A Good Indian Girl: A Novel
by
Mansi Shah
Prospect Park Books, 09/03/2024
Jyoti is the "perfect" Indian American daughter: She stayed out of trouble, looked after her younger sisters, and married a man her parents approved ...
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Literary Fiction
A Second Chance on Earth
by
Juan Vidal
Holiday House, 09/03/2024
Have you ever encountered a book that KO'd you, Iron Mike Tyson style? One that hit you square in the face and heart like some abracadabra casting a ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Babe in the Woods: or, The Art of Getting Lost
by
Julie Heffernan
Algonquin Books, 09/03/2024
One summer day, a young artist with a newborn—sleep-deprived, desperate to escape her hot, cramped apartment and her oblivious husband—...
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Graphic Novels
Becoming Elizabeth Arden: The Woman Behind the Global Beauty Empire
by
Stacy A. Cordery
Viking, 09/03/2024
Elizabeth Arden was a household name on six continents and a millionaire several times over before her death in 1966. Arden counted British royalty ...
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Between Two Sounds: Arvo Pärt's Journey to His Musical Language
by
Joonas Sildre
Plough, 09/03/2024
Based on years of research and close collaboration with Arvo Pärt himself, Joonas Sildre paints an atmospheric portrait of a restless artist who ...
more
Blooming in the Ruins: How Mexican Philosophy Can Guide Us toward the Good Life
by
Carlos Alberto Sánchez
Oxford University Press, 09/03/2024
When we think of philosophy that can guide us in our everyday lives, we are more likely to think of Ancient Greece or Rome than we are 20th-century ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Blue Sisters: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel
by
Coco Mellors
Ballantine Books, 09/03/2024
The three Blue sisters are exceptional—and exceptionally different. Avery, the eldest and a recovering heroin addict turned strait-laced lawyer,...
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Literary Fiction
Category Five: Superstorms and the Warming Oceans That Feed Them
by
Porter Fox
Little Brown & Company, 09/03/2024
Here is the story of the largest storms on earth and how those storms are growing bigger and stronger. The tale of extreme weather doesn't begin with ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Chaos Comes Calling: The Battle Against the Far-Right Takeover of Small-Town America
by
Sasha Abramsky
Bold Type Books, 09/03/2024
Donald Trump's November 2016 electoral victory was the beginning of four years of demagogy, presidential name-calling, and—ten months into a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Cocaine and Rhinestones: A History of George Jones and Tammy Wynette
by
Tyler Mahan Coe
Simon & Schuster, 09/03/2024
By the early 1960s nearly everybody paying attention to country music agreed that George Jones was the greatest country singer of all time. After ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Compound Fracture
by
Andrew Joseph White
Peachtree Teen, 09/03/2024
On the night Miles Abernathy—sixteen-year-old socialist and proud West Virginian—comes out as trans to his parents, he sneaks off to a ...
more
Death at the Sign of the Rook: Jackson Brodie Series
by
Kate Atkinson
Doubleday, 09/03/2024
In his sleepy Yorkshire town, ex-detective Jackson Brodie is staving off boredom and malaise. His only case is the seemingly tedious matter of a ...
more
Facing Suicide: Understanding Why People Kill Themselves and How We Can Stop Them
by
James Barrat
Avery, 09/03/2024
Suicide has reached epidemic proportions in America, claiming over 45,000 lives each year—more than car accidents or homicides. For every person...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America
by
Rebecca L. Davis
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/03/2024
Our era is one of sexual upheaval.
Roe v. Wade was overturned in the summer of 2022, school systems across the country are banning books with LGBTQ+ ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Guide Me Home: Highway 59 #3
by
Attica Locke
Little Brown & Company, 09/03/2024
Texas Ranger Darren Mathews isn't sure he's been a good cop, but believes he's got a shot at being a good man—if he manages to dodge the ...
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Haunt Sweet Home
by
Sarah Pinsker
Tor Books, 09/03/2024
"Don't talk to day about what we do at night."
When aimless twenty-something Mara lands a job as the night-shift production assistant on her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Herscht 07769
by
László Krasznahorkai
New Directions Publishing, 09/03/2024
The gentle giant Florian Herscht has a problem: having faithfully attended Herr Köhler's adult education classes in physics, he is convinced that...
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Literary Fiction
Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life
by
Richard Beck
Crown, 09/03/2024
For twenty years after September 11, the war on terror was simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. With all of the military violence occurring overseas...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness
by
Jamil Zaki
Grand Central Publishing, 09/03/2024
Cynicism is an understandable response to a world full of injustice and inequality. But in many cases, it is misplaced. Dozens of studies find that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
I Don't Care
by
Ágota Kristóf
New Directions Publishing, 09/03/2024
Written immediately before her masterful trilogy (
The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie), Kristof's short fictions oscillate between parable, ...
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If Only
by
Vigdis Hjorth
Verso, 09/03/2024
A relatively young woman, aged thirty. She married in her early twenties, had two children. It is winter. January and minus 14°C, white, frosty ...more
Immortal Dark
by
Tigest Girma
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 09/03/2024
It began long before my time, but something has always hunted our family.
Orphaned heiress Kidan Adane grew up far from the arcane society she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Infinite Life: The Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution, and Life on Earth
by
Jules Howard
Pegasus Books, 09/03/2024
Eggs are the origins of 90 percent of the Earth's organisms. They can be found as far apart as deep-sea volcanoes and in space. Yet despite their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Letters to Forget: Poems
by
Kelly Caldwell
Knopf, 09/03/2024
With searing intelligence and great sensitivity, the poems of Kelly Caldwell—many addressed to the poet Cass Donish, her partner in the years ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company
by
Alice Driver
One Signal, 09/03/2024
On June 27, 2011, a deadly chemical accident took place inside the Tyson Foods chicken processing plant in Springdale, Arkansas, where the company is ...
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Biography/Memoir
Lovely One: A Memoir
by
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Random House, 09/03/2024
With this unflinching account, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson invites readers into her life and world, tracing her family's ascent from segregation to ...
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Biography/Memoir
May Our Joy Endure
by
Kevin Lambert
Biblioasis, 09/03/2024
But instead of the triumph she anticipates in finally bringing her reputation to bear in her own city, the project is excoriated by critics, who ...
more
No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust
by
Chris Heath
Schocken Books, 09/03/2024
No Road Leading Back is the remarkable story of a dozen prisoners who escaped from the site where more than 70,000 Jews were shot in the Lithuanian ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
One Last Chance to Live
by
Francisco X. Stork
Scholastic Press, 09/03/2024
Nico has always believed in his dreams. Especially the dream he has of becoming a writer; it's the reason why he started taking a creative writing ...
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Our Green Heart: The Soul and Science of Forests
by
Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Random House Canada, 09/03/2024
As the last child in Ireland to receive a full Druidic education, Diana Beresford-Kroeger has brought an unusual and ancient holistic attitude to the ...
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Essays
Rebel Fire: Rebel Skies #2
by
Ann Sei Lin
Tundra Books, 09/03/2024
Kurara has barely escaped the grasp of Princess Tsukimi. Reeling from her Crafter mentor's grim betrayal, Kurara and her friends are desperate to ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Scotland Yard: A History of the London Police Force's Most Infamous Murder Cases
by
Simon Read
Pegasus Crime, 09/03/2024
The idea of "Scotland Yard" is steeped in atmospheric stories of foggy London streets, murder by lamplight, and fiendish killers pursued by gentleman ...
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Songlight: The Torch Trilogy #1
by
Moira Buffini
HarperCollins Publishers, 09/03/2024
We're two songs joined. And there's a word for that. A harmony.
Elsa is used to hiding the most important parts of herself—her feelings for...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The English Chemist: The Story of Rosalind Franklin: A Novel
by
Jessica Mills
Pegasus Books, 09/03/2024
Rosalind Franklin knows that to be a woman in a man's world is to be invisible. In the 1950s, science is a gentleman's profession and in the years ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Haunting of Moscow House
by
Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
Berkley Books, 09/03/2024
It is the summer of 1921, and a group of Bolsheviks have taken over Irina and Lili Goliteva's ancestral home in Moscow, a stately mansion ...
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Historical Fiction
The Life Impossible: A Novel
by
Matt Haig
Viking, 09/03/2024
When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. ...
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The Loss of the Burying Ground
by
J. Anderson Coats
Candlewick Press, 09/03/2024
When the
Burying Ground goes down in neutral waters, it sends the delegations from two warring nations—and the peace treaty they were about to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Salt Thief: Gandhi's Heroic March to Freedom
by
Neal Bascomb
Scholastic Focus, 09/03/2024
Scholastic Focus is the premier home of thoroughly researched, beautifully written, and thoughtfully designed works of narrative nonfiction aimed at ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Unfinished
by
Cheryl Isaacs
Heartdrum, 09/03/2024
When small-town athlete Avery's morning run leads her to a strange pond in the middle of the forest, she awakens a horror the townspeople of Crook's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Whisper Sister: A Novel
by
Jennifer S. Brown
Lake Union Publishing, 09/03/2024
The streets of New York in 1920 are most certainly not paved with gold, as Minnie Soffer learns when she arrives at Ellis Island. Her father, who left...
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Literary Fiction
The Whitewashed Tombs: Emma Djan Investigations #4
by
Kwei Quartey
Soho Crime, 09/03/2024
Marcelo Tetteh, a twenty-seven-year-old LGBTQ+ activist, is butchered one night after being lured on a dating app to a deserted building site. With ...
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The World She Edited: Katharine S. White
by
Amy Reading
Mariner Books, 09/03/2024
In the summer of 1925, Katharine Sergeant Angell White walked into
The New Yorker's midtown office and left with a job as an editor. The magazine was ...
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Two Wheels to Freedom: The Story of a Young Jew, Wartime Resistance, and a Daring Escape
by
Arthur J. Magida
Pegasus Books, 09/03/2024
Though Cioma Schonhaus was only 11 years old when the Nazis first came to power, his cleverness and resourcefulness eventually made him an unlikely ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
by
Harald Jähner
Basic Books, 09/03/2024
Out of the ashes of the First World War, Germany launched an unprecedented political project: its first democratic government. The Weimar Republic, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
We'll Prescribe You a Cat
by
Syou Ishida
Berkley Books, 09/03/2024
Tucked away in an old building at the end of a narrow alley in Kyoto, the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul can only be found by people who are struggling in...
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Literary Fiction
We're Alone: Essays
by
Edwidge Danticat
Graywolf Press, 09/03/2024
Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat's childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in
We're Alone include ...
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Where They Last Saw Her: A Novel
by
Marcie R. Rendon
Bantam Books, 09/03/2024
All they heard was her scream.
Quill has lived on the Red Pine reservation in Minnesota her whole life. She knows what happens to women who look ...
