Picks this week in fiction: Joshilyn Jackson and Margot Livesey deliver a one-two punch on behalf of lady’s lit-fic! Robert Crais, Walter Mosley and George Pelecanos kick back with highly-anticipated new genre offerings! And it’s an adult-YA face-off when, on the same January 24 release date, Alan Lightman and Meg Rosoff release novels with nearly identical premises! ("What if God was kind of a regular kid?") And in non-fic, we’ve got a mix of U.S. foreign relations (with Trita Parsi), European history (with Roger Crowley), Kennedy nostalgia (with RoseMarie Terenzio) and social psychology (with Susan Cain). Plus: Becoming Weetzie Bat. Yes, that’s spelled correctly!
Adults
January 24
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain (Crown, $26; ISBN 978-0-307-35214-9).
Fairy Tale Interrupted: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss by RoseMarie Terenzio (Galley, $25; ISBN 978-1-4391-8767-8).
The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey (Harper, $25.99; ISBN 978-0-06-206422-6).
What It Was by George Pelecanos (Little Brown, $35; ISBN 978-0316209533). Review forthcoming.
Mr. g by Alan Lightman (Pantheon, $24.95; ISBN 978-0-307-37999-3).
Taken by Robert Crais (Putnam, $26.95; ISBN 978-0-399-15827-8).
City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas by Roger Crowley (Random, $32; ISBN 978-1-4000-6820-3).
All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley (Riverhead, $26.95; ISBN 978-1-59448-824-5).
A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama's Diplomacy with Iran by Trita Parsi (Yale Univ., $27.50; ISBN 978-0-300-16936-2).
January 25
A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson (Grand Central, $24.99; ISBN 978-0-446-58235-3).
Children’s/YA
January 24
Pink Smog: Becoming Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block (HarperTeen, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-06-156598-4).
There Is No Dog by Meg Rosoff (Putnam, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-399-25764-3).
