The Spy Coast: A Martini Club Thriller
by
Tess Gerritsen
Thomas & Mercer, 11/01/2023
Former spy Maggie Bird came to the seaside village of Purity, Maine, eager to put the past behind her after a mission went tragically wrong. These ...
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A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous
by
Caspar Henderson
University Of Chicago Press, 11/03/2023
The crackling of a campfire. The scratch, hiss, and pop of a vinyl record. The first glug of wine as it is poured from a bottle. These are just a few ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Science, Health and the Environment
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
by
Kelly Weinersmith
Penguin Press, 11/07/2023
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, and settling ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice
by
Paul Caruana Galizia
Riverhead Books, 11/07/2023
An archipelago off the southern coast of Italy, Malta is a picturesque gem eroded by a climate of corruption, polarization, inequality, and a virtual ...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
A Grandmother Begins the Story
by
Michelle Porter
Algonquin Books, 11/07/2023
Written like a crooked Métis jig,
A Grandmother Begins the Story follows five generations of women and bison as they reach for the stories that ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Nearby Country Called Love: A Novel
by
Salar Abdoh
Viking, 11/07/2023
Amid the alleyways of the Zamzam neighborhood of Tehran, a woman lights herself on fire in a desperate act of defiance, setting off a chain reaction ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
A Power Unbound: The Last Binding # 3
by
Freya Marske
Tor.com, 11/07/2023
Secrets! Magic! Enemies to...something more?
Jack Alston, Lord Hawthorn, would love a nice, safe, comfortable life. After the death of his twin ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
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Emma Southon
Abrams Press, 11/07/2023
The history of Rome has long been narrow and one-sided, essentially a history of "The Doing of Important Things," and as far as Roman historians have ...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Above the Salt: A Novel
by
Katherine Vaz
Flatiron Books, 11/07/2023
John Alves, son of a famous Presbyterian martyr on the Portuguese island of Madeira, spends his childhood in jail and in poverty. When he meets Mary ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Historical Fiction
Again and Again: A Novel
by
Jonathan Evison
Dutton, 11/07/2023
Eugene "Geno" Miles is living out his final days in a nursing home, bored, curmudgeonly, and struggling to connect with his new nursing assistant, ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy
by
Shibani Mahtani
Hachette Books, 11/07/2023
Hong Kong was an experiment in governance. Handed back to China in 1997 after 156 years of British rule, it was meant to be a carve-out between ...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Check & Mate
by
Ali Hazelwood
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 11/07/2023
Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays; after the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory's ...
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Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
by
Stephanie Land
Atria Books, 11/07/2023
When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir
Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Biography/Memoir
Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture–and the Magic That Makes It Work
by
Jesse David Fox
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/07/2023
Comedy is king. From multimillion-dollar TV specials to sold-out stand-up shows and TikTok stardom, comedy has never been more popular, democratized, ...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Emmett
by
L. C. Rosen
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 11/07/2023
Emmett Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence and...
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Finding My Elf
by
David Valdes
HarperTeen, 11/07/2023
Escaping to NYU for college didn't turn out the way Cameron planned—he's flunking his theater classes, about to lose his scholarship, and he ...
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Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
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H. W. Brands
Doubleday, 11/07/2023
To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the consequences of partisan ...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Gorgeous Gruesome Faces
by
Linda Cheng
Roaring Brook Press, 11/07/2023
You'll love them to death...
THEN:
Sunny Lee is on the top of the world. She's one third of Sweet Cadence, the hottest up-and-coming teen pop ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Thrillers
Debut Author
How Life Works: A User's Guide to the New Biology
by
Philip Ball
University Of Chicago Press, 11/07/2023
Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works—the idea of the genome as a...
