Broken Summer: A Novel
by
J.M. Lee
AmazonCrossing, 09/01/2022
Lee Hanjo is an artist at the peak of his fame, envied and celebrated. Then, on his forty-third birthday, he awakens to find that his devoted wife has...
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It's Not Nothing
by
Courtney Denelle
Santa Fe Writer's Project, 09/01/2022
Down-and-out and deteriorating, she drifts from anonymous beds and bars in Providence, to a homeless shelter hidden among the hedge-rowed avenues of ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Vanished: Stories (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction)
by
Karin Lin-Greenberg
University of Nebraska Press, 09/01/2022
The characters range from an aging art professor whose students are uninterested in learning what she has to teach, to a young girl who becomes the ...
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A Dark Steel Death: Tom Harper Mysteries #10
by
Chris Nickson
Severn House, 09/06/2022
Leeds. December, 1916. Deputy Chief Constable Tom Harper is called out in the middle of the night when a huge explosion rips through a munitions ...
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Mysteries
Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman
by
Lucy Worsley
Pegasus Crime, 09/06/2022
"Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was."
Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just" an...
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American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper
by
Daniel Stashower
Minotaur Books, 09/06/2022
Boston had its Strangler. California had the Zodiac Killer. And in the depths of the Great Depression, Cleveland had the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run....
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Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match: A Novel
by
Sally Thorne
Avon Books, 09/06/2022
For generations, every Frankenstein has found their true love and equal, unlocking lifetimes of blissful wedded adventure. Clever, pretty (and odd) ...
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Romance
Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President
by
Jonathan Darman
Random House, 09/06/2022
Yet for all his gifts, the young Roosevelt nonetheless lacked depth, empathy, and an ability to think strategically. Those qualities, so essential to ...
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Destination Unknown
by
Bill Konigsberg
Scholastic, 09/06/2022
The first thing I noticed about C.J. Gorman was his plexiglass bra.
So begins
Destination Unknown -- it's 1987 in New York City, and Micah is at a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Fairy Tale
by
Stephen King
Scribner, 09/06/2022
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Funeral Girl
by
Emma K. Ohland
Carolrhoda Books, 09/06/2022
With one touch of any body that passes through Richter Funeral Home, she can awaken the spirit of the departed. With one more touch, she makes the ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World
by
Michael Frank
Avid Reader Press, 09/06/2022
With nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never before spoken in detail about her past. Then she met Michael Frank. He came to her ...
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Plagues and Pencils: A Year of Pandemic Sketches
by
Edward Carey
University of Texas Press, 09/06/2022
In March 2020, as lockdowns were imposed around the world, author and illustrator Edward Carey raced home to Austin, Texas. The next day, he published...
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Biography/Memoir
Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make--and Keep--Friends
by
Marisa G. Franco PhD
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/06/2022
How do we make and keep friends in an era of distraction, burnout, and chaos, especially in a society that often prizes romantic love at the expense ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Sacrificio
by
Ernesto Mestre-Reed
Soho Press, 09/06/2022
Cuba, 1998: Rafa, an Afro-Cuban orphan, moves to Havana with nothing to his name and falls into a job at a café. He is soon drawn into a web of ...
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Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
by
Anna-Marie McLemore
Feiwel & Friends, 09/06/2022
New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Wisconsin, has no interest in the city's glamor. Going to New York is ...
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Historical Fiction
Solito: A Memoir
by
Javier Zamora
Hogarth Books, 09/06/2022
Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago—"one day, you'll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure."
Javier Zamora's
...more
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
by
Katherine Rundell
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/06/2022
Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one ...
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The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope
by
Tova Friedman
Hanover Square Press, 09/06/2022
"I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor's obligation to represent one and half million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis. They cannot speak. ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Family Izquierdo: A Novel
by
Rubén Degollado
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/06/2022
The tight-knit Izquierdo family is grappling with misfortunes none of them can explain. Their beloved patriarch has suffered from an emotional ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Fortunes of Jaded Women: A Novel
by
Carolyn Huynh
Atria Books, 09/06/2022
Everyone in Orange County's Little Saigon knew that the Duong sisters were cursed.
It started with their ancestor, Oanh, who dared to leave her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Marsh Queen
by
Virginia Hartman
Gallery Books, 09/06/2022
Loni Murrow is an accomplished bird artist at the Smithsonian who loves her job. But when she receives a call from her younger brother summoning her ...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
The Means: A Novel
by
Amy Fusselman
Mariner Books, 09/06/2022
Shelly Means, a wealthy stay-at-home mom and disgraced former PTA president, is poised to get the one thing in life she really wants: a beach house in...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Rising Tide: Vera Stanhope #10
by
Ann Cleeves
Minotaur Books, 09/06/2022
For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebrating the school trip where they met, and the friend...
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The Ways We Hide: A Novel
by
Kristina McMorris
Sourcebooks, 09/06/2022
As a little girl raised amid the hardships of Michigan's Copper Country, Fenna Vos learned to focus on her own survival. That ability sustains her ...
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Historical Fiction
The Weight of Blood
by
Tiffany D Jackson
Katherine Tegan Books, 09/06/2022
When Springville residents—at least the ones still alive—are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same ...
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Three Sisters
by
Heather Morris
St. Martin's Griffin, 09/06/2022
Against all odds, three Slovakian sisters have survived years of imprisonment in the most notorious death camp in Nazi Germany: Auschwitz. Livia, ...
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Historical Fiction
Unleashed: A Novel
by
Cai Emmons
Dutton, 09/06/2022
When Lu and George Barnes drop their only daughter, Pippa, off at college, they return to their Sonoma home to find that their paths have diverged. ...
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Literary Fiction
What We Fed to the Manticore
by
Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
Tin House Books, 09/06/2022
Through nine emotionally vivid stories, all narrated from animal perspectives, Talia Lakshmi Kolluri's debut collection explores themes of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Women Like Us: A Memoir
by
Amanda Prowse
Little A, 09/06/2022
I guess the first question to ask is, what kind of woman am I? Well, you know those women who saunter into a room, immaculately coiffed and primped ...more
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
by
Alice Wong
Vintage, 09/06/2022
In Chinese culture, the tiger is deeply revered for its confidence, passion, ambition, and ferocity. That same fighting spirit resides in Alice Wong.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
A Place Called Home: A Memoir
by
David Ambroz
Legacy Lit, 09/13/2022
When David and his siblings should be in elementary school, they are instead walking the streets seeking shelter while their mother is battling mental...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
A Very Typical Family: A Novel
by
Sierra Godfrey
Sourcebooks Landmark, 09/13/2022
All families are messy. Some are disasters.
Natalie Walker is the reason her older brother and sister went to prison over 15 years ago. She fled ...
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Literary Fiction
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
by
Zoulfa Katouh
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 09/13/2022
Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her big brother; she still had her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Bliss Montage: Stories
by
Ling Ma
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/13/2022
What happens when fantasy tears through the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end?
In
Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us...
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Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
by
Nina Totenberg
Simon & Schuster, 09/13/2022
Four years before Nina Totenberg was hired at NPR, where she cemented her legacy as a prizewinning reporter, and nearly twenty-two years before Ruth ...
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Biography/Memoir
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
by
Kate Beaton
Drawn & Quarterly, 09/13/2022
With the singular goal of paying off her student loans, Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush―part of the long tradition ...
