The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
by
Shannon Vallor
Oxford University Press, 06/03/2024
They promise a future in which human limits and frailties are finally overcome―not by us, but by our machines.
Yet rather than open new ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR's War of Words With Charles Lindbergh and the Battle to Save Democracy
by
Paul M. Sparrow
Pegasus Books, 06/04/2024
Franklin Roosevelt awoke at 2:50 a.m. on September 1, 1939 to the news that Germany had invaded Poland, signaling the start of World War II. The ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Better Must Come
by
Desmond Hall
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 06/04/2024
Deja is a "barrel girl"—one of the Jamaican kids who get barrels full of clothes, food, and treats shipped to them from parents who have moved ...
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Literary Fiction
Blessings: A Novel
by
Chukwuebuka Ibeh
Doubleday, 06/04/2024
Obiefuna has always been the black sheep of his family—sensitive where his father, Anozie, is pragmatic, a dancer where his brother, Ekene, is a...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Blood in the Cut: A Novel
by
Alejandro Nodarse
Flatiron Books, 06/04/2024
Iggy must earn his father's lost trust in order to save La Carnicería Guerra from the threats imposed by a new rival business, a vigilante ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity
by
Ruth Whippman
Harmony Books, 06/04/2024
"Rapist, school-shooter, incel, man-child, interrupter, mansplainer, boob-starer, birthday forgetter, frat boy, dude-bro, homophobe, self-important ...more
Biography/Memoir
Bright and Tender Dark
by
Joanna Pearson
Bloomsbury USA, 06/04/2024
Days after the dawn of Y2K, beautiful, charismatic nineteen-year-old Karlie Richards is found brutally murdered in her campus apartment. Two decades ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Burn It All: A Novel
by
Maggie Auffarth
Crooked Lane Books, 06/04/2024
Marley Henderson is having the worst year of her life. First, a drunken mistake costs her everything, including her engagement and her closest friend,...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania
by
Kathryn Hughes
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 06/04/2024
In 1900, Britain and America were in the grip of a cat craze. An animal that had for centuries been seen as a household servant or urban nuisance had ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Chorus of the Union: How Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Set Aside Their Rivalry to Save the Nation
by
Edward Robert McClelland
Pegasus Books, 06/04/2024
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas are a misunderstood duo. History remembers them as antagonists, and for most of the years the two men knew each ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Daughter of the Merciful Deep
by
Leslye Penelope
Redhook, 06/04/2024
"
Our home began, as all things do, with a wish."
Jane Edwards hasn't spoken since she was eleven years old, when armed riders expelled her family...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive
by
James Parker
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/04/2024
Our politics are broken; our world is melting; the next catastrophe looms. Enter James Parker, who for years now has been writing odes of appreciation...
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Godwin: A Novel
by
Joseph O'Neill
Pantheon Books, 06/04/2024
Mark Wolfe, a brilliant if self-thwarting technical writer, lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Sushila, and their toddler daughter. His half-brother ...
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Hall of Mirrors: A Judy Nightingale and Philippa Watson Mystery
by
John Copenhaver
Pegasus Crime, 06/04/2024
In May 1954, Lionel Kane witnesses his apartment engulfed in flames with his lover and writing partner, Roger Raymond, inside. Police declare it a ...
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Mysteries
I've Tried Being Nice: Essays
by
Ann Leary
Marysue Rucci Books, 06/04/2024
Having arrived at a certain age (her prime), Ann Leary casts a wry backward glance at a life spent trying—and often failing—to be nice. ...
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If You Can't Take the Heat
by
Michael Ruhlman
Penguin Books, 06/04/2024
When high school football star Theo Claverback breaks his leg just weeks after a devastating break-up, he's forced to call an audible on his summer ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
In the Hour of Crows: A Novel
by
Dana Elmendorf
Mira Books, 06/04/2024
When called upon, she can talk the death out of the dying and save their lives—only once, never twice. But this truly unique gift comes at a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Lockjaw
by
Matteo L. Cerilli
Tundra Books, 06/04/2024
Chuck Warren died tragically at the old abandoned mill, but Paz Espino knows it was no accident — there's a monster under the town, and she's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Looking for Smoke
by
K. A. Cobell
Heartdrum, 06/04/2024
When local girl Loren includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet Giveaway to honor Loren's missing sister, Mara thinks she'll finally make some friends ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Louder Than Words
by
Ashley Woodfolk, Lexi Underwood
Scholastic, 06/04/2024
When Jordyn Jones transfers to Edgewood High, it's her opportunity to forget everything that happened at her old school. To forget what she and her ...
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Malas: A Novel
by
Marcela Fuentes
Viking, 06/04/2024
More than forty years later, Lulu Muñoz is dodging chaos at every turn: her troubled father's moods, his rules, her secret life as singer in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Mirrored Heavens: Between Earth and Sky #3
by
Rebecca Roanhorse
Simon & Schuster, 06/04/2024
Even the sea cannot stay calm before the storm. —Teek saying
Serapio, avatar of the Crow God Reborn and the newly crowned Carrion King, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood's Hidden Genius
by
Carrie Courogen
St. Martin's Press, 06/04/2024
After performing their Broadway smash
An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Elaine set out on her own. She toiled unsuccessfully on Broadway ...
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Old King: A Novel
by
Maxim Loskutoff
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/04/2024
In the summer of 1976, Duane Oshun finds himself stranded in a remote Montana town beset by a series of strange and menacing events. He takes a job as...
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Shark Heart: A Love Story
by
Emily Habeck
Simon & Schuster, 06/04/2024
For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their wedding, Lewis receives a rare diagnosis. He will retain ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Shelterwood: A Novel
by
Lisa Wingate
Ballantine Books, 06/04/2024
Oklahoma, 1909. Eleven-year-old Olive Augusta Radley knows that her stepfather doesn't have good intentions toward the two Choctaw girls boarded in ...
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Literary Fiction
Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States
by
J. Albert Mann
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/04/2024
Long before the first labor unions were formed, workers still knew what exploitation looked like. It looked like the enslavement of Black people. It ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water
by
Amorina Kingdon
Crown, 06/04/2024
For centuries, humans ignored sound in the "silent world" of the ocean, assuming that what we couldn't perceive, didn't exist. But we couldn't have ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Soldier Sailor: A Novel
by
Claire Kilroy
Scribner, 06/04/2024
Claire Kilroy takes readers deep inside the early days of motherhood. Exploring the clash of fierce love with a seismic shift in identity, Kilroy ...
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Spilled Ink
by
Nadia Hashimi
Quill Tree Books, 06/04/2024
When Yalda hears that her twin brother, Yusuf, will be performing with his band at a local venue, she lets her friends convince her to sneak out to ...
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Literary Fiction
Such a Bad Influence
by
Olivia Muenter
Quirk Books, 06/04/2024
Hazel Davis is drifting: she's stalled in her career, living in a city she hates, and less successful than her younger sister, @evelyn, a mega-popular...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Swift River
by
Essie Chambers
Simon & Schuster, 06/04/2024
But that's not the only reason Diamond stands out: she's teased relentlessly about her weight, and since Pop's been gone, she is the only Black person...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Tell Me Who You Are: A Novel
by
Louisa Luna
MCD, 06/04/2024
Brooklyn psychiatrist Dr. Caroline Strange is certain she knows what's best for her patients, her family, and pretty much everyone else, but that all ...
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The Borrowed Hills: A Novel
by
Scott Preston
Scribner, 06/04/2024
In early 2001, a lethal disease breaks out on the hill farms of northern England, emptying the valleys of sheep and filling the skies with smoke as ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
by
Thomas R. Cech
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/04/2024
For over half a century, DNA has dominated science and the popular imagination as the "secret of life." But over the last several decades, a quiet ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Coast Road: A Novel
by
Alan Murrin
HarperVia, 06/04/2024
Set in 1994,
The Coast Road tells the story of two women—Izzy Keaveney, a housewife, and Colette Crowley, a poet. Colette has left her husband ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Deep Dark: A Graphic Novel
by
Molly Knox Ostertag
Graphix, 06/04/2024
Everyone has secrets. Mags's has teeth.
Magdalena Herrera is about to graduate high school, but she already feels like an adult with serious ...
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The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America
by
Elizabeth Dias
Flatiron Books, 06/04/2024
In June 2022, Americans watched in shock as the Supreme Court reversed one of the nation's landmark rulings. For nearly a half century, Roe was ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The God and the Gumiho
by
Sophie Kim
Del Rey, 06/04/2024
Kim Hani has retired from a life of devouring souls. She is, simply put, too full. Once known as the infamous Scarlet Fox, she now spends her days ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Last Twelve Miles: A Novel
by
Erika Robuck
Sourcebooks Landmark, 06/04/2024
1926. Washington, D.C.
The Coast Guard is losing the Prohibition Rum War, but they have a new, secret weapon to crack smuggler codes, intercept ...
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Historical Fiction
The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower
by
Michel Paradis
Mariner Books, 06/04/2024
On June 6, 1944, General Dwight Eisenhower addressed the thousands of American troops preparing to invade Normandy, exhorting them to embrace the "...
more
The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports
by
Michael Waters
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/04/2024
In December 1935, Zdeněk Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women's sports, declared he was now living as a man. Around the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Pecan Children
by
Quinn Connor
Sourcebooks Landmark, 06/04/2024
How long will you hold on when your world is gone?
In a small southern pecan town, the annual harvest is a time of both celebration and heartbreak....
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Road to the Country: A Novel
by
Chigozie Obioma
Hogarth Books, 06/04/2024
Set in Nigeria in the late 1960s,
The Road to the Country is the epic story of a shy, bookish student haunted by long-held guilt who must go to war to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Secret Keeper of Main Street: A Novel
by
Trisha R. Thomas
William Morrow, 06/04/2024
1954: In the quaint town of Mendol, Oklahoma, Bailey Dowery is a Black dressmaker for the wives and daughters of local oil barons. She earns a ...
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Historical Fiction
The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers
by
Zeke Hernandez
St. Martin's Press, 06/04/2024
Immigration is one of the most controversial topics in the United States and everywhere else. Pundits, politicians, and the public usually depict ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder
by
Alan Townsend PhD
Grand Central Publishing, 06/04/2024
A decade ago, Dr. Alan Townsend's family received two unthinkable, catastrophic diagnoses: his 4-year-old daughter and his brilliant scientist wife ...
