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56 new books coming out September 10 – 16, 2024

By Kobo • September 10, 2024New eBooks and Audiobooks

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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