Gays on Broadway
by
Ethan Mordden
Oxford University Press, 06/01/2023
From the genteel female impersonators of the 1910s to the raucous drag queens of
La Cage Aux Folles, from the men of
The Normal Heart to the women of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
August Blue: A Novel
by
Deborah Levy
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/06/2023
At the height of her career, the piano virtuoso Elsa M. Anderson—former child prodigy, now in her thirties—walks off the stage in Vienna, ...
more
Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media
by
Darrell Hartman
Viking, 06/06/2023
In the fall of 1909, a pair of bitter contests captured the world's attention. The American explorers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook both claimed to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Cells: Memories for My Mother
by
Gavin McCrea
Scribe Publications Pty Ltd, 06/06/2023
'Are you going into town today?' she says, which annoys me because it's something she says all the time, having forgotten she said it before, and I ...more
Charm City Rocks: A Love Story
by
Matthew Norman
Dell, 06/06/2023
Billy Perkins is happy. And why wouldn't he be? He loves his job as an independent music teacher and his apartment in Baltimore above a record shop ...
more
Thrillers
Empire: A Novel of the Golden Age
by
Conn Iggulden
Pegasus Books, 06/06/2023
Pericles returns home more than a hero: he's the leader of Athens, the empire's beacon of light.
But even during times of peace, the threat of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style: A Novel
by
Paul Rudnick
Atria Books, 06/06/2023
Devastatingly handsome and insanely rich, Farrell Covington is capable of anything and impossible to resist. He's a clear-eyed romantic, an aesthete ...
more
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
by
John Vaillant
Knopf, 06/06/2023
In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada's oil industry and America's biggest foreign supplier, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Gay Club!
by
Simon James Green
Scholastic, 06/06/2023
Barney's a shoo-in for his school's LGBTQ+ Society President at the club's next election. But when the vote is opened up to the entire student body, ...
more
George: A Magpie Memoir
by
Frieda Hughes
Avid Reader Press, 06/06/2023
When Frieda Hughes moved to the depths of the Welsh countryside, she was expecting to take on a few projects: planting a garden, painting, writing her...
more
Girls and Their Horses
by
Eliza Jane Brazier
Berkley Books, 06/06/2023
When the nouveau riche Parker family moves to an exclusive community in the heart of Southern California, they believe it's their chance at a fresh ...
more
Happy Stories, Mostly
by
Norman Erikson Pasaribu
Feminist Press, 06/06/2023
Longlisted for the International Booker Prize,
Happy Stories, Mostly introduces "one of the most important Indonesian writers today" (
Litro Magazine)....
more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
How to Write About Africa: Collected Works
by
Binyavanga Wainaina
One World, 06/06/2023
"Africa is the only continent you can love—take advantage of this... . Africa is to be pitied, worshipped, or dominated. Whichever angle you ...more
I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World
by
Rachel Nuwer
Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/06/2023
Few drugs in history have generated as much controversy as MDMA—or held as much promise. Once vilified as a Schedule I substance that would ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Innards: Stories
by
Magogodi oaMphela Makhene
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/06/2023
Set in Soweto, the urban heartbeat of South Africa, Innards tells the intimate stories of everyday black folks processing the savagery of apartheid ...
more
Short Stories
Debut Author
Kairos
by
Jenny Erpenbeck
New Directions Publishing, 06/06/2023
Jenny Erpenbeck (the author of
Go, Went, Gone and
Visitation) is an epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German ...
more
Lucky Dogs: A Novel
by
Helen Schulman
Knopf, 06/06/2023
On a sultry summer night in Paris, two women meet in line at an ice cream kiosk on the Ile de la Cité. One is tall, fair, striking, with an ...
more
Open Throat: A Novel
by
Henry Hoke
MCD, 06/06/2023
A queer and dangerously hungry mountain lion lives in the drought-devastated land under the Hollywood sign. Lonely and fascinated by humanity's ...
