A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
by
Nathan Thrall
Metropolitan Books, 10/03/2023
Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for a school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the way, his bus collides with a semitrailer...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial
by
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Grove Press, 10/03/2023
With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in
A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of...
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After the Forest
by
Kell Woods
Tor Books, 10/03/2023
Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour.
Twenty years after the witch in the gingerbread house, Greta and Hans are struggling to get by. Their mother and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
by
Carl Safina
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/03/2023
When ecologist Carl Safina and his wife, Patricia, took in a near-death baby owl, they expected that, like other wild orphans they'd rescued, she'd be...
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And Don't Look Back
by
Rebecca Barrow
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 10/03/2023
Harlow Ford has spent her entire life running, caught in her mother's wake as they flit from town to town, hiding from a presence that Harlow isn't ...
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Before the Devil Knows You're Here
by
Autumn Krause
Peachtree Publishers, 10/03/2023
1836, Wisconsin. Catalina lives with her pa and brother in a ramshackle cabin on the edge of the wilderness. Harsh winters have brought the family to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Brooklyn Crime Novel: A Novel
by
Jonathan Lethem
Ecco, 10/03/2023
On the streets of 1970s Brooklyn, a daily ritual goes down: the dance. Money is exchanged, belongings surrendered, power asserted. The promise of ...
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Thrillers
Company: Stories
by
Shannon Sanders
Graywolf Press, 10/03/2023
Shannon Sanders's sparkling debut brings us into the company of the Collins family and their acquaintances as they meet, bicker, compete, celebrate, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Curious Tides: The Drowned Gods Duology
by
Pascale Lacelle
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 10/03/2023
Emory might be a student at the prestigious Aldryn College for Lunar Magics, but her healing abilities have always been mediocre at best—until a...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Death Valley: A Novel
by
Melissa Broder
Scribner, 10/03/2023
In Melissa Broder's astounding new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to ...
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Dragging Mason County
by
Curtis Campbell
Annick Press, 10/03/2023
Peter Thompkins needs a public image overhaul. After a tense confrontation with one of the few other queer kids in his small-town high school, rumors ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
by
Cat Bohannon
Knopf, 10/03/2023
How did the female body drive 200 million years of human evolution? • Why do women live longer than men? • Why are women more likely to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
by
Kevin J. Mitchell
Princeton University Press, 10/03/2023
Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Gather
by
Kenneth M. Cadow
Candlewick Press, 10/03/2023
Ian Gray isn't supposed to have a dog, but a lot of things that shouldn't happen end up happening anyway. And Gather, Ian's adopted pup, is good ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Glory Be: A Glory Broussard Mystery
by
Danielle Arceneaux
Pegasus Books, 10/03/2023
It's a hot and sticky Sunday in Lafayette, Louisiana, and Glory has settled into her usual after-church routine, meeting gamblers at the local coffee ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Hell If We Don't Change Our Ways: A Memoir
by
Brittany Means
Zibby Books, 10/03/2023
I can't write a story about myself as the sad, quiet child of two drug addicts. That's not how it was, even when it was. To me, sleeping in the car ...more
High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
by
Marc Masters
The University of North Carolina Press, 10/03/2023
The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy
by
Faith Erin Hicks
First Second, 10/03/2023
It should have been a night of triumph for Alix's hockey team. But her mean teammate Lindsay decided to start up with her usual rude comments and ...
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How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
by
Safiya Sinclair
37 Ink, 10/03/2023
Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair's father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
I've Been Thinking
by
Daniel C. Dennett
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/03/2023
Daniel C. Dennett, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering the thorniest, most fundamental mysteries of the ...
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Biography/Memoir
In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950
by
Nick Bunker
Basic Books, 10/03/2023
Halfway through the twentieth century, the United States towered over the world in industrial might. After winning the 1948 election, Harry Truman ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lou Reed: The King of New York
by
Will Hermes
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/03/2023
Since his death ten years ago, Lou Reed's living presence has only grown. The great rock-poet presided over the marriage of Brill Building pop and the...
