What Will You Read Next ? Spring 2020 Catalog by PRH Library

The Most Important Titles of the Spring 2020 Season. Hand-Selected for Librarians.

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After a fiery attack on a train leaves 104 people dead, the fates of three people become inextricably entangled. This urgent and powerful debut novel will haunt you long after you finish the final pages..

From the bestselling author of Watch Me Disappear comes a dazzling, twisty, mesmerizing novel of aspiration and desire, duplicity and revenge. (see more on page 11)

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Dark, fascinating, and voice-driven—an original look at the aftermath of Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Sure to be a conversation starter, this is book club fiction with the tightly wrought tension of a thriller.

An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape—trying not just to survive but to find a home. (see more on page 5)

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The New York Times bestselling author’s first standalone ever inspired by real-life Soviet sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko. (see more on page 11)

Parsing the intersection of family history and memory, Esther Safran Foer tells the deeply moving story of four generations of survivors and memory keepers living in the shadow of the Holocaust. (see more on page 17)

FIRST FICTION Deepa Anappara

Owen Nicholls

DJINN PATROL ON THE PURPLE LINE: A Novel

LOVE, UNSCRIPTED: A Novel A film-obsessed romantic rewrites the script to understand why his “pictureperfect” love story crashed and burned in this wonderfully clever debut.

In this transporting debut novel, three friends venture into the most dangerous corners of a sprawling Indian city to find their missing classmate. 978-0-593-12919-7 | $27.00 | 50,000 | Random House HC | February 978-0-771-00170-3 | $34.95C | McClelland & Stewart e 978-0-593-12920-3 | ] AD: 978-0-593-15504-2 LP: 978-0-593-20706-2 LITERARY FICTION / COMING OF AGE

Social: IG: @Deepa.Anappara RA: For readers of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko, Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing, Emma Donoghue’s Room, Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones, or Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time RI: Author lives in Essex, UK

978-1-9848-2687-9 | $17.00 | 30,000 | Ballantine Books | TR | February e 978-1-9848-2688-6 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16775-5 FICTION / CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Social: T: @OwenNicholls RA: For fans of high-concept love stories such as High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, One Day in December by Josie Silver, One Day by David Nicholls, and rom-coms such as To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and Set It Up RI: Author lives in Norwich, UK

Clare Pooley

THE AUTHENTICITY PROJECT: A Novel

Abi Daré

THE GIRL WITH THE LOUDING VOICE: A Novel

A story about a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship, and even love—think Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine meets Love, Actually. “Everybody lies about their lives. What would happen if you shared the truth?”

A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a fourteenyear-old Nigerian girl who is trapped in a life of servitude—but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future. She finds the resolve to speak however she can— in a whisper, in song, in broken English— until she is heard.

978-1-984-87861-8 | $26.00 | 75,000 | Pamela Dorman Books | HC | February 978-0-735-23843-5 | $24.95C | Viking Canada | TR

978-1-524-74602-5 | $26.00/$35.00C | 50,000 | Dutton | HC | February e 978-1-524-74608-7 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16873-8 WOMEN’S FICTION / CULTURAL HERITAGE

Social: T: @AbiDare_Author; IG: @AbiDare_Author RA: For fans of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Imbolo Mbue RI: Author lives in Essex, UK

e 978-1-984-87862-5 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16603-1 |

Social: T: @CPooleyWriter; IG: @Clare_Pooley RA: For readers of The Rosie Project and The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry RI: Author lives in London, UK

Brandon Taylor

REAL LIFE: A Novel

Rebecca Hodge

Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is working toward a biochem degree. His story unfolds over tension-filled dinner parties, frustrating lab sessions, and furtive sexual encounters, as a group of friends fall in and out of love, argue, manipulate, and try to understand each other.

WILDLAND: A Novel For fans of Jodi Picoult and Anita Shreve comes an exhilarating debut novel of one woman’s courage in the face of catastrophe. 978-1-64385-292-8 | $26.99/$35.99C | 30,000 Crooked Lane Books | HC | February e 978-1-64385-313-0 WOMEN’S FICTION

Social: T: @RHodgeFiction; IG: @RHodge.Fiction; Facebook.com/RebeccaHodgeFiction RA: For readers of The River at Night, Fierce Kingdom, and Burning Ridge RI: Author lives in Raleigh, NC

978-0-525-53888-2 | $26.00/$35.00C | 30,000 | Riverhead Books | HC | February e 978-0-525-53890-5 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16677-2 LITERARY / LGBT / AFRICAN AMERICAN

Social: T: @blgtylr RA: For readers of Call Me By Your Name RI: Author lives in Iowa City, IA and New York, NY

Andrew Hunter Murray

THE LAST DAY: A Novel

Russ Thomas

A visionary and powerful debut thriller set in a terrifyingly plausible dystopian near-future—with clear parallels to today’s headlines—in which the future of humanity lies in the hands of one woman, a scientist who has stumbled onto a secret that the government will go to any lengths to keep hidden.

FIREWATCHING A tautly paced and ambitious police procedural debut introducing Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler, a cold case reviewer who lands a high-profile murder investigation only to find the main suspect is the man he slept with the night before.

978-1-524-74581-3 | $27.00/$36.00C | 30,000 Dutton | HC | February e 978-1-524-74582-0 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16456-3

978-0-525-54202-5 | $26.00/$35.00C | 60,000 Putnam | HC | February e 978-0-525-54204-9 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16349-8

SCIENCE FICTION

Social: T: @AndrewHunterM; Facebook.com/AndrewHunterMurray RA: For readers of Blake Crouch, Margaret Atwood, and William Gibson RI: Author lives in London, UK

LP: 978-0-593-17182-0

WOMEN’S FICTION

MYSTERY & DETECTIVE

Social: T: @TheVoiceofRuss; RussThomasAuthor.com RA: For readers of Tana French and Louise Penny RI: Author lives in Sheffield, UK

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FIRST FICTION Kathleen West

Martin Dumont; Translated by John Cullen

MINOR DRAMAS & OTHER CATASTROPHES

SCHRÖDINGER’S DOG: A Novel

Class Mom meets Small Admissions in this wryly observed debut about the privileged bubble that is Liston Heights High—the micro-managing parents, the overworked teachers, and the students caught in the middle—and the fallout for each of them when that bubble finally bursts. 978-0-593-09840-0 | $26.00/$35.00C | 50,000 Berkley | HC | February e 978-0-593-09842-4 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16555-3 FAMILY LIFE / FRIENDSHIP

A striking first novel about the power of a father’s love for his son and the heartwrenching choices we have to make in the face of death. 978-1-63542-998-5 | $14.99/$19.99C | 20,000 Other Press | TR | March e 978-1-892746-29-0 FAMILY LIFE

RA: For readers of Hurry Down Sunshine and The Friend RI: Author lives in France

Rachel Harrison

Social: T: @KWestBooks RA: For readers of Liane Moriarty, Laurie Gelman, and Amy Poeppel RI: Author lives in Minneapolis, MN

THE RETURN

A dazzling debut novel that sweeps across eras and generations to tell the story of a mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing―and the conjuring of curses.

Girls meets The Shining in this haunting and contemporary novel about a group of friends who reunite one weekend after one of them has returned from a mysterious two-year disappearance. Tensions flare and it becomes impossible to deny that she is not the same girl who came back. But then who—or what—is she?

978-0-525-51148-9 | $27.00/$36.00C | 75,000 Random House | HC | March e 978-0-525-51149-6 | ] AD: 978-0-593-15442-7

978-0-593-09866-0 | $26.00/$35.00C | 50,000 Berkley | HC | March e 978-0-593-09868-4 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16565-2

Afia Atakora

CONJURE WOMEN: A Novel

HISTORICAL FICTION / AFRICAN AMERICAN

HORROR

Social: T: @AfiaAtakora RA: For readers of The Underground Railroad, Homegoing, Away, and The Island of Sea Women RI: Author lives in Avenel, NJ

Social: T: @RachFaceLogic; Rachel-Harrison.com RA: For readers of Megan Abbott and Mallory O’Meara RI: Author lives in Brooklyn, NY

Zack Jordan

Don Bentley

THE LAST HUMAN: A Novel

WITHOUT SANCTION:

The last human in the universe is on the run from a godlike intelligence in this rip-roaring debut space opera. A masterful play on perspective, intelligence, and free will, wrapped in a rollicking journey through a strange and crowded galaxy.

A Matt Drake Thriller

After surviving a clandestine operation that went tragically wrong, Matt Drake escaped Syria with his life, but little else. Now, to save the life of another, he must return to Syria and confront his biggest failure in a debut thriller series Lee Child calls “sensationally good.” 978-1-984-80511-9 | $27.00/$36.00C | 75,000 Berkley | HC | March e 978-1-984-80513-3 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16545-4 THRILLER / ESPIONAGE

Social: T: @BentleyDonB RA: For readers of Mark Greaney and Steve Berry RI: Author lives in Austin, TX

978-0-451-49981-3 | $27.00/$36.00C | 20,000 Del Rey | HC | March e 978-0-451-49983-7 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16787-8 SCIENCE FICTION / SPACE OPERA

Social: T: @USKillbotics RA: For fans of Becky Chambers, John Scalzi, James S. A. Corey, Peter Hamilton, Martha Wells, and Cory Doctorow RI: Author lives in Chicago, IL

Helen Monks Takhar

PRECIOUS YOU: A Novel

Emily Beyda

THE BODY DOUBLE: A Novel A dark, glittering debut novel, The Body Double is the suspenseful story of a young woman who is recruited by a stranger to give up her old life and identity to impersonate a reclusive Hollywood star. 978-0-385-54527-3 | $26.95/$35.95C | 75,000 Doubleday | HC | March e 978-0-385-54528-0 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16938-4 SUSPENSE

An obsessive power struggle between an editor and her millennial intern turns dangerous in this debut psychological thriller. 978-1-9848-5596-1 | $26.00/$35.00C | 25,000 Random House | HC | March e 978-1-9848-5597-8 | ] AD: 978-0-593-15598-1 THRILLER /PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE

Social: T: @HelenMTakhar; HelenMonksTakhar.co.uk RA: For readers of Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll, You by Caroline Kepnes, The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine, or The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen RI: Author lives in London, UK

Social: IG: @EmilyBeyda RA: For readers of Social Creature by Tara Isabella Burton and Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng RI: Author lives in Los Angeles, CA

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FIRST FICTION Kevin Nguyen

Frances Cha

NEW WAVES: A Novel

IF I HAD YOUR FACE: A Novel

Set in the New York City tech world, a wry and edgy debut novel about a heist gone wrong, a secret online life exposed, and a young man’s search for true connection.

A riveting debut novel set in contemporary Seoul, Korea, about four young women making their way in a world defined by impossibly high standards of beauty, secret room salons catering to wealthy men, strict social hierarchies, and K-pop fan mania.

978-1-9848-5523-7 | $27.00/$36.00C | 30,000 One World | HC | March e 978-1-9848-5524-4 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16467-9 HUMOROUS FICTION / SATIRE

Social: T: @KNguyen; IG: @KNguyen RA: For fans of Tony Tulathimutte’s Private Citizens, Robin Sloan’s Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza’s The Knockoff, and Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story RI: Author lives in Brooklyn, NY

Maria Reva

978-0-593-12946-3 | $27.00 | 40,000 Ballantine Books | HC | April 978-0-385-69426-1 | $29.95C | Bond Street Books e 978-0-593-12947-0 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16738-0 LITERARY FICTION / WOMEN’S FICTION

Social: T: @Frances_H_Cha; FrancesCha.com RA: For readers of You Think It, I’ll Say It, The Girls, Sweetbitter, The Leavers, and Normal People RI: Author lives in New York, NY

GOOD CITIZENS NEED NOT FEAR: Stories

Brooke Fossey

A brilliant and bitingly funny collection of stories united around a single crumbling apartment building in Ukraine that heralds the arrival of a major new talent.

Eighty-eight-year-old Duffy Sinclair wants the last leg of his bachelor life to be strictly predictable, until his roommate’s granddaughter clambers through their bedroom window with her bare feet and a black eye. He soon finds himself risking everything he has left to save his newfound family.

