Don’t-Miss Books | December 2024 Starred Reviews

Key fiction, nonfiction, and reference titles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

MYSTERY & SUSPENSE

Donovan, Kemper. Loose Lips. John Scognamiglio Bks.

Finder, Joseph. The Oligarch’s Daughter. Harper.

Limoncelli, Rosanne. The Four Queens of Crime. Crooked Lane.

McAllister, Gillian. Famous Last Words. Morrow.

Phillips, Maha Khan. The Museum Detective. Soho Crime.

Rose, Bellamy. Pomona Afton Can So Solve a Murder. Atria/Emily Bestler.

Willig, Lauren. The Girl from Greenwich Street: A Novel of Hamilton, Burr, and America’s First Murder Trial. Morrow.

SF/FANTASY

Anderson, E.M. The Keeper of Lonely Spirits. Mira: Harlequin.

Doctorow, Cory. Picks and Shovels. Tor.

Fawcett, Heather. Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales. Del Rey: Ballantine.

Newman, Nick. The Garden. Putnam.

O’Brien, Cory. Two Truths and a Lie. Pantheon.

Tan, Sue Lynn. Immortal (Deluxe Limited Edition). Harper Voyager.

Wagner, Erin K. Mechanize My Hands to War. DAW.

ROMANCE

Danan, Rosie. Fan Service. Berkley.

Forest, Kristina. The Love Lyric. Berkley.

FICTION

Desai, Anita. Rosarita. Scribner.

Kolanovic, Maša. Underground Barbie. Sandorf Passage.

Rosen, Renée. Let’s Call Her Barbie. Berkley.

Wang, Weike. Rental House. Riverhead.

HORROR

Chapman, Clay McLeod. Wake Up and Open Your Eyes. Quirk.

Hendrix, Grady. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls. Berkley.

CHRISTIAN FICTION

Miller, Vanessa. The Filling Station. Thomas Nelson.

GRAPHIC NOVELS

Fake (text) & Greg (illus.). Santos Sisters, Vol. 1. Fantagraphics.

Ferrer, Martí Riera. The Cabbie: Definitive Edition. Fantagraphics.

Lemire, Jeff. Fishflies. Image Comics.

ARTS & HUMANITIES

Caplan, Lucy. Dreaming in Ensemble: How Black Artists Transformed American Opera. Harvard Univ.

Sturtevant, Victoria. It’s All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy. Univ. of Texas.

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Beasley, Kathryn L. The Proof Is in the Dough: Rural Southern Women, Extension, and Making Money. Univ. of Georgia.

Corren, Andy. Dirtbag Queen: A Memoir of My Mother. Grand Central.

Dwork, Debórah. Saints and Liars: The Story of Americans Who Saved Refugees from the Nazis. Norton.

Gelin, Martin. The White Storm: How Racism Poisoned American Democracy. Prometheus.

Hawkins, Lee. I Am Nobody’s Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free. Amistad: HarperCollins.

Kotsonis, Yanni. The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism. Princeton Univ.

Parten, Bennett. Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation. S. & S.

Phillips, Mary Frances. Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins. NYU.

Silverman, Debra. I Don’t Believe in Astrology: A Therapist’s Guide to the Life-Changing Wisdom of the Stars. St. Martin’s Essentials.

Smith, Jen & Jill Sirianni. Buy What You Love Without Going Broke: Transform Your Spending and Get More of What Money Can’t Buy. HarperCollins.

SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY

Polcyn, Brian & Michael Ruhlman. Meat Pies: An Emerging American Craft. Norton.

REFERENCE

Conn, Donia. Simple Book Repair Techniques. Rowman & Littlefield.

History of North America Map by Map. DK.

Lancaster, Jason (text) & Kate Forrester (illus.). The Little Encyclopedia of Enchanted Woodland Creatures: An A-to-Z Guide to Mythical Beings of the Forest. Running Pr.

Mabberley, David J. Citrus: A World History. Thames & Hudson.

Marx, Karl. Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1. Princeton Univ.

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