Inside the Mirror: A Novel
by
Parul Kapur
University of Nebraska Press, 03/01/2024
In 1950s Bombay, Jaya Malhotra studies medicine at the direction of her father, a champion of women's education who assumes the right to choose his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
by
James Kaplan
Penguin Press, 03/05/2024
The myth of the '60s depends on the 1950s being the "before times" of conformity, segregation, straightness—The Lonely Crowd and The ...
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49 Days
by
Agnes Lee
Levine Querido, 03/05/2024
Day 1
Gotta get up. Gotta keep moving. This map – it says I have to cross over here. Wait, what's that…?
And so begins a graphic ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A History of Women in 101 Objects
by
Annabelle Hirsch
Crown, 03/05/2024
This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular: a single...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
American Spirits
by
Russell Banks
Knopf, 03/05/2024
A husband sells property to a mysterious, temperamental stranger, and is hounded on social media when he publicly questions the man's character. A ...
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Big Time: A Novel
by
Ben H. Winters
Mulholland, 03/05/2024
What if time could be taken from us—the minutes, the hours, the years of our lives, extracted like organs taken for transplant? What would it ...more
Breathing Underwater
by
Abbey Lee Nash
Holiday House, 03/05/2024
Seventeen-year-old Tess Cooper lives by three rules: train hard, study hard, work hard. Swimming is her best chance at a college scholarship. It's ...
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But the Girl
by
Jessica Zhan Mei Yu
The Unnamed Press, 03/05/2024
Girl was born on the very day her parents and grandmother immigrated from Malaysia to Australia. The story goes that her mother held on tight to her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Catastrophe Ethics: How to Choose Well in a World of Tough Choices
by
Travis Rieder
Dutton, 03/05/2024
In a world of often confusing and terrifying global problems, how should we make choices in our everyday lives? Does anything on the individual level ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines
by
Carol Kino
Scribner, 03/05/2024
The McLaughlin twins were trailblazing female photographers, celebrated in their time as stars in their respective fields, but have largely been ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Ellie Haycock Is Totally Normal
by
Gretchen Schreiber
Wednesday Books, 03/05/2024
Ellie Haycock has always separated her life into sections: Ellie at home and Ellie at the hospital. At home, Ellie is a proud member of her high ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
by
Tessa Hulls
MCD, 03/05/2024
In her evocative, genre-defying graphic memoir, Tessa Hulls tells the story of three generations of women in her family: her Chinese grandmother, Sun ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson
by
James Marcus
Princeton University Press, 03/05/2024
More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the ...
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Help Wanted: A Novel
by
Adelle Waldman
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/05/2024
One of
New York Magazine's "23 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2024" • One of
VOGUE's Best Books of the Year So Far • One of
ELLE...more
Here After: A Memoir
by
Amy Lin
Zibby Books, 03/05/2024
"When he dies, I fall out of time."
Amy Lin never expected to find a love like the one she shares with her husband, Kurtis, a gifted young ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
House of Open Wounds: The Tyrant Philosophers # 2
by
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Head of Zeus, 03/05/2024
City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. As their legions scour the world...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
by
Peter Pomerantsev
Public Affairs, 03/05/2024
In the summer of 1941, Hitler ruled Europe from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. Britain was struggling to combat his powerful propaganda machine, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Knife Skills: Shadows of Chicago Mystery
by
Wendy Church
Severn House, 03/05/2024
Sagarine Pfister is a great cook but has been blacklisted by almost every restaurant in Chicago. She gets her chance at Louie's, a below-average ...
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Listen for the Lie: A Novel
by
Amy Tintera
Celadon, 03/05/2024
After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy's blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer. Lucy and Savvy were the golden...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives—and How We Break Free
by
Tricia Rose
Basic Books, 03/05/2024
In recent years, condemnations of racism in America have echoed from the streets to corporate boardrooms. At the same time, politicians and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Modern Poetry: Poems
by
Diane Seuss
Graywolf Press, 03/05/2024
Diane Seuss's signature voice—audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude—has become one of the most ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Never Been Better
by
Leanne Toshiko Simpson
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/05/2024
Is she falling in love, or falling apart?
Dee, Misa, and Matt were the "three musketeers" of the psych ward. A year after discharge, Dee is eager ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Parasol Against the Axe: A Novel
by
Helen Oyeyemi
Riverhead Books, 03/05/2024
In Helen Oyeyemi's joyous new novel, the Czech capital is a living thing—one that can let you in or spit you out.
For reasons of her own, ...
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Pelican Girls: A Novel
by
Julia Malye
Harper, 03/05/2024
Paris, 1720. La Salpêtrière hospital is in crisis: too many occupants, not enough beds. Halfway across the world, France's colony in the ...
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Historical Fiction
Debut Author
So You Wanna Run a Country?: A Novel
by
Kevin Holohan
Akashic Books, 03/05/2024
So You Wanna Run a Country? is a satirical parable of the perils of authoritarianism, nationalism, and device-dependent group-think. After almost a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Cave: A Secret Underground Hospital and One Woman's Story of Survival in Syria
by
Amani Ballour
National Geographic, 03/05/2024
Simply put, there is no one in Syria with a story like Dr. Amani Ballour's. The only woman to have ever run a wartime hospital, she saved her peers ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Girls We Sent Away: A Novel
by
Meagan Church
Sourcebooks, 03/05/2024
It's the 1960s and Lorraine Delford has it all - an upstanding family, a perfect boyfriend, and a white picket fence home in North Carolina. Yet every...
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The Great Divide: A Novel
by
Cristina Henriquez
Ecco, 03/05/2024
It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Hearing Test: A Novel
by
Eliza Barry Callahan
Catapult, 03/05/2024
When the narrator of
The Hearing Test, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning to a deep drone in her right ear, she is diagnosed with ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Hunter: A Novel
by
Tana French
Viking, 03/05/2024
It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. ...
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The Inmate
by
Freida McFadden
Poisoned Pen Press, 03/05/2024
As a new nurse practitioner at a maximum-security prison, Brooke Sullivan is taught three crucial rules:
Treat all prisoners with respect.
...
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Thrillers
The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City
by
Kevin Baker
Knopf, 03/05/2024
Baseball is "the New York game" because New York is where the diamond was first laid out, where the bunt and the curveball were invented, and where ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The No-Girlfriend Rule
by
Christen Randall
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 03/05/2024
Hollis Beckwith isn't trying to get a girl—she's just trying to get by. For a fat, broke girl with anxiety, the start of senior year brings ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Silver Bone: The Kyiv Mysteries #1
by
Andrey Kurkov
HarperVia, 03/05/2024
Kyiv, 1919. World War I has ended in Western Europe, but to the East, six factions continue to vie for control of Ukraine. Amidst the political ...
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The Truth of the Aleke: The Forever Desert #2
by
Moses Ose Utomi
Tor Teen, 03/05/2024
The Aleke is cruel. The Aleke is clever. The Aleke is coming.
500 years after the events of
The Lies of the Ajungo, the City of Truth stands as the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice
by
Alex Hortis
Pegasus Crime, 03/05/2024
On Christmas night, December 25, 1843, in a serene village on Staten Island, shocked neighbors discovered the burnt remains of twenty-four-year-old ...
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What Monstrous Gods
by
Rosamund Hodge
Balzer + Bray, 03/05/2024
Centuries ago, the heretic sorcerer Ruven raised a deadly briar around Runakhia's palace, casting the royal family into an enchanted sleep—and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
All Our Yesterdays
by
Joel H. Morris
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/12/2024
Scotland, the 11th Century. Born in a noble household and granddaughter of a forgotten Scottish king, a young girl carries the guilt of her mother's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
An End to Inequality: Breaking Down the Walls of Apartheid Education in America
by
Jonathan Kozol
The New Press, 03/12/2024
When Jonathan Kozol's
Death at an Early Age appeared in 1967, it rocked the education world. Based on the Rhodes Scholar's first year of teaching in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Ariel Crashes a Train
by
Olivia A. Cole
Labyrinth Road, 03/12/2024
Ariel is afraid of her own mind. She already feels like she is too big, too queer, too rough to live up to her parents' exacting expectations, or to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Crow Mary: A Novel
by
Kathleen Grissom
Atria Books, 03/12/2024
In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on ...
