Gays on Broadway
by
Ethan Mordden
Oxford University Press, 06/01/2023
From the genteel female impersonators of the 1910s to the raucous drag queens of
La Cage Aux Folles, from the men of
The Normal Heart to the women of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Road Towards Home: A Novel
by
Corinne Demas
Lake Union Publishing, 06/01/2023
Widower Noah Shilling considers Clarion Court to be less an independent living community and more a prison. But there may be hope for the place yet. ...
more
Literary Fiction
August Blue: A Novel
by
Deborah Levy
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/06/2023
At the height of her career, the piano virtuoso Elsa M. Anderson—former child prodigy, now in her thirties—walks off the stage in Vienna, ...
more
Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media
by
Darrell Hartman
Viking, 06/06/2023
In the fall of 1909, a pair of bitter contests captured the world's attention. The American explorers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook both claimed to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Cells: Memories for My Mother
by
Gavin McCrea
Scribe Publications Pty Ltd, 06/06/2023
'Are you going into town today?' she says, which annoys me because it's something she says all the time, having forgotten she said it before, and I ...more
Charm City Rocks: A Love Story
by
Matthew Norman
Dell, 06/06/2023
Billy Perkins is happy. And why wouldn't he be? He loves his job as an independent music teacher and his apartment in Baltimore above a record shop ...
more
Thrillers
Eat and Get Gas: A Novel
by
J.A. Wright
She Writes Press, 06/06/2023
Her father, Gene, who's been meaner since he began serving in Vietnam, isn't around much, and she likes it better that way. But then her brother, Adam...
more
Literary Fiction
Empire: A Novel of the Golden Age
by
Conn Iggulden
Pegasus Books, 06/06/2023
Pericles returns home more than a hero: he's the leader of Athens, the empire's beacon of light.
But even during times of peace, the threat of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style: A Novel
by
Paul Rudnick
Atria Books, 06/06/2023
Devastatingly handsome and insanely rich, Farrell Covington is capable of anything and impossible to resist. He's a clear-eyed romantic, an aesthete ...
more
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
by
John Vaillant
Knopf, 06/06/2023
In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada's oil industry and America's biggest foreign supplier, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Gay Club!
by
Simon James Green
Scholastic, 06/06/2023
Barney's a shoo-in for his school's LGBTQ+ Society President at the club's next election. But when the vote is opened up to the entire student body, ...
more
George: A Magpie Memoir
by
Frieda Hughes
Avid Reader Press, 06/06/2023
When Frieda Hughes moved to the depths of the Welsh countryside, she was expecting to take on a few projects: planting a garden, painting, writing her...
more
Girls and Their Horses
by
Eliza Jane Brazier
Berkley Books, 06/06/2023
When the nouveau riche Parker family moves to an exclusive community in the heart of Southern California, they believe it's their chance at a fresh ...
more
Happy Stories, Mostly
by
Norman Erikson Pasaribu
Feminist Press, 06/06/2023
Longlisted for the International Booker Prize,
Happy Stories, Mostly introduces "one of the most important Indonesian writers today" (
Litro Magazine)....
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
How to Write About Africa: Collected Works
by
Binyavanga Wainaina
One World, 06/06/2023
"Africa is the only continent you can love—take advantage of this... . Africa is to be pitied, worshipped, or dominated. Whichever angle you ...more
I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World
by
Rachel Nuwer
Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/06/2023
Few drugs in history have generated as much controversy as MDMA—or held as much promise. Once vilified as a Schedule I substance that would ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Innards: Stories
by
Magogodi oaMphela Makhene
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/06/2023
Set in Soweto, the urban heartbeat of South Africa, Innards tells the intimate stories of everyday black folks processing the savagery of apartheid ...
more
Short Stories
Debut Author
Kairos
by
Jenny Erpenbeck
New Directions Publishing, 06/06/2023
Jenny Erpenbeck (the author of
Go, Went, Gone and
Visitation) is an epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German ...
more
Lovelight Farms
by
B.K. Borison
Berkley Books, 06/06/2023
A pasture of dead trees. A hostile takeover of the Santa barn by a family of raccoons. And shipments that have mysteriously gone missing. Lovelight ...
more
Romance
Lucky Dogs: A Novel
by
Helen Schulman
Knopf, 06/06/2023
On a sultry summer night in Paris, two women meet in line at an ice cream kiosk on the Ile de la Cité. One is tall, fair, striking, with an ...
more
Open Throat: A Novel
by
Henry Hoke
MCD, 06/06/2023
A queer and dangerously hungry mountain lion lives in the drought-devastated land under the Hollywood sign. Lonely and fascinated by humanity's ...
more
Pedro & Daniel
by
Federico Erebia
Levine Querido, 06/06/2023
Pedro and Daniel are Mexican American brothers growing up in 1970s Ohio. Their mother resents that Pedro is a spitting image of their darker-skinned ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health
by
J. C. Hallman
Henry Holt and Company, 06/06/2023
For more than a century, Dr. J. Marion Sims was hailed as the "father of modern gynecology." He founded a hospital in New York City and had a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Soldiers Don't Go Mad: A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War
by
Charles Glass
Penguin Press, 06/06/2023
From the moment war broke out across Europe in 1914, the world entered a new, unparalleled era of modern warfare. Soldiers faced relentless machine ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Strong Female Character
by
Fern Brady
Harmony Books, 06/06/2023
After reading about autism in her teens, Fern Brady knew instinctively that she had it—autism explained her sensory issues, her meltdowns, her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Such Kindness: A Novel
by
Andre Dubus III
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/06/2023
A working-class white man takes a terrible fall.
Tom Lowe's identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He...
more
Literary Fiction
The Dissident: A Novel
by
Paul Goldberg
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/06/2023
On his wedding day in 1976, Viktor Moroz stumbles upon a murder scene: two gay men, one of them a US official, are axed to death in Moscow. Viktor, a ...
more
The Endless Vessel: A Novel
by
Charles Soule
Harper Perennial, 06/06/2023
A few years from now, in a world similar to ours, there exists a sort of "depression plague" that people refer to simply as "The Grey." No one can ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Get: A Crime Novel
by
Dietrich Kalteis
ECW Press, 06/06/2023
Lenny Ovitz has plenty of secrets, and his wife, Paulina, has become a liability. His life would be so much better without her in it.
It's the mid-...
more
Thrillers
The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods
by
Greg King
Public Affairs, 06/06/2023
Every year millions of tourists from around the world visit California's famous redwoods. Yet few who strain their necks to glimpse the tops of the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Grimoire of Grave Fates
by
Edited by Hanna Alkaf and Margaret Owen
Delacorte Press, 06/06/2023
Professor of Magical History Septimius Dropwort has just been murdered, and now everyone at the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary is a suspect.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The House of Lincoln: A Novel
by
Nancy Horan
Sourcebooks, 06/06/2023
Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy
New York Times bestseller
Loving Frank, returns with a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Little Italian Hotel: A Novel
by
Phaedra Patrick
Park Row Books, 06/06/2023
Ginny Splinter, acclaimed radio host and advice expert, prides herself on knowing what's best for others. So she's sure her husband, Adrian, will love...
more
Literary Fiction
The Overlooked Americans: The Resilience of Our Rural Towns and What It Means for Our Country
by
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
Basic Books, 06/06/2023
The United States today appears to be deeply divided. Journalists have painted a portrait of an enraged America, where poor, conservative small towns ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Paris Daughter
by
Kristin Harmel
Gallery Books, 06/06/2023
Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war...
