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11 New Books We Recommend This Week

Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 5:26pm
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


An Ex-Trump Insider Looks to Our Future With Russia and China

Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 4:00pm
By David E. Sanger
The former national security adviser H.R. McMaster’s new book, “Battlegrounds,” examines recent foreign policy and charts a path forward.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Grim, Ghastly and Gruesome: New Horror Fiction

Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 3:04pm
By Danielle Trussoni
Looking for a book that will scare the pants off you? We’ve got some suggestions.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Martin Amis Is Committed to the Pleasure Principle in Books

Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 2:26pm
“In plainer terms, we read literature to have a good time.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Pete Buttigieg Dropped Out of the Presidential Race and Wrote a Best Seller

Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 5:00am
By Elisabeth Egan
In “Trust,” the wunderkind politician underscores the importance of what he calls “overlapping circles of belonging.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘A World Beneath the Sands,’ by Toby Wilkinson

Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 5:00am
By Rosemary Mahoney
In “A World Beneath the Sands,” Toby Wilkinson details the hundred years when many of the great discoveries of ancient Egypt were made, by Europeans.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


'Dark Archives' Explores The Use Of Human Skin In Bookbinding

Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - 3:30pm
By Connor Goodwin

Megan Rosenbloom tells readers an adventurous tale of how her morbid curiosity brought her across an ocean to investigate the origins, motivations and techniques behind this macabre practice.

(Image credit: Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Source: NPR Book Reviews


History And Hatred Drive The Horror In 'Ring Shout'

Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - 10:00am
By Danny Lore

P. Djèlí Clark's new novella is set in an alternate Jim Crow America where the Ku Klux Klan contains actual pointy-headed white demons, and The Birth Of a Nation is not just a film but an incantation.

(Image credit: Tor.com)

Source: NPR Book Reviews


Real-World Experience Gives 'The Nightworkers' Its Punch

Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - 8:57am
By Gabino Iglesias

Brian Selfon spent years working in the criminal justice field, and he brings that knowledge to bear in his debut, about a family of money launderers whose lives are upended when a bag goes missing.

(Image credit: MCD)

Source: NPR Book Reviews


50 States, 50 Scares

Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - 5:00am
By Tina Jordan
Before you pick up one of these hair-raising, shiver-inducing novels, you’re going to want to close the curtains and check the locks (twice).
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


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