Publishing This Week: Jennifer Chiaverini and Rebecca Stott, and 7 Others

Publishing This Week

Hello,

It’s a relatively quiet week for new books but we’ve still found nine for your reading pleasure, including historical fiction from Jennifer Chiaverini and Rebecca Stott.

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”.

Goth Girl, Queen of the Universe
by Lindsay S. Zrull

Debut Author
On sale Jul 19 from North Star Editions
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Bounced between foster homes since the age of seven, Jessica knows better than to set down roots. Most of the kids at her new Michigan high school think she's a witch anyway (because, you know, goth).

The Work Wife: A Novel
by Alison B. Hart

Debut Author
On sale Jul 19 from Graydon House
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Zanne Klein never planned to be a personal assistant to Hollywood royalty Ted and Holly Stabler. But a decade in at thirty-eight, that's exactly how she spends her days, earning six figures to make sure the movie mogul and his family have everything they could ever dream of and more.

Switchboard Soldiers: A Novel
by Jennifer Chiaverini

On sale Jul 19 from William Morrow
Genre: Historical Fiction. 464 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I - the women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military, smashed the workplace glass ceiling, and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the Allies to victory.

Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology
by Vince A. Liaguno

On sale Jul 19 from William Morrow Paperbacks
Genre: Short Stories. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An anthology of original horror stories edited by Bram Stoker Award® winners Vince A. Liaguno and Rena Mason that showcases authors from historically excluded backgrounds telling terrifying tales of what it means to be, or merely to seem, "other."

Just Like Home
by Sarah Gailey

On sale Jul 19 from Tor Books
Genre: Thrillers. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Just Like Home is a darkly gothic thriller from nationally bestselling author Sarah Gailey, perfect for fans of Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House as well as HBO's true crime masterpiece I'll Be Gone in the Dark.

The Kingdoms of Savannah: A Novel
by George Dawes Green

On sale Jul 19 from Celadon
Genre: Thrillers. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Savannah may appear to be "some town out of a fable," with its vine flowers, turreted mansions, and ghost tours that romanticize the city's history. But look deeper and you'll uncover secrets, past and present, that tell a more sinister tale. It's the story at the heart of George Dawes Green's chilling new novel, The Kingdoms of Savannah.

Baby Teeth
by Meg Grehan

On sale Jul 19 from Little Island Books
Genre: Fantasy (Young Adult). 192 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the multi-award-winning author of The Deepest Breath (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021), a Junior Library Guild Selection, comes a YA verse novel about LGBTQ+ desire, identity - and vampires.

Dark Earth: A Novel
by Rebecca Stott

On sale Jul 19 from Random House
Genre: Historical Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A captivating novel about two sisters fighting for survival in Dark Ages Britain that casts a thrilling spell of magic and myth.

What Goes Unsaid: A Memoir of Fathers Who Never Were
by Emiliano Monge

On sale Jul 19 from Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
Genre: Memoir. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

From one of Mexico's leading writers - a memoir about three men who are driven to escape the confines of their traditional lives and roles.

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