The Most Important Titles of the Spring 2019 Season. Hand-Selected for Librarians.
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A dazzling, multigenerational debut novel perfect for readers of Celeste Ng and Elizabeth Strout and for viewers of family dramas like This is Us and Parenthood.
Written in a distinctive oral history style―reading Daisy Jones & The Six is like watching an utterly gripping, juicy, tell-all about your favorite band.
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Dark, gripping, and utterly satisfying, Les Becquets has finally given us a new and refreshing form of psychological suspense.
This is the perfect novel from Elizabeth Gilbert—merging the messages of love and liberation from Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic with her established talent for historical fiction.
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Cara Black returns with Murder in Bel Air. Aimée DeLuc must escape from a dangerous web of scheming and spy craft in Paris’s 12th arrondissement.
Set in cosmopolitan Zambia with episodes in Italy, England, and India, The Old Drift is an ambitious, speculative sprawl of a novel.
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FIRST FICTION Susana Aikin
Frances Liardet
WE SHALL SEE THE SKY SPARKLING
WE MUST BE BRAVE December 1940. In the disorderly evacuation of Southampton, England, newly married Ellen Parr finds a small child asleep on the backseat of an empty bus. No one knows who little Pamela is. Ellen professed not to want children with her older husband, but she takes Pamela into her home and rapidly into her heart.
Set in London and Russia at the turn of the century, Susana Aikin’s debut introduces a vibrant young woman determined to defy convention and shape an extraordinary future. 978-1-4967-1765-8 l $15.95/$21.95C l 10,000 Kensington l TR l January e 978-1-4967-1766-5 WOMEN’S FICTION / HISTORICAL FICTION
RA: For readers of I Was Anastasia and The Orphan’s Tale RI: Author lives in Brooklyn, NY and Madrid, Spain
978-0-735-21886-4 | $27.00/$36.00C | 75,000 Putnam | HC | February e 978-0—735-21888-8 | ] AD: 978-1-984-83982-4 | ] CD: 978-1-984-83981-7 HISTORICAL FICTION
RA: For readers of Martha Hall Kelly, Georgia Hunter, and Kristin Hannah RI: Author lives in Somerset, UK
Ivy Pembroke
A DOG CALLED JACK
Lauren Wilkinson
Every street should have a dog like Jack. And every abandoned dog should find a new family like the residents of Christmas Street. A Dog Called Jack is the uplifting story of an ordinary street and the extraordinary dog bringing all its inhabitants together.
AMERICAN SPY: A Novel What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love? One woman struggles to choose between her honor and her heart in this enthralling espionage drama that deftly hops between New York and West Africa.
978-1-4967-2095-5 l $26.00 l 25,000 A John Scognamiglio Book l HC l January e 978-1-4967-2096-2
978-0-8129-9895-5 | $27.00/$36.00C | 25,000 Random House | HC | February e 978-0-8129-9896-2 | ] AD: 978-0-525-63142-2
WOMEN’S FICTION
RA: For readers of How to Find Love in a Bookshop and Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk RI: Author lives in Mississippi and Rhode Island
Andrea Bartz
LITERARY FICTION / AFRICAN AMERICAN
Social: @Thrillkinson; Lauren-Wilkinson.com RA: For fans of The Constant Gardener and The Americans RI: Author lives in New York, NY
THE LOST NIGHT: A Novel
Gioacchino Criaco
What really happened the night Edie died? A page-turning, twisted novel of obsession and identity, about a group of college grads who scatter after a friend’s suicide.
The modern Italian classic about Calabrian organized crime—now an award-winning motion picture—makes its English-language debut.
BLACK SOULS
978-0-5255-7471-2 | $27.00/$36.00C | 75,000 Crown | HC | February e 978-0-5255-7473-6 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84496-5
978-1-61695-997-5 l $25.95/$31.95C l 50,000 Soho Crime l HC l March e 978-1-61695-998-2
THRILLER / WOMEN’S FICTION
CRIME FICTION
RA: For readers of Smaller and Smaller Circles and The Thief RI: Author lives in Milan, Italy
Social: @AndiBartz; AndreaBartz.com RA: For fans of Shari Lapena, JP Delaney, and Megan Abbott RI: Author lives in Brooklyn, NY
Kate Hope Day
Anissa Gray
IF, THEN: A Novel
THE CARE AND FEEDING OF RAVENOUSLY HUNGRY GIRLS
The residents of a sleepy mountain town are rocked by mysterious visions of an alternate reality in this dazzling debut that combines the family-driven suspense of Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere with the inventive storytelling of The Immortalists and Station Eleven.
The Mothers meets An American Marriage in this dazzling novel about how the relationships that sustain you can also be the ones that consume you. “I was immediately taken by the power and honesty of Anissa Gray’s voice. She is a writer to watch, and this debut is not to be missed!” —Terry McMillan, author of I Almost Forgot About You
978-0-525-51122-9 | $26.00/$35.00C | 30,000 Random House | HC | March e 978-0-525-51123-6 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84120-9
978-1-984-80243-9 | $26.00/$35.00C | 75,000 | Berkley | HC | February e 978-1-984-80245-3 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84685-3 WOMEN’S FICTION / AFRICAN AMERICAN
RA: For readers of Joshilyn Jackson, Karin Tanabe, and Celeste Ng RI: Author lives in Atlanta, GA
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LITERARY FICTION / SCIENCE FICTION / DYSTOPIAN
Social: @KateHopeDay; Facebook.com/KateHopeDayl; KateHopeDay.com RA: For fans of Chloe Benjamin, Kazuo Ishiguro, Celeste Ng, Margaret Atwood, Emily St. John Mandel, Michel Faber, and Philip K. Dick RI: Author lives in Corvallis, OR
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FIRST FICTION Samantha Downing
Craig Russell
MY LOVELY WIFE
THE DEVIL ASPECT: A Novel
Dexter meets Mr. & Mrs. Smith in this wildly compulsive debut thriller about a couple whose fifteen-year marriage has finally gotten too interesting . . . Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. And then we got bored. We all have our secrets to keeping a marriage alive. Ours just happens to be getting away with murder.
A terrifying novel set in Czechoslovakia in 1935, in which a brilliant young psychiatrist takes his new post at an asylum for the criminally insane that houses only six inmates—the country’s most depraved murderers—while, in Prague, a detective struggles to understand a brutal serial killer who may have ties to the asylum.
978-0-451-49172-5 | $26.00/$35.00C | 75,000 | Berkley | HC | March e 978-0-451-49174-9 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84683-9
978-0-385-54436-8 | $27.95/$36.95C | 30,000 Doubleday | HC | March e 978-0-385-54437-5 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4102-5 HISTORICAL FICTION / THRILLER
PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
Social: @SMarieDowning RA: For readers of The Girl Before, The Silent Wife, and The Last Mrs. Parrish RI: Author lives in New Orleans, LA
Maria Kuznetsova
Social: @TheCraigRussell; Facebook.com/CraigRussellBooks; CraigRussell.com RA: For readers of Stieg Larsson, David Lagercrantz, and Jo Nesbø RI: Author lives in Scotland
Namwali Serpell
OKSANA, BEHAVE!: A Novel An irresistible debut that follows a Russian American girl’s bumpy path to adulthood as she longs for a homeland she never knew. 978-0-525-51187-8 | $26.00/$35.00C | 30,000 Spiegel & Grau | HC | March e 978-0-525-51188-5 | ] AD: 978-1-984-83224-5 FICTION / COMING OF AGE
Social: @MashaWrites; MariaKuznetsova.net RA: For fans of Gary Shteyngart’s The Russian Debutante’s Handbook and Jade Chang’s The Wangs vs. The World RI: Author lives in Iowa City, IA
THE OLD DRIFT: A Novel From a Caine Prize winner comes a sweeping, ambitious tale of three families who are plagued by a curse over the course of generations—following them from India, Italy, and England until their tangled fates converge in Zambia. 978-1-1019-0714-6 | $28.00/$37.00C | 50,000 Hogarth | HC | March e 978-1-1019-0716-0 | ] AD: 978-0-451-48514-4 LITERARY FICTION / CULTURAL HERITAGE
Social: @Namwalien; NamwaliSerpell.com RA: For fans of Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Salman Rushdie, and Zadie Smith RI: Author lives in Berkeley, CA
J. P. Pomare
CALL ME EVIE
David R. Dow
In this propulsive, twist-filled, and haunting psychological suspense debut perfect for fans of Sharp Objects and Room, a seventeen-year-old girl struggles to remember the role she played on the night of her kidnapping.
CONFESSIONS OF AN INNOCENT MAN: A Novel A thrillingly suspenseful novel with a fierce howl of rage that questions the true meaning of justice. Dow is the author of several critically acclaimed works of nonfiction on the death penalty. He delivers the perfect modern parable for exploring our complex, uneasy relationships with punishment and reparation.
978-0-525-53814-1 | $26.00/$35.00C | 50,000 Putnam | HC | March e 978-0-525-53815-8 | ] AD: 978-1-984-83978-7 PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
Social: JoshuaPomare.com RA: For fans of Kimberly McCreight, Riley Sager, and Jessica Knoll RI: Author lives in Melbourne, Australia
Maura Roosevelt
BABY OF THE FAMILY: A Novel An addictive and wry debut about a modern-day American dynasty and its unexpected upheaval when the patriarch leaves what’s left of his fortune to his youngest, adopted son—who doesn’t want to be found—setting off a family search and the unearthing of some surprising secrets. 978-1-524-74317-8 | $28.00/$37.00C | 50,000 Dutton | HC | March e 978-1-524-74317-8 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84163-6 LITERARY FICTION / FAMILY LIFE
Social: MauraRoosevelt.com RA: For readers of The Nest, The Immortalists, The Interestings, and The Emperor’s Children RI: Author lives in New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA
978-1-524-74388-8 | $27.00/$36.00C | 100,000 | Dutton | HC | April e 978-1-524-74390-1 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84187-2 LEGAL THRILLER
Social: @DrDow RA: For fans of Attica Locke and William Landay RI: Author lives in Houston, TX
Kali Fajardo-Anstine
SABRINA & CORINA: Stories A haunting debut story collection on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands, centered on Latinas of indigenous descent that shines a new light on the American West. 978-0-525-51129-8 | $27.00/$36.00C | 20,000 One World | HC | April e 978-0-525-51131-1 | ] AD: 978-1-984-83220-7 SHORT STORIES / HISPANIC & LATINO
Social: @KaliMaFaja; Instagram: @KaliMaja RA: For fans of Sandra Cisneros, Carmen Maria Machado, Elizabeth Strout, Mia Alvar, and Louise Erdrich RI: Author lives in Denver, CO Visit us at our website: PenguinRandomHouseLibrary.com
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FIRST FICTION Lydia Fitzpatrick
Bev Thomas
LIGHTS ALL NIGHT LONG:
A GOOD ENOUGH MOTHER:
This novel delivers that special one-two punch of propulsive storytelling— including an intricate whodunit—and luminous, evocative prose. Fifteen-yearold Ilya arrives in Louisiana from his native Russia while his brother has disappeared into their hometown’s drug-plagued underworld.
A heart-stopping mother’s story of love and loss, and a riveting emotional family drama that lets us inside the secret world of therapist and patient. This thought-provoking and moving novel rips you apart even as you keep turning the pages.
A Novel
978-0-525-55873-6 | $27.00/$36.00C | 75,000 Penguin Press | HC | April e 978-0-525-55874-3 | ] AD: 978-1-984-83892-6 LITERARY FICTION
A Novel
978-0-525-56125-5 | $26.00 | 75,000 Pamela Dorman Books | HC | April 978-0-735-27671-0 | $24.95C | Random House Canada e 978-0-525-56126-2 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84332-6 WOMEN’S FICTION
RA: For fans of Anthony Marra, Chloe Benjamin, and Adam Johnson RI: Author lives in Los Angeles, CA
RA: For fans of Celeste Ng, Anna Quindlen, Anita Shreve, Chris Bohjalian, and Sue Miller RI: Author lives in London, UK
Liz Harmer
Minnie Darke
THE AMATEURS
STAR-CROSSED: A Novel
A post-apocalyptic examination of nostalgia, loss, and the possibility of starting over.
An adorable and addictive love story that explores whether “the stars” can or should be a guide through life and what happens when one woman tries to give the “stars” a little help.
