Fabulous New Titles | February 2025 Starred Reviews

Titles not to miss across fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, and audio.

 

 

 

 

 

 

AUDIO

Cher. Cher: The Memoir, Part One. HarperAudio

Daré, Abi. And So I Roar. Books on Tape

King, Stephen. The Shawshank Redemption. S. & S. Audio

Matheson, Tim. Damn Glad To Meet You: My Seven Decades in the Hollywood Trenches. Hachette Audio

MYSTERY & SUSPENSE

Bruen, Ken. Galway’s Edge. The Mysterious Pr.

Cambridge, Colleen. A Fashionably French Murder. Kensington

Goldis, Jaclyn. The Safari. Atria/Emily Bestler

McKinty, Adrian. Hang On St. Christopher. Blackstone

Slocumb, Brendan. The Dark Maestro. Doubleday

Smith, Sally. A Case of Mice and Murder. Bloomsbury

SF/FANTASY

Abdullah, Chelsea. The Ashfire King. Orbit

Abeysekara, Shalini. This Monster of Mine. Union Square & Co.

Adams, Katharine J. Tonight, I Bleed. Orbit

Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity. Erewhon

Bennett, Robert Jackson. A Drop of Corruption: An Ana and Din Mystery. Del Rey: Ballantine

Curtis, Grace. Idolfire. DAW

Griffin, Sarah Maria. Eat the Ones You Love. Tor

Leikam, Evan. Anji Kills a King. Tor

Murphy, Pat. The Adventures of Mary Darling. Tachyon

ROMANCE

Daria, Alexis. Along Came Amor. Avon

Gagnon, Jilly. What If It’s You? Dell

Hogle, Sarah. The Folklore of Forever. Putnam

Jimenez, Abby. Say You’ll Remember Me. Forever: Grand Central

Matthews, Mimi. Rules for Ruin. Berkley

FICTION

Gurnah, Abdulrazak. Theft. Riverhead

Hamdan, Sara. What Will People Think? Holt

Ichikawa, Saou. Hunchback. Hogarth

Kirshenbaum, Binnie. Counting Backwards. Soho

Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. Knopf

Sathian, Sanjena. Goddess Complex. Penguin Pr.

Vara, Vauhini. This Is Salvaged: Stories. Norton

Zink, Nell. Sister Europe. Knopf

HORROR

Barnes, S.A. Cold Eternity. Tor Nightfire

Huff, Tanya. Direct Descendant. DAW

Jones, Stephen Graham. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. Saga

CLASSIC RETURNS

Abortion Stories: American Literature Before Roe v. Wade. Penguin Classics

Fuller, Margaret. Margaret Fuller: Collected Writings. Library of America

Valéry, Paul. Monsieur Teste. NYRB Classics

GRAPHIC NOVELS

Badiucao & Melissa Chan. You Must Take Part in Revolution. Street Noise

King, Tom (text) & Bilquis Evely (illus.). Helen of Wyndhorn. Dark Horse

Shirato Sanpei. The Legend of Kamui, Vol. 1. Drawn & Quarterly

ARTS & HUMANITIES

Bardenwerper, Will. Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America. Doubleday

Lister, James. The Guitar Repair Book: A Practical Guide to Repairing and Maintaining Acoustic and Classical Guitars. Crowood

Morrison, Susan. Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live. Random

Peacock, Charlie. Roots and Rhythm: A Life in Music. Eerdmans

Popoff, Martin. Hallowed Be Thy Name: The Iron Maiden Bible. Schiffer

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Adams, Max. The Birth of the Anglo-Saxons: Three Kings and a History of Britain at the Dawn of the Viking Age. Pegasus

Barkow, Rachel Elise. Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration. Harvard Univ

Lapin, Nicole. The Money School: 12 Simple Lessons To Master Financial Markets and Investing. HarperCollins Leadership

Lowe, Keith. Naples 1944: The Devil’s Paradise at War. St. Martin’s

Martinez, Aja Y. & Robert O. Smith. The Origins of Critical Race Theory: The People and Ideas That Created a Movement. NYU

Simpson, Patricia Anne. German Empires and Decolonial Fantasies, 1492–1942. Univ. of Michigan

PARENTING

Caspi, Jonathan. Raising Loving Siblings. Guilford

Slice, Jessica. Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World. Beacon

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Barhany, Beejhy. Gursha: Timeless Recipes for Modern Kitchens, from Ethiopia, Israel, Harlem, and Beyond. Knopf

Quinn, Lucinda Scala. Mother Sauce: Italian American Family Recipes and the Story of the Women Who Created Them. Artisan

REFERENCE

Cagan, Michele. Taxes 101: From Understanding Forms and Filing to Using Tax Laws and Policies To Minimize Costs and Maximize Wealth, an Essential Primer on the US Tax System. Adams Media

Johnson, Lloyd & Miles Wolff. The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball: A Complete Record of Teams, Leagues and Seasons, 1876–2019. 4th ed. McFarland

Inclusive Cataloging: Histories, Context, and Reparative Approaches. ALA Editions

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