New Arrivals: The Best Recent Book Releases
If you're looking for the best new books to read this spring, start here. From Rachel Khong's latest to the buzziest new thrillers, the perfect book for your spring reading of 2024 is on this list.
Real Americans
Rachel KhongLily, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, meets Matthew, the heir to a vast fortune while interning at a early-2000s new media company. They fall in love, she gets pregnant, they break up -- so the story goes. When their teenage son sets out to find out the identity of his father, his journey risks the life Lily has made for the two of them. Brit Bennett called Real Americans "mesmerizing."
Ilana Masad (newly minted Ph.D.) & May-lee Chai 翟梅莉Hardcover, 2024
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik LarsonErik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City and The Splendid and the Vile, brings readers to Charleston, South Carolina, in the five months leading up to the Civil War. Garden and Gun calls it "a masterclass in reportage and storytelling."
Tobias Carroll & Mitchell G.Hardcover, 2024
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookRebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart--Again
Robert KaganKirkus called Rebellion "a powerful, much-needed political and social analysis that all lovers of democracy should read."
Hardcover, 2024
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications
Emily Oster"In The Unexpected, we encounter a strikingly softer version of Oster — one who is toying with the idea that not every experience in parenthood can or should be viewed through the lens of statistical analysis or can or should be optimized. This is an Emily Oster who gives as much room on the page to radical acceptance as she does to hard data," praised The Cut of Emily Oster and Nathan Fox's new book on navigating complications and uncertainty in pregnancy.
Miranda Rake & Lauren MechlingHardcover, 2024
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookMean Boys: A Personal History
Geoffrey MakGeoffrey Mak stuns in this new collection of essays on queerness, masculinity, and community. "Tracing his own experiences as the gay son of an Evangelical minister to the dark rooms of Berlin’s techno clubs, Mak investigates art and desire, transgression and forgiveness, and ultimately, the value of connection in a sick world" praised Nylon Magazine.
layla & Angel ShawHardcover, 2024
$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first bookBite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
Aimee NezhukumatathilPoet Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of four collections, including World of Wonders, returns with a new meditation on food, memory, and nature. Exploring the connection between culture, food, and place, this new collection promises to be a feast for the senses.
Megha MajumdarHardcover, 2024
$26.99$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first bookMissing White Woman
Kellye GarrettOn a romantic trip to New York City, Bree discovers the body of a beautiful, blond woman in the foyer of their rental. Her boyfriend is nowhere to be found. Bree is forced to navigate the police and an angry social media mob as a Black woman in a city she doesn't know. Early reviewers have praised Missing White Woman as a smart, twisty thriller with sharp insight into the role that social media plays in true crime in the 21st century.
Oline Cogdill & Kate BrodyHardcover, 2024
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookJust the Good Stuff: No-Bs Secrets to Success (No Matter What Life Throws at You)
Jim VandeheiJan VandeHei spent his high school and college years more focused on partying than becoming class president, finding himself with a 1.4 GPA at the end of his freshman year. When he discovered what he was passionate about, he turned his life around, going on to found Axios and Politico. Without BS or platitudes, VandeHei is breaking down his secrets to success. This would make a great gift for an upcoming grad.
Mike AllenHardcover, 2024
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
Karen ValbyThe Swans of Harlem recounts the little-known history of the Dance Theater of Harlem, a pioneering ballet troupe of Black ballerinas who performed for Mick Jagger, the Queen of England, the White House, and more at the height of the Civil Rights movement. Reparations Club called it "captivating, rich in vivid detail and character, and steeped in the glamour and grit of professional ballet."
D a n y e l 🔆 S m i t h & Martha Anne Toll (on Blue Sky as marthaannetoll)Hardcover, 2024
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Age of Grievance
Frank Bruni"At once an excoriation of Fox News, college speech policing, self-obsession fueled by social media and “oppression Olympics,” this is a book that finds faults and possibilities on both sides of the political aisle. A final “antidote” chapter proposes a reprieve rooted in humility," praised the New York Times.
Stacey Lindsay & Lionel ShriverHardcover, 2024
$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first bookBorderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder
Alexander KrissPublisher's Weekly called this new memoir from psychotherapist Alexander Kriss "an enterprising and in-depth exploration of who decides what it means to be ill, how mental illness is framed in cultural narratives, and who gets shut out of those narratives. It’s an ambitious reassessment of an understudied condition."
