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Anna O: A Novel
by Matthew Blake
Harper, 01/02/2024
 
What if your nightmares weren't really nightmares at all?

We spend an average of 33 years of our lives asleep. But what really happens, and what ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
 Debut Author
Diary of a Confused Feminist
by Kate Weston
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 01/02/2024
 
At fifteen, Kat Evans is still sorting it all out, and that includes being a good feminist (and, by extension, a good human).

She promises herself ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish
by Francesca Peacock
Pegasus Books, 01/02/2024
 
"My ambition is not only to be Empress, but Authoress of a whole world." —Margaret Cavendish

Margaret Cavendish, then Lucas, was born in 1623...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
 Debut Author
Sky's End: Above the Black
by Marc J Gregson
Peachtree Publishers, 01/02/2024
 
Exiled to live as a Low, sixteen-year-old Conrad refuses to become heir to his murderous uncle. But Meritocracy is a harsh and unforgiving rule on the...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors
by Erika Howsare
Catapult, 01/02/2024
 
Deer have been an important part of the world that humans occupy for millennia. They're one of the only large animals that can thrive in our presence....more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
 Debut Author
The Storm We Made: A Novel
by Vanessa Chan
Marysue Rucci Books, 01/02/2024
 
Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
 Debut Author
Verdigris
by Michele Mari
And Other Stories, 01/02/2024
 
At the tail end of the 1960s, the thirteen-year-old Michelino spends his summers at his grandparents' modest estate in Nasca, near Lake Maggiore, ...more
Literary Fiction
Aednan: An Epic
by Linnea Axelsson
Knopf, 01/09/2024
 
In Northern Sámi, the word Ædnan means the land, the earth, and my mother. These are all crucial forces within the lives of the Indigenous ...more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
 Debut Author
Cold Victory
by Karl Marlantes
Grove Press, 01/09/2024
 
Helsinki, 1947. Finland teeters between the Soviet Union and the West. Everyone is being watched. A wrong look or a wrong word could end in ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
Goldenseal
by Maria Hummel
Counterpoint Press, 01/09/2024
 
Downtown Los Angeles, 1990. Alone in her luxury hotel suite, the reclusive Lacey Crane receives a message: Edith is waiting for her in the lobby. ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Inside Knowledge: Incarcerated People on the Failures of the American Prison
by Doran Larson
New York University Press, 01/09/2024
 
Inside Knowledge is the first book to examine the American prison system through the eyes of those who are trapped within it. Drawing from the ...more
Essays
Invisible Woman: A Novel
by Katia Lief
Atlantic Monthly Press, 01/09/2024
 
Joni Ackerman's decision to raise children, 25 years ago, came with a steep cost. She was then a pioneering filmmaker, one of the few women to break ...more
Lunar New Year Love Story
by Gene Luen Yang
First Second, 01/09/2024
 
She was destined for heartbreak. Then fate handed her love.

Val is ready to give up on love. It's led to nothing but secrets and heartbreak, and ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Graphic Novels
My Friends: A Novel
by Hisham Matar
Random House, 01/09/2024
 
One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Northwoods: A Novel
by Amy Pease
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 01/09/2024
 
Eli North is not okay.

His drinking is getting worse by the day, his emotional wounds after a deployment to Afghanistan are as raw as ever, his ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
 Debut Author
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
by Hannah Ritchie
Little, Brown Spark, 01/09/2024
 
It's become common to tell kids that they're going to die from climate change. We are constantly bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil...more
Science, Health and the Environment
 Debut Author
Old Crimes
by Jill McCorkle
Algonquin Books, 01/09/2024
 
Jill McCorkle, author of the New York Times bestselling Life After Life and the widely acclaimed Hieroglyphics ("One of our wryest, warmest, wisest ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Short Stories
Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence
by Yaroslav Trofimov
Penguin Press, 01/09/2024
 
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
River East, River West: A Novel
by Aube Rey Lescure
William Morrow, 01/09/2024
 
Shanghai, 2007: Fourteen-year-old Alva has always longed for more. Raised by her American expat mother, she's never known her Chinese father, and is ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Shut Up, This Is Serious
by Carolina Ixta
Quill Tree Books, 01/09/2024
 
Belén Dolores Itzel del Toro wants the normal stuff: to experience love or maybe have a boyfriend or at least just lose her virginity. But ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
by Kohei Saito
Astra House, 01/09/2024
 
Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs and are nevertheless unable to ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
Sugar, Baby
by Celine Saintclare
Bloomsbury Publishing, 01/09/2024
 
Sugar, Baby follows Agnes, a mixed-race 21-year-old whose life seems to be heading nowhere. Still living at home, she works as a cleaner and spends ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Termush: A Novel
by Sven Holm
FSG Originals, 01/09/2024
 
Termush caters to every need of its wealthy patrons―first among them, a coveted spot at this exclusive seaside getaway, a resort designed for ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Atlas of Us
by Kristin Dwyer
HarperTeen, 01/09/2024
 
Atlas has lost her way.

