Publishing This Week: 33 New & Notable Books!

Publishing This Week

Hello,

As we get closer to the holidays, the number of books publishing each week will drop off precipitously; but, for now, things are still in full swing! We've found 33 notable books to highlight this week; I've included 10 below and all of them in our Publishing This Week section.

Enjoy!

Davina, BookBrowse Publisher

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.

Dr. No: A Novel
by Percival Everett

On sale Nov 1 from Graywolf Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 232 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star keeps rising.

Foster
by Claire Keegan

On sale Nov 1 from Grove Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 128 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An international bestseller and one of The Times' "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US.

Meredith, Alone
by Claire Alexander

Debut Author
On sale Nov 1 from Grand Central Publishing
Genre: Literary Fiction. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

"The brilliant author of this brilliant book" will have you laughing and crying as Meredith, after spending three years inside her house, figures out how to rejoin the world one step at a time (Gillian McAllister, author of the Reese's Book Club Wrong Place Wrong Time).

Someday, Maybe: A Novel
by Onyi Nwabineli

Debut Author
On sale Nov 1 from Graydon House
Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Someday, Maybe is a stunning, witty debut novel about a young woman's emotional journey through unimaginable loss, pulled along by her tight-knit Nigerian family, a posse of friends, and the love and laughter she shared with her husband.

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
by Shehan Karunatilaka

On sale Nov 1 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Literary Fiction. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Winner of the 2022 Booker Prize, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is a searing satire set amid the mayhem of the Sri Lankan civil war.

Gilded Mountain: A Novel
by Kate Manning

On sale Nov 1 from Scribner
Genre: Historical Fiction. 464 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Set in early 1900s Colorado, the unforgettable tale of a young woman who bravely faces the consequences of speaking out against injustice.

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
by Franny Choi

On sale Nov 1 from Ecco
Genre: Poetry. 144 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds—past, present, and future. Choi's third book features poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our responsibilities to each other and visions for our collective survival.

White Horse: A Novel
by Erika T. Wurth

On sale Nov 1 from Flatiron Books
Genre: Thrillers. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Erika T. Wurth's White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut novel about an Indigenous woman who must face her past when she discovers a bracelet haunted by her mother's spirit.

Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
by Jennifer Homans

On sale Nov 1 from Random House
Genre: Biography. 784 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Based on a decade of unprecedented research, the first major biography of George Balanchine, a broad-canvas portrait set against the backdrop of the tumultuous century that shaped the man the New York Times called "the Shakespeare of dancing" - from the bestselling author of Apollo's Angels.

Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
by Robin Wall Kimmerer

On sale Nov 1 from Zest Books
Genre: Science and the Environment (Young Adult). 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrates how all living things - from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen - provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her bestselling book Braiding Sweetgrass.

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