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new books for literature course use & adoptionwinter–summer 2014

new books

PENGUIN GROUP (USA)

for course use & adoption

PENGUIN GROUP (USA)

new bookswinter - summer 2014

PENGUIN CLASSICS

The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, ParadisoDante Alighieri • Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Robin Kirkpatrick • 978-0-14-119749-4 • $26.00 • March 2014 • The acclaimed translation of the most famous work of Italian literature, now in a one-volume edition.

Barlaam and Josaphat: A Christian Tale of the Buddha Gui de Cambrai • Translated by Peggy McCracken • Introduction by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. • 978-0-14-3107019 • $16.00 • March 2014 • New translation of the most popular Christian tale of the Middle Ages, which springs from the story of the Buddha

The Confession of a Child of the CenturyAlfred de Musset • Translated with an Introduction and Notes by David Coward • 978-0-14-139185-4 • $17.00 • March 2014 • The classic French novel of infidelity and decadence, published in the first new English translation in a hundred years.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American SlaveFrederick Douglass • Edited with a new Introduction by Ira Dworkin • 978-0-14-310730-9 • $13.00 • Feb 2014 • An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials.

The Bird’s NestShirley Jackson • Foreword by Kevin Wilson • 978-0-14-310703-3 • $16.00 • Feb 2014 • Jackson’s third novel develops hallmarks of the horror master’s most unsettling work: tormented heroines, riveting familial mysteries, and a disquieting vision inside the human mind. • “Jackson’s best novel…Brilliant, swift, at times immensely funny, and alternately frightening. Jackson’s portrayal of a personality in disintegration is masterful.”—Chicago Tribune

The SundialShirley Jackson • Foreword by Victor LaValle • 978-0-14-310706-4 • $16.00 • Feb 2014 • When the Halloran clan gathers at the family home for a funeral, no one is surprised when the somewhat peculiar Aunt Fanny wanders off into the secret garden. But then she returns to report a vision of an apocalypse from which only the Hallorans and their hangers-on will be spared, and the family finds itself engulfed in growing madness, fear, and violence as they prepare for a terrible new world. Landscape with Figures: Selected Prose and Writings Richard Jefferies • Introduction by Richard Mabey • 978-0-14-139289-9 • $17.00 • Feb 2014 • From the father of English nature writing: a superb selection of essays about rural England in the 1800s.

DublinersJames Joyce • Foreword by Colum McCann • 978-0-14-310745-3 • $17.00 • June 2014 • For the centennial of its original publication, a Graphic Deluxe Edition of one of the most beloved books of the 20th century.

Sagittarius RisingCecil Lewis • Introduction by Samuel Hynes • 978-0-14-310734-7 • $16.00 • June 2014 • Memoir by a WWI fighter pilot, with the adventurous spirit of War Horse and the charm of The Little Prince • “Classic…the definitive account of aerial combat—full of passion and poetry.”—The Independent

On the Genealogy of MoralsFriedrich Nietzsche • Translated by Michael A. Scarpitti • Introduction and Notes by Robert C. Holub • 978-0-14-1195377 • $15.00 • Feb 2014 • First time in Penguin Classics: Nietzsche’s accessible exploration of key ideas in his landmark Beyond Good and Evil—in a lucid new translation.

The PropheciesNostradamus • Translated by Richard Sieburth • Edited by Stephane Gerson • Introduction by Richard Sieburth and Stephane Gerson • Notes by Richard Sieburth • Appendix by Stephane Gerson • 978-0-14-310723-1 • $18.00 • Jan 2014 • First major literary presentation of The Prophecies, newly translated and edited by prizewinning scholars. • “Sieburth’s glittering translation rescues one of the world’s most arcane texts from the realm of hearsay, and renders its strange poetry palpable and moving.”—John Ashbery, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet

The Rise of RomePlutarch • Translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert, Christopher Pelling and Jeffrey Tatum • Introduction by Jeffrey Tatum • 978-0-14-0449754 • $16.00 • Jan 2014 • Latest installment in our fully revised edition of Plutarch’s Lives

* All Penguin Classics titles are in paperback (PB)

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Letters to a Young PoetRainer Maria Rilke • Translated by Charlie Louth • Introduction by Lewis Hyde • 978-0-14-119232-1 • $14.00 • April 2014 • Rilke’s powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet.

The Dark Eidolon and Other FantasiesClark Ashton Smith • Edited with an Introduction and Notes by S. T. Joshi • 978-0-14-310738-5 • $16.00 • April 2014 • “Incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures…Take one step across the threshold of his stories and you plunge into colour, sound, taste, smell and texture: into language.”—Ray Bradbury

The Little DemonFyodor Sologub • Translated by Ronald Wilks • Introduction by Pamela Davidson • 978-0-14-139293-6 • $16.00 • Jan 2014 • A blackly comic Russian classic about a schoolteacher’s descent into sadism, arson, and murder.

The Time Regulation InstituteAhmet Hamdi Tanpinar • Translated by Alexander Dawe and Maureen Freely • 978-0-14-310673-9 • $16.00 • Jan 2014 • Penguin Black Tie Classics • A tragicomedy of modernization, in its first-ever English translation. • “An allegorical masterpiece.”—Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Tale of the HeikeTranslated by Royall Tyler • 978-0-14-310726-2 • $30.00 • April 2014 • Includes 55 illustrations by Japanese master artist Teisai Hokuba • Fully annotated, with maps, character guides, and genealogies • From the acclaimed translator of The Tale of Genji

POETRY

Roget’s IllusionLinda Bierds • 978-0-399-16546-7 • $27.95 • April 2014 • Putnam • Bierds asks why do we persist, despite the perils of this world, in trying to untangle the illusions that ensnare us? • “Her poems, with their constantly surprising delicacy and their language rich with insight and a sensuous music, radiate real power and authority and animal presence.”—W. S. Merwin (U.S. Poet Laureate, 2010–2011)

Haiku LoveEdited and translated by Alan Cummings • 978-1-4683-0860-0 • $15.95 • Jan 2014 • Overlook • The majority of the poems in this collection come from the Tokugawa period and include works from the best-known Japanese classical authors, female poets and a number of contemporary writers. Illustrated with images from the collection of Japanese paintings and prints in the British Museum.

Another ReasonCarl Dennis • 978-0-14-312522-8 • $18.00 • April 2014 • A new collection from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Ruth Lilly Prize.

