Release Date: February 14, 2017
About: Saunders' short story book, The Tenth of December was wildly popular when it came out in 2013. This will be his first novel. Lincoln in the Bardo is a novel about Abraham Lincoln going to see his 12 year old son's grave at night two days after he's died. Set over the course of that one night and populated by ghosts of the recently passed and the long dead, Lincoln in the Bardo is a thrilling exploration of death, grief, the powers of good and evil, a novel - in its form and voice - completely unlike anything you have read before.
Release Date: February 7, 2017
About: Gaiman is known for writing fantastical stories and this one is no different. In Norse Mythology, Gaiman stays true to the myths in envisioning the major Norse pantheon: Odin, the highest of the high, wise, daring, and cunning; Thor, Odin’s son, incredibly strong yet not the wisest of gods; and Loki, son of a giant, blood brother to Odin and a trickster and unsurpassable manipulator. Each chapter features a different story.
Release Date: May 18, 2017
About: On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice. His daughter is led to her death, and Agamemnon leads his army into battle, where he is rewarded with glorious victory.
Three years later, he returns home and his murderous action has set the entire family - mother, brother, sister - on a path of intimate violence, as they enter a world of hushed commands and soundless journeys through the palace's dungeons and bedchambers. As his wife seeks his death, his daughter, Electra, is the silent observer to the family's game of innocence while his son, Orestes, is sent into bewildering, frightening exile where survival is far from certain.
Title: Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
Release Date: January 17, 2017
About: This short story collection features characters that are all unsteady on their feet in one way or another. Many of these stories are laugh-out-loud funny, and all are truly unique.
Title: Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Release Date: March 7, 2017
About: In an unnamed country teetering on the brink of civil war, Nadia and Saeed meet and fall in love. When the city explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors—doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through.
Exit West follows these characters as they emerge into an alien and uncertain future, struggling to hold on to each other, to their past, to the very sense of who they are.
Title: Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
Release Date: April 25, 2017
About: Anything is Possible is written in tandem with My Name Is Lucy Barton, Strout's popular 2015 novel. This novel draws on the small-town characters evoked there, these pages reverberate with themes of love, loss, and hope.
Here, among others, are the “Pretty Nicely Girls,” now adults: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband, the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. And Lucy Barton’s sister, Vicky, struggling with feelings of abandonment and jealousy, nonetheless comes to Lucy’s aid, ratifying the deepest bonds of family.
Title: Difficult Women by Roxanne Gay
Release Date: January 3, 2017
About: A book of short stories by the author of Bad Feminist. The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. From a girls’ fight club to a wealthy subdivision in Florida where neighbors conform, compete, and spy on each other, Gay delivers a wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America reminiscent of Merritt Tierce, Jamie Quatro, and Miranda July.
Title: All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
Release Date: February 7, 2017
About: You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we’d have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren’s 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases.
But when he discovers wonderfully unexpected versions of his family, his career, and—maybe, just maybe—his soul mate, Tom has a decision to make. Does he fix the flow of history, bringing his utopian universe back into existence, or does he try to forge a new life in our messy, unpredictable reality?
Title: Heather, the Totality by Matthew Weiner
Release Date: November 1, 2017
About: A debut novel from the creator of Mad Men, the tale of a family and a psychopath.
Title: New Boy by Tracy Chevalier
Release Date: May 11, 2017
About: A new edition to the Hogarth Shakespeare series. The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice sees friendship and romantic love pitted against the power of jealousy -- which destroys everything in its path. It is also a play that examines the experience of the outsider, with Othello's race isolating him from Venetian society.
In Tracy Chevalier's retelling of the play, we are transported to 1970s Washington, D.C., where an 11-year-old black boy arrives at an all-white school. But it's when his attention is drawn to one of the girls in class that the trouble really begins.
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