The ranks of the picks list continue to swell as we move into March, with irresistible fiction from Matthew Glass, Madeline Miller, Hari Hunzru and others. Plus, we have a tragically prescient analysis of school shootings in America (see this week’s author Q&A), more on the threats to liberty in modern American, and two cagey memoirs about dysfunction, both familial and biochemical, with Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? and Memoirs of an Addicted Brain. And, for the young adult in your life, there’s the next exciting installment of the 39 Clues spin-off series, Cahills vs. Vespers.
Adults
March 5
Trigger Point by Matthew Glass (Atlantic Monthly, $25; ISBN 978-0-8021-1997-1).
The Expats by Chris Pavone (Crown, $26; ISBN 978-0-307-95635-4).
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (Ecco, $25.99; ISBN 978-0-06-206061-7).
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson (Grove, $25; ISBN 978-0-8021-2010-6).
Gods Without Men by Hari Hunzru (Knopf, $26.95; ISBN 978-0-307-95711-5).
Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America by David K. Shipler (Knopf, $28.95; ISBN 978-0-307-59486-0).
March 6
The Bully Society: School Shootings and the Crisis of Bullying in America's Schools by Jessie Klein (New York Univ., $29.95; ISBN 978-0-8147-4888-6).
The O'Briens: A Novel by Peter Behrens (Pantheon, $25.95; ISBN 978-0-307-37993-1).
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain de Botton (Pantheon, $26.95; ISBN 978-0-307-37910-8).
Smart Mama, Smart Money: Raising Happy, Healthy Kids Without Breaking the Bank by Rosalyn Hoffman (Penguin/New American Library, $15; ISBN 978-0451235596).
Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on Drugs by Marc Lewis (Public Affairs, $26.99; ISBN 978-1-61039-147-4).
The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R. Kiernan (Roc, $16; ISBN 978-0-451-46416-3).
Birds of a Lesser Paradise by Megan Mayhew Bergman (Scribner, $24; ISBN 978-1-4516-4335-0).
Carry the One by Carol Anshaw (Simon & Schuster, $25; ISBN 978-1-4516-3688-8).
Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation by Elaine Pagels (Viking, $27.95; ISBN 978-0-670-02334-9).
The House of the Wind by Titania Hardie (Washington Square, $15; ISBN 978-1-4165-8626-5).
Children’s/YA
March 5
Boy21 by Matthew Quick (Little Brown, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-316-12797-4).
Rock On: A Story of Guitars, Gigs, Girls, and a Brother (Not Necessarily in That Order) by Denise Vega (Little Brown, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-316-13310-4).
March 6
Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio, illus. by LeUyen Pham (Hyperion, $15.99; ISBN 978-0-7868-3913-3).
No Go Sleep! by Kate Feiffer, illus. by Jules Feiffer (S&S/Wiseman, $16.99; ISBN 978-1-4424-1683-3).
The Dead of Night: Cahills vs. Vespers, Book 3 by Peter Lerangis (Scholastic, $12.99; ISBN 978-0545298414).
