Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany
by
Katja Hoyer
Basic Books, 09/05/2023
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Budapest: Portrait of a City Between East and West
by
Victor Sebestyen
Pantheon Books, 09/05/2023
Victor Sebestyen has written a sweeping, colorful and immersive history of the capital of Hungary, from the fifth century to the present day: a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the '60s Girl Groups
by
Laura Flam, Emily Sieu Liebowitz
Hachette Books, 09/05/2023
The girl group sound, made famous and unforgettable by acts like The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas, took over the airwaves ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Creep: Accusations and Confessions
by
Myriam Gurba
Avid Reader Press, 09/05/2023
A creep can be a singular figure, a villain who makes things go bump in the night. Yet creep is also what the fog does—it lurks into place to do...
more
Dearborn
by
Ghassan Zeineddine
Tin House Books, 09/05/2023
Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine's debut collection examines the diverse range and complexities of the Arab American community in Dearborn...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Evil Eye: A Novel
by
Etaf Rum
Harper, 09/05/2023
"After Yara is placed on probation at work for fighting with a racist coworker, her Palestinian mother claims the provocation and all that's come ...
more
Landlines: The Remarkable Story of a Thousand-Mile Journey Across Britain
by
Raynor Winn
Pegasus Books, 09/05/2023
Raynor Winn knows that her husband Moth's health is declining, getting worse by the day. She knows of only one cure. It worked once before. But will ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Phoebe's Diary
by
Phoebe Wahl
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 09/05/2023
Meet Phoebe. She's cool and insecure, talented and vulnerable, sexy and awkward, driven and confused, ecstatic and tragic.
Like you.
And here is...
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Proud Sorrows: Billy Boyle WWII Mysteries #18
by
James R. Benn
Soho Crime, 09/05/2023
Norfolk, England, November 1944: After a series of dangerous missions in the South of France, US Army Captain Billy Boyle is finally on leave, and is ...
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Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World
by
Leah Broad
Faber and Faber, 09/05/2023
Ethel Smyth (b.1858): Famed for her operas, this trailblazing queer Victorian composer was a larger-than-life socialite, intrepid traveller and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence
by
Gavin Francis
Penguin Life, 09/05/2023
For many of us, time spent in recovery—from a broken leg, a virus, chronic illness, or the crisis of depression or anxiety—can feel like ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Reykjavík: A Crime Story
by
Ragnar Jónasson, Katrín Jakobsdóttir
Minotaur Books, 09/05/2023
What happened to Lára?
Iceland, 1956. Fourteen-year-old Lára decides to spend the summer working for a couple on the small island of ...
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Rusted Souls: Tom Harper Mysteries #11
by
Chris Nickson
Severn House, 09/05/2023
Leeds, 1920. Chief Constable Tom Harper of Leeds City Police has just six weeks left in the role before his well-earned retirement. But even though ...
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Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
by
Maria Bamford
Gallery Books, 09/05/2023
Maria Bamford is a comedian's comedian (an outsider among outsiders) and has forever fought to find a place to belong. From struggling with an eating ...
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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
by
Mustafa Suleyman
Crown, 09/05/2023
We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change.
Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Future: Biblioasis International Translation Series #44
by
Catherine Leroux
Biblioasis, 09/05/2023
In an alternate history of Detroit, the Motor City was never surrendered to the US. Its residents deal with pollution, poverty, and the legacy of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future
by
Robert P. Jones
Simon & Schuster, 09/05/2023
Beginning with contemporary efforts to reckon with the legacy of white supremacy in America, Jones returns to the fateful year when a little-known ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Longmire Defense: A Longmire Mystery
by
Craig Johnson
Viking, 09/05/2023
Deep in the heart of the Wyoming countryside, Sheriff of Absaroka County, Walt Longmire, is called to a crime scene like few others that he has seen. ...
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The Raging Storm: Detective Matthew Venn Series #3
by
Ann Cleeves
Minotaur Books, 09/05/2023
Fierce winds, dark secrets, deadly intentions.
When Jem Rosco—sailor, adventurer, and legend—blows into town in the middle of an autumn...
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The River We Remember: A Novel
by
William Kent Krueger
Atria Books, 09/05/2023
On Memorial Day in Jewel, Minnesota, the body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. ...
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Literary Fiction
The September House
by
Carissa Orlando
Berkley Books, 09/05/2023
When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street—for sale at a surprisingly reasonable price—they ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
by
Andrew Joseph White
Peachtree Publishers, 09/05/2023
Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all.