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Historical Fiction
Flight of the Wild Swan
by
Melissa Pritchard
Bellevue Literary Press, 03/12/2024
Sweeping yet intimate,
Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Fury: A Novel
by
Clyo Mendoza
Seven Stories Press, 03/12/2024
In a desert dotted with war-torn towns, Lázaro and Juan are two soldiers from opposing camps who abandon the war and, while fleeing, become ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Great Expectations: A Novel
by
Vinson Cunningham
Hogarth Books, 03/12/2024
I'd seen the Senator speak a few times before my life got caught up, however distantly, with his, but the first time I can remember paying real ...more
Literary Fiction
Mother Doll: A Novel
by
Katya Apekina
The Overlook Press, 03/12/2024
Zhenia is adrift in Los Angeles, pregnant with a baby her husband doesn't want, while her Russian grandmother and favorite person in the world is ...
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Pride and Joy: A Novel
by
Louisa Onomé
Atria Books, 03/12/2024
Joy Okafor is overwhelmed. Recently divorced, a life coach whose phone won't stop ringing, and ever the dutiful Nigerian daughter, Joy has planned ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Reading Genesis
by
Marilynne Robinson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/12/2024
For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents, by various hands, expressing different factional ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
by
Jane Marie
Atria Books, 03/12/2024
We've all heard of Amway, Mary Kay, Tupperware, and LuLaRoe, but few know the nefarious way they and countless other multilevel marketing (MLM) ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Six Truths and a Lie
by
Ream Shukairy
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/12/2024
As fireworks pop off at a rowdy Fourth of July bonfire party, an explosion off the California coast levels an oil rig—resulting in chaos and ...
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Some Strange Music Draws Me In: A Novel
by
Griffin Hansbury
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/12/2024
It's the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel (short for Melanie) meets Sylvia, a tough-as-nails trans woman whose shameless swagger ...
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Sunbringer: Fallen Gods #2
by
Hannah Kaner
Harper Voyager, 03/12/2024
But gods cannot be destroyed so easily, and Hseth's power threatens to reform with even greater strength and a thirst for vengeance. As tensions rise ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County: A Novel
by
Claire Swinarski
Avon Books, 03/12/2024
Esther Larson has been cooking for funerals in the Northwoods of Wisconsin for seventy years. Known locally as the "funeral ladies," she and her ...
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Romance
The Hedgewitch of Foxhall
by
Anna Bright
HarperTeen, 03/12/2024
Magic is fading from Wales—choked off by King Offa's Dyke, the enemy earthworks that spans the entire border. Even the dragons have disappeared....
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
by
Hala Alyan
Ecco, 03/12/2024
A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Phoenix Bride: A Novel
by
Natasha Siegel
Dell, 03/12/2024
It is 1666, one year after plague has devastated England. Young widow Cecilia Thorowgood is a prisoner, trapped and isolated within her older sister's...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon's Story of Bravery, Survival, and Hope
by
Dr. Cornelia Griggs
Gallery Books, 03/12/2024
In the spring of 2020, many of us were sequestered in our homes, attempting to teach our children and learn to bake while the pings of news alerts and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Swan's Nest: A Novel
by
Laura McNeal
Algonquin Books, 03/12/2024
On a bleak January day in 1845, a poet who had been confined to her room for four years by recurrent illness received a letter from a writer she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Underground Library: A Novel
by
Jennifer Ryan
Ballantine Books, 03/12/2024
When the new deputy librarian, Juliet Lansdown, finds that Bethnal Green Library isn't the bustling hub she is expecting, she becomes determined to ...
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Historical Fiction
The Werewolf at Dusk: And Other Stories
by
David Small
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 03/12/2024
Long celebrated as a modern master of graphic literature, David Small has elicited in his work comparisons to Stan Lee and even Alfred Hitchcock. His ...
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Annie Bot: A Novel
by
Sierra Greer
Mariner Books, 03/19/2024
Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Bad Animals: A Novel
by
Sarah Braunstein
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/19/2024
Now that her brilliant botanist daughter is off at college, buttoned-up Maeve Cosgrove loves her job at a quiet Maine public library more than ...
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Cancelled
by
Farrah Penn
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 03/19/2024
Not to brag, but Brynn Whittaker is basically killing her senior year. She's got the looks, the grades, and a thriving "flirt coach" business that ...
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Expiration Dates: A Novel
by
Rebecca Serle
Atria Books, 03/19/2024
Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan for her. Every time she meets a new man, she receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it&#...
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Romance
Fervor: A Novel
by
Toby Lloyd
Avid Reader Press, 03/19/2024
Hannah and Eric Rosenthal are devout Jews living in North London with their three children and Eric's father Yosef, a Holocaust survivor. Both ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Finding Margaret Fuller: A Novel
by
Allison Pataki
Ballantine Books, 03/19/2024
Young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically brilliant, Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the celebrated Sage of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
In the Orbit of You
by
Ashley Schumacher
Wednesday Books, 03/19/2024
It's been years since Nova Evans last saw Sam. She was too young then to understand why he had to move away—and what it had to do with the cuts ...
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James: A Novel
by
Percival Everett
Doubleday, 03/19/2024
When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide ...
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No Judgment: Essays
by
Lauren Oyler
HarperOne, 03/19/2024
In her writing for
Harper's, the
London Review of Books,
The New Yorker, and elsewhere, Lauren Oyler has emerged as one of the most trenchant and ...
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Rules for Rule Breaking
by
Talia Tucker
Kokila, 03/19/2024
Winter Park and Bobby Bae are Korean American high school juniors whose families have been friends since the kids were making crayon art. They, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist's Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System
by
Dante Lauretta
Grand Central Publishing, 03/19/2024
On September 11, 1999, humanity made a monumental discovery in the vastness of space. Scientists uncovered an asteroid of immense scientific ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic
by
Daniel de Visé
Atlantic Monthly Press, 03/19/2024
"They're not going to catch us," Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Jake, played by John Belushi. "We're on a mission from God." So opens...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Day Tripper: A Novel
by
James Goodhand
Mira Books, 03/19/2024
The right guy, the right place, the wrong time.
It's 1995, and Alex Dean has it all: a spot at Cambridge University next year, the love of an ...
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The Divorcees
by
Rowan Beaird
Flatiron Books, 03/19/2024
Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in ...
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The Hebrew Teacher
by
Maya Arad
New Vessel Press, 03/19/2024
When a young Hebrew literature professor joins the faculty, she finds his post-Zionist politics pose a threat to her life's work. Miriam, whose son ...
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The Mars House: A Novel
by
Natasha Pulley
Bloomsbury USA, 03/19/2024
In the wake of an environmental catastrophe, January, once a principal in London's Royal Ballet, has become a refugee in Tharsis, the terraformed ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Morningside: A Novel
by
Téa Obreht
Random House, 03/19/2024
There's the world you can see. And then there's the one you can't. Welcome to the Morningside.
After being expelled from their ancestral home in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Mystery Writer: A Novel
by
Sulari Gentill
Poisoned Pen Press, 03/19/2024
When Theodosia Benton abandons her career path as an attorney and shows up on her brother's doorstep with two suitcases and an unfinished novel, she ...
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The Princess of Las Vegas: A Novel
by
Chris Bohjalian
Doubleday, 03/19/2024
Crissy Dowling has created a world that suits her perfectly. She passes her days by the pool in a private cabana, she splurges on ice cream but never ...
