Publishing This Week: Elizabeth Strout, Jane Goodall and Violaine Huisman

Publishing This Week

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Among this week's 11 new and notable books are Oh William!, the third book in Elizabeth Strout's Amgash series which began with My Name is Lucy Barton. Also The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams; and Violaine Huisman's widely aclaimed debut, The Book of Mother.

Wishing you a wonderful week.

Yours,

Davina Morgan-Witts
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”.

I Will Die in a Foreign Land
by Kalani Pickhart

Debut Author
On sale Oct 19 from Two Dollar Radio
Genre: Novels. 260 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Set in Ukraine in 2013, I Will Die in a Foreign Land is an especially moving story of quiet beauty and love in a time of terror; an ambitious, intimate, and haunting portrait of human perseverance and empathy.

Monster in the Middle: A Novel
by Tiphanie Yanique

On sale Oct 19 from Riverhead Books
Genre: Novels. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

From the award-winning author of Land of Love and Drowning, an electric new novel that maps the emotional inheritance of one couple newly in love.

Oh William!: Amgash Series #3
by Elizabeth Strout

On sale Oct 19 from Random House
Genre: Novels. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they've come from - and what they've left behind.

The Book of Mother: A Novel
by Violaine Huisman

Debut Author
On sale Oct 19 from Scribner
Genre: Novels. 224 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A gorgeous, critically acclaimed debut novel about a young woman coming of age with a dazzling yet damaged mother who lived and loved in extremes.

Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture
by Zeba Blay

On sale Oct 19 from St. Martin's Griffin
Genre: Short Stories/Essays. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

An empowering and celebratory portrait of Black women - from Josephine Baker to Aunt Viv to Cardi B.

A Line to Kill: A Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery #3
by Anthony Horowitz

On sale Oct 19 from Harper
Genre: Mysteries. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

The New York Times bestselling author of the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder and The Sentence Is Death returns with his third literary whodunit featuring intrepid detectives Hawthorne and Horowitz.

Little Thieves
by Margaret Owen

On sale Oct 19 from Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History (Young Adult). 512 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A scrappy maid must outsmart both palace nobles and Low Gods in a new YA fantasy by Margaret Owen, author of the Merciful Crow series.

Orwell's Roses
by Rebecca Solnit

On sale Oct 19 from Viking
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A lush exploration of roses, pleasure, and politics, and a fresh take on George Orwell as an avid gardener whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world.

The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times (Global Icons Series)
by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams

On sale Oct 19 from Celadon
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

In this urgent book, Jane Goodall, the world's most famous living naturalist, and Douglas Abrams, the internationally bestselling co-author of The Book of Joy, explore through intimate and thought-provoking dialogue one of the most sought after and least understood elements of human nature: hope.

Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution
by Woody Holton

On sale Oct 19 from Simon & Schuster
Genre: History, Science & Current Affairs. 800 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A sweeping reassessment of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans - women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters.

Rise Up!: How You Can Join the Fight Against White Supremacy
by Crystal Marie Fleming

On sale Oct 19 from Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
Genre: History, Science & Current Affairs (Young Adult). 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

This urgent book explores the roots of racism and its legacy in modern day, all while empowering young people with actionable ways they can help foster a better world and become antiracists.

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