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Anna O: A Novel
by Matthew Blake
Harper, 01/02/2024
 
What if your nightmares weren't really nightmares at all?

We spend an average of 33 years of our lives asleep. But what really happens, and what ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
 Debut Author
Diary of a Confused Feminist
by Kate Weston
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 01/02/2024
 
At fifteen, Kat Evans is still sorting it all out, and that includes being a good feminist (and, by extension, a good human).

She promises herself ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish
by Francesca Peacock
Pegasus Books, 01/02/2024
 
"My ambition is not only to be Empress, but Authoress of a whole world." —Margaret Cavendish

Margaret Cavendish, then Lucas, was born in 1623...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
 Debut Author
Sky's End: Above the Black
by Marc J Gregson
Peachtree Publishers, 01/02/2024
 
Exiled to live as a Low, sixteen-year-old Conrad refuses to become heir to his murderous uncle. But Meritocracy is a harsh and unforgiving rule on the...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors
by Erika Howsare
Catapult, 01/02/2024
 
Deer have been an important part of the world that humans occupy for millennia. They're one of the only large animals that can thrive in our presence....more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
 Debut Author
The Storm We Made: A Novel
by Vanessa Chan
Marysue Rucci Books, 01/02/2024
 
Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
 Debut Author
Verdigris
by Michele Mari
And Other Stories, 01/02/2024
 
At the tail end of the 1960s, the thirteen-year-old Michelino spends his summers at his grandparents' modest estate in Nasca, near Lake Maggiore, ...more
Literary Fiction
Aednan: An Epic
by Linnea Axelsson
Knopf, 01/09/2024
 
In Northern Sámi, the word Ædnan means the land, the earth, and my mother. These are all crucial forces within the lives of the Indigenous ...more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
 Debut Author
Cold Victory
by Karl Marlantes
Grove Press, 01/09/2024
 
Helsinki, 1947. Finland teeters between the Soviet Union and the West. Everyone is being watched. A wrong look or a wrong word could end in ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
Goldenseal
by Maria Hummel
Counterpoint Press, 01/09/2024
 
Downtown Los Angeles, 1990. Alone in her luxury hotel suite, the reclusive Lacey Crane receives a message: Edith is waiting for her in the lobby. ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Inside Knowledge: Incarcerated People on the Failures of the American Prison
by Doran Larson
New York University Press, 01/09/2024
 
Inside Knowledge is the first book to examine the American prison system through the eyes of those who are trapped within it. Drawing from the ...more
Essays
Invisible Woman: A Novel
by Katia Lief
Atlantic Monthly Press, 01/09/2024
 
Joni Ackerman's decision to raise children, 25 years ago, came with a steep cost. She was then a pioneering filmmaker, one of the few women to break ...more
Lunar New Year Love Story
by Gene Luen Yang
First Second, 01/09/2024
 
She was destined for heartbreak. Then fate handed her love.

Val is ready to give up on love. It's led to nothing but secrets and heartbreak, and ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Graphic Novels
Northwoods: A Novel
by Amy Pease
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 01/09/2024
 
Eli North is not okay.

His drinking is getting worse by the day, his emotional wounds after a deployment to Afghanistan are as raw as ever, his ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Mysteries
 Debut Author
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
by Hannah Ritchie
Little, Brown Spark, 01/09/2024
 
It's become common to tell kids that they're going to die from climate change. We are constantly bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil...more
Science, Health and the Environment
 Debut Author
Old Crimes
by Jill McCorkle
Algonquin Books, 01/09/2024
 
Jill McCorkle, author of the New York Times bestselling Life After Life and the widely acclaimed Hieroglyphics ("One of our wryest, warmest, wisest ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Short Stories
Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence
by Yaroslav Trofimov
Penguin Press, 01/09/2024
 
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
River East, River West: A Novel
by Aube Rey Lescure
William Morrow, 01/09/2024
 
Shanghai, 2007: Fourteen-year-old Alva has always longed for more. Raised by her American expat mother, she's never known her Chinese father, and is ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Shut Up, This Is Serious
by Carolina Ixta
Quill Tree Books, 01/09/2024
 
Belén Dolores Itzel del Toro wants the normal stuff: to experience love or maybe have a boyfriend or at least just lose her virginity. But ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
by Kohei Saito
Astra House, 01/09/2024
 
Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs and are nevertheless unable to ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
Sugar, Baby
by Celine Saintclare
Bloomsbury Publishing, 01/09/2024
 
Sugar, Baby follows Agnes, a mixed-race 21-year-old whose life seems to be heading nowhere. Still living at home, she works as a cleaner and spends ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Termush: A Novel
by Sven Holm
FSG Originals, 01/09/2024
 
Termush caters to every need of its wealthy patrons―first among them, a coveted spot at this exclusive seaside getaway, a resort designed for ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Atlas of Us
by Kristin Dwyer
HarperTeen, 01/09/2024
 
Atlas has lost her way.

In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, she's working on a community service program rehabbing trails in the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
The Waters: A Novel
by Bonnie Jo Campbell
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/09/2024
 
On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp―an area known as "The Waters" to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan―herbalist and ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
You Dreamed of Empires: A Novel
by Álvaro Enrigue
Riverhead Books, 01/09/2024
 
One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés enters the city of Tenochtitlan – today's Mexico City. Later that day, he will meet ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Drop of Venom
by Sajni Patel
Rick Riodan Presents, 01/16/2024
 
All monsters and heroes have beginnings. This is mine.

Sixteen-year-old Manisha is no stranger to monsters—she's been running from them for ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Place for Vanishing
by Ann Fraistat
Delacorte Press, 01/16/2024
 
The house was supposed to be a fresh start. That's what Libby's mom said. And after Libby's recent bipolar III diagnosis and the tragedy that preceded...more
American Wings: Chicago's Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky
by Sherri L. Smith
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 01/16/2024
 
In the years between World War I and World War II, aviation fever was everywhere, including among Black Americans. But what hope did a Black person ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Behind You Is the Sea: A Novel
by Susan Muaddi Darraj
HarperVia, 01/16/2024
 
Funny and touching, Behind You Is the Sea brings us into the homes and lives of three main families—the Baladis, the Salamehs, and the Ammars&#...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
City of Laughter
by Temim Fruchter
Grove Press, 01/16/2024
 
An ambitious, delirious novel that tangles with queerness, spirituality, and generational silence, City of Laughter announces Temim Fruchter as a ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
by Kyle Chayka
Doubleday, 01/16/2024
 
From trendy restaurants to city grids, to TikTok and Netflix feeds the world round, algorithmic recommendations dictate our experiences and choices. ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
If I Promise You Wings
by A.K. Small
Algonquin Young Readers, 01/16/2024
 
Seventeen-year-old Alix Leclaire dreams of becoming a renowned feather artist, creating statement pieces that define glamour and high fashion. As an ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age
by Chip Conley
Little, Brown Spark, 01/16/2024
 
The midlife crisis is the butt of so many jokes, but this long-derided life stage has an upside. What if we could reframe our thinking about the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
by Rebecca Boyle
Random House, 01/16/2024
 
Many of us know that the Moon pulls on our oceans, driving the tides, but did you know that it smells like gunpowder? Or that it was essential to the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery
by Annie Liontas
Scribner, 01/16/2024
 
Annie Liontas suffered multiple concussions in her thirties. In Sex with a Brain Injury, she writes about what it means to be one of the "walking ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
So Let Them Burn: Divine Traitors # 1
by Kamilah Cole
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 01/16/2024
 
Faron Vincent can channel the power of the gods. Five years ago, she used her divine magic to liberate her island from its enemies, the dragon-riding ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
 Debut Author
The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy
by Nick Romeo
Public Affairs, 01/16/2024
 
Confronted by the terrifying trends of the early twenty-first century – widening inequality, environmental destruction, and the immiseration of ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
 Debut Author
The Best That You Can Do: Stories
by Amina Gautier
Soft Skull Press, 01/16/2024
 
Primarily told from the perspective of women and children in the Northeast who are tethered to fathers and families in Puerto Rico, these stories ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Short Stories
The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History
by Manjula Martin
Pantheon Books, 01/16/2024
 
Told in luminous, perceptive prose, The Last Fire Season is a deeply incisive inquiry into what it really means—now—to live in ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
This Wretched Valley
by Jenny Kiefer
Quirk Books, 01/16/2024
 
Take only pictures. Leave only bones.

This trip is going to be Dylan's big break. Her geologist friend Clay has discovered an untouched cliff face ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
 Debut Author
Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science of Life
by Nell Greenfieldboyce
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/16/2024
 
In her career as a science reporter, Nell Greenfieldboyce has reported from inside a space shuttle, the bottom of a coal mine, and the control room of...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
 Debut Author
Where You End: A Novel
by Abbott Kahler
Henry Holt and Company, 01/16/2024
 
When Kat Bird wakes up from a coma, she sees her mirror image: Jude, her twin sister. Jude's face and name are the only memories Kat has from before ...more
Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
by Marion Gibson
Scribner, 01/16/2024
 
Witchcraft is a dramatic journey through thirteen witch trials across history, some famous—like the Salem witch trials—and some lesser-...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
by József Debreczeni
St. Martin's Press, 01/23/2024
 
József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944; had he been selected to go "left," his life ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
 Debut Author
Dead in Long Beach, California: A Novel
by Venita Blackburn
MCD, 01/23/2024
 
Coral is the first person to discover her brother Jay's dead body in the wake of his suicide. There's no note, only a drably furnished bachelor pad in...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs
by Benjamin Herold
Penguin Press, 01/23/2024
 
Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Family Family: A Novel
by Laurie Frankel
Henry Holt and Company, 01/23/2024
 
"Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don't we ever get that movie?"

India Allwood grew up...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
In Utero
by Chris Gooch
Top Shelf Productions, 01/23/2024
 
Twelve years after a disastrous explosion, young Hailey is dropped off by her mum at a holiday camp in a dilapidated shopping mall. Alienated from the...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Into the Sunken City
by Dinesh Thiru
HarperTeen, 01/23/2024
 
In the slowly sinking city of Coconino, Arizona, the days are long, the money is tight, and the rain never stops.

For Jin Haldar, this life is ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
 Debut Author
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
by Uché Blackstock MD
Viking, 01/23/2024
 
Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicians. In ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
 Debut Author
Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story
by Keren Blankfeld
Little Brown & Company, 01/23/2024
 
Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia were captivated by each other from the moment they first exchanged glances across the work floor. It was the beginning ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
 Debut Author
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
by Antonia Hylton
Legacy Lit, 01/23/2024
 
On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
No One Can Know: A Novel
by Kate Alice Marshall
Flatiron Books, 01/23/2024
 
Emma hasn't told her husband much about her past. He knows her parents are dead and she hasn't spoken to her sisters in years. Then they lose their ...more
Picasso's Lovers
by Jeanne Mackin
Berkley Books, 01/23/2024
 
The women of Picasso's life are glamorous and elusive, existing in the shadow of his fame—until 1950s aspiring journalist Alana Olson determines...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
Radiant Heat
by Sarah-Jane Collins
Berkley Books, 01/23/2024
 
The blaze came out of nowhere one summer afternoon, a wall of fire fed by blustering wind. Yet, somehow, Alison is alive. She rode out the fire on the...more
The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers
by Jim Morris
Beacon Press, 01/23/2024
 
A gripping narrative in the tradition of A Civil Action and Toms River.

Working at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company chemical plant in Niagara ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
 Debut Author
The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee
by Ellen Oh
Crown Books for Young Readers, 01/23/2024
 
Mina has become the hero of her own story. Literally.

When Mina Lee woke up on Saturday morning for SAT prep, she did NOT expect to:

1. Nearly ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History
by Dan Stone
Mariner Books, 01/23/2024
 
The Holocaust is much discussed, much memorialized, and much portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked.

...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Sanctuary
by Andrew Hunter Murray
Blackstone Publishing, 01/23/2024
 
Ben is a painter from the crowded, turbulent city. For six months his fiancée, Cara, has been working on the remote island of Sanctuary Rock, the...more
Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s
by Sarah Ditum
Abrams Press, 01/23/2024
 
Welcome to celebrity culture in the early aughts: the reign of Perez Hilton, celebrity sex tapes, and dueling tabloids fed by paparazzi who were ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Twilight Territory: A Novel
by Andrew X. Pham
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/23/2024
 
The peak of the hot season, 1942: The wars in Europe and Asia and the Japanese occupation have upset the uneasy balance of French Indochina. In the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
Womb City
by Tlotlo Tsamaase
Erewhon Books, 01/23/2024
 
Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
 Debut Author
Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1
by Angela Y. Davis
Haymarket Books, 01/30/2024
 
For over fifty years, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for abolition and feminism and the fight against state ...more
Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
by Jake Johnston
St. Martin's Press, 01/30/2024
 
Haiti's state is near-collapse: armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after the 2021 assassination of President ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World - and How You Can, Too
by Ijeoma Oluo
HarperOne, 01/30/2024
 
In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo offered a vital guide for how to talk about important issues of race ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Come and Get It
by Kiley Reid
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/30/2024
 
It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Confrontations
by Simone Antangana Bekono
Bloomsbury Publishing, 01/30/2024
 
Salomé Atabong is the sixteen-year-old daughter of a Cameroonian father and a Dutch mother, living in the Netherlands. She arrives at a juvenile ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds
by Michelle Horton
Grand Central Publishing, 01/30/2024
 
In September 2017, a knock on the door upends Michelle Horton's life forever: her sister had just shot her partner and was now in jail. During the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
 Debut Author
Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect: A Novel
by Benjamin Stevenson
Mariner Books, 01/30/2024
 
Ernest Cunningham returns in a deliciously witty locked room (train) mystery.

When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their ...more
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
by Jonathan Blitzer
Penguin Press, 01/30/2024
 
Everyone who makes the journey faces an impossible choice. Hundreds of thousands of people who arrive every year at the US-Mexico border travel far ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
 Debut Author
Hard by a Great Forest: A Novel
by Leo Vardiashvili
Riverhead Books, 01/30/2024
 
Saba is just a child when he flees the fighting in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia with his older brother, Sandro, and father, Irakli, for ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
How We Named the Stars
by Andrés N. Ordorica
Tin House Books, 01/30/2024
 
When Daniel de La Luna arrives as a scholarship student at an elite East Coast university, he bears the weight of his family's hopes and dreams, and ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Mockingbird Summer: A Novel
by Lynda Rutledge
Lake Union Publishing, 01/30/2024
 
In segregated High Cotton, Texas, in 1964, the racial divide is as clear as the railroad tracks running through town. It's also where two girls are ...more
Literary Fiction
Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA
by Patrick Winn
Public Affairs, 01/30/2024
 
In Asia's narcotics-producing heartland, the Wa reign supreme. They dominate the Golden Triangle, a mountainous stretch of Burma between Thailand and ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
One Hour of Fervor
by Muriel Barbery
Europa Editions, 01/30/2024
 
Haru, a successful Japanese art dealer, loves beauty, harmony, art, balance, intriguing women, sophisticated conversation, and elegance. Months after ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy
by Dominic Erdozain
Crown, 01/30/2024
 
More than a hundred lives are lost to firearms every day in America. The cost is more than the numbers—it is the fear, the anxiety, the dread of...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology
by Amber McBride, Erica Martin, Taylor Byas
HarperTeen, 01/30/2024
 
Come, claim your wings.

Lift your life above the earth,

return to the land of your father's birth.

What exactly is it to be Black in America?...
more
Critics' Consensus:

Poetry & Novels in Verse
Spectral Evidence: Poems
by Gregory Pardlo
Knopf, 01/30/2024
 
Elegant, profound, and intoxicating—Spectral Evidence, Gregory Pardlo's first major collection of poetry after winning the Pulitzer Prize for ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Poetry & Novels in Verse
Swanna in Love: A Novel
by Jennifer Belle
Akashic Books, 01/30/2024
 
It's the summer of 1982 and fourteen-year-old Swanna Swain is the only one left at camp. The place is a ghost town by the time her mother Val finally ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
The Cleaner: A Novel
by Brandi Wells
Hanover Square Press, 01/30/2024
 
Every night, she cleans. On the fourth floor of an unnamed office in an unnamed city, the night cleaner comes and does what she does best—sorts ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
The Excitements: A Novel
by CJ Wray
William Morrow Paperbacks, 01/30/2024
 
Meet the Williamson sisters, Britain's most treasured World War II veterans. Now in their late nineties, Josephine and Penny are in huge demand, ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
The Mountain King: Asker Series #1
by Anders de la Motte
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 01/30/2024
 
Criminal inspector Leonore Asker seems to have the leading position at Malmö's Major Crime Division within reach. But things go awry when, in the...more
The Ukraine
by Artem Chapeye
Seven Stories Press, 01/30/2024
 
The Ukraine is a collection of 26 pieces that deliberately blur the line between nonfiction and fiction, conjuring the essence of a beloved country ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Short Stories
Wander in the Dark
by Jumata Emill
Delacorte Press, 01/30/2024
 
Amir Trudeau only goes to his half brother Marcel's birthday party because of Chloe Danvers. Chloe is rich, and hot, and fits right into the perfect ...more
Wolves of Winter: Essex Dogs #2
by Dan Jones
Penguin Books, 01/30/2024
 
1347. Bruised and bloodied by an epic battle at Crécy, six soldiers known as the Essex Dogs pick through the wreckage of the fighting—and ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
Your Utopia: Stories
by Bora Chung
Algonquin Books, 01/30/2024
 
In "The Center for Immortality Research," a low-level employee runs herself ragged planning a fancy gala for donors, only to be blamed for a crime she...more
Critics' Consensus:

Short Stories
Yours from the Tower
by Sally Nicholls
Walker Books, 01/30/2024
 
Tirzah, Sophia, and Polly are best friends who've left boarding school and gone back to very different lives.

The year is 1896, and Polly is ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
by Tia Williams
Grand Central Publishing, 02/06/2024
 
Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. And for some, even a single February can be life-changing.

Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a ...more
Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir
by Walela Nehanda
Kokila, 02/06/2024
 
When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into the unsympathetic world of tubes and pills, ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
 Debut Author
Bright Red Fruit
by Safia Elhillo
Make Me a World, 02/06/2024
 
Bad girl. No matter how hard Samira tries, she can't shake her reputation. She's never gotten the benefit of the doubt—not from her mother or ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Burma Sahib: A Novel
by Paul Theroux
Mariner Books, 02/06/2024
 
At age nineteen, young Eton graduate Eric Blair set sail for India, dreading the assignment ahead. Along with several other young conscripts, he would...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons
by Sarah Scoles
Bold Type Books, 02/06/2024
 
Nuclear weapons are, today, as important as they were during the Cold War, and some experts say we could be as close to a nuclear catastrophe now as ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
Dead Girls Don't Say Sorry
by Alex Ritany
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 02/06/2024
 
Friendship, at least for me, has never been anything but complicated.

Before:
One year ago, best friends Nora and Julia were starting their senior...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
by Tania De Rozario
Harper Perennial, 02/06/2024
 
Tania De Rozario was just twelve years old when she was gay-exorcised. Convinced that her boyish style and demeanor were a sign of something wicked, ...more
Even If It Breaks Your Heart: A Novel
by Erin Hahn
Wednesday Books, 02/06/2024
 
The only thing keeping nineteen-year-old Case Michaels together after the death of his best friend, Walker, is a list Walker left behind of things he ...more
Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories
by GennaRose Nethercott
Vintage, 02/06/2024
 
The stories in Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart are about the abomination that resides within us all. That churning, clawing, ravenous yearning: the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Short Stories
Float Up, Sing Down
by Laird Hunt
Bloomsbury Publishing, 02/06/2024
 
Candy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika. Turner Davis needs to get his zinnias in. Della Dorner told her mother she was going to the Galaxy ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Short Stories
Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
by Bianca Bosker
Viking, 02/06/2024
 
An award-winning journalist obsessed with obsession, Bianca Bosker's existence was upended when she wandered into the art world—and couldn't ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir
by Shayla Lawson
Tiny Reparations, 02/06/2024
 
In their new book, Shayla Lawson reveals how traveling can itself be a political act, when it can be a dangerous world to be Black, femme, nonbinary, ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
by Ruha Benjamin
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/06/2024
 
A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn't strangle the life out of people? ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Infinity Alchemist: Infinity Alchemist # 1
by Kacen Callender
Tor Teen, 02/06/2024
 
For Ash Woods, practicing alchemy is a crime.

