Tripas: Poems (Georgia Review Books Ser.)
by
Brandon Som
Georgia Review Books, 03/01/2023
Enacting a cómo se dice poetics, a dialogic poem-making that inventively listens to heritage languages and transcribes family memory, Som ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
All That Is Mine I Carry With Me: A Novel
by
William Landay
Bantam Books, 03/07/2023
One afternoon in November 1975, ten-year-old Miranda Larkin comes home from school to find her house eerily quiet. Her mother is missing. Nothing else...
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Thrillers
At Sea
by
Emma Fedor
Gallery Books, 03/07/2023
When Cara and Brendan first meet, she's fresh out of college, recovering from the recent death of her mother, and spending time on Martha's Vineyard ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA
by
Theresa Runstedtler
Bold Type Books, 03/07/2023
Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Confidence: A Novel
by
Rafael Frumkin
Simon & Schuster, 03/07/2023
At seventeen, Ezra Green doesn't have a lot going for him: he's shorter than average, snaggle-toothed, internet-addicted, and halfway to being legally...
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Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: a Memoir
by
Michelle Dowd
Algonquin Books, 03/07/2023
My family prepared me for the end of the world, but I know how to survive on what the earth yields.
As a child, Michelle Dowd grew up on a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
From From: Poems
by
Monica Youn
Graywolf Press, 03/07/2023
"Where are you from …? No—where are you
from from?" It's a question every Asian American gets asked as part of an incessant chorus saying ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
In Limbo: A Graphic Memoir
by
Deb JJ Lee
First Second, 03/07/2023
Ever since Deborah (Jung-Jin) Lee emigrated from South Kora to the United States, she's felt her otherness.
For a while, her English wasn't perfect...
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Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself
by
Monica Edinger
Zest Books, 03/07/2023
Millions of Africans were enslaved during the transatlantic slave trade, but few recorded their personal experiences. Olaudah Equiano's
The ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
by
Margaret Atwood
Doubleday, 03/07/2023
Margaret Atwood has established herself as one of the most visionary and canonical authors in the world. This collection of fifteen extraordinary ...
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Short Stories
Pineapple Street: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel
by
Jenny Jackson
Pamela Dorman Books, 03/07/2023
Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected old money Stockton family, followed her heart, trading her job and her inheritance for motherhood ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sell Us the Rope
by
Stephen May
Bloomsbury USA, 03/07/2023
Instead, Koba, as he is known, arrives in London for the 5th Congress of the Russian Communist Party where he - and many of his fellow Bolsheviks - ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Curator
by
Owen King
Scribner, 03/07/2023
It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed "the Fairest", it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The God of Endings: A Novel
by
Jacqueline Holland
Flatiron Books, 03/07/2023
Collette LeSange has been hiding a dark truth: She is immortal. In 1834, Colette's grandfather granted her the gift of eternal life and since then, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Lost English Girl
by
Julia Kelly
Gallery Books, 03/07/2023
Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what's expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Mimicking of Known Successes
by
Malka Older
Tor.com, 03/07/2023
On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Sister Effect: A Novel
by
Susan Mallery
HQN, 03/07/2023
Finley McGowan is determined that the niece she's raising will always feel loved and wanted. Unlike how she felt after her mom left to pursue a dream ...
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Literary Fiction
The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom
by
Larry Loftis
William Morrow, 03/07/2023
The Watchmaker's Daughter is one of the greatest stories of World War II that readers haven't heard: the remarkable and inspiring life story of Corrie...
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Tina, Mafia Soldier
by
Maria Rosa Cutrufelli
Soho Crime, 03/07/2023
Sicily, 1980s: When she was just eight years old, Tina watched as her father, a member of Cosa Nostra, was murdered in cold blood. Now a teenager, she...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector
by
Amit Katwala
Crooked Lane Books, 03/07/2023
Late one evening in the summer of 1922, Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife's blood. But was he a grieving...
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Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began
by
Leah Hazard
Ecco, 03/07/2023
The size of a clenched fist and the shape of a light bulb—with no less power and potential. Every person on Earth began inside a uterus, but how...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Pink House
by
Catherine Alliott
NoShooz Inc, 03/11/2023
If they take it on, they must also accept all that comes with it, including Hugh's sister Sally, living in the garden cottage; playing host to their ...
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Literary Fiction
And So Do I
by
Dennis Henn
Independently published, 03/13/2023
Mainly through the experiences of the church's pastor, Eric Young, we find God's redemptive love encountered through pie auctions, chili feeds, a golf...
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Literary Fiction
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War
by
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
Knopf, 03/14/2023
The history of reportage has often depended on outsiders—Ryszard Kapuściński witnessing the fall of the shah in Iran, Frances ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bitter Medicine
by
Mia Tsai
Tachyon Publications, 03/14/2023
As a descendant of the Chinese god of medicine, ignored middle child Elle was destined to be a doctor. Instead, she is underemployed as a mediocre ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Dear Medusa: (A Novel in Verse)
by
Olivia A. Cole
Labyrinth Road, 03/14/2023
Sixteen-year-old Alicia Rivers has a reputation that precedes her. But there's more to her story than the whispers that follow her throughout the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Different for Boys
by
Patrick Ness
Walker & Company, 03/14/2023
Anthony "Ant" Stevenson isn't sure when he stopped being a virgin. Or even if he has. The rules aren't always very clear when it comes to boys who ...
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Dust Child
by
Nguyen Phan Que Mai
Algonquin Books, 03/14/2023
In 1969, sisters Trang and Quỳnh, desperate to help their parents pay off debts, leave their rural village and become "bar girls" in Sài G&...
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Feed Them Silence
by
Lee Mandelo
Tor.com, 03/14/2023
What does it mean to "be-in-kind" with a nonhuman animal? Or in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon's case, to be in-kind with one of the last remaining wild wolves?...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Flowerheart
by
Catherine Bakewell
HarperTeen, 03/14/2023
Clara's magic has always been wild. But it's never been dangerous. Then a simple touch causes poisonous flowers to bloom in her father's chest.
The...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Kunstlers in Paradise
by
Cathleen Schine
Henry Holt and Company, 03/14/2023
For years Mamie Künstler, ninety-three-years-old, as clever and glamorous as ever, has lived happily in her bungalow in Venice, California with ...
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Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
by
Oliver Darkshire
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/14/2023
Welcome to Sotheran's, one of the oldest bookshops in the world, with its weird and wonderful clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabeled keys, ...
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Our Best Intentions: A Novel
by
Vibhuti Jain
William Morrow, 03/14/2023
Babur "Bobby" Singh, single parent and owner of fledging Uber business "Move with Bobby," remains ever hopeful about ascending the ladder of American ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence
by
Paco Calvo with Natalie Lawrence
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/14/2023
Decades of research document plants' impressive abilities: they communicate with one another, manipulate other species, and move in sophisticated ways...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Stateless
by
Elizabeth Wein
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/14/2023
When Stella North is chosen to represent Britain in Europe's first air race for young people, she knows all too well how high the stakes are. As the ...
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Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
by
Alexa Hagerty
Crown, 03/14/2023
"Exhumation can divide brothers and restore fathers, open old wounds and open the possibility of regeneration—of building something new with the...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Take What You Need: A Novel
by
Idra Novey
Viking, 03/14/2023
Set in the Allegheny Mountains of Appalachia,
Take What You Need traces the parallel lives of Jean and her beloved but estranged stepdaughter, Leah, ...
