NEW BOOKS 2019
Fiction
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
The Storyteller’s Secret by Sejal Badani
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
The Tuscan Child by Rhys Bowen
The Pisces by Melissa Broder
Milkman by Anna Burns
The Stolen Child by Lisa Carey
The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash
The Night Tiger by Yangze Choo
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Start Without Me by Joshua Feldman
Varina by Charles Frazier
Lost and Wanted by Neil Freudenberger
All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermès Gowar
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Florida by Lauren Groff
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson
Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgard
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
Severance by Ling Ma
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
Circe by Madeline Miller
She Would Be King by Wayetu Moore
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
The Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Tiffany Blues by M. J. Rose
Daughters of the Night Sky by Aime K. Runyon
The Island of the Sea Women by Lisa See
The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Mystery
Bellini and the Sphinx by Tony Bellotto
The Malta Exchange by Steve Berry
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
The New Iberia Blues by James Lee Burke
Wild Fire by Ann Cleeves
The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
Pandemic by Robin Cook
Almost Midnight by Paul Doiron
Judgement by Joseph Finder
Witch Elm by Tana French
Lethal White by Robert Galbraith
Scrublands by Chris Hammer
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
Cari Mora by Thomas Harris
The Tale Teller by Anne Hillerman
Forever and a Day by Anthony Horowitz
The Wedding Guest by Jonathan Kellerman
Metropolis by Philip Kerr
Unto Us A Son Is Given by Donna Leon
The Man With No Face by Peter May
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Smoke and Ashes by Abir Mukherjee
Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny
The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall Smith
The Middleman by Olen Steinhauer
The Black Ascot by Charles Todd
Hunting Game by Helen Tursten
Article 353 by Tanguy Viel
Beautiful Bad by Annie Ward
Golden State by Ben Winters
Science Fiction & Fantasy
The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
Upon A Burning Throne by Ashok K. Banker
Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear
Starless by Jacqueline Carey
Famous Men Who Never Lived by K. Chess
A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos
The Book of Hidden Things by Francesco Dimitri
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Witchmark by C. L. Polk
Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore
Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
The Book of M by Peng Sheperd
The Oracle Year by Charles Soule
Space Opera by Catheryne M. Valent
The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson
Non Fiction
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
The Anatomy of Peace by the Arbinger Institute
What Is Real? by Adam Becker
The Last Whalers by Doug Bock Clark
The New Organic Gardener by Eliot Coleman
Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution and Why America Might Miss It by Susan Crawford
Dragonflies by Peter van Dokkum
To Survive on This Shore by Jess Dugan
Unprecedented Courage by Richard Gergel
Sex Money Murder by Jonathan Green
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
Grow Small, Think Beautiful: Ideas for a Sustainable World edited by Stephen Harding
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky
Horizon by Barry Lopez
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
A Little Book of Coincidence by Josh Martinez
Being Salmon, Being Human by Martin Lee Mueller
The Golden Section by Scott Olson
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Women Rowing North by Mary Pipher
How To Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
The Shepherd’s Life by James Rebank
Night Visions: The Secret Designs of Moths by Joseph Scheer
Constructing the Universe by Michael S. Schneider
The Seaweed Chronicles by Susan Hand Shetterly
Settled in the Wild by Susan Hand Shetterly
Chesapeake Requiem by Earl Swift
Mad, Bad, Dangerous To Know by Colm Toibin
Symmetry: The Ordering Principle by David Wade
Forest Forensics by Tom Wessels
Reading the Forested Landscape by Tom Wessels
Biography
Frederick Douglass by David Blight
Flash: THe Making of Weegee the Famous by Christopher Bonanos
Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
The Line Becomes A River by Francisco Cantu
The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nahesi Coates
Words Without Music by Philip Glass
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety by Donald Hall
Paul Simon by Robert Hilburn
The Good Neighbor by Maxwell King
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Our Man: Richard Holbrook and the End of the American Century by George Packer
The Lady and the Peacock by Peter Popham
House of Dreams by Liz Rosenberg
Prince: A Private View by Afshin Shahidi
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity and Love by Dani Shapiro
Avedon: Something Personal by Norma Stevens
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey Stewart
First: Sandra Day O’Connor by Evan Thomas
Art
Cecily Brown: Shipwreck Drawings by Cecily Brown
Rachel Whiteread by Ann Gallagher
Great Works: Encounters With Art by Michael Glover
Degas: A Strange New Beauty by Jodi Hauptman
Hilma af Klint: Painting for the Future by Tracey Bashkoff
April Gornik Drawings by Steve Martin
The Art Project by The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Huma Bhabha: They Live by Eva Respinit
Landscape Painting Now by Barry Schwabsky
Interviews On Art by Robert Storr
Poetry
Selected Poems of Ruben Dario translated by Lysander Kemp
Nothing More to Lose by Najwan Darwish
Collected Poems: 1974-2004 by Rita Dove
The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century Poetry edited by Rita Dove
American Originality: Esssays on Poetry by Louise Gluck
If Bees Are Few edited by James P. Lenfestey
The Carrying by Ada Limón
Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde
The Lost Worlds by Robert Macfarlane
The Paintings of Our Lives by Grace Schulman
Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith
In Other Words by May Swenson
Taking the Arrow Out of Our Heart by Alice Walker
He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith in Art by Christian Wiman
Joy edited by Christian Wiman
Eye Level by Jenny Xie
Young Adult
The Spiderwick Chronicles Box Set by Holly Black
The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catling
Spaced Out by Stuart Gibbs
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Ungifted by Gordon Korman
A Tale of Two Castles by Gail Carson Levine
The Giver quartet (The Giver, Gathering Blue, Messenger, Son) by Lois Lowry 2019 Distinguished Writer!
Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
Hephaistos by George O’Connor
9 From the 9 Worlds by Rick Riordan
Children’s Picture Books
Splatter by Diane Alber
Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall
The Nonsense Book by Eric Carle
Elbow Grease by John Cena
Rain, Rain, Go Away by Caroline Jayne Church
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star by Caroline Jayne Church
Quantum Physics for Babies by Chris Ferrie
The Gift That I Can Give by Kathie Lee Gifford
Princesses Save the World by Allison Oppenheim and Savannah Guthrie
Little Oink by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Little Pea by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Where Do Diggers Sleep At Night? by Brianna Caplan Sayres