Only an elite few are legally permitted to study the science of magic—so when Ash is rejected ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Last Seen in Havana: Havana Mysteries
by Teresa Dovalpage
Soho Crime, 02/06/2024
 
Newly widowed baker Mercedes Spivey flies from Miami to her native Cuba in 2019 to care for her ailing paternal grandmother. Mercedes's life has been ...more
Livin' Just to Find Emotion: Journey and the Story of American Rock
by David Hamilton Golland
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 02/06/2024
 
Since exploding on the scene in the late 1970s, Journey has inspired generations of fans with hit after hit. But hidden under this rock 'n' roll glory...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
Nightwatching: A Novel
by Tracy Sierra
Pamela Dorman Books, 02/06/2024
 
Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. She hears a noise—old ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
 Debut Author
Ordinary Human Failings: A Novel
by Megan Nolan
Little Brown & Company, 02/06/2024
 
It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants" —...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
by Allen C. Guelzo
Knopf, 02/06/2024
 
Abraham Lincoln grappled with the greatest crisis of democracy that has ever confronted the United States. While many books have been written about ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Out of Body
by Nia Davenport
Balzer + Bray, 02/06/2024
 
Seventeen-year-old Megan Allen has been jumping from friend group to friend group in her high school, trying on identities like outfits. Nothing ever ...more
Praiseworthy
by Alexis Wright
New Directions Publishing, 02/06/2024
 
In a small town in the north of Australia, a mysterious cloud heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors. A crazed ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Redwood Court: Fiction
by DéLana R. A. Dameron
The Dial Press, 02/06/2024
 
"Mika, you sit at our feet all these hours and days, hearing us tell our tales. You have all these stories inside you: all the stories everyone in our...more
Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Significant Others: A Novel
by Zoë Eisenberg
Mira Books, 02/06/2024
 
Roommates since college, Jess and Ren have built a strong—if at times codependent—friendship. Now navigating their late thirties, the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Smoke Kings
by Jahmal Mayfield
Melville House, 02/06/2024
 
Nate Evers, a young black political activist, struggles with rage as his people are still being killed in the streets 62 years after Emmett Till. When...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
 Debut Author
The Absinthe Underground
by Jamie Pacton
Peachtree Publishers, 02/06/2024
 
After running away from home, Sybil Clarion is eager to embrace all the freedom the Belle Époque city of Severon has to offer. Instead, she's ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Adversary: A Novel
by Michael Crummey
Doubleday, 02/06/2024
 
In an isolated outport on Newfoundland's northern coastline, Abe Strapp is about to marry the daughter of a rival merchant to cement his hold on the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
by Michael Wolraich
Union Square & Co., 02/06/2024
 
Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
The End of Love: Sex and Desire in the Twenty-First Century
by Tamara Tenenbaum
Europa Editions, 02/06/2024
 
Born and raised in an Orthodox Jewish community in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tamara Tenenbaum approached the sexual and affective habits of the secular...more
Critics' Consensus:

Essays
 Debut Author
The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature
by Ludovic Slimak
Pegasus Books, 02/06/2024
 
What do we really know about our cousins, the Neanderthals?

For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. More recently, the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
 Debut Author
The Road from Belhaven: A Novel
by Margot Livesey
Knopf, 02/06/2024
 
Growing up in the care of her grandparents on Belhaven Farm, Lizzie Craig discovers as a small child that she can see into the future. But her gift is...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster
by John O’Connor
Sourcebooks, 02/06/2024
 
Bigfoot is an instantly recognizable figure. Through the decades, this elusive primate has been featured in movies and books, on coffee mugs, beer ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
 Debut Author
The Teacher
by Freida McFadden
Poisoned Pen Press, 02/06/2024
 
Lesson #1: trust no one

Eve has a good life. She gets up each day, gets a kiss from her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high...more
The Thefts of the Mona Lisa: The Complete Story of the World's Most Famous Artwork
by Noah Charney
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 02/06/2024
 
Leonardo da Vinci's portrait, called the Mona Lisa, is without doubt the world's most famous painting. It achieved its fame not only because it is a ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Things We Didn't Know
by Elba Iris Pérez
Gallery Books, 02/06/2024
 
Andrea Rodríguez is nine years old when her mother whisks her and her brother, Pablo, away from Woronoco, the tiny Massachusetts factory town ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
The Women: A Novel
by Kristin Hannah
St. Martin's Press, 02/06/2024
 
"Women can be heroes, too."

When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Trondheim
by Cormac James
Bellevue Literary Press, 02/06/2024
 
In Norway, thousands of miles from home, a student drops dead on the street. A passerby revives his heart, but he remains in a coma from which he may ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Ways and Means: A Novel
by Daniel Lefferts
The Overlook Press, 02/06/2024
 
Alistair McCabe comes to New York with a plan. Young, handsome, intelligent, and gay, he hopes to escape his Rust Belt poverty and give his mother a ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
You Glow in the Dark
by Liliana Colanzi
New Directions Publishing, 02/06/2024
 
The seven stories of You Glow in the Dark unfold in a Latin America wrecked and poisoned by human greed, and yet Colanzi's writing—at once sleek...more
Critics' Consensus:

Short Stories
 Debut Author
A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging
by Lauren Markham
Riverhead Books, 02/13/2024
 
When and how did migration become a crime? Why does ancient Greece remain so important to the West's idea of itself? How does nostalgia fuel the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic
by Yi Shun Lai
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 02/13/2024
 
November 1914.

Clara Ketterling-Dunbar is one of twenty-eight crew members of The Resolute—a ship meant for an Antarctic expedition now ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
Acts of Forgiveness: A Novel
by Maura Cheeks
Ballantine Books, 02/13/2024
 
Every American waits with bated breath to see whether or not the country's first female president will pass the Forgiveness Act. The bill would allow ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country
by David Finkel
Random House, 02/13/2024
 
As this powerful book begins, Brent Cummings finds himself coping with the feeling that the country he loves is fracturing in front of his eyes. An ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor
by Ronald Drabkin
William Morrow, 02/13/2024
 
Frederick Rutland was an accomplished aviator, British WWI war hero, and real-life James Bond. He was the first pilot to take off and land a plane on ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
 Debut Author
Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year
by Paul Alexander
Knopf, 02/13/2024
 
In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades, Paul Alexander—author of heralded lives of Sylvia Plath and J. D. Salinger&#...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
Black Girl You Are Atlas
by Renée Watson
Kokila, 02/13/2024
 
In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renée Watson writes about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Call Me Iggy
by Jorge Aguirre
First Second, 02/13/2024
 
Ignacio "Iggy" Garcia is an Ohio-born Colombian American teen living his best life. After bumping into Marisol (and her coffee) at school, Iggy's ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Graphic Novels
Convergence Problems
by Wole Talabi
DAW Books, 02/13/2024
 
In "An Arc of Electric Skin," a roadside mechanic seeking justice volunteers to undergo a procedure that will increase the electrical conductivity of ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Short Stories
Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear
by Robin Wasley
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 02/13/2024
 
High school is hard enough to survive without an apocalypse to navigate.

Sid Spencer has always been the most normal girl in her abnormal hometown,...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both: A Novel
by Mariah Stovall
Soft Skull Press, 02/13/2024
 
Set in the suburbs of Los Angeles and New York City, I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both is an immersive journey into the life and mind of Khaki ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America
by Vicki Sokolik
Spiegel & Grau, 02/13/2024
 
They hide in plain sight. They survive on free school breakfasts and lunches, join school sports teams in order to shower, sleep on friends' couches, ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
 Debut Author
Leaving: A Novel
by Roxana Robinson
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/13/2024
 
One of Oprah Daily's Most Anticipated Books of 2024

"I never thought I'd see you here," Sarah says. Then she adds, "But I never thought I'd see you...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Neighbors and Other Stories
by Diane Oliver
Grove Press, 02/13/2024
 
A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of 22, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that...more
Critics' Consensus:

Short Stories
 Debut Author
No One Dies Yet
by Kobby Ben Ben
Europa Editions, 02/13/2024
 
It is 2019, The Year of Return. Ghana is inviting Black diasporans to return and get to know the land of their enslaved ancestors. Elton, Vincent, and...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Paper Cage: A Novel
by Tom Baragwanath
Knopf, 02/13/2024
 
How far would you go to keep your family safe?

Lorraine Henry is generally content to keep her head down and get on with her work as a records ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Thrillers
 Debut Author
The Fast: The History, Science, Philosophy, and Promise of Doing Without
by John Oakes
Avid Reader Press, 02/13/2024
 
We fast all the time, even when we're not conscious of doing so. A fast manifests the idea of holding back, resisting the animal impulse to charge ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
 Debut Author
The Fortune Seller: A Novel
by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
St. Martin's Press, 02/13/2024
 
Middle-class Rosie Macalister has worked for years to fit in with her wealthy friends on the Yale equestrian team. But when she comes back from her ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
The Fox Wife: A Novel
by Yangsze Choo
Henry Holt and Company, 02/13/2024
 
Manchuria, 1908.

In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes, which...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press
by Calvin Trillin
Random House, 02/13/2024
 
I've been writing about the press almost as long as I've been in the game. At some point, it occurred to me that disparate pieces from various places ...more
The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America
by Michael J. Graetz
Princeton University Press, 02/13/2024
 
The postwar United States enjoyed large, widely distributed economic rewards—and most Americans accepted that taxes were a reasonable price to ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Warm Hands of Ghosts: A Novel
by Katherine Arden
Del Rey, 02/13/2024
 
January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life
by Billy Dee Williams
Knopf, 02/13/2024
 
Billy Dee Williams was born in Harlem in 1937 and grew up in a household of love and sophistication. As a young boy, he made his stage debut working ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
A Fire So Wild: A Novel
by Sarah Ruiz-Grossman
Harper, 02/20/2024
 
As a wildfire threatens Berkeley, the city's inhabitants are forced to reckon with the cracks in the lives they've built.

Abigail, a wealthy ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
A Tempest of Tea: Blood and Tea # 1
by Hafsah Faizal
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/20/2024
 
On the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir is a criminal mastermind and collector of secrets. Her prestigious tearoom transforms into an illegal ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter's Soul
by Kurt Wagner
Atria Books, 02/20/2024
 
Bloomberg journalist Kurt Wagner takes you inside Twitter's everchanging headquarters, charting its rise from flippant 140-character posts to one of ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
 Debut Author
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
by Ross Perlin
Atlantic Monthly Press, 02/20/2024
 
Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and—because many have never been recorded—when they're gone, it...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World
by Miriam Darlington
Tin House Books, 02/20/2024
 
A plan formed in my mind. I would explore the places in this land that hid my grail. I would spend a whole year or longer, if that's what it took, ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
Ours: A Novel
by Phillip B. Williams
Viking, 02/20/2024
 
In this ingenious, sweeping novel, Phillip B. Williams introduces us to an enigmatic woman named Saint, a fearsome conjuror who, in the 1830s, ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
by Patrick Joyce
Scribner, 02/20/2024
 
"What the skeleton is to anatomy, the peasant is to history, its essential hidden support." For over the past century and a half, and still more ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
River Mumma
by Zalika Reid-Benta
Erewhon Books, 02/20/2024
 
Alicia has been out of grad school for months. She has no career prospects and lives with her mom, who won't stop texting her macabre news stories and...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
 Debut Author
Sito: An American Teenager and the City that Failed Him
by Laurence Ralph
Grand Central Publishing, 02/20/2024
 
In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez—known as Sito— was shot to death as he sat in his car in the Mission District of San ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
by Chantha Nguon
Algonquin Books, 02/20/2024
 
Take a well-fed nine-year-old with a big family and a fancy education. Fold in 2 revolutions, 2 civil wars, and 1 wholesale extermination. Subtract a ...more
Biography/Memoir
Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York
by Barbara Weisberg
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/20/2024
 
What could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch's country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother live there ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
Sun of Blood and Ruin: A Novel
by Mariely Lares
Harper Voyager, 02/20/2024
 
A new legend begins…

In sixteenth-century New Spain, witchcraft is punishable by death, indigenous temples have been destroyed, and tales of ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
 Debut Author
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
by Charles Duhigg
Random House, 02/20/2024
 
Come inside a jury room as one juror leads a starkly divided room to consensus. Join a young CIA officer as he recruits a reluctant foreign agent. And...more
The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays
by Joan Acocella
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/20/2024
 
Joan Acocella, "one of our finest cultural critics" (Edward Hirsch), has the rare ability to examine literature and unearth the lives contained within...more
The Trouble with You: A Novel
by Ellen Feldman
St. Martin's Griffin, 02/20/2024
 
Set in New York City in the heady aftermath of World War II when the men were coming home, the women were exhaling in relief, and everyone was having ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
by Charan Ranganath
Doubleday, 02/20/2024
 
A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. In Why We Remember, pioneering neuroscientist and psychologist Charan ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
After Annie: A Novel
by Anna Quindlen
Random House, 02/27/2024
 
When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her children, and her closest friend are left to find a way forward without the woman who has been the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Carson McCullers: A Life
by Mary V. Dearborn
Knopf, 02/27/2024
 
V. S. Pritchett called her "a genius." Gore Vidal described her as a "beloved novelist of singular brilliance...Of all the Southern writers, she is ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm
by Emmeline Clein
Knopf, 02/27/2024
 
In Dead Weight, Emmeline Clein recounts her struggle with disordered eating alongside the stories of other women: historical figures, pop culture ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Essays
 Debut Author
Four Thousand Paws: Caring for the Dogs of the Iditarod: A Veterinarian's Story
by Lee Morgan
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 02/27/2024
 
Few sporting events attract as much attention, or create as much spectacle, as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Each March, despite subzero ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
 Debut Author
Grief Is for People
by Sloane Crosley
MCD, 02/27/2024
 
Grief Is for People is a deeply moving and surprisingly suspenseful portrait of friendship, and a book about loss packed with verve for life. Sloane ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
Kindling
by Traci Chee
HarperCollins Publishers, 02/27/2024
 
Once, the war was fought with kindlings—elite, magic-wielding warriors whose devastating power comes at the cost of their own young lives.

...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
by Tali Sharot and Cass R. Sunstein
Atria Books, 02/27/2024
 
Have you ever noticed that what is thrilling on Monday tends to become boring on Friday? Even exciting relationships, stimulating jobs, and ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Science, Health and the Environment
My Beloved Life: A Novel
by Amitava Kumar
Knopf, 02/27/2024
 
Jadunath Kunwar's beginnings are humble, even inauspicious. In 1935 in a village near George Orwell's birthplace, Jadu's mother, while pregnant with ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
by Gretchen Sisson
St. Martin's Press, 02/27/2024
 
Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the abortion debate, ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
 Debut Author
Snowglobe: Snowglobe #1
by Soyoung Park
Delacorte Press, 02/27/2024
 
Enclosed under a vast dome, Snowglobe is the last place on Earth that's warm. Outside Snowglobe is a frozen wasteland, and every day, citizens face ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
 Debut Author
The American Daughters: A Novel
by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
One World, 02/27/2024
 
Ady, a curious, sharp-witted girl, and her fierce mother, Sanite, are inseparable. Enslaved to a businessman in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture
by Tricia Romano
Public Affairs, 02/27/2024
 
You either were there or you wanted to be. A defining New York City institution co-founded by Norman Mailer, The Village Voice was the first newspaper...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
 Debut Author
The Life of the Qur'an: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy
by Mohamad Jebara
St. Martin's Press, 02/27/2024
 
Over a billion copies of the Qur'an exist – yet it remains an enigma. Its classical Arabic language resists simple translation, and its non-...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Other Valley: A Novel
by Scott Alexander Howard
Atria Books, 02/27/2024
 
Sixteen-year-old Odile is an awkward, quiet girl vying for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position, she'll decide who may cross her ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
 Debut Author
The Painter's Daughters: A Novel
by Emily Howes
Simon & Schuster, 02/27/2024
 
Peggy and Molly Gainsborough—the daughters of one of England's most famous portrait artists of the 1700s and the frequent subject of his work&#...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
 Debut Author
Wandering Stars: A novel
by Tommy Orange
Knopf, 02/27/2024
 
Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
by Deborah Taffa
Harper, 02/27/2024
 
Deborah Jackson Taffa was raised to believe that some sacrifices were necessary to achieve a better life. Her grandparents—citizens of the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
 Debut Author
Inside the Mirror: A Novel
by Parul Kapur
University of Nebraska Press, 03/01/2024
 
In 1950s Bombay, Jaya Malhotra studies medicine at the direction of her father, a champion of women's education who assumes the right to choose his ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
by James Kaplan
Penguin Press, 03/05/2024
 
The myth of the '60s depends on the 1950s being the "before times" of conformity, segregation, straightness—The Lonely Crowd and The ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
49 Days
by Agnes Lee
Levine Querido, 03/05/2024
 
Day 1

Gotta get up. Gotta keep moving. This map – it says I have to cross over here. Wait, what's that…?


And so begins a graphic ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
A History of Women in 101 Objects
by Annabelle Hirsch
Crown, 03/05/2024
 
This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular: a single...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
 Debut Author
American Spirits
by Russell Banks
Knopf, 03/05/2024
 
A husband sells property to a mysterious, temperamental stranger, and is hounded on social media when he publicly questions the man's character. A ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Anita de Monte Laughs Last: A Novel
by Xochitl Gonzalez
Flatiron Books, 03/05/2024
 
1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Big Time: A Novel
by Ben H. Winters
Mulholland, 03/05/2024
 
What if time could be taken from us—the minutes, the hours, the years of our lives, extracted like organs taken for transplant? What would it ...more
Breathing Underwater
by Abbey Lee Nash
Holiday House, 03/05/2024
 
Seventeen-year-old Tess Cooper lives by three rules: train hard, study hard, work hard. Swimming is her best chance at a college scholarship. It's ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
But the Girl
by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu
The Unnamed Press, 03/05/2024
 
Girl was born on the very day her parents and grandmother immigrated from Malaysia to Australia. The story goes that her mother held on tight to her ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Catastrophe Ethics: How to Choose Well in a World of Tough Choices
by Travis Rieder
Dutton, 03/05/2024
 
In a world of often confusing and terrifying global problems, how should we make choices in our everyday lives? Does anything on the individual level ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Change: A Novel
by Édouard Louis
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/05/2024
 
One question took center stage in my life, it focused all of my thoughts and occupied every moment when I was alone with myself: how could I get this ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines
by Carol Kino
Scribner, 03/05/2024
 
The McLaughlin twins were trailblazing female photographers, celebrated in their time as stars in their respective fields, but have largely been ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
 Debut Author
Ellie Haycock Is Totally Normal
by Gretchen Schreiber
Wednesday Books, 03/05/2024
 
Ellie Haycock has always separated her life into sections: Ellie at home and Ellie at the hospital. At home, Ellie is a proud member of her high ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
by Tessa Hulls
MCD, 03/05/2024
 
In her evocative, genre-defying graphic memoir, Tessa Hulls tells the story of three generations of women in her family: her Chinese grandmother, Sun ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
 Debut Author
Fruit of the Dead: A Novel
by Rachel Lyon
Scribner, 03/05/2024
 
Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson
by James Marcus
Princeton University Press, 03/05/2024
 
More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
Help Wanted: A Novel
by Adelle Waldman
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/05/2024
 
One of New York Magazine's "23 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2024" • One of VOGUE's Best Books of the Year So Far • One of ELLE...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
Here After: A Memoir
by Amy Lin
Zibby Books, 03/05/2024
 
"When he dies, I fall out of time."

