Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19
by
Garth Stein
Central Avenue Poetry, 09/01/2020
Ms. Haupt rallied a diverse roster of more than 90 authors to contribute their work to
Alone Together, free of charge, including Kwame Alexander, ...
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Biography/Memoir
Blood Moon
by
Lucy Cuthew
Walker & Company, 09/01/2020
After school one day, Frankie, a lover of physics and astronomy, has her first sexual experience with quiet and gorgeous Benjamin—and gets her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Cemetery Boys
by
Aiden Thomas
Swoon Reads, 09/01/2020
Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can't get rid of him.
When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his true gender, Yadriel...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss
by
Rachel Clarke
Thomas Dunne Books, 09/01/2020
Death was conspicuously absent during Rachel's medical training. Instead, her education focused entirely on learning to save lives, and was left ...
more
Fifty Words for Rain
by
Asha Lemmie
Dutton, 09/01/2020
Kyoto, Japan, 1948.
"Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist."
Such is eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza's first lesson. She will not ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Flamer
by
Mike Curato
Henry Holt and Company, 09/01/2020
I know I'm not gay. Gay boys like other boys. I hate boys. They're mean, and scary, and they're always destroying something or saying something dumb ...more
Happiness for Beginners
by
Katherine Center
St. Martin's Griffin, 09/01/2020
Helen Carpenter can't quite seem to bounce back. Newly divorced at thirty-two, her life has fallen apart beyond her ability to put it together again. ...
more
Romance
Having and Being Had
by
Eula Biss
Riverhead Books, 09/01/2020
"My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts," Eula Biss writes, "the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after." Having just ...
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Likes
by
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/01/2020
In nine stories that range from the real to the unreal, strange to familiar, funny to frightening, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum reminds us why her wildly ...
more
Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains
by
Kerri Arsenault
St. Martin's Press, 09/01/2020
Kerri Arsenault grew up in the rural working class town of Mexico, Maine. For over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that employs ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
My Four Seasons in France: A Year of the Good Life (The Good Life France)
by
Janine Marsh
Michael O'Mara, 09/01/2020
Having overcome the obstacles of starting to renovate her dream home—an ancient, dilapidated barn—and fitting in with the peculiarities of...
more
Travel & Adventure
Red Pill
by
Hari Kunzru
Knopf, 09/01/2020
After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of
Red Pill arrives in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee and struggles to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Ruthie Fear: A Novel
by
Maxim Loskutoff
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/01/2020
As a child in Montana's Bitterroot Valley, Ruthie Fear sees an apparition: a strange, headless creature near a canyon creek. Its presence haunts her ...
more
The Bass Rock
by
Evie Wyld
Pantheon Books, 09/01/2020
Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has always borne witness to the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Bridge
by
Bill Konigsberg
Scholastic, 09/01/2020
Aaron and Tillie don't know each other, but they are both feeling suicidal, and arrive at the George Washington Bridge at the same time, intending to ...
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Literary Fiction
Graphic Novels
The Four Profound Weaves
by
R.B. Lemberg
Tachyon Publications, 09/01/2020
The Surun' nomads do not speak of the master weaver, Benesret, who creates the cloth of bone for assassins in the Great Burri Desert. But aged Uiziya ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Last Story of Mina Lee: A Reese's Book Club Pick
by
Nancy Jooyoun Kim
Park Row, 09/01/2020
Margot Lee's mother, Mina, isn't returning her calls. It's a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot, until she visits her childhood apartment in ...
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Literary Fiction
The Lying Life of Adults
by
Elena Ferrante
Europa Editions, 09/01/2020
Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into ...
more
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
by
Deesha Philyaw
West Virginia University Press, 09/01/2020
The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between...
more
Short Stories
Debut Author
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 (Pacific War Trilogy #3)
by
Ian W. Toll
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/01/2020
In June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The capture of the Mariana ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
When No One Is Watching: A Thriller
by
Alyssa Cole
William Morrow, 09/01/2020
Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos are sprouting like weeds, FOR ...
more
A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
by
Brittany K. Barnett
Crown, 09/08/2020
Brittany K. Barnett was only a law student when she came across the case that would change her life forever—that of Sharanda Jones, single ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Anxious People
by
Fredrik Backman
Atria Books, 09/08/2020
Looking at real estate isn't usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and ...
more
Bestiary
by
K-Ming Chang
One World, 09/08/2020
One evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body. She was called Hu Gu Po, and she hungered to eat children...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Eat a Peach
by
David Chang
Clarkson Potter, 09/08/2020
In 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar opened in a tiny, stark space in Manhattan's East Village. Its young chef-owner, David Chang, worked the line, serving ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Good Blood: A Doctor, a Donor, and the Incredible Breakthrough that Saved Millions of Babies
by
Julian Guthrie
Abrams Books, 09/08/2020
In 1951 in Sydney, Australia, a fourteen-year-old boy named James Harrison was near death when he received a transfusion of blood that saved his life....
