Publishing This Week: Tan Twan Eng, Teju Cole & Tim Johnston

Publishing This Week

Hello,

We're still in the middle of peak publishing season, so this week brings another bumper crop of 27 new and notable books for your reading pleasure, split almost equally between fiction and nonfiction. Of the total, a half are debut writers; one of the new voices belongs to Chelsea Iverson whose fantasy novel set in Scandanavia, The Witches at the End of the World was enjoyed by many of our First Impressions reviewers, including Joy who describes it as, "a novel of vengeance, grief, love, the ties that bind us to others and the actions fueled by emotion."

Other authors to look out for include Tan Twan Eng, Teju Cole, Tim Johnston. We've included brief information on 10 books below and more about all in our New This Week section. 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.

Enjoy!

The BookBrowse Team

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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.

The Witches at the End of the World
by Chelsea Iversen

Debut Author
On sale Oct 17 from Sourcebooks Landmark
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Members' Rating: 3.9/5

Two sisters find themselves at odds in this breathtaking historical fantasy – and when one releases a dark spell, someone will have to burn. They are witches, after all.

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The House of Doors
by Tan Twan Eng

On sale Oct 17 from Bloomsbury Publishing
Genre: Literary Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the bestselling author of The Garden of Evening Mists, a spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redemption.

Tremor: A Novel
by Teju Cole

On sale Oct 17 from Kids@Random
Genre: Literary Fiction. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violent world—from the award-winning author of Open City

Straw Dogs of the Universe: A Novel
by Ye Chun

Debut Author
On sale Oct 17 from Catapult
Genre: Historical Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A Chinese railroad worker and his young daughter—sold into servitude—in 19th century California search for family, fulfillment, and belonging in a violent new land

Murder by Degrees: A Mystery
by Ritu Mukerji

Debut Author
On sale Oct 17 from Simon & Schuster
Genre: Mysteries. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

For fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Charles Todd, Murder by Degrees is a historical mystery set in 19th century Philadelphia, following a pioneering woman doctor as she investigates the disappearance of a young patient who is presumed dead.

Distant Sons
by Tim Johnston

On sale Oct 17 from Algonquin Books
Genre: Thrillers. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

New York Times bestselling author of Descent and The Current Tim Johnston returns with an absorbing new crime novel set in a small Wisconsin town haunted by the unsolved disappearance of three boys in the 1970s.

An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America
by Edwin Raymond

Debut Author
On sale Oct 17 from Viking
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the highest-ranking whistleblower in NYPD history, a gripping insider look at the complexities of modern policing and the urgent need for reform

Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir
by Curtis Chin

Debut Author
On sale Oct 17 from Little Brown & Company
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

This "vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt" memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin's time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980's Detroit (Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers).

I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country
by Elena Kostyuchenko

Debut Author
On sale Oct 17 from Penguin Press
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A fearless, cutting portrait of Russia and an essential cri de coeur for journalism in opposition to the global authoritarian turn

The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust's Most Audacious Rescue Operation
by Roger Moorhouse

On sale Oct 17 from Basic Books
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The secret history of one of the largest—and least-known—rescue operations of World War II

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