Starred Reviews Releasing This Week

April 6, 2026 through April 12, 2026
All the books to receive starred reviews in PW that are hitting bookstore shelves this week.
FICTION

Superstars

Ann Scott, trans. from the French by Jonathan Woollen. Astra House, $22 (304p) ISBN 978-1-66260-347-1

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Transcription

Ben Lerner. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25 (144p) ISBN 978-0-374-61859-9

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Lázár

Nelio Biedermann, trans. from the German by Jamie Bulloch. Summit, $28 (272p) ISBN 978-166-820-055-1

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Tailbone

Che Yeun. Bloomsbury, $26.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-6397-3740-6

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Honey in the Wound

Jiyoung Han. Avid Reader, $28.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-6682-0216-6

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MYSTERY/THRILLER

The Ending Writes Itself

Evelyn Clarke. Harper, $30 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-344461-4

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Gunner: A Joseph Gunner Thriller

Alan Parks. Pegasus Crime, $27.95 (288p) ISBN 979-8-89710-109-2

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The Monk: A DS George Cross Mystery

Tim Sullivan. Atlantic Crime, $17 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-8021-6771-2

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ROMANCE/EROTICA

Never After

Alexis Hall. Montlake, $16.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-6625-0941-4

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Enemies to Lovers

Alisha Rai. Avon, $18.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-311950-5

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NONFICTION

In Trees: An Exploration

Robert Moor. Simon & Schuster, $30 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4767-3925-0

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Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found

Andrew Graham-Dixon. Norton, $45 (496p) ISBN 978-1-324-12411-5

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Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund

Molly Crabapple. One World, $32 (480p) ISBN 978-0-593-22945-3

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This Land Is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History

Beverly Gage. Simon & Schuster, $30 (352p) ISBN 978-1-6680-3310-4

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London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth

Patrick Radden Keefe. Doubleday, $35 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-54853-3

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Crime Fictions: How Racist Lies Built a System of Mass Wrongful Conviction

Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve. Random House, $32 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-44708-6

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Pizza Before We Die: An Eyewitness Account in Gaza

Hassan Kanafani, with Yasuko Thanh. Arsenal Pulp, $17.95 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-83405-032-4

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CHILDREN'S

A Potion

Philip C. Stead. Holiday House/Porter, $18.99 (328p) ISBN 978-0-8234-5809-7

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Now I See Spring; Now I See Summer; Now I See Fall; Now I See Winter

Mac Barnett, illus. by Jon Klassen. Tundra, $9.99 (24p) ISBN 978-1-77488-673-1; ISBN 978-1-77488-677-9; ISBN 978-1-77488-665-6; ISBN 978-1-77488-669-4

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To Steal a Throne

Gabi Burton. Bloomsbury, $20.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-5476-1727-2

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When the Sun Goes Down

Greg Pizzoli. Knopf, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-5936-4980-0

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Last Day Pool Party

Emma Steinkellner. Labyrinth Road, $21.99 hardcover (176p) ISBN 979-8-217-03142-9; $14.99 paper ISBN 979-8-217-03141-2

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Unbreakable: A Japanese American Family in an American Incarceration Camp

Minoru Tonai and Jolene Gutiérrez, illus. by Chris Sasaki. Abrams, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4197-7289-4

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When You’re Brave Enough

Rebecca Bendheim. Viking, $18.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-69513-5

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Piper at the Gates of Dusk (The New World #1)

Patrick Ness. Candlewick, $19.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-5362-4830-2

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Just One Oak: What a Single Tree Can Be

Maria Gianferrari, illus. by Diana Sudyka. Beach Lane, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-66596-104-2

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Baba Palooza

A.D. Ghani, illus. by Nadia Alam. Abrams, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4197-7715-8

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POETRY

Visitations

Julia Alvarez. Knopf, $27 (112p) ISBN 978-0-593-80503-9

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RELIGION

We Mend with Gold: An Immigrant Daughter’s Reckoning with American Christianity

Kristin T. Lee. Broadleaf, $27.99 (256p) ISBN 979-8-88983-502-8

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