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Just Us: An American Conversation
by
Claudia Rankine
Graywolf Press, 09/08/2020
As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might we approach one another? Claudia Rankine, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Monogamy
by
Sue Miller
Harper, 09/08/2020
Graham and Annie have been married for nearly thirty years. A golden couple, their seemingly effortless devotion has long been the envy of their ...
more
The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett: A Novel
by
Annie Lyons
William Morrow, 09/08/2020
It's never too late to start living.
Eudora Honeysett is done with this noisy, moronic world—all of it. She has witnessed the indignities and...
more
Literary Fiction
The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, War, and Survival
by
Amra Sabic-El-Rayess
Bloomsbury USA, 09/08/2020
The Serbs control the army, and now they have peaceful Bihac surrounded. Soon Amra and her family are dealing with starvation and the threat of brutal...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Darkest Evening: Vera Stanhope #9
by
Ann Cleeves
Minotaur Books, 09/08/2020
On the first snowy night of winter, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope sets off for her home in the hills. Though the road is familiar, she misses a ...
more
The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most
by
Lee Vinsel
Currency, 09/08/2020
It's hard to avoid innovation these days. Nearly every product gets marketed as being disruptive, whether it's genuinely a new invention or just a new...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Sleeping Nymph: Teresa Battaglia #2
by
Ilaria Tuti
Soho Crime, 09/08/2020
A decades-old murder investigation has landed on Superintendent Teresa Battaglia's desk. DNA analysis has revealed that a painting from the final days...
more
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
by
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Milkweed Editions, 09/08/2020
As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open ...
more
Essays
Young Rembrandt: A Biography
by
Onno Blom
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/08/2020
Rembrandt van Rijn's early years are as famously shrouded in mystery as Shakespeare's, and his life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son ...
more
Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West
by
Lauren Redniss
Random House, 09/14/2020
Oak Flat is a serene high-elevation mesa that sits above the southeastern Arizona desert, fifteen miles to the west of the San Carlos Apache Indian ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Better Man: A (Mostly Serious) Letter to My Son
by
Michael Ian Black
Algonquin Books, 09/15/2020
In this thoughtful, inspiring, and deeply personal book, comedian, actor, and father Michael Ian Black gets (mostly) serious about the trouble with ...
more
Each of Us a Desert
by
Mark Oshiro
Tor Teen, 09/15/2020
Xochitl is destined to wander the desert alone, speaking her troubled village's stories into its arid winds. Her only companions are the blessed stars...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution's Mysteries Solved
by
Kenneth Catania
Princeton University Press, 09/15/2020
From star-nosed moles that have super-sensing snouts to electric eels that paralyze their prey, animals possess unique and extraordinary abilities. In...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Grown
by
Tiffany D. Jackson
Katherine Tegan Books, 09/15/2020
When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition, her dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until Enchanted wakes up...
more
High as the Waters Rise
by
Anja Kampmann
Catapult, 09/15/2020
One night aboard an oil drilling platform in the Atlantic, Waclaw returns to his cabin to find that his bunkmate and companion, Mátyás, has ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
by
Jill Lepore
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 09/15/2020
The Simulmatics Corporation, launched during the Cold War, mined data, targeted voters, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lalani of the Distant Sea
by
Erin Entrada Kelly
Greenwillow Books, 09/15/2020
When Lalani Sarita's mother falls ill with an incurable disease, Lalani embarks on a dangerous journey across the sea in the hope of safeguarding her ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Polar Vortex
by
Shani Mootoo
Akashic Books, 09/15/2020
It seemed like a good idea to both Priya and Alex to cement their newish, later-in-life relationship by leaving the past behind to create a new life ...
more
Rage
by
Bob Woodward
Simon & Schuster, 09/15/2020
Woodward, the #1 international bestselling author of
Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Remember Me: A Novel of the Spanish Civil War
by
Mario Escobar
Thomas Nelson, 09/15/2020
Madrid, 1934. Though the Spanish Civil War has not yet begun, the streets of Madrid have become dangerous for thirteen-year-old Marco Alcalde and his ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Art of Saving the World
by
Corinne Duyvis
Amulet Books, 09/15/2020
When Hazel Stanczak was born, an interdimensional rift tore open near her family's home, which prompted immediate government attention. They soon ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Awkward Black Man
by
Walter Mosley
Grove Press, 09/15/2020
Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for ...
more
Short Stories
The Evening and the Morning: The Prequel to The Pillars Of THe Earth
by
Ken Follett
Viking, 09/15/2020
It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice ...