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Your Dazzling Death: Poems
by
Cass Donish
Knopf, 09/03/2024
In
Your Dazzling Death, Cass Donish courageously summons the poems to witness their own state of "obliteration," widowed by suicide and isolated as a ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Blackwater I:The Flood
by
Michael McDowell
Penguin Books, 09/05/2024
Led by Mary-Love, the powerful matriarch, and by Oscar, her devoted son, the family must pick itself back up. But what they haven't anticipated is the...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men: The Forgotten British Special Operations Soldiers of World War II
by
Shannon Monaghan
Viking, 09/10/2024
There have always been special warriors; Achilles and his Myrmidons are the obvious classical examples. What we now think of as "special operations," ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Way to Be Happy
by
Caroline Adderson
Biblioasis, 09/10/2024
On New Year's Eve, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to fund their own recovery. A recently separated woman relocates to a ...
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A Woman Among Wolves: My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery
by
Diane K. Boyd
Greystone Books, 09/10/2024
Called the Jane Goodall of wolves, world-renowned wildlife biologist Diane Boyd has spent four decades studying and advocating for wolves in the wilds...
more
Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class
by
Sarah Smarsh
Scribner, 09/10/2024
In
Bone of the Bone, Sarah Smarsh brings her graceful storytelling and incisive critique to the challenges that define our times—class division,...
more
Bright I Burn: A Novel
by
Molly Aitken
Knopf, 09/10/2024
In thirteenth-century Ireland, a woman with power is a woman to be feared.
Alice, the daughter of a wealthy innkeeper in Kilkenny, grows up ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
by
Rebecca Nagle
Harper, 09/10/2024
Before 2020, American Indian reservations made up roughly 55 million acres of land in the United States. Nearly 200 million acres are reserved for ...
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Death at the Sanatorium: A Mystery
by
Ragnar Jonasson
Minotaur Books, 09/10/2024
1983
At a former sanatorium in the north of Iceland, now a hospital ward, an old nurse, Yrsa, is found murdered. Detective Hulda Hermannsdottir ...
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Einstein's Tutor: The Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics
by
Lee Phillips
Public Affairs, 09/10/2024
Emmy Noether is one of the most important figures in the history of science and mathematics.
Noether's mathematical genius enabled Einstein...
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Biography/Memoir
First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream
by
Jessica Hoppe
Flatiron Books, 09/10/2024
In this deeply moving and lyrical memoir, Hoppe shares an intimate, courageous account of what it means to truly interrupt cycles of harm. For readers...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Friendly Fire: A Fractured Memoir
by
Paul Rousseau
Harper Horizon, 09/10/2024
At some point in the course of Paul and Mark's friendship, Mark acquired—legally and with required permits—five firearms. Those weapons ...
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Gita Desai Is Not Here to Shut Up
by
Sonia Patel
Dial Books, 09/10/2024
It's eighteen-year-old Gita Desai's first year at Stanford, and the fact that she's here and not already married off by her traditional Gujarati ...
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Here One Moment
by
Liane Moriarty
Crown, 09/10/2024
If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate?
Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something extraordinary happens. People ...
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Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses
by
M. G. Sheftall
Dutton, 09/10/2024
In this vividly rendered historical narrative, M. G. Sheftall layers the stories of
hibakusha—the Japanese word for atomic bomb survivors—...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How to Lose a Best Friend
by
Jordan K. Casomar
MTV Books, 09/10/2024
For as long as anyone can remember, Zeke Ladoja and Imogen Parker have been best friends. Their classmates, their parents, and even the school ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
I Remember Fallujah: A Novel
by
Feurat Alani
Other Press, 09/10/2024
As a young man in the early 1970s, Rami fled his home to escape Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. In France, he built a new life and had a family, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Ida, in Love and in Trouble
by
Veronica Chambers
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 09/10/2024
Before she became a warrior, Ida B. Wells was an incomparable flirt with a quick wit and a dream of becoming a renowned writer. The first child of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Kareem Between
by
Shifa Saltagi Safadi
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 09/10/2024
Seventh grade begins, and Kareem's already fumbled it.
His best friend moved away, he messed up his tryout for the football team, and because of ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Mayor of the Tenderloin: Del Seymour's Journey from Living on the Streets to Fighting Homelessness in San Francisco
by
Alison Owings
Beacon Press, 09/10/2024
In
Mayor of the Tenderloin, journalist Alison Owings slips behind the cold statistics and sensationalism surrounding San Francisco's Tenderloin to ...
more
Nature, Culture, and Inequality: A Comparative and Historical Perspective
by
Thomas Piketty
Other Press, 09/10/2024
In this unique work, Thomas Piketty presents a synthesis of his historical and comparative research on inequality. He challenges the idea that there ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
by
Yuval Noah Harari
Random House, 09/10/2024
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite allour discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Olive Days
by
Jessica Elisheva Emerson
Counterpoint Press, 09/10/2024
Rina Kirsch is a young mother and Modern Orthodox Jew in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood of Los Angeles. Dutifully keeping to the formidable ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Once More from the Top: A Novel
by
Emily Layden
Mariner Books, 09/10/2024
Everyone in America knows Dylan Read, or at least has heard her music. Since releasing her debut album her senior year of high school, Dylan's spent ...
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Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority
by
Anne Anlin Cheng
Pantheon Books, 09/10/2024
Part memoir, part cultural criticism, part history, Anne Anlin Cheng's original essays focus on art, politics, and popular culture. Through personal ...
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Passiontide: A Novel
by
Monique Roffey
Knopf, 09/10/2024
The quiet calm of Ash Wednesday morning. Carnival is over. Everyone on the small island of St. Colibri is sleeping peacefully. Everyone except Sora ...
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Mysteries
Quarterlife: A Novel
by
Devika Rege
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 09/10/2024
"In the fashion of the big novels by Salman Rushdie or Amitav Ghosh"
(Biblio), Quarterlife is a groundbreaking portrait of a nation on the cusp of a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Rage: On Being Queer, Black, Brilliant ... and Completely Over It
by
Lester Fabian Brathwaite
Tiny Reparations, 09/10/2024
One romantic hopeful had greeted Lester Fabian Brathwaite on a dating app with this gem: "You into race play?" Being young, queer, gifted, and Black, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Represent: The Unfinished Fight for the Vote
by
Michael Eric Dyson, Marc Favreau
Little Brown & Company, 09/10/2024
One of the most important and least understood true stories of our nation, the fight for representation is an ongoing and epic quest to build the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Reservoir Bitches: Stories
by
Dahlia de la Cerda
The Feminist Press at CUNY, 09/10/2024
"Life's a bitch. That's why you gotta rattle her cage, even if she's foaming at the mouth." In the linked stories of
Reservoir Bitches, thirteen ...
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Short Stories
Shame on You: How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification
by
Melissa Petro
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/10/2024
For millions of women, shame is a vicious predator. It tells us we are
less than, that we are
unworthy. We try everything to escape shame—...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Still Life: A Novel
by
Katherine Packert Burke
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/10/2024
Everything in Edith's life is approaching disaster. Her writing career is stagnant. Her love life is a mess. Her ex, Tessa, is marrying a man. Her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
by
Arlie Russell Hochschild
The New Press, 09/10/2024
For all the attempts to understand the state of American politics and the blue/red divide, we've ignored what economic and cultural loss can do to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle that Saved a Child's Life
by
Rachel Clarke
Scribner, 09/10/2024
The first of our organs to form and the last to die, the heart is both a simple pump and the symbol of what makes us human; as long as it continues to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
by
Parmy Olson
St. Martin's Press, 09/10/2024
It was more human than a customer service agent, more convenient than a Google search. Behind the scenes, battles for control and prestige between the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife: A Novel
by
Anna Johnston
William Morrow, 09/10/2024
"Would you mind terribly, old boy, if I borrowed the rest of your life? I promise I'll take excellent care of it."
Frederick Fife was born with an...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Devil By Name: Fever House Duology #2
by
Keith Rosson
Random House, 09/10/2024
Five years after the event that drove most of the global population to madness, the world is overrun with the "fevered"—once-human, zombielike ...
more
The Examiner: A Novel
by
Janice Hallett
Atria Books, 09/10/2024
Gela Nathaniel, head of Royal Hastings University's new Multimedia Art course, must find six students from all walks of life across the United Kingdom...
more
The Mesmerist: A Novel
by
Caroline Woods
Doubleday, 09/10/2024
Before hypnotism, there was Mesmerism. And in 1894 Minneapolis, in the wake of a national financial crisis, spiritualism of every stripe is all the ...
more
The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
by
Roland Allen
Biblioasis, 09/10/2024
We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did these indispensable implements come from? How did they revolutionize our lives? And how can using a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Shadow Key: A Novel
by
Susan Stokes-Chapman
Harper, 09/10/2024
Dismissed from his post at a prestigious London hospital, Dr. Henry Talbot has little choice but to accept a mysterious offer of employment as a ...
more
Mysteries
The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice
by
Dan Slepian
Celadon, 09/10/2024
In 2002, Dan Slepian, a veteran producer for NBC's
Dateline, received a tip from a Bronx homicide detective that two men were serving twenty-five ...
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Critics' Consensus:
True Crime
Debut Author
The Sky Beneath Us
by
Fiona Valpy
Lake Union Publishing, 09/10/2024
1927. Violet Mackenzie-Grant is embarking on her dream of studying at the Edinburgh School of Gardening for Women. She doesn't yet know that it's a ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Witch of Colchis: A Novel
by
Rosie Hewlett
Sourcebooks Landmark, 09/10/2024
A disgraced daughter. A fearsome witch.
A woman more myth than mortal.
Medea, princess of Colchis, longs for a different life. Since ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Women Behind the Door: A Novel
by
Roddy Doyle
Viking, 09/10/2024
At sixty-six, Paula Spencer—mother, grandmother, widow, addict, survivor—has finally started to live her life. She has a job at the dry ...
more
Train to Oblivion: A Novel
by
Moira Millán
Amazon Crossing, 09/10/2024
Llankaray's grandmother left a rich inheritance: her medicine, an undefeatable spirit, and the stories of her Mapuche ancestors. These tales are ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Two-Step Devil
by
Jamie Quatro
Grove Press, 09/10/2024
The "fearless" (
New Yorker) author of
I Want to Show You More and
Fire Sermon—whose recently published stories in
The New Yorker and
The Paris ...more
We Choose To: A Memoir of Providing Abortion Care Before, During, and After Roe
by
Dr. Curtis Boyd MD, Glenna Halvorson-Boyd PhD RN
Disruption, 09/10/2024
Their stories begin in the 1960s, as Curtis opens a clandestine abortion practice while breaking with the beliefs of his Baptist family and Glenna ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir
by
Mary L. Trump PhD
St. Martin's Press, 09/10/2024
Mary Trump grew up in a family divided by its patriarch's relentless drive for money and power. The daughter of Freddy Trump, the highly accomplished,...
more
William
by
Mason Coile
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/10/2024
Henry is a brilliant engineer who, after untold hours spent in his home lab, has achieved the breakthrough of his career—he's created an ...
more
You Must Stand Up: The Fight for Abortion Rights in Post-Dobbs America
by
Amanda Becker
Bloomsbury Publishing, 09/10/2024
When the Supreme Court decided
Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization- overturning the constitutional right to abortion care-the country was ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Muzzle for Witches
by
Dubravka Ugresic
Open Letter, 09/17/2024
But the book is more than a simple interview: It's a roadmap of the literary world, exploring the past century and all of its violence and turmoil&#...
more
A Sunny Place for Shady People: Stories
by
Mariana Enriquez
Hogarth Books, 09/17/2024
On the shores of this river, all the birds that fly, drink, perch on branches, and disturb siestas with the demonic squawking of the possessed—...more
Alien Clay
by
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Orbit, 09/17/2024
The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates, the journey there is always a one-way trip. One such ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health
by
Marty Makary M.D.
