Here’s our list of this month’s 20 essential new books.
Is she a predator or a protector?
Detective-turned-smuggler Alma Rosales disguises herself as a man to recover valuable stolen opium.
Random House; Viking; Thomas & Mercer; Ecco; Farrar, Straus and Giroux
She pairs up with a strange loner named Charles Heist to solve the case.
Another important detail: The novel takes place over a 10-day period surrounding Donald Trumps inauguration.
It turns out to be more than they bargained for.
(Nov. 6)
Those Who Knewby Idra Novey
There’s timely and then there’stimely.
But who can bring him down?
This ones going to be big.
MCD
What results is a tender character study erupting with blazing insights on the ethics of storytelling.
Such morbidity only sharpens the books comic edge, which emerges via Braithwaites deadpan prose.
Here’s a big, sweeping family novel to soak into.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
(Nov. 20)
Come With Meby Helen Schulman
Trend alert!
2018 has been rife with literary takes on modern Silicon Valley, fromThe GlitchtoFamily Trust.
Schulman’s psychological thriller is the latest, which takes a family to unexpected places over three life-changing days.
ECCO
(Nov. 27)
How Long ‘Til Black Future Month?by N.K.
(Nov. 27)
Kingdom of the Blindby Louise Penny
The No.
1New York Timesbest-selling author delivers her latest Chief Inspector Gamache unfurls a mystery around an elderly woman’s will.
Viking
For good fun, they bring their new romantic partners along.
Viking
Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing
Crown
Soho Press
Simon & Schuster
Harper Collins
Atria Books
PAN MACMILLAN U.K
Doubleday
Harper
Harper
Ecco
Orbit
Minotaur Books
Random House
