New Books

“Strung Up is an unflinching and visionary work that recovers the central role of children in the making of racial violence.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow

"Brilliant, affecting work from one of contemporary literature's masters. . . . A fierce belief that great art is for everyone joins Kingsolver’s familiar preoccupations with class distinctions, social injustice, and the complex bonds of family and community in a tender denouement." —Kirkus (starred review)

"Winterset Hollow is one of the most interesting books I've read in years...astonishingly powerful and multilayered! It's like you're sitting on a long by a pleasant pond, dabbling your toes, and then you see a dark shape in the water...then another...and while you're holding your breath, suddenly you realize the log you're sitting on...is...moving!" —Diana Gabaldon, author of Outlander

"In The Forest Year, Ethan Tapper returns to his beloved Bear Island to chronicle a full year of his experiences as he restores its wounded ecosystems. Ethan is a rare man who has learned to look deeply into the heart of nature, see it for what it is, understand his place in it, and accept his responsibility to heal it. With touching prose, he shows us what a deep love of the natural world really is. Set another place at the table, Wendell Berry; Ethan Tapper has arrived!" —Douglas W. Tallamy, author of How Can I Help?

"Jennifer Welch has made a name for herself as a sharp-witted, foul-mouthed, uncomfortable-truth-bomb-dropping political commentator. Whether you've seen social media clips of her ranting about Donald Trump's poorly applied makeup or watched her eviscerate Senator Cory Booker on AIPAC during their viral interview, Jennifer is shaking up the way liberal media thinks about political punditry." —Mehdi Hasan, Zeteo

"I was two percent into Bad Words when I realized I was reading something special, the rare kind of book that not only treads new, fresh territory but does so in a way that feels startlingly inevitable. The kind of book I can’t believe doesn’t already exist, because it is just so right, so the thing I’ve been waiting for. It’s also a book that could only ever have been written by Ríoghnach Robinson, whose clear, clever voice and incisive social commentary elevate the book’s punchy premise and irresistible will-they-won’t-they romance to a once-in-a-lifetime read about truth, art, vulnerability and all the sticky places they intersect. Bad Words left me buzzing."—Emily Henry, author of Great Big Beautiful Life

"An astonishingly good novel.  Fans of the earlier Talisman novels will absolutely love this one, and because King is a wizard at providing backstory, readers can come to this story cold, never having read its predecessors, and thoroughly enjoy it.”—Booklist, (starred review)

"The strength of this series lies in Schwab’s ExtraOrdinary power to make you care for many of these incredibly rash, ethically dubious—some verging on irredeemable—characters anyway. A gripping and nuanced saga with an ending that feels both inevitable and well earned. Who is victorious? The author and the readers." —Kirkus (starred review)

"Life Out of Order is fiction with a pulse--urgent, atmospheric, unforgettable. Exploring how we persist when the present is never guaranteed, Niffenegger offers fans a deeper, soaring continuation of her iconic world. It's a fiercely imaginative feat of world-building, a rare sequel that doesn't just revisit the past, it redefines our understanding of what it means to belong to time itself." —Sarah Addison Allen, author of Paper Ghosts

“A fierce tour de force of terror. Carrying is a campy, erotic, provocative and utterly essential horror story for our time. It’s like The Substance meets Jane the Virgin but put a horny trans woman right at the centre. Samantha Josephs is the new horror it girl.” —Lucy Rose, author of The Lamb

"This first vegan edition in Bittman’s How To Cook Everything series enables readers to mix and match mains like homemade noodles or braised tofu with sauces to come up with satisfying meals…Side bars on 'doctoring vegan spreads' and 'whole grain know-how' efficiently provide creative tips on reusing similar ingredients to get appealing new results. Devotees of the series and anyone seeking plant-based meals will not be let down by this collection of colorful and practical recipes." —Booklist (starred review)

"Thompson-Spires, a wondrously deft short story writer, has now given us a first novel that, while slim, manages to pack in an epic’s worth of lives, histories, and mysteries. This is a deliciously sweet and sour tour-de-force." —Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love

“Every Story Is a Love Story is a deeply moving, beautifully told novel about grief, regret, anger, forgiveness, and the insistent resilience of the human heart. Imbolo Mbue’s generosity on the page is breathtaking.” —Patrick Ryan, author of Buckeye

"The writing in The Names of the New World is cerebral, muscular, electric, moving us through disaster with a light touch, consistently tempered with tenderness, humor, and love, often gorgeous with poetry, and deeply insightful about what it means to be human now and moving forward, what it means to lose and to win both. This story moves, and is moving, and feels, throughout, utterly new. It is a fiercely original, relentlessly paced epic of climate catastrophe, exploring the jagged edges of American identity. It is a profound meditation and exploration of the debt the old world owes the new, told with the undeniable pulse of those left fighting in the ruins, here to name with a kind of nuclear power what it means to be alive inside the doomed and beautiful brilliance of the devastation of ends, of change, of life itself.” —Tommy Orange, author of Wandering Stars and There, There

"Millet spikes this transfixing tale with keen and caustic insights into friendship and love, privilege and obsession, delusion and truth, vulnerable children, aging parents, and imperiled nature, all amidst ambushing moments of wry humor and radiant beauty." —Booklist (starred review)

“A mournful meditation on life and death, full of psychopomp and circumstance, Khaw's latest spectral elegy, Find Me Where It Ends, has crafted the most incomparable companion, a four-legged friend to the very end, inviting readers to rub the Grim Reaper's tummy and find solace in its shadows.” —Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Devil Inside

“The Scarlet Ball is a dark jewel of a novel: part Gothic fairy tale, part nightmare of manners, and entirely its own. Vo conjures a Gilded Age New York both recognizable and terrifyingly transformed, where beauty is currency, ritual is power, and a single wrong step may prove more than just socially fatal. The Scarlet Ball peels back the silk and glamour of the Four Hundred to reveal the literal monsters lurking within.” —Shana Abé, author of The Second Mrs. Astor and A Crown of Stars