Coming Soon: Books Guaranteed to Fly Off the Shelves!

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Here's a list of some of the most anticipated books of 2017 which are already available in the library catalog to place holds on!  Compiled from articles in Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly, Time, The Millions, Vulture, and Buzzfeed.

Fiction

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell 

Men Without Women: Stories by Haruki Murakami 

Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch

White Tears by Hari Kunzru

Startup by Doree Shafrir 

The leavers by Lisa Ko 

What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky: Stories by Lesley Nneka Arimah

Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

The Accusation by Bandi 

Little Deaths by Emma Flint

Celine by Peter Heller

American War by Omar El Akkad 

Last Neanderthal by Claire Cameron 

Void Star by Zachary Mason 

No One Can Pronounce My Name by Rakesh Satyal

The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by  Hannah Tinti 

Ill Will by Dan Chaon 

Borne by Jeff VanderMeer

Non-Fiction

South and West: From a Notebook by Joan Didion 

The Most Beautiful: My Life With Prince by Mayte Garcia

Hunger by Roxane Gay 

Unwanted Advances by Laura Kipnis

 

City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris by Holly Tucker  

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann 

Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy by Anne Lamott 

Nevertheless by Alec Baldwin  

Also keep an eye out for titles coming out later in the year by: Alissa Nutting; Edan Lepucki; Catherine Lacey; Lindsay Hunter; Sarah Gerard; David Sedaris; and Colm Tóibín.

Adventures in the Library Catalog: Searching by Subject

You can easily lose yourself in the library catalog. Have you ever tried a random search in the catalog, starting with a book you saw or liked? All you have to do is click into the record of that title and find its subject headings (underneath any description, content listing, and summary the record might provide). One of our favorites,  The Atlas of Cursed Places: A Travel Guide to Dangerous and Frightful Destinations by Olivier Le Carrer, Sibylle Le Carrer links to these subjects:

Parapsychology and geography.

Dark tourism.

Haunted places.

Curiosities and wonders.

Click on any of these subject headings, and you'll find more books about each subject. Sometimes those books will have even more, different subject headings. For instance, one of the titles that comes up in a subject search of "Curiosities and wonders" is the eBook of Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders by Joshua Foer, which also links to  the subject "Voyages and travels." One more click, and you can find yourself entertained for hours with books you might not have found otherwise.

Here are some subject headings that have provided us with some interesting stepping off points for searches, and examples of the eclectic cornucopia of books you might find within:


File under Curiosities and Wonders

The Wonder Trail: True Stories From Los Angeles to the End of the World by Steve Hely

F Is For France: A Curious Cabinet of French Wonders by Piu Eatwell 

Spurious Correlations by Tyler Vigen 

A People's History of the Peculiar: A Freak Show of Facts, Oddities & Astounding Truths From Across the Planet Earth by Nick Belardes [eBook]

Knowledge Is Beautiful by David McCandless 

Mrs. Wakeman vs. the Antichrist and Other Strange-But-True Tales From American History by Robert Damon Schneck 

Stalking the Herd: Unraveling the Cattle Mutilation Mystery by Christopher O'Brien   

National Geographic Guide to the World's Supernatural Places: More Than 250 Spine-Chilling Destinations Around the Globe by Sarah Bartlett  

Hidden Treasures: What Museums Can't or Won't Show You by Harriet Baskas

Because I Said So!: The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down To Its Kids by Ken Jennings 


File under Monsters

Medieval Monsters by Damien Kempf & Maria L. Gilbert

The Bigfoot Book: The Encyclopedia of Sasquatch, Yeti, and Cryptid Primates by Nick Redfern


File under Mail art 

Dear Data by Giorgia Lupi, Stefanie Posavec 


File under World history - Pictorial works

The Infographic History of the World by Valentina D'Efilippo and James Ball

The Looks of Love: 50 Moments in Fashion That Inspired Romance by Hal Rubenstein

Vespa: The Story of a Cult Classic in Pictures by Günther Uhlig 


File under Visual communication 

The Best American Infographics 

The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge by Manuel Lima  

Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words From Around the World by Ella Frances Sanders 

  

File under Social life and customs

Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese Oneill 

Rhapsody in Schmaltz: Yiddish Food and Why We Can't Stop Eating It by Michael Wex

Dime Stories by Tony Fitzpatrick

Fed, White, and Blue: Finding America With My Fork by Simon Majumdar

Tea & Antipathy: An American Family in Swinging London by Anita Miller

The Other Paris by Luc Sante 

The Real Traviata: The Song of Marie Duplessis by René Weis 

This Victorian Life by Sarah Chrisman [eBook]

Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta by Richard Grant 

Of Beards and Men: The Revealing History of Facial Hair by Christopher Oldstone-Moore 

Box Girl: My Part-Time Job As An Art Installation by Lilibet Snellings  

Hip Hop Family Tree by Ed Piskor

Of All the Gin Joints: Stumbling Through Hollywood History by Mark Bailey

Truth be told, the subject "Social life and customs" is a bit of a cheat on our part. In the library catalog, you'll usually find it modified by another term such as "Paris (France) - Social life and customs - 20th century." If you try a subject search of "Social life etc." in the classic catalog, you will be advised to search by "Manners and customs," another delightful search byway, but not as comprehensive.

