Rainbow Rowell, Dutton, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-95198-8
In sweet, silly, and incredibly long digital missives, best newsroom pals Beth and Jennifer trade gossip over their romances—Beth with her marriage-phobic boyfriend, Chris, and Jennifer with her baby-mania-stricken husband, Mitch. What they don't...
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Rainbow Rowell. St. Martin’s Griffin, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-25001-257-9
Half-Korean sophomore Park Sheridan is getting through high school by lying low, listening to the Smiths (it’s 1986), reading Alan Moore’s Watchmen comics, never raising his hand in class, and avoiding the kids he grew up with. Then new girl Eleanor
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Rainbow Rowell. St. Martin’s Griffin, $18.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-250-03095-5
Cath Avery’s life has two polestars: Wren, her identical twin, and the Simon Snow series, a Harry Potter–like publishing phenomenon that Cath has been reading—and rewriting, as a hugely popular fanfiction author—for years. While Cath is an expert on
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Rainbow Rowell. St Martin’s, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-04937-7
Rowell follows up children’s novels Fangirl and Eleanor and Park, both released in 2013, with an adult novel about the ups and downs of marriage. Georgie McCool (yes, that’s her real name) is a successful TV writer with a handsome writing partner...
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Rainbow Rowell. St. Martin's Griffin, $19.99 (528p) ISBN 978-1-250-04955-1
Rowell's many fans know that the characters in this novel derive from her 2013 book, Fangirl, where they appeared in two forms: the "official" version of a Harry Potterlike series and the funnier, funkier, and gayer fanfic written by Cath, Fangirl's
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Rainbow Rowell, read by Euan Morton. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 13.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-6202-8
Rowell’s novel (an offshoot of 2013’s Fangirl), tells the story of Simon Snow,
a Harry Potter–esque “Chosen One” trying to learn to use his magic at a wizarding school, and Baz, Simon’s roommate and sworn enemy, who is secretly in love with Simon....
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Rainbow Rowell. Wednesday, $19.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-14607-6
After the triumphant conclusion of Carry On, hero Simon Snow had earned some reward, or at least a little happiness. Instead, as this sequel opens, readers learn that Simon has sunk into a deep post-heroics funk. Roommates and fellow magicians Penny
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Rainbow Rowell, illus. by Jim Tierney. Wednesday, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-85541-1
Fangirl’s Reagan, Simon and Baz from the Simon Snow trilogy, and protagonists from Attachments feature alongside new Rowell characters in this frothy, genre-spanning short story amalgam. Tierney’s silhouette illustrations, rendered in energetic...
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Rainbow Rowell, illus. by Faith Erin Hicks. First Second, $24.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-250-31285-3
For the last several years, high schoolers Deja and Josiah (Josie) have been best friends during autumn, working together at the Pumpkin Patch’s Succotash Hut. On Halloween, the last day of their final year working at the Patch, outgoing Deja, a...
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Rainbow Rowell, read by Rebecca Lowman. Macmillan Audio, , unabridged, seven CDs, 9 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-3932-7
Rowell’s touching romance has a supernatural twist, a telephonic portal that allows TV comedy writer Georgie to time travel back and forth from the present day to the period before she was married using a vintage rotary-dial telephone. Georgie and...
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Rainbow Rowell, read by Rebecca Lowman and Sunil Malhotra. Listening Library, unabridged, seven CDs, 9 hrs., $50 ISBN 978-0-385-36826-1
Eleanor is the new girl, big, red-haired, dressed with a defiantly grungy lack of style, and a perfect target for ridicule and harassment in half-Korean sophomore Park’s Omaha, Neb., high school. Park doesn’t even want the weirdo sitting by him on...
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Rainbow Rowell, read by Rebecca Lowman and Maxwell Caulfield. Listening Library, unabridged, 10 CDs, 13 hrs., $60 ISBN 978-0-8041-2128-6
Cath’s freshman year at the University of Nebraska does not begin well: her roommate is aloof and scary; her identical twin sister, Wren, ignores her in favor of beer and some airheaded new friends; and Cath has too much social anxiety to even find...
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Rainbow Rowell. Morrow, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-338019-6
Bestselling YA author Rowell (Eleanor & Park) serves up a powerful and poignant tale of first love for adult romance readers. Growing up in underprivileged north Omaha, Neb., best friends Shiloh, Cary, and Mikey relied on each other—but Shiloh and...
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