Infinite
by
Brian Freeman
Thomas & Mercer, 03/01/2021
One rainy night, the unthinkable happens: Dylan Moran's car plunges off the road into a raging river, his beautiful wife drowning as he struggles to ...
more
A Desolation Called Peace: Teixcalaan #2
by
Arkady Martine
Tor Books, 03/02/2021
An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Abundance
by
Jakob Guanzon
Graywolf Press, 03/02/2021
Evicted from their trailer on New Year's Eve, Henry and his son, Junior, have been reduced to living out of a pickup truck. Six months later, things ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Band of Sisters: A Novel
by
Lauren Willig
William Morrow, 03/02/2021
A scholarship girl from Brooklyn, Kate Moran thought she found a place among Smith's Mayflower descendants, only to have her illusions dashed the ...
more
Historical Fiction
Becoming Inspector Chen: Inspector Chen Mysteries #11
by
Xiaolong Qiu
Severn House, 03/02/2021
After a number of grueling cases, Chief Inspector Chen is facing mounting pressure from his superiors, many of whom are concerned with where his ...
more
Bring Back Our Girls: The Untold Story of the Global Search for Nigeria's Missing Schoolgirls
by
Joe Parkinson, Drew Hinshaw
Harper, 03/02/2021
In the spring of 2014, millions of Twitter users, including some of the world's most famous people, unwittingly helped turn a group of 276 schoolgirls...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer
by
Jamie Figueroa
Catapult, 03/02/2021
In the tourist town of Ciudad de Tres Hermanas, in the aftermath of their mother's passing, two siblings spend a final weekend together in their ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Dark Sky (A Joe Pickett Novel)
by
C. J. Box
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/02/2021
When the governor of Wyoming gives Joe Pickett the thankless task of taking a tech baron on an elk hunting trip, Joe reluctantly treks into the ...
more
Thrillers
Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
by
Anne Lamott
Riverhead Books, 03/02/2021
In
Dusk, Night, Dawn, Anne Lamott explores the tough questions that many of us grapple with. How can we recapture the confidence we once had as we ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders
by
Dennis C. Rasmussen
Princeton University Press, 03/02/2021
Americans seldom deify their Founding Fathers any longer, but they do still tend to venerate the Constitution and the republican government that the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Float Plan
by
Trish Doller
St. Martin's Griffin, 03/02/2021
After a reminder goes off for the Caribbean sailing trip Anna was supposed to take with her fiancé, she impulsively goes to sea in the sailboat ...
more
Romance
Foregone
by
Russell Banks
Ecco, 03/02/2021
At the center of
Foregone is famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who...
more
frank: sonnets
by
Diane Seuss
Graywolf Press, 03/02/2021
Poverty, like a sonnet, is a good teacher. The kind that raps your
knuckles with a ruler but not the kind that throws a dictionary
across the room and...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Home Is Not a Country
by
Safia Elhillo
Make Me a World, 03/02/2021
Nima doesn't feel understood. By her mother, who grew up far away in a different land. By her suburban town, which makes her feel too much like an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
Later
by
Stephen King
Hard Case Crime, 03/02/2021
SOMETIMES GROWING UP
MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS
The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is ...
more
Lightseekers (A Philip Taiwo Mystery, 1)
by
Femi Kayode
Mulholland, 03/02/2021
When Dr. Philip Taiwo is called on by a powerful Nigerian politician to investigate the public torture and murder of three university students in ...
more
Thrillers
Machinehood
by
S.B. Divya
Gallery Books, 03/02/2021
Welga Ramirez, executive bodyguard and ex-special forces, is about to retire early when her client is killed in front of her. It's 2095 and people don...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All
by
Laura Bates
Sourcebooks, 03/02/2021
Women's rights activist Laura Bates has been the target of many misogynistic attacks online: from hate-fueled Twitter rants to vivid descriptions of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul
by
Brandy Schillace
Simon & Schuster, 03/02/2021
In the early days of the Cold War, a spirit of desperate scientific rivalry birthed a different kind of space race: not the race to outer space that ...
more
The Downstairs Girl: Reese's YA Book Club
by
Stacey Lee
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/02/2021
By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Northern Reach
by
W.S. Winslow
Flatiron Books, 03/02/2021
Frozen in grief after the loss of her son at sea, Edith Baines stares across the water at a schooner, under full sail yet motionless in the winter ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Scapegoat
by
Sara Davis
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/02/2021
N is employed at a prestigious California university, where he has distinguished himself as an aloof and somewhat eccentric presence. His meticulous, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Soul of a Woman
by
Isabel Allende
Ballantine Books, 03/02/2021
"When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating," begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her...
more
To the Dark: A Simon Westow Mystery #3
by
Chris Nickson
Severn House, 03/02/2021
Leeds, 1822. The city is in the grip of winter, but the chill deepens for thief-taker Simon Westow and his young assistant, Jane, when the body of ...
more
Vera
by
Carol Edgarian
Scribner, 03/02/2021
Meet Vera Johnson, the uncommonly resourceful fifteen-year-old illegitimate daughter of Rose, notorious proprietor of San Francisco's most legendary ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
We Begin at the End
by
Chris Whitaker
Henry Holt and Company, 03/02/2021
Walk has never left the coastal California town where he grew up. He may have become the chief of police, but he's still trying to heal the old wound ...
more
What's Mine and Yours
by
Naima Coster
Grand Central Publishing, 03/02/2021
A community in the Piedmont of North Carolina rises in outrage as a county initiative draws students from the largely Black east side of town into ...
more
Literary Fiction
Who Is Maud Dixon?