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Tidal Creatures: Alchemical Journeys #3
by
Seanan McGuire
Tor Books, 06/04/2024
New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire takes us back to the world of the award-winning Alchemical Journeys series in this action-packed ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
by
Tom McGrath
Grand Central Publishing, 06/04/2024
By the time their obituary was being written in the late 1980s, Yuppies—the elite, uber‑educated faction of the Baby Boom generation—...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Vicious and Immoral: Homosexuality, the American Revolution, and the Trials of Robert Newburgh
by
John Gilbert McCurdy
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 06/04/2024
On the eve of the American Revolution, the British army considered the case of a chaplain, Robert Newburgh, who had been accused of having sex with a ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wafers
by
Seong-nan Ha
Open Letter, 06/04/2024
A best-seller in Korea, Ha Seong-nan is one of the stars of contemporary short fiction, writing edgy, socially conscious stories that bring to mind ...
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Short Stories
Welcome to Glorious Tuga
by
Francesca Segal
Chatto & Windus, 06/06/2024
Passionate about conservation and fleeing an argument with her mother, newly qualified London vet Charlotte Walker has taken up a fellowship on the ...
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Literary Fiction
A Talent for Murder: A Novel
by
Peter Swanson
William Morrow, 06/11/2024
Martha Ratliff conceded long ago that she'd likely spend her life alone. She was fine with it, happy with her solo existence, stimulated by her job as...
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All Friends Are Necessary: A Novel
by
Tomas Moniz
Algonquin Books, 06/11/2024
Efren "Chino" Flores has just moved back to the Bay Area from Seattle, jumping from sublet to sublet. In Washington, he was a beloved middle school ...
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Consent: A Memoir
by
Jill Ciment
Pantheon Books, 06/11/2024
In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, which began in the 1970s, when she was a teenager ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation
by
Hugh Warwick
Bloomsbury USA, 06/11/2024
Across the world, invasive species pose a danger to ecosystems. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity ranks them as a major threat to biodiversity...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Familiaris (Oprah's Book Club)
by
David Wroblewski
Blackstone Publishing, 06/11/2024
It is spring 1919, and John Sawtelle's imagination has gotten him into trouble ... again. Now John and his newlywed wife, Mary, along with their two ...
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Literary Fiction
Getting to Know Death: A Meditation
by
Gail Godwin
Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/11/2024
Ingmar Bergman once said that an artist should always have one work between himself and death. When renowned author Gail Godwin tripped and broke her ...
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Gretel and the Great War: A Novel
by
Adam Ehrlich Sachs
FSG Originals, 06/11/2024
Vienna, 1919. A once-mighty empire has finally come crashing down―and a mysterious young woman, unable to speak, has turned up on the streets. A...
more
Hip-Hop Is History
by
Questlove
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/11/2024
When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn't expected to become the cultural force it is today. But for a young Black kid growing up in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain
by
Peter S. Goodman
Mariner Books, 06/11/2024
How does the wealthiest country on earth run out of protective gear in the middle of a public health catastrophe? How do its parents find themselves ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How to Age Disgracefully: A Novel
by
Clare Pooley
Pamela Dorman Books, 06/11/2024
When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens' Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she'll be spending her time drinking tea and ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Middletide: A Novel
by
Sarah Crouch
Atria Books, 06/11/2024
One peaceful morning, in the small, Puget Sound town of Point Orchards, the lifeless body of Dr. Erin Landry is found hanging from a tree on the ...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
Swan Song
by
Elin Hilderbrand
Little Brown & Company, 06/11/2024
Chief of Police Ed Kapenash is about to retire. Blond Sharon is going through a divorce. But when a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by the ...
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Tehrangeles: A Novel
by
Porochista Khakpour
Pantheon Books, 06/11/2024
There's Violet, the big-hearted aspiring model; Roxanna, the chaotic influencer; Mina, the chronically-online overachiever; and the impressionable ...
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The Color of a Lie
by
Kim Johnson
Random House Books for Younger Readers, 06/11/2024
Calvin knows how to pass for white. He's done it plenty of times before. For his friends in Chicago, when they wanted food but weren't allowed in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Dig: A Novel
by
Anne Burt
Counterpoint Press, 06/11/2024
Antonia King has a complicated relationship with the past. She and her brother were found amid the rubble of a bombed-out apartment in Sarajevo and ...
more
Thrillers
The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
by
Griffin Dunne
Penguin Press, 06/11/2024
At eight, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion and uncle John ...
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The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
by
Boyce Upholt
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/11/2024
The Mississippi River lies at the heart of America, an undeniable life force that is intertwined with the nation's culture and history. Its watershed ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Sisters K
by
Maureen Sun
The Unnamed Press, 06/11/2024
After years of estrangement, Minah, Sarah, and Esther have been forced together again. Called to their father's deathbed, the sisters must confront a ...
more
The Sons of El Rey
by
Alex Espinoza
Simon & Schuster, 06/11/2024
Ernesto Vega has lived many lives, from pig farmer to construction worker to famed luchador El Rey Coyote, yet he has always worn a mask. He was ...
more
The Stardust Grail: A Novel
by
Yume Kitasei
Flatiron Books, 06/11/2024
Maya Hoshimoto was once the best art thief in the galaxy. For ten years, she returned stolen artifacts to alien civilizations―until a disastrous...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Stars Too Fondly: A Novel
by
Emily Hamilton
Harper Voyager, 06/11/2024
So, here's the thing: Cleo and her friends really, truly didn't mean to steal this spaceship.
They just wanted to know why, twenty years ago, the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Throne: The Machiavelli Trilogy #1
by
Franco Bernini
Europa Editions, 06/11/2024
October 1502. As Cesare Borgia sets out to invade the Florentine Republic, Niccolò Machiavelli is sent to spy on him and to glean details of his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir
by
Cory Leadbeater
Ecco, 06/11/2024
As an aspiring novelist in his early twenties, Cory Leadbeater was presented with an opportunity to work for a well-known writer whose identity was ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell
by
Ann Powers
Dey Street Books, 06/11/2024
For decades, Joni Mitchell's life and music have enraptured listeners. One of the most celebrated artists of her generation, Mitchell has ...
more
Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal
by
Melissa B. Jacoby
The New Press, 06/11/2024
Bankruptcy is the busiest federal court in America. In theory, bankruptcy in America exists to cancel or restructure debts for people and companies ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance
by
Mara Kardas-Nelson
Metropolitan Books, 06/11/2024
In the mid-1970s, Muhammad Yunus, an American-trained Bangladeshi economist, met a poor female stool maker who needed money to expand her business. In...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
What Fire Brings: A Thriller
by
Rachel Howzell Hall
Thomas & Mercer, 06/11/2024
Bailey Meadows has just moved into the remote Topanga Canyon home of thriller author Jack Beckham. As his writer-in-residence, she's supposed to help ...
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1974: A Personal History
by
Francine Prose
Harper, 06/18/2024
During her twenties, Francine Prose lived in San Francisco, where she began an intense and strange relationship with Tony Russo, who had been indicted...
more
Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and Ourselves
by
Tamsin Mather
Hanover Square Press, 06/18/2024
In this captivating book from one of the most influential geochemists in the field, Tamsin Mather takes us along on her globe-spanning excursions from...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women
by
Maggie Mertens
Algonquin Books, 06/18/2024
Despite women proving their abilities on the track time and again, men in the medical establishment, media, and athletic associations have fought to ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir
by
Priyanka Mattoo
Knopf, 06/18/2024
Priyanka Mattoo was born into a wooden house in the Himalayas, as were most of her ancestors. In 1989, however, mounting violence in the region forced...
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Caledonian Road: A Novel
by
Andrew O'Hagan
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/18/2024
Campbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and fêted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen ...
more
Death in the Air: A Novel
by
Ram Murali
Harper, 06/18/2024
Ro Krishna is the American son of Indian parents, educated at the finest institutions, equally at home in London's poshest clubs and on the squash ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls
by
Susan Seidelman
St. Martin's Press, 06/18/2024
Starting out in the mid-70s, a time when few women were directing movies, Susan was determined to become a filmmaker. She longed to tell stories about...
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End of Active Service
by
Matt Young
Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/18/2024
What was it like? It's the only thing anyone wants to know about war-and the last thing Corporal Dean Pusey wants to talk about, at least not with one...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Four Squares
by
Bobby Finger
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/18/2024
In 1992, on his thirtieth birthday, Artie Anderson meets the man who will change his life. Artie spends his days at a tedious advertising job, finding...
more
God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer: A Novel
by
Joseph Earl Thomas
Grand Central Publishing, 06/18/2024
Now a doctoral student at The University, and an EMS worker at the hospital in North Philly, he encounters round the clock friends and family from his...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Hood Wellness: Tales of Communal Care from People Who Drowned on Dry Land
by
Tamela J. Gordon
Row House Publishing, 06/18/2024
Hood Wellness is also a deep exploration of people forced to overcome harrowing circumstances with little more than communal support and the will to ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Jackie: A Novel
by
Dawn Tripp
Random House, 06/18/2024
The world has divided my life into three:
Life with Jack
Life with Onassis
Life as a woman who goes to work because she wants to.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest
by
Fawn Weaver
Melcher Media, 06/18/2024
This book is a vibrant exploration set in the present day, delving into the life and legacy of Nearest Green, the African American distilling genius ...
more
Literary Fiction
Middle of the Night: A Novel
by
Riley Sager
Dutton, 06/18/2024
The worst thing to ever happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan Marsh's backyard. One July night, ten-year-old Ethan and his best friend ...
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Thrillers
Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People (Significations)
by
Tiya Miles
Penguin Press, 06/18/2024
Harriet Tubman is among the most famous Americans ever born and soon to be the face of the twenty-dollar bill. Yet often she's a figure more out of ...
more
Biography/Memoir
On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
by
Anthony Fauci M.D.
Viking, 06/18/2024
Anthony Fauci is arguably the most famous – and most revered – doctor in the world today. His role guiding America sanely and calmly ...
