A Burning: A novel
by
Megha Majumdar
Knopf, 06/02/2020
Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, determined to move up in life, who is accused of executing a terrorist attack on a train because of a careless ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Court of Mist and Fury
by
Sarah J. Maas
Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/02/2020
Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. Though she's now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae, ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Court of Thorns and Roses
by
Sarah J. Maas
Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/02/2020
When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin
by
Roseanne A. Brown
Balzer + Bray, 06/02/2020
For Malik, the Solstasia festival is a chance to escape his war-stricken home and start a new life with his sisters in the prosperous desert city of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Asha and the Spirit Bird
by
Jasbinder Bilan
The Chicken House, 06/02/2020
Asha lives on a family farm with her mother in rural India in the foothills of the Himalayas. Life would be perfect if her father were with them ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Between Everything and Nothing: The Journey of Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal and the Quest for Asylum
by
Joe Meno
Counterpoint Press, 06/02/2020
Long before their chance meeting at a Minneapolis bus station, Ghanaian asylum seekers Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal had already crossed half the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Clean Hands: A Novel
by
Patrick Hoffman
Atlantic Monthly Press, 06/02/2020
When Elizabeth gets the news that one of her junior associates has lost his phone―and the secret documents that were on it―she needs help....
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Thrillers
Conventionally Yours: A slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers queer romance (True Colors, 1)
by
Annabeth Albert
Sourcebooks Casablanca, 06/02/2020
Conventionally Yours is a slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers LGBTQIA romance with rivals forced into close quarters and the surprising intimacy that follows...
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Romance
Exciting Times
by
Naoise Dolan
Ecco, 06/02/2020
Ava, newly arrived in Hong Kong from Dublin, spends her days teaching English to rich children.
Julian is a banker. A banker who likes to spend ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
How to Die in Space: A Journey Through Dangerous Astrophysical Phenomena
by
Paul M. Sutter
Pegasus Books, 06/02/2020
So you've fallen in love with space and now you want to see it for yourself, huh? You want to witness the birth of a star, or visit the black hole at ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
More Miracle Than Bird
by
Alice Miller
Tin House Books, 06/02/2020
On the eve of World War I, twenty-one-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees―on her own for the first time―is introduced to the acclaimed poet W. B. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Parakeet
by
Marie-Helene Bertino
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/02/2020
The week of her wedding, The Bride is visited by a bird she recognizes as her dead grandmother because of the cornflower blue line beneath her eyes, ...
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Places I've Taken My Body
by
Molly McCully Brown
Persea Books, 06/02/2020
In seventeen intimate essays, poet Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a body―in her case, one shaped since ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Running from the Dead
by
Mike Knowles
ECW Press, 06/02/2020
Jones had never promised Ruth Verne that he would find her son alive, but he knew deep down that she believed he would ― worse, he had believed ...
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The Fallen
by
Carlos Manuel Álvarez
Graywolf Press, 06/02/2020
A powerful, unsettling portrait of family life in Cuba, Carlos Manuel Álvarez's first novel is a masterful portrayal of a society in free fall. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Good Earth
by
Pearl S. Buck
Washington Square Press, 06/02/2020
Travel to 1920s China, a time when the last emperor still ruled and the sweeping changes of the twentieth century were distant rumblings, with this ...
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Literary Fiction
The Guest List: A Novel
by
Lucy Foley
William Morrow, 06/02/2020
The bride – The plus one – The best man – The wedding planner – The bridesmaid – The body
On an island off the coast ...
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Thrillers
The House on Fripp Island
by
Rebecca Kauffman
Mariner Books, 06/02/2020
Fripp Island, South Carolina is the perfect destination for the wealthy Daly family: Lisa, Scott, and their two girls. For Lisa's childhood friend, ...
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The Lehman Trilogy
by
Stefano Massini
HarperVia, 06/02/2020
After leaving his native Bavaria, Henry Lehman arrives in America determined to make a better life. Sensing opportunity in the Deep South, he opens a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Madwoman and the Roomba: My Year of Domestic Mayhem
by
SandraTsing Loh
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/02/2020
Ah, 55. Gateway to the golden years! Professional summiting. Emotional maturity. Easy surfing toward the glassy blue waters of retirement…Or ...
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The Summer of Kim Novak
by
Hakan Nesser
One World, 06/02/2020
Sweden in the '60s. Erik and his friend Edmund spend their vacation by a forest lake daydreaming about Ewa, a young substitute teacher with an uncanny...
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The Voyage of the Morning Light: A Novel
by
Marina Endicott
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/02/2020
Kay and Thea are half-sisters, separated in age by almost twenty years, but deeply attached. When their stern father dies, Thea travels to Nova Scotia...
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Literary Fiction
Voyage of the Sparrowhawk
by
Natasha Farrant
Faber and Faber, 06/04/2020
In the aftermath of World War One, everyone is trying to rebuild their lives. If Ben is to avoid being sent back to the orphanage, he needs to find ...
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Visitors Welcome
by
Dennis Henn
Independently published, 06/05/2020
Visitors Welcome takes an often humorous glance at a church that over an eight year period goes through multiple splits all because God's people don't...
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Literary Fiction
Agnes at the End of the World
by
Kelly McWilliams
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 06/09/2020
Agnes loves her home of Red Creek -- its quiet, sunny mornings, its dusty roads, and its God. There, she cares tirelessly for her younger siblings and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Always the Last to Know
by
Kristan Higgins
Berkley Books, 06/09/2020
The Frosts are a typical American family. Barb and John, married almost fifty years, are testy and bored with each other...who could blame them after ...
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Cymbeline (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by
William Shakespeare
Simon & Schuster, 06/09/2020
Cymbeline tells the story of a British king, Cymbeline, and his three children, presented as though they are in a fairy tale. The secret marriage of ...
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Literary Fiction
Last Tang Standing
by
Lauren Ho
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/09/2020
At thirty-three, Andrea Tang is living the dream: She has a successful career as a lawyer, a posh condo, and a clutch of fun-loving friends who are ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Pizza Girl
by
Jean Kyoung Frazier
Doubleday, 06/09/2020
Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl in suburban Los Angeles, our charmingly dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost and in...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Red Sky Over Hawaii: A Novel
by
Sara Ackerman
MIRA, 06/09/2020
The attack on Pearl Harbor changes everything for Lana Hitchcock. Arriving home on the Big Island too late to reconcile with her estranged father, she...
