The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
by
Shannon Vallor
Oxford University Press, 06/03/2024
They promise a future in which human limits and frailties are finally overcome―not by us, but by our machines.
Yet rather than open new ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR's War of Words With Charles Lindbergh and the Battle to Save Democracy
by
Paul M. Sparrow
Pegasus Books, 06/04/2024
Franklin Roosevelt awoke at 2:50 a.m. on September 1, 1939 to the news that Germany had invaded Poland, signaling the start of World War II. The ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Better Must Come
by
Desmond Hall
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 06/04/2024
Deja is a "barrel girl"—one of the Jamaican kids who get barrels full of clothes, food, and treats shipped to them from parents who have moved ...
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Literary Fiction
Blessings: A Novel
by
Chukwuebuka Ibeh
Doubleday, 06/04/2024
Obiefuna has always been the black sheep of his family—sensitive where his father, Anozie, is pragmatic, a dancer where his brother, Ekene, is a...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Blood in the Cut: A Novel
by
Alejandro Nodarse
Flatiron Books, 06/04/2024
Iggy must earn his father's lost trust in order to save La Carnicería Guerra from the threats imposed by a new rival business, a vigilante ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity
by
Ruth Whippman
Harmony Books, 06/04/2024
"Rapist, school-shooter, incel, man-child, interrupter, mansplainer, boob-starer, birthday forgetter, frat boy, dude-bro, homophobe, self-important ...more
Biography/Memoir
Bright and Tender Dark
by
Joanna Pearson
Bloomsbury USA, 06/04/2024
Days after the dawn of Y2K, beautiful, charismatic nineteen-year-old Karlie Richards is found brutally murdered in her campus apartment. Two decades ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Burn It All: A Novel
by
Maggie Auffarth
Crooked Lane Books, 06/04/2024
Marley Henderson is having the worst year of her life. First, a drunken mistake costs her everything, including her engagement and her closest friend,...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania
by
Kathryn Hughes
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 06/04/2024
In 1900, Britain and America were in the grip of a cat craze. An animal that had for centuries been seen as a household servant or urban nuisance had ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Chorus of the Union: How Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Set Aside Their Rivalry to Save the Nation
by
Edward Robert McClelland
Pegasus Books, 06/04/2024
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas are a misunderstood duo. History remembers them as antagonists, and for most of the years the two men knew each ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Daughter of the Merciful Deep
by
Leslye Penelope
Redhook, 06/04/2024
"
Our home began, as all things do, with a wish."
Jane Edwards hasn't spoken since she was eleven years old, when armed riders expelled her family...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Enlightenment: A Novel
by
Sarah Perry
Mariner Books, 06/04/2024
Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay have lived all their lives in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are ...
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Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive
by
James Parker
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/04/2024
Our politics are broken; our world is melting; the next catastrophe looms. Enter James Parker, who for years now has been writing odes of appreciation...
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Godwin: A Novel
by
Joseph O'Neill
Pantheon Books, 06/04/2024
Mark Wolfe, a brilliant if self-thwarting technical writer, lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Sushila, and their toddler daughter. His half-brother ...
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Hall of Mirrors: A Judy Nightingale and Philippa Watson Mystery
by
John Copenhaver
Pegasus Crime, 06/04/2024
In May 1954, Lionel Kane witnesses his apartment engulfed in flames with his lover and writing partner, Roger Raymond, inside. Police declare it a ...
more
Mysteries
Holy City
by
Henry Wise
Atlantic Monthly Press, 06/04/2024
After a decade of exile precipitated by the tragic death of his mother, Will Seems returns home from Richmond to rural Southern Virginia, taking a job...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
I've Tried Being Nice: Essays
by
Ann Leary
Marysue Rucci Books, 06/04/2024
Having arrived at a certain age (her prime), Ann Leary casts a wry backward glance at a life spent trying—and often failing—to be nice. ...
