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Great State

by Timothy Brook – Harper (March 17, 2020)

The world-renowned scholar and author of Vermeer’s Hat does for China what Mary Beard did for Rome in SPQR: Timothy Brook analyzes the last eight centuries of China’s relationship with the world in this...

The Operator

by Gretchen Berg – William Morrow (March 10, 2020)

"What if you could listen in on any phone conversation in town? With great humor and insight, The Operator by Gretchen Berg delivers a vivid look inside the heads and hearts of a group of housewives and pokes...

Blossoms and Bones

by Kim Krans – HarperOne (March 03, 2020)

Visionary artist and New York Times bestselling author of The Wild Unknown Kim Krans returns with a decadently illustrated and incredibly raw graphic memoir that chronicles her multi-layered search for truth...

The Lost Diary of M

by Paul Wolfe – Harper (February 25, 2020)

An engrossing debut novel that cannily reimagines the extraordinary life and mysterious death of bohemian Georgetown socialite Mary Pinchot Meyer— secret lover of JFK, ex-wife of a CIA chief, sexual adventurer,...

Short Life in a Strange World

by Toby Ferris – Harper (February 25, 2020)

Sure to be hailed alongside H is for Hawk and The Hare with Amber Eyes, an exceptional work that is at once an astonishing journey across countries and continents, an immersive examination of a great artist’s...

Scratched

by Elizabeth Tallent – Harper (February 25, 2020)

“Reading Scratched gave me the feeling of standing very close to a blazing fire. It is that brilliant, that intense, and one of the finest explorations I know of what it means to be a woman and an artist.”...

Black Boy [Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition]

by Richard Wright, John Edgar Wideman & Malcolm Wright – Harper Perennial Modern Classics (February 18, 2020)

A special 75th anniversary edition of Richard Wright's powerful and unforgettable memoir, with a new foreword by John Edgar Wideman and an afterword by Malcolm Wright, the author’s grandson.

When it exploded...

Home Making

by Lee Matalone – Harper Perennial (February 18, 2020)

The Millions Most Anticipated Books in February

"An intricate exploration of family and home, of mother and child, of friends, of women and written with both precision and style."—Weike Wang, author of Chemistry...

In the Land of Men

by Adrienne Miller – Ecco (February 11, 2020)

One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year: Vogue, Parade, Esquire, Bitch, and Maclean’s 

A New York Times and Washington Post Book to Watch 

A fiercely personal memoir about coming of age in the male-dominated...

The House of Yan

by Lan Yan & Sam Taylor – Harper Paperbacks (January 28, 2020)

Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family’s history through early 20th Century to present day.

The history of the Yan family is inseparable...

Children of the Land

by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo – Harper (January 28, 2020)

An Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, and LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2020

This unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and...

Secret Lives of Mothers & Daughters

by Anita Kushwaha – HarperAvenue (January 28, 2020)

A breathtaking novel about the ties that bind mothers and daughters together and the secrets that tear them apart.

Veena, Mala and Nandini are three very different women with something in common. Out of love,...

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

by Zora Neale Hurston – Amistad (January 14, 2020)

From “one of the greatest writers of our time” (Toni Morrison)—the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God—a collection of remarkable stories, including eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance...

All the Ways We Said Goodbye

by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig & Karen White – William Morrow (January 14, 2020)

The New York Times bestselling authors of The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room return with a glorious historical adventure that moves from the dark days of two World Wars to the turbulent years of the 1960s,...

Fabulous

by Lucy Hughes-Hallett – Harper (January 14, 2020)

From the author of the “sophisticated and erudite” Peculiar Ground (Boston Globe) comes a collection of classic, witty fables, elegantly updated for our modern times.

It's in the nature of myth to be infinitely...

The Gimmicks

by Chris McCormick – Harper (January 07, 2020)

“The Gimmicks is a gorgeous epic that astounds with its scope and beauty. With empathy and humor, McCormick unravels the ties between brotherhood and betrayal, love and abandonment, and the fictions we create...

Africaville

by Jeffrey Colvin – Amistad (December 10, 2019)

A ferociously talented writer makes his stunning debut with this richly woven tapestry, set in a small Nova Scotia town settled by former slaves, that depicts several generations of one family bound together...