Selected PoemsVladislav Khodasevich • Translated by Peter Daniels • With an Introduction by Michael Wachtel • 978-1-4683-0810-5 • $27.95 • Jan 2014 • Overlook • Bilingual edition • First English-language edition of the work of “the greatest Russian poet or our time” (Vladimir Nabokov). • “Khodasevich is one of the great undiscovered poets of the twentieth century. His verse is inventive, sharp and sensuous, full of the pain of exile yet suffused with hope and belief in the redemptive power of poetry. The greatest compliment to Peter Daniels is that his translations capture not only the semantic content, but the rhythm and the soul of Khodasevich’s art.”—Martin Sixsmith, author of Russia: A 1000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East

The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon BonWillie Perdomo • 978-0-14-312523-5 • $18.00 • April 2014 • Penguin • “There is no poet alive who can match the lyrical intelligence, ferocious wit and searching humanity of Perdomo…He’s the Puerto Rican diaspora’s unofficial poet laureate and what he knows about being of color, being between languages, being poor, being a man, being in trouble, could save your life.”—Junot Diaz

U.S. FICTION

The Secret History of Las VegasChris Abani • 978-0-14-312495-5 • $16.00 • Jan 2014 • Penguin • From the award winning author of The Virgin of Flames comes a riveting novel about a series of killings in Las Vegas and the conjoined twins accused of committing them. • “Chris Abani is a force of nature. In the world of letters he is a luminous shattering talent.”—Junot Díaz

What the Family NeededSteven Amsterdam • 978-1-59463-235-8 • $16.00 • April 2014 • Riverhead • A family’s superpowers bestow not instant salvation but the miracle of accepting who they are. • “Brilliant, unexpected, wide-ranging and deeply moving, the story of one family’s extraordinary—and sometimes otherworldly—negotiation of the very real hazards of life.”—Maile Meloy, author of Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

Queen SugarNatalie Baszile • 978-0-670-02613-5 • $27.95 • Feb 2014 • Pamela Dorman Books • A mother-daughter story of reinvention—about an African American woman who unexpectedly inherits a sugarcane farm in Louisiana. • “A sweeping, beautifully wrought, and uniquely American story….A lyrical and page-turning meditation on second chances, reinvention, family, and race”—Melanie Gideon, author of The Slippery Year and Wife 22

Steal the NorthHeather Brittain Bergstrom • 978-0-670-78618-3 • $27.95 • April 2014 • Viking • An atmospheric debut novel about a teenage California girl discovering her mother’s past, the family she never knew she had, and a once-in-a-lifetime love in the land of her birth, eastern Washington state.

While Beauty SleptElizabeth Blackwell • 978-0-399-16623-5 • $25.95 • March 2014 • Amy Einhorn Books • The Brother Grimm meets The Thirteenth Tale as the legend of Sleeping Beauty is turned on its head in this Gothic retelling of the real story behind the cherished childhood classic. • “Blackwell’s writing is magical in this complex, dark, and sensual retelling of Sleeping Beauty. Imaginative, evocative, full of surprises, this is a captivating debut.”—M. J. Rose, bestselling author of Seduction


The Painted GirlsCathy Marchie Buchanan • 978-1-59463-229-7 • $16.00 • Feb 2014 • Riverhead • Set during Belle Epoque Paris and inspired by the real-life model of Degas’s Little Dancer Aged 14. • “A captivating story of fate, tarnished ambition and the ultimate triumph of sister-love.”—Susan Vreeland, The Washington Post

My EducationSusan Choi • 978-0-14-312257-0 • $16.00 • May 2014 • Penguin • An intimately charged novel of desire and disaster from the author of the critically acclaimed A Person of Interest by the winner of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award for a Writer in Mid-Career. • “The academic novel married to the novel of obsession is almost too pleasurable to contemplate ... Choi’s an extremely confident writer, and in My Education she beautifully explores the way a young person tries, and often fails, to navigate her budding and intersecting sexual, intellectual, and emotional lives. The writing in this novel is masterful ... I wanted to read it all the time.”—Meg Wolitzer, npr.org

No Book but the WorldLeah Hager Cohen • 978-1-59448-603-6 • $27.95 • April 2014 • Riverhead • A gripping, morally complex novel that explores to what degree parents are responsible for actions their children take as adults, and how much grown siblings owe one another.

Flimsy Little Plastic MiraclesRon Currie • 978-0-14-312442-9 • $16.00 • Feb 2014 • Penguin • A bold story about the impossibility of love and the inevitability of grief by the acclaimed author of Everything Matters! • “Currie’s most grounded work yet…[with] gorgeously questioning prose.”—The New Yorker

The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for GirlsAnton DiSclafani • 978-1-59463-270-9 • $16.00 • June 2014 • Riverhead • Bestselling debut novel of family secrets, set in a girls’ boarding school in the 1930s South. • “Thea Atwell is an unforgettable heroine.”—Laura Moriarty, author of The Chaperone • “In elegant prose that evokes the cadences of a vanished epoch, DiSclafani unfolds at a leisurely pace…An unusually accomplished and nuanced coming-of-age drama.”—Kirkus (starred review)

We Are All Completely Beside OurselvesKaren Joy Fowler • 9780142180822 • $16.00 • March 2014 • Plume • From the bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club, the story of an American family, ordinary in every way but one. • “A dark cautionary tale hanging out, incognito-style, in what at first seems a traditional family narrative. It is anything but. This novel is deliciously jaunty in tone and disturbing in material.”—Alice Sebold

The Miniature Wife: and Other StoriesManuel Gonzales • 978-1-59463-227-3 • $16.00 • Feb 2014 • Riverhead • In the tradition of George Saunders and Aimee Bender, a debut that chronicles an ordinary world marked by unusual phenomena. • “A marvel—a beautiful, hilarious and moving reinvention of the gothic, a testimony to the sublime powers of the imagination and language…This a book of extraordinary joy, compassion, horror and grace all rolled into one.”—Dinaw Mengestu, author of Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears

A Man Came Out of a Door in the MountainAdrianne Harun • 978-0-670-78610-7 • $16.00 • March 2014 • Penguin • Harun weaves together folklore, mythology, and elements of magical realism to create an unsettling portrait of life in a dead-end town. • “Harun possesses that rare ability to see the world at an odd tilt that makes everything appear new, at times even to shimmer.”—Richard Russo

You Are One of ThemElliott Holt • 978-0-14-312544-0 • $16.00 • May 2014 • Penguin • Inspired by a true story, the novel begins when ten-year-old best friends Sarah Zuckerman and Jennifer Jones write letters to Soviet premier Yuri Andropov asking for peace. But Sarah is left behind when the Kremlin invites only her friend to visit the USSR. The rift in their friendship still hasn’t healed when Jenny dies in a plane crash. Ten years later, Sarah receives a mysterious letter suggesting that Jenny’s death might have been a hoax. She sets off to the former Soviet Union in search of the truth, but the deeper she digs, the harder it is to separate facts from propaganda. • “A hugely absorbing first novel from a writer with a fluid, vivid style and a rare knack for balancing the pleasure of entertainment…insight.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)

The Unchangeable Spots of LeopardsKristopher Jansma • 978-0-14-312502-0 • $16.00 • March 2014 • Penguin • An inventive debut about a young man’s quest to become a writer and the misadventures in life and love that take him around the globe. • “A funhouse of a novel.…A whimsical round-the-world tour that recalls Calvino, Millhauser, and The Confidence Man.”—Stewart O’Nan • “[A] canny, seductive, and utterly transfixing tale about the magic of storytelling and the misery of writing…Jansma streams stories-within-stories-within-stories, each a diabolically clever homage.”—Booklist (starred review)

The Secret of MagicDeborah Johnson • 978-0-399-15772-1 • $26.95 • Feb 2014 • Amy Einhorn Books • In 1946, a young female attorney from New York City attempts the impossible: attaining justice for a black man in the Deep South. • “I found this story about race, the South, our country, part history, part mystery—never disappointing…A layered tale of the best and worst of our history, beautifully wrought by a master storyteller.”—Robert Hicks, author of The Widow of the South

The Master BlasterP.F. Kluge • 978-1-4683-0709-2 • $15.95 • Feb 2014 • Overlook • From the author of Gone Tomorrow, a compelling portrayal of strangers adrift in Saipan, America’s least-appreciated exotic getaway. • “Stingingly funny…A long, bewitching love letter to an utterly maddening place…[Kluge’s] voice—jaundiced, seasoned, amused and vibrant as it is—gives The Master Blaster added allure.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times Book Review • “Delving deep into his rich setting, Kluge patiently lays out a tale of intrigue and ignorance worthy of Graham Greene.”—Stewart O’Nan

Mambo in ChinatownJean Kwok • 978-1-59463-200-6 • $27.95 • July 2014 • Riverhead • From the bestselling author of Girl in Translation, a new novel about a young woman torn between her family duties in Chinatown and her escape into the world of ballroom dancing.

