The Curse of the Flores Women: A Novel
by
Angélica Lopes
Amazon Crossing, 07/01/2024
Eighteen-year-old Alice Ribeiro is constantly fighting―against the status quo, female oppression in Brazil, and even her own mother. But when a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Last Time I Saw You
by
Jo Leevers
Lake Union Publishing, 07/01/2024
Weeks away from the birth of her first child, Georgie should be enjoying the peace of her new life in the country, but boredom has settled in and ...
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A Sea Full of Turtles: The Search for Optimism in an Epoch of Extinction
by
Bill Streever
Pegasus Books, 07/02/2024
Everyone alive today is witnessing a mass extinction event caused by the more than eight billion humans who share this planet. At times, it seems ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Age 16
by
Rosena Fung
Annick Press, 07/02/2024
Guandong, 1954 Sixteen-year-old Mei Laan longs for a future of freedom, and her beauty may be the key to getting it. Can an arranged marriage in Hong ...
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Big in Sweden: A Novel
by
Sally Franson
Mariner Books, 07/02/2024
Paulie Johansson has never put much stock in the idea of family: she has her long-term boyfriend Declan and beloved best friend Jemma, and that's more...
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Literary Fiction
Break to You
by
Neal Shusterman, Debra Young, Michelle Knowlden
Quill Tree Books, 07/02/2024
Adriana knows that if she can manage to keep her head down for the next seven months, she might be able to get through her sentence in the Compass ...
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Briefly Very Beautiful: A Novel
by
Roz Dineen
The Overlook Press, 07/02/2024
In a land destabilized by unsafe air, wildfires, floods, viruses, supply shortages, and homegrown terror, Cass is raising three small children by ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Evenings and Weekends: A Novel
by
Oisín McKenna
Mariner Books, 07/02/2024
Summer in London stops for no one. Not the half-naked drunks and stoners, the bachelorette parties glugging from bejewelled bottles, the drag ...
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Joined at the Joints
by
Marissa Eller
Holiday House, 07/02/2024
Chronically ill seventeen-year-old Ivy has stayed in watching the Food Network all summer—pies are better than people, and they don't trigger ...
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Romance
Masquerade
by
O.O. Sangoyomi
Forge Books, 07/02/2024
Òdòdó's hometown of Timbuktu has been conquered by the warrior king of Yorùbáland, and living conditions for the women in her...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Midnight Rooms: A Novel
by
Donyae Coles
Amistad, 07/02/2024
England, 1840. Orabella Mumthrope spies an unexpected visitor in her uncle's parlor. Scruffy in appearance yet claiming to be the scion of a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: A Novel
by
Satoshi Yagisawa
Harper Perennial, 07/02/2024
Set again in the beloved Japanese bookshop and nearby coffee shop in the Jimbochi neighborhood of Toyko,
More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop deepens ...
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Literary Fiction
Not About a Boy
by
Myah Hollis
HarperTeen, 07/02/2024
Amélie Cœur has never known what it truly means to be happy.
She thought she'd found happiness once, in a love that ended in tragedy ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
On the Bright Side
by
Anna Sortino
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/02/2024
Ellie's Deaf boarding school just shut down, forcing her to leave the place she considered home and return to her hearing family. But being ...
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Rise
by
Freya Finch
Disney Editions, 07/02/2024
For seventeen-year-old Bryn, being the youngest, messiest, most rebellious sister in a family of valkyries isn't easy. Especially considering home is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Air They Breathe: A Pediatrician on the Frontlines of Climate Change
by
Debra Hendrickson
Simon & Schuster, 07/02/2024
Wildfires, hurricanes, and heat waves make headlines. But what is happening in Debra Hendrickson's clinic tells another story of this strange and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Education Wars, Jack Schneider: A Citizen's Guide and Defense Manual
by
Jennifer C. Berkshire, Jack Schneider
The New Press, 07/02/2024
Culture wars have engulfed our schools. Extremist groups are seeking to ban books, limit what educators can teach, and threaten the very foundations ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Entire Sky: A Novel
by
Joe Wilkins
Little Brown & Company, 07/02/2024
With his long hair and penchant for guitar, teenage Justin is the spitting image of his idol, Kurt Cobain—a resemblance that has often marked ...