by
Alexandra Andrews
Little Brown & Company, 03/02/2021
The arrangement seems perfect. Maud Dixon (whose real name, Florence discovers, is Helen Wilcox) can be prickly, but she is full of pointed wisdom -- ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
American Betiya
by
Anuradha D. Rajurkar
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 03/09/2021
Rani Kelkar has never lied to her parents, until she meets Oliver. The same qualities that draw her in--his tattoos, his charisma, his passion for art...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
by
Michelle Nijhuis
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/09/2021
In the late nineteenth century, as humans came to realize that our rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving other animal species...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
How Beautiful We Were
by
Imbolo Mbue
Random House, 03/09/2021
We should have known the end was near. So begins Imbolo Mbue's powerful second novel,
How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of ...
more
I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, a Movement
by
Jessica Zucker
Feminist Press, 03/09/2021
She now had a changed perspective on her life's work, her patients' pain, and the crucial need for a zeitgeist shift. Navigating this nascent ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York
by
Elon Green
Celadon, 03/09/2021
The Townhouse Bar, midtown, July 1992: The piano player seems to know every song ever written, the crowd belts out the lyrics to their favorites, and ...
more
Love Like That
by
Emma Duffy-Comparone
Henry Holt and Company, 03/09/2021
Whether diving into complicated relationships or wrestling with family ties, the girls and women who populate this collection―misfits and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
My Heart
by
Semezdin Mehmedinovic
Catapult, 03/09/2021
Confined to a hospital bed and overcome by a sense of powerlessness, he reflects on the fragility of life and finds extraordinary meaning in the ...
more
Perfect on Paper
by
Sophie Gonzales
Wednesday Books, 03/09/2021
Her advice, spot on. Her love life, way off.
Darcy Phillips:
- Can give you the solution to any of your relationship woes―for a fee.
- Uses her...
more
Sarahland
by
Sam Cohen
Grand Central Publishing, 03/09/2021
In
Sarahland, Sam Cohen brilliantly and often hilariously explores the ways in which traditional stories have failed us, both demanding and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Starfish
by
Lisa Fipps
Nancy Paulsen Books, 03/09/2021
Ever since Ellie wore a whale swimsuit and made a big splash at her fifth birthday party, she's been bullied about her weight. To cope, she tries to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
Tell Me My Name
by
Amy Reed
Dial Books, 03/09/2021
On wealthy Commodore Island, Fern is watching and waiting—for summer, for college, for her childhood best friend to decide he loves her. Then ...
more
Thrillers
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
by
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Bold Type Books, 03/09/2021
In
The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Fourth Child: A Novel
by
Jessica Winter
Harper, 03/09/2021
Book-smart, devoutly Catholic, and painfully unsure of herself, Jane becomes pregnant in high school; by her early twenties, she is raising three ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Girl in the Painting
by
Tea Cooper
Thomas Nelson, 03/09/2021
Australia, 1906: Orphan Jane Piper is nine years old when philanthropist siblings Michael and Elizabeth Quinn take her into their home to further her ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley
by
Wesley Morgan
Random House, 03/09/2021
The rugged, steep terrain and thick forests made the region a natural hiding spot for targets in the American war on terror, from Osama bin Laden to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
by
Brian Alexander
St. Martin's Press, 03/09/2021
By following the struggle for survival of one small-town hospital, and the patients who walk, or are carried, through its doors,
The Hospital takes ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Immortal Boy
by
Francisco Montaña Ibáñez
Levine Querido, 03/09/2021
One, a family of five children, left to live on their own.
The other, a girl in an orphanage who will do anything to befriend the mysterious ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Plum Trees
by
Victoria Shorr
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/09/2021
Consie is home for a funeral when she stumbles upon a family letter sent from Germany in 1945, which contains staggering news: Consie's great-uncle ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Recent East
by
Thomas Grattan
MCD, 03/09/2021
Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Beate Haas, who defected from East Germany as a child, is notified that her parents' abandoned mansion is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Rose Code: A Novel
by
Kate Quinn
William Morrow, 03/09/2021
1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Salt Fields
by
Stacy Flood
Lanternfish Press, 03/09/2021
In the cramped car, Minister finds himself in close quarters with three passengers also joining the exodus from the South―people seeking a new ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Stills: The Kinship Series #3
by
Jess Montgomery
Minotaur Books, 03/09/2021
Ohio, 1927: Moonshining is a way of life in rural Bronwyn County, and even the otherwise upstanding Sheriff Lily Ross has been known to turn a blind ...
more
The Windsor Knot: A Novel (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates, 1)
by
SJ Bennett
William Morrow, 03/09/2021
It is the early spring of 2016 and Queen Elizabeth is at Windsor Castle in advance of her 90th birthday celebrations. But the preparations are ...
more
Mysteries
Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
by
Jess Zimmerman
Beacon Press, 03/09/2021
The folklore that has shaped our dominant culture teems with frightening female creatures. In our language, in our stories (many written by men), we ...
more
Dracula: Unabridged and Fully Illustrated
by
Bram Stoker
Independently published, 03/12/2021
Jonathan Harker is attacked by three phantom women, observes the Count's transformation from human to bat form, and discovers puncture wounds on his ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Queen of Gilded Horns
by
Amanda Joy
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 03/16/2021
Now on the run, Eva is desperate for answers about her transformation and her true heritage. Along with Aketo, a small contingent of guards, and the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America
by
Kate Washington
Beacon Press, 03/16/2021
Already Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be, how difficult it is to find support, and how the social and literary narratives that have ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Creatures of Passage
by
Morowa Yejidé
Akashic Books, 03/16/2021
Nephthys Kinwell is a taxi driver of sorts in Washington, DC, ferrying passengers in a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere with a ghost in the trunk. Endless ...