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The Tree Doctor: A Novel
by
Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Graywolf Press, 03/19/2024
When the unnamed narrator of Marie Mutsuki Mockett's stirring second novel returns to Carmel, California, to care for her mother, she finds herself ...
more
The Understory
by
Saneh Sangsuk
Deep Vellum Publishing, 03/19/2024
The lovable, yarnspinning monk Luang Paw Tien, now in his nineties, is the last person in his village to bear witness to the power and plenitude of ...
more
Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life
by
Kao Kalia Yang
Atria Books, 03/19/2024
Born in 1961 in war-torn Laos, Tswb's childhood was marked by the violence of America's Secret War and the CIA recruitment of the Hmong and other ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Where Sleeping Girls Lie
by
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Feiwel & Friends, 03/19/2024
It's like I keep stumbling into a dark room, searching for the switch to make things bright again...
Sade Hussein is starting her third year of ...
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Who's Afraid of Gender?
by
Judith Butler
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/19/2024
Judith Butler, the groundbreaking thinker whose iconic book
Gender Trouble redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
by
Venki Ramakrishnan
William Morrow, 03/19/2024
The knowledge of death is so terrifying that we live most of our lives in denial of it. Throughout human history—from the immortal afterlife of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Wild Houses
by
Colin Barrett
Grove Press, 03/19/2024
With his acclaimed and award-winning collections
Young Skins and
Homesickness Colin Barrett cemented his reputation as one of contemporary Irish ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Wolf at the Table
by
Adam Rapp
Little Brown & Company, 03/19/2024
As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest child of a large Catholic family, meets a young man she believes ...
more
Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability
by
Michael Kimmage
Oxford University Press, 03/22/2024
In
Collisions, Michael Kimmage, a historian and former State Department official who focused on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, offers a wide-angle, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
by
Matthew Stewart
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/26/2024
This is a story about a dangerous idea―one which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
by
Keith O'Brien
Pantheon Books, 03/26/2024
Pete Rose is a legend. A baseball god. He compiled more hits than anyone in the history of baseball, a record he set decades ago that still stands ...
more
Chronically Dolores
by
Maya Van Wagenen
Dutton for Young Readers, 03/26/2024
Dolores Mendoza is not thriving. She was recently diagnosed with a chronic bladder condition called interstitial cystitis. The painful disease isn't ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
How to Solve Your Own Murder: Castle Knoll Files #1
by
Kristen Perrin
Dutton, 03/26/2024
It's 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances's night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Like Happiness: A Novel
by
Ursula Villarreal-Moura
Celadon, 03/26/2024
It's 2015, and Tatum Vega feels that her life is finally falling into place. Living in sunny Chile with her partner, Vera, she spends her days ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Lost Man's Lane: A Novel
by
Scott Carson
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 03/26/2024
For a sixteen-year-old, a summer internship working for a private investigator seems like a dream come true—particularly since the PI is ...
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Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis
by
Greg Wrenn
Regalo Press, 03/26/2024
Professor Greg Wrenn likes to tell his nature-writing students, "The ecological is personal, and the personal is ecological." What he's never told ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Nuclear War: A Scenario
by
Annie Jacobsen
Dutton, 03/26/2024
Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Perris, California: A Novel
by
Rachel Stark
Penguin Books, 03/26/2024
Abandoned first by her father and then her mother, as a girl Tessa is left to live with her abusive stepfather and stepbrother. She survives by ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Pieces of a Girl
by
Stephanie Kuehnert
Dutton for Young Readers, 03/26/2024
Told in varied narrative styles, including journal entries, original illustration, and pages torn from her actual diaries and zines, this is the ...
more
Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story
by
Kristine S. Ervin
Counterpoint Press, 03/26/2024
Kristine S. Ervin was just eight years old when her mother, Kathy Sue Engle, was abducted from an Oklahoma mall parking lot and violently murdered in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power
by
Timothy W. Ryback
Knopf, 03/26/2024
In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans was unemployed. Violence was rampant. Hitler's National ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
by
Jonathan Haidt
Penguin Books, 03/26/2024
In
The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
The Boy Lost in the Maze
by
Joseph Coelho
Candlewick Press, 03/26/2024
Theo, a seventeen-year-old London schoolboy with a single mother, is desperate to track down the father who left them, whom he scarcely remembers. At ...
more
What Happened to Nina?: A Novel
by
Dervla McTiernan
William Morrow, 03/26/2024
Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family's cabin in Vermont, and only Simon ...
more
Thrillers
Worry: A Novel
by
Alexandra Tanner
Scribner, 03/26/2024
It's March of 2019, and twenty-eight-year-old Jules Gold—anxious, artistically frustrated, and internet-obsessed—has been living alone in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
by
Madhumita Murgia
Picador, 03/28/2024
On the surface, a British poet, an UberEats courier in Pittsburgh, an Indian doctor, and a Chinese activist in exile have nothing in common. But they ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
No Son of Mine: A Memoir (Appalachian Futures Black Native & Queer Voices)
by
Jonathan Corcoran
University Press of Kentucky, 04/01/2024
Born and raised in rural West Virginia, Jonathan Corcoran was the youngest and only son of three siblings in a family balanced on the precipice of ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
A Chance to Harmonize: How FDR's Hidden Music Unit Sought to Save America from the Great Depression-One Song at a Time
by
Sheryl Kaskowitz
Pegasus Books, 04/02/2024
In 1934, the Great Depression had destroyed the US economy, leaving residents poverty-stricken. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt urged President Roosevelt...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Good Happy Girl: A Novel
by
Marissa Higgins
Catapult, 04/02/2024
Helen, a jittery attorney with a self-destructive streak, is secretly reeling from a disturbing crime of neglect that her parents recently committed. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
by
Becca Rothfeld
Metropolitan Books, 04/02/2024
In her debut essay collection, "brilliant and stylish" (
The Washington Post) critic Becca Rothfeld takes on one of the most sacred cows of our time: ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Ash Dark as Night: A Harry Ingram Mystery
by
Gary Phillips
Soho Press, 04/02/2024
Los Angeles, August 1965. Anger and pent-up frustrations boil over in the Watts neighborhood after a traffic stop of two Black motorists. As the Watts...
more
Mysteries
City in Ruins: Danny Ryan Trilogy #3
by
Don Winslow
William Morrow, 04/02/2024
Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love.
Danny Ryan is rich.
Beyond his wildest dreams rich.
The former dock ...
more
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
by
Megan Kimble
Crown, 04/02/2024
Every major American city has a highway tearing through its center. Seventy years ago, planners sold these highways as progress, essential to our ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Every Time You Hear That Song
by
Jenna Voris
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 04/02/2024
They say never meet your idols. But nothing about digging up their deepest secrets.
Seventeen-year-old aspiring journalist Darren Purchase has been...
more
Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland
by
Henry Hemming
Public Affairs, 04/02/2024
The search for justice for this one man's death—his body found in broad daylight, with tape over his eyes, an undisguised hit—would ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Habitations: A Novel
by
Sheila Sundar
Little Simon, 04/02/2024
Vega Gopalan is adrift. Still reeling from the death of her sister years earlier, she leaves South India to attend graduate school at Columbia ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery
by
Earl Swift
Mariner Books, 04/02/2024
On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves
by
J. Drew Lanham
Hub City Press, 04/02/2024
In gorgeous and timely pieces,
Joy Is the Justice We Give Ourselves is a lush journey into wildness and Black being. Lanham notices nature through ...
more
Like Love: Essays and Conversations
by
Maggie Nelson
Graywolf Press, 04/02/2024
Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, ...
more
Made Glorious
by
Lindsay Eagar
Candlewick Press, 04/02/2024
Rory is an antihero for the ages. Like Shakespeare's
Richard III, she confides in her audience, telling us exactly the lengths she'll go to to secure ...
more
Missing Persons: or, My Grandmother's Secrets
by
Clair Wills
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/02/2024
When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met. Born in a mother-and-baby home in 1950s Ireland, Mary grew up...
more
New and Selected Poems
by
Marie Howe
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/02/2024
Characterized by "a radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose, along with a fearless interest in autobiography and its tragedies and redemptions" ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
One by One
by
Freida McFadden
Poisoned Pen Press, 04/02/2024
Claire Matchett needs this trip. It will be a break from work and raising children. A chance to repair her damaged marriage. A week of hiking and hot ...
more
Thrillers
Patron Saints of Nothing
by
Randy Ribay
Kokila, 04/02/2024
Jay Reguero plans to spend the last semester of his senior year playing video games before heading to the University of Michigan in the fall. But when...
more
Mysteries
Something About Living
by
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
University of Akron Press, 04/02/2024
Her poems interweave Palestine's historic suffering, the challenges of living in this world full of violence and ill will, and the gentle delights we ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Something Kindred
by
Ciera Burch
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/02/2024
Welcome to Coldwater. Come for the ghosts, stay for the drama.
Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior year soaking up the sun...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
Still As Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon, from Antiquity to Tomorrow
by
Christopher Cokinos
Pegasus Books, 04/02/2024
"When the Moon rises between buildings or over trees, it's not just a beautiful light: It's an archive of human longing, fear and adventure. The Moon ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Black Girl Survives in This One: Horror Stories
by
Desiree S. Evans
Flatiron Books, 04/02/2024
Be warned, dear reader:
The Black girls survive in this one.
Celebrating a new generation of bestselling and acclaimed Black writers,
The Black ...more
The Breakup Lists
by
Adib Khorram
Dial Books, 04/02/2024
Jackson Ghasnavi is a lot of things—a techie, a smoothie afficionado, a totally not obsessive list-maker—but one thing he's not is a ...
more
The Cemetery of Untold Stories: A Novel
by
Julia Alvarez
Algonquin Books, 04/02/2024
Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of
The Cemetery of Untold Stories, doesn't want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long...
more
The Father She Went to Find: A Novel
by
Carter Wilson
Poisoned Pen Press, 04/02/2024
Penny has never met anyone smarter than her. That's par for the course when you're a savant—one of less than one hundred in the world. But ...
more
The House on Biscayne Bay
by
Chanel Cleeton
Berkley Books, 04/02/2024
With the Great War finally behind them, many Americans flock to South Florida with their sights set on making a fortune. When wealthy industrialist ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Husbands: A Novel
by
Holly Gramazio
Doubleday, 04/02/2024
When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There's only one problem—she'...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
by
Stefanos Geroulanos
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 04/02/2024
Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony
by
Annabelle Tometich
Little Brown & Company, 04/02/2024
When journalist Annabelle Tometich picks up the phone one June morning, she isn't expecting a collect call from an inmate at the Lee County Jail. And ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Murder of Mr. Ma
by
John Shen Yen Nee and SJ Rozan
Soho Press, 04/02/2024
Two unlikely allies race through the cobbled streets of 1920s London in search of a killer targeting Chinese immigrants.
London, 1924. When shy ...
more
The Night in Question: A Novel
by
Susan Fletcher
Union Square & Co., 04/02/2024
Florrie Butterfield—eighty-seven, one-legged, and of cheerful disposition—believes there can't be any more adventures or surprises in life...
more
The Stone Home: A Novel
by
Crystal Hana Kim
William Morrow, 04/02/2024
In 2011, Eunju Oh opens her door to greet a stranger: a young Korean American woman holding a familiar-looking knife—a knife Eunju hasn't seen ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Village Weavers
by
Myriam JA Chancy
Tin House Books, 04/02/2024
In 1940s' Port-au-Prince, Gertie and Sisi become fast childhood friends, despite being on opposite ends of the social and economic ladder. As young ...
more
We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
by
Lydia Millet
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/02/2024
Across more than a dozen acclaimed works of fiction, readers have become intimate with Lydia Millet's distinctive voice and sly wit.
We Loved It All, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
With My Back to the World: Poems
by
Victoria Chang
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/02/2024
Yesterday I slung my depression on my back and went to the museum. I only asked four attendants where the Agnes painting was and the fifth one knew. I...more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Canto Contigo: A Novel
by
Jonny Garza Villa
Wednesday Books, 04/09/2024
In a twenty-four-hour span, Rafael Alvarez led North Amistad High School's Mariachi Alma de la Frontera to their eleventh consecutive first-place win ...
more
Daughter of Mine: A Novel
by
Megan Miranda
Marysue Rucci Books, 04/09/2024
When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town&#...
more
Death in the Details: A Novel
by
Katie Tietjen
Crooked Lane Books, 04/09/2024
Maple Bishop is ready to put WWII and the grief of losing her husband, Bill, behind her. But when she discovers that Bill left her penniless, Maple ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Dragonfruit
by
Makiia Lucier
Clarion, 04/09/2024
In the old tales, it is written that the egg of a seadragon, dragonfruit, holds within it the power to undo a person's greatest sorrow. An unwanted ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
by
Jason Roberts
Random House, 04/09/2024
In the eighteenth century, two men—exact contemporaries and polar opposites—dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Fi: A Memoir of My Son
by
Alexandra Fuller
Grove Press, 04/09/2024
"Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday." And so begins Alexandra Fuller's open, vivid new memoir,
Fi. It's ...
more
Grey Dog
by
Elliott Gish
ECW Press, 04/09/2024
The year is 1901, and Ada Byrd — spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist — accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful for...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man
by
Nicholas Shakespeare
Harper, 04/09/2024
Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, ...
more
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
by
Kathleen DuVal
Random House, 04/09/2024
Long before the colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adapted to a changing world in ways that ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Rangikura: Poems
by
Tayi Tibble
Knopf, 04/09/2024
Tayi Tibble returns on the heels of her incendiary debut with a bold new follow-up. Barbed and erotic, vulnerable and searching, Rangikura asks ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Somehow: Thoughts on Love
by
Anne Lamott
Riverhead Books, 04/09/2024
"Love is our only hope," Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. "It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the ...
more
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
by
Amanda Montell
Atria Books, 04/09/2024
Utilizing the linguistic insights of her "witty and brilliant" (Blyth Roberson, author of
America the Beautiful?) first book
Wordslut and the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The British Booksellers
by
Kristy Cambron
Thomas Nelson, 04/09/2024
A tenant farmer's son had no business daring to dream of a future with an earl's daughter, but that couldn't keep Amos Darby from his secret ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Garden: A Novel
by
Clare Beams
Doubleday, 04/09/2024
In 1948, Irene Willard, who's had five previous miscarriages in a quest to give her beloved husband the child he desperately desires and is now ...
more
The House of Broken Bricks: A Novel
by
Fiona Williams
Henry Holt and Company, 04/09/2024
Tess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in the city to the English countryside, where predatory ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Limits: A Novel
by
Nell Freudenberger
Knopf, 04/09/2024
From Mo'orea, a tiny volcanic island off the coast of Tahiti, a French biologist obsessed with saving Polynesia's imperiled coral reefs sends her ...
more
The Sleepwalkers: A Novel
by
Scarlett Thomas
Simon & Schuster, 04/09/2024
Still reeling from the chaos of their wedding, Evelyn and Richard arrive on a tiny Greek island for their honeymoon. It's the end of the season and a ...
more
The Widow Spy: A Novel
by
Megan Campisi
Atria Books, 04/09/2024
Kate Warne is many things: the country's first female detective, a Pinkerton agent, and a union spy.
