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 |
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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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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. Read More Reader Reviews Buy on Amazon |
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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. Read More Buy on Amazon |
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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. Read More Buy on Amazon |
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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. Read More Buy on Amazon |
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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. Read More Buy on Amazon |
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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. Read More Buy on Amazon |
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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. Read More Buy on Amazon |
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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. Read More Buy on Amazon |
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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. Read More Buy on Amazon |
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