A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast
by
Dorthe Nors
Graywolf Press, 11/01/2022
Me, my notebook and my love of the wild and desolate. I wanted to do the opposite of what was expected of me. It's a recurring pattern in my life. An ...more
Before You Knew My Name: A Novel
by
Jacqueline Bublitz
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 11/01/2022
When she arrived in New York on her eighteenth birthday carrying nothing but $600 cash and a stolen camera, Alice Lee was looking for a fresh start. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
by
James Vincent
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/01/2022
From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful tool that humans invented to make sense of the world....
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
by
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Zest Books, 11/01/2022
Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Bravo Company: An Afghanistan Deployment and Its Aftermath
by
Ben Kesling
Harry N. Abrams Inc., 11/01/2022
In
Bravo Company, journalist and combat veteran Ben Kesling tells the story of the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of the men of one unit, part of...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Dr. No: A Novel
by
Percival Everett
Graywolf Press, 11/01/2022
The protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means "...
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Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem
by
Laurie Notaro
Little A, 11/01/2022
Laurie Notaro has proved everyone wrong: she didn't end up in rehab, prison, or cremated at a tender age. She just went gray. At past fifty, every ...
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Foster
by
Claire Keegan
Grove Press, 11/01/2022
It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home ...
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Gilded Mountain: A Novel
by
Kate Manning
Scribner, 11/01/2022
In a voice spiked with sly humor, Sylvie Pelletier recounts leaving her family's snowbound mountain cabin to work in a manor house for the Padgetts, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Godmersham Park: A Novel of the Austen Family
by
Gill Hornby
Pegasus Books, 11/01/2022
On January 21, 1804, Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent to take up the position of governess. At thirty-one years old, she has no previous...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
How Do We Know Ourselves?: Curiosities and Marvels of the Human Mind
by
David G. Myers
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/01/2022
Over the past three decades, millions of students have learned about psychology from textbooks by David G. Myers. To create these books and to satisfy...
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I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki: the South Korean hit therapy memoir recommended by BTS's RM
by
Baek Sehee
Bloomsbury USA, 11/01/2022
PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?
ME: I don't know, I'm – what's the word – depressed? Do I have to go into detail?
Baek Sehee is...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Meredith, Alone
by
Claire Alexander
Grand Central Publishing, 11/01/2022
She has a full-time remote job and her rescue cat Fred. Her best friend Sadie visits with her two children. There's her online support group, her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
by
Jennifer Homans
Random House, 11/01/2022
Arguably the greatest choreographer who ever lived, George Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century—the
New York Times...more
My Good Man
by
Eric Gansworth
Levine Querido, 11/01/2022
Brian, a 20-something reporter on the
Niagara Cascade's City Desk, is navigating life as the only Indigenous writer in the newsroom, being lumped into...
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Historical Fiction
Ocean's Echo
by
Everina Maxwell
Tor Books, 11/01/2022
Rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster Tennalhin Halkana can read minds. Tennal, like all neuromodified "readers," is a security ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Requiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
by
RJ Young
Counterpoint Press, 11/01/2022
More than one hundred years ago, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, perpetrated a massacre against its Black residents. For generations, the true story was ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Saha: A Novel
by
Cho Nam-Joo
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 11/01/2022
In a country called Town, a doctor named Su is found dead in an abandoned car. There is only one place the police intend to look for her suspected ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Shuna's Journey
by
Hayao Miyazaki
First Second, 11/01/2022
Shuna, the prince of a poor land, watches in despair as his people work themselves to death harvesting the little grain that grows there. And so, when...
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Small Game: A Novel
by
Blair Braverman
Ecco, 11/01/2022
Four strangers and six weeks: this is all that separates Mara from one life-changing payday. She was surprised when reality TV producers came knocking...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Tale of the Dreamer's Son
by
Preeta Samarasan
World Editions, 11/01/2022
In what was once a Scottish tea planter's mansion in the highlands of Peninsular Malaysia, all religions are one and race is unheard of. That is, ...
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Literary Fiction
The Acrobat
by
Edward J. Delaney
Turtle Point Press, 11/01/2022
It's 1959, and the 55-year-old man who calls himself Cary Grant is at the peak of a charmed career. He's also on a turbulent journey to find the core ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Islands: Stories
by
Dionne Irving
Catapult, 11/01/2022
The Islands follows the lives of Jamaican women—immigrants or the descendants of immigrants—who have relocated all over the world to ...
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The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
by
Bradley Hope
Crown, 11/01/2022
In the early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate looking for his place in the world. After reading a harrowing account of life ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
by
Malcolm Gaskill
Knopf, 11/01/2022
In Springfield, Massachusetts in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails, property vanishes, and people suffer ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
by
Shehan Karunatilaka
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/01/2022
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida―war photographer, gambler, and closet queen―has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His...
