Hello,
If you thought the publishing industry would be slowing down in November, think again. This week, for your reading pleasure, we've carefully selected 29 new and notable books from the hundreds of possible contenders; one-third of which are nonfiction, two-thirds fiction.
They include New York, My Village by Uwem Akpan, which select BookBrowse members read and reviewed favorably for our early-reader program First Impressions. Also, Our Country Friends
by Gary Shteyngar, which some are lauding as the definitive Covid novel (irrespective of its undoubted charms, it seems way too early to label any book as the defining novel of our current times.)
Including all the titles in this newsletter would cause emails sent to Gmail and others to be cut short, so below are eight of the books, with the full list available at bookbrowse.com/browse/ptw
With best wishes,
Davina Morgan-Witts
BookBrowse Publisher
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This Week's New and Notable Books |
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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”. |
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| New York, My Village: A Novel
by Uwem Akpan
On sale Nov 2 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Novels. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.0/5
A daring first novel in the great picaresque tradition―both buoyant comedy and devastating satire―by the author of the best-selling story collection Say You're One of Them.
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| Our Country Friends: A Novel
by Gary Shteyngart
On sale Nov 2 from Random House
Genre: Novels. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation - a novel about love, friendship, family, and betrayal, a book that reads like a great Russian novel, or Chekhov on the Hudson, by a novelist the New York Times calls "one of his generation's most original writers."
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| The Island of Missing Trees: A Novel
by Elif Shafak
On sale Nov 2 from Bloomsbury USA
Genre: Novels. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World.
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| Win Me Something
by Kyle Lucia Wu
Debut Author
On sale Nov 2 from Tin House Books
Genre: Novels. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A perceptive and powerful debut of identity and belonging - of a young woman determined to be seen.
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| Still Life
by Sarah Winman
On sale Nov 2 from G.P. Putnam's Sons
Genre: Historical Fiction. 464 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A captivating, bighearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, by the celebrated author of Tin Man
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| Skin of the Sea
by Natasha Bowen
Debut Author
On sale Nov 2 from Random House Books for Younger Readers
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History (Young Adult). 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
An unforgettable fantasy debut inspired by West African mythology, this is Children of Blood and Bone meets The Little Mermaid, in which a mermaid takes on the gods themselves.
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| The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II
by Judith Mackrell
On sale Nov 2 from Doubleday
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 464 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
The riveting, untold history of a group of heroic women reporters who revolutionized the narrative of World War II - from Martha Gellhorn, who out-scooped her husband, Ernest Hemingway, to Lee Miller, a Vogue cover model turned war correspondent.
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| The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World
by Porter Fox
On sale Nov 2 from Little Brown & Company
Genre: Travel & Adventure. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A gripping blend of narrative travelogue, history, and climatology set against the end of ice, snow, and winter as we know it.
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