Starred Reviews Releasing This Week

May 26, 2025 through June 1, 2025
All the books to receive starred reviews in PW that are hitting bookstore shelves this week.
FICTION

A Language of Limbs

Dylin Hardcastle. Dutton, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-85271-2

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Disappoint Me

Nicola Dinan. Dial, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-97787-3

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The Deserters

Mathias Énard, trans. from the French by Charlotte Mandell. New Directions, $16.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3901-1

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The South

Tash Aw. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-61628-1

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MYSTERY/THRILLER

Summerhouse

Yiğit Karaahmet, trans. from Turkish by Nicholas Glastonbury. Soho Crime, $28.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-64129-586-4

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Letters from the Dead

Isabella Valeri. Atria, $29.99 (480p) ISBN 978-1-6680-6506-8

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Never Flinch

Stephen King. Scribner, $32 (448p) ISBN 978-1-6680-8933-0

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ROMANCE/EROTICA

Along Came Amor

Alexis Daria. Avon, $18.99 trade paper (512p) ISBN 978-0-06-296000-9

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It’s A Love Story

Annabel Monaghan. Putnam, $19.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-71410-2

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Not So Fast

Karen Booth. Afterglow, $15.99 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-335-57498-5

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SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR

Written on the Dark

Guy Gavriel Kay. Ace, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-0-593-95398-3

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Harmattan Season

Tochi Onyebuchi. Tor, $27.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-250-78297-7

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NONFICTION

When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World

Jordan Thomas. Riverhead, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-54482-2

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Sea of Grass: The Conquest

Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty. Random House, $32 (384p) ISBN 978-0-593-44740-6

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Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History

Eli Erlick. Beacon, $28.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-8070-1735-7

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Monsterland: A Journey Around the World’s Dark Imagination

Nicholas Jubber. Scribe US, $22 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-964992-11-2

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LIFESTYLE

Kawaii Appliqué Quilts from Japan: How One Country’s Love of All Things Tiny Powers Today’s Most Intricate Quilts (with 5 Projects from Top Designers)

Naomi Ichikawa and Teresa Duryea Wong. Schiffer, $34.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7643-6925-4

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CHILDREN'S

The Midwatch Institute for Wayward Girls

Judith Rossell. Dial, $18.99 (320p) ISBN 979-8-2170-0240-5

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Some of Us: A Story of Citizenship and the United States

Rajani LaRocca, illus. by Huy Voun Lee. Little, Brown/Ottaviano, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-3165-7175-3

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The Glass Pyramid: A Story of the Louvre Museum and Architect I.M. Pei

Jeanne Walker Harvey, illus. by Khoa Le. Atheneum, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-6659-5333-7

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You and Me

Rachel Vail, illus. by Chris Raschka. Greenwillow, $19.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-341472-3

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Bright Lights and Summer Nights

Shauntay Grant, illus. by Zach Manbeck. Tundra, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-77488-366-2

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RELIGION

Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump

Molly Worthen. Convergent, $32 (464p) ISBN 978-0-593-72900-7

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