Local: A Memoir
by
Jessica Machado
Little A, 01/01/2023
Born and raised in Hawai'i by a father whose ancestors are indigenous to the land and a mother from the American South, Jessica Machado wrestles with ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
16 & Pregnant: A Novel
by
LaLa Thomas
MTV Books, 01/03/2023
Erykah was looking forward to junior year at East Prep High. She has a cute boyfriend, gets good grades, and has the best bestie. Money is tight, ...
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In the Time of Our History
by
Susanne Pari
Kensington Publishing, 01/03/2023
Inspired by her own family's experiences after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Susanne Pari explores the entangled lives of an Iranian American family ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility
by
Martha C. Nussbaum
Simon & Schuster, 01/03/2023
Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat destruction,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Night Wherever We Go: A Novel
by
Tracey Rose Peyton
Ecco, 01/03/2023
On a struggling Texas plantation, six enslaved women slip from their sleeping quarters and gather in the woods under the cover of night. The Lucys&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Picture in the Sand: A Novel
by
Peter Blauner
Minotaur Books, 01/03/2023
When Alex Hassan gets accepted to an Ivy League university, his middle-class Egyptian-American family is filled with pride and excitement. But that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Blackhouse: A Novel
by
Carole Johnstone
Scribner, 01/03/2023
A remote village. A deadly secret. An outsider who knows the truth.
Robert Reid moved his family to Scotland's Outer Hebrides in the 1990s, driven ...
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Better the Blood
by
Michael Bennett
Atlantic Monthly Press, 01/10/2023
A tenacious Māori detective, Hana Westerman juggles single motherhood, endemic prejudice, and the pressures of her career in Auckland CIB. Led to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression
by
Tina Post
New York University Press, 01/10/2023
Arguing that inexpression is a gesture that acquires distinctive meanings in concert with blackness,
Deadpan tracks instances and meanings of deadpan&...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Friday I'm in Love
by
Camryn Garrett
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 01/10/2023
Mahalia Harris wants.
She wants a big Sweet Sixteen like her best friend, Naomi.
She wants the super-cute new girl Siobhan to like her back.
She ...
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Ghost Music
by
An Yu
Grove Press, 01/10/2023
For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. She gave up on her ...
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Ghost Season: A Novel
by
Fatin Abbas
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/10/2023
A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and southern Sudan. For five strangers on an NGO ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Hell Bent: Alex Stern Book 2
by
Leigh Bardugo
Flatiron Books, 01/10/2023
Find a gateway to the underworld. Steal a soul out of hell. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back. But Galaxy...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
In the Upper Country
by
Kai Thomas
Viking, 01/10/2023
Young Lensinda Martin is a protegee of a crusading Black journalist in mid-18th century southwestern Ontario, finding a home in a community founded by...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Liar, Dreamer, Thief
by
Maria Dong
Grand Central Publishing, 01/10/2023
Katrina Kim may be broke, the black sheep of her family, and slightly unhinged, but she isn't a stalker. Her obsession with her co-worker, Kurt, is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era
by
Jacqueline Jones
Basic Books, 01/10/2023
Impassioned antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation's hub of radical abolitionism. In fact, however, the city was far from a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics
by
Anastasia C. Curwood
The University of North Carolina Press, 01/10/2023
Chisholm spent her formative years moving between Barbados and Brooklyn, and the development of her political orientation did not follow the standard ...
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Shubeik Lubeik
by
Deena Mohamed
Pantheon Books, 01/10/2023
Three wishes that are sold at an unassuming kiosk in Cairo link Aziza, Nour, and Shokry, changing their perspectives as well as their lives. Aziza ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
Small World: A Novel
by
Laura Zigman
Ecco, 01/10/2023
A year after her divorce, Joyce is settling into being single again. She likes her job archiving family photos and videos, and she's developed a ...
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The Dream Builders
by
Oindrila Mukherjee
Tin House Books, 01/10/2023
After living in the US for years, Maneka Roy returns home to India to mourn the loss of her mother and finds herself in a new world. The booming city ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World
by
James Crawford
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/10/2023
Since the earliest known marker denoting the edge of one land and the beginning of the next―a stone column inscribed with Sumerian cuneiform&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise
by
Pico Iyer
Riverhead Books, 01/10/2023
Paradise: that elusive place where the anxieties, struggles, and burdens of life fall away. Most of us dream of it, but each of us has very different ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World
by
Suzie Sheehy
Knopf, 01/10/2023
Physics has always sought to deepen our understanding of the nature of matter and the world around us. But how do you conduct experiments with the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Survivalists: A Novel
by
Kashana Cauley
Soft Skull Press, 01/10/2023
In the wake of her parents' death, Aretha, a habitually single Black lawyer, has had only one obsession in life—success—until she falls ...
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We Are All So Good at Smiling
by
Amber McBride
Feiwel & Friends, 01/10/2023
Whimsy is back in the hospital for treatment of clinical depression. When she meets a boy named Faerry, she recognizes they both have magic in the ...
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A Guest at the Feast: Essays
by
Colm Toibin
Scribner, 01/17/2023
"IT ALL STARTED WITH MY BALLS." So begins Colm Tóibín's fabulously compelling essay, laced with humor, about his diagnosis and treatment for...
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And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
by
Henry Marsh
St. Martin's Press, 01/17/2023
As a retired brain surgeon, Henry Marsh thought he understood illness, but he was unprepared for the impact of his diagnosis of advanced cancer.
And ...more
As You Walk On By
by
Julian Winters
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 01/17/2023
Seventeen-year-old Theo Wright has it all figured out. His plan (well, more like his dad's plan) is a foolproof strategy that involves exceling at his...
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Black and Female: Essays
by
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Graywolf Press, 01/17/2023
In
Black and Female, Tsitsi Dangarembga examines the legacy of imperialism on her own life and on every aspect of black embodied African life.
This...
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Decent People
by
De'Shawn Charles Winslow
Bloomsbury Publishing, 01/17/2023
In the still-segregated town of West Mills, North Carolina, in 1976, Marian, Marva, and Lazarus Harmon - three enigmatic siblings -&#...
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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone: A Novel
by
Benjamin Stevenson
Mariner Books, 01/17/2023
Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the ...
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Forbidden Notebook: A Novel
by
Alba de Céspedes
Astra House, 01/17/2023
In this modern translation by acclaimed Elena Ferrante translator Ann Goldstein,
Forbidden Notebook centers the inner life of a dissatisfied housewife...
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I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
by
Kidada E. Williams
Bloomsbury USA, 01/17/2023
The story of Reconstruction is often told from the perspective of the politicians, generals, and journalists whose accounts claim an outsized place in...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Independence: A Novel
by
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
William Morrow, 01/17/2023
India, 1947.
In a rural village in Bengal live three sisters, daughters of a well-respected doctor.
Priya: intelligent and idealistic, resolved ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
by
Nicklas Brendborg
Little Brown & Company, 01/17/2023
Recent advances in medicine and technology have expanded our understanding of aging across the animal kingdom, and our own timeless quest for the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
by
Ilyon Woo
Simon & Schuster, 01/17/2023
In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
One Last Shot: Based on a True Story of Wartime Heroism: The Story of Wartime Photographer Gerda Taro
by
Kip Wilson
Versify, 01/17/2023
The daughter of Polish Jewish immigrants, Gerta Pohorylle doesn't quite fit in with her German classmates. While she's away at boarding school, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy
by
Laurent Richard, Sandrine Rigaud
Henry Holt and Company, 01/17/2023
Pegasus is widely regarded as the most effective and sought-after cyber-surveillance system on the market. The system's creator, the NSO Group, a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Rikers: An Oral History
by
Graham Rayman
Random House, 01/17/2023
What happens when you pack almost a dozen jails, bulging at the seams with society's cast-offs, onto a spit of landfill purposefully hidden from ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Love of My Life: A Novel
by
Rosie Walsh
Penguin Books, 01/17/2023
Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she'd do anything for them. But almost everything she's told them about herself is a lie.
...
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The Sense of Wonder: A Novel
by
Matthew Salesses
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 01/17/2023
An Asian American basketball star walks into a gym. No one recognizes him, but everyone stares anyway. It is the start of a joke but what is the ...
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The Words That Remain
by
Stênio Gardel
New Vessel Press, 01/17/2023
A letter has beckoned to Raimundo since he received it over fifty years ago from his youthful passion, handsome Cícero. But having grown up in an...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sundressed: Natural Fabrics and the Future of Clothing
by
Lucianne Tonti
Island Press, 01/19/2023
For conscious consumers, buying clothes has never been more complicated. Even as fashion brands tout their sustainability, the industry is plagued by ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System
by
Jeff Hobbs
Scribner, 01/24/2023
There has been very little written about juvenile detention and the path to justice. For many kids, a mistake made at age thirteen or fourteen—...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Fieldwork: A Forager's Memoir
by
Iliana Regan
Agate Midway, 01/24/2023
Not long after Iliana Regan's celebrated debut,
Burn the Place, became the first food-related title in four decades to become a National Book Award ...
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How Medicine Works and When it Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy
by
F. Perry Wilson MD
Grand Central Publishing, 01/24/2023
We live in an age of medical miracles. Never in the history of humankind has so much talent and energy been harnessed to cure disease. So why does it ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust
by
Richard Hurowitz
Harper, 01/24/2023
Less than a century ago, the Second World War took the lives of more than fifty million people; more than six million of them were systematically ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Margot: A Novel
by
Wendell Steavenson
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/24/2023
It's the mid-1950s and Margot Thornsen is growing up between a Park Avenue apartment in New York and her family's sumptuous Oyster Bay estate as the ...
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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
by
Caroline Dodds Pennock
Knopf, 01/24/2023
We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the "Old World" encountered the "New", when Christopher Columbus "discovered...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Birthday Party
by
Laurent Mauvignier
Transit Books, 01/24/2023
Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: ...
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The Buried and the Bound: The Buried and the Bound Trilogy # 1
by
Rochelle Hassan
Roaring Brook Press, 01/24/2023
As the only hedgewitch in Blackthorn, Massachusetts―an uncommonly magical place―Aziza El-Amin has bargained with wood nymphs, rescued palm...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Chinese Groove: A Novel
by
Kathryn Ma
Counterpoint Press, 01/24/2023
Eighteen-year-old Shelley, born into a much-despised branch of the Zheng family in Yunnan Province and living in the shadow of his widowed father's ...
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The End of Drum-Time: A Novel
by
Hanna Pylväinen
Henry Holt and Company, 01/24/2023
In 1851, at a remote village in the Scandinavian tundra, a Lutheran minister known as Mad Lasse tries in vain to convert the native Sámi reindeer...
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The Faraway World: Stories
by
Patricia Engel
Avid Reader Press, 01/24/2023
Two Colombian expats meet as strangers on the rainy streets of New York City, both burdened with traumatic pasts. In Cuba, a woman discovers her ...
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The Guest Lecture
by
Martin Riker
Grove Press, 01/24/2023
In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to her sleeping husband and daughter. Anxious that she ...
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The Last Pomegranate Tree
by
Ali Bachtyar
Archipelago Books, 01/24/2023
"Whenever he told lies, the birds would fly away. It had been that way since he was a child. Whenever he told a lie, something strange would happen."
...
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The Twyford Code: A Novel
by
Janice Hallett
Atria Books, 01/24/2023
Forty years ago, Steven "Smithy" Smith found a copy of a famous children's book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, its margins full of strange ...
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What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
by
Dan Levitt
Harper, 01/24/2023
Every one of us contains a billion times more atoms than all the grains of sand in the earth's deserts. If you weigh 150 pounds, you've got enough ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
by
Siddharth Kara
St. Martin's Press, 01/31/2023
Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Collected Works
by
Lydia Sandgren
Astra House, 01/31/2023
Martin Berg's wife, Cecilia, disappeared years ago. His memories of their carefree college days seem ever out of reach, and the intellectual ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Heart Bones: A Novel
by
Colleen Hoover
Atria Books, 01/31/2023
After a childhood filled with poverty and neglect, Beyah Grim finally has her hard-earned ticket out of Kentucky with a full ride to Penn State. But ...
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Romance
Maame: A Novel
by
Jessica George
St. Martin's Press, 01/31/2023
Maame (ma-meh) has many meanings in Twi but in my case, it means woman.
It's fair to say that Maddie's life in London is far from rewarding. With a...
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My Father's House: The Rome Escape Line Trilogy #1
by
Joseph O’Connor
Europa Editions, 01/31/2023
September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. Gestapo boss Obersturmbannführer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. Hunger is widespread. Rumors fester...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Play the Game
by
Charlene Allen
Katherine Tegan Books, 01/31/2023
In the game of life, sometimes other people hold all the controls. Or so it seems to VZ. Four months have passed since his best friend Ed was killed ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Promise Boys
by
Nick Brooks
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, 01/31/2023
The Urban Promise Prep School vows to turn boys into men. As students, J.B., Ramón, and Trey are forced to follow the prestigious "program's" ...
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Quiet: Poems
by
Victoria Adukwei Bulley
Knopf, 01/31/2023
How does one encounter meaning amid so many kinds of noise? What is quiet when it isn't silence? Where does quiet exist—and what liberating ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Reckoning
by
V (formerly Eve Ensler)
Bloomsbury USA, 01/31/2023
The newest book from V (formerly Eve Ensler),
Reckoning invites you to travel the journey of a writer's and activist's life and process over forty ...
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Tomb of Sand: A Novel
by
Geetanjali Shree
HarperVia, 01/31/2023
"A tale tells itself. It can be complete, but also incomplete, the way all tales are. This particular tale has a border and women who come and go as ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Vampire Weekend: A Novel
by
Mike Chen
Mira Books, 01/31/2023
Everything you've heard about vampires is a lie. They can't fly. No murders allowed (the community hates that). And turning into a bat? Completely ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (History of the American West)
by
Elliott West
University of Nebraska Press, 02/01/2023
In the 1840s, by which time the United States had expanded to the Pacific, what would become the West was home to numerous vibrant Native cultures and...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Meru (The Alloy Era)
by
S.B. Divya
47North, 02/01/2023
For five centuries, human life has been restricted to Earth, while posthuman descendants called alloys freely explore the galaxy. But when the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back
by
Bruce Schneier
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/07/2023
A hack is any means of subverting a system's rules in unintended ways. The tax code isn't computer code, but a series of complex formulas. It has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All
by
Adam Benforado
Crown, 02/07/2023
At the dawn of the twentieth century, a bright new age for children appeared on the horizon, with progress on ending child labor, providing public ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Abyss
by
Pilar Quintana
World Editions, 02/07/2023
Claudia is an impressionable eight-year-old girl, trying to understand the world through the eyes of the adults around her. But her hardworking father...
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B.F.F.: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found
by
Christie Tate
Avid Reader Press, 02/07/2023
After more than a decade of dead-end dates and dysfunctional relationships, Christie Tate has reclaimed her voice and settled down. Her days of ...
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Big Swiss: A Novel
by
Jen Beagin
Scribner, 02/07/2023
Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house, built in 1737, is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full ...
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Cold People
by
Tom Rob Smith
Scribner, 02/07/2023
The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, ...
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Daughters of Oduma
by
Moses Ose Utomi
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 02/07/2023
Eat. Dance. Fight.
This is the life of the girls who compete in the Isle's elite, all-female fighting sport of Bowing. But it isn't really Dirt's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Eastbound
by
Maylis De Kerangal
Archipelago Books, 02/07/2023
Eastbound is both an adventure story and a duet of two vibrant inner worlds.
In mysterious, winding sentences gorgeously translated by Jessica ...
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I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever
by
Barbara Rae-Venter
Ballantine Books, 02/07/2023
For twelve years the Golden State Killer terrorized California, stalking victims and killing without remorse. Then he simply disappeared, for the next...
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Critics' Consensus:
True Crime
Debut Author
Looking for Jane: A Novel
by
Heather Marshall
Atria Books, 02/07/2023
2017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, she is determined to find the intended recipient. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Maureen: A Harold Fry Novel
by
Rachel Joyce
Dial Press, 02/07/2023
Only she can finish the journey her husband started.
Maureen and Harold Fry have settled into a quiet life, but when an unexpected message from the...
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My Nemesis
by
Charmaine Craig
Grove Press, 02/07/2023
Tessa is a successful writer who develops a friendship, first by correspondence and then in person, with Charlie, a ruggedly handsome philosopher and ...
more
Saying It Loud: 1966 - The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement
by
Mark Whitaker
Simon & Schuster, 02/07/2023
In gripping, novelistic detail,
Saying It Loud tells the story of how the Black Power phenomenon began to challenge the traditional civil rights ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Someone Else's Shoes: A Novel
by
Jojo Moyes
Pamela Dorman Books, 02/07/2023
Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else's shoes?
Nisha Cantor lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her ...
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Stone Blind: A Novel
by
Natalie Haynes
Harper, 02/07/2023
They will fear you and flee you and call you a monster.
The only mortal in a family of gods, Medusa is the youngest of the Gorgon sisters. Unlike ...
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The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir
by
Priscilla Gilman
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/07/2023
Growing up on the Upper West Side of New York City in the 1970s, in an apartment filled with dazzling literary and artistic characters, Priscilla ...
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The Spite House: A Novel
by
Johnny Compton
Tor Nightfire, 02/07/2023
Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife, his house, his whole life behind in Maryland, he's...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Wise Hours: A Journey into the Wild and Secret World of Owls
by
Miriam Darlington
Tin House Books, 02/07/2023
Owls have existed for over sixty million years, and in the relatively short time we have shared the planet with these majestic birds they have ignited...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Western Lane: A Novel
by
Chetna Maroo
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/07/2023
Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
When Trying to Return Home: Stories
by
Jennifer Maritza McCauley
Counterpoint Press, 02/07/2023
Profoundly moving and powerful, the stories in
When Trying to Return Home dig deeply into the question of belonging. A young woman is torn between ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy
by
Steven Powell
Bloomsbury Publishing, 02/09/2023
Love Me Fierce In Danger is the story of James Ellroy, one of the most provocative and singular figures in American literature. The so-called "Demon ...
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Biography/Memoir
A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars
by
Erin Sharkey
Milkweed Editions, 02/14/2023
What are the politics of nature? Who owns it, where is it, what role does it play in our lives? Does it need to be tamed? Are we ourselves natural? In...
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Always the Almost
by
Edward Underhill
Wednesday Books, 02/14/2023
Sixteen-year-old trans boy Miles Jacobson has two New Year's resolutions: 1) win back his ex-boyfriend (and star of the football team) Shane McIntyre,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Black Wolf: A Novel
by
Kathleen Kent
Mulholland, 02/14/2023
It is 1990 when Melvina Donleavy arrives in Soviet Belarus on her first undercover mission with the CIA, alongside three fellow agents—none of ...
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Bloody Martini: Felonious Monk Mysteries #2
by
William Kotzwinkle
Blackstone Publishing, 02/14/2023
Coalville is on fire—from below. The old mines are burning, and everyone has poison gas in their brain. Maybe that's why the town is so corrupt....
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Gone Like Yesterday: A Novel
by
Janelle M. Williams
Tiny Reparations, 02/14/2023
Gone Like Yesterday follows two Black women—Zahra, a listless college prep coach, and Sammie, a teenage girl and budding activist soon off to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Iron Curtain: A Love Story
by
Vesna Goldsworthy
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/14/2023
Milena Urbanska is a red princess living in a Soviet satellite state in the 1980s. She enjoys limitless luxury and limited freedom; the end of the ...
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Lying Beside You: Cyrus Haven Series #3
by
Michael Robotham
Scribner, 02/14/2023
If I could tell you one thing about my brother, it would be this. Two days after his nineteenth birthday, he killed our parents and twin sisters ...more
My Flawless Life
by
Yvonne Woon
Katherine Tegan Books, 02/14/2023
At the most elite private school in Washington, DC., whenever anyone has a problem that they need to go away, they hire Hana Yang Lerner.
Hana is a...
more
On the Savage Side: A Novel
by
Tiffany McDaniel
Knopf, 02/14/2023
Arcade and Daffodil are twins born one minute apart. With their fiery red hair and thirst for escape, they form an unbreakable bond nurtured by their ...
more
Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable
by
Joanna Schwartz
Viking, 02/14/2023
In recent years, the high-profile murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many others have brought much-needed attention to the pervasiveness ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Stone Cold Fox
by
Rachel Koller Croft
Berkley Books, 02/14/2023
Like any enterprising woman, Bea knows what she's worth and is determined to get all she deserves—it just so happens that what she deserves is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets
by
Matthew Connelly
Pantheon Books, 02/14/2023
Before World War II, transparent government was a proud tradition in the United States. In all but the most serious of circumstances, classification, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride: A Novel
by
Roshani Chokshi
William Morrow, 02/14/2023
Once upon a time, a man who believed in fairy tales married a beautiful, mysterious woman named Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada. He was a scholar of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Sun Walks Down: A Novel
by
Fiona McFarlane
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/14/2023
In September 1883, a small town in the South Australian outback huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny Wallace has gone missing ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
World Running Down
by
Al Hess
Angry Robot, 02/14/2023
Valentine Weis is a salvager in the future wastelands of Utah. Wrestling with body dysphoria, he dreams of earning enough money to afford citizenship ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Arch-Conspirator
by
Veronica Roth
Tor Books, 02/21/2023
Outside the last city on Earth, the planet is a wasteland. Without the Archive, where the genes of the dead are stored, humanity will end.
