New Books

“I'd assumed I would step into the role naturally since the role itself was natural, was nature. But nothing felt natural about this." At Yesteryear Ranch, Natalie Heller Mills has constructed the pe... (Shane)

As Liz, who loved this book too—it was her second-favorite Booker nominee last year—said to me before I read it, it's not doing anything that hasn't been done before, with its plot of adultery and sub... (Tom)

David Nicholls's latest novel is wonderful company if you enjoy a good, long hike and a slow-burn romance. Marnie is a 38-year-old divorcee who is nearly agoraphobic since becoming a self-employed cop... (Anika)

The short essays in this short book struck a chord with me as a nature lover and a Pacific Northwesterner and a parent of a young feral child and an avid reader of books and a writer of words. I expec... (Anika)

Keefe's previous bestsellers—Say Nothing, which told the story of the Troubles in Northern Ireland through a single murder, and Empire of Pain, which traced much of the opioid epidemic to the Sackler... (Tom)

On the face of it, Lerner's fourth novel seems, after his big, and more chewily traditional, third novel, The Topeka School, to be a return to the more elliptical style of his first two, Leaving the A... (Tom)

I'm thrilled that one of my favorite books, Underfoot in Show Business, is back in print, bringing Helene Hanff's scrappy memoir to a new audience. Before she wrote 84, Charing Cross Road, Hanff was a... (Haley)

A bizarre and beautiful take on the zombie story, where our narrator is the zombie. She is grieving her former life, including her own name and the love of her life; while her human memories have larg... (Anika)

“It’s strange to know that whenever I remember myself at fifteen, I’ll think of this.” Reading My Dark Vanessa felt like my skin was shrinking—like I was suddenly not enough to cover my body. There w... (Shane)

In a usual crime story, the consequences of a crime, if there are any, descend in a heap at the end, as justice is (or isn't) served. In this novel, an autobiographical debut from 1972, the consequenc... (Tom)

Bike is nervous for her first day as a rental bicycle. What if no one wants a ride? Her fears are soon put to rest as her busy day begins. She takes a baker to Pike Place Market, a dad and baby to the... (Haley)