Halsey Street
by
Naima Coster
Little A, 01/01/2018
Penelope Grand has scrapped her failed career as an artist in Pittsburgh and moved back to Brooklyn to keep an eye on her ailing father. She's ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Stone Sky
by
N. K. Jemisin
Subterranean Press, 01/01/2018
Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Beneath the Mountain: A Novel
by
Luca D'Andrea
Harper, 01/02/2018
New York City native Jeremiah Salinger is one half of a hot-shot documentary-making team. He and his partner, Mike, made a reality show about roadies ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Green
by
Sam Graham-Felsen
Random House, 01/02/2018
"This isn't some Jedi bull****; the force I'm talking about is real, and its energies are everywhere, working on everyone."
Boston, 1992. David ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Impossible Saints
by
Clarissa Harwood
Pegasus Books, 01/02/2018
Escaping the constraints of life as a village schoolmistress, Lilia Brooke bursts into London and into Paul Harris's orderly life, shattering his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Red Sky at Noon
by
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Pegasus Books, 01/02/2018
"The black earth was already baking and the sun was just rising when they mounted their horses and rode across the grasslands towards the horizon on ...
more
Robicheaux: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
by
James Lee Burke
Simon & Schuster, 01/02/2018
Dave Robicheaux is a haunted man.
Between his recurrent nightmares about Vietnam, his battle with alcoholism, and the sudden loss of his beloved ...
more
The Wolves of Winter: A Novel
by
Tyrell Johnson
Scribner, 01/02/2018
Forget the old days. Forget summer. Forget warmth. Forget anything that doesn't help you survive in the endless white wilderness beyond the edges of a...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Woman in the Window: A Novel
by
A. Finn
William Morrow, 01/02/2018
It isn't paranoia if it's really happening ...
Anna Fox lives alone—a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
by
Michael Wolff
Henry Holt and Company, 01/05/2018
The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous--and absolutely mesmerizing. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Fools and Mortals
by
Bernard Cornwell
Harper, 01/09/2018
Lord, what fools these mortals be ...
In the heart of Elizabethan England, Richard Shakespeare dreams of a glittering career in one of the London ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Gnomon
by
Nick Harkaway
Knopf, 01/09/2018
In the world of
Gnomon, citizens are constantly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of 'transparency.' Every action is seen, every word is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Heart Spring Mountain
by
Robin MacArthur
Ecco, 01/09/2018
It's August 2011, and Tropical Storm Irene has just wreaked havoc on Vermont, flooding rivers and destroying homes. One thousand miles away - while ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
King Zeno
by
Nathaniel Rich
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 01/09/2018
From one of the most inventive writers of his generation,
King Zeno is a historical crime novel and a searching inquiry into man's dreams of ...
more
Phone
by
Will Self
Grove Press, 01/09/2018
Busner is a psychiatrist who has made his name through his unorthodox treatment of psychological damage, such as giving the controversial drug L-DOPA ...
more
Tears of Salt: A Doctor's Story
by
Pietro Bartolo
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/09/2018
Situated more than one hundred miles off Italy's southern coast, the rocky island of Lampedusa has hit world headlines in recent years as the first ...
more
Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
by
Kelly Corrigan
Random House, 01/09/2018
It's a crazy idea: trying to name the phrases that make love and connection possible. But that's just what Kelly Corrigan has set out to do here. In ...
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The Boat People
by
Sharon Bala
Doubleday, 01/09/2018
When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches Vancouver's shores, the young ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Days When Birds Come Back
by
Deborah Reed
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 01/09/2018
June is in transition, reeling from her divorce, trying to stay sober, and faced with a completely stalled career. She returns to the beautiful Oregon...
more
The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta
by
Kushanava Choudhury
Bloomsbury USA, 01/09/2018
Everything that could possibly be wrong with a city was wrong with Calcutta.
When Kushanava Choudhury arrived in New Jersey at the age of twelve, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City
by
Iain Sinclair
Oneworld Publications, 01/09/2018
Iain Sinclair has been documenting the peculiar magic of the river-city that absorbs and obsesses him for most of his adult life. In
The Last London, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
The Transition
by
Luke Kennard
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 01/09/2018
Do you or your partner spend more than you earn? Have your credit card debts evolved into collection letters? Has either of you received a court ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Widows of Malabar Hill: A Mystery of 1920s Bombay
by
Sujata Massey
Soho Crime, 01/09/2018
1920s India: Perveen Mistry, Bombay's first female lawyer, is investigating a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in full purdah ...
more
Woman at 1,000 Degrees
by
Hallgrímur Helgason
Algonquin Books, 01/09/2018
"I live here alone in a garage, together with a laptop computer and a hand grenade. It's pretty cozy."
And ... she's off. Eighty-year-old Herra ...
more
Blood and Sand
by
C. V. Wyk
Tor Books, 01/16/2018
Forged in battle...
From the dust of the arena...
A legend will rise
For teens who love strong female protagonists in their fantasy and historical ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Everything Here Is Beautiful
by
Mira T. Lee
Pamela Dorman Books, 01/16/2018
Two sisters - Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger sister's protector; Lucia, the headstrong, unpredictable one, whose impulses are...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Penguin Classics)
by
Mary Shelley
Penguin Classics, 01/16/2018
The original 1818 text of
Frankenstein preserves the hard-hitting and politically-charged aspects of Shelley's original writing, as well as her ...
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Literary Fiction
Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death, and Surviving
by
Julia Samuel
Scribner, 01/16/2018
Death affects us all. Yet it is still the last taboo in our society, and grief is still profoundly misunderstood. So many of us feel awkward and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Advice
Debut Author
Lullaby Road
by
James Anderson
Crown, 01/16/2018
Local truck driver Ben Jones, still in mourning over a heartbreaking loss, is just trying to get through another season of treacherous roads and ...
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Munich
by
Robert Harris
Knopf, 01/16/2018
Hugh Legat is a rising star of the British diplomatic service, serving at 10 Downing Street as a private secretary to the Prime Minister, Neville ...
more
Oliver Loving: A Novel
by
Stefan Merrill Block
Flatiron Books, 01/16/2018
One warm, West Texas November night, a shy boy named Oliver Loving joins his classmates at Bliss County Day School's annual dance, hoping for a ...
more
The Infinite Future: A Novel
by
Tim Wirkus
Penguin Books, 01/16/2018
The Infinite Future is a mindbending novel that melds two page-turning tales in one. In the first, we meet three broken people, joined by an ...
more
The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations
by
Thomas Morris
Thomas Dunne Books, 01/16/2018
For thousands of years the human heart remained the deepest of mysteries; both home to the soul and an organ too complex to touch, let alone operate ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Night Market
by
Jonathan Moore
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 01/16/2018
It's late Thursday night, and Inspector Ross Carver is at a crime scene in one of the city's last luxury homes. The dead man on the floor is covered ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
by
Laurie Gwen Shapiro
Simon & Schuster, 01/16/2018
It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling fun. The Great War was over and American optimism was higher than the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Truly Devious: A Truly Devious Series Mystery #1
by
Maureen Johnson
Katherine Tegan Books, 01/16/2018
Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an ...
more
Anatomy of a Scandal
by
Sarah Vaughan
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 01/23/2018
Sophie's husband James is a loving father, a handsome man, a charismatic and successful public figure. And yet he stands accused of a terrible crime. ...
more
Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew
by
Michael Leinbach and Jonathan H. Ward
Arcade Publishing, 01/23/2018
Mike Leinbach was the launch director of the space shuttle program when
Columbia disintegrated on reentry before a nation's eyes on February 1, 2003. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Eternal Life
by
Dara Horn
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/23/2018
Rachel has an unusual problem: she can't die. Her recent troubles - widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son - are only the latest...
more
Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old
by
John Leland
Sarah Crichton Books, 01/23/2018
In 2015, the award-winning
New York Times journalist John Leland set out to meet some of the city's oldest inhabitants for a series on America's ...
more
Our Lady of the Prairie
by
Thisbe Nissen
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 01/23/2018
In the space of a few torrid months on the Iowa prairie, Phillipa Maakestad - long-married theater professor and mother of an unstable daughter - ...
more
Points North: Stories
by
Howard Frank Mosher
St. Martin's Press, 01/23/2018
Upon his passing in January 2017, Howard Frank Mosher was recognized as one of America's most acclaimed writers. His fiction set in the world of ...
more
The Milk Lady of Bangalore: An Unexpected Adventure
by
Shoba Narayan
Algonquin Books, 01/23/2018
When Shoba Narayan, a writer and cookbook author who had lived for years in Manhattan, moves back to Bangalore with her family, she befriends the milk...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Sky Is Yours
by
Chandler Klang Smith
Hogarth Books, 01/23/2018
In the burned-out, futuristic city of Empire Island, three young people navigate a crumbling metropolis constantly under threat from a pair of dragons...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
by
Charles C. Mann
Knopf, 01/23/2018
In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
This Is What Happened
by
Mick Herron
Soho Press, 01/23/2018
Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone you would never look at twice. Living alone in a month-to-month sublet in the huge city of London, with ...
more
Wild Is the Wind: Poems
by
Carl Phillips
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 01/23/2018
"What has restlessness been for?"
In
Wild Is the Wind, Carl Phillips reflects on love as depicted in the jazz standard for which the book is named...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
A Midwife's Story: Life, love and birth among the Amish
by
Penny Armstrong
Pinter & Martin, 01/25/2018
As she renews her respect for nature, she discovers an approach to giving birth which would change her life forever.
A gripping first-hand account ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Down and Across
by
Arvin Ahmadi
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 01/30/2018
Scott Ferdowsi has a track record of quitting. Writing the Great American Novel? Three chapters. His summer internship? One week. His best friends ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Hellbent: An Orphan X Novel
by
Gregg Hurwitz
Minotaur Books, 01/30/2018
Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was raised and trained as an off-the-books government assassin: Orphan X. After he broke with the ...
more
Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein
by
Lita Judge
Roaring Brook Press, 01/30/2018
Legend is correct that Mary Shelley began penning
Frankenstein in answer to a dare to write a ghost story. What most people don't know, however, is ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
by
Mark Whitaker
Simon & Schuster, 01/30/2018
Today black Pittsburgh is known as the setting for August Wilson's famed plays about noble but doomed working-class strivers. But this community once ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Still Me
by
Jojo Moyes
Pamela Dorman Books, 01/30/2018
Louisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure
and keep her relationship with Ambulance...
more
The Hazel Wood
by
Melissa Albert
Flatiron Books, 01/30/2018
Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
by
Jeffrey C. Stewart
Oxford University Press, 02/01/2018
Winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century ...
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Literary Fiction
A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America
by
T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong
Crown, 02/06/2018
On August 11, 2008, eighteen-year-old Marie reported that a masked man broke into her apartment near Seattle, Washington, and raped her. Within days ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Mouth Is Always Muzzled: Six Dissidents, Five Continents, and the Art of Resistance
by
Natalie Hopkinson
Atheneum Books, 02/06/2018
As people consider how to respond to a resurgence of racist, xenophobic populism,
A Mouth Is Always Muzzled tells an extraordinary story of the ways ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
As Bright as Heaven
by
Susan Meissner
Berkley Books, 02/06/2018
In 1918, Philadelphia was a city teeming with promise. Even as its young men went off to fight in the Great War, there were opportunities for a fresh ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Asymmetry
by
Lisa Halliday
Simon & Schuster, 02/06/2018
Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections,
Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Back Talk: Stories
by
Danielle Lazarin
Penguin Books, 02/06/2018
In "Floor Plans," a woman at the end of her marriage tests her power when she inadvertently befriends the neighbor trying to buy her apartment. In "...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Call Me Zebra
by
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 02/06/2018
Zebra is the last in a line of anarchists, atheists, and autodidacts. When war came, her family didn't fight; they took refuge in books. Now alone and...
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Daphne
by
Will Boast
Liveright / WW Norton, 02/06/2018
Elegantly written and profoundly moving, this spellbinding debut affirms Boast's reputation as a "new young American voice for the ages" (Tom Franklin...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
by
Steve Coll
Penguin Press, 02/06/2018
Prior to 9/11, the United States had been carrying out small-scale covert operations in Afghanistan, ostensibly in cooperation, although often in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
by
Kate Bowler
Random House, 02/06/2018
Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study of the prosperity gospel, a ...
more
Feel Free: Essays
by
Zadie Smith
Penguin Books, 02/06/2018
Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel almost two decades ago, Zadie Smith has established herself not just as one of the world'...
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Girl Unknown
by
Karen Perry
Henry Holt and Company, 02/06/2018
David and Caroline Connolly are swimming successfully through their marriage's middle years - raising two children; overseeing care for David's ailing...
more
Going For a Beer: Selected Short Fictions
by
Robert Coover
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/06/2018
Robert Coover has been playing by his own rules for more than half a century, earning the 1987 Rea Award for the Short Story as "a writer who has ...
more
Next Year in Havana
by
Chanel Cleeton
Berkley Books, 02/06/2018
Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's high society, where she is largely sheltered from the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Only Killers and Thieves
by
Paul Howarth
Harper, 02/06/2018
An epic tale of revenge and survival,
Only Killers and Thieves is a gripping and utterly transporting debut, bringing to vivid life a colonial ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Self-Portrait with Boy
by
Rachel Lyon
Scribner, 02/06/2018
Lu Rile is a relentlessly focused young photographer struggling to make ends meet. Working three jobs, responsible for her aging father, and worrying ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Semiosis
by
Sue Burke
Tor Books, 02/06/2018
Colonists from Earth wanted the perfect home, but they'll have to survive on the one they found. They don't realize another life form watches...and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Atomic City Girls
by
Janet Beard
William Morrow, 02/06/2018
"What you see here, what you hear here, what you do here, let it stay here."
In November 1944, eighteen-year-old June Walker boards an unmarked bus...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Deceivers: A John Wells Novel
by
Alex Berenson
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 02/06/2018
It was supposed to be a terrorist sting. The guns were supposed to be disabled. Then why was there so much blood?The target was the American Airlines ...
more
The Earth Gazers: On Seeing Ourselves
by
Christopher Potter
Pegasus Books, 02/06/2018
Only twenty-four people have seen the whole earth. The most beautiful and influential photographs ever made were taken, almost as an afterthought...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Gate Keeper: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery
by
Charles Todd
William Morrow, 02/06/2018
Hours after his sister's wedding, a restless Ian Rutledge drives aimlessly, haunted by the past, and narrowly misses a motorcar stopped in the middle ...
more
Mysteries
The Kings of Big Spring: God, Oil, and One Family's Search for the American Dream
by
Bryan Mealer
Flatiron Books, 02/06/2018
In 1892, Bryan Mealer's great-grandfather leaves the Georgia mountains and heads west into Texas, looking for wealth and adventure in the raw and open...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Land between Two Rivers: Writing in an Age of Refugees
by
Tom Sleigh
Graywolf Press, 02/06/2018
Tom Sleigh describes himself donning a flak jacket and helmet, working as a journalist inside militarized war zones and refugee camps, as "a sort of ...
more
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
by
Francisco Cantú
Riverhead Books, 02/06/2018
For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers
by
Adam Nicolson
Henry Holt and Company, 02/06/2018
A global tragedy is unfolding. Even as we are coming to understand them, the number of seabirds on our planet is in freefall, dropping by nearly 70% ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Source: How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers
by
Martin Doyle
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/06/2018
In this fresh and powerful work of environmental history, Martin Doyle explores how rivers have often been the source of arguments at the heart of the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Storm King
by
Brendan Duffy
Ballantine Books, 02/06/2018
Burying the past only gives it strength - and fury.
Nate McHale has assembled the kind of life most people would envy. After a tumultuous youth ...
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The Unforgotten: A Novel
by
Laura Powell
Gallery Books, 02/06/2018
It is the summer of 1956, and fifteen-year-old Betty Broadbent has never left the Cornish fishing village of St. Steele or ventured far beyond the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
When My Heart Joins the Thousand
by
A. J. Steiger
HarperTeen, 02/06/2018
Alvie Fitz doesn't fit in, and she doesn't care. She's spent years swallowing meds and bad advice from doctors and social workers.
Adjust, adapt. ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Dangerous Crossing: A Rachel Getty and Esa Khattak Mystery
by
Ausma Zehanat Khan
Minotaur Books, 02/13/2018
For Inspector Esa Khattak and Sergeant Rachel Getty, the Syrian refugee crisis is about to become personal. Esa's childhood friend, Nathan Clare, ...
more
Mysteries
Cut You Down: A Wakeland Novel
by
Sam Wiebe
Quercus, 02/13/2018
Tabitha Sorenson is missing. The bright but unstable student disappeared in the aftermath of a scandal involving millions of dollars in college funds,...
more
Mysteries
Hotel Silence
by
Audur Ava Olafsdottir
Black Cat, 02/13/2018
Jónas Ebeneser is a handy DIY kind of man with a compulsion to fix things, but he can't seem to fix his own life. On the cusp of turning fifty, ...
more
In Full Flight: A Story of Africa and Atonement
by
John Heminway
Knopf, 02/13/2018
Dr. Anne Spoerry treated hundreds of thousands of people across rural Kenya over the span of fifty years. A member of the renowned Flying Doctors ...
more
Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World's Next Superpower
by
Roseann Lake
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/13/2018
Forty years ago, China enacted the one-child policy, only recently relaxed. Among many other unintended consequences, it resulted in both an enormous ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Madness Is Better Than Defeat
by
Ned Beauman
Knopf, 02/13/2018
In 1938, two rival expeditions descend on an ancient temple recently discovered in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a screwball comedy ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Night Moves: An Alex Delaware Novel
by
Jonathan Kellerman
Ballantine Books, 02/13/2018
Even with all his years of experience, LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis knows there are crimes his skill and savvy cannot solve alone. That's when...
more
The Chateau
by
Paul Goldberg
Picador, 02/13/2018
"We have proverb in Florida...You know why it's good to be on beach?"
