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Hollywood Park

by Mikel Jollett – Celadon Books (May 25, 2020)

"A Gen-X This Boy's Life...Music and his fierce brilliance boost Jollett; a visceral urge to leave his background behind propels him to excel... In the end, Jollett shakes off the past to become the captain...

Untold Night and Day

by Bae Suah – The Overlook Press (May 04, 2020)

A seductive, disorienting novel that manipulates the fragile line between dreams and reality, by South Korea's leading contemporary writer

A startling and boundary-pushing novel, Untold Night and Day tells...

Fracture

by Andrés Neuman, Nick Caistor & Lorenza Garcia – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (May 04, 2020)

Critically acclaimed, prize-winning author Andrés Neuman's Fracture is an ambitious literary novel set against Japan's 2011 nuclear accident in a cross-cultural story about how every society remembers and forgets...

Philosopher of the Heart

by Clare Carlisle – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (May 04, 2020)

Philosopher of the Heart is the groundbreaking biography of renowned existentialist Søren Kierkegaard's life and creativity, and a searching exploration of how to be a human being in the world.

Søren Kierkegaard...

Scandinavian Noir

by Wendy Lesser – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (May 04, 2020)

"Even those unmoved by its subject will thrill to [Scandinavian Noir], a beautifully crafted inquiry into fiction, reality, crime and place . . . Perhaps when it comes to fiction and reality, what we need most...

Pelosi

by Molly Ball – Henry Holt and Co. (May 04, 2020)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

An intimate, fresh perspective on the most powerful woman in American political history, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, by award-winning political journalist Molly Ball

She's the iconic...

Telephone

by Percival Everett – Graywolf Press (May 04, 2020)

An astonishing new novel of loss and grief from "one of our culture's preeminent novelists" (Los Angeles Times)

Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow...

A Gift for a Ghost

by Borja Gonzalez – Abrams ComicArts (May 04, 2020)

An untalented punk band and a parallel dimension--what could go wrong?

In Borja González's stunning graphic novel, two parallel stories reflect and intertwine in a tale of youthful dreams and desires. In...

The Celestial Hunter

by Roberto Calasso & Richard Dixon – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (April 27, 2020)

"[Calasso's] flow of associations leaves you feeling not out of your depth, but smarter and better read." --The New York Times Book Review

The eighth part of Roberto Calasso's monumental series on the primal...

All Boys Aren't Blue

by George M. Johnson – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr) (April 27, 2020)

In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his...

Everything Is Under Control

by Phyllis Grant – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (April 20, 2020)

"In epigrammatic, nearly poetic diction, Grant . . . reminds us of how transformative the junctures where food and life collide can be." --The New York Times Book Review

"What a beautiful, rich, and poetic memoir...

Man of My Time

by Dalia Sofer – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (April 13, 2020)

"Finely wrought, a master class in the layering of time and contradiction that gives us a deeply imagined, and deeply human, soul." --Rebecca Makkai, The New York Times Book Review

"A brilliant, gripping account...

The Address Book

by Deirdre Mask – St. Martin's Press (April 13, 2020)

An extraordinary debut in the tradition of classic works from authors such as Mark Kurlansky, Mary Roach, and Rose George.

An exuberant and insightful work of popular history of how streets got their names, houses...

The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria

by Greg King & Penny Wilson – St. Martin's Press (April 06, 2020)

In the tradition of Erik Larson's Dead Wake comes The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria, about the sinking of the glamorous Italian ocean liner, including never-before-seen photos of the wreck today.

In 1956, a...

American Harvest

by Marie Mutsuki Mockett – Graywolf Press (April 06, 2020)

An epic story of the American wheat harvest, the politics of food, and the culture of the Great Plains

For over one hundred years, the Mockett family has owned a seven-thousand-acre wheat farm in the panhandle...

The Dominant Animal

by Kathryn Scanlan – Mcd x Fsg Originals (April 06, 2020)

A collection of innovative and ambitious short stories from a visionary young literary artist

In The Dominant Animal--Kathryn Scanlan's adventurous, unsettling debut collection--compression is key. Sentences...

Assume Nothing

by Tanya Selvaratnam – Henry Holt and Co. (April 06, 2020)

A combination of memoir, reporting, and research, Assume Nothing is an urgent, timely examination of a frightening type of abuse of power. It tells Tanya Selvaratnam's incredible story, while offering tools...

Hollywood Double Agent

by Jonathan Gill – Abrams Press (April 06, 2020)

The Cold War and the Golden Age of Hollywood meet in this story of the remarkable career of Boris Morros, ï¬?lm producer and Russian double agent

Boris Morros was a major figure in the 1930s and '40s....

Starling Days

by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan – The Overlook Press (April 06, 2020)

The moving new novel by the author of Harmless Like You, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and NPR Great Read

On their first date, Mina told Oscar that she was bisexual, vegetarian, and on meds....

A Fanatic Heart

by Edna O'Brien – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (March 30, 2020)

In these selections from twenty years of her best short fiction, Edna O'Brien's A Fanatic Heart pulls the reader into a woman's experience.

Her stories portray a young Irish girl's view of obsessive love and...

