1919 The Year That Changed America
by
Martin W. Sandler
Bloomsbury Children's Books, 01/08/2019
1919 was a world-shaking year. America was recovering from World War I and black soldiers returned to racism so violent that that summer would become ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
48 Hours: A Novel
by
William R. Forstchen
Forge Books, 01/08/2019
In 48 hours, the Earth will be hit by a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) from the Sun, a "Carrington Event" that has the power to shut down and possibly ...
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Thrillers
99 Nights in Logar
by
Jamil Jan Kochai
Viking, 01/08/2019
Twelve-year-old Marwand's memories from his previous visit to Afghanistan six years ago center on his contentious relationship with Budabash, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
An Orchestra of Minorities
by
Chigozie Obioma
Little Brown & Company, 01/08/2019
Set on the outskirts of Umuahia, Nigeria and narrated by a
chi, or guardian spirit,
An Orchestra of Minorities tells the story of Chinonso, a young ...
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Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
by
Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert
Balzer + Bray, 01/08/2019
Black is...sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in Portland, Oregon, as written by Renée Watson.
Black is…three friends ...
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Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien"
by
Jeremy N. Smith
Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 01/08/2019
When she arrived at MIT in the 1990s, Alien was quickly drawn to the school's tradition of high-risk physical trespassing: the original "hacking." ...
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Burned: A Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn't
by
Edward Humes
Dutton, 01/08/2019
On an April night in 1989, Jo Ann Parks survived a house fire that claimed the lives of her three small children. Though the fire at first seemed a ...
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How to Date Men When You Hate Men
by
Blythe Roberson
Flatiron Books, 01/08/2019
Blythe Roberson's sharp observational humor is met by her open-hearted willingness to revel in the ugliest warts and shimmering highs of choosing to ...
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Advice
Lives Laid Away: An August Snow Novel (Book 2)
by
Stephen Mack Jones
Soho Crime, 01/08/2019
When the body of an unidentified young Hispanic woman dressed as Queen Marie Antoinette is dredged from the Detroit River, the Detroit Police ...
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Looker
by
Laura Sims
Scribner, 01/08/2019
I've never crossed their little fenced-in garden, of course. I stand on the sidewalk in front of the fern-and-ivy-filled planter that hangs from the ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Mouthful of Birds: Stories
by
Samanta Schweblin
Riverhead Books, 01/08/2019
Unearthly and unexpected, the stories in
Mouthful of Birds burrow their way into your psyche and don't let go. Samanta Schweblin haunts and ...
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Old Newgate Road
by
Keith Scribner
Knopf, 01/08/2019
Old Newgate Road runs through the tobacco fields of northern Connecticut that once drove the local economy. It's where Cole Callahan spent his youth, ...
more
Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life
by
Lucy Worsley
St. Martin's Griffin, 01/08/2019
Perhaps one of the best known of the English monarchs, Queen Victoria forever shaped a chapter of English history, bequeathing her name to the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Scrublands
by
Chris Hammer
Touchstone, 01/08/2019
In Riversend, an isolated rural community afflicted by an endless drought, a young priest does the unthinkable, killing five parishioners before being...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
She Lies in Wait
by
Gytha Lodge
Random House, 01/08/2019
On a scorching July night in 1983, a group of teenagers goes camping in the forest. Bright and brilliant, they are destined for great things, and the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Li Po)
by
Ha Jin
Pantheon Books, 01/08/2019
With the instincts of a master novelist, Ha Jin draws on a wide range of historical and literary sources to weave the life story of Li Bai (701-762), ...
more
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
by
Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch
Flatiron Books, 01/08/2019
In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington's bodyguards. Washington trusted them; relied on them. But ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The New Iberia Blues: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
by
James Lee Burke
Simon & Schuster, 01/08/2019
Detective Dave Robicheaux's world isn't filled with too many happy stories, but Desmond Cormier's rags-to-riches tale is certainly one of them. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Wicked King: The Folk of the Air
by
Holly Black
Little Brown & Company, 01/08/2019
You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring.
The first lesson is to make yourself strong.
After the jaw-...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Thick: And Other Essays
by
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Atheneum Books, 01/08/2019
In these eight piercing explorations on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom - award-winning professor and acclaimed author of
...more
Two Can Keep a Secret
by
Karen M. McManus
Delacorte Press, 01/08/2019
Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. And only five...
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Wanderer
by
Sarah Léon (author), John Cullen (translator)
Other Press, 01/08/2019
Hermin, a composer and instructor, leads a secluded life near the Bourbonnais Mountains in France, composing an homage to Schubert. On a bitter ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World
by
Malala Yousafzai
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 01/08/2019
After her father was murdered, María escaped in the middle of the night with her mother.Zaynab was out of school for two years as she fled war ...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life
by
Edith Hall
Penguin Press, 01/15/2019
Aristotle was the first philosopher to inquire into subjective happiness, and he understood its essence better and more clearly than anyone since. ...
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As Long as We Both Shall Live
by
JoAnn Chaney
Flatiron Books, 01/15/2019
As Long As We Both Shall Live is JoAnn Chaney's wicked, masterful examination of a marriage gone very wrong, a marriage with lots of secrets…
...
more
Big Bang
by
David Bowman
Little Brown & Company, 01/15/2019
Where were you when you first heard President Kennedy had been shot? This is a question most people can answer, even if the answer is "I wasn't born ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Echo North
by
Joanna Ruth Meyer
Page Street Publishing, 01/15/2019
Believing his father is lost forever, Echo is shocked to find him half-frozen in the winter forest six months later, guarded by a strange talking wolf...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Elsey Come Home
by
Susan Conley
Knopf, 01/15/2019
When Elsey's husband, Lukas, hands her a brochure for a weeklong mountain retreat, she knows he is really giving her an ultimatum: Go, or we're done. ...
more
Last Night in Nuuk
by
Niviaq Korneliussen
Grove Press, 01/15/2019
Niviaq Korneliussen is a ground-breaking young writer hailed for creating "[her] own genre" (
Politiken, Denmark) in her witty and fearless debut
Last ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Last Woman Standing: A Novel of Suspense
by
Amy Gentry
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 01/15/2019
Dana Diaz is an aspiring stand-up comedian - a woman in a man's world. When she meets a tough computer programmer named Amanda Dorn, the two bond over...
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Mothers: Stories
by
Chris Power
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 01/15/2019
Chris Power's stories are peopled by men and women who find themselves at crossroads or dead ends - characters who search without knowing what they ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
No Sunscreen for the Dead: A Serge Storms Novel
by
Tim Dorsey
William Morrow, 01/15/2019
Serge and Coleman are back on the road, ready to hit the next stop on their list of obscure and wacky points of interest in the Sunshine State. This ...
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Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems
by
Dorianne Laux
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/15/2019
Only as the Day Is Long represents a brilliant, daring body of work from one of our boldest contemporary poets, known to bear compassionate and ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Talk to Me
by
John Kenney
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/15/2019
It's a story that Ted Grayson has reported time and time again in his job as a network TV anchor: the public downfall of those at the top. He just ...
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The Smiling Man: An Aidan Waits Thriller
by
Joseph Knox
Crown, 01/15/2019
Aidan Waits is back on the night shift, the Manchester PD dumping ground for those too screwed-up for more glamorous work. But the monotony of petty ...
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Unquiet
by
Linn Ullmann
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/15/2019
He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything. She is his daughter, the youngest of nine children. Every summer, since she was a ...
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Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing As We Age
by
Mary Pipher
Bloomsbury USA, 01/15/2019
Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for...
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You Know You Want This
by
Kristen Roupenian
Gallery/Scout Press, 01/15/2019
You Know You Want This brilliantly explores the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it captures the horrors that are done to them. Among its...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
by
Elizabeth Wein
Balzer + Bray, 01/22/2019
In the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female pilots to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries #1
by
Martha Wells
Tor Books, 01/22/2019
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
by
Benjamin Dreyer
Random House, 01/22/2019
We all write, all the time: books, blogs, emails. Lots and lots of emails. And we all want to write better. Benjamin Dreyer is here to help.
As ...
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Holy Lands
by
Amanda Sthers
Bloomsbury USA, 01/22/2019
As comic as it is deeply moving,
Holy Lands chronicles several months in the lives of an estranged family of colorful eccentrics. Harry Rosenmerck is ...
more
Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
by
Helen Zia
Ballantine Books, 01/22/2019
Shanghai has historically been China's jewel, its richest, most modern and westernized city. The bustling metropolis was home to sophisticated ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
by
Stephanie Land
Hachette Books, 01/22/2019
"My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter."
While the gap between upper middle-class Americans and the working poor widens, grueling low-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
That Churchill Woman
by
Stephanie Barron
Ballantine Books, 01/22/2019
Wealthy, privileged, and fiercely independent New Yorker Jennie Jerome took Victorian England by storm when she landed on its shores. As Lady Randolph...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Climate Report: National Climate Assessment-Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States
by
U.S. Global Change Research Program
Melville House, 01/22/2019
The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is mandated by law "at least every four years ... to submit to the President and the Congress an ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
The Current
by
Tim Johnston
Algonquin Books, 01/22/2019
In the dead of winter, outside a small Minnesota town, state troopers pull two young women and their car from the icy Black Root River. One is found ...
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The Golden Tresses of the Dead: A Flavia de Luce Novel
by
Alan Bradley
Delacorte Press, 01/22/2019
Although it is autumn in the small English town of Bishop's Lacey, the chapel is decked with exotic flowers. Yes, Flavia de Luce's sister Ophelia is ...
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The Kingdom of Copper: A Novel (The Daevabad Trilogy)
by
S. A Chakraborty
Harper Voyager, 01/22/2019
Nahri's life changed forever the moment she accidentally summoned Dara, a formidable, mysterious djinn, during one of her schemes. Whisked from her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Magic Feather Effect: The Science of Alternative Medicine and the Surprising Power of Belief
by
Melanie Warner
Scribner, 01/22/2019
We all know someone who has had a seemingly miraculous cure from an alternative form of medicine: a friend whose chronic back pain vanished after ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Nowhere Child
by
Christian White
Minotaur Books, 01/22/2019
Kimberly Leamy is a photography teacher in Melbourne, Australia. Twenty-six years earlier, Sammy Went, a two-year old girl vanished from her home in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Wartime Sisters
by
Lynda Cohen Loigman
St. Martin's Griffin, 01/22/2019
Two estranged sisters, raised in Brooklyn and each burdened with her own shocking secret, are reunited at the Springfield Armory in the early days of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Weight of a Piano
by
Chris Cander
Knopf, 01/22/2019
In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life: a Blüthner piano, built at the turn of ...
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Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring
by
Richard Gergel
Sarah Crichton Books, 01/22/2019
On February 12, 1946, Sergeant Isaac Woodard, a returning, decorated African American veteran, was removed from a Greyhound bus in Batesburg, South ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Curse So Dark and Lonely
by
Brigid Kemmerer
Bloomsbury USA, 01/29/2019
Fall in love, break the curse.
It once seemed so easy to Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall. Cursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn ...
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All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf
by
Katharine Smyth
Crown, 01/29/2019
Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece
To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
At the Wolf's Table
by
Rosella Postorino
Flatiron Books, 01/29/2019
"They called it the Wolfsschanze, the Wolf's Lair. 'Wolf' was his nickname. As hapless as Little Red Riding Hood, I had ended up in his belly. A ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
by
Emily Bernard
Knopf, 01/29/2019
An extraordinary, exquisitely written memoir (of sorts) that looks at race - in a fearless, penetrating, honest, true way - in twelve telltale, ...
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Cicada
by
Shaun Tan
Arthur A. Levine Books, 01/29/2019
Cicada tells the story of a hardworking little cicada who is completely unappreciated for what he does. But in the end, just when you think he's given...
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Golden Child
by
Claire Adam
SJP for Hogarth, 01/29/2019
Rural Trinidad: a brick house on stilts surrounded by bush; a family, quietly surviving, just trying to live a decent life. Clyde, the father, works ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
House of Stone
by
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/29/2019
In the chronic turmoil of modern Zimbabwe, Abednego and Agnes Mlambo's teenage son, Bukhosi, has gone missing, and the Mlambos fear the worst. Their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Out of the Dark: An Orphan X Novel
by
Gregg Hurwitz
Minotaur Books, 01/29/2019
Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was raised and trained as part of the Orphan Program, an off-the-books operation designed to create ...
more
The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation
by
Jodie Patterson
Ballantine Books, 01/29/2019
As an African American growing up on Manhattan's Upper West Side in the 1970s, when neighborhoods defined people, Jodie Patterson learned early on to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali
by
Sabina Khan
Scholastic, 01/29/2019
Unable to come out to her conservative Muslim parents, Rukhsana Ali keeps that part of her identity hidden. And that means keeping her girlfriend, ...
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The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal.
by
Evan Ratliff
Random House, 01/29/2019
It all started as an online prescription drug network, supplying hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of painkillers to American customers. It would...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
by
Will Hunt
Spiegel & Grau, 01/29/2019
When Will Hunt was sixteen years old, he discovered an abandoned tunnel that ran beneath his house in Providence, Rhode Island. His first tunnel trips...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Brown White Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
by
Nishta J. Mehra
Picador, 02/05/2019
Brown, White, Black is a portrait of Nishta J. Mehra's family: her wife, who is white; her adopted son, who is black; and their experiences dealing ...
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Courting Darkness: Courting Darkness duology
by
Robin LaFevers
Houghton Mifflin Books For Younger Readers, 02/05/2019
Told in alternating perspectives, when Sybella discovers there is another trained assassin from St. Mortain's convent deep undercover in the French ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
by
Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson
Crown, 02/05/2019
For half a century, statisticians, pundits, and politicians have warned that a burgeoning population will soon overwhelm the earth's resources. But a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Flight of a Starling
by
Lisa Heathfield
Carolrhoda Books, 02/05/2019
Best friends and sisters Lo and Rita have spent their lives flying through the air on the trapeze under the lights in the big top. The nomadic circus ...
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Forget You Know Me
by
Jessica Strawser
St. Martin's Press, 02/05/2019
Molly and Liza have always been enviably close. Even after Molly married Daniel, the couple considered Liza an honorary family member. But after Liza ...
more
Friend of My Youth
by
Amit Chaudhuri
New York Review Books, 02/05/2019
Amit Chaudhuri has long blurred the boundaries between fact and fiction, seeking to turn the novel into a form not only of reflection but also of ...
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Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions
by
Briallen Hopper
Bloomsbury USA, 02/05/2019
Sometimes it seems like there are two American creeds, self-reliance and marriage, and neither of them is mine. I experience myself as someone formed ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship
by
Eva Hagberg Fisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 02/05/2019
Eva Hagberg Fisher spent her lonely youth looking everywhere for connection: drugs, alcohol, therapists, boyfriends, girlfriends. Sometimes ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
If We Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed and How it Might Be Saved
by
Michael Tomasky
Liveright / WW Norton, 02/05/2019
Why has American politics fallen into such a state of horrible dysfunction? Can it ever be fixed? These are the questions that motivate Michael ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk
by
Amy S. Greenberg
Knopf, 02/05/2019
While the Woman's Rights convention was taking place at Seneca Falls in 1848, First Lady Sarah Childress Polk was wielding influence unprecedented for...
more
Magical Negro
by
Morgan Parker
Tin House Books, 02/05/2019
Magical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts
by
Jill Abramson
Simon & Schuster, 02/05/2019
Merchants of Truth is the groundbreaking and gripping story of the precarious state of the news business told by one of our most eminent journalists.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
More Than Words
by
Jill Santopolo
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 02/05/2019
Nina has always known who she's supposed to be. But is that who she truly is?
Nina Gregory has always been a good daughter. Raised by her father, ...
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New Kid
by
Jerry Craft
HarperCollins Children's Books, 02/05/2019
Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his ...
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No Beast So Fierce: The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Animal in History
by
Dane Huckelbridge
William Morrow, 02/05/2019
Nepal, c. 1900: The single deadliest animal in recorded history began stalking humans, moving like a phantom through the lush foothills of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
On The Come Up
by
Angie Thomas
Balzer + Bray, 02/05/2019
Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip hop ...
more
Literary Fiction
Same Same
by
Peter Mendelsund
Vintage, 02/05/2019
In the shifting sands of the desert, near an unnamed metropolis, there is an institute where various fellows come to undertake projects of great ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Stalin's Scribe: Literature, Ambition, and Survival: The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov
by
Brian Boeck
Pegasus Books, 02/05/2019
Mikhail Sholokhov is arguable one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature. As a young man, Sholokhov's epic novel, Quiet ...
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Stalker: A Joona Linna novel
by
Lars Kepler
Knopf, 02/05/2019
The Swedish National Crime Unit receives a video of a young woman in her home, clearly unaware that she's being watched. Soon after the tape is ...
more
The Age of Light
by
Whitney Scharer
Little Brown & Company, 02/05/2019
A captivating debut novel by Whitney Scharer,
The Age of Light tells the story of Vogue model turned renowned photographer Lee Miller, and her search ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Black Ascot: Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries (Book 21)
by
Charles Todd
William Morrow, 02/05/2019
An astonishing tip from a grateful ex-convict seems implausible' - but Inspector Ian Rutledge is intrigued and brings it to his superior at Scotland ...
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The Girls at 17 Swann Street
by
Yara Zgheib
St. Martin's Press, 02/05/2019
The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, ...more
The Glovemaker
by
Ann Weisgarber
Skyhorse Publishing, 02/05/2019
It is now the depths of winter, Samuel is weeks overdue, and Deborah is getting worried.
Deborah lives in Junction, a tiny town of seven Mormon ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Hiding Place
by
C. J. Tudor
Crown, 02/05/2019
Joe never wanted to come back to Arnhill. After the way things ended with his old gang - the betrayal, the suicide, the murder - and after what ...
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The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose
by
Chris Wilson with Bret Wotter
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 02/05/2019
Growing up in a tough Washington, D.C., neighborhood, Chris Wilson was so afraid for his life he wouldn't leave the house without a gun. One night, ...
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The Peacock Feast
by
Lisa Gornick
Sarah Crichton Books, 02/05/2019
The Peacock Feast opens on a June day in 1916 when Louis C. Tiffany, the eccentric glass genius, dynamites the breakwater at Laurelton Hall - his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Ruin of Kings: A Chorus of Dragons Book 1
by
Jenn Lyons
Tor Books, 02/05/2019
When destiny calls, there's no fighting back.
