Publishing This Week: Alice McDermott, Edward Carey, Tess Gerritsen and Tananarive Due

Publishing This Week

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Among this week's 18 new and notable books are novels from Alice McDermott, Edward Carey, Tess Gerritsen and Tananarive Due. Also Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided; I listened to Scott Eyman being interviewed about his biography of Chaplin on Fresh Air last week, and it sounds fascinating.

We've included brief information on 10 books right here, and more about all of them in our New This Week section. The "New" section is also home to our Publishing by Month lists, where you can look ahead to see what's publishing soon and back to previous months.

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

More about how we pick and rate books.

Absolution: A Novel
by Alice McDermott

On sale Oct 31 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award.

The Berry Pickers: A Novel
by Amanda Peters

Debut Author
On sale Oct 31 from Catapult
Genre: Literary Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years

Edith Holler: A Novel
by Edward Carey

On sale Oct 31 from Riverhead Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

The witty and entrancing story of a young woman trapped in a ramshackle English playhouse—and the mysterious figure who threatens its very survival

The Reformatory: A Novel
by Tananarive Due

On sale Oct 31 from Gallery Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 576 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.

The Body of the Soul: Stories (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
by Ludmila Ulitskaya

On sale Oct 31 from Yale University Press
Genre: Short Stories. 168 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A new collection of stories by the acclaimed Ludmila Ulitskaya, masterfully translated into English

The Space Between Here & Now
by Sarah Suk

On sale Oct 31 from Quill Tree Books
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History (Young Adult). 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Perfect for fans of They Both Die at the End and You've Reached Sam, this gripping, atmospheric YA novel follows a teen with a mysterious condition that transports her to the past when she smells certain scents linked to specific memories.

Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust
by Neal Shusterman

On sale Oct 31 from Graphix
Genre: Graphic Novels (Young Adult). 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

National Book Award winner Neal Shusterman and acclaimed illustrator Andrés Vera Martínez present a graphic novel exploring the Holocaust through surreal visions and a textured canvas of heroism and hope.

Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided
by Scott Eyman

On sale Oct 31 from Simon & Schuster
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 432 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The remarkable, must-read story of Charlie Chaplin's years of exile from the United States during the postwar Red Scare, and how it ruined his film career, from bestselling biographer Scott Eyman.

Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science
by Catherine McNeur

On sale Oct 31 from Basic Books
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 432 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

The untold story of two sisters whose discoveries sped the growth of American science in the nineteenth century

American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
by Michael Willrich

On sale Oct 31 from Basic Books
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 480 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A timely new history of America's anarchist movement and the government's tireless efforts to destroy it

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