New Arrivals: The Best Recent Book Releases
If you're looking for the best new books to read this spring, start here. From Colm Tóibín's latest to the buzziest new sci-fi, the perfect book for your spring reading of 2024 is on this list.
This Strange Eventful History
Claire Messud"The sweeping tale of a family – the Cassars – whose life takes them from second world war Paris to the US, Cuba, Australia and beyond over the decades that follow. It’s almost unbearably moving, wise and full of the most gorgeous prose," praised the Guardian, naming This Strange Eventful History as one of the top books to look out for in 2024.
Ron Charles & Jennifer WilsonHardcover, 2024
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first bookAll Fours
Miranda JulyWriter, director, and actor Miranda July returns with All Fours, a novel of midlife anxiety. A semi-famous artist abandons her husband and child to check into a seedy motel off the highway, where she pursues a much younger man and his girlfriend. Turning the midlife crisis trope on its head, July's sexy, surprising novel delights at every turn.
Jessamine Chan & Liam HessHardcover, 2024
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
George StephanopoulosEveryone knows the White House Situation Room, but few know what goes on inside. George Stephanopoulos takes us inside the Situation Room during the most critical moments in US history, from JFK's assassination to 9/11, as well as the events on January 6th, with a first-ever report. Booklist called this a "must-read for any history and policy wonk."
Andrew DeMilloHardcover, 2024
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookBlue Ruin
Hari KunzruAn artist, struggling to survive as an essential worker during the pandemic, unexpectedly quarantines with his now-wealthy ex-girlfriend, the man she left him for, an eccentric gallery owner, and his girlfriend. This gripping novel moves through time as Jay revisits his past lives. "Kunzru’s portrait of the pandemic is tipped to be the most gripping COVID-noir novel yet." —The Conversation
Publishers Weekly & Sandra NewmanHardcover, 2024
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookAnother Word for Love: A Memoir
Carvell WallaceWriter and podcaster Carvell Wallace, who has profiled figures like Steph Curry and Viola Davis, turns inward, digging deep into his own life as a Black and queer man in America. The result is a spirited, courageous, and deeply affective portrait of love and humanity itself.
T O N Y A & DolenHardcover, 2024
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookMorning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History
Nellie BowlesOnce a bonafide progressive, former New York Times journalist Nellie Bowles, has gotten a number of side eyes for questioning the impact of the movement. While other progressives warned her she would be on the "wrong side of history," she dives in further with this irreverant takedown, criticizing the absurdity of a movement that may have lost its footing.
Molly FischerHardcover, 2024
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookOye
Melissa MogollonColombian author Melissa Mogollon's debut novel Oye centers around a series of one-sided phone calls from one sister to another. Luciana, the baby of her large family, finds her senior year turned upside down when she is forced to become a caretaker for her ailing grandmother. Booklist called it a "smart, wildly inventive, and funny tale that’s both heartbreaking and heartwarming."
Publishers Weekly & María AlejandraHardcover, 2024
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookRebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
Kathleen HannaTime praised punk legend Kathleen Hanna's first memoir, calling it "candid and reflective, Rebel Girl tells the stories behind her best-known songs and reframes her most mythologized brushes with the mainstream—like that time she accidentally titled Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”"
David Renshaw & evan minskerHardcover, 2024
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first bookNot a River
Selva AlmadaFrom acclaimed Argentenian writer Selva Almada comes a story of two men, who take the teenage son of their deceased friend fishing on a nearby island, inciting fury from the locals after they kill a stingray and leave it to rot. Nominated for the 2024 International Booker Prize, Not a River has been praised as an "extraordinary novel about masculinity, guilt, and irrepressible desire."
Ella Creamer &Paperback, 2024
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookLong Island
Colm ToibinLong Island follows Eilis Lacey 20 years after the events of Brooklyn, published in 2009. Unfulfilled in her marriage and longing for her native Ireland, Eilis finds her life turned upside down when a man shows up at her doorstop saying that his wife is pregnant with her husband's child. Eilis is left examining her life's choices and the paths she didn't take. Together, these two novels are being praised as the highlights of the author's career.
Publishers Weekly & David Pumpkin Spice Socialist Moscrop 🎃Hardcover, 2024
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book