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HITS (High Interest Title Selections) is our monthly list of titles that we predict will be ones your patrons will be looking for. Here’s a selection of top titles from the August list.
Fiction
Literary fiction titles we’re excited about this month include those by Tom Perrotta, Claire Messud, Gabrielle Zevin, and John Boyne.
In mystery news, Louise Penny delivers an Inspector Gamache novel, Sue Grafton is up to the letter Y, Tess Gerritsen continues the adventures of Rizzoli & Isles even though the TV show has been cancelled, and Cork O’Connor is on the case again for William Kent Krueger.
Thriller fans will be looking for stand-alone novels by James Patterson, Sandra Brown, Jonathan Kellerman, Karin Slaughter, Wendy Walker, and Shari Lapena. New installments of favorite series are also not to be missed, as Lisa Scottoline revisits the law firm of Rosato & DiNunzio, and Stuart Woods presents a new Herbie Fisher novel. In addition, Robin Cook demonstrates again his mastery of the medical thriller, and Andrew Gross sets his latest in World War II.
Issues of modern women and their relationships and families make compelling reading in the hands of Danielle Steel and Susan Wiggs. The many fans of Fern Michaels will want to read her new Sisterhood novel. Readers whose taste runs toward novels featuring historical women will be looking for the latest by Philippa Gregory. Must-read romance novels this month include a sweet contemporary by Debbie Macomber and a new Dark-Hunter paranormal by Sherrilyn Kenyon.
The notable debuts this month feature a town that’s reeling after the murder of a 15-year-old girl, a woman who struggles to hold on to her dreams while enmeshed in a domestic life, and a 14-year-old girl who begins to see the truth about her troubled father.
Nonfiction
Biographies this month include The Kelloggs by Howard Markel, Rabbit by Patricia Williams, Taking Aim by Eva Shockey, The Bettencourt Affair by Tom Sancton, and Hail to the Chin by Bruce Campbell and Craig Sanborn.
In science, Richard Dawkins writes about Science in the Soul. Other promising titles include DNA by James D. Watson, Making Contact by Sarah Scoles, The Enlightened Mr. Parkinson by Cherry Lewis, and Bugged by David MacNeal.
History fans will enjoy Scandinavians by Robert Ferguson, It’s My Country Too by Jerri Bell and Tracy Crow, The Great Quake by Henry Fountain, and God’s Wolf by Jeffrey Lee.
Language and literature buffs will go for Wild Things by Bruce Handy, The World Broke in Two by Bill Goldstein, Morningstar by Ann Hood, and The Futilitarians by Anne Gisleson.
Popular religion titles include Of Mess and Moxie by Jen Hatmaker, Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright, Strong for a Moment Like This by Hillary Clinton’s Reverend Dr. Bill Shillady.
The Cooking Gene by Michael W Twitty is about culinary culture in the African-American “Old South”. How to Set a Table will be useful after using recipes in Martha Stewart’s Slow Cooker, The Perfect Cookie 9781940352954 by America’s Test Kitchen, and Recipes from the Herbalist’s Kitchen by Brittany Wood Nickerson.
Other titles not to miss are Remembering Diana by National Geographic, The End of Alzheimer’s by Dale Bredesen, The Putin Interviews by Oliver Stone, and Happiness by Heather Elise Harpham.
Graphic Novels
The two HUGE comics/graphic novels this month are volume three of Brian K. Vaughan’s Paper Girls from Image and 99 Stormtroopers Join the Empire from Chronicle. Other titles that will be popular are the collection of mini-series comic, Serenity from Dark Horse and Masters of the Sun: The Zombie Chronicles presented by the musical act, Black Eyed Peas.
Also make sure to check out Sh*t My President Says, an illustrated collection of President Trump’s tweets and an adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s novella, Mystery Knight.
There’s also more classic Uncle Scrooge coming from Fantagraphics as well as the next Superman and the first deluxe hardcover of Superman Rebirth, Buffy, Flash, and Ed Brubaker’s series Kill or Be Killed.
And last but certainly not least, expect the next volume of manga series favorites Monster Musume, Attack on Titan and Before the Fall, Tokyo Ghoul, and Food Wars!.
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