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This week offers 30 new books across genres, including a genre-bending novel full of secrets and surprises.
In What We Can Know by Ian McEwan "McEwan has achieved something spectacular and much needed, as he raises question about the climate crisis—future and present...McEwan has crafted a story at once nostalgic and foreboding." (Library Journal, 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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What We Can Know: A Novel
by Ian McEwan
On sale Sep 23 from Knopf
Genre: Literary Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Members' Rating: 5.0/5
From the Booker prize–winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known.
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Cécé
by Emmelie Prophète
On sale Sep 23 from Archipelago Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 180 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
An astonishing novel of raw beauty about gang life, sex work, and social media in Haiti.
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The Phoebe Variations: A Novel
by Jane Hamilton
On sale Sep 23 from Zibby Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 342 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
The acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World returns with a stunning coming-of-age novel about girls, mothers, and finding one's way in the world.
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Truth Is: A Novel in Verse
by Hannah V. Sawyerr
On sale Sep 23 from Amulet Books
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 480 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From the critically acclaimed author of All the Fighting Parts comes an empowering and defiant novel in verse in which a teen poet grapples with an unplanned pregnancy and determines what happens to her body in a world that wants to take the choice away from her.
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Will There Ever Be Another You: A Novel
by Patricia Lockwood
On sale Sep 23 from Riverhead Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 256 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From the Booker Prize finalist and "formidably gifted writer" (The New York Times), a vertiginous novel about a woman's descent into illness and insanity.
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Amanda: A Novel
by H. S. Cross
On sale Sep 23 from Europa Editions
Genre: Historical Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Love is the only lifeline
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Lion Hearts: Essex Dogs #3
by Dan Jones
On sale Sep 23 from Viking
Genre: Historical Fiction. 448 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
The epic conclusion to the Essex Dogs trilogy, from the New York Times bestselling historian.
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One of Us: A Novel
by Dan Chaon
On sale Sep 23 from Henry Holt and Company
Genre: Historical Fiction. 288 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A playfully macabre and utterly thrilling tale about orphaned twins on the run from their murderous uncle who find refuge in a bizarre traveling carnival, from a master of literary horror.
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A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories
by Jonathan Lethem
On sale Sep 23 from Ecco
Genre: Short Stories. 400 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A definitive collection of new and selected stories by a master of the form. "Comparisons might be drawn to writers ranging from Jorge Luis Borges and Haruki Murakami to Margaret Atwood and J. D. Salinger. All of Lethem's stories are enlivened by his wit and provocative wordplay" (Chicago Tribune).
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Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis
by Priscilla Presley
On sale Sep 23 from Grand Central Publishing
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
The long-awaited memoir by Priscilla Presley chronicling her difficult, inspiring journey beyond the walls of Graceland and behind the elegant image the world sees.
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