Wonderful Reads | Starred Reviews from the September Issue

Titles not to miss across fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, and reference.

MYSTERY & SUSPENSE

Dara, Maxie. A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Catching a Killer. Berkley. 

Kelly, Lee & Jennifer Thorne. The Starlets. Harper Muse. 

Notaro, Laurie. The Murderess. Little A. 

Pargin, Jason. I’m Starting To Worry About This Black Box of Doom. St. Martin’s. 

Penny, Louise. The Grey Wolf. Minotaur: St. Martin’s. 

Ryan, Tom. The Treasure Hunters Club. Atlantic Monthly. 

SF/FANTASY

Caffall, Eiren. All the Water in the World. St. Martin’s. 

Doocy, Maiga. Sorcery and Small Magics. Orbit. 

Glover, Nicole. The Improvisers: A Murder and Magic Novel. Harper Voyager. 

Groner, Cary. The Way. Spiegel & Grau. 

Guanzon, Thea. A Monsoon Rising. Harper Voyager. 

Parry, H.G. The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door. Redhook: Orbit. 

Suri, Tasha. The Lotus Empire. Orbit. 

Wagers, K.B. And the Mighty Will Fall. Harper Voyager. 

ROMANCE

Cate, Sara. Keep Me. Sourcebooks Casablanca.  

Gilliland, Raquel Vasquez. Lightning in Her Hands. Berkley.

Roux, Madeleine. Much Ado About Margaret. Dell.

Tai, Tara. Single Player. Alcove. 

FICTION

Armstrong, Tammy. Pearly Everlasting. Harper. 

Caron, Maia. The Last Secret. Doubleday Canada. 

Erdrich, Louise. The Mighty Red. Harper. 

Knausgaard, Karl Ove. The Third Realm. Penguin Pr. 

CHRISTIAN FICTION

Afshar, Tessa. The Queen’s Cook. Bethany House.

GRAPHIC NOVELS

Russell, Mark (text) & Roberto Meli (illus.). Traveling to Mars. Ablaze. 

ARTS & HUMANITIES

Abu Toha, Mosab. Forest of Noise: Poems. Knopf.

Addonizio, Kim. Exit Opera: Poems. Norton.

Bouzereau, Laurent. The De Palma Decade: Redefining Cinema with Doubles, Voyeurs, and Psychic Teens. Running Pr.

Brimhall, Traci. Love Prodigal. Copper Canyon.

Maksymchuk, Oksana. Still City: Poems. Univ. of Pittsburgh.

Owen, Michael. Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words. Liveright: Norton.

Phillips, Carl. Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems. Farrar.

Poitier, Sidney & Joanna Poitier. Sidney Poitier: The Great Speeches of an Icon Who Moved Us Forward. Running Pr. 

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Jackson, Lottie. See Me Rolling: On Disability, Equality and Ten-Point Turns. Penguin Bks. 

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Ansel, Dominique. Life’s Sweetest Moments: Simple, Stunning Recipes and Their Heartwarming Stories. Harvest. 

Lahey, Jim. My Bread: The Revolutionary No-Work, No-Knead Method; 15th Anniversary Edition. Norton. 

REFERENCE

DeMello, Margo. Bigfoot to Mothman: A Global Encyclopedia of Legendary Beasts and Monsters. Bloomsbury.

Irvin, Vanessa. The Readers’ Advisory Guide to Street Literature. 2nd ed. ALA Editions.

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