Yiyun Li, Bonnie Garmus, M. John Harrison, Will Maclean, and so many more apt and intelligent writers are releasing novels today. Adam Grant, Lauren Michele Jackson, and Wendy S. Walters all number among the plentiful nonfiction authors also releasing new titles—read on for the full list below, and happy reading!
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Bonnie Garmus, Peck & Peck
(Scribner)
“This is a love story, a workplace romp, a satire with a soft heart for fonts, and an ode to poetry and the people who can’t live without it.”
–Oprah Daily
Yiyun Li, Music Against the Night
(FSG)
“Music Against the Night may well be the most perfectly constructed, moving, and beautiful novel I’ve ever read. Yiyun Li is the best of all of us.”
–Ann Patchett
Joy Harjo, Cloud Runner: Poems
(W. W. Norton)
“May be her most stunning work to date.”
–Library Journal
M. John Harrison, The End of Everything
(Riverhead)
“Harrison isn’t weirder than most other writers, just better. Reading The End of Everything, you feel you’re not so much reading as dreaming.”
–The Telegraph
Lauren Michele Jackson, Back: Essays on the Soul and Spine of America
(Amistad)
“Back is a collection of immense breadth—somatic, surprising, and cinematic in its scope.”
–Raven Leilani
Will Maclean, Solace House
(Grove)
“Original, mind-bending, terrifying fun.”
–Kirkus
Wendy S. Walters, A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint
(Scribner)
“Part polemic, part meditation, by turns personal and philosophical, and entirely original, this is the rare work of criticism that will change how you see the world around you.”
–Meghan O’Rourke
Kat Dunn, Rottenheart
(Zando)
“A darkly intoxicating and fierce sapphic retelling of Hamlet, filled with longing, rage, and grief.”
–Lucy Rose
Adam Grant, Vibe: The Secrets of Strong Connections in a Lonely World
(Viking)
“A deep dive into the science of friendship, companionship, and love. Every page is an illumination! The world needs this book now more than ever.”
–Reese Witherspoon
Elizabeth Hand, Unspeakable Things
(Little Brown)
“Hand has a gift for the sensuous, evocative detail, and her descriptions are often simultaneously seductive and spooky.”
–The New Yorker
Erica Lust, Lust: Pleasure, Performance, Power
(Metropolitan)
“A keen, authoritative, and provocative hybrid of erotic discussion, memoir, and academic discourse.”
–Kirkus
Elizabeth Kostova, Mystery Play
(Ballantine)
“A spookily supernatural slow-burn thriller that casts its own haunting spell over readers.”
–Library Journal
Amanda FitzSimons, American Girl: How a Billion-Dollar Doll and Its Unlikely Founder Changed Girlhood Forever
(Atria)
“The book is absolutely inhalable.”
–Booklist
Lieke Marsman, trans. by Sophie Collins, On Another Planet They Can Save Me
(Catapult)
“A brilliant shock of a book: poetical, philosophical, and so fervently on the side of flux, nuance, imagination, and delight.”
–Sasha Dugdale
Julie Orringer, Luna, Phoenix, Queen
(Knopf)
“Julie Orringer is one of our wisest and most open-hearted writers; this novel filled me with joy and wonder.”
–Katie Kitamura
Richard Cooke, The Last Best Place on the Internet: A Human History of Wikipedia
(W. W. Norton)
“Cooke leaves no stone unturned, and the result is a wide-ranging, eye-opening, and entertaining survey of the weird and wonderful world of Wikipedia.”
–Library Journal
Nneoma Ike-Njoku, The Water House
(Summit)
“The writing is starkly beautiful, impressionistic, and dreamlike.”
–Kirkus
Saul Justin Newman, Morbid: Debunking Modern Longevity Science
(MIT Press)
“A philosophical, wide-ranging and lucid examination of some of the intellectual foundations of longevity science.”
–Times Literary Supplement
Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Spirits
(W. W. Norton)
“Campbell’s writing is rapturous and darn near Shakespearean as she conjures storms of vengeance and grief that give way to the radiance of truth and love.”
–Booklist
Kim Ghattas, The Best Kind of American: A True Story of Murder, War, and America’s Undoing in the Middle East
(Holt)
“A miraculous achievement. Ghattas takes you inside a murder mystery and then reveals, layer upon layer, the maddening complexity of the ongoing wars of the Middle East.”
–Kai Bird