
“You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” - Pablo Neruda
We're very excited to share with you the upcoming books of this Spring; the library has an eclectic selection of new titles arriving in April and May. Ocean Voung's newest novel, The Emperor of Gladness, has already been described as "a masterwork," by Bryan Washington. Colm Tóibín remarked that it's, "Epic in its sweep, the novel also handles intimacy and love with delicacy and deep originality."
For our writer members and artists, we have exceptional books about the creative process from translation to writing. Viet Thanh Nguyen's To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other, is a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms. Rebecca Brody, from a Library Journal starred review, called To Save and Destroy, is " an essential addition for collections about the process and theory of writing, authors of diverse backgrounds, and particularly the experiences of Asian Americans, immigrants, and refugees in the United States."
The first author to win the Booker Prize twice, Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee's new book, Speaking in Tongues is a book about languages, what languages can and what they cannot do. This dialogue between Coetzee and a leading eminent translator, Mariana Dimópulos, provocative ideas emerge about the evolution of language and the challenge of translation. Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz reviewed Speaking in Tongues as, “The kind of book you get once in a lifetime, Speaking in Tongues is a mithril-blend of scholarship and artistry that will transform your ideas of language, translation, identity, and possibly the universe.”
Coming in May from Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow is an exciting new biography of Mark Twain. Kirkus, in a starred review, called Mark Twain, “Essential reading for any Twain buff and student of American literature."
Additionally, the library is beyond elated to be acquiring the lauded first book from our very own Katie Fricas. Bishakh Som has praised Checked Out as “an immersion into the twists and turns of the creative process, a questing exploration into how we grow the roots of a story, well-told!”
From Nora Roberts to Andy Warhol, April and May at the library will make for an exceptional spring reading experience at Central Park's cherry trees or our members' room. You can pick up a physical brochure of Forthcoming Books at the circulation desk. For a more complete account of our recent acquisitions, check out New Books, a list we publish at the beginning of every month that is available on the website or at the Circulation Desk. If there is something you're looking forward to reading, but don't find on this list, simply request it from the Acquisitions Department by filling out a request slip at the Circulation Desk or log in to our website and use the Suggest a Purchase form.
April 
Fiction
Binet, Laurent I Perspective(s): A Novel
Casey, Jane I The Secret Room
Coe, Jonathan I The Proof of My Innocence
Dallas, Sandra I Tough Luck: A Novel
Haigh, Jennifer I Rabbit Moon: A Novel
Henry, Emily I Great Big Beautiful Life
Hewitt, Seán I Open, Heaven: A Novel
Jimenez, Abby I Say You'll Remember Me
Kalfus, Ken I Big Swinging
Kitamura, Katie I Audition: A Novel
Murata, Sayaka I Vanishing World
Mushtaq, Banu I Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
Penner, Sarah I The Amalfi Curse: A Novel
Perkins-Valdez, Dolen I Happy Land
Rozan S. J.; Nee, John Shen Yen I The Railway Conspiracy
Shree, Geetanjali I Our City That Year: A Novel
Szalay, David I Flesh: A Novel
Nonfiction
Atkinson, Rick I The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
Avorn, Jerry I Rethinking Medications: Truth, Power, and the Drugs You Take
Bailey, Jason I Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend
Brooks, Peter I Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age
Cahalan, Susannah I The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary
Cassidy, John I Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: from the Industrial Revolution to AI
Dalrymple, William I The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
Fishkin, Shelley Fisher I Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade
Godwin, Peter I Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss, and Occasional Wars
Grandin, Greg I America, América: A New History of the New World
Homer I The Odyssey
Kuo, Michelle I Jack Whitten: The Messenger
Leslie, Ian I John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs
MacCulloch, Diarmaid I Lower Than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity
Martineau, Paul I Queer Lens: A History of Photograph
Motion, Andrew I The Penguin Book of Elegy: Poems of Memory, Mourning and Consolation
Nadel, Dan I Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life
Nguyen, Viet Thanh I To Save and to Destroy: Writing As an Other
Pagels, Elaine I Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus
Rawlins, Christopher I Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction: Expanded Edition
Sciolino, Elaine I Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World's Greatest Museum
Specktor, Matthew I The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood
Tomasko, Mark I Wish You Were Here: Touring New York City Through 200 Years of Guidebooks, Viewbooks, Photobooks, and Maps
Whipple, Chris I Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History
Wilkinson, Toby I The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra
Wilson, John I John Wilson: Witnessing Humanity
MAY
Fiction
Alexis Andre I Other Worlds: Stories
Allende, Isabel I My Name Is Emilia del Valle: A Novel
Aw, Tash I The South: A Novel
Bausch, Richard I The Fate of Others: Stories
Bender, Karen E. I The Words of Dr. L: & Other Stories
Comey, James I FDR Drive
Connelly, Michael I Nightshade
Cummins, Jeanine I Speak to Me of Home: A Novel
Fricas, Katie I Checked Out
Hiaasen, Carl I Fever Beach: A Novel
Kehlmann, Daniel I The Director: A Novel
King, Stephen I Never Flinch: A Novel
Kurkov, Andrey I The Stolen Heart: A Novel
Lamb, Wally I The River Is Waiting: A Novel
Lawton, John I Smoke and Embers: An Inspector Troy Novel
Pavone, Chris I The Doorman: A Novel
Roberts, Nora I Hidden Nature
Ryan, Kennedy I Can't Get Enough
Ryan, Donal I Heart, Be at Peace: A Novel
Slocumb, Brendan I The Dark Maestro: A Novel
Swann, Leonie I Big Bad Wool
Thien, Madelein I The Book of Records: A Novel
Venturini, Aurora I We, the Casertas
Vidich, Paul I The Poet's Game: A Spy in Moscow
Vuong, Ocean I The Emperor of Gladness: A Novel
Wilson, Kevin I Run for the Hills: A Novel
Nonfiction 
Aikman, Becky I Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II
Chernow, Ron I Mark Twain
Coetzee, J. M. I Speaking in Tongues
Conrad, Peter I Dickens the Enchanter: Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller
Fraser, Caroline I Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
Fry, Stephen I Odyssey: The Greek Myths Reimagined
Leamer, Laurence I Warhol's Muses: The Artists, Misfits, and Superstars Destroyed by the Factory Fame Machine
Li, Yiyun I Things in Nature Merely Grow
McNally, Keith I I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir
Prideaux, Sue I Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
Rees, Laurence I The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings from History
Russo, Richard I Life and Art: Essays
Solnit, Rebecca I No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain
Tapper, Jake; Thompson, Alex I Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
Van Nguyen Dean I Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur
wa Thiong'o, Ngũgĩ I Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas
Duras, Marguerite I The Places of Marguerite Duras
Lartigue, Jacques-Henri I Lartigue / Kertész: Masters of Modern Photography