Inside the Mirror: A Novel
by
Parul Kapur
University of Nebraska Press, 03/01/2024
In 1950s Bombay, Jaya Malhotra studies medicine at the direction of her father, a champion of women's education who assumes the right to choose his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
by
James Kaplan
Penguin Press, 03/05/2024
The myth of the '60s depends on the 1950s being the "before times" of conformity, segregation, straightness—The Lonely Crowd and The ...
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49 Days
by
Agnes Lee
Levine Querido, 03/05/2024
Day 1
Gotta get up. Gotta keep moving. This map – it says I have to cross over here. Wait, what's that…?
And so begins a graphic ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A History of Women in 101 Objects
by
Annabelle Hirsch
Crown, 03/05/2024
This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular: a single...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
American Spirits
by
Russell Banks
Knopf, 03/05/2024
A husband sells property to a mysterious, temperamental stranger, and is hounded on social media when he publicly questions the man's character. A ...
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Anita de Monte Laughs Last: A Novel
by
Xochitl Gonzalez
Flatiron Books, 03/05/2024
1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By ...
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Big Time: A Novel
by
Ben H. Winters
Mulholland, 03/05/2024
What if time could be taken from us—the minutes, the hours, the years of our lives, extracted like organs taken for transplant? What would it ...more
Breathing Underwater
by
Abbey Lee Nash
Holiday House, 03/05/2024
Seventeen-year-old Tess Cooper lives by three rules: train hard, study hard, work hard. Swimming is her best chance at a college scholarship. It's ...
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But the Girl
by
Jessica Zhan Mei Yu
The Unnamed Press, 03/05/2024
Girl was born on the very day her parents and grandmother immigrated from Malaysia to Australia. The story goes that her mother held on tight to her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Catastrophe Ethics: How to Choose Well in a World of Tough Choices
by
Travis Rieder
Dutton, 03/05/2024
In a world of often confusing and terrifying global problems, how should we make choices in our everyday lives? Does anything on the individual level ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Change: A Novel
by
Édouard Louis
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/05/2024
One question took center stage in my life, it focused all of my thoughts and occupied every moment when I was alone with myself: how could I get this ...more
Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines
by
Carol Kino
Scribner, 03/05/2024
The McLaughlin twins were trailblazing female photographers, celebrated in their time as stars in their respective fields, but have largely been ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Ellie Haycock Is Totally Normal
by
Gretchen Schreiber
Wednesday Books, 03/05/2024
Ellie Haycock has always separated her life into sections: Ellie at home and Ellie at the hospital. At home, Ellie is a proud member of her high ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
by
Tessa Hulls
MCD, 03/05/2024
In her evocative, genre-defying graphic memoir, Tessa Hulls tells the story of three generations of women in her family: her Chinese grandmother, Sun ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Fruit of the Dead: A Novel
by
Rachel Lyon
Scribner, 03/05/2024
Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the ...
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Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson
by
James Marcus
Princeton University Press, 03/05/2024
More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the ...
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Help Wanted: A Novel
by
Adelle Waldman
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/05/2024
One of
New York Magazine's "23 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2024" • One of
VOGUE's Best Books of the Year So Far • One of
ELLE...more
Here After: A Memoir
by
Amy Lin
Zibby Books, 03/05/2024
"When he dies, I fall out of time."
Amy Lin never expected to find a love like the one she shares with her husband, Kurtis, a gifted young ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
House of Open Wounds: The Tyrant Philosophers # 2
by
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Head of Zeus, 03/05/2024
City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. As their legions scour the world...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
by
Peter Pomerantsev
Public Affairs, 03/05/2024
In the summer of 1941, Hitler ruled Europe from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. Britain was struggling to combat his powerful propaganda machine, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Knife Skills: Shadows of Chicago Mystery
by
Wendy Church
Severn House, 03/05/2024
Sagarine Pfister is a great cook but has been blacklisted by almost every restaurant in Chicago. She gets her chance at Louie's, a below-average ...
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Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives—and How We Break Free
by
Tricia Rose
Basic Books, 03/05/2024
In recent years, condemnations of racism in America have echoed from the streets to corporate boardrooms. At the same time, politicians and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Modern Poetry: Poems
by
Diane Seuss
Graywolf Press, 03/05/2024
Diane Seuss's signature voice—audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude—has become one of the most ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Never Been Better
by
Leanne Toshiko Simpson
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/05/2024
Is she falling in love, or falling apart?
