Crimson Snow: Winter Mysteries
by
Martin Edwards (editor)
Poisoned Pen Press, 01/03/2017
Welcome to a world of Father Christmases behaving oddly, a famous fictional detective in a Yuletide drama, mysterious tracks in the snow, and some ...
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Enigma Variations: A Novel
by
André Aciman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 01/03/2017
Andre Aciman, who has been called "the most exciting new fiction writer of the twenty-first century" (
New York Magazine), has written a novel in
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Leopard at the Door
by
Jennifer McVeigh
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/03/2017
After six years in England, Rachel has returned to Kenya and the farm where she spent her childhood, but the beloved home she'd longed for is much ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Life in a Fishbowl
by
Len Vlahos
Bloomsbury Children's Books, 01/03/2017
When Jackie discovers that her father has been diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor, her whole world starts to crumble. She can't imagine how she'll ...
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Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation
by
Brad Ricca
St. Martin's Press, 01/03/2017
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes tells the incredible true life story of Mrs. Grace Humiston, the New York lawyer and detective who solved the famous cold case of...
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Selection Day
by
Aravind Adiga
Scribner, 01/03/2017
Manjunath Kumar is fourteen and living in a slum in Mumbai. He knows he is good at cricket - if not as good as his older brother, Radha. He knows that...
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The Borrowed
by
Chan Ho-Kei
Black Cat, 01/03/2017
A deductive powerhouse, Kwan becomes a legend in the force, nicknamed "the Eye of Heaven" by his awe-struck colleagues. Divided into six sections told...
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The Correspondence
by
J. D. Daniels
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 01/03/2017
Can civilization save us from ourselves? That is the question J. D. Daniels asks in his first book, a series of six letters written during dark nights...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
The Death of Kings: A John Madden Mystery
by
Rennie George Airth
Viking, 01/03/2017
On a hot summer day in 1938, a beautiful actress is murdered on the grand Kent estate of Sir Jack Jessup, close friend of the Prince of Wales. The ...
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The Girl in Green
by
Derek B. Miller
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 01/03/2017
1991. Near Checkpoint Zulu, one hundred miles from the Kuwaiti border, Thomas Benton meets Arwood Hobbes. Benton is a British journalist who reports ...
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The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars
by
Daniel Beer
Knopf, 01/03/2017
It was known as 'the vast prison without a roof.' From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to The Three Musketeers
by
Alexandre Dumas (Author), Lawrence Ellsworth (Translator)
Pegasus Books, 01/03/2017
In 1844, Alexandre Dumas published
The Three Musketeers, a novel so famous and still so popular today that it scarcely needs introduction. Shortly ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Strays
by
Emily Bitto
Twelve Books, 01/03/2017
On her first day at a new school, Lily befriends one of the daughters of infamous avant-garde painter Evan Trentham. Lily has never experienced ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Truth of Right Now
by
Kara Lee Corthron
Simon Pulse, 01/03/2017
Lily is returning to her privileged Manhattan high school after a harrowing end to her sophomore year and it's not pretty. She hates chemistry and her...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Burning Bright: A Peter Ash Novel
by
Nick Petrie
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/10/2017
War veteran Peter Ash sought peace and quiet among the towering redwoods of northern California, but the trip isn't quite the balm he'd hoped for. The...
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Fever Dream
by
Samanta Schweblin (author), Megan McDowell (translator)
Riverhead Books, 01/10/2017
A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers
by
Joel Whitney
OR Books, 01/10/2017
When news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a debate began that has ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Her Every Fear
by
Peter Swanson
William Morrow, 01/10/2017
The danger isn't all in your head ...
Growing up, Kate Priddy was always a bit neurotic, experiencing momentary bouts of anxiety that exploded ...
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Huck Out West
by
Robert Coover
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/10/2017
At the end of Mark Twain's
Huckleberry Finn, on the eve of the Civil War, Huck and Tom Sawyer decide to escape "sivilization" and "light out for the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Paris Spring: A Thriller
by
James Naughtie
Overlook, 01/10/2017
James Naughtie established himself a "capable and elegant writer" (Wall Street Journal) with his gripping and highly praised debut,
The Madness of ...more
Savage Theories
by
Pola Oloixarac
Soho Press, 01/10/2017
Rosa Ostreech, a pseudonym for the novel's beautiful but self-conscious narrator, carries around a trilingual edition of Aristotle's
Metaphysics, ...
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Sleeping Mask: Fictions
by
Peter LaSalle
Bellevue Literary Press, 01/10/2017
The twelve stories of
Sleeping Mask, written in propulsive, fluid prose, introduce readers to remarkable characters. They include a child soldier sent...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Crossing
by
Andrew Miller
Europa Editions, 01/10/2017
Who else has entered Tim's life the way Maud did? This girl who fell past him, lay seemingly dead on the ground, then stood and walked. That was where...
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The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold: Adventures Riding the Iron Curtain
by
Tim Moore
Pegasus Books, 01/10/2017
Not content with tackling the Italian Alps or the route of the Tour de France, Tim Moore sets out to scale a new peak of rash over-ambition: 6,000 ...
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The Dark Room
by
Jonathan Moore
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 01/10/2017
Gavin Cain, an SFPD homicide inspector, is in the middle of an exhumation when his phone rings. San Francisco's mayor is being blackmailed and has ...
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The Most Dangerous Place on Earth
by
Lindsey Lee Johnson
Random House, 01/10/2017
Nestled among the redwoods north of San Francisco, Mill Valley is not the paradise it appears to be - and nobody knows this better than the students ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis
by
Patrick Kingsley
Liveright / WW Norton, 01/10/2017
On the day of his son's fourteenth birthday, Hashem al-Souki lay somewhere in the Mediterranean, crammed in a wooden dinghy. His family was relatively...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters
by
Emily Esfahani Smith
Crown, 01/10/2017
There is a myth in our culture that the search for meaning is some esoteric pursuit - that you have to travel to a distant monastery or page through ...
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The River at Night
by
Erica Ferencik
Gallery/Scout Press, 01/10/2017
Winifred Allen needs a vacation.
Stifled by a soul-crushing job, devastated by the death of her beloved brother, and lonely after the end of a ...
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The Sleepwalker
by
Chris Bohjalian
Doubleday, 01/10/2017
When Annalee Ahlberg goes missing, her children fear the worst. Annalee is a sleepwalker whose affliction manifests in ways both bizarre and ...
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Heartstone (Heartstone Series, 1)
by
Elle Katharine White
Harper Voyager, 01/17/2017
They say a Rider in possession of a good blade must be in want of a monster to slay—and Merybourne Manor has plenty of monsters.
Passionate, ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Human Acts
by
Han Kang
Hogarth Books, 01/17/2017
In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed.
The story of this tragic episode ...
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Once We Were Sisters: A Memoir
by
Sheila Kohler
Penguin Books, 01/17/2017
When Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister Maxine, only two years older, was killed when her husband ...
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Biography/Memoir
Signals: New and Selected Stories
by
Tim Gautreaux
Knopf, 01/17/2017
After the stunning historical novels
The Clearing and
The Missing, Tim Gautreaux now ranges freely through contemporary life with twelve new stories ...
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The Believer
by
Joakim Zander
Harper, 01/17/2017
Yasmine Ajam has fled her past in the rough Stockholm borough Bergort, reinventing herself as a trendspotter in New York City. One day she receives a ...
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The Fire by Night
by
Teresa Messineo
William Morrow, 01/17/2017
In war-torn France, Jo McMahon, an Italian-Irish girl from the tenements of Brooklyn, tends to six seriously wounded soldiers in a makeshift medical ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Gringo Champion
by
Aura Xilonen
Europa Editions, 01/17/2017
Liborio has to leave Mexico, a land that has taught him little more than a keen instinct for survival. He crosses the Rio Bravo, like so many others, ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson: A Novel
by
Nancy Peacock
Atria Books, 01/17/2017
I have been to hangings before, but never my own. Sitting in a jail cell on the eve of his hanging, April 1, 1875, freedman Persimmon "Persy" Wilson ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead: Stories
by
Chanelle Benz
Ecco, 01/17/2017
A brother and sister turn outlaw in a wild and brutal landscape. The daughter of a diplomat disappears and resurfaces across the world as a deadly ...
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The Nowhere Man: An Orphan X Novel
by
Gregg Hurwitz
Minotaur Books, 01/17/2017
Evan Smoak is the Nowhere Man.
Taken from a group home at twelve, Evan was raised and trained as part of the Orphan Program, an off-the-books ...
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Thrillers
Transit
by
Rachel Cusk
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 01/17/2017
In the wake of her family's collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of this upheaval is the catalyst for a number of ...
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Why?: Explaining the Holocaust
by
Peter Hayes
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/17/2017
Despite the outpouring of books, movies, museums, memorials, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, a coherent explanation of why such ghastly carnage ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
by
Melissa Fleming
Flatiron Books, 01/24/2017
Melissa Fleming shares the harrowing journey of Doaa Al Zamel, a young Syrian refugee in search of a better life. Doaa and her family leave war-torn ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Allegedly
by
Tiffany D. Jackson
Katherine Tegan Books, 01/24/2017
Mary B. Addison killed a baby.
Allegedly. She didn't say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes
by
Michael Sims
Bloomsbury USA, 01/24/2017
As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle studied in Edinburgh under the vigilant eye of a diagnostic genius, Dr. Joseph Bell. Doyle often ...
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City of Saints & Thieves
by
Natalie C. Anderson
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/24/2017
In the shadows of Sangui City, there lives a girl who doesn't exist. After fleeing the Congo as refugees, Tina and her mother arrived in Kenya looking...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Dark at the Crossing
by
Elliot Ackerman
Knopf, 01/24/2017
Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. An Arab American with a conflicted past, he is now in Turkey, attempting to cross into Syria and join the ...
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Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago
by
Anna Pasternak
Ecco, 01/24/2017
When Stalin came into power in 1924, the Communist government began persecuting dissident writers. Though Stalin spared the life of Boris Pasternak - ...
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Mexico: Stories
by
Josh Barkan
Hogarth Books, 01/24/2017
The unforgettable characters in Josh Barkan's astonishing and beautiful story collection - chef, architect, nurse, high school teacher, painter, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan
by
Ruth Gilligan
Tin House Books, 01/24/2017
At the start of the twentieth century, a young girl and her family emigrate from Lithuania in search of a better life in America, only to land on the ...
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No Man's Land
by
Simon Tolkien
Nan A. Talese, 01/24/2017
Adam Raine is a boy cursed by misfortune. His impoverished childhood in turn-of-the-century London comes to a sudden and tragic end when his mother is...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Number 11
by
Jonathan Coe
Knopf, 01/24/2017
The novel opens in the early aughts: two ten-year-olds, Alison and Rachel, have a frightening encounter with the "Mad Bird Woman" who lives down the ...
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Rise: How a House Built a Family
by
Cara Brookins
St. Martin's Press, 01/24/2017
Equipped only with YouTube instructional videos, a small bank loan, a mile-wide stubborn streak, Cara built her own house from the foundation up with ...
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The Book That Changed America: How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation
by
Randall Fuller
Viking, 01/24/2017
In early 1860, a single copy of Charles Darwin's
On the Origin of Species was read and discussed by five important American intellectuals who seized ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Fifth Petal: A Novel
by
Brunonia Barry
Crown, 01/24/2017
When a teenage boy dies suspiciously on Halloween night, Salem's chief of police, John Rafferty, now married to gifted lace reader Towner Whitney, ...
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Mysteries
The Girl Before
by
JP Delaney
Ballantine Books, 01/24/2017
Please make a list of every possession you consider essential to your life.
The request seems odd, even intrusive - and for the two women who ...
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The Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret
by
Catherine Hewitt
Thomas Dunne Books, 01/24/2017
Comtesse Valtesse de la Bigne was painted by Édouard Manet and inspired Émile Zola, who immortalized her in his scandalous novel
Nana. Her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Murderer's Ape
by
Jakob Wegelius (author), Peter Graves (translator)
Delacorte Press, 01/24/2017
Sally Jones is not only a loyal friend, she's an extraordinary individual. In overalls or in a maharaja's turban, this unique gorilla moves among ...
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The Patriots
by
Sana Krasikov
Spiegel & Grau, 01/24/2017
When the Great Depression hits, Florence Fein leaves Brooklyn College for what appears to be a plum job in Moscow - and the promise of love and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The You I've Never Known
by
Ellen Hopkins
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 01/24/2017
For as long as she can remember, it's been just Ariel and Dad. Ariel's mom disappeared when she was a baby. Dad says home is wherever the two of them ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Train I Ride
by
Paul Mosier
HarperCollins Publishers, 01/24/2017
When Rydr travels by train from Los Angeles to Chicago, she learns along the way that she can find family wherever she is.
Rydr is on a train ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Swimming Lessons
by
Claire Fuller
House of Anansi Press, 01/28/2017
Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but instead of giving them to him, she hides them in the ...
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Mysteries
4 3 2 1
by
Paul Auster
Henry Holt and Company, 01/31/2017
Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and ...
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Behind Her Eyes
by
Sarah Pinborough
Flatiron Books, 01/31/2017
Louise is a single mom, a secretary, stuck in a modern-day rut. On a rare night out, she meets a man in a bar and sparks fly. Though he leaves after ...
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Caraval
by
Stephanie Garber
Flatiron Books, 01/31/2017
Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their powerful, and cruel, father. Now Scarlett's father ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Home Sweet Home
by
April Smith
Knopf, 01/31/2017
Calvin Kusek, a WWII pilot and attorney, and his wife, Betsy, escape the 1950s conformity of New York City to relocate to a close-knit town in South ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
I Liked My Life
by
Abby Fabiaschi
St. Martin's Griffin, 01/31/2017
Maddy is a devoted stay-at-home wife and mother, host of excellent parties, giver of thoughtful gifts, and bestower of a searingly perceptive piece of...
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Our Own Private Universe
by
Robin Talley
Harcourt Children's Books, 01/31/2017
Fifteen-year-old Aki Simon has a theory. And it's mostly about sex.
No, it isn't
that kind of theory. Aki already knows she's bisexual - even...
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Rather Be the Devil: A Rebus Novel
by
Ian Rankin
Little Brown & Company, 01/31/2017
As he settles into an uneasy retirement, Rebus has given up his favorite vices. There's just one habit he can't shake: he can't let go of an ...
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Right Behind You
by
Lisa Gardner
Dutton, 01/31/2017
Is he a hero?
Eight years ago, Sharlah May Nash's older brother beat their drunken father to death with a baseball bat in order to save both of ...
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Shoes for Anthony
by
Emma Kennedy
Thomas Dunne Books, 01/31/2017
This 1944 World War Two drama tells the story of Anthony, a boy living in a deprived Welsh village, anticipating the arrival of American troops. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Snowblind: A Thriller
by
Ragnar Jonasson
Minotaur Books, 01/31/2017
Siglufjörður: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors - accessible only via a small ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Blood of Emmett Till
by
Timothy B. Tyson
Simon & Schuster, 01/31/2017
In 1955, a fourteen-year-old black boy named Emmett Till, who had come down from Chicago to visit relatives in Mississippi, was murdered by a group of...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Girl in the Garden
by
Melanie Wallace
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 01/31/2017
When June arrives on the coast of New England, baby in arms, an untrustworthy man by her side, Mabel - who rents them a cabin - senses trouble. A few ...
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The Prisoner: A John Wells Novel
by
Alex Berenson
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/31/2017
It is the most dangerous mission of John Wells's career.
Evidence is mounting that someone high up in the CIA is doing the unthinkable - passing ...
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A Few of the Girls: Stories
by
Maeve Binchy
Anchor Books, 02/07/2017
Written over a period of decades, these stories show that while times change, people often remain the same: they fall in love, sometimes unsuitably; ...
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A Separation: A Novel
by
Katie Kitamura
Riverhead Books, 02/07/2017
A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it's time for them to separate. For the moment it's a private matter, a secret between the two of...
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Age of Anger: A History of the Present
by
Pankaj Mishra
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/07/2017
How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world--from American shooters and ISIS to...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Autumn
by
Ali Smith
Pantheon Books, 02/07/2017
Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Two old friends—Daniel, a centenarian, and Elisabeth, born in 1984—look to both the future ...
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Desperation Road
by
Michael Farris Smith
Lee Boudreaux Books, 02/07/2017
For eleven years the clock has been ticking for Russell Gaines as he sits in Parchman Penitentiary in the Mississippi Delta. His sentence is now up, ...
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Garden of Lamentations: A Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James Novel
by
Deborah Crombie
William Morrow, 02/07/2017
On a beautiful morning in mid-May, the body of a young woman is found in one of Notting Hill's private gardens. To passersby, the pretty girl in the ...
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Ghachar Ghochar
by
Vivek Shanbhag (author), Srinath Perur (translator)
Penguin Books, 02/07/2017
A young man's close-knit family is nearly destitute when his uncle founds a successful spice company, changing their fortunes overnight. As they move ...
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Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
by
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Atria Books, 02/07/2017
When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Norse Mythology
by
Neil Gaiman
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/07/2017
Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he turns his attention back to the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Swiss Vendetta: An Agnes Luthi Mystery
by
Tracee de Hahn
Minotaur Books, 02/07/2017
Inspector Agnes Lüthi, a Swiss-American police officer in Lausanne, Switzerland, has just transferred to the Violent Crimes unit from Financial ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance
by
Anders Rydell (Author), Henning Koch (Translator)
Viking, 02/07/2017
While the Nazi party was being condemned by much of the world for burning books, they were already hard at work perpetrating an even greater literary ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Clairvoyants
by
Karen Brown
Henry Holt and Company, 02/07/2017
On the family homestead by the sea where she grew up, Martha Mary saw ghosts. As a young woman, she hopes to distance herself from those spirits by ...
