Books in the Media – August 2019

Here is a sample of some of the books prominently featured in the media this week.

August 27:

NPR:

The Warehouse by Rob Hart

My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero

The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee

NYT:

Bottle Grove by Daniel Handler

People:

Tidelands by Philippa Gregory

Middle England by Jonathan Coe

Carnegie Hill by Jonathan Vatner

See Jane Win: The Inspiring Story of the Women Changing American Politics by Caitlin Moscatello

Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders by Billy Jensen

Piatti: Plates and Platters for Sharing, Inspired by Italy by Stacy Adimando

USA Today:

The Warehouse by Rob Hart

The Washington Post:

The Girl Who Lived Twice: A Lisbeth Salander novel, continuing Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Series by David Lagercrantz

How To Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kend

Overthrow by Caleb Crain

Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession by Rachel Monroe

Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story by Marie Arana

August 20:

Entertainment Weekly:

Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith

The Institute by Stephen King

Inland by Téa Obreht

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

The Guardian:

Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

NYT:

The Last Ocean: A Journey Through Memory and Forgetting

NPR:

Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh

Black Light: Stories by Kimberly King Parsons

The Washington Post:

gods with a little g by Tupelo Hassman

Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King

Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II by Svetlana Alexievich

Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary by John Clubbe

August 13:

NPR:

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton

Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury

A Pure Heart by Rajia Hassib

NYT:

Inland by Téa Obreht

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

People:

Life and Other Inconveniences by Kristan Higgins

Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing by Elissa Altman

Is There Still Sex in the City? by Candace Bushnell

Gravity Is the Thing by Jaclyn Moriarty

Reasons to Be Cheerful by Nina Stibbe

Dora and the Lost City of Gold by Steve Behling

Danielle Walker’s Eat What You Love Everyday Comfort Food You Crave by Danielle Walker

The Washington Post:

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino

In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond: In Search of the Sasquatch by John Zada

A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea by Don Kulick

D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II by Sarah Rose

August 06:

Entertainment Weekly:

Symptoms of a Heartbreak by Sona Charaipotra

The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen

NPR:

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

The NYT:

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino

People:

Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman

Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson

Chances Are . . . by Richard Russo

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch

The Washington Post:

Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come by Richard Preston

Ellie and the Harpmaker by Hazel Prior