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This week brings 21 notable new books, nine nonfiction and thirteen fiction. You'll find 10 below and all in our New This Week section. For books publishing further in the future, check out BookBrowse's Publishing by Month section.
Enjoy! The BookBrowse Team
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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. You can see them all in our “What’s New” section.
More about how we pick and rate books.
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| Family Family: A Novel
by Laurie Frankel
On sale Jan 23 from Henry Holt and Company
Genre: Literary Fiction. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
From New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of novel This Is How It Always Is comes a novel that asks, "What makes a family?"
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| Martyr!: A novel
by Kaveh Akbar
Debut Author
On sale Jan 23 from Knopf
Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original, Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction.
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| Picasso's Lovers
by Jeanne Mackin
On sale Jan 23 from Berkley Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
A tangled and vivid portrait of the women caught in Picasso's charismatic orbit through the affairs, the scandals, and the art—only this time, they hold the brush.
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| The Bullet Swallower: A Novel
by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
On sale Jan 23 from Simon & Schuster
Genre: Historical Fiction. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally, to collect a cosmic debt generations in the making.
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| Twilight Territory: A Novel
by Andrew X. Pham
On sale Jan 23 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Historical Fiction. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A sweeping first novel of love, war, and resistance in post–World War II Vietnam, by the award-winning author of Catfish and Mandala.
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| Radiant Heat
by Sarah-Jane Collins
On sale Jan 23 from Berkley Books
Genre: Thrillers. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
When a catastrophic wildfire suddenly rips through a woman's hometown, she thinks she is lucky to have survived ... until she finds a dead woman in her driveway, clutching a piece of paper with her name on it... .
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| Into the Sunken City
by Dinesh Thiru
Debut Author
On sale Jan 23 from HarperTeen
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History (Young Adult). 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Perfect for fans of Fable and House of Salt and Sorrows, this spectacular YA fantasy adventure debut is like nothing else, featuring a unique twist on Treasure Island, a magnetic second chance romance, and a thrilling heist where the reward is great—but the risks are even greater.
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| Womb City
by Tlotlo Tsamaase
Debut Author
On sale Jan 23 from Erewhon Books
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
This genre-bending Africanfuturist horror novel blends The Handmaid's Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman's right to her own body.
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| The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers
by Jim Morris
Debut Author
On sale Jan 23 from Beacon Press
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 264 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
The story of a group of Goodyear Tire and Rubber workers fatally exposed to toxic chemicals, the lawyer who sought justice on their behalf, and the shameful lack of protection our society affords all workers.
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| The Holocaust: An Unfinished History
by Dan Stone
On sale Jan 23 from Mariner Books
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 464 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Published to acclaim in the UK, an authoritative, revelatory new history of the Holocaust that "shatters many myths about the Nazis' genocide" (Sunday Times), from one of the leading scholars of his generation.
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