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    Buzz Books 2019: Spring/Summer: Excerpts from next season's best new titles by Liv Constantine, Karl Marlantes, Moby, J. Ryan Stradal, Ocean Vuong and more
    Buzz Books 2019: Spring/Summer: Excerpts from next season's best new titles by Liv Constantine, Karl Marlantes, Moby, J. Ryan Stradal, Ocean Vuong and more
    Buzz Books 2019: Spring/Summer: Excerpts from next season's best new titles by Liv Constantine, Karl Marlantes, Moby, J. Ryan Stradal, Ocean Vuong and more
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    Buzz Books 2019: Spring/Summer: Excerpts from next season's best new titles by Liv Constantine, Karl Marlantes, Moby, J. Ryan Stradal, Ocean Vuong and more

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    Start off a new year of reading discoveries with substantial excerpts from 44 Buzz Books due to be published in the months ahead.
    Be among the first to get a taste of new fiction from bestselling authors including Cecelia Ahern, with a feminist story collection; Liv Constantine, the pen name of sisters Lynne Constantine and Valerie Constantine; Costa Award-winner Sadie Jones, who has written a psychological thriller; and J. Ryan Stradal’s follow up to his popular Kitchens of the Great Midwest. Karl Marlantes, author of bestselling nonfiction is represented by a novel about the Vietnam War, while Sarah Blake, Lauren Denton, Tracey Garvis Graves, and Katherine Reay will make their fans happy with new titles. Literary buffs will be delighted to read new work by T.C. Boyle, Madeline ffitch, and Nell Zink.
    The new Buzz Books includes a record number of exciting debuts. Critically acclaimed poet Ocean Vuong’s first novel bridges Vietnam and America. Melanie Golding’s mystery, Little Darlings, already has been optioned for film, while Kira Jane Buxton’s Hollow Kingdom, has been sold to AMC for its first animated TV series.
    Our always fascinating nonfiction section is memoir heavy this time around. Obama insider Valerie Jarrett shares her experience in the White House, while musician Moby has written a second autobiographical volume.
    For still more great previews, check out our separate Buzz Books 2019: Young Adult Spring/Summer. For complete download links, lists and more, visit buzz.publishersmarketplace.com.
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    PublisherPublishers Lunch
    Release dateJan 16, 2019
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    Buzz Books 2019: Spring/Summer: Excerpts from next season's best new titles by Liv Constantine, Karl Marlantes, Moby, J. Ryan Stradal, Ocean Vuong and more

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      Buzz Books 2019 - Publishers Lunch

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      Contents

      Introduction

      The Spring/Summer 2019 Publishing Preview

      Buzz Books Authors Appearing At Winter Institute

      Part One: Fiction

      Cecelia Ahern, Roar (Grand Central Publishing)

      Mona Awad, Bunny (Viking)

      Sarah Blake, The Guest Book (Flatiron Books)

      T. C. Boyle, Outside Looking In (Ecco)

      Halle Butler, The New Me (Penguin Books)

      Liv Constantine, The Last Time I Saw You (Harper)

      Lauren Denton, Glory Road (Thomas Nelson)

      M.T. Edvardsson, A Nearly Normal Family (Celadon)

      Madeline Ffitch, Stay and Fight (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

      Tracey Garvis Graves, The Girl He Used to Know (St. Martin’s Press)

      Mohammed Hanif, Red Birds (Black Cat)

      Sadie Jones, The Snakes (Harper)

      Karl Marlantes, Deep River (Atlantic Monthly Press)

      Katherine Reay, The Printed Letter Bookshop (Thomas Nelson)

      Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, (Sourcebooks Landmark)

      Dominic Smith, The Electric Hotel, (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

      J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota (Viking)

      Annie Ward, Beautiful Bad (Park Row)

      Nell Zink, Doxology (Ecco)

      Part Two: Debut

      Sarah Blake, Naamah (Riverhead)

      Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom (Grand Central Publishing)

      Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton (Harper)

      Kate Davies, In at the Deep End (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

      Karen Dukess, The Last Book Party (Henry Holt)

      Susan Forest, Bursts of Fire (Laksa Media)

      Melanie Golding, Little Darlings (Crooked Lane Books)

      Juliet Grames, The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna (Ecco)

      Kimi Cunningham Grant, Fallen Mountains (Amberjack)

      Elizabeth Hardinger, All The Forgivenesses (Kensington)

      Alan Hlad, The Long Flight Home (Kensington)

      Diane C. Mcphail, The Abolitionist’s Daughter (Kensington)

      Alex North, The Whisper Man (Celadon Books)

      Hazel Prior, Ellie and the Harpmaker (Berkley)

      Maura Roosevelt, Baby of The Family (Dutton)

      Richard Roper, How Not to Die Alone (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

      Sarah Elaine Smith, Marilou Is Everywhere (Riverhead)

      Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press)

      Part Three: Nonfiction

      Jaed Coffin, Roughouse Friday (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

      Tan France, Naturally Tan: A Memoir (St. Martin’s)

      Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

      Valerie Jarrett, Finding My Voice (Viking)

      Meredith May, The Honey Bus (Park Row Books)

      Moby, Then It Fell Apart (Faber and Faber)

      Iliana Regan, Burn the Place (Agate Midway)

      Credits

      Copyright

      Introduction

      Our biannual Buzz Books captures all the excitement of Winter Institute and takes it much further. Start off a year of new reading discoveries with substantial excerpts from 44 talked about Buzz Books due to be published in the months ahead.

      Be among the first to get a taste of new fiction from bestselling authors including Cecelia Ahern, with a fiercely feminist story collection; Liv Constantine, the pen name of sisters Lynne Constantine and Valerie Constantine; Costa Award-winner Sadie Jones, who has written a psychological thriller; and J. Ryan Stradal’s follow up to his popular Kitchens of the Great Midwest. Karl Marlantes, author of bestselling nonfiction Matterhorn and What It Is Like to Go to War is represented by a novel about the Vietnam War, while Sarah Blake, Lauren Denton, Tracey Garvis Graves, and Katherine Reay will make their fans happy with new titles.

      Literary buffs will be delighted to read new work by T.C. Boyle, Madeline ffitch, and Nell Zink.

      The new Buzz Books includes a record number (18!) of exciting debuts. Critically acclaimed poet and Whiting Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize winner Ocean Vuong’s first novel bridges Vietnam and America. Melanie Golding’s mystery, Little Darlings, already has been optioned for film, while Kira Jane Buxton’s Hollow Kingdom, has been sold to AMC for its first animated TV series. Juliet Grames, Associate Publisher at Soho Press, writes about an Italian-American family in The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna. Among other debuts are historical fiction by Sara Collins, Alan Hlad, and Diane C. McPhail and mysteries/thrillers by Alex North and Sarah Elaine Smith.

      Our always fascinating nonfiction section is memoir heavy this time around. Obama insider Valerie Jarrett shares her experience in the White House, while musician, restaurateur, and photographer Moby has written a second autobiographical volume. Other memoirs range from boxing to beekeeping, talk therapy to food therapy in their subject matter.

      Regular readers know that each Buzz Books collection is filled with early looks at titles that will go on to top the bestseller lists and critics’ best of the year lists. And our comprehensive seasonal preview starts the book off with a curated overview of hundreds of notable books on the way later this year.

      While Buzz Books feels like your own insider access to book publishing, these collections are meant to be shared, so spread your enthusiasm and to be read picks online. For still more great previews, check out our separate Buzz Books 2019: Young Adult Spring/Summer as well. For complete download links, lists and more, just visit buzz.publishersmarketplace.com.

      The Spring/Summer 2019 Publishing Preview

      To help you sift through the many thousands of planned spring and summer titles, we’ve selected what we think are among the most noteworthy literary, commercial, and breakout titles for adults, separated into four key categories.

      You’ll be able to sample many of the highlighted titles right now in Buzz Books 2019: Spring/Summer; they are noted with an asterisk. And please remember: because we prepare this preview many months in advance, titles, content, and publication dates are all subject to change.

