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Our most anticipated books of 2024

The best resolutions are reading resolutions, and a new year introduces so many titles to get excited about! Here are the 22 books we’re most looking forward to.
Book jacket image for Ten Little Rabbits by Maurice Sendak
Available 2/06/2024
Children's, Picture Book

Ten Little Rabbits

By Maurice Sendak

This picture book by the late Where the Wild Things Are author was previously available only as a pamphlet created for the Rosenbach Museum in 1970. Now, for the first time, it’s seeing a wide release. Sendak invites readers to learn numbers at Mino’s magic show, where the little magician struggles to keep a succession of rascally—yet insanely adorable—rabbits under control.

Book jacket image for A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
Available 2/06/2024
Contemporary Romance

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

By Tia Williams

Once you’ve finished A Love Song for Ricki Wilde, you’ll undoubtedly be jealous of those who get to experience it for the first time.

Available 2/13/2024
YA Fiction

With a Little Luck

By Marissa Meyer

Beloved for her enthralling science fiction, which includes The Lunar Chronicles series and the Renegades trilogy, Marissa Meyer also proved herself a cross-genre champion with Instant Karma, her bestselling (as usual) first rom-com. In With a Little Luck, she’s taking fans back to the coastal town of Fortuna Beach to meet Jude, whose ordinary life—working at his parents’ vinyl store, drawing comics and playing Dungeons & Dragons—is transformed when he finds a special 20-sided die that gives him incredible luck. But what happens when this luck runs out? 

Book jacket image for The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
Available 2/13/2024
Historical Fiction

The Fox Wife

By Yangsze Choo

The stunning, evocative cover of this historical novel is reason enough to add it to your TBR: a lone woman in red walks through winter wilderness, reflected in a frozen pond as a snow-white fox. Of course, readers of The Night Tiger would be eagerly awaiting Yangsze Choo’s next book even if the cover were a paper bag. This epic adventure set in Manchuria at the very end of the Qing Dynasty promises to bring together mystery and legend to vibrant effect.

Book jacket image for The House of Hidden Meanings by RuPaul
Available 3/05/2024
Memoir

The House of Hidden Meanings

By RuPaul

In his refreshing memoir, drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul tells his life story with a tender clarity that renders a larger-than-life figure unforgettably human. 

Book jacket image for Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez
Available 3/05/2024
Literary Fiction

Anita de Monte Laughs Last

By Xochitl Gonzalez

Though told with humor and a light touch, Anita de Monte Laughs Last doesn’t shy away from serious issues: the erasure of women from the art history canon and the racism often faced by first generation students of color at Ivy League colleges.

Book jacket image for You Get What You Pay For by Morgan Parker
Available 3/12/2024
Essays, Social Science

You Get What You Pay For

By Morgan Parker

Morgan Parker examines how racism and intergenerational trauma can affect mental health in her provocative, incisively humorous debut essay collection.

Book jacket image for The Morningside by Tea Obreht
Available 3/19/2024
Literary Fiction

The Morningside

By Téa Obreht

Téa Obreht’s latest novel, The Morningside, soars in its depiction of an alternative world frighteningly similar to our own.

Book jacket image for The Princess of Las Vegas by Chris Bohjalian
Available 3/19/2024
Suspense

The Princess of Las Vegas

By Chris Bohjalian

Chris Bohjalian’s latest thriller, The Princess of Las Vegas is a thrilling symphony of run-down casinos, teenage hackers and royal impersonators with multiple mysteries at its core.

Book jacket image for One Way Back by Christine Blasey Ford
Available 3/19/2024
Memoir

One Way Back

By Christine Blasey Ford

History will remember the four hours that a woman testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee as it considered the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court. In her long-awaited memoir, Christine Blasey Ford recounts her decision to publicly accuse the justice of sexual assault, the overwhelming aftermath and how she’s continued to persevere since.