Kihrin grew up in the slums of Quur, a thief and a minstrel's son raised on tales of long-lost ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Silent Patient
by
Alex Michaelides
Celedon, 02/05/2019
Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Story of Britain: A History of the Great Ages: From the Romans to the Present
by
Roy Strong
Pegasus Books, 02/05/2019
The Story of Britain is an accessible one-volume history that clearly depict Britain's origins - and explain how the past shaped the nation's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Weight of Our Sky
by
Hanna Alkaf
Simon & Schuster, 02/05/2019
Melati Ahmad looks like your typical movie-going, Beatles-obsessed sixteen-year-old. Unlike most other sixteen-year-olds though, Mel also believes ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Where Reasons End
by
Yiyun Li
Random House, 02/05/2019
The narrator of
Where Reasons End writes, "
I had but one delusion, which I held on to with all my willpower: We once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and ...more
A Deadly Divide: A Rachel Getty and Esa Khattak Mystery
by
Ausma Zehanat Khan
Minotaur Books, 02/12/2019
In the aftermath of a mass shooting at a mosque in Quebec, the local police apprehend Amadou Duchon - a young Muslim man at the scene helping the ...
more
American Spy
by
Lauren Wilkinson
Random House, 02/12/2019
It's 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She's brilliant, but she's also a young black woman ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Broadsword Calling Danny Boy: Watching Where Eagles Dare
by
Geoff Dyer
Pantheon Books, 02/12/2019
A thrilling Alpine adventure starring a magnificent, bleary-eyed Richard Burton and a dynamically lethargic Clint Eastwood,
Where Eagles Dare is the ...
more
Death Is Hard Work
by
Khaled Khalifa (author), Leri Price (translator)
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/12/2019
Khaled Khalifa's
Death Is Hard Work is the new novel from the greatest chronicler of Syria's ongoing and catastrophic civil war: a tale of three ...
more
Early Riser
by
Jasper Fforde
Viking, 02/12/2019
Every Winter, the human population hibernates.
During those bitterly cold four months, the nation is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Elsewhere Home
by
Leila Aboulela
Black Cat, 02/12/2019
A young woman's encounter with a former classmate elicits painful reminders of her former life in Khartoum. A wealthy Sudanese student studying in ...
more
Good Kids, Bad City: A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America
by
Kyle Swenson
Picador, 02/12/2019
In the early 1970s, three African-American men - Wiley Bridgeman, Kwame Ajamu, and Rickey Jackson - were accused and convicted of the brutal robbery ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Leading Men
by
Christopher Castellani
Viking, 02/12/2019
In July of 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Long Shot
by
Azad
Atlantic Monthly Press, 02/12/2019
In 2002, at the age of nineteen, Azad, a young Iranian-Kurdish man, was conscripted into Iran's army and forced to fight against his own people. ...
more
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
by
Adam Higginbotham
Simon & Schuster, 02/12/2019
Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history's worst nuclear ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Northern Lights
by
Raymond Strom
Simon & Schuster, 02/12/2019
On a clear morning in the summer of 1997, Shane Stephenson arrives in Holm, Minnesota, with only a few changes of clothes, an old Nintendo, and a few ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Parkland: Birth of a Movement
by
Dave Cullen
Harper, 02/12/2019
Nineteen years ago, Dave Cullen was among the first to arrive at Columbine High, even before most of the SWAT teams went in. While writing his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Rag: Stories
by
Maryse Meijer
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/12/2019
A man, forgotten by the world, takes care of his deaf brother while euthanizing dogs for a living. A stepbrother so desperately wants to become his ...
more
Rutting Season: Stories
by
Mandeliene Smith
Scribner, 02/12/2019
In these lucid, sharply observant stories, Mandeliene Smith traces the lives of men and women in moments of crisis: a woman whose husband has just ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
by
Steve Luxenberg
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/12/2019
Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The City in the Middle of the Night
by
Charlie Jane Anders
Tor Books, 02/12/2019
"If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams... And from there, it's easy to control our entire lives."
January is a dying planet - ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Reckoning: A Children's House Thriller
by
Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Minotaur Books, 02/12/2019
Vaka sits, regretting her choice of coat, on the cold steps of her new school. Her father appears to have forgotten to pick her up, her mother has ...
more
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
by
Toni Morrison
Knopf, 02/12/2019
The Source of Self-Regard is brimming with all the elegance of mind and style, the literary prowess and moral compass that are Toni Morrison's ...
more
The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film
by
W. K. Stratton
Bloomsbury Press, 02/12/2019
Sam Peckinpah's film
The Wild Bunch is the story of a gang of outlaws who are one big steal from retirement. When their attempted train robbery goes ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
American Heroin: A Lola Vasquez Novel
by
Melissa Scrivner Love
Crown, 02/19/2019
It took sacrifice, pain, and more than a few dead bodies, but Lola has clawed her way to the top of her South Central Los Angeles neighborhood. Her ...
more
Arturo's Island
by
Elsa Morante (author), Ann Goldstein (translator)
Liveright / WW Norton, 02/19/2019
Once considered the greatest writer of Italy's postwar generation - and admired by authors as varied as John Banville and Rivka Galchen - Elsa Morante...
more
Bangkok Wakes to Rain
by
Pitchaya Sudbanthad
Riverhead Books, 02/19/2019
A missionary doctor pines for his native New England even as he succumbs to the vibrant chaos of nineteenth-century Siam. A post-WWII society woman ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Cherokee America
by
Margaret Verble
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 02/19/2019
It's the early spring of 1875 in the Cherokee Nation West. A baby, a black hired hand, a bay horse, a gun, a gold stash, and a preacher have all gone ...
more
Historical Fiction
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
by
Daniel Immerwahr
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/19/2019
We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
In the Dark: A DI Adam Fawley Novel
by
Cara Hunter
Penguin Books, 02/19/2019
Do you know what they're hiding in the house next door?
A woman and child are found locked in a basement, barely alive, and unidentifiable: the ...
more
Landfall
by
Thomas Mallon
Pantheon Books, 02/19/2019
The president at the novel's center possesses a personality whose high-speed alternations between charm and petulance, resoluteness and self-pity, ...
more
Nobody's Looking at You: Essays
by
Janet Malcolm
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/19/2019
The title piece of this wonderfully eclectic collection is a profile of the fashion designer Eileen Fisher, whose mother often said to her, "Nobody's ...
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Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II
by
Adam Makos
Ballantine Books, 02/19/2019
When Clarence Smoyer is assigned to the gunner's seat of his Sherman tank, his crewmates discover that the gentle giant from Pennsylvania has a hidden...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Art of Leaving: A Memoir
by
Ayelet Tsabari
Random House, 02/19/2019
This searching collection opens with the death of Ayelet Tsabari's father when she was just nine years old. His passing left her feeling rootless, ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Darkest Year: The American Home Front 1941-1942
by
William K. Klingaman
St. Martin's Press, 02/19/2019
For Americans on the home front, the twelve months following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor comprised the darkest year of World War Two. Despite ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America
by
Nikesh Shukla (Editor), Chimene Suleyman (Editor)
Little Brown & Company, 02/19/2019
From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of White Supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions over ...
more
Essays
The Last Romantics
by
Tara Conklin
William Morrow, 02/19/2019
"The greatest works of poetry, what makes each of us a poet, are the stories we tell about ourselves. We create them out of family and blood and ...more
The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America's Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919
by
James Carl Nelson
William Morrow, 02/19/2019
An unforgettable human drama deep with contemporary resonance, award-winning historian James Carl Nelson's
The Polar Bear Expedition draws on an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Secret of Clouds
by
Alyson Richman
Berkley Books, 02/19/2019
Katya, a rising ballerina, and Sasha, a graduate student, are young and in love when an unexpected tragedy befalls their native Kiev. Years later,&#...
more
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
by
David Wallace-Wells
Times Books, 02/19/2019
If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The White Book
by
Han Kang
Hogarth Books, 02/19/2019
While on a writer's residency, a nameless narrator wanders the twin white worlds of the blank page and snowy Warsaw.
The White Book becomes a ...
more
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
by
Saidiya Hartman
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/19/2019
In
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
After She's Gone
by
Camilla Grebe
Ballantine Books, 02/26/2019
Out of the frozen depths of a forest in Ormberg, Sweden, a woman stumbles onto the road. Her arms are covered with scratches, her feet are bare, and ...
more
American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt
by
Karen Harper
William Morrow, 02/26/2019
Karen Harper tells the tale of Consuelo Vanderbilt, her "The Wedding of the Century" to the Duke of Marlborough, and her quest to find meaning behind ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Mother Country
by
Irina Reyn
Thomas Dunne Books, 02/26/2019
Nadia's daily life in south Brooklyn is filled with small indignities: as a senior home attendant, she is always in danger of being fired; as a part-...
more
Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason
by
William Davies
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/26/2019
In this sweeping and provocative work, political economist William Davies draws on a four-hundred-year history of ideas to reframe our understanding ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
PTSD
by
Guillaume Singelin
First Second, 02/26/2019
After returning home from an unpopular war, Jun becomes an outsider in an indifferent world. Alone, desperate, and suffering from wounds both mental ...
more
Graphic Novels
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
by
Patrick Radden Keefe
Doubleday, 02/26/2019
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging...
more
Sorry Not Sorry
by
Jaime Reed
Counterpoint Press, 02/26/2019
Janelle and Alyssa
used to be friends.
Best friends. They knew each other's deepest secrets and went through the hardest times together. But that ...
more
That Time I Loved You: Stories
by
Carrianne Leung
Liveright / WW Norton, 02/26/2019
In her "compact gem of a collection" (
Globe & Mail), Carrianne Leung enlivens a singular group of characters sharing a shiny new subdivision in 1970s ...
more
The Border: A Novel (Cartel Trilogy #3)
by
Don Winslow
William Morrow, 02/26/2019
The war has come home.
For over forty years, Art Keller has been on the front lines of America's longest conflict: The War on Drugs. His obsession ...
more
The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
by
Steffanie Strathdee
Hachette Books, 02/26/2019
Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband, psychologist Tom Patterson, were vacationing in Egypt when Tom came down with a stomach bug. What ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Raven Tower
by
Ann Leckie
Orbit, 02/26/2019
For centuries, the kingdom of Iraden has been protected by the god known as the Raven. He watches over his territory from atop a tower in the powerful...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction
by
Gardner Dozois (Editor)
St. Martin's Griffin, 02/26/2019
For decades, the Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after thirty-five annual ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Weight of a Thousand Feathers
by
Brian Conaghan
Bloomsbury Children's Books, 02/26/2019
As the person who cares for his terminally-ill mother, Bobby Seed has a lot on his plate. Add to that a responsibility to watch over his little ...
more
This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution
by
David Sloan Wilson
Pantheon Books, 02/26/2019
Charles Darwin's vision of evolution was so broad that he wrote "There is grandeur in this view of life" in the concluding paragraph of
On the Origin ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Vacuum in the Dark
by
Jen Beagin
Scribner, 02/26/2019
Mona is twenty-six and cleans houses for a living in Taos, New Mexico. She moved there mostly because of a bad boyfriend - a junkie named Mr. ...
more
We Must Be Brave
by
Frances Liardet
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 02/26/2019
One woman. One little girl. The war that changed everything.
December 1940. In the disorderly evacuation of Southampton, England, newly married ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Cold White Sun
by
Sue Farrell Holler
Groundwood Books, 03/01/2019
Tesfaye lives behind the safe walls of his family's compound in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. His father is an important man, Tesfaye goes to one of the best...
more
Literary Fiction
A Fire Story
by
Brian Fies
Abrams ComicArts, 03/05/2019
Early morning on Monday, October 9, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition, 6,200 homes and 8,900...
more
Barely Missing Everything
by
Matt Mendez
Atheneum Books, 03/05/2019
Juan has plans. He's going to get out of El Paso, Texas, on a basketball scholarship and make something of himself - or at least find something better...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Before She Knew Him
by
Peter Swanson
William Morrow, 03/05/2019
Catching a killer is dangerous - especially if he lives next door
Hen and her husband Lloyd have settled into a quiet life in a new house outside ...
more
Call Me Evie
by
J.P. Pomare
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/05/2019
For the past two weeks, seventeen-year-old Kate Bennet has lived against her will in an isolated cabin in a remote beach town - brought there by a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Cemetery Road
by
Greg Iles
William Morrow, 03/05/2019
When Marshall McEwan left his hometown at age eighteen, he vowed never to return. The trauma that drove him away ultimately spurred him to become one ...
more
Gingerbread
by
Helen Oyeyemi
Riverhead Books, 03/05/2019
Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories, beloved novelist Helen Oyeyemi invites readers into a delightful ...
more
Homeland
by
Fernando Aramburu
Pantheon Books, 03/05/2019
Here is the story of two families in small-town Basque country, pitted against each other by the ideology and violence of the terrorist group ETA, ...
more
Joy: And 52 Other Very Short Stories
by
Erin McGraw
Counterpoint Press, 03/05/2019
Claire Messud described Erin McGraw's last collection of stories as "at once laugh-out-loud funny and utterly serious, [exploring] life's profundity ...
more
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon
by
Lucasta Miller
Knopf, 03/05/2019
"None among us dares to say / What none will choose to hear" - L.E.L., "Lines of Life"
Letitita Elizabeth Landon - pen name L.E.L. - dared to say ...
more
Little Faith
by
Nickolas Butler
Ecco, 03/05/2019
Lyle Hovde is at the onset of his golden years, living a mostly content life in rural Wisconsin with his wife, Peg, daughter, Shiloh, and six-year old...
more
Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
by
Lynne Olson
Random House, 03/05/2019
In 1941 a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman, a young mother born to privilege and known for her beauty and glamour, became the leader of a vast ...
more
Minutes of Glory: And Other Stories
by
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Atheneum Books, 03/05/2019
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, although renowned for his novels, memoirs, and plays, honed his craft as a short story writer. From "The Fig Tree," ...
more
Smoke and Ashes
by
Abir Mukherjee
Pegasus Books, 03/05/2019
India, 1921. Haunted by his memories of World War I, Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from his ...
more
Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family
by
Mitchell Jackson
Scribner, 03/05/2019
With a poet's gifted ear, a novelist's sense of narrative, and a journalist's unsentimental eye, Mitchell S. Jackson candidly explores his tumultuous ...
more
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
by
Thomas Hager
Abrams Books, 03/05/2019
Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher's genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
by
Sunita Puri
Viking, 03/05/2019
As the American born daughter of immigrants, Dr. Sunita Puri knew from a young age that the gulf between her parents' experiences and her own was ...
more
The Age of Disenchantments: The Epic Story of Spain's Most Notorious Literary Family and the Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War
by
Aaron Shulman
Ecco, 03/05/2019
In this absorbing and atmospheric historical narrative, journalist Aaron Shulman takes us deeply into the circumstances surrounding the Spanish Civil ...
more
The Devil Aspect
by
Craig Russell
Doubleday, 03/05/2019
Prague, 1935: Viktor Kosárek, a psychiatrist newly trained by Carl Jung, arrives at the infamous Hrad Orlu Asylum for the Criminally Insane. The ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
by
Greg Grandin
Metropolitan Books, 03/05/2019
Ever since this nation's inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing a future of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Reign of the Kingfisher
by
T.J. Martinson
Flatiron Books, 03/05/2019
Somewhere in Chicago, a roomful of people have been taken hostage. The hostages will be killed one by one, the masked gunman says on-screen, unless ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Silk Road
by
Kathryn Davis
Graywolf Press, 03/05/2019
The Silk Road begins on a mat in yoga class, deep within a labyrinth on a settlement somewhere in the icy north, under the canny guidance of Jee Moon....
more
The Volunteer
by
Salvatore Scibona
Penguin Books, 03/05/2019
A small boy speaking an unknown language is abandoned by his father at an international airport, with only the clothes on his back and a handful of ...
more
The Wolf and the Watchman
by
Niklas Natt och Dag
Atria Books, 03/05/2019
Efforts to identify the bizarrely mutilated corpse are entrusted to incorruptible lawyer Cecil Winge, who enlists Cardell's help to solve the case. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
When All Is Said: A Novel
by
Anne Griffin
Thomas Dunne Books, 03/05/2019
At the bar of a grand hotel in a small Irish town sits 84-year-old Maurice Hannigan. He's alone, as usual - though tonight is anything but. Pull...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
American Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan
by
Matt Farwell and Michael Ames
Penguin Books, 03/12/2019
War
Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl left his platoon's base in eastern Afghanistan in the early hours of June 30, 2009. Since that day, easy ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt
by
Stephanie Marie Thornton
Berkley Books, 03/12/2019
A sweeping novel from renowned author Stephanie Marie Thornton...
Alice may be the president's daughter, but she's nobody's darling. As bold as her...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
by
Matt Richtel
William Morrow, 03/12/2019
A terminal cancer patient rises from the grave. A medical marvel defies HIV. Two women with autoimmunity discover their own bodies have turned against...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Fall Back Down When I Die
by
Joe Wilkins
Little Brown & Company, 03/12/2019
Wendell Newman, a young ranch hand in Montana, has recently lost his mother, leaving him an orphan. His bank account holds less than a hundred dollars...
more
Heroine
by
Mindy McGinnis
Katherine Tegan Books, 03/12/2019
When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot as the catcher for a team expected to make...
more
House on Fire
by
Bonnie Kistler
Atria Books, 03/12/2019
Divorce lawyer Leigh Huyett knows all too well that most second marriages are doomed to fail. But five years in, she and Pete Conley have a perfectly ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
If, Then
by
Kate Hope Day
Random House, 03/12/2019
In the quiet haven of Clearing, Oregon, four neighbors find their lives upended when they begin to see themselves in parallel realities. Ginny, a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
by
Kate Brown
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/12/2019
Dear Comrades! Since the accident at the Chernobyl power plant, there has been a detailed analysis of the radioactivity of the food and territory of ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Me for You
by
Lolly Winston
Gallery Books, 03/12/2019
The last thing Rudy expected was to wake up one Saturday morning, a widow at fifty-four years old. Now, ten months after the untimely death of his ...
more
See You in the Piazza: New Places to Discover in Italy
by
Frances Mayes
Crown, 03/12/2019
The Roman Forum, the Leaning Tower, the Piazza San Marco: these are the sights synonymous with Italy. But such landmarks only scratch the surface of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
by
James Donovan
Little Brown & Company, 03/12/2019
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon. One of the world's greatest technological achievements-...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library
by
Edward Wilson-Lee
Scribner, 03/12/2019
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books tells the story of the first and greatest visionary of the print age, a man who saw how the explosive expansion of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Club
by
Takis Würger (author), Charlotte Collins (translator)
Grove Press, 03/12/2019
As a boy, Hans Stichler enjoys a fable-like childhood among the rolling hills and forests of North Germany, living an idyll that seems uninterruptable...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Dragonfly Sea
by
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Knopf, 03/12/2019
On the island of Pate, off the coast of Kenya, lives solitary, stubborn Ayaana and her mother, Munira. When a sailor named Muhidin, also an outsider, ...
more
The Trial of Lizzie Borden
by
Cara Robertson
Simon & Schuster, 03/12/2019
The Trial of Lizzie Borden tells the true story of one of the most sensational murder trials in American history. When Andrew and Abby Borden were ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Tomorrow There Will Be Sun
by
Dana Reinhardt
Pamela Dorman Books, 03/12/2019
Two families arrive in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, for a once-in-a-lifetime vacation. Jenna has organized the trip to celebrate her husband's fiftieth ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China
by
Karoline Kan
Hachette Books, 03/12/2019
Through the stories of three generations of women in her family, Karoline Kan, a former
New York Times reporter based in Beijing, reveals how they ...
more
Wolf Pack: A Joe Pickett Novel
by
C.J. Box
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/12/2019
The good news is that Joe Pickett has his job back, after his last adventure in
The Disappeared. The bad news is that he's come to learn that a drone ...
more
A People's History of Heaven
by
Mathangi Subramanian
Algonquin Books, 03/19/2019
Welcome to Heaven, a thirty-year-old slum hidden between brand-new high-rise apartment buildings and technology incubators in contemporary Bangalore, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
by
Preet Bharara
Knopf, 03/19/2019
Preet Bharara has spent much of his life examining our legal system, pushing to make it better, and prosecuting those looking to subvert it. Bharara ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
by
Edward O. Wilson
Liveright / WW Norton, 03/19/2019
Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary components, and that the human body and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Horizon
by
Barry Lopez
Knopf, 03/19/2019
Taking us nearly from pole to pole - from modern megacities to some of the most remote regions on the earth - and across decades of lived experience, ...
more
Little Boy
by
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Doubleday, 03/19/2019
In this unapologetically unclassifiable work Lawrence Ferlinghetti lets loose an exhilarating rush of language to craft what might be termed a closing...
more
Look How Happy I'm Making You: Stories
by
Polly Rosenwaike
Doubleday, 03/19/2019
The women in Polly Rosenwaike's
Look How Happy I'm Making You want to be mothers, or aren't sure they want to be mothers, or - having recently given ...
more
Queenie
by
Candice Carty-Williams
Gallery/Scout Press, 03/19/2019
Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Save Me from Dangerous Men: A Novel (Nikki Griffin #1)
by
S. A. Lelchuk
Flatiron Books, 03/19/2019
Nikki Griffin isn't your typical private investigator. In her office above her bookstore's shelves and stacks, where she luxuriates in books and the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Light Brigade
by
Kameron Hurley
Simon & Schuster, 03/19/2019
They said the war would turn us into light.
