New Book Releases: October 13, 2020

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

THE ONCE AND FUTURE WITCHES, Alix E. Harrow. In 1893 New Salem, a group of suffragists teach themselves the lost art of witchcraft. From the author of the beloved The Ten Thousand Doors of January. Read an excerpt here. Bookshop.

ATTACK SURFACE, Cory Doctorow. A counterterrorism wizard who occasionally assists targets she views as righteous terrorists is forced to choose a side when her work starts hitting close to home. Bookshop.

A LOVER’S DISCOURSE, Xiaolu Guo. A Chinese expat in London and her architect boyfriend navigate their relationship and their differences in this novel that the Asian Review of Books calls “moving and affecting.” Aggregated critical reviews, Bookshop.

BLACK SUN, Rebecca Roanhorse. A songstress ship captain and her blind passenger must face a solar eclipse that portends a great worldly unbalancing. In a starred review, Kirkus called it “the next big thing.” Bookshop.