Anthem
by
Noah Hawley
Grand Central Publishing, 01/04/2022
Something is happening to teenagers across America, spreading through memes only they can parse.
At the Float Anxiety Abatement Center, in a ...
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Fiona and Jane
by
Jean Chen Ho
Viking, 01/04/2022
Best friends since second grade, Fiona Lin and Jane Shen explore the lonely freeways and seedy bars of Los Angeles together through their teenage ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Of Women and Salt
by
Gabriela Garcia
Flatiron Books, 01/04/2022
In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Olga Dies Dreaming: A Novel
by
Xochitl Gonzalez
Flatiron Books, 01/04/2022
It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are boldfaced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Spirits and Smoke: A Mystic's Accomplice Mystery #2
by
Mary Miley
Severn House, 01/04/2022
December, 1924. Young widow Maddie Pastore feels fortunate to be employed by the well-meaning but fraudulent medium Carlotta Romany. Investigating ...
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The High House: A Novel
by
Jessie Greengrass
Scribner, 01/04/2022
Shortlisted for the 2021 Costa Novel Award
Perched on a sloping hill, set away from a small town by the sea, the High House has a tide pool and a ...
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The Latinist: A Novel
by
Mark Prins
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/04/2022
Tessa Templeton has thrived at Oxford University under the tutelage and praise of esteemed classics professor Christopher Eccles. And now, his support...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Maid: A Novel
by
Nita Prose
Ballantine Books, 01/04/2022
Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The School for Good Mothers: A Novel
by
Jessamine Chan
Simon & Schuster, 01/04/2022
Frida Liu is struggling. She doesn't have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents' sacrifices. She can't persuade her husband, Gust, to give ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Unfamiliar Garden: The Comet Cycle #2
by
Benjamin Percy
Mariner Books, 01/04/2022
Unable to solve her own daughter's case, Nora lost herself in her work as a homicide detective. Jack became a shell of a man; his promising career as ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Velorio: A Novel
by
Xavier Navarro Aquino
HarperVia, 01/04/2022
Camila is haunted by the death of her sister, Marisol, who was caught by a mudslide during the huracán. Unable to part with Marisol, Camila ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
When You Are Mine: A Novel
by
Michael Robotham
Scribner, 01/04/2022
Philomena McCarthy is a young, ambitious police office with the elite Metropolitan Police in London. When she responds to a domestic violence call, ...
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Where the Drowned Girls Go: Wayward Children #7
by
Seanan McGuire
Tor Books, 01/04/2022
"Welcome to the Whitethorn Institute. The first step is always admitting you need help, and you've already taken that step by requesting a transfer ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955
by
Harald Jähner
Knopf, 01/11/2022
The years 1945 to 1955 were a raw, wild decade that found many Germans politically, economically, and morally bankrupt. Victorious Allied forces ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Ain't Burned All the Bright
by
Jason Reynolds
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 01/11/2022
Jason Reynolds and his best bud, Jason Griffin had a mind-meld. And they decided to tackle it, in one fell swoop, in about ten sentences, and 300 ...
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Battle of the Linguist Mages
by
Scotto Moore
Tor.com, 01/11/2022
Isobel is the Queen of the medieval rave-themed VR game Sparkle Dungeon. Her prowess in the game makes her an ideal candidate to learn the secrets of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Blank Pages: And Other Stories
by
Bernard MacLaverty
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/11/2022
Tinged with melancholy but rooted in resiliency, the exquisite stories of Bernard MacLaverty's
Blank Pages display the perseverance of the human ...
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BOX 88
by
Charles Cumming
Mysterious Press, 01/11/2022
Lachlan Kite is a member of BOX 88, an elite transatlantic black ops outfit so covert that not even MI6 and the CIA are certain of its existence &#...
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Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom
by
Carl Bernstein
Henry Holt and Company, 01/11/2022
In 1960, Bernstein was just a sixteen-year-old at considerable risk of failing to graduate high school. Inquisitive, self-taught―and, yes, ...
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Daughter of the Moon Goddess: Celestial Kingdom #1
by
Sue Lynn Tan
Harper Voyager, 01/11/2022
Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the powerful Celestial Emperor who exiled her mother ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Lacuna
by
Fiona Snyckers
Europa Editions, 01/11/2022
Withdrawn and fearful of crowds, Lucy nonetheless makes occasional forays into the world of men in her search for Coetzee himself. She means to ...
more
Lightning Striking: Ten Transformative Moments in Rock and Roll
by
Lenny Kaye
Ecco, 01/11/2022
Memphis, 1954. New Orleans 1957. Philadelphia 1959. Liverpool, 1962. San Francisco 1967. Detroit 1969. New York, 1975. London 1977. Los Angeles 1984 /...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lost & Found: A Memoir
by
Kathryn Schulz
Random House, 01/11/2022
Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz's beloved father died, she met the woman she would marry. In
Lost & Found, she weaves the stories of those ...
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Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas
by
Harley Rustad
Harper, 01/11/2022
For centuries, India has enthralled westerners looking for an exotic getaway, a brief immersion in yoga and meditation, or in rare cases, a true ...
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Medusa
by
Jessie Burton
Bloomsbury YA, 01/11/2022
If I told you that I'd killed a man with a glance, would you wait to hear the rest? The why, the how, what happened next?
Exiled to a far-flung ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
My Broken Language: A Memoir
by
Quiara Alegría Hudes
One World, 01/11/2022
Quiara Alegría Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced in her grandmother's tight North Philly kitchen. She was awed ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Our Kind of People
by
Carol Wallace
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/11/2022
Among New York City's Gilded Age elite, one family will defy convention.
Helen Wilcox has one desire: to successfully launch her daughters into ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Shit Cassandra Saw: Stories
by
Gwen E. Kirby
Penguin Books, 01/11/2022
Cassandra may have seen the future, but it doesn't mean she's resigned to telling the Trojans everything she knows. In this ebullient collection, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Small World: A Novel
by
Jonathan Evison
Dutton, 01/11/2022
The characters of
Small World connect in the most intriguing and meaningful ways, winning, breaking, and winning our hearts again. In exploring the ...
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Something to Hide: A Lynley Novel
by
Elizabeth George
Viking, 01/11/2022
When a police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma, only an autopsy reveals the murderous act that precipitated her death. ...
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The Final Case: A novel
by
David Guterson
Knopf, 01/11/2022
A girl dies one late, rainy night a few feet from the back door of her home. The girl, Abeba, was born in Ethiopia. Her adoptive parents, Delvin and ...
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The Paris Bookseller
by
Kerri Maher
Berkley Books, 01/11/2022
When bookish young American Sylvia Beach opens Shakespeare and Company on a quiet street in Paris in 1919, she has no idea that she and her new ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Stars Are Not Yet Bells: A Novel
by
Hannah Lillith Assadi
Riverhead Books, 01/11/2022
Off the coast of Georgia, near Savannah, generations have been tempted by strange blue lights in the sky near an island called Lyra. At the height of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Vinyl Moon
by
Mahogany L. Browne
Crown Books for Young Readers, 01/11/2022
When Darius told Angel he loved her, she believed him. But five weeks after the incident, Angel finds herself in Brooklyn, far from her family, from ...
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100,000 First Bosses: My Unlikely Path as a 22-Year-Old Lawmaker
by
Will Haskell
Avid Reader Press, 01/18/2022
President Obama left office with these parting words for Americans: "If you're disappointed by your elected officials, grab a clipboard, get some ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Engines of Empire: The Age of Uprising #1
by
R. S. Ford
Orbit, 01/18/2022
The nation of Torwyn is run on the power of industry, and industry is run by the Guilds. Chief among them are the Hawkspurs, whose responsibility it ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Joan Is Okay: A Novel
by
Weike Wang
Random House, 01/18/2022
Joan is a thirtysomething ICU doctor at a busy New York City hospital. The daughter of Chinese parents who came to the United States to secure the ...
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Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
by
Jing Tsu
Riverhead Books, 01/18/2022
What does it take to reinvent a language?
After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world's most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lawless Spaces
by
Corey Ann Haydu
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 01/18/2022
Mimi's relationship with her mother has always been difficult. But lately, her mother has been acting more withdrawn than usual, leaving Mimi to ...
more
Manifesto: On Never Giving Up
by
Bernardine Evaristo
Grove Press, 01/18/2022
Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker Prize win was a historic and revolutionary occasion, with Evaristo being the first Black woman and first Black ...
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Real Easy: A Novel
by
Marie Rutkoski
Henry Holt and Company, 01/18/2022
It's 1999 and Samantha has danced for years at the Lovely Lady strip club. She's not used to mixing work and friendship―after all, between her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Reminders of Him: A Novel
by
Colleen Hoover
Amazon Publishing, 01/18/2022
After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year...
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Romance
The Runaway: Peter Ash #7
by
Nick Petrie
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/18/2022
War veteran Peter Ash is driving through northern Nebraska when he encounters a young pregnant woman alone on a gravel road, her car dead. Peter ...
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This Will Be Funny Later: A Memoir
by
Jenny Pentland
Harper, 01/18/2022
Growing up, Jenny Pentland's life was a literal sitcom. Many of the storylines for her mother's smash hit series,
Roseanne, were drawn from Pentland's...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?: A Novel
by
Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
Pamela Dorman Books, 01/18/2022
Yinka's Nigerian aunties frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, her work friends think she's too traditional (she's saving herself for ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
by
Zora Neale Hurston
Amistad, 01/18/2022
You Don't Know Us Negroes is the quintessential gathering of provocative essays from one of the world's most celebrated writers, Zora Neale Hurston. ...
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A Previous Life
by
Edmund White
Bloomsbury USA, 01/25/2022
Sicilian aristocrat and musician, Ruggero, and his younger American wife, Constance, agree to break their marital silence and write their Confessions....
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Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
by
Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Pantheon Books, 01/25/2022
Born to an aspirational blue-collar family during the Great Depression, Constance Baker Motley was expected to find herself a good career as a hair ...
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Defenestrate
by
Renee Branum
Bloomsbury USA, 01/25/2022
Marta and her twin brother Nick have always been haunted and fascinated by an ancestral legend that holds that members of their family are doomed to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Devil House: A Novel
by
John Darnielle
MCD, 01/25/2022
Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That's what his mother always told him. Years later, he is a true crime writer, with one grisly success―...
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Easy Street: A Story of Redemption from Myself
by
Maggie Rowe
Counterpoint Press, 01/25/2022
To most, Maggie Rowe appears to live on Easy Street. Her stylish home is in a fashionable Los Angeles neighborhood. She has a kind husband who makes ...
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Greenwich Park
by
Katherine Faulkner
Gallery Books, 01/25/2022
Helen's idyllic life—handsome architect husband, gorgeous Victorian house, and cherished baby on the way (after years of trying)—begins to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Her Hidden Genius: A Novel
by
Marie Benedict
Sourcebooks, 01/25/2022
Rosalind Franklin has always been an outsider―brilliant, but different. Whether working at the laboratory she adored in Paris or toiling at a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Home in the World: A Memoir
by
Amartya Sen
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 01/25/2022
The Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is one of a handful of people who may truly be called "a global intellectual" (
Financial Times). A towering figure in ...
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Light Years from Home: A Novel
by
Mike Chen
Mira, 01/25/2022
Evie Shao and her sister, Kass, aren't on speaking terms. Fifteen years ago on a family camping trip, their father and brother vanished. Their dad ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Manywhere: Stories
by
Morgan Thomas
MCD, 01/25/2022
The nine stories in Morgan Thomas's shimmering debut collection witness Southern queer and genderqueer characters determined to find themselves ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Maybe It's Me: On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman
by
Eileen Pollack
Delphinium Books, 01/25/2022
Eileen is nine and too smart for the third grade, but when the clownish school psychologist tries to gain her trust with an offer of Oreos, she ...
more
Notes on an Execution: A Novel
by
Danya Kukafka
William Morrow, 01/25/2022
Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he's done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, ...
more
Overground Railroad (The Young Adult Adaptation): The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
by
Candacy Taylor
Amulet Books, 01/25/2022
Overground Railroad chronicles the history of the
Green Book, which was published from 1936 to 1966 and was the "Black travel guide to America." For ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Road of Bones: A Novel
by
Christopher Golden
St. Martin's Press, 01/25/2022
Surrounded by barren trees in a snow-covered wilderness with a dim, dusky sky forever overhead, Siberia's Kolyma Highway is 1200 miles of gravel ...
more
Seasons of Purgatory
by
Shahriar Mandanipour
Bellevue Literary Press, 01/25/2022
In
Seasons of Purgatory, the fantastical and the visceral merge in tales of tender desire and collective violence, the boredom and brutality of war, ...
more
Seven Games: A Human History
by
Oliver Roeder
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/25/2022
Checkers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In
...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
by
Imani Perry
Ecco, 01/25/2022
We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War,
Gone with the Wind, the Ku ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Fields: A Novel
by
Erin Young
Flatiron Books, 01/25/2022
It starts with a body―a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield, on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Five Wounds
by
Kirstin Valdez Quade
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/25/2022
Winner of The Center for Fiction's 2021 First Novel Prize
Finalist for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
Shortlisted for the 2022 Andrew ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
by
Ben Raines
Simon & Schuster, 01/25/2022
Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed, the
Clotilda became the last ship in history to bring enslaved Africans to the United States....
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Magnolia Palace: A Novel
by
Fiona Davis
Dutton, 01/25/2022
Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter's life has completely fallen apart. For ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Red Palace
by
June Hur
Feiwel & Friends, 01/25/2022
To enter the palace means to walk a path stained in blood...
Joseon (Korea), 1758. There are few options available to illegitimate daughters in the...
more
The Urge: Our History of Addiction
by
Carl Erik Fisher
Penguin Press, 01/25/2022
Even after a decades-long opioid overdose crisis, intense controversy still rages over the fundamental nature of addiction and the best way to treat ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
You Can Run: Laurel Snow Romantic Thriller #1
by
Rebecca Zanetti
Zebra Books, 01/25/2022
Laurel Snow wouldn't call hunting a serial killer a vacation, but with a pile of dead bodies unearthed near her Genesis Valley, WA, hometown, she'll ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romantic Thrillers
A Fine Madness: A Christopher Marlowe Murder Mystery
by
Alan Judd
Pegasus Crime, 02/01/2022
In Elizabethan England, the queen's chief spymaster, Francis Walsingham, and his team of agents must maintain the highest levels of vigilance to ward ...
more
Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever Afters
by
Jessica P. Pryde
Berkley Books, 02/01/2022
Romantic love has been one of the most essential elements of storytelling for centuries. But for Black people in the United States and across the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder
by
Rachel Rear
Bloomsbury USA, 02/01/2022
Growing up, Rachel Rear knew the story of Stephanie Kupchynsky's disappearance. The beautiful violinist and teacher had fled an abusive relationship ...
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Critics' Consensus:
True Crime
Debut Author
Circus of Wonders: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Macneal
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 02/01/2022
Step up, step up! In 1860s England, circus mania is sweeping the nation. Crowds jostle for a glimpse of the lion-tamers, the dazzling trapeze artists ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Didn't We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston
by
Gerrick Kennedy
Abrams Press, 02/01/2022
On February 11, 2012, Whitney Houston was found submerged in the bathtub of her suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. In the decade since, the world has ...
more
Echoland: A Novel
by
Per Petterson
Graywolf Press, 02/01/2022
Set over the course of a single formative summer, the novel captures a series of episodes from Arvid's long visit to his grandparents' home in Denmark...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Free Love: A Novel
by
Tessa Hadley
Harper, 02/01/2022
1967. While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the suburban Fischer family seems to belong to an older world of conventional stability:...
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Freewater
by
Amina Luqman-Dawson
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 02/01/2022
Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother ...
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Literary Fiction
Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy
by
Philip Freeman PhD
Pegasus Books, 02/01/2022
Over two thousand years ago one of the greatest military leaders in history almost destroyed Rome. Hannibal, a daring African general from the city of...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey
by
Florence Williams
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/01/2022
When her twenty-five-year marriage unexpectedly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects the loss to hurt. What she doesn't expect is that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage
by
Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
Henry Holt and Company, 02/01/2022
A Latina hero in the elite macho tech world of Silicon Valley, privately, she was hanging by a thread. Deep in the throes of alcoholism, hiding her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
by
Kim Fu
Tin House Books, 02/01/2022
In the twelve unforgettable tales of
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange, such that a ...
more
Magic in the Weave: Gabriel Tavener Mysteries #4
by
Alys Clare
Severn House, 02/01/2022
October, 1604. Plague has hit London, and the theatres are closed. But the capital's loss is Plymouth's gain, when a London theatre troupe, the ...
more
Men in My Situation: A Novel
by
Per Petterson
Graywolf Press, 02/01/2022
Men in My Situation, Per Petterson's evocative and moving new novel, finds Arvid Jansen in a tailspin, unable to process the grief of losing his ...
more
My Father's Diet
by
Adrian Nathan West
And Other Stories, 02/01/2022
In a broken-down Middle American town, the disintegration of a struggling family―its ambitions and emotions worn thin―is laid bare through...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Other People's Clothes: A Novel
by
Calla Henkel
Doubleday, 02/01/2022
Hoping to escape the pain of the recent murder of her best friend, art student Zoe Beech finds herself studying abroad in the bohemian capital of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
by
Thomas Halliday
Random House, 02/01/2022
The past is past, but it does leave clues, and Thomas Halliday has used cutting-edge science to decipher them more completely than ever before. In
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Books of Jacob: A Novel
by
Olga Tokarczuk
Riverhead Books, 02/01/2022
In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Christie Affair: A Novel
by
Nina de Gramont
St. Martin's Press, 02/01/2022
Every story has its secrets.
Every mystery has its motives.
"A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman. It's a particular ...more
The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century
by
Olga Ravn
New Directions Publishing, 02/01/2022
Funny and doom-drenched,
The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Goodbye Coast: A Philip Marlowe Novel
by
Joe Ide
Mulholland, 02/01/2022
The seductive and relentless figure of Raymond Chandler's detective, Philip Marlowe, is vividly re-imagined in present-day Los Angeles. Here is a city...
more
The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act
by
Isaac Butler
Bloomsbury USA, 02/01/2022
On stage and screen, we know a great performance when we see it. But how do actors draw from their bodies and minds to turn their selves into art? ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Pages: A novel
by
Hugo Hamilton
Knopf, 02/01/2022
One old copy of the novel
Rebellion sits in Lena Knecht's tote bag, about to accompany her on a journey from New York to Berlin in search of a clue to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Silentiary
by
Antonio Di Benedetto
New York Review Books, 02/01/2022
The Silentiary takes place in a nameless Latin American city during the early 1950s. A young man employed in mid-level management entertains an ...
more
Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020
by
Carl Phillips
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/01/2022
I'm a song, changing. I'm a light
rain falling through a vast
darkness toward a different
darkness.
