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 ...
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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—...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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+ ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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," ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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—...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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&#...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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―...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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