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March

2023

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Tripas: Poems (Georgia Review Books Ser.)
by Brandon Som
Georgia Review Books, 03/01/2023
 
Enacting a cómo se dice poetics, a dialogic poem-making that inventively listens to heritage languages and transcribes family memory, Som ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Poetry & Novels in Verse
Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA
by Theresa Runstedtler
Bold Type Books, 03/07/2023
 
Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation's ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Confidence: A Novel
by Rafael Frumkin
Simon & Schuster, 03/07/2023
 
At seventeen, Ezra Green doesn't have a lot going for him: he's shorter than average, snaggle-toothed, internet-addicted, and halfway to being legally...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: a Memoir
by Michelle Dowd
Algonquin Books, 03/07/2023
 
My family prepared me for the end of the world, but I know how to survive on what the earth yields.

As a child, Michelle Dowd grew up on a ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
 Debut Author
From From: Poems
by Monica Youn
Graywolf Press, 03/07/2023
 
"Where are you from …? No—where are you from from?" It's a question every Asian American gets asked as part of an incessant chorus saying ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Poetry & Novels in Verse
In Limbo: A Graphic Memoir
by Deb JJ Lee
First Second, 03/07/2023
 
Ever since Deborah (Jung-Jin) Lee emigrated from South Kora to the United States, she's felt her otherness.

For a while, her English wasn't perfect...more
Critics' Consensus:

Graphic Novels
 Debut Author
Letters to a Writer of Color
by Deepa Anappara
Random House, 03/07/2023
 
Filled with empathy and wisdom, instruction and inspiration, this book encourages us to reevaluate the codes and conventions that have shaped our ...more
Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself
by Monica Edinger
Zest Books, 03/07/2023
 
Millions of Africans were enslaved during the transatlantic slave trade, but few recorded their personal experiences. Olaudah Equiano's The ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
 Debut Author
Sell Us the Rope
by Stephen May
Bloomsbury USA, 03/07/2023
 
Instead, Koba, as he is known, arrives in London for the 5th Congress of the Russian Communist Party where he - and many of his fellow Bolsheviks - ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
The Curator
by Owen King
Scribner, 03/07/2023
 
It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed "the Fairest", it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The God of Endings: A Novel
by Jacqueline Holland
Flatiron Books, 03/07/2023
 
Collette LeSange has been hiding a dark truth: She is immortal. In 1834, Colette's grandfather granted her the gift of eternal life and since then, ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
The Lost English Girl
by Julia Kelly
Gallery Books, 03/07/2023
 
Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what's expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
The Mimicking of Known Successes
by Malka Older
Tor.com, 03/07/2023
 
On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom
by Larry Loftis
William Morrow, 03/07/2023
 
The Watchmaker's Daughter is one of the greatest stories of World War II that readers haven't heard: the remarkable and inspiring life story of Corrie...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
Tina, Mafia Soldier
by Maria Rosa Cutrufelli
Soho Crime, 03/07/2023
 
Sicily, 1980s: When she was just eight years old, Tina watched as her father, a member of Cosa Nostra, was murdered in cold blood. Now a teenager, she...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
 Debut Author
Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector
by Amit Katwala
Crooked Lane Books, 03/07/2023
 
Late one evening in the summer of 1922, Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife's blood. But was he a grieving...more
Critics' Consensus:

True Crime
Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began
by Leah Hazard
Ecco, 03/07/2023
 
The size of a clenched fist and the shape of a light bulb—with no less power and potential. Every person on Earth began inside a uterus, but how...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War
by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
Knopf, 03/14/2023
 
The history of reportage has often depended on outsiders—Ryszard Kapuściński witnessing the fall of the shah in Iran, Frances ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bitter Medicine
by Mia Tsai
Tachyon Publications, 03/14/2023
 
As a descendant of the Chinese god of medicine, ignored middle child Elle was destined to be a doctor. Instead, she is underemployed as a mediocre ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Romance
 Debut Author
Dear Medusa: (A Novel in Verse)
by Olivia A. Cole
Labyrinth Road, 03/14/2023
 