It's August 1861, and her latest assignment ...
more
Thrillers
The Wives: A Memoir
by
Simone Gorrindo
Gallery/Scout Press, 04/09/2024
When her new husband joins an elite Army unit, Simone Gorrindo is uprooted from New York City and dropped into Columbus, Georgia—a town so ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
by
Norman Ohler
Mariner Books, 04/09/2024
Berlin 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use—long kept under control by the Nazis' strict anti-drug laws—is rampant ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Kind of Madness
by
Uche Okonkwo
Tin House Books, 04/16/2024
A teenage girl from a poor family is dazzled by her rich, vivacious friend, but as the friend's behavior grows unstable and dangerous, she must decide...
more
After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations (Turning Points in Ancient History # 2)
by
Eric H. Cline
Princeton University Press, 04/16/2024
At the end of the acclaimed history
1177 B.C., many of the Late Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean lay in ruins, undone ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
by
Alua Arthur
Mariner Books, 04/16/2024
For her clients and everyone who has been inspired by her humanity, Alua Arthur is a friend at the end of the world. As our country's leading death ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever
by
Rachel Lance
Dutton, 04/16/2024
This is the previously classified story of one group of scientific researchers—men and women—who exposed themselves to extraordinary risks...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Chipped: Writing from a Skateboarder's Lens
by
José Vadi
Soft Skull Press, 04/16/2024
Chipping a board—where small pieces of deck and tape break off around the nose and tail—is a natural part of skateboarding. Novice or pro,...
more
Close to Death: A Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery #5
by
Anthony Horowitz
Harper, 04/16/2024
Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far away from the noise and grime of city life, ...
more
Dear Wendy
by
Ann Zhao
Feiwel & Friends, 04/16/2024
Sophie Chi is in her first year of college (though her parents wish she'd attend a "real" university rather than a liberal arts school) and has long ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Did I Ever Tell You?: A Memoir
by
Genevieve Kingston
Marysue Rucci Books, 04/16/2024
Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston was just eleven years old when her mother passed away, leaving behind a chest filled with gifts and letters to celebrate the...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
by
Will Cockrell
Gallery Books, 04/16/2024
Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer's
Into Thin Air or has seen a recent photo of climbers standing in line to get to the top of Everest may think they ...
more
Henry Henry
by
Allen Bratton
The Unnamed Press, 04/16/2024
Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere...
It's London, 2014, and Hal Lancaster, son and heir of Henry, Duke of Lancaster, is in a holding ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Honey: A Novel
by
Victor Lodato
Harper, 04/16/2024
As a rebellious teenager, Honey managed to escape her father's circle of influence and reinvent herself in a world of art and beauty, working for a ...
more
Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
by
Sofia Samatar
Tor Books, 04/16/2024
The boy was raised as one of the Chained, condemned to toil in the bowels of a mining ship out among the stars. His whole world changes—...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Book of Secrets: A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China
by
Xinran Xue
Bloomsbury Continuum, 04/16/2024
Following the lives of military intelligence officer Jie and his wife Moon,
The Book of Secrets weaves recently found material into a narrative that ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Spoiled Heart: A Novel
by
Sunjeev Sahota
Viking, 04/16/2024
Nayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town. She's returned with her teenage son to live in the run-down house at the end of the lane, and&#...
more
The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing
by
Adam Moss
Penguin Books, 04/16/2024
What is the work of art? In this guided tour inside the artist's head, Adam Moss traces the evolution of transcendent novels, paintings, jokes, movies...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
This Part Is Silent: A Life Between Cultures
by
SJ Kim
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/16/2024
Born in Korea, raised in the American South, and trying her best to survive British academia, SJ Kim probes her experiences as a writer, a scholar, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Weird Black Girls: Stories
by
Elwin Cotman
Scribner, 04/16/2024
A rural town finds itself under the authoritarian sway of a tree that punishes children. A pair of old friends navigate their fraught history as ...
more
Black Bell
by
Alison C. Rollins
Copper Canyon Press, 04/23/2024
Inspired by the nineteenth century image of an enslaved woman wearing iron horns and bells, Alison C. Rollins's
Black Bell continues an exploration of...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
Dark Parts of the Universe
by
Samuel Miller
Katherine Tegan Books, 04/23/2024
In Calico Springs, Willie's life has been defined by two powerful forces: God and the river. The "miracle boy" died for five minutes as a young child,...
more
Darling Girls: A Novel
by
Sally Hepworth
St. Martin's Press, 04/23/2024
For as long as they can remember, Jessica, Norah, and Alicia have been told how lucky they are. As young girls they were rescued from family tragedies...
more
Thrillers
Extinction: A Novel
by
Douglas Preston
Forge Books, 04/23/2024
Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly ...
more
Funny Story
by
Emily Henry
Berkley Books, 04/23/2024
Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved ...
more
Romance
Homebody
by
Theo Parish
HarperAlley, 04/23/2024
Combining traditional comics with organic journal-like interludes, Theo takes us through their experiences with the hundred arbitrary and unspoken ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Huddud's House: A Novel
by
Fadi Azzam
Interlink Books, 04/23/2024
How far is love willing to travel in search of its own lost voice?
When tyranny unleashes destructive forces that threaten to overwhelm a country, ...
more
I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays
by
Nell Irvin Painter
Doubleday, 04/23/2024
Throughout her prolific writing career, Nell Painter has published works on such luminaries as Sojourner Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Malcolm X. ...
more
Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution
by
Anne Higonnet
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/23/2024
Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of...
more
Lucky: A Novel
by
Jane Smiley
Knopf, 04/23/2024
Before Jodie Rattler became a star, she was a girl growing up in St. Louis. One day in 1955, when she was just six years old, her uncle Drew took her ...
more
Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals
by
Bill Wasik
Knopf, 04/23/2024
Over just a few decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the United States underwent a moral revolution on behalf of animals. Before the Civil ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Reboot: A Novel
by
Justin Taylor
Pantheon Books, 04/23/2024
David Crader is a has-been. A former child actor from the hit teen drama Rev Beach, he now rotates between his new roles as deadbeat dad, recovering ...
more
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
by
Judi Dench
St. Martin's Griffin, 04/23/2024
- Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig...
- Cavorting naked through the Warwickshire countryside painted green...
- Acting ...
more
Song of the Six Realms
by
Judy I. Lin
Feiwel & Friends, 04/23/2024
Xue, a talented young musician, has no past and probably no future. Orphaned at a young age, her kindly poet uncle took her in and arranged for an ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Backyard Bird Chronicles
by
Amy Tan
Knopf, 04/23/2024
Tracking the natural beauty that surrounds us,
The Backyard Bird Chronicles maps the passage of time through daily entries, thoughtful questions, and ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Everything War: Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power
by
Dana Mattioli
Little Brown & Company, 04/23/2024
In 2017, Lina Khan published a paper that accused Amazon of being a monopoly, having grown so large, and embedded in so many industries, it was akin ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Flower Sisters
by
Michelle Collins Anderson
A John Scognamiglio Book, 04/23/2024
Drawing on the little-known true story of one tragic night at an Ozarks dance hall in the author's Missouri hometown, this beautifully written, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union
by
Stephen Puleo
St. Martin's Griffin, 04/23/2024
In the tempestuous mid-19th century, as slavery consumed Congressional debate and America careened toward civil war and split apart–when the ...
more
The Paris Novel
by
Ruth Reichl
Random House, 04/23/2024
Stella reached for an oyster, tipped her head, and tossed it back. It was cool and slippery, the flavor so briny it was like diving into the ocean. ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters
by
Susan Page
Simon & Schuster, 04/23/2024
Barbara Walters was a force from the time TV was exploding on the American scene in the 1960s to its waning dominance in a new world of competition ...
more
The Sky Was Ours: A Novel
by
Joe Fassler
Penguin Books, 04/23/2024
It's 2005, and 24-year-old Jane is miserable. Overworked, buried in debt, she senses the life she wanted slipping away—while the world around ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Whole Staggering Mystery: A Story of Fathers Lost and Found
by
Sylvia Brownrigg
Counterpoint Press, 04/23/2024
When Sylvia Brownrigg received a package addressed to her father that had been lost for over fifty years, she wanted to deliver it to him before it ...
more
The Wings Upon Her Back
by
Samantha Mills
Tachyon Publications, 04/23/2024
Zenya was a teenager when she ran away from home to join the mechanically-modified warrior sect. She was determined to earn mechanized wings and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Wild Dreamers
by
Margarita Engle
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 04/23/2024
Ana and her mother have been living out of their car ever since her militant father became one of the FBI's most wanted. Leandro has struggled with ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Agent A12 and the Solving of the Holocaust Code
by
Jason Bell
Pegasus Books, 04/30/2024
In public life, Dr. Winthrop Bell was a Harvard philosophy professor and wealthy businessman.