more
Pedro & Daniel
by
Federico Erebia
Levine Querido, 06/06/2023
Pedro and Daniel are Mexican American brothers growing up in 1970s Ohio. Their mother resents that Pedro is a spitting image of their darker-skinned ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health
by
J. C. Hallman
Henry Holt and Company, 06/06/2023
For more than a century, Dr. J. Marion Sims was hailed as the "father of modern gynecology." He founded a hospital in New York City and had a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Soldiers Don't Go Mad: A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War
by
Charles Glass
Penguin Press, 06/06/2023
From the moment war broke out across Europe in 1914, the world entered a new, unparalleled era of modern warfare. Soldiers faced relentless machine ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Strong Female Character
by
Fern Brady
Harmony Books, 06/06/2023
After reading about autism in her teens, Fern Brady knew instinctively that she had it—autism explained her sensory issues, her meltdowns, her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Such Kindness: A Novel
by
Andre Dubus III
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/06/2023
A working-class white man takes a terrible fall.
Tom Lowe's identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He...
more
Literary Fiction
The Dissident: A Novel
by
Paul Goldberg
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/06/2023
On his wedding day in 1976, Viktor Moroz stumbles upon a murder scene: two gay men, one of them a US official, are axed to death in Moscow. Viktor, a ...
more
The Endless Vessel: A Novel
by
Charles Soule
Harper Perennial, 06/06/2023
A few years from now, in a world similar to ours, there exists a sort of "depression plague" that people refer to simply as "The Grey." No one can ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Get: A Crime Novel
by
Dietrich Kalteis
ECW Press, 06/06/2023
Lenny Ovitz has plenty of secrets, and his wife, Paulina, has become a liability. His life would be so much better without her in it.
It's the mid-...
more
Thrillers
The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods
by
Greg King
Public Affairs, 06/06/2023
Every year millions of tourists from around the world visit California's famous redwoods. Yet few who strain their necks to glimpse the tops of the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Grimoire of Grave Fates
by
Edited by Hanna Alkaf and Margaret Owen
Delacorte Press, 06/06/2023
Professor of Magical History Septimius Dropwort has just been murdered, and now everyone at the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary is a suspect.
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The House of Lincoln: A Novel
by
Nancy Horan
Sourcebooks, 06/06/2023
Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy
New York Times bestseller
Loving Frank, returns with a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Little Italian Hotel: A Novel
by
Phaedra Patrick
Park Row Books, 06/06/2023
Ginny Splinter, acclaimed radio host and advice expert, prides herself on knowing what's best for others. So she's sure her husband, Adrian, will love...
more
Literary Fiction
The Overlooked Americans: The Resilience of Our Rural Towns and What It Means for Our Country
by
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
Basic Books, 06/06/2023
The United States today appears to be deeply divided. Journalists have painted a portrait of an enraged America, where poor, conservative small towns ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Paris Daughter
by
Kristin Harmel
Gallery Books, 06/06/2023
Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war...
more
Historical Fiction
The Road to Dalton
by
Shannon Bowring
Europa Editions, 06/06/2023
In most small towns, the private is also public. In the town of Dalton, one local makes an unthinkable decision that leaves the community reeling. In ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America
by
Michael Waldman
Simon & Schuster, 06/06/2023
In
The Supermajority, Michael Waldman explores the tumultuous 2021–2022 Supreme Court term. He draws deeply on history to examine other ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Talk
by
Darrin Bell
Henry Holt and Company, 06/06/2023
Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn't have a realistic water gun. She said she feared for his safety, that police tend to...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Wind Knows My Name: A Novel
by
Isabel Allende
Ballantine Books, 06/06/2023
Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht—the night his family loses everything. As her child...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Translation State
by
Ann Leckie
Orbit, 06/06/2023
Qven was created to be a Presger translator. The pride of their Clade, they always had a clear path before them: learn human ways, and eventually, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
When It All Syncs Up
by
Maya Ameyaw
Annick Press, 06/06/2023
Ballet is Aisha's life. So when she's denied yet another lead at her elite academy because she doesn't "look" the part, she knows something has to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife
by
Ken Jennings
Scribner, 06/13/2023
Ever wonder which circles of Dante's
Inferno have the nicest accommodations? Where's the best place to grab a bite to eat in the ancient Egyptian ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
A Right Worthy Woman: A Novel
by
Ruth P. Watson
Atria Books, 06/13/2023
Maggie Lena Walker was ambitious and unafraid. Her childhood in 19th-century Virginia helping her mother with her laundry service opened her eyes to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Be Mine: A Frank Bascombe Novel
by
Richard Ford
Ecco, 06/13/2023
Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view of ...
