News in December 2019

News in December 2019

THE SHADOW KING by Maaza Mengiste
16th December, 2019

The New York Times included Maaza Mengiste’s latest novel in their list of 100 Notable Books of 2019. The book was also featured in NPR’s 2019 Book Concierge. In her write up, author Laila Lalami says THE SHADOW KING is “Epic in scope yet intimate in detail” and calls the novel a “gem.” W.W. Norton & Company published the book on September 24, 2019.

THE UNDYING by Anne Boyer
16th December, 2019

Anne Boyer’s acclaimed memoir was featured in NPR’s 2019 Book Concierge. In her write-up, critic Sascha Cohen praises the book’s “lyrical style.” Farrar, Straus and Giroux published the book on September 17, 2019.

BLACK CARD by Chris L. Terry
16th December, 2019

Chris Terry’s debut novel was featured in NPR’s 2019 Book Concierge. In his write-up, critic Jason Heller calls BLACK CARD a “wildly entertaining look at racism” that has “plenty of insight into all the ways America finds to divide itself.” Catapult published the book on August 13, 2019.

EXHALATION by Ted Chiang
9th December, 2019

Ted Chiang’s acclaimed book of short stories is regarded by both the New York Times and Esquire as one of the best books of 2019. Esquire writes: “Through lean, thought-provoking prose, Chiang manages to render stories about machines deeply felt—and deeply human." Knopf published the book on May 7, 2019.

FIND ME by Andre Aciman
9th December, 2019

Harper’s Bazaar featured Andre Aciman’s FIND ME on their list of the year’s most celebrated and most anticipated LGBTQ book releases. Farrar, Straus & Giroux published the book on October 29, 2019.

THE IMPEACHERS by Brenda Wineapple
9th December, 2019

New York Times critic Jennifer Szalai calls THE IMPEACHERS one of the best books of 2019. “Wineapple’s depiction of President Andrew Johnson is so vivid and perceptive that his standoff with Congress arrives with a doomed inevitability . . . The relevance of this riveting book is clear enough.” Random House published the book on May 21, 2019.

THE UNDYING by Anne Boyer
9th December, 2019

New York Times critic Jennifer Szalai calls THE UNDYING one of the best books of 2019. “Extraordinary and furious . . . Told with searing specificity . . . A book that reflects on the possibility — or necessity — of finding common cause in individual suffering.” Farrar, Straus & Giroux published the book on September 17, 2019.

THE OLD DRIFT by Namwali Serpell
9th December, 2019

New York Times critic Dwight Garner calls THE OLD DRIFT one of the best books of 2019. “An intimate, brainy, gleaming epic . . . The plot pivots gracefully from accounts of the region’s early white colonizers and despoilers through the worst years of the AIDS crisis. It pushes into the near future, proposing a world in which flocking bug-size microdrones are a) fantastically cool and b) put to chilling totalitarian purposes. Serpell seems to want to stuff the entire world into her novel — biology, race, subjugation, revolutionary politics, technology — but it retains a human scale.” Hogarth published the book on March 26, 2019.

THE LIGHT OF ALL THAT FALLS by James Islington
9th December, 2019

The third book in James Islington’s Licanius Trilogy was named by Amazon as one of the best books of December in the Science Fiction & Fantasy category. Orbit will publish the book on December 10, 2019.

ONE LONG RIVER OF SONG by Brian Doyle
9th December, 2019

Brian Doyle’s book of essays was named by Amazon as one of the best books of December in the Biographies & Memoirs category. Little, Brown and Company published the book on December 3, 2019.