12 new books to get from your local bookstore today.
In the mood for a little holiday shopping? You know what they say: November is the new December! Who says that? Independent bookstores that need your support now! So here are a dozen new books hitting shelves today. Go forth!
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Ernest Cline, Ready Player Two
(Ballantine)
“This sequel, nine years in the making, has been kept tightly under wraps, but it’s bound to be as full of nerdy pop-culture Easter eggs as the first.”
–USA Today
Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood, and Dan Richards, Ghostways
(W. W. Norton)
“Contemplative, impressionistic and suffused with aspects of the mythic, these pieces operate at times like prose poems.”
–The Los Angeles Times
Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night
(Atria)
“Exceptionally beautiful writing is the hallmark of this well-crafted novel about Syrian immigrants in New York City.”
–Library Journal
Teasel Muir-Harmony, Operation Moonglow
(Basic Books)
“Anyone interested in the early days of space exploration will be drawn to this fast-paced, accessible book.”
–Library Journal
William Gaddis, The Recognitions
(New York Review of Books)
“The book’s themes and its fierce indictment of the modern world may seem conventional by now, but Gaddis’s treatment of them is so dazzlingly original that one never has the sense of mere recapitulation of received ideas.”
–The New York Times Book Review
Gaëlle Josse, tr. Natasha Lehrer, The Last Days of Ellis Island
(World Editions)
“In the tale of this fictional bureaucrat, Josse powerfully evokes the spirit of the ‘huddled masses’ who landed on America’s shores while creating a memorable portrait of a man torn between his commitment to his difficult job and the longings of his heart.”
–Kirkus
Paul Celan, tr. Pierre Joris, Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech
(FSG)
“This admirable translation presents the early work of an eminent German language postwar poet to a new audience.”
–Publishers Weekly
Donna Hill, Confessions in B-Flat
(Sideways Books)
“A captivating and skillfully constructed weaving of history and romantic drama.”
–Kirkus
Derek McCormack, Castle Faggot
(Semiotext(e))
“Castle Faggot is an experience—its own biosphere, its own zip code.”
–4Columns
John Harris, The Last Slave Ships
(Yale University Press)
“Highly recommended for U.S. Middle Period, African American, and Civil War historians, and for all general readers.”
–Library Journal
Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant, Stuff You Should Know
(Flatiron)
“Two popular podcasters opine on topics skewed—intentionally or not—toward real or stereotypical masculine interests, such as cars, guns, and military derring-do.”
–Kirkus
David S. Brown, The Last American Aristocrat
(Scribner)
“[A] thoroughly researched and gracefully written biography.”
–The Wall Street Journal