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Biography/Memoir
Parade: A Novel
by
Rachel Cusk
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/18/2024
Midway through his life, the artist G begins to paint upside down. Eventually, he paints his wife upside down. He also makes her ugly. The paintings ...
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Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian
by
Dr. Amy Attas
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/18/2024
When a pet is sick, people—even the rich and famous—are at their most authentic and vulnerable. They could have a Monet on the wall and an...
more
Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership
by
Brea Baker
One World, 06/18/2024
To understand the contemporary racial wealth gap, we must first unpack the historic attacks on Indigenous and Black land ownership. From the moment ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Rules for Camouflage
by
Kirstin Cronn-Mills
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 06/18/2024
Evvie Chambers is doing her best to skate through the last month of high school to graduation. The only thing standing in her way is a biology report ...
more
Literary Fiction
Same As It Ever Was: A Novel
by
Claire Lombardo
Doubleday, 06/18/2024
Same As It Ever Was showcases the consummate style, signature wit, and profound emotional intelligence that made
The Most Fun We Ever Had one of the ...
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Sandwich: A Novel
by
Catherine Newman
Harper, 06/18/2024
For the past two decades, Rocky has looked forward to her family's yearly escape to Cape Cod. Their humble beach-town rental has been the site of ...
more
The Glassmaker: A Novel
by
Tracy Chevalier
Viking, 06/18/2024
It is 1486 and Venice is a wealthy, opulent center for trade. Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers on Murano, the island ...
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Historical Fiction
The Memo: A Novel
by
Rachel Dodes, Lauren Mechling
Harper Perennial, 06/18/2024
Do you ever feel like your life doesn't measure up to everyone else's—and wonder if you just didn't get the memo helping you make the right ...more
The Next Mrs. Parrish: A Novel
by
Liv Constantine
Bantam Books, 06/18/2024
Amber Patterson Parrish has come a long way. Hard work and immaculate planning turned her from invisible wallflower to prominent socialite, though ...
more
The Witchstone
by
Henry H. Neff
Blackstone Publishing, 06/18/2024
Meet Laszlo, eight-hundred-year-old demon and Hell's least productive Curse Keeper. From his office beneath Midtown, he oversees the Drakeford Curse, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
by
John Ganz
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/18/2024
With the Soviet Union extinct, Saddam Hussein defeated, and U.S. power at its zenith, the early 1990s promised a "kinder, gentler America." Instead, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Where Wolves Don't Die
by
Anton Treuer
Levine Querido, 06/18/2024
But Ezra hates the dirty, polluted snow around them. He hates being away from the rez at Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation. And he hates the local ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
With Love, Miss Americanah
by
Jane Igharo
Feiwel & Friends, 06/18/2024
17-year-old Enore Adesuwa doesn't dive into things, she walks in carefully. So when she, her mother, and her sister move from Nigeria to America ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
A Daughter of Fair Verona: Daughter of Montague #1
by
Christina Dodd
A John Scognamiglio Book, 06/25/2024
Once upon a time a young couple met and fell in love. You probably know that story, and how it ended (hint: badly). Only here's the thing: That's not ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
All the Colors of the Dark
by
Chris Whitaker
Crown, 06/25/2024
1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, ...
more
At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China
by
Edward Wong
Viking, 06/25/2024
The son of Chinese immigrants in Washington, DC, Edward Wong grew up among family secrets. His father toiled in Chinese restaurants and rarely spoke ...
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Bear: A Novel
by
Julia Phillips
Hogarth Books, 06/25/2024
They were sisters and they would last past the end of time.
Sam and Elena dream of another life. On the island off the coast of Washington where ...
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Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
by
Emily Nussbaum
Random House, 06/25/2024
In this revelatory, deeply reported account of the rise of "dirty documentary"—from its contentious roots in radio to the ascent of Donald Trump...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy
by
Simon Wu
Harper, 06/25/2024
In Robyn's 2010 track
Dancing on My Own, the Swedish pop-singer chronicles a night on the dance floor in the shadow of a former lover. She is bitter, ...
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Don't Let the Devil Ride: A Novel
by
Ace Atkins
William Morrow, 06/25/2024
Hell is empty…and Addison McKellar's husband is missing.
Addison McKellar isn't clueless—she knows she and her husband Dean don't have ...
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Foul Days: The Witch's Compendium of Monsters #1
by
Genoveva Dimova
Tor Books, 06/25/2024
As a witch in the walled city of Chernograd, Kosara has plenty of practice treating lycanthrope bites, bargaining with kikimoras, and slaying ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Girls Like Her
by
Melanie Sumrow
Balzer + Bray, 06/25/2024
A wealthy businessman is dead, and fifteen-year-old Ruby Monroe is in a Dallas jail awaiting trial for his murder. Ruby has no one she can count on&#...
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Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory
by
Solomon J. Brager
William Morrow, 06/25/2024
Solomon Brager grew up with accounts of their great-grandparents' escape from Nazi Germany, told over and over until their understanding of self was ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Hey, Zoey
by
Sarah Crossan
Little Brown & Company, 06/25/2024
43-year-old Dolores O'Shea is logical, organized, and prepared to handle whatever comes her way. She keeps up with her job and housework, takes care ...
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Hombrecito: A Novel
by
Santiago Jose Sanchez
Riverhead Books, 06/25/2024
In this groundbreaking novel, Santiago Jose Sanchez plunges us into the heart of one boy's life. His mother takes him and his brother from Colombia to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Honey: A Novel
by
Isabel Banta
Celadon, 06/25/2024
It is 1997, and Amber Young has received a life-changing call. It's a chance thousands of girls would die for: the opportunity to join girl group ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
How the Light Gets In: A Novel
by
Joyce Maynard
William Morrow, 06/25/2024
Following the death of her former husband, Cam, fifty-four-year-old Eleanor has moved back to the New Hampshire farm where they raised three children ...
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Husbands & Lovers: A Novel
by
Beatriz Williams
Ballantine Books, 06/25/2024
New England, 2022. Three years ago, single mother Mallory Dunne received the telephone call every parent dreads—her ten-year-old son, Sam, had ...
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Joe Hustle: A Novel
by
Richard Lange
Mulholland, 06/25/2024
Joe Hustle is a survivor. A Gulf War vet and ex-con always one stumble away from catastrophe, he manages to scrape together enough money from various ...
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Last Date in El Zapotal
by
Mateo García Elizondo
Charco Press, 06/25/2024
This is a ghost story. A junkie has gone to El Zapotal to die – to rent a room in this crumbling backwater, melt into one last fix, and not...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Moral Injuries: A Novel
by
Christie Watson
Harper, 06/25/2024
When you're trained to protect the lives of others, how far will you go to protect your own?
Ruthlessly ambitious Olivia, anxious perfectionist ...
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Practice: A Novel
by
Rosalind Brown
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/25/2024
Rosalind Brown's
Practice shows us just one day. Annabel, sitting in her small student room, attempts to write an essay about Shakespeare. She follows...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Russian Gothic
by
Aleksandr Skorobogatov
Rare Bird, 06/25/2024
Russian Gothic is a dark tale of the descent into paranoia and violence of Nikolai, a veteran of the Soviet-Afghan war. When a mysterious figure,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Shanghai: A Novel
by
Joseph Kanon
Scribner, 06/25/2024
After the violence of Kristallnacht (1938), European Jews, now desperate to emigrate, found the consular doors of the world closed to them. Only one ...
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Sleep Like Death
by
Kalynn Bayron
Bloomsbury YA, 06/25/2024
Princess Eve was raised with one purpose: to destroy the Knight. Far too many of subjects of Queen's Bridge have been devastated by this evil sorcerer...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water
by
Vicki Valosik
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 06/25/2024
If you're not strong enough to swim fast, you're probably not strong enough to swim 'pretty,'" said a young Esther Williams to theater impresario ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Lions' Den: A Novel
by
Iris Mwanza
Graydon House, 06/25/2024
When young queer dancer Wilbess "Bessy" Mulenga is arrested by corrupt police, fresh-from-the-village rookie lawyer Grace Zulu takes up his cause in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
by
Ray Kurzweil
Viking, 06/25/2024
Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil's
The Singularity Is Near and its vision of an exponential future have spawned a worldwide movement...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Trust Her: A Novel
by
Flynn Berry
Viking, 06/25/2024
Three years after they narrowly escaped the IRA's worst punishment for informing, Northern Irish sisters Tessa and Marian Daly have built a new life ...
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Woman of Interest: A Memoir
by
Tracy O'Neill
HarperOne, 06/25/2024
In 2020, Tracy O'Neill began to rethink her ideas of comfort and safety. Just out of a ten-year relationship and thirtysomething, she was driven by an...
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The Curse of the Flores Women: A Novel
by
Angélica Lopes
Amazon Crossing, 07/01/2024
Eighteen-year-old Alice Ribeiro is constantly fighting―against the status quo, female oppression in Brazil, and even her own mother. But when a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Last Time I Saw You
by
Jo Leevers
Lake Union Publishing, 07/01/2024
Weeks away from the birth of her first child, Georgie should be enjoying the peace of her new life in the country, but boredom has settled in and ...
more
A Sea Full of Turtles: The Search for Optimism in an Epoch of Extinction
by
Bill Streever
Pegasus Books, 07/02/2024
Everyone alive today is witnessing a mass extinction event caused by the more than eight billion humans who share this planet. At times, it seems ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Age 16
by
Rosena Fung
Annick Press, 07/02/2024
Guandong, 1954 Sixteen-year-old Mei Laan longs for a future of freedom, and her beauty may be the key to getting it. Can an arranged marriage in Hong ...
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Big in Sweden: A Novel
by
Sally Franson
Mariner Books, 07/02/2024
Paulie Johansson has never put much stock in the idea of family: she has her long-term boyfriend Declan and beloved best friend Jemma, and that's more...
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Literary Fiction
Break to You
by
Neal Shusterman, Debra Young, Michelle Knowlden
Quill Tree Books, 07/02/2024
Adriana knows that if she can manage to keep her head down for the next seven months, she might be able to get through her sentence in the Compass ...
more
Briefly Very Beautiful: A Novel
by
Roz Dineen
The Overlook Press, 07/02/2024
In a land destabilized by unsafe air, wildfires, floods, viruses, supply shortages, and homegrown terror, Cass is raising three small children by ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Evenings and Weekends: A Novel
by
Oisín McKenna
Mariner Books, 07/02/2024
Summer in London stops for no one. Not the half-naked drunks and stoners, the bachelorette parties glugging from bejewelled bottles, the drag ...