As an MI6 spy—known as secret agent A12—...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Crow Talk: A Novel
by
Eileen Garvin
Dutton, 04/30/2024
Frankie O'Neill and Anne Ryan would seem to have nothing in common. Frankie is a lonely ornithologist struggling to salvage her dissertation on the ...
more
I'll Be Waiting for You
by
Mariko Turk
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 04/30/2024
Natalie and Imogen are inseparable, and wildly different—Imogen is infuriatingly humble and incredibly intelligent, while Natalie is brave, ...
more
In Universes: A Novel
by
Emet North
Harper, 04/30/2024
Raffi works in an observational cosmology lab, searching for dark matter and trying to hide how little they understand their own research. Every ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Miss Morgan's Book Brigade: A Novel
by
Janet Skeslien Charles
Atria Books, 04/30/2024
1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for ...
more
Literary Fiction
Not Like Other Girls
by
Meredith Adamo
Bloomsbury YA, 04/30/2024
When Jo-Lynn Kirby 's former best friend-pretty, nice Maddie Price-comes to her claiming to be in trouble, Jo assumes it's some kind of joke. After ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Only the Brave: A Novel
by
Danielle Steel
Delacorte Press, 04/30/2024
Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, ...
more
Historical Fiction
Profiles in Mental Health Courage
by
Patrick J. Kennedy
Dutton, 04/30/2024
Several years ago, Patrick J. Kennedy shared the story of his personal and family challenges with mental illness and addiction—and the nation's&...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
by
Erik Larson
Crown, 04/30/2024
On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Funeral Cryer: A Novel
by
Wenyan Lu
Hanover Square Press, 04/30/2024
The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job and ...
more
What's Eating Jackie Oh?
by
Patricia Park
Crown Books for Young Readers, 04/30/2024
Jackie Oh is done being your model minority.
She's tired of perfect GPAs, PSATs, SATs, all of it. Jackie longs to become a professional chef. But...
more
A Nest of Vipers: A Bangalore Detectives Club Mystery
by
Harini Nagendra
Pegasus Crime, 05/02/2024
This latest novel in the Bangalore Detectives Club mystery series takes the reader deep into the historical era surrounding the visit by Edward, ...
more
A Christmas Carol: The original classic book by Charles dickens
by
Charles Dickens
Nielsen Uk ISBN, 05/06/2024
It's a snowy winter in London where we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, an old man who has become bitter with life, he is known for being cold and selfish. ...
more
Literary Fiction
A Lonesome Place for Dying: A Novel
by
Nolan Chase
Crooked Lane Books, 05/07/2024
In the quiet seaside town of Blaine, Washington, the most serious police work involves dealing with stray coyotes or ticketing speeders along the I-5....
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
América del Norte
by
Nicolás Medina Mora
Soho Press, 05/07/2024
Sebastián lived a childhood of privilege in Mexico City. Now in his twenties, he has a degree from Yale, an American girlfriend, and a slot in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Beastly Beauty
by
Jennifer Donnelly
Scholastic, 05/07/2024
What makes a girl "beastly?" Is it having too much ambition? Being too proud? Taking up too much space? Or is it just wanting something, anything, too...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Cinema Love: A Novel
by
Jiaming Tang
Dutton, 05/07/2024
For over thirty years, Old Second and Bao Mei have cobbled together a meager existence in New York City's Chinatown. But unlike other couples, these ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Death's Country
by
R. M. Romero
Peachtree Publishers, 05/07/2024
Andres Santos of São Paulo was all swinging fists and firecracker fury, a foot soldier in the war between his parents, until he drowned in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Eyes Open
by
Lyn Miller-Lachmann
Carolrhoda Books, 05/07/2024
She'll become a poet, and together she and her artist boyfriend, Zé Miguel, will rise above the government restrictions that shape their lives. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
How It Works Out: A Novel
by
Myriam Lacroix
The Overlook Press, 05/07/2024
When Myriam and Allison fall in love at a show in a run-down punk house, their relationship begins to unfold through a series of hypotheticals. What ...
more
How Nietzsche Came in From the Cold: Tale of a Redemption
by
Philipp Felsch
Polity, 05/07/2024
It was only when two ambitious antifascist Italians, Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, began to comb through the archives that anyone warmed to the...
more
Biography/Memoir
How to Read a Book: A Novel
by
Monica Wood
Mariner Books, 05/07/2024
Our Reasons meet us in the morning and whisper to us at night. Mine is an innocent, unsuspecting, eternally sixty-one-year-old woman named Lorraine ...more
Hunted
by
Abir Mukherjee
Mulholland, 05/07/2024
In London, the police storm Heathrow Airport to bring in a father for questioning about his missing daughter.
In Florida, a mother makes a ...
more
I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv
by
Illia Ponomarenko
Bloomsbury USA, 05/07/2024
In late February 2022, a series of missiles and rocket strikes began falling upon Ukraine, as the Russian military barreled over the border and fanned...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
by
Eric Jay Dolin
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 05/07/2024
In
Left for Dead, Eric Jay Dolin―"one of today's finest writers about ships and the sea"
(American Heritage)―tells the true story of a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Loneliness & Company
by
Charlee Dyroff
Bloomsbury USA, 05/07/2024
Lee knows she's the best. A professor favorite and fellowship winner, there's no doubt she'll land one of the coveted jobs at a Big Five corporation. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Look Away: A True Story of Murders, Bombings, and a Far-Right Campaign to Rid Germany of Immigrants
by
Jacob Kushner
Grand Central Publishing, 05/07/2024
Not long after the Berlin Wall fell, three teenagers became friends in the East German town of Jena. It was a time of excitement, but also of economic...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Love Is a Burning Thing: A Memoir
by
Nina St. Pierre
Dutton, 05/07/2024
Ten years before Nina was born, her mother lit herself on fire in a dual suicide attempt. During her recovery in the burn-unit, a nurse initiated her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Mother Knows Best: Tales of Homemade Horror (A Women in Horror Anthology)
by
Lindy Ryan
Black Spot, 05/07/2024
From mama trauma to smother mother, this all-new women in horror anthology features stories about the scariest monster of them all—our mothers.
Short Stories
Phantom Orbit: A Thriller
by
David Ignatius
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/07/2024
David Ignatius is known for his uncanny ability, in novel after novel, to predict the next great national security headline. In
Phantom Orbit, he ...
more
Queerceañera
by
Alex Crespo
HarperTeen, 05/07/2024
Joaquin Zoido is out and proud of it. And while he knew his dad and sister, Carmen, would be super supportive, he wasn't quite ready for them to ...
more
Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire
by
Paula Yoo
Norton Young Readers, 05/07/2024
In the spring of 1992, after a jury returned not guilty verdicts in the trial of four police officers charged in the brutal beating of a Black man, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Sipsworth
by
Simon Van Booy
David R. Godine, 05/07/2024
Following the loss of her husband and son, Helen Cartwright returns to the village of her childhood after living abroad for six decades. Her only wish...
more
skin & bones: a novel
by
Renée Watson
Little Brown & Company, 05/07/2024
At 40, Lena Baker is at a steady and stable moment in life—between wine nights with her two best friends and her wedding just weeks away, she's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Body Farm: Stories
by
Abby Geni
Counterpoint Press, 05/07/2024
The body cannot tell any lies. From birth to death, and through all the transitions in between, the body stores our knowledge and history, our ...
more
The Lady Waiting: A Novel
by
Magdalena Zyzak
Riverhead Books, 05/07/2024
One bright Los Angeles day, a young Polish émigré named Viva is driving along the freeway when she's flagged down by a dazzling, disheveled ...