Passing ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Don't Know Tough
by
Eli Cranor
Soho Crime, 02/21/2023
In Denton, Arkansas, the fate of the high school football team rests on the shoulders of Billy Lowe, a volatile but talented running back. Billy comes...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Empty Theatre: A Novel: or The Lives of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Sisi of Austria (Queen of Hungary), Cousins, in Their Pursuit of Connection and Beauty...
by
Jac Jemc
MCD, 02/21/2023
History knows them as King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Elizabeth of Austria, icons of the late nineteenth century who died young and left behind ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
French Braid: A novel
by
Anne Tyler
Vintage, 02/21/2023
The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways they have never been ...
more
I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance, and History
by
Emmanuel Iduma
Algonquin Books, 02/21/2023
In inimitable, rhythmic prose, the author and winner of the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize Emmanuel Iduma tells the story of his return to Nigeria...
more
Last Chance Dance
by
Lakita Wilson
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 02/21/2023
Leila is crushed when Dev, her boyfriend of four years, breaks up with her right before graduation. Just when she's thinking she wasted her entire ...
more
Last On His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century
by
Youssef Daoudi
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 02/21/2023
On the morning of July 4, 1910, thousands of boxing fans stormed a newly built stadium in Reno, Nevada, to witness an epic showdown. Jack Johnson, the...
more
Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
by
Michael Schulman
Harper, 02/21/2023
America does not have royalty. It has the Academy Awards. For nine decades, perfectly coiffed starlets, debonair leading men, and producers with gold ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Scorched Grace: A Sister Holiday Mystery
by
Margot Douaihy
Gillian Flynn Books/Zando, 02/21/2023
When Saint Sebastian's School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding New Orleans ...
more
Tell Me Good Things: On Love, Death, and Marriage
by
James Runcie
Bloomsbury Publishing, 02/21/2023
In early 2020, as the world sunk into the pandemic, James Runcie and his wife Marilyn Imrie were going through a different, far more personal tragedy....
more
Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals
by
Christopher J. Preston
MIT Press, 02/21/2023
The news about wildlife is dire—more than 900 species have been wiped off the planet since industrialization. Against this bleak backdrop, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Education of Kendrick Perkins: A Memoir
by
Kendrick Perkins
St. Martin's Press, 02/21/2023
Abandoned by his father, then orphaned after the murder of his mother, Perk was raised by his grandparents in a small Texas town. He left their home ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph
by
Oksana Masters
Scribner, 02/21/2023
Oksana Masters was born in Ukraine—in the shadow of Chernobyl—seemingly with the world against her. She was born with one kidney, a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Red Balcony: A Novel
by
Jonathan Wilson
Schocken Books, 02/21/2023
It's 1933, and Ivor Castle, Oxford-educated and Jewish, arrives in Palestine to take up a position as assistant to the defense counsel in the trial of...
more
The Sum of Us: How Racism Hurts Everyone (Adapted for Young Readers)
by
Heather McGhee
Delacorte Press, 02/21/2023
The future
can be prosperous for everyone, but only if we address the problems of racial and economic inequality.
McGhee believes that all people, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Woman with the Cure
by
Lynn Cullen
Berkley Books, 02/21/2023
She gave up everything — and changed the world.
In 1940s and '50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. No one's life is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The World Itself: Consciousness and the Everything of Physics
by
Ulf Danielsson
Bellevue Literary Press, 02/21/2023
Can we ever truly comprehend the universe before we fully understand consciousness and the wonders, and limits, of the mind? Ulf Danielsson, an ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Writing Retreat: A Novel
by
Julia Bartz
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 02/21/2023
Alex has all but given up on her dreams of becoming a published author when she receives a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: attend an exclusive, month-...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir
by
Raja Shehadeh
Other Press, 02/21/2023
Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja. In this new ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A First Time for Everything
by
Dan Santat
First Second, 02/28/2023
Dan's always been a good kid. The kind of kid who listens to his teachers, helps his mom with grocery shopping, and stays out of trouble. But being a ...
more
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia
by
Simon Garfield
William Morrow, 02/28/2023
The encyclopedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, a good set conveyed a...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
An Autobiography of Skin: A Novel
by
Lakiesha Carr
Pantheon Books, 02/28/2023
Heat. Fire. Rain so blue. The blackness. The color of our hue.
A middle-aged woman feeds slots at a secret, back-room parlor. A new mother descends...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Black Candle Women: A Novel
by
Diane Marie Brown
Graydon House, 02/28/2023
Generations of Montrose women—Augusta, Victoria, Willow—have lived together in their quaint two-story bungalow in California for ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America's Blood Industry
by
Kathleen McLaughlin
Atria Books, 02/28/2023
Journalist Kathleen McLaughlin knew she'd found a treatment that worked on her rare autoimmune disorder. She had no idea it had been drawn from the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
by
Sathnam Sanghera
Pantheon Books, 02/28/2023
Empire—whether British or otherwise—informs nearly everything we do. From common thought to our daily routines; from the foundations of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Go as a River: A Novel
by
Shelley Read
Spiegel & Grau, 02/28/2023
Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family's peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Colorado—the sole surviving ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Homestead: A Novel
by
Melinda Moustakis
Flatiron Books, 02/28/2023
Anchorage, 1956. When Marie and Lawrence first lock eyes at the Moose Lodge, they are immediately drawn together. But when they decide to marry, days ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
by
Cristina Rivera Garza
Hogarth Books, 02/28/2023
I seek justice, I finally said. I seek justice for my sister... . Sometimes it takes twenty-nine years to say it out loud, to say it out loud on a ...more
She Is a Haunting
by
Trang Thanh Tran
Bloomsbury YA, 02/28/2023
When Jade Nguyen arrives in Vietnam for a visit with her estranged father, she has one goal: survive five weeks pretending to be a happy family in the...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi: A Novel
by
Shannon Chakraborty
Harper Voyager, 02/28/2023
Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean's most notorious pirates, she's survived ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Magician's Daughter
by
H. G. Parry
Redhook, 02/28/2023
Off the coast of Ireland sits a legendary island hidden by magic. A place of ruins and ancient trees, sea salt air, and fairy lore, Hy-Brasil is the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Wicked Bargain
by
Gabe Cole Novoa
Random House Books for Younger Readers, 02/28/2023
On Mar León de la Rosa's sixteenth birthday, el Diablo comes calling. Mar is a transmasculine nonbinary teen pirate hiding a magical ability to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Woman Who Climbed Trees: A Novel
by
Smriti Ravindra
HarperVia, 02/28/2023
"Is this a ghost story?" Meena asked the barber's wife who told the tale. "I don't want to hear scary stories one night before I marry."
"Not all ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories
by
Thomas Mann
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 02/28/2023
A towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth-century literature, Thomas Mann has often been perceived as a dry and forbidding writer―"the ...
more
We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds
by
Ms. Sally Adee
Hachette Books, 02/28/2023
You may be familiar with the idea of our body's biome: the bacterial fauna that populate our gut and can so profoundly affect our health. In
We Are ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood
by
Tanya Frank
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/28/2023
One night in 2009, Tanya Frank finds her nineteen-year-old son, Zach―gentle and full of promise―in the grip of what the psychiatrists ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Tripas: Poems (Georgia Review Books Ser.)
by
Brandon Som
Georgia Review Books, 03/01/2023
Enacting a cómo se dice poetics, a dialogic poem-making that inventively listens to heritage languages and transcribes family memory, Som ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA
by
Theresa Runstedtler
Bold Type Books, 03/07/2023
Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Confidence: A Novel
by
Rafael Frumkin
Simon & Schuster, 03/07/2023
At seventeen, Ezra Green doesn't have a lot going for him: he's shorter than average, snaggle-toothed, internet-addicted, and halfway to being legally...
more
Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: a Memoir
by
Michelle Dowd
Algonquin Books, 03/07/2023
My family prepared me for the end of the world, but I know how to survive on what the earth yields.
As a child, Michelle Dowd grew up on a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
From From: Poems
by
Monica Youn
Graywolf Press, 03/07/2023
"Where are you from …? No—where are you
from from?" It's a question every Asian American gets asked as part of an incessant chorus saying ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
In Limbo: A Graphic Memoir
by
Deb JJ Lee
First Second, 03/07/2023
Ever since Deborah (Jung-Jin) Lee emigrated from South Kora to the United States, she's felt her otherness.
For a while, her English wasn't perfect...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself
by
Monica Edinger
Zest Books, 03/07/2023
Millions of Africans were enslaved during the transatlantic slave trade, but few recorded their personal experiences. Olaudah Equiano's
The ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Sell Us the Rope
by
Stephen May
Bloomsbury USA, 03/07/2023
Instead, Koba, as he is known, arrives in London for the 5th Congress of the Russian Communist Party where he - and many of his fellow Bolsheviks - ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Curator
by
Owen King
Scribner, 03/07/2023
It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed "the Fairest", it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The God of Endings: A Novel
by
Jacqueline Holland
Flatiron Books, 03/07/2023
Collette LeSange has been hiding a dark truth: She is immortal. In 1834, Colette's grandfather granted her the gift of eternal life and since then, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Lost English Girl
by
Julia Kelly
Gallery Books, 03/07/2023
Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what's expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Mimicking of Known Successes
by
Malka Older
Tor.com, 03/07/2023
On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom
by
Larry Loftis
William Morrow, 03/07/2023
The Watchmaker's Daughter is one of the greatest stories of World War II that readers haven't heard: the remarkable and inspiring life story of Corrie...
more
Tina, Mafia Soldier
by
Maria Rosa Cutrufelli
Soho Crime, 03/07/2023
Sicily, 1980s: When she was just eight years old, Tina watched as her father, a member of Cosa Nostra, was murdered in cold blood. Now a teenager, she...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector
by
Amit Katwala
Crooked Lane Books, 03/07/2023
Late one evening in the summer of 1922, Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife's blood. But was he a grieving...
more
Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began
by
Leah Hazard
Ecco, 03/07/2023
The size of a clenched fist and the shape of a light bulb—with no less power and potential. Every person on Earth began inside a uterus, but how...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War
by
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
Knopf, 03/14/2023
The history of reportage has often depended on outsiders—Ryszard Kapuściński witnessing the fall of the shah in Iran, Frances ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bitter Medicine
by
Mia Tsai
Tachyon Publications, 03/14/2023
As a descendant of the Chinese god of medicine, ignored middle child Elle was destined to be a doctor. Instead, she is underemployed as a mediocre ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Dear Medusa: (A Novel in Verse)
by
Olivia A. Cole
Labyrinth Road, 03/14/2023
Sixteen-year-old Alicia Rivers has a reputation that precedes her. But there's more to her story than the whispers that follow her throughout the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Different for Boys
by
Patrick Ness
Walker & Company, 03/14/2023
Anthony "Ant" Stevenson isn't sure when he stopped being a virgin. Or even if he has. The rules aren't always very clear when it comes to boys who ...
more
Dust Child
by
Nguyen Phan Que Mai
Algonquin Books, 03/14/2023
In 1969, sisters Trang and Quỳnh, desperate to help their parents pay off debts, leave their rural village and become "bar girls" in Sài G&...
more
Feed Them Silence
by
Lee Mandelo
Tor.com, 03/14/2023
What does it mean to "be-in-kind" with a nonhuman animal? Or in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon's case, to be in-kind with one of the last remaining wild wolves?...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Flowerheart
by
Catherine Bakewell
HarperTeen, 03/14/2023
Clara's magic has always been wild. But it's never been dangerous. Then a simple touch causes poisonous flowers to bloom in her father's chest.
The...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Hello Beautiful: A Novel
by
Ann Napolitano
The Dial Press, 03/14/2023
William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him—so when he meets ...
more
Kunstlers in Paradise
by
Cathleen Schine
Henry Holt and Company, 03/14/2023
For years Mamie Künstler, ninety-three-years-old, as clever and glamorous as ever, has lived happily in her bungalow in Venice, California with ...
more
Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
by
Oliver Darkshire
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/14/2023
Welcome to Sotheran's, one of the oldest bookshops in the world, with its weird and wonderful clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabeled keys, ...
more
Our Best Intentions: A Novel
by
Vibhuti Jain
William Morrow, 03/14/2023
Babur "Bobby" Singh, single parent and owner of fledging Uber business "Move with Bobby," remains ever hopeful about ascending the ladder of American ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence
by
Paco Calvo with Natalie Lawrence
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/14/2023
Decades of research document plants' impressive abilities: they communicate with one another, manipulate other species, and move in sophisticated ways...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Stateless
by
Elizabeth Wein
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/14/2023
When Stella North is chosen to represent Britain in Europe's first air race for young people, she knows all too well how high the stakes are. As the ...
more
Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
by
Alexa Hagerty
Crown, 03/14/2023
"Exhumation can divide brothers and restore fathers, open old wounds and open the possibility of regeneration—of building something new with the...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring
by
Patti McCracken
William Morrow, 03/14/2023
The horror occurred in a rustic farming enclave in modern-day Hungary. To look at the unlikely lineup of murderesses—village wives, mothers, and...
more
Critics' Consensus:
True Crime
Debut Author
The Dog of the North: A Novel
by
Elizabeth McKenzie
Penguin Press, 03/14/2023
Penny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over; she's quit her job. Her mother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five years ago; ...
more
The Flames: A Novel
by
Sophie Haydock
The Overlook Press, 03/14/2023
Amid an opulent society living under the shadow of war are four muses, women whose bodies were shown in intimate detail, depicted by the charming yet ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Last Russian Doll
by
Kristen Loesch
Berkley Books, 03/14/2023
In a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land...
...a young girl lived happily in Moscow with her family: a sister, a father, and an eccentric mother ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Memory Eater
by
Rebecca Mahoney
Razorbill, 03/14/2023
For generations, a monster called the Memory Eater has lived in the caves of Whistler Beach, Maine, surviving off the unhappy memories of those who ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Next New Syrian Girl
by
Ream Shukairy
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/14/2023
Khadija Shami is a Syrian American high school senior raised on boxing and football. Saddled with a monstrous ego and a fierce mother to test it, she ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
by
M.D. Ricardo Nuila
Scribner, 03/14/2023
First, we meet Stephen, the restaurant franchise manager who signed up for his company's lowest priced plan, only to find himself facing ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Strangers' House: Writing Northern Ireland
by
Alexander Poots
Twelve Books, 03/14/2023
Northern Ireland is one hundred years old. Northern Ireland does not exist. Both of these statements are true. It just depends on who you ask. How do ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
by
Alexandra Robbins
Dutton, 03/14/2023
Alexandra Robbins goes behind the scenes to tell the true, sometimes shocking, always inspirational stories of three teachers as they navigate a year ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Walking Practice: A Novel
by
Dolki Min
HarperVia, 03/14/2023
After crashing their spacecraft in the middle of nowhere, a shapeshifting alien finds themself stranded on an unfamiliar planet and disabled by Earth'...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
by
Roxanna Asgarian
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/14/2023
On March 26, 2018, rescue workers discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and several children at the bottom of a cliff beside the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Wolf Trap: A Thriller
by
Connor Sullivan
Atria Books, 03/14/2023
Set a trap... See who comes.
Under the direction of the Special Activities Center in the Operations Directorate of the CIA, over three hundred ...
more
Thrillers
Brighter Than the Sun
by
Daniel Aleman
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/21/2023
Every morning, sixteen-year-old Sol wakes up at the break of dawn in her hometown of Tijuana, Mexico and makes the trip across the border to go to ...
more
Literary Fiction
Commitment: A Novel
by
Mona Simpson
Knopf, 03/21/2023
When Diane Aziz drives her oldest son, Walter, from Los Angeles to college at UC Berkeley, it will be her last parental act before falling into a deep...
more
Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal
by
Nathan Masters
Hachette Books, 03/21/2023
Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era's greatest political fiasco—one that resulted in a nationwide ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Flux
by
Jinwoo Chong
Melville House, 03/21/2023
Four days before Christmas, 8-year-old Bo loses his mother in a tragic accident, 28-year-old Brandon loses his job after a hostile takeover of his big...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice
by
Christine Kenneally
Public Affairs, 03/21/2023
For much of the twentieth century, a series of terrible events—abuse, both physical and psychological, and even deaths—took places inside ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How I'll Kill You
by
Ren DeStefano
Berkley Books, 03/21/2023
Make him want you.
Make him love you.
Make him dead.
Sissy has an...interesting family. Always the careful one, always the cautious one, she has ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Old God's Time: A Novel
by
Sebastian Barry
Viking, 03/21/2023
Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. ...
more
Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace
by
James T. Costa
Princeton University Press, 03/21/2023
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the Victorian age. His expeditions to remote Amazonia and southeast ...
more
The Lies of the Ajungo: The Forever Desert #1
by
Moses Ose Utomi
Tor.com, 03/21/2023
They say there is no water in the City of Lies. They say there are no heroes in the City of Lies. They say there are no friends beyond the City of ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
by
Bill Hammack
Sourcebooks, 03/21/2023
Bill Hammack, a Carl Sagan award-winning professor of engineering and viral "The Engineer Guy" on YouTube, has a lifelong passion for the things we ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Y/N: A Novel
by
Esther Yi
Astra House, 03/21/2023
It's as if her life only began once Moon appeared in it. The desultory copywriting work, the boyfriend, and the want of anything not-Moon quickly fall...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Brief History of Living Forever: A Novel
by
Jaroslav Kalfar
Little Brown & Company, 03/28/2023
When Adéla discovers she has a terminal illness, she leaves behind her native Czech village for a chance at reuniting in America with Tereza, the...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Death in Denmark: The First Gabriel Præst Novel
by
Amulya Malladi
William Morrow Paperbacks, 03/28/2023
Everyone in Denmark knew that Yousef Ahmed, a refugee from Iraq, brutally murdered the right-wing politician Sanne Melgaard. So, when part-time blues ...
more
Mysteries
A Door in the Dark
by
Scott Reintgen
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 03/28/2023
Ren Monroe has spent four years proving she's one of the best wizards in her generation. But top marks at Balmerick University will mean nothing if ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Birdgirl: Looking to the Skies in Search of a Better Future
by
Mya-Rose Craig
Celadon, 03/28/2023
Meet Mya-Rose – otherwise known as "Birdgirl." In her words: "Birdwatching has never felt like a hobby, or a pastime I can pick up and put down,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Girl Forgotten
by
April Henry
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/28/2023
Seventeen years ago, Layla Trello was murdered and her killer was never found. Enter true-crime fan Piper Gray who is determined to reopen Layla's ...
more
Mysteries
Hang the Moon: A Novel
by
Jeannette Walls
Scribner, 03/28/2023
Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who'd amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans.
Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Her Deadly Game
by
Robert Dugoni
Thomas & Mercer, 03/28/2023
Keera Duggan was building a solid reputation as a Seattle prosecutor, until her romantic relationship with a senior colleague ended badly. For the ...
more
How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
by
Clancy Martin
Pantheon Books, 03/28/2023
"If you're going to write a book about suicide, you have to be willing to say the true things, the scary things, the humiliating things. Because ...more
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
by
Sarah Bakewell
Penguin Press, 03/28/2023
Humanism is an expansive tradition of thought that places shared humanity, cultural vibrancy, and moral responsibility at the center of our lives. The...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Infinity Gate (The Pandominion, 1)
by
M. R. Carey
Orbit, 03/28/2023
INFINITY IS ONLY THE BEGINNING.
The Pandominion: a political and trading alliance of a million worlds – except that they're really just the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Lone Women: A Novel
by
Victor LaValle
One World, 03/28/2023
Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It's locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America
by
Abraham Riesman
Atria Books, 03/28/2023
Even if you've never watched a minute of professional wrestling, you are living in Vince McMahon's world.
In his four decades as the defining ...
more
Saints of the Household
by
Ari Tison
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/28/2023
Max and Jay have always depended on one another for their survival. Growing up with a physically abusive father, the two Bribri American brothers have...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy
by
Alex Mar
Penguin Press, 03/28/2023
On a spring afternoon in 1985 in Gary, Indiana, a fifteen-year-old girl kills an elderly woman in a violent home invasion. In a city with a history of...
more
Spin
by
Rebecca Caprara
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 03/28/2023
Sixteen-year-old Arachne is ostracized by all but her family and closest friend, Celandine. Turning to her loom for solace, Arachne learns to weave, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Strictly No Heroics
by
B. L. Radley
Feiwel & Friends, 03/28/2023
A Normie's guide to staying alive in Sunnylake City:
- Keep your head down.
- Don't make enemies.
- Strictly no heroics.
The world is run by those ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society
by
Dr. Arline T Geronimus
Little Brown & Company, 03/28/2023
America has woken up to what many of its citizens have known for centuries and to what public health statistics have evidenced for decades: systemic ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Where We Meet the World: The Story of the Senses
by
Ashley Ward
Basic Books, 03/28/2023
Our senses are what make life worth living. They allow us to appreciate a sip of an ice-cold drink, the sound of laughter, the touch of a lover. But ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
by
Kelly Link
Random House, 03/28/2023
Finding seeds of inspiration in the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly Link spins classic fairy tales into ...
more
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
by
Jesse Q. Sutanto
HQ Digital, 03/30/2023
Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy 'detective' work on ...
more
Mysteries
An Appetite for Miracles
by
Laekan Zea Kemp
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 04/04/2023
Danna Mendoza Villarreal's grandfather is slowly losing himself as his memories fade, and Danna's not sure her plan to help him remember through the ...
more
Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey
by
Robert 'Mack' McCormick
Smithsonian Institution Press, 04/04/2023
When blues master Robert Johnson's little-known recordings were rereleased to great fanfare in the 1960s, little was known about his life, giving rise...
more
Blanche: The Life and Times of Tennessee Williams's Greatest Creation
by
Nancy Schoenberger
Harper, 04/04/2023
Ever since Jessica Tandy glided onto the stage in Tennessee Williams's
A Streetcar Named Desire at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 1947, Blanche DuBois...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Blood Debts: Blood Debts #1
by
Terry J. Benton-Walker
Tor Teen, 04/04/2023
Gods meddle and magic will betray you, but this time justice will reign.
Thirty years ago, a young woman was murdered, a family was lynched, and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Camp Zero: A Novel
by
Michelle Min Sterling
Atria Books, 04/04/2023
In the far north of Canada sits Camp Zero, an American building project hiding many secrets.
Desperate to help her climate-displaced Korean ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300
by
Peter Heather
Knopf, 04/04/2023
In the fourth century AD, a new faith grew out of Palestine, overwhelming the paganism of Rome and resoundingly defeating a host of other rival belief...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Enter Ghost
by
Isabella Hammad
Grove Press, 04/04/2023
After years away from her family's homeland, and healing from an affair with an established director, stage actress Sonia Nasir returns to Palestine ...
more
Forget Me Not
by
Alyson Derrick
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 04/04/2023
What would you do if you forgot the love of your life ever even existed?
Stevie and Nora had a love. A secret, epic, once-in-a-lifetime kind of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Funeral Songs for Dying Girls
by
Cherie Dimaline
Tundra Books, 04/04/2023
Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium all her life, close to her mother's grave....
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing
by
Dionne Ford
Bold Type Books, 04/04/2023
Countless Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the enslavers who bought and sold their ancestors. Among them is Dionne Ford, whose ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Homecoming: A Novel
by
Kate Morton
Mariner Books, 04/04/2023
Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of the grand and mysterious house, a local ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
If I Betray These Words: Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It's So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First
by
Wendy Dean
Steerforth Press, 04/04/2023
Offering examples of how to make medicine better for the healers and those they serve,
If I Betray These Words profiles clinicians across the country ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Natural Beauty: A Novel
by
Ling Ling Huang
Dutton, 04/04/2023
Our narrator produces a sound from the piano no one else at the Conservatory can. She employs a technique she learned from her parents—also ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The All-American: A Novel
by
Joe Milan Jr.
