Publishing This Week: Jacqueline Woodson, Jhumpa Lahiri, David Arnold and Cassandra Clare

Publishing This Week

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From the many, many books publishing this week, we've highlighted 26 for your interest, including new works from Jacqueline Woodson, Bryan Washington, Jhumpa Lahiri, David Arnold and Cassandra Clare. You'll find brief information on 10 below and more about all in our New This Week section.

The "New" section is also home to our Publishing by Month lists, where you can look forward to see what's publishing soon and back to previous months.

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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.

Family Meal: A Novel
by Bryan Washington

On sale Oct 10 from Riverhead Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel about two young men, once best friends, whose lives collide again after a loss.

Remember Us
by Jacqueline Woodson

On sale Oct 10 from Nancy Paulsen Books
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 192 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson brings readers a powerful story that delves deeply into life's burning questions about time and memory and what we take with us into the future.

Lies and Sorcery
by Elsa Morante

On sale Oct 10 from New York Review Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 800 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An Italian master's magnum opus about three generations of women and their unhappy marriages, now in the first-ever unabridged English translation.

Lilith: A Novel
by Nikki Marmery

On sale Oct 10 from Alcove Press
Genre: Historical Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A triumphantly feminist retelling of ancient creation myths in the tradition of Madeline Miller and Claire North.

Lyrically rendered, this epic U.S. debut tells the story of the woman known as Adam's first wife and her fall from Paradise and quest for revenge.

Queen Hereafter: A Novel of Lady Macbeth
by Isabelle Schuler

Debut Author
On sale Oct 10 from Harper Perennial
Genre: Historical Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

An instant international bestseller: a suspenseful, sweeping historical epic for readers of Natalie Haynes and Madeline Miller, which boldly reimagines the origin story of the woman who inspired one of Shakespeare's most iconic characters, Lady Macbeth.

Roman Stories
by Jhumpa Lahiri

On sale Oct 10 from Knopf
Genre: Short Stories. 224 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth • Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is the protagonist, not the setting, of these nine stories

I Loved You in Another Life
by David Arnold

On sale Oct 10 from Viking Books for Younger Readers
Genre: Romance (Young Adult). 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

New York Times bestseller David Arnold returns with a poignant love story about two teens whose souls come together time and again through the ages—for fans of Nina LaCour and Matt Haig.

Sword Catcher
by Cassandra Clare

Debut Author
On sale Oct 10 from Del Rey
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 624 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

Two outcasts find themselves caught in a web of forbidden love, dangerous magic, and dark secrets that could change the world forever in the start of a riveting epic fantasy series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Shadowhunter Chronicles.

Nobility in Small Things: A Surgeon's Path
by Craig R. Smith M.D.

Debut Author
On sale Oct 10 from St. Martin's Press
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

Dr. Smith shows us not just the making of a surgeon in Nobility in Small Things, but the maintenance of one: the deep feeling and moral philosophy that anchor the daily miracles that define his profession.

Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
by Fergus M. Bordewich

On sale Oct 10 from Knopf
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 480 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil - when Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government to dismantle the KKK.

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