more
Historical Fiction
The Radcliffe Ladies' Reading Club: A Novel
by
Julia Bryan Thomas
Sourcebooks Landmark, 06/06/2023
Massachusetts, 1954. Alice Campbell escapes halfway across the country and finds herself in front of a derelict building tucked among the cobblestone ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Road to Dalton
by
Shannon Bowring
Europa Editions, 06/06/2023
In most small towns, the private is also public. In the town of Dalton, one local makes an unthinkable decision that leaves the community reeling. In ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America
by
Michael Waldman
Simon & Schuster, 06/06/2023
In
The Supermajority, Michael Waldman explores the tumultuous 2021–2022 Supreme Court term. He draws deeply on history to examine other ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Talk
by
Darrin Bell
Henry Holt and Company, 06/06/2023
Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn't have a realistic water gun. She said she feared for his safety, that police tend to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Whispers: A Novel
by
Ashley Audrain
Pamela Dorman Books, 06/06/2023
On Harlow Street, the well-to-do neighborhood couples and their children gather for a catered barbecue as the summer winds down; drinks continue late ...
more
Thrillers
The Wind Knows My Name: A Novel
by
Isabel Allende
Ballantine Books, 06/06/2023
Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht—the night his family loses everything. As her child...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Translation State
by
Ann Leckie
Orbit, 06/06/2023
Qven was created to be a Presger translator. The pride of their Clade, they always had a clear path before them: learn human ways, and eventually, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
When It All Syncs Up
by
Maya Ameyaw
Annick Press, 06/06/2023
Ballet is Aisha's life. So when she's denied yet another lead at her elite academy because she doesn't "look" the part, she knows something has to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much
by
Natalie MacLean
Dundurn Press, 06/06/2023
Natalie MacLean, a bestselling wine writer, is shocked when her husband of twenty years, a high-powered CEO, demands a divorce. Then an online mob of ...
more
Biography/Memoir
100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife
by
Ken Jennings
Scribner, 06/13/2023
Ever wonder which circles of Dante's
Inferno have the nicest accommodations? Where's the best place to grab a bite to eat in the ancient Egyptian ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
A Right Worthy Woman: A Novel
by
Ruth P. Watson
Atria Books, 06/13/2023
Maggie Lena Walker was ambitious and unafraid. Her childhood in 19th-century Virginia helping her mother with her laundry service opened her eyes to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Be Mine: A Frank Bascombe Novel
by
Richard Ford
Ecco, 06/13/2023
Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view of ...
more
Code of the Hills: The Mick Hardin Novels #3
by
Chris Offutt
Grove Press, 06/13/2023
Master storyteller and award-winning author Chris Offutt's latest book,
Code of the Hills, is a dark, witty, and propulsive thriller of murder and ...
more
Everyone Wants to Know
by
Kelly Loy Gilbert
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 06/13/2023
The Lo family sticks together. That's what Honor has been told her whole life while growing up in the glare of the public eye on
Lo and Behold, the ...
more
Flatlands
by
Sue Hubbard
Pushkin Press, 06/13/2023
Freda is a twelve-year-old evacuee from East London, who has been sent away at the start of the war, leaving behind everything familiar to her, to ...
more
Historical Fiction
Girlfriend on Mars: A Novel
by
Deborah Willis
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/13/2023
Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She and twenty-three reality TV contestants from ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America
by
Audrey Clare Farley
Grand Central Publishing, 06/13/2023
In 1954, researchers at the newly formed National Institute of Mental Health set out to study the genetics of schizophrenia. When they got word that ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History
by
Rebecca Struthers
Harper, 06/13/2023
Timepieces have long accompanied us on our travels, from the depths of the oceans to the summit of Everest, the ice of the arctic to the sands of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Maddalena and the Dark: A Novel
by
Julia Fine
Flatiron Books, 06/13/2023
Venice, 1717. Fifteen-year-old Luisa has only wanted one thing: to be the best at violin. As a student at the Ospedale della Pietà, she hopes to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses
by
David Scheel
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/13/2023
Of all the creatures of the deep blue, none is as captivating as the octopus. In
Many Things Under a Rock, marine biologist David Scheel investigates ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
My Stupid Intentions
by
Bernardo Zannoni
New York Review Books, 06/13/2023
My Stupid Intentions is the autobiography of a beech marten named Archy. Born into poverty, maimed by an accident, he is sold into servitude by his ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Never Give Up: A Prairie Family's Story
by
Tom Brokaw
Random House, 06/13/2023
"In these chaotic times, what can we learn from history? As a citizen, husband, father, and grandfather, I have drawn on the lessons I absorbed ... ...more
Ponyboy: A Novel
by
Eliot Duncan
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/13/2023
Ponyboy unravels in his Paris apartment. Cut to the bar. Cut to the back room. Ponyboy is strung out and struggling. He is falling into the widening ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
by
Jennifer Pahlka
Metropolitan Books, 06/13/2023
Just when we most need our government to work―to decarbonize our infrastructure and economy, to help the vulnerable through a pandemic, to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Reproduction: A Novel
by
Louisa Hall
Ecco, 06/13/2023
A novelist attempts to write a book about Mary Shelley, author of
Frankenstein, a mother and artist whose harrowing pregnancies reveal the cost of ...
more
Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
by
Christopher Clark
Crown, 06/13/2023
As history, the uprisings of 1848 have long been overshadowed by the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian revolutions of the early twentieth ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
by
Rachel L. Swarns
Random House, 06/13/2023
In 1838, a group of America's most prominent Catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their largest mission project, what is now Georgetown ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Bodyguard
by
Katherine Center
St. Martin's Griffin, 06/13/2023
She's got his back.
But the truth is, she's an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor ...
more
Romance
The Favor: A Novel
by
Adele Griffin
Sourcebooks Landmark, 06/13/2023
At I'll Have Seconds, a high-end fairytale vintage dress shop in Manhattan, Nora Hammond loves nothing better than pairing a rare find with the ...
more
The Five-Star Weekend
by
Elin Hilderbrand
Little Brown & Company, 06/13/2023
Hollis Shaw's life seems picture-perfect. She's the creator of the popular food blog Hungry with Hollis and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Mythmakers
by
Keziah Weir
Marysue Rucci Books, 06/13/2023
Sal Cannon's life is in shambles. Her relationship is crumbling, and her career in journalism hits a low point after it's revealed that her profile of...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Spectacular: A Novel
by
Fiona Davis
Dutton, 06/13/2023
New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her high school sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to ...
more
The Surviving Sky (Rages Trilogy, 1)
by
Kritika H. Rao
Titan Books, 06/13/2023
High above a jungle-planet float the last refuges of humanity—plant-made civilizations held together by tradition, technology, and arcane ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories
by
Sarah Viren
Scribner, 06/13/2023
Sarah's story begins as she's researching what she believes will be a book about her high school philosophy teacher, a charismatic instructor who ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine
by
Norman Solomon
The New Press, 06/13/2023
More than twenty years ago, 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan set into motion a hugely consequential shift in America's foreign policy: a perpetual ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
by
Jennifer Ackerman
Penguin Press, 06/13/2023
For millennia, owls have captivated and intrigued us. Our fascination with these mysterious birds was first documented more than thirty thousand years...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
When the Hibiscus Falls
by
M. Evelina Galang
Coffee House Press, 06/13/2023
Moving from small Philippine villages of the past to the hurricane-beaten coast of near-future Florida,
When the Hibiscus Falls examines the triumphs ...
more
You Were Always Mine: A Novel
by
Christine Pride, Jo Piazza
Atria Books, 06/13/2023
Cinnamon Haynes has fought hard for a life she never thought was possible—a good man by her side, a steady job as a career counselor at a local ...
more
A Crooked Mark
by
Linda Kao
Razorbill, 06/20/2023
Rae Winter should be dead.
