This Week’s New Books

Fiction

Mystery

• Dead Mountain by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Amazon | Bookshop)

Thriller

• After That Night by Karin Slaughter (Amazon | Bookshop)

• I’m Not Done With You Yet by Jesse Q. Sutanto (Amazon | Bookshop)

Romance

• Knockout: A Hell’s Belles Novel by Sarah MacLean (Amazon | Bookshop)

• Duke Seeks Bride by Christy Carlyle (Amazon | Bookshop)

• Curves for Days by Laura Moher (Amazon | Bookshop)

• In Charm’s Way by Lana Harper (Amazon | Bookshop) 🏳️‍🌈

Science Fiction

• Five Years After: A John Matherson Novel by William R. Forstchen (Amazon | Bookshop)

• He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan (Amazon | Bookshop)

Literary

• The Year of Second Chances by Lara Avery (Amazon | Bookshop)

• Study for Obedience: A Novel by Sarah Bernstein (Amazon | Bookshop)

• Swim Home to the Vanished by Brendan Shay Basham (Amazon | Bookshop)

Fantasy

• The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang (Amazon | Bookshop)

Young Adult

• Foxglove (Belladonna, 2) by Adalyn Grace (Amazon | Bookshop)

Nonfiction

Social Science

• Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty by Nikhil Goyal (Amazon | Bookshop)

• Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity by Laura Meckler (Amazon | Bookshop)

• The Perennials: The Megatrends Creating a Postgenerational Society by Mauro F. Guillén (Amazon | Bookshop)

• Quiet Street: On American Privilege by Nick McDonell (Amazon | Bookshop)

Anthropology

• Why We Need to Be Wild: One Woman's Quest for Ancient Human Answers to 21st Century Problems by Jessica Carew Kraft (Amazon | Bookshop)

Memoir

• They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us by Prachi Gupta (Amazon | Bookshop)

Biography

• Kingdom Quarterback: Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs, and How a Once Swingin' Cow Town Chased the Ultimate Comeback by Mark Dent and Rustin Dodd (Amazon | Bookshop)

• Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith by John Szwed (Amazon | Bookshop)

• Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder (Amazon | Bookshop)

Self-Help

• Owning Our Struggles by Minaa B. (Amazon | Bookshop)

• Deeper Than Money by Chloe Elise (Amazon | Bookshop)

Food & Gastronomy

• The Ark of Taste: Delicious and Distinctive Foods That Define the United States by David Shields and Giselle Kennedy Lord (Amazon | Bookshop)

Entertainment

• Kind of a Big Deal: How “Anchorman” Stayed Classy and Became the Most Iconic Comedy of the Twenty-First Century by Saul Austerlitz (Amazon | Bookshop)

Poetry

• This Day is Dark by r.h. Sin (Amazon | Bookshop)

• Plantains And Our Becoming: Poems by Melania Luisa Marte (Amazon | Bookshop)

This Week’s Literary Birthdays & Events

Aug. 22

• Ray Bradbury

• James Kirkwood, Jr.

• Dorothy Parker

• Annie Proulx

• Edward Rowe Snow

Aug. 23

• Nazik Al-Malaika

• Nelson DeMille

• William Ernest Henley

• Edgar Lee Masters

Aug. 24

• Jorge Luis Borges

• A. S. Byatt

• Charles Causley

• Paul Coelho

• Malcolm Cowley

• Gaylord DuBois

• John Green

• Linton Kwesi Johnson

• Chris Offutt

• Jean Rhys

• Ali Smith

• Howard Zinn

Aug. 25

• Martin Amis

• Thea Astley

• Ian Falconer

• Frederick Forsyth

• Charles Ghigna

• Bret Harte

• Patrick F. McManus

• Brian Moore

• Álvaro Mutis

• Virginia Euwer Wolff

• Charles Wright

Aug. 26

• Otto Binder

• Julio Cortázar

• Eleanor Dark

• Nikky Finney

• Zona Gale

• Paula Hawkins

• Allegra Huston

• Christopher Isherwood

Aug. 27

• Theodore Dreiser

• C. S. Forester

• William Least Heat-Moon

• Michael Holroyd

• Ira Levin

• Norah Lofts

• Jeanette Winterson

Aug. 28

• John Betjeman

• Robertson Davies

• Rita Dove

• Sheridan Le Fanu

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Vonda N. McIntyre