A Song to Drown Rivers: Deluxe Edition
by
Ann Liang
St. Martin's Press, 10/01/2024
Her beauty hides a deadly purpose.
Xishi's beauty is seen as a blessing to the villagers of Yue―convinced that the best fate for a girl is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win
by
Jessica Valenti
Crown, 10/01/2024
In her most urgent book yet,
New York Times bestselling author Jessica Valenti shines a light on the conservative assault on women's freedom, cutting ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Coup de Grâce
by
Sofia Ajram
Titan Books, 10/01/2024
Vicken has a plan: throw himself into the Saint Lawrence River in Montreal and end it all for good, believing it to be the only way out for him after ...
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Heir
by
Sabaa Tahir
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 10/01/2024
An orphan.
An outcast.
A prince.
And a killer who will bring an empire to its knees.
Growing up in the Kegari slums, AIZ has seen ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
by
Dan Jones
Viking, 10/01/2024
Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months and died at the age of just thirty-five, but he looms over the landscape of the late ...
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How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music
by
Inc National Public Radio
HarperOne, 10/01/2024
Turning the Tables, launched in 2017, has revolutionized recognition of female artists, whether it be in best album lists or in the Rock and Roll Hall...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
I Will Do Better: A Father's Memoir of Heartbreak, Parenting, and Love
by
Charles Bock
Abrams Press, 10/01/2024
The novelist Charles Bock was a reluctant parent, tagging along for the ride of fatherhood, obsessed primarily with his dream of a writing career. But...
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Killer House Party
by
Lily Anderson
Henry Holt and Company, 10/01/2024
Red Solo cups? Check. Snacks? Check. Abandoned mansion full of countless horrors that won't let you leave? Check.
The Deinhart Manor has been a ...
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Load in Nine Times: Poems
by
Frank X. Walker
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 10/01/2024
For decades, Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry: from Medgar Evers in
Turn Me Loose, ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Model Home: A Novel
by
Rivers Solomon
MCD, 10/01/2024
The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up. When their family moved there, ...
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Mojave Ghost
by
Forrest Gander
New Directions Publishing, 10/01/2024
Mojave Ghost initiates an unusually tender bond with the reader as it chronicles an intimate relationship with arresting honesty and vividness.&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Nothing Like the Movies
by
Lynn Painter
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 10/01/2024
For a few beautiful months, Wes had his dream girl: strong-willed girl-next-door Liz. But right as the two were about to set off to UCLA to start ...
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Romance
Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown
by
Wim Carton, Andreas Malm
Verso, 10/01/2024
It might soon be far too hot on this planet. What do we do then? In the era of "overshoot," schemes abound for turning down the heat–not now, ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Ros Demir Is Not the One
by
Leyla Brittan
Holiday House, 10/01/2024
Sixteen-year-old Ros is a go-getter. When she wants something, she makes sure she gets it.
But a lingering rumor (and maybe some ambivalence ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
by
Dionne Brand
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/01/2024
In
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck, Dionne Brand's first major book of nonfiction since her classic
A Map to the Door of No Return, the acclaimed ...
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Season of the Swamp: A Novel
by
Yuri Herrera
Graywolf Press, 10/01/2024
New Orleans, 1853. A young exile named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he will become the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Shred Sisters
by
Betsy Lerner
Grove Press, 10/01/2024
It is said that when one person in a family is unstable, the whole family is destabilized. Meet the Shreds. Olivia is the sister in the spotlight ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Suggested in the Stars
by
Yoko Tawada
New Directions Publishing, 10/01/2024
It's hard to believe there could be a more enjoyable novel than
Scattered All Over the Earth―Yoko Tawada's rollicking, touching, cheerfully ...
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Take a Sad Song
by
Ona Gritz
West 44 Books, 10/01/2024
Jane awaits her hearing with hope, but instead she is sentenced to a yearlong stay at the New York State Training School for Girls. She faces bullying...
more
Romance
Tasmania: A Novel
by
Paolo Giordano
Other Press, 10/01/2024
In late 2015, Paolo feels his life coming apart: While his wife, Lorenza, has decided to give up on pregnancy after years of trying, he clings to the ...
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Literary Fiction
The Ballerina of Auschwitz: Young Adult Edition of The Choice
by
Dr. Edith Eva Eger
Atheneum, 10/01/2024
Edie is a talented dancer and a skilled gymnast with hopes of making the Olympic team. Between her rigorous training and her struggle to find her ...
