Dive into 24 new books this week, including a vivid Trojan War retelling through the eyes of two commoners, and a Prohibition-era tale of three sisters rebuilding a moonshine business through love and resilience.
In Son of Nobody by Yann Martel, “A brilliant novel of ideas.... A powerful meditation on life, death, and the vanity of human wishes, all illustrated by a poem that would do Homer proud. A stunningly imagined revisitation of an ancient past.” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)
And a captivating historical drama, The Moonshine Women by Michelle Collins Anderson follows three sisters taking over their father’s moonshine business, discovering love, reinvention, and sisterhood.
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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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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Son of Nobody: A Novel
by Yann Martel
On sale Mar 31 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Literary Fiction. 288 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Members' Rating: 4.7/5
From the author of the international bestseller Life of Pi, a brilliant retelling of the Trojan War from two commoners: an ancient soldier and a modern scholar.
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The Moonshine Women
by Michelle Collins Anderson
On sale Mar 31 from A John Scognamiglio Book
Genre: Historical Fiction. 352 pages
In the Prohibition era Missouri Ozarks, three sisters take over their father's moonshine business in an evocative story of reinvention, sisterhood, and the alchemy of love for readers of Jeannette Walls, Fannie Flagg, Sue Monk Kidd, and Donna Everhart.
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American Han: A Novel
by Lisa Lee
Debut Author
On sale Mar 31 from Algonquin Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 288 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1980s, Jane Kim and her brother, Kevin, dutifully embodied the model minority myth as their parents demanded: both stellar tennis players and academically gifted, they worked hard to make their parents proud.
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Mothers and Other Strangers: A Novel
by Corey Ann Haydu
Debut Author
On sale Mar 31 from Little Brown & Company
Genre: Literary Fiction. 416 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Two estranged childhood best friends reunite as expectant mothers, after a mysterious falling-out between their own mothers keeps them apart for years. Perfect for readers of Claire Lombardo and J. Courtney Sullivan.
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Only a Little While Here: A Novel
by María Ospina
Debut Author
On sale Mar 31 from Scribner
Genre: Literary Fiction. 256 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
This prizewinning novel interweaves four animal odysseys in a gripping, adventurous meditation on migration and displacement in the inextricable human and natural worlds.
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The Adjunct
by Maria Adelmann
On sale Mar 31 from Scribner
Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From the acclaimed author of How to Be Eaten, a fresh take on the campus novel that follows an adjunct professor gigging her way through academia's poor job market when she crosses paths with her old PhD adviser whose new novel might be about her—for readers of Worry, Vladimir, and Less.
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Nothing Tastes as Good: A Novel
by Luke Dumas
On sale Mar 31 from Atria Books
Genre: Thrillers. 352 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
The acclaimed author of the "disorienting, creepy, paranoia-inducing" (Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World) A History of Fear returns with a spine-tingling new thriller about a weight loss treatment with potentially murderous side effects.
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This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me: Maggie the Undying #1
by Ilona Andrews
On sale Mar 31 from Tor Books
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 480 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
The page-turning politics of Game of Thrones meets the worlds-spanning romance of Outlander in this blockbuster new epic fantasy series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author duo Ilona Andrews.
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Kutchinsky's Egg: A Family's Story of Obsession, Love, and Loss
by Serena Kutchinsky
Debut Author
On sale Mar 31 from Scribner
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 320 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A riveting, heart-stopping family memoir that blends art, obsession, and love as the author searches for the spectacular jeweled egg that consumed her father's dreams—and spelled her family's downfall.
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Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People's Team
by A.M. GIttlitz
On sale Mar 31 from Astra House
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 496 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A love letter to a franchise and a thrilling study of New York City, Metropolitans traces the electric and calamitous history of the New York Mets.
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