A Thousand Steps Into Night
by
Traci Chee
Clarion, 03/01/2022
In the realm of Awara, where gods, monsters, and humans exist side by side, Miuko is an ordinary girl resigned to a safe, if uneventful, existence as ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Train to Moscow: A Novel
by
Elena Gorokhova
Lake Union Publishing, 03/01/2022
In a small, provincial town behind the Iron Curtain, Sasha lives in a house full of secrets, one of which is her own dream of becoming an actress. ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
All My Rage: A Novel
by
Sabaa Tahir
Razorbill, 03/01/2022
Lahore, Pakistan. Then.
Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by ...
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All the Queen's Men: A Novel (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates, 2)
by
SJ Bennett
William Morrow, 03/01/2022
At Buckingham Palace, the autumn of 2016 presages uncertain times. The Queen must deal with the fallout from the Brexit referendum, a new female prime...
more
Mysteries
Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution
by
Elie Mystal
The New Press, 03/01/2022
According to commentator and lawyer Elie Mystal, Republicans are wrong when they tell you the First Amendment allows religious fundamentalists to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir
by
Kathryn Davis
Graywolf Press, 03/01/2022
Aurelia, Aurélia begins on a boat. The author, sixteen years old, is traveling to Europe at an age when one can "try on personae like dresses." ...
more
Checkout 19: A Novel
by
Claire-Louise Bennett
Riverhead Books, 03/01/2022
In a working-class town in a county west of London, a schoolgirl scribbles stories in the back pages of her exercise book, intoxicated by the first ...
more
Chorus: A Novel
by
Rebecca Kauffman
Counterpoint Press, 03/01/2022
The seven Shaw siblings have long been haunted by two early and profoundly consequential events. Told in turns from the early twentieth century ...
more
Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir
by
Bob Odenkirk
Random House, 03/01/2022
Bob Odenkirk's career is inexplicable. And yet he will try like hell to explicate it for you. Charting a "Homeric" decades-long "odyssey" from his ...
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Thrillers
Gallant
by
V. E. Schwab
Greenwillow Books, 03/01/2022
Everything casts a shadow. Even the world we live in. And as with every shadow, there is a place where it must touch. A seam, where the shadow meets ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Girl in Ice
by
Erica Ferencik
Gallery/Scout Press, 03/01/2022
Valerie "Val" Chesterfield is a linguist trained in the most esoteric of disciplines: dead Nordic languages. Despite her successful career, she leads ...
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Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier
by
Susan Jonusas
Viking, 03/01/2022
In 1873 the people of Labette County, Kansas made a grisly discovery. Buried by a trailside cabin beneath an orchard of young apple trees were the ...
more
True Crime
Debut Author
Listening Still: A Novel
by
Anne Griffin
St. Martin's Press, 03/01/2022
Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from her father, this gift...
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Literary Fiction
Never Simple: A Memoir
by
Liz Scheier
Henry Holt and Company, 03/01/2022
Scheier's mother Judith was a news junkie, a hilarious storyteller, a fast-talking charmer you couldn't look away from, a single mother whose devotion...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
North to Paradise: A Memoir
by
Ousman Umar
AmazonCrossing, 03/01/2022
Ousman Umar is a shaman's son born in a small village in Ghana. Though his mother died giving birth, he spent a contented childhood working the fields...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
One Italian Summer: A Novel
by
Rebecca Serle
Atria Books, 03/01/2022
When Katy's mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn't just Katy's mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now,...
more
Romance
Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
by
Jeff Yang
Mariner Books, 03/01/2022
When the Hart-Celler Act passed in 1965, opening up US immigration to non-Europeans, it ushered in a whole new era. But even to the first generation ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Scattered All Over the Earth
by
Yoko Tawada
New Directions Publishing, 03/01/2022
Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, its former...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
ShadowMan: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling
by
Ron Franscell
Berkley Books, 03/01/2022
On June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl went missing from the Montana campground where her family was vacationing. Somebody had slit open the back of ...
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Sisters of Night and Fog: A WWII Novel
by
Erika Robuck
Berkley Books, 03/01/2022
1940. In a world newly burning with war, andin spite of her American family's wishes, Virginia d'Albert-Lake decides to stay in occupied France with ...
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Historical Fiction
Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction
by
David George Haskell
Viking, 03/01/2022
We live on a planet alive with song, music, and speech. David Haskell explores how these wonders came to be. In rain forests shimmering with insect ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Spring of Hope: Gaslight Mysteries #4
by
Cora Harrison
Severn House, 03/01/2022
March, 1859. After the 'Great Stink' of the previous summer when Parliament was overwhelmed by the stench of sewage from the River Thames, and with ...
more
The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird
by
Jack E. Davis
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 03/01/2022
The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you're not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as "majestic" and "noble,"...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and our Place in the Middle
by
Sarah Krasnostein
Tin House Books, 03/01/2022
For Sarah Krasnostein it begins with a Mennonite choir performing on a subway platform, a fleeting moment of witness that sets her on a fascinating ...
more
The Blood Covenant: Simon Westow Mysteries #4
by
Chris Nickson
Severn House, 03/01/2022
Leeds. November, 1823. When a doctor from the infirmary tells thief-taker Simon Westow about the brutal deaths of two young boys at the hands of a ...
more
The Chapel in the Woods: Jack Haldean Murder Mysteries #11
by
Dolores Gordon-Smith
Severn House, 03/01/2022
"There's something in those woods that shouldn't be there..."
Enjoying a weekend in the country with his cousin Isabelle, Jack Haldean is intrigued...
more
The Club: A Novel
by
Ellery Lloyd
Harper, 03/01/2022
Everyone's Dying to Join...
The Home Group is a glamorous collection of celebrity members' clubs dotted across the globe, where the rich and famous...
more
The Day He Left: Violent Crime Investigations Team Mystery #2
by
Frederick Weisel
Poisoned Pen Press, 03/01/2022
Annie has fallen out of the habit of listening to her husband. She and Paul have been married for a long time; it's easy to nod as he drones on, ...
more
The Fell: A Novel
by
Sarah Moss
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/01/2022
At dusk on a November evening, a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. Kate is in the middle of a two-week mandatory quarantine ...
more
The Heights
by
Louise Candlish
Atria Books, 03/01/2022
The Heights is a tall, slender apartment building among warehouses in London. Its roof terrace is so discreet, you wouldn't know it existed if you ...
more
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
by
Meghan O'Rourke
Riverhead Books, 03/01/2022
A silent epidemic of chronic illnesses afflicts tens of millions of Americans: these are diseases that are poorly understood, frequently marginalized,...
more
The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure
by
Dan Werb
Crown, 03/01/2022
When virologist Ralph Baric began researching coronaviruses in the 1980s, the field was a scientific backwater—the few variants that infected ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing
by
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
Astra House, 03/01/2022
Thanks to her blog,
Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah has spent decades talking openly and intimately to African ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Tobacco Wives: A Novel
by
Adele Myers
William Morrow, 03/01/2022
North Carolina, 1946. One woman. A discovery that could rewrite history.
After years of war rations and shortages, Bright Leaf is a prosperous ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Turning Point: 1851 - A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World
by
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Knopf, 03/01/2022
The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when industrial miracles and artistic innovations rub shoulders with political unrest, ...
more
The Unsinkable Greta James: A Novel
by
Jennifer E. Smith
Ballantine Books, 03/01/2022
Right after the sudden death of her mother—her first and most devoted fan—and just before the launch of her high-stakes sophomore album, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
On the Road
by
Jack Kerouac
Penguin Classics, 03/03/2022
Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road, Kerouac's classic ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Run, Rose, Run: A Novel
by
James Patterson
Little Brown & Company, 03/07/2022
Every song tells a story.
She's a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her.
She's also on the run. Find a future, lose a past....
more
Thrillers
2034: A Novel of the Next World War
by
Elliot Ackerman
Penguin Books, 03/08/2022
On March 12, 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship, the guided missile destroyer USS
John Paul Jones, conducting a ...
