Token Black Girl: A Memoir
by
Danielle Prescod
Little A, 10/01/2022
Danielle Prescod grew up Black in an elite and overwhelmingly white community, her identity made more invisible by the whitewashed movies, television,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
A Minor Chorus: A Novel
by
Billy-Ray Belcourt
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/04/2022
In the stark expanse of Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel, informed by a series ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Scatter of Light
by
Malinda Lo
Dutton for Young Readers, 10/04/2022
Aria Tang West was looking forward to a summer on Martha's Vineyard with her best friends—one last round of sand and sun before college. But ...
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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
by
Adam Hochschild
Mariner Books, 10/04/2022
The nation was on the brink. Mobs burned Black churches to the ground. Courts threw thousands of people into prison for opinions they voiced—in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Billie Starr's Book of Sorries: A Novel
by
Deborah E. Kennedy
Flatiron Books, 10/04/2022
Sometimes, a woman has to rescue herself.
Jenny Newberg, Queen of Bad Decisions, is about to make another one. In a small town where everyone knows...
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Blood Red
by
Gabriela Ponce
Restless Books, 10/04/2022
In a torrent of stream-of-consciousness fragments, the unnamed narrator of Blood Red recounts the aftermath of her failed marriage in explicit, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
by
David Quammen
Simon & Schuster, 10/04/2022
Breathless is the story of SARS-CoV-2 and its fierce journey through the human population, as seen by the scientists who study its origin, its ever-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
David Smith: The Art and Life of a Transformational Sculptor
by
Michael Brenson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/04/2022
The artist David Smith once wrote, "'Humanism' is a useless word in my time." A member of the abstract expressionist generation, he would do more than...
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Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
by
Jeremiah Moss
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/04/2022
The pandemic lockdown of 2020 launched an unprecedented urban experiment. Traffic disappeared from the streets. Times Square fell silent. And half a ...
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Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
by
Cody Keenan
Mariner Books, 10/04/2022
A white supremacist shooting and an astonishing act of forgiveness. A national reckoning with race and the Confederate flag. The fate of marriage ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Hester: A Novel
by
Laurie Lico Albanese
St. Martin's Press, 10/04/2022
Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An ...
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Historical Fiction
Jackal: A Novel
by
Erin E. Adams
Bantam Books, 10/04/2022
It's watching.
It's taking.
As a frantic search begins, with the police combing the trees for Caroline, Liz is the only one who notices a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Mad Honey: A Novel
by
Jodi Picoult
Ballantine Books, 10/04/2022
She never imagined that she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in and taking over her father's ...
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Other
Man Made Monsters
by
Andrea Rogers
Levine Querido, 10/04/2022
Tsalagi should never have to live on human blood, but sometimes things just happen to sixteen-year-old girls.
Horror fans will get their thrills in...
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Nights of Plague: A novel
by
Orhan Pamuk
Knopf, 10/04/2022
It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingheria—the twenty-ninth state of the Ottoman Empire—located in the eastern ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
River Woman, River Demon: A Novel
by
Jennifer Givhan
Blackstone Publishing, 10/04/2022
When Eva's husband is arrested for the murder of a friend, she must confront her murky past and embrace her magick to find out what really happened ...
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The Hero of This Book: A Novel
by
Elizabeth McCracken
Ecco, 10/04/2022
Ten months after her mother's death, the narrator of
The Hero of This Book takes a trip to London. The city was a favorite of her mother's, and as the...
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The Night Ship: A Novel
by
Jess Kidd
Atria Books, 10/04/2022
1629: A newly orphaned young girl named Mayken is bound for the Dutch East Indies on the
Batavia, one of the greatest ships of the Dutch Golden Age. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Restless Dark
by
Erica Waters
HarperTeen, 10/04/2022
Enter Cloudkiss Canyon at your own risk.
The Cloudkiss Killer is dead. Now a true-crime podcast is hosting a contest to find his bones.
Lucy ...
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Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
by
Thomas E. Ricks
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/04/2022
In
Waging a Good War, bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks offers a fresh perspective on America's greatest moral revolution―the civil rights ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
When They Tell You To Be Good: A Memoir
by
Prince Shakur
Tin House Books, 10/04/2022
After immigrating from Jamaica to the United States, Prince Shakur's family is rocked by the murder of Prince's biological father in 1995. Behind the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Which Side Are You On
by
Ryan Lee Wong
Catapult, 10/04/2022
Twenty-one-year-old Reed is fed up. Angry about the killing of a Black man by an Asian American NYPD officer, he wants to drop out of college and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Before All the World: A Novel
by
Moriel Rothman-Zecher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/11/2022
"ikh gleyb nit az di gantze velt iz kheyshekh."
