David Sedaris, Matt Haig, Missouri Williams, and more: 20 new books out today!

The tail end of a long weekend brings us a new slew of reads: a collection of David Sedaris essays, Jorie Graham poems, as well as a fresh novel from bestseller Matt Haig all promise to deliver. That’s not all on the list: Natalie Adler and Missouri Williams both have novels coming down the pike, as well as nonfiction from Steven Pfau, Thomas Asbridge, and more. Read on for the full list, and happy Tuesday!

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David Sedaris, The Land and Its People
(Little Brown)

“It’s classic Sedaris: sharp, shameless, and strangely tender.”
–Oprah Daily

Matt Haig, The Midnight Train
(Viking)

“Touching … Haig authentically evokes Wilbur’s fears and regrets over the course of a life marked by sacrifice.”
–Publishers Weekly

Missouri Williams, The Vivisectors
(MCD)

“Williams’s second novel is as brilliant as it is dark, full of unsettling, revelatory allegory, and frankly unlike anything I’ve read before.”
–Vulture

Jorie Graham, Killing Spree: Poems
(FSG)

“Timely and powerful, this is a masterful addition to Graham’s oeuvre.”
–Publishers Weekly

Natalie Adler, Waiting on a Friend
(Hogarth)

“A fun, sexy, heartbreaking, inventive whirl of a novel.”
–Ann Napolitano

Steven Pfau, Say Nephew: On Boyhood, Unclehood, and Queer Mentorship
(Catapult)

“A vital, indispensable memoir that operates with the eloquence of fiction and the analytic rigor of a ‘case study’ passionately metamorphosed into an elegiac, liberatory love letter.”
–Wayne Koestenbaum

Tom Lin, Babylon, South Dakota
(Little Brown)

“It’s wonder-full, enchanted and enchanting. I’m getting goosebumps right now as I type.”
–Kaveh Akbar

Joshua Kendall, Trudeau and Doonesbury: A Biography
(Abrams)

“Garry Trudeau, one of the essential voices of his generation, is now the subject of an essential biography.”
–Jonathan Eig

Walter Mosley, Ghalen: A Romance in Black
(Amistad)

“Even in chaos, darkness, and hardship, this novel finds reasons to believe in the human spirit.”
–Kirkus

Thomas Asbridge, The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity’s Most Devastating Pandemic
(Random House)

“Its impeccable, wide-ranging scholarship and its suitability for general readers make it an impressive achievement.”
–Financial Times

Jill Dawson, Pixie
(Bloomsbury)

“A captivating insight into the life of the most famous occult artist you’ve never heard of.”
–Paula Hawkins

Ben Rhodes, All We Say: The Battle for American Identity
(Random House)

“Ben Rhodes reminds us what American greatness actually sounds like, and what it means.”
–Ayad Akhtar

Daniel Halpern, Air
(Copper Canyon)

“Daniel Halpern is a poet of rare ability, a poet who knows how to craft a poem that gives the reader not just an insight into the world, but into the complexity of human experience itself.”
–Robert Penn Warren

Sarah M. S. Pearsall, Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution
(Doubleday)

“An amazing and beautifully crafted book.”
–David W. Blight

Julián Delgado Lopera, Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You
(Liveright)

“Generous, imaginative, revelatory, enraging, and loving. Read it and let the lightning of its prose bring you alive again.”
–Andrew Sean Greer

Marc Bennetts, The Descent: Witnessing Russia’s Spiral Into Madness Under Putin
(Bloomsbury)

“Haunting and insightful … A pitch-perfect account of how his adopted country descended into evil and madness.”
–The Times

Eli Raphael, Night Objects
(Grand Central)

“Her prose is vivid and immersive; her storytelling is top-notch.”
–Liz Moore

Chris Murphy, Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America
(FSG)

“Both a policy blueprint and a moral call to action; it is both an urgent, solution-driven prescription and an uplifting civic sermon.”
–Cory Booker

Dennis Cooper, Closer
(Grove)

“Extraordinary … One of the few new American writers with a completely distinctive voice.”
–Edmund White

James Holland, The Visionaries
(Atlantic Monthly Press)

“James Holland retells their magnificent story vividly and accessibly. The remedy we need at the time we need it.”
–The Atlantic