Deer Season
by
Erin Flanagan
University of Nebraska Press, 09/01/2021
It's the opening weekend of deer season in Gunthrum, Nebraska, in 1985, and Alma Costagan's intellectually disabled farmhand, Hal Bullard, has gone ...
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These Toxic Things
by
Rachel Howzell Hall
Thomas & Mercer, 09/01/2021
Mickie Lambert creates "digital scrapbooks" for clients, ensuring that precious souvenirs aren't forgotten or lost. When her latest client, Nadia ...
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Mysteries
Hooked: A Dark, Contemporary Romance (Never After Series)
by
Emily McIntire
Bloom Books, 09/05/2021
He wants revenge, but he wants her more…
James has always had one agenda: destroy his enemy, Peter Michaels. When Peter's twenty-year-old ...
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Romance
A Question of Betrayal: An Elena Standish Novel
by
Anne Perry
Ballantine Books, 09/07/2021
Britain's secret intelligence service, MI6, has lost contact with its informant in northern Italy, just as important information about the future ...
more
Historical Fiction
AUDREY: With Original illustrations Annotated Classic edition
by
MARY JOHNSTON
Independently published, 09/07/2021
The scene is laid in Virginia in the early part of the eighteenth century, where Marmaduke Haward, a wealthy young man, rescues a little orphan girl ...
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Historical Fiction
Battle of the Bands
by
Lauren Gibaldi
Candlewick Press, 09/07/2021
A daughter of rock 'n' roll royalty has a secret crush. A lonely ticket taker worries about his sister. An almost-famous songwriter nurses old wounds....
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Beautiful Country: A Memoir
by
Qian Julie Wang
Doubleday, 09/07/2021
In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to "beautiful country." Yet when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Cuba: An American History
by
Ada Ferrer
Scribner, 09/07/2021
In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Good in Bed (20th Anniversary Edition): A Novel
by
Jennifer Weiner
Atria Books, 09/07/2021
For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie Shapiro. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her ...
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Literary Fiction
Hao: Stories
by
Ye Chun
Catapult, 09/07/2021
"The most common word in Chinese, perhaps, a ubiquitous syllable people utter and hear all the time, which is supposed to mean good. But what is hao ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Happy Hour: A Novel
by
Marlowe Granados
Verso, 09/07/2021
Refreshing and wry in equal measure,
Happy Hour is an intoxicating novel of youth well spent. Isa Epley is all of twenty-one years old, and already ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Kapo
by
Aleksander Tisma
NYRB Classics, 09/07/2021
The Book of Blam, The Use of Man, Kapo: In these three unsparing novels the Yugoslav author Aleksandar Tišma anatomized the plight of those who ...
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Historical Fiction
L.A. Weather: A Novel
by
María Amparo Escandón
Flatiron Books, 09/07/2021
L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He's ...
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Lemon Yellow Lies: Hadley Home Design Cozy Mysteries Book 1
by
Emily Oberton
Nolan Publishing Company, 09/07/2021
Darlington Hills, Virginia, is a little slice of southern heaven, and there's no place Hadley would rather be after a painful breakup with her locally...
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Mysteries
Misfits: A Personal Manifesto
by
Michaela Coel
Henry Holt and Company, 09/07/2021
When invited to deliver the MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, Michaela Coel touched a lot of people with her ...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Murder in an Orchard Cemetery: Reverend Mother Mysteries #8
by
Cora Harrison
Severn House, 09/07/2021
1920s. Cork, Ireland. The Reverend Mother regrets the bishop's decision to invite the five candidates for the position of Alderman of the City Council...
more
Never Saw Me Coming: A Novel
by
Vera Kurian
Park Row Books, 09/07/2021
YOU SHOULD NEVER TRUST A PSYCHOPATH.
BUT WHAT IF YOU HAD NO CHOICE?
It would be easy to underestimate Chloe Sevre… She's a freshman honor ...
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No Gods, No Monsters: The Convergence Saga #1
by
Cadwell Turnbull
Blackstone Publishing, 09/07/2021
As creatures from myth and legend come out of the shadows, seeking safety through visibility, their emergence sets off a chain of seemingly unrelated ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
by
Maggie Nelson
Graywolf Press, 09/07/2021
So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both ...
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People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
by
Dara Horn
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/07/2021
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major ...
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Poet Warrior
by
Joy Harjo
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/07/2021
Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her...
more
Rizzio: A Novella
by
Denise Mina
Pegasus Crime, 09/07/2021
On the evening of March 9th, 1566, David Rizzio, the private secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots, was brutally murdered. Dragged from the chamber of the...
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Road of Bones: Billy Boyle WWII Mysteries #16
by
James R. Benn
Soho Crime, 09/07/2021
It's September 1944, and the US is poised to launch Operation Frantic, a shuttle-bombing mission to be conducted by American aircraft based in Great ...
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Rock Paper Scissors: A Novel
by
Alice Feeney
Flatiron Books, 09/07/2021
Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their ...
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Thrillers
The Archer
by
Shruti Swamy
Algonquin Books, 09/07/2021
As a child, Vidya exists to serve her family, watch over her younger brother, and make sense of a motherless world. One day she catches sight of a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Charm Offensive: A Novel
by
Alison Cochrun
Atria Books, 09/07/2021
Dev Deshpande has always believed in fairy tales. So it's no wonder then that he's spent his career crafting them on the long-running reality dating ...
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Romance
The Fortnight in September: A Novel
by
R.C. Sherriff
Scribner, 09/07/2021
Meet the Stevens family, as they prepare to embark on their yearly holiday to the coast of England. Mr. and Mrs. Stevens first made the trip to Bognor...
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Literary Fiction
The Good Death: Somershill Manor Mysteries #5
by
S. D. Sykes
Pegasus Crime, 09/07/2021
England, November 1370. Oswald de Lacy, Lord of Somershill Manor, makes a devastating confession to his dying mother. But will he gain the forgiveness...
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The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All: A Novel
by
Josh Ritter
Hanover Square Press, 09/07/2021
In the tiny timber town of Cordelia, Idaho, ninety-nine year old Weldon Applegate recounts his life in all its glory, filled with tall tales writ ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Heron's Cry: A Detective Matthew Venn Novel (The Two Rivers #2)
by
Ann Cleeves
Minotaur Books, 09/07/2021
North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the ...