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Historical Fiction
Safe
by
S.K. Barnett
Dutton, 06/09/2020
Jenny Kristal was six years old when she was snatched off the sidewalk from her quiet suburban neighborhood. Twelve years later, she's miraculously ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Stranger in the Lake: A Novel
by
Kimberly Belle
Original, 06/09/2020
They have a charmed life together, despite the cruel whispers about her humble past and his first marriage. But everything starts to unravel when she ...
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Thrillers
The Daughters of Erietown: A Novel
by
Connie Schultz
Random House, 06/09/2020
1957, Clayton Valley, Ohio. Ellie has the best grades in her class. Her dream is to go to nursing school and marry Brick McGinty. A basketball star, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Lost Diary of Venice: A Novel
by
Margaux DeRoux
Ballantine Books, 06/09/2020
In the wake of her father's death, Rose Newlin finds solace in her work as a book restorer. Then, one rainy Connecticut afternoon, a struggling ...
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Historical Fiction
The Sight of You
by
Holly Miller
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/09/2020
Joel has sworn off falling in love. But when he meets Callie, he can't help being drawn to her. In Callie, he sees a second chance at life. And in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
You Exist Too Much: A Novel
by
Zaina Arafat
Catapult, 06/09/2020
On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12–year–old Palestinian–American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
28 Summers
by
Elin Hilderbrand
Little Brown & Company, 06/16/2020
When Mallory Blessing's son, Link, receives deathbed instructions from his mother to call a number on a slip of paper in her desk drawer, he's not ...
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Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
by
Max Brooks
Del Rey, 06/16/2020
But the journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town's bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing—and too earth-shattering in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Literary Fiction
Lockdown
by
Peter May
Riverrun, 06/16/2020
"They said that twenty-five percent of the population would catch the flu. Between seventy and eight percent of them would die. He had been directly ...more
Thrillers
Miss Iceland
by
Audur Ava Olafsdottir
Grove Press, 06/16/2020
Iceland in the 1960s. Hekla always knew she wanted to be a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of...
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Seven Lies: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Kay
Pamela Dorman Books, 06/16/2020
Growing up, Jane and Marnie shared everything. They knew the other's deepest secrets. They wouldn't have had it any other way. But when Marnie falls ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Sleepovers
by
Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
Hub City Press, 06/16/2020
This collection takes us to a forgotten corner of the rural South, full of cemeteries, soybean fields, fishing holes, and Duck Thru gas stations. We ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Last Train to Key West
by
Chanel Cleeton
Berkley Books, 06/16/2020
For the tourists traveling on Henry Flagler's legendary Overseas Railroad, Labor Day weekend is an opportunity to forget the economic depression ...
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Historical Fiction
The Lightness
by
Emily Temple
William Morrow, 06/16/2020
One year ago, the person Olivia adores most in the world, her father, left home for a meditation retreat in the mountains and never returned. Yearning...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Margot Affair
by
Sanaë Lemoine
Hogarth Books, 06/16/2020
"There were so many of us, children of these double families who dreamed of the other side."
Margot Louve is a secret: the child of a longstanding ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad
by
Mike Birbiglia (Author), J. Hope Stein (Contributor)
Grand Central Publishing, 06/16/2020
In 2016 comedian Mike Birbiglia and poet Jennifer Hope Stein took their fourteen-month-old daughter Oona to the Nantucket Film Festival. When the ...
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The Old Girls' Network
by
Judy Leigh
Boldwood Books, 06/16/2020
It's never too late to change…
After a health scare, 77 year-old spinster Barbara goes to convalesce in the sleepy picture-perfect English ...
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Thrillers
Everyone Knows How Much I Love You
by
Kyle McCarthy
Ballantine Books, 06/23/2020
At age thirty, Rose is fierce and smart, both self-aware and singularly blind to her power over others. After moving to New York, she is unexpectedly ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
by
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 06/23/2020
Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lost Companions: Reflections on the Death of Pets
by
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
St. Martin's Press, 06/23/2020
Over 84 million Americans―almost 3/4 of the US population―own a pet, and our society is still learning how to recognize and dignify that ...
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Party of Two
by
Jasmine Guillory
Berkley Books, 06/23/2020
Dating is the last thing on Olivia Monroe's mind when she moves to LA to start her own law firm. But when she meets a gorgeous man at a hotel bar and ...
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Romance
Take a Hint, Dani Brown: A Novel (The Brown Sisters, 2)
by
Talia Hibbert
Avon Books, 06/23/2020
Danika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension....
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Romance
The Falling Woman
by
Richard Farrell
Algonquin Books, 06/23/2020
Tragedy strikes during a cross-country flight when sudden turbulence causes the jet to come apart in midair. The odds of anyone surviving are nearly ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Mist: Hulda Hermannsdóttir #3
by
Ragnar Jonasson
Minotaur Books, 06/23/2020
1987. An isolated farm house in the east of Iceland.
The snowstorm should have shut everybody out. But it didn't.
The couple should never have ...
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The Mountains Wild: A Mystery (Maggie D'arcy Mysteries, 1)
by
Sarah Stewart Taylor
Minotaur Books, 06/23/2020
Twenty-three years ago, Maggie D'arcy's family received a call from the Dublin police. Her cousin Erin has been missing for several days. Maggie ...
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Thrillers
On Anger
by
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Independently published, 06/24/2020
Seneca takes an in-depth look into the psychology of anger and provides invaluable advice on how to control and manage it. He argues that anger is a ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team
by
Arshay Cooper
Flatiron Books, 06/30/2020
Growing up on Chicago's Westside in the 90's, Arshay Cooper knows the harder side of life. The street corners are full of gangs, the hallways of his ...
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Biography/Memoir
All the Broken People
by
Leah Konen
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/30/2020
Fleeing Brooklyn with little more than a suitcase and her trusty dog, Lucy King heads to rustic Woodstock , New York, eager to lose herself in a quiet...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
by
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Crown, 06/30/2020
"
Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again." —James Baldwin
...
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Biography/Memoir
Destination Wedding: A Novel
by
Diksha Basu
Ballantine Books, 06/30/2020
When Tina Das finds herself at a crossroads both professionally and personally, she wonders if a weeklong trip to Delhi for her cousin's lavish ...
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Literary Fiction
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
by
Alice Wong
Vintage, 06/30/2020
According to the last census, one in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some are visible, some are hidden—but all are ...
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Essays
Friends and Strangers
by
J. Courtney Sullivan
Knopf, 06/30/2020
Elisabeth, an accomplished journalist and new mother, is struggling to adjust to life in a small town after nearly twenty years in New York City. ...
