Alien Worlds: How Insects Conquered the Earth, and Why Their Fate Will Determine Our Future
by
Steve Nicholls
Princeton University Press, 08/01/2023
Life on Earth depends on the busy activities of insects, but global populations of these teeming creatures are currently under threat, with grave ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
by
Yepoka Yeebo
Bloomsbury Publishing, 08/01/2023
When Ghana won its independence from Britain in 1957, it instantly became a target for home-grown opportunists and rapacious Western interests ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Delicate Condition
by
Danielle Valentine
Sourcebooks, 08/01/2023
Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family. But as she tries to balance her increasingly public life as an indie actress with a grueling IVF journey, ...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
Disobedient: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Fremantle
Pegasus Books, 08/01/2023
This is the ring that you gave me, and these are your promises.
A young woman is put on trial. She has accused her painting teacher of the darkest ...
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Historical Fiction
Evergreen: Japantown Mysteries #2
by
Naomi Hirahara
Soho Crime, 08/01/2023
It's been two years since Aki Ito and her family were released from Manzanar detention center and resettled in Chicago with other Japanese Americans. ...
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Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy
by
Janet Wallach
Doubleday, 08/01/2023
Born a privileged child of America's Gilded Age, Marguerite Harrison rebelled against her mother's ambitions, married the man she loved, was widowed ...
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I Will Greet the Sun Again: A Novel
by
Khashayar J. Khabushani
Hogarth Books, 08/01/2023
Call me K, because unlike Baba and Maman I was born right here and like my brothers I want to be known as a boy from L.A., since that's the truth.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Las Madres: A Novel
by
Esmeralda Santiago
Knopf, 08/01/2023
They refer to themselves as "las Madres," a close-knit group of women who, with their daughters, have created a family based on friendship and blood ...
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Lost Believers: A Novel
by
Irina Zhorov
Scribner, 08/01/2023
Galina, a promising young geologist from Moscow, is falling in love with her pilot, Snow Crane, on a trip exploring for minerals in Siberia. As their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever
by
Eddie Ndopu
Legacy Lit, 08/01/2023
Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare degenerative motor neuron disease affecting his mobility. He was told ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Small Town Sins: A Novel
by
Ken Jaworowski
Henry Holt and Company, 08/01/2023
In Locksburg, Pennsylvania, a former coal and steel town whose best days seem long past, five thousand residents have toughed it out, and have reasons...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Sordidez
by
E G Condé
Stelliform Press, 08/01/2023
Vero has always felt at odds with his community. As a trans man in near-future Puerto Rico, he struggles to gain acceptance for his identity and his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Connellys of County Down: A Novel
by
Tracey Lange
Celadon, 08/01/2023
When Tara Connelly is released from prison after serving eighteen months on a drug charge, she knows rebuilding her life at thirty years old won't be ...
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The Master Builder: How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life
by
Dr. Alfonso Martinez Arias Ph.D.
Basic Books, 08/01/2023
What defines who we are? For decades, the answer has seemed obvious: our genes, the "blueprint of life." In
The Master Builder, biologist Alfonso ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Montevideo Brief: A Thomas Grey Novel
by
J. H. Gelernter
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/01/2023
Vienna―June 1804. At the glittering debut of Beethoven's Third Symphony, a Spanish diplomat meets with Captain Thomas Grey, agent of His Majesty...
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Historical Fiction
The Narrow
by
Kate Alice Marshall
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 08/01/2023
Everyone has heard the story of the Narrow. The river that runs behind the Atwood School is only a few feet across and seemingly placid, but beneath ...
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Thrillers
The Second Murderer: A Philip Marlowe Novel
by
Denise Mina
Mulholland, 08/01/2023
Has Philip Marlowe finally met his match?
It's early fall when a heatwave descends on Los Angeles. Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to ...
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The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
by
Prudence Peiffer
Harper, 08/01/2023
For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the lower tip of Manhattan became ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
by
Susan Casey
Doubleday, 08/01/2023
For all of human history, the deep ocean has been a source of wonder and terror, an unknown realm that evoked a singular, compelling question:
What's ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Those We Thought We Knew
by
David Joy
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/01/2023
Toya Gardner, a young Black artist from Atlanta, has returned to her ancestral home in the North Carolina mountains to trace her family history and ...
