of
The Resolute—a ship meant for an Antarctic expedition now ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Acts of Forgiveness: A Novel
by
Maura Cheeks
Ballantine Books, 02/13/2024
Every American waits with bated breath to see whether or not the country's first female president will pass the Forgiveness Act. The bill would allow ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country
by
David Finkel
Random House, 02/13/2024
As this powerful book begins, Brent Cummings finds himself coping with the feeling that the country he loves is fracturing in front of his eyes. An ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor
by
Ronald Drabkin
William Morrow, 02/13/2024
Frederick Rutland was an accomplished aviator, British WWI war hero, and real-life James Bond. He was the first pilot to take off and land a plane on ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year
by
Paul Alexander
Knopf, 02/13/2024
In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades, Paul Alexander—author of heralded lives of Sylvia Plath and J. D. Salinger&#...
more
Black Girl You Are Atlas
by
Renée Watson
Kokila, 02/13/2024
In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renée Watson writes about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections...
more
Call Me Iggy
by
Jorge Aguirre
First Second, 02/13/2024
Ignacio "Iggy" Garcia is an Ohio-born Colombian American teen living his best life. After bumping into Marisol (and her coffee) at school, Iggy's ...
more
Convergence Problems
by
Wole Talabi
DAW Books, 02/13/2024
In "An Arc of Electric Skin," a roadside mechanic seeking justice volunteers to undergo a procedure that will increase the electrical conductivity of ...
more
Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear
by
Robin Wasley
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 02/13/2024
High school is hard enough to survive without an apocalypse to navigate.
Sid Spencer has always been the most normal girl in her abnormal hometown,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both: A Novel
by
Mariah Stovall
Soft Skull Press, 02/13/2024
Set in the suburbs of Los Angeles and New York City,
I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both is an immersive journey into the life and mind of Khaki ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America
by
Vicki Sokolik
Spiegel & Grau, 02/13/2024
They hide in plain sight. They survive on free school breakfasts and lunches, join school sports teams in order to shower, sleep on friends' couches, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Leaving: A Novel
by
Roxana Robinson
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/13/2024
One of
Oprah Daily's Most Anticipated Books of 2024
"I never thought I'd see you here," Sarah says. Then she adds, "But I never thought I'd see you...more
Neighbors and Other Stories
by
Diane Oliver
Grove Press, 02/13/2024
A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of 22, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
No One Dies Yet
by
Kobby Ben Ben
Europa Editions, 02/13/2024
It is 2019, The Year of Return. Ghana is inviting Black diasporans to return and get to know the land of their enslaved ancestors. Elton, Vincent, and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Paper Cage: A Novel
by
Tom Baragwanath
Knopf, 02/13/2024
How far would you go to keep your family safe?
Lorraine Henry is generally content to keep her head down and get on with her work as a records ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Fast: The History, Science, Philosophy, and Promise of Doing Without
by
John Oakes
Avid Reader Press, 02/13/2024
We fast all the time, even when we're not conscious of doing so. A fast manifests the idea of holding back, resisting the animal impulse to charge ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Fortune Seller: A Novel
by
Rachel Kapelke-Dale
St. Martin's Press, 02/13/2024
Middle-class Rosie Macalister has worked for years to fit in with her wealthy friends on the Yale equestrian team. But when she comes back from her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Fox Wife: A Novel
by
Yangsze Choo
Henry Holt and Company, 02/13/2024
Manchuria, 1908.
In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes, which...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press
by
Calvin Trillin
Random House, 02/13/2024
I've been writing about the press almost as long as I've been in the game. At some point, it occurred to me that disparate pieces from various places ...more
The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America
by
Michael J. Graetz
Princeton University Press, 02/13/2024
The postwar United States enjoyed large, widely distributed economic rewards—and most Americans accepted that taxes were a reasonable price to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Warm Hands of Ghosts: A Novel
by
Katherine Arden
Del Rey, 02/13/2024
January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life
by
Billy Dee Williams
Knopf, 02/13/2024
Billy Dee Williams was born in Harlem in 1937 and grew up in a household of love and sophistication. As a young boy, he made his stage debut working ...
more
A Fire So Wild: A Novel
by
Sarah Ruiz-Grossman
Harper, 02/20/2024
As a wildfire threatens Berkeley, the city's inhabitants are forced to reckon with the cracks in the lives they've built.
Abigail, a wealthy ...
more
A Tempest of Tea: Blood and Tea # 1
by
Hafsah Faizal
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/20/2024
On the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir is a criminal mastermind and collector of secrets. Her prestigious tearoom transforms into an illegal ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter's Soul
by
Kurt Wagner
Atria Books, 02/20/2024
Bloomberg journalist Kurt Wagner takes you inside Twitter's everchanging headquarters, charting its rise from flippant 140-character posts to one of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
by
Ross Perlin
Atlantic Monthly Press, 02/20/2024
Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and—because many have never been recorded—when they're gone, it...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World
by
Miriam Darlington
Tin House Books, 02/20/2024
A plan formed in my mind. I would explore the places in this land that hid my grail. I would spend a whole year or longer, if that's what it took, ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Ours: A Novel
by
Phillip B. Williams
Viking, 02/20/2024
In this ingenious, sweeping novel, Phillip B. Williams introduces us to an enigmatic woman named Saint, a fearsome conjuror who, in the 1830s, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
by
Patrick Joyce
Scribner, 02/20/2024
"What the skeleton is to anatomy, the peasant is to history, its essential hidden support." For over the past century and a half, and still more ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
River Mumma
by
Zalika Reid-Benta
Erewhon Books, 02/20/2024
Alicia has been out of grad school for months. She has no career prospects and lives with her mom, who won't stop texting her macabre news stories and...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Sito: An American Teenager and the City that Failed Him
by
Laurence Ralph
Grand Central Publishing, 02/20/2024
In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez—known as Sito— was shot to death as he sat in his car in the Mission District of San ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
by
Chantha Nguon
Algonquin Books, 02/20/2024
Take a well-fed nine-year-old with a big family and a fancy education. Fold in 2 revolutions, 2 civil wars, and 1 wholesale extermination. Subtract a ...more
Biography/Memoir
Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York
by
Barbara Weisberg
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/20/2024
What could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch's country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother live there ...
more
Sun of Blood and Ruin: A Novel
by
Mariely Lares
Harper Voyager, 02/20/2024
A new legend begins…
In sixteenth-century New Spain, witchcraft is punishable by death, indigenous temples have been destroyed, and tales of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
by
Charles Duhigg
Random House, 02/20/2024
Come inside a jury room as one juror leads a starkly divided room to consensus. Join a young CIA officer as he recruits a reluctant foreign agent. And...
more
The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays
by
Joan Acocella
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/20/2024
Joan Acocella, "one of our finest cultural critics" (Edward Hirsch), has the rare ability to examine literature and unearth the lives contained within...
more
The Trouble with You: A Novel
by
Ellen Feldman
St. Martin's Griffin, 02/20/2024
Set in New York City in the heady aftermath of World War II when the men were coming home, the women were exhaling in relief, and everyone was having ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
by
Charan Ranganath
Doubleday, 02/20/2024
A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. In
Why We Remember, pioneering neuroscientist and psychologist Charan ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
After Annie: A Novel
by
Anna Quindlen
Random House, 02/27/2024
When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her children, and her closest friend are left to find a way forward without the woman who has been the ...
more
Carson McCullers: A Life
by
Mary V. Dearborn
Knopf, 02/27/2024
V. S. Pritchett called her "a genius." Gore Vidal described her as a "beloved novelist of singular brilliance...Of all the Southern writers, she is ...
more
Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm
by
Emmeline Clein
Knopf, 02/27/2024
In
Dead Weight, Emmeline Clein recounts her struggle with disordered eating alongside the stories of other women: historical figures, pop culture ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Four Thousand Paws: Caring for the Dogs of the Iditarod: A Veterinarian's Story
by
Lee Morgan
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 02/27/2024
Few sporting events attract as much attention, or create as much spectacle, as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Each March, despite subzero ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Grief Is for People
by
Sloane Crosley
MCD, 02/27/2024
Grief Is for People is a deeply moving and surprisingly suspenseful portrait of friendship, and a book about loss packed with verve for life. Sloane ...
more
Kindling
by
Traci Chee
HarperCollins Publishers, 02/27/2024
Once, the war was fought with kindlings—elite, magic-wielding warriors whose devastating power comes at the cost of their own young lives.
...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
by
Tali Sharot and Cass R. Sunstein
Atria Books, 02/27/2024
Have you ever noticed that what is thrilling on Monday tends to become boring on Friday? Even exciting relationships, stimulating jobs, and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
My Beloved Life: A Novel
by
Amitava Kumar
Knopf, 02/27/2024
Jadunath Kunwar's beginnings are humble, even inauspicious. In 1935 in a village near George Orwell's birthplace, Jadu's mother, while pregnant with ...
more
Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
by
Gretchen Sisson
St. Martin's Press, 02/27/2024
Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the abortion debate, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Snowglobe: Snowglobe #1
by
Soyoung Park
Delacorte Press, 02/27/2024
Enclosed under a vast dome, Snowglobe is the last place on Earth that's warm. Outside Snowglobe is a frozen wasteland, and every day, citizens face ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The American Daughters: A Novel
by
Maurice Carlos Ruffin
One World, 02/27/2024
Ady, a curious, sharp-witted girl, and her fierce mother, Sanite, are inseparable. Enslaved to a businessman in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture
by
Tricia Romano
Public Affairs, 02/27/2024
You either were there or you wanted to be. A defining New York City institution co-founded by Norman Mailer,
The Village Voice was the first newspaper...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Life of the Qur'an: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy
by
Mohamad Jebara
St. Martin's Press, 02/27/2024
Over a billion copies of the Qur'an exist – yet it remains an enigma. Its classical Arabic language resists simple translation, and its non-...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Other Valley: A Novel
by
Scott Alexander Howard
Atria Books, 02/27/2024
Sixteen-year-old Odile is an awkward, quiet girl vying for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position, she'll decide who may cross her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Painter's Daughters: A Novel
by
Emily Howes
Simon & Schuster, 02/27/2024
Peggy and Molly Gainsborough—the daughters of one of England's most famous portrait artists of the 1700s and the frequent subject of his work&#...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Wandering Stars: A novel
by
Tommy Orange
Knopf, 02/27/2024
Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English ...
more
Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
by
Deborah Taffa
Harper, 02/27/2024
Deborah Jackson Taffa was raised to believe that some sacrifices were necessary to achieve a better life. Her grandparents—citizens of the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Inside the Mirror: A Novel
by
Parul Kapur
University of Nebraska Press, 03/01/2024
In 1950s Bombay, Jaya Malhotra studies medicine at the direction of her father, a champion of women's education who assumes the right to choose his ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
by
James Kaplan
Penguin Press, 03/05/2024
The myth of the '60s depends on the 1950s being the "before times" of conformity, segregation, straightness—The Lonely Crowd and The ...
more
49 Days
by
Agnes Lee
Levine Querido, 03/05/2024
Day 1
Gotta get up. Gotta keep moving. This map – it says I have to cross over here. Wait, what's that…?
And so begins a graphic ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A History of Women in 101 Objects
by
Annabelle Hirsch
Crown, 03/05/2024
This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular: a single...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
American Spirits
by
Russell Banks
Knopf, 03/05/2024
A husband sells property to a mysterious, temperamental stranger, and is hounded on social media when he publicly questions the man's character. A ...
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Anita de Monte Laughs Last: A Novel
by
Xochitl Gonzalez
Flatiron Books, 03/05/2024
1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By ...
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Big Time: A Novel
by
Ben H. Winters
Mulholland, 03/05/2024
What if time could be taken from us—the minutes, the hours, the years of our lives, extracted like organs taken for transplant? What would it ...more
Breathing Underwater
by
Abbey Lee Nash
Holiday House, 03/05/2024
Seventeen-year-old Tess Cooper lives by three rules: train hard, study hard, work hard. Swimming is her best chance at a college scholarship. It's ...
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But the Girl
by
Jessica Zhan Mei Yu
The Unnamed Press, 03/05/2024
Girl was born on the very day her parents and grandmother immigrated from Malaysia to Australia. The story goes that her mother held on tight to her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Catastrophe Ethics: How to Choose Well in a World of Tough Choices
by
Travis Rieder
Dutton, 03/05/2024
In a world of often confusing and terrifying global problems, how should we make choices in our everyday lives? Does anything on the individual level ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Change: A Novel
by
Édouard Louis
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/05/2024
One question took center stage in my life, it focused all of my thoughts and occupied every moment when I was alone with myself: how could I get this ...more
Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines
by
Carol Kino
Scribner, 03/05/2024
The McLaughlin twins were trailblazing female photographers, celebrated in their time as stars in their respective fields, but have largely been ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Ellie Haycock Is Totally Normal
by
Gretchen Schreiber
Wednesday Books, 03/05/2024
Ellie Haycock has always separated her life into sections: Ellie at home and Ellie at the hospital. At home, Ellie is a proud member of her high ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
by
Tessa Hulls
MCD, 03/05/2024
In her evocative, genre-defying graphic memoir, Tessa Hulls tells the story of three generations of women in her family: her Chinese grandmother, Sun ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Fruit of the Dead: A Novel
by
Rachel Lyon
Scribner, 03/05/2024
Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the ...
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Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson
by
James Marcus
Princeton University Press, 03/05/2024
More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the ...
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Help Wanted: A Novel
by
Adelle Waldman
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/05/2024
One of
New York Magazine's "23 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2024" • One of
VOGUE's Best Books of the Year So Far • One of
ELLE...more
Here After: A Memoir
by
Amy Lin
Zibby Books, 03/05/2024
"When he dies, I fall out of time."
Amy Lin never expected to find a love like the one she shares with her husband, Kurtis, a gifted young ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
House of Open Wounds: The Tyrant Philosophers # 2
by
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Head of Zeus, 03/05/2024
City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. As their legions scour the world...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
by
Peter Pomerantsev
Public Affairs, 03/05/2024
In the summer of 1941, Hitler ruled Europe from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. Britain was struggling to combat his powerful propaganda machine, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Knife Skills: Shadows of Chicago Mystery
by
Wendy Church
Severn House, 03/05/2024
Sagarine Pfister is a great cook but has been blacklisted by almost every restaurant in Chicago. She gets her chance at Louie's, a below-average ...
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Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives—and How We Break Free
by
Tricia Rose
Basic Books, 03/05/2024
In recent years, condemnations of racism in America have echoed from the streets to corporate boardrooms. At the same time, politicians and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Modern Poetry: Poems
by
Diane Seuss
Graywolf Press, 03/05/2024
Diane Seuss's signature voice—audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude—has become one of the most ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Never Been Better
by
Leanne Toshiko Simpson
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/05/2024
Is she falling in love, or falling apart?
Dee, Misa, and Matt were the "three musketeers" of the psych ward. A year after discharge, Dee is eager ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Parasol Against the Axe: A Novel
by
Helen Oyeyemi
Riverhead Books, 03/05/2024
In Helen Oyeyemi's joyous new novel, the Czech capital is a living thing—one that can let you in or spit you out.
For reasons of her own, ...
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Pelican Girls: A Novel
by
Julia Malye
Harper, 03/05/2024
Paris, 1720. La Salpêtrière hospital is in crisis: too many occupants, not enough beds. Halfway across the world, France's colony in the ...
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Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Say Hello to My Little Friend: A Novel
by
Jennine Capó Crucet
Simon & Schuster, 03/05/2024
Failed Pitbull impersonator Ismael Reyes—you can call him Izzy—might not be the Scarface type, but why should that keep him from trying? ...
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So You Wanna Run a Country?: A Novel
by
Kevin Holohan
Akashic Books, 03/05/2024
So You Wanna Run a Country? is a satirical parable of the perils of authoritarianism, nationalism, and device-dependent group-think. After almost a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Extinction of Irena Rey
by
Jennifer Croft
Bloomsbury Publishing, 03/05/2024
Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey, and they ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Girls We Sent Away: A Novel
by
Meagan Church
Sourcebooks, 03/05/2024
It's the 1960s and Lorraine Delford has it all - an upstanding family, a perfect boyfriend, and a white picket fence home in North Carolina. Yet every...
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The Great Divide: A Novel
by
Cristina Henriquez
Ecco, 03/05/2024
It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Hearing Test: A Novel
by
Eliza Barry Callahan
Catapult, 03/05/2024
When the narrator of
The Hearing Test, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning to a deep drone in her right ear, she is diagnosed with ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Hunter: A Novel
by
Tana French
Viking, 03/05/2024
It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. ...
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The Inmate
by
Freida McFadden
Poisoned Pen Press, 03/05/2024
As a new nurse practitioner at a maximum-security prison, Brooke Sullivan is taught three crucial rules:
Treat all prisoners with respect.
...
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Thrillers
The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City
by
Kevin Baker
Knopf, 03/05/2024
Baseball is "the New York game" because New York is where the diamond was first laid out, where the bunt and the curveball were invented, and where ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The No-Girlfriend Rule
by
Christen Randall
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 03/05/2024
Hollis Beckwith isn't trying to get a girl—she's just trying to get by. For a fat, broke girl with anxiety, the start of senior year brings ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Silver Bone: The Kyiv Mysteries #1
by
Andrey Kurkov
HarperVia, 03/05/2024
Kyiv, 1919. World War I has ended in Western Europe, but to the East, six factions continue to vie for control of Ukraine. Amidst the political ...
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The Truth of the Aleke: The Forever Desert #2
by
Moses Ose Utomi
Tor Teen, 03/05/2024
The Aleke is cruel. The Aleke is clever. The Aleke is coming.
500 years after the events of
The Lies of the Ajungo, the City of Truth stands as the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice
by
Alex Hortis
Pegasus Crime, 03/05/2024
On Christmas night, December 25, 1843, in a serene village on Staten Island, shocked neighbors discovered the burnt remains of twenty-four-year-old ...
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Waiting for the Monsoon
by
Rod Nordland
Mariner Books, 03/05/2024
For thirty years, Rod Nordland shadowed death. As one of his generation's preeminent war correspondents, he reported in over 150 countries, many of ...
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What Monstrous Gods
by
Rosamund Hodge
Balzer + Bray, 03/05/2024
Centuries ago, the heretic sorcerer Ruven raised a deadly briar around Runakhia's palace, casting the royal family into an enchanted sleep—and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
All Our Yesterdays
by
Joel H. Morris
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/12/2024
Scotland, the 11th Century. Born in a noble household and granddaughter of a forgotten Scottish king, a young girl carries the guilt of her mother's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
An End to Inequality: Breaking Down the Walls of Apartheid Education in America
by
Jonathan Kozol
The New Press, 03/12/2024
When Jonathan Kozol's
Death at an Early Age appeared in 1967, it rocked the education world. Based on the Rhodes Scholar's first year of teaching in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Ariel Crashes a Train
by
Olivia A. Cole
Labyrinth Road, 03/12/2024
Ariel is afraid of her own mind. She already feels like she is too big, too queer, too rough to live up to her parents' exacting expectations, or to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Becoming Madam Secretary
by
Stephanie Dray
Berkley Books, 03/12/2024
Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, armed with her trusty parasol and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
by
Jessica J. Lee
Catapult, 03/12/2024
A seed slips beyond a garden wall. A tree is planted on a precarious border. A shrub is stolen from its culture and its land. What happens when these ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Flight of the Wild Swan
by
Melissa Pritchard
Bellevue Literary Press, 03/12/2024
Sweeping yet intimate,
Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Fury: A Novel
by
Clyo Mendoza
Seven Stories Press, 03/12/2024
In a desert dotted with war-torn towns, Lázaro and Juan are two soldiers from opposing camps who abandon the war and, while fleeing, become ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Headshot: A Novel
by
Rita Bullwinkel
Viking, 03/12/2024
An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A family's unrelenting expectation of victory. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed up or...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Mother Doll: A Novel
by
Katya Apekina
The Overlook Press, 03/12/2024
Zhenia is adrift in Los Angeles, pregnant with a baby her husband doesn't want, while her Russian grandmother and favorite person in the world is ...
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Pride and Joy: A Novel
by
Louisa Onomé
Atria Books, 03/12/2024
Joy Okafor is overwhelmed. Recently divorced, a life coach whose phone won't stop ringing, and ever the dutiful Nigerian daughter, Joy has planned ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Reading Genesis
by
Marilynne Robinson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/12/2024
For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents, by various hands, expressing different factional ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
by
Jane Marie
Atria Books, 03/12/2024
We've all heard of Amway, Mary Kay, Tupperware, and LuLaRoe, but few know the nefarious way they and countless other multilevel marketing (MLM) ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Six Truths and a Lie
by
Ream Shukairy
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/12/2024
As fireworks pop off at a rowdy Fourth of July bonfire party, an explosion off the California coast levels an oil rig—resulting in chaos and ...
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Some Strange Music Draws Me In: A Novel
by
Griffin Hansbury
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/12/2024
It's the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel (short for Melanie) meets Sylvia, a tough-as-nails trans woman whose shameless swagger ...
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Sunbringer: Fallen Gods #2
by
Hannah Kaner
Harper Voyager, 03/12/2024
But gods cannot be destroyed so easily, and Hseth's power threatens to reform with even greater strength and a thirst for vengeance. As tensions rise ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Hedgewitch of Foxhall
by
Anna Bright
HarperTeen, 03/12/2024
Magic is fading from Wales—choked off by King Offa's Dyke, the enemy earthworks that spans the entire border. Even the dragons have disappeared....
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
by
Hala Alyan
Ecco, 03/12/2024
A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Phoenix Bride: A Novel
by
Natasha Siegel
Dell, 03/12/2024
It is 1666, one year after plague has devastated England. Young widow Cecilia Thorowgood is a prisoner, trapped and isolated within her older sister's...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon's Story of Bravery, Survival, and Hope
by
Dr. Cornelia Griggs
Gallery Books, 03/12/2024
In the spring of 2020, many of us were sequestered in our homes, attempting to teach our children and learn to bake while the pings of news alerts and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Swan's Nest: A Novel
by
Laura McNeal
Algonquin Books, 03/12/2024
On a bleak January day in 1845, a poet who had been confined to her room for four years by recurrent illness received a letter from a writer she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Werewolf at Dusk: And Other Stories
by
David Small
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 03/12/2024
Long celebrated as a modern master of graphic literature, David Small has elicited in his work comparisons to Stan Lee and even Alfred Hitchcock. His ...
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Annie Bot: A Novel
by
Sierra Greer
Mariner Books, 03/19/2024
Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Bad Animals: A Novel
by
Sarah Braunstein
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/19/2024
Now that her brilliant botanist daughter is off at college, buttoned-up Maeve Cosgrove loves her job at a quiet Maine public library more than ...
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Cancelled
by
Farrah Penn
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 03/19/2024
Not to brag, but Brynn Whittaker is basically killing her senior year. She's got the looks, the grades, and a thriving "flirt coach" business that ...
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Fervor: A Novel
by
Toby Lloyd
Avid Reader Press, 03/19/2024
Hannah and Eric Rosenthal are devout Jews living in North London with their three children and Eric's father Yosef, a Holocaust survivor. Both ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Finding Margaret Fuller: A Novel
by
Allison Pataki
Ballantine Books, 03/19/2024
Young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically brilliant, Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the celebrated Sage of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
In the Orbit of You
by
Ashley Schumacher
Wednesday Books, 03/19/2024
It's been years since Nova Evans last saw Sam. She was too young then to understand why he had to move away—and what it had to do with the cuts ...
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James: A Novel
by
Percival Everett
Doubleday, 03/19/2024
When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide ...
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No Judgment: Essays
by
Lauren Oyler
HarperOne, 03/19/2024
In her writing for
Harper's, the
London Review of Books,
The New Yorker, and elsewhere, Lauren Oyler has emerged as one of the most trenchant and ...
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Rules for Rule Breaking
by
Talia Tucker
Kokila, 03/19/2024
Winter Park and Bobby Bae are Korean American high school juniors whose families have been friends since the kids were making crayon art. They, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
by
Jason De León
Viking, 03/19/2024
Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labor all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist's Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System
by
Dante Lauretta
Grand Central Publishing, 03/19/2024
On September 11, 1999, humanity made a monumental discovery in the vastness of space. Scientists uncovered an asteroid of immense scientific ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic
by
Daniel de Visé
Atlantic Monthly Press, 03/19/2024
"They're not going to catch us," Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Jake, played by John Belushi. "We're on a mission from God." So opens...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Day Tripper: A Novel
by
James Goodhand
Mira Books, 03/19/2024
The right guy, the right place, the wrong time.
It's 1995, and Alex Dean has it all: a spot at Cambridge University next year, the love of an ...
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The Divorcees
by
Rowan Beaird
Flatiron Books, 03/19/2024
Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in ...
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The Hebrew Teacher
by
Maya Arad
New Vessel Press, 03/19/2024
When a young Hebrew literature professor joins the faculty, she finds his post-Zionist politics pose a threat to her life's work. Miriam, whose son ...
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The Last Bloodcarver: The Last Bloodcarver Duology #1
by
Vanessa Le
Roaring Brook Press, 03/19/2024
Nhika is a bloodcarver. A coldhearted, ruthless being who can alter human biology with just a touch.
In the harsh, industrial city of Theumas, she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Mars House: A Novel
by
Natasha Pulley
Bloomsbury USA, 03/19/2024
In the wake of an environmental catastrophe, January, once a principal in London's Royal Ballet, has become a refugee in Tharsis, the terraformed ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Morningside: A Novel
by
Téa Obreht
Random House, 03/19/2024
There's the world you can see. And then there's the one you can't. Welcome to the Morningside.
After being expelled from their ancestral home in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Mystery Writer: A Novel
by
Sulari Gentill
Poisoned Pen Press, 03/19/2024
When Theodosia Benton abandons her career path as an attorney and shows up on her brother's doorstep with two suitcases and an unfinished novel, she ...
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The Princess of Las Vegas: A Novel
by
Chris Bohjalian
Doubleday, 03/19/2024
Crissy Dowling has created a world that suits her perfectly. She passes her days by the pool in a private cabana, she splurges on ice cream but never ...
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The Tree Doctor: A Novel
by
Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Graywolf Press, 03/19/2024
When the unnamed narrator of Marie Mutsuki Mockett's stirring second novel returns to Carmel, California, to care for her mother, she finds herself ...
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The Understory
by
Saneh Sangsuk
Deep Vellum Publishing, 03/19/2024
The lovable, yarnspinning monk Luang Paw Tien, now in his nineties, is the last person in his village to bear witness to the power and plenitude of ...
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Under This Red Rock
by
Mindy McGinnis
Katherine Tegan Books, 03/19/2024
Neely's monsters don't always follow her rules, so when the little girl under her bed, the man in her closet, and the disembodied voice that shadows ...
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Where Sleeping Girls Lie
by
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Feiwel & Friends, 03/19/2024
It's like I keep stumbling into a dark room, searching for the switch to make things bright again...
Sade Hussein is starting her third year of ...
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Who's Afraid of Gender?
by
Judith Butler
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/19/2024
Judith Butler, the groundbreaking thinker whose iconic book
Gender Trouble redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
by
Venki Ramakrishnan
William Morrow, 03/19/2024
The knowledge of death is so terrifying that we live most of our lives in denial of it. Throughout human history—from the immortal afterlife of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Wild Houses
by
Colin Barrett
Grove Press, 03/19/2024
With his acclaimed and award-winning collections
Young Skins and
Homesickness Colin Barrett cemented his reputation as one of contemporary Irish ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Wolf at the Table
by
Adam Rapp
Little Brown & Company, 03/19/2024
As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest child of a large Catholic family, meets a young man she believes ...
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Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability
by
Michael Kimmage
Oxford University Press, 03/22/2024
In
Collisions, Michael Kimmage, a historian and former State Department official who focused on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, offers a wide-angle, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Great Country: A Novel
by
Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Mariner Books, 03/26/2024
Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family. For the Shah ...
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An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
by
Matthew Stewart
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/26/2024
This is a story about a dangerous idea―one which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
by
Keith O'Brien
Pantheon Books, 03/26/2024
Pete Rose is a legend. A baseball god. He compiled more hits than anyone in the history of baseball, a record he set decades ago that still stands ...
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Chronically Dolores
by
Maya Van Wagenen
Dutton for Young Readers, 03/26/2024
Dolores Mendoza is not thriving. She was recently diagnosed with a chronic bladder condition called interstitial cystitis. The painful disease isn't ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Glorious Exploits: A Novel
by
Ferdia Lennon
Henry Holt and Company, 03/26/2024
On the island of Sicily amid the Peloponnesian War, the Syracusans have figured out what to do with the surviving Athenians who had the gall to invade...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
How to Solve Your Own Murder: Castle Knoll Files #1
by
Kristen Perrin
Dutton, 03/26/2024
It's 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances's night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Icarus
by
K. Ancrum
HarperTeen, 03/26/2024
Icarus Gallagher is a thief. He steals priceless art and replaces it with his father's impeccable forgeries. For years, one man—the wealthy Mr. ...
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Like Happiness: A Novel
by
Ursula Villarreal-Moura
Celadon, 03/26/2024
It's 2015, and Tatum Vega feels that her life is finally falling into place. Living in sunny Chile with her partner, Vera, she spends her days ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Lost Man's Lane: A Novel
by
Scott Carson
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 03/26/2024
For a sixteen-year-old, a summer internship working for a private investigator seems like a dream come true—particularly since the PI is ...
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Perris, California: A Novel
by
Rachel Stark
Penguin Books, 03/26/2024
Abandoned first by her father and then her mother, as a girl Tessa is left to live with her abusive stepfather and stepbrother. She survives by ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Pieces of a Girl
by
Stephanie Kuehnert
Dutton for Young Readers, 03/26/2024
Told in varied narrative styles, including journal entries, original illustration, and pages torn from her actual diaries and zines, this is the ...
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Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story
by
Kristine S. Ervin
Counterpoint Press, 03/26/2024
Kristine S. Ervin was just eight years old when her mother, Kathy Sue Engle, was abducted from an Oklahoma mall parking lot and violently murdered in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Says Who?: A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
by
Anne Curzan
Crown, 03/26/2024
Our use of language naturally evolves and is a living, breathing thing that reflects who we are.
Says Who? offers clear, nuanced guidance that goes ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power
by
Timothy W. Ryback
Knopf, 03/26/2024
In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans was unemployed. Violence was rampant. Hitler's National ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
by
Jonathan Haidt
Penguin Books, 03/26/2024
In
The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
The Boy Lost in the Maze
by
Joseph Coelho
Candlewick Press, 03/26/2024
Theo, a seventeen-year-old London schoolboy with a single mother, is desperate to track down the father who left them, whom he scarcely remembers. At ...
