Publishing This Week: Including 10 Debut Novels

Publishing This Week

Hello,

Among this week's bumper crop of 32 books are 11 works of nonfiction and 10 debut novels including Do Tell by Lindsay Lynch which brings the golden age of Hollywood to glittering life.

I've included brief details on 10 titles below, and you'll find more information, including early reviews, for and all books in our New This Week section (under the "New" tab in our main menu).

The "New" section is also home to our Publishing by Month lists, where you can look forward to see what's publishing soon and back to previous months; debuts are indicated by a yellow highlight.

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.

Do Tell: A Novel
by Lindsay Lynch

Debut Author
On sale Jul 11 from Doubleday
Genre: Historical Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

Debut novelist Lindsay Lynch brings the golden age of Hollywood to glittering life, from star-studded opening nights to backlot brawls, on-location Westerns to the Hollywood Canteen.

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I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom
by Shannon C. F. Rogers

On sale Jul 11 from Feiwel & Friends
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Packed with voice, Shannon C.F. Rogers' I'd Rather Burn than Bloom is a powerful YA novel about a Filipina-American teen who tries to figure out who she really is in the wake of her mother's death.

Promise: A Novel
by Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Debut Author
On sale Jul 11 from Random House
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Two Black sisters growing up in small-town New England fight to protect their home, their bodies, and their dreams as the Civil Rights Movement sweeps the nation in this "magical, magnificent novel" (Marlon James) from "a startlingly fresh voice" (Jacqueline Woodson).

Ripe: A Novel
by Sarah Rose Etter

On sale Jul 11 from Scribner
Genre: Literary Fiction. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From an award-winning writer whose work Roxane Gay calls "utterly unique and remarkable" comes a surreal novel about a woman in Silicon Valley who must decide how much she's willing to give up for success—for fans of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Her Body and Other Parties.

The Sea Elephants: A Novel
by Shastri Akella

Debut Author
On sale Jul 11 from Flatiron Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

For fans of Shuggie Bain and A Burning, a queer coming-of-age novel set in 1990s India, about a young man who joins a traveling street theater troupe, seeking to outrun the dark secrets of his past

Flags on the Bayou: A Novel
by James Lee Burke

On sale Jul 11 from Atlantic Monthly Press
Genre: Historical Fiction. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From New York Times-bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters – enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers – are caught in the maelstrom

After the Funeral and Other Stories
by Tessa Hadley

On sale Jul 11 from Knopf
Genre: Short Stories. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships.

My Husband: A Novel
by Maud Ventura

Debut Author
On sale Jul 11 from HarperVia
Genre: Thrillers. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obsessing over her perfect husband—but can their marriage survive her passionate love?

Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy
by Colin Dickey

On sale Jul 11 from Viking
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From beloved cultural historian and acclaimed author of Ghostland comes a history of America's obsession with secret societies and the conspiracies of hidden power.

The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
by David Lipsky

On sale Jul 11 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 496 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The New York Times best-selling author explores how "anti-science" became so virulent in American life—through a history of climate denial and its consequences.

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