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The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
by
Aaron Robertson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/01/2024
How do the disillusioned, the forgotten, and the persecuted not merely hold on to life but expand its possibilities and preserve its beauty? What, in ...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Bog Wife
by
Kay Chronister
Counterpoint Press, 10/01/2024
Since time immemorial, the Haddesley family has tended the cranberry bog. In exchange, the bog sustains them. The staunch seasons of their lives are ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Boyfriend
by
Freida McFadden
Poisoned Pen Press, 10/01/2024
Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. She's seen it all: men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick...
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Thrillers
The City in Glass
by
Nghi Vo
Tordotcom, 10/01/2024
The demon Vitrine―immortal, powerful, and capricious―loves the dazzling city of Azril. She has mothered, married, and maddened the city ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Crescent Moon Tearoom: A Novel
by
Stacy Sivinski
Atria Books, 10/01/2024
Ever since the untimely death of their parents, Anne, Beatrix, and Violet Quigley have made a business of threading together the stories that rest in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Dark Becomes Her
by
Judy I. Lin
Rick Riodan Presents, 10/01/2024
Ruby Chen has always played the part of the dutiful eldest daughter: excelling in school; excelling in piano lessons; excelling at keeping her younger...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Drowned: Strafford and Quirke #4
by
John Banville
Hanover Square Press, 10/01/2024
"He had seen drowned people. A sight not to be forgotten."
1950s, rural Ireland. A loner comes across a mysteriously empty car in a field. ...
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The Glass Girl
by
Kathleen Glasgow
Delacorte Press, 10/01/2024
Everyone in fifteen-year-old Bella's life needs something from her. Her mom needs her to help around the house, her dad needs her to not make waves, ...
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The Great When: A Long London Novel
by
Alan Moore
Bloomsbury Publishing, 10/01/2024
Dennis Knuckleyard is a hapless eighteen-year-old who works and lives in a second-hand bookstore. One day, his boss and landlady, Coffin Ada, sends ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Kiss of the Nightingale
by
Adi Denner
Tundra Books, 10/01/2024
1890, Lutèce: In this city, Talents are everything: precious gems that gift unrivalled skills to their owners. The most coveted, Elite Talents, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Last Dangerous Visions
by
Harlan Ellison
Blackstone Publishing, 10/01/2024
In 1973, celebrated writer and editor Harlan Ellison announced the third and final volume of his unprecedented anthology series, which began with
...more
The Life and Death of Rose Doucette
by
Harry Hunsicker
Oceanview Publishing, Inc, 10/01/2024
Dallas private investigator Dylan Fisher hasn't seen his ex-wife, Rose, in three years—which is why he's surprised when she asks him to meet her...
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Thrillers
The Magic You Make
by
Jason June
Melissa de la Cruz Studio, 10/01/2024
Still reeling from their deadly encounter with the Knife and the revelation that the Culling was unnecessary, soulmates Nigel and Ori have been thrust...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Message
by
Ta-Nehisi Coates
One World, 10/01/2024
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's classic "Politics and the English Language," but ...
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The Mighty Red: A Novel
by
Louise Erdrich
Harper, 10/01/2024
History is a flood. The mighty red ...
In Argus, North Dakota, a collection of people revolve around a fraught wedding.
Gary Geist, a ...
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The Only Sound Is the Wind: Stories
by
Pascha Sotolongo
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/01/2024
In the tradition of
narrativa de lo inusual (narrative of the unusual),
The Only Sound Is the Wind combines the fantastic with the everyday, weaving ...
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Short Stories
Debut Author
The Plot Against Native America: The Fateful Story of Native American Boarding Schools and the Theft of Tribal Lands
by
Bill Vaughn
Pegasus Books, 10/01/2024
When Europeans came to the Americas centuries ago, too many of them brought racism along with them. Even presidents such as George Washington, Thomas ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies
by
Deborah Levy
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/01/2024
Deborah Levy's vital literary voice speaks about many things.
On footwear: "It has always been very clear to me that people who wear shoes ...
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The Sequel: The Book Series #2
by
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Celadon, 10/01/2024
Anna Williams-Bonner has taken care of business. That is to say, she's taken care of her husband, bestselling novelist Jacob Finch Bonner, and laid to...
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The Third Realm: A Novel
by
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Penguin Press, 10/01/2024
Shapeshifting visitors, unsolved murders in the forest, black metal bands and an online bank of thousands of people's dreams—the star is back. ...
more
The Wild Huntress
by
Emily Lloyd-Jones
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 10/01/2024
Every five years, two kingdoms take part in a Wild Hunt. Joining is a bloody risk, and even the most qualified hunters can suffer the deadliest fates....
