Great North Road
by
Peter F. Hamilton
Del Rey, 01/01/2013
New York Times bestselling author Peter F. Hamilton's riveting new thriller combines the nail-biting suspense of a serial-killer investigation with ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Ratlines
by
Stuart Neville
Soho Press, 01/01/2013
Ireland 1963. As the Irish people prepare to welcome President John F. Kennedy to the land of his ancestors, a German national is murdered in a ...
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Retribution: A Harry Tate Thriller
by
Adrian Magson
Severn House, 01/01/2013
"Harry. Plse make Grosvenor Square tomorrow 18.30. Urgent. Remember Mirovica."
An atrocity that allegedly took place under Harry's watch in ...
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Thrillers
Splintered
by
A. G. Howard
Amulet Books, 01/01/2013
This stunning debut captures the grotesque madness of a mystical under-land, as well as a girl's pangs of first love and independence. Alyssa Gardner ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Teeth
by
Hannah Moskowitz
Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 01/01/2013
A gritty, romantic modern fairy tale from the author of
Break and
Gone, Gone, Gone.
Be careful what you believe in.
Rudy's life is flipped ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Wicked Girls
by
Alex Marwood
Penguin Press, 01/01/2013
On a fateful summer morning in 1986, two eleven-year-old girls meet for the first time. By the end of the day, they will both be charged with murder. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The World is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake
by
Dany Laferriere
Arsenal Pulp Press, Limited, 01/01/2013
On January 12, 2010, novelist Dany Laferrière had just ordered dinner at a Port-au-Prince restaurant with a friend when the earthquake struck. He...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Wrath of Angels: A Charlie Parker Thriller
by
John Connolly
Atria Books, 01/01/2013
In the depths of the Maine woods, the wreckage of a plane is discovered. There are no bodies, and no such plane has ever been reported missing, but ...
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The Death of Bees: A Novel
by
Lisa O'Donnell
Harper, 01/02/2013
Today is Christmas Eve.
Today is my birthday.
Today I am fifteen.
Today I buried my parents in the backyard.
Neither of them were beloved.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Intercept: A Jeremy Fisk Novel
by
Dick Wolf
William Morrow, 01/02/2013
Four days before the July Fourth holiday and the dedication of the new Freedom Tower building at ground zero in New York City, five passengers and a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The One I Left Behind
by
Jennifer McMahon
William Morrow Paperbacks, 01/02/2013
The summer of 1985 changes Reggie's life. An awkward thirteen-year-old, she finds herself mixed up with the school outcasts. That same summer, a ...
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The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics
by
James O'Brien
Oxford University Press, 01/02/2013
One of the most popular and widely known characters in all of fiction, Sherlock Holmes has an enduring appeal based largely on his uncanny ability to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
White Dog Fell from the Sky: A Novel
by
Eleanor Morse
Viking, 01/03/2013
Eleanor Morse's rich and intimate portrait of Botswana, and of three people whose intertwined lives are at once tragic and remarkable, is an absorbing...
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The Illicit Happiness of Other People
by
Manu Joseph
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/07/2013
Ousep Chacko, journalist and failed novelist, prides himself on being "the last of the real men." This includes waking neighbors upon returning late ...
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1356: A Novel
by
Bernard Cornwell
Harper, 01/08/2013
September 1356. All over France, towns are closing their gates. Crops are burning, and through-out the countryside people are on the alert for danger....
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Study in Revenge
by
Kieran Shields
Crown, 01/08/2013
In 1893, a trail of ashen footprints leads Deputy Archie Lean to the body of a murdered thief. The man's exposed flesh has been horribly burned and ...
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All Standing: The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, The Legendary Irish Famine Ship
by
Kathryn Miles
Free Press, 01/08/2013
All Standing: The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, the Legendary Irish Famine Ship recounts the journeys of this famous ship, her heroic crew...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Ashenden: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Wilhide
Simon & Schuster, 01/08/2013
"The house contains time. Its walls hold stories. Births and deaths, comings and goings, people and events passing through. ... For now, however, it ...more
Literary Fiction
Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It
by
David Goldhill
Knopf, 01/08/2013
A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Chanel Bonfire
by
Wendy Lawless
Gallery Books, 01/08/2013
By the time Wendy Lawless turned seventeen, she'd known for quite some time that she didn't have a normal mother. But that didn't stop her from ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia
by
Jose Manuel Prieto
Grove Press, 01/08/2013
In
Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia, José Manuel Prieto has beautifully crafted a kaleidoscopic portrait of modern life in Russia through ...
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Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti
by
Amy Wilentz
Simon & Schuster, 01/08/2013
It was no surprise to Amy Wilentz when Haiti emerged from the dust of the 2010 earthquake like a powerful spirit. Her book is about magical ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Gingersnap
by
Patricia Reilly Giff
Wendy Lamb Books, 01/08/2013
It's 1944, W.W. II is raging. Jayna's big brother Rob is her only family. When Rob is called to duty on a destroyer, Jayna is left in their small town...
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Historical Fiction
Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road
by
William Least Heat-Moon
Little Brown & Company, 01/08/2013
Here, There, Elsewhere draws together for the first time William Least Heat-Moon's greatest short-form travel writing. Taking us from Japan, England, ...
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Jinx
by
Sage Blackwood
HarperCollins Publishers, 01/08/2013
In the Urwald, you don't step off the path. Trolls, werewolves, and butter churn–riding witches lurk amid the clawing branches, eager to swoop up...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Just One Day
by
Gayle Forman
Dutton Children's Books, 01/08/2013
When sheltered American good girl Allyson "LuLu" Healey first meets laid-back Dutch actor Willem De Ruiter at an underground performance of
Twelfth ...more
Kind of Kin: A Novel
by
Rilla Askew
Ecco, 01/08/2013
With the passing of a new state law, it becomes a felony to harbor an undocumented immigrant in Oklahoma. So when Robert John Brown, a churchgoing ...
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Little Wolves
by
Thomas Maltman
Soho Press, 01/08/2013
A tragic act of violence echoes through a small Minnesota town.
Set on the Minnesota prairie in the late 1980s during a drought season that's ...
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One Came Home
by
Amy Timberlake
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 01/08/2013
In the town of Placid, Wisconsin, in 1871, Georgie Burkhardt is known for two things: her uncanny aim with a rifle and her habit of speaking her mind ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Spectacle: Stories
by
Susan Steinberg
Graywolf Press, 01/08/2013
In these innovative linked stories, women confront loss and grief as they sift through the wreckage of their lives. In the title story, a woman ...
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The Beggar King: A Hangman's Daughter Tale
by
Oliver Pötzsch
Mariner Books, 01/08/2013
The year is 1662. Alpine village hangman Jakob Kuisl receives a letter from his sister calling him to the imperial city of Regensburg, where a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
by
Jonathan M. Katz
Palgrave Macmillan, 01/08/2013
On January 12, 2010, the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the nation least prepared to handle one. Jonathan M. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The History of Us
by
Leah Stewart
Touchstone, 01/08/2013
In
The History of Us, the newest novel by the celebrated author of
The Myth of You and Me, three grown siblings return to their childhood home and ...
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The Last Runaway
by
Tracy Chevalier
Dutton, 01/08/2013
New York Times bestselling author of
Girl With a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier makes her first fictional foray into the American past in
The Last...more
Historical Fiction
The River Swimmer: Novellas
by
Jim Harrison
Grove Press, 01/08/2013
Jim Harrison is one of America's most beloved and critically-acclaimed authors, on a par with American literary greats like Richard Ford, Anne Tyler, ...
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The Tell: A Novel
by
Hester Kaplan
Harper Perennial, 01/08/2013
An elegant and haunting novel of love and family,
The Tell demands that we reconsider our notions of marriage—duty, compromise, betrayal, and the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Uninvited
by
Liz Jensen
Bloomsbury USA, 01/08/2013
A seven-year-old girl puts a nail gun to her grandmother's neck and fires. An isolated incident, say the experts. The experts are wrong. Across the ...
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Umbrella
by
Will Self
Grove Press, 01/08/2013
"A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella."
James Joyce,
Ulysses
Radical and uncompromising,
Umbrella is a tour de force from one of England'...
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Unnatural Habits: A Phryne Fisher Mystery (Phryne Fisher Mysteries)
by
Kerry Greenwood
Poisoned Pen Press, 01/08/2013
1929: Girls are going missing in Melbourne. Little, pretty golden-haired girls. And not just pretty. Three of them are pregnant, poor girls from the ...
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Watching the Dark: An Inspector Banks Novel
by
Peter Robinson
William Morrow Paperbacks, 01/08/2013
A decorated detective inspector is murdered on the tranquil grounds of the St. Peter's Police Treatment Centre, shot through the heart with a crossbow...
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Y: A Novel
by
Marjorie Celona
Free Press, 01/08/2013
"Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over. Why? ... My life begins at the Y." So ...
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The Sign of the Weeping Virgin: Five Star Mystery Series
by
Alana White
Five Star, 01/09/2013
Romance and intrigue abound in
The Sign of the Weeping Virgin, an evocative historical mystery that brings the Italian Renaissance gloriously to life....
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I, Hogarth
by
Michael Dean
Overlook, 01/10/2013
William Hogarth's epoch-defining paintings and engravings, such as "Gin Lane" and "The Rake's Progress," are renowned. He was London's artist par ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Kashmir Shawl: A Novel
by
Rosie Thomas
Overlook, 01/10/2013
Over three decades of writing, bestselling novelist Rosie Thomas has earned an untold number of awards and glowing critical praise. Like Penny ...
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The Miniature Wife: and Other Stories
by
Manuel Gonzales
Riverhead Books, 01/10/2013
The eighteen stories of Manuel Gonzales's exhilarating first book render the fantastic commonplace and the ordinary extraordinary, in prose that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Cover of Snow
by
Jenny Milchman
Ballantine Books, 01/15/2013
Waking up one wintry morning in her old farmhouse nestled in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, Nora Hamilton instantly knows that something is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
by
Tracy Kidder
Random House, 01/15/2013
Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing - about the creation of good prose - and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The ...
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My Beloved World
by
Sonia Sotomayor
Knopf, 01/15/2013
The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Parlor Games
by
Maryka Biaggio
Doubleday, 01/15/2013
A sweeping historical novel about a beautiful con artist whose turn-of-the-century escapades take her around the world as she's doggedly pursued by a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry: Stories
by
Christine Sneed
Bloomsbury USA, 01/15/2013
The ten stories in this debut collection examine the perils of love and what it means to live during an era when people will offer themselves, almost ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Snow White Must Die
by
Nele Neuhaus
Minotaur Books, 01/15/2013
On a rainy November day police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: A woman has...
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Standing in Another Man's Grave
by
Ian Rankin
Reagan Arthur, 01/15/2013
For the last decade, Nina Hazlitt has been ready to hear the worst about her daughter's disappearance. But with no sightings, no body, and no suspect,...
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The Drowning House
by
Elizabeth Black
Nancy Paulsen Books, 01/15/2013
Photographer Clare Porterfield's once-happy marriage is coming apart, unraveling under the strain of a family tragedy. When she receives an invitation...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Good House
by
Ann Leary
St. Martin's Press, 01/15/2013
A riveting novel in which an engaging and wildly irreverent woman is in complete denial - about herself, her drinking, and her love for a man she's ...
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The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism
by
Trevor Aaronson
Simon & Schuster, 01/15/2013
A groundbreaking work of investigative journalism,
The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terror shows how the FBI has, under the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Uses for Boys
by
Erica Lorraine Scheidt
St. Martin's Griffin, 01/15/2013
Anna remembers a time before boys, when she was little and everything made sense. When she and her mom were a family, just the two of them against the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present
by
Max Boot
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/21/2013
As fitting for the twenty-first century as von Clausewitz's
On War was in its own time,
Invisible Armies is a complete global history of guerrilla ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
A History of the Present Illness
by
Louise Aronson
Bloomsbury USA, 01/22/2013
A History of the Present Illness takes readers into overlooked lives in the neighborhoods, hospitals, and nursing homes of San Francisco, offering a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Ignorance
by
Michèle Roberts
Bloomsbury USA, 01/22/2013
In every war there are stories that do not surface. You can try to forget, but sometimes the past can return: in the scent of a bar of soap, in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Out of Warranty
by
Haywood Smith
St. Martin's Press, 01/22/2013
If you've ever struggled with a health insurance claim, you'll love Haywood Smith's witty send-up of the health insurance industry, the drug companies...
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Saturday Night Widows: The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives
by
Becky Aikman
Crown, 01/22/2013
Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning.
In her forties – a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role – Becky Aikman ...
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Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire
by
Andrea Stuart
Knopf, 01/22/2013
In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to ...
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Suspect
by
Robert Crais
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/22/2013
The explosive new masterpiece of suspense from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
LAPD cop Scott James is not doing so well. Eight ...
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The Antagonist
by
Lynn Coady
Knopf, 01/22/2013
A piercing epistolary novel,
The Antagonist explores, with wit and compassion, how the impressions of others shape, pervert, and flummox both our ...
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The Atlantic Ocean: Reports from Britain and America
by
Andrew O'Hagan
Mariner Books, 01/22/2013
For over two decades, Andrew O'Hagan has been publishing critical essays in celebrated periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic - among them The...
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The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures
by
Edward Ball
Doubleday, 01/22/2013
One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures. He was the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Russian Donation: Dr. Hoffmann's First Case
by
Christoph Spielberg
Amazon Publishing, 01/22/2013
Doctor Felix Hoffmann's life is textbook success: a seasoned physician at a Berlin hospital, respected by colleagues, and devoted to his amorous and ...
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Truth in Advertising
by
John Kenney
Touchstone, 01/22/2013
"F. Scott Fitzgerald said that there are no second acts in American lives. I have no idea what that means but I believe that in quoting him I appear ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Villa Triste
by
Lucretia Grindle
Grand Central Publishing, 01/22/2013
Paperback Original
Florence, 1943. Two sisters, Isabella and Caterina Cammaccio, find themselves surrounded by terror and death; and with Italy ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Artful
by
Ali Smith
Penguin Press, 01/24/2013
The incomparable Ali Smith melds the tale and the essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of praise to the power of stories in our lives.
In ...
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Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde: A True Story
by
Rebecca Dana
Amy Einhorn Books, 01/24/2013
The ultimate fish-out-of-water tale ...
A child who never quite fit in, Rebecca Dana worshipped at the altar of Truman Capote and Nora Ephron, ...
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The Disaster Diaries: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apocalypse
by
Sam Sheridan
Penguin Press, 01/24/2013
Sam Sheridan has traveled the world as an amateur boxer and mixed martial arts fighter; he has worked as an EMT, a wilderness firefighter, a sailor, a...
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The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad
by
Lesley Hazleton
Riverhead Books, 01/24/2013
Muhammad's was a life of almost unparalleled historical importance; yet for all the iconic power of his name, the intensely dramatic story of the ...
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Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir
by
Eddie Huang
Spiegel & Grau, 01/29/2013
"Long before I met him, I was a fan of his writing, and his merciless wit. He's bigger than food." - Anthony Bourdain
Eddie Huang is the thirty-...
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Biography/Memoir
Here I Go Again
by
Jen Lancaster
NAL, 01/29/2013
Twenty years after ruling the halls of her suburban Chicago high school, Lissy Ryder doesn't understand why her glory days ended. Back then, she was ...
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News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories
by
Jennifer Haigh
Harper, 01/29/2013
The bestselling author of
Faith and
The Condition returns with a collection of unforgettable short stories inspired by a Pennsylvania coal-mining town...
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Prodigy: A Legend Novel
by
Marie Lu
Putnam Juvenile, 01/29/2013
June and Day arrive in Vegas just as the unthinkable happens: the Elector Primo dies, and his son Anden takes his place. With the Republic edging ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales
by
Yoko Ogawa
Picador, 01/29/2013
An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is ...
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Scent of Darkness: A Novel
by
Margot Berwin
Pantheon Books, 01/29/2013
In her best-selling debut,
Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire, Margot Berwin brought us to the rain forests of Mexico—to a land of ...
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Speaking from Among the Bones: A Flavia de Luce Novel
by
Alan Bradley
Delacorte Press, 01/29/2013
Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they're found among the potions in her ...
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The Affair
by
Colette Freedman
Kensington, 01/29/2013
After eighteen years of marriage, Kathy Walker has settled into a pattern of comfortable routines--ferrying her two teenagers between soccer practice ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Beautiful Indifference: Stories (P.S.)
by
Sarah Hall
Harper Perennial, 01/29/2013
Winner of the Portico Prize
Winner of the Edge Hill University Short Story Prize
Short-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award...
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The Fall of the Stone City
by
Ismail Kadare
Grove Press, 01/29/2013
It is 1943, and the Second World War is ravaging Europe. Mussolini decides to pull out of his alliance with the Nazis, and withdraws the Italian ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change
by
Al Gore
Random House, 01/29/2013
From the former vice president and #1
New York Times bestselling author comes
An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
by
Daniel Stashower
Minotaur Books, 01/29/2013
Daniel Stashower, the two-time Edgar award–winning author of
The Beautiful Cigar Girl, uncovers the riveting true story of the "Baltimore Plot," ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Imposter Bride
by
Nancy Richler
St. Martin's Press, 01/29/2013
An unforgettable novel about a mysterious mail-order bride in the wake of WWII, whose sudden disappearance ripples through time to deeply impact the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Prey: The Hunt Series
by
Andrew Fukuda
St. Martin's Press, 01/29/2013
With death only a heartbeat away, Gene and the remaining humans must find a way to survive long enough to escape the hungry predators chasing them ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Starboard Sea: A Novel
by
Amber Dermont
St. Martin's Press, 01/29/2013
A powerful first novel about life and death, friendship and love, as one young man must navigate the depths of his emotions.
Jason Prosper grew up ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Typewriter Girl
by
Alison Atlee
Gallery Books, 01/29/2013
When Betsey disembarks from the London train in the seaside resort of Idensea, all she owns is a small valise and a canary in a cage. After attempting...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
The Winter Witch
by
Paula Brackston
Thomas Dunne Books, 01/29/2013
In her small early nineteenth century Welsh town, there is no one quite like Morgana. She is small and quick and pretty enough to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea: A Novel
by
Dina Nayeri
Riverhead Books, 01/31/2013
Growing up in a small rice-farming village in 1980s Iran, eleven-year-old Saba Hafezi and her twin sister, Mahtab, are captivated by America. They ...
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Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry
by
Charles Henry Rowell (Editor)
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/04/2013
More than seventy poets are represented in this innovative new anthology of African American poetry since the 1960s.
This is not just another ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
by
P. G. Wodehouse
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/04/2013
P. G. Wodehouse wrote some of the greatest comic masterpieces of all time. So, naturally, we find the same humor and wit in his letters. He offers ...
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The City of Devi: A Novel
by
Manil Suri
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/04/2013
As Mumbai empties under the threat of imminent nuclear annihilation, Sarita, a thirty-three-year-old statistician, can only think of one thing: being ...
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A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent
by
Marie Brennan
Tor Books, 02/05/2013
You, dear reader, continue at your own risk. It is not for the faint of heart - no more so than the study of dragons itself. But such study offers ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Tangle of Knots
by
Lisa Graff
Philomel, 02/05/2013
Told in multiple viewpoints,
A Tangle of Knots is a magnificent puzzle. In a slightly magical world where everyone has a Talent, eleven-year-old Cady ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Autobiography of Us: A Novel
by
Aria Beth Sloss
Henry Holt and Company, 02/05/2013
Coming of age in the patrician neighborhood of Pasadena, California during the 1960s, Rebecca Madden and her beautiful, reckless friend Alex dream of ...
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Bear is Broken: A Leo Maxwell Mystery
by
Lachlan Smith
Mysterious Press, 02/05/2013
Leo Maxwell grew up in the shadow of his older brother, Teddy, a successful yet reviled criminal defense attorney who racked up enemies as quickly as ...
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Better Nate Than Ever
by
Tim Federle
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 02/05/2013
Nate Foster has big dreams. His whole life, he's wanted to star in a Broadway show. (Heck, he'd settle for seeing a Broadway show.) But how is Nate ...
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Literary Fiction
City of a Thousand Dolls
by
Miriam Forster
HarperTeen, 02/05/2013
The girl with no past, and no future, may be the only one who can save their lives.
Nisha was abandoned at the gates of the City of a Thousand ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dancing to the Flute: A Novel
by
Manisha Jolie Amin
Atria Books, 02/05/2013
"Kalu picked up the flute by his side and started to play. The sound was deep and full, as if he were translating his thoughts into music. It stayed ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School)
by
Gail Carriger
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 02/05/2013
It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell
by
Phil Lapsley
Grove Press, 02/05/2013
Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Frances and Bernard
by
Carlene Bauer
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 02/05/2013
A letter can spark a friendship.
A friendship can change your life.In the summer of 1957, Frances and Bernard meet at an artists' colony. She finds him...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Homeland
by
Cory Doctorow
Tor Books, 02/05/2013
In Cory Doctorow's wildly successful
Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a ...
more
Incarnadine: Poems
by
Mary Szybist
Graywolf Press, 02/05/2013
The anticipated second book by the poet Mary Szybist, author of
Granted, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
The troubadours...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Indiscretion
by
Charles Dubow
William Morrow, 02/05/2013
With the evocative power of
The Paris Wife and the aching vulnerability of John Irving's books, a heady and addictive debut novel, set in the present ...
more
Midwinterblood
by
Marcus Sedgwick
Roaring Brook Press, 02/05/2013
An archaeologist who unearths a mysterious artifact, an airman who finds himself far from home, a painter, a ghost, a vampire, and a Viking: the seven...
more
Short Stories
Ninja: 1,000 Years of the Shadow Warrior
by
John Man
William Morrow, 02/05/2013
In this revelatory book, acclaimed author John Man's thrilling historical account brings to life the world of the ninjas, the Japanese "shadow ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Out of the Black Land
by
Kerry Greenwood
Poisoned Pen Press, 02/05/2013
Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt is peaceful and prosperous under the dual rule of the Pharaohs Amenhotep III and IV, until the younger Pharaoh begins to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Philida
by
Andre Brink
Vintage, 02/05/2013
This is what it is to be a slave: that everything is decided for you from out there. You just got to listen and do as they tell you. You don't say no....more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Scarlet: The Lunar Chronicles
by
Marissa Meyer
Feiwel & Friends, 02/05/2013
Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of the bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She's trying to break out of prison - ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
See Now Then: A Novel
by
Jamaica Kincaid
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/05/2013
In
See Now Then, the brilliant and evocative new novel from Jamaica Kincaid—her first in ten years—a marriage is revealed in all its joys ...
more
Temple of a Thousand Faces
by
John Shors
Online Originals, 02/05/2013
In his international bestseller
Beneath a Marble Sky, John Shors wrote about the ancient passion, beauty, and brilliance that inspired the building of...
more
Historical Fiction
The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece
by
Roseanne Montillo
William Morrow Paperbacks, 02/05/2013
Told with the verve and ghoulish fun of a Tim Burton film,
The Lady and Her Monsters is a highly entertaining blend of literary history, lore, and ...
more
The List
by
Karin Tanabe
Washington Square Press, 02/05/2013
Meet Adrienne Brown, a twenty-eight-year-old Wellesley College grad who recently left her glamorous job at
Town and Country for a spot at the
...more
The Promise of Stardust: A Novel
by
Priscille Sibley
William Morrow Paperbacks, 02/05/2013
Matt Beaulieu was two years old the first time he held Elle McClure in his arms, seventeen when he first kissed her under a sky filled with shooting ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Whole Stupid Way We Are
by
N. Griffin
Atheneum Books, 02/05/2013
What happens when everything you've got to give isn't enough to save someone you love?
It's Maine. It's winter. And it's FREEZING STINKIN' COLD! ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Woman from Paris: A Novel
by
Santa Montefiore
Simon & Schuster, 02/05/2013
When Lord Frampton dies in a skiing accident, a beautiful young woman named Phaedra appears at his funeral—claiming to be the lord's illegitimate...
more
Touch & Go
by
Lisa Gardner
Dutton, 02/05/2013
This is my family: Vanished without a trace…
Justin and Libby Denbe have the kind of life that looks good in the pages of a glossy ...
more
Wash
by
Margaret Wrinkle
Atlantic Monthly Press, 02/05/2013
In this luminous debut, Margaret Wrinkle takes us on an unforgettable journey across continents and through time, from the burgeoning American South ...
more
Winterling (Summerlands, 1)
by
Sarah Prineas
HarperCollins Publishers, 02/05/2013
My girl, when you opened the Way, something happened. It has been weeks since you left, and spring has still not come. The rains continue, every day. ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Wise Men
by
Stuart Nadler
Reagan Arthur, 02/05/2013
Almost overnight, Arthur Wise has become one of the wealthiest and most powerful attorneys in America. His first big purchase is a simple beach house ...
more
Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy
by
John Wood
Viking, 02/07/2013
What's happened since John Wood left Microsoft to change the world? Just ask six million kids in the poorest regions of Asia and Africa. In 1999, at ...
more
Detroit: An American Autopsy
by
Charlie LeDuff
Penguin Press, 02/07/2013
An explosive exposé of Detroit, icon of America's lost prosperity, from Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Charlie LeDuff
In the heart of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Shadow on the Crown: A Novel
by
Patricia Bracewell
Viking, 02/07/2013
In 1002, fifteen-year-old Emma of Normandy crosses the Narrow Sea to wed the much older King Athelred of England, whom she meets for the first ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Burn Palace
by
Stephen Dobyns
Blue Rider Press, 02/07/2013
From award-winning author Stephen Dobyns comes a sardonic yet chilling literary novel of suspense about a small New England town beset by all manner ...
more
Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America
by
Peter Andreas
Oxford University Press, 02/08/2013
America is a smuggler nation. Our long history of illicit imports has ranged from West Indies molasses and Dutch gunpowder in the 18th century, to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Dash of Magic: A Bliss Novel
by
Kathryn Littlewood
Katherine Tegan Books, 02/12/2013
The Heat Is On
Rosemary Bliss will do
anything to get back her family's magical Cookery Booke.
