Fiction
The Gold Hour
by Beatriz Williams
A young woman arrives in the Bahamas in 1941 to cover the duke and Duchess of Windsor for a society magazine but stumbles into a world of spies, lies, and intrigue.
(William Morrow)
The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead
The Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author imagines the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
(Doubleday)
Hollow Kingdom
by Kira Jane Buxton
A pet crow fights to save humanity from an apocalypse in this uniquely hilarious debut from a genre-bending literary author.
(Grand Central)
At Briarwood School for Girls
by Michael Knight
When the threat of a theme park intrudes on the lives of students and faculty at Briarwood, unexpected alliances form.
(Grove Atlantic)
Non-Fiction
The Code
by Margaret O’Mara
An in-depth examination of Silicon Valley and the revolution that changed technology, economies, and the world.
(Penguin Press)
Three Women
by Lisa Taddeo
The author spent eight years researching the sex lives of three American women to write this book, sure to be one of the most talked about of 2019.
(Avid Reader Press)
Crisis in the Red Zone
by Richard Preston
The author of The Hot Zone details the gripping account of the Ebola outbreak of 2013-2014 and warns us that outbreaks continue.
(Random House)
The Ghosts of Eden Park
by Karen Abbott
The story of a prohibition kingpin taken down by a woman hired to the U.S. Attorney’s office right out of law school, told with all the detail and plot twists of a novel.
(Crown)
Barnum
by Robert Wilson
The first major biography of P.T. Barnum in a generation, and a vivid account of the greatest showman the world has ever seen.
(Simon & Schuster)
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