Some say that walking away from the car crash that killed her dad is a miracle, but seventeen-year-old Matthew Watts ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
An Echo in the City
by
K. X. Song
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 06/20/2023
Sixteen-year-old Phoenix knows her parents have invested thousands of dollars to help her leave Hong Kong and get an elite Ivy League education. They ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
An Eye in Each Square
by
Lauren Camp
River River Books, 06/20/2023
With the gifts of a visual artist and poet's attention,
An Eye in Each Square confronts our era's barbed and shifting networks of power and atrocities...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Forever Changed British History
by
Tracy Borman
Atlantic Monthly Press, 06/20/2023
Much of the fascination with Britain's legendary Tudors centers around the dramas surrounding Henry VIII and his six wives and Elizabeth I's rumored ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam
by
Thien Pham
First Second, 06/20/2023
Thien's first memory isn't a sight or a sound. It's the sweetness of watermelon and the saltiness of fish. It's the taste of the foods he ate while ...
more
Fat Time and Other Stories
by
Jeffery Renard Allen
Graywolf Press, 06/20/2023
In
Fat Time and Other Stories, Jimi Hendrix, Francis Bacon, the boxer Jack Johnson, Miles Davis, and a space-age Muhammad Ali find themselves in the ...
more
Lucky Red: A Novel
by
Claudia Cravens
The Dial Press, 06/20/2023
The heart wants what it wants. Saddle up, ride out, and claim it.
It's the spring of 1877 and sixteen-year-old Bridget is already disillusioned ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Mr Kato Plays Family: A Novel
by
Milena Michiko Flasar
Forge Books, 06/20/2023
Mr Katō―a curmudgeon and recent retiree―finds his only solace during his daily walks, where he wonders how his life went wrong and ...
more
Literary Fiction
Poland, a Green Land: A Novel
by
Aharon Appelfeld
Schocken Books, 06/20/2023
Yaakov Fine's practical wife and daughters are baffled by his decision to leave his flourishing dress shop for a ten-day trip to his family's ...
more
Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration
by
Alejandra Oliva
Astra House, 06/20/2023
In this powerful and deeply felt polemic memoir, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a chronological...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Talking at Night: A Novel
by
Claire Daverley
Pamela Dorman Books, 06/20/2023
Will and Rosie meet as teenagers.
They're opposites in every way. She overthinks everything; he is her twin brother's wild and unpredictable friend...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The 6:20 Man: A Thriller (6:20 Man, 1)
by
David Baldacci
Grand Central Publishing, 06/20/2023
Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where ...
more
Thrillers
The Brightest Star: A Historical Novel Based on the True Story of Anna May Wong
by
Gail Tsukiyama
HarperVia, 06/20/2023
At the dawn of a new century, America is falling in love with silent movies, including young Wong Liu Tsong. The daughter of Chinese immigrants who ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Quiet Tenant: A Novel
by
Clémence Michallon
Knopf, 06/20/2023
Aidan Thomas is a hard-working family man and a somewhat beloved figure in the small upstate town where he lives. He's the kind of man who always ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Shadow Cabinet: The HMRC Trilogy #2
by
Juno Dawson
Penguin Books, 06/20/2023
Niamh Kelly is dead. Her troubled twin, Ciara, now masquerades as the benevolent witch as Her Majesty's Royal Coven prepares to crown her High ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
by
Alexander Stille
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/20/2023
In the middle of the
Ozzie and Harriet 1950s, the birth control pill became available and a maverick psychoanalytic institute, the Sullivan Institute ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Three Deaths of Willa Stannard: A Thriller
by
Kate Robards
Crooked Lane Books, 06/20/2023
It's not that they've been all that close in the past few years, but sisters Willa and Sawyer Stannard are bonded by the ups and downs of the life ...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
Through the Groves: A Memoir
by
Anne Hull
Henry Holt and Company, 06/20/2023
Anne Hull grew up in rural Central Florida, barefoot half the time and running through the orange groves her father's family had worked for ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Welcome to Beach Town: Secrets and Scandal in a California Beach Town
by
Susan Wiggs
William Morrow, 06/20/2023
Every town has its secrets...
In idyllic Alara Cove, a California beach town known for its sunny charm and chill surfer vibe, it's graduation day ...
more
Literary Fiction
Where Echoes Die: A Novel
by
Courtney Gould
Wednesday Books, 06/20/2023
Beck Birsching has been adrift since the death of her mother, a brilliant but troubled investigative reporter. She can't stop herself from slipping ...
more
Zero Days
by
Ruth Ware
Gallery/Scout Press, 06/20/2023
Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are the best penetration specialists in the business...
more
Thrillers
A Most Agreeable Murder: A Novel
by
Julia Seales
Random House, 06/27/2023
Feisty, passionate Beatrice Steele has never fit the definition of a true lady, according to the strict code of conduct that reigns in Swampshire, her...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
by
Mark O'Connell
Doubleday, 06/27/2023
Malcolm Macarthur was a well-known Dublin socialite and heir. Suave and urbane, he passed his days mingling with artists and aristocrats, reading ...
more
American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress
by
Wesley Lowery
Mariner Books, 06/27/2023
In 2008, Barack Obama's historic victory was heralded as a turning point for the country. And so it would be—just not in the way that most ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How to Be Remembered: A Novel
by
Michael Thompson
Sourcebooks, 06/27/2023
On an ordinary night in an ordinary year, Tommy Llewellyn's doting parents wake in a home without toys and diapers, without photos of their baby ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Invisible Son
by
Kim Johnson
Random House Books for Younger Readers, 06/27/2023
Life can change in an instant.
When you're wrongfully accused of a crime.
When a virus shuts everything down.
When the girl you love moves on.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Little Monsters
by
Adrienne Brodeur
Avid Reader Press, 06/27/2023
Ken and Abby Gardner lost their mother when they were small and they have been haunted by her absence ever since. Their father, Adam, a brilliant ...
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Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story
by
Sarah Myer
First Second, 06/27/2023
Sarah has always struggled to fit in. Born in South Korea and adopted at birth by a white couple, she grows up in a rural community with few Asian ...
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Save What's Left: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Castellano
Anchor Books, 06/27/2023
When Kathleen Deane's husband, Tom, tells her he's no longer happy with his life and their marriage, Kathleen is confused. They live in Kansas. They'...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Seashell Summer: Romantic Women's Fiction (Cliffside Point, 9)
by
Ellen Joy
Independently published, 06/27/2023
Summer is here, but it's bittersweet for Carol, who's saddened that her youngest is heading off to college. At least she still has her husband…...
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Romance
Sing Me to Sleep
by
Gabi Burton
Bloomsbury USA, 06/27/2023
Saoirse Sorkova survives on lies. As a soldier-in-training at the most prestigious barracks in the kingdom, she lies about being a siren to avoid ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
That Reminds Me
by
Derek Owusu
And Other Stories, 06/27/2023
Attachments are broken at birth. Shards slide apart. K: a child put into foster care, a boy brought back to the city, a man who must fight to make ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
by
Michael Finkel
Knopf, 06/27/2023
For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Rachel Incident: A Novel
by
Caroline O'Donoghue
Knopf, 06/27/2023
Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it's love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Seven Year Slip
by
Ashley Poston
Berkley Books, 06/27/2023
Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it.
