This week brings 67 exciting new reads to dive into!
In Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester, “Lanchester is an eminently skilled storyteller with a gift for laying in bits of backstory along the way that subvert what we think we know is going on ... A splendidly twisted tale of love and vengeance..” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)
Fans of sweeping historical fiction will be captivated by The Young Will Remember by Eve J. Chung, “Stunning and morally complex…This will stay with readers long after the final page.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
Readers who enjoy heartfelt memoirs, Ulysses S. Cat and Other Animals I Have Known by Scott Simon shares tender, often humorous stories of the remarkable animals who have crossed his path.
And those drawn to true crime will be gripped by The Family Man by James Lasdun, an immersive account of a loving father’s descent into a “family annihilator.”
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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Look What You Made Me Do: A Novel
by John Lanchester
On sale May 5 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Literary Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Members' Rating: 4.6/5
A propulsive tale of intergenerational tension and revenge from the Booker Prize nominee.
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The Young Will Remember
by Eve J. Chung
On sale May 5 from Berkley Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 448 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Members' Rating: 4.7/5
A sweeping novel about a correspondent trapped behind enemy lines during the Korean War, and the women who help her find her way home, from the national bestselling author of Daughters of Shandong.
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The Family Man: Blood and Betrayal in the House of Murdaugh
by James Lasdun
On sale May 5 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 432 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.6/5
An immersive account of a seemingly loving father's transformation into a "family annihilator."
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Ulysses S. Cat and Other Animals I Have Known
by Scott Simon
On sale May 5 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 224 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.3/5
From the beloved host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday, moving tales of the marvelous animals who have crossed his path.
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A Little Bit Bad: A Novel
by Cassandra Neyenesch
On sale May 5 from Summit Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A "compulsively readable" (Sophie Stava, author of Count My Lies) novel about a San Diego housewife whose love affair with her neighbor's roofer is interrupted by a murder.
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Abundance: A Novel
by Hafeez Lakhani
Debut Author
On sale May 5 from Counterpoint Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Two generations of a Muslim Indian family grapple with what parts of life we control and what we must humbly accept in pursuit of the American dream--for readers of Min Jin Lee, Mohsin Hamid, and Ayad Akhtar.
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The Calamity Club: A Novel
by Kathryn Stockett
On sale May 5 from Spiegel & Grau
Genre: Literary Fiction. 656 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
The multimillion-copy-selling author of The Help returns with a bold, big-hearted novel about a group of unbreakable women, fighting for what's rightfully theirs—and the power of friendship to change everything.
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Five Weeks in the Country: A Novel
by Francine Prose
On sale May 5 from Harper
Genre: Historical Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Reading Like a Writer and Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris, 1932 comes an utterly original novel inspired by the strange friendship between Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen and set during the summer when Dickens's family life exploded.
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Dissection of a Murder: A Novel
by Jo Murray
On sale May 5 from Dutton
Genre: Thrillers. 416 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Nothing is as it seems—and no one is telling the truth—in this page-turning thriller about a young lawyer forced to defend a man on trial for murder against the mentor who taught her everything: her husband.
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Holloway
by Elana K. Arnold
On sale May 5 from Clarion
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History (Young Adult). 352 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Award-winning author Elana K. Arnold returns with a boldly visionary, deeply felt story that crosses space and time to examine loss and love in a world on the brink.
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