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Literary Fiction
The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring
by
Patti McCracken
William Morrow, 03/14/2023
The horror occurred in a rustic farming enclave in modern-day Hungary. To look at the unlikely lineup of murderesses—village wives, mothers, and...
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Critics' Consensus:
True Crime
Debut Author
The Dog of the North: A Novel
by
Elizabeth McKenzie
Penguin Press, 03/14/2023
Penny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over; she's quit her job. Her mother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five years ago; ...
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The Flames: A Novel
by
Sophie Haydock
The Overlook Press, 03/14/2023
Amid an opulent society living under the shadow of war are four muses, women whose bodies were shown in intimate detail, depicted by the charming yet ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Last Russian Doll
by
Kristen Loesch
Berkley Books, 03/14/2023
In a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land...
...a young girl lived happily in Moscow with her family: a sister, a father, and an eccentric mother ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Memory Eater
by
Rebecca Mahoney
Razorbill, 03/14/2023
For generations, a monster called the Memory Eater has lived in the caves of Whistler Beach, Maine, surviving off the unhappy memories of those who ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Next New Syrian Girl
by
Ream Shukairy
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/14/2023
Khadija Shami is a Syrian American high school senior raised on boxing and football. Saddled with a monstrous ego and a fierce mother to test it, she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
by
M.D. Ricardo Nuila
Scribner, 03/14/2023
First, we meet Stephen, the restaurant franchise manager who signed up for his company's lowest priced plan, only to find himself facing ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Strangers' House: Writing Northern Ireland
by
Alexander Poots
Twelve Books, 03/14/2023
Northern Ireland is one hundred years old. Northern Ireland does not exist. Both of these statements are true. It just depends on who you ask. How do ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
by
Alexandra Robbins
Dutton, 03/14/2023
Alexandra Robbins goes behind the scenes to tell the true, sometimes shocking, always inspirational stories of three teachers as they navigate a year ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Walking Practice: A Novel
by
Dolki Min
HarperVia, 03/14/2023
After crashing their spacecraft in the middle of nowhere, a shapeshifting alien finds themself stranded on an unfamiliar planet and disabled by Earth'...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
by
Roxanna Asgarian
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/14/2023
On March 26, 2018, rescue workers discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and several children at the bottom of a cliff beside the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Wolf Trap: A Thriller
by
Connor Sullivan
Atria Books, 03/14/2023
Set a trap... See who comes.
Under the direction of the Special Activities Center in the Operations Directorate of the CIA, over three hundred ...
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Thrillers
Flush: A Biography
by
Virginia Woolf
Indoeuropeanpublishing.com, 03/17/2023
Written after the completion of her emotionally draining
The Waves, the work returned Woolf to the imaginative consideration of English history that ...
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Literary Fiction
A Sunlit Weapon: A Novel (Maisie Dobbs, 17)
by
Jacqueline Winspear
Harper Perennial, 03/21/2023
October 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Supermarine Spitfire—the fastest fighter aircraft in the world—to ...
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Historical Fiction
Brighter Than the Sun
by
Daniel Aleman
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/21/2023
Every morning, sixteen-year-old Sol wakes up at the break of dawn in her hometown of Tijuana, Mexico and makes the trip across the border to go to ...
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Literary Fiction
Commitment: A Novel
by
Mona Simpson
Knopf, 03/21/2023
When Diane Aziz drives her oldest son, Walter, from Los Angeles to college at UC Berkeley, it will be her last parental act before falling into a deep...
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Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal
by
Nathan Masters
Hachette Books, 03/21/2023
Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era's greatest political fiasco—one that resulted in a nationwide ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Literary Fiction
Flux
by
Jinwoo Chong
Melville House, 03/21/2023
Four days before Christmas, 8-year-old Bo loses his mother in a tragic accident, 28-year-old Brandon loses his job after a hostile takeover of his big...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice
by
Christine Kenneally
Public Affairs, 03/21/2023
For much of the twentieth century, a series of terrible events—abuse, both physical and psychological, and even deaths—took places inside ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How I'll Kill You
by
Ren DeStefano
Berkley Books, 03/21/2023
Make him want you.
Make him love you.
Make him dead.
Sissy has an...interesting family. Always the careful one, always the cautious one, she has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Old God's Time: A Novel
by
Sebastian Barry
Viking, 03/21/2023
Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. ...
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Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace
by
James T. Costa
Princeton University Press, 03/21/2023
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the Victorian age. His expeditions to remote Amazonia and southeast ...
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The Lies of the Ajungo: The Forever Desert #1
by
Moses Ose Utomi
Tor.com, 03/21/2023
They say there is no water in the City of Lies. They say there are no heroes in the City of Lies. They say there are no friends beyond the City of ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
by
Bill Hammack
Sourcebooks, 03/21/2023
Bill Hammack, a Carl Sagan award-winning professor of engineering and viral "The Engineer Guy" on YouTube, has a lifelong passion for the things we ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Wandering Souls: A Novel
by
Cecile Pin
Henry Holt and Company, 03/21/2023
After the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Minh, and Thanh journey to Hong Kong with the promise that their parents and younger ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Y/N: A Novel
by
Esther Yi
Astra House, 03/21/2023
It's as if her life only began once Moon appeared in it. The desultory copywriting work, the boyfriend, and the want of anything not-Moon quickly fall...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Brief History of Living Forever: A Novel
by
Jaroslav Kalfar
Little Brown & Company, 03/28/2023
When Adéla discovers she has a terminal illness, she leaves behind her native Czech village for a chance at reuniting in America with Tereza, the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Death in Denmark: The First Gabriel Præst Novel
by
Amulya Malladi
William Morrow Paperbacks, 03/28/2023
Everyone in Denmark knew that Yousef Ahmed, a refugee from Iraq, brutally murdered the right-wing politician Sanne Melgaard. So, when part-time blues ...
more
Mysteries
A Door in the Dark
by
Scott Reintgen
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 03/28/2023
Ren Monroe has spent four years proving she's one of the best wizards in her generation. But top marks at Balmerick University will mean nothing if ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Birdgirl: Looking to the Skies in Search of a Better Future
by
Mya-Rose Craig
Celadon, 03/28/2023
Meet Mya-Rose – otherwise known as "Birdgirl." In her words: "Birdwatching has never felt like a hobby, or a pastime I can pick up and put down,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Community Board: A Novel
by
Tara Conklin
Mariner Books, 03/28/2023
Where does one go, you might ask, when the world falls apart? When the immutable facts of your life—the mundane, the trivial, the take-for-...more
Literary Fiction
Girl Forgotten
by
April Henry
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/28/2023
Seventeen years ago, Layla Trello was murdered and her killer was never found. Enter true-crime fan Piper Gray who is determined to reopen Layla's ...
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Mysteries
Hang the Moon: A Novel
by
Jeannette Walls
Scribner, 03/28/2023
Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who'd amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans.
Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Her Deadly Game
by
Robert Dugoni
Thomas & Mercer, 03/28/2023
Keera Duggan was building a solid reputation as a Seattle prosecutor, until her romantic relationship with a senior colleague ended badly. For the ...
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Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine
by
Hannah Moushabeck
Chronicle Books, 03/28/2023
As bedtime approaches, three young girls eagerly await the return of their father who tells them stories of a faraway homeland—Palestine. ...