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If You Can't Take the Heat
by
Michael Ruhlman
Penguin Books, 06/04/2024
When high school football star Theo Claverback breaks his leg just weeks after a devastating break-up, he's forced to call an audible on his summer ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
In the Hour of Crows: A Novel
by
Dana Elmendorf
Mira Books, 06/04/2024
When called upon, she can talk the death out of the dying and save their lives—only once, never twice. But this truly unique gift comes at a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Lockjaw
by
Matteo L. Cerilli
Tundra Books, 06/04/2024
Chuck Warren died tragically at the old abandoned mill, but Paz Espino knows it was no accident — there's a monster under the town, and she's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Looking for Smoke
by
K. A. Cobell
Heartdrum, 06/04/2024
When local girl Loren includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet Giveaway to honor Loren's missing sister, Mara thinks she'll finally make some friends ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Louder Than Words
by
Ashley Woodfolk, Lexi Underwood
Scholastic, 06/04/2024
When Jordyn Jones transfers to Edgewood High, it's her opportunity to forget everything that happened at her old school. To forget what she and her ...
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Malas: A Novel
by
Marcela Fuentes
Viking, 06/04/2024
More than forty years later, Lulu Muñoz is dodging chaos at every turn: her troubled father's moods, his rules, her secret life as singer in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Mirrored Heavens: Between Earth and Sky #3
by
Rebecca Roanhorse
Simon & Schuster, 06/04/2024
Even the sea cannot stay calm before the storm. —Teek saying
Serapio, avatar of the Crow God Reborn and the newly crowned Carrion King, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood's Hidden Genius
by
Carrie Courogen
St. Martin's Press, 06/04/2024
After performing their Broadway smash
An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Elaine set out on her own. She toiled unsuccessfully on Broadway ...
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Old King: A Novel
by
Maxim Loskutoff
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/04/2024
In the summer of 1976, Duane Oshun finds himself stranded in a remote Montana town beset by a series of strange and menacing events. He takes a job as...
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Shelterwood: A Novel
by
Lisa Wingate
Ballantine Books, 06/04/2024
Oklahoma, 1909. Eleven-year-old Olive Augusta Radley knows that her stepfather doesn't have good intentions toward the two Choctaw girls boarded in ...
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Literary Fiction
Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States
by
J. Albert Mann
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/04/2024
Long before the first labor unions were formed, workers still knew what exploitation looked like. It looked like the enslavement of Black people. It ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water
by
Amorina Kingdon
Crown, 06/04/2024
For centuries, humans ignored sound in the "silent world" of the ocean, assuming that what we couldn't perceive, didn't exist. But we couldn't have ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Soldier Sailor: A Novel
by
Claire Kilroy
Scribner, 06/04/2024
Claire Kilroy takes readers deep inside the early days of motherhood. Exploring the clash of fierce love with a seismic shift in identity, Kilroy ...
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Spilled Ink
by
Nadia Hashimi
Quill Tree Books, 06/04/2024
When Yalda hears that her twin brother, Yusuf, will be performing with his band at a local venue, she lets her friends convince her to sneak out to ...
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Literary Fiction
Such a Bad Influence
by
Olivia Muenter
Quirk Books, 06/04/2024
Hazel Davis is drifting: she's stalled in her career, living in a city she hates, and less successful than her younger sister, @evelyn, a mega-popular...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Swift River
by
Essie Chambers
Simon & Schuster, 06/04/2024
But that's not the only reason Diamond stands out: she's teased relentlessly about her weight, and since Pop's been gone, she is the only Black person...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Tell Me Who You Are: A Novel
by
Louisa Luna
MCD, 06/04/2024
Brooklyn psychiatrist Dr. Caroline Strange is certain she knows what's best for her patients, her family, and pretty much everyone else, but that all ...
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The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye: A Novel
by
Briony Cameron
Atria Books, 06/04/2024
In the tumultuous town of Yáquimo, Santo Domingo, Jacquotte Delahaye is an unknown but up-and-coming shipwright. Her dreams are bold but her ...
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Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Borrowed Hills: A Novel
by
Scott Preston
Scribner, 06/04/2024
In early 2001, a lethal disease breaks out on the hill farms of northern England, emptying the valleys of sheep and filling the skies with smoke as ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
by
Thomas R. Cech
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/04/2024
For over half a century, DNA has dominated science and the popular imagination as the "secret of life." But over the last several decades, a quiet ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Coast Road: A Novel
by
Alan Murrin
HarperVia, 06/04/2024
Set in 1994,
The Coast Road tells the story of two women—Izzy Keaveney, a housewife, and Colette Crowley, a poet. Colette has left her husband ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Deep Dark: A Graphic Novel
by
Molly Knox Ostertag
Graphix, 06/04/2024
Everyone has secrets. Mags's has teeth.