more
Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe
by
Paul Sen
Scribner, 03/16/2021
Einstein's Fridge tells the incredible epic story of the scientists who, over two centuries, harnessed the power of heat and ice and formulated a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight
by
Julia Sweig
Random House, 03/16/2021
In the spring of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson had a decision to make. Just months after moving into the White House under the worst of ...
more
Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century
by
Jenny Minton Quigley
Vintage, 03/16/2021
In 1958, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita was published in the United States to immediate controversy and bestsellerdom. More than sixty years later, this ...
more
New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
by
Thomas Dyja
Simon & Schuster, 03/16/2021
Dangerous, filthy, and falling apart, garbage piled on its streets and entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble; New York's terrifying, if liberating, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure
by
Menachem Kaiser
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 03/16/2021
Menachem Kaiser's brilliantly told story, woven from improbable events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the author takes up his ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Lamplighters: A Novel
by
Emma Stonex
Viking, 03/16/2021
What strange fate befell these doomed men? The heavy sea whispers their names. Black rocks roll beneath the surface, drowning ghosts. And out of the ...more
Thrillers
The Seventh Raven
by
David Elliott
Houghton Mifflin Books For Younger Readers, 03/16/2021
And these are the sons
Of good Jack and good Jane
The eldest is Jack
And the next one is Jack
And the third one's called Jack
And the fourth's ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Twilight Zone
by
Nona Fernández
Graywolf Press, 03/16/2021
It is 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds...
more
The Whispering House
by
Elizabeth Brooks
Tin House Books, 03/16/2021
Freya Lyell is struggling to move on from her sister Stella's death five years ago. Visiting the bewitching Byrne Hall, only a few miles from the ...
more
A Million Reasons Why: A Novel
by
Jessica Strawser
St. Martin's Press, 03/23/2021
When two strangers are linked by a mail-in DNA test, it's an answered prayer―that is, for one half sister. For the other, it will dismantle ...
more
Thrillers
Bruised
by
Tanya Boteju
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 03/23/2021
To Daya Wijesinghe, a bruise is a mixture of comfort and control. Since her parents died in an accident she survived, bruises have become a way to ...
more
Eternal
by
Lisa Scottoline
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/23/2021
What war destroys, only love can heal.
Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as the best of friends despite their differences. Elisabetta is a ...
more
Historical Fiction
Half Life
by
Jillian Cantor
Harper Perennial, 03/23/2021
In Poland in 1891, Marie Curie (then Marya Sklodowska) was engaged to a budding mathematician, Kazimierz Zorawski. But when his mother insisted she ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico
by
Juan Villoro
Pantheon Books, 03/23/2021
Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
If You Kept a Record of Sins
by
Andrea Bajani
Archipelago Books, 03/23/2021
A prismatic novel that records the indelible marks a mother leaves on her son after she abandons their home in Italy for a business she's building in ...
more
Meet Me in Paradise
by
Libby Hubscher
Berkley Books, 03/23/2021
Ever since her journalist mother died on assignment, Marin has played it safe, refusing to set foot outside the state of Tennessee. Her wild-child ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said
by
Timothy Brennan
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/23/2021
As someone who studied under Edward Said and remained a friend until his death in 2003, Timothy Brennan had unprecedented access to his thesis adviser...
more
Raft of Stars
by
Andrew J. Graff
Ecco, 03/23/2021
It's the summer of 1994 in Claypot, Wisconsin, and the lives of ten-year-old Fischer "Fish" Branson and Dale "Bread" Breadwin are shaped by the two ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Red Island House
by
Andrea Lee
Scribner, 03/23/2021
"People do mysterious things when they think they've found paradise," reflects Shay, the heroine of
Red Island House. When Shay, a Black American ...
more
Rock Me on the Water: 1974-The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics
by
Ronald Brownstein
Harper, 03/23/2021
Los Angeles in 1974 exerted more influence over popular culture than any other city in America. Los Angeles that year, in fact, dominated popular ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Consequences of Fear: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (Maisie Dobbs, 16)
by
Jacqueline Winspear
Harper, 03/23/2021
ctober 1941. While on a delivery, young Freddie Hackett, a message runner for a government office, witnesses an argument that ends in murder. ...
more
Mysteries
The Foreign Girls
by
Sergio Olguín
Bitter Lemon Press, 03/23/2021
Their bodies are found in a field near sacrificial offerings, apparently from a black magic ritual. Verónica Rosenthal, an audacious, headstrong ...
more
The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--and How We Can Fix It
by
Dorothy A. Brown
Crown, 03/23/2021
Dorothy A. Brown became a tax lawyer to get away from race. As a young black girl growing up in the South Bronx, she'd seen how racism limited the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
by
Kikuko Tsumura
Bloomsbury USA, 03/23/2021
A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: it is close to her home, and it requires no reading, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Your Heart, My Sky: Love in a Time of Hunger
by
Margarita Engle
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 03/23/2021
The people of Cuba are living in
el período especial en tiempos de paz—the special period in times of peace. That's what the government ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
by
Hanif Abdurraqib
Random House, 03/30/2021
At the March on Washington in 1963, Josephine Baker was fifty-seven years old, well beyond her most prolific days. But in her speech she was in a mood...
more
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey
by
Jonathan Meiburg
Knopf, 03/30/2021
In 1833, Charles Darwin was astonished by an animal he met in the Falkland Islands: handsome, social, and oddly crow-like falcons that were "tame and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Debut Author
Children Under Fire: An American Crisis
by
John Woodrow Cox
Ecco, 03/30/2021
In 2017, seven-year-old Ava in South Carolina wrote a letter to Tyshaun, an eight-year-old boy from Washington, DC. She asked him to be her pen pal; ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Girlhood
by
Melissa Febos
Bloomsbury USA, 03/30/2021
In her powerful new book, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be female and what ...
