A Nest of Vipers: A Bangalore Detectives Club Mystery
by
Harini Nagendra
Pegasus Crime, 05/02/2024
This latest novel in the Bangalore Detectives Club mystery series takes the reader deep into the historical era surrounding the visit by Edward, ...
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A Lonesome Place for Dying: A Novel
by
Nolan Chase
Crooked Lane Books, 05/07/2024
In the quiet seaside town of Blaine, Washington, the most serious police work involves dealing with stray coyotes or ticketing speeders along the I-5....
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Critics' Opinion:
Mysteries
Debut Author
América del Norte
by
Nicolás Medina Mora
Soho Press, 05/07/2024
Sebastián lived a childhood of privilege in Mexico City. Now in his twenties, he has a degree from Yale, an American girlfriend, and a slot in ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Beastly Beauty
by
Jennifer Donnelly
Scholastic, 05/07/2024
What makes a girl "beastly?" Is it having too much ambition? Being too proud? Taking up too much space? Or is it just wanting something, anything, too...
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Critics' Opinion:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Cinema Love: A Novel
by
Jiaming Tang
Dutton, 05/07/2024
For over thirty years, Old Second and Bao Mei have cobbled together a meager existence in New York City's Chinatown. But unlike other couples, these ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Daughters of Shandong
by
Eve J. Chung
Berkley Books, 05/07/2024
Daughters are the Ang family's curse.
In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Death's Country
by
R. M. Romero
Peachtree Publishers, 05/07/2024
Andres Santos of São Paulo was all swinging fists and firecracker fury, a foot soldier in the war between his parents, until he drowned in the ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Early Sobrieties: A Novel
by
Michael Deagler
Astra House, 05/07/2024
Don't worry about what Dennis Monk did when he was drinking. He's sober now, ready to rejoin the world of leases and paychecks, reciprocal friendships...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Eyes Open
by
Lyn Miller-Lachmann
Carolrhoda Books, 05/07/2024
She'll become a poet, and together she and her artist boyfriend, Zé Miguel, will rise above the government restrictions that shape their lives. ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
How It Works Out: A Novel
by
Myriam Lacroix
The Overlook Press, 05/07/2024
When Myriam and Allison fall in love at a show in a run-down punk house, their relationship begins to unfold through a series of hypotheticals. What ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
How to Read a Book: A Novel
by
Monica Wood
Mariner Books, 05/07/2024
Our Reasons meet us in the morning and whisper to us at night. Mine is an innocent, unsuspecting, eternally sixty-one-year-old woman named Lorraine ...more
Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Hunted
by
Abir Mukherjee
Mulholland, 05/07/2024
In London, the police storm Heathrow Airport to bring in a father for questioning about his missing daughter.
In Florida, a mother makes a ...
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I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv
by
Illia Ponomarenko
Bloomsbury USA, 05/07/2024
In late February 2022, a series of missiles and rocket strikes began falling upon Ukraine, as the Russian military barreled over the border and fanned...
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Critics' Opinion:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
by
Eric Jay Dolin
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 05/07/2024
In
Left for Dead, Eric Jay Dolin―"one of today's finest writers about ships and the sea"
(American Heritage)―tells the true story of a ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Science, Health and the Environment
Loneliness & Company
by
Charlee Dyroff
Bloomsbury USA, 05/07/2024
Lee knows she's the best. A professor favorite and fellowship winner, there's no doubt she'll land one of the coveted jobs at a Big Five corporation. ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Long Island: Eilis Lacey Series #2
by
Colm Toibin
Scribner, 05/07/2024
Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Look Away: A True Story of Murders, Bombings, and a Far-Right Campaign to Rid Germany of Immigrants
by
Jacob Kushner
Grand Central Publishing, 05/07/2024
Not long after the Berlin Wall fell, three teenagers became friends in the East German town of Jena. It was a time of excitement, but also of economic...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Love Is a Burning Thing: A Memoir
by
Nina St. Pierre
Dutton, 05/07/2024
Ten years before Nina was born, her mother lit herself on fire in a dual suicide attempt. During her recovery in the burn-unit, a nurse initiated her ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Phantom Orbit: A Thriller
by
David Ignatius
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/07/2024
David Ignatius is known for his uncanny ability, in novel after novel, to predict the next great national security headline. In
Phantom Orbit, he ...
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Queerceañera
by
Alex Crespo
HarperTeen, 05/07/2024
Joaquin Zoido is out and proud of it. And while he knew his dad and sister, Carmen, would be super supportive, he wasn't quite ready for them to ...