Carl Phillips has aptly described his work...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
This Woven Kingdom: This Woven Kingdom #1
by
Tahereh Mafi
HarperCollins Publishers, 02/01/2022
To all the world, Alizeh is a disposable servant, not the long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom forced to hide in plain sight.
The crown prince...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dark Horse: Orphan X #7
by
Gregg Hurwitz
Minotaur Books, 02/08/2022
Evan Smoak is a man with many identities and a challenging past. As Orphan X, he was a government assassin for the off-the-books Orphan Program. After...
more
Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return
by
Rebecca Mead
Knopf, 02/08/2022
When the
New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of 2018, she was both fleeing the political...
more
Love & Saffron: A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Love
by
Kim Fay
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 02/08/2022
When twenty-seven-year-old Joan Bergstrom sends a fan letter—as well as a gift of saffron—to fifty-nine-year-old Imogen Fortier, a life-...
more
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety
by
Georgia Pritchett
HarperOne, 02/08/2022
When Georgia Pritchett found herself lost for words—a bit of a predicament for a comedy writer—she turned to a therapist, who suggested ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World
by
Eliza Reid
Sourcebooks, 02/08/2022
For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap ...
more
Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
by
John Abramson
Mariner Books, 02/08/2022
The United States spends an excess $1.5 trillion annually on health care compared to other wealthy countries—yet the amount of time that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It
by
Mary Ann Sieghart
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/08/2022
Every woman has a story of being underestimated, ignored, challenged, or patronized in the workplace. Maybe she tried to speak up in a meeting, only ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Fifties: An Underground History
by
James R. Gaines
Simon & Schuster, 02/08/2022
In a fascinating and beautifully written series of character portraits,
The Fifties invokes the accidental radicals—people motivated not by ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Last Grand Duchess: A Novel of Olga Romanov, Imperial Russia, and Revolution
by
Bryn Turnbull
Mira, 02/08/2022
Grand Duchess Olga Romanov comes of age amid a shifting tide for the great dynasties of Europe. But even as unrest simmers in the capital, Olga is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Nineties: A Book
by
Chuck Klosterman
Penguin Press, 02/08/2022
It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between, one presidential election was allegedly ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Wind Whistling in the Cranes: A Novel
by
Margaret Jull Costa
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 02/08/2022
With the grand sweep of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels, this enduring tale transports us to a picturesque seaside town haunted by its colonial ...
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Very Cold People: A Novel
by
Sarah Manguso
Hogarth Books, 02/08/2022
"My parents didn't belong in Waitsfield, but they moved there anyway."
For Ruthie, the frozen town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is all she has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret
by
A. J. Baime
Mariner Books, 02/08/2022
Walter F. White led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP in the early twentieth century; the other as a white ...
more
A River Enchanted: Elements of Cadence #1
by
Rebecca Ross
Harper Voyager, 02/15/2022
Jack Tamerlaine hasn't stepped foot on Cadence in ten long years, content to study music at the mainland university. But when young girls start ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Age of Ash: The Kithamar Trilogy #1
by
Daniel Abraham
Orbit, 02/15/2022
Kithamar is a center of trade and wealth, an ancient city with a long, bloody history where countless thousands live and their stories unfold.
This...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life
by
James Curtis
Knopf, 02/15/2022
It was James Agee who christened Buster Keaton "The Great Stone Face." Keaton's face, Agee wrote, "ranked almost with Lincoln's as an early American ...
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Diablo Mesa: Nora Kelly #3
by
Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Grand Central Publishing, 02/15/2022
Lucas Tappan, a wealthy and eccentric billionaire and founder of Icarus Space Systems, approaches the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute with an ...
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Hotel Oblivion
by
Cynthia Cruz
Four Way, 02/15/2022
A specter, haunting the edges of society: because neoliberalism insists there are no social classes, thus, there is no working class, the main subject...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
How to Find Your Way Home
by
Katy Regan
Berkley Books, 02/15/2022
Emily has been looking for the same face in every crowd for more than a decade: her brother's. She'll do anything to find him, she just never expects ...
more
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
by
Dennis Duncan
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/15/2022
Most of us give little thought to the back of the book―it's just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Moon Witch, Spider King: The Dark Star Trilogy #2
by
Marlon James
Riverhead Books, 02/15/2022
In
Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Sogolon the Moon Witch proved a worthy adversary to Tracker as they clashed across a mythical African landscape in search ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Pollak's Arm
by
Hans von Trotha
New Vessel Press, 02/15/2022
But Pollak shows himself in no hurry to leave his home and accept the eleventh-hour offer of refuge. Pollak's visitor is obliged to take a seat and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space
by
Zoraida Córdova
Wednesday Books, 02/15/2022
Follow princesses warring in space, haunting ghost stories in Argentina, mermaids off the coast of the Caribbean, swamps that whisper secrets, and ...
more
The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir
by
Karen Cheung
Random House, 02/15/2022
Hong Kong is known as a place of extremes: a former colony of the United Kingdom that now exists at the margins of an ascendant China; a city rocked ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees
by
Matthieu Aikins
Harper, 02/15/2022
In 2016, a young Afghan driver and translator named Omar makes the heart-wrenching choice to flee his war-torn country, saying goodbye to Laila, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas
by
Gal Beckerman
Crown, 02/15/2022
We tend to think of revolutions as loud: frustrations and demands shouted in the streets. But the ideas fueling them have traditionally been conceived...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster--Who Profits and Who Pays the Price
by
Jessie Singer
Simon & Schuster, 02/15/2022
We hear it all the time: "Sorry, it was just an accident." And we've been deeply conditioned to just accept that explanation and move on. But as ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Watergate: A New History
by
Garrett M. Graff
Avid Reader Press, 02/15/2022
In the early hours of June 17, 1972, a security guard named Frank Wills entered six words into the log book of the Watergate office complex that would...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Crown & Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
by
Tracy Borman
Atlantic Monthly Press, 02/22/2022
Since William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy, crossed the English Channel in 1066 to defeat King Harold II and unite England's various kingdoms, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dead Collections: A Novel
by
Isaac Fellman
Penguin Books, 02/22/2022
When archivist Sol meets Elsie, the larger than life widow of a moderately famous television writer who's come to donate her wife's papers, there's an...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals
by
Laurie Zaleski
St. Martin's Press, 02/22/2022
Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie's dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
In Sensorium: Notes for My People
by
Tanaïs
Mariner Books, 02/22/2022
Focusing their gaze on our most primordial sense, writer and perfumer Tanaïs weaves a brilliant and expansive memoir, a reckoning that offers a ...
more
Life Without Children: Stories
by
Roddy Doyle
Viking, 02/22/2022
Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone.
In these ...
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Scorpica: The Five Queendoms #1
by
G.R. Macallister
Gallery Books, 02/22/2022
Five hundred years of peace between queendoms shatters when girls inexplicably stop being born. As the Drought of Girls stretches across a generation,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Spontaneous Human Combustion
by
Richard Thomas
Keylight Books, 02/22/2022
- A poker game yields a strange prize that haunts one man, his game of chance now turned into a life-or-death coin flip.
- A set of twins find they have ...
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The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
by
Shelley Puhak
Bloomsbury USA, 02/22/2022
Brunhild was a foreign princess, raised to be married off for the sake of alliance-building. Her sister-in-law Fredegund started out as a lowly palace...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Justice of Kings: Empire of the Wolf #1
by
Richard Swan
Orbit, 02/22/2022
The Empire of the Wolf simmers with unrest. Rebels, heretics, and powerful patricians all challenge the power of the Imperial throne.
Only the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Paradox Hotel: A Novel
by
Rob Hart
Ballantine Books, 02/22/2022
January Cole's job just got a whole lot harder.
Not that running security at the Paradox was ever really easy. Nothing's simple at a hotel where ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Verifiers
by
Jane Pek
Vintage, 02/22/2022
Claudia is used to disregarding her fractious family's model-minority expectations: she has no interest in finding either a conventional career or a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
by
Stephanie Foo
Ballantine Books, 02/22/2022
By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at
This American Life and a loving ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Wildcat: A Novel
by
Amelia Morris
Flatiron Books, 02/22/2022
New mother, aspiring writer, and former shopgirl Leanne has lost her way. As she struggles with both her grief and the haze of motherhood, it also ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Thousand Steps Into Night
by
Traci Chee
Clarion, 03/01/2022
In the realm of Awara, where gods, monsters, and humans exist side by side, Miuko is an ordinary girl resigned to a safe, if uneventful, existence as ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
All My Rage: A Novel
by
Sabaa Tahir
Razorbill, 03/01/2022
Lahore, Pakistan. Then.
Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by ...
more
Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution
by
Elie Mystal
The New Press, 03/01/2022
According to commentator and lawyer Elie Mystal, Republicans are wrong when they tell you the First Amendment allows religious fundamentalists to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir
by
Kathryn Davis
Graywolf Press, 03/01/2022
Aurelia, Aurélia begins on a boat. The author, sixteen years old, is traveling to Europe at an age when one can "try on personae like dresses." ...
more
Checkout 19: A Novel
by
Claire-Louise Bennett
Riverhead Books, 03/01/2022
In a working-class town in a county west of London, a schoolgirl scribbles stories in the back pages of her exercise book, intoxicated by the first ...
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Chorus: A Novel
by
Rebecca Kauffman
Counterpoint Press, 03/01/2022
The seven Shaw siblings have long been haunted by two early and profoundly consequential events. Told in turns from the early twentieth century ...
more
Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir
by
Bob Odenkirk
Random House, 03/01/2022
Bob Odenkirk's career is inexplicable. And yet he will try like hell to explicate it for you. Charting a "Homeric" decades-long "odyssey" from his ...
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Gallant
by
V. E. Schwab
Greenwillow Books, 03/01/2022
Everything casts a shadow. Even the world we live in. And as with every shadow, there is a place where it must touch. A seam, where the shadow meets ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Girl in Ice
by
Erica Ferencik
Gallery/Scout Press, 03/01/2022
Valerie "Val" Chesterfield is a linguist trained in the most esoteric of disciplines: dead Nordic languages. Despite her successful career, she leads ...
more
Never Simple: A Memoir
by
Liz Scheier
Henry Holt and Company, 03/01/2022
Scheier's mother Judith was a news junkie, a hilarious storyteller, a fast-talking charmer you couldn't look away from, a single mother whose devotion...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
North to Paradise: A Memoir
by
Ousman Umar
AmazonCrossing, 03/01/2022
Ousman Umar is a shaman's son born in a small village in Ghana. Though his mother died giving birth, he spent a contented childhood working the fields...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
by
Jeff Yang
Mariner Books, 03/01/2022
When the Hart-Celler Act passed in 1965, opening up US immigration to non-Europeans, it ushered in a whole new era. But even to the first generation ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Scattered All Over the Earth
by
Yoko Tawada
New Directions Publishing, 03/01/2022
Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, its former...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
ShadowMan: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling
by
Ron Franscell
Berkley Books, 03/01/2022
On June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl went missing from the Montana campground where her family was vacationing. Somebody had slit open the back of ...
more
Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction
by
David George Haskell
Viking, 03/01/2022
We live on a planet alive with song, music, and speech. David Haskell explores how these wonders came to be. In rain forests shimmering with insect ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Spring of Hope: Gaslight Mysteries #4
by
Cora Harrison
Severn House, 03/01/2022
March, 1859. After the 'Great Stink' of the previous summer when Parliament was overwhelmed by the stench of sewage from the River Thames, and with ...
more
The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird
by
Jack E. Davis
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 03/01/2022
The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you're not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as "majestic" and "noble,"...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and our Place in the Middle
by
Sarah Krasnostein
Tin House Books, 03/01/2022
For Sarah Krasnostein it begins with a Mennonite choir performing on a subway platform, a fleeting moment of witness that sets her on a fascinating ...
more
The Blood Covenant: Simon Westow Mysteries #4
by
Chris Nickson
Severn House, 03/01/2022
Leeds. November, 1823. When a doctor from the infirmary tells thief-taker Simon Westow about the brutal deaths of two young boys at the hands of a ...
more
The Chapel in the Woods: Jack Haldean Murder Mysteries #11
by
Dolores Gordon-Smith
Severn House, 03/01/2022
"There's something in those woods that shouldn't be there..."
Enjoying a weekend in the country with his cousin Isabelle, Jack Haldean is intrigued...
more
The Club: A Novel
by
Ellery Lloyd
Harper, 03/01/2022
Everyone's Dying to Join...
The Home Group is a glamorous collection of celebrity members' clubs dotted across the globe, where the rich and famous...
more
The Day He Left: Violent Crime Investigations Team Mystery #2
by
Frederick Weisel
Poisoned Pen Press, 03/01/2022
Annie has fallen out of the habit of listening to her husband. She and Paul have been married for a long time; it's easy to nod as he drones on, ...
more
The Fell: A Novel
by
Sarah Moss
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/01/2022
At dusk on a November evening, a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. Kate is in the middle of a two-week mandatory quarantine ...
more
The Heights
by
Louise Candlish
Atria Books, 03/01/2022
The Heights is a tall, slender apartment building among warehouses in London. Its roof terrace is so discreet, you wouldn't know it existed if you ...
more
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
by
Meghan O'Rourke
Riverhead Books, 03/01/2022
A silent epidemic of chronic illnesses afflicts tens of millions of Americans: these are diseases that are poorly understood, frequently marginalized,...
more
The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure
by
Dan Werb
Crown, 03/01/2022
When virologist Ralph Baric began researching coronaviruses in the 1980s, the field was a scientific backwater—the few variants that infected ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing
by
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
Astra House, 03/01/2022
Thanks to her blog,
Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah has spent decades talking openly and intimately to African ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Turning Point: 1851 - A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World
by
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Knopf, 03/01/2022
The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when industrial miracles and artistic innovations rub shoulders with political unrest, ...
more
The Unsinkable Greta James: A Novel
by
Jennifer E. Smith
Ballantine Books, 03/01/2022
Right after the sudden death of her mother—her first and most devoted fan—and just before the launch of her high-stakes sophomore album, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
And They Lived ...
by
Steven Salvatore
Bloomsbury YA, 03/08/2022
Chase Arthur is a budding animator and hopeless romantic obsessed with Disney films and finding his true love, but he's plagued with the belief that ...
more
Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt
by
Phoebe Zerwick
Atlantic Monthly Press, 03/08/2022
In June 1985, a young Black man in Winston-Salem, N.C. named Darryl Hunt was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery
by
Ira Rutkow M.D.
Scribner, 03/08/2022
There are not many events in life that can be as simultaneously life-frightening and life-saving as a surgical operation. Yet, in America, tens-of-...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Glory: A Novel
by
NoViolet Bulawayo
Viking, 03/08/2022
NoViolet Bulawayo's bold new novel follows the fall of the Old Horse, the long-serving leader of a fictional country, and the drama that follows for a...
more
Lakelore
by
Anna-Marie McLemore
Feiwel & Friends, 03/08/2022
Everyone who lives near the lake knows the stories about the world underneath it, an ethereal landscape rumored to be half-air, half-water. But Basti&...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Like a Sister
by
Kellye Garrett
Mulholland, 03/08/2022
"I found out my sister was back in New York from Instagram. I found out she'd died from the New York Daily News."
When the body of disgraced ...
more
Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
by
Elizabeth Williamson
Dutton, 03/08/2022
On December 14, 2012, a gunman killed twenty first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Ten years later,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Circus Infinite
by
Khan Wong
Angry Robot, 03/08/2022
Hunted by those who want to study his gravity powers, Jes makes his way to the best place for a mixed-species fugitive to blend in: the pleasure moon ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.: A Novel
by
Lee Kravetz
Harper, 03/08/2022
A seductive literary mystery and mutigenerational story inspired by true events,
The Last Confessions of Sylvia P. imaginatively brings into focus the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories
by
Ladee Hubbard
Amistad, 03/08/2022
The twelve gripping tales in
The Last Suspicious Holdout, the new story collection by award-winning author Ladee Hubbard, deftly chronicle poignant ...
more
Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
by
Roger Lowenstein
Penguin Press, 03/08/2022
Upon his election to the presidency, Abraham Lincoln inherited a country in crisis. Even before the Confederacy's secession, the United States ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
What's So Funny?: A Cartoonist's Memoir
by
David Sipress
Mariner Books, 03/08/2022
A wry and brilliantly observed portrait of the budding young cartoonist and his Upper West Side Jewish family in the age of JFK and Sputnik. Sipress, ...
more
A Novel Obsession: A Novel
by
Caitlin Barasch
Dutton, 03/15/2022
Twenty-four-year-old New York bookseller Naomi Ackerman is desperate to write a novel, but struggles to find a story to tell. When, after countless ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
by
Melissa Febos
Catapult, 03/15/2022
In this bold and exhilarating mix of memoir and master class, Melissa Febos tackles the emotional, psychological, and physical work of writing ...
more
Fencing with the King: A Novel
by
Diana Abu-Jaber
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/15/2022
Amani is hooked on a mystery―a poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her father's books. It seems to have been written by her ...
more
Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning, and Longing
by
Polly Barton
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 03/15/2022
"The language learning I want to talk about is sensory bombardment. It is a possession, a bedevilment, a physical takeover," writes Polly Barton in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
by
Elena Ferrante
Europa Editions, 03/15/2022
In 2020, Claire Luchette in
O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as "an oracle among authors." Here, in these ...
more
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War
by
Deborah Cohen
Random House, 03/15/2022
They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in the 1920s, they roamed across a war-ravaged world, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lessons From The Edge: A Memoir
by
Marie Yovanovitch
Mariner Books, 03/15/2022
By the time she became US Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch had seen her share of corruption, instability, and tragedy in developing countries....
more
Ogres: Terrible Worlds Revolutions #3
by
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Solaris, 03/15/2022
It's always idyllic in the village until the landlord comes to call.
