Be Dazzled
by
Ryan La Sala
Sourcebooks Fire, 01/05/2021
Raffy has a passion for bedazzling. Not just bedazzling, but sewing, stitching, draping, pattern making―for creation. He's always chosen his art...
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Black Buck
by
Mateo Askaripour
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 01/05/2021
There's nothing like a Black salesman on a mission.
An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Featherhood: A Memoir of Two Fathers and a Magpie
by
Charlie Gilmour
Scribner, 01/05/2021
One spring day, a baby magpie falls out of its nest and into Charlie Gilmour's hands. Magpies, he soon discovers, are as clever and mischievous as ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Himalaya: A Human History
by
Ed Douglas
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/05/2021
For centuries, the unique and astonishing geography of the Himalaya has attracted those in search of spiritual and literal elevation: pilgrims, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
House of the Patriarch: Benjamin January #18
by
Barbara Hambly
Severn House, 01/05/2021
New Orleans, 1840. Freshly home from a dangerous journey, that last thing Benjamin January wants to do is leave his wife and young sons again. But ...
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One of the Good Ones
by
Maika Moulite, Maritza Moulite
Inkyard Press, 01/05/2021
ISN'T BEING HUMAN ENOUGH?
When teen social activist and history buff Kezi Smith is killed under mysterious circumstances after attending a social ...
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Pickard County Atlas
by
Chris Harding Thornton
MCD, 01/05/2021
In a dusty town in Nebraska's rugged sandhills, weary sheriff's deputy Harley Jensen patrols the streets at night, on the lookout for something―...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Sergeant Salinger
by
Jerome Charyn
Bellevue Literary Press, 01/05/2021
Jerome Charyn's Salinger is a young American WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers who trained with the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Awakening of Malcolm X
by
Ilyasah Shabazz, Tiffany D. Jackson
FSG Books for Young Readers, 01/05/2021
No one can be at peace until he has his freedom.
In Charlestown Prison, Malcolm Little struggles with the weight of his past. Plagued by nightmares...
more
The Death of Murat Idrissi
by
Tommy Wieringa
Scribe Publications Pty Ltd, 01/05/2021
They had no idea, when they arrived in Morocco, that their usual freedoms as young European women would not be available. So, when the spry Saleh ...
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The Fortunate Ones
by
Ed Tarkington
Algonquin Books, 01/05/2021
When Charlie Boykin was young, he'd thought his life with his single mother was really just fine. But when his mother's connections get Charlie into ...
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The Liar's Dictionary
by
Eley Williams
Doubleday, 01/05/2021
Mountweazel n. the phenomenon of false entries within dictionaries and works of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Push
by
Ashley Audrain
Pamela Dorman Books, 01/05/2021
Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had.
But in the thick of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Sea Gate
by
Jane Johnson
Simon & Schuster, 01/05/2021
After Rebecca's mother dies, she must sort through her empty flat and come to terms with her loss. As she goes through her mother's mail, she finds a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Unsolaced: Along the Way to All That Is
by
Gretel Ehrlich
Pantheon Books, 01/05/2021
Amid species extinctions and disintegrating ice sheets, this stunning collection of memories, observations, and narratives is acute and lyrical, ...
more
When You Look Like Us
by
Pamela N. Harris
Quill Tree Books, 01/05/2021
When you look like us—brown skin, brown eyes, black braids or fades—everyone else thinks you're trouble. No one even blinks twice over a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Stranger at the Door: Rachel Marin #2
by
Jason Pinter
Thomas & Mercer, 01/12/2021
Rachel Marin is in a good place. After years of struggle, the single mother has found both a stable, loving relationship and a new purpose: putting ...
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Across the Green Grass Fields: Wayward Children #6
by
Seanan McGuire
Tor.com, 01/12/2021
"Welcome to the Hooflands. We're happy to have you, even if you being here means something's coming."
Regan loves, and is loved, though her school-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Aftershocks
by
Nadia Owusu
Simon & Schuster, 01/12/2021
Young Nadia Owusu followed her father, a United Nations official, from Europe to Africa and back again. Just as she and her family settled into a new ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Before the Ruins
by
Victoria Gosling
Henry Holt and Company, 01/12/2021
It's the summer of 1996 and school's out forever for Andy, her boyfriend Marcus, her best friend Peter, and Em. When Andy's alcoholic mother predicts ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Chlorine Sky
by
Mahogany L. Browne
Crown Books for Young Readers, 01/12/2021
She looks me hard in my eyes
& my knees lock into tree trunks
My eyes don't dance like my heartbeat racing
They stare straight back hot daggers.
I...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Concrete Rose
by
Angie Thomas
Balzer + Bray, 01/12/2021
If there's one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it's that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav ...
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Dear Miss Kopp: Kopp Sisters #6
by
Amy Stewart
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 01/12/2021
The U.S. has finally entered World War I is and Constance is chasing down suspected German saboteurs and spies for the Bureau of Investigation while ...
more
Life Among the Terranauts
by
Caitlin Horrocks
Little Brown & Company, 01/12/2021
Following her "marvelous" (
Wall Street Journal) first novel, Caitlin Horrocks returns with a much-anticipated collection of short stories. In her ...
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Sleep Well, My Lady: Emma Djan #2
by
Kwei Quartey
Soho Crime, 01/12/2021
Hard-hitting talk show host Augustus Seeza has become a household name in Ghana, though notorious for his lavish overspending, alcoholism, and ...
more
Summerwater
by
Sarah Moss
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 01/12/2021
They rarely speak to each other, but they take notice―watching from the safety of their cabins, peering into the half-lit drizzle of a Scottish ...
more
That Old Country Music
by
Kevin Barry
Doubleday, 01/12/2021
With three novels and two short story collections published, Kevin Barry has steadily established his stature as one of the finest writers not just in...
more
The Center of Everything
by
Jamie Harrison
Counterpoint Press, 01/12/2021
For Polly, the small town of Livingston, Montana, is a land charmed by raw, natural beauty and a close network of family that extends back generations...
more
The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
by
James Oakes
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/12/2021
The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
by
Mariana Enriquez
Hogarth Books, 01/12/2021
Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre. Populated by unruly teenagers, crooked ...
more
The Frozen Crown
by
Greta Kelly
Harper Voyager, 01/12/2021
Askia became heir to the Frozen Crown of Seravesh because of her devotion to her people. But her realm is facing a threat she cannot defeat by sheer ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Inland Sea
by
Madeleine Watts
Catapult, 01/12/2021
Drifting after her final year in college, a young writer begins working part-time as an emergency dispatch operator in Sydney. Over the course of an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Last Exit: Jen Lu Mysteries #1
by
Michael Kaufman
Crooked Lane Books, 01/12/2021
Set in Washington D.C. in the near future, climate change has hit hard, fires are burning, unemployment is high, and controversial longevity ...
more
The Last Garden in England
by
Julia Kelly
Gallery Books, 01/12/2021
Present day: Emma Lovett, who has dedicated her career to breathing new life into long-neglected gardens, has just been given the opportunity of a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
by
Melinda Gates
Flatiron Books, 01/12/2021
For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live. Throughout...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Ocean House
by
Mary-Beth Hughes
Grove Press, 01/12/2021
What begins as a promising start to a redemptive relationship between the two ends in a tragedy that lands Faith in a treatment facility, leveled by ...
more
The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames
by
Justine Cowan
Harper, 01/12/2021
Justine had always been told that her mother came from royal blood. The proof could be found in her mother's elegance, her uppercrust London accent&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
To Cook a Bear
by
Mikael Niemi
Penguin Books, 01/12/2021
Jussi, a runaway, becomes Laestadius's faithful son and disciple, and the two set out on botanical treks filled with philosophical discussions where ...
more
Troubled: The Failed Promise of America's Behavioral Treatment Programs
by
Kenneth R. Rosen
Little A, 01/12/2021
In the middle of the night, they are vanished.
Each year thousands of young adults deemed out of control—suffering from depression, addiction...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Waiting for the Night Song
by
Julie Carrick Dalton
Forge Books, 01/12/2021
Cadie Kessler has spent decades trying to cover up one truth. One moment. But deep down, didn't she always know her secret would surface?
An urgent...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
What Could Be Saved
by
Liese O'Halloran Schwarz
Atria Books, 01/12/2021
When a stranger contacts Laura claiming to be her brother who disappeared forty years earlier when the family lived in Bangkok, Laura ignores Bea's ...
more
At the Edge of the Haight
by
Katherine Seligman
Algonquin Books, 01/19/2021
Maddy Donaldo, homeless at twenty, has made a family of sorts in the dangerous spaces of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. She knows whom to trust, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Before She Disappeared
by
Lisa Gardner
Dutton, 01/19/2021
Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one ...
more
Craft: An American History
by
Glenn Adamson
Bloomsbury USA, 01/19/2021
At the center of the United States' economic and social development, according to conventional wisdom, are industry and technology-while craftspeople ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Eagle Down: The Last Special Forces Fighting the Forever War
by
Jessica Donati
Public Affairs, 01/19/2021
In 2015, the White House claimed triumphantly "the longest war in American history is over." But for some, it was just the beginning of a new and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Floaters: Poems
by
Martín Espada
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/19/2021
Martín Espada is a poet who "stirs in us an undeniable social consciousness," says Richard Blanco.
Floaters offers exuberant odes and defiant ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Girl on the Line
by
Faith Gardner
HarperTeen, 01/19/2021
Life's tough when you didn't expect to be living it. But now that Journey has a future, she apparently also has to figure out what that future's ...
more
If I Tell You the Truth: When You Ask Me Where I'm Going #2
by
Jasmin Kaur
HarperCollins Publishers, 01/19/2021
In this stunning sophomore novel, acclaimed writer Jasmin Kaur explores trauma, fear, courage, community, and the healing power of love in its many ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Knock Knock: Grens and Hoffman #4
by
Anders Roslund
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/19/2021
He thought she was safe. Then the past came knocking.
Seventeen years ago, Criminal Inspector Ewert Grens was called to the scene of a brutal crime...
more
Remote Control
by
Nnedi Okorafor
Tor.com, 01/19/2021
"She's the adopted daughter of the Angel of Death. Beware of her. Mind her. Death guards her like one of its own."
The day Fatima forgot her name, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Sanctuary
by
Emily Rapp Black
Random House, 01/19/2021
"Congratulations on the resurrection of your life," a colleague wrote to Emily Rapp Black when she announced the birth of her second child. The line ...
more
The City of Tears: A Burning Chambers Novel
by
Kate Mosse
Minotaur Books, 01/19/2021
Alliances and Romance
August 1572: Minou Joubert and her husband Piet travel to Paris to attend a royal wedding which, after a decade of religious ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present
by
John Ghazvinian
Knopf, 01/26/2021
In this rich, fascinating history, John Ghazvinian traces the complex story of the relations of these two powers back to the Persian Empire of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
by
Gabrielle Glaser
Viking, 01/26/2021
During the Baby Boom in 1960s America, women were encouraged to stay home and raise large families, but sex and childbirth were taboo subjects. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists
by
Chenxing Han
North Atlantic Books, 01/26/2021
Despite the fact that two thirds of U.S. Buddhists identify as Asian American, mainstream perceptions about what it means to be Buddhist in America ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Bride of the Sea
by
Eman Quotah
Tin House Books, 01/26/2021
"I love the sea," she said. "I don't know if I could live without it."
During a snowy Cleveland February, newlywed university students Muneer and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Cathedral
by
Ben Hopkins
Europa Editions, 01/26/2021
At the center of this story is the Cathedral. Its design and construction in the 12th and 13th centuries in the Rhineland town of Hagenburg unites a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
by
Joan Didion
Knopf, 01/26/2021
Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, the wide-ranging pieces in this collection include Didion writing about a ...
more
Prodigal Son: Orphan X #6
by
Gregg Hurwitz
Minotaur Books, 01/26/2021
As a boy, Evan Smoak was pulled out of a foster home and trained in an off-the-books operation known as the Orphan Program. He was a government ...
more
The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency
by
Tove Ditlevsen
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 01/26/2021
Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and
The Copenhagen Trilogy (...
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Biography/Memoir
The Mask Falling: The Bone Season #4
by
Samantha Shannon
Bloomsbury USA, 01/26/2021
Dreamwalker Paige Mahoney has eluded death again. Snatched from the jaws of captivity and consigned to a safe house in the Scion Citadel of Paris, she...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Mission: A True Story
by
David W. Brown
Custom House, 01/26/2021
When scientists discovered the first ocean beyond Earth, they had two big questions: "Is it habitable?" and "How do we get there?" To answer the first...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Narrowboat Summer
by
Anne Youngson
Flatiron Books, 01/26/2021
Eve expected Sally to come festooned with suitcases and overnight bags packed with everything she owned, but she was wrong. She arrived on foot, with ...more
This Is the Voice
by
John Colapinto
Simon & Schuster, 01/26/2021
There's no shortage of books about public speaking or language or song. But until now, there has been no book about the miracle that underlies them ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
We See It All: Liberty and Justice in an Age of Perpetual Surveillance
by
Jon Fasman
Public Affairs, 01/26/2021
The police now have unparalleled power at their fingertips: surveillance technology. Seamless, persistent, even permanent surveillance is available - ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
by
Thomas C. Holt
Oxford University Press, 01/28/2021
Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans, but it prefigured as well the moral premises and methods of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Ardent Swarm
by
Yamen Manai
AmazonCrossing, 02/01/2021
Sidi lives a hermetic life as a bee whisperer, tending to his beloved "girls" on the outskirts of the desolate North African village of Nawa. He wakes...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
West with Giraffes: A Novel
by
Lynda Rutledge
Lake Union Publishing, 02/01/2021
"Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes…"
Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns ...
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A History of What Comes Next: Take Them to the Stars #1
by
Sylvain Neuvel
Tor.com, 02/02/2021
Always run, never fight.
Preserve the knowledge.
Survive at all costs.
Take them to the stars.
Over 99 identical generations, Mia's family has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
City of a Thousand Gates
by
Rebecca Sacks
Harper, 02/02/2021
Brave and bold, this gorgeously written novel introduces a large cast of characters from various backgrounds in a setting where violence is routine ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Exit
by
Belinda Bauer
Atlantic Monthly Press, 02/02/2021
Felix Pink is retired. Widowed for more than a decade, a painfully literal thinker, he has led a life of routine and is, not unhappily, waiting to die...
more
Fake Accounts
by
Lauren Oyler
Catapult, 02/02/2021
On the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration, a young woman snoops through her boyfriend's phone and makes a startling discovery: he's an anonymous ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Floating in a Most Peculiar Way
by
Louis Chude-Sokei
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 02/02/2021
The first time Chude-Sokei realizes that he is "first son of the first son" of a renowned leader of the bygone African nation is in Uncle Daddy and ...
more
Girl A: A Novel
by
Abigail Dean
Viking, 02/02/2021
Lex Gracie doesn't want to think about her family. She doesn't want to think about growing up in her parents' House of Horrors. And she doesn't want ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Girls with Bright Futures
by
Tracy Dobmeier, Wendy Katzman
Sourcebooks Landmark, 02/02/2021
College admissions season at Seattle's Elliott Bay Academy is marked by glowing acceptances from top-tier institutions and students as impressive as ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Good Neighbors
by
Sarah Langan
Atria Books, 02/02/2021
Welcome to Maple Street, a picture-perfect slice of suburban Long Island, its residents bound by their children, their work, and their illusion of ...
more
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
by
Reuben Jonathan Miller
Little Brown & Company, 02/02/2021
Each year, more than half a million Americans are released from prison and join a population of twenty million people who live with a felony record.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Land of Big Numbers
by
Te-Ping Chen
Mariner Books, 02/02/2021
Cutting between clear-eyed realism and tongue-in-cheek magical realism, Chen's stories coalesce into a portrait of a people striving for openings ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Milk Blood Heat
by
Dantiel W. Moniz
Grove Press, 02/02/2021
Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story delves into the ordinary worlds of young girls, women, and men who find themselves confronted ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Muted
by
Tami Charles
Scholastic, 02/02/2021
Be bold. Get seen. Be Heard.
