Happy New Year!
Here we are at the start of 2024 with another year of fantastic books to look forward to; and I am once again struck by how extraordinary it is that we readers get to pick and choose from so many amazing books, each one likely representing a year or more of the author's life. I am sure that there would be many things that a visitor from the pre-printing press world of the 15th century would find extraordinary in our world today, but I think possibly the most fundamental would be our easy access to knowledge and ideas; what a privilege it is, and not something to take for granted.
Seven of this week's nine new and notable books are debuts, including two much anticipated thrillers:
Anna O by Matthew Blake and
The Ascent by Adam Plantinga; and
Wild and Distant Seas by Tara Karr Roberts set in mid-19th century Nantucket; BookBrowse members who reviewed it for our early reader program First Impressions, rated it a very high 4.5-stars overall. Also,
Pure Wit, Francesca Peacock's biography of 17th century author Margaret Cavendish, who not only published under her own name at a time when women didn't, she is also credited with writing one of the earliest works of science fiction.
You'll find brief information on all the week's books below and more about all of them, including early reviews, in our
New This Week section.
Enjoy!
The BookBrowse Team