Sixteen-year-old Alicia Rivers has a reputation that precedes her. But there's more to her story than the whispers that follow her throughout the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Poetry & Novels in Verse
Different for Boys
by Patrick Ness
Walker & Company, 03/14/2023
 
Anthony "Ant" Stevenson isn't sure when he stopped being a virgin. Or even if he has. The rules aren't always very clear when it comes to boys who ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Graphic Novels
Dust Child
by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
Algonquin Books, 03/14/2023
 
In 1969, sisters Trang and Quỳnh, desperate to help their parents pay off debts, leave their rural village and become "bar girls" in Sài G&...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Feed Them Silence
by Lee Mandelo
Tor.com, 03/14/2023
 
What does it mean to "be-in-kind" with a nonhuman animal? Or in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon's case, to be in-kind with one of the last remaining wild wolves?...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Flowerheart
by Catherine Bakewell
HarperTeen, 03/14/2023
 
Clara's magic has always been wild. But it's never been dangerous. Then a simple touch causes poisonous flowers to bloom in her father's chest.

The...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Kunstlers in Paradise
by Cathleen Schine
Henry Holt and Company, 03/14/2023
 
For years Mamie Künstler, ninety-three-years-old, as clever and glamorous as ever, has lived happily in her bungalow in Venice, California with ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
by Oliver Darkshire
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/14/2023
 
Welcome to Sotheran's, one of the oldest bookshops in the world, with its weird and wonderful clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabeled keys, ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
Our Best Intentions: A Novel
by Vibhuti Jain
William Morrow, 03/14/2023
 
Babur "Bobby" Singh, single parent and owner of fledging Uber business "Move with Bobby," remains ever hopeful about ascending the ladder of American ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence
by Paco Calvo with Natalie Lawrence
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/14/2023
 
Decades of research document plants' impressive abilities: they communicate with one another, manipulate other species, and move in sophisticated ways...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
 Debut Author
Stateless
by Elizabeth Wein
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/14/2023
 
When Stella North is chosen to represent Britain in Europe's first air race for young people, she knows all too well how high the stakes are. As the ...more
Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
by Alexa Hagerty
Crown, 03/14/2023
 
"Exhumation can divide brothers and restore fathers, open old wounds and open the possibility of regeneration—of building something new with the...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
 Debut Author
The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring
by Patti McCracken
William Morrow, 03/14/2023
 
The horror occurred in a rustic farming enclave in modern-day Hungary. To look at the unlikely lineup of murderesses—village wives, mothers, and...more
Critics' Consensus:

True Crime
 Debut Author
The Dog of the North: A Novel
by Elizabeth McKenzie
Penguin Press, 03/14/2023
 
Penny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over; she's quit her job. Her mother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five years ago; ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
The Flames: A Novel
by Sophie Haydock
The Overlook Press, 03/14/2023
 
Amid an opulent society living under the shadow of war are four muses, women whose bodies were shown in intimate detail, depicted by the charming yet ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
 Debut Author
The Last Russian Doll
by Kristen Loesch
Berkley Books, 03/14/2023
 
In a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land...

...a young girl lived happily in Moscow with her family: a sister, a father, and an eccentric mother ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
 Debut Author
The Memory Eater
by Rebecca Mahoney
Razorbill, 03/14/2023
 
For generations, a monster called the Memory Eater has lived in the caves of Whistler Beach, Maine, surviving off the unhappy memories of those who ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Next New Syrian Girl
by Ream Shukairy
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/14/2023
 
Khadija Shami is a Syrian American high school senior raised on boxing and football. Saddled with a monstrous ego and a fierce mother to test it, she ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
by M.D. Ricardo Nuila
Scribner, 03/14/2023
 