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Literary Fiction
The Expat: A Novel
by
Hansen Shi
Pegasus Crime, 07/02/2024
At twenty-six, Princeton grad Michael Wang is trapped. Stifled under the bamboo ceiling at General Motors, he's working quietly on a breakthrough in ...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
The God of the Woods: A Novel
by
Liz Moore
Riverhead Books, 07/02/2024
Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn't just any ...
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The Lion Women of Tehran
by
Marjan Kamali
Gallery Books, 07/02/2024
In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Moonlight Market: A Novel
by
Joanne Harris
Pegasus Books, 07/02/2024
Deep in the heart of London, a photographer walks the streets and captures whatever catches his eye: an old man drinking coffee; a beautiful woman ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Night of Baba Yaga
by
Akira Otani
Soho Crime, 07/02/2024
Tokyo, 1979. Yoriko Shindo, a workhorse of a woman who has been an outcast her whole life, is kidnapped and dragged to the lair of the Naiki-kai, a ...
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The Night the River Wept: A Novel
by
Lo Patrick
Sourcebooks Landmark, 07/02/2024
Arlene has lived in a small town on the edge of nowhere Georgia her whole life. Now married to her long-time high school sweetheart, Tommy, Arlene is ...
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Literary Fiction
The Piano Player of Budapest: A True Story of Survival, Hope, and Music
by
Roxanne de Bastion
Pegasus Books, 07/02/2024
When her father died, singer-songwriter Roxanne de Bastion inherited a piano she knew had been in her family for over a hundred years. But it is only ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Second Chance of Darius Logan
by
David F. Walker
Scholastic, 07/02/2024
Darius Logan is far from a hero. Since his parents were killed, he has spent most of his life navigating foster homes and shelters, abandoned ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The World After Alice: A Novel
by
Lauren Aliza Green
Viking, 07/02/2024
When Morgan and Benji surprise their families with a wedding invitation to Maine, they're aware the news of their clandestine relationship will come ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
We Don't Have Time for This
by
Brianna Craft
Disney-Hyperion, 07/02/2024
What's more romantic than saving the earth?
Two presidents. One club. A sizzling connection.
Isa Brown wishes her life would slow down. She ...
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Romance
Napalm in the Heart
by
Pol Guasch
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/04/2024
In a near future devastated by war and unspecified natural disaster, a young man and his mother cling to survival at the edge of a forest. Society is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Thousand Times Before: A Novel
by
Asha Thanki
Viking, 07/09/2024
Ayukta is finally sitting down with her wife Nadya to respond to a question she's long avoided: Should they have a child? The decision is complicated ...
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Literary Fiction
All This and More: A Novel
by
Peng Shepherd
William Morrow, 07/09/2024
One woman. Endless options. Every choice has consequences.
Meek, play-it-safe Marsh has just turned forty-five, and her life is in shambles. Her ...
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Thrillers
Bury Your Gays
by
Chuck Tingle
Tor Nightfire, 07/09/2024
But finally, after years of trying to make it, his big moment is here: an Oscar nomination. And the executives at the studio for his long-running ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Come to the Window: A Novel
by
Howard Norman
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/09/2024
It's l9l8. The war in Europe grinds on, and the Spanish flu seems to be on an insatiable killing spree. But in the small fishing village of Parrsboro,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Daughters of Chaos: A Novel
by
Jen Fawkes
The Overlook Press, 07/09/2024
In 1862, after a tragedy at home, twenty-two-year-old Sylvie Swift parts ways with her twin brother to trace the origins of an enigmatic playscript ...
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Historical Fiction
Daughters of Olympus: A Novel
by
Hannah Lynn
Sourcebooks Landmark, 07/09/2024
Demeter: a goddess of life, living half of one.
Demeter did not always live in fear. Once, she loved the world and the humans who inhabited it. ...
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Historical Fiction
Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity
by
Sable Yong
Dey Street Books, 07/09/2024
The beauty industry has a single mandate: be hot.
In the same week that you might be encouraged to try curtain bangs, contouring, bleached ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Elevator in Saigon
by
Thuân
New Directions Publishing, 07/09/2024
A young Vietnamese woman living in Paris travels back to Saigon for her estranged mother's funeral. Her brother had recently built a new house in ...