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Ukraine: Remember Also Me: Testimonies from the War
by
George Butler
Candlewick Studio, 10/01/2024
While reporting on the war in Ukraine, George Butler has created striking and intimate illustrations to introduce us to the people behind the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Beggar's Bedlam
by
Nabarun Bhattacharya
Seagull Books, 10/04/2024
Beggar's Bedlam is a surreal novel that unleashes the chaos of the carnival on the familiar. Part literary descendent of Bulgakov's
The Master and ...more
Literary Fiction
A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World's First National Park
by
Randall K. Wilson
Counterpoint Press, 10/08/2024
It has been called Wonderland, America's Serengeti, the crown jewel of the National Park System, and America's best idea. But how did this faraway ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Childish Literature
by
Alejandro Zambra
Penguin Books, 10/08/2024
Childish Literature is a charming and wide-ranging collection of short stories, essays, and even a couple of poems produced under the influence of ...
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Crisis Averted: The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks
by
Caitlin Rivers PhD
Viking, 10/08/2024
An outbreak does not grow into an epidemic. A child does not go hungry. A would-be smoker never lights up. In this fascinating window into the secret ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Diet Soda Club
by
Chaz Hayden
Candlewick Press, 10/08/2024
Have you ever made all the wrong choices for all the right reasons?
Reed Beckett's little sister, Beatrice, has never been awakened by the smell ...
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Divine Mortals
by
Amanda Helander
Disney-Hyperion, 10/08/2024
Blessed by the gods, Mona Arnett has the unique ability to divine soulmates, but she refuses to seek out her own—until she learns the king is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Echoes of Us: A Novel
by
Joy Jordan-Lake
Lake Union Publishing, 10/08/2024
In the midst of World War II, a Tennessee farm boy, a Jewish Cambridge student, and a German POW forge a connection that endures―against all ...
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Historical Fiction
Finding Otipemisiwak: The People Who Own Themselves
by
Andrea Currie
Arsenal Pulp Press, Limited, 10/08/2024
Otipemisiwak is a Plains Cree word describing the Métis, meaning "the people who own themselves."
Andrea Currie was born into a Métis ...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Fledgling: The Keeper's Records of Revolution
by
S. K. Ali
Kokila, 10/08/2024
Would you trade love for peace?
Raisa of Upper Earth has only lived a life of privilege and acquiescence. Ever dutiful, she accepts her father's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir
by
Lisa Marie Presley
Random House, 10/08/2024
In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her long-gestating memoir.
A month later, Lisa Marie was dead, and the ...
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Biography/Memoir
Ghosts of Crook County: An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land
by
Russell Cobb
Beacon Press, 10/08/2024
In the early 1900s, at the dawn of the "American Century," few knew the intoxicating power of greed better than white men on the forefront of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Giddy Barber Explodes in 11
by
Dina Havranek
Peachtree Teen, 10/08/2024
Giddy Barber knows with certainty she's going to become a mechanical engineer. What she doesn't know is the last time she smiled.
With her ...
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Literary Fiction
Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals
by
Maurice Casey
Footnote Press, 10/08/2024
Hotel Lux follows Irish radical May O'Callaghan and her friends, three revolutionary families brought together by their vision for a communist future ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
John Lewis: A Life
by
David Greenberg
Simon & Schuster, 10/08/2024
Born into poverty in rural Alabama, Lewis would become second only to Martin Luther King, Jr. in his contributions to the Civil Rights Movement. He ...
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Love Can't Feed You: A Novel
by
Cherry Lou Sy
Dutton, 10/08/2024
Love Can't Feed You is a stunning, heartbreaking, and compressed look at coming of age, shifting notions of home, and the disintegration of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Melvill
by
Rodrigo Fresan
Open Letter, 10/08/2024
His son, still a child, sits at the foot of the bed, attentively collecting these final, hallucinated words.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Mindless: The Human Condition in the Machine Age
by
Robert Skidelsky
Other Press, 10/08/2024
Faith in technological fixes for our problems is waning. Automation, which promised relief from toil, has reactivated the long-standing fear of job ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East
by
Robert Fisk
Harper360, 10/08/2024
From the Arab uprisings and the Syrian civil war to Israel's conflicts with Palestine and Lebanon, Fisk condemns the West's ongoing hypocrisy and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer
by
Richard Bernstein
Knopf, 10/08/2024
Al Jolson, born Asa Yoelson, immigrated from a shtetl in Lithuania to the United States in 1894 after his father secured a job as a rabbi in ...