I wanted to be counted among the heroes who gave us this better world.
The Light Brigade: it's what ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Octopus Museum: Poems
by
Brenda Shaughnessy
Knopf, 03/19/2019
Informed by Brenda Shaughnessy's craft as a poet and her worst fears as a mother, the poems in
The Octopus Museum blaze forth from her pen: in these ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Scar: A Personal History of Depression and Recovery
by
Mary Cregan
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/19/2019
At the age of twenty-seven, married, living in New York, and working in book design, Mary Cregan gives birth to her first child, a daughter she names ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
A Memory Called Empire
by
Arkady Martine
Tor Books, 03/26/2019
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
by
Jennifer L. Eberhardt PhD
Viking, 03/26/2019
You don't have to be racist to be biased. Unconscious bias can be at work without our realizing it, and even when we genuinely wish to treat all ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bones of the Earth: An Inspector Shan Tao Yun Mystery
by
Eliot Pattison
Minotaur Books, 03/26/2019
After Shan Tao Yun is forced to witness the execution of a Tibetan for corruption, he can't shake the suspicion that he has instead witnessed a murder...
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Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
by
Clive Thompson
Penguin Press, 03/26/2019
Hello, world.
Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Dig
by
A.S. King
Dutton, 03/26/2019
Five estranged cousins are lost in a maze of their family's tangled secrets. Their grandparents, former potato farmers Gottfried and Marla Hemmings, ...
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kaddish.com
by
Nathan Englander
Knopf, 03/26/2019
Larry is an atheist in a family of orthodox Memphis Jews. When his father dies, it is his responsibility as the surviving son to recite the Kaddish, ...
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Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London
by
Claire Harman
Knopf, 03/26/2019
In May 1840, Lord William Russell, well known in London's highest social circles, was found with his throat cut. The brutal murder had the whole city ...
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My Lovely Wife
by
Samantha Downing
Berkley Books, 03/26/2019
Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told each other our biggest dreams, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Sing to It: New Stories
by
Amy Hempel
Scribner, 03/26/2019
Amy Hempel is a master of the short story. A multiple award winner, Hempel is highly regarded among writers, reviewers, and readers of contemporary ...
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The American Agent: A Maisie Dobbs Novel
by
Jacqueline Winspear
Harper, 03/26/2019
When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent reporting on the war in Europe, is found murdered in her London digs, news of her death is concealed ...
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The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
by
Leo Damrosch
Yale University Press, 03/26/2019
In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk's Head...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Night Visitors
by
Carol Goodman
William Morrow Paperbacks, 03/26/2019
ALICE gets off a bus in the middle of a snowstorm in Delphi, NY. She is fleeing an abusive relationship and desperate to protect...
OREN, ten ...
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The Other Americans
by
Laila Lalami
Pantheon Books, 03/26/2019
Late one spring night, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant in California, is walking across a darkened intersection when he is killed by a ...
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The Workshop and the World: What Ten Thinkers Can Teach Us About Science and Authority
by
Robert P. Crease
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/26/2019
When does a scientific discovery become accepted fact? Why have scientific facts become easy to deny? And what can we do about it? In
The Workshop and...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
by
Damon Young
Ecco, 03/26/2019
For Damon Young, existing while Black is an extreme sport. The act of possessing black skin while searching for space to breathe in America is enough ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
A Wonderful Stroke of Luck
by
Ann Beattie
Viking, 04/02/2019
A razor-sharp, deeply felt new novel - the twenty-first book by Ann Beattie - about the complicated relationship between a charismatic teacher and his...
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American Spirit: Profiles in Resilience, Courage, and Faith
by
Taya Kyle and Jim DeFelice
William Morrow, 04/02/2019
Taya Kyle and thirty-five remarkable Americans on their extraordinary journeys from despair to lives of passion and service.
After losing her ...
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Crossing
by
Pajtim Statovci
Pantheon Books, 04/02/2019
The death of Enver Hoxha and the loss of his father leave Bujar growing up in the ruins of Communist Albania and of his own family. Only his fearless ...
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Literary Fiction
Ghost Stories: Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense
by
Leslie S. Klinger (Editor), Lisa Morton (Editor)
Pegasus Books, 04/02/2019
The ghost story has long been a staple of world literature, but many of the genre's greatest tales have been forgotten, overshadowed in many cases by ...
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K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches
by
Tyler Kepner
Doubleday, 04/02/2019
The baseball is an amazing plaything. We can grip it and hold it so many different ways, and even the slightest calibration can turn an ordinary pitch...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lights All Night Long: A Novel
by
Lydia Fitzpatrick
Penguin Press, 04/02/2019
Fifteen-year-old Ilya arrives in Louisiana from his native Russia for what should be the adventure of his life: a year in America as an exchange ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Loch of the Dead
by
Oscar de Muriel
Pegasus Books, 04/02/2019
A mysterious woman pleads for the help of Inspectors Are and "Nine-Nails" McGray. Her son, illegitimate scion of the Koloman family, has received an ...
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Lost and Wanted
by
Nell Freudenberger
Knopf, 04/02/2019
Helen Clapp's breakthrough work on five-dimensional spacetime landed her a tenured professorship at MIT; her popular books explain physics in plain ...
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
by
Lori Gottlieb
Houghton Mifflin Books For Younger Readers, 04/02/2019
One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter...
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Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir
by
Cherríe Moraga
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/02/2019
Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir is, at its core, a mother-daughter story. The mother, Elvira, was hired out as a child, along with her siblings,...
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Stay Up with Hugo Best
by
Erin Somers
Scribner, 04/02/2019
June Bloom is a broke, cynical twenty-nine-year-old writers' assistant on the late-night comedy show,
Stay Up with Hugo Best. Hugo Best is in his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
by
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Penguin Press, 04/02/2019
The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Affairs of the Falcóns
by
Melissa Rivero
Ecco, 04/02/2019
Ana Falcón, along with her husband Lucho and their two young children, has fled the economic and political strife of Peru for a chance at a new ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Damascus Road: A Novel of Saint Paul
by
Jay Parini
Doubleday, 04/02/2019
In the years after Christ's crucifixion, Paul of Tarsus, a prosperous tentmaker and Jewish scholar, took it upon himself to persecute the small groups...
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The Editor
by
Steven Rowley
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/02/2019
After years of trying to make it as a writer in 1990s New York City, James Smale finally sells his novel to an editor at a major publishing house: ...
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The End of the Beginning: Cancer, Immunity, and the Future of a Cure
by
Michael Kinch
Pegasus Books, 04/02/2019
For the first time since a 5th century Greek physician gave the name "cancer" (karkinos, in Greek) to a deadly disease first ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Light Years: A Memoir
by
Chris Rush
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/02/2019
Chris Rush was born into a prosperous, fiercely Roman Catholic, New Jersey family. But underneath the gleaming mid-century house, the flawless hostess...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Luminous Dead
by
Caitlin Starling
Harper Voyager, 04/02/2019
When Gyre Price lied her way into this expedition, she thought she'd be mapping mineral deposits, and that her biggest problems would be cave ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Poison Bed
by
Elizabeth Fremantle
Pegasus Books, 04/02/2019
A marriage. A murder. One of them did it. Which of them will die for it?
In the autumn of 1615, scandal rocks the Jacobean court, when a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Spectators
by
Jennifer duBois
Random House, 04/02/2019
Talk show host Matthew Miller has made his fame by shining a spotlight on the most unlikely and bizarre secrets of society, exposing them on live ...
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What Blest Genius?: The Jubilee That Made Shakespeare
by
Andrew McConnell Stott
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/02/2019
In September 1769, three thousand people descended on Stratford-upon-Avon to celebrate the artistic legacy of the town's most famous son, William ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
White Rose
by
Kip Wilson
Versify, 04/02/2019
The following year, Sophie and her brother were arrested for treason and interrogated for information about their collaborators. This debut novel ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Afternoon of a Faun
by
James Lasdun
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/09/2019
"The truth might be hard to bring to light, but that didn't mean it didn't exist, because it did exist: fixed in its moment, unalterable, and ...more
All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir
by
Erin Lee Carr
Ballantine Books, 04/09/2019
Dad: What will set you apart is not talent but will and a certain kind of humility. A willingness to let the world show you things that you play back ...more
Death of a New American: A Jane Prescott Novel
by
Mariah Fredericks
Minotaur Books, 04/09/2019
In 1912, as New York reels from the news of the
Titanic disaster, ladies' maid Jane Prescott travels to Long Island with the Benchley family. Their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Descendant of the Crane
by
Joan He
Albert Whitman & Company, 04/09/2019
Tyrants cut out hearts. Rulers sacrifice their own. Princess Hesina of Yan has always been eager to shirk the responsibilities of the crown, but when ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Fame Adjacent
by
Sarah Skilton
Grand Central Publishing, 04/09/2019
Holly Danner has a complicated relationship with fame. It's not easy being the only cast member of a 1990s song-and-dance show who didn't become ...
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Literary Fiction
Grievous
by
H. S. Cross
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/09/2019
St. Stephen's Academy, Yorkshire, 1931. A world unto itself, populated by boys reveling in life's first big mistakes and men still learning how to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Metropolis: A Bernie Gunther Novel
by
Philip Kerr
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/09/2019
A portrait of Bernie Gunther in his twenties: He's young, but he's seen four bloody years of trench warfare. And he's not stupid. So when he receives ...
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Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir
by
Kwame Onwuachi
Knopf, 04/09/2019
By the time he was twenty-seven years old, Kwame Onwuachi had opened - and closed - one of the most talked about restaurants in America. He had ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Outside Looking In
by
T.C. Boyle
Ecco, 04/09/2019
In this stirring and insightful novel, T.C. Boyle takes us back to the 1960s and to the early days of a drug whose effects have reverberated widely ...
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Phantoms
by
Christian Kiefer
Liveright / WW Norton, 04/09/2019
In the panoramic tradition of Charles Frazier's fiction,
Phantoms is a fierce saga of American culpability. A Vietnam vet still reeling from war, John...
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Sight Lines
by
Arthur Sze
Copper Canyon Press, 04/09/2019
From the current phenomenon of drawing calligraphy with water in public parks in China to Thomas Jefferson laying out dinosaur bones on the White ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Book of Dreams
by
Nina George
Crown, 04/09/2019
Henri Skinner is a hardened ex-war reporter on the run from his past. On his way to see his son, Sam, for the first time in years, Henri steps into ...
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The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
by
Robert Hillman
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/09/2019
Can one unlikely bookshop heal two broken souls?
It is 1968 in rural Australia and lonely Tom Hope can't make heads or tails of Hannah Babel. Newly...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
by
Hallie Rubenhold
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 04/09/2019
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, ...
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The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
by
Mark Honigsbaum
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/09/2019
Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet despite a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Red Scrolls of Magic: The Eldest Curses Book One
by
Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 04/09/2019
All Magnus Bane wanted was a vacation—a lavish trip across Europe with Alec Lightwood, the Shadowhunter who against all odds is finally his ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
When We Left Cuba
by
Chanel Cleeton
Berkley Books, 04/09/2019
Beautiful. Daring. Deadly.
The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress Beatriz Perez - her family, her people, her country. Recruited ...
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Historical Fiction
Working
by
Robert A. Caro
Knopf, 04/09/2019
For the first time in book form, Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work in these evocatively written, personal pieces. He describes...
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Cities: The First 6,000 Years
by
Monica L. Smith
Viking, 04/16/2019
Six thousand years ago, there were no cities on the planet. Today, more than half of the world's population lives in urban areas, and that number is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Down from the Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear
by
Bryce Andrews
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 04/16/2019
The grizzly is one of North America's few remaining large predators. Their range is diminished, but they're spreading across the West again. ...
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Eating the Sun: Small Musings on a Vast Universe
by
Ella Frances Sanders
Penguin Books, 04/16/2019
Have you ever found yourself wondering what we might have in common with stars, or why the Moon never leaves us? Thinking about the precise dancing of...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
by
Bill McKibben
Henry Holt and Company, 04/16/2019
Bill McKibben's groundbreaking book
The End of Nature issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic - was the first book to alert us to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Possessed by Memory: The Inward Light of Criticism
by
Harold Bloom
Knopf, 04/16/2019
Gone are the polemics. Here, instead, in a memoir of sorts - an inward journey from childhood to ninety - Bloom argues elegiacally with nobody but ...
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Revolutionaries
by
Joshua Furst
Knopf, 04/16/2019
Fred is the sole offspring of Lenny Snyder, the famous (or notorious) pied piper of the counterculture, and in middle age he hates being reminded of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Starworld
by
Audrey Coulthurst
Candlewick Press, 04/16/2019
Sam Jones and Zoe Miller have one thing in common: they both want an escape from reality. Loner Sam flies under the radar at school and walks on ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story
by
Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/16/2019
When Aida Hernandez was born in 1987 in Agua Prieta, Mexico, the nearby U.S. border was little more than a worn-down fence. Eight years later, Aida's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
by
Sarah Rose
Crown, 04/23/2019
In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was fighting. Churchill believed Britain was locked in an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
I Know Who You Are
by
Alice Feeney
Flatiron Books, 04/23/2019
Meet Aimee Sinclair: the actress everyone thinks they know but can't remember where from.
Except one person.
Someone knows Aimee very well.
...
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Thrillers
Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country
by
Simon Winder
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/23/2019
In 843 AD, the three surviving grandsons of the great emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles over who would inherit the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Machines Like Me
by
Ian McEwan
Nan A. Talese, 04/23/2019
Machines Like Me takes place in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Heartland: An American History
by
Kristin L. Hoganson
Penguin Press, 04/23/2019
When Kristin L. Hoganson arrived in Champaign, Illinois, after teaching at Harvard, studying at Yale, and living in the D.C. metro area with various ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Inner Lives of Book Clubs: A Report on Who Joins Them and Why, What Makes Them Succeed, and How They Resolve Problems
by
BookBrowse
BookBrowse, 04/23/2019
Available in Print and PDF
The Inner Lives of Book Clubs gets to the heart of what makes book clubs tick. It combines the findings from two surveys...
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The Mother-in-Law
by
Sally Hepworth
St. Martin's Griffin, 04/23/2019
From the moment Lucy met her husband's mother, she knew she wasn't the wife Diana had envisioned for her perfect son. Exquisitely polite, friendly, ...
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Wunderland
by
Jennifer Cody Epstein
Crown, 04/23/2019
East Village, 1989
Things had never been easy between Ava Fisher and her estranged mother Ilse. Too many questions hovered between them: Who was Ava...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
You Must Not Miss
by
Katrina Leno
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 04/23/2019
Magpie Lewis started writing in her yellow notebook the day after her family self-destructed. The day her father ruined her mother's life. The day ...
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A Good Enough Mother
by
Bev Thomas
Pamela Dorman Books, 04/30/2019
Ruth Hartland is a psychotherapist with years of experience. But professional skill is no guard against private grief. The mother of grown twins, she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
by
Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Yale University Press, 04/30/2019
This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Cape May
by
Chip Cheek
Celadon, 04/30/2019
Late September 1957. Henry and Effie, very young newlyweds from Georgia, arrive in Cape May, New Jersey, for their honeymoon only to find the town is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
by
Mitchell Zuckoff
Harper, 04/30/2019
This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Like Lions
by
Brian Panowich
Minotaur Books, 04/30/2019
Brian Panowich burst onto the crime fiction scene in 2015, winning awards and accolades from readers and critics alike for his smoldering debut,
Bull ...more
Mama's Boy: A Story from Our Americas
by
Dustin Lance Black
Knopf, 04/30/2019
Dustin Lance Black wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for
Milk and helped overturn California's anti–gay marriage Proposition 8, but as an LGBTQ...
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Spring: A Seasonal Quartet Novel
by
Ali Smith
Pantheon Books, 04/30/2019
What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the ...
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The Fox and Dr. Shimamura
by
Christine Wunnicke (author), Philip Boehm (translator)
New Directions Publishing, 04/30/2019
The Fox and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses Japan and Europe, memory and actuality, fox-possession myths and psychiatric mythmaking. The ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Lazarus Files: A Cold Case Investigation
by
Matthew McGough
Henry Holt and Company, 04/30/2019
On February 24, 1986, 29-year-old newlywed Sherri Rasmussen was murdered in the home she shared with her husband, John. The crime scene suggested a ...
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The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern
by
Robert Morrison
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/30/2019
The Victorians are often credited with ushering in our current era, yet the seeds of change were planted in the years before. The Regency (1811–...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Walking on the Ceiling
by
Aysegül Savas
Riverhead Books, 04/30/2019
After her mother's death, Nunu moves from Istanbul to a small apartment in Paris. One day outside of a bookstore, she meets M., an older British ...
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Waste Tide
by
Chen Qiufan (author), Ken Liu (translator)
Tor Books, 04/30/2019
Mimi is drowning in the world's trash.
She's a waste worker on Silicon Isle, where electronics - from cell phones and laptops to bots and bionic ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World
by
M. R. O'Connor
St. Martin's Press, 04/30/2019
In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste
by
Nolan Gasser
Flatiron Books, 04/30/2019
Everyone loves music. But what is it that makes music so universally beloved and have such a powerful effect on us?