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Thrillers
And They Lived ...
by
Steven Salvatore
Bloomsbury YA, 03/08/2022
Chase Arthur is a budding animator and hopeless romantic obsessed with Disney films and finding his true love, but he's plagued with the belief that ...
more
Angels of the Pacific: A Historical Novel of Sisterhood, Bravery, and Survival in the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines during World War II
by
Elise Hooper
William Morrow, 03/08/2022
Their survival would depend on sisterhood and service.
Inspired by the extraordinary true stories of World War II's American Army nurses famously ...
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Historical Fiction
Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt
by
Phoebe Zerwick
Atlantic Monthly Press, 03/08/2022
In June 1985, a young Black man in Winston-Salem, N.C. named Darryl Hunt was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery
by
Ira Rutkow M.D.
Scribner, 03/08/2022
There are not many events in life that can be as simultaneously life-frightening and life-saving as a surgical operation. Yet, in America, tens-of-...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Glory: A Novel
by
NoViolet Bulawayo
Viking, 03/08/2022
NoViolet Bulawayo's bold new novel follows the fall of the Old Horse, the long-serving leader of a fictional country, and the drama that follows for a...
more
Good Intentions: A Novel
by
Kasim Ali
Henry Holt and Company, 03/08/2022
If love really is a choice, how do you decide where your loyalties lie?
It's the countdown to the New Year, and Nur is steeling himself to tell ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Lakelore
by
Anna-Marie McLemore
Feiwel & Friends, 03/08/2022
Everyone who lives near the lake knows the stories about the world underneath it, an ethereal landscape rumored to be half-air, half-water. But Basti&...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
by
Carl Zimmer
Dutton, 03/08/2022
Carl Zimmer investigates one of the biggest questions of all: What is life? The answer seems obvious until you try to seriously answer it. Is the ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Like a Sister
by
Kellye Garrett
Mulholland, 03/08/2022
"I found out my sister was back in New York from Instagram. I found out she'd died from the New York Daily News."
When the body of disgraced ...
more
One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General
by
William P. Barr
William Morrow, 03/08/2022
William Barr's first tenure as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush was largely the result of chance, while his second tenure under ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
by
Elizabeth Williamson
Dutton, 03/08/2022
On December 14, 2012, a gunman killed twenty first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Ten years later,...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Scarlet in Blue: A Novel
by
Jennifer Murphy
Dutton, 03/08/2022
For Blue Lake's entire life, she and her mother, Scarlet, have been on the run from HIM—the man who Scarlet, a talented and enigmatic painter, ...
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Thrillers
Suite Spot
by
Trish Doller
St. Martin's Griffin, 03/08/2022
As a single mom, Rachel knows she needs stability, and fast. On impulse, Rachel inquires about a position at a brewery hotel on a tiny island in Lake ...
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Romance
The Circus Infinite
by
Khan Wong
Angry Robot, 03/08/2022
Hunted by those who want to study his gravity powers, Jes makes his way to the best place for a mixed-species fugitive to blend in: the pleasure moon ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.: A Novel
by
Lee Kravetz
Harper, 03/08/2022
A seductive literary mystery and mutigenerational story inspired by true events,
The Last Confessions of Sylvia P. imaginatively brings into focus the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories
by
Ladee Hubbard
Amistad, 03/08/2022
The twelve gripping tales in
The Last Suspicious Holdout, the new story collection by award-winning author Ladee Hubbard, deftly chronicle poignant ...
more
Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
by
Roger Lowenstein
Penguin Press, 03/08/2022
Upon his election to the presidency, Abraham Lincoln inherited a country in crisis. Even before the Confederacy's secession, the United States ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Westside Lights: A Novel (A Gilda Carr Tiny Mystery, 3)
by
W.M. Akers
Harper Voyager, 03/08/2022
The Westside of Manhattan is desolate, overgrown, and dangerous—and Gilda Carr wouldn't have it any other way. An eccentric detective whose ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
What's So Funny?: A Cartoonist's Memoir
by
David Sipress
Mariner Books, 03/08/2022
A wry and brilliantly observed portrait of the budding young cartoonist and his Upper West Side Jewish family in the age of JFK and Sputnik. Sipress, ...
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Literary Fiction
A Novel Obsession: A Novel
by
Caitlin Barasch
Dutton, 03/15/2022
Twenty-four-year-old New York bookseller Naomi Ackerman is desperate to write a novel, but struggles to find a story to tell. When, after countless ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
by
Melissa Febos
Catapult, 03/15/2022
In this bold and exhilarating mix of memoir and master class, Melissa Febos tackles the emotional, psychological, and physical work of writing ...
more
Bruno's Challenge: And Other Stories of the French Countryside (Bruno, Chief of Police Series)
by
Martin Walker
Knopf, 03/15/2022
After a prisoner breaks parole to see his son on Christmas, Bruno must track him down before he throws away his chance at eventual freedom. When a ...
more
Mysteries
Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity
by
Alberto Angela
HarperVia, 03/15/2022
Our world today would not be the same without Cleopatra. While she is one of the most famous figures in history, the legendary Egyptian queen remains,...
more
Biography/Memoir
Fencing with the King: A Novel
by
Diana Abu-Jaber
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/15/2022
Amani is hooked on a mystery―a poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her father's books. It seems to have been written by her ...
more
Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning, and Longing
by
Polly Barton
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 03/15/2022
"The language learning I want to talk about is sensory bombardment. It is a possession, a bedevilment, a physical takeover," writes Polly Barton in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
In a New York Minute
by
Kate Spencer
Forever, 03/15/2022
On the plus side, a dashing stranger came to her rescue with his (Gucci!) suit jacket. On the not-so-plus side, he can't get away from her fast enough...
more
Romance
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
by
Elena Ferrante
Europa Editions, 03/15/2022
In 2020, Claire Luchette in
O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as "an oracle among authors." Here, in these ...
more
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War
by
Deborah Cohen
Random House, 03/15/2022
They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in the 1920s, they roamed across a war-ravaged world, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lessons From The Edge: A Memoir
by
Marie Yovanovitch
Mariner Books, 03/15/2022
By the time she became US Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch had seen her share of corruption, instability, and tragedy in developing countries....
more
Nine Lives: A Novel
by
Peter Swanson
William Morrow, 03/15/2022
Nine strangers receive a list with their names on it in the mail. Nothing else, just a list of names on a single sheet of paper. None of the nine ...
more
Thrillers
Ogres: Terrible Worlds Revolutions #3
by
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Solaris, 03/15/2022
It's always idyllic in the village until the landlord comes to call.
Because the landlord is an Ogre. And Ogres rule the world, with their size ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses
by
Sarah Fay
HarperOne, 03/15/2022
Over thirty years, doctors diagnosed Sarah Fay with six different mental illnesses—anorexia, major depressive disorder (MDD), anxiety disorder, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang
by
Ken Croke
William Morrow, 03/15/2022
Longtime ATF agent Ken Croke had earned the right to coast to the end of a storied career, having routinely gone undercover to apprehend white ...
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Critics' Consensus:
True Crime
Debut Author
Secret Identity: A Novel
by
Alex Segura
Flatiron Books, 03/15/2022
It's 1975 and the comic book industry is struggling, but Carmen Valdez doesn't care. She's an assistant at Triumph Comics, which doesn't have the ...
more
The Book of Cold Cases
by
Simone St. James
Berkley Books, 03/15/2022
In 1977, Claire Lake, Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes ...
more
The Cartographers: A Novel
by
Peng Shepherd
William Morrow, 03/15/2022
What is the purpose of a map?
Nell Young's whole life and greatest passion is cartography. Her father, Dr. Daniel Young, is a legend in the field,...
more
The Cave Dwellers (An American Satire)
by
Christina McDowell
Gallery/Scout Press, 03/15/2022
They are the families considered worthy of a listing in the exclusive Green Book—a discriminative diary created by the niece of Edith Roosevelt'...
more
Thrillers
The Kaiju Preservation Society
by
John Scalzi
Tor Books, 03/15/2022
When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Match
by
Harlan Coben
Grand Central Publishing, 03/15/2022
After months away, Wilde has returned to the Ramapo Mountains in the wake of a failed bid at domesticity that confirms what he's known all along: He ...
