New Book Releases: September 14, 2021

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

MY SWEET GIRL, Amanda Jayatissa. An adoptee from Sri Lanka finds her life thrown into turmoil when she rents her spare room to a young Indian man, whom she finds dead in a pool of blood — and then he disappears. Read an excerpt here. Bookshop.

APPLES NEVER FALL, Liane Moriarty. From the author of Big Little Lies. A family of talented tennis players are put under the spotlight when a woman in need appears at their door, only to disappear without a trace soon thereafter. “Funny, sad, astute, occasionally creepy, and slyly irresistible,” writes Kirkus in a starred review. Aggregated critical reviews, Bookshop.

THE MISSING HOURS, Julia Dahl. A fast-paced, piercing evaluation of the aftermath of sexual assault, in which the wealthy daughter of a famous music producer and model seeks revenge after she’s raped and filmed at a party. Steph Cha calls it “a swift, heart-pounding novel about money and power and violation.” Bookshop.