Amy Lin never expected to find a love like the one she shares with her husband, Kurtis, a gifted young ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Biography/Memoir
 Debut Author
House of Open Wounds: The Tyrant Philosophers # 2
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Head of Zeus, 03/05/2024
 
City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. As their legions scour the world...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
by Peter Pomerantsev
Public Affairs, 03/05/2024
 
In the summer of 1941, Hitler ruled Europe from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. Britain was struggling to combat his powerful propaganda machine, ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Knife Skills: Shadows of Chicago Mystery
by Wendy Church
Severn House, 03/05/2024
 
Sagarine Pfister is a great cook but has been blacklisted by almost every restaurant in Chicago. She gets her chance at Louie's, a below-average ...more
Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives—and How We Break Free
by Tricia Rose
Basic Books, 03/05/2024
 
In recent years, condemnations of racism in America have echoed from the streets to corporate boardrooms. At the same time, politicians and ...more
Critics' Consensus:

History, Current Affairs and Religion
Modern Poetry: Poems
by Diane Seuss
Graywolf Press, 03/05/2024
 
Diane Seuss's signature voice—audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude—has become one of the most ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Poetry & Novels in Verse
Never Been Better
by Leanne Toshiko Simpson
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/05/2024
 
Is she falling in love, or falling apart?

Dee, Misa, and Matt were the "three musketeers" of the psych ward. A year after discharge, Dee is eager ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
Parasol Against the Axe: A Novel
by Helen Oyeyemi
Riverhead Books, 03/05/2024
 
In Helen Oyeyemi's joyous new novel, the Czech capital is a living thing—one that can let you in or spit you out.

For reasons of her own, ...more
Pelican Girls: A Novel
by Julia Malye
Harper, 03/05/2024
 
Paris, 1720. La Salpêtrière hospital is in crisis: too many occupants, not enough beds. Halfway across the world, France's colony in the ...more
Historical Fiction
 Debut Author
Say Hello to My Little Friend: A Novel
by Jennine Capó Crucet
Simon & Schuster, 03/05/2024
 
Failed Pitbull impersonator Ismael Reyes—you can call him Izzy—might not be the Scarface type, but why should that keep him from trying? ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
So You Wanna Run a Country?: A Novel
by Kevin Holohan
Akashic Books, 03/05/2024
 
So You Wanna Run a Country? is a satirical parable of the perils of authoritarianism, nationalism, and device-dependent group-think. After almost a ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Extinction of Irena Rey
by Jennifer Croft
Bloomsbury Publishing, 03/05/2024
 
Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey, and they ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
The Girls We Sent Away: A Novel
by Meagan Church
Sourcebooks, 03/05/2024
 
It's the 1960s and Lorraine Delford has it all - an upstanding family, a perfect boyfriend, and a white picket fence home in North Carolina. Yet every...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
The Great Divide: A Novel
by Cristina Henriquez
Ecco, 03/05/2024
 
It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Historical Fiction
The Hearing Test: A Novel
by Eliza Barry Callahan
Catapult, 03/05/2024
 
When the narrator of The Hearing Test, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning to a deep drone in her right ear, she is diagnosed with ...more
Critics' Consensus:

Literary Fiction
 Debut Author
The Hunter: A Novel
by Tana French
Viking, 03/05/2024
 
It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. ...more
The Inmate
by Freida McFadden
Poisoned Pen Press, 03/05/2024
 
As a new nurse practitioner at a maximum-security prison, Brooke Sullivan is taught three crucial rules: 
  • Treat all prisoners with respect.
  • ...more
    Thrillers
    The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City
    by Kevin Baker
    Knopf, 03/05/2024
     
    Baseball is "the New York game" because New York is where the diamond was first laid out, where the bunt and the curveball were invented, and where ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    The No-Girlfriend Rule
    by Christen Randall
    Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 03/05/2024
     
    Hollis Beckwith isn't trying to get a girl—she's just trying to get by. For a fat, broke girl with anxiety, the start of senior year brings ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    The Silver Bone: The Kyiv Mysteries #1
    by Andrey Kurkov
    HarperVia, 03/05/2024
     
    Kyiv, 1919. World War I has ended in Western Europe, but to the East, six factions continue to vie for control of Ukraine. Amidst the political ...more
    The Truth of the Aleke: The Forever Desert #2
    by Moses Ose Utomi
    Tor Teen, 03/05/2024
     
    The Aleke is cruel. The Aleke is clever. The Aleke is coming.

    500 years after the events of The Lies of the Ajungo, the City of Truth stands as the...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice
    by Alex Hortis
    Pegasus Crime, 03/05/2024
     
    On Christmas night, December 25, 1843, in a serene village on Staten Island, shocked neighbors discovered the burnt remains of twenty-four-year-old ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    True Crime
    Waiting for the Monsoon
    by Rod Nordland
    Mariner Books, 03/05/2024
     
    For thirty years, Rod Nordland shadowed death. As one of his generation's preeminent war correspondents, he reported in over 150 countries, many of ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    What Monstrous Gods
    by Rosamund Hodge
    Balzer + Bray, 03/05/2024
     
    Centuries ago, the heretic sorcerer Ruven raised a deadly briar around Runakhia's palace, casting the royal family into an enchanted sleep—and ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    All Our Yesterdays
    by Joel H. Morris
    G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/12/2024
     
    Scotland, the 11th Century. Born in a noble household and granddaughter of a forgotten Scottish king, a young girl carries the guilt of her mother's ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
     Debut Author
    An End to Inequality: Breaking Down the Walls of Apartheid Education in America
    by Jonathan Kozol
    The New Press, 03/12/2024
     
    When Jonathan Kozol's Death at an Early Age appeared in 1967, it rocked the education world. Based on the Rhodes Scholar's first year of teaching in ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Ariel Crashes a Train
    by Olivia A. Cole
    Labyrinth Road, 03/12/2024
     
    Ariel is afraid of her own mind. She already feels like she is too big, too queer, too rough to live up to her parents' exacting expectations, or to ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Poetry & Novels in Verse
    Becoming Madam Secretary
    by Stephanie Dray
    Berkley Books, 03/12/2024
     
    Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, armed with her trusty parasol and...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
    by Jessica J. Lee
    Catapult, 03/12/2024
     
    A seed slips beyond a garden wall. A tree is planted on a precarious border. A shrub is stolen from its culture and its land. What happens when these ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Science, Health and the Environment
    Flight of the Wild Swan
    by Melissa Pritchard
    Bellevue Literary Press, 03/12/2024
     
    Sweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    Fury: A Novel
    by Clyo Mendoza
    Seven Stories Press, 03/12/2024
     
    In a desert dotted with war-torn towns, Lázaro and Juan are two soldiers from opposing camps who abandon the war and, while fleeing, become ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Headshot: A Novel
    by Rita Bullwinkel
    Viking, 03/12/2024
     
    An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A family's unrelenting expectation of victory. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed up or...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Mother Doll: A Novel
    by Katya Apekina
    The Overlook Press, 03/12/2024
     
    Zhenia is adrift in Los Angeles, pregnant with a baby her husband doesn't want, while her Russian grandmother and favorite person in the world is ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Pride and Joy: A Novel
    by Louisa Onomé
    Atria Books, 03/12/2024
     
    Joy Okafor is overwhelmed. Recently divorced, a life coach whose phone won't stop ringing, and ever the dutiful Nigerian daughter, Joy has planned ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Reading Genesis
    by Marilynne Robinson
    Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/12/2024
     
    For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents, by various hands, expressing different factional ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
    by Jane Marie
    Atria Books, 03/12/2024
     
    We've all heard of Amway, Mary Kay, Tupperware, and LuLaRoe, but few know the nefarious way they and countless other multilevel marketing (MLM) ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
     Debut Author
    Six Truths and a Lie
    by Ream Shukairy
    Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/12/2024
     
    As fireworks pop off at a rowdy Fourth of July bonfire party, an explosion off the California coast levels an oil rig—resulting in chaos and ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Some Strange Music Draws Me In: A Novel
    by Griffin Hansbury
    W.W. Norton & Company, 03/12/2024
     
    It's the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel (short for Melanie) meets Sylvia, a tough-as-nails trans woman whose shameless swagger ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Sunbringer: Fallen Gods #2
    by Hannah Kaner
    Harper Voyager, 03/12/2024
     
    But gods cannot be destroyed so easily, and Hseth's power threatens to reform with even greater strength and a thirst for vengeance. As tensions rise ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    The Hedgewitch of Foxhall
    by Anna Bright
    HarperTeen, 03/12/2024
     
    Magic is fading from Wales—choked off by King Offa's Dyke, the enemy earthworks that spans the entire border. Even the dragons have disappeared....more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
    by Hala Alyan
    Ecco, 03/12/2024
     
    A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Poetry & Novels in Verse
    The Phoenix Bride: A Novel
    by Natasha Siegel
    Dell, 03/12/2024
     
    It is 1666, one year after plague has devastated England. Young widow Cecilia Thorowgood is a prisoner, trapped and isolated within her older sister's...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon's Story of Bravery, Survival, and Hope
    by Dr. Cornelia Griggs
    Gallery Books, 03/12/2024
     
    In the spring of 2020, many of us were sequestered in our homes, attempting to teach our children and learn to bake while the pings of news alerts and...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
     Debut Author
    The Swan's Nest: A Novel
    by Laura McNeal
    Algonquin Books, 03/12/2024
     
    On a bleak January day in 1845, a poet who had been confined to her room for four years by recurrent illness received a letter from a writer she ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    The Werewolf at Dusk: And Other Stories
    by David Small
    Liveright/W.W. Norton, 03/12/2024
     
    Long celebrated as a modern master of graphic literature, David Small has elicited in his work comparisons to Stan Lee and even Alfred Hitchcock. His ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Graphic Novels
    Annie Bot: A Novel
    by Sierra Greer
    Mariner Books, 03/19/2024
     
    Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
     Debut Author
    Bad Animals: A Novel
    by Sarah Braunstein
    W.W. Norton & Company, 03/19/2024
     
    Now that her brilliant botanist daughter is off at college, buttoned-up Maeve Cosgrove loves her job at a quiet Maine public library more than ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Cancelled
    by Farrah Penn
    Viking Books for Younger Readers, 03/19/2024
     
    Not to brag, but Brynn Whittaker is basically killing her senior year. She's got the looks, the grades, and a thriving "flirt coach" business that ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Fervor: A Novel
    by Toby Lloyd
    Avid Reader Press, 03/19/2024
     
    Hannah and Eric Rosenthal are devout Jews living in North London with their three children and Eric's father Yosef, a Holocaust survivor. Both ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Finding Margaret Fuller: A Novel
    by Allison Pataki
    Ballantine Books, 03/19/2024
     
    Young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically brilliant, Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the celebrated Sage of ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    In the Orbit of You
    by Ashley Schumacher
    Wednesday Books, 03/19/2024
     
    It's been years since Nova Evans last saw Sam. She was too young then to understand why he had to move away—and what it had to do with the cuts ...more
    James: A Novel
    by Percival Everett
    Doubleday, 03/19/2024
     
    When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    No Judgment: Essays
    by Lauren Oyler
    HarperOne, 03/19/2024
     
    In her writing for Harper's, the London Review of Books, The New Yorker, and elsewhere, Lauren Oyler has emerged as one of the most trenchant and ...more
    Rules for Rule Breaking
    by Talia Tucker
    Kokila, 03/19/2024
     
    Winter Park and Bobby Bae are Korean American high school juniors whose families have been friends since the kids were making crayon art. They, ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Romance
     Debut Author
    Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
    by Jason De León
    Viking, 03/19/2024
     
    Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labor all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist's Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System
    by Dante Lauretta
    Grand Central Publishing, 03/19/2024
     
    On September 11, 1999, humanity made a monumental discovery in the vastness of space. Scientists uncovered an asteroid of immense scientific ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Science, Health and the Environment
     Debut Author
    The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic
    by Daniel de Visé
    Atlantic Monthly Press, 03/19/2024
     
    "They're not going to catch us," Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Jake, played by John Belushi. "We're on a mission from God." So opens...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    The Day Tripper: A Novel
    by James Goodhand
    Mira Books, 03/19/2024
     
    The right guy, the right place, the wrong time.

    It's 1995, and Alex Dean has it all: a spot at Cambridge University next year, the love of an ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The Divorcees
    by Rowan Beaird
    Flatiron Books, 03/19/2024
     
    Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The Hebrew Teacher
    by Maya Arad
    New Vessel Press, 03/19/2024
     
    When a young Hebrew literature professor joins the faculty, she finds his post-Zionist politics pose a threat to her life's work. Miriam, whose son ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The Last Bloodcarver: The Last Bloodcarver Duology #1
    by Vanessa Le
    Roaring Brook Press, 03/19/2024
     
    Nhika is a bloodcarver. A coldhearted, ruthless being who can alter human biology with just a touch.

    In the harsh, industrial city of Theumas, she ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
     Debut Author
    The Mars House: A Novel
    by Natasha Pulley
    Bloomsbury USA, 03/19/2024
     
    In the wake of an environmental catastrophe, January, once a principal in London's Royal Ballet, has become a refugee in Tharsis, the terraformed ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    The Morningside: A Novel
    by Téa Obreht
    Random House, 03/19/2024
     
    There's the world you can see. And then there's the one you can't. Welcome to the Morningside.

    After being expelled from their ancestral home in a ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    The Mystery Writer: A Novel
    by Sulari Gentill
    Poisoned Pen Press, 03/19/2024
     
    When Theodosia Benton abandons her career path as an attorney and shows up on her brother's doorstep with two suitcases and an unfinished novel, she ...more
    The Princess of Las Vegas: A Novel
    by Chris Bohjalian
    Doubleday, 03/19/2024
     
    Crissy Dowling has created a world that suits her perfectly. She passes her days by the pool in a private cabana, she splurges on ice cream but never ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The Tree Doctor: A Novel
    by Marie Mutsuki Mockett
    Graywolf Press, 03/19/2024
     
    When the unnamed narrator of Marie Mutsuki Mockett's stirring second novel returns to Carmel, California, to care for her mother, she finds herself ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The Understory
    by Saneh Sangsuk
    Deep Vellum Publishing, 03/19/2024
     
    The lovable, yarnspinning monk Luang Paw Tien, now in his nineties, is the last person in his village to bear witness to the power and plenitude of ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Under This Red Rock
    by Mindy McGinnis
    Katherine Tegan Books, 03/19/2024
     
    Neely's monsters don't always follow her rules, so when the little girl under her bed, the man in her closet, and the disembodied voice that shadows ...more
    Where Sleeping Girls Lie
    by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
    Feiwel & Friends, 03/19/2024
     
    It's like I keep stumbling into a dark room, searching for the switch to make things bright again...

    Sade Hussein is starting her third year of ...more
    Who's Afraid of Gender?
    by Judith Butler
    Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/19/2024
     
    Judith Butler, the groundbreaking thinker whose iconic book Gender Trouble redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on...more
    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
    by Venki Ramakrishnan
    William Morrow, 03/19/2024
     
    The knowledge of death is so terrifying that we live most of our lives in denial of it. Throughout human history—from the immortal afterlife of ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Science, Health and the Environment
    Wild Houses
    by Colin Barrett
    Grove Press, 03/19/2024
     
    With his acclaimed and award-winning collections Young Skins and Homesickness Colin Barrett cemented his reputation as one of contemporary Irish ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Wolf at the Table
    by Adam Rapp
    Little Brown & Company, 03/19/2024
     
    As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest child of a large Catholic family, meets a young man she believes ...more
    Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability
    by Michael Kimmage
    Oxford University Press, 03/22/2024
     
    In Collisions, Michael Kimmage, a historian and former State Department official who focused on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, offers a wide-angle, ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    A Great Country: A Novel
    by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
    Mariner Books, 03/26/2024
     
    Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family. For the Shah ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
    by Matthew Stewart
    W.W. Norton & Company, 03/26/2024
     
    This is a story about a dangerous idea―one which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
    by Keith O'Brien
    Pantheon Books, 03/26/2024
     
    Pete Rose is a legend. A baseball god. He compiled more hits than anyone in the history of baseball, a record he set decades ago that still stands ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    Chronically Dolores
    by Maya Van Wagenen
    Dutton for Young Readers, 03/26/2024
     
    Dolores Mendoza is not thriving. She was recently diagnosed with a chronic bladder condition called interstitial cystitis. The painful disease isn't ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Glorious Exploits: A Novel
    by Ferdia Lennon
    Henry Holt and Company, 03/26/2024
     
    On the island of Sicily amid the Peloponnesian War, the Syracusans have figured out what to do with the surviving Athenians who had the gall to invade...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
     Debut Author
    How to Solve Your Own Murder: Castle Knoll Files #1
    by Kristen Perrin
    Dutton, 03/26/2024
     
    It's 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances's night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Mysteries
     Debut Author
    Icarus
    by K. Ancrum
    HarperTeen, 03/26/2024
     
    Icarus Gallagher is a thief. He steals priceless art and replaces it with his father's impeccable forgeries. For years, one man—the wealthy Mr. ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Like Happiness: A Novel
    by Ursula Villarreal-Moura
    Celadon, 03/26/2024
     
    It's 2015, and Tatum Vega feels that her life is finally falling into place. Living in sunny Chile with her partner, Vera, she spends her days ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Lost Man's Lane: A Novel
    by Scott Carson
    Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 03/26/2024
     
    For a sixteen-year-old, a summer internship working for a private investigator seems like a dream come true—particularly since the PI is ...more
    Perris, California: A Novel
    by Rachel Stark
    Penguin Books, 03/26/2024
     
    Abandoned first by her father and then her mother, as a girl Tessa is left to live with her abusive stepfather and stepbrother. She survives by ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Pieces of a Girl
    by Stephanie Kuehnert
    Dutton for Young Readers, 03/26/2024
     
    Told in varied narrative styles, including journal entries, original illustration, and pages torn from her actual diaries and zines, this is the ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story
    by Kristine S. Ervin
    Counterpoint Press, 03/26/2024
     
    Kristine S. Ervin was just eight years old when her mother, Kathy Sue Engle, was abducted from an Oklahoma mall parking lot and violently murdered in ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
     Debut Author
    Says Who?: A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
    by Anne Curzan
    Crown, 03/26/2024
     
    Our use of language naturally evolves and is a living, breathing thing that reflects who we are. Says Who? offers clear, nuanced guidance that goes ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power
    by Timothy W. Ryback
    Knopf, 03/26/2024
     
    In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans was unemployed. Violence was rampant. Hitler's National ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
    by Jonathan Haidt
    Penguin Books, 03/26/2024
     
    In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at ...more
    Science, Health and the Environment
    The Boy Lost in the Maze
    by Joseph Coelho
    Candlewick Press, 03/26/2024
     
    Theo, a seventeen-year-old London schoolboy with a single mother, is desperate to track down the father who left them, whom he scarcely remembers. At ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Worry: A Novel
    by Alexandra Tanner
    Scribner, 03/26/2024
     
    It's March of 2019, and twenty-eight-year-old Jules Gold—anxious, artistically frustrated, and internet-obsessed—has been living alone in ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
    by Madhumita Murgia
    Picador, 03/28/2024
     
    On the surface, a British poet, an UberEats courier in Pittsburgh, an Indian doctor, and a Chinese activist in exile have nothing in common. But they ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Science, Health and the Environment
     Debut Author
    No Son of Mine: A Memoir (Appalachian Futures Black Native & Queer Voices)
    by Jonathan Corcoran
    University Press of Kentucky, 04/01/2024
     
    Born and raised in rural West Virginia, Jonathan Corcoran was the youngest and only son of three siblings in a family balanced on the precipice of ...more
    Biography/Memoir
     Debut Author
    A Chance to Harmonize: How FDR's Hidden Music Unit Sought to Save America from the Great Depression-One Song at a Time
    by Sheryl Kaskowitz
    Pegasus Books, 04/02/2024
     
    In 1934, the Great Depression had destroyed the US economy, leaving residents poverty-stricken. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt urged President Roosevelt...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    A Good Happy Girl: A Novel
    by Marissa Higgins
    Catapult, 04/02/2024
     
    Helen, a jittery attorney with a self-destructive streak, is secretly reeling from a disturbing crime of neglect that her parents recently committed. ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    A Short Walk Through a Wide World: A Novel
    by Douglas Westerbeke
    Avid Reader Press, 04/02/2024
     
    Paris, 1885: Aubry Tourvel, a spoiled and stubborn nine-year-old girl, comes across a wooden puzzle ball on her walk home from school. She tosses it ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
    by Becca Rothfeld
    Metropolitan Books, 04/02/2024
     
    In her debut essay collection, "brilliant and stylish" (The Washington Post) critic Becca Rothfeld takes on one of the most sacred cows of our time: ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Essays
     Debut Author
    Ash Dark as Night: A Harry Ingram Mystery
    by Gary Phillips
    Soho Press, 04/02/2024
     
    Los Angeles, August 1965. Anger and pent-up frustrations boil over in the Watts neighborhood after a traffic stop of two Black motorists. As the Watts...more
    Mysteries
    City in Ruins: Danny Ryan Trilogy #3
    by Don Winslow
    William Morrow, 04/02/2024
     
    Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love.