more
Code of the Hills: The Mick Hardin Novels #3
by
Chris Offutt
Grove Press, 06/13/2023
Master storyteller and award-winning author Chris Offutt's latest book,
Code of the Hills, is a dark, witty, and propulsive thriller of murder and ...
more
Everyone Wants to Know
by
Kelly Loy Gilbert
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 06/13/2023
The Lo family sticks together. That's what Honor has been told her whole life while growing up in the glare of the public eye on
Lo and Behold, the ...
more
Girlfriend on Mars: A Novel
by
Deborah Willis
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/13/2023
Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She and twenty-three reality TV contestants from ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America
by
Audrey Clare Farley
Grand Central Publishing, 06/13/2023
In 1954, researchers at the newly formed National Institute of Mental Health set out to study the genetics of schizophrenia. When they got word that ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History
by
Rebecca Struthers
Harper, 06/13/2023
Timepieces have long accompanied us on our travels, from the depths of the oceans to the summit of Everest, the ice of the arctic to the sands of the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Maddalena and the Dark: A Novel
by
Julia Fine
Flatiron Books, 06/13/2023
Venice, 1717. Fifteen-year-old Luisa has only wanted one thing: to be the best at violin. As a student at the Ospedale della Pietà, she hopes to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses
by
David Scheel
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/13/2023
Of all the creatures of the deep blue, none is as captivating as the octopus. In
Many Things Under a Rock, marine biologist David Scheel investigates ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
My Stupid Intentions
by
Bernardo Zannoni
New York Review Books, 06/13/2023
My Stupid Intentions is the autobiography of a beech marten named Archy. Born into poverty, maimed by an accident, he is sold into servitude by his ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Never Give Up: A Prairie Family's Story
by
Tom Brokaw
Random House, 06/13/2023
"In these chaotic times, what can we learn from history? As a citizen, husband, father, and grandfather, I have drawn on the lessons I absorbed ... ...more
Ponyboy: A Novel
by
Eliot Duncan
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/13/2023
Ponyboy unravels in his Paris apartment. Cut to the bar. Cut to the back room. Ponyboy is strung out and struggling. He is falling into the widening ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
by
Jennifer Pahlka
Metropolitan Books, 06/13/2023
Just when we most need our government to work―to decarbonize our infrastructure and economy, to help the vulnerable through a pandemic, to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Reproduction: A Novel
by
Louisa Hall
Ecco, 06/13/2023
A novelist attempts to write a book about Mary Shelley, author of
Frankenstein, a mother and artist whose harrowing pregnancies reveal the cost of ...
more
Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
by
Christopher Clark
Crown, 06/13/2023
As history, the uprisings of 1848 have long been overshadowed by the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian revolutions of the early twentieth ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
by
Rachel L. Swarns
Random House, 06/13/2023
In 1838, a group of America's most prominent Catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their largest mission project, what is now Georgetown ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Favor: A Novel
by
Adele Griffin
Sourcebooks Landmark, 06/13/2023
At I'll Have Seconds, a high-end fairytale vintage dress shop in Manhattan, Nora Hammond loves nothing better than pairing a rare find with the ...