more
The Glass House
by
Beatrice Colin
Flatiron Books, 09/15/2020
Scotland, 1912. Antonia McCulloch's life hasn't gone the way she planned. She and her husband, Malcolm, have drifted apart; her burgeoning art career ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Killings at Kingfisher Hill: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery: A Suspenseful Historical Mystery with a Shocking Revelation?Uncover the Killer's Identity (The New Hercule Poirot Mystery, 4)
by
Sophie Hannah
William Morrow, 09/15/2020
Hercule Poirot is traveling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate. Richard Devonport has summoned the renowned...
more
Mysteries
The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War
by
David Nasaw
Penguin Press, 09/15/2020
In May 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of global military conflict...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Scapegracers: The Scapegracers #1
by
Hannah Abigail Clarke
Erewhon Books, 09/15/2020
Skulking near the bottom of West High's social pyramid, Sideways Pike lurks under the bleachers doing magic tricks for Coke bottles. As a witch, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Way Back
by
Gavriel Savit
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 09/15/2020
For the Jews of Eastern Europe, demons are everywhere: dancing on the rooftops in the darkness of midnight, congregating in the trees, harrowing the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Wild Thing: The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix
by
Philip Norman
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 09/15/2020
Over fifty years after his death, Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) is celebrated as the greatest rock guitarist of all time. But before he was setting ...
more
You Want More: Selected Stories of George Singleton
by
George Singleton
Hub City Press, 09/15/2020
With his signature darkly acerbic and sharp-witted humor, George Singleton has built a reputation as one of the most astute and wise observers of the ...
more
The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption
by
Lee Lawrence
Sphere Books, 09/17/2020
On 28 September 1985, Lee Lawrence's mother Cherry Groce was wrongly shot by police during a raid on her Brixton home. The bullet shattered her spine ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Adrianne Geffel: A Fiction
by
David Hajdu
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/22/2020
Adrianne Geffel was a genius. Praised as the "Geyser of Grand Street" and the "Queen of Bleak Chic," she was a one-of-a-kind artist, a pianist and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
And Now She's Gone
by
Rachel Howzell Hall
Forge Books, 09/22/2020
It's up to Grayson Sykes to find her. Although she is reluctant to track down a woman who may not want to be found, Gray's search for Isabel Lincoln ...
more
Thrillers
Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime
by
Debora Harding
Bloomsbury USA, 09/22/2020
One Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint from a church parking lot. She was thrown...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Every Body Looking
by
Candice Iloh
Dutton for Young Readers, 09/22/2020
As she stumbles deeper into the world of dance and explores her sexuality, she also begins to wrestle with her past—her mother's struggle with ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
Gilded Wolves (The Gilded Wolves, 1)
by
Roshani Chokshi
Wednesday Books, 09/22/2020
All eyes are on Paris where the Exposition Universelle World Fair is to be held. Hidden among the technological marvels and artistic creations on ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Hench
by
Natalie Zina Walschots
William Morrow, 09/22/2020
Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job. Working for a monster lurking beneath the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Smash It!
by
Francina Simone
Inkyard Press, 09/22/2020
Olivia "Liv" James is
done with letting her insecurities get the best of her. So she does what any self-respecting hot mess of a girl who wants to ...
more
Solutions and Other Problems
by
Allie Brosh
Gallery Books, 09/22/2020
Solutions and Other Problems includes humorous stories from Allie Brosh's childhood; the adventures of her very bad animals; merciless dissection of ...
more
Graphic Novels
The Book of Two Ways
by
Jodi Picoult
Ballantine Books, 09/22/2020
Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She's on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: Prepare for a crash ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Thrillers
The Silvered Serpents: The Gilded Wolves #2
by
Roshani Chokshi
Wednesday Books, 09/22/2020
They are each other's fiercest love, greatest danger, and only hope. Séverin and his team members might have successfully thwarted the Fallen ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite (Untold Legends, 1)
by
Zoraida Córdova
Imprint, 09/22/2020
In this delicious new collection, you'll find stories about lurking vampires of social media, rebellious vampires hungry for more than just blood, ...
more
Short Stories
A Deadly Education: The Scholomance #1
by
Naomi Novik
Del Rey, 09/29/2020
I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my life.
