Publishing This Week: 18 New & Notable Books

Publishing This Week

Hello,

This week, we have 18 notable new books for you to peruse, split equally between fiction and nonfiction. I've included brief details on 10 books below, and you'll find information on all of them, including early reviews, in our New This Week section (under the "New" tab in our main menu).

Our "New" section is also home to our Publishing by Month lists. So, this is the place to be if you want to see what's coming soon or look back to previous months; you can sort each month by publication date, genre and title.

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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.

Last House Before the Mountain
by Monika Helfer

Debut Author
On sale Apr 11 from Bloomsbury USA
Genre: Historical Fiction. 192 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

For readers of Ian McEwan, Elena Ferrante, and Julie Orringer, the spellbinding, internationally bestselling, multigenerational family saga set in a fractured rural village in WWI Austria. At under 200 pages, Last House Before the Mountain is a concise but immensely satisfying novel.

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Calling Ukraine: A Novel
by Johannes Lichtman

On sale Apr 11 from Marysue Rucci Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and author of Such Good Work Johannes Lichtman returns with a novel that is strikingly relevant to our times—about an American who takes a job in Ukraine in 2018, only to find that his struggle to understand the customs and culture is eclipsed by a romantic entanglement with deadly consequences.

Life and Other Love Songs
by Anissa Gray

On sale Apr 11 from Berkley Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A father's sudden disappearance exposes the private fears, dreams, longings, and joys of a Black American family in the late decades of the twentieth century, in this page-turning and intimate new novel from the author of The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls.

The Making of Yolanda la Bruja
by Lorraine Avila

On sale Apr 11 from Levine Querido
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Elizabeth Acevedo has said that reading Lorraine Avila feels like an "uppercut to the senses." You've never encountered an author with prose of this sensitivity and fire.

The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho: A Novel
by Paterson Joseph

Debut Author
On sale Apr 11 from Henry Holt and Company
Genre: Essays. 432 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

It's finally time for Charles Ignatius Sancho to tell his story, one that begins on a slave ship in the Atlantic and ends at the very center of London life... . A lush and immersive tale of adventure, artistry, romance, and freedom set in eighteenth-century England and based on a true story.

Throwback
by Maurene Goo

On sale Apr 11 from Zando
Genre: Fantasy (Young Adult). 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Brimming with humor and heart, Maurene Goo's time-travel romance asks big questions about what exactly one inherits and loses in the immigrant experience.

After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller
by Max Wallace

On sale Apr 11 from Grand Central Publishing
Genre: Biography. 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

In this powerful new history, New York Times bestselling author Max Wallace draws on groundbreaking research to reframe Helen Keller's journey after the miracle at the water pump, vividly bringing to light her rarely discussed, lifelong fight for social justice across gender, class, race, and ability.

It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs
by Mary Louise Kelly

On sale Apr 11 from Henry Holt and Company
Genre: Memoir. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Operating Instructions meets Glennon Doyle in this new book by famed NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly that is destined to become a classic—about the year before her son goes to college—and the joys, losses and surprises that happen along the way.

This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew
by Daniel Wallace

On sale Apr 11 from Algonquin Books
Genre: Memoir. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

In this powerful memoir, the bestselling author of Big Fish tries to come to terms with the life and death of his multi-talented longtime friend and brother-in-law, who had been his biggest hero and inspiration, in a poignant, lyrical, and moving memoir.

The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
by Jonathan Healey

On sale Apr 11 from Knopf
Genre: History. 512 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A fresh, exciting history of seventeenth-century England, a time of revolution when society was on fire and simultaneously forging the modern world.

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