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Literairyland: April 23-29, 2024
This week's hot 🔥 new books, writer birthdays, and more
Nicholas Barron
April 23, 2024
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This week’s email includes 19 hot 🔥 new books.
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This Week’s Hot 🔥 New Fiction
Mystery & Thriller
Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth
Logline: SISTERS, SECRETS, LOVE, AND MURDER... Sally Hepworth’s new novel has it all.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Extinction by Douglas Preston
Logline: With Extinction, #1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston has written a page-turning thriller in the Michael Crichton mode that explores the possible and unintended dangers of the very real efforts to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other long-extinct animals.
Publisher: Forge
Science Fiction
Ocean's Godori by Elaine U. Cho
Logline: Becky Chambers meets Firefly in this big-hearted Korean space opera debut about a disgraced space pilot struggling to find her place while fighting to protect the people she loves.
Publisher: Zando - Hillman Grad Books
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
Fantasy
The Wings Upon Her Back by Samantha Mills
Logline: A loyal warrior in a crisis of faith must fight to regain her place and begin her life again while questioning the events of her past. This gripping novel from a Nebula, Sturgeon, and Locus Award-winning debut author is a complex, action-packed exploration of the costs of zealous faith, ceaseless conflicts, and unquestioning obedience.
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Romance
Funny Story by Emily Henry
Logline: A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.
Publisher: Berkley Books
Literary
The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
Logline: A dazzling, heartfelt adventure through the food, art, and fashion scenes of 1980s Paris--from the New York Times bestselling author of Save Me the Plums and Delicious!
Publisher: Random House
Reboot by Justin Taylor
Logline: A raucous and wickedly smart satire of Hollywood, toxic fandom, and our chronically online culture, following a washed-up actor on his quest to revive the cult TV show that catapulted him to teenage fame.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Lucky by Jane Smiley
Logline: From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musician who rises to fame across our changing times.
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
This Week’s Hot 🔥 New Nonfiction
Memoir
The Complications: On Going Insane in America by Emmett Rensin
Logline: An unflinching, rare account of living with severe mental illness that is also a bold commentary on how we misunderstand this often debilitating disease.
Publisher: HarperOne
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
By the Time You Read This: The Space Between Cheslie's Smile and Mental Illness by Cheslie Kryst and April Simpkins
Logline: By the Time You Read This is the story former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst was about to publish before her tragic suicide. Her mother, April, wraps up the narrative by exploring the mental illness and depression that took her daughter's life.
Publisher: Forefront Books
Reviews:
No available reviews
Biography
The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters by Susan Page
Logline: The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time—Barbara Walters—a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules and finally gave women a permanent place on the air, written by bestselling author Susan Page.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
American Flygirl by Susan Tate Ankeny
Logline: One of WWII's most uniquely hidden figures, Hazel Ying Lee was the first Asian American woman to earn a pilot's license, join the WASPs, and fly for the United States military amid widespread anti-Asian sentiment and policies.
Publisher: Citadel Press
Reviews:
No available reviews
Essays
I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays by Nell Irvin Painter
Logline: From the New York Times bestselling author of The History of White People and Old in Art School, a finalist for the NBCC Award, comes a comprehensive new collection of essays spanning art, politics, and the legacy of racism that shapes American history as we know it.
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
History
Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals by Monica Murphy and Bill Wasik
Logline: A compassionate, sweeping history of the transformation in American attitudes toward animals by the best-selling authors of Rabid.
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow: The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi by Elon Anna Labba, translated by Fiona Graham
Logline: The deep and personal story—told through history, poetry, and images—of the forced displacement of the Sámi people from their homeland in northern Norway and Sweden and its reverberations today.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Reviews:
Publishers Weekly
UP Book Review
Entertainment
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench and Brendan O'Hea
Logline: Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it before by ordering Judi Dench's Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent - one legendary actress' inspiring, moving and brilliant journey through the plays of William Shakespeare.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Nature
The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan
Logline: A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight, written and illustrated by the best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club - With a foreword by David Allen Sibley.
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Business
The Everything War: Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power by Dana Mattioli
Logline: From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, The Everything War is the first untold, devastating exposé of Amazon's endless strategic greed, from destroying Main Street to remaking corporate power, in pursuit of total domination, by any means necessary.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
This Week’s Hot 🔥 New Poetry
Black Bell by Alison C. Rollins
Logline: Sweeping from the eighteenth century to futurist fabulations, Black Bell harmonizes poetry with performance art practices in an investigation of fugitivity.
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Reviews:
Publishers Weekly
Bookish Trivia 🤔
This Week’s Literary Birthdays & Events
April 23
Coleman Barks
J.P. Donleavy
James Anthony Froude
Pierre Labrie
Edwin Markham
Ngaio Marsh
Paul McAuley
William Shakespeare
April 24
Sue Grafton
Karan Mahajan
Carl Spitteler
Robert Penn Warren
April 25
Robinson Crusoe is published (1719)
Leopoldo Alas
Melvin Burgess
James Fenton
Maud Hart Lovelace
Emma Straub
Corín Tellado
April 26
Vicente Aleixandre
A.E. Housman
Bernard Malamud
Marilyn Nelson
Natasha Trethewey
A.E. Van Vogt
Morris West
April 27
Cecil Day-Lewis
Ruth Glick
Helen Hodgman
Patricia Lockwood
Edwin Morgan
Jean Valentine
April 28
Roberto Bolaño
Johan Borgen
Carolyn Cassady
Lois Duncan
Na Hye-sok
Christian Jacq
Karl Kraus
Harper Lee
Sam Merwin, Jr.
Terry Pratchett
Ian Rankin
April 29
Edward Blishen
Elmer Kelton
Walter Kempowski
Rod McKuen
Arvo Mets
Rafael Sabatini
Robert J. Sawyer
Edward Rowland Sill
Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Jill Paton Walsh
Jack Williamson
See you next week!
