An Emotion of Great Delight
by
Tahereh Mafi
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/01/2021
It's 2003, several months since the US officially declared war on Iraq, and the American political world has evolved. Tensions are high, hate crimes ...
more
Barcelona Dreaming
by
Rupert Thomson
Other Press, 06/01/2021
Barcelona Dreaming is narrated, in turn, by an English woman who runs a gift shop, an alcoholic jazz pianist, and a translator tormented by unrequited...
more
Bewilderness
by
Karen Tucker
Catapult, 06/01/2021
Irene, a lonely nineteen-year-old in rural North Carolina, works long nights at the local pool hall, serving pitchers and dodging drunks. One evening,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Catch the Rabbit
by
Lana Bastašic
Restless Books, 06/01/2021
It's been twelve years since inseparable childhood friends Lejla and Sara have spoken, but an unexpected phone call thrusts Sara back into a world she...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Double Blind
by
Edward St. Aubyn
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/01/2021
When Olivia meets a new lover just as she is welcoming her best friend, Lucy, back from New York, her dedicated academic life expands precipitously. ...
more
For the Wolf: The Wilderwood #1
by
Hannah Whitten
Orbit, 06/01/2021
The first daughter is for the Throne.
The second daughter is for the Wolf.
As the only Second Daughter born in centuries, Red has one purpose&#...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Golden Girl
by
Elin Hilderbrand
Little Brown & Company, 06/01/2021
On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident...
more
Literary Fiction
Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River
by
John N Maclean
Custom House, 06/01/2021
A long-awaited nonfiction companion to
A River Runs through It, Home Waters is John N. Maclean's remarkable memoir of his family's century-long love ...
more
House of Sticks
by
Ly Tran
Scribner, 06/01/2021
Ly Tran is just a toddler in 1993 when she and her family immigrate from a small town along the Mekong river in Vietnam to a two-bedroom railroad ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Instructions for Dancing
by
Nicola Yoon
Delacorte Press, 06/01/2021
Evie Thomas doesn't believe in love anymore. Especially after the strangest thing occurs one otherwise ordinary afternoon: She witnesses a couple kiss...
more
Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape
by
Cal Flyn
Viking, 06/01/2021
Some of the only truly feral cattle in the world wander a long-abandoned island off the northernmost tip of Scotland. A variety of wildlife not seen ...
more
Jay's Gay Agenda
by
Jason June
HarperTeen, 06/01/2021
There's one thing Jay Collier knows for sure—he's a statistical anomaly as the only out gay kid in his small rural Washington town. While all ...
more
Romance
Malibu Rising
by
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Ballantine Books, 06/01/2021
Malibu: August 1983. It's the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the ...
more
One Great Lie
by
Deb Caletti
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 06/01/2021
When Charlotte wins a scholarship to a writing workshop in Venice with the charismatic and brilliant Luca Bruni, it's a dream come true. Writing is ...
more
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942
by
Max Hastings
Harper, 06/01/2021
In 1940, Hitler had two choices when it came to the Mediterranean region: stay out, or commit sufficient forces to expel the British from the Middle ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Our Woman in Moscow
by
Beatriz Williams
William Morrow, 06/01/2021
In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. The world is shocked by the...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Palace of the Drowned
by
Christine Mangan
Flatiron Books, 06/01/2021
It's 1966 and Frankie Croy needs a break. Having achieved success with her debut bestseller, she's been trying desperately to live up to the high ...
more
Seven Days in June
by
Tia Williams
Grand Central Publishing, 06/01/2021
Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, ...
more
The Book of Queer Prophets: 24 Writers on Sexuality and Religion
by
Ruth Hunt
William Collins, 06/01/2021
The Book of Queer Prophets contains modern-day epistles from some of our most important thinkers, writers and activists: Jeanette Winterson tackles ...
more
Essays
The Chosen and the Beautiful
by
Nghi Vo
Tor.com, 06/01/2021
Immigrant. Socialite. Magician.
Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society―she has money, education, a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Divorce
by
César Aira
New Directions Publishing, 06/01/2021
The Divorce tells about a man who takes a vacation from Providence, R.I. in early December to avoid conflicts with his newly divorced wife and small ...
more
The Essence of Nathan Biddle
by
J. William Lewis
Greenleaf Book Group Press, 06/01/2021
Kit's angst is compounded by a unique psychological burden he is forced to carry: his intelligent but unstable Uncle Nat has committed an unspeakable ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Nature of Witches
by
Rachel Griffin
Sourcebooks, 06/01/2021
For centuries, witches have maintained the climate, their power from the sun peaking in the season of their birth. But now their control is faltering ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
by
Marianne Cronin
Harper Perennial, 06/01/2021
An extraordinary friendship. A lifetime of stories.
Seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson lives on the Terminal Ward at the Glasgow Princess Royal ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
by
Elizabeth Letts
Ballantine Books, 06/01/2021
In 1954, sixty-three-year-old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins embarked on an impossible journey. She had no money and no family, she had just lost her farm...
more
The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
by
Carol Anderson
Bloomsbury USA, 06/01/2021
In
The Second, historian and award-winning, bestselling author of
White Rage Carol Anderson powerfully illuminates the history and impact of the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness
by
M. Leona Godin
Pantheon Books, 06/01/2021
There Plant Eyes probes the ways in which blindness has shaped our ocularcentric culture, challenging deeply ingrained ideas about what it means to be...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
by
Rebecca Hall
Simon & Schuster, 06/01/2021
Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. And then ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Walking on Cowrie Shells
by
Nana Nkweti
Graywolf Press, 06/01/2021
In her powerful, genre-bending debut story collection, Nana Nkweti's virtuosity is on full display as she mixes deft realism with clever inversions of...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
With Teeth
by
Kristen Arnett
Riverhead Books, 06/01/2021
If she's being honest, Sammie Lucas is scared of her son. Working from home in the close quarters of their Florida house, she lives with one wary eye ...
more
The Crossing
by
Manjeet Mann
Penguin Books, 06/03/2021
A trailblazing new novel about two teenagers from opposite worlds;
The Crossing is a profound story of hope, grief, and the very real tragedies of the...
