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We’ve got a blockbuster lineup this week with 38 brand-new books hitting the shelves. Whether you're craving pulse-pounding thrillers, rich character-driven fiction, or bold debuts, this list has you covered—including a chilling new release that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
In Too Old for This by Samantha Downing, “This is Downing at her best. Delightfully macabre and so artful that the reader might well root for Lottie, even when she is psychotic to the max. The perfect recommendation for someone looking for something different and extremely entertaining.” (Booklist, starred review)
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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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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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Too Old for This
by Samantha Downing
On sale Aug 12 from Berkley Books
Genre: Thrillers. 400 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Members' Rating: 4.4/5
A retired serial killer's quiet life is upended by an unexpected visitor. To protect her secret, there's only one option left—what's another murder? From bestselling author Samantha Downing.
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Dogs: A Novel
by C. Mallon
Debut Author
On sale Aug 12 from Scribner
Genre: Literary Fiction. 208 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A singular, devastating debut novel, Dogs traces the fallout of one catastrophic night in the lives of five high school wrestlers, asking what can survive in the blast radius of latent trauma and violence.
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Seduction Theory: A Novel
by Emily Adrian
On sale Aug 12 from Little Brown & Company
Genre: Literary Fiction. 240 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
For fans of Conversations with Friends and Vladimir comes a magnetic, fresh take on marriage and loyalty: when two married professors tiptoe toward infidelity, their transgressions are brought to light in a graduate student's searing thesis project.
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The Frequency of Living Things: A Novel
by Nick Fuller Googins
On sale Aug 12 from Atria Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A heartbreaking American epic about three sisters who unearth lifetimes of family tensions as they are forced to rescue one of their own from peril, testing the limits of sacrifice, sisterhood, and forgiveness from the author of the "profound work of great wisdom" (Alice Elliott Dark) The Great Transition.
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The Gossip Columnist's Daughter
by Peter Orner
On sale Aug 12 from Little Brown & Company
Genre: Literary Fiction. 400 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Convinced that the key to the unraveling of his own life is tied to the tragic death of a young Hollywood starlet, an unheralded writer embarks on a quest to solve the cold case—a new novel by "a major talent" (New York Times) and "one of the most distinctive voices of his generation" (Granta).
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The Sunflower Boys: A Novel
by Sam Wachman
Debut Author
On sale Aug 12 from Harper
Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A poignant coming-of-age story with the sensitivity and haunting power of What Belongs to You and Swimming in the Dark, about a young boy wrestling with his sexuality as war breaks out in modern Ukraine.
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Vulture: A Novel
by Phoebe Greenwood
Debut Author
On sale Aug 12 from Europa Editions
Genre: Literary Fiction. 256 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A darkly funny, heart-wrenching satire that tears through the guts of the war news industry.
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What Hunger
by Catherine Dang
On sale Aug 12 from Simon & Schuster
Genre: Literary Fiction. 288 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A haunting coming-of-age tale following the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, Ronny Nyugen, as she grapples with the weight of generational trauma while navigating the violent power of teenage girlhood, for fans of Jennifer's Body and Little Fires Everywhere.
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Fonseca: A Novel
by Jessica Francis Kane
On sale Aug 12 from Penguin Press
Genre: Historical Fiction. 272 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
The story acclaimed English author Penelope Fitzgerald never wrote, of her real-life journey to Mexico with her son in search of a much-needed inheritance, by Jessica Francis Kane, bestselling author of Rules for Visiting.
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A Game in Yellow
by Hailey Piper
On sale Aug 12 from Saga Press
Genre: Thrillers. 288 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Euphoria meets Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke in this latest novel by the Bram Stoker Award–winning author Hailey Piper, following a couple whose search to spice up their sex life leads them down a path of madness.
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