Publishing This Week: Including Elif Batuman, Dan Chaon and Chris Pavone

Publishing This Week

Hello,

There's just seven titles in this issue of "Publishing This Week" but it's a strong list including Either/Or, Elif Batuman's follow up to The Idiot; Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone and Sleepwalk by Dan Chaon.

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. For more about our process, see “Picking Books” and “Rating Books”.

Either/Or
by Elif Batuman

On sale May 24 from Penguin Press
Genre: Novels. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Selin's quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad and tests the limits of her newfound adulthood.

How We Ricochet
by Faith Gardner

On sale May 24 from HarperTeen
Genre: Novels (Young Adult). 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

For readers of This Is How It Ends and All the Bright Places, How We Ricochet takes an intimate and unflinching look into the devastating consequences of a mass shooting for one girl and her close-knit family, from Faith Gardner, acclaimed author of Girl on the Line.

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by Hanna Bervoets

Debut Author
On sale May 24 from Mariner Books
Genre: Novels. 144 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

For readers of Leila Slimani's The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma's Severance: a tight, propulsive, chilling novel by a rising international star about a group of young colleagues working as social media content monitors - reviewers of violent or illegal videos for an unnamed megacorporation - who convince themselves they're in control...until the violence strikes closer to home.

Sleepwalk: A Novel
by Dan Chaon

On sale May 24 from Henry Holt and Company
Genre: Thrillers. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future America with a big hearted mercenary, from beloved and acclaimed novelist Dan Chaon.

Two Nights in Lisbon: A Novel
by Chris Pavone

On sale May 24 from MCD
Genre: Thrillers. 448 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Tautly wound and expertly crafted, Two Nights in Lisbon is a riveting thriller about a woman under pressure, and how far she will go when everything is on the line.

The Hangman and His Wife: The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich
by Nancy Dougherty

On sale May 24 from Knopf
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 656 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An astonishing journey into the heart of Nazi evil: a portrait of one of the darkest figures of Hitler's Nazi elite - Reinhard Heydrich, the designer and executor of the Holocaust, chief of the Reich Main Security, including the Gestapo - interwoven with commentary by his wife, Lina, from the author's in-depth interviews.

Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945
by Halik Kochanski

On sale May 24 from Liveright/W.W. Norton
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 960 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Resistance is the first book of its kind: a monumental history that finally integrates the many resistance movements against Nazi hegemony in Europe into a single, sweeping narrative of defiance.

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