In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, she's working on a community service program rehabbing trails in the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years: A Novel
by Shubnum Khan
Viking, 01/09/2024
 
Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Nearly a century later, it stands in ruins: an isolated boardinghouse for eclectic...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
 Debut Author
The Waters: A Novel
by Bonnie Jo Campbell
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/09/2024
 
On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp―an area known as "The Waters" to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan―herbalist and ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
You Dreamed of Empires: A Novel
by Álvaro Enrigue
Riverhead Books, 01/09/2024
 
One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés enters the city of Tenochtitlan – today's Mexico City. Later that day, he will meet ...more
Historical Fiction
A Drop of Venom
by Sajni Patel
Rick Riodan Presents, 01/16/2024
 
All monsters and heroes have beginnings. This is mine.

Sixteen-year-old Manisha is no stranger to monsters—she's been running from them for ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Place for Vanishing
by Ann Fraistat
Delacorte Press, 01/16/2024
 
The house was supposed to be a fresh start. That's what Libby's mom said. And after Libby's recent bipolar III diagnosis and the tragedy that preceded...more
American Wings: Chicago's Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky
by Sherri L. Smith
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 01/16/2024
 
In the years between World War I and World War II, aviation fever was everywhere, including among Black Americans. But what hope did a Black person ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Behind You Is the Sea: A Novel
by Susan Muaddi Darraj
HarperVia, 01/16/2024
 
Funny and touching, Behind You Is the Sea brings us into the homes and lives of three main families—the Baladis, the Salamehs, and the Ammars&#...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
City of Laughter
by Temim Fruchter
Grove Press, 01/16/2024
 
An ambitious, delirious novel that tangles with queerness, spirituality, and generational silence, City of Laughter announces Temim Fruchter as a ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
by Kyle Chayka
Doubleday, 01/16/2024
 
From trendy restaurants to city grids, to TikTok and Netflix feeds the world round, algorithmic recommendations dictate our experiences and choices. ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
If I Promise You Wings
by A.K. Small
Algonquin Young Readers, 01/16/2024
 
Seventeen-year-old Alix Leclaire dreams of becoming a renowned feather artist, creating statement pieces that define glamour and high fashion. As an ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Ilium: A Novel
by Lea Carpenter
Knopf, 01/16/2024
 
The young English narrator of Lea Carpenter's dazzling new novel has grown up unhappily in London, dreaming of escape, pretending to be someone else ...more
Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age
by Chip Conley
Little, Brown Spark, 01/16/2024
 
The midlife crisis is the butt of so many jokes, but this long-derided life stage has an upside. What if we could reframe our thinking about the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
by Rebecca Boyle
Random House, 01/16/2024
 
Many of us know that the Moon pulls on our oceans, driving the tides, but did you know that it smells like gunpowder? Or that it was essential to the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery
by Annie Liontas
Scribner, 01/16/2024
 
Annie Liontas suffered multiple concussions in her thirties. In Sex with a Brain Injury, she writes about what it means to be one of the "walking ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
So Let Them Burn: Divine Traitors # 1
by Kamilah Cole
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 01/16/2024
 
Faron Vincent can channel the power of the gods. Five years ago, she used her divine magic to liberate her island from its enemies, the dragon-riding ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
 Debut Author
The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy
by Nick Romeo
Public Affairs, 01/16/2024
 
Confronted by the terrifying trends of the early twenty-first century – widening inequality, environmental destruction, and the immiseration of ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
 Debut Author
The Best That You Can Do: Stories
by Amina Gautier
Soft Skull Press, 01/16/2024
 
Primarily told from the perspective of women and children in the Northeast who are tethered to fathers and families in Puerto Rico, these stories ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Short Stories
The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History
by Manjula Martin
Pantheon Books, 01/16/2024
 
Told in luminous, perceptive prose, The Last Fire Season is a deeply incisive inquiry into what it really means—now—to live in ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
This Wretched Valley
by Jenny Kiefer
Quirk Books, 01/16/2024
 
Take only pictures. Leave only bones.

