A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
by
Tia Williams
Grand Central Publishing, 02/06/2024
Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. And for some, even a single February can be life-changing.
Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a ...
more
Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir
by
Walela Nehanda
Kokila, 02/06/2024
When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into the unsympathetic world of tubes and pills, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Bright Red Fruit
by
Safia Elhillo
Make Me a World, 02/06/2024
Bad girl. No matter how hard Samira tries, she can't shake her reputation. She's never gotten the benefit of the doubt—not from her mother or ...
more
Burma Sahib: A Novel
by
Paul Theroux
Mariner Books, 02/06/2024
At age nineteen, young Eton graduate Eric Blair set sail for India, dreading the assignment ahead. Along with several other young conscripts, he would...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Cahokia Jazz: A Novel
by
Francis Spufford
Scribner, 02/06/2024
Like his earlier novel
Golden Hill, Francis Spufford's
Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, now through the lens of a subtly altered ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons
by
Sarah Scoles
Bold Type Books, 02/06/2024
Nuclear weapons are, today, as important as they were during the Cold War, and some experts say we could be as close to a nuclear catastrophe now as ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Dead Girls Don't Say Sorry
by
Alex Ritany
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 02/06/2024
Friendship, at least for me, has never been anything but complicated.
Before:
One year ago, best friends Nora and Julia were starting their senior...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
by
Tania De Rozario
Harper Perennial, 02/06/2024
Tania De Rozario was just twelve years old when she was gay-exorcised. Convinced that her boyish style and demeanor were a sign of something wicked, ...
more
Even If It Breaks Your Heart: A Novel
by
Erin Hahn
Wednesday Books, 02/06/2024
The only thing keeping nineteen-year-old Case Michaels together after the death of his best friend, Walker, is a list Walker left behind of things he ...
more
Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories
by
GennaRose Nethercott
Vintage, 02/06/2024
The stories in
Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart are about the abomination that resides within us all. That churning, clawing, ravenous yearning: the ...
more
Float Up, Sing Down
by
Laird Hunt
Bloomsbury Publishing, 02/06/2024
Candy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika. Turner Davis needs to get his zinnias in. Della Dorner told her mother she was going to the Galaxy ...
more
Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
by
Bianca Bosker
Viking, 02/06/2024
An award-winning journalist obsessed with obsession, Bianca Bosker's existence was upended when she wandered into the art world—and couldn't ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir
by
Shayla Lawson
Tiny Reparations, 02/06/2024
In their new book, Shayla Lawson reveals how traveling can itself be a political act, when it can be a dangerous world to be Black, femme, nonbinary, ...
more
Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
by
Ruha Benjamin
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/06/2024
A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn't strangle the life out of people? ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Infinity Alchemist: Infinity Alchemist # 1
by
Kacen Callender
Tor Teen, 02/06/2024
For Ash Woods, practicing alchemy is a crime.
Only an elite few are legally permitted to study the science of magic—so when Ash is rejected ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Last Seen in Havana: Havana Mysteries
by
Teresa Dovalpage
Soho Crime, 02/06/2024
Newly widowed baker Mercedes Spivey flies from Miami to her native Cuba in 2019 to care for her ailing paternal grandmother. Mercedes's life has been ...
more
Livin' Just to Find Emotion: Journey and the Story of American Rock
by
David Hamilton Golland
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 02/06/2024
Since exploding on the scene in the late 1970s, Journey has inspired generations of fans with hit after hit. But hidden under this rock 'n' roll glory...
more
Nightwatching: A Novel
by
Tracy Sierra
Pamela Dorman Books, 02/06/2024
Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. She hears a noise—old ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Ordinary Human Failings: A Novel
by
Megan Nolan
Little Brown & Company, 02/06/2024
It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants" —...
more
Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
by
Allen C. Guelzo
Knopf, 02/06/2024
Abraham Lincoln grappled with the greatest crisis of democracy that has ever confronted the United States. While many books have been written about ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Out of Body
by
Nia Davenport
Balzer + Bray, 02/06/2024
Seventeen-year-old Megan Allen has been jumping from friend group to friend group in her high school, trying on identities like outfits. Nothing ever ...
more
Praiseworthy
by
Alexis Wright
New Directions Publishing, 02/06/2024
In a small town in the north of Australia, a mysterious cloud heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors. A crazed ...
