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An Age of Winters: A Novel
by Gemma Liviero
Lake Union Publishing, 11/01/2024
 
In 1625, the Franconian village of Eisbach has been plagued by disease, famine, heinous crimes, and a merciless winter. Katarin Jaspers is the ...more
Historical Fiction
The Most Powerful Court in the World: A History of the Supreme Court of the United States
by Stuart Banner
Oxford University Press, 11/04/2024
 
Will abortion be legal? Should people of the same sex be allowed to marry? May colleges prefer black applicants over white ones? These are among the ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
All the Truth I Can Stand
by Mason Stokes
Calkins Creek, 11/05/2024
 
Juniper, Wyoming, high school student Ash is still reeling from his mother's death and ostracization by his friends when his father signs him up to ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
 Debut Author
Before We Forget Kindness: Before the Coffee Gets Cold #6
by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Hanover Square Press, 11/05/2024
 
- The father who could not allow his daughter to get married
- A woman who couldn't give Valentine's Day chocolates to her loved one
- A boy...more
Literary Fiction
Don't Build, Rebuild: The Case for Imaginative Reuse in Architecture
by Aaron Betsky
Beacon Press, 11/05/2024
 
As climate change has escalated into a crisis, the reuse of existing structures is the only way to even begin to preserve our wood, sand, silicon, and...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Eleanore of Avignon: A Novel
by Elizabeth DeLozier
Dutton, 11/05/2024
 
Provence, 1347. Eleanore (Elea) Blanchet is a young midwife and herbalist with remarkable skills. But as she learned the day her mother died, the most...more
Historical Fiction
 Debut Author
Lost and Lassoed: A Rebel Blue Ranch Novel
by Lyla Sage
Dial Press, 11/05/2024
 
Teddy Andersen doesn't have a plan. She's never needed one before. She's always been more of a go-with-the-flow type of girl, but for some reason, the...more
Romance
Pony Confidential
by Christina Lynch
Berkley Books, 11/05/2024
 
Pony has been passed from owner to owner for longer than he can remember. Fed up, he busts out and goes on a cross-country mission to reunite with the...more
Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers: Her Life, the Imperial Ideal, and the Politics and Turmoil That Shaped Her Extraordinary Reign
by Anne Somerset
Knopf, 11/05/2024
 
It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn't be more wrong. A passionate and opinionated leader, Victoria was ...more
Biography/Memoir
Religion Is Not Done with You: Or, the Hidden Power of Religion on Race, Maps, Bodies, and Law
by Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst
Beacon Press, 11/05/2024
 
Religion lurks in the floorboards of our daily lives, whether we want it to or not. A departure from more traditional approaches to "Religion 101," ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Streetlight People
by Charlene Thomas
Dutton, 11/05/2024
 
For most, Streetlight is a dot on the map you pass on your way to somewhere else. But if you live there, you're either a Have-Not, like Kady, or a ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Author's Guide to Murder: A Novel
by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White
William Morrow, 11/05/2024
 
There's been a sensational murder at historic Castle Kinloch, a gothic fantasy of grey granite on a remote island in the Highlands of Scotland. ...more
The Autumn of Ruth Winters: A Novel
by Marshall Fine
Lake Union Publishing, 11/05/2024
 
Ruth Winters is retired, widowed, and resigned to spending the rest of her life alone in her suburban home. She likes her routine and uses it to avoid...more
Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
The Beggar Student
by Osamu Dazai
New Directions Publishing, 11/05/2024
 
A fictional writer in his thirties named Osamu Dazai has just mailed his publisher an awful manuscript, filling him with dread and shame. Wandering ...more
Literary Fiction
The Donut Prince of New York
by Allen Zadoff
Holiday House, 11/05/2024
 
Eugene would just as soon spend the year playing small, but that's hard to do when you're the biggest kid in your class.