more
All Our Hidden Gifts
by
Caroline O'Donoghue
Walker & Company, 06/08/2021
After Maeve finds a pack of tarot cards while cleaning out a closet during her in-school suspension, she quickly becomes the most sought-after diviner...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dust Off the Bones
by
Paul Howarth
Harper, 06/08/2021
In 1890, estranged brothers Tommy and Billy McBride are living far apart in Queensland, each dealing with the trauma that destroyed their family in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy
by
Anne Sebba
St. Martin's Press, 06/08/2021
In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple with two young sons, were led separately from their prison cells on Death Row and electrocuted ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
by
Bryan Burrough
Penguin Press, 06/08/2021
Every nation needs its creation myth, and since Texas was a nation before it was a state, it's no surprise that its myths bite deep. There's no piece ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Kin
by
Shawna Kay Rodenberg
Bloomsbury USA, 06/08/2021
When Shawna Kay Rodenberg was four, her father, fresh from a ruinous tour in Vietnam, spirited her family from their home in the hills of Eastern ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic
by
Emma Goldberg
Harper, 06/08/2021
In March 2020, soon-to-graduate medical students in New York City were nervously awaiting "match day" when they would learn where they would begin ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
One Two Three
by
Laurie Frankel
Henry Holt and Company, 06/08/2021
In a town where nothing ever changes, suddenly everything does...
Everyone knows everyone in the tiny town of Bourne, but the Mitchell triplets are...
more
Rabbits
by
Terry Miles
Del Rey, 06/08/2021
It's an average work day. You've been wrapped up in a task, and you check the clock when you come up for air—4:44 p.m. You check your email, and...more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Fugitivities
by
Jesse McCarthy
Melville House, 06/08/2021
Like most recent college graduates, Jonah Winters is unsure of what's next. A young black American raised in France and living in New York City, he ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Hidden Palace: A Novel of the Golem and the Jinni
by
Helene Wecker
Harper, 06/08/2021
Chava is a golem, a woman made of clay, who can hear the thoughts and longings of those around her and feels compelled by her nature to help them. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Jasmine Throne: The Burning Kingdoms #1
by
Tasha Suri
Orbit, 06/08/2021
Exiled by her despotic brother, Malini spends her days dreaming of vengeance while trapped in the Hirana: an ancient cliffside temple that was once ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Stone Loves the World
by
Brian Hall
Viking, 06/08/2021
Mette, a twenty-year old programmer of visual effects for video games, lives with her mother, Saskia, an aspiring playwright, in Brooklyn. Mette is a ...
more
Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
by
Elinor Cleghorn
Dutton, 06/08/2021
Elinor Cleghorn became an unwell woman ten years ago. She was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after a long period of being told her symptoms were...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
We Two Alone: Stories
by
Jack Wang
HarperVia, 06/08/2021
Set on five continents and spanning decades,
We Two Alone traces the arc and evolution of the Chinese immigrant experience. A young laundry boy risks ...
more
Literary Fiction
What Beauty There Is
by
Cory Anderson
Roaring Brook Press, 06/08/2021
To understand the truth, you have to start at the beginning.
Winter in Idaho. The sky is dark. It is cold enough to crack bones.
Living in harsh...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Where Dreams Descend (Kingdom of Cards, 1)
by
Janella Angeles
Wednesday Books, 06/08/2021
As each act becomes more and more risky and the number of missing magicians piles up, three are forced to reckon with their secrets before the ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
All Together Now: A Novel
by
Matthew Norman
Ballantine Books, 06/15/2021
At just thirty-five, reclusive billionaire Robbie Malcolm is a renowned financial prognosticator, a celebrated philanthropist, and a mathematical ...
more
Literary Fiction
At the Chinese Table: A Memoir with Recipes
by
Carolyn Phillips
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/15/2021
At the Chinese Table describes in vivid detail how, during the 1970s and '80s, celebrated cookbook writer and illustrator Carolyn Phillips crosses ...
more
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism?Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence
by
Amanda Montell
Harper, 06/15/2021
What makes "cults" so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why so many of us binge Manson documentaries by the dozen and ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Hard Like Water
by
Yan Lianke
Grove Press, 06/15/2021
She is Xia Hongmei and lives up to her name of "beautiful flower." Hiding their relationship from their spouses, the pair hurl themselves into the ...
more
Kin
by
Miljenko Jergovic
Archipelago Books, 06/15/2021
Ordinary, forgotten objects - a grandfather's beekeeping journals, a rusty benzene lighter, an army issued raincoat - become the lenses through which ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Letters to My White Male Friends
by
Dax-Devlon Ross
St. Martin's Press, 06/15/2021
White men are finally realizing that simply not being racist isn't enough to end racism. These men want deeper insight not only into how racism has ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Loop
by
Brenda Lozano
Charco Press, 06/15/2021
Loop is a love story told from the perspective of a contemporary Penelope who, instead of weaving and unravelling her shroud, writes and erases her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Projections: A Story of Human Emotions
by
Karl Deisseroth
Random House, 06/15/2021
Karl Deisseroth has spent his life pursuing truths about the human mind, both as a renowned clinical psychiatrist and as a researcher creating and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America
by
Scott Borchert
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/15/2021
The plan was as idealistic as it was audacious―and utterly unprecedented. Take thousands of broke writers and put them to work charting a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Site Fidelity
by
Claire Boyles
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/15/2021
Firmly rooted in the modern American West,
Site Fidelity follows women and families who feel the instinctual, inexplicable pull of a home they must ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Cape Doctor
by
E. J. Levy
Little Brown & Company, 06/15/2021
Beginning in Cork, Ireland, the novel recounts Perry's journey from daughter to son in order to enter medical school and provide for family, but Perry...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Chief Witness: Escape from China's Modern-Day Concentration Camps
by
Sayragul Sauytbay
Scribe US, 06/15/2021
I will never forget the camp. I cannot forget the eyes of the prisoners, expecting me to do something for them. They are innocent. I have to tell ...more
Biography/Memoir
The Great Mistake
by
Jonathan Lee
Knopf, 06/15/2021
Andrew Haswell Green is dead, shot at the venerable age of eighty-three, when he thought life could hold no more surprises. The killing--on Park ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Maidens: A Novel
by
Alex Michaelides
Celadon, 06/15/2021
Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge ...