Rules for Becoming a LegendTimothy S. Lane • 978-0-670-01488-0 • $26.95 • March 2014 • Viking • A spirited debut of a rising basketball star wrestling with his town’s outsized expectations and his family’s complicated legacy.

The FacadesEric Lundgren • 978-1-4683-0894-5 • $14.95 • June 2014 • Overlook • A major literary debut about love, loss, and self-discovery in a restless America. • “Harrowing and hilarious…This is a detective novel that owes as much to Haruki Murakami and Italo Calvino as to John D. MacDonald and James M. Cain.”—The New Yorker The Hundred-Year House Rebecca Makkai • 978-0525426684 • $26.95 • July 2014 • Viking • Funny and touching story about the secrets of an old money family and the mysterious working of fate from the author of The Borrower.


In Paradise Peter Matthiessen • 978-1-59463-317-1 • $27.95 • Apr 2014 • Riverhead • From the co-founder of The Paris Review and the author of Shadow Country and The Snow Leopard, which both won National Book Awards. A diverse group sets off for a weeklong retreat at a former concentration camp site. As the days pass, tensions, both political and personal, surface among the participants.

ShirleySusan Scarf Merrell • 978-0-399-16645-7 • $25.95 • June 2014 • Blue Rider Press • From the author of A Member of the Family who teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing & Literature at Stony Brook Southampton. A fictional young couple spends a year at Bennington in 1964 with novelist Shirley Jackson and her husband in this psychological thriller.

White Dog Fell from the SkyEleanor Morse • 978-0-14-312443-6 • $16.00 • Jan 2014 • Penguin • An intimate portrait of Botswana, and of three people whose intertwined lives are at once tragic and remarkable. • “There are not enough adjectives to describe the strength of this story…. Emotionally riveting, heartbreaking…Each sentence is more beautiful than the last.”—New York Journal of Books

The Crane WifePatrick Ness • 978-1-59420-547-7 • $26.95 • Feb 2014 • Penguin Press • A novel, based on a Japanese folk tale, that imagines how the life of a man is transformed when he rescues an injured white crane. • “A perfect fusion of surreal imagery and beautifully crafted internal logic.”—Helen Brown, The Telegraph • “Ness ... has a rare ability to cut poignancy with humour.”—Michael Prodger, Financial Times

Everything I Never Told YouCeleste Ng • 978-1-59420-571-2 • $26.95 • July 2014 • Penguin Press • A haunting debut novel (from the winner of the Hopwood Award and the Pushcart Prize whose work has been published in One Story, TriQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, and the Kenyon Review Online) about a mixed-race family living in 1970s Ohio and the tragedy that will either be their undoing or their salvation.

Pioneer GirlBich Minh Nguyen • 978-0-670-02509-1 • $26.95 • Feb 2014 • Viking • From the PEN/Jerard Fund Award and an American Book Award-winning author of Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, comes a novel about a Vietnamese American family’s ties to The Little House on the Prairie. • “Exceptional…funny, insightful, and literary, with lots to mull over after you put it down.” —Chicago Tribune

Waiting for the ElectricityChristina Nichol • 978-1-4683-0686-6 • $26.95 • June 2014 • Overlook • A picaresque set in post-Soviet Georgia—land of corruption, love, and power shortages. • “A wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven’t read a first novel this promising since The Confederacy of Dunces.”—Jill Ciment, author of Heroic Measures

I Always Loved YouRobin Oliveira • 978-0-670-78579-7 • $27.95 • Feb 2014 • Viking • A novel of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas’s great romance that re-creates the irresistible world of Belle Époque Paris, from the New York Times bestselling author of My Name Is Mary Sutter.

The VisitorsPatrick O’Keeffe • 978-0-670-02463-6 • $26.95 • March 2014 • Viking • From the Story Prize–winning author of The Hill Road, a lyrical novel set in America and Ireland about love, secrets, and family intimacies. • “In The Visitors, the past is constantly catching up to, and overtaking, the present, and the result is a haunted and beautiful book that culminates in violance that’s both inevitable and surprising. A wonderful fist novel.”—Charles Baxter

A Tale for the Time BeingRuth Ozeki • 978-0-14-312487-0 • $16.00 • Jan 2014 • Penguin • Probes the relationship between writer and reader as it interweaves contemporary issues with a beguiling exploration of history, memory, and myth. • “Bewitching, intelligent, hilarious, and heartbreaking, often on the same page…One of those novels that will renew your faith in literature.”—Juneot Díaz • “A timeless story…Ozeki beautifully renders not only the devastation of the collision between man and the natural world, but also the often miraculous results of it.”—Alice Sebold

Down the ShoreStan Parish • 978-0-670-01642-6 • $27.95 • June 2014 • Viking • Debut novel of reinvention, friendship, and ambition • “It is the exceptional coming-of-age novel that shows us the truth not only about its hero’s maturation, but about the singular age into which he is maturing…Parish’s debut is raw, elegant, incisive, and above all, wise.”—Matthew Sharpe, author of You Were Wrong and Jamestown

AlenaRachel Pastan • 978-1-59463-247-1 • $27.95 • Feb 2014 • Riverhead • In an inspired restaging of Daphne du Maurier’s classic Rebecca, a young curator finds herself haunted by the legacy of her predecessor at an art museum on Cape Cod. • “Skillfully crafted…both an homage to Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca and an insightful meditation on our obsessive preoccupation with death—simultaneously creepy and entrancing.”—John Irving

TroikaAdam Pelzman • 978-0-399-16748-5 • $25.95 • May 2014 • Amy Einhorn Books • A sensuous, original novel about an unconventional relationship among three very different people. • “Poignant, painful, impeccably realized, and ultimately joyful. I am so grateful to Pelzman for creating this gem of a world.”—Ayelet Waldman, author of Love and Treasure

Why Are You So Sad?Jason Porter • 978-0-142-18058-7 • $15.00 • Feb 2014 • Plume • A melancholic pictographer at a company resembling IKEA hypothesizes that the human race has fallen into a species-wide depression, and decides to get to the bottom of it. • “Porter could find a place on the shelf beside Richard Brautigan, George Saunders, and David Sedaris. This is a quick, odd, wonderful book.”—Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic

Brother of SleepRobert Schneider • 978-1-4683-0866-2 • $16.95 • July 2014 • Overlook • Set in a remote Alpine village in the early nineteenth century, this novel tells the story of a musical genius with supernatural hearing. • “A strange, rich story…The writing draws much of its power from the strangeness of the setting.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review