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Worry: A Novel
by
Alexandra Tanner
Scribner, 03/26/2024
It's March of 2019, and twenty-eight-year-old Jules Gold—anxious, artistically frustrated, and internet-obsessed—has been living alone in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
by
Madhumita Murgia
Picador, 03/28/2024
On the surface, a British poet, an UberEats courier in Pittsburgh, an Indian doctor, and a Chinese activist in exile have nothing in common. But they ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
No Son of Mine: A Memoir (Appalachian Futures Black Native & Queer Voices)
by
Jonathan Corcoran
University Press of Kentucky, 04/01/2024
Born and raised in rural West Virginia, Jonathan Corcoran was the youngest and only son of three siblings in a family balanced on the precipice of ...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
A Chance to Harmonize: How FDR's Hidden Music Unit Sought to Save America from the Great Depression-One Song at a Time
by
Sheryl Kaskowitz
Pegasus Books, 04/02/2024
In 1934, the Great Depression had destroyed the US economy, leaving residents poverty-stricken. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt urged President Roosevelt...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Good Happy Girl: A Novel
by
Marissa Higgins
Catapult, 04/02/2024
Helen, a jittery attorney with a self-destructive streak, is secretly reeling from a disturbing crime of neglect that her parents recently committed. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Short Walk Through a Wide World: A Novel
by
Douglas Westerbeke
Avid Reader Press, 04/02/2024
Paris, 1885: Aubry Tourvel, a spoiled and stubborn nine-year-old girl, comes across a wooden puzzle ball on her walk home from school. She tosses it ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
by
Becca Rothfeld
Metropolitan Books, 04/02/2024
In her debut essay collection, "brilliant and stylish" (
The Washington Post) critic Becca Rothfeld takes on one of the most sacred cows of our time: ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Ash Dark as Night: A Harry Ingram Mystery
by
Gary Phillips
Soho Press, 04/02/2024
Los Angeles, August 1965. Anger and pent-up frustrations boil over in the Watts neighborhood after a traffic stop of two Black motorists. As the Watts...
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Mysteries
City in Ruins: Danny Ryan Trilogy #3
by
Don Winslow
William Morrow, 04/02/2024
Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love.
Danny Ryan is rich.
Beyond his wildest dreams rich.
The former dock ...
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City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
by
Megan Kimble
Crown, 04/02/2024
Every major American city has a highway tearing through its center. Seventy years ago, planners sold these highways as progress, essential to our ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Clear: A Novel
by
Carys Davies
Scribner, 04/02/2024
John, an impoverished Scottish minister, has accepted a job evicting the lone remaining occupant of an island north of Scotland—Ivar, who has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Every Time You Hear That Song
by
Jenna Voris
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 04/02/2024
They say never meet your idols. But nothing about digging up their deepest secrets.
Seventeen-year-old aspiring journalist Darren Purchase has been...
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Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland
by
Henry Hemming
Public Affairs, 04/02/2024
The search for justice for this one man's death—his body found in broad daylight, with tape over his eyes, an undisguised hit—would ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Habitations: A Novel
by
Sheila Sundar
Little Simon, 04/02/2024
Vega Gopalan is adrift. Still reeling from the death of her sister years earlier, she leaves South India to attend graduate school at Columbia ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery
by
Earl Swift
Mariner Books, 04/02/2024
On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
I Cheerfully Refuse
by
Leif Enger
Atlantic Monthly Press, 04/02/2024
A storyteller "of great humanity and huge heart" (
Minneapolis Star Tribune), Leif Enger debuted in the literary world with
Peace Like a River which ...
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Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves
by
J. Drew Lanham
Hub City Press, 04/02/2024
In gorgeous and timely pieces,
Joy Is the Justice We Give Ourselves is a lush journey into wildness and Black being. Lanham notices nature through ...
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Like Love: Essays and Conversations
by
Maggie Nelson
Graywolf Press, 04/02/2024
Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, ...
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Made Glorious
by
Lindsay Eagar
Candlewick Press, 04/02/2024
Rory is an antihero for the ages. Like Shakespeare's
Richard III, she confides in her audience, telling us exactly the lengths she'll go to to secure ...
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Missing Persons: or, My Grandmother's Secrets
by
Clair Wills
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/02/2024
When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met. Born in a mother-and-baby home in 1950s Ireland, Mary grew up...
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One by One
by
Freida McFadden
Poisoned Pen Press, 04/02/2024
Claire Matchett needs this trip. It will be a break from work and raising children. A chance to repair her damaged marriage. A week of hiking and hot ...
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Thrillers
Something About Living (Akron Series in Poetry)
by
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
University of Akron Press, 04/02/2024
Her poems interweave Palestine's historic suffering, the challenges of living in this world full of violence and ill will, and the gentle delights we ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Something Kindred
by
Ciera Burch
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/02/2024
Welcome to Coldwater. Come for the ghosts, stay for the drama.
Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior year soaking up the sun...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
Still As Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon, from Antiquity to Tomorrow
by
Christopher Cokinos
Pegasus Books, 04/02/2024
"When the Moon rises between buildings or over trees, it's not just a beautiful light: It's an archive of human longing, fear and adventure. The Moon ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Table for Two: Fictions
by
Amor Towles
Viking, 04/02/2024
Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in ...
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The Black Girl Survives in This One: Horror Stories
by
Desiree S. Evans
Flatiron Books, 04/02/2024
Be warned, dear reader:
The Black girls survive in this one.
Celebrating a new generation of bestselling and acclaimed Black writers,
The Black ...more
The Breakup Lists
by
Adib Khorram
Dial Books, 04/02/2024
Jackson Ghasnavi is a lot of things—a techie, a smoothie afficionado, a totally not obsessive list-maker—but one thing he's not is a ...
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The Cemetery of Untold Stories: A Novel
by
Julia Alvarez
Algonquin Books, 04/02/2024
Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of
The Cemetery of Untold Stories, doesn't want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long...
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The Father She Went to Find: A Novel
by
Carter Wilson
Poisoned Pen Press, 04/02/2024
Penny has never met anyone smarter than her. That's par for the course when you're a savant—one of less than one hundred in the world. But ...
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The House on Biscayne Bay
by
Chanel Cleeton
Berkley Books, 04/02/2024
With the Great War finally behind them, many Americans flock to South Florida with their sights set on making a fortune. When wealthy industrialist ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
by
Stefanos Geroulanos
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 04/02/2024
Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony
by
Annabelle Tometich
Little Brown & Company, 04/02/2024
When journalist Annabelle Tometich picks up the phone one June morning, she isn't expecting a collect call from an inmate at the Lee County Jail. And ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Murder of Mr. Ma
by
John Shen Yen Nee and SJ Rozan
Soho Press, 04/02/2024
Two unlikely allies race through the cobbled streets of 1920s London in search of a killer targeting Chinese immigrants.
London, 1924. When shy ...
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The Night in Question: A Novel
by
Susan Fletcher
Union Square & Co., 04/02/2024
Florrie Butterfield—eighty-seven, one-legged, and of cheerful disposition—believes there can't be any more adventures or surprises in life...
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The Sicilian Inheritance: A Novel
by
Jo Piazza
Dutton, 04/02/2024
Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage. On top of that, her beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Stone Home: A Novel
by
Crystal Hana Kim
William Morrow, 04/02/2024
In 2011, Eunju Oh opens her door to greet a stranger: a young Korean American woman holding a familiar-looking knife—a knife Eunju hasn't seen ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Village Weavers
by
Myriam JA Chancy
Tin House Books, 04/02/2024
In 1940s' Port-au-Prince, Gertie and Sisi become fast childhood friends, despite being on opposite ends of the social and economic ladder. As young ...
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We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
by
Lydia Millet
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/02/2024
Across more than a dozen acclaimed works of fiction, readers have become intimate with Lydia Millet's distinctive voice and sly wit.
We Loved It All, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Canto Contigo: A Novel
by
Jonny Garza Villa
Wednesday Books, 04/09/2024
In a twenty-four-hour span, Rafael Alvarez led North Amistad High School's Mariachi Alma de la Frontera to their eleventh consecutive first-place win ...
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Daughter of Mine: A Novel
by
Megan Miranda
Marysue Rucci Books, 04/09/2024
When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town&#...
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Death in the Details: A Novel
by
Katie Tietjen
Crooked Lane Books, 04/09/2024
Maple Bishop is ready to put WWII and the grief of losing her husband, Bill, behind her. But when she discovers that Bill left her penniless, Maple ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Dragonfruit
by
Makiia Lucier
Clarion, 04/09/2024
In the old tales, it is written that the egg of a seadragon, dragonfruit, holds within it the power to undo a person's greatest sorrow. An unwanted ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Fi: A Memoir of My Son
by
Alexandra Fuller
Grove Press, 04/09/2024
"Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday." And so begins Alexandra Fuller's open, vivid new memoir,
Fi. It's ...
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Grey Dog
by
Elliott Gish
ECW Press, 04/09/2024
The year is 1901, and Ada Byrd — spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist — accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful for...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man
by
Nicholas Shakespeare
Harper, 04/09/2024
Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, ...
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
by
Kathleen DuVal
Random House, 04/09/2024
Long before the colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adapted to a changing world in ways that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Rangikura: Poems
by
Tayi Tibble
Knopf, 04/09/2024
Tayi Tibble returns on the heels of her incendiary debut with a bold new follow-up. Barbed and erotic, vulnerable and searching, Rangikura asks ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Somehow: Thoughts on Love
by
Anne Lamott
Riverhead Books, 04/09/2024
"Love is our only hope," Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. "It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the ...
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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
by
Amanda Montell
Atria Books, 04/09/2024
Utilizing the linguistic insights of her "witty and brilliant" (Blyth Roberson, author of
America the Beautiful?) first book
Wordslut and the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The British Booksellers
by
Kristy Cambron
Thomas Nelson, 04/09/2024
A tenant farmer's son had no business daring to dream of a future with an earl's daughter, but that couldn't keep Amos Darby from his secret ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Familiar: A Novel
by
Leigh Bardugo
Flatiron Books, 04/09/2024
In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Garden: A Novel
by
Clare Beams
Doubleday, 04/09/2024
In 1948, Irene Willard, who's had five previous miscarriages in a quest to give her beloved husband the child he desperately desires and is now ...
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The House of Broken Bricks: A Novel
by
Fiona Williams
Henry Holt and Company, 04/09/2024
Tess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in the city to the English countryside, where predatory ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Limits: A Novel
by
Nell Freudenberger
Knopf, 04/09/2024
From Mo'orea, a tiny volcanic island off the coast of Tahiti, a French biologist obsessed with saving Polynesia's imperiled coral reefs sends her ...
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The Sleepwalkers: A Novel
by
Scarlett Thomas
Simon & Schuster, 04/09/2024
Still reeling from the chaos of their wedding, Evelyn and Richard arrive on a tiny Greek island for their honeymoon. It's the end of the season and a ...
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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
by
Hampton Sides
Doubleday, 04/09/2024
On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the
HMS ...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Widow Spy: A Novel
by
Megan Campisi
Atria Books, 04/09/2024
Kate Warne is many things: the country's first female detective, a Pinkerton agent, and a union spy.
It's August 1861, and her latest assignment ...
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Thrillers
The Wives: A Memoir
by
Simone Gorrindo
Gallery/Scout Press, 04/09/2024
When her new husband joins an elite Army unit, Simone Gorrindo is uprooted from New York City and dropped into Columbus, Georgia—a town so ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
by
Norman Ohler
Mariner Books, 04/09/2024
Berlin 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use—long kept under control by the Nazis' strict anti-drug laws—is rampant ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Kind of Madness
by
Uche Okonkwo
Tin House Books, 04/16/2024
A teenage girl from a poor family is dazzled by her rich, vivacious friend, but as the friend's behavior grows unstable and dangerous, she must decide...
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After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations (Turning Points in Ancient History # 2)
by
Eric H. Cline
Princeton University Press, 04/16/2024
At the end of the acclaimed history
1177 B.C., many of the Late Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean lay in ruins, undone ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
by
Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger
St. Martin's Press, 04/16/2024
For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. But ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
by
Alua Arthur
Mariner Books, 04/16/2024
For her clients and everyone who has been inspired by her humanity, Alua Arthur is a friend at the end of the world. As our country's leading death ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever
by
Rachel Lance
Dutton, 04/16/2024
This is the previously classified story of one group of scientific researchers—men and women—who exposed themselves to extraordinary risks...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Chipped: Writing from a Skateboarder's Lens
by
José Vadi
Soft Skull Press, 04/16/2024
Chipping a board—where small pieces of deck and tape break off around the nose and tail—is a natural part of skateboarding. Novice or pro,...
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Close to Death: A Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery #5
by
Anthony Horowitz
Harper, 04/16/2024
Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far away from the noise and grime of city life, ...
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Dear Wendy
by
Ann Zhao
Feiwel & Friends, 04/16/2024
Sophie Chi is in her first year of college (though her parents wish she'd attend a "real" university rather than a liberal arts school) and has long ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Did I Ever Tell You?: A Memoir
by
Genevieve Kingston
Marysue Rucci Books, 04/16/2024
Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston was just eleven years old when her mother passed away, leaving behind a chest filled with gifts and letters to celebrate the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
by
Will Cockrell
Gallery Books, 04/16/2024
Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer's
Into Thin Air or has seen a recent photo of climbers standing in line to get to the top of Everest may think they ...
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Henry Henry
by
Allen Bratton
The Unnamed Press, 04/16/2024
Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere...
It's London, 2014, and Hal Lancaster, son and heir of Henry, Duke of Lancaster, is in a holding ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Honey: A Novel
by
Victor Lodato
Harper, 04/16/2024
As a rebellious teenager, Honey managed to escape her father's circle of influence and reinvent herself in a world of art and beauty, working for a ...
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Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
by
Sofia Samatar
Tor Books, 04/16/2024
The boy was raised as one of the Chained, condemned to toil in the bowels of a mining ship out among the stars. His whole world changes—...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Alternatives: A Novel
by
Caoilinn Hughes
Riverhead Books, 04/16/2024
The Flattery sisters were plunged prematurely into adulthood when their parents died in tragic circumstances. Now in their thirties—all single, ...
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The Book of Secrets: A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China
by
Xinran Xue
Bloomsbury Continuum, 04/16/2024
Following the lives of military intelligence officer Jie and his wife Moon,
The Book of Secrets weaves recently found material into a narrative that ...
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Historical Fiction
The Spoiled Heart: A Novel
by
Sunjeev Sahota
Viking, 04/16/2024
Nayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town. She's returned with her teenage son to live in the run-down house at the end of the lane, and&#...
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The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing
by
Adam Moss
Penguin Books, 04/16/2024
What is the work of art? In this guided tour inside the artist's head, Adam Moss traces the evolution of transcendent novels, paintings, jokes, movies...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
This Part Is Silent: A Life Between Cultures
by
SJ Kim
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/16/2024
Born in Korea, raised in the American South, and trying her best to survive British academia, SJ Kim probes her experiences as a writer, a scholar, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Weird Black Girls: Stories
by
Elwin Cotman
Scribner, 04/16/2024
A rural town finds itself under the authoritarian sway of a tree that punishes children. A pair of old friends navigate their fraught history as ...
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Black Bell
by
Alison C. Rollins
Copper Canyon Press, 04/23/2024
Inspired by the nineteenth century image of an enslaved woman wearing iron horns and bells, Alison C. Rollins's
Black Bell continues an exploration of...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
Dark Parts of the Universe
by
Samuel Miller
Katherine Tegan Books, 04/23/2024
In Calico Springs, Willie's life has been defined by two powerful forces: God and the river. The "miracle boy" died for five minutes as a young child,...
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Extinction: A Novel
by
Douglas Preston
Forge Books, 04/23/2024
Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly ...
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Homebody
by
Theo Parish
HarperAlley, 04/23/2024
Combining traditional comics with organic journal-like interludes, Theo takes us through their experiences with the hundred arbitrary and unspoken ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Huddud's House: A Novel
by
Fadi Azzam
Interlink Books, 04/23/2024
How far is love willing to travel in search of its own lost voice?
When tyranny unleashes destructive forces that threaten to overwhelm a country, ...
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I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays
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Nell Irvin Painter
Doubleday, 04/23/2024
Throughout her prolific writing career, Nell Painter has published works on such luminaries as Sojourner Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Malcolm X. ...
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Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution
by
Anne Higonnet
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/23/2024
Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of...
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Lucky: A Novel
by
Jane Smiley
Knopf, 04/23/2024
Before Jodie Rattler became a star, she was a girl growing up in St. Louis. One day in 1955, when she was just six years old, her uncle Drew took her ...
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Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals
by
Bill Wasik
Knopf, 04/23/2024
Over just a few decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the United States underwent a moral revolution on behalf of animals. Before the Civil ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Reboot: A Novel
by
Justin Taylor
Pantheon Books, 04/23/2024
David Crader is a has-been. A former child actor from the hit teen drama Rev Beach, he now rotates between his new roles as deadbeat dad, recovering ...
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Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
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Judi Dench
St. Martin's Griffin, 04/23/2024
- Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig...
- Cavorting naked through the Warwickshire countryside painted green...
- Acting ...
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Song of the Six Realms
by
Judy I. Lin
Feiwel & Friends, 04/23/2024
Xue, a talented young musician, has no past and probably no future. Orphaned at a young age, her kindly poet uncle took her in and arranged for an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Everything War: Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power
by
Dana Mattioli
Little Brown & Company, 04/23/2024
In 2017, Lina Khan published a paper that accused Amazon of being a monopoly, having grown so large, and embedded in so many industries, it was akin ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Flower Sisters
by
Michelle Collins Anderson
A John Scognamiglio Book, 04/23/2024
Drawing on the little-known true story of one tragic night at an Ozarks dance hall in the author's Missouri hometown, this beautifully written, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union
by
Stephen Puleo
St. Martin's Griffin, 04/23/2024
In the tempestuous mid-19th century, as slavery consumed Congressional debate and America careened toward civil war and split apart–when the ...
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The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters
by
Susan Page
Simon & Schuster, 04/23/2024
Barbara Walters was a force from the time TV was exploding on the American scene in the 1960s to its waning dominance in a new world of competition ...
more
The Sky Was Ours: A Novel
by
Joe Fassler
Penguin Books, 04/23/2024
It's 2005, and 24-year-old Jane is miserable. Overworked, buried in debt, she senses the life she wanted slipping away—while the world around ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Whole Staggering Mystery: A Story of Fathers Lost and Found
by
Sylvia Brownrigg
Counterpoint Press, 04/23/2024
When Sylvia Brownrigg received a package addressed to her father that had been lost for over fifty years, she wanted to deliver it to him before it ...
more
The Wings Upon Her Back
by
Samantha Mills
Tachyon Publications, 04/23/2024
Zenya was a teenager when she ran away from home to join the mechanically-modified warrior sect. She was determined to earn mechanized wings and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Wild Dreamers
by
Margarita Engle
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 04/23/2024
Ana and her mother have been living out of their car ever since her militant father became one of the FBI's most wanted. Leandro has struggled with ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Agent A12 and the Solving of the Holocaust Code
by
Jason Bell
Pegasus Books, 04/30/2024
In public life, Dr. Winthrop Bell was a Harvard philosophy professor and wealthy businessman.
As an MI6 spy—known as secret agent A12—...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Crow Talk: A Novel
by
Eileen Garvin
Dutton, 04/30/2024
Frankie O'Neill and Anne Ryan would seem to have nothing in common. Frankie is a lonely ornithologist struggling to salvage her dissertation on the ...
more
I'll Be Waiting for You
by
Mariko Turk
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 04/30/2024
Natalie and Imogen are inseparable, and wildly different—Imogen is infuriatingly humble and incredibly intelligent, while Natalie is brave, ...
more
In Universes: A Novel
by
Emet North
Harper, 04/30/2024
Raffi works in an observational cosmology lab, searching for dark matter and trying to hide how little they understand their own research. Every ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Not Like Other Girls
by
Meredith Adamo
Bloomsbury YA, 04/30/2024
When Jo-Lynn Kirby 's former best friend-pretty, nice Maddie Price-comes to her claiming to be in trouble, Jo assumes it's some kind of joke. After ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Only the Brave: A Novel
by
Danielle Steel
Delacorte Press, 04/30/2024
Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, ...
more
Historical Fiction
Profiles in Mental Health Courage
by
Patrick J. Kennedy
Dutton, 04/30/2024
Several years ago, Patrick J. Kennedy shared the story of his personal and family challenges with mental illness and addiction—and the nation's&...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Real Americans: A Novel
by
Rachel Khong
Knopf, 04/30/2024
Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets ...
more
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
by
Erik Larson
Crown, 04/30/2024
On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Funeral Cryer: A Novel
by
Wenyan Lu
Hanover Square Press, 04/30/2024
The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job and ...
more
The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
by
Karen Valby
Pantheon Books, 04/30/2024
At the height of the Civil Rights movement, Lydia Abarca was a Black prima ballerina with a major international dance company—the Dance Theatre ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
What's Eating Jackie Oh?
by
Patricia Park
Crown Books for Young Readers, 04/30/2024
Jackie Oh is done being your model minority.
She's tired of perfect GPAs, PSATs, SATs, all of it. Jackie longs to become a professional chef. But...
more
A Nest of Vipers: A Bangalore Detectives Club Mystery
by
Harini Nagendra
Pegasus Crime, 05/02/2024
This latest novel in the Bangalore Detectives Club mystery series takes the reader deep into the historical era surrounding the visit by Edward, ...
more
A Lonesome Place for Dying: A Novel
by
Nolan Chase
Crooked Lane Books, 05/07/2024
In the quiet seaside town of Blaine, Washington, the most serious police work involves dealing with stray coyotes or ticketing speeders along the I-5....
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
América del Norte
by
Nicolás Medina Mora
Soho Press, 05/07/2024
Sebastián lived a childhood of privilege in Mexico City. Now in his twenties, he has a degree from Yale, an American girlfriend, and a slot in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Beastly Beauty
by
Jennifer Donnelly
Scholastic, 05/07/2024
What makes a girl "beastly?" Is it having too much ambition? Being too proud? Taking up too much space? Or is it just wanting something, anything, too...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Cinema Love: A Novel
by
Jiaming Tang
Dutton, 05/07/2024
For over thirty years, Old Second and Bao Mei have cobbled together a meager existence in New York City's Chinatown. But unlike other couples, these ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Daughters of Shandong
by
Eve J. Chung
Berkley Books, 05/07/2024
Daughters are the Ang family's curse.
In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Death's Country
by
R. M. Romero
Peachtree Publishers, 05/07/2024
Andres Santos of São Paulo was all swinging fists and firecracker fury, a foot soldier in the war between his parents, until he drowned in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Early Sobrieties: A Novel
by
Michael Deagler
Astra House, 05/07/2024
Don't worry about what Dennis Monk did when he was drinking. He's sober now, ready to rejoin the world of leases and paychecks, reciprocal friendships...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Eyes Open
by
Lyn Miller-Lachmann
Carolrhoda Books, 05/07/2024
She'll become a poet, and together she and her artist boyfriend, Zé Miguel, will rise above the government restrictions that shape their lives. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
How It Works Out: A Novel
by
Myriam Lacroix
The Overlook Press, 05/07/2024
When Myriam and Allison fall in love at a show in a run-down punk house, their relationship begins to unfold through a series of hypotheticals. What ...
more
How Nietzsche Came in From the Cold: Tale of a Redemption
by
Philipp Felsch
Polity, 05/07/2024
It was only when two ambitious antifascist Italians, Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, began to comb through the archives that anyone warmed to the...
more
Biography/Memoir
How to Read a Book: A Novel
by
Monica Wood
Mariner Books, 05/07/2024
Our Reasons meet us in the morning and whisper to us at night. Mine is an innocent, unsuspecting, eternally sixty-one-year-old woman named Lorraine ...more
Hunted
by
Abir Mukherjee
Mulholland, 05/07/2024
In London, the police storm Heathrow Airport to bring in a father for questioning about his missing daughter.
In Florida, a mother makes a ...
more
I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv
by
Illia Ponomarenko
Bloomsbury USA, 05/07/2024
In late February 2022, a series of missiles and rocket strikes began falling upon Ukraine, as the Russian military barreled over the border and fanned...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
by
Eric Jay Dolin
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 05/07/2024
In
Left for Dead, Eric Jay Dolin―"one of today's finest writers about ships and the sea"
(American Heritage)―tells the true story of a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Loneliness & Company
by
Charlee Dyroff
Bloomsbury USA, 05/07/2024
Lee knows she's the best. A professor favorite and fellowship winner, there's no doubt she'll land one of the coveted jobs at a Big Five corporation. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Long Island: Eilis Lacey Series #2
by
Colm Toibin
Scribner, 05/07/2024
Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-...
more
Look Away: A True Story of Murders, Bombings, and a Far-Right Campaign to Rid Germany of Immigrants
by
Jacob Kushner
Grand Central Publishing, 05/07/2024
Not long after the Berlin Wall fell, three teenagers became friends in the East German town of Jena. It was a time of excitement, but also of economic...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Love Is a Burning Thing: A Memoir
by
Nina St. Pierre
Dutton, 05/07/2024
Ten years before Nina was born, her mother lit herself on fire in a dual suicide attempt. During her recovery in the burn-unit, a nurse initiated her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Mother Knows Best: Tales of Homemade Horror (A Women in Horror Anthology)
by
Lindy Ryan
Black Spot, 05/07/2024
From mama trauma to smother mother, this all-new women in horror anthology features stories about the scariest monster of them all—our mothers.
Short Stories
Phantom Orbit: A Thriller
by
David Ignatius
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/07/2024
David Ignatius is known for his uncanny ability, in novel after novel, to predict the next great national security headline. In
Phantom Orbit, he ...
more
Queerceañera
by
Alex Crespo
HarperTeen, 05/07/2024
Joaquin Zoido is out and proud of it. And while he knew his dad and sister, Carmen, would be super supportive, he wasn't quite ready for them to ...
more
Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire
by
Paula Yoo
Norton Young Readers, 05/07/2024
In the spring of 1992, after a jury returned not guilty verdicts in the trial of four police officers charged in the brutal beating of a Black man, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Sipsworth
by
Simon Van Booy
David R. Godine, 05/07/2024
Following the loss of her husband and son, Helen Cartwright returns to the village of her childhood after living abroad for six decades. Her only wish...
more
skin & bones: a novel
by
Renée Watson
Little Brown & Company, 05/07/2024
At 40, Lena Baker is at a steady and stable moment in life—between wine nights with her two best friends and her wedding just weeks away, she's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Body Farm: Stories
by
Abby Geni
Counterpoint Press, 05/07/2024
The body cannot tell any lies. From birth to death, and through all the transitions in between, the body stores our knowledge and history, our ...
more
The Lady Waiting: A Novel
by
Magdalena Zyzak
Riverhead Books, 05/07/2024
One bright Los Angeles day, a young Polish émigré named Viva is driving along the freeway when she's flagged down by a dazzling, disheveled ...
more
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
by
Zoë Schlanger
Harper, 05/07/2024
It takes tremendous biological creativity to be a plant. To survive and thrive while rooted in a single spot, plants have adapted ingenious methods of...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Ministry of Time: A Novel
by
Kaliane Bradley
Avid Reader Press, 05/07/2024
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Stolen Child: A Novel
by
Ann Hood
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/07/2024
For decades, Nick Burns has been haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, when a French artist he'd befriended thrust both her...
more
The World Is Yours: The Story of Scarface
by
Glenn Kenny
Hanover Square Press, 05/07/2024
An unflinching confrontation of humanity's dark side, Brian De Palma's crime drama film
Scarface gave rise to a cultural revolution upon its release ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Their Divine Fires: A Novel
by
Wendy Chen
Algonquin Books, 05/07/2024
In 1917, at the dawn of the Chinese Revolution, Yunhong grows up in the southern China countryside and falls deeply in love with the son of a wealthy ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
This Book Won't Burn
by
Samira Ahmed
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 05/07/2024
After her dad abruptly abandons her family and her mom moves them a million miles from their Chicago home, Noor Khan is forced to start the last ...
more
Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics
by
Ernesto Londoño
Celadon, 05/07/2024
When he signed up for a psychedelic retreat run by a mysterious Argentine woman deep in Brazil's rainforest in early 2018, Ernesto Londoño, a ...
more
Whale Fall: A Novel
by
Elizabeth O'Connor
Pantheon Books, 05/07/2024
In 1938, a dead whale washes up on the shores of remote Welsh island. For Manod, who has spent her whole life on the island, it feels like both a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Women and Children First: A Novel
by
Alina Grabowski
Zando, 05/07/2024
Nashquitten, MA, is a decaying coastal enclave that not even tourist season can revive, full of locals who have run the town's industries for ...
more
The North Wind
by
Alexandria Warwick
Simon & Schuster, 05/09/2024
Wren of Edgewood is no stranger to suffering. Her parents are gone. Survival is all she knows. For three hundred years, the land known as the Gray has...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Downloaded
by
Robert J. Sawyer
Shadowpaw Press, 05/11/2024
In 2059 two very different groups have their minds uploaded into a quantum computer in Waterloo, Ontario.
One group consists of astronauts ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
by
Lawrence Ingrassia
Henry Holt and Company, 05/14/2024
Ingrassia lost his mother, two sisters, brother, and nephew to cancer—different cancers developing at different points throughout their lives. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
All Fours: A Novel
by
Miranda July
Riverhead Books, 05/14/2024
A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she ...
more
American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nation
by
John Kaag
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/14/2024
The Bloods were one of America's first and most expansive pioneer families. They explored and laid claim to the frontiers—geographic, political,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Another Word for Love: A Memoir
by
Carvell Wallace
MCD, 05/14/2024
In
Another Word for Love, Carvell Wallace excavates layers of his own history, situated in the struggles and beauty of growing up Black and queer in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Blue Ruin: A Novel
by
Hari Kunzru
Knopf, 05/14/2024
Once, Jay was an artist. After graduating from art school in London, he was tipped for greatness, a promising career taking shape before him. That was...
more
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
by
Adam Higginbotham
Avid Reader Press, 05/14/2024
On January 28, 1986, just seventy-three seconds into flight, the space shuttle
Challenger broke apart over the Atlantic Ocean, killing all seven ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Every Time We Say Goodbye: A Novel
by
Natalie Jenner
St. Martin's Press, 05/14/2024
In 1955, Vivien Lowry is facing the greatest challenge of her life. Her latest play, the only female-authored play on the London stage that season, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies
by
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Princeton University Press, 05/14/2024
It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn't it always been so? When evolutionary science came along, it...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Liquid, Fragile, Perishable
by
Carolyn Kuebler
Melville House, 05/14/2024
May has arrived in the tiny hamlet of Glenville, Vermont, bringing with it currents of rejuvenation and rebirth. For 3 families, though, the year ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Long After We Are Gone: A Novel
by
Terah Shelton Harris
Sourcebooks Landmark, 05/14/2024
"Don't let the white man take the house."
These are the last words King Solomon says to his son before he dies. Now all four Solomon siblings must ...
more
Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
by
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
Tiny Reparations, 05/14/2024
Upon becoming a new mother, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal was called to Mexico to reconnect with her ancestors and recover her grandmother's story,...
more
My First Book
by
Honor Levy
Penguin Press, 05/14/2024
Walking the wire between imagination and confession,
My First Book marks the arrival of an electric new talent. Honor Levy's uniquely riveting voice ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Oye: A Novel
by
Melissa Mogollon
Hogarth Books, 05/14/2024
"Yes, hi, Mari. It's me. I'm over my tantrum now and calling you back ... But first—you have to promise that you won't tell Mom or Abue any of ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Rednecks: A Novel
by
Taylor Brown
St. Martin's Press, 05/14/2024
Rednecks is a tour de force, big canvas historical novel that dramatizes the 1920 to 1921 events of the West Virginia Mine Wars—from the Matewan...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Rise of a Killah
by
Ghostface Killah
St. Martin's Press, 05/14/2024
Dennis Coles—aka Ghostface Killah—is a co-founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, a legendary hip hop group who established themselves by breaking ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Road Home
by
Rex Ogle
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/14/2024
When Rex was outed the summer after he graduated high school, his father gave him a choice: he could stay at home, find a girlfriend, and attend ...
more
Road to Ruin: Magebike Courier #1
by
Hana Lee
Other Press, 05/14/2024
Jin-Lu has the most dangerous job in the wasteland. She's a magebike courier, one of the few who venture outside the domed cities on motorcycles ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World
by
Caroline Alexander
Viking, 05/14/2024
In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from India to China. Supplies to this critical ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Spitting Gold: A Novel
by
Carmella Lowkis
Atria Books, 05/14/2024
Paris, 1866. When Baroness Sylvie Devereux receives a house call from Charlotte Mothe, the sister she disowned, she fears her shady past as a spirit ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories
by
Colombe Schneck
Penguin Press, 05/14/2024
At fifty years old, while taking swimming lessons, I finally realized that my body was not actually as incompetent as I'd thought. My physical ...more
The Blue Maiden
by
Anna Noyes
Grove Press, 05/14/2024
It's 1825, four generations after Berggrund Island's women stood accused of witchcraft under the eye of their priest, now long dead. In his place is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Brightwood Code
by
Monica Hesse
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 05/14/2024
Seven months ago, Edda was on the World War I front lines as one of two hundred "Hello Girls," female switchboard operators employed by the US Army. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Puerto Rican War: A Graphic History
by
John Vasquez Mejias
Union Square & Co., 05/14/2024
Rendered in gorgeously carved wood blocks and buffeted with historical supplemental material, John Vasquez Mejias's
The Puerto Rican War tells the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Silence of the Choir
by
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
Europa Editions, 05/14/2024
Seventy-two men arrive in the middle of the Sicilian countryside. They are "immigrants," "refugees" or "migrants." But in Altino, they're called the ...
more
The Witches of Bellinas: A Novel
by
J. Nicole Jones
Catapult, 05/14/2024
Tansy and her husband Guy are the newest arrivals in Bellinas, a lush oasis tucked into the coast of northern California where a reclusive, creative ...
more
The Worst Perfect Moment
by
Shivaun Plozza
Holiday House, 05/14/2024
Tegan Masters is dead.