So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: ...
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Romance
Too Late: Definitive Edition
by
Colleen Hoover
Grand Central Publishing, 06/27/2023
Sloan will go through hell and back for those she loves. And she does so, every single day. Caught up with the alluring Asa Jackson, a notorious drug ...
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Romance
We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus
by
Sean A Mirski
Public Affairs, 06/27/2023
The cutthroat world of international politics has always been dominated by great powers. Yet no great power in the modern era has ever managed to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
by
Jennifer Vanderbes
Random House, 06/27/2023
In 1959, a Cincinnati pharmaceutical firm, the William S. Merrell Company, quietly began distributing samples of an exciting new wonder drug already ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Place for Us: A Memoir
by
Brandon J. Wolf
Little A, 07/01/2023
You never forget your first. First kiss. First love. First heartache. They all burrow their way into your subconscious, destined to reshape how you ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Goodbye Earl: A Revenge Novel
by
Leesa Cross-Smith
Grand Central Publishing, 07/03/2023
Taking inspiration from the infamous, empowering song,
Goodbye Earl follows four best friends through two unforgettable summers, fifteen years ...
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Thrillers
A Good House for Children: A Novel
by
Kate Collins
Mariner Books, 07/04/2023
Once upon a time Orla was: a woman, a painter, a lover. Now she is a mother and a wife, and when her husband Nick suggests that their city apartment ...
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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: A Novel
by
Satoshi Yagisawa
Harper Perennial, 07/04/2023
Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existence—until the day her boyfriend Hideaki, the man she expected to wed, casually ...
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Literary Fiction
One Summer in Savannah: A Novel
by
Terah Shelton Harris
Sourcebooks, 07/04/2023
It's been eight years since Sara Lancaster left her home in Savannah, Georgia. Eight years since her daughter, Alana, came into this world, following ...
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Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir
by
Beth Nguyen
Scribner, 07/04/2023
At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her father, sister, grandmother, and uncles fled Saigon for America. ...
more
President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
by
CW Goodyear
Simon & Schuster, 07/04/2023
In this magisterial biography, C.W. Goodyear charts the life and times of one of the most remarkable Americans ever to win the Presidency. Progressive...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Starve Acre: A Novel
by
Andrew Michael Hurley
Penguin Books, 07/04/2023
The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died suddenly at the age of five. Starve Acre, their house by ...
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Sufferah: The Memoir of a Brixton Reggae-Head
by
Alex Wheatle
Akashic Books, 07/04/2023
Abandoned as a baby to the British foster care system, Alex Wheatle grew up without any knowledge of his Jamaican parentage or family history. ...
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Temple Folk
by
Aaliyah Bilal
Simon & Schuster, 07/04/2023
In
Temple Folk, Black Muslims contemplate the convictions of their race, religion, economics, politics, and sexuality in America. The ten stories in ...
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Short Stories
Debut Author
The Beasts of Paris: A Novel
by
Stef Penney
Pegasus Books, 07/04/2023
A diverse group of memorable characters find themselves in Paris during the build up to the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Dreamer Anne is half-Haitian,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Ice Harp: The American Novels
by
Norman Lock
Bellevue Literary Press, 07/04/2023
In 1879, toward the end of his life, the Sage of Concord has lost his words. Beset by aphasia and grief, Ralph Waldo Emerson is scarcely recognizable ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Long Ago: A Novel
by
Michael McGarrity
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/04/2023
Growing up in Montana, siblings Raymond and Barbara Lansdale held their chaotic world together through their shared childhood fantasy of
The Long Ago:...
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Mysteries
The Wall of Winnipeg and Me: A Spicy Football Romance
by
Mariana Zapata
Avon Books, 07/04/2023
Vanessa Mazur refuses to feel bad for quitting—she knows she's doing the right thing. The thankless job of personal assistant to the top ...
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Romance
At the Mountains of Madness
by
H. P. Lovecraft
Zinc Read, 07/07/2023
Dyer and his colleagues come across ancient and alien ruins, remnants of a highly advanced and non-human civilization that existed long before ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Alchemy of a Blackbird: A Novel
by
Claire McMillan
Atria Books, 07/11/2023
Desperate to escape the Nazis, painter Remedios Varo and her lover, poet Benjamin Peret, flee Paris for Villa Air Bel, a safe house for artists on the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
All-Night Pharmacy: A Novel
by
Ruth Madievsky
Catapult, 07/11/2023
On the night of her high school graduation, a young woman follows her older sister Debbie to Salvation, a Los Angeles bar patronized by energy healers...
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Literary Fiction
Do Tell: A Novel
by
Lindsay Lynch
Doubleday, 07/11/2023
As character actress Edie O'Dare finishes the final year of her contract with FWM Studios, the clock is ticking for her to find a new gig after an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
by
Gloria Dickie
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/11/2023
Bears have always held a central place in our collective memory, from Indigenous folklore and Greek mythology to nineteenth-century fairytales and the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Elsewhere: Stories
by
Yan Ge
Scribner, 07/11/2023
In twenty years, Yan Ge has authored thirteen books written in Chinese, working across an impressive range of genres and subjects. Now, Yan Ge ...
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Eventide, Water City: The Water City Trilogy #2
by
Chris Mckinney
Soho Press, 07/11/2023
Year 2150: Eight years after the murder of Akira Kimura, Water City's renowned scientist and anointed "God," the nameless antihero who tracked down ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent
by
Lorissa Rinehart
St. Martin's Press, 07/11/2023
"I side with prisoners against guards, enlisted men against officers, weakness against power."
From the beginning of World War II through the early...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Flags on the Bayou: A Novel
by
James Lee Burke
Atlantic Monthly Press, 07/11/2023
In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care
by
Ilana Yurkiewicz MD
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/11/2023
There's an unspoken assumption when we go to see a doctor: the doctor knows our medical story and is making decisions based on that story. But reality...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Hello Stranger: A Novel
by
Katherine Center
St. Martin's Press, 07/11/2023
It's all starting to come together for struggling artist Sadie Montgomery. She was just named a finalist in the national portrait competition of her ...
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Romance
High Time: A Novel
by
Hannah Rothschild
Knopf, 07/11/2023
Eight years have passed and in 2016 many things have changed for the eccentric Trelawney family. In the months leading up to the Brexit referendum, ...
more
I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom
by
Shannon C. F. Rogers
Feiwel & Friends, 07/11/2023
Some girls call their mother their best friend. Marisol Martin? She could never relate. She and her mom were forever locked in an argument with no ...
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Lexington: The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America's Legendary Racehorse
by
Kim Wickens
Ballantine Books, 07/11/2023
The early days of American horse racing were grueling. Four-mile races, run two or three times in succession, were the norm, rewarding horses who ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It
by
Daniel Simons
Basic Books, 07/11/2023
From phishing scams to Ponzi schemes, fraudulent science to fake art, chess cheaters to crypto hucksters, and marketers to magicians, our world brims ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Nothing Special
by
Nicole Flattery
Bloomsbury Publishing, 07/11/2023
New York City, 1966. Seventeen-year-old Mae lives in a rundown apartment with her alcoholic mother and her mother's sometimes-boyfriend, Mikey. She is...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Ripe: A Novel
by
Sarah Rose Etter
Scribner, 07/11/2023
A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley start-up, Cassie finds herself trapped in a corporate nightmare. Between the long hours, toxic...