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Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire
by
Paula Yoo
Norton Young Readers, 05/07/2024
In the spring of 1992, after a jury returned not guilty verdicts in the trial of four police officers charged in the brutal beating of a Black man, ...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Sipsworth
by
Simon Van Booy
David R. Godine, 05/07/2024
Following the loss of her husband and son, Helen Cartwright returns to the village of her childhood after living abroad for six decades. Her only wish...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
skin & bones: a novel
by
Renée Watson
Little Brown & Company, 05/07/2024
At 40, Lena Baker is at a steady and stable moment in life—between wine nights with her two best friends and her wedding just weeks away, she's ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Body Farm: Stories
by
Abby Geni
Counterpoint Press, 05/07/2024
The body cannot tell any lies. From birth to death, and through all the transitions in between, the body stores our knowledge and history, our ...
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The Lady Waiting: A Novel
by
Magdalena Zyzak
Riverhead Books, 05/07/2024
One bright Los Angeles day, a young Polish émigré named Viva is driving along the freeway when she's flagged down by a dazzling, disheveled ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
by
Zoë Schlanger
Harper, 05/07/2024
It takes tremendous biological creativity to be a plant. To survive and thrive while rooted in a single spot, plants have adapted ingenious methods of...
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Critics' Opinion:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Ministry of Time: A Novel
by
Kaliane Bradley
Avid Reader Press, 05/07/2024
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Stolen Child: A Novel
by
Ann Hood
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/07/2024
For decades, Nick Burns has been haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, when a French artist he'd befriended thrust both her...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
The World Is Yours: The Story of Scarface
by
Glenn Kenny
Hanover Square Press, 05/07/2024
An unflinching confrontation of humanity's dark side, Brian De Palma's crime drama film
Scarface gave rise to a cultural revolution upon its release ...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Their Divine Fires: A Novel
by
Wendy Chen
Algonquin Books, 05/07/2024
In 1917, at the dawn of the Chinese Revolution, Yunhong grows up in the southern China countryside and falls deeply in love with the son of a wealthy ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
This Book Won't Burn
by
Samira Ahmed
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 05/07/2024
After her dad abruptly abandons her family and her mom moves them a million miles from their Chicago home, Noor Khan is forced to start the last ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics
by
Ernesto Londoño
Celadon, 05/07/2024
When he signed up for a psychedelic retreat run by a mysterious Argentine woman deep in Brazil's rainforest in early 2018, Ernesto Londoño, a ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Biography/Memoir
Whale Fall: A Novel
by
Elizabeth O'Connor
Pantheon Books, 05/07/2024
In 1938, a dead whale washes up on the shores of remote Welsh island. For Manod, who has spent her whole life on the island, it feels like both a ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Women and Children First: A Novel
by
Alina Grabowski
Zando, 05/07/2024
Nashquitten, MA, is a decaying coastal enclave that not even tourist season can revive, full of locals who have run the town's industries for ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
The North Wind
by
Alexandria Warwick
Simon & Schuster, 05/09/2024
Wren of Edgewood is no stranger to suffering. Her parents are gone. Survival is all she knows. For three hundred years, the land known as the Gray has...
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Critics' Opinion:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
by
Lawrence Ingrassia
Henry Holt and Company, 05/14/2024
Ingrassia lost his mother, two sisters, brother, and nephew to cancer—different cancers developing at different points throughout their lives. ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Science, Health and the Environment
All Fours: A Novel
by
Miranda July
Riverhead Books, 05/14/2024
A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nation
by
John Kaag
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/14/2024
The Bloods were one of America's first and most expansive pioneer families. They explored and laid claim to the frontiers—geographic, political,...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Another Word for Love: A Memoir
by
Carvell Wallace
MCD, 05/14/2024
In
Another Word for Love, Carvell Wallace excavates layers of his own history, situated in the struggles and beauty of growing up Black and queer in ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Blue Ruin: A Novel
by
Hari Kunzru
Knopf, 05/14/2024
Once, Jay was an artist. After graduating from art school in London, he was tipped for greatness, a promising career taking shape before him. That was...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
by
Adam Higginbotham
Avid Reader Press, 05/14/2024
On January 28, 1986, just seventy-three seconds into flight, the space shuttle
Challenger broke apart over the Atlantic Ocean, killing all seven ...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Every Time We Say Goodbye: A Novel
by
Natalie Jenner
St. Martin's Press, 05/14/2024
In 1955, Vivien Lowry is facing the greatest challenge of her life. Her latest play, the only female-authored play on the London stage that season, ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Historical Fiction
Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies
by
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Princeton University Press, 05/14/2024
It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn't it always been so? When evolutionary science came along, it...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Liquid, Fragile, Perishable
by
Carolyn Kuebler
Melville House, 05/14/2024
May has arrived in the tiny hamlet of Glenville, Vermont, bringing with it currents of rejuvenation and rebirth. For 3 families, though, the year ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Long After We Are Gone: A Novel
by
Terah Shelton Harris
Sourcebooks Landmark, 05/14/2024
"Don't let the white man take the house."