She's sixteen and she's dead and she's standing in the parking lot of the Marybelle Motor Lodge, the single most ...
more
They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
by
Mike Hixenbaugh
Mariner Books, 05/14/2024
Award-winning journalist Mike Hixenbaugh delivers the immersive and eye-opening story of Southlake, Texas, a district that seemed to offer everything ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Thirsty: A Novel
by
Jas Hammonds
Roaring Brook Press, 05/14/2024
It's the summer before college and eighteen-year-old Blake Brenner and her girlfriend, Ella, have one goal: join the mysterious and exclusive Serena ...
more
This Strange Eventful History: A Novel
by
Claire Messud
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/14/2024
Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state―separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
We Were the Universe: A Novel
by
Kimberly King Parsons
Knopf, 05/14/2024
The trip was supposed to be
fun. When Kit's best friend gets dumped by his boyfriend, he begs her to ditch her family responsibilities for an idyllic ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Wives Like Us: A Novel
by
Plum Sykes
Harper, 05/14/2024
If you think the English countryside is all green wellies, muddy Land Rovers and grey-haired ladies in tweed, then you've never visited 'The Bottoms.'...
more
A Gentleman from Japan: The Untold Story of an Incredible Journey from Asia to Queen Elizabeth's Court
by
Thomas Lockley
Hanover Square Press, 05/21/2024
On November 12, 1588, five young Asian men—led by a twenty-one-year-old called Christopher—traveled up the River Thames to meet Queen ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Northern Light in Provence: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Birkelund
Ballantine Books, 05/21/2024
Ilse Erlund is a translator who lives in a house on stilts along the west coast of Greenland. Isolated and restless in her world by the sea, she ...
more
American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
by
Alan Taylor
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/21/2024
In a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Butcher: A Novel
by
Joyce Carol Oates
Knopf, 05/21/2024
In this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, "Father of Gyno-Psychiatry," as he ascends ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir
by
Zoë Bossiere
Abrams Press, 05/21/2024
Newly arrived in the Sonoran Desert, eleven-year-old Zoë's world is one of giant beetles, thundering javelinas, and gnarled paloverde trees. With...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Cecilia
by
K-Ming Chang
Coffee House Press, 05/21/2024
Seven, who works as a cleaner at a chiropractor's office, reencounters Cecilia, a woman who has obsessed her since their school days. As the two of ...
more
Exhibit: A Novel
by
R. O. Kwon
Riverhead Books, 05/21/2024
At a lavish party in the hills outside of San Francisco, Jin Han meets Lidija Jung and nothing will ever be the same for either woman. A brilliant ...
more
Faraway the Southern Sky: A Novel
by
Joseph Andras
Verso, 05/21/2024
Fleeing persecution in Indochina, the young Ho Chi Minh arrived in Paris as World War I was sputtering to a close. A painfully shy twentysomething who...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Goddess of the River
by
Vaishnavi Patel
Redhook, 05/21/2024
A mother and a son. A goddess and a prince. A curse and an oath. A river whose course will change the fate of the world.
Ganga, joyful goddess of...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying: Dark Lord Davi #1
by
Django Wexler
Orbit, 05/21/2024
Davi has done this all before. She's tried to be the hero and take down the all-powerful Dark Lord. A hundred times she's rallied humanity and made ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
I Hope This Finds You Well: A Novel
by
Natalie Sue
William Morrow, 05/21/2024
Her secret to survival? She vents her grievances in petty email postscripts, then changes the text color to white so no one can see. That is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
by
Sebastian Junger
Simon & Schuster, 05/21/2024
For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ...
more
In Tongues: A Novel
by
Thomas Grattan
MCD, 05/21/2024
It's 2001, and twenty-four-year-old Gordon―handsome, sensitive, and eager for direction―takes a bus from Minnesota to New York City ...
more
Lies and Weddings: A Novel
by
Kevin Kwan
Doubleday, 05/21/2024
Rufus Leung Gresham, future Earl of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel has a problem: the legendary Gresham Trust has been depleted ...
more
Mind Games: A Novel
by
Nora Roberts
St. Martin's Press, 05/21/2024
As they do each June, the Foxes have driven the winding roads of Appalachia to drop off their children for a two-week stay at their grandmother's. ...
more
Mood Swings: A Novel
by
Frankie Barnet
Astra House, 05/21/2024
Everyone knows something's off, but nobody can agree on just what it is. Maybe it's the weather; maybe everyone's just so damn sensitive these days. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Still Waters: A Novel
by
Matt Goldman
Forge Books, 05/21/2024
Liv and Gabe Ahlstrom are estranged siblings who haven't seen each other in years, but that's about to change when they receive a rare call from their...
more
The Incorrigibles: A Novel
by
Meredith Jaeger
Dutton, 05/21/2024
1890, San Francisco. Seduced by her employer's nephew, Annie Gilmurray, an Irish maid, is accused of stealing the ring he promised her. Sentenced to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Token Supremacy: The Art of Finance, the Finance of Art, and the Great Crypto Crash of 2022
by
Zachary Small
Knopf, 05/21/2024
In 2021, when the gavel fell at Christie's on the sale of Mike Winkelmann's Everydays series—a compilation of five thousand digital artworks&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America
by
Shefali Luthra
Doubleday, 05/21/2024
On June 24, 2022,
Roe v. Wade was overturned, and the impact was immediate: by 2023, abortion was virtually unavailable or significantly restricted in...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
When We Were Silent: A Novel
by
Fiona McPhillips
Flatiron Books, 05/21/2024
Louise Manson is the newest student at Highfield Manor, Dublin's most exclusive private school. It seems nearly perfect: the high arched window ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Lockmaster: The German List
by
Christoph Ransmayr
Seagull Books, 05/27/2024
A longboat plummets over the Great Falls, drowning the five passengers on board. The Lockmaster, the heir to an ancient title and responsible for ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Question of Belonging: Crónicas
by
Hebe Uhart
Archipelago Books, 05/28/2024
Uhart reinvigorates our desire to connect with other people, to love the world, to laugh in the face of bad intentions, and to look again, more ...
more
Accordion Eulogies: A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico
by
Noé Álvarez
Catapult, 05/28/2024
Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez never knew his grandfather. Stories swirled around this mythologized, larger-than-life figure:...
more
Allow Me to Introduce Myself: A Novel
by
Onyi Nwabineli
Graydon House, 05/28/2024
Anuri Chinasa has had enough. And really, who can blame her? She was the unwilling star of her stepmother's social media empire before "momfluencers" ...
more
Cheaper, Faster, Better: How We'll Win the Climate War
by
Tom Steyer
Spiegel & Grau, 05/28/2024
The climate is changing more rapidly than scientists predicted even a few years ago, with extreme weather already touching our everyday lives. At the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Cry of the Wild: Eight animals under siege
by
Charles Foster
Doubleday, 05/28/2024
A fox, grown strong on pepperoni pizza from the dustbins of the East End, dances along a railway track towards Essex, the territory of wild foxes and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier
by
Robert G. Parkinson
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/28/2024
We are divided over the history of the United States, and one of the central dividing lines is the frontier. Was it a site of heroism? Or was it where...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Housemates: A Novel
by
Emma Copley Eisenberg
Hogarth Books, 05/28/2024
When Bernie replies to Leah's ad for a new housemate in Philadelphia, the two begin an intense and defiantly uncategorizable friendship based on a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Look on the Bright Side
by
Kristan Higgins
Berkley Books, 05/28/2024
Lark Smith has always had a plan for her life: find a fantastic guy, create a marriage as blissful as her parents', pop out a couple of kids and build...
more
Nero: A Novel (The Nero Trilogy)
by
Conn Iggulden
Pegasus Books, 05/28/2024
The story begins with a hand curled around another man's throat.
This is Roman justice: Emperor Tiberius first dispatches a traitor—a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Southern Man: Penn Cage #7
by
Greg Iles
William Morrow, 05/28/2024
Fifteen years after the events of the
Natchez Burning trilogy, Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead, his old allies gone, ...
more
Swole: The Making of Men and the Meaning of Muscle
by
Michael Andor Brodeur
Beacon Press, 05/28/2024
Michael Brodeur is a Gen-X gay writer with a passion for bodybuilding and an insatiable curiosity about masculinity--a concept in which many men are ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Goddess of Warsaw: A Novel
by
Lisa Barr
Harper, 05/28/2024
Los Angeles, 2005. Sienna Hayes, Hollywood's latest It Girl, has ambitions to work behind the camera. When she meets Lena Browning, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War
by
James Shapiro
Penguin Press, 05/28/2024
From 1935 to 1939, the Federal Theatre Project staged over a thousand productions in 29 states that were seen by thirty million (or nearly one in four...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Safekeep
by
Yael van der Wouden
Avid Reader Press, 05/28/2024
A house is a precious thing...
It is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Winner: A Novel
by
Teddy Wayne
Harper, 05/28/2024
In this oceanfront paradise, however, new clients prove hard to come by, and Conor has bills to pay. Then a sharp-tongued divorcée appears, ...
more
Liberty's Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America
by
Amir Alexander
University Of Chicago Press, 05/29/2024
Seen from an airplane, much of the United States appears to be a gridded land of startling uniformity. Perpendicular streets and rectangular fields, ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
by
Shannon Vallor
Oxford University Press, 06/03/2024
They promise a future in which human limits and frailties are finally overcome―not by us, but by our machines.
Yet rather than open new ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR's War of Words With Charles Lindbergh and the Battle to Save Democracy
by
Paul M. Sparrow
Pegasus Books, 06/04/2024
Franklin Roosevelt awoke at 2:50 a.m. on September 1, 1939 to the news that Germany had invaded Poland, signaling the start of World War II. The ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Better Must Come
by
Desmond Hall
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 06/04/2024
Deja is a "barrel girl"—one of the Jamaican kids who get barrels full of clothes, food, and treats shipped to them from parents who have moved ...
more
Literary Fiction
Blessings: A Novel
by
Chukwuebuka Ibeh
Doubleday, 06/04/2024
Obiefuna has always been the black sheep of his family—sensitive where his father, Anozie, is pragmatic, a dancer where his brother, Ekene, is a...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Blood in the Cut: A Novel
by
Alejandro Nodarse
Flatiron Books, 06/04/2024
Iggy must earn his father's lost trust in order to save La Carnicería Guerra from the threats imposed by a new rival business, a vigilante ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity
by
Ruth Whippman
Harmony Books, 06/04/2024
"Rapist, school-shooter, incel, man-child, interrupter, mansplainer, boob-starer, birthday forgetter, frat boy, dude-bro, homophobe, self-important ...more
Biography/Memoir
Bright and Tender Dark
by
Joanna Pearson
Bloomsbury USA, 06/04/2024
Days after the dawn of Y2K, beautiful, charismatic nineteen-year-old Karlie Richards is found brutally murdered in her campus apartment. Two decades ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Burn It All: A Novel
by
Maggie Auffarth
Crooked Lane Books, 06/04/2024
Marley Henderson is having the worst year of her life. First, a drunken mistake costs her everything, including her engagement and her closest friend,...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania
by
Kathryn Hughes
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 06/04/2024
In 1900, Britain and America were in the grip of a cat craze. An animal that had for centuries been seen as a household servant or urban nuisance had ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Chorus of the Union: How Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Set Aside Their Rivalry to Save the Nation
by
Edward Robert McClelland
Pegasus Books, 06/04/2024
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas are a misunderstood duo. History remembers them as antagonists, and for most of the years the two men knew each ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Daughter of the Merciful Deep
by
Leslye Penelope
Redhook, 06/04/2024
"
Our home began, as all things do, with a wish."
Jane Edwards hasn't spoken since she was eleven years old, when armed riders expelled her family...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Enlightenment: A Novel
by
Sarah Perry
Mariner Books, 06/04/2024
Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay have lived all their lives in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are ...
more
Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive
by
James Parker
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/04/2024
Our politics are broken; our world is melting; the next catastrophe looms. Enter James Parker, who for years now has been writing odes of appreciation...
more
Godwin: A Novel
by
Joseph O'Neill
Pantheon Books, 06/04/2024
Mark Wolfe, a brilliant if self-thwarting technical writer, lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Sushila, and their toddler daughter. His half-brother ...
more
Hall of Mirrors: A Judy Nightingale and Philippa Watson Mystery
by
John Copenhaver
Pegasus Crime, 06/04/2024
In May 1954, Lionel Kane witnesses his apartment engulfed in flames with his lover and writing partner, Roger Raymond, inside. Police declare it a ...
more
Mysteries
Holy City
by
Henry Wise
Atlantic Monthly Press, 06/04/2024
After a decade of exile precipitated by the tragic death of his mother, Will Seems returns home from Richmond to rural Southern Virginia, taking a job...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
I've Tried Being Nice: Essays
by
Ann Leary
Marysue Rucci Books, 06/04/2024
Having arrived at a certain age (her prime), Ann Leary casts a wry backward glance at a life spent trying—and often failing—to be nice. ...
more
If You Can't Take the Heat
by
Michael Ruhlman
Penguin Books, 06/04/2024
When high school football star Theo Claverback breaks his leg just weeks after a devastating break-up, he's forced to call an audible on his summer ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
In the Hour of Crows: A Novel
by
Dana Elmendorf
Mira Books, 06/04/2024
When called upon, she can talk the death out of the dying and save their lives—only once, never twice. But this truly unique gift comes at a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Lockjaw
by
Matteo L. Cerilli
Tundra Books, 06/04/2024
Chuck Warren died tragically at the old abandoned mill, but Paz Espino knows it was no accident — there's a monster under the town, and she's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Looking for Smoke
by
K. A. Cobell
Heartdrum, 06/04/2024
When local girl Loren includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet Giveaway to honor Loren's missing sister, Mara thinks she'll finally make some friends ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Louder Than Words
by
Ashley Woodfolk, Lexi Underwood
Scholastic, 06/04/2024
When Jordyn Jones transfers to Edgewood High, it's her opportunity to forget everything that happened at her old school. To forget what she and her ...
more
Malas: A Novel
by
Marcela Fuentes
Viking, 06/04/2024
More than forty years later, Lulu Muñoz is dodging chaos at every turn: her troubled father's moods, his rules, her secret life as singer in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Mirrored Heavens: Between Earth and Sky #3
by
Rebecca Roanhorse
Simon & Schuster, 06/04/2024
Even the sea cannot stay calm before the storm. —Teek saying
Serapio, avatar of the Crow God Reborn and the newly crowned Carrion King, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood's Hidden Genius
by
Carrie Courogen
St. Martin's Press, 06/04/2024
After performing their Broadway smash
An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Elaine set out on her own. She toiled unsuccessfully on Broadway ...
more
Old King: A Novel
by
Maxim Loskutoff
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/04/2024
In the summer of 1976, Duane Oshun finds himself stranded in a remote Montana town beset by a series of strange and menacing events. He takes a job as...
more
Shelterwood: A Novel
by
Lisa Wingate
Ballantine Books, 06/04/2024
Oklahoma, 1909. Eleven-year-old Olive Augusta Radley knows that her stepfather doesn't have good intentions toward the two Choctaw girls boarded in ...
more
Literary Fiction
Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States
by
J. Albert Mann
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/04/2024
Long before the first labor unions were formed, workers still knew what exploitation looked like. It looked like the enslavement of Black people. It ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water
by
Amorina Kingdon
Crown, 06/04/2024
For centuries, humans ignored sound in the "silent world" of the ocean, assuming that what we couldn't perceive, didn't exist. But we couldn't have ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Soldier Sailor: A Novel
by
Claire Kilroy
Scribner, 06/04/2024
Claire Kilroy takes readers deep inside the early days of motherhood. Exploring the clash of fierce love with a seismic shift in identity, Kilroy ...
more
Spilled Ink
by
Nadia Hashimi
Quill Tree Books, 06/04/2024
When Yalda hears that her twin brother, Yusuf, will be performing with his band at a local venue, she lets her friends convince her to sneak out to ...
more
Literary Fiction
Such a Bad Influence
by
Olivia Muenter
Quirk Books, 06/04/2024
Hazel Davis is drifting: she's stalled in her career, living in a city she hates, and less successful than her younger sister, @evelyn, a mega-popular...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Swift River
by
Essie Chambers
Simon & Schuster, 06/04/2024
But that's not the only reason Diamond stands out: she's teased relentlessly about her weight, and since Pop's been gone, she is the only Black person...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Tell Me Who You Are: A Novel
by
Louisa Luna
MCD, 06/04/2024
Brooklyn psychiatrist Dr. Caroline Strange is certain she knows what's best for her patients, her family, and pretty much everyone else, but that all ...
more
The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye: A Novel
by
Briony Cameron
Atria Books, 06/04/2024
In the tumultuous town of Yáquimo, Santo Domingo, Jacquotte Delahaye is an unknown but up-and-coming shipwright. Her dreams are bold but her ...
more
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Borrowed Hills: A Novel
by
Scott Preston
Scribner, 06/04/2024
In early 2001, a lethal disease breaks out on the hill farms of northern England, emptying the valleys of sheep and filling the skies with smoke as ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
by
Thomas R. Cech
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/04/2024
For over half a century, DNA has dominated science and the popular imagination as the "secret of life." But over the last several decades, a quiet ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Coast Road: A Novel
by
Alan Murrin
HarperVia, 06/04/2024
Set in 1994,
The Coast Road tells the story of two women—Izzy Keaveney, a housewife, and Colette Crowley, a poet. Colette has left her husband ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Deep Dark: A Graphic Novel
by
Molly Knox Ostertag
Graphix, 06/04/2024
Everyone has secrets. Mags's has teeth.
Magdalena Herrera is about to graduate high school, but she already feels like an adult with serious ...
more
The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America
by
Elizabeth Dias
Flatiron Books, 06/04/2024
In June 2022, Americans watched in shock as the Supreme Court reversed one of the nation's landmark rulings. For nearly a half century, Roe was ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The God and the Gumiho
by
Sophie Kim
Del Rey, 06/04/2024
Kim Hani has retired from a life of devouring souls. She is, simply put, too full. Once known as the infamous Scarlet Fox, she now spends her days ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Last Twelve Miles: A Novel
by
Erika Robuck
Sourcebooks Landmark, 06/04/2024
1926. Washington, D.C.
The Coast Guard is losing the Prohibition Rum War, but they have a new, secret weapon to crack smuggler codes, intercept ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower
by
Michel Paradis
Mariner Books, 06/04/2024
On June 6, 1944, General Dwight Eisenhower addressed the thousands of American troops preparing to invade Normandy, exhorting them to embrace the "...
more
The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports
by
Michael Waters
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/04/2024
In December 1935, Zdeněk Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women's sports, declared he was now living as a man. Around the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Pecan Children
by
Quinn Connor
Sourcebooks Landmark, 06/04/2024
How long will you hold on when your world is gone?
In a small southern pecan town, the annual harvest is a time of both celebration and heartbreak....
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Road to the Country: A Novel
by
Chigozie Obioma
Hogarth Books, 06/04/2024
Set in Nigeria in the late 1960s,
The Road to the Country is the epic story of a shy, bookish student haunted by long-held guilt who must go to war to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Secret Keeper of Main Street: A Novel
by
Trisha R. Thomas
William Morrow, 06/04/2024
1954: In the quaint town of Mendol, Oklahoma, Bailey Dowery is a Black dressmaker for the wives and daughters of local oil barons. She earns a ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers
by
Zeke Hernandez
St. Martin's Press, 06/04/2024
Immigration is one of the most controversial topics in the United States and everywhere else. Pundits, politicians, and the public usually depict ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder
by
Alan Townsend PhD
Grand Central Publishing, 06/04/2024
A decade ago, Dr. Alan Townsend's family received two unthinkable, catastrophic diagnoses: his 4-year-old daughter and his brilliant scientist wife ...
more
Tidal Creatures: Alchemical Journeys #3
by
Seanan McGuire
Tor Books, 06/04/2024
New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire takes us back to the world of the award-winning Alchemical Journeys series in this action-packed ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
by
Tom McGrath
Grand Central Publishing, 06/04/2024
By the time their obituary was being written in the late 1980s, Yuppies—the elite, uber‑educated faction of the Baby Boom generation—...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Vicious and Immoral: Homosexuality, the American Revolution, and the Trials of Robert Newburgh
by
John Gilbert McCurdy
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 06/04/2024
On the eve of the American Revolution, the British army considered the case of a chaplain, Robert Newburgh, who had been accused of having sex with a ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wafers
by
Seong-nan Ha
Open Letter, 06/04/2024
A best-seller in Korea, Ha Seong-nan is one of the stars of contemporary short fiction, writing edgy, socially conscious stories that bring to mind ...
more
Short Stories
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
by
Kellie Carter Jackson
Seal Press, 06/04/2024
Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence and Malcolm X's "by any ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Welcome to Glorious Tuga
by
Francesca Segal
Chatto & Windus, 06/06/2024
Passionate about conservation and fleeing an argument with her mother, newly qualified London vet Charlotte Walker has taken up a fellowship on the ...
more
Literary Fiction
A Talent for Murder: A Novel
by
Peter Swanson
William Morrow, 06/11/2024
Martha Ratliff conceded long ago that she'd likely spend her life alone. She was fine with it, happy with her solo existence, stimulated by her job as...
more
All Friends Are Necessary: A Novel
by
Tomas Moniz
Algonquin Books, 06/11/2024
Efren "Chino" Flores has just moved back to the Bay Area from Seattle, jumping from sublet to sublet. In Washington, he was a beloved middle school ...
more
Consent: A Memoir
by
Jill Ciment
Pantheon Books, 06/11/2024
In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, which began in the 1970s, when she was a teenager ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation
by
Hugh Warwick
Bloomsbury USA, 06/11/2024
Across the world, invasive species pose a danger to ecosystems. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity ranks them as a major threat to biodiversity...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Getting to Know Death: A Meditation
by
Gail Godwin
Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/11/2024
Ingmar Bergman once said that an artist should always have one work between himself and death. When renowned author Gail Godwin tripped and broke her ...
more
Gretel and the Great War: A Novel
by
Adam Ehrlich Sachs
FSG Originals, 06/11/2024
Vienna, 1919. A once-mighty empire has finally come crashing down―and a mysterious young woman, unable to speak, has turned up on the streets. A...
more
Hip-Hop Is History
by
Questlove
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/11/2024
When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn't expected to become the cultural force it is today. But for a young Black kid growing up in a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain
by
Peter S. Goodman
Mariner Books, 06/11/2024
How does the wealthiest country on earth run out of protective gear in the middle of a public health catastrophe? How do its parents find themselves ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How to Age Disgracefully: A Novel
by
Clare Pooley
Pamela Dorman Books, 06/11/2024
When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens' Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she'll be spending her time drinking tea and ...
more
Literary Fiction
Margo's Got Money Troubles: A Novel
by
Rufi Thorpe
William Morrow, 06/11/2024
As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo Millet's always known she'd have to make it on her own. So she enrolls at her local ...
more
Middletide: A Novel
by
Sarah Crouch
Atria Books, 06/11/2024
One peaceful morning, in the small, Puget Sound town of Point Orchards, the lifeless body of Dr. Erin Landry is found hanging from a tree on the ...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
One of Our Kind: A Novel
by
Nicola Yoon
Knopf, 06/11/2024
Jasmyn and King Williams move their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California hoping to find a community of like-minded people, a ...
more
Swan Song
by
Elin Hilderbrand
Little Brown & Company, 06/11/2024
Chief of Police Ed Kapenash is about to retire. Blond Sharon is going through a divorce. But when a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by the ...
more
Tehrangeles: A Novel
by
Porochista Khakpour
Pantheon Books, 06/11/2024
There's Violet, the big-hearted aspiring model; Roxanna, the chaotic influencer; Mina, the chronically-online overachiever; and the impressionable ...
more
The Color of a Lie
by
Kim Johnson
Random House Books for Younger Readers, 06/11/2024
Calvin knows how to pass for white. He's done it plenty of times before. For his friends in Chicago, when they wanted food but weren't allowed in a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
by
Griffin Dunne
Penguin Press, 06/11/2024
At eight, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion and uncle John ...
more
The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
by
Boyce Upholt
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/11/2024
The Mississippi River lies at the heart of America, an undeniable life force that is intertwined with the nation's culture and history. Its watershed ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Sisters K
by
Maureen Sun
The Unnamed Press, 06/11/2024
After years of estrangement, Minah, Sarah, and Esther have been forced together again. Called to their father's deathbed, the sisters must confront a ...
more
The Sons of El Rey
by
Alex Espinoza
Simon & Schuster, 06/11/2024
Ernesto Vega has lived many lives, from pig farmer to construction worker to famed luchador El Rey Coyote, yet he has always worn a mask. He was ...
more
The Stardust Grail: A Novel
by
Yume Kitasei
Flatiron Books, 06/11/2024
Maya Hoshimoto was once the best art thief in the galaxy. For ten years, she returned stolen artifacts to alien civilizations―until a disastrous...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Stars Too Fondly: A Novel
by
Emily Hamilton
Harper Voyager, 06/11/2024
So, here's the thing: Cleo and her friends really, truly didn't mean to steal this spaceship.
They just wanted to know why, twenty years ago, the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Throne: The Machiavelli Trilogy #1
by
Franco Bernini
Europa Editions, 06/11/2024
October 1502. As Cesare Borgia sets out to invade the Florentine Republic, Niccolò Machiavelli is sent to spy on him and to glean details of his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir
by
Cory Leadbeater
Ecco, 06/11/2024
As an aspiring novelist in his early twenties, Cory Leadbeater was presented with an opportunity to work for a well-known writer whose identity was ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell
by
Ann Powers
Dey Street Books, 06/11/2024
For decades, Joni Mitchell's life and music have enraptured listeners. One of the most celebrated artists of her generation, Mitchell has ...
more
Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal
by
Melissa B. Jacoby
The New Press, 06/11/2024
Bankruptcy is the busiest federal court in America. In theory, bankruptcy in America exists to cancel or restructure debts for people and companies ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance
by
Mara Kardas-Nelson
Metropolitan Books, 06/11/2024
In the mid-1970s, Muhammad Yunus, an American-trained Bangladeshi economist, met a poor female stool maker who needed money to expand her business. In...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
What Fire Brings: A Thriller
by
Rachel Howzell Hall
Thomas & Mercer, 06/11/2024
Bailey Meadows has just moved into the remote Topanga Canyon home of thriller author Jack Beckham. As his writer-in-residence, she's supposed to help ...
more
1974: A Personal History
by
Francine Prose
Harper, 06/18/2024
During her twenties, Francine Prose lived in San Francisco, where she began an intense and strange relationship with Tony Russo, who had been indicted...
more
Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and Ourselves
by
Tamsin Mather
Hanover Square Press, 06/18/2024
In this captivating book from one of the most influential geochemists in the field, Tamsin Mather takes us along on her globe-spanning excursions from...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women
by
Maggie Mertens
Algonquin Books, 06/18/2024
Despite women proving their abilities on the track time and again, men in the medical establishment, media, and athletic associations have fought to ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir
by
Priyanka Mattoo
Knopf, 06/18/2024
Priyanka Mattoo was born into a wooden house in the Himalayas, as were most of her ancestors. In 1989, however, mounting violence in the region forced...
more
Caledonian Road: A Novel
by
Andrew O'Hagan
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/18/2024
Campbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and fêted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen ...
more
Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
by
Ananda Lima
Tor Books, 06/18/2024
At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life and she writes stories for him about ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Death in the Air: A Novel
by
Ram Murali
Harper, 06/18/2024
Ro Krishna is the American son of Indian parents, educated at the finest institutions, equally at home in London's poshest clubs and on the squash ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls
by
Susan Seidelman
St. Martin's Press, 06/18/2024
Starting out in the mid-70s, a time when few women were directing movies, Susan was determined to become a filmmaker. She longed to tell stories about...
more
End of Active Service
by
Matt Young
Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/18/2024
What was it like? It's the only thing anyone wants to know about war-and the last thing Corporal Dean Pusey wants to talk about, at least not with one...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Four Squares
by
Bobby Finger
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/18/2024
In 1992, on his thirtieth birthday, Artie Anderson meets the man who will change his life. Artie spends his days at a tedious advertising job, finding...
more
God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer: A Novel
by
Joseph Earl Thomas
Grand Central Publishing, 06/18/2024
Now a doctoral student at The University, and an EMS worker at the hospital in North Philly, he encounters round the clock friends and family from his...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Hood Wellness: Tales of Communal Care from People Who Drowned on Dry Land
by
Tamela J. Gordon
Row House Publishing, 06/18/2024
Hood Wellness is also a deep exploration of people forced to overcome harrowing circumstances with little more than communal support and the will to ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Jackie: A Novel
by
Dawn Tripp
Random House, 06/18/2024
The world has divided my life into three:
Life with Jack
Life with Onassis
Life as a woman who goes to work because she wants to.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest
by
Fawn Weaver
Melcher Media, 06/18/2024
This book is a vibrant exploration set in the present day, delving into the life and legacy of Nearest Green, the African American distilling genius ...
more
Middle of the Night: A Novel
by
Riley Sager
Dutton, 06/18/2024
The worst thing to ever happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan Marsh's backyard. One July night, ten-year-old Ethan and his best friend ...
more
Thrillers
Parade: A Novel
by
Rachel Cusk
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/18/2024
Midway through his life, the artist G begins to paint upside down. Eventually, he paints his wife upside down. He also makes her ugly. The paintings ...
more
Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian
by
Dr. Amy Attas
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/18/2024
When a pet is sick, people—even the rich and famous—are at their most authentic and vulnerable. They could have a Monet on the wall and an...
more
Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership
by
Brea Baker
One World, 06/18/2024
To understand the contemporary racial wealth gap, we must first unpack the historic attacks on Indigenous and Black land ownership. From the moment ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Rules for Camouflage
by
Kirstin Cronn-Mills
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 06/18/2024
Evvie Chambers is doing her best to skate through the last month of high school to graduation. The only thing standing in her way is a biology report ...
more
Literary Fiction
Same As It Ever Was: A Novel
by
Claire Lombardo
Doubleday, 06/18/2024
Same As It Ever Was showcases the consummate style, signature wit, and profound emotional intelligence that made
The Most Fun We Ever Had one of the ...