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Sleepless City: A Nick Ryan Novel
by
Reed Farrel Coleman
Blackstone Publishing, 07/11/2023
Every cop in the city knows his name, but no one says it out loud. In fact, they don't talk about him at all.
He doesn't wear a uniform, but he is...
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Thrillers
Sunrise: Radiant Stories
by
Erika Kobayashi
Astra House, 07/11/2023
Sunrise is a collection of interconnected stories continuing Erika Kobayashi's examination of the effects of nuclear power on generations of women. ...
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Tabula Rasa: Volume 1
by
John McPhee
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/11/2023
Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss ...
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The Air Raid Book Club: A Novel
by
Annie Lyons
William Morrow, 07/11/2023
London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. Bingham Books was a dream ...
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Historical Fiction
The Best Possible Experience: Stories
by
Nishanth Injam
Pantheon Books, 07/11/2023
Vivid, vibrant, and unwaveringly affecting,
The Best Possible Experience brings us intimate, impeccably realized accounts of individuals living in one...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Carnivale of Curiosities
by
Amiee Gibbs
Grand Central Publishing, 07/11/2023
In Victorian London, where traveling sideshows are the very pinnacle of entertainment, there is no more coveted ticket than Ashe and Pretorius' ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Literary Fiction
The Darkest Sin: Winner of the CWA Historical Dagger 2023 (Cesare Aldo, 2)
by
D. V. Bishop
Pan, 07/11/2023
Florence. Spring, 1537.
When Cesare Aldo investigates a report of intruders at a convent in the Renaissance city's northern quarter, he enters a ...
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Thrillers
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
by
Jeff Goodell
Little Brown & Company, 07/11/2023
"When heat comes, it's invisible. It doesn't bend tree branches or blow hair across your face to let you know it's arrived…. The sun feels like ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Housemaid's Secret
by
Freida McFadden
Bookouture, 07/11/2023
But I can't risk losing this job - not if I want to keep my darkest secret safe ... It's hard to find an employer who doesn't ask too many questions ...
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Thrillers
The Militia House: A Novel
by
John Milas
Henry Holt and Company, 07/11/2023
It's 2010, and the recently promoted Corporal Loyette and his unit are finishing up their deployment at a new base in Kajaki, Afghanistan. Their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Mysteries
The Murder Wheel: A Locked-Room Mystery
by
Tom Mead
Mysterious Press, 07/11/2023
In London, 1938, young and idealistic lawyer Edmund Ibbs is trying to find any shred of evidence that his client Carla Dean wasn't the one who shot ...
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The Ocean Above Me: A Novel
by
Kevin Sites
Harper, 07/11/2023
Former war correspondent Lukas Landon is alone, trapped under 150-feet of water in an overturned shrimp trawler at the bottom of the ocean. The only ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Saint of Bright Doors
by
Vajra Chandrasekera
Tor Books, 07/11/2023
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to talk about in therapy.
He walked among ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Sea Elephants: A Novel
by
Shastri Akella
Flatiron Books, 07/11/2023
Shagun knows he will never be the kind of son his father demands. After the sudden deaths of his beloved twin sisters, Shagun flees his own guilt, his...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Splinter in the Sky
by
Kemi Ashing-Giwa
Gallery Books, 07/11/2023
The dust may have just settled in the failed war of conquest between the Holy Vaalbaran Empire and the Ominirish Republic, but the last Emperor's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Stolen Coast: A Novel
by
Dwyer Murphy
Viking, 07/11/2023
Jack might be a polished, Harvard-educated lawyer on paper, but everyone in the down-at-the-heels, if picturesque, village of Onset, Massachusetts, ...
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The Summer of Songbirds
by
Kristy Woodson Harvey
Gallery Books, 07/11/2023
Nearly thirty years ago, in the wake of a personal tragedy, June Moore bought Camp Holly Springs and turned it into a thriving summer haven for girls....
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Romance
Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South
by
Jaha Nailah Avery
Levine Querido, 07/11/2023
Those Who Saw the Sun is a collection of oral histories told by Black people who grew up in the South during the time of Jim Crow. Jaha Nailah Avery ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
by
Laura Cumming
Scribner, 07/11/2023
As a brilliant art critic and historian, Laura Cumming has explored the importance of art in life and can give us a perspective on the time and place ...
more
Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy
by
Colin Dickey
Viking, 07/11/2023
The United States was born in paranoia. From the American Revolution (thought by some to be a conspiracy organized by the French) to the Salem witch ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
by
Donovan X. Ramsey
One World, 07/11/2023
The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s is arguably the least examined crisis in American history. Beginning with the myths inspired by Reagan's war...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
24 Hours in Charlottesville: An Oral History of the Stand Against White Supremacy
by
Nora Neus
Beacon Press, 07/18/2023
On August 11 and 12, 2017, armed neo-Nazi demonstrators descended on the University of Virginia campus and downtown Charlottesville. When they ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Blade of Dream: The Kithamar Trilogy #2
by
Daniel Abraham
Orbit, 07/18/2023
Kithamar is a center of trade and wealth, an ancient city with a long, bloody history where countless thousands live and their stories endure.
This...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic
by
Emily Monosson
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/18/2023
Fungi are everywhere. Most are harmless; some are helpful. A few are killers. Collectively, infectious fungi are the most devastating agents of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Crook Manifesto: A Novel
by
Colson Whitehead
Doubleday, 07/18/2023
It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out ...
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Cutting Teeth: A Novel
by
Chandler Baker
Flatiron Books, 07/18/2023
Darby, Mary Beth, and Rhea are on personal quests to reclaim aspects of their identities subsumed by motherhood—their careers, their sex lives, ...
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Encounterism: The Neglected Joys of Being In Person
by
Andy Field
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/18/2023
The light touch of a hairdresser's hands on one's scalp, the euphoric energy of a nightclub, huddling with strangers under a shelter in the rain, a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Head above Water: Reflections on Illness
by
Shahd Alshammari
Feminist Press, 07/18/2023
Shahd Alshammari is just eighteen when she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and told by her neurologist that she would not make it past age ...
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I Am Not Alone
by
Francisco X. Stork
Scholastic, 07/18/2023
Alberto's life isn't easy: He's an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who lives with his sister's abusive boyfriend—but he'd always accepted his...
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Immortal Longings: Flesh & False Gods #1
by
Chloe Gong
Gallery Books, 07/18/2023
Every year, thousands in the kingdom of Talin will flock to its capital twin cities, San-Er, where the palace hosts a set of games. For those ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas
by
Karen Pinchin
Dutton, 07/18/2023
In 2004, an enigmatic charter captain named Al Anderson caught and marked one Atlantic bluefin tuna off New England's coast with a plastic fish tag. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
No One Prayed Over Their Graves: A Novel
by
Khaled Khalifa
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/18/2023
On a December morning in 1907, two close friends, Hanna and Zakariya, return to their village near Aleppo after a night of drunken carousing in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Onlookers: Stories
by
Ann Beattie
Scribner, 07/18/2023
Onlookers is an astute new story collection about people living in the same Southern town whose lives intersect in surprising ways. Peaceful ...
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Small Worlds
by
Caleb Azumah Nelson
Grove Press, 07/18/2023
One of the most acclaimed and internationally bestselling "unforgettable" (
New York Times) debuts of the 2021, Caleb Azumah Nelson's London-set love ...
