Tana French, Colm Tóibín, Yann Martel and more: 20 new books out today!

We’re at the bitter end of March, and here to usher in the closing of the dreary winter, and welcome in the tidings of April, there are more than a few big books arriving on this new books Tuesday. Let’s take a look at the novels and nonfiction that will accompany us in the transition of seasons: Tana French returns with the final book in her Cal Hooper trilogy, Colm Tóibín blesses us with a collection of stories, Yann Martel has a hotly anticipated new novel, and many more, as always. Read on, and happy Tuesday!

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Tana French, The Keeper
(Viking)

“Great crime fiction.”
–Kirkus

Colm Tóibín, The News from Dublin: Stories
(Scribner)

“Tóibín demonstrates once again the depth of his emotional and moral imagination.”
–Times Literary Supplement

Yann Martel, Son of Nobody
(W. W. Norton)

“Original, thought-provoking, and utterly absorbing.”
–Booklist

Serena Kutchinsky, Kutchinsky’s Egg: A Family’s Story of Obsession, Love, and Loss
(Scribner)

“An extraordinary family story and a strange, poignant portrait of obsession.”
–Sophie Elmhirst

Kirsten King, A Good Person
(G.P. Putnam)

“I can’t think of a book that has made me laugh harder in recent memory.”
–Bustle

A. M. Gittlitz, Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People’s Team
(Astra House)

“Ambitious and intellectually invigorating.”
–Publishers Weekly

Woody Brown, Upward Bound
(Hogarth)

“Implosive and wonderfully inspirational.”
–Paul Beatty

Adele Bertei, No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene
(Beacon)

“An eccentric and energetic tour through a vibrant chapter of New York City music history.”
–Publishers Weekly

Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good
(Atria)

“Horrific yet humane, lurid but longing, part thriller and part cautionary tale and altogether delectable.”
–A. J. Finn

Adam Phillips, The Life You Want
(FSG)

“A sophisticated, mind-stretching argument for psychoanalysis as a way of understanding why we want a good life.”
–Kirkus

Arsenio Hall, Arsenio
(Atria)

“A vivid, outrageous portrait of the comedy scene of the ’80s and ’90s.”
–The New York Times

Lisa Lee, American Han
(Algonquin)

“Tone perfect. To say that this book is smart is an understatement.”
–Percival Everett

Suzanne Simard, When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World
(Knopf)

“A resonant and urgent call for change.”
–Publishers Weekly

Maria Adelmann, The Adjunct
(Scribner)

“A darkly funny, deeply incisive exploration of academia’s underbelly.”
–Booklist

Alexandra Sifferlin, The Elusive Body: Patients, Doctors, and the Diagnostic Crisis
(Viking)

“Artfully melds modern medical science with timeless narratives of people struggling for answers to mysterious maladies.”
–Jerome Goopman, MD

Malin Persson Giolito, trans. by Rachel Willson-Broyles, Still Life: Ten Crime Stories
(Other Press)

“Exceptionally well-written and thoughtfully composed, this collection wields compassion, empathy, and justice’s inherent conflicts to confront readers with the criminal motives in everyday life.”
–Booklist

Kory Stamper, True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—From Azure to Zinc Pink
(Knopf)

“Lively … Filled with opinionated, insistent, stubborn characters who devoted their lives to accuracy.”
–Kirkus

Corey Ann Haydu, Mothers and Other Strangers
(Little Brown)

“A beautiful tale of complicated friendships.”
–Publishers Weekly

Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Night Owl: Poems
(Ecco)

“In this resplendent collection, she enacts the truth that to see and express beauty in these times is its own form of resistance.”
–Diane Seuss

Megan Kate Nelson, The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier
(Scribner)

“This complicated, sprawling epic is untamed in a good way.”
–Publishers Weekly