For Your Consideration: November 2018 LibraryReads Titles

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NINE PERFECT STRANGERS by Liane Moriarty
Also available in audio
A Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2018! From #1 New York Times bestselling (and LibraryReads “Favorite of Favorites”) author Liane Moriarty comes a new novel which asks the question: Could ten days at a health resort really change you forever? These nine perfect strangers are about to find out. “…a deeply satisfying thriller. Moriarty delivers yet another surefire winner.” Publishers Weekly, starred review

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opens in a new windowKINGDOM OF THE BLIND by Louise Penny
Also available in audio
In the new Chief Inspector Gamache novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling (and LibraryReads “Favorite of Favorites”) author Louise Penny, mystery abounds when Gamache is named one of three executors to the will of a Three Pines resident he never knew a cleaning woman who called herself, “The Baroness.” “This starts as a small-town mystery and becomes something grander and more frightening; Penny has upped her thrills-to–pain au chocolat ratio.” Kirkus Reviews

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opens in a new windowNEWCOMER by Keigo Higashino, translated by Giles Murray
A Library Journal Fall 2018 Editors’ Pick! In international bestseller Keigo Higashino’s new crime novel, newly transferred Tokyo Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga (from LibraryReads pick, MALICE) is assigned to a baffling murder in which the number of suspects keeps multiplying. “Part Sherlock Holmes, part Harry Bosch, Higashino’s hero is a quietly majestic force to be reckoned with. Here’s hoping his demotion continues to bring him to the attention of readers from East to West.” Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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EVENING IN PARADISE: More Stories by Lucia Berlin
A Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2018 with two starred reviews! “Blessedly, a second volume with 22 more stories is in no way second rate but rather features more seductive, sparkling autofiction with narrators whose names echo the author’s in settings and situations that come from her roller-coaster biography (which is summarized in an appendix). No dead author is more alive on the page than Berlin: funny, dark, and so in love with the world.” Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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opens in a new windowTHE BEST BAD THINGS by Katrina Carrasco
1887—Former Pinkerton Women’s Bureau agent Alma Rosales is tasked with searching for stolen opium in Washington Territory and uncovering a thief while going undercover as a man. “Breath-catching pacing, tantalizingly rough-and-tumble characters who are somehow both distasteful and deeply relatable, palpable erotic energy, and powerful storytelling make this a standout.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review

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opens in a new windowA SHOT IN THE DARK by Lynne Truss
Also available in hardcover
A wryly entertaining new historical crime novel from Lynne Truss, the New York Times bestselling author of EATS, SHOOTS AND LEAVES. “British author Truss makes her crime fiction debut with this hilarious series launch. Truss successfully combines wry humor with a fair-play mystery. ” Publishers Weekly, starred review

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opens in a new windowPARIS ECHO by Sebastian Faulks
A story of resistance, complicity, and an unlikely, transformative friendship between an American historian and a Moroccan teenager, set in Paris, from internationally bestselling novelist Sebastian Faulks. “Fans of Paula McClain and Ian McEwan will enjoy Faulks’s touching tale of two Parisian visitors looking to reimagine their self-identities in a changing world.” Publishers Weekly

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SEVENTEEN by Hideo Yokoyama
When an air disaster of unprecedented scale occurs on the doorstep of the North Kanto Times in 1985, the newspaper staff is united by an unimaginable horror and a once-in-a-lifetime scoop. Seventeen years later, reporter Kazumasa Yuuki makes good on a promise he made that fateful week—one that holds the key to its last solved mystery and represents Yuuki’s final, unconquered fear. “[An] engrossing thriller… Readers will be deeply moved.” Publishers Weekly

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