Every week, the critics and editors at the New York Times Book Review pick the most interesting and notable new releases, from literary fiction and serious nonfiction to thrillers, romance novels, mysteries and everything in between.
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BIOGRAPHY
Selling Opportunity
by Mary Lisa Gavenas
Before her name became synonymous with direct-sale cosmetics, Mary Kay Ash was a Texas housewife, thrice divorced and twice widowed, struggling to make ends meet. The story of her rise to riches is as colorful as the iconic pink Cadillacs driven by Mary Kay’s most successful saleswomen. Read our review.
Literary fiction
Look What You Made Me Do
John Lanchester
Kate, a new widow, is unnerved when she discovers that a new hit Netflix series, “Cheating” — about a 50-something husband having a kinky affair with a woman in her early 30s — is seemingly filled with private details about her marriage. Our critic, Alexandra Jacobs, called it “a well-knit dark domestic fiction that enfolds the reader quickly and comfortably, like an expensive cashmere scarf.” Read our review.
thriller
Nerve Damage
by Annakeara Stinson
This jittery, darkly funny psychological thriller is about a woman whose creepy ex simply won’t let her go. Juiciness of this premise aside, beneath the novel’s acerbic, madcap humor is a sobering narrative about the emotional cost of surviving abuse. Read our review.
History
From Life Itself
Suzy Hansen
Struggling to make sense of the sweeping changes that have transformed Turkey in the past decade under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — a frenzy of construction, war in the Kurdish region, an influx of refugees and, especially, a sharp autocratic turn — Hansen, a Pulitzer Prize finalist who has long lived in the country, homes in on residents in a single Istanbul neighborhood to create a richly textured human history. Read our review.
science fiction
Seek the Traitor’s Son
by Veronica Roth
Elegy has a good thing going: a job on a military search and rescue team, a husband she loves, minimal contact with her mother. But her life is turned upside down when a consortium of prophets tell her she is destined to lead her nation into battle against the Talusar empire and their infamous general, Rava. And though she’s not told who will win the matchup, she is tipped off that an impending romance could determine her fate. Read our review.
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