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Critics' Opinion:
Science, Health and the Environment
How to Be Multiple: The Philosophy of Twins
by
Helena de Bres
Bloomsbury Publishing, 11/07/2023
Wait, are you you or the other one? Which is the evil twin? Have you ever switched partners? Can you read each other's mind? Twins get asked the ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Science, Health and the Environment
Late Romance: Anthony Hecht—A Poet's Life
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David Yezzi
St. Martin's Press, 11/07/2023
Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) was one of America's greatest poets, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and widely recognized as a master of formal verse that ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Biography/Memoir
Murtagh: The World of Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle)
by
Christopher Paolini
Knopf, 11/07/2023
The world is no longer safe for the Dragon Rider Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn. An evil king has been toppled, and they are left to face the ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
My Name Is Barbra
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Barbra Streisand
Viking, 11/07/2023
Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Pedro and Marques Take Stock: A Picaresque Novel
by
José Falero
Astra House, 11/07/2023
In the favelas of Porto Alegre, Brazil, marijuana is hard to come by. Supermarket stock clerks Pedro and Marques spend their days unloading trucks, ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation: Why Physicists Are Studying Human Consciousness and AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe
by
George Musser
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/07/2023
The whole goal of physics is to explain what we observe. For centuries, physicists believed that observations yielded faithful representations of what...
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Critics' Opinion:
Science, Health and the Environment
Same Bed Different Dreams: A Novel
by
Ed Park
Random House, 11/07/2023
In 1919, far-flung patriots establish the Korean Provisional Government to protest the Japanese occupation of their country. This government-in-exile ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Shot With Crimson: A Josephine Tey Mystery
by
Nicola Upson
Crooked Lane Books, 11/07/2023
September 1939, and the worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on the set of Hitchcock's
Rebecca...more
Sweet Thing: A Novel
by
David Swinson
Mulholland, 11/07/2023
In a red brick house on a tree-lined street, DC homicide detective Alex Blum stares at the bullet-pocked body of Chris Doyle. As he roots around for ...
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The Corset & The Jellyfish: A Conundrum of Drabbles
by
Nick Bantock
Tachyon Publications, 11/07/2023
Little is known of the fascinating manuscript that Nick Bantock has come to possess. It was discovered in an attic in North London, stuffed into a ...
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The Liberators
by
E. J. Koh
Tin House Books, 11/07/2023
At the height of the military dictatorship in South Korea, Insuk and Sungho are arranged to be married. The couple soon moves to San Jose, California,...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Lost Bookshop
by
Evie Woods
HarperCollins Publishers, 11/07/2023
"The thing about books," she said "is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of."
On a quiet street in ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir
by
Jami Nakamura Lin
Mariner Books, 11/07/2023
Are these the only two stories? The one, where you defeat your monster, and the other, where you succumb to it?
Jami Nakamura Lin spent much of her...
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Critics' Opinion:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Vulnerables: A Novel
by
Sigrid Nunez
Riverhead Books, 11/07/2023
Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez's ninth novel.
The Vulnerables offers a ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
We Are the Crisis: Convergence Saga # 2
by
Cadwell Turnbull
Blackstone Publishing, 11/07/2023
Three years after the Monster Massacre, members of Rebecca's old wolf pack have begun to go missing without a trace.
The world has undergone many ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
What's Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork
by
Witold Szablowski
Penguin Books, 11/07/2023
In the gonzo spirit of Anthony Bourdain and Hunter S. Thompson, Witold Szabłowski has tracked down—and broken bread with—people whose...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey
by
Edel Rodriguez
Metropolitan Books, 11/07/2023
Hailed for his iconic art on the cover of
Time and on jumbotrons around the world, Edel Rodriguez is among the most prominent political artists of our...
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Critics' Opinion:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy
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Dr. Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar
Basic Books, 11/14/2023
Atlanta is home to some of America's most prominent Black politicians, artists, businesses, and HBCUs. Yet, in 1861, Atlanta was a final contender to ...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Day: A Novel
by
Michael Cunningham
Random House, 11/14/2023
April 5, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, husband and wife, are slowly ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Deep Care: The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open
by
Angela Hume
AK Press, 11/14/2023
Starting in the 1970s, small groups of feminist activists met regularly to study anatomy, practice pelvic exams on each other, and learn how to safely...
