A LITANY OF NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES becomes a joyous though bittersweet hymn to the beauty of life and love. A MINUS

I AM, I AM, I AM (HARDCOVER)
Knopf
2018

THE GREAT KENYAN WRITER Ng?g? wa Thiong’o’s memoir of political prison: a matter-of-fact yet deeply moving story of surviving, connecting, and creating while incarcerated. A MINUS

WRESTLING WITH THE DEVIL (HARDCOVER)
New Press
2018

A LIFE DISFIGURED BY FAME: shimmeringly lovely novel tells the story of a celebrated painter’s son. A MINUS

THE ITALIAN TEACHER
Viking
2018

HAUNTING, HEARTSTOPPING SHORT novel about a man lost at sea tells a simple story in spare but luminous prose. A MINUS

COVE (HARDCOVER)
Catapult
2018

A HEARTBREAKING, BEAUTIFUL MEMOIR of life on the US/Mexico border by a former Border Patrol agent with deep roots on both sides. A MINUS

THE LINE BECOMES A RIVER: DISPATCHES FROM THE BORDER
Penguin Random House
2018

NOIR IN THE GREAT TRADITION, set in a sleepy Delaware town and with a marvelously twisty plot. A MINUS

SUNBURN|SIGNED BOOK
HarperCollins Publishers
2018

AN ABUSIVE, ISOLATED FAMILY, obsessed with apocalypse and religion, can’t keep a woman from getting an education. Frank, heartbreaking memoir. A MINUS

EDUCATED (HARDCOVER)
Random House
2018

A GHANAIAN PSYCHIATRIST JOINS forces with an American naturalist in London to help a lost child, a dying friend, and the city’s foxes. Lovely. A MINUS

HAPPINESS: A NOVEL|HARDCOVER
Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
2018

THE POWER OF BIG DATA in a future “infomocracy” is the fascinating backdrop for a high-stakes global thriller. A MINUS

NULL STATES (HARDCOVER)
Tor.com
2017

UNVARNISHED CANDOR AND THOUGHTFUL, informed analysis shine in a memoir of growing up as a Black woman writer in the US. A MINUS

THIS WILL BE MY UNDOING (PAPERBACK)
Harper Perennial
2018