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Booth #300 Booth Signing: 2/27 @4:00pm

Eat a Peach

The Vanishing Half

Stray

Leonard and Hungry Paul

Stephanie Danler

Rónán Hession

David Chang with Gabe Ulla

Brit Bennett

HC: 978-1-101-87596-4 eBook: 978-1-101-87597-1 AD:978-0-593-21207-3 LP: 978-0-593-21471-8 Knopf | 100,000 May 5, 2020

HC: 978-1-61219-848-4 eBook: 978-1-61219-849-1 Melville House| 40,000 May 5, 2020

HC: 978-1-5247-5921-6 eBook: 978-1-5247-5922-3 AD: 978-0-593-20839-7 Clarkson Potter | 125,000 May 19, 2020

HC: 978-0-525-53629-1 eBook: 978-0-525-53697-0 AD: 978-0-525-63716-5 CD: 978-0-525-63713-4 LP: 978-0-593-28610-4 Riverhead | 100,000 June 2, 2020

From the bestselling author of Sweetbitter, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and addiction, and of one woman's attempts to find a life beyond the limits of her past.

A disarming novel that asks a simple question: Can gentle people change the world?

The chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix's Ugly Delicious gets uncomfortably real in his debut memoir.

From the bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds.

Booth Signing: 2/28 @11:00am

The Growing Season

Act Like a Lady

Sarah Frey

Keltie Knight, Becca Tobin, and Jac Vanek

HC: 978-0-593-12939-5 eBook: 978-0-593-12940-1 AD: 978-0-593-21027-7 Ballantine Books | 50,000 June 2, 2020 One woman's tenacious journey to escape poverty and create a billion-dollar farming business— without ever leaving the land she loved.

HC: 978-0-593-13644-7 eBook: 978-0-593-13645-4 AD: 978-0-593-16447-1 Rodale Books | 75,000 June 2, 2020 The hosts of the popular podcast and E! show LadyGang offer a relatable, empowering, and hilarious take on being unapologetically yourself (even if that's not always your best self) in a manifesto that redefines womanhood for the twenty-first century lady.

A Burning

The Lost Diary of Venice

Megha Majumdar

Margaux DeRoux

HC: 978-0-525-65869-6 eBook: 978-0-525-65870-2 AD: 978-0-593-21211-0 LP: 978-0-593-21476-3 Knopf | 100,000 June 2, 2020

HC: 978-1-9848-1948-2 eBook: 978-1-9848-1949-9 AD: 978-0-593-16722-9 Ballantine Books | 75,000 June 9, 2020

For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise—to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies—and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India.

Two impossible love stories are fatefully connected by one artistic legacy in a stunning debut that leaps between the mysteries of late-Renaissance Venice and the dramas of present-day America.


Booth Signing: 2/28 @11:30am

A Knock at Midnight

The Sight of You

Awestruck

Super Host

Holly Miller

Jonah Paquette

Kate Russo

Brittany K. Barnett

HC: 978-0-593-08558-5 eBook: 978-0-593-08560-8 AD: 978-0-593-21168-7 LP: 978-0-593-28603-6 Putnam | 75,000 June 9, 2020

TR: 978-1-61180-774-5 Shambhala | 20,000 June 9, 2020

HC: 978-0-593-18770-8 eBook: 978-0-593-18771-5 AD: 978-0-593-21170-0 LP: 978-0-593-28605-0 Putnam | 100,000 June 9, 2020

HC: 978-1-9848-2578-0 eBook: 978-1-9848-2579-7 AD: 978-0-593-21019-2 Crown | 75,000 June 16, 2020

The Light We Lost meets How to Walk Away in this romantic and page-turning American debut that poses a heartbreaking question: Would you choose love, if you knew how it would end?

How the moments that make us go "Wow!" can make lasting and positive improvements to our health, relationships, and everyday lives.

People secretly wonder about the personal lives of their AirBnb hosts, and this novel offers fantastic insight in the people behind one fictional London rental.

An urgent call to free those buried alive by America's legal system, and an inspiring true story about unwavering belief in humanity—from a powerful new voice in the movement to transform the system.

Seven Lies

How Beautiful We Were

Eliza Starts a Rumor

Rodham

Elizabeth Kay

Imbolo Mbue

Jane L. Rosen

Curtis Sittenfeld

HC: 978-1-9848-7971-4 eBook: 978-1-9848-7972-1 AD: 978-0-593-21336-0 LP: 978-0-593-28609-8 Pamela Dorman Books | 100,000 June 16, 2020

HC: 978-0-593-13242-5 eBook: 978-0-593-13243-2 AD: 978-0-593-20996-7 CD: 978-0-593-20995-0 LP: 978-0-593-21330-8 Random House | 75,000 June 16, 2020

HC: 978-0-593-10208-4 eBook: 978-0-593-10210-7 AD: 978-0-593-21373-5 Berkley | 50,000 June 23, 2020

HC: 978-0-399-59091-7 eBook: 978-0-399-59092-4 AD: 978-0-525-52784-8 CD: 978-0-525-52781-7 LP: 978-0-593-29499-4 Random House | 100,000 June 30, 2020

Told in a seductive first-person voice, this is a story full of toxic secrets, tangled friendships, and the way compulsive love can make us do the unthinkable.