Bill smiles, but says nothing. He wants the guy to keep talking."Because on ...more
The Driest Season
by
Meghan Kenny
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/13/2018
As her Wisconsin community endures a long season of drought and feels the shockwaves of World War II, fifteen-year-old Cielle endures a more personal ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Invention of Ana
by
Mikkel Rosengaard
Custom House, 02/13/2018
On a rooftop in Brooklyn on a spring night, a young intern and would-be writer, newly arrived from Copenhagen, meets the intriguing Ana Ivan. Clever ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Kremlin's Candidate: A Novel (The Red Sparrow Trilogy)
by
Jason Matthews
Scribner, 02/13/2018
With a plot ripped from tomorrow's headlines, Jason Matthews's high-powered, seductive third novel not only continues the dangerous entanglements of ...
more
The Legacy: A Children's House Thriller
by
Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Minotaur Books, 02/13/2018
The Legacy is the first installment in a fantastic new series featuring the psychologist Freyja and the police officer Huldar.
The only person who...
more
The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore
by
Kim Fu
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 02/13/2018
A group of young girls descend on Camp Forevermore, a sleepaway camp in the Pacific Northwest, where their days are filled with swimming lessons, ...
more
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War
by
Benn Steil
Simon & Schuster, 02/13/2018
In the wake of World War II, with Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin's on the rise, US officials under new secretary of state George C. Marshall ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Philosopher's Flight
by
Tom Miller
Simon & Schuster, 02/13/2018
Eighteen-year-old Robert Weekes is a practitioner of empirical philosophy - an arcane, female-dominated branch of science used to summon the wind, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Queen of Hearts
by
Kimmery Martin
Berkley Books, 02/13/2018
Zadie Anson and Emma Colley have been best friends since their early twenties, when they first began navigating serious romantic relationships amid ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Radicals
by
Ryan McIlvain
Hogarth Books, 02/13/2018
When Eli first meets Sam Westergard, he is dazzled by his new friend's charisma, energy, and determined passion. Both graduate students in New York ...
more
Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World
by
Zak Dychtwald
St. Martin's Press, 02/13/2018
A close up look at the Chinese generation born after 1990 exploring through personal encounters how young Chinese feel about everything from money and...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Dangerous Woman: American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator – The Life of Florence Gould
by
Susan Ronald
St. Martin's Griffin, 02/20/2018
Born in turn-of-the-century San Francisco to French parents, Florence moved to Paris, aged eleven. Believing that only money brought respectability ...
more
Close Encounters with Humankind: A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species
by
Sang-Hee Lee
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/20/2018
What can fossilized teeth tell us about the life expectancy of our ancient ancestors? How did farming play a problematic role in the history of human ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
by
Amy Chua
Penguin Press, 02/20/2018
Humans are tribal. We need to belong to groups. In many parts of the world, the group identities that matter most – the ones that ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Straying
by
Molly McCloskey
Scribner, 02/20/2018
Alice, a young American, arrives in the West of Ireland with no plans and no strong attachments - except to her beloved mother, who raised her on her ...
more
The French Girl
by
Lexie Elliott
Berkley Books, 02/20/2018
We all have our secrets...
They were six university students from Oxford - friends and sometimes more than friends - spending an idyllic week ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The One
by
John Marrs
Hanover Square Press, 02/20/2018
A simple DNA test is all it takes. Just a quick mouth swab and soon you'll be matched with your perfect partner - the one you're genetically made for....
more
The Rending and the Nest
by
Kaethe Schwehn
Bloomsbury USA, 02/20/2018
When 95 percent of the earth's population disappears for no apparent reason, Mira does what she can to create some semblance of a life: She cobbles ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Throne of Caesar: A Novel of Ancient Rome
by
Steven Saylor
Minotaur Books, 02/20/2018
Julius Caesar, appointed dictator for life by the Roman Senate, has pardoned his remaining enemies and rewarded his friends. Now Caesar is preparing ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
What Are We Doing Here?: Essays
by
Marilynne Robinson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/20/2018
Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including
Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and
Gilead, ...
more
What the Night Sings
by
Vesper Stamper
Knopf, 02/20/2018
After losing her family and everything she knew in the Nazi concentration camps, Gerta is finally liberated, only to find herself completely alone. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Where the Dead Sit Talking
by
Brandon Hobson
Soho Press, 02/20/2018
With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively...
more
A Long Way from Home
by
Peter Carey
Knopf, 02/27/2018
Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in southeastern Australia. Together they enter the Redex Trial, a brutal race ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
by
Joshua B. Freeman
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/27/2018
We live in a factory-made world: modern life is built on three centuries of advances in factory production, efficiency, and technology. But giant ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Chicago
by
David Mamet
Custom House, 02/27/2018
Mike Hodge - veteran of the Great War, big shot of the
Chicago Tribune, medium fry - probably shouldn't have fallen in love with Annie Walsh. Then, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by
Steven Pinker
Viking, 02/27/2018
Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Green Sun
by
Kent Anderson
Mulholland, 02/27/2018
Oakland, California, 1983: a Vietnam veteran-turned-police officer strives to be both a good cop and a good man.
Oakland in 1983 is a city churning...
more
My Father's Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love, and Die
by
Kevin Toolis
Da Capo Press, 02/27/2018
Death is a whisper in the Anglo-Saxon world. But on a remote island off the coast of Ireland's County Mayo, it has a louder voice. Along with reports ...
more
One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together
by
Amy Bass
Hachette Books, 02/27/2018
When thousands of Somali refugees resettled in Lewiston, Maine, a struggling, overwhelmingly white town, longtime residents grew uneasy. Then the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon
by
Catherine Hewitt
St. Martin's Press, 02/27/2018
In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists' most beautiful model. But behind her captivating façade lay a closely-guarded ...
more
The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
by
Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington
Public Affairs, 02/27/2018
The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist chronicles how the courts and Mississippi's death investigation system - a relic of the Jim Crow era - failed...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Mobius Strip Club of Grief
by
Bianca Stone
Ballantine Books, 02/27/2018
The Möbius Strip Club of Grief is a collection of poems that take place in a burlesque purgatory where the living pay - dearly, with both ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Neighborhood
by
Mario Vargas Llosa
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/27/2018
From the Nobel Laureate comes a politically charged detective novel weaving through the underbelly of Peruvian privilege. In the 1990s, during the ...
more
Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir
by
John Banville and Paul Joyce
Knopf, 02/27/2018
As much about the life of the city as it is about a life lived, sometimes, in the city, John Banville's "quasi-memoir" is as layered, emotionally rich...
more
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
by
Adam Winkler
Liveright / WW Norton, 02/27/2018
We the Corporations reveals how American businesses won equal rights and transformed the Constitution to serve the ends of capital. Corporations - ...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Comrades: A Story of Social Adventure in California
by
Thomas Dixon
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 03/01/2018
Widely reviewed, it was later adapted as a play and as a film.
Colonel Worth, a Confederate veteran, lives in San Francisco, California with his ...
more
Literary Fiction
Harbor of Spies: A Novel of Historic Havana
by
Robin Lloyd
The Lyons Press, 03/01/2018
Harbor of Spies is an historical novel set in Havana in 1863 during the American Civil War, when the Spanish colonial city was alive with intrigue and...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir
by
Ian Buruma
Penguin Press, 03/06/2018
When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, Japan was little more than an idea in his mind, a fantasy of a distant land. A sensitive misfit in the world...
more
After the Shot Drops
by
Randy Ribay
Houghton Mifflin Books For Younger Readers, 03/06/2018
Bunny and Nasir have been best friends forever, but when Bunny accepts an athletic scholarship across town, Nasir feels betrayed. While Bunny tries to...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Bring Out the Dog: Stories
by
Will Mackin
Random House, 03/06/2018
The eleven stories in Will Mackin's mesmerizing debut collection draw from his many deployments with a special operations task force in Iraq and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Census
by
Jesse Ball
Ecco, 03/06/2018
When a widower receives notice from a doctor that he doesn't have long left to live, he is struck by the question of who will care for his adult son -...
more
Closer Than You Know
by
Brad Parks
Dutton, 03/06/2018
Disaster, Melanie Barrick was once told,
is always closer than you know.
It was a lesson she learned the hard way growing up in the constant ...
more
Cloudbursts: Collected and New Stories
by
Thomas McGuane
Knopf, 03/06/2018
For more than four decades, Thomas McGuane has been heralded as an unrivaled master of the short story. Now the arc of that achievement appears in one...
more
Guardian Angels and Other Monsters
by
Daniel H. Wilson
Vintage, 03/06/2018
In "All Kinds of Proof," a down-and-out drunk makes the unlikeliest of friends when he is hired to train a mail-carrying robot; in "Blood Memory," a ...
more
Happiness
by
Aminatta Forna
Atlantic Monthly Press, 03/06/2018
London. A fox makes its way across Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide - Jean, an American studying the habits of urban...
more
I'll Be Your Blue Sky
by
Marisa de los Santos
William Morrow, 03/06/2018
On the weekend of her wedding, Clare Hobbes meets an elderly woman named Edith Herron. During the course of a single conversation, Edith gives Clare ...
more
If I Die Tonight: A Novel
by
Alison Gaylin
William Morrow Paperbacks, 03/06/2018
An absorbing, addictive tale of psychological suspense from the author of the highly acclaimed and Edgar Award-nominated
What Remains of Me and the
...more
Napa at Last Light: America's Eden in an Age of Calamity
by
James Conaway
Simon & Schuster, 03/06/2018
Not so long ago, wine was an exclusively European product. Now it is thoroughly American; emblematic of Napa Valley, an area idealized as the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Break
by
Katherena Vermette
House of Anansi Press, 03/06/2018
In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected, both directly and indirectly, with the victim--police, family, and friends--tell their ...
more
The Darkling Bride: A Novel
by
Laura Andersen
Ballantine Books, 03/06/2018
The Gallagher family has called Deeprath Castle home for seven hundred years. Nestled in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland, the estate is now slated to...
more
Literary Fiction
The Family Medici: The Hidden History of the Medici Dynasty
by
Mary Hollingsworth
Pegasus Books, 03/06/2018
Having founded the bank that became the most powerful in Europe in the fifteenth century, the Medici gained massive political power in Florence, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Family Next Door
by
Sally Hepworth
St. Martin's Griffin, 03/06/2018
From the outside, Essie's life looks idyllic: a loving husband, a beautiful house in a good neighborhood, and a nearby mother who dotes on her ...
more
The Gospel of Trees: A Memoir
by
Apricot Irving
Simon & Schuster, 03/06/2018
Apricot Irving grew up as a missionary's daughter in Haiti - a country easy to sensationalize but difficult to understand. Her father was an ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Hunger
by
Alma Katsu
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/06/2018
Evil is invisible, and it is everywhere.
That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy
by
Daniel Kalder
Henry Holt and Company, 03/06/2018
Since the days of the Roman Empire dictators have written books. But in the twentieth-century despots enjoyed unprecedented print runs to (literally) ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Poet X
by
Elizabeth Acevedo
HarperTeen, 03/06/2018
Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
The Reluctant Fortune-Teller
by
Keziah Frost
Prospect Park Books, 03/06/2018
Norbert Zelenka has always lived life on the sidelines. It's why at seventy-three years old he's broke and alone except for the company of a Chihuahua...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Sandman
by
Lars Kepler
Knopf, 03/06/2018
Late one night, outside Stockholm, Mikael Kohler-Frost is found wandering. Thirteen years earlier, he went missing along with his younger sister. They...
more
Trick
by
Domenico Starnone (author), Jhumpa Lahiri (translator)
Europa Editions, 03/06/2018
Trick is a stylish drama about ambition, family, and old-age that goes beyond the ordinary and predictable. Imagine a duel between two men. One, ...
more
A Reckoning
by
Linda Spalding
Pantheon Books, 03/13/2018
It is 1855. The thousand-acre Dickinson farm on the Virginia-Kentucky border is run by two brothers - Benjamin, who owns the land, and John, a circuit...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage
by
Brian Castner
Doubleday, 03/13/2018
Disappointment River is a dual historical narrative and travel memoir that at once transports readers back to the heroic age of North American ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Exhibit Alexandra
by
Natasha Bell
Crown, 03/13/2018
Before she disappeared, Alexandra Southwood lived an average, happy life: devoted to her wonderful husband, Marc, and caring for her two beautiful ...
more
Fire Song
by
Adam Garnet Jones
Annick Press, 03/13/2018
Shane is still reeling from the suicide of his kid sister, Destiny. How could he have missed the fact that she was so sad? He tries to share his grief...
more
Memento Park
by
Mark Sarvas
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/13/2018
After receiving an unexpected call from the Australian consulate, Matt Santos becomes aware of a painting that he believes was looted from his family ...
more
Pure Hollywood: And Other Stories
by
Christine Schutt
Grove Press, 03/13/2018
In one eponymous novella and ten stories,
Pure Hollywood brings us into private worlds of corrupt familial love, intimacy, longing, and danger. From ...
more
Rip Crew
by
Sebastian Rotella
Mulholland, 03/13/2018
Valentine Pescatore, the dashing ex-U.S. Border Patrol agent, finds himself back on American soil, investigating the merciless killing of a group of ...
more
The Flight Attendant
by
Chris Bohjalian
Doubleday, 03/13/2018
Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She's a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the ...
more
The Last Watchman of Old Cairo
by
Michael David Lukas
Spiegel & Grau, 03/13/2018
Joseph, a literature student at Berkeley, is the son of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. One day, a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep, ...
more
The Life to Come
by
Michelle de Kretser
Catapult, 03/13/2018
Set in Australia, France, and Sri Lanka,
The Life to Come is about the stories we tell and don't tell ourselves as individuals, as societies, and as ...
more
The Price of the Haircut: Stories
by
Brock Clarke
Algonquin Books, 03/13/2018
The title story delivers a cringingly biting dissection of racial attitudes in contemporary America, and Clarke also turns his eagle eye to subjects ...
more
The Sparsholt Affair: A Novel
by
Alan Hollinghurst
Knopf, 03/13/2018
In 1940, David Sparsholt arrives at Oxford to study engineering, though his sights are set on joining the Royal Air Force. Handsome, athletic, ...
more
Whiskey
by
Bruce Holbert
MCD, 03/13/2018
Brothers Andre and Smoker were raised in a cauldron of their parents' failed marriage and appetite for destruction, and find themselves in the same ...
more
Aetherial Worlds: Stories
by
Tatyana Tolstaya
Knopf, 03/20/2018
Ordinary realities and yearnings to transcend them lead to miraculous other worlds in this dazzling collection of stories. A woman's deceased father ...
more
Anatomy of a Miracle
by
Jonathan Miles
Hogarth Books, 03/20/2018
Rendered paraplegic after a traumatic event four years ago, Cameron Harris has been living his new existence alongside his sister, Tanya, in their ...
more
Death Comes in through the Kitchen: A Cuban Mystery
by
Teresa Dovalpage
Soho Press, 03/20/2018
Matt, a San Diego journalist, arrives in Havana to marry his girlfriend, Yarmila, a 24-year-old Cuban woman whom he first met through her food blog. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Gods of Howl Mountain
by
Taylor Brown
St. Martin's Press, 03/20/2018
Bootlegger Rory Docherty has returned home to the fabled mountain of his childhood - a misty wilderness that holds its secrets close and keeps the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
High White Sun
by
J. Todd Scott
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/20/2018
Sometimes we have to be wolves...
In the wake of Sheriff Stanford Ross's death, former deputy Chris Cherry - now Sheriff Cherry - is the new "law" in...
more
New World, Inc.: The Making of America by England's Merchant Adventurers
by
John Butman and Simon Targett PhD
Little Brown & Company, 03/20/2018
Some seventy years before the
Mayflower sailed, a small group of English merchants formed "The Mysterie, Company, and Fellowship of Merchant ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown
by
Lauren Hilgers
Crown, 03/20/2018
In 2014, in a snow-covered house in Flushing, Queens, a village revolutionary from Southern China considered his options. Zhuang Liehong was the son ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Stray City
by
Chelsey Johnson
Custom House, 03/20/2018
All of us were refugees of the nuclear family...
