Starred Reviews Releasing This Week

May 12, 2025 through May 18, 2025
All the books to receive starred reviews in PW that are hitting bookstore shelves this week.
FICTION

Make Me Famous

Maud Ventura, trans. from the French by Gretchen Schmid. HarperVia, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-342751-8

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The Remembered Soldier

Anjet Daanje, trans. from the Dutch by David McKay. New Vessel, $20.95 trade paper (576p) ISBN 978-1-954404-32-8

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Metallic Realms

Lincoln Michel. Atria, $28.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-6680-5867-1

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MYSTERY/THRILLER

The Stolen Heart (The Kyiv Mysteries #2)

Andrey Kurkov, trans. from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk. HarperVia, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-335233-9

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Marble Hall Murders

Anthony Horowitz. Harper, $31 (592p) ISBN 978-0-06-330570-0

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ROMANCE/EROTICA

Dream On

Ashley Herring Blake. Berkley, $19 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-593-81599-1

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Can’t Get Enough

Kennedy Ryan. Forever, $17.99 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-1-5387-0685-5

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32 Days in May

Betty Corrello. Avon, $18.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-342647-4

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SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR

The Country Under Heaven

Frederic S. Durbin. Melville House, $20.99 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-68589-169-5

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The Incandescent

Emily Tesh. Tor, $28.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-250-83501-7

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NONFICTION

Sedition: How America’s Constitutional Order Emerged from Violent Crisis

Marcus Alexander Gadson. New York Univ, $32 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4798-2888-3

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The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland

Michelle Young. HarperOne, $29.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-329589-6

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You Are Not a Kinesthetic Learner: The Troubled History of the Learning Style Idea

Thomas Fallace. Univ. of Chicago, $27.50 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-0-226-84138-0

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The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld

Daniel Brook. Norton, $32.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-324-00724-1

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Captain Kidd: A True Story of Treasure and Betrayal

Samuel Marquis. Diversion, $34.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-63576-968-5

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Mark Twain

Ron Chernow. Penguin Press, $45 (1,200p) ISBN 978-0-525-56172-9

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The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties

Dennis McNally. Da Capo, $32.50 (432p) ISBN 978-0-306-83566-7

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The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon’s Enduring Impact on America

Mark Whitaker. Simon & Schuster, $30.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-6680-3329-6

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Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth

Karen G. Lloyd. Princeton Univ, $27.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-691-23611-7

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Walk Like a Girl: A Memoir

Prabal Gurung. Viking, $32 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-49327-4

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Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global

Laura Spinney. Bloomsbury, $29.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-63973-258-6

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Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea

Marcus Rediker. Viking, $32 (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-55834-7

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LIFESTYLE

How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic

Amy Larocca. Knopf, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-525-65553-4

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Hugh Mangum, with Shana Liebman. Phaidon, $49.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-83866-936-2

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CHILDREN'S

Fireworks

Matthew Burgess, illus. by Cátia Chien. Clarion, $19.99 (44p) ISBN 978-0-06-321672-3

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You and Me on Repeat

Mary Shyne. Holt, $25.99 hardcover (224p); $17.99 paper ISBN 978-1-250-85185-7; ISBN 978-1-250-85184-0

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Next to Me

Daniel Salmieri and Sophia Haas. Rocky Pond, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-46200-3

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Athlete Is Agender: True Stories of LGBTQ+ People in Sports

Katherine Locke and Nicole Melleby, illus. by Jess Vosseteig. Little, Brown/Ottaviano, $19.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-3165-7200-2

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Firefly Season

Cynthia Leitich Smith, illus. by Kate Gardiner. Heartdrum, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06327-444-0

Complete Review »

The Gate

Grace Lin. Little, Brown, $18.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-47832-8

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One of the Boys

Victoria Zeller. Levine Querido, $19.99 (344p) ISBN 978-1-6461-4502-7

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The Mystery of the Haunted Dance Hall

Charis Cotter. Tundra, $17.99 (392p) ISBN 978-1-77488-555-0

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COMICS

Insectopolis: A Natural History

Peter Kuper. Norton, $35 (256p) ISBN 978-1-324-03571-8

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POETRY

The Essential C.D. Wright

C.D. Wright, edited by Forrest Gander and Michael Wiegers. Copper Canyon, $22 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-55659-719-0

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RELIGION

Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present

John Tolan. Princeton Univ, $29.95 (296p) ISBN 978-0-69126-353-3

Complete Review »

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