These are the last words King Solomon says to his son before he dies. Now all four Solomon siblings must ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
by
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
Tiny Reparations, 05/14/2024
Upon becoming a new mother, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal was called to Mexico to reconnect with her ancestors and recover her grandmother's story,...
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My First Book
by
Honor Levy
Penguin Press, 05/14/2024
Walking the wire between imagination and confession,
My First Book marks the arrival of an electric new talent. Honor Levy's uniquely riveting voice ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Oye: A Novel
by
Melissa Mogollon
Hogarth Books, 05/14/2024
"Yes, hi, Mari. It's me. I'm over my tantrum now and calling you back ... But first—you have to promise that you won't tell Mom or Abue any of ...more
Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Rednecks: A Novel
by
Taylor Brown
St. Martin's Press, 05/14/2024
Rednecks is a tour de force, big canvas historical novel that dramatizes the 1920 to 1921 events of the West Virginia Mine Wars—from the Matewan...
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Critics' Opinion:
Historical Fiction
Rise of a Killah
by
Ghostface Killah
St. Martin's Press, 05/14/2024
Dennis Coles—aka Ghostface Killah—is a co-founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, a legendary hip hop group who established themselves by breaking ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Road Home
by
Rex Ogle
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/14/2024
When Rex was outed the summer after he graduated high school, his father gave him a choice: he could stay at home, find a girlfriend, and attend ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Road to Ruin: Magebike Courier #1
by
Hana Lee
Other Press, 05/14/2024
Jin-Lu has the most dangerous job in the wasteland. She's a magebike courier, one of the few who venture outside the domed cities on motorcycles ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World
by
Caroline Alexander
Viking, 05/14/2024
In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from India to China. Supplies to this critical ...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Spitting Gold: A Novel
by
Carmella Lowkis
Atria Books, 05/14/2024
Paris, 1866. When Baroness Sylvie Devereux receives a house call from Charlotte Mothe, the sister she disowned, she fears her shady past as a spirit ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories
by
Colombe Schneck
Penguin Press, 05/14/2024
At fifty years old, while taking swimming lessons, I finally realized that my body was not actually as incompetent as I'd thought. My physical ...more
Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
The Blue Maiden
by
Anna Noyes
Grove Press, 05/14/2024
It's 1825, four generations after Berggrund Island's women stood accused of witchcraft under the eye of their priest, now long dead. In his place is ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Brightwood Code
by
Monica Hesse
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 05/14/2024
Seven months ago, Edda was on the World War I front lines as one of two hundred "Hello Girls," female switchboard operators employed by the US Army. ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Historical Fiction
The Puerto Rican War: A Graphic History
by
John Vasquez Mejias
Union Square & Co., 05/14/2024
Rendered in gorgeously carved wood blocks and buffeted with historical supplemental material, John Vasquez Mejias's
The Puerto Rican War tells the ...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Silence of the Choir
by
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
Europa Editions, 05/14/2024
Seventy-two men arrive in the middle of the Sicilian countryside. They are "immigrants," "refugees" or "migrants." But in Altino, they're called the ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
The Witches of Bellinas: A Novel
by
J. Nicole Jones
Catapult, 05/14/2024
Tansy and her husband Guy are the newest arrivals in Bellinas, a lush oasis tucked into the coast of northern California where a reclusive, creative ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
The Worst Perfect Moment
by
Shivaun Plozza
Holiday House, 05/14/2024
Tegan Masters is dead.
She's sixteen and she's dead and she's standing in the parking lot of the Marybelle Motor Lodge, the single most ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
by
Mike Hixenbaugh
Mariner Books, 05/14/2024
Award-winning journalist Mike Hixenbaugh delivers the immersive and eye-opening story of Southlake, Texas, a district that seemed to offer everything ...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Thirsty: A Novel
by
Jas Hammonds
Roaring Brook Press, 05/14/2024
It's the summer before college and eighteen-year-old Blake Brenner and her girlfriend, Ella, have one goal: join the mysterious and exclusive Serena ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
This Strange Eventful History: A Novel
by
Claire Messud
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/14/2024
Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state―separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a...
