This week: a picks bonanza. Jodi Picoult returns with another solid novel, as does Terry Bisson, Nicci French, Simon Lelic, Gail Jones, And J.G. Ballard. We’ve also got debut novels from Michel Stone, Esi Edugyan, and Catherine Chung, nonfiction from Marina Warner and Elizabeth Little, and the selected letters of Charles Dickens, on the occasion of his 200th birthday. Plus: not one but two volumes dedicated to the Mad Men era, just the books to bridge the gap until the fifth season’s March premiere.
Adults
February 27
Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult (Atria, $28; ISBN 978-1-4391-0274-9).
Five Bells by Gail Jones (Picardor, $15; ISBN 978-1-250-00373-7).
February 28
The Child Who by Simon Lelic (Penguin, $15; ISBN 978-0-14-312091-9).
Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan (Picador, $15; ISBN 978-1-250-01270-8).
The Real Mad Men: The Renegades of Madison Avenue and the Golden Age of Advertising by Andrew Cracknell (Running, $28; ISBN 978-0762440900). Review forthcoming.
Mad Women: The Other Side of Life on Madison Avenue in the '60s and Beyond by Jane Maas (St. Martin's/Dunne, $24.99; ISBN 78-0-312-64023-1).
February 29
Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights by Marina Warner (Harvard/Belknap, $35; ISBN 978-0-674-05530-8).
March 1
Trip of the Tongue: Cross-Country Travels in Search of America's Languages by Elizabeth Little (Bloombsury, $25; ISBN 978-1-59691-656-2).
The Iguana Tree by Michel Stone (Hub City, John F. Blair dist., $24.95; ISBN 978-1-891885-88-4).
Any Day Now by Terry Bisson (Overlook, $24.95; ISBN 978-1-59020-709-3).
Forgotten Country by Catherine Chung (Riverhead, $26.95; ISBN 978-1-59448-808-5).
Blue Monday: A Novel by Nicci French (Viking/Pamela Dorman, $26.95; ISBN 978-0-670-02336-3).
March 2
The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens Charles Dickens, edited by Jenny Hartley (Oxford Univ., $34.95; ISBN 978-0-19-959141-1).
March 4
Kingdom Come by J.G. Ballard (Norton/Liveright, $24.95; ISBN 978-0-393-08178-7).
Children’s/YA
February 28
Penny and Her Song by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow, $12.99; ISBN 978-0-06-208195-7).
Partials by Dan Wells (HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-06-207104-0).
March 1
We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March by Cynthia Levinson (Peachtree, $19.95; ISBN 978-1-56145-627-7).