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Joined at the Joints
by
Marissa Eller
Holiday House, 07/02/2024
Chronically ill seventeen-year-old Ivy has stayed in watching the Food Network all summer—pies are better than people, and they don't trigger ...
more
Romance
Midnight Rooms: A Novel
by
Donyae Coles
Amistad, 07/02/2024
England, 1840. Orabella Mumthrope spies an unexpected visitor in her uncle's parlor. Scruffy in appearance yet claiming to be the scion of a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: A Novel
by
Satoshi Yagisawa
Harper Perennial, 07/02/2024
Set again in the beloved Japanese bookshop and nearby coffee shop in the Jimbochi neighborhood of Toyko,
More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop deepens ...
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Literary Fiction
Not About a Boy
by
Myah Hollis
HarperTeen, 07/02/2024
Amélie Cœur has never known what it truly means to be happy.
She thought she'd found happiness once, in a love that ended in tragedy ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
On the Bright Side
by
Anna Sortino
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/02/2024
Ellie's Deaf boarding school just shut down, forcing her to leave the place she considered home and return to her hearing family. But being ...
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Rise
by
Freya Finch
Disney Editions, 07/02/2024
For seventeen-year-old Bryn, being the youngest, messiest, most rebellious sister in a family of valkyries isn't easy. Especially considering home is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Air They Breathe: A Pediatrician on the Frontlines of Climate Change
by
Debra Hendrickson
Simon & Schuster, 07/02/2024
Wildfires, hurricanes, and heat waves make headlines. But what is happening in Debra Hendrickson's clinic tells another story of this strange and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Cliffs: Reese's Book Club: A novel
by
J. Courtney Sullivan
Knopf, 07/02/2024
On a secluded bluff overlooking the ocean sits a Victorian house, lavender with gingerbread trim, a home that contains a century's worth of secrets. ...
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Literary Fiction
The Education Wars, Jack Schneider: A Citizen's Guide and Defense Manual
by
Jennifer C. Berkshire, Jack Schneider
The New Press, 07/02/2024
Culture wars have engulfed our schools. Extremist groups are seeking to ban books, limit what educators can teach, and threaten the very foundations ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Entire Sky: A Novel
by
Joe Wilkins
Little Brown & Company, 07/02/2024
With his long hair and penchant for guitar, teenage Justin is the spitting image of his idol, Kurt Cobain—a resemblance that has often marked ...
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Literary Fiction
The Expat: A Novel
by
Hansen Shi
Pegasus Crime, 07/02/2024
At twenty-six, Princeton grad Michael Wang is trapped. Stifled under the bamboo ceiling at General Motors, he's working quietly on a breakthrough in ...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
The God of the Woods: A Novel
by
Liz Moore
Riverhead Books, 07/02/2024
Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn't just any ...
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The Moonlight Market: A Novel
by
Joanne Harris
Pegasus Books, 07/02/2024
Deep in the heart of London, a photographer walks the streets and captures whatever catches his eye: an old man drinking coffee; a beautiful woman ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Night the River Wept: A Novel
by
Lo Patrick
Sourcebooks Landmark, 07/02/2024
Arlene has lived in a small town on the edge of nowhere Georgia her whole life. Now married to her long-time high school sweetheart, Tommy, Arlene is ...
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Literary Fiction
The Piano Player of Budapest: A True Story of Survival, Hope, and Music
by
Roxanne de Bastion
Pegasus Books, 07/02/2024
When her father died, singer-songwriter Roxanne de Bastion inherited a piano she knew had been in her family for over a hundred years. But it is only ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Same Bright Stars: A Novel
by
Ethan Joella
Scribner, 07/02/2024
Three generations of Schmidts have run their family's beachfront restaurant and Jack has been at the helm since the death of his father. Jack puts the...
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Literary Fiction
The Second Chance of Darius Logan
by
David F. Walker
Scholastic, 07/02/2024
Darius Logan is far from a hero. Since his parents were killed, he has spent most of his life navigating foster homes and shelters, abandoned ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Untold Story of Books: A Writer's History of Publishing
by
Michael Castleman
The Unnamed Press, 07/02/2024
Witty, entertaining, and full of remarkable new insights, it is a deeply researched, fascinating history of the idiosyncratic book business—...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The World After Alice: A Novel
by
Lauren Aliza Green
Viking, 07/02/2024
When Morgan and Benji surprise their families with a wedding invitation to Maine, they're aware the news of their clandestine relationship will come ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
We Don't Have Time for This
by
Brianna Craft
Disney-Hyperion, 07/02/2024
What's more romantic than saving the earth?
Two presidents. One club. A sizzling connection.
Isa Brown wishes her life would slow down. She ...
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Romance
Napalm in the Heart
by
Pol Guasch
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/04/2024
In a near future devastated by war and unspecified natural disaster, a young man and his mother cling to survival at the edge of a forest. Society is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Heaven Can Wait: a sparkling supernatural romantic comedy
by
Cally Taylor
Independently published, 07/05/2024
Lucy is about to marry the man of her dreams - kind, handsome, funny Dan - when she breaks her neck the night before their wedding. Unable to accept a...
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Romance
A Thousand Times Before: A Novel
by
Asha Thanki
Viking, 07/09/2024
Ayukta is finally sitting down with her wife Nadya to respond to a question she's long avoided: Should they have a child? The decision is complicated ...
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Literary Fiction
All This and More: A Novel
by
Peng Shepherd
William Morrow, 07/09/2024
One woman. Endless options. Every choice has consequences.
Meek, play-it-safe Marsh has just turned forty-five, and her life is in shambles. Her ...
more
Thrillers
Come to the Window: A Novel
by
Howard Norman
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/09/2024
It's l9l8. The war in Europe grinds on, and the Spanish flu seems to be on an insatiable killing spree. But in the small fishing village of Parrsboro,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Daughters of Chaos: A Novel
by
Jen Fawkes
The Overlook Press, 07/09/2024
In 1862, after a tragedy at home, twenty-two-year-old Sylvie Swift parts ways with her twin brother to trace the origins of an enigmatic playscript ...
more
Historical Fiction
Daughters of Olympus: A Novel
by
Hannah Lynn
Sourcebooks Landmark, 07/09/2024
Demeter: a goddess of life, living half of one.
Demeter did not always live in fear. Once, she loved the world and the humans who inhabited it. ...
more
Historical Fiction
Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity
by
Sable Yong
Dey Street Books, 07/09/2024
The beauty industry has a single mandate: be hot.
In the same week that you might be encouraged to try curtain bangs, contouring, bleached ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Elevator in Saigon
by
Thuân
New Directions Publishing, 07/09/2024
A young Vietnamese woman living in Paris travels back to Saigon for her estranged mother's funeral. Her brother had recently built a new house in ...
more
Grown Women: A Novel
by
Sarai Johnson
Harper, 07/09/2024
Erudite Evelyn, her cynical daughter Charlotte, and Charlotte's optimistic daughter Corinna see the world very differently. Though they love each ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
It's Elementary
by
Elise Bryant
Berkley Books, 07/09/2024
Mavis Miller is not a PTA mom. She has enough on her plate with her feisty seven-year-old daughter, Pearl, an exhausting job at a nonprofit, and the ...
more
Romance
Let Me Liberate You: A Novel
by
Andie Davis
Little A, 07/09/2024
Dark, lanky, and bald, New York–raised photographer Sabre Cumberbatch can't tell if she's highly talented or just highly Instagrammable. Up to ...
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Literary Fiction
Madoff: The Final Word
by
Richard Behar
Avid Reader Press, 07/09/2024
Some $68 billion evaporated during Bernie Madoff's epic confidence game. Two people were driven to suicide in the wake of the Ponzi Scheme's exposure....
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Mourning a Breast
by
Xi Xi
New York Review Books, 07/09/2024
In 1989, the Hong Kong cult classic writer Xi Xi was diagnosed with breast cancer and began writing in order to make sense of her diagnosis and ...
more
Biography/Memoir
My Parents' Marriage: A Novel
by
Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
Amistad, 07/09/2024
Determined to avoid the pain and instability of her parents' turbulent, confusing marriage, Kokui marries a man far different from her loving, ...
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Literary Fiction
Navola: A novel
by
Paolo Bacigalupi
Knopf, 07/09/2024
"You must be as sharp as a stilettotore's dagger and as subtle as a fish beneath the waters. This is what it is to be Navolese, this is what it is to ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
No Two Persons
by
Erica Bauermeister
St. Martin's Griffin, 07/09/2024
That was the beauty of books, wasn't it? They took you places you didn't know you needed to go…
Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her ...