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This is Our Place
by
Vitor Martins
PUSH, 11/01/2022
If the walls of Number 8 Sunflower Street could talk ...
As
Ana celebrates the new millennium, she is shocked to learn that she must leave behind ...
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Toad: A Novel
by
Katherine Dunn
MCD, 11/01/2022
She broods over her deepest regrets: her blighted romances with self-important men, her lifelong struggle to feel at home in her own body, and her ...
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Tutankhamun's Trumpet: Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects from the Boy-King's Tomb
by
Toby Wilkinson
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/01/2022
In 1922, after fifteen years of searching, archaeologists finally discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun. There, buried alongside the king's mummy, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
White Horse: A Novel
by
Erika T. Wurth
Flatiron Books, 11/01/2022
Some people are haunted in more ways than one…
Kari James, Urban Native, is a fan of heavy metal, ripped jeans, Stephen King novels, and dive...
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No One Weeps for Me Now: The Managua Trilogy #2
by
Sergio Ramirez
McPherson & Company, 11/03/2022
Morales is summarily given the lucrative if daunting task of finding her with only her name and two photographs, and three days to complete the search...
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The Incandescent Threads
by
Richard Zimler
Parthian Books, 11/07/2022
Maybe none of us is ever aware of our true significance.
Benjamin Zarco and his cousin Shelly are the only two members of their family to survive ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Children of Ragnarok: Runestone Saga #1
by
Cinda Williams Chima
Balzer + Bray, 11/08/2022
Since Ragnarok—the great war between the gods and the forces of chaos—the human realm of the Midlands has become a desperate and dangerous...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Conversations with Birds
by
Priyanka Kumar
Milkweed Editions, 11/08/2022
Growing up at the feet of the Himalayas in northern India, Kumar took for granted her immersion in a lush natural world. After moving to North America...
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Even Though I Knew the End
by
C. L. Polk
Tor Books, 11/08/2022
This sapphic period piece will dazzle anyone looking for mystery, intrigue, romance, magic, or all of the above.
An exiled augur who sold her ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
by
Rabia Chaudry
Algonquin Books, 11/08/2022
"My entire life I have been less fat and more fat, but never not fat." According to family lore, when Rabia Chaudry's family returned to Pakistan for ...
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Flight: A Novel
by
Lynn Steger Strong
Mariner Books, 11/08/2022
It's December twenty-second and siblings Henry, Kate, and Martin have converged with their spouses on Henry's house in upstate New York. This is the ...
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For Profit: A History of Corporations
by
William Magnuson
Basic Books, 11/08/2022
Americans have long been skeptical of corporations, and that skepticism has only grown more intense in recent years. Meanwhile, corporations ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Hollywood: The Oral History
by
Jeanine Basinger
Harper, 11/08/2022
From the archives of the American Film Institute comes a unique picture of what it was like to work in Hollywood from its beginnings to its present ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How It Went: Thirteen More Stories of the Port William Membership
by
Wendell Berry
Counterpoint Press, 11/08/2022
For those readers of his poetry and inspired by his increasingly vital work as advocate for rational land use and the right-size life, these stories ...
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Participation
by
Anna Moschovakis
Coffee House Press, 11/08/2022
In the latest novel from Anna Moschovakis, two reading groups, unofficially called Love and Anti-Love, falter amidst political friction and signs of ...
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Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six
by
Lisa Unger
Park Row Books, 11/08/2022
What could be more restful, more restorative, than a weekend getaway with family and friends? An isolated luxury cabin in the woods, complete with ...
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The Last Party: DC Morgan Mysteries #1
by
Clare Mackintosh
Sourcebooks Landmark, 11/08/2022
It's the party to end all parties….but not everyone is here to celebrate.
On New Year's Eve, Rhys Lloyd has a house full of guests. His ...
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The Lemon: A Novel
by
S. E. Boyd
Viking, 11/08/2022
While filming on location in Belfast, Northern Ireland, John Doe, the universally adored host of the culinary travel show
Last Call, is found dead in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Magic Kingdom: A Novel
by
Russell Banks
Knopf, 11/08/2022
In 1971, a property speculator named Harley Mann begins recording his life story onto a reel-to-reel machine. Reflecting on his childhood in the early...
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The Secrets We Keep
by
Cassie Gustafson
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 11/08/2022
High school freshman Emma Clark harbors a secret—a secret so vile it could implode her whole world, a secret she's managed to keep buried......
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The Spacetime Pool
by
Catherine Asaro
Open Road Integrated Media, 11/08/2022
In
The Spacetime Pool, recent MIT grad Janelle Aulair is hiking through the Great Smoky Mountains when a man appears out of nowhere to request her ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Against the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism, 1976-2009
by
Neal Gabler
Crown, 11/15/2022
Against the Wind completes Neal Gabler's magisterial biography of Ted Kennedy, but it also unfolds the epic, tragic story of the fall of liberalism ...
