Daughter of Fire: A Novel
by
Sofia Robleda
Amazon Crossing, 08/01/2024
Catalina de Cerrato is being raised by her widowed father, Don Alonso, in 1551 Guatemala, scarcely thirty years since the Spanish invasion. A ruling ...
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Historical Fiction
The Thirteenth Husband: A Novel
by
Greer Macallister
Sourcebooks Landmark, 08/01/2024
Based on a real woman from history, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo meets The Haunting of Hill House in this fictional tell-all ...
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Historical Fiction
A Mask of Flies
by
Matthew Lyons
Tor Nightfire, 08/06/2024
THE PAST HAS TEETH
In the grisly aftermath of a botched bank heist, career criminal Anne Heller has no choice but to return to her family's cabin...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
by
Tia Levings
St. Martin's Press, 08/06/2024
Recruited into the fundamentalist Quiverfull movement as a young wife, Tia Levings learned that being a good Christian meant following a list of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
A World of Hurt
by
Mindy Mejia
Atlantic Monthly Press, 08/06/2024
Kara Johnson always knew she'd die young and violently. It didn't matter who delivered the final blow, she would deserve it—her years spent ...
more
And So I Roar: A Novel
by
Abi Daré
Dutton, 08/06/2024
When Tia accidentally overhears a whispered conversation between her mother—terminally ill and lying in a hospital bed in Port Harcourt, Nigeria...
more
Better Left Buried
by
Mary E. Roach
Disney-Hyperion, 08/06/2024
Lucy Preston just wants to go on vacation. But being the daughter of a famous private detective means that sometimes, your beach vacay goes off the ...
more
Death at Morning House
by
Maureen Johnson
HarperTeen, 08/06/2024
The fire wasn't Marlowe Wexler's fault. Dates should be hot, but not hot enough to warrant literal firefighters. Akilah, the girl Marlowe has been in ...
more
Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labor Powering A.I.
by
Mark Graham
Bloomsbury USA, 08/06/2024
Silicon Valley has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Five-Star Stranger: A Novel
by
Kat Tang
Scribner, 08/06/2024
Would you hire someone to be the best man at your wedding? Your stand-in brother? Your husband?
In an age where online ratings are all-powerful, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Great Fear on the Mountain
by
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz
Archipelago Books, 08/06/2024
Teeming with tension, this immersive, rhapsodic story transports readers to the Swiss mountainside, bringing to mind the writing of Thomas Mann while ...
more
Group Living and Other Recipes: A Memoir
by
Lola Milholland
Spiegel & Grau, 08/06/2024
Lola Milholland grew up in the nineties, the child of iconoclastic hippies. Both her parents threw open their rambling house in Portland, Oregon, to ...
more
Hello, Horse
by
Richard Kelly Kemick
Biblioasis, 08/06/2024
A teenager's job mucking stalls at a dog track takes a strange turn when his co-worker finds a new religion at odds with winning streaks. Two brothers...
more
Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch
by
Codie Crowley
Disney-Hyperion, 08/06/2024
Murdered bad girl Annie Lane is back from the grave and hellbent on revenge ... she just has to figure out who killed her.
Between her careless mom...
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Hum: A Novel
by
Helen Phillips
Marysue Rucci Books, 08/06/2024
In a city addled by climate change and populated by intelligent robots called "hums," May loses her job to artificial intelligence. In a desperate bid...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist's Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India
by
Rollo Romig
Penguin Books, 08/06/2024
When Gauri Lankesh, an outspoken journalist in the South Indian city of Bangalore, was assassinated in September 2017 outside her home, it wasn't just...
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Jellyfish Have No Ears: A Novel
by
Adèle Rosenfeld
Graywolf Press, 08/06/2024
After an audiology test shows that almost all her hearing is gone, her doctor suggests getting a cochlear implant. The operation will be irreversible,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence
by
Sara Imari Walker
Riverhead Books, 08/06/2024
What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Paris 1944: Occupation, Resistance, Liberation: A Social History
by
Patrick Bishop
Pegasus Books, 08/06/2024
The fall of Paris to the Nazis on June 14th, 1940, was one of the darkest days of World War II. And the liberation of the city on August 25th, 1944, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Plays Well with Others: A Novel
by
Sophie Brickman
William Morrow, 08/06/2024
It takes a village...just not this one.