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Graphic Novels
How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
by
Clancy Martin
Pantheon Books, 03/28/2023
"If you're going to write a book about suicide, you have to be willing to say the true things, the scary things, the humiliating things. Because ...more
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
by
Sarah Bakewell
Penguin Press, 03/28/2023
Humanism is an expansive tradition of thought that places shared humanity, cultural vibrancy, and moral responsibility at the center of our lives. The...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Infinity Gate (The Pandominion, 1)
by
M. R. Carey
Orbit, 03/28/2023
INFINITY IS ONLY THE BEGINNING.
The Pandominion: a political and trading alliance of a million worlds – except that they're really just the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Lone Women: A Novel
by
Victor LaValle
One World, 03/28/2023
Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It's locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Loyalty
by
Lisa Scottoline
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/28/2023
Loyalty can save a soul—or destroy one.
Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome lemon grower toiling on the estate of a baron. He dreams of owning ...
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Historical Fiction
Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America
by
Abraham Riesman
Atria Books, 03/28/2023
Even if you've never watched a minute of professional wrestling, you are living in Vince McMahon's world.
In his four decades as the defining ...
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Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy
by
Alex Mar
Penguin Press, 03/28/2023
On a spring afternoon in 1985 in Gary, Indiana, a fifteen-year-old girl kills an elderly woman in a violent home invasion. In a city with a history of...
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Spin
by
Rebecca Caprara
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 03/28/2023
Sixteen-year-old Arachne is ostracized by all but her family and closest friend, Celandine. Turning to her loom for solace, Arachne learns to weave, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Strictly No Heroics
by
B. L. Radley
Feiwel & Friends, 03/28/2023
A Normie's guide to staying alive in Sunnylake City:
- Keep your head down.
- Don't make enemies.
- Strictly no heroics.
The world is run by those ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Lonely Hearts Book Club
by
Lucy Gilmore
Sourcebooks Casablanca, 03/28/2023
Sloane Parker lives a small, contained life as a librarian in her small, contained town. She never thinks of herself as lonely…but still she ...
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Literary Fiction
The Quiet and the Loud
by
Helena Fox
Dial Books, 03/28/2023
George's life is loud. On the water, though, with everything hushed above and below, she is steady, silent. Then her estranged dad says he needs to ...
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Romance
Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society
by
Dr. Arline T Geronimus
Little Brown & Company, 03/28/2023
America has woken up to what many of its citizens have known for centuries and to what public health statistics have evidenced for decades: systemic ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Where We Meet the World: The Story of the Senses
by
Ashley Ward
Basic Books, 03/28/2023
Our senses are what make life worth living. They allow us to appreciate a sip of an ice-cold drink, the sound of laughter, the touch of a lover. But ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
by
Kelly Link
Random House, 03/28/2023
Finding seeds of inspiration in the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly Link spins classic fairy tales into ...
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Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
by
Jesse Q. Sutanto
HQ Digital, 03/30/2023
Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy 'detective' work on ...
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Mysteries
A Girl Called Samson: A Novel
by
Amy Harmon
Lake Union Publishing, 04/01/2023
In 1760, Deborah Samson is born to Puritan parents in Plympton, Massachusetts. When her father abandons the family and her mother is unable to support...
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Literary Fiction
An Appetite for Miracles
by
Laekan Zea Kemp
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 04/04/2023
Danna Mendoza Villarreal's grandfather is slowly losing himself as his memories fade, and Danna's not sure her plan to help him remember through the ...
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Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey
by
Robert 'Mack' McCormick
Smithsonian Institution Press, 04/04/2023
When blues master Robert Johnson's little-known recordings were rereleased to great fanfare in the 1960s, little was known about his life, giving rise...
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Blanche: The Life and Times of Tennessee Williams's Greatest Creation
by
Nancy Schoenberger
Harper, 04/04/2023
Ever since Jessica Tandy glided onto the stage in Tennessee Williams's
A Streetcar Named Desire at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 1947, Blanche DuBois...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Blood Debts: Blood Debts #1
by
Terry J. Benton-Walker
Tor Teen, 04/04/2023
Gods meddle and magic will betray you, but this time justice will reign.
Thirty years ago, a young woman was murdered, a family was lynched, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Camp Zero: A Novel
by
Michelle Min Sterling
Atria Books, 04/04/2023
In the far north of Canada sits Camp Zero, an American building project hiding many secrets.
Desperate to help her climate-displaced Korean ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300
by
Peter Heather
Knopf, 04/04/2023
In the fourth century AD, a new faith grew out of Palestine, overwhelming the paganism of Rome and resoundingly defeating a host of other rival belief...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Divine Rivals: A Novel (Letters of Enchantment, 1)
by
Rebecca Ross
Wednesday Books, 04/04/2023
After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again. But eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow just wants to hold her family together. Her mother is ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Enter Ghost
by
Isabella Hammad
Grove Press, 04/04/2023
After years away from her family's homeland, and healing from an affair with an established director, stage actress Sonia Nasir returns to Palestine ...
more
Forget Me Not
by
Alyson Derrick
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 04/04/2023
What would you do if you forgot the love of your life ever even existed?
Stevie and Nora had a love. A secret, epic, once-in-a-lifetime kind of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Funeral Songs for Dying Girls
by
Cherie Dimaline
Tundra Books, 04/04/2023
Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium all her life, close to her mother's grave....
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing
by
Dionne Ford
Bold Type Books, 04/04/2023
Countless Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the enslavers who bought and sold their ancestors. Among them is Dionne Ford, whose ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Homecoming: A Novel
by
Kate Morton
Mariner Books, 04/04/2023
Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of the grand and mysterious house, a local ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
If I Betray These Words: Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It's So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First
by
Wendy Dean
Steerforth Press, 04/04/2023
Offering examples of how to make medicine better for the healers and those they serve,
If I Betray These Words profiles clinicians across the country ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Linghun
by
Ai Jiang
Dark Matter Ink, 04/04/2023
From acclaimed author Ai Jiang, follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. to the mysterious town of
Home, a place where the dead live again as spirits, conjured by...
more
Literary Fiction
Natural Beauty: A Novel
by
Ling Ling Huang
Dutton, 04/04/2023
Our narrator produces a sound from the piano no one else at the Conservatory can. She employs a technique she learned from her parents—also ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
On Grief: Love, Loss, Memory (Atlantic Editions)
by
Jennifer Senior
Zando, 04/04/2023
When Bobby McIlvaine died in the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, his loved ones spun off in radically different directions, each mourning in his or...
more
Essays
The All-American: A Novel
by
Joe Milan Jr.