Everyone loves Orion Lake. Everyone else, that is. Far as I'm ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
by
David S. Reynolds
Penguin Press, 09/29/2020
David S. Reynolds, author of the Bancroft Prize-winning cultural biography of Walt Whitman and many other iconic works of nineteenth century American ...
more
Literary Fiction
Dear Justyce: Dear Martin #2
by
Nic Stone
Crown Children's Books, 09/29/2020
In the highly anticipated sequel to her
New York Times bestseller, Nic Stone delivers an unflinching look into the flawed practices and silenced ...
more
Down Along with That Devil's Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy
by
Connor Towne O'Neill
Algonquin Books, 09/29/2020
Through the lens of these conflicts, O'Neill examines the legacy of white supremacy in America, in a sobering and fascinating work sure to resonate ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life
by
Jonathan Alter
Simon & Schuster, 09/29/2020
Jonathan Alter tells the epic story of an enigmatic man of faith and his improbable journey from barefoot boy to global icon. Alter paints an intimate...
more
Just Like You
by
Nick Hornby
Riverhead Books, 09/29/2020
Lucy used to handle her adult romantic life according to the script she'd been handed. She met a guy just like herself: same age, same background, ...
more
One Charmed Christmas
by
Sheila Roberts
MIRA, 09/29/2020
Catherine Pine is hoping her Christmas is a bit more jolly than last year's. That one was her first without her husband, and with her kids and their ...
more
Romance
The Book of Lamps and Banners: Cass Neary #4
by
Elizabeth Hand
Mulholland, 09/29/2020
Photographer Cass Neary is desperate to get home, and she's already lost her camera -- like losing a limb. Now her only chance is to cash in on a deal...
more
The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War
by
Catherine Grace Katz
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 09/29/2020
Tensions during the Yalta Conference in February 1945 threatened to tear apart the wartime alliance among Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The End of the Day
by
Bill Clegg
Gallery/Scout Press, 09/29/2020
A retired widow in rural Connecticut wakes to an unexpected visit from her childhood best friend whom she hasn't seen in forty-nine years.
A man ...
more
The Midnight Library: A Novel
by
Matt Haig
Viking, 09/29/2020
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One...
more
Whale Day: And Other Poems
by
Billy Collins
Random House, 09/29/2020
Billy Collins's new collection brings together more than fifty poems and showcases his deft mixing of the playful and the serious that has made him ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation
by
Andrew Weissmann
Random House, 09/29/2020
In May 2017, Robert Mueller was tapped to lead an inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, coordination by ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
12 Men for Christmas
by
Phillipa Ashley
Sourcebooks Casablanca, 10/06/2020
Emma Tremayne planned to be wrapped up in Christmas cheer with her boyfriend, but when she finds him in the arms of her boss, she loses her man and ...
more
Romance
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
by
David Attenborough
Grand Central Publishing, 10/06/2020
See the world. Then make it better.
I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary.
As a young man, ...
more
A Single Thread: A Novel
by
Tracy Chevalier
Penguin Books, 10/06/2020
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed...
more
Literary Fiction
Apple: (Skin to the Core)
by
Eric Gansworth
Levine Querido, 10/06/2020
In
Apple (
Skin to the Core), Eric Gansworth tells his story, the story of his family—of Onondaga among Tuscaroras—of Native folks ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Bright and Dangerous Objects
by
Anneliese Mackintosh
Tin House Books, 10/06/2020
But to fulfill her ambition, she'll have to leave behind everything she's ever known―for the rest of her life.
As the prospect of heading to ...
more
Cardiff, by the Sea: Four Novellas of Suspense
by
Joyce Carol Oates
Mysterious Press, 10/06/2020
In the titular novella, an academic in Pennsylvania discovers a terrifying trauma from her past after inheriting a house in Cardiff, Maine from ...
more
Confessions on the 7:45
by
Lisa Unger
Park Row Books, 10/06/2020
Be careful to whom you tell your darkest secrets…
Selena Murphy is commuting home from her job in the city when the train stalls out on the ...
more
Cuyahoga
by
Pete Beatty
Scribner, 10/06/2020
Big Son is a spirit of the times—the times being 1837. Behind his broad shoulders, shiny hair, and church-organ laugh, Big Son practically made ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Dear Child
by
Romy Hausmann
Flatiron Books, 10/06/2020
A windowless shack in the woods. A dash to safety. But when a woman finally escapes her captor, the end of the story is only the beginning of her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Historical Fiction
Eleanor
by
David Michaelis
Simon & Schuster, 10/06/2020
In the first single-volume cradle-to-grave portrait in six decades, acclaimed biographer David Michaelis delivers a stunning account of Eleanor ...
more
Humans
by
Brandon Stanton
St. Martin's Press, 10/06/2020
Brandon Stanton created
Humans of New York in 2010. What began as a photographic census of life in New York City, soon evolved into a storytelling ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
In a Holidaze
by
Christina Lauren
Gallery Books, 10/06/2020
It's the most wonderful time of the year…but not for Maelyn Jones. She's living with her parents, hates her going-nowhere job, and has just made...
more
Romance
Magic Lessons: The Prequel to Practical Magic
by
Alice Hoffman
Simon & Schuster, 10/06/2020
Where does the story of the Owens bloodline begin? With Maria Owens, in the 1600s, when she's abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Missionaries
by
Phil Klay
Penguin Press, 10/06/2020
A group of Colombian soldiers prepares to raid a drug lord's safe house on the Venezuelan border. They're watching him with an American-made drone, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Hollow Places: A Novel
by
T. Kingfisher
Gallery Books, 10/06/2020
Pray they are hungry.
