Starred Reviews Releasing This Week

March 31, 2025 through April 6, 2025
All the books to receive starred reviews in PW that are hitting bookstore shelves this week.
FICTION

The Usual Desire to Kill

Camilla Barnes. Scribner, $26.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-6680-6283-8

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Flesh

David Szalay. Scribner, $28.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-9821-2279-9

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Attila

Aliocha Coll, trans. from the Spanish by Katie Whittemore. Open Letter, $15.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-960385-37-6

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Unsex Me Here

Aurora Mattia. Nightboat, $18.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-64362-270-5

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MYSTERY/THRILLER

The Railway Conspiracy

S.J. Rozan and John Shen Yen Nee. Soho Crime, $27.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-64129-660-1

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ROMANCE/EROTICA

Say You’ll Remember Me

Abby Jimenez. Forever, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-1-5387-5919-6

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SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR

A Drop of Corruption

Robert Jackson Bennett. Del Rey, $30 (480p) ISBN 978-0-593-72382-1

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The Ephemera Collector

Stacy Nathaniel Jackson. Liveright, $29.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-324-09340-4

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Faithbreaker

Hannah Kaner. Harper Voyager, $18.99 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-335014-4

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NONFICTION

Nine Minds: Inner Lives on the Spectrum

Daniel Tammet. The Experiment, $16.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 979-8-89303-073-0

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Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance

Joe Dunthorne. Scribner, $28 (240p) ISBN 978-1-9821-8075-1

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A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America’s Disabled

Alex Green. Bellevue, $21.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-954276-42-0

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Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews

Richard Kreitner. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $32 (416p) ISBN 978-0-374-60845-3

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The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation

Charlotte Beradt, trans. from the German by Damion Searls. Princeton Univ, $24.95 (152p) ISBN 978-0-691-24351-1

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CHILDREN'S

We Leap Together

Christopher Silas Neal. Knopf, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-593-81264-8

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Kaya Morgan’s Crowning Achievement

Jill Tew. Freedom Fire, $18.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-368-10468-5

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The Pecan Sheller

Lupe Ruiz-Flores. Carolrhoda, $18.99 (256p) ISBN 979-8-7656-1052-7

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The Cartoonists Club

Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud. Graphix, $24.99 hardcover (288p); $14.99 paper ISBN 978-1-338-77722-2; ISBN 978-1-3387-7721-5

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The Littlest Drop

Sascha Alper, illus. by Jerry and Brian Pinkney. Random House/Schwartz, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-30912-4

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Renegade Girls: A Queer Tale of Romance and Rabble-Rousing

Nora Neus, illus. by Julie Robine. Little, Brown Ink, $25.99 hardcover 
(304p); $18.99 paper ISBN 978-0-316-43983-1; 
ISBN 978-0-3164-3993-0

Complete Review »

Mistaco

Eliza Kinkz. Kokila, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-5937-0023-5

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The Summer of the Bone Horses

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, illus. by Steph Littlebird. Amulet, $14.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-41975-955-0

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The Coven Tendency

Zoe Hana Mikuta. Disney Hyperion, $18.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-36809-919-6

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POETRY

Is This My Final Form?

Amy Gerstler. Penguin Books, $20 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-0-14-313848-8

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