  

File under Art and society  

Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West by Lucy R. Lippard 

Forged: Why Fakes Are the Great Art of Our Age by Jonathon Keats 

Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine edited by Judith A. Barter 

Learning To Love You More by Harrell Fletcher & Miranda July 


File under Love songs - History and criticism   

Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s by Lori Majewski, Jonathan Bernstein 

The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows Are Built by Jack Viertel 

Love Songs: The Hidden History by Ted Gioia

Hear My Sad Story: The True Tales That Inspired "Stagolee," "John Henry," and Other Traditional American Folk Songs by Richard Polenberg

 

 

File under Edible insects

The Insect Cookbook: Food For a Sustainable Planet by Arnold van Huis, Henk van Gurp, and Marcel Dicke

The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook: 40 Ways to Cook Crickets, Grasshoppers, Ants, Water Bugs, Spiders, Centipedes, and Their Kin by David George Gordon 
 

     

You can also search by subject in the library catalog, without clicking into an item record, but unless you know the subject heading already, you might get a message like this one, circled in red:

Silence, Community, Solitude

I just got back from a three day silent retreat at a monastery. I was tempted after breaking the silence on the final day, to state my willingness to cook, clean, and work in their library in exchange for room and board. Then I remembered that the cat sitter needed to be relieved of duty and it was time to go home and resume my responsibilities. Eventually, I would also want to find out what was going on with my favorite TV show and catch up with my ungodly celebrity gossip. However, I am committed to finding a way to bring silence and depth into my daily life and the following books may tide me over until the next retreat, even though waking up at 5:30 a.m. has already slipped away.

An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order by Nancy Klein Maguire

Alone In Community: Journeys Into Monastic Life Around the World by William Classen

A History of Celibacy: From Athena to Elizabeth I, Leonardo da Vinci, Florence Nightingale, Ghandi and Cher by Elizabeth Abbott

Silence: The Power of Quiet In a World Full of Noise by Thich Nĥát Hanh

In Silence: Why We Pray by Donald Spoto

Nuns: A History of Convent Life, 1450-1700 by Silvia Evangelisti

And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures In a Cloistered Life by Jane Christmas

Unveiled: The Hidden Lives of Nuns by Cheryl L. Reed

Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO's Quest For Meaning and Authenticity by August Turak

The Monks and Me: How 40 Days At Thich Nĥát Hanh's French Monastery Guided Me Home by Mary Paterson

Fire Monks: Zen Mind Meets Wildfire At the Gates of Tassajara by Colleen Morton Busch

Chant: The Origins, Form, Practice, and Healing Power of Gregorian Chant by Katharine Le Mee
  

Books to Look Forward to in 2015: Non-Fiction

For your convenience, we've compiled a list of the most highly anticipated reads of this year - some recently published, some to be published - from lists on Buzzfeed, the Seattle Times, Flavorwire, the Washington Post, BookPage, and The Millions which links directly to the library catalog! Is there a title you think we should add to the list?  Let us know in the comments!


The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips, Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History by Thor Hanson

The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings - J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams by Philip Zaleski, Carol Zaleski 

Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

It's a Long Story My Life by Willie Nelson

The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and the Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom by Blaine Harden

The Folded Clock: A Diary by Heidi Julavits

So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson

Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert D. Putnam

All the Wrong Places: A Life Lost and Found by Phillip Connors 

Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II by Richard Reeves

Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own by Kate Bolick

Michelle Obama: A Life by by Peter B. Slevin

Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett

Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy by Masha Gessen

All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West by David Gessner

B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal by J. C. Hallman 

Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence by Bryan Burrough     

Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth by Marc Peyser and Timothy Dwyer

Reagan: The Life by H.W. Brands 

God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican by Gerald Posner

Wright Brothers by David McCullough

Goddesses Never Age: The Secret Prescription for Radiance, Vitality, and Well-Being by Christiane Northrup, M.D  

Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London by Mohsin Hamid 

The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game by Mary Pilon


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