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

AT THE INTERSECTION OF TRAUMA AND TRANSCENDENCE, a musician’s memoir explores childhood abuse and the joy of art. A MINUS

THE SKIN ABOVE MY KNEE
Little Brown and Company
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

FUNNY, INVENTIVE NOVEL about the perils of online celebrity, love, friendship, sexual and gender identity. B PLUS

DON'T FEED THE TROLLS (PAPERBACK)
Riptide Publishing
2017

GENTLE, WITTY, SHARPLY insightful comic novel follows a midlist, midlife novelist around the world. A MINUS

LESS
Lee Boudreaux Books
2017

DREAMLIKE, SLIGHTLY SPOOKY metanovel about a writer seeking out “odd things” around the world. Lovely, weird. B PLUS

FOUND AUDIO (PAPERBACK)
Two Dollar Radio
2017