Annie Lewin is at the end of her rope. She's a mother of three young children, her workaholic ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems
by
Carl Phillips
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/06/2024
Carl Phillips's
Scattered Snows,
to the North is a collection about distortion and revelation, about knowing and the unreliability of a knowing that's...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Age of Loneliness: Essays
by
Laura Marris
Graywolf Press, 08/06/2024
She asks: how do we add to archives of ecological memory? How can we notice and document what's missing in the landscapes closest to us?
Filled ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
by
Evan Friss
Viking, 08/06/2024
Bookstores have always been unlike any other kind of store, shaping readers and writers, and influencing our tastes, thoughts, and politics. They ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Dragon from Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany
by
Pamela D. Toler
Beacon Press, 08/06/2024
We are facing an alarming upsurge in the spread of misinformation and attempts by powerful figures to discredit facts so they can seize control of ...
more
The Gender Binary Is a Big Lie: Infinite Identities around the World (Queer History Project)
by
Lee Wind
Zest Books, 08/06/2024
While many people identify as men or women, that is not all there is. The idea that all humans fall into one of two gender categories is largely a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The In Crowd: Detective Inspector Caius Beauchamp
by
Charlotte Vassell
Doubleday, 08/06/2024
Early one morning, a men's rowing team discovers a body floating face down in the Thames. Many years before, the chief executive of a clothing ...
more
The Mercy of Gods: The Captive's War #1
by
James S. A. Corey
Orbit, 08/06/2024
The Carryx – part empire, part hive – have waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Outlier
by
Elisabeth Eaves
Random House, 08/06/2024
Cate Winter, at 34, is a wildly successful neuroscientist and entrepreneur who has invented a cure for Alzheimer's that will improve the lives of ...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
The Rich People Have Gone Away: A Novel
by
Regina Porter
Hogarth Books, 08/06/2024
Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife, Darla, head upstate to their summer cottage to wait out the lockdown. Not everyone in their upscale...
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The Rose Arbor: A Novel
by
Rhys Bowen
Lake Union Publishing, 08/06/2024
London: 1968. Liz Houghton is languishing as an obituary writer at a London newspaper when a young girl's disappearance captivates the city. If Liz ...
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Historical Fiction
The Truth According to Ember
by
Danica Nava
Berkley Books, 08/06/2024
Ember Lee Cardinal has not always been a liar—well, not for anything that counted at least. But her job search is not going well and when her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven: Stories
by
Ruben Reyes Jr.
Mariner Books, 08/06/2024
An ordinary man wakes one morning to discover he's a famous reggaetón star. An aging abuela slowly morphs into a marionette puppet. A struggling ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
This Ravenous Fate
by
Hayley Dennings
Sourcebooks Fire, 08/06/2024
It's 1926 and reapers, the once-human vampires with a terrifying affliction, are on the rise in New York. But the Saint family's thriving reaper-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant: How Nannying for the 1% Taught Me about the Myths of Equality, Motherhood, and Upward Mobility in America
by
Stephanie Kiser
Sourcebooks, 08/06/2024
When Stephanie Kiser moves to New York City after college to pursue a career in writing, she quickly learns that her entry-level salary won't cover ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Wordhunter: A Novel
by
Stella Sands
HarperPaperbacks, 08/06/2024
Tattooed, pierced, and a bit of a mess, Maggie Moore is a surprising genius when it comes to words, a savant able to solve any linguistic puzzle. The ...
more
Yr Dead
by
Sam Sax
McSweeney's Books, 08/06/2024
Unfolding in fragments of memory, Ezra dissolves into the family, religion, desire, losses, pains and joys that made them into the person that's ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
by
Carrie Rickey
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/13/2024
Over the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any female filmmaker, Agnès Varda (1928–2019) wrote and directed some of the ...
more
A Great Marriage: A Novel
by
Frances Mayes
Ballantine Books, 08/13/2024
A great marriage is an elusive thing, and only a few know the secret to making one.