      Fiction

      There are plenty of notable names with new books out this fall, including titles from Karen Russell, Colson Whitehead, Elizabeth Gilbert, and more. The list also includes new releases from a roster of emerging voices such as Mona Awad (excerpted in our sampler) and Chanelle Benz.

      The Notables

      T.C. Boyle, Outside Looking In (Ecco, 4/9)*

      Edwidge Danticat, Everything Inside: Stories (Knopf, 8/27)

      James Ellroy, This Storm (Knopf, 6/4)

      Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls (Riverhead, 6/4) – A novel from the author of Eat, Pray, Love.

      Myla Goldberg, Feast Your Eyes (Scribner, 4/16)

      Mark Haddon, The Porpoise (Doubleday, 6/18)

      Daniel Handler, Bottle Grove (Bloomsbury, 8/27)

      Amy Hempel, Sing to It (Scribner, 3/26) – Her first collection in more than a decade.

      Chuck Klosterman, Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction (Penguin Press, 7/16)

      Javier Marias, Berta Isla (Knopf, 8/6)

      Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me (Nan A. Talese, 4/23)

      Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a Rat (Ecco, 6/4)

      Sally Rooney, Normal People (Hogarth, 4/16)

      Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories (Knopf, 6/18)

      Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Riverhead, 8/13) – The next book from the Man Booker International-winning author of Flights.

      Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys (Doubleday, 7/16) – Whitehead’s follow-up to his Pulitzer and National Book Award winning Underground Railroad.

      Nell Zink, Doxology (Ecco, 8/27)*

      Highly Anticipated

      Kathleen Alcott, America Was Hard to Find (Ecco, 5/14)

      Jen Beagin, Vacuum in the Dark (Scribner, 2/26) – The sophomore novel from the Whiting Award-winning author of Pretend I’m Dead.

      Margaret Busby, New Daughters of Africa (Amistad, 5/7)

      Philip Caputo, Hunter’s Moon (Henry Holt, 8/6)

      Catherine Chung, The Tenth Muse (Ecco, 6/18)

      Clare Clark, In the Full Light of the Sun (HMH, 7/9)

      Nicole Dennis-Benn, Patsy (Liveright, 6/4)

      Marcy Dermansky, Very Nice (Knopf, 7/2)

      Siri Hustvedt, Memories of the Future (Simon & Schuster, 3/19)

      Sadie Jones, The Snakes (Harper, 6/25)*

      Karl Marlantes, Deep River (Atlantic Monthly, 7/2)*

      Courtney Maum, Costalegre (Tin House, 7/2) – From the author of Touch and I’m Having So Much Fun Here Without You.

      Mary Miller, Biloxi (Liveright, 5/21)

      Howard Norman, The Ghost Clause (HMH, 7/2)

      Yoko Ogawa, The Memory Police (Pantheon, 8/13)

      Alix Ohlin, Dual Citizens (Knopf 6/4)

      Peter Orner, Maggie Brown & Others: Stories (Little, Brown, 7/2)

      Michael Parker, Prairie Fever (Algonquin, 5/21)

      Helen Phillips, The Need (Simon & Schuster, 7/9)

      Roxana Robinson, Dawson’s Fall (Sarah Crichton, 5/7)

      John Burnham Schwartz, The Red Daughter (Random House, 4/30)

      Dominic Smith, The Electric Hotel (Sarah Crichton, 6/4)*

      David Szalay, Turbulence (Scribner, 7/16)

      Ludmila Ulitskaya, Jacob’s Ladder (FSG, 7/9)

      Emerging Voices

      Edoardo Albinati, The Catholic School (FSG, 8/6)

      Mona Awad, Bunny (Viking 6/11)*

      Chanelle Benz, The Gone Dead (Ecco, 7/25) – The first novel from the author of short story collection The Man Who Shot My Eye Out Is Dead.

      Nickolas Butler, Little Faith (Ecco, 3/5)

      Oscar Cásares, Where We Come From (Knopf, 5/21)

      Jennifer duBois, The Spectators (Random House, 4/2)

      Madeline ffitch, Stay and Fight (FSG, 7/9)*

      Adam Foulds, Dream Sequence (FSG, 5/14)

      Grant Ginder, Honestly, We Meant Well (Flatiron, 6/11)

      Helon Habila, Travelers (Norton, 6/18)

      Rajia Hassib, A Pure Heart (Viking, 8/6)

      Tupelo Hassman, Gods with a little g (FSG, 8/13)

      CJ Hauser, Family of Origin (Doubleday, 7/16)

      Lisa Howorth, Summerlings (Doubleday, 8/6)

      Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting (Viking, 5/14)

      Mary Beth Keane, Ask Again, Yes (Scribner, 6/4)

      Lauren Mechling, How Could She (Viking, 6/25)

      Robert Menasse, The Capital (Liveright, 6/18)

      Mohammed Hanif, Red Birds (Black Cat, 5/14)

      Graham Norton, A Keeper Atria (8/13)

      Adam O’Fallon Price, The Hotel Neversink (Tin House, 8/6)

      Anna Pitoniak, Necessary People (Little, Brown, 5/21)

      Jordi Punti, This Is Not America (Atria, 8/20)

      Virginia Reeves, The Behavior of Love (Scribner, 5/14)

      Matteo Righetto, Soul of the Border (Atria, 6/11)

      Adam Ehrlich Sachs, The Organs of Sense (FSG, 5/21)

      Michelle Sacks, Moon Daddy (Little, Brown, 6/11)

      Sara Stridsberg, Valerie (FSG, 8/6)

      Sloane Tanen, There’s a Word for That (Little, Brown, 4/2)

      Amy Waldman, A Door in the Earth (Little, Brown, 5/14)

      Alexi Zentner, Copperhead (Viking, 8/20)

      Charles Wheelan, The Rationing (Norton, 5/21)

      Susan Rebecca White, We Are All Good People Here (Atria, 6/4)

      Debut

      Our sampler features a number of newcomers, including Ocean Vuong, Juliet Grames, Karen Dukess, and our own Publishers Lunch reporter, Erin Somers. Also promising are debuts by Caitlin Horrocks, Melissa Rivero, and Molly Dektar.

      W.M. Akers, Westside (Harper Voyager, 5/7)

      Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is In Trouble (Random House, 6/18)

      Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, 6/4)

      Rachel Barenbaum, A Bend in the Stars (Grand Central, 5/14)

      Damian Barr, You Will Be Safe Here (Bloomsbury, 5/14)

      Sarah Blake, Naamah (Riverhead, 4/9)*

      Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories (Knopf, 6/11)

      Olivier Bourdeaut, Waiting for Bojangles (Simon & Schuster, 3/19)

      Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom (Grand Central, 8/27)*

      Melanie Cantor, Death and Other Happy Endings (Pamela Dorman, 7/9)

      Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie (Gallery/Scout Press, 3/19)

      Ryan Chapman, Riots I Have Known (Simon & Schuster, 5/21)

      Mamta Chaudhry, Haunting Paris (Doubleday, 6/18)

      Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton (Harper, 5/21)*

      Kate Davies, In at the Deep End (HMH, 6/4)*

      Kate Hope Day, If, Then (Random House, 3/12)

      Molly Dektar, The Ash Family (Simon & Schuster, 4/9)

      Selahattin Demirtas, Dawn (SJP for Hogarth, 4/23)

      Heidi Diehl, Lifelines (HMH, 6/18)

      Samantha Downing, My Lovely Wife (Berkley, 3/26)

      Karen Dukess, The Last Book Party (Henry Holt, 7/9)*

      Kimi Eisele, The Lightest Object in the Universe (Algonquin, 7/9)

      Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina: Stories (One World, 4/2)

      Susan Forest, Burst of Fire (Laksa, 8/6)*

      Megan Goldin, The Escape Room (St. Martin’s, 8/6)

      Melanie Golding, Little Darlings (Crooked Lane, 4/30)*

      Juliet Grames, The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna (Ecco, 5/7)*– From the associate publisher at Soho Press.