That's why she challenges Aunt Lily to an ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Deniable Death
by
Gerald Seymour
Thomas Dunne Books, 02/12/2013
The rules are simple. Break up your shape. Hide your smell. Never show your silhouette. Check the surfaces of your kit. ...
more
As Sweet as Honey
by
Indira Ganesan
Knopf, 02/12/2013
The island is filled with exotic flora and fauna and perfumed air. A large family compound is presided over by a benign, stalwart grandmother. There ...
more
Literary Fiction
Birds of the Air: Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series
by
David Yezzi
Carnegie Mellon University Press, 02/12/2013
Like Robert Frost's North of Boston, David Yezzi's Birds of the Air intersperses charged lyrics with longer dramatic narratives. His monologues ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Ghostman
by
Roger Hobbs
Knopf, 02/12/2013
The sensation of the 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair: a stunningly dark first novel that is sure to become a major publishing event.
When a casino robbery...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Hattie Ever After
by
Kirby Larson
Delacorte Press, 02/12/2013
After leaving Uncle Chester's homestead claim, orphan Hattie Brooks throws a lasso around a new dream, even bigger than the Montana sky. She wants to ...
more
Hit Me: Keller Series
by
Lawrence Block
Mulholland, 02/12/2013
A man named Nicholas Edwards lives in New Orleans renovating houses, doing honest work and making decent money at it. Between his family and his stamp...
more
Little Known Facts
by
Christine Sneed
Bloomsbury USA, 02/12/2013
The people who orbit around Renn Ivins, an actor of Harrison Ford-like stature - his girlfriends, his children, his ex-wives, those on the periphery -...
more
Pivot Point
by
Kasie West
HarperTeen, 02/12/2013
Knowing the outcome doesn't always make a choice easier...
Addison Coleman's life is one big "What if?" As a Searcher, whenever Addie is faced ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Portrait Inside My Head: Essays
by
Phillip Lopate
Free Press, 02/12/2013
In this stunning new collection of personal essays, distinguished author Phillip Lopate weaves together the colorful threads of a life well lived and ...
more
Red River Stallion
by
Troon Harrison
Bloomsbury Children's Books, 02/12/2013
When her mother dies, Rose is left feeling completely alone in the world, but the promise of a new friendship arrives on an English ship. Fireway, a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Siege 13: Stories
by
Tamas Dobozy
Milkweed Editions, 02/12/2013
Winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award
Built around the events of the Soviet ...
more
The Comfort of Lies: A Novel
by
Randy Susan Meyers
Atria Books, 02/12/2013
"Happiness at someone else's expense came at a price. Tia had imagined judgment from the first kiss that she and Nathan shared. All year, she'd waited...more
Literary Fiction
The Elimination: A survivor of the Khmer Rouge confronts his past and the commandant of the killing fields
by
Rithy Panh and Christophe Bataille
Other Press, 02/12/2013
From the internationally acclaimed director of
S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, a survivor's autobiography that confronts the evils of the Khmer...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Night Ranger: A John Wells Novel
by
Alex Berenson
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 02/12/2013
Four friends, recent college graduates, travel to Kenya to work at a giant refugee camp for Somalis. Two men, two women, each with their own reasons ...
more
The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs
by
Nick Trout
Hyperion, 02/12/2013
After fifteen years, Dr. Cyrus Mills returns to rural Vermont to inherit the Bedside Manor for Sick Animals, the failing veterinary practice of his ...
more
Three Graves Full
by
Jamie Mason
Gallery Books, 02/12/2013
For fans of the Coen brothers' films or for those who just love their thrillers with a dash of sharp humor - an engaging and offbeat story about a man...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Vow: A Memoir of Marriage (and Other Affairs)
by
Wendy Plump
Bloomsbury USA, 02/12/2013
There are so many ways to find out. From a cell phone. From a bank statement. From some weird supermarket encounter. One morning in early January 2005...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
We Live in Water: Stories
by
Jess Walter
Harper Perennial, 02/12/2013
The first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter, New York Times bestselling author of
Beautiful Ruins,
We Live in Water is a diverse suite of ...
more
A Good Death
by
Christopher R. Cox
Minotaur Books, 02/19/2013
A nail-biting debut mystery that plunges readers into the seamy side streets of late-90s Bangkok and across the untamed mountains of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
A Grand Complication: The Race to Build the World's Most Legendary Watch
by
Stacy Perman
Atria Books, 02/19/2013
Two wealthy, powerful men engage in a decades-long contest to create and possess the most remarkable watch in history.
James Ward Packard of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Thousand Pardons
by
Jonathan Dee
Random House, 02/19/2013
For readers of Jonathan Franzen and Richard Russo, Jonathan Dee's novels are masterful works of literary fiction. In this sharply observed tale of ...
more
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
by
Gilbert King
Harper Perennial, 02/19/2013
Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit
Brown v. Board ...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Fuse: The Pure Trilogy, Part 2
by
Julianna Baggott
Grand Central Publishing, 02/19/2013
We want our son returned.
This girl is proof that we can save you all. If you ignore our plea, we will kill our hostages one at a time.
To be a...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Hand-Drying in America: And Other Stories
by
Ben Katchor
Pantheon Books, 02/19/2013
From one of the most original and imaginative American cartoonists at work today comes a collection of graphic narratives on the subjects of urban ...
more
Mind Games
by
Kiersten White
HarperTeen, 02/19/2013
Two sisters, bound by impossible choices, are determined to protect each other—no matter the cost.
James's frozen face melts into a smile. "Do...
more
Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes -- the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists
by
Napoleon Chagnon
Simon & Schuster, 02/19/2013
When Napoleon Chagnon arrived in Venezuela's Amazon region in 1964 to study the Yanomamö Indians, one of the last large tribal groups still ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories
by
Ron Rash
Ecco, 02/19/2013
From Ron Rash, PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of
Serena, comes a new collection of unforgettable stories set in ...
more
One Minus One: Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Rediscoveries
by
Ruth Doan MacDougall
Amazon Publishing, 02/19/2013
The year is 1969, a time of turmoil for the United States—and for thirty-year-old Emily Bean, who, following her devastating divorce, leaves her ...
more
Literary Fiction
Shouting Won't Help: Why I - and 50 Million Other Americans - Can't Hear You
by
Katherine Bouton
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/19/2013
For twenty-two years, Katherine Bouton had a secret that grew harder to keep every day. An editor at
The New York Times, at daily editorial meetings ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend
by
Glenn Frankel
Bloomsbury USA, 02/19/2013
In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches. She was raised by the tribe and eventually became the wife of a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Sound of Broken Glass: A James and Kincaid Novel
by
Deborah Crombie
William Morrow Paperbacks, 02/19/2013
Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are on the case in Deborah Crombie's
The Sound of Broken Glass, a captivating mystery that ...
more
The Woman Who Wouldn't Die: A Dr. Siri Paiboun Mystery
by
Colin Cotterill
Soho Press, 02/19/2013
In a small Lao village, a very strange thing has happened. A woman was shot and killed in her bed during a burglary; she was given a funeral and ...
more
Farewell, Dorothy Parker
by
Ellen Meister
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 02/21/2013
When it comes to movie reviews, critic Violet Epps is a powerhouse voice. But that's only because she's learned to channel her literary hero, Dorothy ...
more
The Burning Air
by
Erin Kelly
Pamela Dorman Books, 02/21/2013
The MacBrides lead a cozy life of upper class privilege: good looks (more or less), a beautiful home, tuition-free education at the prestigious ...
more
The Different Girl
by
Gordon Dahlquist
Dutton Children's Books, 02/21/2013
Veronika. Caroline. Isobel. Eleanor. One blond, one brunette, one redhead, one with hair black as tar. Four otherwise identical girls who spend their ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Jackal's Share
by
Christopher Morgan Jones
Penguin Press, 02/21/2013
A desperate race against time that pits modern wealth against buried betrayals,
The Jackal's Share carries readers from London to Lake Como, from the ...
more
The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door
by
Karen Finneyfrock
Viking, 02/21/2013
That's the day the trouble started.
The trouble that nearly ruined my life.
The trouble that turned me Dark.
The trouble that begs me for revenge.
...
more
Bad Blood: A Kate Shugak Novel
by
Dana Stabenow
Minotaur Books, 02/26/2013
One hundred years of bad blood between the villages of Kushtaka and Kuskulana come to a boil when the body of a young Kushtaka ne'er-do-well is found ...
more
Benediction
by
Kent Haruf
Knopf, 02/26/2013
From the beloved and best-selling author of
Plainsong and
Eventide comes a story of life and death, and the ties that bind, once again set out on the ...
more
Dreams and Shadows
by
C. Robert Cargill
HarperCollins Publishers, 02/26/2013
Something is missing from Ewan and Colby's lives. Residing in the corners of their memories is their time in Limestone Kingdom, a realm filled with ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Gods and Beasts: An Alex Morrow Novel
by
Denise Mina
Reagan Arthur, 02/26/2013
It's the week before Christmas when a lone robber bursts into a busy Glasgow post office carrying an AK-47. An elderly man suddenly hands his young ...
more
Hostile Shores: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure
by
Dewey Lambdin
Thomas Dunne Books, 02/26/2013
In 1805, with news of Admiral Nelson's death fresh on his mind, Captain Lewrie's
HMS Reliant joins up in the voyage that will culminate in the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Lady of Ashes
by
Christine Trent
Kensington, 02/26/2013
In 1861 London, Violet Morgan is struggling to establish a good reputation for the undertaking business that her husband has largely abandoned. She ...
more
Mysteries
Odette's Secrets
by
Maryann Macdonald
Bloomsbury Children's Books, 02/26/2013
For Jews in Nazi-occupied Paris, every day brings new dangers. So when Odette's father is thrown into a work camp and the Nazis suspect her mother of ...
more
Ten White Geese: A Novel
by
Gerbrand Bakker
Penguin Books, 02/26/2013
Paperback Original
Ten White Geese is the eagerly anticipated, internationally bestselling new novel by the winner of the world's richest literary ...
more
The Memory of Love
by
Linda Olsson
Penguin Books, 02/26/2013
From the beloved author of
Astrid & Veronika, a moving tale of friendship and redemption. Fans of
Astrid & Veronika and Chris Cleave's
Little Bee will...
more
The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow: A Novel
by
Rita Leganski
HarperPaperbacks, 02/26/2013
A magical debut novel from Rita Leganski,
The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow is the tale of a mute boy whose gift of wondrous hearing reveals family ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Storyteller
by
Jodi Picoult
Atria Books, 02/26/2013
Some stories live forever...
Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day's breads and pastries, trying to escape a ...
more
The Suitors
by
Cecile David-Weill
Other Press, 02/26/2013
A comedy of manners that serves as an insightful look at the lives of those in the upper classes.
After two sisters, Laure and Marie, learn ...
more
The Wanting
by
Michael Lavigne
Schocken Books, 02/26/2013
In the galvanizing opening of
The Wanting, the celebrated Russian-born postmodern architect Roman Guttman is injured in a bus bombing, causing his ...
more
Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own
by
David Toomey
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/26/2013
In recent years, scientists at the frontiers of biology have hypothesized the existence of life-forms that can only be called "weird": organisms that ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
by
Terry Tempest Williams
Picador, 02/26/2013
A
Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year
"I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won't look at them until after I'm gone." ...
more
Biography/Memoir
With or Without You: A Memoir
by
Domenica Ruta
Spiegel & Grau, 02/26/2013
A haunting, unforgettable memoir for a new generation - the debut of a blazing new lyrical voice.
Domenica Ruta grew up in Danvers, Massachusetts, ...
more
The Poisoned Island
by
Lloyd Shepherd
Simon & Schuster, 02/28/2013
A brilliant young police officer discovers a series of bizarre deaths are connected to the cargo of a research vessel bound for Kew Gardens in this ...
more
Being Henry David
by
Cal Armistead
Albert Whitman & Company, 03/01/2013
Seventeen-year-old "Hank" has found himself at Penn Station in New York City with no memory of anything - who he is, where he came from, why he's ...
more
Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
by
Ira Katznelson
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/01/2013
Redefining our traditional understanding of the New Deal,
Fear Itself finally examines this pivotal American era through a sweeping international lens...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Not a Chance
by
Michelle Mulder
Orca Book Publishers, 03/01/2013
Dian has been coming to the Dominican Republic with her doctor parents for years. Now that she's thirteen, she had wanted to stay home in Canada, but ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Runaway King: Ascendance Trilogy Book 2
by
Jennifer A. Nielsen
Scholastic, 03/01/2013
Just weeks after Jaron has taken the throne, an assassination attempt forces him into a deadly situation. Rumors of a coming war are winding their way...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Straw Men: A Brother Athelstan Mystery
by
Paul Doherty
Crème de la Crime, 03/01/2013
January, 1381. Guests of the Regent, John of Gaunt, Brother Athelstan and Sir John Cranston have been attending a mystery play performed by the Straw ...
more
The Summer Prince
by
Alaya Dawn Johnson
Arthur A. Levine Books, 03/01/2013
The lush city of Palmares Tres shimmers with tech and tradition, with screaming gossip casters and practiced politicians. In the midst of this vibrant...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Dying Fall: A Ruth Galloway Mystery
by
Elly Griffiths
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 03/05/2013
Ruth Galloway is shocked when she learns that her old university friend Dan Golding has died tragically in a house fire. But the death takes on a ...
more
Bruised
by
Sarah Skilton
Amulet Books, 03/05/2013
When Imogen, a sixteen-year-old black belt in Tae Kwon Do, freezes during a holdup at a local diner, the gunman is shot and killed by the police, and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Earth Girl
by
Janet Edwards
Pyr, 03/05/2013
A sensational YA science fiction debut from an exciting new British author. Jarra is stuck on Earth while the rest of humanity portals around the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Elders: A Novel
by
Ryan McIlvain
Hogarth Books, 03/05/2013
A glorious debut that T.C. Boyle calls "powerful and deeply moving" that follows two young Mormon missionaries in Brazil and their tense, peculiar ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Finding Florida
by
T. D. Allman
Atlantic Monthly Press, 03/05/2013
Over its long history, Florida has been many things: an Edenic realm protected by geography; a wilderness that ruined Spanish conquistadors; a place ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Ghana Must Go
by
Taiye Selasi
Penguin Press, 03/05/2013
Kweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his home in suburban Accra. The news of Kweku's death ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Gun Guys: A Road Trip
by
Dan Baum
Knopf, 03/05/2013
Here is armed America — a land of machine-gun gatherings in the desert,
lederhosened German shooting societies, feral-hog hunts in Texas, and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Her: A Memoir
by
Christa Parravani
Henry Holt and Company, 03/05/2013
Christa Parravani and her identical twin, Cara, were linked by a bond that went beyond siblinghood, beyond sisterhood, beyond friendship. Raised up ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Jacob's Folly: A Novel
by
Rebecca Miller
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/05/2013
A luminous novel—funny and moving in equal measure—that shines with the author's unique talents
Jacob's Folly is a rollicking, ingenious,...
more
Literary Fiction
Murder Below Montparnasse: An Aimee Leduc Mystery
by
Cara Black
Soho Press, 03/05/2013
When Aimée's long-term partner and best friend Rene leaves their detective agency for a new job in Silicon Valley, Aimée knows she can ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Requiem: Delirium Trilogy
by
Lauren Oliver
HarperCollins Publishers, 03/05/2013
Now an active member of the resistance, Lena has transformed. The nascent rebellion that was underway in
Pandemonium has ignited into an all-out ...
more
Literary Fiction
Storm Kings: The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers
by
Lee Sandlin
Pantheon Books, 03/05/2013
Isaac's Storm meets
The Age of Wonder in Lee Sandlin's
Storm Kings, a riveting tale of the weather's most vicious monster - the super cell tornado - ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Abundance
by
Amit Majmudar
Metropolitan Books, 03/05/2013
When Mala and Ronak learn that their mother has only a few months to live, they are reluctantly pulled back into the midwestern world of their Indian ...
more
The Accursed
by
Joyce Carol Oates
Ecco, 03/05/2013
This eerie tale of psychological horror sees the real inhabitants of turn-of-the-century Princeton fall under the influence of a supernatural power. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Black Russian
by
Vladimir Alexandrov
Atlantic Monthly Press, 03/05/2013
The Black Russian is the incredible story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, born in 1872 to former slaves who became prosperous farmers in Mississippi. A ...
more
The Book of Killowen: A Nora Gavin Novel
by
Erin Hart
Scribner, 03/05/2013
An ancient volume of philosophical heresy provides a motive for murder in this haunting, lyrical novel of forensics, archeology, and history - the ...
more
The Boyfriend
by
Thomas Perry
Mysterious Press, 03/05/2013
Jack Till, who has retired from the LAPD after a respected career as a homicide detective, now works as a private investigator, comfortable chasing ...
more
The Center of Everything
by
Linda Urban
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 03/05/2013
For Ruby Pepperdine, the "center of everything" is on the rooftop of Pepperdine Motors in her donut-obsessed town of Bunning, New Hampshire, ...
more
The Chance: A Novel
by
Karen Kingsbury
Howard Books, 03/05/2013
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a heartwarming story about childhood friends, broken lives, and a long ago promise ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Demonologist: A Novel
by
Andrew Pyper
Simon & Schuster, 03/05/2013
Fans of
The Historian won't be able to put down this spellbinding literary horror story in which a Columbia professor must use his knowledge of ...
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The Fun Parts: Stories
by
Sam Lipsyte
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/05/2013
A hilarious collection of stories from the writer The New York Times called "the novelist of his generation."
Returning to the form in which ...
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The Mapmaker's War: A Legend
by
Ronlyn Domingue
Atria Books, 03/05/2013
This will be the map of your heart, old woman. In an ancient time, in a faraway land, a young woman named Aoife is allowed a rare apprenticeship to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The New Mind of the South
by
Tracy Thompson
Simon & Schuster, 03/05/2013
This ground-breaking, thought-provoking exploration upends stereotypes and fallacies to reveal the true heart of the South today - a region still ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Retrospective
by
A. B. Yehoshua
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 03/05/2013
An aging Israeli film director has been invited to the pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela for a retrospective of his work. When Yair Moses and ...
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The Romanov Cross: A Novel
by
Robert Masello
Bantam Spectra, 03/05/2013
Nearly one hundred years ago, a desperate young woman crawled ashore on a desolate arctic island, carrying a terrible secret and a mysterious, emerald...
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The Silence and the Roar
by
Nidah Sirees
Other Press, 03/05/2013
Set in an unnamed Middle Eastern country resembling Syria,
The Silence and the Roar is equal parts parable, political satire, and love story. With a ...
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The Virtues of Poetry
by
James Longenbach
Graywolf Press, 03/05/2013
An illuminating look at the many forms of poetry's essential excellence by James Longenbach, a writer with "an ear as subtle and assured as any ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
This Close: Stories
by
Jessica Francis Kane
Graywolf Press, 03/05/2013
A graceful, moving new collection by the author of
The Report
How close can we come to love, success, happiness, forgiveness?
An older woman, ...
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What Darkness Brings: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery
by
C. S. Harris
NAL, 03/05/2013
The death of a notorious London diamond merchant draws aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr and his new wife Hero into a sordid world of greed,...
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When We Wake
by
Karen Healey
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/05/2013
My name is Tegan Oglietti, and on the last day of my first lifetime, I was so, so happy.
Sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Where Tigers Are at Home
by
Jean-Marie Blas de Robles
Other Press, 03/05/2013
Winner of the Prix Médicis, this multifaceted literary novel follows the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher across 17th century Europe and ...
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Honor
by
Elif Shafak
Viking, 03/07/2013
Internationally bestselling Turkish author Elif Shafak's new novel is a dramatic tale of families, love, and misunderstandings that follows the ...
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Mary Coin
by
Marisa Silver
Blue Rider Press, 03/07/2013
In her first novel since
The God of War, the critically acclaimed author Marisa Silver takes Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" photograph as ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Telling the Bees
by
Peggy Hesketh
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/07/2013
Albert Honig's most constant companions have always been his bees. A never-married octogenarian, he makes a modest living as a beekeeper, as his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Tale for the Time Being
by
Ruth Ozeki
Viking, 03/12/2013
A brilliant, unforgettable, and long-awaited novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki
"A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means ...
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All the Light There Was
by
Nancy Kricorian
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 03/12/2013
All the Light There Was is the story of an Armenian family's struggle to survive the Nazi occupation of Paris in the 1940s - a lyrical, finely wrought...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Bay of Fires
by
Poppy Gee
Reagan Arthur, 03/12/2013
Sarah Avery's reckless behavior has cost her a job, her boyfriend, and the independence she desperately craves. Reluctantly home for the holidays in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm
by
Monte Reel
Doubleday, 03/12/2013
The unbelievably riveting adventure of an unlikely young explorer who emerged from the jungles of Africa with evidence of a mysterious, still ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Breaking Point: A Joe Pickett Novel
by
C. J. Box
Putnam Juvenile, 03/12/2013
It was always good to see Butch Roberson, Joe thought - a hardworking, upright local business owner whose daughter was friends with his own. Little ...
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Child of Vengeance
by
David Kirk
Doubleday, 03/12/2013
A bold and vivid historical epic of feudal Japan, based on the real-life exploits of the legendary samurai Musashi Miyamoto.
Japan in the late ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Cities of Refuge
by
Michael Helm
Tin House Books, 03/12/2013
In
Cities of Refuge, a single act of violence resonates through several lives, connecting close by fears to distant political terrors. At the story's ...
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Fat Angie
by
E.E. Charlton-Trujillo
Candlewick Press, 03/12/2013
Angie is broken - by her can't-be-bothered mother, by her high-school tormenters, and by being the only one who thinks her varsity-athlete-turned-war-...
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Middle C
by
William H Gass
Knopf, 03/12/2013
A literary event - the long-awaited novel, almost two decades in work, by one of the most revered American writers of our time, author of the ...
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Panic
by
Sharon M. Draper
Atheneum Books, 03/12/2013
Diamond knows not to get into a car with a stranger.
But what if the stranger is well-dressed and handsome? On his way to meet his wife and ...
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Rage Against the Dying
by
Becky Masterman
Minotaur Books, 03/12/2013
You have never met an (ex) FBI agent like Brigid Quinn.
"Keeping secrets, telling lies, they require the same skill. Both become a habit, ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Surfacing
by
Nora Raleigh Baskin
Candlewick Press, 03/12/2013
As soon as she was under, Maggie heard the quiet, though every sound was amplified in her ears and in her brain...Sound, like shame, travels four ...more
The Andalucian Friend
by
Alexander Soderberg
Crown, 03/12/2013
Enemies Are Everywhere
When Sophie Brinkmann - nurse, widow, single mother - meets Hector Guzman, her life is uneventful. She likes his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Blue Book
by
A. L. Kennedy
New Harvest, 03/12/2013
From one of the U.K.'s most dazzling authors comes a brutal and funny novel about a pair of fraudulent psychic mediums that is itself an elaborate con...
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The Matchbox Diary
by
Paul Fleischman
Candlewick Press, 03/12/2013
"Pick whatever you like most. Then I'll tell you its story."
When a little girl visits her great-grandfather at his curio-filled home, she chooses...
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The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat
by
Edward Kelsey Moore
Knopf, 03/12/2013
Meet Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean. Earl's All-You-Can-Eat is home away from home for this inseparable Plainview, Indiana, trio. Dubbed "the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Trinkets
by
Kirsten Smith
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/12/2013
Sixteen-year-old Moe's Shoplifters Anonymous meetings are usually punctuated by the snores of an old man and the whining of the world's unhappiest ...
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Death on a Pale Horse: Sherlock Holmes on Her Majesty's Secret Service
by
Donald Thomas
Pegasus Books, 03/13/2013
In a momentous period of British history, Donald Thomas's latest Sherlock Holmes adventure pits the Great Detective and his faithful biographer, Dr. ...
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Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live
by
Marlene Zuk
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/18/2013
An exposé of pseudoscientific myths about our evolutionary past and how we should live today.
We evolved to eat berries rather than bagels, to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology
by
Paul Hoover (editor)
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/18/2013
Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology galvanized attention on its publication in 1994, making "the avant-garde accessible" (Chicago Tribune) ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Deadly Virtues
by
Jo Bannister
Minotaur Books, 03/19/2013
The town of Norbold, England is famous for its low crime rate, thanks to the zero-tolerance policy of Chief Superintendent John Fountain. And Norbold'...
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Double Feature
by
Owen King
Scribner, 03/19/2013
An epic debut novel about a young man coming to terms with his life in the process and aftermath of making his first film - from critically acclaimed ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Oleander Girl
by
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Simon & Schuster, 03/19/2013
Beloved by critics and readers, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has been hailed by Junot Díaz as a "brilliant storyteller" and by
People magazine as a...
