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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GOTHIC NOVEL
The Infamous Gilberts
by Angela Tomaski
Can a tragedy be cozy? Based on this quirky debut by a British novelist, the answer is yes. The story of the five eccentric Gilbert children — and their rural manor house, Thornwalk — the novel begins after the first world war and takes us nearly to the present day, charting the decline, fall and further fall of a family with panache and heart. Read our review.
memoir
The Flower Bearers
by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Griffiths, a prizewinning poet, became the fifth wife of the novelist Salman Rushdie less than a year before a knife-wielding assailant attacked and nearly killed him in 2022. Her memoir, though, is less about that experience than a sensuous, wide-ranging exploration of her journey as an artist, the early bloom of her romance with Rushdie and the death of a close friend and fellow poet. Read our review.
romance
The Everlasting
Alix E. Harrow
Cutting as a blade and aching with near-hopeless yearning, this fantasy follows the scholar Owen Mallory, who’s researching the legendary knight Sir Una Everlasting. One thing leads to another and he finds himself hundreds of years in the past, with the point of Sir Una’s sword at his throat. Owen’s already half in love with her — but he also knows that her death is close at hand. Read our review.
biography
Nothing Random
by Gayle Feldman
Bennett Cerf, the co-founder of Random House who published everyone from Gertrude Stein and William Faulkner to Truman Capote, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison and Dr. Seuss, was as legendary a wit and bon vivant as he was a literary figure. Feldman’s comprehensive biography paints a vivid portrait of the man, 20th-century New York and the golden age of American publishing. Read our review.
coming-of-age novel
Crux
by Gabriel Tallent
Like most adrenaline junkies, Tamma and Dan — high school students — are infatuated with rock climbing because of its dangers. They also hope that the sport will allow them to transcend their circumstances; they’re literally and metaphorically trying to climb out of the holes that are their lives. Read our review.
history
Fear and Fury
by Heather Ann Thompson
When did white rage become normalized? This is the question that drew Thompson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, to the Bernie Goetz case, which in her deeply researched account becomes a through line to the present: the event that, against a backdrop of growing inequality and racial resentment in the early 1980s, first gave legal cover to white vigilantism, creating a template increasingly embraced on the right today. Read our review.
literary fiction
Tangerinn
by Emanuela Anechoum; translated by Lucy Rand
Early comparisons to Elena Ferrante and Sally Rooney have certainly not hurt the prospects of this debut novel, which centers on the rocky grieving process of a young Italian Moroccan woman who returns home from London after the death of her semi-estranged father. Read our review.
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