Publishing This Week: Paula Hawkins, Nikki May, Nalo Hopkinson, and 11 More

Publishing This Week

Hello Readers,

This week is a quiet one with 14 new titles, including some notable short story collections.

You'll find brief information on 10 titles below, and descriptions and reviews for all of them in our New This Week section. For more soon to publish books including paperbacks, check out BookBrowse's "What's New" section. Members can get a head start on books publishing in 2025 with our new view books publishing by year.

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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.

Just Until
by Joseph Moldover

On sale Oct 29 from Margaret Ferguson Books
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

Hannah must choose the impossible—put her nephews into foster care so she can stay true to her dream, or take them on and lose everything she's worked so hard to achieve.

Like Mother, Like Mother: A Novel
by Susan Rieger

On sale Oct 29 from Dial Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages

An enthralling novel about three generations of strong-willed women, unknowingly shaped by the secrets buried in their family's past.

Masquerade
by Mike Fu

Debut Author
On sale Oct 29 from Tin House Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages

Set between New York and Shanghai, Masquerade is a queer coming-of-age mystery about a lovelorn bartender and his complex friendship with a volatile artist.

This Motherless Land: A Novel
by Nikki May

On sale Oct 29 from Mariner Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

From the acclaimed author of Wahala, a "vibrant" (Charmaine Wilkerson) decolonial retelling of Mansfield Park, exploring identity, culture, race, and love.

Canoes
by Maylis De Kerangal

On sale Oct 29 from Archipelago Books
Genre: Short Stories. 197 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

A colorful cast of female characters contends with UFOs, sonic waves, and the legend of Buffalo Bill in a spellbinding novella and 7 short stories about the mysteries of place and language.

Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions
by Nalo Hopkinson

On sale Oct 29 from Tachyon Publications
Genre: Short Stories. 224 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

Caribbean-Canadian author Nalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl in the Ring) is an internationally beloved storyteller. This long-awaited new collection of her deeply imaginative short fiction offers striking journeys to far-flung futures and fantastical landscapes.

The Blue Hour: A Novel
by Paula Hawkins

On sale Oct 29 from Mariner Books
Genre: Thrillers. 320 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

The propulsive and powerful new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train.

For She Is Wrath
by Emily Varga

Debut Author
On sale Oct 29 from Wednesday Books
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History (Young Adult). 400 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

A sweeping, Pakistani romantic fantasy reimagining of The Count of Monte Cristo, where one girl seeks revenge against those who betrayed her―including the boy she used to love.

Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah
by Charles King

On sale Oct 29 from Doubleday
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 352 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

From New York Times bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Charles King, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel's Messiah.

Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop
by Serene Khader

On sale Oct 29 from Beacon Press
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 248 pages

For readers of Hood Feminism and Against White Feminism, an incisive examination of why the pillars of feminism have eroded—and how all women, not just the #girlbosses, can rebuild them.

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