Best New Books: Week of March 31, 2020

The following books, published this week, received starred reviews in Booklist. Want to read our starred reviews before the books go on sale? Subscribe to Booklist!
Adult Fiction
★ Days of Distraction, by Alexandra Chang
★ The Other Bennet Sister, by Janice Hadlow
Adult Nonfiction
★ Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic, by Eric Eyre
Youth Fiction
★ Efrén Divided, by Ernesto Cisneros
★ The Great Upending, by Beth Kephart
★ Wink, by Rob Harrell
Youth Nonfiction
★ Oil, by Jonah Winter and illustrated by Jeanette Winter

I hope you will read and review my latest mystery published by Encircle on May 15, 2020. Sara Paretsky has said of the librarian sleuth: “Kim Reynolds is a thought-provoking character.”