Publishing This Week: Lydia Millet and Jennifer Coburn

Publishing This Week

Hello,

Among this week's 17 notable new books is Lydia Millet's new novel Dinosaurs, which some of our members reviewed for our First Impressions Program, rating it an impressive 4.4-star average. Also, Jennifer Coburn's novel Cradles of the Reich which we'll be discussing in our book club forum soon; it's about the Nazi's Lebensborn Society, which, based on the facts presented in Coburn's author's note, was so much worse than "just" the state-sponsored breeding program I thought it to be.

You can browse the early reviews for all of these in our New This Week section; and find brief information and links for 10 of the books below.

Enjoy!

Davina, BookBrowse Publisher

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.

Dinosaurs: A Novel
by Lydia Millet

On sale Oct 11 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Literary Fiction. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Members' Rating: 4.4/5

Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as "a writer without limits" (Karen Russell) and "a stone-cold genius" (Jenny Offill), Millet makes fiction that vividly evokes the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction.

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I Miss You, I Hate This
by Sara Saedi

On sale Oct 11 from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

Five Feet Apart meets Kate in Waiting in this timely story of two best friends navigating the complexities of friendship while their world is turned upside down by a global pandemic.

Before All the World: A Novel
by Moriel Rothman-Zecher

On sale Oct 11 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Historical Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A mesmerizing, inventive story of three souls in 1930s Philadelphia seizing new life while haunted by the old.

Illuminations: Stories
by Alan Moore

On sale Oct 11 from Bloomsbury USA
Genre: Short Stories. 464 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

From New York Times bestselling author Alan Moore-one of the most influential writers in the history of comics - "a wonderful collection, brilliant and often moving" (Neil Gaiman) - which takes us to the fantastical underside of reality.

My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives
by Charlayne Hunter-Gault

On sale Oct 11 from Harper
Genre: Essays. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the legendary Emmy Award-winning journalist, a collection of ground-breaking reportage from across five decades which vividly chronicles the experience of Black life in America today.

Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting
by Kindra Neely

Debut Author
On sale Oct 11 from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Genre: Biography/Memoir (Young Adult). 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

This searing graphic memoir portrays the impact of gun violence through a fresh lens with urgency, humanity, and a very personal hope.

Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More
by Fatima Ali

Debut Author
On sale Oct 11 from Ballantine Books
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A young chef whose dreams were cut short savors every last minute as she explores food and adventure, illness and mortality in Savor, a stunning, lyrical memoir and family story that sweeps from Pakistan to New York City and beyond.

Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty
by Andrew Meier

On sale Oct 11 from Random House
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 1072 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An "epic and intimate" (David M. Kennedy) portrait of four generations of the Morgenthau family, a dynasty of power brokers and public officials with an outsize - and previously unmapped - influence extending from daily life in New York City to the shaping of the American Century.

Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
by Ruha Benjamin

On sale Oct 11 from Princeton University Press
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 392 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

An inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world - one small change at a time.

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