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Discover 26 new books hitting shelves this week! From gripping thrillers and captivating fiction to fascinating memoirs and more, these fresh releases offer plenty of reasons to add to your reading list.
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This Week's New and Notable Books
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An Unlikely Visitor: A Novel
by Joanna Cannon
On sale Oct 27 from Scribner
Genre: Literary Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
From the internationally bestselling author of the "unique and unforgettable" (The Wall Street Journal) The Trouble with Goats and Sheep comes a funny and poignant story of a woman who encounters the ghosts of her past as she untangles the mystery of her daughter's disappearance—a powerful, hopeful reminder that the people we love are always with us.
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Shelter is Necessary for Existence: A Novel
by Brenda Iijima
On sale Oct 27 from Two Dollar Radio
Genre: Literary Fiction. 288 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Unsettling and racially charged, Shelter Is Necessary for Existence is equal parts psychological thriller and social satire that explores the disquieting qualities of a privileged family's mundane cultural assumptions.
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The Brightness: A Novel
by Chad Harbach
On sale Oct 27 from Little Brown & Company
Genre: Literary Fiction. 672 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From the bestselling author of literary sensation The Art of Fielding comes an urgent, deeply felt story of friendship, art, love, and grief, following two young women on the brink of irrevocable change.
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The Stolen Women: A Novel
by Alysandra Dutton
On sale Oct 27 from Park Row
Genre: Literary Fiction. 400 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
A case of missing noble women and a determined young warrior who sets out to bring them home in this new and exciting ancient historical set just before the founding of Rome, for fans of The Song of Achilles, Circe, and A Thousand Ships.
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Venus, Vanishing: A Novel
by Rebecca Birrell
Debut Author
On sale Oct 27 from Henry Holt and Company
Genre: Historical Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Portrait of a Lady on Fire meets The Safekeep in this gripping debut that reckons with art forgery, desire, suspicion, and resistance.
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Dark Country
by Adam Plantinga
On sale Oct 27 from Grand Central Publishing
Genre: Thrillers. 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Argento finds himself shielding a teenage boy caught up in a manhunt in this explosive installment of the Kurt Argento series, from USA Today bestselling author, Adam Plantinga.
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What Rough Beast
by Mindy McGinnis
On sale Oct 27 from HarperCollins Publishers
Genre: Thrillers (Young Adult). 272 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Long-held grudges and ancient evils come to roost in this psychological, speculative horror that's Don't Let the Forest In meets Stranger Things.
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Chateau Reverie: A Novel
by Natasha Siegel
On sale Oct 27 from William Morrow
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 288 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Another sweeping speculative, romantic novel from the author of As Many Souls as Stars, in which attendees of a magical auction must bid secrets in exchange for their greatest desires. Perfect for fans of Erin Morgenstern or V.E. Schwab.
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Public Access Afterworld: A Novel
by Jane Schoenbrun
Debut Author
On sale Oct 27 from Hogarth Books
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 608 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A mysterious realm on the other side of our screens. A dark force that draws victims into its static. The unlikely hero called to save them and herself from this electric hell. Public Access Afterworld is the profound, binge-all-night, headrush of a novel by the celebrated filmmaker of I Saw the TV Glow and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.
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Countertenor
by Anthony Roth Costanzo
On sale Oct 27 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 320 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A lively and revelatory exploration of the history of the countertenor by Anthony Roth Costanzo, the Grammy Award-winning star of Philip Glass's Akhnaten and "one of opera's biggest stars" (The New York Times).
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