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Grown Women: A Novel
by
Sarai Johnson
Harper, 07/09/2024
Erudite Evelyn, her cynical daughter Charlotte, and Charlotte's optimistic daughter Corinna see the world very differently. Though they love each ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
It's Elementary
by
Elise Bryant
Berkley Books, 07/09/2024
Mavis Miller is not a PTA mom. She has enough on her plate with her feisty seven-year-old daughter, Pearl, an exhausting job at a nonprofit, and the ...
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Romance
Let Me Liberate You: A Novel
by
Andie Davis
Little A, 07/09/2024
Dark, lanky, and bald, New York–raised photographer Sabre Cumberbatch can't tell if she's highly talented or just highly Instagrammable. Up to ...
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Literary Fiction
Madoff: The Final Word
by
Richard Behar
Avid Reader Press, 07/09/2024
Some $68 billion evaporated during Bernie Madoff's epic confidence game. Two people were driven to suicide in the wake of the Ponzi Scheme's exposure....
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Mourning a Breast
by
Xi Xi
New York Review Books, 07/09/2024
In 1989, the Hong Kong cult classic writer Xi Xi was diagnosed with breast cancer and began writing in order to make sense of her diagnosis and ...
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Biography/Memoir
My Parents' Marriage: A Novel
by
Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
Amistad, 07/09/2024
Determined to avoid the pain and instability of her parents' turbulent, confusing marriage, Kokui marries a man far different from her loving, ...
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Literary Fiction
Navola: A novel
by
Paolo Bacigalupi
Knopf, 07/09/2024
"You must be as sharp as a stilettotore's dagger and as subtle as a fish beneath the waters. This is what it is to be Navolese, this is what it is to ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Our Kind of Game: A Novel
by
Johanna Copeland
Harper, 07/09/2024
2019. Stella Parker has the life she's always wanted: a loving husband, two happy children that she gave up her thriving law career to raise, and a ...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
Quickly, While They Still Have Horses: Stories
by
Jan Carson
Scribner, 07/09/2024
In "A Certain Degree of Ownership," a distracted couple on a beach fail to notice their baby crawl perilously toward the sea. In "Grand So," the ghost...
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Quincas Borba: A Novel
by
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 07/09/2024
Hailed in his lifetime as one of Latin America's greatest writers, Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was a storyteller known for his wholly ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
State of Paradise: A Novel
by
Laura van den Berg
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/09/2024
Along with her husband, a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author returns to her mother's house in the Florida town where she grew up. As the summer ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Tell It to Me Singing: A Novel
by
Tita Ramirez
Simon & Schuster, 07/09/2024
Monica Campo is pregnant with her first child when, moments before being wheeled into emergency heart surgery, her mother confesses a long-held secret...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Anthropologists
by
Aysegül Savas
Bloomsbury Publishing, 07/09/2024
As the young couple dreams about the possibilities of each new listing, Asya, a documentarian, gathers footage from the neighborhood like an ...
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The Briar Club: A Novel
by
Kate Quinn
William Morrow, 07/09/2024
Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation's ...
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The Coin: A Novel
by
Yasmin Zaher
Catapult, 07/09/2024
The Coin's narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Dallergut Dream Department Store: A Novel
by
Miye Lee
Hanover Square Press, 07/09/2024
In a mysterious town hidden in our collective subconscious there's a department store that sells dreams. Day and night, visitors both human and animal...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Heart in Winter: A Novel
by
Kevin Barry
Doubleday, 07/09/2024
October 1891. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city of Butte, Montana is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and ...
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The History of Sound: Stories
by
Ben Shattuck
Viking, 07/09/2024
In twelve luminous stories set across three centuries,
The History of Sound examines the unexpected ways the past returns to us and how love and loss ...
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The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora
by
Wendy Pearlman
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 07/09/2024
In 2011, Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom. Brutal government repression transformed peaceful protests into one of the most devastating ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry
by
Stacey D'Erasmo
Graywolf Press, 07/09/2024
How do we keep doing this―making art? Stacey D'Erasmo had been writing for twenty years and had published three novels when she asked herself ...