more
Thrillers
The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood
by
Krys Malcolm Belc
Counterpoint Press, 06/15/2021
Krys Malcolm Belc has thought a lot about the interplay between parenthood and gender. As a nonbinary, transmasculine parent, giving birth to his son ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
by
Kai Bird
Crown, 06/15/2021
Four decades after Ronald Reagan's landslide win in 1980, Jimmy Carter's one-term presidency is often labeled a failure; indeed, many Americans view ...
more
The Tangleroot Palace
by
Marjorie Liu
Tachyon Publications, 06/15/2021
Briar, bodyguard for a body-stealing sorceress, discovers her love for Rose, whose true soul emerges only once a week. An apprentice witch seeks her ...
more
The Transparency of Time: Mario Conde Investigates #9
by
Leonardo Padura
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/15/2021
Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday. What does he have to show for his decades on the planet? A failing body, a slower mind, and a ...
more
All the Water I've Seen Is Running: A Novel
by
Elias Rodriques
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/22/2021
Along the Intracoastal waterways of North Florida, Daniel and Aubrey navigated adolescence with the electric intensity that radiates from young people...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Blackout
by
Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson , et al
Quill Tree Books, 06/22/2021
A summer heatwave blankets New York City in darkness. But as the city is thrown into confusion, a different kind of electricity sparks…
A ...
more
Blush
by
Jamie Brenner
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/22/2021
For decades, the Hollander Estates winery has been the premier destination for lavish parties and romantic day trips on the North Fork of Long Island....
more
Literary Fiction
Geniuses at War: Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age
by
David A. Price
Knopf, 06/22/2021
Planning the invasion of Normandy, the Allies knew that decoding the communications of the Nazi high command was imperative for its success. But ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Hostage: A Locked-Room Thriller
by
Clare Mackintosh
Sourcebooks Landmark, 06/22/2021
From
New York Times bestselling author Clare Mackintosh comes a claustrophobic thriller set over 20 hours on-board the inaugural nonstop flight from ...
more
Thrillers
Push (Revised) (Vintage Contemporaries)
by
Sapphire
Vintage, 06/22/2021
But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and ...
more
Literary Fiction
Skye Falling: A Novel
by
Mia McKenzie
Random House, 06/22/2021
When she was twenty-six and broke, Skye didn't think twice before selling her eggs and happily pocketing the cash. Now approaching forty, Skye still ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Blue Line Down
by
Maris Lawyer
Hub City Press, 06/22/2021
Jude Washer wants to run: away from the coal mines where he is destined to work, away from his father's abuse of his little brother, away from the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
by
Joshua Cohen
New York Review Books, 06/22/2021
Corbin College, not quite upstate New York, winter 1959–1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian—but not an historian of the Jews—is co-...
more
The Queen of the Cicadas
by
V. Castro
Flame Tree Press, 06/22/2021
In 1950s south Texas a farmworker - Milagros from San Luis Potosi, Mexico, is murdered. Her death is ignored by the town, but not the Aztec goddess of...
more
Address Unknown: A Novel
by
Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
Ecco, 06/29/2021
In this searing novel, Kathrine Kressmann Taylor brings vividly to life the insidious spread of Nazism through a series of letters between Max, a ...
more
Historical Fiction
Bad Moon Rising: Bad Axe County #3
by
John Galligan
Atria Books, 06/29/2021
Sheriff Heidi Kick has a dead body on her hands, a homeless young man last seen alive miles from the Bad Axe. Chillingly, the medical examiner ...
more
Dead by Dawn: Mike Bowditch Mysteries #12
by
Paul Doiron
Minotaur Books, 06/29/2021
Mike Bowditch is fighting for his life. After being ambushed on a dark winter road, his Jeep crashes into a frozen river. Trapped beneath the ice in ...
more
Mysteries
Disquiet
by
Zülfü Livaneli
Other Press, 06/29/2021
Disquiet transports the reader to the contemporary Middle East through the stories of Meleknaz, a Yazidi Syrian refugee, and Hussein, a young man from...
more
Hell of a Book
by
Jason Mott
Dutton, 06/29/2021
In Jason Mott's
Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives
Hell...more
Lady Sunshine
by
Amy Mason Doan
Graydon House, 06/29/2021
For Jackie Pierce, everything changed the summer of 1979, when she spent three months of infinite freedom at her bohemian uncle's sprawling estate on ...
more
Lorna Mott Comes Home
by
Diane Johnson
Knopf, 06/29/2021
Lorna Mott Dumas, small, pretty, high-strung, the epitome of a successful woman--lovely offspring, grandchildren, health, a French husband, a ...
more
The Fiancée: A Novel
by
Kate White
Harper, 06/29/2021
Summer's looking forward to a break from hustling for acting work in Manhattan when she, her husband Gabe, and Gabe's nine-year-old son arrive at the ...
more
Thrillers
The House Guests: A Novel
by
Emilie Richards
MIRA, 06/29/2021
In the wake of her husband's sudden death, Cassie Costas finds her relationship with her teenage stepdaughter unraveling. After their move to historic...
more
Literary Fiction
This Poison Heart
by
Kalynn Bayron
Bloomsbury USA, 06/29/2021
Briseis has a gift: she can grow plants from tiny seeds to rich blooms with a single touch.