more
The Ministry of Time: A Novel
by
Kaliane Bradley
Avid Reader Press, 05/07/2024
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Stolen Child: A Novel
by
Ann Hood
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/07/2024
For decades, Nick Burns has been haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, when a French artist he'd befriended thrust both her...
more
The World Is Yours: The Story of Scarface
by
Glenn Kenny
Hanover Square Press, 05/07/2024
An unflinching confrontation of humanity's dark side, Brian De Palma's crime drama film
Scarface gave rise to a cultural revolution upon its release ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Their Divine Fires: A Novel
by
Wendy Chen
Algonquin Books, 05/07/2024
In 1917, at the dawn of the Chinese Revolution, Yunhong grows up in the southern China countryside and falls deeply in love with the son of a wealthy ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
This Book Won't Burn
by
Samira Ahmed
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 05/07/2024
After her dad abruptly abandons her family and her mom moves them a million miles from their Chicago home, Noor Khan is forced to start the last ...
more
Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics
by
Ernesto Londoño
Celadon, 05/07/2024
When he signed up for a psychedelic retreat run by a mysterious Argentine woman deep in Brazil's rainforest in early 2018, Ernesto Londoño, a ...
more
Whale Fall: A Novel
by
Elizabeth O'Connor
Pantheon Books, 05/07/2024
In 1938, a dead whale washes up on the shores of remote Welsh island. For Manod, who has spent her whole life on the island, it feels like both a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The North Wind
by
Alexandria Warwick
Simon & Schuster, 05/09/2024
Wren of Edgewood is no stranger to suffering. Her parents are gone. Survival is all she knows. For three hundred years, the land known as the Gray has...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Downloaded
by
Robert J. Sawyer
Shadowpaw Press, 05/11/2024
In 2059 two very different groups have their minds uploaded into a quantum computer in Waterloo, Ontario.
One group consists of astronauts ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
by
Lawrence Ingrassia
Henry Holt and Company, 05/14/2024
Ingrassia lost his mother, two sisters, brother, and nephew to cancer—different cancers developing at different points throughout their lives. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nation
by
John Kaag
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/14/2024
The Bloods were one of America's first and most expansive pioneer families. They explored and laid claim to the frontiers—geographic, political,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
by
Adam Higginbotham
Avid Reader Press, 05/14/2024
On January 28, 1986, just seventy-three seconds into flight, the space shuttle
Challenger broke apart over the Atlantic Ocean, killing all seven ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Every Time We Say Goodbye: A Novel
by
Natalie Jenner
St. Martin's Press, 05/14/2024
In 1955, Vivien Lowry is facing the greatest challenge of her life. Her latest play, the only female-authored play on the London stage that season, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies
by
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Princeton University Press, 05/14/2024
It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn't it always been so? When evolutionary science came along, it...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Liquid, Fragile, Perishable
by
Carolyn Kuebler
Melville House, 05/14/2024
May has arrived in the tiny hamlet of Glenville, Vermont, bringing with it currents of rejuvenation and rebirth. For 3 families, though, the year ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Long After We Are Gone: A Novel
by
Terah Shelton Harris
Sourcebooks Landmark, 05/14/2024
"Don't let the white man take the house."
These are the last words King Solomon says to his son before he dies. Now all four Solomon siblings must ...
more
Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
by
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
Tiny Reparations, 05/14/2024
Upon becoming a new mother, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal was called to Mexico to reconnect with her ancestors and recover her grandmother's story,...
more
My First Book
by
Honor Levy
Penguin Press, 05/14/2024
Walking the wire between imagination and confession,
My First Book marks the arrival of an electric new talent. Honor Levy's uniquely riveting voice ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Oye: A Novel
by
Melissa Mogollon
Hogarth Books, 05/14/2024
"Yes, hi, Mari. It's me. I'm over my tantrum now and calling you back ... But first—you have to promise that you won't tell Mom or Abue any of ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Private Lessons
by
Cynthia Salaysay
Penguin Books, 05/14/2024
Claire likes herself best when she plays his old piano, a welcome escape from the sadness—and her traditional Filipino mother's prayer groups. ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Rednecks: A Novel
by
Taylor Brown
St. Martin's Press, 05/14/2024
Rednecks is a tour de force, big canvas historical novel that dramatizes the 1920 to 1921 events of the West Virginia Mine Wars—from the Matewan...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Rise of a Killah
by
Ghostface Killah
St. Martin's Press, 05/14/2024
Dennis Coles—aka Ghostface Killah—is a co-founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, a legendary hip hop group who established themselves by breaking ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Road Home
by
Rex Ogle
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/14/2024
When Rex was outed the summer after he graduated high school, his father gave him a choice: he could stay at home, find a girlfriend, and attend ...
more
Road to Ruin: Magebike Courier #1
by
Hana Lee
Other Press, 05/14/2024
Jin-Lu has the most dangerous job in the wasteland. She's a magebike courier, one of the few who venture outside the domed cities on motorcycles ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World
by
Caroline Alexander
Viking, 05/14/2024
In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from India to China. Supplies to this critical ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Spitting Gold: A Novel
by
Carmella Lowkis
Atria Books, 05/14/2024
Paris, 1866. When Baroness Sylvie Devereux receives a house call from Charlotte Mothe, the sister she disowned, she fears her shady past as a spirit ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories
by
Colombe Schneck
Penguin Press, 05/14/2024
At fifty years old, while taking swimming lessons, I finally realized that my body was not actually as incompetent as I'd thought. My physical ...more
The Blue Maiden
by
Anna Noyes
Grove Press, 05/14/2024
It's 1825, four generations after Berggrund Island's women stood accused of witchcraft under the eye of their priest, now long dead. In his place is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Brightwood Code
by
Monica Hesse
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 05/14/2024
Seven months ago, Edda was on the World War I front lines as one of two hundred "Hello Girls," female switchboard operators employed by the US Army. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Puerto Rican War: A Graphic History
by
John Vasquez Mejias
Union Square & Co., 05/14/2024
Rendered in gorgeously carved wood blocks and buffeted with historical supplemental material, John Vasquez Mejias's
The Puerto Rican War tells the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Silence of the Choir
by
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
Europa Editions, 05/14/2024
Seventy-two men arrive in the middle of the Sicilian countryside. They are "immigrants," "refugees" or "migrants." But in Altino, they're called the ...
more
The Worst Perfect Moment
by
Shivaun Plozza
Holiday House, 05/14/2024
Tegan Masters is dead.
She's sixteen and she's dead and she's standing in the parking lot of the Marybelle Motor Lodge, the single most ...
more
They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
by
Mike Hixenbaugh
Mariner Books, 05/14/2024
Award-winning journalist Mike Hixenbaugh delivers the immersive and eye-opening story of Southlake, Texas, a district that seemed to offer everything ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Thirsty: A Novel
by
Jas Hammonds
Roaring Brook Press, 05/14/2024
It's the summer before college and eighteen-year-old Blake Brenner and her girlfriend, Ella, have one goal: join the mysterious and exclusive Serena ...
more
This Strange Eventful History: A Novel
by
Claire Messud
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/14/2024
Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state―separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
We Were the Universe: A Novel
by
Kimberly King Parsons
Knopf, 05/14/2024
The trip was supposed to be
fun. When Kit's best friend gets dumped by his boyfriend, he begs her to ditch her family responsibilities for an idyllic ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Wives Like Us: A Novel
by
Plum Sykes
Harper, 05/14/2024
If you think the English countryside is all green wellies, muddy Land Rovers and grey-haired ladies in tweed, then you've never visited 'The Bottoms.'...
