“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, 'Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.'” -Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

Here are new offerings from many of the Society LIbrary's favorite authors to keep you company this winter. The list below comprises many of the titles we expect to be among the most popular in the coming months, and you're sure to find something you’d like to read, no matter your preferences. Place your reserves now. For a more complete account of our recent acquisitions, take a look at New Books, a list we publish at the beginning of every month, made available online and at the Reference Desk. If there is something you're looking forward to 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.

January

• Airth, Rennie | The Decent Inn of Death
• Allende, Isabel | A Long Petal of the Sea
• Appelfeld, Aharon | To the Edge of Sorrow 
• Benedict, Marie | Lady Clementine
• Black, Benjamin | The Secret Guests
• Calhoun, Ada | Why We Can’t Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis
• Cercas, Javier | Lord of All the Dead: A Nonfiction Novel
• Cummins, Jeanine | American Dirt
• Gardner, Lisa | When You See Me
• Greenwell, Garth | Cleanness
• Hambly, Barbara | Lady of Perdition
• Hass, Robert | Summer Snow: New Poems
• Hurston, Zora Neale | Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
• Krugman, Paul | Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future
• Moore, Liz | Long Bright River
• Moorehead, Caroline | A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism
• Rankin, Ian | Westwind
• Stamm, Peter | The Sweet Indifference of the World
• Steadman, Catherine | Mr. Nobody
• Szabo, Magda | Abigail
• Wood, James | Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997-2019
• Yoon, Paul | Run Me to Earth

February

• Adiga, Aravind | Amnesty
• Bannalec, Jean-Luc | The Killing Tide
• Bowen, Rhys | Above the Bay of Angels
• Finch, Charles | The Last Passenger
• Gornick, Vivian | Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader
• Hannah, Sophie | Perfect Little Children
• Hastings, Max | Operation Chastise: The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II
• Keaton, Diane | Brother & Sister: A Memoir
• Kehlmann, Daniel | Tyll
• Kellerman, Jonathan | The Museum of Desire
• Larson, Erik | The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
• McCann, Colum | Apeirogon
• Mosley, Walter | Trouble is What I Do
• Norman, Alexander | The Dalai Lama: An Extraordinary Life
• Offill, Jenny | Weather
• Phillips, Arthur | The King at the Edge of the World
• Robb, J.D. | Golden in Death
• Rothschild, Hannah | House of Trelawney
• Todd, Charles | A Divided Loyalty
• Tuck, Lily | Heathcliff Redux and Other Stories
• Vollmann, William T. | The Lucky Star
• Wayne, Teddy | Apartment

March

• Akunin, Boris | She Lover of Death
• Begley, Louis | The New Life of Hugo Gardner
• Bohjalian, Chris | The Red Lotus
• Coben, Harlan | The Boy from the Woods
• Ehrenreich, Barbara | Had I Known: Collected Essays
• Enright, Anne | Actress
• Erdrich, Louise | The Night Watchman
• Foer, Esther Safran | I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir
• Fowler, There Anne | A Good Neighborhood
• Hellenga, Robert | Love, Death, and Rare Books
• Hochschild, Adam | Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
• King, Lily | Writers & Lovers
• Lawton, John | Hammer to Fall
• Leon, Donna | Trace Elements
• McBride James | Deacon King Kong
• Mandel, Emily St. John | The Glass Hotel
• Mantel, Hilary | The Mirror and the Light
• Margolin, Phillip | A Reasonable Doubt
• Moore, Lorrie | Collected Stories
• Piketty, Thomas | Capital and Ideology
• Reichs, Kathy | A Conspiracy of Bones
• Roiphe, Katie | The Power Notebooks
• Shapiro, James | Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future
• Solnit, Rebecca | Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
• Steinhauer, Olen | The Last Tourist
• Stone, Robert | The Eye You See With: Selected Nonfiction