New Book Releases: November 17, 2020

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

A PROMISED LAND, Barack Obama. The first volume of Barack Obama’s presidential memoirs. “Barack Obama is as fine a writer as they come,” writes Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in the New York Times. Aggregated critical reviews, Bookshop.

EARTHEATER, Dolores Reyes, Julia Sanches (Translator). In an Argentinian slum, a young woman develops a compulsion to eat soil, a habit that gives her visions of broken lives, including those of her murdered mother. Kirkus calls it “compelling and visceral.” Bookshop.

THE LADY UPSTAIRS, Halley Sutton. When one of her targets is murdered, a professional blackmailer decides to take on one last job — behind the back of her dangerous, mysterious boss, known as The Lady Upstairs. (The audiobook version is narrated by Bahni Turpin, who is the absolute best.) “A scorching, knockout noir from an author to watch,” writes Kirkus in a starred review. Aggregated critical reviews, Bookshop.

THE ORCHARD, David Hopen. When an Orthodox Jewish teenager moves to Miami with his family, he falls in…