The Candid Life of Meena Dave
by
Namrata Patel
Lake Union Publishing, 06/01/2022
Meena Dave is a photojournalist and a nomad. She has no family, no permanent address, and no long-term attachments, preferring to observe the world at...
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Mysteries
After the Lights Go Out
by
John Vercher
Soho Press, 06/07/2022
Xavier "Scarecrow" Wallace, a mixed-race MMA fighter on the wrong side of thirty, is facing the fight of his life. Xavier can no longer deny he is ...
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Thrillers
Aurora: A Novel
by
David Koepp
Harper, 06/07/2022
In Aurora, Illinois, Aubrey Wheeler is just trying to get by after her semi-criminal ex-husband split, leaving behind his unruly teenage son.
Then...
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Counterfeit: A Novel
by
Kirstin Chen
William Morrow, 06/07/2022
Money can't buy happiness…but it can buy a decent fake.
Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American ...
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Literary Fiction
Fruiting Bodies: Stories
by
Kathryn Harlan
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/07/2022
In stories that beckon and haunt,
Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the gothic to the uncanny as it follows characters―...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: A 10,000-Year History
by
Ian Morris
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/07/2022
When Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016, the 48 percent who wanted to stay and the 52 percent who wanted to go each accused the other ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Good Husbands: A Novel
by
Cate Ray
Park Row Books, 06/07/2022
Jessica, Stephanie and Priyanka are complete strangers, but they have one thing in common: they've each received a letter accusing their husbands of ...
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Thrillers
Hell Followed with Us
by
Andrew Joseph White
Peachtree Publishers, 06/07/2022
Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him—the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Last Call at the Nightingale: Book #1
by
Katharine Schellman
Minotaur Books, 06/07/2022
New York, 1924. Vivian Kelly's days are filled with drudgery, from the tenement lodging she shares with her sister to the dress shop where she sews ...
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Nuclear Family: A Novel
by
Joseph Han
Counterpoint Press, 06/07/2022
Things are looking up for Mr. and Mrs. Cho. Their dream of franchising their Korean plate lunch restaurants across Hawaiʻi seems within reach ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Out of the Clear Blue Sky
by
Kristan Higgins
Berkley Books, 06/07/2022
Lillie Silva knew life as an empty nester would be hard after her only child left for college, but when her husband abruptly dumps her for another ...
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Shifty's Boys: The Mick Hardin Novels #2
by
Chris Offutt
Grove Press, 06/07/2022
Chris Offutt is a literary master across genres, and his most recent novel
The Killing Hills was one of his most successful, earning him a new ...
more
Sleeping Alone: Stories
by
Ru Freeman
Graywolf Press, 06/07/2022
A cast of misfits, young and old, single and coupled, even entire family units, confront startling changes wrought by difficult circumstances or ...
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The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
by
Paula Byrne
William Collins, 06/07/2022
Pym lived through extraordinary times. She attended Oxford in the thirties when women were the minority. She spent time in Nazi Germany, falling for a...
more
The Kingdom of Sand: A Novel
by
Andrew Holleran
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/07/2022
The Kingdom of Sand is a poignant tale of desire and dread―Andrew Holleran's first new book in sixteen years. The nameless narrator is a gay man...
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The Mutual Friend: A Novel
by
Carter Bays
Dutton, 06/07/2022
It's the summer of 2015, and Alice Quick needs to get to work. She's twenty-eight years old, grieving her mother, barely scraping by as a nanny, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Omega Factor
by
Steve Berry
Grand Central Publishing, 06/07/2022
Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations' Cultural Liaison and Investigative Office (CLIO). Nick's job is to protect ...
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Thrillers
The Woman in the Library: A Novel
by
Sulari Gentill
Poisoned Pen Press, 06/07/2022
In every person's story, there is something to hide...
The tranquility is shattered by a woman's terrified scream. Security guards take charge ...
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Thrillers
This Is Not a Pity Memoir
by
Abi Morgan
Harper, 06/07/2022
One afternoon, Abi Morgan returned home to find her longtime partner and father to their two kids collapsed on the bathroom floor. Jacob, who had been...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
This Place Is Still Beautiful
by
XiXi Tian
Balzer + Bray, 06/07/2022
The Flanagan sisters are as different as they come. Seventeen-year-old Annalie is bubbly, sweet, and self-conscious, whereas nineteen-year-old ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Tracy Flick Can't Win: A Novel
by
Tom Perrotta
Scribner, 06/07/2022
Tracy Flick is a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Still ambitious but feeling a little stuck and ...
more
Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
by
Joseph Osmundson
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/07/2022
Invisible in the food we eat, the people we kiss, and inside our own bodies, viruses flourish―with the power to shape not only our health, but ...
more
We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
by
Caleb Gayle
Riverhead Books, 06/07/2022
In
We Refuse to Forget, award-winning journalist Caleb Gayle tells the extraordinary story of the Creek Nation, a Native tribe that two centuries ago ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me
by
Donna Gordon
Regal House Publishing, 06/08/2022
What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me explores the story of Lee, a vibrant thirteen-year-old boy who is facing premature death from Progeria (a ...
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Literary Fiction
A Mirror Mended: Fractured Fables #2
by
Alix E. Harrow
Tor Books, 06/14/2022
Once you've rescued a dozen damsels and burned fifty spindles, once you've gotten drunk with twenty good fairies and made out with one too many ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
by
Ada Calhoun
Grove Press, 06/14/2022
When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-...
more
Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness
by
Melissa Bond
Gallery Books, 06/14/2022
As Melissa Bond raises her infant daughter and a special-needs one-year-old son, she suffers from unbearable insomnia, sleeping an hour or less each ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Can't Look Away: A Novel
by
Carola Lovering
St. Martin's Press, 06/14/2022
In 2013, twenty-three-year old Molly Diamond is a barista, dreaming of becoming a writer. One night at a concert in Brooklyn, she locks eyes with the ...
more
Evangelical Anxiety: A Memoir
by
Charles Marsh
HarperOne, 06/14/2022
For years, Charles Marsh suffered panic attacks and debilitating anxiety. As an Evangelical Christian, he was taught to trust in the power of God and ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Flying Solo: A Novel
by
Linda Holmes
Ballantine Books, 06/14/2022
Smarting from her recently canceled wedding and about to turn forty, Laurie Sassalyn returns to her Maine hometown of Calcasset to handle the estate ...
