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Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
Ada Calhoun - Grove Press
Format: Book
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A staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poet. When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted... |
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The Book of Goose: A Novel
YIYUN LI - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A magnificent, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school, to the quiet Pennsylvania home where a woman can live without her past, The Book of Goose is a story of disturbing intimacy and obsession, of exploitation and strength of will,... |
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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
MARGARET A BURNHAM - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book
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A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow-era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy, from a renowned legal scholar. If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law? In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham,... |
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Calling for a Blanket Dance
Oscar Hokeah - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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A moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man finding strength in his familial identity, from a stellar new voice in fiction. Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives... |
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The Candy House
Jennifer Egan - Thorndike Press
Format: Large Print
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From one of the most celebrated writers of our time, a literary figure with cult status, a "sibling novel" to her Pulitzer Prize and NBCC Award-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad - an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity and meaning in a world... |
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Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Margo Jefferson - Pantheon
Format: Book
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and memoirist Margo Jefferson has lived in the thrall of a cast of others - her parents and maternal grandmother, jazz luminaries, writers, artists, athletes, and stars. These are the figures who thrill and trouble her, and who have made up her sense... |
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Demon Copperhead: A Novel
BARBARA KINGSOLVER - Harper
Format: Book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behavior, a brilliant novel which enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity. "Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked... |
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Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons
Jeremy Denk - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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In Every Good Boy Does Fine, renowned pianist Jeremy Denk traces an implausible journey. His life is already a little tough as a precocious, temperamental six-year-old piano prodigy in New Jersey, and then a family meltdown forces a move to New Mexico. There, Denk must please a new taskmaster,... |
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Four Treasures of the Sky: A Novel
Jenny Tinghui Zhang - Flatiron Books
Format: Book
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A propulsive and dazzling debut novel set against the backdrop of the Chinese Exclusion Act, about a Chinese girl fighting to claim her place in the 1880s American West. Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak.... |
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Greenland: A Novel
David Santos Donaldson - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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"David Santos Donaldson's Greenland is profoundly entertaining and full of emotion, humor, pain, and wisdom. His narrator dances in a hall of mirrors but he doesn't dance alone - he is joined by his husband, his best female friend Concha, E. M. Forster, Forster's Black... |
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How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel
Sequoia Nagamatsu - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague - a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending... |
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If I survive you
Jonathan Escoffery - MCD ; Farrar
Format: Book
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A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family striving for more in Miami, and introduces a generational storyteller. In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But America, as the couple and their two children... |
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong - Random House
Format: Book
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A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive the world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes.The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes,... |
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The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir
Karen Cheung - Random House
Format: Book
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A boldly rendered and deeply intimate account of Hong Kong today, from a resilient young woman whose stories explore what it means to survive in a city teeming with broken promises.
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The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Meghan O'Rourke - Riverhead Books
Format: Book
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A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise of chronic illness and autoimmune diseases. A silent epidemic of chronic illnesses afflicts tens of millions of Americans: these are diseases that are poorly understood, frequently marginalized,... |
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Joan Is Okay: A Novel
Weike Wang - Random House
Format: Book
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A hard-charging ICU physician at a New York City hospital, Joan feels deeply appreciated by her colleagues and somewhat pushed about by her Chinese immigrant parents, who returned from America to China once their children were grown. Now, with her mother visiting and a terrible health... |
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The Kingdom of Sand: A Novel
Andrew Holleran - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Book
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Andrew Holleran's unique literary voice is on full display in this poignant story of lust, dread, and desire - the first novel in thirteen years from one of the most acclaimed gay authors of our time. The Kingdom of Sand features a nameless narrator who has survived the death... |
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The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir
Ingrid Rojas Contreras - Doubleday
Format: Book
