Rejoice, for here are 20 new books coming out today.
You know that song that goes, “I don’t care if Monday’s blue, Tuesday’s gray and Wednesday too?” Well, apparently The Cure has never heard of a little thing we like to call New Books Tuesday (or NewBoosDay, if you will). Who can be gray when there are new books to hold?!
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Josh Malerman, Goblin
(Del Rey)
“Bram Stoker Award winner Malerman (Bird Box) delivers a chilling collection of tales about a place that’s likely to linger in the imagination.”
–Library Journal
Sarah Schulman, Let the Record Show
(FSG)
“An in-depth and fully realized account … a text that offers younger queer activists a rare study of their own history.”
–Vogue
Claire Fuller, Unsettled Ground
(Tin House)
“Fuller explores the painful realities of poverty and social isolation with immense sensitivity in this multilayered and emotionally astute novel.”
–The Guardian
Aminatta Forna, The Window Seat
(Grove Press)
“Forna retains a lightness of touch and depth of insight in her writing, alongside perceptible senses of both self-awareness and humor.”
–The Boston Globe
Lina Meruane, tr. Megan McDowell, Nervous System
(Graywolf Press)
“A complex, melancholy tale of a woman on the brink.”
–Kirkus
Molly Keane, Good Behaviour
(NYRB)
“Good Behaviour is nearly flawless, its satire a blade sharpened almost to transparency.”
–Chicago Tribune
Sam Riviere, Dead Souls
(Catapult)
“Full of clever postmodern flourishes, self-referential winks and riotous set pieces. It’s funny, smart and beautifully written.”
–The Guardian
Jeff Guinn, War on the Border
(Simon & Schuster)
“A riveting account of a dynamic period featuring larger-than-life characters and plenty of drama and suspense.”
–Kirkus
Alex McElroy, The Atmospherians
(Atria)
“McElroy’s impressive debut novel lands a well-crafted jab at toxic masculinity and attempts to control it.”
–Publishers Weekly
Brian Broome, Punch Me Up to the Gods
(Houghton Mifflin)
“An engrossing memoir about growing up Black and gay and finding a place in the world.”
–Kirkus
Nancy Tucker, The First Day of Spring
(Riverhead)
“The taut, meticulously observed narration, which alternates between Chrissie’s youthful and adult perspectives, mines the dangers that childhood trauma causes both its victims and those around them.”
–Publishers Weekly
Elizabeth Hinton, America on Fire
(Liveright)
“A must-read for all concerned with civil rights and social justice in modern America.”
–Kirkus
Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail
(Random House)
“Leonnig, a Washington Post journalist with three Pulitzers under her belt, is thorough and unsparing in her account. Page by page and detail by implacable detail.”
–The Washington Post
Jacqueline Rose, On Violence on Violence Against Women
(FSG)
“To read Rose is to understand that there is no border between us and the world; it is an invitation to a radical kind of responsibility.”
–The New York Times
Yusef Salaam, Better, Not Bitter
(Grand Central)
“Punctuating his prose with memorable images (‘Fear was playing Double Dutch with my mind’), Salaam denounces a system of injustice built on the backs of Black people, demonized as born criminals.”
–Kirkus
Barry Meier, Spooked
(Harper)
“Meier adds color and depth to the political saga … an illuminating look at a shadowy industry.”
–Publishers Weekly
Francis Spufford, Light Perpetual
(Scribner)
“Thanks to Spufford’s narrative wizardry, all five protagonists come to vivid life in this spectacularly moving story.”
–Publishers Weekly
Barrett Swanson, Lost in Summerland
(Counterpoint)
“Full of measured skepticism, Swanson’s sharp interrogation of contemporary American life hits hard and true.”
–Publishers Weekly
Ailsa McFarlane, Highway Blue
(Hogarth)
“McFarlane’s dreamy if tepid debut follows a young couple on the run from the police in a cinematically rendered American West.”
–Publishers Weekly
Patrick K. O’Donnell, The Indispensables
(Atlantic Monthly)
“A vivid account of an impressive Revolutionary War unit and a can’t-miss choice for fans of O’Donnell’s previous books.”
–Kirkus