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Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure
by
Bryn Nelson PhD
Grand Central Publishing, 09/13/2022
The future is sh*t: the literal kind. For most of human history we've been, well, disinclined to take a closer look at our body's natural product&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
I Walk Between the Raindrops: Stories
by
T.C. Boyle
Ecco, 09/13/2022
In the title story of
Walk Between the Raindrops, a woman sits down next to a man at a bar and claims she has ESP. In "Thirteen Days," passengers on a...
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Kibogo
by
Scholastique Mukasonga
Archipelago Books, 09/13/2022
In four beautifully woven parts, Mukasonga spins a marvelous recounting of the clash between ancient Rwandan beliefs and the missionaries determined ...
more
Lungfish: A Novel
by
Meghan Gilliss
Catapult, 09/13/2022
Relying on the island for sustenance and answers—bladderwrack, rosehips, tenacious little green crabs; smells held by the damp walls of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Marple: Twelve New Mysteries (Miss Marple Mysteries)
by
Agatha Christie
William Morrow, 09/13/2022
One doesn't stop at one murder...
Jane Marple is an elderly lady from St Mary Mead who possesses an uncanny knack for solving even the most ...
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Mysteries
Murder on the Vine: Tuscan Mysteries #3
by
Camilla Trinchieri
Soho Crime, 09/13/2022
On a late October Sunday morning in Gravigna, local maresciallo Perillo is having breakfast with ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle when he is called back ...
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Natural History: Stories
by
Andrea Barrett
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/13/2022
In
Natural History, Andrea Barrett completes the beautiful arc of intertwined lives of a family of scientists, teachers, and innovators that she has ...
more
No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay
by
Julian Aguon
Astra House, 09/13/2022
In bracing poetry and compelling prose, Aguon weaves together stories from his childhood in the villages of Guam with searing political commentary ...
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Essays
Debut Author
Nona the Ninth: The Locked Tomb Series #3
by
Tamsyn Muir
Tor Books, 09/13/2022
Her city is under siege.
The zombies are coming back.
And all Nona wants is a birthday party.
In many ways, Nona is like other people. She ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
by
Ben Macintyre
Crown, 09/13/2022
In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Reign Returned: The Felserpent Chronicles
by
Katie Keridan
SparkPress, 09/13/2022
When tragedy strikes, Kyra discovers she possesses a life-changing gift: she's a Recovrancer, able to enter the realm of the dead and recover those ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
by
Rachel Aviv
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/13/2022
In
Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions about how we understand ourselves in periods of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Sugar Street
by
Jonathan Dee
Grove Press, 09/13/2022
In a story that moves with swift dark humor and insight, Dee takes us through his narrator's attempt to disavow his former life of privilege and enter...
more
The House Party: A Novel
by
Rita Cameron
William Morrow, 09/13/2022
It's the party of the year. Afterward, nothing will ever be the same.
Maja Jensen is smart, stylish, and careful, the type of woman who considers ...
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The Village Idiot
by
Steve Stern
Melville House, 09/13/2022
Steve Stern's astonishing new novel
The Village Idiot begins on a glorious spring day in Paris 1917. Amid the carnage of World War I, some of the ...
more
Thistlefoot: A Novel
by
GennaRose Nethercott
Anchor Books, 09/13/2022
The Yaga siblings—Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist—have been estranged since ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Two Nurses, Smoking: Stories
by
David Means
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/13/2022
Two nurses meet in the hospital parking lot to share a cigarette. They flirt and imagine a future together. They tell stories of patients lost and ...
more
Victory Is Assured: Uncollected Writings of Stanley Crouch
by
Stanley Crouch
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 09/13/2022
With Stanley Crouch's untimely death in 2020, American literature lost "a critic without peer" (Ta-Nehisi Coates). Born in Los Angeles in 1945, Crouch...
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Woman Without Shame: Poems
by
Sandra Cisneros
Knopf, 09/13/2022
It has been twenty-eight years since Sandra Cisneros published a book of poetry. With dozens of never-before-seen poems,
Woman Without Shame is a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Seven Deadly Sins of White Christian Nationalism: A Call to Action (Religion in the Modern World)
by
Carter Heyward
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 09/15/2022
While right-wing conservatives dare to call themselves Christians as they tear down equality and justice, commit horrific acts of violence, and fan ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Short Stories
American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
by
Kevin Hazzard
Hachette Books, 09/20/2022
Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival were minimal. A 9-1-1 call might bring police or even the local funeral ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future
by
Brandi Collins-Dexter
Celadon, 09/20/2022
In
Black Skinhead, Brandi Collins-Dexter, former Senior Campaign Director for Color Of Change, explores the fragile alliance between Black voters and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
If Walls Could Speak: My Life in Architecture
by
Moshe Safdie
Atlantic Monthly Press, 09/20/2022
Over more than five decades, legendary architect Moshe Safdie has built some of the world's most influential and memorable structures—from the ...
more
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
by
Pekka Hämäläinen
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 09/20/2022
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus "discovers" a strange continent and brings back tales of untold ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Less Is Lost: Arthur Less Book #2
by
Andrew Sean Greer
Little Brown & Company, 09/20/2022
"Go get lost somewhere, it always does you good."
For Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well: he is a moderately accomplished novelist in a ...
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Maybe Now: A Novel (3) (Maybe Someday)
by
Colleen Hoover
Atria Books, 09/20/2022
What is more important? Friendship, loyalty, or love?
Ridge and Sydney are thrilled to finally be together guilt-free. But as the two of them ...
more
Romance
Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921
by
Antony Beevor
Viking, 09/20/2022
Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. The doomed White alliance of moderate ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Rust in the Root
by
Justina Ireland
Balzer + Bray, 09/20/2022
It is 1937, and Laura Ann Langston lives in an America divided—between those who work the mystical arts and those who do not. Ever since the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Bullet That Missed: Thursday Murder Club Mysteries #3
by
Richard Osman
Pamela Dorman Books, 09/20/2022
It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should
finally be returning to normal.
Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are ...
more
The Complicities
by
Stacey D'Erasmo
Algonquin Books, 09/20/2022
After her husband Alan's decades of financial fraud are exposed, Suzanne's wealthy, comfortable life shatters. Alan goes to prison. Suzanne files for ...
more
The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021
by
Peter Baker
Doubleday, 09/20/2022
The bestselling authors of
The Man Who Ran Washington argue that Trump was not just lurching from one controversy to another; he was learning to be ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Getaway
by
Lamar Giles
Scholastic, 09/20/2022
As things outside get worse, trouble starts seeping into Karloff. First, Jay's friend Connie and her family disappear in the middle of the night and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Last Dreamwalker
by
Rita Woods
Forge Books, 09/20/2022
In the wake of her mother's passing, Layla Hurley unexpectedly reconnects with her mother's sisters, women she hasn't been allowed to speak to, or of,...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Matchmaker's Gift: A Novel
by
Lynda Cohen Loigman
St. Martin's Press, 09/20/2022
Even as a child in 1910, Sara Glikman knows her gift: she is a maker of matches and a seeker of soulmates. But among the pushcart-crowded streets of ...
