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Literairyland: March 12-18, 2024
This week's hottest 🔥 new books, writer birthdays, and more.
Nicholas Barron
March 12, 2024
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This week’s email includes 14 hot 🔥 new books.
Table of Contents
This Week’s Hottest 🔥 New Fiction
Thriller
2054 by Elliot Ackerman and James Stavridis
Logline: From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive work of speculative fiction set twenty years further in the future, at a moment when a radical leap forward in artificial intelligence combines with America's violent partisan divide to create an existential threat to the country, and the world.
Publisher: Penguin Press
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
Fantasy
Book, Beast and Crow by Elizabeth Byrne
Logline: Part The Hazel Wood, part Stranger Things, this spine-tingling, genre-bending novel from Elizabeth Byrne will leave readers breathless as they follow a group of teens who face catastrophic consequences after their friend gets bitten by the town's most feared creature.
Publisher: Quill Tree Books
Reviews:
Reading In Wonderland
Historical
All Our Yesterdays: A Novel of Lady Macbeth by Joel H. Morris
Logline: A propulsive and piercing debut, set ten years before the events of Shakespeare's historic play, about the ambition, power, and fate that define one of literature's most notorious figures: Lady Macbeth.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Romance
The Phoenix Bride by Natasha Siegel
Logline: A passionate tale of plague, fire, and forbidden love from the acclaimed author of Solomon's Crown.
Publisher: Dell
Literary
Victim by Andrew Boryga
Logline: There's a fine line between bending the truth and telling bold-faced lies, and Javier Perez is willing to cross it. Victim is a fearless satire about a hustler from the Bronx who sees through the veneer of diversity initiatives and decides to cash in on the odd currency of identity.
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Until August by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Anne McLean
Logline: A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham
Logline: A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man's life in the highly anticipated debut novel from one of The New Yorker's rising stars.
Publisher: Hogarth Press
Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel
Logline: An electrifying debut novel from an "unusually gifted writer" (Lorrie Moore) about the radical intimacy of physical competition.
Publisher: Viking
This Week’s Hottest 🔥 New Nonfiction
Memoir
A Very Private School by Charles Spencer
Logline: In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend boarding school.
Publisher: Gallery Books
Reviews:
The Washington Post
The Telegraph
How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon by Lyn Slater
Logline: A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as "Accidental Icon," brings her characteristic style, optimism, forward-thinking, and rules-are-meant-to-be-broken attitude to the question of how to live boldly at any age.
Publisher: Plume Books
Reviews:
Kirkus
The Manicurist's Daughter by Susan Lieu
Logline: An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies during plastic surgery.
Publisher: Celadon Books
Biography & Autobiography
Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse" by Emily Raboteau
Logline: Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau crafts a powerfully moving meditation on race, climate, environmental justice--and what it takes to find shelter.
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
You Get What You Pay For: Essays by Morgan Parker
Logline: The award-winning author of Magical Negro traces the difficulty and beauty of existing as a Black woman through American history, from the foundational trauma of the slave trade all the way up to Serena Williams and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Publisher: One World
Reviews:
Kirkus
Politics
Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea by Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor
Logline: A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - From renowned organizers and activists Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor, comes the first in-depth examination of Solidarity--not just as a rallying cry, but as potent political movement with potential to effect lasting change.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
This Week’s Hottest 🔥 New Poetry
The Moon That Turns You Back by Hala Alyan
Logline: From the author of The Arsonists' City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family-past, present, future-in the face of displacement and war.
Publisher: Ecco Press
Bookish Trivia 🤔
Today is Jack Kerouac's birthday. What was his full name? |
This Week’s Literary Birthdays & Events
March 12
Sandra Brown
Dave Eggers
Virginia Hamilton
Harry Harrison
Jack Kerouac
March 13
Barry Hughart
W.O. Mitchell
Paul Morand
Viet Thanh Nguyen
David Nobbs
Ellen Raskin
Kemal Tahir
Jean Starr Untermeyer
Hugh Walpole
March 14
Pam Ayres
Paul Guest
Ada Louise Huxtable
Tad Williams
March 15
Chana Bloch
Richard Ellmann
Molly Greeley
Robert Nye
Heather Graham Pozzessere
March 16
The Scarlet Letter is published (1850)
René Daumal
David Frith
Alice Hoffman
Cyril Hume
Sully Prudhomme
Kelwyn Sole
César Vallejo
March 17 🍀
Ebenezer Elliott
Jean Ingelow
Penelope Lively
March 18
Anna Hempstead Branch
Robert P.T. Coffin
Richard Condon
Madame de La Fayette
Florence Ripley Mastin
Wilfred Owen
John Updike
Franz Wright
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