Dee, Misa, and Matt were the "three musketeers" of the psych ward. A year after discharge, Dee is eager ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Parasol Against the Axe: A Novel
by
Helen Oyeyemi
Riverhead Books, 03/05/2024
In Helen Oyeyemi's joyous new novel, the Czech capital is a living thing—one that can let you in or spit you out.
For reasons of her own, ...
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Pelican Girls: A Novel
by
Julia Malye
Harper, 03/05/2024
Paris, 1720. La Salpêtrière hospital is in crisis: too many occupants, not enough beds. Halfway across the world, France's colony in the ...
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Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Say Hello to My Little Friend: A Novel
by
Jennine Capó Crucet
Simon & Schuster, 03/05/2024
Failed Pitbull impersonator Ismael Reyes—you can call him Izzy—might not be the Scarface type, but why should that keep him from trying? ...
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So You Wanna Run a Country?: A Novel
by
Kevin Holohan
Akashic Books, 03/05/2024
So You Wanna Run a Country? is a satirical parable of the perils of authoritarianism, nationalism, and device-dependent group-think. After almost a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Extinction of Irena Rey
by
Jennifer Croft
Bloomsbury Publishing, 03/05/2024
Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey, and they ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Girls We Sent Away: A Novel
by
Meagan Church
Sourcebooks, 03/05/2024
It's the 1960s and Lorraine Delford has it all - an upstanding family, a perfect boyfriend, and a white picket fence home in North Carolina. Yet every...
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The Great Divide: A Novel
by
Cristina Henriquez
Ecco, 03/05/2024
It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Hearing Test: A Novel
by
Eliza Barry Callahan
Catapult, 03/05/2024
When the narrator of
The Hearing Test, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning to a deep drone in her right ear, she is diagnosed with ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Hunter: A Novel
by
Tana French
Viking, 03/05/2024
It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. ...
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The Inmate
by
Freida McFadden
Poisoned Pen Press, 03/05/2024
As a new nurse practitioner at a maximum-security prison, Brooke Sullivan is taught three crucial rules:
Treat all prisoners with respect.
...
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Thrillers
The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City
by
Kevin Baker
Knopf, 03/05/2024
Baseball is "the New York game" because New York is where the diamond was first laid out, where the bunt and the curveball were invented, and where ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The No-Girlfriend Rule
by
Christen Randall
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 03/05/2024
Hollis Beckwith isn't trying to get a girl—she's just trying to get by. For a fat, broke girl with anxiety, the start of senior year brings ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Silver Bone: The Kyiv Mysteries #1
by
Andrey Kurkov
HarperVia, 03/05/2024
Kyiv, 1919. World War I has ended in Western Europe, but to the East, six factions continue to vie for control of Ukraine. Amidst the political ...
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The Truth of the Aleke: The Forever Desert #2
by
Moses Ose Utomi
Tor Teen, 03/05/2024
The Aleke is cruel. The Aleke is clever. The Aleke is coming.
500 years after the events of
The Lies of the Ajungo, the City of Truth stands as the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice
by
Alex Hortis
Pegasus Crime, 03/05/2024
On Christmas night, December 25, 1843, in a serene village on Staten Island, shocked neighbors discovered the burnt remains of twenty-four-year-old ...
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Waiting for the Monsoon
by
Rod Nordland
Mariner Books, 03/05/2024
For thirty years, Rod Nordland shadowed death. As one of his generation's preeminent war correspondents, he reported in over 150 countries, many of ...