THE BIG FINISH

978-0-385-54529-7 | $25.95 | 25,000 | Doubleday HC | March 978-0-7352-7842-4 | $29.95C | Knopf Canada e 978-0-385-54530-3 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16950-6 SHORT STORIES

Social: T: @_MariaReva RA: For fans of George Saunders, Lorrie Moore, and Helen Ellis RI: Author lives in Austin, TX

978-1-984-80493-8 | $26.00/$35.00C | 50,000 Berkley | HC | April e 978-1-984-80495-2 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16557-7 WOMEN’S FICTION / FRIENDSHIP

Stephanie Wrobel

DARLING ROSE GOLD

Social: T: @BAFossey; Facebook.com/BAFossey RA: For readers of A Man Called Ove and Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand RI: Author lives in Dallas, TX

This compulsive, sharply-drawn thriller peels back the layers of the most complicated of mother-daughter relationships. For the first eighteen years of her life, Rose Gold Watts believed she was seriously ill but it turns out her mom, Patty Watts, was just a really good liar. Unfortunately for Patty, Rose Gold is no longer her weak little darling.

Beth Morrey

THE LOVE STORY OF MISSY CARMICHAEL A life-affirming, deeply moving “coming-of-old” story, a celebration of how ordinary days are made extraordinary through friendship, family, and the power of forgiving yourself—at any age. The last thing Missy expects is for two perfect strangers and one spirited dog to break through her prickly exterior.

978-0-593-10006-6 | $26.00 | 100,000 | Berkley | HC | March e 978-0-593-10009-7 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16543-0 PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER

Social: T: @StephWrobel; IG: @StephanieWrobel RA: For readers of Gillian Flynn, Leïla Slimani, and Jessica Knoll RI: Author lives in London, UK

978-0-525-54244-5 | $26.00/$35.00C | 75,000 | Putnam | HC | April

e 978-0-525-54246-9 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16347-4 |

LP: 978-0-593-17179-0

WOMEN’S FICTION

Ali Araghi

Social: T: @BethMorrey; BethMorrey.com RA: For fans of Gail Honeyman, Richard Roper, Rachel Joyce, and Elizabeth Berg RI: Author lives in London, UK

THE IMMORTALS OF TEHRAN

Emily Neuberger

This sweeping multi-generational debut tells the story of a centuries-old curse carrying one family to the brink of the 1979 Iranian revolution—and announces the arrival of a bold new literary talent.

A TENDER THING Pulsing with the vitality and drive of 1950s New York, this enthralling debut immerses readers right into the heart of Broadway’s Golden Age, a time in which the music soared and the world was on the brink of gender, racial, and political change.

978-1-61219-818-7 | $27.99/$35.99C | 50,000 Melville House | HC | April e 978-1-61219-819-4 HISTORICAL FICTION

RA: For fans of Pachinko and Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing RI: Author lives in St. Louis, MO

978-0-593-08487-8 | $26.00/$35.00C | 35,000 Putnam | HC | April e 978-0-593-08488-5 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16353-5 HISTORICAL FICTION / COMING OF AGE

Social: T: @EmilyGNeuberger; IG: @EmilyGNeuberger RA: For readers of Fiona Davis and Melanie Benjamin RI: Author lives in Brooklyn, NY 4

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FIRST FICTION Stephanie Scott

Carole Stivers

WHAT’S LEFT OF ME IS YOURS: A Novel

THE MOTHER CODE With film rights already optioned by Stephen Spielberg, this mind-bending novel, has a science-based, real-world premise combined with the pageturning quality of a thriller. It explores what it means to be a mother in a world that is more chilling and precarious than ever. It is 2049. When a U.S. attempt at stealth biowarfare goes awry, a team of scientists is engaged to ensure human survival on earth.

A gripping debut set in modern-day Tokyo and inspired by a true crime— What’s Left of Me Is Yours charts a young woman’s search for the truth about her mother’s death and the lengths to which a family will go in order to keep safe what they hold most dear, whether or not that is one another. 978-0-385-54470-2 | $26.95/$35.95C | 60,000 | Doubleday | HC | April e 978-0-385-54471-9 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16926-1

978-1-984-80694-9 | $26.00/$35.00C | 75,000 | Berkley | HC | May e 978-1-984-80694-9 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16563-8

LITERARY FICTION

Social: T: @StephanieWScott; IG: @StephanieWScott RA: For fans of Celeste Ng, Tayari Jones, and Liane Moriarty RI Author lives in London, UK

THRILLER / SUSPENSE / SCIENCE FICTION

RA: For readers of James Rollins, Margaret Atwood, and Andy Weir RI: Author lives in Northern California

C Pam Zhang

HOW MUCH OF THESE HILLS IS GOLD

Shubhangi Swarup

LATITUDES OF LONGING:

This is a masterful retelling of the history of the American West. Both epic and intimate, blending Chinese symbolism with fiercely original language and storytelling, it is a haunting adventure story, an unforgettable sibling story, and the announcement of a stunning new voice in literature.

A Novel

A sweeping, lyrical debut about the love and longing between humanity and the earth itself, by a major new literary talent from India. 978-0-593-13255-5 | $27.00/$36.00C | 30,000 One World | HC | May e 978-0-593-13257-9 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16469-3

978-0-525-53720-5 | $26.00/$35.00C | 50,000 Riverhead Books | HC | April

LITERARY FICTION / MAGICAL REALISM

e 978-0-525-53722-9 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16695-6 |

Social: T: @ShubhangiSapien; IG: @SwarupShubhangi RA: For fans of literary epics like Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun, and the works of Arundhati Roy RI: Author lives in Mumbai, India

LP: 978-0-593-17184-4

LITERARY FICTION / COMING OF AGE

Social: T: @CPamZhang; IG: @faeoreh; CPamZhang.com RA: For readers of Tommy Orange and Ocean Vuong RI: Author lives in San Francisco, CA

Harriet Walker

Francesca Momplaisir

THE NEW GIRL: A Novel

MY MOTHER’S HOUSE: A Novel

How far would someone go to replace you? A new mother on maternity leave grows increasingly paranoid about her ambitious young temp in this Hitchcockian debut from the fashion editor at The Times (UK).

A literary thriller about the complex underbelly of the immigrant American dream and the dangerous ripple effect one person’s damages can have on the lives of others—told unexpectedly by a house that has held unspeakable horrors.

978-1-9848-1997-0 | $17.00/$23.00C | 100,000 Ballantine Books | TR | May e 978-1-9848-1998-7 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16746-5

978-0-525-65715-6 | $26.95/$35.95C | 30,000 | Knopf HC | May e 978-0-525-65716-3

WOMEN’S FICTION / FRIENDSHIP

THRILLER / HORROR

Social: T: @HarryWalker1; IG: @_HarryWalker1 RA: For fans of novels that center on the pitfalls of female friendship, like those of Liane Moriarty RI: Author lives in South London, UK

RA: For fans of Kate Atkinson, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Edwidge Danticat, and Tana French RI: Author lives in New York, NY

Francesca Serritella

Inès Bayard; Translated by Adriana Hunter

GHOSTS OF HARVARD:

THIS LITTLE FAMILY: A Novel

In this page-turning and affecting debut, a Harvard freshman becomes obsessed with her schizophrenic brother’s suicide. Then she starts hearing voices.

This astonishing debut inhabits the mind of a young married woman driven to extremes by disgust and dread in the aftermath of a rape.

978-0-525-51036-9 | $27.00/$36.00C | 75,000 Random House | HC | May e 978-0-525-51037-6 | ] AD: 978-0-593-15464-9 LP: 978-0-593-21402-2 THRILLER / SUSPENSE / LITERARY FICTION

Social: T: @FSerritella; Facebook.com/FrancescaSerritellaAuthor RA: For fans of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, Marisha Pessl’s Special Topics in Calamity Physics, and the novels of Sarah Waters RI: Author lives in New York, NY

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A Novel

978-1-892746-87-0 | $15.99/$21.99C | 40,000 Other Press | TR | June e 978-1-892746-67-2 PSYCHOLOGICAL FICTION

RA: For fans of Quicksand and The Perfect Nanny RI: Author lives in Berlin, Germany

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FIRST FICTION Pauline Delabroy-Allard Translated by Adriana Hunter

Megha Majumdar

HER NAME WAS SARAH:

A brilliant debut novel that heralds the arrival of a dazzling new voice in contemporary fiction flawlessly combining commercial pacing with an unforgettable narrative about three characters whose fates become entwined in the wake of a terrorist bombing in contemporary India.

A BURNING: A Novel

A Novel

A literary sensation in France, this poetic, thrilling debut charts the all-consuming passion between two women and the ruin it leaves in its wake. 978-1-63542-985-5 | $15.99/$21.99C | 30,000 Other Press | TR | June e 978-1-63542-986-2

978-0-525-65869-6 | $24.95 | 100,000 | Knopf HC | June

LGBT FICTION

978-0-7710-5987-2 | $21.00C | McClelland & Stewart | TR

RA: For readers of Never Anyone But You and Last Words from Montmartre RI: Author lives in Paris, France

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Margaux DeRoux

RA: For fans of Yaa Gyasi, Tommy Orange, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie RI: Author lives in Brooklyn, NY

LP: 978-0-593-21476-3

LITERARY FICTION

THE LOST DIARY OF VENICE: A Novel

Connie Schultz

Hidden desires and long-held secrets, the sacrifices people make for family and to realize their dreams, are at the heart of this powerful first novel about working class people in a small town. By the popular Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.

978-1-9848-1948-2 | $28.00/$37.00C | 25,000 Ballantine Books | HC | June e 978-1-9848-1949-9 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16722-9 HISTORICAL FICTION / RENAISSANCE

978-0-525-47935-2 | $28.00/$37.00C | 40,000 Random House | HC | June e 978-0-525-47949-9 | ] AD: 978-0-593-20991-2 LP: 978-0-593-21511-1

RA: For fans of Jojo Moyes, Fiona Davis, Allison Pataki, and Kate Quinn RI: Author lives in San Francisco, CA

Jean Kyoung Frazier

LITERARY FICTION / WOMEN’S FICTION

PIZZA GIRL: A Novel In the tradition of audacious and wryly funny novels like The Idiot and Convenience Store Woman comes the wildly original coming-of-age story of a pregnant pizza delivery girl who becomes obsessed with one of her customers.

Social: T: @ConnieSchultz; IG: @Schultz_Connie RA: For readers of Elizabeth Gilbert, Anne Tyler, and Anna Quindlen RI: Author lives in Avon, OH

Kate Stayman-London

ONE TO WATCH: A Novel A plus-size fashion blogger on a Bachelorette-esque reality show takes on suspiciously sexy suitors, ratingsobsessed producers, and society’s expectations about who deserves a happy ending in this razor-sharp debut romantic comedy.

978-0-385-54572-3 | $24.95/$33.95C | 35,000 Doubleday | HC | June e 978-0-385-54573-0 | ] AD: 978-0-593-21265-3 LITERARY FICTION

RA: For readers of Chemistry by Weike Wang and My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh RI: Author lives in New York, NY

978-0-525-51044-4 | $17.00/$23.00C | 75,000 Dial Press Trade Paperback | TR | June e 978-0-525-51043-7 | ] AD: 978-0-593-21013-0

Sanaë Lemoine

THE MARGOT AFFAIR: A Novel

The secret daughter of a French politician and a famous actress drops a bombshell revelation that shatters her family, in this intimate and beguiling debut of intrigue and betrayal from a searing new voice in literary fiction. 978-1-9848-5443-8 | $27.00/$36.00C | 30,000 Hogarth | HC | June e 978-1-9848-5444-5 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-9100-6 WOMEN’S FICTION / FAMILY LIFE

Social: T: @SanaeLemoine; IG: @SanaeLemoine RA: For fans of Elena Ferrante, Emma Straub, Celeste Ng, Susan Choi, and Sally Rooney RI: Author lives in Brooklyn, NY

Social: T: @_KSL; KateStaymanLondon.com RA: For readers of Red, White & Royal Blue, The Wedding Date, The Royal We, and writers like Rebecca Serle, Rainbow Rowell, and Josie Silver RI: Author lives in Los Angeles, CA

Kali White

THE MONSTERS WE MAKE: A Novel

For fans of Rene Denfeld and Shari Lapena comes a rich, atmospheric family drama set in the 1980’s following the disappearances of two paperboys from a small Midwestern town. 978-1-64385-388-8 | $26.99/$35.99C | 30,000 Crooked Lane Books | HC | June e 978-1-64385-389-5 DOMESTIC THRILLER

RA: For readers of Ink and Bone, Pretty Girls Dancing, and A Good Enough Mother RI: Author lives in Bondurant, IA

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THE DAUGHTERS OF ERIETOWN: A Novel

Two impossible love stories are fatefully connected by one artist’s mysterious diary in a stunning debut that leaps between the mysteries of late Ren aissance Venice and the dramas of present-day Connecticut.