Book jacket image for Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Abike-Iyimide
Available 3/19/2024
YA

Where Sleeping Girls Lie

By Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Faridah Abiké-Iyimidé won a 2022 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for her debut novel, Ace of Spades, a heart-pounding thriller about two Black senior class prefects at a prestigious private academy. So it’s with bated breath that we anticipate Where Sleeping Girls Lie, another mystery set at an elite school that promises just as many twists and turns, on top of Abiké-Iyimidé’s thoughtful, multilayered social commentary.

Book jacket image for There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
Available 3/26/2024
Memoir

There’s Always This Year

By Hanif Abdurraqib

Hanif Abdurraqib’s captivating There’s Always This Year is a powerful meditation on place and community.

Book jacket image for The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez
Available 4/02/2024
Literary Fiction

The Cemetery of Untold Stories

By Julia Alvarez

Magical and multifaceted, Julia Alvarez’s meditation on creativity, culture and aging, The Cemetery of Untold Stories, is a triumph.

Book jacket image for The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
Available 4/09/2024
Historical Fantasy

The Familiar

By Leigh Bardugo

Full of hidden perils and twisting machinations, The Familiar is Leigh Bardugo’s most assured and mature work yet.

Book jacket image for Knife by Salman Rushdie
Available 4/16/2024
Memoir

Knife

By Salman Rushdie

More than 30 years after an Iranian leader called for his assassination, master storyteller and literary icon Salman Rushdie was repeatedly stabbed at a public appearance in 2022, suffering life-threatening wounds. He describes the attack and his recovery in Knife. Rushie has called it “a necessary book for me to write: a way to take charge of what happened, and to answer violence with art.”

Book jacket image for Tree. Table. Book. by Lois Lowry
Available 4/23/2024
Children's, Middle Grade

Tree. Table. Book

By Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry’s Tree. Table. Book. will captivate readers as they reflect on the vagaries of history and the beauty of friendship, which are so poignantly conveyed in this timeless tale.

Book jacket image for Missing White Woman by Kellye Garrett
Available 4/30/2024
Mystery

Missing White Woman

By Kellye Garrett

Kellye Garrett’s stark yet entertaining thriller Missing White Woman offers a Black woman’s perspective on the true crime industrial complex.

Book jacket image for The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson
Available 4/30/2024
History

The Demon of Unrest

By Erik Larson

In The Demon of Unrest, Erik Laron crafts a tale of hold-your-breath suspense about the crucial three months leading up to the Civil War.

Book jacket image for Traveling by Ann Powers
Available 6/11/2024
Biography

Traveling

By Ann Powers

Ann Powers’ biography of Joni Mitchell is a travelogue of one of the greatest artistic journeys ever taken, and it’s a pleasure to go along for the ride.

Available 6/18/2024
Literary Fiction

Little Rot

By Akwaeke Emezi

Akwaeke Emezi’s sixth novel for adults, Little Rot, hurtles toward devastation, but even as you anticipate the horrors ahead, the escapist thriller-style pacing will keep you pushing on.

Available 8/06/2024
Social Science

Circle of Hope

By Eliza Griswold

Eliza Griswold’s Circle of Hope is the intimate story of one small, progressive church, but it carries profoundly relevant lessons for all people of faith.

Available 8/06/2024
Contemporary Romance

The Pairing

By Casey McQuiston

A bacchanalian romp from Monaco to Pisa to Paris, The Pairing is a testament to Casey McQuiston’s talent.

Book jacket image for A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
Available 8/20/2024
Fantasy

A Sorceress Comes to Call

By T. Kingfisher

With both gut-clenching scenes and moments of heartwarming humor, A Sorceress Comes to Call is the Regency-fantasy-horror hybrid only T. Kingfisher could write.

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Mothers and Sons

By Adam Haslett

Mothers and Sons is a touching story about the self-inflicted pain of long-buried memories, once again demonstrating Adam Haslett’s ability to produce graceful, emotionally affecting

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Plundered

By Bernadette Atuahene

As readable as a novel, Bernadette Atuahene’s Plundered unspools the intricate story of how a nearly-bankrupt Detroit unconstitutionally overtaxed homes in poor Black neighborhoods.

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