Kara finds the words in the mysterious bunker that she's discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle's house. Freshly...
more
Thrillers
The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard
by
John Birdsall
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/06/2020
In the first portrait of James Beard in twenty-five years, John Birdsall accomplishes what no prior telling of Beard's life and work has done: He ...
more
The Nightworkers
by
Brian Selfon
MCD, 10/06/2020
Shecky Keenan's family is under fire―or at least it feels that way. Bank accounts have closed unexpectedly, a strange car has been parked near ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Searcher
by
Tana French
Viking, 10/06/2020
Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a ...
more
The Sicilian Method: Inspector Montalbano #26
by
Andrea Camilleri
Penguin Books, 10/06/2020
Mimi Augello is visiting his lover when the woman's husband unexpectedly returns to the apartment; he climbs out the window and into the downstairs ...
more
Romance
Trust: America's Best Chance
by
Pete Buttigieg
John Murray, 10/06/2020
In a century warped by terrorism, Trumpism, financial collapse, populism, systemic racism, Russian interference and a global pandemic, trust within ...
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Biography/Memoir
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
by
Ruby Hamad
Catapult, 10/06/2020
Taking us from the slave era, when white women fought in court to keep "ownership" of their slaves, through the centuries of colonialism, when they ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Thrillers
Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
by
Xiaowei Wang
FSG Originals, 10/13/2020
In
Blockchain Chicken Farm, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Come On In: 15 Stories about Immigration and Finding Home
by
Adi Alsaid
Inkyard Press, 10/13/2020
WELCOME
From some of the most exciting bestselling and up-and-coming YA authors writing today…journey from Ecuador to New York City and ...
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Daughters of Jubilation
by
Kara Lee Corthron
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 10/13/2020
In the Jim Crow South, white supremacy reigns and tensions are high. But Evalene Deschamps has other things to worry about. She has two little sisters...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962
by
Martin J. Sherwin
Knopf, 10/13/2020
In this groundbreaking look at the Cuban Missile Crisis, Martin Sherwin not only gives us a riveting sometimes hour-by-hour explanation of the crisis ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Goodnight Beautiful
by
Aimee Molloy
Harper, 10/13/2020
A handsome psychotherapist. His lonely wife. And in his home office ceiling, a vent …
You'd listen too, wouldn't you? (You know you would.)
...
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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: Selected Stories of Nikolai Leskov (New York Review Books Classics)
by
Nikolai Leskov
NYRB Classics, 10/13/2020
Nikolai Leskov is the strangest of the great Russian writers of the nineteenth century. His work is closer to the oral traditions of narrative than ...
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Literary Fiction
Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck
by
William Souder
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/13/2020
The first full-length biography of the Nobel laureate to appear in a quarter century,
Mad at the World illuminates what has made the work of John ...
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Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
by
Adrian Goldsworthy
Basic Books, 10/13/2020
Alexander the Great's conquests staggered the world. He led his army across thousands of miles, overthrowing the greatest empires of his time and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Ring Shout
by
P. Djèlí Clark
Tor Books, 10/13/2020
IN AMERICA, DEMONS WEAR WHITE HOODS.
In 1915,
The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan's ranks and drinking deep from ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Shelter in Place
by
David Leavitt
Bloomsbury USA, 10/13/2020
It is the Saturday after the 2016 presidential election, and in a plush weekend house in Connecticut, an intimate group of friends, New Yorkers all, ...
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The Blind Light: A Novel
by
Stuart Evers
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/13/2020
England, 1959: two young soldiers―Drummond and Carter―form an intense and unlikely friendship at "Doom Town," a training center that ...
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The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life
by
Ricardo Piglia
Restless Books, 10/13/2020
How could we define a perfect day? Maybe it would be better to say: how could I narrate a perfect day?
Is that why I write a diary? To capture&#...more
The Historians: Poems
by
Eavan Boland
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/13/2020
Throughout her nearly sixty-year career, acclaimed poet Eavan Boland came to be known for her exquisite ability to weave myth, history, and the life ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Lost Shtetl
by
Max Gross
HarperVia, 10/13/2020
What if there was a town that history missed?
For decades, the tiny Jewish shtetl of Kreskol existed in happy isolation, virtually untouched and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Magic Fish
by
Trung Le Nguyen
Random House Graphic, 10/13/2020
Real life isn't a fairytale.
