PRH Library Staff Picks Fall 2021
Jen’s Picks The Guide
Beautiful Country
Peter Heller
Qian Julie Wang
HC: 978-0-525-65776-7 eBook: 978-0-525-65777-4 Knopf | 75,000 On Sale August 24, 2021
HC: 978-0-385-54721-5 eBook: 978-0-385-54724-6 DN: 978-0-593-45553-1 Doubleday | 125,000 On Sale September 7, 2021
The bestselling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who, escaping his own grief, is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado, where amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests he uncovers a plot of shocking menace. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.
An incandescent and heartrending memoir from an astonishing new talent, Beautiful Country puts readers in the shoes of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
How to Live. What to Do
Wole Soyinka
HC: 978-0-593-31620-7 eBook: 978-0-593-31621-4 DN: 978-0-593-45615-6 Pantheon | 35,000 On Sale October 26, 2021
HC: 978-0-593-32016-7 eBook: 978-0-593-32017-4 DN: 978-0-593-45959-1 LP: 978-0-593-46034-4 Pantheon | 50,000 On Sale September 28, 2021 The first Black person ever to win the Nobel Prize in Literature gives us a tour de force, his first novel in nearly half a century: a savagely satiric, gleefully irreverent, rollicking fictional meditation on how power and greed can corrupt the soul of a nation. Learn More About the Book.
Lore Olympus: Volume One
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
Rachel Smythe
Ai Weiwei
HC: 978-0-593-16029-9 TR: 978-0-593-35607-4 Del Rey | 200,000 On Sale October 5, 2021
HC: 978-0-553-41946-7 eBook: 978-0-553-41947-4 CD: 978-0-399-56752-0 DN: 978-0-399-56755-1 Crown | 100,000 On Sale November 2, 2021
Scandalous gossip, wild parties, and forbidden love—witness what the gods do after dark in this In his widely anticipated stylish and contemporary memoir, Ai Weiwei—one of the reimagining of one of mythology’s world's most famous artists and best-known stories from creator activists—tells a century-long Rachel Smythe. epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary Learn More About the Book. life and the legacy of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet. Learn More About the Book.
The 1619 Project Created by Nikole Hannah-Jones & The New York Times Magazine HC: 978-0-593-23057-2 eBook: 978-0-593-23058-9 DN: 978-0-593-45229-5 LP: 978-0-593-50171-9 One World | 100,000 On Sale November 16, 2021 A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. Learn More About the Book.
Josh Cohen
Focusing on some of the bestknown characters in all of literature—chosen to trace the arc from childhood to old age—a brilliant psychoanalyst and professor of literature shows how our inner lives become at once stranger and more familiar when seen through the prism of fiction. Click to Request an eGalley on Edelweiss.
The Maid Nita Prose HC: 978-0-593-35615-9 eBook: 978-0-593-35616-6 LP: 978-0-593-51084-1 Ballantine Books | 150,000 On Sale January 4, 2022 A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed. Solving the mystery will turn her once orderly world upside down in this utterly original debut. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.
Elizabeth’s Picks
Monster in the Middle Tiphanie Yanique HC: 978-1-59463-360-7 eBook: 978-0-698-18389-6 DN: 978-0-593-45834-1 LP: 978-0-593-45966-9 Riverhead Books | 30,000 On Sale October 19, 2021 From the award-winning author of Land of Love and Drowning, an electric new novel that maps the emotional inheritance of one couple newly in love. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.
Still Life
Fiona and Jane
Small World
Sarah Winman
Jean Chen Ho
Jonathan Evison
HC: 978-0-593-33075-3 eBook: 978-0-593-33077-7 DN: 978-0-593-45334-6 LP: 978-0-593-45967-6 G.P. Putnam's Sons | 50,000 On Sale November 2, 2021
HC: 978-0-593-29604-2 eBook: 978-0-593-29605-9 DN: 978-0-593-45217-2 Viking | 100,000 On Sale January 4, 2022
HC: 978-0-593-18412-7 eBook: 978-0-593-18414-1 DN: 978-0-593-45221-9 Dutton | 75,000 On Sale January 11, 2022
A witty, warm, and From the acclaimed irreverent book that author of Tin Man comes traces the lives of two a captivating, lively new young Taiwanese novel of people brought American women as they together across four navigate friendship, decades of love, war, art, sexuality, identity, and flood, and the ghost of heartbreak over two E. M. Forster. decades. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.
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Erica’s Picks
Small World is a sprawling chronical of a hundred-and-seventy years of American nationbuilding from numerous points-of-view across place and time. The result is a historical epic with a Dickensian flair and a timely discussion of cultural change. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss.
The Storm is Upon Us
Clark and Division
Dare to Know
Mike Rothschild
Naomi Hirahara
James Kennedy
Gayl Jones
HC: 978-1-64129-249-8 eBook: 978-1-64129-250-4 Soho Crime | 75,000 On Sale August 3, 2021
HC: 978-1-68369-260-7 eBook: 978-1-68369-261-4 Quirk Books | 75,000 On Sale September 14, 2021
HC: 978-0-8070-3349-4 eBook: 978-0-8070-3352-4 DN: 978-0-8070-9405-1 Beacon Press | 50,000 On Sale September 14, 2021
HC: 978-1-61219-929-0 eBook: 978-1-61219-930-6 Melville House | 500,000 On Sale June 22, 2021 The definitive story of QAnon from an expert on cult and fringe culture: how it started, what it is, and its growing power to destabilize society and promote conspiracy. What does QAnon want, and what comes next? Learn More About the Book.
Set in 1944 Chicago, Dark Matter meets Edgar Award-winner Annihilation in this Naomi Hirahara's eyemind-bending and opening and poignant emotional speculative new mystery, the story of thriller set in a world a young woman searching where the exact moment for the truth about her of your death can be revered older sister's predicted-for a price. death, brings to focus the struggles of one Japanese Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. American family released Request an eGalley on NetGalley. from mass incarceration at Manzanar during World War II. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.
Palmares
The epic rendering of a Black woman's journey through slavery and liberation, set in 17thcentury colonial Brazil; the return of a major voice in American literature. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss.
Kelly’s Picks
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