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/04/2023
A debut novel grappling with contested American identity, masculinity, and deportation, told in one of the most memorable adolescent voices in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Liar (New York Review Books Classics)
by
Martin A. Hansen
NYRB Classics, 04/04/2023
One of the greatest works of modern Scandinavian fiction,
The Liar tells the story of Johannes Lye, a teacher and parish clerk on tiny Sand Island off...
more
Thrillers
The People Who Report More Stress: Stories
by
Alejandro Varela
Astra House, 04/04/2023
The People Who Report More Stress is a collection of interconnected stories brimming with the anxieties of people who retreat into themselves while ...
more
The Society of Shame
by
Jane Roper
Anchor Books, 04/04/2023
Kathleen Held's life is turned upside down when she arrives home to find her house on fire and her husband on the front lawn in his underwear. But the...
more
The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War
by
Chad L. Williams
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/04/2023
When W. E. B. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship and democratic change, encouraged African Americans to "close ranks" and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
by
Rory Carroll
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/04/2023
A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded at 2:54 a.m. on October 12, 1984. It was the last day of the Conservative Party Conference at the...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
This Bird Has Flown: A Novel
by
Susanna Hoffs
Little Brown & Company, 04/04/2023
Jane Start is thirty-three, broke, and recently single. Ten years prior, she had a hit song—written by world-famous superstar Jonesy—but ...
more
Romance
This is Not Miami
by
Fernanda Melchor
New Directions Publishing, 04/04/2023
Set in and around the Mexican city of Veracruz,
This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories―spiraling from real events―that...
more
You Know Her: A Novel
by
Meagan Jennett
MCD, 04/04/2023
Two hours before he vanished, Mark Dixon stole a glass of wine. That's what bartender Sophie Braam told the cops when they questioned her about the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
From Unincorporated Territory [åmot]
by
Craig Santos Perez
Omnidawn Publishing, 04/05/2023
This book is the fifth collection in Craig Santos Perez's ongoing from unincorporated territory series about the history of his homeland, the western ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime
by
Anjan Sundaram
Catapult, 04/11/2023
After ten years of reporting from central Africa for
The New York Times,
Associated Press, and others, Anjan Sundaram finds himself living a quiet ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History
by
Benjamin Balint
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/11/2023
The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole, and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, ...
more
Calling Ukraine: A Novel
by
Johannes Lichtman
Marysue Rucci Books, 04/11/2023
Shortly after his thirtieth birthday, John Turner receives a call from an old college friend who makes him an odd job offer: move to Ukraine to teach ...
more
Harvest House
by
Cynthia Leitich Smith
Candlewick Press, 04/11/2023
Deftly leading readers to the literary crossroads of contemporary realism and haunting mystery, Cynthia Leitich Smith revisits the world of her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Last House Before the Mountain
by
Monika Helfer
Bloomsbury USA, 04/11/2023
Maria and Josef live with their children in a valley in westernmost Austria. When the First World War breaks out and Josef is drafted into the army, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Life and Other Love Songs
by
Anissa Gray
Berkley Books, 04/11/2023
It's a warm, bright October afternoon, and Ozro Armstead walks out into the brilliant sunshine on his thirty-seventh birthday. At home, his wife ...
more
Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore's Deadliest Gang Leader
by
Mark Bowden
Atlantic Monthly Press, 04/11/2023
Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighborhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its nickname Bodymore, Murderland, and was made notorious by David ...
more
one long listening: a memoir of grief, friendship, and spiritual care
by
Chenxing Han
North Atlantic Books, 04/11/2023
Immigrant daughter, novice chaplain, bereaved friend: author Chenxing Han (
Be the Refuge) takes us on a pilgrimage through the wilds of grief and ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Pomegranate: A Novel
by
Helen Elaine Lee
Atria Books, 04/11/2023
Ranita Atwater is "getting short."
She is almost done with her four-year sentence for opiate possession at Oak Hills Correctional Center. With ...
more
Some Desperate Glory
by
Emily Tesh
Tor Books, 04/11/2023
While we live, the enemy shall fear us.
Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
by
Jonathan Healey
Knopf, 04/11/2023
The seventeenth century was a revolutionary age for the English. It started as they suddenly found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and it ended in the...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Dead are Gods
by
Eirinie Carson
Melville House, 04/11/2023
After an unexpected phone call on an early morning in 2018, writer and model Eirinie Carson learned of her best friend Larissa's death. In the wake of...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Fourth Enemy: A Daniel Pitt Novel
by
Anne Perry
Ballantine Books, 04/11/2023
Working his way up at London law firm fford Croft and Gibson, Daniel Pitt is named junior counsel on a fraud case with the potential to make or break ...
more
Mysteries
The Lioness of Boston: A Novel
by
Emily Franklin
David R. Godine, 04/11/2023
By the time Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her Italian palazzo-style home as a museum in 1903 to showcase her collection of old masters, antiques, ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: a Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
by
Agatha Christie
Macmillan Collector's Library, 04/11/2023
In an English village, a young widow, Mrs Ferrars is found dead; she has taken her own life. Roger Ackroyd confides to his friend, Dr James Shepherd, ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Only Survivors: A Novel
by
Megan Miranda
Simon & Schuster, 04/11/2023
A decade ago, two vans filled with high school seniors on a school service trip crashed into a Tennessee ravine—a tragedy that claimed the lives...
more
Thrillers
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho: A Novel
by
Paterson Joseph
Henry Holt and Company, 04/11/2023
It's 1746 and Georgian London is not a safe place for a young Black man. Charles Ignatius Sancho must dodge slave catchers and worse, and his main ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew
by
Daniel Wallace
Algonquin Books, 04/11/2023
If we're lucky, we all encounter at least one person whose life elevates and inspires our own. For acclaimed novelist Daniel Wallace, he had one hero ...
more
Throwback
by
Maurene Goo
Zando, 04/11/2023
Moms.
More complicated than an origin story ...
Samantha Kang has always butted heads with her mom. Priscilla is first-generation Korean American...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
True West: Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times
by
Robert Greenfield
Crown, 04/11/2023
True West: Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times is the story of an American icon, a lasting portrait of Sam Shepard as he really was, revealed by those...
more
You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir
by
Maggie Smith
Atria Books, 04/11/2023
"Life, like a poem, is a series of choices."
In her memoir
You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Yours Truly
by
Abby Jimenez
Forever, 04/11/2023
Dr. Briana Ortiz's life is seriously flatlining. Her divorce is just about finalized, her brother's running out of time to find a kidney donor, and ...
more
Romance
A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England
by
Vanessa Wilkie
Atria Books, 04/18/2023
Alice Spencer was born in 1560 to a family on the rise. Her grandfather had amassed a sizeable estate of fertile grazing land and made a small fortune...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Adelaide: A Novel
by
Genevieve Wheeler
St. Martin's Press, 04/18/2023
In love...
For twenty-six-year-old Adelaide Williams, an American living in dreamy London, meeting Rory Hughes was like a lightning bolt out of the...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Alondra
by
Gina Femia
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/18/2023
Sixteen-year-old Alonda loves professional wrestling. So when she meets a group of teens with aspirations of wrestling fame in her Coney Island ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
City of Dreams: A Novel (City, 2)
by
Don Winslow
William Morrow, 04/18/2023
Hollywood.
The city where dreams are made.
On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime war, Danny Ryan is now on the run. The Mafia, the ...
more
Fire Rush: A Novel
by
Jacqueline Crooks
Viking, 04/18/2023
Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she goes raving with her friends, the "Tombstone Estate gyals," at The Crypt, an underground dub reggae club in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
by
Hadley Freeman
Simon & Schuster, 04/18/2023
In 1995, Hadley Freeman wrote in her diary: "I just spent three years of my life in mental hospitals. So why am I crazier than I was before????"
...
more
Greek Lessons: A Novel
by
Han Kang
Hogarth Books, 04/18/2023
"Now and then, language would thrust its way into her sleep like a skewer through meat, startling her awake several times a night."