First, we meet Stephen, the restaurant franchise manager who signed up for his company's lowest priced plan, only to find himself facing ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
 Debut Author
The Strangers' House: Writing Northern Ireland
by Alexander Poots
Twelve Books, 03/14/2023
 
Northern Ireland is one hundred years old. Northern Ireland does not exist. Both of these statements are true. It just depends on who you ask. How do ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
 Debut Author
The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
by Alexandra Robbins
Dutton, 03/14/2023
 
Alexandra Robbins goes behind the scenes to tell the true, sometimes shocking, always inspirational stories of three teachers as they navigate a year ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Walking Practice: A Novel
by Dolki Min
HarperVia, 03/14/2023
 
After crashing their spacecraft in the middle of nowhere, a shapeshifting alien finds themself stranded on an unfamiliar planet and disabled by Earth'...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
by Roxanna Asgarian
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/14/2023
 
On March 26, 2018, rescue workers discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and several children at the bottom of a cliff beside the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
 Debut Author
Wolf Trap: A Thriller
by Connor Sullivan
Atria Books, 03/14/2023
 
Set a trap... See who comes.

Under the direction of the Special Activities Center in the Operations Directorate of the CIA, over three hundred ...more
Thrillers
Brighter Than the Sun
by Daniel Aleman
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/21/2023
 
Every morning, sixteen-year-old Sol wakes up at the break of dawn in her hometown of Tijuana, Mexico and makes the trip across the border to go to ...more
Literary Fiction
Commitment: A Novel
by Mona Simpson
Knopf, 03/21/2023
 
When Diane Aziz drives her oldest son, Walter, from Los Angeles to college at UC Berkeley, it will be her last parental act before falling into a deep...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal
by Nathan Masters
Hachette Books, 03/21/2023
 
Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era's greatest political fiasco—one that resulted in a nationwide ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
 Debut Author
Flux
by Jinwoo Chong
Melville House, 03/21/2023
 
Four days before Christmas, 8-year-old Bo loses his mother in a tragic accident, 28-year-old Brandon loses his job after a hostile takeover of his big...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
 Debut Author
Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice
by Christine Kenneally
Public Affairs, 03/21/2023
 
For much of the twentieth century, a series of terrible events—abuse, both physical and psychological, and even deaths—took places inside ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
How I'll Kill You
by Ren DeStefano
Berkley Books, 03/21/2023
 
Make him want you.
Make him love you.
Make him dead.


Sissy has an...interesting family. Always the careful one, always the cautious one, she has ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
 Debut Author
Old God's Time: A Novel
by Sebastian Barry
Viking, 03/21/2023
 
Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. ...more
Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace
by James T. Costa
Princeton University Press, 03/21/2023
 
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the Victorian age. His expeditions to remote Amazonia and southeast ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
The Lies of the Ajungo: The Forever Desert #1
by Moses Ose Utomi
Tor.com, 03/21/2023
 
They say there is no water in the City of Lies. They say there are no heroes in the City of Lies. They say there are no friends beyond the City of ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
 Debut Author
The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
by Bill Hammack
Sourcebooks, 03/21/2023
 
Bill Hammack, a Carl Sagan award-winning professor of engineering and viral "The Engineer Guy" on YouTube, has a lifelong passion for the things we ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
Y/N: A Novel
by Esther Yi
Astra House, 03/21/2023
 
It's as if her life only began once Moon appeared in it. The desultory copywriting work, the boyfriend, and the want of anything not-Moon quickly fall...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
A Brief History of Living Forever: A Novel
by Jaroslav Kalfar
Little Brown & Company, 03/28/2023
 
When Adéla discovers she has a terminal illness, she leaves behind her native Czech village for a chance at reuniting in America with Tereza, the...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Death in Denmark: The First Gabriel Præst Novel
by Amulya Malladi
William Morrow Paperbacks, 03/28/2023
 
Everyone in Denmark knew that Yousef Ahmed, a refugee from Iraq, brutally murdered the right-wing politician Sanne Melgaard. So, when part-time blues ...more
Mysteries
A Door in the Dark
by Scott Reintgen
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 03/28/2023
 