      Kimi Cunningham Grant, Fallen Mountains (Amberjack, 3/5)*

      James Gregor, Going Dutch (Simon & Schuster, 8/20)

      Isabella Hammad, The Parisian (Grove, 4/9)

      Elizabeth Hardinger, All the Forgivenesses (Kensington, 8/27)*

      Alan Hlad, The Long Flight Home (Kensington, 6/25)*

      Caitlin Horrocks, The Vexations (Little, Brown, 6/11)

      Rachel Howard, The Risk of Us (HMH, 4/9)

      Evan James, Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe (Atria, 3/26)

      Amanda Lee Koe, Delayed Rays of a Star (Nan A. Talese, 7/9)

      Julie Langsdorf, White Elephant (Ecco, 3/6)

      Jing-Jing Lee, How We Disappeared (Hanover Square, 5/7)

      Roselle Lim, Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune (Berkley, 6/11)

      Chia-Chia Lin, The Unpassing (FSG, 5/7)

      Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had (Lombardo, 6/15)

      Maria Kuznetsova, Oksana, Behave! (Spiegel & Grau, 3/19)

      Geovani Martins, The Sun on My Head: Stories (FSG, 6/11)

      Diane McPhail, The Abolitionist’s Daughter (Kensington, 4/30)*

      Simeon Mills, The Obsoletes (Atria, 5/14)

      Niklas Natt och Dag, The Wolf And The Watchman (Atria, 3/5)

      Alex North, The Whisper Man (Celadon, 8/20)*

      Beth O’Leary, The Flatshare (Flatiron, 5/28)

      Hazel Prior, Ellie and the Harpmaker (Berkley, 8/6)*

      Joanne Ramos, The Farm (Random House, 5/7)

      Melissa Rivero, The Affairs of the Falcóns (Ecco, 4/2)

      Maura Roosevelt, Baby of the Family (Dutton, 3/5)

      Richard Roper, How Not to Die Alone (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 5/28)*

      Lila Savage, Say Say Say (Knopf, 7/9)

      Kathryn Scanlan, Aug 9 - Fog (MCD, 6/4)

      Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift (Hogarth, 3/26)

      Carolina Setterwall, Let’s Hope for the Best (Little, Brown, 6/9)

      Mandeliene Smith, Rutting Season: Stories (Scribner, 2/12)

      Sarah Elaine Smith, Marilou is Everywhere (Riverhead, 7/30)*

      Erin Somers, Stay Up With Hugo Best (Scribner, 4/2)

      Madeline Stevens, Devotion (Ecco, 8/13)

      Alexander Tilney, The Expectations (Little, Brown, 7/16)

      Ruchika Tomar, A Prayer for Travelers (Riverhead, 7/9)

      Jonathan Vatner, Carnegie Hill (Thomas Dunne, 8/27)

      Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press, 6/4)* – The first novel from the author of poetry collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds.

      Annie Ward, Beautiful Bad (Park Row, 3/5)*

      Jake Wolff, The History Of Living Forever (FSG, 6/11)

      Jessica Yellin, Savage News (Mira, 4/9)

      Commercial Fiction

      This season of Buzz Books includes work from Liv Constantine, Sarah Blake, and Cecelia Ahern. And look out for new releases from Jennifer Weiner, Jo Nesbo, Anthony Horowitz, and Kristan Higgins.

      Cecelia Ahern, Roar (Grand Central, 4/16)*

      Mary Kay Andrews, Sunset Beach (St. Martin’s, 5/7)

      V.C. Andrews, Beneath the Attic (Gallery, 8/27)

      Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, Alice’s Island (Atria, 4/16)

      Chandler Baker, Whisper Network (Flatiron, 7/2)

      Jo Baker, The Body Lies (Knopf, 6/18)

      David Baldacci, New Memory Man Thriller (Grand Central, 4/16)

      Lisa Barr, The Unbreakables (Harper Perennial, 5/1)

      Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper (St. Martin’s, 5/21)

      Louis Begley, Killer’s Choice (Nan A. Talese, 8/13)

      Matthew Betley, Rules of War (Atria/Emily Bestler, 7/2)

      Sara Blaedel, Her Father’s Secret (Grand Central, 3/5)

      Sarah Blake, The Guest Book (Flatiron, 5/7)*

      Barbara Bourland, Fake Like Me (Grand Central, 6/18)

      James Brabazon, All Fall Down (Berkley, 8/20)

      Jamie Brenner, Drawing Home (Little, Brown, 5/7)

      Sandra Brown, Sandra Brown 2019 (Grand Central, 8/13)

      Carla Buckley, The Liar’s Child (Ballantine, 3/12)

      Alafair Burke, The Better Sister (Harper, 4/16)

      Halle Butler, The New Me (Penguin Books, 3/5)*

      Jack Carr, True Believer (Atria, 4/2)

      Steve Cavanagh, Thirteen (Flatiron, 8/13)

      Jill Ciment, The Body in Question (Pantheon, 6/11)

      Martin Clark, The Substitution Order (Knopf, 7/9)

      Harlan Coben, Run Away (Grand Central, 3/19)

      Tish Cohen, The Summer We Lost Her (Gallery/Scout Press, 6/4)

      Courtney Cole, Mine (Gallery, 5/28)

      Liv Constantine, The Last Time I Saw You (Harper, 5/7)*

      Armando Lucas Correa, The Daughter’s Tale (Atria, 5/7)

      Robert Crais, A Dangerous Man (G.P. Putnams Sons, 6/18)

      Melissa de la Cruz, The Birthday Girl (Dutton, 8/6) – From the author of the Alex & Eliza Trilogy.

      Catherine Coulter, Labyrinth (Gallery, 7/23)

      Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison, The Last Second (Gallery, 3/26)

      Clive Cussler and Robin Burcell, Untitled Fargo Adventure #11 (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 5/28)

      Fiona Davis, The Chelsea Girls (Dutton, 7/30) –New from the author of The Dollhouse and The Address.

      Jeffery Deaver, The Never Game (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 5/14)

      Lauren Denton, Glory Road (Thomas Nelson, 3/19)*

      Paul Doiron, Almost Midnight (Minotaur, 7/2)

      M.T. Edvardsson, A Nearly Normal Family (Celadon, 6/25)*

      Stephanie Evanovich, Under the Table (William Morrow, 4/16)

      Layne Fargo, Temper (Gallery/Scout Press, 7/2)

      Joy Fielding, All the Wrong Places (Ballantine, 3/12)

      Rebecca Fleet, The Second Wife (Pamela Dorman, 8/27)

      C. A. Fletcher, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World (Orbit, 4/23)

      Karin Fossum, The Whisperer (HMH, 8/6)

      Caz Frear, Stone Cold Heart (Harper, 7/2)

      Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars (Tor, 6/4)

      Nina George, The Book of Dreams (Crown, 4/9)

      Mario Giordano, Auntie Poldi and the Vineyards of Etna (HMH, 3/5)

      Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, Double Exposure (Grand Central, 3/26)

      Howard Michael Gould, Below the Line: A Charlie Waldo Novel (Dutton, 8/13)

      Heather Graham, A Lethal Legacy (Mira, 3/12)

      Tracey Garvis Graves, The Girl He Used to Know (St. Martin’s, 4/2)*

      Jane Green, The Friends We Keep (Berkley, 6/4)

      T. Greenwood, Keeping Lucy (St. Martin’s, 8/13)

      Elly Griffiths, The Stone Circle (HMH, 5/7)

      Gina Marie Guadagnino, The Parting Glass (Atria, 3/5)

      Jasmine Guillory, The Wedding Party (Berkley, 7/16)

      Duncan M. Hamilton, Dragonslayer (Tor, 7/2)

      Nicola Harrison, Montauk (St. Martin’s, 6/4)

      Kristan Higgins, Life and Other Inconveniences (Berkley, 8/6)

      Madeleine Henry, Breathe In, Cash Out (Atria, 7/9)

      Elin Hilderbrand, Summer of ‘69 (Little, Brown, 6/18)

      Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence Is Death (Harper, 6/4) – The second in his Daniel Hawthorne series.