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To Catch a Storm
by
Mindy Mejia
Atlantic Monthly Press, 08/01/2023
When her husband's car is found abandoned and on fire—in the middle of a rainstorm—Eve Roth becomes the police's number one suspect. After...
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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
by
Tahir Hamut Izgil
Penguin Press, 08/01/2023
One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends"disappeared" The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
A Long Time Coming: A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama
by
Ray Anthony Shepard
Calkins Creek, 08/08/2023
Full of daring escapes, deep emotion, and subtle lessons on how racism operates,
A Long Time Coming reveals the universal importance of its subjects' ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Congratulations, The Best Is Over!: Essays
by
R. Eric Thomas
Ballantine Books, 08/08/2023
After going viral "reading" the chaotic political news, having one-too-many awkward social encounters, and coming to terms with his intersecting ...
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Devil's Coin: My Battle to Take Down the Notorious OneCoin Cryptoqueen
by
Jennifer McAdam
William Morrow, 08/08/2023
Jen McAdam, Scottish grandmother and daughter of a coal miner, was a victim of the Onecoin global crypto-currency fraud, which conned an estimated $27...
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Critics' Consensus:
True Crime
Debut Author
Forged by Blood: The Tainted Blood Duology, 1
by
Ehigbor Okosun
Harper Voyager, 08/08/2023
In the midst of a tyrannical regime and political invasion, Dèmi just wants to survive: to avoid the suspicion of the nonmagical Ajes who occupy ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
From One Cell: A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine
by
Ben Stanger
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/08/2023
Each of us began life as a single cell. From this humble origin, we embarked on a risky journey fraught with opportunities for disaster. Yet, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Liquid Snakes: A Novel
by
Stephen Kearse
Soft Skull Press, 08/08/2023
In Atlanta, Kenny Bomar is a biochemist-turned-coffee-shop-owner in denial about his divorce and grieving his stillborn daughter. Chemicals killed ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Mrs. Porter Calling: A Novel (The Emmy Lake Chronicles)
by
AJ Pearce
Scribner, 08/08/2023
London, April 1943. A little over a year since she married Captain Charles Mayhew and he went away to war, Emmy Lake is now in charge of "Yours ...
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Historical Fiction
Prophet
by
Sin Blache and Helen Macdonald
Grove Press, 08/08/2023
Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American Intelligence officer ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Sparrow: A Novel
by
James Hynes
The Overlook Press, 08/08/2023
In a brothel on the Spanish coast during the waning years of the Roman Empire, a young enslaved boy of unknown parentage is growing up. His world is a...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Still Born
by
Guadalupe Nettel
Bloomsbury Publishing, 08/08/2023
Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family...
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Sun House: A Novel
by
David James Duncan
Little Brown & Company, 08/08/2023
A random bolt from a DC-8 falls from the sky, killing a child and throwing the faith of a young Jesuit Jesuit into crisis. A boy's mother dies on his ...
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Literary Fiction
Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders
by
John Glatt
St. Martin's Press, 08/08/2023
Among the lush, tree-lined waterways of South Carolina low country, the Murdaugh name means power. A century-old, multimillion-dollar law practice has...
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The Details: A Novel
by
Ia Genberg
HarperVia, 08/08/2023
An intoxicating novel in the vein of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, about a woman in the throes of a fever remembering the important people in her past,...more
Literary Fiction
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
by
Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, and Timothy J. Nelson
Mariner Books, 08/08/2023
Three of the nation's top scholars – known for tackling key mysteries about poverty in America – turn their attention from the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Unnecessary Drama
by
Nina Kenwood
Flatiron Books, 08/08/2023
Eighteen-year-old Brooke is the kind of friend who not only remembers everyone's birthdays, but also organizes the group present, pays for it, and ...