Dara Willcox, in New York for a weekend, meets Austin Clarke ...
more
Ash's Cabin
by
Jen Wang
First Second, 08/13/2024
Ash has always felt alone.
Adults ignore the climate crisis. Other kids Ash's age are more interested in pop stars and popularity contests than ...
more
Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans
by
Bill Schutt
Algonquin Books, 08/13/2024
In
Bite, zoologist Bill Schutt makes a surprising case: it is teeth that are responsible for the long-term success of vertebrates. The appearance of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Burn: A novel
by
Peter Heller
Knopf, 08/13/2024
Every year, Jess and Storey have made an annual pilgrimage to the most remote corners of the country, where they camp, hunt, and hike, leaving much ...
more
Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist
by
Jane Rosenberg
Hanover Square Press, 08/13/2024
For over forty years, Jane Rosenberg has been at the heart of the news cycle, covering almost every major trial that has passed through the New York ...
more
Everything We Never Knew: A Novel
by
Julianne Hough
Sourcebooks Landmark, 08/13/2024
On stage at an awards banquet is the last place Lexi Cole expected to drown. But as she accepts the award for top-seller at her realty firm, something...
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Literary Fiction
Ginster
by
Siegfried Kracauer
New York Review Books, 08/13/2024
Siegfried Kracauer's
Ginster is the great World War I novel you've never heard of. Here, the sheer horrors are kept offstage, as in Greek tragedy, and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery
by
Theodore H. Schwartz
Dutton, 08/13/2024
We've all heard the phrase "it's not brain surgery." But what exactly
is brain surgery? It's a profession that is barely a hundred years old and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Hera: A Novel
by
Jennifer Saint
Flatiron Books, 08/13/2024
When the immortal goddess Hera and her brother Zeus overthrow their tyrannical father, she dreams of ruling at his side. But as they establish their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Highway Thirteen: Stories
by
Fiona McFarlane
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/13/2024
In the small town of Barrow, Australia, people go about their ordinary lives. They drive to work through the dense state forest. They raise their ...
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In Exile: Rupture, Reunion, and My Grandmother's Secret Life
by
Sadiya Ansari
House of Anansi Press, 08/13/2024
Why did her grandmother Tahira abandon her seven children to follow a man from Karachi to a tiny village in Punjab? And though she eventually left him...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
In France Profound: The Long History of a House, a Mountain Town, and a People
by
T.D. Allman
Atlantic Monthly Press, 08/13/2024
When T. D. Allman purchased an 800-year-old house in the mountain village of Lauzerte in southwestern France, he aimed to find refuge from the world's...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv: A Novel
by
Andrey Kurkov
HarperVia, 08/13/2024
Strange, almost magical, things are afoot in Lviv. Seagulls circle overhead while the passing breeze carries a briny whiff, even though the coast is ...
more
Kent State: An American Tragedy
by
Brian VanDeMark
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/13/2024
On May 4, 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s exploded. Antiwar protesters ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lady Macbeth: A Novel
by
Ava Reid
Bantam Doubleday Dell, 08/13/2024
The Lady knows the stories: how her eyes induce madness in men.
The Lady knows she will be wed to the Scottish brute, who does not leave his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Manboobs: A Memoir of Musicals, Visas, Hope, and Cake
by
Komail Aijazuddin
Abrams Press, 08/13/2024
What do you do when you're too gay for Pakistan, too Pakistani to be gay in America, and you're ashamed of your body everywhere? How can you find ...
more
Medusa
by
Nataly Gruender
Grand Central Publishing, 08/13/2024
The only mortal daughter of two sea gods, and a priestess of Athena, Medusa was a woman who thought she had found her place in the world. But ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Medusa of the Roses
by
Navid Sinaki
Grove Press, 08/13/2024
Anjir and Zal are childhood best friends turned adults in love. The only problem is they live in Iran, where being openly gay is criminalized, and the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir
by
Anna Marie Tendler
Simon & Schuster, 08/13/2024
In early 2021, popular artist Anna Marie Tendler checked herself into a psychiatric hospital following a year of crippling anxiety, depression and ...
