Starred Reviews Releasing This Week

April 1, 2024 through April 7, 2024
All the books to receive starred reviews in PW that are hitting bookstore shelves this week.
FICTION

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Carys Davies. Scribner, $24 (208p) ISBN 978-1-66803-066-0

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A Good Happy Girl

Marissa Higgins. Catapult, $27 (256p) ISBN 978-1-64622-197-4

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I Cheerfully Refuse

Leif Enger. Grove, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8021-6293-9

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The Stone Home

Crystal Hana Kim. Morrow, $30 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-331097-1

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The Titanic Survivors Book Club

Timothy Schaffert. Doubleday, $29 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-54915-8

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A Season in Chezgh’un

Darrel J. McLeod. Douglas & McIntyre, $19.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-77162-362-9

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MYSTERY/THRILLER

The Innocents: A Variety Palace Mystery

Bridget Walsh. Gallic, $17.95 trade paper (296p) ISBN 978-1-913547-52-3

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The Night in Question

Susan Fletcher. Union Square, $28.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4549-5255-8

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City in Ruins

Don Winslow. Morrow, $32 (400p) ISBN 978-0-063079-47-2

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Ash Dark as Night

Gary Phillips. Soho Crime, $27.95 (312p) ISBN 978-1-64129-474-4

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The Murder of Mr. Ma

S.J. Rozan and John Shen Yen Nee. Soho Crime, $25.95 (312p) ISBN 978-1-64129-549-9

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Another Day’s Pain: A Rocksburg Novel

K.C. Constantine. Mysterious Press, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-61316-483-9

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ROMANCE/EROTICA

Here We Go Again

Alison Cochrun. Atria, $17.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-66802-119-4

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What Is Love?

Jen Comfort. Montlake, $16.99 trade paper (366p) ISBN 978-1-66251-644-3

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Just for the Summer

Abby Jimenez. Forever, $17.99 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-1-5387-0443-1

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The Rule Book

Sarah Adams. Dell, $18 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-72367-8

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SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR

Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction

Ann Leckie. Orbit, $30 (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-55357-5

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NONFICTION

City Limits: Infrastructure

Megan Kimble. Crown, $30 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-44378-1

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The Invention of Prehistory: Empire

Stefanos Geroulanos. Liveright, $29.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-324-09145-5

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Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America’s Second Slavery

Earl Swift. Mariner, $32.50 (432p) ISBN 978-0-063-26538-7

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Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey

Kurt Wagner. Atria, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-1-66801-735-7

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Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies

Henry Hemming. PublicAffairs, $30 (352p) ISBN 978-1-541-70318-6

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We Loved It All: A Memory of Life

Lydia Millet. Norton, $27.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-324-07365-9

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A Chance to Harmonize: How FDR’s Hidden Music Unit Sought to Save America from the Great Depression—One Song at a Time

Sheryl Kaskowitz. Pegasus, $29.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-639-36571-5

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All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

Becca Rothfeld. Metropolitan, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-84991-5

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Keanu Reeves Is Not in Love with You: The Murky World of Online Romance

Becky Holmes. Unbound, $17.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-78965-163-8

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Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

Madhumita Murgia. Holt, $29.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-86739-1

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CHILDREN'S

Just Like Millie

Lauren Castillo. Candlewick, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5362-2481-8

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Ahoy!

Sophie Blackall. Random House/Schwartz, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-593-42939-6

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Just Another Story

Ernesto Saade. Graphic Universe, $17.99 paper (216p) ISBN 979-8-7656-2336-7

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Mama in the Moon

Doreen Cronin, illus. by Brian Cronin. Rocky Pond, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-5936-9820-4

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Ultraviolet

Aida Salazar. Scholastic Press, $18.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-338-77565-5

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A Crown of Stories: The Life and Language of Beloved Writer Toni Morrison

Carole Boston Weatherford, illus. by Khalif Tahir Johnson. Quill Tree, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-291103-2

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The Bard and the Book: How the First Folio Saved the Plays of William Shakespeare from Oblivion

Ann Bausum, illus. by Marta Sevilla. Peachtree, $19.99 (112p) ISBN 978-1-6826-3495-0

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Terrible Horses: A Story of Sibling Conflict and Companionship

Raymond Antrobus, illus. by Ken Wilson-Max. Candlewick, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5362-3548-7

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The Black Girl Survives in This One

Edited by Desiree S. Evans and Saraciea J. Fennell. Flatiron, $19.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-25087-165-7

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Your Blood

Kelly Andrew. Scholastic Press, $19.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-33888-507-1

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The Reappearance of Rachel Price

Holly Jackson. Delacorte, $20.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-5933-7420-7

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Piper Chen Sings

Phillipa Soo and Maris Pasquale Doran, illus. by Qin Leng. Random House Studio, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-56469-1

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Marley’s Pride

Joëlle Retener, illus. by DeAnn Wiley. Barefoot, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 979-8-88859-074-4

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COMICS

Victory Parade

Leela Corman. Schocken, $29 (176p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4344-4

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation

James Loewen and Nate Powell. New Press, $27.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-62097-703-3

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Single Mothering

Anna Härmälä. Nobrow, $20.99 trade paper (168p) ISBN 978-1-913123-22-2

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POETRY

With My Back to the World

Victoria Chang. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (112p) ISBN 978-0-374-61113-2

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New and Selected Poems

Marie Howe. Norton, $28 (160p) ISBN 978-1-324-07503-5

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Death Styles

Joyelle McSweeney. Nightboat, $17.95 trade paper (136p) ISBN 978-1-64362-230-9

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