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Sandwich: A Novel
by
Catherine Newman
Harper, 06/18/2024
For the past two decades, Rocky has looked forward to her family's yearly escape to Cape Cod. Their humble beach-town rental has been the site of ...
more
The Glassmaker: A Novel
by
Tracy Chevalier
Viking, 06/18/2024
It is 1486 and Venice is a wealthy, opulent center for trade. Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers on Murano, the island ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Memo: A Novel
by
Rachel Dodes, Lauren Mechling
Harper Perennial, 06/18/2024
Do you ever feel like your life doesn't measure up to everyone else's—and wonder if you just didn't get the memo helping you make the right ...more
The Next Mrs. Parrish: A Novel
by
Liv Constantine
Bantam Books, 06/18/2024
Amber Patterson Parrish has come a long way. Hard work and immaculate planning turned her from invisible wallflower to prominent socialite, though ...
more
The Witchstone
by
Henry H. Neff
Blackstone Publishing, 06/18/2024
Meet Laszlo, eight-hundred-year-old demon and Hell's least productive Curse Keeper. From his office beneath Midtown, he oversees the Drakeford Curse, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
by
John Ganz
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/18/2024
With the Soviet Union extinct, Saddam Hussein defeated, and U.S. power at its zenith, the early 1990s promised a "kinder, gentler America." Instead, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Where Wolves Don't Die
by
Anton Treuer
Levine Querido, 06/18/2024
But Ezra hates the dirty, polluted snow around them. He hates being away from the rez at Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation. And he hates the local ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
With Love, Miss Americanah
by
Jane Igharo
Feiwel & Friends, 06/18/2024
17-year-old Enore Adesuwa doesn't dive into things, she walks in carefully. So when she, her mother, and her sister move from Nigeria to America ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
A Daughter of Fair Verona: Daughter of Montague #1
by
Christina Dodd
A John Scognamiglio Book, 06/25/2024
Once upon a time a young couple met and fell in love. You probably know that story, and how it ended (hint: badly). Only here's the thing: That's not ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue
by
Dean Jobb
Algonquin Books, 06/25/2024
A skilled con artist and one of the most successful burglars in history, Arthur Barry was adept at slipping in and out of bedrooms undetected, ...
more
All the Colors of the Dark
by
Chris Whitaker
Crown, 06/25/2024
1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, ...
more
At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China
by
Edward Wong
Viking, 06/25/2024
The son of Chinese immigrants in Washington, DC, Edward Wong grew up among family secrets. His father toiled in Chinese restaurants and rarely spoke ...
more
Bear: A Novel
by
Julia Phillips
Hogarth Books, 06/25/2024
They were sisters and they would last past the end of time.
Sam and Elena dream of another life. On the island off the coast of Washington where ...
more
Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
by
Ferris Jabr
Random House, 06/25/2024
One of humanity's oldest beliefs is that our world is alive. Though once ridiculed by some scientists, the idea of Earth as a vast interconnected ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
by
Emily Nussbaum
Random House, 06/25/2024
In this revelatory, deeply reported account of the rise of "dirty documentary"—from its contentious roots in radio to the ascent of Donald Trump...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy
by
Simon Wu
Harper, 06/25/2024
In Robyn's 2010 track
Dancing on My Own, the Swedish pop-singer chronicles a night on the dance floor in the shadow of a former lover. She is bitter, ...
more
Don't Let the Devil Ride: A Novel
by
Ace Atkins
William Morrow, 06/25/2024
Hell is empty…and Addison McKellar's husband is missing.
Addison McKellar isn't clueless—she knows she and her husband Dean don't have ...
more
Foul Days: The Witch's Compendium of Monsters #1
by
Genoveva Dimova
Tor Books, 06/25/2024
As a witch in the walled city of Chernograd, Kosara has plenty of practice treating lycanthrope bites, bargaining with kikimoras, and slaying ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Girls Like Her
by
Melanie Sumrow
Balzer + Bray, 06/25/2024
A wealthy businessman is dead, and fifteen-year-old Ruby Monroe is in a Dallas jail awaiting trial for his murder. Ruby has no one she can count on&#...
more
Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory
by
Solomon J. Brager
William Morrow, 06/25/2024
Solomon Brager grew up with accounts of their great-grandparents' escape from Nazi Germany, told over and over until their understanding of self was ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Hey, Zoey
by
Sarah Crossan
Little Brown & Company, 06/25/2024
43-year-old Dolores O'Shea is logical, organized, and prepared to handle whatever comes her way. She keeps up with her job and housework, takes care ...
more
Hombrecito: A Novel
by
Santiago Jose Sanchez
Riverhead Books, 06/25/2024
In this groundbreaking novel, Santiago Jose Sanchez plunges us into the heart of one boy's life. His mother takes him and his brother from Colombia to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Honey: A Novel
by
Isabel Banta
Celadon, 06/25/2024
It is 1997, and Amber Young has received a life-changing call. It's a chance thousands of girls would die for: the opportunity to join girl group ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
How the Light Gets In: A Novel
by
Joyce Maynard
William Morrow, 06/25/2024
Following the death of her former husband, Cam, fifty-four-year-old Eleanor has moved back to the New Hampshire farm where they raised three children ...
more
Husbands & Lovers: A Novel
by
Beatriz Williams
Ballantine Books, 06/25/2024
New England, 2022. Three years ago, single mother Mallory Dunne received the telephone call every parent dreads—her ten-year-old son, Sam, had ...
more
Joe Hustle: A Novel
by
Richard Lange
Mulholland, 06/25/2024
Joe Hustle is a survivor. A Gulf War vet and ex-con always one stumble away from catastrophe, he manages to scrape together enough money from various ...
more
Last Date in El Zapotal
by
Mateo García Elizondo
Charco Press, 06/25/2024
This is a ghost story. A junkie has gone to El Zapotal to die – to rent a room in this crumbling backwater, melt into one last fix, and not...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Moral Injuries: A Novel
by
Christie Watson
Harper, 06/25/2024
When you're trained to protect the lives of others, how far will you go to protect your own?
Ruthlessly ambitious Olivia, anxious perfectionist ...
more
Practice: A Novel
by
Rosalind Brown
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/25/2024
Rosalind Brown's
Practice shows us just one day. Annabel, sitting in her small student room, attempts to write an essay about Shakespeare. She follows...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Russian Gothic
by
Aleksandr Skorobogatov
Rare Bird, 06/25/2024
Russian Gothic is a dark tale of the descent into paranoia and violence of Nikolai, a veteran of the Soviet-Afghan war. When a mysterious figure,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Shanghai: A Novel
by
Joseph Kanon
Scribner, 06/25/2024
After the violence of Kristallnacht (1938), European Jews, now desperate to emigrate, found the consular doors of the world closed to them. Only one ...
more
Sleep Like Death
by
Kalynn Bayron
Bloomsbury YA, 06/25/2024
Princess Eve was raised with one purpose: to destroy the Knight. Far too many of subjects of Queen's Bridge have been devastated by this evil sorcerer...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water
by
Vicki Valosik
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 06/25/2024
If you're not strong enough to swim fast, you're probably not strong enough to swim 'pretty,'" said a young Esther Williams to theater impresario ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
by
Olivia Laing
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/25/2024
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an 18th century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a ...
more
The Lions' Den: A Novel
by
Iris Mwanza
Graydon House, 06/25/2024
When young queer dancer Wilbess "Bessy" Mulenga is arrested by corrupt police, fresh-from-the-village rookie lawyer Grace Zulu takes up his cause in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
by
Ray Kurzweil
Viking, 06/25/2024
Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil's
The Singularity Is Near and its vision of an exponential future have spawned a worldwide movement...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Trust Her: A Novel
by
Flynn Berry
Viking, 06/25/2024
Three years after they narrowly escaped the IRA's worst punishment for informing, Northern Irish sisters Tessa and Marian Daly have built a new life ...
more
Woman of Interest: A Memoir
by
Tracy O'Neill
HarperOne, 06/25/2024
In 2020, Tracy O'Neill began to rethink her ideas of comfort and safety. Just out of a ten-year relationship and thirtysomething, she was driven by an...
more
The Curse of the Flores Women: A Novel
by
Angélica Lopes
Amazon Crossing, 07/01/2024
Eighteen-year-old Alice Ribeiro is constantly fighting―against the status quo, female oppression in Brazil, and even her own mother. But when a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Last Time I Saw You
by
Jo Leevers
Lake Union Publishing, 07/01/2024
Weeks away from the birth of her first child, Georgie should be enjoying the peace of her new life in the country, but boredom has settled in and ...
more
A Sea Full of Turtles: The Search for Optimism in an Epoch of Extinction
by
Bill Streever
Pegasus Books, 07/02/2024
Everyone alive today is witnessing a mass extinction event caused by the more than eight billion humans who share this planet. At times, it seems ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Age 16
by
Rosena Fung
Annick Press, 07/02/2024
Guandong, 1954 Sixteen-year-old Mei Laan longs for a future of freedom, and her beauty may be the key to getting it. Can an arranged marriage in Hong ...
more
Big in Sweden: A Novel
by
Sally Franson
Mariner Books, 07/02/2024
Paulie Johansson has never put much stock in the idea of family: she has her long-term boyfriend Declan and beloved best friend Jemma, and that's more...
more
Literary Fiction
Break to You
by
Neal Shusterman, Debra Young, Michelle Knowlden
Quill Tree Books, 07/02/2024
Adriana knows that if she can manage to keep her head down for the next seven months, she might be able to get through her sentence in the Compass ...
more
Briefly Very Beautiful: A Novel
by
Roz Dineen
The Overlook Press, 07/02/2024
In a land destabilized by unsafe air, wildfires, floods, viruses, supply shortages, and homegrown terror, Cass is raising three small children by ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Evenings and Weekends: A Novel
by
Oisín McKenna
Mariner Books, 07/02/2024
Summer in London stops for no one. Not the half-naked drunks and stoners, the bachelorette parties glugging from bejewelled bottles, the drag ...
more
Joined at the Joints
by
Marissa Eller
Holiday House, 07/02/2024
Chronically ill seventeen-year-old Ivy has stayed in watching the Food Network all summer—pies are better than people, and they don't trigger ...
more
Romance
Masquerade
by
O.O. Sangoyomi
Forge Books, 07/02/2024
Òdòdó's hometown of Timbuktu has been conquered by the warrior king of Yorùbáland, and living conditions for the women in her...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Midnight Rooms: A Novel
by
Donyae Coles
Amistad, 07/02/2024
England, 1840. Orabella Mumthrope spies an unexpected visitor in her uncle's parlor. Scruffy in appearance yet claiming to be the scion of a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: A Novel
by
Satoshi Yagisawa
Harper Perennial, 07/02/2024
Set again in the beloved Japanese bookshop and nearby coffee shop in the Jimbochi neighborhood of Toyko,
More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop deepens ...
more
Literary Fiction
Not About a Boy
by
Myah Hollis
HarperTeen, 07/02/2024
Amélie Cœur has never known what it truly means to be happy.
She thought she'd found happiness once, in a love that ended in tragedy ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
On the Bright Side
by
Anna Sortino
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/02/2024
Ellie's Deaf boarding school just shut down, forcing her to leave the place she considered home and return to her hearing family. But being ...
more
Rise
by
Freya Finch
Disney Editions, 07/02/2024
For seventeen-year-old Bryn, being the youngest, messiest, most rebellious sister in a family of valkyries isn't easy. Especially considering home is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Air They Breathe: A Pediatrician on the Frontlines of Climate Change
by
Debra Hendrickson
Simon & Schuster, 07/02/2024
Wildfires, hurricanes, and heat waves make headlines. But what is happening in Debra Hendrickson's clinic tells another story of this strange and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Education Wars, Jack Schneider: A Citizen's Guide and Defense Manual
by
Jennifer C. Berkshire, Jack Schneider
The New Press, 07/02/2024
Culture wars have engulfed our schools. Extremist groups are seeking to ban books, limit what educators can teach, and threaten the very foundations ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Entire Sky: A Novel
by
Joe Wilkins
Little Brown & Company, 07/02/2024
With his long hair and penchant for guitar, teenage Justin is the spitting image of his idol, Kurt Cobain—a resemblance that has often marked ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Expat: A Novel
by
Hansen Shi
Pegasus Crime, 07/02/2024
At twenty-six, Princeton grad Michael Wang is trapped. Stifled under the bamboo ceiling at General Motors, he's working quietly on a breakthrough in ...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
The God of the Woods: A Novel
by
Liz Moore
Riverhead Books, 07/02/2024
Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn't just any ...
more
The Lion Women of Tehran
by
Marjan Kamali
Gallery Books, 07/02/2024
In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Moonlight Market: A Novel
by
Joanne Harris
Pegasus Books, 07/02/2024
Deep in the heart of London, a photographer walks the streets and captures whatever catches his eye: an old man drinking coffee; a beautiful woman ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Night of Baba Yaga
by
Akira Otani
Soho Crime, 07/02/2024
Tokyo, 1979. Yoriko Shindo, a workhorse of a woman who has been an outcast her whole life, is kidnapped and dragged to the lair of the Naiki-kai, a ...
more
The Night the River Wept: A Novel
by
Lo Patrick
Sourcebooks Landmark, 07/02/2024
Arlene has lived in a small town on the edge of nowhere Georgia her whole life. Now married to her long-time high school sweetheart, Tommy, Arlene is ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Piano Player of Budapest: A True Story of Survival, Hope, and Music
by
Roxanne de Bastion
Pegasus Books, 07/02/2024
When her father died, singer-songwriter Roxanne de Bastion inherited a piano she knew had been in her family for over a hundred years. But it is only ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Second Chance of Darius Logan
by
David F. Walker
Scholastic, 07/02/2024
Darius Logan is far from a hero. Since his parents were killed, he has spent most of his life navigating foster homes and shelters, abandoned ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The World After Alice: A Novel
by
Lauren Aliza Green
Viking, 07/02/2024
When Morgan and Benji surprise their families with a wedding invitation to Maine, they're aware the news of their clandestine relationship will come ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
We Don't Have Time for This
by
Brianna Craft
Disney-Hyperion, 07/02/2024
What's more romantic than saving the earth?
Two presidents. One club. A sizzling connection.
Isa Brown wishes her life would slow down. She ...
more
Romance
Napalm in the Heart
by
Pol Guasch
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/04/2024
In a near future devastated by war and unspecified natural disaster, a young man and his mother cling to survival at the edge of a forest. Society is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Thousand Times Before: A Novel
by
Asha Thanki
Viking, 07/09/2024
Ayukta is finally sitting down with her wife Nadya to respond to a question she's long avoided: Should they have a child? The decision is complicated ...
more
Literary Fiction
All This and More: A Novel
by
Peng Shepherd
William Morrow, 07/09/2024
One woman. Endless options. Every choice has consequences.
Meek, play-it-safe Marsh has just turned forty-five, and her life is in shambles. Her ...
more
Thrillers
Bury Your Gays
by
Chuck Tingle
Tor Nightfire, 07/09/2024
But finally, after years of trying to make it, his big moment is here: an Oscar nomination. And the executives at the studio for his long-running ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Come to the Window: A Novel
by
Howard Norman
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/09/2024
It's l9l8. The war in Europe grinds on, and the Spanish flu seems to be on an insatiable killing spree. But in the small fishing village of Parrsboro,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Daughters of Chaos: A Novel
by
Jen Fawkes
The Overlook Press, 07/09/2024
In 1862, after a tragedy at home, twenty-two-year-old Sylvie Swift parts ways with her twin brother to trace the origins of an enigmatic playscript ...
more
Historical Fiction
Daughters of Olympus: A Novel
by
Hannah Lynn
Sourcebooks Landmark, 07/09/2024
Demeter: a goddess of life, living half of one.
Demeter did not always live in fear. Once, she loved the world and the humans who inhabited it. ...
more
Historical Fiction
Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity
by
Sable Yong
Dey Street Books, 07/09/2024
The beauty industry has a single mandate: be hot.
In the same week that you might be encouraged to try curtain bangs, contouring, bleached ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Elevator in Saigon
by
Thuân
New Directions Publishing, 07/09/2024
A young Vietnamese woman living in Paris travels back to Saigon for her estranged mother's funeral. Her brother had recently built a new house in ...
more
Grown Women: A Novel
by
Sarai Johnson
Harper, 07/09/2024
Erudite Evelyn, her cynical daughter Charlotte, and Charlotte's optimistic daughter Corinna see the world very differently. Though they love each ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
It's Elementary
by
Elise Bryant
Berkley Books, 07/09/2024
Mavis Miller is not a PTA mom. She has enough on her plate with her feisty seven-year-old daughter, Pearl, an exhausting job at a nonprofit, and the ...
more
Romance
Let Me Liberate You: A Novel
by
Andie Davis
Little A, 07/09/2024
Dark, lanky, and bald, New York–raised photographer Sabre Cumberbatch can't tell if she's highly talented or just highly Instagrammable. Up to ...
more
Literary Fiction
Madoff: The Final Word
by
Richard Behar
Avid Reader Press, 07/09/2024
Some $68 billion evaporated during Bernie Madoff's epic confidence game. Two people were driven to suicide in the wake of the Ponzi Scheme's exposure....
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Mourning a Breast
by
Xi Xi
New York Review Books, 07/09/2024
In 1989, the Hong Kong cult classic writer Xi Xi was diagnosed with breast cancer and began writing in order to make sense of her diagnosis and ...
more
Biography/Memoir
My Parents' Marriage: A Novel
by
Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
Amistad, 07/09/2024
Determined to avoid the pain and instability of her parents' turbulent, confusing marriage, Kokui marries a man far different from her loving, ...
more
Literary Fiction
Navola: A novel
by
Paolo Bacigalupi
Knopf, 07/09/2024
"You must be as sharp as a stilettotore's dagger and as subtle as a fish beneath the waters. This is what it is to be Navolese, this is what it is to ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Our Kind of Game: A Novel
by
Johanna Copeland
Harper, 07/09/2024
2019. Stella Parker has the life she's always wanted: a loving husband, two happy children that she gave up her thriving law career to raise, and a ...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
Quickly, While They Still Have Horses: Stories
by
Jan Carson
Scribner, 07/09/2024
In "A Certain Degree of Ownership," a distracted couple on a beach fail to notice their baby crawl perilously toward the sea. In "Grand So," the ghost...
more
Quincas Borba: A Novel
by
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 07/09/2024
Hailed in his lifetime as one of Latin America's greatest writers, Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was a storyteller known for his wholly ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
State of Paradise: A Novel
by
Laura van den Berg
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/09/2024
Along with her husband, a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author returns to her mother's house in the Florida town where she grew up. As the summer ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Tell It to Me Singing: A Novel
by
Tita Ramirez
Simon & Schuster, 07/09/2024
Monica Campo is pregnant with her first child when, moments before being wheeled into emergency heart surgery, her mother confesses a long-held secret...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Anthropologists
by
Aysegül Savas
Bloomsbury Publishing, 07/09/2024
As the young couple dreams about the possibilities of each new listing, Asya, a documentarian, gathers footage from the neighborhood like an ...
more
The Briar Club: A Novel
by
Kate Quinn
William Morrow, 07/09/2024
Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation's ...
more
The Coin: A Novel
by
Yasmin Zaher
Catapult, 07/09/2024
The Coin's narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Dallergut Dream Department Store: A Novel
by
Miye Lee
Hanover Square Press, 07/09/2024
In a mysterious town hidden in our collective subconscious there's a department store that sells dreams. Day and night, visitors both human and animal...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Heart in Winter: A Novel
by
Kevin Barry
Doubleday, 07/09/2024
October 1891. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city of Butte, Montana is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and ...
more
The History of Sound: Stories
by
Ben Shattuck
Viking, 07/09/2024
In twelve luminous stories set across three centuries,
The History of Sound examines the unexpected ways the past returns to us and how love and loss ...
more
The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora
by
Wendy Pearlman
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 07/09/2024
In 2011, Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom. Brutal government repression transformed peaceful protests into one of the most devastating ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry
by
Stacey D'Erasmo
Graywolf Press, 07/09/2024
How do we keep doing this―making art? Stacey D'Erasmo had been writing for twenty years and had published three novels when she asked herself ...
more
The Sky on Fire
by
Jenn Lyons
Tor Books, 07/09/2024
Anahrod lives only for survival, forging her own way through the harsh jungles of the Deep with her titan drake by her side. Even when an adventuring ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Unforgettable Loretta Darling: A Novel
by
Katherine Blake
HarperPaperbacks, 07/09/2024
It's 1950 and Loretta Reynolds is newly arrived in Hollywood, fresh off a con that brought her from England to the sunny shores of California. She's ...
more
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Toward Eternity: A Novel
by
Anton Hur
HarperVia, 07/09/2024
In a near-future world, a new technological therapy is quickly eradicating cancer. The body's cells are entirely replaced with nanites—robot or ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It
by
Genevieve Guenther
Oxford University Press, 07/10/2024
Weaving this analysis through fascinating critical histories of the terms that dominate the language of climate politics―the words we, alarmist,...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Rose by Any Other Name
by
Mary McMyne
Redhook, 07/16/2024
My name has only been whispered, heretofore…
England, 1591. Rose Rushe's passion for life runs deep—she loves mead and music, meddles...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Banal Nightmare: A Novel
by
Halle Butler
Random House, 07/16/2024
Margaret Anne "Moddie" Yance had just returned to her native land in the Midwestern town of X, to mingle with the friends of her youth, to get back in...
more
Beep: A Novel
by
Bill Roorbach
Algonquin Books, 07/16/2024
In this immensely enjoyable and wise novel, it takes a sweet and personable squirrel monkey, Beep, to help us see the world we live in more ...
more
Literary Fiction
Bright Objects
by
Ruby Todd
Simon & Schuster, 07/16/2024
Sylvia Knight is losing hope that the person who killed her husband will ever face justice. Since the night of the hit-and-run, her world has been ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Desperation Reef: A Novel
by
T. Jefferson Parker
Forge Books, 07/16/2024
Jen Stonebreaker hasn't entered into a big-wave surfing competition since witnessing her husband's tragic death twenty-five years ago at the Monsters ...
more
Grief in the Fourth Dimension: A Novel
by
Jennifer Yu
Amulet Books, 07/16/2024
In life, high school classmates Caroline Davison and Kenny Zhou existed in separate universes—Caroline in one of softball practices and family ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
House of Shades: A Novel
by
Lianne Dillsworth
Harper, 07/16/2024
London, 1833.
Doctress Hester Reeves has been offered a life-changing commission.
But it comes at a price. She must leave behind her husband...
more
Historical Fiction
Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World
by
Brandon Keim
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/16/2024
Honeybees deliberate democratically. Rats reflect on the past. Snakes have friends. In recent decades, our understanding of animal cognition has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Portrait of a Shadow
by
Meriam Metoui
Henry Holt and Company, 07/16/2024
Inez is missing, but missing things can always be found.
Mae knows this as a fact, even though the police investigation has come to a standstill,...
more
Mysteries
Debut Author
Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch
by
Andrea Freeman
Metropolitan Books, 07/16/2024
In 1779, to subjugate Indigenous nations, George Washington ordered his troops to "ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent their planting more....
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Smothermoss
by
Alisa Alering
Tin House Books, 07/16/2024
In 1980s Appalachia, sisters Sheila and Angie couldn't be more different. While their mother works long shifts at the nearby asylum, Sheila does her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur
by
Lev Grossman
Viking, 07/16/2024
A gifted young knight named Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a spot on the Round Table, only to find that he's too late. The king died two ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Lucky Ones: A Memoir
by
Zara Chowdhary
Crown, 07/16/2024
In 2002, Zara Chowdhary is sixteen years old and living with her family in Ahmedabad, one of India's fastest-growing cities, when a gruesome train ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA
by
Jesse Katz
Astra House, 07/16/2024
The vendor, Francisco Clemente, had been refusing to give in to the gang's shakedown demands. But Giovanni botches the hit, accidentally killing a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
There Is Happiness: New and Selected Stories
by
Brad Watson
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/16/2024
"Here is a generous portion of the work of a swiftly passing lifetime. Bountiful is the deserving page," Joy Williams writes in her introduction to ...
more
Trouble in Queenstown: A Mystery
by
Delia Pitts
Minotaur Books, 07/16/2024
Evander "Vandy" Myrick became a cop to fulfill her father's expectations. After her world cratered, she became a private eye to satisfy her own. Now ...
more
What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World's Ocean
by
Helen Scales
Atlantic Monthly Press, 07/16/2024
No matter where we live, "we are all ocean people," Helen Scales emphatically observes in her bracing yet hopeful exploration of the future of the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America
by
James Tejani
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/23/2024
The Port of Los Angeles is all around us. Objects we use on a daily basis pass through it: furniture, apparel, electronics, automobiles, and much more...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune
by
Noliwe Rooks
Penguin Press, 07/23/2024
When Mary McLeod Bethune died, tributes in newspapers around the country said the same thing: she should be on the Mount Rushmore of Black American ...
more
Becoming Marlow Fin: A Novel
by
Ellen Won Steil
Lake Union Publishing, 07/23/2024
Marlow Fin is as famous for her beauty and success as she is infamous for her past, some of which is a mystery even to her. Is the public ready for ...
more
Literary Fiction
Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861
by
Robert W. Merry
Simon & Schuster, 07/23/2024
The Mexican War brought vast new territories to the United States, which precipitated a growing crisis over slavery. The new territories seemed ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
I Will Never Leave You
by
Kara A. Kennedy
Delacorte Press, 07/23/2024
Maya has always belonged to Alana. After four years of dating, and on the precipice of graduating high school, Maya has been too terrified to consider...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Liars: A Novel
by
Sarah Manguso
Hogarth Books, 07/23/2024
A nuclear family can destroy a woman artist. I'd always known that. But I'd never suspected how easily I'd fall into one anyway.
When Jane, an ...
more
Nicked: A Novel
by
M. T. Anderson
Pantheon Books, 07/23/2024
The year is 1087, and a pox is sweeping through the Italian port city of Bari. When a lowly monk is visited by Saint Nicholas in his dreams, he ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Our Beautiful Darkness: A Graphic Novel
by
(n/a) Ondjaki
Unruly, 07/23/2024
The light goes out suddenly. And in this absence of light, a pair of teenagers bare their souls. Into the warm silence of the night, they share a ...
more
Rescue Party: A Graphic Anthology of COVID Lockdown
by
Gabe Fowler
Pantheon Books, 07/23/2024
On April 1, 2020, the Instagram account of Desert Island, Brooklyn's celebrated alternative comics shop, put out a call. By then Desert Island had ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Seeing Through: A Chronicle of Sex, Drugs, and Opera
by
Ricky Ian Gordon
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/23/2024
At eight years old, Ricky Ian Gordon pulled
The Victor Book of Opera off his piano teacher's bookshelf, and his world shifted on its axis. Though ...
more
Slow Dance: A Novel
by
Rainbow Rowell
William Morrow, 07/23/2024
Back in high school, everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up together ... everybody but Shiloh and Cary.
They were just friends.
Best ...more
Romance
The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement
by
Susannah Gibson
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/23/2024
In England in the 1700s, a woman who was an intellectual, spoke out, or wrote professionally was considered unnatural. After all, as the wisdom of the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Dissonance: A Novel
by
Shaun Hamill
Pantheon Books, 07/23/2024
"You can never go home again," the saying goes—but Hal, Athena, and Erin have to. In high school, the three were students of the eccentric ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Faculty Lounge: A Novel
by
Jennifer Mathieu
Dutton, 07/23/2024
With its ensemble of warm and unforgettable characters,
The Faculty Lounge shows readers a different side of school life. It all starts when an ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky
by
Josh Galarza
Henry Holt and Company, 07/23/2024
Ever since cancer invaded his adoptive mother's life, Brett feels like he's losing everything, most of all control. To cope, Brett fuels all of his ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia: A novel
by
Juliet Grames
Knopf, 07/23/2024
Calabria, 1960. Francesca Loftfield, a twenty-seven-year-old, starry-eyed American, arrives in the isolated mountain village of Santa Chionia tasked ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Lost Souls of Benzaiten
by
Kelly Murashige
Soho Teen, 07/23/2024
"I wish to become one of those round vacuum cleaner robots." That's what Machi prays for at the altar of Japanese goddess Benzaiten. Ever since her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Modern Fairies: A Novel
by
Clare Pollard
Avid Reader Press, 07/23/2024
Why don't they tell you it is the beautiful princess who becomes the evil queen; that they are just the same person at different points in their story...more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love
by
India Holton
Berkley Books, 07/23/2024
Beth Pickering is on the verge of finally capturing the rare deathwhistler bird when Professor Devon Lockley swoops in, stealing both her bird and her...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
by
Jesselyn Cook
Crown, 07/23/2024
The QAnon conspiracy theories—which posit that a nefarious cabal of elites is secretly ruling our society, poisoning our bodies, and harming our...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl
by
Bart Yates
A John Scognamiglio Book, 07/23/2024
"Each day is a story, whether or not that story makes any damn sense or is worth telling to anyone else."
At the age of ninety-six, Isaac Dahl sits...
more
The Wrong Hands: Detective Miller Novels #2
by
Mark Billingham
Atlantic Monthly Press, 07/23/2024
Unconventional Detective Declan Miller has a problem. Well, two problems. First, there's his dead wife and her yet-to-be-solved murder.
He really ...more
Thrillers
Time and Time Again
by
Chatham Greenfield
Bloomsbury YA, 07/23/2024
Phoebe Mendel's day is never ending--literally.
On August 6th, she woke up to find herself stuck in a time loop. And for nearly a month of August...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen
by
Jon M. Chu
Random House, 07/23/2024
Long before he directed
Wicked, In The Heights, or the groundbreaking film
Crazy Rich Asians, Jon M. Chu was a movie-obsessed first-generation Chinese...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Finding Famous: A Mashad Family Novel
by
Candice Jalili
Disney-Hyperion, 07/30/2024
Ever since her mom died, Josie Lawrence has been content with her safe, predictable life. She hangs out with exactly two people: her best (and only) ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Into the Clear Blue Sky: The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere
by
Rob Jackson
Scribner, 07/30/2024
Climate change is here. From the millions displaced by the floods in Pakistan to Californian and Canadian towns incinerated by wildfires, we are ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
My Mother Cursed My Name: A Novel
by
Anamely Salgado Reyes
Atria Books, 07/30/2024
For generations, the Olivares women have sought to control their daughters' destinies, starting with their names. In life, Olvido constantly clashed ...
more
Literary Fiction
Off the Books: A Novel
by
Soma Mei Sheng Frazier
Henry Holt and Company, 07/30/2024
Recent Dartmouth dropout Mei, in search of a new direction in life, drives a limo to make ends meet. Her grandfather convinces her to allow her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Pearl: A Novel
by
Siân Hughes
Knopf, 07/30/2024
Marianne is eight years old when her mother goes missing.
Left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in a ramshackle house on the edge...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Someone Like Us: A novel
by
Dinaw Mengestu
Knopf, 07/30/2024
After abandoning his once-promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush meets Hannah—a photographer whose way of ...
more
The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity
by
Timothy C. Winegard
Dutton, 07/30/2024
Timothy C. Winegard's
The Horse is an epic history unlike any other. Its story begins more than 5,500 years ago on the windswept grasslands of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World
by
Daisy Dunn
Penguin Books, 07/30/2024
Around four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women with snakes slithering on their arms. Over one thousand years...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Most
by
Jessica Anthony
Little Brown & Company, 07/30/2024
It is an unseasonably warm Sunday in November 1957. Katheen, a college tennis champion turned Delaware housewife, decides not to join her flagrantly ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Wedding People: A Novel
by
Alison Espach
Henry Holt and Company, 07/30/2024
It's a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in ...
more
The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards
by
Jessica Waite
Atria Books, 07/30/2024
In the midst of mourning her husband's sudden death, writer Jessica Waite discovered shocking secrets that undermined everything she thought she knew ...
more
The Woman Who Lied: A Novel
by
Claire Douglas
Harper, 07/30/2024
Emilia has a dream life. But someone knows the truth ...