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Critics' Opinion:
Historical Fiction
We Were the Universe: A Novel
by
Kimberly King Parsons
Knopf, 05/14/2024
The trip was supposed to be
fun. When Kit's best friend gets dumped by his boyfriend, he begs her to ditch her family responsibilities for an idyllic ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Wives Like Us: A Novel
by
Plum Sykes
Harper, 05/14/2024
If you think the English countryside is all green wellies, muddy Land Rovers and grey-haired ladies in tweed, then you've never visited 'The Bottoms.'...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
A Gentleman from Japan: The Untold Story of an Incredible Journey from Asia to Queen Elizabeth's Court
by
Thomas Lockley
Hanover Square Press, 05/21/2024
On November 12, 1588, five young Asian men—led by a twenty-one-year-old called Christopher—traveled up the River Thames to meet Queen ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Historical Fiction
A Northern Light in Provence: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Birkelund
Ballantine Books, 05/21/2024
Ilse Erlund is a translator who lives in a house on stilts along the west coast of Greenland. Isolated and restless in her world by the sea, she ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
by
Alan Taylor
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/21/2024
In a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Butcher: A novel
by
Joyce Carol Oates
Knopf, 05/21/2024
In this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, "Father of Gyno-Psychiatry," as he ascends ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Historical Fiction
Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir
by
Zoë Bossiere
Abrams Press, 05/21/2024
Newly arrived in the Sonoran Desert, eleven-year-old Zoë's world is one of giant beetles, thundering javelinas, and gnarled paloverde trees. With...
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Critics' Opinion:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Cecilia
by
K-Ming Chang
Coffee House Press, 05/21/2024
Seven, who works as a cleaner at a chiropractor's office, reencounters Cecilia, a woman who has obsessed her since their school days. As the two of ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Exhibit: A Novel
by
R. O. Kwon
Riverhead Books, 05/21/2024
At a lavish party in the hills outside of San Francisco, Jin Han meets Lidija Jung and nothing will ever be the same for either woman. A brilliant ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Faraway the Southern Sky: A Novel
by
Joseph Andras
Verso, 05/21/2024
Fleeing persecution in Indochina, the young Ho Chi Minh arrived in Paris as World War I was sputtering to a close. A painfully shy twentysomething who...
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Critics' Opinion:
Historical Fiction
Goddess of the River
by
Vaishnavi Patel
Redhook, 05/21/2024
A mother and a son. A goddess and a prince. A curse and an oath. A river whose course will change the fate of the world.
Ganga, joyful goddess of...
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Critics' Opinion:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying: Dark Lord Davi #1
by
Django Wexler
Orbit, 05/21/2024
Davi has done this all before. She's tried to be the hero and take down the all-powerful Dark Lord. A hundred times she's rallied humanity and made ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
I Hope This Finds You Well: A Novel
by
Natalie Sue
William Morrow, 05/21/2024
Her secret to survival? She vents her grievances in petty email postscripts, then changes the text color to white so no one can see. That is ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
by
Sebastian Junger
Simon & Schuster, 05/21/2024
For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Biography/Memoir
In Tongues: A Novel
by
Thomas Grattan
MCD, 05/21/2024
It's 2001, and twenty-four-year-old Gordon―handsome, sensitive, and eager for direction―takes a bus from Minnesota to New York City ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Lies and Weddings: A Novel
by
Kevin Kwan
Doubleday, 05/21/2024
Rufus Leung Gresham, future Earl of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel has a problem: the legendary Gresham Trust has been depleted ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Mind Games: A Novel
by
Nora Roberts
St. Martin's Press, 05/21/2024
As they do each June, the Foxes have driven the winding roads of Appalachia to drop off their children for a two-week stay at their grandmother's. ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Mood Swings: A Novel
by
Frankie Barnet
Astra House, 05/21/2024
Everyone knows something's off, but nobody can agree on just what it is. Maybe it's the weather; maybe everyone's just so damn sensitive these days. ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Still Waters: A Novel
by
Matt Goldman
Forge Books, 05/21/2024
Liv and Gabe Ahlstrom are estranged siblings who haven't seen each other in years, but that's about to change when they receive a rare call from their...