"I do not believe that all the world is darkness."
In the swirl of Philadelphia at the end of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter's Reflections on Belonging
by
Vanessa A. Bee
Astra House, 10/11/2022
After her parents' divorce, Vanessa traveled with her mother to Lyon and later to London, eventually settling in Reno, Nevada, as a teenager, right ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
I Miss You, I Hate This
by
Sara Saedi
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 10/11/2022
The lives of high school seniors Parisa Naficy and Gabriela Gonzales couldn't be more different. Parisa, an earnest and privileged Iranian American, ...
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Illuminations: Stories
by
Alan Moore
Bloomsbury USA, 10/11/2022
In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a series of wildly different and equally unforgettable ...
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Little Eve
by
Catriona Ward
Tor Nightfire, 10/11/2022
Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel.
"A great day is upon us. He is coming. The world will be washed away."
On the wind-battered ...
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Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties
by
John D'Emilio
Duke University Press, 10/11/2022
How does a boy from an Italian immigrant family in which everyone unfailingly went to confession and Sunday Mass become a lapsed Catholic? How does a ...
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Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty
by
Andrew Meier
Random House, 10/11/2022
After coming to America from Germany in 1866, the Morgenthaus made history in international diplomacy, in domestic politics, and in America's criminal...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives
by
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Harper, 10/11/2022
At just eighteen years old, Charlayne Hunter-Gault made national news when she mounted a successful legal challenge that culminated in her admission ...
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On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World
by
Sean Connolly
Basic Books, 10/11/2022
When people think of Irish emigration, they often think of the Great Famine of the 1840s, which caused many to flee Ireland for the United States. But...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More
by
Fatima Ali
Ballantine Books, 10/11/2022
Fatima Ali won the hearts of viewers as the Fan Favorite of Bravo's
Top Chef in season fifteen. Twenty-nine years old, she was a dynamic, boundary-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
by
Peter Orner
Catapult, 10/11/2022
Stationed in the South Pacific during World War II, Seymour Orner wrote a letter every day to his wife, Lorraine. She seldom responded, leading him to...
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Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions
by
A. R. Capetta
MIT Press, 10/11/2022
What does the future hold? Ten speculative short stories by leading young-adult authors imagine what the world
could be through the lens of ...
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The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water
by
Chris Dombrowski
Milkweed Editions, 10/11/2022
He answers this fundamental question of our time initially by listening lovingly to rivers and the land they pulse through in his adopted home of ...
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The Spare Man
by
Mary Robinette Kowal
Tor Books, 10/11/2022
Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and an heiress, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between the Moon and Mars. She's ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
by
Ruha Benjamin
Princeton University Press, 10/11/2022
Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes. But ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Young Man, Muddled: A Memoir
by
Robert Kanigel
Bancroft Press, 10/11/2022
As Hemingway wrote, "It happened gradually, then suddenly." Robert Kanigel, a grade-skipping Jewish fellow from Brooklyn, went from engineering war ...
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Biography/Memoir
Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia
by
Natasha Lance Rogoff
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 10/17/2022
In
Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia, Natasha Lance Rogoff brings this gripping tale to life. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Heart Full of Headstones: Inspector Rebus Novels #24
by
Ian Rankin
Little Brown & Company, 10/18/2022
But what drove a good man to cross the line?
Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke may well find out. Clarke is tasked with the city's most explosive...
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And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
by
Jon Meacham
Random House, 10/18/2022
A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Hated and ...
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Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities
by
Emily Tamkin
Harper, 10/18/2022
What does it mean to be a Bad Jew?
Many Jews use the term "Bad Jew" as a weapon against other members of the community or even against themselves. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
I Was Born for This
by
Alice Oseman
Scholastic, 10/18/2022
Jimmy Kaga-Ricci owes everything to The Ark. He's their frontman — and playing in a band with his mates is all he ever dreamed of doing, even if...
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In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press
by
Katherine Corcoran
Bloomsbury Publishing, 10/18/2022
Regina Martínez was no stranger to retaliation. A journalist out of Mexico's Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, Regina's stories for the magazine
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Critics' Consensus:
True Crime
Debut Author
It Starts with Us: A Novel (2) (It Ends with Us)
by
Colleen Hoover
Atria Books, 10/18/2022
Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After ...
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Romance
Lady Joker, Volume 2
by
Kaoru Takamura
Soho Crime, 10/18/2022
Inspired by the real-life Glico-Morinaga kidnapping, an unsolved case that terrorized Japan for two years,
Lady Joker reimagines the circumstances of ...