For seventeen-year-old Denver, music is everything. Writing, performing, and her ultimate goal: escaping her very ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Prayer for the Living
by
Ben Okri
Akashic Books, 02/02/2021
Playful, frightening, shocking--these stories from a writer at the height of his power will make you think, or make you laugh. Sometimes they'll make ...
more
Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob
by
Russell Shorto
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/02/2021
Best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing...
more
The Bad Muslim Discount
by
Syed M. Masood
Doubleday, 02/02/2021
It is 1995, and Anvar Faris is a restless, rebellious, and sharp-tongued boy doing his best to grow up in Karachi, Pakistan. As fundamentalism takes ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Four Winds
by
Kristin Hannah
St. Martin's Press, 02/02/2021
Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Last Tiara
by
M.J. Rose
Blue Box Press, 02/02/2021
Sophia Moon had always been reticent about her life in Russia and when she dies, suspiciously, on a wintry New York evening, Isobelle despairs that ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Low Desert: Gangster Stories
by
Tod Goldberg
Counterpoint Press, 02/02/2021
With gimlet-eyed cool and razor-sharp wit, these spare, stylish stories from a master of modern crime fiction assemble a world of gangsters and con ...
more
The Paris Library
by
Janet Skeslien Charles
Atria Books, 02/02/2021
Paris, 1939: Young and ambitious Odile Souchet has it all: her handsome police officer beau and a dream job at the American Library in Paris. When the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive
by
Philippe Sands
Knopf, 02/02/2021
Baron Otto von Wächter, Austrian lawyer, husband, father, high Nazi official, senior SS officer, former governor of Galicia during the war, ...
more
The Survivors: A Novel
by
Jane Harper
Flatiron Books, 02/02/2021
Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences.
The guilt that still haunts him resurfaces ...
more
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
by
Anna Malaika Tubbs
Flatiron Books, 02/02/2021
Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice
by
Ellen McGarrahan
Random House, 02/02/2021
In 1990, Ellen McGarrahan was a young reporter for the
Miami Herald when she covered the execution of Jesse Tafero, a man convicted of murdering two ...
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Critics' Consensus:
True Crime
Debut Author
Wild Swims
by
Dorthe Nors
Graywolf Press, 02/02/2021
In fourteen effervescent stories, Dorthe Nors plumbs the depths of the human heart, from desire to melancholy and everything in between. Just as she ...
more
42 Today: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy (Washington Mews Books)
by
Michael G. Long, et al
New York University Press, 02/09/2021
Before the United States Supreme Court ruled against segregation in public schools, and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat in ...
more
As Far As You'll Take Me
by
Phil Stamper
Bloomsbury USA, 02/09/2021
Marty arrives in London with nothing but his oboe and some savings from his summer job, but he's excited to start his new life--where he's no longer ...
more
Black Widows: A Novel
by
Cate Quinn
Sourcebooks, 02/09/2021
Polygamist Blake Nelson built a homestead on a hidden stretch of land―a raw paradise in the wilds of Utah―where he lived with his three ...
more
City of the Uncommon Thief
by
Lynne Bertrand
Dutton, 02/09/2021
"Guilders work. Foundlings scrub the bogs. Needles bind. Swords tear. And men leave. There is nothing uncommon in this city. I hope Errol Thebes is ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Fall: The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell, Britain's Most Notorious Media Baron
by
John Preston
Harper, 02/09/2021
In February 1991, Robert Maxwell triumphantly sailed into Manhattan harbor on his yacht, the
Lady Ghislaine, to buy the ailing New York Daily News. ...
more
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
by
Jeremy Atherton Lin
Little Brown & Company, 02/09/2021
Strobing lights and dark rooms; throbbing house and drag queens on counters; first kisses, last call: the gay bar has long been a place of solidarity ...
more
Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings
by
Alan Lightman
Pantheon Books, 02/09/2021
Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units,
ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to
infinity? Is ...
more
Super Host
by
Kate Russo
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 02/09/2021
Bennett Driscoll is a Turner Prize-nominated artist who was once a rising star. Now, at age fifty-five, his wife has left him, he hasn't sold a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The (Other) You
by
Joyce Carol Oates
Ecco, 02/09/2021
In this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives we might have led if we'd ...
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The Absolute Book
by
Elizabeth Knox
Viking, 02/09/2021
Taryn Cornick believes that the past--her sister's violent death, and her own ill-conceived revenge--is behind her, and she can get on with her life. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Burning Girls
by
C. J. Tudor
Ballantine Books, 02/09/2021
A dark history lingers in Chapel Croft. Five hundred years ago, Protestant martyrs were betrayed—then burned. Thirty years ago, two teenage ...
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The Delivery
by
Peter Mendelsund
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/09/2021
Countries go wrong, sometimes, and sometimes the luckier citizens of those countries have a chance to escape and seek refuge in another country―...
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The Rain Heron
by
Robbie Arnott
FSG Originals, 02/09/2021
Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup d'état. High on the forested slopes, she survives by hunting, farming, ...
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We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire
by
Joy McCullough
Dutton for Young Readers, 02/09/2021
Em Morales's older sister was raped by another student after a frat party. A jury eventually found the rapist guilty on all counts--a remarkable ...
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We Run the Tides
by
Vendela Vida
Ecco, 02/09/2021
Teenage Eulabee and her magnetic best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of Sea Cliff, their foggy oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They know...
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American Delirium
by
Betina González
Henry Holt and Company, 02/16/2021
First, in a small Midwestern city, the deer population starts attacking people. So Beryl, a feisty senior with a troubled past, decides to take ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas
by
Roberto Bolaño
Penguin Press, 02/16/2021
Cowboy Graves is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent. Roberto Bolaño's boundless imagination and seemingly ...
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How to Order the Universe
by
María José Ferrada
Tin House Books, 02/16/2021
For seven-year-old M, the world is guided by a firm set of principles, based on her father D's life as a traveling salesman. Enchanted by her father's...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Radiant: The Dancer, The Scientist, and a Friendship Forged in Light
by
Liz Heinecke
Grand Central Publishing, 02/16/2021
At the turn of the century, Paris was a hotbed of creativity. Technology boomed, delivering to the world electric light, the automobile, and new ways ...
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The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
by
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Penguin Press, 02/16/2021
The companion book to the upcoming PBS series.
For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, segregated West Virginia town, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice
by
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Penguin Press, 02/16/2021
In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women's rights. But that year, an all-...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Mission House
by
Carys Davies
Scribner, 02/16/2021
Fleeing his demons and the dark undercurrents of contemporary life in the UK, Hilary Byrd takes refuge in a former British hill station in South India...
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The Officer's Daughter: A Memoir of Family and Forgiveness
by
Elle Johnson
Harper, 02/16/2021
When she was sixteen, Elle Johnson lived in Queens with her family; she dreamed of being best friends with her popular, cool cousin Karen from the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
by
Ritchie Robertson
Harper, 02/23/2021
One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Slaughterman's Daughter
by
Yaniv Iczkovits
Schocken Books, 02/23/2021
With her reputation as a
vilde chaya (wild animal), Fanny Keismann isn't like the other women in her shtetl in Russia's Pale of Settlement--certainly ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage
by
Jonathan Cohn
St. Martin's Press, 02/23/2021
The Affordable Care Act, better known as "Obamacare," was the most sweeping and consequential piece of legislation of the last half century. It has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Valley and the Flood
by
Rebecca Mahoney
Razorbill, 02/23/2021
Rose Colter is almost home, but she can't go back there yet.
When her car breaks down in the Nevada desert, the silence of the night is broken by a...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Those Who Are Saved
by
Alexis Landau
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 02/23/2021
As a Russian Jewish émigré to France, Vera's wealth cannot protect her or her four-year-old-daughter, Lucie, once the Nazis occupy the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption
by
Justin Fenton
Random House, 02/23/2021
Baltimore, 2015. Riots are erupting across the city as citizens demand justice for Freddie Gray, a twenty-five-year-old Black man who has died under ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Infinite
by
Brian Freeman
Thomas & Mercer, 03/01/2021
One rainy night, the unthinkable happens: Dylan Moran's car plunges off the road into a raging river, his beautiful wife drowning as he struggles to ...
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A Desolation Called Peace: Teixcalaan #2
by
Arkady Martine
Tor Books, 03/02/2021
An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Abundance
by
Jakob Guanzon
Graywolf Press, 03/02/2021
Evicted from their trailer on New Year's Eve, Henry and his son, Junior, have been reduced to living out of a pickup truck. Six months later, things ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Band of Sisters: A Novel
by
Lauren Willig
William Morrow, 03/02/2021
A scholarship girl from Brooklyn, Kate Moran thought she found a place among Smith's Mayflower descendants, only to have her illusions dashed the ...
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Historical Fiction
Becoming Inspector Chen: Inspector Chen Mysteries #11
by
Xiaolong Qiu
Severn House, 03/02/2021
After a number of grueling cases, Chief Inspector Chen is facing mounting pressure from his superiors, many of whom are concerned with where his ...
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Bring Back Our Girls: The Untold Story of the Global Search for Nigeria's Missing Schoolgirls
by
Joe Parkinson, Drew Hinshaw
Harper, 03/02/2021
In the spring of 2014, millions of Twitter users, including some of the world's most famous people, unwittingly helped turn a group of 276 schoolgirls...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer
by
Jamie Figueroa
Catapult, 03/02/2021
In the tourist town of Ciudad de Tres Hermanas, in the aftermath of their mother's passing, two siblings spend a final weekend together in their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders
by
Dennis C. Rasmussen
Princeton University Press, 03/02/2021
Americans seldom deify their Founding Fathers any longer, but they do still tend to venerate the Constitution and the republican government that the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Foregone
by
Russell Banks
Ecco, 03/02/2021
At the center of
Foregone is famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who...
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frank: sonnets
by
Diane Seuss
Graywolf Press, 03/02/2021
Poverty, like a sonnet, is a good teacher. The kind that raps your
knuckles with a ruler but not the kind that throws a dictionary
across the room and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Home Is Not a Country
by
Safia Elhillo
Make Me a World, 03/02/2021
Nima doesn't feel understood. By her mother, who grew up far away in a different land. By her suburban town, which makes her feel too much like an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
Later
by
Stephen King
Hard Case Crime, 03/02/2021
SOMETIMES GROWING UP
MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS
The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is ...
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Machinehood
by
S.B. Divya
Gallery Books, 03/02/2021
Welga Ramirez, executive bodyguard and ex-special forces, is about to retire early when her client is killed in front of her. It's 2095 and people don...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All
by
Laura Bates
Sourcebooks, 03/02/2021
Women's rights activist Laura Bates has been the target of many misogynistic attacks online: from hate-fueled Twitter rants to vivid descriptions of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul
by
Brandy Schillace
Simon & Schuster, 03/02/2021
In the early days of the Cold War, a spirit of desperate scientific rivalry birthed a different kind of space race: not the race to outer space that ...
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The Northern Reach
by
W.S. Winslow
Flatiron Books, 03/02/2021
Frozen in grief after the loss of her son at sea, Edith Baines stares across the water at a schooner, under full sail yet motionless in the winter ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Scapegoat
by
Sara Davis
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/02/2021
N is employed at a prestigious California university, where he has distinguished himself as an aloof and somewhat eccentric presence. His meticulous, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Soul of a Woman
by
Isabel Allende
Ballantine Books, 03/02/2021
"When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating," begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her...
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To the Dark: A Simon Westow Mystery #3
by
Chris Nickson
Severn House, 03/02/2021
Leeds, 1822. The city is in the grip of winter, but the chill deepens for thief-taker Simon Westow and his young assistant, Jane, when the body of ...
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Vera
by
Carol Edgarian
Scribner, 03/02/2021
Meet Vera Johnson, the uncommonly resourceful fifteen-year-old illegitimate daughter of Rose, notorious proprietor of San Francisco's most legendary ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
We Begin at the End
by
Chris Whitaker
Henry Holt and Company, 03/02/2021
Walk has never left the coastal California town where he grew up. He may have become the chief of police, but he's still trying to heal the old wound ...
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Who Is Maud Dixon?
by
Alexandra Andrews
Little Brown & Company, 03/02/2021
The arrangement seems perfect. Maud Dixon (whose real name, Florence discovers, is Helen Wilcox) can be prickly, but she is full of pointed wisdom -- ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
American Betiya
by
Anuradha D. Rajurkar
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 03/09/2021
Rani Kelkar has never lied to her parents, until she meets Oliver. The same qualities that draw her in--his tattoos, his charisma, his passion for art...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
by
Michelle Nijhuis
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/09/2021
In the late nineteenth century, as humans came to realize that our rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving other animal species...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
How Beautiful We Were
by
Imbolo Mbue
Random House, 03/09/2021
We should have known the end was near. So begins Imbolo Mbue's powerful second novel,
How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of ...
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I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, a Movement
by
Jessica Zucker
Feminist Press, 03/09/2021
She now had a changed perspective on her life's work, her patients' pain, and the crucial need for a zeitgeist shift. Navigating this nascent ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York
by
Elon Green
Celadon, 03/09/2021
The Townhouse Bar, midtown, July 1992: The piano player seems to know every song ever written, the crowd belts out the lyrics to their favorites, and ...
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Love Like That
by
Emma Duffy-Comparone
Henry Holt and Company, 03/09/2021
Whether diving into complicated relationships or wrestling with family ties, the girls and women who populate this collection―misfits and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
My Heart
by
Semezdin Mehmedinovic
Catapult, 03/09/2021
Confined to a hospital bed and overcome by a sense of powerlessness, he reflects on the fragility of life and finds extraordinary meaning in the ...
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Perfect on Paper
by
Sophie Gonzales
Wednesday Books, 03/09/2021
Her advice, spot on. Her love life, way off.
Darcy Phillips:
- Can give you the solution to any of your relationship woes―for a fee.
- Uses her...
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Sarahland
by
Sam Cohen
Grand Central Publishing, 03/09/2021
In
Sarahland, Sam Cohen brilliantly and often hilariously explores the ways in which traditional stories have failed us, both demanding and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Starfish
by
Lisa Fipps
Nancy Paulsen Books, 03/09/2021
Ever since Ellie wore a whale swimsuit and made a big splash at her fifth birthday party, she's been bullied about her weight. To cope, she tries to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
by
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Bold Type Books, 03/09/2021
In
The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley
by
Wesley Morgan
Random House, 03/09/2021
The rugged, steep terrain and thick forests made the region a natural hiding spot for targets in the American war on terror, from Osama bin Laden to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
by
Brian Alexander
St. Martin's Press, 03/09/2021
By following the struggle for survival of one small-town hospital, and the patients who walk, or are carried, through its doors,
The Hospital takes ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Immortal Boy
by
Francisco Montaña Ibáñez
Levine Querido, 03/09/2021
One, a family of five children, left to live on their own.
The other, a girl in an orphanage who will do anything to befriend the mysterious ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Plum Trees
by
Victoria Shorr
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/09/2021
Consie is home for a funeral when she stumbles upon a family letter sent from Germany in 1945, which contains staggering news: Consie's great-uncle ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Recent East
by
Thomas Grattan
MCD, 03/09/2021
Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Beate Haas, who defected from East Germany as a child, is notified that her parents' abandoned mansion is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Stills: The Kinship Series #3
by
Jess Montgomery
Minotaur Books, 03/09/2021
Ohio, 1927: Moonshining is a way of life in rural Bronwyn County, and even the otherwise upstanding Sheriff Lily Ross has been known to turn a blind ...
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Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
by
Jess Zimmerman
Beacon Press, 03/09/2021
The folklore that has shaped our dominant culture teems with frightening female creatures. In our language, in our stories (many written by men), we ...