    Danny Ryan is rich.

    Beyond his wildest dreams rich.

    The former dock ...more
    City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
    by Megan Kimble
    Crown, 04/02/2024
     
    Every major American city has a highway tearing through its center. Seventy years ago, planners sold these highways as progress, essential to our ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Clear: A Novel
    by Carys Davies
    Scribner, 04/02/2024
     
    John, an impoverished Scottish minister, has accepted a job evicting the lone remaining occupant of an island north of Scotland—Ivar, who has ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    Every Time You Hear That Song
    by Jenna Voris
    Viking Books for Younger Readers, 04/02/2024
     
    They say never meet your idols. But nothing about digging up their deepest secrets.

    Seventeen-year-old aspiring journalist Darren Purchase has been...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland
    by Henry Hemming
    Public Affairs, 04/02/2024
     
    The search for justice for this one man's death—his body found in broad daylight, with tape over his eyes, an undisguised hit—would ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Habitations: A Novel
    by Sheila Sundar
    Little Simon, 04/02/2024
     
    Vega Gopalan is adrift. Still reeling from the death of her sister years earlier, she leaves South India to attend graduate school at Columbia ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery
    by Earl Swift
    Mariner Books, 04/02/2024
     
    On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    I Cheerfully Refuse
    by Leif Enger
    Atlantic Monthly Press, 04/02/2024
     
    A storyteller "of great humanity and huge heart" (Minneapolis Star Tribune), Leif Enger debuted in the literary world with Peace Like a River which ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves
    by J. Drew Lanham
    Hub City Press, 04/02/2024
     
    In gorgeous and timely pieces, Joy Is the Justice We Give Ourselves is a lush journey into wildness and Black being. Lanham notices nature through ...more
    Like Love: Essays and Conversations
    by Maggie Nelson
    Graywolf Press, 04/02/2024
     
    Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, ...more
    Made Glorious
    by Lindsay Eagar
    Candlewick Press, 04/02/2024
     
    Rory is an antihero for the ages. Like Shakespeare's Richard III, she confides in her audience, telling us exactly the lengths she'll go to to secure ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Missing Persons: or, My Grandmother's Secrets
    by Clair Wills
    Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/02/2024
     
    When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met. Born in a mother-and-baby home in 1950s Ireland, Mary grew up...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    One by One
    by Freida McFadden
    Poisoned Pen Press, 04/02/2024
     
    Claire Matchett needs this trip. It will be a break from work and raising children. A chance to repair her damaged marriage. A week of hiking and hot ...more
    Thrillers
    Something About Living (Akron Series in Poetry)
    by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
    University of Akron Press, 04/02/2024
     
    Her poems interweave Palestine's historic suffering, the challenges of living in this world full of violence and ill will, and the gentle delights we ...more
    Poetry & Novels in Verse
    Something Kindred
    by Ciera Burch
    Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/02/2024
     
    Welcome to Coldwater. Come for the ghosts, stay for the drama.

    Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior year soaking up the sun...more
    Thrillers
     Debut Author
    Still As Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon, from Antiquity to Tomorrow
    by Christopher Cokinos
    Pegasus Books, 04/02/2024
     
    "When the Moon rises between buildings or over trees, it's not just a beautiful light: It's an archive of human longing, fear and adventure. The Moon ...more
    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Table for Two: Fictions
    by Amor Towles
    Viking, 04/02/2024
     
    Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Short Stories
    The Black Girl Survives in This One: Horror Stories
    by Desiree S. Evans
    Flatiron Books, 04/02/2024
     
    Be warned, dear reader: The Black girls survive in this one.

    Celebrating a new generation of bestselling and acclaimed Black writers, The Black ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Short Stories
    The Breakup Lists
    by Adib Khorram
    Dial Books, 04/02/2024
     
    Jackson Ghasnavi is a lot of things—a techie, a smoothie afficionado, a totally not obsessive list-maker—but one thing he's not is a ...more
    The Cemetery of Untold Stories: A Novel
    by Julia Alvarez
    Algonquin Books, 04/02/2024
     
    Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The Cemetery of Untold Stories, doesn't want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The Father She Went to Find: A Novel
    by Carter Wilson
    Poisoned Pen Press, 04/02/2024
     
    Penny has never met anyone smarter than her. That's par for the course when you're a savant—one of less than one hundred in the world. But ...more
    The House on Biscayne Bay
    by Chanel Cleeton
    Berkley Books, 04/02/2024
     
    With the Great War finally behind them, many Americans flock to South Florida with their sights set on making a fortune. When wealthy industrialist ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
    by Stefanos Geroulanos
    Liveright/W.W. Norton, 04/02/2024
     
    Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony
    by Annabelle Tometich
    Little Brown & Company, 04/02/2024
     
    When journalist Annabelle Tometich picks up the phone one June morning, she isn't expecting a collect call from an inmate at the Lee County Jail. And ...more
    Biography/Memoir
    The Murder of Mr. Ma
    by John Shen Yen Nee and SJ Rozan
    Soho Press, 04/02/2024
     
    Two unlikely allies race through the cobbled streets of 1920s London in search of a killer targeting Chinese immigrants.

    London, 1924. When shy ...more
    The Night in Question: A Novel
    by Susan Fletcher
    Union Square & Co., 04/02/2024
     
    Florrie Butterfield—eighty-seven, one-legged, and of cheerful disposition—believes there can't be any more adventures or surprises in life...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The Sicilian Inheritance: A Novel
    by Jo Piazza
    Dutton, 04/02/2024
     
    Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage. On top of that, her beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away,...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    The Stone Home: A Novel
    by Crystal Hana Kim
    William Morrow, 04/02/2024
     
    In 2011, Eunju Oh opens her door to greet a stranger: a young Korean American woman holding a familiar-looking knife—a knife Eunju hasn't seen ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The Titanic Survivors Book Club: A Novel
    by Timothy Schaffert
    Doubleday, 04/02/2024
     
    For weeks after the sinking of the Titanic, Yorick spots his own name among the list of those lost at sea. As an apprentice librarian for the White ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    Village Weavers
    by Myriam JA Chancy
    Tin House Books, 04/02/2024
     
    In 1940s' Port-au-Prince, Gertie and Sisi become fast childhood friends, despite being on opposite ends of the social and economic ladder. As young ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
    by Lydia Millet
    W.W. Norton & Company, 04/02/2024
     
    Across more than a dozen acclaimed works of fiction, readers have become intimate with Lydia Millet's distinctive voice and sly wit. We Loved It All, ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Science, Health and the Environment
    Canto Contigo: A Novel
    by Jonny Garza Villa
    Wednesday Books, 04/09/2024
     
    In a twenty-four-hour span, Rafael Alvarez led North Amistad High School's Mariachi Alma de la Frontera to their eleventh consecutive first-place win ...more
    Daughter of Mine: A Novel
    by Megan Miranda
    Marysue Rucci Books, 04/09/2024
     
    When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town&#...more
    Death in the Details: A Novel
    by Katie Tietjen
    Crooked Lane Books, 04/09/2024
     
    Maple Bishop is ready to put WWII and the grief of losing her husband, Bill, behind her. But when she discovers that Bill left her penniless, Maple ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Mysteries
     Debut Author
    Dragonfruit
    by Makiia Lucier
    Clarion, 04/09/2024
     
    In the old tales, it is written that the egg of a seadragon, dragonfruit, holds within it the power to undo a person's greatest sorrow. An unwanted ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    Fi: A Memoir of My Son
    by Alexandra Fuller
    Grove Press, 04/09/2024
     
    "Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday." And so begins Alexandra Fuller's open, vivid new memoir, Fi. It's ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    Grey Dog
    by Elliott Gish
    ECW Press, 04/09/2024
     
    The year is 1901, and Ada Byrd — spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist — accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful for...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
     Debut Author
    Ian Fleming: The Complete Man
    by Nicholas Shakespeare
    Harper, 04/09/2024
     
    Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
    by Kathleen DuVal
    Random House, 04/09/2024
     
    Long before the colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adapted to a changing world in ways that ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Rangikura: Poems
    by Tayi Tibble
    Knopf, 04/09/2024
     
    Tayi Tibble returns on the heels of her incendiary debut with a bold new follow-up. Barbed and erotic, vulnerable and searching, Rangikura asks ...more
    Poetry & Novels in Verse
    Somehow: Thoughts on Love
    by Anne Lamott
    Riverhead Books, 04/09/2024
     
    "Love is our only hope," Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. "It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the ...more
    The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
    by Amanda Montell
    Atria Books, 04/09/2024
     
    Utilizing the linguistic insights of her "witty and brilliant" (Blyth Roberson, author of America the Beautiful?) first book Wordslut and the ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    The British Booksellers
    by Kristy Cambron
    Thomas Nelson, 04/09/2024
     
    A tenant farmer's son had no business daring to dream of a future with an earl's daughter, but that couldn't keep Amos Darby from his secret ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    The Familiar: A Novel
    by Leigh Bardugo
    Flatiron Books, 04/09/2024
     
    In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    The Garden: A Novel
    by Clare Beams
    Doubleday, 04/09/2024
     
    In 1948, Irene Willard, who's had five previous miscarriages in a quest to give her beloved husband the child he desperately desires and is now ...more
    The House of Broken Bricks: A Novel
    by Fiona Williams
    Henry Holt and Company, 04/09/2024
     
    Tess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in the city to the English countryside, where predatory ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    The Limits: A Novel
    by Nell Freudenberger
    Knopf, 04/09/2024
     
    From Mo'orea, a tiny volcanic island off the coast of Tahiti, a French biologist obsessed with saving Polynesia's imperiled coral reefs sends her ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The Sleepwalkers: A Novel
    by Scarlett Thomas
    Simon & Schuster, 04/09/2024
     
    Still reeling from the chaos of their wedding, Evelyn and Richard arrive on a tiny Greek island for their honeymoon. It's the end of the season and a ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
    by Hampton Sides
    Doubleday, 04/09/2024
     
    On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    The Widow Spy: A Novel
    by Megan Campisi
    Atria Books, 04/09/2024
     
    Kate Warne is many things: the country's first female detective, a Pinkerton agent, and a union spy.

    It's August 1861, and her latest assignment ...more
    Thrillers
    The Wives: A Memoir
    by Simone Gorrindo
    Gallery/Scout Press, 04/09/2024
     
    When her new husband joins an elite Army unit, Simone Gorrindo is uprooted from New York City and dropped into Columbus, Georgia—a town so ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
     Debut Author
    Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
    by Norman Ohler
    Mariner Books, 04/09/2024
     
    Berlin 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use—long kept under control by the Nazis' strict anti-drug laws—is rampant ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    A Kind of Madness
    by Uche Okonkwo
    Tin House Books, 04/16/2024
     
    A teenage girl from a poor family is dazzled by her rich, vivacious friend, but as the friend's behavior grows unstable and dangerous, she must decide...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Short Stories
    After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations (Turning Points in Ancient History # 2)
    by Eric H. Cline
    Princeton University Press, 04/16/2024
     
    At the end of the acclaimed history 1177 B.C., many of the Late Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean lay in ruins, undone ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
    by Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger
    St. Martin's Press, 04/16/2024
     
    For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. But ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Science, Health and the Environment
     Debut Author
    Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
    by Alua Arthur
    Mariner Books, 04/16/2024
     
    For her clients and everyone who has been inspired by her humanity, Alua Arthur is a friend at the end of the world. As our country's leading death ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
     Debut Author
    Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever
    by Rachel Lance
    Dutton, 04/16/2024
     
    This is the previously classified story of one group of scientific researchers—men and women—who exposed themselves to extraordinary risks...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Chipped: Writing from a Skateboarder's Lens
    by José Vadi
    Soft Skull Press, 04/16/2024
     
    Chipping a board—where small pieces of deck and tape break off around the nose and tail—is a natural part of skateboarding. Novice or pro,...more
    Close to Death: A Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery #5
    by Anthony Horowitz
    Harper, 04/16/2024
     
    Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far away from the noise and grime of city life, ...more
    Dear Wendy
    by Ann Zhao
    Feiwel & Friends, 04/16/2024
     
    Sophie Chi is in her first year of college (though her parents wish she'd attend a "real" university rather than a liberal arts school) and has long ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Did I Ever Tell You?: A Memoir
    by Genevieve Kingston
    Marysue Rucci Books, 04/16/2024
     
    Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston was just eleven years old when her mother passed away, leaving behind a chest filled with gifts and letters to celebrate the...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
     Debut Author
    Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
    by Will Cockrell
    Gallery Books, 04/16/2024
     
    Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air or has seen a recent photo of climbers standing in line to get to the top of Everest may think they ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    Henry Henry
    by Allen Bratton
    The Unnamed Press, 04/16/2024
     
    Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere...

    It's London, 2014, and Hal Lancaster, son and heir of Henry, Duke of Lancaster, is in a holding ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Honey: A Novel
    by Victor Lodato
    Harper, 04/16/2024
     
    As a rebellious teenager, Honey managed to escape her father's circle of influence and reinvent herself in a world of art and beauty, working for a ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
    by Sofia Samatar
    Tor Books, 04/16/2024
     
    The boy was raised as one of the Chained, condemned to toil in the bowels of a mining ship out among the stars. His whole world changes—...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    The Alternatives: A Novel
    by Caoilinn Hughes
    Riverhead Books, 04/16/2024
     
    The Flattery sisters were plunged prematurely into adulthood when their parents died in tragic circumstances. Now in their thirties—all single, ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The Book of Secrets: A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China
    by Xinran Xue
    Bloomsbury Continuum, 04/16/2024
     
    Following the lives of military intelligence officer Jie and his wife Moon, The Book of Secrets weaves recently found material into a narrative that ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    The Evolution of Annabel Craig: A Novel
    by Lisa Grunwald
    Random House, 04/16/2024
     
    I had never questioned a miracle, witnessed a gunfight, or seen a dead body... . I had thought I knew exactly what I wanted and what I didn't. Before ...more
    Historical Fiction
    The Spoiled Heart: A Novel
    by Sunjeev Sahota
    Viking, 04/16/2024
     
    Nayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town. She's returned with her teenage son to live in the run-down house at the end of the lane, and&#...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing
    by Adam Moss
    Penguin Books, 04/16/2024
     
    What is the work of art? In this guided tour inside the artist's head, Adam Moss traces the evolution of transcendent novels, paintings, jokes, movies...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    This Part Is Silent: A Life Between Cultures
    by SJ Kim
    W.W. Norton & Company, 04/16/2024
     
    Born in Korea, raised in the American South, and trying her best to survive British academia, SJ Kim probes her experiences as a writer, a scholar, ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Essays
     Debut Author
    Weird Black Girls: Stories
    by Elwin Cotman
    Scribner, 04/16/2024
     
    A rural town finds itself under the authoritarian sway of a tree that punishes children. A pair of old friends navigate their fraught history as ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Short Stories
    Black Bell
    by Alison C. Rollins
    Copper Canyon Press, 04/23/2024
     
    Inspired by the nineteenth century image of an enslaved woman wearing iron horns and bells, Alison C. Rollins's Black Bell continues an exploration of...more
    Poetry & Novels in Verse
     Debut Author
    Dark Parts of the Universe
    by Samuel Miller
    Katherine Tegan Books, 04/23/2024
     
    In Calico Springs, Willie's life has been defined by two powerful forces: God and the river. The "miracle boy" died for five minutes as a young child,...more
    Extinction: A Novel
    by Douglas Preston
    Forge Books, 04/23/2024
     
    Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly ...more
    Homebody
    by Theo Parish
    HarperAlley, 04/23/2024
     
    Combining traditional comics with organic journal-like interludes, Theo takes us through their experiences with the hundred arbitrary and unspoken ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
     Debut Author
    Huddud's House: A Novel
    by Fadi Azzam
    Interlink Books, 04/23/2024
     
    How far is love willing to travel in search of its own lost voice?

    When tyranny unleashes destructive forces that threaten to overwhelm a country, ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays
    by Nell Irvin Painter
    Doubleday, 04/23/2024
     
    Throughout her prolific writing career, Nell Painter has published works on such luminaries as Sojourner Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Malcolm X. ...more
    Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution
    by Anne Higonnet
    W.W. Norton & Company, 04/23/2024
     
    Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    Lucky: A Novel
    by Jane Smiley
    Knopf, 04/23/2024
     
    Before Jodie Rattler became a star, she was a girl growing up in St. Louis. One day in 1955, when she was just six years old, her uncle Drew took her ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals
    by Bill Wasik
    Knopf, 04/23/2024
     
    Over just a few decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the United States underwent a moral revolution on behalf of animals. Before the Civil ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Science, Health and the Environment
    Reboot: A Novel
    by Justin Taylor
    Pantheon Books, 04/23/2024
     
    David Crader is a has-been. A former child actor from the hit teen drama Rev Beach, he now rotates between his new roles as deadbeat dad, recovering ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
    by Judi Dench
    St. Martin's Griffin, 04/23/2024
     
    - Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig...
    - Cavorting naked through the Warwickshire countryside painted green...
    - Acting ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    Song of the Six Realms
    by Judy I. Lin
    Feiwel & Friends, 04/23/2024
     
    Xue, a talented young musician, has no past and probably no future. Orphaned at a young age, her kindly poet uncle took her in and arranged for an ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    The Everything War: Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power
    by Dana Mattioli
    Little Brown & Company, 04/23/2024
     
    In 2017, Lina Khan published a paper that accused Amazon of being a monopoly, having grown so large, and embedded in so many industries, it was akin ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    The Flower Sisters
    by Michelle Collins Anderson
    A John Scognamiglio Book, 04/23/2024
     
    Drawing on the little-known true story of one tragic night at an Ozarks dance hall in the author's Missouri hometown, this beautifully written, ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union
    by Stephen Puleo
    St. Martin's Griffin, 04/23/2024
     
    In the tempestuous mid-19th century, as slavery consumed Congressional debate and America careened toward civil war and split apart–when the ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters
    by Susan Page
    Simon & Schuster, 04/23/2024
     
    Barbara Walters was a force from the time TV was exploding on the American scene in the 1960s to its waning dominance in a new world of competition ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    The Sky Was Ours: A Novel
    by Joe Fassler
    Penguin Books, 04/23/2024
     
    It's 2005, and 24-year-old Jane is miserable. Overworked, buried in debt, she senses the life she wanted slipping away—while the world around ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    The Whole Staggering Mystery: A Story of Fathers Lost and Found
    by Sylvia Brownrigg
    Counterpoint Press, 04/23/2024
     
    When Sylvia Brownrigg received a package addressed to her father that had been lost for over fifty years, she wanted to deliver it to him before it ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    The Wings Upon Her Back
    by Samantha Mills
    Tachyon Publications, 04/23/2024
     
    Zenya was a teenager when she ran away from home to join the mechanically-modified warrior sect. She was determined to earn mechanized wings and ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
     Debut Author
    Wild Dreamers
    by Margarita Engle
    Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 04/23/2024
     
    Ana and her mother have been living out of their car ever since her militant father became one of the FBI's most wanted. Leandro has struggled with ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Poetry & Novels in Verse
    Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Agent A12 and the Solving of the Holocaust Code
    by Jason Bell
    Pegasus Books, 04/30/2024
     
    In public life, Dr. Winthrop Bell was a Harvard philosophy professor and wealthy businessman.