When Briseis's aunt dies and wills her a dilapidated ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Who They Was
by
Gabriel Krauze
Bloomsbury USA, 06/29/2021
The unforgettable narrator of this compelling, thought-provoking debut goes by two names in his two worlds. At the university he attends, he's Gabriel...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Mixtape
by
Brittainy Cherry
Montlake, 07/01/2021
Emery has never felt more alone. Raising her daughter is both her pleasure and her pain as she struggles to hold on to her job as a bartender and keep...
more
Romance
Literary Fiction
A Shock
by
Keith Ridgway
New Directions Publishing, 07/06/2021
Formed as a rondel of interlocking stories with a clutch of more or less loosely connected repeating characters, it's at once deracinated yet potent ...
more
Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings
by
Earl Swift
Mariner Books, 07/06/2021
8:36 P.M. EST, December 12, 1972: Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt braked to a stop alongside Nansen Crater, keenly aware that they ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
All Our Shimmering Skies
by
Trent Dalton
Harper Perennial, 07/06/2021
Darwin, 1942. As Japanese bombs rain down on her hometown, newly orphaned Molly Hook looks to the skies and runs for her life. Inside a duffel bag, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
An Irish Hostage: A Novel (Bess Crawford Mysteries, 12)
by
Charles Todd
William Morrow, 07/06/2021
The Great War is over—but in Ireland, in the wake of the bloody 1916 Easter Rising, anyone who served in France is now considered a traitor, ...
more
Thrillers
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Dear Miss Metropolitan: A Novel
by
Carolyn Ferrell
Henry Holt and Company, 07/06/2021
Fern seeks refuge from her mother's pill-popping and boyfriends via Soul Train; Gwin finds salvation in the music of Prince much to her congregation's...
more
Literary Fiction
Fallen: A Novel of Suspense (Kate Burkholder, 13)
by
Linda Castillo
Minotaur Books, 07/06/2021
When a young woman is found murdered in a Painters Mill motel, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is shocked to discover she once knew the victim. ...
more
Thrillers
Falling
by
T. J. Newman
Avid Reader Press, 07/06/2021
For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die.
The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
It Was Always Her
by
J. L. Witterick
iUniverse, 07/06/2021
It Was Always Her is a gripping tale about love, sacrifice, and the impossible choices faced by a man given a second chance. This story will take you ...
more
Romance
Rise to the Sun
by
Leah Johnson
Scholastic, 07/06/2021
Olivia is an expert at falling in love...and at being dumped. But after the fallout from her last breakup has left her an outcast at school and at ...
more
Summer in the City of Roses
by
Michelle Ruiz Keil
Soho Teen, 07/06/2021
All her life, seventeen-year-old Iph has protected her sensitive younger brother, Orr. But this summer, with their mother gone at an artist residency,...
more
Literary Fiction
The Bone Code: A Temperance Brennan Novel (20)
by
Kathy Reichs
Scribner, 07/06/2021
On the way to hurricane-ravaged Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina coast, Tempe receives a call from the Charleston coroner. The ...
more
Thrillers
The Ice Swan
by
J'nell Ciesielski
Thomas Nelson, 07/06/2021
1917, Petrograd. Fleeing the murderous flames of the Russian Revolution, Princess Svetlana Dalsky hopes to find safety in Paris with her mother and ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Lost Girls
by
Jessica Chiarella
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/06/2021
It's been more than twenty years since Marti Reese's sister, Maggie, disappeared. Only eight-years-old at the time, Marti can't remember what happened...
more
The Paper Palace (Reese's Book Club): A Novel
by
Miranda Cowley Heller
Riverhead Books, 07/06/2021
It is a perfect August morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at "The Paper Palace"—the family summer ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
by
Cynthia Barnett
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/06/2021
Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature's creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewelry before gems...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Stranger in the Mirror: A Novel
by
Liv Constantine
Harper, 07/06/2021
Addison's about to get married, but she's not looking forward to the big day. It's not her fiancé; he's a wonderful man. It's because Addison ...
more
Thrillers
The Sunset Route: Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West
by
Carrot Quinn
The Dial Press, 07/06/2021
After a childhood marked by neglect, poverty, and periods of homelessness, with a mother who believed herself to be the reincarnation of the Virgin ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Temple House Vanishing
by
Rachel Donohue
Algonquin Books, 07/06/2021
At Temple House, nothing is ever as it seems.
Louisa is the new, brilliant scholarship student. Finding most of the other students at the all-girls...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The View Was Exhausting
by
Mikaella Clements, Onjuli Datta
Grand Central Publishing, 07/06/2021
The world can see that international A-list actress Whitman ("Win") Tagore and jet-setting playboy Leo Milanowski are made for each other. Their ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
The War Nurse: A Novel
by
Tracey Enerson Wood
Sourcebooks Landmark, 07/06/2021
She asked dozens of young women to lay their lives on the line during the Great War. Can she protect them?
Superintendent of Nurses Julia Stimson ...
more
Historical Fiction
Together We Will Go
by
J. Michael Straczynski
Gallery/Scout Press, 07/06/2021
Mark Antonelli, a failed young writer looking down the barrel at thirty, is planning a cross-country road trip. He buys a beat-up old tour bus. He ...
more
Literary Fiction
Wayward
by
Dana Spiotta
Knopf, 07/06/2021
On the heels of the election of 2016, Samantha Raymond's life begins to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, ...
more
A Villa in Sicily: Orange Groves and Vengeance (A Cats and Dogs Cozy Mystery-Book 5)
by
Fiona Grace
Fiona Grace, 07/08/2021
Audrey Smart, 34, has made a major life change, walking away from her life as a vet (and from a string of failed romances) and moving to Sicily to buy...
more
Mysteries
A Passage North
by
Anuk Arudpragasam
Hogarth Books, 07/13/2021
A Passage North begins with a message from out of the blue: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother's caretaker, Rani, has died under ...
more
A Psalm for the Wild-Built: Monk & Robot #1
by
Becky Chambers
Tor Books, 07/13/2021
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Appleseed
by
Matt Bell
Custom House, 07/13/2021
In eighteenth-century Ohio, two brothers travel into the wooded frontier, planting apple orchards from which they plan to profit in the years to come....
more
China Room: A Novel
by
Sunjeev Sahota
Viking, 07/13/2021
Mehar, a young bride in rural 1929 Punjab, is trying to discover the identity of her new husband. Married to three brothers in a single ceremony, she ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training
by
Adam Stern
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 07/13/2021
Adam Stern was a student at a state medical school before being selected to train as a psychiatry resident at one of the most prestigious programs in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Count the Ways
by
Joyce Maynard
William Morrow, 07/13/2021
Eleanor and Cam meet at a crafts fair in Vermont in the early 1970s. She's an artist and writer, he makes wooden bowls. Within four years they are ...