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A Queen of Gilded Horns
by
Amanda Joy
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 03/16/2021
Now on the run, Eva is desperate for answers about her transformation and her true heritage. Along with Aketo, a small contingent of guards, and the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America
by
Kate Washington
Beacon Press, 03/16/2021
Already Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be, how difficult it is to find support, and how the social and literary narratives that have ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Creatures of Passage
by
Morowa Yejidé
Akashic Books, 03/16/2021
Nephthys Kinwell is a taxi driver of sorts in Washington, DC, ferrying passengers in a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere with a ghost in the trunk. Endless ...
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Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe
by
Paul Sen
Scribner, 03/16/2021
Einstein's Fridge tells the incredible epic story of the scientists who, over two centuries, harnessed the power of heat and ice and formulated a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight
by
Julia Sweig
Random House, 03/16/2021
In the spring of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson had a decision to make. Just months after moving into the White House under the worst of ...
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Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century
by
Jenny Minton Quigley
Vintage, 03/16/2021
In 1958, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita was published in the United States to immediate controversy and bestsellerdom. More than sixty years later, this ...
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New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
by
Thomas Dyja
Simon & Schuster, 03/16/2021
Dangerous, filthy, and falling apart, garbage piled on its streets and entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble; New York's terrifying, if liberating, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure
by
Menachem Kaiser
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 03/16/2021
Menachem Kaiser's brilliantly told story, woven from improbable events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the author takes up his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Seventh Raven
by
David Elliott
Houghton Mifflin Books For Younger Readers, 03/16/2021
And these are the sons
Of good Jack and good Jane
The eldest is Jack
And the next one is Jack
And the third one's called Jack
And the fourth's ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Twilight Zone
by
Nona Fernández
Graywolf Press, 03/16/2021
It is 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds...
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The Whispering House
by
Elizabeth Brooks
Tin House Books, 03/16/2021
Freya Lyell is struggling to move on from her sister Stella's death five years ago. Visiting the bewitching Byrne Hall, only a few miles from the ...
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Bruised
by
Tanya Boteju
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 03/23/2021
To Daya Wijesinghe, a bruise is a mixture of comfort and control. Since her parents died in an accident she survived, bruises have become a way to ...
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Half Life
by
Jillian Cantor
Harper Perennial, 03/23/2021
In Poland in 1891, Marie Curie (then Marya Sklodowska) was engaged to a budding mathematician, Kazimierz Zorawski. But when his mother insisted she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico
by
Juan Villoro
Pantheon Books, 03/23/2021
Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
If You Kept a Record of Sins
by
Andrea Bajani
Archipelago Books, 03/23/2021
A prismatic novel that records the indelible marks a mother leaves on her son after she abandons their home in Italy for a business she's building in ...
more
Meet Me in Paradise
by
Libby Hubscher
Berkley Books, 03/23/2021
Ever since her journalist mother died on assignment, Marin has played it safe, refusing to set foot outside the state of Tennessee. Her wild-child ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said
by
Timothy Brennan
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/23/2021
As someone who studied under Edward Said and remained a friend until his death in 2003, Timothy Brennan had unprecedented access to his thesis adviser...
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Raft of Stars
by
Andrew J. Graff
Ecco, 03/23/2021
It's the summer of 1994 in Claypot, Wisconsin, and the lives of ten-year-old Fischer "Fish" Branson and Dale "Bread" Breadwin are shaped by the two ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Red Island House
by
Andrea Lee
Scribner, 03/23/2021
"People do mysterious things when they think they've found paradise," reflects Shay, the heroine of
Red Island House. When Shay, a Black American ...
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Rock Me on the Water: 1974-The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics
by
Ronald Brownstein
Harper, 03/23/2021
Los Angeles in 1974 exerted more influence over popular culture than any other city in America. Los Angeles that year, in fact, dominated popular ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Foreign Girls
by
Sergio Olguín
Bitter Lemon Press, 03/23/2021
Their bodies are found in a field near sacrificial offerings, apparently from a black magic ritual. Verónica Rosenthal, an audacious, headstrong ...
more
The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--and How We Can Fix It
by
Dorothy A. Brown
Crown, 03/23/2021
Dorothy A. Brown became a tax lawyer to get away from race. As a young black girl growing up in the South Bronx, she'd seen how racism limited the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
by
Kikuko Tsumura
Bloomsbury USA, 03/23/2021
A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: it is close to her home, and it requires no reading, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Your Heart, My Sky: Love in a Time of Hunger
by
Margarita Engle
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 03/23/2021
The people of Cuba are living in
el período especial en tiempos de paz—the special period in times of peace. That's what the government ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
by
Hanif Abdurraqib
Random House, 03/30/2021
At the March on Washington in 1963, Josephine Baker was fifty-seven years old, well beyond her most prolific days. But in her speech she was in a mood...
more
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey
by
Jonathan Meiburg
Knopf, 03/30/2021
In 1833, Charles Darwin was astonished by an animal he met in the Falkland Islands: handsome, social, and oddly crow-like falcons that were "tame and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Debut Author
Children Under Fire: An American Crisis
by
John Woodrow Cox
Ecco, 03/30/2021
In 2017, seven-year-old Ava in South Carolina wrote a letter to Tyshaun, an eight-year-old boy from Washington, DC. She asked him to be her pen pal; ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Girlhood
by
Melissa Febos
Bloomsbury USA, 03/30/2021
In her powerful new book, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be female and what ...
more
Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade
by
Nathaniel Rich
MCD, 03/30/2021
We live at a time in which scientists race to reanimate extinct beasts, our most essential ecosystems require monumental engineering projects to ...
more
Sunflower Sisters: A Caroline Ferriday Novel
by
Martha Hall Kelly
Ballantine Books, 03/30/2021
Georgeanna "Georgey" Woolsey isn't meant for the world of lavish parties and the demure attitudes of women of her stature. So when war ignites the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Hazards of Love: Bright World #1
by
Stan Stanley
Oni Press, 03/30/2021
Amparo's deal with the talking cat was simple: a drop of blood and Amparo's name to become a better person. Their mother and abuela would never worry ...
more
When I Ran Away
by
Ilona Bannister
Doubleday, 03/30/2021
As the Twin Towers collapse, Gigi Stanislawski flees her office building and escapes lower Manhattan on the Staten Island Ferry. Among the crying, ash...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
I'm in Seattle, Where Are You?
by
Mortada Gzar
AmazonCrossing, 04/01/2021
As the US occupation of Iraq rages, novelist Mortada Gzar, a student at the University of Baghdad, has a chance encounter with Morise, an African ...
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Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
by
Gina Frangello
Counterpoint Press, 04/06/2021
Soon, awakened to fault lines in her troubled marriage, Frangello is caught up in a recklessly passionate affair, leading a double life while ...
more
Bobby March Will Live Forever: Harry McCoy #3
by
Alan Parks
Europa Editions, 04/06/2021
July 1973. The Glasgow drug trade is booming and Bobby March, homegrown rock hero, has overdosed in a downtown hotel. Alice Kelly, meanwhile, is ...
more
Caul Baby
by
Morgan Jerkins
Harper, 04/06/2021
Laila desperately wants to become a mother, but each of her previous pregnancies has ended in heartbreak. This time has to be different, so she turns ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
by
Jeremy DeSilva
Harper, 04/06/2021
Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four legs—a locomotion known as bipedalism. We strive to be upstanding citizens, honor ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
First, Become Ashes
by
K.M. Szpara
Tor.com, 04/06/2021
The Fellowship raised Lark to kill monsters.
His partner betrayed them to the Feds.
But Lark knows his magic is real, and he'll do anything to ...more
Gold Diggers
by
Sanjena Sathian
Penguin Press, 04/06/2021
Spanning two continents, two coasts, and four epochs,
Gold Diggers expertly balances social satire and magical realism in a classic striver story that...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
I'm Waiting for You: And Other Stories
by
Bo-Young Kim
Harper Voyager, 04/06/2021
Two worlds, four stories, infinite possibilities.
In "I'm Waiting for You" and "On My Way," an engaged couple coordinate their separate missions to...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Maxwell's Demon
by
Steven Hall
Grove Press, 04/06/2021
Thomas Quinn is having a hard time. A failed novelist, he's stuck writing short stories and audio scripts for other people's characters. His wife, ...
more
Northern Spy
by
Flynn Berry
Viking, 04/06/2021
A producer at the BBC and mother to a new baby, Tessa is at work in Belfast one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have ...
more
Paradise, Nevada
by
Dario Diofebi
Bloomsbury USA, 04/06/2021
On Friday, May 1st, 2015 a bomb detonates in the infamous Positano Luxury Resort and Casino, a mammoth hotel (and exact replica of the Amalfi coast) ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Philip Roth: The Biography
by
Blake Bailey
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/06/2021
Appointed by Philip Roth and granted independence and complete access, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his ...
more
Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet
by
Laekan Zea Kemp
Little Brown & Company, 04/06/2021
Penelope Prado has always dreamed of opening her own pastelería next to her father's restaurant, Nacho's Tacos. But her mom and dad have ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Subdivision
by
J. Robert Lennon
Graywolf Press, 04/06/2021
The guesthouse's owners, Clara and the Judge, are welcoming and helpful, if oddly preoccupied by the perpetually baffling jigsaw puzzle in the living ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Beauty of Your Face: A Novel
by
Sahar Mustafah
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/06/2021
The Beauty of Your Face tells a uniquely American story in powerful, evocative prose. Afaf Rahman, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is the ...
more
The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with recipes)
by
Kate Lebo
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/06/2021
A is for
Aronia, berry member of the apple family, clothes-stainer, superfruit with reputed healing power. D is for
Durian, endowed with a dramatic ...
more
The Cost of Knowing
by
Brittney Morris
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 04/06/2021
Sixteen-year-old Alex Rufus is trying his best. He tries to be the best employee he can be at the local ice cream shop; the best boyfriend he can be ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Elephant of Belfast
by
S. Kirk Walsh
Counterpoint Press, 04/06/2021
Belfast, October 1940. Twenty-year-old zookeeper Hettie Quin arrives at the city docks in time to meet her new charge: an orphaned three-year-old ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Girls in the Stilt House: A Novel
by
Kelly Mustian
Sourcebooks, 04/06/2021
Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her hard life on the swamp and her harsh father. But now, after running away to Baton ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Henna Artist: The Jaipur Trilogy #1
by
Alka Joshi
Mira, 04/06/2021
Known for her original designs and sage advice, Lakshmi must tread carefully to avoid the jealous gossips who could ruin her reputation and her ...
more
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Last Exiles
by
Ann Shin
Park Row Books, 04/06/2021
Jin and Suja meet and fall in love while studying at university in Pyongyang. She is a young journalist from a prominent family, while he is from a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Widow Queen: The Bold #1
by
Elzbieta Cherezinska
Forge Books, 04/06/2021
The bold one, they call her―too bold for most.
To her father, the great duke of Poland, Świętosława and her two sisters ...
more
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
What the Devil Knows: Sebastian St. Cyr Mysteries #16
by
C.S. Harris
Berkley Books, 04/06/2021
It's October 1814. The war with France is finally over and Europe's diplomats are convening in Vienna for a conference that will put their world back ...
more
Whisper Down the Lane
by
Clay Chapman
Quirk Books, 04/06/2021
Richard doesn't have a past. For him, there is only the present: a new marriage to Tamara, a first chance at fatherhood to her son Elijah, and a quiet...
more
Early Morning Riser
by
Katherine Heiny
Knopf, 04/13/2021
Jane falls in love with Duncan easily. He is charming, good-natured, and handsome but unfortunately, he has also slept with nearly every woman in ...
more
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
by
Patrick Radden Keefe
Doubleday, 04/13/2021
The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
In the Company of Killers
by
Bryan Christy
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/13/2021
Tom Klay is a celebrated investigative wildlife reporter for the esteemed magazine
The Sovereign. But Klay is not just a journalist. His reporting is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Lady Joker, Volume 1
by
Kaoru Takamura
Soho Crime, 04/13/2021
Tokyo, 1995. Five men meet at the racetrack every Sunday to bet on horses. They have little in common except a deep disaffection with their lives, but...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Little Pieces of Me
by
Alison Hammer
William Morrow, 04/13/2021
When Paige Meyer gets an email from a DNA testing website announcing that her father is a man she never met, she is convinced there must be a mistake....
more
Literary Fiction
One Got Away: Nikki Griffin #2
by
S. A. Lelchuk
Flatiron Books, 04/13/2021
Nikki Griffin, a private-investigator when she isn't running her small bookstore, is on a case. The matriarch of one of the wealthiest San Francisco ...
more
Open Water
by
Caleb Azumah Nelson
Grove Press, 04/13/2021
In a crowded London pub, two young people meet. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sensational: The Hidden History of America's
by
Kim Todd
Harper, 04/13/2021
In the waning years of the nineteenth century, women journalists across the United States risked reputation and their own safety to expose the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Good Sister
by
Sally Hepworth
St. Martin's Press, 04/13/2021
There's only been one time that Rose couldn't stop me from doing the wrong thing and that was a mistake that will haunt me for the rest of my life.
...
more
The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense
by
Edward White
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/13/2021
In
The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon―what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals ...
more
When the Stars Go Dark
by
Paula McLain
Ballantine Books, 04/13/2021
Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature. When tragedy ...
more
And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir
by
Margaret Kimball
HarperOne, 04/20/2021
In 1988, when Kimball is only four years old, her mother attempts suicide on Mother's Day—and this becomes one of many things Kimball's family ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Crying in H Mart
by
Michelle Zauner
Knopf, 04/20/2021
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
I Am a Girl from Africa
by
Elizabeth Nyamayaro
Scribner, 04/20/2021
When severe draught hit her village in Zimbabwe, Elizabeth, then eight, had no idea that this moment of utter devastation would come to define her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Kate in Waiting
by
Becky Albertalli
Balzer + Bray, 04/20/2021
Contrary to popular belief, best friends Kate Garfield and Anderson Walker are not codependent. Carpooling to and from theater rehearsals? ...
more
Popisho
by
Leone Ross
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/20/2021
Everyone in Popisho was born...with a little something...The local name for it was cors. Magic, but more than magic. A gift, nah? Yes. From the gods: ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
by
Louis Menand
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/20/2021
The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense―economic and political, artistic and personal. In
...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within: Wayfarers #4
by
Becky Chambers
Harper Voyager, 04/20/2021
With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going for it is a chance proximity to more popular ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds
by
Jon Dunn
Basic Books, 04/20/2021
Hummingbirds are a glittering, sparkling collective of over three hundred wildly variable species. For centuries, they have been revered by indigenous...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
The Happiest Girl in the World
by
Alena Dillon
William Morrow, 04/20/2021
For Sera Wheeler, the Olympics is the reason for everything. It's why she trains thirty hours a week, starves herself to under 100 pounds, and pops ...
more
Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?
by
Jenny Diski
Bloomsbury USA, 04/20/2021
Jenny Diski was a fearless writer, for whom no subject was too difficult, even her own cancer diagnosis. Her columns in the
London Review of Books--...
more
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
by
Anthony Bourdain
Ecco, 04/20/2021
Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal ...
more
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
by
Andrew H. Knoll
Custom House, 04/27/2021
Odds are, where you're standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
by
Nicole Eustace
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 04/27/2021
On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attacked ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Little and Often
by
Trent Preszler
William Morrow, 04/27/2021
Preszler's only inheritance was a beat-up wooden toolbox that had belonged to his father, who was a cattle rancher, rodeo champion, and Vietnam War ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story
by
Kate Summerscale
Penguin Press, 04/27/2021
In Alma Fielding's modest home, china flies off the shelves and eggs fly through the air; stolen jewelry appears on her fingers, white mice crawl out ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
White Magic
by
Elissa Washuta
Tin House Books, 04/27/2021
Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends, "starter witch kits" of sage,...
