Publishing This Week: Stacy Willingham, Patrick Modiano, Renée Rosen, and 23 more

Discover New and Notable Books Publishing This Week Publishing This Week View as Webpage Hello Readers, This week is on the lighter side with 26 books on our shortlist, including one that features a well known cultural icon. Let's Call Her Barbie by Renée Rosen is a fictionalized retelling of how the doll came to fame. "Rosen vividly portrays her characters and deftly balances covering both the highs and lows of their personal lives and the professional challenges that arise along the way, from designing the first Dreamhouse to responding to criticism…With cultural interest in Barbie still sky high, this novel is a great choice for historical fiction readers interested in strong, complex women, both in and out of the toy aisle" (Library Journal). 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.  You can also check out the latest topics and posts in the new BookBrowse Community Forum. Best, 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. Let's Call Her Barbie by Renée Rosen On sale Jan 21 from Berkley Books Genre: Historical Fiction. 432 pages Critics' Consensus: 4/5 She was only eleven-and-a-half inches tall, but she would change the world. Barbie is born in this bold new novel by USA Today bestselling author Renée Rosen. Read More Buy on Bookshop.org A Gorgeous Excitement: A Novel by Cynthia Weiner Debut Author On sale Jan 21 from Crown Genre: Literary Fiction. 368 pages Critics' Consensus: 4/5 A dazzling novel about one young woman's summer of infinite possibility... Read More Buy on Bookshop.org Ballerina by Patrick Modiano On sale Jan 21 from Yale University Press Genre: Literary Fiction. 112 pages Critics' Consensus: 5/5 A critically acclaimed #1 bestseller in France—a novel of art, desire, and time lost and regained, from Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano. Read More Buy on Bookshop.org Mona Acts Out: A Novel by Mischa Berlinski On sale Jan 21 from Liveright/W.W. Norton Genre: Literary Fiction. 320 pages Critics' Consensus: 5/5 An exuberant, darkly humorous novel by the National Book Award–nominated author of Fieldwork. Read More Buy on Bookshop.org The New Internationals by David Wright Falade On sale Jan 21 from Atlantic Monthly Press Genre: Historical Fiction. 304 pages Critics' Consensus: 4/5 A stunning novel of post-war Paris that interweaves a coming-of-age story, a cross-cultural romance, and a portrait of the international youth at a definitive moment in contemporary history. Read More Buy on Bookshop.org Save Me, Stranger: Stories by Erika Krouse On sale Jan 21 from Flatiron Books Genre: Short Stories. 224 pages Critics' Consensus: 5/5 From Edgar Award-winning author Erika Krouse, a visceral, dazzling collection of stories set across the globe about characters desperate for salvation. Read More Buy on Bookshop.org Mask of the Deer Woman by Laurie L. Dove On sale Jan 21 from Berkley Books Genre: Thrillers. 336 pages Critics' Consensus: 4/5 To find a missing young woman, the new tribal marshal must also find herself. Read More Buy on Bookshop.org Boudicca: A Novel by P. C. Cast On sale Jan 21 from William Morrow Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 480 pages Critics' Consensus: 4/5 From P. C. Cast, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the landmark House of Night urban fantasy series, comes an epic, lusty, magic-filled romantasy about British warrior queen Boudicca. Perfect for fans of Sue Lynn Tan and Madeline Miller! Read More Buy on Bookshop.org No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference by Cheryl L. Neely On sale Jan 21 from Beacon Press Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 264 pages Critics' Consensus: 5/5 An urgent examination of the invisibility of Black women and girls as victims of targeted killings, and the lack of police intervention and media coverage. Read More Buy on Bookshop.org Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis by Tao Leigh Goffe Debut Author On sale Jan 21 from Doubleday Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 384 pages Critics' Consensus: 4/5 A groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to racial and environmental progress that impact how we live today. Read More Buy on Bookshop.org View all 26 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 receives an affiliate commission from Bookshop.org for purchases made through links in this newsletter. Thank you for your support! BookBrowse 1-800-745-5306 info@bookbrowse.com ‌ ‌ ‌ Copyright 2025

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