Twenty-three-year-old artist Andrea Morales escaped her Midwestern Catholic childhood—and the...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Bishop's Pawn: A Cotton Malone Novel
by
Steve Berry
Minotaur Books, 03/20/2018
History notes that the ugly feud between J. Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King, Jr., marked by years of illegal surveillance and the accumulation of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Brightest Sun
by
Adrienne Benson
Prospect Park Books, 03/20/2018
Leona, an isolated American anthropologist, gives birth to a baby girl in a remote Maasai village and must decide how she can be a mother, in spite of...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Corporation: An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld
by
T. J. English
William Morrow, 03/20/2018
By the mid 1980s, the criminal underworld in the United States had become an ethnic polyglot; one of the most powerful illicit organizations was none ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Gunners
by
Rebecca Kauffman
Counterpoint Press, 03/20/2018
Following her wonderfully received first novel,
Another Place You've Never Been, called "mesmerizing," "powerful," and "gorgeous," by critics all over...
more
The Pleasure Shock: The Rise of Deep Brain Stimulation and Its Forgotten Inventor
by
Lone Frank
Dutton, 03/20/2018
The technology invented by psychiatrist Robert G. Heath at Tulane University in the 1950s and '60s has been described as one of "the most ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
by
Christian Davenport
Public Affairs, 03/20/2018
The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into the epic resurrection of the American space ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Tomorrow
by
Damian Dibben
Hanover Square Press, 03/20/2018
So begins the journey of Tomorrow, a dog who must travel through the courts and battlefields of Europe — and through the centuries — in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
And She Was
by
Jessica Verdi
Scholastic, 03/27/2018
Dara confronts her mother, and is stunned by what she learns: Mellie is transgender. The unfamiliar name listed under "father"? That's Mellie. She ...
more
Double Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil
by
William Middleton
Knopf, 03/27/2018
Dominique and John de Menil created an oasis of culture in their Philip Johnson-designed house with everyone from Marlene Dietrich and René ...
more
I Have Lost My Way
by
Gayle Forman
Viking, 03/27/2018
New from the #1 bestselling author of
If I Stay
Around the time that Freya loses her voice while recording her debut album, Harun is making plans to ...
more
The Chandelier
by
Clarice Lispector
The New Press, 03/27/2018
Fresh from the enormous success of her debut novel
Near to the Wild Heart, Hurricane Clarice let loose something stormier with
The ...more
To Die but Once: A Maisie Dobbs Novel
by
Jacqueline Winspear
Harper, 03/27/2018
During the months following Britain's declaration of war on Germany, Maisie Dobbs investigates the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a ...
more
Someone to Talk To: A Novel (Sinotheory)
by
Zhenyun Liu
Duke University Press, 03/30/2018
Tofu peddler Yang Baishun is a man of few words and few friends. Unable to find meaningful companionship, he settles for a marriage of convenience. ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Tea Master and the Detective
by
Aliette de Bodard
Subterranean Press, 03/31/2018
In this fluid society, human and mindship avatars mingle in corridors and in function rooms, and physical and virtual realities overlap, the ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Necessary Evil
by
Abir Mukherjee
Pegasus Books, 04/03/2018
The fabulously wealthy kingdom of Sambalpore is home to tigers, elephants, diamond mines, and the beautiful Palace of the Sun. But when the heir to ...
more
Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
by
Lily Bailey
Harper, 04/03/2018
By the age of thirteen, Lily Bailey was convinced she was bad. She had killed someone with a thought, spread untold disease, and ogled the bodies of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Before I Let You Go
by
Kelly Rimmer
Graydon House, 04/03/2018
The 2:00 a.m. call is the first time Lexie Vidler has heard her sister's voice in years. Annie is a drug addict, a thief, a liar - and in trouble, ...
more
First Person
by
Richard Flanagan
Knopf, 04/03/2018
Kif Kehlmann, a young, penniless writer, is rung in the middle of the night by the notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to...
more
How to Be Safe
by
Tom McAllister
Liveright / WW Norton, 04/03/2018
FORMER TEACHER HAD MOTIVE. Recently suspended for a so-called outburst, high school English teacher Anna Crawford is stewing over the injustice at ...
more
Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
by
Alisa Roth
Basic Books, 04/03/2018
America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Munmun
by
Jesse Andrews
Amulet Books, 04/03/2018
Warner and his sister Prayer are destitute - and tiny. Their size is not just demeaning, but dangerous: day and night they face mortal dangers that ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Other People's Houses
by
Abbi Waxman
Berkley Books, 04/03/2018
"Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful." - #1
New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin
At any given moment in other people's houses, ...
more
Paris by the Book: A Novel
by
Liam Callanan
Dutton, 04/03/2018
Once a week, I chase men who are not my husband. ... When eccentric novelist Robert Eady abruptly vanishes, he leaves behind his wife, Leah, their ...
more
See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary
by
Lorrie Moore
Knopf, 04/03/2018
From Lorrie Moore's earliest reviews of novels by Margaret Atwood and Nora Ephron, to an essay on Ezra Edelman's 2016 O.J. Simpson documentary, and in...
more
Starry Eyes
by
Jenn Bennett
Simon Pulse, 04/03/2018
Ever since last year's homecoming dance, best friends-turned-best enemies Zorie and Lennon have made an art of avoiding each other. It doesn't hurt ...
more
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora
by
Pablo Cartaya
Kokila, 04/03/2018
For Arturo, summertime in Miami means playing basketball until dark, sipping mango smoothies, and keeping cool under banyan trees. And maybe a few ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
by
Leslie Jamison
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 04/03/2018
With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage,
The Recovering turns our understanding of ...
more
Varina
by
Charles Frazier
Ecco, 04/03/2018
Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Wade in the Water: Poems
by
Tracy K. Smith
Graywolf Press, 04/03/2018
Even the men in black armor, the ones
Jangling handcuffs and keys, what else
Are they so buffered against, if not love's blade
Sizing up the heart's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Women in Sunlight
by
Frances Mayes
Crown, 04/03/2018
She watches from her terrazza
as the three American women carry their luggage into the stone villa down the hill. Who are they, and what brings ...more
Wonderblood
by
Julia Whicker
St. Martin's Press, 04/03/2018
Wonderblood is Julia Whicker's fascinating literary debut, set in a barren United States, an apocalyptic wasteland where warring factions compete for ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
A Shadow Above: The Fall and Rise of the Raven
by
Joe Shute
Bloomsbury USA, 04/10/2018
For centuries, the raven
Corvus Corax has stalked us in life and in death. Excavations of Bronze Age settlements in Britain have revealed raven bones ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
After Anna
by
Lisa Scottoline
St. Martin's Press, 04/10/2018
Nobody cuts deeper than family...
Dr. Noah Alderman, a widower and single father, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie Ippolitti, and for the ...
more
And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
by
Meaghan O'Connell
Little Brown & Company, 04/10/2018
When Meaghan O'Connell got accidentally pregnant in her twenties and decided to keep the baby, she realized that the book she needed -- a brutally ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Country Dark
by
Chris Offutt
Grove Press, 04/10/2018
Tucker, a young veteran, returns from war to work for a bootlegger. He falls in love and starts a family, and while the Tuckers don't have much, they ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Demi-Gods
by
Eliza Robertson
Bloomsbury USA, 04/10/2018
It is 1950, and nine-year-old Willa's sheltered childhood is about to come to an end when her mother's beau arrives with his two sons to her family's ...
more
Ecstasy
by
Mary Sharratt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 04/10/2018
Gustav Klimt gave Alma her first kiss. Gustav Mahler fell in love with her at first sight and proposed only a few weeks later. Bauhaus founder Walter ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Heads of the Colored People: Stories
by
Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Atria Books, 04/10/2018
A stunning new talent in literary fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with black identity and the contemporary middle class in these compelling,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Indian Horse: A Novel
by
Richard Wagamese
Milkweed Editions, 04/10/2018
Alone in the world and placed in a horrific boarding school, Saul is surrounded by violence and cruelty. At the urging of a priest, he finds a ...
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Literary Fiction
Love and Other Words
by
Christina Lauren
Gallery Books, 04/10/2018
The story of the heart can never be unwritten.
Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new ...
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Romance
Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
by
Barbara Ehrenreich
Twelve Books, 04/10/2018
A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe,
Natural Causes describes how...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Sharp
by
Michelle Dean
Grove Press, 04/10/2018
Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm - ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Skyjack: A Kidnap-and-Ransom Thriller (A Thea Paris Novel)
by
K.J. Howe
Quercus, 04/10/2018
International kidnap expert Thea Paris is escorting two former child soldiers on a plane from an orphanage in Kanzi, Africa, to adoptive parents in ...
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The Gift of Our Wounds: A Sikh and a Former White Supremacist Find Forgiveness After Hate
by
Arno Michaelis, Pardeep Singh Kaleka and Robin Gaby Fisher
St. Martin's Press, 04/10/2018
One Sikh. One former Skinhead. Together, an unusual friendship emerged out of a desire to make a difference.
When white supremacist Wade Michael ...
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The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species
by
Carlos Magdalena
Doubleday, 04/10/2018
Carlos Magdalena of Kew Gardens is not your average botanical horticulturist. He's a man on a mission to save the world's most endangered plants from ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
by
James Comey
Flatiron Books, 04/17/2018
In his forthcoming book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his ...
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Biography/Memoir
Accidental Brothers: The Story of Twins Exchanged at Birth and the Power of Nature and Nurture
by
Dr. Nancy L. Segal
St. Martin's Press, 04/17/2018
Accidental Brothers tells the unique story of two sets of identical Colombian twin brothers who discovered at age 25 that they were mistakenly raised ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Big Guns
by
Steve Israel
Simon & Schuster, 04/17/2018
When Chicago's Mayor Michael Rodriguez starts a national campaign to ban handguns from America's cities, towns, and villages, Otis Cogsworth, the ...
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God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State
by
Lawrence Wright
Knopf, 04/17/2018
God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America. It is a red state in the heart of Trumpland that hasn't elected a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
If We Had Known
by
Elise Juska
Grand Central Publishing, 04/17/2018
One August afternoon, as single mother Maggie Daley prepares to send her only child off to college, their world is shattered by news of a mass ...
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Moon Brow
by
Shahriar Mandanipour (author), Sara Khalili (translator)
Restless Books, 04/17/2018
Before he enlisted as a soldier in the Iran–Iraq war and disappeared, Amir Yamini was a carefree playboy whose only concerns were seducing women ...
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Noir
by
Christopher Moore
William Morrow, 04/17/2018
The absurdly outrageous, sarcastically satiric, and always entertaining
New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns in finest madcap ...
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Our Little Secret
by
Roz Nay
St. Martin's Press, 04/17/2018
They say you never forget your first love. What they don't say though, is that sometimes your first love won't forget you…
Angela Petitjean ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The City of Lost Fortunes: A Crescent City Novel
by
Bryan Camp
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 04/17/2018
The post–Katrina New Orleans of
The City of Lost Fortunes is a place haunted by its history and by the hurricane's destruction, a place that is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Comedown
by
Rebekah Frumkin
Henry Holt and Company, 04/17/2018
A blistering dark comedy, Rebekah Frumkin's
The Comedown is a romp across America, from the Kent State shootings to protest marches in Chicago to the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will
by
Kenneth R. Miller
Simon & Schuster, 04/17/2018
Lately, the most passionate advocates of the theory of evolution seem to present it as bad news. Scientists such as Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Only Story
by
Julian Barnes
Knopf, 04/17/2018
Most of us have only one story to tell. I don't mean that only one thing happens to us in our lives: there are countless events, which we turn into ...more
The Soul of a Thief
by
Steven Hartov
Hanover Square Press, 04/17/2018
In the spring of 1944, I realized that I was not going to survive the war…
Shtefan Brandt, adjutant to a colonel of the Waffen SS, has made it...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Then She Was Gone: A Novel
by
Lisa Jewell
Atria Books, 04/17/2018
Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was fifteen, the youngest of three. She was beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers. She and her ...
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Skybound
by
Rebecca Loncraine
Picador, 04/19/2018
In that engineless plane, soaring 3000 feet over the landscape of her childhood with only the rising thermals to take her higher and the birds to lead...
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Biography/Memoir
The Caves of Steel
by
Isaac Asimov
Harper Voyager, 04/19/2018
Establishing and testing the Three Laws of Robotics, they continue to shape the understanding and design of artificial intelligence to this day.In the...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
by
Gilbert King
Riverhead Books, 04/24/2018
In December 1957, the wife of a Florida citrus baron is raped in her home while her husband is away. She claims a "husky Negro" did it, and the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier
by
Maya Rao
Public Affairs, 04/24/2018
The word was that you could earn $17,000 a month in the Bakken Oilfield of North Dakota. So they flooded in: the profiteers, deadbeats, ex-cons, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Property: Stories Between Two Novellas
by
Lionel Shriver
Harper, 04/24/2018
Intermingling settings in America and Britain, Lionel Shriver's first collection explores property in both senses of the word: real estate and stuff. ...
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The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table
by
Rick Bragg
Knopf, 04/24/2018
Margaret Bragg does not own a single cookbook. She measures in "dabs" and "smidgens" and "tads" and "you know, hon, just some." She cannot be pinned ...
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The Emissary
by
Yoko Tawada (author), Margaret Mitsutani (Translator)
New Directions Publishing, 04/24/2018
Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the ...
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The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
by
Kirk Wallace Johnson
Viking, 04/24/2018
On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Theory of Bastards
by
Audrey Schulman
Europa Editions, 04/24/2018
"Stage four. Surgery. Recovering." While those are the simple words that once described Dr. Francine Burk's situation, the reality is much more ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
You Think It, I'll Say It: Stories
by
Curtis Sittenfeld
Random House, 04/24/2018
Curtis Sittenfeld has established a reputation as a sharp chronicler of the modern age who humanizes her subjects even as she skewers them. Now, with ...
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A Handful of Ashes: A Dr. Harry Kent Novel
by
Rob McCarthy
Pegasus Books, 05/01/2018
Susan Bayliss became notorious when she blew the whistle on her boss, a famous heart surgeon at a renowned children's hospital. She accused him of ...
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Adventures of a Young Naturalist: The Zoo Quest Expeditions
by
David Attenborough
Quercus, 05/01/2018
In 1954, David Attenborough, a young television presenter, was offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to travel the world finding rare and elusive ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
by
Edith Sheffer
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/01/2018
Hans Asperger, the pioneer of autism and Asperger syndrome in Nazi Vienna, has been celebrated for his compassionate defense of children with ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America
by
Craig Childs
Pantheon Books, 05/01/2018
In
Atlas of a Lost World, Craig Childs upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were. How they got here, persevered, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
August and Everything After
by
Jennifer Doktorski
Sourcebooks Fire, 05/01/2018
Graduation was supposed to be a relief. Except Quinn can't avoid the rumors that plagued her throughout high school or the barrage of well-intentioned...
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Literary Fiction
Brightly Burning
by
Alexa Donne
Houghton Mifflin Books For Younger Readers, 05/01/2018
Stella Ainsley leaves poverty behind when she quits her engineering job aboard the
Stalwart to become a governess on a private ship. On the
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
by
Alan Stern
Picador, 05/01/2018
On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than 3 billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons screamed past Pluto at...
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Science, Health and the Environment
In Dust and Ashes: A Hanne Wilhelmsen Novel (Book Ten)
by
Anne Holt
Scribner, 05/01/2018
In 2001, three-year-old Dina is killed in a tragic car accident. Not long thereafter Dina's mother dies under mysterious circumstances, and Dina's ...
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In the Name of Humanity: The Secret Deal to End the Holocaust
by
Max Wallace
Skyhorse Publishing, 05/01/2018
On November 25, 1944, prisoners at Auschwitz heard a deafening explosion. Emerging from their barracks, they witnessed the crematoria and gas chambers...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Love and Ruin: A Novel
by
Paula McLain
Ballantine Books, 05/01/2018
In 1937, twenty-eight-year-old Martha Gellhorn travels alone to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War and becomes drawn to the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Motherhood
by
Sheila Heti
Henry Holt and Company, 05/01/2018
In
Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the most consequential decision of early ...
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Night Hawks: Stories
by
Charles Johnson
Scribner, 05/01/2018
This new collection of stories from National Book Award winner Charles Johnson offers an eclectic, engaging range of narratives, tied together by ...
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The Lonely Witness
by
William Boyle
Pegasus Books, 05/01/2018
Amy was once a party girl, but she now lives a lonely life, helping the house-bound to receive communion in the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn. ...
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The Optimistic Decade
by
Heather Abel
Algonquin Books, 05/01/2018
Framed by the oil shale bust and the real estate boom, by protests against Reagan and against the Gulf War,
The Optimistic Decade takes us into the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Perfect Mother
by
Aimee Molloy
Harper, 05/01/2018
A night out. A few hours of fun. That's all it was meant to be.
