Starred Reviews Releasing This Week

March 30, 2026 through April 5, 2026
All the books to receive starred reviews in PW that are hitting bookstore shelves this week.
FICTION

Upward Bound

Woody Brown. Hogarth, $28 (208p) ISBN 978-0-593-97997-6

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Mothers and Other Strangers

Corey Ann Haydu. Little, Brown, $29 (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-59747-0

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Nightmare of the Embryos

Mariella Mehr, trans. from the German by Caroline Froh. New Directions, $15.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3973-8

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Only a Little While Here

María Ospina, trans. from the Spanish by Heather Cleary. Scribner, $28 (224p) ISBN 978-1-6680-9708-3

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American Han

Lisa Lee. Algonquin, $28.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-64375-725-4

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ROMANCE/EROTICA

Found Time

Caroline Goldstein. 831 Stories, $14.99 trade paper (224p) ISBN 979-8-89331-129-7

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A Widow’s Charm

Caitlyn Paxson. Del Rey, $19 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-593-97627-2

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Hold Me Like a Grudge

Celine Ong. Berkley, $19 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-95532-1

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NONFICTION

Nightfaring: In Search of the Disappearing Darkness

Megan Eaves-Egenes. Grand Central, $30 (256p) ISBN 978-0-306-83533-9

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Kutchinsky’s Egg: A Family’s Story of Obsession

Serena Kutchinsky. Scribner, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-1-6680-7909-6

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Metropolitans: New York Baseball

A.M. Gittlitz. Astra House, $30 (496p) ISBN 978-1-6626-0300-6

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True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink

Kory Stamper. Knopf, $32 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5247-3303-2

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Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier

Megan Kate Nelson. Scribner, $31 (448p) ISBN 978-1-6680-0434-0

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LIFESTYLE

The Caribbean Cookbook

Rawlston Williams. Phaidon, $54.95 (432) ISBN 978-1-83729-172-4

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CHILDREN'S

Wilderness Hacks (Wilderness Hacks #1)

Joslin Brorsen. Knopf, $17.99 (336p) ISBN 979-8-217-03159-7

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The Celestial Seas

T.A. Chan. Viking, $20.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-69374-2

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Inbetweens

Faith Erin Hicks. First Second, $22.99 hardcover (240p) ISBN 978-1-250-83875-9; $14.99 paper ISBN 978-1-250-83874-2

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How a Bear Became a Book: The Collaboration That Created Winnie-the-Pooh

Annette Bay Pimentel, illus. by Faith Pray. Holt, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-250-35844-8

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Barbed Wire Between Us

Mia Wenjen, illus. by Violetta Encarnación. Red Comet, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-6365-5192-0

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Cowboys at the Ballet: The Story of Choreographer Agnes de Mille

Claire Wrenn Bobrow, illus. by Ilaria Urbinati. Atheneum, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-66595-787-8

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COMICS

Twin Lotuses

Xiaoyu, trans. from the French by Dan Christensen. Magnetic, $29.99 (324p) ISBN 978-1-962413-51-0

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POETRY

Be Easy

Adrian Matejka. Liveright, $28.99 (176p) ISBN 978-1-324-09750-1

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