No Son of Mine: A Memoir (Appalachian Futures Black Native & Queer Voices)
by
Jonathan Corcoran
University Press of Kentucky, 04/01/2024
Born and raised in rural West Virginia, Jonathan Corcoran was the youngest and only son of three siblings in a family balanced on the precipice of ...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
A Chance to Harmonize: How FDR's Hidden Music Unit Sought to Save America from the Great Depression-One Song at a Time
by
Sheryl Kaskowitz
Pegasus Books, 04/02/2024
In 1934, the Great Depression had destroyed the US economy, leaving residents poverty-stricken. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt urged President Roosevelt...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Good Happy Girl: A Novel
by
Marissa Higgins
Catapult, 04/02/2024
Helen, a jittery attorney with a self-destructive streak, is secretly reeling from a disturbing crime of neglect that her parents recently committed. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Short Walk Through a Wide World: A Novel
by
Douglas Westerbeke
Avid Reader Press, 04/02/2024
Paris, 1885: Aubry Tourvel, a spoiled and stubborn nine-year-old girl, comes across a wooden puzzle ball on her walk home from school. She tosses it ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
by
Becca Rothfeld
Metropolitan Books, 04/02/2024
In her debut essay collection, "brilliant and stylish" (
The Washington Post) critic Becca Rothfeld takes on one of the most sacred cows of our time: ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Ash Dark as Night: A Harry Ingram Mystery
by
Gary Phillips
Soho Press, 04/02/2024
Los Angeles, August 1965. Anger and pent-up frustrations boil over in the Watts neighborhood after a traffic stop of two Black motorists. As the Watts...
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Mysteries
City in Ruins: Danny Ryan Trilogy #3
by
Don Winslow
William Morrow, 04/02/2024
Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love.
Danny Ryan is rich.
Beyond his wildest dreams rich.
The former dock ...
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City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
by
Megan Kimble
Crown, 04/02/2024
Every major American city has a highway tearing through its center. Seventy years ago, planners sold these highways as progress, essential to our ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Clear: A Novel
by
Carys Davies
Scribner, 04/02/2024
John, an impoverished Scottish minister, has accepted a job evicting the lone remaining occupant of an island north of Scotland—Ivar, who has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Every Time You Hear That Song
by
Jenna Voris
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 04/02/2024
They say never meet your idols. But nothing about digging up their deepest secrets.
Seventeen-year-old aspiring journalist Darren Purchase has been...
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Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland
by
Henry Hemming
Public Affairs, 04/02/2024
The search for justice for this one man's death—his body found in broad daylight, with tape over his eyes, an undisguised hit—would ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Habitations: A Novel
by
Sheila Sundar
Little Simon, 04/02/2024
Vega Gopalan is adrift. Still reeling from the death of her sister years earlier, she leaves South India to attend graduate school at Columbia ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery
by
Earl Swift
Mariner Books, 04/02/2024
On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
I Cheerfully Refuse
by
Leif Enger
Atlantic Monthly Press, 04/02/2024
A storyteller "of great humanity and huge heart" (
Minneapolis Star Tribune), Leif Enger debuted in the literary world with
Peace Like a River which ...
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Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves
by
J. Drew Lanham
Hub City Press, 04/02/2024
In gorgeous and timely pieces,
Joy Is the Justice We Give Ourselves is a lush journey into wildness and Black being. Lanham notices nature through ...
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Like Love: Essays and Conversations
by
Maggie Nelson
Graywolf Press, 04/02/2024
Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, ...
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Made Glorious
by
Lindsay Eagar
Candlewick Press, 04/02/2024
Rory is an antihero for the ages. Like Shakespeare's
Richard III, she confides in her audience, telling us exactly the lengths she'll go to to secure ...
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Missing Persons: or, My Grandmother's Secrets
by
Clair Wills
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/02/2024
When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met. Born in a mother-and-baby home in 1950s Ireland, Mary grew up...
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One by One
by
Freida McFadden
Poisoned Pen Press, 04/02/2024
Claire Matchett needs this trip. It will be a break from work and raising children. A chance to repair her damaged marriage. A week of hiking and hot ...
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Thrillers
Something Kindred
by
Ciera Burch
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/02/2024
Welcome to Coldwater. Come for the ghosts, stay for the drama.
Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior year soaking up the sun...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
Still As Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon, from Antiquity to Tomorrow
by
Christopher Cokinos
Pegasus Books, 04/02/2024
"When the Moon rises between buildings or over trees, it's not just a beautiful light: It's an archive of human longing, fear and adventure. The Moon ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Table for Two: Fictions
by
Amor Towles
Viking, 04/02/2024
Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in ...
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The Black Girl Survives in This One: Horror Stories
by
Desiree S. Evans
Flatiron Books, 04/02/2024
Be warned, dear reader:
The Black girls survive in this one.
Celebrating a new generation of bestselling and acclaimed Black writers,
The Black ...more
The Breakup Lists
by
Adib Khorram
Dial Books, 04/02/2024
Jackson Ghasnavi is a lot of things—a techie, a smoothie afficionado, a totally not obsessive list-maker—but one thing he's not is a ...
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The Cemetery of Untold Stories: A Novel
by
Julia Alvarez
Algonquin Books, 04/02/2024
Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of
The Cemetery of Untold Stories, doesn't want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long...
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The Father She Went to Find: A Novel
by
Carter Wilson
Poisoned Pen Press, 04/02/2024
Penny has never met anyone smarter than her. That's par for the course when you're a savant—one of less than one hundred in the world. But ...
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The House on Biscayne Bay
by
Chanel Cleeton
Berkley Books, 04/02/2024
With the Great War finally behind them, many Americans flock to South Florida with their sights set on making a fortune. When wealthy industrialist ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
by
Stefanos Geroulanos
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 04/02/2024
Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Murder of Mr. Ma
by
John Shen Yen Nee and SJ Rozan
Soho Press, 04/02/2024
Two unlikely allies race through the cobbled streets of 1920s London in search of a killer targeting Chinese immigrants.
London, 1924. When shy ...
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The Night in Question: A Novel
by
Susan Fletcher
Union Square & Co., 04/02/2024
Florrie Butterfield—eighty-seven, one-legged, and of cheerful disposition—believes there can't be any more adventures or surprises in life...
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The Sicilian Inheritance: A Novel
by
Jo Piazza
Dutton, 04/02/2024
Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage. On top of that, her beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Stone Home: A Novel
by
Crystal Hana Kim
William Morrow, 04/02/2024
In 2011, Eunju Oh opens her door to greet a stranger: a young Korean American woman holding a familiar-looking knife—a knife Eunju hasn't seen ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Village Weavers
by
Myriam JA Chancy
Tin House Books, 04/02/2024
In 1940s' Port-au-Prince, Gertie and Sisi become fast childhood friends, despite being on opposite ends of the social and economic ladder. As young ...
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We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
by
Lydia Millet
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/02/2024
Across more than a dozen acclaimed works of fiction, readers have become intimate with Lydia Millet's distinctive voice and sly wit.
We Loved It All, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Canto Contigo: A Novel
by
Jonny Garza Villa
Wednesday Books, 04/09/2024
In a twenty-four-hour span, Rafael Alvarez led North Amistad High School's Mariachi Alma de la Frontera to their eleventh consecutive first-place win ...
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Daughter of Mine: A Novel
by
Megan Miranda
Marysue Rucci Books, 04/09/2024
When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town&#...
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Death in the Details: A Novel
by
Katie Tietjen
Crooked Lane Books, 04/09/2024
Maple Bishop is ready to put WWII and the grief of losing her husband, Bill, behind her. But when she discovers that Bill left her penniless, Maple ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Dragonfruit
by
Makiia Lucier
Clarion, 04/09/2024
In the old tales, it is written that the egg of a seadragon, dragonfruit, holds within it the power to undo a person's greatest sorrow. An unwanted ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Fi: A Memoir of My Son
by
Alexandra Fuller
Grove Press, 04/09/2024
"Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday." And so begins Alexandra Fuller's open, vivid new memoir,
Fi. It's ...
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Grey Dog
by
Elliott Gish
ECW Press, 04/09/2024
The year is 1901, and Ada Byrd — spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist — accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful for...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man
by
Nicholas Shakespeare
Harper, 04/09/2024
Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, ...