Moments CapturedRobert Seidman • 978-1-4683-0838-9 • $16.95 • March 2014 • Overlook • An historical novel of art and technology with an intense love affair at its center, played out on a colorful America canvas. • “Engrossing…Seidman combines brisk pacing and bold passions to dynamically illuminate a crucial chapter in America’s artistic and technological history.”—Booklist • “The allure and distinctiveness of the West resounds clearly…it is a wonderful tribute: Muybridge is a hero of a California dream, his every misstep, in Seidman’s telling, inspired by love.”—New Republic

Ghana Must GoTaiye Selasi • 978-0-14-312497-9 • $16.00 • Feb 2014 • Penguin • A “buoyant” and “rapturous” debut novel (The Wall Street Journal) about the transformative power of unconditional love. • “An unforgettable voice on the page.”—The Economist • “Gorgeous. Reminiscent of Jhumpa Lahiri but with even greater warmth and vibrancy.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)


Mary CoinMarisa Silver • 978-0-142-18078-5 • $16.00 • March 2014 • Plume • Critically acclaimed author takes Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” photograph as inspiration for a reinvention—a story of two women, one famous and one forgotten, and of the remarkable legacy of their of their chance encounter. • “Extraordinarily compassionate and wise…A poignant exploration of a single life that touches many others, and a powerful, moving portrait of America during the Great Depression.”—Meghan O’Rourke, author of The Long Goodbye • “Superb…Silver’s acute observations and understated style are evident as are her matter-of-fact, unapologetic characters…mesmerizing.”—Library Journal (starred review)

WonderkidWesley Stace • 978-1-4683-0801-3 • $26.95 • March 2014 • Overlook • From the writer also known as singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding, an entertaining novel about the touring life of America’s unlikeliest rock stars. • “Highly pleasurable. And unusual, not least because this is a rock and roll novel written by someone who actually knows what he’s talking about.”—Peter Carey

The InterestingsMeg Wolitzer • 978-1-59463-234-1 • $17.00 • April 2014 • Riverhead • The New York Times bestselling novel about what becomes of early talent, and the roles that art, money, and envy can play—even in close friendships. • “Remarkable…Warm, all-American, and acutely perceptive about the feelings and motivations of its characters…but it’s also stealthily, unassumingly, and undeniably a novel of ideas…With this book [Wolitzer] has surpassed herself.”—The New York Times Book Review

Land of Love and DrowningTiphanie Yanique • 978-1-59448-833-7 • $27.95 • July 2014 • Riverhead • A novel of love and magic, set against the emergence of Saint Thomas into the modern world. • “This is a story that feels ancient and modern at the same time. Yanique is a prodigiously talented new writer with a sharp voice, wicked humor, and compassion beyond measure.”—Tayari Jones, author of Silver Sparrow

Monster: A Novel of FrankensteinDave Zeltserman • 978-1-4683-0821-1 • $14.95 • Jan 2014 • Overlook • “[An] imaginative and grotesque novel from the revisionist perspective of the monster…Zeltserman’s monster is every bit as eloquent as Shelley’s.” —Booklist (starred review)

WORLD FICTION

The Temporary GentlemanSebastian Barry • 978-0-670-02587-9 • $26.95 • May 2014 • Viking • From the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture comes a new novel about Jack McNulty and his love affair with Mai Kirwan, the great beauty of Sligo. The sixth book in Barry’s cycle of separate yet interconnected novels that reimagine characters from his own family.

Ten Things I’ve Learnt About LoveSarah Butler • 978-0-14-312560-0 • $16.00 • July 2014 • Penguin • A heartbreaking and hopeful debut about the search for family and home • “Butler writes with the deftness and delicacy of a master storyteller, giving us a compassionate, achingly beautiful rendering of a father and daughter.”—Hillary Jordan, author of Mudbound

The Childhood of JesusJ. M. Coetzee • 978-0-14-312576-1 • $ • July 2014 • Penguin • A major new novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of Disgrace, about a young boy in search of a mother whom he does not remember, but who he will supposedly recognize once he sees her. • “At once lucid and elusive...The prose is clear and flat in the special way that Coetzee has perfected.”—David Sexton, London Evening Standard (UK

The UntoldCourtney Collins • 978-0-399-16709-6 • $26.95 • June 2014 • Amy Einhorn Books • With shades of Water for Elephants and True Grit, a debut novel set in the Australian outback about a female horse thief and her bid for freedom. • “This extraordinary novel—propelled by the dark, rich talents of a truly brilliant writer—dazzles, staggers and amazes.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of The Signature of All Things

I, HogarthMichael Dean • 978-1-4683-0822-8 • $16.95 • Feb 2014 • Overlook • The decadence and grittiness of eighteenth-century London comes to life in this novel. • “Gritty, bawdy and funny…Dean paints with words as Hogarth did with his brush.”—The New York Times Book Review • “A brilliant exercise in imagination and storytelling.”—Kirkus (starred review)

My Wish ListGrégoire Delacourt • Translated by Anthea Bell • 978-0-14-312465-8 • $15.00 • April 2014 • Penguin • Bestselling international phenomenon that asks, If you won the lottery, would you trade your life for the life of your dreams? • “[Delacourt has a] knack for finding exactly the right words and for evoking feeling.”—Le Nouvel Observateur • “An affecting story of a couple thrown into turmoil by their dreams and longings. A beautiful tale.”—Psychologies

The Invisible BookSergei Dovlatov • Translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O’Connor • 978-1-4683-0885-3 • $16.95 • June 2014 • Overlook • An uproarious account of the foibles and absurdities of Soviet literary life by a “brilliant and breezy satirist” (The New York Times).

The GutsRoddy Doyle • 978-0-670-01643-3 • $27.95 • Feb 2014 • Viking • Jimmy Rabbitte of The Commitments returns in the new novel from the Booker Prize–winning author. • “There is not a writer currently working in the English language who can match Doyle for the fluency with which he tacks back and forth between the hilarious and the heartbreaking.”—The New York Times Book Review

An Evening with ClaireGaito Gazdanov • Translated with an Introduction by Jodi Daynard • 978-1-4683-0884-6 • $15.95 • June 2014 • Overlook • Originally published in 1930, An Evening with Claire is a psychological novel that is at once an intimate and sensual account of a young man’s coming-of-age, and a tribute to the shattered dreams of the early twentieth century. • “Daynard’s rendering of the tender, nostalgic but unsentimental prose seems flawless.”—The New York Times Book Review

Revolution BabyJoanna Gruda • 978-1-60945-198-1 • $16.00 • May 2014 • Europa • A tale that is equal parts Life Is Beautiful, Diary of Anne Frank, and The Book Thief, Jureks’ story begins in Warsaw on the eve of the Second World War and ends in Paris after the liberation of the city. • “A beautiful, subtle tale.”—Patricia Powers, Radio-Canada

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising AsiaMohsin Hamid • 978-1-59463-233-4 • $16.00 • March 2014 • Riverhead • The bestselling, resoundingly acclaimed tale of a poor boy’s quest for wealth and modern love. • “A globalized version of The Great Gatsby…[Hamid’s] book is nearly that good.”—Alan Cheuse, NPR • “Hamid reaffirms his place as one of his generation’s most inventive and gifted writers.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times


