New Books for Adults, February 2023
Fiction
Arabesques / Anton Shammas
Big Swiss / Jen Beagin
The Book of Goose / Yiyum Li
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek / Kim Michele Richardson
Brotherless Night / V.V. Ganeshananthan
Georgie, All Along / Kate Clayborn
If I Survive You / Jonathan Escoffery
The New Life / Tom Crewe
Really Good, Actually / Monica Heisey
The School for Good Mothers / Jessamine Chan
A Spell of Good Things / Ayòbámi Adébáyò
Stella Maris / Cormac McCarthy
The Thing in the Snow / Sean Adams
Tomorrow in Shanghai / May-Lee Chai
Victory City / Salman Rushdie
Wade in the Water / Nyani Nkrumah
Historical Fiction
The Mitford Affair / Marie Benedict
Science Fiction/Fantasy
Hell Bent / Leigh Bardugo
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself / Marisa Crane
Suspense/Thriller/Crime/Horror
Daisy Darker / Alice Feeney
How to Sell A Haunted House / Grady Hendrix
Notes on an Execution / Danya Kukafka
Things We Do in the Dark / Jennifer Hillier
The Villa / Rachel Hawkins
Mystery
The Bullet That Missed / Richard Osman
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone / Benjamin Stevenson
Non-Fiction
The Call of the Tribe / Mario Vargas Llosa
Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop / Martin Puchner
Of Ice and Men: How We’ve Used Cold to Transform Humanity / Fred Hogge
The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics and Improbable Experiments Changed the World / Suzie Sheehy
The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society / Eleanor Janega
The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging / Samira K. Mehta
Rough Sleepers / Tracy Kidder
The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction / Jamie Kreiner
Biography/Memoir
Hijab Butch Blues / Lamya H
Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages / Carmela Ciuraru
Spare / Prince Harry