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
by
Kathleen DuVal
Random House, 04/09/2024
Long before the colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adapted to a changing world in ways that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Rangikura: Poems
by
Tayi Tibble
Knopf, 04/09/2024
Tayi Tibble returns on the heels of her incendiary debut with a bold new follow-up. Barbed and erotic, vulnerable and searching, Rangikura asks ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Somehow: Thoughts on Love
by
Anne Lamott
Riverhead Books, 04/09/2024
"Love is our only hope," Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. "It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the ...
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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
by
Amanda Montell
Atria Books, 04/09/2024
Utilizing the linguistic insights of her "witty and brilliant" (Blyth Roberson, author of
America the Beautiful?) first book
Wordslut and the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The British Booksellers
by
Kristy Cambron
Thomas Nelson, 04/09/2024
A tenant farmer's son had no business daring to dream of a future with an earl's daughter, but that couldn't keep Amos Darby from his secret ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Familiar: A Novel
by
Leigh Bardugo
Flatiron Books, 04/09/2024
In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Garden: A Novel
by
Clare Beams
Doubleday, 04/09/2024
In 1948, Irene Willard, who's had five previous miscarriages in a quest to give her beloved husband the child he desperately desires and is now ...
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The House of Broken Bricks: A Novel
by
Fiona Williams
Henry Holt and Company, 04/09/2024
Tess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in the city to the English countryside, where predatory ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Limits: A Novel
by
Nell Freudenberger
Knopf, 04/09/2024
From Mo'orea, a tiny volcanic island off the coast of Tahiti, a French biologist obsessed with saving Polynesia's imperiled coral reefs sends her ...
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The Sleepwalkers: A Novel
by
Scarlett Thomas
Simon & Schuster, 04/09/2024
Still reeling from the chaos of their wedding, Evelyn and Richard arrive on a tiny Greek island for their honeymoon. It's the end of the season and a ...
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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
by
Hampton Sides
Doubleday, 04/09/2024
On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the
HMS ...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Widow Spy: A Novel
by
Megan Campisi
Atria Books, 04/09/2024
Kate Warne is many things: the country's first female detective, a Pinkerton agent, and a union spy.
It's August 1861, and her latest assignment ...
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Thrillers
The Wives: A Memoir
by
Simone Gorrindo
Gallery/Scout Press, 04/09/2024
When her new husband joins an elite Army unit, Simone Gorrindo is uprooted from New York City and dropped into Columbus, Georgia—a town so ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
by
Norman Ohler
Mariner Books, 04/09/2024
Berlin 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use—long kept under control by the Nazis' strict anti-drug laws—is rampant ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Kind of Madness
by
Uche Okonkwo
Tin House Books, 04/16/2024
A teenage girl from a poor family is dazzled by her rich, vivacious friend, but as the friend's behavior grows unstable and dangerous, she must decide...
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After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations (Turning Points in Ancient History # 2)
by
Eric H. Cline
Princeton University Press, 04/16/2024
At the end of the acclaimed history
1177 B.C., many of the Late Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean lay in ruins, undone ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
by
Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger
St. Martin's Press, 04/16/2024
For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. But ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
by
Alua Arthur
Mariner Books, 04/16/2024
For her clients and everyone who has been inspired by her humanity, Alua Arthur is a friend at the end of the world. As our country's leading death ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever
by
Rachel Lance
Dutton, 04/16/2024
This is the previously classified story of one group of scientific researchers—men and women—who exposed themselves to extraordinary risks...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Chipped: Writing from a Skateboarder's Lens
by
José Vadi
Soft Skull Press, 04/16/2024
Chipping a board—where small pieces of deck and tape break off around the nose and tail—is a natural part of skateboarding. Novice or pro,...
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Close to Death: A Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery #5
by
Anthony Horowitz
Harper, 04/16/2024
Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far away from the noise and grime of city life, ...
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Dear Wendy
by
Ann Zhao
Feiwel & Friends, 04/16/2024
Sophie Chi is in her first year of college (though her parents wish she'd attend a "real" university rather than a liberal arts school) and has long ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Did I Ever Tell You?: A Memoir
by
Genevieve Kingston
Marysue Rucci Books, 04/16/2024
Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston was just eleven years old when her mother passed away, leaving behind a chest filled with gifts and letters to celebrate the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
by
Will Cockrell
Gallery Books, 04/16/2024
Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer's
Into Thin Air or has seen a recent photo of climbers standing in line to get to the top of Everest may think they ...