Things change when he ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
The Improvisers: A Murder and Magic Novel
by Nicole Glover
Harper, 11/05/2024
 
Velma Frye is many things. A pilot, a former bootlegger, a well-seasoned traveler, a jazz pianist…and a wielder of celestial magic. She's also a...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Lake of Lost Girls: A Novel
by Katherine Greene
Crooked Lane Books, 11/05/2024
 
It's 1998, and female students are going missing at Southern State University in North Carolina, but freshman Jessica Fadley, once a bright and ...more
Thrillers
The Memory Dress
by Jade Beer
Berkley Books, 11/05/2024
 
England, 2018: Jayne is quiet. She keeps to herself and has no grand expectations for her days. But after a chance encounter with her elderly neighbor...more
Historical Fiction
The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.: A Biography
by Peter Ames Carlin
Doubleday, 11/05/2024
 
In the spring of 1980, an unexpected group of musical eccentrics came together to play their very first performance at a college party in Athens, ...more
Biography/Memoir
The Teller of Small Fortunes
by Julie Leong
Ace Books, 11/05/2024
 
Tao is an immigrant fortune teller, traveling between villages with just her trusty mule for company. She only tells "small" fortunes: whether it will...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
 Debut Author
Where the Library Hides: Secrets of the Nile #2
by Isabel Ibañez
Wednesday Books, 11/05/2024
 
Inez Olivera traveled across the world to Egypt, seeking answers into her parents' recent and mysterious deaths. But all her searching led her down a ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Cabinet of Curiosities: A Historical Tour of the Unbelievable, the Unsettling, and the Bizarre
by Aaron Mahnke
St. Martin's Griffin, 11/12/2024
 
The podcast, Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities, has delighted millions of listeners for years with tales of the wonderful, astounding, and ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dead Girls Don't Dream
by Nino Cipri
Henry Holt and Company, 11/12/2024
 
Except for Riley Walcott. 

Riley knows better than to stray from the trail in the woods behind her uncle Toby's house. But her little sister...more
Thrillers
Every Arc Bends Its Radian: A Novel
by Sergio De La Pava
Simon & Schuster, 11/12/2024
 
Riv—poet, philosopher, private eye—arrives in Cali, Colombia, hoping to find reprieve. Running away from an unspeakable event surrounding ...more
Literary Fiction
Far District: Poems
by Ishion Hutchinson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/12/2024
 
Crafting an impressionistic portrait of his youth in Jamaica, Ishion Hutchinson explores the West Indian distrust of European literature and mythology...more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Games Untold: The Inheritance Games #5
by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 11/12/2024
 
There is nothing frivolous about the way a Hawthorne man loves.

An amnesiac playboy and the woman with every reason to hate him. A ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist
by Richard Munson
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/12/2024
 
Benjamin Franklin was one of the preeminent scientists of his time. Driven by curiosity, he conducted cutting-edge research on electricity, heat, ...more
Biography/Memoir
Lazarus Man: A Novel
by Richard Price
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/12/2024
 
East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story tenement collapses into a fuming hill of rubble, pancaking the cars parked in front and coating the ...more
Literary Fiction
Leap
by Simina Popescu
Roaring Brook Press, 11/12/2024
 
Ana has been studying contemporary dance since she was little, but her heart isn't in it anymore. Instead her focus is on Carina―a beautiful, ...more
Graphic Novels
 Debut Author
Midnights With You
by Clare Osongco
Disney-Hyperion, 11/12/2024
 
"Where were you thinking of going?"
"Nowhere."
"Great," he says lightly, putting the car in gear. "Then we'll go there."

Seventeen-year...more
Romance
 Debut Author
Munichs: A Novel
by David Peace
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/12/2024
 
In 1958, Manchester United was flying high: the best-known soccer team in the world and reigning English champions, the team was led by a bright young...more
Historical Fiction
Naples 1343: The Unexpected Origins of the Mafia
by Amedeo Feniello
Other Press, 11/12/2024
 
1343: there is famine in Naples. After nightfall, a Genoese ship loaded with wheat is attacked by members of two local clans who brutally kill several...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
 Debut Author
Only Here, Only Now: A Novel
by Tom Newlands
HarperVia, 11/12/2024
 
In the blazing hot summer of 1994, there's nothing for Cora Mowat to do but hang around in empty parking lots. Stuck in her Mom's small house and ...more
Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Open Minded: A Novel
by Chloe Seager
William Morrow, 11/12/2024
 
After nine years of dating, Holly is sure her boyfriend Will is going to propose. But instead of popping the question, he shocks her by suggesting ...more
Romance
Rani Choudhury Must Die
by Adiba Jaigirdar
Feiwel & Friends, 11/12/2024
 