BOOK CLUB Kimmery Martin

Ariel Lawhon

THE ANTIDOTE FOR EVERYTHING

CODE NAME HÉLÈNE: A Novel Based on the thrilling real-life story of socialite spy Nancy Wake, comes the newest feat of historical fiction from the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia, featuring the astonishing woman who killed a Nazi with her bare hands and went on to become one of the most decorated women in WWII.

Social: T: @KimmeryM; KimmeryMartin.com RA: For readers of Liane Moriarty and fans of medical fiction RI: Author lives in Charlotte, NC

Allison Pataki

978-0-385-54468-9 | $27.95/$36.95C | 75,000 Doubleday | HC | April

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HISTORICAL FICTION / WWII

THE QUEEN’S FORTUNE:

Social: T: @ArielLawhon; IG: @ArielLawhon; Facebook.com/ArielLawhonAuthor RA: For readers of The Alice Network, The Huntress, and We Were the Lucky Ones RI: Author lives in Nashville, TN

A sweeping, riveting novel about the extraordinary woman who captured Napoleon’s heart, created a dynasty, and changed the course of history—from the multiple New York Times bestselling author of The Traitor’s Wife and Sisi.

Jeni McFarland

A Novel of Desiree, Napoleon, and the Dynasty That Outlasted the Empire

978-0-593-12818-3 | $28.00/$37.00C | 40,000 Ballantine Books | HC | February E 978-0-593-12819-0 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16720-5 HISTORICAL FICTION

Social: T: @AllisonPataki; IG: @AllisonPataki; Facebook.com/AllisonPatakiPage; AllisonPataki.com RA: For readers for Martha Hall Kelly and Phillipa Gregory RI: Author lives in Hudson River Valley, NY

Chris Bohjalian

THE RED LOTUS: A Novel

THE HOUSE OF DEEP WATER A perceptive and moving literary debut novel about three women who return home only to find their good intentions becoming tangled with their histories. 978-0-525-54235-3 | $26.00/$35.00C | 35,000 Putnam | HC | April E 978-0-525-54237-7 ] AD: 978-0-593-16367-2 WOMEN’S FICTION / COMING OF AGE

Social: T: @Jeni_McFarland; JeniMcFarland.com RA: For readers of Elizabeth Strout and Jacqueline Woodson RI: Author lives in San Francisco, CA

Ellen Marie Wiseman

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant comes a twisting story of love and deceit: an American man vanishes on a rural road in Vietnam, and his girlfriend, an emergency room doctor trained to ask questions, follows a path that leads her home to the very hospital where they met. Doubleday | HC | March

COAL RIVER In this vibrant historical novel, the acclaimed author of The Plum Tree and What She Left Behind explores one young woman’s determination to put an end to child labor in a Pennsylvania mining town. 978-1-4967-3001-5 | $16.95/$22.95C | 35,000 Kensington | TR | April E 978-1-61773-448-9

978-0-385-54480-1 | $27.95/$36.95C | 125,000

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Social: T: @EllenMarieWise; EllenMarieWiseman.com RA: For readers of The Life She Was Given and The Orphan Train RI: Author lives in Three Mile Bay, NY

THRILLER

Social: T: @ChrisBohjalian; IG: @ChrisBohjalian; Facebook.com/ChrisBohjalian RA: For fans of Elizabeth Strout, Liane Moriarty, Jodi Picoult, and Kristin Hannah RI: Author lives in Burlington, VT

Terry McMillan

IT’S NOT ALL DOWNHILL FROM HERE: A Novel After a sudden change of plans, a remarkable woman and her loyal group of friends try to figure out what she’s going to do with the rest of her life—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale. 978-1-9848-2374-8 | $28.00/$37.00C | 100,000 Ballantine Books | HC | March E 978-1-9848-2376-2 | ] AD: 978-0-593-14816-7 | ] CD: 978-0-593-14813-6

Francine Mathews

DEATH ON TUCKERNUCK A hurricane ravages New England, and bodies and secrets are piling up on a secluded island off Nantucket. It would be just another case for Detective Folger, except her long-anticipated wedding is in three days. 978-1-61695-993-7 | $27.95/$35.95C | 50,000 Soho Crime | HC | May E 978-1-61695-994-4 MYSTERY & DETECTIVE

RA: For readers of The Bishop’s Wife and Glass Houses by Louise Penny RI: Author lives in Denver, CO

LP: 978-0-593-15344-4 WOMEN’S FICTION / AFRICAN AMERICAN

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Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl

RAD AMERICAN HISTORY A-Z: Movements and Moments

MAKING OUR WAY HOME: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream

That Demonstrate the Power of the People

A powerful illustrated history of the Great Migration and its sweeping impact on Black and American culture, from Reconstruction to the rise of hip hop.

From the New York Times bestselling team behind Rad American Women A-Z comes an illustrated collection of radical and transformative political, social, and cultural movements in American history.

978-1-9848-5692-0 | $18.99/$24.99C | 25,000

Ten Speed Press | HC | January E 978-1-9848-5693-7

978-1-9848-5683-8 | $19.99/$25.99C | 30,000 | Ten Speed Press | HC | March E 978-1-9848-5684-5

HISTORY / AFRICAN AMERICAN

U.S. HISTORY / BIOGRAPHY

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James Rallison

Kevin Hearne

THE ODD 1S OUT:

A BLIGHT OF BLACKWINGS

The First Sequel

From the New York Times bestselling creator of The Iron Druid Chronicles comes the sequel to A Plague of Giants, the story of a world-breaking war—an invasion of giant warriors—that inspires a movement to fight back.

The sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Odd 1s Out, with all new and never-before-seen content featuring opinions, stories, and signature characters from YouTube phenomenon James Rallison.

978-0-345-54857-3 | $28.99/$38.99C | 25,000 Del Rey | HC | February E 978-0-345-54858-0 ] AD: 978-0-8041-2885-8

978-0-593-08763-3 | $17.00/$23.00C | 175,000 TarcherPerigee | TR | April E 978-0-593-08764-0 ] AD: 978-0-593-16910-0

EPIC FANTASY / PARANORMAL

HUMOR

Social: T: @KevinHearne; IG: @KevinHearne; KevinHearne.com RA: For readers of Peter V. Brett and Scott Lynch RI: Author lives in Ontario, Canada

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Dan Vyleta

Jason Fry

SOOT: A Novel

MINECRAFT: THE VOYAGE

The electrifying sequel to the national bestseller Smoke—bringing back readers to a world that Entertainment Weekly called “Part Dickens, part dystopia, and totally immersive.”

LP: 978-0-593-17176-9 FANTASY

Social: T: @DanVyleta RA: For readers of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell by Susanna Clarke RI: Author lives in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK

978-0-399-18075-0 | $17.99/$23.99C | 75,000 Del Rey | HC | May E 978-0-399-18076-7 ] AD: 978-0-525-58806-1

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978-0-385-54022-3 | $28.95 | 40,000 | Doubleday HC | February E 978-0-385-54023-0 | ] AD: 978-0-7352-0681-6

The fifth official Minecraft novel from Mojang and Del Rey.

JUVENILE FICTION / ACTION & ADVENTURE

RA: For Minecraft video game players RI: Author lives in Brooklyn, NY

Barry Schechter

Quan Barry

USELESS MIRACLE

WE RIDE UPON STICKS:

A classic, smart comedy from a modernday Evelyn Waugh, about a meek college professor who achieves one of mankind’s most fervent wishes: the ability to fly.

A Novel

From the author of the widely acclaimed She Weeps Each Time You’re Born comes a new novel, at once comic and moving. Set in the coastal town of Danvers, Massachusetts (which in 1692 was Salem Village, site of the origins of the Salem Witch Trials), it follows the Danvers High field hockey team as they discover that the dark impulses of their Salem forebears may be the key to a winning season.

978-1-61219-791-3 | $16.99/$21.99C | 20,000 Melville House | TR | June E 978-1-61219-817-0 HUMOROUS FICTION

RA: For readers of The Weirdness and Spoonbenders RI: Author lives in Chicago, IL

978-1-5247-4809-8 | $26.95/$35.95C | 40,000 | Pantheon | HC | March E 978-1-5247-4810-4 | ] AD: 978-0-593-17032-8 LITERARY FICTION

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Elizabeth Little

RECIPE FOR A PERFECT WIFE: A Novel

PRETTY AS A PICTURE:

In this captivating dual narrative novel, a modern-day woman finds inspiration in hidden notes left by her home’s previous owner, a quintessential 1950s housewife. As she discovers remarkable parallels between this woman’s life and her own, it causes her to question what it means to be a wife fighting for her place in a patriarchal society.

An egomaniacal movie director, an isolated island, and a decades-old murder—the addictive new novel from the bestselling author of Dear Daughter. A wickedly funny exploration of our cultural addiction to tales of murder and mayhem and a thrilling, behind-thescenes whodunit.

978-1-524-74493-9 | $26.00 | 50,000 | Dutton | HC | January 978-0-735-23624-0 | $24.95C | Viking Canada | TR E 978-1-524-74494-6 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16453-2 WOMEN’S FICTION

Social: T: @KarmaKBrown; IG: @KarmaKBrown; KarmaKBrown.com RA: For readers of Fiona Davis and Beatriz Williams RI: Author lives in Toronto, Canada

Clare Beams

THE ILLNESS LESSON: A Novel

This searing novel, set at an all-girl school in 19th century Massachusetts, probes the timeless question: who gets to control a woman’s body and why.

A Novel

978-0-670-01639-6 | $27.00/$36.00C | 50,000 | Viking | HC | February

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MYSTERY & DETECTIVE

Social: T: @ElizabethLittle; Elizabeth-Little.com RA: For readers of Ruth Ware and Laura Lippman RI: Author lives in Los Angeles, CA

Kerri Maher

THE GIRL IN WHITE GLOVES: A Novel of Grace Kelly A vivid reimagining of the exhilarating and sensationalized life of Princess Grace of Monaco from the acclaimed author of The Kennedy Debutante. A Hollywood darling, a fairy-tale princess, and a wife starved for autonomy, Grace Kelly is a woman divided. 978-0-451-49207-4 | $26.00/$35.00C | 50,000 Berkley | HC | February

978-0-385-54466-5 | $26.95/$35.95C | 50,000 Doubleday | HC | February E 978-0-385-54467-2 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16952-0

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WOMEN’S FICTION

RA: For readers of Sarah Waters and Women Talking by Miriam Toews RI: Author lives in Pittsburgh, PA

HISTORICAL FICTION

Social: KerriMaher.com RA: For readers of Paula McLain and Allison Pataki RI: Author lives in Boston, MA

Colum McCann

Michael Christie

APEIROGON: A Novel

GREENWOOD: A Novel

From the National Book Award–winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an epic novel rooted in the real-life friendship between two men united by loss.

A magnificent generational saga that charts a family’s rise and fall, its secrets and inherited crimes, and the conflicted relationship with the source of its fortune—trees—from one of Canada’s most acclaimed novelists. 978-1-9848-2200-0 | $28.00 | 30,000 | Hogarth HC | February 978-0-771-02445-0 | $35.00C | McClelland & Stewart E 978-1-9848-2202-4 | ] AD: 978-0-593-15029-0 LITERARY FICTION / FAMILY LIFE

Social: MichaelChristie.net RA: For fans of Barbara Kingsolver, David Mitchell, and Colum McCann, and sweeping generational fiction such as Homegoing RI: Author lives in Galiano Island, British Columbia

978-1-4000-6960-6 | $28.00 | 100,000 Random House | HC | February E 978-0-679-60460-0 | ] AD: 978-0-307-87807-6 ] CD: 978-0-307-87804-5 LP: 978-0-593-20781-9 LITERARY FICTION / HISTORICAL FICTION

Social: Facebook.com/ColumMcCannAuthor; ColumMcCann.com RA: For fans of ambitious literary fiction such as A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz, Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, or Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald RI: Author lives in New York, NY

Graham Moore

Gish Jen

THE HOLDOUT: A Novel

THE RESISTERS: A Novel “The Resisters is palpably loving, smart, funny, and desperately unsettling. The novel should be required reading for the country both as a cautionary tale and because it is a stone-cold masterpiece. This is Gish Jen’s moment. She has pitched a perfect game.” –Ann Patchett 978-0-525-65721-7 | $26.95/$35.95C | 30,000 Knopf | HC | February E 978-1-9848-9822-7 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16992-6

From the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and bestselling author of The Last Days of Night: a jury on a murder trial is deadlocked when a young woman manages to turn the tide to acquit; now, a decade later, she must face the consequences when a fellow juror is killed and she is the prime suspect. 978-0-399-59177-8 | $28.00/$37.00C | 100,000 Random House | HC | February E 978-0-399-59178-5 | ] AD: 978-0-593-15456-4

DYSTOPIAN

Social: T: @GishJen; Facebook.com/GishJen RA: For readers of post-apocalyptic fiction, such as 1984 and the works of Phillip K. Dick RI: Author lives in Cambridge, MA

LEGAL THRILLER / CRIME THRILLER

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FICTION Jenny Offill

Max Barry

WEATHER: A Novel

PROVIDENCE

From the author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation—one of the New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of the Year—a shimmering tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis.