In a classroom ...
more
I Kick and I Fly
by
Ruchira Gupta
Scholastic, 04/18/2023
On the outskirts of the Red Light District in Bihar, India, fourteen-year-old Heera is living on borrowed time until her father sells her into the sex...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
If We're Being Honest: A Novel
by
Cat Shook
Celadon, 04/18/2023
When Gerry, the beloved Williams patriarch, dies suddenly, his grandchildren flock from across the country to the family home in Eulalia, Georgia. But...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Juno Loves Legs: A Novel
by
Karl Geary
Catapult, 04/18/2023
Juno Loves Legs is the story of two teens labeled as delinquents. Juno and "Legs" grow up on the same housing estate in Dublin, where spirited, ...
more
Kantika: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Graver
Metropolitan Books, 04/18/2023
A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family's displacement across four countries,
Kantika—"song" in Ladino—follows the joys and losses of ...
more
My Cousin Maria Schneider: A Memoir
by
Vanessa Schneider
Scribner, 04/18/2023
The late French actress Maria Schneider is perhaps best known for playing Jeanne in the provocative film
Last Tango in Paris, directed by Bernardo ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
by
David Edmonds
Princeton University Press, 04/18/2023
Derek Parfit (1942–2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely regarded as one of the greatest moral thinkers ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
by
Jonathan Kennedy
Crown, 04/18/2023
According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Remedies for Sorrow: An Extraordinary Child, a Secret Kept from Pregnant Women, and a Mother's Pursuit of the Truth
by
Megan Nix
Doubleday, 04/18/2023
After a seemingly uneventful pregnancy, Megan Nix's second daughter, Anna, was born very small and profoundly deaf. Megan and her husband, Luke, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club: A Novel
by
J. Ryan Stradal
Pamela Dorman Books, 04/18/2023
Mariel Prager needs a break. Her husband Ned is having an identity crisis, her spunky, beloved restaurant is bleeding money by the day, and her mother...
more
Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm
by
David Mas Masumoto
Red Hen Press, 04/18/2023
She then became a "ward" of the state. We believed she had died, but 70 years later found her alive and living a few miles from our family farm. How ...
more
Silver Alert: A Novel
by
Lee Smith
Algonquin Books, 04/18/2023
Herb's charmed life with his dear wife Susan in their Key West house is coming undone. Susan, in her 70s, now needs constant care, and Herb is in ...
more
Literary Fiction
Simply Lies: A Psychological Thriller
by
David Baldacci
Grand Central Publishing, 04/18/2023
Mickey Gibson, single mother and former detective, leads a hectic life similar to that of many moms: juggling the demands of her two small children ...
more
Thrillers
Sisters of the Lost Nation
by
Nick Medina
Berkley Books, 04/18/2023
Anna Horn is always looking over her shoulder. For the bullies who torment her, for the entitled visitors at the reservation's casino…and for ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Symphony of Secrets: A novel
by
Brendan Slocumb
Anchor Books, 04/18/2023
Bern Hendricks has just received the call of a lifetime. As one of the world's preeminent experts on the famed twentieth-century composer Frederick ...
more
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
by
Jonathan Rosen
Penguin Press, 04/18/2023
When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable. Both children of college professors, the boys ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
by
Peter Frankopan
Knopf, 04/18/2023
Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Marigold
by
Andrew F. Sullivan
ECW Press, 04/18/2023
The Marigold, a gleaming Toronto condo tower, sits a half-empty promise: a stack of scuffed rental suites and undelivered amenities that crumbles ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
by
Jaime Green
Hanover Square Press, 04/18/2023
One of the most powerful questions humans ask about the cosmos is: Are we alone? While the science behind this inquiry is fascinating, it doesn't ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Weeds: A Novel
by
Katy Simpson Smith
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/18/2023
A Mississippi woman pushes through the ruin of the Roman Colosseum, searching for plants. She has escaped her life, signed up to catalog all the ...
more
Who Cries for the Lost: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery
by
C. S. Harris
Berkley Books, 04/18/2023
June 1815. The people of London wait, breathlessly, for news as Napoleon and the forces united against him hurtle toward their final reckoning at ...
more
Ascension: A Novel
by
Nicholas Binge
Riverhead Books, 04/25/2023
An enormous snow-covered mountain has appeared in the Pacific Ocean. No one knows when exactly it showed up, precisely how big it might be, or how to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
For You and Only You: A Joe Goldberg Novel
by
Caroline Kepnes
Random House, 04/25/2023
Joe Goldberg is ready for a change. Instead of selling books, he's writing them. And he's off to a good start. Glenn Shoddy, an acclaimed literary ...
more
Happy Place
by
Emily Henry
Berkley Books, 04/25/2023
Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. ...
more
Romance
Hungry Ghost
by
Victoria Ying
First Second, 04/25/2023
Valerie Chu is quiet, studious, and above all, thin. No one, not even her best friend Jordan, knows that she has been binging and purging for years. ...
more
Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist
by
Larry Rohter
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/25/2023
Cândido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped ...
more
King of Wrath (Kings of Sin, 1)
by
Ana Huang
Bloom Books, 04/25/2023
She was my North Star, the brightest jewel in my sky.
Ruthless. Meticulous. Arrogant.
Billionaire CEO Dante Russo thrives on control, both ...
more
Romance
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
by
Simon Winchester
Harper, 04/25/2023
With the advent of the internet, any topic we want to know about is instantly available with the touch of a smartphone button. With so much knowledge ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
by
Claire Dederer
Knopf, 04/25/2023
In this unflinching, deeply personal book that expands on her instantly viral
Paris Review essay, "What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?" ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
by
Ava Chin
Penguin Press, 04/25/2023
As the only child of a single mother in Queens, Ava Chin found her family's origins to be shrouded in mystery. She had never met her father, and her ...
more
Ordinary Notes
by
Christina Sharpe
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/25/2023
A singular achievement,
Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248...
more
Salvage This World: A Novel
by
Michael Farris Smith
Little Brown & Company, 04/25/2023
There was no rising from the dead and there was no hand to calm the storms and there was no peace in no valley.
In the hurricane-ravaged ...
more
Small Mercies: A Novel
by
Dennis Lehane
Harper, 04/25/2023
In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessey is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived ...
more
Star Splitter
by
Matthew J. Kirby
Dutton for Young Readers, 04/25/2023
2199. Deep-space exploration is a reality and teleportation is routine. But this time something seems to have gone very, very wrong. Seventeen-year-...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Eden Test: A Novel
by
Adam Sternbergh
Flatiron Books, 04/25/2023
Seven Days. Seven Questions. Forever Changed.
Daisy and Craig's marriage is in serious trouble. That's why Daisy has signed up for The Eden Test, a...
more
The Gifts: A Novel
by
Liz Hyder
Sourcebooks, 04/25/2023
It will take something extraordinary to show four women who they truly are ...