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Mina's Matchbox: A Novel
by
Yoko Ogawa
Pantheon Books, 08/13/2024
In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay ...
more
Mistress of Lies: The Age of Blood #1
by
K. M. Enright
Orbit, 08/13/2024
The daughter of a powerful but disgraced Blood Worker, Shan LeC laire has spent her entire life perfecting her blood magic, building her network of ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Mothballs
by
Sole Otero
Fantagraphics Books, 08/13/2024
San Martín, Argentina, 2001. Upon her estranged grandmother Vilma's death, 19-year-old Rocío moves into a house haunted by memories. Seeking...
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Graphic Novels
Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History
by
Anthony E. Kaye
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/13/2024
In August 1831, a group of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia, rose up to fight for their freedom. They attacked the plantations on which...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life
by
Sofia Samatar
Soft Skull Press, 08/13/2024
In a series of compressed, dynamic prose pieces, Samatar blends letters from her friend with notes on literature, turning to Édouard Glissant to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Peggy: A Novel
by
Rebecca Godfrey
Random House, 08/13/2024
Venice, 1958. Peggy Guggenheim, heiress and now legendary art collector, sits in the sun at her white marble palazzo on the Grand Canal. She's in a ...
more
Silken Gazelles: A Novel
by
Jokha Alharthi
Catapult, 08/13/2024
Raised as sisters, Ghazaala is devastated when her friend Asiya is forced to leave their small mountainside village following a tragic circumstance. ...
more
The Avian Hourglass
by
Lindsey Drager
Dzanc Books, 08/13/2024
The birds have disappeared. The stars are no longer visible. The Crisis is growing worse. In a town as isolated as a snowglobe, a woman who dreams of ...
more
The Dark We Know
by
Wen-yi Lee
Zando, 08/13/2024
Growing up in Slater, Isadora Chang never felt at ease in the repressive small town, even before she realized she was bisexual―but after the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Fertile Earth: A Novel
by
Ruthvika Rao
Flatiron Books, 08/13/2024
Vijaya and Sree are the daughters of the Deshmukhs of Irumi. Hailing from a lineage of ancestral aristocrats, their family's social status and power ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Hivemind Swarmed: Conversations on Gamergate, the Aftermath, and the Quest for a Safer Internet
by
David Wolinsky
Beacon Press, 08/13/2024
With
The Hivemind Swarmed, oral historian and documentary researcher David Wolinsky invites readers to sit in on a series of urgent, intimate ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Italy Letters
by
Vi Khi Nao
Melville House, 08/13/2024
The Italy Letters is a slim, powerful shot of literary fantasia from one of America's best-kept secrets. Long an underground favorite, visionary ...
more
The Maid and the Crocodile: A Novel in the World of Raybearer
by
Jordan Ifueko
Amulet Books, 08/13/2024
The smallest spark can bind two hearts...or start a revolution.
In the magic-soaked capital city of Oluwan, Small Sade needs a job—...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Palace of Eros: A Novel
by
Caro De Robertis
Atria Books, 08/13/2024
Young, headstrong Psyche has captured the eyes of every suitor in town and far beyond with her tempestuous beauty, which has made her irresistible as ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist's Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life
by
Nathalie A. Cabrol
Scribner, 08/13/2024
We are in a golden age in astronomy, living on the cusp of breakthroughs that will revolutionize our understanding of our place in the cosmos in. Yet ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Story Collector
by
Evie Woods
HarperCollins Publishers, 08/13/2024
One hundred years ago, Anna, a young farm girl, volunteers to help an intriguing American visitor translate fairy stories from Irish to English. But ...
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Historical Fiction
The Stranger at the Wedding: A Novel
by
A. E. Gauntlett
Henry Holt and Company, 08/13/2024
Annie never much believed in love. That is, until meeting Mark. After crossing paths on morning commutes, they connect at a group counseling session ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Through the Mist: A Novel
by
Lindsay Jayne Ashford
Lake Union Publishing, 08/13/2024
It's winter 1947 when newlyweds Ellen and Tony Wylde move into an abandoned Cornish farmhouse overlooking the sea. For both, it's a new beginning in ...