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/04/2023
A debut novel grappling with contested American identity, masculinity, and deportation, told in one of the most memorable adolescent voices in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The People Who Report More Stress: Stories
by
Alejandro Varela
Astra House, 04/04/2023
The People Who Report More Stress is a collection of interconnected stories brimming with the anxieties of people who retreat into themselves while ...
more
The Society of Shame
by
Jane Roper
Anchor Books, 04/04/2023
Kathleen Held's life is turned upside down when she arrives home to find her house on fire and her husband on the front lawn in his underwear. But the...
more
The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War
by
Chad L. Williams
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/04/2023
When W. E. B. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship and democratic change, encouraged African Americans to "close ranks" and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
by
Rory Carroll
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/04/2023
A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded at 2:54 a.m. on October 12, 1984. It was the last day of the Conservative Party Conference at the...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
This is Not Miami
by
Fernanda Melchor
New Directions Publishing, 04/04/2023
Set in and around the Mexican city of Veracruz,
This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories―spiraling from real events―that...
more
You Know Her: A Novel
by
Meagan Jennett
MCD, 04/04/2023
Two hours before he vanished, Mark Dixon stole a glass of wine. That's what bartender Sophie Braam told the cops when they questioned her about the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
From Unincorporated Territory [åmot]
by
Craig Santos Perez
Omnidawn Publishing, 04/05/2023
This book is the fifth collection in Craig Santos Perez's ongoing from unincorporated territory series about the history of his homeland, the western ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime
by
Anjan Sundaram
Catapult, 04/11/2023
After ten years of reporting from central Africa for
The New York Times,
Associated Press, and others, Anjan Sundaram finds himself living a quiet ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History
by
Benjamin Balint
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/11/2023
The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole, and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, ...
more
Calling Ukraine: A Novel
by
Johannes Lichtman
Marysue Rucci Books, 04/11/2023
Shortly after his thirtieth birthday, John Turner receives a call from an old college friend who makes him an odd job offer: move to Ukraine to teach ...
more
Harvest House
by
Cynthia Leitich Smith
Candlewick Press, 04/11/2023
Deftly leading readers to the literary crossroads of contemporary realism and haunting mystery, Cynthia Leitich Smith revisits the world of her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs
by
Mary Louise Kelly
Henry Holt and Company, 04/11/2023
The time for do-overs is over.
Ever since she became a parent, Mary Louise Kelly has said "next year." Next year will be the year she makes it to ...
more
Last House Before the Mountain
by
Monika Helfer
Bloomsbury USA, 04/11/2023
Maria and Josef live with their children in a valley in westernmost Austria. When the First World War breaks out and Josef is drafted into the army, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Life and Other Love Songs
by
Anissa Gray
Berkley Books, 04/11/2023
It's a warm, bright October afternoon, and Ozro Armstead walks out into the brilliant sunshine on his thirty-seventh birthday. At home, his wife ...
more
Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore's Deadliest Gang Leader
by
Mark Bowden
Atlantic Monthly Press, 04/11/2023
Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighborhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its nickname Bodymore, Murderland, and was made notorious by David ...
more
Pomegranate: A Novel
by
Helen Elaine Lee
Atria Books, 04/11/2023
Ranita Atwater is "getting short."
She is almost done with her four-year sentence for opiate possession at Oak Hills Correctional Center. With ...
more
Some Desperate Glory
by
Emily Tesh
Tor Books, 04/11/2023
While we live, the enemy shall fear us.
Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
by
Jonathan Healey
Knopf, 04/11/2023
The seventeenth century was a revolutionary age for the English. It started as they suddenly found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and it ended in the...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Dead are Gods
by
Eirinie Carson
Melville House, 04/11/2023
After an unexpected phone call on an early morning in 2018, writer and model Eirinie Carson learned of her best friend Larissa's death. In the wake of...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho: A Novel
by
Paterson Joseph
Henry Holt and Company, 04/11/2023
It's 1746 and Georgian London is not a safe place for a young Black man. Charles Ignatius Sancho must dodge slave catchers and worse, and his main ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew
by
Daniel Wallace
Algonquin Books, 04/11/2023
If we're lucky, we all encounter at least one person whose life elevates and inspires our own. For acclaimed novelist Daniel Wallace, he had one hero ...
more
Throwback
by
Maurene Goo
Zando, 04/11/2023
Moms.
More complicated than an origin story ...
Samantha Kang has always butted heads with her mom. Priscilla is first-generation Korean American...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
True West: Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times
by
Robert Greenfield
Crown, 04/11/2023
True West: Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times is the story of an American icon, a lasting portrait of Sam Shepard as he really was, revealed by those...
more
A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England
by
Vanessa Wilkie
Atria Books, 04/18/2023
Alice Spencer was born in 1560 to a family on the rise. Her grandfather had amassed a sizeable estate of fertile grazing land and made a small fortune...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Adelaide: A Novel
by
Genevieve Wheeler
St. Martin's Press, 04/18/2023
In love...
For twenty-six-year-old Adelaide Williams, an American living in dreamy London, meeting Rory Hughes was like a lightning bolt out of the...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Alondra
by
Gina Femia
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/18/2023
Sixteen-year-old Alonda loves professional wrestling. So when she meets a group of teens with aspirations of wrestling fame in her Coney Island ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
City of Dreams: A Novel (City, 2)
by
Don Winslow
William Morrow, 04/18/2023
Hollywood.
The city where dreams are made.
On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime war, Danny Ryan is now on the run. The Mafia, the ...
more
Fire Rush: A Novel
by
Jacqueline Crooks
Viking, 04/18/2023
Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she goes raving with her friends, the "Tombstone Estate gyals," at The Crypt, an underground dub reggae club in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
by
Hadley Freeman
Simon & Schuster, 04/18/2023
In 1995, Hadley Freeman wrote in her diary: "I just spent three years of my life in mental hospitals. So why am I crazier than I was before????"
...
more
Greek Lessons: A Novel
by
Han Kang
Hogarth Books, 04/18/2023
"Now and then, language would thrust its way into her sleep like a skewer through meat, startling her awake several times a night."
In a classroom ...
more
I Kick and I Fly
by
Ruchira Gupta
Scholastic, 04/18/2023
On the outskirts of the Red Light District in Bihar, India, fourteen-year-old Heera is living on borrowed time until her father sells her into the sex...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
If We're Being Honest: A Novel
by
Cat Shook
Celadon, 04/18/2023
When Gerry, the beloved Williams patriarch, dies suddenly, his grandchildren flock from across the country to the family home in Eulalia, Georgia. But...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Juno Loves Legs: A Novel
by
Karl Geary
Catapult, 04/18/2023
Juno Loves Legs is the story of two teens labeled as delinquents. Juno and "Legs" grow up on the same housing estate in Dublin, where spirited, ...
more
Kantika: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Graver
Metropolitan Books, 04/18/2023
A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family's displacement across four countries,
Kantika—"song" in Ladino—follows the joys and losses of ...
more
My Cousin Maria Schneider: A Memoir
by
Vanessa Schneider
Scribner, 04/18/2023
The late French actress Maria Schneider is perhaps best known for playing Jeanne in the provocative film
Last Tango in Paris, directed by Bernardo ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
by
Jonathan Kennedy
Crown, 04/18/2023
According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Remedies for Sorrow: An Extraordinary Child, a Secret Kept from Pregnant Women, and a Mother's Pursuit of the Truth
by
Megan Nix
Doubleday, 04/18/2023
After a seemingly uneventful pregnancy, Megan Nix's second daughter, Anna, was born very small and profoundly deaf. Megan and her husband, Luke, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club: A Novel
by
J. Ryan Stradal
Pamela Dorman Books, 04/18/2023
Mariel Prager needs a break. Her husband Ned is having an identity crisis, her spunky, beloved restaurant is bleeding money by the day, and her mother...
more
Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm
by
David Mas Masumoto
Red Hen Press, 04/18/2023
She then became a "ward" of the state. We believed she had died, but 70 years later found her alive and living a few miles from our family farm. How ...
more
Sisters of the Lost Nation
by
Nick Medina
Berkley Books, 04/18/2023
Anna Horn is always looking over her shoulder. For the bullies who torment her, for the entitled visitors at the reservation's casino…and for ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Symphony of Secrets: A novel
by
Brendan Slocumb
Anchor Books, 04/18/2023
Bern Hendricks has just received the call of a lifetime. As one of the world's preeminent experts on the famed twentieth-century composer Frederick ...
more
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
by
Jonathan Rosen
Penguin Press, 04/18/2023
When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable. Both children of college professors, the boys ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
by
Peter Frankopan
Knopf, 04/18/2023
Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Marigold
by
Andrew F. Sullivan
ECW Press, 04/18/2023
The Marigold, a gleaming Toronto condo tower, sits a half-empty promise: a stack of scuffed rental suites and undelivered amenities that crumbles ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
by
Jaime Green
Hanover Square Press, 04/18/2023
One of the most powerful questions humans ask about the cosmos is: Are we alone? While the science behind this inquiry is fascinating, it doesn't ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
by
David Grann
Doubleday, 04/18/2023
On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Weeds: A Novel
by
Katy Simpson Smith
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/18/2023
A Mississippi woman pushes through the ruin of the Roman Colosseum, searching for plants. She has escaped her life, signed up to catalog all the ...
more
Who Cries for the Lost: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery
by
C. S. Harris
Berkley Books, 04/18/2023
June 1815. The people of London wait, breathlessly, for news as Napoleon and the forces united against him hurtle toward their final reckoning at ...
more
Ascension: A Novel
by
Nicholas Binge
Riverhead Books, 04/25/2023
An enormous snow-covered mountain has appeared in the Pacific Ocean. No one knows when exactly it showed up, precisely how big it might be, or how to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
For You and Only You: A Joe Goldberg Novel
by
Caroline Kepnes
Random House, 04/25/2023
Joe Goldberg is ready for a change. Instead of selling books, he's writing them. And he's off to a good start. Glenn Shoddy, an acclaimed literary ...
more
Hungry Ghost
by
Victoria Ying
First Second, 04/25/2023
Valerie Chu is quiet, studious, and above all, thin. No one, not even her best friend Jordan, knows that she has been binging and purging for years. ...
more
Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist
by
Larry Rohter
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/25/2023
Cândido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped ...
more
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
by
Simon Winchester
Harper, 04/25/2023
With the advent of the internet, any topic we want to know about is instantly available with the touch of a smartphone button. With so much knowledge ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
by
Claire Dederer
Knopf, 04/25/2023
In this unflinching, deeply personal book that expands on her instantly viral
Paris Review essay, "What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?" ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
by
Ava Chin
Penguin Press, 04/25/2023
As the only child of a single mother in Queens, Ava Chin found her family's origins to be shrouded in mystery. She had never met her father, and her ...
more
Ordinary Notes
by
Christina Sharpe
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/25/2023
A singular achievement,
Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248...
more
Salvage This World: A Novel
by
Michael Farris Smith
Little Brown & Company, 04/25/2023
There was no rising from the dead and there was no hand to calm the storms and there was no peace in no valley.
In the hurricane-ravaged ...
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Small Mercies: A Novel
by
Dennis Lehane
Harper, 04/25/2023
In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessey is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived ...
more
Star Splitter
by
Matthew J. Kirby
Dutton for Young Readers, 04/25/2023
2199. Deep-space exploration is a reality and teleportation is routine. But this time something seems to have gone very, very wrong. Seventeen-year-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Eden Test: A Novel
by
Adam Sternbergh
Flatiron Books, 04/25/2023
Seven Days. Seven Questions. Forever Changed.
Daisy and Craig's marriage is in serious trouble. That's why Daisy has signed up for The Eden Test, a...
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The Gifts: A Novel
by
Liz Hyder
Sourcebooks, 04/25/2023
It will take something extraordinary to show four women who they truly are ...
October 1840. A young woman staggers alone through a forest in the ...
more
The Last Word: A Novel
by
Taylor Adams
William Morrow, 04/25/2023
Emma Carpenter lives in isolation with her golden retriever Laika, house-sitting an old beachfront home on the rainy Washington coast. Her only human ...
more
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
by
Ned Blackhawk
Yale University Press, 04/25/2023
The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Skin and Its Girl: A Novel
by
Sarah Cypher
Ballantine Books, 04/25/2023
In a Pacific Northwest hospital far from the Rummani family's ancestral home in Palestine, the heart of a stillborn baby begins to beat and her skin ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A History of Burning
by
Janika Oza
Grand Central Publishing, 05/02/2023
In 1898, Pirbhai, a teenage boy looking for work, is taken from his village in India to labor for the British on the East African Railway. Far from ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
A New History of the American South: A Ferris and Ferris Book
by
W. Fitzhugh Brundage
The University of North Carolina Press, 05/02/2023
For at least two centuries, the South's economy, politics, religion, race relations, fiction, music, foodways and more have figured prominently in ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Blood of the Virgin
by
Sammy Harkham
Pantheon Books, 05/02/2023
Set primarily in Los Angeles in 1971,
Blood of the Virgin is the story of twenty-seven-year-old Seymour, an Iraqi Jewish immigrant film editor who ...
more
Chain Gang All Stars: A Novel
by
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Pantheon Books, 05/02/2023
Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Cold Nights of Childhood
by
Tezer Özlü
Transit Books, 05/02/2023
The narrator of Tezer Özlü's novel is between lovers. She is in and out of psychiatric wards, where she is forced to undergo electroshock ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Dear Chrysanthemums: A Novel in Stories
by
Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Scribner, 05/02/2023
Composed of several interconnected stories, each taking place in a year ending with the number six, ironically a number that in Chinese divination ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?: A Novel
by
Crystal Smith Paul
Henry Holt and Company, 05/02/2023
When Kitty Karr Tate, a White icon of the silver screen, dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the St. John sisters, three young, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir
by
Alexandra Auder
Viking, 05/02/2023
Alexandra Auder's life began at the Chelsea Hotel—New York City's infamous bohemian hangout—when her mother, Viva, a longtime resident of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Gone to the Wolves: A Novel
by
John Wray
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/02/2023
Kip, Leslie, and Kira are outliers—even in the metal scene they love. In arch-conservative Gulf Coast Florida in the late 1980s, just listening ...
more
Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
by
Jeffrey Toobin
Simon & Schuster, 05/02/2023
Timothy McVeigh wanted to start a movement.
Speaking to his lawyers days after the Oklahoma City bombing, the Gulf War veteran expressed no regrets...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Honeybees and Distant Thunder: A Novel
by
Riku Onda
Pegasus Books, 05/02/2023
In a small coastal town just a stone's throw from Tokyo, a prestigious piano competition is underway. Over the course of two feverish weeks, three ...
more
Hotel Cuba: A Novel
by
Aaron Hamburger
Harper Perennial, 05/02/2023
Fleeing the chaos of World War I and the terror of the Soviet Revolution, practical, sensible Pearl Kahn and her lovestruck, impulsive younger sibling...
more
Historical Fiction
Hula: A Novel
by
Jasmin Iolani Hakes
HarperVia, 05/02/2023
"There's no running away on an island. Soon enough, you end up where you started."
Hi'i is proud to be a Naupaka, a family renowned for its ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Imogen, Obviously
by
Becky Albertalli
Balzer + Bray, 05/02/2023
Imogen Scott may be hopelessly heterosexual, but she's got the World's Greatest Ally title locked down.
She's never missed a Pride Alliance meeting...
more
Late Bloomers: A Novel
by
Deepa Varadarajan
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 05/02/2023
"I have a soft spot for underdogs. And late bloomers. You've told me a lot of things about yourself, so let me tell you something about me."
After ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Lost Places
by
Sarah Pinsker
Small Beer Press, 05/02/2023
A half-remembered children's TV show. A hotel that shouldn't exist. A mysterious ballad. A living flag. Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author Sarah ...
more
Paper Names: A Novel
by
Susie Luo
Hanover Square Press, 05/02/2023
Set in New York and China over three decades,
Paper Names explores what it means to be American from three different perspectives. There's ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Phantom Pain Wings
by
Kim Hyesoon
New Directions Publishing, 05/02/2023
An iconic figure in the emergence of feminist poetry in South Korea and now internationally renowned, Kim Hyesoon pushes the poetic envelope into the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
by
Camille T Dungy
Simon & Schuster, 05/02/2023
In
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden, poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the ...
more
Swamp Story: A Novel
by
Dave Barry
Simon & Schuster, 05/02/2023
Jesse Braddock is trapped in a tiny cabin deep in the Everglades with her infant daughter and her ex-boyfriend, a wannabe reality TV star who turned ...
more
The Covenant of Water
by
Abraham Verghese
Grove Press, 05/02/2023
The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller
Cutting for Stone, which has...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
by
Andy Clark
Pantheon Books, 05/02/2023
For as long as we've studied human cognition, we've believed that our senses give us direct access to the world. What we see is what's really there&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Ferryman: A Novel
by
Justin Cronin
Ballantine Books, 05/02/2023
Founded by the mysterious genius known as the Designer, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Humble Lover
by
Edmund White
Bloomsbury USA, 05/02/2023
Aldwych West, an eighty-year-old modern-day aristocrat living alone in his Manhattan townhouse, is used to having what he wants. And when he sets eyes...
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The Marriage Act: A Novel
by
John Marrs
Hanover Square Press, 05/02/2023
Britain. The near-future. A right-wing government believes it has the answer to society's ills—the Sanctity of Marriage Act, which actively ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Story of Art Without Men
by
Katy Hessel
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/02/2023
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral
by
Ben Smith
Penguin Press, 05/02/2023
If attention is the new oil, Ben Smith's
Traffic is the story of the time between the first gusher and the impact of climate change. The curtain opens...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Warrior Girl Unearthed
by
Angeline Boulley
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, 05/02/2023
Perry Firekeeper-Birch has always known who she is - the laidback twin, the troublemaker, the best fisher on Sugar Island. Her aspirations won't ever ...
more
We Are Too Many: A Memoir [Kind of]
by
Hannah Pittard
Henry Holt and Company, 05/02/2023
In this wryly humorous and innovative look at a marriage gone wrong, Hannah Pittard recalls a decade's worth of unforgettable conversations, beginning...
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Where You See Yourself
by
Claire Forrest
Scholastic, 05/02/2023
Where You See Yourself combines an unforgettable coming-of-age tale, a swoon-worthy romance, and much-needed disability representation in this story ...
more
Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage
by
Jonny Steinberg
Knopf, 05/02/2023
One of the most celebrated political leaders of a century, Nelson Mandela has been written about by many biographers and historians. But in one ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone
by
Amy Key
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 05/09/2023
When British poet Amy Key was growing up, she envisioned a life shaped by love—and Joni Mitchell's album
Blue was her inspiration. "Blue became ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Atalanta
by
Jennifer Saint
Flatiron Books, 05/09/2023
When Princess Atalanta is born, a daughter rather than the son her parents hoped for, she is left on a mountainside to die. But even then, she is a ...
more
If Tomorrow Doesn't Come
by
Jen St. Jude
Bloomsbury YA, 05/09/2023
Avery Byrne has secrets. She's queer; she's in love with her best friend, Cass; and she's suffering from undiagnosed clinical depression. But on the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Like the Appearance of Horses
by
Andrew Krivak
Bellevue Literary Press, 05/09/2023
Rooted in the small, mountain town of Dardan, Pennsylvania, where patriarch Jozef Vinich settled after surviving World War I,
Like the Appearance of ...more
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of
by
Héctor Tobar
MCD, 05/09/2023
"Latino" is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States.
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the...more
Pieces of Blue
by
Holly Goldberg Sloan
Flatiron Books, 05/09/2023
What good was thinking the future only held cloudy skies? Wasn't the reality that pieces of blue were always there, waiting to break through?
When ...
more
Playing It Safe: Electra McDonnell Novels #3
by
Ashley Weaver
Minotaur Books, 05/09/2023
As the Blitz continues to ravage London, Ellie McDonnell—formerly a safecracking thief, but currently determined to stay on the straight and ...
more
Retrospective: A Novel
by
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Riverhead Books, 05/09/2023
The Colombian film director, Sergio Cabrera, is in Barcelona for a retrospective of his work. It's a hard time for him: his father, famous actor ...
more
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
by
Elizabeth Winkler
Simon & Schuster, 05/09/2023
The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, vexed, unspeakable subject in the history of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Eyes and the Impossible: (Newbery Medal Winner)
by
Dave Eggers
Knopf, 05/09/2023
Johannes, a free dog, lives in an urban park by the sea. His job is to be the Eyes—to see everything that happens within the park and report ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy
by
James Risen
Little Brown & Company, 05/09/2023
For decades now, America's national security state has grown ever bigger, ever more secretive and powerful, and ever more abusive. Only once did ...
more
When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
by
Ashlee Vance
Ecco, 05/09/2023
In
When the Heavens Went on Sale, Ashlee Vance illuminates our future and unveils the next big technology story of our time: welcome to the Wild West ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
All the Dead Lie Down
by
Kyrie McCauley
Katherine Tegan Books, 05/16/2023
The Sleeping House was very much awake ...
Days after a tragedy leaves Marin Blythe alone in the world, she receives a surprising invitation from ...
more
Berlin: A Novel
by
Bea Setton
Penguin Books, 05/16/2023
When Daphne arrives in Berlin, the last thing she expects is to run into more drama than she left behind. Of course, she knew she'd need to do the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Close to Home: A Novel
by
Michael Magee
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/16/2023
Sean's brother Anthony is a hard man. When they were kids their ma did her best to keep him out of trouble, but you can't say anything to Anto. Sean ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Cousins
by
Aurora Venturini
Soft Skull Press, 05/16/2023
At the age of eighty-five, Aurora Venturini stunned Argentine readers when her darkly funny and formally daring novel,
Cousins (
Las primas), won
P&#...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Dona Cleanwell Leaves Home: Stories
by
Ana Castillo
HarperVia, 05/16/2023
The first person in her traditional Mexican American family to graduate from high school, Katia is entering adulthood at a time of turbulent change. ...
more
Short Stories
Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life
by
Kristen R. Ghodsee
Simon & Schuster, 05/16/2023
In the 6th century BCE, the Greek philosopher Pythagoras—a man remembered today more for his theorem about right-angled triangles than for his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong
by
Vaudine England
Scribner, 05/16/2023
Hong Kong has always been many cities to many people: a seaport, a gateway to an empire, a place where fortunes can be dramatically made or lost, a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
From Here
by
Luma Mufleh
Nancy Paulsen Books, 05/16/2023
With no word for "gay" in Arabic, Luma may not have known what to call the feelings she had growing up in Jordan during the 1980s, but she knew well ...
more
Biography/Memoir
King: A Life
by
Jonathan Eig
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/16/2023
Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's
King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin ...
