This week brings a wave of 43 new releases across genres, perfect for filling your TBR shelf—among them, a novel that transports readers to another time.
In Before Dorothy by Hazel Gaynor, “Gaynor’s writing incorporates elegant touches echoing Baum’s timeless characters, symbols, and themes. Readers will be touched by Em’s story and respect the strong woman who raised such an unforgettable literary heroine.” (Library Journal)
You'll find brief information on 10 titles below, and descriptions and reviews for all of them in our New This Week section.
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The BookBrowse Team
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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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Before Dorothy
by Hazel Gaynor
On sale Jun 17 from Berkley Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 368 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Long before Dorothy visits Oz, her aunt, Emily Gale, sets off on her own grand adventure, leaving gritty Chicago behind for Kansas and a life that will utterly change her, in this transporting novel from New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor.
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Bug Hollow: A Novel
by Michelle Huneven
On sale Jun 17 from Penguin Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 288 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A decades-spanning family saga featuring the messy but loving Samuelson clan trying to make sense of the world after the loss of their son Ellis.
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Crown
by Evanthia Bromiley
Debut Author
On sale Jun 17 from Grove Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 288 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
A suspenseful, lyrical debut novel tracking three days leading up to the eviction of a pregnant single mother and her nine-year-old twins from a trailer park in the American Southwest.
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Fulfillment: A Novel
by Lee Cole
On sale Jun 17 from Knopf
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Set in Paducah, Kentucky, Lee Cole's follow-up to Groundskeeping ("An exacting, beautifully textured debut novel ... presages a major career" —The New York Times Book Review) is a powerful, page-turning story of two half brothers navigating the complexities of class and privilege in the American South.
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Hazel Says No: A Novel
by Jessica Berger Gross
Debut Author
On sale Jun 17 from Hanover Square Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
When a tight-knit family moves from Brooklyn to Maine, their lives are upended by an event that will alter their new community forever in this bighearted, sparkling debut for fans of Now Is Not the Time to Panic, Pineapple Street, and Schitt's Creek.
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The Unexpected Consequence of Bleeding on a Tuesday
by Kelsey B. Toney
On sale Jun 17 from Random House Books for Younger Readers
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Delia Bridges is striving to become the compassionate doctor she's been unable to find in her journey to diagnose her excruciating period pain—but when a single rule-breaking incident jeopardizes her future, she must find a way to reclaim her dreams in this funny, period-positive novel.
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The Uproar: A Novel
by Karim Dimechkie
On sale Jun 17 from Little Brown & Company
Genre: Literary Fiction. 368 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
A "raw, tensely plotted, profound high-wire act of a book" (Téa Obreht) on the intricacies of marriage, class, and race, and just how far one man will go to protect his family—and himself.
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A Novel Murder: A Mystery
by E. C. Nevin
On sale Jun 17 from Knopf
Genre: Mysteries. 368 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Welcome to the Killer Lines Crime Fiction Festival, the place for star writers of the genre to meet their adoring fans. But be careful—this year the murders aren't just on the page.
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A Far Better Thing
by H. G. Parry
On sale Jun 17 from Tor Books
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 416 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell meets A Tale of Two Cities in H. G. Parry's A Far Better Thing, a heart-rending fantasy of faery revenge set during the French Revolution.
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The Cost of Being Undocumented: One Woman's Reckoning with America's Inhumane Math
by Alix Dick
On sale Jun 17 from Beacon Press
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 256 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
An undocumented activist and a social scientist come together to tally of the structural costs of undocumented life.
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