more
Encircling 3: Aftermath: Encircling #3
by
Carl Frode Tiller
Graywolf Press, 07/13/2021
The final book in Carl Frode Tiller's groundbreaking Encircling Trilogy is here. In Barbara Haveland's powerful translation, two new letters circle ...
more
It Happened One Summer: A Novel (Bellinger Sisters, 1)
by
Tessa Bailey
Avon Books, 07/13/2021
Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much ...
more
Romance
It's Elemental: The Hidden Chemistry in Everything
by
Kate Biberdorf
Park Row Books, 07/13/2021
Have you ever wondered what makes dough rise? Or how your morning coffee gives you that energy boost? Or why your shampoo is making your hair look ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency
by
Michael Wolff
Henry Holt and Company, 07/13/2021
We all witnessed some of the most shocking and confounding political events of our lifetime: the careening last stage of Donald J. Trump's reelection ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
M, King's Bodyguard
by
Niall Leonard
Pantheon Books, 07/13/2021
From humble beginnings in Ireland, William Melville has risen through hard work, intelligence, and occasional brute force to become head of Scotland ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Magma
by
Thora Hjörleifsdóttir
Grove Press, 07/13/2021
20-year old Lilja is in love. As a young university student, she is quickly smitten with the intelligent, beautiful young man from school who quotes ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Pessoa: A Biography
by
Richard Zenith
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 07/13/2021
Nearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. Believing...
more
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
by
Kristen Radtke
Pantheon Books, 07/13/2021
There is a silent epidemic in America: loneliness. Shameful to talk about and often misunderstood, loneliness is everywhere, from the most major of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
by
Dean Jobb
Algonquin Books, 07/13/2021
In the span of fifteen years, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered as many as ten people in the United States, Britain, and Canada, a death toll with ...
more
The Letters of Shirley Jackson
by
Shirley Jackson
Random House, 07/13/2021
i must stop writing letters and get to writing a novel.
Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and...
more
The Rehearsals: An unforgettable romantic comedy for fans of Palm Springs and Groundhog Day
by
Annette Christie
Hodder & Stoughton, 07/13/2021
Long-time couple Megan Givens and Tom Prescott are preparing for what should be the happiest weekend of their lives. But their plans for a perfect ...
more
Romance
The Startup Wife
by
Tahmima Anam
Scribner, 07/13/2021
Meet Asha Ray.
Brilliant coder and possessor of a Pi tattoo, Asha is poised to revolutionize artificial intelligence when she is reunited with her ...
more
The Stone Face
by
William Gardner Smith
NYRB Classics, 07/13/2021
As a teenager, Simeon Brown lost an eye in a racist attack, and this young African American journalist has lived in his native Philadelphia in a state...
more
Historical Fiction
And What Can We Offer You Tonight
by
Premee Mohamed
Neon Hemlock Press, 07/20/2021
Jewel's world is shaken when her friend is murdered by a client, but somehow comes back to life. To get revenge, they will both have to confront the ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
False Witness
by
Karin Slaughter
William Morrow, 07/20/2021
AN ORDINARY LIFE…
Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She's an up-and-coming defense attorney at a ...
more
I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year
by
Carol Leonnig
Penguin Press, 07/20/2021
The true story of what took place in Donald Trump's White House during a disastrous 2020 has never before been told in full. What was really going on ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Intimacies: A Novel
by
Katie Kitamura
Riverhead Books, 07/20/2021
An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking ...
more
Thrillers
Nightbitch
by
Rachel Yoder
Doubleday, 07/20/2021
One day, the mother was a mother, but then one night, she was quite suddenly something else...
An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
She Who Became the Sun
by
Shelley Parker-Chan
Tor Books, 07/20/2021
To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything
"I refuse to be nothing…"
In a famine-stricken village on a dusty ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Other Passenger
by
Louise Candlish
Atria Books, 07/20/2021
It all happens so quickly. One day you're living the dream, commuting to work by ferry with your charismatic neighbor Kit in the seat beside you. The ...
more
Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine
by
Nicola Twilley
MCD, 07/20/2021
Quarantine is our most powerful response to uncertainty: it means waiting to see if something hidden inside us will be revealed. It is also one of our...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
When We Were Young
by
Richard Roper
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/20/2021
How do you move forward…when all you want to do is go back?
Joel and Theo haven't spoken since the summer they turned sixteen, but that's ...
more
All the Little Hopes: A Novel
by
Leah Weiss
Sourcebooks, 07/27/2021
Deep in the tobacco land of North Carolina, nothing's been the same since the boys shipped off to war and worry took their place. Thirteen-year-old ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Carrot Cake Murder (A Hannah Swensen Mystery)
by
Joanne Fluke
Kensington Publishing, 07/27/2021
Hannah Swensen has a lot on her plate, baking up a storm for The Cookie Jar. But she'll always make time for her business partner, Lisa, who's ...
more
Mysteries
Fierce Little Thing
by
Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
Flatiron Books, 07/27/2021
"It's time to come Home. All five of you. Or else."
Saskia was a damaged, lonely teenager when she arrived at the lakeside commune called Home. She...
more
Goldenrod: Poems
by
Maggie Smith
Atria Books, 07/27/2021
With her breakout bestseller
Keep Moving, Maggie Smith captured the nation with her "meditations on kindness and hope" (NPR). Now, with
Goldenrod, the...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Heartbreak for Hire: A Novel
by
Sonia Hartl
Gallery Books, 07/27/2021
Brinkley Saunders has a secret.
