Publishing This Week: Richard Roper, Karin Slaughter and Louise Candlish

Publishing This Week

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It's a relatively quiet week for new books, just seven new and notable titles to bring to your attention...

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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. For more about our process, see “Picking Books” and “Rating Books”.

Nightbitch
by Rachel Yoder

Debut Author
On sale Jul 20 from Doubleday
Genre: Novels. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

In this blazingly smart and voracious debut, an artist turned stay-at-home mom becomes convinced she's turning into a dog.

When We Were Young
by Richard Roper

On sale Jul 20 from G.P. Putnam's Sons
Genre: Novels. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

From the author of Something to Live For, a nostalgic, heart-warming story of two long-lost friends who embark on a 184-mile walk of the Thames Path in order to find their way back to the truth, and to their friendship.

A Woman of Intelligence
by Karin Tanabe

On sale Jul 20 from St. Martin's Press
Genre: Thrillers. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

From "a master of historical fiction" (NPR), Karin Tanabe's A Woman of Intelligence is an exhilarating tale of post-war New York City, and one remarkable woman's journey from the United Nations, to the cloistered drawing rooms of Manhattan society, to the secretive ranks of the FBI.

False Witness
by Karin Slaughter

On sale Jul 20 from William Morrow
Genre: Thrillers. 448 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

He saw what you did. He knows who you are…From the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her and The Silent Wife, an electrifying standalone thriller.

The Other Passenger
by Louise Candlish

On sale Jul 20 from Atria Books
Genre: Thrillers. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The "queen of the sucker-punch twist" (Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling author) and author of Our House weaves an unputdownable page-turner about a commuter who becomes a suspect in his friend's mysterious disappearance.

She Who Became the Sun
by Shelley Parker-Chan

Debut Author
On sale Jul 20 from Tor Books
Genre: Fantasy. 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in Shelley Parker-Chan's She Who Became the Sun, a bold, queer, and lyrical reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty from an amazing new voice in literary fantasy.

Until Proven Safe : The History and Future of Quarantine
by Nicola Twilley

Debut Author
On sale Jul 20 from MCD
Genre: History & Current Affairs. 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley have been researching quarantine since long before the COVID-19 pandemic. With Until Proven Safe, they bring us a book as compelling as it is definitive, not only urgent reading for social-distanced times but also an up-to-the-minute investigation of the interplay of forces––biological, political, technological––that shape our modern world.

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