Publishing This Week: Lynda Rutledge, Muriel Barbery & 24 More

Publishing This Week

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Among this week's 26 new and notable books are half a dozen debuts, including The Cleaner by Brandi Wells which gets starred reviews from Publishers Weekly ("rarely has cubicle culture been depicted in such griminess or with such glee") and Booklist ("so inappropriately fun to read"). Also, Lynda Rutledge has a new book out, Mockingbird Summer, which follows on the heels of her bestselling West with Giraffes, which was ranked the #6 favorite book club title of 2022 in our annual survey.

You'll find brief information on 10 titles below, and descriptions and reviews for all of them in our New This Week section. For more soon to publish books, check out BookBrowse's "What's New" section.

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The BookBrowse Team

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.

Mockingbird Summer: A Novel
by Lynda Rutledge

On sale Jan 30 from Lake Union Publishing
Genre: Literary Fiction. 303 pages
Critics' Opinion:

A powerful and emotional coming-of-age novel set amid the turmoil and profound changes of the 1960s by the bestselling author of West with Giraffes.

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Come and Get It
by Kiley Reid

On sale Jan 30 from G.P. Putnam's Sons
Genre: Literary Fiction. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age comes a fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a professor and three unruly students.

Hard by a Great Forest: A Novel
by Leo Vardiashvili

Debut Author
On sale Jan 30 from Riverhead Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Amid rubble and rebuilding in a former Soviet land, one family must rescue one another and put the past to rest: a stirring novel about what happens after the fighting is over

Held: A Novel
by Anne Michaels

On sale Jan 30 from Knopf
Genre: Literary Fiction. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A breathtaking and ineffable new novel from the author of the international best sellers Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault—a novel of love and loyalty across generations, at once sweeping and intimate

One Hour of Fervor
by Muriel Barbery

On sale Jan 30 from Europa Editions
Genre: Literary Fiction. 196 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a family story with a difference, a novel about the decisions one makes and the destiny they determine by one of Europe's most brilliant and stylistically subtle authors.

Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect: A Novel
by Benjamin Stevenson

On sale Jan 30 from Mariner Books
Genre: Mysteries. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

For fans of Richard Osman and Anthony Horowitz, a fiendishly fun locked room murder mystery from the author of the indie darling Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone —this time set on a train full of mystery writers, agents, editors, and fans.

Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds
by Michelle Horton

Debut Author
On sale Jan 30 from Grand Central Publishing
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A breathtaking memoir about two sisters and a high-profile case: Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killing her abuser; and the author, Michelle Horton, left in the devastating fall-out to raise Nikki's young children and to battle the criminal justice system.

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
by Jonathan Blitzer

Debut Author
On sale Jan 30 from Penguin Press
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 544 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border told through the lives of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policymakers who determine their fate, by New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer.

One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy
by Dominic Erdozain

On sale Jan 30 from Crown
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation's founders did not intend the Second Amendment to guarantee an individual right to bear arms—and that this distortion of the record is an urgent threat to democracy.

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