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Thrillers
The Nazis Knew My Name: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Courage in Auschwitz
by
Magda Hellinger
Atria Books, 03/15/2022
In March 1942, twenty-five-year-old kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger and nearly a thousand other young women were deported as some of the first ...
more
The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister
by
Kyleigh Leddy
Harper, 03/15/2022
To Kyleigh, her big sister was her whole world.
But as Kait entered adolescence, her personality changed. She began lashing out emotionally and ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The White Girl: A Novel
by
Tony Birch
HarperVia, 03/15/2022
Odette Brown has lived her entire life on the fringes of Deane, a small Australian country town. Dark secrets simmer beneath the surface of Deane&#...
more
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
by
William Neuman
St. Martin's Press, 03/15/2022
Today, Venezuela is a country of perpetual crisis―a country of rolling blackouts, nearly worthless currency, uncertain supply of water and food,...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Under the Golden Sun: A Novel
by
Jenny Ashcroft
St. Martin's Press, 03/15/2022
England, 1941. The world is at war. London is under siege as the German blitz pounds the city without warning, without mercy. Rose Hamilton did her ...
more
Historical Fiction
Vagabonds!: A Novel
by
Eloghosa Osunde
Riverhead Books, 03/15/2022
As in Nigeria, vagabonds are those whose existence is literally outlawed: the queer, the poor, the displaced, the footloose and rogue spirits. They ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
by
Fintan O'Toole
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 03/15/2022
Fintan O'Toole was born in the year the revolution began. It was 1958, and the Irish government was in despair because all the young people were ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks
by
Ilham Tohti
Verso, 03/15/2022
The words of China's most famous political prisoner.
In Xinjiang, the large northwest region of China, the government has imprisoned more than a ...
more
Essays
Debut Author
When I Sing, Mountains Dance: A Novel
by
Irene Solà
Graywolf Press, 03/15/2022
Near a village high in the Pyrenees, Domènec wanders across a ridge, fancying himself more a poet than a farmer, to "reel off his verses over on ...
more
When We Were Birds: A Novel
by
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Doubleday, 03/15/2022
In the old house on a hill, where the city meets the rainforest, Yejide's mother is dying. She is leaving behind a legacy that now passes to Yejide: ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope--and Hard Pills to Swallow--About Fighting for Black Lives
by
Andre Henry
Convergent, 03/22/2022
When the rallying cry "Black Lives Matter" was heard across the world in 2013, Andre Henry was one of the millions for whom the movement caused a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Kiss & Tell
by
Adib Khorram
Dial Books, 03/22/2022
Hunter never expected to be a boy band star, but, well, here he is. He and his band Kiss & Tell are on their first major tour of North America, ...
more
My Volcano
by
John Elizabeth Stintzi
Two Dollar Radio, 03/22/2022
On June 2, 2016, a protrusion of rock growing from the Central Park Reservoir is spotted by a jogger. Three weeks later, when it finally stops growing...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Portrait of an Unknown Lady: A Novel
by
Maria Gainza
Catapult, 03/22/2022
In the Buenos Aires art world, a master forger has achieved legendary status. Rumored to be a woman, she specializes in canvases by the painter ...
more
Prairie Lotus
by
Linda Sue Park
Clarion, 03/22/2022
Acclaimed, award-winning author Linda Sue Park has placed a young half-Asian girl, Hanna, in a small town in America's heartland, in 1880. Hanna's ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER
by
Thomas Fisher
One World, 03/22/2022
As an emergency room doctor working on the rapid evaluation unit, Dr. Thomas Fisher has about three minutes to spend with the patients who come into ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Impossible Us
by
Sarah Lotz
Ace Books, 03/22/2022
Bee thinks she has everything: a successful business repurposing wedding dresses, and friends who love and support her. She's given up on finding love...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Next Thing You Know: A Novel
by
Jessica Strawser
St. Martin's Press, 03/22/2022
As an end-of-life doula, Nova Huston's job―her calling, her purpose, her life―is to help terminally ill people make peace with their ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Recovery Agent: A Novel (1) (The Recovery Agent Series)
by
Janet Evanovich
Atria Books, 03/22/2022
Lost something? Gabriela Rose knows how to get it back. As a recovery agent, she's hired by individuals and companies seeking lost treasures, stolen ...
more
Thrillers
The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
by
Cathy O'Neil
Crown, 03/22/2022
Shame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool: When we publicly shame corrupt politicians, abusive celebrities, or predatory corporations, we ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time
by
Natalie Hodges
Bellevue Literary Press, 03/22/2022
How does time shape consciousness and consciousness, time? Do we live in time, or does time live in us? And how does music, with its patterns of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Xstabeth
by
David Keenan
Europa Editions, 03/22/2022
Aneliya's father dreams of becoming a great musician but his naivete and his unfashionable music suggest he will never be taken seriously. Her father'...
more
Turn Your Make Into Money: The complete guide to starting a maker business
by
John Buehler
JOHN BUEHLER, 03/25/2022
If you're looking for the easiest way to turn your fun pastime into a stream of continuous passive income, then this is the book for you!
It's ...
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Other
Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
by
Maud Newton
Random House, 03/29/2022
Maud Newton's ancestors have vexed and fascinated her since she was a girl. Her mother's father, who came of age in Texas during the Great Depression,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Fear Thy Neighbor: A Riveting Novel of Suspense
by
Fern Michaels
Kensington Publishing, 03/29/2022
At twenty-nine, Alison Marshall is ready to find a place to call home. With no family and no ties, she's drifted from one small Florida town to ...
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Thrillers
Grey Bees
by
Andrey Kurkov
Deep Vellum Publishing, 03/29/2022
Little Starhorodivka, a village of three streets, lies in Ukraine's Grey Zone, the no-man's-land between loyalist and separatist forces. Thanks to the...
more
Home or Away
by
Kathleen West
Berkley Books, 03/29/2022
Once Leigh and Susy were close friends and teammates bound for Olympic hockey gold, but when Leigh's sure-fire plan to make the final roster backfired...
more
How Strange a Season: Fiction
by
Megan Mayhew Bergman
Scribner, 03/29/2022
A recently separated woman fills a huge terrarium with endangered flowers to establish a small world only she can control in an attempt to heal her ...
more
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
by
Caroline Elkins
Knopf, 03/29/2022
Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century empire was the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route
by
Sally Hayden
Melville House, 03/29/2022
Reporter Sally Hayden was at home in London when she received a message on Facebook: "Hi sister Sally, we need your help." The sender identified ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union
by
Daisy Pitkin
Algonquin Books, 03/29/2022
Workers here wash hospital, hotel, and restaurant linens and face harsh conditions: routine exposure to biohazardous waste, injuries from surgical ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Out There: Stories
by
Kate Folk
Random House, 03/29/2022
With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Kate Folk's debut collection is perfectly pitched to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Sweep of Stars: Astra Black #1
by
Maurice Broaddus
Tor Books, 03/29/2022
"The beauty in blackness is its ability to transform. Like energy we are neither created nor destroyed, though many try." - West African Proverb
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Diamond Eye: A Novel
by
Kate Quinn
William Morrow, 03/29/2022
In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kyiv, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son&#...
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Historical Fiction
The Resting Place
by
Camilla Sten
Minotaur Books, 03/29/2022
Deep rooted secrets.
A twisted family history.
And a house that will never let go.
Eleanor lives with prosopagnosia, the inability to recognize a...
more
The Wedding Veil
by
Kristy Woodson Harvey
Gallery Books, 03/29/2022
Four women. One family heirloom. A secret connection that will change their lives—and history as they know it.
Present Day: Julia Baxter's ...