In this sweeping and authoritative...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination
by
Brian Jay Jones
Dutton, 05/07/2019
Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. Whimsical and wonderful, his work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. The silly, ...
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Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
by
David K. Randall
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/07/2019
For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Hope and Other Punchlines
by
Julie Buxbaum
Delacorte Press, 05/07/2019
Sometimes looking to the past helps you find your future.
Abbi Hope Goldstein is like every other teenager, with a few smallish exceptions: her ...
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How We Disappeared
by
Jing-Jing Lee
Hanover Square Press, 05/07/2019
Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked, leaving only two survivors and one tiny child.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Light from Other Stars
by
Erika Swyler
Bloomsbury Press, 05/07/2019
Eleven-year-old Nedda Papas is obsessed with becoming an astronaut. In 1986 in Easter, a small Florida Space Coast town, her dreams seem almost within...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Middlegame
by
Seanan McGuire
Tor Books, 05/07/2019
Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story.
Meet ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
by
Rachel Louise Snyder
Bloomsbury USA, 05/07/2019
We call it domestic violence. We call it private violence. Sometimes we call it intimate terrorism. But whatever we call it, we generally do not ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Ottoman Odyssey: Travels Through a Lost Empire
by
Alev Scott
Pegasus Books, 05/07/2019
The author's odyssey began when she looked beyond Turkey's borders for contemporary traces of the Ottoman Empire. Their 800 years of rule ended a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
by
George Packer
Knopf, 05/07/2019
Richard Holbrooke was brilliant, utterly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy and appetites. Admired and detested, he was the force ...
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Rabbits for Food
by
Binnie Kirshenbaum
Soho Press, 05/07/2019
It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Kirshenbaum...
more
The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
by
Peter Hessler
Penguin Press, 05/07/2019
Drawn by a fascination with Egypt's rich history and culture, Peter Hessler moved with his wife and twin daughters to Cairo in 2011. He wanted to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Farm
by
Joanne Ramos
Random House, 05/07/2019
Nestled in New York's Hudson Valley is a luxury retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, personal fitness trainers, daily massages—and all...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm
by
John Connell
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 05/07/2019
Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, after more ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Road to Grantchester
by
James Runcie
Bloomsbury USA, 05/07/2019
It is 1938, and eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing the quickstep with Amanda Kendall at her brother Robert's birthday party at the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Stone Circle: Ruth Galloway Mysteries
by
Elly Griffiths
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 05/07/2019
DCI Nelson has been receiving threatening letters. They are anonymous, yet reminiscent of ones he has received in the past, from the person who drew ...
more
The Unpassing
by
Chia-Chia Lin
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/07/2019
In Chia-Chia Lin's debut novel,
The Unpassing, we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Words of My Father: Love and Pain in Palestine
by
Yousef Bashir
Harper, 05/07/2019
Yousef Bashir's story begins in Gaza, on a verdant ten-acre farm beside an Israeli settlement and military base. When the soccer-mad Yousef was eleven...
more
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
by
Jared Diamond
Little Brown & Company, 05/07/2019
In his international bestsellers
Guns, Germs and Steel and
Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Westside
by
W.M. Akers
Harper, 05/07/2019
A young detective who specializes in "tiny mysteries" finds herself at the center of a massive conspiracy in this beguiling historical fantasy set on ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father
by
David Maraniss
Simon & Schuster, 05/14/2019
Elliott Maraniss, David's father, a WWII veteran who had commanded an all-black company in the Pacific, was spied on by the FBI, named as a communist ...
more
Correspondents
by
Tim Murphy
Grove Press, 05/14/2019
The world is Rita Khoury's oyster. The bright and driven daughter of a Boston-area Irish-Arab family that has risen over the generations from poor ...
more
Dawson's Fall
by
Roxana Robinson
Sarah Crichton Books, 05/14/2019
In
Dawson's Fall, a novel based on the lives of Roxana Robinson's great-grandparents, we see America at its most fragile, fraught, and malleable. Set ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Home Remedies: Stories
by
Xuan Juliana Wang
Hogarth Books, 05/14/2019
Whether at home or abroad, her stories catch their characters at the threshold of bold and uncertain futures, navigating between their cultural ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
If She Wakes
by
Michael Koryta
Little Brown & Company, 05/14/2019
Tara Beckley is a senior at idyllic Hammel College in Maine. As she drives to deliver a visiting professor to a conference, a horrific car accident ...
more
Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football
by
John Urschel and Louisa Thomas
Penguin Books, 05/14/2019
For John Urschel, what began as an insatiable appetite for puzzles as a child quickly evolved into mastery of the elegant systems and rules of ...
more
Red Birds
by
Mohammad Hanif
Black Cat, 05/14/2019
An American pilot crash lands in the desert and takes refuge in the very camp he was supposed to bomb. Hallucinating palm trees and worrying about ...
more
Red, White & Royal Blue
by
Casey McQuiston
St. Martin's Griffin, 05/14/2019
When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius&#...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
by
Tony Horwitz
Penguin Books, 05/14/2019
In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it during an extraordinary ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Behavior of Love
by
Virginia Reeves
Scribner, 05/14/2019
Doctor Ed Malinowski believes he has realized most of his dreams. A passionate, ambitious behavioral psychiatrist, he is now the superintendent of a ...
more
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
by
Rick Atkinson
Henry Holt and Company, 05/14/2019
Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning
An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Den
by
Abi Maxwell
Knopf, 05/14/2019
Henrietta and Jane are fifteen and twelve, growing up in a farmhouse on the outskirts of town. Their mother is a painter, lost in her art, their ...
more
The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found
by
Violet Moller
Doubleday, 05/14/2019
The foundations of modern knowledge—philosophy, math, astronomy, geography—were laid by the Greeks, whose ideas were written on scrolls ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Never Game
by
Jeffery Deaver
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/14/2019
"You have been abandoned."
A young woman has gone missing in Silicon Valley and her father has hired Colter Shaw to find her. The son of a ...
more
The Night Before
by
Wendy Walker
St. Martin's Press, 05/14/2019
Laura Lochner has never been lucky in love. She falls too hard and too fast, always choosing the wrong men. Devastated by the end of her last ...
more
The Satapur Moonstone: A Perveen Mistry Novel
by
Sujata Massey
Soho Press, 05/14/2019
India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri mountains, where the princely state of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have ...
more
The White Devil's Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown
by
Julia Flynn Siler
Knopf, 05/14/2019
Beginning in 1874, the Occidental Mission Home on the edge of San Francisco's Chinatown served as a gateway to freedom for thousands of enslaved and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Visible Empire
by
Hannah Pittard
Mariner Books, 05/14/2019
On a humid summer day, the phones begin to ring: disaster has struck. Chateau de Sully, a Boeing 707 chartered to ferry home more than one hundred of ...
more
Biloxi
by
Mary Miller
Liveright / WW Norton, 05/21/2019
Like her predecessors Ann Beattie and Raymond Carver, Mary Miller brings an essential voice to her generation. Building on her critically acclaimed ...
more
Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I
by
Matthew Stanley
Dutton, 05/21/2019
Few recognize how the Great War, the industrialized slaughter that bled Europe from 1914 to 1918, shaped Einstein's life and work. While Einstein ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Girl Gone Viral
by
Arvin Ahmadi
Viking, 05/21/2019
For seventeen-year-old Opal Hopper, code is magic. She builds entire worlds from scratch: Mars craters, shimmering lakes, any virtual experience her ...
more
How to Forget: A Daughter's Memoir
by
Kate Mulgrew
William Morrow, 05/21/2019
They say you can't go home again. But when her father is diagnosed with aggressive lung cancer and her mother with atypical Alzheimer's, New York-...
more
Mistress of the Ritz
by
Melanie Benjamin
Delacorte Press, 05/21/2019
Nothing bad can happen at the Ritz; inside its gilded walls every woman looks beautiful, every man appears witty. Favored guests like Ernest Hemingway...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
by
John Waters
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/21/2019
The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics
Pink Flamingos,
Polyester, the original
Hairspray,
Cry-Baby, and
A ...more
Necessary People
by
Anna Pitoniak
Little Brown & Company, 05/21/2019
Stella Bradley is beautiful, rich, and very good at getting herself into trouble. Violet Trapp is smart, self-aware, and laser-focused on escaping her...
more
Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America
by
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/21/2019
Descendants of a prominent slaveholding family, Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Lumpkin grew up in a culture of white supremacy. But while Elizabeth ...
more
The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California
by
Mark Arax
Knopf, 05/21/2019
Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
by
Brenda Wineapple
Random House, 05/21/2019
Congress was divided over how the Union should be reunited: when and how the secessionist South should regain full status, whether former Confederates...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Island: A Thriller (The Hulda Series)
by
Ragnar Jonasson
Minotaur Books, 05/21/2019
Autumn of 1987 takes a young couple on a romantic trip in the Westfjords holiday―a trip that gets an unexpected ending and has catastrophic ...
more
The Organs of Sense
by
Adam Ehrlich Sachs
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/21/2019
In 1666, an astronomer makes a prediction shared by no one else in the world: At the stroke of noon on June 30 of that year, a solar eclipse will cast...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
by
Josh Levin
Little Brown & Company, 05/21/2019
Taylor, it turned out, was also a kidnapper, and possibly a murderer. A desperately ill teacher, a combat-traumatized Marine, an elderly woman hungry ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Rationing
by
Charles Wheelan
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/21/2019
America is in trouble―at the mercy of a puzzling pathogen. That ordinarily wouldn't lead to catastrophe, thanks to modern medicine, but there's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Vinyl Frontier: The Story of the Voyager Golden Record
by
Jonathan Scott
Bloomsbury USA, 05/21/2019
In 1977, a team led by the great Carl Sagan was put together to create a record that would travel to the stars on the back of NASA's Voyager probe. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Where We Come From: A novel
by
Oscar Cásares
Vintage, 05/21/2019
From a distance, the towns along the U.S.-Mexican border have dangerous reputations--on one side, drug cartels; on the other, zealous border patrol ...
more
Ask Again, Yes
by
Mary Beth Keane
Scribner, 05/28/2019
Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope are two NYPD rookies assigned to the same Bronx precinct in 1973. They aren't close friends on the job, but end up ...
more
Dark Site: A Sam Dryden Novel
by
Patrick Lee
Minotaur Books, 05/28/2019
On an otherwise normal morning, former Special Forces operative Sam Dryden is the target of an unsuccessful attempted abduction. Using his attacker's ...
more
Gender Queer: A Memoir
by
Maia Kobabe
Oni Press, 05/28/2019
At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now,
Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic ...
more
Biography/Memoir
How Not to Die Alone
by
Richard Roper
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/28/2019
Andrew's been feeling stuck.
For years he's worked a thankless public health job, searching for the next of kin of those who die alone. Luckily, he...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Lent: A Novel Of Many Returns
by
Jo Walton
Tor Books, 05/28/2019
Young Girolamo's life is a series of miracles.
It's a miracle that he can see demons, plain as day, and that he can cast them out with the force of...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
by
Stephen Budiansky
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/28/2019
Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls missed his heart and spinal cord by a fraction ...
more
The Learning Curve
by
Mandy Berman
Random House, 05/28/2019
Fiona and Liv are seniors at Buchanan College, a small liberal arts school in rural Pennsylvania. Fiona, who is still struggling emotionally after the...
more
Assassin of Shadows
by
Lawrence Goldstone
Pegasus Books, 06/04/2019
Just after 4 p.m. on September 6, 1901, twenty-eight year old anarchist Leon Czolgosz pumped two shots into the chest and abdomen of President William...
more
Aug 9 - Fog
by
Kathryn Scanlan
MCD, 06/04/2019
Fifteen years ago, Kathryn Scanlan found a stranger's five-year diary at an estate auction in a small town in Illinois. The owner of the diary was ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Dual Citizens
by
Alix Ohlin
Knopf, 06/04/2019
Lark and Robin are half-sisters whose similarities end at being named for birds. While Lark is shy and studious, Robin is wild and artistic. Raised in...
more
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
by
Neal Stephenson
William Morrow, 06/04/2019
In his youth, Richard "Dodge" Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. Now in his middle years, Dodge ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
In West Mills
by
De'Shawn Charles Winslow
Bloomsbury USA, 06/04/2019
Azalea "Knot" Centre is determined to live life as she pleases. Let the people of West Mills say what they will; the neighbors' gossip won't keep Knot...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life
by
Amber Scorah
Viking, 06/04/2019
A third-generation Jehovah's Witness, Amber Scorah had devoted her life to sounding God's warning of impending Armageddon. She volunteered to take the...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
More News Tomorrow: A Novel
by
Susan Richards Shreve
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/04/2019
On the morning of her seventieth birthday, Georgianna Grove receives an unexpected letter that calls her back to Missing Lake, Wisconsin, where her ...
more
Mostly Dead Things
by
Kristen Arnett
Tin House Books, 06/04/2019
What does it take to come back to life? For Jessa-Lynn Morton, the question is not an abstract one. In the wake of her father's suicide, Jessa has ...
more
My Life as a Rat
by
Joyce Carol Oates
Ecco, 06/04/2019
Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one's family ever justified?&#...
more
Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France
by
James Holland
Atlantic Monthly Press, 06/04/2019
D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Patsy: A Novel
by
Nicole Dennis-Benn
Liveright / WW Norton, 06/04/2019
When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it's the culmination of years of yearning to be reunited with Cicely, her oldest friend and secret ...
more
Scholars of Mayhem: My Father's Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France
by
Daniel C. Guiet, Timothy K. Smith
Penguin Books, 06/04/2019
When Daniel Guiet was a child and his family moved country, as they frequently did, his father had one possession, a tin bread box, that always made ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Spine of the Dragon: Wake the Dragon #1
by
Kevin J. Anderson
Tor Books, 06/04/2019
Two continents at war, the Three Kingdoms and Ishara, are divided by past bloodshed. When an outside threat arises―the reawakening of a powerful...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Electric Hotel: A Novel
by
Dominic Smith
Sarah Crichton Books, 06/04/2019
Dominic Smith's
The Electric Hotel winds through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey―America's first movie town―...
more
The Right Sort of Man
by
Allison Montclair
Minotaur Books, 06/04/2019
In a London slowly recovering from World War II, two very different women join forces to launch a business venture in the heart of Mayfair―The ...
more
The Spies of Shilling Lane
by
Jennifer Ryan
Crown, 06/04/2019
Mrs. Braithwaite, self-appointed queen of her English village, finds herself dethroned, despised, and dismissed following her husband's selfish ...
more
The Summer Country: A Novel
by
Lauren Willig
William Morrow, 06/04/2019
Barbados, 1854: Emily Dawson has always been the poor cousin in a prosperous English merchant clan-- merely a vicar's daughter, and a reform-minded ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Summer We Lost Her
by
Tish Cohen
Gallery Books, 06/04/2019
It's been a busy—and expensive—few years for Matt and Elise Sorenson and their young daughter Gracie, whom they affectionately call Little...
more
The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World
by
Jamil Zaki
Crown, 06/04/2019
Studies show that we are less caring than we were even thirty years ago. In 2006, Barack Obama said that the United States is suffering from an "...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Their Little Secret
by
Mark Billingham
Atlantic Monthly Press, 06/04/2019
He soon discovers that she was the victim of a callous con-man who preys on vulnerable women, and whose deception plunged Philippa to her end. Thorne ...
more
They Bled Blue: Fernandomania, Strike-Season Mayhem, and the Weirdest Championship Baseball Had Ever Seen: The 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers
by
Jason Turbow
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 06/04/2019
In the Halberstam tradition of capturing a season through its unforgettable figures,
They Bled Blue is a sprawling, mad tale of excess and exuberance,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
This Storm
by
James Ellroy
Knopf, 06/04/2019
It is January, 1942. Torrential rainstorms hit L.A. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops rate it a routine dead-man job. They're grievously ...
more
This Time Will Be Different
by
Misa Sugiura
HarperTeen, 06/04/2019
The author of the Asian Pacific American Award-winning
It's Not Like It's a Secret is back with another smartly drawn coming-of-age novel that weaves ...
more
Where the Lost Dogs Go: A Story of Love, Search, and the Power of Reunion
by
Susannah Charleson
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 06/04/2019
One in six dogs go missing at some point in their lives, leaving bereft owners to search high and low, hang missing posters, check shelters, and hope ...
more
The Van Apfel Girls are Gone
by
Felicity McLean
Algonquin Books, 06/06/2019
We lost all three girls that summer. Let them slip away like the words of some half-remembered song and when one came back, she wasn't the one we were...more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Are We There Yet?: The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless
by
Dan Albert
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/11/2019
Tech giants and automakers have been teaching robots to drive.
Robot-controlled cars have already logged millions of miles. These technological marvels...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Bunny
by
Mona Awad
Viking, 06/11/2019
"We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?"
Samantha Heather ...
more
Call Your Daughter Home
by
Deb Spera
Park Row Books, 06/11/2019
It's 1924 South Carolina and the region is still recovering from the infamous boll weevil infestation that devastated the land and the economy. ...
more
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Dream Sequence: A Novel
by
Adam Foulds
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/11/2019
Henry became famous starring in
The Grange, a television drama beloved by mothers and wives, and whose fans speak about the characters as though they ...
more
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
by
Louise Aronson
Bloomsbury Press, 06/11/2019
For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Honestly, We Meant Well
by
Grant Ginder
Flatiron Books, 06/11/2019
The Wright family is in ruins.
But then disaster strikes. She learns that her husband is cheating, and that her son has made a complete mess of ...
more
One Minute Later: A Novel
by
Susan Lewis
William Morrow, 06/11/2019
International bestselling author Susan Lewis' riveting, unforgettable novel of a woman whose life changes in an instant and the handsome young man ...
more
Paris, 7 A.M.: A Novel
by
Liza Wieland
Simon & Schuster, 06/11/2019
June 1937. Elizabeth Bishop, still only a young woman and not yet one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, arrives in France with ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning
by
Elliot Ackerman
Penguin Press, 06/11/2019
"War hath determined us ..." - John Milton,
Paradise LostToward the beginning of
Places and Names, Elliot Ackerman sits in a refugee camp in southern ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Recursion
by
Blake Crouch
Crown, 06/11/2019
That's what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes. It's why she's dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most ...
more
Soul of the Border: A Novel
by
Matteo Righetto
Atria Books, 06/11/2019
Jole de Boer is just fifteen years old the first time she accompanies her father—a tobacco grower named Augusto—as he smuggles his product...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
by
Jon Gertner
Random House, 06/11/2019
Greenland: a remote, mysterious island five times the size of California but with a population of just 56,000. The ice sheet that covers it is 700 ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Last Resort
by
Marissa Stapley
Graydon House, 06/11/2019
Johanna and Ben have a marriage that looks perfect on the surface, but in reality, they don't know each other at all. Shell and Colin fight constantly...
more
The Paper Wasp
by
Lauren Acampora
Grove Press, 06/11/2019
In small-town Michigan, Abby Graven leads a solitary life. Once a bright student on the cusp of a promising art career, she now languishes in her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Sol Majestic
by
Ferrett Steinmetz
Tor Books, 06/11/2019
Kenna, an aspirational teen guru, wanders destitute across the stars as he tries to achieve his parents' ambition to advise the celestial elite.
