10 Can’t-Miss New Books Out This Week

Books Including new releases from Samantha Downing and Katie Kitamura. by K.W. Colyard July 19, 2021 Fiordaliso/Moment/Getty Images

This week brings a fresh slate of summer thrillers.

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‘Abracadabra, Sunshine’ by Dexter L. Booth Black Garnet Books Framed as a series of letters about pop culture, history, and our conflicting desires for connection and destruction, Dexter L. Booth’s Abracadabra, Sunshine is one of the year’s best poetry collections. $16.95 See On Black Garnet Book

‘Everyman’ by M Shelly Conner Semicolon Bookstore & Gallery Everyman follows Eve, a young Black woman living in Chicago in the early ’70s, as she travels to Georgia to learn about the family she never knew. $24.99 Semicolon Bookstore & Gallery

‘For Your Own Good’ by Samantha Downing Amazon Accolades pour in for a prep school teacher who will stop at nothing — really, nothing — to make sure his students succeed. But someone’s missing. Another person is dead. And one student is getting too close to the truth $27 See On Amazon

'Stolen' by Elizabeth Gilpin Amazon When depression nearly derailed Elizabeth Gilpin’s high school career, her parents sent her to a program for troubled teens — one that turned out to do more harm than good. Gilpin recounts the years of trauma she endured in Stolen . $28 See On Amazon

'Virtue' by Hermione Hoby Amazon In Hermione Hoby’s taut follow-up to 2018’s Neon in Daylight , a college grad working in publishing falls in with an alluring, artsy couple — but it’s only when tragedy strikes that he realizes what his choices have wrought $27 See On Amazon

'Intimacies' by Katie Kitamura Amazon A Separation author Katie Kitamura returns this week with Intimacies , a novel that follows an interpreter working with an accused war criminal at The Hague — and explores language, boundaries, and human connection in the process. $26 See On Amazon

‘Colorful’ by Eto Mori Amazon Eto Mori’s 1998 bestseller is finally available in English. Colorful centers on a disembodied soul who gains temporary control over the body of a teen who died by suicide, and soon finds himself connecting with the late boy’s family. $16.95 See On Amazon

'She Who Became the Sun' by Shelley Parker-Chan Amazon A young girl masquerading as her dead brother becomes the leader of a resistance movement in 14th century China, in Shelley Parker-Chan’s She Who Became the Sun . $27.99 See On Amazon

‘Cast in Secrets and Shadow’ by Andrea Robertson Amazon Picking up just after Forged in Fire and Stars ’ cliffhanger ending, Cast in Secrets and Shadow follows the Loresmith on her mission to unite the Loreknights and secure Nimhea’s claim to the throne in the fight against the Vokkans. $18.99 See On Amazon

'False Witness' by Karin Slaughter Amazon Two sisters come face to face with their grisly past in Karin Slaughter’s new thriller. Years ago, Leigh and Calli killed a man and hid the body. Now, his son has reappeared, and they’re convinced he knows what they did to his father. $28.99 See On Amazon

10 Can’t-Miss New Books Out This Week

This week brings a fresh slate of summer thrillers.

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