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Goddess in the Machine
by
Lora Beth Johnson
Razorbill, 06/30/2020
When Andra wakes up, she's drowning.
Not only that, but she's in a hot, dirty cave, it's the year 3102, and everyone keeps calling her Goddess. ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Home Before Dark: A Novel
by
Riley Sager
Dutton, 06/30/2020
Every house has a story to tell and a secret to share.
Twenty-five years ago, Maggie Holt and her parents moved into Baneberry Hall, a ...
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Thrillers
Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
by
Abigail Shrier
Regnery, 06/30/2020
But today whole groups of female friends in colleges, high schools, and even middle schools across the country are coming out as "transgender." These ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Love & Other Crimes
by
Sara Paretsky
William Morrow, 06/30/2020
New York Times bestselling author Sara Paretsky is the master of twisting suspense and compelling plots. She has been hailed by the crime community as...
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Mexican Gothic
by
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Del Rey, 06/30/2020
After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Sex and Vanity
by
Kevin Kwan
Doubleday, 06/30/2020
On her very first morning on the jewel-like island of Capri, Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George Zao and she instantly can't stand him. She can't ...
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Tender Is the Night: A Novel
by
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scribner, 06/30/2020
Set in the south of France in the late 1920s,
Tender Is the Night is the tale of a young American actress, Rosemary Hoyt, and her complicated ...
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Literary Fiction
The Black Swan of Paris: A WWII Novel
by
Karen Robards
MIRA, 06/30/2020
Paris, 1944.
Celebrated singer Genevieve Dumont is both a star and a smoke screen. An unwilling darling to the Nazis, the chanteuse's position of ...
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Historical Fiction
The Empire of Gold: A Novel (The Daevabad Trilogy, 3)
by
S. A Chakraborty
Harper Voyager, 06/30/2020
Daevabad has fallen.
After a brutal conquest stripped the city of its magic, Nahid leader Banu Manizheh and her resurrected commander, Dara, must ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What's Possible in the Age of Warming
by
Eric Holthaus
HarperOne, 06/30/2020
The basics of climate science are easy. We know it is entirely human-caused. Which means its solutions will be similarly human-led. In
The Future ...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Last Tycoon: The Authorized Text (Scribner Classic)
by
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scribner, 06/30/2020
This edition, authorized by the Fizgerald estate, is a careful restoration of the author's phrases, words, and images that were excised from the 1940 ...
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Literary Fiction
Thin Girls
by
Diana Clarke
Harper, 06/30/2020
Rose and Lily Winters are twins, as close as the bond implies; they feel each other's emotions, taste what the other is feeling. Like most young women...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope
by
Shayla Lawson
Harper Perennial, 06/30/2020
Shayla Lawson is major. You don't know who she is. Yet. But that's okay. She is on a mission to move black girls like herself from best supporting ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
Opium and Absinthe: A Novel
by
Lydia Kang
Lake Union Publishing, 07/01/2020
New York City, 1899. Tillie Pembroke's sister lies dead, her body drained of blood and with two puncture wounds on her neck. Bram Stoker's new novel, ...
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Historical Fiction
The Lending Library: A Novel
by
Aliza Fogelson
Lake Union Publishing, 07/01/2020
When the Chatsworth library closes indefinitely, Dodie Fairisle loses her sanctuary. How is a small-town art teacher supposed to cope without the ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
14 Miles: Building the Border Wall
by
DW Gibson
Simon & Schuster, 07/07/2020
In August of 2019, Donald Trump finished building his border wall—at least a portion of it. In San Diego, the Army Corps of engineers completed ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Antkind
by
Charlie Kaufman
Random House, 07/07/2020
B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, filmmaker, paramour, shoe salesman who sleeps in a sock drawer),...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
by
Anonymous
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 07/07/2020
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt is two stories: that of the reclusive real-life writer who created a fictional character out of loneliness and thin air, ...
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Biography/Memoir
Boyfriend Material: A Fake Relationship to Lovers Romance (London Calling, 1)
by
Alexis Hall
Sourcebooks Casablanca, 07/07/2020
Luc O'Donnell is tangentially—and reluctantly—famous. His rock star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent ...
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Romance
Bright Precious Thing
by
Gail Caldwell
Random House, 07/07/2020
In a voice as candid as it is evocative, Gail Caldwell traces a path from her west Texas girlhood through her emergence as a young daredevil, then as ...
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Cinderella Is Dead
by
Kalynn Bayron
Bloomsbury YA, 07/07/2020
It's 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Craigslist Confessional: A Collection of Secrets from Anonymous Strangers
by
Helena Dea Bala
Gallery Books, 07/07/2020
Helena Dea Bala was an exhausted and isolated DC lobbyist, suffocating under the weight of her student loan debt, when she decided to split her lunch ...
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Biography/Memoir
Death of a Prominent Citizen: A Reverend Mother Mystery #7
by
Cora Harrison
Severn House, 07/07/2020
Wealthy widow Charlotte Hendrick had always promised that her riches would be divided equally between her seven closest relatives when she died. Now ...
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Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time
by
Ben Ehrenreich
Counterpoint Press, 07/07/2020
As inhabitants of the Anthropocene, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Dune Messiah
by
Frank Herbert
Ace Books, 07/07/2020
Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known—and feared—as the man christened Muad'Dib. As Emperor of the known ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Florence Adler Swims Forever: A Novel
by
Rachel Beanland
Little Simon, 07/07/2020
Atlantic City, 1934. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to vacationers escaping to "America's Playground" and move into the ...
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Historical Fiction
Fraternity
by
Benjamin Nugent
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/07/2020
In a Massachusetts college town stands a dilapidated colonial: Delta Zeta Chi. Here, we meet Newton, the beloved chapter president; Oprah, the ...
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House Privilege: Joe Demarco #14
by
Mike Lawson
Atlantic Monthly Press, 07/07/2020
Fifteen-year-old Cassie Russell, the only daughter of a mega-rich Boston couple, is the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed her parents. She's ...
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Lake Life
by
David James Poissant
Simon & Schuster, 07/07/2020
The Starling family is scattered across the country. Parents Richard and Lisa live in Ithaca, New York, and work at Cornell University. Their son ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Molten City: Tom Harper #8
by
Chris Nickson
Severn House, 07/07/2020
Leeds, September 1908. There's going to be a riot. Detective Superintendent Tom Harper can feel it. Herbert Asquith, the prime minster, is due to ...
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Mother Daughter Widow Wife
by
Robin Wasserman
Scribner, 07/07/2020
Who is Wendy Doe? The woman, found on a Peter Pan Bus to Philadelphia, has no money, no ID, and no memory of who she is, where she was going, or what ...
