Book Club Picks, Spring Book & Author Festival 2021

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Book Club Picks #PRHBookFest

The Dictionary of Lost Words Pip Williams

HC, eBook, DN Ballantine Books | 35,000 On Sale April 4, 2021 In this remarkable debut based on actual events, as a team of male scholars compiles the first Oxford English Dictionary, one of their daughters decides to collect the "objectionable" words they omit. Click to Request an eGalley on Edelweiss.

Early Morning Riser

Hour of the Witch

HC, eBook, DN Knopf | 30,000 On Sale April 13, 2021

HC, eBook, DN, LP Doubleday | 125,000 On Sale May 4, 2021

A wise, bighearted, boundlessly joyful novel of love, disaster, and unconventional family for readers of Jojo Moyes, Ann Patchett, and Sally Rooney.

A young Puritan woman—faithful, resourceful, but afraid of the demons that dog her soul—plots her escape from a violent marriage in this riveting and propulsive novel of historical suspense from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant.

Katherine Heiny

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Chris Bohjalian

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People We Meet on Vacation Emily Henry

TR, eBook, DN Berkley | 75,000 On Sale May 11, 2021 With one week to win back the best friend she might just be in love with, a travel writer plans the trip of a lifetime in this sparkling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read. Click to Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Click to Request an eGalley on NetGalley.

With Teeth

Angel & Hannah

How Not to Drown

The Summer Job Lizzy Dent

Kristen Arnett

TR, eBook, DN One World | 75,000 On Sale May 11, 2021

HC, eBook Alcove Press | 30,000 On Sale May 11, 2021

TR, eBook, DN G.P. Putnam's Sons | 75,000 On Sale May 18, 2021

HC, eBook, DN, LP Riverhead Books | 65,000 On Sale June 6, 2021

This sweeping, unforgettable reimagining of Romeo and Juliet tells the story of an interracial couple in 1990s New York City who are determined to protect their love against all odds.

From WILLA Literary Award-winning author Jaimee Wriston comes a novel for fans of Jami Attenberg and Elizabeth Strout about a former model whose undisciplined granddaughter turns her fastidious, controlled life upside down, forcing her to confront what she values.

Beach Read meets Sweetbitter in this laugh-out-loud and ultimately heartwarming debut of a good friend's very bad decision and the summer job that stands to ruin or make her life.

From the author of the New York Times bestselling sensation Mostly Dead Things: a surprising and moving story of two mothers, one difficult son, and the limitations of marriage, parenthood, and love.

Ishle Yi Park

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Jaimee Wriston

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Book Club Picks #PRHBookFest

Pack Up the Moon

Morningside Heights

Grown Ups

HC, TR, eBook Berkley | 25,000 On Sale June 8, 2021

HC, eBook, DN Pantheon | 17,500 On Sale June 15, 2021

TR, eBook Anchor Canada | 20,000 On Sale June 29, 2021

Twelve letters. That's what Lauren decides to leave her husband when she finds out she's dying. Twelve letters to see him through the first year without her, and to lead him on a heartrending, beautiful, often humorous journey to find happiness again in the new novel.

A poignant, powerful, and largehearted novel about love in the face of loss, from the award-winning author of The World Without You and Matrimony.

From the #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Woman Who Stole My Life, a page-turning, hilarious, and charismatic family drama.

Kristan Higgins

Joshua Henkin

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Marian Keyes

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Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light Helen Ellis

HC, eBook, DN Doubleday | 60,000 On Sale July 13, 2021 The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with a viciously funny, deeply felt collection of essays on friendship among grown-ass women. Click to Request an eGalley on Edelweiss.

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Happy Hour

Songbirds

In the Country of Others

What We Carry Kalyn Fogarty

Marlowe Granados

HC, eBook, DN Ballantine Books | 75,000 On Sale August 3, 2021

HC, eBook, DN Penguin Books | 50,000 On Sale August 10, 2021

TR, eBook Alcove Press | 40,000 On Sale August 10, 2021

TR, eBook Verso Fiction | 25,000 On Sale September 7, 2021

From the prize-winning author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo, a stunning novel about the disappearance of a Sri Lankan nanny and how the most vulnerable people find their voices.

The award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling new novel by the author of The Perfect Nanny, about a woman in an interracial marriage whose fierce desire for autonomy parallels her adopted country's fight for independence.

Fans of Caroline Leavitt will relish this rich, complex novel born of the author's own loss and grief, about how one can overcome tragedy through bravery and self-discovery.

With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, Marlowe Granados's stunning debut novel brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York City.

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Christy Lefteri

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Leila Slimani

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