New Books for Adults – May 2023
Fiction
American Mermaid, by Julia Langbein /
Chain-Gang All-Stars, by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Checkout 19, by Claire-Louise Bennett /
Cleopatra and Frankenstein, by Coco Mellors /
The Covenant of Water, by Abraham Verghese /
Every Summer After, Carley Fortune /
First Frost, by Sarah Addison Allen /
Four Treasures of the Sky, by Jenny Tinghui Zhang /
The Girl Who Chased the Moon, by Sarah Addison Allen /
Greek Lessons, by Han Kang /
Grey Bees, by Andrey Kurkov /
Hang the Moon, by Jeannette Walls /
House of Cotton, by Monica Brashears /
The People Who Report More Stress, by Alejandro Varela /
Lost Lake, by Sarah Addison Allen /
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, by Tom Hanks /
Now Is Not the Time to Panic, by Kevin Wilson /
The Peach Keeper, by Sarah Addison Allen /
Pineapple Street, by Jenny Jackson /
Retrospective, by Juan Gabriel Vasquez /
Romantic Comedy, by Curtis Sittenfeld /
The Sugar Queen, by Sarah Addison Allen /
This Bird Has Flown, by Susanna Hoffs /
True Biz, by Sara Novic /
Historical Fiction
Clytemnestra, by Costanza Casati /
Hester, by Laurie Lico Albanese /
Homecoming, by Kate Morton /
The House of Eve, by Sadeqa Johnson /
The Trackers, by Charles Frazier /
Science Fiction/Fantasy
The Curator, by Owen King /
The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill, by Rowenna Miller /
The God of Endings, by Jacqueline Holland /
Lost Places, by Sarah Pinsker
The Magician’s Daughter, by H.G. Parry /
Suspense/Thriller/Crime/Horror
Age of Vice, by Deepti Kapoor /
Bad Cree, by Jessica Johns /
The Eden Test, by Adam Sternbergh /
Killers of a Certain Age, by Deanna Raybourn /
The Overnight Guest, by Heather Gudenkauf /
Mystery
Jackal, by Erin E. Adams /
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, by Jesse Q. Sutanto /
Non-Fiction
Aftershocks: A Memoir, by Nadia Owusu /
Energetic Herbalism, by Kat Maier /
Farming for the Long Haul, by Michael Foley /
Fishermen’s Knits from the Coast of Norway, by Line Iversen and Margareth Sandvik /
The Healthy Vegetable Garden, by Sally Morgan /
The Home-Scale Forest Garden, by Dani Baker /
The Humanure Handbook, by Joseph Jenkins /
Looking for the Hidden Folk: How Iceland’s elves can save the Earth, by Nancy Marie Brown (local author) /
Love, Nature, Magic: Shemanic journeys into the heart of my garden, by Maria Rodale /
Mini-Forest Revolution, by Hannah Lewis /
No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt, by Doris Kearns Goodwin /
No-Till Intensive Vegetable Culture: Pesticide-free methods for restoring soil and growing nutrient-rich, high-yielding crops, by Bryan O’Hara /
Our Wild Farming Life, by Lynn Cassells and Sandra Baer /
The Plant Lover’s Backyard Forest Garden, by Pippa Chapman /
Run Towards the Danger, by Sarah Polley /
The Small-Scale Poultry Farm, by Harvey Ussery /
The Wager: A tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, by David Grann /
The Wife of Bath, by Marion Turner /