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Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir
by
Lacy Crawford
Little Brown & Company, 07/07/2020
When Notes on a Silencing hit bookstores in the summer of 2020, even amidst a global pandemic, it sent shockwaves through the country. Not only did ...
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Biography/Memoir
Paying the Land
by
Joe Sacco
Metropolitan Books, 07/07/2020
The Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To the Dene, the land owns them, not the other way ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Separated: Inside an American Tragedy
by
Jacob Soboroff
Mariner Books, 07/07/2020
In June 2018, Donald Trump's most notorious decision as president had secretly been in effect for months before most Americans became aware of the ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Survivor Song
by
Paul Tremblay
William Morrow, 07/07/2020
In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like virus that is spread by saliva. But unlike rabies, the disease has a ...
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The Beauty in Breaking
by
Michele Harper
Riverhead Books, 07/07/2020
Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. Brought up in Washington,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands
by
Jon Billman
Grand Central Publishing, 07/07/2020
These are the stories that defy conventional logic. The proverbial vanished without a trace incidences, which happen a lot more (and a lot closer to ...
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The Golden Cage
by
Camilla Läckberg
Knopf, 07/07/2020
Faye has loved Jack since they were students at business school. Jack, the perpetual golden boy, grew up wealthy, unlike Faye, who has worked hard to ...
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The Lost and Found Bookshop
by
Susan Wiggs
William Morrow, 07/07/2020
There is a book for everything...
Somewhere in the vast Library of the Universe, as Natalie thought of it, there was a book that embodied exactly ...
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The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom
by
L.S. Dugdale
HarperOne, 07/07/2020
As a specialist in both medical ethics and the treatment of older patients, Dr. Lydia Dugdale knows a great deal about the end of life. Far too many ...
more
The Party Upstairs
by
Lee Conell
Penguin Press, 07/07/2020
Ruby has a strange relationship to privilege. She grew up the super's daughter in the basement of an Upper West Side co-op that gets more gentrified ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941: The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor
by
Paul Dickson
Atlantic Monthly Press, 07/07/2020
The U.S. Army stood at fewer than 200,000 men―unprepared to defend the country, much less carry the fight to Europe and the Far East. And yet, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
by
Sarah Stewart Johnson
Crown, 07/07/2020
Coated in red dust, the terrain is bewilderingly empty. And yet multiple spacecraft are circling Mars, sweeping over Terra Sabaea, Syrtis Major, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice
by
David Hill
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/07/2020
Back in the days before Vegas was big, when the Mob was at its peak and neon lights were but a glimmer on the horizon, a little Southern town styled ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Voting Booth
by
Brandy Colbert
Disney-Hyperion, 07/07/2020
Marva Sheridan was born ready for this day. She's always been driven to make a difference in the world, and what better way than to vote in her first ...
more
The Wedding Thief
by
Mary Simses
Back Bay Books, 07/07/2020
The Harrington sisters have never gotten along. Sara is a Type-A, career-focused event planner, and her younger sister Mariel is the opposite: ...
more
Literary Fiction
Unconquerable Sun
by
Kate Elliott
Tor Books, 07/07/2020
GENDER-SPUN ALEXANDER THE GREAT ON AN INTERSTELLAR SCALE
Princess Sun has finally come of age.
Growing up in the shadow of her mother, Eirene, has...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Vernon Subutex 2
by
Virginie Despentes
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/07/2020
Rock star Alex Bleach might be dead, but he has a secret. It's a secret that concerns several people, but the only person who can unlock it is Vernon ...
more
Want: A Novel
by
Lynn Steger Strong
Henry Holt and Company, 07/07/2020
Elizabeth is tired. Years after coming to New York to try to build a life, she has found herself with two kids, a husband, two jobs, a PhD―and ...
more
Literary Fiction
Watching You Without Me
by
Lynn Coady
Knopf, 07/07/2020
After her mother's sudden death, Karen finds herself back in her childhood home in Nova Scotia for the first time in a decade, acting as full-time ...
more
Being Toffee
by
Sarah Crossan
Bloomsbury YA, 07/14/2020
Allison has run away from home and with nowhere to live finds herself hiding out in the shed of what she thinks is an abandoned house. But the house ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Blacktop Wasteland
by
S.A. Cosby
Flatiron Books, 07/14/2020
He thought he'd left all that behind him, but as his carefully built new life begins to crumble, he finds himself drawn inexorably back into a world ...
more
F*ckface: And Other Stories
by
Leah Hampton
Henry Holt and Company, 07/14/2020
The twelve stories in this knockout collection―some comedic, some tragic, many both at once―examine the interdependence between rural ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Filthy Beasts
by
Kirkland Hamill
Avid Reader Press, 07/14/2020
"Wake up, you filthy beasts!" Wendy Hamill would shout to her children in the mornings before school. Startled from their dreams, Kirk and his two ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Inheritors
by
Asako Serizawa
Doubleday, 07/14/2020
Spanning more than 150 years, and set in multiple locations in colonial and postcolonial Asia and the United States,
Inheritors paints a kaleidoscopic...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Miracle Country
by
Kendra Atleework
Algonquin Books, 07/14/2020
Kendra's parents taught their children to thrive in this beautiful, if harsh, landscape, prone to wildfires, blizzards, and gale-force winds. Above ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Mother Land
by
Leah Franqui
William Morrow, 07/14/2020
When Rachel Meyer, a thirtysomething foodie from New York, agrees to move to Mumbai with her Indian-born husband, Dhruv, she knows some culture shock ...
more
Natural History
by
Carlos Fonseca
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/14/2020
Just before the dawn of the new millennium, a curator at a New Jersey museum of natural history receives an unusual invitation from a celebrated ...
more
Niche: A Memoir in Pastiche
by
Momus
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/14/2020
Momus―named for the ancient Greek god of mockery, and described by
The Guardian as "the David Bowie of the art-pop underground"―has ...
more
Other People's Pets
by
R.L. Maizes
Celadon, 07/14/2020
La La's world stops being whole when her mother, who never wanted a child, abandons her twice. First, when La La falls through thin ice on a skating ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
by
Amy Stanley
Scribner, 07/14/2020
The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a traditional life much like her mother's. ...
more
The Extraordinaries: The Extraordinaries #1
by
TJ Klune
Tor Teen, 07/14/2020
Nick Bell? Not extraordinary. But being the most popular fanfiction writer in the Extraordinaries fandom is a superpower, right?