The HistoriesHerodotus • Newly Translated by Tom Holland • Introduction by Paul Cartledge • 978-0-670-02489-6 • $40.00 • May 2014 • Viking • One of Western history’s greatest books and the very first work of non-fiction. • “The best English translation of Herodotus to have appeared in the past half-century...Fast, funny, opinionated, clear and erudite...I am in awe of Tom Holland’s achievement, and have no doubt it will bear rich fruit in bringing Herodotus to public attention.”—Times Literary Supplement

In the Orchard, The SwallowsPeter Hobbs • 978-1-60945-183-7 • $15.00 • Feb 2014 • Europa • Story of a man’s enduring belief in the purity of lost love. • “Achingly moving…Hobbs makes beautiful writing look simple.”—The Independent on Sunday • “Hobbs strips his story to its essentials and, in doing so, creates a remarkably moving parable of the perennial conflict between love and power.”—The Sunday Times

Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My MaKerry Hudson • 978-0-14-312464-1 • $15.00 • Feb 2014 • Penguin • A tragicomic story about coming of age in a non-traditional family amid the absurdities of the 1980s and Thatcherite Britain. • “A witty and lively novel set somewhere between the worlds of Roddy Doyle and Irvine Welsh.”—William Dalyrymple, The Guardian

The Hen Who Dreamed She Could FlySun-mi Hwang • Translated by Chi-Young Kim • Illustrated by Nomoco • 978-0-14-312320-0 • $15.00 • Jan 2014 • Penguin • Bestselling modern fable from Korea • “An adroit allegory about life…in the vein of classics like Charlotte’s Web and Jonathan Livingston Seagull”—Kirkus • “Everything wonderful about the world is contained in this small gem of a novel, which brims with dream-fulfilling adventures and the longing that underlies love.”—Kyung-sook Shin, author of Please Look After Mom

Dreaming for FreudSheila Kohler • 978-0-14-312519-8 • $16.00 • June 2014 • Penguin • Award-winning author reimagines one of Freud’s most famous and controversial cases. • “There is a territory—fic-tional and psychological—that Sheila Kohler has now marked as her own. I am full of admiration.”—J. M. Coetzee

Dispute Over a Very Italian PigletAmara Lakhous • 978-1-60945-188-2 • $15.00 • April 2014 • Europa • This multiethnic mystery pays homage to the cinematic tradition of the commedia all’italiana as it probes the challenges and joys of life in a newly multicultural society. • “Do we have an Italian Camus on our hands? Just possibly…No recent Italian novel so elegantly and directly confronts the ‘new Italy.’”—Philadelphia Inquirer

A Delicate TruthJohn le Carré • 978-0-14-312531-0 • $16.00 • May 2014 • Penguin • Latest bestseller from the internationally acclaimed author • “An elegant yet embittered indictment of extraordinary rendition, American right-wing evangelical excess and the corporatization of warfare…And le Carré has not lost his ability to sketch, in a line or two, an entire character.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times Magazine • “Le Carré further establishes himself as a master of a new, shockingly realistic kind of noir.”—Booklist (starred review)

The Castle of WhispersCarole Martinez • Translated by Howard Curtis • 978-1-60945-182-0 • $22.95 • Feb 2014 • Europa • A work of historical magical realism from one of France’s most successful new authors. • “In Martinez’s lush prose, this period novel appears astonishingly modern… intoxicating.”—L’express

A Teaspoon of Earth and SeaDina Nayeri • 978-1-59463-232-7 • $17.00 • Jan 2014 • Riverhead • A magical novel set in Iran, about a girl who is saved from turmoil in Iran by her powerful imagination and obsession with Western culture. • “Ambitious…There’s a kaleidoscopic quality to Nayeri’s prose, evoking the best of Eastern storytelling, while its cadences remain resolutely American.”—The Daily Mail • “What a tremendous gift [Nayeri] offers us throughout the book, an opportunity to connect with the richness of Iran, while simultaneously enlarging our understanding of the human experience.”—Baltimore Times

Boy, Snow, BirdHelen Oyeyemi • 978-1-59463-139-9 • $27.95 • March 2014 • Riverhead • From the prizewinning author of Mr. Fox, the Snow White fairy tale recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity, set in a small American town during the civil rights era.

Em and the Big HoomJerry Pinto • 978-0-14-312476-4 • $16.00 • July 2014 • Penguin • An accomplished literary debut, this is the story of an Indian family struggling with their mother’s mental illness. • “Beautiful…full of love, pain, and unaccountably, much wild comedy. One of the very best books to come out of India in a long, long time.”—Salman Rushdie • “This is a world of magnified and dark emotion. The anger is a primal force, the sadness wild and raw. Against this, the jokes are hilarious, reckless, free falling….This is a rare, brilliant book.”—Kiran Desai, author of The Inheritance of Loss

HonorElif Shafak • 978-0-14-312504-4 • $16.00 • March 2014 • Penguin • From the author of The Bastard of Istanbul, a family saga about an honor killing that shatters and transforms the lives of Turkish immigrants in 1970s London. • “Shafak’s portrayal of Muslim cultures, both traditional and globalizing, is as hopeful as it is politically sophisticated.”—The Guardian • “An extraordinarily skillfully crafted and ambitious narrative, with Shakespearean twists and turns…Shafak joins writers such as Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith, Monica Ali…who offer us fictional glimpses of London’s Others.”—The Independent

The Ten Thousand ThingsJohn Spurling • 978-1-4683-0832-7 • $27.95 • Apr 2014 • Overlook • From the author of The Book of Liszts, the revelatory new novel of a brilliant painter swept up by war and upheaval, set in China on the cusp of the Ming Dynasty.

The Boat to RedemptionSu Tong • Translated by Howard Goldblatt • 978-1-4683-0824-2 • $16.95 • March 2014 • Overlook • A searing parable of exile by winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize and the author of Raise the Red Lantern. • “Remarkable, subtle, and profound”—The New York Times

The Sound of Things FallingJuan Gabriel Vasquez • 978-1-59463-274-7 • $16.00 • June 2014 • Riverhead • A bestselling, prize-winning tour-de-force from an international literary star—an intimate portrayal of the drug wars in Colombia. • “[A] brilliant new novel…gripping…absorbing right to the end.”—Edmund White, The New York Times Book Review • “Languid existential noir, one that may put you in mind of Paul Auster.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times


Mrs. HemingwayNaomi Wood • 978-0-14-312461-0 • $16.00 • June 2014 • Penguin • Story of how it was to love, and be loved by, the most famous writer of his generation. Told in four parts and populated with members of the fabled “Lost Generation,” Mrs. Hemingway interweaves the real-life love letters and telegrams of four very different women into one tale.