But Tiến still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
The Midnight Bargain
by
C.L. Polk
Erewhon Books, 10/13/2020
Beatrice Clayborn is a sorceress who practices magic in secret, terrified of the day she will be locked into a marital collar that will cut off her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The National Road: Dispatches From a Changing America
by
Tom Zoellner
Counterpoint Press, 10/13/2020
From the embattled newsrooms of small town newspapers to the pornography film sets of the Los Angeles basin, from the check-out lanes of Dollar ...
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The Once and Future Witches
by
Alix E. Harrow
Redhook, 10/13/2020
In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Puppetmaster's Apprentice
by
Lisa DeSelm
Page Street Kids, 10/13/2020
When the orders for more soldiers come in with increasingly urgent deadlines, the puppetmaster's health suffers and Pirouette, his daughter and prot&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
by
Robert D. Putnam
Simon & Schuster, 10/13/2020
Deep and accelerating inequality; unprecedented political polarization; vitriolic public discourse; a fraying social fabric; public and private ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley
by
Adrian Daub
FSG Originals, 10/13/2020
Adrian Daub's
What Tech Calls Thinking is a lively dismantling of the ideas that form the intellectual bedrock of Silicon Valley. Equally important to...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
by
Christie Tate
Avid Reader Press, 10/20/2020
Christie Tate had just been named the top student in her law school class and finally had her eating disorder under control. Why then was she driving ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Plain Bad Heroines
by
Emily M. Danforth
William Morrow, 10/20/2020
Our story begins in 1902, at the Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a ...
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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
by
Heather Clark
Knopf, 10/20/2020
With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials--including unpublished letters and manuscripts; court, police, and psychiatric records; and new ...
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Sorrow
by
Tiffanie DeBartolo
Woodhall Press, 10/20/2020
Joe Harper has backpedaled throughout his life. A once-promising guitar prodigy, he's been living without direction since abandoning his musical ...
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
by
Les Payne
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 10/20/2020
Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone...
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The War of the Poor
by
Eric Vuillard
Other Press, 10/20/2020
In the sixteenth century, the Protestant Reformation launched an attack on privilege and the Catholic Church, but it rapidly became an established, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bad Island
by
Stanley Donwood
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/27/2020
A wild seascape, a distant island, a full moon. Gradually the island grows nearer until we land on a primeval wilderness, rich in vegetation and huge,...
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Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975
by
Neal Gabler
Crown, 10/27/2020
In the tradition of the works of Robert Caro and Taylor Branch,
Catching the Wind is the first volume of Neal Gabler's magisterial two-volume ...
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House of Correction
by
Nicci French
William Morrow, 10/27/2020
Tabitha is not a murderer.
When a body is discovered in Okeham, England, Tabitha is shocked to find herself being placed in handcuffs. It must be a...
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Inside Story
by
Martin Amis
Knopf, 10/27/2020
This novel had its birth in the death of Martin Amis's closest friend, the incomparable Christopher Hitchens, and it is within that profound and ...
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The Tower of Fools: The Hussite Trilogy #1
by
Andrzej Sapkowski
Orbit, 10/27/2020
Reinmar of Bielawa, sometimes known as Reynevan, is a healer, a magician, and according to some, a charlatan. When a thoughtless indiscretion forces ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Witch Hunter
by
Max Seeck
Berkley Books, 10/27/2020
A bestselling author's wife has been found dead in a gorgeous black evening gown, sitting at the head of an empty dining table. Her most chilling ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Thirst for Justice: A Novel
by
David R. Boyd
ECW Press, 10/27/2020
Michael MacDougall is a talented trauma surgeon whose life in Seattle is slowly unraveling. Frustrated as an ER doctor and with his marriage in ...
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Thrillers
Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and a 15-Year Search for Truth
by
Scott James
Thomas Dunne Books, 10/27/2020
All it took for a hundred people to die during a show by the hair metal band Great White was a sudden burst from two giant sparklers that ignited the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
After All ...: A Memoir
by
Maria de Lourdes Trautman Mrs.
Independently published, 10/31/2020
Portugal. As a baby, Maria Trautman was abandoned at birth by her mother and was raised by her adoring grandmother. But when her grandmother passed ...
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Biography/Memoir
Girls of Brackenhill
by
Kate Moretti
Thomas & Mercer, 11/01/2020
When Hannah Maloney's aunt dies in a car accident, she returns to her family's castle in the Catskills and the epicenter of a childhood trauma: her ...
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How to Make a Slave and Other Essays
by
Jerald Walker
Mad Creek Press, 11/02/2020
It is on the knife's edge between fury and farce that the essays in this exquisite collection balance. Whether confronting the medical profession's ...