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The Coming
by
David Osborne
Bloomsbury USA, 02/07/2017
The Coming is an epic novel of native-white relations in North America, intimately told through the life of Daytime Smoke -the real-life red-haired ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Evening Road
by
Laird Hunt
Little Brown & Company, 02/07/2017
Meet Ottie Lee Henshaw, a startling, challenging beauty in small-town Indiana. Quick of mind, she navigates a stifling marriage, a lecherous boss, and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Freedom Broker: A Thea Paris Novel
by
K.J. Howe
Quercus, 02/07/2017
Twenty years ago, a terrified young boy was abducted in the middle of the night by masked intruders while his sister watched, paralyzed with fear. ...
more
The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia
by
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Penguin Books, 02/07/2017
Born across the street from the Kremlin in the opulent Metropol Hotel - the setting of the New York Times bestselling novel
A Gentleman in Moscow by ...
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The Impossible Fortress
by
Jason Rekulak
Simon & Schuster, 02/07/2017
Billy Marvin's first love was a computer. Then he met Mary Zelinsky.
Do you remember your first love?
The Impossible Fortress begins with a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Lonely Hearts Hotel
by
Heather O'Neill
Riverhead Books, 02/07/2017
The Lonely Hearts Hotel is a love story with the power of legend. An unparalleled tale of charismatic pianos, invisible dance partners, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory, and Love
by
Michael D. Lemonick
Doubleday, 02/07/2017
Lonni Sue Johnson was a renowned artist who regularly produced covers for
The New Yorker, a gifted musician, a skilled amateur pilot, and a joyful ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Possessions
by
Sara Flannery Murphy
Harper, 02/07/2017
In an unnamed city, Eurydice works for the Elysian Society, a private service that allows grieving clients to reconnect with lost loved ones. She and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Sensational Past: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses
by
Carolyn Purnell
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/07/2017
Blindfolding children from birth? Playing a piano made of live cats? Using tobacco to cure drowning? Wearing "flea"-colored clothes? These actions may...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Stolen Child
by
Lisa Carey
Harper Perennial, 02/07/2017
May 1959. From one side of St. Brigid's Island, the mountains of Connemara can be glimpsed on the distant mainland; from the other, the Atlantic ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Unseeing
by
Anna Mazzola
Sourcebooks, 02/07/2017
Something is keeping Sarah Gale silent despite the risk of a death sentence. Is it guilt? Fear? Love?
Sentenced to hang for her alleged role in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Woman Next Door
by
Yewande Omotoso
Picador, 02/07/2017
Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbors. One is black, the other white. Both are successful women with impressive careers. Both have ...
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To Name Those Lost
by
Rohan Wilson
Europa Editions, 02/07/2017
It is the summer of 1874. Launceston, a colonial outpost on the southern Australian island of Tasmania, hovers on the brink of anarchy, teeming with ...
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Universal Harvester
by
John Darnielle
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/07/2017
Jeremy works at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa. It's a small town in the center of the state - the first
a in Nevada pronounced
ay. This is the late ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
What You Break: A Gus Murphy Novel
by
Reed Farrel Coleman
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 02/07/2017
Gus Murphy and his girlfriend, Magdalena, are put in harm's way when Gus is caught up in the distant aftershocks of heinous crimes committed decades ...
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A Divided Spy: A Thomas Kell Novel
by
Charles Cumming
St. Martin's Press, 02/14/2017
Thomas Kell thought he was done with spying. A former MI6 officer, he devoted his life to the Service, but it has left him with nothing but grief and ...
more
All That's Left to Tell
by
Daniel Lowe
Flatiron Books, 02/14/2017
What if you had the chance to re-imagine your past?
Every night, Marc Laurent, an American taken hostage in Pakistan, is bound and blindfolded. And...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
American Street
by
Ibi Zoboi
Balzer + Bray, 02/14/2017
In this stunning debut novel, Pushcart-nominated author Ibi Zoboi draws on her own experience as a young Haitian immigrant, infusing this lyrical ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Among the Ruins: A Rachel Getty and Esa Khattak Mystery
by
Ausma Zehanat Khan
Minotaur Books, 02/14/2017
On leave from Canada's Community Policing department, Esa Khattak is traveling in Iran, reconnecting with his cultural heritage and seeking peace in ...
more
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
by
Bill Schutt
Algonquin Books, 02/14/2017
Throughout history we have engaged in cannibalism for reasons related to famine, burial rites, and medicine. Cannibalism has also been used as a form ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Gilded Cage: Dark Gifts
by
Vic James
Del Rey, 02/14/2017
NOT ALL ARE FREE.
NOT ALL ARE EQUAL.
NOT ALL WILL BE SAVED.
Our world belongs to the Equals - aristocrats with magical gifts - and all commoners ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
One Good Mama Bone: A Novel
by
Bren McClain
Story River Books, 02/14/2017
Set in early 1950s rural South Carolina,
One Good Mama Bone chronicles Sarah Creamer's quest to find her "mama bone," after she is left to care for a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Shadowbahn
by
Steve Erickson
Blue Rider Press, 02/14/2017
When the Twin Towers suddenly reappear in the Badlands of South Dakota twenty years after their fall, nobody can explain their return. To the hundreds...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life
by
Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
Ecco, 02/14/2017
Christine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a headache on New Year's Eve 2006. By that afternoon, she saw the world - quite literally - upside down. By New ...
more
The Fortunate Ones
by
Ellen Umansky
William Morrow, 02/14/2017
It is 1939 in Vienna, and as the specter of war darkens Europe, Rose Zimmer's parents are desperate. Unable to get out of Austria, they manage to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims
by
Mustafa Akyol
St. Martin's Press, 02/14/2017
When Reza Aslan's bestseller
Zealot came out in 2013, there was criticism that he hadn't addressed his Muslim faith while writing the origin story of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Year of the Comet
by
Sergei Lebedev
New Vessel Press, 02/14/2017
An idyllic childhood takes a sinister turn. Rumors of a serial killer haunt the neighborhood, families pack up and leave town without a word of ...
more
We Are Okay
by
Nina LaCour
Dutton, 02/14/2017
You go through life thinking there's so much you need... Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother.
Marin ...
more
Colour Bar: The True Story of a Love That Shook an Empire
by
Susan Williams
Penguin UK, 02/15/2017
London, 1945: the heir apparent to the kingship of Bechuanaland (later Botswana) arrives in Britain to complete his legal studies. Seretse Khama, an ...
more
When Morning Comes
by
Arushi Raina
Tradewind Books, 02/15/2017
It's 1976 in South Africa, and four young people are living in Johannesburg and its black township, Soweto: Zanele, a black female student organizer; ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Horse Walks into a Bar: A novel
by
David Grossman
Knopf, 02/21/2017
In a little dive in a small Israeli city, Dov Greenstein, a comedian a bit past his prime, is doing a night of stand-up. In the audience is a district...
more
Literary Fiction
Beautiful Broken Girls
by
Kim Savage
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/21/2017
Mira and Francesca Cillo were beautiful, overprotected by their father, and, frankly, odd. To the neighborhood boys they seemed untouchable. But one ...
more
Convergence: The Deepest Idea in the Universe
by
Peter Watson
Simon & Schuster, 02/21/2017
Convergence is a history of modern science with an original and significant twist. Various scientific disciplines, despite their very different ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Dreamland Burning
by
Jennifer Latham
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 02/21/2017
When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will ...
more
Homo Deus
by
Yuval Noah Harari
Harper, 02/21/2017
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the bestselling
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Last Day on Earth: Stories
by
Eric Puchner
Scribner, 02/21/2017
A boy on the edge of adolescence fears his mother might be a robot; a psychotically depressed woman is entrusted with taking her niece and nephew ...
more
Running
by
Cara Hoffman
Simon & Schuster, 02/21/2017
Running brings together an ensemble of outsiders who get by as "runners" - hustlers who sell tourists on low-end accommodations for a small commission...
more
Rusty Puppy: A Hap Collins and Leonard Pine Nobel
by
Joe R. Lansdale
Mulholland, 02/21/2017
While Hap, a former 60s activist and self-proclaimed white trash rebel, is recovering from a life-threatening stab wound, Louise Elton comes into Hap ...
more
Setting Free the Kites
by
Alex George
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 02/21/2017
For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first day of eighth grade, he meets Nathan Tilly...
more
Shining City
by
Tom Rosenstiel
Ecco, 02/21/2017
Peter Rena is a "fixer." He and his partner, Randi Brooks, earn their living making the problems of the powerful disappear. They get their biggest job...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Book of Mirrors
by
E. O. Chirovici
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 02/21/2017
When literary agent Peter Katz receives a partial book submission entitled
The Book of Mirrors, he is intrigued by its promise and original voice. The...
more
The Education of Margot Sanchez
by
Lilliam Rivera
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 02/21/2017
Things/People Margot Hates:
Mami, for destroying her social life
Papi, for allowing Junior to become a Neanderthal
Junior, for becoming a ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing
by
Damion Searls
Crown, 02/21/2017
In 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind. For years he had ...
more
The World to Come: Stories
by
Jim Shepard
Knopf, 02/21/2017
These ten stories ring with voices belonging to - among others - English Arctic explorers in one of history's most nightmarish expeditions, a young ...
more
Traveling with Ghosts: A Memoir
by
Shannon Leone Fowler
Simon & Schuster, 02/21/2017
In the summer of 2002, Shannon Leone Fowler, a twenty-eight-year-old marine biologist, was backpacking with her fiancé and love of her life, Sean...
more
10 Things I Can See From Here
by
Carrie Mac
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 02/28/2017
Think positive.
Don't worry; be happy.
Keep calm and carry on.
Maeve has heard it all before. She's been struggling with severe anxiety for a ...
more
Cravings: How I Conquered Food
by
Judy Collins
Nan A. Talese, 02/28/2017
Since childhood Judy Collins has had a tumultuous, fraught relationship with food. Her issues with overeating nearly claimed her career and her life. ...
more
Everything Belongs to Us
by
Yoojin Grace Wuertz
Random House, 02/28/2017
Seoul, 1978. At South Korea's top university, the nation's best and brightest compete to join the professional elite of an authoritarian regime. ...
more
June: A Novel
by
Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
Broadway Books, 02/28/2017
Cassie Danvers is holed up in her family's crumbling mansion in small-town Ohio, mourning the loss of her grandmother, June. But the noise of the ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Fifth Element: An Odd Singsaker Novel
by
Jorgen Brekke
Minotaur Books, 02/28/2017
Police Inspector Odd Singsaker has been captured, imprisoned on an island off the Northern coast of Norway. He wakes to find himself holding a shotgun...
more
The Hate U Give
by
Angie Thomas
Balzer + Bray, 02/28/2017
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The ...
more
The Horseman
by
Tim Pears
Bloomsbury USA, 02/28/2017
Somerset, 1911. The forces of war are building across Europe, but this pocket of England, where the rhythms of lives are dictated by the seasons and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Typewriter's Tale
by
Michiel Heyns
St. Martin's Press, 02/28/2017
"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to."
This is the maxim of celebrated author Henry James and one which his typist Frieda Wroth tries to live ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Waking Lions
by
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Little Brown & Company, 02/28/2017
Neurosurgeon Eitan Green has the perfect life - married to a beautiful police officer and father of two young boys. Then, speeding along a deserted ...
more
To Lay To Rest Our Ghosts: Stories
by
Caitlin Hamilton Summie
Fomite, 03/01/2017
In these ten elegantly written short stories, Caitlin Hamilton Summie takes readers from WWII Kansas City to a poor, drug-ridden neighborhood in New ...
more
A Contract with God: And Other Tenement Stories (The Will Eisner Library)
by
Will Eisner
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/07/2017
Will Eisner was present at the dawn of comics. In the 1940s, he pushed the boundaries of the medium with his acclaimed weekly comic strip
The Spirit, ...
more
Graphic Novels
All Grown Up
by
Jami Attenberg
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 03/07/2017
Who is Andrea Bern? When her therapist asks the question, Andrea knows the right things to say: she's a designer, a friend, a daughter, a sister. But ...
more
Bit Rot: stories + essays
by
Douglas Coupland
Blue Rider Press, 03/07/2017
"Bit rot" is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose. As Douglas Coupland writes, "...
more
Blue Light Yokohama
by
Nicolas Obregon
Minotaur Books, 03/07/2017
A compelling, brilliantly moody, layered debut.
Newly reinstated to the Homicide Division and transferred to a precinct in Tokyo, Inspector Iwata ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Celine
by
Peter Heller
Knopf, 03/07/2017
Working out of her jewel box of an apartment at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge, Celine has made a career of tracking down missing persons, and she ...
more
Close Enough to Touch
by
Colleen Oakley
Gallery Books, 03/07/2017
Love has no boundaries...
Jubilee Jenkins has a rare condition: she's allergic to human touch. After a nearly fatal accident, she became reclusive,...
more
Duck Season: Eating, Drinking, and Other Misadventures in Gascony--France's Last Best Place
by
David McAninch
Harper, 03/07/2017
Though he'd been a card-carrying Francophile all of his life, David McAninch knew little about Gascony, an ancient region in Southwest France mostly ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Exit West
by
Mohsin Hamid
Riverhead Books, 03/07/2017
In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet - sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They ...
more
Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of History's Greatest Buildings
by
James Crawford
Picador, 03/07/2017
Buildings are more like us than we realize. They can be born into wealth or poverty, enjoying every privilege or struggling to make ends meet. They ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Gizelle's Bucket List: My Life with a Very Large Dog
by
Lauren Fern Watt
Simon & Schuster, 03/07/2017
Lauren Watt took her 160-pound English Mastiff to college - so of course after graduation, Gizelle followed Lauren to her first, tiny apartment in New...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
by
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 03/07/2017
Emotions feel automatic, like uncontrollable reactions to things we think and experience. Scientists have long supported this assumption by claiming ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Ill Will
by
Dan Chaon
Ballantine Books, 03/07/2017
"We are always telling a story
to ourselves, about ourselves." This is one of the little mantras Dustin Tillman likes to share with his patients, and ...
more
In the Name of the Family: A Novel
by
Sarah Dunant
Random House, 03/07/2017
Bestselling novelist Sarah Dunant has long been drawn to the high drama of Renaissance Italy: power, passion, beauty, brutality, and the ties of blood...
more
Historical Fiction
Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story
by
Steven Hatch M.D.
St. Martin's Press, 03/07/2017
Inferno is a glimpse into the white-hot center of a crisis that will come again.
Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013, to work ...
more
Lenin's Roller Coaster: A Jack McColl Novel
by
David Downing
Soho Press, 03/07/2017
Winter 1917: As a generation of Europe's young men perish on the Eastern and Western fronts, British spy Jack McColl is assigned a sabotage mission ...
more
Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
by
Helene Cooper
Little Simon, 03/07/2017
When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won the 2005 Liberian presidential election, she demolished a barrier few thought possible, obliterating centuries of ...
more
Mister Memory: A Novel
by
Marcus Sedgwick
Pegasus Books, 03/07/2017
In Paris in the year 1899, Marcel Després is arrested for the murder of his wife and transferred to the famous Salpetriere Asylum. And there the ...
more
Next Year, for Sure
by
Zoey Leigh Peterson
Scribner, 03/07/2017
After nine years together, Kathryn and Chris have the sort of relationship most would envy. They speak in the shorthand they have invented, complete ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Quicksand
by
Malin Persson Giolito
Other Press, 03/07/2017
Named the Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year
A mass shooting has taken place at a prep school in Stockholm's wealthiest suburb. Maja Norberg is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Rabbit Cake
by
Annie Hartnett
Tin House Books, 03/07/2017
Twelve-year-old Elvis Babbitt has a head for the facts: she knows science proves yellow is the happiest color, she knows a healthy male giraffe weighs...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Say Nothing
by
Brad Parks
Dutton, 03/07/2017
Judge Scott Sampson doesn't brag about having a perfect life, but the evidence is clear: A prestigious job. A beloved family. On an ordinary Wednesday...
more
South and West: From a Notebook
by
Joan Didion
Knopf, 03/07/2017
Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, drafts of essays and articles - and here is one such draft ...
more
Spaceman of Bohemia
by
Jaroslav Kalfar
Little Brown & Company, 03/07/2017
Orphaned as a boy, raised in the Czech countryside by his doting grandparents, Jakub Procházka has risen from small-time scientist to become the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Barrowfields
by
Phillip Lewis
Hogarth Books, 03/07/2017
Just before Henry Aster's birth, his father - outsized literary ambition and pregnant wife in tow - reluctantly returns to the small Appalachian town ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
by
Dan Egan
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/07/2017
The Great Lakes - Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Superior - hold 20 percent of the world's supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Inheritance: A Family on the Front Lines of the Battle Against Alzheimer's Disease
by
Niki Kapsambelis
Simon & Schuster, 03/07/2017
Every sixty-nine seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Of the top ten killers, it is the only disease for which there is no cure or ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Lucky Ones
by
Julianne Pachico
Spiegel & Grau, 03/07/2017
While her parents are away, a teenager finds herself home alone, with the household staff mysteriously gone, no phone connection, and news of an ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Mermaid's Daughter
by
Ann Claycomb
William Morrow Paperbacks, 03/07/2017
Kathleen has always been dramatic. She suffers from the bizarre malady of experiencing stabbing pain in her feet. On her sixteenth birthday, she woke ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Night Ocean
by
Paul La Farge
Penguin Press, 03/07/2017
Marina Willett, M.D., has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft, in particular with one episode in the legendary ...
more
The Roanoke Girls
by
Amy Engel
Crown, 03/07/2017
"Roanoke girls never last long around here. In the end, we either run or we die."
