Colson Whitehead, Michael Cunningham, Claire Vaye Watkins, and more: 20 new books out today!

Three splashy titles start us off this week: the long-awaited final book in Colson Whitehead’s trilogy, a memoir on craft by Michael Cunningham, and a new release by Claire Vaye Watkins. From there, we have a healthy mix of both fiction and nonfiction to keep us satiated this fine week in July. Read on for the full list below, and happy Tuesday!

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Colson Whitehead, Cool Machine
(Doubleday)

“It’s the greatest New York novel in years.”
–Publishers Weekly

Michael Cunningham, Unsayable: A Life in Writing
(Random House)

“Unsayable made me want to live (really live) and write (really write)—not by glamorizing either, but by taking such mesmerizing care with the humiliations, passions, accidents, and subtleties of both.”
–Miranda July

Claire Vaye Watkins, Yellow Pine
(Riverhead)

“Yellow Pine is a wild desert howl of celebration and elegy.”
–Karen Russell

Kimberly Phillips-Fein, Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America
(W. W. Norton)

“A rousing and worrisome counter-history of a uniquely American strain of anti-democratic political thought.”
–Publishers Weekly

Justine Larbalestier and Scott Westerfeld, The Mortons
(Pamela Dorman)

“The Mortons is a tour de force: witty, thrilling, and deliciously cruel. Enjoy it with a stiff cocktail.”
–Lev Grossman

Matthew Schnipper, Rise Above: A Memoir
(Random House)

“Astoundingly intimate, generous, and tender, Rise Above is both a balm to despair and a bridge toward hope.”
–Coco Mellors

Imogen Crimp, Give Me Everything You’ve Got
(Holt)

“A psychologically rich and delectably dark look at the price of women’s artistic ambition.”
–People

Keith Ridgway, Dooneen
(New Directions)

“Lucid and affecting, appealingly labyrinthine.”
–The Guardian

Andrea Uptmor, The New People
(Little Brown)

“With a sharp sense of humor and wry insights into the many ways the myth of the American Dream leaves victims in its wake. The New People is a carefully crafted story of what makes a house a home.”
–Shelf Awareness

Sarah Minor, Carousel
(Yale University Press)

“Indelible and idiosyncratic details…add intimacy and humanity to Minor’s insights. This is potent.”
–Publishers Weekly

Jeyamohan, trans. by Priyamvada Ramkumar, White Elephant
(FSG)

“Inspired … Jeyamohan offers striking depictions of human suffering.”
Publishers Weekly

Emily Eakin, The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory
(Penguin Press)

“A spry intellectual history neatly blends with a memoir of studying modern literary theory.”
–Kirkus

Carinn Jade, The Dahlia Suite
(Atria)

“A perfect escapist mystery with three fascinating women at the heart of a spellbinding story that will keep you racing from page to page.”
–Vanessa Lillie

Brenda Shaughnessy, Sensorium Ex: An Opera in Verse
(Knopf)

“In this dystopian tale of a near-future society increasingly threatened by all-consuming AI, a scientist mother and her disabled son rebel against the corporate larceny of their selves.”
–From the publisher

Rowan Beaird, Tenderness
(Flatiron)

“A lush, atmospheric look at privilege, love, and the things we do for inner peace.”
–Chicago Magazine

Matthew Quick, Dad, Love, Me: A Memoir
(Avid Reader Press)

“A masterpiece: funny and devastating, heartbreaking and hopeful, and astonishingly honest about the inheritance of pain.”
–Lori Gottlieb

Chloe Lauter, The Flayed Man
(Soft Skull)

“This is everything you want in a literary horror novel.”
–Chicago Review of Books

Sean Hotchkiss, Hating Women: A Memoir of Male Rage and Recovery
(Simon and Schuster)

“A rigorous and revealing self-portrait of familial psychological trauma and the arduous road to recovery.”
–Kirkus

Hannah Lucinda Smith, Hinterlands: The New Cold War Brewing at the Peripheries of the West
(Liveright)

“An important book which provides a compelling reminder of Europe’s half-forgotten border conflicts, each of them capable of erupting once again into war.”
–Sam Miller

Kohei Saito, tr. Brian Bergstrom, Capital from Zero
(Astra House)

“A reading guide, a manifesto, a revision, and a reclamation of Marx’s foundational work of political theory.”
–From the publisher