They call themselves the May Mothers - a group of new moms whose babies were born ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Pisces
by
Melissa Broder
Hogarth Books, 05/01/2018
Lucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and her boyfriend break up in a dramatic flameout. After she bottoms out in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the CIA's Secret War
by
Monte Reel
Doubleday, 05/08/2018
On May 1, 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union just weeks before a peace summit between the two nations. The CIA ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Lite Too Bright
by
Samuel Miller
Katherine Tegan Books, 05/08/2018
Arthur Louis Pullman the Third is on the verge of a breakdown. He's been stripped of his college scholarship, is losing his grip on reality, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries #2
by
Martha Wells
Tor Books, 05/08/2018
It has a dark past―one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself "Murderbot". But it has only vague ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Barracoon: The Story of the Last
by
Zora Neale Hurston
Amistad, 05/08/2018
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Edgar Allan Poe and the Jewel of Peru: A Poe and Dupin Mystery
by
Karen Lee Street
Pegasus Books, 05/08/2018
Philadelphia, 1844.
As violent tensions escalate between nativists and recent Irish immigrants, Edgar Allan Poe's fears for the safety ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Indecency
by
Justin Phillip Reed
Coffee House Press, 05/08/2018
In these poems, Justin Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity and injustice and to critique and lament the culture of white ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
Junk
by
Tommy Pico
Ballantine Books, 05/08/2018
The third book in Tommy Pico's Teebs trilogy,
Junk is a breakup poem in couplets: ice floe and hot lava, a tribute to Janet Jackson and nacho cheese. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Lost Empress
by
Sergio De La Pava
Pantheon Books, 05/08/2018
From Paterson, New Jersey, to Rikers Island to the streets of New York City, Sergio de la Pava's
Lost Empress introduces readers to a cast of ...
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Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
by
Mark Kurlansky
Bloomsbury Press, 05/08/2018
According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter of the goddess Hera's breast milk became our galaxy, the Milky Way. But ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
My Name Is Victoria
by
Lucy Worsley
Candlewick Press, 05/08/2018
Miss V. Conroy is good at keeping secrets. She likes to sit as quiet as a mouse, neat and discreet. But when her father sends her to Kensington Palace...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Our Story: A Memoir of Love and Life in China
by
Rao Pingru
Pantheon Books, 05/08/2018
Begun by the author when he was eighty-seven years old and mourning the loss of his wife,
Our Story is a graphic memoir like no other: a celebration ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
Shadow Child
by
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Grand Central Publishing, 05/08/2018
Twin sisters Hana and Kei grew up in a tiny Hawaiian town in the 1950s and 1960s, so close they shared the same nickname. Raised in dreamlike ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Handsome Girl & Her Beautiful Boy
by
B. T. Gottfred
Henry Holt and Company, 05/08/2018
Everyone assumes that Zee is a lesbian. Her classmates, her gym buddies, even her so-called best friend. Even
Zee is starting to wonder. Could they be...
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Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
by
Stephen Greenblatt Ph.D.
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/08/2018
As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
We'll Fly Away
by
Bryan Bliss
Greenwillow Books, 05/08/2018
Luke and Toby have always had each other's backs. But then one choice - or maybe it is a series of choices - sets them down an irrevocable path.
We'll...more
West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express
by
Jim DeFelice
William Morrow, 05/08/2018
On the eve of the Civil War, three American businessmen launched an audacious plan to create a financial empire by transforming communications across ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Million Drops
by
Victor del Árbol
Other Press, 05/15/2018
Gonzalo Gil is a lawyer stuck in a disaffected life, in a failed career, trying to dodge the constant manipulation of his powerful father-in-law. This...
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A Shout in the Ruins
by
Kevin Powers
Little Brown & Company, 05/15/2018
Spanning over one hundred years, from the antebellum era to the 1980's, A Shout in the Ruins examines the fates of the inhabitants of Beauvais ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
How It Happened
by
Michael Koryta
Little Brown & Company, 05/15/2018
"And that is how it happened. Can we stop now?"
Kimberly Crepeaux is no good, a notorious jailhouse snitch, teen mother, and heroin addict whose ...
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
by
Michael Pollan
Penguin Press, 05/15/2018
When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
How to Walk Away
by
Katherine Center
St. Martin's Griffin, 05/15/2018
Margaret Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she's worked for so hard and so long: a new dream job, a fiancé she adores, and ...
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Jesus' Son: Stories (Picador Modern Classics, 3)
by
Denis Johnson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/15/2018
Denis Johnson's now classic story collection
Jesus' Son chronicles a wild netherworld of addicts and lost souls, a violent and disordered landscape ...
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Short Stories
Last Stories
by
William Trevor
Viking, 05/15/2018
With a career that spanned more than half a century, William Trevor is regarded as one of the best writers of short stories in the English language. ...
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Madame Claude: Her Secret World of Pleasure, Privilege, and Power
by
William Stadiem
St. Martin's Press, 05/15/2018
In post-WWII Paris, Madame Claude ran the most exclusive finishing school in the world. Her alumnae married more fortunes, titles and famous names ...
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Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
by
Michael Chabon
Harper, 05/15/2018
For the September 2016 issue of
GQ, Michael Chabon wrote a piece about accompanying his son Abraham Chabon, then thirteen, to Paris Men's ...
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Pretend I'm Dead
by
Jen Beagin
Scribner, 05/15/2018
Jen Beagin's quirky, moving, "frank and unflinching" (Josh Ferris) debut novel introduces an unforgettable character, Mona - almost twenty-four, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Robin
by
Dave Itzkoff
Henry Holt and Company, 05/15/2018
From his rapid-fire stand-up comedy riffs to his breakout role in
Mork & Mindy and his Academy Award-winning performance in
Good Will Hunting, Robin ...
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The Dark Angel: A Ruth Galloway Mystery
by
Elly Griffiths
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 05/15/2018
It's not every day that you're summoned to the Italian countryside on business, so when archaeologist Angelo Morelli asks for Ruth Galloway's help ...
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The Favorite Sister
by
Jessica Knoll
Simon & Schuster, 05/15/2018
When five hyper-successful women agree to appear on a reality series set in New York City called
Goal Diggers, the producers never expect the season ...
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The Storm
by
Arif Anwar
Atria Books, 05/15/2018
Shahryar, a recent PhD graduate and father of nine-year-old Anna, must leave the US when his visa expires. In their last remaining weeks together, we ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Tin Man
by
Sarah Winman
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/15/2018
This is almost a love story. But it's not as simple as that.
Ellis and Michael are twelve-year-old boys when they first become friends, and for a ...
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We Are All That's Left
by
Carrie Arcos
Philomel, 05/15/2018
Zara and her mother, Nadja, have a strained relationship. Nadja just doesn't understand Zara's creative passion for, and self-expression through, ...
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What I Leave Behind
by
Alison McGhee
Atheneum Books, 05/15/2018
Sixteen-year-old Will spends most of his days the same way: Working at the Dollar Only store, trying to replicate his late father's famous cornbread ...
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When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought
by
Jim Holt
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/15/2018
Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, Holt explores the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A View of the Empire at Sunset
by
Caryl Phillips
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/22/2018
Caryl Phillips's
A View of the Empire at Sunset is the sweeping story of the life of the woman who became known to the world as Jean Rhys. Born Ella ...
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Driving by Starlight
by
Anat Deracine
Henry Holt and Company, 05/22/2018
Sixteen-year-olds Leena and Mishie are best friends. They delight in small rebellions against the Saudi cultural police - secret Western clothing, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
In the Garden of the Fugitives: A Novel
by
Ceridwen Dovey
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/22/2018
Almost twenty years after forbidding him to contact her, Vita receives a letter from a man who has long stalked her from a distance. Once, Royce was ...
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Last Instructions: A Thriller (Agent 10483)
by
Nir Hezroni
St. Martin's Griffin, 05/22/2018
Three Envelopes was hailed as a "superior thriller debut" with a "high level of suspense" and "a heart-stopping conclusion" (
Publishers Weekly, ...
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Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
by
David Christian
Little Brown & Company, 05/22/2018
Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. But what would it look like to study the ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Ruthless Tide: The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America's Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster
by
Al Roker
William Morrow, 05/22/2018
Central Pennsylvania, May 31, 1889: After a deluge of rain - nearly a foot in less than twenty-four hours - swelled the Little Conemaugh River, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Tesla: Inventor of the Modern
by
Richard Munson
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/22/2018
Nikola Tesla invented the radio, robots, and remote control. His electric induction motors run our appliances and factories, yet he has been largely ...
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The Mandela Plot
by
Kenneth Bonert
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 05/22/2018
As the 1980s draw to a close, South Africa is a maelstrom of political violence with the apartheid regime in its death throes. Young Martin Helger is ...
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
by
Carl Zimmer
Dutton, 05/29/2018
She Has Her Mother's Laugh presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generation. Charles Darwin played a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall - and Those Fighting to Reverse It
by
Steven Brill
Knopf, 05/29/2018
In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken system at the heart of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Dante Chamber
by
Matthew Pearl
Penguin Press, 05/29/2018
The year is 1870. Five years after a series of Dante-inspired killings disrupted Boston, a man is found murdered in the public gardens of London with ...
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The Death of Mrs. Westaway
by
Ruth Ware
Gallery/Scout Press, 05/29/2018
On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the ...
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The Honey Farm
by
Harriet Alida Lye
Liveright / WW Norton, 05/29/2018
The drought has discontented the bees. Soil dries into sand; honeycomb stiffens into wax. But Cynthia knows how to breathe life back into her farm: ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Summer I Met Jack
by
Michelle Gable
St. Martin's Press, 05/29/2018
Based on a real story - in 1950, a young, beautiful Polish refugee arrives in Hyannisport, Massachusetts to work as a maid for one of the wealthiest ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran
by
Masih Alinejad
Little Brown & Company, 05/29/2018
A photo on Masih's Facebook page: a woman standing proudly, face bare, hair blowing in the wind. Her crime: removing her veil, or hijab, which is ...
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They Come in All Colors
by
Malcolm Hansen
Atria Books, 05/29/2018
Alternating between the Deep South and New York City during the 1960s and early '70s,
They Come in All Colors follows a biracial teenage boy who finds...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Vicious: (Villains, 1)
by
V. E. Schwab
Tor Books, 05/29/2018
Victor and Eli started out as college roommates―brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors: (The Iowa Prize in Literary Nonfiction)
by
Laura Esther Wolfson
University of Iowa Press, 06/01/2018
In "Proust at Rush Hour," when her lungs begin to collapse and fail, forcing her to give up an exciting and precarious existence as a globetrotting ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Costly Grace: An Evangelical Minister's Rediscovery of Faith, Hope, and Love
by
Rob Schenck
Harper, 06/05/2018
Rob Schenck's extraordinary life has been at the center of the intersection between evangelical Christianity and modern politics. Attacked by ...
more
Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous
by
Christopher Bonanos
Henry Holt and Company, 06/05/2018
Arthur Fellig's ability to arrive at a crime scene just as the cops did was so uncanny that he renamed himself "Weegee," claiming that he functioned ...
more
Florida
by
Lauren Groff
Riverhead Books, 06/05/2018
In her vigorous and moving new book, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling and intelligence to a world in which storms, snakes, and sinkholes ...
more
Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else)
by
Ken Auletta
Penguin Press, 06/05/2018
Advertising and marketing touches on every corner of our lives, and is the invisible fuel powering almost all media. Complain about it though we might...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival
by
Kelly Sundberg
Harper, 06/05/2018
"You made me hit you in the face," he said mournfully. "Now everyone is going to know." "I know," I said. "I'm sorry."
Kelly Sundberg's husband, ...
more
Half Gods
by
Akil Kumarasamy
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/05/2018
Following the fractured origins and destines of two brothers named after demigods from the ancient epic the Mahabharata, we meet a family struggling ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration
by
Alfredo Corchado
Bloomsbury USA, 06/05/2018
When Alfredo Corchado moved to Philadelphia in 1987, he felt as if he was the only Mexican in the city. But in a restaurant called Tequilas, he ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How Hard Can It Be?
by
Allison Pearson
St. Martin's Press, 06/05/2018
Allison Pearson's brilliant debut novel,
I Don't Know How She Does It, was a
New York Times bestseller with four million copies sold around the world....
more
Kudos: A Novel (Outline Trilogy #3)
by
Rachel Cusk
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/05/2018
A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma of change is ...
more
London Rules: A Slough House Novel
by
Mick Herron
Soho Crime, 06/05/2018
At MI5 headquarters Regent's Park, First Desk Claude Whelan is learning this the hard way. Tasked with protecting a beleaguered prime minister, he's ...
more
Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe
by
Preston Norton
Disney-Hyperion, 06/05/2018
Cliff Hubbard is a huge loser. Literally. His nickname at Happy Valley High School is Neanderthal because he's so enormous-6'6" and 250 pounds to be ...
more
Neverworld Wake
by
Marisha Pessl
Delacorte Press, 06/05/2018
Once upon a time, back at Darrow-Harker School, Beatrice Hartley and her five best friends were the cool kids, the beautiful ones. Then the shocking ...
more
Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God: Poems
by
Tony Hoagland
Graywolf Press, 06/05/2018
My heroes are the ones who don't say much.
They don't hug people they just met.
They don't play louder when confused.
They use plain language even ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Reporter: A Memoir
by
Seymour M. Hersh
Knopf, 06/05/2018
Seymour Hersh's fearless reporting has earned him fame, front-page bylines in virtually every major newspaper in the free world, honors galore, and no...
more
Rough Animals: An American Western Thriller
by
Rae DelBianco
Arcade Publishing, 06/05/2018
Ever since their father's untimely death five years before, Wyatt Smith and his inseparably close twin sister, Lucy, have scraped by alone on their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Shapeshifters: A Journey Through the Changing Human Body
by
Gavin Francis
Basic Books, 06/05/2018
To be alive is to be in perpetual metamorphosis: growing, healing, learning, aging. In
Shapeshifters, physician and writer Gavin Francis considers the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Small Country
by
Gaël Faye
Hogarth Books, 06/05/2018
'I was born with this story. It ran in my blood. I belonged to it.'
Burundi, 1992. For ten-year-old Gabriel, life in his comfortable expatriate ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Social Creature
by
Tara Isabella Burton
Doubleday, 06/05/2018
They go through both bottles of champagne right there on the High Line, with nothing but the stars over them... They drink and Lavinia tells Louise ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Something in the Water: A Novel
by
Catherine Steadman
Ballantine Books, 06/05/2018
If you could make one simple choice that would change your life forever, would you? Erin is a documentary filmmaker on the brink of a professional ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Still Lives
by
Maria Hummel
Counterpoint Press, 06/05/2018
Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition
Still Lives is ...
more
Summer of Salt
by
Katrina Leno
HarperTeen, 06/05/2018
Practical Magic meets Nova Ren Suma's
Imaginary Girls and Laura Ruby's
Bone Gap in this lush, atmospheric novel by acclaimed author Katrina Leno.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Bird and the Blade
by
Megan Bannen
Balzer + Bray, 06/05/2018
The Bird and the Blade is a lush, powerful story of life and death, battles and riddles, lies and secrets from author Megan Bannen.
Enslaved in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Captives
by
Debra Jo Immergut
Ecco, 06/05/2018
As an inmate psychologist at a state prison, Frank Lundquist has had his fair share of surprises. But nothing could possibly prepare him for the day ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Devil's Half Mile
by
Paddy Hirsch
Forge Books, 06/05/2018
Seven years after a financial crisis nearly toppled America, traders chafe at government regulations, racial tensions are rising, gangs roam the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Good Son
by
You-Jeong Jeong (Author), Chi-Young Kim (Translator)
Penguin Books, 06/05/2018
Who can you trust if you can't trust yourself?
Early one morning, twenty-six-year-old Yu-jin wakes up to a strange metallic smell, and a phone call...
more
The Lost Family
by
Jenna Blum
Harper, 06/05/2018
In 1965 Manhattan, patrons flock to Masha's to savor its brisket bourguignon and impeccable service and to admire its dashing owner and head chef ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Price of Greatness: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy
by
Jay Cost
Basic Books, 06/05/2018
In the history of American politics there are few stories as enigmatic as that of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison's bitterly personal falling out...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
by
Robert W. Fieseler
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 06/05/2018
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime
Winner of Lambda Literary's Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers
Named a Best Book of ...
more
Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity
by
Arlene Stein
Pantheon Books, 06/05/2018
Award-winning sociologist Arlene Stein takes us into the lives of four strangers who find themselves together in a sun-drenched surgeon's office, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Us Against You: A Beartown Novel
by
Fredrik Backman
Atria Books, 06/05/2018
Have you ever seen a town fall? Ours did.
Have you ever seen a town rise? Ours did that, too.