After her mother's suicide, fifteen year-old Lane Roanoke came to...
more
The Weight of This World
by
David Joy
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/07/2017
A combat veteran returned from war, Thad Broom can't leave the hardened world of Afghanistan behind, nor can he forgive himself for what he saw there....
more
Ties
by
Domenico Starnone (Author), Jhumpa Lahiri (Translator)
Europa Editions, 03/07/2017
They were young and in love and they sought freedom from their families. They married, but as middle-age and family obligations set in and the world ...
more
Ultimatum
by
K.M. Walton
Sourcebooks, 03/07/2017
It's not Oscar's fault he's misunderstood. Ever since his mother died, he's been disrespected by his father and bullied by his self-absorbed older ...
more
WHEREAS: Poems
by
Layli Long Soldier
Graywolf Press, 03/07/2017
WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World
by
Benjamin Reiss
Basic Books, 03/07/2017
Today we define a good night's sleep very narrowly: eight hours in one shot, sealed off in private bedrooms, children apart from parents. But for most...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Before the War
by
Fay Weldon
St. Martin's Press, 03/14/2017
Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can travel to London and bribe a charismatic gentleman publisher to marry her. What he does not know is that ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Every Wild Heart
by
Meg Donohue
William Morrow, 03/14/2017
Passionate and funny, radio personality Gail Gideon is a true original. Nine years ago when Gail's husband announced that he wanted a divorce, her ...
more
Hello, Universe
by
Erin Entrada Kelly
Greenwillow Books, 03/14/2017
Told from four intertwining points of view—two boys and two girls—the novel celebrates bravery, being different, and finding your inner
...more
Heretics
by
Leonardo Padura
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/14/2017
In 1939, the
Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking asylum from the Nazi regime. From the docks, ...
more
Himself
by
Jess Kidd
Atria Books, 03/14/2017
Having been abandoned on the steps of an orphanage as an infant, lovable car thief and Dublin charmer Mahony assumed all his life that his mother had ...
more
In This Grave Hour: A Maisie Dobbs Novel
by
Jacqueline Winspear
Harper, 03/14/2017
Sunday September 3rd 1939. At the moment Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britain's declaration of war with Germany, ...
more
Jerzy
by
Jerome Charyn
Bellevue Literary Press, 03/14/2017
Jerzy Kosinski was a great enigma of post-World War II literature. When he exploded onto the American literary scene in 1965 with his best-selling ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Maid of the King's Court
by
Lucy Worsley
Candlewick Press, 03/14/2017
Clever, headstrong Elizabeth Rose Camperdowne knows her duty. As the sole heiress to an old but impoverished noble family, Eliza must marry a man of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Mikhail and Margarita
by
Julie Himes
Europa Editions, 03/14/2017
It is 1933 and Mikhail Bulgakov's enviable career is on the brink of being dismantled. His friend and mentor, the poet Osip Mandelstam, has been ...
more
Never Let You Go
by
Chevy Stevens
St. Martin's Press, 03/14/2017
Eleven years ago, Lindsey Nash escaped into the night with her young daughter and left an abusive relationship. Her ex-husband, Andrew, was sent to ...
more
One of the Boys
by
Daniel Magariel
Scribner, 03/14/2017
The three of them - a twelve-year-old boy, his older brother, their father—have won
the war: the father's term for his bitter divorce and custody...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Skeleton God: An Inspector Shan Tao Yun Mystery
by
Eliot Pattison
Minotaur Books, 03/14/2017
In an ancient tomb by the old nun lies a gilded saint buried centuries earlier, flanked by the remains of a Chinese soldier killed fifty years before ...
more
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace
by
Patty Yumi Cottrell
McSweeney's Books, 03/14/2017
Helen Moran is thirty-two years old, single, childless, college educated, and partially employed as a guardian of troubled young people in New York. ...
more
Swimmer Among the Stars: Stories
by
Kanishk Tharoor
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/14/2017
In one of the singularly imaginative stories from Kanishk Tharoor's
Swimmer Among the Stars, despondent diplomats entertain themselves by playing ...
more
Temporary People
by
Deepak Unnikrishnan
Restless Books, 03/14/2017
Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing
In the United Arab Emirates, foreign nationals constitute over 80 percent of the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human
by
Adam Piore
Ecco, 03/14/2017
In
The Body Builders, Adam Piore takes us on a fascinating journey into the field of bioengineering - which can be used to reverse engineer, rebuild, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Book of Polly
by
Kathy Hepinstall
Pamela Dorman Books, 03/14/2017
Willow Havens is ten years old and obsessed with the fear that her mother will die. Her mother, Polly, is a cantankerous, take-no-prisoners Southern ...
more
The Fall of Lisa Bellow
by
Susan Perabo
Simon & Schuster, 03/14/2017
What happens to the girl left behind?
A masked man with a gun enters a sandwich shop in broad daylight, and Meredith Oliver suddenly finds herself ...
more
The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future
by
Joselin Linder
Ecco, 03/14/2017
When Joselin Linder was in her twenties her legs suddenly started to swell. After years of misdiagnoses, doctors discovered a deadly blockage in her ...
more
The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea
by
Jack E. Davis
Liveright / WW Norton, 03/14/2017
When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented itself ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Idiot
by
Elif Batuman
Penguin Books, 03/14/2017
The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in ...
more
The Loving Husband
by
Christobel Kent
Sarah Crichton Books, 03/14/2017
Moving uneasily through the drafty rooms, searching for her husband, Fran soon makes a devastating discovery that upends her marriage and any ...
more
The Wanderers
by
Meg Howrey
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/14/2017
In an age of space exploration, we search to find ourselves.
In four years, aerospace giant Prime Space will put the first humans on Mars. Helen Kane...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Woman on the Stairs
by
Bernhard Schlink
Pantheon Books, 03/14/2017
As a young lawyer, the nameless protagonist of
The Woman on the Stairs became entangled in the affairs of three people mired in a complex and ...
more
White Tears
by
Hari Kunzru
Knopf, 03/14/2017
Two twenty-something New Yorkers. Seth is awkward and shy. Carter is the glamorous heir to one of America's great fortunes. They have one thing in ...
more
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
by
Kory Stamper
Pantheon Books, 03/14/2017
While most of us might take dictionaries for granted, the process of writing them is in fact as lively and dynamic as language itself. With sharp wit ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Twentieth Day of January
by
Ted Allbeury
Dover Publications, 03/20/2017
It's 1980 and the Cold War continues to rage. Seemingly out of nowhere, wealthy businessman Logan Powell has become President-elect and is only weeks ...
more
Blood Family
by
Anne Fine
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 03/21/2017
Edward is four years old when he is locked away with his mother by her abusive, alcoholic partner, Harris. By the time an elderly neighbor spots his ...
more
City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
by
Holly Tucker
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/21/2017
Appointed to conquer the "crime capital of the world," the first police chief of Paris faces an epidemic of murder in the late 1600s. Assigned by ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Find Me
by
J.S. Monroe
Mira Books, 03/21/2017
Sometimes we choose to see only what we want. Sometimes what we see changes the way we look at everything…
Jarlath "Jar" Costello's ...
more
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
by
Paul Watson
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/21/2017
Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845 - whose two ships and crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice - with...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lola
by
Melissa Scrivner Love
Crown, 03/21/2017
The Crenshaw Six are a small but up-and-coming gang in South Central LA who have recently been drawn into an escalating war between rival drug cartels...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Nemesis: Project Nemesis Book One
by
Brendan Reichs
Putnam Juvenile, 03/21/2017
It's been happening since Min was eight. Every two years, on her birthday, a strange man finds her and murders her in cold blood. But hours later...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Our Short History
by
Lauren Grodstein
Algonquin Books, 03/21/2017
Karen Neulander, a successful New York political consultant, has always been fiercely protective of her son, Jacob, now six. She's had to be: when ...
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The Arrangement
by
Sarah Dunn
Little Brown & Company, 03/21/2017
Lucy and Owen, ambitious, thoroughly-therapized New Yorkers, have taken the plunge, trading in their crazy life in a cramped apartment for Beekman, a ...
more
The Devil and Webster
by
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Grand Central Publishing, 03/21/2017
Naomi Roth is the first female president of Webster College, a once conservative school now known for producing fired-up, progressive graduates. So ...
more
The Gargoyle Hunters
by
John Freeman Gill
Knopf, 03/21/2017
Intimately portraying New York's elbow-jostling relationship with time, the novel solves the mystery of a brazen and seemingly impossible ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The River of Kings
by
Taylor Brown
St. Martin's Griffin, 03/21/2017
The Altamaha River, Georgia's "Little Amazon," is one of the last truly wild places in America. Crossed by roads only five times in its 137 miles, ...
more
Vicious Circle: A Joe Pickett Novel
by
C. J. Box
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/21/2017
The plane circled in the dark. Joe Pickett could just make out down below a figure in the snow and timber, and then three other figures closing in. ...more
Wait Till You See Me Dance: Stories
by
Deb Olin Unferth
Graywolf Press, 03/21/2017
For more than ten years, Deb Olin Unferth has been publishing startlingly askew, wickedly comic, cutting-edge fiction in magazines such as Granta, ...
more
Slipping
by
John Toomey
Dalkey Archive Press, 03/24/2017
When Albert Jackson, a middle-aged school teacher, catches a glimpse of the infinite universe and his own tiny insignificance he cannot shake himself ...
more
Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste
by
Bianca Bosker
Penguin Books, 03/28/2017
Amateur drinker and professional tech reporter Bianca Bosker didn't know much about wine - until she stumbled on an alternate universe where taste ...
more
Honestly Ben
by
Bill Konigsberg
Arthur A. Levine Books, 03/28/2017
Ben Carver is back to normal. He's working steadily in his classes at the Natick School. He just got elected captain of the baseball team. He's even ...
more
Just Fly Away
by
Andrew McCarthy
Algonquin Books, 03/28/2017
When fifteen-year-old Lucy Willows discovers that her father has a child from a brief affair, an eight-year-old boy named Thomas who lives in her own ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Lenin on the Train
by
Catherine Merridale
Metropolitan Books, 03/28/2017
In April 1917, as the Russian Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future leader of the Bolshevik revolution ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
My Darling Detective
by
Howard Norman
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 03/28/2017
Jacob Rigolet, a soon-to-be former assistant to a wealthy art collector, looks up from his seat at an auction - his mother, former head librarian...
more
Overturned
by
Lamar Giles
Scholastic, 03/28/2017
Nikki Tate is infamous, even by Las Vegas standards. Her dad is sitting on death row, convicted of killing his best friend in a gambling dispute ...
more
Radio Silence
by
Alice Oseman
HarperTeen, 03/28/2017
Frances Janvier spends most of her time studying.
Everyone knows Aled Last as that quiet boy who gets straight As.
You probably think that they ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Devil's Feast: A Blake and Avery Novel #3
by
M.J. Carter
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/28/2017
London, 1842. Captain William Avery is persuaded to investigate a mysterious and horrible death at the Reform, London's newest and grandest gentleman'...
more
The Satanic Mechanic: A Tannie Maria Mystery
by
Sally Andrew
Ecco, 03/28/2017
Meet Tannie Maria - recipe writer turned crime fighter - and before she has time to take her Venus Chocolate Cake out of the oven, our glorious ...
more
Mysteries
What Girls Are Made of
by
Elana K. Arnold
Carolrhoda Books, 04/01/2017
When Nina Faye was fourteen, her mother told her there was no such thing as unconditional love. Nina believed her. Now Nina is sixteen. And she'll do ...
more
Raptor: A Journey through Birds
by
James Macdonald Lockhart
University Of Chicago Press, 04/03/2017
From the merlin to the golden eagle, the goshawk to the honey buzzard, James Macdonald Lockhart's stunning debut is a quest of beak, talon, wing, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
A Fever of the Blood
by
Oscar de Muriel
Pegasus Books, 04/04/2017
New Year's Day, 1889.
In Edinburgh's lunatic asylum, a patient escapes as a nurse lays dying. Leading the manhunt are legendary local Detective '...
more
A Little More Human
by
Fiona Maazel
Graywolf Press, 04/04/2017
Meet Phil Snyder: new father, nursing assistant at a cutting-edge biotech facility on Staten Island, and all-around decent guy. Trouble is, his life ...
more
A Welcome Murder
by
Robin Yocum
Prometheus Books, 04/04/2017
After his unspectacular professional baseball career ends with a knee injury in Toledo, Ohio, Johnny Earl gets busted for selling cocaine. After ...
more
Alex, Approximately
by
Jenn Bennett
Simon Pulse, 04/04/2017
Classic movie buff Bailey "Mink" Rydell has spent months crushing on a witty film geek she only knows online by "Alex." Two coasts separate the teens ...
more
American War
by
Omar El Akkad
Knopf, 04/04/2017
Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Border Child
by
Michel Stone
Nan A. Talese, 04/04/2017
Young lovers Héctor and Lilia dreamed of a brighter future for their family in the United States. Héctor left Mexico first, to secure work ...
more
But Then I Came Back
by
Estelle Laure
Houghton Mifflin Books For Younger Readers, 04/04/2017
"Something does exist. I saw. It's a place. Like this but different.""Okay, so let's say we do reach her, that something like that is even possible. ...more
Castle of Water
by
Dane Huckelbridge
Thomas Dunne Books, 04/04/2017
For Sophie Ducel, her honeymoon in French Polynesia was intended as a celebration of life. The proud owner of a thriving Parisian architecture firm, ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Earthly Remains: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
by
Donna Leon
Atlantic Monthly Press, 04/04/2017
Donna Leon's bestselling mystery novels set in Venice have won a multitude of fans for their insider's portrayal of La Serenissima. From family meals ...
more
Gem & Dixie
by
Sara Zarr
Balzer + Bray, 04/04/2017
Gem has never known what it is to have security. She's never known an adult she can truly rely on. But the one constant in her life has been Dixie. ...
more
Living in the Weather of the World: Stories
by
Richard Bausch
Knopf, 04/04/2017
From the prize-winning novelist and universally acclaimed short story writer ("Richard Bausch is a master of the short story" --
The New York Times ...more
Marlena
by
Julie Buntin
Henry Holt and Company, 04/04/2017
Everything about fifteen-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter, until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
My Italian Bulldozer
by
Alexander McCall Smith
Pantheon Books, 04/04/2017
Paul Stuart, a renowned food writer, finds himself at loose ends after his longtime girlfriend leaves him for her personal trainer. To cheer him up, ...
more
My Last Lament
by
James William Brown
Berkley Books, 04/04/2017
Aliki is one of the last of her kind, a lamenter who mourns and celebrates the passing of life. She is part of an evolving Greece, one moving steadily...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Prussian Blue: A Bernie Gunther Novel
by
Philip Kerr
Marian Wood Books, 04/04/2017
The French Riviera, 1956: The invitation to dinner was not unexpected, though neither was it welcome. Erich Mielke, deputy head of the East ...
more
Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution
by
Peter Andreas
Simon & Schuster, 04/04/2017
Carol Andreas was a traditional 1950s housewife from a small Mennonite town in central Kansas who became a radical feminist and Marxist revolutionary....
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Silver and Salt
by
Elanor Dymott
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/04/2017
"There was a child in our courtyard. I saw a child there, standing by the fountain. She was there, then she was gone."
On the death of the ...
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Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays
by
Mary Gaitskill
Pantheon Books, 04/04/2017
Here is Mary Gaitskill the essayist: witty, direct, penetrating to the core of each issue, personality, or literary trope (On Updike: "It's as if [he]...
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Sympathy
by
Olivia Sudjic
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 04/04/2017
At twenty-three, Alice Hare leaves England for New York. She becomes fixated on Mizuko Himura, a Japanese writer living in New York, whose&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Tell Me How This Ends Well
by
David Samuel Levinson
Hogarth Books, 04/04/2017
In 2022, Jewish Americans face an increasingly unsafe landscape. A flood of Israeli refugees into the country has brought deep hostilities and latent ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The End of the Day
by
Claire North
Redhook, 04/04/2017
You might meet him in a hospital, in a warzone, or at the scene of a traffic accident.
Then again, you might meet him at the North Pole - he gets ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
by
Frances FitzGerald
Simon & Schuster, 04/04/2017
This groundbreaking book from Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Frances FitzGerald is the first to tell the powerful, dramatic story of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Half Wives
by
Stacia Pelletier
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 04/04/2017
Former Lutheran minister Henry Plageman is a master secret keeper and a man wracked by grief. He and his wife, Marilyn, tragically lost their young ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Nest
by
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Ecco, 04/04/2017
Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Romance Reader's Guide to Life
by
Sharon Pywell
Flatiron Books, 04/04/2017
As a young girl, Neave was often stuck in a world that didn't know what to do with her. As her mother not unkindly told her, she was never going to ...
more
Literary Fiction
What To Do About The Solomons
by
Bethany Ball
Atlantic Monthly Press, 04/04/2017
Meet Marc Solomon, an Israeli ex-Navy commando now living in L.A., who is falsely accused of money laundering through his asset management firm. As ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City
by
Drew Philp
Scribner, 04/11/2017
Drew Philp, an idealistic college student from a working-class Michigan family, withdraws from the comforts of life on a university campus in search ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Beck
by
Mal Peet
Candlewick Press, 04/11/2017
Born of a brief encounter between a Liverpool prostitute and an African soldier in 1907, Beck finds himself orphaned as a young boy and sent overseas ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Cave Dwellers
by
Richard Grant
Knopf, 04/11/2017
In late 1937, the young lieutenant Oskar Langweil is recruited to this cause while attending a party at the lavish home of a baroness. A high-ranking...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Cruel Is the Night
by
Karo Hamalainen
Soho Press, 04/11/2017
Three cell phones ring in an opulent London apartment. The calls go unanswered because their recipients are all dead.
Earlier that night, four ...
more
Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family
by
Bruce D. Haynes
Columbia University Press, 04/11/2017
Sociologist Bruce D. Haynes and coauthor Syma Solovitch capture the tides of change that pushed blacks forward through the twentieth century - the ...
more
Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
by
Dani Shapiro
Knopf, 04/11/2017
Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by time - abraded, strengthened, shaped in miraculous and sometimes terrifying ways by ...
more
Kingdom of the Young
by
Edie Meidav
Sarabande Books, 04/11/2017
In a symphonic stream of consciousness, a fanatical child army loses faith in its commander as he ages unforgivably into his thirties. A woman ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun
by
Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Cassava Republic Press, 04/11/2017
Almost seventy-five, she has a zest for life and enjoys road trips in her vintage Porsche. But when Morayo has an accident, crushing her independence,...
more
Literary Fiction
Often I Am Happy
by
Jens Christian Grøndahl
Twelve Books, 04/11/2017
"Often I am happy and yet I want to cry; / For no heart fully shares my joy." -B.S. Ingemann
Ellinor is seventy. Her husband Georg has just passed ...
more
The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
by
Marcus du Sautoy
Viking, 04/11/2017
Ever since the dawn of civilization we have been driven by a desire to know—to understand the physical world and the laws of nature. But are ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Horse Dancer
by
Jojo Moyes
Penguin Books, 04/11/2017
When Sarah's grandfather gives her a beautiful horse named Boo - hoping that one day she'll follow in his footsteps to join an elite French riding ...
more
The Shadow Land
by
Elizabeth Kostova
Ballantine Books, 04/11/2017
A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Woman in Cabin 10
by
Ruth Ware
Gallery/Scout Press, 04/11/2017
Travel magazine writer Lo Blacklock has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: one week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The ...
more
Thrillers
Three Envelopes: A Thriller
by
Nir Hezroni
Thomas Dunne Books, 04/11/2017
Agent 10483 carried out his missions perfectly. Too perfectly. So perfectly that he needed to be stopped...