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The House of Ashes
by
Stuart Neville
Soho Crime, 09/07/2021
Sara Keane's husband, Damien, has uprooted them from England and moved them to his native Northern Ireland for a "fresh start" in the wake of her ...
more
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina: A Novel
by
Zoraida Córdova
Atria Books, 09/07/2021
The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low, or why their matriarch won't...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Lost Notebook of Edouard Manet: A Novel
by
Maureen Gibbon
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/07/2021
Suffering from the complications of syphilis toward the end of his life, Édouard Manet begins to jot down his daily impressions, reflections, and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Stolen Hours
by
Allen Eskens
Mulholland, 09/07/2021
Lila Nash is on the verge of landing her dream job—working as a prosecutor under the Hennepin County Attorney—and has settled into a happy...
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A Lot Like Adiós: Primas of Power #2
by
Alexis Daria
Avon Books, 09/14/2021
Hi Mich. It's Gabe.
After burning out in her corporate marketing career, Michelle Amato has built a thriving freelance business as a graphic ...
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A Most Clever Girl: A Novel of an American Spy
by
Stephanie Marie Thornton
Berkley Books, 09/14/2021
1963: Reeling from the death of her mother and President Kennedy's assassination, Catherine Gray shows up on Elizabeth Bentley's doorstep demanding ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Apples Never Fall
by
Liane Moriarty
Henry Holt and Company, 09/14/2021
The Delaney family love one another dearly―it's just that sometimes they want to murder each other...
If your mother was missing, would you ...
more
Black Nerd Problems: Essays
by
William Evans, Omar Holmon
Gallery Books, 09/14/2021
When William Evans and Omar Holmon founded
Black Nerd Problems, they had no idea whether anyone beyond their small circle of friends would be ...
more
Dark Things I Adore: A Novel
by
Katie Lattari
Sourcebooks Landmark, 09/14/2021
Three campfire secrets. Two witnesses. One dead in the trees. And the woman, thirty years later, bent on making the guilty finally pay.
1988. A ...
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
by
Mary Roach
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/14/2021
What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Her Perfect Life
by
Hank Phillippi Ryan
Forge Books, 09/14/2021
Everyone knows Lily Atwood―and that may be her biggest problem. The beloved television reporter has it all―fame, fortune, Emmys, an ...
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I Wished
by
Dennis Cooper
Soho Press, 09/14/2021
For most of his life, Dennis Cooper believed the person he had loved the most and would always love above all others was George Miles. In his first ...
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Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies
by
Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Paul Gardullo
Amistad, 09/14/2021
In the aftermath of the Civil War, millions of free and newly freed African Americans were determined to define themselves as equal citizens in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Palmares
by
Gayl Jones
Beacon Press, 09/14/2021
First discovered and edited by Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century. Now, for the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
by
Farah Jasmine Griffin
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/14/2021
Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase "read until you understand," a line her father, who died when she was nine, wrote in a note to...
more
The Love Hypothesis
by
Ali Hazelwood
Berkley Books, 09/14/2021
As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships—but her best friend does, and that's what got her...
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Romance
The Spectacular
by
Zoe Whittall
Ballantine Books, 09/14/2021
It's 1997 and Missy is a cellist in an indie rock band on tour across America. At twenty-two years old, she gets on stage every night and plays the ...
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Things I Have Withheld
by
Kei Miller
Grove Press, 09/14/2021
In a deeply moving, critical and lyrical collection of interconnected essays, award-winning writer Kei Miller explores the silences in which so many ...
more
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
by
Tarana Burke
Flatiron Books, 09/14/2021
Tarana didn't always have the courage to say "me too." As a child, she reeled from her sexual assault, believing she was responsible. Unable to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope (A Bestselling Basketball Memoir)
by
Carmelo Anthony
Gallery Books, 09/14/2021
For a long time, Carmelo Anthony's world wasn't any larger than the view of the hoopers and hustlers he watched from the side window of his family's ...
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Biography/Memoir
White Smoke
by
Tiffany D Jackson
Katherine Tegan Books, 09/14/2021
Marigold is running from ghosts. The phantoms of her old life keep haunting her, but a move with her newly blended family from their small California ...
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Last Words on Earth
by
Javier Serena
Open Letter, 09/21/2021
Fired from almost every job he's held―usually for paying more attention to literature than work―he sets himself up in a rundown shack ...
more
Peril
by
Bob Woodward
Simon & Schuster, 09/21/2021
But as # 1 internationally bestselling author Bob Woodward and acclaimed reporter Robert Costa reveal for the first time, it was far more than just a ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Rogues' Gallery: The Birth of Modern Policing and Organized Crime in Gilded Age New York
by
John Oller
Dutton, 09/21/2021
Rogues' Gallery is a sweeping, epic tale of two revolutions, one feeding off the other, that played out on the streets of New York City during an era ...
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The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel
by
Ruth Ozeki
Viking, 09/21/2021
One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his ...
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The Long War: The Inside Story of America and Afghanistan Since 9/11
by
David Loyn
St. Martin's Press, 09/21/2021
Three American presidents tried to defeat the Taliban―sending 150,000 international troops at the war's peak with a trillion-dollar price tag. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Other Merlin: Emry Merlin #1
by
Robyn Schneider
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 09/21/2021
Welcome to the great kingdom of Camelot! Prince Arthur's a depressed botanist who would rather marry a library than a princess, Lancelot's been ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
by
Amia Srinivasan
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/21/2021
How should we think about sex? It is a thing we have and also a thing we do; a supposedly private act laden with public meaning; a personal preference...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People
by
Rick Bragg
Knopf, 09/21/2021
Speck is not a good boy. He is a terrible boy, a defiant, self-destructive, often malodorous boy, a grave robber and screen door moocher who spends ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Storyteller of Casablanca
by
Fiona Valpy
Lake Union Publishing, 09/21/2021
Morocco, 1941. With France having fallen to Nazi occupation, twelve-year-old Josie has fled with her family to Casablanca, where they await safe ...
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Literary Fiction
The Trees: A Novel
by
Percival Everett
Graywolf Press, 09/21/2021
Percival Everett's
The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of ...
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Thrillers
Under the Whispering Door
by
TJ Klune
Tor Books, 09/21/2021
When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead.
And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
by
Anderson Cooper
Harper, 09/21/2021
When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father's small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the ...
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When Ghosts Come Home: A Novel
by
Wiley Cash
William Morrow, 09/21/2021
When the roar of a low-flying plane awakens him in the middle of the night, Sheriff Winston Barnes knows something strange is happening at the nearby ...
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Historical Fiction
The Prairie Chicken Dance Tour
by
Dawn Dumont
Freehand Books, 09/27/2021
The Tour is all prepared. The Prairie Chicken dance troupe is all set for a fifteen-day trek through Europe, performing at festivals and cultural ...