more
Winter in Sokcho
by
Elisa Shua Dusapin
Open Letter, 04/27/2021
The cold slows everything down. Bodies are red and raw, the fish turn venomous, beyond the beach guns point out from the North's watchtowers. A young ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Lonely Man
by
Chris Power
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/04/2021
Two British men, both writers, meet by chance in Berlin. Robert is trying and failing to finish his next book while balancing his responsibilities as ...
more
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas
by
Henry Dumas
Coffee House Press, 05/04/2021
Championed by Toni Morrison and Walter Mosley, Dumas's fabulist fiction is a masterful synthesis of myth and religion, culture and nature, mask and ...
more
Everybody: A Book about Freedom
by
Olivia Laing
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/04/2021
The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Hurricane Summer
by
Asha Bromfield
Wednesday Books, 05/04/2021
Tilla has spent her entire life trying to make her father love her. But every six months, he leaves their family and returns to his true home: the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Olympus, Texas
by
Stacey Swann
Doubleday, 05/04/2021
The Briscoe family is once again the talk of their small town when March returns to East Texas two years after he was caught having an affair with his...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
On Juneteenth
by
Annette Gordon-Reed
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 05/04/2021
Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed's
On Juneteenth provides a historian...
more
The Girl in His Shadow
by
Audrey Blake
Sourcebooks Landmark, 05/04/2021
Raised by the eccentric surgeon Dr. Horace Croft after losing her parents to a deadly pandemic, the orphan Nora Beady knows little about conventional ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Girl Who Died
by
Ragnar Jonasson
Minotaur Books, 05/04/2021
Teacher Wanted At the Edge of the World
Una wants nothing more than to teach, but she has been unable to secure steady employment in Reykjavík...
more
The Ones We're Meant to Find
by
Joan He
Roaring Brook Press, 05/04/2021
Cee awoke on an abandoned island three years ago. With no idea of how she was marooned, she only has a rickety house, an old android, and a single ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Secret to Superhuman Strength
by
Alison Bechdel
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 05/04/2021
Comics and cultural superstar Alison Bechdel delivers a deeply layered story of her fascination, from childhood to adulthood, with every fitness craze...
more
The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
by
Akhil Reed Amar
Basic Books, 05/04/2021
When the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate argument over the nature of government. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Master of Djinn
by
P. Djèlí Clark
Tor Books, 05/11/2021
Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha'arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Theater for Dreamers
by
Polly Samson
Algonquin Books, 05/11/2021
It's 1960, and the world teeters on the edge of cultural, political, sexual, and artistic revolution. On the Greek island of Hydra, a proto-commune of...
more
Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind
by
Barbara Becker
Flatiron Books, 05/11/2021
When her earliest childhood friend is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Becker sets off on a quest to immerse herself in what it means to be mortal. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Granite Coast Murders: Brittany Mystery Series #6
by
Jean-Luc Bannalec
Minotaur Books, 05/11/2021
Inspector Dupin and Claire are on a two-week vacation, but while Claire seems to enjoy the quiet of the beach, Commissaire Dupin takes every ...
more
The Rock Eaters
by
Brenda Peynado
Penguin Books, 05/11/2021
What does it mean to be other? What does it mean to love in a world determined to keep us apart?
These questions murmur in the heart of each of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Where the Rhythm Takes You
by
Sarah Dass
Balzer + Bray, 05/11/2021
Seventeen-year-old Reyna has spent most of her life at the Plumeria, her family's gorgeous seaside resort in Tobago. But what once seemed like ...
more
While Justice Sleeps: A Novel
by
Stacey Abrams
Doubleday, 05/11/2021
Avery Keene, a brilliant young law clerk for the legendary Justice Howard Wynn, is doing her best to hold her life together—excelling in an ...
more
Why Peacocks?: An Unlikely Search for Meaning in the World's Most Magnificent Bird
by
Sean Flynn
Simon & Schuster, 05/11/2021
When Sean Flynn's neighbor in North Carolina texted "Any chance you guys want a peacock? No kidding!" he stared bewilderedly at his phone. He had ...
more
Winning Independence: The Decisive Years of the Revolutionary War, 1778-1781
by
John Ferling
Bloomsbury USA, 05/11/2021
It was 1778, and the recent American victory at Saratoga had netted the U.S a powerful ally in France. Many, including General George Washington, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
by
Alan Taylor
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/18/2021
In this beautifully written history of America's formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Light Perpetual
by
Francis Spufford
Scribner, 05/18/2021
Lunchtime on a Saturday, 1944: the Woolworths on Bexford High Street in southeast London receives a delivery of aluminum saucepans. A crowd gathers to...
more
Off the Record
by
Camryn Garrett
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 05/18/2021
Ever since seventeen-year-old Josie Wright can remember, writing has been her identity, the thing that grounds her when everything else is a garbage ...
more
Punch Me Up to the Gods
by
Brian Broome
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 05/18/2021
Punch Me Up to the Gods introduces a powerful new talent in Brian Broome, whose early years growing up in Ohio as a dark-skinned Black boy harboring ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Atmospherians
by
Alex McElroy
Atria Books, 05/18/2021
Sasha Marcus was once the epitome of contemporary success: an internet sensation, social media darling, and a creator of a high profile wellness brand...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The First Day of Spring
by
Nancy Tucker
Riverhead Books, 05/18/2021
Meet Chrissie...
Chrissie is eight and she has a secret: she has just killed a boy. The feeling made her belly fizz like soda pop. Her playmates ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Unsettled Ground
by
Claire Fuller
Tin House Books, 05/18/2021
At fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. The cottage they ...
more
A Sitting in St. James
by
Rita Williams-Garcia
Quill Tree Books, 05/25/2021
1860, Louisiana. After serving as mistress of Le Petit Cottage for more than six decades, Madame Sylvie Guilbert has decided, in spite of her family's...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
City on the Edge
by
David Swinson
Mulholland, 05/25/2021
In the wake of a baffling tragedy, 13-year-old Graham moves with his family to Beirut, Lebanon, a city on the edge of the sea and cataclysmic violence...
more
Heaven
by
Mieko Kawakami
Europa Editions, 05/25/2021
Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami's novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student subjected to relentless torment for...
more
How to Mars
by
David Ebenbach
Tachyon Publications, 05/25/2021
For the six lucky scientists selected by the Destination Mars! corporation, a one-way ticket to Mars―in exchange for a lifetime of research&#...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
by
Salman Rushdie
Random House, 05/25/2021
Salman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order, illuminating truths about our society and culture through his gorgeous, often ...
more
Revival Season
by
Monica West
Simon & Schuster, 05/25/2021
Every summer, fifteen-year-old Miriam Horton and her family pack themselves tight in their old minivan and travel through small southern towns for ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
by
J.B. MacKinnon
Ecco, 05/25/2021
We can't stop shopping. And yet we must. This is the consumer dilemma.
The economy says we must always consume more: even the slightest drop in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Guncle
by
Steven Rowley
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/25/2021
Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. That is, he loves spending time with them when ...
more
The Lost Boys of Montauk: The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind
by
Amanda M. Fairbanks
Gallery Books, 05/25/2021
In March of 1984, the commercial fishing boat
Wind Blown left Montauk Harbor on what should have been a routine offshore voyage. Its captain, a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Photographer
by
Mary Dixie Carter
Minotaur Books, 05/25/2021
WHEN PERFECT IMAGES
As a photographer, Delta Dawn observes the seemingly perfect lives of New York City's elite: snapping photos of their children'...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Version Zero
by
David Yoon
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/25/2021
Max, a data whiz at the social media company Wren, has gotten a firsthand glimpse of the dark side of big tech. When he questions what his company ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
An Emotion of Great Delight
by
Tahereh Mafi
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/01/2021
It's 2003, several months since the US officially declared war on Iraq, and the American political world has evolved. Tensions are high, hate crimes ...
more
Barcelona Dreaming
by
Rupert Thomson
Other Press, 06/01/2021
Barcelona Dreaming is narrated, in turn, by an English woman who runs a gift shop, an alcoholic jazz pianist, and a translator tormented by unrequited...
more
Bewilderness
by
Karen Tucker
Catapult, 06/01/2021
Irene, a lonely nineteen-year-old in rural North Carolina, works long nights at the local pool hall, serving pitchers and dodging drunks. One evening,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Catch the Rabbit
by
Lana Bastašic
Restless Books, 06/01/2021
It's been twelve years since inseparable childhood friends Lejla and Sara have spoken, but an unexpected phone call thrusts Sara back into a world she...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Double Blind
by
Edward St. Aubyn
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/01/2021
When Olivia meets a new lover just as she is welcoming her best friend, Lucy, back from New York, her dedicated academic life expands precipitously. ...
more
For the Wolf: The Wilderwood #1
by
Hannah Whitten
Orbit, 06/01/2021
The first daughter is for the Throne.
The second daughter is for the Wolf.
As the only Second Daughter born in centuries, Red has one purpose&#...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River
by
John N Maclean
Custom House, 06/01/2021
A long-awaited nonfiction companion to
A River Runs through It, Home Waters is John N. Maclean's remarkable memoir of his family's century-long love ...
more
House of Sticks
by
Ly Tran
Scribner, 06/01/2021
Ly Tran is just a toddler in 1993 when she and her family immigrate from a small town along the Mekong river in Vietnam to a two-bedroom railroad ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Instructions for Dancing
by
Nicola Yoon
Delacorte Press, 06/01/2021
Evie Thomas doesn't believe in love anymore. Especially after the strangest thing occurs one otherwise ordinary afternoon: She witnesses a couple kiss...
more
Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape
by
Cal Flyn
Viking, 06/01/2021
Some of the only truly feral cattle in the world wander a long-abandoned island off the northernmost tip of Scotland. A variety of wildlife not seen ...
more
Malibu Rising
by
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Ballantine Books, 06/01/2021
Malibu: August 1983. It's the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the ...
more
One Great Lie
by
Deb Caletti
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 06/01/2021
When Charlotte wins a scholarship to a writing workshop in Venice with the charismatic and brilliant Luca Bruni, it's a dream come true. Writing is ...
more
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942
by
Max Hastings
Harper, 06/01/2021
In 1940, Hitler had two choices when it came to the Mediterranean region: stay out, or commit sufficient forces to expel the British from the Middle ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Our Woman in Moscow
by
Beatriz Williams
William Morrow, 06/01/2021
In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. The world is shocked by the...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Palace of the Drowned
by
Christine Mangan
Flatiron Books, 06/01/2021
It's 1966 and Frankie Croy needs a break. Having achieved success with her debut bestseller, she's been trying desperately to live up to the high ...
more
Seven Days in June
by
Tia Williams
Grand Central Publishing, 06/01/2021
Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, ...
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The Chosen and the Beautiful
by
Nghi Vo
Tor.com, 06/01/2021
Immigrant. Socialite. Magician.
Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society―she has money, education, a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Divorce
by
César Aira
New Directions Publishing, 06/01/2021
The Divorce tells about a man who takes a vacation from Providence, R.I. in early December to avoid conflicts with his newly divorced wife and small ...
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The Nature of Witches
by
Rachel Griffin
Sourcebooks, 06/01/2021
For centuries, witches have maintained the climate, their power from the sun peaking in the season of their birth. But now their control is faltering ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
by
Marianne Cronin
Harper Perennial, 06/01/2021
An extraordinary friendship. A lifetime of stories.
Seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson lives on the Terminal Ward at the Glasgow Princess Royal ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
by
Elizabeth Letts
Ballantine Books, 06/01/2021
In 1954, sixty-three-year-old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins embarked on an impossible journey. She had no money and no family, she had just lost her farm...
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The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
by
Carol Anderson
Bloomsbury USA, 06/01/2021
In
The Second, historian and award-winning, bestselling author of
White Rage Carol Anderson powerfully illuminates the history and impact of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness
by
M. Leona Godin
Pantheon Books, 06/01/2021
There Plant Eyes probes the ways in which blindness has shaped our ocularcentric culture, challenging deeply ingrained ideas about what it means to be...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
by
Rebecca Hall
Simon & Schuster, 06/01/2021
Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. And then ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Walking on Cowrie Shells
by
Nana Nkweti
Graywolf Press, 06/01/2021
In her powerful, genre-bending debut story collection, Nana Nkweti's virtuosity is on full display as she mixes deft realism with clever inversions of...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
With Teeth
by
Kristen Arnett
Riverhead Books, 06/01/2021
If she's being honest, Sammie Lucas is scared of her son. Working from home in the close quarters of their Florida house, she lives with one wary eye ...
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The Crossing
by
Manjeet Mann
Penguin Books, 06/03/2021
A trailblazing new novel about two teenagers from opposite worlds;
The Crossing is a profound story of hope, grief, and the very real tragedies of the...
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All Our Hidden Gifts
by
Caroline O'Donoghue
Walker & Company, 06/08/2021
After Maeve finds a pack of tarot cards while cleaning out a closet during her in-school suspension, she quickly becomes the most sought-after diviner...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dust Off the Bones
by
Paul Howarth
Harper, 06/08/2021
In 1890, estranged brothers Tommy and Billy McBride are living far apart in Queensland, each dealing with the trauma that destroyed their family in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Kin
by
Shawna Kay Rodenberg
Bloomsbury USA, 06/08/2021
When Shawna Kay Rodenberg was four, her father, fresh from a ruinous tour in Vietnam, spirited her family from their home in the hills of Eastern ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic
by
Emma Goldberg
Harper, 06/08/2021
In March 2020, soon-to-graduate medical students in New York City were nervously awaiting "match day" when they would learn where they would begin ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
One Two Three
by
Laurie Frankel
Henry Holt and Company, 06/08/2021
In a town where nothing ever changes, suddenly everything does...
Everyone knows everyone in the tiny town of Bourne, but the Mitchell triplets are...
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Rabbits
by
Terry Miles
Del Rey, 06/08/2021
It's an average work day. You've been wrapped up in a task, and you check the clock when you come up for air—4:44 p.m. You check your email, and...more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Fugitivities
by
Jesse McCarthy
Melville House, 06/08/2021
Like most recent college graduates, Jonah Winters is unsure of what's next. A young black American raised in France and living in New York City, he ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Hidden Palace: A Novel of the Golem and the Jinni
by
Helene Wecker
Harper, 06/08/2021
Chava is a golem, a woman made of clay, who can hear the thoughts and longings of those around her and feels compelled by her nature to help them. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Jasmine Throne: The Burning Kingdoms #1
by
Tasha Suri
Orbit, 06/08/2021
Exiled by her despotic brother, Malini spends her days dreaming of vengeance while trapped in the Hirana: an ancient cliffside temple that was once ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Stone Loves the World
by
Brian Hall
Viking, 06/08/2021
Mette, a twenty-year old programmer of visual effects for video games, lives with her mother, Saskia, an aspiring playwright, in Brooklyn. Mette is a ...
more
Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
by
Elinor Cleghorn
Dutton, 06/08/2021
Elinor Cleghorn became an unwell woman ten years ago. She was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after a long period of being told her symptoms were...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
What Beauty There Is
by
Cory Anderson
Roaring Brook Press, 06/08/2021
To understand the truth, you have to start at the beginning.
Winter in Idaho. The sky is dark. It is cold enough to crack bones.
Living in harsh...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
At the Chinese Table: A Memoir with Recipes
by
Carolyn Phillips
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/15/2021
At the Chinese Table describes in vivid detail how, during the 1970s and '80s, celebrated cookbook writer and illustrator Carolyn Phillips crosses ...
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Hard Like Water
by
Yan Lianke
Grove Press, 06/15/2021
She is Xia Hongmei and lives up to her name of "beautiful flower." Hiding their relationship from their spouses, the pair hurl themselves into the ...