To everyone in the academic world she left behind, she lost it all when she dropped out of grad school. Once a ...
more
Romance
Hold Fast Through the Fire: NeoG #2
by
K. B Wagers
Harper Voyager, 07/27/2021
Zuma's Ghost has won the Boarding Games for the second straight year. The crew—led by the unparalleled ability of Jenks in the cage, the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Not a Happy Family: A Novel
by
Shari Lapena
Pamela Dorman Books, 07/27/2021
Brecken Hill in upstate New York is an expensive place to live. You have to be rich to have a house there, and Fred and Sheila Merton certainly are ...
more
Thrillers
Mysteries
The Second Life of Mirielle West: A Haunting Historical Novel Perfect for Book Clubs
by
Amanda Skenandore
Kensington Publishing, 07/27/2021
For Mirielle West, a 1920's socialite married to a silent film star, the isolation and powerlessness of the Louisiana Leper Home is an unimaginable ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession
by
Jennifer Chiaverini
William Morrow, 07/27/2021
Twenty-five-year-old Alice Paul returns to her native New Jersey after several years on the front lines of the suffrage movement in Great Britain. ...
more
Historical Fiction
Unthinkable
by
Brad Parks
Thomas & Mercer, 07/27/2021
Nate Lovejoy is a self-proclaimed nobody, a stay-at-home dad who doesn't believe he's important to anyone but his wife and their two daughters. So it'...
more
Walls
by
L.M. Elliott
Algonquin Young Readers, 07/27/2021
Meanwhile, in East Berlin, his cousin Matthias has grown up in the wreckage left by Allied bombing during World War II, on streets ruled by the ...
more
When We Were Strangers
by
Alex Richards
Bloomsbury YA, 07/27/2021
Seventeen-year-old Evie Parker is devastated in the wake of her father's sudden death. But she knows something her mother doesn't: the day of his ...
more
The Magic of Found Objects: A Novel
by
Maddie Dawson
Lake Union Publishing, 08/01/2021
Phronsie Linnelle was conceived at Woodstock in a serendipitous liaison between a free-spirited hippie and a farmer's son and was born with magical ...
more
Literary Fiction
Two Spies in Caracas: A Novel
by
Moisés Naím
Amazon Crossing, 08/01/2021
Venezuela, 1992. Unknown colonel Hugo Chávez stages an ill-fated coup against a corrupt government, igniting the passions of Venezuela's poor and...
more
Thrillers
A Lesson in Vengeance
by
Victoria Lee
Delacorte Press, 08/03/2021
Felicity Morrow is back at the Dalloway School to finish her senior year after the tragic death of her girlfriend. She even has her old room in Godwin...
more
Agatha of Little Neon: A Novel
by
Claire Luchette
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/03/2021
Agatha has lived every day of the last nine years with her sisters: they work together, laugh together, pray together. Their world is contained within...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
All I Ever Wanted: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir
by
Kathy Valentine
University of Texas Press, 08/03/2021
At twenty-one, Kathy Valentine was at the Whisky in Los Angeles when she met a guitarist from a fledgling band called the Go-Go's—and the band ...
more
Biography/Memoir
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
by
Rebecca Donner
Little Brown & Company, 08/03/2021
Born and raised in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Billy Summers
by
Stephen King
Scribner, 08/03/2021
Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He's a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he'll do the job only if the target is a truly ...
more
Blind Man's Bluff: A Memoir
by
James Tate Hill
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/03/2021
At age sixteen, James Tate Hill was diagnosed with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy, a condition that left him legally blind. When high-school ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Bullet Train: A Novel (The Assassins Series)
by
Kotaro Isaka
Harry N. Abrams Inc., 08/03/2021
Kimura's young son is in a coma thanks to the Prince, and Kimura has tracked him onto a bullet train heading from Tokyo to Morioka to exact his...
more
Thrillers
Emily's House
by
Amy Belding Brown
Berkley Books, 08/03/2021
She was Emily Dickinson's maid, her confidante, her betrayer…and the savior of her legacy.
Massachusetts, 1869. Margaret Maher has never ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Every Minute Is a Day: A Doctor, an Emergency Room, and a City Under Siege
by
Robert Meyer MD
Crown, 08/03/2021
When former
New York Times journalist Dan Koeppel texted his cousin Robert Meyer, a twenty-year veteran of the emergency room at Montefiore ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond
by
Halimah Marcus
Harper Perennial, 08/03/2021
As a child, horses consumed Halimah Marcus' imagination. When she wasn't around horses she was pretending to be one, cantering on two legs, hands ...
more
Immediate Family
by
Ashley Nelson Levy
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/03/2021
She was nine years old when she traveled with her parents to Thailand to meet her brother, six years her junior. They grew up together like any other ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Intimacy with God: Cultivating a Life of Deep Friendship Through Obedience
by
Randy Clark
Thomas Nelson, 08/03/2021
1.
intimacy,
obedience, and the
miraculous as a blueprint for all believers. Combining sound biblical teaching with keen insight and compelling ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor
by
Anna Qu
Catapult, 08/03/2021
As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family's garment factory in Queens. At home, she is treated as a maid and suffers punishment ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Pastoral Song: A Farmer's Journey
by
James Rebanks
Custom House, 08/03/2021
As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in the Lake District hills was part of an ancient ...
more
Piglet: The Unexpected Story of a Deaf, Blind, Pink Puppy and His Family
by
Melissa Shapiro DVM
Atria Books, 08/03/2021
When Connecticut veterinarian Melissa Shapiro gets a call about a tiny deaf blind puppy rescued from a hoarding situation in need of fostering, she ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Radiant Fugitives
by
Nawaaz Ahmed
Counterpoint Press, 08/03/2021
Working as a consultant for Kamala Harris's attorney general campaign in Obama-era San Francisco, Seema has constructed a successful life for herself ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Run: Book One
by
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell, L. Fury
Abrams ComicArts, 08/03/2021
The sequel to the #1
New York Times bestselling graphic novel series March—the continuation of the life story of John Lewis and the struggles ...
more
Biography/Memoir
So We Meet Again: A Novel
by
Suzanne Park
Avon Books, 08/03/2021
When investment banker Jessie Kim is laid off in a virtual meeting and then overhears why ("she's already being overpaid anyway for a woman" and "...
more
Romance
Something New Under the Sun
by
Alexandra Kleeman
Hogarth Books, 08/03/2021
East Coast novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Hollywood with simple goals in mind: overseeing the production of a film adaptation of one of his books...
more
The April Dead: Harry McCoy #4
by
Alan Parks
World Noir, 08/03/2021
Soon McCoy realises that the sailor may be part of a shadowy organization led by a dangerous fanatic and committed to a very different kind of ...
more
The Dead and the Dark
by
Courtney Gould
Wednesday Books, 08/03/2021
The Dark has been waiting―and it won't stay hidden any longer.