Magdalena Herrera is about to graduate high school, but she already feels like an adult with serious ...
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The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America
by
Elizabeth Dias
Flatiron Books, 06/04/2024
In June 2022, Americans watched in shock as the Supreme Court reversed one of the nation's landmark rulings. For nearly a half century, Roe was ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The God and the Gumiho
by
Sophie Kim
Del Rey, 06/04/2024
Kim Hani has retired from a life of devouring souls. She is, simply put, too full. Once known as the infamous Scarlet Fox, she now spends her days ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Last Twelve Miles: A Novel
by
Erika Robuck
Sourcebooks Landmark, 06/04/2024
1926. Washington, D.C.
The Coast Guard is losing the Prohibition Rum War, but they have a new, secret weapon to crack smuggler codes, intercept ...
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Historical Fiction
The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower
by
Michel Paradis
Mariner Books, 06/04/2024
On June 6, 1944, General Dwight Eisenhower addressed the thousands of American troops preparing to invade Normandy, exhorting them to embrace the "...
more
The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports
by
Michael Waters
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/04/2024
In December 1935, Zdeněk Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women's sports, declared he was now living as a man. Around the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Pecan Children
by
Quinn Connor
Sourcebooks Landmark, 06/04/2024
How long will you hold on when your world is gone?
In a small southern pecan town, the annual harvest is a time of both celebration and heartbreak....
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Road to the Country: A Novel
by
Chigozie Obioma
Hogarth Books, 06/04/2024
Set in Nigeria in the late 1960s,
The Road to the Country is the epic story of a shy, bookish student haunted by long-held guilt who must go to war to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Secret Keeper of Main Street: A Novel
by
Trisha R. Thomas
William Morrow, 06/04/2024
1954: In the quaint town of Mendol, Oklahoma, Bailey Dowery is a Black dressmaker for the wives and daughters of local oil barons. She earns a ...
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Historical Fiction
The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers
by
Zeke Hernandez
St. Martin's Press, 06/04/2024
Immigration is one of the most controversial topics in the United States and everywhere else. Pundits, politicians, and the public usually depict ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder
by
Alan Townsend PhD
Grand Central Publishing, 06/04/2024
A decade ago, Dr. Alan Townsend's family received two unthinkable, catastrophic diagnoses: his 4-year-old daughter and his brilliant scientist wife ...
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Tidal Creatures: Alchemical Journeys #3
by
Seanan McGuire
Tor Books, 06/04/2024
New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire takes us back to the world of the award-winning Alchemical Journeys series in this action-packed ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
by
Tom McGrath
Grand Central Publishing, 06/04/2024
By the time their obituary was being written in the late 1980s, Yuppies—the elite, uber‑educated faction of the Baby Boom generation—...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Vicious and Immoral: Homosexuality, the American Revolution, and the Trials of Robert Newburgh
by
John Gilbert McCurdy
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 06/04/2024
On the eve of the American Revolution, the British army considered the case of a chaplain, Robert Newburgh, who had been accused of having sex with a ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wafers
by
Seong-nan Ha
Open Letter, 06/04/2024
A best-seller in Korea, Ha Seong-nan is one of the stars of contemporary short fiction, writing edgy, socially conscious stories that bring to mind ...
more
Short Stories
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
by
Kellie Carter Jackson
Seal Press, 06/04/2024
Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence and Malcolm X's "by any ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Welcome to Glorious Tuga
by
Francesca Segal
Chatto & Windus, 06/06/2024
Passionate about conservation and fleeing an argument with her mother, newly qualified London vet Charlotte Walker has taken up a fellowship on the ...
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Literary Fiction
A Talent for Murder: A Novel
by
Peter Swanson
William Morrow, 06/11/2024
Martha Ratliff conceded long ago that she'd likely spend her life alone. She was fine with it, happy with her solo existence, stimulated by her job as...