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Strange Sally Diamond
by
Liz Nugent
Gallery/Scout Press, 07/18/2023
Reclusive Sally Diamond causes outrage by trying to incinerate her dead father. Now she's the center of attention, not only from the hungry media and ...
more
The Collector: A Novel
by
Daniel Silva
Harper, 07/18/2023
Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world's most valuable missing ...
more
Thrillers
The Deep Sky: A Novel
by
Yume Kitasei
Flatiron Books, 07/18/2023
They left Earth to save humanity. They'll have to save themselves first.
It is the eve of Earth's environmental collapse. A single ship carries ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Jasad Heir: The Scorched Throne #1
by
Sara Hashem
Orbit, 07/18/2023
Ten years ago, the kingdom of Jasad burned. Its magic was outlawed. Its royal family murdered. At least, that's what Sylvia wants people to believe. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The King Is Dead
by
Benjamin Dean
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 07/18/2023
Heavy is the crown James has been born to wear, especially as the first Black heir to the British throne. But with his father's recent passing, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romantic Thrillers
Debut Author
The War Came To Us: Life and Death in Ukraine
by
Christopher Miller
Bloomsbury USA, 07/18/2023
When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine just before dawn on 24 February 2022, it marked his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Tropicalia: A Novel
by
Harold Rogers
Atria Books, 07/18/2023
Daniel Cunha has a lot on his mind.
He got dumped by his pregnant girlfriend, his grandfather just dropped dead, and on the anniversary of the raid...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Walking the Ojibwe Path: A Memoir in Letters to Joshua (Seedbank)
by
Richard Wagamese
Milkweed Editions, 07/18/2023
We may not relight the fires that used to burn in our villages, but we can carry the embers from those fires in our hearts and learn to light new ...more
An Honest Man: A Novel
by
Michael Koryta
Mulholland, 07/25/2023
Israel Pike was a killer, and he was an honest man. They were not mutually exclusive.
After discovering seven men murdered aboard their yacht &#...
more
Emergent Properties
by
Aimee Ogden
Tor.com, 07/25/2023
A state-of-the-art AI with a talent for asking questions and finding answers, Scorn is nevertheless a parental disappointment. Defying the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Mrs. Plansky's Revenge
by
Spencer Quinn
Forge Books, 07/25/2023
Mrs. Loretta Plansky, a recent widow in her seventies, is settling into retirement in Florida while dealing with her 98-year-old father and fielding ...
more
Rana Joon and the One and Only Now
by
Shideh Etaat
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 07/25/2023
Perfect Iranian girls are straight A students, always polite, and grow up to marry respectable Iranian boys. But it's the San Fernando Valley in 1996,...
more
Somebody's Fool: A Novel (North Bath Trilogy)
by
Richard Russo
Knopf, 07/25/2023
Ten years after the death of the magnetic Donald "Sully" Sullivan, the town of North Bath is going through a major transition as it is annexed by its ...
more
The Last Ranger: A Novel
by
Peter Heller
Knopf, 07/25/2023
Officer Ren Hopper is an enforcement ranger with the National Park Service, tasked with duties both mundane and thrilling: Breaking up fights at ...
more
The Sun and the Void: The Warring Gods # 1
by
Gabriela Romero Lacruz
Orbit, 07/25/2023
Reina is desperate.
Stuck on the edges of society, Reina's only hope lies in an invitation from a grandmother she's never met. But the journey to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Alien Worlds: How Insects Conquered the Earth, and Why Their Fate Will Determine Our Future
by
Steve Nicholls
Princeton University Press, 08/01/2023
Life on Earth depends on the busy activities of insects, but global populations of these teeming creatures are currently under threat, with grave ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
by
Yepoka Yeebo
Bloomsbury Publishing, 08/01/2023
When Ghana won its independence from Britain in 1957, it instantly became a target for home-grown opportunists and rapacious Western interests ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Delicate Condition
by
Danielle Valentine
Sourcebooks, 08/01/2023
Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family. But as she tries to balance her increasingly public life as an indie actress with a grueling IVF journey, ...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
Disobedient: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Fremantle
Pegasus Books, 08/01/2023
This is the ring that you gave me, and these are your promises.
A young woman is put on trial. She has accused her painting teacher of the darkest ...
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Historical Fiction
Evergreen: Japantown Mysteries #2
by
Naomi Hirahara
Soho Crime, 08/01/2023
It's been two years since Aki Ito and her family were released from Manzanar detention center and resettled in Chicago with other Japanese Americans. ...
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Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy
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Janet Wallach
Doubleday, 08/01/2023
Born a privileged child of America's Gilded Age, Marguerite Harrison rebelled against her mother's ambitions, married the man she loved, was widowed ...
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I Will Greet the Sun Again: A Novel
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Khashayar J. Khabushani
Hogarth Books, 08/01/2023
Call me K, because unlike Baba and Maman I was born right here and like my brothers I want to be known as a boy from L.A., since that's the truth.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Las Madres: A Novel
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Esmeralda Santiago
Knopf, 08/01/2023
They refer to themselves as "las Madres," a close-knit group of women who, with their daughters, have created a family based on friendship and blood ...
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Lost Believers: A Novel
by
Irina Zhorov
Scribner, 08/01/2023
Galina, a promising young geologist from Moscow, is falling in love with her pilot, Snow Crane, on a trip exploring for minerals in Siberia. As their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Out of Nowhere
by
Sandra Brown
Grand Central Publishing, 08/01/2023
At a Texas county fair, children's book author Elle Portman is enjoying a rare night out with her favorite cowboy: her two-year-old son, Charlie. But ...
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Thrillers
Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever
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Eddie Ndopu
Legacy Lit, 08/01/2023
Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare degenerative motor neuron disease affecting his mobility. He was told ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Small Town Sins: A Novel
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Ken Jaworowski
Henry Holt and Company, 08/01/2023
In Locksburg, Pennsylvania, a former coal and steel town whose best days seem long past, five thousand residents have toughed it out, and have reasons...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Sordidez
by
E G Condé
Stelliform Press, 08/01/2023
Vero has always felt at odds with his community. As a trans man in near-future Puerto Rico, he struggles to gain acceptance for his identity and his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Thrillers
The Connellys of County Down: A Novel
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Tracey Lange
Celadon, 08/01/2023
When Tara Connelly is released from prison after serving eighteen months on a drug charge, she knows rebuilding her life at thirty years old won't be ...
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The Master Builder: How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life
by
Dr. Alfonso Martinez Arias Ph.D.
Basic Books, 08/01/2023
What defines who we are? For decades, the answer has seemed obvious: our genes, the "blueprint of life." In
The Master Builder, biologist Alfonso ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Men Can't Be Saved: A Novel
by
Ben Purkert
Harry N. Abrams Inc., 08/01/2023
Seth is a junior copywriter whose latest tagline just went viral. He's the agency's hottest new star, or at least he wants his coworker crush to think...
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Literary Fiction
The Montevideo Brief: A Thomas Grey Novel
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J. H. Gelernter
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/01/2023
Vienna―June 1804. At the glittering debut of Beethoven's Third Symphony, a Spanish diplomat meets with Captain Thomas Grey, agent of His Majesty...
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Historical Fiction
The Narrow
by
Kate Alice Marshall
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 08/01/2023
Everyone has heard the story of the Narrow. The river that runs behind the Atwood School is only a few feet across and seemingly placid, but beneath ...
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Thrillers
The Second Murderer: A Philip Marlowe Novel
by
Denise Mina
Mulholland, 08/01/2023
Has Philip Marlowe finally met his match?
It's early fall when a heatwave descends on Los Angeles. Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to ...
