Publishing This Week: Eight Debuts plus Emma Cline, Simon Sebag Montefiore and Ruta Sepetys

Publishing This Week

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This week, we've selected 22 new and notable books to bring to your attention. They include works by T.C. Boyle, Emma Cline, Simon Sebag Montefiore and Ruta Sepetys; plus eight debut novels.

I've included brief details on 10 titles below, and you'll find more on all 22, including early reviews, in our New This Week section (under the "New" tab in our main menu).

The "New" section is also home to our Publishing by Month lists, which is the place to be to see what's publishing soon or look back on previous months. If you're particularly interested in debuts, you can spot these by the yellow highlight around the book jacket. BookBrowse members have full access to view all previews, everyone else can see all past books and a limited selection of upcoming titles.

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New and Notable This Week

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.

Berlin: A Novel
by Bea Setton

Debut Author
On sale May 16 from Penguin Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A wickedly insightful, darkly funny novel in which a young woman in the grip of an existential malaise moves to a new city for a fresh start but her attempt at reinvention doesn't quite go to plan.

Blue Skies: A Novel
by T. C. Boyle

On sale May 16 from Liveright/W.W. Norton
Genre: Literary Fiction. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From best-selling novelist T. C. Boyle, a satirical yet ultimately moving send-up of contemporary American life in the glare of climate change.

The Postcard
by Anne Berest

Debut Author
On sale May 16 from Europa Editions
Genre: Literary Fiction. 464 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life.

The Guest: A Novel
by Emma Cline

On sale May 16 from Random House
Genre: Thrillers. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls.

Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong
by Vaudine England

On sale May 16 from Scribner
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A timely, well-researched, and vibrant new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have made it a multicultural world metropolis—and whose freedoms are endangered today.

The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
by Serhii Plokhy

On sale May 16 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An authoritative history of Europe's largest military conflict since World War II, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Gates of Europe.

The World: A Family History of Humanity
by Simon Sebag Montefiore

On sale May 16 from Knopf
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 1344 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A magisterial world history unlike any other that tells the story of humanity through the one thing we all have in common: families. From the New York Times best-selling author of The Romanovs

Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism
by Brooke Kroeger

On sale May 16 from Knopf
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 592 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An essential history of women in American journalism, showcasing exceptional careers from 1840 to the present.

Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life
by Kristen R. Ghodsee

On sale May 16 from Simon & Schuster
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A dazzling tour through 2,000 years of audacious utopian thinking and experiments, exploring better ways to arrange our daily lives, plus a globetrotting jaunt to the communities already putting these seemingly fanciful visions into practice today.

You: The Story: A Writer's Guide to Craft Through Memory
by Ruta Sepetys

On sale May 16 from Viking
Genre: Advice. 224 pages
Critics' Opinion:

The nonfiction debut by #1 New York Times bestselling and Carnegie Medal-winning author Ruta Sepetys. Perfect for fans of Burn After Writing and Bird by Bird.

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