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Literary Fiction
A Calling for Charlie Barnes
by
Joshua Ferris
Little Brown & Company, 09/28/2021
Someone is telling the story of the life of Charlie Barnes, and it doesn't appear to be going well. Too often divorced, discontent with life's ...
more
Beasts of Prey
by
Ayana Gray
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 09/28/2021
There's no such thing as magic in the broken city of Lkossa, especially for sixteen-year-old Koffi, who holds a power within her that could only be ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence
by
Anita Hill
Viking, 09/28/2021
In 1991, Anita Hill began something that's still unfinished work. The issues of gender violence, touching on sex, race, age, and power, are as urgent ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Light From Uncommon Stars
by
Ryka Aoki
Tor Books, 09/28/2021
Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens: A Riveting New Regency Historical Mystery (A Wrexford & Sloane Mystery)
by
Andrea Penrose
Kensington Publishing, 09/28/2021
One advantage of being caught up in a whirl of dress fittings and decisions about flower arrangements and breakfast menus is that Charlotte Sloane has...
more
Historical Fiction
Murder Outside the Lines (Pen & Ink)
by
Krista Davis
Kensington Publishing, 09/28/2021
As manager of the Color Me Read bookstore, coloring book creator Florrie Fox has arranged for psychic author Hilda Rattenhorst to read from
...more
Mysteries
No Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I Need to Hear)
by
Kate Bowler
Random House, 09/28/2021
It's hard to give up on the feeling that the life you really want is
just out of reach. A beach body by summer. A trip to Disneyland around the corner...
more
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
by
Steven Pinker
Viking, 09/28/2021
Today humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding--and also appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that developed vaccines ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People
by
Kekla Magoon
Candlewick Press, 09/28/2021
In this comprehensive, inspiring, and all-too-relevant history of the Black Panther Party, Kekla Magoon introduces readers to the Panthers' community ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse
by
Dave Goulson
Harper, 09/28/2021
Drawing on thirty years of research, Goulson has written an accessible, fascinating, and important book that examines the evidence of an alarming drop...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Spark (19) (Steel Brothers Saga)
by
Helen Hardt
Waterhouse Press LLC, 09/28/2021
Donovan "Donny" Steel is on a partnership track with a major Denver law firm. He loves his city career and his luxurious downtown loft, and life is ...
more
Romance
The Ice Coven
by
Max Seeck
Berkley Books, 09/28/2021
Six months have passed since Jessica's encounter with the mysterious serial-killing coven of witches and the death of her mentor. Her nightmares about...
more
The Man Who Died Twice: Thursday Murder Club Mysteries #2
by
Richard Osman
Pamela Dorman Books, 09/28/2021
Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim—the Thursday Murder Club—are still riding high off their recent real-life murder case and are looking ...
more
The Matzah Ball: A Humorous and Unexpected Holiday Romance of Hidden Passions, Childhood Rivalries, and the Magic of Hanukkah
by
Jean Meltzer
MIRA, 09/28/2021
Her talent has made her a bestseller even as her chronic illness has always kept the kind of love she writes about out of reach.
But when her ...
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Romance
The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
by
Kristin Henning
Pantheon Books, 09/28/2021
Drawing upon twenty-five years of experience representing Black youth in Washington, D.C.'s juvenile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Wish
by
Nicholas Sparks
Grand Central Publishing, 09/28/2021
Sent away at sixteen, Maggie Dawes could think only of the friends and family she left behind ... until she met Bryce Trickett. Bryce showed her how ...
more
Romance
Voices from the Pandemic: Americans Tell Their Stories of Crisis, Courage and Resilience
by
Eli Saslow
Doubleday, 09/28/2021
The Covid-19 pandemic was a world-shattering event, affecting everyone in the nation. From its first ominous stirrings, renowned journalist Eli Saslow...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
You'd Be Home Now
by
Kathleen Glasgow
Delacorte Press, 09/28/2021
For all of Emory's life she's been told who she is. In town she's the rich one--the great-great-granddaughter of the mill's founder. At school she's ...
more
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by
Victor Hugo
Independently published, 09/29/2021
Set during the reign of King Louis XI, we are introduced to the gypsy dancer Esmerelda. A beautiful girl, both inside and out, Esmerelda captures the ...
more
Historical Fiction
A Conspiracy of Mothers: A Novel
by
Colleen van Niekerk
Little A, 10/01/2021
The year is 1994, and South Africa is in political turmoil as its first democratic election looms. Against a backdrop of apartheid and racial violence...
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Historical Fiction
Debut Author
City of Vengeance (1) (Cesare Aldo series)
by
D. V.
Macmillan UK, 10/01/2021
Florence. Winter, 1536. A prominent Jewish moneylender is murdered in his home, a death with wide implications in a city powered by immense wealth.
...
more
Thrillers
King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King
by
Daniel de Vise
Grove Press, 10/04/2021
Riley "Blues Boy" King (1925-2015) was born into deep poverty in Jim Crow Mississippi. Wrenched away from his sharecropper father, B.B. lost his ...
more
Winesburg, Ohio
by
Sherwood Anderson
Independently published, 10/04/2021
Dive into the poignant world of Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece that captures the quiet struggles and hidden dreams of small-town ...
more
Short Stories
April in Spain: A Detective Mystery (Strafford and Quirke, 2)
by
John Banville
Hanover Square Press, 10/05/2021
Don't disturb the dead…
On the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, Spain, Dublin pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax, despite the beaches, ...
more
Thrillers
Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist
by
Sesali Bowen
Amistad, 10/05/2021
Growing up on the south side of Chicago, Sesali Bowen learned early on how to hustle, stay on her toes, and champion other Black women and femmes as ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
by
Brandy Colbert
Balzer + Bray, 10/05/2021
In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House
by
Stephanie Grisham
Harper, 10/05/2021
Stephanie Grisham rose from being a junior press wrangler on the Trump campaign in 2016 to assuming top positions in the administration as White House...
more
Biography/Memoir
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
by
Andrea Elliott
Random House, 10/05/2021
In
Invisible Child, Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Judgment at Santa Monica: A Jersey Girl Legal Mystery #2
by
E.J. Copperman
Severn House, 10/05/2021
The last person family lawyer Sandy Moss expects to walk into her courtroom, right in the middle of a trial, is TV star Patrick McNabb: prime suspect ...
more
Last Girl Ghosted: A Novel
by
Lisa Unger
Park Row Books, 10/05/2021
Think twice before you swipe.
She met him through a dating app. An intriguing picture on a screen, a date at a downtown bar. What she thought might...
more
Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us
by
Colleen Kinder
Algonquin Books, 10/05/2021
When Colleen Kinder put out a call for authors to "write a letter to a stranger who haunts you," she opened the floodgates. The responses—...
more
Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
by
Kelefa Sanneh
Penguin Press, 10/05/2021
Kelefa Sanneh, one of the essential voices of our time on music and culture, has made a deep study of how popular music unites and divides us, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
O Pioneers!
by
Willa Cather
Independently published, 10/05/2021
This classic novel is a love letter to the American landscape and a tribute to the pioneers who struggled against unforgiving elements to cultivate it...