Emilia Ward lives in suburban London with her husband, their young son, and a teenager ...
more
Thrillers
We Burn Daylight: A Novel
by
Bret Anthony Johnston
Random House, 07/30/2024
Waco, Texas, 1993. People from all walks of life have arrived to follow the Lamb's gospel—signing over savings and pensions, selling their homes...
more
Daughter of Fire: A Novel
by
Sofia Robleda
Amazon Crossing, 08/01/2024
Catalina de Cerrato is being raised by her widowed father, Don Alonso, in 1551 Guatemala, scarcely thirty years since the Spanish invasion. A ruling ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Thirteenth Husband: A Novel
by
Greer Macallister
Sourcebooks Landmark, 08/01/2024
Based on a real woman from history, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo meets The Haunting of Hill House in this fictional tell-all ...
more
Historical Fiction
A Mask of Flies
by
Matthew Lyons
Tor Nightfire, 08/06/2024
THE PAST HAS TEETH
In the grisly aftermath of a botched bank heist, career criminal Anne Heller has no choice but to return to her family's cabin...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
by
Tia Levings
St. Martin's Press, 08/06/2024
Recruited into the fundamentalist Quiverfull movement as a young wife, Tia Levings learned that being a good Christian meant following a list of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
A World of Hurt
by
Mindy Mejia
Atlantic Monthly Press, 08/06/2024
Kara Johnson always knew she'd die young and violently. It didn't matter who delivered the final blow, she would deserve it—her years spent ...
more
And So I Roar: A Novel
by
Abi Daré
Dutton, 08/06/2024
When Tia accidentally overhears a whispered conversation between her mother—terminally ill and lying in a hospital bed in Port Harcourt, Nigeria...
more
Better Left Buried
by
Mary E. Roach
Disney-Hyperion, 08/06/2024
Lucy Preston just wants to go on vacation. But being the daughter of a famous private detective means that sometimes, your beach vacay goes off the ...
more
Death at Morning House
by
Maureen Johnson
HarperTeen, 08/06/2024
The fire wasn't Marlowe Wexler's fault. Dates should be hot, but not hot enough to warrant literal firefighters. Akilah, the girl Marlowe has been in ...
more
Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labor Powering A.I.
by
Mark Graham
Bloomsbury USA, 08/06/2024
Silicon Valley has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Five-Star Stranger: A Novel
by
Kat Tang
Scribner, 08/06/2024
Would you hire someone to be the best man at your wedding? Your stand-in brother? Your husband?
In an age where online ratings are all-powerful, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Great Fear on the Mountain
by
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz
Archipelago Books, 08/06/2024
Teeming with tension, this immersive, rhapsodic story transports readers to the Swiss mountainside, bringing to mind the writing of Thomas Mann while ...
more
Group Living and Other Recipes: A Memoir
by
Lola Milholland
Spiegel & Grau, 08/06/2024
Lola Milholland grew up in the nineties, the child of iconoclastic hippies. Both her parents threw open their rambling house in Portland, Oregon, to ...
more
Hello, Horse
by
Richard Kelly Kemick
Biblioasis, 08/06/2024
A teenager's job mucking stalls at a dog track takes a strange turn when his co-worker finds a new religion at odds with winning streaks. Two brothers...
more
Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch
by
Codie Crowley
Disney-Hyperion, 08/06/2024
Murdered bad girl Annie Lane is back from the grave and hellbent on revenge ... she just has to figure out who killed her.
Between her careless mom...
more
Hum: A Novel
by
Helen Phillips
Marysue Rucci Books, 08/06/2024
In a city addled by climate change and populated by intelligent robots called "hums," May loses her job to artificial intelligence. In a desperate bid...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist's Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India
by
Rollo Romig
Penguin Books, 08/06/2024
When Gauri Lankesh, an outspoken journalist in the South Indian city of Bangalore, was assassinated in September 2017 outside her home, it wasn't just...
more
Jellyfish Have No Ears: A Novel
by
Adèle Rosenfeld
Graywolf Press, 08/06/2024
After an audiology test shows that almost all her hearing is gone, her doctor suggests getting a cochlear implant. The operation will be irreversible,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence
by
Sara Imari Walker
Riverhead Books, 08/06/2024
What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Paris 1944: Occupation, Resistance, Liberation: A Social History
by
Patrick Bishop
Pegasus Books, 08/06/2024
The fall of Paris to the Nazis on June 14th, 1940, was one of the darkest days of World War II. And the liberation of the city on August 25th, 1944, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Plays Well with Others: A Novel
by
Sophie Brickman
William Morrow, 08/06/2024
It takes a village...just not this one.
Annie Lewin is at the end of her rope. She's a mother of three young children, her workaholic ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems
by
Carl Phillips
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/06/2024
Carl Phillips's
Scattered Snows,
to the North is a collection about distortion and revelation, about knowing and the unreliability of a knowing that's...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Age of Loneliness: Essays
by
Laura Marris
Graywolf Press, 08/06/2024
She asks: how do we add to archives of ecological memory? How can we notice and document what's missing in the landscapes closest to us?
Filled ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
by
Evan Friss
Viking, 08/06/2024
Bookstores have always been unlike any other kind of store, shaping readers and writers, and influencing our tastes, thoughts, and politics. They ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Dragon from Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany
by
Pamela D. Toler
Beacon Press, 08/06/2024
We are facing an alarming upsurge in the spread of misinformation and attempts by powerful figures to discredit facts so they can seize control of ...
more
The Gender Binary Is a Big Lie: Infinite Identities around the World (Queer History Project)
by
Lee Wind
Zest Books, 08/06/2024
While many people identify as men or women, that is not all there is. The idea that all humans fall into one of two gender categories is largely a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The In Crowd: Detective Inspector Caius Beauchamp
by
Charlotte Vassell
Doubleday, 08/06/2024
Early one morning, a men's rowing team discovers a body floating face down in the Thames. Many years before, the chief executive of a clothing ...
more
The Mercy of Gods: The Captive's War #1
by
James S. A. Corey
Orbit, 08/06/2024
The Carryx – part empire, part hive – have waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Outlier
by
Elisabeth Eaves
Random House, 08/06/2024
Cate Winter, at 34, is a wildly successful neuroscientist and entrepreneur who has invented a cure for Alzheimer's that will improve the lives of ...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Rich People Have Gone Away: A Novel
by
Regina Porter
Hogarth Books, 08/06/2024
Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife, Darla, head upstate to their summer cottage to wait out the lockdown. Not everyone in their upscale...
more
The Rose Arbor: A Novel
by
Rhys Bowen
Lake Union Publishing, 08/06/2024
London: 1968. Liz Houghton is languishing as an obituary writer at a London newspaper when a young girl's disappearance captivates the city. If Liz ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Truth According to Ember
by
Danica Nava
Berkley Books, 08/06/2024
Ember Lee Cardinal has not always been a liar—well, not for anything that counted at least. But her job search is not going well and when her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven: Stories
by
Ruben Reyes Jr.
Mariner Books, 08/06/2024
An ordinary man wakes one morning to discover he's a famous reggaetón star. An aging abuela slowly morphs into a marionette puppet. A struggling ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
This Ravenous Fate
by
Hayley Dennings
Sourcebooks Fire, 08/06/2024
It's 1926 and reapers, the once-human vampires with a terrifying affliction, are on the rise in New York. But the Saint family's thriving reaper-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant: How Nannying for the 1% Taught Me about the Myths of Equality, Motherhood, and Upward Mobility in America
by
Stephanie Kiser
Sourcebooks, 08/06/2024
When Stephanie Kiser moves to New York City after college to pursue a career in writing, she quickly learns that her entry-level salary won't cover ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Wordhunter: A Novel
by
Stella Sands
HarperPaperbacks, 08/06/2024
Tattooed, pierced, and a bit of a mess, Maggie Moore is a surprising genius when it comes to words, a savant able to solve any linguistic puzzle. The ...
more
Yr Dead
by
Sam Sax
McSweeney's Books, 08/06/2024
Unfolding in fragments of memory, Ezra dissolves into the family, religion, desire, losses, pains and joys that made them into the person that's ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
by
Carrie Rickey
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/13/2024
Over the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any female filmmaker, Agnès Varda (1928–2019) wrote and directed some of the ...
more
A Great Marriage: A Novel
by
Frances Mayes
Ballantine Books, 08/13/2024
A great marriage is an elusive thing, and only a few know the secret to making one.
Dara Willcox, in New York for a weekend, meets Austin Clarke ...
more
Ash's Cabin
by
Jen Wang
First Second, 08/13/2024
Ash has always felt alone.
Adults ignore the climate crisis. Other kids Ash's age are more interested in pop stars and popularity contests than ...
more
Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans
by
Bill Schutt
Algonquin Books, 08/13/2024
In
Bite, zoologist Bill Schutt makes a surprising case: it is teeth that are responsible for the long-term success of vertebrates. The appearance of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Burn: A novel
by
Peter Heller
Knopf, 08/13/2024
Every year, Jess and Storey have made an annual pilgrimage to the most remote corners of the country, where they camp, hunt, and hike, leaving much ...
more
Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist
by
Jane Rosenberg
Hanover Square Press, 08/13/2024
For over forty years, Jane Rosenberg has been at the heart of the news cycle, covering almost every major trial that has passed through the New York ...
more
Everything We Never Knew: A Novel
by
Julianne Hough
Sourcebooks Landmark, 08/13/2024
On stage at an awards banquet is the last place Lexi Cole expected to drown. But as she accepts the award for top-seller at her realty firm, something...
more
Literary Fiction
Ginster
by
Siegfried Kracauer
New York Review Books, 08/13/2024
Siegfried Kracauer's
Ginster is the great World War I novel you've never heard of. Here, the sheer horrors are kept offstage, as in Greek tragedy, and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery
by
Theodore H. Schwartz
Dutton, 08/13/2024
We've all heard the phrase "it's not brain surgery." But what exactly
is brain surgery? It's a profession that is barely a hundred years old and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Hera: A Novel
by
Jennifer Saint
Flatiron Books, 08/13/2024
When the immortal goddess Hera and her brother Zeus overthrow their tyrannical father, she dreams of ruling at his side. But as they establish their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Highway Thirteen: Stories
by
Fiona McFarlane
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/13/2024
In the small town of Barrow, Australia, people go about their ordinary lives. They drive to work through the dense state forest. They raise their ...
more
In Exile: Rupture, Reunion, and My Grandmother's Secret Life
by
Sadiya Ansari
House of Anansi Press, 08/13/2024
Why did her grandmother Tahira abandon her seven children to follow a man from Karachi to a tiny village in Punjab? And though she eventually left him...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
In France Profound: The Long History of a House, a Mountain Town, and a People
by
T.D. Allman
Atlantic Monthly Press, 08/13/2024
When T. D. Allman purchased an 800-year-old house in the mountain village of Lauzerte in southwestern France, he aimed to find refuge from the world's...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv: A Novel
by
Andrey Kurkov
HarperVia, 08/13/2024
Strange, almost magical, things are afoot in Lviv. Seagulls circle overhead while the passing breeze carries a briny whiff, even though the coast is ...
more
Kent State: An American Tragedy
by
Brian VanDeMark
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/13/2024
On May 4, 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s exploded. Antiwar protesters ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lady Macbeth: A Novel
by
Ava Reid
Bantam Doubleday Dell, 08/13/2024
The Lady knows the stories: how her eyes induce madness in men.
The Lady knows she will be wed to the Scottish brute, who does not leave his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Manboobs: A Memoir of Musicals, Visas, Hope, and Cake
by
Komail Aijazuddin
Abrams Press, 08/13/2024
What do you do when you're too gay for Pakistan, too Pakistani to be gay in America, and you're ashamed of your body everywhere? How can you find ...
more
Medusa
by
Nataly Gruender
Grand Central Publishing, 08/13/2024
The only mortal daughter of two sea gods, and a priestess of Athena, Medusa was a woman who thought she had found her place in the world. But ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Medusa of the Roses
by
Navid Sinaki
Grove Press, 08/13/2024
Anjir and Zal are childhood best friends turned adults in love. The only problem is they live in Iran, where being openly gay is criminalized, and the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir
by
Anna Marie Tendler
Simon & Schuster, 08/13/2024
In early 2021, popular artist Anna Marie Tendler checked herself into a psychiatric hospital following a year of crippling anxiety, depression and ...
more
Mina's Matchbox: A Novel
by
Yoko Ogawa
Pantheon Books, 08/13/2024
In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay ...
more
Mistress of Lies: The Age of Blood #1
by
K. M. Enright
Orbit, 08/13/2024
The daughter of a powerful but disgraced Blood Worker, Shan LeC laire has spent her entire life perfecting her blood magic, building her network of ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Mothballs
by
Sole Otero
Fantagraphics Books, 08/13/2024
San Martín, Argentina, 2001. Upon her estranged grandmother Vilma's death, 19-year-old Rocío moves into a house haunted by memories. Seeking...
more
Graphic Novels
Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History
by
Anthony E. Kaye
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/13/2024
In August 1831, a group of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia, rose up to fight for their freedom. They attacked the plantations on which...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life
by
Sofia Samatar
Soft Skull Press, 08/13/2024
In a series of compressed, dynamic prose pieces, Samatar blends letters from her friend with notes on literature, turning to Édouard Glissant to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Peggy: A Novel
by
Rebecca Godfrey
Random House, 08/13/2024
Venice, 1958. Peggy Guggenheim, heiress and now legendary art collector, sits in the sun at her white marble palazzo on the Grand Canal. She's in a ...
more
Silken Gazelles: A Novel
by
Jokha Alharthi
Catapult, 08/13/2024
Raised as sisters, Ghazaala is devastated when her friend Asiya is forced to leave their small mountainside village following a tragic circumstance. ...
more
The Avian Hourglass
by
Lindsey Drager
Dzanc Books, 08/13/2024
The birds have disappeared. The stars are no longer visible. The Crisis is growing worse. In a town as isolated as a snowglobe, a woman who dreams of ...
more
The Axeman's Carnival
by
Catherine Chidgey
Europa Editions, 08/13/2024
Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Marnie, and this is where his story might have ended. "If it keeps me awake," says Marnie's ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Dark We Know
by
Wen-yi Lee
Zando, 08/13/2024
Growing up in Slater, Isadora Chang never felt at ease in the repressive small town, even before she realized she was bisexual―but after the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Fertile Earth: A Novel
by
Ruthvika Rao
Flatiron Books, 08/13/2024
Vijaya and Sree are the daughters of the Deshmukhs of Irumi. Hailing from a lineage of ancestral aristocrats, their family's social status and power ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Hivemind Swarmed: Conversations on Gamergate, the Aftermath, and the Quest for a Safer Internet
by
David Wolinsky
Beacon Press, 08/13/2024
With
The Hivemind Swarmed, oral historian and documentary researcher David Wolinsky invites readers to sit in on a series of urgent, intimate ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Italy Letters
by
Vi Khi Nao
Melville House, 08/13/2024
The Italy Letters is a slim, powerful shot of literary fantasia from one of America's best-kept secrets. Long an underground favorite, visionary ...
more
The Maid and the Crocodile: A Novel in the World of Raybearer
by
Jordan Ifueko
Amulet Books, 08/13/2024
The smallest spark can bind two hearts...or start a revolution.
In the magic-soaked capital city of Oluwan, Small Sade needs a job—...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Palace of Eros: A Novel
by
Caro De Robertis
Atria Books, 08/13/2024
Young, headstrong Psyche has captured the eyes of every suitor in town and far beyond with her tempestuous beauty, which has made her irresistible as ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist's Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life
by
Nathalie A. Cabrol
Scribner, 08/13/2024
We are in a golden age in astronomy, living on the cusp of breakthroughs that will revolutionize our understanding of our place in the cosmos in. Yet ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Story Collector
by
Evie Woods
HarperCollins Publishers, 08/13/2024
One hundred years ago, Anna, a young farm girl, volunteers to help an intriguing American visitor translate fairy stories from Irish to English. But ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Stranger at the Wedding: A Novel
by
A. E. Gauntlett
Henry Holt and Company, 08/13/2024
Annie never much believed in love. That is, until meeting Mark. After crossing paths on morning commutes, they connect at a group counseling session ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Through the Mist: A Novel
by
Lindsay Jayne Ashford
Lake Union Publishing, 08/13/2024
It's winter 1947 when newlyweds Ellen and Tony Wylde move into an abandoned Cornish farmhouse overlooking the sea. For both, it's a new beginning in ...
more
Thrillers
Under the Surface
by
Diana Urban
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 08/13/2024
Ruby is terrified to cave to her feelings for Sean and risk him crushing her heart.
Sean is pumped to spend a week with Ruby in Paris on their ...
more
A Pair of Wings: A Novel
by
Carole Hopson
Henry Holt and Company, 08/20/2024
A few years after the Wright brothers' first flight, Bessie was working the Texas cotton fields with her family when an airplane flew over their...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Survivor's Education: Women, Violence, and the Stories We Don't Tell
by
Joy Neumeyer
Public Affairs, 08/20/2024
On a picturesque campus in the springtime, a young woman is shoved backwards down a concrete stairway by her partner. This follows months of slowly ...
more
True Crime
An Echo in Time: A Novel
by
Boo Walker
Lake Union Publishing, 08/20/2024
Unable to catch a break in life or love as she approaches thirty, Charli Thurman sees red lights at every crossroads. And given the Thurman family's ...
more
Mysteries
Anima: A Wild Pastoral
by
Kapka Kassabova
Graywolf Press, 08/20/2024
Following her three previous books set in the Balkans, and with an increasinging interest in the degraded state of our planet and culture, Kassabova ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Asunder
by
Kerstin Hall
Tor Books, 08/20/2024
Karys Eska is a deathspeaker, locked into an irrevocable compact with Sabaster, a terrifying eldritch being―three-faced, hundred-winged, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian's Journey Home
by
Chris La Tray
Milkweed Editions, 08/20/2024
Growing up in Montana, Chris La Tray always identified as Indian. Despite the fact that his father fiercely denied any connection, he found Indigenous...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Black Butterflies: A Novel
by
Priscilla Morris
Knopf, 08/20/2024
Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect makeshift barricades, splitting the city into ethnic enclaves. Each morning, the people who...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Bluff: Poems
by
Danez Smith
Graywolf Press, 08/20/2024
This is a book of awakening out of violence, guilt, shame, and critical pessimism to wonder and imagine how we can strive toward a new existence in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
By Any Other Name: A Novel
by
Jodi Picoult
Ballantine Books, 08/20/2024
Young playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. But seeing it performed is ...
more
Devil in the Stack: A Code Odyssey
by
Andrew Smith
Atlantic Monthly Press, 08/20/2024
Throughout history, technological revolutions have been driven by the invention of machines. But today, the power of the technology transforming our ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Falling Wisteria: A Novel
by
Laila Ibrahim
Lake Union Publishing, 08/20/2024
Kay Lynn Brooke is a wife and mother in Berkeley, California, building a solid future with her husband and family. Then on December 7, 1941, the ...
more
Historical Fiction
Follow the Stars Home
by
Diane C. McPhail
A John Scognamiglio Book, 08/20/2024
It's a journey that most deem an insane impossibility. Yet on October 20th, 1811, Lydia Latrobe Roosevelt—daughter of one of the architects of ...
more
Historical Fiction
Freedom Is a Feast
by
Alejandro Puyana
Little Brown & Company, 08/20/2024
There, as he trains, he meets Emiliana, a nurse and fellow revolutionary. Though their intense connection seems to be love at first sight, their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Interpretations of Love
by
Jane Campbell
Grove Press, 08/20/2024
It's the week of Dr. Agnes Stacey's only daughter's wedding, and each of the eleven attendees of the small family gathering is bringing their own ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Love Requires Chocolate: Love in Translation
by
Ravynn K. Stringfield
Joy Revolution, 08/20/2024
Whitney Curry is primed to have an epic semester abroad. She's created the perfect itinerary and many, many to-do lists after collecting every detail ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
My Salty Mary
by
Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows
HarperTeen, 08/20/2024
Don't call this mermaid "little"—call her "captain," unless you want to walk the plank.
Mary is in love with the so-called prince of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Planes Flying over a Monster: Essays
by
Daniel Saldaña París
Catapult, 08/20/2024
In ten intimate essays, Daniel Saldaña París explores the cities he has lived in, each one home to a new iteration of himself. In Mexico ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Rethinking Rescue: Dog Lady and the Story of America's Forgotten People and Pets
by
Carol Mithers
Counterpoint Press, 08/20/2024
In Los Angeles's most underserved communities, Lori Weise is known as the Dog Lady, the woman who's spent decades caring for people in poverty and the...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Rules for Ghosting: A Novel
by
Shelly Jay Shore
Dell, 08/20/2024
Ezra Friedman sees ghosts, which made growing up in a funeral home complicated. It might have been easier if his grandfather's ghost didn't give him ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Scrap: A Novel
by
Calla Henkel
The Overlook Press, 08/20/2024
Recently dumped and stuck with a mortgage, artist Esther Ray wants to burn the world, but instead, she reluctantly accepts a scrapbooking job from the...
more
Thrillers
She Who Knows
by
Nnedi Okorafor
DAW Books, 08/20/2024
When there is a call, there is often a response.
Najeeba knows.
She has had The Call. But how can a 13-year-old girl have the Call? Only men...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
by
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/20/2024
We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-...
more
Swallow the Ghost: A Novel
by
Eugenie Montague
Mulholland, 08/20/2024
Things are going well for Jane Murphy, or so it seems. She's making it in New York, a sort of wunderkind at the social media marketing startup where ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Full Moon Coffee Shop: A Novel
by
Mai Mochizuki
Ballantine Books, 08/20/2024
In Japan, cats are a symbol of good luck. As the myth goes, if you are kind to them, they'll one day return the favor. And if you are kind to the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Naturalist's Daughter
by
Tea Cooper
Harper Muse, 08/20/2024
1808 Agnes Banks, NSW
Rose Winton wants nothing more than to work with her father, eminent naturalist Charles Winton, on his groundbreaking study...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Silence Factory: A Novel
by
Bridget Collins
William Morrow, 08/20/2024
1820: Sophia Ashmore-Percy reluctantly accompanies her husband James to a remote Greek island, where he searches for rare biological specimens. Once ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Slow Road North: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country
by
Rosie Schaap
Mariner Books, 08/20/2024
Rosie Schaap had a solid career as a journalist and a life that looked to others like nonstop fun: all drinking and dining and traveling to beautiful ...
more
The Unicorn Woman
by
Gayl Jones
Beacon Press, 08/20/2024
Set in the early 1950s, this latest novel from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Gayl Jones follows the witty but perplexing army ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Volcano Daughters: A Novel
by
Gina María Balibrera
Pantheon Books, 08/20/2024
El Salvador, 1923. Graciela, a young girl growing up on a volcano in a community of Indigenous women, is summoned to the capital, where she is claimed...
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Critics' Consensus:
Other
Debut Author
There Are Rivers in the Sky: A Novel
by
Elif Shafak
Knopf, 08/20/2024
From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, that would infuse the existence of two rivers and bind together three lives.
In ...
more
We Love the Nightlife
by
Rachel Koller Croft
Berkley Books, 08/20/2024
London 1979. Two women with a deep love for disco meet one fateful night on the dance floor, changing the course of both their lives forever.
...
more
Thrillers
When the Ice Is Gone: What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals About Earth's Tumultuous History and Perilous Future
by
Paul Bierman
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/20/2024
In 2018, lumps of frozen soil, collected from the bottom of the world's first deep ice core and lost for decades, reappeared in Denmark. When ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
You Will Never Be Me
by
Jesse Q. Sutanto
Berkley Books, 08/20/2024
Influencer Meredith Lee didn't teach Aspen Palmer how to blossom on social media just to be ditched as soon as Aspen became ...
more
Christopher Isherwood Inside Out
by
Katherine Bucknell
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/26/2024
The story of Christopher Isherwood's life is one of pilgrimage: away from the constraints of inheritance and empire and toward authenticity and ...
more
A Termination
by
Honor Moore
Public Space, 08/27/2024
In 1969, Honor Moore was twenty-three, a theater student yearning for love and working for radical change, but studying administration and keeping ...
more
Literary Fiction
Bridge Across the Sky
by
Freeman Ng
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 08/27/2024
Tai Go and his family have crossed an ocean wider than a thousand rivers, joining countless other Chinese immigrants in search of a better life in the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Confounding Oaths: The Mortal Follies #2
by
Alexis Hall
Del Rey, 08/27/2024
It is the year 1815, and Mr. John Caesar is determined to help his sister, Mary, successfully navigate the marriage mart. A high-stakes endeavor at ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Everything We Never Had
by
Randy Ribay
Kokila, 08/27/2024
Watsonville, 1930. Francisco Maghabol barely ekes out a living in the fields of California. As he spends what little money he earns at dance halls and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World
by
Casey Michel
St. Martin's Griffin, 08/27/2024
For years, one group of Americans has worked as foot-soldiers for the most authoritarian regimes around the planet. In the process, they've not only ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Fyrebirds
by
Kate J. Armstrong
Nancy Paulsen Books, 08/27/2024
The
Nightbirds were once their city's best-kept secret, but now the secret's out. What's more, they can do feats of magic no one has seen in centuries...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Hotline: A Novel
by
Dimitri Nasrallah
Other Press, 08/27/2024
It's 1986, and Muna Heddad is in a bind. She and her son have moved to Montreal, leaving behind a civil war filled with bad memories in Lebanon. She ...
more
Literary Fiction
I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine
by
Daniel J. Levitin
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/27/2024
Music is one of humanity's oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas, many cultures ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Kayfabe
by
Chris Koslowski
McSweeney's Books, 08/27/2024
As his body breaks down and his star power fades, he must invent a new gimmick before he loses the only job he's ever known. Meanwhile, Dom's 17-year-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Libertad
by
Bessie Flores Zaldívar
Dial Books, 08/27/2024
As the contentious 2017 presidential election looms and protests rage across every corner of the city, life in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, churns louder ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Long Live Evil: Time of Iron #1
by
Sarah Rees Brennan
Orbit, 08/27/2024
When her whole life collapsed, Rae still had books. Dying, she seizes a second chance at living: a magical bargain that lets her enter the world of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
My Child, the Algorithm: An Alternatively Intelligent Book of Love
by
Hannah Silva
Soft Skull Press, 08/27/2024
My Child, the Algorithm describes encounters between a single parent, a curious, verbal toddler, and a language-producing algorithm. Like a male ...
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Biography/Memoir
Our Shouts Echo
by
Jade Adia
Disney-Hyperion, 08/27/2024
Survival Tip #1: The world is going to shit. Whatever you do, don't fall in love.
Sixteen-year old Niarah Holloway's only goal in life is to get ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sunderworld, Vol. I: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry
by
Ransom Riggs
Dutton for Young Readers, 08/27/2024
Seventeen-year-old Leopold Berry is seeing weird things around Los Angeles. A man who pops a tooth into a parking meter. A glowing trapdoor in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Sync
by
Ellen Hopkins
Nancy Paulsen Books, 08/27/2024
Seventeen-year-old twins Storm and Lake have always been in perfect sync. They faced the worst a parent could do and survived it together. In the wake...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams: Dove Pond Series #4
by
Karen Hawkins
Gallery Books, 08/27/2024
Tay is still reeling from a romantic betrayal, so she's relieved to refocus her energies on her latest project: a biography of her great-great-...
more
The Enchanted Lies of Céleste Artois
by
Ryan Graudin
Redhook, 08/27/2024
Once, Céleste Artois had dreams of being an artist. But when the creative elite of Paris dashed those plans, she turned her talents to forgery ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler--How War Made Them and How They Made War
by
Phillips Payson O'Brien
Dutton, 08/27/2024
In
The Strategists, Professor Phillips Payson O'Brien shows how the views these five leaders forged in WW1 are crucial to understanding how they ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
With Love, Echo Park
by
Laura Taylor Namey
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 08/27/2024
Seventeen-year-old Clary is set to inherit her family's florist shop, La Rosa Blanca—one of the last remnants of the Cuban business district ...
more
A Good Indian Girl: A Novel
by
Mansi Shah
Prospect Park Books, 09/03/2024
Jyoti is the "perfect" Indian American daughter: She stayed out of trouble, looked after her younger sisters, and married a man her parents approved ...
more
Literary Fiction
A Second Chance on Earth
by
Juan Vidal
Holiday House, 09/03/2024
Have you ever encountered a book that KO'd you, Iron Mike Tyson style? One that hit you square in the face and heart like some abracadabra casting a ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Babe in the Woods: or, The Art of Getting Lost
by
Julie Heffernan
Algonquin Books, 09/03/2024
One summer day, a young artist with a newborn—sleep-deprived, desperate to escape her hot, cramped apartment and her oblivious husband—...
more
Graphic Novels
Becoming Elizabeth Arden: The Woman Behind the Global Beauty Empire
by
Stacy A. Cordery
Viking, 09/03/2024
Elizabeth Arden was a household name on six continents and a millionaire several times over before her death in 1966. Arden counted British royalty ...
more
Between Two Sounds: Arvo Pärt's Journey to His Musical Language
by
Joonas Sildre
Plough, 09/03/2024
Based on years of research and close collaboration with Arvo Pärt himself, Joonas Sildre paints an atmospheric portrait of a restless artist who ...
more
Blooming in the Ruins: How Mexican Philosophy Can Guide Us toward the Good Life
by
Carlos Alberto Sánchez
Oxford University Press, 09/03/2024
When we think of philosophy that can guide us in our everyday lives, we are more likely to think of Ancient Greece or Rome than we are 20th-century ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Category Five: Superstorms and the Warming Oceans That Feed Them
by
Porter Fox
Little Brown & Company, 09/03/2024
Here is the story of the largest storms on earth and how those storms are growing bigger and stronger. The tale of extreme weather doesn't begin with ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Chaos Comes Calling: The Battle Against the Far-Right Takeover of Small-Town America
by
Sasha Abramsky
Bold Type Books, 09/03/2024
Donald Trump's November 2016 electoral victory was the beginning of four years of demagogy, presidential name-calling, and—ten months into a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Cocaine and Rhinestones: A History of George Jones and Tammy Wynette
by
Tyler Mahan Coe
Simon & Schuster, 09/03/2024
By the early 1960s nearly everybody paying attention to country music agreed that George Jones was the greatest country singer of all time. After ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Colored Television: A Novel
by
Danzy Senna
Riverhead Books, 09/03/2024
Jane has high hopes that her life is about to turn around. After a long, precarious stretch bouncing among sketchy rentals and sublets, she and her ...
more
Compound Fracture
by
Andrew Joseph White
Peachtree Teen, 09/03/2024
On the night Miles Abernathy—sixteen-year-old socialist and proud West Virginian—comes out as trans to his parents, he sneaks off to a ...
more
Creation Lake: A Novel
by
Rachel Kushner
Scribner, 09/03/2024
Creation Lake is a novel about a secret agent, a thirty-four-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics, bold opinions, and clean beauty, who is sent...
more
Death at the Sign of the Rook: Jackson Brodie Series
by
Kate Atkinson
Doubleday, 09/03/2024
In his sleepy Yorkshire town, ex-detective Jackson Brodie is staving off boredom and malaise. His only case is the seemingly tedious matter of a ...
more
Facing Suicide: Understanding Why People Kill Themselves and How We Can Stop Them
by
James Barrat
Avery, 09/03/2024
Suicide has reached epidemic proportions in America, claiming over 45,000 lives each year—more than car accidents or homicides. For every person...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America
by
Rebecca L. Davis
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/03/2024
Our era is one of sexual upheaval.
