Hello,
This week, we cover fifteen new and notable books including Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr, his first novel since the runaway success of All the Light We Cannot See back in 2014. Personally, I think every one of its 640 pages is well worth the wait.
You'll find ten books below and a link at the bottom to view all fifteen on BookBrowse.
Enjoy!
Davina, BookBrowse Publisher
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This Week's New and Notable Books |
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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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| A Calling for Charlie Barnes
by Joshua Ferris
On sale Sep 28 from Little Brown & Company
Genre: Novels. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From a National Book Award Finalist comes a novel about a modern American family and a man on a secret mission to uncover the world's hidden truths - until his two lives come crashing together.
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| Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth: A Novel
by Wole Soyinka
On sale Sep 28 from Pantheon Books
Genre: Novels. 464 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From the first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of our fiercest political activists, a fictional meditation on power and greed - at once a literary hoot, a whodunit, and a scathing indictment of political and social corruption.
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| Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel
by Anthony Doerr
On sale Sep 28 from Scribner
Genre: Novels. 640 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time, comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story.
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| You'd Be Home Now
by Kathleen Glasgow
On sale Sep 28 from Delacorte Press
Genre: Novels (Young Adult). 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a breathtaking story about a town, its tragedies, and the quiet beauty of everyday life.
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| No Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I Need to Hear)
by Kate Bowler
On sale Sep 28 from Random House
Genre: Short Stories/Essays. 224 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
The bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) asks, how do you move forward with a life you didn't choose?
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| Beasts of Prey
by Ayana Gray
Debut Author
On sale Sep 28 from G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History (Young Adult). 496 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
In this much-anticipated series opener, fate binds two Black teenagers together as they strike a dangerous alliance to hunt down the creature menacing their home - and uncover ancient deadly secrets.
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| Light From Uncommon Stars
by Ryka Aoki
On sale Sep 28 from Tor Books
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki's Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts.
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| Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence
by Anita Hill
On sale Sep 28 from Viking
Genre: History, Science & Current Affairs. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From the woman who gave the landmark testimony against Clarence Thomas as a sexual menace, a new manifesto about the origins and course of gender violence in our society; a combination of memoir, personal accounts, law, and social analysis, and a powerful call to arms from one of our most prominent and poised survivors.
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| Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse
by Dave Goulson
On sale Sep 28 from Harper
Genre: History, Science & Current Affairs. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
In the tradition of Rachel Carson's groundbreaking environmental classic Silent Spring, an award-winning entomologist and conservationist explains the importance of insects to our survival, and offers a clarion call to avoid a looming ecological disaster of our own making.
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| Voices from the Pandemic: Americans Tell Their Stories of Crisis, Courage and Resilience
by Eli Saslow
On sale Sep 28 from Doubleday
Genre: History, Science & Current Affairs. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter, a powerful and cathartic portrait of a country grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic - from fear and overwhelm to extraordinary resilience - told through voices of people from all across America.
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