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Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy
by
Ellen Datlow (editor), Terri Windling (editor)
Tor Books, 03/19/2013
"Gaslamp Fantasy," or historical fantasy set in a magical version of the nineteenth century, has long been popular with readers and writers ...
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Six Years
by
Harlan Coben
Dutton, 03/19/2013
In
Six Years, a masterpiece of modern suspense, Harlan Coben explores the depth and passion of lost love - and the secrets and lies at its heart.
...
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The Book of My Lives
by
Aleksandar Hemon
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/19/2013
Aleksandar Hemon's lives begin in Sarajevo, a small, blissful city where a young boy's life is consumed with street soccer with the neighborhood kids,...
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The Guilty One
by
Lisa Ballantyne
William Morrow Paperbacks, 03/19/2013
Solicitor Daniel Hunter is called to defend 11-year-old Sebastian who has been charged with the murder of a young boy on a London playground. While ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The House of Rumour: A Novel
by
Jake Arnott
New Harvest, 03/19/2013
Spies, science-fiction writers, and new wave icons populate this dazzling novel, which U.K. critics have already compared to such modern classics as ...
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The Missing File: An Avraham Avraham Mystery
by
D. A. Mishani
HarperCollins Publishers, 03/19/2013
In
The Missing File, Israeli detective Avraham Avraham must find a teenage boy gone missing from the suburbs of Tel Aviv in this first volume in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Pope's Last Crusade: How an American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI's Campaign to Stop Hitler
by
Peter Eisner
William Morrow, 03/19/2013
Drawing on untapped resources, exclusive interviews, and new archival research,
The Pope's Last Crusade by Peter Eisner is a thrilling narrative that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
When She Was Gone: A Novel
by
Gwendolen Gross
Gallery Books, 03/19/2013
What happened to Linsey Hart?
When the Cornell-bound teenager disappears into the steamy blue of a late-summer morning, her quiet neighborhood is ...
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Criminal Enterprise: A Stevens and Windermere Novel
by
Owen Laukkanen
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/21/2013
From the outside, Carter Tomlin's life looked perfect: a big house, pretty wife, two kids - a St. Paul success story. But Tomlin has a secret. He's ...
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Lifesaving Lessons: Notes from an Accidental Mother
by
Linda Greenlaw
Viking, 03/21/2013
Famed swordfish boat captain Linda Greenlaw faces her greatest battle with nature - a newly adopted teenage daughter.
Linda Greenlaw isn't a woman ...
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Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A History of the World in Three Castes
by
David Priestland
Penguin Press, 03/21/2013
Noted Oxford historian David Priestland argues history is, at base, a conflict among three occupational groups, or castes: the commercial, competitive...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
OCD, The Dude, and Me
by
Lauren Roedy Vaughn
The Dial Press, 03/21/2013
With frizzy orange hair, a plus-sized body, sarcastic demeanor, and "unique learning profile," Danielle Levine doesn't fit in even at her alternative ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
by
Douglas Rushkoff
Current, 03/21/2013
An award-winning author explores how the world works in our age of "continuous now"
Back in the 1970s, futurism was all the rage. But looking ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Map of Tulsa
by
Benjamin Lytal
Penguin Books, 03/26/2013
A stunning debut novel of first love set against the art scene of late-90s Tulsa by a former
New Yorker editorial staffer
The first days of summer:...
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Black Helicopters
by
Blythe Woolston
Candlewick Press, 03/26/2013
I'm Valkyrie White. I'm fifteen. Your government killed my family.
Ever since Mabby died while picking beans in their garden - with the pock-a-...
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Capital Punishment
by
Robert Wilson
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 03/26/2013
Alyshia D'Cruz, daughter of Indian tycoon Frank D'Cruz, has grown up in London and Mumbai wanting for nothing. But one night, after a boozy evening ...
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Frozen Solid
by
James Tabor
Ballantine Books, 03/26/2013
The most dangerous place on Earth
A devious and deadly plan to save humanity from itself
A lone scientist battling the clock and ruthless ...
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Horses of God: A Novel
by
Mahi Binebine
Tin House Books, 03/26/2013
On May 16, 2003, fourteen suicide bombers launched a series of attacks throughout Casablanca. It was the deadliest attack in Morocco's history. The ...
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Literary Fiction
Island 731
by
Jeremy Robinson
Thomas Dunne Books, 03/26/2013
The high adventure of James Rollins meets the gripping suspense of Matthew Reilly in Jeremy Robinson's explosive new thriller.
...
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Life After Life: A Novel
by
Jill McCorkle
Algonquin Books, 03/26/2013
Award-winning author Jill McCorkle takes us on a splendid journey through time and memory in this, her tenth work of fiction.
Life After Life is ...
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The Dream Merchant
by
Fred Waitzkin
Thomas Dunne Books, 03/26/2013
A powerful, sexy, and exquisitely written heart-of-darkness tale of an unusually gifted, irrepressible and indefatigable salesman who must find ...
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The Golden Egg: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
by
Donna Leon
Atlantic Monthly Press, 03/26/2013
Over the years, the Donna Leon's best-selling Commissario Guido Brunetti series has conquered the heart of lovers of finely-plotted character-driven ...
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Wolfhound Century
by
Peter Higgins
Orbit, 03/26/2013
Investigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist - and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
A Girl Called Problem
by
Katie Quirk
Eerdmans Publishing Company, 04/01/2013
Thirteen-year-old Shida, whose name means "problem" in Swahili, certainly has a lot of problems in her life - her father is dead, her depressed mother...
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Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Blunt Impact: A Theresa Maclean Mystery
by
Lisa Black
Severn House, 04/01/2013
Forensic scientist Theresa MacLean is puzzled by the questionable death of a female construction worker at a Cleveland building site. A witness to the...
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Jack Glass: The Story of A Murderer (Golden Age)
by
Adam Roberts
Gollancz, 04/01/2013
Jack Glass is the murderer—we know this from the start. Yet as this extraordinary novel tells the story of three murders committed by Glass, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell
by
Peter Caddick-Adams
Oxford University Press, 04/01/2013
The most horrific battles of World War II ring in the popular memory: Stalingrad, the Bulge, Iwo Jima, to name a few. Monte Cassino should stand among...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Survival Skills: Stories
by
Jean Ryan
Ashland Creek Press, 04/01/2013
Jean Ryan's debut collection tells stories of nature and of human nature. The characters who inhabit Jean Ryan's graceful, imaginative collection of ...
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Short Stories
Debut Author
The Mannequin House: A Silas Quinn Mystery
by
R N. Morris
Crème de la Crime, 04/01/2013
In this intriguing historical mystery, Detective Inspector Silas Quinn investigates one of the strangest cases of his career ... London, 1914.&#...
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All My Noble Dreams and Then What Happens
by
Gloria Whelan
Paula Wiseman Books, 04/02/2013
Rosalind is caught between two worlds as Gandhi's nonviolent revolution takes hold in this standalone companion to
Small Acts of Amazing Courage.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
All You Could Ask For
by
Mike Greenberg
William Morrow, 04/02/2013
A tender and wonderfully insightful story of friendship, love, heartbreak and renewal, played out in the lives of three unforgettable women, from an ...
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Bitter Almonds
by
Laurence Cosse
Europa Editions, 04/02/2013
Edith can hardly believe it when she learns that Fadila, her sixty-year-old housemaid, is completely illiterate. How can a person living in Paris in ...
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Brandenburg: A Thriller
by
Glenn Meade
Howard Books, 04/02/2013
Sixty years ago, the greatest crime against humanity was committed. Today it's only a heartbeat away from happening again.
In Paraguay, a young ...
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Dark Triumph: His Fair Assassin Trilogy
by
Robin LaFevers
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 04/02/2013
Sybella's duty as Death's assassin in 15th-century France forces her return home to the personal hell that she had ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Down the Up Escalator: How the 99 Percent Live in the Great Recession
by
Barbara Garson
Doubleday, 04/02/2013
One of our most incisive and committed journalists—author of the classic
All the Livelong Day - shows us the real human cost of our economic ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Heart of Palm
by
Laura Lee Smith
Grove Press, 04/02/2013
Utina, Florida, is a small, down-at-heels southern town. Once enlivened by the trade in Palm Sunday palms and moonshine, Utina hasn't seen economic ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
In the Shadow of Blackbirds
by
Cat Winters
Amulet Books, 04/02/2013
In 1918, the world seems on the verge of apocalypse. Americans roam the streets in gauze masks to ward off the deadly Spanish influenza, and the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Last Friends: Old Filth Trilogy
by
Jane Gardam
Europa Editions, 04/02/2013
The third book in the Old Filth trilogy (
Old Filth, The Man in the Wooden Hat, Last Friends). The marriage of Edward Feathers and Betty as seen ...
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Mom & Me & Mom
by
Maya Angelou
Random House, 04/02/2013
The story of Maya Angelou's extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author...
more
Odds Against Tomorrow
by
Nathaniel Rich
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/02/2013
New York City, the near future: Mitchell Zukor, a gifted young mathematician, is hired by a mysterious new financial consulting firm, FutureWorld. The...
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Orphan Train
by
Christina Baker Kline
William Morrow Paperbacks, 04/02/2013
Paperback Original
Orphan Train is a gripping story of friendship and second chances from Christina Baker Kline, author of
Bird in Hand and
The Way...more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Reconstructing Amelia
by
Kimberly McCreight
Harper, 04/02/2013
In
Reconstructing Amelia, the stunning debut novel from Kimberly McCreight, Kate's in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Sinners and the Sea: The Untold Story of Noah's Wife
by
Rebecca Kanner
Howard Books, 04/02/2013
Cursed with a birthmark that many think is the brand of a demon, the young heroine in
The Sinners and the Sea is deprived even of a name for fear that...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Clover House
by
Henriette Lazaridis Power
Ballantine Books, 04/02/2013
Boston, 2000: Calliope Notaris Brown receives a shocking phone call. Her beloved uncle Nestor has passed away, and now Callie must fly to Patras, ...
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The Edge of the Earth
by
Christina Schwarz
Atria Books, 04/02/2013
Polished, well-educated Trudy can argue Kant over dinner and play a respectable portion of Mozart's Serenade in G major. Her parents have laid out a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Flamethrowers
by
Rachel Kushner
Scribner, 04/02/2013
The year is 1977 and Reno - so-called because of the place of her birth - has come to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and ...
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The House of Special Purpose
by
John Boyne
Other Press, 04/02/2013
From the author of
The Absolutist, a propulsive novel of the Russian Revolution and the fate of the Romanovs.
Part love story, part historical ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Mermaid of Brooklyn: A Novel
by
Amy Shearn
Touchstone, 04/02/2013
Formerly an up-and-coming magazine editor, Jenny Lipkin is now your average, stretched-too-thin Brooklyn mom, tackling the challenges of raising two ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
There Was an Old Woman: A Novel of Suspense
by
Hallie Ephron
William Morrow Paperbacks, 04/02/2013
Paperback Original
There Was An Old Woman by Hallie Ephron is a compelling novel of psychological suspense in which a young woman becomes entangled...
more
Bristol House
by
Beverly Swerling
Viking, 04/04/2013
In modern-day London, architectural historian and recovering alcoholic Annie Kendall hopes to turn her life around and restart her career by locating ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Nearly Perfect Copy
by
Allison Amend
Nan A. Talese, 04/09/2013
Richly drawn and sharply observed,
A Nearly Perfect Copy is a smart and affecting novel of family and forgery set amidst the rarefied international ...
more
Don't Go
by
Lisa Scottoline
St. Martin's Press, 04/09/2013
Bestselling author Lisa Scottoline has thrilled millions with her emotionally-charged novels that feature strong women exploring the boundaries of ...
more
Fear in the Sunlight
by
Nicola Upson
HarperPaperbacks, 04/09/2013
Summer, 1936: Josephine Tey joins her friends in the resort village of Portmeirion to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, ...
more
Mysteries
How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and his Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate
by
Wendy Moore
Basic Books, 04/09/2013
Thomas Day, an 18th-century British writer and radical, knew exactly the sort of woman he wanted to marry. Pure and virginal like an English country ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lifetime: A Annika Bengtzon Novel
by
Liza Marklund
Atria Books, 04/09/2013
Police Officer Nina Hoffman finds her fellow officer David Lindholm naked on his bed with bullets through his head and stomach. Next to the body is ...
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Motherland
by
William Nicholson
Simon & Schuster, 04/09/2013
Summer, 1942. Kitty, an army driver stationed in Sussex, meets Ed, a Royal Marine commando, and Larry, a liaison officer with Combined Ops. She falls ...
more
Palisades Park
by
Alan Brennert
St. Martin's Press, 04/09/2013
Bestseller Alan Brennert's spellbinding story about a family of dreamers and their lives within the legendary Palisades Amusement Park
Growing up ...
more
Shadow Warrior: William Egan Colby and the CIA
by
Randall B. Woods
Basic Books, 04/09/2013
World War II commando, Cold War spy, and CIA director under presidents Nixon and Ford, William Egan Colby played a critical role in some of the most ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Ashford Affair
by
Lauren Willig
St. Martin's Press, 04/09/2013
As a lawyer in a large Manhattan firm, just shy of making partner, Clementine Evans has finally achieved almost everything she's been working towards ...
more
The Best of Us
by
Sarah Pekkanen
Washington Square Press, 04/09/2013
An all-expense-paid week at a luxury villa in Jamaica - it's the invitation of a lifetime for a group of old college friends. All four women are ...
more
The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen
by
Susan Bordo
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 04/09/2013
Part biography, part cultural history,
The Creation of Anne Boleyn is a fascinating reconstruction of Anne's life and an illuminating look at her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life
by
Rod Dreher
Grand Central Publishing, 04/09/2013
The Little Way of Ruthie Leming follows Rod Dreher, a Philadelphia journalist, back to his hometown of St. Francisville, Louisiana (pop. 1,700) in the...
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The Undivided Past: Humanity Beyond Our Differences
by
David Cannadine
Knopf, 04/09/2013
From one of our most acclaimed historians, a wise and provocative call to re-examine the way we look at the past: not merely as the story of incessant...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Letters to a Young Scientist
by
Edward O. Wilson
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/15/2013
Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's
Letters to a Young Poet, Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Man Without Breath: A Bernie Gunther Novel
by
Philip Kerr
Marian Wood Books, 04/16/2013
Berlin, March, 1943.
A month has passed since the stunning defeat at Stalingrad. Though Hitler insists Germany is winning the war, commanders on ...
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Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise
by
David Rothenberg
St. Martin's Press, 04/16/2013
In the spring of 2013 the cicadas in the Northeastern United States will yet again emerge from their seventeen-year cycle - the longest gestation ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Equilateral
by
Ken Kalfus
Bloomsbury USA, 04/16/2013
Equilateral is an intellectual comedy set just before the turn of the century in Egypt. A British astronomer, Thayer, high on Darwin and other ...
more
Hiding Out at the Pancake Palace
by
Nan Marino
Roaring Brook Press, 04/16/2013
Eleven-year-old musical prodigy, Elvis Ruby, was supposed to win the most coveted reality show on television,
Tween Star. None of the other ...
more
Out With It: How Stuttering Helped Me Find My Voice
by
Katherine Preston
Atria Books, 04/16/2013
A vividly powerful memoir of a young woman who fought for years to change who she was until she finally found her voice and learned to embrace her ...
more
Promise of Blood: The Powder Mage Trilogy
by
Brian McClellan
Orbit, 04/16/2013
The Age of Kings is dead ... and I have killed it.
It's a bloody business overthrowing a king...
Field Marshal Tamas' coup against his king sent...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
by
William Dalrymple
Knopf, 04/16/2013
From William Dalrymple - award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer - a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West's greatest imperial...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Submergence
by
J. M. Ledgard
Coffee House Press, 04/16/2013
In a room with no windows on the coast of Africa, an Englishman, James More, is held captive by jihadist fighters. Posing as a water expert to report ...
more
The Astor Orphan: A Memoir
by
Alexandra Aldrich
Ecco, 04/16/2013
The Astor Orphan is an unflinching debut memoir by a direct descendant of John Jacob Astor, Alexandra Aldrich.
She brilliantly tells the story of ...
more
The Carrion Birds
by
Urban Waite
William Morrow, 04/16/2013
Hired gun Ray Lamar is ready to put his past behind him. He wants to see his twelve-year-old son and start a new life - away from the violence of the ...
more
The View from Penthouse B
by
Elinor Lipman
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 04/16/2013
Unexpectedly widowed Gwen-Laura Schmidt is still mourning her husband, Edwin, when her older sister Margot invites her to join forces as roommates ...
more
Where You Can Find Me: A Novel
by
Sheri Joseph
Thomas Dunne Books, 04/16/2013
A searing exploration of a family's struggle to heal in the wake of unthinkable tragedy
A week after his eleventh birthday, Caleb Vincent vanishes ...
more
My Animals and Other Family
by
Clare Balding
Viking, 04/18/2013
"I had spent most of my childhood thinking I was a dog, and suspect I had aged in dog years. By the time I was ten I had discovered the pain of ...
more
The Famous and the Dead: A Charlie Hood Novel
by
T. Jefferson Parker
Dutton, 04/18/2013
Los Angeles County sheriff 's deputy Charlie Hood is attached to the ATF, working undercover on the iron river that flows across the U.S.-Mexican ...
more
The Honey Thief
by
Najaf Mazari, Robert Hillman
Viking, 04/18/2013
This enchanting novel of interwoven legends burns with both gentle intelligence and human warmth.
This extraordinary book, derived from the long ...
more
The Movement of Stars
by
Amy Brill
Riverhead Books, 04/18/2013
It is 1845, and Hannah Gardner Price has lived all twenty-four years of her life according to the principles of the Nantucket Quaker community in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream
by
Thomas Dyja
Penguin Press, 04/18/2013
Though today it can seem as if all American culture comes out of New York and Los Angeles, much of what defined the nation as it grew into a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Murder at Rosamund's Gate: A Lucy Campion Mystery
by
Susanna Calkins
Minotaur Books, 04/23/2013
In Susanna Calkins's atmospheric debut novel, a chambermaid must uncover a murderer in seventeenth-century plague-ridden London.
For Lucy Campion, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
by
Michael Pollan
Penguin Press, 04/23/2013
In
Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Darius & Twig
by
Walter Dean Myers
Amistad, 04/23/2013
New York Times bestselling author and Printz Award winner Walter Dean Myers once again connects with teenagers everywhere in
Darius & Twig, a novel ...
more
Fly Away
by
Kristin Hannah
St. Martin's Press, 04/23/2013
Once, a long time ago, I walked down a night-darkened road called Firefly Lane, all alone, on the worst night of my life, and I found a kindred spirit...more
Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
by
Mitchell Zuckoff
Harper, 04/23/2013
On November 5, 1942, a US cargo plane slammed into the Greenland Ice Cap. Four days later, the B-17 assigned to the search-and-rescue mission became ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Hero on a Bicycle
by
Shirley Hughes
Candlewick Press, 04/23/2013
In her first novel, beloved author Shirley Hughes presents a World War II adventure proving that in extraordinary circumstances, people are capable of...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Maya's Notebook
by
Isabel Allende
Harper, 04/23/2013
This contemporary coming-of-age story centers upon Maya Vidal, a remarkable teenager abandoned by her parents. Maya grew up in a rambling old house in...
more
Paris: The Novel
by
Edward Rutherfurd
Doubleday, 04/23/2013
Internationally bestselling author Edward Rutherfurd has enchanted millions of readers with his sweeping, multigenerational dramas that illuminate the...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Quintana of Charyn: The Lumatere Chronicles
by
Melina Marchetta
Candlewick Press, 04/23/2013
Separated from the girl he loves and has sworn to protect, Froi and his companions travel through Charyn searching for Quintana and building an army ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Snapper
by
Brian Kimberling
Pantheon Books, 04/23/2013
A great, hilarious new voice in fiction: the poignant, all-too-human recollections of an affable bird researcher in the Indiana backwater as he goes ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope
by
Rhonda Riley
Ecco, 04/23/2013
The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope is an unconventional and passionately romantic love story that is as breathtaking and wondrous as
The Time Traveler's ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Hope Factory
by
Lavanya Sankaran
Dial Press, 04/23/2013
With humor, intelligence, and masterly prose, Lavanya Sankaran's debut novel brilliantly captures the vitality and danger of a newly industrialized ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The House at Belle Fontaine: Stories
by
Lily Tuck
Atlantic Monthly Press, 04/23/2013
The elegantly conceived, intimate stories of
The House at Belle Fontaine span the better part of the twentieth century and almost every continent, ...
more
The Humanity Project
by
Jean Thompson
The Blue Sky Press, 04/23/2013
After surviving a shooting at her high school, Linnea is packed off to live with her estranged father, Art, who doesn't quite understand how he has ...
more
The Pink Hotel
by
Anna Stothard
Picador, 04/23/2013
Paperback
A seventeen-year-old London girl flies to Los Angeles for the funeral of her mother Mandy, from whom she had been separated in her ...
more
The River of No Return
by
Bee Ridgway
Dutton, 04/23/2013
In Bee Ridgway's wonderfully imaginative debut novel, a man and a woman travel through time in a quest to bring down a secret society that controls ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Unnatural Creatures: Stories Selected by Neil Gaiman
by
Neil Gaiman (editor)
HarperCollins Publishers, 04/23/2013
Unnatural Creatures is a collection of short stories about the fantastical things that exist only in our minds—collected and introduced by ...
more
Walk Me Home
by
Catherine Ryan Hyde
Amazon Publishing, 04/23/2013
Since their mother's sudden death, sixteen-year-old Carly and her eleven-year-old sister, Jen, have been walking and hitchhiking across the Southwest ...
more
Literary Fiction
All Decent Animals: A Novel
by
Oonya Kempadoo
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/30/2013
Oonya Kempadoo's moving third novel,
All Decent Animals, looks at the personal and aesthetic choices of a multifaceted cast of characters on the ...
more
Best Kept Secret: The Clifton Chronicles #3
by
Jeffrey Archer
St. Martin's Press, 04/30/2013
1945, London. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor's deciding...
more
Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution
by
Nathaniel Philbrick
Viking, 04/30/2013
Boston in 1775 is an island city occupied by British troops after a series of incendiary incidents by patriots who range from sober citizens to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Deadly Harvest: A Detective Kubu Mystery
by
Michael Stanley
HarperPaperbacks, 04/30/2013
When young girls start to go missing, Samantha, a new detective on the Botswana police force suspects that
muti, a traditional African medicine, is ...
more
Five Days
by
Douglas Kennedy
Atria Books, 04/30/2013
From the #1 internationally bestselling author of
The Moment comes a remarkable new novel that explores how and why we fall in love.
Laura works in...
more
Gorgeous
by
Paul Rudnick
Scholastic, 04/30/2013
When Becky Randle's mother dies, she's whisked from her trailer park home to New York. There she meets Tom Kelly, the world's top designer, who ...
more
In the Garden of Stone
by
Susan Tekulve
Hub City Press, 04/30/2013
Shortly before daybreak in War, West Virginia, a passing train derails and spills an avalanche of coal over 16-year-old Emma Palmisano's house, ...
more
Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History
by
William J. Bernstein
Grove Press, 04/30/2013
William J. Bernstein's
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World, an
Economist and
Financial Times Best Book of the Year, placed him firmly ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Metaphysical Dog: Poems
by
Frank Bidart
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/30/2013
In "Those Nights," Frank Bidart writes: "We who could get / somewhere through / words through / sex could not." Words and sex, art and flesh: In ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Sketchy: The Bea Catcher Chronicles
by
Olivia Samms
Amazon Publishing, 04/30/2013
Bea's life has been a mess ever since she got kicked out of private school and sent to rehab. Now clean, Bea is starting over at Packard High School, ...
more
The Apple Orchard
by
Susan Wiggs
Mira, 04/30/2013
Tess Delaney makes a living restoring stolen treasures to their rightful owners. People like Annelise Winther, who refuses to sell her long-gone ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum
by
Temple Grandin, Richard Panek
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 04/30/2013
A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the best-selling author and advocate.
When Temple Grandin was born in 1947, autism had...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Blind Man's Garden
by
Nadeem Aslam
Knopf, 04/30/2013
Jeo and Mikal are foster brothers from a small town in Pakistan. Though they were inseparable as children, their adult lives have diverged: Jeo is a ...
more
The Cuckoo's Calling
by
Robert Galbraith
Mulholland, 04/30/2013
A brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide.
After losing his leg to a land mine in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Morels
by
Christopher Hacker
Soho Press, 04/30/2013
The Morels - Arthur, Penny, and Will - are a happy family of three living in New York City. So why would Arthur choose to publish a book that brutally...
more
The Sisterhood
by
Helen Bryan
Amazon Publishing, 04/30/2013
Menina Walker was a child of fortune. Rescued after a hurricane in South America, doomed to a life of poverty with a swallow medal as her only legacy,...
more
Historical Fiction
The Third Son
by
Julie Wu
Algonquin Books, 04/30/2013
In the middle of a terrifying air raid in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, Saburo, the least-favored son of a Taiwanese politician, runs through a peach ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Tooth Tattoo: A Peter Diamond Investigation
by
Peter Lovesey
Soho Press, 04/30/2013
Peter Diamond, head of the Criminal Investigation Division in scenic Bath, England, is investigating the murder of a young woman ...
more
Fatherhood: And Other Stories
by
Thomas H. Cook
Pegasus Books, 05/01/2013
In a debut volume, the collected short stories of Thomas H. Cook, one of America's most celebrated crime fiction authors.