Roe v. Wade was overturned in the summer of 2022, school systems across the country are banning books with LGBTQ+ ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Guide Me Home: Highway 59 #3
by
Attica Locke
Little Brown & Company, 09/03/2024
Texas Ranger Darren Mathews isn't sure he's been a good cop, but believes he's got a shot at being a good man—if he manages to dodge the ...
more
Haunt Sweet Home
by
Sarah Pinsker
Tor Books, 09/03/2024
"Don't talk to day about what we do at night."
When aimless twenty-something Mara lands a job as the night-shift production assistant on her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Herscht 07769
by
László Krasznahorkai
New Directions Publishing, 09/03/2024
The gentle giant Florian Herscht has a problem: having faithfully attended Herr Köhler's adult education classes in physics, he is convinced that...
more
Literary Fiction
Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life
by
Richard Beck
Crown, 09/03/2024
For twenty years after September 11, the war on terror was simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. With all of the military violence occurring overseas...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness
by
Jamil Zaki
Grand Central Publishing, 09/03/2024
Cynicism is an understandable response to a world full of injustice and inequality. But in many cases, it is misplaced. Dozens of studies find that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
I Don't Care
by
Ágota Kristóf
New Directions Publishing, 09/03/2024
Written immediately before her masterful trilogy (
The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie), Kristof's short fictions oscillate between parable, ...
more
If Only
by
Vigdis Hjorth
Verso, 09/03/2024
A relatively young woman, aged thirty. She married in her early twenties, had two children. It is winter. January and minus 14°C, white, frosty ...more
Immortal Dark
by
Tigest Girma
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 09/03/2024
It began long before my time, but something has always hunted our family.
Orphaned heiress Kidan Adane grew up far from the arcane society she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Infinite Life: The Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution, and Life on Earth
by
Jules Howard
Pegasus Books, 09/03/2024
Eggs are the origins of 90 percent of the Earth's organisms. They can be found as far apart as deep-sea volcanoes and in space. Yet despite their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Letters to Forget: Poems
by
Kelly Caldwell
Knopf, 09/03/2024
With searing intelligence and great sensitivity, the poems of Kelly Caldwell—many addressed to the poet Cass Donish, her partner in the years ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company
by
Alice Driver
One Signal, 09/03/2024
On June 27, 2011, a deadly chemical accident took place inside the Tyson Foods chicken processing plant in Springdale, Arkansas, where the company is ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Lovely One: A Memoir
by
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Random House, 09/03/2024
With this unflinching account, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson invites readers into her life and world, tracing her family's ascent from segregation to ...
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Biography/Memoir
May Our Joy Endure
by
Kevin Lambert
Biblioasis, 09/03/2024
But instead of the triumph she anticipates in finally bringing her reputation to bear in her own city, the project is excoriated by critics, who ...
more
No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust
by
Chris Heath
Schocken Books, 09/03/2024
No Road Leading Back is the remarkable story of a dozen prisoners who escaped from the site where more than 70,000 Jews were shot in the Lithuanian ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
One Last Chance to Live
by
Francisco X. Stork
Scholastic Press, 09/03/2024
Nico has always believed in his dreams. Especially the dream he has of becoming a writer; it's the reason why he started taking a creative writing ...
more
Our Green Heart: The Soul and Science of Forests
by
Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Random House Canada, 09/03/2024
As the last child in Ireland to receive a full Druidic education, Diana Beresford-Kroeger has brought an unusual and ancient holistic attitude to the ...
more
Essays
Rebel Fire: Rebel Skies #2
by
Ann Sei Lin
Tundra Books, 09/03/2024
Kurara has barely escaped the grasp of Princess Tsukimi. Reeling from her Crafter mentor's grim betrayal, Kurara and her friends are desperate to ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Scotland Yard: A History of the London Police Force's Most Infamous Murder Cases
by
Simon Read
Pegasus Crime, 09/03/2024
The idea of "Scotland Yard" is steeped in atmospheric stories of foggy London streets, murder by lamplight, and fiendish killers pursued by gentleman ...
more
Small Rain: A Novel
by
Garth Greenwell
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/03/2024
A poet's life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged ...
more
Songlight: The Torch Trilogy #1
by
Moira Buffini
HarperCollins Publishers, 09/03/2024
We're two songs joined. And there's a word for that. A harmony.
Elsa is used to hiding the most important parts of herself—her feelings for...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The English Chemist: The Story of Rosalind Franklin: A Novel
by
Jessica Mills
Pegasus Books, 09/03/2024
Rosalind Franklin knows that to be a woman in a man's world is to be invisible. In the 1950s, science is a gentleman's profession and in the years ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Haunting of Moscow House
by
Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
Berkley Books, 09/03/2024
It is the summer of 1921, and a group of Bolsheviks have taken over Irina and Lili Goliteva's ancestral home in Moscow, a stately mansion ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Life Impossible: A Novel
by
Matt Haig
Viking, 09/03/2024
When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. ...
more
The Loss of the Burying Ground
by
J. Anderson Coats
Candlewick Press, 09/03/2024
When the
Burying Ground goes down in neutral waters, it sends the delegations from two warring nations—and the peace treaty they were about to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Night Guest
by
Hildur Knutsdottir
Tor Nightfire, 09/03/2024
Iðunn is in yet another doctor's office. She knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something's not right, but practitioners dismiss her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Salt Thief: Gandhi's Heroic March to Freedom
by
Neal Bascomb
Scholastic Focus, 09/03/2024
Scholastic Focus is the premier home of thoroughly researched, beautifully written, and thoughtfully designed works of narrative nonfiction aimed at ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Unfinished
by
Cheryl Isaacs
Heartdrum, 09/03/2024
When small-town athlete Avery's morning run leads her to a strange pond in the middle of the forest, she awakens a horror the townspeople of Crook's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Whisper Sister: A Novel
by
Jennifer S. Brown
Lake Union Publishing, 09/03/2024
The streets of New York in 1920 are most certainly not paved with gold, as Minnie Soffer learns when she arrives at Ellis Island. Her father, who left...
more
Literary Fiction
The Whitewashed Tombs: Emma Djan Investigations #4
by
Kwei Quartey
Soho Crime, 09/03/2024
Marcelo Tetteh, a twenty-seven-year-old LGBTQ+ activist, is butchered one night after being lured on a dating app to a deserted building site. With ...
more
The World She Edited: Katharine S. White
by
Amy Reading
Mariner Books, 09/03/2024
In the summer of 1925, Katharine Sergeant Angell White walked into
The New Yorker's midtown office and left with a job as an editor. The magazine was ...
more
Two Wheels to Freedom: The Story of a Young Jew, Wartime Resistance, and a Daring Escape
by
Arthur J. Magida
Pegasus Books, 09/03/2024
Though Cioma Schonhaus was only 11 years old when the Nazis first came to power, his cleverness and resourcefulness eventually made him an unlikely ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
by
Harald Jähner
Basic Books, 09/03/2024
Out of the ashes of the First World War, Germany launched an unprecedented political project: its first democratic government. The Weimar Republic, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
We'll Prescribe You a Cat
by
Syou Ishida
Berkley Books, 09/03/2024
Tucked away in an old building at the end of a narrow alley in Kyoto, the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul can only be found by people who are struggling in...
more
Literary Fiction
We're Alone: Essays
by
Edwidge Danticat
Graywolf Press, 09/03/2024
Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat's childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in
We're Alone include ...
more
Where They Last Saw Her: A Novel
by
Marcie R. Rendon
Bantam Books, 09/03/2024
All they heard was her scream.
Quill has lived on the Red Pine reservation in Minnesota her whole life. She knows what happens to women who look ...
more
Your Dazzling Death: Poems
by
Cass Donish
Knopf, 09/03/2024
In
Your Dazzling Death, Cass Donish courageously summons the poems to witness their own state of "obliteration," widowed by suicide and isolated as a ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men: The Forgotten British Special Operations Soldiers of World War II
by
Shannon Monaghan
Viking, 09/10/2024
There have always been special warriors; Achilles and his Myrmidons are the obvious classical examples. What we now think of as "special operations," ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Way to Be Happy
by
Caroline Adderson
Biblioasis, 09/10/2024
On New Year's Eve, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to fund their own recovery. A recently separated woman relocates to a ...
more
A Woman Among Wolves: My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery
by
Diane K. Boyd
Greystone Books, 09/10/2024
Called the Jane Goodall of wolves, world-renowned wildlife biologist Diane Boyd has spent four decades studying and advocating for wolves in the wilds...
more
Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class
by
Sarah Smarsh
Scribner, 09/10/2024
In
Bone of the Bone, Sarah Smarsh brings her graceful storytelling and incisive critique to the challenges that define our times—class division,...
more
Bright I Burn: A Novel
by
Molly Aitken
Knopf, 09/10/2024
In thirteenth-century Ireland, a woman with power is a woman to be feared.
Alice, the daughter of a wealthy innkeeper in Kilkenny, grows up ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
by
Rebecca Nagle
Harper, 09/10/2024
Before 2020, American Indian reservations made up roughly 55 million acres of land in the United States. Nearly 200 million acres are reserved for ...
more
Death at the Sanatorium: A Mystery
by
Ragnar Jonasson
Minotaur Books, 09/10/2024
1983
At a former sanatorium in the north of Iceland, now a hospital ward, an old nurse, Yrsa, is found murdered. Detective Hulda Hermannsdottir ...
more
Einstein's Tutor: The Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics
by
Lee Phillips
Public Affairs, 09/10/2024
Emmy Noether is one of the most important figures in the history of science and mathematics.
Noether's mathematical genius enabled Einstein...
more
Biography/Memoir
First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream
by
Jessica Hoppe
Flatiron Books, 09/10/2024
In this deeply moving and lyrical memoir, Hoppe shares an intimate, courageous account of what it means to truly interrupt cycles of harm. For readers...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Friendly Fire: A Fractured Memoir
by
Paul Rousseau
Harper Horizon, 09/10/2024
At some point in the course of Paul and Mark's friendship, Mark acquired—legally and with required permits—five firearms. Those weapons ...
more
Gita Desai Is Not Here to Shut Up
by
Sonia Patel
Dial Books, 09/10/2024
It's eighteen-year-old Gita Desai's first year at Stanford, and the fact that she's here and not already married off by her traditional Gujarati ...
more
Here One Moment
by
Liane Moriarty
Crown, 09/10/2024
If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate?
Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something extraordinary happens. People ...
more
Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses
by
M. G. Sheftall
Dutton, 09/10/2024
In this vividly rendered historical narrative, M. G. Sheftall layers the stories of
hibakusha—the Japanese word for atomic bomb survivors—...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How to Lose a Best Friend
by
Jordan K. Casomar
MTV Books, 09/10/2024
For as long as anyone can remember, Zeke Ladoja and Imogen Parker have been best friends. Their classmates, their parents, and even the school ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
I Remember Fallujah: A Novel
by
Feurat Alani
Other Press, 09/10/2024
As a young man in the early 1970s, Rami fled his home to escape Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. In France, he built a new life and had a family, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Ida, in Love and in Trouble
by
Veronica Chambers
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 09/10/2024
Before she became a warrior, Ida B. Wells was an incomparable flirt with a quick wit and a dream of becoming a renowned writer. The first child of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Kareem Between
by
Shifa Saltagi Safadi
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 09/10/2024
Seventh grade begins, and Kareem's already fumbled it.
His best friend moved away, he messed up his tryout for the football team, and because of ...
more
Historical Fiction
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Mayor of the Tenderloin: Del Seymour's Journey from Living on the Streets to Fighting Homelessness in San Francisco
by
Alison Owings
Beacon Press, 09/10/2024
In
Mayor of the Tenderloin, journalist Alison Owings slips behind the cold statistics and sensationalism surrounding San Francisco's Tenderloin to ...
more
Nature, Culture, and Inequality: A Comparative and Historical Perspective
by
Thomas Piketty
Other Press, 09/10/2024
In this unique work, Thomas Piketty presents a synthesis of his historical and comparative research on inequality. He challenges the idea that there ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
by
Yuval Noah Harari
Random House, 09/10/2024
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite allour discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Olive Days
by
Jessica Elisheva Emerson
Counterpoint Press, 09/10/2024
Rina Kirsch is a young mother and Modern Orthodox Jew in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood of Los Angeles. Dutifully keeping to the formidable ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Once More from the Top: A Novel
by
Emily Layden
Mariner Books, 09/10/2024
Everyone in America knows Dylan Read, or at least has heard her music. Since releasing her debut album her senior year of high school, Dylan's spent ...
more
Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority
by
Anne Anlin Cheng
Pantheon Books, 09/10/2024
Part memoir, part cultural criticism, part history, Anne Anlin Cheng's original essays focus on art, politics, and popular culture. Through personal ...
more
Passiontide: A Novel
by
Monique Roffey
Knopf, 09/10/2024
The quiet calm of Ash Wednesday morning. Carnival is over. Everyone on the small island of St. Colibri is sleeping peacefully. Everyone except Sora ...
more
Mysteries
Quarterlife: A Novel
by
Devika Rege
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 09/10/2024
"In the fashion of the big novels by Salman Rushdie or Amitav Ghosh"
(Biblio), Quarterlife is a groundbreaking portrait of a nation on the cusp of a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Rage: On Being Queer, Black, Brilliant ... and Completely Over It
by
Lester Fabian Brathwaite
Tiny Reparations, 09/10/2024
One romantic hopeful had greeted Lester Fabian Brathwaite on a dating app with this gem: "You into race play?" Being young, queer, gifted, and Black, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Represent: The Unfinished Fight for the Vote
by
Michael Eric Dyson, Marc Favreau
Little Brown & Company, 09/10/2024
One of the most important and least understood true stories of our nation, the fight for representation is an ongoing and epic quest to build the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Shame on You: How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification
by
Melissa Petro
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/10/2024
For millions of women, shame is a vicious predator. It tells us we are
less than, that we are
unworthy. We try everything to escape shame—...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Sky Full of Elephants: A Novel
by
Cebo Campbell
Simon & Schuster, 09/10/2024
One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charlie Brunton is a Black ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Still Life: A Novel
by
Katherine Packert Burke
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/10/2024
Everything in Edith's life is approaching disaster. Her writing career is stagnant. Her love life is a mess. Her ex, Tessa, is marrying a man. Her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
by
Arlie Russell Hochschild
The New Press, 09/10/2024
For all the attempts to understand the state of American politics and the blue/red divide, we've ignored what economic and cultural loss can do to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle that Saved a Child's Life
by
Rachel Clarke
Scribner, 09/10/2024
The first of our organs to form and the last to die, the heart is both a simple pump and the symbol of what makes us human; as long as it continues to...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
by
Parmy Olson
St. Martin's Press, 09/10/2024
It was more human than a customer service agent, more convenient than a Google search. Behind the scenes, battles for control and prestige between the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Tell Me Everything: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Strout
Random House, 09/10/2024
With her "extraordinary capacity for radical empathy" (
The Boston Globe), remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain ...
more
The Devil By Name: Fever House Duology #2
by
Keith Rosson
Random House, 09/10/2024
Five years after the event that drove most of the global population to madness, the world is overrun with the "fevered"—once-human, zombielike ...
more
The Examiner: A Novel
by
Janice Hallett
Atria Books, 09/10/2024
Gela Nathaniel, head of Royal Hastings University's new Multimedia Art course, must find six students from all walks of life across the United Kingdom...
more
The Mesmerist: A Novel
by
Caroline Woods
Doubleday, 09/10/2024
Before hypnotism, there was Mesmerism. And in 1894 Minneapolis, in the wake of a national financial crisis, spiritualism of every stripe is all the ...
more
The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
by
Roland Allen
Biblioasis, 09/10/2024
We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did these indispensable implements come from? How did they revolutionize our lives? And how can using a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Shadow Key: A Novel
by
Susan Stokes-Chapman
Harper, 09/10/2024
Dismissed from his post at a prestigious London hospital, Dr. Henry Talbot has little choice but to accept a mysterious offer of employment as a ...
more
Mysteries
The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice
by
Dan Slepian
Celadon, 09/10/2024
In 2002, Dan Slepian, a veteran producer for NBC's
Dateline, received a tip from a Bronx homicide detective that two men were serving twenty-five ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
True Crime
Debut Author
The Sky Beneath Us
by
Fiona Valpy
Lake Union Publishing, 09/10/2024
1927. Violet Mackenzie-Grant is embarking on her dream of studying at the Edinburgh School of Gardening for Women. She doesn't yet know that it's a ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Witch of Colchis: A Novel
by
Rosie Hewlett
Sourcebooks Landmark, 09/10/2024
A disgraced daughter. A fearsome witch.
A woman more myth than mortal.
Medea, princess of Colchis, longs for a different life. Since ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Women Behind the Door: A Novel
by
Roddy Doyle
Viking, 09/10/2024
At sixty-six, Paula Spencer—mother, grandmother, widow, addict, survivor—has finally started to live her life. She has a job at the dry ...
more
Train to Oblivion: A Novel
by
Moira Millán
Amazon Crossing, 09/10/2024
Llankaray's grandmother left a rich inheritance: her medicine, an undefeatable spirit, and the stories of her Mapuche ancestors. These tales are ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Two-Step Devil
by
Jamie Quatro
Grove Press, 09/10/2024
The "fearless" (
New Yorker) author of
I Want to Show You More and
Fire Sermon—whose recently published stories in
The New Yorker and
The Paris ...more
We Choose To: A Memoir of Providing Abortion Care Before, During, and After Roe
by
Dr. Curtis Boyd MD, Glenna Halvorson-Boyd PhD RN
Disruption, 09/10/2024
Their stories begin in the 1960s, as Curtis opens a clandestine abortion practice while breaking with the beliefs of his Baptist family and Glenna ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir
by
Mary L. Trump PhD
St. Martin's Press, 09/10/2024
Mary Trump grew up in a family divided by its patriarch's relentless drive for money and power. The daughter of Freddy Trump, the highly accomplished,...
more
William
by
Mason Coile
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/10/2024
Henry is a brilliant engineer who, after untold hours spent in his home lab, has achieved the breakthrough of his career—he's created an ...
more
You Must Stand Up: The Fight for Abortion Rights in Post-Dobbs America
by
Amanda Becker
Bloomsbury Publishing, 09/10/2024
When the Supreme Court decided
Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization- overturning the constitutional right to abortion care-the country was ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Muzzle for Witches
by
Dubravka Ugresic
Open Letter, 09/17/2024
But the book is more than a simple interview: It's a roadmap of the literary world, exploring the past century and all of its violence and turmoil&#...
more
A Sunny Place for Shady People: Stories
by
Mariana Enriquez
Hogarth Books, 09/17/2024
On the shores of this river, all the birds that fly, drink, perch on branches, and disturb siestas with the demonic squawking of the possessed—...more
Alien Clay
by
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Orbit, 09/17/2024
The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates, the journey there is always a one-way trip. One such ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health
by
Marty Makary M.D.
Bloomsbury Publishing, 09/17/2024
More Americans have peanut allergies today than at any point in history. Why? In 2000, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a strict ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
by
Kate Conger, Ryan Mac
Penguin Press, 09/17/2024
The billionaire entrepreneur and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has become inextricable from the social media platform that until 2023 was known as Twitter. ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Connie: A Memoir
by
Connie Chung
Grand Central Publishing, 09/17/2024
Connie Chung is a pioneer. In 1969 at the age of 23, this once-shy daughter of Chinese parents took her first job at a local TV station in her ...
more
Elaine
by
Will Self
Grove Press, 09/17/2024
Will Self is one of the most inimitable contemporary writers in the English language, dubbed "the most daring and delightful novelist of his ...
more
Entitlement: A Novel
by
Rumaan Alam
Riverhead Books, 09/17/2024
Brooke wants. She isn't in need, but there are things she wants. A sense of purpose, for instance. She wants to make a difference in the world, to ...
more
Everything to Play For: An Insider's Guide to How Videogames are Changing Our World
by
Marijam Did
Verso, 09/17/2024
Everything To Play For asks if videogames can achieve egalitarian goals instead of fuelling hyper-materialist, reactionary agendas. Combining cultural...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Frighten the Horses
by
Oliver Radclyffe
Roxane Gay Books, 09/17/2024
From the outside, Oliver Radclyffe spent four decades living an immensely privileged, beautifully composed life. As the daughter of two well-to-do ...
more
Health and Safety: A Breakdown
by
Emily Witt
Pantheon Books, 09/17/2024
In the summer of 2016, a divisive presidential election was underway, and a new breed of right-wing rage was on the rise. Emily Witt, who would soon ...
more
I Dreamed of Falling: A Novel
by
Julia Dahl
Minotaur Books, 09/17/2024
Roman Grady is the sole reporter for the local newspaper in a tiny Hudson Valley town - a town so small that every store opening and DUI is considered...
more
If Anything Happens To Me
by
Luanne Rice
Scholastic Press, 09/17/2024
It's been eight months since the body of Eloise Parrish was found in the woods.
Eloise's surviving sister, Oli, is numb with grief and shock. But...
more
Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
by
Sonia Purnell
Viking, 09/17/2024
When Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were predictably scathing – and many were downright sexist. Written ...
more
Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
by
Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig
Penguin Books, 09/17/2024
Soon after announcing his first campaign for the US presidency, Donald J. Trump told a national television audience that life "has not been easy for ...
more
Biography/Memoir
My Lesbian Novel
by
Renee Gladman
Dorothy, a publishing project, 09/17/2024
The narrator of
My Lesbian Novel is Renee Gladman, an artist and writer who has produced the same acclaimed body of experimental art and prose as real...
more
One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman: A Mother's Story
by
Abi Maxwell
Knopf, 09/17/2024
Abi Maxwell grew up in rural New Hampshire, one of eight kids in a poor town abutting a wealthier lakeside village. As a young couple, Maxwell and her...
more
Overstaying
by
Ariane Koch
Dorothy, a publishing project, 09/17/2024
"I don't see my writing as chronological or classically narrative, but as spatial—a kind of architecture. I keep adding rooms, and readers can ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Question 7
by
Richard Flanagan
Knopf, 09/17/2024
By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave laborer near Hiroshima when the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Rejection: Fiction
by
Tony Tulathimutte
William Morrow, 09/17/2024
Sharply observant and outrageously funny,
Rejection is a provocative plunge into the touchiest problems of modern life. The seven connected stories ...
more
Remember, You Are a Wiley
by
Maya Wiley
Grand Central Publishing, 09/17/2024
Born in a country that has repeatedly traumatized her and her loved ones, Maya Wiley grew up in a household that prioritized activism, hope, and ...
more
Ruin Road
by
Lamar Giles
Scholastic Press, 09/17/2024
Cade Webster lives between worlds. He's a standout football star at the right school but lives in the wrong neighborhood — if you let his ...
more
Scaffolding: A Novel
by
Lauren Elkin
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/17/2024
After a miscarriage and a breakdown, Anna, a psychoanalyst, finds herself unable to return to work, obsessing instead over a kitchen renovation and ...
more
Stench: The Making of the Thomas Court and the Unmaking of America
by
David Brock
Knopf, 09/17/2024
Public confidence in the Supreme Court has plummeted to new lows in the last few years—and for good reason. In the past three decades, six ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy
by
Jessica Pishko
Dutton, 09/17/2024
The figure of the American sheriff has loomed large in popular imagination, though given the outsize jurisdiction sheriffs have over people's lives, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Lantern of Lost Memories
by
Sanaka Hiiragi
Grand Central Publishing, 09/17/2024
The hands and pendulum of the old wooden clock on the wall were motionless. Hirasaka cocked his head to listen, but the silence inside the photo ...more
The Lies We Conjure
by
Sarah Henning
Tor Books, 09/17/2024
Ruby and her sister, Wren, are normal, middle-class Colorado high school students working a summer job at the local Renaissance Fest to supplement ...
more
The Night We Lost Him: A Novel
by
Laura Dave
Marysue Rucci Books, 09/17/2024
Liam Noone was many things to many people. To the public, he was an exacting, self-made hotel magnate fleeing his past. To his three ex-wives, he was ...
more
The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts
by
Louis Bayard
Algonquin Books, 09/17/2024
In September of 1892, Oscar Wilde and his family retreated to the idyllic Norfolk countryside for a holiday. His wife, Constance, has every ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening
by
Elizabeth Rosner
Counterpoint Press, 09/17/2024
Third Ear braids together personal narrative with scholarly inquiry to examine the power of listening to build interpersonal empathy and social ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Transfarmation: The Movement to Free Us from Factory Farming
by
Leah Garcés
Beacon Press, 09/17/2024
In
Transfarmation, president and CEO of Mercy For Animals Leah Garcés explains how food and farming policies have failed over decades and offers ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Ultra 85
by
Logic
Simon & Schuster, 09/17/2024
In the year 2115, when the Earth is no longer inhabitable, the remainder of humanity lives in Babel, a giant space station. Two pilots, Quentin and ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Us Fools
by
Nora Lange
Two Dollar Radio, 09/17/2024
Joanne and Bernadette Fareown are raised on their family farm in rural Illinois, keenly affected by their parents' volatile relationship and mounting ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
We Are Hunted
by
Tomi Oyemakinde
Feiwel & Friends, 09/17/2024
Experience paradise, reimagined.
When 17-year-old Femi Fatona and his older brother are forced to accompany their dad to an island resort, Femi ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
We Solve Murders: A Novel
by
Richard Osman
Pamela Dorman Books, 09/17/2024
Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He still does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar routines: the pub quiz, his ...
more
What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures
by
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
One World, 09/17/2024
Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side. This provocative and joyous book maps an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Borrowed Path
by
Imogen Clark
Lake Union Publishing, 09/24/2024
Eve has always had a tricky relationship with her mother, Agatha, and returning to Fox House, the family home, hasn't made it any easier. When Eve's ...
more
Historical Fiction
A Cure for Sorrow: A Novel
by
Jen Wheeler
Lake Union Publishing, 09/24/2024
Convention-flouting Nora Harris is a determined young medical student in Gilded Age Manhattan. A surgeon's daughter, she always leads with her head&#...
more
Historical Fiction
A Reason to See You Again: A Novel
by
Jami Attenberg
Ecco, 09/24/2024
The women of the Cohen family are in crisis. Triggered by the death of their patriarch, Rudy, the glue that held them all together, everyone's lives ...
more
A Rift in Time: Travels with My Ottoman Uncle
by
Raja Shehadeh
Other Press, 09/24/2024
Raja Shehadeh's great-great-uncle Najib Nassar, a journalist born in 1865, spent the first 4 decades of his life under the Ottoman Empire. Ruled by a ...
more
Biography/Memoir
America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War
by
H. W. Brands
Doubleday, 09/24/2024
Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 launched a momentous period of decision-making for the United States. With fascism rampant abroad, ...
more
Bad Liar: A Novel
by
Tami Hoag
Dutton, 09/24/2024
Small-town labels are hard to shake. Hometown hero. Fallen angel. Can anyone ever escape their past?
A murder victim dumped at the dead end of a ...
more
Before the Mango Ripens
by
Afabwaje Kurian
Dzanc Books, 09/24/2024
In Rabata, everyone has secrets—especially since the arrival of the white American missionaries.
Twenty-year-old Jummai is a beautiful and ...
more
Historical Fiction
Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
by
Elyse Graham
Ecco, 09/24/2024
At the start of WWII, the US found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America
by
Paola Ramos
Pantheon Books, 09/24/2024
Democrats have historically assumed they can rely on the Latino vote, but recent elections have called that loyalty into question. In fact, despite ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II
by
Abbott Kahler
Crown, 09/24/2024
At the height of the Great Depression, Los Angeles oil mogul George Allan Hancock and his crew of Smithsonian scientists came upon a gruesome scene: ...
more
Everything Glittered
by
Robin Talley
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 09/24/2024
It's 1927 and the strict laws of prohibition have done little to temper the roaring 20s nightlife, even in the nation's capitol. Everyone knows the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Final Cut
by
Charles Burns
Pantheon Books, 09/24/2024
As a child, Brian and his friend Jimmy would make sci-fi films in their yards, convincing their friends to star as victims of grisly murders, smearing...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known
by
George M. Johnson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/24/2024
In
Flamboyants, George M. Johnson celebrates writers, performers, and activists from 1920s Black America whose sexualities have been obscured ...
more
Essays
Graveyard Shift: A Novella
by
M. L. Rio
Flatiron Books, 09/24/2024
Every night, in the college's ancient cemetery, five people cross paths as they work the late shift: a bartender, a rideshare driver, a hotel ...
more
Thrillers
Hill of Secrets: A Novel
by
Galina Vromen
Lake Union Publishing, 09/24/2024
Los Alamos, 1943. The US Army has gathered scientists to create the world's first nuclear weapon. Their families, abruptly moved to the secret desert ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
In the Garden of Monsters: A Novel
by
Crystal King
MIRA, 09/24/2024
Italy, 1948
Julia Lombardi is a mystery even to herself. The beautiful model can't remember where she's from, where she's been or how she came to...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Intermezzo: A Novel
by
Sally Rooney
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/24/2024
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties―...
more
Intervals
by
Marianne Brooker
Fitzcarraldo Editions, 09/24/2024
What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity on the horizon, Marianne Brooker's mother was ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Monet: The Restless Vision
by
Jackie Wullschläger
Knopf, 09/24/2024
Drawing on thousands of never-before-translated letters and unpublished sources, this biography reveals dramatic new information about the life and ...
more
Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark
by
Leigh Ann Henion
Algonquin Books, 09/24/2024
Night Magic is a glorious celebration of the dark!
New York Times bestselling nature writer Leigh Ann Henion makes the case for embracing ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Playground: A Novel
by
Richard Powers
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/24/2024
Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of
The ...more
Queen Macbeth
by
Val McDermid
Atlantic Monthly Press, 09/24/2024
Britain's reigning "Queen of Crime" (
The Scotsman), Val McDermid has ensnared audiences worldwide for over thirty years with her thrilling and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
by
Isabella Hammad
Grove Press, 09/24/2024
Nine days before October 7, 2023, award-winning author Isabella Hammad delivered the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture at Columbia University. The text ...
more
Essays
Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love
by
Sarah Leavitt
Arsenal Pulp Press, Limited, 09/24/2024
In April 2020, cartoonist Sarah Leavitt's partner of twenty-two years, Donimo, died with medical assistance after years of severe chronic pain and a ...
more
Sweetest Darkness
by
Leslie Lutz
Holiday House, 09/24/2024
Everyone in Gypsum, Texas knows the Hotel Alvarado changes at night—especially Quinn. A teenage clairvoyant, he's been having dreams about it&#...
more
The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
by
Wright Thompson
Penguin Press, 09/24/2024
Wright Thompson's family farm in Mississippi is 23 miles from the site of one of the most notorious and consequential killings in American history, ...
more
The Burning Earth: A History
by
Sunil Amrith
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/24/2024
In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
by
Olga Tokarczuk
Riverhead Books, 09/24/2024
September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz's Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Görbersdorf, a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Forest of Lost Souls
by
Dean Koontz
Thomas & Mercer, 09/24/2024
Raised in the wilderness by her late great-uncle, Vida is a young woman with an almost preternatural affinity for nature, especially for the wolves ...
more
Thrillers
The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate Violence
by
Peter Schwartzstein
Island, 09/24/2024
Schwartzstein has visited ravaged Iraqi towns where ISIS used drought as a recruiting tool and weapon of terror. In Bangladesh, he has interviewed ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Hitchcock Hotel
by
Stephanie Wrobel
Berkley Books, 09/24/2024
Alfred Smettle is not your average Hitchcock fan. He is the founder, owner, and manager of The Hitchcock Hotel, a sprawling Victorian house in the ...
more
The Hysterical Girls of St. Bernadette's
by
Hanna Alkaf
Salaam Reads, 09/24/2024
For over a hundred years, girls have fought to attend St. Bernadette's, with its reputation for shaping only the best and brightest young women.
