This Week's Starred Reviews from Publishers Weekly

Fiction:

The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith
Publisher: Random/Hogarth
Hardcover
Published date: February 2016
Orig. price: $21
Print run: unknown

*starred and boxed review


Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey
Publisher: Little Brown
Hardcover
Published date: February 9, 2016
Orig. price: $25
Print run: unknown

*starred and boxed review

Mystery / Thriller:

Time of Departure by Douglas Schofield
Publisher: Minotaur
Hardcover
Published date: December 1, 2015
Orig. price: $24.99
Print run: unknown

This is Schofield's debut novel.


The Werewolf of Bamberg: A Hangman's Daughter's Tale by Oliver Potzsch, translated by Lee Chadeayne
Publisher: HMH / Mariner
Trade paper
Published date: December 29, 2015
Orig. price: $18
Print run: unknown


House of the Rising Sun by James Lee Burke
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Hardcover
Published date: December 1, 2015
Orig. price: $27.99
Print run: unknown

*starred and boxed review.


The Chessman by Dolores  Gordon-Smith
Publisher: Severn
Hardcover
Published date: December 1, 2015
Orig. price: $28.95
Print run: unknown

Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Horror

The Immortals by Jordanna Max Brodsky
Publisher: Orbit
Hardcover
Published date: February 16, 2016
Orig. price: $25
Print run: unknown

*starred and boxed review.
This is Brodsky's debut novel and the first installment of the Olympus Bound series.

Beneath an Oil Dark Sea: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan, Vol. 2 by Caitlin R. Kiernan
Publisher: Subterranean Press
Hardcover
Published date: November 30, 2015
Orig. price: $45
Print run:  600 signed, limited; unknown trade edition

Extinction Game by Gary Gibson
Publisher: Pan / Macmillan
Trade paper
Published date: October 1, 2015
Orig. price: $14.95
Print run: unknown

Medusa's Web by Tim Powers
Publisher: Morrow
Hardcover
Published date: January 19, 2016
Orig. price: $26.99
Print run: unknown

*Signature boxed review (not starred)

Theatre of the Gods by M. Suddain
Publisher: Random House U.K.
Trade paper
Published date: June 2013
Orig. price: $18.95
Print run: unknown