Chop ChopSimon Wroe • 978-1-59420-579-8 • $26.95 • April 2014 • Penguin Press • A funny and original debut set in the fast-paced and treacherous world of a restaurant kitchen. • “Furiously funny, fast, surreal, brutal—Chop Chop puts a Dickensian supercharge into the behind-the-scenes goings on of a restaurant kitchen.”—Anya von Bremzen, author of Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing

SHORT STORIES / ESSAYS / LETTERS

Here and Now: Letters 2008-2011Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee • 978-0-14-312491-7 • $16.00 • March 2014 • Penguin • A three-year epistolary dialogue • “A civilized discourse between two cultivated and sophisticated men…A pleasure to be in their company.”—The Washington Post • “A genial, often riveting exchange. Amiable and revealing missives from two remarkable minds.”—Kirkus Reviews

A Guide to Being Born: StoriesRamona Ausubel • 978-1-59463-268-6 • $16.00 • May 2014 • Riverhead • From the critically acclaimed writer of No One is Here Except All of Us comes a new collection that uses the world of the imagination to explore the heart of the human condition. • “Each story in this collection finds a way to record the tensions between the corporeal and the invisible, the forces that animate us but ultimately can’t be dissected, our anti-anatomies.”—The New York Times Book Review

The Corpse Exhibition: And Other Stories of IraqHassan Blasim • Translated by Jonathan Wright • 978-0-14-312326-2 • $15.00 • Feb 2014 • Penguin • An explosive new voice in fiction emerges from Iraq in this blistering debut by “perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction alive” (The Guardian). • “Blasim pitches everyday horror into something almost gothic….[His] taste for the surreal can be Gogol-like.”—The Independent • “A master of metaphor…[His work is] Bolano-esque in its visceral exuberance, and also Borgesian in its gnomic complexity.”—The Guardian

Selected Stories of Jane GardamJane Gardam • 978-1-60945-199-8 • $17.00 • June 2014 • Europa • A collection of award-winning stories from the writer of the Old Filth trilogy • “Gardam is the best British writer you’ve never heard of.”—Maureen Corrigan, NPR • “Jane Gardam is a wonderful writer. Her understanding of character and use of language are both remarkable.”—The Times Redeployment Phil Klay • 978-1-59420-499-9 • $26.95 • March 2014 • Penguin Press • From a former Marine captain and Iraq veteran, who’s been compared to Joseph Heller and George Orwell, a hard-hitting collection focusing on the complexities of life for soldiers on the front lines and after. • “[Klay] slips himself in under the skin of the war with a muscular language and an agile heart and a fair amount of complicated doubt…One of the great story collections of recent times.”—Colum McCann

Invisible Love Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt • 978-1-60945-203-2 • $16.00 • July 2014 • Europa • New story collection by the author of The Most Beautiful Book in the World. • “Schmitt’s stories capture a quirky, clever, feminist, very French sensibility.”—Publishers Weekly • “Moral fables, gilded mini-legends: Schmitt’s stories are fiendishly efficient. Schmitt is a prodigious story-teller with a style both elegant and assured.”—Les Echos

Last Stories and Other StoriesWilliam T Vollmann • 978-0-670-01597-9 • $36.00 • July 2014 • Viking • Supernaturally tinged stories from the author of the National Book Award winner Europe Central.

This Is Not an Accident April Wilder • 978-0-670-02604-3 • $26.95 • Feb 2014 • Viking • From a truly distinctive voice brimming with wicked humor, tales of the little disasters that befall and befuddle us. • “Dark and introspective…the characters here are all broken in some way, and all are very be-lievable. Wilder’s voice is crisp and contempo-rary, burying meaning in the depth of her char-acters’ thoughts and actions and leaving interpretation up to the reader.”—Booklist

DRAMA

Really ReallyPaul Downs Colaizzo • 978-1-4683-0807-5 • $14.95 • Jan 2014 • Overlook • A startlingly funny play about a group of Generation Me college students • “It’s Lord of the Flies with martphones… Really Really is a take-no-prisoners indictment of the young men and women poised to inherit the earth.”—Ben Brantley, The New York Times

Sex with StrangersLaura Eason • 978-1-4683-0874-7 • $14.95 • May 2014 • Overlook • When star sex blogger and memoirist Ethan tracks down his idol, the gifted but obscure older novelist Olivia, he finds they each crave what the other possesses. As they inch closer to getting what they want, both must confront the dark side of ambition and the near impossibility of reinventing oneself when the past is only a click away. • “Savvy, funny, insightful.”—Chicago Sun-Times

Some Velvet MorningNeil LaBute • 978-1-4683-0916-4 • $14.95 • May 2014 • Overlook • LaBute explores the nuances of gender relationships, creating a work of sharp and subtle contrasts in this drama about obsession, desire, and the roles we play. • “Full of intelligent and witty twists and turns…Neil LaBute is a master of manipulative, funny, and provocative wordplay.”—ScreenDaily

Nikolai and the OthersRichard Nelson • 978-1-4683-0853-2 • $15.95 • Jan 2014 • Overlook • Nelson imagines the relationships between Russian choreographer Balanchine and composer Stravinsky, their friends, lovers, wives and ex-wives, supporters, and dancers at the time of their historic collaboration on the ballet Orpheus. • “Nikolai sometimes summons both a sense of place and displacement with such naturalness that you forget that you’re watching titans at play.”—Ben Brantley, The New York Times

Without a Dowry and Other PlaysAlexander Ostrovsky • Translated with an Introduction by Norman Henley • 978-1-4683-0858-7 • $14.95 • Feb 2014 • Overlook • Four of Ostrovsky’s key plays—A Profitable Position, An Ardent Heart, Without a Dowry, and Talents and Admirers —rounded out by the translator’s introduction, an afterword for each play, an extensive bibliography, and complete list of Ostrovsky’s works.

An IliadLisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare • 978-1-4683-0808-2 • $14.95 • Jan 2014 • Overlook • Adapted by Peterson and O’Hare from Robert Fagles’ acclaimed translation, An Iliad telescopes Homer’s Trojan War epic into a monologue that captures both the heroism and horror of war.


Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations with Today’s Top Comedy WritersMike Sacks • 978-0-14-312378-1 • $18.00 • July 2014 • Penguin • Top humor writers like Amy Poehler, Mel Brooks, Adam McKay, Michael Schur, and Glen Charles—many of whom have never before been interviewed at this length, or at all—offer insight into their influences and creative processes, their self-doubt and breakthroughs, and how they managed to succeed in the crazy business of comedy.

On Reading The Grapes of WrathSusan Shillinglaw • 978-0-14-312550-1 • $14.00 • April 2014 • Penguin • Today’s foremost Steinbeck scholar writes an extended meditation on the influence of The Grapes of Wrath, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of its first publication.

ArtfulAli Smith • 978-0-14-312449-8 • $16.00 • Feb 2014 • Penguin • “A stimulating combination of literary criticism, essay, and fiction” (The New Yorker) from the incomparable Ali Smith. • “These brief, acrobatic lectures…perform spec-tacular feats of criticism. Each is as playful as it is powerful, as buoyant as it is brilliant.”—NPR

The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American LiteratureBen Tarnoff • 978-1-59420-473-9 • $27.95 • Feb 2014 • Penguin Press • From the author of A Counterfeiter’s Paradise: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Early American Moneymakers, a portrait of the birth of modern America and the western writers who gave voice to its emerging identity.

Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into StoryJohn Yorke • 978-1-4683-0809-9 • $28.95 • March 2014 • Overlook • A useful guide to dramatic writing, revealing how and why the elements of a great script are essentially the same, whether you’re writing the next Casablanca, The Wire, or Glengary Glen Ross. • “A marvelous analysis of screenwriting”—Julian Fellowes, writer/creator of Downton Abbey • “Outrageously good and by far and away the best book of its kind I’ve ever read. I recognized so much truth in it. But more than that, I learned a great deal.”—Neil Cross, novelist, screenwriter, and creator of Luther

WRITING / JOURNALISM / CRITICISM / REFERENCE

The Most Dangerous BookKevin Birmingham • 978-1-59420-336-7 • $29.95 • June 2014 • Penguin Press • The thrilling story of the writing and fifteen-year fight to publish James Joyce’s Ulysses.

