11 New Books We Recommend This Week | Book Review - New York Times

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Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times by Gregory Cowles, Senior Editor, Books. 

Lovers of suspense fiction, take heart: The thrill is not gone. Nine of this week’s 11 recommended titles come from the Book Review’s recent issue devoted to the thriller genre, from bankers lured into a deadly elevator (“The Escape Room”) to Chinese crime bosses (“Beijing Payback”) to a young mother worried about a possible intruder (“The Need”).

If you’re more accustomed to finding your thrills in language and those who immerse themselves in it, then you might want to pick up Gretchen McCulloch’s “Because Internet” or the love letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, which prove Scott wasn’t the only writer in that marriage, and maybe not even the best.

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Source: New York Times