London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Trouble the Living: A Novel
by
Francesca McDonnell Capossela
Lake Union Publishing, 09/05/2023
It's the final years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and Bríd and her sister, Ina, try to maintain a stable life in a divided country. ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Wednesday's Child: Stories
by
Yiyun Li
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/05/2023
A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. Elsewhere, a professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year...
more
Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
by
Joe Posnanski
Dutton, 09/05/2023
Posnanski writes of major moments that created legends, and of forgotten moments almost lost to time. It's Willie Mays's catch, Babe Ruth's called ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wound: A Novel
by
Oksana Vasyakina
Catapult, 09/05/2023
From one of Russia's most exciting new voices,
Wound follows a young lesbian poet on a journey from Moscow to her hometown in Siberia, where she has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Cocktail
by
Lisa Alward
Biblioasis, 09/12/2023
A girl receives a bedtime visit from a drunken party guest, who will haunt her fantasies for years. A young mother discovers underneath the wallpaper ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Digging Stars: A Novel
by
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/12/2023
With admission to The Program, an elite interdisciplinary graduate cohort at the forefront of astronomy and technology, Rosa's dreams are finally ...
more
Literary Fiction
Elon Musk
by
Walter Isaacson
Simon & Schuster, 09/12/2023
When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until...
more
Biography/Memoir
Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City
by
Elyssa Maxx Goodman
Hanover Square Press, 09/12/2023
From the lush feather boas that adorned early female impersonators to the sequined lip syncs of barroom queens to the drag kings that have us laughing...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Godkiller
by
Hannah Kaner
Harper Voyager, 09/12/2023
Gods are forbidden in the kingdom of Middren. Formed by human desires and fed by their worship, there are countless gods in the world—but after ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Larry McMurtry: A Life
by
Tracy Daugherty
St. Martin's Press, 09/12/2023
In over forty books, in a career that spanned over sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as a superior chronicler of the American West, and as ...
more
Lucy by the Sea: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Strout
Random House, 09/12/2023
With her trademark spare, crystalline prose—a voice infused with "intimate, fragile, desperate humanness" (
Washington Post)—Elizabeth ...
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Monstrous
by
Jessica Lewis
Delacorte Press, 09/12/2023
Don't go outside past dark. Come straight home after church. And above all—never, ever, go into Red Wood.
These are the rules Latavia's aunt ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Omega Farm: A Memoir
by
Martha McPhee
Scribner, 09/12/2023
In March 2020, Martha McPhee, her husband, and their two almost-grown children set out for her childhood home in New Jersey, where she finds herself ...
more
Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
by
Bettina L. Love
St. Martin's Press, 09/12/2023
In
Punished for Dreaming Dr. Bettina Love argues forcefully that Reagan's presidency ushered in a War on Black Children, pathologizing and penalizing ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Rez Ball
by
Byron Graves
Heartdrum, 09/12/2023
These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketball on the Red Lake Reservation high school team—even though he can't help but be ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Roaming
by
Jillian Tamaki, Mariko Tamaki
Drawn & Quarterly, 09/12/2023
Over the course of a much-anticipated trip to New York, an unexpected fling blossoms between casual acquaintances and throws a long-term friendship ...
more
Rouge: A Novel
by
Mona Awad
Marysue Rucci Books, 09/12/2023
For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously ...
more
Sing a Black Girl's Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange
by
Ntozake Shange
Legacy Lit, 09/12/2023
In the late '60s, Ntozake Shange was a student at Barnard College discovering her budding talent as a writer, publishing in her school's literary ...
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The Death I Gave Him
by
Em X. Liu
Solaris, 09/12/2023
Hayden Lichfield's life is ripped apart when he finds his father murdered in their lab, and the camera logs erased. The killer can only have been ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Devil of the Provinces
by
Juan Cárdenas
Coffee House Press, 09/12/2023
When a biologist returns to Colombia after fifteen years abroad, he quickly becomes entangled in the trappings of his past and his increasingly ...
more
The Heart of It All
by
Christian Kiefer
Melville House, 09/12/2023
Set in failing small town in central Ohio,
The Heart of It All asks how one manages, in an America of increasing unsurety, to find a sense of family ...
more
The Meadows
by
Stephanie Oakes
Dial Books, 09/12/2023
Everyone hopes for a letter—to attend the Estuary, the Glades, the Meadows. These are the special places where only the best and brightest go to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories
by
Stacie Shannon Denetsosie
Torrey House Press, 09/12/2023
A young Navajo man catches a ride home alongside a casket he's sure contains his dead grandfather. A gas station clerk witnesses the kidnapping of the...
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The Secret Hours
by
Mick Herron
Soho Crime, 09/12/2023
Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical over-reaching" by the British Secret Service. ...
more
The Vaster Wilds: A Novel
by
Lauren Groff
Riverhead Books, 09/12/2023
A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Young Man
by
Annie Ernaux
Seven Stories Press, 09/12/2023
The Young Man is Annie Ernaux's account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some 30 years younger, when she was in her fifties. The ...