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Historical Fiction
Two Storm Wood: A Novel
by
Philip Gray
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/29/2022
The Great War has ended, but for Amy Vanneck there is no peace. Her fiancé, Edward Haslam, a lieutenant in the 7th Manchesters, is missing, ...
more
Cleopatra's Dagger
by
Carole Lawrence
Thomas & Mercer, 04/01/2022
New York, 1880. Elizabeth van den Broek is the only female reporter at the
Herald, the city's most popular newspaper. Then she and her bohemian friend...
more
Or Else: A Thriller
by
Joe Hart
Thomas Dunne Books, 04/01/2022
When novelist Andy Drake returns to his hometown to care for his ailing father, a reconnection with his childhood friend Rachel escalates into a ...
more
Persephone's Choice
by
Yihan Sim
Marshall Cavendish Editions, 04/01/2022
What if the gods were condemned to immortality due to the continued storytelling by mortals? What if Hades met Persephone in contemporary Singapore? ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Alone Out Here
by
Riley Redgate
Disney-Hyperion, 04/05/2022
But when the apocalypse arrives months ahead of schedule, First Daughter Leigh Chen and a handful of teens from the tour are the only ones to escape ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Bittersweet (Oprah's Book Club): How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
by
Susan Cain
Crown, 04/05/2022
Bittersweetness is a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing ...
more
Advice
Dead Wind: A Shana Merchant Novel #3
by
Tessa Wegert
Severn House, 04/05/2022
The body is discovered on Wolfe Island, under the shadow of an enormous wind turbine. Senior Investigator Shana Merchant, arriving on the scene with ...
more
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
by
Frans de Waal
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/05/2022
Using chimpanzees and bonobos to illustrate this point―two ape relatives that are genetically equally close to humans―de Waal challenges ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Easy Beauty: A Memoir
by
Chloé Cooper Jones
Avid Reader Press, 04/05/2022
"I am in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether my life is worth living."
So begins Chloé Cooper Jones's bold, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Heartbroke
by
Chelsea Bieker
Catapult, 04/05/2022
United by the stark and sprawling landscapes of California's Central Valley, the characters of
Heartbroke boil with reckless desire. A woman steals a ...
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It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
by
Jack Lowery
Bold Type Books, 04/05/2022
By the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was deeply impacting gay and lesbian communities in America, and disinformation about the disease was running ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Learning America: One Woman's Fight for Educational Justice for Refugee Children
by
Luma Mufleh
Mariner Books, 04/05/2022
The players, 11- and 12-year-olds from Liberia, Afghanistan, and Sudan, soon welcomed her as coach of their ragtag but fiercely competitive group. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Little Foxes Took Up Matches
by
Katya Kazbek
Tin House Books, 04/05/2022
When Mitya was two years old, he swallowed his grandmother's sewing needle. For his family, it marks the beginning of the end, the promise of certain ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Thrillers
Nothing Burns As Bright As You
by
Ashley Woodfolk
Versify, 04/05/2022
Two girls. One wild and reckless day. Years of tumultuous history unspooling like a thin, fraying string in the hours after they set a fire.
They ...
more
Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth
by
Clyde W. Ford
Amistad, 04/05/2022
Clyde W. Ford uses the lives of individual Black men and women as a lens to explore the role they have played in creating American institutions of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
School Days: A Novel
by
Jonathan Galassi
Other Press, 04/05/2022
Sam Brandt is a long-term denizen of Connecticut's renowned Leverett School. As an English teacher he has dedicated his life to providing his students...
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Scout's Honor
by
Lily Anderson
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, 04/05/2022
Sixteen-year-old Prudence Perry is a legacy Ladybird Scout, born to a family of hunters sworn to protect humans from mulligrubs―interdimensional...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Sister Stardust: A Novel
by
Jane Green
Hanover Square Press, 04/05/2022
From afar Talitha's life seemed perfect. In her twenties, and already a famous model and actress, she moved from London to a palace in Marrakesh, with...
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Historical Fiction
Surviving Savannah
by
Patti Callahan
Berkley Books, 04/05/2022
When Savannah history professor Everly Winthrop is asked to guest-curate a new museum collection focusing on artifacts recovered from the steamship ...
more
The Bohemians: A Novel
by
Jasmin Darznik
Ballantine Books, 04/05/2022
In this novel of the glittering and gritty Jazz Age, a young aspiring photographer named Dorothea Lange arrives in San Francisco in 1918. As a ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Imposter's War: The Press, Propaganda, and the Newsman who Battled for the Minds of America
by
Mark Arsenault
Pegasus Books, 04/05/2022
Russia was not the first foreign power to subvert American popular opinion from inside. In the lead-up to America's entry into the First World War, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The King's Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria
by
Edmund Richardson
St. Martin's Press, 04/05/2022
For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833 it was discovered in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Postscript Murders: A Mystery
by
Elly Griffiths
Mariner Books, 04/05/2022
The death of a ninety-year-old woman with a heart condition should not be suspicious. Detective Sergeant Harbinder Kaur certainly sees nothing out of ...
more
Mysteries
The Trayvon Generation
by
Elizabeth Alexander
Grand Central Publishing, 04/05/2022
In the midst of civil unrest in the summer of 2020 and following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, Elizabeth Alexander&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Younger Wife: A Novel
by
Sally Hepworth
St. Martin's Press, 04/05/2022
THE HUSBAND :
A heart surgeon at the top of his field, Stephen Aston is getting married again. But first he must divorce his current wife, even ...
more
Thrillers
True Biz: A Novel
by
Sara Novic
Random House, 04/05/2022
True biz (adj./exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk
True biz? The students at the River Valley School for...
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Very Bad People
by
Kit Frick
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 04/05/2022
Six years ago, Calliope Bolan's mother drove the family van into a lake with her three daughters inside. The girls escaped, but their mother drowned, ...
more
Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai
by
Matti Friedman
Spiegel & Grau, 04/05/2022
In October 1973, the poet and singer Leonard Cohen—thirty-nine years old, famous, unhappy, and at a creative dead end—traveled from his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Tiny Upward Shove: A Novel
by
Melissa Chadburn
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/12/2022
Marina Salles's life does not end the day she wakes up dead.
Instead, in the course of a moment, she is transformed into the stuff of myth, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Activities of Daily Living: A Novel
by
Lisa Hsiao Chen
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/12/2022
How do we take stock of a life―by what means, and by what measure? This is the question that preoccupies Alice, a Taiwanese immigrant in her ...
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An Unlasting Home: A Novel
by
Mai Al-Nakib
Mariner Books, 04/12/2022
In 2013, Sara is a philosophy professor at Kuwait University, having returned to Kuwait from Berkeley in the wake of her mother's sudden death eleven ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
by
Margo Jefferson
Pantheon Books, 04/12/2022
In her much-anticipated follow-up to
Negroland, Jefferson brings these figures to life in a memoir of stunning originality, a performance of the ...
more
Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams (Canons)
by
Alexander McCall Smith
Canongate Books, 04/12/2022
In this mesmerising retelling of the Celtic myth, Alexander McCall Smith unites dream and reality, leaving us to wonder: what is life but the pursuit ...
more
Literary Fiction
Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient
by
Theresa Brown
Algonquin Books, 04/12/2022
Despite her training and years of experience as an oncology and hospice nurse, she finds herself continually surprised by the lack of compassion in ...
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Hello, Molly!: A Memoir
by
Molly Shannon
Ecco, 04/12/2022
At age four, Molly Shannon's world was shattered when she lost her mother, baby sister, and cousin in a car accident with her father at the wheel. ...
more
High Spirits
by
Camille Gomera-Tavarez
Levine Querido, 04/12/2022
It is a book centered on one extended family – the Beléns – across multiple generations.
It is set in the fictional small town of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English: A Novel
by
Noor Naga
Graywolf Press, 04/12/2022
He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in a rooftop shack. She is a nostalgic ...
more
Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life: A Memoir
by
Delia Ephron
Little Brown & Company, 04/12/2022
Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She'd lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several ...
more
Let There Be Light: The Real Story of Her Creation
by
Liana Finck
Random House, 04/12/2022
In this ambitious and transcendent graphic novel, Liana Finck turns her keen eye to none other than the Old Testament, reimagining the story of ...