October 1840. A young woman staggers alone through a forest in the ...
more
The Last Remains: A Mystery (Ruth Galloway Mysteries, 15)
by
Elly Griffiths
Mariner Books, 04/25/2023
When builders discover a human skeleton during a renovation of a café, they call in archeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway, who is preoccupied with the ...
more
Thrillers
The Last Word: A Novel
by
Taylor Adams
William Morrow, 04/25/2023
Emma Carpenter lives in isolation with her golden retriever Laika, house-sitting an old beachfront home on the rainy Washington coast. Her only human ...
more
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
by
Ned Blackhawk
Yale University Press, 04/25/2023
The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Skin and Its Girl: A Novel
by
Sarah Cypher
Ballantine Books, 04/25/2023
In a Pacific Northwest hospital far from the Rummani family's ancestral home in Palestine, the heart of a stillborn baby begins to beat and her skin ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
With My Little Eye: A Novel
by
Joshilyn Jackson
William Morrow, 04/25/2023
It started with the letters…
For actress Meribel Mills, disturbing fan mail is part of the price of fame. So when she starts getting creepy ...
more
Thrillers
Something Bad Wrong: A Thriller (Jess Keeler Thrillers)
by
Eryk Pruitt
Thomas & Mercer, 05/01/2023
True-crime podcaster Jess Keeler has returned to Deeton County, North Carolina, to pick up where her grandfather left off. Sheriff's Deputy Big Jim ...
more
Thrillers
A History of Burning
by
Janika Oza
Grand Central Publishing, 05/02/2023
In 1898, Pirbhai, a teenage boy looking for work, is taken from his village in India to labor for the British on the East African Railway. Far from ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
A New History of the American South: A Ferris and Ferris Book
by
W. Fitzhugh Brundage
The University of North Carolina Press, 05/02/2023
For at least two centuries, the South's economy, politics, religion, race relations, fiction, music, foodways and more have figured prominently in ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bird Hotel: A Novel
by
Joyce Maynard
Arcade Publishing, 05/02/2023
After a childhood filled with heartbreak, Irene, a talented artist, finds herself in a small Central American village where she checks into a ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Blood of the Virgin
by
Sammy Harkham
Pantheon Books, 05/02/2023
Set primarily in Los Angeles in 1971,
Blood of the Virgin is the story of twenty-seven-year-old Seymour, an Iraqi Jewish immigrant film editor who ...
more
Chain Gang All Stars: A Novel
by
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Pantheon Books, 05/02/2023
Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Cold Nights of Childhood
by
Tezer Özlü
Transit Books, 05/02/2023
The narrator of Tezer Özlü's novel is between lovers. She is in and out of psychiatric wards, where she is forced to undergo electroshock ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Dear Chrysanthemums: A Novel in Stories
by
Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Scribner, 05/02/2023
Composed of several interconnected stories, each taking place in a year ending with the number six, ironically a number that in Chinese divination ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?: A Novel
by
Crystal Smith Paul
Henry Holt and Company, 05/02/2023
When Kitty Karr Tate, a White icon of the silver screen, dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the St. John sisters, three young, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir
by
Alexandra Auder
Viking, 05/02/2023
Alexandra Auder's life began at the Chelsea Hotel—New York City's infamous bohemian hangout—when her mother, Viva, a longtime resident of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, 1)
by
Rebecca Yarros
Entangled, 05/02/2023
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general&...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Gone to the Wolves: A Novel
by
John Wray
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/02/2023
Kip, Leslie, and Kira are outliers—even in the metal scene they love. In arch-conservative Gulf Coast Florida in the late 1980s, just listening ...
more
Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
by
Jeffrey Toobin
Simon & Schuster, 05/02/2023
Timothy McVeigh wanted to start a movement.
Speaking to his lawyers days after the Oklahoma City bombing, the Gulf War veteran expressed no regrets...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Honeybees and Distant Thunder: A Novel
by
Riku Onda
Pegasus Books, 05/02/2023
In a small coastal town just a stone's throw from Tokyo, a prestigious piano competition is underway. Over the course of two feverish weeks, three ...
more
Hotel Cuba: A Novel
by
Aaron Hamburger
Harper Perennial, 05/02/2023
Fleeing the chaos of World War I and the terror of the Soviet Revolution, practical, sensible Pearl Kahn and her lovestruck, impulsive younger sibling...
more
Historical Fiction
Hula: A Novel
by
Jasmin Iolani Hakes
HarperVia, 05/02/2023
"There's no running away on an island. Soon enough, you end up where you started."
Hi'i is proud to be a Naupaka, a family renowned for its ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Imogen, Obviously
by
Becky Albertalli
Balzer + Bray, 05/02/2023
Imogen Scott may be hopelessly heterosexual, but she's got the World's Greatest Ally title locked down.
She's never missed a Pride Alliance meeting...
more
Just a Regular Boy: A Novel
by
Catherine Ryan Hyde
Lake Union Publishing, 05/02/2023
Out there is chaos, the collapse of society, and so much to be afraid of. All that matters is freedom.
That's what Remy Blake has been taught by ...
more
Literary Fiction
Late Bloomers: A Novel
by
Deepa Varadarajan
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 05/02/2023
"I have a soft spot for underdogs. And late bloomers. You've told me a lot of things about yourself, so let me tell you something about me."
After ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Lost Places
by
Sarah Pinsker
Small Beer Press, 05/02/2023
A half-remembered children's TV show. A hotel that shouldn't exist. A mysterious ballad. A living flag. Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author Sarah ...
more
Lucky Girl: A Novel
by
Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu
Dial Press, 05/02/2023
Soila is a lucky girl by anyone's estimation. Raised by her stern, conservative mother and a chorus of aunts, she has lived a protected life in ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Paper Names: A Novel
by
Susie Luo
Hanover Square Press, 05/02/2023
Set in New York and China over three decades,
Paper Names explores what it means to be American from three different perspectives. There's ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Phantom Pain Wings
by
Kim Hyesoon
New Directions Publishing, 05/02/2023
An iconic figure in the emergence of feminist poetry in South Korea and now internationally renowned, Kim Hyesoon pushes the poetic envelope into the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
by
Camille T Dungy
Simon & Schuster, 05/02/2023
In
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden, poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the ...
more
Swamp Story: A Novel
by
Dave Barry
Simon & Schuster, 05/02/2023
Jesse Braddock is trapped in a tiny cabin deep in the Everglades with her infant daughter and her ex-boyfriend, a wannabe reality TV star who turned ...
more
The Boys: A Novel
by
Katie Hafner
Spiegel & Grau, 05/02/2023
When introverted Ethan Fawcett marries fun-loving Barb, so comfortable in the world, he has every reason to believe he will be delivered from a ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The East Indian: A Novel
by
Brinda Charry
Scribner, 05/02/2023
Meet Tony: insatiably curious, deeply compassionate, with a unique perspective on every scene he encounters. Kidnapped and transported to the New ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
by
Andy Clark
Pantheon Books, 05/02/2023
For as long as we've studied human cognition, we've believed that our senses give us direct access to the world. What we see is what's really there&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Ferryman: A Novel
by
Justin Cronin
Ballantine Books, 05/02/2023
Founded by the mysterious genius known as the Designer, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Half Moon: A Novel
by
Mary Beth Keane
Scribner, 05/02/2023
Malcolm Gephardt, handsome and gregarious longtime bartender at the Half Moon, has always dreamed of owning a bar. When his boss finally retires, ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Humble Lover
by
Edmund White
Bloomsbury USA, 05/02/2023
Aldwych West, an eighty-year-old modern-day aristocrat living alone in his Manhattan townhouse, is used to having what he wants. And when he sets eyes...
