Publisher’s Weekly
June 2
Confessions by Augustine (newly translated by Sarah Ruden)
Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination by Herb Boyd (NF)
Felix Yz by Lisa Bunker (YA)
Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? by Heath Fogg Davis (NF)
The People We Hate at the Wedding by Grant Ginder (F)
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
Kennedy and the King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle Over Civil Rights by Steven Levingston (NF)
A Fugitive in Walden Woods by Norman Lock (F)
Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou (translated from the French by Helen Stevenson) (F)
How to Be a Muslim: An American Story by Haroon Moghul (NF)
This Impossible Light by Lily Myers (F in poetry)
We Crossed a Bridge and it Trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy Pearlman (NF)
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhoti Roy (F)
The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny by Michael Wallis (NF)
June 16
The Girl in Between by Sarah Carroll (F)
The Boy Who Loved Too Much: A True Story of Pathological Friendliness by Jennifer Latson (NF)
Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death by Adrian Owen (NF)
Flesh, and Bone and Water by Luiza Sauma (NF)
Open Heart: A Cardiac Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table by Stephen Westaby
The Force by Don Winslow Morrow (F)
June 30
American, English, Italian, Chocolate: Small Subjects of Great Importance by Rick Bailey (NF)
The Graybar Hotel by Curtis Dawkins (F)
Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan by Elaine M Hayes(NF)
Trophy: A Novel by Steffen Jacobsen (F)
Who is Rich? By Matthew Klam (F)
The Disappearances by Emily Bain Murphy (F, YA)
All We Shall Know? A Novel by Donal Ryan (F)
A Stone of Hope: A Memoir by Jim St. Germain
Words on Bathroom Walls: A Novel by Julia Walton (F, YA)
July 7
The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera by Adam Begley (NF)
Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World by Billy Bragg (NF)
Alone by Christophe Chabouté (visually stunning) (F)
Death on Delos by Gary Corby (F)
Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 AD to the First Crusade by Anthony Keldellis (NF)
Dirt Road by James Kelman (F)
Hum If You Don’t Know the Words by Bianca Marais (F)
The Art of Starving by Sam J Miller (F, YA)
My Heart Hemmed In by Marie N Diaye (translated from the French by Jordan Stump) (F)
Conversations with Friends: A Novel by Sally Rooney
So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley by Roger Steffens (NF)
The End by Fernanda Torres (F)
July 14
The Late Show by Michael Connelly (F)
No Good Deed by Kara Connolly (F, YA)
The Epiphany Machine by David Burr Gerrard
Ants Among the Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India by Sujatha Gidla (NF)
Soul Cage by Giles Murray (F)
The Library of Fates by Adit Khorana (F, YA)
Like a Fading Shadow by Antonio Mũnoz Molina (translated from the Spanish by Camilo A Ramirez) (F)
Arbitrary Stupid Goal by Tamara Shopsin (Short Stories)
Henry David Thoreau: A Life by Laura Dassow Walls (NF)
July 21
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich (translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsby) (NF)
Refugee by Alan Gratz (F)
Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed (F)
The Way We Die Now: The View from Medicine’s Front Line by Seamus O’Mahony (NF)
Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips (F)
Amazon
Literature and Fiction
Spoonbenders: A Novel by Daryl Gregory
Goodbye Vitamin: A Novel by Rachel Khong
The Outer Cape: A Novel by Patrick Dacey
Tornado Weather: A Novel by Deborah E. Kennedy
AFTERLIFE by Marcus Sakey
Before Everything by Victoria Redel
The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo by Ian Stansel
Rufuge: A Novel by Dina Nayeri
Quiet Until the Thaw: A Novel by Alexandra Fuller
Who is Rich? A Novel by Matthew Klam
Camino Island by John Grisham
Mysteries and Thrillers
The Late Show by Michael Connelly
Fierce Kingdom: A Novel by Gin Phillips
The Lying Game: A Novel by Ruth Ware
The Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente
Zero Sum (A John Rain Novel) by Barry Eisler
House of Spies: A Novel (Gabriel Allon) by Daniel Silva
Every Last Lie by Mary Kupica (A gripping novel of psychological suspense)
AFTERLIFE by Marcus Sakey
Biographies and Memoirs
Sting-Ray Afternoons: A Memoir by Steve Rushin
Chester H. Himes: A Biography by Lawrence P. Jackson
Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship by Michelle Kuo
Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughn by Elaine M Hayes
To the New Owners: A Martha’s Vineyard Memoir by Madeleine Blais