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Sidle Creek
by
Jolene McIlwain
Melville House, 05/16/2023
In
Sidle Creek, McIlwain skillfully interrogates the myths and stereotypes of the mining, mill, and farming towns where she grew up. With stories that...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Guest: A Novel
by
Emma Cline
Random House, 05/16/2023
"Alex drained her wineglass, then her water glass. The ocean looked calm, a black darker than the sky. A ripple of anxiety made her palms go damp. It ...more
The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle for Its Inner Soul
by
Isabel Kershner
Knopf, 05/16/2023
Despite Israel's determined staying power in a hostile environment, its military might, and the innovation it fosters in businesses globally, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
by
Serhii Plokhy
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/16/2023
Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war—and...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Three of Us
by
Ore Agbaje-Williams
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/16/2023
What if your two favorite people hated each other with a passion?
The wife has it all. A big house in a nice neighborhood, a ride-or-die snarky ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The World: A Family History of Humanity
by
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Knopf, 05/16/2023
Around 950,000 years ago, a family of five walked along the beach and left behind the oldest family footprints ever discovered. For award-winning ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism
by
Brooke Kroeger
Knopf, 05/16/2023
Undaunted is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalism's most valued work. From...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Uneducated: A Memoir of Flunking Out, Falling Apart, and Finding My Worth
by
Christopher Zara
Little Brown & Company, 05/16/2023
For Christopher Zara, this is the professional minefield he has had to navigate since the day he was kicked out of his New Jersey high school for ...
more
Yellowface: A Novel
by
R. F Kuang
William Morrow, 05/16/2023
Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena's a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who ...
more
You: The Story: A Writer's Guide to Craft Through Memory
by
Ruta Sepetys
Viking, 05/16/2023
Life is story in motion. Each day, you add to your story, revise it, and view it from a different angle. You erase things. Tear pages out. And ...
more
Advice
An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created
by
Santi Elijah Holley
Mariner Books, 05/23/2023
They have been celebrated, glorified, and mythologized. They have been hailed as heroes, liberators, and freedom fighters. They have been condemned, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bad Summer People: A Novel
by
Emma Rosenblum
Flatiron Books, 05/23/2023
None of them would claim to be a particularly good person. But who among them is actually capable of murder?
Jen Weinstein and Lauren Parker rule ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital
by
Elise Hu
Dutton, 05/23/2023
K-beauty has captured imaginations worldwide by promising a kind of mesmerizing perfection. Its skincare and makeup products—creams packaged to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Forever Is Now
by
Mariama J. Lockington
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/23/2023
I'm safe here.
That's how Sadie feels, on a perfect summer day, wrapped in her girlfriend's arms. School is out, and even though she's been ...
more
I Didn't Do It
by
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Scarlet, 05/23/2023
Murderpalooza, the premier thriller writers conference, is meant to be an exciting celebration of the genre and its preeminent writers. But when ...
more
The Late Americans: A Novel
by
Brandon Taylor
Riverhead Books, 05/23/2023
In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a loose circle of lovers and friends encounter, confront, and provoke one another in a volatile year of...
more
The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives
by
Naoise Mac Sweeney
Dutton, 05/23/2023
In this groundbreaking, story-driven retelling of Western history, Naoíse Mac Sweeney debunks the myths and origin stories that underpin the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Will of the Many: Hierarchy #1
by
James Islington
Gallery Books, 05/23/2023
AUDI. VIDE. TACE.
The Catenan Republic—the Hierarchy—may rule the world now, but they do not know everything.
I tell them my name is...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
by
Rachel Louise Snyder
Bloomsbury USA, 05/23/2023
For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues that impact women's lives.
Women We Buried, Women ...more
Beware the Woman
by
Megan Abbott
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/30/2023
Honey, I just want you to have everything you ever wanted. That's what Jacy's mom always told her. And Jacy felt like she finally did. Newly married ...
more
Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night
by
Lisa Belkin
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/30/2023
Independence Day weekend, 1960: a young cop is murdered, shocking his close-knit community in Stamford, Connecticut. The killer remains at large, his ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Good Night, Irene: A Novel
by
Luis Alberto Urrea
Little Brown & Company, 05/30/2023
In 1943, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiancé in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe. She makes fast friends in ...
more
Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir In Archives
by
Amelia Possanza
Catapult, 05/30/2023
When Amelia Possanza moved to Brooklyn to build a life of her own, she found herself surrounded by queer stories: she read them on landmark placards, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The House on Via Gemito
by
Domenico Starnone
Europa Editions, 05/30/2023
A modest apartment in Via Gemito smelling of paint and turpentine. Its furniture pushed up against the wall to create a make-shift studio. Drying ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Peacock and the Sparrow: A Novel
by
I.S. Berry
Atria Books, 05/30/2023
Shane Collins, a world-weary CIA spy, is ready to come in from the cold. Stationed in Bahrain off the coast of Saudi Arabia for his final tour, he's ...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Wishing Game: A Novel
by
Meg Shaffer
Ballantine Books, 05/30/2023
Make a wish...
Lucy Hart knows better than anyone what it's like to grow up without parents who loved her. In a childhood marked by neglect and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Threads That Bind
by
Kika Hatzopoulou
Razorbill, 05/30/2023
Descendants of the Fates are always born in threes: one to weave, one to draw, and one to cut the threads that connect people to the things they love ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
When the Vibe Is Right
by
Sarah Dass
Balzer + Bray, 05/30/2023
There are two things Tess Crawford knows for sure:
- She's destined to be a great Trinidadian Carnival costume designer like her renowned uncle, ...
more
Gays on Broadway
by
Ethan Mordden
Oxford University Press, 06/01/2023
From the genteel female impersonators of the 1910s to the raucous drag queens of
La Cage Aux Folles, from the men of
The Normal Heart to the women of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
August Blue: A Novel
by
Deborah Levy
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/06/2023
At the height of her career, the piano virtuoso Elsa M. Anderson—former child prodigy, now in her thirties—walks off the stage in Vienna, ...
more
Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media
by
Darrell Hartman
Viking, 06/06/2023
In the fall of 1909, a pair of bitter contests captured the world's attention. The American explorers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook both claimed to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Cells: Memories for My Mother
by
Gavin McCrea
Scribe Publications Pty Ltd, 06/06/2023
'Are you going into town today?' she says, which annoys me because it's something she says all the time, having forgotten she said it before, and I ...more
Charm City Rocks: A Love Story
by
Matthew Norman
Dell, 06/06/2023
Billy Perkins is happy. And why wouldn't he be? He loves his job as an independent music teacher and his apartment in Baltimore above a record shop ...
more
Empire: A Novel of the Golden Age
by
Conn Iggulden
Pegasus Books, 06/06/2023
Pericles returns home more than a hero: he's the leader of Athens, the empire's beacon of light.
But even during times of peace, the threat of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style: A Novel
by
Paul Rudnick
Atria Books, 06/06/2023
Devastatingly handsome and insanely rich, Farrell Covington is capable of anything and impossible to resist. He's a clear-eyed romantic, an aesthete ...
more
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
by
John Vaillant
Knopf, 06/06/2023
In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada's oil industry and America's biggest foreign supplier, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Gay Club!
by
Simon James Green
Scholastic, 06/06/2023
Barney's a shoo-in for his school's LGBTQ+ Society President at the club's next election. But when the vote is opened up to the entire student body, ...
more
George: A Magpie Memoir
by
Frieda Hughes
Avid Reader Press, 06/06/2023
When Frieda Hughes moved to the depths of the Welsh countryside, she was expecting to take on a few projects: planting a garden, painting, writing her...
more
Girls and Their Horses
by
Eliza Jane Brazier
Berkley Books, 06/06/2023
When the nouveau riche Parker family moves to an exclusive community in the heart of Southern California, they believe it's their chance at a fresh ...
more
Happy Stories, Mostly
by
Norman Erikson Pasaribu
Feminist Press, 06/06/2023
Longlisted for the International Booker Prize,
Happy Stories, Mostly introduces "one of the most important Indonesian writers today" (
Litro Magazine)....
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
How to Write About Africa: Collected Works
by
Binyavanga Wainaina
One World, 06/06/2023
"Africa is the only continent you can love—take advantage of this... . Africa is to be pitied, worshipped, or dominated. Whichever angle you ...more
I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World
by
Rachel Nuwer
Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/06/2023
Few drugs in history have generated as much controversy as MDMA—or held as much promise. Once vilified as a Schedule I substance that would ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Innards: Stories
by
Magogodi oaMphela Makhene
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/06/2023
Set in Soweto, the urban heartbeat of South Africa, Innards tells the intimate stories of everyday black folks processing the savagery of apartheid ...
more
Short Stories
Debut Author
Kairos
by
Jenny Erpenbeck
New Directions Publishing, 06/06/2023
Jenny Erpenbeck (the author of
Go, Went, Gone and
Visitation) is an epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German ...
more
Lucky Dogs: A Novel
by
Helen Schulman
Knopf, 06/06/2023
On a sultry summer night in Paris, two women meet in line at an ice cream kiosk on the Ile de la Cité. One is tall, fair, striking, with an ...
more
Open Throat: A Novel
by
Henry Hoke
MCD, 06/06/2023
A queer and dangerously hungry mountain lion lives in the drought-devastated land under the Hollywood sign. Lonely and fascinated by humanity's ...
more
Pedro & Daniel
by
Federico Erebia
Levine Querido, 06/06/2023
Pedro and Daniel are Mexican American brothers growing up in 1970s Ohio. Their mother resents that Pedro is a spitting image of their darker-skinned ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health
by
J. C. Hallman
Henry Holt and Company, 06/06/2023
For more than a century, Dr. J. Marion Sims was hailed as the "father of modern gynecology." He founded a hospital in New York City and had a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Soldiers Don't Go Mad: A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War
by
Charles Glass
Penguin Press, 06/06/2023
From the moment war broke out across Europe in 1914, the world entered a new, unparalleled era of modern warfare. Soldiers faced relentless machine ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Strong Female Character
by
Fern Brady
Harmony Books, 06/06/2023
After reading about autism in her teens, Fern Brady knew instinctively that she had it—autism explained her sensory issues, her meltdowns, her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Such Kindness: A Novel
by
Andre Dubus III
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/06/2023
A working-class white man takes a terrible fall.
Tom Lowe's identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He...
more
Literary Fiction
The Dissident: A Novel
by
Paul Goldberg
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/06/2023
On his wedding day in 1976, Viktor Moroz stumbles upon a murder scene: two gay men, one of them a US official, are axed to death in Moscow. Viktor, a ...
more
The Endless Vessel: A Novel
by
Charles Soule
Harper Perennial, 06/06/2023
A few years from now, in a world similar to ours, there exists a sort of "depression plague" that people refer to simply as "The Grey." No one can ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Get: A Crime Novel
by
Dietrich Kalteis
ECW Press, 06/06/2023
Lenny Ovitz has plenty of secrets, and his wife, Paulina, has become a liability. His life would be so much better without her in it.
It's the mid-...
more
Thrillers
The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods
by
Greg King
Public Affairs, 06/06/2023
Every year millions of tourists from around the world visit California's famous redwoods. Yet few who strain their necks to glimpse the tops of the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Grimoire of Grave Fates
by
Edited by Hanna Alkaf and Margaret Owen
Delacorte Press, 06/06/2023
Professor of Magical History Septimius Dropwort has just been murdered, and now everyone at the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary is a suspect.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The House of Lincoln: A Novel
by
Nancy Horan
Sourcebooks, 06/06/2023
Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy
New York Times bestseller
Loving Frank, returns with a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Little Italian Hotel: A Novel
by
Phaedra Patrick
Park Row Books, 06/06/2023
Ginny Splinter, acclaimed radio host and advice expert, prides herself on knowing what's best for others. So she's sure her husband, Adrian, will love...
more
Literary Fiction
The Overlooked Americans: The Resilience of Our Rural Towns and What It Means for Our Country
by
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
Basic Books, 06/06/2023
The United States today appears to be deeply divided. Journalists have painted a portrait of an enraged America, where poor, conservative small towns ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Paris Daughter
by
Kristin Harmel
Gallery Books, 06/06/2023
Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war...
more
Historical Fiction
The Road to Dalton
by
Shannon Bowring
Europa Editions, 06/06/2023
In most small towns, the private is also public. In the town of Dalton, one local makes an unthinkable decision that leaves the community reeling. In ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America
by
Michael Waldman
Simon & Schuster, 06/06/2023
In
The Supermajority, Michael Waldman explores the tumultuous 2021–2022 Supreme Court term. He draws deeply on history to examine other ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Talk
by
Darrin Bell
Henry Holt and Company, 06/06/2023
Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn't have a realistic water gun. She said she feared for his safety, that police tend to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Wind Knows My Name: A Novel
by
Isabel Allende
Ballantine Books, 06/06/2023
Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht—the night his family loses everything. As her child...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Translation State
by
Ann Leckie
Orbit, 06/06/2023
Qven was created to be a Presger translator. The pride of their Clade, they always had a clear path before them: learn human ways, and eventually, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
When It All Syncs Up
by
Maya Ameyaw
Annick Press, 06/06/2023
Ballet is Aisha's life. So when she's denied yet another lead at her elite academy because she doesn't "look" the part, she knows something has to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife
by
Ken Jennings
Scribner, 06/13/2023
Ever wonder which circles of Dante's
Inferno have the nicest accommodations? Where's the best place to grab a bite to eat in the ancient Egyptian ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
A Right Worthy Woman: A Novel
by
Ruth P. Watson
Atria Books, 06/13/2023
Maggie Lena Walker was ambitious and unafraid. Her childhood in 19th-century Virginia helping her mother with her laundry service opened her eyes to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Be Mine: A Frank Bascombe Novel
by
Richard Ford
Ecco, 06/13/2023
Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view of ...
more
Code of the Hills: The Mick Hardin Novels #3
by
Chris Offutt
Grove Press, 06/13/2023
Master storyteller and award-winning author Chris Offutt's latest book,
Code of the Hills, is a dark, witty, and propulsive thriller of murder and ...
more
Everyone Wants to Know
by
Kelly Loy Gilbert
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 06/13/2023
The Lo family sticks together. That's what Honor has been told her whole life while growing up in the glare of the public eye on
Lo and Behold, the ...
more
Girlfriend on Mars: A Novel
by
Deborah Willis
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/13/2023
Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She and twenty-three reality TV contestants from ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America
by
Audrey Clare Farley
Grand Central Publishing, 06/13/2023
In 1954, researchers at the newly formed National Institute of Mental Health set out to study the genetics of schizophrenia. When they got word that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History
by
Rebecca Struthers
Harper, 06/13/2023
Timepieces have long accompanied us on our travels, from the depths of the oceans to the summit of Everest, the ice of the arctic to the sands of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Maddalena and the Dark: A Novel
by
Julia Fine
Flatiron Books, 06/13/2023
Venice, 1717. Fifteen-year-old Luisa has only wanted one thing: to be the best at violin. As a student at the Ospedale della Pietà, she hopes to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses
by
David Scheel
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/13/2023
Of all the creatures of the deep blue, none is as captivating as the octopus. In
Many Things Under a Rock, marine biologist David Scheel investigates ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
My Stupid Intentions
by
Bernardo Zannoni
New York Review Books, 06/13/2023
My Stupid Intentions is the autobiography of a beech marten named Archy. Born into poverty, maimed by an accident, he is sold into servitude by his ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Never Give Up: A Prairie Family's Story
by
Tom Brokaw
Random House, 06/13/2023
"In these chaotic times, what can we learn from history? As a citizen, husband, father, and grandfather, I have drawn on the lessons I absorbed ... ...more
Ponyboy: A Novel
by
Eliot Duncan
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/13/2023
Ponyboy unravels in his Paris apartment. Cut to the bar. Cut to the back room. Ponyboy is strung out and struggling. He is falling into the widening ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
by
Jennifer Pahlka
Metropolitan Books, 06/13/2023
Just when we most need our government to work―to decarbonize our infrastructure and economy, to help the vulnerable through a pandemic, to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Reproduction: A Novel
by
Louisa Hall
Ecco, 06/13/2023
A novelist attempts to write a book about Mary Shelley, author of
Frankenstein, a mother and artist whose harrowing pregnancies reveal the cost of ...
more
Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
by
Christopher Clark
Crown, 06/13/2023
As history, the uprisings of 1848 have long been overshadowed by the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian revolutions of the early twentieth ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
by
Rachel L. Swarns
Random House, 06/13/2023
In 1838, a group of America's most prominent Catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their largest mission project, what is now Georgetown ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Favor: A Novel
by
Adele Griffin
Sourcebooks Landmark, 06/13/2023
At I'll Have Seconds, a high-end fairytale vintage dress shop in Manhattan, Nora Hammond loves nothing better than pairing a rare find with the ...
more
The Five-Star Weekend
by
Elin Hilderbrand
Little Brown & Company, 06/13/2023
Hollis Shaw's life seems picture-perfect. She's the creator of the popular food blog Hungry with Hollis and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Mythmakers
by
Keziah Weir
Marysue Rucci Books, 06/13/2023
Sal Cannon's life is in shambles. Her relationship is crumbling, and her career in journalism hits a low point after it's revealed that her profile of...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Spectacular: A Novel
by
Fiona Davis
Dutton, 06/13/2023
New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her high school sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to ...
more
The Surviving Sky (Rages Trilogy, 1)
by
Kritika H. Rao
Titan Books, 06/13/2023
High above a jungle-planet float the last refuges of humanity—plant-made civilizations held together by tradition, technology, and arcane ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories
by
Sarah Viren
Scribner, 06/13/2023
Sarah's story begins as she's researching what she believes will be a book about her high school philosophy teacher, a charismatic instructor who ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine
by
Norman Solomon
The New Press, 06/13/2023
More than twenty years ago, 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan set into motion a hugely consequential shift in America's foreign policy: a perpetual ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
by
Jennifer Ackerman
Penguin Press, 06/13/2023
For millennia, owls have captivated and intrigued us. Our fascination with these mysterious birds was first documented more than thirty thousand years...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
When the Hibiscus Falls
by
M. Evelina Galang
Coffee House Press, 06/13/2023
Moving from small Philippine villages of the past to the hurricane-beaten coast of near-future Florida,
When the Hibiscus Falls examines the triumphs ...
more
You Were Always Mine: A Novel
by
Christine Pride, Jo Piazza
Atria Books, 06/13/2023
Cinnamon Haynes has fought hard for a life she never thought was possible—a good man by her side, a steady job as a career counselor at a local ...
more
A Crooked Mark
by
Linda Kao
Razorbill, 06/20/2023
Rae Winter should be dead.
Some say that walking away from the car crash that killed her dad is a miracle, but seventeen-year-old Matthew Watts ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
An Echo in the City
by
K. X. Song
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 06/20/2023
Sixteen-year-old Phoenix knows her parents have invested thousands of dollars to help her leave Hong Kong and get an elite Ivy League education. They ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Forever Changed British History
by
Tracy Borman
Atlantic Monthly Press, 06/20/2023
Much of the fascination with Britain's legendary Tudors centers around the dramas surrounding Henry VIII and his six wives and Elizabeth I's rumored ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam
by
Thien Pham
First Second, 06/20/2023
Thien's first memory isn't a sight or a sound. It's the sweetness of watermelon and the saltiness of fish. It's the taste of the foods he ate while ...
more
Fat Time and Other Stories
by
Jeffery Renard Allen
Graywolf Press, 06/20/2023
In
Fat Time and Other Stories, Jimi Hendrix, Francis Bacon, the boxer Jack Johnson, Miles Davis, and a space-age Muhammad Ali find themselves in the ...
more
Lucky Red: A Novel
by
Claudia Cravens
The Dial Press, 06/20/2023
The heart wants what it wants. Saddle up, ride out, and claim it.
It's the spring of 1877 and sixteen-year-old Bridget is already disillusioned ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Mr Kato Plays Family: A Novel
by
Milena Michiko Flasar
Forge Books, 06/20/2023
Mr Katō―a curmudgeon and recent retiree―finds his only solace during his daily walks, where he wonders how his life went wrong and ...
more
Literary Fiction
Poland, a Green Land: A Novel
by
Aharon Appelfeld
Schocken Books, 06/20/2023
Yaakov Fine's practical wife and daughters are baffled by his decision to leave his flourishing dress shop for a ten-day trip to his family's ...
more
Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration
by
Alejandra Oliva
Astra House, 06/20/2023
In this powerful and deeply felt polemic memoir, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a chronological...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Brightest Star: A Historical Novel Based on the True Story of Anna May Wong
by
Gail Tsukiyama
HarperVia, 06/20/2023
At the dawn of a new century, America is falling in love with silent movies, including young Wong Liu Tsong. The daughter of Chinese immigrants who ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Quiet Tenant: A Novel
by
Clémence Michallon
Knopf, 06/20/2023
Aidan Thomas is a hard-working family man and a somewhat beloved figure in the small upstate town where he lives. He's the kind of man who always ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Shadow Cabinet: The HMRC Trilogy #2
by
Juno Dawson
Penguin Books, 06/20/2023
Niamh Kelly is dead. Her troubled twin, Ciara, now masquerades as the benevolent witch as Her Majesty's Royal Coven prepares to crown her High ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
by
Alexander Stille
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/20/2023
In the middle of the
Ozzie and Harriet 1950s, the birth control pill became available and a maverick psychoanalytic institute, the Sullivan Institute ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Through the Groves: A Memoir
by
Anne Hull
Henry Holt and Company, 06/20/2023
Anne Hull grew up in rural Central Florida, barefoot half the time and running through the orange groves her father's family had worked for ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Where Echoes Die: A Novel
by
Courtney Gould
Wednesday Books, 06/20/2023
Beck Birsching has been adrift since the death of her mother, a brilliant but troubled investigative reporter. She can't stop herself from slipping ...
more
A Most Agreeable Murder: A Novel
by
Julia Seales
Random House, 06/27/2023
Feisty, passionate Beatrice Steele has never fit the definition of a true lady, according to the strict code of conduct that reigns in Swampshire, her...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
by
Mark O'Connell
Doubleday, 06/27/2023
Malcolm Macarthur was a well-known Dublin socialite and heir. Suave and urbane, he passed his days mingling with artists and aristocrats, reading ...
more
American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress
by
Wesley Lowery
Mariner Books, 06/27/2023
In 2008, Barack Obama's historic victory was heralded as a turning point for the country. And so it would be—just not in the way that most ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How to Be Remembered: A Novel
by
Michael Thompson
Sourcebooks, 06/27/2023
On an ordinary night in an ordinary year, Tommy Llewellyn's doting parents wake in a home without toys and diapers, without photos of their baby ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Invisible Son
by
Kim Johnson
Random House Books for Younger Readers, 06/27/2023
Life can change in an instant.
