Best New Books: Week of November 5, 2019

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Adult Fiction

★ Blind Search: A Mercy Carr Mystery, by Paula Munier

★ The Deep, by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes

★ Galway Girl, by Ken Bruen

★ Get a Life, Chloe Brown, by Talia Hibbert

★ Invented Lives, by Andrea Goldsmith

★ The Old Success, by Martha Grimes

★ Parade, by Hiromi Kawakami and translated by Allison Markin Powell

★ Secret Service, by Tom Bradby

★ The Siberian Dilemma, by Martin Cruz Smith

★ The Starless Sea, by Erin Morgenstern

Adult Nonfiction

★ 97,196 Words, by Emmanuel Carrère and translated by John Lambert

★ Abraham Joshua Heschel: Mind, Heart, Soul, by Edward K. Kaplan

★ All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard—Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy, by Phil Keith and Tom Clavin

★ The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team, by Matthew Goodman

★ The History of Philosophy, by A. C. Grayling

★ In the Dream House: A Memoir, by Carmen Maria Machado

★ Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking, by Toni Tipton-Martin

★ Little Weirds, by Jenny Slate

★ Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop, by Thomas Travisano

★ Making Comics, by Lynda Barry

★ Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age, by Sara Wheeler

★ The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women, by Mo Moulton

★ The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti: IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War Conspiracy to Shut Down Production of the World’s First Desktop Computer, by Meryle Secrest

★ The Now, by Albert Goldbarth

★ Oblivion Banjo: The Poetry of Charles Wright, by Charles Wright

★ Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives—and Save Theirs, by Richard Louv

★ Pastry Love: A Baker’s Journal of Favorite Recipes, by Joanne Chang

★ Peter Watts Is an Angry Sentient Tumor, by Peter Watts

★ She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman, by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

★ This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving, by David J. Silverman

★ This Really Isn’t about You, by Jean Hannah Edelstein

★ Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unravelled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets—and Made the Planet Whole, by Sarah Dry

★ Wounded Shepherd: Pope Francis and His Struggle to Convert the Catholic Church, by Austen Ivereigh

Youth Fiction

★ Bad Dog, by Mike Boldt

★ Call Down the Hawk, by Maggie Stiefvater

★ The How & the Why, by Cynthia Hand

★ The Midwinter Witch, by Molly Knox Ostertag

★ Mightier than the Sword: The Edge of the Word, by Drew Callander and Alana Harrison and illustrated by Ryan Andrews

★ Most of the Better Natural Things in the World, by Dave Eggers and illustrated by Angel Chang

★ Sick Kids in Love, by Hannah Moskowitz

★ Tiny Feet between the Mountains, by Hanna Cha

Youth Nonfiction

★ Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight for Their Rights, by Mikki Kendall and illustrated by A. D’Amico

★ Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany, by Andrew Maraniss

★ Insect Superpowers, by Kate Messner and illustrated by Jillian Nickell

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