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This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America
by
Navied Mahdavian
Princeton Architectural Press, 09/12/2023
Before Navied Mahdavian moved with his wife and dog in November of 2016 from San Francisco to an off-the-grid cabin in rural Idaho, he had never ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Witch of Wild Things
by
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
Berkley Books, 09/12/2023
Sage Flores has been running from her family—and their "gifts"—ever since her younger sister Sky died. Eight years later, Sage reluctantly...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think
by
Caleb Everett
Harvard University Press, 09/19/2023
We tend to assume that all languages categorize ideas and objects similarly, reflecting our common human experience. But this isn't the case. When we ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
by
Ashley Shew
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/19/2023
When bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described "hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn's disease and tinnitus," there was...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
All the Fighting Parts
by
Hannah V. Sawyerr
Amulet Books, 09/19/2023
Sixteen-year-old Amina Conteh has always believed in using her voice as her weapon—even when it gets her into trouble. After cursing at a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
by
Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
Harper, 09/19/2023
The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story—of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention.
From 1783, when German ...
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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
by
Michael Harriot
Dey Street Books, 09/19/2023
America's backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It is the story of the pilgrims on the Mayflower building a new ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Black Sheep
by
Rachel Harrison
Berkley Books, 09/19/2023
Nobody has a "normal" family, but Vesper Wright's is truly...something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back—mostly because ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Champion of Fate: Heromaker #1
by
Kendare Blake
Quill Tree Books, 09/19/2023
Aristene are an order of mythical female warriors. Though heroes might be immortalized in legends, it's the Aristene who guide their paths to victory....
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Father and Son: A Memoir
by
Jonathan Raban
Knopf, 09/19/2023
In June 2011, just days before his sixty-ninth birthday, Jonathan Raban was sitting down to dinner with his daughter when he found he couldn't move ...
more
Loved and Missed
by
Susie Boyt
New York Review Books, 09/19/2023
Ruth is a woman who believes in and despairs of the curative power of love. Her daughter, Eleanor, who is addicted to drugs, has just had a baby, Lily...
more
Mom Rage: The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood
by
Minna Dubin
Seal Press, 09/19/2023
Mothers aren't supposed to be angry. Still, Minna Dubin was an angry mom: exhausted by the grueling, thankless work of full-time parenting and feeling...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Mr. Texas: A Novel
by
Lawrence Wright
Knopf, 09/19/2023
Sonny Lamb is an affable, if floundering, rancher with the unfortunate habit of becoming a punchline in his Texas hometown. Most recently, to everyone...
more
Night Watch: A Novel
by
Jayne Anne Phillips
Knopf, 09/19/2023
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Saving Emma: A Novel
by
Allen Eskens
Mulholland, 09/19/2023
When Boady Sanden first receives the case of Elijah Matthews, he's certain there's not much he can do. Elijah, who believes himself to be a prophet, ...
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The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
by
Ross Gay
Algonquin Books, 09/19/2023
Ross Gay's essays have been called "exquisite" (Tracy K. Smith), "imperative" (the
New York Times Book Review), and "brilliant" (Ada Limón). Now,...
more
The Collectors: Stories
by
A.S. King
Dutton, 09/19/2023
From David Levithan's story about a non-binary kid collecting pieces of other people's collections to Jenny Torres Sanchez's tale of a girl gathering ...
more
The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past
by
Taras Grescoe
Greystone Books, 09/19/2023
Many of us are worried (or at least we should be) about the impacts of globalization, pollution, and biotechnology on our diets. Whether it's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Pole: A Novel
by
J. M. Coetzee
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 09/19/2023
Exacting yet maddeningly unpredictable, J. M. Coetzee's
The Pole tells the story of Wittold Walccyzkiecz, a vigorous, "extravagantly white-haired" ...
more
The World Wasn't Ready for You: Stories
by
Justin C. Key
Harper, 09/19/2023
Justin C. Key has long been obsessed with monsters. Reading R. L. Stine's Goosebumps as a kid, he imagined himself battling monsters and mayhem to a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Wren, the Wren: A Novel
by
Anne Enright
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/19/2023
Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless and ...
