Forthcoming Books - Summer 2023
"Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth." ―Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses
Everyone has different notions of what to read during the summer. Long novels that last your whole vacation. Gripping thrillers. Escapist adventures. Whatever your fancy, the library has you covered. The titles below are just some of the new books you'll find at the Library over the next few months. For a more complete account of our recent acquisitions, check out New Books, a list published at the beginning of every month and available on the website or at the Circulation Desk. If there is something you're looking forward to reading, but don't find in our catalog, 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.
June
FICTION
- Allende, Isabel | The Wind Knows My Name
- Appelfeld, Aharon | Poland, a Green Land
- Benedict, Marie | The First Ladies
- Brodeur, Adrienne | Little Monsters
- Crosby, S. A. | All the Sinners Bleed
- Davis, Fiona | The Spectacular
- Doiron, Paul | Dead Man’s Wake
- Dubus, Andre, III | Such Kindness
- Erpenbeck, Jenny | Kairos
- Ford, Richard | Be Mine
- Flattery, Nicole | Nothing Special
- Fuller, Claire | The Memory of Animals
- Goldberg, Paul | The Dissident
- Harmel, Kristin | The Paris Daughter
- Heaberlin, Julia | Night Will Find You
- Hilderbrand, Elin | The Five-Star Weekend
- Housewright, David | In a Hard Wind
- Levy, Deborah | August Blue
- Moore, Lorrie | I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home
- Patterson, Richard North | Trial
- Rachman, Tom | Imposters
- Rudnick, Paul | Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style
- Sager, Riley | The Only One Left
- Schulman, Helen | Lucky Dogs
- See, Lisa | Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
- Slimani, Leila | Watch Us Dance
- Ware, Ruth | Zero Days
- Williams, Beatriz | The Beach at Summerly
- Woods, Stuart | Near Miss
NONFICTION
- Borman, Tracy | Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I
- Brokaw, Tom | Never Give Up: A Prairie Family’s Story
- Clark, Christopher | Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
- Ellis, Helen | Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage
- Fraser, Antonia | Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit
- Julavits, Heidi | Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years
- Mewshaw, Michael | My Man in Antibes: Getting to Know Graham Greene
- Smiley, Jane | The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom
July
FICTION
- Beattie, Ann | Onlookers: Stories
- Billingham, Mark | Last Dance
- Burke, James Lee | Flags on the Bayou
- Cantor, Rachel | Half-Life of a Stolen Sister
- Davis, Lindsey | Fatal Legacy
- deWitt, Patrick | The Librarianist
- Hadley, Tessa | After the Funeral and Other Stories
- Kepler, Lars | The Spider
- Khalifa, Khaled | No One Prayed over Their Graves
- Koryta, Michael | An Honest Man
- Lapena, Shari | Everyone Here is Lying
- Lippman, Laura | Prom Mom
- Massey, Sujata | The Mistress of Bhatia House
- Moreno-Garcia, Silvia | Silver Nitrate
- Murphy, Dwyer | The Stolen Coast
- Oates, Joyce Carol | Zero-Sum: Stories
- Ridker, Andrew | Hope
- Rothschild, Hannah | High Time
- Russo, Richard | Somebody’s Fool
- Silva, Daniel | The Collector
- Whitehead, Colson | Crook Manifesto
NONFICTION
- Cumming, Laura | Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
- Goodyear, C. W. | President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
August
FICTION
- Acevedo, Elizabeth | Family Lore
- Bowen, Rhys | The Paris Assignment
- Boyd, William | The Romantic
- Brown, Sandra | Out of Nowhere
- Donoghue, Emma | Learned by Heart
- Hertmans, Stefan | The Ascent
- Hoffman, Alice | The Invisible Hour
- Jewell, Lisa | None of This Is True
- Mcallister, Gillian | Just Another Missing Person
- McBride, James | The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
- McCall Smith, Alexander | The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf
- McKinty, Adrian | The Detective Up Late
- Mangan, Christine | The Continental Affair
- Millhauser, Steven | Disruptions: Stories
- Mina, Denise | The Second Murderer: A Philip Marlowe Novel
- Mina, Denise | Three Fires
- Murray, Paul | The Bee Sting
- Patchett, Ann | Tom Lake
- Preston, Douglas & Lincoln Child | Dead Mountain
- Reichs, Kathy | The Bone Hacker
- Schumacher, Julie | The English Experience
- Slaughter, Karin | After That Night
- Walker, Martin | A Château Under Siege
- Weiner, Jennifer | The Breakaway
NONFICTION
- Eilenberger, Wolfram | The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
- Faust, Drew Gilpin | Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
- Hartigan, Patti | August Wilson: A Life
- Shapland, Jenn | Thin Skin: Essays
- Wallach, Janet | Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy
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