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New books on the list this week include collector’s editions of three previously published YA novels: Ava Reid’s A Study in Drowning, first released in 2023; Laura Nowlin’s If He Had Been with Me, from 2013; and the oldest of the trio, Tahereh Mafi’s Shatter Me, which dates to 2011. On the adult side, three Lucy Score titles, all released in the past couple of years, get the deluxe treatment: Things We Never Got Over, Things We Left Behind, and Things We Hide from the Light.

Children’s Fiction

#2 A Study in Drowning

#6 If He Had Been with Me

#7 Shatter Me

Hardcover Adult Fiction

#9 Things We Never Got Over

#10 Things We Left Behind

#11 Things We Hide from the Light

Knock on Wood

Debuting at #6 on our hardcover fiction list, volume 1 of Suji Kim’s Under the Oak Tree collects chapters 1–76 of her popular romantasy webnovel, originally published in Korean. Both the prose novel and the manhwa adaptation are serialized on the Manta storytelling platform; where the comic’s romance scenes fade to black, the novel gives readers a peek behind closed doors.

NEW & NOTABLE

Turkuaz Kitchen
Betül Tunç
#2 Hardcover Nonfiction, #5 overall
The first book from Tunç, a home baker from Turkey who lives in Virginia with her family, includes 85 sweet and savory recipes and generous helpings of the nostalgic, homey photography that has helped her garner 10.5 million Instagram followers.

Where the Library Hides
Isabel Ibañez
#3 Children's Fiction
This completes the duology Ibañez started with 2023’s What the River Knows, which our review called “a captivating historical novel full of magical intrigue and archaeological adventure, set in 1884.” The new book sold almost twice as many print copies in its first week as its predecessor.