      Katherine Howe, The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs (Henry Holt, 6/25)

      Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade (Saga Press, 3/19)

      Greg Iles, Cemetery Road (William Morrow, 3/5)

      Balli Kaur Jaswal, The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters (William Morrow, 4/30)

      Aaron Johnston and Orson Scott Card, The Hive (Tor, 6/11)

      Ragnar Jonasson, The Island (Minotaur, 5/21)

      Daniel Kalla, We All Fall Down (Simon & Schuster, 3/26)

      Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop (Gallery, 6/18)

      Lauren Kate, The Orphan’s Song (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 6/25)

      Karen Kelly, Bethlehem (St. Martin’s, 7/9)

      Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses (Ballantine, 4/9)

      Reed King, FKA USA (Flatiron, 6/18)

      Bonnie Kistler, House on Fire (Atria, 3/12)

      Richard Kirshenbaum, Rouge (St. Martin’s, 6/25)

      Dean Koontz, The Night Window: A Jane Hawk Novel (Bantam, 5/14)

      Ellen LaCorte, The Perfect Fraud (Harper, 6/18)

      Joe R. Lansdale, The Elephant of Surprise (Mullholland, 3/19)

      Allie Larkin, Swimming for Sunlight (Atria, 4/23)

      Mike Maden, Tom Clancy Enemy Contact (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 6/11)

      Josh Malerman, Inspection (Del Rey, 4/23)

      Tim Mason, The Darwin Affair (Algonquin, 6/11)

      Adrian McKinty, The Chain (Mulholland, 7/9)

      Jennifer McMahon, The Invited (Doubleday, 4/30)

      Tom Miller, The Philosopher’s War (Simon & Schuster, 7/16)

      Denise Mina, Conviction (Mulholland, 6/25)

      Mary Alice Monroe, The Summer Guests (Gallery, 6/7)

      Jaclyn Moriarty, Gravity Is the Thing (Harper, 7/23)

      Kate Mosse, The Burning Chambers (Minotaur, 6/18)

      Guillaume Musso, The Reunion (Little, Brown, 7/9)

      Jo Nesbo, Knife: A New Harry Hole Novel (Knopf, 7/9)

      Lisa A. Nichols, Vessel (Atria/ Emily Bestler/Alloy Entertainment, 5/21)

      Daniel Nieh, Beijing Payback (Ecco, 7/23)

      Julie Orringer, The Flight Portfolio (Knopf, 5/7)

      Brian Panowich, Like Lions (Minotaur, 4/30)

      Phaedra Patrick, The Library of Lost and Found (Park Row, 3/26)

      James Patterson, The 13-Minute Murder (Grand Central, 4/16)

      Chris Pavone, The Paris Diversion (Crown, 5/7)

      Anne Perry, Triple Jeopardy: A Daniel Pitt Novel (Ballantine, 4/9)

      Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth (Knopf, 5/21)

      Robert Pobi, City of Windows (Minotaur, 8/13)

      Bryan Reardon, The Perfect Plan (Dutton, 6/18)

      Katherine Reay, The Printed Letter Bookshop (Thomas Nelson, 3/19)*

      Christopher Reich, Crown Jewel (Mulholland, 3/26)

      Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six (Ballantine, 3/5)

      David Ricciardi, Rogue Strike (Berkley, 6/4)

      Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (Sourcebooks, 5/7)*

      Lucinda Riley, The Royal Secret (Atria, May 21, 2019)

      Karen Robards, The Fifth Doctrine (Mira, 3/19)

      Nora Roberts, Under Currents (St. Martin’s, 7/9)

      Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl (Scribner, 6/25)

      Kaira Rouda, The Favorite Daughter (Graydon House, 5/21)

      Michael Rutger, The Possession (Grand Central, 7/2)

      Riley Sager, Lock Every Door (Dutton, 7/2)

      Jonathan de Shalit, A Spy in Exile (Atria/Emily Bestler, 2/5)

      Daniel Silva, Unti Silva Novel 2019, (Harper, 7/16)

      Alexander McCall Smith, The Second-Worst Restaurant in France: A Paul Stuart Novel (Pantheon, 7/16)

      J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota (Pamela Dorman, 7/23)*

      Peter Swanson, Before She Knew Him (William Morrow, 3/5)

      Erika Swyler, Light from Other Stars (Bloomsbury USA, 5/7)

      A. J. Tata and Nicholas Irving, Reaper: Threat Zero (St. Martin’s, 5/21)

      Nancy Thayer, Surfside Sisters (Ballantine, 7/2)

      Keith Thomas, Dahlia Black (Atria/Leopoldo & Co., 8/13)

      Brad Thor, Untitled #20 (Atria, 6/11) – The next in the Scot Horvath series.

      S.K. Vaughn, Across the Void (Atria, 7/2)

      Fred Vargas, This Poison Will Remain (Penguin, 8/20)

      Caroline Louise Walker, Man of the Year (Gallery, 6/25)

      Martin Walker, The Body in the Castle Well: A Bruno, Chief of Police novel (Knopf, 6/4)

      Wendy Walker, The Night Before (St. Martin’s, 5/14)

      Jo Walton, Lent (Tor, 5/28)

      Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key (Gallery/Scout Press, 8/6)

      Jennifer Weiner, Mrs. Everything (Atria, 6/25) – Weiner’s first book in four years.

      Alison Weir, Anna of Kleve, The Princess in the Portrait (Ballantine, 5/14)

      M. G. Wheaton, Emily Eternal (Grand Central, 4/23)

      De’Shawn Charles Winslow, In West Mills (Bloomsbury, 6/4) 9

      Jacqueline Winspear, The American Agent: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (Harper, 3/23)

      Lolly Winston, Me for You (Atria, 3/12)

      Stuart Woods and Parnell Hall, Skin Game (G.P. Putnam’s Son, 6/4)

      Juli Zeh, Empty Hearts (Nan A. Talese, 8/20)

      Nonfiction

      Politics and current events continue to lead the conversation, with numerous titles about the Trump presidency and Supreme Court. This season’s notable memoirs include offerings from Fredrik Backman, Jill Biden, Rick Moody, and more.

      Politics & Current Events

      Jill Abramson, Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts (Simon & Schuster, 2/5)

      Emily Bazelon, Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (Random House, 4/9)

      Oliver Bullough, Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World (St. Martin’s, 5/7)

      William J. Burns, The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal (Random House, 3/12)

      Sam Dagher, Assad, Or We Burn the Country: How One Family’s Lust for Power Destroyed Syria (Little, Brown, 5/28)

      Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (Little, Brown, 5/7)

      Larry Diamond, Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency (Penguin Press, 6/11)

      John Carlos Frey, Sand and Blood: America’s Stealth War on the Mexico Border (Nation Books, 6/25)

      Adam Gopnik, A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism (Basic, 5/14)

      Michael R. Gordon, Degrade and Destroy: The Inside Story of the War Against the Islamic State (FSG, 6/11)

      Steven Greenhouse, Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor (Knopf, 8/6)

      Carl Hulse, Confirmation Bias: Inside Washington’s War Over the Supreme Court, from Scalia’s Death to Justice Kavanaugh (Harper, 6/11)

      Jamil Jivani, Why Young Men: The Dangerous Allure of Violent Movements and What We Can Do About It (All Points, 5/21)

      Christopher Ketcham, This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism and Corruption are Ruining the American West (Viking, 7/16)

      Parag Khanna, The Future Is Asian: Commerce, Conflict, and Culture in the 21st Century (Simon & Schuster, 2/5)

      Henry Kissinger and Winston Lord, Kissinger on Kissinger: Reflections on Diplomacy, Grand Strategy, and Leadership (All Points, 5/14)

      Tom LoBianco, Piety & Power: Mike Pence and the Taking of the White House (Dey Street, 3/5)

