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Jan 1, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Ruth Kemp |James McBride |Mitch Albom
A thoroughly researched novel that's bogged down with unnecessary detail. This murder mystery, set in the city of Split in what is now Croatia, is steeped in early-20th-century Europe’s roiling politics. The year is 1936. The action takes place against the forthcoming Olympics in Hitler’s Germany. Split is a cultural mélange, including remnants of the Austro-Hungarian Empire along with Croats, Czechs, Italians, Russians, Germans, and others who conduct business in the bustling port.
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Dec 26, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Jenny Howe |James McBride |Mitch Albom
After years of hiding her shine, a woman adjusts to life in the spotlight when she’s a guest on a plus-size makeover show. Everly Winters would rather blend in than stand out—after all, she spent years listening to her overly critical mother tell her she was too loud, too bold, and too much. It’s easier to hide and live life on the sidelines, preferably while wearing neutrals.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
booklistonline.com | Susan Maguire |James McBride |Thien Pham |Chandler Baker
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Samantha Harvey |James McBride |Max Brooks
Elegiac and elliptical, this slim novel is a sobering read. Six astronauts on a space station orbit the planet over the course of a single Earth day. Two hundred and fifty miles above the Earth, a space station goes round and round. Over the course of 24 hours, the astronauts inside experience sunrise and sunset 16 times.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Vanessa Riley |Ken Follett |James McBride
A treat for fans of historical fiction. The latest in Follett’s Kingsbridge series takes readers to a time of turbulence. In late-18th- and early-19th-century England, Sally Clitheroe must struggle with personal tragedy in a time of great societal upheaval. After her first husband is crushed under an overloaded turnip cart, she must initially raise her son, Kit, on her own.
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Oct 1, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Patrick Coffey |Susan Mallery |James McBride
A book begging to be read on the beach, with the sun warming the sand and salt in the air: pure escapism. Three woman who join together to rent a large space along the beach in Los Angeles for their stores—a gift shop, a bakery, and a bookstore—become fast friends as they each experience the highs, and lows, of love. Bree is a friendly but standoffish bookstore owner who keeps everyone she knows at arm’s length, from guys she meets in bars to her friends.
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Sep 22, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Marcelino Truong |David Homel |James McBride |Gene Yang
If it’s possible for America to have a poet laureate, why can’t James McBride be its storyteller-in-chief? Awards & Accolades Our Verdict GET IT New York Times Bestseller McBride follows up his hit novel Deacon King Kong (2020) with another boisterous hymn to community, mercy, and karmic justice.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | David Diop |Sam Taylor |James McBride
A mesmerizing tale. In French colonial Senegal, a young, soon-to-be-eminent French botanist becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman sold into slavery who escaped to freedom. Michel Adanson journeyed to Senegal to catalog new fauna and flora for “Universal Orb,” his magnum opus. A half-century later, following his death in 1806, his daughter, Aglaé, discovers his hidden notebooks, which document his intense experiences on and around the island of Gorée.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Daniel Mason |James McBride
Intelligent and thoughtful but not quite at this groundbreaking writer’s usual level of excellence. An obscure English novelist and a missing-heir trial are the real historical springboards for Smith’s latest fiction. Eliza Touchet is cousin and housekeeper to William Ainsworth, whose novel Jack Sheppard once outsold Oliver Twist but who, by 1868, has been far eclipsed by his erstwhile friend Dickens. Widower William is about to marry his maid Sarah Wells, who has borne him a child.
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | James McBride
Harun's novel reverberates with nostalgia, psychological insight, and the sacredness of community. An intimate look at a small Pacific Northwest town and the complex lives of its people. In early 1963, in order to reinvigorate the American people after the nervous terrors of the Cuban missile crisis, President John F. Kennedy had an idea for a national event that could bring folks together and make a show of the country’s spirit.