When you're wrongfully accused of a crime.
When a virus shuts everything down.
When the girl you love moves on.
...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Little Monsters
by
Adrienne Brodeur
Avid Reader Press, 06/27/2023
Ken and Abby Gardner lost their mother when they were small and they have been haunted by her absence ever since. Their father, Adam, a brilliant ...
more
Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story
by
Sarah Myer
First Second, 06/27/2023
Sarah has always struggled to fit in. Born in South Korea and adopted at birth by a white couple, she grows up in a rural community with few Asian ...
more
Save What's Left: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Castellano
Anchor Books, 06/27/2023
When Kathleen Deane's husband, Tom, tells her he's no longer happy with his life and their marriage, Kathleen is confused. They live in Kansas. They'...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sing Me to Sleep
by
Gabi Burton
Bloomsbury USA, 06/27/2023
Saoirse Sorkova survives on lies. As a soldier-in-training at the most prestigious barracks in the kingdom, she lies about being a siren to avoid ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
That Reminds Me
by
Derek Owusu
And Other Stories, 06/27/2023
Attachments are broken at birth. Shards slide apart. K: a child put into foster care, a boy brought back to the city, a man who must fight to make ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
by
Michael Finkel
Knopf, 06/27/2023
For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Rachel Incident: A Novel
by
Caroline O'Donoghue
Knopf, 06/27/2023
Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it's love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Too Late: Definitive Edition
by
Colleen Hoover
Grand Central Publishing, 06/27/2023
Sloan will go through hell and back for those she loves. And she does so, every single day. Caught up with the alluring Asa Jackson, a notorious drug ...
more
Romance
We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus
by
Sean A Mirski
Public Affairs, 06/27/2023
The cutthroat world of international politics has always been dominated by great powers. Yet no great power in the modern era has ever managed to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
by
Jennifer Vanderbes
Random House, 06/27/2023
In 1959, a Cincinnati pharmaceutical firm, the William S. Merrell Company, quietly began distributing samples of an exciting new wonder drug already ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Place for Us: A Memoir
by
Brandon J. Wolf
Little A, 07/01/2023
You never forget your first. First kiss. First love. First heartache. They all burrow their way into your subconscious, destined to reshape how you ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
A Good House for Children: A Novel
by
Kate Collins
Mariner Books, 07/04/2023
Once upon a time Orla was: a woman, a painter, a lover. Now she is a mother and a wife, and when her husband Nick suggests that their city apartment ...
more
One Summer in Savannah: A Novel
by
Terah Shelton Harris
Sourcebooks, 07/04/2023
It's been eight years since Sara Lancaster left her home in Savannah, Georgia. Eight years since her daughter, Alana, came into this world, following ...
more
Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir
by
Beth Nguyen
Scribner, 07/04/2023
At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her father, sister, grandmother, and uncles fled Saigon for America. ...
more
President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
by
CW Goodyear
Simon & Schuster, 07/04/2023
In this magisterial biography, C.W. Goodyear charts the life and times of one of the most remarkable Americans ever to win the Presidency. Progressive...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Starve Acre: A Novel
by
Andrew Michael Hurley
Penguin Books, 07/04/2023
The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died suddenly at the age of five. Starve Acre, their house by ...
more
Sufferah: The Memoir of a Brixton Reggae-Head
by
Alex Wheatle
Akashic Books, 07/04/2023
Abandoned as a baby to the British foster care system, Alex Wheatle grew up without any knowledge of his Jamaican parentage or family history. ...
more
Temple Folk
by
Aaliyah Bilal
Simon & Schuster, 07/04/2023
In
Temple Folk, Black Muslims contemplate the convictions of their race, religion, economics, politics, and sexuality in America. The ten stories in ...
more
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Beasts of Paris: A Novel
by
Stef Penney
Pegasus Books, 07/04/2023
A diverse group of memorable characters find themselves in Paris during the build up to the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Dreamer Anne is half-Haitian,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Ice Harp: The American Novels
by
Norman Lock
Bellevue Literary Press, 07/04/2023
In 1879, toward the end of his life, the Sage of Concord has lost his words. Beset by aphasia and grief, Ralph Waldo Emerson is scarcely recognizable ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Long Ago: A Novel
by
Michael McGarrity
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/04/2023
Growing up in Montana, siblings Raymond and Barbara Lansdale held their chaotic world together through their shared childhood fantasy of
The Long Ago:...
more
Mysteries
Alchemy of a Blackbird: A Novel
by
Claire McMillan
Atria Books, 07/11/2023
Desperate to escape the Nazis, painter Remedios Varo and her lover, poet Benjamin Peret, flee Paris for Villa Air Bel, a safe house for artists on the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Do Tell: A Novel
by
Lindsay Lynch
Doubleday, 07/11/2023
As character actress Edie O'Dare finishes the final year of her contract with FWM Studios, the clock is ticking for her to find a new gig after an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
by
Gloria Dickie
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/11/2023
Bears have always held a central place in our collective memory, from Indigenous folklore and Greek mythology to nineteenth-century fairytales and the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Elsewhere: Stories
by
Yan Ge
Scribner, 07/11/2023
In twenty years, Yan Ge has authored thirteen books written in Chinese, working across an impressive range of genres and subjects. Now, Yan Ge ...
more
Eventide, Water City: The Water City Trilogy #2
by
Chris Mckinney
Soho Press, 07/11/2023
Year 2150: Eight years after the murder of Akira Kimura, Water City's renowned scientist and anointed "God," the nameless antihero who tracked down ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent
by
Lorissa Rinehart
St. Martin's Press, 07/11/2023
"I side with prisoners against guards, enlisted men against officers, weakness against power."
From the beginning of World War II through the early...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Flags on the Bayou: A Novel
by
James Lee Burke
Atlantic Monthly Press, 07/11/2023
In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care
by
Ilana Yurkiewicz MD
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/11/2023
There's an unspoken assumption when we go to see a doctor: the doctor knows our medical story and is making decisions based on that story. But reality...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
High Time: A Novel
by
Hannah Rothschild
Knopf, 07/11/2023
Eight years have passed and in 2016 many things have changed for the eccentric Trelawney family. In the months leading up to the Brexit referendum, ...
more
I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom
by
Shannon C. F. Rogers
Feiwel & Friends, 07/11/2023
Some girls call their mother their best friend. Marisol Martin? She could never relate. She and her mom were forever locked in an argument with no ...
more
Lexington: The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America's Legendary Racehorse
by
Kim Wickens
Ballantine Books, 07/11/2023
The early days of American horse racing were grueling. Four-mile races, run two or three times in succession, were the norm, rewarding horses who ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It
by
Daniel Simons
Basic Books, 07/11/2023
From phishing scams to Ponzi schemes, fraudulent science to fake art, chess cheaters to crypto hucksters, and marketers to magicians, our world brims ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Nothing Special
by
Nicole Flattery
Bloomsbury Publishing, 07/11/2023
New York City, 1966. Seventeen-year-old Mae lives in a rundown apartment with her alcoholic mother and her mother's sometimes-boyfriend, Mikey. She is...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Ripe: A Novel
by
Sarah Rose Etter
Scribner, 07/11/2023
A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley start-up, Cassie finds herself trapped in a corporate nightmare. Between the long hours, toxic...
more
Sunrise: Radiant Stories
by
Erika Kobayashi
Astra House, 07/11/2023
Sunrise is a collection of interconnected stories continuing Erika Kobayashi's examination of the effects of nuclear power on generations of women. ...
more
Tabula Rasa: Volume 1
by
John McPhee
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/11/2023
Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss ...
more
The Best Possible Experience: Stories
by
Nishanth Injam
Pantheon Books, 07/11/2023
Vivid, vibrant, and unwaveringly affecting,
The Best Possible Experience brings us intimate, impeccably realized accounts of individuals living in one...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Carnivale of Curiosities
by
Amiee Gibbs
Grand Central Publishing, 07/11/2023
In Victorian London, where traveling sideshows are the very pinnacle of entertainment, there is no more coveted ticket than Ashe and Pretorius' ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
by
Jeff Goodell
Little Brown & Company, 07/11/2023
"When heat comes, it's invisible. It doesn't bend tree branches or blow hair across your face to let you know it's arrived…. The sun feels like ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Militia House: A Novel
by
John Milas
Henry Holt and Company, 07/11/2023
It's 2010, and the recently promoted Corporal Loyette and his unit are finishing up their deployment at a new base in Kajaki, Afghanistan. Their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Murder Wheel: A Locked-Room Mystery
by
Tom Mead
Mysterious Press, 07/11/2023
In London, 1938, young and idealistic lawyer Edmund Ibbs is trying to find any shred of evidence that his client Carla Dean wasn't the one who shot ...
more
The Ocean Above Me: A Novel
by
Kevin Sites
Harper, 07/11/2023
Former war correspondent Lukas Landon is alone, trapped under 150-feet of water in an overturned shrimp trawler at the bottom of the ocean. The only ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Sea Elephants: A Novel
by
Shastri Akella
Flatiron Books, 07/11/2023
Shagun knows he will never be the kind of son his father demands. After the sudden deaths of his beloved twin sisters, Shagun flees his own guilt, his...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Splinter in the Sky
by
Kemi Ashing-Giwa
Gallery Books, 07/11/2023
The dust may have just settled in the failed war of conquest between the Holy Vaalbaran Empire and the Ominirish Republic, but the last Emperor's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Stolen Coast: A Novel
by
Dwyer Murphy
Viking, 07/11/2023
Jack might be a polished, Harvard-educated lawyer on paper, but everyone in the down-at-the-heels, if picturesque, village of Onset, Massachusetts, ...
more
Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South
by
Jaha Nailah Avery
Levine Querido, 07/11/2023
Those Who Saw the Sun is a collection of oral histories told by Black people who grew up in the South during the time of Jim Crow. Jaha Nailah Avery ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
by
Laura Cumming
Scribner, 07/11/2023
As a brilliant art critic and historian, Laura Cumming has explored the importance of art in life and can give us a perspective on the time and place ...
more
Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy
by
Colin Dickey
Viking, 07/11/2023
The United States was born in paranoia. From the American Revolution (thought by some to be a conspiracy organized by the French) to the Salem witch ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
by
Donovan X. Ramsey
One World, 07/11/2023
The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s is arguably the least examined crisis in American history. Beginning with the myths inspired by Reagan's war...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
24 Hours in Charlottesville: An Oral History of the Stand Against White Supremacy
by
Nora Neus
Beacon Press, 07/18/2023
On August 11 and 12, 2017, armed neo-Nazi demonstrators descended on the University of Virginia campus and downtown Charlottesville. When they ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Blade of Dream: The Kithamar Trilogy #2
by
Daniel Abraham
Orbit, 07/18/2023
Kithamar is a center of trade and wealth, an ancient city with a long, bloody history where countless thousands live and their stories endure.
This...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic
by
Emily Monosson
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/18/2023
Fungi are everywhere. Most are harmless; some are helpful. A few are killers. Collectively, infectious fungi are the most devastating agents of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Crook Manifesto: A Novel
by
Colson Whitehead
Doubleday, 07/18/2023
It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out ...
more
Cutting Teeth: A Novel
by
Chandler Baker
Flatiron Books, 07/18/2023
Darby, Mary Beth, and Rhea are on personal quests to reclaim aspects of their identities subsumed by motherhood—their careers, their sex lives, ...
more
Encounterism: The Neglected Joys of Being In Person
by
Andy Field
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/18/2023
The light touch of a hairdresser's hands on one's scalp, the euphoric energy of a nightclub, huddling with strangers under a shelter in the rain, a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Head above Water: Reflections on Illness
by
Shahd Alshammari
Feminist Press, 07/18/2023
Shahd Alshammari is just eighteen when she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and told by her neurologist that she would not make it past age ...
more
I Am Not Alone
by
Francisco X. Stork
Scholastic, 07/18/2023
Alberto's life isn't easy: He's an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who lives with his sister's abusive boyfriend—but he'd always accepted his...
more
Immortal Longings: Flesh & False Gods #1
by
Chloe Gong
Gallery Books, 07/18/2023
Every year, thousands in the kingdom of Talin will flock to its capital twin cities, San-Er, where the palace hosts a set of games. For those ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas
by
Karen Pinchin
Dutton, 07/18/2023
In 2004, an enigmatic charter captain named Al Anderson caught and marked one Atlantic bluefin tuna off New England's coast with a plastic fish tag. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
No One Prayed Over Their Graves: A Novel
by
Khaled Khalifa
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/18/2023
On a December morning in 1907, two close friends, Hanna and Zakariya, return to their village near Aleppo after a night of drunken carousing in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Onlookers: Stories
by
Ann Beattie
Scribner, 07/18/2023
Onlookers is an astute new story collection about people living in the same Southern town whose lives intersect in surprising ways. Peaceful ...
more
Small Worlds
by
Caleb Azumah Nelson
Grove Press, 07/18/2023
One of the most acclaimed and internationally bestselling "unforgettable" (
New York Times) debuts of the 2021, Caleb Azumah Nelson's London-set love ...
more
Strange Sally Diamond
by
Liz Nugent
Gallery/Scout Press, 07/18/2023
Reclusive Sally Diamond causes outrage by trying to incinerate her dead father. Now she's the center of attention, not only from the hungry media and ...
more
The Deep Sky: A Novel
by
Yume Kitasei
Flatiron Books, 07/18/2023
They left Earth to save humanity. They'll have to save themselves first.
It is the eve of Earth's environmental collapse. A single ship carries ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Jasad Heir: The Scorched Throne #1
by
Sara Hashem
Orbit, 07/18/2023
Ten years ago, the kingdom of Jasad burned. Its magic was outlawed. Its royal family murdered. At least, that's what Sylvia wants people to believe. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The King Is Dead
by
Benjamin Dean
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 07/18/2023
Heavy is the crown James has been born to wear, especially as the first Black heir to the British throne. But with his father's recent passing, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romantic Thrillers
Debut Author
The War Came To Us: Life and Death in Ukraine
by
Christopher Miller
Bloomsbury USA, 07/18/2023
When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine just before dawn on 24 February 2022, it marked his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Tropicalia: A Novel
by
Harold Rogers
Atria Books, 07/18/2023
Daniel Cunha has a lot on his mind.
He got dumped by his pregnant girlfriend, his grandfather just dropped dead, and on the anniversary of the raid...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Walking the Ojibwe Path: A Memoir in Letters to Joshua (Seedbank)
by
Richard Wagamese
Milkweed Editions, 07/18/2023
We may not relight the fires that used to burn in our villages, but we can carry the embers from those fires in our hearts and learn to light new ...more
Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
by
Oliver Franklin-Wallis
Hachette Books, 07/18/2023
In
Wasteland, journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis takes us on a shocking journey inside the waste industry—the secretive multi-billion dollar ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
An Honest Man: A Novel
by
Michael Koryta
Mulholland, 07/25/2023
Israel Pike was a killer, and he was an honest man. They were not mutually exclusive.
After discovering seven men murdered aboard their yacht &#...
more
Emergent Properties
by
Aimee Ogden
Tor.com, 07/25/2023
A state-of-the-art AI with a talent for asking questions and finding answers, Scorn is nevertheless a parental disappointment. Defying the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Mrs. Plansky's Revenge
by
Spencer Quinn
Forge Books, 07/25/2023
Mrs. Loretta Plansky, a recent widow in her seventies, is settling into retirement in Florida while dealing with her 98-year-old father and fielding ...
more
Rana Joon and the One and Only Now
by
Shideh Etaat
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 07/25/2023
Perfect Iranian girls are straight A students, always polite, and grow up to marry respectable Iranian boys. But it's the San Fernando Valley in 1996,...
more
Somebody's Fool: A Novel (North Bath Trilogy)
by
Richard Russo
Knopf, 07/25/2023
Ten years after the death of the magnetic Donald "Sully" Sullivan, the town of North Bath is going through a major transition as it is annexed by its ...
more
The Last Ranger: A Novel
by
Peter Heller
Knopf, 07/25/2023
Officer Ren Hopper is an enforcement ranger with the National Park Service, tasked with duties both mundane and thrilling: Breaking up fights at ...
more
The Sun and the Void: The Warring Gods # 1
by
Gabriela Romero Lacruz
Orbit, 07/25/2023
Reina is desperate.
Stuck on the edges of society, Reina's only hope lies in an invitation from a grandmother she's never met. But the journey to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Alien Worlds: How Insects Conquered the Earth, and Why Their Fate Will Determine Our Future
by
Steve Nicholls
Princeton University Press, 08/01/2023
Life on Earth depends on the busy activities of insects, but global populations of these teeming creatures are currently under threat, with grave ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
by
Yepoka Yeebo
Bloomsbury Publishing, 08/01/2023
When Ghana won its independence from Britain in 1957, it instantly became a target for home-grown opportunists and rapacious Western interests ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Delicate Condition
by
Danielle Valentine
Sourcebooks, 08/01/2023
Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family. But as she tries to balance her increasingly public life as an indie actress with a grueling IVF journey, ...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
Disobedient: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Fremantle
Pegasus Books, 08/01/2023
This is the ring that you gave me, and these are your promises.
A young woman is put on trial. She has accused her painting teacher of the darkest ...
more
Historical Fiction
Evergreen: Japantown Mysteries #2
by
Naomi Hirahara
Soho Crime, 08/01/2023
It's been two years since Aki Ito and her family were released from Manzanar detention center and resettled in Chicago with other Japanese Americans. ...
more
Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy
by
Janet Wallach
Doubleday, 08/01/2023
Born a privileged child of America's Gilded Age, Marguerite Harrison rebelled against her mother's ambitions, married the man she loved, was widowed ...
more
I Will Greet the Sun Again: A Novel
by
Khashayar J. Khabushani
Hogarth Books, 08/01/2023
Call me K, because unlike Baba and Maman I was born right here and like my brothers I want to be known as a boy from L.A., since that's the truth.
...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Las Madres: A Novel
by
Esmeralda Santiago
Knopf, 08/01/2023
They refer to themselves as "las Madres," a close-knit group of women who, with their daughters, have created a family based on friendship and blood ...
more
Lost Believers: A Novel
by
Irina Zhorov
Scribner, 08/01/2023
Galina, a promising young geologist from Moscow, is falling in love with her pilot, Snow Crane, on a trip exploring for minerals in Siberia. As their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever
by
Eddie Ndopu
Legacy Lit, 08/01/2023
Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare degenerative motor neuron disease affecting his mobility. He was told ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Small Town Sins: A Novel
by
Ken Jaworowski
Henry Holt and Company, 08/01/2023
In Locksburg, Pennsylvania, a former coal and steel town whose best days seem long past, five thousand residents have toughed it out, and have reasons...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Sordidez
by
E G Condé
Stelliform Press, 08/01/2023
Vero has always felt at odds with his community. As a trans man in near-future Puerto Rico, he struggles to gain acceptance for his identity and his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Connellys of County Down: A Novel
by
Tracey Lange
Celadon, 08/01/2023
When Tara Connelly is released from prison after serving eighteen months on a drug charge, she knows rebuilding her life at thirty years old won't be ...
more
The Master Builder: How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life
by
Dr. Alfonso Martinez Arias Ph.D.
Basic Books, 08/01/2023
What defines who we are? For decades, the answer has seemed obvious: our genes, the "blueprint of life." In
The Master Builder, biologist Alfonso ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Montevideo Brief: A Thomas Grey Novel
by
J. H. Gelernter
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/01/2023
Vienna―June 1804. At the glittering debut of Beethoven's Third Symphony, a Spanish diplomat meets with Captain Thomas Grey, agent of His Majesty...
more
Historical Fiction
The Narrow
by
Kate Alice Marshall
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 08/01/2023
Everyone has heard the story of the Narrow. The river that runs behind the Atwood School is only a few feet across and seemingly placid, but beneath ...
more
Thrillers
The Second Murderer: A Philip Marlowe Novel
by
Denise Mina
Mulholland, 08/01/2023
Has Philip Marlowe finally met his match?