      Marty Makary, The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care–and How to Fix It (Bloomsbury, 4/2)

      P. E. Moskowitz, The Case against Free Speech: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent (Nation Books, 8/13)

      Philip Mudd, Black Site: The CIA in the Post-9/11 World (Liveright, 7/30)

      Janet Napolitano with Karen Breslau, How Safe Are We?: Homeland Security Since 9/11 (PublicAffairs, 3/26)

      Alexander Nazaryan, The Best People: The Inside Story of Trump’s Crony Cabinet (Hachette, 5/7)

      Michael O’Sullivan, The Levelling: What’s Next After Globalization (PublicAffairs, 5/28)

      Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality (PublicAffairs, 8/6)

      David Rothkopf, Treason: The Case Against Donald J. Trump (Thomas Dunne, 5/28)

      Scott Rozelle and Natalie Johnson, China’s Invisible Crisis: How a Growing Urban-Rural Divide Could Sink the World’s Second-Largest Economy (Basic, 3/5)

      Jim Sciutto, The Shadow War: Inside Russia and China’s Secret Operations to Undermine America (Harper, 5/14)

      Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer, The Hill to Die On: The Battle for Congress and the Future of Trump’s America (Crown, 4/9)

      Aaron Short and Allen Salkin, The Method to the Madness: Donald Trump’s Ascent as Told by Those Who Were Hired, Fired, Inspired–and Inaugurated (All Points, 5/21)

      Robby Soave, Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump (All Points, 6/18)

      Joseph C. Sternberg, The Theft of a Decade: How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials’ Economic Future (PublicAffairs, 5/14)

      Matt Stoller, Goliath: How Monopolies Secretly Took Over the World (Simon & Schuster, 6/4)

      Christopher Varelas, How Money Became Dangerous: The Inside Story of our Turbulent Relationship with Modern Finance (Ecco, 8/13)

      Social Issues

      Samantha Allen, Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States (Little, Brown, 3/5)

      Deborah Appleman, Words No Bars Can Hold: Literacy Learning in Prison (Norton, 5/14)

      Amy Blackstone, Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence (Dutton, 6/11)

      David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Joy of Giving Yourself Away (Random House, 4/16)

      David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Riverhead, 5/28)

      Emily Guendelsberger, On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane (Little, Brown, 7/16)

      Rucker C. Johnson, Alexander Nazaryan, Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works (Basic, 4/16)

      Darcy Lockman, All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership (Harper, 5/7)

      Jeff Madrick, Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty (Knopf, 8/13)

      Dani McClain, We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood (Nation Books, 4/2)

      Jonathan M. Metzl, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland (Basic, 3/5)

      Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Harper Wave, 6/4)

      Paul Morland, The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World (Public Affairs, 3/5)

      Susan Neiman, Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil (FSG, 8/27)

      Walt Odets, Out of the Shadows: Reconstructing Gay Men’s Lives (FSG, 6/4)

      Maggie Paxson, The Plateau: Field Notes from a Place of Refuge in a World Adrift (Paxson, 8/13)

      Christian Picciolini, Breaking Hate: Confronting the New Culture of Extremism (Hachette, 8/27)

      Jonathan A. Rodden, Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide (Basic, 6/4)

      Shalini Shankar, Beeline: What Spelling Bees Reveal About Generation Z’s New Path to Success (Basic, 4/30)

      Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us (Bloomsbury USA, 5/14)

      Lisa Taddeo, Three Women (S&S/Avid Reader, 8/20)

      Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind (Little, Brown Spark, 7/23)

      D. Watkins, We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America (Atria, 4/23)

      Marc Weitzmann, Hate: The Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism in France (HMH, 3/12)

      Dan Werb, City of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the Borderlands (Bloomsbury, 6/4)

      Naomi Wolf, Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love (HMH, 6/18)

      Science & Technology

      Dan Albert, Are We There Yet?: The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless (Norton, 6/11)

      Mark Arax, The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California (Knopf, 5/21)

      Erik Asphaug, When the Earth Had Two Moons: Cannibal Planets, Dreadful Orbits, Icy Giants, Dirty Comets and the Origins of Today’s Night Sky (Custom House, 7/2)

      Andrew Blum, The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast (Ecco, 6/25)

      Douglas Brinkley, American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race (Harper, 4/2)

      Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake, The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats (Penguin Press, 7/16)

      Gordon L. Dillow, Fire in the Sky: Cosmic Collisions, Killer Asteroids, and the Race to Defend Earth (Scribner, 6/4)

      James Donovan, Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11 (Little, Brown, 3/12)

      David Ewing Duncan, Talking to Robots: Tales from Our Robot-Human Futures (Dutton, 6/4)

      Ben Goldacre, Statins (FSG, 5/14)

      Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass (Eamon Dolan/HMH, 5/7)

      Jonathan Gruber and Simon Johnson, Jump-starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream (PublicAffairs, 4/9)

      Julian Guthrie, Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took On Silicon Valley’s Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime (Currency, 4/30)

      John Halpern and David Blistein, Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World (Hachette, 8/13)

      Susan Hockfield, The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution (Norton, 5/7)

      Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricantm, User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play (MCD, 5/21)

      David Kushner, The Players Ball: A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet’s Rise (Simon & Schuster, 4/9)

      Guy Leschziner, The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep (St. Martin’s, 7/23)

      Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Riverhead, 7/23)

      Joseph Menn, Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World (PublicAffairs, 6/4)

      Ben Mezrich, Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption (Flatiron, 5/21)

      Eric O’Neill, Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America’s First Cyber Spy (Crown, 3/26)

      Tatiana Schlossberg, Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have (Grand Central, 8/27)

      Jonathan Scott, The Vinyl Frontier: The Story of the Voyager Golden Record (Bloomsbury Sigma, 5/21)

      Tim Smedley, Clearing the Air: The Beginning and the End of Air Pollution (Bloomsbury Sigma, 6/4)

      Adrian Tinniswood, The Royal Society: And the Invention of Modern Science (Basic, 6/4)

      Eric Topol, Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again (Basic, 3/12)

      James Vlahos, Talk to Me: How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Think (Eamon Dolan/HMH, 3/26)

      Haider Warraich, State of the Heart: Exploring the History, Science, and Future of Cardiac Disease (St. Martin’s,

      Amy Webb, The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity (PublicAffairs, 3/5)

      Michael E. Webber, Power Trip: The Story of Energy (Basic, 5/7)

      History and Crime

      Dan Abrams and David Fisher, Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy (Hanover Square, 5/21)

      Elliot Ackerman, Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning (Penguin Press, 6/11)

      Rick Atkinson, The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (Henry Holt, 5/14)

      Julia Blackburn, Time Song: Journeys in Search of a Submerged Land (Pantheon, 8/6)

      Mark Bowden, The Last Stone: Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation (Atlantic Monthly, 4/2)

      Maureen Callahan, American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century (Viking 7/2)

      Tina Cassidy, Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote (Atria/37 Ink, 3/5)

      Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee (Knopf, 5/7)

      Gordon H. Chang, Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad (HMH, 5/7)

      Jared Cohen, Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America (Simon & Schuster, 4/9)

      John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI’s Original Mindhunter (Dey Street, 5/7)

      Deborah Riley Draper, Blair Underwood, and Travis Thrasher, The Black Auxiliary: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Atria, 8/13)

      Peter Duffy, The Agitator: William Bailey and the First American Uprising against Nazism (PublicAffairs, 3/19)

      James M. Fenelon, Four Hours of Fury: The Untold Story of World War II’s Largest Airborne Operation and the Final Push into Nazi Germany (Scribner, 4/23)

      Adam Higginbotham, Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Simon & Schuster, 2/12)

      Matti Friedman, Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel (Algonquin, 3/5)

      John Glatt, The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the 13 Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue (St Martin’s, 8/6)

      Tony Horwitz, Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land (Viking, 5/14)

      Josh Levin, The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth (Little, Brown, 5/21)

      Annie Jacobsen, Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins (Little, Brown, 5/14)