A small community tucked deep in the forest, ...
more
A Taste for Vengeance: A Bruno, Chief of Police novel
by
Martin Walker
Knopf, 06/12/2018
When a British tourist fails to turn up for a luxurious cooking vacation in Bruno's usually idyllic Dordogne village of St. Denis, the worried hostess...
more
All That I Can Fix
by
Crystal Chan
Simon Pulse, 06/12/2018
In Makersville, Indiana, people know all about Ronney - he's from that mixed-race family with the dad who tried to kill himself, the pill-popping mom,...
more
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
by
Eliza Griswold
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/12/2018
Stacey Haney is a local nurse working hard to raise two kids and keep up her small farm when the fracking boom comes to her hometown of Amity, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bearskin
by
James A McLaughlin
Ecco, 06/12/2018
Rice Moore is just beginning to think his troubles are behind him. He's found a job protecting a remote forest preserve in Virginian Appalachia where ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Fight No More: Stories
by
Lydia Millet
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/12/2018
In her first story collection since
Love in Infant Monkeys, which became a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Lydia Millet explores what it means to be home. ...
more
Good Trouble: Stories
by
Joseph O'Neill
Pantheon Books, 06/12/2018
From bourgeois facial-hair trends to parental sleep deprivation, Joseph O'Neill closely observes the mores of his characters, whose vacillations and ...
more
Jar of Hearts
by
Jennifer Hillier
Minotaur Books, 06/12/2018
When she was sixteen years old, Angela Wong - one of the most popular girls in school - disappeared without a trace. Nobody ever suspected that her ...
more
Mad Boy
by
Nick Arvin
Europa Editions, 06/12/2018
Young Henry Phipps is on a quest to realize his dying mother's last wish: to be buried at sea, surrounded by her family. Not an easy task considering ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Splinter in the Blood: A Carver and Lake Novel
by
Ashley Dyer
William Morrow, 06/12/2018
After months of hunting a cold-blooded murderer that the press has dubbed the Thorn Killer, Detective Greg Carver is shot in his own home. His trusted...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Starless
by
Jacqueline Carey
Tor Books, 06/12/2018
I was nine years old the first time I tried to kill a man...
Destined from birth to serve as protector of the princess Zariya, Khai is trained in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Bookshop of Yesterdays
by
Amy Meyerson
Park Row Books, 06/12/2018
Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric uncle Billy's bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for her. But on ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul
by
Eleanor Herman
St. Martin's Press, 06/12/2018
The story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Traitor's Niche
by
Ismail Kadare (Author), John Hodgson (Translator)
Counterpoint Press, 06/12/2018
At the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the main square of Constantinople, a niche is carved into ancient stone. Here, the sultan displays the severed ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Verdun Affair
by
Nick Dybek
Scribner, 06/12/2018
In 1921, two young Americans meet in Verdun, the city in France where one of the most devastating battles of the war was waged. Tom is an orphan from ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Woman in the Woods: A Charlie Parker Thriller
by
John Connolly
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 06/12/2018
In the beautiful Maine woods, a partly preserved body is discovered. Investigators realize that the dead young woman gave birth shortly before her ...
more
Bring Me Back
by
B. A. Paris
St. Martin's Griffin, 06/19/2018
Finn and Layla are young, in love, and on vacation. They're driving along the highway when Finn decides to stop at a service station to use the ...
more
Eye of the Shoal: A Fishwatcher's Guide to Life, the Ocean and Everything
by
Helen Scales
Bloomsbury USA, 06/19/2018
There's something about fish that leaves a cold, slimy whiff in many people's minds. Either that, or fish are simply "food"; catching fish to eat is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Me, Myself and Them
by
Dan Mooney
Park Row Books, 06/19/2018
For Denis Murphy, life is fine. He carefully avoids physical human contact and social situations, and sticks to a strict daily routine. It's his way ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
by
Nell Painter
Counterpoint Press, 06/19/2018
Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school ...
more
Rainy Day Friends: A Wildstone Novel
by
Jill Shalvis
William Morrow, 06/19/2018
Six months after Lanie Jacobs' husband's death, it's hard to imagine anything could deepen her sense of pain and loss. But then Lanie discovers she ...
more
Literary Fiction
Tango Lessons: A Memoir
by
Meghan Flaherty
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 06/19/2018
Tango was an unlikely choice for Meghan Flaherty. A young woman living with the scars of past trauma, she was terrified of being touched and shied ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Tell the Machine Goodnight
by
Katie Williams
Riverhead Books, 06/19/2018
Pearl's job is to make people happy. Every day, she provides customers with personalized recommendations for greater contentment. She's good at her ...
more
The Dependents
by
Katharine Dion
Little Brown & Company, 06/19/2018
After the sudden death of his wife, Maida, Gene is haunted by the fear that their marriage was not all it appeared to be. Alongside Ed and Gayle ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Great Believers
by
Rebecca Makkai
Viking, 06/19/2018
In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary ...
more
The Grey Bastards: A Lot Lands Novel
by
Jonathan French
Crown, 06/19/2018
Live in the saddle.
Die on the hog.
Call them outcasts, call them savages - they've been called worse, by their own mothers - but Jackal is proud to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Lost for Words Bookshop
by
Stephanie Butland
St. Martin's Press, 06/19/2018
Loveday Cardew prefers books to people. If you look carefully, you might glimpse the first lines of the novels she loves most tattooed on her skin. ...
more
The Perfect Couple
by
Elin Hilderbrand
Little Brown & Company, 06/19/2018
It's Nantucket wedding season, also known as summer-the sight of a bride racing down Main Street is as common as the sun setting at Madaket Beach. The...
more
Romance
The Shades
by
Evgenia Citkowitz
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/19/2018
A year has passed since Catherine and Michael Hall lost their teenage daughter in a car accident, leaving them and their sixteen-year-old son, Rowan, ...
more
The Shepherd's Hut
by
Tim Winton
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/19/2018
Tim Winton is Australia's most decorated and beloved novelist. Short-listed twice for the Booker Prize and the winner of a record four Miles Franklin ...
more
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings
by
Ellen Oh
Greenwillow Books, 06/26/2018
Fifteen bestselling and acclaimed authors reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia in short stories that are by turns enchanting, ...
more
All We Ever Wanted
by
Emily Giffin
Ballantine Books, 06/26/2018
Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying into Nashville's elite. More recently, her husband made a fortune selling his tech business, and ...
more
Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
by
Randi Hutter Epstein M.D.
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/26/2018
Metabolism, behavior, sleep, mood swings, the immune system, fighting, fleeing, puberty, and sex: these are just a few of the things our bodies ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer
by
Margalit Fox
Random House, 06/26/2018
For all the scores of biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the most famous detective in the world, there is no recent book that tells this ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Remind Me Again What Happened
by
Joanna Luloff
Algonquin Books, 06/26/2018
Claire wakes in a hospital room in the Florida Keys. She has no idea how she got there or why. The loss of so many memories is paralyzing. Some things...
more
The Cabin at the End of the World
by
Paul Tremblay
William Morrow, 06/26/2018
Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more...
more
The Darkest Time of Night
by
Jeremy Finley
St. Martin's Press, 06/26/2018
"The lights took him."
When the seven-year-old grandson of a U.S. Senator vanishes in the woods behind his home, the only witness is his older ...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Hospital
by
Ahmed Bouanani
New Directions Publishing, 06/26/2018
"When I walked through the large iron gate of the hospital, I must have still been alive…" So begins Ahmed Bouanani's arresting, hallucinatory ...
more
The Inward Empire: Mapping the Wilds of Mortality and Fatherhood
by
Christian Donlan
Little Brown & Company, 06/26/2018
Soon after his daughter Leontine is born, 36-year old Christian Donlan's world shifted an inch to the left. He started to miss door handles and light ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Secrets Between Us
by
Thrity Umrigar
Harper, 06/26/2018
"It isn't the words we speak that make us who we are. Or even the deeds we do. It is the secrets buried in our hearts.
Poor and illiterate, Bhima ...
more
The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading
by
Edmund White
Bloomsbury USA, 06/26/2018
Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the books he has read. For White, each momentous occasion ...
more
Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains
by
Helen Thomson
Ecco, 06/26/2018
Our brains are far stranger than we think. We take it for granted that we can remember, feel emotion, navigate, empathise and understand the world ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
by
Robin DiAngelo
Beacon Press, 06/26/2018
In this "vital, necessary, and beautiful book" (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
It All Falls Down
by
Sheena Kamal
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/28/2018
Nora Watts is being hunted ... When Nora Watts is approached by a man claiming to know her late father, she is thrown into turmoil. Struggling with ...
more
The Stone Crusher: The True Story of a Father and Son's Fight for Survival in Auschwitz
by
Jeremy Dronfield
Chicago Review Press, 07/01/2018
In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was arrested by the Nazis. Along with his sixteen-year-old son Fritz, he was sent to ...
more
After the Monsoon: An Ernst Grip Novel
by
Robert Karjel
Harper, 07/03/2018
A Swedish army lieutenant drops dead on a shooting range in the desert. Was it an unfortunate accident - or something more nefarious? Ernst Grip, an ...
more
Baby's First Felony: A Cecil Younger Investigation
by
John Straley
Soho Press, 07/03/2018
Criminal defense investigator Cecil Younger spends his days coaching would-be felons on how to avoid incriminating themselves. He even likes most of ...
more
City of Devils: The Two Men Who Ruled the Underworld of Old Shanghai
by
Paul French
Picador, 07/03/2018
Shanghai, 1930s; it was a haven for outlaws from all over the world: a place where pasts could be forgotten, fascism and communism outrun, names ...
more
Dear Mrs. Bird: A Novel
by
AJ Pearce
Scribner, 07/03/2018
London, 1940. Emmeline Lake is Doing Her Bit for the war effort, volunteering as a telephone operator with the Auxiliary Fire Services. When Emmy sees...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Don't You Ever: My Mother and Her Secret Son
by
Mary Carter Bishop
Harper, 07/03/2018
Applying for a passport as an adult, Mary Carter Bishop made a shocking discovery. She had a secret half-brother. Her mother, a farm manager's wife on...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Eagle & Crane
by
Suzanne Rindell
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/03/2018
Louis Thorn and Haruto "Harry" Yamada -- Eagle and Crane -- are the star attractions of Earl Shaw's Flying Circus, a daredevil (and not exactly legal)...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
How to Be Famous: A Novel
by
Caitlin Moran
Harper, 07/03/2018
You can't have your best friend be famous if you're not famous. It doesn't work. You're emotional pen-friends. You can send each other letters - but ...
more
Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border
by
Porter Fox
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/03/2018
America's northern border is the world's longest international boundary, yet it remains obscure even to Americans. The northern border was America's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Rip the Angels from Heaven
by
David Krugler
Pegasus Books, 07/03/2018
Washington, DC, 1945.
Lieutenant Ellis Voigt of the Office of Naval Intelligence is desperate to keep the secrets that threaten his life...
more
Safe Houses
by
Dan Fesperman
Knopf, 07/03/2018
West Berlin, 1979. Helen Abell oversees the CIA's network of safe houses, rare havens for field agents and case officers amidst the dangerous milieu ...
more
Stay Hidden: A Mike Bowditch Mystery
by
Paul Doiron
Minotaur Books, 07/03/2018
A woman has been shot to death by a deer hunter on an island off the coast of Maine. To newly promoted Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch, the case ...
more
The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age
by
James Crabtree
Times Books, 07/03/2018
India is the world's largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China's. But the rewards of this growth...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Book of Hidden Things
by
Francesco Dimitri
Titan Books, 07/03/2018
Four old school friends have a pact: to meet up every year in the small town in Puglia they grew up in. Art, the charismatic leader of the group and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel
by
Mary Robinette Kowal
Tor Books, 07/03/2018
On a cold spring night in 1952, a meteorite falls to earth and destroys much of the eastern seaboard of the United States, including Washington D.C. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Intermission
by
Elyssa Friedland
Berkley Books, 07/03/2018
Told from the alternating perspectives of a husband and wife who both have something to hide, this incisive novel pulls back the curtain on a ...
more
The Ruin
by
Dervla McTiernan
Penguin Books, 07/03/2018
When Aisling Conroy's boyfriend Jack is found in the freezing black waters of the river Corrib, the police tell her it was suicide. A surgical ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
What to Read and Why
by
Francine Prose
Harper, 07/03/2018
In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times bestseller
Reading Like a Writer, the distinguished novelist, literary critic, and ...
more
White River Burning: A Dave Gurney Novel: Book 6
by
John Verdon
Counterpoint Press, 07/03/2018
Tensions have been running high in White River as it approaches the anniversary of a fatal shooting of a black motorist by a local police officer. The...
more
Zen and Gone
by
Emily France
Soho Press, 07/03/2018
Born and raised in Boulder, Colorado, Essence McKree feels older than any seventeen-year-old she knows. Ever since weed was legalized, her mother has ...
more
A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety
by
Donald Hall
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 07/10/2018
Donald Hall has lived a remarkable life of letters, one capped most recently by the New York Times bestseller
Essays After Eighty, a "...
more
Half Moon Bay
by
Alice LaPlante
Scribner, 07/10/2018
Jane loses everything when her teenage daughter is killed in a senseless accident. Jane is devastated, but sometime later, she makes one tiny stab at ...
more
If You See Me, Don't Say Hi: Stories
by
Neel Patel
Flatiron Books, 07/10/2018
In eleven sharp, surprising stories, Neel Patel gives voice to our most deeply held stereotypes and then slowly undermines them. His characters, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man
by
Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic
Simon & Schuster, 07/10/2018
Just after midnight on July 30, 1945, days after delivering the components of the atomic bomb from California to the Pacific Islands in the most ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Just a Shot Away: Peace, Love, and Tragedy with the Rolling Stones at Altamont
by
Saul Austerlitz
Thomas Dunne Books, 07/10/2018
If Woodstock tied the ideals of the '60s together, Altamont unraveled them.
In
Just a Shot Away, writer and critic Saul Austerlitz tells the story...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Notes from My Captivity
by
Kathy Parks
Katherine Tegan Books, 07/10/2018
Adrienne Cahill cares about three things: getting into a great college; becoming a revered journalist like her idol, Sydney Declay; and making her ...
more
Orchid and the Wasp
by
Caoilinn Hughes
Hogarth Books, 07/10/2018
In this dazzlingly original debut novel, award-winning Irish writer Caoilinn Hughes introduces a heroine of mythic proportions in the form of one Gael...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
by
Deborah Levy
Bloomsbury USA, 07/10/2018
To strip the wallpaper off the fairy tale of The Family House in which the comfort and happiness of men and children has been the priority is to find ...more
The New Inheritors
by
Kent Wascom
Grove Press, 07/10/2018
Kent Wascom is one of the most exciting and ambitious emerging voices in American fiction. Envisaging a quartet of books telling the story of America ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
by
Nelson Mandela
Liveright / WW Norton, 07/10/2018
Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and ...
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The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna
by
C. W. Gortner
Ballantine Books, 07/10/2018
Even from behind the throne, a woman can rule.
Narrated by the mother of Russia's last tsar, this vivid, historically authentic novel brings to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Summer Wives
by
Beatriz Williams
William Morrow, 07/10/2018
In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Widower's Notebook: A Memoir
by
Jonathan Santlofer
Penguin Books, 07/10/2018
On a summer day in New York Jonathan Santlofer discovers his wife, Joy, gasping for breath on their living room couch. After a frenzied 911 call, an ...
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The Wonderful Mr Willughby: The First True Ornithologist
by
Tim Birkhead
Bloomsbury USA, 07/10/2018
Francis Willughby lived and thrived in the midst of the rapidly accelerating scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Traveling with his ...
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Watch the Girls
by
Jennifer Wolfe
Grand Central Publishing, 07/10/2018
I've been watched all my life. I'm used to being stared at. Observed. Followed.
SOMEONE IS WATCHING
Washed up teen star Liv Hendricks quit acting ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
All Your Perfects: A Novel (4) (Hopeless)
by
Colleen Hoover
Atria Books, 07/17/2018
Quinn and Graham's perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage. The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years ...
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Romance
Baby Teeth
by
Zoje Stage
St. Martin's Press, 07/17/2018
Suzette is a devoted stay-at-home mother doing everything she can to connect with her seven-year-old daughter, who cannot - or will not - speak. But ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Barons of the Sea: And their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship
by
Steven Ujifusa
Simon & Schuster, 07/17/2018
There was a time, back when the United States was young and the robber barons were just starting to come into their own, when fortunes were made and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard
by
Paul Collins
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/17/2018
On November 23rd of 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city's richest men simply vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Give Me Your Hand
by
Megan Abbott
Little Brown & Company, 07/17/2018
Kit Owens harbored only modest ambitions for herself when the mysterious Diane Fleming appeared in her high school chemistry class. But Diane's ...
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OK, Mr. Field
by
Katharine Kilalea
Times Books, 07/17/2018
Mr. Field wants a new life, a life cleansed of the old one's disappointments. A concert pianist on the London scene, his career is upended when the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
by
Michiko Kakutani
Tim Duggan Books, 07/17/2018
We live in a time when the very idea of objective truth is mocked and discounted by the occupants of the White House. Discredited conspiracy theories ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Family Tabor
by
Cherise Wolas
Flatiron Books, 07/17/2018
Harry Tabor is about to be named Man of the Decade, a distinction that feels like the culmination of a life well lived. Gathering together in Palm ...
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The Sacco Gang
by
Andrea Camilleri
Europa Editions, 07/17/2018
Raffadali, province of Agrigento, 1920s. The Sacco brothers are free men with strong ideas about socialism and the State. Their lives change radically...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Driven: A White-Knuckled Ride to Heartbreak and Back
by
Melissa Stephenson
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 07/24/2018
Growing up in a blue-collar family in the Midwest, Melissa Stephenson longed for escape. Her wanderlust was an innate reaction to the powerful ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
How to Love a Jamaican: Stories
by
Alexia Arthurs
Ballantine Books, 07/24/2018
Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret - Alexia Arthurs navigates these tensions to extraordinary effect in her debut ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
I Am Still Alive
by
Kate Alice Marshall
Viking, 07/24/2018
After
Jess is alone. Her cabin has burned to the ground. She knows if she doesn't act fast, the cold will kill her before she has time to worry about...
