Publishing This Week: Celeste Ng, Thomas E. Ricks and Five Debuts

Publishing This Week

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This week brings 21 notable books including a new novel by Celeste Ng, bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere. The BookBrowse members who reviewed Our Missing Hearts for First Impressions rated it a stellar 4.6-star average.

There are also new historical works from Thomas E. Ricks and Adam Hochschild, and five debut novels.

One of the debuts is A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt; and we have 50 copies to share! If you're in a book club, you could win up to 12 copies to share with your group, if you're not in a book club, you could win four copies--for yourself and to share with friends (link below).

You can browse the early reviews for all of these in our New This Week section; and brief information on 10 of them below.

Enjoy!

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. You can see them all in our “What’s New” section.

More about how we pick and rate books.

Our Missing Hearts: A Novel
by Celeste Ng

On sale Oct 4 from Penguin Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Members' Rating: 4.6/5

From the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, comes one of the most highly anticipated books of the year – the inspiring new novel about a mother's unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear.

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A Minor Chorus: A Novel
by Billy-Ray Belcourt

Debut Author
On sale Oct 4 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Literary Fiction. 176 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief.

A Scatter of Light
by Malinda Lo

On sale Oct 4 from Dutton for Young Readers
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Last Night at the Telegraph Club author Malinda Lo returns to the Bay Area with another masterful queer coming-of-age story, this time set against the backdrop of the first major Supreme Court decisions legalizing gay marriage.

Billie Starr's Book of Sorries: A Novel
by Deborah E. Kennedy

On sale Oct 4 from Flatiron Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

Shimmering with rage and sparkling with subtle humor, Billie Starr's Book of Sorries showcases Edgar Award-nominee Deborah E. Kennedy's singular voice as Jenny, a heroine in the vein of Olive Kitteridge in Crosby, Maine and Miles Roby in Empire Falls, shines a light on the town of Benson, Indiana, where lakes, grudges, and family rifts run deep – but so does a mother's love.

The Mountain in the Sea: A Novel
by Ray Nayler

Debut Author
On sale Oct 4 from MCD
Genre: Literary Fiction. 464 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future.

Nights of Plague: A novel
by Orhan Pamuk

On sale Oct 4 from Knopf
Genre: Historical Fiction. 704 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Part detective story, part historical epic - a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague ravaging a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire.

The Night Ship: A Novel
by Jess Kidd

On sale Oct 4 from Atria Books
Genre: Historical Fiction (Young Adult). 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

Based on a real-life event, an epic historical novel from the award-winning author of Things in Jars that illuminates the lives of two characters: a girl shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia and, three hundred years later, a boy finding a home with his grandfather on the very same island.

American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
by Adam Hochschild

On sale Oct 4 from Mariner Books
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 432 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a groundbreaking reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threatened by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor.

Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
by Thomas E. Ricks

On sale Oct 4 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 448 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on the Civil Rights Movement, stressing its unexpected use of military strategy and its lessons for nonviolent resistance around the world.

Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
by David Quammen

On sale Oct 4 from Simon & Schuster
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The story of the worldwide scientific quest to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.

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