1. Secrets of a Scottish Isle V5, by Erica Ruth Neubauer (signed copies available)
2. James, by Percival Everett
3. The Women, by Kristin Hannah
4. I Cheerfully Refuse, by Leif Enger (Boswell event April 15)
5. Wandering Stars, by Tommy Orange
6. The Angel of Indian Lake V3, by Stephen Graham Jones
7. How to Solve Your Own Murder, by Kristen Perrin
8. Tom Lake, by Ann Patchett
9. The Price You Pay V8, by Nick Petrie
10. Hang the Moon, by Jeannette Walls (Boswell event April 10)
The Angel of Indian Lake is the concluding volume of the Indian Lake Trilogy. From the Kirkus: "The plotlines are often steeped in urban legend, which are gleefully punctuated by Jade's rat-a-tat-tat horror movie references à la Ready Player One. That's catnip for horror fans, and the images Jones conjures would give some of the movies a run for their money. Whether it's Jade's rapist father back from the dead, a murderous child mutilating the townsfolk, a pack of rampaging bears tearing through the flames, or the titular ghost making the rounds at the local lake, it's real peek-between-your-fingers stuff--when you can work out what exactly happened. A characteristically violent denouement for a girl given hell by just about everybody."
1. There's Always This Year, by Hanif Abdurraqib
2. While You Were Out, by Meg Kissinger (WCW ticketed event April 4)
3. The Creative Act, by Rick Rubin
4. Three Shades of Blue, by James Kaplan
5. The Wager, by David Grann
6. The Anxious Generation, by Jonathan Haidt
7. Atomic Habits, by James Clear
8. Zaytinya, by Jose Andres
9. Illiberal America, by Steve Hahn
10. Disillusioned, by Benjamin Herold (Boswell event April 12)
While we should definitely give a shout out to the Penguin Press imprint, which has three books in our top 10, the top new release goes to a different PRH imprint with There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, the latest from Hanif Abdurraqib. A recommendation from Ross Gay: "Hanif Abdurraqib again shows us new ways to be a social critic, a dreamer, a historian, and a lover of hoop. But - and this feels especially moving - he shows us how he wonders about, and how he is transformed in the wondering about, what it means to belong to a place. And you know by place I mean the people, the memories, the sorrows, the tomorrows, who are that place. And you know by all that I mean the love.”
1. Monsters We Have Made, by Lindsay Starck (Boswell event April 19)
2. Dune V1, by Frank Herbert
3. Dune Messiah V2, by Frank Herbert
4. Weyward, by Emilia Hart
5. The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County, by Claire Swinarski
6. Old Babes in the Wood, by Margaret Atwood
7. Cascade Failure, by LM Sagas
8. Murder at the Mena House V1, by Erica Ruth Neubauer
9. The Invisible Life of Addie Larue, by VE Schwab
10. One Dark Window V1, by Rachel Gillig
You might know Wisconsin author Claire Swinarski from her kids books, but The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County. From Booklist: " Readers will root for the characters and get swept up in the small-town Wisconsin setting. This is a great pick for anyone who liked Saturday Night at the Late Night Supper Club. Hey, that's me!
1. Easy Walks and Paddles in Milwaukee, by Jennifer Lemke and Karen Lemke
2. Poverty, by America, by Matthew Desmond
3. On Tyranny, by Timothy Snyder
4. All About Love, by bell hooks
5. Wisconsin Death Trip, by Michael Lesy
6. The Splendid and the Vile, by Erik Larson
7. Cinema Speculation, by Quentin Tarantino
8. Capote's Women, by Laurence Leamer
9. On the Origin of Time, by Thomas Hertog
10. Beaverland, by Leila Philip
Out this week in paperback is Poverty, by America, Matthew Desmond's follow-up to Evicted. Crown chose to keep the type-forward hardcover-style jacket for the paperback, and that's probably the way to go. There are so many ways that an alternative could go wrong. NPR, The New Yorker, and Harpers loved it, but Jacobin (Socialist quarterly) gave it a pan. Jacobin did not review The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County, so I don't know what they thought.
1. Messy Roots, by Laura Gao
2. The Scarlet Shredder V12, by Dav Pilkey
3. Lulu and Rocky in Milwaukee, by Barbara Joosse, illustrations by Renée Graef
4. I Am a Bunny, by Ole Risom, illustrations by Richard Scarry
5. The Great Lakes, by Barb Rosenstock, illustrations by Jamey Christoph
6. Most Ardently, by Gabe Cole Novoa
7. Eclipse, by Andy Rash
8. Olivetti, by Allie Millington
9. Return of the Vengeful Queen, by CJ Redwine
10. What Feelings Do When No One's Looking, by Tina Oziewicz, illustrations by Aleksandra Zajac
Olivetti is the first novel by Allie Millington. From the starred Booklist: "An introverted boy and his missing mother's cherished typewriter plumb forgotten family stories while journeying toward acceptance in this touching middle-grade mystery...Offering a Where'd You Go, Bernadette vibe, with its unspooling of a youth perspective on the adult world, this melancholic yet hopeful pick will appeal to fans of books with nonhuman protagonists and readers who enjoy emotional stories with alternating perspectives, such as Jasmine Warga's A Rover's Story and The Lost Library."
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