Publishing This Week: Mark Haddon, Susan Minot, Michael Connelly and 30 more

Discover New and Notable Books Publishing This Week Publishing This Week View as Webpage Hello Readers, This week we have 33 new and noteworthy books on our shortlist, including a notable debut. Stephanie Booth's Libby Lost and Found follows Libby Weeks, a bestselling fantasy author diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's, who, desperate to finish her final book as her symptoms worsen, turns to an eleven-year-old superfan with secrets of her own. Dan Zevin, Thurber Prize-winning author of The Day I Turned Uncool, calls it "poignant, lyrical, and heartbreakingly funny." 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. For members, we now offer personal book recommendations, all read and recommended by our professional reviewers, based on the books you've read and refreshed daily. 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. Libby Lost and Found: A Novel by Stephanie Booth Debut Author On sale Oct 15 from Sourcebooks Landmark Genre: Literary Fiction. 400 pages Members' Rating: 4/5 Libby Lost and Found is a book for people who don't know who they are without the books they love. It's about the stories we tell ourselves and the chapters of our lives we regret. Most importantly, it's about the endings we write for ourselves. Read More Reader Reviews Blood Test: A Comedy by Charles Baxter On sale Oct 15 from Pantheon Books Genre: Literary Fiction. 224 pages Critics' Consensus: 4/5 From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune) comes a comic novel about a divorced Midwestern dad who takes a cutting-edge medical test and learns that he has a predisposition to murder. Read More Blue Light Hours by Bruna Dantas Lobato Debut Author On sale Oct 15 from Grove Press Genre: Literary Fiction. 192 pages Critics' Consensus: 5/5 From the National Book Award-winning translator, an atmospheric and wise debut novel of a young Brazilian woman's first year in America, a continent away from her lonely mother, and the relationship they build over Skype calls across borders. Read More Don't Be a Stranger: A Novel by Susan Minot On sale Oct 15 from Knopf Genre: Literary Fiction. 320 pages Critics' Consensus: 4/5 A mesmerizing new novel from the author of Evening: the story of a woman swept into a love affair at mid-life. Read More Dogs and Monsters: Stories by Mark Haddon On sale Oct 15 from Doubleday Genre: Short Stories. 288 pages Critics' Consensus: 4/5 From the "terrifyingly talented" (London Times) author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and The Porpoise, eight mesmerizingly imaginative, deeply-humane stories that use Greek myths and contemporary dystopian narratives to examine mortality, moral choices and the many variants of love. Read More Forest of Noise: Poems by Mosab Abu Toha On sale Oct 15 from Knopf Genre: Poetry & Novels in Verse. 96 pages "A powerful, capacious, and profound" (Ocean Vuong) new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winning Palestinian poet. Read More All the Hearts You Eat by Hailey Piper On sale Oct 15 from Titan Books Genre: Thrillers. 448 pages Critics' Consensus: 5/5 A visceral and heartbreaking work of gothic horror about small town mysteries, local folklore and the things we leave behind when we're gone, from the Bram Stoker Award winning author of Queen of Teeth. Read More Clean: A Novel by Alia Trabucco Zerán On sale Oct 15 from Riverhead Books Genre: Thrillers. 272 pages Critics' Consensus: 4/5 From a global star and International Booker Prize finalist, a razor-sharp, unforgettable novel about a maid who's seen too much and a family at a breaking point. Read More The Waiting: A Ballard and Bosch Novel by Michael Connelly On sale Oct 15 from Little Brown & Company Genre: Thrillers. 416 pages Critics' Consensus: 4/5 LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: Patrol Officer Maddie Bosch, Harry's daughter. Read More Into the Unknown: The Quest to Understand the Mysteries of the Cosmos by Dr. Kelsey Johnson On sale Oct 15 from Basic Books Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 416 pages Critics' Consensus: 4/5 A leading astronomer and gifted teacher takes readers on a wondrous tour of how science confronts the big questions—about the universe's origins, destiny, and fundamental nature—and how it contends with the limits of our knowledge. Read More View all 33 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. Change settings and/or update your email address BookBrowse 1-800-745-5306 info@bookbrowse.com ‌ ‌ ‌ Copyright 2024

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