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Biography/Memoir
Our Evenings: A Novel
by
Alan Hollinghurst
Random House, 10/08/2024
Did I have a grievance? Most of us, without looking far, could find something that had harmed us, and oppressed us, and unfairly held us back. I tried...more
Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems: 1961-2023
by
Margaret Atwood
Knopf, 10/08/2024
Tracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood—a writer who has fundamentally shaped the contemporary literary landscapes—
Paper Boat: New and ...more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Shock Induction
by
Chuck Palahniuk
Simon & Schuster, 10/08/2024
In
Shock Induction, the best and brightest students at a seemingly reputable high school are disappearing. Every day it seems another overachiever is ...
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Slaveroad
by
John Edgar Wideman
Scribner, 10/08/2024
John Edgar Wideman's "slaveroad" is a palimpsest of physical, social, and psychological terrain, the great expanse to which he writes in this ...
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The Book of George: A Novel
by
Kate Greathead
Henry Holt and Company, 10/08/2024
If you haven't had the misfortune of dating a George, you know someone who has. He's a young man brimming with potential but incapable of following ...
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The Dividing Sky
by
Jill Tew
Joy Revolution, 10/08/2024
In 2460, eighteen-year-old Liv Newman dreams of a future beyond her lower-class life in the Metro. As a Proxy, she uses the neurochip in her brain to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Door in Lake Mallion: The Brindlewatch Quintet #2
by
S.M. Beiko
ECW Press, 10/08/2024
Dunstan has had big ambitions his entire life — bigger than the small lakeside town of Knockum — imagining himself heading a chorus line ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car
by
Witold Rybczynski
Doubleday, 10/08/2024
In this lively and entertaining work, Witold Rybczynski―hailed as "one of the best writers on design working today" by
Publishers Weekly―...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
by
Dava Sobel
Atlantic Monthly Press, 10/08/2024
"Even now, nearly a century after her death, Marie Curie remains the only female scientist most people can name," writes Dava Sobel at the opening of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World
by
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Riverhead Books, 10/08/2024
A globe shows the world we think we know: neatly delineated sovereign nations that grant or restrict their citizens' rights. Beneath, above, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Last One at the Wedding: A Novel
by
Jason Rekulak
Flatiron Books, 10/08/2024
Frank Szatowski is shocked when his daughter, Maggie, calls him for the first time in three years. He was convinced that their estrangement would ...
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Thrillers
The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern: A Novel
by
Lynda Cohen Loigman
St. Martin's Press, 10/08/2024
On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springs―an active senior ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Murderess: A Novel
by
Laurie Notaro
Little A, 10/08/2024
It's October 1931. When Winnie Ruth Judd arrives at the Los Angeles train station from Phoenix, her shipping trunks catch the attention of a ...
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The Paris Maid
by
Ella Carey
Grand Central Publishing, 10/08/2024
Louise Basset works as a housemaid at The Ritz Hotel, home to the most powerful Nazis in France. As she changes silk sheets and scrubs sumptuous...
more
Historical Fiction
The Puzzle Box: A Novel
by
Danielle Trussoni
Random House, 10/08/2024
It is the Year of the Wood Dragon, and the ingenious Mike Brink has been invited to Tokyo, Japan, to open the legendary Dragon Box.
The box was ...
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The Rest of You
by
Maame Blue
Amistad, 10/08/2024
On the cusp of thirty, Ghanaian Londoner Whitney Appiah was born with a special gift. The massage therapist can physically sense where her clients' ...
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The River Knows My Name
by
Mortada Gzar
Amazon Crossing, 10/08/2024
Fifteen-year-old Charlotte is restlessly coming of age in early twentieth-century Basra, Iraq. The daughter of a Seattle doctor and missionary, ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Schubert Treatment: A Story of Music and Healing
by
Claire Oppert
Greystone Books, 10/08/2024
When Claire Oppert plays the cello, miracles happen. Children with profound autism, patients in extreme pain and distress, even people on the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Terrifying Tales of Vivian Vance
by
Josh Ulrich
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 10/08/2024
It's just a bedtime story….right?
Parents in Pensmouth tell their children a devious bedtime tale—their beloved town is riddled with ...
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The Trade Off: A Novel
by
Samantha Greene Woodruff
Lake Union Publishing, 10/08/2024
Bea Abramovitz has a gift for math and numbers. With her father, she studies the burgeoning Wall Street market's stocks and patterns in the financial ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Witches of El Paso: A Novel
by
Luis Jaramillo
Primero Sueno Press, 10/08/2024
If you call to the witches, they will come.
