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Literairyland: Feb. 20-26, 2024
This week's hottest new books, writer birthdays, and more
Nicholas Barron
February 20, 2024
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This week’s email includes 16 hot 🔥 new books.
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This Week’s Hottest 🔥 New Fiction
Thriller
The Guest by B.A. Paris
Logline: New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris captivated psychological thriller readers everywhere with Behind Closed Doors. Now she invites you into another home full of heart-pounding secrets, in The Guest. Some secrets never leave.
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Reviews:
Meg’s Bookrack
Lost in Bookland
End of Story by A.J. Finn
Logline: For fans of Knives Out comes a spellbinding thriller from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Woman in the Window.
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
The Still Point by Tammy Greenwood
Logline: Dance Moms meets Little Fires Everywhere in award winning author Tammy Greenwood's addictive new novel set in the hyper cutthroat world of ballet girls and their mothers as they compete for a prestigious prize...
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
Reviews:
Kirkus
Literary Treats
Fantasy
To Cage a God by Elizabeth May
Logline: Perfect for romantasy fans of Fourth Wing and Shadow and Bone, this dark, Imperial Russia-inspired romantic fantasy novel launches the These Monstrous Gods duology of draconic gods, political revolutions, and deadly magical powers from a Sunday Times bestselling author.
Publisher: Daw Books
Historical
Logline: Orphan Train meets Before We Were Yours meets Water for Elephants in this compelling multigenerational novel of survival, love, and the families we make.
Publisher: Mariner Books
Literary
Ours by Phillip B. Williams
Logline: An epic novel set in mid-nineteenth-century America about the spiritual costs of a freedom that demands fierce protection.
Publisher: Viking
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
LitStack
Mrs. Gulliver by Valerie Martin
Logline: From the prize-winning and beloved author Valerie Martin (Mary Reilly, Property, Italian Fever) comes a surprisingly inventive tale of female subversion and agency in a patriarchal world, with two brilliantly crafted protagonists to root for.
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Young Adult
The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert
Logline: NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Melissa Albert returns with THE BAD ONES, a supernatural horror novel about four mysterious disappearances in a town haunted by a sinister magical history.
Publisher: Flatiron Books
This Week’s Hottest 🔥 New Nonfiction
Memoir
Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story by Leslie Jamison
Logline: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes "a blazing, unputdownable memoir" (Mary Karr, author of Lit), the "piercing, intimate" story (TIME Magazine) of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage--an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes by Chantha Nguon
Logline: A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen.
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
Datebook
Essays
Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit: Essays by Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Logline: An electric essay collection about Blackness, art, and dreaming of new possibilities in a time of constriction.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Reviews:
Kirkus
History
Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London by Oskar Jensen
Logline: Compelling, moving and unexpected portraits of London’s poor from a rising star British historian – the Dickensian city brought to real and vivid life.
Publisher: Experiment, LLC
Sociology
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider by Michiko Kakutani
Logline: An urgent examination of how disruptive politics, technology, and art are capsizing old assumptions in a great wave of change breaking over today's world, creating both opportunity and peril--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Truth.
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Latinoland: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority by Marie Arana
Logline: A sweeping yet personal overview of the Latino population of America, drawn from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research that emphasizes the diversity and little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Reviews:
Kirkus
The New York Times
Science
How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite by Chris Balakrishnan and Matt Wasowski, illustrated by Kristen Orr
Logline: In the vein of acclaimed popular-science bestsellers such as Atlas Obscura, Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry, The Way Things Work, What If?, and Undeniable, the co-founders of the global science organization Nerd Nite bring readers a collection of wacky, yet fascinating STEM topics.
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Communication
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg
Logline: From the bestselling author of The Power of Habit, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work--and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life.
Publisher: Random House
Bookish Trivia 🤔
This Week’s Literary Birthdays & Events 🎂🥳
February 20
Pierre Boulle
William Carleton
Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen
Mary Durack
Ellen Gilchrist
Alex La Guma
Richard Matheson
Kenn Nesbitt
Henry James Pye
Sally Rooney
Naoya Shiga
Charles Erskine Scott Wood
February 21
The Communist Manifesto is published (1848)
The New Yorker publishes its first issue (1925)
Hans Andreus
W.H. Auden
Erma Bombeck
Jonathan Safran Foer
Owen King
Richard A. Lupoff
Anaïs Nin
Chuck Palahniuk
Raymond Queneau
Jeff Shaara
David Foster Wallace
José Zorrilla
February 22
James Russell Lowell
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Ishmael Reed
February 23
W.E.B. Du Bois
Haki Madhubuti
William L. Shirer
February 24
Gillian Flynn
Wilhelm Grimm
Weldon Kees
February 25
Sabahattin Ali
Anthony Burgess
Jack Handey
Amin Maalouf
Karl May
Shiva Naipaul
Edgar Pangborn
George Schuyler
Richard G. Stern
Raphael Straus
Cynthia Voigt
February 26
Elizabeth George
Victor Hugo
Sharyn McCrumb
Dorothy Whipple
See you next week!