...
more
The Last Dream
by
Pedro Almodóvar
HarperVia, 09/24/2024
With this debut collection, film legend Pedro Almodóvar delivers a tantalizing glimpse into his world, formed by twelve stories carefully ...
more
The Last Secret: A Novel
by
Maia Caron
Doubleday Canada, 09/24/2024
Ukraine, 1944
As the world around her is ripped apart by war and infiltrated by Nazi soldiers, Savka Ivanets works as a medic for the Ukrainian ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Lightning Bottles
by
Marissa Stapley
Simon & Schuster, 09/24/2024
He was the troubled face of rock 'n' roll…until he suddenly disappeared without a trace.
Jane Pyre was once half of the famous rock 'n' ...
more
The Naming Song
by
Jedediah Berry
Tor Books, 09/24/2024
There's nothing more dangerous than an unnamed thing.
When the words went away, the world changed.
All meaning was lost, and every border fell. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Repeat Room: A Novel
by
Jesse Ball
Catapult, 09/24/2024
In a speculative future, Abel, a menial worker, is called to serve in a secretive and fabled jury system. At the heart of this system is the repeat ...
more
The Road Is Good: How a Mother's Strength Became a Daughter's Purpose
by
Uzo Aduba
Viking, 09/24/2024
The actress Uzo Aduba came of age grappling with a master juggling act: as one of few Black families in their white Massachusetts suburb, she and her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
This Fatal Kiss
by
Alicia Jasinska
Peachtree Teen, 09/24/2024
Cursed to haunt the river running through the magical spa town where she drowned, Gisela is a water nymph who dreams of returning to the living world ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church
by
Hahrie Han
Knopf, 09/24/2024
In 2016, even as Ohio helped deliver victory to presidential candidate Donald Trump, Cincinnati voters also passed a ballot initiative for universal ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
When the World Tips Over
by
Jandy Nelson
Dial Books, 09/24/2024
The Fall siblings live in hot Northern California wine country, where the sun pours out of the sky, and the devil winds blow so hard they whip the ...
more
A Song to Drown Rivers: Deluxe Edition
by
Ann Liang
St. Martin's Press, 10/01/2024
Her beauty hides a deadly purpose.
Xishi's beauty is seen as a blessing to the villagers of Yue―convinced that the best fate for a girl is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win
by
Jessica Valenti
Crown, 10/01/2024
In her most urgent book yet,
New York Times bestselling author Jessica Valenti shines a light on the conservative assault on women's freedom, cutting ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Coup de Grâce
by
Sofia Ajram
Titan Books, 10/01/2024
Vicken has a plan: throw himself into the Saint Lawrence River in Montreal and end it all for good, believing it to be the only way out for him after ...
more
Heir
by
Sabaa Tahir
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 10/01/2024
An orphan.
An outcast.
A prince.
And a killer who will bring an empire to its knees.
Growing up in the Kegari slums, AIZ has seen ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
by
Dan Jones
Viking, 10/01/2024
Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months and died at the age of just thirty-five, but he looms over the landscape of the late ...
more
How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music
by
Inc National Public Radio
HarperOne, 10/01/2024
Turning the Tables, launched in 2017, has revolutionized recognition of female artists, whether it be in best album lists or in the Rock and Roll Hall...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
I Will Do Better: A Father's Memoir of Heartbreak, Parenting, and Love
by
Charles Bock
Abrams Press, 10/01/2024
The novelist Charles Bock was a reluctant parent, tagging along for the ride of fatherhood, obsessed primarily with his dream of a writing career. But...
more
Killer House Party
by
Lily Anderson
Henry Holt and Company, 10/01/2024
Red Solo cups? Check. Snacks? Check. Abandoned mansion full of countless horrors that won't let you leave? Check.
The Deinhart Manor has been a ...
more
Load in Nine Times: Poems
by
Frank X. Walker
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 10/01/2024
For decades, Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry: from Medgar Evers in
Turn Me Loose, ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Model Home: A Novel
by
Rivers Solomon
MCD, 10/01/2024
The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up. When their family moved there, ...
more
Mojave Ghost
by
Forrest Gander
New Directions Publishing, 10/01/2024
Mojave Ghost initiates an unusually tender bond with the reader as it chronicles an intimate relationship with arresting honesty and vividness.&#...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Nothing Like the Movies
by
Lynn Painter
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 10/01/2024
For a few beautiful months, Wes had his dream girl: strong-willed girl-next-door Liz. But right as the two were about to set off to UCLA to start ...
more
Romance
Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown
by
Wim Carton, Andreas Malm
Verso, 10/01/2024
It might soon be far too hot on this planet. What do we do then? In the era of "overshoot," schemes abound for turning down the heat–not now, ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Ros Demir Is Not the One
by
Leyla Brittan
Holiday House, 10/01/2024
Sixteen-year-old Ros is a go-getter. When she wants something, she makes sure she gets it.
But a lingering rumor (and maybe some ambivalence ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
by
Dionne Brand
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/01/2024
In
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck, Dionne Brand's first major book of nonfiction since her classic
A Map to the Door of No Return, the acclaimed ...
more
Season of the Swamp: A Novel
by
Yuri Herrera
Graywolf Press, 10/01/2024
New Orleans, 1853. A young exile named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he will become the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Shred Sisters
by
Betsy Lerner
Grove Press, 10/01/2024
It is said that when one person in a family is unstable, the whole family is destabilized. Meet the Shreds. Olivia is the sister in the spotlight ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Suggested in the Stars
by
Yoko Tawada
New Directions Publishing, 10/01/2024
It's hard to believe there could be a more enjoyable novel than
Scattered All Over the Earth―Yoko Tawada's rollicking, touching, cheerfully ...
more
Take a Sad Song
by
Ona Gritz
West 44 Books, 10/01/2024
Jane awaits her hearing with hope, but instead she is sentenced to a yearlong stay at the New York State Training School for Girls. She faces bullying...
more
Romance
Tasmania: A Novel
by
Paolo Giordano
Other Press, 10/01/2024
In late 2015, Paolo feels his life coming apart: While his wife, Lorenza, has decided to give up on pregnancy after years of trying, he clings to the ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Ballerina of Auschwitz: Young Adult Edition of The Choice
by
Dr. Edith Eva Eger
Atheneum, 10/01/2024
Edie is a talented dancer and a skilled gymnast with hopes of making the Olympic team. Between her rigorous training and her struggle to find her ...
more
The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
by
Aaron Robertson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/01/2024
How do the disillusioned, the forgotten, and the persecuted not merely hold on to life but expand its possibilities and preserve its beauty? What, in ...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Bog Wife
by
Kay Chronister
Counterpoint Press, 10/01/2024
Since time immemorial, the Haddesley family has tended the cranberry bog. In exchange, the bog sustains them. The staunch seasons of their lives are ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Boyfriend
by
Freida McFadden
Poisoned Pen Press, 10/01/2024
Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. She's seen it all: men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick...
more
Thrillers
The City in Glass
by
Nghi Vo
Tordotcom, 10/01/2024
The demon Vitrine―immortal, powerful, and capricious―loves the dazzling city of Azril. She has mothered, married, and maddened the city ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Crescent Moon Tearoom: A Novel
by
Stacy Sivinski
Atria Books, 10/01/2024
Ever since the untimely death of their parents, Anne, Beatrix, and Violet Quigley have made a business of threading together the stories that rest in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Dark Becomes Her
by
Judy I. Lin
Rick Riodan Presents, 10/01/2024
Ruby Chen has always played the part of the dutiful eldest daughter: excelling in school; excelling in piano lessons; excelling at keeping her younger...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Drowned: Strafford and Quirke #4
by
John Banville
Hanover Square Press, 10/01/2024
"He had seen drowned people. A sight not to be forgotten."
1950s, rural Ireland. A loner comes across a mysteriously empty car in a field. ...
more
The Glass Girl
by
Kathleen Glasgow
Delacorte Press, 10/01/2024
Everyone in fifteen-year-old Bella's life needs something from her. Her mom needs her to help around the house, her dad needs her to not make waves, ...
more
The Great When: A Long London Novel
by
Alan Moore
Bloomsbury Publishing, 10/01/2024
Dennis Knuckleyard is a hapless eighteen-year-old who works and lives in a second-hand bookstore. One day, his boss and landlady, Coffin Ada, sends ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Kiss of the Nightingale
by
Adi Denner
Tundra Books, 10/01/2024
1890, Lutèce: In this city, Talents are everything: precious gems that gift unrivalled skills to their owners. The most coveted, Elite Talents, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Last Dangerous Visions
by
Harlan Ellison
Blackstone Publishing, 10/01/2024
In 1973, celebrated writer and editor Harlan Ellison announced the third and final volume of his unprecedented anthology series, which began with
...more
The Life and Death of Rose Doucette
by
Harry Hunsicker
Oceanview Publishing, Inc, 10/01/2024
Dallas private investigator Dylan Fisher hasn't seen his ex-wife, Rose, in three years—which is why he's surprised when she asks him to meet her...
more
Thrillers
The Magic You Make
by
Jason June
Melissa de la Cruz Studio, 10/01/2024
Still reeling from their deadly encounter with the Knife and the revelation that the Culling was unnecessary, soulmates Nigel and Ori have been thrust...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Message
by
Ta-Nehisi Coates
One World, 10/01/2024
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's classic "Politics and the English Language," but ...
more
The Mighty Red: A Novel
by
Louise Erdrich
Harper, 10/01/2024
History is a flood. The mighty red ...
In Argus, North Dakota, a collection of people revolve around a fraught wedding.
Gary Geist, a ...
more
The Only Sound Is the Wind: Stories
by
Pascha Sotolongo
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/01/2024
In the tradition of
narrativa de lo inusual (narrative of the unusual),
The Only Sound Is the Wind combines the fantastic with the everyday, weaving ...
more
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Plot Against Native America: The Fateful Story of Native American Boarding Schools and the Theft of Tribal Lands
by
Bill Vaughn
Pegasus Books, 10/01/2024
When Europeans came to the Americas centuries ago, too many of them brought racism along with them. Even presidents such as George Washington, Thomas ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies
by
Deborah Levy
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/01/2024
Deborah Levy's vital literary voice speaks about many things.
On footwear: "It has always been very clear to me that people who wear shoes ...
more
The Sequel: The Book Series #2
by
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Celadon, 10/01/2024
Anna Williams-Bonner has taken care of business. That is to say, she's taken care of her husband, bestselling novelist Jacob Finch Bonner, and laid to...
more
The Third Realm: A Novel
by
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Penguin Press, 10/01/2024
Shapeshifting visitors, unsolved murders in the forest, black metal bands and an online bank of thousands of people's dreams—the star is back. ...
more
The Wild Huntress
by
Emily Lloyd-Jones
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 10/01/2024
Every five years, two kingdoms take part in a Wild Hunt. Joining is a bloody risk, and even the most qualified hunters can suffer the deadliest fates....
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Ukraine: Remember Also Me: Testimonies from the War
by
George Butler
Candlewick Studio, 10/01/2024
While reporting on the war in Ukraine, George Butler has created striking and intimate illustrations to introduce us to the people behind the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Beggar's Bedlam
by
Nabarun Bhattacharya
Seagull Books, 10/04/2024
Beggar's Bedlam is a surreal novel that unleashes the chaos of the carnival on the familiar. Part literary descendent of Bulgakov's
The Master and ...more
Literary Fiction
A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World's First National Park
by
Randall K. Wilson
Counterpoint Press, 10/08/2024
It has been called Wonderland, America's Serengeti, the crown jewel of the National Park System, and America's best idea. But how did this faraway ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Childish Literature
by
Alejandro Zambra
Penguin Books, 10/08/2024
Childish Literature is a charming and wide-ranging collection of short stories, essays, and even a couple of poems produced under the influence of ...
more
Crisis Averted: The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks
by
Caitlin Rivers PhD
Viking, 10/08/2024
An outbreak does not grow into an epidemic. A child does not go hungry. A would-be smoker never lights up. In this fascinating window into the secret ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Diet Soda Club
by
Chaz Hayden
Candlewick Press, 10/08/2024
Have you ever made all the wrong choices for all the right reasons?
Reed Beckett's little sister, Beatrice, has never been awakened by the smell ...
more
Divine Mortals
by
Amanda Helander
Disney-Hyperion, 10/08/2024
Blessed by the gods, Mona Arnett has the unique ability to divine soulmates, but she refuses to seek out her own—until she learns the king is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Echoes of Us: A Novel
by
Joy Jordan-Lake
Lake Union Publishing, 10/08/2024
In the midst of World War II, a Tennessee farm boy, a Jewish Cambridge student, and a German POW forge a connection that endures―against all ...
more
Historical Fiction
Finding Otipemisiwak: The People Who Own Themselves
by
Andrea Currie
Arsenal Pulp Press, Limited, 10/08/2024
Otipemisiwak is a Plains Cree word describing the Métis, meaning "the people who own themselves."
Andrea Currie was born into a Métis ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Fledgling: The Keeper's Records of Revolution
by
S. K. Ali
Kokila, 10/08/2024
Would you trade love for peace?
Raisa of Upper Earth has only lived a life of privilege and acquiescence. Ever dutiful, she accepts her father's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir
by
Lisa Marie Presley
Random House, 10/08/2024
In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her long-gestating memoir.
A month later, Lisa Marie was dead, and the ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Ghosts of Crook County: An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land
by
Russell Cobb
Beacon Press, 10/08/2024
In the early 1900s, at the dawn of the "American Century," few knew the intoxicating power of greed better than white men on the forefront of the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Giddy Barber Explodes in 11
by
Dina Havranek
Peachtree Teen, 10/08/2024
Giddy Barber knows with certainty she's going to become a mechanical engineer. What she doesn't know is the last time she smiled.
With her ...
more
Literary Fiction
Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals
by
Maurice Casey
Footnote Press, 10/08/2024
Hotel Lux follows Irish radical May O'Callaghan and her friends, three revolutionary families brought together by their vision for a communist future ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
John Lewis: A Life
by
David Greenberg
Simon & Schuster, 10/08/2024
Born into poverty in rural Alabama, Lewis would become second only to Martin Luther King, Jr. in his contributions to the Civil Rights Movement. He ...
more
Love Can't Feed You: A Novel
by
Cherry Lou Sy
Dutton, 10/08/2024
Love Can't Feed You is a stunning, heartbreaking, and compressed look at coming of age, shifting notions of home, and the disintegration of the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Melvill
by
Rodrigo Fresan
Open Letter, 10/08/2024
His son, still a child, sits at the foot of the bed, attentively collecting these final, hallucinated words.
...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Mindless: The Human Condition in the Machine Age
by
Robert Skidelsky
Other Press, 10/08/2024
Faith in technological fixes for our problems is waning. Automation, which promised relief from toil, has reactivated the long-standing fear of job ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East
by
Robert Fisk
Harper360, 10/08/2024
From the Arab uprisings and the Syrian civil war to Israel's conflicts with Palestine and Lebanon, Fisk condemns the West's ongoing hypocrisy and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer
by
Richard Bernstein
Knopf, 10/08/2024
Al Jolson, born Asa Yoelson, immigrated from a shtetl in Lithuania to the United States in 1894 after his father secured a job as a rabbi in ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Our Evenings: A Novel
by
Alan Hollinghurst
Random House, 10/08/2024
Did I have a grievance? Most of us, without looking far, could find something that had harmed us, and oppressed us, and unfairly held us back. I tried...more
Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems: 1961-2023
by
Margaret Atwood
Knopf, 10/08/2024
Tracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood—a writer who has fundamentally shaped the contemporary literary landscapes—
Paper Boat: New and ...more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Shock Induction
by
Chuck Palahniuk
Simon & Schuster, 10/08/2024
In
Shock Induction, the best and brightest students at a seemingly reputable high school are disappearing. Every day it seems another overachiever is ...
more
Slaveroad
by
John Edgar Wideman
Scribner, 10/08/2024
John Edgar Wideman's "slaveroad" is a palimpsest of physical, social, and psychological terrain, the great expanse to which he writes in this ...
more
The Book of George: A Novel
by
Kate Greathead
Henry Holt and Company, 10/08/2024
If you haven't had the misfortune of dating a George, you know someone who has. He's a young man brimming with potential but incapable of following ...
more
The Dividing Sky
by
Jill Tew
Joy Revolution, 10/08/2024
In 2460, eighteen-year-old Liv Newman dreams of a future beyond her lower-class life in the Metro. As a Proxy, she uses the neurochip in her brain to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Door in Lake Mallion: The Brindlewatch Quintet #2
by
S.M. Beiko
ECW Press, 10/08/2024
Dunstan has had big ambitions his entire life — bigger than the small lakeside town of Knockum — imagining himself heading a chorus line ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car
by
Witold Rybczynski
Doubleday, 10/08/2024
In this lively and entertaining work, Witold Rybczynski―hailed as "one of the best writers on design working today" by
Publishers Weekly―...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
by
Dava Sobel
Atlantic Monthly Press, 10/08/2024
"Even now, nearly a century after her death, Marie Curie remains the only female scientist most people can name," writes Dava Sobel at the opening of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World
by
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Riverhead Books, 10/08/2024
A globe shows the world we think we know: neatly delineated sovereign nations that grant or restrict their citizens' rights. Beneath, above, and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Last One at the Wedding: A Novel
by
Jason Rekulak
Flatiron Books, 10/08/2024
Frank Szatowski is shocked when his daughter, Maggie, calls him for the first time in three years. He was convinced that their estrangement would ...
more
Thrillers
The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern: A Novel
by
Lynda Cohen Loigman
St. Martin's Press, 10/08/2024
On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springs―an active senior ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Murderess: A Novel
by
Laurie Notaro
Little A, 10/08/2024
It's October 1931. When Winnie Ruth Judd arrives at the Los Angeles train station from Phoenix, her shipping trunks catch the attention of a ...
more
The Paris Maid
by
Ella Carey
Grand Central Publishing, 10/08/2024
Louise Basset works as a housemaid at The Ritz Hotel, home to the most powerful Nazis in France. As she changes silk sheets and scrubs sumptuous...
more
Historical Fiction
The Puzzle Box: A Novel
by
Danielle Trussoni
Random House, 10/08/2024
It is the Year of the Wood Dragon, and the ingenious Mike Brink has been invited to Tokyo, Japan, to open the legendary Dragon Box.
The box was ...
more
The Rest of You
by
Maame Blue
Amistad, 10/08/2024
On the cusp of thirty, Ghanaian Londoner Whitney Appiah was born with a special gift. The massage therapist can physically sense where her clients' ...
more
The River Knows My Name
by
Mortada Gzar
Amazon Crossing, 10/08/2024
Fifteen-year-old Charlotte is restlessly coming of age in early twentieth-century Basra, Iraq. The daughter of a Seattle doctor and missionary, ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Schubert Treatment: A Story of Music and Healing
by
Claire Oppert
Greystone Books, 10/08/2024
When Claire Oppert plays the cello, miracles happen. Children with profound autism, patients in extreme pain and distress, even people on the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Terrifying Tales of Vivian Vance
by
Josh Ulrich
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/08/2024
It's just a bedtime story….right?
Parents in Pensmouth tell their children a devious bedtime tale—their beloved town is riddled with ...
more
The Trade Off: A Novel
by
Samantha Greene Woodruff
Lake Union Publishing, 10/08/2024
Bea Abramovitz has a gift for math and numbers. With her father, she studies the burgeoning Wall Street market's stocks and patterns in the financial ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Witches of El Paso: A Novel
by
Luis Jaramillo
Primero Sueno Press, 10/08/2024
If you call to the witches, they will come.
1943, El Paso, Texas: teenager Nena spends her days caring for the small children of her older ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
This Cursed House
by
Del Sandeen
Berkley Books, 10/08/2024
In the fall of 1962, twenty-seven-year-old Jemma Barker is desperate to escape her life in Chicago—and the spirits she has always been able to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Twenty-Four Seconds from Now ...: A LOVE Story
by
Jason Reynolds
Atheneum, 10/08/2024
Twenty-four months ago: Neon gets chased by a dog all around the parking lot of a church. Not his finest moment. And definitely one he would have ...
more
What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times
by
Dana Frank
Beacon Press, 10/08/2024
Drawing on little-known stories of working people,
What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? amplifies voices that have been long omitted from ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wild Chocolate: Across the Americas in Search of Cacao's Soul
by
Rowan Jacobsen
Bloomsbury Publishing, 10/08/2024
When Rowan Jacobsen first heard of a chocolate bar made entirely from wild Bolivian cacao, he was skeptical. The waxy mass-market chocolate of his ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Wolfpack
by
Amelia Brunskill
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 10/08/2024
Nine girls bound together
in beautiful, virtuous Havenwood,
a refuge from an unsafe world.
Then there are eight
one of them gone&#...
more
All the Hearts You Eat
by
Hailey Piper
Titan Books, 10/15/2024
What really happened to Cabrina Brite?
Ivory's life changes irrevocably when she discovers the body of Cabrina Brite on the sands of Cape Morning...
more
American Rapture
by
CJ Leede
Tor Nightfire, 10/15/2024
A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust.
Sophie, a good Catholic girl, must traverse the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Blame My Virgo Moon
by
Freja Nicole Woolf
Walker Books US, 10/15/2024
Life should be Gucci gooseberry gorgeous for Cat Phillips now that she's got the girl: swoon-worthy, green-haired Morgan Delaney. Except Cat's friends...
more
Literary Fiction
Blood Test: A Comedy
by
Charles Baxter
Pantheon Books, 10/15/2024
In this fresh take on love and trouble in America, Brock Hobson, an insurance salesman and Sunday-school teacher, finds his equilibrium disturbed by ...
more
Blue Light Hours
by
Bruna Dantas Lobato
Grove Press, 10/15/2024
In a small dorm room at a liberal arts college in Vermont, a young woman settles into the warm blue light of her desk lamp before calling the mother ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Catherine the Ghost
by
Kathe Koja
CLASH, 10/15/2024
Cathy Earnshaw. Catherine Linton. Mother. Daughter. They never saw each other alive. In
Catherine the Ghost these two young women confront loss, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Clean: A Novel
by
Alia Trabucco Zerán
Riverhead Books, 10/15/2024
A young girl has died and the family's maid is being interrogated. She must tell the whole story before arriving at the girl's death.
Estela came...
more
Dogs and Monsters: Stories
by
Mark Haddon
Doubleday, 10/15/2024
Greek myths have fascinated people for millenia, seeing in them lessons about fate and hubris and the contingency of existence. Mark Haddon digs into ...
more
Don't Be a Stranger: A Novel
by
Susan Minot
Knopf, 10/15/2024
Ivy Cooper is 52 years old when Ansel Fleming first walks into her life. Twenty years her junior, a musician newly released from prison on a minor ...
more
Forest of Noise: Poems
by
Mosab Abu Toha
Knopf, 10/15/2024
Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well-known poet when the current siege of Gaza began. After the Israeli army bombed and ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
by
John Grisham, Jim McCloskey
Doubleday, 10/15/2024
John Grisham is known worldwide for his bestselling novels, but it's his real-life passion for justice that led to his work with Jim McCloskey of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Girlmode
by
Magdalene Visaggio
HarperCollins Publishers, 10/15/2024
The last thing Phoebe Zito wants is to be noticed. The newest kid at Sally Ride High School, newly arrived in Los Angeles, and newly transitioned, she...
more
Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self-Discovery
by
Christine Mari
Little, Brown Ink, 10/15/2024
Christine has always felt she is just half: Half American, half Japanese. As a biracial Japanese American who was born in Tokyo but raised in the US, ...
more
I Was Told There Would Be Romance
by
Marie Arnold
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 10/15/2024
Fifteen-year-old Fancy Augustine is a Haitian American girl with simple desires. She'd like to trade in her floppy, oversize boobs for cute, perky ...
more
In the Distance
by
Hernan Diaz
Riverhead Books, 10/15/2024
A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels east in search of his brother, moving on foot against the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Into the Unknown: The Quest to Understand the Mysteries of the Cosmos
by
Dr. Kelsey Johnson
Basic Books, 10/15/2024
Humans have learned a lot about the world around us and the universe beyond. We have made powerful insights and created profound theories about the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Januaries: Stories of Love, Magic & Betrayal
by
Olivie Blake
Tor Books, 10/15/2024
Once upon a time in a land far, far away, a wish-granting spirit rapidly approaches burnout. Meanwhile, a banished fairy answers a Craigslist ad, a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Libby Lost and Found: A Novel
by
Stephanie Booth
Sourcebooks Landmark, 10/15/2024
Meet Libby Weeks, author of the mega-best-selling fantasy series, The Falling Children―written as "F.T. Goldhero" to maintain her privacy. ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love
by
Julie Sedivy
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/15/2024
If there is one feature that defines the human condition, it is language: written, spoken, signed, understood, and misunderstood, in all its infinite ...
more
Mad Wife: A Memoir
by
Kate Hamilton
Beacon Press, 10/15/2024
In this electrifying literary memoir, Kate Hamilton deftly traces her complicated journey from loving wife to gaslit victim to furious feminist with ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Mama: A Queer Black Woman's Story of a Family Lost and Found
by
Nikkya Hargrove
Algonquin Books, 10/15/2024
Nikkya Hargrove spent a good portion of her childhood in prison visiting rooms. When her mother—addicted to cocaine and just out of prison—...
more
Midnight and Blue: An Inspector Rebus Novel
by
Ian Rankin
Mulholland, 10/15/2024
A convict is brutally murdered in his locked cell deep in the heart of Scotland's most infamous prison. Sleeping in a cell across the floor lies John ...
more
Mysteries
Tangleroot
by
Kalela Williams
Feiwel & Friends, 10/15/2024
When Dr. Castine takes a job as the president of the prestigious Stonepost College in rural Virginia, Noni is forced to leave her New England home and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Ancients: A Novel
by
John Larison
Viking, 10/15/2024
A young boy and his older sisters find themselves suddenly and utterly alone, orphaned in an abandoned fishing village. Their food supplies dwindling,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Dreaming Path: Indigenous Wisdom, Meditations, and Exercises to Live Our Best Stories
by
Paul Callaghan
HarperOne, 10/15/2024
Dr. Paul Callaghan belongs to the land of the Worimi people who live north of Sydney along the east coast of Australia. Raised to live the western way...
more
Advice
The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America
by
Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz
Flatiron Books, 10/15/2024
Who is Indian enough?
To be Native American is to live in a world of contradictions. At the same time that the number of people in the US who claim...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
by
Noam Chomsky
Penguin Press, 10/15/2024
The Myth of American Idealism offers a timely and comprehensive introduction to the incisive critiques of U.S. power that have made Noam Chomsky a "...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Treasure Hunters Club: A Mystery
by
Tom Ryan
Atlantic Monthly Press, 10/15/2024
Welcome to Maple Bay, Nova Scotia.
For nearly a century, people have ventured to the idyllic seaside town of Maple Bay in search of a legendary ...
more
The Waiting: Ballard and Bosch #6
by
Michael Connelly
Little Brown & Company, 10/15/2024
Renée Ballard and the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer ...
more
Under the Heron's Light
by
Randi Pink
Feiwel & Friends, 10/15/2024
"Four thousand six hundred forty-two steps in," Grannylou interrupted. "You remember that now, Baby. Four-thousand six hundred forty-two steps to ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Valley So Low: One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Coal Catastrophe
by
Jared Sullivan
Knopf, 10/15/2024
For more than 50 years, a power plant in the small town of Kingston, Tennessee, burned fourteen thousand tons of coal a day, gradually creating ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wild: Poems
by
Ben Okri
Other Press, 10/15/2024
Freedom is the most precious commodity in the world. In this powerful collection, the celebrated novelist, essayist, dramatist, and poet Ben Okri ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Women's Hotel: A Novel
by
Daniel M. Lavery
HarperVia, 10/15/2024
The Beidermeier might be several rungs lower on the ladder than the real-life Barbizon, but its residents manage to occupy one another nonetheless. ...
more
A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants: Wicked Weeds and Sinister Seeds
by
Rebecca E. Hirsch
Zest Books, 10/22/2024
"Should you encounter any of the plants in this book, do not treat them lightly. They can kill you. Or cause you unbearable agony. Or land you in jail...more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Absolution: Southern Reach, book 4
by
Jeff Vandermeer
MCD, 10/22/2024
When the Southern Reach trilogy was first published a decade ago, it was an instant sensation, celebrated in a front-page New York Times story before ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Comforting Myths: Concerning the Political in Art
by
Rabih Alameddine
University of Virginia Press, 10/22/2024
In this concisely argued and illuminating book, the PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author Rabih Alameddine takes the subject of politics and art ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While also in an Actual Cult!)
by
Bethany Joy Lenz
Simon & Schuster, 10/22/2024
In the early 2000s, after years of hard work and determination to breakthrough as an actor, Bethany Joy Lenz was finally cast as one of the leads on ...
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Biography/Memoir
Dis//Integration: 2 Novelas & 3 Stories & a Little Play
by
William Melvin Kelley
Vintage, 10/22/2024
The linked "2 novelas, 3 stories, and a little play" that make up
Dis//Integration follow the life journeys of Charles "Chig" Dunford from his Nanny ...
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Literary Fiction
Disturbing the Bones
by
Andrew Davis, Jeff Biggers
Melville House, 10/22/2024
Chicago detective Randall Jenkins has not been back home to the historic Civil Rights hotspot of Cairo, Illinois since the disappearance of his mother...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
Eurotrash: A Novel
by
Christian Kracht
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 10/22/2024
From "the great German-language writer of his generation" (Joshua Cohen) comes the second novel of Kracht's career narrated by an eponymous "Christian...
more
Find Me as the Creature I Am: Poems
by
Emily Jungmin Yoon
Knopf, 10/22/2024
Find Me as the Creature I Am is a book full of tenderness and violence, longing and love. Ranging from inherited family tales to meditations on the ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Greta: A Novel
by
Manon Steffan Ros
Amazon Crossing, 10/22/2024
Greta Pugh is dead.
The small village of Bethesda, Wales, is no stranger to tragedy. Once a thriving, prosperous community, the town has been ...
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Thrillers
Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People
by
Emily Herring
Basic Books, 10/22/2024
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Henri Bergson (1859–1941) became the most famous philosopher on earth. Where prior thinkers sketched out a...
more
How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?: A Novel
by
Anna Montague
Ecco, 10/22/2024
Most days, Magda is fine. She has her routines. She has her anxious therapy patients, who depend on her to cure their bad habits. She has her longtime...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Karla's Choice: A John le Carré Novel
by
Nick Harkaway
Viking, 10/22/2024
It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West's spy war against the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has ...
more
Lightborne: A Novel
by
Hesse Phillips
Pegasus Books, 10/22/2024
Christopher Marlowe: playwright, poet, lover. In the plague-stricken streets of Elizabethan England, Kit flirts with danger, leaving a trail of ...
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Historical Fiction
Memorials
by
Richard Chizmar
Gallery Books, 10/22/2024
1983: Three students from a small college embark on a week-long road trip to film a documentary on roadside memorials for their American Studies class...