Because the landlord is an Ogre. And Ogres rule the world, with their size ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses
by
Sarah Fay
HarperOne, 03/15/2022
Over thirty years, doctors diagnosed Sarah Fay with six different mental illnesses—anorexia, major depressive disorder (MDD), anxiety disorder, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang
by
Ken Croke
William Morrow, 03/15/2022
Longtime ATF agent Ken Croke had earned the right to coast to the end of a storied career, having routinely gone undercover to apprehend white ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
True Crime
Debut Author
Secret Identity: A Novel
by
Alex Segura
Flatiron Books, 03/15/2022
It's 1975 and the comic book industry is struggling, but Carmen Valdez doesn't care. She's an assistant at Triumph Comics, which doesn't have the ...
more
The Book of Cold Cases
by
Simone St. James
Berkley Books, 03/15/2022
In 1977, Claire Lake, Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes ...
more
The Cartographers: A Novel
by
Peng Shepherd
William Morrow, 03/15/2022
What is the purpose of a map?
Nell Young's whole life and greatest passion is cartography. Her father, Dr. Daniel Young, is a legend in the field,...
more
The Kaiju Preservation Society
by
John Scalzi
Tor Books, 03/15/2022
When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Nazis Knew My Name: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Courage in Auschwitz
by
Magda Hellinger
Atria Books, 03/15/2022
In March 1942, twenty-five-year-old kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger and nearly a thousand other young women were deported as some of the first ...
more
The White Girl: A Novel
by
Tony Birch
HarperVia, 03/15/2022
Odette Brown has lived her entire life on the fringes of Deane, a small Australian country town. Dark secrets simmer beneath the surface of Deane&#...
more
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
by
William Neuman
St. Martin's Press, 03/15/2022
Today, Venezuela is a country of perpetual crisis―a country of rolling blackouts, nearly worthless currency, uncertain supply of water and food,...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Vagabonds!: A Novel
by
Eloghosa Osunde
Riverhead Books, 03/15/2022
As in Nigeria, vagabonds are those whose existence is literally outlawed: the queer, the poor, the displaced, the footloose and rogue spirits. They ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
by
Fintan O'Toole
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 03/15/2022
Fintan O'Toole was born in the year the revolution began. It was 1958, and the Irish government was in despair because all the young people were ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks
by
Ilham Tohti
Verso, 03/15/2022
The words of China's most famous political prisoner.
In Xinjiang, the large northwest region of China, the government has imprisoned more than a ...
more
Essays
Debut Author
When I Sing, Mountains Dance: A Novel
by
Irene Solà
Graywolf Press, 03/15/2022
Near a village high in the Pyrenees, Domènec wanders across a ridge, fancying himself more a poet than a farmer, to "reel off his verses over on ...
more
When We Were Birds: A Novel
by
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Doubleday, 03/15/2022
In the old house on a hill, where the city meets the rainforest, Yejide's mother is dying. She is leaving behind a legacy that now passes to Yejide: ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope--and Hard Pills to Swallow--About Fighting for Black Lives
by
Andre Henry
Convergent, 03/22/2022
When the rallying cry "Black Lives Matter" was heard across the world in 2013, Andre Henry was one of the millions for whom the movement caused a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Kiss & Tell
by
Adib Khorram
Dial Books, 03/22/2022
Hunter never expected to be a boy band star, but, well, here he is. He and his band Kiss & Tell are on their first major tour of North America, ...
more
My Volcano
by
John Elizabeth Stintzi
Two Dollar Radio, 03/22/2022
On June 2, 2016, a protrusion of rock growing from the Central Park Reservoir is spotted by a jogger. Three weeks later, when it finally stops growing...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Portrait of an Unknown Lady: A Novel
by
Maria Gainza
Catapult, 03/22/2022
In the Buenos Aires art world, a master forger has achieved legendary status. Rumored to be a woman, she specializes in canvases by the painter ...
more
The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER
by
Thomas Fisher
One World, 03/22/2022
As an emergency room doctor working on the rapid evaluation unit, Dr. Thomas Fisher has about three minutes to spend with the patients who come into ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Impossible Us
by
Sarah Lotz
Ace Books, 03/22/2022
Bee thinks she has everything: a successful business repurposing wedding dresses, and friends who love and support her. She's given up on finding love...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
by
Cathy O'Neil
Crown, 03/22/2022
Shame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool: When we publicly shame corrupt politicians, abusive celebrities, or predatory corporations, we ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time
by
Natalie Hodges
Bellevue Literary Press, 03/22/2022
How does time shape consciousness and consciousness, time? Do we live in time, or does time live in us? And how does music, with its patterns of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Xstabeth
by
David Keenan
Europa Editions, 03/22/2022
Aneliya's father dreams of becoming a great musician but his naivete and his unfashionable music suggest he will never be taken seriously. Her father'...
more
Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
by
Maud Newton
Random House, 03/29/2022
Maud Newton's ancestors have vexed and fascinated her since she was a girl. Her mother's father, who came of age in Texas during the Great Depression,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Grey Bees
by
Andrey Kurkov
Deep Vellum Publishing, 03/29/2022
Little Starhorodivka, a village of three streets, lies in Ukraine's Grey Zone, the no-man's-land between loyalist and separatist forces. Thanks to the...
more
Home or Away
by
Kathleen West
Berkley Books, 03/29/2022
Once Leigh and Susy were close friends and teammates bound for Olympic hockey gold, but when Leigh's sure-fire plan to make the final roster backfired...
more
How Strange a Season: Fiction
by
Megan Mayhew Bergman
Scribner, 03/29/2022
A recently separated woman fills a huge terrarium with endangered flowers to establish a small world only she can control in an attempt to heal her ...
more
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
by
Caroline Elkins
Knopf, 03/29/2022
Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century empire was the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route
by
Sally Hayden
Melville House, 03/29/2022
Reporter Sally Hayden was at home in London when she received a message on Facebook: "Hi sister Sally, we need your help." The sender identified ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Out There: Stories
by
Kate Folk
Random House, 03/29/2022
With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Kate Folk's debut collection is perfectly pitched to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Sweep of Stars: Astra Black #1
by
Maurice Broaddus
Tor Books, 03/29/2022
"The beauty in blackness is its ability to transform. Like energy we are neither created nor destroyed, though many try." - West African Proverb
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Resting Place
by
Camilla Sten
Minotaur Books, 03/29/2022
Deep rooted secrets.
A twisted family history.
And a house that will never let go.
Eleanor lives with prosopagnosia, the inability to recognize a...
more
Two Storm Wood: A Novel
by
Philip Gray
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/29/2022
The Great War has ended, but for Amy Vanneck there is no peace. Her fiancé, Edward Haslam, a lieutenant in the 7th Manchesters, is missing, ...
more
Cleopatra's Dagger
by
Carole Lawrence
Thomas & Mercer, 04/01/2022
New York, 1880. Elizabeth van den Broek is the only female reporter at the
Herald, the city's most popular newspaper. Then she and her bohemian friend...
more
Or Else: A Thriller
by
Joe Hart
Thomas Dunne Books, 04/01/2022
When novelist Andy Drake returns to his hometown to care for his ailing father, a reconnection with his childhood friend Rachel escalates into a ...
more
Alone Out Here
by
Riley Redgate
Disney-Hyperion, 04/05/2022
But when the apocalypse arrives months ahead of schedule, First Daughter Leigh Chen and a handful of teens from the tour are the only ones to escape ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dead Wind: A Shana Merchant Novel #3
by
Tessa Wegert
Severn House, 04/05/2022
The body is discovered on Wolfe Island, under the shadow of an enormous wind turbine. Senior Investigator Shana Merchant, arriving on the scene with ...
more
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
by
Frans de Waal
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/05/2022
Using chimpanzees and bonobos to illustrate this point―two ape relatives that are genetically equally close to humans―de Waal challenges ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Easy Beauty: A Memoir
by
Chloé Cooper Jones
Avid Reader Press, 04/05/2022
"I am in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether my life is worth living."
So begins Chloé Cooper Jones's bold, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Heartbroke
by
Chelsea Bieker
Catapult, 04/05/2022
United by the stark and sprawling landscapes of California's Central Valley, the characters of
Heartbroke boil with reckless desire. A woman steals a ...
more
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
by
Jack Lowery
Bold Type Books, 04/05/2022
By the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was deeply impacting gay and lesbian communities in America, and disinformation about the disease was running ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Learning America: One Woman's Fight for Educational Justice for Refugee Children
by
Luma Mufleh
Mariner Books, 04/05/2022
The players, 11- and 12-year-olds from Liberia, Afghanistan, and Sudan, soon welcomed her as coach of their ragtag but fiercely competitive group. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel
by
Bonnie Garmus
Doubleday, 04/05/2022
New York Times Bestseller • Good Morning America Book Club • One of NPR's Best Books of 2022 • One of the Most Anticipated Books of ...
more
Little Foxes Took Up Matches
by
Katya Kazbek
Tin House Books, 04/05/2022
When Mitya was two years old, he swallowed his grandmother's sewing needle. For his family, it marks the beginning of the end, the promise of certain ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Nothing Burns As Bright As You
by
Ashley Woodfolk
Versify, 04/05/2022
Two girls. One wild and reckless day. Years of tumultuous history unspooling like a thin, fraying string in the hours after they set a fire.
They ...
more
Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth
by
Clyde W. Ford
Amistad, 04/05/2022
Clyde W. Ford uses the lives of individual Black men and women as a lens to explore the role they have played in creating American institutions of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
School Days: A Novel
by
Jonathan Galassi
Other Press, 04/05/2022
Sam Brandt is a long-term denizen of Connecticut's renowned Leverett School. As an English teacher he has dedicated his life to providing his students...
more
Scout's Honor
by
Lily Anderson
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, 04/05/2022
Sixteen-year-old Prudence Perry is a legacy Ladybird Scout, born to a family of hunters sworn to protect humans from mulligrubs―interdimensional...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Surviving Savannah
by
Patti Callahan
Berkley Books, 04/05/2022
When Savannah history professor Everly Winthrop is asked to guest-curate a new museum collection focusing on artifacts recovered from the steamship ...
more
The Imposter's War: The Press, Propaganda, and the Newsman who Battled for the Minds of America
by
Mark Arsenault
Pegasus Books, 04/05/2022
Russia was not the first foreign power to subvert American popular opinion from inside. In the lead-up to America's entry into the First World War, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The King's Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria
by
Edmund Richardson
St. Martin's Press, 04/05/2022
For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833 it was discovered in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Trayvon Generation
by
Elizabeth Alexander
Grand Central Publishing, 04/05/2022
In the midst of civil unrest in the summer of 2020 and following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, Elizabeth Alexander&#...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
True Biz: A Novel
by
Sara Novic
Random House, 04/05/2022
True biz (adj./exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk
True biz? The students at the River Valley School for...
more
Very Bad People
by
Kit Frick
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 04/05/2022
Six years ago, Calliope Bolan's mother drove the family van into a lake with her three daughters inside. The girls escaped, but their mother drowned, ...
more
Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai
by
Matti Friedman
Spiegel & Grau, 04/05/2022
In October 1973, the poet and singer Leonard Cohen—thirty-nine years old, famous, unhappy, and at a creative dead end—traveled from his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Tiny Upward Shove: A Novel
by
Melissa Chadburn
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/12/2022
Marina Salles's life does not end the day she wakes up dead.
Instead, in the course of a moment, she is transformed into the stuff of myth, the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Activities of Daily Living: A Novel
by
Lisa Hsiao Chen
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/12/2022
How do we take stock of a life―by what means, and by what measure? This is the question that preoccupies Alice, a Taiwanese immigrant in her ...
more
An Unlasting Home: A Novel
by
Mai Al-Nakib
Mariner Books, 04/12/2022
In 2013, Sara is a philosophy professor at Kuwait University, having returned to Kuwait from Berkeley in the wake of her mother's sudden death eleven ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
by
Margo Jefferson
Pantheon Books, 04/12/2022
In her much-anticipated follow-up to
Negroland, Jefferson brings these figures to life in a memoir of stunning originality, a performance of the ...
more
Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient
by
Theresa Brown
Algonquin Books, 04/12/2022
Despite her training and years of experience as an oncology and hospice nurse, she finds herself continually surprised by the lack of compassion in ...
more
Hello, Molly!: A Memoir
by
Molly Shannon
Ecco, 04/12/2022
At age four, Molly Shannon's world was shattered when she lost her mother, baby sister, and cousin in a car accident with her father at the wheel. ...
more
High Spirits
by
Camille Gomera-Tavarez
Levine Querido, 04/12/2022
It is a book centered on one extended family – the Beléns – across multiple generations.
It is set in the fictional small town of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English: A Novel
by
Noor Naga
Graywolf Press, 04/12/2022
He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in a rooftop shack. She is a nostalgic ...
more
Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life: A Memoir
by
Delia Ephron
Little Brown & Company, 04/12/2022
Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She'd lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several ...
more
Life Sentences
by
Billy O’Callaghan
David R. Godine, 04/12/2022
At just sixteen, Nancy Martin leaves the small island of Cape Clear for the mainland, the only member of her family to survive the effects of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
New and Selected Stories
by
Cristina Rivera Garza
Dorothy, a publishing project, 04/12/2022
"One of Mexico's greatest living writers," wrote Jonathan Lethem in 2018 about Cristina Rivera Garza, "we are just barely beginning to catch up to ...
more
One-Shot Harry
by
Gary Phillips
Soho Crime, 04/12/2022
LOS ANGELES, 1963: African American Korean War veteran Harry Ingram earns a living as a news photographer and occasional process server: chasing ...
more
Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
by
Keith O'Brien
Pantheon Books, 04/12/2022
Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny, and other mothers loved their neighborhood on the east side of Niagara Falls. It had an elementary school, a playground, and...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Revenge of the Scapegoat
by
Caren Beilin
Dorothy, a publishing project, 04/12/2022
In the tradition of Rabelais, Swift, and Fran Ross—the tradition of biting satire that joyfully embraces the strange and fantastical—and ...
more
Stringers
by
Chris Panatier
Angry Robot, 04/12/2022
Ben is
not a genius, but he can spout facts about animals and wristwatches with the best of experts. He just can't explain how he knows any of it.
...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Tasha: A Son's Memoir
by
Brian Morton
Avid Reader Press, 04/12/2022
Tasha Morton is a force of nature: a brilliant educator who's left her mark on generations of students—and also a whirlwind of a mother, ...
more
The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land: Stories
by
Omer Friedlander
Random House, 04/12/2022
The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land announces the arrival of a natural-born storyteller of immense talent. Warm, poignant, delightfully whimsical, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Thin Places: A Natural History of Healing and Home
by
Kerri ní Dochartaigh
Milkweed Editions, 04/12/2022
Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry, on the border of the North and South of Ireland, at the very height of the Troubles. She was brought up ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Things They Lost: A Novel
by
Okwiri Oduor
Scribner, 04/12/2022
Ayosa is a wandering spirit—joyous, exuberant, filled to the brim with longing. Her only companions in her grandmother's crumbling house are as ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth
by
Dahr Jamail, Stan Rushworth
The New Press, 04/12/2022
Although for a great many people, the human impact on the Earth—countless species becoming extinct, pandemics claiming millions of lives, and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Woman, Eating: A Literary Vampire Novel
by
Claire Kohda
HarperVia, 04/12/2022
Lydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try Japanese food. Sashimi, ramen, onigiri with sour plum stuffed inside - the food her Japanese father liked ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Blood Sugar
by
Sascha Rothchild
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/19/2022
"I could just kill you right now!" It's something we've all thought at one time or another. But Ruby has actually acted on it. Three times, to be ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Deaf Utopia: A Memoir - and a Love Letter to a Way of Life
by
Nyle DiMarco
William Morrow, 04/19/2022
Before becoming the actor, producer, advocate, and model that people know today, Nyle DiMarco was half of a pair of Deaf twins born to a multi-...
more
Fevered Star: Between Earth and Sky #2
by
Rebecca Roanhorse
Gallery Books, 04/19/2022
There are no tides more treacherous than those of the heart. — Teek saying
The great city of Tova is shattered. The sun is held within the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Flint and Mirror
by
John Crowley
Tor Books, 04/19/2022
As ancient Irish clans fought to preserve their lands and their way of life, the Queen and her generals fought to tame the wild land and make it ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Free: Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home
by
Lauren Kessler
Sourcebooks, 04/19/2022
There's Arnoldo, who came of age inside a maximum security penitentiary, now free after nineteen years. Trevor and Catherine, who spent half of their ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Housebreaking
by
Colleen Hubbard
Berkley Books, 04/19/2022
Del has never had a good relationship with her family. After her parents' divorce, and with the town rumor mill in full swing, Del's uncle and the ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph
by
Lucasta Miller
Knopf, 04/19/2022
In this brief life, acclaimed biographer Lucasta Miller takes nine of Keats's best-known poems—"Endymion"; "On First Looking into Chapman's ...
more
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
by
Richard Cohen
Simon & Schuster, 04/19/2022
There are many stories we can spin about previous ages, but which accounts get told? And by whom? Is there even such a thing as "objective" history? ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore
by
Lawrence Jackson
Graywolf Press, 04/19/2022
With sardonic wit, Jackson describes his struggle to make a home in the city that had just been convulsed by the uprising that followed the murder of ...
more
Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau
by
Ben Shattuck
Tin House Books, 04/19/2022
With little more than a loaf of bread, brick of cheese, and a notebook, Shattuck sets out to retrace Thoreau's path through the Cape's outer beaches, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service
by
Tajja Isen
Atria Books, 04/19/2022
In this stunning debut collection,
Catapult editor-in-chief and award-winning voice actor Tajja Isen explores the absurdity of living in a world that ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
The Devil's Dictionary
by
Steven Kotler
St. Martin's Press, 04/19/2022
Hard to say exactly when the human species fractured. Harder to say when this new talent arrived. But Lion Zorn, protagonist of
Last Tango in ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet
by
Nell McShane Wulfhart
Doubleday, 04/19/2022
It was the Golden Age of Travel, and everyone wanted in. As flying boomed in the 1960s, women from across the United States applied for jobs as ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Lonely Stories: 22 Celebrated Writers on the Joys & Struggles of Being Alone
by
Natalie Eve Garrett
Catapult, 04/19/2022
If you're feeling lonely or if you've ever felt unseen, if you're emboldened by solitude or secretly longing for it: Welcome to
The Lonely Stories. ...
more
The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies
by
Paul Fischer
Simon & Schuster, 04/19/2022
The year is 1888 and Louis Le Prince is finally testing his "taker" or "receiver" device for his family on their front lawn. The device is meant to ...
more
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
by
Janelle Monáe
Harper Voyager, 04/19/2022
Whoever controls our memories controls the future.
