Publishing This Week: Jennifer Egan, Douglas Stuart, Ocean Vuong, Emily St. John Mandel and 24 Others

Publishing This Week

Hello,

Each week brings new and exciting titles but this particular week marks the start of a new publishing season and thus we have a bumper crop of 29 notable books, 10 of which are below and the remainder on BookBrowse.

They include Shadows of Berlin by David R. Gilham which we'll be discussing in our online book club in a few weeks' time; The Candy House by Jennifer Egan, a sequel to her runaway bestseller, A Visit from the Goon Squad; Young Mungo, a sophomore novel from Douglas Stuart following the success of his debut Shuggie Bain; Time is a Mother, a new collection of poems from Ocean Vuong; Sea of Tranquility, a novel from Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven; plus four debut novels and nine works of nonfiction.

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”.

Shadows of Berlin: A Novel
by David R. Gillham

On sale Apr 5 from Sourcebooks
Genre: Historical Fiction. 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A captivating novel of a Berlin girl on the run from the guilt of her past and the boy from Brooklyn who loves her.

Read More | Discussion Opens Apr 30

The Candy House: A Visit from the Goon Squad #2 by Jennifer Egan

On sale Apr 5 from Scribner
Genre: Novels. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From one of the most celebrated writers of our time, a literary figure with cult status, a "sibling novel" to her Pulitzer Prize- and NBCC Award-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad - an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity and meaning in a world where memories and identities are no longer private.

The Return of Faraz Ali: A Novel
by Aamina Ahmad

Debut Author
On sale Apr 5 from Riverhead Books
Genre: Novels. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

Sent back to his birthplace - Lahore's notorious red-light district - to hush up the murder of a girl, a man finds himself in an unexpected reckoning with his past.

Young Mungo
by Douglas Stuart

On sale Apr 5 from Grove Press
Genre: Novels. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A story of queer love and working-class families, Young Mungo is the brilliant second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain.

Four Treasures of the Sky: A Novel
by Jenny Tinghui Zhang

Debut Author
On sale Apr 5 from Flatiron Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A propulsive and dazzling debut novel set against the backdrop of the Chinese Exclusion Act, about a Chinese girl fighting to claim her place in the 1880s American West.

Time Is a Mother
by Ocean Vuong

On sale Apr 5 from Penguin Press
Genre: Poetry. 128 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong.

Hotel Magnifique
by Emily J. Taylor

Debut Author
On sale Apr 5 from Razorbill
Genre: Fantasy (Young Adult). 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Decadent and darkly enchanting, this lavish YA fantasy debut follows seventeen-year-old Jani as she uncovers the deeply disturbing secrets of the legendary Hotel Magnifique.

Sea of Tranquility: A novel
by Emily St. John Mandel

On sale Apr 5 from Knopf
Genre: Sci-Fi. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.

Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System
by M. Chris Fabricant

Debut Author
On sale Apr 5 from Akashic Books
Genre: Current Affairs. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Innocence Project attorney M. Chris Fabricant presents an insider's journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role junk science plays in maintaining the status quo.

Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
by Frans de Waal

On sale Apr 5 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Science. 408 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

In Different, world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal draws on decades of observation and studies of both human and animal behavior to argue that despite the linkage between gender and biological sex, biology does not automatically support the traditional gender roles in human societies. While humans and other primates do share some behavioral differences, biology offers no justification for existing gender inequalities.

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