This week’s lineup features 23 fresh reads to explore, including two standout tales of women confronting danger, secrets, and shocking twists.
In The Botanist's Assistant by Peggy Townsend, “Townsend's latest is a blooming treat for fans of either cozy or traditional mysteries.” (Library Journal, starred review)
A pulse-pounding thriller with a standout voice, Haven’t Killed in Years by Amy K. Green follows Gwen Tanner as her hidden past collides with a deadly new threat.
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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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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The Botanist's Assistant
by Peggy Townsend
On sale Nov 18 from Berkley Books
Genre: Mysteries. 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.4/5
A murder in the science lab shatters a woman's quiet and ordered life when she decides she must solve the crime herself in this entertaining and uplifting mystery.
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Haven't Killed in Years
by Amy K. Green
On sale Nov 18 from Berkley Books
Genre: Thrillers. 368 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
No one is supposed to know harmless office worker Gwen Tanner is the vanished daughter of serial killer Abel Haggerty. But a low profile and a new name aren't going to cut it when an obsessive new killer starts targeting her, in this lively and propulsive thriller with a standout voice.
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How Girls Are Made
by Mindy McGinnis
On sale Nov 18 from HarperCollins Publishers
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 384 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Sex Education meets Euphoria in this dark contemporary novel that tackles perfectionism, emotional abuse, and the dark side of social media.
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Leave It on the Track
by Margot Fisher
Debut Author
On sale Nov 18 from Dutton for Young Readers
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
From Reese's Book Club LitUp Fellow Margot Fisher, a moving debut about healing, self-acceptance, and queer first love, set on a roller derby team.
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P.S. You're the Worst: A Novel
by Chloe Seager
On sale Nov 18 from William Morrow Paperbacks
Genre: Literary Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
An effervescent millennial coming-of-age novel about a woman who spirals after she pulls the death card during a tarot reading and writes cringe-worthy confessional letters to her closest friends and family in anticipation of her imminent demise… only she doesn't die.
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Beasts of the Sea: A Novel
by Iida Turpeinen
Debut Author
On sale Nov 18 from Little Brown & Company
Genre: Historical Fiction. 288 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
In the spirit of Richard Powers and Daniel Mason, a novel spanning three centuries and tied together by the tale of Steller's sea cow—a long-extinct denizen of the northern oceans—at once intimate and sweeping about the tragic clash between man and nature.
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The Pelican Child: Stories
by Joy Williams
On sale Nov 18 from Knopf
Genre: Short Stories. 176 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A razor-sharp new collection of stories of visionary childhood misfits and struggling adult dreamers from this legendary writer of "perfectly indescribable fiction...To read Williams is to look into the abyss" (The Atlantic).
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The Burning Library
by Gilly Macmillan
On sale Nov 18 from William Morrow
Genre: Thrillers. 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From the internationally bestselling author of The Nanny and What She Knew comes a thrilling dark academic tale of murder, obsession and ruthless ambition, set in remote St Andrews, Scotland.
A deadly rivalry.
A chilling secret.
One woman who can decipher the truth.
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Slow Gods
by Claire North
On sale Nov 18 from Orbit
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 480 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Slow Gods is the galaxy-spanning tale of one man's impossible life charted against the fate of humanity amongst the stars—a powerfully imaginative space opera from multi-award-winning author Claire North.
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Mexico: A 500-Year History
by Paul Gillingham
On sale Nov 18 from Atlantic Monthly Press
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 752 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From acclaimed and prize-winning historian Paul Gillingham, a rich and vibrant history of one of the world's most diverse, politically ground-breaking, and influential of countries.
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