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Historical Fiction
The Old Place
by
Bobby Finger
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/20/2022
Billington, Texas, is a place where nothing changes. Well, almost nothing. For the first time in nearly four decades, Mary Alice Roth is not getting ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Silent Stars Go By
by
Sally Nicholls
Candlewick Press, 09/20/2022
Vivid and achingly real, Sally Nicholls's latest historical romance explores the fallout from an unexpected pregnancy during the First World War. It's...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You
by
Susan Rogers
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/20/2022
This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secrets of why your favorite songs move you. But it's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Who's Raising the Kids?: Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children
by
Susan Linn
The New Press, 09/20/2022
Even before COVID-19, digital technologies had become deeply embedded in children's lives, despite a growing body of research detailing the harms of ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
A Familiar Stranger
by
A. R. Torre
Thomas & Mercer, 09/27/2022
Lillian Smith leads an unexceptional life, writing obituaries and killing time with her inattentive husband and disconnected son. Then she meets David...
more
Best of Friends: A Novel
by
Kamila Shamsie
Riverhead Books, 09/27/2022
Zahra and Maryam have been best friends since childhood in Karachi, even though—or maybe because—they are unlike in nearly every way. Yet ...
more
Literary Fiction
Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II
by
Bruce Henderson
Knopf, 09/27/2022
After Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. military was desperate to find Americans who spoke Japanese to serve in the Pacific war. They ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
by
Margaret A. Burnham
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/27/2022
If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law?
In
By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Concerning My Daughter: A Novel
by
Kim Hye-jin
Restless Books, 09/27/2022
When a widowed, aging mother allows Green, her thirty-something daughter, to move into her apartment, all she wants for her is a stable and quiet ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Fall Guy: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Series, 33)
by
Archer Mayor
Minotaur Books, 09/27/2022
A high-end stolen car is discovered in Vermont. A car filled with stolen items from a far-flung two state burglary spree. But it's what is in the ...
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Thrillers
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
by
Annie Proulx
Scribner, 09/27/2022
A lifelong environmentalist, Annie Proulx brings her wide-ranging research and scholarship to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important yet ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Foul Lady Fortune
by
Chloe Gong
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 09/27/2022
It's 1931 in Shanghai, and the stage is set for a new decade of intrigue.
Four years ago, Rosalind Lang was brought back from the brink of death, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Jacqueline in Paris: A Novel
by
Ann Mah
Mariner Books, 09/27/2022
In September 1949 Jacqueline Bouvier arrives in postwar Paris to begin her junior year abroad. She's twenty years old, socially poised but financially...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Meet Me Under the Mistletoe
by
Jenny Bayliss
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/27/2022
Elinor Noel—Nory for short—is quite content running her secondhand bookshop in London. Forever torn between her working-class upbringing ...
more
Romance
Motherthing
by
Ainslie Hogarth
Vintage, 09/27/2022
When Ralph and Abby Lamb move in with Ralph's mother, Laura, Abby hopes it's just what she and her mother-in-law need to finally connect. After a ...
more
Mr. Wilder and Me
by
Jonathan Coe
Europa Editions, 09/27/2022
In the heady summer of 1977, a naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has ...
more
Suspect
by
Scott Turow
Grand Central Publishing, 09/27/2022
For as long as Lucia Gomez has been the police chief in the city of Highland Isle, near Kindle County, she has known that any woman in law enforcement...
more
Thrillers
Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm: A Novel
by
Laura Warrell
Pantheon Books, 09/27/2022
It's 2013, and Circus Palmer, a forty-year-old Boston-based trumpet player and old-school ladies' man, lives for his music and refuses to be tied down...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity
by
Donald Yacovone
Pantheon Books, 09/27/2022
In
Teaching White Supremacy, Donald Yacovone shows us the clear and damning evidence of white supremacy's deep-seated roots in our nation's education ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Door of No Return
by
Kwame Alexander
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 09/27/2022
Dreams are today's answers for tomorrow's questions.
Kofi has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, in the village where he lives. He loves...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Furrows: A Novel
by
Namwali Serpell
Hogarth Books, 09/27/2022
The missing boy cleaves the family with doubt. Their father leaves, starts another family elsewhere. But their mother can't give up hope and launches ...
more
The Golden Enclaves: Scholomance Series #3
by
Naomi Novik
Del Rey, 09/27/2022
The one thing you never talk about while you're in the Scholomance is what you'll do when you get out. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The House in the Orchard
by
Elizabeth Brooks
Tin House Books, 09/27/2022
When a World War II widow inherits a dilapidated English estate, she uncovers a diary written by an adolescent girl named Maude Gower. Looking for ...
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Historical Fiction
The Jealousy Man and Other Stories
by
Jo Nesbo
Vintage Crime, 09/27/2022
Jo Nesbø is known the world over as a consummate mystery/thriller writer. Famed for his deft characterization, hair-raising suspense and shocking...
more
Thrillers
The Keeper: A Graphic Novel
by
Tananarive Due
Harry N. Abrams Inc., 09/27/2022
Aisha has suffered a devastating loss. Her parents were killed in a car crash, and now she must move to decrepit and derelict Detroit to live with her...
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Graphic Novels
The Shadow Murders: A Department Q Novel
by
Jussi Adler-Olsen
Dutton, 09/27/2022
On her sixtieth birthday, a woman takes her own life. When the case lands on Detective Carl Mørck's desk, he can't imagine what this has to do ...
more
Thrillers
The Winners: A Novel (Beartown Series)
by
Fredrik Backman
Atria Books, 09/27/2022
Over the course of two weeks, everything in Beartown will change.
Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far...
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Literary Fiction
Treasure State: Cassie Dewell Novels #6
by
C.J. Box
Minotaur Books, 09/27/2022
Private Investigator Cassie Dewell's business is thriving, and her latest case puts her on the hunt for a slippery con man who's disappeared somewhere...
more
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
by
Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, Dawud Anyabwile
Norton Young Readers, 09/27/2022
On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, and John ...
more
We Spread
by
Iain Reid
Gallery/Scout Press, 09/27/2022
Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades, surrounded by the artifacts and keepsakes of her long life. She is resigned to the ...
more
Thrillers
Bernice Runs Away
by
Talya Tate Boerner
One Mississippi Press LLC, 10/01/2022
Have you ever dreamed of running away?
Life hasn't always been easy for Bernice, but she is reasonably content at the ripe age of eighty-one. She ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Fire and the Ore: A Novel
by
Olivia Hawker
Lake Union Publishing, 10/01/2022
1857. Three women―once strangers―come together in unpredictable Utah Territory. Hopeful, desperate, and willful, they'll allow nothing on ...
more
Literary Fiction
Token Black Girl: A Memoir
by
Danielle Prescod
Little A, 10/01/2022
Danielle Prescod grew up Black in an elite and overwhelmingly white community, her identity made more invisible by the whitewashed movies, television,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
A Minor Chorus: A Novel
by
Billy-Ray Belcourt
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/04/2022
In the stark expanse of Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel, informed by a series ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Scatter of Light
by
Malinda Lo
Dutton for Young Readers, 10/04/2022
Aria Tang West was looking forward to a summer on Martha's Vineyard with her best friends—one last round of sand and sun before college. But ...
more
All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind
by
Kate Winkler Dawson
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/04/2022
Edward Rulloff was a brilliant yet utterly amoral murderer—some have called him a "Victorian-era Hannibal Lecter"—whose crimes spanned ...
more
True Crime
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
by
Adam Hochschild
Mariner Books, 10/04/2022
The nation was on the brink. Mobs burned Black churches to the ground. Courts threw thousands of people into prison for opinions they voiced—in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Balladz
by
Sharon Olds
Knopf, 10/04/2022
"At the time of have-not, I look at myself in this mirror," writes Olds in this self-scouring, exhilarating volume, which opens with a section of ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Billie Starr's Book of Sorries: A Novel
by
Deborah E. Kennedy
Flatiron Books, 10/04/2022
Sometimes, a woman has to rescue herself.