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Literary Fiction
Our Kind of Game: A Novel
by
Johanna Copeland
Harper, 07/09/2024
2019. Stella Parker has the life she's always wanted: a loving husband, two happy children that she gave up her thriving law career to raise, and a ...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
Quickly, While They Still Have Horses: Stories
by
Jan Carson
Scribner, 07/09/2024
In "A Certain Degree of Ownership," a distracted couple on a beach fail to notice their baby crawl perilously toward the sea. In "Grand So," the ghost...
more
Quincas Borba: A Novel
by
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 07/09/2024
Hailed in his lifetime as one of Latin America's greatest writers, Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was a storyteller known for his wholly ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
State of Paradise: A Novel
by
Laura van den Berg
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/09/2024
Along with her husband, a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author returns to her mother's house in the Florida town where she grew up. As the summer ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Tell It to Me Singing: A Novel
by
Tita Ramirez
Simon & Schuster, 07/09/2024
Monica Campo is pregnant with her first child when, moments before being wheeled into emergency heart surgery, her mother confesses a long-held secret...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Dallergut Dream Department Store: A Novel
by
Miye Lee
Hanover Square Press, 07/09/2024
In a mysterious town hidden in our collective subconscious there's a department store that sells dreams. Day and night, visitors both human and animal...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The History of Sound: Stories
by
Ben Shattuck
Viking, 07/09/2024
In twelve luminous stories set across three centuries,
The History of Sound examines the unexpected ways the past returns to us and how love and loss ...
more
The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora
by
Wendy Pearlman
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 07/09/2024
In 2011, Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom. Brutal government repression transformed peaceful protests into one of the most devastating ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry
by
Stacey D'Erasmo
Graywolf Press, 07/09/2024
How do we keep doing this―making art? Stacey D'Erasmo had been writing for twenty years and had published three novels when she asked herself ...
more
The Sky on Fire
by
Jenn Lyons
Tor Books, 07/09/2024
Anahrod lives only for survival, forging her own way through the harsh jungles of the Deep with her titan drake by her side. Even when an adventuring ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Unforgettable Loretta Darling: A Novel
by
Katherine Blake
HarperPaperbacks, 07/09/2024
It's 1950 and Loretta Reynolds is newly arrived in Hollywood, fresh off a con that brought her from England to the sunny shores of California. She's ...
more
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It
by
Genevieve Guenther
Oxford University Press, 07/10/2024
Weaving this analysis through fascinating critical histories of the terms that dominate the language of climate politics―the words we, alarmist,...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Rose by Any Other Name
by
Mary McMyne
Redhook, 07/16/2024
My name has only been whispered, heretofore…
England, 1591. Rose Rushe's passion for life runs deep—she loves mead and music, meddles...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Banal Nightmare: A Novel
by
Halle Butler
Random House, 07/16/2024
Margaret Anne "Moddie" Yance had just returned to her native land in the Midwestern town of X, to mingle with the friends of her youth, to get back in...
more
Beep: A Novel
by
Bill Roorbach
Algonquin Books, 07/16/2024
In this immensely enjoyable and wise novel, it takes a sweet and personable squirrel monkey, Beep, to help us see the world we live in more ...
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Literary Fiction
Desperation Reef: A Novel
by
T. Jefferson Parker
Forge Books, 07/16/2024
Jen Stonebreaker hasn't entered into a big-wave surfing competition since witnessing her husband's tragic death twenty-five years ago at the Monsters ...
more
Grief in the Fourth Dimension: A Novel
by
Jennifer Yu
Amulet Books, 07/16/2024
In life, high school classmates Caroline Davison and Kenny Zhou existed in separate universes—Caroline in one of softball practices and family ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
House of Shades: A Novel
by
Lianne Dillsworth
Harper, 07/16/2024
London, 1833.
Doctress Hester Reeves has been offered a life-changing commission.
But it comes at a price. She must leave behind her husband...
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Historical Fiction
Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World
by
Brandon Keim
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/16/2024
Honeybees deliberate democratically. Rats reflect on the past. Snakes have friends. In recent decades, our understanding of animal cognition has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Portrait of a Shadow
by
Meriam Metoui
Henry Holt and Company, 07/16/2024
Inez is missing, but missing things can always be found.
Mae knows this as a fact, even though the police investigation has come to a standstill,...
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Mysteries
Debut Author
Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch
by
Andrea Freeman
Metropolitan Books, 07/16/2024
In 1779, to subjugate Indigenous nations, George Washington ordered his troops to "ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent their planting more....
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Smothermoss
by
Alisa Alering
Tin House Books, 07/16/2024
In 1980s Appalachia, sisters Sheila and Angie couldn't be more different. While their mother works long shifts at the nearby asylum, Sheila does her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Lost Story: A Novel
by
Meg Shaffer
Ballantine Books, 07/16/2024
As boys, best friends Jeremy Cox and Rafe Howell went missing in a vast West Virginia state forest, only to mysteriously reappear six months later ...
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The Lucky Ones: A Memoir
by
Zara Chowdhary
Crown, 07/16/2024
In 2002, Zara Chowdhary is sixteen years old and living with her family in Ahmedabad, one of India's fastest-growing cities, when a gruesome train ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA
by
Jesse Katz
Astra House, 07/16/2024
The vendor, Francisco Clemente, had been refusing to give in to the gang's shakedown demands. But Giovanni botches the hit, accidentally killing a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
There Is Happiness: New and Selected Stories
by
Brad Watson
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/16/2024
"Here is a generous portion of the work of a swiftly passing lifetime. Bountiful is the deserving page," Joy Williams writes in her introduction to ...
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Trouble in Queenstown: A Mystery
by
Delia Pitts
Minotaur Books, 07/16/2024
Evander "Vandy" Myrick became a cop to fulfill her father's expectations. After her world cratered, she became a private eye to satisfy her own. Now ...
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What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World's Ocean
by
Helen Scales
Atlantic Monthly Press, 07/16/2024
No matter where we live, "we are all ocean people," Helen Scales emphatically observes in her bracing yet hopeful exploration of the future of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America
by
James Tejani
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/23/2024
The Port of Los Angeles is all around us. Objects we use on a daily basis pass through it: furniture, apparel, electronics, automobiles, and much more...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune
by
Noliwe Rooks
Penguin Press, 07/23/2024
When Mary McLeod Bethune died, tributes in newspapers around the country said the same thing: she should be on the Mount Rushmore of Black American ...
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Becoming Marlow Fin: A Novel
by
Ellen Won Steil
Lake Union Publishing, 07/23/2024
Marlow Fin is as famous for her beauty and success as she is infamous for her past, some of which is a mystery even to her. Is the public ready for ...
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Literary Fiction
Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861
by
Robert W. Merry
Simon & Schuster, 07/23/2024
The Mexican War brought vast new territories to the United States, which precipitated a growing crisis over slavery. The new territories seemed ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
I Will Never Leave You
by
Kara A. Kennedy
Delacorte Press, 07/23/2024
Maya has always belonged to Alana. After four years of dating, and on the precipice of graduating high school, Maya has been too terrified to consider...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Our Beautiful Darkness: A Graphic Novel
by
(n/a) Ondjaki
Unruly, 07/23/2024
The light goes out suddenly. And in this absence of light, a pair of teenagers bare their souls. Into the warm silence of the night, they share a ...
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Rescue Party: A Graphic Anthology of COVID Lockdown
by
Gabe Fowler
Pantheon Books, 07/23/2024
On April 1, 2020, the Instagram account of Desert Island, Brooklyn's celebrated alternative comics shop, put out a call. By then Desert Island had ...
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Biography/Memoir
Seeing Through: A Chronicle of Sex, Drugs, and Opera
by
Ricky Ian Gordon
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/23/2024
At eight years old, Ricky Ian Gordon pulled
The Victor Book of Opera off his piano teacher's bookshelf, and his world shifted on its axis. Though ...
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Slow Dance: A Novel
by
Rainbow Rowell
William Morrow, 07/23/2024
Back in high school, everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up together ... everybody but Shiloh and Cary.
They were just friends.
Best ...more
Romance
The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement
by
Susannah Gibson
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/23/2024
In England in the 1700s, a woman who was an intellectual, spoke out, or wrote professionally was considered unnatural. After all, as the wisdom of the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Dissonance: A Novel
by
Shaun Hamill
Pantheon Books, 07/23/2024
"You can never go home again," the saying goes—but Hal, Athena, and Erin have to. In high school, the three were students of the eccentric ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Faculty Lounge: A Novel
by
Jennifer Mathieu
Dutton, 07/23/2024
With its ensemble of warm and unforgettable characters,
The Faculty Lounge shows readers a different side of school life. It all starts when an ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky
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Josh Galarza
Henry Holt and Company, 07/23/2024
Ever since cancer invaded his adoptive mother's life, Brett feels like he's losing everything, most of all control. To cope, Brett fuels all of his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia: A novel
by
Juliet Grames
Knopf, 07/23/2024
Calabria, 1960. Francesca Loftfield, a twenty-seven-year-old, starry-eyed American, arrives in the isolated mountain village of Santa Chionia tasked ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Lost Souls of Benzaiten
by
Kelly Murashige
Soho Teen, 07/23/2024
"I wish to become one of those round vacuum cleaner robots." That's what Machi prays for at the altar of Japanese goddess Benzaiten. Ever since her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Modern Fairies: A Novel
by
Clare Pollard
Avid Reader Press, 07/23/2024
Why don't they tell you it is the beautiful princess who becomes the evil queen; that they are just the same person at different points in their story...more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love
by
India Holton
Berkley Books, 07/23/2024
Beth Pickering is on the verge of finally capturing the rare deathwhistler bird when Professor Devon Lockley swoops in, stealing both her bird and her...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
by
Jesselyn Cook
Crown, 07/23/2024
The QAnon conspiracy theories—which posit that a nefarious cabal of elites is secretly ruling our society, poisoning our bodies, and harming our...
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Biography/Memoir
The Wrong Hands: Detective Miller Novels #2
by
Mark Billingham
Atlantic Monthly Press, 07/23/2024
Unconventional Detective Declan Miller has a problem. Well, two problems. First, there's his dead wife and her yet-to-be-solved murder.
He really ...more
Thrillers
Time and Time Again
by
Chatham Greenfield
Bloomsbury YA, 07/23/2024
Phoebe Mendel's day is never ending--literally.
On August 6th, she woke up to find herself stuck in a time loop. And for nearly a month of August...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen
by
Jon M. Chu
Random House, 07/23/2024
Long before he directed
Wicked, In The Heights, or the groundbreaking film
Crazy Rich Asians, Jon M. Chu was a movie-obsessed first-generation Chinese...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Finding Famous: A Mashad Family Novel
by
Candice Jalili
Disney-Hyperion, 07/30/2024
Ever since her mom died, Josie Lawrence has been content with her safe, predictable life. She hangs out with exactly two people: her best (and only) ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Into the Clear Blue Sky: The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere
by
Rob Jackson
Scribner, 07/30/2024
Climate change is here. From the millions displaced by the floods in Pakistan to Californian and Canadian towns incinerated by wildfires, we are ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
My Mother Cursed My Name: A Novel
by
Anamely Salgado Reyes
Atria Books, 07/30/2024
For generations, the Olivares women have sought to control their daughters' destinies, starting with their names. In life, Olvido constantly clashed ...
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Literary Fiction
Off the Books: A Novel
by
Soma Mei Sheng Frazier
Henry Holt and Company, 07/30/2024
Recent Dartmouth dropout Mei, in search of a new direction in life, drives a limo to make ends meet. Her grandfather convinces her to allow her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Pearl: A Novel
by
Siân Hughes
Knopf, 07/30/2024
Marianne is eight years old when her mother goes missing.