It's early fall when a heatwave descends on Los Angeles. Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to ...
more
The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
by
Prudence Peiffer
Harper, 08/01/2023
For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the lower tip of Manhattan became ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
by
Susan Casey
Doubleday, 08/01/2023
For all of human history, the deep ocean has been a source of wonder and terror, an unknown realm that evoked a singular, compelling question:
What's ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Those We Thought We Knew
by
David Joy
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/01/2023
Toya Gardner, a young Black artist from Atlanta, has returned to her ancestral home in the North Carolina mountains to trace her family history and ...
more
To Catch a Storm
by
Mindy Mejia
Atlantic Monthly Press, 08/01/2023
When her husband's car is found abandoned and on fire—in the middle of a rainstorm—Eve Roth becomes the police's number one suspect. After...
more
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
by
Tahir Hamut Izgil
Penguin Press, 08/01/2023
One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends"disappeared" The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
A Long Time Coming: A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama
by
Ray Anthony Shepard
Calkins Creek, 08/08/2023
Full of daring escapes, deep emotion, and subtle lessons on how racism operates,
A Long Time Coming reveals the universal importance of its subjects' ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Congratulations, The Best Is Over!: Essays
by
R. Eric Thomas
Ballantine Books, 08/08/2023
After going viral "reading" the chaotic political news, having one-too-many awkward social encounters, and coming to terms with his intersecting ...
more
Devil's Coin: My Battle to Take Down the Notorious OneCoin Cryptoqueen
by
Jennifer McAdam
William Morrow, 08/08/2023
Jen McAdam, Scottish grandmother and daughter of a coal miner, was a victim of the Onecoin global crypto-currency fraud, which conned an estimated $27...
more
Critics' Consensus:
True Crime
Debut Author
Forged by Blood: The Tainted Blood Duology, 1
by
Ehigbor Okosun
Harper Voyager, 08/08/2023
In the midst of a tyrannical regime and political invasion, Dèmi just wants to survive: to avoid the suspicion of the nonmagical Ajes who occupy ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
From One Cell: A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine
by
Ben Stanger
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/08/2023
Each of us began life as a single cell. From this humble origin, we embarked on a risky journey fraught with opportunities for disaster. Yet, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Liquid Snakes: A Novel
by
Stephen Kearse
Soft Skull Press, 08/08/2023
In Atlanta, Kenny Bomar is a biochemist-turned-coffee-shop-owner in denial about his divorce and grieving his stillborn daughter. Chemicals killed ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Mrs. Porter Calling: A Novel (The Emmy Lake Chronicles)
by
AJ Pearce
Scribner, 08/08/2023
London, April 1943. A little over a year since she married Captain Charles Mayhew and he went away to war, Emmy Lake is now in charge of "Yours ...
more
Historical Fiction
Prophet
by
Sin Blache and Helen Macdonald
Grove Press, 08/08/2023
Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American Intelligence officer ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Sparrow: A Novel
by
James Hynes
The Overlook Press, 08/08/2023
In a brothel on the Spanish coast during the waning years of the Roman Empire, a young enslaved boy of unknown parentage is growing up. His world is a...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Still Born
by
Guadalupe Nettel
Bloomsbury Publishing, 08/08/2023
Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family...
more
Sun House: A Novel
by
David James Duncan
Little Brown & Company, 08/08/2023
A random bolt from a DC-8 falls from the sky, killing a child and throwing the faith of a young Jesuit Jesuit into crisis. A boy's mother dies on his ...
more
Literary Fiction
Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders
by
John Glatt
St. Martin's Press, 08/08/2023
Among the lush, tree-lined waterways of South Carolina low country, the Murdaugh name means power. A century-old, multimillion-dollar law practice has...
more
The Details: A Novel
by
Ia Genberg
HarperVia, 08/08/2023
An intoxicating novel in the vein of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, about a woman in the throes of a fever remembering the important people in her past,...more
Literary Fiction
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
by
Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, and Timothy J. Nelson
Mariner Books, 08/08/2023
Three of the nation's top scholars – known for tackling key mysteries about poverty in America – turn their attention from the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Unnecessary Drama
by
Nina Kenwood
Flatiron Books, 08/08/2023
Eighteen-year-old Brooke is the kind of friend who not only remembers everyone's birthdays, but also organizes the group present, pays for it, and ...
more
You, Bleeding Childhood
by
Michele Mari
And Other Stories, 08/08/2023
Long before the latest vogue for autofiction, Michele Mari, one of Italy's most beloved authors, cast his mind back to the days of his own childhood, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Pink Slime
by
Fernanda Trías
Scribner, 08/10/2023
In a city ravaged by a mysterious plague, a woman tries to understand why her world is falling apart. An algae bloom has poisoned the previously ...
more
Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson
by
Sally H. Jacobs
St. Martin's Press, 08/15/2023
In 1950, three years after Jackie Robinson first walked onto the diamond at Ebbets Field, the all-white, upper-crust US Lawn Tennis Association opened...
more
August Wilson: A Life
by
Patti Hartigan
Simon & Schuster, 08/15/2023
August Wilson wrote a series of ten plays celebrating African American life in the 20th century, one play for each decade. No other American ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Chinese Prodigal: A Memoir in Eight Arguments
by
David Shih
Atlantic Monthly Press, 08/15/2023
After his father's passing in 2019, David Shih sought to unravel the underlying tensions that defined the complex relationship between him and his ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women
by
Sandra Guzman
Amistad, 08/15/2023
Daughters of Latin America collects the intergenerational voices of Latine women across time and space, capturing the power, strength, and creativity ...
more
Short Stories
Forgive Me Not
by
Jennifer Baker
Nancy Paulsen Books, 08/15/2023
All it took was one night and one bad decision for fifteen-year-old Violetta Chen-Samuels' life to go off the rails. After driving drunk and causing ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO: Stories
by
Cleo Qian
Tin House Books, 08/15/2023
A woman escapes into dating simulations to forget her best friend's abandonment; a teenager begins to see menacing omens on others' bodies after her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Survivor Injustice: State-Sanctioned Abuse, Domestic Violence, and the Fight for Bodily Autonomy
by
Kylie Cheung
North Atlantic Books, 08/15/2023
Incisive, urgent, and written exactly for our post-Roe times,
Survivor Injustice is the feminist frame-changing read we need now—for each of us,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Tell Me What I Am: A Novel
by
Una Mannion
Harper, 08/15/2023
Nessa Garvey's sister Deena vanished without a trace in Philadelphia in 2004. In all that time, Nessa has never once doubted what her instincts told ...
more
The English Experience: A Novel
by
Julie Schumacher
Doubleday, 08/15/2023
Jason Fitger may be the last faculty member the dean wants for the job, but he's the only professor available to chaperone Payne University's annual "...
more
The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race
by
Farah Karim-Cooper
Viking, 08/15/2023
Professor Farah Karim-Cooper has dedicated her career to the Bard, which is why she wants to take the playwright down from his pedestal to unveil a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The President's Wife: A Novel
by
Tracey Enerson Wood
Sourcebooks Landmark, 08/15/2023
Socialite Edith Bolling has been in no hurry to find a new husband since she was widowed, preferring to fill her days with good friends and travel. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Thin Skin: Essays
by
Jenn Shapland
Pantheon Books, 08/15/2023
For Jenn Shapland, the barrier between herself and the world is porous; she was even diagnosed with extreme dermatologic sensitivity—thin skin.
...
more
Thornhedge
by
T. Kingfisher
Tor Books, 08/15/2023
There's a princess trapped in a tower. This
isn't her story.
Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Tyranny of the Gene: Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health
by
James Tabery
Knopf, 08/15/2023
The United States is embarking on a medical revolution. Supporters of personalized, or precision, medicine—the tailoring of health care to our ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
by
Leah Redmond Chang
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/15/2023
Orphaned from infancy, Catherine de' Medici endured a tumultuous childhood. Married to the French king, she was widowed by forty, only to become the ...
more
Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History
by
Yunte Huang
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 08/22/2023
Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry, Anna May Wong (1905–1961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old ...
more
Just Do This One Thing for Me
by
Laura Zimmermann
Dutton, 08/22/2023
"Just do this one thing for me." Drew's mother says it more often than good morning. Heidi Hill has been juggling shady side hustles for all of Drew's...
more
Literary Fiction
Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty
by
Nikhil Goyal
Metropolitan Books, 08/22/2023
Kensington, Philadelphia, is distinguished only by its poverty. It is home to Ryan, Giancarlos, and Emmanuel, three Puerto Rican children who live ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
by
Drew Gilpin Faust
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/22/2023
To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. Two world wars and ...
more
Swim Home to the Vanished: A Novel
by
Brendan Shay Basham
Harper, 08/22/2023
After the death of his brother, a grief-stricken young man seeks refuge and oblivion in a secluded fishing village dominated by a family of brujas in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Continental Affair: A Novel
by
Christine Mangan
Flatiron Books, 08/22/2023
Meet Henri and Louise. Two strangers, traveling alone, on the train from Belgrade to Istanbul. Except this isn't the first time they have met.
It's...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
by
Kyo Maclear
Scribner, 08/22/2023
Three months after Kyo Maclear's father dies in December 2018, she gets the results of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised her are ...
more
Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
by
Anna Funder
Knopf, 08/22/2023
At the end of summer 2017, Anna Funder found herself at a moment of peak overload. Family obligations and household responsibilities were crushing her...
more
A Second Chance for Yesterday
by
R A Sinn
Solaris, 08/29/2023
Nev Bourne is a hotshot programmer for the latest and greatest tech invention out there: SavePoint, the brain implant that rewinds the seconds of all ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
All You Have To Do
by
Autumn Allen
Kokila, 08/29/2023
In
All You Have To Do, two Black young men attend prestigious schools nearly thirty years apart, and yet both navigate similar forms of insidious ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Dialogue with a Somnambulist: Stories, Essays & A Portrait Gallery
by
Chloe Aridjis
Catapult, 08/29/2023
Chloe Aridjis's stories and essays are known to transport readers into liminal, often dreamlike, realms. In this collection of works, we meet a woman ...
more
Every Drop is a Man's Nightmare
by
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
Bloomsbury Publishing, 08/29/2023
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's wrenching and sensational debut story collection follows a cast of mixed native Hawaiian and Japanese women through a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Everything/Nothing/Someone: A Memoir
by
Alice Carrière
Spiegel & Grau, 08/29/2023
Alice Carrière tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned artist ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Good Bad Girl: A Novel
by
Alice Feeney
Flatiron Books, 08/29/2023
Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be...
more
Her Radiant Curse
by
Elizabeth Lim
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 08/29/2023
One sister must fall for the other to rise.
Channi was not born a monster. But when her own father offers her in sacrifice to the Demon Witch, she ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Holler, Child: Stories
by
LaToya Watkins
Tiny Reparations, 08/29/2023
In
Holler, Child's eleven brilliant stories, LaToya Watkins presses at the bruises of guilt, love, and circumstance. Each story introduces us to a ...
more
Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe
by
Steve Sheinkin
Roaring Brook Press, 08/29/2023
It is 1944. A teenager named Rudolph (Rudi) Vrba has made up his mind. After barely surviving nearly two years in the Auschwitz concentration camp in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Learned by Heart
by
Emma Donoghue
Little Brown & Company, 08/29/2023
Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal,
Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, ...
more
More Than a Dream: The Radical March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
by
Yohuru Williams
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/29/2023
Six decades ago, on August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
by
Jenni Nuttall
Viking, 08/29/2023
So many of the words that we use to chronicle women's lives feel awkward or alien. Medical terms are scrupulously accurate but antiseptic. Slang and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Terrace Story: A Novel
by
Hilary Leichter
Ecco, 08/29/2023
Annie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful terrace hidden in their ...
more
The Breakaway: A Novel
by
Jennifer Weiner
Atria Books, 08/29/2023
Thirty-four-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she's lived ...
more
The Coworker
by
Freida McFadden
Poisoned Pen Press, 08/29/2023
Dawn Schiff is strange.
At least, everyone thinks so at Vixed, the nutritional supplement company where Dawn works as an accountant. She never ...
more
Thrillers
The Deadline: Essays
by
Jill Lepore
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 08/29/2023
Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at
The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore,...
more
The Reunion
by
Kit Frick
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 08/29/2023
Eleven Mayweathers went on vacation. Ten came home.
It's been years since the fragmented Mayweather clan was all in one place, but the engagement ...
more
Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany
by
Katja Hoyer
Basic Books, 09/05/2023
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Budapest: Portrait of a City Between East and West
by
Victor Sebestyen
Pantheon Books, 09/05/2023
Victor Sebestyen has written a sweeping, colorful and immersive history of the capital of Hungary, from the fifth century to the present day: a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the '60s Girl Groups
by
Laura Flam, Emily Sieu Liebowitz
Hachette Books, 09/05/2023
The girl group sound, made famous and unforgettable by acts like The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas, took over the airwaves ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Creep: Accusations and Confessions
by
Myriam Gurba
Avid Reader Press, 09/05/2023
A creep can be a singular figure, a villain who makes things go bump in the night. Yet creep is also what the fog does—it lurks into place to do...
more
Dearborn
by
Ghassan Zeineddine
Tin House Books, 09/05/2023
Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine's debut collection examines the diverse range and complexities of the Arab American community in Dearborn...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Evil Eye: A Novel
by
Etaf Rum
Harper, 09/05/2023
"After Yara is placed on probation at work for fighting with a racist coworker, her Palestinian mother claims the provocation and all that's come ...
more
Landlines: The Remarkable Story of a Thousand-Mile Journey Across Britain
by
Raynor Winn
Pegasus Books, 09/05/2023
Raynor Winn knows that her husband Moth's health is declining, getting worse by the day. She knows of only one cure. It worked once before. But will ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Phoebe's Diary
by
Phoebe Wahl
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 09/05/2023
Meet Phoebe. She's cool and insecure, talented and vulnerable, sexy and awkward, driven and confused, ecstatic and tragic.
Like you.
And here is...
more
Proud Sorrows: Billy Boyle WWII Mysteries #18
by
James R. Benn
Soho Crime, 09/05/2023
Norfolk, England, November 1944: After a series of dangerous missions in the South of France, US Army Captain Billy Boyle is finally on leave, and is ...
more
Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World
by
Leah Broad
Faber and Faber, 09/05/2023
Ethel Smyth (b.1858): Famed for her operas, this trailblazing queer Victorian composer was a larger-than-life socialite, intrepid traveller and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence
by
Gavin Francis
Penguin Life, 09/05/2023
For many of us, time spent in recovery—from a broken leg, a virus, chronic illness, or the crisis of depression or anxiety—can feel like ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Reykjavík: A Crime Story
by
Ragnar Jónasson, Katrín Jakobsdóttir
Minotaur Books, 09/05/2023
What happened to Lára?
Iceland, 1956. Fourteen-year-old Lára decides to spend the summer working for a couple on the small island of ...
more
Rusted Souls: Tom Harper Mysteries #11
by
Chris Nickson
Severn House, 09/05/2023
Leeds, 1920. Chief Constable Tom Harper of Leeds City Police has just six weeks left in the role before his well-earned retirement. But even though ...
more
Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
by
Maria Bamford
Gallery Books, 09/05/2023
Maria Bamford is a comedian's comedian (an outsider among outsiders) and has forever fought to find a place to belong. From struggling with an eating ...
more
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
by
Mustafa Suleyman
Crown, 09/05/2023
We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change.
Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Future: Biblioasis International Translation Series #44
by
Catherine Leroux
Biblioasis, 09/05/2023
In an alternate history of Detroit, the Motor City was never surrendered to the US. Its residents deal with pollution, poverty, and the legacy of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future
by
Robert P. Jones
Simon & Schuster, 09/05/2023
Beginning with contemporary efforts to reckon with the legacy of white supremacy in America, Jones returns to the fateful year when a little-known ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Longmire Defense: A Longmire Mystery
by
Craig Johnson
Viking, 09/05/2023
Deep in the heart of the Wyoming countryside, Sheriff of Absaroka County, Walt Longmire, is called to a crime scene like few others that he has seen. ...
more
The Raging Storm: Detective Matthew Venn Series #3
by
Ann Cleeves
Minotaur Books, 09/05/2023
Fierce winds, dark secrets, deadly intentions.
When Jem Rosco—sailor, adventurer, and legend—blows into town in the middle of an autumn...
more
The September House
by
Carissa Orlando
Berkley Books, 09/05/2023
When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street—for sale at a surprisingly reasonable price—they ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
by
Andrew Joseph White
Peachtree Publishers, 09/05/2023
Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all.
London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Trouble the Living: A Novel
by
Francesca McDonnell Capossela
Lake Union Publishing, 09/05/2023
It's the final years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and Bríd and her sister, Ina, try to maintain a stable life in a divided country. ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Wednesday's Child: Stories
by
Yiyun Li
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/05/2023
A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. Elsewhere, a professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year...
more
Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
by
Joe Posnanski
Dutton, 09/05/2023
Posnanski writes of major moments that created legends, and of forgotten moments almost lost to time. It's Willie Mays's catch, Babe Ruth's called ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wound: A Novel
by
Oksana Vasyakina
Catapult, 09/05/2023
From one of Russia's most exciting new voices,
Wound follows a young lesbian poet on a journey from Moscow to her hometown in Siberia, where she has ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Cocktail
by
Lisa Alward
Biblioasis, 09/12/2023
A girl receives a bedtime visit from a drunken party guest, who will haunt her fantasies for years. A young mother discovers underneath the wallpaper ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Digging Stars: A Novel
by
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/12/2023
With admission to The Program, an elite interdisciplinary graduate cohort at the forefront of astronomy and technology, Rosa's dreams are finally ...
more
Literary Fiction
Elon Musk
by
Walter Isaacson
Simon & Schuster, 09/12/2023
When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until...
more
Biography/Memoir
Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City
by
Elyssa Maxx Goodman
Hanover Square Press, 09/12/2023
From the lush feather boas that adorned early female impersonators to the sequined lip syncs of barroom queens to the drag kings that have us laughing...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Godkiller
by
Hannah Kaner
Harper Voyager, 09/12/2023
Gods are forbidden in the kingdom of Middren. Formed by human desires and fed by their worship, there are countless gods in the world—but after ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Larry McMurtry: A Life
by
Tracy Daugherty
St. Martin's Press, 09/12/2023
In over forty books, in a career that spanned over sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as a superior chronicler of the American West, and as ...
more
Lucy by the Sea: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Strout
Random House, 09/12/2023
With her trademark spare, crystalline prose—a voice infused with "intimate, fragile, desperate humanness" (
Washington Post)—Elizabeth ...
more
Monstrous
by
Jessica Lewis
Delacorte Press, 09/12/2023
Don't go outside past dark. Come straight home after church. And above all—never, ever, go into Red Wood.
These are the rules Latavia's aunt ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Omega Farm: A Memoir
by
Martha McPhee
Scribner, 09/12/2023
In March 2020, Martha McPhee, her husband, and their two almost-grown children set out for her childhood home in New Jersey, where she finds herself ...
more
Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
by
Bettina L. Love
St. Martin's Press, 09/12/2023
In
Punished for Dreaming Dr. Bettina Love argues forcefully that Reagan's presidency ushered in a War on Black Children, pathologizing and penalizing ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Rez Ball
by
Byron Graves
Heartdrum, 09/12/2023
These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketball on the Red Lake Reservation high school team—even though he can't help but be ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Roaming
by
Jillian Tamaki, Mariko Tamaki
Drawn & Quarterly, 09/12/2023
Over the course of a much-anticipated trip to New York, an unexpected fling blossoms between casual acquaintances and throws a long-term friendship ...
more
Rouge: A Novel
by
Mona Awad
Marysue Rucci Books, 09/12/2023
For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously ...
more
Sing a Black Girl's Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange
by
Ntozake Shange
Legacy Lit, 09/12/2023
In the late '60s, Ntozake Shange was a student at Barnard College discovering her budding talent as a writer, publishing in her school's literary ...
more
The Death I Gave Him
by
Em X. Liu
Solaris, 09/12/2023
Hayden Lichfield's life is ripped apart when he finds his father murdered in their lab, and the camera logs erased. The killer can only have been ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Devil of the Provinces
by
Juan Cárdenas
Coffee House Press, 09/12/2023
When a biologist returns to Colombia after fifteen years abroad, he quickly becomes entangled in the trappings of his past and his increasingly ...
more
The Heart of It All
by
Christian Kiefer
Melville House, 09/12/2023
Set in failing small town in central Ohio,
The Heart of It All asks how one manages, in an America of increasing unsurety, to find a sense of family ...
more
The Meadows
by
Stephanie Oakes
Dial Books, 09/12/2023
Everyone hopes for a letter—to attend the Estuary, the Glades, the Meadows. These are the special places where only the best and brightest go to...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories
by
Stacie Shannon Denetsosie
Torrey House Press, 09/12/2023
A young Navajo man catches a ride home alongside a casket he's sure contains his dead grandfather. A gas station clerk witnesses the kidnapping of the...
more
The Secret Hours
by
Mick Herron
Soho Crime, 09/12/2023
Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical over-reaching" by the British Secret Service. ...
more
The Vaster Wilds: A Novel
by
Lauren Groff
Riverhead Books, 09/12/2023
A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Young Man
by
Annie Ernaux
Seven Stories Press, 09/12/2023
The Young Man is Annie Ernaux's account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some 30 years younger, when she was in her fifties. The ...
more
This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America
by
Navied Mahdavian
Princeton Architectural Press, 09/12/2023
Before Navied Mahdavian moved with his wife and dog in November of 2016 from San Francisco to an off-the-grid cabin in rural Idaho, he had never ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Witch of Wild Things
by
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
Berkley Books, 09/12/2023
Sage Flores has been running from her family—and their "gifts"—ever since her younger sister Sky died. Eight years later, Sage reluctantly...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think
by
Caleb Everett
Harvard University Press, 09/19/2023
We tend to assume that all languages categorize ideas and objects similarly, reflecting our common human experience. But this isn't the case. When we ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
by
Ashley Shew
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/19/2023
When bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described "hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn's disease and tinnitus," there was...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
All the Fighting Parts
by
Hannah V. Sawyerr
Amulet Books, 09/19/2023
Sixteen-year-old Amina Conteh has always believed in using her voice as her weapon—even when it gets her into trouble. After cursing at a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
by
Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
Harper, 09/19/2023
The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story—of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention.
From 1783, when German ...
more
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
by
Michael Harriot
Dey Street Books, 09/19/2023
America's backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It is the story of the pilgrims on the Mayflower building a new ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Black Sheep
by
Rachel Harrison
Berkley Books, 09/19/2023
Nobody has a "normal" family, but Vesper Wright's is truly...something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back—mostly because ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Champion of Fate: Heromaker #1
by
Kendare Blake
Quill Tree Books, 09/19/2023
Aristene are an order of mythical female warriors. Though heroes might be immortalized in legends, it's the Aristene who guide their paths to victory....