978-0-345-81125-7 l $15.50/$19.95C l 20,000 Vintage Canada l TR l April e 978-0-345-81126-4
978-1-9848-2282-6 | $26.00/$29.95C | 75,000 Crown | HC | May e 978-1-9848-2284-0 | ] AD: 978-1-984-88684-2
DYSTOPIAN
Social: @LizHarmer RA: For fans of The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood, The Circle by Dave Eggers, and Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
WOMEN’S FICTION / ROMANCE
RA: For fans of Jojo Moyes, Laura Dave, and Helen Fielding RI: Author lives in Australia
Robert Hillman
THE BOOKSHOP OF THE BROKEN HEARTED
Juliet Escoria
A gorgeously written, tender, and wise novel about love and forgiveness in 1960s Australia, in which a lonely farmer finds his life turned upside down by the arrival of a vibrant librarian.
It’s 1997, and 14-year-old Juliet has it pretty good. But over the course of the next two years, she rapidly begins to unravel, finding herself in a downward trajectory of mental illness and self-destruction.
JULIET THE MANIAC: A Novel
978-0-525-53592-8 | $26.00 | 50,000 Putnam | HC | April 978-0-735-23676-9 | $24.95C | Penguin Canada | TR e 978-525-53593-5 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84034-9
978-1-61219-759-3 l $16.99/$21.99C l 50,000 Melville House l TR l May e 978-1-61219-760-9
HISTORICAL FICTION
COMING OF AGE
Social: RobertHillmanAuthor.com RA: For readers of The Little Paris Bookshop, The Storied Life of AJ Fikry, and The Light Between Oceans RI: Author lives in Australia
Social: @JulietEscoria RA: For readers of Heart Berries, Marlena, and How Should a Person Be? RI: Author lives in West Virginia
Diane C. McPhail
Julia Phillips
THE ABOLITIONIST’S DAUGHTER
DISAPPEARING EARTH:
Taking place in the years just before and after the Civil War, this is a sweeping, character-driven epic that explores the impact of the war on a Southern family of abolitionists as well as the role of women in a world depleted by the conflict of men. In the midst of the Civil War, two intermarried families fall into a deadly conflict, resulting in murder, mob violence, and the lynching of the town doctor.
The kidnapping of two small girls on a remote peninsula in Russia sets in motion an evocative, moving, searingly original debut novel by a dazzling young writer.
978-1-4967-2030-6 l $26.00/$35.00C l 30,000 l A John Scognamiglio Book l HC l April e 978-1-4967-2032-0
RA: For fans of Anthony Marra’s A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and Téa Obreht’s The Tiger’s Wife RI: Author lives in Brooklyn, NY
A Novel
978-0-525-52041-2 | $26.95/$35.95C | 125,000 Knopf | HC | May e 978-0-525-52042-9 | ] AD: 978-0-525-52996-5 LP: 978-1-9848-9222-5 LITERARY FICTION / THRILLER
HISTORICAL FICTION
RA: For readers of The Vengeance of Mothers and Before We Were Yours RI: Author lives in Highlands, NC
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FIRST FICTION Joanne Ramos
Claire Lombardo
THE FARM: A Novel
THE MOST FUN WE EVER HAD
Nestled in the Hudson Valley is a sumptuous retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, private fitness trainers, daily massages―and all of it for free. In fact, you get paid big money. The catch? For nine months you must dedicate yourself to the all-consuming task of producing the perfect baby for your überwealthy clients.
A dazzling, multi-generational novel in which the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple—still madly in love after forty years—recklessly ignite old rivalries until a long-buried secret threatens to shatter the lives they’ve built.
978-1-984-85375-2 | $27.00 | 100,000 Random House | HC | May 978-0-385-69321-9 | $24.95C | Doubleday Canada | TR e 978-1-984-85376-9 | ] AD: 978-1-984-88665-1 LP: 978-1-984-88694-1
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978-0-385-54425-2 | $27.95/$36.95C | 100,000 Doubleday | HC | June e 978-0-385-54426-9 | ] AD: 978-0-525-64369-2
LITERARY FICTION
Social: @ClaireLombardo; Instagram: @Claire_Lombardo; ClaireLombardo.com RA: For fans of Ann Patchett, Jonathan Franzen, Meg Wolitzer, and Celeste Ng RI: Author lives in Iowa City, IA
LITERARY FICTION / WOMEN’S FICTION
RA: For fans of Jodi Picoult, Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere, and Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s The Nest RI: Author lives in New York, NY
Ocean Vuong
ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS: A Novel
Raphael Bob-Waksberg
SOMEONE WHO WILL LOVE YOU IN ALL YOUR DAMAGED GLORY: Stories
A sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. A heart wrenching family story, Vuong paints a vivid portrait of the experiences of people leading lives between two worlds, their country of birth and their adopted homeland, and explores how each generation in a family of immigrants struggles to find their place.
From the creator and executive producer of the beloved and universally acclaimed television series, BoJack Horseman, a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love—the best and worst thing in the universe. 978-1-5247-3201-1 | $25.95/$34.95C | 50,000 Knopf | HC | June e 978-1-5247-3202-8 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-9189-1
978-0-525-56202-3 | $26.00/$35.00C | 100,000 | Penguin Press | HC | June e 978-0-525-56203-0 | ] AD: 978-1-984-88885-3 LITERARY FICTION
SHORT STORIES
Social: @OceanVuong RA: For fans of Viet Thanh Nguyen and Tommy Orange RI: Author lives in Northampton, MA
RA: For fans of B. J. Novak, George Saunders, David Sedaris, and Lorrie Moore RI: Author lives in Los Angeles, CA
Cambria Brockman
Mamta Chaudhry
HAUNTING PARIS: A Novel
TELL ME EVERYTHING:
A timeless story of love and loss is transformed when a bereaved pianist discovers a mysterious letter among her late lover’s possessions, launching her headlong into a decades-old search for a child who vanished in the turbulence of wartime Paris.
The murder of a student at an elite New England college tears apart a group of friends―one of whom is playing a dangerous game―in this electrifying debut in the tradition of In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Couple Next Door.
© Ross Brockman
978-0-385-54460-3 | $25.95/$34.95C | 30,000 Nan A Talese | HC | June e 978-0-385-54461-0 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-9156-3
A Novel
978-1-984-81721-1 | $27.00/$36.00C | 35,000 Ballantine Books | HC | July e 978-1-984-81722-8 | ] AD: 978-1-984-89035-1 PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER / COMING OF AGE
HISTORICAL FICTION
RA: For fans of The Little Paris Bookshop and The Nightingale RI: Author lives in Coral Gables, FL
Social: @CambriaBrockman; Instagram: @Cambria_Grace RA: For fans of Megan Abbott, Gillian Flynn, and Jessica Knoll RI: Author lives in Charlestown, MA
Lila Savage
Linda Holmes
SAY SAY SAY: A Novel
EVVIE DRAKE STARTS OVER: A Novel From the host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast comes a heartfelt debut about the unlikely relationship between a young woman who’s lost her husband and a big-league pitcher who’s lost his game. 978-0-525-61924-6 | $26.00/$35.00C | 50,000 Ballantine Books | HC | June e 978-0-525-61925-3 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84574-0
A riveting, tightly woven debut novel that tells the story of a young Minnesota caregiver and the surprising bonds she forms with a couple contending with the wife’s brain injury: an honest, humane, deeply insightful story about love and partnership, the fluidity of desire, and the myriad ways of devotion. 978-0-525-65592-3 | $24.00/$32.00C | 40,000 Knopf | HC | July e 978-0-525-65593-0 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-9192-1
WOMEN’S FICTION
Social: @LindaHolmes; ThisIsLindaHolmes.com RI: Author lives in Washington, DC
LITERARY FICTION / LGBTQ
RA: For fans of Jenny Offill and Rachel Cusk RI: Author lives in San Francisco, CA
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BOOK CLUB Chris Cander
Helen Ellis
THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO:
SOUTHERN LADY CODE:
A tour-de-force about two women and the piano that inexorably ties their lives together through time and across continents, for better and for worse.
The bestselling author of American Housewife is back with a fiercely funny collection of essays on marriage and manners, thank-you notes and threeways, ghosts, gunshots, gynecology, and the art of living as a Southern Lady.
A Novel
Essays
978-0-525-65467-4 | $26.95/$35.95C | 40,000 Knopf | HC | January e 978-0-525-65468-1 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-3986-2
978-0-385-54389-7 | $22.00/$29.00C | 50,000 Doubleday | HC | April e 978-0-385-54390-3 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4086-8 ] CD: 978-1-9848-4085-1
LITERARY FICTION
Social: @ChrisCander; ChrisCander.com RA: For readers of Bel Canto, Accordion Crimes, and The Stars Are Fire RI: Author lives in Houston, TX
V. S. Alexander
HUMOR
Social: @WhatIDoAllDay; Instagram @AmericanHousewife RA: For fans of Sloane Crosley and Samantha Irby RI: Author lives in New York, NY
THE IRISHMAN’S DAUGHTER
Martha Hall Kelly
Set in the wild, romantic, northwest coast of Ireland in the fall of 1845, The Irishman’s Daughter pits Briana, her father, and sister against a reckless English landlord and a plague that will kill and displace millions of Irish men and women.
LOST ROSES: A Novel The runaway bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. This sweeping new novel, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline’s mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St. Petersburg to Paris under the shadow of World War I.
978-1-4967-1229-5 l $15.95/$21.95C l 50,000 Kensington l TR l February e 978-1-4967-1230-1 HISTORICAL FICTION
Social: MichaelMeeske.com RA: For readers of The Magdalen Girls and The Alice Network RI: Author lives in Oakland Park, FL
978-1-524-79637-2 | $28.00/$37.00C | 250,000 Ballantine Books | HC | April e 978-1-524-79638-9 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84540-5 | ] CD: 978-1-984-84539-9 LP: 978-1-9848-8621-7 LITERARY FICTION / HISTORICAL FICTION / WWI
Han Kang
THE WHITE BOOK From the Man Booker Prize winner and literary phenomenon, a lyrical and disquieting exploration of personal grief, written through the prism of the color white.
Social: @MarthaHallKelly; Facebook.com/MarthaHallKelly; MarthaHallKelly.com RA: For fans of The Nightingale, All the Light We Cannot See, and We Were the Lucky Ones RI: Author lives in Connecticut and Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Sally Rooney
NORMAL PEOPLE: A Novel A wondrous coming-of-age story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship. Longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize.
978-0-5255-7306-7 | $22.00/$29.00C | 60,000 Hogarth | HC | February e 978-0-5255-7308-1 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84345-6 PSYCHOLOGICAL / LITERARY FICTION
RA: For fans of Maggie Nelson, Rachel Cusk, and Anne Carson RI: Author lives in South Korea
978-1-9848-2217-8 | $26.00/$35.00C | 50,000 Hogarth | HC | April e 978-1-9848-2219-2 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84334-0
Chanel Cleeton
LITERARY FICTION / COMING OF AGE
WHEN WE LEFT CUBA
Social: @SallyRooney RA: For fans of Celeste Ng and John Green RI: Author lives in Dublin, Ireland
In 1960s Florida, a young Cuban exile will risk her life—and heart—to take back her country in this exhilarating historical novel from the bestselling author of Next Year in Havana. The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress Beatriz Perez—her family, her people, her country. Recruited by the CIA to infiltrate Fidel Castro’s inner circle, Beatriz is consumed by her quest for revenge.
Melanie Benjamin
MISTRESS OF THE RITZ: A Novel
978-0-451-49086-5 | $16.00/$22.00C | 75,000 | Berkley | TR | April e 978-0-451-49087-2 WOMEN’S FICTION / HISTORICAL FICTION
Social: ChanelCleeton.com RA: For fans of Hazel Gaynor, Camille Di Maio, and Elisa Hooper RI: Author lives in Williamsburg, VA
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator’s Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue, the extraordinary story of the real-life Jewish-American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II―while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hôtel Ritz in Paris. 978-0-399-18224-2 | $28.00/$37.00C | 50,000 | Delacorte Press | HC | May e 978-0-399-18225-9 | ] AD: 978-0-525-49275-7 | ] CD: 978-0-525-49274-0 HISTORICAL FICTION / LITERARY FICTION / WWII
Social: @MelanieBen; MelanieBenjamin.com RA: For fans of The Paris Wife and The Nightingale RI: Author lives in Chicago, IL
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Kevin Hearne and Delilah S. Dawson
THE FORGIVING KIND
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD GNOMES: The Tales of Pell
In this masterful new novel, set in 1950s North Carolina, the acclaimed author of The Road to Bittersweet and The Education of Dixie Dupree brings to life an unforgettable young heroine and a moving story of family love tested to its limits.
