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Publishing This Week: Ocean Vuong, Anthony Horowitz, Maud Ventura, and 51 more

Discover new and notable books publishing this week!

Publishing This Week

Hello Readers,

It’s another busy week this week with 54 curated titles publishing, including a dystopian fiction debut.

Awake in the Floating City by Susanna Kwan is, "a tender, speculative novel that imagines Kwan’s home city flooded and largely abandoned—and how two of its last remaining residents find unlikely connection in disaster” (San Francisco Chronicle).

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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This Week's New and Notable Books
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.

More about how we pick and rate books.
Awake in the Floating City book jacket
Awake in the Floating City: A Novel
by Susanna Kwan


Debut Author
On sale May 13 from Pantheon Books
Genre: Speculative Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4/5

An utterly transporting debut novel about the unexpected relationship between an artist and the 130-year-old woman she cares for—two of the last people living in a flooded San Francisco of the future, the home neither is ready to leave.

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Eliza, from Scratch book jacket
Eliza, from Scratch
by Sophia Lee


Debut Author
On sale May 13 from Quill & Quire
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 320 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

Perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Rachel Lynn Solomon, this charming, poignant rom-com follows an academics-obsessed teen who learns big truths about love, family, and herself when a scheduling snafu lands her in a culinary arts class.

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Happiness Forever book jacket
Happiness Forever: A Novel
by Adelaide Faith


On sale May 13 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Literary Fiction. 256 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

A complete refreshment and uplift of energy: a hilarious, beguiling first novel for the head and the heart.

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Metallic Realms book jacket
Metallic Realms: A Novel
by Lincoln Michel


On sale May 13 from Atria Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

A wildly inventive and entertaining novel about a sci-fi writing group whose fictional universe and personal dramas begin to collide and collapse from the critically acclaimed author of the "timeless and original" (The New York Times) The Body Scout.

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Run for the Hills book jacket
Run for the Hills: A Novel
by Kevin Wilson


On sale May 13 from Ecco
Genre: Literary Fiction. 256 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

An unexpected road trip across America brings a family together, in this raucous and moving new novel from the bestselling author of Nothing to See Here.

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Sleep book jacket
Sleep: A Novel
by Honor Jones


Debut Author
On sale May 13 from Riverhead Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 272 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

From a dazzling new talent, the story of a newly divorced young mother forced to reckon with the secrets of her own childhood when she brings her daughters back to the big house where she was raised.

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The Boy from the Sea book jacket
The Boy from the Sea: A Novel
by Garrett Carr


Debut Author
On sale May 13 from Knopf
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

Set on the coast of Ireland in the 1970s, a captivating debut novel about a baby boy who is discovered on the beach beside a small fishing town, as told by the locals who fall under the boy's transfixing spell.

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The Emperor of Gladness book jacket
The Emperor of Gladness: A Novel
by Ocean Vuong


On sale May 13 from Penguin Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 416 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.

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The Devil Three Times book jacket
The Devil Three Times: A Novel
by Rickey Fayne


Debut Author
On sale May 13 from Little Brown & Company
Genre: Historical Fiction. 416 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

An audacious debut spanning eight generations of a Black family in West Tennessee as they are repeatedly visited by the Devil.

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Insectopolis book jacket
Insectopolis: A Natural History
by Peter Kuper


On sale May 13 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 256 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

Award-winning cartoonist Peter Kuper transports readers through the 400-million-year history of insects and the remarkable entomologists who have studied them.

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