Janelle Monáe and an incredible array of talented collaborating creators have written a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Religious Revolution: The Birth of Modern Spirituality, 1848-1898
by
Dominic Green
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/19/2022
If it was an age that claimed to liberate women, slaves, and serfs, it also harnessed children to its factories and subjected entire peoples to its ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wingwalkers: A Novel
by
Taylor Brown
St. Martin's Press, 04/19/2022
"They were over Georgia somewhere, another nameless hamlet whose dusty streets lay flocked and trembling with the pink handbills they'd rained from ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood
by
Stephen Mills
Metropolitan Books, 04/26/2022
Stephen tells no one, but the aftershocks rip through his adult life, as intense as his denial: self-loathing, drug abuse, petty crime, and horrific ...
more
City on Fire: A Novel
by
Don Winslow
William Morrow, 04/26/2022
Providence, RI, 1986. Twenty-nine-year-old Danny Ryan is a hard-working longshoreman, loving husband, loyal friend, and occasional "muscle" for the ...
more
Everything Left to Remember: My Mother, Our Memories, and a Journey Through the Rocky Mountains
by
Steph Jagger
Flatiron Books, 04/26/2022
Steph Jagger lost her mother before she lost her. Her mother, stricken with an incurable disease that slowly erases all sense of self, struggles to ...
more
Kaikeyi: A Novel
by
Vaishnavi Patel
Redhook, 04/26/2022
"I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions—much good it did me."
So begins Kaikeyi's story. The...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Nettle & Bone
by
T. Kingfisher
Tor Books, 04/26/2022
This isn't the kind of fairytale where the princess marries a prince.
It's the one where she kills him.
Marra never wanted to be a hero.
As the...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Oh William!: Amgash Series #3
by
Elizabeth Strout
Random House, 04/26/2022
I would like to say a few things about my first husband, William.
Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read...
more
The Apartment on Calle Uruguay: A Novel
by
Zachary Lazar
Catapult, 04/26/2022
Beginning in the first summer of the post-Obama world, Zachary Lazar's bewitching and masterful new novel tells the story of Christopher Bell, a ...
more
The Children on the Hill
by
Jennifer McMahon
Gallery/Scout Press, 04/26/2022
1978: At her renowned treatment center in picturesque Vermont, the brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. Helen Hildreth, is acclaimed for her compassionate work...
more
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
by
Riley Black
St. Martin's Press, 04/26/2022
Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period. It's a sunny afternoon in the Hell Creek of ancient Montana 66 million years ago. A
Triceratops horridus ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases
by
Paul Holes
Celadon, 04/26/2022
I order another bourbon, neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don't even know how I got here, to this place, to this
point. Something ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable
by
Zain E. Asher
Amistad, 04/26/2022
Awaiting the return of her husband and young son from a road trip, Obiajulu Ejiofor receives shattering news. There's been a fatal car crash, and one ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Ballad & Dagger: Outlaw Saints #1
by
Daniel José Older
Disney-Hyperion, 05/03/2022
Almost sixteen years ago, Mateo Matisse's island homeland disappeared into the sea. Weary and hopeless, the survivors of San Madrigal's sinking ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Book of Night
by
Holly Black
Tor Books, 05/03/2022
Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn't pick, a book she couldn't steal, or a bad decision she wouldn't make.
She's spent half her life ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Companion Piece: A Novel
by
Ali Smith
Pantheon Books, 05/03/2022
"A story is never an answer. A story is always a question."
Here we are in extraordinary times.
Is this history?
What happens when we cease to ...
more
Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl
by
Joya Goffney
HarperTeen, 05/03/2022
Monique is a preacher's daughter who detests the impossible rules of her religion. Everyone expects her to wait until marriage, so she has no one to ...
more
Family of Liars: The Prequel to We Were Liars
by
E. Lockhart
Delacorte Press, 05/03/2022
A windswept private island off the coast of Massachusetts.
A hungry ocean, churning with secrets and sorrow.
A fiery, addicted heiress. An ...
more
Fly Girl: A Memoir
by
Ann Hood
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/03/2022
In 1978, in the tailwind of the golden age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of glamor and sophistication. Fresh out of college and ...
more
Homesickness
by
Colin Barrett
Grove Press, 05/03/2022
When Colin Barrett's debut
Young Skins published, it swept up several major literary awards, and, in both its linguistic originality and sharply drawn...
more
Inheritance: A Visual Poem
by
Elizabeth Acevedo
Quill Tree Books, 05/03/2022
They tell me to "fix" my hair.
And by fix, they mean straighten, they mean whiten;
but how do you fix this shipwrecked
history of hair?
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes
by
Jazmina Barrera
Two Lines Press, 05/03/2022
An intimate exploration of motherhood,
Linea Nigra approaches the worries and joys of childbearing from a diverse range of inspirations and traditions...
more
Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays
by
Minnie Driver
HarperOne, 05/03/2022
In this intimate, beautifully crafted collection, Driver writes with disarming charm and candor about her bohemian upbringing between England and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Mothercoin: The Stories of Immigrant Nannies
by
Elizabeth Cummins Muñoz
Beacon Press, 05/03/2022
Mothercoin tells stories of immigrant nannies, mainly from Mexico and Central America, living and working in private homes in the US, while also ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole
by
Will Jawando
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/03/2022
As a boy growing up outside DC, Will, who went by his Nigerian name, Yemi, was shunted from school to school, never quite fitting in. He was a Black ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Bangalore Detectives Club: Detective Kaveri Mysteries #1
by
Harini Nagendra
Pegasus Crime, 05/03/2022
When clever, headstrong Kaveri moves to Bangalore to marry handsome young doctor Ramu, she's resigned herself to a quiet life.
But that all changes...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton and Her Fight for Women's Justice
by
Antonia Fraser
Pegasus Books, 05/03/2022
Caroline Norton dazzled nineteenth-century society with her vivacity, her intelligence, her poetry, and in her role as an artist's muse. After her ...
more
The Hacienda
by
Isabel Cañas
Berkley Books, 05/03/2022
During the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz's father was executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Immortal King Rao: A Novel
by
Vauhini Vara
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/03/2022
In a future in which the world is run by the Board of Corporations, King's daughter, Athena, reckons with his legacy―literally, for he has given...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Year of the Horses: A Memoir
by
Courtney Maum
Tin House Books, 05/03/2022
At the age of thirty-seven, Courtney Maum finds herself in an indoor arena in Connecticut, moments away from stepping back into the saddle. For her, ...
more
Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders
by
Kathryn Miles
Algonquin Books, 05/03/2022
In May 1996, Julie Williams and Lollie Winans were brutally murdered while backpacking in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park, adjacent to the world-...
more
Unequal: A Story of America
by
Michael Eric Dyson, Marc Favreau
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 05/03/2022
The true story of racial inequality—and resistance to it—is the prologue to our present. You can see it in where we live, where we go to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Valleyesque: Stories
by
Fernando A. Flores
MCD, 05/03/2022
No one captures the border―its history and imagination, its danger, contradiction, and redemption―like Fernando A. Flores, whose stories ...
more
Vigil Harbor: A Novel
by
Julia Glass
Pantheon Books, 05/03/2022
A decade from now, in the historic town of Vigil Harbor, there is a rash of divorces among the yacht-club set, a marine biologist despairs at the ...
more
When Women Were Dragons: A Novel
by
Kelly Barnhill
Doubleday, 05/03/2022
Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours, except for its most seminal event: the Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
When You Call My Name
by
Tucker Shaw
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, 05/03/2022
Film fanatic Adam is seventeen and being asked out on his first date―and the guy is
cute. Heart racing, Adam accepts, quickly falling in love ...
more
You've Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar
by
Pyae Moe Thet War
Catapult, 05/03/2022
What does it mean to be a Myanmar person—a baker, swimmer, writer and woman—on your own terms rather than those of the colonizer? These ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
by
Kelly Lytle Hernández
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/10/2022
Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the
magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bitter Orange Tree
by
Jokha Alharthi
Catapult, 05/10/2022
From Man Booker International Prize–winning author Jokha Alharthi,
Bitter Orange Tree is a profound exploration of social status, wealth, desire...
more
Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be
by
Marissa R. Moss
Henry Holt and Company, 05/10/2022
It was only two decades ago, but, for the women of country music, 1999 seems like an entirely different universe. With Shania Twain, country's biggest...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Hollow Fires
by
Samira Ahmed
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 05/10/2022
Safiya Mirza dreams of becoming a journalist. And one thing she's learned as editor of her school newspaper is that a journalist's job is to find the ...
more
I Cried to Dream Again: Trafficking, Murder, and Deliverance -- A Memoir
by
Sara Kruzan
Pantheon Books, 05/10/2022
"I was eleven when I first met GG. I realized later that he had to have been aware of the chaos that was my life because he played me perfectly. I was...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Garden of Broken Things: A novel
by
Francesca Momplaisir
Knopf, 05/10/2022
Genevieve, a single mother, flies from New York to Port-au-Prince with her teenage son, Miles. The trip is meant to be an education for fifteen-year-...
more
The Ghosts of Rose Hill
by
R. M. Romero
Peachtree Publishers, 05/10/2022
Sent to stay with her aunt in Prague and witness the humble life of an artist, Ilana Lopez—a biracial Jewish girl—finds herself torn ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride
by
David J. Dennis Jr.
Harper, 05/10/2022
David Dennis Sr, a core architect of the movement, speaks out for the first time, swapping recollections both harrowing and joyful with David Jr, a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Time Shelter: A Novel
by
Georgi Gospodinov
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 05/10/2022
"At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created," begins
Time Shelter's enigmatic narrator, who will go...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
You'll Forget This Ever Happened: Secrets, Shame, and Adoption in the 1960s
by
Laura L. Engel
She Writes Press, 05/10/2022
Mississippi, 1967. It's the Summer of Love, yet unwed mothers' maternity homes are flourishing, secret closed adoptions are routine, and many young ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
by
Serhii Plokhy
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/17/2022
Almost 145,000 Americans fled their homes in and around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in late March 1979, hoping to save themselves from an invisible ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Black Boy Smile: A Memoir in Moments
by
D. Watkins
Legacy Lit, 05/17/2022
At nine years old, D. Watkins has three concerns in life: picking his dad's Lotto numbers, keeping his Nikes free of creases, and being a man. ...
more
Ma and Me: A Memoir
by
Putsata Reang
MCD, 05/17/2022
"I had hope, just a little, you were still alive," Ma would tell Put in an oft-repeated story that became family legend.
Over the years, Put lived ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Metropolis: A Novel
by
B. A. Shapiro
Algonquin Books, 05/17/2022
But was it really an accident? Was it suicide? A murder? Six mysterious characters, who rent units in, or are connected to, the self-storage facility,...
more
Literary Fiction
Mother Noise: A Memoir
by
Cindy House
Scribner, 05/17/2022
Mother Noise opens with Cindy, twenty years into recovery after a heroin addiction, grappling with how to tell her nine-year-old son about her past. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
My Life: Growing Up Asian in America
by
CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment)
MTV Books, 05/17/2022
There are 23 million people, representing more than twenty countries, each with unique languages, histories, and cultures, clumped under one banner: ...
more
See You Yesterday
by
Rachel Lynn Solomon
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 05/17/2022
Barrett Bloom is hoping college will be a fresh start after a messy high school experience. But when school begins on September 21st, everything goes ...
more
Serious Face: Essays
by
Jon Mooallem
Random House, 05/17/2022
Beneath the self-assured and serious faces we wear, every human life is full of longing, guesswork, and confusion—a scramble to do the best we ...
more
She Is Haunted
by
Paige Clark
Two Dollar Radio, 05/17/2022
In stories charged by the complexities of mother-daughter relationships, grief, exes, and the profundities of friendship,
She Is Haunted features ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Stardust Thief: The Sandsea Trilogy #1
by
Chelsea Abdullah
Orbit, 05/17/2022
Neither here nor there, but long ago...
Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hunts and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
This Time Tomorrow: A Novel
by
Emma Straub
Riverhead Books, 05/17/2022
What if you could take a vacation to your past?
On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice's life isn't terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn't ...
more
Translating Myself and Others
by
Jhumpa Lahiri
Princeton University Press, 05/17/2022
Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who ...
more
We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
by
Tsering Yangzom Lama
Bloomsbury USA, 05/17/2022
In the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi, arrive at a refugee camp in Nepal. They survived ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
How We Ricochet
by
Faith Gardner
HarperTeen, 05/24/2022
It seems sometimes a charade that we continue celebrating in the face of relentless tragedy.
How dare we? But then ... what else is there to do?
...
more
Morningside Heights: A Novel
by
Joshua Henkin
Vintage, 05/24/2022
When Ohio-born Pru Steiner arrives in New York in 1976 after graduating from Yale, she follows in a long tradition of young people determined to take ...
more
Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945
by
Halik Kochanski
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 05/24/2022
"To resist, therefore. But how, when and where? There were no laws, no guidelines, no precedents to show the way..." ―Dutch resister Herman ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Sleepwalk: A Novel
by
Dan Chaon
Henry Holt and Company, 05/24/2022
Sleepwalk's hero, Will Bear, is a man with so many aliases that he simply thinks of himself as the Barely Blur. At fifty years old, he's been living ...
more
The Evening Hero
by
Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Simon & Schuster, 05/24/2022
Dr. Yungman Kwak is in the twilight of his life. Every day for the last fifty years, he has brushed his teeth, slipped on his shoes, and headed to ...
more
The Hangman and His Wife: The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich
by
Nancy Dougherty
Knopf, 05/24/2022
He was called the Hangman of the Gestapo, the "butcher of Prague," with a reputation as a ruthlessly efficient killer. He was the head of the SS, and ...
more
African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
by
David Hackett Fischer
Simon & Schuster, 05/31/2022
African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa interacted with colonists of European ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How to Be Eaten: A Novel
by
Maria Adelmann
Little Brown & Company, 05/31/2022
In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches
by
Kate Scelsa
Balzer + Bray, 05/31/2022
Seventeen-year-old Eleanor is the last person in Salem to believe in witchcraft—or think that her life could be transformed by mysterious forces...
more
Love Radio
by
Ebony LaDelle
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 05/31/2022
Prince Jones is the guy with all the answers—or so it seems. After all, at seventeen, he has his own segment on Detroit's popular hip-hop show, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Man o' War
by
Cory McCarthy
Dutton for Young Readers, 05/31/2022
River McIntyre has grown up down the street from Sea Planet, an infamous marine life theme park slowly going out of business in small-town Ohio. When ...
more
Planes: A novel
by
Peter C Baker
Knopf, 05/31/2022
For years, Amira—a recent convert to Islam living in Rome—has gone to work, said her prayers, and struggled to piece together her husband'...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Together We Burn
by
Isabel Ibañez
Wednesday Books, 05/31/2022
An ancient city plagued by dragons
Eighteen-year-old Zarela Zalvidar is a talented flamenco dancer and daughter of the most famous Dragonador in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Aurora: A Novel
by
David Koepp
Harper, 06/07/2022
In Aurora, Illinois, Aubrey Wheeler is just trying to get by after her semi-criminal ex-husband split, leaving behind his unruly teenage son.
Then...
more
Counterfeit: A Novel
by
Kirstin Chen
William Morrow, 06/07/2022
Money can't buy happiness…but it can buy a decent fake.
Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American ...
more
Literary Fiction
Fruiting Bodies: Stories
by
Kathryn Harlan
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/07/2022
In stories that beckon and haunt,
Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the gothic to the uncanny as it follows characters―...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: A 10,000-Year History
by
Ian Morris
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/07/2022
When Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016, the 48 percent who wanted to stay and the 52 percent who wanted to go each accused the other ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Good Husbands: A Novel
by
Cate Ray
Park Row Books, 06/07/2022
Jessica, Stephanie and Priyanka are complete strangers, but they have one thing in common: they've each received a letter accusing their husbands of ...
more
Thrillers
Hell Followed with Us
by
Andrew Joseph White
Peachtree Publishers, 06/07/2022
Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him—the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Last Call at the Nightingale: Book #1
by
Katharine Schellman
Minotaur Books, 06/07/2022
New York, 1924. Vivian Kelly's days are filled with drudgery, from the tenement lodging she shares with her sister to the dress shop where she sews ...
more
Nuclear Family: A Novel
by
Joseph Han
Counterpoint Press, 06/07/2022
Things are looking up for Mr. and Mrs. Cho. Their dream of franchising their Korean plate lunch restaurants across Hawaiʻi seems within reach ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Out of the Clear Blue Sky
by
Kristan Higgins
Berkley Books, 06/07/2022
Lillie Silva knew life as an empty nester would be hard after her only child left for college, but when her husband abruptly dumps her for another ...
more
Shifty's Boys: The Mick Hardin Novels #2
by
Chris Offutt
Grove Press, 06/07/2022
Chris Offutt is a literary master across genres, and his most recent novel
The Killing Hills was one of his most successful, earning him a new ...
more
Sleeping Alone: Stories
by
Ru Freeman
Graywolf Press, 06/07/2022
A cast of misfits, young and old, single and coupled, even entire family units, confront startling changes wrought by difficult circumstances or ...
more
The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
by
Paula Byrne
William Collins, 06/07/2022
Pym lived through extraordinary times. She attended Oxford in the thirties when women were the minority. She spent time in Nazi Germany, falling for a...
more
The Kingdom of Sand: A Novel
by
Andrew Holleran
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/07/2022
The Kingdom of Sand is a poignant tale of desire and dread―Andrew Holleran's first new book in sixteen years. The nameless narrator is a gay man...
more
The Mutual Friend: A Novel
by
Carter Bays
Dutton, 06/07/2022
It's the summer of 2015, and Alice Quick needs to get to work. She's twenty-eight years old, grieving her mother, barely scraping by as a nanny, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
This Is Not a Pity Memoir
by
Abi Morgan
Harper, 06/07/2022
One afternoon, Abi Morgan returned home to find her longtime partner and father to their two kids collapsed on the bathroom floor. Jacob, who had been...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
This Place Is Still Beautiful
by
XiXi Tian
Balzer + Bray, 06/07/2022
The Flanagan sisters are as different as they come. Seventeen-year-old Annalie is bubbly, sweet, and self-conscious, whereas nineteen-year-old ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Tracy Flick Can't Win: A Novel
by
Tom Perrotta
Scribner, 06/07/2022
Tracy Flick is a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Still ambitious but feeling a little stuck and ...
more
Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
by
Joseph Osmundson
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/07/2022
Invisible in the food we eat, the people we kiss, and inside our own bodies, viruses flourish―with the power to shape not only our health, but ...
more
We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
by
Caleb Gayle
Riverhead Books, 06/07/2022
In
We Refuse to Forget, award-winning journalist Caleb Gayle tells the extraordinary story of the Creek Nation, a Native tribe that two centuries ago ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me
by
Donna Gordon
Regal House Publishing, 06/08/2022
What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me explores the story of Lee, a vibrant thirteen-year-old boy who is facing premature death from Progeria (a ...
more
Literary Fiction
Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
by
Ada Calhoun
Grove Press, 06/14/2022
When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-...
more
Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness
by
Melissa Bond
Gallery Books, 06/14/2022
As Melissa Bond raises her infant daughter and a special-needs one-year-old son, she suffers from unbearable insomnia, sleeping an hour or less each ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Can't Look Away: A Novel
by
Carola Lovering
St. Martin's Press, 06/14/2022
In 2013, twenty-three-year old Molly Diamond is a barista, dreaming of becoming a writer. One night at a concert in Brooklyn, she locks eyes with the ...
more
How to Raise an Antiracist
by
Ibram X. Kendi
One World, 06/14/2022
The tragedies and reckonings around racism that are rocking the country have created a specific crisis for parents, educators, and other caregivers: ...
more
Hurricane Girl: A novel
by
Marcy Dermansky
Knopf, 06/14/2022
Allison Brody is thirty-two and newly arrived on the East Coast after just managing to flee her movie producer boyfriend. She has some money, saved up...
more
Last Summer on State Street: A Novel
by
Toya Wolfe
William Morrow, 06/14/2022
Even when we lose it all, we find the strength to rebuild.