Giant of the Senate by Al Franken
Nonfiction
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Ben Mezrich
Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem by Bill Nye
Science Fiction and Fantasy
When the English Fall: A Novel by David Williams
New York Times
June 18
Everything under Heaven: How the Past Helps Shape China’s Push for Global Power by Howard French (NF)
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides Trap? By Graham Allison (NF)
Be Like the Fox by Erica Benner (Machiavelli) (NF)
Goethe: Life as Work of Art by Rudiger Sofranski (NF)
Raven Rock by Garrett M Groff (History of the Cold War) (NF)
I Was Told to Come Alone by Souad Mekhennet (NF)
A Little More Human by Fiona Maazel (F)
Camino Island by John Grisham (F)
You Belong to Me by Colin Harrison (F)
Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig (F)
According to a Source by Abby Stein (F)
Among the Lesser Gods by Margo Catts (F)
The Invisible Mile by David Coventry (F)
June 25
The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone by Lev Grossman (NF)
A Fine Mess by T R Reid (NF)
Lincoln and the Abolitionists by Fred Kaplan (NF)
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein (NF)
The Seeds of Life by Edward Dolnick (NF)
The Boy Who Loved Too Much by Jennifer Latson (NF)
Murder in Matera by Helen Stapinski (NF)
Awkward by Ty Tashiro (NF)
If I Understood You, Would I Have this Look on my Face? By Alan Alda (NF)
Best New Crime (4 titles)
Wolf on a String by Benjamin Black (F)
The Force by Don Winslow (F)
The Templars Last Secret by Martin Walker (F)
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan (F)
Fly Me by Daniel Riley (F)
Some Rise by Sin by Philip Caputo (F)
A Good Country by Laleh Khadivi (F)
July 2
Kennedy and King by Steven Levingston (NF)
The New Urban Crisis by Richard Florida (NF)
An English Governess in the Great War by Mary Thorp (NF)
Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers: A Kidney Doctor’s Search for the Perfect Match by Vanessa Grubbs (NF)
Healing Children: A Surgeon’s Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine by Kurt Newman (NF)
Open Heart: A Cardiac Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table by Stephen Westaby (NF)
Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Ward by Elizabeth Ford (NF)
Fiction
Modern Gods by Nick Laird
Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan
Little Sister by Barbara Gowdy
Compass by Mathias Énard
July 9
Fiction
Beautiful Animals by Lawrence Osborne
Saints for All Occasions by Courtney Sullivan
The Doorposts of Your House and on Your Gates by Jacob Bacharach
Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny
The Zoo by Isobel Charman (NF)
The Chickenshit Club by Jesse Eisinger (NF)
Hue 1968 by Mark Bowden (NF)
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M Sapolsky (NF)
The Hue and Cry at Our House by Benjamin Taylor (NF)
The Best Land Under Heaven by Michael Wallis (NF)
Love, Africa by Jeffrey Gettleman (NF)
Return to Glory by Matthew DeBord (NF)
July 16
Scandinavians: In Search of the Soul of the North by Robert Fergusson (NF)
Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley (NF)
Among the Janeites: A Journey through the World of Jane Austen Fandom by Deborah Yaffe (NF)
The Making of Jane Austen by Devoney Looser (NF)
The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theater and Why She Works in Hollywood by Paula Byrne (NF)
Jane Austen: The Secret Radical by Helena Kelly (NF)
The Widow Nash by Jamie Harrison (F)
The Half Wives by Stacia Pelletier (F)
The Underground River by Martha Conway (F)
July 23
The Home that was Our Country by Alia Malek (NF)
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled by Wendy Pearlman (NF)
Hunger by Roxane Gay (NF)
The Fate of the West: The Battle to Save the World’s Most Successful Political Idea by Bill Emmott (NF)
One Another’s Equals: The Basis of Human Equality by Jeremy Waldron
Henry David Thoreau: A Life by Laura Dassow Walls
The Islamic Enlightenment by Christopher de Ballaigue (NF)
Young Radicals: In the War for American Ideals by Jeremy McCarter (NF)
Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughn by Elaine M Hayes (NF)
The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (NF)
Fiction
There Your Heart Lies by Mary Gordon
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
4 new mysteries
The Smack by Richard Lange
The Fallen by Ace Atkins
City of Masks by S D Sykes
The Late Show by Michael Connelly
Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash
Black Moses by Alain Mobanckou
Quiet Until the Thaw by Alexander Fuller
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