After a chance ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Lantern Men (Ruth Galloway Mysteries)
by
Elly Griffiths
Mariner Books, 07/14/2020
Everything has changed for Ruth Galloway. She has a new job, home, and partner, and she is no longer North Norfolk police's resident forensic ...
more
Thrillers
The Lost Girls of Devon
by
Barbara O'Neal
Lake Union Publishing, 07/14/2020
It's been years since Zoe Fairchild has been to the small Devon village of her birth, but the wounds she suffered there still ache. When she learns ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Only Good Indians
by
Stephen Graham Jones
Gallery Books, 07/14/2020
Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary,
The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after...
more
The Order: A Novel (Gabriel Allon, 20)
by
Daniel Silva
Harper, 07/14/2020
It was nearly one a.m. by the time he crawled into bed. Chiara was reading a novel, oblivious to the television, which was muted. On the screen was a ...more
Thrillers
Today Tonight Tomorrow
by
Rachel Lynn Solomon
Simon Pulse, 07/14/2020
Today, she hates him.
It's the last day of senior year. Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have been bitter rivals for all of high school, clashing on test...
more
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
by
Mary L. Trump Ph.D.
Simon & Schuster, 07/14/2020
Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents' large, imposing house in the heart of Queens, New York, where Donald and his four siblings...
more
Biography/Memoir
What You Wish For
by
Katherine Center
St. Martin's Press, 07/14/2020
Samantha Casey is a school librarian who loves her job, the kids, and her school family with passion and joy for living.
But she wasn't always that ...
more
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
by
T Kingfisher
Argyll Productions, 07/21/2020
Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt's bakery making gingerbread men dance.
...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
by
Gretchen McCulloch
Riverhead Books, 07/21/2020
Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Grove: A Field Novel
by
Esther Kinsky
Transit Books, 07/21/2020
It is winter, and from her temporary residence on a hill between village and cemetery, she embarks on walks and outings, exploring the banal and the ...
more
He Started It
by
Samantha Downing
Berkley Books, 07/21/2020
Beth, Portia, and Eddie Morgan haven't all been together in years. And for very good reasons—we'll get to those later. But when their wealthy ...
more
Heaven and Earth
by
Paolo Giordano
Pamela Dorman Books, 07/21/2020
Every summer Teresa follows her father to his childhood home in Puglia, down in the heel of Italy, a land of relentless, shimmering heat, centuries-...
more
Riding with the Ghost: A Memoir
by
Justin Taylor
Random House, 07/21/2020
When Justin Taylor was thirty, his father, Larry, drove to the top of the Nashville airport parking garage to take his own life. Thanks to the ...
more
The Answer Is ...: Reflections on My Life
by
Alex Trebek
Simon & Schuster, 07/21/2020
Since debuting as the host of
Jeopardy! in 1984, Alex Trebek has been something like a family member to millions of television viewers, bringing ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code
by
Michael E. McCullough
Basic Books, 07/21/2020
How did humans, a species of self-centered apes, come to care about others? Since Darwin, scientists have tried to answer this question using ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Lives of Edie Pritchard: A Novel
by
Larry Watson
Algonquin Books, 07/21/2020
Edie—smart, self‑assured, beautiful—always worked hard. She worked as a teller at a bank, she worked to save her first marriage, and...
more
The Vanishing Sky
by
L. Annette Binder
Bloomsbury USA, 07/21/2020
"There was no shelter without her sons."
In 1945, as the war in Germany nears its violent end, the Huber family is not yet free of its dangers or ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Woman Before Wallis: A Novel of Windsors, Vanderbilts, and Royal Scandal
by
Bryn Turnbull
Mira, 07/21/2020
In the summer of 1926, when Thelma Morgan marries Viscount Duke Furness after a whirlwind romance, she's immersed in a gilded world of extraordinary ...
more
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Year of the Witching
by
Alexis Henderson
Ace Books, 07/21/2020
In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet's word is law, Immanuelle Moore's very existence is blasphemy. Her mother's union with an outsider of a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Trouble the Saints
by
Alaya Dawn Johnson
Tor Books, 07/21/2020
Amid the whir of city life, a young woman from Harlem is drawn into the glittering underworld of Manhattan, where she's hired to use her knives to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Fatherland Files (A Gereon Rath Mystery)
by
Volker Kutscher
Sandstone Press, 07/22/2020
Inspector Gereon Rath's hunt for a mysterious contract killer has stalled; but this new case will take him to a small town on the Polish border and ...
more
Mysteries
A Star Is Bored
by
Byron Lane
Henry Holt and Company, 07/28/2020
Charlie Besson is about to have an insane job interview. His car is idling, like his life, outside the Hollywood mansion of Kathi Kannon. THE Kathi ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Afterland
by
Lauren Beukes
Mulholland, 07/28/2020
Most of the men are dead. Three years after the pandemic known as The Manfall, governments still hold and life continues -- but a world run by women ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South
by
Matthew Van Meter
Little Brown & Company, 07/28/2020
In 1966 in a small town in Louisiana, a 19-year-old black man named Gary Duncan pulled his car off the road to stop a fight between a group of four ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
by
Barbara Demick
Random House, 07/28/2020
Just as she did with North Korea, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick explores one of the most hidden corners of the world. She tells the story of...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Empire of Wild
by
Cherie Dimaline
William Morrow, 07/28/2020
Joan has been searching for her missing husband, Victor, for nearly a year—ever since that terrible night they'd had their first serious ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Florida Man
by
Tom Cooper
Random House, 07/28/2020
Florida, circa 1980. Reed Crowe, the eponymous Florida Man, is a middle-aged beach bum, beleaguered and disenfranchised, living on ill-gotten gains ...
more
Flyaway
by
Kathleen Jennings
Tor Books, 07/28/2020
In a small Western Queensland town, a reserved young woman receives a note from one of her vanished brothers―a note that makes her question ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Romance
Hieroglyphics
by
Jill McCorkle
Algonquin Books, 07/28/2020
Lil and Frank married young, launched into courtship when they bonded over how they both - suddenly, tragically - lost a parent when they were ...
more
His & Hers
by
Alice Feeney
Flatiron Books, 07/28/2020
When a woman is murdered in Blackdown, a quintessentially British village, newsreader Anna Andrews is reluctant to cover the case. Detective Jack ...
more
Indigo: Valentino Mysteries #6
by
Loren D. Estleman
Forge Books, 07/28/2020
Film detective Valentino is summoned to the estate of Ignacio Bozel to collect a prized donation to the university's movie library:
Bleak Street, a ...