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Literary Fiction
Only the Rich Can Play: How Washington Works in the New Gilded Age
by
David Wessel
Public Affairs, 10/05/2021
David Wessel's incredible tale of how Washington works-and why the rich keep getting richer-starts when a Silicon Valley entrepreneur develops an idea...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Payback's a Witch: The Witches of Thistle Grove #1
by
Lana Harper
Berkley Books, 10/05/2021
Emmy Harlow is a witch but not a very powerful one—in part because she hasn't been home to the magical town of Thistle Grove in years. Her self-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Sankofa: A Novel
by
Chibundu Onuzo
Catapult, 10/05/2021
Masterful in its examination of freedom, prejudice, and personal and public inheritance,
Sankofa is a story for anyone who has ever gone looking for a...
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Search History
by
Eugene Lim
Coffee House Press, 10/05/2021
Frank Exit is dead—or is he? While eavesdropping on two women discussing a dog-sitting gig over lunch, a bereft friend comes to a shocking ...
more
Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
by
Nadia Wassef
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/05/2021
The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled between drivers; the steady crescendo of horns honking...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Small Pleasures: A Novel
by
Clare Chambers
Custom House, 10/05/2021
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
1957: Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper in the southeast suburbs of London. Clever but...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Smile: The Story of a Face
by
Sarah Ruhl
Simon & Schuster, 10/05/2021
With a play opening on Broadway, and every reason to smile, Sarah Ruhl has just survived a high-risk pregnancy when she discovers the left side of her...
more
Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood
by
Mark Oppenheimer
Knopf, 10/05/2021
Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in the country, known for its tight-knit community and the profusion of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Lighthouse Witches
by
C. J. Cooke
Berkley Books, 10/05/2021
When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in a 100-year-old lighthouse on a remote Scottish island, it's an opportunity to start over ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Survivors: A Novel
by
Alex Schulman
Doubleday, 10/05/2021
There is Nils, the oldest, who couldn't escape his suffocating home soon enough, and Pierre, the youngest, easily bullied and quick to lash out. And ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Taking of Jemima Boone: Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped America
by
Matthew Pearl
Harper, 10/05/2021
On a quiet midsummer day in 1776, weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone and her friends Betsy and...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Truffle Hound: On the Trail of the World's Most Seductive Scent, with Dreamers, Schemers, and Some Extraordinary Dogs
by
Rowan Jacobsen
Bloomsbury USA, 10/05/2021
The scent of one freshly unearthed white truffle in Barolo was all it took to lead Rowan Jacobsen down a rabbit hole into a world of secretive hunts, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Agatha Raisin in Down the Hatch
by
M.C. Beaton
Constable, 10/07/2021
Agatha Raisin becomes embroiled in a turmoil of jealousy and lies when the tranquility of her local bowls club explodes into a storm of accusation and...
more
Mysteries
Dachshund Through The Snow
by
Michelle Medlock Adams
End Game Press, 10/10/2021
Crosby was teeny. Even for a miniature dachshund. In fact, he was the teeniest dachshund in the whole town. But his small stature and big heart made ...
more
Other
The Bloodless Boy (A Hunt and Hooke Novel)
by
Robert J. Lloyd
Melville House, 10/11/2021
The City of London, 1678. New Year's Day. Twelve years have passed since the Great Fire ripped through the City. Eighteen since the fall of Oliver ...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
A Court of Thorns and Roses Hardcover Box Set
by
Sarah J. Maas
Bloomsbury Publishing, 10/12/2021
Follow Feyre's journey into the dangerous, alluring world of the Fae, where she will lose her heart, face her demons, and learn what she is truly ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
All the Quiet Places: A Novel
by
Brian Thomas Isaac
Touchwood Editions, 10/12/2021
It's 1956, and six-year-old Eddie Toma lives with his mother, Grace, and his little brother, Lewis, near the Salmon River on the far edge of the ...
more
Historical Fiction
Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
by
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 10/12/2021
In
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, two boys in a border town fell in love. Now, they must discover what it means to stay in ...
more
Christmas by the Book
by
Anne Marie Ryan
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/12/2021
Nora and her husband, Simon, have run the beautiful oak-beamed book shop in their small British village for thirty years. But times are tough and the ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Concepcion: An Immigrant Family's Fortunes
by
Albert Samaha
Riverhead Books, 10/12/2021
Nearing the age at which his mother had migrated to the US, part of the wave of non-Europeans who arrived after immigration quotas were relaxed in ...
more
Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief
by
Victoria Chang
Milkweed Editions, 10/12/2021
For poet Victoria Chang, memory "isn't something that blooms, but something that bleeds internally." It is willed, summoned, and dragged to the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Death at Greenway: A Novel
by
Lori Rader-Day
William Morrow, 10/12/2021
Bridey Kelly has come to Greenway House—the beloved holiday home of Agatha Christie—in disgrace. A terrible mistake at St. Prisca's ...
more
Thrillers
Flesh & Blood: Reflections on Infertility, Family, and Creating a Bountiful Life: A Memoir
by
N. West Moss
Algonquin Books, 10/12/2021
"I drive and say to myself, if I
am dying, if this is how I die, then this is how I die." When N. West Moss finds herself bleeding uncontrollably in ...
more
Jade Fire Gold
by
June CL Tan
HarperTeen, 10/12/2021
In an empire on the brink of war...
Ahn is no one, with no past and no family.
Altan is a lost heir, his future stolen away as a child.
When ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
LaserWriter II: A Novel
by
Tamara Shopsin
MCD, 10/12/2021
LaserWriter II is a coming-of-age tale set in the legendary 90s indie NYC Mac repair shop TekServe―a voyage back in time to when the internet ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Lemon: A Novel
by
Yeo-sun Kwon
Other Press, 10/12/2021
In the summer of 2002, when Korea is abuzz over hosting the FIFA World Cup, eighteen-year-old Kim Hae-on is killed in what becomes known as the High ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Mysteries
State of Terror: A Novel
by
Louise Penny
Simon & Schuster, 10/12/2021
After a tumultuous period in American politics, a new administration has just been sworn in, and to everyone's surprise the president chooses a ...
more
Thrillers
The Apollo Murders
by
Colonel Chris Hadfield
Mulholland, 10/12/2021
1973: a final, top-secret mission to the Moon. Three astronauts in a tiny spaceship, a quarter million miles from home. A quarter million miles from ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Corpse Flower: Kaldan and Scháfer Mysteries #1
by
Anne Mette Hancock
Crooked Lane Books, 10/12/2021
Danish journalist Heloise Kaldan is in the middle of a nightmare. One of her sources has been caught lying, and she could lose her job over it. Then ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Keeper of Night: The Keeper of Night #1
by
Kylie Lee Baker
Inkyard Press, 10/12/2021
Death is her destiny.