Bulfinch’s MythologyThomas Bulfinch • 978-0-399-16922-9 • $19.95 • June 2014 • Tarcher • This Cornerstone Edition of Bulfinch’s Mythology offers readers an easily portable, complete collection of all three volumes—the only such edition of this beloved anthology currently available.

Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great GatsbySarah Churchwell • 978-1-59420-474-6 • $29.95 • Feb 2014 • Penguin Press • Tracing the genesis of a masterpiece, a Fitzgerald scholar follows the novelist as he begins work on The Great Gatsby. • “Excellent….Prodigious research and fierce affection illumine every remarkable page.”—Kirkus (starred review) • “A treasury of new material. Churchwell adds considerably to our understanding of the early 1920s, and how life for Fitzgerald played into the development of his art.”—Literary Review

Yours for Eternity: Love Story on Death RowDamien Echols and Lorri Davis • 978-0-399-16619-8 • $27.95 • June 2014 • Blue Rider Press • An intimate look at the extraordinary love story between Echols and Davis, who met and married while Echols—author of the New York Times bestseller Life After Death—served nearly eighteen years on death row.

Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and HorrorLaurie Lamson • 978-0-399-16555-9 • $15.00 • March 2014 • Tarcher • Features speculative fiction-writing exercises from Harlan Ellison, Piers Anthony, Ramsey Campbell, Jack Ketchum, screenwriters of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek: The Next Generation, and many more.

The Other PlaceSharr White • 978-1-4683-0872-3 • $14.95 • Jan 2014 • Overlook • Juliana is a successful neurologist whose life seems to be coming unhinged. Piece by piece, a mystery unfolds and the elusive truth about Juliana boils to the surface. • “A haunting drama…Shattering.”—Variety • “White writes with great simplicity about a situation that defies discipline, defies neatness.”—New York magazine

The Snow GeeseSharr White • 978-1-4683-0873-0 • $14.95 • Jan 2014 • Overlook • The Broadway hit about a family waking up from their own Gilded Age.

SCIENCE FICTION / FANTASY

The Office of MercyAriel Djanikian • 978-0-14-312437-5 • $16.00 • Feb 2014 • Penguin • A thrilling, post-apocalyptic novel that weaves philosophy into a dystopian story of love and adventure. • “An indisputable page turner with a surprise ending…It’s hard to miss the echoes of Orwell in Djanikian’s dark vision of both the past and the future.”—Michael Schaub, NPR

The Flight of the SilversDaniel Price • 978-0-399-16498-9 • $26.95 • Feb 2014 • Blue Rider Press • A thrilling genre-bending saga about six extraordinary people whose fates become intertwined on an Earth far different from their own.

ArchetypeM. D. Waters • 978-0-14-218114-0 • $16.00 • July 2014 • Plume • In a future where women are a rare commodity, Emma fights for freedom but is held captive by the love of two men—one her husband, the other her worst enemy. If only she could remember which is which. • “Waters has given us that rare and wonderful action heroine who possesses both nerve and emotional depth ... An enthralling debut that I couldn’t put down.”—Richelle Mead


American Story: A Lifetime Search for Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary ThingsBob Dotson • 978-0-142-18076-1 • $16.00 • March 2014 • Plume • The host of the Today Show’s popular segment shares his favorite stories of ordinary Americans accomplishing extraordinary things. • “These are remarkable and poignant stories that need to be told.”—Ken Burns

Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair, and Post-Punk Rock, from the Middle East to the Lower East SideRayya Elias • Introduction by Elizabeth Gilbert • 978-0-14-312505-1 • $16.00 • April 2014 • Story about pursuing—not always by choice—a life of extremes. • “Twisted, devastating…A classic, blood-stained love letter to bohemian NYC.”—Craig Marks • “Reads like Huck Finn on heroin. . .Her story…is as American as they come, including as it does immigration, addic-tion and hard won deliverance. Through it all Elias’s voice burns fire hot.”—Darcey Steinke

Exodus Deborah Feldman • 978-0-399-16277-0 • $26.95 • April 2014 • Blue Rider Press • Deborah Feldman, author of the explosive New York Times–bestselling memoir Unorthodox, returns with an extraordinary follow-up that traces her new life as an independent young woman and single mother, and her search for an authentic and personal Jewish identity since rejecting her Hasidic roots.

A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton, From Box Tops to Big Star to Backdoor ManHolly George-Warren • 978-0-670-02563-3 • $27.95 • March 2014 • Viking • The first biography of the influential musician and forebear of the indie-rock scene. Longtime Chilton acquaintance George-Warren has interviewed more than 100 bandmates, friends, and family members to flesh out a man who presided over—and influenced—four decades of American musical history, rendered here with new perspective through the adventures of a true iconoclast.

Run, Don’t Walk: The Curious and Chaotic Life of a Physical Therapist Inside Walter Reed Army Medical CenterAdele Levine, P.T. • 978-1-58333-539-0 • $26.00 • Feb 2014 • Avery • M*A*S*H meets Scrubs in a darkly funny and totally unique debut memoir. With a motley array of oddball characters, Run, Don’t Walk is a fascinating look into the hidden world of rehabilitating war amputees.

She Left Me the Gun: My Mother’s Life Before MeEmma Brockes • 978-0-14-312536-5 • $16.00 • July 2014 • Penguin • Story of a young woman who reinvented herself so completely that her previous life seemed to vanish, and of a daughter who transcends her mother’s fears and reclaims an abandoned past • “Vigorously unsentimental, deeply absorbing, and written with fierce wit, it is an unstinting look at what it means to be innocent, at any stage of life, and how obsessively we all seek and avoid the many faces of truth.”—Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree

The Tooth FairyClifford Chase • 978-1-4683-0695-8 • $24.95 • Feb 2014 • Overlook • An honest memoir of a man torn between isolation and connection. • “Riveting and deeply moving…Chase transforms sex and grief into exquisitely tuned sentences, whose wit and concision magically neutralize loss.”—Wayne Koestenbaum

Flip: The Inside Story of TV’s First Black SuperstarKevin Cook • 978-0-142-18075-4 • $16.00 • March 2014 • Plume • Drawing on interviews, Cook delivers the inspiring story of Clerow “Flip” Wilson, a complex man who broke the prime-time color barrier. • “Candid and entertaining…Cook’s fiercely honest biography captures the tumultuous and winning personality of the man.”—Publishers Weekly

Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter’s Journey Through a Country’s Descent into DarknessAlfredo Corchado • 978-0-14-312553-2 • $17.00 • June 2014 • Penguin • A crusading Mexican-American journalist searches for jus-tice and hope in an increasingly violent Mexico. • “A raw, real-life parable for the paradoxes of the Mexican-American experience. . . a riveting and gut-wrenching read.”—Jon Lee Anderson, author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life and The Fall of Baghdad

History Lessons: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, and the BrainClifton Crais • 978-1-4683-0368-1 • $25.95 • April 2014 • Overlook • An acclaimed scholar tackles his greatest historical puzzle yet—his own abused past.