Over his acclaimed career...
more
Hitler's Philosophers
by
Yvonne Sherratt
Yale University Press, 05/01/2013
Hitler had a dream to rule the world, not only with the gun but also with his mind. He saw himself as a "philosopher-leader" and astonishingly gained ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Peking to Paris: Life and Love on a Short Drive Around Half the World
by
Dina Bennett
Skyhorse Publishing, 05/01/2013
In this thrilling road trip from "Peking to Paris," a woman tries to save her car, her marriage, and her confidence from breaking down.
In May ...
more
A Guide to Being Born: Stories
by
Ramona Ausubel
Riverhead Books, 05/02/2013
Reminiscent of Aimee Bender and Karen Russell - an enthralling new collection that uses the world of the imagination to explore the heart of the human...
more
Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall: How I Learned to Love My Body by Not Looking at It for a Year
by
Kjerstin Gruys
Avery, 05/02/2013
When Kjerstin Gruys became engaged to the love of her life, she was thrilled - until it came time to shop for a wedding dress. Having overcome an ...
more
Advice
The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry
by
Gary Greenberg
Blue Rider Press, 05/02/2013
An exposé of the psychiatric profession's bible from a leading psychotherapist,
The Book of Woe reveals the deeply flawed process by which ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Jericho Deception
by
Jeffrey Small
West Hills Press, 05/02/2013
At the intersection of science and spirituality lies the human mind.
The Jericho Deception is a psychological adventure into the interplay of mind and...
more
The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
by
Josh Hanagarne
Gotham Books, 05/02/2013
An inspiring story of how a Mormon kid with Tourette's found salvation in books and weight-lifting
Josh Hanagarne couldn't be invisible if he ...
more
A Delicate Truth
by
John le Carre
Viking, 05/07/2013
A Delicate Truth opens in 2008. A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. ...
more
A Dual Inheritance
by
Joanna Hershon
Ballantine Books, 05/07/2013
For readers of
Rules of Civility and
The Marriage Plot, Joanna Hershon's
A Dual Inheritance is an engrossing novel of passion, friendship, betrayal, ...
more
Coda
by
Emma Trevayne
Perseus Publishing, 05/07/2013
Ever since he was a young boy, music has coursed through the veins of eighteen-year-old Anthem - the Corp has certainly seen to that. By encoding ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
College (Un)bound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students
by
Jeffrey J. Selingo
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 05/07/2013
What is the value of a college degree?
The four-year college experience is as American as apple pie. So is the belief that education offers a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dead Lions
by
Mick Herron
Soho Press, 05/07/2013
London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. The "slow horses," as they're called, ...
more
Doll Bones
by
Holly Black, Eliza Wheeler
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 05/07/2013
Zach, Poppy, and Alice have been friends forever. And for almost as long, they've been playing one continuous, ever-changing game of pirates and ...
more
Dossier K: A Memoir
by
Imre Kertesz
Melville House, 05/07/2013
The first and only memoir from the Nobel Prize-winning author, in the form of an illuminating, often funny, and often combative interview—...
more
Biography/Memoir
Invisibility
by
Andrea Cremer and David Levithan
Philomel, 05/07/2013
A magical romance between a boy cursed with invisibility and the one girl who can see him, by New York Times
bestselling authors Andrea ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Is This Tomorrow
by
Caroline Leavitt
Algonquin Books, 05/07/2013
Paperback Original
In 1956, when divorced working-mom Ava Lark rents a house with her twelve-year-old son, Lewis, in a Boston suburb, the ...
more
Montaro Caine
by
Sidney Poitier
Spiegel & Grau, 05/07/2013
A baby is born with a coin in her hand. An orphan crafts a mysterious wooden object. The CEO of a large corporation finds himself under extraordinary ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Murder as a Fine Art: Thomas De Quincey Mystery #1
by
David Morrell
Mulholland, 05/07/2013
The blueprint for the killings seems to be De Quincey's essay "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts." Desperate to clear his name but crippled...
more
Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong
by
Prudence Shen, Faith Erin Hicks
First Second, 05/07/2013
You wouldn't expect Nate and Charlie to be friends. Charlie's the laid-back captain of the basketball team, and Nate is the neurotic, scheming ...
more
One Summer: Two Novels: The Blue Bistro and The Love Season
by
Elin Hilderbrand
St. Martin's Griffin, 05/07/2013
In
The Blue Bistro, Adrienne Dealey has decided to relocate to Nantucket after spending the past six years working for hotels in exotic resort towns. ...
more
Romance
Pacific
by
Tom Drury
Grove Press, 05/07/2013
In a triumphant return to the characters that launched his career two decades ago, Tom Drury travels back to Grouse County, the setting of his ...
more
Red Handed: The Fine Art of Strange Crimes
by
Matt Kindt
First Second, 05/07/2013
Welcome to the city of Red Wheelbarrow, where the world's greatest detective has yet to meet the crime he can't solve - every criminal in Red ...
more
Red Sparrow
by
Jason Matthews
Scribner, 05/07/2013
In today's Russia, dominated by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, state intelligence officer Dominika Egorova struggles to survive in the cast-iron ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Reluctant Assassin: The W.A.R.P. Book 1
by
Eoin Colfer
Hyperion Books for Children, 05/07/2013
Riley, a teen orphan boy living in Victorian London, has had the misfortune of being apprenticed to Albert Garrick, an illusionist who ...
more
Seduction: A Novel of Suspense
by
M. J. Rose
Atria Books, 05/07/2013
A gothic tale about Victor Hugo's long-buried secrets and the power of a love that never dies ... In 1843, novelist Victor Hugo's beloved nineteen-...
more
Southern Cross the Dog
by
Bill Cheng
Ecco, 05/07/2013
In the tradition of Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O'Connor, Bill Cheng's
Southern Cross the Dog is an epic literary debut in which the bonds between ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Sugar
by
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 05/07/2013
Ten-year-old Sugar lives on the River Road sugar plantation along the banks of the Mississippi. Slavery is over, but laboring in the fields all day ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The 5th Wave
by
Rick Yancey
Putnam Juvenile, 05/07/2013
After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the
unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Cooked Seed: A Memoir
by
Anchee Min
Bloomsbury USA, 05/07/2013
In 1994, Anchee Min made her literary debut with a memoir of growing up in China during the violent trauma of the Cultural Revolution.
Red Azalea ...
more
The Exchange: Poems
by
Sophie Cabot Black
Graywolf Press, 05/07/2013
In
The Exchange, Sophie Cabot Black explores the surprising interplay between mortality and money, between the next world and this one, between the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
by
Paul Theroux
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 05/07/2013
Following the success of the acclaimed
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and
The Great Railway Bazaar,
The Last Train to Zona Verde is an ode to the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
The Old Turk's Load
by
Gregory Gibson
Mysterious Press, 05/07/2013
A sprawling, historical debut mystery from acclaimed non-fiction writer Gregory Gibson that will appeal to fans of classic noir. Angelo DiNoto is the ...
more
The Originals
by
Cat Patrick
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 05/07/2013
17-year-olds Lizzie, Ella, and Betsey Best grew up as identical triplets... until they discovered a shocking family secret. They're actually closer ...
more
The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories
by
Ethan Rutherford
Ecco, 05/07/2013
The stories in
The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories, a collection from Ethan Rutherford, map the surprising ways in which the world we think we ...
more
Short Stories
The Pigeon Pie Mystery: A Novel
by
Julia Stuart
Anchor Books, 05/07/2013
When Indian Princess Alexandrina is left penniless by the sudden death of her father, the Maharaja of Brindor, Queen Victoria grants her a grace-and-...
more
The Price of Justice: A True Story of Greed and Corruption
by
Laurence Leamer
Times Books, 05/07/2013
A nonfiction legal thriller that traces the fourteen-year struggle of two lawyers to bring the most powerful coal baron in American history, Don ...
more
Total Chaos: The Marseilles trilogy
by
Jean-Claude Izzo
Europa Editions, 05/07/2013
The Marseilles trilogy, featuring ex-cop Fabio Montale, is a classic of European crime fiction. Its publication was the catalyst for the foundation of...
more
The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
by
Andrei Lankov
Oxford University Press, 05/08/2013
Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dark Lies the Island: Stories
by
Kevin Barry
Vintage, 05/13/2013
A kiss that just won't happen. A disco at the end of the world. A teenage goth on a terror mission. And OAP kiddie-snatchers, scouse real-ale ...
more
Fools: Stories
by
Joan Silber
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/13/2013
A dazzling new collection of interconnected stories by the National Book Award finalist.
When is it wise to be a fool for something? What makes ...
more
The Last Policeman: A Novel
by
Ben Winters
Quirk Books, 05/13/2013
What's the point in solving murders if we're all going to die soon, anyway?
Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid ...
more
A Case of Redemption
by
Adam Mitzner
Gallery Books, 05/14/2013
Acclaimed thriller author Adam Mitzner returns with the gripping tale of a high-profile attorney recovering from a personal tragedy who's drawn back ...
more
Angel Baby: A Novel
by
Richard Lange
Mulholland, 05/14/2013
To escape the awful life she has descended into, Luz plans carefully. She takes only the clothes on her back, a Colt .45, and all the money in her ...
more
Below
by
Meg McKinlay
Candlewick Press, 05/14/2013
Secrets have a way of floating to the surface ... Mystery, compelling characters, and an abandoned town beneath a lake make for a must-read adventure....
more
Between My Father and the King: New and Uncollected Stories
by
Janet Frame
Counterpoint Press, 05/14/2013
This brand new collection of 28 short stories spans the length of Frame's career and contains some of the best she wrote. None of these stories have ...
more
Gettysburg: The Last Invasion
by
Allen C. Guelzo
Knopf, 05/14/2013
From the acclaimed Civil War historian, a brilliant new history - the most intimate and richly readable account we have had - of the climactic three-...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Inferno: A Robert Langdon Novel
by
Dan Brown
Doubleday, 05/14/2013
In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology, Robert Langdon, is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and ...
more
Mysteries
Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
by
Walter Mosley
Doubleday, 05/14/2013
When Walter Mosley burst onto the literary scene in 1990 with his first Easy Rawlins mystery,
Devil in a Blue Dress - a combustible mixture of Raymond...
more
On Sal Mal Lane
by
Ru Freeman
Graywolf Press, 05/14/2013
In the tradition of
In the Time of the Butterflies and
The Kite Runner, a tender, evocative novel about the years leading up to the Sri Lankan civil ...
more
Mysteries
Paper: An Elegy
by
Ian Sansom
William Morrow, 05/14/2013
Paper by Ian Sansom, author of
The Bad Book Affair, is a witty, personal, and entertaining meditation on the history and significance of paper.
...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Poppet: A Jack Caffery Thriller
by
Mo Hayder
Atlantic Monthly Press, 05/14/2013
Mo Hayder has for years been a master of chilling, seamlessly-plotted thrillers that keep the reader glued to the page long after lights out, and ...
more
Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life
by
Allen Frances
William Morrow Paperbacks, 05/14/2013
From "the most powerful psychiatrist in America" (
New York Times) and "the man who wrote the book on mental illness" (
Wired), a deeply fascinating and...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
School Spirits: A Hex Hall Novel
by
Rachel Hawkins
Hyperion Books for Children, 05/14/2013
Fifteen-year-old Izzy Brannick was trained to fight monsters. For centuries, her family has hunted magical creatures. But when Izzy's older sister ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Shotgun Lullaby: A Conway Sax Mystery
by
Steve Ulfelder
Minotaur Books, 05/14/2013
Conway Sax is a man seeking redemption. A man with a deeply checkered past currently paying for his sins by helping Gus Biletnikov stay sober. ...
more
The Cydonian Pyramid: The Klaatu Diskos (Book Two)
by
Pete Hautman
Candlewick Press, 05/14/2013
More than half a millennium in the future, in the shadow of the looming Cydonian Pyramid, a pampered girl named Lah Lia has been raised for one ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Glass Wives
by
Amy Sue Nathan
St. Martin's Press, 05/14/2013
Evie and Nicole Glass share a last name. They also shared a husband.
When a tragic car accident ends the life of Richard Glass, it also upends the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (Liberation Trilogy)
by
Rick Atkinson
Henry Holt and Company, 05/14/2013
It is the twentieth century's unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler. In the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Human Division
by
John Scalzi
Tor Books, 05/14/2013
Following the events of
The Last Colony, John Scalzi tells the story of the fight to maintain the unity of the human race.
The people of Earth now ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Perfume Collector
by
Kathleen Tessaro
Harper, 05/14/2013
Newlywed Grace Monroe doesn't fit anyone's expectations of a successful 1950s London socialite, least of all her own. When she receives an unexpected ...
more
Winger
by
Andrew A. Smith
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 05/14/2013
Ryan Dean West is a fourteen-year-old junior at a boarding school for rich kids. He's living in Opportunity Hall, the dorm for troublemakers, and ...
more
Yellowcake
by
Margo Lanagan
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 05/14/2013
Yellowcake brings together ten short stories from the extraordinarily talented Margo Lanagan - each of them fiercely original and quietly ...
more
A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home: Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher
by
Sue Halpern
Riverhead Books, 05/16/2013
At loose ends with her daughter leaving home and her husband on the road, Sue Halpern decided to give herself and Pransky, her under-occupied ...
more
Firecracker
by
David Iserson
Razorbill, 05/16/2013
Being Astrid Krieger is absolutely all it's cracked up to be.
She lives in a rocket ship in the backyard of her parents' estate.
She was kicked ...
more
Literary Fiction
Original Skin: An Aector McAvoy Novel
by
David Mark
Blue Rider Press, 05/16/2013
Detective Aector McAvoy returns in a thrilling new case set in Yorkshire; a series of salacious murders has him on the hunt for a sadistic killer in ...
more
She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me
by
Emma Brockes
Penguin Press, 05/16/2013
A chilling work of psychological suspense and forensic memoir,
She Left Me the Gun is a tale of true transformation: the story of a young woman who ...
more
A Certain Summer
by
Patricia Beard
Gallery Books, 05/21/2013
"Nothing ever changes at Wauregan." That mystique is the tradition of the idyllic island colony off the shore of Long Island, the comforting tradition...
more
Extra Sensory: The Science and Pseudoscience of Telepathy and Other Powers of the Mind
by
Brian Clegg
St. Martin's Press, 05/21/2013
Extra Sensory is a pop-science look at the untapped abilities of human beings, from ESP to Telekenesis and other real life sciences that are ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Golden Boy
by
Abigail Tarttelin
Atria Books, 05/21/2013
From twenty-five-year-old literary rising star Abigail Tarttelin comes an unforgettable novel about a boy, a secret, and the single traumatizing event...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
He's Gone
by
Deb Caletti
Bantam Books, 05/21/2013
"What do you think happened to your husband, Mrs. Keller?"
The Sunday morning starts like any other, aside from the slight hangover. Dani Keller ...
more
King of Cuba
by
Cristina Garcia
Scribner, 05/21/2013
Vivid and alive, Cristina García's new novel transports readers to Cuba, to Miami, and into the heads of two larger-than-life men - a ...
more
Norwegian by Night
by
Derek Miller
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 05/21/2013
Sheldon Horowitz - widowed, impatient, impertinent - has grudgingly agreed to leave New York and move in with his granddaughter, Rhea, and her new ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
P.S. Be Eleven
by
Rita Williams-Garcia
Amistad, 05/21/2013
Eleven-year-old Brooklyn girl Delphine feels overwhelmed with worries and responsibilities. She's just started sixth grade and is self-conscious about...
more
Requiem Mass: A Detective Chief Inspector Andrew Fenwick Mystery
by
Elizabeth Corley
Minotaur Books, 05/21/2013
The first deaths are just a warm-up…
A Buried Past.
When Deborah Fearnside, a young wife and mother, goes missing, police interest is ...
more
Sacred Games: Athenian Mysteries
by
Gary Corby
Soho Press, 05/21/2013
It is the Olympics of 460 BC. Nico's best friend, Timodemus, is a competitor in the pankration, the deadly martial art of ancient Greece. Timo is...
more
Mysteries
September Girls
by
Bennett Madison
HarperTeen, 05/21/2013
In
September Girls, Sam is spending the summer in a beach town filled with beautiful blond girls who all seem inexplicably attracted to him. But that'...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Black Country: A Novel Of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad
by
Alex Grecian
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/21/2013
The British Midlands. It's called the "Black Country" for a reason. Bad things happen there.
When members of a prominent family disappear from a ...
more
The Caretaker
by
A .X. Ahmad
Minotaur Books, 05/21/2013
A gripping, evocative thriller about a disgraced Sikh Indian Army captain who works as the caretaker for a U.S. Senator's Martha's Vineyard estate, ...
more
The Last Girl: A Maeve Kerrigan Novel
by
Jane Casey
Minotaur Books, 05/21/2013
Vast wealth offers London defense attorney Philip Kennford a lot of things: a gorgeous house with a pool in the backyard, connections in the top ...
more
The Redeemer: A Harry Hole Novel
by
Jo Nesbo
Knopf, 05/21/2013
Christmas shoppers stop to hear a Salvation Army concert on a crowded Oslo street. An explosion cuts through the music and the bitter cold: one of the...
more
Sketcher
by
Roland Watson Grant
Alma Books, 05/23/2013
Nine-year-old "Skid" Beaumont's family is stuck in the mud. Following his father's decision to relocate and build a new home, based on a drunken ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Conspiracy of Faith: Department Q
by
Jussi Adler-Olsen
Dutton, 05/28/2013
Detective Carl Mørck has received a bottle that holds an old and decayed message written in blood. It's a cry for help from two young brothers, ...
more
A Far Piece to Canaan: A Novel of Friendship and Redemption
by
Sam Halpern
HarperCollins Publishers, 05/28/2013
A Far Piece to Canaan is a warm and nostalgic novel from an unexpected source: Sam Halpern, whose salty paternal wisdom made Justin Halpern's
Sh*t My ...more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Archipelago
by
Monique Roffey
Penguin Books, 05/28/2013
Monique Roffey, vibrant new voice in Caribbean fiction and author of the Orange Prize finalist
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, returns with
...more
Capital: A Novel
by
John Lanchester
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/28/2013
But each of the street's residents―a rich banker and his shopaholic wife, a soccer prodigy from Senegal, Pakistani shop owners, a dying old ...
more
Literary Fiction
I'll Be Seeing You
by
Suzanne Hayes, Loretta Nyhan
Mira, 05/28/2013
"I hope this letter gets to you quickly. We are always waiting, aren't we? Perhaps the greatest gift this war has given us is the anticipation…"
...
more
Looking for Me
by
Beth Hoffman
Pamela Dorman Books, 05/28/2013
A Southern novel of family and antiques from the bestselling author of the beloved
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
Beth Hoffman's bestselling debut,
Saving...more
The First Rule of Swimming
by
Courtney Angela Brkic
Little Brown & Company, 05/28/2013
Magdalena does not panic when she learns that her younger sister has disappeared. A free-spirit, Jadranka has always been prone to mysterious absences...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Hanging Garden
by
Patrick White
Picador, 05/28/2013
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of
The Eye of the Storm comes a vivid, visceral tale of childhood friendship and sexual awakening from beyond the ...
more
The Names of Our Tears: An Amish-Country Mystery
by
P. L. Gaus
Plume, 05/28/2013
Ruth Zook returns home to Holmes County, Ohio, carrying a heavy suitcase and a heavier heart. Coerced into becoming a drug mule, Ruth retaliates by ...
more
The Outsider
by
Chris Culver
Grand Central Publishing, 05/28/2013
Ash Rashid stands alone. A 12-year veteran of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, and one of the few Muslim-Americans on the force, he's ...
more
The Watcher in the Shadows: Sequel to The Inquisitor's Apprentice
by
Ms. Chris Moriarty
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 05/28/2013
At the turn of the twentieth century, New York's Bowery District becomes the scene of a terrible murder when the Klezmer King gets fried to a crisp by...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Hundred Summers
by
Beatriz Williams
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/30/2013
Memorial Day, 1938: New York socialite Lily Dane has just returned with her family to the idyllic oceanfront community of Seaview, Rhode Island, ...
more
The World is a Carpet: Four Seasons in an Afghan Village
by
Anna Badkhen
Riverhead Books, 05/30/2013
In the middle of the salt-frosted Afghan desert, in a village so remote that Google can't find it, a woman squats on top of a loom, making flowers ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
At The Dying of The Year: Richard Nottingham Mysteries
by
Chris Nickson
Severn House, 06/01/2013
Leeds, 1733. Three children are found dead in a disused bell pit, their bodies battered and bruised, each of them stabbed through the heart. Fear, ...
more
The Child Thief
by
Dan Smith
Pegasus Books, 06/01/2013
In the tradition of
City of Thieves and
Child 44, a troubled First World War veteran races across the frozen steppe of 1930s Ukraine to save a child ...
more
The Keeper of Hands: Viennese Mysteries
by
J Sydney Jones
Severn House, 06/01/2013
Vienna, 1901. With the police seemingly indifferent to the murder of a nineteen-year-old prostitute known as Mitzi, brothel-keeper Frau Mutzenbacher ...
more
The Square of Revenge: An Inspector Van In Novel
by
Pieter Aspe
Pegasus Books, 06/01/2013
The beautiful medieval architecture of Bruges belies the dark longings of her residents. When the wealthy and powerful Ludovic Degroof's jewelry ...
more
The Last Summer of the Camperdowns
by
Elizabeth Kelly
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/03/2013
The Last Summer of the Camperdowns, from the best-selling author of
Apologize, Apologize!, introduces Riddle James Camperdown, the twelve-year-old ...
more
A Dark Redemption
by
Stav Sherez
Europa Editions, 06/04/2013
A Dark Redemption introduces DI Jack Carrigan and DS Geneva Miller as they investigate the brutal rape and murder of a young Ugandan student. Plunged ...
more
A Serpent's Tooth: A Walt Longmire Mystery
by
Craig Johnson
Viking, 06/04/2013
It's homecoming in Absaroka County, but the football and festivities are interrupted when a homeless boy wanders into town. A Mormon "lost boy,"...
more
Abaddon's Gate: The Expanse Series #3
by
James S.A. Corey
Orbit, 06/04/2013
For generations, the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt - was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artifact working through ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
America 1933: The Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Shaping of the New Deal
by
Michael Golay
Free Press, 06/04/2013
During the harshest year of the Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, a top woman news reporter of the day and intimate friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, was ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Big Brother
by
Lionel Shriver
Harper, 06/04/2013
For Pandora, cooking is a form of love. Alas, her husband, Fletcher, a self-employed high-end cabinetmaker, now spurns the "toxic" dishes that he'd ...
more
Cinnamon and Gunpowder
by
Eli Brown
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/04/2013
A gripping adventure, a seaborne romance, and a twist on the tale of Scheherazade - with the best food ever served aboard a pirate's ship.
The year...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery
by
Paul Collins
Crown, 06/04/2013
Duel with the Devil is acclaimed historian Paul Collins' remarkable true account of a stunning turn-of-the-19th century murder and the trial ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Flat Water Tuesday
by
Ron Irwin
Thomas Dunne Books, 06/04/2013
A stunning novel of boarding school, family secrets, deep and passionate love, and the brutal pain of sports training.
Rob Carrey, the son of a ...
more
If You Were Here: A Novel of Suspense
by
Alafair Burke
Harper, 06/04/2013
If You Were Here is a thrilling novel of suspense from Alafair Burke, the author Dennis Lehane calls "one of the finest young crime writers working ...
more
Note to Self
by
Alina Simone
Faber and Faber, 06/04/2013
A witty, keenly observant look at our Internet-obsessed culture
Anna Krestler is adrift. The Internet has draped itself, kudzu-like, over her brain...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
by
Joseph J. Ellis
Knopf, 06/04/2013
A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis.
The summer months of...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Sparta
by
Roxana Robinson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/04/2013
Going from peace to war can make a young man into a warrior. Going from war to peace can destroy him.
Conrad Farrell has no family military heritage,...
more
Stonehenge - A New Understanding: Solving the Mysteries of the Greatest Stone Age Monument
by
Mike Parker Pearson
The Experiment, 06/04/2013
Despite its being one of prehistory's most alluring landmarks, before the Stonehenge Riverside Project led by noted archeologist Mike Parker Pearson, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Taipei
by
Tao Lin
Vintage, 06/04/2013
From one of this generation's most talked about and enigmatic writers comes a deeply personal, powerful, and moving novel about family, ...
more
The Apprentices
by
Maile Meloy
Putnam Juvenile, 06/04/2013
Two years have passed since Janie Scott last saw Benjamin Burrows, the mysterious apothecary's defiant son who stole her heart. On the other side of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Center of the World
by
Thomas Van Essen
Other Press, 06/04/2013
Alternating between nineteenth-century England and present-day New York, this is the story of renowned British painter J. M. W. Turner and his circle ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture
by
Mary Pipher
Riverhead Books, 06/04/2013
In
Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher offered a paradigm-shattering look at the lives of adolescent women. Now Pipher is back with another ground-breaking ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The House of Impossible Loves
by
Cristina Lopez Barrio
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 06/04/2013
The Laguna women suffer from an odd affliction: each generation is condemned to tragic love affairs and to give birth only to girls who are unable to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Kill Room: A Lincoln Rhyme Thriller
by
Jeffery Deaver
Grand Central Publishing, 06/04/2013
It was a "million-dollar bullet," a sniper shot delivered from over a mile away. Its victim was no ordinary mark: he was a United States citizen, ...
more
The Possibility Dogs: What a handful of 'unadoptables' taught me about service, hope, and healing
by
Susannah Charleson
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 06/04/2013
For her first book, Susannah Charleson was praised for her unique insight into the kinship between humans and dogs, as revealed through canine search ...
more
The Shanghai Factor
by
Charles McCarry
Mysterious Press, 06/04/2013
Charles McCarry is widely considered one of the greatest espionage writers of the all-time, and in
The Shanghai Factor he returns to his roots with an...
more
The Sweet Girl
by
Annabel Lyon
Knopf, 06/04/2013
From the award-winning author of
The Golden Mean, a captivating, wholly transporting new novel that follows Aristotle's strong-willed daughter as she ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Thing About Luck
by
Cynthia Kadohata
Atheneum Books, 06/04/2013
There is bad luck, good luck, and making your own luck - which is exactly what Summer must do to save her family in this novel from Newbery Medalist ...
more
The Time Between
by
Karen White
NAL, 06/04/2013
Eleanor Murray will always remember her childhood on Edisto Island, where her late father, a local shrimper, shared her passion for music. Now her ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls
by
Anton DiSclafani
Riverhead Books, 06/04/2013
A lush, sexy, evocative debut novel of family secrets and girls'-school rituals, set in the 1930s South.