more
Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family
by
Daniel Finkelstein
Doubleday, 09/19/2023
In
Two Roads Home beloved British journalist Daniel Finkelstein tells the extraordinary story of the years before his mother met his father—...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation (A Norton Short)
by
Tiya Miles
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/19/2023
Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15
by
Cameron McWhirter, Zusha Elinson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 09/26/2023
In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. High-minded and patriotic, Stoner ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
An Impossible Thing to Say
by
Arya Shahi
Other Press, 09/26/2023
Omid needs the right words to connect with his newly-met grandfather and distant Iranian heritage, words to tell a special girl what she means to him ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
And Then She Fell: A Novel
by
Alicia Elliott
Dutton, 09/26/2023
On the surface, Alice is exactly where she thinks she should be: She's just given birth to a beautiful baby girl, Dawn; her charming husband, Steve&#...
more
Blackward
by
Lawrence Lindell
Drawn & Quarterly, 09/26/2023
Tired of feeling like you don't belong? Join the club. It's called the Section. You'd think a spot to chill, chat, and find community would be much ...
more
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
by
Brian Merchant
Little Brown & Company, 09/26/2023
The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Devil Makes Three: A Novel
by
Ben Fountain
Flatiron Books, 09/26/2023
Haiti, 1991. When a violent coup d'état leads to the fall of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, American expat Matt Amaker is forced to abandon ...
more
Enough
by
Cassidy Hutchinson
Simon & Schuster, 09/26/2023
Ever since a childhood visit to Washington, DC, Cassidy Hutchinson aspired to serve her country in government. Raised in a working-class family with a...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance
by
Azam Ahmed
Random House, 09/26/2023
Fear Is Just a Word begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the United States, as fifty-six-year-old Miriam Rodríguez stalks one of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lies and Other Love Languages: A Novel
by
Sonali Dev
Lake Union Publishing, 09/26/2023
Bestselling advice columnist Vandy Guru built her career teaching others how to live honestly and courageously, but after the loss of her husband, ...
more
Our Philosopher
by
Gert Hofmann
New York Review Books, 09/26/2023
Our narrator is Hans, a clever and inquisitive boy. He relates a mix of things he witnesses himself and things he hears about from his father, the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Shadow Speaker: The Desert Magician's Duology: Book One
by
Nnedi Okorafor
DAW Books, 09/26/2023
Niger, West Africa, 2074
It is an era of tainted technology and mysterious mysticism. A great change has happened all over the planet, and the laws...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Armor of Light: A Novel (Kingsbridge)
by
Ken Follett
Viking, 09/26/2023
The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Fragile Threads of Power: Threads of Power #1
by
V. E. Schwab
Tor Books, 09/26/2023
Once, there were four worlds, nestled like pages in a book, each pulsing with fantastical power and connected by a single city: London. Until the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Hexologists: The Hexologists #1
by
Josiah Bancroft
Orbit, 09/26/2023
The Hexologists, Iz and Warren Wilby, are quite accustomed to helping desperate clients with the bugbears of city life. Aided by hexes and a bag of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival
by
Lisa M. Hamilton
Little Brown & Company, 09/26/2023
As combat rages across the highlands of Vietnam and Laos, a child is born. Ia Moua enters the world at the bottom of the social order, both because ...
more
The Iliad
by
Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/26/2023
When Emily Wilson's translation of
The Odyssey appeared in 2017―revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Most Secret Memory of Men: A Novel
by
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
Other Press, 09/26/2023
In 2018, Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer in Paris, discovers a legendary book from the 1930s,
The Labyrinth of Inhumanity. No one ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Museum of Failures
by
Thrity Umrigar
Algonquin Books, 09/26/2023
When Remy Wadia left India for the United States, he carried his resentment of his cold and inscrutable mother with him and has kept his distance from...
more
The Navigating Fox
by
Christopher Rowe
Tor.com, 09/26/2023
Quintus Shu'al, the world's only navigating fox, is in disgrace after guiding an expedition to its doom, leaving no survivors. One year later, Quintus...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism
by
Adam Nagourney
Crown, 09/26/2023
For over a century,
The New York Times has been an iconic institution in American journalism, one whose history is intertwined with the events that it...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Wake-Up Call
by
Beth O'Leary
Berkley Books, 09/26/2023
It's the busiest season of the year, and Forest Manor Hotel is quite literally falling apart. So when Izzy and Lucas are given the same shift on the ...
more
Romance
The War of Words: How America's GI Journalists Battled Censorship and Propaganda to Help Win World War II
by
Molly Guptill Manning
Blackstone Publishing, 09/26/2023
At a time when civilian periodicals faced strict censorship, US Army Chief of Staff George Marshall won the support of President Franklin Delano ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
This Is Salvaged: Stories
by
Vauhini Vara
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/26/2023
Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbor, or ...
more
Undiscovered: A Novel
by
Gabriela Wiener
HarperVia, 09/26/2023
Alone in a museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener confronts her complicated family heritage. She is visiting an exhibition of pre-Columbian artifacts, ...
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Literary Fiction
