Charles Belfoure
House of Thieves (Sourcebooks Landmark, Sept.)
In 1886 New York, architect John Cross gets entangled with a gang of thieves in order to pay back his son’s gambling debts.
NEIBA
Rick Bragg
My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South (Oxmoor, Sept.)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author explores life in the South in this essay collection.
SIBA
Augusten Burroughs
Lust and Wonder: A Memoir
(St. Martin’s, Mar. 2016)
The author of Running with Scissors chronicles the the development and demise of his relationships.
NCIBA, SIBA
Ethan Canin
A Doubter’s Almanac (Random, Feb. 2016)
Pat Conroy calls this story of a family that falls to pieces under the pressure of living with a gifted tyrant “his best by far.”
Heartland
Lori Carlson-Hijuelos (widow of author Oscar Hijuelos)
Twain & Stanley Enter Paradise
(Grand Central, Nov.)
Hijuelos was making final revisions to the story of Mark Twain and Henry Morton Stanley when he died in 2013.
SIBA
Diane Chamberlain
Pretending to Dance (St. Martin’s, Oct.)
A woman’s past in a dysfunctional family catches up with her when she and her husband try to adopt a baby.
SIBA
Susan Cheever
Drinking in America: Our Secret History
(Hachette/Twelve, Oct.)
Cheever chronicles how booze has shaped American character and events.
NEIBA
Lynn Cullen
Twain’s End (S&S/Gallery, Oct.)
The author of Mrs. Poe offers a fictionalized reimagining of the personal life of Mark Twain.
NEIBA, SIBA
Julia Elliott
The New and Improved Romie Futch
(Tin House, Oct.)
To pay off his mortgage, a South Carolina taxidermist becomes the subject of a research experiment in which humanities disciplines are downloaded into his brain.
SIBA
Boris Fishman
Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo (Harper, Mar. 2016)
Maya and Alex go on a cross-country trip to track down the birth parents of their eight-year-old son, who has turned feral.
NAIBA
Lauren Groff
Fates and Furies (Riverhead, Sept.)
PW gave a starred review to this portrait of a marriage over the course of 24 years.
SIBA
Heather Gudenkauf
Missing Pieces (Mira, Feb. 2016)
Haunted by the murder of his mother, Jack Quinlan must confront his past when his aunt goes into a coma.
Heartland
Deborah Harkness
The Book of Life: A Novel (Penguin, out now)
In the series finale, Diana and Matthew time-travel back from Elizabethan London and make a dramatic return to the present.
SCIBA
Eloisa James
My American Duchess (Avon, Jan. 2016)
The Duke of Trent falls for an American heiress, who has already jilted two fiancés.
SIBA
Austin Kleon
The Steal Like an Artist Journal: A Notebook for Creative Kleptomaniacs (Workman, Oct.)
This interactive journal contains ideas, prompts, quotes, and exercises to spur creativity.
NCIBA, NEIBA, SIBA
Mary Kubica
Pretty Baby (Mira, out now)
A woman who takes a homeless teen and her baby into her home becomes obsessed with the child.
Heartland
Janice Y.K. Lee
The Expatriates: A Novel (Viking, Jan. 2016)
Lee explores the emotions and relationships of three American women living in the same small expat community in Hong Kong.
MPIBA, NCIBA, SCIBA, SIBA
Diane Les Becquets
Breaking Wild (Berkley, Feb. 2016)
A tracker becomes obsessed with the troubled woman she is searching for in the wilderness.
MPIBA, PNBA
Lisa Lutz
The Passenger (S&S, Mar. 2016)
The author of the Spellman Files series writes about a woman who creates and sheds new identities as she crisscrosses the country.
PNBA
C.J. Lyons
Farewell to Dreams (Edgy Reads, Oct.)
In the first book in the Fatal Insomnia series, a dead nun tells Angela Rossi, “Save the girl.”
SIBA
Jacquelyn Mitchard
Two If by Sea
(S&S, Mar. 2016)
Hours after his family dies in a tsunami, a police officer takes home a boy he rescues.
Heartland
Emily St. John Mandel
Station Eleven (Vintage, out now)
The night Arthur Leander had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear, a flu pandemic ended civilization as we know it. A Great Lakes, Great Reads Awards recipient.
Heartland
Travis Mulhauser
Sweetgirl (Ecco, Feb. 2016)
In this debut, a 16-year-old girl must find her missing mother in the frozen landscape of the Upper Midwest.
SIBA
Padgett Powell
Cries for Help, Various (Catapult, Sept.)
From the author of Edisto comes this collection of 44 stories.
SIBA
Karin Slaughter
Pretty Girls (Morrow, Sept.)
Two estranged sisters come together to find out the truth about two tragedies that occurred years apart.
SIBA
Dana Spiotta
Innocents and Others (Scribner, Mar. 2016)
Three women grapple with the consequences of their actions and with the question of how to be a good artist, lover, friend, and mother.
NEIBA
Elizabeth Strout
My Name Is Lucy Barton
(Random, Jan. 2016)
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author writes about a mother’s hospital visit to her estranged daughter in New York.
NEIBA
David Talbot
The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government (Harper, Oct.)
This portrait of the longest-serving director of the CIA serves as an expose of the rise of the national security state.
NCIBA
Damon Tweedy
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine
(Picador, Sept.)
A physician explores the challenges facing both African-American doctors and their patients.
SIBA
Sunil Yapa
Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
(Hachette/Boudreaux, Jan. 2016)
Yapa’s debut novel, set during the 1999 Seattle anti-globalization protests, marks the launch of a new imprint.
PNBA, SIBA