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The Sky on Fire
by
Jenn Lyons
Tor Books, 07/09/2024
Anahrod lives only for survival, forging her own way through the harsh jungles of the Deep with her titan drake by her side. Even when an adventuring ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Unforgettable Loretta Darling: A Novel
by
Katherine Blake
HarperPaperbacks, 07/09/2024
It's 1950 and Loretta Reynolds is newly arrived in Hollywood, fresh off a con that brought her from England to the sunny shores of California. She's ...
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Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Toward Eternity: A Novel
by
Anton Hur
HarperVia, 07/09/2024
In a near-future world, a new technological therapy is quickly eradicating cancer. The body's cells are entirely replaced with nanites—robot or ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It
by
Genevieve Guenther
Oxford University Press, 07/10/2024
Weaving this analysis through fascinating critical histories of the terms that dominate the language of climate politics―the words we, alarmist,...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Rose by Any Other Name
by
Mary McMyne
Redhook, 07/16/2024
My name has only been whispered, heretofore…
England, 1591. Rose Rushe's passion for life runs deep—she loves mead and music, meddles...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Banal Nightmare: A Novel
by
Halle Butler
Random House, 07/16/2024
Margaret Anne "Moddie" Yance had just returned to her native land in the Midwestern town of X, to mingle with the friends of her youth, to get back in...
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Beep: A Novel
by
Bill Roorbach
Algonquin Books, 07/16/2024
In this immensely enjoyable and wise novel, it takes a sweet and personable squirrel monkey, Beep, to help us see the world we live in more ...
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Literary Fiction
Bright Objects
by
Ruby Todd
Simon & Schuster, 07/16/2024
Sylvia Knight is losing hope that the person who killed her husband will ever face justice. Since the night of the hit-and-run, her world has been ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Desperation Reef: A Novel
by
T. Jefferson Parker
Forge Books, 07/16/2024
Jen Stonebreaker hasn't entered into a big-wave surfing competition since witnessing her husband's tragic death twenty-five years ago at the Monsters ...
more
Grief in the Fourth Dimension: A Novel
by
Jennifer Yu
Amulet Books, 07/16/2024
In life, high school classmates Caroline Davison and Kenny Zhou existed in separate universes—Caroline in one of softball practices and family ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
House of Shades: A Novel
by
Lianne Dillsworth
Harper, 07/16/2024
London, 1833.
Doctress Hester Reeves has been offered a life-changing commission.
But it comes at a price. She must leave behind her husband...
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Historical Fiction
Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World
by
Brandon Keim
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/16/2024
Honeybees deliberate democratically. Rats reflect on the past. Snakes have friends. In recent decades, our understanding of animal cognition has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Portrait of a Shadow
by
Meriam Metoui
Henry Holt and Company, 07/16/2024
Inez is missing, but missing things can always be found.
Mae knows this as a fact, even though the police investigation has come to a standstill,...
more
Mysteries
Debut Author
Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch
by
Andrea Freeman
Metropolitan Books, 07/16/2024
In 1779, to subjugate Indigenous nations, George Washington ordered his troops to "ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent their planting more....
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Smothermoss
by
Alisa Alering
Tin House Books, 07/16/2024
In 1980s Appalachia, sisters Sheila and Angie couldn't be more different. While their mother works long shifts at the nearby asylum, Sheila does her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur
by
Lev Grossman
Viking, 07/16/2024
A gifted young knight named Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a spot on the Round Table, only to find that he's too late. The king died two ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Lucky Ones: A Memoir
by
Zara Chowdhary
Crown, 07/16/2024
In 2002, Zara Chowdhary is sixteen years old and living with her family in Ahmedabad, one of India's fastest-growing cities, when a gruesome train ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA
by
Jesse Katz
Astra House, 07/16/2024
The vendor, Francisco Clemente, had been refusing to give in to the gang's shakedown demands. But Giovanni botches the hit, accidentally killing a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
There Is Happiness: New and Selected Stories
by
Brad Watson
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/16/2024
"Here is a generous portion of the work of a swiftly passing lifetime. Bountiful is the deserving page," Joy Williams writes in her introduction to ...
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Trouble in Queenstown: A Mystery
by
Delia Pitts
Minotaur Books, 07/16/2024
Evander "Vandy" Myrick became a cop to fulfill her father's expectations. After her world cratered, she became a private eye to satisfy her own. Now ...
