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Get ready for 54 new books hitting shelves this week, including a captivating novel about love lost and the weight of regret.
In Every Story Is a Love Story by Imbolo Mbue, “The splendid third novel from Mbue...This morally complex tale leaves readers with much to chew on.” (Publishers Weekly)
You'll find brief information on 10 titles below, and logged in members will find 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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Every Story Is a Love Story: A Novel
by Imbolo Mbue
On sale Oct 6 from Random House
Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
From the New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers and How Beautiful We Were, a captivating novel about love lost—and the weight of regret.
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Being Amani
by Annabelle Steele
Debut Author
On sale Oct 6 from Carolrhoda Books
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 200 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
A thoughtful coming-of-age story about a girl navigating family, relationships, and self-image.
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Carrying
by Samantha Josephs
Debut Author
On sale Oct 6 from G.P. Putnam's Sons
Genre: Literary Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
She's serving.
She's eating.
She's ... Carrying.
In this electrifying horror debut that's equal parts funny and harrowing, a stealth trans woman desperate to maintain her picture-perfect life discovers that she's seemingly—impossibly—pregnant.
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Fail Sons
by Adam Wilson
On sale Oct 6 from Soho Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 240 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
A pair of estranged brothers drive their father's cryonically frozen body across a divided America to its final resting place in this darkly comic novel about masculinity and grief—a 21st century update of As I Lay Dying—from the author of Flatscreen.
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Fair Ones: A Double Novel
by Lydia Millet
On sale Oct 6 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Literary Fiction. 400 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
From the bestselling author of A Children's Bible, a story of friends, shock, and survival.
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Like Glass
by Jen Ferguson
On sale Oct 6 from Heartdrum
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From award-winning author Jen Ferguson (Métis) comes the luminous story of a family steeped in grief and love.
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Radio Free Texas
by Libba Bray
On sale Oct 6 from Scholastic
Genre: Historical Fiction (Young Adult). 400 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From beloved bestselling author Libba Bray, a story of love, rock n' roll, and sex (in that order) in 1980s Texas.
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Sleepers in the Snow
by Joanne Harris
On sale Oct 6 from Pegasus Crime
Genre: Thrillers. 272 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
A gripping and powerful suspense story of love, loss, and the mysteries of memory by internationally bestselling author Joanne Harris.
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A Wall Is Also a Road
by Annalee Newitz
On sale Oct 6 from Tor Books
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From bestselling author Annalee Newitz, A Wall Is Also a Road is a thought-provoking science fiction adventure about the meaning of life and love, seen through the many eyes of an alien grad student studying a familiar backwater planet. Perfect for fans of Becky Chambers, Ryka Aoki, and Martha Wells.
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The Savage Mind: An American Legacy
by David Treuer
On sale Oct 6 from Little Brown & Company
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 272 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A searing exploration of American violence, interweaving memoir, history, and reportage to reveal the wound at the heart of our nation―and to offer hope that the country, and we, might be healed.
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