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Literary Fiction
How to Raise an Antiracist
by
Ibram X. Kendi
One World, 06/14/2022
The tragedies and reckonings around racism that are rocking the country have created a specific crisis for parents, educators, and other caregivers: ...
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Hurricane Girl: A novel
by
Marcy Dermansky
Knopf, 06/14/2022
Allison Brody is thirty-two and newly arrived on the East Coast after just managing to flee her movie producer boyfriend. She has some money, saved up...
more
Last Summer on State Street: A Novel
by
Toya Wolfe
William Morrow, 06/14/2022
Even when we lose it all, we find the strength to rebuild.
Felicia "Fe Fe" Stevens is living with her vigilantly loving mother and older teenaged ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter
by
Lizzie Pook
Simon & Schuster, 06/14/2022
Western Australia, 1886. After months at sea, a slow boat makes its passage from London to the shores of Bannin Bay. From the deck, young Eliza ...
more
Mysteries
One Person, One Vote: A Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America
by
Nick Seabrook
Pantheon Books, 06/14/2022
Nick Seabrook, an authority on constitutional and election law and an expert on gerrymandering (pronounced with a hard 'G'!), begins before our nation...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
One's Company: A Novel
by
Ashley Hutson
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/14/2022
Bonnie Lincoln just wants to be left alone. To come home from work, shut out the voice that reminds her of some devastating losses, and unwind in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Pig Years
by
Ellyn Gaydos
Knopf, 06/14/2022
Pig Years catapults American nature writing into the 21st century, and has been hailed by Lydia Davis and Aimee Nezhukumatathil as "engrossing" and "a...
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Rock of Ages: Junior Bender Mysteries #8
by
Timothy Hallinan
Soho Crime, 06/14/2022
Four of Dressler's old gangster colleagues have put together a national tour of once-popular rock bands they own a piece of: three nights of concerts ...
more
Rough Draft: A Memoir
by
Katy Tur
Atria Books, 06/14/2022
"By the time I was two years old, I knew to yell 'Story! Story!' at the squawks of my parents' police scanner. By four, I could hold a microphone and ...more
The Local: A Legal Thriller
by
Joey Hartstone
Doubleday, 06/14/2022
The town of Marshall, Texas, is the epicenter of intellectual property law in the US—renowned for its speedy trials and massive payouts. One of ...
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Thrillers
The Lunar Housewife: A Novel
by
Caroline Woods
Doubleday, 06/14/2022
New York City, 1953: Louise Leithauser's star is on the rise. She's filed some of the best pieces at her boyfriend Joe's brand new literary magazine, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Twilight World
by
Werner Herzog
Penguin Press, 06/14/2022
In 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera. His hosts asked him, Whom would you like to meet? He replied instantly: Hiroo Onoda. Onoda was...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The World As We Knew It: Dispatches From a Changing Climate
by
Amy Brady, Tajja Isen
Catapult, 06/14/2022
In this riveting anthology, leading literary writers reflect on how climate change has altered their lives, revealing the personal and haunting ...
more
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
by
Linda Villarosa
Doubleday, 06/14/2022
In 2018, Linda Villarosa's
New York Times Magazine article on maternal and infant mortality among black mothers and babies in America caused an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind
by
Fariha Roisin
Harper Wave, 06/14/2022
Growing up in Australia, Fariha Róisín, a Bangladeshi Muslim, struggled to fit in. In attempts to assimilate, she distanced herself from her...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
by
Ed Yong
Random House, 06/21/2022
The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Echoes of Grace
by
Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Tu Books, 06/21/2022
In Eagle Pass, Texas, Grace struggles to understand the echoes she inherited from her mother--visions which often distort her reality. One morning, as...
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Jumper
by
Melanie Crowder
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 06/21/2022
How far would you go to save yourself?
Blair Scott is in her second season as a wildland firefighter when the Forest Service puts out a call for ...
more
Lapvona: A Novel
by
Ottessa Moshfegh
Penguin Press, 06/21/2022
Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his mother; his father told him she died in childbirth. One of life's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Learning to Talk: Stories
by
Hilary Mantel
Henry Holt and Company, 06/21/2022
In the wake of Hilary Mantel's brilliant conclusion to her award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories ...
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The Ballad of Perilous Graves
by
Alex Jennings
Redhook, 06/21/2022
Nola is a city full of wonders. A place of sky trolleys and dead cabs, where haints dance the night away and Wise Women help keep the order. To those ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The House Across the Lake: A Novel
by
Riley Sager
Dutton, 06/21/2022
They make for good viewing—a tech innovator, Tom is powerful; and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous.
One day on the lake, Casey saves ...
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The Long Answer: A Novel
by
Anna Hogeland
Riverhead Books, 06/21/2022
Twelve weeks pregnant for the first time, Anna speaks to her sister on the other side of the country and learns she has just miscarried her second ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Name She Gave Me
by
Betty Culley
HarperTeen, 06/21/2022
Rynn was born with a hole in her heart—literally. Although it was fixed long ago, she still feels an emptiness there when she wonders about her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Vera Kelly: Lost and Found: Vera Kelly #3
by
Rosalie Knecht
Tin House Books, 06/21/2022
It's spring 1971 and Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave their cozy Brooklyn apartment for an emergency visit to Max's estranged family in Los ...