Publishers WeeklyHardcover, 2024
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts
Mary Claire HaverDr. Mary Claire Haver, board-certified OB/GYN, doesn't think women need to suffer menopause symptoms in silence. This new book offers evidence-based recommendations on how to manage the hormonal transitions associated with menopause.
Hardcover, 2024
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookWarren and Bill: Gates, Buffett, and the Friendship That Changed the World
Anthony McCartenKirkus reviews calls this look into the longtime friendship of Warren Buffett and Bill Gates from Academy Award nominated screenwriter Anthony McCarten a "lucid biography that subtly questions the role of private philanthropy."
Hardcover, 2024
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers
Abraham ChangTold at a young age that he would have seven great loves of his life, Young Wang goes to college and falls hard for his first love, Erena. Superstitious to a fault, he can't help but wonder if she is destined to be simply one of seven, even as their relationship blossoms. Fans of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow will fall for this tender and charming love story.
Hardcover, 2024
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first bookMiss Morgan's Book Brigade
Janet Skeslien CharlesA touching story of women-- one the wealthy daughter of banker J.P. Morgan, on a mission to set up a library for soldiers on the front lines of WWI, the other an aspiring author working at the New York Public Library in 1987-- who find solace in the power that books can have on our lives.
Hardcover, 2024
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first bookADHD Is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD
Penn HoldernessADHD can be awesome, according to content creators Kim and Penn Holderness, who are on a mission to redefine the misunderstood condition. With signature humor, they'll walk you through their evidence-based tips on how to shift your mindset and play to your strengths with ADHD.
Hardcover, 2024
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first bookFunny Story
Emily HenryDaphne's fiance Peter loved to tell the funny story of how they met... until he realized that he was actually in love with another woman. Now, Daphne is living in the town she moved to for him without friends, family, or a place to stay. When she finds an opportunity to live with a man named Miles, things seem promising, with one catch--he's her ex's new fiancee's ex-boyfriend. Full of heart, humor, and compelling characters, Henry's latest will keep you glued to the page.
Chris Hewitt & Chris HewittHardcover, 2024
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy TanWith a foreword by ornithologist David Sibley, The Backyard Bird Chronicles is an homage to the nature and life around you, complete with colorful illustrations by Amy Tan. Inspired by a project she began in 2016 in hope of personal serenity in admiring the birds she saw at her home, Tan here explores birds with curiosity and thoughtfulness.
Barbara J King & Sue HortonBookbook - Detail Unspecified, 2024
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookExtinction
Douglas PrestonAt Erebus Resort, a hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Rocky Mountains, guests can view woolly mammoths, Irish Elk, and giant ground sloths—all brought back from extinction via genetic manipulation. When a billionaire's son and his wife are kidnapped and found dead in the Erebus backcountry, Agent Frances Cash must partner with a county sheriff to track down the killers.
Publishers Weekly & Tor Books (Check Mark)Hardcover, 2024
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first bookAll That Happiness Is: Some Words on What Matters
Adam GopnikGopnik argues that the rat race is less of a race and more of a maze with no real exit. Accomplishment, he argues, might be the way out. From the stories of artists and philosophers to Gopnik's own butterfingered attempts at playing Beatles songs on a guitar, Gopnik explores how contentment flows from passion, whether that leads to a career or not.
charley burlockHardcover, 2024
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Paris Novel
Ruth ReichlJulia Louis-Dreyfus calls The Paris Novel "a sumptuous book I simply could not put down." A heartfelt adventure through the food, art, and fashion scenes of 1980s Paris that follows Stella, a woman who's been gifted a one-way ticket and a note that says "Go to Paris," by her estranged, now deceased, mother. As Stella explores life alone in the city, she finds herself testing old habits and embracing the joys of life as she takes chances and lives authentically.
Amy McCarthy & mattie kahnHardcover, 2024
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters
Susan PageIn Susan Page's biography of Barbara Walters, we discover just the depth of impact she left on the media, starting in the 1960s. She spent her career interviewing everyone from presidents to famous actors and all of the kinds of people in between. Then, at 67, she founded a talk show as both a host and producer--almost unheard of for female producers of her age at the time. Built from more than 150 interviews, Page sculpts a portrait of Walters as a groundbreaker and rulebreaker.
