Publishing This Week: Including Elizabeth Strout, Orlando Figes, Richard Osman and Justina Ireland

Publishing This Week

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This week brings 16 notable new books, including a Lucy Barton novel from Elizabeth Strout, Richard Osman's third Murder Club mystery, a fantasy from Dread Nation author Justina Ireland, and a history of Russia from Orlando Figes. See 10 below and all 16 in our New This Week section.

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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. You can see them all in our “What’s New” section.

More about how we pick and rate books.

Lucy by the Sea: A Novel
by Elizabeth Strout

On sale Sep 20 from Random House
Genre: Literary Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

From Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout comes a poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown - and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart.

The Complicities
by Stacey D'Erasmo

On sale Sep 20 from Algonquin Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Award-winning author Stacey D'Erasmo tells a haunting and emotionally affecting story about a woman trying to rebuild her life after her husband's arrest, and what she knew - or pretended not to know - about where their family's money came from.

The Book of Goose: A Novel
by Yiyun Li

On sale Sep 20 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Historical Fiction. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A magnificent, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school, to the quiet Pennsylvania home where a woman can live without her past, The Book of Goose is a story of disturbing intimacy and obsession, of exploitation and strength of will, by the celebrated author Yiyun Li.

Rust in the Root
by Justina Ireland

On sale Sep 20 from Balzer + Bray
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History (Young Adult). 448 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The author of the visionary New York Times bestseller Dread Nation returns with another spellbinding historical fantasy set at the crossroads of race and power in America.

If Walls Could Speak: My Life in Architecture
by Moshe Safdie

On sale Sep 20 from Atlantic Monthly Press
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

One of the world's greatest and most thoughtful architects recounts his extraordinary career and the iconic structures he has built - from Habitat in Montreal to Marina Bay Sands in Singapore - and offers a manifesto for the role architecture should play in society.

American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
by Kevin Hazzard

On sale Sep 20 from Hachette Books
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world.

Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
by Pekka Hämäläinen

On sale Sep 20 from Liveright/W.W. Norton
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 592 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A prize-winning scholar rewrites 400 years of American history from Indigenous perspectives, overturning the dominant origin story of the United States.

The Story of Russia
by Orlando Figes

On sale Sep 20 from Metropolitan Books
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

From "the great storyteller of Russian history" (Financial Times), a brilliant account of the national mythologies and imperial ideologies that have shaped Russia's past and politics - essential reading for understanding the country today.

The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care
by Rina Raphael

Debut Author
On sale Sep 20 from Henry Holt and Company
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

Journalist Rina Raphael looks at the explosion of the wellness industry: how it stems from legitimate complaints, how seductive marketing targets hopeful consumers–and why women are opening up their wallets like never before.

This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You
by Susan Rogers

Debut Author
On sale Sep 20 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A legendary record producer–turned–brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music.

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