A dazzling, inventive, and thought-provoking new novel from the ingenious author of Jennifer Government and Lexicon. Confined for years to a space ship in humanity’s war against an alien race, four astronauts are each holding secrets as they learn about threats beyond the reach of their ingenuity.

978-0-385-35110-2 | $23.95/$31.95C | 50,000 | Knopf HC | February E 978-0-385-35111-9 | ] AD: 978-0-525-64264-0 LITERARY FICTION

RA: For fans of Lorrie Moore, Mary Gaitskill, and Jennifer Egan RI: Author lives in Red Hook, NY

978-0-593-08517-2 | $27.00/$36.00C | 75,000 | Putnam | HC | March E 978-0-593-08518-9 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16351-1 SCIENCE FICTION

Hannah Rothschild

Social: MaxBarry.com RA: For reader of Blake Crouch and Ernest Cline RI: Author lives in Melbourne, Australia

HOUSE OF TRELAWNEY: A Novel

Marc Cameron

From the author of the LibraryReads pick The Improbability of Love: a dazzling novel both satirical and moving, about an eccentric, dysfunctional family of English aristocrats, and their crumbling stately home that reminds us how the lives and hopes of women can still be shaped by the ties of family and love.

STONE CROSS The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, former U.S. Marshall, Alaskan resident, and the author of the latest Tom Clancy Jack Ryan novels, thrills readers with the second installment in his acclaimed Arliss Cutter series.

978-0-525-65491-9 | $27.95/$36.95C | 40,000 Knopf | HC | February E 978-0-525-65492-6

978-1-4967-2732-9 | $26.00/$35.00C | 50,000 Kensington | HC | March E 978-1-4967-2733-6

LITERARY FICTION

RA: For fans of Downton Abbey and other British dramas RI: Author lives in London, UK

MYSTERY & DETECTIVE

RA: For fans of C. J. Box and readers of Don’t Believe It RI: Author lives in Anchorage, AK

Simone St. James

THE SUN DOWN MOTEL

Amy Engel

The secrets lurking in a rundown roadside motel ensnare a young woman, just as they did her aunt thirty-five years before, in this new atmospheric suspense novel from the USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls.

THE FAMILIAR DARK: A Novel Set in the poorest part of the Missouri Ozarks, in a small-town with big secrets, a mother with nothing left to lose who sets out on an all-consuming quest for justice after her daughter is murdered on the town playground. Her quest for justice takes her from the dark underbelly of town, to the woods, and most frighteningly, back to her mother’s trailer, for a final lesson.

978-0-440-00017-4 | $26.00/$35.00C | 75,000 Berkley | HC | February E 978-0-440-00018-1 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16579-9 SUPERNATURAL THRILLER

Social: T: @Simone_StJames; Facebook.com/SimoneStJames; SimoneStJames.com RA: For fans of Riley Sager and Jennifer McMahon RI: Author lives in Toronto, Canada

Marian Womack

THE GOLDEN KEY An extraordinary, page-turning Gothic mystery set in the wilds of the Norfolk Fens from the BSFA-shortlisted author. 978-1-78909-325-4 | $14.95/$19.95C | 50,000 Titan Books | TR | February E 978-1-78909-326-1 FANTASY

Social: T: @BeekeeperMadrid IG: @BeekeeperMadrid RA: For readers of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell and Encounters of Sherlock Holmes RI: Author lives in the UK

978-1-524-74595-0 | $26.00/$35.00C | 50,000 | Dutton | HC | March

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THRILLER / SUSPENSE

Social: T: @AEngelWrites; AmyEngel.net RA: For fans of Dennis Lehane and Jane Harper RI: Author lives in Missouri

Alma Katsu

THE DEEP From the award-winning author of The Hunger comes an eerie, psychological twist on the sinking of the Titanic and the ill-fated sail of its sister ship, the Britannic. Featuring an ensemble cast of characters and effortlessly combining the supernatural with the height of historical disaster. 978-0-525-53790-8 | $27.00/$36.00C | 50,000 Putnam | HC | March E 978-0-525-53791-5 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16408-2 HORROR

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Emily St. John Mandel

Cara Black

THE GLASS HOTEL: A Novel

THREE HOURS IN PARIS

From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events—a massive Ponzi scheme collapse and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea.

The first ever stand-alone from the New York Times bestselling author of the Aimée Leduc mysteries. History books agree that in June of 1940, after Paris had fallen to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Light. What has been lost to posterity is why he left in such a hurry—and why he never came back.

978-0-525-52114-3 | $26.95 | 200,000 | Knopf | HC March E 978-0-525-52115-0 | ] AD: 978-0-525-59670-7 LP: 978-0-593-17173-8

LITERARY FICTION

978-1-64129-041-8 | $27.95/$35.95C | 100,000 | Soho Crime | HC | April E 978-1-64129-042-5 HISTORICAL FICTION / MYSTERY

Social: T: @EmilyMandel; IG: @EmilyStJohnMandel; Facebook.com/EmilyStJohnMandel RA: For fans of Lauren Groff, Celeste Ng, Ian McEwan, and Colson Whitehead RI: Author lives in New York, NY

Social: T: @CaraBlack; Facebook.com/CaraBlackAuthor RA: For readers of A Hero of France, The Prisoner in the Castle, and The Huntress RI: Author lives in San Francisco, CA

James McBride

Janelle Brown

DEACON KING KONG: A Novel

PRETTY THINGS: A Novel

In September 1969, a cranky old church deacon shuffles into the courtyard of a housing project in south Brooklyn and shoots a drug dealer. McBride has written a novel every bit as involving as The Good Lord Bird and as emotionally honest as The Color of Water.

Two wildly different women―one a grifter, the other an heiress―are brought together by the scam of a lifetime in a page-turner from the New York Times bestselling author of Watch Me Disappear.

978-0-735-21672-3 | $28.00/$37.00C | 100,000 Riverhead Books | HC | March E 978-0-735-21674-7 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16699-4 ] CD: 978-0-593-16697-0

978-0-525-47912-3 | $28.00/$37.00C | 100,000 Random House | HC | April E 978-0-525-47913-0 | ] AD: 978-0-593-21001-7 ] CD: 978-0-593-20999-8 THRILLER / WOMEN’S FICTION

LP: 978-0-593-17183-7 LITERARY FICTION / AFRICAN AMERICAN

RA: For readers of Colson Whitehead and Edward P. Jones RI: Author lives in Lambertville, NJ

Social: T: @JanelleB; IG: JanelleBrownie; Facebook.com/JanelleBrownAuthor; JanelleBrown.com RA: For readers of A. J. Finn, Megan Miranda, Megan Abbott, Gillian Flynn, and Catherine Steadman, and fans of Big Little Lies RI: Author lives in Los Angeles, CA

Christina Dalcher

Scott Phillips

MASTER CLASS

THAT LEFT TURN AT ALBUQUERQUE

From the critically acclaimed author of Vox comes a suspenseful new novel that explores a disturbing alternate reality where the government has legalized eugenics and targets adolescents. Students who don’t measure up are placed in the many state boarding schools that have cropped up under a new government mandate—Elena’s daughter, Freddie, is one of them.

Part crime thriller, part ensemble farce, and a hardboiled valentine to the Golden State, That Left Turn at Albuquerque marks a return for noir master Scott Phillips. 978-1-64129-109-5 | $27.95/$35.95C | 60,000 Soho Crime | HC | March E 978-1-64129-110-1 CRIME FICTION

RA: For readers of August Snow and fans of Jonathan Letham RI: Author lives in St. Louis, MO

Josie Silver

978-0-440-00083-9 | $27.00/$36.00C | 50,000 | Berkley | HC | April E 978-0-440-00085-3 | ] AD: 978-0-525-64377-7 DYSTOPIAN THRILLER

Social: ChristinaDalcher.com RA: For readers of Dave Eggers and Naomi Alderman RI: Author lives in Norfolk, VA

THE TWO LIVES OF LYDIA BIRD: A Novel In this next captivating love story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December, a young woman is reunited with her late fiancé in a parallel life. But is this happy ending the one she really wants? 978-0-593-13523-5 | $26.00/$35.00C | 100,000 Ballantine Books | HC | March E 978-0-593-13524-2 | ] AD: 978-0-593-15164-8 LP: 978-0-593-21240-0

Amity Gaige

SEA WIFE: A Novel From the highly acclaimed author of Schroder, a smart, sophisticated literary page turner about a young family who escape suburbia for a year-long sailing trip that upends all of their lives. 978-0-525-65649-4 | $26.95/$35.95C | 40,000 Knopf | HC | April E 978-0-525-65650-0 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16962-9 LITERARY FICTION

ROMANTIC COMEDY

Social: T: @JosieSilver_; IG: JosieSilverAuthor; Facebook.com/JosieSilverAuthor; JosieSilver.com RA: For readers of One Day, The Light We Lost, The Kiss Quotient, and The Proposal RI: Author lives in Wolverhampton, UK

RA: For readers of Meg Wolitzer, Lionel Shriver, Kate Atkinson, Lauren Groff, and Jennifer Egan RI: Author lives in West Hartford, CT

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FICTION Grady Hendrix

Anne Tyler

THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB’S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES: A Novel

REDHEAD BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD: A Novel From the beloved and bestselling Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection.

Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this Southernflavored supernatural thriller set in the ‘90s about a women’s book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a real monster. 978-1-68369-143-3 | $21.99/$26.99C | 100,000 | Quirk Books | HC | April E 978-1-68369-144-0 HORROR

Social: T: @Grady_Hendrix; GradyHendrix.com RA: For horror fans RI: Author lives in New York, NY

Sue Monk Kidd

978-0-525-65841-2 | $25.95 | 200,000 | Knopf | HC April 978-0-385-69485-8 | $29.95C | Bond Street Books E 978-0-525-65842-9 | ] AD: 978-0-593-17075-5 ] CD: 978-0-593-17073-1 |

LP: 978-0-593-17159-2 LITERARY FICTION

SOCIAL: Facebook.com/AnneTylerAuthor; AnneTyler.com RA: For fans of Anna Quindlen, Elizabeth Berg, and Elizabeth Strout RI: Author lives in Baltimore, MD

Lisa Wingate

THE BOOK OF LOST FRIENDS: A Novel From the bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a new novel inspired by little-known historical events: a dramatic story of three young women on a journey in search of family amidst the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who rediscovers their story and its vital connection to her own students’ lives.

THE BOOK OF LONGINGS Grounded in meticulous historical research, The Book of Longings is an inspiring account of one woman’s bold struggle to realize the passion and potential inside her, while living in a time, place, and culture devised to silence her. 978-0-525-42976-0 | $28.00/$37.00C | 750,000 Viking | HC | April E 978-0-698-40819-7 | ] AD: 978-0-593-21284-4 WOMEN’S FICTION / HISTORICAL FICTION

Social: T:@SueMonkKidd; IG: @SueMonkKidd; SueMonkKidd.com RA: For readers of The Red Tent and Circe RI: Author lives in Southwest Florida

978-1-9848-1988-8 | $28.00/$37.00C | 500,000 Ballantine Books | HC | April E 978-1-9848-1989-5 | | ] AD: 978-0-593-21327-8 | ] CD: 978-0-593-21325-4 LP: 978-0-593-28641-8 HISTORICAL FICTION

Social: T: @LisaWingate; IG: @ Author_Lisa_Wingate; LisaWingate.com RA: For readers of Where the Crawdads Sing and The Nightingale. RI: Author lives in Sherman, TX

Ian McGuire

Max Brooks

THE ABSTAINER: A Novel

DEVOLUTION: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

An Irishman in nineteenth-century England is forced to take sides when his nephew joins the bloody underground movement for independence in this propulsive novel from the acclaimed author of The North Water.