    As an MI6 spy—known as secret agent A12—...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Crow Talk: A Novel
    by Eileen Garvin
    Dutton, 04/30/2024
     
    Frankie O'Neill and Anne Ryan would seem to have nothing in common. Frankie is a lonely ornithologist struggling to salvage her dissertation on the ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    I'll Be Waiting for You
    by Mariko Turk
    Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 04/30/2024
     
    Natalie and Imogen are inseparable, and wildly different—Imogen is infuriatingly humble and incredibly intelligent, while Natalie is brave, ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    In Universes: A Novel
    by Emet North
    Harper, 04/30/2024
     
    Raffi works in an observational cosmology lab, searching for dark matter and trying to hide how little they understand their own research. Every ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
     Debut Author
    Not Like Other Girls
    by Meredith Adamo
    Bloomsbury YA, 04/30/2024
     
    When Jo-Lynn Kirby 's former best friend-pretty, nice Maddie Price-comes to her claiming to be in trouble, Jo assumes it's some kind of joke. After ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Only the Brave: A Novel
    by Danielle Steel
    Delacorte Press, 04/30/2024
     
    Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, ...more
    Historical Fiction
    Profiles in Mental Health Courage
    by Patrick J. Kennedy
    Dutton, 04/30/2024
     
    Several years ago, Patrick J. Kennedy shared the story of his personal and family challenges with mental illness and addiction—and the nation's&...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Science, Health and the Environment
    Real Americans: A Novel
    by Rachel Khong
    Knopf, 04/30/2024
     
    Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
    by Erik Larson
    Crown, 04/30/2024
     
    On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    The Funeral Cryer: A Novel
    by Wenyan Lu
    Hanover Square Press, 04/30/2024
     
    The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job and ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
    by Karen Valby
    Pantheon Books, 04/30/2024
     
    At the height of the Civil Rights movement, Lydia Abarca was a Black prima ballerina with a major international dance company—the Dance Theatre ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    What's Eating Jackie Oh?
    by Patricia Park
    Crown Books for Young Readers, 04/30/2024
     
    Jackie Oh is done being your model minority.

    She's tired of perfect GPAs, PSATs, SATs, all of it. Jackie longs to become a professional chef. But...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    A Nest of Vipers: A Bangalore Detectives Club Mystery
    by Harini Nagendra
    Pegasus Crime, 05/02/2024
     
    This latest novel in the Bangalore Detectives Club mystery series takes the reader deep into the historical era surrounding the visit by Edward, ...more
    A Lonesome Place for Dying: A Novel
    by Nolan Chase
    Crooked Lane Books, 05/07/2024
     
    In the quiet seaside town of Blaine, Washington, the most serious police work involves dealing with stray coyotes or ticketing speeders along the I-5....more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Mysteries
     Debut Author
    América del Norte
    by Nicolás Medina Mora
    Soho Press, 05/07/2024
     
    Sebastián lived a childhood of privilege in Mexico City. Now in his twenties, he has a degree from Yale, an American girlfriend, and a slot in ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Beastly Beauty
    by Jennifer Donnelly
    Scholastic, 05/07/2024
     
    What makes a girl "beastly?" Is it having too much ambition? Being too proud? Taking up too much space? Or is it just wanting something, anything, too...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    Cinema Love: A Novel
    by Jiaming Tang
    Dutton, 05/07/2024
     
    For over thirty years, Old Second and Bao Mei have cobbled together a meager existence in New York City's Chinatown. But unlike other couples, these ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Daughters of Shandong
    by Eve J. Chung
    Berkley Books, 05/07/2024
     
    Daughters are the Ang family's curse.

    In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
     Debut Author
    Death's Country
    by R. M. Romero
    Peachtree Publishers, 05/07/2024
     
    Andres Santos of São Paulo was all swinging fists and firecracker fury, a foot soldier in the war between his parents, until he drowned in the ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    Early Sobrieties: A Novel
    by Michael Deagler
    Astra House, 05/07/2024
     
    Don't worry about what Dennis Monk did when he was drinking. He's sober now, ready to rejoin the world of leases and paychecks, reciprocal friendships...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Eyes Open
    by Lyn Miller-Lachmann
    Carolrhoda Books, 05/07/2024
     
    She'll become a poet, and together she and her artist boyfriend, Zé Miguel, will rise above the government restrictions that shape their lives. ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Poetry & Novels in Verse
    How It Works Out: A Novel
    by Myriam Lacroix
    The Overlook Press, 05/07/2024
     
    When Myriam and Allison fall in love at a show in a run-down punk house, their relationship begins to unfold through a series of hypotheticals. What ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    How Nietzsche Came in From the Cold: Tale of a Redemption
    by Philipp Felsch
    Polity, 05/07/2024
     
    It was only when two ambitious antifascist Italians, Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, began to comb through the archives that anyone warmed to the...more
    Biography/Memoir
    How to Read a Book: A Novel
    by Monica Wood
    Mariner Books, 05/07/2024
     
    Our Reasons meet us in the morning and whisper to us at night. Mine is an innocent, unsuspecting, eternally sixty-one-year-old woman named Lorraine ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Hunted
    by Abir Mukherjee
    Mulholland, 05/07/2024
     
    In London, the police storm Heathrow Airport to bring in a father for questioning about his missing daughter.

    In Florida, a mother makes a ...more
    I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv
    by Illia Ponomarenko
    Bloomsbury USA, 05/07/2024
     
    In late February 2022, a series of missiles and rocket strikes began falling upon Ukraine, as the Russian military barreled over the border and fanned...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
     Debut Author
    Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
    by Eric Jay Dolin
    Liveright/W.W. Norton, 05/07/2024
     
    In Left for Dead, Eric Jay Dolin―"one of today's finest writers about ships and the sea" (American Heritage)―tells the true story of a ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Science, Health and the Environment
    Loneliness & Company
    by Charlee Dyroff
    Bloomsbury USA, 05/07/2024
     
    Lee knows she's the best. A professor favorite and fellowship winner, there's no doubt she'll land one of the coveted jobs at a Big Five corporation. ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
     Debut Author
    Long Island: Eilis Lacey Series #2
    by Colm Toibin
    Scribner, 05/07/2024
     
    Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Look Away: A True Story of Murders, Bombings, and a Far-Right Campaign to Rid Germany of Immigrants
    by Jacob Kushner
    Grand Central Publishing, 05/07/2024
     
    Not long after the Berlin Wall fell, three teenagers became friends in the East German town of Jena. It was a time of excitement, but also of economic...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Love Is a Burning Thing: A Memoir
    by Nina St. Pierre
    Dutton, 05/07/2024
     
    Ten years before Nina was born, her mother lit herself on fire in a dual suicide attempt. During her recovery in the burn-unit, a nurse initiated her ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
     Debut Author
    Mother Knows Best: Tales of Homemade Horror (A Women in Horror Anthology)
    by Lindy Ryan
    Black Spot, 05/07/2024
     
    From mama trauma to smother mother, this all-new women in horror anthology features stories about the scariest monster of them all—our mothers.
    Short Stories
    Phantom Orbit: A Thriller
    by David Ignatius
    W.W. Norton & Company, 05/07/2024
     
    David Ignatius is known for his uncanny ability, in novel after novel, to predict the next great national security headline. In Phantom Orbit, he ...more
    Queerceañera
    by Alex Crespo
    HarperTeen, 05/07/2024
     
    Joaquin Zoido is out and proud of it. And while he knew his dad and sister, Carmen, would be super supportive, he wasn't quite ready for them to ...more
    Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire
    by Paula Yoo
    Norton Young Readers, 05/07/2024
     
    In the spring of 1992, after a jury returned not guilty verdicts in the trial of four police officers charged in the brutal beating of a Black man, ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Sipsworth
    by Simon Van Booy
    David R. Godine, 05/07/2024
     
    Following the loss of her husband and son, Helen Cartwright returns to the village of her childhood after living abroad for six decades. Her only wish...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    skin & bones: a novel
    by Renée Watson
    Little Brown & Company, 05/07/2024
     
    At 40, Lena Baker is at a steady and stable moment in life—between wine nights with her two best friends and her wedding just weeks away, she's ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    The Body Farm: Stories
    by Abby Geni
    Counterpoint Press, 05/07/2024
     
    The body cannot tell any lies. From birth to death, and through all the transitions in between, the body stores our knowledge and history, our ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Short Stories
    The Lady Waiting: A Novel
    by Magdalena Zyzak
    Riverhead Books, 05/07/2024
     
    One bright Los Angeles day, a young Polish émigré named Viva is driving along the freeway when she's flagged down by a dazzling, disheveled ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
    by Zoë Schlanger
    Harper, 05/07/2024
     
    It takes tremendous biological creativity to be a plant. To survive and thrive while rooted in a single spot, plants have adapted ingenious methods of...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Science, Health and the Environment
     Debut Author
    The Ministry of Time: A Novel
    by Kaliane Bradley
    Avid Reader Press, 05/07/2024
     
    In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
     Debut Author
    The Stolen Child: A Novel
    by Ann Hood
    W.W. Norton & Company, 05/07/2024
     
    For decades, Nick Burns has been haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, when a French artist he'd befriended thrust both her...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The World Is Yours: The Story of Scarface
    by Glenn Kenny
    Hanover Square Press, 05/07/2024
     
    An unflinching confrontation of humanity's dark side, Brian De Palma's crime drama film Scarface gave rise to a cultural revolution upon its release ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Their Divine Fires: A Novel
    by Wendy Chen
    Algonquin Books, 05/07/2024
     
    In 1917, at the dawn of the Chinese Revolution, Yunhong grows up in the southern China countryside and falls deeply in love with the son of a wealthy ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
     Debut Author
    This Book Won't Burn
    by Samira Ahmed
    Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 05/07/2024
     
    After her dad abruptly abandons her family and her mom moves them a million miles from their Chicago home, Noor Khan is forced to start the last ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics
    by Ernesto Londoño
    Celadon, 05/07/2024
     
    When he signed up for a psychedelic retreat run by a mysterious Argentine woman deep in Brazil's rainforest in early 2018, Ernesto Londoño, a ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    Whale Fall: A Novel
    by Elizabeth O'Connor
    Pantheon Books, 05/07/2024
     
    In 1938, a dead whale washes up on the shores of remote Welsh island. For Manod, who has spent her whole life on the island, it feels like both a ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
     Debut Author
    Women and Children First: A Novel
    by Alina Grabowski
    Zando, 05/07/2024
     
    Nashquitten, MA, is a decaying coastal enclave that not even tourist season can revive, full of locals who have run the town's industries for ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The North Wind
    by Alexandria Warwick
    Simon & Schuster, 05/09/2024
     
    Wren of Edgewood is no stranger to suffering. Her parents are gone. Survival is all she knows. For three hundred years, the land known as the Gray has...more
    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    The Downloaded
    by Robert J. Sawyer
    Shadowpaw Press, 05/11/2024
     
    In 2059 two very different groups have their minds uploaded into a quantum computer in Waterloo, Ontario.

    One group consists of astronauts ...more
    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
    by Lawrence Ingrassia
    Henry Holt and Company, 05/14/2024
     
    Ingrassia lost his mother, two sisters, brother, and nephew to cancer—different cancers developing at different points throughout their lives. ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Science, Health and the Environment
    All Fours: A Novel
    by Miranda July
    Riverhead Books, 05/14/2024
     
    A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nation
    by John Kaag
    Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/14/2024
     
    The Bloods were one of America's first and most expansive pioneer families. They explored and laid claim to the frontiers—geographic, political,...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Another Word for Love: A Memoir
    by Carvell Wallace
    MCD, 05/14/2024
     
    In Another Word for Love, Carvell Wallace excavates layers of his own history, situated in the struggles and beauty of growing up Black and queer in ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
     Debut Author
    Blue Ruin: A Novel
    by Hari Kunzru
    Knopf, 05/14/2024
     
    Once, Jay was an artist. After graduating from art school in London, he was tipped for greatness, a promising career taking shape before him. That was...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
    by Adam Higginbotham
    Avid Reader Press, 05/14/2024
     
    On January 28, 1986, just seventy-three seconds into flight, the space shuttle Challenger broke apart over the Atlantic Ocean, killing all seven ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Every Time We Say Goodbye: A Novel
    by Natalie Jenner
    St. Martin's Press, 05/14/2024
     
    In 1955, Vivien Lowry is facing the greatest challenge of her life. Her latest play, the only female-authored play on the London stage that season, ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies
    by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
    Princeton University Press, 05/14/2024
     
    It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn't it always been so? When evolutionary science came along, it...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Liquid, Fragile, Perishable
    by Carolyn Kuebler
    Melville House, 05/14/2024
     
    May has arrived in the tiny hamlet of Glenville, Vermont, bringing with it currents of rejuvenation and rebirth. For 3 families, though, the year ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Long After We Are Gone: A Novel
    by Terah Shelton Harris
    Sourcebooks Landmark, 05/14/2024
     
    "Don't let the white man take the house."

    These are the last words King Solomon says to his son before he dies. Now all four Solomon siblings must ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
    by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
    Tiny Reparations, 05/14/2024
     
    Upon becoming a new mother, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal was called to Mexico to reconnect with her ancestors and recover her grandmother's story,...more
    My First Book
    by Honor Levy
    Penguin Press, 05/14/2024
     
    Walking the wire between imagination and confession, My First Book marks the arrival of an electric new talent. Honor Levy's uniquely riveting voice ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Short Stories
     Debut Author
    Oye: A Novel
    by Melissa Mogollon
    Hogarth Books, 05/14/2024
     
    "Yes, hi, Mari. It's me. I'm over my tantrum now and calling you back ... But first—you have to promise that you won't tell Mom or Abue any of ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Rednecks: A Novel
    by Taylor Brown
    St. Martin's Press, 05/14/2024
     
    Rednecks is a tour de force, big canvas historical novel that dramatizes the 1920 to 1921 events of the West Virginia Mine Wars—from the Matewan...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    Rise of a Killah
    by Ghostface Killah
    St. Martin's Press, 05/14/2024
     
    Dennis Coles—aka Ghostface Killah—is a co-founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, a legendary hip hop group who established themselves by breaking ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
     Debut Author
    Road Home
    by Rex Ogle
    W.W. Norton & Company, 05/14/2024
     
    When Rex was outed the summer after he graduated high school, his father gave him a choice: he could stay at home, find a girlfriend, and attend ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Road to Ruin: Magebike Courier #1
    by Hana Lee
    Other Press, 05/14/2024
     
    Jin-Lu has the most dangerous job in the wasteland. She's a magebike courier, one of the few who venture outside the domed cities on motorcycles ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
     Debut Author
    Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World
    by Caroline Alexander
    Viking, 05/14/2024
     
    In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from India to China. Supplies to this critical ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Spitting Gold: A Novel
    by Carmella Lowkis
    Atria Books, 05/14/2024
     
    Paris, 1866. When Baroness Sylvie Devereux receives a house call from Charlotte Mothe, the sister she disowned, she fears her shady past as a spirit ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
     Debut Author
    Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories
    by Colombe Schneck
    Penguin Press, 05/14/2024
     
    At fifty years old, while taking swimming lessons, I finally realized that my body was not actually as incompetent as I'd thought. My physical ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The Blue Maiden
    by Anna Noyes
    Grove Press, 05/14/2024
     
    It's 1825, four generations after Berggrund Island's women stood accused of witchcraft under the eye of their priest, now long dead. In his place is ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
     Debut Author
    The Brightwood Code
    by Monica Hesse
    Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 05/14/2024
     
    Seven months ago, Edda was on the World War I front lines as one of two hundred "Hello Girls," female switchboard operators employed by the US Army. ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    The Puerto Rican War: A Graphic History
    by John Vasquez Mejias
    Union Square & Co., 05/14/2024
     
    Rendered in gorgeously carved wood blocks and buffeted with historical supplemental material, John Vasquez Mejias's The Puerto Rican War tells the ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
     Debut Author
    The Silence of the Choir
    by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
    Europa Editions, 05/14/2024
     
    Seventy-two men arrive in the middle of the Sicilian countryside. They are "immigrants," "refugees" or "migrants." But in Altino, they're called the ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The Witches of Bellinas: A Novel
    by J. Nicole Jones
    Catapult, 05/14/2024
     
    Tansy and her husband Guy are the newest arrivals in Bellinas, a lush oasis tucked into the coast of northern California where a reclusive, creative ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The Worst Perfect Moment
    by Shivaun Plozza
    Holiday House, 05/14/2024
     
    Tegan Masters is dead.

    She's sixteen and she's dead and she's standing in the parking lot of the Marybelle Motor Lodge, the single most ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
    by Mike Hixenbaugh
    Mariner Books, 05/14/2024
     
    Award-winning journalist Mike Hixenbaugh delivers the immersive and eye-opening story of Southlake, Texas, a district that seemed to offer everything ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
     Debut Author
    Thirsty: A Novel
    by Jas Hammonds
    Roaring Brook Press, 05/14/2024
     
    It's the summer before college and eighteen-year-old Blake Brenner and her girlfriend, Ella, have one goal: join the mysterious and exclusive Serena ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    This Strange Eventful History: A Novel
    by Claire Messud
    W.W. Norton & Company, 05/14/2024
     
    Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state―separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    We Were the Universe: A Novel
    by Kimberly King Parsons
    Knopf, 05/14/2024
     
    The trip was supposed to be fun. When Kit's best friend gets dumped by his boyfriend, he begs her to ditch her family responsibilities for an idyllic ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Wives Like Us: A Novel
    by Plum Sykes
    Harper, 05/14/2024
     
    If you think the English countryside is all green wellies, muddy Land Rovers and grey-haired ladies in tweed, then you've never visited 'The Bottoms.'...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    A Gentleman from Japan: The Untold Story of an Incredible Journey from Asia to Queen Elizabeth's Court
    by Thomas Lockley
    Hanover Square Press, 05/21/2024
     
    On November 12, 1588, five young Asian men—led by a twenty-one-year-old called Christopher—traveled up the River Thames to meet Queen ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    A Northern Light in Provence: A Novel
    by Elizabeth Birkelund
    Ballantine Books, 05/21/2024
     
    Ilse Erlund is a translator who lives in a house on stilts along the west coast of Greenland. Isolated and restless in her world by the sea, she ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
    by Alan Taylor
    W.W. Norton & Company, 05/21/2024
     
    In a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Butcher: A Novel
    by Joyce Carol Oates
    Knopf, 05/21/2024
     
    In this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, "Father of Gyno-Psychiatry," as he ascends ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir
    by Zoë Bossiere
    Abrams Press, 05/21/2024
     
    Newly arrived in the Sonoran Desert, eleven-year-old Zoë's world is one of giant beetles, thundering javelinas, and gnarled paloverde trees. With...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
     Debut Author
    Cecilia
    by K-Ming Chang
    Coffee House Press, 05/21/2024
     
    Seven, who works as a cleaner at a chiropractor's office, reencounters Cecilia, a woman who has obsessed her since their school days. As the two of ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Exhibit: A Novel
    by R. O. Kwon
    Riverhead Books, 05/21/2024
     
    At a lavish party in the hills outside of San Francisco, Jin Han meets Lidija Jung and nothing will ever be the same for either woman. A brilliant ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Faraway the Southern Sky: A Novel
    by Joseph Andras
    Verso, 05/21/2024
     
    Fleeing persecution in Indochina, the young Ho Chi Minh arrived in Paris as World War I was sputtering to a close. A painfully shy twentysomething who...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    Goddess of the River
    by Vaishnavi Patel
    Redhook, 05/21/2024
     
    A mother and a son. A goddess and a prince. A curse and an oath. A river whose course will change the fate of the world.