Felicia "Fe Fe" Stevens is living with her vigilantly loving mother and older teenaged ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
One Person, One Vote: A Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America
by
Nick Seabrook
Pantheon Books, 06/14/2022
Nick Seabrook, an authority on constitutional and election law and an expert on gerrymandering (pronounced with a hard 'G'!), begins before our nation...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
One's Company: A Novel
by
Ashley Hutson
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/14/2022
Bonnie Lincoln just wants to be left alone. To come home from work, shut out the voice that reminds her of some devastating losses, and unwind in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Pig Years
by
Ellyn Gaydos
Knopf, 06/14/2022
Pig Years catapults American nature writing into the 21st century, and has been hailed by Lydia Davis and Aimee Nezhukumatathil as "engrossing" and "a...
more
Rock of Ages: Junior Bender Mysteries #8
by
Timothy Hallinan
Soho Crime, 06/14/2022
Four of Dressler's old gangster colleagues have put together a national tour of once-popular rock bands they own a piece of: three nights of concerts ...
more
Rough Draft: A Memoir
by
Katy Tur
Atria Books, 06/14/2022
"By the time I was two years old, I knew to yell 'Story! Story!' at the squawks of my parents' police scanner. By four, I could hold a microphone and ...more
The Lunar Housewife: A Novel
by
Caroline Woods
Doubleday, 06/14/2022
New York City, 1953: Louise Leithauser's star is on the rise. She's filed some of the best pieces at her boyfriend Joe's brand new literary magazine, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Twilight World
by
Werner Herzog
Penguin Press, 06/14/2022
In 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera. His hosts asked him, Whom would you like to meet? He replied instantly: Hiroo Onoda. Onoda was...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The World As We Knew It: Dispatches From a Changing Climate
by
Amy Brady, Tajja Isen
Catapult, 06/14/2022
In this riveting anthology, leading literary writers reflect on how climate change has altered their lives, revealing the personal and haunting ...
more
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
by
Linda Villarosa
Doubleday, 06/14/2022
In 2018, Linda Villarosa's
New York Times Magazine article on maternal and infant mortality among black mothers and babies in America caused an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind
by
Fariha Roisin
Harper Wave, 06/14/2022
Growing up in Australia, Fariha Róisín, a Bangladeshi Muslim, struggled to fit in. In attempts to assimilate, she distanced herself from her...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
by
Ed Yong
Random House, 06/21/2022
The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Echoes of Grace
by
Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Tu Books, 06/21/2022
In Eagle Pass, Texas, Grace struggles to understand the echoes she inherited from her mother--visions which often distort her reality. One morning, as...
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Jumper
by
Melanie Crowder
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 06/21/2022
How far would you go to save yourself?
Blair Scott is in her second season as a wildland firefighter when the Forest Service puts out a call for ...
more
Lapvona: A Novel
by
Ottessa Moshfegh
Penguin Press, 06/21/2022
Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his mother; his father told him she died in childbirth. One of life's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Learning to Talk: Stories
by
Hilary Mantel
Henry Holt and Company, 06/21/2022
In the wake of Hilary Mantel's brilliant conclusion to her award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories ...
more
The Ballad of Perilous Graves
by
Alex Jennings
Redhook, 06/21/2022
Nola is a city full of wonders. A place of sky trolleys and dead cabs, where haints dance the night away and Wise Women help keep the order. To those ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The House Across the Lake: A Novel
by
Riley Sager
Dutton, 06/21/2022
They make for good viewing—a tech innovator, Tom is powerful; and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous.
One day on the lake, Casey saves ...
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The Long Answer: A Novel
by
Anna Hogeland
Riverhead Books, 06/21/2022
Twelve weeks pregnant for the first time, Anna speaks to her sister on the other side of the country and learns she has just miscarried her second ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Name She Gave Me
by
Betty Culley
HarperTeen, 06/21/2022
Rynn was born with a hole in her heart—literally. Although it was fixed long ago, she still feels an emptiness there when she wonders about her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Vera Kelly: Lost and Found: Vera Kelly #3
by
Rosalie Knecht
Tin House Books, 06/21/2022
It's spring 1971 and Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave their cozy Brooklyn apartment for an emergency visit to Max's estranged family in Los ...
more
Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
by
James Bridle
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/21/2022
What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans, or shared with other beings―beings of flesh, wood, stone, and silicon? ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence
by
Mary Pipher
Bloomsbury USA, 06/28/2022
In her luminous new memoir in essays, Mary Pipher-as she did in her
New York Times bestseller
Women Rowing North-taps into a cultural moment, to offer...
more
All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience
by
Jay Wellons
Random House, 06/28/2022
In
All That Moves Us, Dr. Jay Wellons pulls back the curtain to reveal the profoundly moving triumphs, haunting complications, and harrowing close ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Bad Things Happen Here
by
Rebecca Barrow
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 06/28/2022
Luca Laine Thomas lives on a cursed island. To the outside world, Parris is an exclusive, idyllic escape accessible only to the one percent. There's ...
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Elsewhere: A Novel
by
Alexis Schaitkin
Celadon, 06/28/2022
Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered and damp year-round. This town, fiercely ...
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Hatchet Island: Mike Bowditch Mysteries #13
by
Paul Doiron
Minotaur Books, 06/28/2022
A call for help from a former colleague leads Maine game warden investigator Mike Bowditch and his girlfriend Stacey Stevens on a sea kayaking trip to...
more
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
by
Miranda Seymour
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/28/2022
Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly ...
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Locklands: The Founders Trilogy #3
by
Robert Jackson Bennett
Del Rey, 06/28/2022
Sancia, Clef, and Berenice have gone up against long odds in the past. But the war they're fighting now is one even they can't win.
This time, they...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Our Crooked Hearts: A Novel
by
Melissa Albert
Flatiron Books, 06/28/2022
The suburbs, right now...
Seventeen-year-old Ivy's summer break kicks off with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a stranger whose ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land
by
Sally Denton
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 06/28/2022
On the morning of November 4, 2019, an unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by masked gunmen on a desolate stretch of road in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Measure
by
Nikki Erlick
William Morrow, 06/28/2022
Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice.
It seems like any other day. You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out.
But today, when ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Nurse's Secret: A Thrilling Historical Novel of the Dark Side of Gilded Age New York City
by
Amanda Skenandore
Kensington Publishing, 06/28/2022
Based on Florence Nightingale's nursing principles, Bellevue is the first school of its kind in the country. Where once nurses were assumed to be ...
more
Historical Fiction
Fellowship Point: A Novel
by
Alice Elliott Dark
Marysue Rucci Books, 07/05/2022
Celebrated children's book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Hawk Mountain: A Novel
by
Conner Habib
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/05/2022
Single father Todd is relaxing at the beach with his son, Anthony, when he catches sight of a man approaching from the water's edge. As the man draws ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World
by
Mark Vanhoenacker
Knopf, 07/05/2022
In his small New England hometown, Mark Vanhoenacker spent his childhood dreaming of elsewhere— of the distant, real cities he found on the ...
more
Joan: A Novel of Joan of Arc
by
Katherine J. Chen
Random House, 07/05/2022
1412. France is mired in a losing war against England. Its people are starving. Its king is in hiding. From this chaos emerges a teenage girl who will...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Kaleidoscope: A Novel
by
Cecily Wong
Dutton, 07/05/2022
Everybody's heard of The Brightons.
From rags to riches, sleepy Oregon to haute New York, they are the biracial Chinese American family that built ...
more
Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust
by
Jerry Stahl
Akashic Books, 07/05/2022
In September 2016, Jerry Stahl was feeling nervous on the eve of a two-week trip across Poland and Germany. But it was not just the stops at Auschwitz...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Night of the Living Rez
by
Morgan Talty
Tin House Books, 07/05/2022
How do the living come back to life?
In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty―with searing humor, abiding compassion, and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Self-Portrait with Ghost: Short Stories
by
Meng Jin
Mariner Books, 07/05/2022
Meng Jin's critically acclaimed debut novel,
Little Gods, was praised as "spectacular and emotionally polyphonic (Omar El-Akkad,
BookPage), "powerful"...
more
The Displacements: A Novel
by
Bruce Holsinger
Riverhead Books, 07/05/2022
To all appearances, the Larsen-Hall family has everything: healthy children, a stable marriage, a lucrative career for Brantley, and the means for ...
more
The Missing Word
by
Concita De Gregorio
Europa Editions, 07/05/2022
Irina's life with her husband and her twin daughters is orderly. An Italian living in Switzerland, she works as a lawyer. One day, something breaks. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Murder Book: DI Tom Thorne Series #18
by
Mark Billingham
Atlantic Monthly Press, 07/05/2022
Tom Thorne finally has it all.
In Nicola Tanner and Phil Hendricks, Thorne has good friends by his side. His love life is newly reformed by a ...
more
This America Of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild
by
Nate Schweber
Mariner Books, 07/05/2022
In late-1940s America, few writers commanded attention like Bernard DeVoto. Alongside his brilliant wife and editor, Avis, DeVoto was a firebrand of ...
more
Voices in the Dead House: The American Novels series
by
Norman Lock
Bellevue Literary Press, 07/05/2022
After the Union Army's defeat at Fredericksburg in 1862, Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott converge on Washington to nurse the sick, wounded, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy: Monk & Robot #2
by
Becky Chambers
Tor.com, 07/12/2022
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent on a quest to determine what humanity really...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir
by
Seán Hewitt
Penguin Press, 07/12/2022
When Seán Hewitt meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe mental illness, they soon come face-to...
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Big Girl: A Novel
by
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 07/12/2022
In her highly anticipated debut novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan explores the perils―and undeniable beauty―of insatiable longing.
Growing ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Body Language: Writers on Identity, Physicality, and Making Space for Ourselves
by
Nicole Chung, Matt Ortile
Catapult, 07/12/2022
Bodies are serious, irreverent, sexy, fragile, strong, political, and inseparable from our experiences and identities as human beings. Pushing the ...
more
Death and the Conjuror: Joseph Spector #1
by
Tom Mead
Mysterious Press, 07/12/2022
In 1930s London, celebrity psychiatrist Anselm Rees is discovered dead in his locked study, and there seems to be no way that a killer could have ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps
by
Seirian Sumner
Harper, 07/12/2022
Everyone worries about the collapse of bee populations. But what about wasps? Deemed the gangsters of the insect world, wasps are winged assassins ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Gods of Want: Stories
by
K-Ming Chang
One World, 07/12/2022
In "Auntland," a steady stream of aunts adjust to American life by sneaking surreptitious kisses from women at temple, buying tubs of vanilla ice ...
more
Illegally Yours: A Memoir
by
Rafael Agustin
Grand Central Publishing, 07/12/2022
Growing up, Rafa's parents didn't want him to feel different because, as his mom told him: "Dreams should not have borders." But when he tried to get ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap
by
David Roberts
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/12/2022
By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
My Boy Will Die of Sorrow: A Memoir of Immigration From the Front Lines
by
Efrén C. Olivares
Hachette Books, 07/12/2022
In the summer of 2018, Efrén C. Olivares found himself representing hundreds of immigrant families when Zero Tolerance separated thousands of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings
by
Chrysta Bilton
Little Brown & Company, 07/12/2022
What is a "normal family," and how do you go about making one? Chrysta Bilton's magnetic, larger than life mother, Debra, yearned to have a child, but...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Our Wives Under the Sea: A Novel
by
Julia Armfield
Flatiron Books, 07/12/2022
Leah is changed. A marine biologist, she left for a routine expedition months earlier, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sirens & Muses: A Novel
by
Antonia Angress
Ballantine Books, 07/12/2022
It's 2011: America is in a deep recession and Occupy Wall Street is escalating. But at the elite Wrynn College of Art, students paint and sculpt in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Empire of Dirt: A Novel
by
Francesca Manfredi
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/12/2022
There has always been tension in "the blind house," where Valentina lives with her mother and grandmother in the Italian countryside. Valentina's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The It Girl
by
Ruth Ware
Gallery/Scout Press, 07/12/2022
April Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford.
Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she ...
more
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir
by
Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Doubleday, 07/12/2022
For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political violence of 1980s and '90s Colombia, in a house bustling with her ...
more
The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Novel
by
Monique Roffey
Knopf, 07/12/2022
In 1976, David is fishing off the island of Black Conch when he comes upon a creature he doesn't expect: a mermaid by the name of Aycayia. Once a ...
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Total: Stories
by
Rebecca Miller
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/12/2022
But to get back to my subject. Of the little moment when I went the wrong way, from promising young woman to flotsam, to extraneousness―like the...more
Upgrade: A Novel
by
Blake Crouch
Ballantine Books, 07/12/2022
"You are the next step in human evolution."
At first, Logan Ramsay isn't sure if anything's different. He just feels a little...sharper. Better ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Wake the Bones: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Kilcoyne
Wednesday Books, 07/12/2022
After dropping out of college, all she wanted was to resume her life as a tobacco hand and taxidermist and try not to think about the boy she can't ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
What Moves the Dead: Sworn Soldier #1
by
T. Kingfisher
Tor Books, 07/12/2022
When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Wind Daughter
by
Joanna Ruth Meyer
Page Street Kids, 07/12/2022
In the dark, cold reaches of the north lives a storyteller and his daughter. He told his daughter, Satu, many stories―romances like the girl who...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Baby Teeth
by
Meg Grehan
Little Island Books, 07/19/2022
The blood
Feeds the hunger
That threatens everything
It starts when Claudia offers her a yellow rose.
Immy has been in love before – ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Goth Girl, Queen of the Universe
by
Lindsay S. Zrull
North Star Editions, 07/19/2022
The only one who gives her the time of day is geeky Oscar, who wants to recruit her fashion skills for his amateur cosplay group. But Jess is fine ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Just Like Home
by
Sarah Gailey
Tor Books, 07/19/2022
"Come home." Vera's mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories ― she's come back to the home ...
more
Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology
by
Vince A. Liaguno
William Morrow Paperbacks, 07/19/2022
Offering new stories from some of the biggest names in horror as well as some of the hottest up-and-coming talents,
Other Terrors will provide the ...
more
Switchboard Soldiers: A Novel
by
Jennifer Chiaverini
William Morrow, 07/19/2022
In June 1917, General John Pershing arrived in France to establish American forces in Europe. He immediately found himself unable to communicate with ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
by
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Del Rey, 07/19/2022
Montgomery Laughton: A melancholic overseer with a tragic past and a propensity for alcohol. An outcast who assists Dr. Moreau with his experiments, ...
more
Thrillers
The Work Wife: A Novel
by
Alison B. Hart
Graydon House, 07/19/2022
However, today is no ordinary day at the Stabler estate. Tonight, everyone who's anyone will be there for the Hollywood event of the season, and if ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
What Goes Unsaid: A Memoir of Fathers Who Never Were
by
Emiliano Monge
Scribe Publications Pty Ltd, 07/19/2022
In 1958, Carlos Monge McKey sneaks out of his home in the middle of the night to fake his own death. He does not return for four years.
A decade ...
more
Beating Heart Baby
by
Lio Min
Flatiron Books, 07/26/2022
When artistic and sensitive Santi arrives at his new high school, everyone in the wildly talented marching band welcomes him with open arms. Everyone ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Boys I Know
by
Anna Gracia
Peachtree Publishers, 07/26/2022
June Chu is the "just good enough" girl. Good enough to line the shelves with a slew of third-place trophies and steal secret kisses from her AP Bio ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Calling for a Blanket Dance
by
Oscar Hokeah
Algonquin Books, 07/26/2022
Told in a series of voices,
Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity
by
Antonio Padilla
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/26/2022
For particularly brilliant theoretical physicists like James Clerk Maxwell, Paul Dirac, or Albert Einstein, the search for mathematical truths led to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age (Literature Now)
by
Timothy Bewes
Columbia University Press, 07/26/2022
Everywhere today, we are urged to "connect." Literary critics celebrate a new "honesty" in contemporary fiction or call for a return to "realism." Yet...
more
How to Read Now: Essays
by
Elaine Castillo
Viking, 07/26/2022
How many times have we heard that reading builds empathy? That we can travel through books? How often have we were heard about the importance of ...
more
Love Times Infinity
by
Lane Clarke
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 07/26/2022
High school junior Michie is struggling to define who she is for her scholarship essays, her big shot at making it into Brown as a first-generation ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer
by
Kathy Kleiman
Grand Central Publishing, 07/26/2022
After the end of World War II, the race for technological supremacy sped on. Top-secret research into ballistics and computing, begun during the war ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Putin
by
Philip Short
Henry Holt and Company, 07/26/2022
Vladimir Putin is the world's most dangerous man. Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a ...
more
Some of It Was Real
by
Nan Fischer
Berkley Books, 07/26/2022
Psychic-medium Sylvie Young starts every show with her origin story, telling the audience how she discovered her abilities. But she leaves out a lot&#...
more
Literary Fiction
The Last to Vanish: A Novel
by
Megan Miranda
Scribner, 07/26/2022
Ten years ago, Abigail Lovett fell into a job she loves, managing The Passage Inn, a cozy, upscale resort nestled in the North Carolina mountain town ...
more
War and Me: A Memoir
by
Faleeha Hassan
AmazonCrossing, 08/01/2022
Faleeha Hassan became intimately acquainted with loss and fear while growing up in Najaf, Iraq. Now, in a deeply personal account of her life, she ...
more
A Tidy Ending: A Novel
by
Joanna Cannon
Scribner, 08/02/2022
Linda has lived in a quiet neighborhood since fleeing the dark events of her childhood in Wales. Now she sits in her kitchen, wondering if this is all...
more
Acceptance: A Memoir
by
Emi Nietfeld
Penguin Press, 08/02/2022
As a homeless teenager writing college essays in her rusty Toyota Corolla, Emi Nietfeld was convinced that the Ivy League was the only escape from her...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Alias Emma: A Novel
by
Ava Glass
Bantam Books, 08/02/2022
Nothing about Emma Makepeace is real. Not even her name.