Lisa SchwarzbaumHardcover, 2024
$30.99$15.49 + Free shipping50% off your first bookShakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
Judi DenchFor the first time, Dame Judi Dench opens up about every Shakespearean role she's played throughout her seven-decade career, from Lady Macbeth and Titania to Ophelia and Cleopatra. Through intimate conversations with actor and director Brendan O'Hea, Dench guides readers through Shakespeare's plays with incisive clarity as we share in her triumphs, disasters, and backstage shenanigans.
michael simkins & Kirkus ReviewsHardcover, 2024
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookLucky
Jane SmileyIn Smiley's trademark style, Lucky follows a young woman musician whose star is rising. As she walks in the path of women musicians before her, of fame, recording studios, and record executives, she feels that her life may be missing something. Is it. . . love? Or something else?
Hardcover, 2024
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Everything War: Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power
Dana MattioliVeteran reporter Dana Mattioli has been covering Amazon for years. And in 2017, Lina Khan published a paper that accused Amazon of being a monopoly so large, it was akin to a modern-day Standard Oil. With unparalleled access to hundreds of interviews, from Amazon execs to small businesses, Mattioli exposes how the corporation has reshaped the very nature of the global economy.
Publishers WeeklyHardcover, 2024
$32.50$16.25 + Free shipping50% off your first bookSafe and Sound
Laura McHughAmelia and Kylee were found unharmed in their upstairs bedroom the night their teen cousin, Grace, vanished while she was babysitting them—leaving nothing but a blood-covered kitchen in a Missouri farmhouse. She'd just been on the verge of getting out of their dead-end town. Now, Kylee and Amelia are about to graduate, and when human remains are found, they think they finally know who took Grace. But what they uncover is worse than they could have ever imagined.
Molly Odintz & Publishers WeeklyHardcover, 2024
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookDays of Wonder
Caroline LeavittAuthor Jean Kwok (Searching for Sylvia Lee) calls Days of Wonder "poignant, thrilling, and moving." When Ella Fitchburg finds love as a teen in New York City, her life feels glorious. But things are soon upended when she's accused of trying to murder her boyfriend's father, finds out she's pregnant, and is then sentenced to prison. Six years later, having given up the child while incarcerated, Ella moves to Ann Arbor, Michigan with one goal: to get her daughter back. Yet a central mystery endures: what really happened that fateful night which led to Ella's conviction?
Hardcover, 2024
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookI Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays
Nell Irvin PainterNell Painter has published groundbreaking work on Sojourner Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Malcolm X, and other luminaries. Led by unbridled curiosity, Painter asks readers to reconsider race, politics, and identity. I Just Keep Talking assembles her writing into a single volume for the first time, displaying the breadth and depth of her decades-long historical inquiry and the evolution of Black political thought.
Hardcover, 2024
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookAn Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Doris Kearns GoodwinDoris Kearns Goodwin is one of America's nationally recognized historians, and she, and her late husband, Dick Goodwin, had a storied past tied to American politics--Dick as a speechwriter and staff member for Lyndon B. Johnson, who Doris worked for as well. When Doris and Dick decide to open more than 50 boxes from his time in public service and life, the two unpack the history of the 1960s, the stories between them, and explore a time not so dissimilar to now of great political upheaval.
Publishers Weekly & Robert CostaHardcover, 2024
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookKnife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Salman RushdieOn August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was attacked with a knife. Here, Rushdie speaks out for the first time, exploring the artistic response to violence that is possible, and how he found the strength to continue forward. A harrowing and intimate meditation on life, loss, art, and endurance.
Gary Shteyngart & Dwight GarnerHardcover, 2024
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookClose to Death
Anthony HorowitzIn the picture-perfect community of Riverside Close, the residents enjoy gardens, the quiet with occasional birdsong, and tranquility, all behind a lcoked gate. It's idyllic until the new neighbors arrive. The Kentworthys have four gas-guzzling cars, loud children, and plans for the neighborhood. Let's just say, they don't make fast friends. So when Giles Kentworthy is found dead with a crossbow bolt in his chest, Detective Hawthorne gets involved. But how do you solve a whodunit when anyone who knew the guy would've done it?