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Thrillers
Under the Surface
by
Diana Urban
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 08/13/2024
Ruby is terrified to cave to her feelings for Sean and risk him crushing her heart.
Sean is pumped to spend a week with Ruby in Paris on their ...
more
A Pair of Wings: A Novel
by
Carole Hopson
Henry Holt and Company, 08/20/2024
A few years after the Wright brothers' first flight, Bessie was working the Texas cotton fields with her family when an airplane flew over their...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Survivor's Education: Women, Violence, and the Stories We Don't Tell
by
Joy Neumeyer
Public Affairs, 08/20/2024
On a picturesque campus in the springtime, a young woman is shoved backwards down a concrete stairway by her partner. This follows months of slowly ...
more
True Crime
An Echo in Time: A Novel
by
Boo Walker
Lake Union Publishing, 08/20/2024
Unable to catch a break in life or love as she approaches thirty, Charli Thurman sees red lights at every crossroads. And given the Thurman family's ...
more
Mysteries
Anima: A Wild Pastoral
by
Kapka Kassabova
Graywolf Press, 08/20/2024
Following her three previous books set in the Balkans, and with an increasinging interest in the degraded state of our planet and culture, Kassabova ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Asunder
by
Kerstin Hall
Tor Books, 08/20/2024
Karys Eska is a deathspeaker, locked into an irrevocable compact with Sabaster, a terrifying eldritch being―three-faced, hundred-winged, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian's Journey Home
by
Chris La Tray
Milkweed Editions, 08/20/2024
Growing up in Montana, Chris La Tray always identified as Indian. Despite the fact that his father fiercely denied any connection, he found Indigenous...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Black Butterflies: A Novel
by
Priscilla Morris
Knopf, 08/20/2024
Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect makeshift barricades, splitting the city into ethnic enclaves. Each morning, the people who...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Bluff: Poems
by
Danez Smith
Graywolf Press, 08/20/2024
This is a book of awakening out of violence, guilt, shame, and critical pessimism to wonder and imagine how we can strive toward a new existence in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
By Any Other Name: A Novel
by
Jodi Picoult
Ballantine Books, 08/20/2024
Young playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. But seeing it performed is ...
more
Devil in the Stack: A Code Odyssey
by
Andrew Smith
Atlantic Monthly Press, 08/20/2024
Throughout history, technological revolutions have been driven by the invention of machines. But today, the power of the technology transforming our ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Falling Wisteria: A Novel
by
Laila Ibrahim
Lake Union Publishing, 08/20/2024
Kay Lynn Brooke is a wife and mother in Berkeley, California, building a solid future with her husband and family. Then on December 7, 1941, the ...
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Historical Fiction
Follow the Stars Home
by
Diane C. McPhail
A John Scognamiglio Book, 08/20/2024
It's a journey that most deem an insane impossibility. Yet on October 20th, 1811, Lydia Latrobe Roosevelt—daughter of one of the architects of ...
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Historical Fiction
Freedom Is a Feast
by
Alejandro Puyana
Little Brown & Company, 08/20/2024
There, as he trains, he meets Emiliana, a nurse and fellow revolutionary. Though their intense connection seems to be love at first sight, their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Interpretations of Love
by
Jane Campbell
Grove Press, 08/20/2024
It's the week of Dr. Agnes Stacey's only daughter's wedding, and each of the eleven attendees of the small family gathering is bringing their own ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Love Requires Chocolate: Love in Translation
by
Ravynn K. Stringfield
Joy Revolution, 08/20/2024
Whitney Curry is primed to have an epic semester abroad. She's created the perfect itinerary and many, many to-do lists after collecting every detail ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
My Salty Mary
by
Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows
HarperTeen, 08/20/2024
Don't call this mermaid "little"—call her "captain," unless you want to walk the plank.