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Critics' Opinion:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Eyeliner: A Cultural History
by
Zahra Hankir
Penguin Books, 11/14/2023
From the distant past to the present, with fingers and felt-tipped pens, metallic powders and gel pots, humans have been drawn to lining their eyes. ...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Her Side of the Story
by
Alba de Céspedes
Astra House, 11/14/2023
As she looks back on her life, Alessandra Corteggiani recalls her youth during the rise of fascism in Italy, the resistance, and the fall of Mussolini...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Other Minds and Other Stories
by
Bennett Sims
Two Dollar Radio, 11/14/2023
A man lends his phone to a stranger in the mall, setting off an uncanny series of Unknown calls that come to haunt his relationship with jealousy and ...
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Pritty
by
Keith F. Miller Jr.
HarperTeen, 11/14/2023
On the verge of summer before his senior year, Jay is a soft soul in a world of concrete. While his older brother is everything people expect a man to...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
by
Claire Keegan
Grove Press, 11/14/2023
Celebrated for her powerful short fiction, considered "among the form's most masterful practitioners" (
New York Times), Claire Keegan now gifts us ...
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Stockholm: A Novel
by
Noa Yedlin
HarperVia, 11/14/2023
Avishay is up for the Nobel Prize for Economics. There's just one problem—he's dead. His four closest friends agree that the well-earned prize ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs
by
David Runciman
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 11/14/2023
Countless books, news reports, and opinion pieces have announced the impending arrival of artificial intelligence, with most claiming that it will ...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Little Liar: A Novel
by
Mitch Albom
Harper, 11/14/2023
Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Historical Fiction
The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America
by
Daniel Schulman
Knopf, 11/14/2023
Joseph Seligman arrived in the United States in 1837, with the equivalent of $100 sewn into the lining of his pants. Then came the Lehman brothers, ...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The New Naturals
by
Gabriel Bump
Algonquin Books, 11/14/2023
An abandoned restaurant on a hill off the highway in Western Massachusetts doesn't look like much. But to Rio, a young Black woman bereft after the ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Literary Fiction
Archer's Voice
by
Mia Sheridan
Forever, 11/21/2023
I wanted to lose myself in the small town of Pelion, Maine. To forget everything I had left behind. The sound of rain. The blood. The coldness of a ...
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November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of World War II
by
Peter Englund
Knopf, 11/21/2023
At the beginning of November 1942, it looked as if the Axis powers could still win the Second World War; at the end of that month, it was obviously ...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation
by
Richard Snow
Scribner, 11/21/2023
On December 16, 1842, the US brig-of-war
Somers dropped anchor in Brooklyn Harbor at the end of a cruise intended to teach a group of adolescents the ...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I
by
Steven Ujifusa
Harper, 11/21/2023
Over thirty years, from 1890 to 1921, 2.5 million Jews, fleeing discrimination and violence in their homelands of Eastern Europe, arrived in the ...
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Critics' Opinion:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Warrior of the Wind: The Nameless Republic #2
by
Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Orbit, 11/21/2023
There is no peace in the season of the Red Emperor.
Traumatized by their escape from Bassa, Lilong and Danso have found safety in a vagabond colony...
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Critics' Opinion:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Godly Heathens: The Ouroboros #1
by
H.E. Edgmon
Wednesday Books, 11/28/2023
Maybe I have always just been bad at being human because I'm not one.
Gem Echols is a nonbinary Seminole teen living in the tiny town of Gracie, ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
No One Left But You
by
Tash McAdam
Soho Teen, 11/28/2023
BEFORE. Newly out trans guy Max is having a hard time in school. Things have been tough since his summer romance, Danny, turned into his bully. This ...
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The Kingdom of Sweets: A Novel of the Nutcracker
by
Erika Johansen
Dutton, 11/28/2023
Light and dark—this is the cursed birthright placed upon Clara and Natasha by their godfather, Drosselmeyer, whose power and greed hold an ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story
by
Sam Wasson
Harper, 11/28/2023
Francis Ford Coppola is one of the great American dreamers, and his most magnificent dream is American Zoetrope, the production company he founded in ...
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Critics' Opinion:
Biography/Memoir