The General Zapped an Angel

by Howard Fast – Ecco (December 03, 2019)

An imaginative, strange, and boldly inventive collection of stories from a singular mind, with a new introduction by Mark Harris

In The General Zapped an Angel, featuring nine supremely entertaining fantasy...

Anyone

by Charles Soule – Harper Perennial (December 03, 2019)

Soon to be adapted for television by Carnival, creators of Downton Abbey

An Indie Next Pick • A Science Fiction Book Club Pick 

Bestselling author of The Oracle Year, Charles Soule brings his signature knowledge—and...

Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read

by Virginia Woolf – TLS Books (November 28, 2019)

FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE

Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?

In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement...

Nothing to See Here

by Kevin WILSON – Ecco (October 29, 2019)

A New York Times Bestseller  •  A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, People, Entertainment Weekly, ...

The Hidden World of the Fox

by Adele Brand – William Morrow (October 22, 2019)

Discover the hidden world of the fabled yet enigmatic fox

“[An] ode to this familiar yet mysterious creature. … The sight of foxes can lift Brand's prose into poetry. ... Brand is by turns lyrical, salty,...

God Save the Queens

by Kathy Iandoli – Dey Street Books (October 22, 2019)

An NPR Best Books of 2019

Can’t Stop Won’t Stop meets Girls to the Front in this essential and long overdue history of hip-hop’s female pioneers and its enduring stars.

Every history of hip-hop previously...

I Hope You Get This Message

by Farah Naz Rishi – Quill Tree Books (October 22, 2019)

In this high concept YA novel debut that’s We All Looked Up meets The Sun Is Also a Star, three teens must face down the mistakes of their past after they learn that life on Earth might end in less than a...

The Blue Eye

The Khorasan Archives #3

by Ausma Zehanat Khan – Harper Voyager (October 22, 2019)

"Ultimately, it is the feminist themes that shine throughout that make this not only a worthwhile read for any fantasy fan, but a series that will stand the test of time. Khan has proved herself a master of...

It Would Be Night in Caracas

by Karina Sainz Borgo & Elizabeth Bryer – HarperVia (October 15, 2019)

As seen in the New York Times Book Review 

Told with gripping intensity, It Would be Night in Caracas chronicles one woman’s desperate battle to survive amid the dangerous, sometimes deadly, turbulence of...

The Art of Escapism Cooking

by Mandy Lee – William Morrow Cookbooks (October 15, 2019)

In this inventive and intensely personal cookbook, the blogger behind the award-winning ladyandpups.com reveals how she cooked her way out of an untenable living situation, with more than eighty delicious...

Escaping Exodus

by Nicky Drayden – Harper Voyager (October 15, 2019)

"Don't be alarmed - that dizzy pleasurable sensation you're experiencing is just your brain slowly exploding from all the wild magnificent worldbuilding in Nicky Drayden's Escaping Exodus. I loved these characters...

The Contender

by William J. Mann – Harper (October 15, 2019)

Entertainment Weekly's BIG FALL BOOKS PREVIEW Selection

Best Book of 2019 -- Publisher's Weekly

Based on new and revelatory material from Brando’s own private archives, an award-winning film biographer presents...

Sudden Traveler

by Sarah Hall – Custom House (October 08, 2019)

“[Hall is] beloved by readers for her gorgeous lyricism and ability to delve into unexpected and illuminating tales of what it means to be human." -- Stylist (UK) 

Featuring her signature themes of identity,...

The Personals

by Brian O’Connell – HarperCollins (October 03, 2019)

The Personals reveals how classified ads are not just a few commercial lines of text in print or online – they can be a treasure trove of fascinating human stories; stories of love, loss, loneliness, redemption...

Full Throttle

by Joe Hill – William Morrow (October 01, 2019)

A New York Times Bestseller

Thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including “In the Tall Grass,” one of two stories cowritten with Stephen King and the basis for the terrifying feature film...

The Dutch House

by Ann Patchett – Harper (September 24, 2019)

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

New York Times Bestseller | A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick | A New York Times Book Review Notable Book | TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019

Named...

Sontag

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 2020

by Benjamin Moser – Ecco (September 17, 2019)

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award

Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography

Named one of the Best Books of the Year by: O Magazine, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel...

Lost in the Spanish Quarter

by Heddi Goodrich – HarperVia (September 10, 2019)

As seen in the New York Times Book Review. 

