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4 New Books Examine Adoption, Foster Care, and the Child Welfare System
The authors of four new books look at personal experiences and inequities in the system.
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New Books on Deciding Whether to Have Children
Authors tackle big questions about parenthood.
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Adult Books for Spring 2024
Our editors highlight 688 forthcoming titles and pick their top 10 books in each of 13 categories.
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Spring 2024 Adult Preview: SF, Fantasy & Horror
This season’s speculative fiction wrestles with real-world concerns—especially identity, climate change, war, and artificial intelligence—but also offers welcome escapism.
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Spring 2024 Adult Preview: Science
Studies of climate change continue to dominate in this season’s science crop, alongside considerations of animal and plant intelligence, deep dives into outer space, and explorations of artificial intelligence.
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Spring 2024 Adult Preview: Romance & Erotica
Get swept away on beachy vacations, sink into fantasy worlds, and peek behind the scenes of Hollywood glamour in spring’s romance offerings.
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Spring 2024 Adult Preview: Politics & Current Events
Spring brings new perspectives on borders and migrants, surveys of censorship in schools, investigations into government influence peddling, and studies of how to win elections and control disinformation.
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Spring 2024 Adult Preview: Mysteries & Thrillers
Heavy hitters Liv Constantine, A.J. Finn, Tana French, and Joseph Kanon step up to the plate this season, and a slew of promising debuts utilize genre tropes to explore historical injustices.
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Spring 2024 Adult Preview: Memoirs & Biographies
Among the season’s most anticipated biographies and memoirs are experimental works from familiar names, personal histories that reframe the American past, and debut memoirs from Christine Blasey Ford, Leslie Jamison, and RuPaul.
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Spring 2024 Adult Preview: Literary Fiction
Families reckon with life-altering events, artists transform themselves, and colonialism rears its ugly head in this season’s novels and collections. Plus, Native writers Tommy Orange and Morgan Talty follow up their breakout debuts.
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Spring 2024 Adult Preview: Lifestyle
This season’s lifestyle offerings traverse the history and future of psychedelics; advise on breaking free of toxic bonds; and suggest drug-free treatments for battling burnout, anxiety, and autoimmune disease.
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Spring 2024 Adult Preview: History
Spring books feature historical fashions, new revelations about WWII technological innovations, wide-ranging surveys on the history of Black identity, and biographies of 20th-century Chinese political figures and families.
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Spring 2024 Adult Preview: Cooking & Food
This season’s cookbooks get creative with veggies, explore the benefits of outdoor grilling, and crisscross the globe to celebrate and reimagine international flavors.
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Spring 2024 Adult Preview: Business & Economics
Exposés of corporate chicanery, reports on women in the workplace, and programs for making offices more inviting for employees from marginalized backgrounds feature prominently among this season’s offerings.
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Spring 2024 Adult Preview: Art, Architecture & Photography
Spring’s highlights explore gender, sexuality, activism, performance, self-expression, and the legacy of colonialism on the art world.
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Spring 2024 Adult Announcements: Poetry
Memory serves as a bridge to the past and an entry point for thinking about countries and conflicts, in this season’s poetry collections.
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6 New Swoonworthy Romance Webtoons
Love is in the air, on the web, and on bookshelves, with romance webtoons providing material for some of the biggest graphic novels in recent years.
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11 Fiction and Nonfiction Books by Black Authors to Read in 2024
Fiction writers, essayists, artists, and poets offer personal insights into, and historical context on, the multivarious Black experience.
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5 Books Explain Why the Economy Is So Unpredictable Right Now
The authors of five new books put the current economic picture in context, examining how the economy got to where it is.
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Workplace Burnout, by the Book
New books explore profound workplace fatigue and propose ways to prevent it.