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This week’s 36 must-reads deliver thrills, heart, and drama, from a pulse-pounding mystery that drags one woman back to her darkest secrets to a powerful story of friendship spanning twenty years of love, loss, and resilience.
In The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy, "Flournoy's pages radiate with intelligence as her characters attempt to shape their lives on their own terms. It’s a knockout." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
Haunting and relentless, the debut thriller The Vanishing Place by Zoë Rankin follows a woman forced back to a past she vowed to escape. “A triumphant thriller...Rankin expertly manages the parallel timelines, drawing out key questions about Effie's past as the narrative toggles back and forth, and her prose is often ruggedly beautiful." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
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The Wilderness: A Novel
by Angela Flournoy
On sale Sep 16 from Mariner Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
An era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship, as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife—in the much-anticipated second book from National Book Award finalist Angela Flournoy.
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The Vanishing Place
by Zoë Rankin
Debut Author
On sale Sep 16 from Berkley Books
Genre: Thrillers. 384 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Members' Rating: 4.3/5
A shocking murder in the New Zealand bush—and the witness who looks all too familiar—draws a woman back to the very place she swore she'd never return to in this breakneck debut thriller.
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Boy from the North Country: A Novel
by Sam Sussman
Debut Author
On sale Sep 16 from Penguin Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
A son returns home to his dying mother to discover the astonishing truth of his origins and the secrets of a woman whose life and wisdom he is only beginning to understand.
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The Book of Guilt
by Catherine Chidgey
On sale Sep 16 from Grand Central Publishing
Genre: Literary Fiction. 400 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
In an alternate world where nobody won WWII, three brothers are the only boys left in an orphanage whose dark secret is the reason for their existence—and the key to their survival—from the acclaimed author of Pet.
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Wolf Bells: A Novel
by Leni Zumas
On sale Sep 16 from Algonquin Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 224 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
The acclaimed author of Red Clocks returns with a biting, lyrical novel about an intergenerational group home run by an ex-musician determined to make a place for those without one.
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Firebird
by Elizabeth Wein
On sale Sep 16 from Union Square & Co.
Genre: Historical Fiction (Young Adult). 144 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Daughter. Pilot. Traitor?
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Good and Evil and Other Stories
by Samanta Schweblin
On sale Sep 16 from Knopf
Genre: Short Stories. 192 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A haunting, unforgettable collection of tales by Samanta Schweblin, winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature and three-time Booker Prize finalist.
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A Murderous Business: A Harriman & Mancini Mystery
by Cathy Pegau
On sale Sep 16 from Minotaur Books
Genre: Mysteries. 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
A sharp, captivating historical mystery about two queer women in turn-of-the-century New York, for fans of Lavender House and A Most Agreeable Murder.
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Fiend
by Alma Katsu
On sale Sep 16 from G.P. Putnam's Sons
Genre: Thrillers. 256 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Historical horror maven Alma Katsu turns her talents to the modern world for the first time, in this terrifying tale about an all-powerful family with an ancient evil under its thumb.
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The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters
by Sasha Bonét
On sale Sep 16 from Knopf
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 320 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A sweeping narrative of the unique beauty and trials of Black matriarchy in America that weaves a sharp, tender examination of three single Black mothers—the author's grandmother, mother, and the author herself—with stories of influential Black women in our culture.
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