...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Sun on My Head
by
Geovani Martins
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/11/2019
In
The Sun on My Head, Geovani Martins recounts the experiences of boys growing up in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the early years of the twenty-...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
This Is Home: A Novel
by
Lisa Duffy
Atria Books, 06/11/2019
Sixteen-year-old Libby Winters lives in Paradise, a seaside town north of Boston that rarely lives up to its name. After the death of her mother, she ...
more
Time After Time
by
Lisa Grunwald
Random House, 06/11/2019
Nora Lansing is a Manhattan socialite whose flapper clothing, pearl earrings, and talk of the Roaring Twenties don't seem to match the bleak mood of ...
more
Hitchcock and the Censors
by
John Billheimer
University Press of Kentucky, 06/14/2019
Throughout his career, Alfred Hitchcock had to deal with a wide variety of censors attuned to the slightest suggestion of sexual innuendo, undue ...
more
A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
by
Don Kulick
Algonquin Books, 06/18/2019
As a young anthropologist, Don Kulick went to the tiny village of Gapun in New Guinea to document the death of the native language, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Philosophy of Ruin
by
Nicholas Mancusi
Hanover Square Press, 06/18/2019
Oscar Boatwright, a disenchanted philosophy professor, receives terrible news. His mother, on her way home from Hawaii with Oscar's father, has died ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past
by
Lewis Hyde
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/18/2019
We live in a culture that prizes memory―how much we can store, the quality of what's preserved, how we might better document and retain the ...
more
All of Us with Wings
by
Michelle Ruiz Keil
Soho Teen, 06/18/2019
Seventeen-year-old Xochi is alone in San Francisco, running from her painful past: the mother who abandoned her, the man who betrayed her. Then one ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All
by
Arthur Holland Michel
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 06/18/2019
Eyes in the Sky is the authoritative account of how the Pentagon secretly developed a godlike surveillance system for monitoring America's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Girl in the Rearview Mirror
by
Kelsey Rae Dimberg
William Morrow, 06/18/2019
Finn Hunt is working a dull office job to pay off her college debt when she meets Philip and charms Amabel. She eagerly agrees to nanny, thinking she'...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
Lifelines: A Novel
by
Heidi Diehl
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 06/18/2019
It's 1971 when Louise leaves Oregon for Düsseldorf, a city grappling with its nation's horrific recent history, to study art. Soon she's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Night in the American Village: Women in the Shadow of the U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa
by
Akemi Johnson
Atheneum Books, 06/18/2019
At the southern end of the Japanese archipelago lies Okinawa, host to a vast complex of U.S. military bases. A legacy of World War II, these bases ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Roughhouse Friday
by
Jaed Coffin
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/18/2019
While lifting weights in the Seldon Jackson College gymnasium on a rainy autumn night, Jaed Coffin heard the distinctive whacking sound of sparring ...
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Summer of '69
by
Elin Hilderbrand
Little Brown & Company, 06/18/2019
Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Body Lies
by
Jo Baker
Knopf, 06/18/2019
When a young writer accepts a job at a university in the remote English countryside, it's meant to be a fresh start, away from the bustle of London ...
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The Burning Chambers
by
Kate Mosse
Minotaur Books, 06/18/2019
Power and Prejudice: France, 1562. War sparks between the Catholics and Huguenots, dividing neighbors, friends, and family―meanwhile, nineteen-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Last House Guest
by
Megan Miranda
Simon & Schuster, 06/18/2019
Littleport, Maine, has always felt like two separate towns: an ideal vacation enclave for the wealthy, whose summer homes line the coastline; and a ...
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The Lesson
by
Cadwell Turnbull
Blackstone Publishing, 06/18/2019
They are benevolent in many ways but meet any act of aggression with disproportional wrath. This has led to a strained relationship between the Ynaa ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Perfect Fraud
by
Ellen LaCorte
Harper, 06/18/2019
Motherhood is tough. But then, so is daughterhood. When we first meet Claire, she's living in Sedona, Arizona with her boyfriend Cal and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Porpoise
by
Mark Haddon
Doubleday, 06/18/2019
Mark Haddon's breathtaking novel begins with a harrowing plane crash: Maja, the pregnant wife of the unimaginably wealthy Philippe, is killed, but ...
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Big Sky: A Jackson Brodie Novel
by
Kate Atkinson
Little Brown & Company, 06/25/2019
Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at the ...
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Evvie Drake Starts Over: A Novel
by
Linda Holmes
Ballantine Books, 06/25/2019
In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth "Evvie" Drake rarely leaves her large, painfully empty house nearly a year after her ...
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Gone Too Long
by
Lori Roy
Dutton, 06/25/2019
On the day a black truck rattles past her house and a Klan flyer lands in her front yard, ten-year-old Beth disappears from her Simmonsville, Georgia,...
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Happiness, as Such
by
Natalia Ginzburg
New Directions Publishing, 06/25/2019
At the heart of
Happiness, as Such is an absence―an abyss that draws everyone nearer to its edge―created by the departure of a family's ...
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How Could She
by
Lauren Mechling
Viking, 06/25/2019
Sick of watching from the sidelines, Geraldine decides to force the universe to give her the big break she knows she deserves, and moves to New York ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Great Unexpected: A Novel
by
Dan Mooney
Park Row Books, 06/25/2019
Joel lives in a nursing home, and he's not one bit happy about it. He hates being told when to eat, when to sleep, when to take his pills. He's fed up...
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The Iron Dragon's Mother
by
Michael Swanwick
Tor Books, 06/25/2019
Caitlin of House Sans Merci is the young half-human pilot of a sentient mechanical dragon. Returning from her first soul-stealing raid, she discovers ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Snakes
by
Sadie Jones
Harper, 06/25/2019
Recently married, psychologist Bea and Dan, a mixed-race artist, rent out their tiny flat to escape London for a few precious months. Driving through ...
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American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
by
Maureen Callahan
Viking, 07/02/2019
Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-known; they echo in the news and in public ...
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Deep River
by
Karl Marlantes
Atlantic Monthly Press, 07/02/2019
In the early 1900s, as the oppression of Russia's imperial rule takes its toll on Finland, the three Koski siblings―Ilmari, Matti, and the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Maggie Brown & Others
by
Peter Orner
Little Brown & Company, 07/02/2019
In his orchestral and moving new book, Peter Orner, a writer who "doesn't simply bring his characters to life, he gives them souls" (
New York Times ...more
Paper Son: A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Novel
by
S. J. Rozan
Pegasus Books, 07/02/2019
The Most Southern Place on Earth: that's what they call the Mississippi Delta. It's not a place Lydia Chin, an American-born Chinese private detective...
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Reading Behind Bars: A Memoir of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian
by
Jill Grunenwald
Skyhorse Publishing, 07/02/2019
In December 2008, twentysomething Jill Grunenwald graduated with her master's degree in library science, ready to start living her dream of becoming a...
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Second Sight: A Novel
by
Aoife Clifford
Pegasus Books, 07/02/2019
When the biggest legal case of her career brings Eliza Carmody back to Kinsale, the hometown she thought she had left forever, she witnesses an old ...
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Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff
by
Anthony McCann
Bloomsbury USA, 07/02/2019
In 2016, a group of armed, divinely inspired right-wing protestors led by Ammon Bundy occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in the high desert...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Beckoning Shadow
by
Katharyn Blair
Katherine Tegan Books, 07/02/2019
Vesper Montgomery can summon your worst fear and turn it into a reality—but she's learned the hard way that it's an addicting and dangerous ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Gifted School
by
Bruce Holsinger
Riverhead Books, 07/02/2019
This deliciously sharp novel captures the relentless ambitions and fears that animate parents and their children in modern America, exploring the ...
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We Came Here to Forget: A Novel
by
Andrea Dunlop
Atria Books, 07/02/2019
Katie Cleary has always known exactly what she wants: to be the best skier in the world. As a teenager, she leaves her home to live and train full ...
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We Walked the Sky
by
Lisa Fiedler
Razorbill, 07/02/2019
In 1965 seventeen-year-old Victoria, having just escaped an unstable home, flees to the ultimate place for dreamers and runaways--the circus. ...
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Whisper Network
by
Chandler Baker
Flatiron Books, 07/02/2019
Sloane, Ardie, Grace, and Rosalita have worked at Truviv, Inc. for years. The sudden death of Truviv's CEO means their boss, Ames, will likely take ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Bad Axe County
by
John Galligan
Atria Books, 07/09/2019
Fifteen years ago, Heidi White's parents were shot to death on their Bad Axe County farm. The police declared it a murder-suicide and closed the case....
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Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram
by
Isha Sesay
Dey Street Books, 07/09/2019
In the early morning of April 14, 2014, the militant Islamic group Boko Haram violently burst into the small town of Chibok, Nigeria, and abducted 276...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir
by
Daniel R. Day
Random House, 07/09/2019
With his now-legendary store on 125th Street in Harlem, Dapper Dan pioneered high-end streetwear in the 1980s, remixing classic luxury-brand logos ...
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Death and Other Happy Endings
by
Melanie Cantor
Pamela Dorman Books, 07/09/2019
Jennifer Cole has just been told that she has a terminal blood disorder and has just three months to live--ninety days to say goodbye to friends and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Dragonfly
by
Leila Meacham
Grand Central Publishing, 07/09/2019
At the height of World War II, a handful of idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the government, asking them if they are ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Famous People: A Novel
by
Justin Kuritzkes
Henry Holt and Company, 07/09/2019
Honestly, what amazes me the most with a lot of the people I meet is that they think they're so big. They think, ultimately, that the universe ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
In the Full Light of the Sun
by
Clare Clark
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 07/09/2019
Hedonistic and politically turbulent, Berlin in the 1920s is a city of seedy night clubs and sumptuous art galleries. It is home to millionaires and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Jacob's Ladder: A Novel
by
Ludmila Ulitskaya (author), Polly Gannon (translator)
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/09/2019
Jacob's Ladder is a family saga spanning a century of recent Russian history―and represents the summation of the author's career, devoted to ...
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King of the Mississippi
by
Mike Freedman
Hogarth Books, 07/09/2019
King of the Mississippi is an incisive, uproarious dissection of contemporary male vanity and delusion, centered around a "war" for dominance of a ...
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Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
by
Margaret Renkl
Milkweed Editions, 07/09/2019
Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Past Perfect Life
by
Elizabeth Eulberg
Bloomsbury USA, 07/09/2019
Small-town Wisconsin high school senior Allison Smith loves her life the way it is--spending quality time with her widowed father and her tight-knit ...
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Stay and Fight
by
Madeline ffitch
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/09/2019
Helen arrives in Appalachian Ohio full of love and eager to carry out her boyfriend's ideas for living off the land. Too soon, with winter coming, her...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
by
Abbi Waxman
Berkley Books, 07/09/2019
The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a ...
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The Chain
by
Adrian McKinty
Mulholland, 07/09/2019
YOUR PHONE RINGS.
A STRANGER HAS KIDNAPPED YOUR CHILD.
TO FREE THEM YOU MUST ABDUCT SOMEONE ELSE'S CHILD.
YOUR CHILD WILL BE RELEASED WHEN YOUR ...
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The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
by
Margaret O'Mara
Penguin Press, 07/09/2019
Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Golden Hour
by
Beatriz Williams
William Morrow, 07/09/2019
The Bahamas, 1941. Newly-widowed Leonora "Lulu" Randolph arrives in Nassau to investigate the Governor and his wife for a New York society magazine. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Lightest Object in the Universe: A Novel
by
Kimi Eisele
Algonquin Books, 07/09/2019
What if the end times allowed people to see and build the world anew? This is the landscape that Kimi Eisele creates in her surprising and original ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Need
by
Helen Phillips
Simon & Schuster, 07/09/2019
There were footsteps in the other room...
So begins
The Need, a sharp and haunting exploration of the joys and perils of modern motherhood. Molly ...
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The Substitution Order: A novel
by
Martin Clark
Knopf, 07/09/2019
Kevin Moore, once a high-flying Virginia attorney, hits rock bottom after an inexplicably tumultuous summer leaves him disbarred and separated from ...
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The Toll
by
Cherie Priest
Tor Books, 07/09/2019
Take a road trip into a Southern gothic horror novel.
Titus and Melanie Bell are on their honeymoon and have reservations in the Okefenokee Swamp ...
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At Dusk
by
Hwang Sok-yong
Scribe Publications Pty Ltd, 07/16/2019
Park Minwoo is, by every measure, a success story. Born into poverty in a miserable neighborhood of Seoul, he has ridden the wave of development in a ...
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Beirut Hellfire Society
by
Rawi Hage
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/16/2019
On a ravaged street overlooking a cemetery in Beirut's Christian enclave, we meet an eccentric young man named Pavlov, the son of a local undertaker. ...
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Family of Origin
by
CJ Hauser
Doubleday, 07/16/2019
The Greys have been avoiding each other for a dozen years.
Elsa and Nolan travel to their father's field station, a wild and isolated spot off the...
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If You Want to Make God Laugh
by
Bianca Marais
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/16/2019
In a squatter camp on the outskirts of Johannesburg, seventeen-year-old Zodwa lives in desperate poverty, under the shadowy threat of a civil war and ...
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Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction
by
Chuck Klosterman
Penguin Press, 07/16/2019
A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs an offense ...
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Stubborn Archivist
by
Yara Rodrigues Fowler
Mariner Books, 07/16/2019
But where are you really
from? When your mother considers another country home, it's hard to know where you belong. When the people you ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Tell Me Everything
by
Cambria Brockman
Ballantine Books, 07/16/2019
There's Gemma, an insecure theater major from London; John, a tall, handsome, wealthy New Englander; Max, John's cousin, a shy pre-med major; Khaled, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Bird Boys: A Delpha Wade and Tom Phelan Mystery
by
Lisa Sandlin
Cinco Puntos Press, 07/16/2019
She killed the man who was trying to kill her, and she is, after all, an ex-con. It's still Beaumont, 1970s, and mindsets don't change along the Texas...
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The Expectations
by
Alexander Tilney
Little Brown & Company, 07/16/2019
But after fourteen long years of waiting, Ben arrives at school only to find that the reality of St. James doesn't quite match up with his imaginings....
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Philosopher's War: The Philosophers Series
by
Tom Miller
Simon & Schuster, 07/16/2019
Thanks to a stunning flying performance and a harrowing shootout in the streets of Boston, Robert Canderelli Weekes's lifelong dream has come true: he...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
This Is How You Lose the Time War
by
Amal El-Mohtar
Gallery Books, 07/16/2019
In the ashes of a dying world, Red finds a letter marked "Burn before reading. Signed, Blue."
So begins an unlikely correspondence between two ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
by
Christopher Ketcham
Viking, 07/16/2019
The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Beijing Payback
by
Daniel Nieh
Ecco, 07/23/2019
Victor Li is devastated by his father's murder, and shocked by a confessional letter he finds among his father's things. In it, his father admits that...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Good Girl, Bad Girl
by
Michael Robotham
Scribner, 07/23/2019
A girl is discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a terrible crime. Half-starved and filthy, she won't tell anyone her name, or her age...
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Gravity Is the Thing
by
Jaclyn Moriarty
Harper, 07/23/2019
Twenty years ago, Abigail Sorenson's brother Robert went missing one day before her sixteenth birthday, never to be seen again. That same year, she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Lady in the Lake
by
Laura Lippman
William Morrow, 07/23/2019
In 1966, Baltimore is a city of secrets that everyone seems to know—everyone, that is, except Madeline "Maddie" Schwartz. Last year, she was a ...
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The Floating Feldmans
by
Elyssa Friedland
Berkley Books, 07/23/2019
Sink or swim. Or at least that's what Annette Feldman tells herself when she books a cruise for her entire family. It's been over a decade since the ...
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The Lager Queen of Minnesota
by
J. Ryan Stradal
Pamela Dorman Books, 07/23/2019
Edith Magnusson's rhubarb pies are famous in the Twin Cities--they were named the third-best in the state of Minnesota and St. Anthony-Waterside ...
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We Love Anderson Cooper: Short Stories
by
R.L. Maizes
Celadon, 07/23/2019
In
We Love Anderson Cooper, characters are treated as outsiders because of their sexual orientation, racial or religious identity, or simply because ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Chances Are ...
by
Richard Russo
Knopf, 07/30/2019
One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They ...
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Never Have I Ever
by
Joshilyn Jackson
William Morrow, 07/30/2019
Amy Whey is proud of her ordinary life and the simple pleasures that come with it—teaching diving lessons, baking cookies for new neighbors, ...
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The Chelsea Girls
by
Fiona Davis
Dutton, 07/30/2019
From the dramatic redbrick facade to the sweeping staircase dripping with art, the Chelsea Hotel has long been New York City's creative oasis for the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Escape Room
by
Megan Goldin
St. Martin's Press, 07/30/2019
Welcome to the escape room. Your goal is simple. Get out alive.In the lucrative world of finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie, and Sam are at the top of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Merciful Crow: The Merciful Crow Series Book 1
by
Margaret Owen
Henry Holt and Company, 07/30/2019
One way or another, we always feed the crows. A future chieftain Fie abides by one rule: look after your own. Her Crow caste of undertakers and mercy-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Vexations
by
Caitlin Horrocks
Little Brown & Company, 07/30/2019
Erik Satie begins life with every possible advantage. But after the dual blows of his mother's early death and his father's breakdown upend his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Too Close
by
Natalie Daniels
HarperPaperbacks, 07/30/2019
How close do you get before it's too late…?Working as a dedicated forensic psychiatrist for many years, Emma is not shocked so easily. Then she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America
by
Lyz Lenz
Indiana University Press, 08/01/2019
From drugstores in Sydney, Iowa, to skeet shooting in rural Illinois, to the mega churches of Minneapolis, Lenz set out to discover the changing ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
They Could Have Named Her Anything
by
Stephanie Jimenez
Little A, 08/01/2019
Every morning, seventeen-year-old Maria Anís Rosario takes the subway an hour from her boisterous and close-knit family in Queens to her private ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Particular Kind of Black Man
by
Tope Folarin
Simon & Schuster, 08/06/2019
Living in small-town Utah has always been an uneasy fit for Tunde Akinola's family, especially for his Nigeria-born parents. Though Tunde speaks ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Pure Heart
by
Rajia Hassib
Viking, 08/06/2019
Sisters Rose and Gameela Gubran could not have been more different. Rose, an Egyptologist, married an American journalist and immigrated to New York ...
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All the Water in the World
by
Karen Raney
Scribner, 08/06/2019
Maddy is sixteen. Smart, funny, and profound, she has loyal friends, a mother with whom she's unusually close, a father she's never met, devoted ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
City of Windows: A Lucas Page Novel
by
Robert Pobi
Minotaur Books, 08/06/2019
During the worst blizzard in memory, an FBI agent in a moving SUV in New York City is killed by a nearly impossible sniper shot. Unable to pinpoint ...