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Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep
by
Kenneth Miller
Hachette Books, 10/03/2023
A century ago, sleep was considered a state of nothingness—even a primitive habit that we could learn to overcome. Then, an immigrant scientist ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein: A Novel
by
Anne Eekhout
HarperVia, 10/03/2023
Switzerland, 1816. Anguished by the recent loss of her child, Mary spends her days in strife. But come nightfall, the friends while away rainy wine-...
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Historical Fiction
Monica
by
Daniel Clowes
Fantagraphics Books, 10/03/2023
Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, stories — of its title character. Clowes...
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Moscow X: A Novel
by
David McCloskey
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/03/2023
CIA officers Sia and Max enter Russia under commercial cover to recruit Vladimir Putin's moneyman. Sia works for a London law firm that conceals the ...
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Night of the Witch: Witch and Hunter #1
by
Sara Raasch
Sourcebooks Fire, 10/03/2023
Fritzi is a witch. The lone survivor of a brutal attack on her coven, she's determined to find her only remaining family member and bring the hexenj&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
One Last Kill: Tracy Crosswhite Series #10
by
Robert Dugoni
Thomas & Mercer, 10/03/2023
Tracy Crosswhite is reopening the investigation into Seattle's Route 99 serial killer. After thirteen victims, he stopped hunting and the trail went ...
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One Puzzling Afternoon: A Novel
by
Emily Critchley
Sourcebooks Landmark, 10/03/2023
I kept your secret Lucy. I've kept it for more than sixty years...
It is 1951, and at number six Sycamore Street fifteen-year-old Edie Green is ...
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Plan A
by
Deb Caletti
Labyrinth Road, 10/03/2023
Ivy can't entirely believe it when the plus sign appears on the test. She didn't even know it was possible from ... what happened. But it is, and now ...
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Salt the Water
by
Candice Iloh
Dutton for Young Readers, 10/03/2023
Cerulean Gene is free everywhere except school, where they're known for repeatedly challenging authority. Raised in a free-spirited home by two loving...
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Starling House
by
Alix E. Harrow
Tor Books, 10/03/2023
I dream sometimes about a house I've never seen….
Opal is a lot of things―orphan, high school dropout, full-time cynic and part-time ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Blackwoods
by
Brandy Colbert
Balzer + Bray, 10/03/2023
The Blackwoods. Everyone knows their name.
Blossom Blackwood burst onto the silver screen in 1962, and in the decades that followed, she would ...
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The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance
by
Rebecca Clarren
Viking, 10/03/2023
Growing up, Rebecca Clarren only knew the major plot points of her tenacious immigrant family's origins. Her great-great-grandparents, the Sinykins, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Dead Take the A Train: Carrion City #1
by
Richard Kadrey, Cassandra Khaw
Tor Nightfire, 10/03/2023
Julie is a coked-up, burnt-out thirty-year-old whose only retirement plan is dying early. She's been trying to establish herself in the NYC magic ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Locked Door
by
Freida McFadden
Poisoned Pen Press, 10/03/2023
While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement.
Until the ...
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Thrillers
The Prospectors: A Novel
by
Ariel Djanikian
William Morrow, 10/03/2023
The middle daughter of struggling California fruit farmers, Alice Bush is accustomed to feeling inferior and destitute. But when her elder sister's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Roaring Days of Zora Lily: A Novel
by
Noelle Salazar
Mira Books, 10/03/2023
2023, The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History: A costume conservator is preparing an exhibition featuring movie costumes from the 1920s ...
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Historical Fiction
The Scarlet Alchemist
by
Kylie Lee Baker
Inkyard Press, 10/03/2023
Zilan dreams of becoming a royal alchemist, of providing for her family by making alchemical gold and gems for the wealthy to eat in order to stay ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Voice Upstairs
by
Laura E. Weymouth
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 10/03/2023
Wilhelmina Price has a dubious reputation in the village of Thrush's Green. Ever since her mother's untimely death, she has been able to see a person'...
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Bittersweet in the Hollow
by
Kate Pearsall
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 10/10/2023
In rural Caball Hollow, surrounded by the vast National Forest, the James women serve up more than fried green tomatoes at the Harvest Moon diner, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Blackouts: A Novel
by
Justin Torres
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/10/2023
Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his ...
