Discover New and Notable Books Publishing This Week Hello Readers!
We've curated 45 new and notable books being published this week, including two titles to put on your Halloween reading list:
The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister is "Gothic horror at its absolute finest" (Library Journal), and Model Home by Rivers Solomon, "subverts and reclaims the tropes of the gothic haunted house to create something wholly original and unforgettable" (Booklist).
You'll find brief information on 10 titles below, and descriptions and reviews for all of them in our New This Week section. For more soon to publish books including paperbacks, check out BookBrowse's "What's New" section.
Members can also view all of our October shortlisted titles in our Publishing by Month section.
With best wishes,
The BookBrowse Team |
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| 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 Bog Wife
by Kay Chronister
On sale Oct 1 from Counterpoint Press
Genre: Gothic Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4/5
Five siblings in West Virginia unearth long-buried secrets when the supernatural bargain entwining their fate with their ancestral land is suddenly ruptured.
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Reader Reviews | | | Model Home: A Novel
by Rivers Solomon
On sale Oct 1 from MCD
Genre: Literary Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel.
Read More | | | Shred Sisters
by Betsy Lerner
Debut Author
On sale Oct 1 from Grove Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 272 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
No one will love you more or hurt you more than a sister.
From Betsy Lerner, celebrated author of The Bridge Ladies, comes a wry and riveting debut novel about family, mental illness, and a hard-won path between two sisters.
Read More | | | The Mighty Red: A Novel
by Louise Erdrich
On sale Oct 1 from Harper
Genre: Literary Fiction. 384 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings, and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circumstances on ordinary people's lives.
Read More | | | Season of the Swamp: A Novel
by Yuri Herrera
On sale Oct 1 from Graywolf Press
Genre: Historical Fiction. 160 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World.
Read More | | | The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies
by Deborah Levy
On sale Oct 1 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Essays. 176 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A feast of observations about everything from the particular beauty of lemons on a table, to the allure of Colette, to the streets of Paris, by the inimitable Deborah Levy.
Read More | | | The Sequel: The Book Series #2
by Jean Hanff Korelitz
On sale Oct 1 from Celadon
Genre: Thrillers. 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
After the "insanely readable" (Stephen King) and "perfectly told" (Malcolm Gladwell) New York Times bestseller The Plot comes Jean Hanff Korelitz's equally captivating new novel: The Sequel.
Read More | | | Heir
by Sabaa Tahir
On sale Oct 1 from G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History (Young Adult). 512 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Prepare for the action-packed, ruthless, and romantic new fantasy from the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Award winning author Sabaa Tahir about love, legacy, and vengeance.
Read More | | | Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
by Dan Jones
On sale Oct 1 from Viking
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 432 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
The New York Times bestselling author returns with a biography examining the dramatic life and unparalleled leadership of England's greatest medieval king.
Read More | | | The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
by Aaron Robertson
On sale Oct 1 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 400 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A lyrical meditation on how Black Americans have envisioned utopia―and sought to transform their lives.
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