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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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My Friends: A Novel
by
Hisham Matar
Random House, 01/09/2024
One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years: A Novel
by
Shubnum Khan
Viking, 01/09/2024
Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Nearly a century later, it stands in ruins: an isolated boardinghouse for eclectic...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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&#...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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Ilium: A Novel
by
Lea Carpenter
Knopf, 01/16/2024
The young English narrator of Lea Carpenter's dazzling new novel has grown up unhappily in London, dreaming of escape, pretending to be someone else ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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-...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Held: A Novel
by
Anne Michaels
Knopf, 01/30/2024
1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Cahokia Jazz: A Novel
by
Francis Spufford
Scribner, 02/06/2024
Like his earlier novel
Golden Hill, Francis Spufford's
Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, now through the lens of a subtly altered ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
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 ...
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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...
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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
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
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
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 ...
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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
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
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 ...
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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
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
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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 Tainted Cup
by
Robert Jackson Bennett
Del Rey, 02/06/2024
In Daretana's greatest mansion, a high imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a tree erupted from his body. Even here at ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
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
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
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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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
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
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
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,...
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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 ...
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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
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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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
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 ...
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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
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 ...
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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 ...
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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...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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? ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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.
...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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) ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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....
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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, ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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-...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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: ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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
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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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,...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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&#...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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,...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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—...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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&#...
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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...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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,...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays
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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. ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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
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 ...
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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
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—...
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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
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
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 ...
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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 ...
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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&...
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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
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...
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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
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
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....
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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
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 ...
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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. ...
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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
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...
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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 ...
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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
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
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
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 ...
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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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. ...
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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 ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
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&#...
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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...
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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 ...
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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
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
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
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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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
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
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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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 ...
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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, ...
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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
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
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 ...
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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
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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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 ...
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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....
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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...
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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
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—...
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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 ...
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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
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...
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
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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
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
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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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
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 ...
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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...
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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
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...
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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
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
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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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
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...
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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.
...
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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
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
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
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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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
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, ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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
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
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
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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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
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 ...
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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
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...
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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 ...
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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
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
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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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 ...
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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
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 ...
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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...
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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
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 ...
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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,...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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....
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Dallergut Dream Department Store: A Novel
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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...
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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 ...
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The History of Sound: Stories
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The Sky on Fire
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Toward Eternity: A Novel
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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 ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Desperation Reef: A Novel
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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 ...
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Grief in the Fourth Dimension: A Novel
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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 ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
House of Shades: A Novel
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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...
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Historical Fiction
Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World
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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 ...
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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,...
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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
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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....
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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 ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
There Is Happiness: New and Selected Stories
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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 ...
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Trouble in Queenstown: A Mystery
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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 ...
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What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World's Ocean
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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 ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America
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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...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune
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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 ...
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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 ...