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Breaking Through: My Life in Science
by
Katalin Karikó
Crown, 10/10/2023
Katalin Karikó has had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikó grew up in an adobe home that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Brooms
by
Jasmine Walls
Levine Querido, 10/10/2023
It's 1930s Mississippi. Magic is permitted only in certain circumstances, and by certain people. Unsanctioned broom racing is banned. But for those ...
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Charming Young Man
by
Eliot Schrefer
Katherine Tegan Books, 10/10/2023
They say Léon Delafosse will be France's next great pianist. But despite his being the youngest student ever accepted into the prestigious Paris ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair
by
Rosa Lowinger
Row House Publishing, 10/10/2023
Dwell Time is a term that measures the amount of time something takes to happen – immigrants waiting at a border, human eyes on a website, the ...more
Biography/Memoir
Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
by
Werner Herzog
Penguin Press, 10/10/2023
Werner Herzog was born in September 1942 in Munich, Germany, at a turning point in the Second World War. Soon Germany would be defeated and a new ...
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Family Meal: A Novel
by
Bryan Washington
Riverhead Books, 10/10/2023
Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, ...
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Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion
by
Sowmya Krishnamurthy
Gallery Books, 10/10/2023
Set in the sartorial scenes of New York, Paris, and beyond, music journalist Sowmya Krishnamurthy's reporting on the intersecting histories of hip-hop...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
I Loved You in Another Life
by
David Arnold
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 10/10/2023
Evan Taft has plans. Take a gap year in Alaska, make sure his little brother and single mother are taken care of, and continue therapy to process his ...
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Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
by
Fergus M. Bordewich
Knopf, 10/10/2023
The Ku Klux Klan, which celebrated historian Fergus Bordewich defines as "the first organized terrorist movement in American history," rose from the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lies and Sorcery
by
Elsa Morante
New York Review Books, 10/10/2023
Elsa Morante is one of the great writers of the twentieth century—Natalia Ginzburg said she was the writer of her own generation that she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Lilith: A Novel
by
Nikki Marmery
Alcove Press, 10/10/2023
Before Eve, there was Lilith.
Lilith and Adam are equal and happy in the Garden of Eden. Until Adam decides Lilith should submit to his will and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Look on the Bright Side
by
Lily Williams, Karen Schneemann
First Second, 10/10/2023
Old friends. New Loves. The future is looking bright.
A new year of school is starting, and Brit finds herself struggling with feelings for a ...
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MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios
by
Joanna Robinson
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 10/10/2023
Marvel Entertainment was a moribund toymaker not even twenty years ago. Today, Marvel Studios is the dominant player both in Hollywood and in global ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
My Work
by
Olga Ravn
New Directions Publishing, 10/10/2023
After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to completely engulf ...
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Naked: On Sex, Work, and Other Burlesques
by
Fancy Feast
Algonquin Books, 10/10/2023
When Fancy Feast was in her high school production of "Cabaret," she convinced the director to cast her as a sexy Kit Kat Club Girl, not the old ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Nobility in Small Things: A Surgeon's Path
by
Craig R. Smith M.D.
St. Martin's Press, 10/10/2023
His routine was the same every day for 38 years: up at 4:15, make a turkey-on-rye, drive the deserted Henry Hudson Parkway to the hospital, check the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business
by
Roxane Gay
Harper Perennial, 10/10/2023
Since the publication of the groundbreaking
Bad Feminist and
Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society—state-...
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Essays
Queen Hereafter: A Novel of Lady Macbeth
by
Isabelle Schuler
Harper Perennial, 10/10/2023
She will be Queen. Whatever it takes ...
Daughter of an ousted king, descendant of ancient druids, Gruoch (GREW-ock), has grown up believing that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Shoot the Moon
by
Isa Arsén
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/10/2023
How far would you travel for love?
Intelligent but isolated recent physics graduate Annie Fisk feels an undeniable pull toward space. Her childhood...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Songs of Irie
by
Asha Ashanti Bromfield
Wednesday Books, 10/10/2023
It's 1976 and Jamaica is on fire. The country is on the eve of important elections and the warring political parties have made the divisions between ...
