Discover New and Notable Books Publishing This Week Happy New Year!
We return this week with 40 new and notable books publishing.
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. | | | After Life
by Gayle Forman
On sale Jan 7 from Quill Tree Books
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 272 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
One spring afternoon after school, Amber arrives home on her bike. It's just another perfectly normal day. But when Amber's mom sees her, she screams.
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Buy on Bookshop.org | | | Another Man in the Street: A Novel
by Caryl Phillips
On sale Jan 7 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Literary Fiction. 240 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Caryl Phillips, who "pits himself against any kind of received wisdom" (London Review of Books), gives us a hypnotic, heartbreaking novel lit by the bright and changing lights of 1960s London.
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Buy on Bookshop.org | | | Darkmotherland
by Samrat Upadhyay
On sale Jan 7 from Soho Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 768 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
An epic tale of love and political violence set in earthquake-ravaged Darkmotherland, a dystopian reimagining of Nepal, from the Whiting Award–winning author of Arresting God in Kathmandu.
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Buy on Bookshop.org | | | How to Sleep at Night: A Novel
by Elizabeth Harris
Debut Author
On sale Jan 7 from William Morrow
Genre: Literary Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
A witty and whip-smart novel about love, marriage, and family ties stretched thin by ambition.
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Buy on Bookshop.org | | | Homeseeking
by Karissa Chen
Debut Author
On sale Jan 7 from G.P. Putnam's Sons
Genre: Historical Fiction. 512 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
An epic and intimate tale of one couple across sixty years as world events pull them together and apart, illuminating the Chinese diaspora and exploring what it means to find home far from your homeland.
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Buy on Bookshop.org | | | The Things We Didn't Know
by Elba Iris Pérez
Debut Author
On sale Jan 7 from Gallery Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
The USA Today bestselling inaugural winner of Simon & Schuster's Books Like Us contest, Elba Iris Pérez's lyrical and "wonderfully compelling" (Judith Simon Prager, author of What the Dolphin Said) cross-cultural coming-of-age debut novel explores a young girl's childhood between 1950s Puerto Rico and a small Massachusetts factory town.
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Buy on Bookshop.org | | | The Naming of the Birds
by Paraic O'Donnell
On sale Jan 7 from Tin House Books
Genre: Mysteries. 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
The next installment of the "thrilling gothic mystery" (TIME ) series, following the acclaimed bestseller The House on Vesper Sands, arrives in full force as Inspector Cutter and Sergeant Bliss solve their strangest and most personal case yet.
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Buy on Bookshop.org | | | 99% Perspiration: A New Working History of the American Way of Life
by Adam Chandler
On sale Jan 7 from Pantheon Books
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 304 pages
Critics' Consensus:
An enlightening and entertaining interrogation of the myth of American self-reliance and the idea of hard work as destiny.
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Buy on Bookshop.org | | | In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space
by Irvin Weathersby Jr.
On sale Jan 7 from Viking
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 256 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A stirring journey into the soul of a fractured America that confronts the enduring specter of white supremacy in our art, monuments, and public spaces, from a captivating new literary voice.
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Buy on Bookshop.org | | | Who Owns the Moon?: And Other Conundrums of Exploring and Using Space
by Cynthia Levinson
On sale Jan 7 from Margaret Quinlin Books
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment (Young Adult). 208 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Today's teens may travel to the Moon in their lifetimes. This primer on what to know for a future in space combines technology and science with law and policy for a fascinating look at a very timely subject.
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