1943, El Paso, Texas: teenager Nena spends her days caring for the small children of her older ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
This Cursed House
by
Del Sandeen
Berkley Books, 10/08/2024
In the fall of 1962, twenty-seven-year-old Jemma Barker is desperate to escape her life in Chicago—and the spirits she has always been able to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Twenty-Four Seconds from Now ...: A LOVE Story
by
Jason Reynolds
Atheneum, 10/08/2024
Twenty-four months ago: Neon gets chased by a dog all around the parking lot of a church. Not his finest moment. And definitely one he would have ...
more
What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times
by
Dana Frank
Beacon Press, 10/08/2024
Drawing on little-known stories of working people,
What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? amplifies voices that have been long omitted from ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wild Chocolate: Across the Americas in Search of Cacao's Soul
by
Rowan Jacobsen
Bloomsbury Publishing, 10/08/2024
When Rowan Jacobsen first heard of a chocolate bar made entirely from wild Bolivian cacao, he was skeptical. The waxy mass-market chocolate of his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Wolfpack
by
Amelia Brunskill
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 10/08/2024
Nine girls bound together
in beautiful, virtuous Havenwood,
a refuge from an unsafe world.
Then there are eight
one of them gone&#...
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All the Hearts You Eat
by
Hailey Piper
Titan Books, 10/15/2024
What really happened to Cabrina Brite?
Ivory's life changes irrevocably when she discovers the body of Cabrina Brite on the sands of Cape Morning...
more
American Rapture
by
CJ Leede
Tor Nightfire, 10/15/2024
A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust.
Sophie, a good Catholic girl, must traverse the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Blame My Virgo Moon
by
Freja Nicole Woolf
Walker Books US, 10/15/2024
Life should be Gucci gooseberry gorgeous for Cat Phillips now that she's got the girl: swoon-worthy, green-haired Morgan Delaney. Except Cat's friends...
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Literary Fiction
Blood Test: A Comedy
by
Charles Baxter
Pantheon Books, 10/15/2024
In this fresh take on love and trouble in America, Brock Hobson, an insurance salesman and Sunday-school teacher, finds his equilibrium disturbed by ...
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Blue Light Hours
by
Bruna Dantas Lobato
Grove Press, 10/15/2024
In a small dorm room at a liberal arts college in Vermont, a young woman settles into the warm blue light of her desk lamp before calling the mother ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Catherine the Ghost
by
Kathe Koja
CLASH, 10/15/2024
Cathy Earnshaw. Catherine Linton. Mother. Daughter. They never saw each other alive. In
Catherine the Ghost these two young women confront loss, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Clean: A Novel
by
Alia Trabucco Zerán
Riverhead Books, 10/15/2024
A young girl has died and the family's maid is being interrogated. She must tell the whole story before arriving at the girl's death.
Estela came...
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Dogs and Monsters: Stories
by
Mark Haddon
Doubleday, 10/15/2024
Greek myths have fascinated people for millenia, seeing in them lessons about fate and hubris and the contingency of existence. Mark Haddon digs into ...
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Don't Be a Stranger: A Novel
by
Susan Minot
Knopf, 10/15/2024
Ivy Cooper is 52 years old when Ansel Fleming first walks into her life. Twenty years her junior, a musician newly released from prison on a minor ...
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Forest of Noise: Poems
by
Mosab Abu Toha
Knopf, 10/15/2024
Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well-known poet when the current siege of Gaza began. After the Israeli army bombed and ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
by
John Grisham, Jim McCloskey
Doubleday, 10/15/2024
John Grisham is known worldwide for his bestselling novels, but it's his real-life passion for justice that led to his work with Jim McCloskey of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Girlmode
by
Magdalene Visaggio
HarperCollins Publishers, 10/15/2024
The last thing Phoebe Zito wants is to be noticed. The newest kid at Sally Ride High School, newly arrived in Los Angeles, and newly transitioned, she...
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Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self-Discovery
by
Christine Mari
Little, Brown Ink, 10/15/2024
Christine has always felt she is just half: Half American, half Japanese. As a biracial Japanese American who was born in Tokyo but raised in the US, ...
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I Was Told There Would Be Romance
by
Marie Arnold
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 10/15/2024
Fifteen-year-old Fancy Augustine is a Haitian American girl with simple desires. She'd like to trade in her floppy, oversize boobs for cute, perky ...
