This week there are 28 new and notable books publishing, including two our members enjoyed reading.
Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez is, “an intergenerational epic with urgent contemporary stakes... Replete with confounding human dilemmas, intricately nuanced characters, and startlingly original romance, this intimate family drama subtly weaves into a national indictment of ongoing predatory property law and the history of Black land loss” (Oprah Daily).
And in The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris by Evie Woods offers more of a cozy feel, as one of our book club participants put it, “Definitely not my normal type of book, but I was surprised how much I enjoyed it nevertheless. It left me smiling, and that’s a rare thing these days.”
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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Happy Land
by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
On sale Apr 8 from Berkley Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 368 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.8/5
A woman learns the astonishing truth of her family's ties to a vanished American Kingdom in this riveting new novel from the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author of Take My Hand.
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The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
by Evie Woods
On sale Apr 8 from HarperCollins Publishers
Genre: Historical Fiction. 368 pages
From the million-copy bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop.
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Audition: A Novel
by Katie Kitamura
On sale Apr 8 from Riverhead Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 208 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love.
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Big Chief
by Jon Hickey
Debut Author
On sale Apr 8 from Simon & Schuster
Genre: Literary Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
There, There meets The Night Watchman in this gripping literary debut about power and corruption, family, and facing the ghosts of the past.
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Passion Project: A Novel
by London Sperry
Debut Author
On sale Apr 8 from Penguin Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 368 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
If your twenties are supposed to be the best years of your life, Bennet Taylor is failing miserably ... with a big emphasis on the miserable.
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Plum
by Andy Anderegg
Debut Author
On sale Apr 8 from Hub City Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 232 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
For fans of Sarah Rose Etter and Scott McClanahan, Plum is a darkly beautiful, unflinching novel about modern girlhood in the internet age, the daily toll of trauma, and the limits of love.
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Sky Daddy: A Novel
by Kate Folk
On sale Apr 8 from Random House
Genre: Literary Fiction. 368 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Cross the jet bridge with Linda, a frequent flyer with an unusual obsession, in this "razor-sharp and tender-hearted" (Lily Brooks-Dalton) debut novel by the acclaimed author of Out There.
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The Impossible Thing
by Belinda Bauer
On sale Apr 8 from Atlantic Monthly Press
Genre: Mysteries. 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From the exceptionally original mind of CWA Gold Dagger Award winner and Booker longlisted author Belinda Bauer, a sweeping tale of obsession, greed, ambition, and a crime that has remained unsolved for a hundred years.
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Precious Rubbish
by Kayla E.
Debut Author
On sale Apr 8 from Fantagraphics Books
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 196 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
A landmark graphic novel debut and groundbreaking work of trauma recollection told in the style of post-war children's comics.
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Forget the Camel: The Madcap World of Animal Festivals and What They Say about Being Human
by Elizabeth MeLampy
On sale Apr 8 from Apollo Publishers
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 264 pages
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A raucous entry into animal festivals across America uncovers how humans triangulate who we are and what makes us special through the symbolism we attach to animals and the stories we use to rise above them.
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