A COMPLEX POST-SCARCITY SOCIETY with incredible technology is hampered by its own mythologies of history. B PLUS

SEVEN SURRENDERS (HARDCOVER)
Tor Books
2017

CHARMING BOLLYWOOD MYSTERY replete with family secrets, elephants, and an upright detective (and his fearless wife). B PLUS

THE STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE OF A BOLLYWOOD STAR
Redhook
2017

THE MEDIEVAL CRUSADES IN CONTEXT: everything you wanted to know about the holy wars and their role in society. B PLUS

HOW TO PLAN A CRUSADE: RELIGIOUS WAR IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES (HARDCOVER)
Pegasus Books
2017

A MILITARY HISTORY OF THE FUTURE: cleverly constructed SF posits a 22nd century of interstellar exploration. B PLUS

HISTORIAN’S CRUSADE
Alexander Reineke
2017

GRUMPY, HILARIOUS ESSAYS from Samantha Irby cover love, death, explosive diarrhea, psychotic cats, everything in between. B PLUS

WE ARE NEVER MEETING IN REAL LIFE.: ESSAYS (PAPERBACK)
Vintage
2017

A CYBORG SUPERSOLDIER teams up with an augmented civilian in an action-packed future noir adventure. B PLUS

ORDNANCE (THE FIXER BOOK 1)
Andrew Vaillencourt
2017

A DEFTLY WROUGHT APOCALYPTIC tale hovers on the cusp of science fiction and fantasy, celebrates love and story. B PLUS

THE BOOK OF JOAN (HARDCOVER)
Harper
2017

SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY, CELEBRITY portraits and a scandal that gripped post-Civil War New York. Brilliant history reads like a novel. B PLUS

THE APPARITIONISTS : A TALE OF PHANTOMS, FRAUD, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND THE MAN WHO CAPTURED LINCOLN’S GHOST
Houghton Mifflin
2017

A LOVE LETTER TO LISBON, via a tale of two artists’ romance with each other and their city. Elegant, elegaic. B PLUS

CITY OF ULYSSES (PAPERBACK)
Dalkey Archive Press
2017

THE COMPLICATED SECRETS OF neighbors in a Tel Aviv apartment building drive this insightful, bleak novel. B PLUS

THREE FLOORS UP
Other Press (NY)
2017