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In the Distance
by
Hernan Diaz
Riverhead Books, 10/15/2024
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:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Into the Unknown: The Quest to Understand the Mysteries of the Cosmos
by
Dr. Kelsey Johnson
Basic Books, 10/15/2024
Humans have learned a lot about the world around us and the universe beyond. We have made powerful insights and created profound theories about the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Januaries: Stories of Love, Magic & Betrayal
by
Olivie Blake
Tor Books, 10/15/2024
Once upon a time in a land far, far away, a wish-granting spirit rapidly approaches burnout. Meanwhile, a banished fairy answers a Craigslist ad, a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Libby Lost and Found: A Novel
by
Stephanie Booth
Sourcebooks Landmark, 10/15/2024
Meet Libby Weeks, author of the mega-best-selling fantasy series, The Falling Children―written as "F.T. Goldhero" to maintain her privacy. ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love
by
Julie Sedivy
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/15/2024
If there is one feature that defines the human condition, it is language: written, spoken, signed, understood, and misunderstood, in all its infinite ...
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Mad Wife: A Memoir
by
Kate Hamilton
Beacon Press, 10/15/2024
In this electrifying literary memoir, Kate Hamilton deftly traces her complicated journey from loving wife to gaslit victim to furious feminist with ...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Mama: A Queer Black Woman's Story of a Family Lost and Found
by
Nikkya Hargrove
Algonquin Books, 10/15/2024
Nikkya Hargrove spent a good portion of her childhood in prison visiting rooms. When her mother—addicted to cocaine and just out of prison—...
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Midnight and Blue: An Inspector Rebus Novel
by
Ian Rankin
Mulholland, 10/15/2024
A convict is brutally murdered in his locked cell deep in the heart of Scotland's most infamous prison. Sleeping in a cell across the floor lies John ...
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Mysteries
Tangleroot
by
Kalela Williams
Feiwel & Friends, 10/15/2024
When Dr. Castine takes a job as the president of the prestigious Stonepost College in rural Virginia, Noni is forced to leave her New England home and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Ancients: A Novel
by
John Larison
Viking, 10/15/2024
A young boy and his older sisters find themselves suddenly and utterly alone, orphaned in an abandoned fishing village. Their food supplies dwindling,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Dreaming Path: Indigenous Wisdom, Meditations, and Exercises to Live Our Best Stories
by
Paul Callaghan
HarperOne, 10/15/2024
Dr. Paul Callaghan belongs to the land of the Worimi people who live north of Sydney along the east coast of Australia. Raised to live the western way...
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Advice
The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America
by
Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz
Flatiron Books, 10/15/2024
Who is Indian enough?
To be Native American is to live in a world of contradictions. At the same time that the number of people in the US who claim...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
by
Noam Chomsky
Penguin Press, 10/15/2024
The Myth of American Idealism offers a timely and comprehensive introduction to the incisive critiques of U.S. power that have made Noam Chomsky a "...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Treasure Hunters Club: A Mystery
by
Tom Ryan
Atlantic Monthly Press, 10/15/2024
Welcome to Maple Bay, Nova Scotia.
For nearly a century, people have ventured to the idyllic seaside town of Maple Bay in search of a legendary ...
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The Waiting: Ballard and Bosch #6
by
Michael Connelly
Little Brown & Company, 10/15/2024
Renée Ballard and the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer ...
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Under the Heron's Light
by
Randi Pink
Feiwel & Friends, 10/15/2024
"Four thousand six hundred forty-two steps in," Grannylou interrupted. "You remember that now, Baby. Four-thousand six hundred forty-two steps to ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Valley So Low: One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Coal Catastrophe
by
Jared Sullivan
Knopf, 10/15/2024
For more than 50 years, a power plant in the small town of Kingston, Tennessee, burned fourteen thousand tons of coal a day, gradually creating ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wild: Poems
by
Ben Okri
Other Press, 10/15/2024
Freedom is the most precious commodity in the world. In this powerful collection, the celebrated novelist, essayist, dramatist, and poet Ben Okri ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Women's Hotel: A Novel
by
Daniel M. Lavery
HarperVia, 10/15/2024
The Beidermeier might be several rungs lower on the ladder than the real-life Barbizon, but its residents manage to occupy one another nonetheless. ...
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A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants: Wicked Weeds and Sinister Seeds
by
Rebecca E. Hirsch
Zest Books, 10/22/2024
"Should you encounter any of the plants in this book, do not treat them lightly. They can kill you. Or cause you unbearable agony. Or land you in jail...more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Absolution: The Southern Reach Series #4
by
Jeff VanderMeer
MCD, 10/22/2024
When the Southern Reach trilogy was first published a decade ago, it was an instant sensation, celebrated in a front-page
New York Times story before ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Comforting Myths: Concerning the Political in Art
by
Rabih Alameddine
University of Virginia Press, 10/22/2024
In this concisely argued and illuminating book, the PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author Rabih Alameddine takes the subject of politics and art ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While also in an Actual Cult!)
by
Bethany Joy Lenz
Simon & Schuster, 10/22/2024
In the early 2000s, after years of hard work and determination to breakthrough as an actor, Bethany Joy Lenz was finally cast as one of the leads on ...
