Publishing This Week: William Kent Krueger, Joyce Carol Oates and Eight More

Publishing This Week

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This week brings 10 new and notable books, all of which you'll find below. If you'd like to see all 60+ books publishing in August that we feel are particularly worthy of note, visit our "Publishing Soon" section, and from there you can scroll backwards and forwards month by month.

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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.

Afterlives: A Novel
by Abdulrazak Gurnah

On sale Aug 23 from Riverhead Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of East Africa.

Four for the Road
by K. J. Reilly

On sale Aug 23 from Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The Perks of Being a Wallflower meets The End of the F***ing World in this dark young adult comedy about four unlikely friends dealing with the messy side of grief who embark on a road trip to Graceland.

Perish: A Novel
by LaToya Watkins

Debut Author
On sale Aug 23 from Tiny Reparations
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

From a stunning new voice, comes a powerful debut novel, Perish, about a Black Texan family, exploring the effects of inherited trauma and intergenerational violence as the family comes together to say goodbye to their matriarch on her deathbed.

This Is Why They Hate Us
by Aaron H. Aceves

Debut Author
On sale Aug 23 from Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

This fun, irreverent summer romp is Netflix's Never Have I Ever meets What If It's Us about a high school senior determined to get over his unrequited feelings for his best friend by getting under someone else.

Big Red: A Novel Starring Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles
by Jerome Charyn

On sale Aug 23 from Liveright/W.W. Norton
Genre: Historical Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Narrated by a starry-eyed lesbian, Big Red reimagines the tragic career of Rita Hayworth and her indomitable husband, Orson Welles.

Fox Creek: Cork O'Connor Mystery Series #19
by William Kent Krueger

On sale Aug 23 from Atria Books
Genre: Mysteries. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The latest in the New York Times bestselling Cork O'Connor Mystery Series from the "master storyteller" (Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author) follows Cork in a race against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthirsty mercenaries.

Babysitter: A novel
by Joyce Carol Oates

On sale Aug 23 from Knopf
Genre: Thrillers. 448 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

From one of America's most renowned storytellers - the bestselling author of Blonde - comes a novel about love and deceit, and lust and redemption, against a backdrop of shocking murders in the affluent suburbs of Detroit.

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
by Sangu Mandanna

On sale Aug 23 from Berkley Books
Genre: Romance. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family - and a new love - changes the course of her life.

Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
by Brad Snyder

On sale Aug 23 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Biography. 992 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The definitive biography of Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court justice and champion of twentieth-century American liberal democracy.

Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom
by Andrew Nagorski

On sale Aug 23 from Simon & Schuster
Genre: History. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A dramatic true story about Sigmund Freud's last-minute escape to London following the German annexation of Austria and the group of friends who made it possible.

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