Must-Read Fiction Spring 2023
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A Dangerous Business
Victory City
Someone Else's Shoes
Jane Smiley
Salman Rushdie
Jojo Moyes
HC: 978-0-525-52033-7 Knopf | 50,000 Available Now. Also available in eBook & Large Print Editions
HC: 978-0-593-24339-8 Random House | 100,000 On Sale February 7, 2023 Also Available in eBook & DN Editions
HC: 978-1-9848-7929-5 Pamela Dorman Books | 400,000 On Sale February 7, 2023 Also Available in eBook, CD & DN, & Large Print Editions
HC: 978-1-61219-988-7 Melville House | 75,000 On Sale February 28, 2023 Also Available in eBook Edition
From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of A Thousand Acres: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls.
The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries—from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie.
A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You and The Giver of Stars.
Spanning 13 years, two continents, several wars, and many smoke-filled and bloody battlefields, John Sayles’s thrilling historical and cinematic epic invites comparison with Diana Gabaldon, George R. R. Martin, Phillippa Gregory, and Charles Dickens.
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Time's Undoing Cheryl A. Head HC: 978-0-593-47182-1 Dutton | 75,000 On Sale February 28, 2023 Also Available in eBook & DN Editions A searing and tender novel about a young Black journalist’s search for answers in the unsolved murder of her great-grandfather in segregated Birmingham, Alabama decades ago—inspired by the author’s own family history. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.
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Jamie MacGillivray John Sayles
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Old Babes in the Wood
The Great Reclamation
Sarah Gilmartin
Margaret Atwood
Rachel Heng
TR: 978-1-911590-58-3 Pushkin Press | 45,000 On Sale March 7, 2023 Also Available in eBook Edition
HC: 978-0-385-54907-3 Doubleday | 100,000 On Sale March 7, 2023 Also Available in eBook, DN, & Large Print Editions
HC: 978-0-593-42011-9 Riverhead Books | 75,000 On Sale March 28, 2023 Also Available in eBook, DN, & Large Print Editions
A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments, stories that look deeply into the heart of family relationships, marriage, loss and memory, and what it means to spend a life together.
Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy’s unique gifts and the childhood love that will complicate the fate of his community and country.
Dinner Party
A remarkable Irish family saga about the messiness of modern family life—a major debut from a blazing new talent that’s already an international sensation. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss.
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Lone Women
The Society of Shame
Victor LaValle
Jane Roper
HC: 978-0-525-51208-0 One World | 75,000 On Sale March 21, 2023 Also Available in eBook & DN Editions Blue skies, empty land—and enough room to hide away a horrifying secret. Or is there? Discover a haunting new vision of the American West from the award-winning author of The Changeling. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.
Romantic Comedy
Anissa Gray
HC: 978-0-593-46876-0 Anchor | 60,000 On Sale April 4, 2023 Also Available in eBook & DN Editions
HC: 978-0-399-59094-8 Random House | 150,000 On Sale April 4, 2023 Also Available in eBook, & CD & DN Editions
HC: 978-1-9848-0246-0 Berkley | 60,000 On Sale April 11, 2023 Also Available in eBook & DN Editions
In this timely and witty combination of So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed and Where’d You Go, Bernadette? a viral photo of a politician’s wife’s “feminine hygiene malfunction” catapults her to unwanted fame in a story that’s both a satire of social media stardom and internet activism, and a tender mother-daughter tale.
A comedy writer thinks she’s sworn off love, until a dreamily handsome pop star flips the script on all her assumptions—a hilarious, observant and deeply tender novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Eligible, Rodham, and Prep.
A father’s sudden disappearance exposes the private fears, dreams, longings, and joys of a Black American family in the late decades of the twentieth century, in this page-turning and intimate new novel from the author of The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls.
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The Golden Doves Martha Hall Kelly HC: 978-0-593-35488-9 Ballantine Books | 200,000 On Sale April 18, 2023 Also Available in eBook, CD & DN, & Large Print Editions
Everything's Still There Kalyn Fogarty TR: 978-1-6391-0306-5 Crooked Lane Books | 50,000 On Sale May 2, 2023 Also Available in eBook Edition
The Guest Emma Cline HC: 978-0-8129-9862-7 Random House | 150,000 On Sale May 16, 2023 Also Available in eBook, CD & DN, & Large Print Editions
For fans of Alison Hammer and Caroline Two former female spies, bound Leavitt, Kalyn Fogarty weaves an A young woman pretends to be together by their past, risk everything emotionally rich tale in her powerfully someone she isn’t in this stunning to hunt down an infamous Nazi doctor moving novel Everything’s Still There, novel by the New York Times in the aftermath of World War II—an exploring postpartum depression, female bestselling author of The Girls. extraordinary novel inspired by true friendship, and new motherhood. events from the New York Times Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. bestselling author of Lilac Girls. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.
Life and Other Love Songs
Curtis Sittenfeld
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The Three of Us Ore Agbaje-Williams HC: 978-0-5935-4071-8 G.P. Putnam’s Sons | 75,000 On Sale May 16, 2023 Also Available in eBook & DN Editions Long-standing tensions between a husband, his wife, and her best friend finally come to a breaking point in this sharp domestic comedy of manners, told brilliantly over the course of one day. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.