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2024/01/07

Publishing This Week: Not the End of the World

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Publishing This Week
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Among this week's 19 new and notable books are novels from Hisham Matar, Kristin Dwyer, Karl Marlantes, Jill McCorkle and Bonnie Jo Campbell, whose third novel, The Waters has received glowing reviews from Ron Charles in The Washington Post and Jane Smiley in The Los Angeles Times.

This week also brings Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie. There are so many books about the environment, and rightly so, but it does present a quandary, because how many can any of us read, and how many should BookBrowse be recommending? This one makes the cut because of the authority of its glass-half-full perspective. To quote Margaret Atwood, it's "an inspiring data-mine which gives us not only real guidance, but the most necessary ingredient of all: hope." If you have friends or family members who are feeling despair at the state of the environment, you might want to encourage them to take a look, because hope is not naive, it's a necessary component of change.

You'll find brief information on 10 of the week's books below and more in our New This Week section. For more soon to publish books, check out BookBrowse's "What's New" section.

Enjoy!

The BookBrowse Team


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 Waters book jacket
The Waters: A Novel
by Bonnie Jo Campbell


On sale Jan 9 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Literary Fiction. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Members' Rating: 3.9/5

A master of rural noir returns with a fierce, mesmerizing novel about exceptional women and the soul of a small town.

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Reader Reviews
Goldenseal book jacket
Goldenseal
by Maria Hummel


On sale Jan 9 from Counterpoint Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A Gentleman in Moscow meets My Brilliant Friend in this novel of two estranged friends who reunite to confront each other and the devastating betrayal that tore them apart

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My Friends book jacket
My Friends: A Novel
by Hisham Matar


On sale Jan 9 from Random House
Genre: Literary Fiction. 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A luminous novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile, from the Booker Prize–nominated and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Return

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River East, River West book jacket
River East, River West: A Novel
by Aube Rey Lescure


Debut Author
On sale Jan 9 from William Morrow
Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Set against the backdrop of developing modern China, this mesmerizing literary debut is part coming-of-age tale, part family and social drama, as it follows two generations searching for belonging and opportunity in a rapidly changing world—perfect for readers of Behold the Dreamers, White Ivy, and The Leavers.

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The Atlas of Us book jacket
The Atlas of Us
by Kristin Dwyer


On sale Jan 9 from HarperTeen
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

"A complete knockout. Readers will be thinking of this story long after they finish the final page." —Adalyn Grace, New York Times bestselling author of Belladonna

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Cold Victory book jacket
Cold Victory
by Karl Marlantes


On sale Jan 9 from Grove Press
Genre: Historical Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From New York Times bestselling author Karl Marlantes comes a propulsive and sweeping novel in which loyalty, friendship, and love are put to the ultimate test

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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years book jacket
The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years: A Novel
by Shubnum Khan


Debut Author
On sale Jan 9 from Viking
Genre: Historical Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

"A dark and heady dream of a book" (Alix E. Harrow) about a ruined mansion by the sea, the djinn that haunts it, and a curious girl who unearths the tragedy that happened there a hundred years previous

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Northwoods book jacket
Northwoods: A Novel
by Amy Pease


Debut Author
On sale Jan 9 from Emily Bestler Books (Atria)
Genre: Mysteries. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The dark underbelly of an idyllic Midwestern resort town is revealed in the aftermath of a murder with ties to America's opioid epidemic in this unputdownable and thrilling debut that is perfect for fans of James Lee Burke, William Kent Krueger, and Mindy Mejia.

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Our Enemies Will Vanish book jacket
Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence
by Yaroslav Trofimov


On sale Jan 9 from Penguin Press
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the heroism of the Ukrainian people in their resistance by Yaroslav Trofimov, the Ukrainian chief foreign affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.

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Not the End of the World book jacket
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
by Hannah Ritchie


Debut Author
On sale Jan 9 from Little, Brown Spark
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion:

This "truly essential" book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems (Margaret Atwood)—and explains how we can solve them.

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Excerpt at The Guardian
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