Go big or go gnome. The New York Times bestselling authors of Kill the Farm Boy return to the world of Pell, the irreverent fantasy universe that recalls Monty Python and Terry Pratchett. 978-1-524-79777-5 | $28.00/$37.00C | 35,000 Del Rey | HC | April e 978-1-524-79778-2 | ] AD: 978-0-525-59369-0
978-1-4967-1700-9 l $15.95/$21.95C l 35,000 Kensington l TR l January
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FANTASY / HUMOROUS
COMING OF AGE / HISTORICAL FICTION
RA: For fans of The Life She Was Given and Lilac Girls RI: Author lives in Dunn, NC
Social: @KevinHearne; @DelilahSDawson; KevinHearne.com; WhimsyDark.com RA: For fans of The Princess Bride RI: Hearne lives in Ontario, Canada; Dawson lives in Tampa, FL
Margaret Atwood; Art and Adaptation by Renée Nault
Greg Weisman
RAVNICA (MAGIC THE GATHERING)
THE HANDMAID’S TALE (GRAPHIC NOVEL) An instant classic when it was published in 1985, Atwood’s genre-bending, dystopian story comes to life in this new, beautifully illustrated graphic novel.
Experience the first official adventure in Magic The Gathering’s multiverse in nearly a decade as an epic conflict engulfs the world-spanning city of Ravnica.
978-0-385-53924-1 | $22.95 | 100,000 Nan A Talese | HC | March 978-0-7710-0684-5 | $29.95C | McClelland & Stewart e 978-0-385-54485-6
978-1-9848-1745-7 | $27.00/$36.00C | 50,000 Del Rey | HC | April e 978-1-9848-1793-8 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-8320-9
GRAPHIC NOVEL
Social: @MargaretAtwood; MargaretAtwood.ca RA: Perfect for younger readers discovering The Handmaid’s Tale for the first time, in this unique visual format RI: Author lives in Toronto, Canada
FANTASY / ACTION & ADVENTURE
Social: @Greg_Weisman RA: For the 20 million+ players of Magic: The Gathering, and fans of Game of Thrones and The Avengers RI: Author lives in Los Angeles, CA
Emily Allen and Lyla Allen
THE TEEN KITCHEN:
Ian Doescher
Recipes We Love to Cook
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S GET THEE BACK TO THE FUTURE! In the iconic film Marty McFly travels back in time from the 1980s to the 1950s, changing the path of his parents’ destiny. Now fans can journey back even further—to the 16th century. In this creative reimagining, every scene and line of dialogue from the hit movie is re-created with authentic Shakespearean rhyme, meter, and stage directions. 978-1-68369-094-8 l $12.99/$15.99C l 75,000 | Quirk Books l TR l April e 978-1-68369-095-5 SCIENCE FICTION / MASHUPS
Social: IanDoescher.com RA: For fans of Back to the Future, Shakespeare, and mash-ups RI: Author lives in Portland, OR
Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey
OUR PLANET:
The Greatest Story of All
A striking photographic companion to the Netflix series from the team that brought us Planet Earth and The Blue Planet, presenting never-before-seen visuals of nature. 978-0-3995-8154-0 | $35.00/$47.00C | 100,000 Ten Speed Press | HC | April e 978-0-3995-8155-7
A playful, engaging cookbook, written by teenage media stars The Kitchen Twins, with more than 75 accessible, fun, and delicious recipes for everyday cooking. 978-0-3995-8187-8 | $19.99/$25.99C | 25,000 Ten Speed Press | TR | May e 978-0-3995-8188-5 COOKING
Social: @KitchenTwins RA: For elementary and junior high school teachers and teens interested in cooking RI: Authors live in Lawrence, NJ
Oscar Cásares
WHERE WE COME FROM: A Novel
From the acclaimed author Brownsville and Amigoland—a stunning and timely new novel about a Mexican-American family in a Texas border town who reluctantly become involved in smuggling immigrants into the United States. 978-0-525-65543-5 | $25.95/$35.00C | 35,000 Knopf | HC | May e 978-0-525-65544-2 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-9198-3 Spanish Language: 978-0-525-56493-5 LITERARY FICTION
RA: For fans of Cristina Henríquez, Luis Alberto Urrea, Sandra Cisneros, and Rudolfo Anaya RI: Author lives in Austin, TX
NATURE / PHOTOGRAPHY
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FICTION Gwenda Bond
Valeria Luiselli
STRANGER THINGS: SUSPICIOUS MINDS
LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE:
A mysterious lab. A sinister scientist. A secret history. If you think you know the truth behind Eleven’s mother, prepare to have your mind turned Upside Down in this thrilling prequel to the hit show Stranger Things.
From the two-time NBCC Finalist, a fiercely imaginative novel about a family’s summer road trip across America—a journey that, with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity, probes the nature of justice and equality in America today.
978-1-9848-1743-3 | $28.00/$37.00C | 100,000 Del Rey | HC | February e 978-1-9848-1744-0 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4237-4 SUPERNATURAL THRILLER / SCIENCE FICTION
Social: @Gwenda; GwendaBond.com RA: For fans of the hit show RI: Author lives in Lexington, KY
Christopher Castellani
A Novel
978-0-525-52061-0 | $27.95/$36.95C | 75,000 Knopf | HC | February e 978-0-525-52062-7 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4008-0 LITERARY FICTION
Social: @ValeriaLuiselli; ValeriaLuiselli.com RA: For fans of Jenny Offill, Lucia Berlin, Cristina Henríquez, Jennifer Egan, and Lauren Groff RI: Author lives in New York, NY
Mandy Mikulencak
LEADING MEN: A Novel
FORGIVENESS ROAD
An expansive yet intimate story of desire, artistic ambition, and fidelity, set in the glamorous literary and film circles of 1950s Italy. At a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo experience an encounter that will go on to alter all of their lives.
Set during the 1970s, Mandy Mikulencak’s second novel focuses on three generations of Southern women and how their lives are all turned upside down when a dark secret is exposed in a most shocking and brutal way. How they deal with the aftermath will alter the course of their lives and their relationships with each other.
978-0-525-55905-4 | $27.00/$36.00C | 50,000 Viking | HC | February e 978-0-525-55906-1 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84251-0 LITERARY FICTION / LGBTQ
Social: @CDCastellani ; ChristopherCastellani.com RA: For readers of Call Me By Your Name, The Master, Beautiful Ruins, and The Paris Wife RI: Author lives in Boston, MA
Marlon James
BLACK LEOPARD, RED WOLF
978-1-4967-1006-2 l $26.00/$35.00C l 35,000 A John Scognamiglio Book l HC l February e 978-1-4967-1008-6 HISTORICAL FICTION
Social: @DurangoWriter RA: For fans of Sara Gruen and Sue Monk Kidd RI: Author lives in Durango, CO
Jill Santopolo
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings has delivered the stunning first novel in his Dark Star trilogy: an African Game of Thrones. A literary masterpiece where myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child.
MORE THAN WORDS From the New York Times bestselling author of The Light We Lost comes a tender and moving new novel about a woman at a crossroads after the death of her father, and caught between the love of two men. 978-0-735-21830-7 | $25.00/$34.00C | 150,000 Putnam | HC | February e 978-0-735-21832-1 | ] AD: 978-0-525-59073-6 ] CD: 978-0-525-59073-6 | LP: 978-0-525-63183-5
978-0-735-22017-1 | $30.00 | 100,000 Riverhead | HC | February 978-0-385-69032-4 | $36.00C | Bond Street Books e 978-0-735-22019-5 | ] AD: 978-0-525-52685-8 | ] CD: 978-0-525-52684-1 LP: 978-1-984-88290-5 FANTASY
Social: @MarlonJames5; Facebook.com/Marlon-James-Novelist RA: For fans of George R. R. Martin, Roberto Bolano, and Haruki Murakami RI: Author lives in Brooklyn, NY
WOMEN’S FICTION
Social: @JillSantopolo ; JillSantopolo.com RA: For fans of Jojo Moyes, Emily Giffin, Jennifer Weiner, Jane Green, and Taylor Jenkins Reid RI: Author lives in New York, NY
C. J. Tudor
THE HIDING PLACE: A Novel
Elizabeth Letts
FINDING DOROTHY: A Novel
From the author of The Chalk Man, a thrilling novel about a teacher with a hidden agenda who returns to settle scores at a school he once attended, only to uncover a darker secret than he could have imagined.
The author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion and The Perfect Horse brings us a richly imagined novel that tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum’s intrepid wife, Maud.
978-1-5247-6101-1 | $27.00/$24.95C | 100,000 Crown | HC | February e 978-1-5247-6103-5 | ] AD: 978-0-525-52645-2 ] CD: 978-0525-52644-5 | LP: 978-1-9848-4679-2
978-0-525-62210-9 | $28.00/$37.00C | 50,000 Ballantine Books | HC | February e 978-0-525-62212-3 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4605-1 ] CD: 978-1-9848-4604-4 | LP: 978-1-9848-8501-2
SUSPENSE / THRILLER
Social: @CJTudor RA: For fans of Stephen King, Tana French, and Jo Nesbø RI: Author lives in Nottingham, UK
HISTORICAL FICTION
Social: @ElizabethLetts; ElizabethLetts.com RA: For fans of The Paris Wife, Loving Frank, and Gregory Maguire’s Wicked RI: Author lives in Rolling Hills, CA 8
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Peter Heller
DEAD MEN’S TROUSERS
THE RIVER: A Novel
The spectacular return of the wild, dissolute gang from Trainspotting, from the author the New York Times called “blisteringly funny.”
From the bestselling author of The Dog Stars, this is a masterful tale of wilderness survival—the story of two college friends on a wilderness canoe trip—a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, white water, and violence.
978-1-61219-755-5 l $26.99 l 50,000 Melville House l HC l February e 978-1-61219-756-2
978-0-525-52187-7 | $25.95/$34.95C | 75,000 Knopf | HC | March e 978-0-525-52188-4 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-3994-7 ] CD: 978-1-9848-3993-0 | LP: 978-1-9848-8326-1
HUMOR
RA: For readers of Juliet, Naked and The Rotters’ Club RI: Author lives in Brooklyn, NY
Rajeev Balasubramanyam
PROFESSOR CHANDRA FOLLOWS HIS BLISS: A Novel Professor Chandra is an internationally renowned economist; divorced father of three (quite frankly, baffling) children; recent victim of a bicycle hit-and-run― but so much more than the sum of his parts. Follow this completely infuriating, utterly charming professor as he tries to answer the biggest question of all: What makes us happy? 978-0-525-51138-0 | $27.00 | 50,000 | The Dial Press | HC | March 978-1-78474 253-9 | $34.00C | Chatto & Windus e 978-0-525-51139-7 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4090-5 LITERARY FICTION
Social: @RajeevBalasu; RajeevBalasubramanyam.com RA: For readers of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, A Man Called Ove, and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine RI: Author lives in Berlin, Germany
LITERARY FICTION
Social: Facebook.com/PeterHellerAuthor; PeterHeller.net RA: For readers of My Absolute Darling, Into the Wild, and The Call of the Wild RI: Author lives in Denver, CO
Diane Les Becquets
THE LAST WOMAN IN THE FOREST The bestselling author of Breaking Wild delivers a riveting and haunting thriller about a woman who fears that the greatest threat to her survival could be the man she loves. Desperately hoping to clear his name as a serial killer, she reaches out to a retired forensic profiler who’s haunted by the open cases. 978-0-399-58704-7 | $26.00/$35.00C | 50,000 Berkley | HC | March e 978-0-399-58705-4 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84689-1 PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
Social: @DLesBecquets RA: For fans of Fiona Barton, Shari Lapena, and B. A. Paris RI: Author lives in Henniker, NH
Dave Eggers
Susan Meissner
THE PARADE: A Novel
THE LAST YEAR OF THE WAR
From the bestselling author of The Monk of Mokha, a spare, powerful story of two men, Western contractors sent to work far from home, tasked with paving a road to the capital in a dangerous and largely lawless country. 978-0-525-65530-5 | $25.95 | 60,000 Knopf | HC | March 978-0-7352-7752-6 | $34.95C | Knopf Canada e 978-1-9848-4006-6 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4006-6 | ] CD: 978-1-9848-4005-9 LITERARY FICTION
Social: DaveEggers.net RA: For readers of parables such as Exit West RI: Author lives in Northern CA
From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and As Bright as Heaven comes a novel about a German American teenager whose life changes forever when her immigrant family is sent to an internment camp during World War II. 978-0-451-49215-9 | $26.00/$35.00C | 75,000 Berkley | HC | March e 978-0-451-49217-3 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84687-7 HISTORICAL FICTION
Social: @SusanMeissner RA: For readers of Lilac Girls, Before We Were Yours, and The Women in the Castle RI: Author lives in San Diego, CA
Nathan Englander
KADDISH.COM: A Novel The Pulitzer finalist delivers his best work yet—a brilliant, streamlined comic novel, reminiscent of early Philip Roth about a son’s failure to say Kaddish for his father. A novel about atonement; about spiritual redemption; and about the soul-sickening temptations of the internet, which, like God, is everywhere. 978-1-5247-3275-2 | $24.95/$33.95C | 50,000 Knopf | HC | March e 978-1-5247-3276-9 | ] AD: 978-0-525-50000-1 LP: 978-1-9848-8325-4
Taylor Jenkins Reid
DAISY JONES & THE SIX: A Novel
A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous break up. 978-1-524-79862-8 | $27.00 | 100,000 Ballantine Books | HC | March 978-0-385-69217-5 | $24.95C | Doubleday Canada e 978-1-524-79863-5 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4532-0 ] CD: 978-1-9848-4531-3 | LP: 978-1-9848-9225-6 WOMEN’S FICTION / LITERARY FICTION
LITERARY FICTION
Social: @NathanEnglander; NathanEnglander.com RA: For fans of Jonathan Safran Foer, Michael Chabon, and David Grossman RI: Author lives in Brooklyn, NY
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FICTION Eric Jerome Dickey
Nell Freudenberger
BEFORE WE WERE WICKED
LOST AND WANTED: A Novel
Ken Swift is a boyfriend, father, and enforcer in the midst of the worst day of his life. But every story has a beginning, as New York Times bestseller Eric Jerome Dickey reveals in this engrossing, sexy prequel of star-crossed lust in Bad Men and Wicked Women.