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Graphic Novels
Life Sentences
by
Billy O’Callaghan
David R. Godine, 04/12/2022
At just sixteen, Nancy Martin leaves the small island of Cape Clear for the mainland, the only member of her family to survive the effects of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
New and Selected Stories
by
Cristina Rivera Garza
Dorothy, a publishing project, 04/12/2022
"One of Mexico's greatest living writers," wrote Jonathan Lethem in 2018 about Cristina Rivera Garza, "we are just barely beginning to catch up to ...
more
One-Shot Harry
by
Gary Phillips
Soho Crime, 04/12/2022
LOS ANGELES, 1963: African American Korean War veteran Harry Ingram earns a living as a news photographer and occasional process server: chasing ...
more
Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
by
Keith O'Brien
Pantheon Books, 04/12/2022
Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny, and other mothers loved their neighborhood on the east side of Niagara Falls. It had an elementary school, a playground, and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Peter the Great's African: Experiments in Prose (New York Review Books Classics)
by
Alexander Pushkin
NYRB Classics, 04/12/2022
Alexander Pushkin, Russia's foundational writer, was constantly experimenting with new genres, and this fresh selection ushers readers into his ...
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Short Stories
Revenge of the Scapegoat
by
Caren Beilin
Dorothy, a publishing project, 04/12/2022
In the tradition of Rabelais, Swift, and Fran Ross—the tradition of biting satire that joyfully embraces the strange and fantastical—and ...
more
Stringers
by
Chris Panatier
Angry Robot, 04/12/2022
Ben is
not a genius, but he can spout facts about animals and wristwatches with the best of experts. He just can't explain how he knows any of it.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Tasha: A Son's Memoir
by
Brian Morton
Avid Reader Press, 04/12/2022
Tasha Morton is a force of nature: a brilliant educator who's left her mark on generations of students—and also a whirlwind of a mother, ...
more
The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail
by
Kristen Green
Seal Press, 04/12/2022
In
The Devil's Half Acre,
New York Times bestselling author Kristen Green draws on years of research ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land: Stories
by
Omer Friedlander
Random House, 04/12/2022
The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land announces the arrival of a natural-born storyteller of immense talent. Warm, poignant, delightfully whimsical, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The No-Show
by
Beth O'Leary
Quercus, 04/12/2022
8.52. Siobhan's been looking forward to her breakfast date with Joseph. She was surprised when he suggested it - she normally sees him late at night ...
more
Romance
The Scarlet Letter: The Original 1850 Edition (Nathaniel Hawthorne Classics)
by
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Independently published, 04/12/2022
Set in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an...
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Historical Fiction
Thin Places: A Natural History of Healing and Home
by
Kerri ní Dochartaigh
Milkweed Editions, 04/12/2022
Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry, on the border of the North and South of Ireland, at the very height of the Troubles. She was brought up ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Things They Lost: A Novel
by
Okwiri Oduor
Scribner, 04/12/2022
Ayosa is a wandering spirit—joyous, exuberant, filled to the brim with longing. Her only companions in her grandmother's crumbling house are as ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Three Debts Paid: A Daniel Pitt Novel
by
Anne Perry
Ballantine Books, 04/12/2022
A serial killer is roaming the streets of London, and Daniel Pitt's university chum Ian, now a member of the police, is leading the search. The ...
more
Mysteries
Violets
by
Kyung-Sook Shin
The Feminist Press at CUNY, 04/12/2022
San is twenty-two and alone when she happens upon a job at a flower shop in Seoul's bustling city center. Haunted by childhood rejection, she stumbles...
more
Literary Fiction
We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth
by
Dahr Jamail, Stan Rushworth
The New Press, 04/12/2022
Although for a great many people, the human impact on the Earth—countless species becoming extinct, pandemics claiming millions of lives, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Woman, Eating: A Literary Vampire Novel
by
Claire Kohda
HarperVia, 04/12/2022
Lydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try Japanese food. Sashimi, ramen, onigiri with sour plum stuffed inside - the food her Japanese father liked ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Blood Sugar
by
Sascha Rothchild
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/19/2022
"I could just kill you right now!" It's something we've all thought at one time or another. But Ruby has actually acted on it. Three times, to be ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Deaf Utopia: A Memoir - and a Love Letter to a Way of Life
by
Nyle DiMarco
William Morrow, 04/19/2022
Before becoming the actor, producer, advocate, and model that people know today, Nyle DiMarco was half of a pair of Deaf twins born to a multi-...
more
Fevered Star: Between Earth and Sky #2
by
Rebecca Roanhorse
Gallery Books, 04/19/2022
There are no tides more treacherous than those of the heart. — Teek saying
The great city of Tova is shattered. The sun is held within the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Flint and Mirror
by
John Crowley
Tor Books, 04/19/2022
As ancient Irish clans fought to preserve their lands and their way of life, the Queen and her generals fought to tame the wild land and make it ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Free: Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home
by
Lauren Kessler
Sourcebooks, 04/19/2022
There's Arnoldo, who came of age inside a maximum security penitentiary, now free after nineteen years. Trevor and Catherine, who spent half of their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Housebreaking
by
Colleen Hubbard
Berkley Books, 04/19/2022
Del has never had a good relationship with her family. After her parents' divorce, and with the town rumor mill in full swing, Del's uncle and the ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph
by
Lucasta Miller
Knopf, 04/19/2022
In this brief life, acclaimed biographer Lucasta Miller takes nine of Keats's best-known poems—"Endymion"; "On First Looking into Chapman's ...
more
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
by
Richard Cohen
Simon & Schuster, 04/19/2022
There are many stories we can spin about previous ages, but which accounts get told? And by whom? Is there even such a thing as "objective" history? ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore
by
Lawrence Jackson
Graywolf Press, 04/19/2022
With sardonic wit, Jackson describes his struggle to make a home in the city that had just been convulsed by the uprising that followed the murder of ...
more
Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau
by
Ben Shattuck
Tin House Books, 04/19/2022
With little more than a loaf of bread, brick of cheese, and a notebook, Shattuck sets out to retrace Thoreau's path through the Cape's outer beaches, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service
by
Tajja Isen
Atria Books, 04/19/2022
In this stunning debut collection,
Catapult editor-in-chief and award-winning voice actor Tajja Isen explores the absurdity of living in a world that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
The Devil's Dictionary
by
Steven Kotler
St. Martin's Press, 04/19/2022
Hard to say exactly when the human species fractured. Harder to say when this new talent arrived. But Lion Zorn, protagonist of
Last Tango in ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet
by
Nell McShane Wulfhart
Doubleday, 04/19/2022
It was the Golden Age of Travel, and everyone wanted in. As flying boomed in the 1960s, women from across the United States applied for jobs as ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Heart of American Poetry
by
Edward Hirsch
Library of America, 04/19/2022
We live in unsettled times. What is America and who are we as a people? How do we understand the dreams and betrayals that have shaped the American ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Lonely Stories: 22 Celebrated Writers on the Joys & Struggles of Being Alone
by
Natalie Eve Garrett
Catapult, 04/19/2022
If you're feeling lonely or if you've ever felt unseen, if you're emboldened by solitude or secretly longing for it: Welcome to
The Lonely Stories. ...
more
The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies
by
Paul Fischer
Simon & Schuster, 04/19/2022
The year is 1888 and Louis Le Prince is finally testing his "taker" or "receiver" device for his family on their front lawn. The device is meant to ...
more
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
by
Janelle Monáe
Harper Voyager, 04/19/2022
Whoever controls our memories controls the future.
Janelle Monáe and an incredible array of talented collaborating creators have written a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Religious Revolution: The Birth of Modern Spirituality, 1848-1898
by
Dominic Green
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/19/2022
If it was an age that claimed to liberate women, slaves, and serfs, it also harnessed children to its factories and subjected entire peoples to its ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wingwalkers: A Novel
by
Taylor Brown
St. Martin's Press, 04/19/2022
"They were over Georgia somewhere, another nameless hamlet whose dusty streets lay flocked and trembling with the pink handbills they'd rained from ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Getting Through It: My Year of Cancer During Covid
by
Helen Epstein
Plunkett Lake Press, 04/22/2022
Getting Through It is a veteran journalist's guide to the medical steeplechase of surgery, chemo and radiation therapy. It is based on her notebooks ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood
by
Stephen Mills
Metropolitan Books, 04/26/2022
Stephen tells no one, but the aftershocks rip through his adult life, as intense as his denial: self-loathing, drug abuse, petty crime, and horrific ...
more
City on Fire: A Novel
by
Don Winslow
William Morrow, 04/26/2022
Providence, RI, 1986. Twenty-nine-year-old Danny Ryan is a hard-working longshoreman, loving husband, loyal friend, and occasional "muscle" for the ...
more
Everything Left to Remember: My Mother, Our Memories, and a Journey Through the Rocky Mountains
by
Steph Jagger
Flatiron Books, 04/26/2022
Steph Jagger lost her mother before she lost her. Her mother, stricken with an incurable disease that slowly erases all sense of self, struggles to ...
more
Finding Me: A Memoir
by
Viola Davis
HarperOne, 04/26/2022
This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Kaikeyi: A Novel
by
Vaishnavi Patel
Redhook, 04/26/2022
"I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions—much good it did me."