It is 1930, the midst of the Great ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Thieves of Book Row: New York's Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It
by
Travis McDade
Oxford University Press, 06/07/2013
No one had ever tried a caper like this before. The goods were kept in a secure room under constant scrutiny, deep inside a crowded building with ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Killing in the Hills: Bell Elkins #1
by
Julia Keller
Minotaur Books, 06/11/2013
What's happening in Acker's Gap, West Virginia? Three elderly men are gunned down over their coffee at a local diner, and seemingly half the town...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance
by
Marlena de Blasi
Algonquin Books, 06/11/2013
Fernando first sees Marlena across the Piazza San Marco and falls in love from afar. When he sees her again in a Venice café a year later, he ...
more
All the Dead Yale Men
by
Craig Nova
Counterpoint Press, 06/11/2013
Originally published in 1982 to wide acclaim,
The Good Son remains Craig Nova's undisputed masterpiece. This classic explored the complicated ...
more
Astor Place Vintage
by
Stephanie Lehmann
Touchstone, 06/11/2013
Amanda Rosenbloom, proprietor of Astor Place Vintage, thinks she's on just another call to appraise and possibly purchase clothing from a wealthy, ...
more
Bobcat and Other Stories
by
Rebecca Lee
Algonquin Books, 06/11/2013
At turns witty, heartbreaking, and fiercely intelligent,
Bobcat and Other Stories establishes Rebecca Lee as one of our most gifted and original short...
more
Boy Nobody
by
Allen Zadoff
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 06/11/2013
They needed the perfect assassin.
Boy Nobody is the perennial new kid in school, the one few notice and nobody thinks much about. He shows up in a ...
more
Crazy Rich Asians
by
Kevin Kwan
Doubleday, 06/11/2013
Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
In Times of Fading Light
by
Eugen Ruge
Graywolf Press, 06/11/2013
In Times of Fading Light begins in September 2001 as Alexander Umnitzer, who has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, leaves behind his ailing ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Love Minus Eighty
by
Will McIntosh
Orbit, 06/11/2013
In the future, love is complicated and death is not necessarily the end.
Love Minus Eighty follows several interconnected people in a disquieting ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
My Isl@m: How Fundamentalism Stole My Mind - and Doubt Freed My Soul
by
Amir Ahmad Nasr
St. Martin's Press, 06/11/2013
Amir Ahmad Nasr is a young Muslim man with something explosive in his hands: a computer connected to the Internet. And it has the power to help ignite...
more
Nelson: The Sword of Albion
by
John Sugden
Henry Holt and Company, 06/11/2013
The most authoritative and intimate portrait written of Horatio Nelson
In this epic biography of history's most celebrated naval commander, ...
more
The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story
by
Lily Koppel
Grand Central Publishing, 06/11/2013
As America's Mercury Seven astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, television cameras focused on the brave smiles of their young wives. ...
more
The Execution of Noa P. Singleton: A Novel
by
Elizabeth L. Silver
Crown, 06/11/2013
A beguiling debut novel about the stories we tell ourselves to survive, the scars that never fade and the things we choose to call the truth.
Noa P...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Hanging: A Thriller
by
Lotte Hammer, Soren Hammer
Minotaur Books, 06/11/2013
One morning before school, two children find the naked bodies of five men hanging from the gym ceiling. The case leads detective Konrad Simonsen and ...
more
The Joker: A Memoir
by
Andrew Hudgins
Simon & Schuster, 06/11/2013
Since Andrew Hudgins was a child, he was a compulsive joke teller, so when he sat down to write about jokes, he found that he was writing about ...
more
The Silver Star
by
Jeannette Walls
Scribner, 06/11/2013
Jeannette Walls has written a heartbreaking and redemptive novel about an intrepid girl who challenges the injustice of the adult world - a triumph of...
more
The Society for Useful Knowledge: How Benjamin Franklin and Friends Brought the Enlightenment to America
by
Jonathan Lyons
Bloomsbury USA, 06/11/2013
Benjamin Franklin and his contemporaries brought the Enlightenment to America--an intellectual revolution that laid the foundation for the political ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Trains and Lovers
by
Alexander McCall Smith
Pantheon Books, 06/11/2013
The rocking motion of the train as it speeds along, the sound of its wheels on the rails ... There's something special about this form of travel that ...
more
Circle of Shadows: A Westerman/Crowther Mystery
by
Imogen Robertson
Pamela Dorman Books, 06/13/2013
A grisly murder among the German aristocracy propels this tale of eighteenth century forensics and historical crime solving
The forthright Mrs. ...
more
Creation: How Science is Reinventing Life Itself
by
Adam Rutherford
Current, 06/13/2013
Within the first billion years after this planet formed, a spark of life spontaneously ignited, turning inanimate chemicals into what we now would ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
No One Could Have Guessed the Weather
by
Anne-Marie Casey
Amy Einhorn Books, 06/13/2013
Sometimes what you want in your twenties isn't what you want or need in your forties...
When Lucy Lovett's husband loses his job, she is forced to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
by
Niall Ferguson
Penguin Press, 06/13/2013
From renowned historian Niall Ferguson, a searching and provocative examination of the widespread institutional rot that threatens our collective ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Until She Comes Home
by
Lori Roy
Dutton, 06/13/2013
In 1958 Detroit, on Alder Avenue, neighbors struggle to care for neighbors amid a city ripe with conflicts that threaten their peaceful street.
Grace,...
more
Mysteries
Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection
by
Ethan Zuckerman
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/17/2013
We live in an age of connection, one that is accelerated by the Internet. This increasingly ubiquitous, immensely powerful technology often leads us ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Courting Greta
by
Ramsey Hootman
Gallery Books, 06/18/2013
Samuel Cooke knows most women wouldn't give him a second glance even if he were the last man on earth. He's the cripple with crutches, the nerdy ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Crime of Privilege
by
Walter Walker
Ballantine Books, 06/18/2013
In the tradition of Scott Turow, William Landay, and Nelson DeMille,
Crime of Privilege is a stunning thriller about power, corruption, and the law in...
more
Death of the Demon: A Hanne Wilhelmsen Novel
by
Anne Holt
Scribner, 06/18/2013
In a foster home outside Oslo, a twelve-year-old boy is causing havoc. The institution's steely director, Agnes Vestavik, sees something chilling in ...
more
Enigma of China: An Inspector Chen Novel
by
Qiu Xiaolong
Minotaur Books, 06/18/2013
Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is in an unusual situation - a poet by training and inclination, he was assigned by the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Loyalty
by
Ingrid Thoft
Putnam Juvenile, 06/18/2013
The Ludlows are a hard-charging family, and patriarch Carl Ludlow treats his offspring like employees - which they are. But his daughter, Fina, is a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Masaryk Station: A John Russell Novel
by
David Downing
Soho Press, 06/18/2013
Berlin, 1948. Still occupied by the four Allied powers and largely in ruins, the city has become the cockpit of a new Cold War. The legacies of the ...
more
Thrillers
Never Fuck Up
by
Jens Lapidus
Pantheon Books, 06/18/2013
From Sweden's internationally best-selling crime novelist, the author of
Easy Money, comes the riveting second installment of the Stockholm Noir ...
more
Sea Change
by
S.M. Wheeler
Tor Books, 06/18/2013
The unhappy child of two powerful parents who despise each other, young Lilly turns to the ocean to find solace, which she finds in the form of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Second Suns: Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
by
David Oliver Relin
Random House, 06/18/2013
From the co-author of
Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors - one from the United States, the other from Nepal - ...
more
The Heist
by
Janet Evanovich
Bancroft Press, 06/18/2013
FBI Special Agent Kate O'Hare is known for her fierce dedication and discipline on the job, chasing down the world's most wanted criminals and putting...
more
The Lovebird
by
Natalie Brown
Doubleday, 06/18/2013
A spectacularly vibrant, original debut,
The Lovebird takes us from the orange-scented streets of Southern California to the vast prairie landscape of...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Wisp of a Thing: A Novel of the Tufa
by
Alex Bledsoe
Tor Books, 06/18/2013
Touched by a very public tragedy, musician Rob Quillen comes to Cloud County, Tennessee, in search of a song that might ease his aching heart. All he ...
more
A Moment Comes
by
Jennifer Bradbury
Atheneum Books, 06/25/2013
Before India was divided, three teens, each from wildly different backgrounds, cross paths. And then, in one moment, their futures become irrevocably ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Ballistics: A Novel
by
D. W. Wilson
Bloomsbury USA, 06/25/2013
It is summer and the Canadian Rockies are on fire. As the forests blaze, Alan West heads into their shadows, returning from university to his ...
more
Beautiful Day
by
Elin Hilderbrand
Reagan Arthur, 06/25/2013
The Carmichaels and the Grahams have gathered on Nantucket for a wedding. Plans are being made according to the wishes of the bride's late mother, who...
more
Dream with Little Angels
by
Michael Hiebert
Kensington, 06/25/2013
In 1975, thirteen-year-old Ruby Mae Vickers disappears in Alvin, Alabama. Leah Teal, new detective of Alvin, is assigned to the case. After three ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
On the Floor
by
Aifric Campbell
Picador, 06/25/2013
Longlisted for the Orange Prize
A hard-living investment banker has three days to decide her destiny in this thrilling novel.
It has been 182 ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sidekicked
by
John David Anderson
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/25/2013
Drew Bean might be a part of a secret organization for the training of superhero sidekicks, but that doesn't mean that life is all leaping tall ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Sisterland
by
Curtis Sittenfeld
Random House, 06/25/2013
Curtis Sittenfeld,
New York Times bestselling author of
American Wife and
Prep, returns with a mesmerizing novel of family and identity, ...
more
Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine
by
Simon Critchley, Jamieson Webster
Pantheon Books, 06/25/2013
The figure of Hamlet haunts our culture like the ghost haunts Shakespeare's melancholy Dane. Arguably, no literary work is more familiar to us. ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Goliath Stone
by
Larry Niven & Matthew Joseph Harrington
Tor Books, 06/25/2013
Doctor Toby Glyer has effected miracle cures with the use of nanotechnology. But Glyer's controversial nanites are more than just the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Midnight Promise
by
Zane Lovitt
Europa Editions, 06/25/2013
A literary detective story ingeniously told in ten cases. John Dorn is a classic gumshoe. His woman has left him, he lives in his office, and he ...
more
The Shark's Paintbrush: Biomimicry and How Nature is Inspiring Innovation
by
Jay Harman
White Cloud Press, 06/25/2013
Why does the bumblebee have better aerodynamics than a 747? What structural design is shared by a tornado and a blood vessel?
Since the Industrial ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Silent Wife
by
A. S. A. Harrison
Penguin Books, 06/25/2013
A chilling psychological thriller about a marriage, a way of life, and how far one woman will go to keep what is rightfully hers.
Jodi and Todd are...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Universe Versus Alex Woods
by
Gavin Extence
Orbit, 06/25/2013
A rare meteorite struck Alex Woods when he was ten years old, leaving scars and marking him for an extraordinary future. The son of a fortune teller, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Golden Boy
by
Tara Sullivan
Putnam Juvenile, 06/27/2013
Thirteen-year-old Habo has always been different - light eyes, yellow hair and white skin. Not the good brown skin his family has and not the&#...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Cleaner of Chartres: A Novel
by
Salley Vickers
Viking, 06/27/2013
There is something very special about Agnès Morel. A quiet presence in the small French town of Chartres, she can be found cleaning the famed ...
more
Bogota: A Novel
by
Alan Grostephan
Northwestern University Press, 06/30/2013
In
Bogotá, a taut, moving novel set in present-day Colombia, Wilfredo decides to uproot his family from their small town, where his ferry service...
more
Literary Fiction
Five Star Billionaire: A Novel
by
Tash Aw
Spiegel & Grau, 07/02/2013
An expansive, eye-opening novel that captures the vibrancy of China today
Phoebe is a factory girl who has come to Shanghai with the promise of a job...
more
Literary Fiction
House Odds: A Joe DeMarco Thriller
by
Mike Lawson
Atlantic Monthly Press, 07/02/2013
Washington fixer Joe DeMarco has been asked to handle a lot of difficult situations over the years for his boss, Congressman John Mahoney. But nothing...
more
Neptune's Brood
by
Charles Stross
Ace Books, 07/02/2013
The year is AD 7000. The human species is extinct - for the fourth time - due to its fragile nature.
Krina Alizond-114 is metahuman, descended from...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Exiles: A Novel
by
Allison Lynn
New Harvest, 07/02/2013
A couple escaping the over-the-top lifestyle of Manhattan's Upper East Side move to comparably quaint Newport, Rhode Island, only to be confronted by ...
more
The Fire Witness: A Detective Inspector Joona Linna Novel
by
Lars Kepler
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/02/2013
Flora Hansen calls herself a medium and makes a living by pretending to commune with the dead. But after a gruesome murder at a rural home for wayward...
more
The Humans
by
Matt Haig
Simon & Schuster, 07/02/2013
"I know that some of you reading this are convinced humans are a myth, but I am here to state that they do actually exist. For those that don't know, ...
more
The Madonna on the Moon: A Novel
by
Rolf Bauerdick
Knopf, 07/02/2013
An award-winning journalist transforms his lifelong fascination with the world of the Gypsies into fiction with this exuberant, deeply enchanting ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island
by
Mac Griswold
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/02/2013
Mac Griswold's
The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Mouse-Proof Kitchen
by
Saira Shah
Atria Books, 07/02/2013
Life is messy ... but it's the messy bits that give it meaning.
Anna has a clear plan for her new life. When she discovers she's pregnant, she ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Night Gwen Stacy Died
by
Sarah Bruni
Mariner Books, 07/02/2013
An offbeat love story about the adventures and mutual rescue of a young woman out of place in her hometown and a mysterious stranger who calls himself...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Rest of Us
by
Jessica Lott
Simon & Schuster, 07/02/2013
A gorgeous literary debut about second chances,
The Rest of Us is an indelible love story that explores the legacy of an affair between a young ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Rules of Wolfe: A Border Noir
by
James Carlos Blake
Mysterious Press, 07/02/2013
Eddie Gato Wolfe is a young, impetuous member of the Wolfe family of Texas gun-runners that goes back generations. Increasingly unfulfilled by his ...
more
The Unknowns
by
Gabriel Roth
Reagan Arthur, 07/02/2013
Eric Muller has been trying to hack the girlfriend problem since puberty, and all his attempts have backfired. As a high school freshman, Eric takes ...
more
The Resurrectionist
by
Matthew Guinn
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/08/2013
"Dog days and the fresh bodies are arriving once again." So begins the fall term at South Carolina Medical College, where Dr. Jacob Thacker is on ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Close My Eyes
by
Sophie McKenzie
St. Martin's Press, 07/09/2013
Gone Girl meets
Before I Go to Sleep in this riveting psychological thriller about a grieving mother who finds out years after her daughter's death ...
more
Drift
by
Jon McGoran
Forge Books, 07/09/2013
When Philadelphia narcotics detective Doyle Carrick loses his mother and step-father within weeks of each other, he gains a twenty-day suspension for ...
more
Fin & Lady
by
Cathleen Schine
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/09/2013
It's 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been orphaned, and Lady, whom Fin hasn't seen in six ...
more
Forever, Interrupted
by
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Washington Square Press, 07/09/2013
Paperback Original
Elsie and Ben are average twenty-somethings, but this is not your average love story. It begins bright and promising: the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Freud's Mistress
by
Karen Mack & Jennifer Kaufman
Amy Einhorn Books, 07/09/2013
His theories would change the world? and tear hers apart.
A page-turning novel inspired by the true-life love affair between Sigmund Freud and his ...
more
Historical Fiction
Kiss Me First
by
Lottie Moggach
Doubleday, 07/09/2013
When Leila discovers the Web site Red Pill, she feels she has finally found people who understand her. A sheltered young woman raised by her mother, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Letters from Skye
by
Jessica Brockmole
Ballantine Books, 07/09/2013
A sweeping story told in letters, spanning two continents and two world wars, Jessica Brockmole's atmospheric debut novel captures the indelible ways ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery
by
Robert Kolker
Harper, 07/09/2013
Award-winning investigative reporter Robert Kolker delivers a haunting and humanizing account of the true-life search for a serial killer still at ...
more
Loteria: A Novel
by
Mario Alberto Zambrano
Harper, 07/09/2013
With her older sister Estrella in the ICU and her father in jail, eleven-year-old Luz Castillo has been taken into the custody of the state. Alone in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Love All
by
Callie Wright
Henry Holt and Company, 07/09/2013
It's the spring of 1994 in Cooperstown, New York, and Joanie Cole, the beloved matriarch of the Obermeyer family, has unexpectedly died in her sleep. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Memories of a Marriage
by
Louis Begley
Nan A. Talese, 07/09/2013
In the unforgiving class system of the 1950s, Lucy de Bourgh, daughter of one of Rhode Island's first families and beneficiary of an ample trust fund...
more
Skinner
by
Charlie Huston
Mulholland, 07/09/2013
Skinner founded his career in "asset protection" on fear. To touch anyone under his protection was to invite destruction. A savagely effective ...
more
Still Star-Crossed
by
Melinda Taub
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, 07/09/2013
Romeo and Juliet are gone. Will love live on? Despite the glooming peace that's settled on Verona after the recent tragedy, Montagues and Capulets are...
more
Literary Fiction
The Curiosity
by
Stephen Kiernan
William Morrow Paperbacks, 07/09/2013
The Curiosity, Stephen Kiernan's debut novel, is a gripping, poignant, and thoroughly original thriller that raises disturbing questions about the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Devil's Cave: A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel
by
Martin Walker
Knopf, 07/09/2013
Mystery, food, and wine in the French province of Dordogne - the latest offering from Martin Walker, featuring Benoît "Bruno" Courrèges.
...
more
The Glass God: Magicals Anonymous
by
Kate Griffin
Orbit, 07/09/2013
Sharon Li: apprentice shaman and community support officer for the magically inclined.
It wasn't the career Sharon had in mind, but she's getting ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane
by
Kelly Harms
Thomas Dunne Books, 07/09/2013
The HomeSweetHome network's Free House Sweepstakes has just announced this year's lucky winner of a brand-new, fully-loaded dream home: Janine Brown ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Last Word: A Spellman Novel
by
Lisa Lutz
Simon & Schuster, 07/09/2013
Isabel Spellman PI, is used to being followed, extorted, and questioned - all occupational hazards of working at her family's firm, Spellman ...
more
The Light in the Ruins
by
Chris Bohjalian
Doubleday, 07/09/2013
1943: Tucked away in the idyllic hills south of Florence, the Rosatis, an Italian family of noble lineage, believe that the walls of their ancient ...
more
The Twelfth Department: Captain Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev
by
William Ryan
Minotaur Books, 07/09/2013
Captain Alexei Korolev has nothing to complain about. He has his own room in an apartment, a job in the police force that puts food on the table, and ...
more
This Is Paradise: Stories
by
Kristiana Kahakauwila
Hogarth Books, 07/09/2013
In a stunning collection that announces the arrival of an incredible talent, Kristiana Kahakauwila travels the islands of Hawai'i, making the fabled ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
To the Moon and Timbuktu: A Trek through the Heart of Africa
by
Nina Sovich
New Harvest, 07/09/2013
Sovich's journey reveals that sometimes we must pursue that distant glimmer on the horizon in order to find the things we value most.
Nina Sovich ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Debut Author
Visitation Street
by
Ivy Pochoda
Dennis Lehane Books, 07/09/2013
Chosen by Denis Lehane for his eponymous imprint, Ivy Pochoda's
Visitation Street is a riveting literary mystery set against the rough-hewn backdrop ...
more
Ten Things I've Learnt About Love
by
Sarah Butler
Penguin Press, 07/11/2013
About to turn thirty, Alice is the youngest of three daughters, and the black sheep of her family. Drawn to traveling in far-flung and often ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Until You're Mine
by
Samantha Hayes
Crown, 07/15/2013
You're alone. You're vulnerable. And you have something that someone else wants. At any cost... Psychological suspense that grips from the start by a ...
more
Brilliance
by
Marcus Sakey
Thomas & Mercer, 07/16/2013
In Wyoming, a little girl reads people's darkest secrets by the way they fold their arms. In New York, a man sensing patterns in the stock market ...
more
Lillian and Dash
by
Sam Toperoff
Other Press, 07/16/2013
This exciting novel about Dashiell Hammett (
The Maltese Falcon and
The Thin Man) and Lillian Hellman (
The Children's Hour) reintroduces their larger-...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel
by
David Rakoff
Doubleday, 07/16/2013
From the incomparable David Rakoff, a poignant, beautiful, witty, and wise novel in verse whose scope spans the twentieth century
Through his books and...
more
Massacre Pond: A Mike Bowditch Mystery
by
Paul Doiron
Minotaur Books, 07/16/2013
On an unseasonably hot October morning, Bowditch is called to the scene of a bizarre crime: the corpses of seven moose have been found senselessly ...
more
Real Talk for Real Teachers: Advice for Teachers from Rookies to Veterans
by
Rafe Esquith
Viking, 07/16/2013
If Rafe Esquith's
Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire was food for a teacher's mind,
Real Talk for Real Teachers feeds the teacher's soul. In this ...
more
The Homecoming: Niceville Trilogy #2
by
Carsten Stroud
Knopf, 07/16/2013
From its explosive opening to its eerie climax,
The Homecoming is a page-turning, labyrinthine thrill ride that returns to Niceville ... where evil ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Poisoned Pilgrim: A Hangman's Daughter Tale
by
Oliver Pötzsch
Mariner Books, 07/16/2013
1666: The monastery at Andechs has long been a pilgrimage destination, but when the hangman's daughter, Magdalena, her doctor husband Simon, and their...
more
The Secret Keeper
by
Kate Morton
Atria Books, 07/16/2013
During a party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is dreaming...
more
The Tudor Conspiracy: (The Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles)
by
C. W. Gortner
St. Martin's Griffin, 07/16/2013
Hunted by a shadowy foe in Bloody Mary's court, Brendan Prescott plunges into London's treacherous underworld to unravel a dark conspiracy that could ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
You Only Get Letters from Jail
by
Jodi Angel
Tin House Books, 07/16/2013
Jodi Angel's second story collection,
You Only Get Letters from Jail, chronicles the lives of young men trapped in the liminal space between ...
more
Short Stories
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
by
Reza Aslan
Random House, 07/16/2013
From the internationally bestselling author of
No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
& Sons
by
David Gilbert
Random House, 07/23/2013
A literary masterwork for readers of
The Art of Fielding,
The Emperor's Children, and
Wonder Boys - the panoramic, deeply affecting story of...
more
Byzantium: Stories
by
Ben Stroud
Graywolf Press, 07/23/2013
Ancient cities and fallen empires come to life in this masterful collection. In the Byzantine court, a noble with a crippled hand is called upon to ...
more
Chimera: A Jim Chapel Mission
by
David Wellington
William Morrow, 07/23/2013
Afghanistan veteran Jim Chapel has been enlisted in a new war.
This time it's in his own backyard ... and even more deadly.
A small band of ...
more
Coming Clean: A Memoir
by
Kimberly Rae Miller
New Harvest, 07/23/2013
Kim Miller is an immaculately put-together woman with a great career, a loving boyfriend, and a beautifully tidy apartment in Brooklyn. You would ...
more
HHhH: A Novel
by
Laurent Binet
Picador, 07/23/2013
In Laurent Binet's mesmerizing debut, we follow Jozef Gabcík and Jan Kubiš from their dramatic escape from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Light of the World: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
by
James Lee Burke
Simon & Schuster, 07/23/2013
Louisiana Sherriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux and his longtime friend and partner Clete Purcel are vacationing in Montana's spectacular Big Sky ...
more
Salt: A Story of Friendship in a Time of War
by
Helen Frost
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/23/2013
Anikwa and James, twelve years old in 1812, spend their days fishing, trapping, and exploring together in the forests of the Indiana Territory. To ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Starglass
by
Phoebe North
Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 07/23/2013
Terra has never known anything but life aboard the
Asherah, a city-within-a-spaceship that left Earth five hundred years ago in search of refuge....
