Best New Book Releases This Week May 14 to 20 2024

TRENDING NEWS ENTERTAINME NT FOOD & DRINK PETS SHOPPING HEAL THY NOW HOME BEST READS ON PARADE BOOK PICKS SEE MOREe 25 Best New Book Releases is Week: May 14-20, 2024 Parade’s book editor Michael Giltz shares his picks for the best new titles out this week.</p><p> MICHAEL GILTZ • MAY 13, 2024 Here are the best new books in every genre coming out the week of May 14-20, 2024.</p><p> When you look at my roundups, you won’t just nd the perfect book to read.</p><p> You’ll also nd great books to recommend to your partner and coworkers and kids and friends .</p><p> You’ll nd great gift ideas and obeat choices you would never have looked for but suddenly can’t live without.</p><p> Scroll down my list and you’ll often nd books grouped in batches of twos and threes, like collections of compelling and fun reads, great fantasy picks, new thrillers and mysteries, inspiring science and nature books to open your mind and heart and more.</p><p> Seriously, something for everyone.</p><p> And what a week in book history! The Wonderf ul Wizard of Oz by L.</p><p> Frank Baum was published on May 17, 1900.</p><p> Oscar Wilde was released from Reading Gaol on May 19, 1897.</p><p> He left England that very night and never returned, but stopped at Hatchards bookstore on Piccadilly before leaving. (A man after my own heart.) And Dr.</p><p> Seuss’s 1954 classic Horton Hears A Who! begins, “On the fteenth of May/ In the jungle of Nool/ In the heat of the day/ In the cool of the pool/ He was splashing/ Enjoying the jungle’s great joys/ When Horton, the elephant/ Heard a small noise.” Okay, let’s get reading.</p><p> And at the head of the Parade is…. e 25 Best New Releases is Week e Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren Swimmi ng in Paris by Colombe Schneck Wives Like Us by Plum Sykes I’m working on a list of great beach reads for this summer and you can bet Christina Lauren’s latest is on it.</p><p> A fake marriage so a starving female artist can get cheap housing and heir-to-fortune can inherit $100 million? Got it.</p><p> Any possibility they’ll fall for each other and complications ensue? Nawww.</p><p> Fans of Julie Otsuka’s The Swimmers will happily dive into Swimming in Paris, a novel that captures a woman at three stages of life: teenage crisis, nurturing a long-term friendship and the blossoming of romance in middle age.</p><p> Finally , Plum Sykes delivers another wickedly funny look at the upper crust when wealthy American divorcees invade the British countryside and a stately home worthy of Downton Abbey .</p><p> The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren ($28.99; Gallery Books) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Swimming in Paris by Colombe Schneck; translated by Lauren Elkin and Natasha Lehrer ($27; Penguin Press) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Wives Like Us by Plum Sykes ($28; Harper) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Nancy & Sluggo’s Guide To Life by Ernie Bushmiller I had you at the title, right? Here are vintage selections from Nancy, the comic strip that continues to this day but was perfected to a zen-like simplicity for 44 years by Ernie Bushmiller.</p><p> Astute choices reveal an amusing perspective and useful advice.</p><p> Nancy sees a sign that says “Buy something for someone you love” and rushes o…to buy herself a chocolate shake.</p><p> Good idea! So is this book.</p><p> Nancy & Sluggo’s Guide To Life by Ernie Bushmiller; foreword by Dennis Kitchen ($24.95; New York Review Comics) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Related: 15 Books You Mu st Read if You’re Obsessed With Taylor Swift’s New A lbum Spiing Gold by Carmella Lowkis ink Twice by Harlan Coben When We Were Silent by Fiona McPhillips Here are three books for crime lovers.</p><p> Carmella Lowkis makes like Sarah Waters with Spitting Gold, the story of two sisters in 1800s Paris who once hoodwinked people as spirit mediums and are drawn back together for one last con.</p><p> Harlan Coben returns to his Myron Bolitar series for the rst time in eight years.</p><p> In Think Twice, sports agent Bolitar discovers an associate he thought dead is actually alive…and wanted for murder.</p><p> Irish writer Fiona McPhillips enjoyed huge acclaim in the UK for her debut When We Were Silent, set at an exclusive boarding school where a student’ s desire to out a brutal teacher has unexpected consequences that reverberate through the years.</p><p> Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis ($28.99; Atria) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Think Twice by Harlan Coben ($30; Grand Central Publishing) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org When We Were Silent by Fiona McPhillips ($28.99; Flatiron Books) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Rebel Girl by Kathleen Hanna Fans of Bikini Kill are just the rst people who will be drawn to Kathleen Hanna ’s memoir about being a riot grrrl, ghting to make it in the sexist music indus try and the joys of being a feminist punk.