When Avner, a top agent in The ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Void Star
by
Zachary Mason
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/11/2017
Not far in the future the seas have risen and the central latitudes are emptying, but it's still a good time to be rich in San Francisco, where ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Line Made by Walking
by
Sara Baume
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 04/18/2017
Struggling to cope with urban life-and life in general-Frankie, a twenty-something artist, retreats to her family's rural house on "turbine hill," ...
more
Adapt: How Humans Are Tapping into Nature's Secrets to Design and Build a Better Future
by
Amina Khan
St. Martin's Press, 04/18/2017
Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In
Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
All the Beloved Ghosts
by
Alison Macleod
Bloomsbury USA, 04/18/2017
Evocative, sensual, and tender, these stories confront our reality culture and interrogate our relationship with iconic figures, coming to life at the...
more
Grendel's Guide to Love and War
by
A. E. Kaplan
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 04/18/2017
Tom Grendel lives a quiet life - writing in his notebooks, mowing lawns for his elderly neighbors, and pining for Willow, a girl next door who rejects...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Janesville: An American Story
by
Amy Goldstein
Little Simon, 04/18/2017
This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stills - but it's not the familiar tale. Most ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
by
James Forman Jr.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/18/2017
In recent years, America's criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. Critics have assailed the rise of mass ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Mad Country
by
Samrat Upadhyay
Soho Press, 04/18/2017
Samrat Upadhyay's new collection vibrates at the edges of intersecting cultures. Journalists in Kathmandu are targeted by the government. A Nepali man...
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Manderley Forever
by
Tatiana de Rosnay
St. Martin's Press, 04/18/2017
"It's impressive how Tatiana was able to recreate the personality of my mother, including her sense of humor. It is very well written and very moving....
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
My Cat Yugoslavia
by
Pajtim Statovci
Pantheon Books, 04/18/2017
In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, and what was meant to be a happy match quickly goes wrong. Shortly ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Spoils
by
Brian Van Reet
Lee Boudreaux Books, 04/18/2017
It is April 2003. American forces have taken Baghdad and are now charged with winning hearts and minds. But this vital tipping point is barely ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Golden Legend
by
Nadeem Aslam
Knopf, 04/18/2017
When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud - a fellow architect - is caught in the ...
more
The Night She Won Miss America
by
Michael Callahan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 04/18/2017
Betty Jane Welch reluctantly enters the Miss Delaware contest to make her mother happy, only to surprisingly find herself the judges' choice. Just ...
more
The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts
by
Philip Kitcher, Evelyn Fox Keller
Liveright / WW Norton, 04/18/2017
As the icecaps melt and the sea levels rise around the globe--threatening human existence as we know it - climate change has become one of the most ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Stars Are Fire
by
Anita Shreve
Knopf, 04/18/2017
In October 1947, after a summer-long drought, fires break out all along the Maine coast from Bar Harbor to Kittery and are soon racing out of control...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
No Harm Done
by
Jean McGarry
Dalkey Archive Press, 04/21/2017
A collection of fifteen stories, Jean McGarry's
No Harm Done, depicts family life at its worst, best, and funniest, as if the author had conjoined the...
more
A Single Spy
by
William Christie
Minotaur Books, 04/25/2017
"A single spy - in the right place and at the right moment - may change the course of history."
Alexsi Ivanovich Smirnov, an orphan and a thief, ...
more
Between Two Skies
by
Joanne O'Sullivan
Candlewick Press, 04/25/2017
Bayou Perdu, a tiny fishing town way, way down in Louisiana, is home to sixteen-year-old Evangeline Riley. She has her best friends, Kendra and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Borne
by
Jeff VanderMeer
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/25/2017
"Am I a person?" Borne asked me.
"Yes, you are a person," I told him. "But like a person, you can be a weapon, too."
In
Borne, a young woman named...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Flavor: The Science of Our Most Neglected Sense
by
Bob Holmes
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/25/2017
Can you describe how the flavor of halibut differs from that of red snapper? How the taste of a Fuji apple differs from a Spartan? For most of us, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Good Friday on the Rez: A Pine Ridge Odyssey
by
David Hugh Bunnell
St. Martin's Press, 04/25/2017
Good Friday on the Rez introduces readers to places and people that author, writer, and entrepreneur David Bunnell encounters during his one day, 280-...
more
Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling
by
Michael Cannell
Minotaur Books, 04/25/2017
Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall - for almost two decades, no place was safe from the man who signed his anonymous letters "FP" and ...
more
Looking for Group
by
Rory Harrison
HarperTeen, 04/25/2017
Dylan doesn't have a lot of experience with comfort. His room in the falling-down Village Estates can generously be categorized as squalid, and he ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
North of Happy
by
Adi Alsaid
Harcourt Children's Books, 04/25/2017
His whole life has been mapped out for him…
Carlos Portillo has always led a privileged and sheltered life. A dual citizen of Mexico and the ...
more
Startup
by
Doree Shafrir
Little Brown & Company, 04/25/2017
Mack McAllister has a $600 million dollar idea. His mindfulness app, TakeOff, is already the hottest thing in tech and he's about to launch a new and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Black Hand: The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History
by
Stephan Talty
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 04/25/2017
Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave filled New York City, and then the entire country, with fear. The children of Italian ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence: A Story of Botticelli
by
Alyssa Palombo
St. Martin's Griffin, 04/25/2017
A girl as beautiful as Simonetta Cattaneo never wants for marriage proposals in 15th Century Italy, but she jumps at the chance to marry Marco ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Outrun: A Memoir
by
Amy Liptrot
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/25/2017
When Amy Liptrot returns to Orkney after more than a decade away, she is drawn back to the Outrun on the sheep farm where she grew up. Approaching the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories
by
Osama Alomar
The New Press, 04/25/2017
Personified animals (snakes, wolves, sheep), natural things (a swamp, a lake, a rainbow, trees), mankind's creations (trucks, swords, zeroes) are all ...
more
The Whole Thing Together
by
Ann Brashares
Delacorte Press, 04/25/2017
Summer for Sasha and Ray means the sprawling old house on Long Island. Since they were children, they've shared almost everything - reading the same ...
more
Hamlet Globe to Globe: Two Years, 193,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play
by
Dominic Dromgoole
Grove Press, 04/26/2017
The tour was the brainchild of Dominic Dromgoole, artistic director of the Globe, and in
Hamlet Globe to Globe, Dromgoole takes readers along with him...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Notorious Reno Gang: The Wild Story of the West's First Brotherhood of Thieves, Assassins, and Train Robbers
by
Rachel Dickinson
The Lyons Press, 05/01/2017
They were the first outlaws to rob a moving train. But from 1864 to 1868, the Reno brothers and their gang of counterfeiters, robbers, burglars, and ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Before We Sleep
by
Jeffrey Lent
Bloomsbury USA, 05/02/2017
Katey Snow, seventeen, slips the pickup into neutral and rolls silently out of the driveway of her Vermont home, her parents, Oliver and Ruth, still ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
by
Robert M. Sapolsky
Penguin Press, 05/02/2017
Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Between Them: Remembering My Parents
by
Richard Ford
Ecco, 05/02/2017
How is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard Ford's parents - Edna, ...
more
Hadriana in All My Dreams
by
René Depestre (Author), Kaiama L. Glover (Translator)
Akashic Books, 05/02/2017
Hadriana in All My Dreams, winner of the prestigious Prix Renaudot, takes place primarily during Carnival in 1938 in the Haitian village of Jacmel. A ...
more
Inheritance from Mother
by
Minae Mizumura (author), Juliet Winters Carpenter (translator)
Other Press, 05/02/2017
Mitsuki Katsura, a Japanese woman in her mid-fifties, is a French-language instructor at a private university in Tokyo. Her husband, whom she met in ...
more
Into the Water: A Novel
by
Paula Hawkins
Riverhead Books, 05/02/2017
"Hawkins is at the forefront of a group of female authors—think Gillian Flynn and Megan Abbott—who have reinvigorated the literary suspense ...
more
Miss Burma
by
Charmaine Craig
Grove Press, 05/02/2017
Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of Benny and Khin, husband and wife, and their daughter Louisa. After attending school...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
by
Pamela Paul
Henry Holt and Company, 05/02/2017
Pamela Paul has kept a single book by her side for twenty-eight years – carried throughout high school and college, hauled from Paris to London ...
more
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
by
Richard Rothstein
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 05/02/2017
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Dinner Party: Stories
by
Joshua Ferris
Little Brown & Company, 05/02/2017
These eleven stories by Joshua Ferris, many of which were first published in
The New Yorker, are at once thrilling, strange, and comic. The modern ...
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The Garden of Small Beginnings
by
Abbi Waxman
Berkley Books, 05/02/2017
Give grief a chance ...
Lilian Girvan has been a single mother for three years - ever since her husband died in a car accident. One mental ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Language of Solitude: A Rising Dragon Novel #2
by
Jan-Philipp Sendker
Atria Books, 05/02/2017
Brooding expat and journalist Paul Leibovitz is beginning to imagine a new life for himself in Hong Kong, one in which the grief over a recent family ...
more
The One Memory of Flora Banks
by
Emily Barr
Philomel, 05/02/2017
Seventeen-year-old Flora Banks has no short-term memory. Her mind resets itself several times a day, and has since the age of ten, when the tumor that...
more
The Pearl Thief
by
Elizabeth Wein
Disney-Hyperion, 05/02/2017
Before Verity ... there was Julie.
When fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in the hospital, she knows the lazy summer break she'd ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Storied City: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past
by
Charlie English
Riverhead Books, 05/02/2017
To Westerners, the name "Timbuktu" long conjured a tantalizing paradise, an African El Dorado where even the slaves wore gold. Beginning in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Time's a Thief: A Novel
by
B.G. Firmani
Doubleday, 05/02/2017
Francesca "Chess" Varani is an ultra-bright, sassy, but vulnerable Barnard freshwoman from a blue-collar background in the vibrantly gritty New York ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Trajectory: Stories
by
Richard Russo
Knopf, 05/02/2017
Russo's characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we're familiar with from many of his novels. In ...
more
Windfall
by
Jennifer E. Smith
Delacorte Press, 05/02/2017
Alice doesn't believe in luck - at least, not the good kind. But she does believe in love, and for some time now, she's been pining for her best ...
more
A Rising Man
by
Abir Mukherjee
Pegasus Books, 05/09/2017
Calcutta, 1919. Captain Sam Wyndham, former Scotland Yard detective, is a new arrival to Calcutta. Desperately seeking a fresh start after his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
How to Be Human
by
Paula Cocozza
Metropolitan Books, 05/09/2017
One summer's night, Mary comes home from a midnight ramble to find a baby lying on her back door step. Has Mary stolen the baby from next door? Has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning
by
Claire Dederer
Knopf, 05/09/2017
Claire Dederer is a happily married mother of two, ages nine and twelve, when she suddenly finds herself totally despondent and, simultaneously, ...
more
Men Without Women: Stories
by
Haruki Murakami
Knopf, 05/09/2017
Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here ...
more
Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
by
William Rosen
Viking, 05/09/2017
As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver babies, and offer palliative care. That ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
by
China Miéville
Verso, 05/09/2017
The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Miéville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution and here, on the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Ramona Blue
by
Julie Murphy
Balzer + Bray, 05/09/2017
Ramona was only five years old when Hurricane Katrina changed her life forever.
Since then, it's been Ramona and her family against the world. ...
more
Saints for All Occasions: A novel
by
J. Courtney Sullivan
Knopf, 05/09/2017
Nora and Theresa Flynn are twenty-one and seventeen when they leave their small village in Ireland and journey to America. Nora is the responsible ...
more
Since We Fell
by
Dennis Lehane
Ecco, 05/09/2017
Since We Fell follows Rachel Childs, a former journalist who, after an on-air mental breakdown, now lives as a virtual shut-in. In all other respects,...
more
Some Rise by Sin
by
Philip Caputo
Henry Holt and Company, 05/09/2017
The Mexican village of San Patricio is being menaced by a bizarre, cultish drug cartel infamous for its brutality. As the townspeople try to defend ...
more
Spies in the Family: An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War
by
Eva Dillon
Harper, 05/09/2017
In the summer of 1975, seventeen-year-old Eva Dillon's family was living in New Delhi when her father was exposed as a CIA spy. Eva had long ...
more
Sycamore
by
Bryn Chancellor
Harper, 05/09/2017
Out for a hike one scorching afternoon in Sycamore, Arizona, a newcomer to town stumbles across what appear to be human remains embedded in the wall ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
That Thing We Call a Heart
by
Sheba Karim
HarperTeen, 05/09/2017
Shabnam Qureshi is facing a summer of loneliness and boredom until she meets Jamie, who scores her a job at his aunt's pie shack. Shabnam quickly ...
more
The Book of Summer
by
Michelle Gable
St. Martin's Press, 05/09/2017
Physician Bess Codman has returned to her family's Nantucket compound, Cliff House, for the first time in four years. Her great-grandparents built ...
more
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
by
Amanda Quick
Berkley Books, 05/09/2017
When Hollywood moguls and stars want privacy, they head to an idyllic small town on the coast, where the exclusive Burning Cove Hotel caters to their ...
more
The Jersey Brothers: A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific and His Family's Quest to Bring Him Home
by
Sally Mott Freeman
Simon & Schuster, 05/09/2017
They are three brothers, all Navy men, who end up coincidentally and extraordinarily at the epicenter of three of the war's most crucial moments. Bill...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Light We Lost
by
Jill Santopolo
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/09/2017
Lucy is faced with a life-altering choice. But before she can make her decision, she must start her story - their story - at the very beginning.
...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Lines We Cross
by
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Scholastic, 05/09/2017
Michael likes to hang out with his friends and play with the latest graphic design software. His parents drag him to rallies held by their anti-...
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The Thirst: A Harry Hole Novel
by
Jo Nesbo
Knopf, 05/09/2017
The murder victim, a self-declared Tinder addict. The one solid clue - fragments of rust and paint in her wounds - leaves the investigating team ...
more
There Your Heart Lies
by
Mary Gordon
Pantheon Books, 05/09/2017
Marian cut herself off from her wealthy, conservative Irish Catholic family when she volunteered during the Spanish Civil War - an experience she has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
by
Jorge Cham, Daniel Whiteson
Riverhead Books, 05/09/2017
PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson have teamed up to spelunk through the enormous gaps in our cosmological knowledge...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Woman No. 17: A Novel
by
Edan Lepucki
Hogarth Books, 05/09/2017
High in the Hollywood Hills, writer Lady Daniels has decided to take a break from her husband. Left alone with her children, she's going to need a ...
more
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
by
Jeffrey Kluger
Henry Holt and Company, 05/16/2017
In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon. Only the year ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Grace and the Fever
by
Zan Romanoff
Knopf, 05/16/2017
In middle school, everyone was a Fever Dream fan. Now, a few weeks after her high school graduation, Grace Thomas sometimes feels like the only one ...
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Grit
by
Gillian French
HarperTeen, 05/16/2017
Seventeen-year-old Darcy Prentiss has long held the title of "town slut." She knows how to have a good time, sure, but she isn't doing anything all ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Kintu
by
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Transit Books, 05/16/2017
Divided into six sections, the novel begins in 1750, when Kintu Kidda sets out for the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the Buganda ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Lilli de Jong
by
Janet Benton
Nan A. Talese, 05/16/2017
Pregnant, left behind by her lover, and banished from her Quaker home and teaching position, Lilli de Jong enters a home for wronged women to deliver ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
New Boy: Hogarth Shakespeare series
by
Tracy Chevalier
Hogarth Books, 05/16/2017
Arriving at his fifth school in as many years, diplomat's son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day – so he's ...
more
The Awkward Age
by
Francesca Segal
Riverhead Books, 05/16/2017
Julia Alden has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. American obstetrician James is everything she didn't know she wantedb-bif only her teenage ...
more
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
by
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Flatiron Books, 05/16/2017
Before Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help defend men accused of murder, she thinks her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Golden Cockerel & Other Writings
by
Juan Rulfo (Author), Douglas J. Weatherford (Translator)
Deep Vellum Publishing, 05/16/2017
This lost masterwork, collected with his previously untranslated stories, marks a landmark event in world literature.
The Names They Gave Us
by
Emery Lord
Bloomsbury Children's Books, 05/16/2017
Lucy Hansson was ready for a perfect summer with her boyfriend, working at her childhood Bible camp on the lake and spending quality time with her ...
more
The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South
by
John T. Edge
Penguin Books, 05/16/2017
The Potlikker Papers tells the story of food and politics in the South over the last half century. Beginning with the pivotal role of cooks in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Scribe of Siena
by
Melodie Winawer
Touchstone, 05/16/2017
Accomplished neurosurgeon Beatrice Trovato knows that her deep empathy for her patients is starting to impede her work. So when her beloved brother ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
You Were Here
by
Gian Sardar
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/16/2017
What if the past is never buried?