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Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941
by
Alan Allport
Knopf, 11/03/2020
Here is the many-faceted, world-historically significant story of Britain at war. In looking closely at the military and political dimensions of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Butter Honey Pig Bread
by
Francesca Ekwuyasi
Arsenal Pulp Press, Limited, 11/03/2020
Kambirinachi believes that she is an Ogbanje, or an Abiku, a non-human spirit that plagues a family with misfortune by being born and then dying in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Miss Benson's Beetle
by
Rachel Joyce
Dial Press, 11/03/2020
She's going too far to go it alone.
It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and Margery Benson, a schoolteacher and spinster, is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Red Ants
by
José Pergentino
Deep Vellum Publishing, 11/03/2020
This vibrant collection of short stories by Pergentino José updates magical realism for the 21st century. Red Ants paints a candid picture of ...
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Short Stories
Shadow Sands: Kate Marshall #2
by
Robert Bryndza
Thomas & Mercer, 11/03/2020
Criminology academic Kate Marshall is on a scuba jaunt with her son when they dive toward a shocking discovery: the body of a teenage boy entangled ...
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Sicily '43: The First Assault on Fortress Europe
by
James Holland
Atlantic Monthly Press, 11/03/2020
Operation HUSKY, as it was known, was enormously complex, involving dramatic battles on land, in the air, and at sea. Yet, despite its paramount ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Dirty South: Charlie Parker #18
by
John Connolly
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 11/03/2020
It is 1997, and someone is slaughtering young women in Burdon County, Arkansas.
But no one in the Dirty South wants to admit it.
In an Arkansas ...
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The Perfumer: Scent of Triumph (Heartwarming Family Sagas - Stand-Alone Fiction)
by
Jan Moran
Sunny Palms Press, 11/03/2020
Europe, 1939: At the dawn of World War II, French perfumer Danielle Bretancourt and her German husband strive to ensure their family's safety, yet ...
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Historical Fiction
The Russian Pink
by
Matthew Hart
Pegasus Books, 11/03/2020
When "The Russian Pink"—a stunningly large rose-hued diamond—makes a surprise appearance around the neck of Honey Li, the wife of surging ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
by
Laura Taylor Namey
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 11/10/2020
For Lila Reyes, a summer in England was never part of the plan. The plan was 1) take over her abuela's role as head baker at their panadería, 2) ...
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After All I've Done
by
Mina Hardy
Crooked Lane Books, 11/10/2020
She's lost her best friend, her husband--and possibly, her mind.
Five months ago, an accident left Diana Sparrow badly injured and missing a few ...
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Agatha Arch is Afraid of Everything
by
Kristin Bair
Alcove Press, 11/10/2020
Agatha Arch's life shatters when she discovers her husband in their backyard shed, in flagrante delicto, giving the local dog walker some heavy ...
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At Night All Blood Is Black
by
David Diop
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/10/2020
Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting as a so-called "Chocolat" soldier with the French ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Factory Witches of Lowell
by
C.S. Malerich
Tor.com, 11/10/2020
Faced with abominable working conditions, unsympathetic owners, and hard-hearted managers, the mill girls of Lowell have had enough. They're going on ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
by
Kermit Pattison
William Morrow, 11/10/2020
In 1994, a team led by fossil-hunting legend Tim White—"the Steve Jobs of paleoanthropology"—uncovered the bones of a human ancestor in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Murder in Old Bombay: A Mystery
by
Nev March
Minotaur Books, 11/10/2020
In 1892, Bombay is the center of British India. Nearby, Captain Jim Agnihotri lies in Poona military hospital recovering from a skirmish on the wild ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Odessa: Volume 1
by
Jonathan Hill
Oni Press, 11/10/2020
Eight years ago an earthquake—the Big One—hit along the Cascadia fault line, toppling cities and changing landscapes all up and down the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
by
Jeffrey H. Jackson
Algonquin Books, 11/10/2020
Devising their own PSYOPS campaign, they slipped their notes into soldier's pockets or tucked them inside newsstand magazines.
Hunted by the secret...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Smile: A Graphic Novel
by
Raina Telgemeier
Graphix, 11/10/2020
Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows...
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Graphic Novels
Somewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir
by
Kao Kalia Yang
Metropolitan Books, 11/10/2020
All over this country, there are refugees. But beyond the headlines, few know who they are, how they live, or what they have lost. Although Minnesota ...
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South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
by
Alice L. Baumgartner
Basic Books, 11/10/2020
The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Kingdom
by
Jo Nesbo
Knopf, 11/10/2020
Roy has never left the quiet mountain town he grew up in, unlike his little brother Carl who couldn't wait to get out and escape his troubled past. ...
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They're Gone
by
E.A. Barres
Crooked Lane Books, 11/10/2020
Two men from vastly different backgrounds are murdered one after another on the same night, in the same fashion with two bullet wounds: one in the ...