Half British Reaper, half Japanese Shinigami, Ren Scarborough has been collecting souls in the London streets for centuries. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Last Cuentista
by
Donna Barba Higuera
Arthur A. Levine Books, 10/12/2021
Había una vez ...
There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita.
But Petra'...
more
The Lost Café Schindler: One Family, Two Wars, and the Search for Truth
by
Meriel Schindler
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/12/2021
Meriel Schindler spent her adult life trying to keep her father, Kurt, at bay. But when he died in 2017, he left behind piles of Nazi-era documents ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Party Crasher: A Novel
by
Sophie Kinsella
The Dial Press, 10/12/2021
It's been almost two years since Effie's beloved parents got divorced, destroying the image of the happy, loving childhood she thought she had. Since ...
more
Romance
This Thing Between Us: A Novel
by
Gus Moreno
MCD, 10/12/2021
It was Vera's idea to buy the Itza. The "world's most advanced smart speaker!" It didn't interest Thiago, but Vera thought it would be a bit of fun ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee's Search for Home
by
Mondiant Dogon
Penguin Press, 10/12/2021
One day when Mondiant Dogon, a Bagogwe Tutsi born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was only three years old, his father's lifelong friend, a Hutu ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876 (The Presidential Series)
by
Bret Baier
Mariner Books, 10/12/2021
An epic history spanning the battlegrounds of the Civil War and the violent turmoil of Reconstruction to the forgotten electoral crisis that nearly ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
by
Mary Beard
Princeton University Press, 10/12/2021
What does the face of power
look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book&#...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Second List: An International Thriller
by
Max Bridges
Jeunive Publishing, LLC, 10/13/2021
Patrick Rooper, an investigative journalist and ex-Navy SEAL, is looking forward to his upcoming wedding when a rich socialite walks into his office ...
more
Thrillers
Thrillers
A Line to Kill: A Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery #3
by
Anthony Horowitz
Harper, 10/19/2021
When Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, are invited to an exclusive literary festival on Alderney, an ...
more
Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture
by
Zeba Blay
St. Martin's Griffin, 10/19/2021
In 2013, film and culture critic Zeba Blay was one of the first people to coin the viral term #carefreeblackgirls on Twitter. As she says, it was "a ...
more
Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution
by
Woody Holton
Simon & Schuster, 10/19/2021
Using more than a thousand eyewitness accounts,
Liberty Is Sweet explores countless connections between the Patriots of 1776 and other Americans whose...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Little Thieves
by
Margaret Owen
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, 10/19/2021
Once upon a time, there was a horrible girl...
Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother's love―and she's on the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Monster in the Middle: A Novel
by
Tiphanie Yanique
Riverhead Books, 10/19/2021
When Fly and Stela meet in 21st Century New York City, it seems like fate. He's a Black American musician from a mixed-religious background who knows ...
more
Once Upon a Wardrobe: A Story of Narnia and a Sister's Love
by
Patti Callahan
Harper, 10/19/2021
Megs Devonshire, on a scholarship at Oxford, is brilliant with numbers and equations. She prefers the dependability of facts—except for one: the...
more
Orwell's Roses
by
Rebecca Solnit
Viking, 10/19/2021
"In the year 1936 a writer planted roses." So begins Rebecca Solnit's new book, a reflection on George Orwell's passionate gardening and the way that ...
more
Rise Up!: How You Can Join the Fight Against White Supremacy
by
Crystal Marie Fleming
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, 10/19/2021
Why are white supremacists still openly marching in the United States? Why are undocumented children of color separated from their families and housed...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Judge's List: A Novel (The Whistler)
by
John Grisham
Doubleday, 10/19/2021
In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but ...
more
Thrillers
The Night of Many Endings: A Novel
by
Melissa Payne
Lake Union Publishing, 10/19/2021
Orphaned at a young age and witness to her brother's decline into addiction, Nora Martinez has every excuse to question the fairness of life. Instead,...
more
Literary Fiction
Truth of the Divine: A Novel (Noumena, 2)
by
Lindsay Ellis
St. Martin's Press, 10/19/2021
The human race is at a crossroads; we know that we are not alone, but details about the alien presence on Earth are still being withheld from the ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
As the Wicked Watch: Jordan Manning Series #1
by
Tamron Hall
William Morrow, 10/26/2021
When crime reporter Jordan Manning leaves her hometown in Texas to take a job at a television station in Chicago, she's one step closer to her dream: ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Cascade: Stories
by
Craig Davidson
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/26/2021
From the bestselling author of
The Saturday Night Ghost Club comes this collection of seven brilliantly cinematic short stories. The gems in this ...
more
Five Decembers
by
James Kestrel
Orchard Books, 10/26/2021
December 1941. America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to investigate a homicide that ...
more
From Warsaw with Love: Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance
by
John Pomfret
Henry Holt and Company, 10/26/2021
Spanning decades and continents, from the battlefields of the Balkans to secret nuclear research labs in Iran and embassy grounds in North Korea, this...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Mr. Beethoven
by
Paul Griffiths
New York Review Books, 10/26/2021
It is a matter of historical record that in 1823 the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston (active to this day) sought to commission Beethoven to write ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Sisters of the Great War: A Novel
by
Suzanne Feldman
Mira, 10/26/2021
August 1914. While Europe enters a brutal conflict unlike any waged before, the Duncan household in Baltimore, Maryland, is the setting for a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine
by
Brendan Borrell
Mariner Books, 10/26/2021
Heroic science. Chaotic politics. Billionaire entrepreneurs. Award-winning journalist Brendan Borrell brings the defining story of our times alive ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA
by
Jorge L. Contreras
Algonquin Books, 10/26/2021
When Chris Hansen, an ACLU lawyer, learned that the US government was issuing patents for human genes to biotech companies, his first thought was: How...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Lighthouse
by
Christopher Parker
Beacon Press, 10/26/2021
Is love just a fleeting emotion? Just a chemical reaction in the brain? Or is it something more tangible, part of the human spirit that endures long ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Nameless Ones: Charlie Parker #19
by
John Connolly
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 10/26/2021
In Amsterdam, four bodies, violently butchered, are discovered in a canal house, the remains of friends and confidantes of the assassin known only as ...
more
Trashlands: A novel
by
Alison Stine
Mira, 10/26/2021
A few generations from now, the coastlines of the continent have been redrawn by floods and tides. Global powers have agreed to not produce any new ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Verity
by
Colleen Hoover
Grand Central Publishing, 10/26/2021
Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of ...
more
Thrillers
We Light Up the Sky
by
Lilliam Rivera
Bloomsbury YA, 10/26/2021
Should you save a world that doesn't want to save you?