Bloomsbury Publishing, 09/17/2024
More Americans have peanut allergies today than at any point in history. Why? In 2000, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a strict ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
by
Kate Conger, Ryan Mac
Penguin Press, 09/17/2024
The billionaire entrepreneur and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has become inextricable from the social media platform that until 2023 was known as Twitter. ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Connie: A Memoir
by
Connie Chung
Grand Central Publishing, 09/17/2024
Connie Chung is a pioneer. In 1969 at the age of 23, this once-shy daughter of Chinese parents took her first job at a local TV station in her ...
more
Elaine
by
Will Self
Grove Press, 09/17/2024
Will Self is one of the most inimitable contemporary writers in the English language, dubbed "the most daring and delightful novelist of his ...
more
Entitlement: A Novel
by
Rumaan Alam
Riverhead Books, 09/17/2024
Brooke wants. She isn't in need, but there are things she wants. A sense of purpose, for instance. She wants to make a difference in the world, to ...
more
Everything to Play For: An Insider's Guide to How Videogames are Changing Our World
by
Marijam Did
Verso, 09/17/2024
Everything To Play For asks if videogames can achieve egalitarian goals instead of fuelling hyper-materialist, reactionary agendas. Combining cultural...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Frighten the Horses
by
Oliver Radclyffe
Roxane Gay Books, 09/17/2024
From the outside, Oliver Radclyffe spent four decades living an immensely privileged, beautifully composed life. As the daughter of two well-to-do ...
more
Health and Safety: A Breakdown
by
Emily Witt
Pantheon Books, 09/17/2024
In the summer of 2016, a divisive presidential election was underway, and a new breed of right-wing rage was on the rise. Emily Witt, who would soon ...
more
I Dreamed of Falling: A Novel
by
Julia Dahl
Minotaur Books, 09/17/2024
Roman Grady is the sole reporter for the local newspaper in a tiny Hudson Valley town - a town so small that every store opening and DUI is considered...
more
If Anything Happens To Me
by
Luanne Rice
Scholastic Press, 09/17/2024
It's been eight months since the body of Eloise Parrish was found in the woods.
Eloise's surviving sister, Oli, is numb with grief and shock. But...
more
Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
by
Sonia Purnell
Viking, 09/17/2024
When Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were predictably scathing – and many were downright sexist. Written ...
more
Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
by
Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig
Penguin Books, 09/17/2024
Soon after announcing his first campaign for the US presidency, Donald J. Trump told a national television audience that life "has not been easy for ...
more
Biography/Memoir
My Lesbian Novel
by
Renee Gladman
Dorothy, a publishing project, 09/17/2024
The narrator of
My Lesbian Novel is Renee Gladman, an artist and writer who has produced the same acclaimed body of experimental art and prose as real...
more
One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman: A Mother's Story
by
Abi Maxwell
Knopf, 09/17/2024
Abi Maxwell grew up in rural New Hampshire, one of eight kids in a poor town abutting a wealthier lakeside village. As a young couple, Maxwell and her...
more
Overstaying
by
Ariane Koch
Dorothy, a publishing project, 09/17/2024
"I don't see my writing as chronological or classically narrative, but as spatial—a kind of architecture. I keep adding rooms, and readers can ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Question 7
by
Richard Flanagan
Knopf, 09/17/2024
By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave laborer near Hiroshima when the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Remember, You Are a Wiley
by
Maya Wiley
Grand Central Publishing, 09/17/2024
Born in a country that has repeatedly traumatized her and her loved ones, Maya Wiley grew up in a household that prioritized activism, hope, and ...
more
Ruin Road
by
Lamar Giles
Scholastic Press, 09/17/2024
Cade Webster lives between worlds. He's a standout football star at the right school but lives in the wrong neighborhood — if you let his ...
more
Scaffolding: A Novel
by
Lauren Elkin
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/17/2024
After a miscarriage and a breakdown, Anna, a psychoanalyst, finds herself unable to return to work, obsessing instead over a kitchen renovation and ...
more
Stench: The Making of the Thomas Court and the Unmaking of America
by
David Brock
Knopf, 09/17/2024
Public confidence in the Supreme Court has plummeted to new lows in the last few years—and for good reason. In the past three decades, six ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy
by
Jessica Pishko
Dutton, 09/17/2024
The figure of the American sheriff has loomed large in popular imagination, though given the outsize jurisdiction sheriffs have over people's lives, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Lantern of Lost Memories
by
Sanaka Hiiragi
Grand Central Publishing, 09/17/2024
The hands and pendulum of the old wooden clock on the wall were motionless. Hirasaka cocked his head to listen, but the silence inside the photo ...more
The Lies We Conjure
by
Sarah Henning
Tor Books, 09/17/2024
Ruby and her sister, Wren, are normal, middle-class Colorado high school students working a summer job at the local Renaissance Fest to supplement ...
more
The Night We Lost Him: A Novel
by
Laura Dave
Marysue Rucci Books, 09/17/2024
Liam Noone was many things to many people. To the public, he was an exacting, self-made hotel magnate fleeing his past. To his three ex-wives, he was ...
more
The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts
by
Louis Bayard
Algonquin Books, 09/17/2024
In September of 1892, Oscar Wilde and his family retreated to the idyllic Norfolk countryside for a holiday. His wife, Constance, has every ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening
by
Elizabeth Rosner
Counterpoint Press, 09/17/2024
Third Ear braids together personal narrative with scholarly inquiry to examine the power of listening to build interpersonal empathy and social ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Transfarmation: The Movement to Free Us from Factory Farming
by
Leah Garcés
Beacon Press, 09/17/2024
In
Transfarmation, president and CEO of Mercy For Animals Leah Garcés explains how food and farming policies have failed over decades and offers ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Ultra 85
by
Logic
Simon & Schuster, 09/17/2024
In the year 2115, when the Earth is no longer inhabitable, the remainder of humanity lives in Babel, a giant space station. Two pilots, Quentin and ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Us Fools
by
Nora Lange
Two Dollar Radio, 09/17/2024
Joanne and Bernadette Fareown are raised on their family farm in rural Illinois, keenly affected by their parents' volatile relationship and mounting ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
We Are Hunted
by
Tomi Oyemakinde
Feiwel & Friends, 09/17/2024
Experience paradise, reimagined.
When 17-year-old Femi Fatona and his older brother are forced to accompany their dad to an island resort, Femi ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures
by
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
One World, 09/17/2024
Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side. This provocative and joyous book maps an ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Borrowed Path
by
Imogen Clark
Lake Union Publishing, 09/24/2024
Eve has always had a tricky relationship with her mother, Agatha, and returning to Fox House, the family home, hasn't made it any easier. When Eve's ...
more
Historical Fiction
A Cure for Sorrow: A Novel
by
Jen Wheeler
Lake Union Publishing, 09/24/2024
Convention-flouting Nora Harris is a determined young medical student in Gilded Age Manhattan. A surgeon's daughter, she always leads with her head&#...
more
Historical Fiction
A Reason to See You Again: A Novel
by
Jami Attenberg
Ecco, 09/24/2024
The women of the Cohen family are in crisis. Triggered by the death of their patriarch, Rudy, the glue that held them all together, everyone's lives ...
more
A Rift in Time: Travels with My Ottoman Uncle
by
Raja Shehadeh
Other Press, 09/24/2024
Raja Shehadeh's great-great-uncle Najib Nassar, a journalist born in 1865, spent the first 4 decades of his life under the Ottoman Empire. Ruled by a ...
more
Biography/Memoir
America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War
by
H. W. Brands
Doubleday, 09/24/2024
Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 launched a momentous period of decision-making for the United States. With fascism rampant abroad, ...
more
Bad Liar: A Novel
by
Tami Hoag
Dutton, 09/24/2024
Small-town labels are hard to shake. Hometown hero. Fallen angel. Can anyone ever escape their past?
A murder victim dumped at the dead end of a ...
more
Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
by
Elyse Graham
Ecco, 09/24/2024
At the start of WWII, the US found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America
by
Paola Ramos
Pantheon Books, 09/24/2024
Democrats have historically assumed they can rely on the Latino vote, but recent elections have called that loyalty into question. In fact, despite ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II
by
Abbott Kahler
Crown, 09/24/2024
At the height of the Great Depression, Los Angeles oil mogul George Allan Hancock and his crew of Smithsonian scientists came upon a gruesome scene: ...
more
Everything Glittered
by
Robin Talley
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 09/24/2024
It's 1927 and the strict laws of prohibition have done little to temper the roaring 20s nightlife, even in the nation's capitol. Everyone knows the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Final Cut
by
Charles Burns
Pantheon Books, 09/24/2024
As a child, Brian and his friend Jimmy would make sci-fi films in their yards, convincing their friends to star as victims of grisly murders, smearing...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known
by
George M. Johnson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/24/2024
In
Flamboyants, George M. Johnson celebrates writers, performers, and activists from 1920s Black America whose sexualities have been obscured ...
more
Essays
Graveyard Shift: A Novella
by
M. L. Rio
Flatiron Books, 09/24/2024
Every night, in the college's ancient cemetery, five people cross paths as they work the late shift: a bartender, a rideshare driver, a hotel ...
more
Thrillers
Hill of Secrets: A Novel
by
Galina Vromen
Lake Union Publishing, 09/24/2024
Los Alamos, 1943. The US Army has gathered scientists to create the world's first nuclear weapon. Their families, abruptly moved to the secret desert ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
In the Garden of Monsters: A Novel
by
Crystal King
MIRA, 09/24/2024
Italy, 1948
Julia Lombardi is a mystery even to herself. The beautiful model can't remember where she's from, where she's been or how she came to...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Intervals
by
Marianne Brooker
Fitzcarraldo Editions, 09/24/2024
What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity on the horizon, Marianne Brooker's mother was ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Monet: The Restless Vision
by
Jackie Wullschläger
Knopf, 09/24/2024
Drawing on thousands of never-before-translated letters and unpublished sources, this biography reveals dramatic new information about the life and ...
more
Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark
by
Leigh Ann Henion
Algonquin Books, 09/24/2024
Night Magic is a glorious celebration of the dark!