more
Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade
by
Nathaniel Rich
MCD, 03/30/2021
We live at a time in which scientists race to reanimate extinct beasts, our most essential ecosystems require monumental engineering projects to ...
more
Sunflower Sisters: A Caroline Ferriday Novel
by
Martha Hall Kelly
Ballantine Books, 03/30/2021
Georgeanna "Georgey" Woolsey isn't meant for the world of lavish parties and the demure attitudes of women of her stature. So when war ignites the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Hazards of Love: Bright World #1
by
Stan Stanley
Oni Press, 03/30/2021
Amparo's deal with the talking cat was simple: a drop of blood and Amparo's name to become a better person. Their mother and abuela would never worry ...
more
When I Ran Away
by
Ilona Bannister
Doubleday, 03/30/2021
As the Twin Towers collapse, Gigi Stanislawski flees her office building and escapes lower Manhattan on the Staten Island Ferry. Among the crying, ash...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
I'm in Seattle, Where Are You?
by
Mortada Gzar
AmazonCrossing, 04/01/2021
As the US occupation of Iraq rages, novelist Mortada Gzar, a student at the University of Baghdad, has a chance encounter with Morise, an African ...
more
The Rome Plague Diaries: Lockdown Life in the Eternal City
by
Matthew Kneale
Atlantic Monthly Press, 04/01/2021
He was soon composing daily reports as he tried to comprehend a period of time, when everyone's lives suddenly changed and Italy struggled against an ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
by
Gina Frangello
Counterpoint Press, 04/06/2021
Soon, awakened to fault lines in her troubled marriage, Frangello is caught up in a recklessly passionate affair, leading a double life while ...
more
Bobby March Will Live Forever: Harry McCoy #3
by
Alan Parks
Europa Editions, 04/06/2021
July 1973. The Glasgow drug trade is booming and Bobby March, homegrown rock hero, has overdosed in a downtown hotel. Alice Kelly, meanwhile, is ...
more
Caul Baby
by
Morgan Jerkins
Harper, 04/06/2021
Laila desperately wants to become a mother, but each of her previous pregnancies has ended in heartbreak. This time has to be different, so she turns ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
by
Jeremy DeSilva
Harper, 04/06/2021
Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four legs—a locomotion known as bipedalism. We strive to be upstanding citizens, honor ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
First, Become Ashes
by
K.M. Szpara
Tor.com, 04/06/2021
The Fellowship raised Lark to kill monsters.
His partner betrayed them to the Feds.
But Lark knows his magic is real, and he'll do anything to ...more
Gold Diggers
by
Sanjena Sathian
Penguin Press, 04/06/2021
Spanning two continents, two coasts, and four epochs,
Gold Diggers expertly balances social satire and magical realism in a classic striver story that...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
I'm Waiting for You: And Other Stories
by
Bo-Young Kim
Harper Voyager, 04/06/2021
Two worlds, four stories, infinite possibilities.
In "I'm Waiting for You" and "On My Way," an engaged couple coordinate their separate missions to...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Life's Too Short
by
Abby Jimenez
Forever, 04/06/2021
When Vanessa Price quit her job to pursue her dream of traveling the globe, she wasn't expecting to gain millions of YouTube followers who shared her ...
more
Romance
Maxwell's Demon
by
Steven Hall
Grove Press, 04/06/2021
Thomas Quinn is having a hard time. A failed novelist, he's stuck writing short stories and audio scripts for other people's characters. His wife, ...
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Mother May I: A Novel
by
Joshilyn Jackson
William Morrow, 04/06/2021
Revenge doesn't wait for permission.
Growing up poor in rural Georgia, Bree Cabbat was warned that the world was a dark and scary place. Bree ...
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Thrillers
Northern Spy
by
Flynn Berry
Viking, 04/06/2021
A producer at the BBC and mother to a new baby, Tessa is at work in Belfast one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have ...
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Paradise, Nevada
by
Dario Diofebi
Bloomsbury USA, 04/06/2021
On Friday, May 1st, 2015 a bomb detonates in the infamous Positano Luxury Resort and Casino, a mammoth hotel (and exact replica of the Amalfi coast) ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Philip Roth: The Biography
by
Blake Bailey
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/06/2021
Appointed by Philip Roth and granted independence and complete access, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his ...
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Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet
by
Laekan Zea Kemp
Little Brown & Company, 04/06/2021
Penelope Prado has always dreamed of opening her own pastelería next to her father's restaurant, Nacho's Tacos. But her mom and dad have ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Subdivision
by
J. Robert Lennon
Graywolf Press, 04/06/2021
The guesthouse's owners, Clara and the Judge, are welcoming and helpful, if oddly preoccupied by the perpetually baffling jigsaw puzzle in the living ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Beauty of Your Face: A Novel
by
Sahar Mustafah
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/06/2021
The Beauty of Your Face tells a uniquely American story in powerful, evocative prose. Afaf Rahman, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is the ...
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The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with recipes)
by
Kate Lebo
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/06/2021
A is for
Aronia, berry member of the apple family, clothes-stainer, superfruit with reputed healing power. D is for
Durian, endowed with a dramatic ...
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The Cost of Knowing
by
Brittney Morris
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 04/06/2021
Sixteen-year-old Alex Rufus is trying his best. He tries to be the best employee he can be at the local ice cream shop; the best boyfriend he can be ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Elephant of Belfast
by
S. Kirk Walsh
Counterpoint Press, 04/06/2021
Belfast, October 1940. Twenty-year-old zookeeper Hettie Quin arrives at the city docks in time to meet her new charge: an orphaned three-year-old ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Girls in the Stilt House: A Novel
by
Kelly Mustian
Sourcebooks, 04/06/2021
Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her hard life on the swamp and her harsh father. But now, after running away to Baton ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Henna Artist: The Jaipur Trilogy #1
by
Alka Joshi
Mira, 04/06/2021
Known for her original designs and sage advice, Lakshmi must tread carefully to avoid the jealous gossips who could ruin her reputation and her ...