      Michael J. Mazarr, Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy (PublicAffairs, 3/19)

      Antonio J. Mendez and Jonna Mendez, The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War (PublicAffairs, 5/21)

      Rachel Monroe, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime and Obsession (Scribner, 8/20)

      Peter Moore, Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World (FSG, 5/14)

      Andrew Nagorski, The Year Germany Lost the War: 1941 (Simon & Schuster, 6/4)

      Daniel Okrent, The Guarded Gate: Patricians, Eugenicists, and the Crusade to Keep Jews, Italians, and Other Immigrants Out of America (Scribner, 5/7)

      Margaret O’Mara, The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America (Penguin Press, 7/9)

      Tom O’Neill with Dan Piepenbring, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties (Little, Brown, 6/25)

      Anna Pasternak, The Real Wallis Simpson: A New History of the American Divorcée who became the Duchess of Windsor (Atria, 3/5)

      Evan Ratliff, The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal. (Random House, 3/5)

      Clay Risen, The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century (Scribner, 6/4)

      Cara Robertson, The Trial of Lizzie Borden (Simon & Schuster, 3/12)

      William Rosenau, Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol: The Explosive Story of M19, America’s First Female Terrorist Group (Atria, 7/2)

      Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (HMH, 4/9)

      Julie Satow, The Plaza: The Secret Life of America’s Most Famous Hotel (Twelve, 6/4)

      Aaron Shulman, The Age of Disenchantments: The Epic Story of Spain’s Most Notorious Literary Family and the Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War (Ecco, 3/5)

      Duncan White, Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War (Custom House, 8/27)

      Simon Winder, Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe’s Lost Country (FSG, 4/23)

      Essays, Criticism, & More

      Stephanie Burt, Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems (Basic, 5/21)

      Rachel Cusk, Coventry (FSG, 8/20) – Essays by the author of the Outline Trilogy.

      Michele Filgate (editor), What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence (Simon & Schuster, 4/30)

      Zahra Hankir (editor), Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World (Penguin Books, 8/6)

      Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett, The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution (Random House, 3/19)

      Matthew Kepnes, Ten Years a Nomad: A Traveler’s Journey Home (St. Martin’s, 6/9)

      Gabriel García Márquez, The Scandal of the Century: And Other Writings (Knopf, 5/14) – Selected journalistic writings collected for the first time.

      Emily Nussbaum, I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution (Random House, 5/14)

      Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You (Atria, 8/6)

      Mary Laura Philpott, I Miss You When I Blink: Essays (Atria, 4/2)

      Leah Price, What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading (Basic, 8/20)

      Antonin Scalia, On Faith: Lessons from an American Believer (Crown Forum, 4/9)

      Amber Tamblyn, Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution (Crown Archetype, 3/5)

      Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Random House, 8/6)

      John Waters, Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder (FSG, 6/4)

      Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming (Hachette, 5/28)

      Biography & Memoir

      Heather B. Armstrong, The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live (Gallery, 4/23)

      Fredrik Backman, Things My Son Needs To Know About The World (Atria, 5/7) –From the author of A Man Called Ove, a collection of essays about fatherhood.

      Yousef Bashir, The Words of My Father: A Story from Palestine (Harper, 5/7)

      Christopher Benfey, If: The Untold Story of Kipling’s American Years (Penguin Press, 7/9)

      Dale Berra with Mark Ribowsky, My Dad, Yogi: A Memoir of Family and Baseball (Hachette, 5/7)

      Jill Biden, Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself (Flatiron, 5/7)

      Joan Biskupic, The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts (Basic, 3/26)

      Stephen Budiansky, Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas (Norton, 5/28)

      Ash Carter, Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon (Dutton, 6/11) – From the former Secretary of Defense.

      Adam Chandler, Drive-Thru Dreams: A Journey Through the Heart of America’s Fast-Food Kingdom (Flatiron,

      Laura Clery, Idiot: Essays (Gallery, 4/9)

      Jaed Coffin, Roughhouse Friday (FSG, 6/18)*

      Laura Cumming, Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother’s Disappearance as a Young Girl (Scribner, 8/6)

      Nicole Weisensee Egan, Chasing Cosby: The Downfall of America’s Dad (Seal Press, 4/23)

      Jennifer Cody Epstein, Wunderland (Crown, 4/23)

      Zulema Arroyo Farley, So Much More to Do (Atria, 6/4)

      Tan France, Naturally Tan (St. Martin’s, 5/14)*

      Donna Freitas, Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention (Little, Brown, 8/13)

      Bill Geist, Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America (Grand Central, 5/7)

      Nicci Gerrard, The Last Ocean: A Journey Through Memory and Forgetting (Penguin Press, 8/13)

      John Glynn, Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer (Grand Central Publishing, 5/14)

      Danny Goldberg, Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain (Ecco, 4/2)

      Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (HMH, 4/2)*

      Aleksandar Hemon, My Parents / This Does Not Belong to You: An Introduction (MCD, 5/7)

      Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations (One World, 3/26)

      Mitchell Jackson, Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family (Scribner, 3/5)

      Shaili Jain, The Unspeakable Mind: Stories of Trauma and Healing from the Frontlines of PTSD Science (Harper, 5/7)

      Valerie Jarrett, Finding My Voice (Viking, 4/2)*

      Mark Kram, Jr., Smokin’ Joe: The Life of Joe Frazier (Ecco, 6/18)

      C. M. Kushins, Nothing’s Bad Luck: The Lives of Warren Zevon (Da Capo, 5/7)

      Dorian Lynskey, The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell’s 1984 (Doubleday, 6/4)

      William J. Mann, The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando (Harper, 6/11)

      Alyssa Mastromonaco with Lauren Oyler, So Here’s the Thing . . .: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut (Twelve, 3/5)

      Meredith May, The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees (Park Row, 4/2)*

      Patrick McGilligan, Funny Man: Mel Brooks (Harper, 3/19)

      Moby, Then It Fell Apart (Faber and Faber, 5/7)*

      Rick Moody, The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Struggle and Hope in Matrimony (Henry Holt, 8/6)

      Karen Olsson, The Weil Conjectures (FSG, 7/16)

      Susan Page, The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty (Twelve, 4/2)

      Scott Pelley, Truth Worth Telling: A Reporter’s Search for Meaning in the Stories of Our Times: A Reporter’s Search for Meaning in the Stories of Our Times (Hanover Square, 5/21)

      Tom Phelan, We Were Rich and We Didn’t Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood (Gallery, 3/5)

      Iliana Regan, Burn the Place (Midway Books, 5/14)*

      Ebony Roberts, The Love Prison Made: A Memoir that Reveals the Intimate Side of Mass Incarceration (Amistad, 7/9)

      Pete Rose, Play Hungry: The Making of a Baseball Player (Penguin Press, 6/4)

      Martha Saxton, The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington (FSG, 6/11)

      Tom Segev, A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion (FSG, 8/27)

      Isha Sesay, Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram (Dey Street, 7/9)

      John Paul Stevens, The Making of a Justice: Reflections on My First 94 Years (Little, Brown, 5/14)

      J. Randy Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs: John, Caroline, and the New Generation - A Legacy of Triumph and Tragedy (St. Martin’s, 6/11)

      Evan Thomas, First: Sandra Day O’Connor (Random House, 3/19)

      Sarah Valentine, When I Was White (St. Martin’s, 8/13)

      Lawrence Weschler, And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks (FSG, 8/13)

      A.N. Wilson, Prince Albert (Harper, 8/6)

      Robert Wilson, Barnum: An American Life (Simon & Schuster, 8/6)

      Jessica Wragg, Girl on the Block (Dey Street, 8/1)

      Buzz Books Authors Appearing At Winter Institute

      Sarah Blake

      Lori Gottlieb

      Karl Marlantes

      Meredith May

      Kim Michele Richardson

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      Annie Ward

      Part One: Fiction

      Cecelia Ahern, Roar (Grand Central Publishing)

      SUMMARY

      From the bestselling author of P.S., I Love You, a fiercely feminist story collection that blends fables with magical realism—perfect for fans of Roxane Gay. In this singular and imaginative story collection, Cecelia Ahern illuminates the myriad ways in which women overcome adversity with wit, resourcefulness and compassion. Exploring dilemmas and aspirations that women everywhere will relate to, these unforgettable tales blend magical realism and familiar scenarios with startling and often hilarious results. In matters ranging from marriage and childrearing to politics and career, the heroines of these thought-provoking stories confront problems both mysterious and mundane: one woman is tortured by sinister bite marks that appear on her skin; another is swallowed up by the floor during a mortifying presentation; yet another resolves to return and exchange her boring husband at the store where she originally acquired him. As they wrestle with obstacles of all kinds, their reality is shaped by how others perceive them—and ultimately, how they perceive the power within themselves. By turns sly, whimsical and affecting, these 30 short stories are an inspiring examination of what it means to be a woman today.