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Age of Ice
by
J. M. Sidorova
Scribner, 07/23/2013
The Empress Anna Ioannovna has issued her latest eccentric order: construct a palace out of ice blocks. Inside its walls her slaves build a wedding ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Panopticon: A Novel
by
Jenni Fagan
Hogarth Books, 07/23/2013
Anais Hendricks, fifteen, is in the back of a police car. She is headed for the Panopticon, a home for chronic young offenders. She can't remember ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp
by
Kathi Appelt
Atheneum Books, 07/23/2013
Raccoon brothers Bingo and J'miah are the newest recruits of the Official Sugar Man Swamp Scouts. The opportunity to serve the Sugar Man - the massive...
more
The Weight of Water
by
Sarah Crossan
Bloomsbury Children's Books, 07/23/2013
Kasienka isn't the happiest girl in the world. At home, her mother is suffering from a broken heart as she searches for Kasienka's father. And at ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
A Dangerous Fiction: A Mystery
by
Barbara Rogan
Viking, 07/25/2013
Jo Donovan always manages to come out on top. From the backwoods of Appalachia, she forged a hard path to life among the literati in New York City. At...
more
A Marker to Measure Drift
by
Alexander Maksik
Knopf, 07/30/2013
Alexander Maksik's electrifying novel tracks a woman's journey from the horrors of Charles Taylor's Liberia to abject poverty and self-exile on a ...
more
A Street Cat Named Bob: And How He Saved My Life
by
James Bowen
Thomas Dunne Books, 07/30/2013
James is a street musician struggling to make ends meet.
Bob is a stray cat looking for somewhere warm to sleep.
When James and Bob meet, they ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Death Angel: An Alex Cooper Novel
by
Linda Fairstein
Dutton, 07/30/2013
When the body of a young woman is discovered in Central Park, the clock begins ticking for Assistant DA Alex Cooper and Detectives Mike Chapman and ...
more
Ghosts of Bungo Suido
by
P. T. Deutermann
St. Martin's Press, 07/30/2013
In late 1944, America's naval forces face what seems an insurmountable threat from Japan: immense Yamato-class battleships, which dwarf every other ...
more
The Boy on the Bridge
by
Natalie Standiford
Scholastic, 07/30/2013
A new breathtaking novel from Natalie Standiford about love and trust during the Cold War.
Laura Reid goes to Leningrad for a semester abroad as ...
more
The Highway
by
C.J. Box
Minotaur Books, 07/30/2013
When two sisters set out across a remote stretch of Montana road to visit their friend, little do they know it will be the last time anyone might ever...
more
The Husband's Secret
by
Liane Moriarty
Amy Einhorn Books, 07/30/2013
At the heart of
The Husband's Secret is a letter that's not meant to be read:
My darling Cecilia, if you're reading this, then I've died...
...
more
The Skull and the Nightingale: A Novel
by
Michael Irwin
William Morrow, 07/30/2013
Michael Irwin's
The Skull and the Nightingale is a chilling and deliciously dark, literary novel of manipulation and sex, intrigue and seduction, set ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese
by
Michael Paterniti
Dial Press, 07/30/2013
In the picturesque village of Guzmán, Spain, in a cave dug into a hillside on the edge of town, an ancient door leads to a cramped limestone ...
more
Weaponized
by
Nicholas Mennuti and David Guggenheim
Mulholland, 07/30/2013
Kyle West is a wanted man. Having fled the country to escape the false charges filed against himself and his former boss, billionaire government ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Collini Case: A Novel
by
Ferdinand von Schirach
Viking, 08/01/2013
A bestseller in Germany since its 2011 release, with rights sold in seventeen countries,
The Collini Case combines the classic courtroom procedural ...
more
The Glass Ocean
by
Lori Baker
Penguin Press, 08/01/2013
The Glass Ocean is a story of becoming. Flamehaired, six-foot-two in stocking feet, newly orphaned Carlotta Dell'oro recounts the lives of her parents...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Last Alibi: A Jason Kolarich Novel
by
David Ellis
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/01/2013
James Drinker is a bit of an oddball. A funny-looking, geeky loner, he walks into Jason Kolarich's office one day with a preemptive concern: two women...
more
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
by
David Epstein
Current, 08/01/2013
In high school, I wondered whether the Jamaican Americans who made our track team so successful might carry some special speed gene from their tiny ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Brewster
by
Mark Slouka
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/05/2013
The year is 1968. The world is changing, and sixteen-year-old Jon Mosher is determined to change with it. Racked by guilt over his older brother's ...
more
Amor and Psycho: Stories
by
Carolyn Cooke
Knopf, 08/06/2013
From the author of
Daughters of the Revolution and
The Bostons (winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for fiction) come eleven stories about sex ...
more
Ask Bob
by
Peter Gethers
Henry Holt and Company, 08/06/2013
Dr. Robert Heller is one of New York City's leading veterinarians, and his "Ask Dr. Bob" advice column is hugely popular among pet-lovers. Yet Dr. Bob...
more
Eva's Eye: An Inspector Sejer Mystery. Book 1
by
Karin Fossum
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 08/06/2013
Eva Magnus is a struggling artist and the divorced mother of a seven-year-old child, Emma. One afternoon she and Emma are walking by the river when ...
more
Helium
by
Jaspreet Singh
Bloomsbury USA, 08/06/2013
On November 1st 1984, a day after the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, a nineteen-year-old student travels back from a class trip...
more
Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
by
Boris Kachka
Simon & Schuster, 08/06/2013
Farrar, Straus and Giroux is arguably the most influential publishing house of the modern era. Home to an unrivaled twenty-five Nobel Prize winners ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lara's Gift
by
Annemarie O'Brien
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 08/06/2013
Young Lara is being groomed in the family tradition to take over as Count Voronstov's next kennel steward, breeding borzoi dogs worthy of the Tsar. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
by
Scott Anderson
Doubleday, 08/06/2013
The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, "a sideshow of a sideshow." Amidst the slaughter in ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Let the Games Begin
by
Niccolo Ammaniti
Black Cat, 08/06/2013
You are invited to attend the most decadent fete of the century. Italian high-society and international celebrities are gathered at Villa Ada, once a ...
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Listening for Lucca
by
Suzanne LaFleur
Wendy Lamb Books, 08/06/2013
"I'm obsessed with abandoned things." Siena's obsession began a year and a half ago, around the time her two-year-old brother Lucca stopped talking. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
by
Jeff Guinn
Simon & Schuster, 08/06/2013
More than forty years ago Charles Manson and his mostly female commune killed nine people, among them the pregnant actress Sharon Tate. It was the ...
more
Necessary Errors
by
Caleb Crain
Penguin Books, 08/06/2013
Paperback Original
An exquisite debut novel that brilliantly captures the lives and romances of young expatriates in newly democratic Prague.
It's...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Queen's Gambit: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Fremantle
Simon & Schuster, 08/06/2013
This brilliant historical fiction debut takes you into the heart of the Tudor court and the life and loves of the clever, charismatic Katherine Parr, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Robert the Bruce: Guardians Trilogy Book 2
by
Jack Whyte
Forge Books, 08/06/2013
Robert I, or as he is known to a grateful Scottish nation, Robert the Bruce, was one of Scotland's greatest kings, as well as one of the most famous ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Sandrine's Case
by
Thomas H. Cook
Mysterious Press, 08/06/2013
Samuel Madison always wondered what Sandrine saw in him. He was a meek, stuffy doctorate student, and she a brilliant, beautiful, bohemian with ...
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Shoot the Dog: A Virgil Cain Mystery
by
Brad Smith
Scribner, 08/06/2013
In upstate New York, Virgil Cain is drawing hay behind his team of massive Percherons when two movie scouts show up and offer $500 a day to use the ...
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The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas
by
David Almond
Candlewick Press, 08/06/2013
Stanley Potts's uncle Ernie has developed an over-the-top fascination with canning fish in the house, and life at 69 Fish Quay Lane has turned barmy. ...
more
The Butterfly Sister: A Novel
by
Amy Gail Hansen
William Morrow Paperbacks, 08/06/2013
In
The Butterfly Sister by Amy Gail Hansen—a moving Gothic tale that intertwines mystery, madness, betrayal, love, and literature—a fragile ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Dying Hours: A Tom Thorne Novel
by
Mark Billingham
Atlantic Monthly Press, 08/06/2013
A fantastic, never-before-published Tom Thorne novel by England's crime king.
It's been twenty-five years since Tom Thorne last went to work wearing ...
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Thrillers
The Ghost Bride
by
Yangsze Choo
William Morrow, 08/06/2013
An Indie Next List pick,
The Bookseller Editor's Pick, and a
Library Journal Barbara's Pick, Yangsze Choo's stunning debut,
The Ghost Bride, is a ...
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The Good Thief's Guide to Berlin: Good Thief Mystery Series
by
Chris Ewan
Minotaur Books, 08/06/2013
You can't keep a good thief down ... Charlie Howard is back and robbing the city of Berlin blind, until he witnesses a murder being committed ...
more
The Gravity of Birds: A Novel
by
Tracy Guzeman
Simon & Schuster, 08/06/2013
How do you find someone who wants to be lost?
Sisters Natalie and Alice Kessler were close, until adolescence wrenched them apart. Natalie is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Purchase
by
Linda Spalding
Pantheon Books, 08/06/2013
Winner of Canada's 2012 Governor General's Award for Fiction
In this provocative and starkly beautiful historical novel, a Quaker family moves from...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Rathbones
by
Janice Clark
Doubleday, 08/06/2013
A gothic, literary adventure set in New England, Janice Clark's haunting debut chronicles one hundred years of a once prosperous and now crumbling ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Realm of Last Chances
by
Steve Yarbrough
Knopf, 08/06/2013
In a captivating departure from the Deep South setting of his previous fiction, Steve Yarbrough now gives us a richly nuanced portrait of a marriage ...
more
All The Land to Hold Us
by
Rick Bass
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 08/13/2013
Rick Bass brings a lyrical lushness to the harsh backdrop of West Texas in his masterfully crafted fourth novel.
All The Land to Hold Us is a sweeping...
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Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It
by
James Ciment
Hill and Wang, 08/13/2013
In 1820, a group of about eighty African Americans reversed the course of history and sailed back to Africa, to a place they would name after liberty ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
by
Matthew Quick
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 08/13/2013
In addition to the P-38, there are four gifts, one for each of my friends. I want to say good-bye to them properly. I want to give them each something...more
Going Home Again
by
Dennis Bock
Knopf, 08/13/2013
After two acclaimed historical novels, one of Canada's most celebrated young writers now gives us the vibrant, contemporary story of a man ...
more
Let Me Go: An Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell Novel
by
Chelsea Cain
Minotaur Books, 08/13/2013
Detective Archie Sheridan just has to get through the next few days, then his birthday and Halloween will be over. But with escaped serial killer...
more
Scissors: A Novel
by
Stephane Michaka
Nan A. Talese, 08/13/2013
Based on the life of the great short-story writer Raymond Carver, particularly his last ten, postalcoholic years,
Scissors is that rare thing, a funny...
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Son of a Gun: A Memoir
by
Justin St. Germain
Random House, 08/13/2013
Tombstone, Arizona, September 2001. Debbie St. Germain's death, apparently at the hands of her fifth husband, is a passing curiosity. "A real-life old...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Color Master: Stories
by
Aimee Bender
Doubleday, 08/13/2013
The bestselling author of
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake returns with a wondrous collection of dreamy, strange, and magical stories.
Truly ...
more
The Distancers: An American Memoir
by
Lee Sandlin
Vintage, 08/13/2013
In
The Distancers, seven generations worth of joy and heartache is artfully forged into a family portrait that is at once universally American yet ...
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Literary Fiction
The Scavenger's Daughters: Tales of the Scavenger's Daughters, Book One
by
Kay Bratt
Amazon Publishing, 08/13/2013
Having survived torture and imprisonment during China's Cultural Revolution, Benfu escaped to find love with his compassionate and beautiful Calla ...
more
The Tender Soldier: A True Story of War and Sacrifice
by
Vanessa M Gezari
Simon & Schuster, 08/13/2013
In this gripping story of three tough-minded American civilians carrying out the most audacious military social science experiment since Vietnam, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Truth
by
Michael Palin
Thomas Dunne Books, 08/13/2013
For the first time since his much-beloved tale
Hemingway's Chair was published in 1998, Michael Palin pens a new novel featuring the warm and witty ...
more
To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
by
Cris Beam
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 08/13/2013
Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the world ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Fallen Land
by
Patrick Flanery
Riverhead Books, 08/15/2013
Poplar Farm has been in Louise's family for generations, inherited by her sharecropping forbearer from a white landowner after a lynching. Now the ...
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A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America
by
Evan J. Mandery
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/19/2013
For two hundred years, the constitutionality of capital punishment had been axiomatic. But in 1962, Justice Arthur Goldberg and his clerk Alan ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Archangel
by
Andrea Barrett
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/19/2013
Winner of the National Book Award for her collection of stories
Ship Fever, Andrea Barrett has become one of our most admired and beloved writers. In ...
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A Fatal Likeness: A Charles Maddox Novel
by
Lynn Shepherd
Delacorte Press, 08/20/2013
With
The Solitary House, award-winning author Lynn Shepherd introduced readers to Charles Maddox, a brilliant private detective plying his trade on ...
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After Her
by
Joyce Maynard
William Morrow Paperbacks, 08/20/2013
Summer, 1979. A dry, hot Northern California school vacation stretches before Rachel and her younger sister, Patty - the daughters of a larger-than-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Compound Fractures: Dr. Alan Gregory Novel
by
Stephen White
Dutton, 08/20/2013
In
Line of Fire, the tantalizing prelude to this final book, Dr. Gregory found himself assailed by danger from every direction as he struggled with ...
more
Dark Waters: Cragg & Fidelis Mysteries
by
Robin Blake
Minotaur Books, 08/20/2013
Preston, 1741. The drowning of drunken publican Antony Egan is no surprise - even if it comes as an unpleasant shock to coroner Titus Cragg, whose ...
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Gabriele d'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War (also published as The Pike)
by
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Knopf, 08/20/2013
Published in some countries as
The Pike
Godfather to Mussolini, national hero of Italy and the WWI irredentist movement, literary icon of Joyce and...
more
Holy Orders: A Quirke Novel
by
Benjamin Black
Henry Holt and Company, 08/20/2013
"At first they thought it was the body of a child. Later, when they got it out of the water and saw the pubic hair and the nicotine stains on the ...
more
If You Could Be Mine: A Novel
by
Sara Farizan
Algonquin Books, 08/20/2013
Seventeen-year-old Sahar has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since they were six. They've shared stolen kisses and romantic promises. But ...
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Literary Fiction
Lookaway, Lookaway
by
Wilton Barnhardt
St. Martin's Press, 08/20/2013
Jerene Jarvis Johnston and her husband Duke are exemplars of Charlotte, North Carolina's high society, a world where old Southern money and the ...
more
Song of the Spirits: In the Land of the Long White Cloud saga
by
Sarah Lark
AmazonCrossing, 08/20/2013
Song of the Spirits continues the soaring saga begun with In the
Land of the Long White Cloud, as the founding families of colonial New Zealand ...
more
Literary Fiction
Sure Signs of Crazy
by
Karen Harrington
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 08/20/2013
Not every person responds to words the same way. Some words are trouble words. A trouble word will change the face of the person you say it to. Love
...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Tamarack County
by
William Kent Krueger
Atria Books, 08/20/2013
"Like many men and women who've worn a badge for a good part of their lives, Corcoran Liam O'Connor was cursed. Twice cursed, in reality. Cursed with ...more
The Bone Season
by
Samantha Shannon
Bloomsbury USA, 08/20/2013
It is the year 2059. Several major world cities are under the control of a security force called Scion. Paige Mahoney works in the criminal underworld...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Daughters of Mars
by
Thomas Keneally
Atria Books, 08/20/2013
From the acclaimed author of
Schindler's List, the epic, unforgettable story of two sisters from Australia, both trained nurses, whose lives are ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Girl You Left Behind
by
Jojo Moyes
Pamela Dorman Books, 08/20/2013
Jojo Moyes's bestseller,
Me Before You, catapulted her to wide critical acclaim and has struck a chord with readers everywhere. "Hopelessly and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Good Lord Bird
by
James McBride
Riverhead Books, 08/20/2013
Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Residue Years
by
Mitchell Jackson
Bloomsbury USA, 08/20/2013
Mitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighborhood in America's whitest city, Portland, Oregon. In the '90s, those streets and beyond had ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Devil Wears Scrubs (Dr. Jane McGill)
by
Freida McFadden
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 08/23/2013
But between her drug addict patients, sleepless nights on call, and battling wits with the sadistic yet charming Sexy Surgeon, Jane can't imagine an ...
more
Literary Fiction
A Hundred Flowers: A Novel
by
Gail Tsukiyama
St. Martin's Press, 08/27/2013
A powerful novel about an ordinary family facing extraordinary times at the start of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
China, 1957. Chairman Mao has...
more
A Question of Honor: A Bess Crawford Mystery
by
Charles Todd
William Morrow Paperbacks, 08/27/2013
In the latest mystery from
New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd, World War I nurse and amateur sleuth Bess Crawford investigates an old ...
more
Ghost Hawk
by
Susan Cooper
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 08/27/2013
On the winter day Little Hawk is sent into the woods alone, he can take only a bow and arrows, his handcrafted tomahawk, and the amazing metal knife ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
I Kiss Your Hands Many Times: Hearts, Souls, and Wars in Hungary
by
Marianne Szegedy-Maszak
Spiegel & Grau, 08/27/2013
Marianne Szegedy-Maszák's parents, Hanna and Aladár, met and fell in love in Budapest in 1940. He was a rising star in the foreign ministry ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
In Falling Snow
by
Mary-Rose MacColl
Penguin Books, 08/27/2013
Iris Crane's tranquil life is shattered when a letter summons memories from her bittersweet past: her first love, her best friend, and the tragedy ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Love in the Time of Global Warming
by
Francesca Lia Block
Henry Holt and Company, 08/27/2013
Seventeen-year-old Penelope (Pen) has lost everything - her home, her parents, and her ten-year-old brother. Like a female Odysseus in search of home,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Maxed Out
by
Katrina Alcorn
Seal Press, 08/27/2013
Winner of a Foreword IndieFab Book of the Year Award
Katrina Alcorn was a 37-year-old mother with a happy marriage and a thriving career when one day...
more
Biography/Memoir
Ostrich: A Novel
by
Matt Greene
Ballantine Books, 08/27/2013
A brilliant and moving coming-of-age story in the tradition of
Wonder by R. J. Palacio and
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Affairs of Others
by
Amy Grace Loyd
Picador, 08/27/2013
A mesmerizing debut novel about a young woman, haunted by loss, who rediscovers passion and possibility when she's drawn into the tangled lives of her...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Beginning of Everything
by
Robyn Schneider
Katherine Tegan Books, 08/27/2013
Robyn Schneider's
The Beginning of Everything is a witty and heart-wrenching teen novel that will appeal to fans of books by John Green and Ned ...
more
The Bitter Kingdom: Girl of Fire and Thorns Trilogy
by
Rae Carson
Greenwillow Books, 08/27/2013
The third book in Rae Carson's award-winning The Girl of Fire and Thorns fantasy trilogy. Elisa, the seventeen-year-old sorcerer-queen, will travel ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible ... on Schindler's List
by
Leon Leyson
Atheneum Books, 08/27/2013
Even in the darkest of times -
especially in the darkest of times - there is room for strength and bravery. A remarkable memoir from Leon Leyson, one ...
more
The Disenchanted Widow
by
Christina McKenna
Amazon Publishing, 08/27/2013
In the bleary summer of 1981, Bessie Halstone, along with her son, Herkie, flees Belfast to escape her husband's IRA debts and the Dentist, an IRA ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Forgetting Tree: A Novel
by
Tatjana Soli
St. Martin's Press, 08/27/2013
From
The New York Times bestselling author of
The Lotus Eaters, a novel of a California ranching family, its complicated matriarch and an enigmatic ...
more
The Road from Gap Creek
by
Robert Morgan
Algonquin Books, 08/27/2013
When Robert Morgan's novel
Gap Creek was published in 1999, it became an Oprah Book Club Selection and an instant national bestseller, attracting ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Time Fetch
by
Amy Herrick
Algonquin Books, 08/27/2013
Edward picks up what he thinks is a rock. He doesn't know it is a sleeping Time Fetch - and touching it will release its foragers too soon and alter ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets: A Memoir
by
Jessica A. Fox
Atria Books, 08/27/2013
Jessica Fox was living in Hollywood, an ambitious 26-year-old film-maker with a high-stress job at NASA. Working late one night, craving another life,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Transcendental
by
James Gunn
Tor Books, 08/27/2013
Riley, a veteran of interstellar war, is one of many beings from many different worlds aboard a ship on a pilgrimage that spans the galaxy. However, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Two Boys Kissing
by
David Levithan
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 08/27/2013
New York Times bestselling author David Levithan tells the based-on-true-events story of Harry and Craig, two 17-year-olds who are about to take part ...
more
Counting by 7s
by
Holly Goldberg Sloan
Rocky Pond Books, 08/29/2013
Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Little Tokyo Informant
by
Andrew Rosenheim
Overlook, 08/29/2013
Autumn, 1941. At a secret meeting in Washington, FBI Assistant Director Harry Guttman is told that the Soviet Union has been infiltrating the highest ...
more
Break These Rules:: 35 YA Authors on Speaking Up, Standing Out, and Being Yourself
by
Luke Reynolds
Chicago Review Press, 09/01/2013
Middle grade and young adult authors speak candidly on the unspoken "rules" of adolescence in this collection of moving, inspiring, and often funny ...
more
3 Sections: Poems
by
Vijay Seshadri
Graywolf Press, 09/03/2013
The long-awaited third poetry book by Vijay Seshadri, "one of the most respected poets working in America today" (
Time Out New York)
First I had ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Alex: The Commandant Camille Verhoeven Trilogy Volume 1
by
Pierre Lemaitre
Quercus, 09/03/2013
In this gripping, fiendishly plotted detective novel, Alex Prévost is kidnapped, savagely beaten, and suspended from the ceiling of an abandoned ...
more
All Our Yesterdays
by
Cristin Terrill
Hyperion, 09/03/2013
"You have to kill him."
Imprisoned in the heart of a secret military base, Em has nothing except the voice of the boy in the cell next door and the...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
An Impenetrable Screen of Purest Sky: A Novel
by
Dan Beachy-Quick
Coffee House Press, 09/03/2013
Daniel is pursued by stories. His father, in thrall to a myth, has disappeared; his mother and sister, too; and Lydia, his lover, leaves him and the ...
more
Literary Fiction
Bitter River: A Bell Elkins Novel
by
Julia Keller
Minotaur Books, 09/03/2013
In the next stunning novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning Julia Keller, following the popular
A Killing in the Hills, a pregnant teenager is found ...
more
Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong
by
Joyce Carol Oates
Mysterious Press, 09/03/2013
Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most prominent writers of her generation, and she is fearless when exploring the most disturbing corners of human ...
more
Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya
by
Annick Cojean
Grove Press, 09/03/2013
Soraya was just fifteen, a schoolgirl in the coastal town of Sirte, when she was given the honor of presenting a bouquet of flowers to Colonel Gaddafi...
more
How to Catch a Bogle
by
Catherine Jinks
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 09/03/2013
If ever a chill entered her soul, or the hope suddenly drained from her heart, she knew a bogle was to blame. Birdie McAdam, a ten-year-old orphan,&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Into That Forest
by
Louis Nowra
Amazon Publishing, 09/03/2013
Two girls survive a terrible flood in the Tasmanian bush and are rescued by a pair of Tasmanian tigers who raise them in the wild. Their story of ...
more
Japantown: A Jim Brodie Thriller
by
Barry Lancet
Simon & Schuster, 09/03/2013
San Francisco antiques dealer Jim Brodie recently inherited a stake in his father's Tokyo-based private investigation firm, which means the single ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Just What Kind of Mother Are You?
by
Paula Daly
Grove Press, 09/03/2013
Lisa Kallisto, overwhelmed working mother, is the not-so-perfect model of the modern woman. She holds down a busy job running an animal shelter, she ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Leap of Faith
by
Jamie Blair
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 09/03/2013
Can true love be built on lies? A teen on the run seeks relief and redemption in this gripping, romantic read.