An emotionally engaging, suspenseful new novel from the bestselling author, told in the voice of a renowned physicist: an exploration of female friendship, romantic love, and parenthood—bonds that show their power in surprising ways.
978-1-524-74403-8 | $27.00/$36.00C | 50,000 Dutton | HC | April e 978-1-524-74403-8 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84149-0 ] CD: 978-1-984-84148-3 AFRICAN AMERICAN FICTION / ROMANCE
Social: @EricJDickey; EricJeromeDickey.com RA: For fans of Kimberla Lawson Roby, Zane, and Terry McMillan RI: Author lives in Los Angeles, CA
David Downing
978-0-385-35268-0 | $26.95/$35.95C | 60,000 Knopf | HC | April e 978-0-385-35269-7 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4010-3 LP: 978-1-9848-8328-5 LITERARY FICTION
Social: @NellFreuden RA: For fans of Meg Wolitzer, Emma Straub, and Curtis Sittenfeld RI: Author lives in Brooklyn, NY
Nina George
THE BOOK OF DREAMS:
DIARY OF A DEAD MAN ON LEAVE
A Novel
The bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop and The Little French Bistro returns with a new novel about the spaces between lives and realities and loves both lost and coming home.
A heart-wrenching depiction of Germany in the days leading up to World War II and the difficult choices of one man of conviction by David Downing, the master of historical espionage.
978-0-5255-7253-4 | $26.00/$35.00C | 150,000 Crown | HC | April e 978-0-5255-7255-8 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84520-7 ] CD: 978-1984-84517-7 | LP: 978-1-984-84676-1
978-1-61695-843-5 l $27.95/$35.95C l 50,000 Soho Crime l HC l April e 978-1-61695-844-2
LITERARY FICTION / ROMANCE
HISTORICAL FICTION
RA: For readers of Those Who Save Us and The Book Thief RI: Author lives in Guildford, UK
Jennifer duBois
Social: @Nina_George; Nina-George.com RA: For readers of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, A Man Called Ove, and Me Before You RI: Author lives in Berlin, Germany and Brittany, France
THE SPECTATORS: A Novel
Jennifer McMahon
A shocking crime triggers a media firestorm for a controversial talk show host in this provocative novel—a story of redemption, a nostalgic portrait of New York City, and a searing indictment of our culture of spectacle—from the author of A Partial History of Lost Causes and Cartwheel.
THE INVITED: A Novel
978-0-8129-9588-6 | $27.00/$36.00C | 20,000 Random House | HC | April e 978-0-8129-9589-3 | ] CD: 978-0-8041-6491-7 | ] AD: 978-0-8041-6492-4 LITERARY FICTION / PSYCHOLOGICAL FICTION / LGBTQ
Social: @Jennifer_duBois; Jennifer-duBois.com RA: For fans of Jennifer Egan’s Look at Me, Dave Eggers’s A Hologram for the King, and Lily King’s Eurphoria RI: Author lives in Austin, TX
Jennifer Cody Epstein
WUNDERLAND: A Novel An intimate portrait of a friendship severed by history, and a sweeping saga of wartime, motherhood, and legacy by an award-winning novelist. 978-0-5255-7690-7 | $27.00/$36.00C | 75,000 Crown | HC | April e 978-0-5255-7692-1 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84494-1 HISTORICAL FICTON / WWII
Social: Facebook.com/JenniferCodyEpstein RA: For readers of WWII historicals such as Women in the Castle, Lilac Girls, and We Were the Lucky Ones RI: Author lives in Brooklyn, NY
A chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People returns to the woods of Vermont to tell the story of a husband and wife who don’t simply move into a haunted house, they start building one from scratch, without knowing it, until it’s too late. 978-0-385-54138-1 | $25.95 | 40,000 Doubleday | HC | April 978-0-385-68706-5 | $32.00C | Doubleday Canada e 978-0-385-54139-8 | ] AD: 978-1-5247-8165-1 | LP: 978-1-9848-8322-3 THRILLER / SUSPENSE
Social: @JenniferMcMahonWrites; Facebook.com/JenniferMcMahonBooks; Instagram: Jennifer-McMahon.com RA: For fans of Ruth Ware, Tana French, Gillian Flynn, and Stephen King RI: Author lives in Montpelier, VT
Steven Rowley
THE EDITOR From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus comes a funny, poignant, and highly original novel about a struggling writer in 1990s New York City who finally gets his big break when his novel sells to a very famous editor at a major publishing house: none other than Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. 978-0-525-53796-0 | $27.00/$36.00C | 75,000 Putnam | HC | April e 978-0-525-53797-7 | ] AD: 978-1-984-83962-6 | ] CD: 978-1-984-83961-9 LITERARY FICTION
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Lisa Scottoline
James Ellroy
SOMEONE KNOWS
THIS STORM: A Novel
From the New York Times bestselling author comes a pulse-pounding domestic thriller about a group of friends bound for twenty years by a single secret. An emotional exploration of friendship and family, as well as a psychological exploration of guilt and memory.
From “one of the great American writers of our time” (Los Angeles Times Book Review)—a brilliant historical crime novel, a pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles and Mexico in the wake in Pearl Harbor.
978-0-525-53964-3 | $27.00/$36.00C | 300,000 Putnam | HC | April e 978-0-525-53974-2 | ] AD: 978-1-984-88272-1 LP: 978-1-984-88841-9
THRILLER
Social: @LisaScottline RA: For fans of Lisa Gardner and Jodi Picoult RI: Author lives in Chester, PA
978-0-307-95700-9 | $29.95/$39.95C | 60,000 Knopf | HC | May e 978-0-525-52173-0 | ] AD: 978-0-525-49681-6 ] CD: 978-0-525-49680-9 LITERARY FICTION / HISTORICAL FICTION / CRIME FICTION
RA: For fans of L.A. crime writers Michael Connelly, Robert Crais, Walter Mosley, and Raymond Chandler RI: Author lives in Denver, CO
Ted Chiang
Agnete Friis; Translated by Sinead Quirke Kongerskov
EXHALATION: Stories
THE SUMMER OF ELLEN
From an award-winning science fiction writer (whose short story “The Story of Your Life” was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated movie Arrival), the long-awaited new collection of stunningly original, humane, and already celebrated short stories
Agnete Friis’s lyrical, evocative work of psychological suspense weaves together two periods in one man’s life to explore obsession, toxic masculinity, and the tricks we play on our own memory.
978-1-101-94788-3 | $25.95/$34.95C | 75,000 Knopf | HC | May e 978-1-101-94790-6 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4446-0
978-1-61695-995-1 l $26.95/$33.95C l 30,000 Soho Crime l HC l May e 978-1-61695-996-8 CRIME FICTION
RA: For fans of The Nina Borg series, Jane Harper, and Megan Miranda RI: Author lives in Copenhagen, Denmark
SHORT STORIES
RA: For fans of Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Charles Yu, Margaret Atwood, and Connie Willis RI: Author lives in Seattle, WA
Sujata Massey
THE SATAPUR MOONSTONE
Karen Cleveland
The highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed The Widows of Malabar Hill.
© Jessica Scharpf
KEEP YOU CLOSE: A Novel From the New York Times bestselling author of Need to Know. She knows her teenage son isn’t perfect. But when the FBI starts investigating the kid she thought she knew, will she jeopardize her own career at the Bureau to keep her child safe? 978-1-524-79705-8 | $27.00 | 50,000 Ballantine Books | HC | May 978-0-385-69093-5 | $24.95C | Doubleday Canada | TR e 978-1-524-79706-5 | ] AD: 978-0-525-53066-4 | ] CD: 978-0-525-53065-7 LP: 978-1-9848-8917-1 PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
Social: @KareCleve; Facebook.com/KarenClevelandAuthor; Karen-Cleveland.com RA: For fans of Ruth Ware, Shari Lapena, and Megan Miranda RI: Author lives in Ashburn, VA
Jeffery Deaver
THE NEVER GAME The first in a new series from Deaver, and introduces Colter Shaw, an itinerate “reward-seeker” who survived a strange childhood and now spends his time solving puzzles the police can’t crack. Shaw is a fascinating, brilliant, mysterious protagonist.
978-1-61695-909-8 l $26.95/$33.95C l 75,000 Soho Crime l HC l May e 978-1-61695-910-4 MYSTERY & DETECTIVE
Social: SujataMassey.com RA: For readers of To Die But Once and Girl Who Waits With Gun RI: Author lives in Baltimore, MD
Julie Orringer
THE FLIGHT PORTFOLIO: A Novel
The long-awaited new work from the bestselling author of The Invisible Bridge takes us back to occupied Europe in this gripping historical novel based on the true story of Varian Fry’s extraordinary attempt to save the work, and the lives, of Jewish artists fleeing the Holocaust. 978-0-307-95940-9 | $27.95/$36.95C | 75,000 Knopf | HC | May e 978-0-307-95941-6 | LP: 978-1-9848-9220-1 HISTORICAL FICTION
Social: @JOrringer RA: For readers of Lilac Girls and All the Light We Cannot See RI: Author lives in Brooklyn, NY
978-0-525-53594-2 | $28.00/$37.00C | 200,000 Putnam | May e 978-0-525-53596-6 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-3242-9 ] CD: 978-1-9848-3241-2 CRIME / THRILLER
Social: @JeffreyDeaver; JefferyDeaver.com RA: For fans of Lee Child and David Baldacci RI: Story is set in San Francisco, CA Visit us at our website: PenguinRandomHouseLibrary.com
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FICTION Chris Pavone
Louise Candlish
THE PARIS DIVERSION:
THOSE PEOPLE
A Novel
From the internationally bestselling author of Our House, a new addictive novel of domestic suspense that dives into the world of suburban neighborhood drama and asks, “Could your neighbor make you angry enough to kill?”