Left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in a ramshackle house on the edge...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Someone Like Us: A novel
by
Dinaw Mengestu
Knopf, 07/30/2024
After abandoning his once-promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush meets Hannah—a photographer whose way of ...
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The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity
by
Timothy C. Winegard
Dutton, 07/30/2024
Timothy C. Winegard's
The Horse is an epic history unlike any other. Its story begins more than 5,500 years ago on the windswept grasslands of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World
by
Daisy Dunn
Penguin Books, 07/30/2024
Around four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women with snakes slithering on their arms. Over one thousand years...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Most
by
Jessica Anthony
Little Brown & Company, 07/30/2024
It is an unseasonably warm Sunday in November 1957. Katheen, a college tennis champion turned Delaware housewife, decides not to join her flagrantly ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Wedding People: A Novel
by
Alison Espach
Henry Holt and Company, 07/30/2024
It's a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in ...
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The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards
by
Jessica Waite
Atria Books, 07/30/2024
In the midst of mourning her husband's sudden death, writer Jessica Waite discovered shocking secrets that undermined everything she thought she knew ...
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The Woman Who Lied: A Novel
by
Claire Douglas
Harper, 07/30/2024
Emilia has a dream life. But someone knows the truth ...
Emilia Ward lives in suburban London with her husband, their young son, and a teenager ...
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Thrillers
We Burn Daylight: A Novel
by
Bret Anthony Johnston
Random House, 07/30/2024
Waco, Texas, 1993. People from all walks of life have arrived to follow the Lamb's gospel—signing over savings and pensions, selling their homes...
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Daughter of Fire: A Novel
by
Sofia Robleda
Amazon Crossing, 08/01/2024
Catalina de Cerrato is being raised by her widowed father, Don Alonso, in 1551 Guatemala, scarcely thirty years since the Spanish invasion. A ruling ...
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Historical Fiction
The Thirteenth Husband: A Novel
by
Greer Macallister
Sourcebooks Landmark, 08/01/2024
Based on a real woman from history, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo meets The Haunting of Hill House in this fictional tell-all ...
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Historical Fiction
When the World Fell Silent
by
Donna Jones Alward
One More Chapter, 08/01/2024
1917. Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Nora Crowell wants more than her sister's life as a wife and mother. As WWI rages across the Atlantic, she becomes a ...
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Historical Fiction
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
by
Joanna Biggs
Ecco, 08/06/2024
I took off my wedding ring for the last time—a gold band with half a line of "Morning Song" by Sylvia Plath etched inside—and for weeks ...more
Biography/Memoir
A Mask of Flies
by
Matthew Lyons
Tor Nightfire, 08/06/2024
THE PAST HAS TEETH
In the grisly aftermath of a botched bank heist, career criminal Anne Heller has no choice but to return to her family's cabin...
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A World of Hurt
by
Mindy Mejia
Atlantic Monthly Press, 08/06/2024
Kara Johnson always knew she'd die young and violently. It didn't matter who delivered the final blow, she would deserve it—her years spent ...
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And So I Roar: A Novel
by
Abi Daré
Dutton, 08/06/2024
When Tia accidentally overhears a whispered conversation between her mother—terminally ill and lying in a hospital bed in Port Harcourt, Nigeria...
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Better Left Buried
by
Mary E. Roach
Disney-Hyperion, 08/06/2024
Lucy Preston just wants to go on vacation. But being the daughter of a famous private detective means that sometimes, your beach vacay goes off the ...
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Death at Morning House
by
Maureen Johnson
HarperTeen, 08/06/2024
The fire wasn't Marlowe Wexler's fault. Dates should be hot, but not hot enough to warrant literal firefighters. Akilah, the girl Marlowe has been in ...
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Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labor Powering A.I.
by
Mark Graham
Bloomsbury USA, 08/06/2024
Silicon Valley has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Thrillers
Five-Star Stranger: A Novel
by
Kat Tang
Scribner, 08/06/2024
Would you hire someone to be the best man at your wedding? Your stand-in brother? Your husband?
In an age where online ratings are all-powerful, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Great Fear on the Mountain
by
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz
Archipelago Books, 08/06/2024
Teeming with tension, this immersive, rhapsodic story transports readers to the Swiss mountainside, bringing to mind the writing of Thomas Mann while ...
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Group Living and Other Recipes: A Memoir
by
Lola Milholland
Spiegel & Grau, 08/06/2024
Lola Milholland grew up in the nineties, the child of iconoclastic hippies. Both her parents threw open their rambling house in Portland, Oregon, to ...
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Hello, Horse
by
Richard Kelly Kemick
Biblioasis, 08/06/2024
A teenager's job mucking stalls at a dog track takes a strange turn when his co-worker finds a new religion at odds with winning streaks. Two brothers...
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Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch
by
Codie Crowley
Disney-Hyperion, 08/06/2024
Murdered bad girl Annie Lane is back from the grave and hellbent on revenge ... she just has to figure out who killed her.
Between her careless mom...
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Hum: A Novel
by
Helen Phillips
Marysue Rucci Books, 08/06/2024
In a city addled by climate change and populated by intelligent robots called "hums," May loses her job to artificial intelligence. In a desperate bid...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist's Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India
by
Rollo Romig
Penguin Books, 08/06/2024
When Gauri Lankesh, an outspoken journalist in the South Indian city of Bangalore, was assassinated in September 2017 outside her home, it wasn't just...
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I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki: further conversations with my psychiatrist
by
Baek Sehee
Bloomsbury Publishing, 08/06/2024
Whenever depression or emptiness came calling, I was all too eager to open the door of self-pity and go right inside.
Baek Sehee started ...
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Biography/Memoir
Jellyfish Have No Ears: A Novel
by
Adèle Rosenfeld
Graywolf Press, 08/06/2024
After an audiology test shows that almost all her hearing is gone, her doctor suggests getting a cochlear implant. The operation will be irreversible,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence
by
Sara Imari Walker
Riverhead Books, 08/06/2024
What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Paris 1944: Occupation, Resistance, Liberation: A Social History
by
Patrick Bishop
Pegasus Books, 08/06/2024
The fall of Paris to the Nazis on June 14th, 1940, was one of the darkest days of World War II. And the liberation of the city on August 25th, 1944, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Plays Well with Others: A Novel
by
Sophie Brickman
William Morrow, 08/06/2024
It takes a village...just not this one.
Annie Lewin is at the end of her rope. She's a mother of three young children, her workaholic ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems
by
Carl Phillips
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/06/2024
Carl Phillips's
Scattered Snows,
to the North is a collection about distortion and revelation, about knowing and the unreliability of a knowing that's...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Age of Loneliness: Essays
by
Laura Marris
Graywolf Press, 08/06/2024
She asks: how do we add to archives of ecological memory? How can we notice and document what's missing in the landscapes closest to us?
Filled ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
by
Evan Friss
Viking, 08/06/2024
Bookstores have always been unlike any other kind of store, shaping readers and writers, and influencing our tastes, thoughts, and politics. They ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Dragon from Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany
by
Pamela D. Toler
Beacon Press, 08/06/2024
We are facing an alarming upsurge in the spread of misinformation and attempts by powerful figures to discredit facts so they can seize control of ...
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The Gender Binary Is a Big Lie: Infinite Identities around the World (Queer History Project)
by
Lee Wind
Zest Books, 08/06/2024
While many people identify as men or women, that is not all there is. The idea that all humans fall into one of two gender categories is largely a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The In Crowd: Detective Inspector Caius Beauchamp
by
Charlotte Vassell
Doubleday, 08/06/2024
Early one morning, a men's rowing team discovers a body floating face down in the Thames. Many years before, the chief executive of a clothing ...
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The Mercy of Gods: The Captive's War #1
by
James S. A. Corey
Orbit, 08/06/2024
The Carryx – part empire, part hive – have waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Outlier
by
Elisabeth Eaves
Random House, 08/06/2024
Cate Winter, at 34, is a wildly successful neuroscientist and entrepreneur who has invented a cure for Alzheimer's that will improve the lives of ...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
The Rich People Have Gone Away: A Novel
by
Regina Porter
Hogarth Books, 08/06/2024
Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife, Darla, head upstate to their summer cottage to wait out the lockdown. Not everyone in their upscale...
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The Rose Arbor: A Novel
by
Rhys Bowen
Lake Union Publishing, 08/06/2024
London: 1968. Liz Houghton is languishing as an obituary writer at a London newspaper when a young girl's disappearance captivates the city. If Liz ...
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Historical Fiction
The Truth According to Ember
by
Danica Nava
Berkley Books, 08/06/2024
Ember Lee Cardinal has not always been a liar—well, not for anything that counted at least. But her job search is not going well and when her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
This Ravenous Fate
by
Hayley Dennings
Sourcebooks Fire, 08/06/2024
It's 1926 and reapers, the once-human vampires with a terrifying affliction, are on the rise in New York. But the Saint family's thriving reaper-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant: How Nannying for the 1% Taught Me about the Myths of Equality, Motherhood, and Upward Mobility in America
by
Stephanie Kiser
Sourcebooks, 08/06/2024
When Stephanie Kiser moves to New York City after college to pursue a career in writing, she quickly learns that her entry-level salary won't cover ...
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Biography/Memoir
Wordhunter: A Novel
by
Stella Sands
HarperPaperbacks, 08/06/2024
Tattooed, pierced, and a bit of a mess, Maggie Moore is a surprising genius when it comes to words, a savant able to solve any linguistic puzzle. The ...
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A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
by
Carrie Rickey
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/13/2024
Over the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any female filmmaker, Agnès Varda (1928–2019) wrote and directed some of the ...
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A Great Marriage: A Novel
by
Frances Mayes
Ballantine Books, 08/13/2024
A great marriage is an elusive thing, and only a few know the secret to making one.
Dara Willcox, in New York for a weekend, meets Austin Clarke ...
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Ash's Cabin
by
Jen Wang
First Second, 08/13/2024
Ash has always felt alone.
Adults ignore the climate crisis. Other kids Ash's age are more interested in pop stars and popularity contests than ...