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We Gather Together: A Nation Divided, a President in Turmoil, and a Historic Campaign to Embrace Gratitude and Grace
by
Denise Kiernan
Dutton, 11/10/2020
From Ancient Rome through 21st-century America, bestselling author Denise Kiernan brings us a biography of an idea: gratitude, as a compelling human ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
by
Becky Cooper
Grand Central Publishing, 11/10/2020
You have to remember, he reminded me, that Harvard is older than the U.S. government. You have to remember because Harvard doesn't let you forget.
...
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Mountain Man
by
Vardis Fisher
Dead Authors Society, 11/13/2020
After his beloved Indian wife is murdered, Sam Minard becomes obsessed with vengeance, and his fortunes become intertwined with those of Kate Bowden, ...
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Historical Fiction
A Promised Land
by
Barack Obama
Crown, 11/17/2020
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man ...
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Biography/Memoir
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Heartwarming Novel of Time Travel, Magical Realism and the Power of Healing (Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series, 1)
by
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Hanover Square Press, 11/17/2020
In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Here Is the Beehive
by
Sarah Crossan
Little Brown & Company, 11/17/2020
But nothing could have prepared Ana for the call from Rebecca Taylor, explaining in a strangely calm tone that her husband Connor was killed in an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
One of Our Own: Gregor Demarkian #30
by
Jane Haddam
Minotaur Books, 11/17/2020
A mysterious black van is spotted by several people at various times in the area around Cavanaugh Street, Philadelphia's Armenian-American enclave. ...
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Soulswift
by
Megan Bannen
Balzer + Bray, 11/17/2020
Gelya is a Vessel, a girl who channels the word of the One True God through song. Cloistered with the other Vessels of her faith, she believes—...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Lady Upstairs
by
Halley Sutton
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 11/17/2020
Jo's job is blackmailing the most lecherous men in Los Angeles--handsy Hollywood producers, adulterous actors, corrupt cops. Sure, she likes the money...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest
by
Ed Caesar
Avid Reader Press, 11/17/2020
In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Night of the Fire: Ann Lindell Mysteries #8
by
Kjell Eriksson
Minotaur Books, 11/17/2020
Police inspector Ann Lindell has left the Uppsala police and is living a quiet life, producing local cheese in a small town in Uppland. But life in ...
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The Story of China: The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream
by
Michael Wood
St. Martin's Press, 11/17/2020
Michael Wood has travelled the length and breadth of China, the world's oldest civilization and longest lasting state, to tell a thrilling story of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
This Is Not My Memoir
by
André Gregory
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/17/2020
This is Not My Memoir tells the life story of André Gregory, iconic theatre director, writer, and actor. For the first time, Gregory shares ...
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Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West
by
Cassandra Tate
Sasquatch Books, 11/17/2020
In 1836, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, devout missionaries from upstate New York, established a Presbyterian mission on Cayuse Indian land near what is...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The March Fallen (A Gereon Rath Mystery)
by
Volker Kutscher
Sandstone Press, 11/23/2020
Gereon Rath is brought onto the case just as the Reichstag mysteriously burns down. Unsettled by the Nazis' tightening grip; he and Charlotte Ritter ...
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Historical Fiction
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War
by
William G. Thomas III
Yale University Press, 11/24/2020
For over seventy years and five generations, the enslaved families of Prince George's County, Maryland, filed hundreds of suits for their freedom ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Carving Out a Humanity: Race, Rights, and Redemption
by
Vincent Southerland, Janet Dewart Bell
The New Press, 11/24/2020
Carving Out a Humanity gathers some of our country's brightest progressive legal stars in a volume that illuminates the facets of the law that have ...
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Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places
by
Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood, Dan Richards
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/24/2020
In
Holloway, "a perfect miniature prose-poem" (William Dalrymple), Macfarlane, artist Stanley Donwood, and writer Dan Richards travel to Dorset, near ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
How to Raise an Elephant: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (21)
by
Alexander McCall Smith
Pantheon Books, 11/24/2020
Precious Ramotswe loves her dependable old van. Yes, it sometimes takes a bit longer to get going now, and it has developed some quirks over the years...
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Mysteries
Thrillers
The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams
by
David S. Brown
Scribner, 11/24/2020
Henry Adams is perhaps the most eclectic, accomplished, and important American writer of his time. His autobiography and modern classic
The Education ...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Last Days of Ellis Island
by
Gaëlle Josse
World Editions, 11/24/2020
John Mitchell, an officer of the Bureau of Immigration, is the guardian and last resident of the island. As Mitchell looks back over forty-five years ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Thirty Names of Night
by
Zeyn Joukhadar
Atria Books, 11/24/2020
Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new ...
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