more
Redwood Court: Fiction
by
DéLana R. A. Dameron
The Dial Press, 02/06/2024
"Mika, you sit at our feet all these hours and days, hearing us tell our tales. You have all these stories inside you: all the stories everyone in our...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Significant Others: A Novel
by
Zoë Eisenberg
Mira Books, 02/06/2024
Roommates since college, Jess and Ren have built a strong—if at times codependent—friendship. Now navigating their late thirties, the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Smoke Kings
by
Jahmal Mayfield
Melville House, 02/06/2024
Nate Evers, a young black political activist, struggles with rage as his people are still being killed in the streets 62 years after Emmett Till. When...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Absinthe Underground
by
Jamie Pacton
Peachtree Publishers, 02/06/2024
After running away from home, Sybil Clarion is eager to embrace all the freedom the Belle Époque city of Severon has to offer. Instead, she's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Adversary: A Novel
by
Michael Crummey
Doubleday, 02/06/2024
In an isolated outport on Newfoundland's northern coastline, Abe Strapp is about to marry the daughter of a rival merchant to cement his hold on the ...
more
The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
by
Michael Wolraich
Union Square & Co., 02/06/2024
Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The End of Love: Sex and Desire in the Twenty-First Century
by
Tamara Tenenbaum
Europa Editions, 02/06/2024
Born and raised in an Orthodox Jewish community in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tamara Tenenbaum approached the sexual and affective habits of the secular...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature
by
Ludovic Slimak
Pegasus Books, 02/06/2024
What do we really know about our cousins, the Neanderthals?
For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. More recently, the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Road from Belhaven: A Novel
by
Margot Livesey
Knopf, 02/06/2024
Growing up in the care of her grandparents on Belhaven Farm, Lizzie Craig discovers as a small child that she can see into the future. But her gift is...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster
by
John O’Connor
Sourcebooks, 02/06/2024
Bigfoot is an instantly recognizable figure. Through the decades, this elusive primate has been featured in movies and books, on coffee mugs, beer ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Tainted Cup
by
Robert Jackson Bennett
Del Rey, 02/06/2024
In Daretana's greatest mansion, a high imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a tree erupted from his body. Even here at ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Teacher
by
Freida McFadden
Poisoned Pen Press, 02/06/2024
Lesson #1: trust no one
Eve has a good life. She gets up each day, gets a kiss from her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high...
more
The Thefts of the Mona Lisa: The Complete Story of the World's Most Famous Artwork
by
Noah Charney
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 02/06/2024
Leonardo da Vinci's portrait, called the Mona Lisa, is without doubt the world's most famous painting. It achieved its fame not only because it is a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Things We Didn't Know
by
Elba Iris Pérez
Gallery Books, 02/06/2024
Andrea Rodríguez is nine years old when her mother whisks her and her brother, Pablo, away from Woronoco, the tiny Massachusetts factory town ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Women: A Novel
by
Kristin Hannah
St. Martin's Press, 02/06/2024
"Women can be heroes, too."
When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised...
more
Trondheim
by
Cormac James
Bellevue Literary Press, 02/06/2024
In Norway, thousands of miles from home, a student drops dead on the street. A passerby revives his heart, but he remains in a coma from which he may ...
more
Ways and Means: A Novel
by
Daniel Lefferts
The Overlook Press, 02/06/2024
Alistair McCabe comes to New York with a plan. Young, handsome, intelligent, and gay, he hopes to escape his Rust Belt poverty and give his mother a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
You Glow in the Dark
by
Liliana Colanzi
New Directions Publishing, 02/06/2024
The seven stories of
You Glow in the Dark unfold in a Latin America wrecked and poisoned by human greed, and yet Colanzi's writing—at once sleek...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging
by
Lauren Markham
Riverhead Books, 02/13/2024
When and how did migration become a crime? Why does ancient Greece remain so important to the West's idea of itself? How does nostalgia fuel the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic
by
Yi Shun Lai
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 02/13/2024
November 1914.
Clara Ketterling-Dunbar is one of twenty-eight crew members of
The Resolute—a ship meant for an Antarctic expedition now ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Acts of Forgiveness: A Novel
by
Maura Cheeks
Ballantine Books, 02/13/2024
Every American waits with bated breath to see whether or not the country's first female president will pass the Forgiveness Act. The bill would allow ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country
by
David Finkel
Random House, 02/13/2024
As this powerful book begins, Brent Cummings finds himself coping with the feeling that the country he loves is fracturing in front of his eyes. An ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor
by
Ronald Drabkin
William Morrow, 02/13/2024
Frederick Rutland was an accomplished aviator, British WWI war hero, and real-life James Bond. He was the first pilot to take off and land a plane on ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year
by
Paul Alexander
Knopf, 02/13/2024
In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades, Paul Alexander—author of heralded lives of Sylvia Plath and J. D. Salinger&#...
more
Black Girl You Are Atlas
by
Renée Watson
Kokila, 02/13/2024
In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renée Watson writes about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections...
more
Call Me Iggy
by
Jorge Aguirre
First Second, 02/13/2024
Ignacio "Iggy" Garcia is an Ohio-born Colombian American teen living his best life. After bumping into Marisol (and her coffee) at school, Iggy's ...
more
Convergence Problems
by
Wole Talabi
DAW Books, 02/13/2024
In "An Arc of Electric Skin," a roadside mechanic seeking justice volunteers to undergo a procedure that will increase the electrical conductivity of ...
more
Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear
by
Robin Wasley
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 02/13/2024
High school is hard enough to survive without an apocalypse to navigate.