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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
by
Charles King
Doubleday, 08/06/2019
At the end of the 19th century, everyone knew that people were defined by their race and sex and were fated by birth and biology to be more or less ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Hollow Kingdom
by
Kira Jane Buxton
Grand Central Publishing, 08/06/2019
S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (those idiots)...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Hunter's Moon: A Novel in Stories
by
Philip Caputo
Henry Holt and Company, 08/06/2019
Hunter's Moon is set in Michigan's wild, starkly beautiful Upper Peninsula, where a cast of recurring characters move into and out of each other's ...
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Lost You
by
Haylen Beck
Crown, 08/06/2019
Libby needs a break. Three years ago her husband split, leaving her to raise their infant son Ethan alone as she struggled to launch her writing ...
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Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing
by
Elissa Altman
Ballantine Books, 08/06/2019
After much time, therapy, and wine, Elissa is at last in a healthy place, still orbiting around her mother but keeping far enough away to preserve the...
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Summerlings
by
Lisa Howorth
Doubleday, 08/06/2019
It's the summer of 1959. For the families who live on Connors Lane in Washington DC, life is still defined by what one did during WWII. Behind each ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Borgias: Power and Fortune
by
Paul Strathern
Pegasus Books, 08/06/2019
The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious cruelty―all have been associated ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
by
Karen Abbott
Crown, 08/06/2019
In the early days of Prohibition, long before Al Capone became a household name, a German immigrant named George Remus quits practicing law and starts...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Hotel Neversink
by
Adam O'Fallon Price
Tin House Books, 08/06/2019
This mysterious vanishing―and the ones that follow―will brand the lives of three generations. At the root of it all is Asher Sikorsky, the...
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The Remainder
by
Alia Trabucco Zerán
Coffee House Press, 08/06/2019
Felipe prowls the streets counting dead bodies real and imagined, aspiring to a perfect number that might offer closure. Iquela and Paloma, an old ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Wolf Wants In
by
Laura McHugh
Spiegel & Grau, 08/06/2019
Sadie Keller is determined to find out how her brother died, even if no one else thinks it's worth investigating. Untimely deaths are all too common ...
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Travel Light, Move Fast
by
Alexandra Fuller
Penguin Press, 08/06/2019
Six months before he died in Budapest, Tim Fuller turned to his daughter: "Let me tell you the secret to life right now, in case I suddenly give up ...
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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
by
Jia Tolentino
Random House, 08/06/2019
Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time. Now, in this...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
We Are All Good People Here
by
Susan Rebecca White
Atria Books, 08/06/2019
Eve Whalen, privileged child of an old-money Atlanta family, meets Daniella Gold in the fall of 1962, on their first day at Belmont College. Paired as...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
When I Was White
by
Sarah Valentine
St. Martin's Press, 08/06/2019
At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered that she was not, in fact, the white girl she had always believed herself to be. She learned the truth of...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything
by
Sasha Chapin
Doubleday, 08/13/2019
First captivated by it as a member of his high school chess club, his passion was rekindled during an accidental encounter with chess hustlers on the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks
by
Lawrence Weschler
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/13/2019
The author Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile the neurologist for his own new ...
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Black Card
by
Chris L. Terry
Catapult, 08/13/2019
In an effort to be "black enough," a mixed-race punk rock musician indulges his own stereotypical views of African American life by doing what his ...
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Black Light
by
Kimberly King Parsons
Vintage, 08/13/2019
In this debut collection of enormously perceptive and brutally unsentimental short stories, Parsons illuminates the ache of first love, the banality ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders
by
Billy Jensen
Sourcebooks, 08/13/2019
Have you ever wanted to solve a murder? Gather the clues the police overlooked? Put together the pieces? Identify the suspect?
Journalist Billy ...
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gods with a little g
by
Tupelo Hassman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/13/2019
Unsinkable and wrecked by grief, motherless and aimless and looking for connection, Helen Dedleder is a girl with a gift she doesn't want to use and a...
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Hard Mouth
by
Amanda Goldblatt
Counterpoint Press, 08/13/2019
For ten years, Denny's father has battled cancer. The drawn-out loss has forged Denny into a dazed, antisocial young woman. On the clock, she works as...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Rule of Capture: A Tropic of Kansas Novel
by
Christopher Brown
Harper Voyager, 08/13/2019
Defeated in a devastating war with China and ravaged by climate change, America is on the brink of a bloody civil war. Seizing power after a ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Accidentals
by
Minrose Gwin
William Morrow, 08/13/2019
Life heads down back alleys, takes sharp left turns. Then, one fine day it jumps the track and crashes."In the fall of 1957, Olivia McAlister is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Bitterroots
by
C.J. Box
Minotaur Books, 08/13/2019
The ties that bind can burn you.Former sheriff's investigator Cassie Dewell is trying to start her life over in private practice. She's her own boss ...
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The Last Good Guy: A Roland Ford novel
by
T. Jefferson Parker
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/13/2019
When hired by a beautiful and enigmatic woman to find her missing younger sister, private investigator Roland Ford immediately senses that the case is...
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The Last Ocean: A Journey Through Memory and Forgetting
by
Nicci Gerrard
Penguin Press, 08/13/2019
After a diagnosis of dementia, Nicci Gerrard's father, John, continued to live life on his own terms, alongside the disease. But when an isolating ...
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The Oysterville Sewing Circle
by
Susan Wiggs
William Morrow, 08/13/2019
At the break of dawn, Caroline Shelby rolls into Oysterville, Washington, a tiny hamlet at the edge of the raging Pacific.
She's come home.
Home to a ...
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The Perfect Son
by
Lauren North
Berkley Books, 08/13/2019
When Tess Clarke wakes up in the hospital the day after her son Jamie's eighth birthday, she's sure of these things: She's been stabbed, her son is ...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
The Plateau
by
Maggie Paxson
Riverhead Books, 08/13/2019
In a remote pocket of Nazi-held France, ordinary people risked their lives to rescue many hundreds of strangers, mostly Jewish children. Was this a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Swallows
by
Lisa Lutz
Ballantine Books, 08/13/2019
When Alexandra Witt joins the faculty at Stonebridge Academy, she's hoping to put a painful past behind her. Then one of her creative writing ...
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The Yellow House
by
Sarah M. Broom
Grove Press, 08/13/2019
In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Thirteen
by
Steve Cavanagh
Flatiron Books, 08/13/2019
It's the murder trial of the century. And Joshua Kane has killed to get the best seat in the house – and to be sure the wrong man goes down for ...
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The Lines
by
Anthony Varallo
University of Iowa Press, 08/15/2019
Through alternating perspectives, we follow the family as they explore new territory, new living arrangements, and new complications. The mother ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
As Many Nows as I Can Get
by
Shana Youngdahl
Dial Books, 08/20/2019
Scarlett and David have known each other all their lives in small-town Graceville, Colorado, where David is just another mountain in the background, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Carnegie Hill
by
Jonathan Vatner
Thomas Dunne Books, 08/20/2019
At age thirty-three, Penelope "Pepper" Bradford has no career, no passion and no children. Her intrusive parents still treat her like a child. Moving ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Color Me In
by
Natasha Diaz
Delacorte Press, 08/20/2019
Who is Nevaeh Levitz?Growing up in an affluent suburb of New York City, sixteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz never thought much about her biracial roots. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Coventry
by
Rachel Cusk
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/20/2019
Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three "literary masterpieces" (
The Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Going Dutch
by
James Gregor
Simon & Schuster, 08/20/2019
But at the forefront is his crippling writer's block, which threatens daily to derail his graduate funding and leave Richard poor, directionless, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Machine
by
Susan Steinberg
Graywolf Press, 08/20/2019
Susan Steinberg's first novel,
Machine, is a dazzling and innovative leap forward for a writer whose most recent book,
Spectacle, gained her a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Middle England: A novel
by
Jonathan Coe
Knopf, 08/20/2019
Beginning nine years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by chain retail, and London, where both frenzied riots...
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Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
by
Rachel Monroe
Scribner, 08/20/2019
In this illuminating exploration of women, violence, and obsession, Rachel Monroe interrogates the appeal of true crime through four narratives of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
True Crime
Debut Author
Syria's Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege
by
Mike Thomson
Public Affairs, 08/20/2019
At the height of the Syrian Civil War, deep beneath the shattered streets of rebel-held Darayya was a secret library. This basement room filled with ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
by
Ian Urbina
Knopf, 08/20/2019
There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
The Reckless Oath We Made
by
Bryn Greenwood
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/20/2019
Zee is nobody's fairy tale princess. Almost six-foot, with a redhead's temper and a shattered hip, she has a long list of worries: never-ending bills,...
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The Warehouse
by
Rob Hart
Crown, 08/20/2019
Paxton never thought he'd be working for Cloud, the giant tech company that's eaten much of the American economy. Much less that he'd be moving into ...
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The Whisper Man
by
Alex North
Celadon, 08/20/2019
After the sudden death of his wife, Tom Kennedy believes a fresh start will help him and his young son Jake heal. A new beginning, a new house, a new ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
A Better Man: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
by
Louise Penny
Minotaur Books, 08/27/2019
It's Gamache's first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. ...
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Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death
by
Anthony Everitt
Random House, 08/27/2019
More than two millennia have passed since Alexander the Great built an empire that stretched to every corner of the ancient world, from the backwater ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Last Ones Left Alive
by
Sarah Davis-Goff
Flatiron Books, 08/27/2019
Raised in isolation by her mother and Maeve on a small island off the coast of a post-apocalyptic Ireland, Orpen's life has revolved around training ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil
by
Susan Neiman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/27/2019
In the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing debate over reparations, and the controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and the contested...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Lost Daughter
by
Gill Paul
William Morrow, 08/27/2019
1918: Pretty, vivacious Grand Duchess Maria Romanov, the nineteen-year-old daughter of the fallen Tsar Nicholas II, lives with her family in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Other's Gold
by
Elizabeth Ames
Viking, 08/27/2019
Assigned to the same suite during their freshman year at Quincy-Hawthorn College, Lainey, Ji Sun, Alice, and Margaret quickly become inseparable. The ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Ventriloquists
by
E.R. Ramzipoor
Park Row Books, 08/27/2019
The Nazis stole their voices. But they would not be silenced.
Brussels, 1943. Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?
by
Brock Clarke
Algonquin Books, 08/27/2019
After his mother, a theologian and bestselling author, dies in a fiery explosion, forty-nine-year-old Calvin Bledsoe's heretofore uninspired life is ...
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The Man with No Borders
by
Richard C. Morais
Little A, 09/01/2019
It is a time of reckoning for José María Álvarez, an aristocratic Spanish banker living in a Swiss village with his American wife. ...
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Cold Storage
by
David Koepp
Ecco, 09/03/2019
When Pentagon bioterror operative Roberto Diaz was sent to investigate a suspected biochemical attack, he found something far worse: a highly mutative...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Crudo
by
Olivia Laing
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/03/2019
It's the summer of 2017 and Kathy is getting married. Meanwhile, fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is heating up, and Trump is ...
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Dear Haiti, Love Alaine
by
Maika Moulite
Inkyard Press, 09/03/2019
You might ask the obvious question: What do I, a seventeen-year-old Haitian American from Miami with way too little life experience, have to say about...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Dominicana
by
Angie Cruz
Flatiron Books, 09/03/2019
But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. It doesn't matter that he is twice her age, that there is ...
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Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
by
Ben Westhoff
Atlantic Monthly Press, 09/03/2019
"A whole new crop of chemicals is radically changing the recreational drug landscape," writes Ben Westhoff. "These are known as Novel Psychoactive ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Fly Already: Stories
by
Etgar Keret
Riverhead Books, 09/03/2019
There's no one like Etgar Keret. His stories take place at the crossroads of the fantastical, searing, and hilarious. His characters grapple with ...
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Hope Farm
by
Peggy Frew
Scribe Publications Pty Ltd, 09/03/2019
It is the winter of 1985. Hope Farm sticks out of the ragged landscape like a decaying tooth, its weatherboard walls sagging into the undergrowth. ...
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Nothing Ventured: William Warwick Book #1
by
Jeffrey Archer
St. Martin's Press, 09/03/2019
William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father's dismay, that rather than become a lawyer like his father, Sir ...
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Permanent Record
by
Mary H. K. Choi
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 09/03/2019
On paper, college dropout Pablo Rind doesn't have a whole lot going for him. His graveyard shift at a twenty-four-hour deli in Brooklyn is a struggle....
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Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy
by
A.N. Wilson
Harper, 09/03/2019
For more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height of its power. Beside her for more than twenty of those years was the love...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Quichotte
by
Salman Rushdie
Random House, 09/03/2019
Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with ...
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Rewind
by
Catherine Ryan Howard
Blackstone Publishing, 09/03/2019
One night the unthinkable happens: a shadowy figure emerges on-screen, kills her, and destroys the camera. But who is the murderer? How did they know ...
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The Bone Fire: A Somershill Manor Mystery, Book 4
by
S. D. Sykes
Pegasus Books, 09/03/2019
When the Black Death reappears in England in 1361, Oswald de Lacy knows that the safest place for his wife and young son is the island-fortress of ...
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The Chestnut Man
by
Soren Sveistrup
Harper, 09/03/2019
A psychopath is terrorizing Copenhagen.
His calling card is a "chestnut man"—a handmade doll made of matchsticks and two chestnuts—which he...
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The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
by
Binyamin Appelbaum
Little Brown & Company, 09/03/2019
Before the 1960s, American politicians had never paid much attention to economists. But as the post-World War II boom began to sputter, economists ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Glass Woman
by
Caroline Lea
Harper, 09/03/2019
Rósa has always dreamed of living a simple life alongside her Mamma in their remote village in Iceland, where she prays to the Christian God ...
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The Grammarians
by
Cathleen Schine
Sarah Crichton Books, 09/03/2019
The Grammarians are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret "twin" ...
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The King's War: The Friendship of George VI and Lionel Logue During World War II
by
Peter Conradi
Pegasus Books, 09/03/2019
The broadcast that George VI made to the British nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939―which formed the climax of the multi-Oscar-...
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The Red Address Book
by
Sofia Lundberg
Mariner Books, 09/03/2019
For fans of
The Little Paris Bookshop and
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared comes a heartwarming debut about 96-year-old...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
The Sweetest Fruits
by
Monique Truong
Viking, 09/03/2019
A Greek woman tells of how she willed herself out of her father's cloistered house, married an Irish officer in the British Army, and came to Ireland ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You
by
Dina Nayeri
Catapult, 09/03/2019
What is it like to be a refugee? It is a question many of us do not give much thought to, and yet there are more than 25 million refugees in the world...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
There Will Come a Darkness: The Age of Darkness Book 1
by
Katy Rose Pool
Henry Holt and Company, 09/03/2019
For generations, the Seven Prophets guided humanity. Using their visions of the future, they ended wars and united nations―until the day, one ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
This Tender Land: A Novel
by
William Kent Krueger
Atria Books, 09/03/2019
1932, Minnesota—the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are ...
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Literary Fiction
To the Lions
by
Holly Watt
Dutton, 09/03/2019
Casey Benedict, star reporter at the
Post, has infiltrated the lives and exposed the lies of countless politicians and power players. Using her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Today We Go Home: A Novel
by
Kelli Estes
Sourcebooks, 09/03/2019
Seattle, Washington Larkin Bennett has always known her place, whether it's surrounded by her loving family in the lush greenery of the Pacific ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Walking to Jerusalem: Endurance and Hope on a Pilgrimage from London to the Holy Land
by
Justin Butcher
Pegasus Books, 09/03/2019
On the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, which was also the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-day War and the tenth anniversary of the Blockade of ...
more
Travel & Adventure
Debut Author
When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl's Book
by
Naja Marie Aidt
Coffee House Press, 09/03/2019
When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back chronicles the few first years after that devastating phone call. It is at once a sober account of ...
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When Hell Struck Twelve: A Billy Boyle WWII Mystery
by
James R. Benn
Soho Crime, 09/03/2019
August, 1944: US Army detective Billy Boyle is assigned to track down a French traitor, code-named Atlantik, who is delivering classified Allied plans...
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Whose Story Is This?: Old Conflicts, New Chapters
by
Rebecca Solnit
Haymarket Books, 09/03/2019
The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other ...
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Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
by
W.Caleb McDaniel
Oxford University Press, 09/04/2019
Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Song for a New Day
by
Sarah Pinsker
Berkley Books, 09/10/2019
In the Before, when the government didn't prohibit large public gatherings, Luce Cannon was on top of the world. One of her songs had just taken off ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Akin
by
Emma Donoghue
Little Brown & Company, 09/10/2019
Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor and widower living on the Upper West Side, but born in the South of France. He is days away from his ...
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Animalia
by
Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
Grove Press, 09/10/2019
The small village of Puy-Larroque, southwest France, 1898.
Éléonore is a child living with her father, a pig farmer whose terminal ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America
by
James Poniewozik
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 09/10/2019
Television has entertained America, television has ensorcelled America, and with the election of Donald J. Trump, television has conquered America. In...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Bloomland
by
John Englehardt
Dzanc Books, 09/10/2019
In this richly textured debut, John Englehardt explores how the origin and aftermath of the shooting impacts the lives of three characters: a ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Don't You Forget About Me
by
Mhairi McFarlane
William Morrow Paperbacks, 09/10/2019
You always remember your first love... don't you?If there's anything worse than being fired from the lousiest restaurant in town, it's coming home ...
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Ducks, Newburyport
by
Lucy Ellmann
Biblioasis, 09/10/2019
She is surrounded by dead lakes, fake facts, Open Carry maniacs, and oodles of online advice about survivalism, veil toss duties, and how to be more ...
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Frankly in Love
by
David Yoon
Putnam & Sons Books for Younger Readers, 09/10/2019
Frank Li has two names. There's Frank Li, his American name. Then there's Sung-Min Li, his Korean name. No one uses his Korean name, not even his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS
by
Azadeh Moaveni
Random House, 09/10/2019
Among the many books trying to understand the terrifying rise of ISIS, none has given voice to the women in the organization; but women were essential...
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Gun Island
by
Amitav Ghosh
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/10/2019
Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one that turns Deen Datta's world upside down.
A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but...
more
His Hideous Heart: 13 of Edgar Allan Poe's Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined
by
Ed. Dahlia Adler
Flatiron Books, 09/10/2019
Edgar Allan Poe may be a hundred and fifty years beyond this world, but the themes of his beloved works have much in common with modern young adult ...
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Hitler's Last Hostages: Looted Art and the Soul of the Third Reich
by
Mary M. Lane
Public Affairs, 09/10/2019
Nazism ascended not by brute force but by cultural tyranny. Weimar Germany was a society in turmoil, and Hitler's rise to power was achieved not only ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Hope Is Our Only Wing
by
Rutendo Tavengerwei
Soho Teen, 09/10/2019
For fifteen-year-old Shamiso, hope is nothing but a leap into darkness. Grief-stricken and confused after her father's mysterious death in a car crash...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings From the Me Too Movement
by
Ed. Shelly Oria
McSweeney's Books, 09/10/2019
Among the first books to emerge from the #MeToo movement,
Indelible in the Hippocampus is a truly intersectional collection of essays, fiction, and ...