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Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans
by
Bill Schutt
Algonquin Books, 08/13/2024
In
Bite, zoologist Bill Schutt makes a surprising case: it is teeth that are responsible for the long-term success of vertebrates. The appearance of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Burn: A novel
by
Peter Heller
Knopf, 08/13/2024
Every year, Jess and Storey have made an annual pilgrimage to the most remote corners of the country, where they camp, hunt, and hike, leaving much ...
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Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist
by
Jane Rosenberg
Hanover Square Press, 08/13/2024
For over forty years, Jane Rosenberg has been at the heart of the news cycle, covering almost every major trial that has passed through the New York ...
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Everything We Never Knew: A Novel
by
Julianne Hough
Sourcebooks Landmark, 08/13/2024
On stage at an awards banquet is the last place Lexi Cole expected to drown. But as she accepts the award for top-seller at her realty firm, something...
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Literary Fiction
Ginster
by
Siegfried Kracauer
New York Review Books, 08/13/2024
Siegfried Kracauer's
Ginster is the great World War I novel you've never heard of. Here, the sheer horrors are kept offstage, as in Greek tragedy, and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery
by
Theodore H. Schwartz
Dutton, 08/13/2024
We've all heard the phrase "it's not brain surgery." But what exactly
is brain surgery? It's a profession that is barely a hundred years old and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Hera: A Novel
by
Jennifer Saint
Flatiron Books, 08/13/2024
When the immortal goddess Hera and her brother Zeus overthrow their tyrannical father, she dreams of ruling at his side. But as they establish their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Highway Thirteen: Stories
by
Fiona McFarlane
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/13/2024
In the small town of Barrow, Australia, people go about their ordinary lives. They drive to work through the dense state forest. They raise their ...
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How to Leave the House: A Novel
by
Nathan Newman
Viking, 08/13/2024
This is the story of twenty-four hours in the life of Natwest, and his small-town odyssey in pursuit of the missing package. And yet it's also the ...
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Literary Fiction
In Exile: Rupture, Reunion, and My Grandmother's Secret Life
by
Sadiya Ansari
House of Anansi Press, 08/13/2024
Why did her grandmother Tahira abandon her seven children to follow a man from Karachi to a tiny village in Punjab? And though she eventually left him...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
In France Profound: The Long History of a House, a Mountain Town, and a People
by
T.D. Allman
Atlantic Monthly Press, 08/13/2024
When T. D. Allman purchased an 800-year-old house in the mountain village of Lauzerte in southwestern France, he aimed to find refuge from the world's...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv: A Novel
by
Andrey Kurkov
HarperVia, 08/13/2024
Strange, almost magical, things are afoot in Lviv. Seagulls circle overhead while the passing breeze carries a briny whiff, even though the coast is ...
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Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
by
Brenda Wineapple
Random House, 08/13/2024
"No subject possesses the minds of men like religious bigotry and hate, and these fires are being lighted today in America." So said legendary ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lady Macbeth: A Novel
by
Ava Reid
Bantam Doubleday Dell, 08/13/2024
The Lady knows the stories: how her eyes induce madness in men.
The Lady knows she will be wed to the Scottish brute, who does not leave his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Manboobs: A Memoir of Musicals, Visas, Hope, and Cake
by
Komail Aijazuddin
Abrams Press, 08/13/2024
What do you do when you're too gay for Pakistan, too Pakistani to be gay in America, and you're ashamed of your body everywhere? How can you find ...
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Medusa
by
Nataly Gruender
Grand Central Publishing, 08/13/2024
The only mortal daughter of two sea gods, and a priestess of Athena, Medusa was a woman who thought she had found her place in the world. But ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Medusa of the Roses
by
Navid Sinaki
Grove Press, 08/13/2024
Anjir and Zal are childhood best friends turned adults in love. The only problem is they live in Iran, where being openly gay is criminalized, and the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir
by
Anna Marie Tendler
Simon & Schuster, 08/13/2024
In early 2021, popular artist Anna Marie Tendler checked herself into a psychiatric hospital following a year of crippling anxiety, depression and ...
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Mistress of Lies: The Age of Blood #1
by
K. M. Enright
Orbit, 08/13/2024
The daughter of a powerful but disgraced Blood Worker, Shan LeC laire has spent her entire life perfecting her blood magic, building her network of ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Mothballs
by
Sole Otero
Fantagraphics Books, 08/13/2024
San Martín, Argentina, 2001. Upon her estranged grandmother Vilma's death, 19-year-old Rocío moves into a house haunted by memories. Seeking...
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Graphic Novels
Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History
by
Anthony E. Kaye
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/13/2024
In August 1831, a group of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia, rose up to fight for their freedom. They attacked the plantations on which...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life
by
Sofia Samatar
Soft Skull Press, 08/13/2024
In a series of compressed, dynamic prose pieces, Samatar blends letters from her friend with notes on literature, turning to Édouard Glissant to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Peggy: A Novel
by
Rebecca Godfrey
Random House, 08/13/2024
Venice, 1958. Peggy Guggenheim, heiress and now legendary art collector, sits in the sun at her white marble palazzo on the Grand Canal. She's in a ...
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Silken Gazelles: A Novel
by
Jokha Alharthi
Catapult, 08/13/2024
Raised as sisters, Ghazaala is devastated when her friend Asiya is forced to leave their small mountainside village following a tragic circumstance. ...
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The Avian Hourglass
by
Lindsey Drager
Dzanc Books, 08/13/2024
The birds have disappeared. The stars are no longer visible. The Crisis is growing worse. In a town as isolated as a snowglobe, a woman who dreams of ...
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The Axeman's Carnival
by
Catherine Chidgey
Europa Editions, 08/13/2024
Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Marnie, and this is where his story might have ended. "If it keeps me awake," says Marnie's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Fertile Earth: A Novel
by
Ruthvika Rao
Flatiron Books, 08/13/2024
Vijaya and Sree are the daughters of the Deshmukhs of Irumi. Hailing from a lineage of ancestral aristocrats, their family's social status and power ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Hivemind Swarmed: Conversations on Gamergate, the Aftermath, and the Quest for a Safer Internet
by
David Wolinsky
Beacon Press, 08/13/2024
With
The Hivemind Swarmed, oral historian and documentary researcher David Wolinsky invites readers to sit in on a series of urgent, intimate ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Hypocrite: A Novel
by
Jo Hamya
Pantheon Books, 08/13/2024
August 2020. Sophia, a young playwright, awaits her father's verdict on her new show. A famous author whose novels haven't aged as gracefully into the...
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Literary Fiction
The Italy Letters
by
Vi Khi Nao
Melville House, 08/13/2024
The Italy Letters is a slim, powerful shot of literary fantasia from one of America's best-kept secrets. Long an underground favorite, visionary ...
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The Last Devil to Die: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery
by
Richard Osman
Penguin Books, 08/13/2024
Shocking news reaches them—an old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing.
The gang's search ...
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Mysteries
The Maid and the Crocodile: A Novel in the World of Raybearer
by
Jordan Ifueko
Amulet Books, 08/13/2024
The smallest spark can bind two hearts...or start a revolution.
In the magic-soaked capital city of Oluwan, Small Sade needs a job—...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist's Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life
by
Nathalie A. Cabrol
Scribner, 08/13/2024
We are in a golden age in astronomy, living on the cusp of breakthroughs that will revolutionize our understanding of our place in the cosmos in. Yet ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Story Collector
by
Evie Woods
HarperCollins Publishers, 08/13/2024
One hundred years ago, Anna, a young farm girl, volunteers to help an intriguing American visitor translate fairy stories from Irish to English. But ...
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Historical Fiction
The Stranger at the Wedding: A Novel
by
A. E. Gauntlett
Henry Holt and Company, 08/13/2024
Annie never much believed in love. That is, until meeting Mark. After crossing paths on morning commutes, they connect at a group counseling session ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Through the Mist: A Novel
by
Lindsay Jayne Ashford
Lake Union Publishing, 08/13/2024
It's winter 1947 when newlyweds Ellen and Tony Wylde move into an abandoned Cornish farmhouse overlooking the sea. For both, it's a new beginning in ...
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Thrillers
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
by
Benjamin Nathans
Princeton University Press, 08/13/2024
Beginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpectedly confronted by a dissident movement that captured the world's imagination. Demanding that the...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Under the Surface
by
Diana Urban
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 08/13/2024
Ruby is terrified to cave to her feelings for Sean and risk him crushing her heart.
Sean is pumped to spend a week with Ruby in Paris on their ...
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A Pair of Wings: A Novel
by
Carole Hopson
Henry Holt and Company, 08/20/2024
A few years after the Wright brothers' first flight, Bessie was working the Texas cotton fields with her family when an airplane flew over their...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Survivor's Education: Women, Violence, and the Stories We Don't Tell
by
Joy Neumeyer
Public Affairs, 08/20/2024
On a picturesque campus in the springtime, a young woman is shoved backwards down a concrete stairway by her partner. This follows months of slowly ...
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True Crime
An Echo in Time: A Novel
by
Boo Walker
Lake Union Publishing, 08/20/2024
Unable to catch a break in life or love as she approaches thirty, Charli Thurman sees red lights at every crossroads. And given the Thurman family's ...
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Mysteries
Anima: A Wild Pastoral
by
Kapka Kassabova
Graywolf Press, 08/20/2024
Following her three previous books set in the Balkans, and with an increasinging interest in the degraded state of our planet and culture, Kassabova ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Asunder
by
Kerstin Hall
Tor Books, 08/20/2024
Karys Eska is a deathspeaker, locked into an irrevocable compact with Sabaster, a terrifying eldritch being―three-faced, hundred-winged, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian's Journey Home
by
Chris La Tray
Milkweed Editions, 08/20/2024
Growing up in Montana, Chris La Tray always identified as Indian. Despite the fact that his father fiercely denied any connection, he found Indigenous...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Black Butterflies: A Novel
by
Priscilla Morris
Knopf, 08/20/2024
Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect makeshift barricades, splitting the city into ethnic enclaves. Each morning, the people who...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Bluff: Poems
by
Danez Smith
Graywolf Press, 08/20/2024
This is a book of awakening out of violence, guilt, shame, and critical pessimism to wonder and imagine how we can strive toward a new existence in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
By Any Other Name: A Novel
by
Jodi Picoult
Ballantine Books, 08/20/2024
Young playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. But seeing it performed is ...