Death, accidental and early, has always been Abby Walters's preoccupation. Now thirty-three and eager to settle ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Chemistry
by
Weike Wang
Knopf, 05/23/2017
Three years into her graduate studies at a demanding Boston university, the unnamed narrator of this nimbly wry, concise debut finds her one-time love...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
by
Thomas E. Ricks
Penguin Books, 05/23/2017
Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930s - Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
In a Perfect World
by
Trish Doller
Simon Pulse, 05/23/2017
Caroline Kelly is excited to be spending her summer vacation working at the local amusement park with her best friend, exploring weird Ohio with her ...
more
Little Sister
by
Barbara Gowdy
Tin House Books, 05/23/2017
Thunderstorms are rolling across the summer sky. Every time one breaks, Rose Bowan loses consciousness and has vivid, realistic dreams about being in ...
more
Perish the Day: The Storm Murders Trilogy
by
John Farrow
Minotaur Books, 05/23/2017
A co-ed is found murdered on campus, her body scarcely touched. The killer paid meticulous attention to the aesthetics of his crime. Coincidentally (...
more
Standard Deviation
by
Katherine Heiny
Knopf, 05/23/2017
When Graham Cavanaugh divorced his first wife it was to marry his girlfriend, Audra, a woman as irrepressible as she is spontaneous and fun. But, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Heirs
by
Susan Rieger
Crown, 05/23/2017
Six months after Rupert Falkes dies, leaving a grieving widow and five adult sons, an unknown woman sues his estate, claiming she had two sons by him....
more
The Long Drop: An Alex Morrow Novel
by
Denise Mina
Little Brown & Company, 05/23/2017
In 1950s Glasgow, a household of women were found slaughtered in their beds. The father, William Watt, had a cast iron alibi but police were convinced...
more
The Devil You Know (Dr. Jane McGill)
by
Freida McFadden
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 05/29/2017
Granted, it would be wonderful if her preschooler wouldn't wake her up at three in the morning, and it would be a miracle if her husband would change ...
more
Literary Fiction
Come Sundown
by
Nora Roberts
St. Martin's Press, 05/30/2017
The Bodine ranch and resort in western Montana is a family business, an idyllic spot for vacationers. A little over thirty thousand acres and home to ...
more
Crossing Ebenezer Creek
by
Tonya Bolden
Bloomsbury USA, 05/30/2017
When Mariah and her young brother Zeke are suddenly freed from slavery, they join Sherman's march through Georgia. Mariah wants to believe that the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Eliza and Her Monsters
by
Francesca Zappia
Greenwillow Books, 05/30/2017
Scott Westerfeld's
Afterworlds meets
Nimona in this novel about art, fandom, and finding the courage to be yourself. Features illustrations by the ...
more
Extraordinary Adventures
by
Daniel Wallace
St. Martin's Press, 05/30/2017
Edsel Bronfman works as a junior executive shipping clerk for an importer of Korean flatware. He lives in a seedy neighborhood and spends his free ...
more
I Believe in a Thing Called Love
by
Maurene Goo
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/30/2017
Desi Lee knows how carburetors work. She learned CPR at the age of five. As a high school senior, she has never missed a day of school and never had ...
more
One of Us Is Lying
by
Karen M. McManus
Delacorte Press, 05/30/2017
Pay close attention and you might solve this.
On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention.
Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale...
more
Thrillers
The Chalk Pit: A Ruth Galloway mystery
by
Elly Griffiths
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 05/30/2017
Norwich is riddled with old chalk-mining tunnels, but no one's sure exactly how many. When Ruth is called in to investigate a set of human remains ...
more
The Wonder of Birds: What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future
by
Jim Robbins
Spiegel & Grau, 05/30/2017
Our relationship to birds is different from our relationship to any other wild creatures. They are found virtually everywhere and we love to watch ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)
by
David Sedaris
Little Brown & Company, 05/30/2017
It's no coincidence that the world's best writers tend to keep diaries. If you faithfully record your life in a journal, you're writing every day-and ...
more
Touch
by
Courtney Maum
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/30/2017
Sloane Jacobsen is one of the world's most powerful trend forecasters (she was the foreseer of "the swipe"), and global fashion, lifestyle, and tech ...
more
When Dimple Met Rishi
by
Sandhya Menon
Simon Pulse, 05/30/2017
Dimple Shah has it all figured out. With graduation behind her, she's more than ready for a break from her family, from Mamma's inexplicable obsession...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
by
David Baron
Liveright / WW Norton, 06/06/2017
On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moon's shadow descended on the American West, darkening skies from ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Before We Were Yours: A Novel
by
Lisa Wingate
Ballantine Books, 06/06/2017
Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But ...
more
Black Moses
by
Alain Mabanckou
Atheneum Books, 06/06/2017
It's not easy being Tokumisa Nzambe po Mose yamoyindo abotami namboka ya Bakoko. There's that long name of his for a start, which means, "Let us ...
more
Cockfosters: Stories
by
Helen Simpson
Knopf, 06/06/2017
Nine virtuoso stories that take up the preoccupations and fixations of time's passing and of middle age and that take us from today's London and ...
more
Dear Cyborgs
by
Eugene Lim
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/06/2017
In a small Midwestern town, two Asian American boys bond over their outcast status and a mutual love of comic books. Meanwhile, in an alternative or ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Everybody's Son
by
Thrity Umrigar
Harper, 06/06/2017
During a terrible heat wave in 1991 - the worst in a decade - ten-year-old Anton has been locked in an apartment in the projects, alone, for seven ...
more
Grief Cottage
by
Gail Godwin
Bloomsbury USA, 06/06/2017
After his mother's death, eleven-year-old Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great aunt, a reclusive painter with a ...
more
He Said/She Said
by
Erin Kelly
Minotaur Books, 06/06/2017
But in the hushed moments after the shadow passes, Laura interrupts a man and a woman. She knows that she saw something terrible. The man denies it. ...
more
Magpie Murders
by
Anthony Horowitz
Harper, 06/06/2017
When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his ...
more
Odd Numbers: A Hanne Wilhelmsen Novel (Book Nine)
by
Anne Holt
Scribner, 06/06/2017
On an early April afternoon, a bomb goes off in the Islamic Cooperation Council's offices in Oslo, killing twenty-three people. The Police and ...
more
She Rides Shotgun
by
Jordan Harper
Ecco, 06/06/2017
Eleven-year-old Polly McClusky is shy, too old for the teddy bear she carries with her everywhere, when she is unexpectedly reunited with her father, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Tash Hearts Tolstoy
by
Kathryn Ormsbee
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 06/06/2017
After a shout-out from one of the Internet's superstar vloggers, Natasha "Tash" Zelenka suddenly finds herself and her obscure, amateur web series,
...more
The Alice Network: A Novel
by
Kate Quinn
William Morrow, 06/06/2017
1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out ...
more
The Answers
by
Catherine Lacey
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/06/2017
In Catherine Lacey's ambitious second novel we are introduced to Mary, a young woman living in New York City and struggling to cope with a body that ...
more
The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
by
Nina Riggs
Simon & Schuster, 06/06/2017
"We are breathless, but we love the days. They are promises. They are the only way to walk from one night to the other."
Nina Riggs was just thirty...
more
The Essex Serpent
by
Sarah Perry
Custom House, 06/06/2017
When Cora Seaborne's brilliant, domineering husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Gypsy Moth Summer
by
Julia Fierro
St. Martin's Press, 06/06/2017
On an island, time can freeze. But in the summer of 1992, young and old felt the change coming, waiting to hatch like the gypsy moth eggs tucked in ...more
The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
by
Finn Murphy
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/06/2017
More than thirty years ago, Finn Murphy dropped out of college to become a long-haul trucker. Since then he's covered more than a million miles ...
more
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Lost History of Stars
by
Dave Boling
Algonquin Books, 06/06/2017
In turn-of-the-century South Africa, fourteen-year-old Lettie, her younger brother, and her mother are Dutch Afrikaner settlers who have been taken ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Moment of Truth
by
Damian McNicholl
Pegasus Books, 06/06/2017
Texan art student Kathleen Boyd has been dreaming about becoming a matador since her beloved father took her to the bullfighting ring when she was ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Possible
by
Tara Altebrando
Bloomsbury USA, 06/06/2017
What if ... no one knows the truth about you? It's been thirteen years since Kaylee's biological mother, Crystal, once infamous for her supposed ...
more
The Seeds of Life: From Aristotle to da Vinci, from Sharks' Teeth to Frogs' Pants, the Long and Strange Quest to Discover Where Babies Come From
by
Edward Dolnick
Basic Books, 06/06/2017
Throughout most of human history, babies were surprises. People knew the basics: men and women had sex, and sometimes babies followed. But beyond that...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Shark Club
by
Ann Kidd Taylor
Viking, 06/06/2017
On a summer day on the Gulf of Mexico in 1988, two extraordinary things happen to twelve-year-old Maeve Donnelly. First, she is kissed by Daniel, the ...
more
The Sunshine Sisters
by
Jane Green
Berkley Books, 06/06/2017
Ronni Sunshine left London for Hollywood to become a beautiful, charismatic star of the silver screen. But at home, she was a narcissistic, ...
more
The Weight of Ink
by
Rachel Kadish
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 06/06/2017
A USA Today Bestseller
Winner of a National Jewish Book Award
Winner of the Association of Jewish Libraries Jewish Fiction Award
An ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Weight of Lies
by
Emily Carpenter
Lake Union Publishing, 06/06/2017
Reformed party girl Meg Ashley leads a life of privilege, thanks to a bestselling horror novel her mother wrote decades ago. But Meg knows that the ...
more
This Impossible Light
by
Lily Myers
Philomel, 06/06/2017
Fifteen-year-old Ivy's world is in flux. Her dad has moved out, her mother is withdrawn, her brother is off at college, and her best friend, Anna, has...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
by
Wendy Pearlman
Custom House, 06/06/2017
Against the backdrop of the wave of demonstrations known as the Arab Spring, in 2011 hundreds of thousands of Syrians took to the streets demanding ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wildman
by
J. C. Geiger
Disney-Hyperion, 06/06/2017
When Lance's '93 Buick breaks down in the middle of nowhere, he tells himself
Don't panic. After all, he's valedictorian of his class. First-chair ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Wolf on a String
by
Benjamin Black
Henry Holt and Company, 06/06/2017
Christian Stern, an ambitious young scholar and alchemist, arrives in Prague in the bitter winter of 1599, intent on making his fortune at the court ...
more
You Belong to Me
by
Colin Harrison
Sarah Crichton Books, 06/06/2017
YOU BELONG TO ME...Paul Reeves is a successful immigration lawyer, but his passion is collecting old maps of New York, tangible records of the city's ...
more
The Clothesline Swing
by
Ahmad Danny Ramadan
Nightwood Editions, 06/10/2017
Inspired by Arabian Tales of
One Thousand and One Nights,
The Clothesline Swing tells the epic story of two lovers anchored to the memory of a dying ...
more
Short Stories
Debut Author
A House Among the Trees
by
Julia Glass
Pantheon Books, 06/13/2017
When the revered children's book author Mort Lear dies accidentally at his Connecticut home, he leaves his property and all its contents to his ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
by
Manal al-Sharif
Simon & Schuster, 06/13/2017
Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year fundamentalism took hold. In her adolescence, she was a religious...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
by
Nancy MacLean
Viking, 06/13/2017
Behind today's headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a secretive political establishment with long, deep, and troubling roots. The ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
by
Balli Kaur Jaswal
William Morrow, 06/13/2017
Every woman has a secret life ...
Nikki, a modern young Punjabi, lives in cosmopolitan London, where she tends bar at the local pub. The daughter ...
more
Fingerprints of Previous Owners
by
Rebecca Entel
The Unnamed Press, 06/13/2017
At a Caribbean resort built atop a former slave plantation, Myrna works as a maid by day; by night she trespasses on the resort's overgrown inland ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Hell and High Water
by
Tanya Landman
Candlewick Press, 06/13/2017
Caleb has spent his life roaming southern England with his Pa, little to their names but his father's signet ring and a puppet theater for popular, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers: A Kidney Doctor's Search for the Perfect Match
by
M.D. Vanessa Grubbs
Amistad, 06/13/2017
When Vanessa fell in love with Robert, she had no idea that the relationship would thoroughly transform her life. Robert suffered from end-stage ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Julia Defiant: A Witch's Child Novel
by
Catherine Egan
Knopf, 06/13/2017
Julia and a mismatched band of revolutionaries, scholars, and thieves have crossed the world searching for a witch. But for all the miles traveled, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Memory's Last Breath: Field Notes on My Dementia
by
Gerda Saunders
Hachette Books, 06/13/2017
In the tradition of
Brain on Fire and
When Breath Becomes Air, Gerda Saunders'
Memory's Last Breath is an unsparing, beautifully written memoir -a ...
more
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
by
Matthew Sullivan
Scribner, 06/13/2017
Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among her beloved ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Soldier Boy
by
Keely Hutton
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/13/2017
Soldier Boy begins with the story of Ricky Richard Anywar, abducted at age fourteen in 1989 to fight with Joseph Kony's rebel army in Uganda's decades...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Bone Queen: Pellinor: Cadvan's Story (Pellinor Series)
by
Alison Croggon
Candlewick Press, 06/13/2017
After being seduced into sorcery by an agent of the Dark, the promising Bard Cadvan of Lirigon recklessly unleashed the terrible Bone Queen, bringing ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Changeling
by
Victor LaValle
Spiegel & Grau, 06/13/2017
When Apollo Kagwa's father disappeared, all he left his son were strange recurring dreams and a box of books stamped with the word IMPROBABILIA. Now ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Identicals: A Novel
by
Elin Hilderbrand
Little Brown & Company, 06/13/2017
Nantucket is only eleven miles away from Martha's Vineyard. But they may as well be worlds apart for estranged twin sisters Harper and Tabitha Frost.
...
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Literary Fiction
The Leaf Reader
by
Emily Arsenault
Soho Press, 06/13/2017
Marnie Wells knows that she creeps people out. It's not really her fault; her brother is always in trouble, and her grandmother, who's been their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Marsh King's Daughter
by
Karen Dionne
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/13/2017
At last, Helena Pelletier has the life she deserves. A loving husband, two beautiful daughters, a business that fills her days. Then she catches an ...
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The Widow Nash
by
Jamie Harrison
Counterpoint Press, 06/13/2017
It is New York, 1904, and Dulcy Remfrey, despite an idiosyncratic, traveling childhood, faces the predictable life of a woman of the time. All that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Undertow
by
Elizabeth Heathcote
Prospect Park Books, 06/13/2017
They said her death was a tragic accident. And I believed them…until now.
Carmen is happily married to Tom, although she knows she'll ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Biography/Memoir
You Should Have Left
by
Daniel Kehlmann
Pantheon Books, 06/13/2017
"It is fitting that I'm beginning a new notebook up here. New surroundings and new ideas, a new beginning. Fresh air."
This passage is from the ...
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Open Heart: A Cardiac Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table
by
Stephen Westaby
Basic Books, 06/20/2017
When Stephen Westaby witnessed a patient die on the table during an open heart surgery for the first time, he was struck by the quiet, determined way ...
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Scandinavians: In Search of the Soul of the North
by
Robert Ferguson
Overlook, 06/20/2017
Scandinavia is the epitome of cool: we fill our homes with Nordic furniture; we envy their humane social welfare system and their healthy outdoor ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues
by
Edward Kelsey Moore
Henry Holt and Company, 06/20/2017
When a late life love affair blooms between Mr. Forrest Payne, the owner of the Pink Slipper Gentleman's Club, and Miss Beatrice Jordan, famous for ...
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Literary Fiction
Before Everything
by
Victoria Redel
Viking, 06/27/2017
Before Everything is a celebration of friendship and love between a group of women who have known each another since they were girls. They've ...
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Eden Summer
by
Liz Flanagan
David Fickling Books, 06/27/2017
It starts like any other day for Jess. Get up, draw on eyeliner, cover up tattoos, and head to school. But soon it's clear that this is no ordinary ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
If Birds Fly Back
by
Carlie Sorosiak
HarperTeen, 06/27/2017
Linny has kept a journal of famous disappearances ever since her sister Grace ran away in the middle of the night. Sebastian is an aspiring ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Now I Rise
by
Kiersten White
Delacorte Press, 06/27/2017
Lada Dracul has no allies. No throne. All she has is what she's always had: herself. After failing to secure the Wallachian throne, Lada is out to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Quiet Until the Thaw
by
Alexandra Fuller
Penguin Books, 06/27/2017
Lakota Oglala Sioux Nation, South Dakota. Two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson, though bound by blood and by land...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean
by
Morten Stroksnes
Knopf, 06/27/2017
In the great depths surrounding the Lofoten islands in Norway lives the infamous Greenland shark. At twenty-six feet in length and weighing more than ...
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Spoonbenders
by
Daryl Gregory
Knopf, 06/27/2017
Teddy Telemachus is a charming con man with a gift for sleight of hand and some shady underground associates. In need of cash, he tricks his way into ...
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The Child
by
Fiona Barton
Berkley Books, 06/27/2017
As an old house is demolished in a gentrifying section of London, a workman discovers a tiny skeleton, buried for years. For journalist Kate Waters, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Girl of the Lake: Stories
by
Bill Roorbach
Algonquin Books, 06/27/2017
Among the unforgettable characters Roorbach creates in
The Girl of the Lake are an adventurous boy who learns what courage really is when an aging ...
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The Sisters Chase
by
Sarah Healy
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 06/27/2017
The hardscrabble Chase women - Mary, Hannah, and their mother Diane - have been eking out a living running a tiny seaside motel that has been in the ...
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The Windfall
by
Diksha Basu
Crown, 06/27/2017
For the past thirty years, Mr. and Mrs. Jha's lives have been defined by cramped spaces, cut corners, gossipy neighbors, and the small ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Last Laugh
by
Lynn Freed
Sarah Crichton Books, 07/03/2017
Since their children left home, Ruth, Dania, and Bess have grown used to living wonderfully free lives. Only now they're beset by children again - ...
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All We Shall Know
by
Donal Ryan
Penguin Books, 07/04/2017
Melody Shee is alone and in trouble. At 33 years-old, she finds herself pregnant with the child of a 17 year-old Traveller boy, Martin Toppy, and...
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City of Masks: A Somershill Manor Novel
by
S. D. Sykes
Pegasus Books, 07/04/2017
It's 1358, and young Oswald de Lacy, Lord Somershill, is delayed in Venice as he awaits a pilgrim ship to the Holy Land. While the city is besieged by...
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In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult
by
Rebecca Stott
Spiegel & Grau, 07/04/2017
Rebecca Stott grew up in in Brighton, England, as a fourth-generation member of the Exclusive Brethren, a cult that believed the world is ruled by ...
