Hello,
Among this week's new and notable books are thirteen works of fiction and four nonfiction; you'll find 10 below and all 17 on BookBrowse (scroll down to the end of the list for a link).
Among them are A Most Clever Girl from Stephanie Mari Thornton, based on the life of Cold War double agent Elizabeth Bentley and Colson Whitehead's Harlem Shuffle set in 1960s New York. Also, Assembly by debut novelist Natasha Brown which packs quite a punch into its 112 pages; to quote Kirkus Reviews, "it has all the jagged clarity of a shard of broken glass. A piercing meditation on identity and race in contemporary Britain."
Enjoy!
Davina, 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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| Assembly
by Natasha Brown
Debut Author
On sale Sep 14 from Little Brown & Company
Genre: Novels. 112 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A woman confronts the most important question of her life in this blistering, fearless, and unforgettable literary debut from "a stunning new writer" (Bernardine Evaristo).
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| I Wished
by Dennis Cooper
On sale Sep 14 from Soho Press
Genre: Novels. 144 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
"I started writing books about and for my friend George Miles because whenever I would speak about him honestly like I am doing now I felt a complicated agony beneath my words that talking openly can't handle."
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| A Most Clever Girl: A Novel of an American Spy
by Stephanie Marie Thornton
On sale Sep 14 from Berkley Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
A thrilling novel of love, loyalty, and espionage, based on the true story of Elizabeth Bentley, a Cold War double agent spying for the Russians and the United States, from USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Marie Thornton.
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| Things I Have Withheld
by Kei Miller
On sale Sep 14 from Grove Press
Genre: Short Stories/Essays. 224 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
By acclaimed Forward Prize winner, novelist, and poet, Kei Miller's linked collection of essays blends memoir and literary commentary to explore the silences that exist in our conversations about race, sex, and gender.
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| Harlem Shuffle
by Colson Whitehead
On sale Sep 14 from Doubleday
Genre: Thrillers. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.
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| Her Perfect Life
by Hank Phillippi Ryan
On sale Sep 14 from Forge Books
Genre: Thrillers. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
The next thrilling standalone novel by USA Today bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan.
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| Harrow: A novel
by Joy Williams
On sale Sep 14 from Knopf
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 224 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
In her first novel since The Quick and the Dead (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after an environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has value, but some still wish to salvage the authentic.
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| Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
by Tarana Burke
Debut Author
On sale Sep 14 from Flatiron Books
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the "me too" movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words - me too - and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation in one of the largest cultural events in American history.
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| Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
by Mary Roach
On sale Sep 14 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: History, Science & Current Affairs. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Join "America's funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post), Mary Roach, on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet.
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| Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
by Farah Jasmine Griffin
On sale Sep 14 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: History, Science & Current Affairs. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A brilliant scholar imparts the lessons bequeathed by the Black community and its remarkable artists and thinkers.
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