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All Friends Are Necessary: A Novel
by
Tomas Moniz
Algonquin Books, 06/11/2024
Efren "Chino" Flores has just moved back to the Bay Area from Seattle, jumping from sublet to sublet. In Washington, he was a beloved middle school ...
more
Consent: A Memoir
by
Jill Ciment
Pantheon Books, 06/11/2024
In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, which began in the 1970s, when she was a teenager ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation
by
Hugh Warwick
Bloomsbury USA, 06/11/2024
Across the world, invasive species pose a danger to ecosystems. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity ranks them as a major threat to biodiversity...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Getting to Know Death: A Meditation
by
Gail Godwin
Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/11/2024
Ingmar Bergman once said that an artist should always have one work between himself and death. When renowned author Gail Godwin tripped and broke her ...
more
Gretel and the Great War: A Novel
by
Adam Ehrlich Sachs
FSG Originals, 06/11/2024
Vienna, 1919. A once-mighty empire has finally come crashing down―and a mysterious young woman, unable to speak, has turned up on the streets. A...
more
Hip-Hop Is History
by
Questlove
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/11/2024
When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn't expected to become the cultural force it is today. But for a young Black kid growing up in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain
by
Peter S. Goodman
Mariner Books, 06/11/2024
How does the wealthiest country on earth run out of protective gear in the middle of a public health catastrophe? How do its parents find themselves ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Margo's Got Money Troubles: A Novel
by
Rufi Thorpe
William Morrow, 06/11/2024
As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo Millet's always known she'd have to make it on her own. So she enrolls at her local ...
more
Middletide: A Novel
by
Sarah Crouch
Atria Books, 06/11/2024
One peaceful morning, in the small, Puget Sound town of Point Orchards, the lifeless body of Dr. Erin Landry is found hanging from a tree on the ...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
One of Our Kind: A Novel
by
Nicola Yoon
Knopf, 06/11/2024
Jasmyn and King Williams move their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California hoping to find a community of like-minded people, a ...
more
Swan Song
by
Elin Hilderbrand
Little Brown & Company, 06/11/2024
Chief of Police Ed Kapenash is about to retire. Blond Sharon is going through a divorce. But when a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by the ...
more
Tehrangeles: A Novel
by
Porochista Khakpour
Pantheon Books, 06/11/2024
There's Violet, the big-hearted aspiring model; Roxanna, the chaotic influencer; Mina, the chronically-online overachiever; and the impressionable ...
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The Color of a Lie
by
Kim Johnson
Random House Books for Younger Readers, 06/11/2024
Calvin knows how to pass for white. He's done it plenty of times before. For his friends in Chicago, when they wanted food but weren't allowed in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
by
Griffin Dunne
Penguin Press, 06/11/2024
At eight, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion and uncle John ...
more
The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
by
Boyce Upholt
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/11/2024
The Mississippi River lies at the heart of America, an undeniable life force that is intertwined with the nation's culture and history. Its watershed ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Sisters K
by
Maureen Sun
The Unnamed Press, 06/11/2024
After years of estrangement, Minah, Sarah, and Esther have been forced together again. Called to their father's deathbed, the sisters must confront a ...
more
The Sons of El Rey
by
Alex Espinoza
Simon & Schuster, 06/11/2024
Ernesto Vega has lived many lives, from pig farmer to construction worker to famed luchador El Rey Coyote, yet he has always worn a mask. He was ...
more
The Stardust Grail: A Novel
by
Yume Kitasei
Flatiron Books, 06/11/2024
Maya Hoshimoto was once the best art thief in the galaxy. For ten years, she returned stolen artifacts to alien civilizations―until a disastrous...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Stars Too Fondly: A Novel
by
Emily Hamilton
Harper Voyager, 06/11/2024
So, here's the thing: Cleo and her friends really, truly didn't mean to steal this spaceship.
They just wanted to know why, twenty years ago, the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Throne: The Machiavelli Trilogy #1
by
Franco Bernini
Europa Editions, 06/11/2024
October 1502. As Cesare Borgia sets out to invade the Florentine Republic, Niccolò Machiavelli is sent to spy on him and to glean details of his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir
by
Cory Leadbeater
Ecco, 06/11/2024
As an aspiring novelist in his early twenties, Cory Leadbeater was presented with an opportunity to work for a well-known writer whose identity was ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell
by
Ann Powers
Dey Street Books, 06/11/2024
For decades, Joni Mitchell's life and music have enraptured listeners. One of the most celebrated artists of her generation, Mitchell has ...
