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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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Eat the Ones You Love
by Sarah Maria Griffin
Debut Author
On sale Apr 22 from Tor Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 288 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
This is a story about desire, dreams, decay―and working retail at the end of the world.
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Great Big Beautiful Life
by Emily Henry
On sale Apr 22 from Berkley Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 432 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping novel from Emily Henry.
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The Bright Years
by Sarah Damoff
Debut Author
On sale Apr 22 from Simon & Schuster
Genre: Literary Fiction. 288 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
One family. Four generations. A secret son. A devastating addiction. A Texas family is met with losses and surprises of inheritance, but they're unable to shake the pull back toward each other in this big-hearted family saga perfect for readers of Mary Beth Keane and Claire Lombardo.
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The Pretender: A Novel
by Jo Harkin
On sale Apr 22 from Knopf
Genre: Historical Fiction. 496 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A sweeping historical novel in the vein of Hilary Mantel and Maggie O'Farrell set during the time of the Tudors' ascent. The Pretender tells the story of Lambert Simnel, who was raised in obscurity as a peasant boy to protect his safety, believed to be the heir to the throne occupied by Richard III, and briefly crowned, at the age of ten, as King Edward VI, one of the last of the Plantagenets.
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Zeal: A Novel
by Morgan Jerkins
On sale Apr 22 from Harper
Genre: Historical Fiction. 416 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
The New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing and Caul Baby returns with an epic, multi-generational novel that illuminates the legacy of slavery and the power of romantic love.
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Slither: How Nature's Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World
by Stephen S. Hall
On sale Apr 22 from Grand Central Publishing
Genre: Essays. 384 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
A spellbinding scientific and cultural study of snakes, the fascination and fear they inspire, and how surprising new science is indelibly changing our perception of these stunning and frightening creatures.
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Fair Play: A Novel
by Louise Hegarty
On sale Apr 22 from Harper
Genre: Mysteries. 288 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
For fans of Anthony Horowitz and Lucy Foley, a wonderfully original, genre-breaking literary debut from Ireland that's an homage to the brilliant detective novels of the early twentieth century, a twisty modern murder mystery, and a searing exploration of grief and loss.
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Calm
by S. J. Baker
On sale Apr 22 from Neem Tree Press
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History (Young Adult). 384 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
In this enthralling dystopian YA thriller where emotions become weapons, the fight for humanity's true essence takes centre stage.
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The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders
by Sarah Aziza
On sale Apr 22 from Catapult
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 400 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
A brush with death. An ancestral haunting. A century of family secrets. Sarah Aziza's searing, genre-bending memoir traces three generations of diasporic Palestinians from Gaza to the Midwest to New York City—and back.
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America, América: A New History of the New World
by Greg Grandin
On sale Apr 22 from Penguin Press
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 768 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the first comprehensive history of the Western Hemisphere, a sweeping five-century narrative of North and South America that redefines our understanding of both.
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