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Riverhead A Gilded Cage
A daughter explores the dark secrets of a family legacy.
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Simon & Schuster Brain Surgery, Up Close
Watching a neurosurgeon at work is awe- and cringe-inducing.
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Viking What Medical School Doesn’t Teach About Death
A palliative-care doctor learns the language of suffering and the limits of medical control.
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FSG Riveting Stories About Restless Wanderers
Chris Power’s debut collection, Mothers, reveals that maternity is an unsettling journey.
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Adnan Abidi/Reuters When There's Too Much to Read
How The Atlantic's literary editor turns a daily deluge of new books into magazine coverage.
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Graywolf Everything Under Is a Dark and Mesmerizing Story About Fate
The 27-year-old author, Daisy Johnson, pulls off several marvels at once in her debut novel, which made the Man Booker Prize shortlist.
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Catapult A Literary Companion for Insomniacs
Marina Benjamin’s new memoir aims to soothe the sleepless.
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The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Casts an Unlikely Spell
Nicolai Houm’s third novel unspools the mystery of a writer who abandons fiction and winds up alone on the top of a mountain in Norway.
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Heribert Proepper / AP What We’re Reading This Summer
Educated by Tara Westover and The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder
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Hogarth Sight Is an Unusual Meditation on Motherhood That’s Hard to Put Down
Jessie Greengrass’s debut novel about an unnamed pregnant woman blends ruminative prose with historical insight.
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Graywolf Mirror, Shoulder, Signal and the Struggle of Changing Gears
Dorthe Nors’s newest novel, about a 40-something woman in Copenhagen learning to drive for the first time, is more profound than its premise suggests.
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Autism’s Dark Roots in Nazi Vienna
A new book from the historian Edith Sheffer investigates the medical pioneer Hans Asperger’s involvement in a Third Reich eugenics program.
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Crown The Girl Who Smiled Beads Defies Easy Uplift
Clemantine Wamariya’s memoir tries to make sense of a life fractured by the Rwandan genocide.
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Kevin Mazur / Getty Today's Rebels Are Model Children
The young protesters now on the march are responsible and mature—and they’re asking adults to grow up.
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Viking The Art of Vanishing Is a Marriage Memoir With Hidden Depths
Laura Smith looks to the haunting story of a missing child novelist to answer her own questions about balancing creativity and freedom with love and stability.
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Random House Educated Is a Brutal, One-of-a-Kind Memoir
Tara Westover's coming-of-age story follows her upbringing in a survivalist family, and her decision to leave that life behind. -
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Katie Martin / Emily Jan / The Atlantic The Best Books We Missed in 2017
And the titles their authors say they loved
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Sarabande Books The Propulsive Power of Catapult
A new dynamic collection of short stories from Emily Fridlund revels in discomfort and disorientation.
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Joe McKendry Shirley Temple, by the Numbers
A very short book excerpt
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A New Book About Formative Literary Friendships
A Secret Sisterhood explores the women who influenced Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf.
