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LITERARY FICTIONAcampora, Lauren. The Paper Wasp. Grove. Jun. 2019.304p. ISBN 9780802129413. $26; ebk ISBN 9780802147080. LITERARYHaving abandoned her artistic promise, Abby Graven envies former best friend Elise, a rising Hollywood [...]

Crafts1 Modern Macrame: 33 Stylish Projects for Your Handmade Home. [HC] Emily Katz. Ten Speed. 2018. ISBN 9780399579578. $25.2 Handmade Houseplants: Remarkably Realistic Plants You Can Make with Paper. [P] [...]

FICTION POP FICTION Austin, Emily. We Could Be Rats. Atria. Jan. 2025. ISBN 9781668058145. 256p. $27.99. POP FICTION Bestselling Austin (Interesting Facts About Space) returns with a story about the [...]

THE REVIEWS TEAM at SLJ is just starting to put together committees for this year's Best Books list, our annual much-anticipated selection of the titles that spoke to us, sang [...]

FROM DEBUTS BY NEW VOICES to the latest work by beloved authors, our starred 2024 books thus far offer something for everyone. There are stories of intergenerational bonds, with a […]

Inclusion and play seem to be the watchwords for this roundup. Disabilities are no longer a spotlight feature in dozens of board books we combed through, but simply part of […]

MYSTERY Alexander, Tasha. A Cold Highland Wind. Minotaur: St. Martin's. (Lady Emily Mysteries, Bk. 17). Oct 2023.304p. ISBN 9781250872333. $28. Downloadable, MYSTERY/HISTORICAL Vacationing with her family at Cairnfarn Castle, the [...]

BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR Michaud, Jon. Last Call at Coogan's: The Life and Death of a Neighborhood Bar. St. Martin's. Jun. 2023. 304p. ISBN 9781250221780. $29. BIOG This lovely book stems [...]

COLSON WHITEHEAD'S NEXT Whitehead, Colson. Crook Manifesto. Doubleday. Jul. 2023.336p. ISBN 9780385545150. $30. Irg. prnt. CD. LITERARY Furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney returns after the sensational Harlem Shuffle, [...]

In Our fourth annual books preview, LJ presents 400+ titles in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The aim is to capture top titles and top trends, and the authors here--literary stars, [...]

ANNIE ERNAUX'S LATEST Ernaux, Annie. Look at the Lights, My Love. Yale Univ. (Margellos World Republic of Letters). Apr. 2023.96p. tr. from French by Alison L. Strayer. ISBN 9780300268218. pap. [...]

BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR Bolstad, Erika. Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her. Sourcebooks. Jan. 2023.336p. ISBN 9781728246932. $26.99. MEMOIR What is more appealing [...]

Dellatore, Carl. More Is More Is More: Today's Maximalist Interiors. Rizzoli. Sept. 2022. 240p. ISBN 9780847872374. $55. INTERIOR DESIGN Maximalism is having a moment. Whether a backlash against the recent [...]

Bagger, Laerke. Close Knit: 15 Patterns and 45 Techniques from Beginner to Advanced from Europe's Coolest Knitter. Prestel. Oct. 2022. 272p. ISBN 9783791388861. $35. FIBER CRAFTS Bagger, known for her [...]

Science books are a gateway to wonder, and one is a new door opening to show something astounding from a far corner of this vast existence that our minds have [...]

FINE ARTS Prime: Art's Next Generation. Phaidon. May 2022.448p. ed. by Phaidon. ISBN 9781838662448. $79.95. FINE ARTS Art publisher Phaidon's latest survey spotlights global contemporary art from the millennial generation [...]

BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR * Almojera, Anthony. Riding the Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic. Mariner: Houghton Harcourt. Jun. 2022. 272p. ISBN 9780358652908. $26.99. MEMOIR [...]

HOME ECONOMICS Abdoo, Matt & Shane McBride. Pig Beach BBQ Cookbook: Smoked, Grilled, Roasted, and Sauced. Mariner: Houghton Harcourt. May 2022.304p. ISBN 9780358651888. $30. COOKING This barbecue cookbook, from Abdoo [...]

FICTION NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS Abdulrazak Gurnah's Afterlives (Riverhead, Aug.) uses a multigenerational saga to depict the brutal colonization of East Africa. Toni Morrison's Recitatif: A Story (Knopf, Feb.) is the [...]

Young environmentalists are more aware than ever that our planet needs protecting. School projects abound with topics that have kids seeking research books. Fledgling activists looking to enhance their knowledge [...]

Nearly 30 new and forthcoming databases and online products. Compiled by Mahnaz Dar Art Magazine Collection Archives. EBSCO. ebsco.com/products/magazine-archives/art-magazine-collection-archive EBSCO offers indexing, abstracting, and full text for the complete archive [...]

BIOGRAPHY *Burke, Tarana. Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement. Flatiron. Sept. 2021.272p. ISBN 9781250621733. $28.99. MEMOIR With this debut book, Burke writes an [...]

After two traumatic years trying to teach the same old topics in new and difficult ways, many teachers are looking for new paths. Maybe those paths lead outside, in which [...]

FINE ARTS Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography and the Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante, 1946-1964. Museum of Modern Art. Apr. 2021.184p. ed. by Sarah Hermanson Meister. ISBN 9781633450844. $45. PHOTOG This catalogue, for [...]