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Metal from Heaven
by
August Clarke
Erewhon Books, 10/22/2024
He who controls ichorite controls the world.
A malleable metal more durable than steel, ichorite is a toxic natural resource fueling national ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute
by
Nicholas Fox Weber
Knopf, 10/22/2024
In the early 1920s, surrounded by the roaring streets of avant-garde Paris, Piet Mondrian began creating what would become some of the most ...
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Monstrous Nights: The Witch's Compendium of Monsters #2
by
Genoveva Dimova
Tor Books, 10/22/2024
With her magic reclaimed and her role in the community of Chernograd restored, Kosara's life should finally be back to normal―but, of course, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir
by
Sarah Moss
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/22/2024
My Good Bright Wolf is a memoir about thinking and reading, eating and not eating, privilege and scarcity, the relationships that form us and the long...
more
My Pisces Heart: A Black Immigrant's Search for Home Across Four Continents
by
Jennifer Neal
Catapult, 10/22/2024
I've never seen home as a permanent concept; it is an image crafted from untempered glass that threatens to shatter with lack of care.
Jennifer ...
more
No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir
by
Sarah LaBrie
Harper, 10/22/2024
On a highway in Houston, Texas, Sarah LaBrie's mother was found screaming at passing cars, terrified she would be murdered by invisible assailants. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Patriot: A Memoir
by
Alexei Navalny
Knopf, 10/22/2024
Alexei Navalny began writing
Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story of his life: his youth, his call to activism...
more
Biography/Memoir
Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos
by
Richard Panek
Little Brown & Company, 10/22/2024
Pillars of Creation tells the story of one of the greatest scientific achievements in the history of civilization, a $10 billion instrument with a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Roman Year: A Memoir
by
André Aciman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/22/2024
In
Roman Year, André Aciman captures the period of his adolescence that began when he and his family first set foot in Rome, after being expelled...
more
Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank
by
Justene Hill Edwards
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/22/2024
In the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman's Bank. African ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Spatriati: A Novel
by
Mario Desiati
Other Press, 10/22/2024
I never understood, of the two of us, which one was warm and which cold, but I consider myself lucky to have met my opposite front in Claudia Fanelli,...more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Children of Jocasta: A Novel
by
Natalie Haynes
Harper, 10/22/2024
When you have grown up as I have, there is no security in not knowing things, in avoiding the ugliest truths because they can't be faced ... Because ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Heartbeat Library: A Novel
by
Laura Imai Messina
The Overlook Press, 10/22/2024
On the peaceful Japanese island of Teshima there is a library of heartbeats, a place where the heartbeats of visitors from all around the world are ...
more
The Sweetness Between Us
by
Sarah Winifred Searle
First Second, 10/22/2024
After health problems wiped out their first few weeks of school, Perley and Amandine are both starting their Junior year behind their classmates, and ...
more
The Wood at Midwinter
by
Susanna Clarke
Bloomsbury Publishing, 10/22/2024
'A church is a sort of wood. A wood is a sort of church. They're the same thing really.'
Nineteen-year-old Merowdis Scot is an unusual girl. She ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Thief of the Heights
by
Son M.
HarperAlley, 10/22/2024
Lifelong friends Basem, Mustafa, and Aarfah have carved out a place for themselves in their corner of Muqadas, where they dream of climbing from their...
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Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
We All Shine On: John, Yoko, and Me
by
Elliot Mintz
Dutton, 10/22/2024
In 1972, Elliot Mintz installed a red light in his bedroom in Laurel Canyon. When it started flashing, it meant that either John Lennon or Yoko Ono&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
When We Chased the Light: A Novel
by
Emily Bleeker
Lake Union Publishing, 10/22/2024
Christie's auction house, Beverly Hills. The effects of Hollywood icon Vivian Snow are up for bid. In the collection is a set of hand-drawn postcards ...
more
Historical Fiction
Where the Dead Brides Gather
by
Nuzo Onoh
Titan Books, 10/22/2024
Bata, a young girl tormented by nightmares, wakes up one night to find herself standing sentinel before her cousin's door. Her cousin is to get ...
more
Canoes
by
Maylis De Kerangal
Archipelago Books, 10/29/2024
Ricocheting off of the book's exhilarating central novella and 7 short stories, the women we meet in
Canoes are by turns indelibly witty, insightful, ...
more
Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah
by
Charles King
Doubleday, 10/29/2024
George Frideric Handel's
Messiah is arguably the greatest piece of participatory art ever created. Adored by millions, it is performed each year by ...
more
Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop
by
Serene Khader
Beacon Press, 10/29/2024
After over 175 years, the feminist movement, now in its fourth wave, is at risk of collapsing on its eroding foundation. In
Faux Feminism, political ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
For She Is Wrath
by
Emily Varga
Wednesday Books, 10/29/2024
Three hundred and sixty-four days.
Framed for a crime she didn't commit, Dania counts down her days in prison until she can exact revenge on ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions
by
Nalo Hopkinson
Tachyon Publications, 10/29/2024
In Nalo Hopkinson's first collection of stories since 2015, a woman and her cyborg pig eke out a living in a future waterworld; two scientists ...
more
Just Until
by
Joseph Moldover
Margaret Ferguson Books, 10/29/2024
17-year-old Hannah Lynn has just one goal: to get out of Evans Beach, Maine. It's where she lost her mother to cancer. Where her estranged sister, ...
more
Like Mother, Like Mother: A Novel
by
Susan Rieger
Dial Books, 10/29/2024
Detroit, 1960. Lila Pereira is two years old when her angry, abusive father has her mother committed to an asylum. Lila never sees her mother again. ...
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Literary Fiction
Masquerade
by
Mike Fu
Tin House Books, 10/29/2024
Newly single Meadow Liu is house-sitting for his friend, artist Selma Shimizu, when he stumbles upon
The Masquerade, a translated novel about a masked...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Miss Kim Knows: And Other Stories
by
Cho Nam-joo
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 10/29/2024
A woman is born. A woman is filmed in public without consent. A woman suffers domestic violence. A woman is gaslit. A woman is discriminated against ...
more
The Blue Hour: A Novel
by
Paula Hawkins
Mariner Books, 10/29/2024
Welcome to Eris: an island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day.
...
more
The Paris Escape: A Novel
by
James Tucker
Lake Union Publishing, 10/29/2024
When Laura Powell and Henry Salter travel to Paris in 1938, neither considers the other very good company. Laura is a shallow, spoiled heir to a ...
more
Historical Fiction
This Motherless Land: A Novel
by
Nikki May
Mariner Books, 10/29/2024
Quiet Funke is happy in Nigeria. She loves her art teacher mother, her professor father, and even her annoying little brother (most of the time). But ...
more
An Age of Winters: A Novel
by
Gemma Liviero
Lake Union Publishing, 11/01/2024
In 1625, the Franconian village of Eisbach has been plagued by disease, famine, heinous crimes, and a merciless winter. Katarin Jaspers is the ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Most Powerful Court in the World: A History of the Supreme Court of the United States
by
Stuart Banner
Oxford University Press, 11/04/2024
Will abortion be legal? Should people of the same sex be allowed to marry? May colleges prefer black applicants over white ones? These are among the ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
All the Truth I Can Stand
by
Mason Stokes
Calkins Creek, 11/05/2024
Juniper, Wyoming, high school student Ash is still reeling from his mother's death and ostracization by his friends when his father signs him up to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Before We Forget Kindness: Before the Coffee Gets Cold #6
by
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Hanover Square Press, 11/05/2024
- The father who could not allow his daughter to get married
- A woman who couldn't give Valentine's Day chocolates to her loved one
- A boy...
more
Literary Fiction
Don't Build, Rebuild: The Case for Imaginative Reuse in Architecture
by
Aaron Betsky
Beacon Press, 11/05/2024
As climate change has escalated into a crisis, the reuse of existing structures is the only way to even begin to preserve our wood, sand, silicon, and...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Eleanore of Avignon: A Novel
by
Elizabeth DeLozier
Dutton, 11/05/2024
Provence, 1347. Eleanore (Elea) Blanchet is a young midwife and herbalist with remarkable skills. But as she learned the day her mother died, the most...
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Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Lost and Lassoed: A Rebel Blue Ranch Novel
by
Lyla Sage
Dial Press, 11/05/2024
Teddy Andersen doesn't have a plan. She's never needed one before. She's always been more of a go-with-the-flow type of girl, but for some reason, the...
more
Romance
Pony Confidential
by
Christina Lynch
Berkley Books, 11/05/2024
Pony has been passed from owner to owner for longer than he can remember. Fed up, he busts out and goes on a cross-country mission to reunite with the...
more
Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers: Her Life, the Imperial Ideal, and the Politics and Turmoil That Shaped Her Extraordinary Reign
by
Anne Somerset
Knopf, 11/05/2024
It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn't be more wrong. A passionate and opinionated leader, Victoria was ...
more
Religion Is Not Done with You: Or, the Hidden Power of Religion on Race, Maps, Bodies, and Law
by
Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst
Beacon Press, 11/05/2024
Religion lurks in the floorboards of our daily lives, whether we want it to or not. A departure from more traditional approaches to "Religion 101,"
...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Streetlight People
by
Charlene Thomas
Dutton, 11/05/2024
For most, Streetlight is a dot on the map you pass on your way to somewhere else. But if you live there, you're either a Have-Not, like Kady, or a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Author's Guide to Murder: A Novel
by
Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White
William Morrow, 11/05/2024
There's been a sensational murder at historic Castle Kinloch, a gothic fantasy of grey granite on a remote island in the Highlands of Scotland. ...
more
The Autumn of Ruth Winters: A Novel
by
Marshall Fine
Lake Union Publishing, 11/05/2024
Ruth Winters is retired, widowed, and resigned to spending the rest of her life alone in her suburban home. She likes her routine and uses it to avoid...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Beggar Student
by
Osamu Dazai
New Directions Publishing, 11/05/2024
A fictional writer in his thirties named Osamu Dazai has just mailed his publisher an awful manuscript, filling him with dread and shame. Wandering ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Donut Prince of New York
by
Allen Zadoff
Holiday House, 11/05/2024
Eugene would just as soon spend the year playing small, but that's hard to do when you're the biggest kid in your class.
Things change when he ...
more
The Improvisers: A Murder and Magic Novel
by
Nicole Glover
Harper, 11/05/2024
Velma Frye is many things. A pilot, a former bootlegger, a well-seasoned traveler, a jazz pianist…and a wielder of celestial magic. She's also a...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Lake of Lost Girls: A Novel
by
Katherine Greene
Crooked Lane Books, 11/05/2024
It's 1998, and female students are going missing at Southern State University in North Carolina, but freshman Jessica Fadley, once a bright and ...
more
Thrillers
The Memory Dress
by
Jade Beer
Berkley Books, 11/05/2024
England, 2018: Jayne is quiet. She keeps to herself and has no grand expectations for her days. But after a chance encounter with her elderly neighbor...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.: A Biography
by
Peter Ames Carlin
Doubleday, 11/05/2024
In the spring of 1980, an unexpected group of musical eccentrics came together to play their very first performance at a college party in Athens, ...
more
The Teller of Small Fortunes
by
Julie Leong
Ace Books, 11/05/2024
Tao is an immigrant fortune teller, traveling between villages with just her trusty mule for company. She only tells "small" fortunes: whether it will...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Where the Library Hides: Secrets of the Nile #2
by
Isabel Ibañez
Wednesday Books, 11/05/2024
Inez Olivera traveled across the world to Egypt, seeking answers into her parents' recent and mysterious deaths. But all her searching led her down a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Cabinet of Curiosities: A Historical Tour of the Unbelievable, the Unsettling, and the Bizarre
by
Aaron Mahnke
St. Martin's Griffin, 11/12/2024
The podcast, Aaron Mahnke's
Cabinet of Curiosities, has delighted millions of listeners for years with tales of the wonderful, astounding, and ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dead Girls Don't Dream
by
Nino Cipri
Henry Holt and Company, 11/12/2024
Except for Riley Walcott.
Riley knows better than to stray from the trail in the woods behind her uncle Toby's house. But her little sister...
more
Every Arc Bends Its Radian: A Novel
by
Sergio De La Pava
Simon & Schuster, 11/12/2024
Riv—poet, philosopher, private eye—arrives in Cali, Colombia, hoping to find reprieve. Running away from an unspeakable event surrounding ...
more
Far District: Poems
by
Ishion Hutchinson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/12/2024
Crafting an impressionistic portrait of his youth in Jamaica, Ishion Hutchinson explores the West Indian distrust of European literature and mythology...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Games Untold: The Inheritance Games #5
by
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 11/12/2024
There is nothing frivolous about the way a Hawthorne man loves.
An amnesiac playboy and the woman with every reason to hate him. A ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
by
Paula Byrne
Harper360, 11/12/2024
Thomas Hardy is one of the most beloved and most-read British authors. His influence on literature and the minds of his readers is singular. But how ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist
by
Richard Munson
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/12/2024
Benjamin Franklin was one of the preeminent scientists of his time. Driven by curiosity, he conducted cutting-edge research on electricity, heat, ...
more
Lazarus Man: A Novel
by
Richard Price
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/12/2024
East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story tenement collapses into a fuming hill of rubble, pancaking the cars parked in front and coating the ...
more
Leap
by
Simina Popescu
Roaring Brook Press, 11/12/2024
Ana has been studying contemporary dance since she was little, but her heart isn't in it anymore. Instead her focus is on Carina―a beautiful, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
Midnights With You
by
Clare Osongco
Disney-Hyperion, 11/12/2024
"Where were you thinking of going?"
"Nowhere."
"Great," he says lightly, putting the car in gear. "Then we'll go there."
Seventeen-year...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Munichs: A Novel
by
David Peace
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/12/2024
In 1958, Manchester United was flying high: the best-known soccer team in the world and reigning English champions, the team was led by a bright young...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Only Here, Only Now: A Novel
by
Tom Newlands
HarperVia, 11/12/2024
In the blazing hot summer of 1994, there's nothing for Cora Mowat to do but hang around in empty parking lots. Stuck in her Mom's small house and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Open Minded: A Novel
by
Chloe Seager
William Morrow, 11/12/2024
After nine years of dating, Holly is sure her boyfriend Will is going to propose. But instead of popping the question, he shocks her by suggesting ...
more
Rani Choudhury Must Die
by
Adiba Jaigirdar
Feiwel & Friends, 11/12/2024
Meghna Rahman is tired of constantly being compared to her infuriatingly perfect ex best friend now rival. Everyone, except, at least, her boyfriend ...
more
Revolution by Fire: New York's Afro-Irish Uprising of 1741, a Graphic Novel
by
David Lester, Marcus Rediker
Beacon Press, 11/12/2024
Rebel fugitive John Gwin was previously introduced in
Under the Banner of King Death and this graphic novel continues his adventures.
Revolution by ...more
Graphic Novels
Shy Creatures: A Novel
by
Clare Chambers
Mariner Books, 11/12/2024
In all failed relationships there is a tipping point. It goes unnoticed at the time but can later be identified as the beginning of the decline. For ...more
Literary Fiction
Taiwan Travelogue: A Novel
by
Shuang-zi Yang
Graywolf Press, 11/12/2024
May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She's been invited there by the ...
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Literary Fiction
The Burrow
by
Melanie Cheng
Tin House Books, 11/12/2024
Big-hearted and moving, Melanie Cheng's
The Burrow brings together a family trying to find their way forward in the wake of a devastating loss. ...
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The Co-op: A Novel
by
Tarah DeWitt
St. Martin's Griffin, 11/12/2024
LaRynn Lavigne and Deacon Leeds had one short and contentious summer fling when they were teens―certainly nothing to build a foundation on. But ...
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The Starlets
by
Lee Kelly, Jennifer Thorne
Harper, 11/12/2024
Summer, 1958. Vivienne Rhodes thinks she's finally landed her break playing Helen of Troy in Apex Pictures' big-budget epic,
A Thousand Ships, an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
They Just Need to Get a Job: 15 Myths on Homelessness
by
Mary Brosnahan
Beacon Press, 11/12/2024
Conservative think tanks like the Manhattan Institute disseminate anti-homeless myths in the media, legislatures, and the larger culture, claiming ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Those Opulent Days: A Mystery
by
Jacquie Pham
Atlantic Monthly Press, 11/12/2024
Duy, Phong, Minh, and Edmond have been best friends since childhood. Now, as young men running their families' formidable businesses, they make up ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
by
Katherine Rundell
Doubleday, 11/12/2024
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous, and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this brilliant and passionately persuasive book, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Water Finds a Way: A novel
by
Meghan Perry
Delphinium Books, 11/12/2024
Determined to conceal her secrets and losses, she soon finds herself dragged into others' lives when she takes a job on a boat owned by a notorious ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Anzuelo
by
Emma Ríos
Image Comics, 11/19/2024
The Sea, secretly more complex than anyone imagined, rises one day. The horizon folds as the Sea absorbs the world and transforms everything that's ...
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Graphic Novels
Briarcliff Prep: Sophomore Year
by
Brianna Peppins
Disney-Hyperion, 11/19/2024
Avielle LeBeau is beginning her second year at Briarcliff Prep, and she's got big dreams. Top of the list? Starting her own student life magazine and ...
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Literary Fiction
Citizen: My Life After the White House
by
Bill Clinton
Knopf, 11/19/2024
On January 20, 2001, after nearly thirty years in politics—eight of them as president of the United States—Bill Clinton was suddenly a ...
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Biography/Memoir
Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry
by
Ryan Ruby
Seven Stories Press, 11/19/2024
Prophet. Entertainer. Courtier. Criminal. Revolutionary. Critic. Scholar. Nobody. Epic in sweep,
Context Collapse is the secret history of the poet&#...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers
by
Jean Strouse
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/19/2024
Jean Strouse's
Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers looks at twelve portraits of one English family painted by the expatriate ...
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Is She Really Going Out with Him?
by
Sophie Cousens
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 11/19/2024
Columnist Anna Appleby has left her love life behind after a painful divorce. Who needs a man when she has two kids, a cat, and uncontested control of...
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Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future
by
Vince Beiser
Riverhead Books, 11/19/2024
An Australian millionaire's plan to mine the ocean floor. Nigerian garbage pickers risking their lives to salvage e-waste. A Bill Gates-backed ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Red Sonja: Consumed
by
Gail Simone
Orbit, 11/19/2024
The warrior
Red Sonja, the famous fiery She-Devil of Hyrkania, has never concerned herself with the consequences of her actions. She's taken what she ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Serpent Sea: Spice Road #2
by
Maiya Ibrahim
Delacorte Press, 11/19/2024
Imani is a magic-wielding warrior sworn to protect her land from the monsters that roam the desert. But an even worse enemy now threatens the Sahir. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Shell Games: A Novel
by
Bonnie Kistler
Harper, 11/19/2024
Julie's mother Kate is a force of nature – a glamorous woman of seventy, a self-made real estate developer, a grande dame in Florida society, ...
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Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
by
Edwin Frank
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/19/2024
"How can we live differently?" a young woman urgently demands in Virginia Woolf's novel
The Years. It is the 1930s, war and death are in the air, but ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Thanks for Listening
by
Molly Horan
HarperCollins Publishers, 11/19/2024
Mia knows what she's talking about.
Class schedules, significant others, existential life crises—you name it, she's talked someone through ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Collaborators
by
Michael Idov
Scribner, 11/19/2024
Combining realistic thrills with sophisticated spycraft and witty dialogue,
The Collaborators delivers a gut-punch answer to the biggest geopolitical ...
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The Mirror: The Lost Bride Trilogy #2
by
Nora Roberts
St. Martin's Press, 11/19/2024
When Sonya MacTavish inherits the huge Victorian mansion on the coast of Maine, she has no idea that the house is haunted. The footsteps she hears at ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
by
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Scribner, 11/19/2024
As Indigenous scientist and author of
Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Songbird & the Heart of Stone: The Shadowborn Duet #1 (Crowns of Nyaxia #3)
by
Carissa Broadbent
Tor Books, 11/19/2024
In the descent to the underworld, a bride of the sun must choose between the light of her redemption… or a dark love that defies the gods ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Time of the Child
by
Niall Williams
Bloomsbury Publishing, 11/19/2024
Doctor Jack Troy was born and raised in Faha, but his responsibilities for the sick and his care for the dying mean he has always been set apart from ...
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Visitations
by
Corey Egbert
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/19/2024
Corey's mom has always made him feel safe. Especially after his parents' divorce, and the dreaded visitations with his dad begin. But as Corey grows ...
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Water, Water: Poems
by
Billy Collins
Random House, 11/19/2024
In this collection of sixty new poems, Billy Collins writes about the beauties and ironies of everyday experience. A poem is best, he feels, when it ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation
by
Jim O'Heir
William Morrow, 11/19/2024
For seven seasons, Leslie Knope and the
Parks and Recreation gang charmed millions of viewers with their quirky antics and unwavering positivity. The ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
When Mimi Went Missing
by
Suja Sukumar
Soho Press, 11/19/2024
Shy, nerdy Tanvi has always thought of her perfect cousin Mimi as her sister. Not only did Mimi's family raise Tanvi after the tragic death of her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
City of Night Birds: A Novel
by
Juhea Kim
Ecco, 11/26/2024
On a White Night in 2019, prima ballerina Natalia Leonova returns to St. Petersburg two years after a devastating accident that stalled her career. ...
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Darkly
by
Marisha Pessl
Delacorte Press, 11/26/2024
Arcadia "Dia" Gannon has been obsessed with Louisiana Veda, the game designer whose obsessive creations and company, Darkly, have gained a cultlike ...
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Daughters of Bronze: A Novel of Troy
by
A. D. Rhine
Dutton, 11/26/2024
Lost between the timeless lines of Homer's epic, the women of Troy finally stand to be counted. Their story is one you've never encountered, and it ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Naples 1343: The Unexpected Origins of the Mafia
by
Amedeo Feniello
Other Press, 11/26/2024
1343: there is famine in Naples. After nightfall, a Genoese ship loaded with wheat is attacked by members of two local clans who brutally kill several...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)
by
Solvej Balle
New Directions Publishing, 11/26/2024
Tara Selter, the heroine of
On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November eighteenth repeats ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Don't Go: Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It
by
Tonika Lewis Johnson, Maria Krysan
Polity, 11/27/2024
This book is a collection of intimate stories and evocative photos that uncover the hidden influence of both subtle and overt "don't go" messages and ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Trial by Ambush: Murder, Injustice, and the Truth about the Case of Barbara Graham
by
Marcia Clark
Thomas & Mercer, 12/01/2024
Unwanted and neglected from birth, Barbara Graham had to overcome the odds just to survive. Her beauty was both a blessing and a curse―offering ...
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True Crime
White Mulberry: A Novel
by
Rosa Kwon Easton
Lake Union Publishing, 12/01/2024
1928, Japan-occupied Korea. Eleven-year-old Miyoung has dreams too big for her tiny farming village near Pyongyang: to become a teacher, to avoid an ...
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Historical Fiction
Debut Author
A History of the Big House: A Novel
by
Charif Majdalani
Other Press, 12/03/2024
At the end of the 19th century, a man is forced to flee his village after a quarrel. Starting over with nothing, the banished, audacious Wakim Nassar ...
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Historical Fiction
Alter Ego: A Novel
by
Alex Segura
Flatiron Books, 12/03/2024
Annie Bustamante is a cultural force like none other: an acclaimed filmmaker, an author, a comic book artist known for one of the all time best ...
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Apartment Women: A Novel
by
Gu Byeong-mo
Hanover Square Press, 12/03/2024
When Yojin moves with her husband and daughter into the Dream Future Pilot Communal Apartments, she's ready for a fresh start. Located on the ...
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Ardent Violet and the Infinite Eye: The Starmetal Symphony #2
by
Alex White
Orbit, 12/03/2024
Ultra-glam enby pop star Ardent Violet thought they could catch a break and enjoy some time with their new boyfriend August Kitko after defeating the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Bellevue: A Medical Thriller
by
Robin Cook
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 12/03/2024
Twenty-three-year-old Michael "Mitt" Fuller starts his surgical residency with great anticipation at the nearly three-hundred-year-old, iconic ...
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Thrillers
Berlin Atomized: A Novel
by
Julia Kornberg
Astra House, 12/03/2024
Berlin Atomized begins in Buenos Aires of the early 2000s with the self-baptisms of Nina Goldstein. She bathes too frequently, washing with fervor and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
CABIN: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman
by
Patrick Hutchison
St. Martin's Press, 12/03/2024
Wit's End isn't just a state of mind. It's the name of a gravel road, the address of a run-down off-the-grid cabin, 120 shabby square feet of fixer-...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Deadbeat: A Novel
by
Adam Hamdy
Atria Books, 12/03/2024
Peyton Collard was a good man once, but his life changed after a horrific car accident. Divorced, drunk, and severely damaged, Peyton is offered a ...
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Dust: A Novel
by
Alison Stine
Wednesday Books, 12/03/2024
After her father has a premonition, Thea and her family move to the Bloodless Valley of southern Colorado, hoping to make a fresh start. But the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Gabriel's Moon
by
William Boyd
Atlantic Monthly Press, 12/03/2024
Gabriel Dax is a young man haunted by the memories of a fire that took his mother's life. Every night, when sleep finally comes, he dreams about his ...
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Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film
by
Julie Gilbert
Pantheon Books, 12/03/2024
The stupendous publication of Edna Ferber's
Giant in 1952 set off a storm of protest over the novel's portrayal of Texas manners, money and mores with...
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Biography/Memoir
Havoc: A Novel
by
Christopher Bollen
Harper, 12/03/2024
The war between age and youth has never been so vicious.
Eighty-one-year-old widow Maggie Burkhardt came to the Royal Karnak to escape. But not in...
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I Might Be in Trouble
by
Daniel Aleman
Grand Central Publishing, 12/03/2024
A few years ago, David Alvarez had it all: a six-figure book deal, a loving boyfriend, and an exciting writing career. His debut novel was a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Kingdom of No Tomorrow
by
Fabienne Josaphat
Algonquin Books, 12/03/2024
Nettie Boileau joins the Black Panthers' Free Health Clinics in Oakland in 1968 and is soon swept up in an all-consuming love affair with Melvin ...
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Historical Fiction
My Fairy God Somebody
by
Charlene Allen
HarperCollins Publishers, 12/03/2024
The way Clae's mom tells it, her dad took off when Clae was a baby, end of story. Ever since, it's just been the two of them, living in the coastal ...
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Nobody's Hero: Ben Koenig #2
by
M. W. Craven
Flatiron Books, 12/03/2024
The man who can't feel fear is back...
When a shocking murder and abduction on the streets of London leads investigators to open a safe in ...
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Rental House: A Novel
by
Weike Wang
Riverhead Books, 12/03/2024
Keru and Nate are college sweethearts who marry despite their family differences: Keru's strict, Chinese, immigrant parents demand perfection ("To use...
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Sister Snake: A Novel
by
Amanda Lee Koe
Ecco, 12/03/2024
Sisterhood is difficult for Su and Emerald. Su leads a sheltered, moneyed life as the picture-perfect wife of a conservative politician in Singapore. ...
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The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever
by
Lydia Reeder
St. Martin's Press, 12/03/2024
After Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school, more women demanded a chance to study medicine. Barred entrance to ...
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The Memory Library
by
Kate Storey
HarperCollins Publishers, 12/03/2024
For forty-two years, Sally Harrison has been building a library.
Each year, on her daughter's birthday, she adds a new book to her shelves –...
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Literary Fiction
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Rivals: A Novel
by
Jane Pek
Vintage, 12/03/2024
Claudia Lin—mystery novel superfan and, until recently, clichéd underemployed English major—has scored her dream job: co-running ...
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The Shutouts: A Novel
by
Gabrielle Korn
St. Martin's Press, 12/03/2024
The year is 2041, and it's a dangerous time to be a woman driving across the United States alone. Deadly storms and uncontrollable wildfires are ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Voyage Home: Women of Troy #3
by
Pat Barker
Doubleday, 12/03/2024
I never saw Cassandra as a victim. I saw a woman as focused on a single aim as any raptor stooping to its prey; but then, I had more opportunities to ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The World With Its Mouth Open
by
Zahid Rafiq
Tin House Books, 12/03/2024
From a shopkeeper's encounter with a mannequin, to an expectant mother walking on a precarious road, to a young boy wavering between dreams and ...
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Short Stories
Debut Author
This Plague of Souls
by
Mike McCormack
Soho Press, 12/03/2024
Nealon returns from prison to his house in the West of Ireland to find it empty. No heat or light, no sign of his wife or child. It is as if the world...
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Thrillers
When the Mapou Sings
by
Nadine Pinede
Candlewick Press, 12/03/2024
Sixteen-year-old Lucille hopes to one day open a school alongside her best friend where girls just like them can learn what it means to be Haitian: to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Woo Woo: A Novel
by
Ella Baxter
Catapult, 12/03/2024
Woo Woo follows Sabine, a conceptual artist on the verge of a photo exhibition she hopes will be pivotal, as she plunges deeper into her neuroses and ...
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A Monsoon Rising: A Novel
by
Thea Guanzon
Harper Voyager, 12/10/2024
After a lifetime of war, Alaric and Talasyn were thrust into an alliance between their homelands that was supposed to end the fighting; however, being...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Mothers and Sons: A Memoir
by
Theodor Kallifatides
Other Press, 12/10/2024
Theodor Kallifatides, an acclaimed Greek author exiled in Sweden for more than 4 decades at age 68, visits his 92-year-old mother, who still resides ...
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Biography/Memoir
Literary Fiction
The Door-to-Door Bookstore: A Novel
by
Carsten Henn
Hanover Square Press, 12/10/2024
Small-town German bookseller Carl Kollhoff delivers his books to special customers in the evening hours after closing time, walking through the ...
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Literary Fiction
The Prisoner of Ankara: A Novel
by
Suat Dervis
Other Press, 12/10/2024
Dreaming of a better life for her son, Vasfi's mother encourages him to attend medical school, so he can become a great doctor. But Vasfi's ...
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Literary Fiction
The Rest Is Memory: A Novel
by
Lily Tuck
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 12/10/2024
First glimpsed riding on the back of a boy's motorcycle, fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by Lily Tuck, who imagines...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
What the Woods Took: A Novel
by
Courtney Gould
Wednesday Books, 12/10/2024
Devin Green wakes in the middle of the night to find two men in her bedroom. No stranger to a fight, she calls to her foster parents for help, but it ...
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Thrillers
How to Be Heard
by
Roxane Gay
Harper, 12/15/2024
All writing advice is terrible, Roxane Gay states early in
How to Be Heard. And still, with her latest book, she steps forward with practical writing ...
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Essays
A Cruel Thirst
by
Angela Montoya
Joy Revolution, 12/17/2024
Carolina Fuentes wants to join her family in hunting the bloodthirsty vampiros that plague her pueblo. Her father, however, wishes to marry her off to...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
After the Ocean
by
Lauren E. Rico
Kensington Publishing, 12/24/2024
Thirty years ago, musicians Emilia Oliveras and Paul Winstead were married in Puerto Rico. Forty-eight hours later, Paul vanished from their honeymoon...
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Literary Fiction
Heavenly Tyrant: Iron Widow #2
by
Xiran Jay Zhao
Tundra Books, 12/24/2024
After suffering devastating loss and making drastic decisions, Zetian finds herself on the seat of power in Huaxia, but she has also learned that her ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Knife Skills for Beginners
by
Orlando Murrin
Kensington Publishing, 12/24/2024
"Some people are natural dancers, others marvelous in bed, but—not wishing to boast—I'm good with a knife. Most chefs are."
The ...
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Mysteries
Debut Author
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