“It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”
― Mark Twain

It will be easy to find something to want to read among this spring's abundant publishing calendar. The following list comprises many books we think will be popular over the next several months. For a more complete account of our recent acquisitions, take a look at New Books, our list published at the beginning of every month and available on the website or at the Reference Desk. If there is something you're looking forward to reading, but don't find it here or in the Library's catalog, simply request it from the Acquisitions Department by filling out a request slip at the Circulation Desk or logging in to our website and using the Suggest a Purchase form.

March

• Arendt, Hannah| Thinking Without a Bannister: Essays in Understanding, 1953-1975
• Ball, Jesse| Census
• Beard, Mary| Civilisations: How Do We Look/The Eye of Faith
• Berry, Steve| The Bishop’s Pawn
• Bohjalian, Chris| The Flight Attendant
• Buckley, Susan| Eating with Peter
• Buruma, Ian| A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir
• Carroll, James| The Cloister
• Duberman, Martin| The Rest of It: Hustlers, Cocaine, Depression, and Then Some, 1976–1988
• Forna, Aminatta| Happiness
• George, Elizabeth| The Punishment She Deserves
• Hamilton, James| Gainsborough: A Portrait
• Iweala, Uzodinma| Speak No Evil
• Kent, Christobel| The Day She Disappeared
• Leon, Donna| The Temptation of Forgiveness
• McGuane, Thomas| Cloudbursts
• Mackintosh, Clare| Let Me Lie
• May, Peter| I’ll Keep You Safe
• Parks, Brad| Closer Than You Know
• Pears, Tim| The Wanderers
• Quindlen, Anna| Alternate Side
• Rachman, Tom| The Italian Teacher
• Starnone, Domenico| Trick
• Thompson, Laura| Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life
• Unger, Miles J.| Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World
• Webber, Andrew Lloyd| Unmasked: A Memoir
• Wideman, John Edgar| American Histories: Stories
• Winspear, Jacqueline| To Die but Once

April

• Albright, Madeleine| Fascism: A Warning
• Baldacci, David| The Fallen
• Barnes, Julian| The Only Story
• Bloom, Harold| Lear: The Great Image of Authority
• Clark, Mary Higgins| I’ve Got My Eyes on You  
• Comey, James| A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
• Deaver, Jeffery| The Cutting Edge
• Downing, David| The Dark Clouds Shining
• Ehrenreich, Barbara| Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Our Illusion of Control
• Flanagan, Richard| First Person
• Frazier, Charles| Varina
• Grimes, Martha| The Knowledge: A Richard Jury Mystery
• Harris, C. S.| Why Kill the Innocent
• Jamison, Leslie| The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
• Kerr, Philip| Greeks Bearing Gifts
• Kertzer, David I.| The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe
• McCall Smith, Alexander| The Good Pilot Peter Woodhouse
• Mayes, Frances| Women in Sunlight
• Miller, Derek B.| American by Day
• Miller, Madeline| Circe
• Moore, Christopher| Noir
• Moore, Lorrie| See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary
• Nesbø, Jo| MacBeth  
• Pardlo, Gregory| Air Traffic: A Memoir
• Powers, Richard| The Overstory
• Sandford, John| Twisted Prey
• Shriver, Lionel| Property: Stories between Two Novellas
• Sittenfeld, Curtis| You Think It, I’ll Say It: Stories
• Stern, Ellen| Hirschfeld
• Wolitzer, Meg| The Female Persuasion
• Wright, Lawrence| God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State

May

• Arnaldur Indradason| The Shadow Killer
• Chabon, Michael| Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
• Cleverly, Barbara| Fall of Angels
• Connolly, John| He
• Greenblatt, Stephen| Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
• Griffiths, Elly| The Dark Angel
• Heti, Sheila| Motherhood
• Holt, Jim| When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought
• Hurston, Zora Neale| Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave
• Itzkoff, Dave| Robin
• King, Stephen| The Outsider
• Knausgaard, Karl Ove| Spring
• Koryta, Michael| How it Happened
• Kurlansky, Mark| Milk!: A 10,000 Year Food Fracas
• Kushner, Rachel| The Mars Room
• Ondaatje, Michael| Warlight
• Phillips, Caryl| A View of the Empire at Sunset
• Powers, Kevin| A Shout in the Ruins
• Reza, Yasmina| Babylon
• Roberts, Nora| Shelter in Place
• Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow| Saving Central Park: A History and a Memoir
• Russo, Richard| The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and Life
• Sedaris, David| Calypso
• Trevor, William| Last Stories
• Ware, Ruth| The Death of Mrs. Westaway
• Winchester, Simon| The Perfectionists