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Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
by
James Bridle
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/21/2022
What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans, or shared with other beings―beings of flesh, wood, stone, and silicon? ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence
by
Mary Pipher
Bloomsbury USA, 06/28/2022
In her luminous new memoir in essays, Mary Pipher-as she did in her
New York Times bestseller
Women Rowing North-taps into a cultural moment, to offer...
more
All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience
by
Jay Wellons
Random House, 06/28/2022
In
All That Moves Us, Dr. Jay Wellons pulls back the curtain to reveal the profoundly moving triumphs, haunting complications, and harrowing close ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Bad Things Happen Here
by
Rebecca Barrow
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 06/28/2022
Luca Laine Thomas lives on a cursed island. To the outside world, Parris is an exclusive, idyllic escape accessible only to the one percent. There's ...
more
Clark and Division (A Japantown Mystery)
by
Naomi Hirahara
Soho Crime, 06/28/2022
Chicago, 1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, where they have been detained by the US government since...
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Mysteries
Elsewhere: A Novel
by
Alexis Schaitkin
Celadon, 06/28/2022
Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered and damp year-round. This town, fiercely ...
more
Hatchet Island: Mike Bowditch Mysteries #13
by
Paul Doiron
Minotaur Books, 06/28/2022
A call for help from a former colleague leads Maine game warden investigator Mike Bowditch and his girlfriend Stacey Stevens on a sea kayaking trip to...
more
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
by
Miranda Seymour
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/28/2022
Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly ...
more
Locklands: The Founders Trilogy #3
by
Robert Jackson Bennett
Del Rey, 06/28/2022
Sancia, Clef, and Berenice have gone up against long odds in the past. But the war they're fighting now is one even they can't win.
This time, they...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
by
Maddie Mortimer
Scribner, 06/28/2022
Lia, her husband Harry, and their beloved daughter, Iris, are a precisely balanced family of three. With Iris struggling to navigate the social ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
One of the Girls
by
Lucy Clarke
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/28/2022
It was supposed to be the perfect weekend away. Six very different women travel to a sun-soaked Greek island for a bachelorette trip, to celebrate ...
more
Thrillers
Our Crooked Hearts: A Novel
by
Melissa Albert
Flatiron Books, 06/28/2022
The suburbs, right now...
Seventeen-year-old Ivy's summer break kicks off with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a stranger whose ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
That Summer Night on Frenchmen Street
by
Chris Clarkson
Lee & Low Books, 06/28/2022
Being there for her family is the most important thing to Jessamine Monet. And her family is complicated. Her twin brother Joel has a secret boyfriend...
more
Literary Fiction
The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land
by
Sally Denton
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 06/28/2022
On the morning of November 4, 2019, an unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by masked gunmen on a desolate stretch of road in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Dead Romantics: A GMA Book Club Pick
by
Ashley Poston
Berkley Books, 06/28/2022
Florence Day is the ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem—after a terrible breakup, ...
more
Romance
The Measure
by
Nikki Erlick
William Morrow, 06/28/2022
Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice.
It seems like any other day. You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out.
But today, when ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Nurse's Secret: A Thrilling Historical Novel of the Dark Side of Gilded Age New York City
by
Amanda Skenandore
Kensington Publishing, 06/28/2022
Based on Florence Nightingale's nursing principles, Bellevue is the first school of its kind in the country. Where once nurses were assumed to be ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Truth About Ben and June: A Novel
by
Alex Kiester
Park Row, 06/28/2022
From the moment Ben and June met in a hospital waiting room on New Year's Eve, their love has seemed fated. Looking back at all the tiny, unlikely ...
more
Romance
Thrillers
Fellowship Point: A Novel
by
Alice Elliott Dark
Marysue Rucci Books, 07/05/2022
Celebrated children's book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Growing Up Getty: The Story of America's Most Unconventional Dynasty
by
James Reginato
Gallery Books, 07/05/2022
Oil magnate J. Paul Getty, once the richest man in the world, is the patriarch of an extraordinary cast of sons, grandchildren, and great-...
more
Biography/Memoir
Hawk Mountain: A Novel
by
Conner Habib
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/05/2022
Single father Todd is relaxing at the beach with his son, Anthony, when he catches sight of a man approaching from the water's edge. As the man draws ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World
by
Mark Vanhoenacker
Knopf, 07/05/2022
In his small New England hometown, Mark Vanhoenacker spent his childhood dreaming of elsewhere— of the distant, real cities he found on the ...
more
Joan: A Novel of Joan of Arc
by
Katherine J. Chen
Random House, 07/05/2022
1412. France is mired in a losing war against England. Its people are starving. Its king is in hiding. From this chaos emerges a teenage girl who will...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Kaleidoscope: A Novel
by
Cecily Wong
Dutton, 07/05/2022
Everybody's heard of The Brightons.
From rags to riches, sleepy Oregon to haute New York, they are the biracial Chinese American family that built ...
more
Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust
by
Jerry Stahl
Akashic Books, 07/05/2022
In September 2016, Jerry Stahl was feeling nervous on the eve of a two-week trip across Poland and Germany. But it was not just the stops at Auschwitz...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Night of the Living Rez
by
Morgan Talty
Tin House Books, 07/05/2022
How do the living come back to life?
In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty―with searing humor, abiding compassion, and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Self-Portrait with Ghost: Short Stories
by
Meng Jin
Mariner Books, 07/05/2022
Meng Jin's critically acclaimed debut novel,
Little Gods, was praised as "spectacular and emotionally polyphonic (Omar El-Akkad,
BookPage), "powerful"...
more
Six Ways to Write a Love Letter
by
Jackson Pearce
Sourcebooks Casablanca, 07/05/2022
Maybe everything they say about Vivi Swan is true.
Maybe America's Sweetheart is all fluff and no substance.