From the celebrated author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers comes a sweeping, wrenching story about the collision of a small African village and an American oil company.

Four women, one tiny lie, and the big repercussions that unite them all in this charming, pageturning novel from the author of Nine Women, One Dress.

From the New York Times bestselling author of American Wife and Eligible, a novel that imagines: What if Hillary Rodham hadn't married Bill Clinton? TinyUrl.com/ RodhamARCRequest


Hurry Home

The Party Upstairs

The Big Book of Mars

The Golden Cage

Lee Conell

Marc Hartzman

Camilla Läckberg

Roz Nay

HC: 978-1-9848-8027-7 eBook: 978-1-9848-8028-4 AD: 978-0-593-21092-5 Penguin Press | 40,000 July 7, 2020

TR: 978-1-68369-209-6 eBook: 978-1-68369-210-2 Quirk Books | 35,000 July 7, 2020

HC: 978-0-525-65797-2 eBook: 978-0-525-65798-9 AD: 978-0-593-21235-6 LP: 978-0-593-21475-6 Knopf | 100,000 July 7, 2020

HC: 978-1-64385-479-3 eBook: 978-1-64385-480-9 Crooked Lane Books | 35,000 July 7, 2020

An electrifying debut novel that unfolds in the course of a single day inside one genteel New York City apartment building, as tensions between the building's super and his grown-up daughter spark a crisis that will, by day's end, have changed everything.

The Red Planet takes center stage in this entertaining, well researched, and fully illustrated pop history of Earthlings' long relationship with Mars, and its impact on pop culture, space exploration, and our hopes for the future.

An exhilarating new novel from a global superstar—a sexy, overthe-top psychological thriller that tells the story of the scorned wife of a billionaire and her delicious plot to get her revenge and bring him to his knees.

The Big Door Prize

She Lies Close

M. O. Walsh

Sharon Doering

When Truth Is All You Have

HC: 978-0-7352-1848-2 eBook: 978-0-7352-1849-9 AD: 978-0-593-21195-3 LP: 978-0-593-28606-7 Putnam| 100,000 July 7, 2020

TR: 978-1-78909-419-0 eBook: 978-1-78909-420-6 Titan Books | 30,000 July 14, 2020

Jim McCloskey with Philip Lerman; Foreword by John Grisham

The New York Times bestselling author of My Sunshine Away returns with another instant Southern classic: a gripping and heartfelt novel about a mysterious machine that upends a small Louisiana town, asking us all to wonder if who we truly are is who we truly could be.

A compulsive debut thriller about motherhood, obsession and how far we'd go to protect the ones we love.

HC: 978-0-385-54503-7 eBook: 978-0-385-54504-4 AD: 978-0-593-21572-2 Doubleday | 60,000 July 14, 2020 By the founder of the first organization in the United States committed to freeing the wrongly imprisoned, a riveting story of devotion, sacrifice, and vindication.

From the bestselling author of Our Little Secret comes a suspenseful new thriller featuring two estranged sisters desperate to keep their deepest and darkest secret where it belongs—in the past.

Betty Tiffany McDaniel HC: 978-0-525-65707-1 eBook: 978-0-525-65708-8 AD: 978-0-593-21225-7 Knopf | 35,000 July 14, 2020 A stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians in which a young girl discovers stark truths that will haunt her for the rest of her life.


Playing Nice

The Lady Upstairs

Survival Instincts

Dragonfire

Halley Sutton

Jen Waite

Ted Bell

JP Delaney

HC: 978-0-593-18773-9 eBook: 978-0-593-18774-6 AD: 978-0-593-21201-1 Putnam | 40,000 July 14, 2020

HC: 978-1-5247-4583-7 eBook: 978-1-5247-4585-1 AD: 978-0-593-21120-5 Dutton | 50,000 July 14, 2020

HC: 978-0-593-10120-9 eBook: 978-1-5247-4585-1 AD: 978-0-593-21120-5 Berkley | 100,000 July 21, 2020

A modern-day noir featuring a twisty cat-and-mouse chase, this dark debut thriller tells the story of a woman who makes a living taking down terrible men. . . then finds herself in over her head and with blood on her hands. The only way out? Pull off one final con.

By the bestselling author of A Beautiful, Terrible Thing, a haunting thriller about a mother and daughter who must draw strength from each other when they find themselves trapped in a cabin with a stranger who wants to either control them—or kill them.