This trip is going to be Dylan's big break. Her geologist friend Clay has discovered an untouched cliff face ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
 Debut Author
Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science of Life
by Nell Greenfieldboyce
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/16/2024
 
In her career as a science reporter, Nell Greenfieldboyce has reported from inside a space shuttle, the bottom of a coal mine, and the control room of...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
 Debut Author
Where You End: A Novel
by Abbott Kahler
Henry Holt and Company, 01/16/2024
 
When Kat Bird wakes up from a coma, she sees her mirror image: Jude, her twin sister. Jude's face and name are the only memories Kat has from before ...more
Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
by Marion Gibson
Scribner, 01/16/2024
 
Witchcraft is a dramatic journey through thirteen witch trials across history, some famous—like the Salem witch trials—and some lesser-...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
by József Debreczeni
St. Martin's Press, 01/23/2024
 
József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944; had he been selected to go "left," his life ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
 Debut Author
Dead in Long Beach, California: A Novel
by Venita Blackburn
MCD, 01/23/2024
 
Coral is the first person to discover her brother Jay's dead body in the wake of his suicide. There's no note, only a drably furnished bachelor pad in...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs
by Benjamin Herold
Penguin Press, 01/23/2024
 
Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Family Family: A Novel
by Laurie Frankel
Henry Holt and Company, 01/23/2024
 
"Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don't we ever get that movie?"

India Allwood grew up...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
In Utero
by Chris Gooch
Top Shelf Productions, 01/23/2024
 
Twelve years after a disastrous explosion, young Hailey is dropped off by her mum at a holiday camp in a dilapidated shopping mall. Alienated from the...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Into the Sunken City
by Dinesh Thiru
HarperTeen, 01/23/2024
 
In the slowly sinking city of Coconino, Arizona, the days are long, the money is tight, and the rain never stops.

For Jin Haldar, this life is ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
 Debut Author
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
by Uché Blackstock MD
Viking, 01/23/2024
 
Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicians. In ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
 Debut Author
Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story
by Keren Blankfeld
Little Brown & Company, 01/23/2024
 
Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia were captivated by each other from the moment they first exchanged glances across the work floor. It was the beginning ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
 Debut Author
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
by Antonia Hylton
Legacy Lit, 01/23/2024
 
On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
No One Can Know: A Novel
by Kate Alice Marshall
Flatiron Books, 01/23/2024
 
Emma hasn't told her husband much about her past. He knows her parents are dead and she hasn't spoken to her sisters in years. Then they lose their ...more
Picasso's Lovers
by Jeanne Mackin
Berkley Books, 01/23/2024
 
The women of Picasso's life are glamorous and elusive, existing in the shadow of his fame—until 1950s aspiring journalist Alana Olson determines...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
Radiant Heat
by Sarah-Jane Collins
Berkley Books, 01/23/2024
 
The blaze came out of nowhere one summer afternoon, a wall of fire fed by blustering wind. Yet, somehow, Alison is alive. She rode out the fire on the...more
The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers
by Jim Morris
Beacon Press, 01/23/2024
 
A gripping narrative in the tradition of A Civil Action and Toms River.

Working at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company chemical plant in Niagara ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
 Debut Author
The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee
by Ellen Oh
Crown Books for Young Readers, 01/23/2024
 
Mina has become the hero of her own story. Literally.

When Mina Lee woke up on Saturday morning for SAT prep, she did NOT expect to:

1. Nearly ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History
by Dan Stone
Mariner Books, 01/23/2024
 
The Holocaust is much discussed, much memorialized, and much portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked.

...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Sanctuary
by Andrew Hunter Murray
Blackstone Publishing, 01/23/2024
 
Ben is a painter from the crowded, turbulent city. For six months his fiancée, Cara, has been working on the remote island of Sanctuary Rock, the...more
Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s
by Sarah Ditum
Abrams Press, 01/23/2024
 
Welcome to celebrity culture in the early aughts: the reign of Perez Hilton, celebrity sex tapes, and dueling tabloids fed by paparazzi who were ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Twilight Territory: A Novel
by Andrew X. Pham
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/23/2024
 
The peak of the hot season, 1942: The wars in Europe and Asia and the Japanese occupation have upset the uneasy balance of French Indochina. In the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
Womb City
by Tlotlo Tsamaase
Erewhon Books, 01/23/2024
 
Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
 Debut Author
Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1
by Angela Y. Davis
Haymarket Books, 01/30/2024
 
For over fifty years, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for abolition and feminism and the fight against state ...more
Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
by Jake Johnston
St. Martin's Press, 01/30/2024
 
Haiti's state is near-collapse: armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after the 2021 assassination of President ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World - and How You Can, Too
by Ijeoma Oluo
HarperOne, 01/30/2024
 
In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo offered a vital guide for how to talk about important issues of race ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Come and Get It
by Kiley Reid
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/30/2024
 
It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Confrontations
by Simone Antangana Bekono
Bloomsbury Publishing, 01/30/2024
 
Salomé Atabong is the sixteen-year-old daughter of a Cameroonian father and a Dutch mother, living in the Netherlands. She arrives at a juvenile ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds
by Michelle Horton
Grand Central Publishing, 01/30/2024
 
In September 2017, a knock on the door upends Michelle Horton's life forever: her sister had just shot her partner and was now in jail. During the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
 Debut Author
Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect: A Novel
by Benjamin Stevenson
Mariner Books, 01/30/2024
 
Ernest Cunningham returns in a deliciously witty locked room (train) mystery.