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The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
by
Prudence Peiffer
Harper, 08/01/2023
For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the lower tip of Manhattan became ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
by
Susan Casey
Doubleday, 08/01/2023
For all of human history, the deep ocean has been a source of wonder and terror, an unknown realm that evoked a singular, compelling question:
What's ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The War Pianist
by
Mandy Robotham
Avon Books, 08/01/2023
July, 1940
Blitz-ridden London: Marnie Fern's life is torn apart when her grandfather is killed in an air raid. But once she discovers that he'd ...
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Historical Fiction
Those We Thought We Knew
by
David Joy
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/01/2023
Toya Gardner, a young Black artist from Atlanta, has returned to her ancestral home in the North Carolina mountains to trace her family history and ...
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To Catch a Storm
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Mindy Mejia
Atlantic Monthly Press, 08/01/2023
When her husband's car is found abandoned and on fire—in the middle of a rainstorm—Eve Roth becomes the police's number one suspect. After...
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A Long Time Coming: A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama
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Ray Anthony Shepard
Calkins Creek, 08/08/2023
Full of daring escapes, deep emotion, and subtle lessons on how racism operates,
A Long Time Coming reveals the universal importance of its subjects' ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Congratulations, The Best Is Over!: Essays
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R. Eric Thomas
Ballantine Books, 08/08/2023
After going viral "reading" the chaotic political news, having one-too-many awkward social encounters, and coming to terms with his intersecting ...
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Deliverance: A Novel
by
James Dickey
Mariner Books, 08/08/2023
Four middle-class suburban men decide to embark on a three-day canoe trip down a particularly wild section of a river in Georgia. For Ed Gentry, Bobby...
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Literary Fiction
Devil's Coin: My Battle to Take Down the Notorious OneCoin Cryptoqueen
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Jennifer McAdam
William Morrow, 08/08/2023
Jen McAdam, Scottish grandmother and daughter of a coal miner, was a victim of the Onecoin global crypto-currency fraud, which conned an estimated $27...
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Critics' Consensus:
True Crime
Debut Author
Forged by Blood: The Tainted Blood Duology, 1
by
Ehigbor Okosun
Harper Voyager, 08/08/2023
In the midst of a tyrannical regime and political invasion, Dèmi just wants to survive: to avoid the suspicion of the nonmagical Ajes who occupy ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
From One Cell: A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine
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Ben Stanger
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/08/2023
Each of us began life as a single cell. From this humble origin, we embarked on a risky journey fraught with opportunities for disaster. Yet, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Liquid Snakes: A Novel
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Stephen Kearse
Soft Skull Press, 08/08/2023
In Atlanta, Kenny Bomar is a biochemist-turned-coffee-shop-owner in denial about his divorce and grieving his stillborn daughter. Chemicals killed ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Mrs. Porter Calling: A Novel (The Emmy Lake Chronicles)
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AJ Pearce
Scribner, 08/08/2023
London, April 1943. A little over a year since she married Captain Charles Mayhew and he went away to war, Emmy Lake is now in charge of "Yours ...
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Historical Fiction
None of This Is True: A Novel
by
Lisa Jewell
Atria Books, 08/08/2023
Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, ...
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Thrillers
Prophet
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Sin Blache and Helen Macdonald
Grove Press, 08/08/2023
Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American Intelligence officer ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Sparrow: A Novel
by
James Hynes
The Overlook Press, 08/08/2023
In a brothel on the Spanish coast during the waning years of the Roman Empire, a young enslaved boy of unknown parentage is growing up. His world is a...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Still Born
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Guadalupe Nettel
Bloomsbury Publishing, 08/08/2023
Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family...
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Sun House: A Novel
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David James Duncan
Little Brown & Company, 08/08/2023
A random bolt from a DC-8 falls from the sky, killing a child and throwing the faith of a young Jesuit Jesuit into crisis. A boy's mother dies on his ...
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Literary Fiction
Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders
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John Glatt
St. Martin's Press, 08/08/2023
Among the lush, tree-lined waterways of South Carolina low country, the Murdaugh name means power. A century-old, multimillion-dollar law practice has...
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The Details: A Novel
by
Ia Genberg
HarperVia, 08/08/2023
An intoxicating novel in the vein of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, about a woman in the throes of a fever remembering the important people in her past,...more
Literary Fiction
The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
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Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, and Timothy J. Nelson
Mariner Books, 08/08/2023
Three of the nation's top scholars – known for tackling key mysteries about poverty in America – turn their attention from the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Unnecessary Drama
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Nina Kenwood
Flatiron Books, 08/08/2023
Eighteen-year-old Brooke is the kind of friend who not only remembers everyone's birthdays, but also organizes the group present, pays for it, and ...
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You, Bleeding Childhood
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Michele Mari
And Other Stories, 08/08/2023
Long before the latest vogue for autofiction, Michele Mari, one of Italy's most beloved authors, cast his mind back to the days of his own childhood, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The War Nurses
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Anthea Hodgson
Michael Joseph Australia, 08/12/2023
In 1942, country girls Minnie Hodgson and Margot McNee set sail from Perth, Australia for Singapore in search of adventure, full of excitement and ...
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Historical Fiction
Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson
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Sally H. Jacobs
St. Martin's Press, 08/15/2023
In 1950, three years after Jackie Robinson first walked onto the diamond at Ebbets Field, the all-white, upper-crust US Lawn Tennis Association opened...
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August Wilson: A Life
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Patti Hartigan
Simon & Schuster, 08/15/2023
August Wilson wrote a series of ten plays celebrating African American life in the 20th century, one play for each decade. No other American ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Chinese Prodigal: A Memoir in Eight Arguments
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David Shih
Atlantic Monthly Press, 08/15/2023
After his father's passing in 2019, David Shih sought to unravel the underlying tensions that defined the complex relationship between him and his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women
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Sandra Guzman
Amistad, 08/15/2023
Daughters of Latin America collects the intergenerational voices of Latine women across time and space, capturing the power, strength, and creativity ...
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Short Stories
Forgive Me Not
by
Jennifer Baker
Nancy Paulsen Books, 08/15/2023
All it took was one night and one bad decision for fifteen-year-old Violetta Chen-Samuels' life to go off the rails. After driving drunk and causing ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO: Stories
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Cleo Qian
Tin House Books, 08/15/2023
A woman escapes into dating simulations to forget her best friend's abandonment; a teenager begins to see menacing omens on others' bodies after her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Pestilence (The Four Horsemen, 1)
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Laura Thalassa
Bloom Books, 08/15/2023
When Pestilence, the first of the horsemen, comes for Sara Burn's town, one thing is certain: everyone she knows and loves is marked for death. Unless...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Survivor Injustice: State-Sanctioned Abuse, Domestic Violence, and the Fight for Bodily Autonomy
by
Kylie Cheung
North Atlantic Books, 08/15/2023
Incisive, urgent, and written exactly for our post-Roe times,
Survivor Injustice is the feminist frame-changing read we need now—for each of us,...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Tell Me What I Am: A Novel
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Una Mannion
Harper, 08/15/2023
Nessa Garvey's sister Deena vanished without a trace in Philadelphia in 2004. In all that time, Nessa has never once doubted what her instincts told ...
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The English Experience: A Novel
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Julie Schumacher
Doubleday, 08/15/2023
Jason Fitger may be the last faculty member the dean wants for the job, but he's the only professor available to chaperone Payne University's annual "...
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The Great Transition: A Novel
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Nick Fuller Googins
Atria Books, 08/15/2023
Emi Vargas, whose parents helped save the world, is tired of being told how lucky she is to have been born after the climate crisis. But following the...