So begins Kaikeyi's story. The...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Marrying the Ketchups: A novel
by
Jennifer Close
Knopf, 04/26/2022
Here are the three things the Sullivan family knows to be true: the Chicago Cubs will always be the underdogs; historical progress is inevitable; and ...
more
Literary Fiction
Nettle & Bone
by
T. Kingfisher
Tor Books, 04/26/2022
This isn't the kind of fairytale where the princess marries a prince.
It's the one where she kills him.
Marra never wanted to be a hero.
As the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Oh William!: Amgash Series #3
by
Elizabeth Strout
Random House, 04/26/2022
I would like to say a few things about my first husband, William.
Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read...
more
Search: A Novel
by
Michelle Huneven
Penguin Press, 04/26/2022
Dana Potowski is a restaurant critic and food writer and a longtime member of a progressive Unitarian Universalist congregation in Southern California...
more
Literary Fiction
The Apartment on Calle Uruguay: A Novel
by
Zachary Lazar
Catapult, 04/26/2022
Beginning in the first summer of the post-Obama world, Zachary Lazar's bewitching and masterful new novel tells the story of Christopher Bell, a ...
more
The Children on the Hill
by
Jennifer McMahon
Gallery/Scout Press, 04/26/2022
1978: At her renowned treatment center in picturesque Vermont, the brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. Helen Hildreth, is acclaimed for her compassionate work...
more
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
by
Riley Black
St. Martin's Press, 04/26/2022
Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period. It's a sunny afternoon in the Hell Creek of ancient Montana 66 million years ago. A
Triceratops horridus ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Music of Bees: A Novel
by
Eileen Garvin
Dutton, 04/26/2022
Forty-four-year-old Alice Holtzman is stuck in a dead-end job, bereft of family, and now reeling from the unexpected death of her husband. Alice has ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases
by
Paul Holes
Celadon, 04/26/2022
I order another bourbon, neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don't even know how I got here, to this place, to this
point. Something ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
When We Fell Apart: A Novel
by
Soon Wiley
Dutton, 04/26/2022
When the Seoul police inform Min that his girlfriend Yu-jin has committed suicide, he's sure it can't be true. She was successful, ambitious, happy, ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable
by
Zain E. Asher
Amistad, 04/26/2022
Awaiting the return of her husband and young son from a road trip, Obiajulu Ejiofor receives shattering news. There's been a fatal car crash, and one ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Oath Bound (The Wolf of Kings, 1)
by
Richard Cullen
Head of Zeus, 05/01/2022
The champion of a dead king has nothing left to lose... And nothing more to fear.
Hastings, 1066. Styrkar the Dane stumbles wounded and delirious ...
more
Historical Fiction
Such a Beautiful Thing to Behold: A Novel
by
Umar Turaki
Little A, 05/01/2022
A mysterious plague known as the Grey grips the small village of Pilam, which the world has quarantined without pity. Laying waste to Pilam's ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding: A Novel
by
Lydia Kang
Lake Union Publishing, 05/01/2022
Brooklyn, 1942. War rages overseas as brother and sister Will and Maggie Scripps contribute to the war effort stateside. Ambitious Will secretly ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Library: The absolutely uplifting and feel-good page-turner
by
Bella Osborne
Aria, 05/01/2022
Pensioner Maggie has been happily alone with her beloved novels for ten years – at least, that's what she tells herself.
When they meet, they...
more
Literary Fiction
Acts of Service: A Novel
by
Lillian Fishman
Hogarth Books, 05/03/2022
Eve has an adoring girlfriend, an impulsive streak, and a secret fear that she's wasting her brief youth with just one person. So one evening she ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Ballad & Dagger: Outlaw Saints #1
by
Daniel José Older
Disney-Hyperion, 05/03/2022
Almost sixteen years ago, Mateo Matisse's island homeland disappeared into the sea. Weary and hopeless, the survivors of San Madrigal's sinking ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Be My Baby: A Memoir
by
Ronnie Spector
Henry Holt and Company, 05/03/2022
Ronnie Spector's first collaboration with producer Phil Spector, "
Be My Baby," stunned the world and shot girl group the Ronettes to stardom. No one ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Book Lovers
by
Emily Henry
Berkley Books, 05/03/2022
One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming...
Nora Stephens' life is books—she's read them all—and she is not that ...
more
Romance
Book of Night
by
Holly Black
Tor Books, 05/03/2022
Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn't pick, a book she couldn't steal, or a bad decision she wouldn't make.
She's spent half her life ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Companion Piece: A Novel
by
Ali Smith
Pantheon Books, 05/03/2022
"A story is never an answer. A story is always a question."
Here we are in extraordinary times.
Is this history?
What happens when we cease to ...
more
Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl
by
Joya Goffney
HarperTeen, 05/03/2022
Monique is a preacher's daughter who detests the impossible rules of her religion. Everyone expects her to wait until marriage, so she has no one to ...
more
Family of Liars: The Prequel to We Were Liars
by
E. Lockhart
Delacorte Press, 05/03/2022
A windswept private island off the coast of Massachusetts.
A hungry ocean, churning with secrets and sorrow.
A fiery, addicted heiress. An ...
more
Fly Girl: A Memoir
by
Ann Hood
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/03/2022
In 1978, in the tailwind of the golden age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of glamor and sophistication. Fresh out of college and ...
more
Homesickness
by
Colin Barrett
Grove Press, 05/03/2022
When Colin Barrett's debut
Young Skins published, it swept up several major literary awards, and, in both its linguistic originality and sharply drawn...
more
I Kissed Shara Wheeler: A Novel
by
Casey McQuiston
Wednesday Books, 05/03/2022
Chloe Green is so close to winning. After her moms moved her from SoCal to Alabama for high school, she's spent the past four years dodging gossipy ...
more
Romance
Inheritance: A Visual Poem
by
Elizabeth Acevedo
Quill Tree Books, 05/03/2022
They tell me to "fix" my hair.
And by fix, they mean straighten, they mean whiten;
but how do you fix this shipwrecked
history of hair?
...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes
by
Jazmina Barrera
Two Lines Press, 05/03/2022
An intimate exploration of motherhood,
Linea Nigra approaches the worries and joys of childbearing from a diverse range of inspirations and traditions...
more
Love Marriage: A Novel
by
Monica Ali
Scribner, 05/03/2022
In present-day London, Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-born father), and engaged to the charismatic, upper-...
more
Literary Fiction
Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays
by
Minnie Driver
HarperOne, 05/03/2022
In this intimate, beautifully crafted collection, Driver writes with disarming charm and candor about her bohemian upbringing between England and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Mothercoin: The Stories of Immigrant Nannies
by
Elizabeth Cummins Muñoz
Beacon Press, 05/03/2022
Mothercoin tells stories of immigrant nannies, mainly from Mexico and Central America, living and working in private homes in the US, while also ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole
by
Will Jawando
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/03/2022
As a boy growing up outside DC, Will, who went by his Nigerian name, Yemi, was shunted from school to school, never quite fitting in. He was a Black ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Bangalore Detectives Club: Detective Kaveri Mysteries #1
by
Harini Nagendra
Pegasus Crime, 05/03/2022
When clever, headstrong Kaveri moves to Bangalore to marry handsome young doctor Ramu, she's resigned herself to a quiet life.
