This is just a partial list of some titles coming up this year. Start looking for money in the sofa cushions.:
January
A dark comic masterpiece - first solo adult novel in more than a decade.
The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Era by Taylor Branch
A Memory of Light (Wheel of Time: Book 14) Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
February
S.E.C.R.E.T. by L. Maria Adeline
"The Canadian 'Shades of Gray.'"
In Middle Men, Stegner Fellow and New Yorker contributor Jim Gavin delivers a hilarious and panoramic vision of California, portraying a group of men, from young dreamers to old vets, as they make valiant forays into middle-class respectability. I
March
The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates
A major historical novel from "one of the great artistic forces of our time" (The Nation)—an eerie, unforgettable story of possession, power, and loss in early-twentieth-century Princeton, a cultural crossroads of the powerful and the damned.
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout “animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,” wrote The New Yorker on the publication of her Pulitzer Prize–winning Olive Kitteridge. The San Francisco Chronicle praised Strout’s “magnificent gift for humanizing characters.” Now the acclaimed author returns with a stunning novel as powerful and moving as any work in contemporary literature.
April
Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou
The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother.
My Animals and Other Family by Clare Balding
Horses and dogs were my family and my friends. This is their story as much as it is mine.
Gulp: Adventures of the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on a unforgettable tour of our insides.
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
Wide in scope, ambitious, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City, The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life.
June
In the National Book Award–winning Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelous high-wire act of fiction that The New York Times Book Review called “an emotional tour de force.” Now McCann demonstrates once again why he is one of the most acclaimed and essential authors of his generation with a soaring novel that spans continents, leaps centuries, and unites a cast of deftly rendered characters, both real and imagined.
High Rise Stories by Audrey Petty
High Rise Stories sheds light on the human cost of one of America’s most ill-conceived and catastrophic civic programs: the Chicago housing projects. As the buildings themselves are slowly being dismantled, leaving thousands of residents in flux, this issue is as critical—and underreported—as ever.
September
Sequel to 'The Shining.'
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