The #1 bestselling author of World War Z takes on the Bigfoot legend with a tale that blurs the lines between human and beast—and asks what we are capable of in the face of the unimaginable.

978-0-593-13387-3 | $27.00/$36.00C | 75,000 Random House | HC | April E 978-0-593-13389-7 | ] AD: 978-0-593-20972-1

978-1-9848-2678-7 | $28.00/$37.00C | 300,000 Del Rey | HC | May E 978-1-9848-2679-4 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16808-0 LP: 978-0-593-28592-3

HISTORICAL FICTION / ACTION & ADVENTURE

RA: For readers of Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn and Michael Punke’s The Revenant RI: Author lives in Manchester, UK

Ottessa Moshfegh

DEATH IN HER HANDS: A Novel

Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon

From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home. A triumphant blend of horror, suspense, and pitch-black comedy.

MEMOIRS AND MISINFORMATION: A Novel A fearless and semi-autobiographical novel, a deconstruction of persona. In it, Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon have fashioned a story about acting, Hollywood, agents, celebrity, privilege, friendship, romance, and addiction to relevance. 978-0-525-65597-8 | $27.95 | 100,000 | Knopf | HC May 978-0-7352-8059-5 | $32.00C Random House Canada E 978-0-525-65598-5 | ] AD: 978-0-593-21663-7

978-1-984-87935-6 | $27.00/$36.00C | 75,000 Penguin Press | HC | April E 978-1-984-87936-3 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16538-6 LP: 978-0-593-17190-5 LITERARY FICTION / PSYCHOLOGICAL FICTION

RA: For readers of Han Kang and Rachel Kushner RI: Author lives in Los Angeles, CA

HORROR / SCIENCE FICTION / ACTION & ADVENTURE

Social: T: @MaxBrooksAuthor; MaxBrooks.com RA: For fans of The Martian and Annihilation RI: Author lives in Southern California

BIOGRAPHICAL FICTION / HUMOR

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Nancy Thayer

BREATHING THROUGH THE WOUND: A Novel From the acclaimed author of A Million Drops, an engrossing psychological thriller that traces a widower’s descent into the seedy underbelly of Madrid.

From a star-crossed match to an unexpected love triangle, summer on Nantucket always holds the promise of romance in this sensational novel from New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer.

978-1-59051-843-4 | $19.99/$25.99C | 30,000 Other Press | TR | May E 978-1-59051-844-1

978-1-524-79875-8 | $27.00/$36.00C | 50,000 Ballantine Books | HC | May E 978-1-524-79876-5

GIRLS OF SUMMER: A Novel

WOMEN’S FICTION / ROMANCE

PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER

RA: For readers of The Secret in Their Eyes and Death Rites RI: Author lives in Barcelona, Spain

Lauran Hankin

Social: IG: @NancyThayerBooks; Facebook.com/NancyThayerBooks; NancyThayer. com RA: Fans of Mary Kay Andrews, Jane Green, Elin Hilderbrand, and Dorothea Benton Frank RI: Author lives in Nantucket, MA

Lawrence Wright

A dark, witty page-turner set around a group of wealthy mothers and the young musician who takes a job singing to their babies and finds herself pulled into their glamorous lives and dangerous secrets. 978-1-984-80623-9 | $26.00/$35.00C | 50,000 Berkley | HC | May E 978-1-984-80625-3 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16561-4 WOMEN’S FICTION / FAMILY LIFE

Social: T: @LauraHankin; YouTube: @Feminarchy; LauraHankin.com RA: For readers of I Don’t Know How She Does It and When Life Gives You Lululemons RI: Author lives in New York, NY

Jennifer Steil

EXILE MUSIC: A Novel

THE END OF OCTOBER: A Novel

In this propulsive medical thriller—from the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author—Dr. Henry Parsons, an unlikely but appealing hero, races to find the origins and cure of a mysterious new killer virus as it brings the world to its knees. 978-0-525-65865-8 | $28.95/$38.95C | 60,000 Knopf | HC | May

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Social: T: @Lawrence_Wright; LawrenceWright.com RA: For fans of Robin Cook and Michael Crichton RI: Author lives in Austin, TX

An atmospheric and meditative novel based on an unexplored slice of history, following a young Jewish girl whose family flees refined and urbane Vienna for safe harbor in the mountains of Bolivia. Inspired by true events, this is an absorbing look at a community of nearly 10,000 Austrian Jews—mostly artists and musicians—in the year leading up to World War II.

Sophie Mackintosh

BLUE TICKET: A Novel From the author of the Booker Prize longlisted novel The Water Cure, comes another mesmerizing, refracted vision of our society: In a world where women can’t have it all, is choice the biggest burden of all? 978-0-385-54563-1 | $26.95 | 50,000 | Doubleday HC | June 978-0-7352-3916-6 | $24.95C | Hamish Hamilton Canada | TR

978-0-525-56181-1 | $27.00/$36.00C | 75,000 | Viking | HC | May E 978-0-525-56182-8 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16652-9 HISTORICAL FICTION

Social: T: @JFSteil7 RA: For readers of The Lilac Girls and We Were the Lucky Ones RI: Author lives in London, UK

Emma Straub

ALL ADULTS HERE: A Novel A warm, funny, and keenly perceptive novel about the life cycle of one family— as the kids become parents, grandchildren become teenagers, and a matriarch confronts the legacy of her mistakes, from the New York Times bestselling author of Modern Lovers and The Vacationers. 978-1-594-63469-7 | $27.00/$36.00C | 150,000 Riverhead | HC | May E 978-0-698-40798-5 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16673-4 | ] CD: 978-0-593-16671-0 LP: 978-0-593-17180-6 FAMILY LIFE / WOMEN’S FICTION

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THRILLER

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DYSTOPIAN

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Imbolo Mbue

HOW BEAUTIFUL WE WERE: A Novel

From the celebrated author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers comes a sweeping novel about the collision of a small African village and a powerful American oil company—and a young woman’s willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people’s freedom.

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HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT

978-0-593-13242-5 | $28.00/$37.00C | 75,000 Random House | HC | June E 978-0-593-13243-2 | ] AD: 978-0-593-20996-7 | ] CD: 978-0-593-20995-0 LP: 978-0-593-21330-8 LITERARY FICTION / CULTURAL HERITAGE

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FICTION

NONFICTION

David Mitchell

Jennie Allen

UTOPIA AVENUE: A Novel

GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD:

Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

The hotly anticipated new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks.

The visionary behind the million-strong IF: Gathering challenges Christian women to transform their outlook and their lives.

Photo © Paul Stewart

978-0-8129-9743-9 | $28.00 | 100,000 Random House | HC | June 978-0-345-80981-0 | $32.00C | Knopf Canada E 978-0-8129-9744-6 | ] AD: 978-1-101-92323-8 ] CD: 978-1-101-92320-7

978-1-60142-964-3 | $23.99/$31.99C | 70,000 WaterBrook | HC | January E 978-1-60142-966-7 | ] AD: 978-0-593-17227-8

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RELIGION / PERSONAL GROWTH

LITERARY FICTION

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David Quantick

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Howard Bryant

FULL DISSIDENCE:

NIGHT TRAIN

Notes from an Uneven Playing Field

A woman wakes up, frightened and alone. The room shaking and jumping like it’s alive. The noise is terrifying. Where is she? Stumbling through a door, she realizes she is on a train carriage. A carriage full of the dead. A personal hell unfolding in an apocalyptic future.

A bold and impassioned meditation on injustice in our country that punctures the illusion of a postracial America and reveals it as a place where authoritarianism looms large. 978-0-8070-1955-9 | $24.95/$33.95C | 30,000 Beacon Press | HC | January E 978-0-8070-1966-5 | ] AD: 978-0-8070-9434-1

978-1-78565-859-4 | $14.95/$19.95C | 25,000 Titan Books | TR | June E 978-1-78565-860-0

SOCIAL SCIENCE / DISCRIMINATION

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HORROR

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Laura Huang

EDGE: Turning Adversity into Advantage

Ari Braverman

THE BALLAD OF BIG FEELING

Laura Huang shows that success is about gaining an edge: that elusive quality that gives you an upper hand and attracts attention and support. Some people seem to naturally have it. Now, Huang teaches the rest of us how to create our own from the challenges and biases we think hold us back, and turning them to work in our favor.

An unforgettable portrait of feminine individuality with a distinctly heartland flair, by an award-winning writer hailed by novelist Ben Marcus as “hilarious and insightful.” 978-1-61219-767-8 | $17.99/$21.99C | 40,000 Melville House | TR | July E 978-1-61219-768-5 HUMOROUS FICTION

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Lesley Kagen

EVERY NOW AND THEN:

978-0-525-54081-6 | $28.00/$37.00C | 100,000 | Portfolio | HC | January E 978-0-525-54082-3 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16490-7 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

Social: T: @LauraHuangLA RA: For readers of Susan Cain and Adam Grant RI: Author lives in Boston, MA

Steve Inskeep

IMPERFECT UNION: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War

A Novel

A heartfelt story about three young girls searching for adventure during the summer of 1960 from the New York Times bestselling author of Whistling in the Dark.

The riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America’s first great political couple.

978-1-64385-354-3 | $26.99/$35.99C | 30,000 Crooked Lane Books | HC | July E 978-1-64385-355-0 WOMEN’S FICTION

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978-047352-2435-3 | $32.00/$42.00C | 50,000 Penguin Press | HC | January E 978-0-7352-2436-0 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16524-9 BIOGRAPHY / U.S. HISTORY

Social: @NPRinskeep; SteveInskeep.com RA: For readers of Ron Chernow, Jon Meacham, and James McPherson RI: Author lives in Washington, DC

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NONFICTION Daniel J. Levitin

Ash Ambridge

SUCCESSFUL AGING: A

THE MIDDLE FINGER PROJECT: Trash Your

Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives

Imposter Syndrome and Live the Unf*ckwithable Life You Deserve

Author Daniel Levitin turns his keen insights to what happens in our brains as we age, why we should think about health span, not lifespan, and what you can do to make the most of life, no matter how old you are. 978-1-5247-4418-2 | $30.00/$32.00C | 100,000 Dutton | HC | January

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A fresh, funny, and fearless point-bypoint primer on how to get unstuck, slay imposter syndrome, trust in your own worth and ability, and become a strong, capable, wonderful, weird, brilliant, ballsy, unf*ckwithable YOU. 978-0-525-54032-8 | $25.00/$34.00C | 75,000 | Portfolio | HC | February

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PSYCHOLOGY

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SELF-HELP

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Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross

Donna Rifkind

THE SUN AND HER STARS:

Salka Viertel and Hitler’s Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood

The little-known story of screenwriter Salka Viertel, whose salons in 1930s and 40s Hollywood created a refuge for a multitude of famous figures who had escaped the horrors of World War ll. 978-1-59051-721-5 | $30.00/$40.00C | 30,000 Other Press | HC | January E 978-1-59051-722-2 BIOGRAPHY / ENTERTAINMENT & PERFORMING ARTS

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Chip Walter

A BLACK WOMEN’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are—and have always been—instrumental in shaping our country 978-0-8070-3355-5 | $27.95/$36.95C | 25,000 Beacon Press | HC | February E 978-0-8070-3356-2 | ] AD: 978-0-8070-9481-5 HISTORY / AFRICAN AMERICAN

Social: T: @DainaRameyBerry RA: For readers of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and At the Dark End of the Street RI: Author lives in Austin, TX

IMMORTALITY, INC.:

Kate Winkler Dawson

Renegade Science, Silicon Valley Billions, and the Quest to Live Forever

AMERICAN SHERLOCK:

Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI

This gripping narrative explores today’s scientific pursuit of immortality, with exclusive visits inside Silicon Valley labs and interviews with the visionaries who believe we will soon crack into the aging process and cure death.

