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There is much to explore among this week's 28 new and notable books, so without further ado, I will leave you to browse.
Davina Morgan-Witts, Editor
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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. For more about our process, click the two right hand links below.
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Waiting for the Night Song
by Julie Carrick Dalton
Debut Author
On sale Jan 12 from Forge Books
Genre: Novels. 336 pages
A startling and timely debut, Julie Carrick Dalton's Waiting for the Night Song is a moving, brilliant novel about friendships forged in childhood magic and ruptured by the high price of secrets that leave you forever changed.
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Chlorine Sky
by Mahogany L. Browne
On sale Jan 12 from Crown Children's Books
Genre: Novels (Young Adult). 192 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A novel-in-verse about a young girl coming-of-age and stepping out of the shadow of her former best friend. Perfect for readers of Elizabeth Acevedo and Nikki Grimes.
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Concrete Rose
by Angie Thomas
On sale Jan 12 from Balzer + Bray
Genre: Novels (Young Adult). 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood.
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Detransition, Baby
by Torrey Peters
Debut Author
On sale Jan 12 from One World
Genre: Novels. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child.
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Hades, Argentina
by Daniel Loedel
Debut Author
On sale Jan 12 from Riverhead Books
Genre: Novels. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A decade after fleeing for his life, a man is pulled back to Argentina by an undying love.
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Summerwater
by Sarah Moss
On sale Jan 12 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Novels. 208 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
The acclaimed author of Ghost Wall offers a new, devastating, masterful novel of subtle menace.
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The Center of Everything
by Jamie Harrison
On sale Jan 12 from Counterpoint Press
Genre: Novels. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Set against the wild beauty of Montana as a woman attempts to heal from a devastating accident, this generational saga from the award-winning author of The Widow Nash is a heartfelt examination of how the deep bonds of family echo throughout our lives.
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The Inland Sea
by Madeleine Watts
Debut Author
On sale Jan 12 from Catapult
Genre: Novels. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A young Australian woman unable to find her footing in the world begins to break down when the emergencies she hears working as a 911 operator and the troubles within her own life gradually blur together, forcing her to grapple with how the past has shaped her present.
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What Could Be Saved
by Liese O'Halloran Schwarz
On sale Jan 12 from Atria Books
Genre: Novels. 464 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Washington, DC, 2019: Laura Preston is a reclusive artist at odds with her older sister Bea as their elegant, formidable mother slowly slides into dementia.
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The House on Vesper Sands
by Paraic O'Donnell
On sale Jan 12 from Tin House Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 408 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
With all the wit of a Jane Austen novel, and a case as beguiling as any in Sherlock Holmes' casebook, Paraic O'Donnell introduces a detective duo for the ages, and slowly unlocks the secrets of a startling Victorian mystery.
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The Last Garden in England
by Julia Kelly
On sale Jan 12 from Gallery Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From the author of the international bestseller The Light Over London and The Whispers of War comes a poignant and unforgettable tale of five women living across three different times whose lives are all connected by one very special place.
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Life Among the Terranauts
by Caitlin Horrocks
On sale Jan 12 from Little Brown & Company
Genre: Short Stories/Essays. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From the author of the "enthralling" (New York Times Book Review) and "beautiful" (Washington Post) debut novel The Vexations comes an exciting new story collection that moves boldly between the real and the surreal.
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That Old Country Music
by Kevin Barry
On sale Jan 12 from Doubleday
Genre: Short Stories/Essays. 208 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From the author of the wildly acclaimed Night Boat to Tangier, one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2019, stories of rural Ireland in the classic mode: full of love (and sex), melancholy and magic, bedecked in some of the most gorgeous prose being written today.
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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
by Mariana Enriquez
On sale Jan 12 from Hogarth Books
Genre: Short Stories/Essays. 208 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Following the "propulsive and mesmerizing" (New York Times Book Review) Things We Lost in the Fire comes a new collection of singularly unsettling stories, by an Argentine author who has earned comparisons to Shirley Jackson and Jorge Luis Borges.