more
Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal
by
Melissa B. Jacoby
The New Press, 06/11/2024
Bankruptcy is the busiest federal court in America. In theory, bankruptcy in America exists to cancel or restructure debts for people and companies ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance
by
Mara Kardas-Nelson
Metropolitan Books, 06/11/2024
In the mid-1970s, Muhammad Yunus, an American-trained Bangladeshi economist, met a poor female stool maker who needed money to expand her business. In...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
What Fire Brings: A Thriller
by
Rachel Howzell Hall
Thomas & Mercer, 06/11/2024
Bailey Meadows has just moved into the remote Topanga Canyon home of thriller author Jack Beckham. As his writer-in-residence, she's supposed to help ...
more
1974: A Personal History
by
Francine Prose
Harper, 06/18/2024
During her twenties, Francine Prose lived in San Francisco, where she began an intense and strange relationship with Tony Russo, who had been indicted...
more
Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and Ourselves
by
Tamsin Mather
Hanover Square Press, 06/18/2024
In this captivating book from one of the most influential geochemists in the field, Tamsin Mather takes us along on her globe-spanning excursions from...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women
by
Maggie Mertens
Algonquin Books, 06/18/2024
Despite women proving their abilities on the track time and again, men in the medical establishment, media, and athletic associations have fought to ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir
by
Priyanka Mattoo
Knopf, 06/18/2024
Priyanka Mattoo was born into a wooden house in the Himalayas, as were most of her ancestors. In 1989, however, mounting violence in the region forced...
more
Caledonian Road: A Novel
by
Andrew O'Hagan
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/18/2024
Campbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and fêted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen ...
more
Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
by
Ananda Lima
Tor Books, 06/18/2024
At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life and she writes stories for him about ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Death in the Air: A Novel
by
Ram Murali
Harper, 06/18/2024
Ro Krishna is the American son of Indian parents, educated at the finest institutions, equally at home in London's poshest clubs and on the squash ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls
by
Susan Seidelman
St. Martin's Press, 06/18/2024
Starting out in the mid-70s, a time when few women were directing movies, Susan was determined to become a filmmaker. She longed to tell stories about...
more
End of Active Service
by
Matt Young
Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/18/2024
What was it like? It's the only thing anyone wants to know about war-and the last thing Corporal Dean Pusey wants to talk about, at least not with one...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Four Squares
by
Bobby Finger
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/18/2024
In 1992, on his thirtieth birthday, Artie Anderson meets the man who will change his life. Artie spends his days at a tedious advertising job, finding...
more
God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer: A Novel
by
Joseph Earl Thomas
Grand Central Publishing, 06/18/2024
Now a doctoral student at The University, and an EMS worker at the hospital in North Philly, he encounters round the clock friends and family from his...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Hood Wellness: Tales of Communal Care from People Who Drowned on Dry Land
by
Tamela J. Gordon
Row House Publishing, 06/18/2024
Hood Wellness is also a deep exploration of people forced to overcome harrowing circumstances with little more than communal support and the will to ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Jackie: A Novel
by
Dawn Tripp
Random House, 06/18/2024
The world has divided my life into three:
Life with Jack
Life with Onassis
Life as a woman who goes to work because she wants to.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest
by
Fawn Weaver
Melcher Media, 06/18/2024
This book is a vibrant exploration set in the present day, delving into the life and legacy of Nearest Green, the African American distilling genius ...
more
Middle of the Night: A Novel
by
Riley Sager
Dutton, 06/18/2024
The worst thing to ever happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan Marsh's backyard. One July night, ten-year-old Ethan and his best friend ...
more
Thrillers
Parade: A Novel
by
Rachel Cusk
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/18/2024
Midway through his life, the artist G begins to paint upside down. Eventually, he paints his wife upside down. He also makes her ugly. The paintings ...
more
Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian
by
Dr. Amy Attas
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/18/2024
When a pet is sick, people—even the rich and famous—are at their most authentic and vulnerable. They could have a Monet on the wall and an...
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Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership
by
Brea Baker
One World, 06/18/2024
To understand the contemporary racial wealth gap, we must first unpack the historic attacks on Indigenous and Black land ownership. From the moment ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Rules for Camouflage
by
Kirstin Cronn-Mills
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 06/18/2024
Evvie Chambers is doing her best to skate through the last month of high school to graduation. The only thing standing in her way is a biology report ...
