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This week's hot 🔥 new books, writer birthdays, and more.
Nicholas Barron
March 26, 2024
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This Week’s Hot 🔥 New Fiction
Mystery & Thriller
How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
Logline: For fans of Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club, an enormously fun mystery about a woman who spends her entire life trying to prevent her foretold murder only to be proven right sixty years later, when she is found dead in her sprawling country estate.... Now it's up to her great-niece to catch the killer.
Publisher: Dutton
The Truth About the Devlins by Lisa Scottoline
Logline: Lisa Scottoline, the #1 bestselling author of What Happened to the Bennetts, presents another pulse-pounding domestic thriller about family, justice, and the lies that tear us apart.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Horror
The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones
Logline: The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror novels picks up four years after Don't Fear the Reaper as Jade returns to Proofrock, Idaho, to build a life after the years of sacrifice--only to find the Lake Witch is waiting for her in New York Times bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones's finale.
Publisher: Saga Press
Reviews:
Publishers Weekly
FanFiAddict
Lost Man's Lane by Scott Carson
Logline: A teenager explores the darkness hidden within his hometown in this spellbinding.
Publisher: Atria Books
Historical
All the World Beside by Garrard Conley
Logline: From the New York Times bestselling author of Boy Erased, an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Romance
The Other Side of Disappearing: A Touching Modern Love Story by Kate Clayborn
Logline: From the acclaimed author of Georgie, All Along and Love Lettering, a pitch-perfect, radiantly transporting love story about an unexpected road trip, true crime obsessions, and hard won vulnerability...
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Company
Literary
Worry by Alexandra Tanner
Logline: Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two siblings-turned-roommates navigating an absurd world on the verge of calamity--a Seinfeldian novel of existentialism and sisterhood.
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Monsters We Have Made by Lindsay Starck
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Logline: A poignant and evocative novel that explores the bounds of familial love, the high stakes of parenthood, and the tenuous divide between fiction and reality.
Publisher: Vintage
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
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This Week’s Hot 🔥 New Nonfiction
Memoir
There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
Logline: A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, life, and home--from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America.
Publisher: Random House
Pieces of a Girl by Stephanie Kuehnert
Logline: A raw and bold memoir about abuse and addiction, and the power of expression and community that helped Stephanie Kuehnert, the author of Ballads of Suburbia and regular Rookie contributor, survive and thrive.
Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers
Reviews:
Publishers Weekly
Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story by Kristine S. Ervin
Logline: For readers of My Dark Places and The Fact of a Body, a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting one woman's search for identity alongside her family's decades-long quest to identify the two men who abducted--and murdered--her mother.
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
History
Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power by Timothy W. Ryback
Logline: From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler seized power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruin.
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Astrophysics
Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe by Harry Cliff
Logline: Experimental physicist at CERN and acclaimed science presenter Harry Cliff offers an eye-opening account of the inexplicable phenomena that science has only recently glimpsed, and that could transform our understanding of the fundamental nature of reality.
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Mental Health
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
Logline: From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health--and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.
Publisher: Penguin Press
Reviews:
The Washington Post
The Guardian
Urban Planning
A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing by Max Podemski
Logline: From the Haitian-style "shotgun" houses of the 19th century to the lavish high-rises of the 21st century, a walk through the streets of America's neighborhoods that reveals the rich history--and future--of urban housing.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
Linguistics
Says Who?: A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words by Anne Curzan
Logline: A kinder, funner usage guide to the ever-changing English language and a useful tool for both the grammar stickler and the more colloquial user of English, from linguist and veteran professor Anne Curzan.
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
Bookish Trivia 🤔
This Week’s Literary Birthdays & Events
March 26
Élémir Bourges
Gregory Corso
Vine Deloria, Jr.
Robert Frost
A.E. Housman
Erica Jong
Natsuhiko Kyogoku
Ursula Parrott
Jacqueline de Romilly
Hwang Sun-won
Patrick Süskind
Tennessee Williams
Bob Woodward
March 27
Michael Aris
Shūsaku Endō
Dick King-Smith
Roland Leighton
Charles Mackay
Heinrich Mann
Henri Murger
Frank O'Hara
Ai Qing
Louis Simpson
Thorne Smith
Marie Under
Alfred de Vigny
Stefan Wul
Lajos Zilahy
March 28
Nelson Algren
Byrd Baylor
Marc Brandel
A. Bertram Chandler
Iris Chang
Marianne Fredriksson
Maxim Gorky
Bohumil Hrabal
Jayne Ann Krentz
Mario Vargas Llosa
Benjamin Percy
Everett Ruess
Jennifer Weiner
Lauren Weisberger
March 29
Ernest Cline
Reed Farrel Coleman
Elizabeth Hand
Glen David Gold
Yvan Goll
Judith Guest
Jo Nesbø
Alec Wilkinson
March 30
Milton Acorn
Martina Cole
Jean Giono
Tobias Hill
Anna Sewell
Tom Sharpe
Paul Verlaine
March 31
Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Abigail Dodge
Bert Fields
Vardis Fisher
Nikolai Gogol
John Jakes
Dagmar Lange
Octavio Paz
Marge Piercy
E.R. Ramzipoor
Judith Rossner
April 1
Finola Austin
Samuel R. Delany
Milan Kundera
William Manchester
Anne McCaffrey
Brad Meltzer
Antoine François Prévost
Edmond Rostand
Mark Shulman
Jesmyn Ward
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