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Live a Little
by
Howard Jacobson
Hogarth Books, 09/10/2019
At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything – including her own children. She spends her days stitching morbid ...
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Mother Knows Best: A Novel of Suspense
by
Kira Peikoff
Crooked Lane Books, 09/10/2019
There's only room for one mother in this family.Claire Abrams's dreams became a nightmare when she passed on a genetic mutation that killed her little...
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Out of Darkness, Shining Light
by
Petina Gappah
Scribner, 09/10/2019
So begins Petina Gappah's powerful novel of exploration and adventure in nineteenth-century Africa—the captivating story of the loyal men and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Passionate Spirit: The Life of Alma Mahler
by
Cate Haste
Basic Books, 09/10/2019
History has long vilified Alma Mahler. Critics accused her of distracting Gustav Mahler from his work, and her passionate love affairs shocked her ...
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Rebel Girls
by
Elizabeth Keenan
Inkyard Press, 09/10/2019
Plus her staunchly feminist views and love of punk rock aren't exactly mainstream at St. Ann's, her conservative Catholic high school.
Then a malicious...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Ruby & Roland
by
Faith Sullivan
Milkweed Editions, 09/10/2019
Growing up in early twentieth-century Illinois, Ruby Drake is a happy child. But one winter's night, her beloved parents perish in an accident―...
more
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
by
Malcolm Gladwell
Little Brown & Company, 09/10/2019
How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Color of the Sun
by
David Almond
Candlewick Press, 09/10/2019
One hot summer morning, only weeks after his father's death, Davie steps out his front door into the familiar streets of the Tyneside town that has ...
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The Education of an Idealist
by
Samantha Power
Dey Street Books, 09/10/2019
The Education of an Idealist brings a unique blend of suspenseful storytelling, vivid character portraits, and shrewd political insight. It traces ...
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The Fruit of All My Grief: Lives in the Shadows of the American Dream
by
J. Malcolm Garcia
Seven Stories Press, 09/10/2019
From the families scraping by in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, to the prisoner sentenced to life for transporting drugs to save his son's life,...
more
The Institute
by
Stephen King
Scribner, 09/10/2019
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York
by
Tom Roston
Abrams Books, 09/10/2019
In the 1970s, New York City was plagued by crime, filth, and an ineffective government. The city was falling apart, and even the newly constructed ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Nanny
by
Gilly Macmillan
William Morrow, 09/10/2019
When her beloved nanny, Hannah, left without a trace in the summer of 1988, seven-year-old Jocelyn Holt was devastated. Haunted by the loss, Jo grew ...
more
The Not Wives
by
Carley Moore
Feminist Press, 09/10/2019
In the midst of economic collapse and class conflict, late-night hookups and polyamorous girlfriends, they piece together a new American identity of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
by
Garrett M. Graff
Avid Reader Press, 09/10/2019
Over the last eighteen years, much has been written and said about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the profound impact they had on ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Starlet and the Spy
by
Ji-min Lee
Harper, 09/10/2019
February 1954. Although the Korean War armistice was signed a year ago, most citizens of Seoul still battle to return to some semblance of normalcy. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
by
Alix E. Harrow
Redhook, 09/10/2019
In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Vanished Bride: A Brontë Sisters Mystery
by
Bella Ellis
Berkley Books, 09/10/2019
Yorkshire, 1845. A young wife and mother has gone missing from her home, leaving behind two small children and a large pool of blood. Just a few miles...
more
Unpregnant
by
Jenni Hendriks
HarperTeen, 09/10/2019
Seventeen-year-old Veronica Clarke never thought she'd want to fail a test—that is, until she finds herself staring at a piece of plastic with ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Death in Harlem
by
Karla Holloway
Northwestern University Press, 09/15/2019
Taking as her point of departure the tantalizingly ambiguous "death by misadventure" at the climax of Nella Larsen's 1929 best-selling novel
Passing, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
by
Imani Perry
Beacon Press, 09/17/2019
Emotionally raw and deeply reflective, Imani Perry issues an unflinching challenge to society to see Black children as deserving of humanity. She ...
more
Gamechanger
by
L. X. Beckett
Tor Books, 09/17/2019
First there was the Setback.
Then came the Clawback.
Now we thrive.
Rubi Whiting is a member of the Bounceback Generation. The first to be raised ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Kopp Sisters on the March: A Kopp Sisters Novel #5
by
Amy Stewart
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 09/17/2019
It's the spring of 1917 and change is in the air. American women have done something remarkable: they've banded together to create military-style ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Night Boat to Tangier
by
Kevin Barry
Doubleday, 09/17/2019
In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen -- Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond, ...
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On Division
by
Goldie Goldbloom
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/17/2019
In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, just a block or two up from the East River on Division Avenue, Surie Eckstein is soon to be a great-grandmother. Her ten ...
more
On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
by
Naomi Klein
Simon & Schuster, 09/17/2019
For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet—and an unapologetic...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Red at the Bone
by
Jacqueline Woodson
Riverhead Books, 09/17/2019
Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. Moving forward and backward ...
more
Snowflake, AZ
by
Marcus Sedgwick
Norton Young Readers, 09/17/2019
Ash boards a Greyhound bus heading to the place where Bly was last seen: Snowflake, Arizona. Six thousand feet up in the wide red desert, Ash meets ...
more
Sontag: Her Life and Work
by
Benjamin Moser
Ecco, 09/17/2019
No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the ...
more
Suggested Reading
by
Dave Connis
Katherine Tegan Books, 09/17/2019
Clara Evans is horrified when she discovers her principal's "prohibited media" hit list. The iconic books on the list have been pulled from the ...
more
The Liars of Mariposa Island
by
Jennifer Mathieu
Roaring Brook Press, 09/17/2019
Every year, summer begins when the Callahans arrive on Mariposa Island. That's when Elena Finney gets to escape her unstable, controlling mother by ...
more
The Sound of the Hours
by
Karen Campbell
Bloomsbury USA, 09/17/2019
Trapped in Tuscany as war rages along the Gothic Line, Vittoria Guidi doesn't understand where her allegiances should lie. With her Scots-Italian ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
by
Junauda Petrus
Dutton, 09/17/2019
Trinidad. Sixteen-year-old Audre is despondent, having just found out she's going to be sent to live in America with her father because her strictly ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Stranger Inside
by
Lisa Unger
Prospect Park Books, 09/17/2019
Twelve-year-old Rain Winter narrowly escaped an abduction while walking to a friend's house. Her two best friends, Tess and Hank, were not as lucky. ...
more
The Undying: Pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care
by
Anne Boyer
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/17/2019
For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the caregiver rather than the one needing care, the catastrophic illness was both ...
more
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
by
Jonathan Safran Foer
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/17/2019
If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish between those who didn't believe in the science of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
What Rose Forgot
by
Nevada Barr
Minotaur Books, 09/17/2019
Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown, her brain in a fog, only to discover that she's been committed to an Alzheimer's Unit in a nursing home. With...
more
Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
by
László Krasznahorkai (author), Ottilie Mulzet (translator)
New Directions Publishing, 09/24/2019
Set in contemporary times,
Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin–like figure, Baron Béla Wenckheim, who returns ...
more
Beverly, Right Here
by
Kate DiCamillo
Candlewick Press, 09/24/2019
Beverly put her foot down on the gas. They went faster still.This was what Beverly wanted — what she always wanted. To get away. To get away as ...more
Know My Name: A Memoir
by
Chanel Miller
Viking, 09/24/2019
She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail ...
more
Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays
by
Leslie Jamison
Little Brown & Company, 09/24/2019
With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which she has become known, Leslie Jamison offers us fourteen new essays that ...
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Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America
by
Nefertiti Austin
Sourcebooks, 09/24/2019
Eager to finally join the motherhood ranks, Nefertiti was shocked when people started asking her why she wanted to adopt a "crack baby" or said that ...
more
Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal
by
Renia Spiegel
St. Martin's Press, 09/24/2019
Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in southeastern Poland, near what was at that time the border with ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Six Goodbyes We Never Said
by
Candace Ganger
Wednesday Books, 09/24/2019
Naima Rodriguez doesn't want your patronizing sympathy as she grieves her father, her hero―a fallen Marine. She'll hate you forever if you ask ...
more
SLAY
by
Brittney Morris
Simon Pulse, 09/24/2019
By day, seventeen-year-old Kiera Johnson is an honors student, a math tutor, and one of the only Black kids at Jefferson Academy. But at home, she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Braid
by
Laetitia Colombani
Atria Books, 09/24/2019
In India, Smita is an untouchable. Desperate to give her daughter an education, she takes her child and flees her small village with nothing but ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
by
Daron Acemoglu
Penguin Press, 09/24/2019
Liberty is hardly the "natural" order of things. In most places and at most times, the strong have dominated the weak and human freedom has been ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Where the Light Falls: Selected Stories of Nancy Hale
by
Nancy Hale, edited by Lauren Groff
Library of America, 09/24/2019
A teenage girl in Connecticut driven to near delirium over her burgeoning sexuality. A twenty-something New Yorker transplanted to a small ...
more
Year of the Monkey
by
Patti Smith
Knopf, 09/24/2019
Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to ...
more
A Tall History of Sugar
by
Curdella Forbes
Akashic Books, 10/01/2019
The narrative begins with Moshe's birth in the late 1950s, four years before Jamaica's independence from colonial rule, and ends in the era of what ...
more
Angel Mage
by
Garth Nix
Katherine Tegan Books, 10/01/2019
More than a century has passed since Liliath crept into the empty sarcophagus of Saint Marguerite, fleeing the Fall of Ystara. But she emerges from ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
by
Rachel Maddow
Crown, 10/01/2019
Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy—Winner Take All
In 2010, the words "earthquake swarm" entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Degrees of Difficulty
by
Julie E. Justicz
Fomite, 10/01/2019
After Ben Novotny is born with a rare chromosomal disorder ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Dry County: A Novel
by
Jake Hinkson
Pegasus Books, 10/01/2019
Richard Weatherford is a successful small-town preacher in the Arkansas Ozarks. He's a proud husband and father of five, and has worked hard to grow ...
more
Empire of Lies
by
Raymond Khoury
Forge Books, 10/01/2019
Istanbul, 1683: Mehmed IV, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, is preparing to lay siege to Vienna, capital of the Holy Roman Empire, when a mysterious ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Full Throttle: Stories
by
Joe Hill
William Morrow, 10/01/2019
A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in "Faun." A grief-stricken...
more
Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares
by
Aarti Namdev Shahani
Celadon, 10/01/2019
Who
really belongs in America? That question has chased every newcomer and many native born since the founding of the republic. In this heart-...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
I Will Never See the World Again: The Memoir of an Imprisoned Writer
by
Ahmet Altan, translated by Yasemin Congar
Other Press, 10/01/2019
The destiny I put down in my novel has become mine. I am now under arrest like the hero I created years ago. I await the decision that will determine ...more
Little Voices
by
Vanessa Lillie
Thomas & Mercer, 10/01/2019
Devon Burges is in the throes of a high-risk birth when she learns of her dear friend's murder. The police quickly name another friend as the chief ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Mosaic
by
Caro Ramsay
Severn House, 10/01/2019
Megan Melvick has returned home after a three-year absence to visit her dying sister, Melissa, for the last time. As she approaches the grand Scottish...
more
One Night Gone
by
Tara Laskowski
Graydon House, 10/01/2019
There, she finds herself lured by the promise of friendship, love, starry skies, and wild parties. But Maureen's new life just might be too good to be...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
Pursuit
by
Joyce Carol Oates
Mysterious Press, 10/01/2019
Now an adult, Abby thinks she's outgrown her demons, until, the evening before her wedding, the terrible dream returns and forces her to confront the ...
more
Thrillers
Sarah Jane
by
James Sallis
Soho Press, 10/01/2019
Sarah Jane Pullman is a good cop with a complicated past. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, court-ordered ...
more
Mysteries
Scars Like Wings
by
Erin Stewart
Delacorte Press, 10/01/2019
Before, I was a million things. Now I'm only one. The Burned Girl.Ava Lee has lost everything there is to lose: Her parents. Her best friend. Her home...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
She Was Like That: New and Selected Stories
by
Kate Walbert
Scribner, 10/01/2019
In these twelve deft, acutely funny and often heartbreaking stories, Kate Walbert delves into the hearts and minds of women. Her characters are ...
more
Stealing Green Mangoes: Two Brothers, Two Fates, One Indian Childhood
by
Sunil Dutta
Ecco, 10/01/2019
Sunil Dutta is a twenty-year veteran of the LAPD. Before that, he was a biologist at the University of California and a translator of classic Indian ...
more
The Inquirer: Nunatak First Fiction Series
by
Jaclyn Dawn
NeWest Press, 10/01/2019
But there she is in
The Inquirer, the mysterious tabloid that is airing her hometown's dirty laundry. Alongside stories of high school rivalries and ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
by
Tamim Ansary
Public Affairs, 10/01/2019
Traveling across millennia, weaving the experiences and world views of cultures both extinct and extant,
The Invention of Yesterday shows that the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Library Book
by
Susan Orlean
Simon & Schuster, 10/01/2019
On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was disastrous: it reached two thousand degrees and...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Library of the Unwritten: A Novel from Hell's Library #1
by
A. J. Hackwith
Ace Books, 10/01/2019
Many years ago, Claire was named Head Librarian of the Unwritten Wing-- a neutral space in Hell where all the stories unfinished by their authors ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Lying Room
by
Nicci French
William Morrow, 10/01/2019
One little secret between a married woman, her lover, and a killer.
It should have been just a mid-life fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly...
more
The Speed of Falling Objects
by
Nancy Richardson Fischer
Inkyard Press, 10/01/2019
Danger "Danny" Danielle Warren is no stranger to falling. After losing an eye in a childhood accident, she had to relearn her perception of movement ...
more
The Topeka School
by
Ben Lerner
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/01/2019
Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97. His mother, Jane, is a famous feminist author; his father, Jonathan, is an expert at ...
more
Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
by
Laura Ruby
Balzer + Bray, 10/01/2019
When Frankie's mother died and her father left her and her siblings at an orphanage in Chicago, it was supposed to be only temporary—just long ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Secret Commonwealth: Book of Dust, Volume 2
by
Philip Pullman
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 10/03/2019
She does still have the alethiometer: the truth-telling device given to her by the master of Jordan College, which guided her journey.
Lyra doesn't ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Bitter Feast: Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James
by
Deborah Crombie
William Morrow, 10/08/2019
Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his wife, Detective Inspector Gemma James, have been invited for a relaxing weekend in the ...
more
Agents of Influence: A British Campaign, a Canadian Spy, and the Secret Plot to Bring America into World War II
by
Henry Hemming
Public Affairs, 10/08/2019
As World War II raged into its second year, Britain sought a powerful ally to join its cause-but the American public was sharply divided on the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
by
Andrew Marantz
Viking, 10/08/2019
For several years, Andrew Marantz, a
New Yorker staff writer, has been embedded in two worlds. The first is the world of social-media entrepreneurs, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Before the Devil Fell
by
Neil Olson
Hanover Square Press, 10/08/2019
His mother had embraced the hippie generation's fascination with New Age and the arcane, but the unexpected death of a close friend put an end to the ...
more
Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger
by
Lilly Dancyger
Seal Press, 10/08/2019
Women are furious, and we're not keeping it to ourselves any longer. We're expected to be composed and compliant, but in a world that would strip us ...
more
Erosion: Essays of Undoing
by
Terry Tempest Williams
Sarah Crichton Books, 10/08/2019
A naturalist, fervent activist, and stirring writer, she has spoken to us and for us in books like
The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America'...more
False Bingo
by
Jac Jemc
MCD, 10/08/2019
In Jac Jemc's dislocating second story collection,
False Bingo, we watch as sinister forces―some supernatural, some of this earth, some real and...
more
Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
by
Matt Taibbi
OR Books, 10/08/2019
In this characteristically turbocharged new book, celebrated
Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi provides an insider's guide to the variety of ways ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Here Until August: Stories
by
Josephine Rowe
Catapult, 10/08/2019
These are people who move with the seasons. We meet them negotiating reluctant or cowardly departures, navigating uncertain returns, or biding the ...
more
How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse: The Thorne Chronicles #1
by
K. Eason
DAW Books, 10/08/2019
Rory Thorne is a princess with thirteen fairy blessings, the most important of which is to see through flattery and platitudes. As the eldest daughter...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
How We Fight for Our Lives
by
Saeed Jones
Simon & Schuster, 10/08/2019
Haunted and haunting,
How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir. Jones tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Ninth House: Alex Stern Book 1
by
Leigh Bardugo
Flatiron Books, 10/08/2019
Galaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Older Brother
by
Mahir Guven
Europa Editions, 10/08/2019
The father, an atheist communist who moved from Syria to France for his studies and stayed for love, has worked for decades driving a taxi to support ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey
by
Paul Theroux
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 10/08/2019
Paul Theroux has spent his life crisscrossing the globe in search of the histories and peoples that give life to the places they call home. Now, as ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir
by
Nikki Grimes
Wordsong, 10/08/2019
Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
salt slow
by
Julia Armfield
Flatiron Books, 10/08/2019
In her electrifying debut, Julia Armfield explores women's experiences in contemporary society, mapped through their bodies. As urban dwellers' sleeps...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Sorry for the Dead: A Josephine Tey Mystery
by
Nicola Upson
Crooked Lane Books, 10/08/2019
In the summer of 1915, the sudden death of a young girl brings grief and notoriety to Charleston Farmhouse on the Sussex Downs.
Years later, Josephine...
more
The Furies
by
Katie Lowe
St. Martin's Press, 10/08/2019
In 1998, a sixteen-year-old girl is found dead.
