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This week’s best new books
Susan Rieger (The Dial Press)
Lila Pereira, a successful media executive, rises to the top of her career, but has to reckon with her youngest daughter, Grace, resenting her for not being a PTA mom. Grace also digs into the past when she asks Lila about her mother, who was committed to an asylum by her abusive husband when Lila was just 2 years old.
Evan Rail (Melville House)
The railroad doesn’t just offer a cultural history of the infamous green drink, it also offers a detective story as it delves into the “absinthe underground,” where collectors pay top dollar for supposedly vintage bottles that may or may not be the thing. true. .
Toshikazu Kawaguchi (Hanover Square Press)
Kawaguchi’s best-selling Before the Coffee Gets Cool series is set in a cozy coffee shop where patrons can travel back in time to right their wrongs and get some much-needed closure. The new episode is the fifth in the series and features four new guests, including a man who struggled with allowing his daughter to marry and a woman with an unnamed child.
Brian Baumgartner and Ben Silverman (Mariner Books)
The classic holiday poem has been reimagined for The Office fans. The setting is now the Dunder Mifflin paper company in Scranton, Pa., and Michael Scott is playing Santa.
Peter Ames Carlin (Doubleday)
This cultural history looks at how Michael Stipe and co. rose from a college party band in Athens, Ga., to one of the most influential acts in American rock in recent decades.
Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
Inspector Gamache’s latest book finds the Québecois homicide investigator looking into a series of disturbing incidents — and a possible terrorist plot that could kill thousands of people.
The best new book releases from the past week
Paula Hawkins (Mariner Books)
The best-selling author of The Girl on the Train delivers another page-turner. The remote Scottish island of Eris was once home to a famous artist named Vanessa, whose husband mysteriously disappeared decades ago. Now, a lonely woman named Grace is the only inhabitant of the island, but a shocking discovery at an art show in London leads people to question everything that has happened on Eris.
André Aciman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
In his beloved Call Me By Your Name, Aciman gave us a fictional coming-of-age story set in Lombardy, Italy. Now he writes about his adolescence in Rome, after his family was expelled from Egypt.
Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury Publishing)
In this illustrated Christmas fantasy story from the best-selling author of Piranesi, a strange girl who can talk to trees and animals encounters a strange figure in the dark forest.
Hannah Shaw and Andrew Marttila (Plume)
Marttila’s Shop Cats of New York featured Gotham’s cutest cats. Now, he partners with Shaw to show kittens around the world, from Turkey to South Africa.
Yuval Noah Harari (Harper Perennial)
Harari’s latest illustrated version of the phenomenally popular Sapiens focuses on money, religion and empire.
Matty Matheson (Ten Speed Press)
Star/Executive Producer and Chef “The Bear” offers bold twists on classics like Cubano sandwiches and chicken soup.
The best new book releases from week of October 20
Jeff VanderMeer (MCD)
Released a decade ago, the Southern Reach trilogy became a cult classic, selling millions of copies and earning Stephen King’s seal of approval. Now, VanderMeer takes readers back to the mysterious wasteland of Area X, where an unknown event has rewritten the laws of nature.
Lee Child and Andrew Child (Delacorte Press)
The latest Jack Reacher thriller finds the ex-military investigator waking up handcuffed to a bed after a car accident. His unwitting captors have plans to make him talk.
Alex Van Halen (Harper)
The rocker worked with New Yorker writer Ariel Levy to write this memoir and tribute to his late brother and bandmate Edward. It recounts their childhood in the Netherlands and Southern California, their formal Indonesian-born mother, and Van Halen’s rise to fame.
Diana R. Chambers (Landmark Sourcebooks)
This work of historical fiction portrays the little-known life of the famous chef before she taught Americans how to make beef bourguignon. Child worked for the Office of Strategic Services, America’s first spy agency, during World War II.
Shirley MacLaine (The Crown)
Featuring over 150 photos from MacLaine’s personal archive, this is a vivid account of the life of the 90-year-old Oscar winner. She writes about growing up with her brother Warren Beatty, moving to New York City at 16, her acting career, and her work as an activist. Along the way, she recalls meeting everyone from Elvis Presley and Jack Nicholson to the Dalai Lama and Fidel Castro.
New York Nice (Dey Street Books)
The social media personality shares his top 100 spots — from hobby shops to cut joints — across the five boroughs.
The best new book releases from week of October 13
John Grisham and Jim McCloskey (Doubleday)
For his first nonfiction book in nearly two decades, the bestselling author teams up with the founder of Centurion Ministries, a 40-year-old organization that works to exonerate the innocent convicted of crimes they didn’t commit. The book highlights 10 wildly wrong convictions and cases within the American legal system.
Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company)
In the sixth book in the series, LAPD detective Renée Ballard reopens a 20-year-old cold case when a DNA link is found between the rapist/serial killer who was never caught and a recently arrested 24-year-old man.
Patricia Cornwell (Grand Central Publishing)
In the 28th book featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, the good doctor is called to a strange murder scene in an abandoned park, only to discover that the victim is a man he once knew and loved. As she investigates, Scarpetta suspects that her old friend left her a clue on purpose.
Stanley Tucci (Gallery Books)
The actor and TV presenter reflects on 12 months of eating and living, eating about what he ate in restaurants, at home and at work.
Susan Minot (Knopf)
A 52-year-old divorced mother begins a passionate affair with a handsome, intense musician 20 years her junior, the latter from the well-known author of “Evening”. It’s drawing comparisons to Miranda July’s “Fourth.”
Mark Haddon (Doubleday)
Modern situations—genetic engineering, teenage bullying—are seen through the prism of Greek mythology in this new collection of short stories from the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
The best new book releases from week of October 6
Michel Houellebecq (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The latest from the famous French writer takes place in a chaotic and turbulent France in 2027. Paul Raison, an adviser to the country’s finance minister, navigates both personal and professional turbulence. After his father has a stroke, Raison leaves Paris and returns to his hometown in the country, where he and his siblings try to heal their relationship with their ailing patriarch.
Michael Silver (WW Norton & Company)
Veteran sportswriter Silver looks at how Kyle Shanahan shocked the football world when, in 2008, he became the NFL’s newest offensive coordinator and developed a bold new approach to coaching.
Dava Sobel (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Sobel was a Pulitzer finalist with Galileo’s Daughter. Here she gets close to Curie, seeing not only her famous scientific achievements, but also how she paved the way for women in science by training young women in her laboratory.
Edited by Zibby Owens (Zibby Books)
Seventy-five writers, including The Post’s Daphne Merkin, Annabelle Gurwitch and David Christopher Kaufman share thoughts on Jewish faith and culture — and how both have been tested and reimagined in the year since Hamas attacked Israel.
Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough (Random House)
The late Lisa Marie teamed up with her daughter to write the stories of her extraordinary life. Presley recalls her youth at Graceland, the horror of finding Elvis’ dead body, her marriage to Michael Jackson and much, much more.
Oliver Burkeman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Burkeman’s “Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals” was a bestseller thanks to its simple, smart and practical advice. Here he applies the same approach to self-reflection, offering 28 short chapters to reflect on.
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