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You, Bleeding Childhood
by
Michele Mari
And Other Stories, 08/08/2023
Long before the latest vogue for autofiction, Michele Mari, one of Italy's most beloved authors, cast his mind back to the days of his own childhood, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Pink Slime
by
Fernanda Trías
Scribner, 08/10/2023
In a city ravaged by a mysterious plague, a woman tries to understand why her world is falling apart. An algae bloom has poisoned the previously ...
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Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson
by
Sally H. Jacobs
St. Martin's Press, 08/15/2023
In 1950, three years after Jackie Robinson first walked onto the diamond at Ebbets Field, the all-white, upper-crust US Lawn Tennis Association opened...
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August Wilson: A Life
by
Patti Hartigan
Simon & Schuster, 08/15/2023
August Wilson wrote a series of ten plays celebrating African American life in the 20th century, one play for each decade. No other American ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Chinese Prodigal: A Memoir in Eight Arguments
by
David Shih
Atlantic Monthly Press, 08/15/2023
After his father's passing in 2019, David Shih sought to unravel the underlying tensions that defined the complex relationship between him and his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women
by
Sandra Guzman
Amistad, 08/15/2023
Daughters of Latin America collects the intergenerational voices of Latine women across time and space, capturing the power, strength, and creativity ...
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Short Stories
Forgive Me Not
by
Jennifer Baker
Nancy Paulsen Books, 08/15/2023
All it took was one night and one bad decision for fifteen-year-old Violetta Chen-Samuels' life to go off the rails. After driving drunk and causing ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO: Stories
by
Cleo Qian
Tin House Books, 08/15/2023
A woman escapes into dating simulations to forget her best friend's abandonment; a teenager begins to see menacing omens on others' bodies after her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Survivor Injustice: State-Sanctioned Abuse, Domestic Violence, and the Fight for Bodily Autonomy
by
Kylie Cheung
North Atlantic Books, 08/15/2023
Incisive, urgent, and written exactly for our post-Roe times,
Survivor Injustice is the feminist frame-changing read we need now—for each of us,...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Tell Me What I Am: A Novel
by
Una Mannion
Harper, 08/15/2023
Nessa Garvey's sister Deena vanished without a trace in Philadelphia in 2004. In all that time, Nessa has never once doubted what her instincts told ...
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The English Experience: A Novel
by
Julie Schumacher
Doubleday, 08/15/2023
Jason Fitger may be the last faculty member the dean wants for the job, but he's the only professor available to chaperone Payne University's annual "...
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The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race
by
Farah Karim-Cooper
Viking, 08/15/2023
Professor Farah Karim-Cooper has dedicated her career to the Bard, which is why she wants to take the playwright down from his pedestal to unveil a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The President's Wife: A Novel
by
Tracey Enerson Wood
Sourcebooks Landmark, 08/15/2023
Socialite Edith Bolling has been in no hurry to find a new husband since she was widowed, preferring to fill her days with good friends and travel. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Thin Skin: Essays
by
Jenn Shapland
Pantheon Books, 08/15/2023
For Jenn Shapland, the barrier between herself and the world is porous; she was even diagnosed with extreme dermatologic sensitivity—thin skin.
...
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Thornhedge
by
T. Kingfisher
Tor Books, 08/15/2023
There's a princess trapped in a tower. This
isn't her story.
Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Tyranny of the Gene: Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health
by
James Tabery
Knopf, 08/15/2023
The United States is embarking on a medical revolution. Supporters of personalized, or precision, medicine—the tailoring of health care to our ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
by
Leah Redmond Chang
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/15/2023
Orphaned from infancy, Catherine de' Medici endured a tumultuous childhood. Married to the French king, she was widowed by forty, only to become the ...
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Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History
by
Yunte Huang
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 08/22/2023
Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry, Anna May Wong (1905–1961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old ...
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Just Do This One Thing for Me
by
Laura Zimmermann
Dutton, 08/22/2023
"Just do this one thing for me." Drew's mother says it more often than good morning. Heidi Hill has been juggling shady side hustles for all of Drew's...
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Literary Fiction
Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty
by
Nikhil Goyal
Metropolitan Books, 08/22/2023
Kensington, Philadelphia, is distinguished only by its poverty. It is home to Ryan, Giancarlos, and Emmanuel, three Puerto Rican children who live ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
by
Drew Gilpin Faust
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/22/2023
To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. Two world wars and ...
