Publishing This Week: Novels from Sloane Crosley, Kristan Higgins, Tom Perrotta and Chris Offutt, Plus 9 Nonfiction and 6 Debuts

Publishing This Week

Hello,

This week brings 25 notable new books, all publishing this Tuesday, including two titles our members reviewed for our early reader program, First Impressions: Fruiting Bodies, a genre-bending debut short story collection by Kathryn Harlan; and Good Husbands, a thriller by Cate Ray who is a newcomer to the US but already has four novels published in the UK.

All in, we cover nine nonfiction works and 16 fiction including six debuts plus new novels from Sloane Crosley, Kristan Higgins, Tom Perrotta and Chris Offutt. You'll find 10 below and all in our Publishing This Week section at bookbrowse.com/ptw.

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. For more about our process, see “Picking Books” and “Rating Books”.

Fruiting Bodies: Stories
by Kathryn Harlan

Debut Author
On sale Jun 7 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Short Stories. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.0/5

This genre-bending debut collection of stories constructs eight eerie worlds full of desire, wisdom, and magic blooming amidst decay.

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Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting: A Novel
by Clare Pooley

On sale Jun 7 from Pamela Dorman Books
Genre: Novels. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Authenticity Project comes an escapist read that will transport you, cheer you, and make you smile - and make you, too, wish you had Iona's gift for bringing out the best in everyone.

Nightcrawling: A novel
by Leila Mottley

Debut Author
On sale Jun 7 from Knopf
Genre: Novels. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A dazzling novel about a young black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system - the debut of a blazingly original voice that "bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you whole" (Tommy Orange, bestselling author of There There).

Sleeping Alone: Stories
by Ru Freeman

On sale Jun 7 from Graywolf Press
Genre: Short Stories. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

In this collection of rich and textured stories about crossing borders, both real and imagined, Sleeping Alone asks one of the fundamental questions of our times: What is the toll of feeling foreign in one's land, to others, or even to oneself?

Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
by Joseph Osmundson

On sale Jun 7 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Essays. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A leading microbiologist tackles the scientific and sociopolitical impact of viruses in twelve striking essays.

Shifty's Boys: The Mick Hardin Novels #2
by Chris Offutt

On sale Jun 7 from Grove Press
Genre: Thrillers. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Army-CID-officer-cum-unofficial-PI Mick Hardin is up against unforeseen forces who will stop at nothing in this vividly atmospheric thriller from acclaimed novelist Chris Offutt.

Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
by Keri Blakinger

Debut Author
On sale Jun 7 from St. Martin's Press
Genre: Memoir. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An electric and unforgettable memoir about a young woman's journey - from the ice rink, to addiction and a prison sentence, to the newsroom - and how she emerged with a fierce determination to expose the broken system she experienced.

The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
by Paula Byrne

On sale Jun 7 from William Collins
Genre: Biography. 704 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Barbara Pym became beloved as one of the wittiest novelists of the late twentieth century, revealing the inner workings of domestic life so brilliantly that her friend Philip Larkin announced her the era's own Jane Austen. But who was Barbara Pym and why was the life of this English writer – one of the greatest chroniclers of the human heart – so defined by rejection, both in her writing and in love?

Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial
by Corban Addison

On sale Jun 7 from Knopf
Genre: Current Affairs. 464 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

As vivid and fast-paced as a thriller, Wastelands takes us into the heart of a legal battle over the future of America's farmland and into the lives of the people who found the courage to fight.

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