And maybe every guy she dates is ...
more
Romance
The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham: Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, Big Swings, and a Hit
by
Ron Shelton
Knopf, 07/05/2022
Bull Durham, the breakthrough 1988 film about a minor league baseball team, is widely revered as the best sports movie of all time. But back in 1987, ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Displacements: A Novel
by
Bruce Holsinger
Riverhead Books, 07/05/2022
To all appearances, the Larsen-Hall family has everything: healthy children, a stable marriage, a lucrative career for Brantley, and the means for ...
more
The Missing Word
by
Concita De Gregorio
Europa Editions, 07/05/2022
Irina's life with her husband and her twin daughters is orderly. An Italian living in Switzerland, she works as a lawyer. One day, something breaks. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Murder Book: DI Tom Thorne Series #18
by
Mark Billingham
Atlantic Monthly Press, 07/05/2022
Tom Thorne finally has it all.
In Nicola Tanner and Phil Hendricks, Thorne has good friends by his side. His love life is newly reformed by a ...
more
This America Of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild
by
Nate Schweber
Mariner Books, 07/05/2022
In late-1940s America, few writers commanded attention like Bernard DeVoto. Alongside his brilliant wife and editor, Avis, DeVoto was a firebrand of ...
more
Voices in the Dead House: The American Novels series
by
Norman Lock
Bellevue Literary Press, 07/05/2022
After the Union Army's defeat at Fredericksburg in 1862, Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott converge on Washington to nurse the sick, wounded, and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
What Jonah Knew: A Novel
by
Barbara Graham
Harper, 07/05/2022
Helen Bird will stop at nothing to find Henry, her musician son who has mysteriously disappeared in upstate New York. Though the cops believe Henry's ...
more
Thrillers
When Stars Collide: A Chicago Stars Novel
by
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Avon Books, 07/05/2022
Thaddeus Walker Bowman Owens, the backup quarterback for the Chicago Stars, is a team player, talented sideline coach, occasional male underwear model...
more
Romance
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy: Monk & Robot #2
by
Becky Chambers
Tor.com, 07/12/2022
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent on a quest to determine what humanity really...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy
by
Damien Lewis
Public Affairs, 07/12/2022
Prior to World War II, Josephine Baker was a music-hall diva renowned for her singing and dancing, her beauty and sexuality; she was the highest-paid ...
more
Biography/Memoir
All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir
by
Seán Hewitt
Penguin Press, 07/12/2022
When Seán Hewitt meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe mental illness, they soon come face-to...
more
Any Other Family
by
Eleanor Brown
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/12/2022
Though they look like any other family, they aren't one—not quite. They are three sets of parents who find themselves intertwined after adopting...
more
Literary Fiction
Big Girl: A Novel
by
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 07/12/2022
In her highly anticipated debut novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan explores the perils―and undeniable beauty―of insatiable longing.
Growing ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Body Language: Writers on Identity, Physicality, and Making Space for Ourselves
by
Nicole Chung, Matt Ortile
Catapult, 07/12/2022
Bodies are serious, irreverent, sexy, fragile, strong, political, and inseparable from our experiences and identities as human beings. Pushing the ...
more
Death and the Conjuror: Joseph Spector #1
by
Tom Mead
Mysterious Press, 07/12/2022
In 1930s London, celebrity psychiatrist Anselm Rees is discovered dead in his locked study, and there seems to be no way that a killer could have ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps
by
Seirian Sumner
Harper, 07/12/2022
Everyone worries about the collapse of bee populations. But what about wasps? Deemed the gangsters of the insect world, wasps are winged assassins ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Gods of Want: Stories
by
K-Ming Chang
One World, 07/12/2022
In "Auntland," a steady stream of aunts adjust to American life by sneaking surreptitious kisses from women at temple, buying tubs of vanilla ice ...
more
Helltown: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer on Cape Cod
by
Casey Sherman
Sourcebooks, 07/12/2022
1969: The hippie scene is vibrant in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Long-haired teenagers roam the streets, strumming guitars and preaching about peace ...
more
True Crime
Iced: A Novel (A Dick Francis Novel)
by
Felix Francis
Crooked Lane Books, 07/12/2022
Seven years ago, Miles Pussett was a steeplechase jockey, loving the rush of the race. But after an unfortunate event, he left horseracing behind and ...
more
Thrillers
Illegally Yours: A Memoir
by
Rafael Agustin
Grand Central Publishing, 07/12/2022
Growing up, Rafa's parents didn't want him to feel different because, as his mom told him: "Dreams should not have borders." But when he tried to get ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap
by
David Roberts
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/12/2022
By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
My Boy Will Die of Sorrow: A Memoir of Immigration From the Front Lines
by
Efrén C. Olivares
Hachette Books, 07/12/2022
In the summer of 2018, Efrén C. Olivares found himself representing hundreds of immigrant families when Zero Tolerance separated thousands of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings
by
Chrysta Bilton
Little Brown & Company, 07/12/2022
What is a "normal family," and how do you go about making one? Chrysta Bilton's magnetic, larger than life mother, Debra, yearned to have a child, but...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Our Wives Under the Sea: A Novel
by
Julia Armfield
Flatiron Books, 07/12/2022
Leah is changed. A marine biologist, she left for a routine expedition months earlier, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sirens & Muses: A Novel
by
Antonia Angress
Ballantine Books, 07/12/2022
It's 2011: America is in a deep recession and Occupy Wall Street is escalating. But at the elite Wrynn College of Art, students paint and sculpt in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Empire of Dirt: A Novel
by
Francesca Manfredi
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/12/2022
There has always been tension in "the blind house," where Valentina lives with her mother and grandmother in the Italian countryside. Valentina's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The It Girl
by
Ruth Ware
Gallery/Scout Press, 07/12/2022
April Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford.
Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she ...
more
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir
by
Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Doubleday, 07/12/2022
For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political violence of 1980s and '90s Colombia, in a house bustling with her ...
more
The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Novel
by
Monique Roffey
Knopf, 07/12/2022
In 1976, David is fishing off the island of Black Conch when he comes upon a creature he doesn't expect: a mermaid by the name of Aycayia. Once a ...
more
The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler
by
Deborah Cadbury
Public Affairs, 07/12/2022
In 1933, the same year Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger saved her small, progressive school from Nazi Germany. Anna had read
Mein ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Total: Stories
by
Rebecca Miller
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/12/2022
But to get back to my subject. Of the little moment when I went the wrong way, from promising young woman to flotsam, to extraneousness―like the...more
Upgrade: A Novel
by
Blake Crouch
Ballantine Books, 07/12/2022
"You are the next step in human evolution."
At first, Logan Ramsay isn't sure if anything's different. He just feels a little...sharper. Better ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Wake the Bones: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Kilcoyne
Wednesday Books, 07/12/2022
After dropping out of college, all she wanted was to resume her life as a tobacco hand and taxidermist and try not to think about the boy she can't ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
What Moves the Dead: Sworn Soldier #1
by
T. Kingfisher
Tor Books, 07/12/2022
When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Wind Daughter
by
Joanna Ruth Meyer
Page Street Kids, 07/12/2022
In the dark, cold reaches of the north lives a storyteller and his daughter. He told his daughter, Satu, many stories―romances like the girl who...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Baby Teeth
by
Meg Grehan
Little Island Books, 07/19/2022
The blood
Feeds the hunger
That threatens everything
It starts when Claudia offers her a yellow rose.
Immy has been in love before – ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Goth Girl, Queen of the Universe
by
Lindsay S. Zrull
North Star Editions, 07/19/2022
The only one who gives her the time of day is geeky Oscar, who wants to recruit her fashion skills for his amateur cosplay group. But Jess is fine ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Just Like Home
by
Sarah Gailey
Tor Books, 07/19/2022
"Come home." Vera's mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories ― she's come back to the home ...
more
Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology
by
Vince A. Liaguno
William Morrow Paperbacks, 07/19/2022
Offering new stories from some of the biggest names in horror as well as some of the hottest up-and-coming talents,
Other Terrors will provide the ...
more
Portrait of an Unknown Woman: A Novel (Gabriel Allon, 22)
by
Daniel Silva
Harper, 07/19/2022
Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has at long last severed ties with Israeli intelligence and settled quietly in Venice, the only place ...
more
Thrillers
Switchboard Soldiers: A Novel
by
Jennifer Chiaverini
William Morrow, 07/19/2022
In June 1917, General John Pershing arrived in France to establish American forces in Europe. He immediately found himself unable to communicate with ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
by
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Del Rey, 07/19/2022
Montgomery Laughton: A melancholic overseer with a tragic past and a propensity for alcohol. An outcast who assists Dr. Moreau with his experiments, ...
more
Thrillers
Mysteries
The Work Wife: A Novel
by
Alison B. Hart
Graydon House, 07/19/2022
However, today is no ordinary day at the Stabler estate. Tonight, everyone who's anyone will be there for the Hollywood event of the season, and if ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Things We Do in the Dark: A Novel
by
Jennifer Hillier
Minotaur Books, 07/19/2022
When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom―covered in blood, holding a straight razor, her celebrity husband dead in the bathtub behind ...
more
Thrillers
What Goes Unsaid: A Memoir of Fathers Who Never Were
by
Emiliano Monge
Scribe Publications Pty Ltd, 07/19/2022
In 1958, Carlos Monge McKey sneaks out of his home in the middle of the night to fake his own death. He does not return for four years.
A decade ...
more
Beating Heart Baby
by
Lio Min
Flatiron Books, 07/26/2022
When artistic and sensitive Santi arrives at his new high school, everyone in the wildly talented marching band welcomes him with open arms. Everyone ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Boys I Know
by
Anna Gracia
Peachtree Publishers, 07/26/2022
June Chu is the "just good enough" girl. Good enough to line the shelves with a slew of third-place trophies and steal secret kisses from her AP Bio ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Calling for a Blanket Dance
by
Oscar Hokeah
Algonquin Books, 07/26/2022
Told in a series of voices,
Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Desperate Undertaking: A Flavia Albia Novel (Flavia Albia Series, 10)
by
Lindsey Davis
Minotaur Books, 07/26/2022
In the first century, under Domitian's reign, strange and brutal goings on are nothing new in Rome. Flavia Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has...
more
Historical Fiction
Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity
by
Antonio Padilla
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/26/2022
For particularly brilliant theoretical physicists like James Clerk Maxwell, Paul Dirac, or Albert Einstein, the search for mathematical truths led to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age (Literature Now)
by
Timothy Bewes
Columbia University Press, 07/26/2022
Everywhere today, we are urged to "connect." Literary critics celebrate a new "honesty" in contemporary fiction or call for a return to "realism." Yet...
more
How to Read Now: Essays
by
Elaine Castillo
Viking, 07/26/2022
How many times have we heard that reading builds empathy? That we can travel through books? How often have we were heard about the importance of ...
more
Love Times Infinity
by
Lane Clarke
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 07/26/2022
High school junior Michie is struggling to define who she is for her scholarship essays, her big shot at making it into Brown as a first-generation ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer
by
Kathy Kleiman
Grand Central Publishing, 07/26/2022
After the end of World War II, the race for technological supremacy sped on. Top-secret research into ballistics and computing, begun during the war ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Putin
by
Philip Short
Henry Holt and Company, 07/26/2022
Vladimir Putin is the world's most dangerous man. Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a ...
more
Some of It Was Real
by
Nan Fischer
Berkley Books, 07/26/2022
Psychic-medium Sylvie Young starts every show with her origin story, telling the audience how she discovered her abilities. But she leaves out a lot&#...