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Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II
by
Madeline Martin
Hanover Square Press, 04/06/2021
August 1939: London prepares for war as Hitler's forces sweep across Europe. Grace Bennett has always dreamed of moving to the city, but the bunkers ...
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Historical Fiction
The Last Exiles
by
Ann Shin
Park Row Books, 04/06/2021
Jin and Suja meet and fall in love while studying at university in Pyongyang. She is a young journalist from a prominent family, while he is from a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Odor of Violets: A Duncan Maclain Mystery (An American Mystery Classic)
by
Baynard Kendrick
American Mystery Classics, 04/06/2021
Meet Captain Duncan Maclain. Blinded during his service in the first World War, Maclain made up for his lack of vision by sharpening his other senses,...
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Mysteries
The Widow Queen: The Bold #1
by
Elzbieta Cherezinska
Forge Books, 04/06/2021
The bold one, they call her―too bold for most.
To her father, the great duke of Poland, Świętosława and her two sisters ...
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Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Mysteries
Unstoppable: Siggi B. Wilzig's Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend
by
Joshua M. Greene
Insight Editions, 04/06/2021
While American teens were socializing in ice cream parlors, Siggi was suffering beatings by Nazi hoodlums for being a Jew and was soon deported along ...
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Biography/Memoir
What the Devil Knows: Sebastian St. Cyr Mysteries #16
by
C.S. Harris
Berkley Books, 04/06/2021
It's October 1814. The war with France is finally over and Europe's diplomats are convening in Vienna for a conference that will put their world back ...
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Whisper Down the Lane
by
Clay Chapman
Quirk Books, 04/06/2021
Richard doesn't have a past. For him, there is only the present: a new marriage to Tamara, a first chance at fatherhood to her son Elijah, and a quiet...
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A Season Unknown
by
Keith Cohen
K + P Press, 04/13/2021
From the time he is a small child, Malach reveals unique and unexplained connections with the animals that inhabit the wilderness surrounding him. As ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
All the Children Are Home: A Novel
by
Patry Francis
Harper, 04/13/2021
Set in the late 1950s through 1960s in a small town in Massachusetts,
All the Children Are Home follows the Moscatelli family—Dahlia ...
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Literary Fiction
Death with a Double Edge: A Daniel Pitt Novel
by
Anne Perry
Ballantine Books, 04/13/2021
When junior barrister Daniel Pitt is summoned to the scene of a murder in the London district known as Mile End, he knows only that the victim is a ...
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Historical Fiction
Early Morning Riser
by
Katherine Heiny
Knopf, 04/13/2021
Jane falls in love with Duncan easily. He is charming, good-natured, and handsome but unfortunately, he has also slept with nearly every woman in ...
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
by
Patrick Radden Keefe
Doubleday, 04/13/2021
The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Hana Khan Carries On
by
Uzma Jalaluddin
Berkley Books, 04/13/2021
Sales are slow at Three Sisters Biryani Poutine, the only halal restaurant in the close-knit Golden Crescent neighborhood of Toronto. Hana waitresses ...
more
Romance
If I Had Your Face: A Novel
by
Frances Cha
Ballantine Books, 04/13/2021
Kyuri is an achingly beautiful woman with a hard-won job at a Seoul "room salon," an exclusive underground bar where she entertains businessmen while ...
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Literary Fiction
In the Company of Killers
by
Bryan Christy
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/13/2021
Tom Klay is a celebrated investigative wildlife reporter for the esteemed magazine
The Sovereign. But Klay is not just a journalist. His reporting is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Lady Joker, Volume 1
by
Kaoru Takamura
Soho Crime, 04/13/2021
Tokyo, 1995. Five men meet at the racetrack every Sunday to bet on horses. They have little in common except a deep disaffection with their lives, but...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Little Pieces of Me
by
Alison Hammer
William Morrow, 04/13/2021
When Paige Meyer gets an email from a DNA testing website announcing that her father is a man she never met, she is convinced there must be a mistake....
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Literary Fiction
One Got Away: Nikki Griffin #2
by
S. A. Lelchuk
Flatiron Books, 04/13/2021
Nikki Griffin, a private-investigator when she isn't running her small bookstore, is on a case. The matriarch of one of the wealthiest San Francisco ...
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Open Water
by
Caleb Azumah Nelson
Grove Press, 04/13/2021
In a crowded London pub, two young people meet. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sensational: The Hidden History of America's
by
Kim Todd
Harper, 04/13/2021
In the waning years of the nineteenth century, women journalists across the United States risked reputation and their own safety to expose the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Good Sister
by
Sally Hepworth
St. Martin's Press, 04/13/2021
There's only been one time that Rose couldn't stop me from doing the wrong thing and that was a mistake that will haunt me for the rest of my life.
...
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The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense
by
Edward White
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/13/2021
In
The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon―what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals ...
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The Venice Sketchbook: A Novel
by
Rhys Bowen
Lake Union Publishing, 04/13/2021
Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a ...
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Historical Fiction
When the Stars Go Dark
by
Paula McLain
Ballantine Books, 04/13/2021
Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature. When tragedy ...
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Nothing But Blue Sky: Kathleen MacMahon
by
Kathleen MacMahon
Penguin Books, 04/15/2021
Is there such a thing as a perfect marriage?
