Publishing This Week: Kingsolver, Shapiro, Roth, Saunders, Meacham, Hastings & More!

Publishing This Week

Hello,

This week brings eight notable new novels including books from Barbara Kingsolver, Dani Shapiro and Veronica Roth; two short story collections (George Saunders and Manuel Muñoz) and eight works of nonfiction including new works from Jon Meacham and Max Hastings.

You can browse the early reviews for all 18 books in our New This Week section; and I've included brief information and links about 10 of them below.

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

More about how we pick and rate books.

Demon Copperhead: A Novel
by Barbara Kingsolver

On sale Oct 18 from Harper
Genre: Literary Fiction. 560 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the New York Times bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behavior, a brilliant novel which enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity.

Signal Fires: A novel
by Dani Shapiro

On sale Oct 18 from Knopf
Genre: Literary Fiction. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A "gripping" new novel (People) from the bestselling author of Inheritance: On a summer night in 1985, three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything changes.

When We Were Sisters: A Novel
by Fatimah Asghar

Debut Author
On sale Oct 18 from One World
Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

An orphan grapples with gender, siblinghood, family, and coming-of-age as a Muslim in America in this lyrical debut novel from the acclaimed author of If They Come For Us.

Liberation Day: Stories
by George Saunders

On sale Oct 18 from Random House
Genre: Short Stories. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Booker Prize winner George Saunders returns with his first collection of short stories since the New York Times bestseller Tenth of December.

The Consequences: Stories
by Manuel Muñoz

On sale Oct 18 from Graywolf Press
Genre: Short Stories. 224 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Shimmering stories set in California's Central Valley, the first book in a decade from a virtuoso story writer.

Poster Girl
by Veronica Roth

On sale Oct 18 from William Morrow
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

For fans of Anthony Marra and Lauren Beukes, #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth tells the story of a woman's desperate search for a missing girl after the collapse of the oppressive dystopian regime - and the dark secrets about her family and community she uncovers along the way.

And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
by Jon Meacham

On sale Oct 18 from Random House
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 720 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how - and why - he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America.

Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia
by Natasha Lance Rogoff

On sale Oct 17 from Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 302 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the timing appeared perfect to bring Sesame Street to millions of children living in the former Soviet Union. With the Muppets envisioned as ideal ambassadors of Western values, no one anticipated just how challenging and dangerous this would prove to be.

Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
by Matthew F. Delmont

On sale Oct 18 from Viking
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont.

In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press
by Katherine Corcoran

Debut Author
On sale Oct 18 from Bloomsbury Publishing
Genre: True Crime. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

Former AP Mexico bureau chief Katherine Corcoran's pulsating investigation into the murder of a legendary woman journalist on the verge of exposing government corruption in Mexico.

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