Like Flies from Afar

by K. Ferrari & Adrian Nathan West – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (March 23, 2020)

"This novel should come not with blurbs but with a hazardous-material warning: There's bone and gristle here, be ready for that taste in your mouth you can't spit out. First words to last, it's strong stuff."...

A Bond Undone

by Jin Yong & Gigi Chang – St. Martin's Press (March 23, 2020)

A Bond Undone is the second book in Jin Yong's epic Chinese classic and phenomenon Legends of Condor Heroes series, published in the US for the first time!

In the Jin capital of Zhongdu, Guo Jing learns the truth...

The Empress of Salt and Fortune

The Singing Hills Cycle #1

by Nghi Vo – Tor.com (March 23, 2020)

"Dangerous, subtle, unexpected and familiar, angry and ferocious and hopeful... The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a remarkable accomplishment of storytelling."--NPR

A Paste Most Anticipated Novel of 2020

A Library...

American Rebels

by Nina Sankovitch – St. Martin's Press (March 23, 2020)

Nina Sankovitch's American Rebels explores, for the first time, the intertwined lives of the Hancock, Quincy, and Adams families, and the role each person played in sparking the American Revolution.

Before they...

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...

Later

by Paul Lisicky – Graywolf Press (March 16, 2020)

A stunning portrait of community, identity, and sexuality by the critically acclaimed author of The Narrow Door

When Paul Lisicky arrived in Provincetown in the early 1990s, he was leaving behind a history of...

Hearts of Oak

by Eddie Robson – Tor.com (March 16, 2020)

"[Hearts of Oak packs in] the sort of profound and lacerating laughter that Robson's countrymen Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett perfected." -NPR

Hearts of Oak is a delightful science fiction adventure from...

Pride of Eden

by Taylor Brown – St. Martin's Press (March 16, 2020)

The enthralling new novel from the acclaimed author of Fallen Land, The River of Kings, and Gods of Howl Mountain

Retired racehorse jockey and Vietnam veteran Anse Caulfield rescues exotic big cats, elephants,...

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...

The Mirror & the Light

Thomas Cromwell #3

by Hilary Mantel – Henry Holt and Co. (March 09, 2020)

The brilliant #1 New York Times bestseller

With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up...

Beyond the Sea

by Paul Lynch – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (March 09, 2020)

"Beyond the Sea is frightening but beautiful." --M John Harrison, The Guardian

The haunting story of two men stranded at sea pushing against their physical and mental limits to stay alive

Based partly on true...

You Will Never Be Forgotten

by Mary South – Fsg Originals (March 09, 2020)

In this provocative, bitingly funny debut collection, people attempt to use technology to escape their uncontrollable feelings of grief or rage or despair, only to reveal their most flawed and human selves

An...

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...

Thin Places

by Jordan Kisner – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (March 02, 2020)

A Los Angeles Times Bestseller

A Lit Hub | Chicago Review | Ms. Magazine March pick

A Lambda Literary Most Anticipated Book

In this perceptive and provocative essay collection, an award-winning writer shares her...

Approaching Eye Level

by Vivian Gornick – Picador (March 02, 2020)

Seminal essays on loneliness, living in New York, friendship, feminism, and writing from nonfiction master Vivian Gornick

Vivian Gornick's Approaching Eye Level is a brave collection of personal essays that finds...

Postcolonial Love Poem

by Natalie Diaz – Graywolf Press (March 02, 2020)

Natalie Diaz's highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American Book Award

Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz's brilliant second collection...

Docile

by K.M. Szpara – Tor.com (March 02, 2020)

K. M. Szpara's Docile is a science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a challenging tour de force that at turns seduces and startles.

There is no consent under capitalism....

The Exhibition of Persephone Q

by Jessi Jezewska Stevens – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (March 02, 2020)

A WALL STREET JOURNAL AND VOGUE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2020

"A triumph of tone and intelligence. Percy Q's perspective is skewed and searching at once, and through her eyes, we see afresh not only New York's...

The End of the Novel of Love

by Vivian Gornick – Picador (March 02, 2020)

A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Vivian Gornick's The End of the Novel of Love explores the meaning of love and marriage as literary themes in the twentieth century.

In The...

Anna K

by Jenny Lee – Flatiron Books (March 02, 2020)

A national indie bestseller! Meet Anna K: every happy teenage girl is the same, while every unhappy teenage girl is miserable in her own special way...

At seventeen, Anna K is at the top of Manhattan and Greenwich...

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...

Indelicacy

by Amina Cain – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (February 10, 2020)

"Indelicacy isn't merely a book, it's a world; a world I wanted to live in, forever . . . Arch, yet warm; aspiring and impervious; confiding and enigmatic; reposing and intrepid; Cain has conjured a protagonist...

The Gnome Stories

by Ander Monson – Graywolf Press (February 03, 2020)

An unsettling, wildly imaginative collection of stories

The Gnome Stories focuses on characters who are loners in the truest sense; who are in the process of recovering from mental, physical, or emotional trauma;...

I Will Take the Answer

by Ander Monson – Graywolf Press (February 03, 2020)

A moving and wide-ranging collection of essays by the author of Letter to a Future Lover

The idea of connection permeates I Will Take the Answer, Ander Monson's fourth book of utterly original and intelligent...

Unfinished Business

by Vivian Gornick – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (February 03, 2020)

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her life

I sometimes think I was born reading . . . I can't remember...