more
Literary Fiction
The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020
by
Jonathan Lemire
Flatiron Books, 07/26/2022
Jonathan Lemire uncovers that "
The Big Lie," as it's been termed, isn't just about the 2020 election. It's become a political philosophy that has only...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Last to Vanish: A Novel
by
Megan Miranda
Scribner, 07/26/2022
Ten years ago, Abigail Lovett fell into a job she loves, managing The Passage Inn, a cozy, upscale resort nestled in the North Carolina mountain town ...
more
The Librarian Spy: A Novel of World War II
by
Madeline Martin
Hanover Square Press, 07/26/2022
Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the US military has ...
more
Historical Fiction
War and Me: A Memoir
by
Faleeha Hassan
AmazonCrossing, 08/01/2022
Faleeha Hassan became intimately acquainted with loss and fear while growing up in Najaf, Iraq. Now, in a deeply personal account of her life, she ...
more
A Tidy Ending: A Novel
by
Joanna Cannon
Scribner, 08/02/2022
Linda has lived in a quiet neighborhood since fleeing the dark events of her childhood in Wales. Now she sits in her kitchen, wondering if this is all...
more
Acceptance: A Memoir
by
Emi Nietfeld
Penguin Press, 08/02/2022
As a homeless teenager writing college essays in her rusty Toyota Corolla, Emi Nietfeld was convinced that the Ivy League was the only escape from her...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Alias Emma: A Novel
by
Ava Glass
Bantam Books, 08/02/2022
Nothing about Emma Makepeace is real. Not even her name.
A newly minted secret agent, Emma's barely graduated from basic training when she gets ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
All the Ruined Men: Stories
by
Bill Glose
St. Martin's Press, 08/02/2022
Combat takes a different toll on each soldier; so does coming home.
All the Ruined Men by Bill Glose comprises linked stories that show veterans ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
All This Could Be Different: A Novel
by
Sarah Thankam Mathews
Viking, 08/02/2022
Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's moved to Milwaukee for an entry-level corporate job ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
All's Well: A Novel
by
Mona Awad
Simon & Schuster, 08/02/2022
Miranda Fitch's life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating chronic back pain, a ...
more
Literary Fiction
Asian American Histories of the United States: Revisioning History
by
Catherine Ceniza Choy
Beacon Press, 08/02/2022
Original and expansive,
Asian American Histories of the United States is a nearly 200-year history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bookish People
by
Susan Coll
Harper Muse, 08/02/2022
Independent bookstore owner Sophie Bernstein is burned out on books. Mourning the death of her husband, the loss of her favorite manager, her only ...
more
Literary Fiction
By Way of the Moonlight
by
Musser
Bethany House Publishers, 08/02/2022
For as long as she can remember, Allie Massey, a gifted physical therapist, has dreamed of making her grandparents' ten-acre estate into a trauma ...
more
Historical Fiction
Cyclorama
by
Adam Langer
Bloomsbury USA, 08/02/2022
Evanston, Illinois, 1982. A group of students at a magnet high school meet to audition for the spring play. They are eager for the chance to escape ...
more
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
by
Alec Nevala-Lee
Dey Street Books, 08/02/2022
During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century. As the architectural designer and ...
more
Mademoiselle Revolution
by
Zoe Sivak
Berkley Books, 08/02/2022
Sylvie de Rosiers, as the daughter of a rich planter and an enslaved woman, enjoys the comforts of a lady in 1791 Saint-Domingue society. But while ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Thank You for Listening: A Novel
by
Julia Whelan
Avon Books, 08/02/2022
For Sewanee Chester, being an audiobook narrator is a long way from her old dreams, but the days of being a star on film sets are long behind her. She...
more
Romance
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy: A Novel
by
Jamie Ford
Atria Books, 08/02/2022
Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living.
As Washington's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes ...
more
The Rabbit Hutch: A novel
by
Tess Gunty
Knopf, 08/02/2022
The automobile industry has abandoned Vacca Vale, Indiana, leaving the residents behind, too. In a run-down apartment building on the edge of town, ...
more
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
by
Steven W. Thrasher
Celadon, 08/02/2022
Having spent a ground-breaking career studying the racialization, policing, and criminalization of HIV, Dr. Thrasher has come to understand a deeper ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Wild Hunt
by
Emma Seckel
Tin House Books, 08/02/2022
Leigh Welles has not set foot on the island in years, but when she finds herself called home from life on the Scottish mainland by her father's ...
more
Literary Fiction
Until Further Notice: A Year in Pandemic Time
by
Amy Kaler
University of Alberta Press, 08/02/2022
She documents a series of jolts to her thoughts, perceptions, emotions, and habits―an internal seismograph of living through a global emergency....
more
Biography/Memoir
When We Were Bright and Beautiful: A Novel
by
Jillian Medoff
Harper, 08/02/2022
You can have everything, and still not have enough.
Cassie Quinn may only be twenty-three, but she knows a few things. One: money can't buy ...
more
Literary Fiction
Wrong Place Wrong Time: A Novel
by
Gillian McAllister
William Morrow, 08/02/2022
Can you stop a murder after it's already happened?
It is midnight on the morning of Halloween, and Jen anxiously waits up for her 18-year-old son,...
more
Thrillers
Yoga
by
Emmanuel Carrère
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/02/2022
Emmanuel Carrère is a renowned writer. After decades of emotional upheaval, he has begun to live successfully―he is healthy; he works; he ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Map for the Missing: A Novel
by
Belinda Huijuan Tang
Penguin Press, 08/09/2022
Tang Yitian has been living in America for almost a decade when he receives an urgent phone call from his mother: his father has disappeared from the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City
by
Edward Chisholm
Pegasus Books, 08/09/2022
A waiter's job is to deceive you. They want you to believe in a luxurious calm because on the other side of that door...is hell.