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Biography/Memoir
Dis//Integration: 2 Novelas & 3 Stories & a Little Play
by
William Melvin Kelley
Vintage, 10/22/2024
The linked "2 novelas, 3 stories, and a little play" that make up
Dis//Integration follow the life journeys of Charles "Chig" Dunford from his Nanny ...
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Literary Fiction
Disturbing the Bones
by
Andrew Davis, Jeff Biggers
Melville House, 10/22/2024
Chicago detective Randall Jenkins has not been back home to the historic Civil Rights hotspot of Cairo, Illinois since the disappearance of his mother...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
Eurotrash: A Novel
by
Christian Kracht
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 10/22/2024
From "the great German-language writer of his generation" (Joshua Cohen) comes the second novel of Kracht's career narrated by an eponymous "Christian...
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Find Me as the Creature I Am: Poems
by
Emily Jungmin Yoon
Knopf, 10/22/2024
Find Me as the Creature I Am is a book full of tenderness and violence, longing and love. Ranging from inherited family tales to meditations on the ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Greta: A Novel
by
Manon Steffan Ros
Amazon Crossing, 10/22/2024
Greta Pugh is dead.
The small village of Bethesda, Wales, is no stranger to tragedy. Once a thriving, prosperous community, the town has been ...
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Thrillers
Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People
by
Emily Herring
Basic Books, 10/22/2024
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Henri Bergson (1859–1941) became the most famous philosopher on earth. Where prior thinkers sketched out a...
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How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?: A Novel
by
Anna Montague
Ecco, 10/22/2024
Most days, Magda is fine. She has her routines. She has her anxious therapy patients, who depend on her to cure their bad habits. She has her longtime...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Karla's Choice: A John le Carré Novel
by
Nick Harkaway
Viking, 10/22/2024
It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West's spy war against the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has ...
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Lightborne: A Novel
by
Hesse Phillips
Pegasus Books, 10/22/2024
Christopher Marlowe: playwright, poet, lover. In the plague-stricken streets of Elizabethan England, Kit flirts with danger, leaving a trail of ...
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Historical Fiction
Memorials
by
Richard Chizmar
Gallery Books, 10/22/2024
1983: Three students from a small college embark on a week-long road trip to film a documentary on roadside memorials for their American Studies class...
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Metal from Heaven
by
August Clarke
Erewhon Books, 10/22/2024
He who controls ichorite controls the world.
A malleable metal more durable than steel, ichorite is a toxic natural resource fueling national ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute
by
Nicholas Fox Weber
Knopf, 10/22/2024
In the early 1920s, surrounded by the roaring streets of avant-garde Paris, Piet Mondrian began creating what would become some of the most ...
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Monstrous Nights: The Witch's Compendium of Monsters #2
by
Genoveva Dimova
Tor Books, 10/22/2024
With her magic reclaimed and her role in the community of Chernograd restored, Kosara's life should finally be back to normal―but, of course, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir
by
Sarah Moss
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/22/2024
My Good Bright Wolf is a memoir about thinking and reading, eating and not eating, privilege and scarcity, the relationships that form us and the long...
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My Pisces Heart: A Black Immigrant's Search for Home Across Four Continents
by
Jennifer Neal
Catapult, 10/22/2024
I've never seen home as a permanent concept; it is an image crafted from untempered glass that threatens to shatter with lack of care.
Jennifer ...
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No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir
by
Sarah LaBrie
Harper, 10/22/2024
On a highway in Houston, Texas, Sarah LaBrie's mother was found screaming at passing cars, terrified she would be murdered by invisible assailants. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Patriot: A Memoir
by
Alexei Navalny
Knopf, 10/22/2024
Alexei Navalny began writing
Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story of his life: his youth, his call to activism...
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Biography/Memoir
Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos
by
Richard Panek
Little Brown & Company, 10/22/2024
Pillars of Creation tells the story of one of the greatest scientific achievements in the history of civilization, a $10 billion instrument with a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Roman Year: A Memoir
by
André Aciman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/22/2024
In
Roman Year, André Aciman captures the period of his adolescence that began when he and his family first set foot in Rome, after being expelled...
