Publishing This Week: Tan Twan Eng, Teju Cole & Tim Johnston

Publishing This Week View as Webpage Hello, We're still in the middle of peak publishing season, so this week brings another bumper crop of 27 new and notable books for your reading pleasure, split almost equally between fiction and nonfiction. Of the total, a half are debut writers; one of the new voices belongs to Chelsea Iverson whose fantasy novel set in Scandanavia, The Witches at the End of the World was enjoyed by many of our First Impressions reviewers, including Joy who describes it as, "a novel of vengeance, grief, love, the ties that bind us to others and the actions fueled by emotion." Other authors to look out for include Tan Twan Eng, Teju Cole, Tim Johnston. We've included brief information on 10 books below and more about all in our New This Week section. The "New" section is also home to our Publishing by Month lists, where you can look forward to see what's publishing soon and back to previous months. Enjoy! The BookBrowse Team Subscribe to BookBrowse today for just $3.75/month! This Week's New and Notable Books 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. The Witches at the End of the World by Chelsea Iversen Debut Author On sale Oct 17 from Sourcebooks Landmark Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 320 pages Critics' Opinion: 4/5 Members' Rating: 3.9/5 Two sisters find themselves at odds in this breathtaking historical fantasy – and when one releases a dark spell, someone will have to burn. They are witches, after all. Read More Reader Reviews The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng On sale Oct 17 from Bloomsbury Publishing Genre: Literary Fiction. 320 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 From the bestselling author of The Garden of Evening Mists, a spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redemption. Read More Tremor: A Novel by Teju Cole On sale Oct 17 from Kids@Random Genre: Literary Fiction. 256 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violent world—from the award-winning author of Open City Read More Straw Dogs of the Universe: A Novel by Ye Chun Debut Author On sale Oct 17 from Catapult Genre: Historical Fiction. 336 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 A Chinese railroad worker and his young daughter—sold into servitude—in 19th century California search for family, fulfillment, and belonging in a violent new land Read More Murder by Degrees: A Mystery by Ritu Mukerji Debut Author On sale Oct 17 from Simon & Schuster Genre: Mysteries. 304 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 For fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Charles Todd, Murder by Degrees is a historical mystery set in 19th century Philadelphia, following a pioneering woman doctor as she investigates the disappearance of a young patient who is presumed dead. Read More Distant Sons by Tim Johnston On sale Oct 17 from Algonquin Books Genre: Thrillers. 400 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 New York Times bestselling author of Descent and The Current Tim Johnston returns with an absorbing new crime novel set in a small Wisconsin town haunted by the unsolved disappearance of three boys in the 1970s. Read More An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America by Edwin Raymond Debut Author On sale Oct 17 from Viking Genre: Biography/Memoir. 352 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 From the highest-ranking whistleblower in NYPD history, a gripping insider look at the complexities of modern policing and the urgent need for reform Read More Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir by Curtis Chin Debut Author On sale Oct 17 from Little Brown & Company Genre: Biography/Memoir. 304 pages Critics' Opinion: 4/5 This "vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt" memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin's time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980's Detroit (Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers). Read More I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country by Elena Kostyuchenko Debut Author On sale Oct 17 from Penguin Press Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 384 pages Critics' Opinion: 4/5 A fearless, cutting portrait of Russia and an essential cri de coeur for journalism in opposition to the global authoritarian turn Read More The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust's Most Audacious Rescue Operation by Roger Moorhouse On sale Oct 17 from Basic Books Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 352 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 The secret history of one of the largest—and least-known—rescue operations of World War II Read More View all 27 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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