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Kin
by
Miljenko Jergovic
Archipelago Books, 06/15/2021
Ordinary, forgotten objects - a grandfather's beekeeping journals, a rusty benzene lighter, an army issued raincoat - become the lenses through which ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Letters to My White Male Friends
by
Dax-Devlon Ross
St. Martin's Press, 06/15/2021
White men are finally realizing that simply not being racist isn't enough to end racism. These men want deeper insight not only into how racism has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Loop
by
Brenda Lozano
Charco Press, 06/15/2021
Loop is a love story told from the perspective of a contemporary Penelope who, instead of weaving and unravelling her shroud, writes and erases her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Projections: A Story of Human Emotions
by
Karl Deisseroth
Random House, 06/15/2021
Karl Deisseroth has spent his life pursuing truths about the human mind, both as a renowned clinical psychiatrist and as a researcher creating and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America
by
Scott Borchert
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/15/2021
The plan was as idealistic as it was audacious―and utterly unprecedented. Take thousands of broke writers and put them to work charting a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Site Fidelity
by
Claire Boyles
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/15/2021
Firmly rooted in the modern American West,
Site Fidelity follows women and families who feel the instinctual, inexplicable pull of a home they must ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Cape Doctor
by
E. J. Levy
Little Brown & Company, 06/15/2021
Beginning in Cork, Ireland, the novel recounts Perry's journey from daughter to son in order to enter medical school and provide for family, but Perry...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Great Mistake
by
Jonathan Lee
Knopf, 06/15/2021
Andrew Haswell Green is dead, shot at the venerable age of eighty-three, when he thought life could hold no more surprises. The killing--on Park ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood
by
Krys Malcolm Belc
Counterpoint Press, 06/15/2021
Krys Malcolm Belc has thought a lot about the interplay between parenthood and gender. As a nonbinary, transmasculine parent, giving birth to his son ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
by
Kai Bird
Crown, 06/15/2021
Four decades after Ronald Reagan's landslide win in 1980, Jimmy Carter's one-term presidency is often labeled a failure; indeed, many Americans view ...
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The Tangleroot Palace
by
Marjorie Liu
Tachyon Publications, 06/15/2021
Briar, bodyguard for a body-stealing sorceress, discovers her love for Rose, whose true soul emerges only once a week. An apprentice witch seeks her ...
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The Transparency of Time: Mario Conde Investigates #9
by
Leonardo Padura
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/15/2021
Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday. What does he have to show for his decades on the planet? A failing body, a slower mind, and a ...
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All the Water I've Seen Is Running: A Novel
by
Elias Rodriques
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/22/2021
Along the Intracoastal waterways of North Florida, Daniel and Aubrey navigated adolescence with the electric intensity that radiates from young people...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Blackout
by
Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson , et al
Quill Tree Books, 06/22/2021
A summer heatwave blankets New York City in darkness. But as the city is thrown into confusion, a different kind of electricity sparks…
A ...
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Geniuses at War: Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age
by
David A. Price
Knopf, 06/22/2021
Planning the invasion of Normandy, the Allies knew that decoding the communications of the Nazi high command was imperative for its success. But ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Blue Line Down
by
Maris Lawyer
Hub City Press, 06/22/2021
Jude Washer wants to run: away from the coal mines where he is destined to work, away from his father's abuse of his little brother, away from the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
by
Joshua Cohen
New York Review Books, 06/22/2021
Corbin College, not quite upstate New York, winter 1959–1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian—but not an historian of the Jews—is co-...
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The Queen of the Cicadas
by
V. Castro
Flame Tree Press, 06/22/2021
In 1950s south Texas a farmworker - Milagros from San Luis Potosi, Mexico, is murdered. Her death is ignored by the town, but not the Aztec goddess of...
more
Bad Moon Rising: Bad Axe County #3
by
John Galligan
Atria Books, 06/29/2021
Sheriff Heidi Kick has a dead body on her hands, a homeless young man last seen alive miles from the Bad Axe. Chillingly, the medical examiner ...
more
Dead by Dawn: Mike Bowditch Mysteries #12
by
Paul Doiron
Minotaur Books, 06/29/2021
Mike Bowditch is fighting for his life. After being ambushed on a dark winter road, his Jeep crashes into a frozen river. Trapped beneath the ice in ...
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Disquiet
by
Zülfü Livaneli
Other Press, 06/29/2021
Disquiet transports the reader to the contemporary Middle East through the stories of Meleknaz, a Yazidi Syrian refugee, and Hussein, a young man from...
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Hell of a Book
by
Jason Mott
Dutton, 06/29/2021
In Jason Mott's
Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives
Hell...more
Lady Sunshine
by
Amy Mason Doan
Graydon House, 06/29/2021
For Jackie Pierce, everything changed the summer of 1979, when she spent three months of infinite freedom at her bohemian uncle's sprawling estate on ...
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Lorna Mott Comes Home
by
Diane Johnson
Knopf, 06/29/2021
Lorna Mott Dumas, small, pretty, high-strung, the epitome of a successful woman--lovely offspring, grandchildren, health, a French husband, a ...
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This Poison Heart
by
Kalynn Bayron
Bloomsbury USA, 06/29/2021
Briseis has a gift: she can grow plants from tiny seeds to rich blooms with a single touch.
When Briseis's aunt dies and wills her a dilapidated ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Who They Was
by
Gabriel Krauze
Bloomsbury USA, 06/29/2021
The unforgettable narrator of this compelling, thought-provoking debut goes by two names in his two worlds. At the university he attends, he's Gabriel...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Literary Fiction
A Shock
by
Keith Ridgway
New Directions Publishing, 07/06/2021
Formed as a rondel of interlocking stories with a clutch of more or less loosely connected repeating characters, it's at once deracinated yet potent ...
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All Our Shimmering Skies
by
Trent Dalton
Harper Perennial, 07/06/2021
Darwin, 1942. As Japanese bombs rain down on her hometown, newly orphaned Molly Hook looks to the skies and runs for her life. Inside a duffel bag, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Falling
by
T. J. Newman
Avid Reader Press, 07/06/2021
For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die.
The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Rise to the Sun
by
Leah Johnson
Scholastic, 07/06/2021
Olivia is an expert at falling in love...and at being dumped. But after the fallout from her last breakup has left her an outcast at school and at ...
more
Summer in the City of Roses
by
Michelle Ruiz Keil
Soho Teen, 07/06/2021
All her life, seventeen-year-old Iph has protected her sensitive younger brother, Orr. But this summer, with their mother gone at an artist residency,...
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Literary Fiction
The Lost Girls
by
Jessica Chiarella
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/06/2021
It's been more than twenty years since Marti Reese's sister, Maggie, disappeared. Only eight-years-old at the time, Marti can't remember what happened...
more
The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
by
Cynthia Barnett
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/06/2021
Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature's creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewelry before gems...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Sunset Route: Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West
by
Carrot Quinn
The Dial Press, 07/06/2021
After a childhood marked by neglect, poverty, and periods of homelessness, with a mother who believed herself to be the reincarnation of the Virgin ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Temple House Vanishing
by
Rachel Donohue
Algonquin Books, 07/06/2021
At Temple House, nothing is ever as it seems.
Louisa is the new, brilliant scholarship student. Finding most of the other students at the all-girls...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The View Was Exhausting
by
Mikaella Clements, Onjuli Datta
Grand Central Publishing, 07/06/2021
The world can see that international A-list actress Whitman ("Win") Tagore and jet-setting playboy Leo Milanowski are made for each other. Their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
The War Nurse: A Novel
by
Tracey Enerson Wood
Sourcebooks Landmark, 07/06/2021
She asked dozens of young women to lay their lives on the line during the Great War. Can she protect them?
Superintendent of Nurses Julia Stimson ...
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Historical Fiction
Together We Will Go
by
J. Michael Straczynski
Gallery/Scout Press, 07/06/2021
Mark Antonelli, a failed young writer looking down the barrel at thirty, is planning a cross-country road trip. He buys a beat-up old tour bus. He ...
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Literary Fiction
Wayward
by
Dana Spiotta
Knopf, 07/06/2021
On the heels of the election of 2016, Samantha Raymond's life begins to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, ...
more
A Passage North
by
Anuk Arudpragasam
Hogarth Books, 07/13/2021
A Passage North begins with a message from out of the blue: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother's caretaker, Rani, has died under ...
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A Psalm for the Wild-Built: Monk & Robot #1
by
Becky Chambers
Tor Books, 07/13/2021
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Appleseed
by
Matt Bell
Custom House, 07/13/2021
In eighteenth-century Ohio, two brothers travel into the wooded frontier, planting apple orchards from which they plan to profit in the years to come....
more
China Room: A Novel
by
Sunjeev Sahota
Viking, 07/13/2021
Mehar, a young bride in rural 1929 Punjab, is trying to discover the identity of her new husband. Married to three brothers in a single ceremony, she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training
by
Adam Stern
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 07/13/2021
Adam Stern was a student at a state medical school before being selected to train as a psychiatry resident at one of the most prestigious programs in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Count the Ways
by
Joyce Maynard
William Morrow, 07/13/2021
Eleanor and Cam meet at a crafts fair in Vermont in the early 1970s. She's an artist and writer, he makes wooden bowls. Within four years they are ...
more
Encircling 3: Aftermath: Encircling #3
by
Carl Frode Tiller
Graywolf Press, 07/13/2021
The final book in Carl Frode Tiller's groundbreaking Encircling Trilogy is here. In Barbara Haveland's powerful translation, two new letters circle ...
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It's Elemental: The Hidden Chemistry in Everything
by
Kate Biberdorf
Park Row Books, 07/13/2021
Have you ever wondered what makes dough rise? Or how your morning coffee gives you that energy boost? Or why your shampoo is making your hair look ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
M, King's Bodyguard
by
Niall Leonard
Pantheon Books, 07/13/2021
From humble beginnings in Ireland, William Melville has risen through hard work, intelligence, and occasional brute force to become head of Scotland ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Pessoa: A Biography
by
Richard Zenith
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 07/13/2021
Nearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. Believing...
more
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
by
Kristen Radtke
Pantheon Books, 07/13/2021
There is a silent epidemic in America: loneliness. Shameful to talk about and often misunderstood, loneliness is everywhere, from the most major of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
by
Dean Jobb
Algonquin Books, 07/13/2021
In the span of fifteen years, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered as many as ten people in the United States, Britain, and Canada, a death toll with ...
more
The Letters of Shirley Jackson
by
Shirley Jackson
Random House, 07/13/2021
i must stop writing letters and get to writing a novel.
Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and...
more
The Startup Wife
by
Tahmima Anam
Scribner, 07/13/2021
Meet Asha Ray.
Brilliant coder and possessor of a Pi tattoo, Asha is poised to revolutionize artificial intelligence when she is reunited with her ...
more
And What Can We Offer You Tonight
by
Premee Mohamed
Neon Hemlock Press, 07/20/2021
Jewel's world is shaken when her friend is murdered by a client, but somehow comes back to life. To get revenge, they will both have to confront the ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
False Witness
by
Karin Slaughter
William Morrow, 07/20/2021
AN ORDINARY LIFE…
Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She's an up-and-coming defense attorney at a ...
more
Nightbitch
by
Rachel Yoder
Doubleday, 07/20/2021
One day, the mother was a mother, but then one night, she was quite suddenly something else...
An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
She Who Became the Sun
by
Shelley Parker-Chan
Tor Books, 07/20/2021
To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything
"I refuse to be nothing…"
In a famine-stricken village on a dusty ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Other Passenger
by
Louise Candlish
Atria Books, 07/20/2021
It all happens so quickly. One day you're living the dream, commuting to work by ferry with your charismatic neighbor Kit in the seat beside you. The ...
more
Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine
by
Nicola Twilley
MCD, 07/20/2021
Quarantine is our most powerful response to uncertainty: it means waiting to see if something hidden inside us will be revealed. It is also one of our...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
When We Were Young
by
Richard Roper
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/20/2021
How do you move forward…when all you want to do is go back?
Joel and Theo haven't spoken since the summer they turned sixteen, but that's ...
more
All the Little Hopes: A Novel
by
Leah Weiss
Sourcebooks, 07/27/2021
Deep in the tobacco land of North Carolina, nothing's been the same since the boys shipped off to war and worry took their place. Thirteen-year-old ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Fierce Little Thing
by
Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
Flatiron Books, 07/27/2021
"It's time to come Home. All five of you. Or else."
Saskia was a damaged, lonely teenager when she arrived at the lakeside commune called Home. She...
more
Hold Fast Through the Fire: NeoG #2
by
K. B Wagers
Harper Voyager, 07/27/2021
Zuma's Ghost has won the Boarding Games for the second straight year. The crew—led by the unparalleled ability of Jenks in the cage, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Unthinkable
by
Brad Parks
Thomas & Mercer, 07/27/2021
Nate Lovejoy is a self-proclaimed nobody, a stay-at-home dad who doesn't believe he's important to anyone but his wife and their two daughters. So it'...
more
Walls
by
L.M. Elliott
Algonquin Young Readers, 07/27/2021
Meanwhile, in East Berlin, his cousin Matthias has grown up in the wreckage left by Allied bombing during World War II, on streets ruled by the ...
more
When We Were Strangers
by
Alex Richards
Bloomsbury YA, 07/27/2021
Seventeen-year-old Evie Parker is devastated in the wake of her father's sudden death. But she knows something her mother doesn't: the day of his ...
more
A Lesson in Vengeance
by
Victoria Lee
Delacorte Press, 08/03/2021
Felicity Morrow is back at the Dalloway School to finish her senior year after the tragic death of her girlfriend. She even has her old room in Godwin...
more
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
by
Rebecca Donner
Little Brown & Company, 08/03/2021
Born and raised in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Billy Summers
by
Stephen King
Scribner, 08/03/2021
Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He's a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he'll do the job only if the target is a truly ...
more
Blind Man's Bluff: A Memoir
by
James Tate Hill
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/03/2021
At age sixteen, James Tate Hill was diagnosed with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy, a condition that left him legally blind. When high-school ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Emily's House
by
Amy Belding Brown
Berkley Books, 08/03/2021
She was Emily Dickinson's maid, her confidante, her betrayer…and the savior of her legacy.
Massachusetts, 1869. Margaret Maher has never ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond
by
Halimah Marcus
Harper Perennial, 08/03/2021
As a child, horses consumed Halimah Marcus' imagination. When she wasn't around horses she was pretending to be one, cantering on two legs, hands ...
more
Immediate Family
by
Ashley Nelson Levy
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/03/2021
She was nine years old when she traveled with her parents to Thailand to meet her brother, six years her junior. They grew up together like any other ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor
by
Anna Qu
Catapult, 08/03/2021
As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family's garment factory in Queens. At home, she is treated as a maid and suffers punishment ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Pastoral Song: A Farmer's Journey
by
James Rebanks
Custom House, 08/03/2021
As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in the Lake District hills was part of an ancient ...
more
Radiant Fugitives
by
Nawaaz Ahmed
Counterpoint Press, 08/03/2021
Working as a consultant for Kamala Harris's attorney general campaign in Obama-era San Francisco, Seema has constructed a successful life for herself ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Run: Book One
by
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell, L. Fury
Abrams ComicArts, 08/03/2021
The sequel to the #1
New York Times bestselling graphic novel series March—the continuation of the life story of John Lewis and the struggles ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Something New Under the Sun
by
Alexandra Kleeman
Hogarth Books, 08/03/2021
East Coast novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Hollywood with simple goals in mind: overseeing the production of a film adaptation of one of his books...
more
The April Dead: Harry McCoy #4
by
Alan Parks
World Noir, 08/03/2021
Soon McCoy realises that the sailor may be part of a shadowy organization led by a dangerous fanatic and committed to a very different kind of ...
more
The Dead and the Dark
by
Courtney Gould
Wednesday Books, 08/03/2021
The Dark has been waiting―and it won't stay hidden any longer.
