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...
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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 ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Ayesha at Last
by
Uzma Jalaluddin
Berkley Books, 06/04/2019
Ayesha Shamsi has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been set aside for a teaching job so she can pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle....
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime
by
Alex Espinoza
The Unnamed Press, 06/04/2019
Combining historical research and oral history with his own personal experience, Espinoza examines the political and cultural forces behind this ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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?&#...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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―...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 "...
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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 ...
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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,...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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.
...
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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-...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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'...
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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 ...
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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 Bobcat: A Novel
by
Katherine Forbes Riley
Arcade Publishing, 06/18/2019
Haunting and lyrical,
The Bobcat is Katherine Forbes Riley's magical debut novel in which Laurelie, a young art student who suffers in the aftermath ...
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Literary 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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The Black Veins (Dead Magic)
by
Ashia Monet
Ashia Monet, 06/23/2019
Sixteen-year-old Blythe is one of seven Guardians: magicians powerful enough to cause worldwide panic with a snap of their fingers. But Blythe spends ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
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
Girls Like Us
by
Cristina Alger
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/02/2019
FBI Agent Nell Flynn hasn't been home in ten years. Nell and her father, Homicide Detective Martin Flynn, have never had much of a relationship. And ...
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Thrillers
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 ...
more
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. ...
more
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....
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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. ...
more
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...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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, ...
more
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...
more
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....
more
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...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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...
more
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...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
One Good Deed (An Archer Novel, 1)
by
David Baldacci
Grand Central Publishing, 07/23/2019
It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of do's and a much ...
more
Thrillers
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz Saved the City of Light
by
Jean Edward Smith
Simon & Schuster, 07/23/2019
Following their breakout from Normandy in late June 1944, the Allies swept across northern France in pursuit of the German army. The Allies intended ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
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 ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Blood Sisters
by
Kim Yideum
Deep Vellum Publishing, 07/30/2019
Yideum captures with raw honesty the sense of dread felt by many Korean women during this time as Jeong struggles in a swirl of misguided desires and ...
more
Literary Fiction
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 ...
more
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, ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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-...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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)...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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...
more
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...
more
The Perfect Wife: A Novel
by
JP Delaney
Ballantine Books, 08/06/2019
Abbie awakens in a daze with no memory of who she is or how she landed in this unsettling condition. The man by her side claims to be her husband. He'...
more
Thrillers
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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...
more
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...
more
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...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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...
more
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...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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...
more
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 ...
more
The Memory Police: A Novel
by
Yoko Ogawa
Pantheon Books, 08/13/2019
On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses—until things become much more ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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, ...
more
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 ...
more
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. ...
more
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, ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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,...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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. ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
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 ...
more