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Literary Fiction
Same As It Ever Was: A Novel
by
Claire Lombardo
Doubleday, 06/18/2024
Same As It Ever Was showcases the consummate style, signature wit, and profound emotional intelligence that made
The Most Fun We Ever Had one of the ...
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Sandwich: A Novel
by
Catherine Newman
Harper, 06/18/2024
For the past two decades, Rocky has looked forward to her family's yearly escape to Cape Cod. Their humble beach-town rental has been the site of ...
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The Glassmaker: A Novel
by
Tracy Chevalier
Viking, 06/18/2024
It is 1486 and Venice is a wealthy, opulent center for trade. Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers on Murano, the island ...
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Historical Fiction
The Memo: A Novel
by
Rachel Dodes, Lauren Mechling
Harper Perennial, 06/18/2024
Do you ever feel like your life doesn't measure up to everyone else's—and wonder if you just didn't get the memo helping you make the right ...more
The Next Mrs. Parrish: A Novel
by
Liv Constantine
Bantam Books, 06/18/2024
Amber Patterson Parrish has come a long way. Hard work and immaculate planning turned her from invisible wallflower to prominent socialite, though ...
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The Witchstone
by
Henry H. Neff
Blackstone Publishing, 06/18/2024
Meet Laszlo, eight-hundred-year-old demon and Hell's least productive Curse Keeper. From his office beneath Midtown, he oversees the Drakeford Curse, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
by
John Ganz
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/18/2024
With the Soviet Union extinct, Saddam Hussein defeated, and U.S. power at its zenith, the early 1990s promised a "kinder, gentler America." Instead, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Where Wolves Don't Die
by
Anton Treuer
Levine Querido, 06/18/2024
But Ezra hates the dirty, polluted snow around them. He hates being away from the rez at Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation. And he hates the local ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
With Love, Miss Americanah
by
Jane Igharo
Feiwel & Friends, 06/18/2024
17-year-old Enore Adesuwa doesn't dive into things, she walks in carefully. So when she, her mother, and her sister move from Nigeria to America ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
A Daughter of Fair Verona: Daughter of Montague #1
by
Christina Dodd
A John Scognamiglio Book, 06/25/2024
Once upon a time a young couple met and fell in love. You probably know that story, and how it ended (hint: badly). Only here's the thing: That's not ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue
by
Dean Jobb
Algonquin Books, 06/25/2024
A skilled con artist and one of the most successful burglars in history, Arthur Barry was adept at slipping in and out of bedrooms undetected, ...
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All the Colors of the Dark
by
Chris Whitaker
Crown, 06/25/2024
1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, ...
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At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China
by
Edward Wong
Viking, 06/25/2024
The son of Chinese immigrants in Washington, DC, Edward Wong grew up among family secrets. His father toiled in Chinese restaurants and rarely spoke ...
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Bear: A Novel
by
Julia Phillips
Hogarth Books, 06/25/2024
They were sisters and they would last past the end of time.
Sam and Elena dream of another life. On the island off the coast of Washington where ...
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Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
by
Ferris Jabr
Random House, 06/25/2024
One of humanity's oldest beliefs is that our world is alive. Though once ridiculed by some scientists, the idea of Earth as a vast interconnected ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
by
Emily Nussbaum
Random House, 06/25/2024
In this revelatory, deeply reported account of the rise of "dirty documentary"—from its contentious roots in radio to the ascent of Donald Trump...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy
by
Simon Wu
Harper, 06/25/2024
In Robyn's 2010 track
Dancing on My Own, the Swedish pop-singer chronicles a night on the dance floor in the shadow of a former lover. She is bitter, ...
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Don't Let the Devil Ride: A Novel
by
Ace Atkins
William Morrow, 06/25/2024
Hell is empty…and Addison McKellar's husband is missing.
Addison McKellar isn't clueless—she knows she and her husband Dean don't have ...
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Foul Days: The Witch's Compendium of Monsters #1
by
Genoveva Dimova
Tor Books, 06/25/2024
As a witch in the walled city of Chernograd, Kosara has plenty of practice treating lycanthrope bites, bargaining with kikimoras, and slaying ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Girls Like Her
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Melanie Sumrow
Balzer + Bray, 06/25/2024
A wealthy businessman is dead, and fifteen-year-old Ruby Monroe is in a Dallas jail awaiting trial for his murder. Ruby has no one she can count on&#...