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What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World's Ocean
by
Helen Scales
Atlantic Monthly Press, 07/16/2024
No matter where we live, "we are all ocean people," Helen Scales emphatically observes in her bracing yet hopeful exploration of the future of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America
by
James Tejani
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/23/2024
The Port of Los Angeles is all around us. Objects we use on a daily basis pass through it: furniture, apparel, electronics, automobiles, and much more...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune
by
Noliwe Rooks
Penguin Press, 07/23/2024
When Mary McLeod Bethune died, tributes in newspapers around the country said the same thing: she should be on the Mount Rushmore of Black American ...
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Becoming Marlow Fin: A Novel
by
Ellen Won Steil
Lake Union Publishing, 07/23/2024
Marlow Fin is as famous for her beauty and success as she is infamous for her past, some of which is a mystery even to her. Is the public ready for ...
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Literary Fiction
Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861
by
Robert W. Merry
Simon & Schuster, 07/23/2024
The Mexican War brought vast new territories to the United States, which precipitated a growing crisis over slavery. The new territories seemed ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
I Will Never Leave You
by
Kara A. Kennedy
Delacorte Press, 07/23/2024
Maya has always belonged to Alana. After four years of dating, and on the precipice of graduating high school, Maya has been too terrified to consider...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Liars: A Novel
by
Sarah Manguso
Hogarth Books, 07/23/2024
A nuclear family can destroy a woman artist. I'd always known that. But I'd never suspected how easily I'd fall into one anyway.
When Jane, an ...
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Nicked: A Novel
by
M. T. Anderson
Pantheon Books, 07/23/2024
The year is 1087, and a pox is sweeping through the Italian port city of Bari. When a lowly monk is visited by Saint Nicholas in his dreams, he ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Our Beautiful Darkness: A Graphic Novel
by
(n/a) Ondjaki
Unruly, 07/23/2024
The light goes out suddenly. And in this absence of light, a pair of teenagers bare their souls. Into the warm silence of the night, they share a ...
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Rescue Party: A Graphic Anthology of COVID Lockdown
by
Gabe Fowler
Pantheon Books, 07/23/2024
On April 1, 2020, the Instagram account of Desert Island, Brooklyn's celebrated alternative comics shop, put out a call. By then Desert Island had ...
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Biography/Memoir
Seeing Through: A Chronicle of Sex, Drugs, and Opera
by
Ricky Ian Gordon
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/23/2024
At eight years old, Ricky Ian Gordon pulled
The Victor Book of Opera off his piano teacher's bookshelf, and his world shifted on its axis. Though ...
more
Slow Dance: A Novel
by
Rainbow Rowell
William Morrow, 07/23/2024
Back in high school, everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up together ... everybody but Shiloh and Cary.
They were just friends.
Best ...more
Romance
The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement
by
Susannah Gibson
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/23/2024
In England in the 1700s, a woman who was an intellectual, spoke out, or wrote professionally was considered unnatural. After all, as the wisdom of the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Dissonance: A Novel
by
Shaun Hamill
Pantheon Books, 07/23/2024
"You can never go home again," the saying goes—but Hal, Athena, and Erin have to. In high school, the three were students of the eccentric ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Faculty Lounge: A Novel
by
Jennifer Mathieu
Dutton, 07/23/2024
With its ensemble of warm and unforgettable characters,
The Faculty Lounge shows readers a different side of school life. It all starts when an ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky
by
Josh Galarza
Henry Holt and Company, 07/23/2024
Ever since cancer invaded his adoptive mother's life, Brett feels like he's losing everything, most of all control. To cope, Brett fuels all of his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia: A novel
by
Juliet Grames
Knopf, 07/23/2024
Calabria, 1960. Francesca Loftfield, a twenty-seven-year-old, starry-eyed American, arrives in the isolated mountain village of Santa Chionia tasked ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Lost Souls of Benzaiten
by
Kelly Murashige
Soho Teen, 07/23/2024
"I wish to become one of those round vacuum cleaner robots." That's what Machi prays for at the altar of Japanese goddess Benzaiten. Ever since her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Modern Fairies: A Novel
by
Clare Pollard
Avid Reader Press, 07/23/2024
Why don't they tell you it is the beautiful princess who becomes the evil queen; that they are just the same person at different points in their story...more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love
by
India Holton
Berkley Books, 07/23/2024
Beth Pickering is on the verge of finally capturing the rare deathwhistler bird when Professor Devon Lockley swoops in, stealing both her bird and her...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
by
Jesselyn Cook
Crown, 07/23/2024
The QAnon conspiracy theories—which posit that a nefarious cabal of elites is secretly ruling our society, poisoning our bodies, and harming our...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl
by
Bart Yates
A John Scognamiglio Book, 07/23/2024
"Each day is a story, whether or not that story makes any damn sense or is worth telling to anyone else."
