It’s spring although it won’t stop snowing, but more time to read before the garden demands attention. This book list seems a bit smaller than usual and, of course, there are titles that call out to me. Keep writing all our authors and we will keep reading. When it finally warms up take a book to the park.
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Literature and Fiction
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell: A Novel by Robert Dugoni
Ecstasy: A Novel by Mary Sharratt
Lawn Boy: A Novel by Jonathan Evison
Varina: A Novel by Charles Frazier (Cold Mountain)
The Only Story: A Novel by Julian Barnes
The Female Persuasion: A Novel by Meg Wolitzer
The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers
Circe by Madeline Miller
Mysteries and Thrillers
Greeks Bearing Gifts (A Bernice Gunther Novel) by Philip Kerr
The Oracle Year: A Novel by Charles Soule
Macbeth by Jo Nesbo
To Die But Once: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear
Warning Light by David Ricciardi
The Hellfire Club by Jake Tapper
Tangerine: A Novel by Christine Mangan
After Anna by Lisa Scottoline
Shattered Mirror: An Eve Duncan Novel by Iris Johansen
The Knowledge: A Richard Jury Mystery by Martha Grimes
Science Fiction and Fantasy
One Way by S J Morden
Head On by John Scalzi
Before Mars (A Planetfall Novel) by Emma Newman
Space Opera by Catherynne M Valente
Nonfiction
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon by Robert Kurson
The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us by Lucy Jones
Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer by Barbara Ehrenreich
Look Alive Out There: Essays by Sloane Crosley
Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science’s Highest Honor by Brian Keating
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery by Barbara K Lipska PhD, Elaine McArdle
The Consciousness Instinct: Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes The Mind by Michael S Gazzaniga
Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C Clark and the Making of a Masterpiece by Michael Benson
God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright
The Truth about Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos and other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife by Lucy Cooke
Biographies and Memoirs
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clementine Wamariya, Elizabeth Well
Creative Quest by Questlove
Tiger Woods by Jeff Benedict, Armen Keteyian
You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession by Piper Weiss
The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma’s Table by Rick Bragg
My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family, and Food by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich
The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison
The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras by Brantley Hargrove
Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography through Letters by Freeman Dyson
Swell: A Sailing Surfer’s Voyage of Awakening by Liz Clark, Daniella Manini
The New York Times Book Review
March 11
Nonfiction
Behemoth by Joshua B Freeman
A False Report by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong
Rise and Kill by Ronen Bergman
Fair Shot by Chris Hughes
We the Corporations by Adam Winkler
What Are We Doing Here? (essays) by Marilynne Robinson
Conspiracy by Ryan Holiday
Fiction
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
Eternal Life by Dara Horn
Brass by Xhenet Aliu
YA Crossover
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
March 18th
Can Donald Trump by Impeached?
Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide by Cass R. Sunstein
Can It Happen Here? Authoritarianism in America by Cass R Sunstein
Nonfiction
Secrets We Kept by Krystal Sital
Sabers and Utopia: Visions of Latin America by Marco Vargas Llosa
The Neighborhood by Marco Vargas Llosa
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind Our Structures by Roma Agrawal
It’s Even Worse Than You Think by David Cay Johnston
A Tokyo Romance (memoir) by Ian Buruma
Victorians Undone by Kathryn Hughes
The Stowaway by Laurie Gwen Shapiro
My Father’s Wake (memoir) by Keven Tooles
Language
Swearing is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language by Emma Byrne
How We Talk: The Inner Workings of Conversation by N J Enfield
How Language Began: The Story of Humanity’s Greatest Invention by Daniel I Everett
Crime Fiction
The Temptation of Forgiveness by Donna Leon
The Escape Artist by Brad Meltzer
Let Me Lie by Clare Mackintosh
The Big Get-Even by Paul Di Filippo
Fiction
Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala
A Long Way From Home by Peter Carey
The Which Way Tree by Elizabeth Crook
The Driest Season by Meghan Kenny
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
March 25th
Fiction
Mrs. By Caitlin Macy
Nonfiction
Stealing the Show by Joy Press
A Lab of One’s Own by Patricia Fara
Broadband by Claire L Evans
Brazen by Pénélope Bagieu
Text Me When You Get Home by Joanne Lipman
Brave by Rose McGowan
Tomorrow Will Be Different by Sarah McBride
Biotopia by Emily Chang
Dear Madam President by Jennifer Palmieri
Ask Me About My Uterus by Abby Norman
April 1
Fiction
The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
Child Sleuths and Child Victims
The Knowledge by Richard Jury
The Disappeared by C J Box
To Die But Once (Maisie Dobbs) by Jacqueline Winspear
Jack Rabbit Smile by Joe R Lansdale
The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu
Call Me Zebra by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi (Iranian)
Song of a Captive Bird by Jasmin Darznik
Nonfiction
The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist by Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington
The Return of Marco Polo’s World by Robert D. Kaplan
Victorious Century by David Cannadine
Fatal Discord by Michael Massing
Journey into Europe by Akbar Ahmed
Water
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell
Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity by Sandra Postel
The Sources: How Rivers Made America and America Remade Rivers by Martin Doyle
Publisher’s Weekly
March 16th
What is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker (NF)
Death Comes in Through the Kitchen by Teresa Dovalpage (F)
The Pleasure Shock: The Rise of Deep Brain Stimulation and Its Forgotten Inventor by Lone Frank (NF)
The Punishment She Deserves: A Lynley Novel by Elizabeth George
Never Remember: Searching for Stalin’s Gulags in Putin’s Russia by Masha Gessen and Misha Friedman (NF)
Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown by Lauren Hilgers
The Gunners: A Novel by Rebecca Kauffman (F)
The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X R Pan (YA)
The Italian Teacher: A Novel by Tom Rachman (F)
Aetherial Worlds by Tatyana Tolstaya trans from the Russian by Anya Migdal (Short Stories)
American Histories by John Edgar Wideman (Short Stories)
March 23rd
The Disappeared: A Joe Pickett Novel by C J Box (F)
Emergency Contact by Mary H K Choi (YA)
I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman (YA)
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton (NF)
Searching For Stars on an Island in Maine by Alan Lightman (essays)
The Solitary Twin by Harry Mathews (NF)
Undocumented: Immigration and Militarization of the United States-Mexico Border by John Moore (NF)
Murder on Shades Mountain: The Legal Lynching of Willie Peterson and the Struggle for Justice in Jim Crow Birmingham by Melanie S Morrison (NF)
The Master Key by Masako Togowa trans, from the Japanese by Simon Grove (F) (1st published in 1984)
My Dead Parents by Anya Yurchyshyn (Memoir)
March 30th
What is Real: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker (NF)
Because We Are Bad: OCD and Girl Lost in Thought by Lily Bailey (memoir)
Paris By the Book by Liam Callanan (F)
The Wolf: Under the Northern Sky: Book 1 by Leo Carew (Fantasy)
America is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo (F)
Look Alive Out There by Sloane Crosley (essays)
The Consciousness Instinct: Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Made the Mind by Michael S Gazzaniga (NF)
The Recovering: Instruction and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison (NF)
Denmark Vesey’s Garden by Ethan and Blain Roberts (NF)
Animals Eat Each Other by Elle Nash (F)
Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic (F)
Killing King: Racial Terrorists, James Earl Ray, and the Plot to Assassinate Martin Luther King Jr. by Stuart Wexler, Larry Hancock (NF)
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
So Many Books, Choose Wisely 