Something is wrong in Snakebite, Oregon. Teenagers are disappearing, some ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Divide: How Fanatical Certitude Is Destroying Democracy
by
Taylor Dotson
MIT Press, 08/03/2021
In
The Divide, Taylor Dotson argues provocatively that what drives political polarization is not our disregard for facts in a post-truth era, but ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II
by
Mari Eder
Sourcebooks, 08/03/2021
The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line are the heroes of the Greatest Generation that you hardly ever hear about. These women who did extraordinary things ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Just: How Six Unlikely Heroes Saved Thousands of Jews from the Holocaust
by
Jan Brokken
Scribe Publications Pty Ltd, 08/03/2021
Jan Zwartendijk was just a businessman who worked for Philips, a manufacturer of lightbulbs and radios―until he became Dutch consul and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Reading List
by
Sara Nisha Adams
William Morrow, 08/03/2021
Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in Wembley, in West London after losing his beloved wife. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Tin Camp Road
by
Ellen Airgood
Riverhead Books, 08/03/2021
Laurel Hill and her precocious daughter Skye have always been each other's everything. The pair live on Lake Superior, where the local school has ...
more
Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World
by
Daniel Sherrell
Penguin Books, 08/03/2021
Warmth is a new kind of book about climate change: not what it is or how we solve it, but how it feels to imagine a future--and a family--under its ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
American Estrangement
by
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/10/2021
Said Sayrafiezadeh has been hailed by Philip Gourevitch as "a masterful storyteller working from deep in the American grain." His new collection of ...
more
Edge Case
by
YZ Chin
Ecco, 08/10/2021
After another taxing day as the sole female employee at her New York City tech startup, Edwina comes home to find that her husband, Marlin, has packed...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Gone for Good: Detective Annalisa Vega #1
by
Joanna Schaffhausen
Minotaur Books, 08/10/2021
The Lovelorn Killer murdered seven women, ritually binding them and leaving them for dead before penning them gruesome love letters in the local ...
more
How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe, from the Origins of Atoms to the Big Bang
by
Harry Cliff
Doubleday, 08/10/2021
Carl Sagan once quipped, "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." But finding the ultimate recipe for ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
In the Wild Light
by
Jeff Zentner
Crown Children's Books, 08/10/2021
Life in a small Appalachian town is not easy. Cash lost his mother to an opioid addiction and his Papaw is dying slowly from emphysema. Dodging drug ...
more
Mrs. March: A Novel
by
Virginia Feito
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 08/10/2021
In this astonishing debut, the venerable but gossipy New York literary scene is twisted into a claustrophobic fun house of paranoia, horror, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Ramadan Ramsey
by
Louis Edwards
Amistad, 08/10/2021
Spanning from the Deep South to the Middle East,
Ramadan Ramsey bridges multiple countries and cultures, entwining two families who struggle to love ...
more
The Eternal Audience of One: A Novel
by
Rémy Ngamije
Gallery/Scout Press, 08/10/2021
Nobody ever makes it to the start of a story, not even the people in it. The most one can do is make some sort of start and then work toward some kind...more
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler's War on Art
by
Charlie English
Random House, 08/10/2021
As a veteran of the First World War, and an expert in art history and medicine, Hans Prinzhorn was uniquely placed to explore the connection between ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The King of Infinite Space
by
Lyndsay Faye
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/10/2021
Meet Ben Dane: brilliant, devastating, devoted, honest to a fault (truly, a fault). His Broadway theater baron father is dead--but by purpose or ...
more
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
by
Eyal Press
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/17/2021
Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the "kill floors" of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo
by
Mansoor Adayfi
Hachette Books, 08/17/2021
At the age of 18, Mansoor Adayfi left his home in Yemen for a cultural mission to Afghanistan. He never returned. Kidnapped by warlords and then sold ...
more
Gordo
by
Jaime Cortez
Grove Press, 08/17/2021
A young, probably gay, boy named Gordo puts on a wrestler's mask and throws fists with a boy in the neighborhood, fighting his own tears as he tries ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
I Live a Life Like Yours
by
Jan Grue
FSG Originals, 08/17/2021
I am not talking about surviving. I am not talking about becoming human, but about how I came to realize that I had always already been human. I am ...more
Me (Moth)
by
Amber McBride
Feiwel & Friends, 08/17/2021
Moth has lost her family in an accident. Though she lives with her aunt, she feels alone and uprooted.
Until she meets Sani, a boy who is also ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
Names for Light: A Family History
by
Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
Graywolf Press, 08/17/2021
Names for Light traverses time and memory to weigh three generations of a family's history against a painful inheritance of postcolonial violence and ...
more
Redemptor: Raybearer #2
by
Jordan Ifueko
Amulet Books, 08/17/2021
For the first time, an Empress Redemptor sits on Aritsar's throne. To appease the sinister spirits of the dead, Tarisai must now anoint a council of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Rude Talk in Athens: Ancient Rivals, the Birth of Comedy, and a Writer's Journey through Greece
by
Mark Haskell Smith
The Unnamed Press, 08/17/2021
The writers of these comedic plays feuded openly, insulting one another from the stage, each production more inventive and outlandish than the last, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Exiled Fleet: The Divide Series #2
by
J. S. Dewes
Tor Books, 08/17/2021
The Sentinels narrowly escaped the collapsing edge of the Divide.
They have mustered a few other surviving Sentinels, but with no engines they have...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Velvet Was the Night
by
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Del Rey, 08/17/2021
1970s, Mexico City. Maite is a secretary who lives for one thing: the latest issue of Secret Romance. While student protests and political unrest ...
more
A Million Things
by
Emily Spurr
Berkley Books, 08/24/2021
For as long as Rae can remember, it's been her and Mum, and their dog, Splinter; a small, deliberately unremarkable, family. They have their walks, ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
After the Sun
by
Jonas Eika
Riverhead Books, 08/24/2021
Under Cancún's hard blue sky, a beach boy provides a canvas for tourists' desires, seeing deep into the world's underbelly. An enigmatic ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Bad Witch Burning
by
Jessica Lewis
Delacorte Press, 08/24/2021
Katrell can talk to the dead. And she wishes it made more money. She's been able to support her unemployed mother—and Mom's deadbeat-boyfriend-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
by
Kat Chow
Grand Central Publishing, 08/24/2021
Kat Chow has always been unusually fixated on death. She worried constantly about her parents dying---especially her mother. A vivacious and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
by
Robert S. Levine
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/24/2021
When Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the country was on the precipice of radical change. Johnson, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Guide
by
Peter Heller
Knopf, 08/24/2021
Kingfisher Lodge, nestled in a canyon on a mile and a half of the most pristine river water on the planet, is known by locals as "Billionaire's Mile" ...
more
The Madness of Crowds: Chief Inspector Gamache #17
by
Louise Penny
Minotaur Books, 08/24/2021
You're a coward.
Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache.
It starts innocently enough.
...
more
Mysteries
Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics
by
Stephon Alexander
Basic Books, 08/31/2021
Years ago, cosmologist Stephon Alexander received life-changing advice: to discover real physics, he needed to stop memorizing and start taking risks....
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
by
Craig Whitlock
Simon & Schuster, 08/31/2021
Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At first, the goals were ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
by
Roxane van Iperen
Harper, 08/31/2021
Eight months after Germany's invasion of Poland, the Nazis roll into The Netherlands, expanding their reign of brutality to the Dutch. But by the ...
more
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket
by
Hilma Wolitzer
Bloomsbury USA, 08/31/2021
From her many well-loved novels, Hilma Wolitzer--now ninety-one years old and at the top of her game--has gained a reputation as one of our best ...
more
You Can Run: A Novel
by
Karen Cleveland
Ballantine Books, 08/31/2021
We have your son.
It's the call that's every parent's nightmare. And for CIA analyst Jill Bailey, it's the call that changes everything.
It's ...
more
Deer Season
by
Erin Flanagan
University of Nebraska Press, 09/01/2021
It's the opening weekend of deer season in Gunthrum, Nebraska, in 1985, and Alma Costagan's intellectually disabled farmhand, Hal Bullard, has gone ...
more
These Toxic Things
by
Rachel Howzell Hall
Thomas & Mercer, 09/01/2021
Mickie Lambert creates "digital scrapbooks" for clients, ensuring that precious souvenirs aren't forgotten or lost. When her latest client, Nadia ...
more
Battle of the Bands
by
Lauren Gibaldi
Candlewick Press, 09/07/2021
A daughter of rock 'n' roll royalty has a secret crush. A lonely ticket taker worries about his sister. An almost-famous songwriter nurses old wounds....
more
Beautiful Country: A Memoir
by
Qian Julie Wang
Doubleday, 09/07/2021
In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to "beautiful country." Yet when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Cuba: An American History
by
Ada Ferrer
Scribner, 09/07/2021
In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Hao: Stories
by
Ye Chun
Catapult, 09/07/2021
"The most common word in Chinese, perhaps, a ubiquitous syllable people utter and hear all the time, which is supposed to mean good. But what is hao ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Happy Hour: A Novel
by
Marlowe Granados
Verso, 09/07/2021
Refreshing and wry in equal measure,
Happy Hour is an intoxicating novel of youth well spent. Isa Epley is all of twenty-one years old, and already ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
L.A. Weather: A Novel
by
María Amparo Escandón
Flatiron Books, 09/07/2021
L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He's ...
more
Murder in an Orchard Cemetery: Reverend Mother Mysteries #8
by
Cora Harrison
Severn House, 09/07/2021
1920s. Cork, Ireland. The Reverend Mother regrets the bishop's decision to invite the five candidates for the position of Alderman of the City Council...
more
Never Saw Me Coming: A Novel
by
Vera Kurian
Park Row Books, 09/07/2021
YOU SHOULD NEVER TRUST A PSYCHOPATH.
BUT WHAT IF YOU HAD NO CHOICE?
It would be easy to underestimate Chloe Sevre… She's a freshman honor ...
more
No Gods, No Monsters: The Convergence Saga #1
by
Cadwell Turnbull
Blackstone Publishing, 09/07/2021
As creatures from myth and legend come out of the shadows, seeking safety through visibility, their emergence sets off a chain of seemingly unrelated ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
by
Maggie Nelson
Graywolf Press, 09/07/2021
So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both ...
more
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
by
Dara Horn
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/07/2021
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major ...
more
Poet Warrior
by
Joy Harjo
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/07/2021
Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her...
more
Rizzio: A Novella
by
Denise Mina
Pegasus Crime, 09/07/2021
On the evening of March 9th, 1566, David Rizzio, the private secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots, was brutally murdered. Dragged from the chamber of the...
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Road of Bones: Billy Boyle WWII Mysteries #16
by
James R. Benn
Soho Crime, 09/07/2021
It's September 1944, and the US is poised to launch Operation Frantic, a shuttle-bombing mission to be conducted by American aircraft based in Great ...
more
The Archer
by
Shruti Swamy
Algonquin Books, 09/07/2021
As a child, Vidya exists to serve her family, watch over her younger brother, and make sense of a motherless world. One day she catches sight of a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Good Death: Somershill Manor Mysteries #5
by
S. D. Sykes
Pegasus Crime, 09/07/2021
England, November 1370. Oswald de Lacy, Lord of Somershill Manor, makes a devastating confession to his dying mother. But will he gain the forgiveness...
more
The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All: A Novel
by
Josh Ritter
Hanover Square Press, 09/07/2021
In the tiny timber town of Cordelia, Idaho, ninety-nine year old Weldon Applegate recounts his life in all its glory, filled with tall tales writ ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Heron's Cry: A Detective Matthew Venn Novel (The Two Rivers #2)
by
Ann Cleeves
Minotaur Books, 09/07/2021
North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the ...
more
The House of Ashes
by
Stuart Neville
Soho Crime, 09/07/2021
Sara Keane's husband, Damien, has uprooted them from England and moved them to his native Northern Ireland for a "fresh start" in the wake of her ...
more
The Lost Notebook of Edouard Manet: A Novel
by
Maureen Gibbon
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/07/2021
Suffering from the complications of syphilis toward the end of his life, Édouard Manet begins to jot down his daily impressions, reflections, and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Stolen Hours
by
Allen Eskens
Mulholland, 09/07/2021
Lila Nash is on the verge of landing her dream job—working as a prosecutor under the Hennepin County Attorney—and has settled into a happy...
more
A Lot Like Adiós: Primas of Power #2
by
Alexis Daria
Avon Books, 09/14/2021
Hi Mich. It's Gabe.
After burning out in her corporate marketing career, Michelle Amato has built a thriving freelance business as a graphic ...
more
A Most Clever Girl: A Novel of an American Spy
by
Stephanie Marie Thornton
Berkley Books, 09/14/2021
1963: Reeling from the death of her mother and President Kennedy's assassination, Catherine Gray shows up on Elizabeth Bentley's doorstep demanding ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Apples Never Fall
by
Liane Moriarty
Henry Holt and Company, 09/14/2021
The Delaney family love one another dearly―it's just that sometimes they want to murder each other...
If your mother was missing, would you ...
more
Black Nerd Problems: Essays
by
William Evans, Omar Holmon
Gallery Books, 09/14/2021
When William Evans and Omar Holmon founded
Black Nerd Problems, they had no idea whether anyone beyond their small circle of friends would be ...
more
Dark Things I Adore: A Novel
by
Katie Lattari
Sourcebooks Landmark, 09/14/2021
Three campfire secrets. Two witnesses. One dead in the trees. And the woman, thirty years later, bent on making the guilty finally pay.
1988. A ...
more
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
by
Mary Roach
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/14/2021
What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Her Perfect Life
by
Hank Phillippi Ryan
Forge Books, 09/14/2021
Everyone knows Lily Atwood―and that may be her biggest problem. The beloved television reporter has it all―fame, fortune, Emmys, an ...
more
I Wished
by
Dennis Cooper
Soho Press, 09/14/2021
For most of his life, Dennis Cooper believed the person he had loved the most and would always love above all others was George Miles. In his first ...
more
Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies
by
Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Paul Gardullo
Amistad, 09/14/2021
In the aftermath of the Civil War, millions of free and newly freed African Americans were determined to define themselves as equal citizens in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Palmares
by
Gayl Jones
Beacon Press, 09/14/2021
First discovered and edited by Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century. Now, for the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
by
Farah Jasmine Griffin
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/14/2021
Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase "read until you understand," a line her father, who died when she was nine, wrote in a note to...
more
The Spectacular
by
Zoe Whittall
Ballantine Books, 09/14/2021
It's 1997 and Missy is a cellist in an indie rock band on tour across America. At twenty-two years old, she gets on stage every night and plays the ...
more
Things I Have Withheld
by
Kei Miller
Grove Press, 09/14/2021
In a deeply moving, critical and lyrical collection of interconnected essays, award-winning writer Kei Miller explores the silences in which so many ...
more
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
by
Tarana Burke
Flatiron Books, 09/14/2021
Tarana didn't always have the courage to say "me too." As a child, she reeled from her sexual assault, believing she was responsible. Unable to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
White Smoke
by
Tiffany D Jackson
Katherine Tegan Books, 09/14/2021
Marigold is running from ghosts. The phantoms of her old life keep haunting her, but a move with her newly blended family from their small California ...
more
Last Words on Earth
by
Javier Serena
Open Letter, 09/21/2021
Fired from almost every job he's held―usually for paying more attention to literature than work―he sets himself up in a rundown shack ...
more
Rogues' Gallery: The Birth of Modern Policing and Organized Crime in Gilded Age New York
by
John Oller
Dutton, 09/21/2021
Rogues' Gallery is a sweeping, epic tale of two revolutions, one feeding off the other, that played out on the streets of New York City during an era ...
more
The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel
by
Ruth Ozeki
Viking, 09/21/2021
One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his ...