When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their ...more
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
by Jonathan Blitzer
Penguin Press, 01/30/2024
 
Everyone who makes the journey faces an impossible choice. Hundreds of thousands of people who arrive every year at the US-Mexico border travel far ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
 Debut Author
Hard by a Great Forest: A Novel
by Leo Vardiashvili
Riverhead Books, 01/30/2024
 
Saba is just a child when he flees the fighting in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia with his older brother, Sandro, and father, Irakli, for ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Held: A Novel
by Anne Michaels
Knopf, 01/30/2024
 
1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
How We Named the Stars
by Andrés N. Ordorica
Tin House Books, 01/30/2024
 
When Daniel de La Luna arrives as a scholarship student at an elite East Coast university, he bears the weight of his family's hopes and dreams, and ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Mockingbird Summer: A Novel
by Lynda Rutledge
Lake Union Publishing, 01/30/2024
 
In segregated High Cotton, Texas, in 1964, the racial divide is as clear as the railroad tracks running through town. It's also where two girls are ...more
Literary Fiction
Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA
by Patrick Winn
Public Affairs, 01/30/2024
 
In Asia's narcotics-producing heartland, the Wa reign supreme. They dominate the Golden Triangle, a mountainous stretch of Burma between Thailand and ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
One Hour of Fervor
by Muriel Barbery
Europa Editions, 01/30/2024
 
Haru, a successful Japanese art dealer, loves beauty, harmony, art, balance, intriguing women, sophisticated conversation, and elegance. Months after ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy
by Dominic Erdozain
Crown, 01/30/2024
 
More than a hundred lives are lost to firearms every day in America. The cost is more than the numbers—it is the fear, the anxiety, the dread of...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology
by Amber McBride, Erica Martin, Taylor Byas
HarperTeen, 01/30/2024
 
Come, claim your wings.

Lift your life above the earth,

return to the land of your father's birth.

What exactly is it to be Black in America?...
more
Critics' Consensus:

Poetry & Novels in Verse
Spectral Evidence: Poems
by Gregory Pardlo
Knopf, 01/30/2024
 
Elegant, profound, and intoxicating—Spectral Evidence, Gregory Pardlo's first major collection of poetry after winning the Pulitzer Prize for ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Poetry & Novels in Verse
Swanna in Love: A Novel
by Jennifer Belle
Akashic Books, 01/30/2024
 
It's the summer of 1982 and fourteen-year-old Swanna Swain is the only one left at camp. The place is a ghost town by the time her mother Val finally ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
The Cleaner: A Novel
by Brandi Wells
Hanover Square Press, 01/30/2024
 
Every night, she cleans. On the fourth floor of an unnamed office in an unnamed city, the night cleaner comes and does what she does best—sorts ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
The Excitements: A Novel
by CJ Wray
William Morrow Paperbacks, 01/30/2024
 
Meet the Williamson sisters, Britain's most treasured World War II veterans. Now in their late nineties, Josephine and Penny are in huge demand, ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
The Mountain King: Asker Series #1
by Anders de la Motte
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 01/30/2024
 
Criminal inspector Leonore Asker seems to have the leading position at Malmö's Major Crime Division within reach. But things go awry when, in the...more
The Ukraine
by Artem Chapeye
Seven Stories Press, 01/30/2024
 
The Ukraine is a collection of 26 pieces that deliberately blur the line between nonfiction and fiction, conjuring the essence of a beloved country ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Short Stories
Wander in the Dark
by Jumata Emill
Delacorte Press, 01/30/2024
 
Amir Trudeau only goes to his half brother Marcel's birthday party because of Chloe Danvers. Chloe is rich, and hot, and fits right into the perfect ...more
Wolves of Winter: Essex Dogs Trilogy #2
by Dan Jones
Viking, 01/30/2024
 
1347. Bruised and bloodied by an epic battle at Crécy, six soldiers known as the Essex Dogs pick through the wreckage of the fighting—and ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
Your Utopia: Stories
by Bora Chung
Algonquin Books, 01/30/2024
 
In "The Center for Immortality Research," a low-level employee runs herself ragged planning a fancy gala for donors, only to be blamed for a crime she...more
Critics' Consensus:

Short Stories
Yours from the Tower
by Sally Nicholls
Walker Books, 01/30/2024
 
Tirzah, Sophia, and Polly are best friends who've left boarding school and gone back to very different lives.

The year is 1896, and Polly is ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
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