Jenny Newberg, Queen of Bad Decisions, is about to make another one. In a small town where everyone knows...
more
Blood Red
by
Gabriela Ponce
Restless Books, 10/04/2022
In a torrent of stream-of-consciousness fragments, the unnamed narrator of Blood Red recounts the aftermath of her failed marriage in explicit, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
by
David Quammen
Simon & Schuster, 10/04/2022
Breathless is the story of SARS-CoV-2 and its fierce journey through the human population, as seen by the scientists who study its origin, its ever-...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
by
Maggie Haberman
Penguin Press, 10/04/2022
Few journalists working today have covered Donald Trump more extensively than Maggie Haberman. And few understand him and his motivations better. Now,...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Craft and Conscience: How to Write About Social Issues
by
Kavita Das
Beacon Press, 10/04/2022
Writers are witnesses and scribes to society's conscience but writing about social issues in the twenty-first century requires a new, sharper toolkit....
more
Other
David Smith: The Art and Life of a Transformational Sculptor
by
Michael Brenson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/04/2022
The artist David Smith once wrote, "'Humanism' is a useless word in my time." A member of the abstract expressionist generation, he would do more than...
more
Endless Summer: Stories from Days That Last Forever
by
Elin Hilderbrand
Little Brown & Company, 10/04/2022
Bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand revisits her most treasured and iconic characters in this magical collection of stories. Collected in a single ...
more
Romance
Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
by
Jeremiah Moss
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/04/2022
The pandemic lockdown of 2020 launched an unprecedented urban experiment. Traffic disappeared from the streets. Times Square fell silent. And half a ...
more
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
by
Cody Keenan
Mariner Books, 10/04/2022
A white supremacist shooting and an astonishing act of forgiveness. A national reckoning with race and the Confederate flag. The fate of marriage ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Hester: A Novel
by
Laurie Lico Albanese
St. Martin's Press, 10/04/2022
Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An ...
more
Historical Fiction
Jackal: A Novel
by
Erin E. Adams
Bantam Books, 10/04/2022
It's watching.
It's taking.
As a frantic search begins, with the police combing the trees for Caroline, Liz is the only one who notices a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Mad Honey: A Novel
by
Jodi Picoult
Ballantine Books, 10/04/2022
She never imagined that she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in and taking over her father's ...
more
Other
Man Made Monsters
by
Andrea Rogers
Levine Querido, 10/04/2022
Tsalagi should never have to live on human blood, but sometimes things just happen to sixteen-year-old girls.
Horror fans will get their thrills in...
more
Nights of Plague: A novel
by
Orhan Pamuk
Knopf, 10/04/2022
It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingheria—the twenty-ninth state of the Ottoman Empire—located in the eastern ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
One Woman's War: A Novel of the Real Miss Moneypenny
by
Christine Wells
William Morrow Paperbacks, 10/04/2022
World War II London: When Victoire "Paddy" Bennett first walks into the Admiralty's Room 39, home to the Intelligence Division, all the bright and ...
more
Historical Fiction
River Woman, River Demon: A Novel
by
Jennifer Givhan
Blackstone Publishing, 10/04/2022
When Eva's husband is arrested for the murder of a friend, she must confront her murky past and embrace her magick to find out what really happened ...
more
The Christmas Murder Game
by
Alexandra Benedict
Poisoned Pen Press, 10/04/2022
The annual Christmas Game is afoot at Endgame House, the Armitages' grand family home. This year's prize is to die for―deeds to the house itself...
more
Thrillers
The Hero of This Book: A Novel
by
Elizabeth McCracken
Ecco, 10/04/2022
Ten months after her mother's death, the narrator of
The Hero of This Book takes a trip to London. The city was a favorite of her mother's, and as the...
more
The Night Ship: A Novel
by
Jess Kidd
Atria Books, 10/04/2022
1629: A newly orphaned young girl named Mayken is bound for the Dutch East Indies on the
Batavia, one of the greatest ships of the Dutch Golden Age. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Restless Dark
by
Erica Waters
HarperTeen, 10/04/2022
Enter Cloudkiss Canyon at your own risk.
The Cloudkiss Killer is dead. Now a true-crime podcast is hosting a contest to find his bones.
Lucy ...
more
Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
by
Thomas E. Ricks
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/04/2022
In
Waging a Good War, bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks offers a fresh perspective on America's greatest moral revolution―the civil rights ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
When They Tell You To Be Good: A Memoir
by
Prince Shakur
Tin House Books, 10/04/2022
After immigrating from Jamaica to the United States, Prince Shakur's family is rocked by the murder of Prince's biological father in 1995. Behind the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Which Side Are You On
by
Ryan Lee Wong
Catapult, 10/04/2022
Twenty-one-year-old Reed is fed up. Angry about the killing of a Black man by an Asian American NYPD officer, he wants to drop out of college and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Before All the World: A Novel
by
Moriel Rothman-Zecher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/11/2022
"ikh gleyb nit az di gantze velt iz kheyshekh."
"I do not believe that all the world is darkness."
In the swirl of Philadelphia at the end of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Dying of Politeness: A Memoir
by
Geena Davis
HarperOne, 10/11/2022
At three years old, Geena Davis announced she was going to be in movies. Now, with a slew of iconic roles and awards under her belt, she has surpassed...
more
Biography/Memoir
Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter's Reflections on Belonging
by
Vanessa A. Bee
Astra House, 10/11/2022
After her parents' divorce, Vanessa traveled with her mother to Lyon and later to London, eventually settling in Reno, Nevada, as a teenager, right ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
I Miss You, I Hate This
by
Sara Saedi
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 10/11/2022
The lives of high school seniors Parisa Naficy and Gabriela Gonzales couldn't be more different. Parisa, an earnest and privileged Iranian American, ...
more
Illuminations: Stories
by
Alan Moore
Bloomsbury USA, 10/11/2022
In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a series of wildly different and equally unforgettable ...
more
Little Eve
by
Catriona Ward
Tor Nightfire, 10/11/2022
Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel.
"A great day is upon us. He is coming. The world will be washed away."