</p><p> From writing "Smells like teen spirit" on the wall of Kurt Cobain's home (clearly he was taking notes) to falling in love with Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys and being friends with Joan Jett, Hanna really has done it all.</p><p> Did we mention creating classics with Bikini Kill and Le Tigre and beyond? Yeah, that too.</p><p> Rebel Girl by Kathleen Hanna ($29.99; Ecco) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Road to Ruin by Hana Lee I’m A fraid You’ve Got Dragons by Peter S.</p><p> Beagle If you’re hungry to see the new Mad Max movie, then Road to Ruin is the dystopian fantasy novel you need.</p><p> In it, a royal messenger travels from a domed city into the wastelands to (try and) deliver love notes from her prince to a stranded princess via a magic-powered cycle.</p><p> She’s a Furiosa in love, since our hero Jin has a thing for both the prince and the princess.</p><p> She agrees to rescue the young woman and then ee for safety across a terrain dotted with beasts, marauders and the pursuing forces of the princess’s father.</p><p> Everyone knows Peter S.</p><p> Beagle’s gentle classic The Last Unicorn.</p><p> In his whimsical latest, Beagle tells the story of a dragon exterminator who doesn’t really like exterminating dragons and would much rather be a prince’s valet, but life just isn’t fair, is it? Equal parts Monty Python and Dragonheart? The Smaug section of The Hobbit? Let’s just say Beagle’s I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons is its own creature entirely, much like every dragon I've ever met.</p><p> Road to Ruin by Hana Lee ($18.99; S&S/Saga Press) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons by Peter S.</p><p> Beagle ($26.99; S&S/Saga Press) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Amphibious Soul by Craig Foster e Occasional Human Sacrice by Carl Ellio Quanta and Fields by Sean Carroll Did you see the Oscar-winning documentary My Octopus Teacher? That hit lm beguiled as it showed Craig Foster bonding with an octopus in the waters o Cape Town, South Africa.</p><p> Now Foster shares his love for nature and its crucial role in nurturing our well-being with Amphibious Soul.</p><p> It's a combination o f memoir and self-help fans of his earnest lm will eat up.</p><p> In a thriller-like work of nonction, Carl Elliott reveals both the brutal side of medical experiments involving human participants and the high price paid by whistle-blowers, even when they’re vindicated.</p><p> So The Occasional Human Sacrice is both an expose and oers six proles in courage.</p><p> Sean Carroll is an award-winning professor at Johns Hopkins with a gift for explaining scientic ideas to a general audience.</p><p> He puts those skills to good use with his latest book Quanta and Fields.</p><p> It takes you gently through quantum physics and ideas like entanglement, why matter is solid (despite all that space inside atoms), and onto the remarkable insights of quantum eld theory and what they actually mean.</p><p> Amphibious Soul by Craig Foster ($29.99; HarperOne) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org The Occasional Human Sacrice by Carl Elliott ($29.99; W.W.</p><p> Norton and Company) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Quanta and Fields: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe by Sean Carroll ($26; Dutton) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org All Fours by Miranda July Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru Buery of Dinard by Eugenio Montale Three works of literary ction.</p><p> In All Fours, lmmaker and novelist Miranda July deliv ers an expectedly obeat and hilarious work about menopause.</p><p> Her heroine takes a road trip of the soul by staying put in a hotel room and exploring love in all its forms.</p><p> George Saunders oers high praise.</p><p> British novelist Kari Kunzru of White Tears and Red Pill fame apparently completes a color trilogy with Blue Ruin.</p><p> This is his pandem ic novel of sorts, with a once-promising artist reduced to delivering groceries as an “essential worker" (dened as someone you pay poorly but applaud in thanks).</p><p> The man's life is upended again when an ex-girlfriend invites him into her wealthy world.</p><p> Italian writer Eugenio Montale is best known as a poet, but his somewhat autobiographical novel Buttery of Dinard is a charming collection of memories pinned down and displayed with care and gentle aection.