56 new books coming out September 10 – 16, 2024
The best books coming out this week
Since his book Sapiens was translated into English in 2015, historian Yuval Noah Harari has been a household name among readers who like big books stuffed with big ideas. In his latest book Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI, Harari tackles the transmission of information itself. While charting the strides in human achievement brought about by the ability to record and share information, he notes when and how different information technologies caused harm, such as under various authoritarian movements as well as the passive-aggression of different forms of bureaucracy. And as the subtitle indicates, Harari’s driving concern in exploring this topic is to bring context into the urgent decisions we’re making today regarding the aggregation and deployment of colossal bodies of information operating as artificial intelligence.
Publishers will debate when the “best” time to publish a book might be, with some leaning towards this time of year when awards are being given and gifts soon to be bought, while others prefer the open field of early spring in a bid to make it onto a summer “must-read” list. But all agree, the worst time to publish a book in recent memory was March 2020—that’s when TJ Klune’s The House in the Cerulean Sea arrived. But rather than being washed out by the tide of pandemic concerns and viral social media trends, Klune’s feel-good contemporary fantasy found readers who needed exactly what it was all about, and who in turn sang its praises to others, eventually building the book a word-of-mouth phenomenon that’s still going strong. Which absolutely does not mean it’s even a moment too soon for the sequel, Somewhere Beyond the Sea. We rejoin Arthur Parnassus, headmaster and imminently adoptive father to half a dozen dangerously magical children, as he is called to address some dark periods in his past. The conflict between who Arthur was then and is now, and how others describe him and those like him, threatens to shatter this chosen family and the hearts of readers who’ve grown to love them.
The novels of Heather O’Neill bear little in common other than their depth of imagination. In The Capital of Dreams O’Neill introduces us to a magical country somewhere in Europe where art reigns and among artists the writer Clara Bottom reigns supreme. Her daughter Sofia will do anything to win her mother’s love. A sudden invasion by a neighbouring enemy nation provides the opportunity for Sofia to be a hero to her people, but most importantly to her mother. But Sofia’s mission goes awry and the teenager is left to fend for herself in a war-torn landscape as she struggles to do what she set out to do even if she never sees her mother again. A novel of war from O’Neill is certainly unexpected—which is exactly what her most ardent fans want most from her.
More books coming out this week
🧰 Help and How-to
The Joy You Make: Find the Silver Linings—Even on Your Darkest Days by Steven Petrow
How to Dress Your Best: Discover Your Personal Style and Curate a Wardrobe That Actually Works by Ellie-Jean Royden
The Joy of Wintering: How to rest, reconnect and rejuvenate with creativity and conscious living by Erin Niimi Longhurst
Strive: 8 Steps to Find Your Awesome by Venus Williams
Sage Warrior: Wake to Oneness, Practice Pleasure, Choose Courage, Become Victory by Valarie Kaur
Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life by Joanna Ebenstein
💡 Big Ideas
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future by Jason Stanley
Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing by Lev Parikian
A Beginner's Guide to Dying by Simon Boas
Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes by Laci Mosley
Something in the Woods Loves You by Jarod K. Anderson
🗣 True Stories
The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World by Ben Macintyre
Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir by Mary L. Trump PhD
Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing Calm by DeMar DeRozan
The Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle
First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream by Jessica Hoppe
Rage: On Being Queer, Black, Brilliant . . . and Completely Over It by Lester Fabian Brathwaite
Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority by Anne Anlin Cheng
💘 Romance
Embracing the Change: A River Rain Novel by Kristen Ashley
Orange Blossom Way by Jan Moran
The One I Didn't See Coming by Piper Rayne
Rent Free by Lani Lynn Vale
Operation Tulip (WW2 Secret Agent Series) by Deborah Swift
Vilest Things by Chloe Gong
Sunshine and Spice by Aurora Palit
🗡️ Action, Crime, and Mystery
Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
Murder at Midwinter Manor by Anita Davison
Close to the Edge by Anna Britton
The Black Loch by Peter May
Syndicate by Felix Francis
Den of Iniquity by J. A Jance
Zetas Till We Die by Amber and Danielle Brown
🖊️ Literary & Contemporary Fiction
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
The Hidden Girl by Lucinda Riley and Harry Whittaker
The Capital of Dreams by Heather O'Neill
The Booklover's Library by Madeline Martin
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston
The Best Short Stories 2024 by Amor Towles
Songs for the Brokenhearted by Ayelet Tsabari
Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell
✨ Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, and Speculative Fiction
Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune
The Ballad of Smallhope and Pennyroyal by Jodi Taylor
Warlords of Wyrdwood by RJ Barker
So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison
Sleep Tight by J. H. Markert
The Ending Fire by Saara El-Arifi
The Scarlet Throne by Amy Leow
🗯 Manga & Graphic Novels
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Vol. 11 by Kanehito Yamada
Call of the Night, Vol. 17 by Kotoyama
Hunting in Another World With My Elf Wife (Manga) Vol. 5 by Jupiter Studio
My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World: Volume 9 by Tamamaru
Fly Me to the Moon, Vol. 25 by Kenjiro Hata
The Duke of Death and His Maid Vol. 14 by INOUE
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