more
The Marriage Act: A Novel
by
John Marrs
Hanover Square Press, 05/02/2023
Britain. The near-future. A right-wing government believes it has the answer to society's ills—the Sanctity of Marriage Act, which actively ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Story of Art Without Men
by
Katy Hessel
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/02/2023
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral
by
Ben Smith
Penguin Press, 05/02/2023
If attention is the new oil, Ben Smith's
Traffic is the story of the time between the first gusher and the impact of climate change. The curtain opens...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Warrior Girl Unearthed
by
Angeline Boulley
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, 05/02/2023
Perry Firekeeper-Birch has always known who she is - the laidback twin, the troublemaker, the best fisher on Sugar Island. Her aspirations won't ever ...
more
We Are Too Many: A Memoir [Kind of]
by
Hannah Pittard
Henry Holt and Company, 05/02/2023
In this wryly humorous and innovative look at a marriage gone wrong, Hannah Pittard recalls a decade's worth of unforgettable conversations, beginning...
more
Whale: SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
by
Cheon Myeong-Kwan
Archipelago Books, 05/02/2023
Whale is the English-language debut of a beloved and bestselling South Korean author, a born storyteller with a cinematic, darkly humorous, and ...
more
Historical Fiction
Where You See Yourself
by
Claire Forrest
Scholastic, 05/02/2023
Where You See Yourself combines an unforgettable coming-of-age tale, a swoon-worthy romance, and much-needed disability representation in this story ...
more
Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage
by
Jonny Steinberg
Knopf, 05/02/2023
One of the most celebrated political leaders of a century, Nelson Mandela has been written about by many biographers and historians. But in one ...
more
Literary Fiction
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
If Headstones Could Talk: A Collection of Stories from Edwards County, Kansas
by
Mary S Schartz
Independently published, 05/08/2023
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 ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone
by
Amy Key
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 05/09/2023
When British poet Amy Key was growing up, she envisioned a life shaped by love—and Joni Mitchell's album
Blue was her inspiration. "Blue became ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Atalanta
by
Jennifer Saint
Flatiron Books, 05/09/2023
When Princess Atalanta is born, a daughter rather than the son her parents hoped for, she is left on a mountainside to die. But even then, she is a ...
more
If Tomorrow Doesn't Come
by
Jen St. Jude
Bloomsbury YA, 05/09/2023
Avery Byrne has secrets. She's queer; she's in love with her best friend, Cass; and she's suffering from undiagnosed clinical depression. But on the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
In the Morning I'll Be Gone: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel (The Sean Duffy Series)
by
Adrian McKinty
Blackstone Publishing, 05/09/2023
It's the early 1980s in Belfast. Sean Duffy, a conflicted Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary), is recruited by MI5 to hunt ...
more
Thrillers
Like the Appearance of Horses
by
Andrew Krivak
Bellevue Literary Press, 05/09/2023
Rooted in the small, mountain town of Dardan, Pennsylvania, where patriarch Jozef Vinich settled after surviving World War I,
Like the Appearance of ...more
Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures
by
Connie Wang
Viking, 05/09/2023
In Chinese, the closest expression to
oh my god is
wo de ma ya. It's an interjection, a polite expletive, something to say when you're out of words. ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of
by
Héctor Tobar
MCD, 05/09/2023
"Latino" is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States.
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the...more
Pieces of Blue
by
Holly Goldberg Sloan
Flatiron Books, 05/09/2023
What good was thinking the future only held cloudy skies? Wasn't the reality that pieces of blue were always there, waiting to break through?
When ...
more
Playing It Safe: Electra McDonnell Novels #3
by
Ashley Weaver
Minotaur Books, 05/09/2023
As the Blitz continues to ravage London, Ellie McDonnell—formerly a safecracking thief, but currently determined to stay on the straight and ...
more
Retrospective: A Novel
by
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Riverhead Books, 05/09/2023
The Colombian film director, Sergio Cabrera, is in Barcelona for a retrospective of his work. It's a hard time for him: his father, famous actor ...
more
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
by
Elizabeth Winkler
Simon & Schuster, 05/09/2023
The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, vexed, unspeakable subject in the history of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Book of Eve
by
Carmen Boullosa
Deep Vellum Publishing, 05/09/2023
What if everything they've told us about the Garden of Eden was wrong? Faced with what appears to be an apocryphal manuscript containing ten books and...
more
Literary Fiction
The Eyes and the Impossible: (Newbery Medal Winner)
by
Dave Eggers
Knopf, 05/09/2023
Johannes, a free dog, lives in an urban park by the sea. His job is to be the Eyes—to see everything that happens within the park and report ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy
by
James Risen
Little Brown & Company, 05/09/2023
For decades now, America's national security state has grown ever bigger, ever more secretive and powerful, and ever more abusive. Only once did ...
more
When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
by
Ashlee Vance
Ecco, 05/09/2023
In
When the Heavens Went on Sale, Ashlee Vance illuminates our future and unveils the next big technology story of our time: welcome to the Wild West ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Darker Shade of Magic: A Novel (Shades of Magic, 1)
by
V. E. Schwab
Tor Books, 05/16/2023
Kell is one of the last Antari―magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons; Red, Grey, White, and, once upon a ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
All the Dead Lie Down
by
Kyrie McCauley
Katherine Tegan Books, 05/16/2023
The Sleeping House was very much awake ...
Days after a tragedy leaves Marin Blythe alone in the world, she receives a surprising invitation from ...
more
Berlin: A Novel
by
Bea Setton
Penguin Books, 05/16/2023
When Daphne arrives in Berlin, the last thing she expects is to run into more drama than she left behind. Of course, she knew she'd need to do the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Close to Home: A Novel
by
Michael Magee
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/16/2023
Sean's brother Anthony is a hard man. When they were kids their ma did her best to keep him out of trouble, but you can't say anything to Anto. Sean ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Cousins
by
Aurora Venturini
Soft Skull Press, 05/16/2023
At the age of eighty-five, Aurora Venturini stunned Argentine readers when her darkly funny and formally daring novel,
Cousins (
Las primas), won
P&#...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Dona Cleanwell Leaves Home: Stories
by
Ana Castillo
HarperVia, 05/16/2023
The first person in her traditional Mexican American family to graduate from high school, Katia is entering adulthood at a time of turbulent change. ...
more
Short Stories
Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life
by
Kristen R. Ghodsee
Simon & Schuster, 05/16/2023
In the 6th century BCE, the Greek philosopher Pythagoras—a man remembered today more for his theorem about right-angled triangles than for his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong
by
Vaudine England
Scribner, 05/16/2023
Hong Kong has always been many cities to many people: a seaport, a gateway to an empire, a place where fortunes can be dramatically made or lost, a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
From Here
by
Luma Mufleh
Nancy Paulsen Books, 05/16/2023
With no word for "gay" in Arabic, Luma may not have known what to call the feelings she had growing up in Jordan during the 1980s, but she knew well ...
more
Biography/Memoir
King: A Life
by
Jonathan Eig
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/16/2023
Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's
King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin ...
more
Sidle Creek
by
Jolene McIlwain
Melville House, 05/16/2023
In
Sidle Creek, McIlwain skillfully interrogates the myths and stereotypes of the mining, mill, and farming towns where she grew up. With stories that...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Guest: A Novel
by
Emma Cline
Random House, 05/16/2023
"Alex drained her wineglass, then her water glass. The ocean looked calm, a black darker than the sky. A ripple of anxiety made her palms go damp. It ...more
The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle for Its Inner Soul
by
Isabel Kershner
Knopf, 05/16/2023
Despite Israel's determined staying power in a hostile environment, its military might, and the innovation it fosters in businesses globally, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
by
Serhii Plokhy
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/16/2023
Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war—and...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Three of Us
by
Ore Agbaje-Williams
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/16/2023
What if your two favorite people hated each other with a passion?