Meghna Rahman is tired of constantly being compared to her infuriatingly perfect ex best friend now rival. Everyone, except, at least, her boyfriend ...more
Romance
Revolution by Fire: New York's Afro-Irish Uprising of 1741, a Graphic Novel
by David Lester, Marcus Rediker
Beacon Press, 11/12/2024
 
Rebel fugitive John Gwin was previously introduced in Under the Banner of King Death and this graphic novel continues his adventures. Revolution by ...more
Graphic Novels
Shy Creatures: A Novel
by Clare Chambers
Mariner Books, 11/12/2024
 
In all failed relationships there is a tipping point. It goes unnoticed at the time but can later be identified as the beginning of the decline. For ...more
Literary Fiction
The Burrow
by Melanie Cheng
Tin House Books, 11/12/2024
 
Big-hearted and moving, Melanie Cheng's The Burrow brings together a family trying to find their way forward in the wake of a devastating loss. ...more
Literary Fiction
The Co-op: A Novel
by Tarah DeWitt
St. Martin's Griffin, 11/12/2024
 
LaRynn Lavigne and Deacon Leeds had one short and contentious summer fling when they were teens―certainly nothing to build a foundation on. But ...more
Romance
The Starlets
by Lee Kelly
Harper, 11/12/2024
 
Summer, 1958. Vivienne Rhodes thinks she's finally landed her break playing Helen of Troy in Apex Pictures' big-budget epic, A Thousand Ships, an ...more
Historical Fiction
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World ...: Essays
by David Graeber
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/12/2024
 
There are converging political, economic, and ecological crises, and yet our politics is dominated by either business as usual or nostalgia for a ...more
Essays
They Just Need to Get a Job: 15 Myths on Homelessness
by Mary Brosnahan
Beacon Press, 11/12/2024
 
Conservative think tanks like the Manhattan Institute disseminate anti-homeless myths in the media, legislatures, and the larger culture, claiming ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Those Opulent Days: A Mystery
by Jacquie Pham
Atlantic Monthly Press, 11/12/2024
 
Duy, Phong, Minh, and Edmond have been best friends since childhood. Now, as young men running their families' formidable businesses, they make up ...more
Historical Fiction
 Debut Author
Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
by Katherine Rundell
Doubleday, 11/12/2024
 
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous, and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this brilliant and passionately persuasive book, ...more
Science, Health and the Environment
Water Finds a Way: A novel
by Meghan Perry
Delphinium Books, 11/12/2024
 
Determined to conceal her secrets and losses, she soon finds herself dragged into others' lives when she takes a job on a boat owned by a notorious ...more
Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
An Earthquake is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth: A Novel
by Anna Moschovakis
Soft Skull Press, 11/19/2024
 
After a seismic event leaves the world shattered, an unnamed narrator at the end of a mediocre acting career struggles to regain the ability to walk ...more
Literary Fiction
Anzuelo
by Emma Ríos
Image Comics, 11/19/2024
 
The Sea, secretly more complex than anyone imagined, rises one day. The horizon folds as the Sea absorbs the world and transforms everything that's ...more
Graphic Novels
Briarcliff Prep: Sophomore Year
by Brianna Peppins
Disney-Hyperion, 11/19/2024
 
Avielle LeBeau is beginning her second year at Briarcliff Prep, and she's got big dreams. Top of the list? Starting her own student life magazine and ...more
Literary Fiction
Citizen: My Life After the White House
by Bill Clinton
Knopf, 11/19/2024
 
On January 20, 2001, after nearly thirty years in politics—eight of them as president of the United States—Bill Clinton was suddenly a ...more
Biography/Memoir
Is She Really Going Out with Him?
by Sophie Cousens
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 11/19/2024
 
Columnist Anna Appleby has left her love life behind after a painful divorce. Who needs a man when she has two kids, a cat, and uncontested control of...more
Romance
Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future
by Vince Beiser
Riverhead Books, 11/19/2024
 
An Australian millionaire's plan to mine the ocean floor. Nigerian garbage pickers risking their lives to salvage e-waste. A Bill Gates-backed ...more
Science, Health and the Environment
Serpent Sea: Spice Road #2
by Maiya Ibrahim
Delacorte Press, 11/19/2024
 