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I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
by
Michael Arceneaux
Atria Books, 07/24/2018
It hasn't been easy being Michael Arceneaux.
Equality for LGBTQ people has come a long way and all, but voices of persons of color within the ...
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Essays
Debut Author
Silent Hearts
by
Gwen Florio
Atria Books, 07/24/2018
In 2001, Kabul is suddenly a place of possibility as people fling off years of repressive Taliban rule. This hopeful chaos brings together American ...
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The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
by
Michael Scott Moore
Harper Wave, 07/24/2018
In January 2012, having covered a Somali pirate trial in Hamburg for Spiegel Online International - and funded by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on ...
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Whistle in the Dark
by
Emma Healey
Harper, 07/24/2018
Jen and Hugh Maddox have just survived every parent's worst nightmare.
Relieved, but still terrified, they sit by the hospital bedside of their ...
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree
by
Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Doubleday, 07/31/2018
Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá, but the threat of kidnappings...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
I Didn't Talk
by
Beatriz Bracher
New Directions Publishing, 07/31/2018
A professor prepares to retire - Gustavo is set to move from Sao Paulo to the countryside, but it isn't the urban violence he's fleeing: what he fears...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
If Only
by
Jennifer Gilmore
HarperTeen, 07/31/2018
BEFORE: When Bridget imagined her life at sixteen, it didn't look like this. She didn't think that her boyfriend would dump her for another girl. And ...
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The Shortest Way Home
by
Miriam Parker
Dutton, 07/31/2018
Hannah is finally about to have everything she ever wanted. With a high-paying job, a Manhattan apartment, and a boyfriend about to propose, all she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Short Film About Disappointment
by
Joshua Mattson
Penguin Press, 08/07/2018
In near-future America, film critic Noah Body uploads his reviews to a content aggregator. His job is routine: watch, seethe, pan. He dreams of making...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine: Stories
by
Kevin Wilson
Ecco, 08/07/2018
"Wildfire Johnny" is the story of a man who discovers a magic razor that allows him to travel back in time. "Scroll Through the Weapons" is about a ...
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If You Leave Me
by
Crystal Hana Kim
William Morrow, 08/07/2018
When the communist-backed army from the north invades her home, sixteen-year-old Haemi Lee, along with her widowed mother and ailing brother, is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Judas: How a Sister's Testimony Brought Down a Criminal Mastermind
by
Astrid Holleeder
Mulholland, 08/07/2018
Astrid Holleeder is in hiding because she had the courage to write this book. Her brother Willem Holleeder, best known for his involvement in the 1983...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else
by
Maeve Higgins
Penguin Books, 08/07/2018
Maeve Higgins was a bestselling memoirist and comedian in her native Ireland when, at the grand old age of thirty-one, she left the only home she'd ...
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Our House
by
Louise Candlish
Berkley Books, 08/07/2018
There's nothing unusual about a new family moving in at 91 Trinity Avenue. Except it's her house. And she didn't sell it.
When Fiona Lawson comes ...
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Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
by
Maryanne Wolf
Harper, 08/07/2018
A decade ago, Maryanne Wolf's
Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how reading changes the way we think ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Rust & Stardust
by
T. Greenwood
St. Martin's Press, 08/07/2018
Camden, NJ, 1948. When 11 year-old Sally Horner steals a notebook from the local Woolworth's, she has no way of knowing that 52 year-old Frank LaSalle...
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So Much Life Left Over
by
Louis de Bernieres
Pantheon Books, 08/07/2018
They were inseparable childhood friends. Some were lost to the war. The others' lives were unimaginably upended, and now, postwar, they've scattered: ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Distance Home
by
Paula Saunders
Random House, 08/07/2018
In the years after World War II, the bleak yet beautiful plains of South Dakota still embody all the contradictions - the ruggedness and the promise -...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy
by
Anne de Courcy
St. Martin's Griffin, 08/07/2018
Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Last Hours
by
Minette Walters
Mira, 08/07/2018
When the Black Death enters England through the port in Dorsetshire in June 1348, no one knows what manner of sickness it is - or how it spreads and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Masterpiece
by
Fiona Davis
Dutton, 08/07/2018
For the nearly nine million people who live in New York City, Grand Central Terminal is a crown jewel, a masterpiece of design. But for Clara Darden ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
by
Vince Beiser
Riverhead Books, 08/07/2018
After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other - even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
This Mournable Body
by
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Graywolf Press, 08/07/2018
Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons ...
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Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
by
Thomas Page McBee
Scribner, 08/14/2018
In this groundbreaking new book, the author, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the...
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Cherry
by
Nico Walker
Knopf, 08/14/2018
Cleveland, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and Ecstasy and fall hard and fast ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Don't Eat Me: A Dr. Siri Paiboun Mystery
by
Colin Cotterill
Soho Crime, 08/14/2018
Dr. Siri Paiboun, the 75-year-old ex-national coroner of Laos, may have more experience dissecting bodies than making art, but now that he's managed ...
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Flights
by
Olga Tokarczuk
Riverhead Books, 08/14/2018
Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ...
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Literary Fiction
Julia Unbound: A Witch's Child Novel
by
Catherine Egan
Knopf, 08/14/2018
Julia has been ensnared in so many different webs, it's hard to see how she'll ever break free. She must do Casimir's bidding in order to save the ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Last Looks
by
Howard Michael Gould
Dutton, 08/14/2018
There are run-of-the-mill eccentric Californians, and then there's former detective Charlie Waldo.
Waldo, a onetime LAPD superstar, now lives in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century
by
Nate Chinen
Pantheon Books, 08/14/2018
Grounded in authority and brimming with style,
Playing Changes is the first book to take the measure of this exhilarating moment: it is a compelling ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Severance: A Novel
by
Ling Ma
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/14/2018
Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant...
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The Carrying: Poems
by
Ada Limón
Milkweed Editions, 08/14/2018
Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found
by
Bart van Es
Penguin Books, 08/14/2018
Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood never left him. It was a mystery of sorts: a young Jewish ...
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The Fighters
by
C. J. Chivers
Simon & Schuster, 08/14/2018
More than 2.7 million Americans have served in Afghanistan or Iraq since September 11, 2001. C.J. Chivers reported from both wars from their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Looking Glass
by
Janet McNally
HarperTeen, 08/14/2018
GIRLS IN TROUBLE. That's what Sylvie Blake's older sister Julia renamed their favorite fairy tale book, way back when they were just girls themselves....
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The Sea Queen: The Golden Wolf Saga (Book 2)
by
Linnea Hartsuyker
Harper, 08/14/2018
Six years after
The Half-Drowned King, Ragnvald Eysteinsson is now king of Sogn, but fighting battles for King Harald keeps him away from home, as he ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
by
David Quammen
Simon & Schuster, 08/14/2018
In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine the history of all life. Perhaps the most startling discovery to come out of this ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Her Kind of Case: A Lee Isaacs, Esq. Novel
by
Jeanne Winer
Bancroft Press, 08/15/2018
This beautifully-written novel, which has earned starred reviews from Kirkus, Library Journal and Booklist, is built around not only a gradually ...
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A Life of My Own
by
Claire Tomalin
Penguin Press, 08/21/2018
In
A Life of My Own, the renowned biographer of Charles Dickens, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, and former literary editor for the
Sunday Times ...
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Blood Papa: Rwanda's New Generation
by
Jean Hatzfeld
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/21/2018
In Rwanda from April to June 1994, 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors in the largest and swiftest genocide since World War II. In...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bone on Bone: A Bell Elkins Novel
by
Julia Keller
Minotaur Books, 08/21/2018
How far would you go for someone you love? Would you die? Would you kill? After a three-year prison sentence, Bell Elkins is back in Acker's Gap. And ...
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Brave Enough
by
Kati Gardner
Flux, 08/21/2018
Teenager Cason Martin is the youngest ballerina in the Atlanta Ballet Conservatory. She never really had a choice of whether she learned to dance or ...
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City of Ink: A Li Du Mystery
by
Elsa Hart
Minotaur Books, 08/21/2018
Li Du was prepared to travel anywhere in the world except for one place: home. But to unravel the mystery that surrounds his mentor's execution, that'...
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Dead Man Running: An Alex McKnight Thriller
by
Steve Hamilton
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/21/2018
On the Mediterranean Sea, a vacationer logs on to the security-camera feed from his home in Scottsdale, Arizona. Something about his living room seems...
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How Are You Going to Save Yourself
by
JM Holmes
Little Brown & Company, 08/21/2018
Bound together by shared experience but pulled apart by their changing fortunes, four young friends coming of age in the postindustrial enclave of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Ohio
by
Stephen Markley
Simon & Schuster, 08/21/2018
Since the turn of the century, a generation has come of age knowing only war, recession, political gridlock, racial hostility, and a simmering fear of...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Other People's Love Affairs: Stories
by
D. Wystan Owen
Algonquin Books, 08/21/2018
In the ten luminous stories of D. Wystan Owen's
Other People's Love Affairs, the people of Glass, a picturesque village on the rugged English coast,&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Presidio
by
Randy Kennedy
Touchstone, 08/21/2018
Troy Falconer returns home after years of working as a solitary car thief to help his younger brother, Harlan, search for his wife, who has run away ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Putney
by
Sofka Zinovieff
Harper, 08/21/2018
A rising star in the London arts scene of the early 1970s, gifted composer Ralph Boyd is approached by renowned novelist Edmund Greenslay to score a ...
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Red, White, Blue
by
Lea Carpenter
Knopf, 08/21/2018
Anna is the beloved only child of the charismatic Noel, a New York City banker - and a mother who abandoned her. When Noel dies in a mysterious skiing...
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The Air You Breathe
by
Frances de Pontes Peebles
Riverhead Books, 08/21/2018
Some friendships, like romance, have the feeling of fate.
Skinny, nine-year-old orphaned Dores is working in the kitchen of a sugar plantation in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Chosen Wars: How Judaism Became an American Religion
by
Steven R. Weisman
Simon & Schuster, 08/21/2018
Steven R. Weisman tells the dramatic history of how Judaism redefined itself in America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - the personalities...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Devoted
by
Blair Hurley
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/21/2018
Nicole Hennessy's life revolves around her Zen practice at the Boston Zendo, seeking solace in the tenets of Buddhism to the chagrin of her Irish ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Hazards of Good Fortune
by
Seth Greenland
Europa Editions, 08/21/2018
Jay Gladstone was born to privilege. He is a civic leader and a generous philanthropist, as well as the owner of an NBA team. But in today's New York,...
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Vox
by
Christina Dalcher
Berkley Books, 08/21/2018
On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed more than 100 words daily, Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial - this can't happen here...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Ahab's Return: or, The Last Voyage
by
Jeffrey Ford
William Morrow, 08/28/2018
At the end of a long journey, Captain Ahab returns to the mainland to confront the true author of the novel
Moby-Dick, his former shipmate, Ishmael. ...
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Literary Fiction
Be With
by
Forrest Gander
The New Press, 08/28/2018
Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Been So Long: My Life and Music
by
Jorma Kaukonen
St. Martin's Griffin, 08/28/2018
"Music is the reward for being alive," writes Jorma Kaukonen in this candid and emotional account of his life and work. "It stirs memory in a singular...
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French Exit
by
Patrick deWitt
Ecco, 08/28/2018
Frances Price – tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature – is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending ...
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Sold on a Monday
by
Kristina McMorris
Sourcebooks, 08/28/2018
CHILDREN FOR SALE
The sign is a last resort. It sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931, but could be found anywhere in an era of breadlines, bank runs ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves
by
Eric R. Kandel
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/28/2018
Eric R. Kandel, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his foundational research into memory storage in the brain, is one of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
We All Love the Beautiful Girls
by
Joanne Proulx
Grand Central Publishing, 08/28/2018
Who suffers when the privileged fall?
One frigid winter night, Mia and Michael Slate's comfortable world dissolves in an instant when they ...
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We That Are Young
by
Preti Taneja
Knopf, 08/28/2018
Jivan Singh, the bastard scion of the Devraj family returns to his New Delhi childhood home at the age of twenty-three after fifteen years in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
by
Anand Giridharadas
Knopf, 08/28/2018
Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Certain Loneliness: A Memoir
by
Sandra Gail Lambert
University of Nebraska Press, 09/01/2018
A Certain Loneliness is a meditative and engaging memoir-in-essays that explores the intersection of disability, queerness, and female desire with ...
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Essays
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
And The Ocean Was Our Sky
by
Patrick Ness
HarperTeen, 09/04/2018
With harpoons strapped to their backs, the proud whales of Bathsheba's pod live for the hunt, fighting in the ongoing war against the world of men. ...
more
Death at Sea: Montalbano's Early Cases (An Inspector Montalbano Mystery)
by
Andrea Camilleri
Penguin Books, 09/04/2018
In 1980s Vigàta, a restless Inspector Montalbano brings his brash yet clear-sighted investigative style to eight enthralling cases.
Death at Sea ...
more
Depth of Winter: A Longmire Mystery
by
Craig Johnson
Viking, 09/04/2018
Welcome to Walt Longmire's worst nightmare. In Craig Johnson's latest mystery,
Depth of Winter, an international hit man and the head of one of the ...
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Fashion Climbing: A Memoir with Photographs
by
Bill Cunningham
Penguin Press, 09/04/2018
For Bill Cunningham, New York City was the land of freedom, glamour, and, above all, style. Growing up in a lace-curtain Irish suburb of Boston, ...
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How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
by
Mary Beard
Liveright / WW Norton, 09/04/2018
Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to "How Do We Look" and "The Eye of Faith," the famed
Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Human Hours: Poems
by
Catherine Barnett
Graywolf Press, 09/04/2018
Catherine Barnett's tragicomic third collection,
Human Hours, shuttles between a Whitmanian embrace of others and a kind of rapacious solitude. ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
John Woman
by
Walter Mosley
Atlantic Monthly Press, 09/04/2018
At twelve years old, Cornelius, the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black man from Mississippi named Herman, secretly takes over his ...
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Lake Success
by
Gary Shteyngart
Random House, 09/04/2018
Narcissistic, hilariously self-deluded, and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedge-fund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion ...
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Leave No Trace
by
Mindy Mejia
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 09/04/2018
There is a place in Minnesota with hundreds of miles of glacial lakes and untouched forests called the Boundary Waters. Ten years ago a man and his ...
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Ponti
by
Sharlene Teo
Simon & Schuster, 09/04/2018
"I am Miss Frankenstein, I am the bottom of the bell curve." So declares Szu, a teenager living in a dark, dank house on a Singapore cul-de-sac, at ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
by
Stephen Fried
Crown, 09/04/2018
In the summer of 1776, fifty-six men put their quills to a dangerous document they called the Declaration of Independence. Among them was a thirty-...
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Sadie
by
Courtney Summers
Wednesday Books, 09/04/2018
A missing girl on a journey of revenge and a
serial-like podcast following the clues she's left behind.
Sadie hasn't had an easy life. Growing up ...
more
Solemn Graves: A Billy Boyle WWII Mystery
by
James R. Benn
Soho Crime, 09/04/2018
July, 1944, a full month after D-Day. Billy, Kaz, and Big Mike are assigned to investigate a murder close to the front lines in Normandy. An American ...
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Sunrise Highway: A Lourdes Robles Novel
by
Peter Blauner
Minotaur Books, 09/04/2018
In the summer of Star Wars and Son of Sam, a Long Island schoolgirl is found gruesomely murdered. A local prosecutor turns a troubled teenager known ...
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The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation
by
Miriam Pawel
Bloomsbury USA, 09/04/2018
Even in the land of reinvention, the story is exceptional: Pat Brown, the beloved father who presided over California during an era of unmatched ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Choice: Embrace the Possible
by
Dr. Edith Eva Eger
Scribner, 09/04/2018
Edie spent decades struggling with flashbacks and survivor's guilt, determined to stay silent and hide from the past. Thirty-five years after the war ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Class: A Life-Changing Teacher, His World-Changing Kids, and the Most Inventive Classroom in America
by
Heather Won Tesoriero
Ballantine Books, 09/04/2018
Andy Bramante left his successful career as a corporate scientist to teach public high school—and now helms one of the most remarkable classrooms...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Half-Life of Everything: A Novel
by
Deborah Carol Gang
Bancroft Press, 09/04/2018
Can any marriage withstand the transformation of one partner into someone who's lost? When does a marriage end?
The Half-Life of Everything, realistic...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
by
Norman Eisen
Crown, 09/04/2018
When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Lost Queen
by
Signe Pike
Touchstone, 09/04/2018
I write because I have seen the darkness that will come. Already there are those who seek to tell a new history...
In a land of mountains and mist,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Silence of the Girls
by
Pat Barker
Doubleday, 09/04/2018
The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War.