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Swim Home to the Vanished: A Novel
by
Brendan Shay Basham
Harper, 08/22/2023
After the death of his brother, a grief-stricken young man seeks refuge and oblivion in a secluded fishing village dominated by a family of brujas in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Continental Affair: A Novel
by
Christine Mangan
Flatiron Books, 08/22/2023
Meet Henri and Louise. Two strangers, traveling alone, on the train from Belgrade to Istanbul. Except this isn't the first time they have met.
It's...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
by
Kyo Maclear
Scribner, 08/22/2023
Three months after Kyo Maclear's father dies in December 2018, she gets the results of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised her are ...
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Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
by
Anna Funder
Knopf, 08/22/2023
At the end of summer 2017, Anna Funder found herself at a moment of peak overload. Family obligations and household responsibilities were crushing her...
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A Second Chance for Yesterday
by
R A Sinn
Solaris, 08/29/2023
Nev Bourne is a hotshot programmer for the latest and greatest tech invention out there: SavePoint, the brain implant that rewinds the seconds of all ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
All You Have To Do
by
Autumn Allen
Kokila, 08/29/2023
In
All You Have To Do, two Black young men attend prestigious schools nearly thirty years apart, and yet both navigate similar forms of insidious ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Dialogue with a Somnambulist: Stories, Essays & A Portrait Gallery
by
Chloe Aridjis
Catapult, 08/29/2023
Chloe Aridjis's stories and essays are known to transport readers into liminal, often dreamlike, realms. In this collection of works, we meet a woman ...
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Every Drop is a Man's Nightmare
by
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
Bloomsbury Publishing, 08/29/2023
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's wrenching and sensational debut story collection follows a cast of mixed native Hawaiian and Japanese women through a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Everything/Nothing/Someone: A Memoir
by
Alice Carrière
Spiegel & Grau, 08/29/2023
Alice Carrière tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned artist ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Good Bad Girl: A Novel
by
Alice Feeney
Flatiron Books, 08/29/2023
Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be...
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Her Radiant Curse
by
Elizabeth Lim
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 08/29/2023
One sister must fall for the other to rise.
Channi was not born a monster. But when her own father offers her in sacrifice to the Demon Witch, she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Holler, Child: Stories
by
LaToya Watkins
Tiny Reparations, 08/29/2023
In
Holler, Child's eleven brilliant stories, LaToya Watkins presses at the bruises of guilt, love, and circumstance. Each story introduces us to a ...
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Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe
by
Steve Sheinkin
Roaring Brook Press, 08/29/2023
It is 1944. A teenager named Rudolph (Rudi) Vrba has made up his mind. After barely surviving nearly two years in the Auschwitz concentration camp in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Learned by Heart
by
Emma Donoghue
Little Brown & Company, 08/29/2023
Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal,
Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, ...
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More Than a Dream: The Radical March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
by
Yohuru Williams
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/29/2023
Six decades ago, on August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
by
Jenni Nuttall
Viking, 08/29/2023
So many of the words that we use to chronicle women's lives feel awkward or alien. Medical terms are scrupulously accurate but antiseptic. Slang and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Terrace Story: A Novel
by
Hilary Leichter
Ecco, 08/29/2023
Annie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful terrace hidden in their ...
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The Breakaway: A Novel
by
Jennifer Weiner
Atria Books, 08/29/2023
Thirty-four-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she's lived ...
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The Coworker
by
Freida McFadden
Poisoned Pen Press, 08/29/2023
Dawn Schiff is strange.
At least, everyone thinks so at Vixed, the nutritional supplement company where Dawn works as an accountant. She never ...
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Thrillers
The Deadline: Essays
by
Jill Lepore
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 08/29/2023
Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at
The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore,...
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The Reunion
by
Kit Frick
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 08/29/2023
Eleven Mayweathers went on vacation. Ten came home.
It's been years since the fragmented Mayweather clan was all in one place, but the engagement ...
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