Episode 48: Book Buzz Fall 2016

 

 

In this episode, we bring you our picks from the publisher book buzz we attended in October 2016. Fiction! A surprising amount of nonfiction! Plus our usual obsessions. Prepare to be interested in some books!

Links:

#aaplibrarianbookbuzz
Publishers on Twitter (a list)
Our publishing colleagues (sign up for their newsletters!): W. W. Norton, Melville House, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House, Macmillan, Workman, Sourcebooks, HarperCollins, Sterling
Buzzword list

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman (W. W. Norton, February 2017)
The Norse Myths: A Guide to Viking And Scandinavian Gods and Heroes by Carolyne Larrington (W. W. Norton, February 2017)
Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough [#wtfthatending] (Flatiron Books/Macmillan, January 2017)
Spoilers, Sweetie!

The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley (Bloomsbury, August 2017)

The Standard Grand by Jay Baron Nicorvo (St. Martin’s Press/Macmillan, April 2017)
I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live In It: Stories From An Online Life by Jess Kimball Leslie (Running Press/Hachette, April 2017)
Never Look An American In The Eye: Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, And The Making Of A Nigerian-American by Okey Ndibe [video] (Soho, available now)

Abandon Me by Melissa Febos [also: Whip Smart] (Bloomsbury, February 2017)
Make Trouble by John Waters (Workman, April 2017)
The Totally Unscientific Study Of The Search for Human Happiness by Paula Poundstone (Algonquin/Workman, May 2017)
Get Your Sh*t Together by Sarah Knight [The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck] (Hachette, December 2016)
Confessions Of A Domestic Failure by Bunmi Laditan [@HonestToddler] (Harlequin/Mira, May 2017)
The Original Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig (Harlequin/Mira, May 2017)

Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak (Simon & Schuster, February 2017)
The Hearts Of Men by Nickolas Butler [Shotgun Lovesongs] (HarperCollins, March 2017)
A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies, And A Murder Plot At The Heart Of The Establishment by John Preston (Other Press, available now)
Moonshine Mixology: Over 50 Recipes For Flavoring Spirits and Mixing Cocktails (Sterling, April 2017)
The New York Times Book of Crime: More Than 164 Years of Covering the Beat (Sterling, March 2017)
Astrophysics For People In A Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson (W. W. Norton, May 2017)

Beyond Infinity: From Uncountable Numbers To A Chicken Sandwich Sandwich, An Exploration Of  Math’s Biggest Topic by Eugenia Cheng (Basic Books/Ingram, March 2017)
“You’re In The Wrong  Bathroom!” and 20 Other Myths and Misconceptions About Transgender and Gender Nonconforming People by Laura Erickson-Schroth and Laura A. Jacobs (Beacon Press, May 2017)
Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Created Art From Trauma by Melanie Brooks (Beacon Press, May 2017)
The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen: Awesome Female Characters From Comic Book History by Hope Nicholson (Quirk Books, May 2017)

Cat Castles: 20 Cardboard Habitats You Can Build Yourself by Carin Oliver (Quirk Books, December 2016)
Through Darkness To Light by Jeanine Michna-Bales (Princeton Architectural Press/Chronicle, February 2017)
Wright Sites (Princeton Architectural Press/Chronicle, May 2017)
Victoria: A Novel Of A Young Queen by Daisy Goodwin (St. Martin’s Press/Macmillan, November 2017)
Is It All In Your Head?: True Stories Of Imaginary Illness by Suzanne O’Sullivan, M. D. (Other Press, January 2017)
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, And Me by Bill Hayes (Bloomsbury, February 2017)
In The Great Green Room: The Brilliant And Bold Life Of Margaret Wise Brown by Amy Gary (Flatiron Books/Macmillan, January 2017)
The Women In The Castle by Jessica Shattuck (William Morrow/HarperCollins, April 2017)

No One Can Pronounce My Name by Rakesh Satyal (Picador/Macmillan, May 2017)
Phenomena: The Secret History Of The U. S. Government’s Investigations Into Extrasensory Perception by Annie Jacobsen (Little, Brown/Hachette, March 2017)
The Confessions of Young Nero by Margaret George (Berkley/Penguin Random House, March 2017)
Dust Bowl Girls: A Team’s Quest for Basketball Glory by Lydia Reader (Algonquin/Workman, January 2017)
Down Below by Leonora Carrington (New York Review of Books, April 2017)
Ernesto by Umberto Saba (New York Review of Books, February 2017)
Castle: A History Of The Architecture That Shaped Medieval Britain by Marc Morris (Pegasus/W. W. Norton, April 2017)
Red Sphinx by Alexandre Dumas (Pegasus/W. W. Norton, January 2017)
The Tea Girl Of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See (Scribner/Simon & Schuster, March 2017)
Why I Am Not A Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto by Jessa Crispin [@thebookslut] (Melville House, February 2017)
This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel (Flatiron/Macmillan, January 2017)

Difficult Women by Roxane Gay (Grove/Atlantic, January 2017)
Out of Bounds by Val McDermid [Karen Pirie series] (Grove/Atlantic, December 2016)

All the fangirling

Ragdoll by Daniel Cole (HarperCollins, April 2017)
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt (Algonquin/Workman, February 2017)
For Time And All Eternities by Mette Ivie Harrison [Linda Walheim] (Soho, January 2017)
Havana: A Subtropical Delirium by Mark Kurlansky (Bloomsbury, March 2017)
All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai (Dutton/Penguin Random House, February 2017)

Musical Obsessions

Anna: “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” by Johann Sebastian Bach
Alene: “Wait For It” by Leslie Odom, Jr.

Obsessions

Anna: The Trespasser by Tana French
Alene: Arrow