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Literairyland: March 5-11, 2024
This week's hot new books, writer birthdays, and more
Nicholas Barron
March 05, 2024
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This Week’s Hottest 🔥 New Fiction
Mystery & Thriller
Big Time by Ben H. Winters
Logline: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Quiet Boy comes a speculative, corporate espionage thriller that takes the adage "Time is money," and makes it literally, frighteningly so.
Publisher: Mulholland Books
The Hunter by Tana French
Logline: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Searcher and "one of the greatest crime novelists writing today" (Vox), a spellbinding new novel set in the Irish countryside.
Publisher: Viking
The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft
Logline: From the International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, an utterly beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish forest.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
Logline: What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if the truth doesn't matter?
Publisher: Celadon Books
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
Historical
The Tower by Flora Carr
Logline: A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots's darkest hour, when she was held hostage in a remote Scottish castle with a handful of loyal women while plotting a daring escape to reclaim her country and her freedom.
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Reviews:
Kirkus
The Scotsman
The Telegraph
Horror
The Invisible Hotel by Yeji Y. Ham
Logline: I know this place. The room is too dim to see clearly. It smells like the bones.
Publisher: Zando
Reviews:
Kirkus
S.F. Prescott
Humor
Say Hello to My Little Friend by Jennine Capó Crucet
Logline: Scarface meets Moby Dick in this groundbreaking, darkly comic novel about a young man's attempt to capitalize on his mother's murky legacy--a story steeped in Miami's marvelous and sinister magic.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
Romance
This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan
Logline: “For fans of Tia Williams and Colleen Hoover comes a deeply moving and personal novel about sacrifice, self-reliance, and finding true happiness from “one of the finest romance writers of our age.” ―Entertainment Weekly
Publisher: Forever
Literary
Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez
Logline: New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death.
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
Logline: The prize-winning, bestselling author of Peaces and Gingerbread returns with a novel about competitive friendship, the elastic boundaries of storytelling, and the meddling influence of a city called Prague.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman
Logline: From the best-selling author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. comes a funny, eye-opening tale of work in contemporary America.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan
Logline: A young woman reorients her relationship to the world in the wake of sudden deafness in this mesmerizing debut novel for readers of Rachel Cusk, Clarice Lispector, and Fleur Jaeggy.
Publisher: Catapult
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon
Logline: An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld.
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez
Logline: A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there.
Publisher: Ecco Press
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
This Week’s Hottest 🔥 New Nonfiction
Memoir
Logline: From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date--a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-acceptance. A profound introspection of his life, relationships, and identity, The House of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait of the legendary icon on the road to global fame and changing the way the world thinks about drag.
Publisher: Dey Street Books
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
The Cave: A Secret Underground Hospital and One Woman's Story of Survival in Syria by Amani Ballour, with Tania Abouzeid
Logline: This searing memoir tells the story of a young doctor and activist who ran an underground hospital in Damascus, humanizing the enduring crisis in Syria.
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Reviews:
Publishers Weekly
Tilly’s Reviews
Essays
Thunder Song: Essays by Sasha Lapointe
Logline: The author of the award-winning memoir Red Paint returns with a razor-sharp, clear-eyed collection of essays on what it means to be a proudly queer indigenous woman in the United States today.
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
Health
Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking — How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age by Caroline Paul
Logline: From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Gutsy Girl, a funny, inspiring, deeply researched exploration into the science and psychology of the outdoors and our place in it as we age.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Reviews:
Datebook
The Ashland Chronicle
Music
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan
Logline: From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the pinnacle of American culture in 1959, told through the journey of three towering artists--Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans--who came together to create the most iconic jazz album of all time, Kind of Blue.
Publisher: Penguin Press
Trash: A Poor White Journey by Cedar Monroe
Logline: Human beings are not trash, and the system that enables humans to imagine each other as such needs to end.
Publisher: Broadleaf Books
Reviews:
Kirkus
Foreword
Library Journal
This Week’s Hottest 🔥 New Poetry
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le
Logline: An explosive, devastating debut book of poetry from the acclaimed author of The Boat.
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Bookish Trivia 🤔
Leslie Marmon Silko, who turns 76 today, is known for her contributions to Native American literature. Which tribe does she belong to? |
This Week’s Literary Birthdays & Events
March 5
Daniel Alarcón
Nelly Arcan
Katarina Frostenson
Danny King
Frank Norris
Nathaniel Rich
Leslie Marmon Silko
Vasily Trediakovsky
Constance Fenimore Woolson
Wang Zengqi
March 6
Michael Cart
Gabriel García Márquez
Susan Quinn
March 7
Bret Easton Ellis
Robert Harris
E.L. James
Andrea Levy
Elizabeth Moon
March 8
Jeffrey Eugenides
Kenneth Grahame
John McPhee
Norman Stone
Douglass Wallop
March 9
Keri Hulme
Vita Sackville-West
March 10
David Grann
Janet Mock
John Rechy
March 11
Douglas Adams
Wanda Gág
Ezra Jack Keats
D.J. MacHale
Maaza Mengiste
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