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This week’s best new books
Richard Price (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The latest from the chronicler of urban grit known for “Lush Life” and “Clockers” — as well as writing on the TV series “The Wire” — takes place in 2008 East Harlem, where a five-story apartment building suddenly collapses. Six bodies are soon discovered and many more residents are declared missing. Price, who was inspired in part by the collapse of a building in Harlem in 2014, paints moving parts of several residents, among them a young up-and-coming artist and the owner of a struggling funeral home.
David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
The latest thriller “6:20 Man” finds ex-Army Ranger Travis Devine helping the FBI transport a 12-year-old orphan who has an uncle under investigation and parents who died suspiciously.
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Lili Anolik (Scribner)
Anolik delves into the complicated friendship between two late literary icons, using Eve Babitz’s revealing personal letters to better understand the enigmatic Joan Didion.
Rob Sheffield (Dey Street Books)
Attention Swifties: A long-running Rolling Stone columnist looks at the superstar’s rise and examines what has made him such an unprecedented cultural force.
Ira M. Resnick and Raissa Bretaña (Abbeville Press)
Fifteen leading ladies of yesteryear – including Lauren Bacall, Katherine Hepburn and Louise Brooks – are profiled in this stunning film, which also includes hundreds of photos and a foreword by Jane Fonda.
Bill Zehme (Simon & Schuster)
Journalist Zehme, who died in 2023, began working on the book in 2005 and spoke to dozens of those who knew Carson to paint a nuanced portrait of the famously private “Tonight Show” host.
The best new book releases from the past week
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 week of October 27
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)
The latest illustrated version of Harari’s 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.
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