more
The Five-Star Weekend
by
Elin Hilderbrand
Little Brown & Company, 06/13/2023
Hollis Shaw's life seems picture-perfect. She's the creator of the popular food blog Hungry with Hollis and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Mythmakers
by
Keziah Weir
Marysue Rucci Books, 06/13/2023
Sal Cannon's life is in shambles. Her relationship is crumbling, and her career in journalism hits a low point after it's revealed that her profile of...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Spectacular: A Novel
by
Fiona Davis
Dutton, 06/13/2023
New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her high school sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to ...
more
The Surviving Sky (Rages Trilogy, 1)
by
Kritika H. Rao
Titan Books, 06/13/2023
High above a jungle-planet float the last refuges of humanity—plant-made civilizations held together by tradition, technology, and arcane ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories
by
Sarah Viren
Scribner, 06/13/2023
Sarah's story begins as she's researching what she believes will be a book about her high school philosophy teacher, a charismatic instructor who ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine
by
Norman Solomon
The New Press, 06/13/2023
More than twenty years ago, 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan set into motion a hugely consequential shift in America's foreign policy: a perpetual ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
by
Jennifer Ackerman
Penguin Press, 06/13/2023
For millennia, owls have captivated and intrigued us. Our fascination with these mysterious birds was first documented more than thirty thousand years...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
When the Hibiscus Falls
by
M. Evelina Galang
Coffee House Press, 06/13/2023
Moving from small Philippine villages of the past to the hurricane-beaten coast of near-future Florida,
When the Hibiscus Falls examines the triumphs ...
more
You Were Always Mine: A Novel
by
Christine Pride, Jo Piazza
Atria Books, 06/13/2023
Cinnamon Haynes has fought hard for a life she never thought was possible—a good man by her side, a steady job as a career counselor at a local ...
more
A Crooked Mark
by
Linda Kao
Razorbill, 06/20/2023
Rae Winter should be dead.
Some say that walking away from the car crash that killed her dad is a miracle, but seventeen-year-old Matthew Watts ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
An Echo in the City
by
K. X. Song
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 06/20/2023
Sixteen-year-old Phoenix knows her parents have invested thousands of dollars to help her leave Hong Kong and get an elite Ivy League education. They ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Forever Changed British History
by
Tracy Borman
Atlantic Monthly Press, 06/20/2023
Much of the fascination with Britain's legendary Tudors centers around the dramas surrounding Henry VIII and his six wives and Elizabeth I's rumored ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam
by
Thien Pham
First Second, 06/20/2023
Thien's first memory isn't a sight or a sound. It's the sweetness of watermelon and the saltiness of fish. It's the taste of the foods he ate while ...
more
Fat Time and Other Stories
by
Jeffery Renard Allen
Graywolf Press, 06/20/2023
In
Fat Time and Other Stories, Jimi Hendrix, Francis Bacon, the boxer Jack Johnson, Miles Davis, and a space-age Muhammad Ali find themselves in the ...
more
Lucky Red: A Novel
by
Claudia Cravens
The Dial Press, 06/20/2023
The heart wants what it wants. Saddle up, ride out, and claim it.
It's the spring of 1877 and sixteen-year-old Bridget is already disillusioned ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Mr Kato Plays Family: A Novel
by
Milena Michiko Flasar
Forge Books, 06/20/2023
Mr Katō―a curmudgeon and recent retiree―finds his only solace during his daily walks, where he wonders how his life went wrong and ...
more
Literary Fiction
Poland, a Green Land: A Novel
by
Aharon Appelfeld
Schocken Books, 06/20/2023
Yaakov Fine's practical wife and daughters are baffled by his decision to leave his flourishing dress shop for a ten-day trip to his family's ...