Chris Hewitt & Molly OdintzHardcover, 2024
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookBriefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real about the End
Alua ArthurMost of us don't want to think about "the end." But what if thinking about death could help us lead better, more authentic lives? That's what Alua Arthur thinks. She has supported and helped many in end-of-life care, from the business matters to the medical directives to the sacred moments. After Alua's first-hand experience with fleeing 1980s Ghana, struggling with depression, and advocating for her brother-in-law as he died of lymphoma, Arthur found her life's calling. Author Jodi Picoult calls the book "a truly unique, inspiring perspective on the time we have."
connect w me on Threads, Tribel, BlueSky, Insta & Delaina DixonHardcover, 2024
$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first bookIndian Burial Ground
Nick MedinaNoemi just wants a fresh start. She has plans to move away from the reservation with her boyfriend, until he's found dead, suddenly, of an apparent suicide. But Noemi isn't the only one who thinks something is off and there might be more that lurks within the tribal lands. When her Uncle Louie returns after over a decade away from the reservation, he and Noemi work together to unbury the answers.
Lizz Schumer 🏳️🌈Hardcover, 2024
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookYou Know What You Did
K. T. NguyenAnnie "Anh Le" Shaw grew up poor, but from the outside, she seems to now have it all-- a beautiful home, a wonderful family, and a dream career. But when her mother, a Vietnam War refugee, dies suddenly one night, Annie's curated life begins to unravel. Her obsessive-compuslive disorder, previously vanquished, comes surging back into her life. Except, this time, the obtrusive, disturbing fixations in her brain might actually be. . .real?
Lizz Schumer 🏳️🌈 & E.A. AymarHardcover, 2024
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Limits
Nell FreudenbergerIn Nell Freudenberger's latest, the author charts the trajectory of two women: Kate, the new wife of a New York surgeon, and her step-daughter, Pia, who has come to stay with them from France. Pia's biological mother (and biologist) obsesses over saving a coral reef in Tahiti, and so sends Pia to live with her ex-husband. Pia, precocious and in a new city, is used to being shuttled between parents and is poised to explode in classic teenage style when the family's life is upturned by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rebecca Meloan & The New YorkerHardcover, 2024
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookSomehow: Thoughts on Love
Anne LamottAnne Lamott is no stranger to writing boldly and earnestly about the big and small things in life—from quotidian details of making ends meet to how addiction can tear up relationships—all with love suspended in between. In Somehow, Lamott shares her wisdom and reflections on love it its many different forms. "Lamott’s homespun homilies, patchworks of common wisdom and slogans like 'one day at a time; might sound basic, but her boatload of self-awareness is genuine, and her dedication to craft elevates the writing from self-help journal to a companionable reader." —San Francisco Chronicle
Meredith MaranHardcover, 2024
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Wives: A Memoir
Simone GorrindoEvery marriage comes with compromises. Simone's comes with moving from New York City to Fort Benning, Georgia, where she feels out of place, and fending for herself as her new husband heads away on deployment for months at a time. Simone feels lost until she meets the army wives, a group of warm, caring women who welcome her into their midst. This memoir of unexpected friendship and sisterhood pulls the curtain back on the reality of Army wives.
Christie Tate & Susan BurtonHardcover, 2024
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first bookAll You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words: Unpublished, Unvarnished, and Told by the Beatles and Their Inner Circle
Peter BrownThe Beatles are icons among icons for music and popular culture, yet much mythology and gossip remain around their history, collaborations, and working and personal relationships. Based on never-before-seen interviews with the Beatles themselves and their inner circle, authors Gaines and Brown explore material that was originally recorded and compiled for their 1983 biography of the group, The Love You Make. What's revealed is a fantastic, complex, and thorough deep-dive into one of the most famous bands of all time and a great gift for music fans, Beatles nerds, and biography lovers.
Publishers WeeklyHardcover, 2024
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookFi: A Memoir of My Son
Alexandra FullerAlexandra Fuller is grieving the loss of her dad on the eve of her 50th birthday, and she's fresh out of a break-up and newly sober in Wyoming. Then, she receives news that her 21-year-old son has died in his sleep. A Zimbabwean living in the United States, Fuller has grappled before with the loss of her home, her country, younger siblings, and parents, but she is leveled by the experience of losing her child. What follows is an emotional, painful, and aching memoir about moving through life without easy answers, especially when presented with heartbreak and loss.