David thought so. But when his wife Mary Rose dies suddenly he has to think again. In reliving their ...
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Literary Fiction
A Thousand Moons: A Novel
by
Sebastian Barry
Penguin Books, 04/20/2021
Winona Cole, an orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, finds herself growing up in an unconventional household on a farm in west Tennessee. Raised by ...
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Literary Fiction
And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir
by
Margaret Kimball
HarperOne, 04/20/2021
In 1988, when Kimball is only four years old, her mother attempts suicide on Mother's Day—and this becomes one of many things Kimball's family ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Crying in H Mart
by
Michelle Zauner
Knopf, 04/20/2021
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
I Am a Girl from Africa
by
Elizabeth Nyamayaro
Scribner, 04/20/2021
When severe draught hit her village in Zimbabwe, Elizabeth, then eight, had no idea that this moment of utter devastation would come to define her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Kate in Waiting
by
Becky Albertalli
Balzer + Bray, 04/20/2021
Contrary to popular belief, best friends Kate Garfield and Anderson Walker are not codependent. Carpooling to and from theater rehearsals? ...
more
Margreete's Harbor: A Novel
by
Eleanor Morse
St. Martin's Press, 04/20/2021
Eleanor Morse's
Margreete's Harbor begins with a fire: a fiercely-independent, thrice-widowed woman living on her own in a rambling house near the ...
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Literary Fiction
Popisho
by
Leone Ross
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/20/2021
Everyone in Popisho was born...with a little something...The local name for it was cors. Magic, but more than magic. A gift, nah? Yes. From the gods: ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
by
Louis Menand
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/20/2021
The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense―economic and political, artistic and personal. In
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within: Wayfarers #4
by
Becky Chambers
Harper Voyager, 04/20/2021
With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going for it is a chance proximity to more popular ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds
by
Jon Dunn
Basic Books, 04/20/2021
Hummingbirds are a glittering, sparkling collective of over three hundred wildly variable species. For centuries, they have been revered by indigenous...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
The Happiest Girl in the World
by
Alena Dillon
William Morrow, 04/20/2021
For Sera Wheeler, the Olympics is the reason for everything. It's why she trains thirty hours a week, starves herself to under 100 pounds, and pops ...
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The Last Thing to Burn: A Novel
by
Will Dean
Atria Books, 04/20/2021
He is her husband. She is his captive.
Her husband calls her Jane. That is not her name.
She lives in a small farm cottage, surrounded by vast, ...
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Thrillers
Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?
by
Jenny Diski
Bloomsbury USA, 04/20/2021
Jenny Diski was a fearless writer, for whom no subject was too difficult, even her own cancer diagnosis. Her columns in the
London Review of Books--...
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World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
by
Anthony Bourdain
Ecco, 04/20/2021
Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal ...
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From the Embers
by
Aly Martinez
Independently published, 04/22/2021
In the aftermath of tragedy, it's strange the things you remember. The deafening boom as the house exploded.The paralyzing fear as I searched for my ...
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Romance
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
by
Andrew H. Knoll
Custom House, 04/27/2021
Odds are, where you're standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
by
Nicole Eustace
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 04/27/2021
On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attacked ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Little and Often
by
Trent Preszler
William Morrow, 04/27/2021
Preszler's only inheritance was a beat-up wooden toolbox that had belonged to his father, who was a cattle rancher, rodeo champion, and Vietnam War ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Reunion Beach: Stories Inspired by Dorothea Benton Frank
by
Elin Hilderbrand
William Morrow, 04/27/2021
Inspired by the title Dorothea Benton Frank planned for her next book—
Reunion Beach—these close friends and colleagues channeled their ...
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Romance
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story
by
Kate Summerscale
Penguin Press, 04/27/2021
In Alma Fielding's modest home, china flies off the shelves and eggs fly through the air; stolen jewelry appears on her fingers, white mice crawl out ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
White Magic
by
Elissa Washuta
Tin House Books, 04/27/2021
Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends, "starter witch kits" of sage,...
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Winter in Sokcho
by
Elisa Shua Dusapin
Open Letter, 04/27/2021
The cold slows everything down. Bodies are red and raw, the fish turn venomous, beyond the beach guns point out from the North's watchtowers. A young ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
I Thought You Said This Would Work: A Novel
by
Ann Garvin
Lake Union Publishing, 05/01/2021
Widowed Samantha Arias hasn't spoken to Holly Dunfee in forever. It's for the best. Samantha prefers to avoid conflict. The blisteringly honest Holly ...
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Literary Fiction
The Lover, the Lake
by
Virginia Pesemapeo Bordeleau
Freehand Books, 05/01/2021
When it was first published in Quebec,
The Lover, The Lake was heralded as the first erotic novel written by an Indigenous woman in French. Today, as ...
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Historical Fiction
The Seagull
by
Anton Chekhov
Independently published, 05/02/2021
Taking place on a summer estate in Russia, the characters are all connected through their passions, rivalries, and unrequited love. Chekhov's timeless...
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Literary Fiction
A Lonely Man
by
Chris Power
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/04/2021
Two British men, both writers, meet by chance in Berlin. Robert is trying and failing to finish his next book while balancing his responsibilities as ...
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Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas
by
Henry Dumas
Coffee House Press, 05/04/2021
Championed by Toni Morrison and Walter Mosley, Dumas's fabulist fiction is a masterful synthesis of myth and religion, culture and nature, mask and ...
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Everybody: A Book about Freedom
by
Olivia Laing
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/04/2021
The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Fresh Water for Flowers: A Novel
by
Valérie Perrin
Europa Editions, 05/04/2021
Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her life is lived to the predictable rhythms of the often funny, ...