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Sword Catcher
by
Cassandra Clare
Del Rey, 10/10/2023
In the vibrant city-state of Castellane, the richest of nobles and the most debauched of criminals have one thing in common: the constant search for ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Fall of Whit Rivera
by
Crystal Maldonado
Holiday House, 10/10/2023
Frenemies Whit and Zay have been at odds for years (ever since he broke up with her in, like, the most embarrassing way imaginable), so when they're ...
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The Prince and the Coyote
by
David Bowles
Levine Querido, 10/10/2023
1418 – Pre-Columbian Mexico
Fifteen-year old crown prince Acolmiztli wants nothing more than to see his city-state of Tetzcoco thrive. A ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Touched
by
Walter Mosley
Grove Press, 10/10/2023
Martin Just wakes up one morning after what feels like, and might actually be, a centuries-long sleep with two new innate pieces of knowledge: ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Wearing My Mother's Heart
by
Sophia Thakur
Candlewick Press, 10/10/2023
In her heartfelt second poetry collection, Sophia Thakur takes us on an emotionally charged journey through the lives of women in the past and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
What We Kept to Ourselves: A Novel
by
Nancy Jooyoun Kim
Atria Books, 10/10/2023
But one evening, their fragile lives are further upended when John finds the body of a stranger in the backyard, carrying a letter to Sunny, leaving ...
more
Literary Fiction
All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology
by
Circe Moskowitz
Amberjack, 10/17/2023
Welcome to the Dark.
We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, demon and the possessed. Bloody screams, haunted ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America
by
Edwin Raymond
Viking, 10/17/2023
Over his decade and a half with the New York Police Department, Edwin Raymond consistently exposed the dark underbelly of modern policing, becoming ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Artificial: A Love Story
by
Amy Kurzweil
Catapult, 10/17/2023
How do we relate to—and hold—our family's past? Is it through technology? Through spirit? Art, poetry, music? Or is it through the ...
more
Black Friend: Essays
by
Ziwe
Abrams Image, 10/17/2023
Ziwe made a name for herself by asking guests like Alyssa Milano, Fran Lebowitz, and Chet Hanks direct questions. In
Black Friend, she turns her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
by
Robert M. Sapolsky
Penguin Press, 10/17/2023
Robert Sapolsky's
Behave, his now classic account of why humans do good and why they do bad, pointed toward an unsettling conclusion: We may not grasp...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Distant Sons
by
Tim Johnston
Algonquin Books, 10/17/2023
What if?
What if Sean Courtland's old Chevy truck had broken down somewhere else? What if he'd never met Denise Givens, a waitress at a local ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Great Falls, MT: Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again
by
Reggie Watts
Tiny Reparations, 10/17/2023
Reggie Watts is weird. But you knew that. Anyone who's seen his multifaceted, entirely improvised comedy and music shows knows that. Reggie Watts is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
by
Nadine Bjursten
Alder House Books, 10/17/2023
It is 1977, and the anti-shah protests at Tehran University are intensifying, but Amineh is not like her peers who want a say in the future of their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters
by
Schuyler Bailar
Hachette Go, 10/17/2023
Anti-transgender legislation is being introduced in state governments around the United States in record-breaking numbers. Trans people are under ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
by
Deb Chachra
Riverhead Books, 10/17/2023
Infrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic needs and enabling lives of astounding ease and productivity that would have been unimaginable just a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
by
Adam Nicolson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/17/2023
In
How to Be, Adam Nicolson takes us on a glorious, immersive journey. Grounded in the belief that places give access to minds, however distant and ...
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I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country
by
Elena Kostyuchenko
Penguin Press, 10/17/2023
To be a journalist is to tell the truth.
I Love Russia is Elena Kostyuchenko's unrelenting attempt to document her country as experienced by those ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
by
Gary J. Bass
Knopf, 10/17/2023
In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the world turned to the question of how to move on from years of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Let the Dead Bury the Dead: A Novel
by
Allison Epstein
Doubleday, 10/17/2023
Saint Petersburg, 1812. Russian forces have defeated Napoleon at great cost, and the tsar's empire is once again at peace. Sasha, a captain in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
One Hundred Days: A Novel
by
Alice Pung
HarperVia, 10/17/2023
Sixteen and pregnant, Karuna finds herself trapped in her mother's Melbourne public housing apartment for one hundred days awaiting the birth of her ...
