Discover New and Notable Books Publishing This Week Hello Readers,
This week we have 31 new and notable books publishing, including The Memory Library by Kate Story, "A lovely story that celebrates books, family and kindness. Touching and beautiful" —Hazel Prior, bestselling author of Away with the Penguins.
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.
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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 Memory Library
by Kate Storey
On sale Dec 3 from HarperCollins Publishers
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages
Journey through the pages of this heartwarming novel, where hope, friendship and second chances are written in the margins. Perfect for book lovers everywhere and fans of Sally Page's The Keeper of Stories.
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Buy on Bookshop.org | | | Apartment Women: A Novel
by Gu Byeong-mo
On sale Dec 3 from Hanover Square Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 224 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
From the New York Times notable author of The Old Woman with the Knife comes a bracingly original story of family, marriage and the cultural expectations of motherhood, about four women whose lives intersect in dramatic and unexpected ways at a government-run apartment complex outside Seoul.
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Buy on Bookshop.org | | | My Fairy God Somebody
by Charlene Allen
On sale Dec 3 from HarperCollins Publishers
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 272 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Author Charlene Allen blends mystery, romance, and friendshipin this contemporary YA novel perfect for fans of We Deserve Monuments and Far from the Tree.
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Buy on Bookshop.org | | | Rental House: A Novel
by Weike Wang
On sale Dec 3 from Riverhead Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 224 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From the award-winning author of Chemistry, a sharp-witted, insightful novel about a marriage as seen through the lens of two family vacations.
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Buy on Bookshop.org | | | Sister Snake: A Novel
by Amanda Lee Koe
On sale Dec 3 from Ecco
Genre: Literary Fiction. 272 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A glittering, bold, darkly funny novel about two sisters—one in New York, one in Singapore—who are bound by an ancient secret.
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Buy on Bookshop.org | | | Woo Woo: A Novel
by Ella Baxter
On sale Dec 3 from Catapult
Genre: Literary Fiction. 272 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
A thrilling and eccentric novel about what it means to make art as a woman, and about the powerful forces of voyeurism, power, obsession, and online performance.
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Buy on Bookshop.org | | | The Voyage Home: Women of Troy #3
by Pat Barker
On sale Dec 3 from Doubleday
Genre: Historical Fiction. 288 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy comes the powerful third installment to the Women of Troy series.
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Buy on Bookshop.org | | | The World With Its Mouth Open
by Zahid Rafiq
Debut Author
On sale Dec 3 from Tin House Books
Genre: Short Stories. 192 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
In eleven stories, The World With Its Mouth Open follows the inner lives of people in Kashmir as they walk the uncertain terrain of their days, fractured from years of war.
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Buy on Bookshop.org | | | The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever
by Lydia Reeder
On sale Dec 3 from St. Martin's Press
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhood―and the brilliant doctor who defied them.
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Buy on Bookshop.org | | | When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon
by Alex Cuadros
On sale Dec 3 from Grand Central Publishing
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 320 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
The "gripping and astonishing story" (Douglas Preston) of the Cinta Larga, a tribe that had no contact with the West until the 1960s and came to run an illegal diamond mine in the Amazon.
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