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Father and Son: A Memoir
by
Jonathan Raban
Knopf, 09/19/2023
In June 2011, just days before his sixty-ninth birthday, Jonathan Raban was sitting down to dinner with his daughter when he found he couldn't move ...
more
Loved and Missed
by
Susie Boyt
New York Review Books, 09/19/2023
Ruth is a woman who believes in and despairs of the curative power of love. Her daughter, Eleanor, who is addicted to drugs, has just had a baby, Lily...
more
Mom Rage: The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood
by
Minna Dubin
Seal Press, 09/19/2023
Mothers aren't supposed to be angry. Still, Minna Dubin was an angry mom: exhausted by the grueling, thankless work of full-time parenting and feeling...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea
by
Hannah Stowe
Tin House Books, 09/19/2023
As a young girl, Hannah Stowe was raised at the tide's edge on the Pembrokeshire coast of Wales, falling asleep to the sweep of the lighthouse beam. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Mr. Texas: A Novel
by
Lawrence Wright
Knopf, 09/19/2023
Sonny Lamb is an affable, if floundering, rancher with the unfortunate habit of becoming a punchline in his Texas hometown. Most recently, to everyone...
more
Night Watch: A Novel
by
Jayne Anne Phillips
Knopf, 09/19/2023
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Saving Emma: A Novel
by
Allen Eskens
Mulholland, 09/19/2023
When Boady Sanden first receives the case of Elijah Matthews, he's certain there's not much he can do. Elijah, who believes himself to be a prophet, ...
more
The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
by
Ross Gay
Algonquin Books, 09/19/2023
Ross Gay's essays have been called "exquisite" (Tracy K. Smith), "imperative" (the
New York Times Book Review), and "brilliant" (Ada Limón). Now,...
more
The Collectors: Stories
by
A.S. King
Dutton, 09/19/2023
From David Levithan's story about a non-binary kid collecting pieces of other people's collections to Jenny Torres Sanchez's tale of a girl gathering ...
more
The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past
by
Taras Grescoe
Greystone Books, 09/19/2023
Many of us are worried (or at least we should be) about the impacts of globalization, pollution, and biotechnology on our diets. Whether it's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Pole: A Novel
by
J. M. Coetzee
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 09/19/2023
Exacting yet maddeningly unpredictable, J. M. Coetzee's
The Pole tells the story of Wittold Walccyzkiecz, a vigorous, "extravagantly white-haired" ...
more
The World Wasn't Ready for You: Stories
by
Justin C. Key
Harper, 09/19/2023
Justin C. Key has long been obsessed with monsters. Reading R. L. Stine's Goosebumps as a kid, he imagined himself battling monsters and mayhem to a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Wren, the Wren: A Novel
by
Anne Enright
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/19/2023
Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless and ...
more
Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family
by
Daniel Finkelstein
Doubleday, 09/19/2023
In
Two Roads Home beloved British journalist Daniel Finkelstein tells the extraordinary story of the years before his mother met his father—...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation (A Norton Short)
by
Tiya Miles
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/19/2023
Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15
by
Cameron McWhirter, Zusha Elinson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/26/2023
In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. High-minded and patriotic, Stoner ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
An Impossible Thing to Say
by
Arya Shahi
Other Press, 09/26/2023
Omid needs the right words to connect with his newly-met grandfather and distant Iranian heritage, words to tell a special girl what she means to him ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
And Then She Fell: A Novel
by
Alicia Elliott
Dutton, 09/26/2023
On the surface, Alice is exactly where she thinks she should be: She's just given birth to a beautiful baby girl, Dawn; her charming husband, Steve&#...
more
Blackward
by
Lawrence Lindell
Drawn & Quarterly, 09/26/2023
Tired of feeling like you don't belong? Join the club. It's called the Section. You'd think a spot to chill, chat, and find community would be much ...
more
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
by
Brian Merchant
Little Brown & Company, 09/26/2023
The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Devil Makes Three: A Novel
by
Ben Fountain
Flatiron Books, 09/26/2023
Haiti, 1991. When a violent coup d'état leads to the fall of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, American expat Matt Amaker is forced to abandon ...
more
Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance
by
Azam Ahmed
Random House, 09/26/2023
Fear Is Just a Word begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the United States, as fifty-six-year-old Miriam Rodríguez stalks one of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lies and Other Love Languages: A Novel
by
Sonali Dev
Lake Union Publishing, 09/26/2023
Bestselling advice columnist Vandy Guru built her career teaching others how to live honestly and courageously, but after the loss of her husband, ...
more
Our Philosopher
by
Gert Hofmann
New York Review Books, 09/26/2023
Our narrator is Hans, a clever and inquisitive boy. He relates a mix of things he witnesses himself and things he hears about from his father, the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Shadow Speaker: The Desert Magician's Duology: Book One
by
Nnedi Okorafor
DAW Books, 09/26/2023
Niger, West Africa, 2074
It is an era of tainted technology and mysterious mysticism. A great change has happened all over the planet, and the laws...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Armor of Light: A Novel (Kingsbridge)
by
Ken Follett
Viking, 09/26/2023
The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Fragile Threads of Power: Threads of Power #1
by
V. E. Schwab
Tor Books, 09/26/2023
Once, there were four worlds, nestled like pages in a book, each pulsing with fantastical power and connected by a single city: London. Until the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Hexologists: The Hexologists #1
by
Josiah Bancroft
Orbit, 09/26/2023
The Hexologists, Iz and Warren Wilby, are quite accustomed to helping desperate clients with the bugbears of city life. Aided by hexes and a bag of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival
by
Lisa M. Hamilton
Little Brown & Company, 09/26/2023
As combat rages across the highlands of Vietnam and Laos, a child is born. Ia Moua enters the world at the bottom of the social order, both because ...
more
The Iliad
by
Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/26/2023
When Emily Wilson's translation of
The Odyssey appeared in 2017―revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Most Secret Memory of Men: A Novel
by
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
Other Press, 09/26/2023
In 2018, Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer in Paris, discovers a legendary book from the 1930s,
The Labyrinth of Inhumanity. No one ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Museum of Failures
by
Thrity Umrigar
Algonquin Books, 09/26/2023
When Remy Wadia left India for the United States, he carried his resentment of his cold and inscrutable mother with him and has kept his distance from...
more
The Navigating Fox
by
Christopher Rowe
Tor.com, 09/26/2023
Quintus Shu'al, the world's only navigating fox, is in disgrace after guiding an expedition to its doom, leaving no survivors. One year later, Quintus...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism
by
Adam Nagourney
Crown, 09/26/2023
For over a century,
The New York Times has been an iconic institution in American journalism, one whose history is intertwined with the events that it...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The War of Words: How America's GI Journalists Battled Censorship and Propaganda to Help Win World War II
by
Molly Guptill Manning
Blackstone Publishing, 09/26/2023
At a time when civilian periodicals faced strict censorship, US Army Chief of Staff George Marshall won the support of President Franklin Delano ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
This Is Salvaged: Stories
by
Vauhini Vara
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/26/2023
Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbor, or ...
more
Undiscovered: A Novel
by
Gabriela Wiener
HarperVia, 09/26/2023
Alone in a museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener confronts her complicated family heritage. She is visiting an exhibition of pre-Columbian artifacts, ...
more
Literary Fiction
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
by
Nathan Thrall
Metropolitan Books, 10/03/2023
Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for a school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the way, his bus collides with a semitrailer...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial
by
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Grove Press, 10/03/2023
With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in
A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of...
more
After the Forest
by
Kell Woods
Tor Books, 10/03/2023
Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour.
Twenty years after the witch in the gingerbread house, Greta and Hans are struggling to get by. Their mother and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
by
Carl Safina
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/03/2023
When ecologist Carl Safina and his wife, Patricia, took in a near-death baby owl, they expected that, like other wild orphans they'd rescued, she'd be...
more
And Don't Look Back
by
Rebecca Barrow
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 10/03/2023
Harlow Ford has spent her entire life running, caught in her mother's wake as they flit from town to town, hiding from a presence that Harlow isn't ...
more
Before the Devil Knows You're Here
by
Autumn Krause
Peachtree Publishers, 10/03/2023
1836, Wisconsin. Catalina lives with her pa and brother in a ramshackle cabin on the edge of the wilderness. Harsh winters have brought the family to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Brooklyn Crime Novel: A Novel
by
Jonathan Lethem
Ecco, 10/03/2023
On the streets of 1970s Brooklyn, a daily ritual goes down: the dance. Money is exchanged, belongings surrendered, power asserted. The promise of ...
more
Thrillers
Company: Stories
by
Shannon Sanders
Graywolf Press, 10/03/2023
Shannon Sanders's sparkling debut brings us into the company of the Collins family and their acquaintances as they meet, bicker, compete, celebrate, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Curious Tides: The Drowned Gods Duology
by
Pascale Lacelle
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 10/03/2023
Emory might be a student at the prestigious Aldryn College for Lunar Magics, but her healing abilities have always been mediocre at best—until a...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Death Valley: A Novel
by
Melissa Broder
Scribner, 10/03/2023
In Melissa Broder's astounding new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to ...
more
Dragging Mason County
by
Curtis Campbell
Annick Press, 10/03/2023
Peter Thompkins needs a public image overhaul. After a tense confrontation with one of the few other queer kids in his small-town high school, rumors ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
by
Cat Bohannon
Knopf, 10/03/2023
How did the female body drive 200 million years of human evolution? • Why do women live longer than men? • Why are women more likely to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
by
Kevin J. Mitchell
Princeton University Press, 10/03/2023
Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Gather
by
Kenneth M. Cadow
Candlewick Press, 10/03/2023
Ian Gray isn't supposed to have a dog, but a lot of things that shouldn't happen end up happening anyway. And Gather, Ian's adopted pup, is good ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Glory Be: A Glory Broussard Mystery
by
Danielle Arceneaux
Pegasus Books, 10/03/2023
It's a hot and sticky Sunday in Lafayette, Louisiana, and Glory has settled into her usual after-church routine, meeting gamblers at the local coffee ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Hell If We Don't Change Our Ways: A Memoir
by
Brittany Means
Zibby Books, 10/03/2023
I can't write a story about myself as the sad, quiet child of two drug addicts. That's not how it was, even when it was. To me, sleeping in the car ...more
High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
by
Marc Masters
The University of North Carolina Press, 10/03/2023
The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy
by
Faith Erin Hicks
First Second, 10/03/2023
It should have been a night of triumph for Alix's hockey team. But her mean teammate Lindsay decided to start up with her usual rude comments and ...
more
How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
by
Safiya Sinclair
37 Ink, 10/03/2023
Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair's father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
I've Been Thinking
by
Daniel C. Dennett
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/03/2023
Daniel C. Dennett, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering the thorniest, most fundamental mysteries of the ...
more
Biography/Memoir
In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950
by
Nick Bunker
Basic Books, 10/03/2023
Halfway through the twentieth century, the United States towered over the world in industrial might. After winning the 1948 election, Harry Truman ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lou Reed: The King of New York
by
Will Hermes
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/03/2023
Since his death ten years ago, Lou Reed's living presence has only grown. The great rock-poet presided over the marriage of Brill Building pop and the...
more
Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep
by
Kenneth Miller
Hachette Books, 10/03/2023
A century ago, sleep was considered a state of nothingness—even a primitive habit that we could learn to overcome. Then, an immigrant scientist ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein: A Novel
by
Anne Eekhout
HarperVia, 10/03/2023
Switzerland, 1816. Anguished by the recent loss of her child, Mary spends her days in strife. But come nightfall, the friends while away rainy wine-...
more
Historical Fiction
Monica
by
Daniel Clowes
Fantagraphics Books, 10/03/2023
Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, stories — of its title character. Clowes...
more
Moscow X: A Novel
by
David McCloskey
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/03/2023
CIA officers Sia and Max enter Russia under commercial cover to recruit Vladimir Putin's moneyman. Sia works for a London law firm that conceals the ...
more
Night of the Witch: Witch and Hunter #1
by
Sara Raasch
Sourcebooks Fire, 10/03/2023
Fritzi is a witch. The lone survivor of a brutal attack on her coven, she's determined to find her only remaining family member and bring the hexenj&#...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
One Last Kill: Tracy Crosswhite Series #10
by
Robert Dugoni
Thomas & Mercer, 10/03/2023
Tracy Crosswhite is reopening the investigation into Seattle's Route 99 serial killer. After thirteen victims, he stopped hunting and the trail went ...
more
One Puzzling Afternoon: A Novel
by
Emily Critchley
Sourcebooks Landmark, 10/03/2023
I kept your secret Lucy. I've kept it for more than sixty years...
It is 1951, and at number six Sycamore Street fifteen-year-old Edie Green is ...
more
Plan A
by
Deb Caletti
Labyrinth Road, 10/03/2023
Ivy can't entirely believe it when the plus sign appears on the test. She didn't even know it was possible from ... what happened. But it is, and now ...
more
Salt the Water
by
Candice Iloh
Dutton for Young Readers, 10/03/2023
Cerulean Gene is free everywhere except school, where they're known for repeatedly challenging authority. Raised in a free-spirited home by two loving...
more
Starling House
by
Alix E. Harrow
Tor Books, 10/03/2023
I dream sometimes about a house I've never seen….
Opal is a lot of things―orphan, high school dropout, full-time cynic and part-time ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Blackwoods
by
Brandy Colbert
Balzer + Bray, 10/03/2023
The Blackwoods. Everyone knows their name.
Blossom Blackwood burst onto the silver screen in 1962, and in the decades that followed, she would ...
more
The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance
by
Rebecca Clarren
Viking, 10/03/2023
Growing up, Rebecca Clarren only knew the major plot points of her tenacious immigrant family's origins. Her great-great-grandparents, the Sinykins, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Dead Take the A Train: Carrion City #1
by
Richard Kadrey, Cassandra Khaw
Tor Nightfire, 10/03/2023
Julie is a coked-up, burnt-out thirty-year-old whose only retirement plan is dying early. She's been trying to establish herself in the NYC magic ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Locked Door
by
Freida McFadden
Poisoned Pen Press, 10/03/2023
While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement.
Until the ...
more
Thrillers
The Prospectors: A Novel
by
Ariel Djanikian
William Morrow, 10/03/2023
The middle daughter of struggling California fruit farmers, Alice Bush is accustomed to feeling inferior and destitute. But when her elder sister's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Roaring Days of Zora Lily: A Novel
by
Noelle Salazar
Mira Books, 10/03/2023
2023, The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History: A costume conservator is preparing an exhibition featuring movie costumes from the 1920s ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Scarlet Alchemist
by
Kylie Lee Baker
Inkyard Press, 10/03/2023
Zilan dreams of becoming a royal alchemist, of providing for her family by making alchemical gold and gems for the wealthy to eat in order to stay ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Voice Upstairs
by
Laura E. Weymouth
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 10/03/2023
Wilhelmina Price has a dubious reputation in the village of Thrush's Green. Ever since her mother's untimely death, she has been able to see a person'...
more
Bittersweet in the Hollow
by
Kate Pearsall
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 10/10/2023
In rural Caball Hollow, surrounded by the vast National Forest, the James women serve up more than fried green tomatoes at the Harvest Moon diner, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Blackouts: A Novel
by
Justin Torres
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/10/2023
Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his ...
more
Breaking Through: My Life in Science
by
Katalin Karikó
Crown, 10/10/2023
Katalin Karikó has had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikó grew up in an adobe home that ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Brooms
by
Jasmine Walls
Levine Querido, 10/10/2023
It's 1930s Mississippi. Magic is permitted only in certain circumstances, and by certain people. Unsanctioned broom racing is banned. But for those ...
more
Charming Young Man
by
Eliot Schrefer
Katherine Tegan Books, 10/10/2023
They say Léon Delafosse will be France's next great pianist. But despite his being the youngest student ever accepted into the prestigious Paris ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair
by
Rosa Lowinger
Row House Publishing, 10/10/2023
Dwell Time is a term that measures the amount of time something takes to happen – immigrants waiting at a border, human eyes on a website, the ...more
Biography/Memoir
Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
by
Werner Herzog
Penguin Press, 10/10/2023
Werner Herzog was born in September 1942 in Munich, Germany, at a turning point in the Second World War. Soon Germany would be defeated and a new ...
more
Family Meal: A Novel
by
Bryan Washington
Riverhead Books, 10/10/2023
Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, ...
more
Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion
by
Sowmya Krishnamurthy
Gallery Books, 10/10/2023
Set in the sartorial scenes of New York, Paris, and beyond, music journalist Sowmya Krishnamurthy's reporting on the intersecting histories of hip-hop...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
I Loved You in Another Life
by
David Arnold
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 10/10/2023
Evan Taft has plans. Take a gap year in Alaska, make sure his little brother and single mother are taken care of, and continue therapy to process his ...
more
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
by
Fergus M. Bordewich
Knopf, 10/10/2023
The Ku Klux Klan, which celebrated historian Fergus Bordewich defines as "the first organized terrorist movement in American history," rose from the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lies and Sorcery
by
Elsa Morante
New York Review Books, 10/10/2023
Elsa Morante is one of the great writers of the twentieth century—Natalia Ginzburg said she was the writer of her own generation that she ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Lilith: A Novel
by
Nikki Marmery
Alcove Press, 10/10/2023
Before Eve, there was Lilith.
Lilith and Adam are equal and happy in the Garden of Eden. Until Adam decides Lilith should submit to his will and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Look on the Bright Side
by
Lily Williams, Karen Schneemann
First Second, 10/10/2023
Old friends. New Loves. The future is looking bright.
A new year of school is starting, and Brit finds herself struggling with feelings for a ...
more
MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios
by
Joanna Robinson
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 10/10/2023
Marvel Entertainment was a moribund toymaker not even twenty years ago. Today, Marvel Studios is the dominant player both in Hollywood and in global ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
My Work
by
Olga Ravn
New Directions Publishing, 10/10/2023
After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to completely engulf ...
more
Naked: On Sex, Work, and Other Burlesques
by
Fancy Feast
Algonquin Books, 10/10/2023
When Fancy Feast was in her high school production of "Cabaret," she convinced the director to cast her as a sexy Kit Kat Club Girl, not the old ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Nobility in Small Things: A Surgeon's Path
by
Craig R. Smith M.D.
St. Martin's Press, 10/10/2023
His routine was the same every day for 38 years: up at 4:15, make a turkey-on-rye, drive the deserted Henry Hudson Parkway to the hospital, check the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business
by
Roxane Gay
Harper Perennial, 10/10/2023
Since the publication of the groundbreaking
Bad Feminist and
Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society—state-...
more
Essays
Queen Hereafter: A Novel of Lady Macbeth
by
Isabelle Schuler
Harper Perennial, 10/10/2023
She will be Queen. Whatever it takes ...
Daughter of an ousted king, descendant of ancient druids, Gruoch (GREW-ock), has grown up believing that ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Shoot the Moon
by
Isa Arsén
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/10/2023
How far would you travel for love?
Intelligent but isolated recent physics graduate Annie Fisk feels an undeniable pull toward space. Her childhood...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Songs of Irie
by
Asha Ashanti Bromfield
Wednesday Books, 10/10/2023
It's 1976 and Jamaica is on fire. The country is on the eve of important elections and the warring political parties have made the divisions between ...
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Sword Catcher
by
Cassandra Clare
Del Rey, 10/10/2023
In the vibrant city-state of Castellane, the richest of nobles and the most debauched of criminals have one thing in common: the constant search for ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Fall of Whit Rivera
by
Crystal Maldonado
Holiday House, 10/10/2023
Frenemies Whit and Zay have been at odds for years (ever since he broke up with her in, like, the most embarrassing way imaginable), so when they're ...
more
The Prince and the Coyote
by
David Bowles
Levine Querido, 10/10/2023
1418 – Pre-Columbian Mexico
Fifteen-year old crown prince Acolmiztli wants nothing more than to see his city-state of Tetzcoco thrive. A ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Touched
by
Walter Mosley
Grove Press, 10/10/2023
Martin Just wakes up one morning after what feels like, and might actually be, a centuries-long sleep with two new innate pieces of knowledge: ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Wearing My Mother's Heart
by
Sophia Thakur
Candlewick Press, 10/10/2023
In her heartfelt second poetry collection, Sophia Thakur takes us on an emotionally charged journey through the lives of women in the past and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
What We Kept to Ourselves: A Novel
by
Nancy Jooyoun Kim
Atria Books, 10/10/2023
But one evening, their fragile lives are further upended when John finds the body of a stranger in the backyard, carrying a letter to Sunny, leaving ...
more
Literary Fiction
All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology
by
Circe Moskowitz
Amberjack, 10/17/2023
Welcome to the Dark.
We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, demon and the possessed. Bloody screams, haunted ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America
by
Edwin Raymond
Viking, 10/17/2023
Over his decade and a half with the New York Police Department, Edwin Raymond consistently exposed the dark underbelly of modern policing, becoming ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Artificial: A Love Story
by
Amy Kurzweil
Catapult, 10/17/2023
How do we relate to—and hold—our family's past? Is it through technology? Through spirit? Art, poetry, music? Or is it through the ...
more
Black Friend: Essays
by
Ziwe
Abrams Image, 10/17/2023
Ziwe made a name for herself by asking guests like Alyssa Milano, Fran Lebowitz, and Chet Hanks direct questions. In
Black Friend, she turns her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
by
Robert M. Sapolsky
Penguin Press, 10/17/2023
Robert Sapolsky's
Behave, his now classic account of why humans do good and why they do bad, pointed toward an unsettling conclusion: We may not grasp...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Distant Sons
by
Tim Johnston
Algonquin Books, 10/17/2023
What if?
What if Sean Courtland's old Chevy truck had broken down somewhere else? What if he'd never met Denise Givens, a waitress at a local ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Great Falls, MT: Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again
by
Reggie Watts
Tiny Reparations, 10/17/2023
Reggie Watts is weird. But you knew that. Anyone who's seen his multifaceted, entirely improvised comedy and music shows knows that. Reggie Watts is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
by
Nadine Bjursten
Alder House Books, 10/17/2023
It is 1977, and the anti-shah protests at Tehran University are intensifying, but Amineh is not like her peers who want a say in the future of their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters
by
Schuyler Bailar
Hachette Go, 10/17/2023
Anti-transgender legislation is being introduced in state governments around the United States in record-breaking numbers. Trans people are under ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
by
Deb Chachra
Riverhead Books, 10/17/2023
Infrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic needs and enabling lives of astounding ease and productivity that would have been unimaginable just a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
by
Adam Nicolson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/17/2023
In
How to Be, Adam Nicolson takes us on a glorious, immersive journey. Grounded in the belief that places give access to minds, however distant and ...
more
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country
by
Elena Kostyuchenko
Penguin Press, 10/17/2023
To be a journalist is to tell the truth.
I Love Russia is Elena Kostyuchenko's unrelenting attempt to document her country as experienced by those ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
by
Gary J. Bass
Knopf, 10/17/2023
In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the world turned to the question of how to move on from years of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Let the Dead Bury the Dead: A Novel
by
Allison Epstein
Doubleday, 10/17/2023
Saint Petersburg, 1812. Russian forces have defeated Napoleon at great cost, and the tsar's empire is once again at peace. Sasha, a captain in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
One Hundred Days: A Novel
by
Alice Pung
HarperVia, 10/17/2023
Sixteen and pregnant, Karuna finds herself trapped in her mother's Melbourne public housing apartment for one hundred days awaiting the birth of her ...
more
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
by
Patricia Evangelista
Random House, 10/17/2023
"My job is to go to places where people die. I pack my bags, talk to the survivors, write my stories, then go home to wait for the next catastrophe. I...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Straw Dogs of the Universe: A Novel
by
Ye Chun
Catapult, 10/17/2023
"Heaven and earth do not pick and choose.
They see everything as straw dogs."