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What Monstrous Gods
by
Rosamund Hodge
Balzer + Bray, 03/05/2024
Centuries ago, the heretic sorcerer Ruven raised a deadly briar around Runakhia's palace, casting the royal family into an enchanted sleep—and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
All Our Yesterdays
by
Joel H. Morris
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/12/2024
Scotland, the 11th Century. Born in a noble household and granddaughter of a forgotten Scottish king, a young girl carries the guilt of her mother's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
An End to Inequality: Breaking Down the Walls of Apartheid Education in America
by
Jonathan Kozol
The New Press, 03/12/2024
When Jonathan Kozol's
Death at an Early Age appeared in 1967, it rocked the education world. Based on the Rhodes Scholar's first year of teaching in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Ariel Crashes a Train
by
Olivia A. Cole
Labyrinth Road, 03/12/2024
Ariel is afraid of her own mind. She already feels like she is too big, too queer, too rough to live up to her parents' exacting expectations, or to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Becoming Madam Secretary
by
Stephanie Dray
Berkley Books, 03/12/2024
Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, armed with her trusty parasol and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
by
Jessica J. Lee
Catapult, 03/12/2024
A seed slips beyond a garden wall. A tree is planted on a precarious border. A shrub is stolen from its culture and its land. What happens when these ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Flight of the Wild Swan
by
Melissa Pritchard
Bellevue Literary Press, 03/12/2024
Sweeping yet intimate,
Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Fury: A Novel
by
Clyo Mendoza
Seven Stories Press, 03/12/2024
In a desert dotted with war-torn towns, Lázaro and Juan are two soldiers from opposing camps who abandon the war and, while fleeing, become ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Headshot: A Novel
by
Rita Bullwinkel
Viking, 03/12/2024
An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A family's unrelenting expectation of victory. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed up or...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Mother Doll: A Novel
by
Katya Apekina
The Overlook Press, 03/12/2024
Zhenia is adrift in Los Angeles, pregnant with a baby her husband doesn't want, while her Russian grandmother and favorite person in the world is ...
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Pride and Joy: A Novel
by
Louisa Onomé
Atria Books, 03/12/2024
Joy Okafor is overwhelmed. Recently divorced, a life coach whose phone won't stop ringing, and ever the dutiful Nigerian daughter, Joy has planned ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Reading Genesis
by
Marilynne Robinson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/12/2024
For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents, by various hands, expressing different factional ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
by
Jane Marie
Atria Books, 03/12/2024
We've all heard of Amway, Mary Kay, Tupperware, and LuLaRoe, but few know the nefarious way they and countless other multilevel marketing (MLM) ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Six Truths and a Lie
by
Ream Shukairy
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/12/2024
As fireworks pop off at a rowdy Fourth of July bonfire party, an explosion off the California coast levels an oil rig—resulting in chaos and ...
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Some Strange Music Draws Me In: A Novel
by
Griffin Hansbury
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/12/2024
It's the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel (short for Melanie) meets Sylvia, a tough-as-nails trans woman whose shameless swagger ...
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Sunbringer: Fallen Gods #2
by
Hannah Kaner
Harper Voyager, 03/12/2024
But gods cannot be destroyed so easily, and Hseth's power threatens to reform with even greater strength and a thirst for vengeance. As tensions rise ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Hedgewitch of Foxhall
by
Anna Bright
HarperTeen, 03/12/2024
Magic is fading from Wales—choked off by King Offa's Dyke, the enemy earthworks that spans the entire border. Even the dragons have disappeared....
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
by
Hala Alyan
Ecco, 03/12/2024
A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Phoenix Bride: A Novel
by
Natasha Siegel
Dell, 03/12/2024
It is 1666, one year after plague has devastated England. Young widow Cecilia Thorowgood is a prisoner, trapped and isolated within her older sister's...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon's Story of Bravery, Survival, and Hope
by
Dr. Cornelia Griggs
Gallery Books, 03/12/2024
In the spring of 2020, many of us were sequestered in our homes, attempting to teach our children and learn to bake while the pings of news alerts and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Swan's Nest: A Novel
by
Laura McNeal
Algonquin Books, 03/12/2024
On a bleak January day in 1845, a poet who had been confined to her room for four years by recurrent illness received a letter from a writer she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Werewolf at Dusk: And Other Stories
by
David Small
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 03/12/2024
Long celebrated as a modern master of graphic literature, David Small has elicited in his work comparisons to Stan Lee and even Alfred Hitchcock. His ...
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Annie Bot: A Novel
by
Sierra Greer
Mariner Books, 03/19/2024
Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Bad Animals: A Novel
by
Sarah Braunstein
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/19/2024
Now that her brilliant botanist daughter is off at college, buttoned-up Maeve Cosgrove loves her job at a quiet Maine public library more than ...
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Cancelled
by
Farrah Penn
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 03/19/2024
Not to brag, but Brynn Whittaker is basically killing her senior year. She's got the looks, the grades, and a thriving "flirt coach" business that ...