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Henry Henry
by
Allen Bratton
The Unnamed Press, 04/16/2024
Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere...
It's London, 2014, and Hal Lancaster, son and heir of Henry, Duke of Lancaster, is in a holding ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Honey: A Novel
by
Victor Lodato
Harper, 04/16/2024
As a rebellious teenager, Honey managed to escape her father's circle of influence and reinvent herself in a world of art and beauty, working for a ...
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Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
by
Sofia Samatar
Tor Books, 04/16/2024
The boy was raised as one of the Chained, condemned to toil in the bowels of a mining ship out among the stars. His whole world changes—...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Alternatives: A Novel
by
Caoilinn Hughes
Riverhead Books, 04/16/2024
The Flattery sisters were plunged prematurely into adulthood when their parents died in tragic circumstances. Now in their thirties—all single, ...
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The Book of Secrets: A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China
by
Xinran Xue
Bloomsbury Continuum, 04/16/2024
Following the lives of military intelligence officer Jie and his wife Moon,
The Book of Secrets weaves recently found material into a narrative that ...
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Historical Fiction
The Spoiled Heart: A Novel
by
Sunjeev Sahota
Viking, 04/16/2024
Nayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town. She's returned with her teenage son to live in the run-down house at the end of the lane, and&#...
more
The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing
by
Adam Moss
Penguin Books, 04/16/2024
What is the work of art? In this guided tour inside the artist's head, Adam Moss traces the evolution of transcendent novels, paintings, jokes, movies...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
This Part Is Silent: A Life Between Cultures
by
SJ Kim
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/16/2024
Born in Korea, raised in the American South, and trying her best to survive British academia, SJ Kim probes her experiences as a writer, a scholar, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Weird Black Girls: Stories
by
Elwin Cotman
Scribner, 04/16/2024
A rural town finds itself under the authoritarian sway of a tree that punishes children. A pair of old friends navigate their fraught history as ...
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Black Bell
by
Alison C. Rollins
Copper Canyon Press, 04/23/2024
Inspired by the nineteenth century image of an enslaved woman wearing iron horns and bells, Alison C. Rollins's
Black Bell continues an exploration of...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
Dark Parts of the Universe
by
Samuel Miller
Katherine Tegan Books, 04/23/2024
In Calico Springs, Willie's life has been defined by two powerful forces: God and the river. The "miracle boy" died for five minutes as a young child,...
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Extinction: A Novel
by
Douglas Preston
Forge Books, 04/23/2024
Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly ...
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Homebody
by
Theo Parish
HarperAlley, 04/23/2024
Combining traditional comics with organic journal-like interludes, Theo takes us through their experiences with the hundred arbitrary and unspoken ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Huddud's House: A Novel
by
Fadi Azzam
Interlink Books, 04/23/2024
How far is love willing to travel in search of its own lost voice?
When tyranny unleashes destructive forces that threaten to overwhelm a country, ...
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I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays
by
Nell Irvin Painter
Doubleday, 04/23/2024
Throughout her prolific writing career, Nell Painter has published works on such luminaries as Sojourner Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Malcolm X. ...
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Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution
by
Anne Higonnet
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/23/2024
Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of...
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Lucky: A Novel
by
Jane Smiley
Knopf, 04/23/2024
Before Jodie Rattler became a star, she was a girl growing up in St. Louis. One day in 1955, when she was just six years old, her uncle Drew took her ...
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Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals
by
Bill Wasik
Knopf, 04/23/2024
Over just a few decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the United States underwent a moral revolution on behalf of animals. Before the Civil ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Reboot: A Novel
by
Justin Taylor
Pantheon Books, 04/23/2024
David Crader is a has-been. A former child actor from the hit teen drama Rev Beach, he now rotates between his new roles as deadbeat dad, recovering ...
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Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
by
Judi Dench
St. Martin's Griffin, 04/23/2024
- Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig...
- Cavorting naked through the Warwickshire countryside painted green...
- Acting ...