From the acclaimed author of Death in the Air comes the riveting story of the birth of criminal investigation in the twentieth century. 978-0-525-53955-1 | $27.00/$36.00C | 60,000 Putnam | HC | February E 978-0-525-53957-5 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16381-8

978-1-4262-1980-1 | $26.00/$35.00C | 40,000 National Geographic | HC | January E 978-1-4262-1983-2 SOCIAL SCIENCE / DEATH & DYING

RA: For readers of Life 3.0 and Superintelligence RI: Author lives in Pittsburgh, PA

TRUE CRIME

Social: IG: @KateWinklerDawson; KateWinklerDawson.com RA: For readers of David Grann, Candice Millard, and Deborah Blum RI: Author lives in Austin, TX

Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac

Joshua Yaffa

BETWEEN TWO FIRES:

THE FUTURE WE CHOOSE:

Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia

Surviving the Climate Crisis

From the New Yorker correspondent, a groundbreaking portrait of modern Russia and the inner struggles of the people who sustain Vladimir Putin’s rule. 978-1-5247-6059-5 | $28.00/$37.00C | 40,000 Tim Duggan Books | HC | January E 978-1-5247-6061-8 ] AD: 978-0-593-16709-0 HISTORY / POLITICAL SCIENCE

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In this cautionary but optimistic book, Figueres and Rivett-Carnac—the architects of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement—tackle arguably the most urgent and consequential challenge humankind has ever faced: the world’s changing climate and the fate of humanity. 978-0-525-65835-1 | $23.00/$30.00C | 75,000 | Knopf | HC | February E 978-0-525-65836-8 | ] AD: 978-0-593-21568-5 SCIENCE

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NONFICTION Brian Greene

Sierra Crane Murdoch

UNTIL THE END OF TIME:

YELLOW BIRD: Oil, Murder,

From the world-renowned physicist, cofounder of the World Science Festival, and bestselling author of The Elegant Universe comes this utterly captivating exploration of deep time and humanity’s search for purpose.

The true crime story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it—an urgent, page-turning work of literary journalism and social criticism.

Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

978-1-5247-3167-0 | $30.00/$40.00C | 200,000 Knopf | HC | February E 978-1-5247-3168-7 | ] AD: 978-1-5247-3430-5 | ] CD: 978-1-5247-3427-5 LP: 978-0-593-17172-1

and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country

978-0-399-58915-7 | $28.00/$37.00C | 30,000 Random House | HC | February E 978-0-399-58916-4 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-3230-6 TRUE CRIME

SCIENCE

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Diane Keaton

Social: T: @SierraMurdoch; SierraMurdoch.com RA: For readers of of Killers of the Flower Moon and Evicted RI: Author lives in Hood River, OR

Rahm Emanuel

THE NATION CITY: Why Mayors Are Now Running the World

BROTHER & SISTER: A Memoir

At a time of anxiety about the effectiveness of our national government, Rahm Emanuel provides a clear vision, for both progressives and centrists, of how to get things done in America today—a bracing, optimistic vision of America’s future from one of our most experienced and original political minds.

From the beloved film star and bestselling author of Then Again: a heartfelt memoir about her relationship with her younger brother, and a poignant exploration of the divergent paths siblings’ lives can take. 978-0-451-49450-4 | $25.95/$34.95C | 125,000 Knopf | HC | February E 978-0-451-49451-1 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16996-4

978-0-525-65638-8 | $26.95/$34.95C | 75,000 Knopf | HC | February E 978-0-525-65639-5 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16994-0

LP: 978-0-593-17158-5 MEMOIR

RA: For readers of engrossing celebrity memoirs such as Wishful Drinking, Just Kids, In Pieces, and Born Standing Up RI: Author lives in Los Angeles, CA

Kristina Kuzmic

POLITCAL SCIENCE

Social: T: @RahmEmanuel RA: For readers of Robert A. Caro’s The Power Broker RI: Author lives in Chicago, IL

Susan Fowler

HOLD ON, BUT DON’T HOLD STILL: Hope and Humor

WHISTLEBLOWER:

My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber

from My Seriously Flawed Life

Delivering inspiration and parenting comedy at its finest, here is one woman’s story of ditching her fairytale dreams and falling in love with her unpredictable, chaotic, imperfect life.

The unbelievable true story of the young woman who faced down one of the most valuable startups in Silicon Valley history—and what came after. 978-0-525-56012-8 | $28.00/$37.00C | 50,000 Viking | HC | February E 978-0-525-56013-5 ] AD: 978-0-593-16609-3

978-0-525-56184-2 | $26.00/$35.00C | 150,000 Viking | HC | February E 978-0-525-56185-9 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16644-4 ] CD: 978-0-593-16642-0 MEMOIR

SELF-HELP / PARENTING

Social: @KristinaKuzmic; KristinaKuzmic.com RA: Rachel Hollis’s Girl, Wash Your Face meets Glennon Doyle’s Carry On, Warrior RI: Author lives in Valencia, CA

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Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge

Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner

SNOWDEN’S BOX:

Trust in the Age of Surveillance

RA: For readers of The WikiLeaks Files and The Killing of Osama Bin Laden RI: Author lives in New York, NY

BEING HEUMANN:

An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

One of the most influential disability rights activists in U.S. history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human. 978-0-8070-1929-0 | $25.95/$34.95C | 15,000 Beacon Press | HC | February E 978-0-8070-1938-2 | ] AD: 978-0-8070-9396-2 MEMOIR / PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

Social: T: @JudithHeumann RA: For readers of The Body Is Not an Apology and My Life on the Road RI: Author lives in Washington, DC

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Geoffrey Cain

THE SCIENTIST AND THE SPY: A True Story of China, the FBI,

SAMSUNG RISING:

The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech

and Industrial Espionage

A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is convicted of trying to steal U.S. trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. 978-0-7352-1428-6 | $28.00/$37.00C | 40,000 Riverhead | HC | February E 978-0-7352-1430-9 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16681-9 TRUE CRIME / ESPIONAGE

An explosive exposé of one of the biggest and most secretive companies in the world, Samsung, as the Korean juggernaut battles Apple and Sony to dominate the world of technology. 978-1-101-90725-2 | $29.00/0$39.00C | 25,000 Currency | HC | March E 978-1-101-90726-9 | ] AD: 978-1-524-72387-3 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

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Erik Larson

Glennon Doyle

THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE: A Saga of Churchill, Family,

UNTAMED

and Defiance During the Blitz

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz. 978-0-385-34871-3 | $30.00/$40.00C | 400,000 Crown | HC | February E 978-0-385-34872-0 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16718-2 ] CD: 978-0-593-16716-8 LP: 978-0-593-17207-0

In her most revealing and powerful book yet, the beloved activist, speaker, and author of the bestselling sensations Love Warrior and Carry On, Warrior explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet the expectations of the world, and start trusting the voice deep within us. 978-1-9848-0125-8 | $28.00/$37.00C | 250,000 The Dial Press | HC | March E 978-1-9848-0126-5 | ] AD: 978-0-593-15608-7 ] CD: 978-0-593-20973-8

HISTORY / WWII

Social: T: @EXLarson; IG: @EXLarson; ErikLarsonBooks.com RA: For readers of Devil in the White City, Unbroken, and The Boys in the Boat RI: Author lives in New York, NY

Cara Natterson, M.D.

DECODING BOYS: New Science

MEMOIR / PERSONAL GROWTH

Social: T: @GlennonDoyle; IG: @GlennonDoyle; GlennonDoyle.com RA: For readers of Anne Lamott’s Traveling Mercies, Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic, and Cheryl Strayed’s Tiny Beautiful Things RI: Author lives in Naples, FL

Esther Safran Foer

Behind the Subtle Art of Raising Sons

I WANT YOU TO KNOW WE’RE STILL HERE:

When boys enter puberty, they tend to get quiet and parents often misread their signals. Here’s how to navigate their retreat and steer them through this confusing passage, by the bestselling author of The Care and Keeping of You series and Guy Stuff: The Body Book for Boys. Ballantine Books | HC | February

A Post-Holocaust Memoir

A woman unearths family secrets and gives voice to things unspoken in this poignant memoir that traces her parents’ escape from the Holocaust. 978-0-525-57598-6 | $27.00/$36.00C | 75,000 Tim Duggan | HC | March E 978-0-525-57600-6 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16706-9

978-1-9848-1903-1 | $27.00/$36.00C | 20,000

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BIOGRAPHY / HISTORY

FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / PARENTING

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Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D.

RA: For fans of Jonathan Safran Foer, Elie Wiesel, and Primo Levi RI: Author lives in Washington, DC

Andy Greene

THE HIGHLY SENSITIVE PARENT: Be Brilliant in Your

THE OFFICE: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History

The author of The Highly Sensitive Person has written an indispensable guide for the significant number of parents who are unusually attuned to their children.

The untold story behind The Office, told by those who know it best: the creators, the writers, and the actors who turned what could have been a quiet British import into a show that shaped American culture and changed television (and actual office life!) forever.

Role, Even When the World Overwhelms You

978-1-5247-4497-7 | $28.00/$37.00C | 75,000 Dutton | HC | March E 978-1-5247-4499-1 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16445-7

978-0-8065-4058-0 | $24.95/$33.95C | 45,000 Citadel | HC | March PSYCHOLOGY / EMOTIONS

RA: For readers of Dodging Energy Vampires and The Self-Driven Child RI: Author lives in San Francisco, CA

PERFORMING ARTS

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NONFICTION Daymond John and Daniel Paisner

Robert B. Reich

POWERSHIFT: Transform

THE SYSTEM:

The star of ABC’s Shark Tank reveals how to drive the change you want to see in your life by mastering the three prongs of influence: reputation, negotiation, and relationships.

From the bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, an urgent analysis of how the “rigged” systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change.

Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

Any Situation, Close Any Deal, and Achieve Any Outcome

978-0-593-13623-2 | $28.00/$37.00C | 100,000 Currency | HC | March E 978-0-593-13624-9 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16800-4

978-0-525-65904-4 | $22.95/$29.95C | 50,000 Knopf | HC | March E 978-0-525-65905-1 | ] AD: 978-0-593-21205-9

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

POLITICAL SCIENCE

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Bess Kalb

Nelson D. Schwartz

NOBODY WILL TELL YOU THIS BUT ME:

THE VELVET ROPE ECONOMY: How Inequality

A true (as told to me) story

Became Big Business

A funny, warm, and brilliantly original memoir in which a grandmother speaks to her granddaughter from beyond the grave, telling, with candor and irresistible humor, stories from both their lives—of kinship, loyalty, tenacity, and love. 978-0-525-65471-1 | $25.00/$34.00C | 100,000 | Knopf | HC | March

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MEMOIR

Social: T: @BessBell; IG: @BessBessBell RA: For fans of Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sarah Silverman, and Nora Ephron RI: Author lives in Los Angeles, CA

From New York Times business reporter Nelson D. Schwartz comes a gripping investigation of how a virtual velvet rope divides Americans in every arena of life, creating a friction-free existence for those with money on one side and a Darwinian struggle for the middle class on the other side. 978-0-385-54308-8 | $27.95/$36.95C | 125,000 | Doubleday | HC | March

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Jon Mooallem

Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt

THIS IS CHANCE!: The Shaking

THE GIFT OF FORGIVENESS: Inspiring Stories

of an All-American City, A Voice That Held It Together

from Those Who Have Overcome the Unforgivable

In 1964, Anchorage, Alaska was jolted by the most powerful earthquake in American history. This is the thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster—and the extraordinary woman who helped pull it back together. Random House | HC | March

U.S. HISTORY

Social: @JMooallem; JonMooallem.com RA: For readers of David Grann and Rebecca Skloot RI: Author lives in Seattle, WA

Sarah Ramey

978-1-9848-7825-0 | $20.00/27.00C | 100,000 Pamela Dorman Books | HC | March E 978-1-9848-7826-7 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16648-2 SELF-HELP

Social: T: @KSchwarzenegger; IG: @KatherineSchwarzenegger; Facebook.com/ KatherineSchwarzeneggerOnline; KatherineSchwarzenegger.com RA: For readers of Maria Shriver and Rachel Hollis RI: Author lives in Los Angeles, CA

Neil Shubin

THE LADY’S HANDBOOK FOR HER MYSTERIOUS ILLNESS: A Memoir

SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA

The funny, defiant memoir of Sarah Ramey’s years-long battle with a mysterious illness that doctors thought was all in her head—but wasn’t. A revelation and an inspiration for millions of women whose legitimate health complaints are ignored.

