Starred Reviews Releasing This Week

January 13, 2025 through January 19, 2025
All the books to receive starred reviews in PW that are hitting bookstore shelves this week.
FICTION

Good Girl

Aria Aber. Hogarth, $29 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-73111-6

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MYSTERY/THRILLER

A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage

Asia Mackay. Bantam, $30 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-87558-2

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Presumed Guilty

Scott Turow. Grand Central, $30 (544p) ISBN 978-1-5387-0636-7

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Karma Doll

Jonathan Ames. Mulholland, $27 (240p) ISBN 978-0-316-57612-3

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The Business Trip

Jessie Garcia. St. Martin’s, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-36441-8

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ROMANCE/EROTICA

Unromance

Erin Connor. Forever, $17.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-5387-5942-4

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SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR

We Lived on the Horizon

Erika Swyler. Atria, $27.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-66804-959-4

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Strange Pictures

Uketsu, trans. from the Japanese by Jim Rion. HarperVia, $17.99 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-343308-3

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Death of the Author

Nnedi Okorafor. Morrow, $30 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-339114-7

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NONFICTION

The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story

Pagan Kennedy. Vintage, $19 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-593-31471-5

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The Containment: Detroit

Michelle Adams. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $35 (528p) ISBN 978-0-374-25042-3

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CHILDREN'S

Old School

Gordon Korman. HarperCollins, $19.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-323814-5

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Everything Is Poison

Joy McCullough. Dutton, $19.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-5938-5587-4

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Dreamover

Dani Diaz. Top Shelf, $19.99 paper (312p) ISBN 978-1-60309-546-4

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Will’s Race for Home

Jewell Parker Rhodes. Little, Brown, $17.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-316-29933-6

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COMICS

The Legend of Kamui

Shirato Sanpei, trans. from the Japanese by Richard Rubinger, Noriko Rubinger, and Alexa Frank. Drawn & Quarterly, $39.95 (600p) ISBN 978-1-77046-729-3

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POETRY

Helen of Troy

Maria Zoccola. Scribner, $18 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-66804-633-3

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RELIGION

Aflame: Learning from Silence

Pico Iyer. Riverhead, $30 (240p) ISBN 978-0-593-42028-7

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