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The Ocean House
by Mary-Beth Hughes
On sale Jan 12 from Grove Press
Genre: Short Stories/Essays. 208 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Faith, a mother of two young children, Cece and Connor, is in need of summer childcare. As a member of a staid old beach club in her town and a self-made business consultant, she is appalled when her brother-in-law sends her an unruly, ill-mannered teenager named Lee-Ann who appears more like a wayward child than competent help.
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Dear Miss Kopp: Kopp Sisters #6
by Amy Stewart
On sale Jan 12 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Genre: Mysteries. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
The indomitable Kopp sisters are tested at home and abroad in this warm and witty tale of wartime courage and camaraderie.
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Sleep Well, My Lady: Emma Djan #2
by Kwei Quartey
On sale Jan 12 from Soho Crime
Genre: Mysteries. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
In the follow-up to the acclaimed series debut The Missing American, PI Emma Djan investigates the death of a Ghanaian fashion icon and social media celebrity, Lady Araba.
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To Cook a Bear
by Mikael Niemi
On sale Jan 12 from Penguin Books
Genre: Mysteries. 432 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A fantastic tale set in the far north of Sweden in 1852 following a runaway Sami boy and his mentor, the famous pastor Laestadius, as they investigate a murder in their village along with the mysteries of life.
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A Stranger at the Door: Rachel Marin #2
by Jason Pinter
On sale Jan 12 from Thomas & Mercer
Genre: Thrillers. 362 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From the Amazon bestselling author of Hide Away comes the gripping second installment of the Rachel Marin Thriller series.
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Before the Ruins
by Victoria Gosling
Debut Author
On sale Jan 12 from Henry Holt and Company
Genre: Thrillers. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
A gripping, multilayered debut in the tradition of Tana French and Donna Tartt about four friends, an empty manor, and a night that will follow them for the rest of their lives.
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The Last Exit: Jen Lu Mysteries #1
by Michael Kaufman
On sale Jan 12 from Crooked Lane Books
Genre: Thrillers
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Perfect for fans of Ben Winters and Cory Doctorow. In this thrilling near-future novel, the secret to eternal life is closely guarded by people who will do anything to protect it--even if it means destroying everything in their path.
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Across the Green Grass Fields: Wayward Children #6
by Seanan McGuire
On sale Jan 12 from Tor.com
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 176 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A young girl discovers a portal to a land filled with centaurs and unicorns in Seanan McGuire's Across the Green Grass Fields, a standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula Award-wining Wayward Children series.
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The Frozen Crown
by Greta Kelly
Debut Author
On sale Jan 12 from Harper Voyager
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A princess with a powerful and dangerous secret must find a way to save her country from ruthless invaders in this exciting debut fantasy, the first novel in a thrilling duology packed with heroism, treachery, magic, and war.
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Aftershocks
by Nadia Owusu
Debut Author
On sale Jan 12 from Simon & Schuster
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
In the tradition of The Glass Castle, a deeply felt memoir from Whiting Award–winner Nadia Owusu about the push and pull of belonging, the seismic emotional toll of family secrets, and the heart it takes to pull through.
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Dog Flowers
by Danielle Geller
Debut Author
On sale Jan 12 from One World
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to retrace her mother's life in a memoir that is both a narrative and an archive of one family's troubled history.
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The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames
by Justine Cowan
Debut Author
On sale Jan 12 from Harper
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A riveting family drama evocative of Angela's Ashes and The Glass Castle, about a woman who discovers the shocking secret at the center of her mother's life.
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Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
by Frank Wilczek
On sale Jan 12 from Penguin Press
Genre: History, Science & Current Affairs. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical world.
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The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
by James Oakes
On sale Jan 12 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: History, Science & Current Affairs. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
An award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln's antislavery strategies.
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