Publishing This Week: Jonathan Evison, Sigrid Nunez, Christopher Paolini and H. W. Brands

Publishing This Week

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This week brings no less than three dozen notable new titles including books from Jonathan Evison, Sigrid Nunez, Christopher Paolini and H. W. Brands, plus 10 debuts.

Other books of note include Above the Salt by Katherine Vaz, a love story that follows two Portuguese refugees who flee religious violence to build new lives in Civil-War America; BookBrowse members who reviewed it for our First Impressions program rated it a very good 4.5-stars. Also The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods, a charming bookish novel which combines a dash of romance, a sprinkle of historical fiction, and a whole bunch of magical fantasy; we'll be discussing it in our Book Club in January; do join us!

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.

Above the Salt: A Novel
by Katherine Vaz

On sale Nov 7 from Flatiron Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 432 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Members' Rating: 4.5/5

An irresistible and sweeping love story that follows two Portuguese refugees who flee religious violence and reignite their budding romance in Civil-War America.

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The Lost Bookshop
by Evie Woods

On sale Nov 7 from HarperCollins
Genre: Literary Fiction. 448 pages

The Keeper of Stories meets The Lost Apothecary in this charming bookish novel, which has a dash of romance, a sprinkle of historical fiction, and a lot of magic.

Hot Springs Drive
by Lindsay Hunter

On sale Nov 7 from Roxane Gay Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The third title in Roxane Gay Books' inaugural list, Hot Springs Drive is an urgent, vicious blade of a novel about a shocking betrayal and its aftermath, asking just how far you'll go to have everything you want

Same Bed Different Dreams: A Novel
by Ed Park

On sale Nov 7 from Random House
Genre: Literary Fiction. 544 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves on the present—loaded with assassins and mad poets, RPGs and slasher films, pop bands and the perils of social media

The Liberators
by E. J. Koh

Debut Author
On sale Nov 7 from Tin House Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Extraordinarily beautiful and deeply moving, The Liberators is an elegantly wrought family saga of memory, trauma, and empathy, and a stunning testament to the consequences and fortunes of inheritance.

The Vulnerables: A Novel
by Sigrid Nunez

On sale Nov 7 from Riverhead Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The New York Times–bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through brings her singular voice to a story about modern life and connection

What the Taliban Told Me
by Ian Fritz

Debut Author
On sale Nov 7 from Simon & Schuster
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A powerful, timely memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in a war that is lost.

Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games
by Marcus du Sautoy

On sale Nov 7 from Basic Books
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An award-winning mathematician explores the math behind the games we love and why we love to play them.

Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
by H. W. Brands

On sale Nov 7 from Doubleday
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 464 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States.

A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
by Kelly Weinersmith

On sale Nov 7 from Penguin Press
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 448 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the bestselling authors of Soonish, a brilliant and hilarious off-world investigation into space settlement

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