New York Times bestselling nature writer Leigh Ann Henion makes the case for embracing ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Queen Macbeth
by
Val McDermid
Atlantic Monthly Press, 09/24/2024
Britain's reigning "Queen of Crime" (
The Scotsman), Val McDermid has ensnared audiences worldwide for over thirty years with her thrilling and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
by
Isabella Hammad
Grove Press, 09/24/2024
Nine days before October 7, 2023, award-winning author Isabella Hammad delivered the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture at Columbia University. The text ...
more
Essays
Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love
by
Sarah Leavitt
Arsenal Pulp Press, Limited, 09/24/2024
In April 2020, cartoonist Sarah Leavitt's partner of twenty-two years, Donimo, died with medical assistance after years of severe chronic pain and a ...
more
Sweetest Darkness
by
Leslie Lutz
Holiday House, 09/24/2024
Everyone in Gypsum, Texas knows the Hotel Alvarado changes at night—especially Quinn. A teenage clairvoyant, he's been having dreams about it&#...
more
The Burning Earth: A History
by
Sunil Amrith
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/24/2024
In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
by
Olga Tokarczuk
Riverhead Books, 09/24/2024
September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz's Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Görbersdorf, a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Forest of Lost Souls
by
Dean Koontz
Thomas & Mercer, 09/24/2024
Raised in the wilderness by her late great-uncle, Vida is a young woman with an almost preternatural affinity for nature, especially for the wolves ...
more
Thrillers
The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate Violence
by
Peter Schwartzstein
Island, 09/24/2024
Schwartzstein has visited ravaged Iraqi towns where ISIS used drought as a recruiting tool and weapon of terror. In Bangladesh, he has interviewed ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Hitchcock Hotel
by
Stephanie Wrobel
Berkley Books, 09/24/2024
Alfred Smettle is not your average Hitchcock fan. He is the founder, owner, and manager of The Hitchcock Hotel, a sprawling Victorian house in the ...
more
The Hysterical Girls of St. Bernadette's
by
Hanna Alkaf
Salaam Reads, 09/24/2024
For over a hundred years, girls have fought to attend St. Bernadette's, with its reputation for shaping only the best and brightest young women.
...
more
The Last Dream
by
Pedro Almodóvar
HarperVia, 09/24/2024
With this debut collection, film legend Pedro Almodóvar delivers a tantalizing glimpse into his world, formed by twelve stories carefully ...
more
The Last Secret: A Novel
by
Maia Caron
Doubleday Canada, 09/24/2024
Ukraine, 1944
As the world around her is ripped apart by war and infiltrated by Nazi soldiers, Savka Ivanets works as a medic for the Ukrainian ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Lightning Bottles
by
Marissa Stapley
Simon & Schuster, 09/24/2024
He was the troubled face of rock 'n' roll…until he suddenly disappeared without a trace.
Jane Pyre was once half of the famous rock 'n' ...
more
The Naming Song
by
Jedediah Berry
Tor Books, 09/24/2024
There's nothing more dangerous than an unnamed thing.
When the words went away, the world changed.
All meaning was lost, and every border fell. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Repeat Room: A Novel
by
Jesse Ball
Catapult, 09/24/2024
In a speculative future, Abel, a menial worker, is called to serve in a secretive and fabled jury system. At the heart of this system is the repeat ...
more
The Road Is Good: How a Mother's Strength Became a Daughter's Purpose
by
Uzo Aduba
Viking, 09/24/2024
The actress Uzo Aduba came of age grappling with a master juggling act: as one of few Black families in their white Massachusetts suburb, she and her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
This Fatal Kiss
by
Alicia Jasinska
Peachtree Teen, 09/24/2024
Cursed to haunt the river running through the magical spa town where she drowned, Gisela is a water nymph who dreams of returning to the living world ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church
by
Hahrie Han
Knopf, 09/24/2024
In 2016, even as Ohio helped deliver victory to presidential candidate Donald Trump, Cincinnati voters also passed a ballot initiative for universal ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
When the World Tips Over
by
Jandy Nelson
Dial Books, 09/24/2024
The Fall siblings live in hot Northern California wine country, where the sun pours out of the sky, and the devil winds blow so hard they whip the ...
more
A Song to Drown Rivers: Deluxe Edition
by
Ann Liang
St. Martin's Press, 10/01/2024
Her beauty hides a deadly purpose.
Xishi's beauty is seen as a blessing to the villagers of Yue―convinced that the best fate for a girl is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win
by
Jessica Valenti
Crown, 10/01/2024
In her most urgent book yet,
New York Times bestselling author Jessica Valenti shines a light on the conservative assault on women's freedom, cutting ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Coup de Grâce
by
Sofia Ajram
Titan Books, 10/01/2024
Vicken has a plan: throw himself into the Saint Lawrence River in Montreal and end it all for good, believing it to be the only way out for him after ...
more
Heir
by
Sabaa Tahir
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 10/01/2024
An orphan.
An outcast.
A prince.
And a killer who will bring an empire to its knees.
Growing up in the Kegari slums, AIZ has seen ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
by
Dan Jones
Viking, 10/01/2024
Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months and died at the age of just thirty-five, but he looms over the landscape of the late ...
more
How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music
by
Inc National Public Radio
HarperOne, 10/01/2024
Turning the Tables, launched in 2017, has revolutionized recognition of female artists, whether it be in best album lists or in the Rock and Roll Hall...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
I Will Do Better: A Father's Memoir of Heartbreak, Parenting, and Love
by
Charles Bock
Abrams Press, 10/01/2024
The novelist Charles Bock was a reluctant parent, tagging along for the ride of fatherhood, obsessed primarily with his dream of a writing career. But...
more
Killer House Party
by
Lily Anderson
Henry Holt and Company, 10/01/2024
Red Solo cups? Check. Snacks? Check. Abandoned mansion full of countless horrors that won't let you leave? Check.
The Deinhart Manor has been a ...
more
Load in Nine Times: Poems
by
Frank X. Walker
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 10/01/2024
For decades, Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry: from Medgar Evers in
Turn Me Loose, ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Model Home: A Novel
by
Rivers Solomon
MCD, 10/01/2024
The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up. When their family moved there, ...
more
Mojave Ghost
by
Forrest Gander
New Directions Publishing, 10/01/2024
Mojave Ghost initiates an unusually tender bond with the reader as it chronicles an intimate relationship with arresting honesty and vividness.&#...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Nothing Like the Movies
by
Lynn Painter
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 10/01/2024
For a few beautiful months, Wes had his dream girl: strong-willed girl-next-door Liz. But right as the two were about to set off to UCLA to start ...
more
Romance
Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown
by
Wim Carton, Andreas Malm
Verso, 10/01/2024
It might soon be far too hot on this planet. What do we do then? In the era of "overshoot," schemes abound for turning down the heat–not now, ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Ros Demir Is Not the One
by
Leyla Brittan
Holiday House, 10/01/2024
Sixteen-year-old Ros is a go-getter. When she wants something, she makes sure she gets it.
But a lingering rumor (and maybe some ambivalence ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
by
Dionne Brand
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/01/2024
In
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck, Dionne Brand's first major book of nonfiction since her classic
A Map to the Door of No Return, the acclaimed ...
more
Season of the Swamp: A Novel
by
Yuri Herrera
Graywolf Press, 10/01/2024
New Orleans, 1853. A young exile named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he will become the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Shred Sisters
by
Betsy Lerner
Grove Press, 10/01/2024
It is said that when one person in a family is unstable, the whole family is destabilized. Meet the Shreds. Olivia is the sister in the spotlight ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Suggested in the Stars
by
Yoko Tawada
New Directions Publishing, 10/01/2024
It's hard to believe there could be a more enjoyable novel than
Scattered All Over the Earth―Yoko Tawada's rollicking, touching, cheerfully ...
more
Take a Sad Song
by
Ona Gritz
West 44 Books, 10/01/2024
Jane awaits her hearing with hope, but instead she is sentenced to a yearlong stay at the New York State Training School for Girls. She faces bullying...
more
Romance
Tasmania: A Novel
by
Paolo Giordano
Other Press, 10/01/2024
In late 2015, Paolo feels his life coming apart: While his wife, Lorenza, has decided to give up on pregnancy after years of trying, he clings to the ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Ballerina of Auschwitz: Young Adult Edition of The Choice
by
Dr. Edith Eva Eger
Atheneum, 10/01/2024
Edie is a talented dancer and a skilled gymnast with hopes of making the Olympic team. Between her rigorous training and her struggle to find her ...
more
The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
by
Aaron Robertson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/01/2024
How do the disillusioned, the forgotten, and the persecuted not merely hold on to life but expand its possibilities and preserve its beauty? What, in ...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Bog Wife
by
Kay Chronister
Counterpoint Press, 10/01/2024
Since time immemorial, the Haddesley family has tended the cranberry bog. In exchange, the bog sustains them. The staunch seasons of their lives are ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Boyfriend
by
Freida McFadden
Poisoned Pen Press, 10/01/2024
Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. She's seen it all: men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick...
more
Thrillers
The City in Glass
by
Nghi Vo
Tordotcom, 10/01/2024
The demon Vitrine―immortal, powerful, and capricious―loves the dazzling city of Azril. She has mothered, married, and maddened the city ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Crescent Moon Tearoom: A Novel
by
Stacy Sivinski
Atria Books, 10/01/2024
Ever since the untimely death of their parents, Anne, Beatrix, and Violet Quigley have made a business of threading together the stories that rest in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Dark Becomes Her
by
Judy I. Lin
Rick Riodan Presents, 10/01/2024
Ruby Chen has always played the part of the dutiful eldest daughter: excelling in school; excelling in piano lessons; excelling at keeping her younger...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Drowned: Strafford and Quirke #4
by
John Banville
Hanover Square Press, 10/01/2024
"He had seen drowned people. A sight not to be forgotten."
1950s, rural Ireland. A loner comes across a mysteriously empty car in a field. ...
more
The Glass Girl
by
Kathleen Glasgow
Delacorte Press, 10/01/2024
Everyone in fifteen-year-old Bella's life needs something from her. Her mom needs her to help around the house, her dad needs her to not make waves, ...
more
The Great When: A Long London Novel
by
Alan Moore
Bloomsbury Publishing, 10/01/2024
Dennis Knuckleyard is a hapless eighteen-year-old who works and lives in a second-hand bookstore. One day, his boss and landlady, Coffin Ada, sends ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Kiss of the Nightingale
by
Adi Denner
Tundra Books, 10/01/2024
1890, Lutèce: In this city, Talents are everything: precious gems that gift unrivalled skills to their owners. The most coveted, Elite Talents, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Last Dangerous Visions
by
Harlan Ellison
Blackstone Publishing, 10/01/2024
In 1973, celebrated writer and editor Harlan Ellison announced the third and final volume of his unprecedented anthology series, which began with
...more
The Life and Death of Rose Doucette
by
Harry Hunsicker
Oceanview Publishing, Inc, 10/01/2024
Dallas private investigator Dylan Fisher hasn't seen his ex-wife, Rose, in three years—which is why he's surprised when she asks him to meet her...
more
Thrillers
The Magic You Make
by
Jason June
Melissa de la Cruz Studio, 10/01/2024
Still reeling from their deadly encounter with the Knife and the revelation that the Culling was unnecessary, soulmates Nigel and Ori have been thrust...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Message
by
Ta-Nehisi Coates
One World, 10/01/2024
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's classic "Politics and the English Language," but ...
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The Mighty Red: A Novel
by
Louise Erdrich
Harper, 10/01/2024
History is a flood. The mighty red ...
In Argus, North Dakota, a collection of people revolve around a fraught wedding.
Gary Geist, a ...
