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Hello,
As long-time BookBrowsers know, there are way too many books published each week for you to read about them all, let alone read them, so BookBrowse does the legwork for you, scouring the publisher catalogs, pre-pub reviews and other sources, to shortlist the titles that are getting high praise, with an emphasis on books that don't just entertain and engage but also leave you knowing something new about the world.
We list the best of these in this weekly newsletter and in the "Coming Soon" section of BookBrowse; then we shortlist down again to focus on some of the really stand out titles, for which we write our own full length reviews and "beyond the book" articles. For example, of the eleven books in this issue, we'll be featuring Dark Horses and No One Is Talking About This this coming week, and The Mission House and The Echo Wife in a couple of weeks.
Enjoy!
Davina Morgan-Witts, Editor
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This Week's New and Notable Books
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For more about how we select these books see “Picking Books” and “Rating Books”.
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American Delirium
by Betina González
Debut Author
On sale Feb 16 from Henry Holt and Company
Genre: Novels. 224 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From award-winning novelist Betina González, American Delirium is a dizzying, luminous English-language debut about an American town overrun by a mysterious hallucinogen and the collision of three unexpected characters' lives through the mayhem.
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Dark Horses
by Susan Mihalic
Debut Author
On sale Feb 16 from Gallery/Scout Press
Genre: Novels. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A darkly gripping debut novel about a teenage girl's fierce struggle to reclaim her life from her abusive father.
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How to Order the Universe
by María José Ferrada
Debut Author
On sale Feb 16 from Tin House Books
Genre: Novels. 180 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A richly imaginative debut, detailing a girl and her father finding their way - and themselves - while they work as traveling hardware salesmen in Pinochet-era Chile, is a rare work of magic and originality.
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No One Is Talking About This
by Patricia Lockwood
Debut Author
On sale Feb 16 from Riverhead Books
Genre: Novels. 224 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From "a formidably gifted writer" (the New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet?
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The Mission House
by Carys Davies
On sale Feb 16 from Scribner
Genre: Novels. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From the multiple award-winning author of West and The Redemption of Galen Pike, a captivating and propulsive novel following an Englishman seeking refuge in a remote hill town in India who finds himself caught in the crossfire of local tensions and violence.
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Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas
by Roberto Bolaño
On sale Feb 16 from Penguin Press
Genre: Short Stories/Essays. 208 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
One more journey to the universe of Roberto Bolaño, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literature.
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The Echo Wife
by Sarah Gailey
On sale Feb 16 from Tor Books
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
I'm embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, right there in front of me, but it still took me so long to see the person I had married.
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Radiant: The Dancer, The Scientist, and a Friendship Forged in Light
by Liz Heinecke
On sale Feb 16 from Grand Central Publishing
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Part hidden history, part love letter to creative innovation, this is the true story of an unlikely friendship between a dancer, Loie Fuller, and a scientist, Marie Curie, brought together by an illuminating discovery.
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The Officer's Daughter: A Memoir of Family and Forgiveness
by Elle Johnson
Debut Author
On sale Feb 16 from Harper
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 224 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
The author reflects on a terrible tragedy that forever altered the fabric of her family in this remarkable memoir, a heart-wrenching story of love, violence, coming of age, secrets, justice, and forgiveness.
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The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
On sale Feb 16 from Penguin Press
Genre: History, Science & Current Affairs. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Stony the Road and one of our most important voices on the African-American experience, a powerful new history of the Black church in America as the Black community's abiding rock and its fortress.
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The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice
by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
On sale Feb 16 from Penguin Press
Genre: History, Science & Current Affairs. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won.
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