Kate Moore from The Expats is back in the latest pulse-pounding thriller set in Paris over the course of one day. 978-1-5247-6150-9 | $27.00/$36.00C | 100,000 Crown | HC | May e 978-1-5247-6152-3 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84528-3 ] CD: 978-1984-84527-6 | LP: 978-1-984-84677-8
978-0-451-48914-2 | $26.00/$35.00C | 50,000 Berkley | HC | June e 978-0-451-48915-9 | ] AD: 978-1-984-89061-0
SUSPENSE / THRILLER
Social: Facebook.com/AuthorChrisPavone; ChrisPavone.com RA: For fans of Terry Hayes, Jason Matthews, and John Le Carré RI: Author lives in New York, NY
Jeff Shaara
PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
Social: @Louise_Candlish RA: For fans of Shari Lapena, Ruth Ware, and Fiona Barton RI: Author lives in London, UK
Blake Crouch
THE SHADOW OF WAR:
RECURSION: A Novel
A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis
978-1-5247-5978-0 | $27.00/$36.00C | 175,000 Crown | HC | June e 978-1-5247-5980-3 | ] AD: 978-1-984-88689-7 ] CD: 978-1984-88688-0
978-0-525-61941-3 | $28.99/$38.99C | 100,000 Ballantine Books | HC | May e 978-0-525-61942-0 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4568-9 ] CD: 978-1-9848-4567-2 | LP: 978-1-9848-8455-8
THRILLER / SCIENCE FICTION
Social: @BlakeCrouch1; BlakeCrouch.com RA: For fans of Andy Weir, Harlan Coben, and Lee Child RI: Author lives in Colorado
HISTORICAL FICTION / WAR & MILITARY
Social: Facebook.com/JShaara; JeffShaara.com RA: For military history readers RI: Author lives in Gettysburg, PA
Elizabeth Gilbert
CITY OF GIRLS
Jo Baker
From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don’t have to be a good girl to be a good person.
THE BODY LIES: A Novel A dark, thrilling new novel from the bestselling author of Longbourn: a work of riveting psychological suspense that grapples with how to live as a woman in the world—or in the pages of a book— when the stakes are dangerously high.
978-1-59463-473-4 | $28.00/$37.00C | 250,000 Riverhead | HC | June e 978-0-698-40832-6 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-8849-5 ] CD: 978-1-9848-8848-8
978-0-525-65611-1 | $25.95/$34.95C | 50,000 Knopf | HC | June e 978-0-525-65612-8 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-9187-7
LITERARY FICTION / HISTORICAL FICTION
THRILLER / SUSPENSE
RA: For fans of Jennifer Egan and Kate Atkinson RI: Author lives in England
Cara Black
Social: @GilbertLiz RA: For fans of Rules of Civility and Manhattan Beach RI: Author lives in New Jersey
Malin Persson Giolito
MURDER IN BEL AIR
BEYOND ALL REASONABLE DOUBT
Cara Black continues her New York Times bestselling Parisian detective series as she entangles private investigator Aimée Leduc in a dangerous web of international spy craft, post-colonial Franco-African politics, people’s resistance movements, and neighborhood secrets in Paris’s ancient and artisanal yet tech-centric 12th arrondissement.
From the award-winning author of Quicksand, a gripping legal thriller that follows one woman’s conflicted efforts to overturn what may be a wrongful conviction. 978-1-59051-919-6 l $16.99/$22.99C l 20,000 Other Press l TR l June e 978-1-59051-920-2
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A mind-bending new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and The Wayward Pines.
New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara brings alive the heart-stopping days and nights of the Cuban Missile Crisis in a novel featuring his trademark “you are there” immediacy.
FICTION
COVER NOT FINAL
Lisa Grunwald
Elka Ray
TIME AFTER TIME: A Novel
DIVORCE IS MURDER:
For one star-crossed couple, New York City’s Grand Central Terminal holds the key to an unforgettable love story sweeping from the Roaring Twenties to World War II and beyond―part The Time Traveler’s Wife, part At the Water’s Edge.
Toby Wong visits her quiet hometown in British Columbia, where nothing ever happens—until her old high school rival is found murdered.
A Toby Wong Mystery
978-1-63388-542-4 l $15.95/$17.00C l 25,000 Seventh Street Books l TR l June e 978-1-63388-543-1
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Mark Haddon
MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / COZY
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Karen Russell
ORANGE WORLD AND OTHER STORIES
THE PORPOISE: A Novel From the acclaimed author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime, a stunningly ambitious, fantastical novel which reworks Shakespeare’s “Pericles” into a parable for today. 978-0-385-54431-3 | $26.95 | 50,000 Doubleday | HC | June 978-0-385-69267-0 | $32.00C | Doubleday Canada e 978-0-385-54432-0 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-9142-6
From the Pulitzer finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases her extraordinary gifts of language and imagination. 978-0-525-65613-5 | $26.95/$35.95C | 50,000 Knopf | HC | June e 978-0-525-65614-2 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-9204-1 |
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Lauren Kate
Jennifer Ryan
THE ORPHAN’S SONG
THE SPIES OF SHILLING LANE: A Novel
The historical adult debut novel by # 1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Kate, The Orphan’s Song is a sweeping love story about family and music—and the secrets each hold—that follows the intertwined fates of two Venetian orphans.
From the author of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir comes a second story set against a backdrop of WWII, about a divorced mother who, fancying herself a Miss Marple, travels to London to “investigate” the disappearance of her daughter.
978-0-7352-1257-2 | $26.00/$34.00C | 100,000 Putnam | HC | June e 978-0-7352-1259-6 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-8755-9 ] CD: 978-1-9848-8754-2 HISTORICAL FICTION
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LITERARY FICTION / SHORT STORIES
978-0-5255-7649-5 | $27.00/$36.00C | 60,000 Crown | HC | June e 978-0-5255-7651-8 | ] AD: 978-1-984-88680-4 LP: 978-0-593-10285-5 HISTORICAL FICTION
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Jeanne Mackin
Marcy Dermansky
THE LAST COLLECTION:
VERY NICE: A Novel
A Novel of Elsa Schiaparelli and Coco Chanel
An American woman becomes entangled in the intense rivalry between iconic fashion designers Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli in this vivid novel from the acclaimed author of The Beautiful American. 978-1-101-99054-4 | $26.00/$35.00C | 50,000 Berkley | HC | June e 978-1-101-99055-1 | ] AD: 978-1-984-89057-3
A brilliantly funny novel of race, money, sex, liberalism, and bad behavior in the post-Obama era, featuring a wealthy Connecticut divorcée, her college-age daughter, and the famous Pakistani American novelist who seduces them both. 978-0-525-65563-3 | $25.95/$34.95C | 75,000 Knopf | HC | July e 978-0-525-65564-0 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-9116-7 LITERARY FICTION
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NONFICTION
Julie Kibler
Dr. Michael Roizen and Dr. Michael Crupain, with Ted Spiker
HOME FOR ERRING AND OUTCAST GIRLS: A Novel
WHAT TO EAT WHEN:
A Strategic Plan to Improve Your Health and Life Through Food
Inspired by historical events, this resonant story of love, loss, and friendship follows the lives of two young women connected by a home for “fallen girls.”
The New York Times bestselling author reveals how the food choices you make each day—and when you make them— can affect your health, your energy, your sex life, your waistline, your attitude, and the way you age.
978-0-4514-9933-2 | $27.00/$36.00C | 60,000 Crown | HC | July e 978-0-4514-9935-6 | ] AD: 978-0-525-63563-5 ] CD: 978-0-525-63562-8 HISTORICAL FICTON
978-1-4262-2011-1 l $28.00/$37.00C l 75,000 National Geographic l HC l December e 978-1-4262-2012-8
Social: @JulieKibler; JulieKibler.com RA: For fans of Lisa Wingate, Christina Baker Kline, and Sara Gruen RI: Author lives in Texas
HEALTH & FITNESS / DIET & NUTRITION
Nancy Thayer
Social: Blog.DoctorOz.com/author/Michael-Roizen RA: For fans of Dr. Oz and Dan Buettner, author of The Blue Zones Solution and How to Not Die RI: Michael Roizen lives in Shaker Heights, OH
SURFSIDE SISTERS: A Novel A Nantucket woman returns home to find that reunions aren’t always simple, in this heartwarming novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Nantucket Wedding and Secrets in Summer.
Robert J. Brown
YOU CAN’T GO WRONG DOING RIGHT: How a Child of
Poverty Rose to the White House and Helped Change the World
978-1-524-79872-7 | $27.00/$36.00C | 50,000 Ballantine Books | HC | July e 978-1-524-79874-1 WOMEN’S FICTION
Social: Instagram: @NancyThayerBooks; Facebook.com/NancyThayerBooks; NancyThayer.com RA: For fans of Mary Kay Andrews, Jane Green, Elin Hilderbrand, and Dorothea Benton Frank RI: Author lives in Nantucket, MA
Chuck Wendig
WANDERERS: A Novel A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world’s last hope. In the tradition of The Stand and Station Eleven comes a gripping saga that weaves an epic tapestry of humanity into an astonishing tale of survival.
An unforgettable account of a quietly remarkable life, Robert Brown’s memoir takes readers behind the scenes of pivotal moments from the 20th century. 978-1-5247-6278-0 | $26.00/$35.00C | 75,000 Convergent Books | HC | January e 978-1-5247-6279-7 | ] AD: 978-1-984-82928-3 MEMOIR / POLITICAL SCIENCE
RA: For readers interested in history, current events, and the African American experience RI: Author lives in High Point, NC
Kamala Harris
THE TRUTHS WE HOLD: An American Journey
From one of America’s most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country.
978-0-399-18210-5 | $28.99/$38.99C | 100,000 Del Rey | HC | July e 978-0-399-18211-2 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-9175-4 SUSPENSE / SCIENCE FICTION / APOCALYPTIC
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978-0-525-56071-5 | $30.00/$40.00C | 250,000 Penguin Press | HC | January e 978-0-525-56072-2 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-8574-6 ] CD: 978-1-9848-8573-9 | LP: 978-1-9848-8622-4
Colson Whitehead
THE NICKEL BOYS: A Novel
POLITICAL SCIENCE / MEMOIR
In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
Social: @KamalaHarris; Harris.Senate.Gov RA: For readers of A Fighting Chance and Our Revolution RI: Author is from Oakland, CA
Akiko Busch
HOW TO DISAPPEAR: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency
A vivid and timely exploration of the idea of invisibility in nature, art, and science, in search of a more joyful and peaceful way of living in today’s increasingly surveilled and publicity-obsessed world.
978-0-385-53707-0 | $24.95/$33.95C | 350,000 Doubleday | HC | July 978-0-385-69396-7 | $29.95C | Bond Street Books e 978-0-385-53708-7 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-9140-2 ] CD: 978-1-9848-9139-6 | LP: 978-1-9848-9224-9 HISTORICAL FICTION
Social: @ColsonWhitehead; ColsonWhitehead.com RA: For readers of Toni Morrison and James Baldwin RI: Author lives in New York, NY
978-1-101-98041-5 | $26.00/$35.00C | 50,000 Penguin Press | HC | February e 978-1-101-98043-9 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-3876-6 NATURE
Social: AkikoBusch.com RA: For fans of Rebecca Solnit and Susan Cain RI: Author lives in Hudson Valley, NY
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NONFICTION Lisa Damour, Ph.D.
Patrick Radden Keefe
UNDER PRESSURE:
SAY NOTHING:
An urgently needed guide to the alarming increase in anxiety and stress experienced by girls from elementary school through college, from the New York Times bestselling author of Untangled.
From the award-winning New Yorker staff writer, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions.
Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls
A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
978-0-385-52131-4 | $28.95/$38.95C | 75,000 Doubleday | HC | February e 978-0-385-54337-8 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4114-8 LP: 978-1-9848-8321-6
978-0-399-18005-7 | $27.00/$36.00C | 40,000 Ballantine Books | HC | February e 978-0-399-18006-4 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4597-9 TRUE CRIME
PARENTING / TEENAGERS
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Ann Druyan; Foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson
SPEARHEAD: An American Tank
COSMOS POSSIBLE WORLDS This all-new and long-awaited sequel to Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan’s international bestseller Cosmos takes readers to worlds only now emerging with the advent of new technologies. 978-1-4262-1908-5 l $30.00/$40.00C l 250,000 National Geographic l HC l February e 978-1-4262-1909-2 SPACE SCIENCE
RA: For fans of Carl Sagan, Neil Degrasse Tyson, and Stephen Hawking RI: Author lives in Los Angeles, CA
Charles A. Gardner
Adam Makos Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II
From the bestselling author of A Higher Call comes the untold story of a World War II tank company fighting from Normandy to the heart of the Third Reich, where a humble gunner would meet destiny in an iconic duel. 978-0-8041-7672-9 | $28.00/$37.00C | 75,000 Ballantine Books | HC | February e 978-0-8041-7673-6 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4601-3 ] CD: 978-1-9848-4600-6 MILITARY HISTORY / WWII
Social: Instagram: @AdamMakos; AdamMakos.com RI: Author lives in Denver, CO
Cal Newport
DANNEMORA:
DIGITAL MINIMALISM:
Two Escaped Killers, Three Weeks of Terror, and the Largest Manhunt Ever in New York State
Choosing a Focused Life in Noisy World
The key to living well in a high tech world is to spend much less time using technology; an indispensable guide for anyone looking to reclaim their life from the alluring diversions of the digital world.