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Song of the Six Realms
by
Judy I. Lin
Feiwel & Friends, 04/23/2024
Xue, a talented young musician, has no past and probably no future. Orphaned at a young age, her kindly poet uncle took her in and arranged for an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Everything War: Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power
by
Dana Mattioli
Little Brown & Company, 04/23/2024
In 2017, Lina Khan published a paper that accused Amazon of being a monopoly, having grown so large, and embedded in so many industries, it was akin ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Flower Sisters
by
Michelle Collins Anderson
A John Scognamiglio Book, 04/23/2024
Drawing on the little-known true story of one tragic night at an Ozarks dance hall in the author's Missouri hometown, this beautifully written, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union
by
Stephen Puleo
St. Martin's Griffin, 04/23/2024
In the tempestuous mid-19th century, as slavery consumed Congressional debate and America careened toward civil war and split apart–when the ...
more
The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters
by
Susan Page
Simon & Schuster, 04/23/2024
Barbara Walters was a force from the time TV was exploding on the American scene in the 1960s to its waning dominance in a new world of competition ...
more
The Sky Was Ours: A Novel
by
Joe Fassler
Penguin Books, 04/23/2024
It's 2005, and 24-year-old Jane is miserable. Overworked, buried in debt, she senses the life she wanted slipping away—while the world around ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Whole Staggering Mystery: A Story of Fathers Lost and Found
by
Sylvia Brownrigg
Counterpoint Press, 04/23/2024
When Sylvia Brownrigg received a package addressed to her father that had been lost for over fifty years, she wanted to deliver it to him before it ...
more
The Wings Upon Her Back
by
Samantha Mills
Tachyon Publications, 04/23/2024
Zenya was a teenager when she ran away from home to join the mechanically-modified warrior sect. She was determined to earn mechanized wings and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Wild Dreamers
by
Margarita Engle
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 04/23/2024
Ana and her mother have been living out of their car ever since her militant father became one of the FBI's most wanted. Leandro has struggled with ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Agent A12 and the Solving of the Holocaust Code
by
Jason Bell
Pegasus Books, 04/30/2024
In public life, Dr. Winthrop Bell was a Harvard philosophy professor and wealthy businessman.
As an MI6 spy—known as secret agent A12—...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Crow Talk: A Novel
by
Eileen Garvin
Dutton, 04/30/2024
Frankie O'Neill and Anne Ryan would seem to have nothing in common. Frankie is a lonely ornithologist struggling to salvage her dissertation on the ...
more
I'll Be Waiting for You
by
Mariko Turk
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 04/30/2024
Natalie and Imogen are inseparable, and wildly different—Imogen is infuriatingly humble and incredibly intelligent, while Natalie is brave, ...
more
In Universes: A Novel
by
Emet North
Harper, 04/30/2024
Raffi works in an observational cosmology lab, searching for dark matter and trying to hide how little they understand their own research. Every ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Not Like Other Girls
by
Meredith Adamo
Bloomsbury YA, 04/30/2024
When Jo-Lynn Kirby 's former best friend-pretty, nice Maddie Price-comes to her claiming to be in trouble, Jo assumes it's some kind of joke. After ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Only the Brave: A Novel
by
Danielle Steel
Delacorte Press, 04/30/2024
Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, ...
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Historical Fiction
Profiles in Mental Health Courage
by
Patrick J. Kennedy
Dutton, 04/30/2024
Several years ago, Patrick J. Kennedy shared the story of his personal and family challenges with mental illness and addiction—and the nation's&...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Real Americans: A Novel
by
Rachel Khong
Knopf, 04/30/2024
Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets ...
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
by
Erik Larson
Crown, 04/30/2024
On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Funeral Cryer: A Novel
by
Wenyan Lu
Hanover Square Press, 04/30/2024
The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job and ...
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The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
by
Karen Valby
Pantheon Books, 04/30/2024
At the height of the Civil Rights movement, Lydia Abarca was a Black prima ballerina with a major international dance company—the Dance Theatre ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
What's Eating Jackie Oh?
by
Patricia Park
Crown Books for Young Readers, 04/30/2024
Jackie Oh is done being your model minority.
She's tired of perfect GPAs, PSATs, SATs, all of it. Jackie longs to become a professional chef. But...
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