The best new books out this week 📚
 Hello, book lovers! Each week, dozens of new releases hit the shelves. Here are our favorites. ❤️📚 –The BuzzFeed Books team
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 Credit: Ecco, Amistad Edge Case by YZ Chin
YZ Chin captivates in her debut novel, which follows twentysomething Edwina in the aftermath of her husband, Marlin, suddenly leaving her. Marlin's abandonment follows months of odd behavior. After traveling from New York to Malaysia, their home country, for his father's funeral, Marlin becomes distant and argumentative. He's losing patience with the drawn-out process of securing green cards, becoming preoccupied with spiritualism, convinced Edwina cheated on him in a past life. When he disappears, Edwina sets off to find him and bring him back, not just to her, but to himself, too. As the journey becomes increasingly hopeless, Edwina's own identity starts to crack. She indulges her own anger — at her condescending coworkers (all men) and the tech startup employers who urge her to brush off their microaggressions, at her judgmental mother, at this country that promised so much more, at the best friend who can't possibly understand, at Marlin — and finds the result both scary and liberating. Chin tells her story with dark humor, heart, and unflinching honesty (and, full disclosure, one surprisingly nauseating scene) while exploring themes of intimacy, family, race, and identity. —Arianna Rebolini
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Ramadan Ramsey by Louis Edwards
Whiting Award–winning author Louis Edwards returns with his first book in nearly 20 years, and it's a stunner. The larger-than-life story, written with a distance and formality that nods at mythology, follows Ramadan Ramsey, a young man in New Orleans bound for greatness. His destiny is born of his parents' doomed teenage romance: Alicia, a Black New Orleans native, and Mustafa, a Syrian immigrant working at his uncle's convenience store, fall for each other almost immediately, but Mustafa (whose uncle explicitly warned him to stay away from American women) returns to Syria before he finds out Alicia is pregnant. Edwards lets us know from the start that Ramadan is blessed but with blessing comes tragedy, and Ramadan sees plenty of it when Hurricane Katrina hits and destroys his world as he knows it. And at his 12th birthday, his mission becomes clear: It's time to find his father. What follows is a magnificent, transformative epic about love and courage that will stick with you for a long time. —Arianna Rebolini
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 Credit: Berkley Miss Lattimore's Letter by Suzanne Allain
Having given up on her own love life years ago, Sophronia Lattimore has resigned herself to serve as her cousin's chaperone. But when she saves a man from proposing to the wrong woman by sending him a letter with advice, word gets out and soon people are asking her to play matchmaker on their behalf. One client, the handsome Edmund Winslow is seeking a bride and Sophronia wishes she could fill the role herself. She convinces herself he could never return her feelings and vows to remain professional. But her job proves to be a little too challenging when her former flame, an unsatisfied client, and a man besotted with Sophronia's cousin all turn up at her doorstep. Trying to navigate other people's love lives is hard enough, but deciding between her ex and Edmund, who has feelings for her after all, is practically impossible. —Shyla Watson
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Wait For It by Jenn McKinlay
Twice-divorced and not even 30, Annabelle Martin is stuck in a rut. So when she's offered her dream job in Phoenix, Arizona, she jumps at the chance for a fresh start. When she arrives, she's immedately curious about her anonymous landlord, who she assumes is an old, cranky grump based on the notes he leaves her. So when she meets him IRL and discovers that he's her age, she's very surprised. Nick Daire had a stroke year ago and now uses a wheelchair, but physically, he should've made a full recovery a while ago. When Annabelle discovers he has a paralyzing fear that has kept him trapped in his home and unable to heal, she can't help but help him. Together, they make each other brave enough to fight for the life they want...and who they want to spend it with.—Shyla Watson
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 Credit: Small Beer Press, Tor Teen Spirits Abroad by Zen Cho
These 19 science fiction and fantasy short stories infused with Malaysian folklore are absolutely gorgeous. Originally published in 2014, before Zen Cho's debut fantasy Sorcerer to the Crown, Small Beer Press is now reprinting it with nine additional stories. In her Hugo Award–winning novelette "If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again," an imugi who wishes to ascend to full dragonhood has its plan thwarted by a human girl taking a selfie. In "The House of Aunts," a teenage pontianak (sorta like a vampire) lives with her overbearing female relatives and attends school where she tries to hide her food choices from her crush. Just as with her novels, Zen Cho merges humor and relatable characters with delightful prose and engaging storylines. —Margaret Kingsbury
Get it from Bookshop or a local indie via Indiebound here. The Sisters of Reckoning by Charlotte Nicole Davis
Aster has remained in Arketta, helping more girls escape, while the others have new lives across the border in Ferron. When a new welcome house opens, Aster is filled with an ambitious plan to free all dustbloods, who live as prisoners to Arketta's landmasters and debt slavery. Clementine and the others return to become part of a group of fearless fighters seeking power and freedom for Arketta's dustbloods. If you're a found family lover and haven't gotten your hands on this series yet, now is the perfect time. —Dahlia Adler
 Credit: Oni Press, Crown Books for Young Readers Cheer Up!: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier, Val Wise, and Oscar O. Jupiter
Annie and BeeBee used to be friends once upon a time, and when each joins the cheerleading squad (Annie to beef up her college applications and social networks, and BeeBee to make good on her promise to essentially be the perfect well-rounded high school girl so they'll keep standing behind her transition), they find there's still something positive there between them. As they go through the shared, tricky experience of being queerleaders, it turns out that friendship isn't the only thing blossoming between them. —Dahlia Adler
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In The Wild Light by Jeff Zentner
Cash loves the familiarity of his small Appalachian town, but he also knows the suffering of loss. He lost his mother from an opioid addiction, and his grandfather is dying slowly from emphysema. His rock is his best friend Delaney, who he feels a fierce protection toward. But one day, everything changes. Delaney's scientific discovery has secured the both of them full rides to an elite prep school in Connecticut, which means Cash must make a hard decision: Does he abandon a town he thought he'd never leave behind? This might be Zentner's greatest book yet. With profound, evocative prose and lyrical insights to the world surrounding a struggling main character, Zentner's powerful, emotional novel is one you won't soon forget. —Farrah Penn
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 Credit: Berkley, Penguin Books At Summer's End by Courtney Ellis
When Bertie Preston accepts a commission to spend a summer painting the Earl of Wakeford's home, she hoped it will finally jumpstart her professional career — a tough feat for a woman in the 1920s. But the Great War has tarnished the home's family, with the earl himself locked away in isolation with battle scars he keeps hidden under a mask. As Bertie and the earl become close, she chips away at the secrets of the home, finding an unexpected bond with its residents. —Kirby Beaton
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This Moroccan-French author became internationally famous for The Perfect Nanny, a compelling story about a Parisian nanny who murders her client's two children, and a withering critique of the impossible choices in modern motherhood. Her third novel turns to the past. Inspired by her own family history, In the Country of Others, the first in a planned trilogy, centers on an interracial couple living in post–World War II Morocco. Malthilde is a headstrong Alsatian woman who falls in love with Amine, a similarly stubborn Moroccan soldier who fought on behalf of the French in World War II. Now they live on a blighted farm with their two children as tensions between French colonists and Arabs fighting for independence for their country escalate. Slimani is a doggedly unsentimental writer; the romance between Mathilde and Amine is a complicated, and often violent one; her characters, particularly the women, grapple with the reality of their limited choices. But even with its brutality, I felt compelled to keep reading and eagerly await the next book. —Tomi Obaro
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