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Publishing This Week

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This week we bring you 39 new and notable book titles, including Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman, a novel Kirkus calls "The workplace Dramedy of the year."

We also have 11 debuts, including But the Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu, who was featured in our 9 Debut Authors to Watch Out For blog post. Publishers Weekly writes, "Yu's masterly debut... brims with striking insights and fully realized characters, exploring with nuance and self-deprecating humor the fraught reality of navigating academic and artistic spaces as a woman of color. This signals the arrival of a bold new voice."

Enjoy!

The BookBrowse Team

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.

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Help Wanted: A Novel
by Adelle Waldman

On sale Mar 5 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Literary Fiction. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the best-selling author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. comes a funny, eye-opening tale of work in contemporary America.

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49 Days
by Agnes Lee

Debut Author
On sale Mar 5 from Levine Querido
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Agnes Lee has captivated readers across the world for years with her illustrations for the New York Times Metropolitan Diary. Her debut graphic novel is an unforgettable story of death, grief, love, and how we keep moving forward.

Anita de Monte Laughs Last: A Novel
by Xochitl Gonzalez

On sale Mar 5 from Flatiron Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death

But the Girl
by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu

Debut Author
On sale Mar 5 from The Unnamed Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 270 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

"Having been Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and Esther Greenwood all my life, my writing was an opportunity for the reader to have to be me…"

The Great Divide: A Novel
by Cristina Henriquez

On sale Mar 5 from Ecco
Genre: Historical Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there

Modern Poetry: Poems
by Diane Seuss

On sale Mar 5 from Graywolf Press
Genre: Poetry & Novels in Verse. 112 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

In poems of rangy curiosity, sharp humor, and illuminating self-scrutiny, Modern Poetry investigates our time's deep isolation and divisiveness and asks: What can poetry be now? Do poems still have the capacity to mean?

Knife Skills: Shadows of Chicago Mystery
by Wendy Church

On sale Mar 5 from Severn House
Genre: Mysteries. 224 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

"Dizzying ... Audiences who wished the TV series The Bear had made room for Russian mobsters are in for a treat" Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Big Time: A Novel
by Ben H. Winters

On sale Mar 5 from Mulholland
Genre: Thrillers. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

In this "wild and wonderful" (Lou Berney) corporate espionage thriller that takes the adage "time is money" and makes it frighteningly so, an everywoman FDA employee stumbles upon a dark, clandestine conspiracy to harvest and sell people's time.

Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines
by Carol Kino

Debut Author
On sale Mar 5 from Scribner
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 432 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A riveting dual biography of the McLaughlins—identical twin sisters who became groundbreaking photographers in New York during the glamorous magazine golden age of the 1930s and 40s—for fans of Ninth Street Women and The Barbizon.

The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City
by Kevin Baker

On sale Mar 5 from Knopf
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 528 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A hugely entertaining history of baseball and New York City, bursting with larger-than-life figures and fascinating stories from the game's beginnings to the end of World War II.

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