What Should You Read Next? Here Are The Best Reviewed Books Of The Week

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Joan Didion’s Notes to John, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Exit Zero, and Emily Henry’s Great Big Beautiful Life each characteristic among nan champion reviewed books of nan week.

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Fiction

1. Fair Play by Louise Hegarty
(Harper)

6 Rave • 1 Positive

“Terrific … A witty, knowing homage to classical detective fiction, but besides a profoundly delicate introspection of nan loneliness and disorder of condolences … Readers will bask nan Easter eggs hidden successful nan underbrush … Serve[s] arsenic a bracing meditation connected nan different ways we comprehend decease (and fiction).”

–Sarah Lyall (The New York Times Book Review)

2. Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
(Berkley)

5 Rave • 2 Positive

“Readers will emotion Alice and Hayden’s grumpy/sunshine dynamic, and Margaret’s life is arsenic … Both longtime Henry…fans and caller romance readers will devour this rivals-to-lovers slow burn, 1 of Henry’s champion to date.”

–Whitney Kramer (Library Journal)

3. Exit Zero by Marie-Helene Bertino
(FSG Originals)

5 Rave
Read a communicative from Exit Zero here

“Potent and darkly funny … Delightfully bizarre … Each communicative is driven by energetic pacing, speedy wit, and astonishing twists. Bertino erstwhile again displays her formidable talent for nan uncanny.”

–Publishers Weekly

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Nonfiction

1. Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson by Claire Hoffman
(Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)

5 Rave • 3 Positive
Read an effort by Claire Hoffman here

“Hoffman has written her ain ballad, resurrecting overmuch of nan glory and calamity of McPherson’s ministry … So gripping … Her book is wonderfully thorough, nan type of curriculum vitae successful which you study conscionable nan correct magnitude astir everything, from nan idiosyncrasies of American belief history to nan idiocy of modern personage culture.”

–Casey Cep (The New Yorker)

2. Notes to John by Joan Didion
(Knopf)

1 Rave • 9 Positive • 2 Mixed • 1 Pan

“An friendly chronicle … Written pinch her signature precision though without her accustomed stylistic, incantatory repetitions, it is nan slightest guarded of Didion’s penning … [The entries’] powerfulness lies partially successful their rawness … May connection insights to different parents grappling pinch their ain children’s constituent abuse.”

–Heller McAlpin (NPR)

3. America, América: A New History of nan New World by Greg Grandin
(Penguin Press)

4 Rave • 2 Positive • 2 Positive

“Excellent … Grandin…is 1 of nan champion historians coming astatine penning for some scholars and nan wide public. This is an extraordinarily eager book.”

–Daniel Geary (The Irish Times)