Sid Spencer has always been the most normal girl in her abnormal hometown,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both: A Novel
by
Mariah Stovall
Soft Skull Press, 02/13/2024
Set in the suburbs of Los Angeles and New York City,
I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both is an immersive journey into the life and mind of Khaki ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America
by
Vicki Sokolik
Spiegel & Grau, 02/13/2024
They hide in plain sight. They survive on free school breakfasts and lunches, join school sports teams in order to shower, sleep on friends' couches, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Leaving: A Novel
by
Roxana Robinson
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/13/2024
One of
Oprah Daily's Most Anticipated Books of 2024
"I never thought I'd see you here," Sarah says. Then she adds, "But I never thought I'd see you...more
Neighbors and Other Stories
by
Diane Oliver
Grove Press, 02/13/2024
A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of 22, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
No One Dies Yet
by
Kobby Ben Ben
Europa Editions, 02/13/2024
It is 2019, The Year of Return. Ghana is inviting Black diasporans to return and get to know the land of their enslaved ancestors. Elton, Vincent, and...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Paper Cage: A Novel
by
Tom Baragwanath
Knopf, 02/13/2024
How far would you go to keep your family safe?
Lorraine Henry is generally content to keep her head down and get on with her work as a records ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Fast: The History, Science, Philosophy, and Promise of Doing Without
by
John Oakes
Avid Reader Press, 02/13/2024
We fast all the time, even when we're not conscious of doing so. A fast manifests the idea of holding back, resisting the animal impulse to charge ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Fortune Seller: A Novel
by
Rachel Kapelke-Dale
St. Martin's Press, 02/13/2024
Middle-class Rosie Macalister has worked for years to fit in with her wealthy friends on the Yale equestrian team. But when she comes back from her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Fox Wife: A Novel
by
Yangsze Choo
Henry Holt and Company, 02/13/2024
Manchuria, 1908.
In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes, which...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press
by
Calvin Trillin
Random House, 02/13/2024
I've been writing about the press almost as long as I've been in the game. At some point, it occurred to me that disparate pieces from various places ...more
The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America
by
Michael J. Graetz
Princeton University Press, 02/13/2024
The postwar United States enjoyed large, widely distributed economic rewards—and most Americans accepted that taxes were a reasonable price to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Warm Hands of Ghosts: A Novel
by
Katherine Arden
Del Rey, 02/13/2024
January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life
by
Billy Dee Williams
Knopf, 02/13/2024
Billy Dee Williams was born in Harlem in 1937 and grew up in a household of love and sophistication. As a young boy, he made his stage debut working ...
more
A Fire So Wild: A Novel
by
Sarah Ruiz-Grossman
Harper, 02/20/2024
As a wildfire threatens Berkeley, the city's inhabitants are forced to reckon with the cracks in the lives they've built.
Abigail, a wealthy ...
more
A Tempest of Tea: Blood and Tea # 1
by
Hafsah Faizal
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/20/2024
On the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir is a criminal mastermind and collector of secrets. Her prestigious tearoom transforms into an illegal ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter's Soul
by
Kurt Wagner
Atria Books, 02/20/2024
Bloomberg journalist Kurt Wagner takes you inside Twitter's everchanging headquarters, charting its rise from flippant 140-character posts to one of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
by
Ross Perlin
Atlantic Monthly Press, 02/20/2024
Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and—because many have never been recorded—when they're gone, it...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World
by
Miriam Darlington
Tin House Books, 02/20/2024
A plan formed in my mind. I would explore the places in this land that hid my grail. I would spend a whole year or longer, if that's what it took, ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Ours: A Novel
by
Phillip B. Williams
Viking, 02/20/2024
In this ingenious, sweeping novel, Phillip B. Williams introduces us to an enigmatic woman named Saint, a fearsome conjuror who, in the 1830s, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
by
Patrick Joyce
Scribner, 02/20/2024
"What the skeleton is to anatomy, the peasant is to history, its essential hidden support." For over the past century and a half, and still more ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
River Mumma
by
Zalika Reid-Benta
Erewhon Books, 02/20/2024
Alicia has been out of grad school for months. She has no career prospects and lives with her mom, who won't stop texting her macabre news stories and...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Sito: An American Teenager and the City that Failed Him
by
Laurence Ralph
Grand Central Publishing, 02/20/2024
In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez—known as Sito— was shot to death as he sat in his car in the Mission District of San ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York
by
Barbara Weisberg
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/20/2024
What could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch's country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother live there ...
