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James Oseland's Mom Made His Memoir Possible
Literally! But really, 'Jimmy Neurosis,' the food personality's 1970s punk rock coming-of-age story, gives all due credit to a truly singular mom.
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Only in New England—And This Novel—Could Something Like This Happen
In Elizabeth McCracken's first novel in 20 years, a woman mysteriously appears in a New England cemetery at the turn of the 20th century and goes on to build a bowling alley that leaves a mark on the town.
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Who Can You Trust in Annie Ward's New Novel?
Set in the Balkans, this psychological thriller is a vehicle for the 'bad' women that capture our imagination—the ones who know what they want and go out and get it.
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The Soda Goes Pop In This New Novel
The rise and fall of a soft drink dynasty follows the course of an American century in Snowden Wright's 'American Pop.'
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Chigozie Obioma's Magical African Mystery Tour
A guardian spirit oversees the destiny of a Nigerian poultry farmer as he pursues success and the hand of the woman he loves in this new novel.
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The Media Star Monk's Next Self-Care Tome
A Korean Zen Buddhist monk deepens his message of love and acceptance in his second illustrated self-care book.
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Open Book: Comeback Novel Spotlights the Haves and Have Nots
The fate of failed Jewish immigrant farmers collides with the glitter of Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair in 'The Lake on Fire,' Rosellen Brown’s first novel in 18 years.
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Open Book: Party Like It’s... BookExpo 2018!
Open Book turns one at a medley of BookExpo fetes celebrating the people of publishing.
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What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of... Women? Author Samantha Downing Knows.
In Downing’s debut novel, a suburban Florida couple spice up their lives with kidnapping and murder.
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A Country Girl's Gritty Southern Debut Novel
Mesha Maren's 'Sugar Run' follows the travails of an Appalachian woman released from prison in her mid-30s after serving 18 years of a life sentence for manslaughter.
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Open Book: A Siege, a Soldier, A Jihadi, a Love Story
During the 1979 siege of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, a jihadi and a French officer she takes hostage form an unlikely bond in Raja Alem's new novel, 'Sarab.'
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Open Book: A Good Book, a Great City, and a Dead Prostitute
Young women are gruesomely murdered in a medical mystery that brings 1847 Edinburgh to life.
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Open Book: When a Stranger Calls
An unexpected message draws an L.A. writer back 25 years to his uninhibited youth in Paris.
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Open Book: Irma Boom is the Queen of Books
The Dutch graphic artist is revolutionizing bookmaking, one tiny tome at a time.
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Open Book: Will Lightning Strike Therese Anne Fowler Twice?
The author of 'Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald' follows up one historical fiction with another, a novel of the Gilded Age and the woman who created the Vanderbilt dynasty.
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Open Book: The Tao of Teo
A gimlet-eyed teenage protagonist survives her quirky all-female family in steamy Singapore in Sharlene Teo's debut novel, 'Ponti.'
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Open Book: If the Shoe Fits, Write a Novel About It
Jewish Bostonian Spencer Wise finds revolution and redemption in the world of Chinese shoe factory workers in his debut novel, 'The Emperor of Shoes.'
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Open Book: Every Little Thing Gonna Be All Right for This New Novel
Bob Marley comes back from the dead in Marcia Douglas's mind-blowing 'The Marvellous Equations of the Dread,' a novel that dances to a bass riddim.
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Open Book: Another Great Novel of the Great War
A romance and a mystery swirl around Nick Dybek’s second novel, 'The Verdun Affair,' a stunning World War I novel.
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Open Book: A Hidden Tragedy
The Up Stairs Lounge fire in New Orleans takes its place in the history of civil rights and gay liberation—and in a new book by Robert W. Fieseler.
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