LITERARY STARS Awad, Mona. All's Well. S. & S. Aug. 2021. 368p. ISBN 9781982169664. $27. LITERARY Her marriage over and her acting career totaled by a bad accident that brings [...]

BIOGRAPHY Allende, Isabel. The Soul of a Woman. Ballantine. Mar. 2021.160p. ISBN 9780593355626. $22. MEMOIR Having written about her turbulent life in three previous memoirs (Paula, My Invented Country, and [...]

HEALTH & MEDICINE *Campbell, Olivia. Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine. Park Row: Harlequin. Mar. 2021.352p. ISBN 9780778389392. $27.99. MED Using her [...]

LITERATURE Hastings, Selina. Sybille Bedford: A Life Knopf. Feb. 2021.432p. ISBN 9781101947913. $32.50. LIT Biographer Hastings, who previously chronicled Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford, now meticulously charts the unusual life [...]

This year's edition of Titles To Watch includes nearly 300 key works in fiction and nonfiction, reflecting current concerns with politics, the pandemic, and #ownvoices authors and the desire to [...]

FINE ARTS About Time: Fashion and Duration. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Jun. 2020. 400p. ed. by Andrew Bolton. ISBN 9781588396884. $65. DEC ARTS This catalog and the exhibition of the [...]

MYSTERY Alexander, Tasha. The Dark Heart of Florence: A Lady Emily Mystery. Minotaur: St. Martin's. Mar. 2021. 304p. ISBN 9781250622068. $27.99. CD. MYSTERY In 1903, Lady Emily and her husband, [...]

There is something for all young environmentalists in these selections, whether it be pleasure reading about endangered animals or researching fuel sources. Young readers will learn about the interconnectivity of [...]

This season, publishers are producing series with greater varieties of topics than we have recently been seeing. The perennial favorites are present: international holidays, media literacy, and behavior management. But [...]

Fashion books may appear to appeal exclusively to fashionistas, dress historians, or aspiring designers, but titles about why we wear what we do and when are beautiful and compelling enough [...]

LITERARY FICTION Baxter, Charles. The Sun Collective. Pantheon. Nov. 2020. 336p. ISBN 9781524748852. $27.95. Downloadable. LITERARY The mother of falling-star actor Tim Brettigan knows that he has disappeared intentionally but [...]

TOP FICTION Akhtar, Ayad. Homeland Elegies. Little, Brown. Sept. 2020. 368p. ISBN 9780316496421. $28. LITERARY Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Akhtar blends social commentary and family drama--particularly, the story of a father [...]

FINE ARTS Beam, Alex. Broken Glass: Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight over a Modernist Masterpiece. Random. Mar. 2020. 352p. ISBN 9780399592713. $28. ARCH Scandalous romantic liaisons [...]

FINE ARTS Morris, Desmond. Postures: Body Language in Art. Thames & Hudson. Nov. 2019. 320p. ISBN 9780500022610. $39.95. FINE ARTS Surrealist artist and author (The Lives of Surrealists) Morris examines [...]

FINE ARTS Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away. Abbeville. ed. by Robert Jan van Pelt & others. ilSBN 9780789213310. The Museum of Jewish Heritage has devoted three of its [...]

BIOGRAPHY Albom, Mitch. Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family. Harper. Nov. 2019. 256p. photos. ISBN 9780062952394. $24.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062952417. MEMOIR Following a [...]

In the face of ever-evolving tech, it can be a chore to keep your collection up-to-date. That book about Vine? Obsolete. Nonfiction tides featuring kids typing on bulky desktop computers? [...]

One theme that appears throughout this season offerings is the connectedness of everything. Innovators in the U.S. find a solution for refugees on another continent. Math underpins every field of [...]

Never underestimate the practical lessons of hands-on activities. MacGyver has become a verb, and readers will be MacGyvering all over the place with books that teach STEM skills, encourage tinkering [...]

FINE ARTS Bain, Rowan. William Morris's Flowers. V&A. Sept. 2019. 144p. illus. notes. bibliog. ISBN 9780500480458. $19.95. DEC ARTS Known in his time for his poetry, William Morris (1834-96) was [...]

LITERARY FICTION Aboulela, Leila. Bird Summons. Black Cat: Grove Atlantic. Feb. 2020. 304p. ISBN 9780802149152. pap. $16; ebk. ISBN 9780802149169. LITERARY Three friends from a local Muslim women's group travel [...]

HEALTH & MEDICINE Boyer, Anne. The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care. Farrar. Sept. 2019.320p. notes. bibliog. ISBN 9780374279349. $26; ebk. ISBN 9780374719487. [...]

So, you're looking for a sports nonfiction collection refresh that is gonna give you 110 percent? A veritable Miracle On Ice or Helmet Catch of sports nonfiction--one of those memorable [...]

Learning how to read process writing is such an important skill--luckily, one of the best ways to refine this ability rewards the reader with fun things to do and/or cool [...]

FINE ARTS * De Salvo, Donna & others. Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again. Yale Univ. 2018.400p. ill us. notes, index. ISBN 9780300236989. $70. FINE ARTS An [...]

THRILLERS Becquets, Diane Les. The Last Woman in the Forest. Berkley. Mar. 2019. 352p. ISBN 9780399587047. $26; ebk. ISBN 9780399587054. Downloadable. THRILLER Marian Engstrom is just as passionate about mentor [...]