Mary is in love with the so-called prince of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Planes Flying over a Monster: Essays
by
Daniel Saldaña París
Catapult, 08/20/2024
In ten intimate essays, Daniel Saldaña París explores the cities he has lived in, each one home to a new iteration of himself. In Mexico ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Rethinking Rescue: Dog Lady and the Story of America's Forgotten People and Pets
by
Carol Mithers
Counterpoint Press, 08/20/2024
In Los Angeles's most underserved communities, Lori Weise is known as the Dog Lady, the woman who's spent decades caring for people in poverty and the...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Rules for Ghosting: A Novel
by
Shelly Jay Shore
Dell, 08/20/2024
Ezra Friedman sees ghosts, which made growing up in a funeral home complicated. It might have been easier if his grandfather's ghost didn't give him ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Scrap: A Novel
by
Calla Henkel
The Overlook Press, 08/20/2024
Recently dumped and stuck with a mortgage, artist Esther Ray wants to burn the world, but instead, she reluctantly accepts a scrapbooking job from the...
more
Thrillers
She Who Knows
by
Nnedi Okorafor
DAW Books, 08/20/2024
When there is a call, there is often a response.
Najeeba knows.
She has had The Call. But how can a 13-year-old girl have the Call? Only men...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
by
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/20/2024
We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-...
more
Swallow the Ghost: A Novel
by
Eugenie Montague
Mulholland, 08/20/2024
Things are going well for Jane Murphy, or so it seems. She's making it in New York, a sort of wunderkind at the social media marketing startup where ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Full Moon Coffee Shop: A Novel
by
Mai Mochizuki
Ballantine Books, 08/20/2024
In Japan, cats are a symbol of good luck. As the myth goes, if you are kind to them, they'll one day return the favor. And if you are kind to the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Naturalist's Daughter
by
Tea Cooper
Harper Muse, 08/20/2024
1808 Agnes Banks, NSW
Rose Winton wants nothing more than to work with her father, eminent naturalist Charles Winton, on his groundbreaking study...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Silence Factory: A Novel
by
Bridget Collins
William Morrow, 08/20/2024
1820: Sophia Ashmore-Percy reluctantly accompanies her husband James to a remote Greek island, where he searches for rare biological specimens. Once ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Slow Road North: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country
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Rosie Schaap
Mariner Books, 08/20/2024
Rosie Schaap had a solid career as a journalist and a life that looked to others like nonstop fun: all drinking and dining and traveling to beautiful ...
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The Unicorn Woman
by
Gayl Jones
Beacon Press, 08/20/2024
Set in the early 1950s, this latest novel from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Gayl Jones follows the witty but perplexing army ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Volcano Daughters: A Novel
by
Gina María Balibrera
Pantheon Books, 08/20/2024
El Salvador, 1923. Graciela, a young girl growing up on a volcano in a community of Indigenous women, is summoned to the capital, where she is claimed...
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Critics' Consensus:
Other
Debut Author
There Are Rivers in the Sky: A Novel
by
Elif Shafak
Knopf, 08/20/2024
From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, that would infuse the existence of two rivers and bind together three lives.
In ...
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We Love the Nightlife
by
Rachel Koller Croft
Berkley Books, 08/20/2024
London 1979. Two women with a deep love for disco meet one fateful night on the dance floor, changing the course of both their lives forever.
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Thrillers
When the Ice Is Gone: What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals About Earth's Tumultuous History and Perilous Future
by
Paul Bierman
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/20/2024
In 2018, lumps of frozen soil, collected from the bottom of the world's first deep ice core and lost for decades, reappeared in Denmark. When ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
You Will Never Be Me
by
Jesse Q. Sutanto
Berkley Books, 08/20/2024
Influencer Meredith Lee didn't teach Aspen Palmer how to blossom on social media just to be ditched as soon as Aspen became ...
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Christopher Isherwood Inside Out
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Katherine Bucknell
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/26/2024
The story of Christopher Isherwood's life is one of pilgrimage: away from the constraints of inheritance and empire and toward authenticity and ...
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A Termination
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Honor Moore
Public Space, 08/27/2024
In 1969, Honor Moore was twenty-three, a theater student yearning for love and working for radical change, but studying administration and keeping ...
