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Colson Whitehead’s ‘Harlem Shuffle,’ Rémy Ngamije’s The Eternal Audience of One,’ and 60 Other Exceptional Titles| Starred Reviews, August 2021
Essential titles reviewed in our August 2021 print issue, spanning mystery and suspense, SF/fantasy, social sciences, reference, audiobooks, and more.
AUDIO
Abrams, Stacey. While Justice Sleeps. Books on Tape.
Babalola, Bolu. Love in Color. HarperAudio.
Green, John. The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet. Books on Tape.
Ward, Catriona. The Last House on Needless Street. Macmillan Audio
MYSTERY & SUSPENSE
Cleeves, Ann. The Heron’s Cry. Minotaur: St. Martin’s.
Miller, Michele Weinstat. Gone by Morning. Crooked Lane.
Morrissey, Hannah. Hello, Transcriber. Minotaur: St. Martin’s.
Muller, Marcia. Ice and Stone. Grand Central.
Whitehead, Colson. Harlem Shuffle. Doubleday.
SF/FANTASY
Lee, Fonda. Jade Legacy. Orbit.
Novik, Naomi. The Last Graduate. Del Rey: Ballantine.
Rambo, Cat. You Sexy Thing. Tor: Starscape.
GRAPHIC NOVELS
Mattioli, Massimo. Squeak the Mouse. Fantagraphics.
ROMANCE
Dade, Olivia. All the Feels. Avon.
MacLean, Sarah. Bombshell. Avon.
Park, Suzanne. So We Meet Again. Avon.
FICTION
Freud, Esther. I Couldn’t Love You More. Ecco.
Grossman, David. More Than I Love My Life. Knopf.
Ngamije, Rémy. The Eternal Audience of One. Scout: Gallery.
Statovci, Pajtim. Bolla. Pantheon.
Walker, Boo. The Singing Trees. Lake Union: Amazon.
CLASSIC RETURNS
Oyama, Sumita. The Life and Zen Haiku Poetry of Santoka Taneda. Tuttle.
ARTS & HUMANITIES
De Visé, Daniel. King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B. B. King. Grove.
Gilbert, Sandra M. & Susan Gubar. Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination. Norton.
Johnson, Lisa S. Immortal Axes: Guitars That Rock. Princeton Architectural.
Maltin, Leonard. Starstruck: My Unlikely Road to Hollywood. GoodKnight.
Muller, Eddie. Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir. Running Pr.
Tatar, Maria. The Heroine with 1001 Faces. Liveright.
Weber, Julia Claire. The Beginner’s Guide to Wheel Throwing: A Complete Course for the Potter’s Wheel. Quarry.
Zirin, Dave. The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World. New Pr.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Ackerman, Spencer. Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump. Viking.
Adayfi, Mansoor. Don’t Forget Us Here. Hachette.
Baer, Marc David. The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs. Basic.
Burke, Tarana. Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement. Flatiron.
Chemerinsky, Erwin. Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights. Liveright.
English, Charlie. The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler’s War on Art. Random.
Harris, Adam. The State Must Provide: Why America’s Colleges Have Always Been Unequal—and How To Set Them Right. Ecco.
Hill, Anita. Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey To End Gender Violence. Viking.
Holton, Woody. Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution. S. & S.
Johnson, Lizzie. Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire. Crown.
Levine, Robert S. The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Norton.
Marya, Rupa & Raj Patel. Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice. Farrar.
Mower, Allyson. Copyright Policies and Workflows in Libraries: A Concise Handbook. Rowman & Littlefield.
Oppenheimer, Mark. Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood. Knopf.
Philipps, David. Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs. Crown.
Reséndez, Andrés. Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery. Houghton Harcourt.
Schindler, Meriel. The Lost Café Schindler: One Family, Two Wars, and the Search for Truth. Norton.
Streep, Abe. Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana. Celadon.
Whitlock, Craig & the Washington Post. The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War. S. & S.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Amano, Hugh & Sarah Becan. Let’s Make Dumplings! A Comic Book Cookbook. Ten Speed.
Barnett, Cynthia. The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans. Norton.
Cliff, Harry. How To Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe, from the Origins of Atoms to the Big Bang. Doubleday.
Davis, Patti. Floating in the Deep End: How Caregivers Can See Beyond Alzheimer’s. Liveright.
Hayhoe, Katharine. Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World. Atria.
Sherrell, Daniel. Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World. Penguin Pr.
Siegel, Matt. The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories about the Origins of Everything We Eat. Ecco.
PARENTING
Baxley, Traci. Social Justice Parenting: How To Raise Compassionate, Anti-Racist, Justice-Minded Kids in an Unjust World. Harper Wave.
REFERENCE
Goss, K. David & A. A. Grishin. Colonial America: Facts and Fiction. ABC-CLIO.
Shaw, Greg M. Medicare and Medicaid: A Reference Handbook. ABC-CLIO.
Vitaglione, Marina & others. An Illustrated Catalog of American Fruits & Nuts: The U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Atelier.
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