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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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A Guardian and a Thief: A Novel
by Megha Majumdar
On sale Oct 14 from Knopf
Genre: Literary Fiction. 224 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Megha Majumdar's electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning—longlisted for the National Book Award—is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, in which two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other. A piercing and propulsive tour de force.
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Bog Queen: A Novel
by Anna North
On sale Oct 14 from Bloomsbury Publishing
Genre: Literary Fiction. 272 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Outlawed, the gripping story of an anthropologist's monumental discovery and the clash of civilizations it sets off over the fate of the land that holds us.
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Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic
by Harmonia Rosales
On sale Oct 14 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Literary Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From the acclaimed fine artist Harmonia Rosales, a sweeping retelling of African myth illustrated throughout with Rosales's spectacular paintings.
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Happy Bad: A Novel
by Delaney Nolan
On sale Oct 14 from Astra House
Genre: Literary Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Hernan Diaz meets Ottessa Moshfegh in this madcap road trip chronicle; a moving display of human connection in the face of violence and climate destruction from a remarkable new voice in fiction.
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Intemperance: A Novel
by Sonora Jha
On sale Oct 14 from HarperVia
Genre: Literary Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
In this follow-up to the critically-acclaimed The Laughter—winner of the Washington State Book Award—a middle-aged woman starts a firestorm when she holds a contest, based on an ancient Indian ritual, in which men must compete to win her affections.
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Little F
by Michelle Tea
On sale Oct 14 from Feminist Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 232 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A new epic novel about a teenage queer runaway from cult classic author of Black Wave and Valencia Michelle Tea.
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Christmas at the Women's Hotel: A Biedermeier Story (Women's Hotel #1.5)
by Daniel M. Lavery
On sale Oct 14 from HarperVia
Genre: Historical Fiction. 128 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
New York Times bestselling author Daniel M. Lavery returns to the world of Women's Hotel in this delightful and heartwarming novella about one especially lively Christmastime at the Biedermeier.
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The Wayfinder: A Novel
by Adam Johnson
On sale Oct 14 from MCD
Genre: Historical Fiction. 736 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A historical epic about a girl from a remote Tongan island who becomes her people's queen.
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My Name Means Fire: A Memoir
by Atash Yaghmaian
Debut Author
On sale Oct 14 from Beacon Press
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 248 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
An unflinching and stunning debut memoir of an Iranian girl's coming-of-age experiencing abuse, war, and superstition—and her survival through an inner world into which she could escape.
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