more
Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration
by
Alejandra Oliva
Astra House, 06/20/2023
In this powerful and deeply felt polemic memoir, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a chronological...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Brightest Star: A Historical Novel Based on the True Story of Anna May Wong
by
Gail Tsukiyama
HarperVia, 06/20/2023
At the dawn of a new century, America is falling in love with silent movies, including young Wong Liu Tsong. The daughter of Chinese immigrants who ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Quiet Tenant: A Novel
by
Clémence Michallon
Knopf, 06/20/2023
Aidan Thomas is a hard-working family man and a somewhat beloved figure in the small upstate town where he lives. He's the kind of man who always ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Shadow Cabinet: The HMRC Trilogy #2
by
Juno Dawson
Penguin Books, 06/20/2023
Niamh Kelly is dead. Her troubled twin, Ciara, now masquerades as the benevolent witch as Her Majesty's Royal Coven prepares to crown her High ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
by
Alexander Stille
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/20/2023
In the middle of the
Ozzie and Harriet 1950s, the birth control pill became available and a maverick psychoanalytic institute, the Sullivan Institute ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Through the Groves: A Memoir
by
Anne Hull
Henry Holt and Company, 06/20/2023
Anne Hull grew up in rural Central Florida, barefoot half the time and running through the orange groves her father's family had worked for ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Where Echoes Die: A Novel
by
Courtney Gould
Wednesday Books, 06/20/2023
Beck Birsching has been adrift since the death of her mother, a brilliant but troubled investigative reporter. She can't stop herself from slipping ...
more
A Most Agreeable Murder: A Novel
by
Julia Seales
Random House, 06/27/2023
Feisty, passionate Beatrice Steele has never fit the definition of a true lady, according to the strict code of conduct that reigns in Swampshire, her...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
by
Mark O'Connell
Doubleday, 06/27/2023
Malcolm Macarthur was a well-known Dublin socialite and heir. Suave and urbane, he passed his days mingling with artists and aristocrats, reading ...
more
American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress
by
Wesley Lowery
Mariner Books, 06/27/2023
In 2008, Barack Obama's historic victory was heralded as a turning point for the country. And so it would be—just not in the way that most ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How to Be Remembered: A Novel
by
Michael Thompson
Sourcebooks, 06/27/2023
On an ordinary night in an ordinary year, Tommy Llewellyn's doting parents wake in a home without toys and diapers, without photos of their baby ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Invisible Son
by
Kim Johnson
Random House Books for Younger Readers, 06/27/2023
Life can change in an instant.
When you're wrongfully accused of a crime.
When a virus shuts everything down.
When the girl you love moves on.
...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Little Monsters
by
Adrienne Brodeur
Avid Reader Press, 06/27/2023
Ken and Abby Gardner lost their mother when they were small and they have been haunted by her absence ever since. Their father, Adam, a brilliant ...
more
Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story
by
Sarah Myer
First Second, 06/27/2023
Sarah has always struggled to fit in. Born in South Korea and adopted at birth by a white couple, she grows up in a rural community with few Asian ...
more
Save What's Left: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Castellano
Anchor Books, 06/27/2023
When Kathleen Deane's husband, Tom, tells her he's no longer happy with his life and their marriage, Kathleen is confused. They live in Kansas. They'...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sing Me to Sleep
by
Gabi Burton
Bloomsbury USA, 06/27/2023
Saoirse Sorkova survives on lies. As a soldier-in-training at the most prestigious barracks in the kingdom, she lies about being a siren to avoid ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
That Reminds Me
by
Derek Owusu
And Other Stories, 06/27/2023
Attachments are broken at birth. Shards slide apart. K: a child put into foster care, a boy brought back to the city, a man who must fight to make ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
by
Michael Finkel
Knopf, 06/27/2023
For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Rachel Incident: A Novel
by
Caroline O'Donoghue
Knopf, 06/27/2023
Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it's love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Too Late: Definitive Edition
by
Colleen Hoover
Grand Central Publishing, 06/27/2023
Sloan will go through hell and back for those she loves. And she does so, every single day. Caught up with the alluring Asa Jackson, a notorious drug ...
more
Romance
We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus
by
Sean A Mirski
Public Affairs, 06/27/2023
The cutthroat world of international politics has always been dominated by great powers. Yet no great power in the modern era has ever managed to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
by
Jennifer Vanderbes
Random House, 06/27/2023
In 1959, a Cincinnati pharmaceutical firm, the William S. Merrell Company, quietly began distributing samples of an exciting new wonder drug already ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