Something is wrong in Snakebite, Oregon. Teenagers are disappearing, some ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Divide: How Fanatical Certitude Is Destroying Democracy
by
Taylor Dotson
MIT Press, 08/03/2021
In
The Divide, Taylor Dotson argues provocatively that what drives political polarization is not our disregard for facts in a post-truth era, but ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II
by
Mari Eder
Sourcebooks, 08/03/2021
The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line are the heroes of the Greatest Generation that you hardly ever hear about. These women who did extraordinary things ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Husbands: A Novel
by
Chandler Baker
Flatiron Books, 08/03/2021
Nora Spangler is a successful attorney but when it comes to domestic life, she packs the lunches, schedules the doctor appointments, knows where the ...
more
Thrillers
The Just: How Six Unlikely Heroes Saved Thousands of Jews from the Holocaust
by
Jan Brokken
Scribe Publications Pty Ltd, 08/03/2021
Jan Zwartendijk was just a businessman who worked for Philips, a manufacturer of lightbulbs and radios―until he became Dutch consul and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The People We Keep
by
Allison Larkin
Gallery Books, 08/03/2021
Failing out of school, picking up shifts at a local diner, she's left fending for herself in a town where she's never quite felt at home. When she "...
more
Literary Fiction
The Reading List
by
Sara Nisha Adams
William Morrow, 08/03/2021
Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in Wembley, in West London after losing his beloved wife. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Tin Camp Road
by
Ellen Airgood
Riverhead Books, 08/03/2021
Laurel Hill and her precocious daughter Skye have always been each other's everything. The pair live on Lake Superior, where the local school has ...
more
Under the Bayou Moon: A Novel
by
Valerie Fraser Luesse
Revell, 08/03/2021
Though rightfully suspicious of outsiders, who have threatened both their language and their culture, most of the people in tiny Bernadette, Louisiana...
more
Historical Fiction
Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World
by
Daniel Sherrell
Penguin Books, 08/03/2021
Warmth is a new kind of book about climate change: not what it is or how we solve it, but how it feels to imagine a future--and a family--under its ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
We Are the Brennans: A Novel
by
Tracey Lange
Celadon, 08/03/2021
When twenty-nine-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, bruised and battered after a drunk driving accident she caused, she ...
more
Literary Fiction
Year of Plagues: A Memoir of 2020
by
Fred D'Aguiar
Harper, 08/03/2021
For acclaimed British-Guyanese writer Fred D'Aguiar, 2020 was a year of personal and global crisis. The world around him was shattered by the impact ...
more
Biography/Memoir
American Estrangement
by
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/10/2021
Said Sayrafiezadeh has been hailed by Philip Gourevitch as "a masterful storyteller working from deep in the American grain." His new collection of ...
more
Edge Case
by
YZ Chin
Ecco, 08/10/2021
After another taxing day as the sole female employee at her New York City tech startup, Edwina comes home to find that her husband, Marlin, has packed...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Gone for Good: Detective Annalisa Vega #1
by
Joanna Schaffhausen
Minotaur Books, 08/10/2021
The Lovelorn Killer murdered seven women, ritually binding them and leaving them for dead before penning them gruesome love letters in the local ...
more
How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe, from the Origins of Atoms to the Big Bang
by
Harry Cliff
Doubleday, 08/10/2021
Carl Sagan once quipped, "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." But finding the ultimate recipe for ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Ice and Stone (A Sharon McCone Mystery, 35)
by
Marcia Muller
Grand Central Publishing, 08/10/2021
When the bodies of two Indigenous women are found in the wilderness of northern California, it is only the latest horrific development in a string of ...
more
Thrillers
In the Wild Light
by
Jeff Zentner
Crown Children's Books, 08/10/2021
Life in a small Appalachian town is not easy. Cash lost his mother to an opioid addiction and his Papaw is dying slowly from emphysema. Dodging drug ...
more
Mrs. March: A Novel
by
Virginia Feito
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 08/10/2021
In this astonishing debut, the venerable but gossipy New York literary scene is twisted into a claustrophobic fun house of paranoia, horror, and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Ramadan Ramsey
by
Louis Edwards
Amistad, 08/10/2021
Spanning from the Deep South to the Middle East,
Ramadan Ramsey bridges multiple countries and cultures, entwining two families who struggle to love ...
more
The Eternal Audience of One: A Novel
by
Rémy Ngamije
Gallery/Scout Press, 08/10/2021
Nobody ever makes it to the start of a story, not even the people in it. The most one can do is make some sort of start and then work toward some kind...more
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler's War on Art
by
Charlie English
Random House, 08/10/2021
As a veteran of the First World War, and an expert in art history and medicine, Hans Prinzhorn was uniquely placed to explore the connection between ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The King of Infinite Space
by
Lyndsay Faye
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/10/2021
Meet Ben Dane: brilliant, devastating, devoted, honest to a fault (truly, a fault). His Broadway theater baron father is dead--but by purpose or ...
more
Yours Cheerfully: A Novel (2) (The Emmy Lake Chronicles)
by
AJ Pearce
Scribner, 08/10/2021
London, November 1941. Following the departure of the formidable Henrietta Bird from Woman's Friend magazine, things are looking up for Emmeline Lake ...
more
Historical Fiction
56 Days
by
Catherine Ryan Howard
Blackstone Publishing, 08/17/2021
56 DAYS AGO
Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin and start dating the same week COVID-19 reaches Irish shores.
35 DAYS AGO
...
more
Thrillers
Another Kind of Eden
by
James Lee Burke
Simon & Schuster, 08/17/2021
The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled canyons, frolicking animals. Aspiring ...
more
Historical Fiction
Bloodless (Agent Pendergast Series, 20)
by
Douglas Preston
Grand Central Publishing, 08/17/2021
A fabulous heist:
On the evening of November 24, 1971, D. B. Cooper hijacked Flight 305—Portland to Seattle—with a fake bomb, ...
more
Thrillers
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
by
Eyal Press
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/17/2021
Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the "kill floors" of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo
by
Mansoor Adayfi
Hachette Books, 08/17/2021
At the age of 18, Mansoor Adayfi left his home in Yemen for a cultural mission to Afghanistan. He never returned. Kidnapped by warlords and then sold ...
more
Gordo
by
Jaime Cortez
Grove Press, 08/17/2021
A young, probably gay, boy named Gordo puts on a wrestler's mask and throws fists with a boy in the neighborhood, fighting his own tears as he tries ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
I Live a Life Like Yours
by
Jan Grue
FSG Originals, 08/17/2021
I am not talking about surviving. I am not talking about becoming human, but about how I came to realize that I had always already been human. I am ...more
Me (Moth)
by
Amber McBride
Feiwel & Friends, 08/17/2021
Moth has lost her family in an accident. Though she lives with her aunt, she feels alone and uprooted.