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The Only Sound Is the Wind: Stories
by
Pascha Sotolongo
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/01/2024
In the tradition of
narrativa de lo inusual (narrative of the unusual),
The Only Sound Is the Wind combines the fantastic with the everyday, weaving ...
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Short Stories
Debut Author
The Plot Against Native America: The Fateful Story of Native American Boarding Schools and the Theft of Tribal Lands
by
Bill Vaughn
Pegasus Books, 10/01/2024
When Europeans came to the Americas centuries ago, too many of them brought racism along with them. Even presidents such as George Washington, Thomas ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies
by
Deborah Levy
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/01/2024
Deborah Levy's vital literary voice speaks about many things.
On footwear: "It has always been very clear to me that people who wear shoes ...
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The Third Realm: A Novel
by
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Penguin Press, 10/01/2024
Shapeshifting visitors, unsolved murders in the forest, black metal bands and an online bank of thousands of people's dreams—the star is back. ...
more
The Wild Huntress
by
Emily Lloyd-Jones
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 10/01/2024
Every five years, two kingdoms take part in a Wild Hunt. Joining is a bloody risk, and even the most qualified hunters can suffer the deadliest fates....
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Ukraine: Remember Also Me: Testimonies from the War
by
George Butler
Candlewick Studio, 10/01/2024
While reporting on the war in Ukraine, George Butler has created striking and intimate illustrations to introduce us to the people behind the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Beggar's Bedlam
by
Nabarun Bhattacharya
Seagull Books, 10/04/2024
Beggar's Bedlam is a surreal novel that unleashes the chaos of the carnival on the familiar. Part literary descendent of Bulgakov's
The Master and ...more
Literary Fiction
A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World's First National Park
by
Randall K. Wilson
Counterpoint Press, 10/08/2024
It has been called Wonderland, America's Serengeti, the crown jewel of the National Park System, and America's best idea. But how did this faraway ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Childish Literature
by
Alejandro Zambra
Penguin Books, 10/08/2024
Childish Literature is a charming and wide-ranging collection of short stories, essays, and even a couple of poems produced under the influence of ...
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Crisis Averted: The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks
by
Caitlin Rivers PhD
Viking, 10/08/2024
An outbreak does not grow into an epidemic. A child does not go hungry. A would-be smoker never lights up. In this fascinating window into the secret ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Diet Soda Club
by
Chaz Hayden
Candlewick Press, 10/08/2024
Have you ever made all the wrong choices for all the right reasons?
Reed Beckett's little sister, Beatrice, has never been awakened by the smell ...
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Divine Mortals
by
Amanda Helander
Disney-Hyperion, 10/08/2024
Blessed by the gods, Mona Arnett has the unique ability to divine soulmates, but she refuses to seek out her own—until she learns the king is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Echoes of Us: A Novel
by
Joy Jordan-Lake
Lake Union Publishing, 10/08/2024
In the midst of World War II, a Tennessee farm boy, a Jewish Cambridge student, and a German POW forge a connection that endures―against all ...
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Historical Fiction
Finding Otipemisiwak: The People Who Own Themselves
by
Andrea Currie
Arsenal Pulp Press, Limited, 10/08/2024
Otipemisiwak is a Plains Cree word describing the Métis, meaning "the people who own themselves."
Andrea Currie was born into a Métis ...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Fledgling: The Keeper's Records of Revolution
by
S. K. Ali
Kokila, 10/08/2024
Would you trade love for peace?
Raisa of Upper Earth has only lived a life of privilege and acquiescence. Ever dutiful, she accepts her father's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir
by
Lisa Marie Presley
Random House, 10/08/2024
In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her long-gestating memoir.
A month later, Lisa Marie was dead, and the ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Ghosts of Crook County: An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land
by
Russell Cobb
Beacon Press, 10/08/2024
In the early 1900s, at the dawn of the "American Century," few knew the intoxicating power of greed better than white men on the forefront of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Giddy Barber Explodes in 11
by
Dina Havranek
Peachtree Teen, 10/08/2024
Giddy Barber knows with certainty she's going to become a mechanical engineer. What she doesn't know is the last time she smiled.
With her ...
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Literary Fiction
Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals
by
Maurice Casey
Footnote Press, 10/08/2024
Hotel Lux follows Irish radical May O'Callaghan and her friends, three revolutionary families brought together by their vision for a communist future ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
John Lewis: A Life
by
David Greenberg
Simon & Schuster, 10/08/2024
Born into poverty in rural Alabama, Lewis would become second only to Martin Luther King, Jr. in his contributions to the Civil Rights Movement. He ...
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Love Can't Feed You: A Novel
by
Cherry Lou Sy
Dutton, 10/08/2024
Love Can't Feed You is a stunning, heartbreaking, and compressed look at coming of age, shifting notions of home, and the disintegration of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Melvill
by
Rodrigo Fresan
Open Letter, 10/08/2024
His son, still a child, sits at the foot of the bed, attentively collecting these final, hallucinated words.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Mindless: The Human Condition in the Machine Age
by
Robert Skidelsky
Other Press, 10/08/2024
Faith in technological fixes for our problems is waning. Automation, which promised relief from toil, has reactivated the long-standing fear of job ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East
by
Robert Fisk
Harper360, 10/08/2024
From the Arab uprisings and the Syrian civil war to Israel's conflicts with Palestine and Lebanon, Fisk condemns the West's ongoing hypocrisy and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer
by
Richard Bernstein
Knopf, 10/08/2024
Al Jolson, born Asa Yoelson, immigrated from a shtetl in Lithuania to the United States in 1894 after his father secured a job as a rabbi in ...
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Biography/Memoir
Our Evenings: A Novel
by
Alan Hollinghurst
Random House, 10/08/2024
Did I have a grievance? Most of us, without looking far, could find something that had harmed us, and oppressed us, and unfairly held us back. I tried...more
Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems: 1961-2023
by
Margaret Atwood
Knopf, 10/08/2024
Tracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood—a writer who has fundamentally shaped the contemporary literary landscapes—
Paper Boat: New and ...more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Shock Induction
by
Chuck Palahniuk
Simon & Schuster, 10/08/2024
In
Shock Induction, the best and brightest students at a seemingly reputable high school are disappearing. Every day it seems another overachiever is ...
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Slaveroad
by
John Edgar Wideman
Scribner, 10/08/2024
John Edgar Wideman's "slaveroad" is a palimpsest of physical, social, and psychological terrain, the great expanse to which he writes in this ...
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The Dividing Sky
by
Jill Tew
Joy Revolution, 10/08/2024
In 2460, eighteen-year-old Liv Newman dreams of a future beyond her lower-class life in the Metro. As a Proxy, she uses the neurochip in her brain to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Door in Lake Mallion: The Brindlewatch Quintet #2
by
S.M. Beiko
ECW Press, 10/08/2024
Dunstan has had big ambitions his entire life — bigger than the small lakeside town of Knockum — imagining himself heading a chorus line ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car
by
Witold Rybczynski
Doubleday, 10/08/2024
In this lively and entertaining work, Witold Rybczynski―hailed as "one of the best writers on design working today" by
Publishers Weekly―...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
by
Dava Sobel
Atlantic Monthly Press, 10/08/2024
"Even now, nearly a century after her death, Marie Curie remains the only female scientist most people can name," writes Dava Sobel at the opening of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World
by
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Riverhead Books, 10/08/2024
A globe shows the world we think we know: neatly delineated sovereign nations that grant or restrict their citizens' rights. Beneath, above, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Last One at the Wedding: A Novel
by
Jason Rekulak
Flatiron Books, 10/08/2024
Frank Szatowski is shocked when his daughter, Maggie, calls him for the first time in three years. He was convinced that their estrangement would ...
more
Thrillers
The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern: A Novel
by
Lynda Cohen Loigman
St. Martin's Press, 10/08/2024
On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springs―an active senior ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Murderess: A Novel
by
Laurie Notaro
Little A, 10/08/2024
It's October 1931. When Winnie Ruth Judd arrives at the Los Angeles train station from Phoenix, her shipping trunks catch the attention of a ...
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The Paris Maid
by
Ella Carey
Grand Central Publishing, 10/08/2024
Louise Basset works as a housemaid at The Ritz Hotel, home to the most powerful Nazis in France. As she changes silk sheets and scrubs sumptuous...
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Historical Fiction
The Puzzle Box: A Novel
by
Danielle Trussoni
Random House, 10/08/2024
It is the Year of the Wood Dragon, and the ingenious Mike Brink has been invited to Tokyo, Japan, to open the legendary Dragon Box.
The box was ...
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The Rest of You
by
Maame Blue
Amistad, 10/08/2024
On the cusp of thirty, Ghanaian Londoner Whitney Appiah was born with a special gift. The massage therapist can physically sense where her clients' ...
more
The River Knows My Name
by
Mortada Gzar
Amazon Crossing, 10/08/2024
Fifteen-year-old Charlotte is restlessly coming of age in early twentieth-century Basra, Iraq. The daughter of a Seattle doctor and missionary, ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Schubert Treatment: A Story of Music and Healing
by
Claire Oppert
Greystone Books, 10/08/2024
When Claire Oppert plays the cello, miracles happen. Children with profound autism, patients in extreme pain and distress, even people on the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Terrifying Tales of Vivian Vance
by
Josh Ulrich
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/08/2024
It's just a bedtime story….right?
Parents in Pensmouth tell their children a devious bedtime tale—their beloved town is riddled with ...
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The Trade Off: A Novel
by
Samantha Greene Woodruff
Lake Union Publishing, 10/08/2024
Bea Abramovitz has a gift for math and numbers. With her father, she studies the burgeoning Wall Street market's stocks and patterns in the financial ...
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Historical Fiction
The Witches of El Paso: A Novel
by
Luis Jaramillo
Primero Sueno Press, 10/08/2024
If you call to the witches, they will come.
1943, El Paso, Texas: teenager Nena spends her days caring for the small children of her older ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
This Cursed House
by
Del Sandeen
Berkley Books, 10/08/2024
In the fall of 1962, twenty-seven-year-old Jemma Barker is desperate to escape her life in Chicago—and the spirits she has always been able to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Twenty-Four Seconds from Now ...: A LOVE Story
by
Jason Reynolds
Atheneum, 10/08/2024
Twenty-four months ago: Neon gets chased by a dog all around the parking lot of a church. Not his finest moment. And definitely one he would have ...
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What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times
by
Dana Frank
Beacon Press, 10/08/2024
Drawing on little-known stories of working people,
What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? amplifies voices that have been long omitted from ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wild Chocolate: Across the Americas in Search of Cacao's Soul
by
Rowan Jacobsen
Bloomsbury Publishing, 10/08/2024
When Rowan Jacobsen first heard of a chocolate bar made entirely from wild Bolivian cacao, he was skeptical. The waxy mass-market chocolate of his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Wolfpack
by
Amelia Brunskill
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 10/08/2024
Nine girls bound together
in beautiful, virtuous Havenwood,
a refuge from an unsafe world.
Then there are eight
one of them gone&#...
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All the Hearts You Eat
by
Hailey Piper
Titan Books, 10/15/2024
What really happened to Cabrina Brite?