She's posed on a swing on her boarding school's property, dressed all in white, with no known cause of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Girl Who Reads on the Métro
by
Christine Féret-Fleury
Flatiron Books, 10/08/2019
Juliette takes the métro at the same time every morning. As she journeys to her dull office job, her one pleasure is in observing her fellow ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Giver of Stars
by
Jojo Moyes
Pamela Dorman Books, 10/08/2019
Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Library of Lost Things
by
Laura Taylor Namey
Inkyard Press, 10/08/2019
There, she can avoid the crushing reality of her mother's hoarding and pretend her life is simply ordinary. But when a new property manager becomes ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For
by
Susan Rice
Simon & Schuster, 10/08/2019
Mother, wife, scholar, diplomat, and fierce champion of American interests and values, Susan Rice powerfully connects the personal and the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts
by
Kate Racculia
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 10/08/2019
Tuesday Mooney is a loner. She keeps to herself, begrudgingly socializes, and spends much of her time watching old
Twin Peaks and
X-Files DVDs. But ...
more
Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church
by
Megan Phelps-Roper
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/08/2019
At the age of five, Megan Phelps-Roper began protesting homosexuality and other alleged vices alongside fellow members of the Westboro Baptist Church ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Watershed
by
Mark Barr
Hub City Press, 10/08/2019
Nathan, an engineer hiding from his past, and Claire, a small-town housewife, struggle to find their footing in the newly-electrified, job-hungry, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Book of Bones: Charlie Parker #17
by
John Connolly
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 10/15/2019
He is our best hope. He is our last hope. On a lonely moor in northern England, the body of a young woman is discovered. In the south, a girl lies ...
more
Accused!: The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: Lies, Prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment
by
Larry Dane Brimner
Calkins Creek, 10/15/2019
In 1931, nine teenagers were arrested as they traveled on a train through Scottsboro, Alabama. The youngest was thirteen, and all had been hoping to ...
more
Call Down the Thunder
by
Dietrich Kalteis
ECW Press, 10/15/2019
Sonny and Clara Myers struggle on their Kansas farm in the late 1930s, a time the Lord gave up on: their land's gone dry, barren, and worthless; the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Celestial Bodies
by
Jokha Alharthi
Catapult, 10/15/2019
These three women and their families, their losses and loves, unspool beautifully against a backdrop of a rapidly changing Oman, a country evolving ...
more
Girl
by
Edna O'Brien
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/15/2019
I was a girl once, but not anymore.So begins
Girl, Edna O'Brien's harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in the deep ...
more
How Beautiful They Were
by
Boston Teran
High Top Press, 10/15/2019
Enter Colonel Tearwood's American Theatre Company. Helmed by actor Nathanial Luck and playwright Robert Harrison, it revolutionizes the theatre of the...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
If Only I Could Tell You
by
Hannah Beckerman
William Morrow, 10/15/2019
A secret between two sisters.A lifetime of lies unraveling. Can one broken family find their way back to each other?Audrey's dream as a mother had ...
more
Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People
by
Ben Crump
Amistad, 10/15/2019
While some deaths make headlines, most are personal tragedies suffered within families and communities. Worse, these killings are done one person at a...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Return to the Reich: A Holocaust Refugee's Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis
by
Eric Lichtblau
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 10/15/2019
Growing up in Germany, Freddy Mayer witnessed the Nazis' rise to power. When he was sixteen, his family made the decision to flee to the United States...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Running with Sherman: The Donkey with the Heart of a Hero
by
Christopher McDougall
Knopf, 10/15/2019
When Chris McDougall agreed to take in a donkey from an animal hoarder, he thought it would be no harder than the rest of the adjustments he and his ...
more
Soon
by
Lois Murphy
Titan Books, 10/15/2019
On winter solstice, the birds disappeared, and the mist arrived.
The inhabitants of Nebulah quickly learn not to venture out after dark. But it is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Suicide Woods
by
Benjamin Percy
Graywolf Press, 10/15/2019
Benjamin Percy is a versatile and propulsive storyteller whose genre-busting novels and story collections have ranged from literary to thriller to ...
more
The Collector of Leftover Souls: Field Notes on Brazil's Everyday Insurrections
by
Eliane Brum
Graywolf Press, 10/15/2019
Eliane Brum is a star journalist in Brazil, known for her polyphonic writing that gives voice to people often underrepresented in popular literature. ...
more
The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
by
Azra Raza
Basic Books, 10/15/2019
We have lost the war on cancer. We spend $150 billion each year treating it, yet -- a few innovations notwithstanding -- a patient with cancer is as ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity
by
Axton Betz-Hamilton
Grand Central Publishing, 10/15/2019
Axton Betz-Hamilton grew up in small-town Indiana in the early '90s. When she was 11 years old, her parents both had their identities stolen. Their ...
more
The Man Who Saw Everything
by
Deborah Levy
Bloomsbury USA, 10/15/2019
It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research; in exchange, he must publish a ...
more
The Never Tilting World
by
Rin Chupeco
HarperTeen, 10/15/2019
Generations of twin goddesses have long ruled Aeon—until one sister's betrayal split their world in two. A Great Abyss now divides two realms: ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me
by
Adrienne Brodeur
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 10/15/2019
On a hot July night on Cape Cod when Adrienne was fourteen, her mother, Malabar, woke her at midnight with five simple words that would set the course...
more
All This Could Be Yours
by
Jami Attenberg
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 10/22/2019
"If I know why he is the way he is then maybe I can learn why I am the way I am," says Alex Tuchman, strong-headed lawyer, loving mother, and daughter...
more
Famous in Cedarville
by
Erica Wright
Polis Books, 10/22/2019
When reclusive, retired silver screen actress Barbara Lace dies in her bed, only the young widower of Cedarville suspects a crime. But Samson Delaware...
more
Mysteries
I Hope You Get This Message
by
Farah Naz Rishi
HarperTeen, 10/22/2019
News stations across the country are reporting mysterious messages that Earth has been receiving from a planet—Alma—claiming to be its ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Janis: Her Life and Music
by
Holly George-Warren
Simon & Schuster, 10/22/2019
Janis Joplin's first transgressive act was to be a white girl who gained an early sense of the power of the blues, music you could only find on ...
more
Light It Up
by
Kekla Magoon
Henry Holt and Company, 10/22/2019
A girl walks home from school. She's tall for her age. She's wearing her winter coat. Her headphones are in. She's hurrying.
She never makes it home.
In...
more
Strangers at the Gate
by
Catriona McPherson
Minotaur Books, 10/22/2019
Finnie Doyle and Paddy Lamb are leaving city life in Edinburgh behind them and moving to the little town of Simmerton. Paddy's been made partner at ...
more
The Fragility of Bodies
by
Sergio Olguin
Bitter Lemon Press, 10/22/2019
For the police the case is closed (suicide is suicide), for Veronica it is the beginning of a journey that takes her into an unfamiliar world of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
A Castle in Wartime: One Family, Their Missing Sons, and the Fight to Defeat the Nazis
by
Catherine Bailey
Viking, 10/29/2019
As war swept across Europe in 1940, the idyllic life of Fey von Hassell seemed a world away from the conflict. The daughter of Ulrich von Hassell, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Blood
by
Allison Moorer
Da Capo Press, 10/29/2019
1986, Mobile, Alabama. A fourteen-year-old girl is awakened by the unmistakable sound of gunfire. On the front lawn, her father has shot and killed ...
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Blue Moon: A Jack Reacher Novel
by
Lee Child
Delacorte Press, 10/29/2019
"Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of."—Ken Follett
"This is a random universe," Reacher says. "Once ...
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Dread of Winter
by
Susan Bickford
Kensington, 10/29/2019
Two days later, her mother's lover is dead too. And Sydney's sworn to protect a half-sister she never knew she had, a prickly teenager named Maude, ...
more
Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
by
S. C. Gwynne
Scribner, 10/29/2019
The fourth and final year of the Civil War offers one of that era's most compelling narratives, defining the nation and one of history's great turning...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Ordinary Girls: A Memoir
by
Jaquira Díaz
Algonquin Books, 10/29/2019
"There is more life packed on each page of
Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime." —Julia Alvarez
Ordinary Girls is a fierce, ...
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Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right
by
Anne Nelson
Bloomsbury USA, 10/29/2019
In 1981, emboldened by Ronald Reagan's election, a group of some fifty Republican operatives, evangelicals, oil barons, and gun lobbyists met in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy
by
Cassandra King Conroy
William Morrow, 10/29/2019
Cassandra King was leading a quiet life as a professor, divorced "Sunday wife" of a preacher, and debut novelist when she met Pat Conroy.
Their ...
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The Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within
by
Richard Breitman
Public Affairs, 10/29/2019
In 1929, Raymond Geist went to Berlin as a consul, and he handled visas for emigrants to the US. Geist expedited the exit of Albert Einstein just ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna
by
Mira Ptacin
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 10/29/2019
They believed they would live forever. So begins Mira Ptacin's haunting account of the women of Camp Etna―an otherworldly community in the woods...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Name of All Things: A Chorus of Dragons #2
by
Jenn Lyons
Tor Books, 10/29/2019
Kihrin D'Mon is a wanted man. Since he destroyed the Stone of Shackles and set demons free across Quur, he has been on the run from the wrath of an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
American Grief in Four Stages
by
Sadie Hoagland
West Virginia University Press, 11/01/2019
These stories play with form and explore the impossibility of elegy and the inability of our culture to communicate grief, or sympathy, outside of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
36 Righteous Men
by
Steven Pressfield
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/05/2019
When James Manning and Covina "Dewey" Duwai are called in to investigate a string of murders, their investigations take them from the headquarters of ...
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A Step So Grave: A Dandy Gilver Mystery
by
Catriona McPherson
Quercus, 11/05/2019
They've come to celebrate Lady Lavinia's fiftieth birthday and to meet her daughter Mallory, a less-than-suitable bride-to-be for Dandy's son Donald.
...
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All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard-Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy
by
Phil Keith
Hanover Square Press, 11/05/2019
Eugene Bullard lived one of the most fascinating lives of the twentieth century. The son of a former slave and an indigenous Creek woman, Bullard fled...
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At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe's First Seconds (Science Essentials)
by
Dan Hooper
Princeton University Press, 11/05/2019
Scientists in the past few decades have made crucial discoveries about how our cosmos evolved over the past 13.8 billion years. But there remains a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Call Down the Hawk: The Dreamer Trilogy #1
by
Maggie Stiefvater
Scholastic, 11/05/2019
The dreamers walk among us...and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming - they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers
by
edited by Joyce Carol Oates
Akashic Books, 11/05/2019
While bad men are not
always the victims in these tales, they get their due often enough to satisfy readers who are sick and tired of the gendered ...
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Evening in Paradise: More Stories
by
Lucia Berlin
Picador, 11/05/2019
A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin.
In 2016, Picador published the ...
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Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
by
Mitch Albom
Harper, 11/05/2019
Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme ...
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Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop
by
Thomas Travisano
Viking, 11/05/2019
Elizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that "Elizabeth had more talent for life—and for poetry—than anyone else I've known....
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Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights
by
Dovey Johnson Roundtree & Katie McCabe
Algonquin Books, 11/05/2019
In
Mighty Justice, trailblazing African American civil rights attorney Dovey Johnson Roundtree recounts her inspiring life story that speaks movingly ...
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Nothing to See Here
by
Kevin Wilson
Ecco, 11/05/2019
Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable friends at their elite boarding school. But then Lillian had to leave the school ...
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On Swift Horses
by
Shannon Pufahl
Riverhead Books, 11/05/2019
Muriel is newly married and restless, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. The air is rich with the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Silence of the Chagos
by
Shenaz Patel
Restless Books, 11/05/2019
Every afternoon a woman in a red headscarf walks to the end of the quay and looks out over the water, fixing her gaze "back there"—to Diego ...
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The Family Upstairs
by
Lisa Jewell
Atria Books, 11/05/2019
Be careful who you let in. Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she's been waiting for her ...
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The Living Days
by
Ananda Devi
Feminist Press, 11/05/2019
Mary clings increasingly to phantoms as dementia overtakes her reality, latching on to Cub and channeling her remaining energy into their relationship...
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The Siberian Dilemma: The Arkady Renko Novels #9
by
Martin Cruz Smith
Simon & Schuster, 11/05/2019
Journalist Tatiana Petrovna is on the move. Arkady Renko, iconic Moscow investigator and Tatiana's part-time lover, hasn't seen her since she left on ...
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The Toll: Arc of a Scythe #3
by
Neal Shusterman
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 11/05/2019
Citra and Rowan have disappeared. Endura is gone. It seems like nothing stands between Scythe Goddard and absolute dominion over the world scythedom. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
by
David J. Silverman
Bloomsbury USA, 11/05/2019
In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Up in the Main House & Other Stories
by
Nadeem Zaman
The Unnamed Press, 11/05/2019
Nadeem Zaman's new collection of eight stories set in contemporary Dhaka explore the inner lives of the cooks and butlers, nightwatchmen and peons &#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Winterwood
by
Shea Ernshaw
Simon Pulse, 11/05/2019
Be careful of the dark, dark wood… Especially the woods surrounding the town of Fir Haven. Some say these woods are magical. Haunted, even.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Man in the Red Coat
by
Julian Barnes
Jonathan Cape, 11/07/2019
In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' intellectual shopping: a prince, a count, and a commoner with an Italian name...
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A Place Outside the Law: Forgotten Voices from Guantanamo
by
Peter Jan Honigsberg
Beacon Press, 11/12/2019
Law scholar and Witness to Guantánamo founder Peter Jan Honigsberg uncovers a haunting portrait of life at the military prison and its toll, not ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Cold Country
by
Russell Rowland
Dzanc Books, 11/12/2019
Suspicion among the tight-knit community immediately falls on the outsider, Carl Logan, who recently moved in with his family and his troubled son ...
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River Run: A Delia Chavez Mystery #1
by
J. S. James
Crooked Lane Books, 11/12/2019
This waterfowl season, the hunters become the hunted.Newly promoted sheriff's deputy Delia Chavez has worked hard to get where she is. Without any ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Innocents
by
Michael Crummey
Doubleday, 11/12/2019
A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
What We Will Become: A Mother, a Son, and a Journey of Transformation
by
Mimi Lemay
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 11/12/2019
From the age of two-and-a-half, Jacob, born "Em," adamantly told his family he was a boy. While his mother Mimi struggled to understand and come to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter
by
Kerri K. Greenidge
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 11/19/2019
William Monroe Trotter (1872– 1934), though still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylistic verve...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Catfishing on CatNet
by
Naomi Kritzer
Tor Teen, 11/19/2019
Because her mom is always on the move, Steph hasn't lived anyplace longer than six months. Her only constant is an online community called CatNet&#...
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Crying Laughing
by
Lance Rubin
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 11/19/2019
Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: she's hilarious.
It might be a long wait, though. After bombing a...
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Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century
by
Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/19/2019
For centuries, the bustling port city of Salonica was home to the sprawling Levy family. As leading publishers and editors, they helped chronicle ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Impossible Causes
by
Julie Mayhew
Bloomsbury USA, 11/19/2019
For seven months of the year, the remote island of Lark is fogbound, cut off completely from the mainland.
Three strangers arrive before the mists ...
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The Queen of Nothing: The Folk of the Air #3
by
Holly Black
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 11/19/2019
He will be the destruction of the crown and the ruination of the thronePower is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era
by
Gareth Russell
Atria Books, 11/19/2019
In April 1912, six notable people were among those privileged to experience the height of luxury—first class passage on "the ship of dreams," ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wyoming
by
JP Gritton
Tin House Books, 11/19/2019
It's 1988 and Shelley Cooper is in trouble. He's broke, he's been fired from his construction job, and his ex-wife has left him for their next door ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
by
Erika Lee
Basic Books, 11/26/2019
The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In
America for Americans, Erika Lee shows that an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be
by
Thomas Lynch
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/26/2019
For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small-town funeral director Thomas Lynch has probed relations between the literary and mortuary arts. His...
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The Girl in the Photograph: The True Story of a Native American Child, Lost and Found in America
by
Byron L. Dorgan
Thomas Dunne Books, 11/26/2019
On a winter morning in 1990, U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota picked up the
Bismarck Tribune. On the front page, a small Native American girl...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Rise of Magicks: Chronicles of the One #3
by
Nora Roberts
St. Martin's Press, 11/26/2019
After the sickness known as the Doom destroyed civilization, magick has become commonplace, and Fallon Swift has spent her young years learning its ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Tiny Love: The Complete Stories of Larry Brown
by
Larry Brown
Algonquin Books, 11/26/2019
The self-taught Brown has long had a cult following, and this collection comes with an intimate and heartfelt appreciation by novelist Jonathan ...
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Short Stories
Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel
by
Bernardine Evaristo
Black Cat, 12/03/2019
From one of Britain's most celebrated writers of color,
Girl, Woman, Other is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving ...
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Just Watch Me
by
Jeff Lindsay
Dutton, 12/03/2019
From the author of the wildly successful
Dexter series comes a new, mesmerizing bad guy we can root for: Riley Wolfe. He's a master thief, expert at ...
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Meg and Jo
by
Virginia Kantra
Berkley Books, 12/03/2019
The March sisters—reliable Meg, independent Jo, stylish Amy, and shy Beth—have grown up to pursue their separate dreams. When Jo followed ...
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Now You See Them: Magic Men Mysteries #5
by
Elly Griffiths
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 12/03/2019
The new decade is going well for Edgar Stephens and his good friend the magician Max Mephisto. Edgar is happily married, with children, and promoted ...
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Reputation
by
Sara Shepard
Dutton, 12/03/2019
Aldrich University is rocked to its core when a hacker dumps 40,000 people's e-mails—the entire faculty, staff, students, alums—onto an ...
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The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison
by
Ralph Ellison
Random House, 12/03/2019
These extensive and revealing letters span the life of Ralph Ellison and provide a remarkable window into the great writer's life and work, his ...
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Trace of Evil: A Natalie Lockhart Novel
by
Alice Blanchard
Minotaur Books, 12/03/2019
There's something wicked in Burning Lake…
Natalie Lockhart is a rookie detective in Burning Lake, New York, an isolated town known for its dark ...
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Treachery: Giordano Bruno #4
by
S. J. Parris
Pegasus Books, 12/03/2019
August, 1585. A relentless enemy. A treacherous conspiracy. Elizabethan England is on the brink of war.
Sir Francis Drake is preparing to launch ...
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Crossroad
by
W. H. Cameron
Crooked Lane Books, 12/10/2019
Melisende Dulac is a fish out of water after relocating from the East Coast to a small community in the Oregon high desert. But just as she's ...
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Once More To The Rodeo
by
Calvin Hennick
Pushcart Press, 12/10/2019
Five years into fatherhood, Calvin Hennick is plagued by self-doubt and full of questions. How can he teach his son to be a man, when his own father ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Regretting You
by
Colleen Hoover
Amazon Publishing, 12/10/2019
Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be
nothing alike.
Morgan is determined to prevent her ...
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Romance
The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny
by
Daisy Dunn
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 12/10/2019
Grieving his loss, Pliny the Younger inherited the Elder's notebooks―filled with pearls of wisdom―and his legacy. At its heart,
The Shadow...more
The Story of a Goat
by
Perumal Murugan
Grove Press, 12/10/2019
He paints a bucolic yet sometimes menacing portrait, showing movingly how danger and deception can threaten the lives of the weakest through the story...
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The Wonderful
by
Saskia Sarginson
Flatiron Books, 12/10/2019
Sometimes, the truth lies in fiction
It's hard to be an American girl in 1957. Especially when your dad's job means you have to move four thousand ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz
by
Heather Dune Macadam
Citadel Press, 12/31/2019
Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few months, they were eager to report for government service. Instead, the young women—...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Recipe for a Perfect Wife
by
Karma Brown
Dutton, 12/31/2019
When Alice Hale leaves a career in publicity to become a writer and follows her husband to the New York suburbs, she is unaccustomed to filling ...
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Such a Fun Age
by
Kiley Reid
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 12/31/2019
Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
