This week: new books by Anna Quindlen, Jonathan Franzen, Madeline Albright, and Stephen King, make new visits to old territory: art and culture essays for Quindlen and Franzen, memoir for Albright—in this case, her war-torn Prague childhood—and Mid-World for King. There’s also new mysteries from James Runcie and Rosamund Lupton, historical war fiction from French author Laurent Binet (WWII) and Christopher Tilghman (American Civil), winning contemporary novels from Alice Randall and Diane Chamberlain, poetry from Jane Shore, and more dystopian fiction for the kids from Kiera Cass and Bethany Griffin. Plus: memoirs from the President’s sister Auma Obama, a new Kennedys memoir worth putting at the top of your Kennedys memoir stack, a critical look at the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing (see our Q&A), a memoir of family life in China, and—yes!—more.
Adults
April 24
The Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death: The Grantchester Mysteries by James Runcie (Bloomsbury, $16; ISBN 978-1-60819-856-6).
Ada's Rules: A Sexy Skinny Novel by Alice Randall (Bloomsbury, $24; ISBN 978--60819-827-6).
Afterwards by Rosamund Lupton (Crown, $25; ISBN 978-0-307-71654-5).
Farther Away: Essays by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26; ISBN 978-0-374-15357-1).
HHhH by Laurent Binet, trans. from the French by Sam Taylor (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26; ISBN 978-0-374-16991-6).
The Right-Hand Shore by Christopher Tighman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27; ISBN 978-0-374-20348-1).
After Camelot: A Personal History of the Kennedy Family, 1968 to the Present by J. Randy Taraborrelli (Grand Central, $29.99; ISBN 978-0-446-55390-2).
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 by Madeleine Albright (Harper, $29.99; ISBN 978-0-06-203031-3).
That Said: New and Selected Poems by Jane Shore (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $22; ISBN 978-0-547-68711-7).
The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City by Alan Ehrenhalt (Knopf, $26.95; ISBN 978-0-307-27274-4).
The Good Father by Diane Chamberlain (Mira, $14.95; ISBN 978-0-7783-1346-5).
Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed--and Why It Still Matters by Andrew Gumbel and Roger Charles (Morrow, $27.99; ISBN 978-0-06-198644-4).
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen (Random, $26; ISBN 978-1-4000-6934-7).
The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel by Stephen King (Scribner, $27; ISBN 978-1-451-65890-3).
And Then Life Happens by Auma Obama, trans. from the German by Ross Benjamin (St. Martin's, $25.99; ISBN 978-1250010056). Review forthcoming.
More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy by Thai Jones (Walker, $28; ISBN 978-0-8027-7933-5).
April 25The Lives of Things by José Saramago, trans. from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero (Verso, $23.95; ISBN 978-1844678785). Review forthcoming.
April 26
God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine by Victoria Sweet (Riverhead, $27.95; ISBN 978-1-59448-843-6).
The Little Red Guard: A Family Memoir by Wenguang Huang (Riverhead, $25.95; ISBN 978-1-59448-829-0).
Children/YA
April 24
Mrs. Noodlekugel by Daniel Pinkwater, illus. by Adam Stower (Candlewick, $14.99; ISBN 978-0-7636-5053-7).
Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin (Greenwillow, $16.99; ISBN 978-0-06-210779-4).
The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa (Harlequin Teens, $18.99; ISBN 978-0373210510).
All the Right Stuff by Walter Dean Myers (HarperCollins/Amistad, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-06-196087-1).
The Selection by Kiera Cass (HarperTeen, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-06-205993-2).
The Girl in the Park by Mariah Fredericks (Random/Schwartz & Wade, $16.99; ISBN 978-0-375-86843-6).
The Bad Apple by T.R. Burns (S&S/Aladdin, $16.99; ISBN 978-1-4424-4029-6).
