To close out July, a batch of long-awaited arrivals makes its way to bookshelves: Valeria Luiselli’s Beginning Middle End is finally on shelves, alongside a raw and compelling memoir by Emilee Hackney, and a chilling “scenario” from Annie Jacobsen. The lineup promises a bit of everything for every reader—keep scrolling for the full roster and enjoy a fitting end to July!
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Valeria Luiselli, Beginning Middle End (Knopf)
“Luiselli’s prose is refined as ever, deftly handling difficult themes with grace, and the two central characters linger in memory.”
–Los Angeles Times
Emilee Hackney, All That’s Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir (Penguin Press)
“This heartfelt missive successfully humanizes hot-button subjects.”
–Publishers Weekly
Annie Jacobsen, Biological War: A Scenario (Dutton)
The most essential, forward-looking journalism in preparation for urgent societal upheaval.”
–From the publisher
Marta Pérez-Carbonell, I Made You Up Inside My Head (Riverhead)
“A tremendous novel with a cool and engrossing narrative voice that resonates with memorable intensity and effect.”
–William Boyd
Greg Doran, Walking Shadow: Love, Loss, and Shakespeare (Bloomsbury)
“A human story about how grief over the loss of a loved one can be transformed into a quest that seems almost impossible, in search of consoling hope.”
–The Guardian
Lizzie Buehler, The Obsessed (Putnam)
“A thought-provoking meditation on romantic love, parasocial relationships, and academia.”
–The Millions
Micki McElya, Liberation Summer: The Moment That Changed the Women’s Movement and the Future of American Politics (Avid Reader Press)
“A wide-ranging, comprehensive cultural history.”
–Kirkus
César Aira, tr. Chris Andrews, Five (New Directions)
“A lampoon of our need for narrative. No one today does metafiction like Aira.”
–The Paris Review
Cal Flyn, The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness (Viking)
“Her research is phenomenal, and she writes compellingly about the histories of the places she visits.”
–The Spectator
Rashad Robinson, From Presence to Power: How to Take on the Fights That Matter—And Win (One World)
“As someone who has spent much of my life in activist circles, he offered me a fresh perspective on the distinction between visibility and influence.”
–Jane Fonda
María Elena Morán, trans. by Madeline Jones, The Winds of Maracaibo (Knopf)
“A novel that overturns common assumptions about the Venezuelan crisis, the northbound migration, and the limbos—both bureaucratic and spiritual—that accompany them.”
–Darrow Farr
H. Keith Melton and Nigel West, The Assassination of Leon Trotsky: Espionage, Scandal, and the Crime of the Century (Hanover Square Press)
“West and Melton deliver a brilliant historical thriller on Stalin’s most consequential and high-profile assassination.”
–Daniel O. Hoffman
Sarai Walker, Furious Violet (Harper)
“An impeccably plotted thriller that channels Hitchcock through Plath, hurtling toward a finale that blends suspense with sharp intellect.”
–Teddy Wayne
Morgana Kretzmann, trans. by Daniel Hahn, The Red Earth (HarperVia)
“Three women find themselves drawn into a turbulent crisis in a Brazilian town, where an environmental disaster threatens to overwhelm their community.”
–From the publisher
Anja Zimmermann, tr. Nicola Barfoot, The Breast: A Cultural and Political History (Polity Press)
“Finally, a book that interrogates the unsettling and even revolutionary potential of the female breast.”
–Mithu M. Sanyal
Nadia Hashimi, City of Widows (William Morrow)
“Hashimi weaves two equally gripping stories into a sweeping debut that keeps you hooked.”
–Booklist
D.K. Furutani, When Mikan Road Was Ours (Atria)
“Part historical fiction, part social critique, this debut proves Furutani is a writer to watch.”
–Library Journal
Jan Carson, Few and Far Between (Scribner)
“Carson renders her eerie setting with keen insight and gritty realism. This one will linger.”
–Publishers Weekly
Evann Normandin, The Good Parts (Grand Central)
“I loved The Good Parts. It felt like something life-changing was coming, and yet it kept me guessing the whole time.”
–Jodi Picoult