more
Sun of Blood and Ruin: A Novel
by
Mariely Lares
Harper Voyager, 02/20/2024
A new legend begins…
In sixteenth-century New Spain, witchcraft is punishable by death, indigenous temples have been destroyed, and tales of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
by
Charles Duhigg
Random House, 02/20/2024
Come inside a jury room as one juror leads a starkly divided room to consensus. Join a young CIA officer as he recruits a reluctant foreign agent. And...
more
The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays
by
Joan Acocella
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/20/2024
Joan Acocella, "one of our finest cultural critics" (Edward Hirsch), has the rare ability to examine literature and unearth the lives contained within...
more
The Trouble with You: A Novel
by
Ellen Feldman
St. Martin's Griffin, 02/20/2024
Set in New York City in the heady aftermath of World War II when the men were coming home, the women were exhaling in relief, and everyone was having ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
by
Charan Ranganath
Doubleday, 02/20/2024
A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. In
Why We Remember, pioneering neuroscientist and psychologist Charan ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
After Annie: A Novel
by
Anna Quindlen
Random House, 02/27/2024
When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her children, and her closest friend are left to find a way forward without the woman who has been the ...
more
Carson McCullers: A Life
by
Mary V. Dearborn
Knopf, 02/27/2024
V. S. Pritchett called her "a genius." Gore Vidal described her as a "beloved novelist of singular brilliance...Of all the Southern writers, she is ...
more
Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm
by
Emmeline Clein
Knopf, 02/27/2024
In
Dead Weight, Emmeline Clein recounts her struggle with disordered eating alongside the stories of other women: historical figures, pop culture ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Four Thousand Paws: Caring for the Dogs of the Iditarod: A Veterinarian's Story
by
Lee Morgan
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 02/27/2024
Few sporting events attract as much attention, or create as much spectacle, as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Each March, despite subzero ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Grief Is for People
by
Sloane Crosley
MCD, 02/27/2024
Grief Is for People is a deeply moving and surprisingly suspenseful portrait of friendship, and a book about loss packed with verve for life. Sloane ...
more
Kindling
by
Traci Chee
HarperCollins Publishers, 02/27/2024
Once, the war was fought with kindlings—elite, magic-wielding warriors whose devastating power comes at the cost of their own young lives.
...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
by
Tali Sharot and Cass R. Sunstein
Atria Books, 02/27/2024
Have you ever noticed that what is thrilling on Monday tends to become boring on Friday? Even exciting relationships, stimulating jobs, and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
My Beloved Life: A Novel
by
Amitava Kumar
Knopf, 02/27/2024
Jadunath Kunwar's beginnings are humble, even inauspicious. In 1935 in a village near George Orwell's birthplace, Jadu's mother, while pregnant with ...
more
Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
by
Gretchen Sisson
St. Martin's Press, 02/27/2024
Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the abortion debate, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Snowglobe: Snowglobe #1
by
Soyoung Park
Delacorte Press, 02/27/2024
Enclosed under a vast dome, Snowglobe is the last place on Earth that's warm. Outside Snowglobe is a frozen wasteland, and every day, citizens face ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The American Daughters: A Novel
by
Maurice Carlos Ruffin
One World, 02/27/2024
Ady, a curious, sharp-witted girl, and her fierce mother, Sanite, are inseparable. Enslaved to a businessman in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture
by
Tricia Romano
Public Affairs, 02/27/2024
You either were there or you wanted to be. A defining New York City institution co-founded by Norman Mailer,
The Village Voice was the first newspaper...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Life of the Qur'an: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy
by
Mohamad Jebara
St. Martin's Press, 02/27/2024
Over a billion copies of the Qur'an exist – yet it remains an enigma. Its classical Arabic language resists simple translation, and its non-...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Other Valley: A Novel
by
Scott Alexander Howard
Atria Books, 02/27/2024
Sixteen-year-old Odile is an awkward, quiet girl vying for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position, she'll decide who may cross her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Painter's Daughters: A Novel
by
Emily Howes
Simon & Schuster, 02/27/2024
Peggy and Molly Gainsborough—the daughters of one of England's most famous portrait artists of the 1700s and the frequent subject of his work&#...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Wandering Stars: A novel
by
Tommy Orange
Knopf, 02/27/2024
Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English ...
more
Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
by
Deborah Taffa
Harper, 02/27/2024
Deborah Jackson Taffa was raised to believe that some sacrifices were necessary to achieve a better life. Her grandparents—citizens of the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