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For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political violence of 1980s and '90s Colombia, in a house bustling with her mother's fortune-telling clients, she was a hard child to surprise. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community... |
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The Marriage Portrait: A novel
Maggie O'Farrell - Knopf
Format: Book
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From the author of the breakout New York Times best seller Hamnet - winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award - an electrifying new novel set in Renaissance Italy, and centering on the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de Medici. Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter... |
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Night of the Living Rez
Morgan Talty - Tin House Books
Format: Paperback
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A Good Housekeeping Best Book of Summer 2022 and a Most Anticipated Book of the Year at LitHub "I am not predicting literary success for Morgan Talty, I am guaranteeing it. He is a fascinating and powerful and singular writer." - Rick Bass, author of For a Little While... |
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Our Wives Under the Sea: A Novel
Julia Armfield - Flatiron Books
Format: Book
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Fathomlessly inventive and original, Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea is a portrait of marriage as we've never seen it before. "A wonderful novel, deeply romantic and fabulously strange. I loved this book." - Sarah Waters "Without a doubt, one of the best... |
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The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy
Format: Book
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The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding,... |
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Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
Elizabeth Williamson - Dutton
Format: Book
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Based on hundreds of hours of research, interviews, and access to exclusive sources and materials, Sandy Hook is Elizabeth Williamson’s landmark investigation of the aftermath of a school shooting, the work of Sandy Hook parents who fought to defend themselves, and the truth... |
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The School for Good Mothers: A Novel
Jessamine Chan - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Frida Liu is struggling. She doesn't have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents' sacrifices. She can't persuade her husband, Gust, to give up his wellness-obsessed younger mistress. Only with Harriet, their cherubic daughter, does Frida finally attain the perfection... |
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Sea of Tranquility: A novel
Emily St. John Mandel - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing... |
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Seeking Fortune Elsewhere
Sindya Bhanoo - Catapult
Format: Book
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These intimate stories of South Indian immigrants and the families they left behind center women’s lives and ask how women both claim and surrender power. A stunning debut collection from an O. Henry Prize winner
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Solito: A Memoir
JAVIER ZAMORA - Hogarth
Format: Book
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A young poet tells the unforgettable story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this moving, page-turning memoir hailed as "the mythic journey of our era" (Sandra Cisneros). Trip. My parents started using that word about a year... |
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Stay True: A Memoir
Hua Hsu - Doubleday
Format: Book
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From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken - with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity... |
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Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm: A Novel
Laura Warrell - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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Passion and risk, fathers and daughters, wives and single women, jazz and soul: a provocative debut novel about the perennial temptations of dangerous love, told by the women who love Circus Palmer - trumpet player and old-school ladies' man - as they ultimately discover the power of their... |
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The Swimmers: A novel
Julie Otsuka - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The swimmers are unknown to one another except through their private routines (slow lane, medium lane, fast lane) and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out into an unforgiving world without comfort... |
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The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
Ben Rawlence - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book
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For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. Ben Rawlence's The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, Canada to Sweden to meet the scientists, residents... |
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Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
Rachel E. Gross - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book
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A scientific journey to the center of the new female body. The Latin term for the female genitalia, pudendum, means "parts for which you should be ashamed." Until 1651, ovaries were called female testicles. The fallopian tubes are named for a man. Named, claimed, and shamed:... |
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The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
Steven W. Thrasher - Celadon Books
Format: Book
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From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful and crucial exploration of one of the most pressing issues of our times: how viruses expose the fault lines of society. Having spent a ground-breaking career studying the racialization,... |
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What We Fed to the Manticore
Talia Lakshmi Kolluri - Tin House Books
Format: Paperback
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What We Fed to the Manticore takes readers inside the minds of a full cast of animal narrators to understand the triumphs, heartbreaks, and complexities of the creatures that share our world.Through nine emotionally vivid stories, all narrated from animal perspectives, Talia Lakshmi... |
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Young Mungo
Douglas Stuart - Grove Press
Format: Book
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Douglas Stuart's first novel Shuggie Bain is one of the most successful literary debuts of the century so far. It was awarded the 2020 Booker Prize, and is now published or forthcoming in 40 territories, having already sold more than a million copies worldwide. Now Stuart... |
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