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Fervor: A Novel
by
Toby Lloyd
Avid Reader Press, 03/19/2024
Hannah and Eric Rosenthal are devout Jews living in North London with their three children and Eric's father Yosef, a Holocaust survivor. Both ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Finding Margaret Fuller: A Novel
by
Allison Pataki
Ballantine Books, 03/19/2024
Young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically brilliant, Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the celebrated Sage of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
In the Orbit of You
by
Ashley Schumacher
Wednesday Books, 03/19/2024
It's been years since Nova Evans last saw Sam. She was too young then to understand why he had to move away—and what it had to do with the cuts ...
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James: A Novel
by
Percival Everett
Doubleday, 03/19/2024
When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide ...
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No Judgment: Essays
by
Lauren Oyler
HarperOne, 03/19/2024
In her writing for
Harper's, the
London Review of Books,
The New Yorker, and elsewhere, Lauren Oyler has emerged as one of the most trenchant and ...
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Rules for Rule Breaking
by
Talia Tucker
Kokila, 03/19/2024
Winter Park and Bobby Bae are Korean American high school juniors whose families have been friends since the kids were making crayon art. They, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
by
Jason De León
Viking, 03/19/2024
Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labor all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist's Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System
by
Dante Lauretta
Grand Central Publishing, 03/19/2024
On September 11, 1999, humanity made a monumental discovery in the vastness of space. Scientists uncovered an asteroid of immense scientific ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic
by
Daniel de Visé
Atlantic Monthly Press, 03/19/2024
"They're not going to catch us," Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Jake, played by John Belushi. "We're on a mission from God." So opens...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Day Tripper: A Novel
by
James Goodhand
Mira Books, 03/19/2024
The right guy, the right place, the wrong time.
It's 1995, and Alex Dean has it all: a spot at Cambridge University next year, the love of an ...
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The Divorcees
by
Rowan Beaird
Flatiron Books, 03/19/2024
Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in ...
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The Hebrew Teacher
by
Maya Arad
New Vessel Press, 03/19/2024
When a young Hebrew literature professor joins the faculty, she finds his post-Zionist politics pose a threat to her life's work. Miriam, whose son ...
more
The Last Bloodcarver: The Last Bloodcarver Duology #1
by
Vanessa Le
Roaring Brook Press, 03/19/2024
Nhika is a bloodcarver. A coldhearted, ruthless being who can alter human biology with just a touch.
In the harsh, industrial city of Theumas, she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Mars House: A Novel
by
Natasha Pulley
Bloomsbury USA, 03/19/2024
In the wake of an environmental catastrophe, January, once a principal in London's Royal Ballet, has become a refugee in Tharsis, the terraformed ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Morningside: A Novel
by
Téa Obreht
Random House, 03/19/2024
There's the world you can see. And then there's the one you can't. Welcome to the Morningside.
After being expelled from their ancestral home in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Mystery Writer: A Novel
by
Sulari Gentill
Poisoned Pen Press, 03/19/2024
When Theodosia Benton abandons her career path as an attorney and shows up on her brother's doorstep with two suitcases and an unfinished novel, she ...
more
The Princess of Las Vegas: A Novel
by
Chris Bohjalian
Doubleday, 03/19/2024
Crissy Dowling has created a world that suits her perfectly. She passes her days by the pool in a private cabana, she splurges on ice cream but never ...
more
The Tree Doctor: A Novel
by
Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Graywolf Press, 03/19/2024
When the unnamed narrator of Marie Mutsuki Mockett's stirring second novel returns to Carmel, California, to care for her mother, she finds herself ...
more
The Understory
by
Saneh Sangsuk
Deep Vellum Publishing, 03/19/2024
The lovable, yarnspinning monk Luang Paw Tien, now in his nineties, is the last person in his village to bear witness to the power and plenitude of ...
more
Under This Red Rock
by
Mindy McGinnis
Katherine Tegan Books, 03/19/2024
Neely's monsters don't always follow her rules, so when the little girl under her bed, the man in her closet, and the disembodied voice that shadows ...
more
Where Sleeping Girls Lie
by
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Feiwel & Friends, 03/19/2024
It's like I keep stumbling into a dark room, searching for the switch to make things bright again...
