This week, Suzanne Collins's picture book, Paul Harding's second novel, and Jonathan Lethem's latest. Plus: a horror book that will draw deserved comparisons to Stephen King.
Best New Books
"Year of the Jungle" by Suzanne Collins, illus. by James Proimos (Scholastic)(01 of12)
"But Where is the Lamb? Imagining the Story of Abraham and Isaac" by James Goodman (Schocken)(02 of12)
"Enon" by Paul Harding (Random House)(03 of12)
"Dissident Gardens" by Jonathan Lethem (Doubleday) (04 of12)
"The Facades" by Eric Lundgren (Overlook)(05 of12)
"Someone" by Alice McDermott (FSG)(06 of12)
"The Professor of Truth" by James Robertson (Other Press)(07 of12)
"Fangirl" by Ranibow Rowell (St. Martin’s Griffin)(08 of12)
"Others of My Kind" by James Sallis (Bloomsbury)(09 of12)
"Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York’s Underground Economy" by Sudhir Venkatesh (Penguin Press)(10 of12)
"The Waking Dark" by Robin Wasserman (Knopf) (11 of12)
"Boxers" & "Saints" by Gene Luen Yang (First Second)(12 of12)
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