A riveting true crime book that provides newsworthy new details about the notorious 2015 escape from Clinton Correctional Facility in northern New York state by convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt; their lives and crimes; and the massive law-enforcement effort that ended with Matt dead and Sweat again behind bars. 978-0-8065-3924-9 l $26.00/$35.00C l 25,000 l Citadel l HC l February e 978-0-8065-3926-3 BIOGRAPHY / TRUE CRIME
RA: For readers of Wild Escape and Escape From Dannemora RI: Author lives in Malone, NY
Judith Grisel
978-0-525-53651-2 | $26.00/$35.00C | 125,000 Portfolio | HC | February e 978-0-525-53654-3 | ] AD: 978-0-525-64356-2 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / SELF-HELP
Social: CalNewport.com RA: For readers of The Power of Habit and Essentialism RI: Author lives in Washington, DC
Ruth Hanford Morhard
MRS. MORHARD AND THE BOYS:
One mother’s vision. The first boys’ baseball league. A nation inspired.
NEVER ENOUGH:
The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovered drug addict, this is the authoritative and accessible guide to understanding drug addiction that we’ve been waiting for: clearly explained brain science and vivid personal stories combine to reveal how addiction happens and what can be done about it. 978-0-385-54284-5 | $26.95/$35.95C | 60,000 | Doubleday | HC | February e 978-0-385-54285-2 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4108-7 PSYCHOLOGY
As the Great Depression brought America to the brink of disaster, a devoted single mother in Cleveland, Ohio, wrestled triumph out of adversity by creating a community activity that would inspire the American Little League. 978-0-8065-3887-7 l $27.00/$36.00C l 25,000 Citadel l HC l February e 978-0-8065-3889-1 BIOGRAPHY / SPORTS
RA: For readers of Outcasts United and Grandma Gatewood’s Walk RI: Author lives in Chardon, OH
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NONFICTION Toni Morrison
Howard Schultz
THE SOURCE OF SELF-REGARD: Selected Essays,
FROM THE GROUND UP:
The most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection—a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades.
From the bestselling author and former Starbucks CEO comes a story that is part dramatic memoir, part blueprint of the new responsibilities that leaders and citizens share in America today. Ultimately, Schultz reveals the potential we all have to transform communities and uplift lives.
A Journey to Reimagine the Promise of America
Speeches, and Meditations
978-0-525-52103-7 | $28.95/$38.95C | 50,000 Knopf | HC | February e 978-0-525-52111-2 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4048-6 | ] CD: 978-1-9848-4047-9 LP: 978-1-9848-8324-7 LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Social: Facebook.com/OfficialToniMorrisonAuthor RI: Author lives in Grandview, NY
978-0-525-50944-8 | $28.00/$37.00C | 100,000 | Random House | HC | February e 978-0-525-50945-5 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4083-7 ] CD: 978-1-9848-4082-0 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / LEADERSHIP
RA: For readers of Ed Catmull, Steve Jobs, and Sheryl Sandberg RI: Author lives in Seattle, WA
Silvana Paternostro; Translated by Edith Grossman
Chris Wilson and Bret Witter
SOLITUDE & COMPANY:
THE MASTER PLAN:
The Life of Gabriel García Márquez Told with Help from His Friends, Family, Fans, Arguers, Fellow Pranksters, Drunks, and a Few Respectable Souls
My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose
The inspiring, instructive, and ultimately triumphant memoir of a man who used hard work and a Master Plan to turn a life sentence into a second chance.
An oral history biography of the legendary Latin American writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, brimming with atmosphere and insight.
978-0-7352-1558-0 | $27.00/$36.00C | 50,000 Putnam | HC | February e 978-0-7352-1560-3 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4038-7 ] CD: 978-1-9848-4037-0
978-1-60980-896-9 l $26.95/$35.95C l 30,000 Seven Stories Press l HC l February e 978-1-60980-897-6
PERSONAL MEMOIR / SELF-HELP
BIOGRAPHY / LITERARY FIGURES
RA: For readers of Edie: An American Life and Jack’s Book by Barry Gifford RI: Author lives in New York, NY
Social: ChrisWilson.Biz RA: For readers of Writing My Wrongs and The Other Wes Moore RI: Author lives in Baltimore, MD
Maria Popova
Mike Dooley
A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSE:
FIGURING Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries—beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, who catalyzed the environmental movement. 978-1-5247-4813-5 | $30.00/$40.00C | 50,000 | Pantheon | HC | February e 978-1-5247-4814-2 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4476-7
Uncommon Ideas for Living an Unusually Happy Life
The beloved creator of “Notes from the Universe” distills a career’s worth of inspiration into elegant, brief lessons for making our way through the world—conceived as a guidebook for his young daughter yet relevant to everyone who’s living a life on earth. (In other words, everyone.) 978-1-4019-5502-1 l $19.99/$25.99C l 20,000 l Hay House Inc. l HC l March e 978-1-4019-5503-8 SELF-HELP / PERSONAL GROWTH
BIOGRAPHY / SCIENCE
Social: @BrainPicker; @BrainPickings RA: For fans of Oliver Sacks, Andrea Wulf, and Hope Jahren RI: Author lives in Brooklyn, NY
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Reshma Saujani
Jennifer L. Eberhardt
BIASED: Uncovering the
BRAVE, NOT PERFECT:
Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder
The New York Times bestselling author and Girls Who Code founder/CEO inspires us to discover the power of female bravery.
From one of the world’s leading experts on unconscious racial bias, a personal examination of one of the central controversies and culturally powerful issues of our time.
978-1-5247-6233-9 | $25.00/$34.00C | 150,000 Currency | HC | February e 978-1-5247-6234-6 | ] AD: 978-1-984-82936-8 ] CD: 978-1-984-82935-1 SELF-HELP / BUSINESS
Social: @ReshmaSaujani; @GirlsWhoCode; ReshmaSaujani.com RA: For readers of Quiet and Daring Greatly RI: Author lives in New York, NY
978-0-7352-2493-3 | $28.00/$37.00C | 100,000 Viking | HC | March e 978-0-7352-2494-0 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4263-3 | ] CD: 978-1-9848-4262-6 SOCIAL SCIENCE
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Frances Mayes
FEMINISM FOR THE 99%
New Places to Discover in Italy
SEE YOU IN THE PIAZZA: Bestselling author Frances Mayes discovers the hidden pleasures of Italy in a sumptuous travel narrative that crisscrosses each region, with inventive new recipes celebrating Italian cuisine.
From three of the organizers of the International Women’s Strike US: a manifesto for when “leaning in” is not enough. 978-1-78873-442-4 l $14.95/$20.95C l 40,000 Verso l TR l March e 978-1-78873-445-5
978-0-4514-9769-7 | $27.00/$36.00C | 60,000 Crown | HC | March e 978-0-4514-9771-0 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84516-0 ] CD: 978-1984-84515-3 | LP: 978-1-984-84678-5
SOCIAL SCIENCE / FEMINISM & FEMINIST THEORY
RA: For readers of Men Explain Things to Me and SCUM Manifesto RI: Authors live in New York, NY
TRAVEL / BIOGRAPHY / COOKING
Social: @FrancesMayes; FrancesMayesBooks.com RA: For devotees of Italian food, travel, and culture RI: Author lives in North Carolina and Italy
Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett; Foreword by Stephen Fry
Agus Morales; Translated by Charlotte Whittle
WE ARE NOT REFUGEES: True
THE FOUR HORSEMEN:
Stories of the Displaced
The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
In 2007, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett filmed a landmark discussion about modern atheism. The video went viral. Now in print for the first time, the transcript of their conversation is illuminated by new essays from Dawkins, Harris, and Dennett as well as an introduction by Stephen Fry. 978-0-525-51195-3 | $23.00/$30.00C | 40,000 | Random House | HC | March e 978-0-525-51196-0 SOCIAL SCIENCE / ATHEISM
Social: @RichardDawkins; @SamHarrisOrg; @DanielDennett RA: For listeners of Sam Harris’s podcast Waking Up
Never in history have so many people been displaced by political and military conflicts at home—more than 65 million globally. Unsparing, outspoken, vital, this book tells the stories of many of these displaced, who have not been given asylum. 978-1-62354-532-1 l $17.99/$20.99C l 40,000 Imagine l TR l March e 978-1-63289-224-9 SOCIAL SCIENCE / EMIGRATION & IMMIGRATION
Social: @AgusMoralesPuga RA: For readers of A Country of Refuge and The Displaced RI: Author lives in Barcelona, Spain
Emily Nagoski, PhD and Amelia Nagoski, DMA
Alex Kotlowitz
BURNOUT: The Secret to
AN AMERICAN SUMMER:
Unlocking the Stress Cycle
Love and Death in Chicago
From the bestselling author of Come as You Are and her twin sister, a groundbreaking book that explains why women experience burnout differently than men―and provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions, and live a more joyful life.
From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago’s most turbulent neighborhoods. 978-0-385-53880-0 | $27.95/$36.95C | 60,000 Nan A Talese | HC | March e 978-0-385-53881-7 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4118-6 ] CD: 978-1-9848-4117-9 SOCIAL SCIENCE
Social: AlexKotlowitz.com RA: For readers of Evicted, Ghettoside, Rachel and Her Children, Savage Inequalities, and Between the World and Me RI: Author lives in Chicago, IL
Barry Lopez
978-1-9848-1706-8 | $27.00/$36.00C | 75,000 | Ballantine Books | HC | March e 978-1-9848-1707-5 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4592-4 SELF-HELP / STRESS MANAGEMENT
Social: @EmilyNagoski; EmilyNagoski.com RA: For fans of Rising Strong and Quiet RI: Authors live in Western Massachusetts
Lynne Olson
HORIZON From the National Book Award-winning author of the now-classic Arctic Dreams, a vivid, poetic, capacious work that recollects the travels around the world and the encounters—human, animal, and natural—that have shaped an extraordinary life. 978-0-394-58582-6 | $30.00 | 75,000 Knopf | HC | March 978-0-307-35599-7 | $39.95C | Random House Canada e 978-0-525-65621-0 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-8904-1 TRAVEL
RA: For fans of Annie Dillard and Rachel Carson RI: Author lives in Finn Rock, OR
MADAME FOURCADE’S SECRET WAR: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
The little-known true story of the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, from the New York Times bestselling author of Citizens of London and Last Hope Island. 978-0-8129-9476-6 | $30.00/$40.00C | 75,000 | Random House | HC | March e 978-0-8129-9477-3 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-8518-0 HISTORY / WWII
Social: Facebook.com/LynneOlsonBooks; LynneOlson.com RA: For fans of Code Girls, The Woman Who Smashed Codes, and A Train in Winter RI: Author lives in Washington, DC Visit us at our website: PenguinRandomHouseLibrary.com
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NONFICTION Eric O’Neill
Amber Tamblyn
GRAY DAY: My Undercover
ERA OF IGNITION: Coming of
Mission to Expose America’s First Cyber Spy
Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution
A passionate manifesto with personal stories, anecdotes, and opinions from the front lines of modern American womanhood from actor, filmmaker, and activist Amber Tamblyn.
A cybersecurity expert and former FBI “ghost” tells the thrilling story of how he helped take down notorious FBI mole Robert Hanssen, the first Russian cyber spy.
978-1-9848-2298-7 | $25.00/$34.00C | 100,000 Crown Archetype | HC | March e 978-1-9848-2300-7 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84336-4
978-0-5255-7352-4 | $28.00/$37.00C | 75,000 Crown | HC | March e 978-0-5255-7354-8 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84500-9 POLITICAL SCIENCE / MEMOIR
Social: EricOneill.net; @EONeill RA: For fans of Ben Macintyre, John le Carré , and David E. Hoffman RI: Author lives in Alexandria, VA
Andrew Rannells
SOCIAL SCIENCE / MEMOIR
Social: @AmberTamblyn; AmTam.com RA: Fans of Roxane Gay, Lena Dunham, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie RI: Author lives in Brooklyn, NY
Evan Thomas
FIRST: Sandra Day O’Connor
TOO MUCH IS NOT ENOUGH:
From the star of Broadway’s The Book of Mormon and HBO’s Girls, the heartfelt and hilarious coming-of-age memoir of a Midwestern boy chasing his dreams in New York City.
The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day O’Connor, America’s first female Supreme Court justice, drawing on exclusive interviews and first-time access to Justice O’Connor’s archives—from the New York Times bestselling author.