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Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
by
Patricia Evangelista
Random House, 10/17/2023
"My job is to go to places where people die. I pack my bags, talk to the survivors, write my stories, then go home to wait for the next catastrophe. I...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Straw Dogs of the Universe: A Novel
by
Ye Chun
Catapult, 10/17/2023
"Heaven and earth do not pick and choose.
They see everything as straw dogs."
A sweeping historical novel of the American West from the little-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
by
Sarah Ogilvie
Knopf, 10/17/2023
The Oxford English Dictionary is one of mankind's greatest achievements, and yet, curiously, its creators are almost never considered. Who were the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Dish: The Lives and Labor Behind One Plate of Food
by
Andrew Friedman
Mariner Books, 10/17/2023
On a typical evening, in a contemporary American restaurant, a table orders their dinner from a server. It's an exchange that happens dozens, or ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust's Most Audacious Rescue Operation
by
Roger Moorhouse
Basic Books, 10/17/2023
Between 1940 and 1943, a group of Polish diplomats in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable—and until now, completely unknown—...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
by
Stuart A. Reid
Knopf, 10/17/2023
It was supposed to be a moment of great optimism, a cause for jubilation. The Congo was at last being set free from Belgium—one of seventeen ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
by
Liza Mundy
Crown, 10/17/2023
Despite discrimination—even because of it—women who started as clerks, secretaries, or unpaid spouses rose to become some of the CIA's ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Unmaking of June Farrow: A Novel
by
Adrienne Young
Delacorte Press, 10/17/2023
In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
These Burning Stars: The Kindom Trilogy #1
by
Bethany Jacobs
Orbit, 10/17/2023
On a dusty backwater planet, occasional thief Jun Ironway has gotten her hands on the score of a lifetime: a secret that could raze the Kindom, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Touch the Future: A Manifesto in Essays
by
John Lee Clark
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/17/2023
Born Deaf into an ASL-speaking family and blind by adolescence, John Lee Clark learned to embrace the possibilities of his tactile world. He is on the...
more
Tremor: A Novel
by
Teju Cole
Kids@Random, 10/17/2023
Life is hopeless but it is not serious. We have to have danced while we could and, later, to have danced again in the telling.
A weekend spent ...
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Here Lies Olive
by
Kate Anderson
North Star Editions, 10/20/2023
Growing up in the dark tourism capital of the United States, sixteen-year-old Olive should be comfortable with death. But ever since an allergic ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
by
Hilary Mantel
Henry Holt and Company, 10/24/2023
In addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own ...
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America Fantastica: A Novel
by
Tim O'Brien
Mariner Books, 10/24/2023
At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in Northern California.
"How much is on hand, would ...
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Hercule Poirot's Silent Night: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery
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Sophie Hannah
William Morrow, 10/24/2023
It's December 19, 1931. Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool are looking forward to a much-needed, restful Christmas holiday, when they are ...
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Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
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Adam Grant
Viking, 10/24/2023
We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Jane and the Final Mystery: Being a Jane Austen Mystery
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Stephanie Barron
Soho Crime, 10/24/2023
March 1817: As winter turns to spring, Jane Austen's health is in slow decline, and threatens to cease progress on her latest manuscript. But when her...
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Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins - From Spices to Vices
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Noah Whiteman
Little, Brown Spark, 10/24/2023
A deadly secret lurks within our spice racks, medicine cabinets, backyard gardens, and private stashes.