The author of the bestselling Your Inner Fish gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life on Earth—a new view of the evolution of human and animal life that can help to determine whether our presence here is accidental or inevitable.

978-0-385-53407-9 | $27.95/$36.95C | 60,000 Doubleday | HC | March E 978-0-385-53408-6 | ] AD: 978-0-525-49619-9

978-1-101-87133-1 | $26.95/$35.95C | 75,000 | Pantheon | HC | March

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MEMOIR

Social: T: @SarahMarieRamey RA: For readers of Brain on Fire, The Collected Schizophrenias, and The Empathy Exams RI: Author lives in Washington, DC

An inspiring book on learning how to forgive—with firsthand stories from those who have learned to let go of resentment and find peace.

978-0-525-50991-2 | $28.00/$37.00C | 75,000

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SOCIAL SCIENCE

Social: T: @NelsonSchwartz RA: For readers of books on income inequalities, like Discrimination and Disparities and Winners Take All RI: Author lives in New York, NY

LP: 978-0-593-17157-8

SCIENCE

Social: T: @NeilShubin; Facebook.com/NeilShubinAuthor RA: For readers of Robert Sapolsky’s Behave, Carl Zimmer’s She Has Her Mother’s Laugh, and David Reich’s Who We Are and How We Got Here RI: Author lives in Chicago, IL

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NONFICTION CAN’T-MISS

DROP-IN TITLES

Rebecca Solnit

RECOLLECTIONS OF MY NONEXISTENCE: A Memoir

Joe Palazzolo and Michael Rothfeld

An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent.

THE FIXERS: The Bottom-Feeders, Crooked Lawyers, Gossipmongers, and Porn Stars Who Created the 45th President 978-0-593-13239-5 | $28.00/$37.00C 100,000 | Random House | HC | January E 978-0-593-13240-1 | ] AD: 978-0-593-20964-6

978-0-593-08333-8 | $26.00/$35.00C | 75,000 Viking | HC | March E 978-0-593-08335-2 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16627-7

Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

MEMOIR

DESIGNING YOUR WORK LIFE:

Social: RebeccaSolnit.net RA: For readers of Roxanne Gay, Carrie Brownstein, and Patti Smith RI: Author lives San Francisco, CA

How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness at Work

Anthony William

978-0-525-65524-4 | $27.95/$36.95C | 200,000 | Knopf February E 978-0-525-65525-1 ] AD: 978-1-9848-3256-6 | ] CD: 978-1-9848-3253-5

3:6:9 CLEANSE The million-selling Medical Medium offers a deep dive into his fantastically popular 9-day liver cleanse protocol, giving you all the tools and support you need to transform your health—and your life.

Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz

BAG MAN: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House

978-1-4019-5845-9 | $29.99/$39.99C | 200,000 Hay House, Inc. | HC | March E 978-1-4019-5846-6

978-0-593-13668-3 | $24.00/$32.00C | 150,000 | Crown | HC March | E 978-0-593-13669-0

HEALTH & FITNESS / HEALING

Social: T: @MedicalMedium; Facebook.com/MedicalMedium RA: For followers of Skinny Liver and The Plant Paradox Quick and Easy RI: Author lives in Florida and Maine

Wes Moore and Erica L. Green

FIVE DAYS: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City

Ami Ayalon

978-0-525-51236-3 | $28.00/$37.00C 75,000 | One World | HC | March E 978-0-525-51237-0 ] AD: 978-0-593-17148-6

FRIENDLY FIRE: How Israel

Became Its Own Worst Enemy and Its Hope for the Future

David Chang with Gabe Ulla

Israelis have made choices throughout their nation’s history that have undermined their own interests and have heaped injustice and humiliation upon their Palestinian neighbors. In this deeply personal exploration, Ayalon concludes that the foundational myths Israelis tell themselves are at the root of their ongoing national security concerns. 978-1-58642-258-5 | $27.00/$36.00C | 30,000 | Steerforth | HC | April E 978-1-58642-259-2

Colin Jost

A VERY PUNCHABLE FACE

Elizabeth George

MASTERING THE PROCESS: From Idea to Novel

As the author of twenty-four novels, Elizabeth George is one of the most successful—and prolific—novelists today. In Mastering the Process, George offers readers a master class in the art and science of crafting a novel. 978-1-9848-7831-1 | $28.00/$37.00C | 20,000 | Viking HC | April E 978-1-9848-7832-8 | ] AD:978-0-593-15291-1 WRITING / LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES

Social: T: @LynleyMysteries; IG: @EGpix; Facebook.com/AuthorElizabethGeorge; ElizabethGeorgeOnline.com RA: For readers of On Writing and Bird by Bird RI: Author lives Seattle, WA

HISTORY / MIDDLE EAST

RA: For readers of Rise and Kill First and Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor RI: Author lives in Kerem Maharal, Israel

978-1-5247-5921-6 | $28.00/$37.00C 125,000 | Clarkson Potter | HC | April E 978-1-5247-5922-3 ] AD: 978-0-593-20839-7

978-1-101-90632-3 | $27.00/$36.00C 75,000 | Crown | HC | April E 978-1-101-90633-0 ] AD: 978-0-593-21631-6

Gary Taubes

THE CASE FOR KETO:

Rethinking Weight Control and the Science and Practice of Low-Carb/High-Fat Eating 978-0-525-52006-1 | $28.95/$38.95C 100,000 | Knopf | HC | April E 978-0-525-52007-8 | ] AD: 978-0-593-21570-8

Bill Gates

HOW TO AVOID A CLIMATE DISASTER: The Solutions We Have and

the Breakthroughs We Need

978-0-385-54613-3 | $26.95 | 300,000 | Doubleday | HC | June 978-0-7352-8044-1 | $34.95C | Knopf Canada E 978-0-385-54614-0 | ] AD: 978-0-593-21576-0 LP: 978-0-593-21577-7

NONFICTION Deborah Gruenfeld

Brad Montague

ACTING WITH POWER:

BECOMING BETTER GROWNUPS: Rediscovering

Why We Are More Powerful Than We Believe

What Matters and Remembering How to Fly

Gruenfeld reveals what we get wrong about power, why we have more than we believe, and how we can learn to use the power we have, better.

A New York Times bestselling author looks for the meaning of a good life by seeking advice from the very young and the very old.

978-1-101-90395-7 | $29.00/$38.00C | 75,000 Currency | HC | April E 978-1-101-90396-4 | ] AD: 978-0-593-15414-4

978-0-525-53784-7 | $25.00/$34.00C | 75,000 Avery | HC | April E 978-0-525-53785-4 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4669-3

BUSINESS / SELF-HELP SELF-HELP

RA: For readers of 48 Laws of Power, Presence, and Quiet RI: Author lives in San Fransisco, CA

Social: T: @TheBradMontague; IG: @BradMontague; Facebook.com/MontagueWorkshop; BradMontague.com RA: For readers of The Book of Joy and I’ve Been Thinking RI: Author lives in Henderson, TN

Conor Knighton

LEAVE ONLY FOOTPRINTS:

Marc Petitjean; Translated by Adriana Hunter

My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

THE HEART: Frida Kahlo in Paris

The Emmy-winning CBS Sunday Morning correspondent chronicles his year traveling to every one of our National Parks.

This intimate account offers a new, unexpected understanding of the artist’s work and of the vibrant Surrealist art scene in the 1930s.

978-1-9848-2354-0 | $27.00/$36.00C | 40,000 Crown | HC | April E 978-1-9848-2356-4 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-8430-5

978-1-59051-990-5 | $25.00/$34.00C | 30,000 Other Press | HC | April E 978-1-59051-991-2

MEMOIR / TRAVEL

Social: T: @ConorKnighton; IG: @ConorKnighton; ConorKnighton.com RA: For fans of Bill Bryson, Mark Adams, and Bill Geist RI: Author lives in Austin, TX and Los Angeles, CA

Robert Kolker

BIOGRAPHY / ARTISTS

RA: For readers of At the Existentialist Café and Little Dancer Aged Fourteen RI: Author lives in France

HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD:

David Allen Sibley

The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia that became science’s great hope in the quest to understand the disease.

and Why—from Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing

WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE A BIRD: What Birds Are Doing,

Inside the Mind of an American Family

978-0-385-54376-7 | $29.95 | 100,000 | Doubleday HC | April 978-0-7352-7445-7 | $32.95C | Random House Canada E 978-0-385-54377-4 | ] AD: 978-0-593-20833-5 BIOGRAPHY

Social: T: @BobKolker RA: For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Gene: An Intimate History, and Far From the Tree RI: Author lives in Brooklyn, NY

Katherine Sharp Landdeck

THE WOMEN WITH SILVER WINGS: The Inspiring True Story of

978-0-307-95789-4 | $35.00/$47.00C | 60,000 | Knopf | HC | April E 978-0-525-52029-0 NATURE

Social: Facebook.com/DavidAllenSibley RA: For fans of Audubon guides, Peterson guides, National Parks, Natural History Museums, and The Nature Conservancy RI: Author lives in Concord, MA

Clarissa Ward

ON ALL FRONTS:

the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II

The Education of a Journalist

The recipient of multiple Peabody and Murrow awards, Clarissa Ward is a worldrenowned conflict reporter. On All Fronts is the riveting account of Ward’s singular career and of journalism in this age of extremism.

The thrilling true story of the daring female aviators who helped the United States win World War II—only to be forgotten by the country they served. 978-1-5247-6281-0 | $28.00/$37.00C | 60,000 Crown | HC | April E 978-1-5247-6283-4 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4506-1

978-0-525-56147-7 | $28.00/$37.00C | 50,000 Penguin Press | HC | April E 978-0-525-56148-4 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-3785-1

HISTORY / WOMEN’S / WWII

Social: T: @KateLanddeck RA: For readers of Hidden Figures, The Boys in the Boat, and Unbroken RI: Author lives in Denton, TX

The bird book for birders and nonbirders alike that will excite and inspire by providing a new and deeper understanding of what common, mostly backyard, birds are doing—and why.

MEMOIR

Social: T: @ClarissaWard; IG: @ClarissaWardcnn RA: For readers of Lynsey Addario RI: Author lives in London, UK

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NONFICTION Lauren Akins and Mark Dagostino

Steven Johnson

LIVE IN LOVE: Growing Together

ENEMY OF ALL MANKIND:

In this refreshing and inspiring memoir, Lauren Akins, the wife of country music star Thomas Rhett, shows what it’s really like to be “the perfect couple” fans imagine, and reveals what it actually takes to live in love, stay in love, and grow together.

In the same mode as Johnson’s classic historical thriller The Ghost Map, Enemy of All Mankind deftly traces the path from a single struck match to a global conflagration.