Hardcover, 2024
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: Their Stories Are Better Than the Bestsellers
James PattersonHave you ever wondered about the person at the register at your local independent bookstore--or Tertulia, for that matter--to the local librarian your kid waves to every week before storytime? James Patterson and Matt Eversmann have written a tribute to the people to whom so many of us owe our love of reading. Tertulia avid readers are likely to find great joy from this adventure through the lives of books and the people who love them.
Hardcover, 2024
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookInstructions for Traveling West: Poems
Joy SullivanIn this poetry collection, Joy Sullivan charts our longing to discover the unknown and leap headfirst into reinvention. After quitting her job and leaving her fiancé mid-pandemic, Sullivan drove west to rediscover herself and the landscape around her, resulting in a powerfully moving series of poems on belonging, love, and freedom.
Paperback, 2024
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookNative Nations: A Millennium in North America
Kathleen DuvalLong before the colonization of the Americas, Indigenous Americans built large and diverse civilizations in a world that was ever-changing, with Native cities rivaling other urban centers around the globe in terms of sheer size. This new history book from award-winning historian Kathleen Duval shows the influence and sovereignity Indigenous Americans wielded both pre- and post-colonialism, with a new look at the complex societies Native nations developed and how the means of power shift over time.
Hardcover, 2024
$38.00$19.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookTable for Two: Fictions
Amor TowlesA delightful romp through the Golden Age of Hollywood and New York City, Table For Two features six short stories and a novella that explores chance, momentary encounters, and the essence of the modern marriage. Written with Towles' signature wit, this collection is sure to delight fans of his previous work and those exploring Amor Towles for the first time.
leigh haber & Hamilton CainHardcover, 2024
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Cemetery of Untold Stories
Julia AlvarezThe novel follows celebrated writer Alma Cruz, who inherits land in the Dominican Republic and creates a graveyard to bury her untold stories and failed character drafts. Unexpectedly, the buried characters defy her, rewriting themselves and revealing secret tales, like those of Trujillo's erased wife and an underground doctor. Alma finds meaning in the vitality of stories that persist beyond endings. Alvarez reminds us our life stories are never truly finished.
shannon carlin & Cindy and Luis UrreaHardcover, 2024
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookWe Loved It All: A Memory of Life
Lydia MilletRejecting the traditional memoir format in favor of a collective "we" point-of-view, novelist and National Book Award finalist Lydia Millet chronicles human existence under climate change, weaving a story of her life as a climate advocate and environmental economist with moments of closeness with "the others," the nature that surrounds us.
shannon carlin & Cory OldweilerHardcover, 2024
$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first bookLike Love: Essays and Conversations
Maggie NelsonAttention Nelsonheads: she’s back! One of the most anticipated books of 2024, Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts and Bluets, turns her eye towards artists like Prince and Kara Walker in this momentous collection. Tracing the development of her signature themes, like friendship, queerness, art, perversion, and transgression, new and existing fans of Nelson will enjoy this glimpse into a brilliant mind.
Hardcover, 2024
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookA View from the Stars: Stories and Essays
Cixin LiuLiu Cixin's nonfiction essays and short fiction are brought together in one volume for the first time. Marrying philosophy with cutting-edge science, Liu explores the contours of the universe and human soul.
Hardcover, 2024
$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first bookTraces of Enayat
Iman Mersal"Traces of Enayat is no conventional biography. Mersal masterfully blends a variety of disparate elements – from a study of Enayat’s life and accounts of Mersal’s sleuth work, to a depiction of life for women in 1960s Egypt." - Malcolm Forbes, The National News
Paperback, 2024
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first bookWith My Back to the World: Poems
Victoria ChangA starred review in Publishers Weekly calls this poetry collection, heavily inspired by Agnes Martin, painterly and meditative. "Full of memorable insights as Chang experiments with erased and occluded work, all the while operating in the realm of feeling, where ‘desire is the only thing / with nerve endings.’ These elegiac poems thoughtfully balance the head and the heart.”
Virginia Quarterly Review & Laura McKeeHardcover, 2024
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookYou Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
Ada LimónWith an introduction from US Poet Laureate Ada Limón, this new anthology brings together 50 prominent voices, including PEN/Voelcker winners Victoria Chang and Diane Seuss, to interrogate what nature writing means in our current social, political, and environmental climate. Calling attention to the necessity of nature to humanity, this anthology is a provocative addition to America's rich tradition of nature writing.
Ada Limón & alexispaulineHardcover, 2024
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book