But that all changes...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton and Her Fight for Women's Justice
by
Antonia Fraser
Pegasus Books, 05/03/2022
Caroline Norton dazzled nineteenth-century society with her vivacity, her intelligence, her poetry, and in her role as an artist's muse. After her ...
more
The Change: A Novel
by
Kirsten Miller
William Morrow, 05/03/2022
In the Long Island oceanfront community of Mattauk, three different women discover that midlife changes bring a whole new type of empowerment…
...
more
Thrillers
The Hacienda
by
Isabel Cañas
Berkley Books, 05/03/2022
During the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz's father was executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Homewreckers: A Novel
by
Mary Kay Andrews
St. Martin's Press, 05/03/2022
Hattie Kavanaugh went to work restoring homes for Kavanaugh & Son Restorations at eighteen, married the boss's son at twenty, and became a widow at ...
more
Romance
The Immortal King Rao: A Novel
by
Vauhini Vara
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/03/2022
In a future in which the world is run by the Board of Corporations, King's daughter, Athena, reckons with his legacy―literally, for he has given...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Marlow Murder Club: A Novel (The Marlow Murder Club, 1)
by
Robert Thorogood
Poisoned Pen Press, 05/03/2022
Meet Judith: a seventy-seven-year-old whiskey drinking, crossword puzzle author living her best life in a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of ...
more
Thrillers
Mysteries
The Year of the Horses: A Memoir
by
Courtney Maum
Tin House Books, 05/03/2022
At the age of thirty-seven, Courtney Maum finds herself in an indoor arena in Connecticut, moments away from stepping back into the saddle. For her, ...
more
Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders
by
Kathryn Miles
Algonquin Books, 05/03/2022
In May 1996, Julie Williams and Lollie Winans were brutally murdered while backpacking in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park, adjacent to the world-...
more
Unequal: A Story of America
by
Michael Eric Dyson, Marc Favreau
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 05/03/2022
The true story of racial inequality—and resistance to it—is the prologue to our present. You can see it in where we live, where we go to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Valleyesque: Stories
by
Fernando A. Flores
MCD, 05/03/2022
No one captures the border―its history and imagination, its danger, contradiction, and redemption―like Fernando A. Flores, whose stories ...
more
Vigil Harbor: A Novel
by
Julia Glass
Pantheon Books, 05/03/2022
A decade from now, in the historic town of Vigil Harbor, there is a rash of divorces among the yacht-club set, a marine biologist despairs at the ...
more
When Women Were Dragons: A Novel
by
Kelly Barnhill
Doubleday, 05/03/2022
Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours, except for its most seminal event: the Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
When You Call My Name
by
Tucker Shaw
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, 05/03/2022
Film fanatic Adam is seventeen and being asked out on his first date―and the guy is
cute. Heart racing, Adam accepts, quickly falling in love ...
more
You've Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar
by
Pyae Moe Thet War
Catapult, 05/03/2022
What does it mean to be a Myanmar person—a baker, swimmer, writer and woman—on your own terms rather than those of the colonizer? These ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
The Night They Vanished: The obsessively gripping thriller you won't be able to put down
by
Vanessa Savage
Sphere Books, 05/05/2022
Hanna has barely spoken to her family since the tragedy that rocked their lives fourteen years ago. The tragedy for which they held Hanna responsible....
more
Thrillers
A Summer Affair: A Novel
by
Elin Hilderbrand
Little Brown & Company, 05/10/2022
Claire has a problem with setting limits. All her life she has taken on every responsibility, assumed every burden, granted every request. Claire ...
more
Romance
Answers in the Pages
by
David Levithan
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 05/10/2022
When Donovan left his copy of
The Adventurers on the kitchen counter, he didn't think his mom would read it—much less have a problem with it. It...
more
Other
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
by
Kelly Lytle Hernández
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/10/2022
Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the
magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bitter Orange Tree
by
Jokha Alharthi
Catapult, 05/10/2022
From Man Booker International Prize–winning author Jokha Alharthi,
Bitter Orange Tree is a profound exploration of social status, wealth, desire...
more
Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be
by
Marissa R. Moss
Henry Holt and Company, 05/10/2022
It was only two decades ago, but, for the women of country music, 1999 seems like an entirely different universe. With Shania Twain, country's biggest...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Hollow Fires
by
Samira Ahmed
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 05/10/2022
Safiya Mirza dreams of becoming a journalist. And one thing she's learned as editor of her school newspaper is that a journalist's job is to find the ...
more
I Cried to Dream Again: Trafficking, Murder, and Deliverance -- A Memoir
by
Sara Kruzan
Pantheon Books, 05/10/2022
"I was eleven when I first met GG. I realized later that he had to have been aware of the chaos that was my life because he played me perfectly. I was...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
I Who Have Never Known Men
by
Jacqueline Harpman
Transit Books, 05/10/2022
Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of ...
more
Literary Fiction
Kagen the Damned: A Novel (Kagen the Damned, 1)
by
Jonathan Maberry
St. Martin's Griffin, 05/10/2022
Sworn by Oath
Kagen Vale is the trusted and feared captain of the palace guard, charged with protection of the royal children of the Silver ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Garden of Broken Things: A novel
by
Francesca Momplaisir
Knopf, 05/10/2022
Genevieve, a single mother, flies from New York to Port-au-Prince with her teenage son, Miles. The trip is meant to be an education for fifteen-year-...
more
The Ghosts of Rose Hill
by
R. M. Romero
Peachtree Publishers, 05/10/2022
Sent to stay with her aunt in Prague and witness the humble life of an artist, Ilana Lopez—a biracial Jewish girl—finds herself torn ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Last White Rose: A Novel of Elizabeth of York
by
A Novel of Elizabeth of York
Ballantine Books, 05/10/2022
Elizabeth of York is the oldest daughter of King Edward IV. Flame-haired, beautiful, and sweet-natured, she is adored by her family; yet her life is ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride
by
David J. Dennis Jr.
Harper, 05/10/2022
David Dennis Sr, a core architect of the movement, speaks out for the first time, swapping recollections both harrowing and joyful with David Jr, a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The New Black West: Photographs from America's Only Touring Black Rodeo
by
Gabriela Hasbun
Chronicle Books, 05/10/2022
A powerful symbol of self-reliance, strength, and determination, the Black cowboy is a figure commonly overlooked in the histories of the American ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Surgeon's Daughter: A Novel
by
Audrey Blake
Sourcebooks Landmark, 05/10/2022
Women's work is a matter of life and death.
Nora Beady, the only female student at a prestigious medical school in Bologna, is a rarity. In the ...
more
Literary Fiction
Time Shelter: A Novel
by
Georgi Gospodinov
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 05/10/2022
"At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created," begins
Time Shelter's enigmatic narrator, who will go...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
You'll Forget This Ever Happened: Secrets, Shame, and Adoption in the 1960s
by
Laura L. Engel
She Writes Press, 05/10/2022
Mississippi, 1967. It's the Summer of Love, yet unwed mothers' maternity homes are flourishing, secret closed adoptions are routine, and many young ...
more
Biography/Memoir
A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting
by
Sophie Irwin
Harper, 05/12/2022
Kitty Talbot needs a fortune. Or rather, she needs a husband who has a fortune. Left with her father's massive debts, she has only twelve weeks to ...
more
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
by
Serhii Plokhy
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/17/2022
Almost 145,000 Americans fled their homes in and around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in late March 1979, hoping to save themselves from an invisible ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Black Boy Smile: A Memoir in Moments
by
D. Watkins
Legacy Lit, 05/17/2022
At nine years old, D. Watkins has three concerns in life: picking his dad's Lotto numbers, keeping his Nikes free of creases, and being a man. ...
more
Bloomsbury Girls: A Novel
by
Natalie Jenner
St. Martin's Press, 05/17/2022
Bloomsbury Books is an old-fashioned new and rare book store that has persisted and resisted change for a hundred years, run by men and guided by the ...
more
Historical Fiction
How to Win Friends and Influence People: Updated For the Next Generation of Leaders (Dale Carnegie Books)
by
Dale Carnegie
Simon & Schuster, 05/17/2022
This new edition of the most influential self-help book of the last century has been updated under the care of Dale's daughter, Donna, introducing ...
more
Advice
Ma and Me: A Memoir
by
Putsata Reang
MCD, 05/17/2022
"I had hope, just a little, you were still alive," Ma would tell Put in an oft-repeated story that became family legend.
