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DISCOVER (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER) Some OF THE books I'VE WORKED ON THROUGHOUT MY CAREER
THIS WILL BE MY UNDOING, by Morgan Jerkins (nonfiction)
Instant New York Times bestseller
A 2018 Barnes & Noble Discover Pick
"It is a book I wish everyone in this country would read.... Jerkins is everything a young essayist should be: willing to float a bold thesis and interested enough in a larger truth to complicate or even undo it."—New York Times Book Review
THE PEOPLE IN THE TREES, by Hanya Yanagihara (Fiction)
Critically-acclaimed, New York Times bestselling debut novel from the author of the literary phenomenon A Little Life
The Man Who Made the Movies, by Vanda Krefft (Nonfiction)
“Krefft captures both the culture of the origins of cinema as a business and the many fascinating personalities at play within the narrative. No longer Hollywood’s forgotten pioneer, William Fox now has the history he deserves.”—Washington Post
“William Fox has been hiding in plain sight, and Ms. Krefft has done an extraordinary job of putting him in the spotlight through exhaustive research in archives and libraries across America. The book is an immensely valuable resource.... Simultaneously a great American success story and a shudder-provoking cautionary tale.”—Wall Street Journal
“Life, ever unfair, had its way with the fantastic Mr. Fox. Yet Krefft reminds us, in this big, brassy production of a book, of his grand legacy.”—USA Today (four stars)
SOME OTHER TOWN, by Elizabeth Collison (Fiction)
“Wry, peculiar, and compelling…. The novel asks: how do you restart a stalled life? It’s not a new question, but Some Other Town is certainly a funny, fresh, and real answer.” — National Book Award finalist, NBCC winner of the John Leonard First Novel Award, and author of Her Body And Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado, on NPR.org
SAPIENS, by Yuval Noah Harari (NONFICTION)
New York Times bestseller
A Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg
Heads in Beds, by Jacob Tomsky (NonFiction)
Instant New York Times bestseller
"Heads in Beds is Mr. Tomsky’s highly amusing guidebook to the dirty little secrets of the hospitality trade.... [He] turns out to be an effervescent writer."—Janet Maslin, New York Times
Magpie Murders, by Anthony Horowitz (FiCTION)
National and New York Times Bestseller
"Magpie Murders is a double puzzle for puzzle fans, who don’t often get the classicism they want from contemporary thrillers." —Janet Maslin, New York Times
ILLUSION OF JUSTICE, by Jerome Buting (NONFICTION)
**Now in development as an ABC Studios television series**
“Buting commands attention with his account of Steven Avery’s trial.…. [He] uses his expertise to make a convincing case…. A compelling portrait of the mechanisms of building a murder defense. A fantastic look behind the scenes of the U.S. justice system.”—Kirkus Reviews
An innocent fashion, by R. J. Hernández (FICTION)
“Writing in a fervently literary style that flirts openly with the traditions of Salinger, Plath, and Fitzgerald, Hernández is a diamond-sharp satirist and a bracingly fresh chronicler of the heartbreak of trying to grow up. Honest and absurd, funny and tragic, wild and lovely, this novel describes modern coming-of age with poetic precision.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred), Summer Reading Pick: “Three Summer Reads You Can’t Miss”
“Wry…literary…. His characters are vivid enough to stand alone.”—Washington Post
AT HOME, BY BILL BRYSON (NONFICTION)
National Bestseller
“Delightful.... Bryson’s enthusiasm brightens any dull corner.... Hand over control and simply enjoy the ride.” —New York Times Book Review
“The experience of reading a Bill Bryson book is something you don’t want to stop—a pip and a spree and, almost incidentally, a serious education. And never tiresome, for Bryson has the gift of being the student and not the tutor.” —Washington Post
The Stopped Heart, by Julie Myerson (FICTION
“Bloody brilliant.”—Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train
“Increasingly gripping…. What Myerson writes about so well: that eerie sense when something is both familiar and unfamiliar.”—New York Times Book Review, NYTBR Editor's Choice
Enter Helen, by Brooke Hauser (NONFICTION)
“Engaging…. Nimble-footed…. Amusing….Throughout, Hauser weaves in passages connecting Brown to her contemporaries and the cultural landscape of the 1960s…[to] situate her life in the context of its times.”—New York Times Book Review
“Brown deserves the biography that Brooke Hauser has written, Enter Helen. It is entertaining, thoughtfully researched and — the ultimate encomium where HGB was concerned — fun.” —Washington Post
“Legendary, inimitable Cosmopolitan editor and Sex and the Single Girl author Helen Gurley Brown comes alive in Hauser’s hands.” —Entertainment Weekly, “Must List"
BLACK FALL, by Andrew Mayne (FICTION)
**Nominated for a 2018 Edgar Award!**
The latest installment in ITW Award-nominated Jessica Blackwood series.
NOT JUST JANE, by Shelley DeWees (NONFICTION)
“An industrious work by an adoring reader…. Her converting zeal is apparent on every page, holding up passages of poems and novels to tempt us. With verve and brio, she imagines her modern self into her subjects’ minds.”—Wall Street Journal