Alex Hawke, British lord and gentleman spy, is looking for the Queen's missing grandson, whose disappearance may be the culmination of a plot almost a century old in this breathtaking new adventure from New York Times bestselling novelist Ted Bell.

HC: 978-1-9848-2134-8 eBook: 978-1-9848-2135-5 AD: 978-0-593-21052-9 CD: 978-0-593-21050-5 LP: 978-0-593-21333-9 Ballantine Books | 50,000 July 28, 2020 A gripping new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of The Girl Before. How far would you go to protect your family?

The Smallest Lights in the Universe

Bravey

Transcendent Kingdom

The Book of Two Ways

Alexi Pappas

Yaa Gyasi

Jodi Picoult

HC: 978-1-9848-0112-8 eBook: 978-1-9848-0113-5 AD: 978-0-593-28674-6 The Dial Press | 40,000 August 25, 2020

HC: 978-0-525-65818-4 eBook: 978-0-525-65819-1 AD: 978-0-593-21532-6 CD: 978-0-593-21530-2 LP: 978-0-593-21533-3 Knopf | 200,000 September 8, 2020

HC: 978-1-9848-1835-5 eBook: 978-1-9848-1836-2 AD: 978-0-593-28968-6 CD: 978-0-593-28966-2 Ballantine Books | 500,000 September 22, 2020

Sara Seager HC: 978-0-525-57625-9 eBook: 978-0-525-57627-3 AD: 978-0-593-14804-4 LP: 978-0-593-17203-2 Crown | 100,000 August 18, 2020 In this powerful memoir, an MIT astrophysicist searches for a new life in the wake of her husband's death, even as she searches our galaxy for another Earth.

Alexi Pappas—Olympic athlete, actress, filmmaker and writer— shares what she's learned about confidence, self-reliance, mental health, embracing pain, and achieving your dreams in this revealing and inspiring memoirin-essays.

Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national bestseller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and A Spark of Light comes a riveting novel about the choices that change the course of our lives.


Future Bestsellers

A Very Punchable Face

The Lies That Bind

Fern Michaels

Colin Jost

Emily Giffin

J. Courtney Sullivan

HC: 978-1-4967-1456-5 eBook: 978-1-4967-1457-2 Kensington | 100,000 March 31, 2020

HC: 978-1-101-90632-3 eBook: 978-1-101-90633-0 AD: 978-0-593-21631-6 Crown | 75,000 April 14, 2020

HC: 978-0-399-17895-5 eBook: 978-0-399-17896-2 AD: 978-0-593-21049-9 CD: 978-0-593-21047-5 Ballantine Books | 350,000 June 2, 2020

HC: 978-0-525-52059-7 eBook: 978-0-525-52060-3 AD: 978-0-525-53219-4 CD: 978-0-525-53216-3 LP: 978-0-593-21474-9 Knopf | 100,000 June 23, 2020

Fearless

In a stirring new hardcover standalone, Fern Michaels compellingly blends suspense into one woman's tale of selfreliance after she discovers her seemingly perfect new husband and stepson are anything but.

In these hilarious essays, the Saturday Night Live head writer and Weekend Update co-anchor learns how to take a beating.

In the irresistible new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted and Something Borrowed, a young woman falls hard for an impossibly perfect man before he disappears without a trace.

Friends and Strangers

From the bestselling author of Maine and Saints for All Occasions comes an insightful, hilarious, and compulsively readable novel about a complicated friendship between two women who are at two very different stages in life.

The Lions of Fifth Avenue

Home Before Dark

Bag Man

Malorie

Riley Sager

Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz

Josh Malerman

Fiona Davis

HC: 978-0-593-15685-8 eBook: 978-0-593-15686-5 AD: 978-0-593-16299-6 Del Rey | 100,000 July 21, 2020

HC: 978-1-5247-4461-8 eBook: 978-1-5247-4462-5 AD: 978-0-593-21100-7 LP: 978-0-593-28598-5 Dutton | 75,000 July 28, 2020

HC: 978-1-5247-4517-2 eBook: 978-1-5247-4518-9 AD: 978-0-593-21118-2 Dutton | 75,000 June 30, 2020

In the latest thriller from New York Times bestseller Riley Sager, a woman must discover the real source of the mystery and terror that have surrounded her family for decades.

HC: 978-0-593-13668-3 eBook: 9780593136690 Crown | 150,000 July 14, 2020 The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come— with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow's Peabody Award-nominated podcast.

In the thrilling sequel to Bird Box, the inspiration for the record-breaking Netflix film that starred Sandra Bullock, New York Times bestselling author Josh Malerman brings unseen horrors to life.

In nationally bestselling author Fiona Davis's latest historical novel, a series of book thefts roils the iconic New York Public Library, leaving two generations of strong-willed women to pick up the pieces.


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