Publishing This Week: Louis Bayard, Geraldine Brooks, Ada Calhoun, Katy Tur and 17 Others

Publishing This Week

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This week we cover 21 new and notable books, all publishing this Tuesday. They include two titles our members have been reviewing for our early reader program First Impressions: Ashley Hutson's debut novel One's Company, recommended for readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Mona Awad; and Jackie & Me by Louis Bayard in which he imagines the young Jacqueline Bouvier before she became that Jackie.

We also look at Horse by Geraldine Brooks, a dual timeline story about arguably the greatest racehorse in American history, set against the backdrop of Kentucky and the Civil War. Plus, a range of nonfiction including One Person, One Vote: A Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America by Nick Seabrook, Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke, and memoirs from Ada Calhoun and Katy Tur.

There's more of note including new books from Ibram X. Kendi, Alan Drew and filmmaker Werner Herzog; but as some email providers cut long emails short, I've included just 10 titles here and you'll find all 21 on BookBrowse, including jacket summaries and all available reviews at the time of writing.

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”.

One's Company: A Novel
by Ashley Hutson

Debut Author
On sale Jun 14 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Novels. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Members' Rating: 3.7/5

For readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Mona Awad, this fearless debut chronicles one woman's escape into a world of obsessive imagination.

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Horse: A Novel
by Geraldine Brooks

On sale Jun 14 from Viking
Genre: Novels. 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history.

Last Summer on State Street: A Novel
by Toya Wolfe

Debut Author
On sale Jun 14 from William Morrow
Genre: Novels. 224 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

For fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Brit Bennett, a striking coming-of-age debut about friendship, community, and resilience, set in the housing projects of Chicago during one life-changing summer.

The Lunar Housewife: A Novel
by Caroline Woods

On sale Jun 14 from Doubleday
Genre: Historical Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A stylish and suspenseful historical page-turner following an up-and-coming journalist who stumbles onto a web of secrets, deceptions, and mysteries at a popular new literary magazine--inspired by the true story of CIA intervention in Cold War American arts and letters.

The World As We Knew It: Dispatches From a Changing Climate
by Amy Brady, Tajja Isen

On sale Jun 14 from Catapult
Genre: Essays. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Nineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives—including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Kim Stanley Robinson, Omar El Akkad, Lidia Yuknavitch, Melissa Febos, and more.

Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
by Ada Calhoun

On sale Jun 14 from Grove Press
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poet.

Rough Draft: A Memoir
by Katy Tur

On sale Jun 14 from Atria Books
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

From MSNBC anchor and New York Times bestselling author Katy Tur, a shocking and deeply personal memoir about a life spent chasing the news.

One Person, One Vote: A Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America
by Nick Seabrook

On sale Jun 14 from Pantheon Books
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A redistricting crisis is now upon us. This surprising, compelling book tells the history of how we got to this moment - from the Founding Fathers to today's high-tech manipulation of election districts - and shows us as well how to protect our most sacred, hard-fought principle of one person, one vote. Here is THE book on gerrymandering for citizens, politicians, journalists, activists, and voters.

Bitch: On the Female of the Species
by Lucy Cooke

On sale Jun 14 from Basic Books
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom.

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