Scratch beneath the surface of a coffee ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
On Marriage
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Devorah Baum
Yale University Press, 10/24/2023
"As far back as our history books go, we have no record of a time preceding marriage. Isn't that an extraordinary fact?" So writes Devorah Baum in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
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Matt Singer
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/24/2023
On a cold Saturday afternoon in 1975, two men (who had known each other for eight years before they'd ever exchanged a word) met for lunch in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement
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Tanisha Ford
Amistad, 10/24/2023
Our Secret Society brilliantly illuminates a little known yet highly significant aspect of the civil rights movement that has been long overlooked&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
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David Leonhardt
Random House, 10/24/2023
Two decades into the twenty-first century, the stagnation of living standards has become the defining trend of American life. Life expectancy has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Pay as You Go
by
Eskor David Johnson
McSweeney's Books, 10/24/2023
New to town and delusionally confident, Slide imagined himself living in a glossy building with doormen and sweeping views of the skyline. Instead he'...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sonic Life: A Memoir
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Thurston Moore
Doubleday, 10/24/2023
Thurston Moore moved to Manhattan's East Village in 1978 with a yearning for music. He wanted to be immersed in downtown New York's sights and sounds&...
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The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
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Margaret Renkl
Spiegel & Grau, 10/24/2023
In
The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over ...
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The Privilege of the Happy Ending: Small, Medium, and Large Stories
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Kij Johnson
Small Beer Press, 10/24/2023
The Privilege of the Happy Ending collects award-winning writer Kij Johnson's speculative fiction from the last decade. The stories explore gender, ...
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The Search for Us: A Novel
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Susan Azim Boyer
Wednesday Books, 10/24/2023
Samira Murphy will do anything to keep her fractured family from falling apart, including caring for her widowed grandmother and getting her older ...
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American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
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Michael Willrich
Basic Books, 10/31/2023
In the early twentieth century, anarchists like Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman championed a radical vision of a world without states, laws, or ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Black Punk Now
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Chris L. Terry
Soft Skull Press, 10/31/2023
Black Punk Now is an anthology of contemporary nonfiction, fiction, illustrations, and comics that collectively describe punk today and give punks&#...
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Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided
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Scott Eyman
Simon & Schuster, 10/31/2023
Bestselling Hollywood biographer and film historian Scott Eyman tells the story of Charlie Chaplin's fall from grace. In the aftermath of World War ...
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Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust
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Neal Shusterman
Graphix, 10/31/2023
Courage to Dream plunges readers into the Holocaust - one of the greatest atrocities in human history - delving into the core of what it means to face...
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Edith Holler: A Novel
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Edward Carey
Riverhead Books, 10/31/2023
The year is 1901. England's beloved queen has died, and her aging son has finally taken the throne. In the eastern city of Norwich, bright and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science
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Catherine McNeur
Basic Books, 10/31/2023
In
Mischievous Creatures, historian Catherine McNeur uncovers the lives and work of Margaretta Hare Morris and Elizabeth Carrington Morris, sisters ...
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People to Follow: A Novel
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Olivia Worley
Wednesday Books, 10/31/2023
A reality show on a remote Caribbean island. Ten teen influencers. One dead body.
Welcome to "In Real Life," the hot new reality show that forces ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sinner's Isle
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Angela Montoya
Joy Revolution, 10/31/2023
Rosalinda is trapped on Sinner's Isle, an island filled with young women like her—Majestics, beautiful witches loathed by society for their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
The Body of the Soul: Stories (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
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Ludmila Ulitskaya
Yale University Press, 10/31/2023
While we can feel, know, and study the body, the soul refuses definition. Where does it begin and end? What does the soul have to do with love? Does ...
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The Glutton: A Novel
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A.K. Blakemore
Scribner, 10/31/2023
1798, France. Nuns move along the dark corridors of a Versailles hospital where the young Sister Perpetué has been tasked with sitting with the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The House of Love and Death: Cameron Winter Mysteries
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Andrew Klavan
Mysterious Press, 10/31/2023
Cameron Winter is known for having a sense about crime. His background as a spy trained his mind—and his body—for action, and his current ...
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The Race to Be Myself: A Memoir
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Caster Semenya
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/31/2023
Olympian and World Champion Caster Semenya is finally ready to share the vivid and heartbreaking story of how the world came to know her name. Thrust ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Space Between Here & Now
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Sarah Suk
Quill Tree Books, 10/31/2023
Seventeen-year-old Aimee Roh has Sensory Time Warp Syndrome, a rare condition that causes her to time travel to a moment in her life when she smells ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