more
The Long War: The Inside Story of America and Afghanistan Since 9/11
by
David Loyn
St. Martin's Press, 09/21/2021
Three American presidents tried to defeat the Taliban―sending 150,000 international troops at the war's peak with a trillion-dollar price tag. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Other Merlin: Emry Merlin #1
by
Robyn Schneider
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 09/21/2021
Welcome to the great kingdom of Camelot! Prince Arthur's a depressed botanist who would rather marry a library than a princess, Lancelot's been ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
by
Amia Srinivasan
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/21/2021
How should we think about sex? It is a thing we have and also a thing we do; a supposedly private act laden with public meaning; a personal preference...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
by
Anderson Cooper
Harper, 09/21/2021
When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father's small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the ...
more
A Calling for Charlie Barnes
by
Joshua Ferris
Little Brown & Company, 09/28/2021
Someone is telling the story of the life of Charlie Barnes, and it doesn't appear to be going well. Too often divorced, discontent with life's ...
more
Beasts of Prey
by
Ayana Gray
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 09/28/2021
There's no such thing as magic in the broken city of Lkossa, especially for sixteen-year-old Koffi, who holds a power within her that could only be ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence
by
Anita Hill
Viking, 09/28/2021
In 1991, Anita Hill began something that's still unfinished work. The issues of gender violence, touching on sex, race, age, and power, are as urgent ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Light From Uncommon Stars
by
Ryka Aoki
Tor Books, 09/28/2021
Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
No Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I Need to Hear)
by
Kate Bowler
Random House, 09/28/2021
It's hard to give up on the feeling that the life you really want is
just out of reach. A beach body by summer. A trip to Disneyland around the corner...
more
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
by
Steven Pinker
Viking, 09/28/2021
Today humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding--and also appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that developed vaccines ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People
by
Kekla Magoon
Candlewick Press, 09/28/2021
In this comprehensive, inspiring, and all-too-relevant history of the Black Panther Party, Kekla Magoon introduces readers to the Panthers' community ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse
by
Dave Goulson
Harper, 09/28/2021
Drawing on thirty years of research, Goulson has written an accessible, fascinating, and important book that examines the evidence of an alarming drop...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Ice Coven
by
Max Seeck
Berkley Books, 09/28/2021
Six months have passed since Jessica's encounter with the mysterious serial-killing coven of witches and the death of her mentor. Her nightmares about...
more
The Man Who Died Twice: Thursday Murder Club Mysteries #2
by
Richard Osman
Pamela Dorman Books, 09/28/2021
Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim—the Thursday Murder Club—are still riding high off their recent real-life murder case and are looking ...
more
The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
by
Kristin Henning
Pantheon Books, 09/28/2021
Drawing upon twenty-five years of experience representing Black youth in Washington, D.C.'s juvenile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Voices from the Pandemic: Americans Tell Their Stories of Crisis, Courage and Resilience
by
Eli Saslow
Doubleday, 09/28/2021
The Covid-19 pandemic was a world-shattering event, affecting everyone in the nation. From its first ominous stirrings, renowned journalist Eli Saslow...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
You'd Be Home Now
by
Kathleen Glasgow
Delacorte Press, 09/28/2021
For all of Emory's life she's been told who she is. In town she's the rich one--the great-great-granddaughter of the mill's founder. At school she's ...
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King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King
by
Daniel de Vise
Grove Press, 10/04/2021
Riley "Blues Boy" King (1925-2015) was born into deep poverty in Jim Crow Mississippi. Wrenched away from his sharecropper father, B.B. lost his ...
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Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
by
Brandy Colbert
Balzer + Bray, 10/05/2021
In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
by
Andrea Elliott
Random House, 10/05/2021
In
Invisible Child, Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Judgment at Santa Monica: A Jersey Girl Legal Mystery #2
by
E.J. Copperman
Severn House, 10/05/2021
The last person family lawyer Sandy Moss expects to walk into her courtroom, right in the middle of a trial, is TV star Patrick McNabb: prime suspect ...
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Last Girl Ghosted: A Novel
by
Lisa Unger
Park Row Books, 10/05/2021
Think twice before you swipe.
She met him through a dating app. An intriguing picture on a screen, a date at a downtown bar. What she thought might...
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Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us
by
Colleen Kinder
Algonquin Books, 10/05/2021
When Colleen Kinder put out a call for authors to "write a letter to a stranger who haunts you," she opened the floodgates. The responses—...
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Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
by
Kelefa Sanneh
Penguin Press, 10/05/2021
Kelefa Sanneh, one of the essential voices of our time on music and culture, has made a deep study of how popular music unites and divides us, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Only the Rich Can Play: How Washington Works in the New Gilded Age
by
David Wessel
Public Affairs, 10/05/2021
David Wessel's incredible tale of how Washington works-and why the rich keep getting richer-starts when a Silicon Valley entrepreneur develops an idea...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Payback's a Witch: The Witches of Thistle Grove #1
by
Lana Harper
Berkley Books, 10/05/2021
Emmy Harlow is a witch but not a very powerful one—in part because she hasn't been home to the magical town of Thistle Grove in years. Her self-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Sankofa: A Novel
by
Chibundu Onuzo
Catapult, 10/05/2021
Masterful in its examination of freedom, prejudice, and personal and public inheritance,
Sankofa is a story for anyone who has ever gone looking for a...
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Search History
by
Eugene Lim
Coffee House Press, 10/05/2021
Frank Exit is dead—or is he? While eavesdropping on two women discussing a dog-sitting gig over lunch, a bereft friend comes to a shocking ...
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Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
by
Nadia Wassef
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/05/2021
The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled between drivers; the steady crescendo of horns honking...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Small Pleasures: A Novel
by
Clare Chambers
Custom House, 10/05/2021
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
1957: Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper in the southeast suburbs of London. Clever but...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Smile: The Story of a Face
by
Sarah Ruhl
Simon & Schuster, 10/05/2021
With a play opening on Broadway, and every reason to smile, Sarah Ruhl has just survived a high-risk pregnancy when she discovers the left side of her...
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Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood
by
Mark Oppenheimer
Knopf, 10/05/2021
Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in the country, known for its tight-knit community and the profusion of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Survivors: A Novel
by
Alex Schulman
Doubleday, 10/05/2021
There is Nils, the oldest, who couldn't escape his suffocating home soon enough, and Pierre, the youngest, easily bullied and quick to lash out. And ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Truffle Hound: On the Trail of the World's Most Seductive Scent, with Dreamers, Schemers, and Some Extraordinary Dogs
by
Rowan Jacobsen
Bloomsbury USA, 10/05/2021
The scent of one freshly unearthed white truffle in Barolo was all it took to lead Rowan Jacobsen down a rabbit hole into a world of secretive hunts, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
by
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 10/12/2021
In
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, two boys in a border town fell in love. Now, they must discover what it means to stay in ...
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Concepcion: An Immigrant Family's Fortunes
by
Albert Samaha
Riverhead Books, 10/12/2021
Nearing the age at which his mother had migrated to the US, part of the wave of non-Europeans who arrived after immigration quotas were relaxed in ...
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Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief
by
Victoria Chang
Milkweed Editions, 10/12/2021
For poet Victoria Chang, memory "isn't something that blooms, but something that bleeds internally." It is willed, summoned, and dragged to the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Flesh & Blood: Reflections on Infertility, Family, and Creating a Bountiful Life: A Memoir
by
N. West Moss
Algonquin Books, 10/12/2021
"I drive and say to myself, if I
am dying, if this is how I die, then this is how I die." When N. West Moss finds herself bleeding uncontrollably in ...
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Jade Fire Gold
by
June CL Tan
HarperTeen, 10/12/2021
In an empire on the brink of war...
Ahn is no one, with no past and no family.
Altan is a lost heir, his future stolen away as a child.
When ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
LaserWriter II: A Novel
by
Tamara Shopsin
MCD, 10/12/2021
LaserWriter II is a coming-of-age tale set in the legendary 90s indie NYC Mac repair shop TekServe―a voyage back in time to when the internet ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Lemon: A Novel
by
Yeo-sun Kwon
Other Press, 10/12/2021
In the summer of 2002, when Korea is abuzz over hosting the FIFA World Cup, eighteen-year-old Kim Hae-on is killed in what becomes known as the High ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Apollo Murders
by
Colonel Chris Hadfield
Mulholland, 10/12/2021
1973: a final, top-secret mission to the Moon. Three astronauts in a tiny spaceship, a quarter million miles from home. A quarter million miles from ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Corpse Flower: Kaldan and Scháfer Mysteries #1
by
Anne Mette Hancock
Crooked Lane Books, 10/12/2021
Danish journalist Heloise Kaldan is in the middle of a nightmare. One of her sources has been caught lying, and she could lose her job over it. Then ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Keeper of Night: The Keeper of Night #1
by
Kylie Lee Baker
Inkyard Press, 10/12/2021
Death is her destiny.
Half British Reaper, half Japanese Shinigami, Ren Scarborough has been collecting souls in the London streets for centuries. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Last Cuentista
by
Donna Barba Higuera
Arthur A. Levine Books, 10/12/2021
Había una vez ...
There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita.
But Petra'...
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The Lost Café Schindler: One Family, Two Wars, and the Search for Truth
by
Meriel Schindler
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/12/2021
Meriel Schindler spent her adult life trying to keep her father, Kurt, at bay. But when he died in 2017, he left behind piles of Nazi-era documents ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
This Thing Between Us: A Novel
by
Gus Moreno
MCD, 10/12/2021
It was Vera's idea to buy the Itza. The "world's most advanced smart speaker!" It didn't interest Thiago, but Vera thought it would be a bit of fun ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee's Search for Home
by
Mondiant Dogon
Penguin Press, 10/12/2021
One day when Mondiant Dogon, a Bagogwe Tutsi born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was only three years old, his father's lifelong friend, a Hutu ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
by
Mary Beard
Princeton University Press, 10/12/2021
What does the face of power
look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Line to Kill: A Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery #3
by
Anthony Horowitz
Harper, 10/19/2021
When Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, are invited to an exclusive literary festival on Alderney, an ...
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Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture
by
Zeba Blay
St. Martin's Griffin, 10/19/2021
In 2013, film and culture critic Zeba Blay was one of the first people to coin the viral term #carefreeblackgirls on Twitter. As she says, it was "a ...
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Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution
by
Woody Holton
Simon & Schuster, 10/19/2021
Using more than a thousand eyewitness accounts,
Liberty Is Sweet explores countless connections between the Patriots of 1776 and other Americans whose...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Little Thieves
by
Margaret Owen
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, 10/19/2021
Once upon a time, there was a horrible girl...
Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother's love―and she's on the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Monster in the Middle: A Novel
by
Tiphanie Yanique
Riverhead Books, 10/19/2021
When Fly and Stela meet in 21st Century New York City, it seems like fate. He's a Black American musician from a mixed-religious background who knows ...
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Once Upon a Wardrobe: A Story of Narnia and a Sister's Love
by
Patti Callahan
Harper, 10/19/2021
Megs Devonshire, on a scholarship at Oxford, is brilliant with numbers and equations. She prefers the dependability of facts—except for one: the...
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Orwell's Roses
by
Rebecca Solnit
Viking, 10/19/2021
"In the year 1936 a writer planted roses." So begins Rebecca Solnit's new book, a reflection on George Orwell's passionate gardening and the way that ...
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Rise Up!: How You Can Join the Fight Against White Supremacy
by
Crystal Marie Fleming
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, 10/19/2021
Why are white supremacists still openly marching in the United States? Why are undocumented children of color separated from their families and housed...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times (Global Icons Series)
by
Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams
Celadon, 10/19/2021
In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope?
Looking at the headlines―the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss ...
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As the Wicked Watch: Jordan Manning Series #1
by
Tamron Hall
William Morrow, 10/26/2021
When crime reporter Jordan Manning leaves her hometown in Texas to take a job at a television station in Chicago, she's one step closer to her dream: ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Cascade: Stories
by
Craig Davidson
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/26/2021
From the bestselling author of
The Saturday Night Ghost Club comes this collection of seven brilliantly cinematic short stories. The gems in this ...
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Five Decembers
by
James Kestrel
Orchard Books, 10/26/2021
December 1941. America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to investigate a homicide that ...
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From Warsaw with Love: Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance
by
John Pomfret
Henry Holt and Company, 10/26/2021
Spanning decades and continents, from the battlefields of the Balkans to secret nuclear research labs in Iran and embassy grounds in North Korea, this...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Mr. Beethoven
by
Paul Griffiths
New York Review Books, 10/26/2021
It is a matter of historical record that in 1823 the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston (active to this day) sought to commission Beethoven to write ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Sisters of the Great War: A Novel
by
Suzanne Feldman
Mira, 10/26/2021
August 1914. While Europe enters a brutal conflict unlike any waged before, the Duncan household in Baltimore, Maryland, is the setting for a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine
by
Brendan Borrell
Mariner Books, 10/26/2021
Heroic science. Chaotic politics. Billionaire entrepreneurs. Award-winning journalist Brendan Borrell brings the defining story of our times alive ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA
by
Jorge L. Contreras
Algonquin Books, 10/26/2021
When Chris Hansen, an ACLU lawyer, learned that the US government was issuing patents for human genes to biotech companies, his first thought was: How...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Lighthouse
by
Christopher Parker
Beacon Press, 10/26/2021
Is love just a fleeting emotion? Just a chemical reaction in the brain? Or is it something more tangible, part of the human spirit that endures long ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Nameless Ones: Charlie Parker #19
by
John Connolly
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 10/26/2021
In Amsterdam, four bodies, violently butchered, are discovered in a canal house, the remains of friends and confidantes of the assassin known only as ...
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Trashlands: A novel
by
Alison Stine
Mira, 10/26/2021
A few generations from now, the coastlines of the continent have been redrawn by floods and tides. Global powers have agreed to not produce any new ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Verity
by
Colleen Hoover
Grand Central Publishing, 10/26/2021
Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of ...
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Thrillers
We Light Up the Sky
by
Lilliam Rivera
Bloomsbury YA, 10/26/2021
Should you save a world that doesn't want to save you?
Pedro, Luna, and Rafa may attend Fairfax High School together in Los Angeles, but they run ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Certain Appeal
by
Vanessa King
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 11/02/2021
After a betrayal derailed her interior design career, Liz Bennet found a fresh start in New York. Now an executive assistant by day and stage kitten ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
A Marvellous Light: The Last Binding #1
by
Freya Marske
Tor.com, 11/02/2021
Robin Blyth has more than enough bother in his life. He's struggling to be a good older brother, a responsible employer, and the harried baronet of a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Against the Loveless World: A Novel
by
Susan Abulhawa
Washington Square Press, 11/02/2021
As Nahr sits, locked away in solitary confinement, she spends her days reflecting on the dramatic events that landed her in prison in a country she ...
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Blue-Skinned Gods
by
SJ Sindu
Soho Press, 11/02/2021
In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy is born with blue skin. His father sets up an ashram, and the family makes a living off of the pilgrims who seek the child...
more
Chasing Homer
by
László Krasznahorkai
New Directions Publishing, 11/02/2021
In this thrilling chase narrative, a hunted being escapes certain death at breakneck speed―careening through Europe, heading blindly South. ...
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Cokie: A Life Well Lived
by
Steven V. Roberts
Harper, 11/02/2021
Through her visibility and celebrity, Cokie Roberts was an inspiration and a role model for innumerable women and girls. A fixture on national ...
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Cosmogramma
by
Courttia Newland
Akashic Books, 11/02/2021
In his exquisite first collection of speculative fiction, Courttia Newland envisages an alternate future as lived by the African diaspora.
Kill ...
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Cremation
by
Rafael Chirbes
New Directions Publishing, 11/02/2021
Along the Mediterranean coastline of Spain, real-estate developers scramble to transform the once pastoral landscape into tourist resorts, nightclubs,...
more
Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
by
Gregg Mitman
The New Press, 11/02/2021
In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world's automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world's rubber. But only one percent of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America
by
Michael Eric Dyson
St. Martin's Press, 11/02/2021
From the
New York Times bestselling author of
Tears We Cannot Stop,
Entertaining Race is a testament to Dyson's consistent celebration of the outsized...