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Out in the Open
by
Jesús Carrasco (author), Margaret Jull Costa (translator)
Riverhead Books, 07/04/2017
A young boy has fled his home. He's pursued by dangerous forces. What lies before him is an infinite, arid plain, one he must cross in order to escape...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Persons Unknown
by
Susie Steiner
Random House, 07/04/2017
As dusk falls, a young man staggers through a park, far from home, bleeding from a stab wound. He dies where he falls, cradled by a stranger, a woman'...
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The Boy Who Saw: A Solomon Creed Novel
by
Simon Toyne
William Morrow, 07/04/2017
Solomon Creed has no recollection of who he is, or where he comes from. The only solid clue to his identity is a label stitched in his jacket that ...
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The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo
by
Ian Stansel
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 07/04/2017
When Silas Van Loy flees home on horseback to avoid capture for his brother's murder, he is soon followed by both the police and his brother's wife, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Necklace
by
Claire McMillan
Touchstone, 07/04/2017
Always the black sheep of the tight-knit Quincy clan, Nell is cautious when she's summoned to the elegantly shabby family manor after her great aunt ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Trophy
by
Steffen Jacobsen (author), Charlotte Barslund (translator)
Arcade Publishing, 07/04/2017
After the death of her industrialist father, Elizabeth Caspersen finds a compromising DVD in his safe: it seems to show two people being hunted to ...
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Words on Bathroom Walls
by
Julia Walton
Random House Children's Publishing, 07/04/2017
Adam has just been diagnosed with schizophrenia. He sees and hears people who aren't there: Rebecca, a beautiful girl who understands him; the Mob ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
All the Ways the World Can End
by
Abby Sher
FSG Books for Young Readers, 07/11/2017
Lenny (short for Eleanor) feels like the world is about to end. Her best friend is moving to San Francisco and her dad is dying. To cope with her ...
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American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
by
Monica Hesse
Liveright / WW Norton, 07/11/2017
The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night after night, the people of Accomack County waited to see which ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe
by
Inara Verzemnieks
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/11/2017
"It's long been assumed of the region where my grandmother was born…that at some point each year the dead will come home," Inara Verzemnieks ...
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Conversations with Friends
by
Sally Rooney
Hogarth Books, 07/11/2017
Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Dirt Road
by
James Kelman
Catapult, 07/11/2017
After his mother's recent death, sixteen-year-old Murdo and his father travel from their home in rural Scotland to Alabama to be with his émigr&#...
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Down a Dark Road: A Kate Burkholder Novel
by
Linda Castillo
Minotaur Books, 07/11/2017
Two years ago, Joseph King was convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to life in prison. Now King, a "fallen" Amish man known as a drug user ...
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Final Girls
by
Riley Sager
Dutton, 07/11/2017
Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie–scale...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Goodbye, Vitamin
by
Rachel Khong
Henry Holt and Company, 07/11/2017
Freshly disengaged from her fiancé and feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, thirty-year-old Ruth quits her job, leaves...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Hum If You Don't Know the Words
by
Bianca Marais
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/11/2017
Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Knots: Stories
by
Gunnhild Oyehaug (author), Kari Dickson (translator)
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/11/2017
First published in Norway in 2004,
Knots is Gunnhild Øyehaug's radical collection of short stories that range from the surreal to the oddly ...
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Live from Cairo
by
Ian Bassingthwaighte
Scribner, 07/11/2017
Cairo, 2011. President Mubarak has just been ousted from power. The oldest city in the world is reeling from political revolution, its consequent ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Moving Kings
by
Joshua Cohen
Random House, 07/11/2017
One of the boldest voices of his generation, Joshua Cohen returns with
Moving Kings, a powerful and provocative novel that interweaves, in ...
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My Best Friend's Exorcism: A Novel
by
Grady Hendrix
Quirk Books, 07/11/2017
The year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes ...
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Literary Fiction
Pages For Her
by
Sylvia Brownrigg
Counterpoint Press, 07/11/2017
Pages for Her is the story of two women, Flannery and Anne, each at a personal turning point, and the circumstances that lead to their reunion. Twenty...
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Refuge
by
Dina Nayeri
Riverhead Books, 07/11/2017
An Iranian girl escapes to America as a child, but her father stays behind. Over twenty years, as she transforms from confused immigrant to ...
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Swimming with Bridgeport Girls
by
Anthony Tambakis
Simon & Schuster, 07/11/2017
Ray Parisi is in trouble. Fired from his anchor job at ESPN after one too many public humiliations, he is holed up in a motel and in desperate need of...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
by
Edwidge Danticat
Graywolf Press, 07/11/2017
Edwidge Danticat's
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered ...
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The Art of Starving
by
Sam J. Miller
HarperTeen, 07/11/2017
Matt hasn't eaten in days. His stomach stabs and twists inside, pleading for a meal, but Matt won't give in. The hunger clears his mind, keeps him ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Atlas of Forgotten Places
by
Jenny D. Williams
Thomas Dunne Books, 07/11/2017
Two women from different worlds bound in a quest to save their loved ones.
After a long career as an aid worker, Sabine Hardt has retreated to her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Lake Effect
by
Erin McCahan
Dial Books, 07/11/2017
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Literary Fiction
The Secrets She Keeps: A Novel
by
Michael Robotham
Scribner, 07/11/2017
Agatha is pregnant and works part-time stocking shelves at a grocery store in a ritzy London suburb, counting down the days until her baby is due. As ...
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Thrillers
The Velveteen Daughter
by
Laurel Davis Huber
She Writes Press, 07/11/2017
But celebrity at such an early age exacts a great toll. Pamela's dreams elude her as she struggles with severe depressions, an overbearing father, an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Witches of New York
by
Ami McKay
Harper, 07/11/2017
New York in the spring of 1880 is a place alive with wonder and curiosity. Determined to learn the truth about the world, its residents ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Woman From Prague: An Ash McKenna Novel
by
Rob Hart
Polis Books, 07/11/2017
Amateur private investigator Ash McKenna's time is about to expire - on his visa, that is. Having fled the demons that haunted him in the U.S., Ash ...
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Waste of Space
by
Gina Damico
Clarion, 07/11/2017
The kids who are cast know everything about drama—and nothing about the fact that the production is fake. Hidden in a desert warehouse, their ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
What We Lose
by
Zinzi Clemmons
Viking, 07/11/2017
Raised in Pennsylvania, Thandi views the world of her mother's childhood in Johannesburg as both impossibly distant and ever present. She is an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
When the English Fall
by
David Williams
Algonquin Books, 07/11/2017
When a catastrophic solar storm brings about the collapse of modern civilization, an Amish community in Pennsylvania is caught up in the devastating ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
by
Sujatha Gidla
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/18/2017
Like one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. While most untouchables are illiterate, her family was educated by Canadian ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Beautiful Animals
by
Lawrence Osborne
Hogarth Books, 07/18/2017
On a hike during a white-hot summer break on the Greek island of Hydra, Naomi and Samantha make a startling discovery: a man named Faoud, sleeping ...
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Fragile Like Us
by
Sara Barnard
Simon Pulse, 07/18/2017
Caddy and Rosie have always been inseparable. But that was before Suzanne. Now the twosome has become a triangle with constantly shifting alliances.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Pretend We Are Lovely
by
Noley Reid
Ballantine Books, 07/18/2017
Francie dresses in tennis skirts and ankle socks and weighs her grams of allotted carrots and iceberg lettuce. Her semi-estranged husband Tate prefers...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Breakdown
by
B. A. Paris
St. Martin's Press, 07/18/2017
If you can't trust yourself, who can you trust?
Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods, on the winding rural road, in ...
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The Dark Dark: Stories
by
Samantha Hunt
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/18/2017
Step into
The Dark Dark, where an award-winning, acclaimed novelist debuts her first collection of short stories and conjures entire universes in just...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Epiphany Machine
by
David Burr Gerrard
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/18/2017
That's the slogan. The product: a junky contraption that tattoos personalized revelations on its users' forearms. It's an old con, playing on the fear...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Last Magician
by
Lisa Maxwell
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 07/18/2017
Stop the Magician.
Steal the book.
Save the future.
In modern day New York, magic is all but extinct. The remaining few who have an affinity ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Library of Light and Shadow: A Daughters of La Lune Novel
by
M. J. Rose
Atria Books, 07/18/2017
In the wake of a dark and brutal World War, the glitz and glamour of 1925 Manhattan shine like a beacon for the high society set, desperate to keep ...
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Careers for Women
by
Joanna Scott
Little Brown & Company, 07/25/2017
Maggie Gleason is looking toward the future. Part of a midcentury wave of young women seeking new lives in New York City, Maggie works for legendary ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Chester B. Himes: A Biography
by
Lawrence P. Jackson
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/25/2017
Winner of the 2018 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work
A Washington Post Notable BookChester B. Himes has been called "one of the towering ...
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Fierce Kingdom
by
Gin Phillips
Viking, 07/25/2017
The zoo is nearly empty as Joan and her four-year-old son soak up the last few moments of playtime. They are happy, and the day has been close to ...
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Gather the Daughters
by
Jennie Melamed
Little Brown & Company, 07/25/2017
Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
I Am the Brother of XX
by
Fleur Jaeggy (author), Gini Alhadeff (translator)
The New Press, 07/25/2017
Fleur Jaeggy is often noted for her terse and telegraphic style, which somehow brews up a profound paradox that seems bent on haunting the reader: ...
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Let the Dead Speak: A Mystery (Maeve Kerrigan Novels #7)
by
Jane Casey
Minotaur Books, 07/25/2017
When eighteen-year-old Chloe Emery returns to her West London home she finds her mother missing, the house covered in blood. Everything points to ...
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LoveMurder
by
Saul Black
St. Martin's Griffin, 07/25/2017
When she's called to the murder scene, the last thing San Francisco Homicide detective Valerie Hart is expecting is for Katherine Glass to walk back ...
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Madame Zero: 9 Stories
by
Sarah Hall
Custom House, 07/25/2017
Sarah Hall has been hailed as "one of the most significant and exciting of Britain's young novelists" (The Guardian), a writer whose "intelligence and...
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Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler
by
Bruce Henderson
William Morrow, 07/25/2017
In 1942, the U.S. Army unleashed one of its greatest secret weapons in the battle to defeat Adolf Hitler: training nearly 2,000 German-born Jews in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Followers
by
Rebecca Wait
Europa Editions, 07/25/2017
When Stephanie first meets him, she is a struggling single mother and Nathaniel is a charismatic outsider, unlike anyone she's ever known. In deciding...
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Literary Fiction
The Lying Game
by
Ruth Ware
Gallery/Scout Press, 07/25/2017
On a cool June morning, a woman is walking her dog in the idyllic coastal village of Salten along a tidal estuary known as the Reach. Before she can ...
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The Painted Queen: An Amelia Peabody Novel of Suspense
by
Elizabeth Peters, Joan Hess
William Morrow, 07/25/2017
Arriving in Cairo for another thrilling excavation season, Amelia is relaxing in a well-earned bubble bath in her elegant hotel suite in Cairo, when a...
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The Way We Die Now: The View from Medicine's Front Line
by
Seamus O'Mahony
Thomas Dunne Books, 07/25/2017
We have lost the ability to deal with death.
Most of the dying spend their last days in general hospitals and nursing homes, in the care of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
A Boy in Winter
by
Rachel Seiffert
Pantheon Books, 08/01/2017
Early on a grey November morning in 1941, only weeks after the German invasion, a small Ukrainian town is overrun by the SS. This new novel from the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Killer Harvest: A Thriller
by
Paul Cleave
Atria Books, 08/01/2017
Joshua is convinced there is a family curse. It's taken loved ones from him, it's robbed him of his eyesight, and it's the reason why his father is ...
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Are You Sleeping
by
Kathleen Barber
Gallery Books, 08/01/2017
The only thing more dangerous than a lie...is the truth.
Josie Buhrman has spent the last ten years trying to escape her family's reputation and with...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Beast
by
Paul Kingsnorth
Graywolf Press, 08/01/2017
Beast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster, a man alone on an empty moor in the west of England. What he has left behind we don't yet know....
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Brave Deeds
by
David Abrams
Grove Press, 08/01/2017
Spanning eight hours, the novel follows a squad of six AWOL soldiers as they attempt to cross war-torn Baghdad on foot to attend the funeral of their ...
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Dying: A Memoir
by
Cory Taylor
Ballantine Books, 08/01/2017
At the age of sixty, Cory Taylor is dying of melanoma-related brain cancer. Her illness is no longer treatable: she now weighs less than her neighbor'...
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Girl in Snow
by
Danya Kukafka
Simon & Schuster, 08/01/2017
Who are you when no one is watching?
When a beloved high schooler named Lucinda Hayes is found murdered, no one in her sleepy Colorado suburb is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Gravel Heart
by
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Bloomsbury USA, 08/01/2017
Salim has always known that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a ...
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Impossible Views of the World
by
Lucy Ives
Penguin Books, 08/01/2017
Stella Krakus, a curator at Manhattan's renowned Central Museum of Art, is having the roughest week in approximately ever. Her soon-to-be ex-husband (...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Morningstar: Growing Up With Books
by
Ann Hood
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/01/2017
In her admired works of fiction, including the recent
The Book That Matters Most, Ann Hood explores the transformative power of literature. Now, with ...
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Motherest
by
Kristen Iskandrian
Twelve Books, 08/01/2017
It's the early 1990s, and Agnes is running out of people she can count on. A new college student, she is caught between the broken home she leaves ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Mrs. Fletcher
by
Tom Perrotta
Scribner, 08/01/2017
Eve Fletcher is trying to figure out what comes next. A forty-six-year-old divorcee whose beloved only child has just left for college, Eve is ...
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Solo
by
Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess
Blink, 08/01/2017
Solo tells the story of seventeen-year-old Blade Morrison, who knows the life of a rock star isn't really about the glitz and glamour. All the new ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Sour Heart: Stories
by
Jenny Zhang
Lenny, 08/01/2017
A fresh new voice emerges with the arrival of
Sour Heart, establishing Jenny Zhang as a frank and subversive interpreter of the immigrant experience ...
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Short Stories
The Bedlam Stacks
by
Natasha Pulley
Bloomsbury USA, 08/01/2017
In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after sustaining an injury that almost cost him his leg. On ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Blinds
by
Adam Sternbergh
Ecco, 08/01/2017
Imagine a place populated by criminals - people plucked from their lives, with their memories altered, who've been granted new identities and a second...
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The Grip of It
by
Jac Jemc
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/01/2017
Jac Jemc's
The Grip of It tells the eerie story of a young couple haunted by their new home. Julie and James settle into a house in a small town ...
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The Ice-Cream Makers
by
Ernest van der Kwast
Atria Books, 08/01/2017
As the heir to a proud Northern Italian ice-cream dynasty, Giovanni Calamine's family is none too happy when he decides to break with tradition and ...
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The Lauras
by
Sara Taylor
Hogarth Books, 08/01/2017
I didn't realize my mother was a person until I was thirteen years old and she pulled me out of bed, put me in the back of her car, and we left home ...more
The Seventh Function of Language
by
Laurent Binet (author), Sam Taylor (translator)
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/01/2017
Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies - struck by a laundry van - after lunch with the presidential candidate François Mitterand. ...
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Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
by
Jonathan B. Losos
Riverhead Books, 08/08/2017
Earth's natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Little & Lion
by
Brandy Colbert
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 08/08/2017
When Suzette comes home to Los Angeles from her boarding school in New England, she isn't sure if she'll ever want to go back. L.A. is where her ...
more
Mozart: The Man Revealed
by
John Suchet
Pegasus Books, 08/08/2017
We think we know the story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life. Austrian-born to a tyrannical father who worked him fiercely; unhappily married to a ...
more
The Amber Shadows
by
Lucy Ribchester
Pegasus Books, 08/08/2017
Bletchley Park, 1942: As World War II rages on, Honey Deschamps sits at her type-x machine, tediously transcribing decrypted signals from the German ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Authentics
by
Abdi Nazemian
Balzer + Bray, 08/08/2017
Daria Esfandyar is Iranian-American and proud of her heritage, unlike some of the "Nose Jobs" in the clique led by her former best friend, Heidi ...
more
The Enlightened Mr. Parkinson: The Pioneering Life of a Forgotten Surgeon
by
Cherry Lewis
Pegasus Books, 08/08/2017
Parkinson's disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 60,000 new cases each year in the United States alone, yet few know anything ...
more
The Misfortune of Marion Palm
by
Emily Culliton
Knopf, 08/08/2017
Marion Palm prefers not to think of herself as a thief but rather "a woman who embezzles." Over the years she has managed to steal $180,000 from her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
To Die in Spring
by
Ralf Rothmann (author), Shaun Whiteside (translator)
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/08/2017
Distant, silent, often drunk, Walter Urban is a difficult man to have as a father. But his son - the narrator of this slim, harrowing novel - is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages
by
Carina Chocano
Mariner Books, 08/08/2017
As a kid in the 1970s and 80s, Carina Chocano was confused by the mixed messages all around her; messages that told her who she could be&#...
more
Inside the Wave
by
Helen Dunmore
Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 08/09/2017
Inside the Wave is British poet Helen Dunmore's first new poetry book since
The Malarkey (2012), whose title-poem (submitted anonymously) won the ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
A Kind of Freedom
by
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Counterpoint Press, 08/15/2017
Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of Black society, and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Ghost of the Innocent Man: A True Story of Trial and Redemption
by
Benjamin Rachlin
Little Brown & Company, 08/15/2017
When the final gavel clapped in a rural southern courtroom in the summer of 1988, Willie J. Grimes, a gentle spirit with no record of violence, was ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
by
Frank Bidart
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/15/2017
Gathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary literature. ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Home Fire: A Novel
by
Kamila Shamsie
Riverhead Books, 08/15/2017
Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she's accepted an invitation from a mentor in ...
more
How to Disappear
by
Sharon Huss Roat
HarperTeen, 08/15/2017
Vicky Decker's social anxiety has helped her to master the art of hiding in plain sight, appearing only to her best friend, Jenna. But when Jenna ...
more
Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
by
Suzy Hansen
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/15/2017
In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Mountain: Stories
by
Paul Yoon
Simon & Schuster, 08/15/2017
In
The Mountain, Paul Yoon displays his subtle, ethereal, and strikingly observant style with six thematically linked stories, taking place across ...
more
The Party
by
Elizabeth Day
Little Brown & Company, 08/15/2017
Ben, who hails from old money, and Martin, who grew up poor but is slowly carving out a successful career as an art critic, have been inseparable ...
more
Things That Happened Before the Earthquake
by
Chiara Barzini
Doubleday, 08/15/2017
Mere weeks after the 1992 riots that laid waste to Los Angeles, Eugenia, a typical Italian teenager, is rudely yanked from her privileged Roman milieu...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Wicked Like a Wildfire
by
Lana Popovic
Katherine Tegan Books, 08/15/2017
All the women in Iris and Malina's family have the unique magical ability or "gleam" to manipulate beauty. Iris sees flowers as fractals and turns her...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Unbound
by
John Shors
John Shors Publishers, 08/18/2017
John Shors reimagined one of the world's greatest love stories—the romance that inspired the Taj Mahal—in his critically acclaimed, ...
more
Historical Fiction
Dress Codes for Small Towns
by
Courtney Stevens
HarperTeen, 08/22/2017
As the tomboy daughter of the town's preacher, Billie McCaffrey has always struggled with fitting the mold of what everyone says she should be. She'd ...
more
If the Creek Don't Rise
by
Leah Weiss
Sourcebooks, 08/22/2017
Sadie is desperate to make her own mark on the world, but in remote Appalachia, a ticket out of town is hard to come by, and hope often gets stomped ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Little Nothing
by
Marisa Silver
Blue Rider Press, 08/22/2017
In an unnamed country at the beginning of the last century, a child called Pavla is born to peasant parents. Her arrival, fervently anticipated and ...
more
Stay with Me
by
Ayobami Adebayo
Knopf, 08/22/2017
Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide have ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Saboteur
by
Andrew Gross
Minotaur Books, 08/22/2017
Kurt Nordstrum, an engineer in Oslo, puts his life aside to take up arms against the Germans as part of the Norwegian resistance. After the loss of ...
more
Unraveling Oliver
by
Liz Nugent
Gallery/Scout Press, 08/22/2017
"I expected more of a reaction the first time I hit her."