On the wind-battered ...
more
Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties
by
John D'Emilio
Duke University Press, 10/11/2022
How does a boy from an Italian immigrant family in which everyone unfailingly went to confession and Sunday Mass become a lapsed Catholic? How does a ...
more
Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty
by
Andrew Meier
Random House, 10/11/2022
After coming to America from Germany in 1866, the Morgenthaus made history in international diplomacy, in domestic politics, and in America's criminal...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives
by
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Harper, 10/11/2022
At just eighteen years old, Charlayne Hunter-Gault made national news when she mounted a successful legal challenge that culminated in her admission ...
more
On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World
by
Sean Connolly
Basic Books, 10/11/2022
When people think of Irish emigration, they often think of the Great Famine of the 1840s, which caused many to flee Ireland for the United States. But...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Out of Esau
by
Michelle Webster-Hein
Counterpoint Press, 10/11/2022
Robert Glory has never quite felt as though he fit in the small town of Esau, Michigan, but he finds solace in his role as the pastor of Esau Baptist ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More
by
Fatima Ali
Ballantine Books, 10/11/2022
Fatima Ali won the hearts of viewers as the Fan Favorite of Bravo's
Top Chef in season fifteen. Twenty-nine years old, she was a dynamic, boundary-...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
by
Peter Orner
Catapult, 10/11/2022
Stationed in the South Pacific during World War II, Seymour Orner wrote a letter every day to his wife, Lorraine. She seldom responded, leading him to...
more
Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions
by
A. R. Capetta
MIT Press, 10/11/2022
What does the future hold? Ten speculative short stories by leading young-adult authors imagine what the world
could be through the lens of ...
more
The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water
by
Chris Dombrowski
Milkweed Editions, 10/11/2022
He answers this fundamental question of our time initially by listening lovingly to rivers and the land they pulse through in his adopted home of ...
more
The Spare Man
by
Mary Robinette Kowal
Tor Books, 10/11/2022
Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and an heiress, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between the Moon and Mars. She's ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
by
Ruha Benjamin
Princeton University Press, 10/11/2022
Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes. But ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Young Man, Muddled: A Memoir
by
Robert Kanigel
Bancroft Press, 10/11/2022
As Hemingway wrote, "It happened gradually, then suddenly." Robert Kanigel, a grade-skipping Jewish fellow from Brooklyn, went from engineering war ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia
by
Natasha Lance Rogoff
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 10/17/2022
In
Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia, Natasha Lance Rogoff brings this gripping tale to life. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Heart Full of Headstones: Inspector Rebus Novels #24
by
Ian Rankin
Little Brown & Company, 10/18/2022
But what drove a good man to cross the line?
Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke may well find out. Clarke is tasked with the city's most explosive...
more
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
by
Jon Meacham
Random House, 10/18/2022
A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Hated and ...
more
Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities
by
Emily Tamkin
Harper, 10/18/2022
What does it mean to be a Bad Jew?
Many Jews use the term "Bad Jew" as a weapon against other members of the community or even against themselves. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Black Women Will Save the World: An Anthem
by
April Ryan
Amistad, 10/18/2022
"I am keenly aware that everyone and everything has a story," April D. Ryan acknowledges. "Also, I have always marveled at Black women and how we work...
more
Biography/Memoir
Eyes Turned Skyward: A Novel
by
Alena Dillon
William Morrow, 10/18/2022
Kathy Begley is an empty nester, the primary caretaker of her ailing mother, and the emotional support for her laid-off husband. She's also returning ...
more
Historical Fiction
I Was Born for This
by
Alice Oseman
Scholastic, 10/18/2022
Jimmy Kaga-Ricci owes everything to The Ark. He's their frontman — and playing in a band with his mates is all he ever dreamed of doing, even if...
more
In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press
by
Katherine Corcoran
Bloomsbury Publishing, 10/18/2022
Regina Martínez was no stranger to retaliation. A journalist out of Mexico's Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, Regina's stories for the magazine
...more
Critics' Consensus:
True Crime
Debut Author
It Starts with Us: A Novel (2) (It Ends with Us)
by
Colleen Hoover
Atria Books, 10/18/2022
Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After ...
more
Romance
Lady Joker, Volume 2
by
Kaoru Takamura
Soho Crime, 10/18/2022
Inspired by the real-life Glico-Morinaga kidnapping, an unsolved case that terrorized Japan for two years,
Lady Joker reimagines the circumstances of ...
more
Liberation Day: Stories
by
George Saunders
Random House, 10/18/2022
The "best short-story writer in English" (
Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice and cuts to the ...
more
Poster Girl
by
Veronica Roth
William Morrow, 10/18/2022
WHAT'S RIGHT IS RIGHT.
Sonya Kantor knows this slogan—she lived by it for most of her life. For decades, everyone in the Seattle-Portland ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Raising Them Right: The Untold Story of America's Ultra-Right Conservative Youth Movement, Its Plot for Power, and Why They Voted for Donald Trump
by
Kyle Spencer
Ecco, 10/18/2022
In the wake of the Obama presidency, a group of young charismatic conservatives catapulted onto the American political and cultural scenes, eager to ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Self-Portrait with Nothing
by
Aimee Pokwatka
Tor.com, 10/18/2022
If a picture paints a thousand worlds...
Abandoned as an infant on the local veterinarian's front porch, Pepper Rafferty was raised by two loving ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Seven Empty Houses
by
Samanta Schweblin
Riverhead Books, 10/18/2022
The seven houses in these seven stories are strange. A person is missing, or a truth, or memory; some rooms are enticing, some unmoored, others empty....
more
Short Stories
Signal Fires: A novel
by
Dani Shapiro
Knopf, 10/18/2022
Signal Fires opens on a summer night in 1985. Three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, ...
more
The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
by
Max Hastings
Harper, 10/18/2022
In
The Abyss, Max Hastings turns his focus to one of the most terrifying events of the mid-twentieth century—the thirteen days in October 1962 ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Boys from Biloxi: A Legal Thriller
by
John Grisham
Doubleday, 10/18/2022
For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious ...
more
Thrillers
The Consequences: Stories
by
Manuel Muñoz
Graywolf Press, 10/18/2022
"Her immediate concern was money." So begins the first story in Manuel Muñoz's dazzling new collection. In it, Delfina has moved from Texas to ...
more
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
by
Jonathan Freedland
Harper, 10/18/2022
A complex hero.
A forgotten story.
The first witness to reveal the full truth of the Holocaust
People won't believe what they can't imagine....more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Family Game: A Novel
by
Catherine Steadman
Ballantine Books, 10/18/2022
It's the holiday season and Harriet Reed, a novelist on the brink of literary stardom, is newly engaged to Edward Holbeck, the heir of an ...
more
Thrillers
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Young Readers Adaptation): Life in Native America
by
David Treuer, Sheila Keenan
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 10/18/2022
Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the United States.
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Last Chairlift
by
John Irving
Simon & Schuster, 10/18/2022
In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, ...
more
Literary Fiction
When We Were Sisters: A Novel
by
Fatimah Asghar
One World, 10/18/2022
In this heartrending, lyrical debut work of fiction, Fatimah Asghar traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Cass Timberlane
by
Sinclair Lewis
Independently published, 10/21/2022
But I know that the diameters will be identified, each of them with several different real persons in each of the Minnesota cities in which I have ...
more
Literary Fiction
Anne: An Adaptation of Anne of Green Gables (Sort Of)
by
Kathleen Gros
Quill Tree Books, 10/25/2022
Anne Shirley has been in foster care her whole life. So when the Cuthberts take her in, she hopes it's for good. They seem to be hitting it off, but ...
more
Graphic Novels
Anywhere You Run: A Novel
by
Wanda M. Morris
William Morrow, 10/25/2022
It's the summer of 1964 and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help Black Mississippians secure the right to vote. Against this ...
more
Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
by
Ina Garten
Clarkson Potter, 10/25/2022
Even Ina Garten, America's most-trusted and beloved home cook, sometimes finds cooking stressful. To make life easy she relies on a repertoire of ...