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Devil in the Stack: A Code Odyssey
by
Andrew Smith
Atlantic Monthly Press, 08/20/2024
Throughout history, technological revolutions have been driven by the invention of machines. But today, the power of the technology transforming our ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Falling Wisteria: A Novel
by
Laila Ibrahim
Lake Union Publishing, 08/20/2024
Kay Lynn Brooke is a wife and mother in Berkeley, California, building a solid future with her husband and family. Then on December 7, 1941, the ...
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Historical Fiction
Follow the Stars Home
by
Diane C. McPhail
A John Scognamiglio Book, 08/20/2024
It's a journey that most deem an insane impossibility. Yet on October 20th, 1811, Lydia Latrobe Roosevelt—daughter of one of the architects of ...
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Historical Fiction
Freedom Is a Feast
by
Alejandro Puyana
Little Brown & Company, 08/20/2024
There, as he trains, he meets Emiliana, a nurse and fellow revolutionary. Though their intense connection seems to be love at first sight, their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Interpretations of Love
by
Jane Campbell
Grove Press, 08/20/2024
It's the week of Dr. Agnes Stacey's only daughter's wedding, and each of the eleven attendees of the small family gathering is bringing their own ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Love Requires Chocolate: Love in Translation
by
Ravynn K. Stringfield
Joy Revolution, 08/20/2024
Whitney Curry is primed to have an epic semester abroad. She's created the perfect itinerary and many, many to-do lists after collecting every detail ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
My Salty Mary
by
Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows
HarperTeen, 08/20/2024
Don't call this mermaid "little"—call her "captain," unless you want to walk the plank.
Mary is in love with the so-called prince of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Paradise Lost: Legacy Edition (Clothbound Hardcover) with 50 Classic Illustrations by Gustave Dore
by
John Milton
Lithos Kids, 08/20/2024
The famed illustrator Gustave Doré produced fifty engraved plates in 1866 which became the definitive illustrations of Milton's epic and are ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Planes Flying over a Monster: Essays
by
Daniel Saldaña París
Catapult, 08/20/2024
In ten intimate essays, Daniel Saldaña París explores the cities he has lived in, each one home to a new iteration of himself. In Mexico ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Rules for Ghosting: A Novel
by
Shelly Jay Shore
Dell, 08/20/2024
Ezra Friedman sees ghosts, which made growing up in a funeral home complicated. It might have been easier if his grandfather's ghost didn't give him ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Scrap: A Novel
by
Calla Henkel
The Overlook Press, 08/20/2024
Recently dumped and stuck with a mortgage, artist Esther Ray wants to burn the world, but instead, she reluctantly accepts a scrapbooking job from the...
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Thrillers
She Who Knows
by
Nnedi Okorafor
DAW Books, 08/20/2024
When there is a call, there is often a response.
Najeeba knows.
She has had The Call. But how can a 13-year-old girl have the Call? Only men...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
by
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/20/2024
We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-...
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Swallow the Ghost: A Novel
by
Eugenie Montague
Mulholland, 08/20/2024
Things are going well for Jane Murphy, or so it seems. She's making it in New York, a sort of wunderkind at the social media marketing startup where ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Full Moon Coffee Shop: A Novel
by
Mai Mochizuki
Ballantine Books, 08/20/2024
In Japan, cats are a symbol of good luck. As the myth goes, if you are kind to them, they'll one day return the favor. And if you are kind to the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Naturalist's Daughter
by
Tea Cooper
Harper Muse, 08/20/2024
1808 Agnes Banks, NSW
Rose Winton wants nothing more than to work with her father, eminent naturalist Charles Winton, on his groundbreaking study...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Silence Factory: A Novel
by
Bridget Collins
William Morrow, 08/20/2024
1820: Sophia Ashmore-Percy reluctantly accompanies her husband James to a remote Greek island, where he searches for rare biological specimens. Once ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Slow Road North: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country
by
Rosie Schaap
Mariner Books, 08/20/2024
Rosie Schaap had a solid career as a journalist and a life that looked to others like nonstop fun: all drinking and dining and traveling to beautiful ...
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The Unicorn Woman
by
Gayl Jones
Beacon Press, 08/20/2024
Set in the early 1950s, this latest novel from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Gayl Jones follows the witty but perplexing army ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Volcano Daughters: A Novel
by
Gina María Balibrera
Pantheon Books, 08/20/2024
El Salvador, 1923. Graciela, a young girl growing up on a volcano in a community of Indigenous women, is summoned to the capital, where she is claimed...
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Critics' Consensus:
Other
Debut Author
We Love the Nightlife
by
Rachel Koller Croft
Berkley Books, 08/20/2024
London 1979. Two women with a deep love for disco meet one fateful night on the dance floor, changing the course of both their lives forever.
...
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Thrillers
When the Ice Is Gone: What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals About Earth's Tumultuous History and Perilous Future
by
Paul Bierman
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/20/2024
In 2018, lumps of frozen soil, collected from the bottom of the world's first deep ice core and lost for decades, reappeared in Denmark. When ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
You Will Never Be Me
by
Jesse Q. Sutanto
Berkley Books, 08/20/2024
Influencer Meredith Lee didn't teach Aspen Palmer how to blossom on social media just to be ditched as soon as Aspen became ...
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Christopher Isherwood Inside Out
by
Katherine Bucknell
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/26/2024
The story of Christopher Isherwood's life is one of pilgrimage: away from the constraints of inheritance and empire and toward authenticity and ...
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A Termination
by
Honor Moore
Public Space, 08/27/2024
In 1969, Honor Moore was twenty-three, a theater student yearning for love and working for radical change, but studying administration and keeping ...
more
Beautiful Dreamers
by
Minrose Gwin
Hub City Press, 08/27/2024
It's 1953 when Memory Feather and her mother, Virginia, are welcomed back home to the Mississippi Gulf Coast community of Belle Cote by Virginia's ...
more
Literary Fiction
Bridge Across the Sky
by
Freeman Ng
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 08/27/2024
Tai Go and his family have crossed an ocean wider than a thousand rivers, joining countless other Chinese immigrants in search of a better life in the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Confounding Oaths: The Mortal Follies #2
by
Alexis Hall
Del Rey, 08/27/2024
It is the year 1815, and Mr. John Caesar is determined to help his sister, Mary, successfully navigate the marriage mart. A high-stakes endeavor at ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dungeon Crawler Carl
by
Matt Dinniman
Ace Books, 08/27/2024
You know what's worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And you know what's worse than that? An ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World
by
Casey Michel
St. Martin's Griffin, 08/27/2024
For years, one group of Americans has worked as foot-soldiers for the most authoritarian regimes around the planet. In the process, they've not only ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Fyrebirds
by
Kate J. Armstrong
Nancy Paulsen Books, 08/27/2024
The
Nightbirds were once their city's best-kept secret, but now the secret's out. What's more, they can do feats of magic no one has seen in centuries...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Hotline: A Novel
by
Dimitri Nasrallah
Other Press, 08/27/2024
It's 1986, and Muna Heddad is in a bind. She and her son have moved to Montreal, leaving behind a civil war filled with bad memories in Lebanon. She ...
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Literary Fiction
I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine
by
Daniel J. Levitin
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/27/2024
Music is one of humanity's oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas, many cultures ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Kayfabe
by
Chris Koslowski
McSweeney's Books, 08/27/2024
As his body breaks down and his star power fades, he must invent a new gimmick before he loses the only job he's ever known. Meanwhile, Dom's 17-year-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Libertad
by
Bessie Flores Zaldívar
Dial Books, 08/27/2024
As the contentious 2017 presidential election looms and protests rage across every corner of the city, life in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, churns louder ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Long Live Evil: Time of Iron #1
by
Sarah Rees Brennan
Orbit, 08/27/2024
When her whole life collapsed, Rae still had books. Dying, she seizes a second chance at living: a magical bargain that lets her enter the world of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
My Child, the Algorithm: An Alternatively Intelligent Book of Love
by
Hannah Silva
Soft Skull Press, 08/27/2024
My Child, the Algorithm describes encounters between a single parent, a curious, verbal toddler, and a language-producing algorithm. Like a male ...
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Biography/Memoir
Our Shouts Echo
by
Jade Adia
Disney-Hyperion, 08/27/2024
Survival Tip #1: The world is going to shit. Whatever you do, don't fall in love.
Sixteen-year old Niarah Holloway's only goal in life is to get ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sunderworld, Vol. I: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry
by
Ransom Riggs
Dutton for Young Readers, 08/27/2024
Seventeen-year-old Leopold Berry is seeing weird things around Los Angeles. A man who pops a tooth into a parking meter. A glowing trapdoor in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Sync
by
Ellen Hopkins
Nancy Paulsen Books, 08/27/2024
Seventeen-year-old twins Storm and Lake have always been in perfect sync. They faced the worst a parent could do and survived it together. In the wake...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams: Dove Pond Series #4
by
Karen Hawkins
Gallery Books, 08/27/2024
Tay is still reeling from a romantic betrayal, so she's relieved to refocus her energies on her latest project: a biography of her great-great-...
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The Dark Wives: A Vera Stanhope Novel (Vera Stanhope, 11)
by
Ann Cleeves
Minotaur Books, 08/27/2024
The man's body is found in the early morning light by a local dog walker in the park outside Rosebank, a home for troubled teens in the coastal ...
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Mysteries
The Enchanted Lies of Céleste Artois
by
Ryan Graudin
Redhook, 08/27/2024
Once, Céleste Artois had dreams of being an artist. But when the creative elite of Paris dashed those plans, she turned her talents to forgery ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler--How War Made Them and How They Made War
by
Phillips Payson O'Brien
Dutton, 08/27/2024
In
The Strategists, Professor Phillips Payson O'Brien shows how the views these five leaders forged in WW1 are crucial to understanding how they ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
With Love, Echo Park
by
Laura Taylor Namey
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 08/27/2024
Seventeen-year-old Clary is set to inherit her family's florist shop, La Rosa Blanca—one of the last remnants of the Cuban business district ...
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