Preview: Junot Díaz, THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER (Riverhead)

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Debuts
Hanna Pylvainen, WE SINNERS (Holt)
M.L. Stedman, THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS (Scribner)
Shani Boianjiu, THE PEOPLE OF FOREVER ARE NOT AFRAID (Hogarth)
Amanda Coplin, THE ORCHARDIST (HarperCollins)
Kevin Powers, THE YELLOW BIRDS (Little, Brown)
Lance Weller, WILDERNESS (Bloomsbury)
J.R. Moehringer, SUTTON (Hyperion)
Scott Hutchins, A WORKING THEORY OF LOVE (Penguin)
John Kenney, TRUTH IN ADVERTISING (Touchstone)

English: Writer Junot Díaz at the Mercantile L...
Writer Junot Díaz at the Mercantile Library Center for Fiction’s Annual Benefit and Awards Dinner (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Fiction
Junot Díaz, THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER (Riverhead)
Lawrence Norfolk, JOHN SATURNALL’S FEAST (Grove)
Dennis Lehane, LIVE BY NIGHT (William Morrow)
James Meek, THE HEART BROKE IN (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Mark Helprin, IN SUNLIGHT AND IN SHADOW (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Matthew Dicks, MEMOIRS OF AN IMAGINARY FRIEND (St. Martin’s Press)
Iris Anthony, RUINS OF LACE (Sourcebooks)
Barbara Kingsolver, FLIGHT BEHAVIOR (HarperCollins)
Bill Roorbach, LIFE AMONG GIANTS (Algonquin)

Nonfiction
Rhoda Janzen, DOES THIS CHURCH MAKE ME LOOK FAT? (Grand Central)
Teresa Rhyne, THE DOG LIVED (Sourcebooks)
Bee Wilson, CONSIDER THE FORK (Basic Books)
Neil Young, WAGING HEAVY PEACE (Blue Rider)
Diana Athill, MAKE BELIEVE (Granta Books)

YA
Sarah Maas, THRONE OF GLASS (Bloomsbury Children’s)
David Levithan, EVERY DAY (Knopf Children’s)
Jasper Fforde, THE LAST DRAGONSLAYER (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s)
Jessica Khoury, ORIGIN (Penguin Kids)
Eric Devine, TAP OUT (Running Press Teen)
Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian, BURN FOR BURN (Simon & Schuster Children)
Libba Bray, THE DIVINERS (Little Brown Young Readers)
Ned Vizzini, THE OTHER NORMALS (HarperTeen)
Janet Gurtler, WHO I KISSED (Sourcebooks Fire)

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