So begins Liz Nugent's astonishing debut novel - a chilling, elegantly crafted, and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Y is for Yesterday: A Kinsey Millhone Novel
by
Sue Grafton
Marian Wood Books, 08/22/2017
The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone,
Y is for Yesterday begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite...
more
Young Jane Young
by
Gabrielle Zevin
Algonquin Books, 08/22/2017
Aviva Grossman, an ambitious congressional intern in Florida, makes the mistake of having an affair with her boss - and blogging about it. When the ...
more
Literary Fiction
Glass Houses: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
by
Louise Penny
Minotaur Books, 08/29/2017
When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers are at first curious. Then wary. ...
more
My Absolute Darling
by
Gabriel Tallent
Riverhead Books, 08/29/2017
Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Burning Girl
by
Claire Messud
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/29/2017
Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling limitations of ...
more
The Hidden Light of Northern Fires
by
Daren Wang
Thomas Dunne Books, 08/29/2017
Mary Willis has always been an outcast, an abolitionist in a town of bounty hunters and anti-Union farmers. After college, she dreams of exploring the...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
You Don't Know Me but I Know You
by
Rebecca Barrow
HarperTeen, 08/29/2017
There's a box in the back of Audrey's closet that she rarely thinks about.
Inside is a letter, seventeen years old, from a mother she's never met, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Legacy of Spies
by
John le Carré
Viking, 09/05/2017
The undisputed master returns with a riveting new book - his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years.
Peter Guillam, staunch colleague ...
more
A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial
by
James Reston Jr.
Arcade Publishing, 09/05/2017
A Rift in the Earth tells the remarkable story of the ferocious "art war" that raged between 1979 and 1984 over what kind of memorial should be built ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New York
by
Adam Gopnik
Knopf, 09/05/2017
When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, left the comforts of home in Montreal for New York, the city then, much like today, was a pilgrimage...
more
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
by
Kapka Kassabova
Graywolf Press, 09/05/2017
In this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook
by
Alice Waters
Clarkson Potter, 09/05/2017
When Alice Waters opened the doors of her "little French restaurant" in Berkeley, California in 1971 at the age of 27, no one ever anticipated the ...
more
Crossings: A Doctor-Soldier's Story
by
Jon Kerstetter
Crown, 09/05/2017
Every juncture in Jon Kerstetter's life has been marked by a crossing from one world into another: from civilian to doctor to soldier; between healing...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.
by
Danielle Allen
Liveright / WW Norton, 09/05/2017
In a shattering work that shifts between a woman's private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin and a scholar's fierce critique of the ...
more
Fever
by
Deon Meyer
Atlantic Monthly Press, 09/05/2017
Nico Storm and his father Willem drive a truck filled with essential supplies through a desolate land. They are among the few in South Africa - and ...
more
Jumping at Shadows: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream
by
Sasha Abramsky
Nation Books, 09/05/2017
Why does a disease that killed only a handful of Americans like ebola provoke panic, but the flu - which kills tens of thousands each year - is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lie to Me: A Fast-Paced Psychological Thriller
by
J.T. Ellison
Mira, 09/05/2017
They built a life on lies
Sutton and Ethan Montclair's idyllic life is not as it appears. They seem made for each other, but the truth is ...
more
Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions: A Kopp Sisters Novel
by
Amy Stewart
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 09/05/2017
Deputy sheriff Constance Kopp is outraged to see young women brought into the Hackensack jail over dubious charges of waywardness, incorrigibility, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Sisters
by
Lily Tuck
Atlantic Monthly Press, 09/05/2017
Lily Tuck's critically-lauded, bestselling
I Married You for Happiness was hailed by the
Boston Globe as "an artfully crafted still life of one couple...
more
Something Like Happy
by
Eva Woods
Graydon House, 09/05/2017
"It's simple, really. You're just meant to do one thing every day that makes you happy. Could be little things. Could be big. In fact, we're doing one...
more
Tales of Falling and Flying
by
Ben Loory
Penguin Books, 09/05/2017
Ben Loory returns with a second collection of timeless tales, inviting us to enter his worlds of whimsical fantasy, deep empathy, and playful humor, ...
more
The Blood Card: Magic Men Mysteries
by
Elly Griffiths
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 09/05/2017
Elizabeth II's coronation is looming, but DI Edgar Stephens is busy investigating the death of a local fortuneteller. Meanwhile, his old pal, the ...
more
The Boat Runner
by
Devin Murphy
Harper Perennial, 09/05/2017
Beginning in the summer of 1939, fourteen-year-old Jacob Koopman and his older brother, Edwin, enjoy lives of prosperity and quiet contentment. Many ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Child Finder
by
Rene Denfeld
Harper, 09/05/2017
"Where are you, Madison Culver? Flying with the angels, a silver speck on a wing? Are you dreaming, buried under snow? Or - is it possible - you are ...more
The Salt Line
by
Holly Goddard Jones
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 09/05/2017
How far will they go for their freedom - once they decide what freedom really means?
In an unspecified future, the United States' borders have ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
They Both Die at the End
by
Adam Silvera
HarperTeen, 09/05/2017
On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They're going to die today. ...
more
Unaccompanied
by
Javier Zamora
Copper Canyon Press, 09/05/2017
Javier Zamora was nine years old when he traveled unaccompanied 4,000 miles, across multiple borders, from El Salvador to the United States to be ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Wild Bird
by
Wendelin Van Draanen
Knopf, 09/05/2017
3:47 a.m. That's when they come for Wren Clemmens. She's hustled out of her house and into a waiting car, then a plane, and then taken on a forced ...
more
House. Tree. Person.: A Novel of Suspense
by
Catriona McPherson
Midnight Ink, 09/08/2017
A year ago, she was happily married, running her beauty salon, raising her son, living in her dream house. Now Ali McGovern's dreams are slipping away...
more
A Column of Fire: A Kingsbridge Novel
by
Ken Follett
Viking, 09/12/2017
In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Affections
by
Rodrigo Hasbún (author), Sophie Hughes (translator)
Simon & Schuster, 09/12/2017
Inspired by real events,
Affections is the story of the eccentric, fascinating Ertl clan, headed by the egocentric and extraordinary Hans, once the ...
more
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
by
Daniel Mendelsohn
Knopf, 09/12/2017
When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate
Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find ...
more
Bluebird, Bluebird
by
Attica Locke
Mulholland, 09/12/2017
When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ...
more
Hame
by
Annalena McAfee
Knopf, 09/12/2017
Commissioned to set up a museum there and to write the biography of the island's celebrated poet and chronicler, Mhairi McPhail is slowly drawn in by ...
more
Lightning Men: A Novel (The Darktown Series)
by
Thomas Mullen
Atria Books, 09/12/2017
Officer Denny Rakestraw and "Negro Officers" Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith have their hands full in an overcrowded and rapidly changing Atlanta. It's ...
more
Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime
by
Ben Blum
Random House, 09/12/2017
Alex Blum was a good kid, a popular high school hockey star from a tight-knit Colorado family. He had one goal in life: endure a brutally difficult ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
True Crime
Debut Author
Spinning
by
Tillie Walden
First Second, 09/12/2017
It was the same every morning. Wake up, grab the ice skates, and head to the rink while the world was still dark.
Weekends were spent in glitter ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Swallowing Mercury
by
Wioletta Greg (author), Eliza Marciniak (translator)
Transit Books, 09/12/2017
While political change hums in the background, Wiola looks back on her youth in a close-knit agricultural community in 1980s Poland: the superstitions...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Devouring: A Billy Boyle WWII Mystery
by
James R. Benn
Soho Press, 09/12/2017
Billy and Kaz are sent to neutral Switzerland to investigate the murder of a Swiss banking official with ties to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS...
more
The Explorer
by
Katherine Rundell
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 09/12/2017
Fred, Con, Lila, and Max are on their way back to England from Manaus when the plane they're on crashes and the pilot dies upon landing. For days they...
more
The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life
by
Lauren Markham
Crown, 09/12/2017
Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, Ernesto Flores had always had a fascination with the United States, the distant land of ...
more
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye: A Lisbeth Salander novel
by
David Lagercrantz
Knopf, 09/12/2017
Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo, the brilliant hacker, the obstinate outsider, the volatile seeker of justice for herself and others...
more
The Living Infinite
by
Chantel Acevedo
Europa Editions, 09/12/2017
After her cloistered childhood at the Spanish court, her youth spent in exile, and a loveless marriage, Eulalia gladly departs Europe for the New ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
by
Stephen Greenblatt Ph.D.
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/12/2017
Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned,
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve explores the enduring story...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Too Shattered for Mending
by
Peter Brown Hoffmeister
Knopf, 09/12/2017
"Little" McCardell is doing all he can just to keep it together after the disappearance of his grandfather "Big" and the arrest of his older brother, ...
more
We Were Strangers Once
by
Betsy Carter
Grand Central Publishing, 09/12/2017
On the eve of World War II Egon Schneider - a gallant and successful Jewish doctor, son of two world-famous naturalists - escapes Germany to an ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Le Sphinx Des Glaces
by
Jules Verne
Du carrousel, 09/16/2017
And we know that Arthur Pym was mistaken in asserting that Captain William Guy and several of his companions perished in the landslip of the hill at ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory
by
Michael Korda
Liveright / WW Norton, 09/19/2017
An epic of remarkable originality,
Alone captures the heroism of World War II as movingly as any book in recent memory. Bringing to vivid life the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Autonomous
by
Annalee Newitz
Tor Books, 09/19/2017
Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Best Day Ever: A Psychological Thriller
by
Kaira Rouda
Graydon House, 09/19/2017
"I glance at my wife as she climbs into the passenger seat, and I am bursting with confidence. Today will be everything I've promised her…and ...more
Caroline: Little House, Revisited
by
Sarah Miller
William Morrow, 09/19/2017
In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls and her family leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and the warm bosom of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire
by
Leslie Peirce
Basic Books, 09/19/2017
In
Empress of the East, historian Leslie Peirce tells the remarkable story of a Christian slave girl, Roxelana, who was abducted by slave traders from...
more
Keep Her Safe
by
Sophie Hannah
William Morrow, 09/19/2017
Pushed to the breaking point, Cara Burrows flees her home and family and escapes to a five-star spa resort she can't afford. Late at night, exhausted ...
more
Release
by
Patrick Ness
HarperTeen, 09/19/2017
Adam Thorn doesn't know it yet, but today will change his life.
Between his religious family, a deeply unpleasant ultimatum from his boss, and his...
more
The Book of Separation: A Memoir
by
Tova Mirvis
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 09/19/2017
Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family, Tova Mirvis committed herself to observing the rules and rituals prescribed by this ...
more
The Cuban Affair
by
Nelson DeMille
Simon & Schuster, 09/19/2017
Daniel Graham MacCormick - Mac for short - seems to have a pretty good life. At age thirty-five he's living in Key West, owner of a forty-two-foot ...
more
The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs: A Novel
by
Janet Peery
St. Martin's Griffin, 09/19/2017
On a summer evening in the blue-collar town of Amicus, Kansas, the Campbell family gathers for a birthday dinner for their ailing patriarch, retired ...
more
The Good People
by
Hannah Kent
Little Brown & Company, 09/19/2017
Nóra, bereft after the death of her husband, finds herself alone and caring for her grandson Micheál, who can neither speak nor walk. A ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery
by
Bill James, Rachel McCarthy James
Scribner, 09/19/2017
Between 1898 and 1912, families across the country were bludgeoned in their sleep with the blunt side of an axe. Jewelry and valuables were left in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
White Bodies
by
Jane Robins
Touchstone, 09/19/2017
Felix and Tilda seem like the perfect couple: young and in love, a financier and a beautiful up-and-coming starlet. But behind their flawless faç...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Winnie-the-Pooh: Classic Gift Edition
by
A. A. Milne
Dutton for Young Readers, 09/19/2017
For over ninety years, Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends—Piglet, Owl, Tigger, and the ever doleful Eeyore—have endured as the unforgettable ...
more
Literary Fiction
Lord Jim
by
Joseph Conrad
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 09/20/2017
An early and primary event in the story is the abandonment of a passenger ship in distress by its crew, including a young British seaman named Jim. He...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Ninth Street Women: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
by
Mary Gabriel
Little Brown & Company, 09/25/2017
Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times,
Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Short History of the Girl Next Door
by
Jared Reck
Knopf, 09/26/2017
Seriously, how can you see a person nearly every day of your life and never think a thing of it, then all of a sudden, one day, it's different? You ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
by
Annie Spence
Flatiron Books, 09/26/2017
Librarians spend their lives weeding. Not weeds, but books! Books that have reached the end of their shelf life, both literally and figuratively. They...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Disappeared
by
Francisco X. Stork
Arthur A. Levine Books, 09/26/2017
Four Months Ago
Sara Zapata's best friend disappeared, kidnapped by the web of criminals who terrorize Juarez.
Four Hours Ago
Sara received a ...
more
Go, Went, Gone
by
Jenny Erpenbeck (author), Susan Bernofsky (translator)
New Directions Publishing, 09/26/2017
Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, "one of the most significant German-language novelists of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
by
Jessica Bruder
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/26/2017
Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Blackbird Season
by
Kate Moretti
Atria Books, 09/26/2017
"Where did they come from? Why did they fall? The question would be asked a thousand times…
Until, of course, a more important question arose,...more
The Long Count: A John Q Mystery
by
JM Gulvin
Faber and Faber, 09/26/2017
With a gun on each hip and godson to the Ranger that took down Bonnie and Clyde, 36-year-old John Quarrie is Old School West with old west values, the...
more
Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
by
Henry Marsh
Thomas Dunne Books, 10/03/2017
Following the publication of his celebrated New York Times bestseller
Do No Harm, Marsh retired from his full-time job in England to work pro bono in ...
more
Call Me by Your Name: A Novel
by
André Aciman
Picador, 10/03/2017
Andre Aciman's
Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his ...
more
Cast Iron: An Enzo Macleod Investigation #6
by
Peter May
Quercus, 10/03/2017
In 1989, a killer dumped the body of twenty-year-old Lucie Martin into a picturesque lake in the west of France. Fourteen years later, during a summer...
more
Dunbar: Hogarth Shakespeare
by
Edward St. Aubyn
Hogarth Books, 10/03/2017
Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he hands over care of the corporation ...
more
Everything Must Go
by
Jenny Fran Davis
Wednesday Books, 10/03/2017
Flora Goldwasser has fallen in love. She won't admit it to anyone, but something about Elijah Huck has pulled her under. When he tells her about the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Far from the Tree
by
Robin Benway
HarperTeen, 10/03/2017
Being the middle child has its ups and downs.
But for Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, discovering that she is a middle ...
more
Fresh Complaint: Stories
by
Jeffrey Eugenides
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/03/2017
Jeffrey Eugenides's bestselling novels have shown him to be an astute observer of the crises of adolescence, self-discovery, family love, and what it ...
more
Friends and Traitors: An Inspector Troy Novel
by
John Lawton
Atlantic Monthly Press, 10/03/2017
London, 1958. Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy of Scotland Yard, newly promoted after good service during Nikita Khrushchev's visit to Britain, is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Logical Family: A Memoir
by
Armistead Maupin
Harper, 10/03/2017
Born in the mid-twentieth century and raised in the heart of conservative North Carolina, Armistead Maupin lost his virginity to another man "on the ...
more
Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
by
Eric Metaxas
Viking, 10/03/2017
On All Hallow's Eve in 1517, a young monk named Martin Luther posted a document he hoped would spark an academic debate, but that instead ignited a ...
more
Mental: Lithium, Love, and Losing My Mind
by
Jaime Lowe
Blue Rider Press, 10/03/2017
It began in Los Angeles in 1993, when Jaime Lowe was just sixteen. She stopped sleeping and eating, and began to hallucinate - demonically ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China
by
Xiaolu Guo
Grove Press, 10/03/2017
Xiaolu Guo has traveled further than most to become who she needed to be. Now, as she experiences the birth of her daughter in a London maternity ward...
more
Origin
by
Dan Brown
Doubleday, 10/03/2017
Whoever You Are.