Ivory's life changes irrevocably when she discovers the body of Cabrina Brite on the sands of Cape Morning...
more
American Rapture
by
CJ Leede
Tor Nightfire, 10/15/2024
A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust.
Sophie, a good Catholic girl, must traverse the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Blame My Virgo Moon
by
Freja Nicole Woolf
Walker Books US, 10/15/2024
Life should be Gucci gooseberry gorgeous for Cat Phillips now that she's got the girl: swoon-worthy, green-haired Morgan Delaney. Except Cat's friends...
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Literary Fiction
Blue Light Hours
by
Bruna Dantas Lobato
Grove Press, 10/15/2024
In a small dorm room at a liberal arts college in Vermont, a young woman settles into the warm blue light of her desk lamp before calling the mother ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Catherine the Ghost
by
Kathe Koja
CLASH, 10/15/2024
Cathy Earnshaw. Catherine Linton. Mother. Daughter. They never saw each other alive. In
Catherine the Ghost these two young women confront loss, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Clean: A Novel
by
Alia Trabucco Zerán
Riverhead Books, 10/15/2024
A young girl has died and the family's maid is being interrogated. She must tell the whole story before arriving at the girl's death.
Estela came...
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Dogs and Monsters: Stories
by
Mark Haddon
Doubleday, 10/15/2024
Greek myths have fascinated people for millenia, seeing in them lessons about fate and hubris and the contingency of existence. Mark Haddon digs into ...
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Don't Be a Stranger: A Novel
by
Susan Minot
Knopf, 10/15/2024
Ivy Cooper is 52 years old when Ansel Fleming first walks into her life. Twenty years her junior, a musician newly released from prison on a minor ...
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Forest of Noise: Poems
by
Mosab Abu Toha
Knopf, 10/15/2024
Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well-known poet when the current siege of Gaza began. After the Israeli army bombed and ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
by
John Grisham, Jim McCloskey
Doubleday, 10/15/2024
John Grisham is known worldwide for his bestselling novels, but it's his real-life passion for justice that led to his work with Jim McCloskey of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Girlmode
by
Magdalene Visaggio
HarperCollins Publishers, 10/15/2024
The last thing Phoebe Zito wants is to be noticed. The newest kid at Sally Ride High School, newly arrived in Los Angeles, and newly transitioned, she...
more
Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self-Discovery
by
Christine Mari
Little, Brown Ink, 10/15/2024
Christine has always felt she is just half: Half American, half Japanese. As a biracial Japanese American who was born in Tokyo but raised in the US, ...
more
I Was Told There Would Be Romance
by
Marie Arnold
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 10/15/2024
Fifteen-year-old Fancy Augustine is a Haitian American girl with simple desires. She'd like to trade in her floppy, oversize boobs for cute, perky ...
more
In the Distance
by
Hernan Diaz
Riverhead Books, 10/15/2024
A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels east in search of his brother, moving on foot against the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Into the Unknown: The Quest to Understand the Mysteries of the Cosmos
by
Dr. Kelsey Johnson
Basic Books, 10/15/2024
Humans have learned a lot about the world around us and the universe beyond. We have made powerful insights and created profound theories about the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Januaries: Stories of Love, Magic & Betrayal
by
Olivie Blake
Tor Books, 10/15/2024
Once upon a time in a land far, far away, a wish-granting spirit rapidly approaches burnout. Meanwhile, a banished fairy answers a Craigslist ad, a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Libby Lost and Found: A Novel
by
Stephanie Booth
Sourcebooks Landmark, 10/15/2024
Meet Libby Weeks, author of the mega-best-selling fantasy series, The Falling Children―written as "F.T. Goldhero" to maintain her privacy. ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love
by
Julie Sedivy
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/15/2024
If there is one feature that defines the human condition, it is language: written, spoken, signed, understood, and misunderstood, in all its infinite ...
more
Mad Wife: A Memoir
by
Kate Hamilton
Beacon Press, 10/15/2024
In this electrifying literary memoir, Kate Hamilton deftly traces her complicated journey from loving wife to gaslit victim to furious feminist with ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Mama: A Queer Black Woman's Story of a Family Lost and Found
by
Nikkya Hargrove
Algonquin Books, 10/15/2024
Nikkya Hargrove spent a good portion of her childhood in prison visiting rooms. When her mother—addicted to cocaine and just out of prison—...
more
Midnight and Blue: An Inspector Rebus Novel
by
Ian Rankin
Mulholland, 10/15/2024
A convict is brutally murdered in his locked cell deep in the heart of Scotland's most infamous prison. Sleeping in a cell across the floor lies John ...
more
Mysteries
Tangleroot
by
Kalela Williams
Feiwel & Friends, 10/15/2024
When Dr. Castine takes a job as the president of the prestigious Stonepost College in rural Virginia, Noni is forced to leave her New England home and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Ancients: A Novel
by
John Larison
Viking, 10/15/2024
A young boy and his older sisters find themselves suddenly and utterly alone, orphaned in an abandoned fishing village. Their food supplies dwindling,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Dreaming Path: Indigenous Wisdom, Meditations, and Exercises to Live Our Best Stories
by
Paul Callaghan
HarperOne, 10/15/2024
Dr. Paul Callaghan belongs to the land of the Worimi people who live north of Sydney along the east coast of Australia. Raised to live the western way...
more
Advice
The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America
by
Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz
Flatiron Books, 10/15/2024
Who is Indian enough?
To be Native American is to live in a world of contradictions. At the same time that the number of people in the US who claim...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
by
Noam Chomsky
Penguin Press, 10/15/2024
The Myth of American Idealism offers a timely and comprehensive introduction to the incisive critiques of U.S. power that have made Noam Chomsky a "...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Treasure Hunters Club: A Mystery
by
Tom Ryan
Atlantic Monthly Press, 10/15/2024
Welcome to Maple Bay, Nova Scotia.
For nearly a century, people have ventured to the idyllic seaside town of Maple Bay in search of a legendary ...
more
The Waiting: Ballard and Bosch #6
by
Michael Connelly
Little Brown & Company, 10/15/2024
Renée Ballard and the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer ...
more
Under the Heron's Light
by
Randi Pink
Feiwel & Friends, 10/15/2024
"Four thousand six hundred forty-two steps in," Grannylou interrupted. "You remember that now, Baby. Four-thousand six hundred forty-two steps to ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Valley So Low: One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Coal Catastrophe
by
Jared Sullivan
Knopf, 10/15/2024
For more than 50 years, a power plant in the small town of Kingston, Tennessee, burned fourteen thousand tons of coal a day, gradually creating ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wild: Poems
by
Ben Okri
Other Press, 10/15/2024
Freedom is the most precious commodity in the world. In this powerful collection, the celebrated novelist, essayist, dramatist, and poet Ben Okri ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
A Princess of Mars: With original illustrations
by
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Independently published, 10/16/2024
On the red planet, Carter discovers that the lower gravity grants him enhanced strength and agility, and he is soon captured by the Tharks, a race of ...
more
Literary Fiction
A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants: Wicked Weeds and Sinister Seeds
by
Rebecca E. Hirsch
Zest Books, 10/22/2024
"Should you encounter any of the plants in this book, do not treat them lightly. They can kill you. Or cause you unbearable agony. Or land you in jail...more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Comforting Myths: Concerning the Political in Art
by
Rabih Alameddine
University of Virginia Press, 10/22/2024
In this concisely argued and illuminating book, the PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author Rabih Alameddine takes the subject of politics and art ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While also in an Actual Cult!)
by
Bethany Joy Lenz
Simon & Schuster, 10/22/2024
In the early 2000s, after years of hard work and determination to breakthrough as an actor, Bethany Joy Lenz was finally cast as one of the leads on ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Dis//Integration: 2 Novelas & 3 Stories & a Little Play
by
William Melvin Kelley
Vintage, 10/22/2024
The linked "2 novelas, 3 stories, and a little play" that make up
Dis//Integration follow the life journeys of Charles "Chig" Dunford from his Nanny ...
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Literary Fiction
Disturbing the Bones
by
Andrew Davis, Jeff Biggers
Melville House, 10/22/2024
Chicago detective Randall Jenkins has not been back home to the historic Civil Rights hotspot of Cairo, Illinois since the disappearance of his mother...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
Eurotrash: A Novel
by
Christian Kracht
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 10/22/2024
From "the great German-language writer of his generation" (Joshua Cohen) comes the second novel of Kracht's career narrated by an eponymous "Christian...
more
Find Me as the Creature I Am: Poems
by
Emily Jungmin Yoon
Knopf, 10/22/2024
Find Me as the Creature I Am is a book full of tenderness and violence, longing and love. Ranging from inherited family tales to meditations on the ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Greta: A Novel
by
Manon Steffan Ros
Amazon Crossing, 10/22/2024
Greta Pugh is dead.
The small village of Bethesda, Wales, is no stranger to tragedy. Once a thriving, prosperous community, the town has been ...
more
Thrillers
Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People
by
Emily Herring
Basic Books, 10/22/2024
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Henri Bergson (1859–1941) became the most famous philosopher on earth. Where prior thinkers sketched out a...
more
How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?: A Novel
by
Anna Montague
Ecco, 10/22/2024
Most days, Magda is fine. She has her routines. She has her anxious therapy patients, who depend on her to cure their bad habits. She has her longtime...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Karla's Choice: A John le Carré Novel
by
Nick Harkaway
Viking, 10/22/2024
It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West's spy war against the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has ...
more
Lightborne: A Novel
by
Hesse Phillips
Pegasus Books, 10/22/2024
Christopher Marlowe: playwright, poet, lover. In the plague-stricken streets of Elizabethan England, Kit flirts with danger, leaving a trail of ...
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Historical Fiction
Memorials
by
Richard Chizmar
Gallery Books, 10/22/2024
1983: Three students from a small college embark on a week-long road trip to film a documentary on roadside memorials for their American Studies class...
more
Metal from Heaven
by
August Clarke
Erewhon Books, 10/22/2024
He who controls ichorite controls the world.
A malleable metal more durable than steel, ichorite is a toxic natural resource fueling national ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute
by
Nicholas Fox Weber
Knopf, 10/22/2024
In the early 1920s, surrounded by the roaring streets of avant-garde Paris, Piet Mondrian began creating what would become some of the most ...
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Monstrous Nights: The Witch's Compendium of Monsters #2
by
Genoveva Dimova
Tor Books, 10/22/2024
With her magic reclaimed and her role in the community of Chernograd restored, Kosara's life should finally be back to normal―but, of course, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
My Pisces Heart: A Black Immigrant's Search for Home Across Four Continents
by
Jennifer Neal
Catapult, 10/22/2024
I've never seen home as a permanent concept; it is an image crafted from untempered glass that threatens to shatter with lack of care.