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Literary Fiction
The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race
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Farah Karim-Cooper
Viking, 08/15/2023
Professor Farah Karim-Cooper has dedicated her career to the Bard, which is why she wants to take the playwright down from his pedestal to unveil a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Invisible Hour: A Novel
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Alice Hoffman
Atria Books, 08/15/2023
One June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her.
The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years ...
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Literary Fiction
The President's Wife: A Novel
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Tracey Enerson Wood
Sourcebooks Landmark, 08/15/2023
Socialite Edith Bolling has been in no hurry to find a new husband since she was widowed, preferring to fill her days with good friends and travel. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Thin Skin: Essays
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Jenn Shapland
Pantheon Books, 08/15/2023
For Jenn Shapland, the barrier between herself and the world is porous; she was even diagnosed with extreme dermatologic sensitivity—thin skin.
...
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Tyranny of the Gene: Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health
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James Tabery
Knopf, 08/15/2023
The United States is embarking on a medical revolution. Supporters of personalized, or precision, medicine—the tailoring of health care to our ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Vampires of El Norte
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Isabel Cañas
Berkley Books, 08/15/2023
As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters—her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo ...
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Thrillers
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
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Leah Redmond Chang
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/15/2023
Orphaned from infancy, Catherine de' Medici endured a tumultuous childhood. Married to the French king, she was widowed by forty, only to become the ...
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If Headstones Could Talk: A Collection of Stories from Ford County, Kansas
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Mary S. Schartz
Independently published, 08/20/2023
It should be more than memorizing dates and who won what battle. Of course, those are important, but I believe history can come alive when you know ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Haunting in Venice [Movie Tie-in]: Originally Published as Hallowe'en Party: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries, 35)
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Agatha Christie
William Morrow, 08/22/2023
At a Halloween party, Joyce—a surly thirteen-year-old—boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off ...
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Thrillers
Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History
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Yunte Huang
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 08/22/2023
Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry, Anna May Wong (1905–1961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old ...
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Just Do This One Thing for Me
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Laura Zimmermann
Dutton, 08/22/2023
"Just do this one thing for me." Drew's mother says it more often than good morning. Heidi Hill has been juggling shady side hustles for all of Drew's...
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Literary Fiction
King of Pride (Kings of Sin, 2)
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Ana Huang
Bloom Books, 08/22/2023
She's his opposite in every way...and the greatest temptation he's ever known.
Reserved, controlled, and proper to a fault, Kai Young has neither ...
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Romance
Lark Ascending
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Silas House
Algonquin Books, 08/22/2023
With fires devastating much of America, Lark and his family first leave their home in Maryland for Maine. But as the country increasingly falls under ...
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Literary Fiction
Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty
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Nikhil Goyal
Metropolitan Books, 08/22/2023
Kensington, Philadelphia, is distinguished only by its poverty. It is home to Ryan, Giancarlos, and Emmanuel, three Puerto Rican children who live ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
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Drew Gilpin Faust
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/22/2023
To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. Two world wars and ...
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Swim Home to the Vanished: A Novel
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Brendan Shay Basham
Harper, 08/22/2023
After the death of his brother, a grief-stricken young man seeks refuge and oblivion in a secluded fishing village dominated by a family of brujas in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Continental Affair: A Novel
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Christine Mangan
Flatiron Books, 08/22/2023
Meet Henri and Louise. Two strangers, traveling alone, on the train from Belgrade to Istanbul. Except this isn't the first time they have met.
It's...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
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Andrea Lankford
Grand Central Publishing, 08/22/2023
As a park ranger with the National Park Service's law enforcement team, Andrea Lankford led search and rescue missions in some of the most beautiful (...
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Biography/Memoir
Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
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Kyo Maclear
Scribner, 08/22/2023
Three months after Kyo Maclear's father dies in December 2018, she gets the results of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised her are ...
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A Second Chance for Yesterday
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R A Sinn
Solaris, 08/29/2023
Nev Bourne is a hotshot programmer for the latest and greatest tech invention out there: SavePoint, the brain implant that rewinds the seconds of all ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
All You Have To Do
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Autumn Allen
Kokila, 08/29/2023
In
All You Have To Do, two Black young men attend prestigious schools nearly thirty years apart, and yet both navigate similar forms of insidious ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Dialogue with a Somnambulist: Stories, Essays & A Portrait Gallery
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Chloe Aridjis
Catapult, 08/29/2023
Chloe Aridjis's stories and essays are known to transport readers into liminal, often dreamlike, realms. In this collection of works, we meet a woman ...
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Every Drop is a Man's Nightmare
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Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
Bloomsbury Publishing, 08/29/2023
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's wrenching and sensational debut story collection follows a cast of mixed native Hawaiian and Japanese women through a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Everything/Nothing/Someone: A Memoir
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Alice Carrière
Spiegel & Grau, 08/29/2023
Alice Carrière tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned artist ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Good Bad Girl: A Novel
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Alice Feeney
Flatiron Books, 08/29/2023
Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be...
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Her Radiant Curse
by
Elizabeth Lim
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 08/29/2023
One sister must fall for the other to rise.
Channi was not born a monster. But when her own father offers her in sacrifice to the Demon Witch, she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Holler, Child: Stories
by
LaToya Watkins
Tiny Reparations, 08/29/2023
In
Holler, Child's eleven brilliant stories, LaToya Watkins presses at the bruises of guilt, love, and circumstance. Each story introduces us to a ...
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Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe
by
Steve Sheinkin
Roaring Brook Press, 08/29/2023
It is 1944. A teenager named Rudolph (Rudi) Vrba has made up his mind. After barely surviving nearly two years in the Auschwitz concentration camp in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Learned by Heart
by
Emma Donoghue
Little Brown & Company, 08/29/2023
Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal,
Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, ...
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More Than a Dream: The Radical March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
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Yohuru Williams
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/29/2023
Six decades ago, on August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
by
Jenni Nuttall
Viking, 08/29/2023
So many of the words that we use to chronicle women's lives feel awkward or alien. Medical terms are scrupulously accurate but antiseptic. Slang and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
My Roommate Is a Vampire
by
Jenna Levine
Berkley Books, 08/29/2023
Cassie Greenberg loves being an artist, but it's a tough way to make a living. On the brink of eviction, she's desperate when she finds a too-good-to-...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Terrace Story: A Novel
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Hilary Leichter
Ecco, 08/29/2023
Annie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful terrace hidden in their ...
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The Breakaway: A Novel
by
Jennifer Weiner
Atria Books, 08/29/2023
Thirty-four-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she's lived ...
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The Coworker
by
Freida McFadden
Poisoned Pen Press, 08/29/2023
Dawn Schiff is strange.
At least, everyone thinks so at Vixed, the nutritional supplement company where Dawn works as an accountant. She never ...
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Thrillers
The Deadline: Essays
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Jill Lepore
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 08/29/2023
Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at
The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore,...
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The Garden Maker's Book of Wonder: 162 Recipes, Crafts, Tips, Techniques, and Plants to Inspire You in Every Season
by
Allison Vallin Kostovick
Storey Publishing, LLC, 08/29/2023
Each season in the garden brings new joy and fresh inspiration for connecting with the wonders of the natural world. In
The Garden Maker's Book ...more
Science, Health and the Environment
The Reunion
by
Kit Frick
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 08/29/2023
Eleven Mayweathers went on vacation. Ten came home.
It's been years since the fragmented Mayweather clan was all in one place, but the engagement ...
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