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8 New Books Recommended by Readers This Week
Need another excuse to treat yourself to a new book this week? We've got you covered with the buzziest new releases of the day, according to early data from your fellow readers.
To create our list, we focused on the books Goodreads members can't wait to read, which we measure by how many times a book has been added to Want to Read shelves. All these top titles are now available in the United States! Which ones catch your eye?
Readers' top books of the week:
You should read this book if you like: Historical fiction, mysteries, ancient Egypt, stories about remarkable women from actual history, interesting details about the discovery of King Tut’s tomb, the dark side of archeology, The Personal Librarian
You should read this book if you like: Horror, dark fantasy, historical fiction, rogue entomologists circa 1899, creepy-crawly things in the remote forests of North Carolina, prolific spec-fic authors with reliably cool ideas, Nettle & Bone
You should read this book if you like: Dystopian romantasy, science fiction, post-apocalyptic scenarios featuring underground cities and high-stakes surface expeditions, finding love in said circumstances, prequel novels, Conform
You should read this book if you like: The literary end of the sci-fi aisle, far-future missions to Jupiter interspersed with thoughtful reminiscences of life on Earth, insightful characters portraits threaded into plotlines about space science, Wandering Souls
You should read this book if you like: Short story collections, poetry, fantasy, science fiction, playful variations on fantasy subgenre themes, fairy tales, steampunk, lyrical prose, narrative poems, epistolary fiction, This Is How You Lose the Time War
You should read this book if you like: Contemporary fiction, historical fiction, queer romance, young love in Paris circa 1978, characters who grow and change over the course of several decades, the pain of old mistakes, the pain relief of second chances, The Mercies
You should read this book if you like: Dark fairy tales, literary horror, intriguing updates to ancient Welsh folklore, variations on the Frankenstein story template, artificial girls made from flowers and words, doomed romance, cool book cover illustrations, buzzy debut novels
You should read this book if you like: Dark academia, grimdark fantasy, imaginative new iterations of the Triple Goddess concept, academic institutions devoted to the art of vengeance, disturbingly eager students, alarming attrition rates, extremely scary graduates, the Broken Empire series