more
Other
Heretic: A Memoir
by
Jeanna Kadlec
Harper, 10/25/2022
Jeanna Kadlec knew what it meant to be faithful--in her marriage to a pastor's son, in the comfortable life ahead of her, in her God--but there was no...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Inciting Joy: Essays
by
Ross Gay
Algonquin Books, 10/25/2022
In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prize-winning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, ...
more
Into the Riverlands: The Singing Hills Cycle #3
by
Nghi Vo
Tor Books, 10/25/2022
Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorious near-immortal martial artists who haunt the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Is Mother Dead
by
Vigdis Hjorth
Verso, 10/25/2022
'To mother is to murder, or close enough', thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She's recently widowed and back...
more
Lady Chatterley's Lover
by
D. H. Lawrence
William Collins, 10/25/2022
Lawrence tells the story of Constance Chatterley's marriage to Sir Clifford, an aristocratic and an intellectual who is paralyzed from the waist down ...
more
Literary Fiction
Livid: A Scarpetta Novel (Kay Scarpetta, 26)
by
Patricia Cornwell
Grand Central Publishing, 10/25/2022
Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta is the reluctant star witness in a sensational murder trial when she receives shocking news. The judge's sister ...
more
Thrillers
Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern
by
Neil Baldwin
Knopf, 10/25/2022
Time magazine called her "the Dancer of the Century." Her technique, used by dance companies throughout the world, became the first long-lasting ...
more
My Manservant and Me
by
Hervé Guibert
Nightboat Books, 10/25/2022
My Manservant and Me is a story about the trials and tribulations of having a live-in valet. Written from the uneasy perspective of an aging, ...
more
Sign Here
by
Claudia Lux
Berkley Books, 10/25/2022
Peyote Trip has a pretty good gig in the deals department on the fifth floor of Hell. Sure, none of the pens work, the coffee machine has been out of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Ted Kennedy: A Life
by
John A. Farrell
Penguin Press, 10/25/2022
John A. Farrell's magnificent biography of Edward M. Kennedy is the first single-volume life of the great figure since his death. Farrell's long ...
more
The Passenger
by
Cormac McCarthy
Knopf, 10/25/2022
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard ...
more
The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire
by
Joseph Sassoon
Pantheon Books, 10/25/2022
They were one of the richest families in the world for two hundred years, from the 19th century to the 20th, and were known as 'the Rothschilds of the...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Singularities: A Novel
by
John Banville
Knopf, 10/25/2022
A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sports car—also borrowed—onto the estate of his youth. But all is not as it seems. ...
more
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
by
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Scribner, 10/25/2022
Mukherjee begins this magnificent story in the late 1600s, when a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth-merchant,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The White Mosque
by
Sofia Samatar
Catapult, 10/25/2022
In the late nineteenth century, a group of German-speaking Mennonites traveled from Russia into Central Asia, where their charismatic leader predicted...
more
Uphill: A Memoir
by
Jemele Hill
Henry Holt and Company, 10/25/2022
Jemele Hill's world came crashing down when she called President Trump a "white supremacist"; the White House wanted her fired from ESPN, and she was ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Inverted Triangles: Two Cities. Four Strangers. Infinite Possibilities.
by
Karen Fagan
Broom Bridge Books, 10/29/2022
Jo is struggling to rebuild her life in Dublin, now that girlfriend Louise has left her for a closeted children's television presenter.
In London, ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast
by
Dorthe Nors
Graywolf Press, 11/01/2022
Me, my notebook and my love of the wild and desolate. I wanted to do the opposite of what was expected of me. It's a recurring pattern in my life. An ...more
Before You Knew My Name: A Novel
by
Jacqueline Bublitz
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 11/01/2022
When she arrived in New York on her eighteenth birthday carrying nothing but $600 cash and a stolen camera, Alice Lee was looking for a fresh start. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
by
James Vincent
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/01/2022
From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful tool that humans invented to make sense of the world....
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
by
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Zest Books, 11/01/2022
Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Bravo Company: An Afghanistan Deployment and Its Aftermath
by
Ben Kesling
Harry N. Abrams Inc., 11/01/2022
In
Bravo Company, journalist and combat veteran Ben Kesling tells the story of the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of the men of one unit, part of...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Dr. No: A Novel
by
Percival Everett
Graywolf Press, 11/01/2022
The protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means "...
more
Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem
by
Laurie Notaro
Little A, 11/01/2022
Laurie Notaro has proved everyone wrong: she didn't end up in rehab, prison, or cremated at a tender age. She just went gray. At past fifty, every ...
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Find Him
by
Jake Hinkson
Polis Books, 11/01/2022
Up until now, 18-year-old Lily Stevens has always been the perfect daughter of a Pentecostal preacher, but her insular Arkansas congregation is ...
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Thrillers
Fledgling
by
Octavia E. Butler
Grand Central Publishing, 11/01/2022
She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Foster
by
Claire Keegan
Grove Press, 11/01/2022
It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home ...
more
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir
by
Matthew Perry
Flatiron Books, 11/01/2022
"Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name. My friends call me Matty."
So begins the riveting story of acclaimed actor ...
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Biography/Memoir
Gilded Mountain: A Novel
by
Kate Manning
Scribner, 11/01/2022
In a voice spiked with sly humor, Sylvie Pelletier recounts leaving her family's snowbound mountain cabin to work in a manor house for the Padgetts, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Godmersham Park: A Novel of the Austen Family
by
Gill Hornby
Pegasus Books, 11/01/2022
On January 21, 1804, Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent to take up the position of governess. At thirty-one years old, she has no previous...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Going Rogue: Rise and Shine Twenty-Nine (29) (Stephanie Plum)
by
Janet Evanovich
Atria Books, 11/01/2022
Monday mornings aren't supposed to be fun, but they should be predictable. However, on this particular Monday, Stephanie Plum knows that something is ...
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Thrillers
How Do We Know Ourselves?: Curiosities and Marvels of the Human Mind
by
David G. Myers
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/01/2022
Over the past three decades, millions of students have learned about psychology from textbooks by David G. Myers. To create these books and to satisfy...
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I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki: the South Korean hit therapy memoir recommended by BTS's RM
by
Baek Sehee
Bloomsbury USA, 11/01/2022
PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?
ME: I don't know, I'm – what's the word – depressed? Do I have to go into detail?
Baek Sehee is...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Jasmine Zumideh Needs a Win: A Novel
by
Susan Azim Boyer
Wednesday Books, 11/01/2022
It's 1979, and Jasmine Zumideh is ready to get the heck out of her stale, Southern California suburb and into her dream school, NYU, where she'll ...
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Historical Fiction
Lost in the Long March: A Novel
by
Michael X. Wang
Harry N. Abrams Inc., 11/01/2022
China, 1934: A naive orphan and shy gunsmith, Ping, has fallen in love with Yong, who is a sophisticated veteran, a skilled marksman, and a true ...
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Historical Fiction
Meredith, Alone
by
Claire Alexander
Grand Central Publishing, 11/01/2022
She has a full-time remote job and her rescue cat Fred. Her best friend Sadie visits with her two children. There's her online support group, her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
by
Jennifer Homans
Random House, 11/01/2022
Arguably the greatest choreographer who ever lived, George Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century—the
New York Times...more
My Good Man
by
Eric Gansworth
Levine Querido, 11/01/2022
Brian, a 20-something reporter on the
Niagara Cascade's City Desk, is navigating life as the only Indigenous writer in the newsroom, being lumped into...