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Frequently Asked Questions about the Universe
by
Jorge Cham, Daniel Whiteson
Riverhead Books, 11/02/2021
As a species, we may not agree on much, but one thing brings us all together: a need to know. We all wonder, and deep down we all have the same big ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine: A Novel
by
Klara Hveberg
HarperVia, 11/02/2021
Rakel has always been more comfortable with numbers than with people. A gifted woman with a rare talent for math, she has never mastered the art of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age
by
Debby Applegate
Doubleday, 11/02/2021
Simply put: Everybody came to Polly's. Pearl "Polly" Adler (1900-1962) was a diminutive dynamo whose Manhattan brothels in the Roaring Twenties became...
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New Year
by
Juli Zeh
World Editions, 11/02/2021
Lanzarote on New Year's Day: Henning is cycling up the steep path to Femés. As he struggles against the wind and the gradient he takes stock of ...
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New York, My Village: A Novel
by
Uwem Akpan
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/02/2021
Ekong Udousoro is a Nigerian editor undertaking a reckoning with the brutal recent history of his homeland by curating a collection of stories about ...
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Our Country Friends: A Novel
by
Gary Shteyngart
Random House, 11/02/2021
It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the ...
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Shoot the Moonlight Out: A Novel
by
William Boyle
Pegasus Crime, 11/02/2021
An explosive crime drama,
Shoot the Moonlight Out evokes a mystical Brooklyn where the sidewalks are cracked, where Virgin Mary statues tilt in fenced...
more
Still Life
by
Sarah Winman
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 11/02/2021
Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer
by
Rax King
Vintage, 11/02/2021
Tacky is about the power of pop culture—like any art—to imprint itself on our lives and shape our experiences, no matter one's commitment ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
The Bad Immigrant
by
Sefi Atta
Interlink Books, 11/02/2021
Writing at the height of her powers,
The Bad Immigrant cements Sefi Atta's place as one of the best storytellers of our time. Through the voice of her...
more
The Interim
by
Wolfgang Hilbig
Two Lines Press, 11/02/2021
C. is a wretched grump, an anguished patron of bars, brothels, and train stations. He is also an acclaimed East German writer. Dogged by writer's ...
more
The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World
by
Porter Fox
Little Brown & Company, 11/02/2021
As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring snowpack and in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
The Seventh Queen: Warrior Witch Duology #2
by
Greta Kelly
Harper Voyager, 11/02/2021
The Empire of Vishir has lost its ruler, and the fight to save Seravesh from the Roven Empire is looking bleak. Moreover, Askia has been captured by ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World
by
Claire Tomalin
Penguin Press, 11/02/2021
Upon the death of H. G. Wells, in 1946, George Orwell remarked, "If he had stopped writing in 1920 his reputation would stand quite as high as it does...
more
Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City
by
Andrew Lawler
Doubleday, 11/02/2021
In 1863, a French senator arrived in Jerusalem hoping to unearth relics dating to biblical times. Digging deep underground, he discovered an ancient ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Win Me Something
by
Kyle Lucia Wu
Tin House Books, 11/02/2021
Willa Chen has never quite fit in. Growing up as a biracial Chinese American girl in New Jersey, Willa felt both hypervisible and unseen, too Asian to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Admit This to No One: Collected Stories
by
Leslie Pietrzyk
The Unnamed Press, 11/06/2021
The Speaker's daughters from his several failed marriages have a complicated relationship with him to say the least―alternating between longing ...
more
Around the World in 80 Books
by
David Damrosch
Penguin Press, 11/09/2021
Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University's department of comparative literature and founder of Harvard...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Atlas of the Invisible: Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You See the World
by
James Cheshire, Oliver Uberti
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/09/2021
Award-winning geographer-designer team James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti transform enormous datasets into rich maps and cutting-edge visualizations. In...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Doctors and Friends
by
Kimmery Martin
Berkley Books, 11/09/2021
When Compton Winfield returns to her job as an ER doctor in New York City, she finds a city changed beyond recognition—and a personal loss so ...
more
Indigo: Arm Wrestling, Snake Saving, and Some Things In Between
by
Padgett Powell
Catapult, 11/09/2021
Gathering pieces written during the past three decades,
Indigo ranges widely in subject matter and tone, opening with "Cleve Dean," which takes ...
more
Island Infernos: The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944
by
John C. McManus
Caliber, 11/09/2021
After some two years at war, the Army in the Pacific held ground across nearly a third of the globe, from Alaska's Aleutians to Burma and New Guinea. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
O Beautiful: A Novel
by
Jung Yun
St. Martin's Press, 11/09/2021
Elinor Hanson, a forty-something former model, is struggling to reinvent herself as a freelance writer when she receives an unexpected assignment. Her...
more
Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution
by
H. W. Brands
Doubleday, 11/09/2021
What causes people to forsake their country and take arms against it? What prompts their neighbors, hardly distinguishable in station&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Skin Elegies
by
Lance Olsen
Dzanc Books, 11/09/2021
At the center stands an American couple who have fled their increasingly repressive country, now under the authoritarian rule of the Reformation ...
more
Sway with Me
by
Syed M. Masood
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 11/09/2021
Arsalan has learned everything he knows from Nana, his 100-year-old great-grandfather. This includes the fact that when Nana dies, Arsalan will be ...
more
Tenderness
by
Alison Macleod
Bloomsbury USA, 11/09/2021
On the glittering shores of the Mediterranean in 1928, a dying author in exile races to complete his final novel.
Lady Chatterley's Lover is a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Library: A Fragile History
by
Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen
Basic Books, 11/09/2021
Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Transcendentalists and Their World
by
Robert A. Gross
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/09/2021
The Transcendentalists and Their World offers a fresh view of the thinkers whose outsize impact on philosophy and literature would spread from tiny ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America's Heartland
by
Dick Lehr
Mariner Books, 11/09/2021
In the spring of 2016, as immigration debates rocked the United States, three men in a militia group known as the Crusaders grew aggravated over one ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Brave and Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America
by
James Horn
Basic Books, 11/16/2021
In the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake Bay kidnapped an Indian child and took him back to Spain and subsequently to Mexico....
more
A Guardian Angel Recalls
by
Willem Frederik Hermans
Archipelago Books, 11/16/2021
Alberegt, a public prosecutor and self-proclaimed "man of minor failings," speeds through Hook of Holland in his black Renault on May 9, 1940. His ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Human History of Emotion: How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know
by
Richard Firth-Godbehere
Little, Brown Spark, 11/16/2021
We humans like to think of ourselves as rational creatures, who, as a species, have relied on calculation and intellect to survive. But many of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Chouette
by
Claire Oshetsky
Ecco, 11/16/2021
Tiny is pregnant. Her husband is delighted. "You think this baby is going to be like you, but it's not like you at all," she warns him. "This baby is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Even Greater Mistakes: Stories
by
Charlie Jane Anders
Tor Books, 11/16/2021
The woman who can see all possible futures is dating the man who can see the one and only foreordained future.
A wildly popular slapstick filmmaker...
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Galloway: Life In a Vanishing Landscape
by
Patrick Laurie
Counterpoint Press, 11/16/2021
Galloway, an ancient region in an obscure corner of Scotland, has a proud and unique heritage based on hardy cattle and wide moors. But as the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America
by
Mayukh Sen
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/16/2021
Who's really behind America's appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
by
Nikole Hannah-Jones
One World, 11/16/2021
In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Every: A novel
by
Dave Eggers
Vintage, 11/16/2021
Delaney Wells is an unlikely new hire at the Every. A former forest ranger and unwavering tech skeptic, she charms her way into an entry-level job ...
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The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011
by
Edith Schloss
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/16/2021
The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly is a firsthand account by an artist at the center of a landmark era in American art. Edith ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Missing Piece: Dismas Hardy #19
by
John Lescroart
Atria Books, 11/16/2021
No one mourned when San Francisco DA Wes Farrell put Paul Riley in prison eleven years ago for the rape and murder of his girlfriend. And no one is ...
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The Power of Women: A Doctor's Journey of Hope and Healing
by
Denis Mukwege
Flatiron Books, 11/16/2021
At the heart of Dr. Mukwege's message will be the voices of the many women he has worked with over the years. Dr. Mukwege will use individual cases to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Singles Table
by
Sara Desai
Berkley Books, 11/16/2021
After a devastating break-up, celebrity-obsessed lawyer Zara Patel is determined never to open her heart again. She puts her energy into building her ...
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The Teller of Secrets: A Novel
by
Bisi Adjapon
HarperVia, 11/16/2021
Young Esi Agyekum is the unofficial "secret keeper" of her family, as tight-lipped about her father's adultery as she is about her half-sisters' sex ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers
by
Ken Krimstein
Bloomsbury USA, 11/16/2021
When I Grow Up is
New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein's new graphic nonfiction book, based on six of hundreds of newly discovered, never-before-...
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Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
by
Catherine McCormack
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/16/2021
Venus, maiden, wife, mother, monster―women have been bound so long by these restrictive roles, codified by patriarchal culture, that we scarcely...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone: A Novel (Outlander)
by
Diana Gabaldon
Delacorte Press, 11/23/2021
Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1746, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. Now the ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Harsh Times: A Novel
by
Mario Vargas Llosa
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/23/2021
Guatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA topples the government of Jacobo Árbenz. Behind ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Love, Lists, and Fancy Ships
by
Sarah Grunder Ruiz
Berkley Books, 11/23/2021
For the last year, yacht stewardess Jo Walker has been attempting to complete a bucket list of thirty things she wants to accomplish by her thirtieth ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
The Anomaly: A Novel
by
Hervé Le Tellier
Other Press, 11/23/2021
Who would we be if we had made different choices? Told that secret, left that relationship, written that book? We all wonder—the passengers of ...more
These Precious Days: Essays
by
Ann Patchett
Harper, 11/23/2021
"Any story that starts will also end." As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do...
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Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles
by
Lydia Davis
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/30/2021
Lydia Davis, who has been called "a magician of self-consciousness" by Jonathan Franzen and "the best prose stylist in America" by Rick Moody, ...
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Jade Legacy: The Green Bone Saga #3
by
Fonda Lee
Orbit, 11/30/2021
Jade, the mysterious and magical substance once exclusive to the Green Bone warriors of Kekon, is now coveted throughout the world. Everyone wants ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
People from My Neighborhood: Stories
by
Hiromi Kawakami
Soft Skull Press, 11/30/2021
A bossy child who lives under a white cloth near a tree; a schoolgirl who keeps doll's brains in a desk drawer; an old man with two shadows, one ...
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Pilot Impostor
by
James Hannaham
Soft Skull Press, 11/30/2021
Early in 2017, on a plane from Cape Verde to Lisbon, author and visual artist James Hannaham started reading
Pessoa & Co., Richard Zenith's English ...
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Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult
by
Faith Jones
William Morrow, 11/30/2021
Faith Jones was raised to be part an elite army preparing for the End Times. Growing up on an isolated farm in Macau, she prayed for hours every day ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Small Things Like These
by
Claire Keegan
Grove Press, 11/30/2021
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Words in My Hands
by
Asphyxia
Annick Press, 11/30/2021
Set in an ominously prescient near future,
The Words in My Hands is the story of Piper: sixteen, smart, artistic, and rebellious, she's struggling to ...
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Punks: New & Selected Poems (Song Cave)
by
John Keene
The Song Cave, 12/01/2021
With depth and breadth,
Punks weaves together historic narratives of loss, lust, and love. The many voices that emerge in these poems--from historic ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind
by
Ann Wolbert Burgess
Hachette Books, 12/07/2021
Lurking beneath the progressive activism and sex positivity in the 1970-80s, a dark undercurrent of violence rippled across the American landscape. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Bright Burning Things: A Novel
by
Lisa Harding
HarperVia, 12/07/2021
Sonya used to perform on stage. She attended glamorous parties, dated handsome men, rode in fast cars. But somewhere along the way, the stage lights ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Call Us What We Carry: Poems
by
Amanda Gorman
Viking, 12/07/2021
Formerly titled
The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, the luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Family Business: Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mysteries #14
by
S. J. Rozan
Pegasus Crime, 12/07/2021
Choi has left the Tong headquarters building to his niece, who hires Lydia and her partner, Bill Smith, to accompany her to inspect it. The building ...
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From a Dark Horizon: Gregor Reinhardt #4
by
Luke McCallin
Berkley Books, 12/07/2021
It's the final days of the Great War and four years of grinding conflict has warped more than one man's mind. When a secret meeting of top brass is ...
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Garbo
by
Robert Gottlieb
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 12/07/2021
"Wherever you look in the period between 1925 and 1941," Robert Gottlieb writes in
Garbo, "Greta Garbo is in people's minds, hearts, and dreams." ...
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Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton
by
Joe Moshenska
Basic Books, 12/07/2021
John Milton was once essential reading for visionaries and revolutionaries, from William Blake to Ben Franklin. Now, however, he has become a literary...
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Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays
by
Siri Hustvedt
Simon & Schuster, 12/07/2021
Described as "a 21st-century Virginia Woolf" in the
Literary Review (UK), Man Booker longlisted Hustvedt displays her expansive intellect and ...
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Observations by Gaslight: Stories from the World of Sherlock Holmes
by
Lyndsay Faye
Mysterious Press, 12/07/2021
Lyndsay Faye―international bestseller, translated into fifteen languages, and a two-time Edgar Award nominee―first appeared on the ...
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One Night, New York: A Novel
by
Lara Thompson
Pegasus Crime, 12/07/2021
For the hundredth time since they'd made their promise, she wondered if she and Agnes were really going to go through with it, if she was brave and ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Past Life: DS McAvoy #9
by
David Mark
Severn House, 12/07/2021
The clairvoyant is found with her tongue crudely carved out, a shard of blue crystal buried deep within her mangled ribcage.
The crime scene ...
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Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
by
Joseph L. Graves Jr., Alan H. Goodman
Columbia University Press, 12/07/2021
Inequities in health, wealth, and an array of other life outcomes cannot be explained without referring to "race"―but their true source is
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Sea State: A Memoir
by
Tabitha Lasley
Ecco, 12/07/2021
In her midthirties and newly free from a terrible relationship, Tabitha Lasley quit her job at a London magazine, packed her bags, and poured her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Sharpe's Assassin: Richard Sharpe and the Occupation of Paris, 1815 (Sharpe #22)
by
Bernard Cornwell
Harper, 12/07/2021
SHARPE IS BACK.
Outsider.
Hero.
Rogue.
And the one man you want on your side.
Sharpe's Assassin is the brand-new novel in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera
by
Matthew Aucoin
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 12/07/2021
From its beginning, opera has been an impossible art. Its first practitioners, in seventeenth-century Florence, set themselves the unreachable goal of...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Kids
by
Hannah Lowe
Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 12/07/2021
Hannah Lowe taught for a decade in an inner-city London sixth form. At the heart of this book of compassionate and energetic sonnets are fictionalised...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Midnight Hour: Brighton Mysteries #6
by
Elly Griffiths
Mariner Books, 12/07/2021
Newly minted PI Emma Holmes and her partner Sam Collins are just settling into their business when they're chosen for a high-profile case: retired ...
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The Veiled Throne: The Dandelion Dynasty #3
by
Ken Liu
Gallery Books, 12/07/2021
Princess Théra, once known as Empress Üna of Dara, entrusted the throne to her younger brother in order to journey to Ukyu-Gondé to war...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
True Crime Story: A Novel
by
Joseph Knox
Sourcebooks, 12/07/2021
The thrilling story of a university student's sudden disappearance, the woman who became obsessed with her case, and the crime writer who uncovered ...
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Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny
by
Ann Marks
Atria Books, 12/07/2021
Vivian Maier, the photographer nanny whose work was famously discovered in a Chicago storage locker, captured the imagination of the world with her ...
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White on White: A Novel
by
Aysegül Savas
Riverhead Books, 12/07/2021
A student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes, renting an apartment from a painter, Agnes, who lives in another town with her husband. One day,...
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