Edward Chisholm's ...
more
Birds and Us: A 12,000-Year History from Cave Art to Conservation
by
Tim Birkhead
Princeton University Press, 08/09/2022
Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art, and philosophy. We...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan
by
Randall Kenan
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/09/2022
Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Randall...
more
Dead-End Memories: Stories
by
Banana Yoshimoto
Counterpoint Press, 08/09/2022
First published in Japan in 2003 and never before published in the United States,
Dead-End Memories collects the stories of five women who, following ...
more
Death at the Manor: Lily Adler Mysteries #3
by
Katharine Schellman
Crooked Lane Books, 08/09/2022
Regency widow Lily Adler is looking forward to spending the autumn away from the social whirl of London. When she arrives in Hampshire with her ...
more
Do No Harm: A Lucas Page Novel (Lucas Page, 3)
by
Robert Pobi
Minotaur Books, 08/09/2022
Lucas Page is a polymath, astrophysicist, professor, husband, father of five adopted children, bestselling author, and ex-FBI agent―emphasis on ...
more
Thrillers
Fruit Punch: A Memoir
by
Kendra Allen
Ecco, 08/09/2022
Written in a distinctive voice and filled with personality, humor, and pathos, Fruit Punch is a memoir unlike any other, from a one-of-a-kind ...
more
How You Grow Wings
by
Rimma Onoseta
Algonquin Young Readers, 08/09/2022
Sisters Cheta and Zam couldn't be more different. Cheta, sharp-tongued and stubborn, never shies away from conflict—either at school or at home,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
I'm Glad My Mom Died
by
Jennette McCurdy
Simon & Schuster, 08/09/2022
Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
by
Justin Gregg
Little Brown & Company, 08/09/2022
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal overturns everything we thought we knew about human intelligence, and asks the question: would humans be better off as ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure
by
Rinker Buck
Avid Reader Press, 08/09/2022
Seven years ago, readers around the country fell in love with a singular American voice: Rinker Buck, whose infectious curiosity about history ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe
by
David Maraniss
Simon & Schuster, 08/09/2022
Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. He won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm...
more
Biography/Memoir
Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers
by
Mary Rodgers, Jesse Green
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/09/2022
"What am I, bologna?" Mary Rodgers (1931–2014) often said. She was referring to being stuck in the middle of a talent sandwich: the daughter of ...
more
The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan
by
Elliot Ackerman
Penguin Press, 08/09/2022
Elliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his time in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Marines and later as a CIA paramilitary ...
more
The Making of Her: A Novel
by
Bernadette Jiwa
Dutton, 08/09/2022
Dublin 1966. When Joan Quinn, a factory girl from the Cranmore Estate, marries Martin Egan, it looks like her dreams have come true. But Joan lives in...
more
Historical Fiction
The Monsters We Defy
by
Leslye Penelope
Redhook, 08/09/2022
Washington D. C., 1925: Clara Johnson can talk to spirits—a gift that saved her during her darkest moments, now a curse that's left her indebted...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The War Librarian
by
Addison Armstrong
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/09/2022
Two women. One secret. A truth worth fighting for.
1918. Timid and shy Emmaline Balakin lives more in books than her own life. That is, until an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After
by
Elizabeth Crane
Counterpoint Press, 08/09/2022
One minute Elizabeth Crane and her husband of fifteen years are fixing up their old house in Upstate New York, finally setting down roots after stints...
more
Widowland: Widowland #1
by
C. J. Carey
Sourcebooks, 08/09/2022
To control the past, they edited history. To control the future, they edited literature.
LONDON, 1953. Thirteen years have passed since England ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
You're Invited
by
Amanda Jayatissa
Berkley Books, 08/09/2022
When Amaya is invited to Kaavi's over-the-top wedding in Sri Lanka, she is surprised and a little hurt to hear from her former best friend after so ...
more
Thrillers
All Good People Here: A Novel
by
Ashley Flowers
Bantam Books, 08/16/2022
You can't ever know for sure what happens behind closed doors.
Everyone from Wakarusa, Indiana, remembers the infamous case of January Jacobs, ...
more
Thrillers
All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work
by
Hayley Campbell
St. Martin's Press, 08/16/2022
We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Amy & Lan: A Novel
by
Sadie Jones
Harper, 08/16/2022
"The very first thing I remember is standing on the water-butt in the garden, with my Mum holding me to stop me falling, singing 'I'm On Top of the ...more
Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation
by
Nuar Alsadir
Graywolf Press, 08/16/2022
Laughter shakes us out of our deadness. An outburst of spontaneous laughter is an eruption from the unconscious that, like political resistance, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Other
Debut Author
California Soul: An American Epic of Cooking and Survival
by
Keith Corbin
Random House, 08/16/2022
Chef Keith Corbin has been cooking his entire life. Born on the home turf of the notorious Grape Street Crips in 1980s Watts, Los Angeles, he got his ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Emily in Paris: The Official Cookbook
by
Kim Laidlaw
Weldon Owen, 08/16/2022
Taste your way through Emily's Parisian neighborhood with over 75 recipes inspired by the Netflix series and l'Hexagone itself. Cook from show-...
more
Other
My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains
by
Jessa Crispin
University Of Chicago Press, 08/16/2022
For many Americans, Kansas represents a vision of Midwestern life that is good and wholesome and evokes the American ideals of god, home, and country....
more
Neighbor's Secret
by
L Alison Heller
Flatiron Books, 08/16/2022
How well do you really know your neighbors?
With its sprawling yards and excellent schools, Cottonwood Estates is the perfect place to raise ...
more
Thrillers
The Drowned Woods
by
Emily Lloyd-Jones
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 08/16/2022
Once upon a time, the kingdoms of Wales were rife with magic and conflict, and eighteen-year-old Mererid "Mer" is well-acquainted with both. She is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Honeys
by
Ryan La Sala
Scholastic, 08/16/2022
Mars has always been the lesser twin, the shadow to his sister Caroline's radiance. But when Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars is ...
more
Water over Stones: A Novel
by
Bernardo Atxaga
Graywolf Press, 08/16/2022
Bernardo Atxaga's
Water Over Stones follows a group of interconnected people in a small village in the Basque Country. It opens with the story of a ...
more
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
by
R. F Kuang
Harper Voyager, 08/23/2022
Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.
