This week we have 55 new and notable books publishing, including historical fiction from Victoria Christopher Murray.
Harlem Rhapsody is “a winning portrait of Harlem Renaissance figure Jessie Redmon Fauset…Historical fiction fans will want to snatch this up" (Publishers Weekly).
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.
Harlem Rhapsody
by Victoria Christopher Murray
On sale Feb 4 from Berkley Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 400 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.1/5
The extraordinary story of Jessie Redmon Fauset whose exhilarating world of friends, rivals, and passions all combined to create the magic that was the Harlem Renaissance, written by Victoria Christopher Murray, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Personal Librarian. | |
A Season of Light
by Julie Iromuanya
On sale Feb 4 from Algonquin Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 256 pages
For fans of Behold the Dreamers, immigrant stories, and family sagas, a compelling novel about a tightly bound Nigerian family living in Florida and the wounds that get passed down from generation to generation, by the significant new literary voice who wrote the acclaimed Mr. and Mrs. Doctor. | |
This Is a Love Story: A Novel
by Jessica Soffer
On sale Feb 4 from Dutton
Genre: Literary Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
An intimate and lyrical celebration of great love, great art, and the sacrifices we make for both. | |
Junie: A Novel
by Erin Crosby Eckstine
Debut Author
On sale Feb 4 from Ballantine Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 368 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
A young girl must face a life-altering decision after awakening her sister's ghost, navigating truths about love, friendship, and power as the Civil War looms. | |
Saint of the Narrows Street
by William Boyle
On sale Feb 4 from Soho Crime
Genre: Thrillers. 448 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
As an Italian American family's decades-old secret begins to unravel, they will have to bear the consequences—and face each other—in this thrilling southern Brooklyn-set tragic opera of the highest caliber from crime fiction luminary William Boyle.
William Boyle is the master of Brooklyn-set crime fiction and Saint of the Narrows Street is his magnum opus. For fans of The Sopranos, Jonathan Lethem, and Dennis Lehane. | |
This Ends in Embers: The Divine Traitors #2
by Kamilah Cole
On sale Feb 4 from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History (Young Adult). 416 pages
Perfect for fans of Raybearer and Fourth Wing, this astonishing sequel to the bestselling novel So Let Them Burn doesn't hold back. After all, there are no easy endings in war—especially when sisters are forced to fight on opposite sides. | |
Memorial Days: A Memoir
by Geraldine Brooks
On sale Feb 4 from Viking
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 224 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey towards peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse. | |
Paris Undercover: A Wartime Story of Courage, Friendship, and Betrayal
by Matthew Goodman
On sale Feb 4 from Ballantine Books
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 448 pages
Two women in Nazi-occupied Paris created a daring escape line that rescued dozens of Allied servicemen. With one in a German prison camp, the other wrote a book about it—a memoir that was built on lies. Now the bestselling author of Eighty Days shares their incredible, never-before-told full story. | |
The Secret Public: How Music Moved Queer Culture From the Margins to the Mainstream
by Jon Savage
On sale Feb 4 from Liveright/W.W. Norton
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 768 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A monumental history of the gay influence on popular culture, from the rise of Little Richard to the collapse of disco in 1979.
Award-winning author Jon Savage takes us on a fast and captivating journey through the history of pop music as seen through the eyes of queer artists. | |
How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy
by Julian Baggini
On sale Feb 4 from Pegasus Books
Genre: Travel & Adventure. 464 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
From the bestselling author of How the World Thinks, an exploration of how we grow, make, buy and eat our food around the world—and a proposal for a global philosophy of food. | |
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