      EXCERPT

      The Woman Who Slowly Disappeared

      1

      There’s a gentle knock on the door before it opens. Nurse Rada steps inside and closes the door behind her.

      I’m here, the woman says, quietly. Rada scans the room, following the sound of her voice. I’m here, I’m here, I’m here, I’m here, the woman repeats softly, until Rada stops searching. Her eye level is too high and it’s focused too much to the left, more in line with the bird poo on the window that has eroded over the past three days with the rain.

      The woman sighs gently from her seat on the window ledge that overlooks the college campus. She entered this university hospital feeling so hopeful that she could be healed, but instead, after six months, she feels like a lab rat, poked and prodded at by scientists and doctors in increasingly desperate efforts to understand her condition.

      She has been diagnosed with a rare complex genetic disorder that causes the chromosomes in her body to fade away. They are not self-destructing or breaking down, they are not even mutating— her organ functions all appear perfectly normal; all tests indicate that everything is fine and healthy. To put it simply, she’s disappearing, but she’s still here.

      Her disappearing was gradual at first. Barely noticeable. There was a lot of Oh, I didn’t see you there, a lot of misjudging her edges, bumping against her shoulders, stepping on her toes, but it didn’t ring any alarm bells. Not at first.

      She faded in equal measure. It wasn’t a missing hand or a missing toe or suddenly a missing ear, it was a gradual equal fade; she diminished. She became a shimmer, like a heat haze on a highway. She was a faint outline with a wobbly center. If you strained your eye, you could just about make out she was there, depending on the background and the surroundings. She quickly figured out that the more cluttered and busily decorated the room was, the easier it was for her to be seen. She was practically invisible in front of a plain wall. She sought out patterned wallpaper as her canvas, decorative chair fabrics to sit on; that way, her figure blurred the patterns, gave people cause to squint and take a second look. Even when practically invisible, she was still fighting to be seen.

      Scientists and doctors have examined her for months, journalists have interviewed her, photographers have done their best to light and capture her, but none of them were necessarily trying to help her recover. In fact, as caring and sweet as some of them have been, the worse her predicament has grown, the more excited they’ve become. She’s fading away and nobody, not even the world’s best experts, knows why.

      A letter arrived for you, Rada says, stealing her from her thoughts. I think you’ll want to read this one straight away.

      Curiosity piqued, the woman abandons her thoughts. I’m here, I’m here, I’m here, I’m here, she says quietly, as she has been instructed to do. Rada follows the sound of her voice, crisp envelope in her extended hand. She holds it out to the air.

      Thank you, the woman says, taking the envelope from her and studying it. Though it’s a sophisticated shade of dusty pink, it reminds her of a child’s birthday party invitation and she feels the same lift of excitement. Rada is eager, which makes the woman curious. Receiving mail is not unusual—she receives dozens of letters every week from all around the world; experts selling themselves, sycophants wanting to befriend her, religious fundamentalists wishing to banish her, sleazy men pleading to indulge every kind of corrupt desire on a woman they can feel but can’t see. Though she’ll admit this envelope does feel different from the rest, with her name written grandly in calligraphy.

      I recognize the envelope, Rada replies, excited, sitting beside her.

      She is careful in opening the expensive envelope. It has a luxurious feel, and there’s something deeply promising and comforting about it. She slides the handwritten notecard from the envelope.

      Professor Elizabeth Montgomery, they read in unison.

      I knew it. This is it! Rada says, reaching for the woman’s hand that holds the note, and squeezing.

      2

      I’m here, I’m here, I’m here, I’m here, I’m here, the woman repeats, as the medical team assists her with her move to the new facility that will be her home for who knows how long. Rada and the few nurses she has grown close to accompany her from her bedroom to the awaiting limousine that Professor Elizabeth Montgomery has sent for her. Not all the consultants have gathered to say goodbye; the absences are a protest against her leaving after all of their work and dedication to her cause.

      I’m in, she says quietly, and the door closes.

      3

      There is no physical pain in disappearing. Emotionally, it’s another matter. The emotional feeling of vanishing began in her early fifties, but she only became aware of the physical dissipation three years ago. The process was slow but steady. She would hear, I didn’t see you there, or I didn’t hear you sneak in, or a colleague would stop a conversation to fill her in on the beginning of a story that she’d already heard because she’d been there the entire time. She became tired of reminding them she was there from the start, and the frequency of those comments worried her. She started wearing brighter clothes, she highlighted her hair, she spoke more loudly, airing her opinions, she stomped as she walked; anything to stand out from the crowd. She wanted to physically take hold of people’s cheeks and turn them in her direction, to force eye contact. She wanted to yell, Look at me!

      On the worst days she would go home feeling completely overwhelmed and desperate. She would look in the mirror just to make sure she was still there, to keep reminding herself of that fact; she even took to carrying a pocket mirror for those moments on the subway when she was sure she had vanished.

      She grew up in Boston then moved to New York City. She’d thought that a city of eight million people would be an ideal place to find friendship, love, relationships, start a life. And for a long time she was right, but in recent years she’d learned that the more people there were, the lonelier she felt. Because her loneliness was amplified. She’s on leave now, but before that she worked for a global financial services company with 150,000 employees spread over 156 countries. Her office building on Park Avenue had almost 3,000 employees and yet as the years went by she increasingly felt overlooked and unseen.

      At thirty-eight she entered premature menopause. It was intense, sweat saturating the bed, often to the point she’d have to change the sheets twice a night. Inside, she felt an explosive anger and frustration. She wanted to be alone during those years. Certain fabrics irritated her skin and flared her hot flushes, which in turn flared her temper. In two years she gained twenty pounds. She purchased new clothes but nothing felt right or fit right. She was uncomfortable in her own skin, felt insecure at male-dominated meetings that she’d previously felt at home in. It seemed to her that every man in the room knew, that everyone could see the sudden whoosh as her neck reddened and her face perspired, as her clothes stuck to her skin in the middle of a presentation or on a business lunch. She didn’t want anybody to look at her during that period. She didn’t want anyone to see her.

      When out at night she would see the beautiful young bodies in tiny dresses and ridiculously high-heeled shoes, writhing to songs that she knew and could sing along to because she still lived on this planet even though it was no longer tailored to her, while men her own age paid more attention to the young women on the dance floor than to her.

      Even now, she is still a valid person with something to offer the world, yet she doesn’t feel it.

      Diminishing Woman and Disappearing Woman the newspaper reports have labeled her; at fifty-eight years old she has made headlines worldwide. Specialists have flown in from around the world to probe her body and mind, only to go away again, unable to come to any conclusions. Despite this, many papers have been written, awards bestowed, plaudits given to the masters of their specialized fields.

      It has been six months since her last fade. She is merely a shimmer now, and she is exhausted. She knows that they can’t fix her; she watches each specialist arrive with enthusiasm, examine her with excitement, and then leave weary. Each time she witnesses the loss of their hope, it erodes her own.

      4

      As she approaches Provincetown, Cape Cod, her new destination, uncertainty and fear make way for hope at the sight before her. Professor Elizabeth Montgomery waits at the door of her practice; once an abandoned lighthouse, it now stands as a grand beacon of hope.