Imani is a magic-wielding warrior sworn to protect her land from the monsters that roam the desert. But an even worse enemy now threatens the Sahir. ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Shell Games: A Novel
by Bonnie Kistler
Harper, 11/19/2024
 
Julie's mother Kate is a force of nature – a glamorous woman of seventy, a self-made real estate developer, a grande dame in Florida society, ...more
Thrillers
Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
by Edwin Frank
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/19/2024
 
"How can we live differently?" a young woman urgently demands in Virginia Woolf's novel The Years. It is the 1930s, war and death are in the air, but ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The City and Its Uncertain Walls: A Novel
by Haruki Murakami
Knopf, 11/19/2024
 
The long-awaited new novel from Haruki Murakami, his first in six years, revisits a Town his readers will remember, a place where a Dream Reader ...more
Literary Fiction
The Collaborators
by Michael Idov
Scribner, 11/19/2024
 
Combining realistic thrills with sophisticated spycraft and witty dialogue, The Collaborators delivers a gut-punch answer to the biggest geopolitical ...more
Thrillers
The Mirror: The Lost Bride Trilogy #2
by Nora Roberts
St. Martin's Press, 11/19/2024
 
When Sonya MacTavish inherits the huge Victorian mansion on the coast of Maine, she has no idea that the house is haunted. The footsteps she hears at ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Scribner, 11/19/2024
 
As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of ...more
Science, Health and the Environment
The Songbird & the Heart of Stone: The Shadowborn Duet #1 (Crowns of Nyaxia #3)
by Carissa Broadbent
Tor Books, 11/19/2024
 
In the descent to the underworld, a bride of the sun must choose between the light of her redemption… or a dark love that defies the gods ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Time of the Child
by Niall Williams
Bloomsbury Publishing, 11/19/2024
 
Doctor Jack Troy was born and raised in Faha, but his responsibilities for the sick and his care for the dying mean he has always been set apart from ...more
Literary Fiction
Visitations
by Corey Egbert
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/19/2024
 
Corey's mom has always made him feel safe. Especially after his parents' divorce, and the dreaded visitations with his dad begin. But as Corey grows ...more
Graphic Novels
Water, Water: Poems
by Billy Collins
Random House, 11/19/2024
 
In this collection of sixty new poems, Billy Collins writes about the beauties and ironies of everyday experience. A poem is best, he feels, when it ...more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation
by Jim O'Heir
William Morrow, 11/19/2024
 
For seven seasons, Leslie Knope and the Parks and Recreation gang charmed millions of viewers with their quirky antics and unwavering positivity. The ...more
Biography/Memoir
 Debut Author
When Mimi Went Missing
by Suja Sukumar
Soho Press, 11/19/2024
 
Shy, nerdy Tanvi has always thought of her perfect cousin Mimi as her sister. Not only did Mimi's family raise Tanvi after the tragic death of her ...more
Thrillers
 Debut Author
City of Night Birds: A Novel
by Juhea Kim
Ecco, 11/26/2024
 
On a White Night in 2019, prima ballerina Natalia Leonova returns to St. Petersburg two years after a devastating accident that stalled her career. ...more
Literary Fiction
Darkly
by Marisha Pessl
Delacorte Press, 11/26/2024
 
Arcadia "Dia" Gannon has been obsessed with Louisiana Veda, the game designer whose obsessive creations and company, Darkly, have gained a cultlike ...more
Thrillers
Daughters of Bronze: A Novel of Troy
by A. D. Rhine
Dutton, 11/26/2024
 
Lost between the timeless lines of Homer's epic, the women of Troy finally stand to be counted. Their story is one you've never encountered, and it ...more
Historical Fiction
Mothers and Sons: A Memoir
by Theodor Kallifatides
Other Press, 11/26/2024
 
Theodor Kallifatides, an acclaimed Greek author exiled in Sweden for more than 4 decades at age 68, visits his 92-year-old mother, who still resides ...more
Biography/Memoir
This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
by Naomi Wood
Mariner Books, 11/26/2024
 
A woman has an unexpected outburst at a corporate therapy session for working mothers. A couple find some long-overdue time to rekindle their ...more
Short Stories
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