more
Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto
by
Michelle Bowdler
Flatiron Books, 07/28/2020
The crime of rape sizzles like a lightning strike. It pounces, flattens, destroys. A person stands whole, and in a moment of unexpected violence, that...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
It Is Wood, It Is Stone
by
Gabriella Burnham
One World, 07/28/2020
Linda, an anxious and restless American, has moved to São Paulo, with her husband, Dennis, who has accepted a yearlong professorship. As Dennis ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Life Events
by
Karolina Waclawiak
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/28/2020
Karolina Waclawiak's breakout novel,
Life Events, follows Evelyn, who, at thirty-seven, is on the verge of divorce and anxiously dreading the death of...
more
Mr. Malcolm's List
by
Suzanne Allain
Berkley Books, 07/28/2020
The Honourable Mr. Jeremy Malcolm is searching for a wife, but not just any wife. As the target of matchmaking mothers and desperate debutantes, he's ...
more
The Butterfly Lampshade
by
Aimee Bender
Doubleday, 07/28/2020
On the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter, waiting...
more
The Faithless Hawk: The Merciful Crow #2
by
Margaret Owen
Henry Holt and Company, 07/28/2020
As the new chieftain of the Crows, Fie knows better than to expect a royal to keep his word. Still she's hopeful that Prince Jasimir will fulfill his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Geometry of Holding Hands: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (13) (Isabel Dalhousie Series)
by
Alexander McCall Smith
Pantheon Books, 07/28/2020
Just when Isabel and Jamie finally seem to have some time to connect and unwind, a wealthy Edinburgh resident reaches out to Isabel with an unusual ...
more
Mysteries
The Silence of the White City: The White City Trilogy #1
by
Eva Garcia Sáenz
Vintage, 07/28/2020
Young Inspector Unai López de Ayala, known as "Kraken," is charged with investigating a series of ritualistic murders. The murders are eerily ...
more
This Is My America
by
Kim Johnson
Random House Books for Younger Readers, 07/28/2020
Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X, asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession
by
Sarah Weinman
Ecco, 07/28/2020
The appeal of true-crime stories has never been higher. With podcasts like
My Favorite Murder and
In the Dark, bestsellers like
I'll Be Gone in the ...more
When She Was Good: Cyrus Haven #2
by
Michael Robotham
Scribner, 07/28/2020
Criminal psychologist Cyrus Haven and Evie Cormac return in this mesmerizing new thriller from internationally bestselling author Michael Robotham, a ...
more
The Last of the Moon Girls
by
Barbara Davis
Lake Union Publishing, 08/01/2020
Lizzy Moon never wanted Moon Girl Farm. Eight years ago, she left the land that nine generations of gifted healers had tended, determined to distance ...
more
Literary Fiction
A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science
by
Rita Colwell PhD
Simon & Schuster, 08/04/2020
If you think sexism thrives only on Wall Street or in Hollywood, you haven't visited a lab, a science department, a research foundation, or a biotech ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
by
Alicia Elliott
Melville House, 08/04/2020
The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated to "a mind spread out on the ground." In this urgent and visceral work, Alicia Elliott ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
A Saint from Texas
by
Edmund White
Bloomsbury USA, 08/04/2020
Yvette and Yvonne Crawford are twin sisters, born on a humble patch of East Texas prairie but bound for far more dramatic and tragic fates. Just as an...
more
An Unfinished Story: A Novel
by
Boo Walker
Lake Union Publishing, 08/04/2020
It's been three years since Claire Kite lost her husband, David, an aspiring novelist, in a tragic car accident. Claire finally finds the courage to ...
more
Literary Fiction
Behind the Red Door: A Novel
by
Megan Collins
Atria Books, 08/04/2020
When Fern Douglas sees the news about Astrid Sullivan, a thirty-four-year-old missing woman from Maine, she is positive that she knows her. Fern's ...
more
Thrillers
Creating Anna Karenina: Tolstoy and the Birth of Literature's Most Enigmatic Heroine
by
Bob Blaisdell
Pegasus Books, 08/04/2020
Anna Karenina is one of the most nuanced characters in world literature and we return to her, and the novel she propels, again and again. Remarkably, ...
more
Dance on Saturday
by
Elwin Cotman
Small Beer Press, 08/04/2020
Church-going immortals tend life-extending fruit. Swarms of deadly wasps engineered by a polymath sorcerer battle killer snails. Geese take human form...
more
Every Bone a Prayer
by
Ashley Blooms
Sourcebooks, 08/04/2020
All that Misty's sister Penny wants to talk about are the strange objects that start appearing outside their trailer. The grown-ups mutter about sins ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems
by
francine j. harris
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/04/2020
The speakers in these poems are often protagonists. Against the backdrop of numerous American cities and towns, and in a time of political uncertainty...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
I Give It to You
by
Valerie Martin
Nan A. Talese, 08/04/2020
When Jan, an American academic, rents an apartment in a Tuscan villa for the summer, she plans to spend her break writing a biography of Mussolini. ...
more
Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness
by
Catherine Cho
Henry Holt and Company, 08/04/2020
When Catherine Cho and her husband set off from London to introduce their newborn son to family scattered across the United States, she could not have...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy
by
Edward Ball
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/04/2020
Life of a Klansman tells the story of a warrior in the Ku Klux Klan, a carpenter in Louisiana who took up the cause of fanatical racism during the ...
more
Love After Love
by
Ingrid Persaud
One World, 08/04/2020
Solo flees Trinidad for New York to carve out a lonely existence as an undocumented immigrant, and Mr. Chetan remains the singular thread holding ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Luster
by
Raven Leilani
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/04/2020
Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties―sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Midnight Sun: Twilight Series #5
by
Stephenie Meyer
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 08/04/2020
When Edward Cullen and Bella Swan met in
Twilight, an iconic love story was born. But until now, fans have heard only Bella's side of the story. At ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Mr Campion's Seance: An Albert Campion Mystery #7
by
Mike Ripley
Severn House, 08/04/2020
1946, London. The eagerly anticipated new detective novel from Albert Campion's godsibling, bestselling author Evadne Childe, is proving to be another...
more
Nightshade
by
Annalena McAfee
Knopf, 08/04/2020
Eve Laing, celebrated artist, once the muse of legendary painter and "monstre sacré" Florian Kiš, is a photorealist painter of flowers at ...