Sade Hussein is starting her third year of ...
more
Who's Afraid of Gender?
by
Judith Butler
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/19/2024
Judith Butler, the groundbreaking thinker whose iconic book
Gender Trouble redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
by
Venki Ramakrishnan
William Morrow, 03/19/2024
The knowledge of death is so terrifying that we live most of our lives in denial of it. Throughout human history—from the immortal afterlife of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Wild Houses
by
Colin Barrett
Grove Press, 03/19/2024
With his acclaimed and award-winning collections
Young Skins and
Homesickness Colin Barrett cemented his reputation as one of contemporary Irish ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Wolf at the Table
by
Adam Rapp
Little Brown & Company, 03/19/2024
As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest child of a large Catholic family, meets a young man she believes ...
more
Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability
by
Michael Kimmage
Oxford University Press, 03/22/2024
In
Collisions, Michael Kimmage, a historian and former State Department official who focused on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, offers a wide-angle, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Great Country: A Novel
by
Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Mariner Books, 03/26/2024
Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family. For the Shah ...
more
An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
by
Matthew Stewart
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/26/2024
This is a story about a dangerous idea―one which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
by
Keith O'Brien
Pantheon Books, 03/26/2024
Pete Rose is a legend. A baseball god. He compiled more hits than anyone in the history of baseball, a record he set decades ago that still stands ...
more
Chronically Dolores
by
Maya Van Wagenen
Dutton for Young Readers, 03/26/2024
Dolores Mendoza is not thriving. She was recently diagnosed with a chronic bladder condition called interstitial cystitis. The painful disease isn't ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Glorious Exploits: A Novel
by
Ferdia Lennon
Henry Holt and Company, 03/26/2024
On the island of Sicily amid the Peloponnesian War, the Syracusans have figured out what to do with the surviving Athenians who had the gall to invade...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
How to Solve Your Own Murder: Castle Knoll Files #1
by
Kristen Perrin
Dutton, 03/26/2024
It's 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances's night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Icarus
by
K. Ancrum
HarperTeen, 03/26/2024
Icarus Gallagher is a thief. He steals priceless art and replaces it with his father's impeccable forgeries. For years, one man—the wealthy Mr. ...
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Like Happiness: A Novel
by
Ursula Villarreal-Moura
Celadon, 03/26/2024
It's 2015, and Tatum Vega feels that her life is finally falling into place. Living in sunny Chile with her partner, Vera, she spends her days ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Lost Man's Lane: A Novel
by
Scott Carson
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 03/26/2024
For a sixteen-year-old, a summer internship working for a private investigator seems like a dream come true—particularly since the PI is ...
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Perris, California: A Novel
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Rachel Stark
Penguin Books, 03/26/2024
Abandoned first by her father and then her mother, as a girl Tessa is left to live with her abusive stepfather and stepbrother. She survives by ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Pieces of a Girl
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Stephanie Kuehnert
Dutton for Young Readers, 03/26/2024
Told in varied narrative styles, including journal entries, original illustration, and pages torn from her actual diaries and zines, this is the ...
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Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story
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Kristine S. Ervin
Counterpoint Press, 03/26/2024
Kristine S. Ervin was just eight years old when her mother, Kathy Sue Engle, was abducted from an Oklahoma mall parking lot and violently murdered in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Says Who?: A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
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Anne Curzan
Crown, 03/26/2024
Our use of language naturally evolves and is a living, breathing thing that reflects who we are.
Says Who? offers clear, nuanced guidance that goes ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power
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Timothy W. Ryback
Knopf, 03/26/2024
In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans was unemployed. Violence was rampant. Hitler's National ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
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Jonathan Haidt
Penguin Books, 03/26/2024
In
The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
The Boy Lost in the Maze
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Joseph Coelho
Candlewick Press, 03/26/2024
Theo, a seventeen-year-old London schoolboy with a single mother, is desperate to track down the father who left them, whom he scarcely remembers. At ...
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Worry: A Novel
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Alexandra Tanner
Scribner, 03/26/2024
It's March of 2019, and twenty-eight-year-old Jules Gold—anxious, artistically frustrated, and internet-obsessed—has been living alone in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
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Madhumita Murgia
Picador, 03/28/2024
On the surface, a British poet, an UberEats courier in Pittsburgh, an Indian doctor, and a Chinese activist in exile have nothing in common. But they ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
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