Over the years, Put lived ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Metropolis: A Novel
by
B. A. Shapiro
Algonquin Books, 05/17/2022
But was it really an accident? Was it suicide? A murder? Six mysterious characters, who rent units in, or are connected to, the self-storage facility,...
more
Literary Fiction
Mother Noise: A Memoir
by
Cindy House
Scribner, 05/17/2022
Mother Noise opens with Cindy, twenty years into recovery after a heroin addiction, grappling with how to tell her nine-year-old son about her past. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
My Life: Growing Up Asian in America
by
CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment)
MTV Books, 05/17/2022
There are 23 million people, representing more than twenty countries, each with unique languages, histories, and cultures, clumped under one banner: ...
more
See You Yesterday
by
Rachel Lynn Solomon
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 05/17/2022
Barrett Bloom is hoping college will be a fresh start after a messy high school experience. But when school begins on September 21st, everything goes ...
more
Serious Face: Essays
by
Jon Mooallem
Random House, 05/17/2022
Beneath the self-assured and serious faces we wear, every human life is full of longing, guesswork, and confusion—a scramble to do the best we ...
more
She Is Haunted
by
Paige Clark
Two Dollar Radio, 05/17/2022
In stories charged by the complexities of mother-daughter relationships, grief, exes, and the profundities of friendship,
She Is Haunted features ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Mysteries
The History of the Computer: People, Inventions, and Technology that Changed Our World
by
Rachel Ignotofsky
Ten Speed Press, 05/17/2022
Computers are everywhere and have impacted our lives in so many ways. But who created them, and why? How have they transformed the way that we ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
The Island
by
Adrian McKinty
Little Brown & Company, 05/17/2022
After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working ...
more
Thrillers
The Stardust Thief: The Sandsea Trilogy #1
by
Chelsea Abdullah
Orbit, 05/17/2022
Neither here nor there, but long ago...
Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hunts and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
This Time Tomorrow: A Novel
by
Emma Straub
Riverhead Books, 05/17/2022
What if you could take a vacation to your past?
On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice's life isn't terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn't ...
more
Translating Myself and Others
by
Jhumpa Lahiri
Princeton University Press, 05/17/2022
Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who ...
more
We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
by
Tsering Yangzom Lama
Bloomsbury USA, 05/17/2022
In the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi, arrive at a refugee camp in Nepal. They survived ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Guston in Time: Remembering Philip Guston (New York Review Books Classics)
by
Ross Feld
NYRB Classics, 05/24/2022
The late work of Philip Guston has had a profound influence on painters today, but as Guston's star has risen, it has been forgotten how scandalous ...
more
Biography/Memoir
How We Ricochet
by
Faith Gardner
HarperTeen, 05/24/2022
It seems sometimes a charade that we continue celebrating in the face of relentless tragedy.
How dare we? But then ... what else is there to do?
...
more
Morningside Heights: A Novel
by
Joshua Henkin
Vintage, 05/24/2022
When Ohio-born Pru Steiner arrives in New York in 1976 after graduating from Yale, she follows in a long tradition of young people determined to take ...
more
Neruda on the Park: A Novel
by
Cleyvis Natera
Ballantine Books, 05/24/2022
The Guerreros have lived in Nothar Park, a predominantly Dominican part of New York City, for twenty years. When demolition begins on a neighboring ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945
by
Halik Kochanski
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 05/24/2022
"To resist, therefore. But how, when and where? There were no laws, no guidelines, no precedents to show the way..." ―Dutch resister Herman ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Sleepwalk: A Novel
by
Dan Chaon
Henry Holt and Company, 05/24/2022
Sleepwalk's hero, Will Bear, is a man with so many aliases that he simply thinks of himself as the Barely Blur. At fifty years old, he's been living ...
more
The Evening Hero
by
Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Simon & Schuster, 05/24/2022
Dr. Yungman Kwak is in the twilight of his life. Every day for the last fifty years, he has brushed his teeth, slipped on his shoes, and headed to ...
more
The Hangman and His Wife: The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich
by
Nancy Dougherty
Knopf, 05/24/2022
He was called the Hangman of the Gestapo, the "butcher of Prague," with a reputation as a ruthlessly efficient killer. He was the head of the SS, and ...
more
The Radio Operator: A Novel
by
Ulla Lenze
HarperVia, 05/24/2022
At the end of the 1930s, Europe is engulfed in war. Though America is far from the fighting, the streets of New York have become a battlefield. Anti-...
more
Historical Fiction
Essays
African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
by
David Hackett Fischer
Simon & Schuster, 05/31/2022
African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa interacted with colonists of European ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Deep Water
by
Emma Bamford
Gallery/Scout Press, 05/31/2022
When a Navy vessel comes across a yacht in distress in the middle of the vast Indian Ocean, Captain Danial Tengku orders his ship to rush to its aid. ...
more
Thrillers
How to Be Eaten: A Novel
by
Maria Adelmann
Little Brown & Company, 05/31/2022
In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches
by
Kate Scelsa
Balzer + Bray, 05/31/2022
Seventeen-year-old Eleanor is the last person in Salem to believe in witchcraft—or think that her life could be transformed by mysterious forces...
more
Love Poems in Quarantine
by
Sarah Ruhl
Copper Canyon Press, 05/31/2022
Writing from and toward "the endless desire / to be at home in the world," Sarah Ruhl wrote
Love Poems in Quarantine to mark the passage of time when ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Love Radio
by
Ebony LaDelle
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 05/31/2022
Prince Jones is the guy with all the answers—or so it seems. After all, at seventeen, he has his own segment on Detroit's popular hip-hop show, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Man o' War
by
Cory McCarthy
Dutton for Young Readers, 05/31/2022
River McIntyre has grown up down the street from Sea Planet, an infamous marine life theme park slowly going out of business in small-town Ohio. When ...
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Meant to Be: A Novel
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Emily Giffin
Ballantine Books, 05/31/2022
The Kingsley family is American royalty, beloved for their military heroics, political service, and unmatched elegance. In 1967, after Joseph S. ...
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Romance
Miss Memory Lane: A Memoir
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Colton Haynes
Atria Books, 05/31/2022
Four years ago, Colton Haynes woke up in a hospital. He'd had two seizures, lost the sight in one eye, almost ruptured a kidney, and been put on an ...
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Biography/Memoir
Planes: A novel
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Peter C Baker
Knopf, 05/31/2022
For years, Amira—a recent convert to Islam living in Rome—has gone to work, said her prayers, and struggled to piece together her husband'...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sparring Partners: Novellas
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John Grisham
Doubleday, 05/31/2022
"
Homecoming" takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's...
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Thrillers
The Last Mile: An Action Packed Novel of Suspense (Blood Ties, The Logans)
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Kat Martin
Kensington Publishing, 05/31/2022
When Abigail Holland awakes to the sound of a nighttime intruder in her rambling Denver Victorian, she knows exactly what the black shrouded figure is...
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Thrillers
The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle: A Novel
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Jennifer Ryan
Ballantine Books, 05/31/2022
After renowned fashion designer Cressida Westcott loses both her home and her design house in the London Blitz, she has nowhere to go but the family ...
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Historical Fiction
Together We Burn
by
Isabel Ibañez
Wednesday Books, 05/31/2022
An ancient city plagued by dragons
Eighteen-year-old Zarela Zalvidar is a talented flamenco dancer and daughter of the most famous Dragonador in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
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Nathaniel Philbrick
Penguin Books, 05/31/2022
When George Washington became president in 1789, the United States of America was still a loose and quarrelsome confederation and a tentative ...
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Biography/Memoir
Yerba Buena: A Novel
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Nina LaCour
Flatiron Books, 05/31/2022
Years later, in Los Angeles, she is a sought-after bartender, renowned as much for her brilliant cocktails as for the mystery that clings to her. ...
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Literary Fiction