The wife has it all. A big house in a nice neighborhood, a ride-or-die snarky ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The World: A Family History of Humanity
by
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Knopf, 05/16/2023
Around 950,000 years ago, a family of five walked along the beach and left behind the oldest family footprints ever discovered. For award-winning ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism
by
Brooke Kroeger
Knopf, 05/16/2023
Undaunted is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalism's most valued work. From...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Uneducated: A Memoir of Flunking Out, Falling Apart, and Finding My Worth
by
Christopher Zara
Little Brown & Company, 05/16/2023
For Christopher Zara, this is the professional minefield he has had to navigate since the day he was kicked out of his New Jersey high school for ...
more
Yellowface: A Novel
by
R. F Kuang
William Morrow, 05/16/2023
Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena's a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who ...
more
You: The Story: A Writer's Guide to Craft Through Memory
by
Ruta Sepetys
Viking, 05/16/2023
Life is story in motion. Each day, you add to your story, revise it, and view it from a different angle. You erase things. Tear pages out. And ...
more
Advice
How to Save the World in Six (Not So Easy) Steps: Bringing Out the Best in Nonprofits
by
David M. Schizer
Post Hill Press, 05/22/2023
The US has over 1.5 million nonprofits, which touch our lives in countless ways. The finest are inspiring, but unfortunately, too many let us down. ...
more
Other
An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created
by
Santi Elijah Holley
Mariner Books, 05/23/2023
They have been celebrated, glorified, and mythologized. They have been hailed as heroes, liberators, and freedom fighters. They have been condemned, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bad Summer People: A Novel
by
Emma Rosenblum
Flatiron Books, 05/23/2023
None of them would claim to be a particularly good person. But who among them is actually capable of murder?
Jen Weinstein and Lauren Parker rule ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital
by
Elise Hu
Dutton, 05/23/2023
K-beauty has captured imaginations worldwide by promising a kind of mesmerizing perfection. Its skincare and makeup products—creams packaged to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Forever Is Now
by
Mariama J. Lockington
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/23/2023
I'm safe here.
That's how Sadie feels, on a perfect summer day, wrapped in her girlfriend's arms. School is out, and even though she's been ...
more
I Didn't Do It
by
Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Scarlet, 05/23/2023
Murderpalooza, the premier thriller writers conference, is meant to be an exciting celebration of the genre and its preeminent writers. But when ...
more
Identity: A Novel
by
Nora Roberts
St. Martin's Press, 05/23/2023
Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the ...
more
Thrillers
One Night on the Island: A Novel
by
Josie Silver
Dell, 05/23/2023
Spending her thirtieth birthday alone is not what dating columnist Cleo Wilder wanted, but she plans a solo retreat―at the insistence of her ...
more
Romance
The Late Americans: A Novel
by
Brandon Taylor
Riverhead Books, 05/23/2023
In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a loose circle of lovers and friends encounter, confront, and provoke one another in a volatile year of...
more
The Lock-Up: A Detective Mystery (Strafford and Quirke, 3)
by
John Banville
Hanover Square Press, 05/23/2023
In 1950s Dublin, Rosa Jacobs, a young history scholar, is found dead in her car. Renowned pathologist Dr. Quirke and DI St. John Strafford begin to ...
more
Mysteries
The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives
by
Naoise Mac Sweeney
Dutton, 05/23/2023
In this groundbreaking, story-driven retelling of Western history, Naoíse Mac Sweeney debunks the myths and origin stories that underpin the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Will of the Many: Hierarchy #1
by
James Islington
Gallery Books, 05/23/2023
AUDI. VIDE. TACE.
The Catenan Republic—the Hierarchy—may rule the world now, but they do not know everything.
I tell them my name is...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
by
Rachel Louise Snyder
Bloomsbury USA, 05/23/2023
For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues that impact women's lives.
Women We Buried, Women ...more
Beware the Woman
by
Megan Abbott
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/30/2023
Honey, I just want you to have everything you ever wanted. That's what Jacy's mom always told her. And Jacy felt like she finally did. Newly married ...
more
Death Comes to Marlow: A Novel (The Marlow Murder Club, 2)
by
Robert Thorogood
Poisoned Pen Press, 05/30/2023
BBC One show creator of
Death in Paradise, Robert Thorogood delights in giving the Christie-mystery a busy-body twist. Judith (our favorite skinny-...
more
Thrillers
Floppy: Tales of a Genetic Freak of Nature at the End of the World
by
Alyssa Graybeal
Red Hen Press, 05/30/2023
Unfortunately, her efforts to avoid being "too sensitive" lead her to neglect not only her health but other aspects of her life as well. Twenty years ...
more
Essays
Debut Author
Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night
by
Lisa Belkin
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/30/2023
Independence Day weekend, 1960: a young cop is murdered, shocking his close-knit community in Stamford, Connecticut. The killer remains at large, his ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Good Night, Irene: A Novel
by
Luis Alberto Urrea
Little Brown & Company, 05/30/2023
In 1943, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiancé in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe. She makes fast friends in ...
more
Happy-Go-Lucky
by
David Sedaris
Back Bay Books, 05/30/2023
Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris ...
more
Essays
Killing Moon: A Harry Hole Novel (13) (Harry Hole Series)
by
Jo Nesbo
Knopf, 05/30/2023
THE HUNT IS ON AND THE POLICE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. Two young women are missing, their only connection a party they both attended, hosted by a ...
more
Thrillers
Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir In Archives
by
Amelia Possanza
Catapult, 05/30/2023
When Amelia Possanza moved to Brooklyn to build a life of her own, she found herself surrounded by queer stories: she read them on landmark placards, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Celebrants: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel
by
Steven Rowley
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/30/2023
It's been a minute—or five years—since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends, and twenty-eight years since their graduation from ...
more
Literary Fiction
The House on Via Gemito
by
Domenico Starnone
Europa Editions, 05/30/2023
A modest apartment in Via Gemito smelling of paint and turpentine. Its furniture pushed up against the wall to create a make-shift studio. Drying ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Peacock and the Sparrow: A Novel
by
I.S. Berry
Atria Books, 05/30/2023
Shane Collins, a world-weary CIA spy, is ready to come in from the cold. Stationed in Bahrain off the coast of Saudi Arabia for his final tour, he's ...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Prince of Tides: A Novel
by
Pat Conroy
Mariner Books, 05/30/2023
Set in New York City and the low country of South Carolina,
The Prince of Tides opens when Tom, a high school football coach whose marriage and career...
more
Literary Fiction
The Wishing Game: A Novel
by
Meg Shaffer
Ballantine Books, 05/30/2023
Make a wish...
Lucy Hart knows better than anyone what it's like to grow up without parents who loved her. In a childhood marked by neglect and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Threads That Bind
by
Kika Hatzopoulou
Razorbill, 05/30/2023
Descendants of the Fates are always born in threes: one to weave, one to draw, and one to cut the threads that connect people to the things they love ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
When the Vibe Is Right
by
Sarah Dass
Balzer + Bray, 05/30/2023
There are two things Tess Crawford knows for sure:
- She's destined to be a great Trinidadian Carnival costume designer like her renowned uncle, ...
more