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Historical Fiction
Ocean's Echo
by
Everina Maxwell
Tor Books, 11/01/2022
Rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster Tennalhin Halkana can read minds. Tennal, like all neuromodified "readers," is a security ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Requiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
by
RJ Young
Counterpoint Press, 11/01/2022
More than one hundred years ago, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, perpetrated a massacre against its Black residents. For generations, the true story was ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Saha: A Novel
by
Cho Nam-Joo
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 11/01/2022
In a country called Town, a doctor named Su is found dead in an abandoned car. There is only one place the police intend to look for her suspected ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Shuna's Journey
by
Hayao Miyazaki
First Second, 11/01/2022
Shuna, the prince of a poor land, watches in despair as his people work themselves to death harvesting the little grain that grows there. And so, when...
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Small Game: A Novel
by
Blair Braverman
Ecco, 11/01/2022
Four strangers and six weeks: this is all that separates Mara from one life-changing payday. She was surprised when reality TV producers came knocking...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Tale of the Dreamer's Son
by
Preeta Samarasan
World Editions, 11/01/2022
In what was once a Scottish tea planter's mansion in the highlands of Peninsular Malaysia, all religions are one and race is unheard of. That is, ...
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Literary Fiction
The Acrobat
by
Edward J. Delaney
Turtle Point Press, 11/01/2022
It's 1959, and the 55-year-old man who calls himself Cary Grant is at the peak of a charmed career. He's also on a turbulent journey to find the core ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks
by
Shauna Robinson
Sourcebooks Landmark, 11/01/2022
When Maggie Banks arrives in Bell River to run her best friend's struggling bookstore, she expects to sell bestsellers to her small-town clientele. ...
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Literary Fiction
The Cloisters: A Novel
by
Katy Hays
Atria Books, 11/01/2022
When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World
by
Paul Fisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/01/2022
A great American artist, John Singer Sargent is also an abiding enigma. While dressing like a businessman and crafting a highly respectable persona, ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Islands: Stories
by
Dionne Irving
Catapult, 11/01/2022
The Islands follows the lives of Jamaican women—immigrants or the descendants of immigrants—who have relocated all over the world to ...
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The Presence of Absence
by
Simon Van Booy
David R. Godine, 11/01/2022
"Language is a map leading to a place not on the map," announces a young writer lying in a hospital bed at the beginning of
The Presence of Absence. ...
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Literary Fiction
The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
by
Bradley Hope
Crown, 11/01/2022
In the early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate looking for his place in the world. After reading a harrowing account of life ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
by
Malcolm Gaskill
Knopf, 11/01/2022
In Springfield, Massachusetts in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails, property vanishes, and people suffer ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
by
Shehan Karunatilaka
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/01/2022
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida―war photographer, gambler, and closet queen―has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His...
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Historical Fiction
This is Our Place
by
Vitor Martins
PUSH, 11/01/2022
If the walls of Number 8 Sunflower Street could talk ...
As
Ana celebrates the new millennium, she is shocked to learn that she must leave behind ...
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Toad: A Novel
by
Katherine Dunn
MCD, 11/01/2022
She broods over her deepest regrets: her blighted romances with self-important men, her lifelong struggle to feel at home in her own body, and her ...
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Tutankhamun's Trumpet: Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects from the Boy-King's Tomb
by
Toby Wilkinson
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/01/2022
In 1922, after fifteen years of searching, archaeologists finally discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun. There, buried alongside the king's mummy, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
We Are the Light: A Novel
by
Matthew Quick
Avid Reader Press, 11/01/2022
Lucas Goodgame lives in Majestic, Pennsylvania, a quaint suburb that has been torn apart by a recent tragedy. Everyone in Majestic sees Lucas as a ...
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Literary Fiction
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
by
Joy Harjo
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/01/2022
Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her "warm, oracular voice" (John Freeman,
Boston Globe) that speaks "from a ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
White Horse: A Novel
by
Erika T. Wurth
Flatiron Books, 11/01/2022
Some people are haunted in more ways than one…
Kari James, Urban Native, is a fan of heavy metal, ripped jeans, Stephen King novels, and dive...
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No One Weeps for Me Now: The Managua Trilogy #2
by
Sergio Ramirez
McPherson & Company, 11/03/2022
Morales is summarily given the lucrative if daunting task of finding her with only her name and two photographs, and three days to complete the search...
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The Incandescent Threads
by
Richard Zimler
Parthian Books, 11/07/2022
Maybe none of us is ever aware of our true significance.
Benjamin Zarco and his cousin Shelly are the only two members of their family to survive ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Christmas Deliverance: A Novel
by
Anne Perry
Ballantine Books, 11/08/2022
Scuff has come a long way from his time as a penniless orphan scraping together a living on the banks of the Thames. Now he's studying medicine at a ...
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Historical Fiction
Children of Ragnarok: Runestone Saga #1
by
Cinda Williams Chima
Balzer + Bray, 11/08/2022
Since Ragnarok—the great war between the gods and the forces of chaos—the human realm of the Midlands has become a desperate and dangerous...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Conversations with Birds
by
Priyanka Kumar
Milkweed Editions, 11/08/2022
Growing up at the feet of the Himalayas in northern India, Kumar took for granted her immersion in a lush natural world. After moving to North America...
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Even Though I Knew the End
by
C. L. Polk
Tor Books, 11/08/2022
This sapphic period piece will dazzle anyone looking for mystery, intrigue, romance, magic, or all of the above.
An exiled augur who sold her ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
by
Rabia Chaudry
Algonquin Books, 11/08/2022
"My entire life I have been less fat and more fat, but never not fat." According to family lore, when Rabia Chaudry's family returned to Pakistan for ...
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Flight: A Novel
by
Lynn Steger Strong
Mariner Books, 11/08/2022
It's December twenty-second and siblings Henry, Kate, and Martin have converged with their spouses on Henry's house in upstate New York. This is the ...
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For Profit: A History of Corporations
by
William Magnuson
Basic Books, 11/08/2022
Americans have long been skeptical of corporations, and that skepticism has only grown more intense in recent years. Meanwhile, corporations ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Hollywood: The Oral History
by
Jeanine Basinger
Harper, 11/08/2022
From the archives of the American Film Institute comes a unique picture of what it was like to work in Hollywood from its beginnings to its present ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How It Went: Thirteen More Stories of the Port William Membership
by
Wendell Berry
Counterpoint Press, 11/08/2022
For those readers of his poetry and inspired by his increasingly vital work as advocate for rational land use and the right-size life, these stories ...
more
Legends & Lattes
by
Travis Baldree
Tor Books, 11/08/2022
The battle-weary orc aims to start fresh, opening the first ever coffee shop in the city of Thune. But old and new rivals stand in the way of success ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Outback: A stunning new crime thriller
by
Patricia Wolf
Embla Books, 11/08/2022
DS Lucas Walker is on leave in his hometown of Caloodie, taking care of his dying grandmother. When two young German backpackers, Berndt and Rita, ...
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Thrillers
Participation
by
Anna Moschovakis
Coffee House Press, 11/08/2022
In the latest novel from Anna Moschovakis, two reading groups, unofficially called Love and Anti-Love, falter amidst political friction and signs of ...