Pedro, Luna, and Rafa may attend Fairfax High School together in Los Angeles, but they run ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Taste: My Life Through Food (Thorndike Press Large Print Biography and Memoir)
by
Stanley Tucci
Thorndike Press, 10/27/2021
Stanley Tucci grew up in an Italian American family that spent every night around the kitchen table. He shared the magic of those meals with us in
The...more
Biography/Memoir
A Certain Appeal
by
Vanessa King
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 11/02/2021
After a betrayal derailed her interior design career, Liz Bennet found a fresh start in New York. Now an executive assistant by day and stage kitten ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
A Marvellous Light: The Last Binding #1
by
Freya Marske
Tor.com, 11/02/2021
Robin Blyth has more than enough bother in his life. He's struggling to be a good older brother, a responsible employer, and the harried baronet of a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Against the Loveless World: A Novel
by
Susan Abulhawa
Washington Square Press, 11/02/2021
As Nahr sits, locked away in solitary confinement, she spends her days reflecting on the dramatic events that landed her in prison in a country she ...
more
All Her Little Secrets: A Novel
by
Wanda M. Morris
William Morrow, 11/02/2021
Ellice Littlejohn seemingly has it all: an Ivy League law degree, a well-paying job as a corporate attorney in midtown Atlanta, great friends, and a "...
more
Thrillers
Blue-Skinned Gods
by
SJ Sindu
Soho Press, 11/02/2021
In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy is born with blue skin. His father sets up an ashram, and the family makes a living off of the pilgrims who seek the child...
more
Chasing Homer
by
László Krasznahorkai
New Directions Publishing, 11/02/2021
In this thrilling chase narrative, a hunted being escapes certain death at breakneck speed―careening through Europe, heading blindly South. ...
more
Cokie: A Life Well Lived
by
Steven V. Roberts
Harper, 11/02/2021
Through her visibility and celebrity, Cokie Roberts was an inspiration and a role model for innumerable women and girls. A fixture on national ...
more
Cosmogramma
by
Courttia Newland
Akashic Books, 11/02/2021
In his exquisite first collection of speculative fiction, Courttia Newland envisages an alternate future as lived by the African diaspora.
Kill ...
more
Cremation
by
Rafael Chirbes
New Directions Publishing, 11/02/2021
Along the Mediterranean coastline of Spain, real-estate developers scramble to transform the once pastoral landscape into tourist resorts, nightclubs,...
more
Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
by
Gregg Mitman
The New Press, 11/02/2021
In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world's automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world's rubber. But only one percent of the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America
by
Michael Eric Dyson
St. Martin's Press, 11/02/2021
From the
New York Times bestselling author of
Tears We Cannot Stop,
Entertaining Race is a testament to Dyson's consistent celebration of the outsized...
more
Everything We Didn't Say: A Novel
by
Nicole Baart
Atria Books, 11/02/2021
Juniper Baker had just graduated from high school and was deep in the throes of a summer romance when Cal and Beth Murphy, a childless couple who ...
more
Thrillers
Frequently Asked Questions about the Universe
by
Jorge Cham, Daniel Whiteson
Riverhead Books, 11/02/2021
As a species, we may not agree on much, but one thing brings us all together: a need to know. We all wonder, and deep down we all have the same big ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine: A Novel
by
Klara Hveberg
HarperVia, 11/02/2021
Rakel has always been more comfortable with numbers than with people. A gifted woman with a rare talent for math, she has never mastered the art of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Local Woman Missing: A domestic thriller novel from master of suspense Mary Kubica
by
Mary Kubica
Harlequin Books, 11/02/2021
People don't just disappear without a trace…
Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old ...
more
Thrillers
Lore Olympus: Volume One
by
Rachel Smythe
Inklore, 11/02/2021
Persephone, young goddess of spring, is new to Olympus. Her mother, Demeter, has raised her in the mortal realm, but after Persephone promises to ...
more
Graphic Novels
Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age
by
Debby Applegate
Doubleday, 11/02/2021
Simply put: Everybody came to Polly's. Pearl "Polly" Adler (1900-1962) was a diminutive dynamo whose Manhattan brothels in the Roaring Twenties became...
more
New Year
by
Juli Zeh
World Editions, 11/02/2021
Lanzarote on New Year's Day: Henning is cycling up the steep path to Femés. As he struggles against the wind and the gradient he takes stock of ...
more
New York, My Village: A Novel
by
Uwem Akpan
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/02/2021
Ekong Udousoro is a Nigerian editor undertaking a reckoning with the brutal recent history of his homeland by curating a collection of stories about ...
more
Our Country Friends: A Novel
by
Gary Shteyngart
Random House, 11/02/2021
It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the ...
more
Shoot the Moonlight Out: A Novel
by
William Boyle
Pegasus Crime, 11/02/2021
An explosive crime drama,
Shoot the Moonlight Out evokes a mystical Brooklyn where the sidewalks are cracked, where Virgin Mary statues tilt in fenced...
more
Still Life
by
Sarah Winman
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 11/02/2021
Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer
by
Rax King
Vintage, 11/02/2021
Tacky is about the power of pop culture—like any art—to imprint itself on our lives and shape our experiences, no matter one's commitment ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
The Bad Immigrant
by
Sefi Atta
Interlink Books, 11/02/2021
Writing at the height of her powers,
The Bad Immigrant cements Sefi Atta's place as one of the best storytellers of our time. Through the voice of her...
more
The Collective: A Novel
by
Alison Gaylin
William Morrow, 11/02/2021
Camille Gardener is a grieving—and angry—mother who, five years after her daughter's death, is still obsessed with the privileged young ...
more
Thrillers
The Family: A Read with Jenna Pick (A Novel)
by
Naomi Krupitsky
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 11/02/2021
Two daughters. Two families. One inescapable fate.