    Ganga, joyful goddess of...more
    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying: Dark Lord Davi #1
    by Django Wexler
    Orbit, 05/21/2024
     
    Davi has done this all before. She's tried to be the hero and take down the all-powerful Dark Lord. A hundred times she's rallied humanity and made ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    I Hope This Finds You Well: A Novel
    by Natalie Sue
    William Morrow, 05/21/2024
     
    Her secret to survival? She vents her grievances in petty email postscripts, then changes the text color to white so no one can see. That is ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
    by Sebastian Junger
    Simon & Schuster, 05/21/2024
     
    For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    In Tongues: A Novel
    by Thomas Grattan
    MCD, 05/21/2024
     
    It's 2001, and twenty-four-year-old Gordon―handsome, sensitive, and eager for direction―takes a bus from Minnesota to New York City ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Lies and Weddings: A Novel
    by Kevin Kwan
    Doubleday, 05/21/2024
     
    Rufus Leung Gresham, future Earl of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel has a problem: the legendary Gresham Trust has been depleted ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Mind Games: A Novel
    by Nora Roberts
    St. Martin's Press, 05/21/2024
     
    As they do each June, the Foxes have driven the winding roads of Appalachia to drop off their children for a two-week stay at their grandmother's. ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Mood Swings: A Novel
    by Frankie Barnet
    Astra House, 05/21/2024
     
    Everyone knows something's off, but nobody can agree on just what it is. Maybe it's the weather; maybe everyone's just so damn sensitive these days. ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
     Debut Author
    Still Waters: A Novel
    by Matt Goldman
    Forge Books, 05/21/2024
     
    Liv and Gabe Ahlstrom are estranged siblings who haven't seen each other in years, but that's about to change when they receive a rare call from their...more
    The Incorrigibles: A Novel
    by Meredith Jaeger
    Dutton, 05/21/2024
     
    1890, San Francisco. Seduced by her employer's nephew, Annie Gilmurray, an Irish maid, is accused of stealing the ring he promised her. Sentenced to ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    The Last Murder at the End of the World: A Novel
    by Stuart Turton
    Sourcebooks, 05/21/2024
     
    Solve the murder to save what's left of the world.

    Outside the island there is nothing: the world was destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, ...more
    Token Supremacy: The Art of Finance, the Finance of Art, and the Great Crypto Crash of 2022
    by Zachary Small
    Knopf, 05/21/2024
     
    In 2021, when the gavel fell at Christie's on the sale of Mike Winkelmann's Everydays series—a compilation of five thousand digital artworks&#...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
     Debut Author
    Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America
    by Shefali Luthra
    Doubleday, 05/21/2024
     
    On June 24, 2022, Roe v. Wade was overturned, and the impact was immediate: by 2023, abortion was virtually unavailable or significantly restricted in...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
     Debut Author
    When We Were Silent: A Novel
    by Fiona McPhillips
    Flatiron Books, 05/21/2024
     
    Louise Manson is the newest student at Highfield Manor, Dublin's most exclusive private school. It seems nearly perfect: the high arched window ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Thrillers
     Debut Author
    The Lockmaster: The German List
    by Christoph Ransmayr
    Seagull Books, 05/27/2024
     
    A longboat plummets over the Great Falls, drowning the five passengers on board. The Lockmaster, the heir to an ancient title and responsible for ...more
    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    A Question of Belonging: Crónicas
    by Hebe Uhart
    Archipelago Books, 05/28/2024
     
    Uhart reinvigorates our desire to connect with other people, to love the world, to laugh in the face of bad intentions, and to look again, more ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Short Stories
    Accordion Eulogies: A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico
    by Noé Álvarez
    Catapult, 05/28/2024
     
    Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez never knew his grandfather. Stories swirled around this mythologized, larger-than-life figure:...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    Allow Me to Introduce Myself: A Novel
    by Onyi Nwabineli
    Graydon House, 05/28/2024
     
    Anuri Chinasa has had enough. And really, who can blame her? She was the unwilling star of her stepmother's social media empire before "momfluencers" ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Cheaper, Faster, Better: How We'll Win the Climate War
    by Tom Steyer
    Spiegel & Grau, 05/28/2024
     
    The climate is changing more rapidly than scientists predicted even a few years ago, with extreme weather already touching our everyday lives. At the ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Science, Health and the Environment
    Cry of the Wild: Eight animals under siege
    by Charles Foster
    Doubleday, 05/28/2024
     
    A fox, grown strong on pepperoni pizza from the dustbins of the East End, dances along a railway track towards Essex, the territory of wild foxes and ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Science, Health and the Environment
    Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier
    by Robert G. Parkinson
    W.W. Norton & Company, 05/28/2024
     
    We are divided over the history of the United States, and one of the central dividing lines is the frontier. Was it a site of heroism? Or was it where...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Housemates: A Novel
    by Emma Copley Eisenberg
    Hogarth Books, 05/28/2024
     
    When Bernie replies to Leah's ad for a new housemate in Philadelphia, the two begin an intense and defiantly uncategorizable friendship based on a ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Look on the Bright Side
    by Kristan Higgins
    Berkley Books, 05/28/2024
     
    Lark Smith has always had a plan for her life: find a fantastic guy, create a marriage as blissful as her parents', pop out a couple of kids and build...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Nero: A Novel (The Nero Trilogy)
    by Conn Iggulden
    Pegasus Books, 05/28/2024
     
    The story begins with a hand curled around another man's throat.

    This is Roman justice: Emperor Tiberius first dispatches a traitor—a ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    Southern Man: Penn Cage #7
    by Greg Iles
    William Morrow, 05/28/2024
     
    Fifteen years after the events of the Natchez Burning trilogy, Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead, his old allies gone, ...more
    Swole: The Making of Men and the Meaning of Muscle
    by Michael Andor Brodeur
    Beacon Press, 05/28/2024
     
    Michael Brodeur is a Gen-X gay writer with a passion for bodybuilding and an insatiable curiosity about masculinity--a concept in which many men are ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    The Goddess of Warsaw: A Novel
    by Lisa Barr
    Harper, 05/28/2024
     
    Los Angeles, 2005. Sienna Hayes, Hollywood's latest It Girl, has ambitions to work behind the camera. When she meets Lena Browning, the ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War
    by James Shapiro
    Penguin Press, 05/28/2024
     
    From 1935 to 1939, the Federal Theatre Project staged over a thousand productions in 29 states that were seen by thirty million (or nearly one in four...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    The Safekeep
    by Yael van der Wouden
    Avid Reader Press, 05/28/2024
     
    A house is a precious thing...

    It is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
     Debut Author
    The Winner: A Novel
    by Teddy Wayne
    Harper, 05/28/2024
     
    In this oceanfront paradise, however, new clients prove hard to come by, and Conor has bills to pay. Then a sharp-tongued divorcée appears, ...more
    Liberty's Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America
    by Amir Alexander
    University Of Chicago Press, 05/29/2024
     
    Seen from an airplane, much of the United States appears to be a gridded land of startling uniformity. Perpendicular streets and rectangular fields, ...more
    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
    by Shannon Vallor
    Oxford University Press, 06/03/2024
     
    They promise a future in which human limits and frailties are finally overcome―not by us, but by our machines.

    Yet rather than open new ...more
    Science, Health and the Environment
    Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR's War of Words With Charles Lindbergh and the Battle to Save Democracy
    by Paul M. Sparrow
    Pegasus Books, 06/04/2024
     
    Franklin Roosevelt awoke at 2:50 a.m. on September 1, 1939 to the news that Germany had invaded Poland, signaling the start of World War II. The ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
     Debut Author
    Better Must Come
    by Desmond Hall
    Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 06/04/2024
     
    Deja is a "barrel girl"—one of the Jamaican kids who get barrels full of clothes, food, and treats shipped to them from parents who have moved ...more
    Literary Fiction
    Blessings: A Novel
    by Chukwuebuka Ibeh
    Doubleday, 06/04/2024
     
    Obiefuna has always been the black sheep of his family—sensitive where his father, Anozie, is pragmatic, a dancer where his brother, Ekene, is a...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Blood in the Cut: A Novel
    by Alejandro Nodarse
    Flatiron Books, 06/04/2024
     
    Iggy must earn his father's lost trust in order to save La Carnicería Guerra from the threats imposed by a new rival business, a vigilante ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Thrillers
     Debut Author
    BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity
    by Ruth Whippman
    Harmony Books, 06/04/2024
     
    "Rapist, school-shooter, incel, man-child, interrupter, mansplainer, boob-starer, birthday forgetter, frat boy, dude-bro, homophobe, self-important ...more
    Biography/Memoir
    Bright and Tender Dark
    by Joanna Pearson
    Bloomsbury USA, 06/04/2024
     
    Days after the dawn of Y2K, beautiful, charismatic nineteen-year-old Karlie Richards is found brutally murdered in her campus apartment. Two decades ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Burn It All: A Novel
    by Maggie Auffarth
    Crooked Lane Books, 06/04/2024
     
    Marley Henderson is having the worst year of her life. First, a drunken mistake costs her everything, including her engagement and her closest friend,...more
    Thrillers
     Debut Author
    Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania
    by Kathryn Hughes
    The Johns Hopkins University Press, 06/04/2024
     
    In 1900, Britain and America were in the grip of a cat craze. An animal that had for centuries been seen as a household servant or urban nuisance had ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Chorus of the Union: How Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Set Aside Their Rivalry to Save the Nation
    by Edward Robert McClelland
    Pegasus Books, 06/04/2024
     
    Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas are a misunderstood duo. History remembers them as antagonists, and for most of the years the two men knew each ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Daughter of the Merciful Deep
    by Leslye Penelope
    Redhook, 06/04/2024
     
    "Our home began, as all things do, with a wish."

    Jane Edwards hasn't spoken since she was eleven years old, when armed riders expelled her family...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    Enlightenment: A Novel
    by Sarah Perry
    Mariner Books, 06/04/2024
     
    Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay have lived all their lives in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive
    by James Parker
    W.W. Norton & Company, 06/04/2024
     
    Our politics are broken; our world is melting; the next catastrophe looms. Enter James Parker, who for years now has been writing odes of appreciation...more
    Godwin: A Novel
    by Joseph O'Neill
    Pantheon Books, 06/04/2024
     
    Mark Wolfe, a brilliant if self-thwarting technical writer, lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Sushila, and their toddler daughter. His half-brother ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Hall of Mirrors: A Judy Nightingale and Philippa Watson Mystery
    by John Copenhaver
    Pegasus Crime, 06/04/2024
     
    In May 1954, Lionel Kane witnesses his apartment engulfed in flames with his lover and writing partner, Roger Raymond, inside. Police declare it a ...more
    Mysteries
    Holy City
    by Henry Wise
    Atlantic Monthly Press, 06/04/2024
     
    After a decade of exile precipitated by the tragic death of his mother, Will Seems returns home from Richmond to rural Southern Virginia, taking a job...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Mysteries
     Debut Author
    I've Tried Being Nice: Essays
    by Ann Leary
    Marysue Rucci Books, 06/04/2024
     
    Having arrived at a certain age (her prime), Ann Leary casts a wry backward glance at a life spent trying—and often failing—to be nice. ...more
    If You Can't Take the Heat
    by Michael Ruhlman
    Penguin Books, 06/04/2024
     
    When high school football star Theo Claverback breaks his leg just weeks after a devastating break-up, he's forced to call an audible on his summer ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    In the Hour of Crows: A Novel
    by Dana Elmendorf
    Mira Books, 06/04/2024
     
    When called upon, she can talk the death out of the dying and save their lives—only once, never twice. But this truly unique gift comes at a ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
     Debut Author
    Lockjaw
    by Matteo L. Cerilli
    Tundra Books, 06/04/2024
     
    Chuck Warren died tragically at the old abandoned mill, but Paz Espino knows it was no accident — there's a monster under the town, and she's ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Thrillers
     Debut Author
    Looking for Smoke
    by K. A. Cobell
    Heartdrum, 06/04/2024
     
    When local girl Loren includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet Giveaway to honor Loren's missing sister, Mara thinks she'll finally make some friends ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Thrillers
     Debut Author
    Louder Than Words
    by Ashley Woodfolk, Lexi Underwood
    Scholastic, 06/04/2024
     
    When Jordyn Jones transfers to Edgewood High, it's her opportunity to forget everything that happened at her old school. To forget what she and her ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Malas: A Novel
    by Marcela Fuentes
    Viking, 06/04/2024
     
    More than forty years later, Lulu Muñoz is dodging chaos at every turn: her troubled father's moods, his rules, her secret life as singer in a ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Mirrored Heavens: Between Earth and Sky #3
    by Rebecca Roanhorse
    Simon & Schuster, 06/04/2024
     
    Even the sea cannot stay calm before the storm. —Teek saying

    Serapio, avatar of the Crow God Reborn and the newly crowned Carrion King, ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood's Hidden Genius
    by Carrie Courogen
    St. Martin's Press, 06/04/2024
     
    After performing their Broadway smash An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Elaine set out on her own. She toiled unsuccessfully on Broadway ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    Old King: A Novel
    by Maxim Loskutoff
    W.W. Norton & Company, 06/04/2024
     
    In the summer of 1976, Duane Oshun finds himself stranded in a remote Montana town beset by a series of strange and menacing events. He takes a job as...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Shelterwood: A Novel
    by Lisa Wingate
    Ballantine Books, 06/04/2024
     
    Oklahoma, 1909. Eleven-year-old Olive Augusta Radley knows that her stepfather doesn't have good intentions toward the two Choctaw girls boarded in ...more
    Literary Fiction
    Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States
    by J. Albert Mann
    HarperCollins Publishers, 06/04/2024
     
    Long before the first labor unions were formed, workers still knew what exploitation looked like. It looked like the enslavement of Black people. It ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water
    by Amorina Kingdon
    Crown, 06/04/2024
     
    For centuries, humans ignored sound in the "silent world" of the ocean, assuming that what we couldn't perceive, didn't exist. But we couldn't have ...more
    Science, Health and the Environment
    Soldier Sailor: A Novel
    by Claire Kilroy
    Scribner, 06/04/2024
     
    Claire Kilroy takes readers deep inside the early days of motherhood. Exploring the clash of fierce love with a seismic shift in identity, Kilroy ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Spilled Ink
    by Nadia Hashimi
    Quill Tree Books, 06/04/2024
     
    When Yalda hears that her twin brother, Yusuf, will be performing with his band at a local venue, she lets her friends convince her to sneak out to ...more
    Literary Fiction
    Such a Bad Influence
    by Olivia Muenter
    Quirk Books, 06/04/2024
     
    Hazel Davis is drifting: she's stalled in her career, living in a city she hates, and less successful than her younger sister, @evelyn, a mega-popular...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Thrillers
     Debut Author
    Swift River
    by Essie Chambers
    Simon & Schuster, 06/04/2024
     
    But that's not the only reason Diamond stands out: she's teased relentlessly about her weight, and since Pop's been gone, she is the only Black person...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Tell Me Who You Are: A Novel
    by Louisa Luna
    MCD, 06/04/2024
     
    Brooklyn psychiatrist Dr. Caroline Strange is certain she knows what's best for her patients, her family, and pretty much everyone else, but that all ...more
    The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye: A Novel
    by Briony Cameron
    Atria Books, 06/04/2024
     
    In the tumultuous town of Yáquimo, Santo Domingo, Jacquotte Delahaye is an unknown but up-and-coming shipwright. Her dreams are bold but her ...more
    Historical Fiction
     Debut Author
    The Borrowed Hills: A Novel
    by Scott Preston
    Scribner, 06/04/2024
     
    In early 2001, a lethal disease breaks out on the hill farms of northern England, emptying the valleys of sheep and filling the skies with smoke as ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
    by Thomas R. Cech
    W.W. Norton & Company, 06/04/2024
     
    For over half a century, DNA has dominated science and the popular imagination as the "secret of life." But over the last several decades, a quiet ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Science, Health and the Environment
     Debut Author
    The Coast Road: A Novel
    by Alan Murrin
    HarperVia, 06/04/2024
     
    Set in 1994, The Coast Road tells the story of two women—Izzy Keaveney, a housewife, and Colette Crowley, a poet. Colette has left her husband ...more
    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    The Deep Dark: A Graphic Novel
    by Molly Knox Ostertag
    Graphix, 06/04/2024
     
    Everyone has secrets. Mags's has teeth.

    Magdalena Herrera is about to graduate high school, but she already feels like an adult with serious ...more
    The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America
    by Elizabeth Dias
    Flatiron Books, 06/04/2024
     
    In June 2022, Americans watched in shock as the Supreme Court reversed one of the nation's landmark rulings. For nearly a half century, Roe was ...more
    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    The God and the Gumiho
    by Sophie Kim
    Del Rey, 06/04/2024
     
    Kim Hani has retired from a life of devouring souls. She is, simply put, too full. Once known as the infamous Scarlet Fox, she now spends her days ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    The Last Twelve Miles: A Novel
    by Erika Robuck
    Sourcebooks Landmark, 06/04/2024
     
    1926. Washington, D.C.

    The Coast Guard is losing the Prohibition Rum War, but they have a new, secret weapon to crack smuggler codes, intercept ...more
    Historical Fiction
    The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower
    by Michel Paradis
    Mariner Books, 06/04/2024
     
    On June 6, 1944, General Dwight Eisenhower addressed the thousands of American troops preparing to invade Normandy, exhorting them to embrace the "...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports
    by Michael Waters
    Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/04/2024
     
    In December 1935, Zdeněk Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women's sports, declared he was now living as a man. Around the ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    The Pecan Children
    by Quinn Connor
    Sourcebooks Landmark, 06/04/2024
     
    How long will you hold on when your world is gone?

