"Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true."  - Alfred Lord Tennyson

New year, new books! This winter promises a slew of new titles from our members' favorite authors. Below you'll find many of the new offerings we expect will be popular. Place holds now on any of the books listed here. For a more complete account of our recent acquisitions, check out New Books, a list we publish at the beginning of every month and available on the website or at the Reference Desk. If there is something you're looking forward to reading, but don't find on this list, simply request it from the Acquisitions Department by filling out a request slip at the Circulation Desk or log in to our website and use the Suggest a Purchase form.

January

FICTION

• Barry, Kevin | That Old Country Music
• Benedict, Marie | The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
• Benjamin, Melanie | The Children’s Blizzard
• Boyd, William | Trio
• Cornwell, Patricia | Spin
• Davies, Peter Ho | A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself
• Fellowes, Jessica | The Mitford Trial
• Fowler, Christopher | Bryant and May: Oranges and Lemons
• Gardner, Lisa | Before She Disappeared
• Grippando, James | Twenty
• Grushin, Olga | The Charmed Wife
• Gurganus, Allan | The Uncollected Stories of Allan Gurganus
• Hambly, Barbara | House of the Patriarch
• Hurwitz, Gregg | Prodigal Son
• Johnson, Julia Claiborne | Better Luck Next Time
• Kellerman, Faye | The Lost Boys
• McCall Smith, Alexander | Pianos and Flowers
• Moss, Sarah | Summerwater
• Preston, Douglas & Lincoln Child | The Scorpion’s Tail
• Pronzini, Bill | The Paradise Affair
• Quartey, Kwei | Sleep Well, My Lady

NONFICTION

• Aciman, André | Homo Irrealis: Essays
• Blow, Charles | The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
• Byrne, Gabriel | Walking with Ghosts: A Memoir
• Colapinto, John | This is the Voice
• Comey, James | Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust
• Didion, Joan | Let Me Tell You What I Mean
• Knausgård, Karl Ove | The Land of the Cyclops
• Mount, Ferdinand | Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca
• Nimura, Janice | The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
• Saunders, George | A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
• Tyson, Cecily | Just as I Am: A Memoir
• Winchester, Simon | Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

February

FICTION

• Bauer, Belinda | Exit
• Berry, Steve | The Kaiser’s Web
• Bolaño, Roberto | Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas
• Brett, Simon | Guilt at the Garage
• de Rosnay, Tatiana | Flowers of Darkness
• Finch, Charles | An Extravagant Death
• Hannah, Kristin | The Four Winds
• Harper, Jane | The Survivors
• Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia | Cruel as the Grave
• Herron, Mick | Slough House
• Hobson, Brandon | The Removed
• Jance, J.A. | Missing and Endangered
• Ide, Joe | Smoke
• Kellerman, Jonathan | Serpentine
• Khadra, Yasmina | Khalil
• Koryta, Michael | Never Far Away
• Lee, Chang-rae | My Year Abroad
• Lockwood, Patricia | No One is Talking About This
• Mosley, Walter | Blood Grove
• Oates, Joyce Carol | The (Other) You: Stories
• Okri, Ben | Prayer for the Living
• Robb, J.D. | Faithless in Death
• Stabenow, Dana | Spoils of the Dead
• Todd, Charles | A Fatal Lie
• Vida, Vendela | We Run the Tides

NONFICTION

• Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. | The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
• Harris, Mark | Mike Nichols: A Life
• Hastings, Selina | Sybille Bedford: A Life
• Kendi, Ibram X. and Keisha N. Blain (eds.) | Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
• Kolbert, Elizabeth | Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
• Lee, Hermione | Tom Stoppard: A Life
• Lightman, Alan | Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings
• Shorto, Russell | Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob
• Weir, Alison | Queens of the Crusades