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Literairyland: April 9-15, 2024
This week's hot 🔥 new books, writer birthdays, and more
Nicholas Barron
April 09, 2024
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This Week’s Hot 🔥 New Fiction
Mystery & Thriller
The Sleepwalkers by Scarlett Thomas
Logline: From "one of the UK's most interesting authors" (Kirkus Reviews), Patricia Highsmith meets White Lotus in this surprising and suspenseful modern gothic story following a couple running from both secretive pasts and very present dangers while honeymooning on a Greek island.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
The Gathering by C.J. Tudor
Logline: A detective investigating a grisly crime in rural Alaska finds herself caught up in the dark secrets and superstitions of a small town in this riveting novel from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda
Logline: The new thrilling novel from Megan Miranda, the instant New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls, The Last to Vanish, and The Only Survivors.
Publisher: Marysue Rucci Books
Reviews:
Kirkus
Horror
Grey Dog by Elliott Gish
Amazon | Bookshop
Logline: A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women's historical fiction with delusions, wild beasts, and the uncontainable power of female rage.
Publisher: ECW Press
Reviews:
Publishers Weekly
Foreword
Historical Fiction
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
Logline: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo comes a spellbinding novel set in the Spanish Golden Age.
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Romance
How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang
Logline: A sexy and emotional enemies-to-lovers romance guaranteed to pull on your heartstrings and give you a book hangover from brilliant new voice Yulin Kuang.
Publisher: Avon Books
Fantasy
The Hemlock Queen by Hannah Whitten
Logline: In the second installment of New York Times bestselling author Hannah Whitten's lush romantic epic fantasy series, the glittering and dangerous world of the Sainted King's royal court is upended when Prince Bastian seizes control and a mysterious dark force begins to take over.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Literary
There's Going to Be Trouble by Jen Silverman
Logline: A woman is pulled into a love affair with a radical activist, unknowingly echoing her family's dangerous past and risking the foundations of her future in this electrifying novel.
Publisher: Random House
The Limits by Nell Freudenberger
Logline: The most thrilling work yet from the best-selling, prize-winning author of The Newlyweds and Lost and Wanted, a stunning new novel set in French Polynesia and New York City about three characters who undergo massive transformations over the course of a single year.
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Coming of Age
The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr
Logline: An extraordinary, gloriously uplifting novel about the power of friendship and the puzzling ties that bind us.
Publisher: Doubleday Books
This Week’s Hot 🔥 New Nonfiction
Memoir
The Wives by Simone Gorrindo
Logline: A captivating memoir that tells the story of one woman's experience of joining a community of army wives after leaving her New York City job--a profoundly intimate look at marriage, friendship, and today's America.
Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press
The House of Being by Natasha Trethewey
Logline: An exquisite meditation on the geographies we inherit and the metaphors we inhabit, from Pulitzer Prize winner and nineteenth U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
Fi: A Memoir of My Son by Alexandra Fuller
Logline: From the award-winning New York Times-bestselling author of Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller, comes a career defining memoir about grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child.
Publisher: Grove Press
Reviews:
Kirkus
Air Mail
The New York Times
Psychology
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell
Logline: From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking.
Publisher: Atria/One Signal Publishers
Reviews:
Kirkus
History
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides
Logline: From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day.
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Reviews:
Kirkus
The King of Diamonds: The Search for the Elusive Texas Jewel Thief by Rena Pederson
Logline: The thrilling story of a brazen, uncatchable jewel thief who roamed the homes of Dallas high society--and a window into the dark secrets lurking beneath the surface of the Swinging Sixties.
Publisher: Pegasus Crime
Native American Studies
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen Duval
Amazon | Bookshop
Logline: A magisterial history of Indigenous North America that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today.
Publisher: Random House
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
Spiritual
Somehow by Anne Lamott
Logline: From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow, a joyful celebration of love.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
This Week’s Hot 🔥 New Poetry
Rangikura: Poems by Tayi Tibble
Logline: A fiery second collection of poetry from the acclaimed Indigenous New Zealand writer that U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo calls, "One of the most startling and original poets of her generation."
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Bookish Trivia 🤔
This Week’s Literary Birthdays & Events
April 9
Jacques Futrelle
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Ken Kalfus
Joseph Krumgold
Leonard Levy
Paule Marshall
April 10
David A. Adler
Stuart Dybek
John M. Ford
Horace Gregory
David Halberstam
Stefan Heym
Rosemary Hill
Anne Lamott
Clare Turlay Newberry
Margaret Pemberton
George William Russell
Montague Summers
Paul Theroux
April 11
Ralph Compton
Ellen Goodman
Thomas Harris
Attila József
Misuzu Kaneko
Sergei Lukyanenko
Sándor Márai
Peter O'Donnell
Bernard O'Dowd
Christopher Smart
Mark Strand
David Westheimer
April 12
Greg Child
Tom Clancy
Beverly Cleary
Lisa Jardine
Scott Turow
April 13
Samuel Beckett
Seamus Heaney
Nella Larsen
Philip Norman
Judy Nunn
April 14
The Grapes of Wrath published (1939)
Péter Esterházy
Martin Lipp
Liz Renay
Tina Rosenberg
April 15
Jeffrey Archer
Melville Henry Cane
Bliss Carman
Helene Hanff
See you next week!
