New Books for Adults, February 2021
Fiction
Homeland Elegies / Ayad Akhtar
One Night Two Souls Went Walking / Ellen Cooney
The Wrong Kind of Woman / Sarah McCraw Crow
Fortune and Glory: tantalizing twenty-seven / Janet Evanovich
The Searcher / Tana French
Missionaries / Phil Klay
Circe / Madeline Miller
Hamnet: a novel of the plague / Maggie O’Farrell
The Book of Two Ways: a novel / Jodi Picoult
Masked Prey / John Sandford
The Orphan Collector / Ellen Marie Wiseman
Nonfiction
The Year 1000: when explorers connected the world and globalization began / Valerie Hansen
The Better Half: on the genetic superiority of women / Sharon Moalem
The Upswing: how America came together a century ago and how we can do it again / Robert D. Putnam
Entangled Life: how fungi make our worlds, change our minds, and shape our futures / Merlin Sheldrake
Demagogue: the life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy / Larry Tye