Sofia Colicchio is a free spirit, loud and untamed. Antonia Russo is thoughtful, ever ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Interim
by
Wolfgang Hilbig
Two Lines Press, 11/02/2021
C. is a wretched grump, an anguished patron of bars, brothels, and train stations. He is also an acclaimed East German writer. Dogged by writer's ...
more
The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World
by
Porter Fox
Little Brown & Company, 11/02/2021
As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring snowpack and in the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
The Month of Borrowed Dreams: A Novel (Finfarran Peninsula)
by
Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Harper, 11/02/2021
On the Finfarran Peninsula on Ireland's west coast, the blue skies and warmer days of summer are almost here. At the Lissbeg Library, Hanna Casey has ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Seventh Queen: Warrior Witch Duology #2
by
Greta Kelly
Harper Voyager, 11/02/2021
The Empire of Vishir has lost its ruler, and the fight to save Seravesh from the Roven Empire is looking bleak. Moreover, Askia has been captured by ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Stranger in the Lifeboat: A Novel
by
Mitch Albom
Harper, 11/02/2021
Adrift in a raft after a deadly ship explosion, ten people struggle for survival at sea. Three days pass. Short on water, food and hope, they spot a ...
more
Mysteries
The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World
by
Claire Tomalin
Penguin Press, 11/02/2021
Upon the death of H. G. Wells, in 1946, George Orwell remarked, "If he had stopped writing in 1920 his reputation would stand quite as high as it does...
more
Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City
by
Andrew Lawler
Doubleday, 11/02/2021
In 1863, a French senator arrived in Jerusalem hoping to unearth relics dating to biblical times. Digging deep underground, he discovered an ancient ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora
by
Saraciea J. Fennell
Flatiron Books, 11/02/2021
In
Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed, bestselling and award-winning authors as well as up-and-coming voices interrogate the different myths and stereotypes ...
more
Short Stories
Win Me Something
by
Kyle Lucia Wu
Tin House Books, 11/02/2021
Willa Chen has never quite fit in. Growing up as a biracial Chinese American girl in New Jersey, Willa felt both hypervisible and unseen, too Asian to...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Admit This to No One: Collected Stories
by
Leslie Pietrzyk
The Unnamed Press, 11/06/2021
The Speaker's daughters from his several failed marriages have a complicated relationship with him to say the least―alternating between longing ...
more
Around the World in 80 Books
by
David Damrosch
Penguin Press, 11/09/2021
Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University's department of comparative literature and founder of Harvard...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Atlas of the Invisible: Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You See the World
by
James Cheshire, Oliver Uberti
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/09/2021
Award-winning geographer-designer team James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti transform enormous datasets into rich maps and cutting-edge visualizations. In...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Doctors and Friends
by
Kimmery Martin
Berkley Books, 11/09/2021
When Compton Winfield returns to her job as an ER doctor in New York City, she finds a city changed beyond recognition—and a personal loss so ...
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Hercule Poirot's Christmas: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition (Hercule Poirot Mysteries, 19)
by
Agatha Christie
William Morrow, 11/09/2021
On Christmas Eve at Gorston Hall, the Lee family's festivities are shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing scream. ...
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Mysteries
Indigo: Arm Wrestling, Snake Saving, and Some Things In Between
by
Padgett Powell
Catapult, 11/09/2021
Gathering pieces written during the past three decades,
Indigo ranges widely in subject matter and tone, opening with "Cleve Dean," which takes ...
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Island Infernos: The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944
by
John C. McManus
Caliber, 11/09/2021
After some two years at war, the Army in the Pacific held ground across nearly a third of the globe, from Alaska's Aleutians to Burma and New Guinea. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
O Beautiful: A Novel
by
Jung Yun
St. Martin's Press, 11/09/2021
Elinor Hanson, a forty-something former model, is struggling to reinvent herself as a freelance writer when she receives an unexpected assignment. Her...
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Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution
by
H. W. Brands
Doubleday, 11/09/2021
What causes people to forsake their country and take arms against it? What prompts their neighbors, hardly distinguishable in station&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Skin Elegies
by
Lance Olsen
Dzanc Books, 11/09/2021
At the center stands an American couple who have fled their increasingly repressive country, now under the authoritarian rule of the Reformation ...
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Sway with Me
by
Syed M. Masood
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 11/09/2021
Arsalan has learned everything he knows from Nana, his 100-year-old great-grandfather. This includes the fact that when Nana dies, Arsalan will be ...
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Mysteries
The Library: A Fragile History
by
Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen
Basic Books, 11/09/2021
Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Transcendentalists and Their World
by
Robert A. Gross
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/09/2021
The Transcendentalists and Their World offers a fresh view of the thinkers whose outsize impact on philosophy and literature would spread from tiny ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America's Heartland
by
Dick Lehr
Mariner Books, 11/09/2021
In the spring of 2016, as immigration debates rocked the United States, three men in a militia group known as the Crusaders grew aggravated over one ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Will
by
Will Smith
Penguin Press, 11/09/2021
Will Smith's transformation from a West Philadelphia kid to one of the biggest rap stars of his era, and then one of the biggest movie stars in ...
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Biography/Memoir
A Brave and Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America
by
James Horn
Basic Books, 11/16/2021
In the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake Bay kidnapped an Indian child and took him back to Spain and subsequently to Mexico....
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A Galway Epiphany: A Jack Taylor Novel (Jack Taylor Novels, 17)
by
Ken Bruen
Mysterious Press (closed?), 11/16/2021
Jack Taylor has finally escaped the despair of his violent life in Galway in favor of a quiet retirement in the country with his friend Keefer, a ...
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Mysteries
A Guardian Angel Recalls
by
Willem Frederik Hermans
Archipelago Books, 11/16/2021
Alberegt, a public prosecutor and self-proclaimed "man of minor failings," speeds through Hook of Holland in his black Renault on May 9, 1940. His ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Human History of Emotion: How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know
by
Richard Firth-Godbehere
Little, Brown Spark, 11/16/2021
We humans like to think of ourselves as rational creatures, who, as a species, have relied on calculation and intellect to survive. But many of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Little Hope: A Novel
by
Ethan Joella
Scribner, 11/16/2021
Freddie and Greg Tyler seem to have it all: a comfortable home, a beautiful young daughter, a bond that feels unbreakable. But when Greg is diagnosed ...
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Literary Fiction
Chouette
by
Claire Oshetsky
Ecco, 11/16/2021
Tiny is pregnant. Her husband is delighted. "You think this baby is going to be like you, but it's not like you at all," she warns him. "This baby is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Even Greater Mistakes: Stories
by
Charlie Jane Anders
Tor Books, 11/16/2021
The woman who can see all possible futures is dating the man who can see the one and only foreordained future.
A wildly popular slapstick filmmaker...
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Galloway: Life In a Vanishing Landscape
by
Patrick Laurie
Counterpoint Press, 11/16/2021
Galloway, an ancient region in an obscure corner of Scotland, has a proud and unique heritage based on hardy cattle and wide moors. But as the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Generations: A Memoir (New York Review Classics)
by
Lucille Clifton
NYRB Classics, 11/16/2021
Buffalo, New York. A father's funeral. Memory.
