Publishing This Week: Ian McEwan, T.C. Boyle, Andrea Barrett, Jonathan Dee, Robert Harris and Courtney Summers,

Publishing This Week

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Among this week’s 26 new and notable books is a collection of stories from Andrea Barrett (who won the National Book Awards for Ship Fever), also novels from Ian McEwan, T.C. Boyle, Jonathan Dee, Robert Harris and Courtney Summers, plus four works of nonfiction and eight debuts. You’ll find 10 below and all 26 in our New This Week section on BookBrowse (located under the "New" tab in the main menu).

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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.

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Natural History: Stories
by Andrea Barrett

On sale Sep 13 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Short Stories. 208 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Members' Rating: 4.3/5

A masterful new collection of interconnected stories, from the renowned National Book Award–winning author of Ship Fever.

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Lessons: A novel
by Ian McEwan

On sale Sep 13 from Knopf
Genre: Literary Fiction. 448 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the best-selling author of Atonement and Saturday comes the epic and intimate story of one man's life across generations and historical upheavals. From the Suez Crisis to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall to the current pandemic, Roland Baines sometimes rides with the tide of history, but more often struggles against it.

Lungfish: A Novel
by Meghan Gilliss

Debut Author
On sale Sep 13 from Catapult
Genre: Literary Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Tuck is slow to understand the circumstances that have driven her family to an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine, the former home of her deceased grandmother where she once spent her childhood summers. Squatting there now, she must care for her spirited young daughter and scrape together enough money to leave before winter arrives - or before they are found out.

The Birdcatcher
by Gayl Jones

On sale Sep 13 from Beacon Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 216 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Legendary writer Gayl Jones returns with a stunning new novel about Black American artists in exile.

The House Party: A Novel
by Rita Cameron

On sale Sep 13 from William Morrow
Genre: Literary Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

When a house party goes terribly wrong, a suburban town fractures, exposing disturbing truths about the community - perfect for fans of Little Fires Everywhere and Ask Again, Yes.

The Village Idiot
by Steve Stern

On sale Sep 13 from Melville House
Genre: Literary Fiction. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A wild, effervescent, absinthe-soaked novel that tells of the life of the extraordinary artist Chaim Soutine.

I Walk Between the Raindrops: Stories
by T.C. Boyle

On sale Sep 13 from Ecco
Genre: Short Stories. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An electric collection of new short stories from the inimitable, bestselling writer of Talk to Me and Outside Looking In.

Two Nurses, Smoking: Stories
by David Means

On sale Sep 13 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Short Stories. 224 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A new collection of stories by David Means, a visionary "master of the form" (The Observer).

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
by Kate Beaton

On sale Sep 13 from Drawn & Quarterly
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 448 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark! A Vagrant, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beaton, specifically Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where the lobster is as abundant as beaches, fiddles, and Gaelic folk songs.

Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure
by Bryn Nelson PhD

Debut Author
On sale Sep 13 from Grand Central Publishing
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 432 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

For readers of Giulia Enders' Gut and Bill Bryson's The Body, a surprising, witty and sparkling exploration of the teeming microbiome of possibility in human feces from microbiologist and science journalist Bryn Nelson.

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