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This week we’ve gleaned 18 new and notable books for your interest, including works from Jonathan Coe, Kate Atkinson, Namwali Serpell, Kwame Alexander, C.J. Box and Annie Proulx. You’ll find 10 below and all of them on our New This Week page.
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This Week's New and Notable Books
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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.
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| Concerning My Daughter: A Novel
by Kim Hye-jin
Debut Author
On sale Sep 27 from Restless Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 176 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-Jin's debut confronts familial love, duty, mortality, and generational schism through the incendiary gaze of a tradition-bound mother faced with her daughter's queer relationship.
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| Motherthing
by Ainslie Hogarth
On sale Sep 27 from Vintage
Genre: Literary Fiction. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A darkly funny take on mothers and daughters, about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law.
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| Mr. Wilder and Me
by Jonathan Coe
On sale Sep 27 from Europa Editions
Genre: Literary Fiction. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From the award-winning author of The Rotters' Club and Middle England
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| Shrines of Gaiety: A Novel
by Kate Atkinson
On sale Sep 27 from Doubleday
Genre: Literary Fiction. 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
The #1 national bestselling, award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to a restless London in the wake of the Great War--a city fizzing with money, glamour, and corruption--in this spellbinding tale of seduction and betrayal
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| The Furrows: A Novel
by Namwali Serpell
On sale Sep 27 from Hogarth Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Cassandra Williams is twelve; her little brother, Wayne, is seven. One day, when they're alone together, there is an accident and Wayne is lost forever. His body is never recovered.
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| Jacqueline in Paris: A Novel
by Ann Mah
On sale Sep 27 from Mariner Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
From the bestselling author of The Lost Vintage, a rare and dazzling portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier's college year abroad in postwar Paris, an intimate and electrifying story of love and betrayal, and the coming-of-age of an American icon – before the world knew her as Jackie.
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| The Door of No Return
by Kwame Alexander
On sale Sep 27 from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Genre: Poetry & Novels in Verse (Young Adult). 432 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
11-year-old Kofi Offin dreams of water. Its mysterious, immersive quality. The rich, earthy scent of the current. The clearness, its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets…
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| Stay True: A Memoir
by Hua Hsu
Debut Author
On sale Sep 27 from Doubleday
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 208 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art.
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| Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II
by Bruce Henderson
On sale Sep 27 from Knopf
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 480 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
One of the last, great untold stories of World War II - kept hidden for decades - even after most of the World War II records were declassified in 1972, many of the files remained untouched in various archives - a gripping true tale of courage and adventure from Bruce Henderson, master storyteller, historian, and New York Times bestselling author of Sons and Soldiers - the saga of the Japanese American U.S. Army soldiers who fought in the Pacific theater, in Burma, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, with their families back home in America, under U.S. Executive Order 9066, held behind barbed wire in government internment camps.
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| Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
by Annie Proulx
On sale Sep 27 from Scribner
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 208 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx - whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth - comes a riveting, revelatory history of our wetlands, their ecological role, and what their systematic destruction means for the planet.
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