    In a small southern pecan town, the annual harvest is a time of both celebration and heartbreak....more
    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    The Road to the Country: A Novel
    by Chigozie Obioma
    Hogarth Books, 06/04/2024
     
    Set in Nigeria in the late 1960s, The Road to the Country is the epic story of a shy, bookish student haunted by long-held guilt who must go to war to...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    The Secret Keeper of Main Street: A Novel
    by Trisha R. Thomas
    William Morrow, 06/04/2024
     
    1954: In the quaint town of Mendol, Oklahoma, Bailey Dowery is a Black dressmaker for the wives and daughters of local oil barons. She earns a ...more
    Historical Fiction
    The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers
    by Zeke Hernandez
    St. Martin's Press, 06/04/2024
     
    Immigration is one of the most controversial topics in the United States and everywhere else. Pundits, politicians, and the public usually depict ...more
    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder
    by Alan Townsend PhD
    Grand Central Publishing, 06/04/2024
     
    A decade ago, Dr. Alan Townsend's family received two unthinkable, catastrophic diagnoses: his 4-year-old daughter and his brilliant scientist wife ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    Tidal Creatures: Alchemical Journeys #3
    by Seanan McGuire
    Tor Books, 06/04/2024
     
    New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire takes us back to the world of the award-winning Alchemical Journeys series in this action-packed ...more
    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
    by Tom McGrath
    Grand Central Publishing, 06/04/2024
     
    By the time their obituary was being written in the late 1980s, Yuppies—the elite, uber‑educated faction of the Baby Boom generation—...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Vicious and Immoral: Homosexuality, the American Revolution, and the Trials of Robert Newburgh
    by John Gilbert McCurdy
    The Johns Hopkins University Press, 06/04/2024
     
    On the eve of the American Revolution, the British army considered the case of a chaplain, Robert Newburgh, who had been accused of having sex with a ...more
    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Wafers
    by Seong-nan Ha
    Open Letter, 06/04/2024
     
    A best-seller in Korea, Ha Seong-nan is one of the stars of contemporary short fiction, writing edgy, socially conscious stories that bring to mind ...more
    Short Stories
    We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
    by Kellie Carter Jackson
    Seal Press, 06/04/2024
     
    Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence and Malcolm X's "by any ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Welcome to Glorious Tuga
    by Francesca Segal
    Chatto & Windus, 06/06/2024
     
    Passionate about conservation and fleeing an argument with her mother, newly qualified London vet Charlotte Walker has taken up a fellowship on the ...more
    Literary Fiction
    A Talent for Murder: A Novel
    by Peter Swanson
    William Morrow, 06/11/2024
     
    Martha Ratliff conceded long ago that she'd likely spend her life alone. She was fine with it, happy with her solo existence, stimulated by her job as...more
    All Friends Are Necessary: A Novel
    by Tomas Moniz
    Algonquin Books, 06/11/2024
     
    Efren "Chino" Flores has just moved back to the Bay Area from Seattle, jumping from sublet to sublet. In Washington, he was a beloved middle school ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Consent: A Memoir
    by Jill Ciment
    Pantheon Books, 06/11/2024
     
    In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, which began in the 1970s, when she was a teenager ...more
    Biography/Memoir
    Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation
    by Hugh Warwick
    Bloomsbury USA, 06/11/2024
     
    Across the world, invasive species pose a danger to ecosystems. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity ranks them as a major threat to biodiversity...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Science, Health and the Environment
    Getting to Know Death: A Meditation
    by Gail Godwin
    Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/11/2024
     
    Ingmar Bergman once said that an artist should always have one work between himself and death. When renowned author Gail Godwin tripped and broke her ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    Gretel and the Great War: A Novel
    by Adam Ehrlich Sachs
    FSG Originals, 06/11/2024
     
    Vienna, 1919. A once-mighty empire has finally come crashing down―and a mysterious young woman, unable to speak, has turned up on the streets. A...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Hip-Hop Is History
    by Questlove
    Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/11/2024
     
    When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn't expected to become the cultural force it is today. But for a young Black kid growing up in a ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain
    by Peter S. Goodman
    Mariner Books, 06/11/2024
     
    How does the wealthiest country on earth run out of protective gear in the middle of a public health catastrophe? How do its parents find themselves ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    How to Age Disgracefully: A Novel
    by Clare Pooley
    Pamela Dorman Books, 06/11/2024
     
    When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens' Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she'll be spending her time drinking tea and ...more
    Literary Fiction
    Margo's Got Money Troubles: A Novel
    by Rufi Thorpe
    William Morrow, 06/11/2024
     
    As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo Millet's always known she'd have to make it on her own. So she enrolls at her local ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Middletide: A Novel
    by Sarah Crouch
    Atria Books, 06/11/2024
     
    One peaceful morning, in the small, Puget Sound town of Point Orchards, the lifeless body of Dr. Erin Landry is found hanging from a tree on the ...more
    Thrillers
     Debut Author
    One of Our Kind: A Novel
    by Nicola Yoon
    Knopf, 06/11/2024
     
    Jasmyn and King Williams move their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California hoping to find a community of like-minded people, a ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Swan Song
    by Elin Hilderbrand
    Little Brown & Company, 06/11/2024
     
    Chief of Police Ed Kapenash is about to retire. Blond Sharon is going through a divorce. But when a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by the ...more
    Tehrangeles: A Novel
    by Porochista Khakpour
    Pantheon Books, 06/11/2024
     
    There's Violet, the big-hearted aspiring model; Roxanna, the chaotic influencer; Mina, the chronically-online overachiever; and the impressionable ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The Color of a Lie
    by Kim Johnson
    Random House Books for Younger Readers, 06/11/2024
     
    Calvin knows how to pass for white. He's done it plenty of times before. For his friends in Chicago, when they wanted food but weren't allowed in a ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
    by Griffin Dunne
    Penguin Press, 06/11/2024
     
    At eight, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion and uncle John ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
    by Boyce Upholt
    W.W. Norton & Company, 06/11/2024
     
    The Mississippi River lies at the heart of America, an undeniable life force that is intertwined with the nation's culture and history. Its watershed ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
     Debut Author
    The Sisters K
    by Maureen Sun
    The Unnamed Press, 06/11/2024
     
    After years of estrangement, Minah, Sarah, and Esther have been forced together again. Called to their father's deathbed, the sisters must confront a ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The Sons of El Rey
    by Alex Espinoza
    Simon & Schuster, 06/11/2024
     
    Ernesto Vega has lived many lives, from pig farmer to construction worker to famed luchador El Rey Coyote, yet he has always worn a mask. He was ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The Stardust Grail: A Novel
    by Yume Kitasei
    Flatiron Books, 06/11/2024
     
    Maya Hoshimoto was once the best art thief in the galaxy. For ten years, she returned stolen artifacts to alien civilizations―until a disastrous...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    The Stars Too Fondly: A Novel
    by Emily Hamilton
    Harper Voyager, 06/11/2024
     
    So, here's the thing: Cleo and her friends really, truly didn't mean to steal this spaceship.

    They just wanted to know why, twenty years ago, the...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
     Debut Author
    The Throne: The Machiavelli Trilogy #1
    by Franco Bernini
    Europa Editions, 06/11/2024
     
    October 1502. As Cesare Borgia sets out to invade the Florentine Republic, Niccolò Machiavelli is sent to spy on him and to glean details of his ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
     Debut Author
    The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir
    by Cory Leadbeater
    Ecco, 06/11/2024
     
    As an aspiring novelist in his early twenties, Cory Leadbeater was presented with an opportunity to work for a well-known writer whose identity was ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
     Debut Author
    Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell
    by Ann Powers
    Dey Street Books, 06/11/2024
     
    For decades, Joni Mitchell's life and music have enraptured listeners. One of the most celebrated artists of her generation, Mitchell has ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal
    by Melissa B. Jacoby
    The New Press, 06/11/2024
     
    Bankruptcy is the busiest federal court in America. In theory, bankruptcy in America exists to cancel or restructure debts for people and companies ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
     Debut Author
    We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance
    by Mara Kardas-Nelson
    Metropolitan Books, 06/11/2024
     
    In the mid-1970s, Muhammad Yunus, an American-trained Bangladeshi economist, met a poor female stool maker who needed money to expand her business. In...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
     Debut Author
    What Fire Brings: A Thriller
    by Rachel Howzell Hall
    Thomas & Mercer, 06/11/2024
     
    Bailey Meadows has just moved into the remote Topanga Canyon home of thriller author Jack Beckham. As his writer-in-residence, she's supposed to help ...more
    1974: A Personal History
    by Francine Prose
    Harper, 06/18/2024
     
    During her twenties, Francine Prose lived in San Francisco, where she began an intense and strange relationship with Tony Russo, who had been indicted...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and Ourselves
    by Tamsin Mather
    Hanover Square Press, 06/18/2024
     
    In this captivating book from one of the most influential geochemists in the field, Tamsin Mather takes us along on her globe-spanning excursions from...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Science, Health and the Environment
    Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women
    by Maggie Mertens
    Algonquin Books, 06/18/2024
     
    Despite women proving their abilities on the track time and again, men in the medical establishment, media, and athletic associations have fought to ...more
    Biography/Memoir
    Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir
    by Priyanka Mattoo
    Knopf, 06/18/2024
     
    Priyanka Mattoo was born into a wooden house in the Himalayas, as were most of her ancestors. In 1989, however, mounting violence in the region forced...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    Caledonian Road: A Novel
    by Andrew O'Hagan
    W.W. Norton & Company, 06/18/2024
     
    Campbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and fêted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
    by Ananda Lima
    Tor Books, 06/18/2024
     
    At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life and she writes stories for him about ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Short Stories
     Debut Author
    Death in the Air: A Novel
    by Ram Murali
    Harper, 06/18/2024
     
    Ro Krishna is the American son of Indian parents, educated at the finest institutions, equally at home in London's poshest clubs and on the squash ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Mysteries
     Debut Author
    Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls
    by Susan Seidelman
    St. Martin's Press, 06/18/2024
     
    Starting out in the mid-70s, a time when few women were directing movies, Susan was determined to become a filmmaker. She longed to tell stories about...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    End of Active Service
    by Matt Young
    Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/18/2024
     
    What was it like? It's the only thing anyone wants to know about war-and the last thing Corporal Dean Pusey wants to talk about, at least not with one...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Four Squares
    by Bobby Finger
    G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/18/2024
     
    In 1992, on his thirtieth birthday, Artie Anderson meets the man who will change his life. Artie spends his days at a tedious advertising job, finding...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer: A Novel
    by Joseph Earl Thomas
    Grand Central Publishing, 06/18/2024
     
    Now a doctoral student at The University, and an EMS worker at the hospital in North Philly, he encounters round the clock friends and family from his...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Hood Wellness: Tales of Communal Care from People Who Drowned on Dry Land
    by Tamela J. Gordon
    Row House Publishing, 06/18/2024
     
    Hood Wellness is also a deep exploration of people forced to overcome harrowing circumstances with little more than communal support and the will to ...more
    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Jackie: A Novel
    by Dawn Tripp
    Random House, 06/18/2024
     
    The world has divided my life into three:

    Life with Jack

    Life with Onassis

    Life as a woman who goes to work because she wants to.

    ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest
    by Fawn Weaver
    Melcher Media, 06/18/2024
     
    This book is a vibrant exploration set in the present day, delving into the life and legacy of Nearest Green, the African American distilling genius ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    Middle of the Night: A Novel
    by Riley Sager
    Dutton, 06/18/2024
     
    The worst thing to ever happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan Marsh's backyard. One July night, ten-year-old Ethan and his best friend ...more
    Thrillers
    Parade: A Novel
    by Rachel Cusk
    Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/18/2024
     
    Midway through his life, the artist G begins to paint upside down. Eventually, he paints his wife upside down. He also makes her ugly. The paintings ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian
    by Dr. Amy Attas
    G.P. Putnam's Sons, 06/18/2024
     
    When a pet is sick, people—even the rich and famous—are at their most authentic and vulnerable. They could have a Monet on the wall and an...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership
    by Brea Baker
    One World, 06/18/2024
     
    To understand the contemporary racial wealth gap, we must first unpack the historic attacks on Indigenous and Black land ownership. From the moment ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Rules for Camouflage
    by Kirstin Cronn-Mills
    Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 06/18/2024
     
    Evvie Chambers is doing her best to skate through the last month of high school to graduation. The only thing standing in her way is a biology report ...more
    Literary Fiction
    Same As It Ever Was: A Novel
    by Claire Lombardo
    Doubleday, 06/18/2024
     
    Same As It Ever Was showcases the consummate style, signature wit, and profound emotional intelligence that made The Most Fun We Ever Had one of the ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Sandwich: A Novel
    by Catherine Newman
    Harper, 06/18/2024
     
    For the past two decades, Rocky has looked forward to her family's yearly escape to Cape Cod. Their humble beach-town rental has been the site of ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The Glassmaker: A Novel
    by Tracy Chevalier
    Viking, 06/18/2024
     
    It is 1486 and Venice is a wealthy, opulent center for trade. Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers on Murano, the island ...more
    Historical Fiction
    The Memo: A Novel
    by Rachel Dodes, Lauren Mechling
    Harper Perennial, 06/18/2024
     
    Do you ever feel like your life doesn't measure up to everyone else's—and wonder if you just didn't get the memo helping you make the right ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The Next Mrs. Parrish: A Novel
    by Liv Constantine
    Bantam Books, 06/18/2024
     
    Amber Patterson Parrish has come a long way. Hard work and immaculate planning turned her from invisible wallflower to prominent socialite, though ...more
    The Witchstone
    by Henry H. Neff
    Blackstone Publishing, 06/18/2024
     
    Meet Laszlo, eight-hundred-year-old demon and Hell's least productive Curse Keeper. From his office beneath Midtown, he oversees the Drakeford Curse, ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
     Debut Author
    When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
    by John Ganz
    Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/18/2024
     
    With the Soviet Union extinct, Saddam Hussein defeated, and U.S. power at its zenith, the early 1990s promised a "kinder, gentler America." Instead, ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Where Wolves Don't Die
    by Anton Treuer
    Levine Querido, 06/18/2024
     
    But Ezra hates the dirty, polluted snow around them. He hates being away from the rez at Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation. And he hates the local ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Thrillers
     Debut Author
    With Love, Miss Americanah
    by Jane Igharo
    Feiwel & Friends, 06/18/2024
     
    17-year-old Enore Adesuwa doesn't dive into things, she walks in carefully. So when she, her mother, and her sister move from Nigeria to America ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Romance
     Debut Author
    A Daughter of Fair Verona: Daughter of Montague #1
    by Christina Dodd
    A John Scognamiglio Book, 06/25/2024
     
    Once upon a time a young couple met and fell in love. You probably know that story, and how it ended (hint: badly). Only here's the thing: That's not ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue
    by Dean Jobb
    Algonquin Books, 06/25/2024
     
    A skilled con artist and one of the most successful burglars in history, Arthur Barry was adept at slipping in and out of bedrooms undetected, ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    True Crime
    All the Colors of the Dark
    by Chris Whitaker
    Crown, 06/25/2024
     
    1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China
    by Edward Wong
    Viking, 06/25/2024
     
    The son of Chinese immigrants in Washington, DC, Edward Wong grew up among family secrets. His father toiled in Chinese restaurants and rarely spoke ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    Bear: A Novel
    by Julia Phillips
    Hogarth Books, 06/25/2024
     
    They were sisters and they would last past the end of time.

    Sam and Elena dream of another life. On the island off the coast of Washington where ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
    by Ferris Jabr
    Random House, 06/25/2024
     
    One of humanity's oldest beliefs is that our world is alive. Though once ridiculed by some scientists, the idea of Earth as a vast interconnected ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Science, Health and the Environment
     Debut Author
    Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
    by Emily Nussbaum
    Random House, 06/25/2024
     
    In this revelatory, deeply reported account of the rise of "dirty documentary"—from its contentious roots in radio to the ascent of Donald Trump...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy
    by Simon Wu
    Harper, 06/25/2024
     
    In Robyn's 2010 track Dancing on My Own, the Swedish pop-singer chronicles a night on the dance floor in the shadow of a former lover. She is bitter, ...more
    Don't Let the Devil Ride: A Novel
    by Ace Atkins
    William Morrow, 06/25/2024
     
    Hell is empty…and Addison McKellar's husband is missing.

    Addison McKellar isn't clueless—she knows she and her husband Dean don't have ...more
    Foul Days: The Witch's Compendium of Monsters #1
    by Genoveva Dimova
    Tor Books, 06/25/2024
     
    As a witch in the walled city of Chernograd, Kosara has plenty of practice treating lycanthrope bites, bargaining with kikimoras, and slaying ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
     Debut Author
    Girls Like Her
    by Melanie Sumrow
    Balzer + Bray, 06/25/2024
     
    A wealthy businessman is dead, and fifteen-year-old Ruby Monroe is in a Dallas jail awaiting trial for his murder. Ruby has no one she can count on&#...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory
    by Solomon J. Brager
    William Morrow, 06/25/2024
     
    Solomon Brager grew up with accounts of their great-grandparents' escape from Nazi Germany, told over and over until their understanding of self was ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
     Debut Author
    Hey, Zoey
    by Sarah Crossan
    Little Brown & Company, 06/25/2024
     
    43-year-old Dolores O'Shea is logical, organized, and prepared to handle whatever comes her way. She keeps up with her job and housework, takes care ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Hombrecito: A Novel
    by Santiago Jose Sanchez
    Riverhead Books, 06/25/2024
     
    In this groundbreaking novel, Santiago Jose Sanchez plunges us into the heart of one boy's life. His mother takes him and his brother from Colombia to...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Honey: A Novel
    by Isabel Banta
    Celadon, 06/25/2024
     
    It is 1997, and Amber Young has received a life-changing call. It's a chance thousands of girls would die for: the opportunity to join girl group ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    How the Light Gets In: A Novel
    by Joyce Maynard
    William Morrow, 06/25/2024
     
    Following the death of her former husband, Cam, fifty-four-year-old Eleanor has moved back to the New Hampshire farm where they raised three children ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Husbands & Lovers: A Novel
    by Beatriz Williams
    Ballantine Books, 06/25/2024
     
    New England, 2022. Three years ago, single mother Mallory Dunne received the telephone call every parent dreads—her ten-year-old son, Sam, had ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Joe Hustle: A Novel
    by Richard Lange
    Mulholland, 06/25/2024
     
    Joe Hustle is a survivor. A Gulf War vet and ex-con always one stumble away from catastrophe, he manages to scrape together enough money from various ...more
    Last Date in El Zapotal
    by Mateo García Elizondo
    Charco Press, 06/25/2024
     
    This is a ghost story. A junkie has gone to El Zapotal to die – to rent a room in this crumbling backwater, melt into one last fix, and not...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Moral Injuries: A Novel
    by Christie Watson
    Harper, 06/25/2024
     
    When you're trained to protect the lives of others, how far will you go to protect your own?

    Ruthlessly ambitious Olivia, anxious perfectionist ...more
    Practice: A Novel
    by Rosalind Brown
    Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/25/2024
     
    Rosalind Brown's Practice shows us just one day. Annabel, sitting in her small student room, attempts to write an essay about Shakespeare. She follows...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Russian Gothic
    by Aleksandr Skorobogatov
    Rare Bird, 06/25/2024
     
    Russian Gothic is a dark tale of the descent into paranoia and violence of Nikolai, a veteran of the Soviet-Afghan war. When a mysterious figure,...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Shanghai: A Novel
    by Joseph Kanon
    Scribner, 06/25/2024
     
    After the violence of Kristallnacht (1938), European Jews, now desperate to emigrate, found the consular doors of the world closed to them. Only one ...more
    Sleep Like Death
    by Kalynn Bayron
    Bloomsbury YA, 06/25/2024
     
    Princess Eve was raised with one purpose: to destroy the Knight. Far too many of subjects of Queen's Bridge have been devastated by this evil sorcerer...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water
    by Vicki Valosik
    Liveright/W.W. Norton, 06/25/2024
     
    If you're not strong enough to swim fast, you're probably not strong enough to swim 'pretty,'" said a young Esther Williams to theater impresario ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
     Debut Author
    The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
    by Olivia Laing
    W.W. Norton & Company, 06/25/2024
     
    In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an 18th century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    The Lions' Den: A Novel
    by Iris Mwanza
    Graydon House, 06/25/2024
     
    When young queer dancer Wilbess "Bessy" Mulenga is arrested by corrupt police, fresh-from-the-village rookie lawyer Grace Zulu takes up his cause in ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
     Debut Author
    The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
    by Ray Kurzweil
    Viking, 06/25/2024
     
    Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near and its vision of an exponential future have spawned a worldwide movement...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Science, Health and the Environment
    Trust Her: A Novel
    by Flynn Berry
    Viking, 06/25/2024
     
    Three years after they narrowly escaped the IRA's worst punishment for informing, Northern Irish sisters Tessa and Marian Daly have built a new life ...more
    Woman of Interest: A Memoir
    by Tracy O'Neill
    HarperOne, 06/25/2024
     
    In 2020, Tracy O'Neill began to rethink her ideas of comfort and safety. Just out of a ten-year relationship and thirtysomething, she was driven by an...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    The Curse of the Flores Women: A Novel
    by Angélica Lopes
    Amazon Crossing, 07/01/2024
     
    Eighteen-year-old Alice Ribeiro is constantly fighting―against the status quo, female oppression in Brazil, and even her own mother. But when a ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    The Last Time I Saw You
    by Jo Leevers
    Lake Union Publishing, 07/01/2024
     
    Weeks away from the birth of her first child, Georgie should be enjoying the peace of her new life in the country, but boredom has settled in and ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    A Sea Full of Turtles: The Search for Optimism in an Epoch of Extinction
    by Bill Streever
    Pegasus Books, 07/02/2024
     
    Everyone alive today is witnessing a mass extinction event caused by the more than eight billion humans who share this planet. At times, it seems ...more
    Science, Health and the Environment
    Age 16
    by Rosena Fung
    Annick Press, 07/02/2024
     
    Guandong, 1954 Sixteen-year-old Mei Laan longs for a future of freedom, and her beauty may be the key to getting it. Can an arranged marriage in Hong ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Big in Sweden: A Novel
    by Sally Franson
    Mariner Books, 07/02/2024
     
    Paulie Johansson has never put much stock in the idea of family: she has her long-term boyfriend Declan and beloved best friend Jemma, and that's more...more
    Literary Fiction
    Break to You
    by Neal Shusterman, Debra Young, Michelle Knowlden
    Quill Tree Books, 07/02/2024
     
    Adriana knows that if she can manage to keep her head down for the next seven months, she might be able to get through her sentence in the Compass ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Briefly Very Beautiful: A Novel
    by Roz Dineen
    The Overlook Press, 07/02/2024
     
    In a land destabilized by unsafe air, wildfires, floods, viruses, supply shortages, and homegrown terror, Cass is raising three small children by ...more
    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
     Debut Author
    Concerning the Future of Souls
    by Joy Williams
    Tin House Books, 07/02/2024
     
    Concerning the Future of Souls balances the extraordinary and the humble, the bizarre and the beatific, as Azrael―transporter of souls and the ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Short Stories
    Evenings and Weekends: A Novel
    by Oisín McKenna
    Mariner Books, 07/02/2024
     
    Summer in London stops for no one. Not the half-naked drunks and stoners, the bachelorette parties glugging from bejewelled bottles, the drag ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Joined at the Joints
    by Marissa Eller
    Holiday House, 07/02/2024
     
    Chronically ill seventeen-year-old Ivy has stayed in watching the Food Network all summer—pies are better than people, and they don't trigger ...more
    Romance
    Masquerade
    by O.O. Sangoyomi
    Forge Books, 07/02/2024
     
    Òdòdó's hometown of Timbuktu has been conquered by the warrior king of Yorùbáland, and living conditions for the women in her...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
     Debut Author
    Midnight Rooms: A Novel
    by Donyae Coles
    Amistad, 07/02/2024
     
    England, 1840. Orabella Mumthrope spies an unexpected visitor in her uncle's parlor. Scruffy in appearance yet claiming to be the scion of a ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Thrillers
     Debut Author
    More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: A Novel
    by Satoshi Yagisawa
    Harper Perennial, 07/02/2024
     
    Set again in the beloved Japanese bookshop and nearby coffee shop in the Jimbochi neighborhood of Toyko, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop deepens ...more
    Literary Fiction
    Not About a Boy
    by Myah Hollis
    HarperTeen, 07/02/2024
     
    Amélie Cœur has never known what it truly means to be happy.