more
Six Days in August: The Story of Stockholm Syndrome
by
David King
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/04/2020
On the morning of August 23, 1973, a man wearing a wig, makeup, and a pair of sunglasses walked into the main branch of Sveriges Kreditbank, a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Sweet Sorrow
by
David Nicholls
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 08/04/2020
Now: On the verge of marriage and a fresh start, thirty-eight-year-old Charlie Lewis finds that he can't stop thinking about the past, and the events ...
more
Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World
by
John Freeman
Penguin Books, 08/04/2020
In the past five years, John Freeman, previously editor of
Granta, has launched a celebrated international literary magazine,
Freeman's, and compiled ...
more
Tender Is the Flesh
by
Agustina Bazterrica
Scribner, 08/04/2020
His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Bitch
by
Pilar Quintana
World Editions, 08/04/2020
Colombia's Pacific coast, where everyday life entails warding off the brutal forces of nature. In this constant struggle, nothing is taken for granted...
more
Literary Fiction
The Book of Atlantis Black: The Search for a Sister Gone Missing
by
Betsy Bonner
Tin House Books, 08/04/2020
A young woman is found dead on the floor of a Tijuana hotel room. An ID in a nearby purse reads "Atlantis Black." The police report states that the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals
by
Becky Mandelbaum
Simon & Schuster, 08/04/2020
The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals is in trouble.
It's late 2016 when Ariel discovers that her mother Mona's animal sanctuary in Western Kansas ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne
by
Elsa Hart
Minotaur Books, 08/04/2020
London, 1703. In a time when the old approaches to science coexist with the new, one elite community attempts to understand the world by collecting ...
more
The Death of Vivek Oji
by
Akwaeke Emezi
Riverhead Books, 08/04/2020
One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son's body, wrapped in colorful fabric, at her feet. ...
more
The Disaster Tourist: A Novel
by
Yun Ko-eun
Counterpoint Press, 08/04/2020
Jungle is a cutting-edge travel agency specializing in tourism to destinations devastated by disaster and climate change. And until she found herself ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Hollow Ones
by
Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan
Grand Central Publishing, 08/04/2020
Odessa Hardwicke's life is derailed when she's forced to turn her gun on her partner, Walt Leppo, a decorated FBI agent who turns suddenly, ...
more
The Labyrinth
by
Amanda Lohrey
Text Publishing Company, 08/04/2020
Trapped in her grief, Erica retreats from Sydney to a sleepy hamlet on the south coast, near where Daniel is serving his sentence.
There, in a ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
by
Emily Levesque
Sourcebooks, 08/04/2020
Humans from the earliest civilizations were spellbound by the night sky-craning their necks each night, they used the stars to orient themselves in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Night Swim
by
Megan Goldin
St. Martin's Press, 08/04/2020
Ever since her true-crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall has become a household name―and the ...
more
The Orphan Collector: A Heroic Novel of Survival During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
by
Ellen Marie Wiseman
Kensington Publishing, 08/04/2020
In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded slums and the anti-immigrant ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Space Between Worlds
by
Micaiah Johnson
Bantam Doubleday Dell, 08/04/2020
Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there's just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace
by
Kapka Kassabova
Graywolf Press, 08/04/2020
Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two ancient lakes joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that seem to hold both the turbulent memories of the region's ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Under Pressure: Lucas Page #2
by
Robert Pobi
Minotaur Books, 08/04/2020
On a beautiful October evening, New York City's iconic Guggenheim Museum is closed for a tech company's private gala. Until an explosion rocks the ...
more
Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop
by
Roselle Lim
Berkley Books, 08/04/2020
Vanessa Yu never wanted to see people's fortunes—or misfortunes—in tealeaves.
Ever since she can remember, Vanessa has been able to ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
by
Morgan Jerkins
Harper, 08/04/2020
Between 1916 and 1970, six million black Americans left their rural homes in the South for jobs in cities in the North, West, and Midwest in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
What Happens at Night
by
Peter Cameron
Catapult, 08/04/2020
In this atmospheric, suspenseful novel, an American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby, who they hope will resurrect ...
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With or Without You: A Novel
by
Caroline Leavitt
Algonquin Books, 08/04/2020
After almost twenty years together, Stella and Simon are starting to run into problems. An up-and-coming rock musician when they first met, Simon has ...
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You Had Me at Hola: A Novel (Primas of Power, 1)
by
Alexis Daria
Avon Books, 08/04/2020
Leading Ladies do not end up on tabloid covers.
After a messy public breakup, soap opera darling Jasmine Lin Rodriguez finds her face ...
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Romance
My Midnight Sun
by
John Shors
John Shors Publishers, 08/05/2020
After time with his family and friends in America does little to ease his pain, Owen returns to Asia to try to make peace with his past. A chance ...
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Literary Fiction
Drowning in Stars
by
Debra Anastasia
Independently published, 08/07/2020
Gaze: I moved into the building next to Pixie when I was eleven. She blew bubbles through my window. I shot my Nerf gun through hers. We both had ...
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Literary Fiction
A House Is a Body
by
Shruti Swamy
Algonquin Books, 08/11/2020
In "Earthly Pleasures," a young painter living alone in San Francisco begins a secret romance with one of India's biggest celebrities, and desire and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Death in Her Hands
by
Ottessa Moshfegh
Penguin Press, 08/11/2020
While on her daily walk with her dog in a secluded woods, a woman comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground by stones. "Her ...
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Olive the Lionheart: Lost Love, Imperial Spies, and One Woman's Journey into the Heart of Africa
by
Brad Ricca
St. Martin's Press, 08/11/2020
In 1910, Olive MacLeod, a thirty-year-old, redheaded Scottish aristocrat, received word that her fiancé, the famous naturalist Boyd Alexander, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire
by
Chloe Hooper
Seven Stories Press, 08/11/2020
What kind of person would deliberately start a firestorm? What kind of mind?
On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Boy in the Field
by
Margot Livesey
Harper, 08/11/2020
One September afternoon in 1999, teenagers Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang are walking home from school when they discover a boy lying in a field, ...
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The New Wilderness
by
Diane Cook
Harper, 08/11/2020
Bea's five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away. The smog and pollution of the City—an over-populated, over-built metropolis where ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Quiet Girl
by
S.F. Kosa
Sourcebooks Landmark, 08/11/2020
Good girls keep quiet. Quiet girls won't stay silent forever.
When Alex arrives in Provincetown to patch things up with his new wife, he finds an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
by
Elisa Gabbert
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/11/2020
We stare at our phones. We keep multiple tabs open. Our chats and conversations are full of the phrase "Did you see?" The feeling that we're living in...
