Resident Book Queen Jordan Lauf Previews Spring Books

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Feb 26, 2024
Spring is a busy time in the publishing world, with lots of new titles from big and up-and-coming authors. Jordan Lauf, All Of It and Get Lit book club producer, joins to give us her list of new books to check out and take your calls.

This segment is guest-hosted by Tiffany Hanssen
Jordan's Recommendations: 
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due 
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu 
Foster by Claire Keegan
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Steve Brussatte 
The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft 
All Our Yesterdays by Joel H. Morris 
James by Percival Everett 
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo 
Knife by Salman Rushdie 
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson

Listener Recommendations:
The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
The Personal Librarian by Maria Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray 
Under the Skin by Lina Villarosa
The Caretaker by Ron Rash 
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria Smilios
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese 
The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers 
The Third Hotel by Laura Vandenberg 
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan 
This Other Eden by Paul Harding
Hollow Beasts by Alisa Valdes
Fledgling by Octavia Butler 
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles 
How to Stop Time by Matt Haig 
All the Broken Places by John Boyne
Arsonist's City by Hala Alyan
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 
The Fraud by Zadie Smith 
Slap Stick by Kurt Vonnegut 
The Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 

 

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