more
A Gentleman from Japan: The Untold Story of an Incredible Journey from Asia to Queen Elizabeth's Court
by
Thomas Lockley
Hanover Square Press, 05/21/2024
On November 12, 1588, five young Asian men—led by a twenty-one-year-old called Christopher—traveled up the River Thames to meet Queen ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Northern Light in Provence: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Birkelund
Ballantine Books, 05/21/2024
Ilse Erlund is a translator who lives in a house on stilts along the west coast of Greenland. Isolated and restless in her world by the sea, she ...
more
American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
by
Alan Taylor
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/21/2024
In a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Butcher: A Novel
by
Joyce Carol Oates
Knopf, 05/21/2024
In this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, "Father of Gyno-Psychiatry," as he ascends ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir
by
Zoë Bossiere
Abrams Press, 05/21/2024
Newly arrived in the Sonoran Desert, eleven-year-old Zoë's world is one of giant beetles, thundering javelinas, and gnarled paloverde trees. With...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Cecilia
by
K-Ming Chang
Coffee House Press, 05/21/2024
Seven, who works as a cleaner at a chiropractor's office, reencounters Cecilia, a woman who has obsessed her since their school days. As the two of ...
more
Faraway the Southern Sky: A Novel
by
Joseph Andras
Verso, 05/21/2024
Fleeing persecution in Indochina, the young Ho Chi Minh arrived in Paris as World War I was sputtering to a close. A painfully shy twentysomething who...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Goddess of the River
by
Vaishnavi Patel
Redhook, 05/21/2024
A mother and a son. A goddess and a prince. A curse and an oath. A river whose course will change the fate of the world.
Ganga, joyful goddess of...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying: Dark Lord Davi #1
by
Django Wexler
Orbit, 05/21/2024
Davi has done this all before. She's tried to be the hero and take down the all-powerful Dark Lord. A hundred times she's rallied humanity and made ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
I Hope This Finds You Well: A Novel
by
Natalie Sue
William Morrow, 05/21/2024
Her secret to survival? She vents her grievances in petty email postscripts, then changes the text color to white so no one can see. That is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
by
Sebastian Junger
Simon & Schuster, 05/21/2024
For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ...
more
In Tongues: A Novel
by
Thomas Grattan
MCD, 05/21/2024
It's 2001, and twenty-four-year-old Gordon―handsome, sensitive, and eager for direction―takes a bus from Minnesota to New York City ...
more
Liar's Test
by
Ambelin Kwaymullina
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 05/21/2024
I didn't want to rule the Risen. Wreak a little havoc upon them, though? That was something else entirely.
Bell Silverleaf is a liar.
It's ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Lies and Weddings: A Novel
by
Kevin Kwan
Doubleday, 05/21/2024
Rufus Leung Gresham, future Earl of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel has a problem: the legendary Gresham Trust has been depleted ...
more
Mind Games: A Novel
by
Nora Roberts
St. Martin's Press, 05/21/2024
As they do each June, the Foxes have driven the winding roads of Appalachia to drop off their children for a two-week stay at their grandmother's. ...
more
Still Waters: A Novel
by
Matt Goldman
Forge Books, 05/21/2024
Liv and Gabe Ahlstrom are estranged siblings who haven't seen each other in years, but that's about to change when they receive a rare call from their...
more
The Incorrigibles: A Novel
by
Meredith Jaeger
Dutton, 05/21/2024
1890, San Francisco. Seduced by her employer's nephew, Annie Gilmurray, an Irish maid, is accused of stealing the ring he promised her. Sentenced to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Token Supremacy: The Art of Finance, the Finance of Art, and the Great Crypto Crash of 2022
by
Zachary Small
Knopf, 05/21/2024
In 2021, when the gavel fell at Christie's on the sale of Mike Winkelmann's Everydays series—a compilation of five thousand digital artworks&#...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America
by
Shefali Luthra
Doubleday, 05/21/2024
On June 24, 2022,
Roe v. Wade was overturned, and the impact was immediate: by 2023, abortion was virtually unavailable or significantly restricted in...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
When We Were Silent: A Novel
by
Fiona McPhillips
Flatiron Books, 05/21/2024
Louise Manson is the newest student at Highfield Manor, Dublin's most exclusive private school. It seems nearly perfect: the high arched window ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Trial: Illustrated Book by Franz Kafka
by
Franz Kafka
The Lost Book Project, 05/23/2024
This masterpiece, a cornerstone of 20th-century literature, unravels the tale of Josef K., an ordinary man awakened one day by a mysterious arrest for...
more
Literary Fiction
The Lockmaster: The German List
by
Christoph Ransmayr
Seagull Books, 05/27/2024
A longboat plummets over the Great Falls, drowning the five passengers on board. The Lockmaster, the heir to an ancient title and responsible for ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Question of Belonging: Crónicas
by
Hebe Uhart
Archipelago Books, 05/28/2024
Uhart reinvigorates our desire to connect with other people, to love the world, to laugh in the face of bad intentions, and to look again, more ...
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Accordion Eulogies: A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico
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Noé Álvarez
Catapult, 05/28/2024
Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez never knew his grandfather. Stories swirled around this mythologized, larger-than-life figure:...
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Allow Me to Introduce Myself: A Novel
by
Onyi Nwabineli
Graydon House, 05/28/2024
Anuri Chinasa has had enough. And really, who can blame her? She was the unwilling star of her stepmother's social media empire before "momfluencers" ...
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Cheaper, Faster, Better: How We'll Win the Climate War
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Tom Steyer
Spiegel & Grau, 05/28/2024
The climate is changing more rapidly than scientists predicted even a few years ago, with extreme weather already touching our everyday lives. At the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Cry of the Wild: Eight animals under siege
by
Charles Foster
Doubleday, 05/28/2024
A fox, grown strong on pepperoni pizza from the dustbins of the East End, dances along a railway track towards Essex, the territory of wild foxes and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier
by
Robert G. Parkinson
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/28/2024
We are divided over the history of the United States, and one of the central dividing lines is the frontier. Was it a site of heroism? Or was it where...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Housemates: A Novel
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Emma Copley Eisenberg
Hogarth Books, 05/28/2024
When Bernie replies to Leah's ad for a new housemate in Philadelphia, the two begin an intense and defiantly uncategorizable friendship based on a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Look on the Bright Side
by
Kristan Higgins
Berkley Books, 05/28/2024
Lark Smith has always had a plan for her life: find a fantastic guy, create a marriage as blissful as her parents', pop out a couple of kids and build...
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Nero: A Novel (The Nero Trilogy)
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Conn Iggulden
Pegasus Books, 05/28/2024
The story begins with a hand curled around another man's throat.
This is Roman justice: Emperor Tiberius first dispatches a traitor—a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Southern Man: Penn Cage #7
by
Greg Iles
William Morrow, 05/28/2024
Fifteen years after the events of the
Natchez Burning trilogy, Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead, his old allies gone, ...
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Swole: The Making of Men and the Meaning of Muscle
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Michael Andor Brodeur
Beacon Press, 05/28/2024
Michael Brodeur is a Gen-X gay writer with a passion for bodybuilding and an insatiable curiosity about masculinity--a concept in which many men are ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Goddess of Warsaw: A Novel
by
Lisa Barr
Harper, 05/28/2024
Los Angeles, 2005. Sienna Hayes, Hollywood's latest It Girl, has ambitions to work behind the camera. When she meets Lena Browning, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War
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James Shapiro
Penguin Press, 05/28/2024
From 1935 to 1939, the Federal Theatre Project staged over a thousand productions in 29 states that were seen by thirty million (or nearly one in four...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Safekeep
by
Yael van der Wouden
Avid Reader Press, 05/28/2024
A house is a precious thing...
It is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Winner: A Novel
by
Teddy Wayne
Harper, 05/28/2024
In this oceanfront paradise, however, new clients prove hard to come by, and Conor has bills to pay. Then a sharp-tongued divorcée appears, ...
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Liberty's Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America
by
Amir Alexander
University Of Chicago Press, 05/29/2024
Seen from an airplane, much of the United States appears to be a gridded land of startling uniformity. Perpendicular streets and rectangular fields, ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