Jennifer ...
more
No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir
by
Sarah LaBrie
Harper, 10/22/2024
On a highway in Houston, Texas, Sarah LaBrie's mother was found screaming at passing cars, terrified she would be murdered by invisible assailants. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Patriot: A Memoir
by
Alexei Navalny
Knopf, 10/22/2024
Alexei Navalny began writing
Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story of his life: his youth, his call to activism...
more
Biography/Memoir
Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos
by
Richard Panek
Little Brown & Company, 10/22/2024
Pillars of Creation tells the story of one of the greatest scientific achievements in the history of civilization, a $10 billion instrument with a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Roman Year: A Memoir
by
André Aciman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/22/2024
In
Roman Year, André Aciman captures the period of his adolescence that began when he and his family first set foot in Rome, after being expelled...
more
Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank
by
Justene Hill Edwards
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/22/2024
In the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman's Bank. African ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Spatriati: A Novel
by
Mario Desiati
Other Press, 10/22/2024
I never understood, of the two of us, which one was warm and which cold, but I consider myself lucky to have met my opposite front in Claudia Fanelli,...more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Children of Jocasta: A Novel
by
Natalie Haynes
Harper, 10/22/2024
When you have grown up as I have, there is no security in not knowing things, in avoiding the ugliest truths because they can't be faced ... Because ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Heartbeat Library: A Novel
by
Laura Imai Messina
The Overlook Press, 10/22/2024
On the peaceful Japanese island of Teshima there is a library of heartbeats, a place where the heartbeats of visitors from all around the world are ...
more
The Sweetness Between Us
by
Sarah Winifred Searle
First Second, 10/22/2024
After health problems wiped out their first few weeks of school, Perley and Amandine are both starting their Junior year behind their classmates, and ...
more
The Wood at Midwinter
by
Susanna Clarke
Bloomsbury Publishing, 10/22/2024
'A church is a sort of wood. A wood is a sort of church. They're the same thing really.'
Nineteen-year-old Merowdis Scot is an unusual girl. She ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Thief of the Heights
by
Son M.
HarperAlley, 10/22/2024
Lifelong friends Basem, Mustafa, and Aarfah have carved out a place for themselves in their corner of Muqadas, where they dream of climbing from their...
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Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
We All Shine On: John, Yoko, and Me
by
Elliot Mintz
Dutton, 10/22/2024
In 1972, Elliot Mintz installed a red light in his bedroom in Laurel Canyon. When it started flashing, it meant that either John Lennon or Yoko Ono&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
When We Chased the Light: A Novel
by
Emily Bleeker
Lake Union Publishing, 10/22/2024
Christie's auction house, Beverly Hills. The effects of Hollywood icon Vivian Snow are up for bid. In the collection is a set of hand-drawn postcards ...
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Historical Fiction
Where the Dead Brides Gather
by
Nuzo Onoh
Titan Books, 10/22/2024
Bata, a young girl tormented by nightmares, wakes up one night to find herself standing sentinel before her cousin's door. Her cousin is to get ...
more
Canoes
by
Maylis De Kerangal
Archipelago Books, 10/29/2024
Ricocheting off of the book's exhilarating central novella and 7 short stories, the women we meet in
Canoes are by turns indelibly witty, insightful, ...
more
Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah
by
Charles King
Doubleday, 10/29/2024
George Frideric Handel's
Messiah is arguably the greatest piece of participatory art ever created. Adored by millions, it is performed each year by ...
more
Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop
by
Serene Khader
Beacon Press, 10/29/2024
After over 175 years, the feminist movement, now in its fourth wave, is at risk of collapsing on its eroding foundation. In
Faux Feminism, political ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
For She Is Wrath
by
Emily Varga
Wednesday Books, 10/29/2024
Three hundred and sixty-four days.
Framed for a crime she didn't commit, Dania counts down her days in prison until she can exact revenge on ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions
by
Nalo Hopkinson
Tachyon Publications, 10/29/2024
In Nalo Hopkinson's first collection of stories since 2015, a woman and her cyborg pig eke out a living in a future waterworld; two scientists ...
more
Just Until
by
Joseph Moldover
Margaret Ferguson Books, 10/29/2024
17-year-old Hannah Lynn has just one goal: to get out of Evans Beach, Maine. It's where she lost her mother to cancer. Where her estranged sister, ...
more
Like Mother, Like Mother: A Novel
by
Susan Rieger
Dial Books, 10/29/2024
Detroit, 1960. Lila Pereira is two years old when her angry, abusive father has her mother committed to an asylum. Lila never sees her mother again. ...
more
Literary Fiction
Masquerade
by
Mike Fu
Tin House Books, 10/29/2024
Newly single Meadow Liu is house-sitting for his friend, artist Selma Shimizu, when he stumbles upon
The Masquerade, a translated novel about a masked...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Miss Kim Knows: And Other Stories
by
Cho Nam-joo
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 10/29/2024
A woman is born. A woman is filmed in public without consent. A woman suffers domestic violence. A woman is gaslit. A woman is discriminated against ...
more
The Blue Hour: A Novel
by
Paula Hawkins
Mariner Books, 10/29/2024
Welcome to Eris: an island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day.
...
more
The Grey Wolf: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel, 19)
by
Louise Penny
Minotaur Books, 10/29/2024
Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any ...
more
Mysteries
The Paris Escape: A Novel
by
James Tucker
Lake Union Publishing, 10/29/2024
When Laura Powell and Henry Salter travel to Paris in 1938, neither considers the other very good company. Laura is a shallow, spoiled heir to a ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Three Coffins
by
John Dickson Carr
American Mystery Classics, 10/29/2024
Professor Charles Grimaud is found dead in his study just moments after his housekeeper watched him greet a mysterious visitor and welcome him into ...
more
Mysteries
This Motherless Land: A Novel
by
Nikki May
Mariner Books, 10/29/2024
Quiet Funke is happy in Nigeria. She loves her art teacher mother, her professor father, and even her annoying little brother (most of the time). But ...
more
An Age of Winters: A Novel
by
Gemma Liviero
Lake Union Publishing, 11/01/2024
In 1625, the Franconian village of Eisbach has been plagued by disease, famine, heinous crimes, and a merciless winter. Katarin Jaspers is the ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Most Powerful Court in the World: A History of the Supreme Court of the United States
by
Stuart Banner
Oxford University Press, 11/04/2024
Will abortion be legal? Should people of the same sex be allowed to marry? May colleges prefer black applicants over white ones? These are among the ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
All the Truth I Can Stand
by
Mason Stokes
Calkins Creek, 11/05/2024
Juniper, Wyoming, high school student Ash is still reeling from his mother's death and ostracization by his friends when his father signs him up to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Before We Forget Kindness: Before the Coffee Gets Cold #6
by
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Hanover Square Press, 11/05/2024
- The father who could not allow his daughter to get married
- A woman who couldn't give Valentine's Day chocolates to her loved one
- A boy...
more
Literary Fiction
Don't Build, Rebuild: The Case for Imaginative Reuse in Architecture
by
Aaron Betsky
Beacon Press, 11/05/2024
As climate change has escalated into a crisis, the reuse of existing structures is the only way to even begin to preserve our wood, sand, silicon, and...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Eleanore of Avignon: A Novel
by
Elizabeth DeLozier
Dutton, 11/05/2024
Provence, 1347. Eleanore (Elea) Blanchet is a young midwife and herbalist with remarkable skills. But as she learned the day her mother died, the most...
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Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Lost and Lassoed: A Rebel Blue Ranch Novel
by
Lyla Sage
Dial Press, 11/05/2024
Teddy Andersen doesn't have a plan. She's never needed one before. She's always been more of a go-with-the-flow type of girl, but for some reason, the...
more
Romance
Pony Confidential
by
Christina Lynch
Berkley Books, 11/05/2024
Pony has been passed from owner to owner for longer than he can remember. Fed up, he busts out and goes on a cross-country mission to reunite with the...
more
Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers: Her Life, the Imperial Ideal, and the Politics and Turmoil That Shaped Her Extraordinary Reign
by
Anne Somerset
Knopf, 11/05/2024
It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn't be more wrong. A passionate and opinionated leader, Victoria was ...
more
Religion Is Not Done with You: Or, the Hidden Power of Religion on Race, Maps, Bodies, and Law
by
Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst
Beacon Press, 11/05/2024
Religion lurks in the floorboards of our daily lives, whether we want it to or not. A departure from more traditional approaches to "Religion 101,"
...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Streetlight People
by
Charlene Thomas
Dutton, 11/05/2024
For most, Streetlight is a dot on the map you pass on your way to somewhere else. But if you live there, you're either a Have-Not, like Kady, or a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Author's Guide to Murder: A Novel
by
Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White
William Morrow, 11/05/2024
There's been a sensational murder at historic Castle Kinloch, a gothic fantasy of grey granite on a remote island in the Highlands of Scotland. ...
more
The Autumn of Ruth Winters: A Novel
by
Marshall Fine
Lake Union Publishing, 11/05/2024
Ruth Winters is retired, widowed, and resigned to spending the rest of her life alone in her suburban home. She likes her routine and uses it to avoid...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Beggar Student
by
Osamu Dazai
New Directions Publishing, 11/05/2024
A fictional writer in his thirties named Osamu Dazai has just mailed his publisher an awful manuscript, filling him with dread and shame. Wandering ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Donut Prince of New York
by
Allen Zadoff
Holiday House, 11/05/2024
Eugene would just as soon spend the year playing small, but that's hard to do when you're the biggest kid in your class.
Things change when he ...
more
The Improvisers: A Murder and Magic Novel
by
Nicole Glover
Harper, 11/05/2024
Velma Frye is many things. A pilot, a former bootlegger, a well-seasoned traveler, a jazz pianist…and a wielder of celestial magic. She's also a...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Lake of Lost Girls: A Novel
by
Katherine Greene
Crooked Lane Books, 11/05/2024
It's 1998, and female students are going missing at Southern State University in North Carolina, but freshman Jessica Fadley, once a bright and ...
more
Thrillers
The Memory Dress
by
Jade Beer
Berkley Books, 11/05/2024
England, 2018: Jayne is quiet. She keeps to herself and has no grand expectations for her days. But after a chance encounter with her elderly neighbor...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.: A Biography
by
Peter Ames Carlin
Doubleday, 11/05/2024
In the spring of 1980, an unexpected group of musical eccentrics came together to play their very first performance at a college party in Athens, ...
more
The Teller of Small Fortunes
by
Julie Leong
Ace Books, 11/05/2024
Tao is an immigrant fortune teller, traveling between villages with just her trusty mule for company. She only tells "small" fortunes: whether it will...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Where the Library Hides: Secrets of the Nile #2
by
Isabel Ibañez
Wednesday Books, 11/05/2024
Inez Olivera traveled across the world to Egypt, seeking answers into her parents' recent and mysterious deaths. But all her searching led her down a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
You Can't Hurt Me: A Novel
by
Emma Cook
Hanover Square Press, 11/05/2024
Everyone has heard about the case of Eva Reid. Ever since she was born, she's felt no pain: she can get a paper cut, break a limb and even give birth ...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
Cabinet of Curiosities: A Historical Tour of the Unbelievable, the Unsettling, and the Bizarre
by
Aaron Mahnke
St. Martin's Griffin, 11/12/2024
The podcast, Aaron Mahnke's
Cabinet of Curiosities, has delighted millions of listeners for years with tales of the wonderful, astounding, and ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dead Girls Don't Dream
by
Nino Cipri
Henry Holt and Company, 11/12/2024
Except for Riley Walcott.
