Publishing This Week: Eight Debuts plus Emma Cline, Simon Sebag Montefiore and Ruta Sepetys

Publishing This Week View as Webpage Hello, This week, we've selected 22 new and notable books to bring to your attention. They include works by T.C. Boyle, Emma Cline, Simon Sebag Montefiore and Ruta Sepetys; plus eight debut novels. I've included brief details on 10 titles below, and you'll find more on all 22, including early reviews, in our New This Week section (under the "New" tab in our main menu). The "New" section is also home to our Publishing by Month lists, which is the place to be to see what's publishing soon or look back on previous months. If you're particularly interested in debuts, you can spot these by the yellow highlight around the book jacket. BookBrowse members have full access to view all previews, everyone else can see all past books and a limited selection of upcoming titles. Enjoy! Davina, BookBrowse Publisher Looking for a last minute Mother's Day Gift? Gift a BookBrowse Membership for just $36, a 20% saving. You can also save on a membership for yourself. New and Notable This Week 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. More about how we pick and rate books. Berlin: A Novel by Bea Setton Debut Author On sale May 16 from Penguin Books Genre: Literary Fiction. 256 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 A wickedly insightful, darkly funny novel in which a young woman in the grip of an existential malaise moves to a new city for a fresh start but her attempt at reinvention doesn't quite go to plan. Read More Blue Skies: A Novel by T. C. Boyle On sale May 16 from Liveright/W.W. Norton Genre: Literary Fiction. 384 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 From best-selling novelist T. C. Boyle, a satirical yet ultimately moving send-up of contemporary American life in the glare of climate change. Read More The Postcard by Anne Berest Debut Author On sale May 16 from Europa Editions Genre: Literary Fiction. 464 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. Read More The Guest: A Novel by Emma Cline On sale May 16 from Random House Genre: Thrillers. 304 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls. Read More Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong by Vaudine England On sale May 16 from Scribner Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 368 pages Critics' Opinion: 4/5 A timely, well-researched, and vibrant new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have made it a multicultural world metropolis—and whose freedoms are endangered today. Read More The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History by Serhii Plokhy On sale May 16 from W.W. Norton & Company Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 400 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 An authoritative history of Europe's largest military conflict since World War II, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Gates of Europe. Read More The World: A Family History of Humanity by Simon Sebag Montefiore On sale May 16 from Knopf Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 1344 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 A magisterial world history unlike any other that tells the story of humanity through the one thing we all have in common: families. From the New York Times best-selling author of The Romanovs Read More Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism by Brooke Kroeger On sale May 16 from Knopf Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 592 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 An essential history of women in American journalism, showcasing exceptional careers from 1840 to the present. Read More Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life by Kristen R. Ghodsee On sale May 16 from Simon & Schuster Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 352 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 A dazzling tour through 2,000 years of audacious utopian thinking and experiments, exploring better ways to arrange our daily lives, plus a globetrotting jaunt to the communities already putting these seemingly fanciful visions into practice today. Read More You: The Story: A Writer's Guide to Craft Through Memory by Ruta Sepetys On sale May 16 from Viking Genre: Advice. 224 pages Critics' Opinion: The nonfiction debut by #1 New York Times bestselling and Carnegie Medal-winning author Ruta Sepetys. Perfect for fans of Burn After Writing and Bird by Bird. Read More View all 22 new and notable books publishing this week Publishing This Week is one of BookBrowse's four free newsletters. We also publish BookBrowse Highlights every Thursday; and Book Club News and Librarian News monthly. 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