Leah Kurtz has finally found a place...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Lineup
by
Liad Shoham
Harper Perennial, 09/03/2013
A brutal rape in a quiet Tel Aviv neighborhood has the police baffled. There are no witnesses, suspects, or clues, until the victim's father steps in ...
more
MaddAddam
by
Margaret Atwood
Nancy Paulsen Books, 09/03/2013
Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Necessary Lies
by
Diane Chamberlain
St. Martin's Press, 09/03/2013
After losing her parents, fifteen-year-old Ivy Hart is left to care for her grandmother, older sister and nephew as tenants on a small tobacco ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Never Go Back: A Jack Reacher Novel
by
Lee Child
Delacorte Press, 09/03/2013
Former military cop Jack Reacher makes it all the way from snowbound South Dakota to his destination in northeastern Virginia, near Washington, D.C.: ...
more
Old Man River: The Mississippi River in North American History
by
Paul Schneider
Henry Holt and Company, 09/03/2013
In
Old Man River, Paul Schneider tells the story of the river at the center of America's rich history - the Mississippi. Some fifteen thousand years ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Sanctuary Line
by
Jane Urquhart
Quercus, 09/03/2013
Solitary, nostalgic Liz Crane returns to her family's now-deserted farmhouse - once the setting for countless happy summers spent on the northern ...
more
Somebody Up There Hates You
by
Hollis Seamon
Algonquin Books, 09/03/2013
"Chemo, radiation, a zillion surgeries, watching my mom age twenty years in twenty months... if that's part of the Big Dude's
plan, then it's pretty ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Strangled in Paris: A Victor Legris Mystery
by
Claude Izner
Minotaur Books, 09/03/2013
The coast of Normandy, 1894: A mysterious young woman is rescued by an anonymous man after a deadly shipwreck. Paris, a few months later: The body of ...
more
Mysteries
Sydney and Violet: Their Life with T.S. Eliot, Proust, Joyce and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis
by
Stephen Klaidman
Nancy Paulsen Books, 09/03/2013
"I write primarily to pay homage to a beloved friend, but also in the hope that some future chronicler of the history of art and letters in our time ...more
The Assembler of Parts
by
Raoul Wientzen
Arcade Publishing, 09/03/2013
This stunning debut - like
The Lovely Bones - is a child's story narrated from the afterlife, and an emotional fable about love, forgiveness, and what...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Boy on the Porch
by
Sharon Creech
HarperCollins Publishers, 09/03/2013
When a young couple finds a boy asleep on their porch, their lives take a surprising turn. Unable to speak, the boy Jacob can't explain his history. ...
more
The Childhood of Jesus
by
J. M. Coetzee
Viking, 09/03/2013
Nobel laureate and two-time Booker Prize winner J. M. Coetzee returns with a haunting and surprising novel about childhood and destiny that is sure to...
more
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
by
Holly Black
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 09/03/2013
Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Drowning Guard: A Novel of the Ottoman Empire
by
Linda Lafferty
Amazon Publishing, 09/03/2013
Each morning in the hour before dawn, a silent boat launches on the Bosphorous, moving swiftly into the deepest part of the waters halfway between ...
more
Historical Fiction
The House of Journalists
by
Tim Finch
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/03/2013
"Welcome to the House of Journalists. Who are you and what is your story?" Thus begins Tim Finch's haunting Orwellian novel set in a fashionable ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Lord of Opium
by
Nancy Farmer
Atheneum Books, 09/03/2013
Matt has always been nothing but a clone - an exact replica, grown from a strip of old El Patron's skin. Now, age fourteen, Matt suddenly finds ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Ludwig Conspiracy
by
Oliver Potzsch
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 09/03/2013
Ludwig II, the Fairy-tale King of Bavaria, is today remembered for his beautiful castles - popular tourist destinations that inspired the Disney ...
more
The Maid's Version
by
Daniel Woodrell
Little Brown & Company, 09/03/2013
Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West Table, Missouri. Her husband is ...
more
The Outside: Sequel to The Hallowed Ones
by
Laura Bickle
Houghton Mifflin Books For Children, 09/03/2013
After a plague of vampires was unleashed in the world, Katie was kicked out of the safe haven of her Amish community for her refusal to adhere to...
more
The President's Hat
by
Antoine Laurain
Gallic Books, 09/03/2013
This prize-winning French bestseller is a charming fable about the power of a hat that takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through French life ...
more
The Return
by
Michael Gruber
Henry Holt and Company, 09/03/2013
Lauded as his #1 favorite book of the year, Stephen King advised President Obama, in the pages of Entertainment Weekly, to pick up Michael Gruber's ...
more
The Song of the Quarkbeast: The Chronicles of Kazam, Book 2
by
Jasper Fforde
Houghton Mifflin Books For Children, 09/03/2013
Magic has been in a sad state in the Ununited Kingdom for years, but now it's finally on the rise, and boneheaded King Snodd IV knows it. If he ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Guide for the Perplexed
by
Dara Horn
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/09/2013
Software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi has invented an application that records everything its users do. When an Egyptian library invites her to visit as a ...
more
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
by
Alan Taylor
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/09/2013
This searing story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian reveals the pivot in the nation's path between ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Boxers & Saints Boxed Set
by
Gene Luen Yang
First Second, 09/10/2013
One of the greatest comics storytellers alive brings all his formidable talents to bear in this astonishing new work.
In two volumes,
Boxers & ...more
Dancing with the Enemy: My Family's Holocaust Secret
by
Paul Glaser
Nan A. Talese, 09/10/2013
The gripping story of the author's aunt, a Jewish dance instructor who was betrayed to the Nazis by the two men she loved, yet managed to survive WWII...
more
Fallout
by
Todd Strasser
Candlewick Press, 09/10/2013
What if the bomb had actually been dropped? What if your family was the only one with a shelter?
In the summer of 1962, the possibility of nuclear ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945
by
Rana Mitter
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 09/10/2013
The epic, untold story of China's devastating eight-year war of resistance against Japan
For decades, a major piece of World War II history has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl
by
David Barnett
Tor Books, 09/10/2013
Nineteenth century London is the center of a vast British Empire. Airships ply the skies and Queen Victoria presides over three-quarters of the known ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Mister Max: The Book of Lost Things: Mister Max 1
by
Cynthia Voigt
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 09/10/2013
Newbery medalist Cynthia Voigt presents a rollicking mystery in three acts!
Max's parents are missing. They are actors, and thus unpredictable, but ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
More Than This
by
Patrick Ness
Candlewick Press, 09/10/2013
A boy named Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. He is naked, ...
more
My Notorious Life
by
Kate Manning
Scribner, 09/10/2013
This sweeping, evocative, and absolutely unforgettable novel about the charismatic and passionate Axie Muldoon who changed the lives of countless ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Nine Days
by
Toni Jordan
Text Publishing Company, 09/10/2013
One family. Nine momentous days. An unforgettable novel of love and folly and heartbreak.
It is 1939 and Australia is about to go to war. Deep in ...
more
Nine Inches: Stories
by
Tom Perrotta
St. Martin's Press, 09/10/2013
Nine Inches, Tom Perrotta's first true collection, features ten stories - some sharp and funny, some mordant and surprising, and a few intense and ...
more
Others of My Kind: A Novel
by
James Sallis
Bloomsbury USA, 09/10/2013
At age eight, Jenny Rowan was abducted and kept for two years in a box beneath her captor's bed. Eventually she escaped and, after living for eighteen...
more
Literary Fiction
Rivers
by
Michael Farris Smith
Simon & Schuster, 09/10/2013
It had been raining for weeks. Maybe months. He had forgotten the last day that it hadn't rained, when the storms gave way to the pale blue of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Rose Under Fire
by
Elizabeth Wein
Hyperion, 09/10/2013
While flying an Allied fighter plane from Paris to England, American ATA pilot and amateur poet, Rose Justice, is captured by the Nazis and sent to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Songs of Willow Frost
by
Jamie Ford
Ballantine Books, 09/10/2013
From Jamie Ford, the
New York Times bestselling author of the beloved
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, comes a much-anticipated second novel. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Stay Up With Me
by
Tom Barbash
Ecco, 09/10/2013
The stories in Tom Barbash's wondrous and evocative collection explore the myriad ways we try to connect with one another and with the sometimes cruel...
more
Subtle Bodies
by
Norman Rush
Knopf, 09/10/2013
In his long-awaited new novel, Norman Rush, author of three immensely praised books set in Africa, including the best-selling classic and ...
more
Ten Billion
by
Stephen Emmott
Vintage, 09/10/2013
Deforestation. Desertification. Species extinction. Global warming. Growing threats to food and water. The driving issues of our times are the result ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives
by
Sasha Abramsky
Nation Books, 09/10/2013
Fifty years after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book
The Other America, in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded from the...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Edge of Normal
by
Carla Norton
Minotaur Books, 09/10/2013
In many ways, Reeve LeClaire looks like a typical twenty-two year old girl. She's finally landed her own apartment, she waitresses to pay the bills, ...
more
The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel
by
Deborah Hopkinson
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 09/10/2013
Eel has troubles of his own: As an orphan and a "mudlark," he spends his days in the filthy River Thames, searching for bits of things to sell. He's ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
by
Nina Munk
Doubleday, 09/10/2013
"The poor you will always have with you," to cite the Gospel of Matthew 26:11. Jeffrey Sachs - celebrated economist, special advisor to the Secretary ...
more
The Professor of Truth
by
James Robertson
Other Press, 09/10/2013
Twenty-one years after his wife and daughter were killed in the bombing of a plane over Scotland, English lecturer Alan Tealing persists in trying to ...
more
The Thicket
by
Joe R. Lansdale
Mulholland, 09/10/2013
ALA Reading List Award for History, Short List
Jack Parker thought he'd already seen his fair share of tragedy. His grandmother was killed in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Thin Space
by
Jody Casella
Simon Pulse, 09/10/2013
Ever since the car accident that killed his identical twin brother, Marshall Windsor has been consumed with guilt and crippled by the secrets of that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Brotherhood
by
Anne Westrick
Viking, 09/12/2013
The year is 1867, the South has been defeated, and the American Civil War is over. But the conflict goes on. Yankees now patrol the streets of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Small Wars, Faraway Places: Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World, 1945-1965
by
Michael Burleigh
Viking, 09/12/2013
The Cold War reigns in popular imagination as a period of tension between the two post-World War II superpowers, the United States and the Soviet ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Facades
by
Eric Lundgren
Overlook, 09/12/2013
Along the streets of the once-great Midwestern city of Trude, the ornate old buildings lie in ruin. Shrouded in disappointment and nostalgia, Trude ...
more
Treasure Hunters
by
James Patterson
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 09/16/2013
From the #1
New York Times bestselling author of
Middle School, the Worst Years of My Life and
I Funny comes a brilliantly original new adventure ...
more
A Beautiful Truth
by
Colin McAdam
Soho Press, 09/17/2013
Told simultaneously from the perspective of humans and chimpanzees, set in a Vermont home and a Florida primate research facility,
A Beautiful Truth -...
more
A Commonplace Killing
by
Siân Busby
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 09/17/2013
On a damp July morning in 1946, two schoolboys find a woman's body in a bomb site in north London. The woman is identified as Lillian Frobisher, a ...
more
A Prayer for Owen Meany
by
John Irving
Mariner Books, 09/17/2013
In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys—best friends—are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One...
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Literary Fiction
Asunder
by
Chloe Aridjis
Mariner Books, 09/17/2013
Marie's job as a guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and quiet contemplation. But amid ...
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Black Skies: An Inspector Erlendur Novel
by
Arnaldur Indridason
Minotaur Books, 09/17/2013
A man is making a crude leather mask with an iron spike fixed in the middle of the forehead. It is a "death mask," once used by Icelandic farmers to ...
more
Bleeding Edge
by
Thomas Pynchon
Penguin Press, 09/17/2013
It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost ...
more
Literary Fiction
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
by
Eric Schlosser
Penguin Press, 09/17/2013
Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal. A ground-breaking ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Fortunately, the Milk
by
Neil Gaiman
HarperCollins Publishers, 09/17/2013
"I bought the milk," said my father. "I walked out of the corner shop, and heard a noise like this: T h u m m t h u m m. I looked up and saw a huge ...
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Help for the Haunted
by
John Searles
William Morrow Paperbacks, 09/17/2013
John Searles's Help for the Haunted is an unforgettable story of a most unusual family, their deep secrets, their harrowing tragedy, and ...
more
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
by
Jesmyn Ward
Bloomsbury USA, 09/17/2013
"We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was ...more
Sister Mother Husband Dog: Etc.
by
Delia Ephron
Blue Rider Press, 09/17/2013
Hollywood screenwriter and bestselling author Delia Ephron returns with a memorable collection of personal and poignant stories and essays, anchored ...
more
The Big Crowd
by
Kevin Baker
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 09/17/2013
Based on one of the great unsolved murders in mob history, and the rise-and-fall of a real-life hero,
The Big Crowd tells the sweeping story of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Clockwork Scarab: A Stoker & Holmes Novel
by
Colleen Gleason
Chronicle Books, 09/17/2013
Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes never meant to get into the family business.
But when you're the sister of Bram and the niece of Sherlock, vampire ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Dream Thieves: The Raven Boys #2
by
Maggie Stiefvater
Scholastic, 09/17/2013
Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater have been woken, nothing for Ronan, Gansey, Blue, and Adam will be the same. Ronan, for one, is falling more ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Impersonator: A Mystery
by
Mary Miley
Minotaur Books, 09/17/2013
In 1917, Jessie Carr, fourteen years old and sole heiress to her family's vast fortune, disappeared without a trace. Now, years later, her uncle ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Last First Day: A Novel
by
Carrie Brown
Pantheon Books, 09/17/2013
From the author of
The Rope Walk, here is the story of a woman's life in its twilight, as she looks back on a harrowing childhood and on the ...
more
The Salinger Contract
by
Adam Langer
Open Road Integrated Media, 09/17/2013
Adam Langer, the narrator of this deft and wide-ranging novel by the author of the same name, tells the intertwining tales of two writers navigating a...
more
The Screaming Staircase: Lockwood & Co.
by
Jonathan Stroud
Hyperion, 09/17/2013
A sinister Problem has occurred in London: all nature of ghosts, haunts, spirits, and specters are appearing throughout the city, and they aren't ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Shogun's Daughter: A Novel of Feudal Japan (Sano Ichiro)
by
Laura Joh Rowland
Minotaur Books, 09/17/2013
Japan, 1704. In an elegant mansion a young woman named Tsuruhime lies on her deathbed, attended by her nurse. Smallpox pustules cover her ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Year of Billy Miller
by
Kevin Henkes
Greenwillow Books, 09/17/2013
Award-winning, nationally bestselling author Kevin Henkes introduces second-grader Billy Miller in this fast-paced and funny story about friendship, ...
more
This Song Will Save Your Life
by
Leila Sales
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/17/2013
Making friends has never been Elise Dembowski's strong suit. All throughout her life, she's been the butt of every joke and the outsider in every ...
more
Traveling Sprinkler
by
Nicholson Baker
Blue Rider Press, 09/17/2013
A new novel by bestselling author Nicholson Baker reintroduces feckless but hopeful hero Paul Chowder, whose struggle to get his life together is ...
more
Tumble & Fall
by
Alexandra Coutts
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/17/2013
The world is living in the shadow of oncoming disaster. An asteroid is set to strike the earth in just one week's time; catastrophe is unavoidable. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Local Souls
by
Allan Gurganus
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/23/2013
With the meteoric success of
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Allan Gurganus placed himself among America's most original and emotionally ...
more
An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist
by
Richard Dawkins
Ecco, 09/24/2013
Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was ...
more
Battle Magic
by
Tamora Pierce
Scholastic, 09/24/2013
On their way to the first Circle temple in Gyongxi, mages Briar, Rosethorn, and Evvy pay a visit to the emperor's summer palace. Although treated like...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Cartwheel
by
Jennifer duBois
Random House, 09/24/2013
Written with the riveting storytelling and the moral seriousness of authors like Emma Donoghue, Adam Johnson, Ann Patchett, and Curtis Sittenfeld,
...more
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
by
Max Hastings
Knopf, 09/24/2013
From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Chasing Shadows
by
Swati Avasthi (Author), Craig Phillips (Illustrator)
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 09/24/2013
Chasing Shadows is a searing look at the impact of one random act of violence.
Before: Corey, Holly, and Savitri are one unit - fast, strong, ...
more
Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
by
Alan Weisman
Little Brown & Company, 09/24/2013
In his bestselling book
The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Doctor Sleep
by
Stephen King
Scribner, 09/24/2013
On highways across America, a tribe of people called the True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless - mostly old, lots of polyester,...
more
Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
by
Kate DiCamillo
Candlewick Press, 09/24/2013
It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming...
more
From Norvelt to Nowhere
by
Jack Gantos
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/24/2013
This rocket-paced follow-up to the Newbery Medal–winning novel
Dead End in Norvelt opens deep in the shadow of the Cuban missile crisis. But ...
more
Inhuman
by
Kat Falls
Scholastic, 09/24/2013
Never let them tame you.
In the wake of a devastating biological disaster, the United States east of the Mississippi has been abandoned. Now called...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Invasion
by
Walter Dean Myers
Scholastic, 09/24/2013
Josiah Wedgewood and Marcus Perry are on their way to an uncertain future. Their whole lives are ahead of them, yet at the same time, death's whisper ...
more
Historical Fiction
Keeping It Civil: The Case of the Pre-nup and the Porsche & Other True Accounts from the Files of a Family Lawyer
by
Margaret Klaw
Algonquin Books, 09/24/2013
A woman seeking a divorce has no idea of the family finances - her husband doled out money only after she gave him requisition slips for her intended ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Not a Drop to Drink
by
Mindy McGinnis
Katherine Tegan Books, 09/24/2013
Teenage Lynn has been taught to defend her pond against every threat: drought, a snowless winter, coyotes, and, most important, people looking for a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads
by
Tim Cope
Bloomsbury USA, 09/24/2013
The relationship between man and horse on the Eurasian steppe gave rise to a succession of rich nomadic cultures. Among them were the Mongols of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Serafina's Promise
by
Ann E. Burg
Scholastic, 09/24/2013
Serafina has a secret dream.
She wants to go to school and become a doctor with her best friend, Julie Marie.
But in their rural village outside...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks
by
Keith Houston
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/24/2013
A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word,
Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Steelheart
by
Brandon Sanderson
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, 09/24/2013
Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Faithful Scribe: A Story of Islam, Pakistan, Family, and War
by
Shahan Mufti
Other Press, 09/24/2013
A journalist explores his family's history to reveal the hybrid cultural and political landscape of Pakistan, the world's first Islamic democracy.
...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Outcasts
by
Kathleen Kent
Little Brown & Company, 09/24/2013
It's the 19th century on the Gulf Coast, a time of opportunity and lawlessness. After escaping the Texas brothel where she'd been a virtual prisoner, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Paradox of Vertical Flight
by
Emil Ostrovski
Greenwillow Books, 09/24/2013
On the morning of his eighteenth birthday, Jack Polovsky kidnaps his own baby, names him Socrates, stocks up on baby supplies at Walmart, and hits the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Real Boy
by
Anne Ursu
HarperCollins Publishers, 09/24/2013
The Real Boy, Anne Ursu's follow-up to her widely acclaimed and beloved middle-grade fantasy
Breadcrumbs, is an unforgettable story of magic, faith, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Small Hand and Dolly: Two Novels
by
Susan Hill
Vintage, 09/24/2013
The Small Hand
Antiquarian bookseller Adam Snow is returning from a client visit when he takes a wrong turn and stumbles upon a derelict Edwardian ...
more
The Spirit Keeper
by
K. B. Laugheed
Plume, 09/24/2013
This is the account of Katie O'Toole, late of Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, removed from her family by savages on March the 2nd in the year of our Lord...more
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Wedding Gift
by
Marlen Suyapa Bodden
St. Martin's Press, 09/24/2013
When prestigious plantation owner Cornelius Allen gives his daughter Clarissa's hand in marriage, she takes with her a gift: Sarah - her slave and her...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Treasure Hunt
by
Andrea Camilleri
Penguin Books, 09/24/2013
In
Treasure Hunt, Montalbano is hailed as a hero after news cameras film him scaling a building - gun in hand - to capture a pair of unlikely snipers....
more
Mysteries
What I Came to Tell You
by
Tommy Hays
Egmont USA, 09/24/2013
Since his mother died earlier this year, Grover Johnston (named after a character in Thomas Wolfe's
Look Homeward Angel) has watched his family fall ...
more
All the Truth That's In Me
by
Julie Berry
Viking, 09/26/2013
Four years ago, Judith and her best friend disappeared from their small town of Roswell Station. Two years ago, only Judith returned, permanently ...
more
Jewels in the Dust
by
Peter Crowther
Subterranean Press, 09/30/2013
In the pages of this latest collection of downright delicate, often enchanting and occasionally distressing stories from the pen ...
more
Short Stories
An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir
by
Phyllis Chesler
Palgrave Macmillan, 10/01/2013
Few westerners will ever be able to understand Muslim or Afghan society unless they are part of a Muslim family. Twenty years old and in love, Phyllis...
more
Ancillary Justice: Imperial Radch #1
by
Ann Leckie
Orbit, 10/01/2013
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.
Once, she was the Justice of Toren—a colossal...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Blackout
by
Robison Wells
HarperTeen, 10/01/2013
Laura and Alec are highly trained teenage terrorists. Jack and Aubrey are small-town high school students. There was no reason for their paths to ever...
more
Blowback: A Vanessa Pierson Novel
by
Valerie Plame & Sarah Lovett
The Blue Sky Press, 10/01/2013
Covert CIA ops officer Vanessa Pierson is finally close to capturing the world's most dangerous international nuclear arms dealer: Bhoot, alias the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
by
Malcolm Gladwell
Little Brown & Company, 10/01/2013
Malcolm Gladwell, the #1 bestselling author of
The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and
What the Dog Saw, offers his most provocative---and dazzling---...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Entangled
by
Amy Rose Capetta
Houghton Mifflin Books For Children, 10/01/2013
Alone was the note Cade knew best. It was the root of all her chords.
Seventeen-year-old Cade is a fierce survivor, solo in the universe with her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Loss of Innocence
by
Richard North Patterson
Quercus, 10/01/2013
From acclaimed author Richard North Patterson comes a sweeping family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings, set against the backdrop of the...
more
Mortal Bonds: A Jason Stafford Novel
by
Michael Sears
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/01/2013
From the author of the extraordinary Edgar-nominated debut novel
Black Fridays, a sensational story of murder and financial corruption?and one man's ...
more
Nostalgia
by
Dennis McFarland
Pantheon Books, 10/01/2013
This stunning Civil War novel from best-selling author Dennis McFarland brings us the journey of a nineteen-year-old private, abandoned by his ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
One Summer: America, 1927
by
Bill Bryson
Doubleday, 10/01/2013
The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the twentieth century: on May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first man to cross ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
by
James Barrat
Thomas Dunne Books, 10/01/2013
Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It puts the "smart" in your smartphone and soon&#...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Sex Is Forbidden
by
Tim Parks
Arcade Publishing, 10/01/2013
Sex is forbidden at the Dasgupta Institute, the Buddhist retreat where Beth Marriot has taken refuge, and that's a big advantage. Beth has been ...
more
Literary Fiction
Strings Attached: One Tough Teacher and the Gift of Great Expectations
by
Joanne Lipman, Melanie Kupchynsky
Hyperion, 10/01/2013
If you're lucky, somewhere in your past is that one person who changed your life forever. The one who pushed you to dream bigger and to reach higher, ...
more
Survival Lessons
by
Alice Hoffman
Algonquin Books, 10/01/2013
Survival Lessons provides a road map of how to reclaim your life from this day forward, with ways to reenvision everything - from relationships with ...
more
Advice
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
by
Stephen Kinzer
Times Books, 10/01/2013
During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose ...
more
The Elixir of Immortality
by
Gabi Gleichmann
Other Press, 10/01/2013
Since the eleventh century, the Spinoza family has passed down, from father to son, a secret manuscript containing the recipe for immortality. Now, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Enchanter Heir: The Heir Chronicles #4
by
Cinda Williams Chima
Hyperion, 10/01/2013
They called it the Thorn Hill Massacre - the brutal attack on a once-thriving Weir community. Though Jonah Kinlock lived through it, he did not emerge...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Hired Man
by
Aminatta Forna
Atlantic Monthly Press, 10/01/2013
The new novel from the winner of the Commonwealth Writer's Prize,
The Hired Man is a taut, powerful novel of a small town and its dark wartime secrets...
more
The Last Banquet
by
Jonathan Grimwood
Europa Editions, 10/01/2013
Set against the backdrop of the Enlightenment, the delectable decadence of Versailles, and the French Revolution,
The Last Banquet is an intimate epic...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Night Guest
by
Fiona McFarlane
Faber and Faber, 10/01/2013
Ruth is widowed, her sons are grown, and she lives in an isolated beach house outside of town. Her routines are few and small. One day a stranger ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The October List
by
Jeffery Deaver
Grand Central Publishing, 10/01/2013
#1 bestselling author Jeffery Deaver has created the most riveting and original novel of the year-a race-against-the-clock mystery, told in reverse.