Set in the passionate, intense, and crumbling neighborhood known as the Spanish Quarter of Naples, comes a tale of two students searching for love and belonging in...

The Divers' Game

by Jesse Ball – Ecco (September 10, 2019)

From the inimitable mind of award-winning author Jesse Ball, a novel about an unsettlingly familiar society that has renounced the concept of equality—and the devastating consequences of unmitigated power

The...

Worry

by Jessica Westhead – Harper Perennial (September 03, 2019)

A CBC BOOKS BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR

A riveting novel about a mother’s all-consuming worry for her child over forty-eight hours at a remote cottage with old friends and a mysterious neighbour, for fans...

Small Silent Things

by Robin Page – Harper Perennial (September 03, 2019)

One of Salon's Novels Coming in September You Won't Want to Miss

One of Medium's Most Exciting New Book Releases

 A lyrical, haunting debut that explores the power of parenthood, identity, lust, and the legacy...

To Be Taught, If Fortunate

by Becky Chambers – Harper Voyager (September 03, 2019)

“Extraordinary . . . A future sci-fi masterwork in a new and welcome tradition.” -- Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat

A stand-alone science fiction novella from the award-winning, bestselling, critically-acclaimed...

Doxology

by Nell Zink – Ecco (August 27, 2019)

Named a Best Book of the Year by:

The New York Times * New York Magazine * Lit Hub * TIME * O, the Oprah Magazine * Good Housekeeping

Two generations of an American family come of age—one before 9/11, one...

I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying

by Bassey Ikpi – Harper Perennial (August 06, 2019)

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

In I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying Bassey Ikpi explores her life—as a Nigerian-American immigrant, a black woman, a slam poet, a mother, a daughter, an artist—through...

Girl on the Block

by Jessica Wragg – Dey Street Books (August 06, 2019)

Gabrielle Hamilton meets April Bloomfield in a raw and rollicking memoir that pulls back the curtain on life as a female butcher.

When 16-year-old Jessica Wragg applied for a job at the local farm shop in her...

Lady in the Lake

by Laura Lippman – William Morrow (July 23, 2019)

A New York Times Bestseller!

The revered New York Times bestselling author returns with a novel set in 1960s Baltimore that combines modern psychological insights with elements of classic noir, about a middle-aged...

Screen Tests

by Kate Zambreno – Harper Perennial (July 23, 2019)

Best Book of 2019: Nylon, Domino, Bustle, Book Riot, Buzzfeed, Vol. 1 Brooklyn

A new work equal parts observational micro-fiction and cultural criticism reflecting on the dailiness of life as a woman and writer,...

The Golden Hour

by Beatriz Williams – William Morrow (July 09, 2019)

“The Golden Hour is pure golden delight Beatriz Williams is at the top of her game.” —Kate Quinn, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Alice Network

Beatriz Williams, the New York Times bestselling...

One Night in Georgia

by Celeste O. Norfleet – Amistad (June 18, 2019)

One of “The 17 Best Summer Reads of 2019” by Harper’s Bazaar!

Set in the summer of 1968, a provocative and devastating novel of individual lives caught in the grips of violent history—a timely and poignant...

The Tenth Muse

by Catherine Chung – Ecco (June 18, 2019)

A RECOMMENDED BOOK FROM:

Los Angeles Times * USA Today * O, the Oprah Magazine * Buzzfeed * The Rumpus * Entertainment Weekly * Elle * BBC * Christian Science Monitor * Electric Literature * The Millions *...

Collected Fables

by James Thurber – Harper Perennial Modern Classics (June 11, 2019)

"James Thurber was a comedic genius. His fables are not simply parodies of Aesop. They are wry, accurate, and powerful reflections of ourselves, our foibles, our follies, and, above all, our self-importance....

The Volunteer

Costa Book Award for Biography 2019

by Jack Fairweather – Custom House (June 04, 2019)

COSTA BOOK AWARD WINNER: BOOK OF THE YEAR • #1 SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER

“Superbly written and breathtakingly researched, The Volunteer smuggles us into Auschwitz and shows us—as if watching a movie—the...

This Time Will Be Different

by Misa Sugiura – HarperTeen (June 04, 2019)

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book * A 2020 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection

For fans of Jenny Han, Morgan Matson, and Sandhya Menon, critically acclaimed author Misa Sugiura delivers a richly crafted contemporary...