This week brings 38 standout titles, including a gripping Native American first contact thriller infused with cultural depth and suspense.
In Hole in the Sky by Daniel H. Wilson, "Wilson (Robopocalypse) draws on his Cherokee heritage to meld Native American and scientific knowledge into a stunning phantasmagoric first contact tale...Like the best X-Files episodes, this story uses the alien character to bring out the human elements in vivid detail. It’s a masterful feat." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
You'll find brief information on 10 titles below, and logged in members will find descriptions and reviews for all of them in our New This Week section.
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There are too many books published each week for you to read about them all, let alone read them all. So we do the legwork for you, scouring the publishers' catalogs and the pre-publication reviews to pick out what we believe to be among the best and most interesting. You can see them all in our “What’s New” section.
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Hole in the Sky: A Novel
by Daniel H. Wilson
On sale Oct 7 from Doubleday
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 288 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Members' Rating: 5.0/5
A gripping thriller—and Native American first contact story—from the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse, Daniel H. Wilson, who is a Cherokee Nation citizen and has worked as a threat forecaster for the United States Air Force.
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Death and the Gardener
by Georgi Gospodinov
On sale Oct 7 from Liveright/W.W. Norton
Genre: Literary Fiction. 176 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
From the International Booker Prize–winning author of Time Shelter, a powerful novel on grief and the inevitable end of childhood.
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If the Dead Belong Here: A Novel
by Carson Faust
On sale Oct 7 from Viking
Genre: Literary Fiction. 400 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
When a young girl goes missing, the ghosts of the past collide with her family's secrets in a mesmerizing Native American Southern Gothic.
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Lou with the Band
by Alexandra Leigh Young
On sale Oct 7 from Walker Books US
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 320 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From the acclaimed author of the delicious Idol Gossip comes a new music-themed novel with an irresistible backbeat and a thoughtful read on friendship and identity.
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Sea, Poison
by Caren Beilin
On sale Oct 7 from New Directions Publishing
Genre: Literary Fiction. 144 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A darkly funny, electrifying tale of polyamory, illness, health-care malfeasance, and gynecological crime mixed with Oulipian madness.
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The Four Spent the Day Together
by Chris Kraus
On sale Oct 7 from Scribner
Genre: Literary Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
An unforgettable new novel from the "powerfully original" (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) author of the cult classic I Love Dick—a stark, witty journey into a fractured, violent America, culminating in the investigation of a teenage murder on Minnesota's Iron Range.
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Unfit
by Ariana Harwicz
On sale Oct 7 from New Directions Publishing
Genre: Literary Fiction. 128 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A bracing novel that asks how far we would go for the ones we love―and what we would do to destroy the ones we hate.
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Venetian Vespers: A Novel
by John Banville
On sale Oct 7 from Knopf
Genre: Historical Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A masterful, enthralling new novel from the Booker Prize winner.
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The Hitchhikers: A Novel
by Chevy Stevens
On sale Oct 7 from St. Martin's Press
Genre: Thrillers. 384 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
The open road beckons.
A chance for them to reconnect.
Then they make a fatal mistake.
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Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
by Beth Macy
On sale Oct 7 from Penguin Press
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 368 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From one of our most acclaimed chroniclers of the forces eroding America's social fabric, her most personal and powerful work: a reckoning with the changes that have rocked her own beloved small Ohio hometown.
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