Publishing This Week: Michael Cunningham, Jon Clinch, Mitch Albom, Claire Keegan and Jacquelyn Mitchard

Publishing This Week

Hello,

Among this week's 17 notable new book books are novels from Michael Cunningham, Jon Clinch, Mitch Albom, Claire Keegan and Jacquelyn Mitchard, and six works of nonfiction.

We've included brief information on 10 books below, and more about all of them in our New This Week section. The "New" section is also home to our Publishing by Month lists, where you can look ahead to see what's publishing soon and back to previous months.

Enjoy!

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.

Day: A Novel
by Michael Cunningham

On sale Nov 14 from Random House
Genre: Literary Fiction. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A searing, exquisitely crafted exploration of love and loss, the struggles and limitations of family life—and how we all must learn to live together and apart—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hours

Happy: A Novel
by Celina Baljeet Basra

Debut Author
On sale Nov 14 from Astra House
Genre: Literary Fiction. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

For fans of Vikas Swarup and Charles Yu, the story of a starry-eyed cinephile who leaves his rural village in Punjab to pursue his dreams - a formally daring debut novel set against the global migration crisis.

The General and Julia: A Novel
by Jon Clinch

On sale Nov 14 from Atria Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Ulysses S. Grant reflects on the crucial moments of his life as a husband, a father, a general, and a president while writing his memoirs and reckoning with his complicated legacy in this epic and intimate novel from the author of the "masterly" (The New York Times Book Review) novel Marley.

The Little Liar: A Novel
by Mitch Albom

On sale Nov 14 from Harper
Genre: Historical Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

Beloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with a powerful novel that moves from a coastal Greek city during the Holocaust, to America, where the intertwined lives of three survivors are forever changed by the perils of deception and the grace of redemption.

So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan

On sale Nov 14 from Grove Press
Genre: Short Stories. 128 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From Booker Prize Finalist and bestselling author of "pitch perfect" (Boston Globe) Small Things Like These, comes a triptych of stories about love, lust, betrayal, and the ever-intriguing interchanges between women and men.

A Very Inconvenient Scandal: A Novel by Jacquelyn Mitchard

On sale Nov 14 from Mira Books
Genre: Thrillers. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard comes a page-turning family drama that explores the emotional consequences of loyalty, deception and jealousy.

America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy
by Dr. Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar

On sale Nov 14 from Basic Books
Genre: History. 544 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The remarkable story of how African Americans transformed Atlanta, the former heart of the Confederacy, into today's Black mecca

The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs
by David Runciman

On sale Nov 14 from Liveright/W.W. Norton
Genre: History & Current Affairs. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An eminent political thinker uses our history with states and corporations―"artificial agents" to which we have granted immense power―to predict how AI will remake society.

The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America
by Daniel Schulman

On sale Nov 14 from Knopf
Genre: History. 592 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The incredible saga of the German-Jewish immigrants—with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Warburg and Schiff, Lehman and Seligman—who profoundly influenced the rise of modern finance (and so much more), from the New York Times best-selling author of Sons of Wichita

Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
by Rebecca Renner

Debut Author
On sale Nov 14 from Flatiron Books
Genre: True Crime & Environment. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the mysterious world of alligator poaching and its larger than life Floridian characters

View all 17 new and notable books publishing this week

Publishing This Week is one of BookBrowse's four free newsletters. We also publish BookBrowse Highlights every Thursday; and Book Club News and Librarian News monthly.

Change settings and/or update your email address

BookBrowse

1-408-867-6500

1-800-745-5306

info@bookbrowse.com