    She thought she'd found happiness once, in a love that ended in tragedy ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    On the Bright Side
    by Anna Sortino
    G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/02/2024
     
    Ellie's Deaf boarding school just shut down, forcing her to leave the place she considered home and return to her hearing family. But being ...more
    Rise
    by Freya Finch
    Disney Editions, 07/02/2024
     
    For seventeen-year-old Bryn, being the youngest, messiest, most rebellious sister in a family of valkyries isn't easy. Especially considering home is ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
     Debut Author
    The Air They Breathe: A Pediatrician on the Frontlines of Climate Change
    by Debra Hendrickson
    Simon & Schuster, 07/02/2024
     
    Wildfires, hurricanes, and heat waves make headlines. But what is happening in Debra Hendrickson's clinic tells another story of this strange and ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Science, Health and the Environment
     Debut Author
    The Education Wars, Jack Schneider: A Citizen's Guide and Defense Manual
    by Jennifer C. Berkshire, Jack Schneider
    The New Press, 07/02/2024
     
    Culture wars have engulfed our schools. Extremist groups are seeking to ban books, limit what educators can teach, and threaten the very foundations ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    The Entire Sky: A Novel
    by Joe Wilkins
    Little Brown & Company, 07/02/2024
     
    With his long hair and penchant for guitar, teenage Justin is the spitting image of his idol, Kurt Cobain—a resemblance that has often marked ...more
    Literary Fiction
    The Expat: A Novel
    by Hansen Shi
    Pegasus Crime, 07/02/2024
     
    At twenty-six, Princeton grad Michael Wang is trapped. Stifled under the bamboo ceiling at General Motors, he's working quietly on a breakthrough in ...more
    Thrillers
     Debut Author
    The God of the Woods: A Novel
    by Liz Moore
    Riverhead Books, 07/02/2024
     
    Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn't just any ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The Moonlight Market: A Novel
    by Joanne Harris
    Pegasus Books, 07/02/2024
     
    Deep in the heart of London, a photographer walks the streets and captures whatever catches his eye: an old man drinking coffee; a beautiful woman ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    The Night of Baba Yaga
    by Akira Otani
    Soho Crime, 07/02/2024
     
    Tokyo, 1979. Yoriko Shindo, a workhorse of a woman who has been an outcast her whole life, is kidnapped and dragged to the lair of the Naiki-kai, a ...more
    The Night the River Wept: A Novel
    by Lo Patrick
    Sourcebooks Landmark, 07/02/2024
     
    Arlene has lived in a small town on the edge of nowhere Georgia her whole life. Now married to her long-time high school sweetheart, Tommy, Arlene is ...more
    Literary Fiction
    The Piano Player of Budapest: A True Story of Survival, Hope, and Music
    by Roxanne de Bastion
    Pegasus Books, 07/02/2024
     
    When her father died, singer-songwriter Roxanne de Bastion inherited a piano she knew had been in her family for over a hundred years. But it is only ...more
    Biography/Memoir
    The Second Chance of Darius Logan
    by David F. Walker
    Scholastic, 07/02/2024
     
    Darius Logan is far from a hero. Since his parents were killed, he has spent most of his life navigating foster homes and shelters, abandoned ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    The World After Alice: A Novel
    by Lauren Aliza Green
    Viking, 07/02/2024
     
    When Morgan and Benji surprise their families with a wedding invitation to Maine, they're aware the news of their clandestine relationship will come ...more
    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    We Don't Have Time for This
    by Brianna Craft
    Disney-Hyperion, 07/02/2024
     
    What's more romantic than saving the earth?

    Two presidents. One club. A sizzling connection.

    Isa Brown wishes her life would slow down. She ...more
    Romance
    Napalm in the Heart
    by Pol Guasch
    Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/04/2024
     
    In a near future devastated by war and unspecified natural disaster, a young man and his mother cling to survival at the edge of a forest. Society is ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    A Thousand Times Before: A Novel
    by Asha Thanki
    Viking, 07/09/2024
     
    Ayukta is finally sitting down with her wife Nadya to respond to a question she's long avoided: Should they have a child? The decision is complicated ...more
    Literary Fiction
    All This and More: A Novel
    by Peng Shepherd
    William Morrow, 07/09/2024
     
    One woman. Endless options. Every choice has consequences.

    Meek, play-it-safe Marsh has just turned forty-five, and her life is in shambles. Her ...more
    Thrillers
    Bury Your Gays
    by Chuck Tingle
    Tor Nightfire, 07/09/2024
     
    But finally, after years of trying to make it, his big moment is here: an Oscar nomination. And the executives at the studio for his long-running ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    Come to the Window: A Novel
    by Howard Norman
    W.W. Norton & Company, 07/09/2024
     
    It's l9l8. The war in Europe grinds on, and the Spanish flu seems to be on an insatiable killing spree. But in the small fishing village of Parrsboro,...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    Daughters of Chaos: A Novel
    by Jen Fawkes
    The Overlook Press, 07/09/2024
     
    In 1862, after a tragedy at home, twenty-two-year-old Sylvie Swift parts ways with her twin brother to trace the origins of an enigmatic playscript ...more
    Historical Fiction
    Daughters of Olympus: A Novel
    by Hannah Lynn
    Sourcebooks Landmark, 07/09/2024
     
    Demeter: a goddess of life, living half of one.

    Demeter did not always live in fear. Once, she loved the world and the humans who inhabited it. ...more
    Historical Fiction
    Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity
    by Sable Yong
    Dey Street Books, 07/09/2024
     
    The beauty industry has a single mandate: be hot.

    In the same week that you might be encouraged to try curtain bangs, contouring, bleached ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Essays
     Debut Author
    Elevator in Saigon
    by Thuân
    New Directions Publishing, 07/09/2024
     
    A young Vietnamese woman living in Paris travels back to Saigon for her estranged mother's funeral. Her brother had recently built a new house in ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Grown Women: A Novel
    by Sarai Johnson
    Harper, 07/09/2024
     
    Erudite Evelyn, her cynical daughter Charlotte, and Charlotte's optimistic daughter Corinna see the world very differently. Though they love each ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    It's Elementary
    by Elise Bryant
    Berkley Books, 07/09/2024
     
    Mavis Miller is not a PTA mom. She has enough on her plate with her feisty seven-year-old daughter, Pearl, an exhausting job at a nonprofit, and the ...more
    Romance
    Let Me Liberate You: A Novel
    by Andie Davis
    Little A, 07/09/2024
     
    Dark, lanky, and bald, New York–raised photographer Sabre Cumberbatch can't tell if she's highly talented or just highly Instagrammable. Up to ...more
    Literary Fiction
    Long Island Compromise: A Novel
    by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
    Random House, 07/09/2024
     
    "Were we gangsters? No. But did we know how to start a fire?"

    In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Madoff: The Final Word
    by Richard Behar
    Avid Reader Press, 07/09/2024
     
    Some $68 billion evaporated during Bernie Madoff's epic confidence game. Two people were driven to suicide in the wake of the Ponzi Scheme's exposure....more
    Biography/Memoir
     Debut Author
    Mourning a Breast
    by Xi Xi
    New York Review Books, 07/09/2024
     
    In 1989, the Hong Kong cult classic writer Xi Xi was diagnosed with breast cancer and began writing in order to make sense of her diagnosis and ...more
    Biography/Memoir
    My Parents' Marriage: A Novel
    by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
    Amistad, 07/09/2024
     
    Determined to avoid the pain and instability of her parents' turbulent, confusing marriage, Kokui marries a man far different from her loving, ...more
    Literary Fiction
    Navola: A novel
    by Paolo Bacigalupi
    Knopf, 07/09/2024
     
    "You must be as sharp as a stilettotore's dagger and as subtle as a fish beneath the waters. This is what it is to be Navolese, this is what it is to ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    Our Kind of Game: A Novel
    by Johanna Copeland
    Harper, 07/09/2024
     
    2019. Stella Parker has the life she's always wanted: a loving husband, two happy children that she gave up her thriving law career to raise, and a ...more
    Thrillers
     Debut Author
    Quickly, While They Still Have Horses: Stories
    by Jan Carson
    Scribner, 07/09/2024
     
    In "A Certain Degree of Ownership," a distracted couple on a beach fail to notice their baby crawl perilously toward the sea. In "Grand So," the ghost...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Short Stories
    Quincas Borba: A Novel
    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
    Liveright/W.W. Norton, 07/09/2024
     
    Hailed in his lifetime as one of Latin America's greatest writers, Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was a storyteller known for his wholly ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    State of Paradise: A Novel
    by Laura van den Berg
    Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/09/2024
     
    Along with her husband, a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author returns to her mother's house in the Florida town where she grew up. As the summer ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Sunrise Nights
    by Jeff Zentner, Brittany Cavallaro
    Quill Tree Books, 07/09/2024
     
    Jude loves photography, and he's good at it, too. Between his parents' divorce and his anxiety, being behind a camera is the only time his mind is ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Poetry & Novels in Verse
    Tell It to Me Singing: A Novel
    by Tita Ramirez
    Simon & Schuster, 07/09/2024
     
    Monica Campo is pregnant with her first child when, moments before being wheeled into emergency heart surgery, her mother confesses a long-held secret...more
    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    The Anthropologists
    by Aysegül Savas
    Bloomsbury Publishing, 07/09/2024
     
    As the young couple dreams about the possibilities of each new listing, Asya, a documentarian, gathers footage from the neighborhood like an ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The Briar Club: A Novel
    by Kate Quinn
    William Morrow, 07/09/2024
     
    Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation's ...more
    The Coin: A Novel
    by Yasmin Zaher
    Catapult, 07/09/2024
     
    The Coin's narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    The Dallergut Dream Department Store: A Novel
    by Miye Lee
    Hanover Square Press, 07/09/2024
     
    In a mysterious town hidden in our collective subconscious there's a department store that sells dreams. Day and night, visitors both human and animal...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
     Debut Author
    The Heart in Winter: A Novel
    by Kevin Barry
    Doubleday, 07/09/2024
     
    October 1891. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city of Butte, Montana is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    The History of Sound: Stories
    by Ben Shattuck
    Viking, 07/09/2024
     
    In twelve luminous stories set across three centuries, The History of Sound examines the unexpected ways the past returns to us and how love and loss ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Short Stories
    The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora
    by Wendy Pearlman
    Liveright/W.W. Norton, 07/09/2024
     
    In 2011, Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom. Brutal government repression transformed peaceful protests into one of the most devastating ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry
    by Stacey D'Erasmo
    Graywolf Press, 07/09/2024
     
    How do we keep doing this―making art? Stacey D'Erasmo had been writing for twenty years and had published three novels when she asked herself ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    The Sky on Fire
    by Jenn Lyons
    Tor Books, 07/09/2024
     
    Anahrod lives only for survival, forging her own way through the harsh jungles of the Deep with her titan drake by her side. Even when an adventuring ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    The Unforgettable Loretta Darling: A Novel
    by Katherine Blake
    HarperPaperbacks, 07/09/2024
     
    It's 1950 and Loretta Reynolds is newly arrived in Hollywood, fresh off a con that brought her from England to the sunny shores of California. She's ...more
    Historical Fiction
     Debut Author
    Toward Eternity: A Novel
    by Anton Hur
    HarperVia, 07/09/2024
     
    In a near-future world, a new technological therapy is quickly eradicating cancer. The body's cells are entirely replaced with nanites—robot or ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It
    by Genevieve Guenther
    Oxford University Press, 07/10/2024
     
    Weaving this analysis through fascinating critical histories of the terms that dominate the language of climate politics―the words we, alarmist,...more
    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    A Rose by Any Other Name
    by Mary McMyne
    Redhook, 07/16/2024
     
    My name has only been whispered, heretofore…

    England, 1591. Rose Rushe's passion for life runs deep—she loves mead and music, meddles...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    Banal Nightmare: A Novel
    by Halle Butler
    Random House, 07/16/2024
     
    Margaret Anne "Moddie" Yance had just returned to her native land in the Midwestern town of X, to mingle with the friends of her youth, to get back in...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Beep: A Novel
    by Bill Roorbach
    Algonquin Books, 07/16/2024
     
    In this immensely enjoyable and wise novel, it takes a sweet and personable squirrel monkey, Beep, to help us see the world we live in more ...more
    Literary Fiction
    Bright Objects
    by Ruby Todd
    Simon & Schuster, 07/16/2024
     
    Sylvia Knight is losing hope that the person who killed her husband will ever face justice. Since the night of the hit-and-run, her world has been ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    Desperation Reef: A Novel
    by T. Jefferson Parker
    Forge Books, 07/16/2024
     
    Jen Stonebreaker hasn't entered into a big-wave surfing competition since witnessing her husband's tragic death twenty-five years ago at the Monsters ...more
    Grief in the Fourth Dimension: A Novel
    by Jennifer Yu
    Amulet Books, 07/16/2024
     
    In life, high school classmates Caroline Davison and Kenny Zhou existed in separate universes—Caroline in one of softball practices and family ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
    House of Shades: A Novel
    by Lianne Dillsworth
    Harper, 07/16/2024
     
    London, 1833.

    Doctress Hester Reeves has been offered a life-changing commission.

    But it comes at a price. She must leave behind her husband...more
    Historical Fiction
    Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World
    by Brandon Keim
    W.W. Norton & Company, 07/16/2024
     
    Honeybees deliberate democratically. Rats reflect on the past. Snakes have friends. In recent decades, our understanding of animal cognition has ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Science, Health and the Environment
    Portrait of a Shadow
    by Meriam Metoui
    Henry Holt and Company, 07/16/2024
     
    Inez is missing, but missing things can always be found.

    Mae knows this as a fact, even though the police investigation has come to a standstill,...more
    Mysteries
     Debut Author
    Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch
    by Andrea Freeman
    Metropolitan Books, 07/16/2024
     
    In 1779, to subjugate Indigenous nations, George Washington ordered his troops to "ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent their planting more....more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    Smothermoss
    by Alisa Alering
    Tin House Books, 07/16/2024
     
    In 1980s Appalachia, sisters Sheila and Angie couldn't be more different. While their mother works long shifts at the nearby asylum, Sheila does her ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
     Debut Author
    The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur
    by Lev Grossman
    Viking, 07/16/2024
     
    A gifted young knight named Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a spot on the Round Table, only to find that he's too late. The king died two ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    The Lucky Ones: A Memoir
    by Zara Chowdhary
    Crown, 07/16/2024
     
    In 2002, Zara Chowdhary is sixteen years old and living with her family in Ahmedabad, one of India's fastest-growing cities, when a gruesome train ...more
    Biography/Memoir
    The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA
    by Jesse Katz
    Astra House, 07/16/2024
     
    The vendor, Francisco Clemente, had been refusing to give in to the gang's shakedown demands. But Giovanni botches the hit, accidentally killing a ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    There Is Happiness: New and Selected Stories
    by Brad Watson
    W.W. Norton & Company, 07/16/2024
     
    "Here is a generous portion of the work of a swiftly passing lifetime. Bountiful is the deserving page," Joy Williams writes in her introduction to ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Short Stories
    Trouble in Queenstown: A Mystery
    by Delia Pitts
    Minotaur Books, 07/16/2024
     
    Evander "Vandy" Myrick became a cop to fulfill her father's expectations. After her world cratered, she became a private eye to satisfy her own. Now ...more
    What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World's Ocean
    by Helen Scales
    Atlantic Monthly Press, 07/16/2024
     
    No matter where we live, "we are all ocean people," Helen Scales emphatically observes in her bracing yet hopeful exploration of the future of the ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Science, Health and the Environment
    A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America
    by James Tejani
    W.W. Norton & Company, 07/23/2024
     
    The Port of Los Angeles is all around us. Objects we use on a daily basis pass through it: furniture, apparel, electronics, automobiles, and much more...more
    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune
    by Noliwe Rooks
    Penguin Press, 07/23/2024
     
    When Mary McLeod Bethune died, tributes in newspapers around the country said the same thing: she should be on the Mount Rushmore of Black American ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Biography/Memoir
    Becoming Marlow Fin: A Novel
    by Ellen Won Steil
    Lake Union Publishing, 07/23/2024
     
    Marlow Fin is as famous for her beauty and success as she is infamous for her past, some of which is a mystery even to her. Is the public ready for ...more
    Literary Fiction
    Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861
    by Robert W. Merry
    Simon & Schuster, 07/23/2024
     
    The Mexican War brought vast new territories to the United States, which precipitated a growing crisis over slavery. The new territories seemed ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    History, Current Affairs and Religion
    I Will Never Leave You
    by Kara A. Kennedy
    Delacorte Press, 07/23/2024
     
    Maya has always belonged to Alana. After four years of dating, and on the precipice of graduating high school, Maya has been too terrified to consider...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Thrillers
     Debut Author
    Liars: A Novel
    by Sarah Manguso
    Hogarth Books, 07/23/2024
     
    A nuclear family can destroy a woman artist. I'd always known that. But I'd never suspected how easily I'd fall into one anyway.

    When Jane, an ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Nicked: A Novel
    by M. T. Anderson
    Pantheon Books, 07/23/2024
     
    The year is 1087, and a pox is sweeping through the Italian port city of Bari. When a lowly monk is visited by Saint Nicholas in his dreams, he ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Historical Fiction
    Our Beautiful Darkness: A Graphic Novel
    by (n/a) Ondjaki
    Unruly, 07/23/2024
     
    The light goes out suddenly. And in this absence of light, a pair of teenagers bare their souls. Into the warm silence of the night, they share a ...more
    Critics' Consensus:

    Literary Fiction
    Rescue Party: A Graphic Anthology of COVID Lockdown
    by Gabe Fowler
    Pantheon Books, 07/23/2024
     
    On April 1, 2020, the Instagram account of Desert Island, Brooklyn's celebrated alternative comics shop, put out a call. By then Desert Island had ...more
    Biography/Memoir