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Liberation Day: Stories
by
George Saunders
Random House, 10/18/2022
The "best short-story writer in English" (
Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice and cuts to the ...
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Poster Girl
by
Veronica Roth
William Morrow, 10/18/2022
WHAT'S RIGHT IS RIGHT.
Sonya Kantor knows this slogan—she lived by it for most of her life. For decades, everyone in the Seattle-Portland ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Self-Portrait with Nothing
by
Aimee Pokwatka
Tor.com, 10/18/2022
If a picture paints a thousand worlds...
Abandoned as an infant on the local veterinarian's front porch, Pepper Rafferty was raised by two loving ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Seven Empty Houses
by
Samanta Schweblin
Riverhead Books, 10/18/2022
The seven houses in these seven stories are strange. A person is missing, or a truth, or memory; some rooms are enticing, some unmoored, others empty....
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Short Stories
Signal Fires: A novel
by
Dani Shapiro
Knopf, 10/18/2022
Signal Fires opens on a summer night in 1985. Three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, ...
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The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
by
Max Hastings
Harper, 10/18/2022
In
The Abyss, Max Hastings turns his focus to one of the most terrifying events of the mid-twentieth century—the thirteen days in October 1962 ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Consequences: Stories
by
Manuel Muñoz
Graywolf Press, 10/18/2022
"Her immediate concern was money." So begins the first story in Manuel Muñoz's dazzling new collection. In it, Delfina has moved from Texas to ...
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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
by
Jonathan Freedland
Harper, 10/18/2022
A complex hero.
A forgotten story.
The first witness to reveal the full truth of the Holocaust
People won't believe what they can't imagine....more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Young Readers Adaptation): Life in Native America
by
David Treuer, Sheila Keenan
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 10/18/2022
Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the United States.
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
When We Were Sisters: A Novel
by
Fatimah Asghar
One World, 10/18/2022
In this heartrending, lyrical debut work of fiction, Fatimah Asghar traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Anywhere You Run: A Novel
by
Wanda M. Morris
William Morrow, 10/25/2022
It's the summer of 1964 and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help Black Mississippians secure the right to vote. Against this ...
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Heretic: A Memoir
by
Jeanna Kadlec
Harper, 10/25/2022
Jeanna Kadlec knew what it meant to be faithful--in her marriage to a pastor's son, in the comfortable life ahead of her, in her God--but there was no...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Inciting Joy: Essays
by
Ross Gay
Algonquin Books, 10/25/2022
In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prize-winning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, ...
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Into the Riverlands: The Singing Hills Cycle #3
by
Nghi Vo
Tor Books, 10/25/2022
Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorious near-immortal martial artists who haunt the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Is Mother Dead
by
Vigdis Hjorth
Verso, 10/25/2022
'To mother is to murder, or close enough', thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She's recently widowed and back...
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Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern
by
Neil Baldwin
Knopf, 10/25/2022
Time magazine called her "the Dancer of the Century." Her technique, used by dance companies throughout the world, became the first long-lasting ...
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My Manservant and Me
by
Hervé Guibert
Nightboat Books, 10/25/2022
My Manservant and Me is a story about the trials and tribulations of having a live-in valet. Written from the uneasy perspective of an aging, ...
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Sign Here
by
Claudia Lux
Berkley Books, 10/25/2022
Peyote Trip has a pretty good gig in the deals department on the fifth floor of Hell. Sure, none of the pens work, the coffee machine has been out of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Ted Kennedy: A Life
by
John A. Farrell
Penguin Press, 10/25/2022
John A. Farrell's magnificent biography of Edward M. Kennedy is the first single-volume life of the great figure since his death. Farrell's long ...
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The Passenger
by
Cormac McCarthy
Knopf, 10/25/2022
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard ...
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The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire
by
Joseph Sassoon
Pantheon Books, 10/25/2022
They were one of the richest families in the world for two hundred years, from the 19th century to the 20th, and were known as 'the Rothschilds of the...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Singularities: A Novel
by
John Banville
Knopf, 10/25/2022
A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sports car—also borrowed—onto the estate of his youth. But all is not as it seems. ...
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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
by
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Scribner, 10/25/2022
Mukherjee begins this magnificent story in the late 1600s, when a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth-merchant,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The White Mosque
by
Sofia Samatar
Catapult, 10/25/2022
In the late nineteenth century, a group of German-speaking Mennonites traveled from Russia into Central Asia, where their charismatic leader predicted...
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Uphill: A Memoir
by
Jemele Hill
Henry Holt and Company, 10/25/2022
Jemele Hill's world came crashing down when she called President Trump a "white supremacist"; the White House wanted her fired from ESPN, and she was ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