Riley knows better than to stray from the trail in the woods behind her uncle Toby's house. But her little sister...
more
Every Arc Bends Its Radian: A Novel
by
Sergio De La Pava
Simon & Schuster, 11/12/2024
Riv—poet, philosopher, private eye—arrives in Cali, Colombia, hoping to find reprieve. Running away from an unspeakable event surrounding ...
more
Far District: Poems
by
Ishion Hutchinson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/12/2024
Crafting an impressionistic portrait of his youth in Jamaica, Ishion Hutchinson explores the West Indian distrust of European literature and mythology...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Games Untold: The Inheritance Games #5
by
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 11/12/2024
There is nothing frivolous about the way a Hawthorne man loves.
An amnesiac playboy and the woman with every reason to hate him. A ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
by
Paula Byrne
Harper360, 11/12/2024
Thomas Hardy is one of the most beloved and most-read British authors. His influence on literature and the minds of his readers is singular. But how ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist
by
Richard Munson
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/12/2024
Benjamin Franklin was one of the preeminent scientists of his time. Driven by curiosity, he conducted cutting-edge research on electricity, heat, ...
more
Lazarus Man: A Novel
by
Richard Price
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/12/2024
East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story tenement collapses into a fuming hill of rubble, pancaking the cars parked in front and coating the ...
more
Leap
by
Simina Popescu
Roaring Brook Press, 11/12/2024
Ana has been studying contemporary dance since she was little, but her heart isn't in it anymore. Instead her focus is on Carina―a beautiful, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
Midnights With You
by
Clare Osongco
Disney-Hyperion, 11/12/2024
"Where were you thinking of going?"
"Nowhere."
"Great," he says lightly, putting the car in gear. "Then we'll go there."
Seventeen-year...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Munichs: A Novel
by
David Peace
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/12/2024
In 1958, Manchester United was flying high: the best-known soccer team in the world and reigning English champions, the team was led by a bright young...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Only Here, Only Now: A Novel
by
Tom Newlands
HarperVia, 11/12/2024
In the blazing hot summer of 1994, there's nothing for Cora Mowat to do but hang around in empty parking lots. Stuck in her Mom's small house and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Open Minded: A Novel
by
Chloe Seager
William Morrow, 11/12/2024
After nine years of dating, Holly is sure her boyfriend Will is going to propose. But instead of popping the question, he shocks her by suggesting ...
more
Rani Choudhury Must Die
by
Adiba Jaigirdar
Feiwel & Friends, 11/12/2024
Meghna Rahman is tired of constantly being compared to her infuriatingly perfect ex best friend now rival. Everyone, except, at least, her boyfriend ...
more
Revolution by Fire: New York's Afro-Irish Uprising of 1741, a Graphic Novel
by
David Lester, Marcus Rediker
Beacon Press, 11/12/2024
Rebel fugitive John Gwin was previously introduced in
Under the Banner of King Death and this graphic novel continues his adventures.
Revolution by ...more
Graphic Novels
Shy Creatures: A Novel
by
Clare Chambers
Mariner Books, 11/12/2024
In all failed relationships there is a tipping point. It goes unnoticed at the time but can later be identified as the beginning of the decline. For ...more
Literary Fiction
Taiwan Travelogue: A Novel
by
Shuang-zi Yang
Graywolf Press, 11/12/2024
May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She's been invited there by the ...
more
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
by
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Penguin Classics, 11/12/2024
When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Burrow
by
Melanie Cheng
Tin House Books, 11/12/2024
Big-hearted and moving, Melanie Cheng's
The Burrow brings together a family trying to find their way forward in the wake of a devastating loss. ...
more
The Co-op: A Novel
by
Tarah DeWitt
St. Martin's Griffin, 11/12/2024
LaRynn Lavigne and Deacon Leeds had one short and contentious summer fling when they were teens―certainly nothing to build a foundation on. But ...
more
The Starlets
by
Lee Kelly, Jennifer Thorne
Harper, 11/12/2024
Summer, 1958. Vivienne Rhodes thinks she's finally landed her break playing Helen of Troy in Apex Pictures' big-budget epic,
A Thousand Ships, an ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
They Just Need to Get a Job: 15 Myths on Homelessness
by
Mary Brosnahan
Beacon Press, 11/12/2024
Conservative think tanks like the Manhattan Institute disseminate anti-homeless myths in the media, legislatures, and the larger culture, claiming ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Those Opulent Days: A Mystery
by
Jacquie Pham
Atlantic Monthly Press, 11/12/2024
Duy, Phong, Minh, and Edmond have been best friends since childhood. Now, as young men running their families' formidable businesses, they make up ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
by
Katherine Rundell
Doubleday, 11/12/2024
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous, and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this brilliant and passionately persuasive book, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Water Finds a Way: A novel
by
Meghan Perry
Delphinium Books, 11/12/2024
Determined to conceal her secrets and losses, she soon finds herself dragged into others' lives when she takes a job on a boat owned by a notorious ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Anzuelo
by
Emma Ríos
Image Comics, 11/19/2024
The Sea, secretly more complex than anyone imagined, rises one day. The horizon folds as the Sea absorbs the world and transforms everything that's ...
more
Graphic Novels
Briarcliff Prep: Sophomore Year
by
Brianna Peppins
Disney-Hyperion, 11/19/2024
Avielle LeBeau is beginning her second year at Briarcliff Prep, and she's got big dreams. Top of the list? Starting her own student life magazine and ...
more
Literary Fiction
Citizen: My Life After the White House
by
Bill Clinton
Knopf, 11/19/2024
On January 20, 2001, after nearly thirty years in politics—eight of them as president of the United States—Bill Clinton was suddenly a ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry
by
Ryan Ruby
Seven Stories Press, 11/19/2024
Prophet. Entertainer. Courtier. Criminal. Revolutionary. Critic. Scholar. Nobody. Epic in sweep,
Context Collapse is the secret history of the poet&#...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers
by
Jean Strouse
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/19/2024
Jean Strouse's
Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers looks at twelve portraits of one English family painted by the expatriate ...
more
Is She Really Going Out with Him?
by
Sophie Cousens
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 11/19/2024
Columnist Anna Appleby has left her love life behind after a painful divorce. Who needs a man when she has two kids, a cat, and uncontested control of...
more
Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future
by
Vince Beiser
Riverhead Books, 11/19/2024
An Australian millionaire's plan to mine the ocean floor. Nigerian garbage pickers risking their lives to salvage e-waste. A Bill Gates-backed ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Red Sonja: Consumed
by
Gail Simone
Orbit, 11/19/2024
The warrior
Red Sonja, the famous fiery She-Devil of Hyrkania, has never concerned herself with the consequences of her actions. She's taken what she ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Serpent Sea: Spice Road #2
by
Maiya Ibrahim
Delacorte Press, 11/19/2024
Imani is a magic-wielding warrior sworn to protect her land from the monsters that roam the desert. But an even worse enemy now threatens the Sahir. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Shell Games: A Novel
by
Bonnie Kistler
Harper, 11/19/2024
Julie's mother Kate is a force of nature – a glamorous woman of seventy, a self-made real estate developer, a grande dame in Florida society, ...
more
Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing
by
Abigail Thomas
Scribner, 11/19/2024
"The Emily Dickinson of memoirists" (Stephen King) Abigail Thomas shares her thoughts on aging in this irresistibly wry memoir-in-vignettes—...
more
Biography/Memoir
Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
by
Edwin Frank
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/19/2024
"How can we live differently?" a young woman urgently demands in Virginia Woolf's novel
The Years. It is the 1930s, war and death are in the air, but ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Thanks for Listening
by
Molly Horan
HarperCollins Publishers, 11/19/2024
Mia knows what she's talking about.
Class schedules, significant others, existential life crises—you name it, she's talked someone through ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Collaborators
by
Michael Idov
Scribner, 11/19/2024
Combining realistic thrills with sophisticated spycraft and witty dialogue,
The Collaborators delivers a gut-punch answer to the biggest geopolitical ...
more
The Mirror: The Lost Bride Trilogy #2
by
Nora Roberts
St. Martin's Press, 11/19/2024
When Sonya MacTavish inherits the huge Victorian mansion on the coast of Maine, she has no idea that the house is haunted. The footsteps she hears at ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
by
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Scribner, 11/19/2024
As Indigenous scientist and author of
Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Songbird & the Heart of Stone: The Shadowborn Duet #1 (Crowns of Nyaxia #3)
by
Carissa Broadbent
Tor Books, 11/19/2024
In the descent to the underworld, a bride of the sun must choose between the light of her redemption… or a dark love that defies the gods ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Time of the Child
by
Niall Williams
Bloomsbury Publishing, 11/19/2024
Doctor Jack Troy was born and raised in Faha, but his responsibilities for the sick and his care for the dying mean he has always been set apart from ...
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Visitations
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Corey Egbert
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/19/2024
Corey's mom has always made him feel safe. Especially after his parents' divorce, and the dreaded visitations with his dad begin. But as Corey grows ...
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Water, Water: Poems
by
Billy Collins
Random House, 11/19/2024
In this collection of sixty new poems, Billy Collins writes about the beauties and ironies of everyday experience. A poem is best, he feels, when it ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation
by
Jim O'Heir
William Morrow, 11/19/2024
For seven seasons, Leslie Knope and the
Parks and Recreation gang charmed millions of viewers with their quirky antics and unwavering positivity. The ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
When Mimi Went Missing
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Suja Sukumar
Soho Press, 11/19/2024
Shy, nerdy Tanvi has always thought of her perfect cousin Mimi as her sister. Not only did Mimi's family raise Tanvi after the tragic death of her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
City of Night Birds: A Novel
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Juhea Kim
Ecco, 11/26/2024
On a White Night in 2019, prima ballerina Natalia Leonova returns to St. Petersburg two years after a devastating accident that stalled her career. ...
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Darkly
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Marisha Pessl
Delacorte Press, 11/26/2024
Arcadia "Dia" Gannon has been obsessed with Louisiana Veda, the game designer whose obsessive creations and company, Darkly, have gained a cultlike ...
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Daughters of Bronze: A Novel of Troy
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A. D. Rhine
Dutton, 11/26/2024
Lost between the timeless lines of Homer's epic, the women of Troy finally stand to be counted. Their story is one you've never encountered, and it ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Naples 1343: The Unexpected Origins of the Mafia
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Amedeo Feniello
Other Press, 11/26/2024
1343: there is famine in Naples. After nightfall, a Genoese ship loaded with wheat is attacked by members of two local clans who brutally kill several...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)
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Solvej Balle
New Directions Publishing, 11/26/2024
Tara Selter, the heroine of
On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November eighteenth repeats ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Don't Go: Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It
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Tonika Lewis Johnson, Maria Krysan
Polity, 11/27/2024
This book is a collection of intimate stories and evocative photos that uncover the hidden influence of both subtle and overt "don't go" messages and ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Original, Unabridged, and Uncensored 1885 Classic (Illustrated)
by
Mark Twain
Independently published, 11/27/2024
Huck Finn, a spirited boy escaping the confines of his small-town life, joins forces with Jim, an enslaved man fleeing for his freedom. Together, they...
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Literary Fiction
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