The ancient city of Troy has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel
by
Heather Morris
Harper, 09/04/2018
In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Wildlands: A Novel
by
Abby Geni
Counterpoint Press, 09/04/2018
When a Category 5 tornado ravaged Mercy, Oklahoma, no family in the small town lost more than the McClouds. Their home and farm were instantly ...
more
Two Dark Reigns: Three Dark Crowns Series
by
Kendare Blake
HarperTeen, 09/04/2018
Queen Katharine has waited her entire life to wear the crown. But now that she finally has it, the murmurs of dissent grow louder by the day. There's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Wild Fire: A Shetland Island Mystery
by
Ann Cleeves
Minotaur Books, 09/04/2018
When the Flemings - designer Helena and architect Daniel - move into a remote community in the north of Shetland, they think it's a fresh start for ...
more
Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
by
Tim Mohr
Algonquin Books, 09/11/2018
SAY IT, SPEAK IT, SHOUT IT OUT LOUD!
It began with a handful of East Berlin teens who heard the Sex Pistols on a British military radio broadcast to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
CoDex 1962: A Trilogy
by
Sjon (author), Victoria Cribb (translator)
MCD, 09/11/2018
Over the course of four dazzling novels translated into dozens of languages, Sjón has earned a global reputation as one of the world's most ...
more
Dream Country
by
Shannon Gibney
Dutton Children's Books, 09/11/2018
Dream Country begins in suburban Minneapolis at the moment when seventeen-year-old Kollie Flomo begins to crack under the strain of his life as a ...
more
Football for a Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL
by
Jeff Pearlman
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 09/11/2018
The United States Football League - known fondly to millions of sports fans as the USFL - was the last football league to not merely challenge the NFL...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art
by
Christian Wiman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/11/2018
What is it we want when we can't stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and vital rather than corrosive and destructive? These are ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Katerina
by
James Frey
Gallery/Scout Press, 09/11/2018
A kiss, a touch. A smile and a beating heart. Love and sex and dreams, art and drugs and the madness of youth. Betrayal and heartbreak, regret and ...
more
Lies
by
T. M. Logan
St. Martin's Press, 09/11/2018
It's the evening drive home from work, a route Joe Lynch has taken a hundred times with his young son. But when he unexpectedly sees his wife's car ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Merci Suarez Changes Gears
by
Meg Medina
Candlewick Press, 09/11/2018
Merci Suárez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just
how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other ...
more
Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit: A Kopp Sisters Novel
by
Amy Stewart
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 09/11/2018
After a year on the job, New Jersey's first female deputy sheriff has collared criminals, demanded justice for wronged women, and gained notoriety ...
more
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
by
Carol Anderson
Bloomsbury USA, 09/11/2018
In her
New York Times bestseller
White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of policies that have systematically impeded black progress...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
by
Eric Klinenberg
Crown, 09/11/2018
We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
by
Soraya Chemaly
Atria Books, 09/11/2018
Women are angry, and it isn't hard to figure out why.
We are underpaid and overworked. Too sensitive, or not sensitive enough. Too dowdy or too ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Summer Bird Blue
by
Akemi Dawn Bowman
Simon Pulse, 09/11/2018
Rumi Seto spends a lot of time worrying she doesn't have the answers to everything. What to eat, where to go, whom to love. But there is one thing she...
more
The House of One Thousand Eyes
by
Michelle Barker
Annick Press, 09/11/2018
Life in East Germany in the early 1980s is not easy for most people, but for Lena, it's particularly hard. After the death of her parents in a factory...
more
Literary Fiction
The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
by
Merve Emre
Doubleday, 09/11/2018
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It is used regularly by Fortune 500 companies, universities, ...
more
They Fought Alone: The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France
by
Charles Glass
Penguin Press, 09/11/2018
As far as the public knew, Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) did not exist. After the defeat of the French Army and Britain's retreat from ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Cruelty Special to Our Species: Poems
by
Emily Jungmin Yoon
Ecco, 09/18/2018
In her arresting collection, urgently relevant for our times, poet Emily Jungmin Yoon confronts the histories of sexual violence against women, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
by
Tom Wright
Hachette Books, 09/18/2018
In 2009, with the dust yet to settle on the financial crisis, a baby-faced, seemingly mild-mannered Wharton grad began setting in motion a fraud of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling
by
Philip Pullman
Knopf, 09/18/2018
One of the most highly acclaimed and best-selling authors of our time now gives us a book that charts the history of his own enchantment with story - ...
more
Guess Who
by
Chris McGeorge
Hanover Square Press, 09/18/2018
At eleven years old, Morgan Sheppard solved the murder of a teacher when everyone else believed it to be a suicide. The publicity surrounding the case...
more
Mysteries
Heart: A History
by
Sandeep Jauhar
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/18/2018
For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Leadership: In Turbulent Times
by
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Simon & Schuster, 09/18/2018
Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the leader make the times or do the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lethal White: A Cormoran Strike Novel
by
Robert Galbraith
Mulholland, 09/18/2018
"I seen a kid killed…He strangled it, up by the horse."
When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ...
more
Mysteries
Love to Everyone: UK Title: The Skylarks's War
by
Hilary McKay
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 09/18/2018
Clarry Penrose finds the good in everyone. Even in her father, who isn't fond of children, and especially girls. He doesn't worry about her education,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
My Real Name is Hanna
by
Tara Lynn Masih
Mandel Vilar Press, 09/18/2018
Hanna Slivka is on the cusp of fourteen when Hitler's army crosses the border into Soviet-occupied Ukraine. Soon, the Gestapo closes in, determined to...
more
Historical Fiction
Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir
by
Liana Finck
Random House, 09/18/2018
In this achingly beautiful graphic memoir, Liana Finck goes in search of that thing she has lost—her shadow, she calls it, but one might also ...
more
Pride
by
Ibi Zoboi
Balzer + Bray, 09/18/2018
Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly ...
more
Schumann: The Faces and the Masks
by
Judith Chernaik
Knopf, 09/18/2018
Schumann: The Faces and the Masks draws us into the milieu of the Romantic movement, which enraptured poets, musicians, painters, and their audiences ...
more
Sea Prayer
by
Khaled Hosseini
Riverhead Books, 09/18/2018
A short, powerful, illustrated book written by beloved novelist Khaled Hosseini in response to the current refugee crisis,
Sea Prayer is composed in ...
more
The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle: UK Title: The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
by
Stuart Turton
Sourcebooks, 09/18/2018
Shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Award (New Writers)
One of Stylist Magazine's 20 Must-Read Books of 2018
One of Harper's Bazaar's 10 ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Infinite Blacktop: A Claire DeWitt Novel
by
Sara Gran
Atria Books, 09/18/2018
Claire DeWitt, the hard-living and tough-talking private investigator, has always been something of a detective. As a young girl growing up in ...
more
The Labyrinth of the Spirits: A Cemetery of Forgotten Books Novel
by
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Harper, 09/18/2018
In this unforgettable final volume of Ruiz Zafón's cycle of novels set in the universe of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, beautiful and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II
by
Mary Jo McConahay
St. Martin's Press, 09/18/2018
The Tango War by Mary Jo McConahay fills an important gap in WWII history. Beginning in the thirties, both sides were well aware of the need to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees
by
Don Brown
Houghton Mifflin Books For Younger Readers, 09/18/2018
Starting in 2011, refugees flood out of war-torn Syria in Exodus-like proportions. The surprising flood of victims overwhelms neighboring countries, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing
by
Wil Haygood
Knopf, 09/18/2018
1968 and 1969: Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy are assassinated. Race relations are frayed like never before. Cities are aflame as ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens
by
Marieke Nijkamp
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/18/2018
With stories in various genres about first loves, friendship, war, travel, and more,
Unbroken will offer today's teen readers a glimpse into the lives...
more
Wildcard: Warcross Series #2
by
Marie Lu
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/18/2018
Emika Chen barely made it out of the Warcross Championships alive. Now that she knows the truth behind Hideo's new NeuroLink algorithm, she can no ...
more
Black Wings Beating: The Skybound Saga
by
Alex London
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/25/2018
The people of Uztar have long looked to the sky with hope and wonder. Nothing in their world is more revered than the birds of prey and no one more ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Tales from the Inner City
by
Shaun Tan
Arthur A. Levine Books, 09/25/2018
Tales from the Inner City is a collection of incredibly original stories, rich with feeling, strangely moving, almost numinous. And when the reader ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Caregiver
by
Samuel Park
Simon & Schuster, 09/25/2018
Mara Alencar's mother Ana is the moon, the sun, the stars. Ana, a struggling voice-over actress, is an admirably brave and recklessly impulsive woman ...
more
The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee
by
Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger
Harper, 09/25/2018
When sixty-four-year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in her Fifth Avenue apartment, her younger sister Lee wept inconsolably. Then Jackie's thirty-...
more
The Shape of the Ruins
by
Juan Gabriel Vasquez (author), Anne McLean (translator)
Riverhead Books, 09/25/2018
The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and literary investigation. When a man is arrested at a museum for ...
more
The Sisters of the Winter Wood
by
Rena Rossner
Redhook, 09/25/2018
In a remote village surrounded by vast forests on the border of Moldova and Ukraine, sisters Liba and Laya have been raised on the honeyed scent of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Testament of Harold's Wife
by
Lynne Hugo
Kensington, 09/25/2018
After losing her husband, Harold, and her beloved grandson, Cody, within the past year, Louisa has two choices. She can fade away on her Indiana ...
more
After the Fire
by
Will Hill
Sourcebooks, 10/02/2018
Before, she lived inside the fence. Before, she was never allowed to leave the property, never allowed to talk to Outsiders, never allowed to speak ...
more
Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
by
Nora Krug
Scribner, 10/02/2018
Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow throughout her childhood and youth in the ...
more
Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s
by
Leslie S. Klinger
Pegasus Books, 10/02/2018
American crime writing was reborn in the 1920s. After years of dominance by British authors, new American writers―with fresh ideas about the ...
more
Devil's Day
by
Andrew Michael Hurley
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 10/02/2018
In the wink of an eye, as quick as a flea,
The Devil he jumped from me to thee.
And only when the Devil had gone,
Did I know that he and I'd been ...more
Dry
by
Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 10/02/2018
The drought - or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it - has been going on for a while now. Everyone's lives have become an endless list of don'ts: don't ...
more
Thrillers
Full Disclosure
by
Stormy Daniels
St. Martin's Press, 10/02/2018
In this book, Stormy Daniels tells her whole story for the first time: what it's like to be a leading actress and director in the adult film business,...
more
Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948
by
Ramachandra Guha
Knopf, 10/02/2018
This volume opens with Mohandas Gandhi's arrival in Bombay in January 1915 and takes us through his epic struggles over the next three decades: to ...
more
Gone So Long
by
Andre Dubus III
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/02/2018
Few writers can enter their characters so completely or evoke their lives as viscerally as Andre Dubus III. In this deeply compelling new novel, a ...
more
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
by
Rebecca Traister
Simon & Schuster, 10/02/2018
In the year 2018, it seems as if women's anger has suddenly erupted into the public conversation. But long before Pantsuit Nation, before the Women's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Impossible Owls: Essays
by
Brian Phillips
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/02/2018
In his highly anticipated debut essay collection,
Impossible Owls, Brian Phillips demonstrates why he's one of the most iconoclastic journalists of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Reagan: An American Journey
by
Bob Spitz
Penguin Press, 10/02/2018
More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable documents, and infused with irresistible ...
more
Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience, and Hope from a Heartland Newspaper
by
Art Cullen
Viking, 10/02/2018
When
The Storm Lake Times, a tiny Iowa twice-weekly, won a Pulitzer Prize for taking on big corporate agri-industry for poisoning the local rivers and...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Swing
by
Kwame Alexander, Mary Rand Hess
Blink, 10/02/2018
Best friends Noah and Walt are far from popular, but Walt is convinced junior year is their year, and he has a plan that includes wooing the girls of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy
by
Greg Miller
Custom House, 10/02/2018
Now two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning
Washington Post national security reporter Greg Miller investigates the truth about the Kremlin's covert ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Dream Daughter
by
Diane Chamberlain
St. Martin's Press, 10/02/2018
When Carly Sears, a young woman widowed by the Vietnam war, receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Fifth Risk
by
Michael Lewis
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/02/2018
"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Hollow of Fear: The Lady Sherlock Series
by
Sherry Thomas
Berkley Books, 10/02/2018
Under the cover of "Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective," Charlotte Holmes puts her extraordinary powers of deduction to good use. Aided by the ...
more
The Kennedy Debutante
by
Kerri Maher
Berkley Books, 10/02/2018
London, 1938. The effervescent "It girl" of London society since her father was named the ambassador, Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy moves in rarified ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Lost Words
by
Robert Macfarlane
Anansi International, 10/02/2018
In 2007, when a new edition of the
Oxford Junior Dictionary ― widely used in schools around the world ― was published, a sharp-eyed reader...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Under My Skin
by
Lisa Unger
Park Row Books, 10/02/2018
What if the nightmares are actually memories?
It's been a year since Poppy's husband, Jack, was brutally murdered during his morning run through ...
more
Valley Forge
by
Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
Simon & Schuster, 10/02/2018
December 1777. It is 18 months after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and some 12,000 members of America's beleaguered Continental Army...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Virgil Wander
by
Leif Enger
Grove Press, 10/02/2018
Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is "cruising along at medium altitude" when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Virgil ...
more
What If This Were Enough?: Essays
by
Heather Havrilesky
Doubleday, 10/02/2018
What If This Were Enough? is a mantra and a clarion call. In its chapters - many of them original to the book, others expanded from their initial ...
more
99 Ways to Die: A Taipei Night Market Novel
by
Ed Lin
Soho Press, 10/09/2018
Jing-nan has known Peggy Lee, a bullying frenemy who runs her family's huge corporation, since high school. Peggy's father has been kidnapped, and the...
more
Bitter Orange
by
Claire Fuller
Tin House Books, 10/09/2018
From the attic of Lyntons, a dilapidated English country mansion, Frances Jellico sees them - Cara first: dark and beautiful, then Peter: striking and...
more
Bridge of Clay
by
Markus Zusak
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 10/09/2018
The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to ...
more
Einstein's Shadow: A Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable
by
Seth Fletcher
Ecco, 10/09/2018
Photographing a black hole sounds impossible, a contradiction in terms. But Shep Doeleman and a global coalition of scientists are on the cusp of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Hey, Kiddo
by
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Scholastic, 10/09/2018
In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than...
more
Holy Ghost: Virgil Flowers Book 11
by
John Sandford
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/09/2018
Pinion, Minnesota: a metropolis of all of seven hundred souls, for which the word "moribund" might have been invented. Nothing ever happened there and...
more
Killing Commendatore
by
Haruki Murakami
Knopf, 10/09/2018
In
Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a ...
more
Love Is Blind
by
William Boyd
Knopf, 10/09/2018
Brodie Moncur is a brilliant piano tuner, as brilliant in his own way as John Kilbarron - "The Irish Liszt" - the pianist Brodie accompanies on all of...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Presidents of War
by
Michael Beschloss
Crown, 10/09/2018
Ten years in the research and writing,
Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Clockmaker's Daughter: A Novel
by
Kate Morton
Atria Books, 10/09/2018
My real name, no one remembers.
The truth about that summer, no one else knows. In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate ...
more
The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays
by
Wesley Yang
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/09/2018
One of the most acclaimed essayists of his generation, Wesley Yang writes about race and sex without the jargon, formulas, and polite lies that bore ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
The Waiter
by
Matias Faldbakken
Gallery/Scout Press, 10/09/2018
In a centuries-old European restaurant called The Hills, a middle-aged waiter takes pride in the unchangeable aspects of his job: the well-worn ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Witch Elm
by
Tana French
Viking, 10/09/2018
Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will change his life -...
more
Literary Fiction
Ask Me No Questions: A Lady Dunbridge Mystery
by
Shelley Noble
Forge Books, 10/16/2018
A modern woman in 1907, Lady Dunbridge is not about to let a little thing like the death of her husband ruin her social life. She's ready to take the ...
more
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
by
David W. Blight
Little Simon, 10/16/2018
As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave ...
more
Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times
by
Dr. Alan Walker
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/16/2018
Based on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., Alan ...
more
Heavy: An American Memoir
by
Kiese Laymon
Scribner, 10/16/2018
Kiese Laymon is a fearless writer. In his essays, personal stories combine with piercing intellect to reflect both on the state of American society ...
more
Biography/Memoir
In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown
by
Nathaniel Philbrick
Viking, 10/16/2018
In the fall of 1780, after five frustrating years of war, George Washington had come to realize that the only way to defeat the British Empire was ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Night Train: New and Selected Stories
by
Thom Jones
Little Brown & Company, 10/16/2018
Jones's stories are high-octane, prose-drunk entertainment. His characters are grifters and drifters, rogues and ne'er-do-wells - some lovable, some ...
more
On the Future: Prospects for Humanity
by
Martin Rees
Princeton University Press, 10/16/2018
Humanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled and rapidly changing, and we face existential risks over the next century. Various ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Phantom Wheel: A Hackers Novel
by
Tracy Deebs
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 10/16/2018
Being recruited by the CIA to join a top-secret intelligence program should be the opportunity of a lifetime. For Issa, it's a shot at creating a new ...
more
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
by
Jane Sherron de Hart
Knopf, 10/16/2018
In this large, comprehensive, revelatory biography, Jane De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburg's passion for justice...
more
She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy
by
Jill Soloway
Crown, 10/16/2018
In this poignant memoir of personal transformation, Jill Soloway takes us on a patriarchy-toppling emotional and professional journey. When Jill's ...
more
The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created
by
Jane Leavy
Harper, 10/16/2018
He lived in the present tense - in the camera's lens. There was no frame he couldn't or wouldn't fill. He swung the heaviest bat, earned the most ...
more
The Collector's Apprentice
by
B. A. Shapiro
Algonquin Books, 10/16/2018
It's the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris - broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Darkness: A Thriller
by
Ragnar Jonasson
Minotaur Books, 10/16/2018
The body of a young Russian woman washes up on an Icelandic shore. After a cursory investigation, the death is declared a suicide and the case is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy
by
Stephen M. Walt
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/16/2018
In 1992, the United States stood at the pinnacle of world power and Americans were confident that a new era of peace and prosperity was at hand. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Lake on Fire
by
Rosellen Brown
Sarabande Books, 10/16/2018
Dazzled by lore of the American dream, Chaya and her strange, brilliant, young brother Asher stow away to Chicago; what they discover there, however, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Silent Ones: A Father Anselm Thriller (Father Anselm Thrillers)
by
William Brodrick
Overlook, 10/16/2018
Monk-turned-lawyer-turned-novelist William Brodrick has proven with each new installment of his Father Anselm series that he's the "writer of choice ...