978-0-5255-7485-9 | $26.00/$35.00C | 75,000 Crown Archetype | HC | March e 978-0-5255-7487-3 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84340-1 ] CD: 978-1984-84339-5
978-0-399-58928-7 | $30.00/$40.00C | 50,000 Random House | HC | March e 978-0-399-58929-4 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-8451-0 LP: 978-1-9848-8700-9
A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood
MEMOIR
BIOGRAPHY / LEGAL
Social: @AndrewRannells; AndrewRannellsBook.com RA: For fans of David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, and Josh Kilmer-Purcell RI: Author lives in New York, NY
RA: For fans of My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor, Elizabeth the Queen, and Victoria RI: Author lives in Washington, DC
Sarah Rose
Jacob Tobia
D-DAY GIRLS: The Untold Story
SISSY: A Coming-of-Gender Story
of the Female Spies Who Helped Win World War Two
A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it’s like to grow up not sure if you’re (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d) all of the above.
The dramatic story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain’s elite spy agency to sabotage the Nazis and pave the way for Allied victory in World War II.
978-0-7352-1882-6 | $26.00/$35.00C | 50,000 Putnam | HC | March e 978-0-7352-1883-3 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4040-0
978-0-4514-9508-2 | $28.00/$37.00C | 60,000 Crown | HC | March e 978-0-4514-9510-5 | ] AD: 978-1-984-88675-0 HISTORY / WWII
Social: SarahRose.com RA: For readers of Hidden Figures, The Radium Girls, and Unbroken RI: Author lives in New York, NY
Gretchen Rubin
Dustin Lance Black
OUTER ORDER, INNER CALM:
A Story from Our Americas
MAMA’S BOY:
From the Academy Award-winning screenwriter and political activist, a candid, vivid, powerfully resonant memoir about growing up as a gay Mormon in Texas that is, as well, a moving tribute to the mother who taught him about surviving against all odds.
Declutter and Organize to Make More Room for Happiness
With clarity and humor, the bestselling author of The Four Tendencies and The Happiness Project illuminates one of her key realizations about happiness: For most of us, outer order contributes to inner calm.
978-1-5247-3327-8 | $26.95/$35.95C | 75,000 Knopf | HC | April e 978-1-5247-3328-5 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-3998-5
978-1-9848-2280-2 | $16.99/$22.99C | 75,000 Harmony | HC | March e 978-1-984822819 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84662-4
MEMOIR / LGBTQ
SELF-HELP
Social: Facebook.com/GretchenRubin; GretchenRubin.com RA: For fans of Marie Kondo RI: Author lives in New York, NY
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MEMOIR / LGBTQ
Social: @JacobTobia; Facebook.com/Jacobtobia; JacobTobia.com RA: For fans of Transparent and readers of Lena Dunham and David Sedaris RI: Author lives in Los Angeles, CA
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NONFICTION David Brooks
Melissa Hart
THE SECOND MOUNTAIN
BETTER WITH BOOKS:
500 Diverse Books to Ignite Empathy and Encourage Self-Acceptance in Tweens and Teens
A thought-provoking exploration of the four major commitments in life that fundamentally shape our identities― from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Road to Character.
A parenting handbook that includes 500 current and diverse recommendations for fiction and memoir for preteens and teens with the goal of inspiring greater empathy.
978-0-8129-9326-4 | $28.00/$37.00C | 150,000 Random House | HC | April e 978-0-679-64504-7 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4079-0 ] CD: 978-1-9848-4078-3 | LP: 978-1-984-88834-1
978-1-63217-227-3 l $18.95/$18.95C l 50,000 Sasquatch Books l TR l April
SOCIAL SCIENCE / SELF-HELP
Social: @NYTDavidBrooks; Facebook.com/pages/David-Brooks RA: For readers of Quiet, The Power of Habit, and Braving the Wilderness, and fans of Gretchen Rubin and Dan Harris RI: Author lives in Washington, DC
Jorge Cruise; Introduction by Jason Fung, M.D.
THE CRUISE CONTROL DIET: Automate Your Diet and Conquer Weight Loss Forever
Activate your weight-loss autopilot―use the power of simple on/off fasting to lose the pounds and keep them off, from Hollywood trainer and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jorge Cruise. 978-0-525-61869-0 | $28.00/$37.00C | 100,000 Ballantine Books | HC | April e 978-0-525-61870-6 DIET & NUTRITION
Social: @JorgeCruise; Facebook.com/JorgeCruise; JorgeCruise.com RA: For fans of Zero Sugar Diet, Fast Metabolism Diet, Master Your Metabolism, and The Whole30 RI: Author lives in Malibu, CA
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
e 978-1-63217-228-0 PARENTING / CHILDREN’S & YA LITERATURE
Social: MelissaHart.com RA: For fans of Book Crush, Books for Living, and Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature as an Adult RI: Author lives in Eugene, OR
Valerie Jarrett
FINDING MY VOICE:
My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward
The longest-serving senior advisor in the Obama White House shares her journey as a daughter, mother, lawyer, business leader, public servant, and leader in government at a historic moment in American history. 978-0-525-55813-2 | $30.00/$40.00C | 100,000 Viking | HC | April e 978-0-525-55814-9 | ] AD: 978-0-525-62430-1 | ] CD: 978-0-525-62429-5 LP: 978-1-9848-8294-3 MEMOIR
Social: @ValerieJarrett RA: For readers of Yes We (Still) Can and Promise Me, Dad RI: Author lives in Chicago, IL and Washington, DC
STONY THE ROAD:
Tyler Kepner
Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind. 978-0-525-55953-5 | $30.00/$40.00C | 50,000 | Penguin Press | HC | April e 978-0-525-55954-2 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-3896-4 UNITED STATES HISTORY / AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES
Social: @HenryLouisGates RA: For readers of The Color of Law and The New Jim Crow
Cathy Guisewite
K: A HISTORY OF BASEBALL IN TEN PITCHES From the New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research and interviews with more than three hundred people from Hall of Famers to the stars of today. 978-0-385-54101-5 | $27.95/$36.95C | 75,000 Doubleday | HC | April e 978-0-385-54102-2 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4112-4 | LP: 978-1-9848-8329-2 SPORTS
Social: @TylerKepner RA: For readers of Moneyball, The Cubs Way, and Where Nobody Knows Your Name RI: Author lives in Wilton, CT
FIFTY THINGS THAT AREN’T MY FAULT:
Kwame Onwuachi and Joshua David Stein
From the iconic creator of the “Cathy” comic strip comes a collection of funny, warm, and wise essays centered on the particular challenge of caring for aging parents and growing children, all while trying not to lose oneself in the process.
A groundbreaking memoir about the intersection of race, fame, and food, from the Top Chef star and Forbes and Zagat 30 Under 30 honoree.
Essays from the Grown-up Years
978-0-7352-1842-0 | $27.00/$36.00C | 50,000 Putnam | HC | April e 978-0-7352-1844-4 | ] AD: 978-0-525-64045-5 HUMOR
Social: @CathyGwite; Facebook.com/CathyGwite; CathyGuisewite.com RA: For fans of Nora Ephron and Anna Quindlen
NOTES FROM A YOUNG BLACK CHEF: A Memoir
978-1-5247-3262-2 | $26.95/$35.95C | 40,000 Knopf | HC | April e 978-1-5247-3263-9 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-3990-9 MEMOIR / COOKING
Social: @ChefKwame; Instagram: @BastedMind RA: For readers of Blood, Bones & Butter; Yes, Chef; and Fresh Off the Boat RI: Author lives in Washington, DC
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NONFICTION Anna Palmer and Jake Sherman
Antonin Scalia
THE HILL TO DIE ON:
ON FAITH: Lessons from
The story of the battle to control Congress and the unsparing fight for advantage in the 2018 midterm elections, told from the offices of Capitol Hill insiders.
An inspiring collection of the late Supreme Court justice’s reflections on his own faith, on the challenges that religious believers face in modern America, and on the religious freedoms protected by the Constitution.
The Battle for Congress and the Future of Trump’s America
978-0-5255-7474-3 | $28.00/$37.00C | 100,000 Crown | HC | April e 978-0-5255-7476-7 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84524-5 ] CD: 978-1984-84523-8 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Social: @APalmerDC; @JakeSherman RA: For readers of Devil’s Bargain, Hacks, and The Making of Donald Trump RI: Authors live in Washington, DC
Sonia Purnell
an American Believer
978-1-9848-2331-1 | $20.00/$27.00C | 50,000 Crown Forum | HC | April e 978-1-9848-2332-8 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84314-2 MEMOIR / RELIGION
RA: For readers interested in religion and its role in American society and government
Shannon Sedgwick Davis; Foreword by Howard Buffett
TO STOP A WARLORD:
A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE:
My Story of Justice, Grace, and the Fight for Peace
The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win WWII
One woman’s inspiring true story of an unlikely alliance to stop the atrocities of warlord Joseph Kony, proving that there is no limit to what we can do, even in the face of unspeakable injustice and impossible odds.
The never-before-told story of one woman’s heroism that changed the course of the Second World War. 978-0-7352-2529-9 | $28.00/$37.00C | 75,000 Viking | HC | April e 978-0-7352-2530-5 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4273-2
978-0-8129-9592-3 | $27.00/$36.00C | 40,000 Spiegel & Grau | HC | April e 978-0-8129-9593-0 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4671-6
BIOGRAPHY / WOMEN / WWII
Social: @SoniaPurnell RA: For readers of Hidden Figures and The Girls of Atomic City RI: Author lives in London, UK
Anna Quindlen
NANAVILLE:
MEMOIR / SOCIAL SCIENCE
Social: @ShannonSedg; BridgewayFoundation.org/Shannon.php RA: For readers of Start Something that Matters, Outcasts United, Half the Sky, and The Promise of a Pencil RI: Author lives in San Antonio, TX
Adventures in Grandparenting
Casey N. Cep
A big-hearted book of wisdom, insight, and wit, celebrating the joys of being a grandmother―from the Pulitzer Prizewinning columnist and #1 New York Times bestselling author.
FURIOUS HOURS: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
The stunning true story of an Alabama serial killer, and the trial that obsessed the author of To Kill a Mockingbird in the years after the publication of her classic novel—a complicated and difficult time in her life that, until now, has been very little examined.
978-0-8129-9610-4 | $25.00/$34.00C | 100,000 Random House | HC | April e 978-0-8129-9611-1 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / PARENTING
Social: Facebook.com/AnnaQuindlen; AnnaQuindlen.net RA: For fans of Quindlen’s bestselling memoir Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, and A Short Guide to a Happy Life RI: Author lives in New York, NY
Oliver Sacks
978-1-101-94786-9 | $26.95/$35.95C | 100,000 | Knopf | HC | May e 978-1-101-94787-6 | ] AD: 978-0-7352-0849-0 | ] CD: 978-1-9848-9223-2 BIOGRAPHY
EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE:
RA: For readers of Mockingbird Next Door RI: Author lives in Eastern Shore, MD
First Loves and Last Tales
From the bestselling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks’s broad range of interests—from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer’s.
David Epstein
RANGE: Why Generalists
Triumph in a Specialized World
An explanation on how to maintain the benefits of breadth, diverse experience, interdisciplinary thinking, and delayed concentration in a world that increasingly incentivizes, even demands, hyperspecialization.
978-0-451-49289-0 | $26.95 | 75,000 Knopf | HC | April 978-0-345-81138-7 | $32.00C | Knopf Canada e 978-0-451-49290-6 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4002-8 SCIENCE
Social: @OliverSacks; Facebook.com/OliverSacks; OliverSacks.com
978-0-7352-1448-4 | $28.00/$37.00C | 50,000 Riverhead | HC | May e 978-0-7352-1449-1 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-8845-7 ] CD: 978-1-9848-8844-0 PSYCHOLOGY
Social: @DavidEpstein; DavidEpstein.com RA: For readers of Drive and The Power of Habit RI: Author lives in Washington, DC 20
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Alex Kershaw
ERNESTO: The Untold Story of
THE FIRST WAVE: The D-Day
Timed for the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, a radically new understanding of Hemingway’s life in Cuba, from the first North American scholar permitted to study in residence there.
The New York Times bestselling author of The Liberator and Avenue of Spies returns with a thrilling, action-heavy account of D-Day combat.