Ren Monroe has spent four years proving she's one of the best wizards in her generation. But top marks at Balmerick University will mean nothing if ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Birdgirl: Looking to the Skies in Search of a Better Future
by Mya-Rose Craig
Celadon, 03/28/2023
 
Meet Mya-Rose – otherwise known as "Birdgirl." In her words: "Birdwatching has never felt like a hobby, or a pastime I can pick up and put down,...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
Girl Forgotten
by April Henry
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/28/2023
 
Seventeen years ago, Layla Trello was murdered and her killer was never found. Enter true-crime fan Piper Gray who is determined to reopen Layla's ...more
Mysteries
Hang the Moon: A Novel
by Jeannette Walls
Scribner, 03/28/2023
 
Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who'd amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans.

Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
Her Deadly Game
by Robert Dugoni
Thomas & Mercer, 03/28/2023
 
Keera Duggan was building a solid reputation as a Seattle prosecutor, until her romantic relationship with a senior colleague ended badly. For the ...more
How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
by Clancy Martin
Pantheon Books, 03/28/2023
 
"If you're going to write a book about suicide, you have to be willing to say the true things, the scary things, the humiliating things. Because ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
by Sarah Bakewell
Penguin Press, 03/28/2023
 
Humanism is an expansive tradition of thought that places shared humanity, cultural vibrancy, and moral responsibility at the center of our lives. The...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Infinity Gate (The Pandominion, 1)
by M. R. Carey
Orbit, 03/28/2023
 
INFINITY IS ONLY THE BEGINNING.

The Pandominion: a political and trading alliance of a million worlds – except that they're really just the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Lone Women: A Novel
by Victor LaValle
One World, 03/28/2023
 
Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It's locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America
by Abraham Riesman
Atria Books, 03/28/2023
 
Even if you've never watched a minute of professional wrestling, you are living in Vince McMahon's world.

In his four decades as the defining ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy
by Alex Mar
Penguin Press, 03/28/2023
 
On a spring afternoon in 1985 in Gary, Indiana, a fifteen-year-old girl kills an elderly woman in a violent home invasion. In a city with a history of...more
Critics' Consensus:

True Crime
Spin
by Rebecca Caprara
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 03/28/2023
 
Sixteen-year-old Arachne is ostracized by all but her family and closest friend, Celandine. Turning to her loom for solace, Arachne learns to weave, ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Strictly No Heroics
by B. L. Radley
Feiwel & Friends, 03/28/2023
 
A Normie's guide to staying alive in Sunnylake City:

  1. Keep your head down.
  2. Don't make enemies.
  3. Strictly no heroics.

The world is run by those ...

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Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
 Debut Author
The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts: A Novel
by Soraya Palmer
Catapult, 03/28/2023
 
Sisters Zora and Sasha Porter are drifting apart. Bearing witness to their father's violence and their mother's worsening illness, an unsettled Zora ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise
by Colleen Oakley
Berkley Books, 03/28/2023
 
Twenty-one-year-old Tanner Quimby needs a place to live. Preferably one where she can continue sitting around in sweatpants and playing video games ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society
by Dr. Arline T Geronimus
Little Brown & Company, 03/28/2023
 
America has woken up to what many of its citizens have known for centuries and to what public health statistics have evidenced for decades: systemic ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Where We Meet the World: The Story of the Senses
by Ashley Ward
Basic Books, 03/28/2023
 
Our senses are what make life worth living. They allow us to appreciate a sip of an ice-cold drink, the sound of laughter, the touch of a lover. But ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
by Kelly Link
Random House, 03/28/2023
 
Finding seeds of inspiration in the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly Link spins classic fairy tales into ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Short Stories
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
by Jesse Q. Sutanto
HQ Digital, 03/30/2023
 
Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy 'detective' work on ...more
Mysteries
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