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Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six
by
Lisa Unger
Park Row Books, 11/08/2022
What could be more restful, more restorative, than a weekend getaway with family and friends? An isolated luxury cabin in the woods, complete with ...
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The Last Party: DC Morgan Mysteries #1
by
Clare Mackintosh
Sourcebooks Landmark, 11/08/2022
It's the party to end all parties….but not everyone is here to celebrate.
On New Year's Eve, Rhys Lloyd has a house full of guests. His ...
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The Lemon: A Novel
by
S. E. Boyd
Viking, 11/08/2022
While filming on location in Belfast, Northern Ireland, John Doe, the universally adored host of the culinary travel show
Last Call, is found dead in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Magic Kingdom: A Novel
by
Russell Banks
Knopf, 11/08/2022
In 1971, a property speculator named Harley Mann begins recording his life story onto a reel-to-reel machine. Reflecting on his childhood in the early...
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The Secrets We Keep
by
Cassie Gustafson
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 11/08/2022
High school freshman Emma Clark harbors a secret—a secret so vile it could implode her whole world, a secret she's managed to keep buried......
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The Spacetime Pool
by
Catherine Asaro
Open Road Integrated Media, 11/08/2022
In
The Spacetime Pool, recent MIT grad Janelle Aulair is hiking through the Great Smoky Mountains when a man appears out of nowhere to request her ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Against the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism, 1976-2009
by
Neal Gabler
Crown, 11/15/2022
Against the Wind completes Neal Gabler's magisterial biography of Ted Kennedy, but it also unfolds the epic, tragic story of the fall of liberalism ...
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Before I Let Go
by
Kennedy Ryan
Forever, 11/15/2022
Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasmen and Josiah Wade found that love alone couldn't ...
more
Romance
Heart of the Sun Warrior: Celestial Kingdom Series #2
by
Sue Lynn Tan
Harper Voyager, 11/15/2022
After winning her mother's freedom from the Celestial Emperor, Xingyin thrives in the enchanting tranquility of her home. But her fragile peace is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Idol, Burning: A Novel
by
Rin Usami
HarperVia, 11/15/2022
Akari is a high school student obsessed with "oshi" Masaki Ueno, a member of the popular J-Pop group Maza Maza. She writes a blog devoted to him, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions
by
Steve Martin
Celadon, 11/15/2022
Steve Martin has never written about his career in the movies before. In
Number One Is Walking, he shares anecdotes from the sets of his beloved films...
more
Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers
by
Emma Smith
Knopf, 11/15/2022
Stephen King once said that books are "a uniquely portable magic." Here, Emma Smith takes readers on a literary adventure that spans centuries and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life
by
Brigitta Olubas
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/15/2022
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life tells the extraordinary story of a great modern novelist. Brigitta Olubas, Hazzard's authorized biographer, has drawn,...
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The 9:09 Project
by
Mark H. Parsons
Delacorte Press, 11/15/2022
It has been two years since his mom's death, and Jamison, his dad, and his younger sister seem to be coping, but they've been dealing with their loss ...
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The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
by
Michelle Obama
Crown, 11/15/2022
There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life's big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all locate and lean on a set of ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Lindbergh Nanny: A Novel
by
Mariah Fredericks
Minotaur Books, 11/15/2022
When the most famous toddler in America, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., is kidnapped from his family home in New Jersey in 1932, the case makes international...
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Historical Fiction
The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music
by
Tom Breihan
Hachette Books, 11/15/2022
When Tom Breihan launched his
Stereogum column in early 2018, "The Number Ones"—a space in which he has been writing about every #1 hit in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Teller of Secrets: A Novel
by
Bisi Adjapon
HarperVia, 11/15/2022
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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Literary Fiction
The Twist of a Knife: A Novel
by
Anthony Horowitz
Harper, 11/15/2022
"I'm sorry but the answer's no." Reluctant author, Anthony Horowitz, has had enough. He tells ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne that after three books he'...
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Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
by
Andy Greenberg
Doubleday, 11/15/2022
Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrency. Crime lords inhabiting lawless corners of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Tread of Angels
by
Rebecca Roanhorse
Gallery Books, 11/15/2022
The year is 1883 and the mining town of Goetia is booming as prospectors from near and far come to mine the powerful new element Divinity from the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Aesthetica
by
Allie Rowbottom
Soho Press, 11/22/2022
At 19, she was an Instagram celebrity. Now, at 35, she works behind the cosmetic counter at the "black and white store," peddling anti-aging products ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, DC
by
Shahan Mufti
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/22/2022
Late in the morning of March 9, 1977, seven men stormed the Washington, D.C., headquarters of B'nai B'rith International, the largest and oldest ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger
by
Tony Tetro & Giampiero Ambrosi
Hachette Books, 11/22/2022
The art world is a much dirtier, nastier business than you might expect. Tony Tetro, one of the most renowned art forgers in history, will make you ...
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Critics' Consensus:
True Crime
Debut Author
Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
by
Jefferson Cowie
Basic Books, 11/22/2022
American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
by
Beverly Gage
Viking, 11/22/2022
We remember him as a bulldog—squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls—but in 1924, when he became director of the FBI, he had ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Creative Lives of Animals
by
Carol Gigliotti
New York University Press, 11/22/2022
Most of us view animals through a very narrow lens, seeing only bits and pieces of beings that seem mostly peripheral to our lives. However, whether ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Reindeer Hunters: Sister Bells Trilogy #2
by
Lars Mytting
The Overlook Press, 11/22/2022
The second novel in Lars Mytting's powerful and compelling Sister Bells trilogy,
The Reindeer Hunters is both a sequel to
The Bell in the Lake and a ...
more
A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents
by
Mary-Alice Daniel
Ecco, 11/29/2022
Mary-Alice Daniel's family moved from West Africa to England when she was a very young girl, leaving behind the vivid culture of her native land in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
A Heart That Works
by
Rob Delaney
Spiegel & Grau, 11/29/2022
In 2018, Rob Delaney's two-year-old son, Henry, died of a brain tumor.
A Heart That Works is Delaney's intimate, unflinching, and at times ...
more
Biography/Memoir
A Quiet Life: A Novel
by
Ethan Joella
Scribner, 11/29/2022
Set in a close-knit suburb in the grip of winter,
A Quiet Life follows three people grappling with loss and finding a tender wisdom in their grief.
...
more
Literary Fiction
A World of Curiosities: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel, 18)
by
Louise Penny
Minotaur Books, 11/29/2022
It's spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant ...
more
Thrillers
All the Broken Places: A Novel
by
John Boyne
Pamela Dorman Books, 11/29/2022
Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker
by
Jason McBride
Simon & Schuster, 11/29/2022
Kathy Acker (1947–1997) was a rare and almost inconceivable thing: a celebrity experimental writer. Twenty-five years after her death, she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Factory Girls
by
Michelle Gallen
Algonquin Books, 11/29/2022
It's the summer of 1994, and all Maeve Murray wants are good final exam results so she can earn her ticket out of the wee Northern Irish town she has ...
more
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future
by
Maria Ressa
Harper, 11/29/2022
Maria Ressa is one of the most renowned international journalists of our time. For decades, she challenged corruption and malfeasance in her native ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
by
Edward Humes
Dutton, 11/29/2022
In November 1987, a young couple on an overnight trip to Seattle vanished without a trace. A week later, the bodies of Tanya Van Cuylenborg and her ...
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