20 brand-new books hitting shelves today.
The days in quarantine would all blend together if it weren’t for Tuesday, which is the day new books hit the (now metaphorical) shelves. Here are a few of the titles dropping today. You can get them from your local indie and/or Bookshop (which, by the way, has now raised over one million dollars for independent bookstores!). Happy reading.
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Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
(William Morrow)
“Dazzling . . . Readers will relish the indelible prose.”
–Publishers Weekly
Greil Marcus, Under the Red White and Blue
(Yale University Press)
“Astute, challenging, and far-reaching.”
–Kirkus
Wendy Moore, No Man’s Land
(Basic Books)
“Moore narrates with verve and precision.”
–Publishers Weekly
Blake Gopnik, Warhol
(Ecco)
“An epic cradle-to-grave biography of the king of pop art.”
–Kirkus
Kaouther Adimi, trans. by Chris Andrews, Our Riches
(New Directions)
“Adimi’s writing creates an agile prose which, in translation, provides a faithful voice to characters who are losing their bearings in uncertain times.”
–Asymptote
Ishmael Beah, Little Family
(Riverhead)
“Beah portrays his characters with exquisite tenderness, imbuing them with a grace that belies their wretched situation.”
–Library Journal
Lian Dolen, The Sweeney Sisters
(William Morrow)
“A warmhearted portrait of love embracing true hearts.”
–Kirkus
Rufi Thorpe, The Knockout Queen
(Knopf)
“Thorpe comes back swinging with her best novel yet … a moody and mordantly funny contemplation of the rigors of growing up that will leave readers reeling.”
–BookPage
Imogen Kealey, Liberation
(Grand Central)
“…an exciting and super cinema-ready WWII thriller.”
–Booklist
Amity Gaige, Sea Wife
(Knopf)
“Gripping… A powerful take on a marriage on the rocks.”
–Kirkus
Vivek H. Murthy, Together
(Harper Wave)
“This book is a welcome tonic for an increasingly divided country.”
–Booklist
Sara Sligar, Take Me Apart
(MCD)
“A raw and sophisticated debut.”
–Kirkus
Lauren Sandler, This Is All I Got
(Random House)
“Readers will be moved by this harrowing and impassioned call for change.”
–Publishers Weekly
Witold Szabłowski, tr. by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, How To Feed a Dictator
(Penguin Books)
“Fascinating . . . A new perspective on horrible people.”
–Booklist
Svenja O’Donnell, Inge’s War
(Viking)
“Vivid and meticulously researched.”
–Publishers Weekly
Lawrence Wright, The End of October
(Knopf)
“A disturbing, eerily timed novel.”
–Kirkus
