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“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
With winter's arrival, what better way to stay warm but with a good book and a roaring fireplace. Or, if you're like the millions of New Yorkers without a fireplace, me included, grab a book and spend a few hours in our stacks or members' room. We're excited to share our Winter 2025 list of upcoming titles to start off the New Year. One literary gem coming into the library this winter is the definitive biography of Saturday Night Live's Lorne Michaels, which Booklist reviewed as "essential for SNL lovers and everyone interested in comedy and television." Another New York City legend has a biography coming to the NYSL, Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped from Central Park Zoo, which Publishers Weekly describes as a "a vibrant account of how Flaco captured the hearts of New Yorkers." From mystery master Walter Mosley's latest King Oliver novel to a psychological thriller from the highly acclaimed Freida McFadden, the library has you covered this winter.
For a more complete account of our recent acquisitions this past fall and winter, check out New Books, a list published at the beginning of every month and available on the website or at the Circulation Desk. Check out our Recommended Books if you're stumped or interested in what our staff members have been reading. If there is something you're looking forward to reading, but don't find in our catalog, simply request it from the Acquisitions Department by filling out a request slip at the Circulation Desk or log in to your account and use the Suggest a Purchase form.
January
Fiction
Ames, Jonathan I Karma Doll
Berlinski, Mischa I Mona Acts Out: A Novel
Bohman, Therese I Andromeda: A Novel
Burke, Alafair I The Note: A Novel
Davis, Fiona I The Stolen Queen: A Novel
Desai, Anita I Rosarita
Di Benedetto, Antonio I The Suicides
Dove, Laurie L. I Mask of the Deer Woman
Feeney, Alice I Beautiful Ugly: A Novel
Genova, Lisa I More or Less Maddy: A Novel
Haslett, Adam I Mothers and Sons: A Novel
Kang, Han I We Do Not Part: A Novel
Krouse, Erika I Save Me, Stranger: Stories
Littell, Robert I Bronshtein in the Bronx
Maldonado, Isabella I A Killer's Code
McFadden, Freida I The Crash
McMahon, John I Head Cases: A Novel
Modiano, Patrick I Ballerina
Morrow, Bradford I The Forger's Requiem
Mosley, Walter I Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right: A King Oliver Novel
Sayles, John I To Save the Man
Schlink, Bernhard I The Granddaughter: A Novel
Weiner, Cynthia I A Gorgeous Excitement: A Novel
Nonfiction
Abel, Marco I New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts: A Transnational Art Cinema
Berry, Mary Frances I Slavery after Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present
Campbell, David; Shanahan, Jarrod I City Time: On Being Sentenced to Rikers Island
Cannell, Michael I Blood and the Badge: The Mafia, Two Killer Cops, and a Scandal That Shocked the Nation
Carney, Emily; McCandless, Bruce III; McCandless, Bruce I Star Bound: A Beginner's Guide to the American Space Program, from Goddard's Rockets to Goldilocks Planets and Everything in Between
Clark, Nicola I The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens: a History
Dawson, Kate Winkler I The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne
Dwork, Deborah I Saints and Liars: The Story of Americans Who Saved Refugees from the Nazis
Gordon, Meryl I The Woman Who Knew Everyone: The Power of Perle Mesta, Washington's Most Famous Hostess
Iyer, Pico I Aflame: Learning from Silence
Jacobsen, Rowan I Wild Chocolate: Across the Americas in Search of Cacao's Soul
Kennedy, Pagan I The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story
Lauterbach, Preston I Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King
Lynskey, Dorian I Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell about the End of the World
Osgood, Josiah I Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome
Pelly, Liz I Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
Perry, Imani I Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
Spence, Lyndsy I Where Madness Lies: The Double Life of Vivien Leigh
Zelizer, Julian E. I In Defense of Partisanship
February
Fiction
Equi, Elaine I Out of the Blank
Armstrong, Kelley I Cold As Hell: A Haven's Rock Novel
Benedict, Marie I The Queens of Crime: A Novel
Boyle, William I Saint of the Narrows Street
Burns, V. M. I The Next Deadly Chapter
Casey, Jane I The Outsider
de Kretser, Michelle I Theory and Practice: A Novel
de Queirós, Eça I Adam and Eve in Paradise
Epstein, Allison I Fagin the Thief: A Novel
Feito, Virginia I Victorian Psycho: A Novel
Flower, Amanda I I Died for Beauty
Jenoff, Pam I Last Twilight in Paris
Marshall, Kate Alice I A Killing Cold: A Novel
McAllister, Gillian I Famous Last Words: A Novel
Mirvis, Tova I We Would Never: A Novel
Montclair Allison I An Excellent Thing in a Woman
Murray Victoria Christopher I Harlem Rhapsody
O'Connor, Joseph I The Ghosts of Rome: Book 2 in the Rome Escape Line Trilogy
Peters, Amanda I Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories
Rivera Garza, Cristina I Death Takes Me: A Novel
Seethaler, Robert I The Café with No Name
Sittenfeld, Curtis I Show Don't Tell: Stories
Smith, Ali I Gliff: A Novel
Spotswood, Stephen I Dead in the Frame: A Pentecost and Parker Mystery
Tyler, Anne I Three Days in June: A Novel
Wyld, Evie I The Echoes: A Novel
Nonfiction
Black, Riley I When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
Boylan, Jennifer Finney I Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
Caplan, Lucy I Dreaming in Ensemble: How Black Artists Transformed American Opera
Falconer, Morgan I How to Be Avant-Garde: Modern Artists and the Quest to End Art
Gessner, David I The Book of Flaco: The World's Most Famous Bird
Hobbs, Jeff I Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America
Jones, Kellie I David Hammons
Marshall, Megan I After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart
McCann, Colum; Foley, Diane I American Mother
Morrison, Susan I Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
Shubin, Neil I Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
Stourton, James I Rogues and Scholars: A History of the London Art World: 1945-2000
Verkaik, Robert I The Traitor of Arnhem: The Untold Story of WWII's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That Changed History Forever
MARCH
Fiction
Donoghue, Emma I The Paris Express: A Novel
Gurnah, Abdulrazak I Theft (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
Peters, Torrey I Stag Dance: A Novel and Stories
Porter, Henry I Enigma Girl
Stamm, Peter I In a Deep Blue Hour: A Novel
Nonfiction
Adriaanse, Bette; Eno, Brian I What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory
Barnes, Julian I Changing My Mind
Carter, Graydon I When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines
Wilkinson, Alissa I We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine