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Bridge Across the Sky
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Freeman Ng
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 08/27/2024
Tai Go and his family have crossed an ocean wider than a thousand rivers, joining countless other Chinese immigrants in search of a better life in the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Confounding Oaths: The Mortal Follies #2
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Alexis Hall
Del Rey, 08/27/2024
It is the year 1815, and Mr. John Caesar is determined to help his sister, Mary, successfully navigate the marriage mart. A high-stakes endeavor at ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Everything We Never Had
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Randy Ribay
Kokila, 08/27/2024
Watsonville, 1930. Francisco Maghabol barely ekes out a living in the fields of California. As he spends what little money he earns at dance halls and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World
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Casey Michel
St. Martin's Griffin, 08/27/2024
For years, one group of Americans has worked as foot-soldiers for the most authoritarian regimes around the planet. In the process, they've not only ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Fyrebirds
by
Kate J. Armstrong
Nancy Paulsen Books, 08/27/2024
The
Nightbirds were once their city's best-kept secret, but now the secret's out. What's more, they can do feats of magic no one has seen in centuries...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Hotline: A Novel
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Dimitri Nasrallah
Other Press, 08/27/2024
It's 1986, and Muna Heddad is in a bind. She and her son have moved to Montreal, leaving behind a civil war filled with bad memories in Lebanon. She ...
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Literary Fiction
I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine
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Daniel J. Levitin
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/27/2024
Music is one of humanity's oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas, many cultures ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Kayfabe
by
Chris Koslowski
McSweeney's Books, 08/27/2024
As his body breaks down and his star power fades, he must invent a new gimmick before he loses the only job he's ever known. Meanwhile, Dom's 17-year-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Libertad
by
Bessie Flores Zaldívar
Dial Books, 08/27/2024
As the contentious 2017 presidential election looms and protests rage across every corner of the city, life in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, churns louder ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Long Live Evil: Time of Iron #1
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Sarah Rees Brennan
Orbit, 08/27/2024
When her whole life collapsed, Rae still had books. Dying, she seizes a second chance at living: a magical bargain that lets her enter the world of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
My Child, the Algorithm: An Alternatively Intelligent Book of Love
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Hannah Silva
Soft Skull Press, 08/27/2024
My Child, the Algorithm describes encounters between a single parent, a curious, verbal toddler, and a language-producing algorithm. Like a male ...
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Biography/Memoir
Our Shouts Echo
by
Jade Adia
Disney-Hyperion, 08/27/2024
Survival Tip #1: The world is going to shit. Whatever you do, don't fall in love.
Sixteen-year old Niarah Holloway's only goal in life is to get ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sunderworld, Vol. I: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry
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Ransom Riggs
Dutton for Young Readers, 08/27/2024
Seventeen-year-old Leopold Berry is seeing weird things around Los Angeles. A man who pops a tooth into a parking meter. A glowing trapdoor in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Sync
by
Ellen Hopkins
Nancy Paulsen Books, 08/27/2024
Seventeen-year-old twins Storm and Lake have always been in perfect sync. They faced the worst a parent could do and survived it together. In the wake...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams: Dove Pond Series #4
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Karen Hawkins
Gallery Books, 08/27/2024
Tay is still reeling from a romantic betrayal, so she's relieved to refocus her energies on her latest project: a biography of her great-great-...
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The Enchanted Lies of Céleste Artois
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Ryan Graudin
Redhook, 08/27/2024
Once, Céleste Artois had dreams of being an artist. But when the creative elite of Paris dashed those plans, she turned her talents to forgery ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler--How War Made Them and How They Made War
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Phillips Payson O'Brien
Dutton, 08/27/2024
In
The Strategists, Professor Phillips Payson O'Brien shows how the views these five leaders forged in WW1 are crucial to understanding how they ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
With Love, Echo Park
by
Laura Taylor Namey
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 08/27/2024
Seventeen-year-old Clary is set to inherit her family's florist shop, La Rosa Blanca—one of the last remnants of the Cuban business district ...
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