In
Generations, Lucille Clifton's formidable poetic gift emerges in prose, giving us a memoir of ...
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Biography/Memoir
Miss Eliza's English Kitchen: A Novel of Victorian Cookery and Friendship
by
Annabel Abbs
William Morrow, 11/16/2021
England, 1835. London is awash with thrilling new ingredients, from rare spices to exotic fruits. But no one knows how to use them. When Eliza Acton ...
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Historical Fiction
Pain Free (Revised and Updated Second Edition): A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain
by
Pete Egoscue
Bantam Books, 11/16/2021
Can gentle exercise help with chronic pain? Yes! That is the revolutionary message of the Egoscue Method, a breakthrough system for eliminating ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America
by
Mayukh Sen
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/16/2021
Who's really behind America's appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Termination Shock: A Novel
by
Neal Stephenson
William Morrow, 11/16/2021
One man—visionary billionaire restaurant chain magnate T. R. Schmidt, Ph.D.—has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, a master plan ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
by
Nikole Hannah-Jones
One World, 11/16/2021
In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Christmas Bookshop: A Novel (Christmas Bookshop, 1)
by
Jenny Colgan
Avon Books, 11/16/2021
Laid off from her department store job, Carmen has perilously little cash and few options. The prospect of spending Christmas with her perfect sister ...
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Romance
The Disappearance of Lindy James
by
Catherine Maiorisi
Bella Books, 11/16/2021
They also say her marriage is a sin and warn she and their two daughters will burn in hell for eternity if she doesn't leave Quincy.
Working a ...
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Literary Fiction
The Every: A novel
by
Dave Eggers
Vintage, 11/16/2021
Delaney Wells is an unlikely new hire at the Every. A former forest ranger and unwavering tech skeptic, she charms her way into an entry-level job ...
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The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011
by
Edith Schloss
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/16/2021
The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly is a firsthand account by an artist at the center of a landmark era in American art. Edith ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Missing Piece: Dismas Hardy #19
by
John Lescroart
Atria Books, 11/16/2021
No one mourned when San Francisco DA Wes Farrell put Paul Riley in prison eleven years ago for the rape and murder of his girlfriend. And no one is ...
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The Power of Women: A Doctor's Journey of Hope and Healing
by
Denis Mukwege
Flatiron Books, 11/16/2021
At the heart of Dr. Mukwege's message will be the voices of the many women he has worked with over the years. Dr. Mukwege will use individual cases to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Singles Table
by
Sara Desai
Berkley Books, 11/16/2021
After a devastating break-up, celebrity-obsessed lawyer Zara Patel is determined never to open her heart again. She puts her energy into building her ...
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The Teller of Secrets: A Novel
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Bisi Adjapon
HarperVia, 11/16/2021
Young Esi Agyekum is the unofficial "secret keeper" of her family, as tight-lipped about her father's adultery as she is about her half-sisters' sex ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
These Silent Woods: A Novel
by
Kimi Cunningham Grant
Minotaur Books, 11/16/2021
No electricity, no family, no connection to the outside world.
For eight years, Cooper and his young daughter, Finch, have lived in isolation in a ...
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Thrillers
When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers
by
Ken Krimstein
Bloomsbury USA, 11/16/2021
When I Grow Up is
New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein's new graphic nonfiction book, based on six of hundreds of newly discovered, never-before-...
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Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
by
Catherine McCormack
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/16/2021
Venus, maiden, wife, mother, monster―women have been bound so long by these restrictive roles, codified by patriarchal culture, that we scarcely...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History
by
Casey Michel
St. Martin's Press, 11/23/2021
For years, one country has acted as the greatest offshore haven in the world, attracting hundreds of billions of dollars in illicit finance tied ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone: A Novel (Outlander)
by
Diana Gabaldon
Delacorte Press, 11/23/2021
Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1746, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. Now the ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Harsh Times: A Novel
by
Mario Vargas Llosa
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/23/2021
Guatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA topples the government of Jacobo Árbenz. Behind ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Love, Lists, and Fancy Ships
by
Sarah Grunder Ruiz
Berkley Books, 11/23/2021
For the last year, yacht stewardess Jo Walker has been attempting to complete a bucket list of thirty things she wants to accomplish by her thirtieth ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
The Anomaly: A Novel
by
Hervé Le Tellier
Other Press, 11/23/2021
Who would we be if we had made different choices? Told that secret, left that relationship, written that book? We all wonder—the passengers of ...more
The Spanish Love Deception: A Novel
by
Elena Armas
Atria Books, 11/23/2021
Catalina Martín desperately needs a date to her sister's wedding. Especially since her little white lie about her American boyfriend has ...
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Romance
These Precious Days: Essays
by
Ann Patchett
Harper, 11/23/2021
"Any story that starts will also end." As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do...
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Autopsy: A Scarpetta Novel (Kay Scarpetta, 25)
by
Patricia Cornwell
William Morrow, 11/30/2021
Forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta has come almost full circle, returning to Virginia, the state where she launched her storied career, as the ...
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Thrillers
Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles
by
Lydia Davis
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/30/2021
Lydia Davis, who has been called "a magician of self-consciousness" by Jonathan Franzen and "the best prose stylist in America" by Rick Moody, ...
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Jade Legacy: The Green Bone Saga #3
by
Fonda Lee
Orbit, 11/30/2021
Jade, the mysterious and magical substance once exclusive to the Green Bone warriors of Kekon, is now coveted throughout the world. Everyone wants ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
People from My Neighborhood: Stories
by
Hiromi Kawakami
Soft Skull Press, 11/30/2021
A bossy child who lives under a white cloth near a tree; a schoolgirl who keeps doll's brains in a desk drawer; an old man with two shadows, one ...
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Pilot Impostor
by
James Hannaham
Soft Skull Press, 11/30/2021
Early in 2017, on a plane from Cape Verde to Lisbon, author and visual artist James Hannaham started reading
Pessoa & Co., Richard Zenith's English ...
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Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult
by
Faith Jones
William Morrow, 11/30/2021
Faith Jones was raised to be part an elite army preparing for the End Times. Growing up on an isolated farm in Macau, she prayed for hours every day ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Small Things Like These
by
Claire Keegan
Grove Press, 11/30/2021
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Words in My Hands
by
Asphyxia
Annick Press, 11/30/2021
Set in an ominously prescient near future,
The Words in My Hands is the story of Piper: sixteen, smart, artistic, and rebellious, she's struggling to ...
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Wish You Were Here: A Novel
by
Jodi Picoult
Ballantine Books, 11/30/2021
Diana O'Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all ...
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Literary Fiction