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Then She Vanished: Roland Ford #4
by
T. Jefferson Parker
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/11/2020
Private Investigator Roland Ford has taken a job for a fellow Marine and a rising politician, Dalton Strait. Strait is contending with unexplained ...
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Driftwood
by
Marie Brennan
Tachyon Publications, 08/14/2020
Who is Last?
Fame is rare in Driftwood―it's hard to get famous if you don't stick around long enough for people to know you. But many know ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Atomic Love
by
Jennie Fields
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 08/18/2020
Chicago, 1950. Rosalind Porter has always defied expectations--in her work as a physicist on the Manhattan Project and in her passionate love affair ...
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Historical Fiction
Betty: A novel
by
Tiffany McDaniel
Knopf, 08/18/2020
"A girl comes of age against the knife."
So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a white mother and a Cherokee father,...
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Literary Fiction
Impersonation
by
Heidi Pitlor
Algonquin Books, 08/18/2020
Together, they make the perfect feminist mother.
Allie Lang is a professional ghostwriter and a perpetually broke single mother to a young boy. ...
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Money for Nothing: The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made the World Rich
by
Thomas Levenson
Random House, 08/18/2020
Money for Nothing chronicles the moment when the needs of war, discoveries of natural philosophy, and ambitions of investors collided. It's about how ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Ordinary Hazards
by
Anna Bruno
Atria Books, 08/18/2020
It's 5pm on a Wednesday when Emma settles into her hometown bar with a motley crew of locals, all unaware that a series of decisions over the course ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Dazzling Truth
by
Helen Cullen
Graydon House, 08/18/2020
In the courtyards of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1978, aspiring actress Maeve meets pottery student Murtagh Moone. As their relationship progresses, ...
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The Discomfort of Evening: A Novel
by
Lucas Rijneveld
Graywolf Press, 08/18/2020
Ten-year-old Jas lives with her strictly religious parents and her siblings on a dairy farm where waste and frivolity are akin to sin. Despite the ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Glass Kingdom
by
Lawrence Osborne
Hogarth Books, 08/18/2020
Escaping New York for the anonymity of Bangkok, Sarah Mullins arrives in Thailand on the lam with nothing more than a suitcase of purloined money. Her...
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The Jackal (1) (Black Dagger Brotherhood: Prison Camp)
by
J.R. Ward
Gallery Books, 08/18/2020
The location of the
glymera's notorious prison camp was lost after the raids. When a freak accident provides Nyx clues to where her sister may still ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The New American
by
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Simon & Schuster, 08/18/2020
One day, Emilio learns a shocking secret: he is undocumented. His parents, who emigrated from Guatemala to California, had never told him.
...
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The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls: A Novel
by
Ursula Hegi
Flatiron Books, 08/18/2020
In the summer of 1878, the Ludwig Zirkus arrives on Nordstrand in Germany, to the delight of the island's people. But after the show, a Hundred-Year ...
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Short Stories
A Cloud of Outrageous Blue
by
Vesper Stamper
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 08/25/2020
Edyth grew up in a quiet village with a loving family, before losing everything she holds dear in the blink of an eye. Suddenly sent to live in a ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
AND WE CAME OUTSIDE AND SAW THE STARS AGAIN
by
Ilan Stavans
Penguin Books, 08/25/2020
As our world is transformed by the coronavirus pandemic, writers offer a powerful antidote to the fearful confines of isolation: a window onto lives ...
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Biography/Memoir
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
by
Neil Price
Basic Books, 08/25/2020
The Viking Age -- from 750 to 1050 -- saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Elatsoe
by
Darcie Little Badger
Levine Querido, 08/25/2020
There are some differences. This America been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Everything Sad Is Untrue: (a true story)
by
Daniel Nayeri
Levine Querido, 08/25/2020
"A patchwork story is the shame of the refugee," Nayeri writes early in the novel. In an Oklahoman middle school, Khosrou (whom everyone calls Daniel)...
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Final Cut
by
S.J. Watson
Harper, 08/25/2020
They tried to hide the truth. But the camera never lies…
Blackwood Bay. An ordinary place, home to ordinary people.
It used to be a ...
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Freedom: An Unruly History
by
Annelien DeDijn
Harvard University Press, 08/25/2020
We tend to think of freedom as something that is best protected by carefully circumscribing the boundaries of legitimate state activity. But who came ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism
by
Laura E. Gómez
The New Press, 08/25/2020
Latinos have long influenced everything from electoral politics to popular culture‚ yet many people instinctively regard them as recent ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Shadows of the Dead: Special Tracking Unit #3
by
Spencer Kope
Minotaur Books, 08/25/2020
A woman―abducted and found in the trunk of a car after a high-speed chase―regains consciousness in the ICU to reveal two crucial pieces of...
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Sisters
by
Daisy Johnson
Riverhead Books, 08/25/2020
"One of her generation's most intriguing authors" (
Entertainment Weekly), Daisy Johnson is the youngest writer to have been short-listed for the Man ...
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Summer: Seasonal Quartet #4
by
Ali Smith
Pantheon Books, 08/25/2020
Meanwhile, the world's in meltdown—and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and ...
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Tales from the Ant World
by
Edward O. Wilson
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 08/25/2020
"Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony...Their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg," writes Edward O. Wilson ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Companion
by
Katie Alender
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 08/25/2020
The other orphans say Margot is lucky.
Lucky to survive the horrible accident that killed her family.
Lucky to have her own room because she ...
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The Great Offshore Grounds
by
Vanessa Veselka
Knopf, 08/25/2020
On the day of their estranged father's wedding, half sisters Cheyenne and Livy set off to claim their inheritance. It's been years since the two have ...
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The Last Great Road Bum
by
Héctor Tobar
MCD, 08/25/2020
Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was, in his words, a "road bum," an adventurer and a storyteller, belonging to no ...
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Vesper Flights
by
Helen Macdonald
Grove Press, 08/25/2020
In
Vesper Flights Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a ...
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Wicked Witch Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery)
by
Leslie Meier
Kensington Publishing, 08/25/2020
When the bewitching Diana Ravenscroft comes to quiet Tinker's Cove and opens Solstice, a quaint little shop offering everything from jewelry to ...
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Mysteries
Winter Counts: A Novel
by
David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Ecco, 08/25/2020
Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or ...
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Literary Fiction
Only One Kiss
by
Natasha Madison
Independently published, 08/28/2020
Ralph being traded to Dallas was a dream come true. I had everything I wanted, my game had never been better, and my wife was due to have our baby any...
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Romance