1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Babysitter: A novel
by
Joyce Carol Oates
Knopf, 08/23/2022
In the waning days of the turbulent 1970s, in the wake of unsolved child-killings that have shocked Detroit, the lives of several residents are drawn ...
more
Big Red: A Novel Starring Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles
by
Jerome Charyn
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 08/23/2022
Since he first appeared on the American literary scene, Jerome Charyn has dazzled readers with his "blunt, brilliantly crafted prose" (
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
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Brad Snyder
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/23/2022
The conventional wisdom about Felix Frankfurter―Harvard law professor and Supreme Court justice―is that he struggled to fill the seat once...
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Literary Fiction
Fox Creek: Cork O'Connor Mystery Series #19
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William Kent Krueger
Atria Books, 08/23/2022
The ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux has had a vision of his death. As he walks the Northwoods in solitude, he tries to prepare himself peacefully ...
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Haven
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Emma Donoghue
Little Brown & Company, 08/23/2022
In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks—young ...
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Historical Fiction
Hundred Waters, The
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Lauren Acampora
Grove Press, 08/23/2022
Formerly a model and photographer trying to make it in New York, Louisa Rader is back in her affluent hometown of Nearwater, Connecticut, where she's ...
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Literary Fiction
Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom
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Andrew Nagorski
Simon & Schuster, 08/23/2022
In March 1938, German soldiers crossed the border into Austria and Hitler absorbed the country into the Third Reich. Anticipating these events, many ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Housemaid
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Freida McFadden
Grand Central Publishing, 08/23/2022
Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole ...
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Thrillers
The Hunt: A Decker/Lazarus Novel (Decker/Lazarus Novels, 27)
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Faye Kellerman
William Morrow, 08/23/2022
Peter and his partner, Detective Tyler McAdams, are thrown into an unsolved case and propelled into action when a body is found in the very woods ...
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Thrillers
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
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Sangu Mandanna
Berkley Books, 08/23/2022
As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers ...
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This Is Why They Hate Us
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Aaron H. Aceves
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 08/23/2022
Enrique "Quique" Luna has one goal this summer—get over his crush on Saleem Kanazi by pursuing his other romantic prospects. Never mind that he'...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Unlocked Path: A Novel (The Path)
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Janis Robinson Daly
Black Rose Writing, 08/25/2022
In 1897 Philadelphia, after witnessing her aunt's suicide, Eliza Edwards vows to find ways to help and heal. Rejecting her mother's wishes for her ...
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Historical Fiction
A History of Wild Places: A Novel
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Shea Ernshaw
Atria Books, 08/30/2022
Travis Wren has an unusual talent for locating missing people. Often hired by families as a last resort, he takes on the case of Maggie St. James&#...
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Thrillers
A Taste of Gold and Iron
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Alexandra Rowland
Tor.com, 08/30/2022
Kadou, the shy prince of Arasht, finds himself at odds with one of the most powerful ambassadors at court - the body-father of the queen's new child -...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Banned Books: The World's Most Controversial Books, Past and Present (DK Secret Histories)
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DK
DK, 08/30/2022
Censorship of one form or another has existed almost as long as the written word, while definitions of what is deemed "acceptable" in published works ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Carrie Soto Is Back: A Novel
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Taylor Jenkins Reid
Ballantine Books, 08/30/2022
Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. But by the time she retires from tennis, she is the best ...
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Daisy Darker: A Novel
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Alice Feeney
Flatiron Books, 08/30/2022
Daisy Darker was born with a broken heart. Now after years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker's entire family is assembling for Nana's 80th birthday...
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Thrillers
Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery
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Casey Parks
Knopf, 08/30/2022
When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her pastor ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Felix Silver, Teaspoons & Witches
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Harry Cook
Chicago Review Press, 08/30/2022
As Felix adjusts to life in a new school, Aggie decides that it's time he learn The Silver Way, and teaches him all she knows about sorcery and ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
How to Survive Your Murder
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Danielle Valentine
Razorbill, 08/30/2022
Alice Lawrence is the sole witness in her sister's murder trial.
And in the year since Claire's death, Alice's life has completely fallen apart. ...
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Thrillers
Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire: 1811-1821
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Michael Broers
Pegasus Books, 08/30/2022
In 1811, Napoleon stood at his zenith. He had defeated all his continental rivals, come to an entente with Russia, and his blockade of Britain seemed,...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Nothing More to Tell
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Karen M. McManus
Delacorte Press, 08/30/2022
Four years ago, Brynn left Saint Ambrose School following the shocking murder of her favorite teacher—a story that made headlines after the ...
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Other Birds: A Novel
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Sarah Addison Allen
St. Martin's Press, 08/30/2022
Down a narrow alley in the small coastal town of Mallow Island, South Carolina, lies a stunning cobblestone building comprised of five apartments. It'...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Thrillers
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators
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Martin Edwards
Collins, 08/30/2022
Author Martin Edwards is a multi-award-winning crime novelist, the President of the Detection Club, archivist of the Crime Writers' Association and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Lost Ticket
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Freya Sampson
Berkley Books, 08/30/2022
When Libby Nicholls arrives in London, brokenhearted and with her life in tatters, the first person she meets on the bus is elderly Frank. He tells ...
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The Portraitist: A Novel of Adelaide Labille-Guiard
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Susanne Dunlap
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 08/30/2022
With a beautiful rival who's better connected and better trained than she is, Adélaïde faces an uphill battle. Her love affair with her ...
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Historical Fiction
Tomorrow in Shanghai: Stories
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May-lee Chai
Blair, 08/30/2022
In a vibrant and illuminating follow-up to her award-winning story collection,
Useful Phrases for Immigrants, May-lee Chai's latest collection
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