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Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory
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Solomon J. Brager
William Morrow, 06/25/2024
Solomon Brager grew up with accounts of their great-grandparents' escape from Nazi Germany, told over and over until their understanding of self was ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Hey, Zoey
by
Sarah Crossan
Little Brown & Company, 06/25/2024
43-year-old Dolores O'Shea is logical, organized, and prepared to handle whatever comes her way. She keeps up with her job and housework, takes care ...
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Hombrecito: A Novel
by
Santiago Jose Sanchez
Riverhead Books, 06/25/2024
In this groundbreaking novel, Santiago Jose Sanchez plunges us into the heart of one boy's life. His mother takes him and his brother from Colombia to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Honey: A Novel
by
Isabel Banta
Celadon, 06/25/2024
It is 1997, and Amber Young has received a life-changing call. It's a chance thousands of girls would die for: the opportunity to join girl group ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
How the Light Gets In: A Novel
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Joyce Maynard
William Morrow, 06/25/2024
Following the death of her former husband, Cam, fifty-four-year-old Eleanor has moved back to the New Hampshire farm where they raised three children ...
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Husbands & Lovers: A Novel
by
Beatriz Williams
Ballantine Books, 06/25/2024
New England, 2022. Three years ago, single mother Mallory Dunne received the telephone call every parent dreads—her ten-year-old son, Sam, had ...
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Joe Hustle: A Novel
by
Richard Lange
Mulholland, 06/25/2024
Joe Hustle is a survivor. A Gulf War vet and ex-con always one stumble away from catastrophe, he manages to scrape together enough money from various ...
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Last Date in El Zapotal
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Mateo García Elizondo
Charco Press, 06/25/2024
This is a ghost story. A junkie has gone to El Zapotal to die – to rent a room in this crumbling backwater, melt into one last fix, and not...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Moral Injuries: A Novel
by
Christie Watson
Harper, 06/25/2024
When you're trained to protect the lives of others, how far will you go to protect your own?
Ruthlessly ambitious Olivia, anxious perfectionist ...
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Practice: A Novel
by
Rosalind Brown
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/25/2024
Rosalind Brown's
Practice shows us just one day. Annabel, sitting in her small student room, attempts to write an essay about Shakespeare. She follows...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Russian Gothic
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Aleksandr Skorobogatov
Rare Bird, 06/25/2024
Russian Gothic is a dark tale of the descent into paranoia and violence of Nikolai, a veteran of the Soviet-Afghan war. When a mysterious figure,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Shanghai: A Novel
by
Joseph Kanon
Scribner, 06/25/2024
After the violence of Kristallnacht (1938), European Jews, now desperate to emigrate, found the consular doors of the world closed to them. Only one ...
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Sleep Like Death
by
Kalynn Bayron
Bloomsbury YA, 06/25/2024
Princess Eve was raised with one purpose: to destroy the Knight. Far too many of subjects of Queen's Bridge have been devastated by this evil sorcerer...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water
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Vicki Valosik
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 06/25/2024
If you're not strong enough to swim fast, you're probably not strong enough to swim 'pretty,'" said a young Esther Williams to theater impresario ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
by
Olivia Laing
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/25/2024
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an 18th century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a ...
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The Lions' Den: A Novel
by
Iris Mwanza
Graydon House, 06/25/2024
When young queer dancer Wilbess "Bessy" Mulenga is arrested by corrupt police, fresh-from-the-village rookie lawyer Grace Zulu takes up his cause in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
by
Ray Kurzweil
Viking, 06/25/2024
Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil's
The Singularity Is Near and its vision of an exponential future have spawned a worldwide movement...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Trust Her: A Novel
by
Flynn Berry
Viking, 06/25/2024
Three years after they narrowly escaped the IRA's worst punishment for informing, Northern Irish sisters Tessa and Marian Daly have built a new life ...
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Woman of Interest: A Memoir
by
Tracy O'Neill
HarperOne, 06/25/2024
In 2020, Tracy O'Neill began to rethink her ideas of comfort and safety. Just out of a ten-year relationship and thirtysomething, she was driven by an...
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