We are excited about the New Year and some promising new titles coming out early this year. Here are a few we look forward to getting our hands on here in Readers Services. Note: Titles on order show one copy, but rest assured the library has ordered many copies of these title. Happy New Year and Happy Reading!
Novels
The First Bad Man by Miranda July
"Cheryl Glickman, Miranda July's heroine in this unforgettable novel, is one of the most original, most confounding and strangely sympathetic characters in recent fiction. She narrates this very intimate epic of a story—a story that starts in a place of brittle, quirky, loneliness and progresses into a profoundly moving story of nontraditional love and commitment. This novel is almost impossible to put down, and confirms July as a novelist of the first order." —Dave Eggers, author of The Circle
Outline by Rachel Cusk
Outline is a novel in ten conversations. It follows a novelist teaching a creative writing course over a hot summer in Athens.
Glow by Ned Beauma
A young man with a sleep disorder uncovers the connections between foxes behaving oddly in London, Burmese people going missing, and glow, the newest recreational drug.
I Am Radar by Reif Larsen
From the author of The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, a new novel with divergent strands and sweeping scope.
Frog by Mo Yan
Nobel Prize winning author Mo Yan looks at modern China through the lens of the nation’s one-child policy.
Story collections
Lucky Alan by Jonathan Letham
Jonathan Letham is a true master of short form. Nine new stories with familiar themes like human connection, humor, and beautiful sentences.
Halls of Small Mammalsby Thomas Pierce
“It’s thrilling to find a writer with an imagination as wild and wonderful as Thomas Pierce. It’s even more impressive to see how Pierce builds upon the initial conceit of his stories, the way he follows the thread of that weirdness toward something utterly unique and altogether human. This is a fantastic, rewarding book of stories.” —Kevin Wilson, author of The Family Fang
Get in Trouble by Kelly Link
This is Link’s first book for adults in a decade. It promises to be dark and inventive. “Get in Trouble contains some of Link’s best writing yet. These are not so much small fictions as windows onto entire worlds. This is a brilliant, giddying read.” —Sarah Waters
Honeydew by Edith Pearlman
A new collection of stories from the author of the beautiful Binocular Vision. Pearlman shines a light on everyday moments in ordinary lives leaving the reader to reflect on beauty, grace and impermanence.