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Literary Fiction
Happenstance
by
Carol Shields
World Editions, 05/04/2021
Jack is at home coping with domestic crises and two uncouth adolescents, while immobilized by self-doubt and questioning his worth as a historian. ...
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Literary Fiction
Hour of the Witch: A Novel
by
Chris Bohjalian
Doubleday, 05/04/2021
Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But...
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Thrillers
Hurricane Summer
by
Asha Bromfield
Wednesday Books, 05/04/2021
Tilla has spent her entire life trying to make her father love her. But every six months, he leaves their family and returns to his true home: the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
by
Julian Sancton
Crown, 05/04/2021
In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with dreams of glory...
more
Biography/Memoir
My Name Is Monster
by
Katie Hale
Canongate Books, 05/04/2021
When she washes up on the coast of Scotland, everyone she knows is dead, and she believes she is alone in an empty world.
Slowly, piece by piece, ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Olympus, Texas
by
Stacey Swann
Doubleday, 05/04/2021
The Briscoe family is once again the talk of their small town when March returns to East Texas two years after he was caught having an affair with his...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
On Juneteenth
by
Annette Gordon-Reed
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 05/04/2021
Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed's
On Juneteenth provides a historian...
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One by One
by
Ruth Ware
Gallery/Scout Press, 05/04/2021
Getting snowed in at a luxurious, rustic ski chalet high in the French Alps doesn't sound like the worst problem in the world. Especially when there's...
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Thrillers
The Bookshop of Second Chances: A Novel
by
Jackie Fraser
Ballantine Books, 05/04/2021
Thea Mottram is having a bad month. She's been let go from her office job with no notice—and to make matters even worse, her husband of nearly ...
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Romance
The Girl in His Shadow
by
Audrey Blake
Sourcebooks Landmark, 05/04/2021
Raised by the eccentric surgeon Dr. Horace Croft after losing her parents to a deadly pandemic, the orphan Nora Beady knows little about conventional ...
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Historical Fiction
The Girl Who Died
by
Ragnar Jonasson
Minotaur Books, 05/04/2021
Teacher Wanted At the Edge of the World
Una wants nothing more than to teach, but she has been unable to secure steady employment in Reykjavík...
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The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor?A Holocaust Survivor's Wisdom on Gratitude and Kindness
by
Eddie Jaku
Harper, 05/04/2021
Born in Leipzig, Germany, into a Jewish family, Eddie Jaku was a teenager when his world was turned upside-down. On November 9, 1938, during the ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel
by
Laura Dave
Simon & Schuster, 05/04/2021
Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year:
Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows ...
more
Thrillers
The Ones We're Meant to Find
by
Joan He
Roaring Brook Press, 05/04/2021
Cee awoke on an abandoned island three years ago. With no idea of how she was marooned, she only has a rickety house, an old android, and a single ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Secret Talker: A Novel
by
Geling Yan
HarperVia, 05/04/2021
Hongmei is the perfect Chinese wife: beautiful, diligent, passive. Glen is the perfect American husband: intelligent, caring, well-off. From the ...
more
Thrillers
The Secret to Superhuman Strength
by
Alison Bechdel
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 05/04/2021
Comics and cultural superstar Alison Bechdel delivers a deeply layered story of her fascination, from childhood to adulthood, with every fitness craze...
more
The Woman with the Blue Star: A Novel
by
Pam Jenoff
Park Row, 05/04/2021
1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents in the Kraków Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
by
Akhil Reed Amar
Basic Books, 05/04/2021
When the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate argument over the nature of government. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
You Look Tired: An Excruciatingly Honest Guide to New Parenthood
by
Jenny True
Running Press Adult, 05/04/2021
Plenty of "new parent" guides cover the basics of breastfeeding, bonding, sleep, and "getting back in shape." But nowhere is a guide that tells you,
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Other
A Master of Djinn
by
P. Djèlí Clark
Tor Books, 05/11/2021
Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha'arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Theater for Dreamers
by
Polly Samson
Algonquin Books, 05/11/2021
It's 1960, and the world teeters on the edge of cultural, political, sexual, and artistic revolution. On the Greek island of Hydra, a proto-commune of...
more
Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind
by
Barbara Becker
Flatiron Books, 05/11/2021
When her earliest childhood friend is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Becker sets off on a quest to immerse herself in what it means to be mortal. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Mary Jane: A Novel
by
Jessica Anya Blau
Mariner Books, 05/11/2021
In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her family's subscription to ...
more
Literary Fiction
Notes on Grief
by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Knopf, 05/11/2021
Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father's death in ...
more
Biography/Memoir
People We Meet on Vacation
by
Emily Henry
Berkley Books, 05/11/2021
Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.
Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She's a wild ...
more
Romance
That Summer: A Novel
by
Jennifer Weiner
Atria Books, 05/11/2021
Daisy Shoemaker can't sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer work, and a beautiful home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Granite Coast Murders: Brittany Mystery Series #6
by
Jean-Luc Bannalec
Minotaur Books, 05/11/2021
Inspector Dupin and Claire are on a two-week vacation, but while Claire seems to enjoy the quiet of the beach, Commissaire Dupin takes every ...
more
The Rock Eaters
by
Brenda Peynado
Penguin Books, 05/11/2021
What does it mean to be other? What does it mean to love in a world determined to keep us apart?