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Heart of the Sun Warrior: Celestial Kingdom Series #2
by
Sue Lynn Tan
Harper Voyager, 11/15/2022
After winning her mother's freedom from the Celestial Emperor, Xingyin thrives in the enchanting tranquility of her home. But her fragile peace is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Idol, Burning: A Novel
by
Rin Usami
HarperVia, 11/15/2022
Akari is a high school student obsessed with "oshi" Masaki Ueno, a member of the popular J-Pop group Maza Maza. She writes a blog devoted to him, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions
by
Steve Martin
Celadon, 11/15/2022
Steve Martin has never written about his career in the movies before. In
Number One Is Walking, he shares anecdotes from the sets of his beloved films...
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Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers
by
Emma Smith
Knopf, 11/15/2022
Stephen King once said that books are "a uniquely portable magic." Here, Emma Smith takes readers on a literary adventure that spans centuries and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life
by
Brigitta Olubas
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/15/2022
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life tells the extraordinary story of a great modern novelist. Brigitta Olubas, Hazzard's authorized biographer, has drawn,...
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The 9:09 Project
by
Mark H. Parsons
Delacorte Press, 11/15/2022
It has been two years since his mom's death, and Jamison, his dad, and his younger sister seem to be coping, but they've been dealing with their loss ...
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The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
by
Michelle Obama
Crown, 11/15/2022
There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life's big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all locate and lean on a set of ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music
by
Tom Breihan
Hachette Books, 11/15/2022
When Tom Breihan launched his
Stereogum column in early 2018, "The Number Ones"—a space in which he has been writing about every #1 hit in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Twist of a Knife: A Novel
by
Anthony Horowitz
Harper, 11/15/2022
"I'm sorry but the answer's no." Reluctant author, Anthony Horowitz, has had enough. He tells ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne that after three books he'...
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Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
by
Andy Greenberg
Doubleday, 11/15/2022
Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrency. Crime lords inhabiting lawless corners of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Tread of Angels
by
Rebecca Roanhorse
Gallery Books, 11/15/2022
The year is 1883 and the mining town of Goetia is booming as prospectors from near and far come to mine the powerful new element Divinity from the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Aesthetica
by
Allie Rowbottom
Soho Press, 11/22/2022
At 19, she was an Instagram celebrity. Now, at 35, she works behind the cosmetic counter at the "black and white store," peddling anti-aging products ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, DC
by
Shahan Mufti
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/22/2022
Late in the morning of March 9, 1977, seven men stormed the Washington, D.C., headquarters of B'nai B'rith International, the largest and oldest ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger
by
Tony Tetro & Giampiero Ambrosi
Hachette Books, 11/22/2022
The art world is a much dirtier, nastier business than you might expect. Tony Tetro, one of the most renowned art forgers in history, will make you ...
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Critics' Consensus:
True Crime
Debut Author
Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
by
Jefferson Cowie
Basic Books, 11/22/2022
American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
by
Beverly Gage
Viking, 11/22/2022
We remember him as a bulldog—squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls—but in 1924, when he became director of the FBI, he had ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Creative Lives of Animals
by
Carol Gigliotti
New York University Press, 11/22/2022
Most of us view animals through a very narrow lens, seeing only bits and pieces of beings that seem mostly peripheral to our lives. However, whether ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Reindeer Hunters: Sister Bells Trilogy #2
by
Lars Mytting
The Overlook Press, 11/22/2022
The second novel in Lars Mytting's powerful and compelling Sister Bells trilogy,
The Reindeer Hunters is both a sequel to
The Bell in the Lake and a ...
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A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents
by
Mary-Alice Daniel
Ecco, 11/29/2022
Mary-Alice Daniel's family moved from West Africa to England when she was a very young girl, leaving behind the vivid culture of her native land in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
All the Broken Places: A Novel
by
John Boyne
Pamela Dorman Books, 11/29/2022
Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker
by
Jason McBride
Simon & Schuster, 11/29/2022
Kathy Acker (1947–1997) was a rare and almost inconceivable thing: a celebrity experimental writer. Twenty-five years after her death, she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Factory Girls
by
Michelle Gallen
Algonquin Books, 11/29/2022
It's the summer of 1994, and all Maeve Murray wants are good final exam results so she can earn her ticket out of the wee Northern Irish town she has ...
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How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future
by
Maria Ressa
Harper, 11/29/2022
Maria Ressa is one of the most renowned international journalists of our time. For decades, she challenged corruption and malfeasance in her native ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
by
Edward Humes
Dutton, 11/29/2022
In November 1987, a young couple on an overnight trip to Seattle vanished without a trace. A week later, the bodies of Tanya Van Cuylenborg and her ...
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