Publishing This Week: Jessica Anthony, Bret Anthony Johnston, Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, and 12 More.

Publishing This Week

Hello Readers,

This week we have 15 new and notable books being released, including 2 debuts to watch.

Off the Books by Soma Mei Sheng Frazier follows a cross-country road trip that sheds light on the power in humanity during the most troubled of times. Publisher's Weekly calls it, "Delightfully offbeat yet weighty."

We also have Pearl by Siân Hughes, the story of a young woman in a small English village struggling with the disappearance of her mother. Literary Hub writes, "Hughes's placid and deep novel chains sorrows to each other as the narrative unfurls, creating a delicate tether connecting moments of loss."

You'll find brief information on 10 titles below, and descriptions and reviews for all of them in our New This Week section. For more soon to publish books, check out BookBrowse's "What's New" section.

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This Week's New and Notable Books

There are too many books published each week for you to read about them all, let alone read them all. So we do the legwork for you, scouring the publishers' catalogs and the pre-publication reviews to pick out what we believe to be among the best and most interesting. You can see them all in our “What’s New” section.

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Off the Books: A Novel
by Soma Mei Sheng Frazier

Debut Author
On sale Jul 30 from Henry Holt and Company
Genre: Literary Fiction. 224 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

A captivating debut following a cross-country road trip that will make you believe in the goodness of people, Off the Books sheds light on the power in humanity during the most troubled of times.

Pearl: A Novel
by Siân Hughes

Debut Author
On sale Jul 30 from Knopf
Genre: Literary Fiction. 224 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

Heartbreaking and redeeming, Pearl is the story of a young woman in a small English village who is struggling with the disappearance of her mother, what feels like a lifetime ago.

Someone Like Us: A novel
by Dinaw Mengestu

On sale Jul 30 from Knopf
Genre: Literary Fiction. 272 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

The son of Ethiopian immigrants seeks to understand a hidden family history and uncovers a past colored by unexpected loss, addiction, and the enduring emotional pull toward home.

The Wedding People: A Novel
by Alison Espach

On sale Jul 30 from Henry Holt and Company
Genre: Literary Fiction. 384 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.

We Burn Daylight: A Novel
by Bret Anthony Johnston

On sale Jul 30 from Random House
Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

An epic novel of star-crossed lovers set in a doomsday cult on the Texas prairie that asks: What would you sacrifice for the person you love?

The Most
by Jessica Anthony

On sale Jul 30 from Little Brown & Company
Genre: Historical Fiction. 144 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

From "one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page" (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightly wound, consuming tale about a 1950s American housewife who decides to get into the pool in her family's apartment complex one morning and won't come out.

The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards
by Jessica Waite

On sale Jul 30 from Atria Books
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 320 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

A widow's life is turned upside down when she uncovers the truth about her late husband in this lyrical, witty, and deeply moving memoir of tragedy and betrayal.

The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity
by Timothy C. Winegard

On sale Jul 30 from Dutton
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 544 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5

From New York Times bestselling author of The Mosquito, the incredible story of how the horse shaped human history.

The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World
by Daisy Dunn

On sale Jul 30 from Penguin Books
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 480 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

A dazzlingly ambitious history of the ancient world that places women at the center—from Cleopatra to Boudica, Sappho to Fulvia, and countless other artists, writers, leaders, and creators of history

Into the Clear Blue Sky: The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere
by Rob Jackson

On sale Jul 30 from Scribner
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5

From one of the world's leading climate scientists, a heart- and mind-changing book that offers a hopeful and attainable vision for restoring the atmosphere and ending the climate crisis.

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