1. Homicide in the Indian Hills, by Erica Ruth Neubauer (signed copies)
2. 33 Place Brugmann, by Alice Austen (signed copies)
3. Tongues V1, by Anders Nilsen
4. James, by Percival Everett
5. The Paris Express, by Emma Donoghue (CelticMKE March 31 event)
6. The Antidote, by Karen Russell
7. When the Moon Hits Your Eye, by John Scalzi
8. The Wedding People, by Alison Espach
9. Sons and Daughters, by Chaim Grade
10. The Wild Dark Shore, by Charlotte McConaghy
What would happen if the moon turned to cheese? That's the premise of When the Moon Hits Your Eye, the latest from John Scalzi. From Publishers Weekly: "The narrative takes the reader on a day by day journey through this unprecedented lunar cycle, with each day focusing on the perspective of a different character. This structure provides a comprehensive view of the transformation's effects, from the expected (astronauts are disappointed that their upcoming lunar mission has been canceled) to the wildly unanticipated (including the actions of an Elon Muskesque billionaire, who seizes the moment for personal gain), while also returning to enough of the established characters to keep the potential apocalypse from feeling impersonal. Scalzi's ability to balance scathing satire with heartfelt optimism shines."
1. Sweet Farm, by Molly Yeh (signed copies)
2. Everything Is Tuberculosis, by John Green
3. Abundance, by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
4. Stargazer, by Kate Desiderio
5. Careless People, by Sarah Wynn Williams
6. The Serviceberry, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
7. The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War, by James Marten (Boswell April 8 event)
8. Funny Because It's True, by Christine Wenc
9. The Demon of Unrest, by Erik Larson
10. Who Is Government?, edited by Michael Lewis
Who Is Government: The Untold Story of Public Service, is a new anthology edited by Michael Lewis, with entries from Casey Cep, Sarah Vowell, W Kamau Bell, Geraldine Brooks, John Lanchester, and Dave Eggers. From Garrett M Graff in The Washington Post: "The book, an outgrowth of a project led by The Washington Post’s now-departed Opinions editor David Shipley, examines some of the remarkable people who make up the federal workforce — career civil servants who have accomplished the extraordinary in quiet ways, people whose jobs are normally buried layers below any partisan rancor.... What fills me with dread reading this book is that the next reminder we will get about the importance of government in our daily lives will come not in a laudatory, artful profile but in a crisis, when we find out that the person who should have been watching or monitoring or doing this one very specific task we’ve never thought about is no longer there."
1. Martyr!, by Kaveh Akbar
2. The Vegetarian, by Han Kang
3. Red Rising, by Pierce Brown
4. The Portable Feminist Reader, edited by Roxane Gay (okay, maybe this is nonfiction)
5. The Parabale of the Sower, by Octavia E Butler
6. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, by Benjamin Stevenson
7. The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman
8. The Husbands, by Holly Gramazio
9. I Who Have Never Known Men, by Jacqueline Harpman
10. Real Americans, by Rachel Khong
New in paperback is Holly Gramazio's The Husbands, which my friend Margret has convinced me to read. It's also a Read with Jenna book club pick, but in an unusual (and I think, perfectly justified) move, they didn't stamp the icon on the delightful paperback jacket. Two raves and three positives from BookMarks. I am also delighted to find a review from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette from Sharon Skeel, who compares the book to The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, of all books: "Gramazio uses the attic as a device to playfully explore her very millennial protagonist’s attitude toward marriage. As each husband offends in some way, Lauren tricks him into the attic, hoping for a superior replacement. With her endless array of choices, she struggles to decide what she prizes most in a mate: Good looks? Money? Companionship?"
1. Solito, by Javier Zamora
2. On Tyranny, by Timothy Snyder
3. A Philosophy of Walking, by Frédéric Gros
4. Poverty, by America, by Matthew Desmond (UWM April 30 event)
6. Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
7. On Tyranny graphic edition, by Timothy Snyder
8. Changing My Mind, by Julian Barnes
9. Bismarck's War, by Rachel Chrastil
10. Eve, by Cat Bohannon
Changing my Mind is a collection of essays from Julian Barnes, commissioned for a radio series and repackaged from Notting Hill Editions. I could have sworn that this came out years ago, but I fear I am confusing it with several other nonfiction collectons from the author. I also have no idea what Notting Hill Editions was, so investigations showed me it's an independent publisher that mostly does all text jackets, but they put a little design on this one, for which I'm grateful. On the plus side, they do their jackets in a lot of colors, unlike. Fitzcarraldo Editions, which is all blue on white (nonfiction) or white on blue (fiction). BookMark review archive here.
1. Sunrise on the Reaping, by Suzanne Collins
2. The Very Last Leaf, by Stef Wade, illustrations by Jennifer Davison
3. A Place for Pluto, by Stef Wade, illustrations by Melanie Demmer
4. Q and U Call It Quits, by Stef Wade, illustrations by Jorge Martin
5. The 13 Story Treehouse, by Andy Griffiths (Boswell April 12 event)
6. Lulu and Rocky in Milwaukee, by Barbara Joosse, illustrations by Renée Graef
7. Peekaboo Farm, by Camilla Reid, illustrations by Ingela P Arrhenius
8. Our Infinite Fates, by Laura Steven
9. Home, by Matt de la Peña, illustrations by Loren Long
10. My Presentation Today Is About the Anaconda, by Bib Dumon Tak, illustrations by Annemarie Van Haeringen and translated by Nancy Forest-Flier.
My Presentation Today Is About the Anaconda in translated from the Dutch, which is something I don't get to say very often on this blog. This is one of Jen's picks and its got great advance reviews as well. From the starred Booklist: "In a series of presentations that teachers will find as hilarious as their young charges will, an earthworm, a zebra, and 18 more animals deliver oral reports on - other animals...Questions and reactions to each talk from the multispecies audience add further opportunities for banter and fact-dropping so that, along with fairly substantial doses of actual natural history, receptive readers will effortlessly absorb practical advice about researching, organizing, and delivering effective oral presentations of their own."
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