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Literairyland: March 19-25, 2024
This week's hottest new books, writer birthdays, and more
Nicholas Barron
March 19, 2024
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This Week’s Hot 🔥 New Fiction
Mystery & Thriller
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
Logline: For fans of Never Let Me Go and My Dark Vanessa, a powerful, provocative novel about the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy, and control.
Publisher: Mariner Books
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash
Logline: For readers of Donna Tartt and Ottessa Moshfegh comes a brilliant, deliriously entertaining novel from the acclaimed author of Honor Girl. Rainbow Black is part murder mystery, part gay international fugitive love story--set against the '90s Satanic Panic and spanning 20 years in the life of a young woman pulled into its undertow.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
The Princess of Las Vegas by Chris Bohjalian
Logline: THE PRINCESS IS FAKE. THE MURDERS ARE REAL - From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant and The Lioness, a Princess Diana impersonator and her estranged sister find themselves drawn into a dangerous game of money and murder in this twisting tale of organized crime, cryptocurrency, and family secrets on the Las Vegas strip.
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Science Fiction
Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis
Logline: This cozy science fiction novel tells a story of misfits, rebels, found family--and a mystery that spans the stars.
Publisher: Daw Books
The Mars House by Natasha Pulley
Logline: A compulsively readable queer sci-fi novel about a marriage of convenience between a Mars politician and an Earth refugee.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Fantasy
The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo
Logline: The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all set in 1920s Appalachia.
Publisher: Tor.com
Reviews:
GrimdarkMAGAZINE
FanFiAddict
Romance
Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle
Logline: From the New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years and One Italian Summer comes a love story that will define a generation. Being single is like playing the lottery. There's always the chance that with one piece of paper you could win it all.
Publisher: Atria Books
Historical
The Divorcées by Rowan Beaird
Logline: A "delicious" (Rebecca Makkai) and "deeply compelling" (Lauren Groff) debut novel set at a 1950s Reno "divorce ranch," about the complex friendship between two women who dare to imagine a different future.
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Literary
The Tree Doctor by Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Logline: A startling, erotic novel about the need to balance care for others with care for one's self.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
James by Percival Everett
Logline: A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view - From the "literary icon" (Oprah Daily) and Pulitzer Prize Finalist whose novel Erasure is the basis for Cord Jefferson's critically acclaimed film American Fiction.
Publisher: Doubleday Books
The Morningside by Téa Obreht
Logline: From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a sweeping novel of mothers and daughters, displacement and belonging, and wondrous tales of a world both fallen and new.
Publisher: Random House
Memory Piece by Lisa Ko
Logline: The award-winning author of The Leavers offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is the value of a meaningful life?
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Young Adult and Coming of Age
Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Logline: In Where Sleeping Girls Lie -- a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Times-bestselling author of Ace of Spades -- a girl new to boarding school discovers dark secrets and coverups after her roommate disappears.
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Louder Than Hunger by John Schu
Logline: Revered teacher, librarian, and story ambassador John Schu explores anorexia--and self-expression as an act of survival--in a wrenching and transformative novel-in-verse.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
This Week’s Hottest 🔥 New Nonfiction
Memoir
One Way Back by Christine Blasey Ford
Logline: The compelling true story behind the testimony that awed the nation.
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Notes from the Henhouse: On Marrying a Poet, Raising Children and Chickens, and Writing by Elspeth Barker
Logline: A sharp and witty collection of autobiographical essays by the late Elspeth Barker--acclaimed journalist and author of the beloved modern classic O Caledonia.
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Biography
Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar by Cynthia Carr
Logline: From the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol superstar Candy Darling.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
People
Gender Studies
Who's Afraid of Gender? By Judith Butler
Logline: From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the world.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
African American Studies
The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates
Logline: A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history.
Publisher: Penguin Press
Reviews:
Kirkus
Nature
Secrets of the Octopus by Sy Montgomery
Logline: Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature's most intelligent and complex animals.
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Reviews:
Publishers Weekly
Religion
The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church by Sarah McCammon
Logline: The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the church: the exvangelicals.
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
This Week’s Hottest 🔥 New Poetry
A Year of Last Things: Poems by Michael Ondaatje
Logline: From one of the most influential writers of his generation, a gorgeously surprising poetry collection about memory, history, and the act of looking back.
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
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Bookish Trivia 🤔
This Week’s Literary Birthdays & Events
March 19
William Allingham
James Redfield
Philip Roth
Irving Wallace
March 20
Anne Bradstreet
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Lois Lowry
Hugh MacLennan
David Malouf
Mary Roach
Rosemary Timperley
March 21
Michael Foreman
Phyllis McGinley
Jean Paul
David Wisniewski
March 22
Billy Collins
Louis L'Amour
Nicholas Monsarrat
James Patterson
Leslie Thomas
March 23
Virginia and Leonard Woolf start Hogarth Press (1917)
Louis Adamic
Josef Čapek
Roger Martin du Gard
Thakin Kodaw Hmaing
Kim Stanley Robinson
Frank Sargeson
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Ahdaf Soueif
Gary Whitehead
March 24
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Donald Hamilton
Silas Hocking
Tabitha King
Olive Schreiner
Mary Stolz
March 25
Toni Cade Bambara
Susie Bright
Kate DiCamillo
Penelope Gilliatt
Stephen Hunter
Flannery O'Connor
Paul Scott
Mary Webb
See you next week!