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The Incorrigibles: A Novel
by
Meredith Jaeger
Dutton, 05/21/2024
1890, San Francisco. Seduced by her employer's nephew, Annie Gilmurray, an Irish maid, is accused of stealing the ring he promised her. Sentenced to ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Historical Fiction
Token Supremacy: The Art of Finance, the Finance of Art, and the Great Crypto Crash of 2022
by
Zachary Small
Knopf, 05/21/2024
In 2021, when the gavel fell at Christie's on the sale of Mike Winkelmann's Everydays series—a compilation of five thousand digital artworks&#...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America
by
Shefali Luthra
Doubleday, 05/21/2024
On June 24, 2022,
Roe v. Wade was overturned, and the impact was immediate: by 2023, abortion was virtually unavailable or significantly restricted in...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
When We Were Silent: A Novel
by
Fiona McPhillips
Flatiron Books, 05/21/2024
Louise Manson is the newest student at Highfield Manor, Dublin's most exclusive private school. It seems nearly perfect: the high arched window ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Nero: A Novel (The Nero Trilogy)
by
Conn Iggulden
Pegasus Books, 05/24/2024
The story begins with a hand curled around another man's throat.
This is Roman justice: Emperor Tiberius first dispatches a traitor—a ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Historical Fiction
The Lockmaster: The German List
by
Christoph Ransmayr
Seagull Books, 05/27/2024
A longboat plummets over the Great Falls, drowning the five passengers on board. The Lockmaster, the heir to an ancient title and responsible for ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Question of Belonging: Crónicas
by
Hebe Uhart
Archipelago Books, 05/28/2024
Uhart reinvigorates our desire to connect with other people, to love the world, to laugh in the face of bad intentions, and to look again, more ...
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Accordion Eulogies: A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico
by
Noé Álvarez
Catapult, 05/28/2024
Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez never knew his grandfather. Stories swirled around this mythologized, larger-than-life figure:...
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Critics' Opinion:
Biography/Memoir
Allow Me to Introduce Myself: A Novel
by
Onyi Nwabineli
Graydon House, 05/28/2024
Anuri Chinasa has had enough. And really, who can blame her? She was the unwilling star of her stepmother's social media empire before "momfluencers" ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Cheaper, Faster, Better: How We'll Win the Climate War
by
Tom Steyer
Spiegel & Grau, 05/28/2024
The climate is changing more rapidly than scientists predicted even a few years ago, with extreme weather already touching our everyday lives. At the ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Science, Health and the Environment
Cry of the Wild: Eight animals under siege
by
Charles Foster
Doubleday, 05/28/2024
A fox, grown strong on pepperoni pizza from the dustbins of the East End, dances along a railway track towards Essex, the territory of wild foxes and ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Science, Health and the Environment
Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier
by
Robert G. Parkinson
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/28/2024
We are divided over the history of the United States, and one of the central dividing lines is the frontier. Was it a site of heroism? Or was it where...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Housemates: A Novel
by
Emma Copley Eisenberg
Hogarth Books, 05/28/2024
When Bernie replies to Leah's ad for a new housemate in Philadelphia, the two begin an intense and defiantly uncategorizable friendship based on a ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Look on the Bright Side
by
Kristan Higgins
Berkley Books, 05/28/2024
Lark Smith has always had a plan for her life: find a fantastic guy, create a marriage as blissful as her parents', pop out a couple of kids and build...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Southern Man: Penn Cage #7
by
Greg Iles
William Morrow, 05/28/2024
Fifteen years after the events of the
Natchez Burning trilogy, Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead, his old allies gone, ...
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Swole: The Making of Men and the Meaning of Muscle
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Michael Andor Brodeur
Beacon Press, 05/28/2024
Michael Brodeur is a Gen-X gay writer with a passion for bodybuilding and an insatiable curiosity about masculinity--a concept in which many men are ...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Goddess of Warsaw: A Novel
by
Lisa Barr
Harper, 05/28/2024
Los Angeles, 2005. Sienna Hayes, Hollywood's latest It Girl, has ambitions to work behind the camera. When she meets Lena Browning, the ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Historical Fiction
The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War
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James Shapiro
Penguin Press, 05/28/2024
From 1935 to 1939, the Federal Theatre Project staged over a thousand productions in 29 states that were seen by thirty million (or nearly one in four...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Safekeep
by
Yael van der Wouden
Avid Reader Press, 05/28/2024
A house is a precious thing...
It is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Winner: A Novel
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Teddy Wayne
Harper, 05/28/2024
In this oceanfront paradise, however, new clients prove hard to come by, and Conor has bills to pay. Then a sharp-tongued divorcée appears, ...
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Liberty's Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America
by
Amir Alexander
University Of Chicago Press, 05/30/2024
Seen from an airplane, much of the United States appears to be a gridded land of startling uniformity. Perpendicular streets and rectangular fields, ...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