These questions murmur in the heart of each of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Where the Rhythm Takes You
by
Sarah Dass
Balzer + Bray, 05/11/2021
Seventeen-year-old Reyna has spent most of her life at the Plumeria, her family's gorgeous seaside resort in Tobago. But what once seemed like ...
more
While Justice Sleeps: A Novel
by
Stacey Abrams
Doubleday, 05/11/2021
Avery Keene, a brilliant young law clerk for the legendary Justice Howard Wynn, is doing her best to hold her life together—excelling in an ...
more
Why Peacocks?: An Unlikely Search for Meaning in the World's Most Magnificent Bird
by
Sean Flynn
Simon & Schuster, 05/11/2021
When Sean Flynn's neighbor in North Carolina texted "Any chance you guys want a peacock? No kidding!" he stared bewilderedly at his phone. He had ...
more
Winning Independence: The Decisive Years of the Revolutionary War, 1778-1781
by
John Ferling
Bloomsbury USA, 05/11/2021
It was 1778, and the recent American victory at Saratoga had netted the U.S a powerful ally in France. Many, including General George Washington, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Quarantine Comix: A Memoir of Life in Lockdown
by
Rachael Smith
Icon Books, 05/13/2021
Written and drawn every day during the 2020 lockdown and shared online with #
QuarantineComix, 2020 Comedy Women in Print-shortlisted Rachael Smith's ...
more
Biography/Memoir
American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
by
Alan Taylor
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/18/2021
In this beautifully written history of America's formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Historical Fiction
Last Summer at the Golden Hotel
by
Elyssa Friedland
Berkley Books, 05/18/2021
In its heyday, The Golden Hotel was the crown jewel of the hotter-than-hot Catskills vacation scene. For more than sixty years, the Goldman and ...
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Literary Fiction
Light Perpetual
by
Francis Spufford
Scribner, 05/18/2021
Lunchtime on a Saturday, 1944: the Woolworths on Bexford High Street in southeast London receives a delivery of aluminum saucepans. A crowd gathers to...
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Madam: A Novel
by
Phoebe Wynne
St. Martin's Press, 05/18/2021
For 150 years, high above rocky Scottish cliffs, Caldonbrae Hall has sat untouched, a beacon of excellence in an old ancestral castle. A boarding ...
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Literary Fiction
Off the Record
by
Camryn Garrett
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 05/18/2021
Ever since seventeen-year-old Josie Wright can remember, writing has been her identity, the thing that grounds her when everything else is a garbage ...
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Punch Me Up to the Gods
by
Brian Broome
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 05/18/2021
Punch Me Up to the Gods introduces a powerful new talent in Brian Broome, whose early years growing up in Ohio as a dark-skinned Black boy harboring ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
by
John Green
Dutton, 05/18/2021
The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Atmospherians
by
Alex McElroy
Atria Books, 05/18/2021
Sasha Marcus was once the epitome of contemporary success: an internet sensation, social media darling, and a creator of a high profile wellness brand...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The First Day of Spring
by
Nancy Tucker
Riverhead Books, 05/18/2021
Meet Chrissie...
Chrissie is eight and she has a secret: she has just killed a boy. The feeling made her belly fizz like soda pop. Her playmates ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Tokyo Ever After: A Novel (Tokyo Ever After, 1)
by
Emiko Jean
Flatiron Books, 05/18/2021
Izumi Tanaka has never really felt like she fit in―it isn't easy being Japanese American in her small, mostly white, northern California town. ...
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Romance
Unsettled Ground
by
Claire Fuller
Tin House Books, 05/18/2021
At fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. The cottage they ...
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Romance
A Sitting in St. James
by
Rita Williams-Garcia
Quill Tree Books, 05/25/2021
1860, Louisiana. After serving as mistress of Le Petit Cottage for more than six decades, Madame Sylvie Guilbert has decided, in spite of her family's...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
City on the Edge
by
David Swinson
Mulholland, 05/25/2021
In the wake of a baffling tragedy, 13-year-old Graham moves with his family to Beirut, Lebanon, a city on the edge of the sea and cataclysmic violence...
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Heaven
by
Mieko Kawakami
Europa Editions, 05/25/2021
Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami's novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student subjected to relentless torment for...
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How to Mars
by
David Ebenbach
Tachyon Publications, 05/25/2021
For the six lucky scientists selected by the Destination Mars! corporation, a one-way ticket to Mars―in exchange for a lifetime of research&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
by
Salman Rushdie
Random House, 05/25/2021
Salman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order, illuminating truths about our society and culture through his gorgeous, often ...
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Out of the Cave: Stepping into the Light when Depression Darkens What You See
by
Chris Hodges
Thomas Nelson, 05/25/2021
You might be asking,
Should a Christian even be having these struggles?
Depression is the number one health issue in the world today, yet those who...
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Advice
Revival Season
by
Monica West
Simon & Schuster, 05/25/2021
Every summer, fifteen-year-old Miriam Horton and her family pack themselves tight in their old minivan and travel through small southern towns for ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
by
J.B. MacKinnon
Ecco, 05/25/2021
We can't stop shopping. And yet we must. This is the consumer dilemma.
The economy says we must always consume more: even the slightest drop in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Guncle
by
Steven Rowley
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/25/2021
Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. That is, he loves spending time with them when ...
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The Lions of Fifth Avenue: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel
by
Fiona Davis
Dutton, 05/25/2021
It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life—her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, ...
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Literary Fiction
The Lost Boys of Montauk: The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind
by
Amanda M. Fairbanks
Gallery Books, 05/25/2021
In March of 1984, the commercial fishing boat
Wind Blown left Montauk Harbor on what should have been a routine offshore voyage. Its captain, a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Photographer
by
Mary Dixie Carter
Minotaur Books, 05/25/2021
WHEN PERFECT IMAGES
As a photographer, Delta Dawn observes the seemingly perfect lives of New York City's elite: snapping photos of their children'...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Version Zero
by
David Yoon
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/25/2021
Max, a data whiz at the social media company Wren, has gotten a firsthand glimpse of the dark side of big tech. When he questions what his company ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