</p><p> All Fours by Miranda July ($29; Riverhead Books) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru ($28; Knopf) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Buttery of Dinard by Eugenio Montale; translated by Oonagh Stransy and Marla Moa ($16.95; NYRB Classics) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Challenger by Adam Higginbotham e Infernal Machine by Steven Johnson Baseball: e Movie by Noah Giell; foreword by John Sayles Like the assassination of JFK, an entire generation remembers where they were when the space shuttle Challenger shattered into pieces shortly after lifto.</p><p> We all know what happened.</p><p> But in Challeng er, writer Adam Higginbot ham captures the drama and despair of the events leading up to that fateful moment.</p><p> In the popular history of The Infernal Machine, writer Steven Johnson heads to New York City before World War I and documents the rise of detective work as we know it today.</p><p> It happens amidst a backdrop of anarc hists setting o dynamite around the city and terrorizing New Yorkers for years.</p><p> But the new head of the NYPD is determined to turn this corrupt tool of Tammany Hall from a muscle-bound oaf into a force that actually solves crimes.</p><p> Finally , in a work of pop culture history, Noah Gittell looks at the wonderf ul combination of baseball and the movies.</p><p> Just as baseball inspires some of the best writing of any sport, movies centered on baseball have a special magic too.</p><p> They capture America in ways large and small, from the feminist triumph of A League of Their Own to the magical realis m of Field of Dream s.</p><p> The foreword of Baseball: The Movie is by director John Sayles, because he made Eight Men Out, one of the best baseball movies of them all.</p><p> A treat for fans of the sport and of movies.</p><p> Oh, and the answer to your question? Bull Durham, of course.</p><p> Challeng er by Adam Higginbotham ($35; S&S/Avid Reader Press) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org The Infernal Machine by Steven Johnson ($32; Crown) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Baseball: The Movie by Noah Gittell; foreword by John Sayles ($30; Triumph Books) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Related: Author Kate DiCamillo on the Book That Changed Her Life and Other Favorites It Waits In e Forest by Sarah Dass A Crane Among Wolves by June Hur e Brightwood Code by Monica Hesse Three intriguing young adult novels prove again why YA isn’t just for kids anymore.</p><p> It Waits In The Forest is the rst title from the new publishing imprint Rick Riordan Presents! The novel combines murder, a cynical young woman who doesn’t believe in magic, Caribbean mythology and a love interest who works at the local paper into a thriller that might just garner well- reviewed author Sarah Dass her biggest audience yet.</p><p> In the period romance A Crane Among Wolves, writer June Hur brings to life a brutal period of Korean history in a story that pulls no punches.</p><p> But it also oers enoug h chemistry between two reluctant allies to satisfy any romance fans.</p><p> Monica Hesse plumbs World War I for an exciting tale of conspiracies that haunt a young woman involved in a disastrous mission.</p><p> In The Brightwood Code, the war is over when she unexpectedly gets a chance to discover the truth about what happened.</p><p> It Waits In The Forest by Sarah Dass ($18.99; Rick Riordan Presents) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org A Crane Among Wolves by June Hur ($19.99; Feiwel & Friends) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org The Brightwood Code by Monica Hesse ($18.99; Little, Brown for Young Readers ) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org o mas Jeerson’s Bale for Science by Beth Anderson Summe r Vamp by Violet Chan Karim e Pelican Can! By Toni Yuly Here are two picture books and a middle-grade graphic novel, all rich in humor.</p><p> Thomas Jeerson’s Battle for Science features marvelously detailed and inventive illustrations showing how the Founding Father used the scientic method to refute a French scientist’s dismissive attitude towards the New World.</p><p> Great fun.</p><p> In Summer Vamp, a kid realizes the new summer camp she’s attending– with its strict ban on garlic!–is actually a summer camp…for vampires.</p><p> And the sunnily optimistic picture book The Pelican Can! uses bold graphics to capture the vibrant world of a can-do bird.</p><p> Thomas Jeerson’s Battle for Science by Beth Anders on; illustrated by Jeremy Holmes ($18.99; Calkins Creek) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Summer Vamp by Violet Chan Karim ($13.99; Random House Graphic) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org The Pelican Can! 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