Publishing This Week

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This week's lineup of more than 30 new and notable books covers the gamut of genres and includes eight debuts. You'll find 12 below and the rest on BookBrowse's Publishing This Week page.

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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”.

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On a Night of a Thousand Stars
by Andrea Yaryura Clark

Debut Author
On sale Mar 1 from Grand Central Publishing
Genre: Historical Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.2/5

In this moving, emotional narrative of love and resilience, a young couple confronts the start of Argentina's Dirty War in the 1970s, and a daughter searches for truth twenty years later.

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All My Rage: A Novel
by Sabaa Tahir

On sale Mar 1 from Razorbill
Genre: Novels (Young Adult). 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir comes a brilliant, unforgettable, and heart-wrenching contemporary YA novel about family and forgiveness, love and loss, in a sweeping story that crosses generations and continents.

Checkout 19: A Novel
by Claire-Louise Bennett

On sale Mar 1 from Riverhead Books
Genre: Novels. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the author of the "dazzling...and daring" Pond (O magazine), the adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets–and dreams up–along the way.

Groundskeeping: A novel
by Lee Cole

Debut Author
On sale Mar 1 from Knopf
Genre: Novels. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An indelible love story about two very different people navigating the entanglements of class and identity and coming of age in an America coming apart at the seams - this is "an extraordinary debut about the ties that bind families together and tear them apart across generations" (Ann Patchett, best-selling author of The Dutch House).

The Unsinkable Greta James: A Novel
by Jennifer E. Smith

Debut Author
On sale Mar 1 from Ballantine Books
Genre: Novels. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An indie musician reeling from tragedy and a public breakdown reconnects with her father on a weeklong cruise in "a pitch-perfect story about the ways we recover love in the strangest places" (Rebecca Serle, bestselling author of In Five Years)

The Wonders
by Elena Medel

Debut Author
On sale Mar 1 from Algonquin Books
Genre: Novels. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From award-winning Spanish poet Elena Medel comes a mesmerizing new novel of class, sex, and desire.

Girl in Ice
by Erica Ferencik

On sale Mar 1 from Gallery/Scout Press
Genre: Thrillers. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the author of The River at Night and Into the Jungle comes a harrowing new thriller set in the unforgiving landscape of the Arctic Circle, as a brilliant linguist struggling to understand the apparent suicide of her twin brother ventures hundreds of miles north to try to communicate with a young girl who has been thawed from the ice alive.

A Thousand Steps Into Night
by Traci Chee

On sale Mar 1 from Clarion
Genre: Fantasy (Young Adult). 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, Traci Chee, comes a Japanese-influenced fantasy brimming with demons, adventure, and plans gone awry.

Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir by Bob Odenkirk

On sale Mar 1 from Random House
Genre: Memoir. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

In this hilarious, heartfelt memoir, the star of Mr. Show, Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul opens up about the highs and lows of showbiz, his cult status as a comedy writer, and what it's like to reinvent himself as an action film ass-kicker at fifty.

The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O'Rourke

On sale Mar 1 from Riverhead Books
Genre: Memoir. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise of chronic illness and autoimmune diseases.

The Turning Point: 1851 - A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

On sale Mar 1 from Knopf
Genre: Biography. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A major new biography that takes an unusual and illuminating approach to the great writer - immersing us in one year of his life - from the award-winning author of Becoming Dickens and The Story of Alice.

Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction
by David George Haskell

On sale Mar 1 from Viking
Genre: Science. 448 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A lyrical exploration of the diverse sounds of our planet, the creative processes that produced these marvels, and the perils that sonic diversity now faces.

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