Starred Reviews Releasing This Week

May 6, 2024 through May 12, 2024
All the books to receive starred reviews in PW that are hitting bookstore shelves this week.
FICTION

Early Sobrieties

Michael Deagler. Astra House, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-1-66260-224-5

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Long Island

Colm Tóibín. Scribner, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4767-8511-0

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Pages of Mourning

Diego Gerard Morrison. Two Dollar Radio, $19.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-953387-40-0

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Sipsworth

Simon Van Booy. Godine, $26.95 (230p) ISBN 978-1-56792-794-8

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Whale Fall

Elizabeth O’Connor. Pantheon, $27 (224p) ISBN 978-0-593-70091-4

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Cinema Love

Jiaming Tang. Dutton, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-47433-4

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Ella

Diane Richards. Amistad, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-333865-4

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Enlightenment

Sarah Perry. Mariner, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06335261-2

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MYSTERY/THRILLER

A Lonesome Place for Dying

Nolan Chase. Crooked Lane, $29.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-63910-777-3

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The Instruments of Darkness

John Connolly. Atria, $29.99 (512p) ISBN 978-1-6680-2231-3

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If Something Happens to Me

Alex Finlay. Minotaur, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-86379-9

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Phantom Orbit

David Ignatius. Norton, $29.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-3240-5091-9

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ROMANCE/EROTICA

Mistakes We Never Made

Hannah Brown, with Emily Larrabee. Forever, $29 (336p) ISBN 978-1-5387-5677-5

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You Should Be So Lucky

Cat Sebastian. Avon, $18.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-327280-4

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Summers at the Saint

Mary Kay Andrews. St. Martin’s, $29 (448p) ISBN 978-1-250-27838-8

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Love

Jackie Lau. Atria/Bestler, $17.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-66803-076-9

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This Summer Will Be Different

Carley Fortune. Berkley, $19 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-63888-0

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SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR

Mother Knows Best

Edited by Lindy Ryan. Black Spot, $15.95 trade paper (268p) ISBN 978-1-64548-139-3

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The Downloaded

Robert J. Sawyer. Shadowpaw, $14.95 trade paper (190p) ISBN 978-1-989398-99-9

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NONFICTION

The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington

Larry Tye. Mariner, $32.50 (416p) ISBN 9780-3583-8043-6

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Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics

Ernesto Londoño. Celadon, $29.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-87854-0

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Look Away: A True Story of Murders

Jacob Kushner. Grand Central, $30 (288p) ISBN 978-1-538-70811-8

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The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Zoë Schlanger. Harper, $29.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-307385-2

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The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Eugene Rogan. Basic, $33 (300p) ISBN 978-1-5416-0427-8

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Vows: The Modern Genius of an Ancient Rite

Cheryl Mendelson. Simon & Schuster, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-668-02156-9

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Left for Dead: Shipwreck

Eric Jay Dolin. Liveright, $29.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-324-09308-4

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I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv

Illia Ponomarenko. Bloomsbury, $28.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-63973-387-3

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Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

Rachel Somerstein. Ecco, $32 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-326441-0

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LIFESTYLE

It’s Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told)

Karen Tang. Flatiron, $30.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-89415-1

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CHILDREN'S

Summer Is Here

Renée Watson, illus. by Bea Jackson. Bloomsbury, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-547-60586-6

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Being Home

Traci Sorell, illus. by Michaela Goade. Kokila, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-984816-03-0

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The Perfect Place

Matt de la Peña, illus. by Paola Escobar. Putnam, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-593-32563-6

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The Secret Library

Kekla Magoon. Candlewick, $18.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-5362-3088-8

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Plain Jane and the Mermaid

Vera Brosgol. First Second, $22.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-31485-7

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Big Bear and Little Bear Go Fishing

Amy Hest, illus. by Erin E. Stead. Holiday House/Porter, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4975-0

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The Things We Miss

Leah Stecher. Bloomsbury, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-5476-1302-1

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And Then

Lisa Fipps. Penguin/Paulsen, $17.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-593-40632-8

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The Elephant and the Sea

Ed Vere. Doubleday, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-58090-4

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Joyful Song: A Naming Story

Lesléa Newman, illus. by Susan Gal. Levine Querido, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-64614-370-2

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Lion of the Sky

Ritu Hemnani. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $19.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-0632-8448-7

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This Book Won’t Burn

Samira Ahmed. Little, Brown, $18.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-3165-4784-0

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I’m Afraid

Danielle Daniel, illus. by Matt James. Tundra, $18.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-77488-070-8

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Beastly Beauty

Jennifer Donnelly. Scholastic Press, $18.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-3388-0944-2

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Growing Up Under a Red Flag: A Memoir of Surviving the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Ying Chang Compestine, illus. by Xinmei Liu. Rocky Pond, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-5935-3398-7

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Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles

Paula Yoo. Norton, $19.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-324-03090-4

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Safiyyah’s War

Hiba Noor Khan. Allida, $19.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06335-186-8

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Monster Hands

Karen Kane and Jonaz McMillan, illus. by Dion MBD. Penguin/Paulsen, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-593-53229-4

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POETRY

Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space

Catherine Barnett. Graywolf, $17 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-64445-287-5

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Sidetracks

Bei Dao, trans. from the Chinese by Jeffrey Yang. New Directions, $18.95 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3844-1

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