      The driver opens the door. The woman steps out.

      I’m here, I’m here, I’m here, I’m here, the woman says, making her way up the path to meet her.

      What on earth are you saying? Professor Montgomery asks, frowning.

      I was told to say that, at the hospital, she says, quietly. So people know where I am.

      No, no, no, you don’t speak like that here, the professor says, her tone brusque.

      The woman feels scolded at first, and upset she has put a foot wrong in her first minute upon arriving, but then she realizes that Professor Montgomery has looked her directly in the eye, has wrapped a welcoming cashmere blanket around her shoulders and is walking her up the steps to the lighthouse while the driver takes the bags. It is the first eye contact she has had with somebody, other than the campus cat, for quite some time.

      Welcome to the Montgomery Lighthouse Advance for Women, Professor Montgomery begins, leading her into the building. "It’s a little wordy, and narcissistic, but it has stuck. At the beginning we called it the ‘Montgomery Retreat for Women’ but I soon changed that. To retreat seems negative; the act of moving away from something difficult, dangerous or disagreeable. Flinch, recoil, shrink, disengage. No. Not here. Here we do the opposite. We advance. We move forward, we make progress, we lift up, we grow."

      Yes, yes, yes, this is what she needs. No going back, no looking back.

      Dr. Montgomery leads her to the check-in area. The lighthouse, while beautiful, feels eerily empty.

      Tiana, this is our new guest.

      Tiana looks her straight in the eye, and hands her a room key. You’re very welcome.

      Thank you, the woman whispers. How did she see me? she asks.

      Dr. Montgomery squeezes her shoulder comfortingly. Much to do. Let’s begin, shall we?

      Their first session takes place in a room overlooking Race Point beach. Hearing the crash of the waves, smelling the salty air, the scented candles, the call of the gulls, away from the typical sterile hospital environment that had served as her fortress, the woman allows herself to relax.

      Professor Elizabeth Montgomery, sixty-six years old, oozing with brains and qualifications, six children, one divorce, two marriages, and the most glamorous woman she has ever seen in the flesh, sits in a straw chair softened by overflowing cushions, and pours peppermint tea into clashing teacups.

      My theory, Professor Montgomery says, folding her legs close to her body, is that you made yourself disappear.

      "I did this?" the woman asks, hearing her voice rise, feeling the ash of her anger as her brief moment is broken.

      Professor Montgomery smiles that beautiful smile. "I don’t place the blame solely on you. You can share it with society. I blame the adulation and sexualization of young women. I blame the focus on beauty and appearance, the pressure to conform to others’ expectations in a way that men are not required to."

      Her voice is hypnotizing. It is gentle. It is firm. It is without anger. Or judgment. Or bitterness. Or sadness. It just is. Because everything just is.

      The woman has goose bumps on her skin. She sits up, her heart pounding. This is something she hasn’t heard before. The first new theory in many months and it stirs her physically and emotionally.

      As you can imagine, many of my male counterparts don’t agree with me, she says wryly, sipping on her tea. It’s a difficult pill to swallow. For them. So I started doing my own thing. You are not the first disappearing woman that I’ve met. The woman gapes. "I tested and analyzed women, just as those experts did with you, but it took me some time to realize how to correctly treat your condition. It took growing older myself to truly understand.

      I have studied and written about this extensively; as women age, they are written out of the world, no longer visible on television or film, in fashion magazines, and only ever on daytime TV to advertise the breakdown of bodily functions and ailments, or promote potions and lotions to help battle aging as though it were something that must be fought. Sound familiar?

      The woman nods.

      She continues: Older women are represented on television as envious witches who spoil the prospects of the man or younger woman, or as humans who are reactive to others, powerless to direct their own lives; moreover, once they reach fifty-five, their television demographic ceases to exist. It is as if they are not here. Confronted with this, I have discovered women can internalize these ‘realities.’ My teachings have been disparaged as feminist rants but I am not ranting, I am merely observing. She sips her peppermint tea and watches the woman who slowly disappeared slowly come to terms with what she is hearing.

      You’ve seen women like me before? the woman asks, still stunned.

      Tiana, at the desk, was exactly as you were when she arrived two years ago.

      She allows that to sink in.

      Who did you see when you entered? the professor asks.

      Tiana, the woman replies.

      Who else?

      You.

      Who else?

      Nobody.

      Look again.

      5

      The woman stands and walks to the window. The sea, the sand, a garden. She pauses. She sees a shimmer on a swing on the porch, and nearby a wobbly figure with long black hair looks out to sea. There’s an almost iridescent figure on her knees in the garden, planting flowers. The more she looks, the more women she sees at various stages of diminishment. Like stars appearing in the night sky, the more she trains her eye, the more they appear. Women are everywhere. She had walked right past them all on her arrival.

      Women need to see women, too, Professor Montgomery says. If we don’t see each other, if we don’t see ourselves, how can we expect anybody else to?

      The woman is overcome.

      Society told you that you weren’t important, that you didn’t exist, and you listened. You let the message seep into your pores, eat you from the inside out. You told yourself you weren’t important, and you believed yourself.

      The woman nods in surprise.

      So what must you do? Professor Montgomery wraps her hands around the cup, warming herself, her eyes boring into the woman’s, as though communicating with another, deeper part of her, sending signals, relaying information.

      I have to trust that I’ll reappear again, the woman says, but her voice comes out husky, as if she hasn’t spoken for years. She clears her throat.

      More than that, Professor Montgomery urges.

      I have to believe in myself.

      Society always tells us to believe in ourselves, she says, dismissively. Words are easy, phrases are cheap. What specifically must you believe in?

      She thinks, then realizes that this is about more than getting the answers right. What does she want to believe?

      That I’m important, that I’m needed, relevant, useful, valid... She looks down at her cup. Sexy. She breathes in and out through her nose, slowly, her confidence building. "That I’m worthy. That there is potential, possibility, that I can still take on new challenges. That I can contribute. That I’m interesting. That I’m not finished yet. That people know I’m here." Her voice cracks on her final words.

      Professor Montgomery places her cup down on the glass table and reaches for the woman’s hands. I know you’re here. I see you. In that moment the woman knows for certain that she’ll come back. That there is a way. To begin with, she is focusing on her heart. After that, everything else will follow.

      The Woman Who Was Kept on the Shelf

      It began shortly after their first date, when she was twenty-six years old, when everything was gleaming, sparkling new. She’d left work early to drive to her new lover, excited to see him, counting down the hours until their next moment together, and she’d found Ronald at home in his living room, hammering away at the wall.

      What are you doing? She’d laughed at the intensity of his expression, the grease, the grime, and determination of her newly DIY boyfriend. He was even more attractive to her now.

      I’m building you a shelf. He’d barely paused to look at her before returning to hammering a nail in.

      A shelf?!

      He continued hammering, then checked the shelf for balance. Is this your way of telling me you want me to move in? She laughed, heart thudding. I think you’re supposed to give me a drawer, not a shelf.

      Yes, of course I want you to move in. Immediately. And I want you to leave your job and sit on this shelf so that everyone can see you, so that they can admire you, see what I see: the most beautiful woman in the world. You won’t have to lift a finger. You won’t have to do anything. Just sit on this shelf and be loved.

      Her heart had swelled, her eyes filled. By the next day she was sitting on that shelf. Five feet above the floor, in the right-hand alcove of the living room, beside the fireplace. That was where she met Ronald’s family and friends for the first time. They stood around her, drinks in hand, marveling at the wonder of the new love of Ronald’s life. They sat at the dinner table in the adjoining dining room, and though she couldn’t see everybody, she could hear them, she could join in. She felt suspended above them—adored, cherished, respected by his friends, worshipped by his mother, envied by his ex-girlfriends. Ronald would look up at her proudly, that beautiful beam on his face that said it all. Mine. She sparkled with youth and desire, beside his trophy cabinet, which commemorated the soccer victories from

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