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This week brings 33 new books to discover, including a dark tale of a desperate writer's pursuit of a powerful literary agent.
In Revenge Plot by Stephanie Wrobel, “Wrobel brings her literary A-game to this double-layered puzzler that deftly mines the craft of fiction writing and the business of publishing for spectacularly entertaining results.” (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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This Week's New and Notable Books
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Revenge Plot
by Stephanie Wrobel
Debut Author
On sale Nov 10 from Berkley Books
Genre: Thrillers. 416 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Members' Rating: 4.3/5
A desperate writer's pursuit of a powerful literary agent takes a dark turn in this new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Hitchcock Hotel and Darling Rose Gold.
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Don't Stop Snowing
by Gabriel Bump
On sale Nov 10 from Algonquin Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 240 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
A deeply personal and funny novel from the winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award, about embracing one's own troubled self, demons and all, for readers of Percival Everett, Kevin Wilson, and Brandon Taylor's The Late Americans.
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Family Language
by Nicole Nelson
Debut Author
On sale Nov 10 from Melville House
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
In this striking debut, an ambitious academic faces new and unwanted choices when she is confronted with overnight motherhood...
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Humpty Dumpty: A Novel
by Harold Rogers
On sale Nov 10 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Literary Fiction. 448 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
A high school quarterback and his family are embroiled in an abhorrent crime and its cover-up―a bold new novel that confronts American hero-worship and its irreversible consequences.
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No Such Thing as Monday: A Novel
by Siân Hughes
On sale Nov 10 from Henry Holt and Company
Genre: Literary Fiction. 224 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From a Booker Prize-longlisted author, a novel in which a woman tries to overcome her abusive past and find her estranged sister in a deeply moving and darkly humorous quest for redemption.
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by Niall Williams
On sale Nov 10 from Bloomsbury Publishing
Genre: Literary Fiction. 96 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From novelist Niall Williams, bestselling author of Time of the Child and This Is Happiness, a new story set in the small Irish town of Faha, exploring love, loss, and the "why" of life.
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Eisen: A Novel
by Guzel Yakhina
On sale Nov 10 from Europa Editions
Genre: Historical Fiction. 576 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
A dazzling literary portrait of Sergei Eisenstein and the radical dream of cinema.
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The Turning Tide: A Novel of Love and War (Scott Bradley James)
by Admiral James Stavridis USN
On sale Nov 10 from Penguin Press
Genre: Historical Fiction. 384 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author and former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, a magnificent historical novel about a young American naval officer's greatest challenges in the fateful endgame of World War II in the Pacific.
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Take My Word for It: A Memoir
by LeVar Burton
On sale Nov 10 from Random House
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 352 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
The legendary actor behind Roots, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Reading Rainbow shares never-before-told stories from a life that has shaped generations—told at last on his own terms.
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Aristocracy, American Style: Class Privilege and the Persistence of Elite Power
by Nancy Isenberg
On sale Nov 10 from Viking
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 528 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A New York Times bestselling historian confronts the myth of American meritocracy and our enduring reverence for the uber-rich—and how that feedback loop corrodes democracy.
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