20 new books to look out for this week.
So you’re making your way downtown, walking fast, faces pass, and you’re homebound. But what’s this? A bookstore in your path?! Yes, you dear reader, are powerless to resist. You follow its siren call. Here are 20 big new books coming out this week for your “accidental” bookstore browsing session.
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Melissa Broder, Superdoom
(Tin House)
“The perfect way to bite right into the profane, grotesque, and lush world of Broder’s words.”
–NYLON
A. K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches
(Catapult)
“The Manningtree Witches ventures into dark places, to be sure, but it carries a jewelled dagger. Blakemore is a poet, and readers given to underlining may find their pencils worn down to stubs.”
–The Guardian
Sabina Murray, The Human Zoo
(Grove Press)
“Let me just say that instabilities — of tone, of content, of sympathies, of perspective — can be cardinal assets in provocative fiction. In The Human Zoo Murray wields those instabilities with a keen, riveting instinct.”
–The Seattle Times
YZ Chin, Edge Case
(Ecco)
“Chin makes an impressive debut with this sharp take on faltering romance, the American dream, and self-realization.”
–Publishers Weekly
Ketty Rouf, tr. Tina Kover, No Touching
(Europa)
“Rouf’s fresh debut follows a woman pushing her boundaries in order to gain a sense of agency … It’s a rich character study, but don’t come looking for plot.”
–Publishers Weekly
Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone
(Hachette)
“It is a gripping portrait of one of the most fascinating figures in late 20th-century music.”
–The Times
Leila Slimani, In the Country of Others
(Penguin)
“Who better than Slimani to write a great contemporary novel from the perspective of both sides of the Mediterranean, a double heritage, that of the horrors of colonization and that of the pains of decolonization?”
–Vanity Fair (France)
Eleanor Henderson, Everything I Have Is Yours
(Flatiron)
“A memoir of interest to anyone coping with a loved one’s struggle with illness and dependency.”
–Kirkus
Gianfranco Calligarich, tr. Howard Curtis, Last Summer in the City
(FSG)
“Calligarich’s evocative English-language debut, originally published in Italy in 1973, follows the travails of a journalist in Rome … The scenery alone makes this worth a look.”
–Publishers Weekly
David Peace, Tokyo Redux
(Knopf)
“…he’s somewhere near his best in this powerful, overwhelming novel, in which genre excitement steadily gives way to the uncannier frisson of being plugged into a current of secret knowledge.”
–The Guardian
Siân Evans, Maiden Voyages
(St. Martin’s)
“The story is invigoratingly feminist … engaging … The book’s a treat. It’s staying on my shelf.”
–The Times Literary Supplement
Elly Fishman, Refugee High
(New Press)
“Journalist Fishman debuts with an intimate and moving chronicle of the 2017–2018 school year at Sullivan High School in Chicago … a powerful portrait of resilience in the face of long odds.”
–Publishers Weekly
Alaa Al Aswany, tr. S. R. Fellowes, The Republic of False Truths
(Knopf)
“Any successful revolution, Al Aswany suggests, will demand a wholesale cultural reckoning and tolerance for violent push back … [A] valuable fictional reckoning with a failed revolution.”
–Kirkus
Meredith Westgate, The Shimmering State
(Atria)
“It’s a captivating story, one that leaves readers wondering if a life scrubbed of pain and real connection is a life at all.”
–Publishers Weekly
Andrew Sullivan, Out on a Limb
(Avid Reader Press)
“Trenchant observations from an influential journalist.”
–Kirkus
Spencer Ackerman, Reign of Terror
(Viking)
“An intelligent, persuasive book about events that are all too current.”
–Kirkus
Julie Klam, The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters
(Riverhead)
“An entertaining, rambling journey into the past.”
–Kirkus
Rémy Ngamije, The Eternal Audience of One
(Gallery/Scout)
“A law student contends with his family and future prospects in this funny and incisive debut from Namibian writer Ngamije.”
–Publishers Weekly
Zen Cho, Spirits Abroad
(Small Beer Press)
“Highly recommended for those interested in well-written fantasy fiction outside of the post-Tolkien mold.”
–Booklist
Ethan Hawke and Greg Ruth, Meadowlark
(Grand Central)
“The gritty, Southern-noir style of writing pairs well with the setting and characters and the way they are depicted in rich grayscale illustrations.”
–Booklist