Hemingway in Revolutionary Cuba
Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II
978-0-451-49005-6 | $30.00/$40.00C | 150,000 Dutton Caliber | HC | May e 978-0-451-49006-3 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4140-7 ] CD: 978-1-9848-4139-1 | LP: 978-1-9848-8286-8
978-1-61219-638-1 l $29.99/$38.99C l 40,000 Melville House l HC l May e 978-1-61219-639-8 BIOGRAPHY
RA: For readers of Everybody Behaves Badly and Hemingway’s Boat RI: Author lives in New Orleans, LA
Jayson Greene
MILITARY HISTORY / WWII
Social: @Kershaw_Alex; AlexKershaw.com RA: For readers of Hampton Sides, Erik Larson, and Antony Beevor RI: Author lives in Manchester, VT
Shawn Levy
ONCE MORE WE SAW STARS: A Memoir
THE CASTLE ON SUNSET:
A moving, transcendent memoir of loss and a stunning exploration of marriage in the wake of unimaginable grief. With raw honesty, deep emotion, and exquisite tenderness, Greene captures both the fragility of life and absoluteness of death, and most important of all, the unconquerable power of love. 978-1-5247-3353-7 | $25.00/$34.00C | 150,000 Knopf | HC | May e 978-1-5247-3354-4 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4028-8 | ] CD: 978-1-9848-4027-1 LP: 978-1-9848-8620-0 MEMOIR
Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont
A definitive history of Hollywood’s most iconic, storied, and scandalous hotel. With wit and insight, Shawn Levy recounts the wild revelries and scandalous liaisons, the creative breakthroughs and marital breakdowns, the births and deaths that the Chateau has been a party to. Vivid, salacious, and richly informed. 978-0-385-54316-3 | $28.95/$38.95C | 50,000 | Doubleday | HC | May e 978-0-385-54317-0 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4088-2 BIOGRAPHY / POP CULTURE
Social: @Jayson_Greene RA: For readers of When Breath Becomes Air, The Year of Magical Thinking, and The Rules Do Not Apply RI: Author lives in Brooklyn, NY
Social: @ShawnLevy; Instagram: @ShawnAnthonyLevy; ShawnLevy.com RA: For readers of 740 Park, Empty Mansions, and The Last Castle RI: Author lives in Portland, OR
Julian Guthrie
Violet Moller
ALPHA GIRLS: The Women Who
THE MAP OF KNOWLEDGE:
A powerful account of five women pioneers in the field of venture capital who bucked the system and found ways to thrive in the Silicon Valley.
After the Fall of Rome, when many of the great ideas of the ancient world were lost to the ravages of the Dark Ages, three crucial manuscripts passed hand to hand through seven Mediterranean cities and survived to fuel the revival of the Renaissance.
Challenged Silicon Valley’s Male Culture and Pioneered the Future
A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found
978-0-5255-7392-0 | $28.00/$37.00C | 30,000 Currency | HC | May e 978-0-5255-7393-7 | ] AD: 978-1-984-82940-5 BIOGRAPHY / BUSINESS
Social: @JulianGuthrie; JulianGuthrieSF.com RA: For readers of Hidden Figures RI: Author lives in San Francisco, CA
Brian Jay Jones
978-0-385-54176-3 | $30.00/$40.00C | 50,000 Doubleday | HC | May e 978-0-385-54177-0 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-9163-1 HISTORY
Social: @VioletBySted RA: For fans of Thomas Cahill, Stephen Greenblatt, and Russell Shorto RI: Author lives in Oxford, UK
BECOMING DR. SEUSS:
Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination
George Packer
The definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss.
the End of the American Century
978-1-5247-4278-2 | $32.00/$36.00C | 125,000 Dutton | HC | May e 978-1-5247-4280-5 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4199-5 BIOGRAPHY
Social: @BrianJayJones; BrianJayJones.com RA: For fans of Johnathan Eig, Walter Isaacson, and the beloved Dr. Seuss books RI: Author lives in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area
OUR MAN: Richard Holbrooke and From the award-winning author of The Unwinding—the vividly told saga of the ambition, idealism, and hubris of one of the most legendary and complicated figures in recent American history, set amid the rise and fall of U.S. power from Vietnam to Afghanistan. 978-0-307-95802-0 | $30.00/$40.00C | 125,000 Knopf | HC | May e 978-0-307-95803-7 | ] AD: 978-0-525-63784-4 |
LP: 978-1-9848-8327-8
HISTORY
RA: For fans of Robert Caro, Jon Meacham, David McCullough, and Doris Kearns Goodwin RI: Author lives in Brooklyn, NY Visit us at our website: PenguinRandomHouseLibrary.com
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NONFICTION Bren Smith
Ibram X. Kendi
EAT LIKE A FISH:
HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST
My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer
From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a refreshing approach that will radically reorient America on the urgent issues of race, justice, and equality.
From the aquatic world’s Michael Pollan a former fisherman’s memoir, manifesto, and vision for the future of food: seaweed. Written with the humor and swagger of a fisherman telling a late-night tale, this is a monumental work of memoirturned-food policy that will change the way we think about what we eat. 978-0-451-49454-2 | $26.95/$35.95C | 50,000 | Knopf | HC | May e 978-0-451-49455-9 MEMOIR
Social: @GreenWaveOrg; Instagram: @GreenWaveOrg; Facebook.com/GreenWaveOrg; GreenWave.org RA: For fans of Michael Pollan, Mark Bittman, Anthony Bourdain, and Bill Buford RI: Author lives in New Haven, CT
978-0-525-50928-8 | $25.00/$34.00C | 50,000 One World | HC | June e 978-0-525-50929-5 ] AD: 978-1-984-83222-1 POLITICAL SCIENCE / CIVIL RIGHTS
Social: @DrIbram; Facebook.com/Ibram.Rogers RA: For readers of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michelle Alexander RI: Author lives in Washington, DC
Ruth Reichl
SAVE ME THE PLUMS: My Gourmet Memoir
Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the risk (and the job) of a lifetime when she entered the glamorous, high-stakes world of magazine publishing. Now, for the first time, she chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief of Gourmet.
John Urschel and Louisa Thomas
MIND AND MATTER: A Life in Math and Football
John Urschel, mathematician and former offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens—with biographer Louisa Thomas—tells the story of a life balanced between two passions.
978-1-4000-6999-6 | $28.00 | 75,000 Random House | HC | June 978-0-525-61060-1 | $32.00C | Appetite by Random House e 978-0-679-60523-2 | ] CD: 978-0-385-39350-8 | ] AD: 978-0-385-39351-5
978-0-7352-2486-5 | $27.00/$36.00C | 50,000 Penguin Press | HC | May e 978-0-7352-2487-2 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-3917-6
CULINARY MEMOIR
MEMOIR / SPORTS / MATH
Social: @JohnCUrshel; @LouisaThomas; LouisaThomas.com RA: For readers of Louisa Thomas and Where Nobody Knows Your Name RI: Authors live in Baltimore, MD and Cambridge, MA
Jeff Gordinier
Elaine Welteroth
MORE THAN ENOUGH: A Memoir
A revolutionary memoir from the editor credited with the groundbreaking rebranding of Teen Vogue and an inspiring look at what it means to be enough. 978-0-525-56158-3 | $27.00/$36.00C | 75,000 Viking | HC | May e 978-0-525-56159-0 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-8941-6 MEMOIR
Social: @ElaineWelteroth RA: For fans of Shonda Rhimes, Trevor Noah, and readers of #GirlBoss and Teen Vogue RI: Author lives in Brooklyn, NY
Tim Bouverie
APPEASEMENT: Chamberlain,
Hitler, Churchill and the Road to War
A gripping new history of the British appeasement of the Third Reich in the lead up to World War II. 978-0-4514-9984-4 | $30.00/$40.00C | 40,000 Tim Duggan Books | HC | June e 978-0-4514-9986-8 | ] AD: 978-1-984-84512-2 HISTORY / WWII
Social: @TimPBouverie RA: For fans of Ben Macintyre, Candice Millard, and John le Carré RI: Author lives in London, UK
Social: @RuthReichl; Facebook.com/RuthReichlBooks; RuthReichl.com RA: For fans of Blood, Bones & Butter; Kitchen Confidential; and Sweetbitter RI: Author lives in New York, NY and Spencertown, NY
HUNGRY: Eating, Road-Tripping and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World
A food critic chronicles three years spent traveling with world-renowned chef René Redzepi in search of the best, most unique flavors the world has to offer. 978-1-5247-5964-3 | $27.00/$36.00C | 30,000 Tim Duggan Books | HC | July e 978-0-5256-3555-0 | ] AD: 978-0-525-63555-0 BIOGRAPHY / COOKING
Social: @JeffGordinierRA; JeffGordinier.com RA: For readers of 32 Yolks; Heat; and Blood, Bones & Butter RI: Author lives in Hartsdale, NY
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
UNDOCUMENTED AMERICA One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation. 978-0-399-59268-3 | $27.00/$36.00C | 50,000 Spiegel & Grau | HC | August e 978-0-399-59269-0 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-8582-1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / IMMIGRATION
Social: @KCornejoV; Instagram: @KCornejoV RA: For fans of Enrique’s Journey, The Distance Between Us, Harvest of Empire, and Evicted RI: Author lives in New Haven, CT
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COOKBOOK Mark Bittman
Aaron Franklin and Jordan Mackay
DINNER FOR EVERYONE:
FRANKLIN STEAK
The first major new work from the man who taught America How to Cook Everything is truly the one book a cook needs for a perfect dinner.
The be-all, end-all guide to cooking the perfect steak—from buying top-notch beef, seasoning to perfection, and finding or building the ideal cooking vessel—from the team behind the bestselling book Franklin Barbecue.
978-0-3853-4476-0 | $40.00/$54.00C 80,000 | Clarkson Potter | HC | February e 978-0-3853-4477-7
978-0-3995-8096-3 | $29.99/$39.99C 125,000 | Ten Speed Press | HC | April 978-0-3995-8097-0
100 Iconic Dishes Made 3 Ways— Easy, Vegan, or Perfect for Company
COOKING / METHODS
COOKING / BARBECUE & GRLILING
Social: @Bittman; MarkBittman.com RA: For readers of the How to Cook Everything series RI: Author lives in Cold Spring, NY
Social: @FranklinBBQ RA: For home cooks and meat lovers RI: Authors lives in Austin, TX and Napa, CA
Diana Kuan
Jeremy Rock Smith and David Joachim
RED HOT KITCHEN: Classic
Asian Chili Sauces from Scratch and Delicious Dishes to Make with Them
THE KRIPALU KITCHEN:
Diana Kuan offers more than 100 easy-to-follow recipes for nine sauces fundamental to Asian cooking, along with a “Know Your Chili Pepper” chart so you can easily shop for the ingredients you need and customize the heat level of each sauce.
A lavishly illustrated cookbook featuring 125 delicious, easy-to-prepare, revitalizing, and detoxifying recipes from the executive chef at North America’s largest yoga-based healing and education center.
Nourishing Food for Body and Soul
978-0-525-53352-8 | $30.00/$40.00C | 30,000 | Avery | HC | February e 978-0-525-53353-5
978-0-525-62081-5 | $35.00/$47.00C | 20,000 Ballantine Books | HC | April e 978-1-9848-1730-3 COOKING / HEALTH & HEALING
COOKING / ASIAN
Social: @DianaKuan RA: For readers of The Sriracha Cookbook and The Hot Sauce Cookbook RI: Author lives in Brooklyn, NY
RA: For fans of Eat, Taste, Heal; The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook; and The Longevity Kitchen RI: Author lives in Richmond, MA
America’s Test Kitchen
Madhur Jaffrey
VEGETABLES ILLUSTRATED:
MADHUR JAFFREY’S ESSENTIAL INDIAN INSTANT POT COOKBOOK
An Inspiring Guide with 700+ Kitchen-Tested Recipes
The definitive Indian cookbook for Instant Pots and slow cookers: more than seventy beautifully illustrated recipes from the multi-James Beard Award-winning “queen of Indian cooking.”
The only vegetables book you’ll ever need reveals hundreds of ways to cook nearly every vegetable under the sun. 978-1-945256-73-8 l $40.00/$50.00C l 75,000 America’s Test Kitchen l HC l March
978-0-525-65579-4 | $22.00/$29.00C | 50,000 Knopf | HC | May e 978-0-525-65580-0
e 978-1-945256-74-5 VEGETARIAN COOKING
Social: @TestKitchen RA: For fans of America’s Test Kitchen and readers of Six Seasons and Martha Stewart’s Vegetables
Jeanine Donofrio
COOKING / REGIONAL & ETHNIC / INDIAN
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