Until she meets Sani, a boy who is also ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
Names for Light: A Family History
by
Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
Graywolf Press, 08/17/2021
Names for Light traverses time and memory to weigh three generations of a family's history against a painful inheritance of postcolonial violence and ...
more
Night Music: A Novel
by
Jojo Moyes
Penguin Books, 08/17/2021
Isabel Delancey, a classical violinist, has always taken her comfortable life for granted. But when her husband dies suddenly, leaving her with a ...
more
Literary Fiction
Redemptor: Raybearer #2
by
Jordan Ifueko
Amulet Books, 08/17/2021
For the first time, an Empress Redemptor sits on Aritsar's throne. To appease the sinister spirits of the dead, Tarisai must now anoint a council of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Rude Talk in Athens: Ancient Rivals, the Birth of Comedy, and a Writer's Journey through Greece
by
Mark Haskell Smith
The Unnamed Press, 08/17/2021
The writers of these comedic plays feuded openly, insulting one another from the stage, each production more inventive and outlandish than the last, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Exiled Fleet: The Divide Series #2
by
J. S. Dewes
Tor Books, 08/17/2021
The Sentinels narrowly escaped the collapsing edge of the Divide.
They have mustered a few other surviving Sentinels, but with no engines they have...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Rise of Light: A Novel
by
Olivia Hawker
Lake Union Publishing, 08/17/2021
1975. In the town of Rexburg, Idaho, aspiring artist Aran Rigby, his younger sister, Tamsin, and their two brothers are locked in orbit around their ...
more
Literary Fiction
Velvet Was the Night
by
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Del Rey, 08/17/2021
1970s, Mexico City. Maite is a secretary who lives for one thing: the latest issue of Secret Romance. While student protests and political unrest ...
more
Viral
by
Robin Cook
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/17/2021
Trying to find some normalcy during the Covid-19 pandemic, Brian Murphy and his family are on a summer excursion in Cape Cod when his wife, Emma, ...
more
Thrillers
If You Exist: In Search of a Reader Deep in the Future
by
Lillian Moats
Three Arts Press, 08/22/2021
The narrator shares her personal take on where humanity is now and where we might be heading depending on what choices we will make. ... she writes ...
more
Other
A Million Things
by
Emily Spurr
Berkley Books, 08/24/2021
For as long as Rae can remember, it's been her and Mum, and their dog, Splinter; a small, deliberately unremarkable, family. They have their walks, ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
After the Sun
by
Jonas Eika
Riverhead Books, 08/24/2021
Under Cancún's hard blue sky, a beach boy provides a canvas for tourists' desires, seeing deep into the world's underbelly. An enigmatic ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Bad Witch Burning
by
Jessica Lewis
Delacorte Press, 08/24/2021
Katrell can talk to the dead. And she wishes it made more money. She's been able to support her unemployed mother—and Mom's deadbeat-boyfriend-...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
by
Kat Chow
Grand Central Publishing, 08/24/2021
Kat Chow has always been unusually fixated on death. She worried constantly about her parents dying---especially her mother. A vivacious and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Sexual Justice: Supporting Victims, Ensuring Due Process, and Resisting the Conservative Backlash
by
Alexandra Brodsky
Metropolitan Books, 08/24/2021
Over the past few years, a remarkable number of sexual harassment victims have come forward with their stories, demanding consequences for their ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
by
Mae Ngai
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/24/2021
In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years, bringing untold...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
by
Robert S. Levine
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/24/2021
When Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the country was on the precipice of radical change. Johnson, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Guide
by
Peter Heller
Knopf, 08/24/2021
Kingfisher Lodge, nestled in a canyon on a mile and a half of the most pristine river water on the planet, is known by locals as "Billionaire's Mile" ...
more
The Madness of Crowds: Chief Inspector Gamache #17
by
Louise Penny
Minotaur Books, 08/24/2021
You're a coward.
Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache.
It starts innocently enough.
...
more
Mysteries
A Slow Fire Burning: A Novel
by
Paula Hawkins
Riverhead Books, 08/31/2021
When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-...
more
Thrillers
Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics
by
Stephon Alexander
Basic Books, 08/31/2021
Years ago, cosmologist Stephon Alexander received life-changing advice: to discover real physics, he needed to stop memorizing and start taking risks....
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
by
Craig Whitlock
Simon & Schuster, 08/31/2021
Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At first, the goals were ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Heart Principle
by
Helen Hoang
Berkley Books, 08/31/2021
When violinist Anna Sun accidentally achieves career success with a viral YouTube video, she finds herself incapacitated and burned out from her ...
more
Romance
The Second Mrs. Astor: A Heartbreaking Historical Novel of the Titanic
by
Shana Abe
Kensington Publishing, 08/31/2021
Madeleine Talmage Force is just seventeen when she attracts the attention of John Jacob "Jack" Astor. Madeleine is beautiful, intelligent, and solidly...
more
Historical Fiction
The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
by
Roxane van Iperen
Harper, 08/31/2021
Eight months after Germany's invasion of Poland, the Nazis roll into The Netherlands, expanding their reign of brutality to the Dutch. But by the ...
more
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket
by
Hilma Wolitzer
Bloomsbury USA, 08/31/2021
From her many well-loved novels, Hilma Wolitzer--now ninety-one years old and at the top of her game--has gained a reputation as one of our best ...
more
You Can Run: A Novel
by
Karen Cleveland
Ballantine Books, 08/31/2021
We have your son.
It's the call that's every parent's nightmare. And for CIA analyst Jill Bailey, it's the call that changes everything.
It's ...
more