Astonished: A Story of Healing and Finding GraceBeverly Donofrio • 978-0-14-312490-0 • $16.00 • March 2014 • Penguin • Hoping to heal from trauma, Donofrio turns to prayer while journeying to five very different monasteries. • “Composed of brutal honesty, tenderness, and an aching love for God. I could not put it down.”—Sue Monk Kidd

MEMOIR / BIOGRAPHY / AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Home is a Roof Over a Pig: An American Family’s Journey to ChinaAminta Arrington • 978-1-4683-0879-2 • $17.95 • May 2014 • Overlook • Account of one all-American family’s new life in a small town in China. • “A fresh, illuminating look at con-temporary China.”—Booklist • “Her chronicle of their adventures with the language and with the local culture and characters presents inti-mate glimpses of the profoundly different ide-ology and philosophy that underlie the quotid-ian Chinese experience—and of the essential human kindness that can transcend those dif-ferences.”—National Geographic Traveler

The World Is a Carpet: Four Seasons in an Afghan VillageAnna Badkhen • 978-1-59463-267-9 • $16.00 • June 2014 • Riverhead • A portrait of a place and a people shaped by centuries of art, trade, and war. • “Capture[s] the fatalistic ambience of a place where opium addiction is rampant, mobile phones are an impossible luxury and the Taliban lurk in the shadows.”—The New York Times Book Review

The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and ReckoningJulene Bair • 978-0-670-78604-6 • $26.95 • March 2016 • Viking • A woman’s story of two love affairs: one with a Kansas cowboy, the other with her family’s High Plains farm and the deep waters of the Ogallala Aquifer beneath it. Updating the territory mapped by Jane Smiley, Pam Houston, and Terry Tempest Williams, and with elements of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, The Ogallala Road tells a tale of the West today and points us toward a new way to love both the land and one another.

A Long Way HomeSaroo Brierley • 978-0-399-16928-1 • $26.95 • June 2014 • Putnam • At the age of five, Saroo got lost on a train ride in India. Twenty-five years later, after surviving the slums of Calcutta and growing up half a world away in Australia, he used Google Earth to track down his village and his family.


Hippie BoyIngrid Ricks • 978-0-425-27400-2 • $15.00 • Jan 2014 • Berkley • The New York Times bestselling memoir about growing up in a dysfunctional Mormon family • “A soft-spoken yet resounding reminder of the power plays tied to religion…Ricks’ voice is true, and her prose has a poised confidence missing from the repertoires of many established authors.”—Booklist

Dancing Through It: My Journey in the BalletJenifer Ringer • 978-0-670-02649-4 • $27.95 • March 2014 • Viking • A behind-the-curtains look at the rarefied world of classical ballet from a principal dancer at the New York City Ballet. Ringer takes us inside the dancer’s world, detailing a typical day, performance preparation, and the extraordinary pressures that these athletes face. She shares exhilarating stories while also unflinchingly describing her personal struggles with eating disorders and body image.

The Faraway NearbyRebecca Solnit • 978-0-14-312549-5 • $16.00 • May 2014 • Penguin • The exploration of the forces that connect us and the way we tell our stories blends memoir and essay in a tour de force of association. • “The product of a remarkable mind at work, one able to weave a magnificent number of threads into a single story”—Bookforum • “A masterpiece, about nothing less than the story (the myth, the fairy tale) we are living, about how we can step out of that story to become who we are, who we are meant to be.”—Nick Flynn, author of The Reenactments

The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and ReturnKenan Trebinčević and Susan Shapiro • 978-0-14-312457-3 • $16.00 • March 2014 • Penguin • A young survivor of the Bosnian War returns to his homeland to confront the people who betrayed his family. • “A searing memoir of war and peace from a young man who sees through ancient rhetoric with stunning clarity.”—Tom Zoellner, author of A Safeway in Arizona • “A mesmerizing tale of war trauma and redemption to be found in confronting it.”—Booklist

Dancing Fish and AmmonitesPenelope Lively • 978-0-670-01655-6 • $26.95 • Feb 2014 • Viking • Traces the arc of the bestselling and award-winning author’s life, stretching from her early childhood in Cairo to boarding school in England to the sweeping social changes of Britain’s twentieth century. She reflects on her early love of archeology, the fragments of the ancients that have accompanied her journey.

Word for Word: A Memoir of Literature, Politics, and Survival in Soviet RussiaLilianna Lungina • Translated by Polly Gannon and Ast A. Moore • 978-1-4683-0732-0 • $27.95 • July 2014 • A bestselling sensation in Russia, Word for Word is the story of a nation’s literary conscience—the history of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of a single person. • “This memoir has left the strongest impression on me of any book in the past several years.”—Boris Akunin, author of The Winter Queen

The Mockingbird Next DoorMarja Mills • 978-1-59420-519-4 • $27.95 • July 2014 • Penguin Press • One journalist’s memoir of her personal friendship with Harper Lee and her sister, drawing on the extraordinary access they gave her to share the story of their lives.

AutobiographyMorrissey • 978-0-399-17154-3 • $30.00 • Dec 2013 • Putnam • Covers Morrissey’s life from his birth until the present day. • “Practically every paragraph has a line or two that demands to be read aloud to the mirror, tattooed on foreheads, carved on tombstones.”—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone • “As I floated, unmoored, Morrissey would drop in a single masterfully executed sentence. He’s a writer with a gift that he bends to bizarre use.”—Sasha Frere-Jones, The New Yorker

The Still Point of the Turning WorldEmily Rapp • 978-0-14-312510-5 • $16.00 • March 2014 • Penguin • A mother’s experience raising a terminally ill child • “Intelligent, ferocious, grace-filled, gritty, astonishing”—Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild • “Combines an essayist’s willingness to lay herself bare on the page, a theologian’s search to plumb mysteries of life, and a poet’s precision. The result is stunning.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Mister Owita’s Guide to GardeningCarol Wall • 978-0-399-15798-1 • $25.95 • March 2014 • Amy Einhorn Books • Driving Miss Daisy meets The Last Lecture with a bit of The Middle Place in this true story of a unique friendship between a teacher and the intriguing Kenyan man who arrives to tend her yard. • “Wall’s suspenseful tale of human frailty and courage is a marvel…Deeply personal, poetic, and brimming with humanity, this is a book of lasting grace.”—Steve Lopez, author of The Soloist

The Lost DaughterMary Williams • 978-0-142-18077-8 • $17.00 • Aprilil 2014 • Plume • A daughter of the Black Panther movement tells her life story of being raised amid violence and near-poverty, adopted as a teenager by Jane Fonda, and finding her way back home. • “[Williams is] a writer of uncommon clarity and humor, and the arrival of her memoir is cause for celebration.”—Dave Eggers

Siegfried Sassoon: Soldier, Poet, Lover, FriendJean Moorcroft Wilson • 978-1-4683-0852-5 • $40.00 • May 2014 • Overlook • The definitive, single-volume biography of the great WWI poet, published to coincide with the centennial anniversary.

Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution: Voices from Tunis to DamascusEdited with a Preface by Layla Al-Zubaidi and Matthew Cassel • Translated by Georgina Collins and Robin Moger • Introduction by SaMarch Yazbek • 978-0-14-312515-0 • $17.00 • Jan 2014 • Penguin • An English PEN Award–winning collection of personal testimony from participants in the Arab Spring. • “Among the most moving, inspiring, and revealing pieces of non-fiction we’ve come across in some time.”—The National (U.A.E.) • “These stories…are the brave first draft of history….Their voices are honest and compelling”—Wendell Steavenson

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