A sweeping historical novel of the American West from the little-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
by
Sarah Ogilvie
Knopf, 10/17/2023
The Oxford English Dictionary is one of mankind's greatest achievements, and yet, curiously, its creators are almost never considered. Who were the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Dish: The Lives and Labor Behind One Plate of Food
by
Andrew Friedman
Mariner Books, 10/17/2023
On a typical evening, in a contemporary American restaurant, a table orders their dinner from a server. It's an exchange that happens dozens, or ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust's Most Audacious Rescue Operation
by
Roger Moorhouse
Basic Books, 10/17/2023
Between 1940 and 1943, a group of Polish diplomats in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable—and until now, completely unknown—...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
by
Stuart A. Reid
Knopf, 10/17/2023
It was supposed to be a moment of great optimism, a cause for jubilation. The Congo was at last being set free from Belgium—one of seventeen ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
by
Liza Mundy
Crown, 10/17/2023
Despite discrimination—even because of it—women who started as clerks, secretaries, or unpaid spouses rose to become some of the CIA's ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Unmaking of June Farrow: A Novel
by
Adrienne Young
Delacorte Press, 10/17/2023
In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
These Burning Stars: The Kindom Trilogy #1
by
Bethany Jacobs
Orbit, 10/17/2023
On a dusty backwater planet, occasional thief Jun Ironway has gotten her hands on the score of a lifetime: a secret that could raze the Kindom, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Touch the Future: A Manifesto in Essays
by
John Lee Clark
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/17/2023
Born Deaf into an ASL-speaking family and blind by adolescence, John Lee Clark learned to embrace the possibilities of his tactile world. He is on the...
more
Tremor: A Novel
by
Teju Cole
Kids@Random, 10/17/2023
Life is hopeless but it is not serious. We have to have danced while we could and, later, to have danced again in the telling.
A weekend spent ...
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Here Lies Olive
by
Kate Anderson
North Star Editions, 10/20/2023
Growing up in the dark tourism capital of the United States, sixteen-year-old Olive should be comfortable with death. But ever since an allergic ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
by
Hilary Mantel
Henry Holt and Company, 10/24/2023
In addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own ...
more
America Fantastica: A Novel
by
Tim O'Brien
Mariner Books, 10/24/2023
At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in Northern California.
"How much is on hand, would ...
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Hercule Poirot's Silent Night: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery
by
Sophie Hannah
William Morrow, 10/24/2023
It's December 19, 1931. Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool are looking forward to a much-needed, restful Christmas holiday, when they are ...
more
Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
by
Adam Grant
Viking, 10/24/2023
We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Jane and the Final Mystery: Being a Jane Austen Mystery
by
Stephanie Barron
Soho Crime, 10/24/2023
March 1817: As winter turns to spring, Jane Austen's health is in slow decline, and threatens to cease progress on her latest manuscript. But when her...
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Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins - From Spices to Vices
by
Noah Whiteman
Little, Brown Spark, 10/24/2023
A deadly secret lurks within our spice racks, medicine cabinets, backyard gardens, and private stashes.
Scratch beneath the surface of a coffee ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
On Marriage
by
Devorah Baum
Yale University Press, 10/24/2023
"As far back as our history books go, we have no record of a time preceding marriage. Isn't that an extraordinary fact?" So writes Devorah Baum in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
by
Matt Singer
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/24/2023
On a cold Saturday afternoon in 1975, two men (who had known each other for eight years before they'd ever exchanged a word) met for lunch in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement
by
Tanisha Ford
Amistad, 10/24/2023
Our Secret Society brilliantly illuminates a little known yet highly significant aspect of the civil rights movement that has been long overlooked&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
by
David Leonhardt
Random House, 10/24/2023
Two decades into the twenty-first century, the stagnation of living standards has become the defining trend of American life. Life expectancy has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Pay as You Go
by
Eskor David Johnson
McSweeney's Books, 10/24/2023
New to town and delusionally confident, Slide imagined himself living in a glossy building with doormen and sweeping views of the skyline. Instead he'...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sonic Life: A Memoir
by
Thurston Moore
Doubleday, 10/24/2023
Thurston Moore moved to Manhattan's East Village in 1978 with a yearning for music. He wanted to be immersed in downtown New York's sights and sounds&...
more
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
by
Margaret Renkl
Spiegel & Grau, 10/24/2023
In
The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over ...
more
The Privilege of the Happy Ending: Small, Medium, and Large Stories
by
Kij Johnson
Small Beer Press, 10/24/2023
The Privilege of the Happy Ending collects award-winning writer Kij Johnson's speculative fiction from the last decade. The stories explore gender, ...
more
The Search for Us: A Novel
by
Susan Azim Boyer
Wednesday Books, 10/24/2023
Samira Murphy will do anything to keep her fractured family from falling apart, including caring for her widowed grandmother and getting her older ...
more
American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
by
Michael Willrich
Basic Books, 10/31/2023
In the early twentieth century, anarchists like Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman championed a radical vision of a world without states, laws, or ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Black Punk Now
by
Chris L. Terry
Soft Skull Press, 10/31/2023
Black Punk Now is an anthology of contemporary nonfiction, fiction, illustrations, and comics that collectively describe punk today and give punks&#...
more
Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided
by
Scott Eyman
Simon & Schuster, 10/31/2023
Bestselling Hollywood biographer and film historian Scott Eyman tells the story of Charlie Chaplin's fall from grace. In the aftermath of World War ...
more
Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust
by
Neal Shusterman
Graphix, 10/31/2023
Courage to Dream plunges readers into the Holocaust - one of the greatest atrocities in human history - delving into the core of what it means to face...
more
Edith Holler: A Novel
by
Edward Carey
Riverhead Books, 10/31/2023
The year is 1901. England's beloved queen has died, and her aging son has finally taken the throne. In the eastern city of Norwich, bright and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science
by
Catherine McNeur
Basic Books, 10/31/2023
In
Mischievous Creatures, historian Catherine McNeur uncovers the lives and work of Margaretta Hare Morris and Elizabeth Carrington Morris, sisters ...
more
People to Follow: A Novel
by
Olivia Worley
Wednesday Books, 10/31/2023
A reality show on a remote Caribbean island. Ten teen influencers. One dead body.
Welcome to "In Real Life," the hot new reality show that forces ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sinner's Isle
by
Angela Montoya
Joy Revolution, 10/31/2023
Rosalinda is trapped on Sinner's Isle, an island filled with young women like her—Majestics, beautiful witches loathed by society for their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
The Body of the Soul: Stories (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
by
Ludmila Ulitskaya
Yale University Press, 10/31/2023
While we can feel, know, and study the body, the soul refuses definition. Where does it begin and end? What does the soul have to do with love? Does ...
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The Glutton: A Novel
by
A.K. Blakemore
Scribner, 10/31/2023
1798, France. Nuns move along the dark corridors of a Versailles hospital where the young Sister Perpetué has been tasked with sitting with the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The House of Love and Death: Cameron Winter Mysteries
by
Andrew Klavan
Mysterious Press, 10/31/2023
Cameron Winter is known for having a sense about crime. His background as a spy trained his mind—and his body—for action, and his current ...
more
The Race to Be Myself: A Memoir
by
Caster Semenya
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/31/2023
Olympian and World Champion Caster Semenya is finally ready to share the vivid and heartbreaking story of how the world came to know her name. Thrust ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Space Between Here & Now
by
Sarah Suk
Quill Tree Books, 10/31/2023
Seventeen-year-old Aimee Roh has Sensory Time Warp Syndrome, a rare condition that causes her to time travel to a moment in her life when she smells ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Spy Coast: A Martini Club Thriller
by
Tess Gerritsen
Thomas & Mercer, 11/01/2023
Former spy Maggie Bird came to the seaside village of Purity, Maine, eager to put the past behind her after a mission went tragically wrong. These ...
more
A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous
by
Caspar Henderson
University Of Chicago Press, 11/03/2023
The crackling of a campfire. The scratch, hiss, and pop of a vinyl record. The first glug of wine as it is poured from a bottle. These are just a few ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
by
Kelly Weinersmith
Penguin Press, 11/07/2023
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, and settling ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice
by
Paul Caruana Galizia
Riverhead Books, 11/07/2023
An archipelago off the southern coast of Italy, Malta is a picturesque gem eroded by a climate of corruption, polarization, inequality, and a virtual ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
A Grandmother Begins the Story
by
Michelle Porter
Algonquin Books, 11/07/2023
Written like a crooked Métis jig,
A Grandmother Begins the Story follows five generations of women and bison as they reach for the stories that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Nearby Country Called Love: A Novel
by
Salar Abdoh
Viking, 11/07/2023
Amid the alleyways of the Zamzam neighborhood of Tehran, a woman lights herself on fire in a desperate act of defiance, setting off a chain reaction ...
more
A Power Unbound: The Last Binding # 3
by
Freya Marske
Tor.com, 11/07/2023
Secrets! Magic! Enemies to...something more?
Jack Alston, Lord Hawthorn, would love a nice, safe, comfortable life. After the death of his twin ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
by
Emma Southon
Abrams Press, 11/07/2023
The history of Rome has long been narrow and one-sided, essentially a history of "The Doing of Important Things," and as far as Roman historians have ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Above the Salt: A Novel
by
Katherine Vaz
Flatiron Books, 11/07/2023
John Alves, son of a famous Presbyterian martyr on the Portuguese island of Madeira, spends his childhood in jail and in poverty. When he meets Mary ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Again and Again: A Novel
by
Jonathan Evison
Dutton, 11/07/2023
Eugene "Geno" Miles is living out his final days in a nursing home, bored, curmudgeonly, and struggling to connect with his new nursing assistant, ...
more
Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy
by
Shibani Mahtani
Hachette Books, 11/07/2023
Hong Kong was an experiment in governance. Handed back to China in 1997 after 156 years of British rule, it was meant to be a carve-out between ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Check & Mate
by
Ali Hazelwood
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 11/07/2023
Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays; after the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory's ...
more
Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
by
Stephanie Land
Atria Books, 11/07/2023
When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir
Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of ...
more
Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture–and the Magic That Makes It Work
by
Jesse David Fox
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/07/2023
Comedy is king. From multimillion-dollar TV specials to sold-out stand-up shows and TikTok stardom, comedy has never been more popular, democratized, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Emmett
by
L. C. Rosen
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 11/07/2023
Emmett Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence and...
more
Finding My Elf
by
David Valdes
HarperTeen, 11/07/2023
Escaping to NYU for college didn't turn out the way Cameron planned—he's flunking his theater classes, about to lose his scholarship, and he ...
more
Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
by
H. W. Brands
Doubleday, 11/07/2023
To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the consequences of partisan ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Gorgeous Gruesome Faces
by
Linda Cheng
Roaring Brook Press, 11/07/2023
You'll love them to death...
THEN:
Sunny Lee is on the top of the world. She's one third of Sweet Cadence, the hottest up-and-coming teen pop ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
How Life Works: A User's Guide to the New Biology
by
Philip Ball
University Of Chicago Press, 11/07/2023
Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works—the idea of the genome as a...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
How to Be Multiple: The Philosophy of Twins
by
Helena de Bres
Bloomsbury Publishing, 11/07/2023
Wait, are you you or the other one? Which is the evil twin? Have you ever switched partners? Can you read each other's mind? Twins get asked the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Late Romance: Anthony Hecht—A Poet's Life
by
David Yezzi
St. Martin's Press, 11/07/2023
Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) was one of America's greatest poets, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and widely recognized as a master of formal verse that ...
more
Murtagh: The World of Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle)
by
Christopher Paolini
Knopf, 11/07/2023
The world is no longer safe for the Dragon Rider Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn. An evil king has been toppled, and they are left to face the ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
My Name Is Barbra
by
Barbra Streisand
Viking, 11/07/2023
Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Pedro and Marques Take Stock: A Picaresque Novel
by
José Falero
Astra House, 11/07/2023
In the favelas of Porto Alegre, Brazil, marijuana is hard to come by. Supermarket stock clerks Pedro and Marques spend their days unloading trucks, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation: Why Physicists Are Studying Human Consciousness and AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe
by
George Musser
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/07/2023
The whole goal of physics is to explain what we observe. For centuries, physicists believed that observations yielded faithful representations of what...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Same Bed Different Dreams: A Novel
by
Ed Park
Random House, 11/07/2023
In 1919, far-flung patriots establish the Korean Provisional Government to protest the Japanese occupation of their country. This government-in-exile ...
more
Shot With Crimson: A Josephine Tey Mystery
by
Nicola Upson
Crooked Lane Books, 11/07/2023
September 1939, and the worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on the set of Hitchcock's
Rebecca...more
Sweet Thing: A Novel
by
David Swinson
Mulholland, 11/07/2023
In a red brick house on a tree-lined street, DC homicide detective Alex Blum stares at the bullet-pocked body of Chris Doyle. As he roots around for ...
more
The Corset & The Jellyfish: A Conundrum of Drabbles
by
Nick Bantock
Tachyon Publications, 11/07/2023
Little is known of the fascinating manuscript that Nick Bantock has come to possess. It was discovered in an attic in North London, stuffed into a ...
more
The Liberators
by
E. J. Koh
Tin House Books, 11/07/2023
At the height of the military dictatorship in South Korea, Insuk and Sungho are arranged to be married. The couple soon moves to San Jose, California,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Lost Bookshop
by
Evie Woods
HarperCollins Publishers, 11/07/2023
"The thing about books," she said "is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of."
On a quiet street in ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir
by
Jami Nakamura Lin
Mariner Books, 11/07/2023
Are these the only two stories? The one, where you defeat your monster, and the other, where you succumb to it?
Jami Nakamura Lin spent much of her...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Vulnerables: A Novel
by
Sigrid Nunez
Riverhead Books, 11/07/2023
Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez's ninth novel.
The Vulnerables offers a ...
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We Are the Crisis: Convergence Saga # 2
by
Cadwell Turnbull
Blackstone Publishing, 11/07/2023
Three years after the Monster Massacre, members of Rebecca's old wolf pack have begun to go missing without a trace.
The world has undergone many ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
What's Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork
by
Witold Szablowski
Penguin Books, 11/07/2023
In the gonzo spirit of Anthony Bourdain and Hunter S. Thompson, Witold Szabłowski has tracked down—and broken bread with—people whose...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey
by
Edel Rodriguez
Metropolitan Books, 11/07/2023
Hailed for his iconic art on the cover of
Time and on jumbotrons around the world, Edel Rodriguez is among the most prominent political artists of our...
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Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy
by
Dr. Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar
Basic Books, 11/14/2023
Atlanta is home to some of America's most prominent Black politicians, artists, businesses, and HBCUs. Yet, in 1861, Atlanta was a final contender to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Day: A Novel
by
Michael Cunningham
Random House, 11/14/2023
April 5, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, husband and wife, are slowly ...
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Deep Care: The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open
by
Angela Hume
AK Press, 11/14/2023
Starting in the 1970s, small groups of feminist activists met regularly to study anatomy, practice pelvic exams on each other, and learn how to safely...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Eyeliner: A Cultural History
by
Zahra Hankir
Penguin Books, 11/14/2023
From the distant past to the present, with fingers and felt-tipped pens, metallic powders and gel pots, humans have been drawn to lining their eyes. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Her Side of the Story
by
Alba de Céspedes
Astra House, 11/14/2023
As she looks back on her life, Alessandra Corteggiani recalls her youth during the rise of fascism in Italy, the resistance, and the fall of Mussolini...
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Other Minds and Other Stories
by
Bennett Sims
Two Dollar Radio, 11/14/2023
A man lends his phone to a stranger in the mall, setting off an uncanny series of Unknown calls that come to haunt his relationship with jealousy and ...
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Pritty
by
Keith F. Miller Jr.
HarperTeen, 11/14/2023
On the verge of summer before his senior year, Jay is a soft soul in a world of concrete. While his older brother is everything people expect a man to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
by
Claire Keegan
Grove Press, 11/14/2023
Celebrated for her powerful short fiction, considered "among the form's most masterful practitioners" (
New York Times), Claire Keegan now gifts us ...
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Stockholm: A Novel
by
Noa Yedlin
HarperVia, 11/14/2023
Avishay is up for the Nobel Prize for Economics. There's just one problem—he's dead. His four closest friends agree that the well-earned prize ...
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The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs
by
David Runciman
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 11/14/2023
Countless books, news reports, and opinion pieces have announced the impending arrival of artificial intelligence, with most claiming that it will ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Little Liar: A Novel
by
Mitch Albom
Harper, 11/14/2023
Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America
by
Daniel Schulman
Knopf, 11/14/2023
Joseph Seligman arrived in the United States in 1837, with the equivalent of $100 sewn into the lining of his pants. Then came the Lehman brothers, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The New Naturals
by
Gabriel Bump
Algonquin Books, 11/14/2023
An abandoned restaurant on a hill off the highway in Western Massachusetts doesn't look like much. But to Rio, a young Black woman bereft after the ...
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Archer's Voice
by
Mia Sheridan
Forever, 11/21/2023
I wanted to lose myself in the small town of Pelion, Maine. To forget everything I had left behind. The sound of rain. The blood. The coldness of a ...
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Romance
November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of World War II
by
Peter Englund
Knopf, 11/21/2023
At the beginning of November 1942, it looked as if the Axis powers could still win the Second World War; at the end of that month, it was obviously ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation
by
Richard Snow
Scribner, 11/21/2023
On December 16, 1842, the US brig-of-war
Somers dropped anchor in Brooklyn Harbor at the end of a cruise intended to teach a group of adolescents the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I
by
Steven Ujifusa
Harper, 11/21/2023
Over thirty years, from 1890 to 1921, 2.5 million Jews, fleeing discrimination and violence in their homelands of Eastern Europe, arrived in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Warrior of the Wind: The Nameless Republic #2
by
Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Orbit, 11/21/2023
There is no peace in the season of the Red Emperor.
Traumatized by their escape from Bassa, Lilong and Danso have found safety in a vagabond colony...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Godly Heathens: The Ouroboros #1
by
H.E. Edgmon
Wednesday Books, 11/28/2023
Maybe I have always just been bad at being human because I'm not one.
Gem Echols is a nonbinary Seminole teen living in the tiny town of Gracie, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
No One Left But You
by
Tash McAdam
Soho Teen, 11/28/2023
BEFORE. Newly out trans guy Max is having a hard time in school. Things have been tough since his summer romance, Danny, turned into his bully. This ...
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The Kingdom of Sweets: A Novel of the Nutcracker
by
Erika Johansen
Dutton, 11/28/2023
Light and dark—this is the cursed birthright placed upon Clara and Natasha by their godfather, Drosselmeyer, whose power and greed hold an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story
by
Sam Wasson
Harper, 11/28/2023
Francis Ford Coppola is one of the great American dreamers, and his most magnificent dream is American Zoetrope, the production company he founded in ...
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A Republic of Scoundrels: The Schemers, Intriguers, and Adventurers Who Created a New American Nation
by
David Head
Pegasus Books, 12/05/2023
We now have a clear-eyed understanding of Founding Fathers such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton; ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
by
Shahnaz Habib
Catapult, 12/05/2023
The conditions of travel have long been dictated by the color of passports and the color of skin.
The color of one's skin and passport have long ...
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All the Little Bird-Hearts: A Novel
by
Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
Algonquin Books, 12/05/2023
I lived for and loved a bird-heart that summer; I only knew it afterwards.
Sunday Forrester lives with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Dolly, in the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
by
Judith Tick
W.W. Norton & Company, 12/05/2023
Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) possessed one of the twentieth century's most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald's ...
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Dazzling
by
Chikodili Emelumadu
The Overlook Press, 12/05/2023
Treasure and her mother lost everything when Treasure's father died. Haggling for scraps in the market, Treasure meets a man who promises to change ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Five Bad Deeds: A Novel
by
Caz Frear
Harper, 12/05/2023
Ellen Walsh has done something very, very bad. If only she knew what it was...
Teacher, mother, wife, and all-around good citizen Ellen is juggling...
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Flores and Miss Paula: A Novel
by
Melissa Rivero
Ecco, 12/05/2023
Thirtysomething Flores and her mother, Paula, still live in the same Brooklyn apartment, but that may be the only thing they have in common. It's been...
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Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground
by
Dylan Jones
Grand Central Publishing, 12/05/2023
Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen—whether it be the 1960s or the 2020s—the Velvet ...
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Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
by
Anthony Grafton
Belknap Press, 12/05/2023
In literary legend, Faustus is the quintessential occult personality of early modern Europe. The historical Faustus, however, was something quite ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Never Lie
by
Freida McFadden
Poisoned Pen Press, 12/05/2023
Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. They think they've found it when they visit the remote manor that once ...
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Thrillers
Orbital
by
Samantha Harvey
Atlantic Monthly Press, 12/05/2023
Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, ...
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Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
by
Anthony Veasna So
Ecco, 12/05/2023
The late Anthony Veasna So's debut story collection,
Afterparties, was a landmark publication, hailed as a "bittersweet triumph for a fresh voice ...
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Sunset, Water City: The Water City Trilogy
by
Chris McKinney
Soho Press, 12/05/2023
Year 2160: It's been ten years since the cataclysmic events of
Eventide, Water City, where 99.97 percent of the human population was possessed or ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Archive of Feelings: A Novel
by
Peter Stamm
Other Press, 12/05/2023
Forty years ago—almost a lifetime—he confessed his love to a classmate and close friend, Franziska. Now, living in his late mother's house...
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The Other Mothers
by
Katherine Faulkner
Gallery Books, 12/05/2023
When a young nanny is found dead in mysterious circumstances, new mom, Tash, is intrigued. She has been searching for a story to launch her career as ...
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This Cursed Light: The Last Finestra #2
by
Emily Thiede
Wednesday Books, 12/05/2023
When the gods make the rules, the players must choose: Sacrifice their love to save the world, or choose love and let it burn?
Six months after ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
by
Robyn Davidson
Bloomsbury Publishing, 12/05/2023
In 1977, while she was in her twenties, Robyn Davidson set off with a dog and four camels to cross 1,700 miles of Australian desert to the sea.
A ...
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Welcome Home, Stranger: A Novel
by
Kate Christensen
Harper, 12/05/2023
Can you ever truly go home again?
An environmental journalist in Washington, DC, Rachel has shunned her New England working-class family for years....
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Sisters of the Sky: A Novel of World War II
by
Lana Kortchik
HQ Digital, 12/07/2023
October 1941: As war rages in the Soviet Union, Nina is devastated as she watches her younger brother being sent off to the front. She has witnessed ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Lace Widow: An Eliza Hamilton Mystery
by
Mollie Ann Cox
Crooked Lane Books, 12/12/2023
New York, 1804. America's beloved Alexander Hamilton lies dead after a duel with Aaron Burr. Meanwhile, Eliza Hamilton's eighteen-year-old son, ...
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The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943
by
James Holland
Atlantic Monthly Press, 12/12/2023
Following victory in Sicily, while the central command planned the spring 1944 invasion of France, Allied troops crossed into southern Italy in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Where There's Smoke
by
E. B. Vickers
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 12/12/2023
Life has never been easy in the small desert town of Harmony, but even on the day Calli Christopher buries her father, she knows she is surrounded by ...
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