A History of Fear: A Novel
by
Luke Dumas
Atria Books, 12/06/2022
The Devil is in Scotland.
Grayson Hale, the most infamous murderer in Scotland, is better known by a different name: the Devil's Advocate. The ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
A Left-Handed Woman: Essays
by
Judith Thurman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 12/06/2022
Judith Thurman, a prolific staff writer at
The New Yorker for more than two decades, has gathered a selection of her essays and profiles in
A Left-...more
Between Light and Storm: How We Live with Other Species
by
Esther Woolfson
Pegasus Books, 12/06/2022
Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers prehistoric human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Blown by the Same Wind: Cold Storage Novels #4
by
John Straley
Soho Crime, 12/06/2022
Things in the sleepy fishing town of Cold Storage, Alaska, are changing. It's the summer of 1968; the men are wearing their hair long, the Vietnam War...
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Cursed Bunny: Stories
by
Bora Chung
Algonquin Books, 12/06/2022
From an author never before published in the United States,
Cursed Bunny is unique and imaginative, blending horror, sci-fi, fairytales, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It
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Erica Thompson
Basic Books, 12/06/2022
Whether we are worried about the spread of COVID-19 or making a corporate budget, we depend on mathematical models to help us understand the world ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Fake Money, Blue Smoke
by
Josh Haven
Mysterious Press, 12/06/2022
When former platoon sergeant Matt Kubelsky is paroled from Ray Brook Federal Correctional Institute in upstate New York, he's surprised to find his ex...
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JUDAS 62
by
Charles Cumming
Mysterious Press, 12/06/2022
After a lifetime working with BOX 88, the transatlantic counterintelligence agency so covert that not even the CIA knows of its existence, master spy ...
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Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion: A Novel
by
Bushra Rehman
Flatiron Books, 12/06/2022
Razia Mirza grows up amid the wild grape vines and backyard sunflowers of Corona, Queens, with her best friend, Saima, by her side. When a family rift...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood
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Jessica Grose
Mariner Books, 12/06/2022
Close your eyes and picture the perfect mother. She is usually blonde and thin. Her roots are never showing and she installed that gleaming kitchen ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Stella Maris
by
Cormac McCarthy
Knopf, 12/06/2022
1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A ...
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The Circus Train
by
Amita Parikh
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 12/06/2022
When all is lost, how do you find the courage to keep moving forward?
1938. Lena Papadopoulos has never quite found her place within the circus, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights: A Novel
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Kitty Zeldis
Harper, 12/06/2022
Brooklyn, 1924. As New York City enters the jazz age, the lives of three very different women are about to converge in unexpected ways. Recently ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Ingenue: A Novel
by
Rachel Kapelke-Dale
St. Martin's Press, 12/06/2022
When former piano prodigy Saskia Kreis returns home to Milwaukee after her mother's unexpected death, she expects to inherit the family estate, the ...
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The Seamstress of Sardinia: A Novel
by
Bianca Pitzorno
Harper Perennial, 12/06/2022
In 1900 Sardinia, a young woman's remarkable talent with a needle earns her a position as a seamstress with a wealthy family. Inside this privileged ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
A Mother Would Know: A Novel
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Amber Garza
Mira, 12/13/2022
Valerie has been forgetting things. Her daughter worries about her being on her own in her big Victorian house—one rumored to be haunted after a...
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Rubble of Rubles
by
Josip Novakovich
Dzanc Books, 12/13/2022
In this picaresque novel set in the early 2000s, David, an investment banker with Eastern European roots, goes bankrupt from the Enron fiasco, and ...
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Scatterlings: A Novel
by
Resoketswe Martha Manenzhe
HarperVia, 12/13/2022
In 1927, South Africa passes the Immorality Act, prohibiting sexual intercourse between "Europeans" (white people) and "natives" (Black people). Those...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Nine Liars: Truly Devious
by
Maureen Johnson
Katherine Tegan Books, 12/27/2022
Senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn't going well. Her boyfriend, David, is studying in London. Her friends are obsessed with college ...
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The Book of Everlasting Things: A Novel
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Aanchal Malhotra
Flatiron Books, 12/27/2022
On a January morning in 1938, Samir Vij first locks eyes with Firdaus Khan through the rows of perfume bottles in his family's ittar shop in Lahore. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
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