Best New Books: Week of September 10, 2019

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Adult Fiction

★ Ducks, Newburyport, by Lucy Ellmann

★ Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir

★ The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton

★ The Nanny, by Gilly Macmillan

★ The Sisters of Summit Avenue, by Lynn Cullen

★ A Song for a New Day, by Sarah Pinsker

★ Three-Fifths, by John Vercher

★ The Vanished Bride, by Bella Ellis

★ Where the Light Enters, by Sara Donati

Adult Nonfiction

★ Country Music: An Illustrated History, by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns

★ Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief, by Doris Payne and Zelda Lockhart

★ The Education of an Idealist, by Samantha Power

★ Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, by Jake Skeets

★ The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York, by Tom Roston

★ Notes from the Velvet Underground: The Life of Lou Reed, by Howard Sounes

★ The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11, by Garrett M. Graff

★ The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It, by Marty Makary

★ Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-Luck Jay, by Julie Zickefoose

★ Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime, by Sean Carroll

Youth Fiction

★ Are You Listening?, by Tillie Walden

★ The End of Something Wonderful: A Practical Guide to a Backyard Funeral, by Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic and illustrated by George Ermos

★ Frankly in Love, by David Yoon

★ Malamander, by Thomas Taylor and illustrated by Tom Booth

★ Mother Goose of Pudding Lane, by Chris Raschka and illustrated by Vladimir Radunsky

★ The Proudest Blue, by Ibtihaj Muhammad and S. K. Ali and illustrated by Hatem Aly

★ Rabbit and the Motorbike, by Kate Hoefler and illustrated by Sarah Jacoby

★ Stargazing, by Jen Wang

★ The Starlight Claim, by Tim Wynne-Jones

Youth Nonfiction

★ A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust, by Albert Marrin