Reviews of the best new books, and previews of dozens of books publishing soon

The Kinship of Secrets
Eugenia Kim
Published 11/6/18

From the author of The Calligrapher's Daughter comes the riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart.

Paris Echo
Sebastian Faulks
Published 11/6/18

A story of resistance, complicity, and an unlikely, transformative friendship, set in Paris, from internationally bestselling novelist Sebastian Faulks.

A Ladder to the Sky
John Boyne
Published 11/13/18

A seductive, unputdownable psychodrama following one brilliant, ruthless man who will stop at nothing in his pursuit of success.

Extinctions
Josephine Wilson
Published 11/20/18

Funny, poignant, and galvanizing by turns, Josephine Wilson's award-winning novel explores many kinds of extinction - natural, racial, national, and personal - and what we might do to prevent them.

Newcomer
Keigo Higashino
Published 11/20/18

International bestseller Keigo Higashino returns with his latest mindbender, Newcomer - as newly transferred Tokyo Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga is assigned to a baffling murder.

My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite
Published 11/20/18

A short, darkly funny, hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends.

Hazards of Time Travel
Joyce Carol Oates
Published 11/27/18

An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates.

Kingdom of the Blind
Louise Penny
Published 11/27/18

The new Chief Inspector Gamache novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.

The Houseguest
Amparo Dávila
Published 11/27/18

The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller.

Vita Nostra
Marina and Sergey Dyachenko
Published 11/13/18

The definitive English language translation of the internationally bestselling Russian novel - a brilliant dark fantasy with "the potential to be a modern classic" (Lev Grossman), combining psychological suspense, enchantment, and terror that makes ...

A Ladder to the Sky
John Boyne
Published 11/13/18

A seductive, unputdownable psychodrama following one brilliant, ruthless man who will stop at nothing in his pursuit of success.

In Extremis
Lindsey Hilsum
Published 11/6/18

The devastating biography of Marie Colvin, the foremost war reporter of her generation, who was killed in Syria in 2012.

Future Home of the Living God
Louise Erdrich
Published 11/13/18

A startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event.

Happiness
Heather Harpham
Published 11/13/18

A shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices.

Winter
Ali Smith
Published 11/6/18

Smith's shapeshifting novel casts a warm, wise, merry and uncompromising eye over a post-truth era in a story rooted in history and memory and with a taproot deep in the evergreens, art and love.

In the Midst of Winter
Isabel Allende
Published 9/4/18

New York Times and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn ...

Midwinter Break
Bernard MacLaverty
Published 9/4/18

For readers of Colm Toíbín, a moving portrait of a marriage in crisis and a couple's search for salvation.

Rebellion
Molly Patterson
Published 8/28/18

A sweeping debut that crosses continents and generations, Rebellion tells the story of Addie, Louisa, Hazel, and Juanlan: four women whose rebellions, big and small, are as unexpected as they are unforgettable.