A newly minted secret agent, Emma's barely graduated from basic training when she gets ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
All the Ruined Men: Stories
by
Bill Glose
St. Martin's Press, 08/02/2022
Combat takes a different toll on each soldier; so does coming home.
All the Ruined Men by Bill Glose comprises linked stories that show veterans ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
All This Could Be Different: A Novel
by
Sarah Thankam Mathews
Viking, 08/02/2022
Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's moved to Milwaukee for an entry-level corporate job ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Asian American Histories of the United States: Revisioning History
by
Catherine Ceniza Choy
Beacon Press, 08/02/2022
Original and expansive,
Asian American Histories of the United States is a nearly 200-year history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Cyclorama
by
Adam Langer
Bloomsbury USA, 08/02/2022
Evanston, Illinois, 1982. A group of students at a magnet high school meet to audition for the spring play. They are eager for the chance to escape ...
more
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
by
Alec Nevala-Lee
Dey Street Books, 08/02/2022
During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century. As the architectural designer and ...
more
Mademoiselle Revolution
by
Zoe Sivak
Berkley Books, 08/02/2022
Sylvie de Rosiers, as the daughter of a rich planter and an enslaved woman, enjoys the comforts of a lady in 1791 Saint-Domingue society. But while ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy: A Novel
by
Jamie Ford
Atria Books, 08/02/2022
Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living.
As Washington's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes ...
more
The Rabbit Hutch: A novel
by
Tess Gunty
Knopf, 08/02/2022
The automobile industry has abandoned Vacca Vale, Indiana, leaving the residents behind, too. In a run-down apartment building on the edge of town, ...
more
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
by
Steven W. Thrasher
Celadon, 08/02/2022
Having spent a ground-breaking career studying the racialization, policing, and criminalization of HIV, Dr. Thrasher has come to understand a deeper ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Yoga
by
Emmanuel Carrère
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/02/2022
Emmanuel Carrère is a renowned writer. After decades of emotional upheaval, he has begun to live successfully―he is healthy; he works; he ...
more
A Map for the Missing: A Novel
by
Belinda Huijuan Tang
Penguin Press, 08/09/2022
Tang Yitian has been living in America for almost a decade when he receives an urgent phone call from his mother: his father has disappeared from the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City
by
Edward Chisholm
Pegasus Books, 08/09/2022
A waiter's job is to deceive you. They want you to believe in a luxurious calm because on the other side of that door...is hell.
Edward Chisholm's ...
more
Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan
by
Randall Kenan
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/09/2022
Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Randall...
more
Dead-End Memories: Stories
by
Banana Yoshimoto
Counterpoint Press, 08/09/2022
First published in Japan in 2003 and never before published in the United States,
Dead-End Memories collects the stories of five women who, following ...
more
Death at the Manor: Lily Adler Mysteries #3
by
Katharine Schellman
Crooked Lane Books, 08/09/2022
Regency widow Lily Adler is looking forward to spending the autumn away from the social whirl of London. When she arrives in Hampshire with her ...
more
Fruit Punch: A Memoir
by
Kendra Allen
Ecco, 08/09/2022
Written in a distinctive voice and filled with personality, humor, and pathos, Fruit Punch is a memoir unlike any other, from a one-of-a-kind ...
more
How You Grow Wings
by
Rimma Onoseta
Algonquin Young Readers, 08/09/2022
Sisters Cheta and Zam couldn't be more different. Cheta, sharp-tongued and stubborn, never shies away from conflict—either at school or at home,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
I'm Glad My Mom Died
by
Jennette McCurdy
Simon & Schuster, 08/09/2022
Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure
by
Rinker Buck
Avid Reader Press, 08/09/2022
Seven years ago, readers around the country fell in love with a singular American voice: Rinker Buck, whose infectious curiosity about history ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers
by
Mary Rodgers, Jesse Green
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/09/2022
"What am I, bologna?" Mary Rodgers (1931–2014) often said. She was referring to being stuck in the middle of a talent sandwich: the daughter of ...
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The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan
by
Elliot Ackerman
Penguin Press, 08/09/2022
Elliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his time in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Marines and later as a CIA paramilitary ...
more
The Monsters We Defy
by
Leslye Penelope
Redhook, 08/09/2022
Washington D. C., 1925: Clara Johnson can talk to spirits—a gift that saved her during her darkest moments, now a curse that's left her indebted...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The War Librarian
by
Addison Armstrong
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/09/2022
Two women. One secret. A truth worth fighting for.
1918. Timid and shy Emmaline Balakin lives more in books than her own life. That is, until an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After
by
Elizabeth Crane
Counterpoint Press, 08/09/2022
One minute Elizabeth Crane and her husband of fifteen years are fixing up their old house in Upstate New York, finally setting down roots after stints...
more
Widowland: Widowland #1
by
C. J. Carey
Sourcebooks, 08/09/2022
To control the past, they edited history. To control the future, they edited literature.
LONDON, 1953. Thirteen years have passed since England ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work
by
Hayley Campbell
St. Martin's Press, 08/16/2022
We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Amy & Lan: A Novel
by
Sadie Jones
Harper, 08/16/2022
"The very first thing I remember is standing on the water-butt in the garden, with my Mum holding me to stop me falling, singing 'I'm On Top of the ...more
Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation
by
Nuar Alsadir
Graywolf Press, 08/16/2022
Laughter shakes us out of our deadness. An outburst of spontaneous laughter is an eruption from the unconscious that, like political resistance, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Other
Debut Author
California Soul: An American Epic of Cooking and Survival
by
Keith Corbin
Random House, 08/16/2022
Chef Keith Corbin has been cooking his entire life. Born on the home turf of the notorious Grape Street Crips in 1980s Watts, Los Angeles, he got his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains
by
Jessa Crispin
University Of Chicago Press, 08/16/2022
For many Americans, Kansas represents a vision of Midwestern life that is good and wholesome and evokes the American ideals of god, home, and country....
more
The Drowned Woods
by
Emily Lloyd-Jones
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 08/16/2022
Once upon a time, the kingdoms of Wales were rife with magic and conflict, and eighteen-year-old Mererid "Mer" is well-acquainted with both. She is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Honeys
by
Ryan La Sala
Scholastic, 08/16/2022
Mars has always been the lesser twin, the shadow to his sister Caroline's radiance. But when Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars is ...
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Water over Stones: A Novel
by
Bernardo Atxaga
Graywolf Press, 08/16/2022
Bernardo Atxaga's
Water Over Stones follows a group of interconnected people in a small village in the Basque Country. It opens with the story of a ...
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Babysitter: A novel
by
Joyce Carol Oates
Knopf, 08/23/2022
In the waning days of the turbulent 1970s, in the wake of unsolved child-killings that have shocked Detroit, the lives of several residents are drawn ...
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Big Red: A Novel Starring Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles
by
Jerome Charyn
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 08/23/2022
Since he first appeared on the American literary scene, Jerome Charyn has dazzled readers with his "blunt, brilliantly crafted prose" (
Washington Post...more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
by
Brad Snyder
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/23/2022
The conventional wisdom about Felix Frankfurter―Harvard law professor and Supreme Court justice―is that he struggled to fill the seat once...
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Fox Creek: Cork O'Connor Mystery Series #19
by
William Kent Krueger
Atria Books, 08/23/2022
The ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux has had a vision of his death. As he walks the Northwoods in solitude, he tries to prepare himself peacefully ...
more
Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom
by
Andrew Nagorski
Simon & Schuster, 08/23/2022
In March 1938, German soldiers crossed the border into Austria and Hitler absorbed the country into the Third Reich. Anticipating these events, many ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Housemaid
by
Freida McFadden
Grand Central Publishing, 08/23/2022
Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole ...
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Thrillers
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
by
Sangu Mandanna
Berkley Books, 08/23/2022
As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers ...
more
This Is Why They Hate Us
by
Aaron H. Aceves
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 08/23/2022
Enrique "Quique" Luna has one goal this summer—get over his crush on Saleem Kanazi by pursuing his other romantic prospects. Never mind that he'...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Taste of Gold and Iron
by
Alexandra Rowland
Tor.com, 08/30/2022
Kadou, the shy prince of Arasht, finds himself at odds with one of the most powerful ambassadors at court - the body-father of the queen's new child -...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Carrie Soto Is Back: A Novel
by
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Ballantine Books, 08/30/2022
Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. But by the time she retires from tennis, she is the best ...
more
Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery
by
Casey Parks
Knopf, 08/30/2022
When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her pastor ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire: 1811-1821
by
Michael Broers
Pegasus Books, 08/30/2022
In 1811, Napoleon stood at his zenith. He had defeated all his continental rivals, come to an entente with Russia, and his blockade of Britain seemed,...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Nothing More to Tell
by
Karen M. McManus
Delacorte Press, 08/30/2022
Four years ago, Brynn left Saint Ambrose School following the shocking murder of her favorite teacher—a story that made headlines after the ...
more
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators
by
Martin Edwards
Collins, 08/30/2022
Author Martin Edwards is a multi-award-winning crime novelist, the President of the Detection Club, archivist of the Crime Writers' Association and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Lost Ticket
by
Freya Sampson
Berkley Books, 08/30/2022
When Libby Nicholls arrives in London, brokenhearted and with her life in tatters, the first person she meets on the bus is elderly Frank. He tells ...
more
The Portraitist: A Novel of Adelaide Labille-Guiard
by
Susanne Dunlap
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 08/30/2022
With a beautiful rival who's better connected and better trained than she is, Adélaïde faces an uphill battle. Her love affair with her ...
more
Historical Fiction
Tomorrow in Shanghai: Stories
by
May-lee Chai
Blair, 08/30/2022
In a vibrant and illuminating follow-up to her award-winning story collection,
Useful Phrases for Immigrants, May-lee Chai's latest collection
...more
Broken Summer: A Novel
by
J.M. Lee
AmazonCrossing, 09/01/2022
Lee Hanjo is an artist at the peak of his fame, envied and celebrated. Then, on his forty-third birthday, he awakens to find that his devoted wife has...
more
Vanished: Stories (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction)
by
Karin Lin-Greenberg
University of Nebraska Press, 09/01/2022
The characters range from an aging art professor whose students are uninterested in learning what she has to teach, to a young girl who becomes the ...
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A Dark Steel Death: Tom Harper Mysteries #10
by
Chris Nickson
Severn House, 09/06/2022
Leeds. December, 1916. Deputy Chief Constable Tom Harper is called out in the middle of the night when a huge explosion rips through a munitions ...
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Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman
by
Lucy Worsley
Pegasus Crime, 09/06/2022
"Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was."
Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just" an...
more
American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper
by
Daniel Stashower
Minotaur Books, 09/06/2022
Boston had its Strangler. California had the Zodiac Killer. And in the depths of the Great Depression, Cleveland had the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run....
more
Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President
by
Jonathan Darman
Random House, 09/06/2022
Yet for all his gifts, the young Roosevelt nonetheless lacked depth, empathy, and an ability to think strategically. Those qualities, so essential to ...
more
Destination Unknown
by
Bill Konigsberg
Scholastic, 09/06/2022
The first thing I noticed about C.J. Gorman was his plexiglass bra.
So begins
Destination Unknown -- it's 1987 in New York City, and Micah is at a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World
by
Michael Frank
Avid Reader Press, 09/06/2022
With nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never before spoken in detail about her past. Then she met Michael Frank. He came to her ...
more
Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make--and Keep--Friends
by
Marisa G. Franco PhD
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/06/2022
How do we make and keep friends in an era of distraction, burnout, and chaos, especially in a society that often prizes romantic love at the expense ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Sacrificio
by
Ernesto Mestre-Reed
Soho Press, 09/06/2022
Cuba, 1998: Rafa, an Afro-Cuban orphan, moves to Havana with nothing to his name and falls into a job at a café. He is soon drawn into a web of ...
more
Solito: A Memoir
by
Javier Zamora
Hogarth Books, 09/06/2022
Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago—"one day, you'll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure."
Javier Zamora's
...more
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
by
Katherine Rundell
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/06/2022
Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one ...
more
The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope
by
Tova Friedman
Hanover Square Press, 09/06/2022
"I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor's obligation to represent one and half million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis. They cannot speak. ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Family Izquierdo: A Novel
by
Rubén Degollado
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/06/2022
The tight-knit Izquierdo family is grappling with misfortunes none of them can explain. Their beloved patriarch has suffered from an emotional ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Fortunes of Jaded Women: A Novel
by
Carolyn Huynh
Atria Books, 09/06/2022
Everyone in Orange County's Little Saigon knew that the Duong sisters were cursed.
It started with their ancestor, Oanh, who dared to leave her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Means: A Novel
by
Amy Fusselman
Mariner Books, 09/06/2022
Shelly Means, a wealthy stay-at-home mom and disgraced former PTA president, is poised to get the one thing in life she really wants: a beach house in...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Rising Tide: Vera Stanhope #10
by
Ann Cleeves
Minotaur Books, 09/06/2022
For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebrating the school trip where they met, and the friend...
more
The Ways We Hide: A Novel
by
Kristina McMorris
Sourcebooks, 09/06/2022
As a little girl raised amid the hardships of Michigan's Copper Country, Fenna Vos learned to focus on her own survival. That ability sustains her ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Weight of Blood
by
Tiffany D Jackson
Katherine Tegan Books, 09/06/2022
When Springville residents—at least the ones still alive—are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same ...
more
What We Fed to the Manticore
by
Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
Tin House Books, 09/06/2022
Through nine emotionally vivid stories, all narrated from animal perspectives, Talia Lakshmi Kolluri's debut collection explores themes of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Women Like Us: A Memoir
by
Amanda Prowse
Little A, 09/06/2022
I guess the first question to ask is, what kind of woman am I? Well, you know those women who saunter into a room, immaculately coiffed and primped ...more
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
by
Alice Wong
Vintage, 09/06/2022
In Chinese culture, the tiger is deeply revered for its confidence, passion, ambition, and ferocity. That same fighting spirit resides in Alice Wong.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
A Place Called Home: A Memoir
by
David Ambroz
Legacy Lit, 09/13/2022
When David and his siblings should be in elementary school, they are instead walking the streets seeking shelter while their mother is battling mental...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
by
Zoulfa Katouh
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 09/13/2022
Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her big brother; she still had her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Bliss Montage: Stories
by
Ling Ma
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/13/2022
What happens when fantasy tears through the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end?
In
Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us...
more
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
by
Kate Beaton
Drawn & Quarterly, 09/13/2022
With the singular goal of paying off her student loans, Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush―part of the long tradition ...
more
Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure
by
Bryn Nelson PhD
Grand Central Publishing, 09/13/2022
The future is sh*t: the literal kind. For most of human history we've been, well, disinclined to take a closer look at our body's natural product&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
I Walk Between the Raindrops: Stories
by
T.C. Boyle
Ecco, 09/13/2022
In the title story of
Walk Between the Raindrops, a woman sits down next to a man at a bar and claims she has ESP. In "Thirteen Days," passengers on a...
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Kibogo
by
Scholastique Mukasonga
Archipelago Books, 09/13/2022
In four beautifully woven parts, Mukasonga spins a marvelous recounting of the clash between ancient Rwandan beliefs and the missionaries determined ...
more
Lungfish: A Novel
by
Meghan Gilliss
Catapult, 09/13/2022
Relying on the island for sustenance and answers—bladderwrack, rosehips, tenacious little green crabs; smells held by the damp walls of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Murder on the Vine: Tuscan Mysteries #3
by
Camilla Trinchieri
Soho Crime, 09/13/2022
On a late October Sunday morning in Gravigna, local maresciallo Perillo is having breakfast with ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle when he is called back ...
more
Natural History: Stories
by
Andrea Barrett
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/13/2022
In
Natural History, Andrea Barrett completes the beautiful arc of intertwined lives of a family of scientists, teachers, and innovators that she has ...
more
Nona the Ninth: The Locked Tomb Series #3
by
Tamsyn Muir
Tor Books, 09/13/2022
Her city is under siege.
The zombies are coming back.
And all Nona wants is a birthday party.
In many ways, Nona is like other people. She ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
by
Rachel Aviv
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/13/2022
In
Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions about how we understand ourselves in periods of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Sugar Street
by
Jonathan Dee
Grove Press, 09/13/2022
In a story that moves with swift dark humor and insight, Dee takes us through his narrator's attempt to disavow his former life of privilege and enter...
more
The House Party: A Novel
by
Rita Cameron
William Morrow, 09/13/2022
It's the party of the year. Afterward, nothing will ever be the same.
Maja Jensen is smart, stylish, and careful, the type of woman who considers ...
more
The Village Idiot
by
Steve Stern
Melville House, 09/13/2022
Steve Stern's astonishing new novel
The Village Idiot begins on a glorious spring day in Paris 1917. Amid the carnage of World War I, some of the ...
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Thistlefoot: A Novel
by
GennaRose Nethercott
Anchor Books, 09/13/2022
The Yaga siblings—Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist—have been estranged since ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Two Nurses, Smoking: Stories
by
David Means
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/13/2022
Two nurses meet in the hospital parking lot to share a cigarette. They flirt and imagine a future together. They tell stories of patients lost and ...
more
Victory Is Assured: Uncollected Writings of Stanley Crouch
by
Stanley Crouch
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 09/13/2022
With Stanley Crouch's untimely death in 2020, American literature lost "a critic without peer" (Ta-Nehisi Coates). Born in Los Angeles in 1945, Crouch...
more
Woman Without Shame: Poems
by
Sandra Cisneros
Knopf, 09/13/2022
It has been twenty-eight years since Sandra Cisneros published a book of poetry. With dozens of never-before-seen poems,
Woman Without Shame is a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
by
Kevin Hazzard
Hachette Books, 09/20/2022
Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival were minimal. A 9-1-1 call might bring police or even the local funeral ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future
by
Brandi Collins-Dexter
Celadon, 09/20/2022
In
Black Skinhead, Brandi Collins-Dexter, former Senior Campaign Director for Color Of Change, explores the fragile alliance between Black voters and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
If Walls Could Speak: My Life in Architecture
by
Moshe Safdie
Atlantic Monthly Press, 09/20/2022
Over more than five decades, legendary architect Moshe Safdie has built some of the world's most influential and memorable structures—from the ...
more
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
by
Pekka Hämäläinen
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 09/20/2022
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus "discovers" a strange continent and brings back tales of untold ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Less Is Lost: Arthur Less Book #2
by
Andrew Sean Greer
Little Brown & Company, 09/20/2022
"Go get lost somewhere, it always does you good."
For Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well: he is a moderately accomplished novelist in a ...
more
Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921
by
Antony Beevor
Viking, 09/20/2022
Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. The doomed White alliance of moderate ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Rust in the Root
by
Justina Ireland
Balzer + Bray, 09/20/2022
It is 1937, and Laura Ann Langston lives in an America divided—between those who work the mystical arts and those who do not. Ever since the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Bullet That Missed: Thursday Murder Club Mysteries #3
by
Richard Osman
Pamela Dorman Books, 09/20/2022
It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should
finally be returning to normal.
Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are ...
more
The Complicities
by
Stacey D'Erasmo
Algonquin Books, 09/20/2022
After her husband Alan's decades of financial fraud are exposed, Suzanne's wealthy, comfortable life shatters. Alan goes to prison. Suzanne files for ...
more
The Getaway
by
Lamar Giles
Scholastic, 09/20/2022
As things outside get worse, trouble starts seeping into Karloff. First, Jay's friend Connie and her family disappear in the middle of the night and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Old Place
by
Bobby Finger
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/20/2022
Billington, Texas, is a place where nothing changes. Well, almost nothing. For the first time in nearly four decades, Mary Alice Roth is not getting ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Silent Stars Go By
by
Sally Nicholls
Candlewick Press, 09/20/2022
Vivid and achingly real, Sally Nicholls's latest historical romance explores the fallout from an unexpected pregnancy during the First World War. It's...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You
by
Susan Rogers
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/20/2022
This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secrets of why your favorite songs move you. But it's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
A Familiar Stranger
by
A. R. Torre
Thomas & Mercer, 09/27/2022
Lillian Smith leads an unexceptional life, writing obituaries and killing time with her inattentive husband and disconnected son. Then she meets David...
more
Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II
by
Bruce Henderson
Knopf, 09/27/2022
After Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. military was desperate to find Americans who spoke Japanese to serve in the Pacific war. They ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
by
Margaret A. Burnham
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/27/2022
If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law?
In
By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Concerning My Daughter: A Novel
by
Kim Hye-jin
Restless Books, 09/27/2022
When a widowed, aging mother allows Green, her thirty-something daughter, to move into her apartment, all she wants for her is a stable and quiet ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
by
Annie Proulx
Scribner, 09/27/2022
A lifelong environmentalist, Annie Proulx brings her wide-ranging research and scholarship to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important yet ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Foul Lady Fortune
by
Chloe Gong
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 09/27/2022
It's 1931 in Shanghai, and the stage is set for a new decade of intrigue.
Four years ago, Rosalind Lang was brought back from the brink of death, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Jacqueline in Paris: A Novel
by
Ann Mah
Mariner Books, 09/27/2022
In September 1949 Jacqueline Bouvier arrives in postwar Paris to begin her junior year abroad. She's twenty years old, socially poised but financially...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Motherthing
by
Ainslie Hogarth
Vintage, 09/27/2022
When Ralph and Abby Lamb move in with Ralph's mother, Laura, Abby hopes it's just what she and her mother-in-law need to finally connect. After a ...
more
Mr. Wilder and Me
by
Jonathan Coe
Europa Editions, 09/27/2022
In the heady summer of 1977, a naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has ...
more
Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm: A Novel
by
Laura Warrell
Pantheon Books, 09/27/2022
It's 2013, and Circus Palmer, a forty-year-old Boston-based trumpet player and old-school ladies' man, lives for his music and refuses to be tied down...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity
by
Donald Yacovone
Pantheon Books, 09/27/2022
In
Teaching White Supremacy, Donald Yacovone shows us the clear and damning evidence of white supremacy's deep-seated roots in our nation's education ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Door of No Return
by
Kwame Alexander
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 09/27/2022
Dreams are today's answers for tomorrow's questions.
Kofi has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, in the village where he lives. He loves...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Furrows: A Novel
by
Namwali Serpell
Hogarth Books, 09/27/2022
The missing boy cleaves the family with doubt. Their father leaves, starts another family elsewhere. But their mother can't give up hope and launches ...
more
The Golden Enclaves: Scholomance Series #3
by
Naomi Novik
Del Rey, 09/27/2022
The one thing you never talk about while you're in the Scholomance is what you'll do when you get out. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Treasure State: Cassie Dewell Novels #6
by
C.J. Box
Minotaur Books, 09/27/2022
Private Investigator Cassie Dewell's business is thriving, and her latest case puts her on the hunt for a slippery con man who's disappeared somewhere...
more
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
by
Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, Dawud Anyabwile
Norton Young Readers, 09/27/2022
On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, and John ...
more
Token Black Girl: A Memoir
by
Danielle Prescod
Little A, 10/01/2022
Danielle Prescod grew up Black in an elite and overwhelmingly white community, her identity made more invisible by the whitewashed movies, television,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
A Minor Chorus: A Novel
by
Billy-Ray Belcourt
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/04/2022
In the stark expanse of Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel, informed by a series ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Scatter of Light
by
Malinda Lo
Dutton for Young Readers, 10/04/2022
Aria Tang West was looking forward to a summer on Martha's Vineyard with her best friends—one last round of sand and sun before college. But ...
more
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
by
Adam Hochschild
Mariner Books, 10/04/2022
The nation was on the brink. Mobs burned Black churches to the ground. Courts threw thousands of people into prison for opinions they voiced—in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Billie Starr's Book of Sorries: A Novel
by
Deborah E. Kennedy
Flatiron Books, 10/04/2022
Sometimes, a woman has to rescue herself.
Jenny Newberg, Queen of Bad Decisions, is about to make another one. In a small town where everyone knows...
more
Blood Red
by
Gabriela Ponce
Restless Books, 10/04/2022
In a torrent of stream-of-consciousness fragments, the unnamed narrator of Blood Red recounts the aftermath of her failed marriage in explicit, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
by
David Quammen
Simon & Schuster, 10/04/2022
Breathless is the story of SARS-CoV-2 and its fierce journey through the human population, as seen by the scientists who study its origin, its ever-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
David Smith: The Art and Life of a Transformational Sculptor
by
Michael Brenson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/04/2022
The artist David Smith once wrote, "'Humanism' is a useless word in my time." A member of the abstract expressionist generation, he would do more than...
more
Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
by
Jeremiah Moss
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/04/2022
The pandemic lockdown of 2020 launched an unprecedented urban experiment. Traffic disappeared from the streets. Times Square fell silent. And half a ...
more
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
by
Cody Keenan
Mariner Books, 10/04/2022
A white supremacist shooting and an astonishing act of forgiveness. A national reckoning with race and the Confederate flag. The fate of marriage ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Hester: A Novel
by
Laurie Lico Albanese
St. Martin's Press, 10/04/2022
Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An ...
more
Historical Fiction
Jackal: A Novel
by
Erin E. Adams
Bantam Books, 10/04/2022
It's watching.
It's taking.
As a frantic search begins, with the police combing the trees for Caroline, Liz is the only one who notices a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Mad Honey: A Novel
by
Jodi Picoult
Ballantine Books, 10/04/2022
She never imagined that she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in and taking over her father's ...
more
Other
Man Made Monsters
by
Andrea Rogers
Levine Querido, 10/04/2022
Tsalagi should never have to live on human blood, but sometimes things just happen to sixteen-year-old girls.
Horror fans will get their thrills in...
more
Nights of Plague: A novel
by
Orhan Pamuk
Knopf, 10/04/2022
It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingheria—the twenty-ninth state of the Ottoman Empire—located in the eastern ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
River Woman, River Demon: A Novel
by
Jennifer Givhan
Blackstone Publishing, 10/04/2022
When Eva's husband is arrested for the murder of a friend, she must confront her murky past and embrace her magick to find out what really happened ...
more
The Hero of This Book: A Novel
by
Elizabeth McCracken
Ecco, 10/04/2022
Ten months after her mother's death, the narrator of
The Hero of This Book takes a trip to London. The city was a favorite of her mother's, and as the...
more
The Night Ship: A Novel
by
Jess Kidd
Atria Books, 10/04/2022
1629: A newly orphaned young girl named Mayken is bound for the Dutch East Indies on the
Batavia, one of the greatest ships of the Dutch Golden Age. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Restless Dark
by
Erica Waters
HarperTeen, 10/04/2022
Enter Cloudkiss Canyon at your own risk.
The Cloudkiss Killer is dead. Now a true-crime podcast is hosting a contest to find his bones.
Lucy ...
more
Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
by
Thomas E. Ricks
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/04/2022
In
Waging a Good War, bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks offers a fresh perspective on America's greatest moral revolution―the civil rights ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
When They Tell You To Be Good: A Memoir
by
Prince Shakur
Tin House Books, 10/04/2022
After immigrating from Jamaica to the United States, Prince Shakur's family is rocked by the murder of Prince's biological father in 1995. Behind the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Which Side Are You On
by
Ryan Lee Wong
Catapult, 10/04/2022
Twenty-one-year-old Reed is fed up. Angry about the killing of a Black man by an Asian American NYPD officer, he wants to drop out of college and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Before All the World: A Novel
by
Moriel Rothman-Zecher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/11/2022
"ikh gleyb nit az di gantze velt iz kheyshekh."
"I do not believe that all the world is darkness."
In the swirl of Philadelphia at the end of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter's Reflections on Belonging
by
Vanessa A. Bee
Astra House, 10/11/2022
After her parents' divorce, Vanessa traveled with her mother to Lyon and later to London, eventually settling in Reno, Nevada, as a teenager, right ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
I Miss You, I Hate This
by
Sara Saedi
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 10/11/2022
The lives of high school seniors Parisa Naficy and Gabriela Gonzales couldn't be more different. Parisa, an earnest and privileged Iranian American, ...
more
Illuminations: Stories
by
Alan Moore
Bloomsbury USA, 10/11/2022
In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a series of wildly different and equally unforgettable ...
more
Little Eve
by
Catriona Ward
Tor Nightfire, 10/11/2022
Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel.
"A great day is upon us. He is coming. The world will be washed away."
On the wind-battered ...
more
Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties
by
John D'Emilio
Duke University Press, 10/11/2022
How does a boy from an Italian immigrant family in which everyone unfailingly went to confession and Sunday Mass become a lapsed Catholic? How does a ...
more
Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty
by
Andrew Meier
Random House, 10/11/2022
After coming to America from Germany in 1866, the Morgenthaus made history in international diplomacy, in domestic politics, and in America's criminal...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives
by
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Harper, 10/11/2022
At just eighteen years old, Charlayne Hunter-Gault made national news when she mounted a successful legal challenge that culminated in her admission ...
more
On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World
by
Sean Connolly
Basic Books, 10/11/2022
When people think of Irish emigration, they often think of the Great Famine of the 1840s, which caused many to flee Ireland for the United States. But...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More
by
Fatima Ali
Ballantine Books, 10/11/2022
Fatima Ali won the hearts of viewers as the Fan Favorite of Bravo's
Top Chef in season fifteen. Twenty-nine years old, she was a dynamic, boundary-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
by
Peter Orner
Catapult, 10/11/2022
Stationed in the South Pacific during World War II, Seymour Orner wrote a letter every day to his wife, Lorraine. She seldom responded, leading him to...
more
Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions
by
A. R. Capetta
MIT Press, 10/11/2022
What does the future hold? Ten speculative short stories by leading young-adult authors imagine what the world
could be through the lens of ...
more
The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water
by
Chris Dombrowski
Milkweed Editions, 10/11/2022
He answers this fundamental question of our time initially by listening lovingly to rivers and the land they pulse through in his adopted home of ...
more
The Spare Man
by
Mary Robinette Kowal
Tor Books, 10/11/2022
Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and an heiress, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between the Moon and Mars. She's ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
by
Ruha Benjamin
Princeton University Press, 10/11/2022
Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes. But ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Young Man, Muddled: A Memoir
by
Robert Kanigel
Bancroft Press, 10/11/2022
As Hemingway wrote, "It happened gradually, then suddenly." Robert Kanigel, a grade-skipping Jewish fellow from Brooklyn, went from engineering war ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia
by
Natasha Lance Rogoff
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 10/17/2022
In
Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia, Natasha Lance Rogoff brings this gripping tale to life. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Heart Full of Headstones: Inspector Rebus Novels #24
by
Ian Rankin
Little Brown & Company, 10/18/2022
But what drove a good man to cross the line?
Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke may well find out. Clarke is tasked with the city's most explosive...
more
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
by
Jon Meacham
Random House, 10/18/2022
A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Hated and ...
more
Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities
by
Emily Tamkin
Harper, 10/18/2022
What does it mean to be a Bad Jew?
Many Jews use the term "Bad Jew" as a weapon against other members of the community or even against themselves. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
I Was Born for This
by
Alice Oseman
Scholastic, 10/18/2022
Jimmy Kaga-Ricci owes everything to The Ark. He's their frontman — and playing in a band with his mates is all he ever dreamed of doing, even if...
more
In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press
by
Katherine Corcoran
Bloomsbury Publishing, 10/18/2022
Regina Martínez was no stranger to retaliation. A journalist out of Mexico's Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, Regina's stories for the magazine
...more
Critics' Consensus:
True Crime
Debut Author
It Starts with Us: A Novel (2) (It Ends with Us)
by
Colleen Hoover
Atria Books, 10/18/2022
Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After ...
more
Romance
Lady Joker, Volume 2
by
Kaoru Takamura
Soho Crime, 10/18/2022
Inspired by the real-life Glico-Morinaga kidnapping, an unsolved case that terrorized Japan for two years,
Lady Joker reimagines the circumstances of ...
more
Liberation Day: Stories
by
George Saunders
Random House, 10/18/2022
The "best short-story writer in English" (
Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice and cuts to the ...
more
Poster Girl
by
Veronica Roth
William Morrow, 10/18/2022
WHAT'S RIGHT IS RIGHT.
Sonya Kantor knows this slogan—she lived by it for most of her life. For decades, everyone in the Seattle-Portland ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Self-Portrait with Nothing
by
Aimee Pokwatka
Tor.com, 10/18/2022
If a picture paints a thousand worlds...
Abandoned as an infant on the local veterinarian's front porch, Pepper Rafferty was raised by two loving ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Seven Empty Houses
by
Samanta Schweblin
Riverhead Books, 10/18/2022
The seven houses in these seven stories are strange. A person is missing, or a truth, or memory; some rooms are enticing, some unmoored, others empty....
more
Short Stories
Signal Fires: A novel
by
Dani Shapiro
Knopf, 10/18/2022
Signal Fires opens on a summer night in 1985. Three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, ...
more
The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
by
Max Hastings
Harper, 10/18/2022
In
The Abyss, Max Hastings turns his focus to one of the most terrifying events of the mid-twentieth century—the thirteen days in October 1962 ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Consequences: Stories
by
Manuel Muñoz
Graywolf Press, 10/18/2022
"Her immediate concern was money." So begins the first story in Manuel Muñoz's dazzling new collection. In it, Delfina has moved from Texas to ...
more
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
by
Jonathan Freedland
Harper, 10/18/2022
A complex hero.
A forgotten story.
The first witness to reveal the full truth of the Holocaust
People won't believe what they can't imagine....more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Young Readers Adaptation): Life in Native America
by
David Treuer, Sheila Keenan
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 10/18/2022
Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the United States.
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
When We Were Sisters: A Novel
by
Fatimah Asghar
One World, 10/18/2022
In this heartrending, lyrical debut work of fiction, Fatimah Asghar traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Anywhere You Run: A Novel
by
Wanda M. Morris
William Morrow, 10/25/2022
It's the summer of 1964 and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help Black Mississippians secure the right to vote. Against this ...
more
Heretic: A Memoir
by
Jeanna Kadlec
Harper, 10/25/2022
Jeanna Kadlec knew what it meant to be faithful--in her marriage to a pastor's son, in the comfortable life ahead of her, in her God--but there was no...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Inciting Joy: Essays
by
Ross Gay
Algonquin Books, 10/25/2022
In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prize-winning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, ...
more
Into the Riverlands: The Singing Hills Cycle #3
by
Nghi Vo
Tor Books, 10/25/2022
Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorious near-immortal martial artists who haunt the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Is Mother Dead
by
Vigdis Hjorth
Verso, 10/25/2022
'To mother is to murder, or close enough', thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She's recently widowed and back...
more
Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern
by
Neil Baldwin
Knopf, 10/25/2022
Time magazine called her "the Dancer of the Century." Her technique, used by dance companies throughout the world, became the first long-lasting ...
more
My Manservant and Me
by
Hervé Guibert
Nightboat Books, 10/25/2022
My Manservant and Me is a story about the trials and tribulations of having a live-in valet. Written from the uneasy perspective of an aging, ...
more
Sign Here
by
Claudia Lux
Berkley Books, 10/25/2022
Peyote Trip has a pretty good gig in the deals department on the fifth floor of Hell. Sure, none of the pens work, the coffee machine has been out of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Ted Kennedy: A Life
by
John A. Farrell
Penguin Press, 10/25/2022
John A. Farrell's magnificent biography of Edward M. Kennedy is the first single-volume life of the great figure since his death. Farrell's long ...
more
The Passenger
by
Cormac McCarthy
Knopf, 10/25/2022
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard ...
more
The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire
by
Joseph Sassoon
Pantheon Books, 10/25/2022
They were one of the richest families in the world for two hundred years, from the 19th century to the 20th, and were known as 'the Rothschilds of the...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Singularities: A Novel
by
John Banville
Knopf, 10/25/2022
A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sports car—also borrowed—onto the estate of his youth. But all is not as it seems. ...
more
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
by
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Scribner, 10/25/2022
Mukherjee begins this magnificent story in the late 1600s, when a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth-merchant,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The White Mosque
by
Sofia Samatar
Catapult, 10/25/2022
In the late nineteenth century, a group of German-speaking Mennonites traveled from Russia into Central Asia, where their charismatic leader predicted...
more
Uphill: A Memoir
by
Jemele Hill
Henry Holt and Company, 10/25/2022
Jemele Hill's world came crashing down when she called President Trump a "white supremacist"; the White House wanted her fired from ESPN, and she was ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast
by
Dorthe Nors
Graywolf Press, 11/01/2022
Me, my notebook and my love of the wild and desolate. I wanted to do the opposite of what was expected of me. It's a recurring pattern in my life. An ...more
Before You Knew My Name: A Novel
by
Jacqueline Bublitz
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 11/01/2022
When she arrived in New York on her eighteenth birthday carrying nothing but $600 cash and a stolen camera, Alice Lee was looking for a fresh start. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
by
James Vincent
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/01/2022
From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful tool that humans invented to make sense of the world....