...
more
The Pure Gold Baby
by
Margaret Drabble
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 10/01/2013
Jessica Speight, a young anthropology student in 1960s London, is at the beginning of a promising academic career when an affair with her married ...
more
The Rosie Project
by
Graeme Simsion
Simon & Schuster, 10/01/2013
Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of one hand, whose ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
by
Daniel Lieberman
Pantheon Books, 10/01/2013
In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman - chair of the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Three Can Keep a Secret: A Joe Gunther Novel
by
Archer Mayor
Minotaur Books, 10/01/2013
"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead." - Ben Franklin
Joe Gunther and his team - the Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI) - are ...
more
Mysteries
Thursdays in the Park
by
Hilary Boyd
Quercus, 10/01/2013
In this touching, romantic tale of new attraction and old loyalties, Jeanie is on the brink of turning sixty, and the man she's been married to for ...
more
Romance
Unhooking the Moon
by
Gregory Hughes
Quercus, 10/01/2013
When an adventurous sister-and-brother duo become orphans, a funny and heartbreaking roadtrip to New York ensues, as the pair searches for their long-...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
T.C. Boyle Stories II: The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle, Volume II
by
T.C. Boyle
Viking, 10/03/2013
Few authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T.C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, ...
more
The Land of Dreams
by
Vidar Sundstol
University of Minnesota Press, 10/07/2013
Winner of the Riverton Prize for best Norwegian crime novel and named by
Dagbladet as one of the top twenty-five Norwegian crime novels of all time,
...more
Doomed
by
Chuck Palahniuk
Doubleday, 10/08/2013
Madison Spencer, the liveliest and snarkiest dead girl in the universe, continues the afterlife adventure begun in Chuck Palahniuk's bestseller
Damned...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
George Washington: Gentleman Warrior
by
Stephen Brumwell
Quercus, 10/08/2013
Winner of the prestigious George Washington Book Prize,
George Washington is a vivid recounting of the formative years and military career of "The ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
by
Wendy Lower
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 10/08/2013
Wendy Lower's stunning account of the role of German women on the World War II Nazi eastern front powerfully revises history, proving that we have ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How to Read a Novelist
by
John Freeman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/08/2013
The novel is alive and well, thank you very much
For the last fifteen years, whenever a novel was published, John Freeman was there to ...
more
Essays
Jacob's Oath
by
Martin Fletcher
Thomas Dunne Books, 10/08/2013
Martin Fletcher's
Jacob's Oath is a heart-wrenching and heartwarming thriller about the consequences of revenge that will be a huge word-of-mouth and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Juvie
by
Steve Watkins
Candlewick Press, 10/08/2013
Sadie Windas has always been the responsible one — she's the star player on her AAU basketball team, she gets good grades, she dates a cute ...
more
Last of the Blue and Gray: Old Men, Stolen Glory, and the Mystery That Outlived the Civil War
by
Richard A. Serrano
Smithsonian Institution Press, 10/08/2013
In the late 1950s, as America prepared for the Civil War centennial, two very old men lay dying. Albert Woolson, 109 years old, slipped in and out of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Last Train to Istanbul
by
Ayse Kulin
AmazonCrossing, 10/08/2013
An international bestseller by one of Turkey's most beloved authors
As the daughter of one of Turkey's last Ottoman pashas, Selva could win the ...
more
Historical Fiction
Lighthouse Island: A Novel
by
Paulette Jiles
William Morrow, 10/08/2013
In the coming centuries the world's population has exploded. The earth is crowded with cities, animals are nearly all extinct, and drought is so ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Mr. Lynch's Holiday
by
Catherine O'Flynn
Henry Holt and Company, 10/08/2013
A sophisticated and touching novel of a father and son reconnecting in a foreign place, from the award-winning and bestselling author of
What Was Lost...more
Once We Were Brothers
by
Ronald H. Balson
St. Martin's Griffin, 10/08/2013
Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is attending a fundraiser when he is suddenly accosted and accused of being a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
One Hundred and Four Horses: A Memoir of Farm and Family, Africa and Exile
by
Mandy Retzlaff
William Morrow, 10/08/2013
There is little in this world that a family cannot endure, if endure they must. For we all have it within us to lose everything, absolutely everything...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Case of the Love Commandos: From the Files of Vish Puri, India's Most Private Investigator
by
Tarquin Hall
Simon & Schuster, 10/08/2013
When Ram and Tulsi fall in love, the young woman's parents are dead set against the union. She's from a high-caste family; he's an Untouchable, from ...
more
The Circle
by
Dave Eggers
Knopf, 10/08/2013
When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime...
more
The Girl in Berlin
by
Elizabeth Wilson
Serpent’s Tail, 10/08/2013
Summer, 1951. Two suspected spies, Burgess and Maclean, have disappeared, and the nation is obsessed with their whereabouts.
Speculation is at ...
more
The Kingdom of Little Wounds
by
Susann Cokal
Candlewick Press, 10/08/2013
On the eve of Princess Sophia's wedding, the Scandinavian city of Skyggehavn prepares to fete the occasion with a sumptuous display of riches: brocade...
more
Short Stories
The Midnight Dress
by
Karen Foxlee
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 10/08/2013
Quiet misfit Rose doesn't expect to fall in love with the sleepy beach town of Leonora. Nor does she expect to become fast friends with beautiful, ...
more
This House is Haunted
by
John Boyne
Other Press, 10/08/2013
Written in Dickensian prose,
This House Is Haunted is a striking homage to the classic nineteenth century ghost story. Set in Norfolk in 1867, Eliza ...
more
Just One Year
by
Gayle Forman
Dutton Children's Books, 10/10/2013
After spending an amazing day and night together in Paris,
Just One Year is Willem's story, picking up where
Just One Day ended. His story of their ...
more
"When Did You See Her Last?": (All the Wrong Questions)
by
Lemony Snicket
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 10/15/2013
I should have asked the question "How could someone who was missing be in two places at once?" Instead, I asked the wrong question - four wrong ...more
Before I Met You: A Novel
by
Lisa Jewell
Atria Books, 10/15/2013
After her grandmother Arlette's death, Betty is finally ready to begin her life. She had forfeited university, parties, boyfriends, summer jobs—...
more
Crooked Numbers: Raymond Donne Mysteries
by
Tim O'Mara
Minotaur Books, 10/15/2013
When one of Raymond Donne's former students is found stabbed to death under the Williamsburg Bridge, Ray draws on his past as a cop to find the ...
more
Mysteries
Fiendish Schemes
by
K. W. Jeter
Tor Books, 10/15/2013
In 1986 K. W. Jeter coined the term "steampunk," applying it to his first Victorian-era science fiction alternate-history adventure. At last he has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Good Indian Girls: Stories
by
Ranbir Singh Sidhu
Soft Skull Press, 10/15/2013
In twelve startling and vividly imagined stories, Ranbir Singh Sidhu overturns the lives of ordinary Indians living in America to bring us a bold ...
more
Guests on Earth
by
Lee Smith
Algonquin Books, 10/15/2013
"The insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Henry and Rachel
by
Laurel Saville
Amazon Publishing, 10/15/2013
Brought to live with the George family as a child, all anyone knew about enigmatic Rachel was that she worked hard, making herself indispensable to ...
more
Historical Fiction
How to Be a Good Wife
by
Emma Chapman
St. Martin's Press, 10/15/2013
In the tradition of Emma Donoghue's
Room and S.J. Watson's
Before I Go to Sleep, a haunting literary debut about a woman who begins having visions ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
In the Name of God: The True Story of the Fight to Save Children from Faith-Healing Homicide
by
Cameron Stauth
Thomas Dunne Books, 10/15/2013
An anonymous caller tells a detective in a small Oregon town that a woman has just bitten off a man's finger. But the man is not the victim, the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Just One Evil Act: An Inspector Lynley Novel
by
Elizabeth George
Dutton, 10/15/2013
Barbara is at a loss: The daughter of her friend Taymullah Azhar has been taken by her mother, and Barbara can't really help - Azhar had never married...
more
Lost Luggage
by
Jordi Punti
Marble Arch Press, 10/15/2013
The prize-winning debut novel from a major new talent in Catalan literature - the story of four half-brothers who only discover the others' existence ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Mad About the Boy: A Bridget Jones Novel
by
Helen Fielding
Knopf, 10/15/2013
With her hotly anticipated third installment,
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Fielding introduces us to 51-year-old Bridget Jones, single mother of ...
more
Meet Me at the River
by
Nina de Gramont
Atheneum Books, 10/15/2013
We can't choose who we love…but can we choose to let go?
Stepsiblings Tressa and Luke have been close since they were little…and when ...
more
Mennonite Meets Mr. Right: A Memoir of Faith, Hope, and Love
by
Rhoda Janzen
Grand Central Publishing, 10/15/2013
At the end of her bestselling memoir
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, Rhoda Janzen had reconnected with her family roots, though her future felt ...
more
On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin
by
Marie Colvin
HarperCollins Publishers, 10/15/2013
Veteran Sunday Times war correspondent, Marie Colvin was killed in February 2012 when covering the uprising in Syria. Winner of the Orwell Special ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Police: A Harry Hole Novel
by
Jo Nesbo
Knopf, 10/15/2013
The police urgently need Harry Hole ... A killer is stalking Oslo's streets. Police officers are being slain at the scenes of crimes they once ...
more
Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion
by
Anne Somerset
Knopf, 10/15/2013
She ascended the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland in 1702, at age thirty-seven, and five years later united two of her realms, England and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Quiet Dell
by
Jayne Anne Phillips
Scribner, 10/15/2013
In Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, mother of three, is lonely and despairing, pressed for money after the sudden death of her husband. She begins to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century
by
David Laskin
Viking, 10/15/2013
With cinematic power and beauty, bestselling author David Laskin brings to life the upheavals of the twentieth century through the story of one family...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Inheritor's Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science
by
Sandra Hempel
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/15/2013
In the first half of the nineteenth century, an epidemic swept Europe: Arsenic poisoning. Available at any corner shop for a few pence, arsenic was so...
more
The Last Animal
by
Abby Geni
Counterpoint Press, 10/15/2013
The Last Animal by Abby Geni is that rare literary find - a remarkable series of stories unified around one theme: people who use the interface ...
more
The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
by
Simon Winchester
Harper Perennial, 10/15/2013
Simon Winchester, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of
Atlantic and
The Professor and the Madman, delivers his first book about America:...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Two Hotel Francforts
by
David Leavitt
Bloomsbury USA, 10/15/2013
It is the summer of 1940, and Lisbon, Portugal, is the only neutral port left in Europe - a city filled with spies, crowned heads, and refugees of ...
more
Historical Fiction
Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years
by
Tom Standage
Bloomsbury USA, 10/15/2013
Papyrus rolls and Twitter have much in common, as each was their generation's signature means of "instant" communication. Indeed, as Tom Standage ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Ties That Bind: Stories of Love and Gratitude from the First Ten Years of StoryCorps
by
Dave Isay
Penguin Press, 10/17/2013
Ties That Bind honors the people who nourish and strengthen us. StoryCorps founder Dave Isay draws from ten years of the revolutionary oral history ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Allegiant: Divergent #3
by
Veronica Roth
Katherine Tegan Books, 10/22/2013
What if your whole world was a lie?
What if a single revelation - like a single choice - changed everything?
What if love and loyalty made you ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
by
Russell Shorto
Doubleday, 10/22/2013
An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed
Island at the Center of ...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Critical Mass: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
by
Sara Paretsky
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/22/2013
New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretsky's brilliant protagonist V.I. Warshawski returns in another hard-hitting entry, combining razor-sharp ...
more
Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste
by
Luke Barr
Clarkson Potter, 10/22/2013
Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coincidentally, the iconic culinary figures James Beard, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Teardrop: Teardrop Trilogy
by
Lauren Kate
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, 10/22/2013
The first in a new series by Lauren Kate, the #1
New York Times bestselling author of the Fallen series,
Teardrop is an epic saga of heart-stopping ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Abominable
by
Dan Simmons
Little Brown & Company, 10/22/2013
It's 1924 and the race to summit the world's highest mountain has been brought to a terrified pause by the shocking disappearance of George Mallory ...
more
The Circle of Thirteen
by
William Petrocelli
Turner, 10/22/2013
In 2082, a catastrophic explosion rocks the dedication ceremony of the new United Nations in New York City. Security Director Julia Moro is on the job...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Hidden White House: Harry Truman and the Reconstruction of America's Most Famous Residence
by
Robert Klara
Thomas Dunne Books, 10/22/2013
Critically acclaimed author Robert Klara leads readers through an unmatched tale of political ambition and technical skill: the Truman administration'...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting
by
Alan Greenspan
Penguin Press, 10/22/2013
Like all of us, though few so visibly, Alan Greenspan was forced by the financial crisis of 2008 to question some fundamental assumptions about risk ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
We Are Water
by
Wally Lamb
Harper, 10/22/2013
We Are Water is a disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy, from Wally Lamb,...
more
Trees in Paradise: A California History
by
Jared Farmer
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/28/2013
From roots to canopy, a lush, verdant history of the making of California.
California now has more trees than at any time since the late ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Altered: Crewel World #2
by
Gennifer Albin
Macmillan Children’s Books, 10/29/2013
Deadly Secrets
Tangled Lies
Woven truths
Life. Possibility. Choice. All taken from Adelice by the Guild—until she took them back.
But ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World
by
Thomas Cahill
Nancy Paulsen Books, 10/29/2013
From the inimitable and bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history, focusing on the Renaissance and Reformation and how this innovative...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Biography/Memoir
Parasite: Parasitology Series
by
Mira Grant
Orbit, 10/29/2013
A decade in the future, humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease.
We owe our good health to a humble parasite - a genetically ...
more
The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son
by
Pat Conroy
Nan A. Talese, 10/29/2013
In this powerful and intimate memoir, the beloved bestselling author of
The Prince of Tides and his father, the inspiration for
The Great Santini, ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Letters of John F. Kennedy
by
Martin W. Sandler (Editor)
Bloomsbury USA, 10/29/2013
John Fitzgerald Kennedy led his nation for little more than a thousand days, yet his presidency is intensely remembered, not merely as a byproduct of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
City of Lies: A Thriller
by
R.J. Ellory
Overlook, 10/31/2013
John Harper has just made a discovery: the father he believed to be dead for more than thirty years is alive, though lying in a coma in a Manhattan ...
more
America Is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture
by
Erik Dussere
Oxford University Press, 11/01/2013
America is Elsewhere provides a rigorous and creative reconsideration of hard-boiled crime fiction and the film noir tradition within three related ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dam Busters: The True Story of the Inventors and Airmen Who Led the Devastating Raid to Smash the German Dams in 1943
by
James Holland
Atlantic Monthly Press, 11/04/2013
The night of 16 May, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9000lb ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Purgatory
by
Ken Bruen
Mysterious Press, 11/04/2013
Recovering from the severe mental and physical wounds inflicted from his recent past, former cop Jack Taylor has finally found a modicum of peace. He ...
more
Rustication
by
Charles Palliser
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/04/2013
Charles Palliser's work has been hailed as "so compulsively absorbing that reality disappears" (New York Times). Since his extraordinary debut,
The ...more
The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts
by
Graham Robb
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/04/2013
Fifty generations ago the cultural empire of the Celts stretched from the Black Sea to Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland. In six hundred years, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Thousand Hills to Heaven: Love, Hope, and a Restaurant in Rwanda
by
Josh Ruxin
Little Brown & Company, 11/05/2013
Newlyweds Josh and Alissa were at a party and received a challenge that shook them to the core: do you think you can
really make a difference? ...
more
Bellman & Black
by
Diane Setterfield
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 11/05/2013
From the #1
New York Times bestselling author of
The Thirteenth Tale comes a dark and mesmerizing ghost story guaranteed to haunt you to your very ...
more
Burning Paradise
by
Robert Charles Wilson
Tor Books, 11/05/2013
Cassie Klyne, nineteen years old, lives in the United States in the year 2015 - but it's not our United States, and it's not our 2015.
Cassie'...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Buying In
by
Laura Hemphill
New Harvest, 11/05/2013
It's October 2007, and twenty-two-year-old Sophie Landgraf is a small-town girl who hopes her new job as a Wall Street analyst will be her ticket to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Champion: A Legend Novel, Book 3
by
Marie Lu
Putnam Juvenile, 11/05/2013
He is a Legend.
She is a Prodigy.
Who will be Champion?
June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic - and each ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Havisham
by
Ronald Frame
Picador, 11/05/2013
Before she became the immortal and haunting Miss Havisham of
Great Expectations, she was Catherine, a young woman with all of her dreams ahead of her....
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Lies You Wanted to Hear
by
James Whitfield Thomson
Sourcebooks, 11/05/2013
Alone in an empty house, Lucy tries to imagine the lives of her two young children. They have been gone for seven years, and she is tormented by the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Swagger
by
Carl Deuker
Clarion, 11/05/2013
When high school senior Jonas moves to Seattle, he is glad to meet Levi, a nice, soft-spoken guy and fellow basketball player. Suspense builds like a ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood
by
Roger Rosenblatt
Ecco, 11/05/2013
The Washington Post hailed Roger Rosenblatt's
Making Toast as "a textbook on what constitutes perfect writing," and
People lauded
Kayak Morning as "...
more
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
by
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Simon & Schuster, 11/05/2013
After Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin wields her magic on another larger-than-life president, and another ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The In-Between
by
Barbara Stewart
St. Martin's Press, 11/05/2013
When Elanor's near-death experience opens a door to a world inhabited by bold, beautiful Madeline, she finds her life quickly spiraling out of control...
more
Through the Evil Days: A Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mystery
by
Julia Spencer-Fleming
Minotaur Books, 11/05/2013
New York Times bestselling author, Julia Spencer-Fleming rises to the accolade with a powerful, and emotionally charged novel readers have been ...
more
Death of the Black-Haired Girl
by
Robert Stone
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 11/12/2013
In an elite college in a once-decaying New England city, Steven Brookman has come to a decision. A brilliant but careless professor, he has determined...
more
Fractures
by
Lamar Herrin
Thomas Dunne Books, 11/12/2013
A Thousand Acres and
Empire Falls meet during the present hydrofracking controversy as a beleaguered patriarch must decide the fate of his ...
more
Hild
by
Nicola Griffith
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/12/2013
In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. A new religion is coming ashore; the old gods are struggling, their ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Hostage Three
by
Nick Lake
Bloomsbury Children's Books, 11/12/2013
As Amy sets out to sea with her family on a yacht, she's only thinking about the peaceful waters and the warm sun. But she doesn't get either after a ...
more
Ketchup Clouds
by
Annabel Pitcher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 11/12/2013
Dear Mr. S. Harris,
Ignore the blob of red in the top left corner. It's jam, not blood, though I don't think I need to tell you the difference. It...
more
Stella Bain
by
Anita Shreve
Little Brown & Company, 11/12/2013
When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Tatiana: An Arkady Renko Novel
by
Martin Cruz Smith
Simon & Schuster, 11/12/2013
One of the iconic investigators of contemporary fiction, Arkady Renko - cynical, analytical, and quietly subversive - has survived the cultural ...
more
The Living
by
Matt de la Pena
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, 11/12/2013
Shy took the summer job to make some money. In a few months on a luxury cruise liner, he'll rake in the tips and be able to help his mom and sister ...
more
White Fire: A Pendergast Novel
by
Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Grand Central Publishing, 11/12/2013
Special Agent Pendergast arrives at an exclusive Colorado ski resort to rescue his protégée, Corrie Swanson, from serious trouble with the ...
more
A History of the World in 12 Maps
by
Jerry Brotton
Viking, 11/14/2013
In this masterful study, historian and cartography expert Jerry Brotton explores a dozen of history's most influential maps, from stone tablet to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
To the Letter: A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing
by
Simon Garfield
Gotham Books, 11/14/2013
Few things are as exciting, and potentially life-changing, as discovering an old letter. And while etiquette books still extol the practice, letter ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Report from the Interior
by
Paul Auster
Henry Holt and Company, 11/19/2013
In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts...
Having recalled his life through the story of his ...
more
Someone Else's Love Story
by
Joshilyn Jackson
William Morrow, 11/19/2013
Shandi Pierce is juggling finishing college, raising her delightful three-year-old genius son Nathan, aka Natty Bumppo, and keeping the peace between ...
more
Stop Here
by
Beverly Gologorsky
Seven Stories Press, 11/19/2013
Ava, Mila, and Rosalyn all work at Murray's Diner in Long Island. They are friends and coworkers struggling to hold together their disordered lives. ...
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The Lost Girls of Rome
by
Donato Carrisi
Mulholland, 11/19/2013
Sandra Vega, a forensic analyst with the Roman police department, mourns deeply for a marriage that ended too soon. A few months ago, in the dead of ...
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Death Comes to the Village: A Kurland St. Mary Mystery
by
Catherine Lloyd
Kensington, 11/26/2013
Major Robert Kurland has returned to the quiet vistas of his village home to recuperate from the horrors of Waterloo. However injured his body may be,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Morning Glory
by
Sarah Jio
Plume, 11/26/2013
New York Times bestselling author Sarah Jio imagines life on Boat Street, a floating community on Seattle's Lake Union - home to people of artistic ...
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Renewable: The World-Changing Power of Alternative Energy
by
Jeremy Shere
St. Martin's Press, 11/26/2013
Where does the energy we use come from? It's absolutely vital to every single thing we do every day, but for most people, it is utterly ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
by
Sun-mi Hwang, Chi-Young Kim (translator), Nomoco (illustrator)
Penguin Books, 11/26/2013
This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future ...
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The Land Across
by
Gene Wolfe
Tor Books, 11/26/2013
An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The moment ...
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The Gods of Guilt: A Mickey Haller Novel
by
Michael Connelly
Little Brown & Company, 12/02/2013
Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the ...
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Back to Back
by
Julia Franck
Grove Press, 12/03/2013
Back to Back begins in 1954, and centers around a single family living in Berlin in the socialist East. The mother, Käthe, is a sculptor of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Brown Dog: Novellas
by
Jim Harrison
Grove Press, 12/03/2013
New York Times best-selling author Jim Harrison is one of America's most beloved writers, and of all his creations, Brown Dog, a bawdy, reckless, down...
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Covenant with Hell: A Medieval Mystery
by
Priscilla Royal
Poisoned Pen Press, 12/03/2013
In the Spring of 1277, Prioress Eleanor goes on a pilgrimage to a famous East Anglian shrine.
There are rumors that King Edward may also visit the ...
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Dangerous Women
by
George R.R. Martin (Editor) , Gardner Dozois (Editor)
Tor Books, 12/03/2013
All new and original to this volume, the 21 stories in
Dangerous Women include work by twelve New York Times bestsellers, and seven ...
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Electra: Delphic Women Mystery
by
Kerry Greenwood
Poisoned Pen Press, 12/03/2013
In the third and final volume of the Delphic Women series, Hector is dead, Troy has fallen in ruins; and unknown to the Argives, refugees from the ...
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Mysteries
Fireborn: A Dragonborn Novel
by
Toby Forward
Bloomsbury USA, 12/03/2013
If magic sets the world on fire, something new is born from the flames.
When an old, dying wizard steals magic from his young apprentice, Bee, he ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Going Dark: A Thorn P.I. Novel
by
James W. Hall
Minotaur Books, 12/03/2013
Earth Liberation Front, known as ELF, is a loosely knit organization comprised of environmental activists scattered around the country. These ...
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Something More Than Night
by
Ian Tregillis
Tor Books, 12/03/2013
Ian Tregillis's
Something More Than Night is a Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler inspired murder mystery set in Thomas Aquinas's vision of Heaven....
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The Explorer Gene: How Three Generations of One Family Went Higher, Deeper, and Further Than Any Before
by
Tom Cheshire
Atria Books, 12/03/2013
Meet the Piccards. Swiss, all taller than 6'5", with high foreheads and leonine hair. Great Uncle Jules helped build the world's first hydroelectric ...
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Vatican Waltz
by
Roland Merullo
Crown, 12/03/2013
Cynthia Piantedosi lives a quiet, unassuming life outside of Boston, guided by her Catholic faith. When she loses her beloved grandmother, she begins ...
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Tilt: 7 Solutions To Be A Guilt-Free Working Mom
by
Marci Fair
Pacochel Press, 12/05/2013
A working mother of four children, Fair shares her decades of insight in an enlightening way that weaves in quotes from her children along with more ...
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Advice
The Collector of Lost Things
by
Jeremy Page
Pegasus Books, 12/07/2013
The worlds of ocean and ice were meeting in a frontier of rage, as if the Earth had torn in two along this line. This was a place, if there ever was...more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America
by
Jacqueline Jones
Basic Books, 12/10/2013
In 1656, a planter in colonial Maryland tortured and killed one of his slaves, an Angolan man named Antonio who refused to work the fields. Over ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Beethoven: The Man Revealed
by
John Suchet
Atlantic Monthly Press, 12/10/2013
Beethoven scholar and classical radio host John Suchet has had a lifelong, ardent interest in the man and his music. Here, in his first full-length ...
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Betwixt and Between
by
Jessica Stilling
Ig Publishing, 12/10/2013
Peter Pan meets
The Lovely Bones in this beautifully rendered and emotionally devastating debut novel about where children go when they die.
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Once Upon a Lie: A Maeve Conlon Novel
by
Maggie Barbieri
Minotaur Books, 12/10/2013
Maeve Conlon's life is coming apart at the seams. Her bakery is barely making ends meet, and one of her daughters spends as much time grounded as the ...
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The Housemaid's Daughter
by
Barbara Mutch
St. Martin's Press, 12/10/2013
Barbara Mutch's stunning first novel tells a story of love and duty colliding on the arid plains of Apartheid-era South Africa.
When Cathleen ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Invisible Code: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery
by
Christopher Fowler
Bantam Books, 12/17/2013
London's craftiest and boldest detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May, are back in this deviously twisting mystery of black magic, madness, and ...
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Roomies
by
Sara Zarr, Tara Altebrando
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 12/24/2013
It's time to meet your new roomie.
When East Coast native Elizabeth receives her freshman-year roommate assignment, she shoots off an e-mail to ...
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The Empty Chair: Two Novellas
by
Bruce Wagner
The Blue Sky Press, 12/26/2013
Comprised of companion novellas,
The Empty Chair is a profound, heart-wrenching piece of spiritual storytelling from Bruce Wagner, the internationally...
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Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life
by
Gretchen Rubin
Three Rivers, 12/31/2013
In the spirit of her blockbuster #1
New York Times bestseller
The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin embarks on a new project to make home a happier ...
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The Purity of Vengeance: A Department Q Novel
by
Jussi Adler-Olsen
Dutton, 12/31/2013
In 1987, Nete Hermansen plans revenge on those who abused her in her youth, including Curt Wad, a charismatic surgeon who was part of a movement to ...
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The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles
by
Katherine Pancol
Penguin Books, 12/31/2013
When her chronically unemployed husband runs off to start a crocodile farm in Kenya with his mistress, Joséphine Cortès is left in an ...
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