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Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank
by
Justene Hill Edwards
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/22/2024
In the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman's Bank. African ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Spatriati: A Novel
by
Mario Desiati
Other Press, 10/22/2024
I never understood, of the two of us, which one was warm and which cold, but I consider myself lucky to have met my opposite front in Claudia Fanelli,...more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Children of Jocasta: A Novel
by
Natalie Haynes
Harper, 10/22/2024
When you have grown up as I have, there is no security in not knowing things, in avoiding the ugliest truths because they can't be faced ... Because ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Heartbeat Library: A Novel
by
Laura Imai Messina
The Overlook Press, 10/22/2024
On the peaceful Japanese island of Teshima there is a library of heartbeats, a place where the heartbeats of visitors from all around the world are ...
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The Sweetness Between Us
by
Sarah Winifred Searle
First Second, 10/22/2024
After health problems wiped out their first few weeks of school, Perley and Amandine are both starting their Junior year behind their classmates, and ...
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The Wood at Midwinter
by
Susanna Clarke
Bloomsbury Publishing, 10/22/2024
'A church is a sort of wood. A wood is a sort of church. They're the same thing really.'
Nineteen-year-old Merowdis Scot is an unusual girl. She ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Thief of the Heights
by
Son M.
HarperAlley, 10/22/2024
Lifelong friends Basem, Mustafa, and Aarfah have carved out a place for themselves in their corner of Muqadas, where they dream of climbing from their...
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Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
We All Shine On: John, Yoko, and Me
by
Elliot Mintz
Dutton, 10/22/2024
In 1972, Elliot Mintz installed a red light in his bedroom in Laurel Canyon. When it started flashing, it meant that either John Lennon or Yoko Ono&#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
When We Chased the Light: A Novel
by
Emily Bleeker
Lake Union Publishing, 10/22/2024
Christie's auction house, Beverly Hills. The effects of Hollywood icon Vivian Snow are up for bid. In the collection is a set of hand-drawn postcards ...
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Historical Fiction
Where the Dead Brides Gather
by
Nuzo Onoh
Titan Books, 10/22/2024
Bata, a young girl tormented by nightmares, wakes up one night to find herself standing sentinel before her cousin's door. Her cousin is to get ...
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Canoes
by
Maylis De Kerangal
Archipelago Books, 10/29/2024
Ricocheting off of the book's exhilarating central novella and 7 short stories, the women we meet in
Canoes are by turns indelibly witty, insightful, ...
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Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah
by
Charles King
Doubleday, 10/29/2024
George Frideric Handel's
Messiah is arguably the greatest piece of participatory art ever created. Adored by millions, it is performed each year by ...
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Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop
by
Serene Khader
Beacon Press, 10/29/2024
After over 175 years, the feminist movement, now in its fourth wave, is at risk of collapsing on its eroding foundation. In
Faux Feminism, political ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
For She Is Wrath
by
Emily Varga
Wednesday Books, 10/29/2024
Three hundred and sixty-four days.
Framed for a crime she didn't commit, Dania counts down her days in prison until she can exact revenge on ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions
by
Nalo Hopkinson
Tachyon Publications, 10/29/2024
In Nalo Hopkinson's first collection of stories since 2015, a woman and her cyborg pig eke out a living in a future waterworld; two scientists ...
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Just Until
by
Joseph Moldover
Margaret Ferguson Books, 10/29/2024
17-year-old Hannah Lynn has just one goal: to get out of Evans Beach, Maine. It's where she lost her mother to cancer. Where her estranged sister, ...
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Like Mother, Like Mother: A Novel
by
Susan Rieger
Dial Books, 10/29/2024
Detroit, 1960. Lila Pereira is two years old when her angry, abusive father has her mother committed to an asylum. Lila never sees her mother again. ...
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Literary Fiction
Masquerade
by
Mike Fu
Tin House Books, 10/29/2024
Newly single Meadow Liu is house-sitting for his friend, artist Selma Shimizu, when he stumbles upon
The Masquerade, a translated novel about a masked...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Miss Kim Knows: And Other Stories
by
Cho Nam-joo
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 10/29/2024
A woman is born. A woman is filmed in public without consent. A woman suffers domestic violence. A woman is gaslit. A woman is discriminated against ...
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The Berry Pickers: A Novel
by
Amanda Peters
Catapult, 10/29/2024
July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Blue Hour: A Novel
by
Paula Hawkins
Mariner Books, 10/29/2024
Welcome to Eris: an island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day.
...
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The Paris Escape: A Novel
by
James Tucker
Lake Union Publishing, 10/29/2024
When Laura Powell and Henry Salter travel to Paris in 1938, neither considers the other very good company. Laura is a shallow, spoiled heir to a ...
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Historical Fiction
This Motherless Land: A Novel
by
Nikki May
Mariner Books, 10/29/2024
Quiet Funke is happy in Nigeria. She loves her art teacher mother, her professor father, and even her annoying little brother (most of the time). But ...
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