New Book Releases: May 25, 2021

Each week, I’ll catalog the biggest and most exciting adult and YA fiction — and the occasional nonfiction — coming out that Tuesday.

IMPOSTOR SYNDROME, Kathy Wang. A tense, electric novel about a Russian orphan who becomes a spy as the CEO of a Google-like tech company. Essential reading for anyone working in tech. I loved this book. Read an excerpt here. “This book is an impeccably-plotted and snarky page-turner, and its portrayal of Silicon Valley is so accurate that I laughed out loud a few times,” writes Susie Yang for Book of the Month. “Wang’s depictions of office politics and geopolitical dynamics are spot-on,” writes Publisher’s Weekly. Bookshop.

SCORPION, Christian Cantrell. When her daughter is killed in a tragic accident, a CIA analyst attempts to lose herself in a new case involving an international assassin who brands numerical codes into their victims’ flesh. In a starred review, Publisher’s Weekly calls it “stunning… The result is as entertaining as it is intellectually and ethically challenging.” Bookshop.