Whatever You Believe.
Everything Is About To Change.
Bilbao, Spain
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and...
more
Paris in the Present Tense
by
Mark Helprin
Overlook, 10/03/2017
Mark Helprin's powerful, rapturous new novel is set in a present-day Paris caught between violent unrest and its well-known, inescapable glories. ...
more
Picnic at Hanging Rock: (Penguin Classics)
by
Joan Lindsay
Penguin Classics, 10/03/2017
It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. ...
more
Literary Fiction
Reservoir 13
by
Jon McGregor
Catapult, 10/03/2017
Midwinter in an English village. A teenage girl has gone missing. Everyone is called upon to join the search. The villagers fan out across the moors ...
more
Shortfall: Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking
by
Alice Echols
Atheneum Books, 10/03/2017
Shortfall opens with a surprise discovery in an attic - boxes filled with letters and documents hidden for more than seventy years - and launches into...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Dark Lake
by
Sarah Bailey
Grand Central Publishing, 10/03/2017
The lead homicide investigator in a rural town, Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock is deeply unnerved when a high school classmate is found strangled,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
by
Masha Gessen
Riverhead Books, 10/03/2017
Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most powerful man in Russia" (
The Wall Street Journal), award-winning journalist Masha Gessen is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Phoenix Years: Art, Resistance, and the Making of Modern China
by
Madeleine O'Dea
Pegasus Books, 10/03/2017
The riveting story of China's rise from economic ruin to global giant in the past four decades is illuminated by another, equally fascinating, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Prague Sonata
by
Bradford Morrow
Atlantic Monthly Press, 10/03/2017
Music and war, war and music - these are the twin motifs around which Bradford Morrow, recipient of the Academy Award in Fiction from the American ...
more
The Tiger's Daughter: Their Bright Ascendency series #1
by
K Arsenault Rivera
Tor Books, 10/03/2017
Away on the silver steppes, the remaining tribes of nomadic Qorin retreat and protect their own, having bartered a treaty with the empire, exchanging ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
This Is How It Begins
by
Joan Dempsey
She Writes Press, 10/03/2017
In 2009, eighty-five-year-old art professor Ludka Zeilonka gets drawn into a political firestorm when her grandson, Tommy, is among a group of gay ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
True Stories: And Other Essays
by
Francis Spufford
Yale University Press, 10/03/2017
Francis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of...
more
White Mountain: A Cultural Adventure Through the Himalayas
by
Robert Twigger
Pegasus Books, 10/03/2017
Home to mythical kingdoms, wars and expeditions, and strange and magical beasts, the Himalayas have always loomed tall in our imagination. These...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Literary Fiction
We Know How This Ends: Living while Dying
by
Bruce H. Kramer
University of Minnesota Press, 10/04/2017
ALS is a cruel, unrelenting neurodegenerative disease in which the body's muscles slowly weaken, including those used to move, swallow, talk, and ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
by
Noah Strycker
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 10/10/2017
In 2015, Noah Strycker set himself a lofty goal: to become the first person to see half the world's birds in one year. For 365 days, with a backpack, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Catapult: Stories
by
Emily Fridlund
Sarabande Books, 10/10/2017
Sometimes calculating, at other times bewildered,
Catapult's characters orbit around each other, enacting a deeply human tragicomedy of wit, ...
more
Echo After Echo
by
Amy Rose Capetta
Candlewick Press, 10/10/2017
Zara Evans has come to the Aurelia Theater, home to the visionary director Leopold Henneman, to play her dream role in
Echo and Ariston, the Greek ...
more
Ferocity
by
Nicola Lagioia
Europa Editions, 10/10/2017
Southern Italy, the 1980s. On a hot summer's night under a full moon, far from the outlying neighborhoods of a southern Italian metropolis, Clara ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Here in Berlin
by
Cristina Garcia
Counterpoint Press, 10/10/2017
Here in Berlin is a portrait of a city through snapshots, an excavation of the stories and ghosts of contemporary Berlin - its complex, troubled past ...
more
Hide and Seek: A Helen Grace Thriller
by
M.j. Arlidge
Berkley Books, 10/10/2017
Framed for a murder she didn't commit...
As one of HM Prison Holloway's most high-profile new inmates, Helen Grace has a target on her back and ...
more
Thrillers
In the Distance
by
Hernan Diaz
Coffee House Press, 10/10/2017
A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
by
Anne Applebaum
Doubleday, 10/10/2017
In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization - in effect a second Russian revolution - which forced millions of peasants off ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Gourmands' Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy
by
Justin Spring
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/10/2017
During
les trente glorieuses, a thirty-year boom period in France between the end of World War II and the 1974 oil crisis, Paris was not only the ...
more
The Memory Trees
by
Kali Wallace
Katherine Tegan Books, 10/10/2017
For the first eight years of her life, an unusual apple orchard in Vermont is Sorrow Lovegood's whole world. The land has been passed down ...
more
The Power
by
Naomi Alderman
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 10/10/2017
In
The Power, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents ...
more
The Runaway Species: How human creativity remakes the world
by
Anthony Brandt, David Eagleman
Catapult, 10/10/2017
The Runaway Species is a deep-dive into the creative mind, a celebration of the human spirit, and a vision of how we can improve our future by ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
The Secret Life: Three True Stories of the Digital Age
by
Andrew O'Hagan
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/10/2017
In
The Secret Life: Three True Stories, the essayist and novelist Andrew O'Hagan issues three bulletins from the porous border between cyberspace and ...
more
Wild Horse Country: The History, Myth, and Future of the Mustang
by
David Philipps
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/10/2017
The wild horse is so ingrained in the American imagination that even those who have never seen one know what it stands for: fierce independence, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Wolf Season
by
Helen Benedict
Bellevue Literary Press, 10/10/2017
Rin, an Iraq War veteran, tries to protect her blind daughter and the three wolves under her care. Naema, a widowed doctor who fled Iraq with her ...
more
A Line in the Dark
by
Malinda Lo
Dutton Children's Books, 10/17/2017
Jess Wong is Angie Redmond's best friend. And that's the most important thing, even if Angie can't see how Jess truly feels. Being the girl no one ...
more
Bookshops: A Reader's History
by
Jorge Carrión
Biblioasis, 10/17/2017
Jorge Carrion collects bookshops: from Gotham Book Mart and the Strand Bookstore in New York City to City Lights Bookshop and Green Apple Books in San...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Dear Martin
by
Nic Stone
Crown Books for Young Readers, 10/17/2017
Justyce is a good kid, an honor student, and always there to help a friend—but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
House of Shadows: An Enthralling Historical Mystery
by
Nicola Cornick
Graydon House, 10/17/2017
In the winter of 1662, Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen, is on her deathbed. She entrusts an ancient pearl, rumored to have magic power, to her ...
more
Historical Fiction
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
by
Erika L. Sánchez
Knopf, 10/17/2017
Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Smile
by
Roddy Doyle
Viking, 10/17/2017
Just moved into a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly's for a pint, a slow one. One evening ...
more
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
by
Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
Penguin Books, 10/17/2017
What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why do we not have a lunar colony already? What is the hold-up?
In this ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
by
Dashka Slater
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/17/2017
If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
by
Lindsey Fitzharris
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/17/2017
In
The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows how it was transformed by ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir
by
Amy Tan
Ecco, 10/17/2017
In
Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of
The Joy Luck Club and
The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate in revealing the truths ...
more
The Safe House
by
Christophe Boltanski
University Of Chicago Press, 10/23/2017
When the Nazis came, Étienne Boltanski divorced his wife and walked out the front door, never to be seen again during the war. So far as the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice
by
Khizr Khan
Random House, 10/24/2017
In fewer than three hundred words, Khizr Khan electrified viewers around the world when he took the stage at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Belladonna
by
Dasa Drndric (author), Celia Hawkesworth (translator)
The New Press, 10/24/2017
Andreas Ban, a psychologist who does not psychologize anymore and a writer who no longer writes, lives alone in a coastal town in Croatia. He sifts ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Dying to Live: A Detective Kubu Mystery #6
by
Michael Stanley
Minotaur Books, 10/24/2017
A Bushman is discovered dead near the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Africa. Although the man looks old enough to have died of natural causes, the ...
more
Long Way Down
by
Jason Reynolds
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 10/24/2017
A Newbery Honor Book
A Coretta Scott King Honor Book
A Printz Honor Book
A
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature
...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition (Hercule Poirot Mysteries, 9)
by
Agatha Christie
William Morrow, 10/24/2017
The murderer is with us—on the train now ...
Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By ...
more
Thrillers
Tell Tale: Stories
by
Jeffrey Archer
St. Martin's Press, 10/24/2017
Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out
Who Killed the Mayor? and the ...
more
The First Day
by
Phil Harrison
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 10/24/2017
Outside an east Belfast mission hall, pastor and family man Samuel Orr meets Anna, a young Beckett scholar. They embark on an intense, passionate ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The River of Consciousness
by
Oliver Sacks
Knopf, 10/24/2017
Oliver Sacks, a scientist and a storyteller, is beloved by readers for the extraordinary neurological case histories (
Awakenings, An Anthropologist on...more
Beasts Made of Night
by
Tochi Onyebuchi
Razorbill, 10/31/2017
Packed with dark magic and thrilling action,
Beasts Made of Night is a gritty Nigerian-influenced fantasy perfect for fans of Paolo Bacigalupi and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker
by
Gregory Maguire
William Morrow, 10/31/2017
Gregory Maguire's novels have been called "bewitching," "remarkable," "extraordinary," "engrossing," "amazing," and "delicious." Having brought his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's
by
Joseph Jebelli
Little Brown & Company, 10/31/2017
Alzheimer's is the great global epidemic of our time, affecting millions worldwide - there are more than 5 million people diagnosed in the US alone. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bonfire
by
Krysten Ritter
Crown, 11/07/2017
Can you ever outrun your past?
It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small town roots....
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Dark Asylum
by
E. S. Thomson
Pegasus Books, 11/07/2017
1851, Angel Meadow Asylum. Dr. Rutherford, principal physician to the insane, is found dead, his head bashed in, his ears cut off, his lips and eyes ...
more
Deadly Cure: A Novel
by
Lawrence Goldstone
Pegasus Books, 11/07/2017
In 1899, in Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Noah Whitestone is called urgently to his wealthy neighbor's house to treat a five-year-old boy with a shocking ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Freya
by
Anthony Quinn
Europa Editions, 11/07/2017
Set immediately after the end of WWII,
Freya explores the lives and friendship of two british females at a time where gender roles were changing in ...
more
Heaven's Crooked Finger: An Earl Marcus Mystery
by
Hank Early
Crooked Lane Books, 11/07/2017
Earl Marcus thought he had left the mountains of Georgia behind forever, and with them, the painful memories of a childhood spent under the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree
by
A. J. Jacobs
Simon & Schuster, 11/07/2017
A.J. Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years, but this note was perhaps the strangest: "You don't know me, but I'm your eighth cousin. ...
more
Keeping On Keeping On
by
Alan Bennett
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/07/2017
Alan Bennett's third collection of prose,
Keeping On Keeping On, follows in the footsteps of the phenomenally successful
Writing Home and
Untold ...more
Mrs. Osmond
by
John Banville
Knopf, 11/07/2017
Isabel Archer is a young American woman, swept off to Europe in the late nineteenth century by an aunt who hopes to round out the impetuous but na&#...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance
by
Bill McKibben
Blue Rider Press, 11/07/2017
As the host of Radio Free Vermont - "underground, underpowered, and underfoot" - seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an "...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone
by
Juli Berwald
Riverhead Books, 11/07/2017
Jellyfish are an enigma. They have no centralized brain, but they see and feel and react to their environment in complex ways. They look simple, yet ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion - Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
by
Peter Wohlleben (Author), Jane Billinghurst (Translator), Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (Foreword)
Greystone Books, 11/07/2017
Through vivid stories of devoted pigs, two-timing magpies, and scheming roosters,
The Inner Life of Animals weaves the latest scientific research ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Ocean in My Ears
by
Meagan Macvie
Ooligan Press, 11/07/2017
Meri Miller lives in Soldotna, Alaska. Never heard of it? That's because in
Slowdotna the most riveting activities for a teenager are salmon fishing ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Shadow District: A Thriller
by
Arnaldur Indridason
Minotaur Books, 11/07/2017
THE PAST
In wartime Reykjavik, Iceland, a young woman is found strangled in 'the shadow district', a rough and dangerous area of the city. An ...
more
What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism
by
Dan Rather
Algonquin Books, 11/07/2017
At a moment of crisis over our national identity, Dan Rather has been reflecting - and writing passionately almost every day on social media - about ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wonder Valley
by
Ivy Pochoda
Ecco, 11/07/2017
It's a familiar sight in Los Angeles, traveling on the 110 during peak morning rush hour: an endless sea of commuters, with no respite for miles. But ...
more
A Beautiful Young Woman
by
Julian Lopez (Author), Samuel Rutter (translator)
Melville House, 11/14/2017
As political violence escalates around them, a young boy and his single mother live together in an apartment in Buenos Aires - which has recently been...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
by
Kevin Young
Graywolf Press, 11/14/2017
Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue's gallery of hoaxers, plagiarists, forgers, and fakers - from the humbug of P. T. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Counting Backwards: A Doctor's Notes on Anesthesia
by
Henry Jay Przybylo MD
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/14/2017
For many of the 40 million Americans who undergo anesthesia each year, it is the source of great fear and fascination. From the famous first ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Big Lie
by
Julie Mayhew
Candlewick Press, 11/14/2017
Nazi England, 2014. Jessika Keller is a good girl - a champion ice skater, model student of the Bund Deutscher Mädel, and dutiful daughter of the...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Library at the Edge of the World: A Finfarran Peninsula Novel
by
Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Harper Perennial, 11/14/2017
As she drives her mobile library van between villages of Ireland's West Coast, Hanna Casey tries not to think about a lot of things. Like the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Mannequin Makers
by
Craig Cliff
Milkweed Editions, 11/14/2017
Excitement is rare in the small town of Marumaru, New Zealand. So when a young Maori man arrives on the morning train one day in 1903 - announcing the...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Where the Wild Coffee Grows: The Untold Story of Coffee from the Cloud Forests of Ethiopia to Your Cup
by
Jeff Koehler
Bloomsbury USA, 11/14/2017
Located between the Great Rift Valley and the Nile, the cloud forests in southwestern Ethiopia are the original home of Arabica, the most prevalent ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Immune: How Your Body Defends and Protects You
by
Catherine Carver
Bloomsbury USA, 11/21/2017
The human body is like an exceedingly well-fortified castle, defended by billions of soldiers - some live for less than a day, others remember battles...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Murder in the Manuscript Room: A 42nd Street Library Mystery
by
Con Lehane
Minotaur Books, 11/21/2017
When a murder desecrates the somber, book-lined halls of New York City's iconic 42nd Street Library, Raymond Ambler, the library's curator of crime ...
more
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
by
Caroline Fraser
Metropolitan Books, 11/21/2017
One of
The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year and winner of the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Awards for Biography.
...
more
The Years
by
Annie Ernaux
Seven Stories Press, 11/21/2017
The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present—even projections into...
more
Biography/Memoir
A Hundred Small Lessons
by
Ashley Hay
Atria Books, 11/28/2017
When Elsie Gormley leaves the Brisbane house in which she has lived for more than sixty years, Lucy Kiss and her family move in, eager to establish ...
more
The Man in the Crooked Hat
by
Harry Dolan
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 11/28/2017
There's a killer, and he wears a crooked hat.
Private investigator Jack Pellum has spent two years searching for the man who he believes murdered ...
more
The Plot Is Murder (Mystery Bookshop)
by
V.M. Burns
Kensington Publishing, 11/28/2017
Samantha Washington has dreamed of owning her own mystery bookstore for as long as she can remember. And as she prepares for the store's grand opening...
more
Mysteries
The World Goes On
by
László Krasznahorkai (author)
New Directions Publishing, 11/28/2017
In
The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, then tells eleven unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell ("for here I would leave this ...
more
Elmet
by
Fiona Mozley
Algonquin Books, 12/05/2017
The family thought the little house they had made themselves in Elmet, a corner of Yorkshire, was theirs, that their peaceful, self-sufficient life ...
more
Glass Town
by
Steven Savile
St. Martin's Griffin, 12/05/2017
In 1926, two brothers both loved Eleanor Raines, a promising young actress from the East End of London. But, along with Seth Lockwood, she disappeared...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Ravenspur: Rise of the Tudors
by
Conn Iggulden
Pegasus Books, 12/05/2017
England, 1470. A divided kingdom cannot stand.
King Edward of York has been driven out of England. Queen Elizabeth and her children tremble in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Ice House
by
Laura Lee Smith
Grove Press, 12/05/2017
Johnny MacKinnon might be on the verge of losing it all. The ice factory he married into, which he's run for decades, is facing devastating OSHA fines...
more
The Missing Guests of the Magic Grove Hotel: An Ethical Chiang Mai Detective Agency Novel
by
David Casarett
Redhook, 12/05/2017
As a nurse ethnicist, Ladarat Patalung works to save the lives of her patients, and to make sure the ones she can't save have at least the dignity of ...
more
The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
by
Paul Kix
Harper, 12/05/2017
A scion of one of the most storied families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucald was raised in magnificent chateaux and educated in Europe's finest ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Vanishing Princess: Stories
by
Jenny Diski
Ecco, 12/05/2017
Jenny Diski's prose is as sharp and steely as her imagination is wild and wondrous. When she died of cancer in April 2016, after chronicling her ...
more
Three Daughters of Eve
by
Elif Shafak
Bloomsbury USA, 12/05/2017
Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag...
more
The Mystery of The Yellow Room
by
Gaston Leroux
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 12/09/2017
One of the first locked-room mystery novels, it was first published serially in France in the periodical L'Illustration from September 1907 to ...
more
Mysteries
Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy
by
Elaine Tyler May
Basic Books, 12/12/2017
For the last sixty years, fear has seeped into every area of American life: Americans own more guns than citizens of any other country, sequester ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Women & Power: A Manifesto
by
Mary Beard
Liveright / WW Norton, 12/12/2017
At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over, including, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