At the age of ninety-six, Isaac Dahl sits...
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The Wrong Hands: Detective Miller Novels #2
by
Mark Billingham
Atlantic Monthly Press, 07/23/2024
Unconventional Detective Declan Miller has a problem. Well, two problems. First, there's his dead wife and her yet-to-be-solved murder.
He really ...more
Thrillers
Time and Time Again
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Chatham Greenfield
Bloomsbury YA, 07/23/2024
Phoebe Mendel's day is never ending--literally.
On August 6th, she woke up to find herself stuck in a time loop. And for nearly a month of August...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen
by
Jon M. Chu
Random House, 07/23/2024
Long before he directed
Wicked, In The Heights, or the groundbreaking film
Crazy Rich Asians, Jon M. Chu was a movie-obsessed first-generation Chinese...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Finding Famous: A Mashad Family Novel
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Candice Jalili
Disney-Hyperion, 07/30/2024
Ever since her mom died, Josie Lawrence has been content with her safe, predictable life. She hangs out with exactly two people: her best (and only) ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Into the Clear Blue Sky: The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere
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Rob Jackson
Scribner, 07/30/2024
Climate change is here. From the millions displaced by the floods in Pakistan to Californian and Canadian towns incinerated by wildfires, we are ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
My Mother Cursed My Name: A Novel
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Anamely Salgado Reyes
Atria Books, 07/30/2024
For generations, the Olivares women have sought to control their daughters' destinies, starting with their names. In life, Olvido constantly clashed ...
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Literary Fiction
Off the Books: A Novel
by
Soma Mei Sheng Frazier
Henry Holt and Company, 07/30/2024
Recent Dartmouth dropout Mei, in search of a new direction in life, drives a limo to make ends meet. Her grandfather convinces her to allow her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Pearl: A Novel
by
Siân Hughes
Knopf, 07/30/2024
Marianne is eight years old when her mother goes missing.
Left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in a ramshackle house on the edge...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Someone Like Us: A novel
by
Dinaw Mengestu
Knopf, 07/30/2024
After abandoning his once-promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush meets Hannah—a photographer whose way of ...
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The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity
by
Timothy C. Winegard
Dutton, 07/30/2024
Timothy C. Winegard's
The Horse is an epic history unlike any other. Its story begins more than 5,500 years ago on the windswept grasslands of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World
by
Daisy Dunn
Penguin Books, 07/30/2024
Around four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women with snakes slithering on their arms. Over one thousand years...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Most
by
Jessica Anthony
Little Brown & Company, 07/30/2024
It is an unseasonably warm Sunday in November 1957. Katheen, a college tennis champion turned Delaware housewife, decides not to join her flagrantly ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Wedding People: A Novel
by
Alison Espach
Henry Holt and Company, 07/30/2024
It's a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in ...
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The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards
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Jessica Waite
Atria Books, 07/30/2024
In the midst of mourning her husband's sudden death, writer Jessica Waite discovered shocking secrets that undermined everything she thought she knew ...
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The Woman Who Lied: A Novel
by
Claire Douglas
Harper, 07/30/2024
Emilia has a dream life. But someone knows the truth ...
Emilia Ward lives in suburban London with her husband, their young son, and a teenager ...
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Thrillers
We Burn Daylight: A Novel
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Bret Anthony Johnston
Random House, 07/30/2024
Waco, Texas, 1993. People from all walks of life have arrived to follow the Lamb's gospel—signing over savings and pensions, selling their homes...
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