Publishing This Week: Short Stories to Sci-Fi, Memoir to Theater

Publishing This Week

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This week's 11 notable new books run the gamut of genres from short stories to science fiction, memoir to theater.

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Davina, BookBrowse Publisher

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”.

Skinship
by Yoon Choi

Debut Author
On sale Aug 17 from Knopf
Genre: Short Stories. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An exquisite collection from a breathtaking new voice - centered on a constellation of Korean American families.

The Last Mona Lisa
by Jonathan Santlofer

On sale Aug 17 from Sourcebooks Landmark
Genre: Thrillers. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A gripping novel exploring the Mona Lisa's very real theft in 1911 and the present underbelly of the art world, The Last Mona Lisa is a suspenseful tale, tapping into our universal fascination with da Vinci's enigma, why people are driven to possess certain works of art, and our fascination with the authentic and the fake.

Velvet Was the Night
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

On sale Aug 17 from Del Rey
Genre: Thrillers. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a "delicious, twisted treat for lovers of noir" (Simone St. James, New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel) about a daydreaming secretary, a lonesome enforcer, and the mystery of a missing woman they're both desperate to find.

Redemptor: Raybearer #2
by Jordan Ifueko

On sale Aug 17 from Amulet Books
Genre: Fantasy (Young Adult). 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

The hotly anticipated sequel to the instant New York Times bestselling YA fantasy about Tarisai's quest to change her fate.

Gordo
by Jaime Cortez

On sale Aug 17 from Grove Press
Genre: Short Stories. 208 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

Shedding profound natural light on the inner lives of migrant workers, Jaime Cortez's debut collection ushers in a new era of American literature that gives voice to a marginalized generation of migrant workers in the West.

The Exiled Fleet: The Divide Series #2
by J. S. Dewes

On sale Aug 17 from Tor Books
Genre: Sci-Fi. 432 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

J. S. Dewes continues her fast paced, science fiction action adventure with The Exiled Fleet, where The Expanse meets The Black Company - the survivors of The Last Watch refuse to die.

I Live a Life Like Yours
by Jan Grue

On sale Aug 17 from FSG Originals
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A brilliantly rendered essayistic autobiography from an award-winning Norwegian author about life in a vulnerable body.

Names for Light : A Family History
by Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint

On sale Aug 17 from Graywolf Press
Genre: Memoir. 176 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a lyrical meditation on family, place, and inheritance.

Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
by Eyal Press

On sale Aug 17 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Current Affairs. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of "dirty work" - the work that society considers essential but morally compromised.

Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo
by Mansoor Adayfi

On sale Aug 17 from Hachette Books
Genre: Memoir. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

This moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Guantánamo Bay for fifteen years tells a story of humanity in the unlikeliest of places and an unprecedented look at life at Guantánamo.

Rude Talk in Athens: Ancient Rivals, the Birth of Comedy, and a Writer's Journey through Greece
by Mark Haskell Smith

On sale Aug 17 from The Unnamed Press
Genre: History, Theater
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

In ancient Athens, thousands would attend theatre festivals that turned writing into a fierce battle for fame, money, and laughably large trophies. While the tragedies earned artistic respect, it was the comedies - the raunchy jokes, vulgar innuendo, outrageous invention, and barbed political commentary - that captured the imagination of the city.

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