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
by
Max Hastings
Harper, 10/16/2018
Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
What We Owe
by
Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde
Mariner Books, 10/16/2018
Nahid has six months left to live. Or so the doctors say. At fifty, she is no stranger to loss. But now, as she stands on the precipice of her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Friday Black
by
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Mariner Books, 10/23/2018
From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's writing will grab you, haunt you, enrage and invigorate you. By placing ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Go to My Grave
by
Catriona McPherson
Minotaur Books, 10/23/2018
Donna Weaver has put everything she has into restoring The Breakers, an old bed and breakfast on a remote stretch of beach in Galloway. Now it sits ...
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How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
by
Brian McCullough
Liveright / WW Norton, 10/23/2018
The internet was never intended for you, opines Brian McCullough in this lively narrative of an era that utterly transformed everything we thought we ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Let It Bang: A Young Black Man's Reluctant Odyssey into Guns
by
RJ Young
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 10/23/2018
The most RJ Young knew about guns was that they could get him killed. Until, recently married to a white woman and in desperate need of a way to ...
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Listen to the Marriage
by
John Jay Osborn
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/23/2018
Gretchen and Steve have been married for a long time. Living in San Francisco, recently separated, with two children and demanding jobs, they've ...
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Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
by
Rose George
Metropolitan Books, 10/23/2018
Blood carries life, yet the sight of it makes people faint. It is a waste product and a commodity pricier than oil. It can save lives and transmit ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Strangers in Budapest
by
Jessica Keener
Algonquin Books, 10/23/2018
"You must not tell anyone ..."
Budapest is a city of secrets, a place where everything is opaque and nothing is as it seems. It is to this ...
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The Line: A Sergeants Sueño and Bascom Novel
by
Martin Limon
Soho Crime, 10/23/2018
The Korean Demilitarized Zone, 1970s: A battered corpse is found a few feet north of the line dividing North and South Korea. When 8th Army CID Agents...
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The Rain Watcher
by
Tatiana de Rosnay
St. Martin's Press, 10/23/2018
Linden Malegarde has come home to Paris from the United States. It has been years since the whole family was all together. Now the Malegarde family is...
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The Travelling Cat Chronicles
by
Hiro Arikawa
Berkley Books, 10/23/2018
We take journeys to explore exotic new places and to return to the comforts of home, to visit old acquaintances and to make new friends. But the most ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Alice Isn't Dead
by
Joseph Fink
Harper Perennial, 10/30/2018
"This isn't a story. It's a road trip."
Keisha Taylor lived a quiet life with her wife, Alice, until the day that Alice disappeared. After ...
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Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946
by
Gary Giddins
Little Brown & Company, 10/30/2018
Bing Crosby dominated American popular culture in a way that few artists ever have. From the dizzy era of Prohibition through the dark days of the ...
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Elevation: A Novel
by
Stephen King
Scribner, 10/30/2018
Although Scott Carey doesn't look any different, he's been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs the same in ...
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Family Trust
by
Kathy Wang
William Morrow, 10/30/2018
Some of us are more equal than others....
Meet Stanley Huang: father, husband, ex-husband, man of unpredictable tastes and temper, aficionado of all-...
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Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples
by
Neil MacGregor
Knopf, 10/30/2018
Until fairly recently, religion as a major influence on the nature of individual societies around the world seemed to be on the wane. Now, far from ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America's Origin
by
Joseph Kelly
Bloomsbury USA, 10/30/2018
We all know the great American origin story. It begins with an exodus. Fleeing religious persecution, the hardworking, pious Pilgrims thrived in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Brilliant Death
by
Amy Rose Capetta
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 10/30/2018
Teodora di Sangro is used to hiding her magical ability to transform enemies into music boxes and mirrors. Nobody knows she's a strega - and she aims ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol 2: Volume 2, 1957-1963
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Sylvia Plath
Harper, 10/30/2018
One of the most talented and beloved poets, Sylvia Plath continues to fascinate and inspire the modern literary imagination. The tragedy of her ...
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The White Darkness
by
David Grann
Doubleday, 10/30/2018
Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honor and sacrifice. He was also a man ...
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Travel & Adventure
This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story
by
Kheryn Callender
Balzer + Bray, 10/30/2018
Nathan Bird doesn't believe in happy endings. Although he's the ultimate film buff and an aspiring screenwriter, Nate's seen the demise of too many ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Uneasy Lies the Crown: A Lady Emily Mystery
by
Tasha Alexander
Minotaur Books, 10/30/2018
On her deathbed, Queen Victoria asks to speak privately with trusted agent of the Crown, Colin Hargreaves, and slips him a letter with one last ...
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A Shot in the Dark: A Constable Twitten Mystery
by
Lynne Truss
Bloomsbury USA, 11/06/2018
It's 1957, and the famed theater critic A. S. Crystal has come to the British seaside resort of Brighton with something other than the local ...
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An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
by
Helene Tursten
Soho Crime, 11/06/2018
This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that ...
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An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere
by
Mikita Brottman
Henry Holt and Company, 11/06/2018
"The poster is new. I notice it right away, taped to a utility pole. Beneath the word 'Missing,' printed in a bold, high-impact font, are two sepia-...
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Churchill: Walking with Destiny
by
Andrew Roberts
Viking, 11/06/2018
When we seek an example of great leaders with unalloyed courage, the person who comes to mind is Winston Churchill: the iconic, visionary war leader ...
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Forever and a Day: A James Bond Novel
by
Anthony Horowitz
HarperCollins Publishers, 11/06/2018
Forever and a Day is the story of the birth of a legend, in the brutal underworld of the French Riviera, taking readers into the very beginning of ...
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Landing on the Edge of Eternity: Twenty-Four Hours at Omaha Beach
by
Robert Kershaw
Pegasus Books, 11/06/2018
Before World War II, Normandy's Plage d'Or coast was best known for its sleepy villages and holiday destinations. Early in 1944, German commander ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Monument: Poems New and Selected
by
Natasha Trethewey
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 11/06/2018
Layering joy and urgent defiance - against physical and cultural erasure, against white supremacy whether intangible or graven in stone - Trethewey's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Paris Echo
by
Sebastian Faulks
Henry Holt and Company, 11/06/2018
American historian Hannah intends to immerse herself in World War II research in Paris, wary of paying much attention to the city where a youthful ...
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The American Revolution: A World War
by
David Allison (Editor), Larrie D. Ferreiro (Editor)
Smithsonian Institution Press, 11/06/2018
The American Revolution: A World War argues that contrary to popular opinion, the American Revolution was not just a simple battle for independence in...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Best Bad Things
by
Katrina Carrasco
MCD, 11/06/2018
It is 1887, and Alma Rosales is on the hunt for stolen opium. Trained in espionage by the Pinkerton Detective Agency - but dismissed for bad behavior ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Day That Went Missing: A Family's Story
by
Richard Beard
Little Brown & Company, 11/06/2018
On a family summer holiday in Cornwall in 1978, Richard and his younger brother Nicholas are jumping in the waves. Suddenly, Nicholas is out of his ...
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The Eternal City: A History of Rome
by
Ferdinand Addis
Pegasus Books, 11/06/2018
Why does Rome continue to exert a hold on our imagination? How did the "Caput mundi" come to play such a critical role in the development of Western ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife, 1965-2005
by
Zachary Leader
Knopf, 11/06/2018
When this second volume of The Life of Saul Bellow opens, Bellow, at forty-nine, is at the pinnacle of American letters - rich, famous, critically ...
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The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century
by
Mark Lamster
Little Brown & Company, 11/06/2018
When Philip Johnson died in 2005 at the age of 98, he was still one of the most recognizable--and influential--figures on the American cultural ...
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The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
by
Andrew Delbanco
Penguin Books, 11/06/2018
For decades after its founding, America was really two nations - one slave, one free. There were many reasons why this composite nation ultimately ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
We Begin in Gladness: How Poets Progress
by
Craig Morgan Teicher
Graywolf Press, 11/06/2018
Though it seems, at first, like an art of speaking, poetry is an art of listening. The poet trains to hear clearly and, as much as possible, without ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Why Religion?: A Personal Story
by
Elaine Pagels
Ecco, 11/06/2018
Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people ...
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Wolves of Eden
by
Kevin McCarthy
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/06/2018
Dakota Territory, 1866. Following the murders of a frontier fort's politically connected sutler and his wife in their illicit off-post brothel, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
City of Secrets: A Counterfeit Lady Novel
by
Victoria Thompson
Berkley Books, 11/13/2018
Elizabeth Miles knows that honesty is not always the best policy when it comes to finding justice.
Elizabeth has discovered that navigating the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land
by
Amos Oz
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 11/13/2018
From the incomparable Amos Oz comes a series of three essays: on the universal nature of fanaticism and its possible cures, on the ...
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Handsome Johnny: The Life and Death of Johnny Rosselli: Gentleman Gangster, Hollywood Producer, CIA Assassin
by
Lee Server
St. Martin's Press, 11/13/2018
A singular figure in the annals of the American underworld, Johnny Rosselli's career flourished for an extraordinary fifty years, from the bloody ...
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Insurrecto
by
Gina Apostol
Soho Press, 11/13/2018
Two women, a Filipino translator and an American filmmaker, go on a road trip in Duterte's Philippines, collaborating and clashing in the writing of a...
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Late-Life Love: A Memoir
by
Susan Gubar
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/13/2018
On Susan Gubar's seventieth birthday, she receives a beautiful ring from her husband. As she contemplates their sustaining relationship, she begins to...
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Muck
by
Dror Burstein
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/13/2018
In a Jerusalem both ancient and modern, where the First Temple squats over the populace like a Trump casino, where the streets are literally crawling ...
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Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh
by
Anna Beer
Oneworld Publications, 11/13/2018
Sir Walter Ralegh's life is romantic, irresistible and of central importance to Great Britain's island story. His death is a convoluted and contested ...
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Rediscovering Travel: A Guide for the Globally Curious
by
Seth Kugel
Liveright / WW Norton, 11/13/2018
By captivating millions during his six-year, fifty-country tenure as the
New York Times's "Frugal Traveler," Seth Kugel has become one of our most ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
The Lying Woods
by
Ashley Elston
Disney-Hyperion, 11/13/2018
Owen Foster has never wanted for anything. Then his mother shows up at his elite New Orleans boarding school cradling a bombshell: his privileged life...
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The Patch
by
John McPhee
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/13/2018
The Patch is the seventh collection of essays by the nonfiction master, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It is divided into two parts.
...
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The Western Wind
by
Samantha Harvey
Grove Press, 11/13/2018
It's 1491. In the small village of Oakham, its wealthiest and most industrious resident, Tom Newman, is swept away by the river during the early hours...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
All the Lives We Never Lived
by
Anuradha Roy
Atria Books, 11/20/2018
In my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman. The man was in fact German, but in small-town India in those days...more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Extinctions
by
Josephine Wilson
Ballantine Books, 11/20/2018
Professor Frederick Lothian, retired engineer, has quarantined himself in a place he hates: a retirement village. His headstrong wife Martha, adored ...
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Newcomer: A Detective Kaga Mystery
by
Keigo Higashino
Minotaur Books, 11/20/2018
Detective Kyochiro Kaga of the Tokyo Police Department has just been transferred to a new precinct in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo. Newly arrived, but...
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Hazards of Time Travel
by
Joyce Carol Oates
Ecco, 11/27/2018
"Time travel" - and its hazards - are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Kingdom of the Blind: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
by
Louise Penny
Minotaur Books, 11/27/2018
When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the Sûreté du Québec discovers ...
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Robert B. Parker's Blood Feud: A Sunny Randall Novel
by
Mike Lupica
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 11/27/2018
Sunny Randall is "on" again with Richie, the ex-husband she never stopped loving and never seemed to be able to let go, despite her discomfort with ...
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The Houseguest: And Other Stories
by
Amparo Dávila
The New Press, 11/27/2018
Like those of Kafka or Poe, Amparo Dávila's stories are masterful, terrifying, and mesmerizing - you'll finish reading each story gasping for air...
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The Museum of Modern Love
by
Heather Rose
Algonquin Books, 11/27/2018
Our hero, Arky Levin, has reached a creative dead end. An unexpected separation from his wife was meant to leave him with the space he needs to work ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018
by
David Kipen (Editor)
Modern Library, 12/04/2018
The City of Angels has played a distinct role in the hearts, minds, and imaginations of millions of people, who see it as the ultimate symbol of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Eighteen Below: A Fabian Risk Novel
by
Stefan Ahnhem
Minotaur Books, 12/04/2018
On a Hot Summer's Day
The police chase a speeding car through the streets of Helsingborg. When they reach the bridge, the driver keeps going ...
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For the Sake of the Game: Stories Inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon
by
Laurie R. King (Editor)
Pegasus Books, 12/04/2018
For the Sake of the Game is the latest volume in the award-winning series from New York Times bestselling editors Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger...
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Handel in London: A Genius and His Craft
by
Jane Glover
Pegasus Books, 12/04/2018
In 1712, a young German composer followed his princely master to London and would remain there for the rest of his life. That master would become King...
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Biography/Memoir
Milkman
by
Anna Burns
Graywolf Press, 12/04/2018
In an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French night classes ...
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Murder at the Mill: An Iris Grey Mystery
by
M.B. Shaw
Minotaur Books, 12/04/2018
Iris Grey rents a quaint cottage in a picture-perfect Hampshire village, looking to escape from her crumbling marriage. She is drawn to the ...
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Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful
by
Arwen Elys Dayton
Delacorte Press, 12/04/2018
The future is curious.
STRONGER
Today our bodies define us. We color our hair; tattoo our skin; pierce our ears, brows, noses. We lift weights, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Blood: A Jem Flockhart Mystery
by
E. S. Thomson
Pegasus Books, 12/04/2018
Summoned to the riverside by the desperate, scribbled note of an old friend, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain find themselves onboard the seamen's ...
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The Dakota Winters
by
Tom Barbash
Ecco, 12/04/2018
It's the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria...
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The Deadly Deep: The Definitive History of Submarine Warfare
by
Iain Ballantyne
Pegasus Books, 12/04/2018
A fascinating and comprehensive account of how an initially ineffectual underwater boat--originally derided and loathed in equal measure - evolved ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties
by
Paul Collier
Harper, 12/04/2018
Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thriving cities versus rural counties, the highly ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Murdered Peace: A Kate Clifford Novel
by
Candace Robb
Pegasus Books, 12/11/2018
It is deep winter in York, 1400, the ground frozen, the short days dimmed with the smoke from countless fires, the sun, when it shines, low in the sky...
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The Day the Sun Died
by
Yan Lianke
Grove Press, 12/11/2018
Yan Lianke has secured his place as contemporary China's most essential and daring novelist, "with his superlative gifts for storytelling and ...
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Watching You: A Novel
by
Lisa Jewell
Atria Books, 12/26/2018
Melville Heights is one of the nicest neighborhoods in Bristol, England; home to doctors and lawyers and old-money academics. It's not the sort of ...
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In a House of Lies: An Inspector Rebus Novel
by
Ian Rankin
Little Brown & Company, 12/31/2018
Rebus' retirement is disrupted once again when skeletal remains are identified as a private investigator who went missing over a decade earlier. The ...
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Mysteries
The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Wedding
by
Jennifer Robson
William Morrow, 12/31/2018
"Millions will welcome this joyous event as a flash of color on the long road we have to travel."
- Sir Winston Churchill on the news of...more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
