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Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays by R. Eric Thomas
Released February 2020 via Ballantine Books (Penguin Random House)
Memoir, 264 pages
A laugh-out-loud memoir that’s both touching and relatable.
You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat Released June 2020 via Catapult Books
Contemporary Fiction, 272 pages
A young Palestinian American woman searches for her true self-identity. Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas Released May 2020 via Custom House (HarperCollins)
Gothic Fiction, 320 pages
Higher learning at an old house in the woods.
A Burning by Megha Majumdar Released June 2020 via Alfred A. Knopf (Penguin Random House) Contemporary Fiction, 320 pages
Three lives intersect after a terrorist attack in India. The Grace Year by Kim Liggett Released October 2019 via Wednesday Books (Macmillan)
YA Dystopia, 416 pages
The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Hunger Games.
Happy and You Know It by Laura Hankin Released May 2020 via Berkley (Penguin Random House)
Contemporary Fiction, 384 pages A New York City playgroup with a dark secret.
Long Bright River by Liz Moore Released January 2020 via Riverhead Books (Penguin Random House)
Literary Fiction, 496 pages
A cop searches for her missing sister who’s battling addictions.
Recursion by Blake Crouch Released June 2019 via Crown Publishing Group (Penguin Random House)
Sci-fi Thriller, 336 pages
Time travel through memories amid a crumbling reality.
Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson Released Sept. 2020 via Nancy Paulsen Books (Penguin Random House) Middle School Fiction, 176 pages
How a family moves past its glory days.
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass by Lana Del Rey Releases Sept. 2020 via Simon & Schuster Poetry, 128 pages
Musician Lana Del Rey’s anticipated debut book of poems.
This article appears in Aug 19-25, 2020.

