Starred Reviews Releasing This Week

July 8, 2024 through July 14, 2024
All the books to receive starred reviews in PW that are hitting bookstore shelves this week.
FICTION

Ginster

Siegfried Kracauer, trans. from the German by Carl Skoggard. NYRB Classics, $18.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-68137-814-5

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Elevator in Saigon

Thuân, trans. from the Vietnamese by Nguyễn An Lý. New Directions, $16.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3854-0

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Mourning a Breast

Xi Xi, trans. from the Chinese by Jennifer Feeley. New York Review Books, $18.95 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-68137-822-0

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The Coin

Yasmin Zaher. Catapult, $27 (240p) ISBN 978-1-64622-210-0

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The Heart in Winter

Kevin Barry. Doubleday, $28 (256p) ISBN 978-0-385-55059-8

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MYSTERY/THRILLER

Our Kind of Game

Johanna Copeland. Harper, $30 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-332968-3

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ROMANCE/EROTICA

Not You Again

Ingrid Pierce. Alcove, $18.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-63910-813-8

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SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR

Bury Your Gays

Chuck Tingle. Nightfire, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-87465-8

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Navola

Paolo Bacigalupi. Knopf, $30 (576p) ISBN 978-0-593-53505-9

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The Sky on Fire

Jenn Lyons. Tor, $29.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-250-34200-3

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NONFICTION

More

Emma Specter. Harper, $30 (208) ISBN 978-0-06-327837-0

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Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States

Andrea Freeman. Metropolitan, $27.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-250-87104-6

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Other Rivers: A Chinese Education

Peter Hessler. Penguin Press, $32 (480p) ISBN 978-0-593-65533-7

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CHILDREN'S

I Am La Chiva! The Colorful Bus of the Andes

Karol Hernández, illus. by Lorena Alvarez Gómez. Dial, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-5935-2920-1

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Clever Crow

Chris Butterworth, illus. by Olivia Lomenech Gill. Candlewick, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5362-3542-5

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COMICS

Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe

Ken Krimstein. Bloomsbury, $32 (224p) ISBN 978-1-635-57953-6

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