A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History’s First Global Manhunt

Through Life’s Changes

978-0-593-12904-3 | $28.00/$37.00C | 150,000 Ballantine Books | HC | May E 978-0-593-12902-9 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16777-9

978-0-7352-1160-5 | $28.00/$37.00C | 75,000 Riverhead | HC | May E 978-0-7352-1162-9 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16692-5

LP: 978-0-593-17181-3 HISTORY / POLITICAL SCIENCE

MEMOIR / INSPIRATIONAL

Social: T:@AkinsLaur; IG: @Laur_Akins; LaurenAkins.com RA: For readers of Rachel Hollis’s Girl, Wash Your Face, Jen Hatmaker’s For the Love, Glennon Doyle’s Carry On, Warrior, Shauna Niequest’s Present Over Perfect, and Brené Brown RI: Author lives in Nashville, TN

Social: T: @StevenBJohnson; Facebook.com/StevenJohnsonAuthor; StevenBerlinJohnson.com RA: For readers of Killers of the Flower Moon RI: Author lives in Brooklyn, NY and Marin County, NY

Peter Baker and Susan Glasser

A HONEYBEE HEART HAS FIVE OPENINGS:

THE MAN WHO RAN WASHINGTON: The Life and

Helen Jukes

A Year of Keeping Bees

Times of James A. Baker III

The story of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A. Baker III, the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world. 978-0-385-54055-1 | $35.00/$47.00C | 150,000 Doubleday | HC | May E 978-1-5247-4787-9 | ] AD: 978-0-593-17020-5 BIOGRAPHY

Social: T: @PeterBakerNYT RA: Readers of political biographies RI: Author lives in Washington, DC

John Dickerson

THE HARDEST JOB IN THE WORLD: The Evolution of the

An inspiring, up-close portrait of beekeeping—a year of living dangerously—observing and capturing the wondrous, complex ecosystem of honeybees and their hive, and the emotional, spiritual transformation that changed the way the author sees, and is in, the world. 978-1-5247-4786-2 | $26.95/$35.95C | 30,000 Pantheon | HC | May E 978-1-5247-4787-9 | ] AD: 978-0-593-17020-5 MEMOIR

Social: T: @Helen__Jukes RA: For readers of H Is for Hawk, The Hidden Life of Trees, and Lab Girl RI: Author lives in Wye Valley, UK

Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamo

TRIXIE AND KATYA’S GUIDE TO MODERN WOMANHOOD

American Presidency

From the 60 Minutes correspondent, a deep dive into the history, evolution, and current state of the American presidency—and how we can make the job less impossible and more productive for the future. 978-1-9848-5451-3 | $30.00/$40.00C | 100,000 Random House | HC | May E 978-1-9848-5452-0 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-8394-0 POLITICAL SCIENCE / HISTORY

The RuPaul’s Drag Race legends and stars of The Trixie & Katya Show and UNHhhh share the secrets of their feminine mystique in this satirical guide to beauty and homemaking. 978-0-593-08670-4 | $26.00/$35.00C | 50,000 Plume | HC | May E 978-0-593-08671-1 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16432-7 HUMOR / LGBT

Suleika Jaouad

BETWEEN TWO KINGDOMS A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission and ultimately a road trip of healing and self-discovery. 978-0-399-58858-7 | $28.00/$37.00C | 40,000 Random House | HC | May E 978-0-399-58859-4 | ] AD: 978-0-593-20975-2 MEMOIR

Social: T: @SuleikaJaouad; IG: @SuleikaJaouad RA: For readers of When Breath Becomes Air, Everything Happens for a Reason, Wild, and The Year of Magical Thinking RI: Author lives in New York, NY

Social: T: @TrixieMattel; IG: @TrixieMattel; T: @Katya_Zamo; IG: @Katya_Zamo; TrixieMattel.com, WeLoveKatya.com RA: For fans of RuPaul’s Drag Race RI: Authors live in Los Angeles, CA

Nikita Stewart

TROOP 6000: How a Group of Homeless Girl Scouts Inspired the World The extraordinary true story of the first Girl Scout troop designated for homeless girls—from the homeless families it brought together in Queens, New York, to the amazing citywide and countrywide responses it sparked. 978-1-9848-2075-4 | $27.00/$36.00C | 20,000 Ballantine Books | HC | May E 978-1-9848-2077-8 | ] AD: 978-0-593-16781-6

Social: T: @JDickerson; JohnDickerson.com RA: For fans of Jon Meacham’s biographies RI: Author lives in New York, NY

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Social: T: @KitaStew RA: For readers of uplifting true stories about overcoming the odds RI: Author lives in New York, NY Visit us at our website: PenguinRandomHouseLibrary.com

NONFICTION Judith Warner

Sarah Frey

AND THEN THEY STOPPED TALKING TO ME: Making Sense

THE GROWING SEASON:

A New York Times bestselling author reveals why the middle-school years are painful, how parents unwittingly make them worse, and what we all need to do to grow up.

One woman’s tenacious journey to escape poverty and create a billiondollar farming business—without ever leaving the land she loved.

How I Saved an American Farm—and Built a New Life

of Middle School

978-0-593-12939-5 | $27.00/$36.00C | 30,000 Ballantine Books | HC | June E 978-0-593-12940-1 | ] AD: 978-0-593-21027-7

978-1-101-90588-3 | $27.00/$36.00C | 30,000 Crown | HC | May E 978-1-101-90590-6 | ] AD: 978-1-9848-4502-3

MEMOIR

FAMILY / SOCIAL SCIENCE

Social: IG: @FreyFarms, FreyFarms.com RA: For readers of Hillbilly Elegy, Educated, #Girlboss, and Lean In RI: Author lives in Orchardville, IL and Naples, FL

Social: T: @JudithWarner, JudithWarnerOnline.com RA: For readers of How to Raise an Adult, Masterminds and Wingmen, The Teenage Brain, and The Price of Privilege RI: Author lives in Washington, DC

André Leon Talley

THE CHIFFON TRENCHES:

Brittany K. Barnett

A Memoir

A KNOCK AT MIDNIGHT: A

Discover what truly happens behind the scenes in the world of high fashion in this detailed, storied memoir from style icon and former Vogue creative director André Leon Talley.

Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom

An inspiring true story about unwavering belief in humanity and an urgent call to free those buried alive by America’s unjust legal system. 978-1-9848-2578-0 | $28.00/$37.00C | 75,000 Crown | HC | June E 978-1-9848-2579-7 ] AD: 978-0-593-21019-2 MEMOIR / LAW

978-0-593-12925-8 | $28.00/$37.00C | 35,000 Ballantine Books | HC | June E 978-0-593-12926-5 | ] AD: 978-0-593-21023-9 MEMOIR / FASHION

Social: T: @OfficialALT RA: For readers of Vogue, Grace: A Memoir, The Vanity Fair Diaries, and Fashion Climbing RI: Author lives in White Plains, NY

Social: T: @MsBKB; IG: @MsBKB; BrittanyKBarnett.com RA: For readers of The New Jim Crow and Just Mercy RI: Author lives in Dallas, TX

Jim McCloskey and Philip Lerman; Foreword by John Grisham

Stephanie Danler

WHEN TRUTH IS ALL YOU HAVE: A Memoir of Faith, Justice,

STRAY: An Approximate Memoir From the author of the bestselling Sweetbitter comes an intimate, searingly honest memoir of growing up the child of addicts, of how that turbulent, often harrowing experience has affected her at every stage of her life, and of how she has struggled to transcend this unwanted legacy. 978-1-101-87596-4 | $25.00/$34.00C | 100,000 Knopf | HC | June LP: 978-0-593-21471-8

MEMOIR

Social: T: @SMDanler; IG: @SMDanler; Facebook.com/SMDanler RA: For fans of Elizabeth Gilbert, Jesmyn Ward, and Joan Didion RI: Author lives in Los Angeles, CA

When Truth Is All You Have is McCloskey’s inspirational story as well as those of the unjustly imprisoned for whom he has advocated. Spanning the nation, it is a chronicle of faith and doubt; of triumphant success and shattering failure. It candidly exposes a life of searching and struggle, uplifted by McCloskey’s certainty that he had found what he was put on earth to do. 978-0-385-54503-7 |$25.95/$35.95C | 60,000 | Doubleday | HC | July E 978-0-385-54504-4 | ] AD: 978-0-593-21572-2 MEMOIR / SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Social: I:@Centurion.Freedom; Facebook.com/FreedomForTheInnocent; Centurion. org RA For readers of The Innocent Man, The Guardians, Just Mercy, and Actual Innocence RI: Author lives in Princeton, NJ

David Faris

THE KIDS ARE ALL LEFT:

How Young Voters Will Unite America

Gail Caldwell

This crystal ball look into the future of American politics shows how the brewing generational shift to the Left is only the beginning of transformations to come.

BRIGHT PRECIOUS THING: A Memoir

From the New York Times bestselling author of Let’s Take the Long Way Home comes a moving memoir about how the women’s movement revolutionized and saved her life, from the 1960s to the #MeToo era.

978-1-61219-820-0 | $16.99/$21.99C | 40,000 Melville House | TR | June E 978-1-61219-821-7 SOCIAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL CLASSES

RA: For readers of Listen, Liberal and Kids These Days RI: Author lives in Chicago, IL

978-0-525-51005-5 | $27.00/$36.00C | 30,000 Random House | HC | July E 978-0-525-51006-2 | ] AD: 978-0-593-20986-8 MEMOIR / FEMINISM

Social: Facebook.com/GailCaldwellAuthor RA: For fans of Gloria Steinem, Anne Lamott, Anna Quindlen, and Ann Patchett RI: Author lives in Cambridge, MA 22

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and Freedom for the Wrongly Convicted

COOKBOOKS Melissa Clark

Dr. Michael Roizen, Dr. Michael Crupian, and Jim Perko

DINNER IN FRENCH:

THE WHAT TO EAT WHEN COOKBOOK:

My Recipes by Way of France: A Cookbook

125 Deliciously Timed Recipes

An authoritative cookbook of 150 wide-ranging new recipes and brilliantly updated dishes that reflect how we shop, cook, and eat today.

This inspiring cookbook and strategic eating plan—the sequel to the wildly popular What to Eat When—offers 125 delectable recipes geared to achieving your most important life goals, from professional success to losing

978-0-553-44825-2 | $37.50/$50.00C | 75,000 Clarkson Potter | HC | March E 978-0-553-44826-9

weight to longevity.

COOKING / FRENCH

Social: T: @MelissaClark; IG: @ClarkBar; MelissaClark.net RA: For fans of Dorie Greenspan, Mimi Thorisson, and David Lebovitz RI: Author lives in Brooklyn, NY

978-1-4262-2103-3 | $30.00/$40.00C | 100,000 | National Geographic | HC | April E 978-1-4262-2104-0 COOKING / HEALTH & HEALING

Rocco DiSpirito

RA: For fans of The How Not to Die Cookbook and Eat to Live RI: Author lives in Shaker Heights, OH

ROCCO’S EASY KETO DIET: Eat the Comfort Foods You Miss and Still Lose Up to a Pound a Day

Talia Pollock

The #1 New York Times bestselling author and celebrity chef shows you how to lose up to fifteen pounds by eating gourmet, keto versions of the comfort foods you love.

100+ Plant-Based Recipes and Problem-Solving Strategies to Help You Eat Healthier (Without Hating Your Life)

PARTY IN YOUR PLANTS:

From the hilarious writer and plantbased chef behind Party in My Plants, learn to love eating clean.

978-1-9848-2521-6 | $27.99/$36.99C | 100,000 Rodale Books | HC | March E 978-1-9848-2522-3 COOKING / HEALTH & FITNESS

Social: T: @RoccoDiSpirito; IG: @RoccoDispirito; Facebook.com/RoccoDiSpirito RA: For fans of Melissa Hartwig and Mark Sisson RI: Author lives in New York, NY

America’s Test Kitchen

THE COMPLETE SUMMER COOKBOOK:

978-0-525-54026-7 | $25.00/$34.00C | 35,000 Avery | TR | April E 978-0-525-54027-4 COOKING / VEGAN

Social: @PartyInMyPlants; PartyInMyPlants.com RA: For readers of Thug Kitchen, Oh She Glows, and Isa Does It RI: Author lives in New York, NY

Nancy Silverton, Ryan DiNicola, and Carolynn Carreño

Beat the Heat with 400 Recipes that Make the Most of Summer’s Bounty

The only cookbook you’ll need during the year’s warmest months. 978-1-948703-14-7 | $32.99/$35.00C | 50,000 America’s Test Kitchen | TR | April E 978-1-948703-15-4 COOKING / SEASONAL

RA: For fans of Endless Summer Cookbook RI: America’s Test Kitchen is located in Boston, MA

Café Gratitude with Seizan Dreux Ellis

CHI SPACCA: A New Approach to American Cooking

Nancy Silverton—the James Beard Award-winning star of Netflix’s Chef’s Table—shares the secrets of cooking like an Italian butcher with recipes for meats, fish, and vegetables that capture the spirit of Italy. Drawing on her years living and cooking in Umbria, Italy, and from the menu of her revered steakhouse, Chi Spacca. 978-0-525-65465-0 | $35.00/$47.00C | 30,000 | Knopf | HC | April E 978-0-525-65466-7

LOVE IS SERVED:

COOKING / ITALIAN

Inspired Plant-Based Recipes from Southern California

Social: T: @NancySilverton; IG: @NancySilverton RA: For fans of Lidia Bastianich, Marcella Hazan, and Suzanne Goin RI: Author lives in Los Angeles, CA

Bright, clean, and hip recipes to enchant vegans, vegetarians, and omnivores alike, from plant-based haven Café Gratitude.

Sami Tamimi and Tara Wigley; Foreword by Yotam Ottolenghi

FALASTIN: A Cookbook

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A soulful tour of Palestinian cooking today from the Ottolenghi restaurants’ executive chef and partner—120 recipes shaped by his personal story and Palestinian history. 978-0-399-58173-1 | $35.00 | 100,000 Ten Speed Press | HC | April 978-0-525-61015-1 | $42.00C Appetite by Random House

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