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
by
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Zest Books, 11/01/2022
Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Bravo Company: An Afghanistan Deployment and Its Aftermath
by
Ben Kesling
Harry N. Abrams Inc., 11/01/2022
In
Bravo Company, journalist and combat veteran Ben Kesling tells the story of the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of the men of one unit, part of...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Dr. No: A Novel
by
Percival Everett
Graywolf Press, 11/01/2022
The protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means "...
more
Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem
by
Laurie Notaro
Little A, 11/01/2022
Laurie Notaro has proved everyone wrong: she didn't end up in rehab, prison, or cremated at a tender age. She just went gray. At past fifty, every ...
more
Foster
by
Claire Keegan
Grove Press, 11/01/2022
It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home ...
more
Gilded Mountain: A Novel
by
Kate Manning
Scribner, 11/01/2022
In a voice spiked with sly humor, Sylvie Pelletier recounts leaving her family's snowbound mountain cabin to work in a manor house for the Padgetts, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Godmersham Park: A Novel of the Austen Family
by
Gill Hornby
Pegasus Books, 11/01/2022
On January 21, 1804, Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent to take up the position of governess. At thirty-one years old, she has no previous...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
How Do We Know Ourselves?: Curiosities and Marvels of the Human Mind
by
David G. Myers
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/01/2022
Over the past three decades, millions of students have learned about psychology from textbooks by David G. Myers. To create these books and to satisfy...
more
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki: the South Korean hit therapy memoir recommended by BTS's RM
by
Baek Sehee
Bloomsbury USA, 11/01/2022
PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?
ME: I don't know, I'm – what's the word – depressed? Do I have to go into detail?
Baek Sehee is...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Meredith, Alone
by
Claire Alexander
Grand Central Publishing, 11/01/2022
She has a full-time remote job and her rescue cat Fred. Her best friend Sadie visits with her two children. There's her online support group, her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
by
Jennifer Homans
Random House, 11/01/2022
Arguably the greatest choreographer who ever lived, George Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century—the
New York Times...more
My Good Man
by
Eric Gansworth
Levine Querido, 11/01/2022
Brian, a 20-something reporter on the
Niagara Cascade's City Desk, is navigating life as the only Indigenous writer in the newsroom, being lumped into...
more
Historical Fiction
Ocean's Echo
by
Everina Maxwell
Tor Books, 11/01/2022
Rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster Tennalhin Halkana can read minds. Tennal, like all neuromodified "readers," is a security ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Requiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
by
RJ Young
Counterpoint Press, 11/01/2022
More than one hundred years ago, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, perpetrated a massacre against its Black residents. For generations, the true story was ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Saha: A Novel
by
Cho Nam-Joo
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 11/01/2022
In a country called Town, a doctor named Su is found dead in an abandoned car. There is only one place the police intend to look for her suspected ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Shuna's Journey
by
Hayao Miyazaki
First Second, 11/01/2022
Shuna, the prince of a poor land, watches in despair as his people work themselves to death harvesting the little grain that grows there. And so, when...
more
Small Game: A Novel
by
Blair Braverman
Ecco, 11/01/2022
Four strangers and six weeks: this is all that separates Mara from one life-changing payday. She was surprised when reality TV producers came knocking...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Tale of the Dreamer's Son
by
Preeta Samarasan
World Editions, 11/01/2022
In what was once a Scottish tea planter's mansion in the highlands of Peninsular Malaysia, all religions are one and race is unheard of. That is, ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Acrobat
by
Edward J. Delaney
Turtle Point Press, 11/01/2022
It's 1959, and the 55-year-old man who calls himself Cary Grant is at the peak of a charmed career. He's also on a turbulent journey to find the core ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Islands: Stories
by
Dionne Irving
Catapult, 11/01/2022
The Islands follows the lives of Jamaican women—immigrants or the descendants of immigrants—who have relocated all over the world to ...
more
The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
by
Bradley Hope
Crown, 11/01/2022
In the early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate looking for his place in the world. After reading a harrowing account of life ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
by
Malcolm Gaskill
Knopf, 11/01/2022
In Springfield, Massachusetts in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails, property vanishes, and people suffer ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
by
Shehan Karunatilaka
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/01/2022
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida―war photographer, gambler, and closet queen―has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His...
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This is Our Place
by
Vitor Martins
PUSH, 11/01/2022
If the walls of Number 8 Sunflower Street could talk ...
As
Ana celebrates the new millennium, she is shocked to learn that she must leave behind ...
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Toad: A Novel
by
Katherine Dunn
MCD, 11/01/2022
She broods over her deepest regrets: her blighted romances with self-important men, her lifelong struggle to feel at home in her own body, and her ...
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Tutankhamun's Trumpet: Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects from the Boy-King's Tomb
by
Toby Wilkinson
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/01/2022
In 1922, after fifteen years of searching, archaeologists finally discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun. There, buried alongside the king's mummy, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
White Horse: A Novel
by
Erika T. Wurth
Flatiron Books, 11/01/2022
Some people are haunted in more ways than one…
Kari James, Urban Native, is a fan of heavy metal, ripped jeans, Stephen King novels, and dive...
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No One Weeps for Me Now: The Managua Trilogy #2
by
Sergio Ramirez
McPherson & Company, 11/03/2022
Morales is summarily given the lucrative if daunting task of finding her with only her name and two photographs, and three days to complete the search...
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The Incandescent Threads
by
Richard Zimler
Parthian Books, 11/07/2022
Maybe none of us is ever aware of our true significance.
Benjamin Zarco and his cousin Shelly are the only two members of their family to survive ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Children of Ragnarok: Runestone Saga #1
by
Cinda Williams Chima
Balzer + Bray, 11/08/2022
Since Ragnarok—the great war between the gods and the forces of chaos—the human realm of the Midlands has become a desperate and dangerous...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Conversations with Birds
by
Priyanka Kumar
Milkweed Editions, 11/08/2022
Growing up at the feet of the Himalayas in northern India, Kumar took for granted her immersion in a lush natural world. After moving to North America...
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Even Though I Knew the End
by
C. L. Polk
Tor Books, 11/08/2022
This sapphic period piece will dazzle anyone looking for mystery, intrigue, romance, magic, or all of the above.
An exiled augur who sold her ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
by
Rabia Chaudry
Algonquin Books, 11/08/2022
"My entire life I have been less fat and more fat, but never not fat." According to family lore, when Rabia Chaudry's family returned to Pakistan for ...
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Flight: A Novel
by
Lynn Steger Strong
Mariner Books, 11/08/2022
It's December twenty-second and siblings Henry, Kate, and Martin have converged with their spouses on Henry's house in upstate New York. This is the ...
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For Profit: A History of Corporations
by
William Magnuson
Basic Books, 11/08/2022
Americans have long been skeptical of corporations, and that skepticism has only grown more intense in recent years. Meanwhile, corporations ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Hollywood: The Oral History
by
Jeanine Basinger
Harper, 11/08/2022
From the archives of the American Film Institute comes a unique picture of what it was like to work in Hollywood from its beginnings to its present ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How It Went: Thirteen More Stories of the Port William Membership
by
Wendell Berry
Counterpoint Press, 11/08/2022
For those readers of his poetry and inspired by his increasingly vital work as advocate for rational land use and the right-size life, these stories ...
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Participation
by
Anna Moschovakis
Coffee House Press, 11/08/2022
In the latest novel from Anna Moschovakis, two reading groups, unofficially called Love and Anti-Love, falter amidst political friction and signs of ...
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Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six
by
Lisa Unger
Park Row Books, 11/08/2022
What could be more restful, more restorative, than a weekend getaway with family and friends? An isolated luxury cabin in the woods, complete with ...
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The Last Party: DC Morgan Mysteries #1
by
Clare Mackintosh
Sourcebooks Landmark, 11/08/2022
It's the party to end all parties….but not everyone is here to celebrate.
On New Year's Eve, Rhys Lloyd has a house full of guests. His ...
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The Lemon: A Novel
by
S. E. Boyd
Viking, 11/08/2022
While filming on location in Belfast, Northern Ireland, John Doe, the universally adored host of the culinary travel show
Last Call, is found dead in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Magic Kingdom: A Novel
by
Russell Banks
Knopf, 11/08/2022
In 1971, a property speculator named Harley Mann begins recording his life story onto a reel-to-reel machine. Reflecting on his childhood in the early...
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The Secrets We Keep
by
Cassie Gustafson
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 11/08/2022
High school freshman Emma Clark harbors a secret—a secret so vile it could implode her whole world, a secret she's managed to keep buried......
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The Spacetime Pool
by
Catherine Asaro
Open Road Integrated Media, 11/08/2022
In
The Spacetime Pool, recent MIT grad Janelle Aulair is hiking through the Great Smoky Mountains when a man appears out of nowhere to request her ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Against the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism, 1976-2009
by
Neal Gabler
Crown, 11/15/2022
Against the Wind completes Neal Gabler's magisterial biography of Ted Kennedy, but it also unfolds the epic, tragic story of the fall of liberalism ...
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Heart of the Sun Warrior: Celestial Kingdom Series #2
by
Sue Lynn Tan
Harper Voyager, 11/15/2022
After winning her mother's freedom from the Celestial Emperor, Xingyin thrives in the enchanting tranquility of her home. But her fragile peace is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Idol, Burning: A Novel
by
Rin Usami
HarperVia, 11/15/2022
Akari is a high school student obsessed with "oshi" Masaki Ueno, a member of the popular J-Pop group Maza Maza. She writes a blog devoted to him, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions
by
Steve Martin
Celadon, 11/15/2022
Steve Martin has never written about his career in the movies before. In
Number One Is Walking, he shares anecdotes from the sets of his beloved films...
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Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers
by
Emma Smith
Knopf, 11/15/2022
Stephen King once said that books are "a uniquely portable magic." Here, Emma Smith takes readers on a literary adventure that spans centuries and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life
by
Brigitta Olubas
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/15/2022
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life tells the extraordinary story of a great modern novelist. Brigitta Olubas, Hazzard's authorized biographer, has drawn,...
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The 9:09 Project
by
Mark H. Parsons
Delacorte Press, 11/15/2022
It has been two years since his mom's death, and Jamison, his dad, and his younger sister seem to be coping, but they've been dealing with their loss ...
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The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
by
Michelle Obama
Crown, 11/15/2022
There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life's big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all locate and lean on a set of ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music
by
Tom Breihan
Hachette Books, 11/15/2022
When Tom Breihan launched his
Stereogum column in early 2018, "The Number Ones"—a space in which he has been writing about every #1 hit in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Twist of a Knife: A Novel
by
Anthony Horowitz
Harper, 11/15/2022
"I'm sorry but the answer's no." Reluctant author, Anthony Horowitz, has had enough. He tells ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne that after three books he'...
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Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
by
Andy Greenberg
Doubleday, 11/15/2022
Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrency. Crime lords inhabiting lawless corners of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Tread of Angels
by
Rebecca Roanhorse
Gallery Books, 11/15/2022
The year is 1883 and the mining town of Goetia is booming as prospectors from near and far come to mine the powerful new element Divinity from the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Aesthetica
by
Allie Rowbottom
Soho Press, 11/22/2022
At 19, she was an Instagram celebrity. Now, at 35, she works behind the cosmetic counter at the "black and white store," peddling anti-aging products ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, DC
by
Shahan Mufti
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/22/2022
Late in the morning of March 9, 1977, seven men stormed the Washington, D.C., headquarters of B'nai B'rith International, the largest and oldest ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger
by
Tony Tetro & Giampiero Ambrosi
Hachette Books, 11/22/2022
The art world is a much dirtier, nastier business than you might expect. Tony Tetro, one of the most renowned art forgers in history, will make you ...
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Critics' Consensus:
True Crime
Debut Author
Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
by
Jefferson Cowie
Basic Books, 11/22/2022
American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
by
Beverly Gage
Viking, 11/22/2022
We remember him as a bulldog—squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls—but in 1924, when he became director of the FBI, he had ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Creative Lives of Animals
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Carol Gigliotti
New York University Press, 11/22/2022
Most of us view animals through a very narrow lens, seeing only bits and pieces of beings that seem mostly peripheral to our lives. However, whether ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Reindeer Hunters: Sister Bells Trilogy #2
by
Lars Mytting
The Overlook Press, 11/22/2022
The second novel in Lars Mytting's powerful and compelling Sister Bells trilogy,
The Reindeer Hunters is both a sequel to
The Bell in the Lake and a ...
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A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents
by
Mary-Alice Daniel
Ecco, 11/29/2022
Mary-Alice Daniel's family moved from West Africa to England when she was a very young girl, leaving behind the vivid culture of her native land in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
All the Broken Places: A Novel
by
John Boyne
Pamela Dorman Books, 11/29/2022
Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker
by
Jason McBride
Simon & Schuster, 11/29/2022
Kathy Acker (1947–1997) was a rare and almost inconceivable thing: a celebrity experimental writer. Twenty-five years after her death, she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Factory Girls
by
Michelle Gallen
Algonquin Books, 11/29/2022
It's the summer of 1994, and all Maeve Murray wants are good final exam results so she can earn her ticket out of the wee Northern Irish town she has ...
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How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future
by
Maria Ressa
Harper, 11/29/2022
Maria Ressa is one of the most renowned international journalists of our time. For decades, she challenged corruption and malfeasance in her native ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
by
Edward Humes
Dutton, 11/29/2022
In November 1987, a young couple on an overnight trip to Seattle vanished without a trace. A week later, the bodies of Tanya Van Cuylenborg and her ...
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A History of Fear: A Novel
by
Luke Dumas
Atria Books, 12/06/2022
The Devil is in Scotland.
Grayson Hale, the most infamous murderer in Scotland, is better known by a different name: the Devil's Advocate. The ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
A Left-Handed Woman: Essays
by
Judith Thurman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 12/06/2022
Judith Thurman, a prolific staff writer at
The New Yorker for more than two decades, has gathered a selection of her essays and profiles in
A Left-...more
Between Light and Storm: How We Live with Other Species
by
Esther Woolfson
Pegasus Books, 12/06/2022
Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers prehistoric human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Blown by the Same Wind: Cold Storage Novels #4
by
John Straley
Soho Crime, 12/06/2022
Things in the sleepy fishing town of Cold Storage, Alaska, are changing. It's the summer of 1968; the men are wearing their hair long, the Vietnam War...
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Cursed Bunny: Stories
by
Bora Chung
Algonquin Books, 12/06/2022
From an author never before published in the United States,
Cursed Bunny is unique and imaginative, blending horror, sci-fi, fairytales, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It
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Erica Thompson
Basic Books, 12/06/2022
Whether we are worried about the spread of COVID-19 or making a corporate budget, we depend on mathematical models to help us understand the world ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Fake Money, Blue Smoke
by
Josh Haven
Mysterious Press, 12/06/2022
When former platoon sergeant Matt Kubelsky is paroled from Ray Brook Federal Correctional Institute in upstate New York, he's surprised to find his ex...
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JUDAS 62
by
Charles Cumming
Mysterious Press, 12/06/2022
After a lifetime working with BOX 88, the transatlantic counterintelligence agency so covert that not even the CIA knows of its existence, master spy ...
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Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion: A Novel
by
Bushra Rehman
Flatiron Books, 12/06/2022
Razia Mirza grows up amid the wild grape vines and backyard sunflowers of Corona, Queens, with her best friend, Saima, by her side. When a family rift...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood
by
Jessica Grose
Mariner Books, 12/06/2022
Close your eyes and picture the perfect mother. She is usually blonde and thin. Her roots are never showing and she installed that gleaming kitchen ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Stella Maris
by
Cormac McCarthy
Knopf, 12/06/2022
1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A ...
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The Circus Train
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Amita Parikh
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 12/06/2022
When all is lost, how do you find the courage to keep moving forward?
1938. Lena Papadopoulos has never quite found her place within the circus, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights: A Novel
by
Kitty Zeldis
Harper, 12/06/2022
Brooklyn, 1924. As New York City enters the jazz age, the lives of three very different women are about to converge in unexpected ways. Recently ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Ingenue: A Novel
by
Rachel Kapelke-Dale
St. Martin's Press, 12/06/2022
When former piano prodigy Saskia Kreis returns home to Milwaukee after her mother's unexpected death, she expects to inherit the family estate, the ...
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The Seamstress of Sardinia: A Novel
by
Bianca Pitzorno
Harper Perennial, 12/06/2022
In 1900 Sardinia, a young woman's remarkable talent with a needle earns her a position as a seamstress with a wealthy family. Inside this privileged ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
A Mother Would Know: A Novel
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Amber Garza
Mira, 12/13/2022
Valerie has been forgetting things. Her daughter worries about her being on her own in her big Victorian house—one rumored to be haunted after a...
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Rubble of Rubles
by
Josip Novakovich
Dzanc Books, 12/13/2022
In this picaresque novel set in the early 2000s, David, an investment banker with Eastern European roots, goes bankrupt from the Enron fiasco, and ...
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Scatterlings: A Novel
by
Resoketswe Martha Manenzhe
HarperVia, 12/13/2022
In 1927, South Africa passes the Immorality Act, prohibiting sexual intercourse between "Europeans" (white people) and "natives" (Black people). Those...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Nine Liars: Truly Devious
by
Maureen Johnson
Katherine Tegan Books, 12/27/2022
Senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn't going well. Her boyfriend, David, is studying in London. Her friends are obsessed with college ...
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The Book of Everlasting Things: A Novel
by
Aanchal Malhotra
Flatiron Books, 12/27/2022
On a January morning in 1938, Samir Vij first locks eyes with Firdaus Khan through the rows of perfume bottles in his family's ittar shop in Lahore. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
