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HITS (High Interest Title Selections) is our monthly list of titles that we predict will be the ones your patrons will be looking for and that librarians will want to know about. Here are a few particularly significant titles from the June list.
Fiction
Top news in fiction this month features two long-awaited titles. Judy Blume delivers her first novel for adults since 1998, and Annie Barrows, co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, presents a novel set in Depression-era West Virginia.
In the mystery category, readers will be looking for the latest Lizzy and Diesel novel by Janet Evanovich and a story collection by Mary Higgins Clark.
Thriller readers will enjoy an embarrassment of riches with standalone titles by James Patterson, S. J. Watson and Joseph Finder. Stephen King revisits the territory of Misery with a nail-biter about a writer who is tormented by an obsessed fan. In addition, Grant Blackwood offers a new installment of the Campus series begun by Tom Clancy, James Rollins, presents a new Sigma Force novel, and Brad Taylor continues the adventures of Pike Logan. Fans of spy thrillers will enjoy a follow-up to Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews and the latest Gabriel Allon adventure by
Daniel Silva. Brad Meltzer continues his Culper Ring series, and Douglas Corleone offers a new installment of the Janson series begun by Robert Ludlum.
Modern women and their families provide entertaining reading in the masterful hands of Barbara Delinsky, Elin Hilderbrand, Dorothea Benton Frank, and Jane Green. Also not to be missed are new novels by Fern Michaels, Jackie Colllins and Kevin Kwan. Readers of contemporary romance novels will be looking for new work by Danielle Steel, Jude Deveraux, and Diana Palmer. Historical romance readers will enjoy the latest by Johanna Lindsey, and Lisa Jackson offers her signature top-notch romantic suspense.
In speculative fiction news, Terry Brooks continues his Shannara series and Felix J. Palma wraps up his steampunk trilogy. Laurell J. Hamilton continues the vampire-hunting adventures of Anita Blake, and Erika Johansen presents the second Tearling novel. Other fiction titles not to be missed include a Civil War novel by Jeff Shaara and a collection of short stories by Karen Joy Fowler. Roland Merullo continues his popular Buddha series.
Notable debuts this month feature extraordinary characters. Charles Dickens is under scrutiny as to the real origins of The Pickwick Papers, a magical bookseller operates a floating bookshop on the Seine, and an unemployed librarian discovers that he is a descendant of circus folk.
Nonfiction
June brings us a lot of great HITS in nonfiction starting with Tom Brokaw’s memoir A Lucky Life Interrupted, and Pirate Hunters by Robert Kurson.
In biographies, Duck Dynasty fans will be interested in The Good, the Bad, and the Grace of God, literary fans won’t want to miss The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee, and sports fans will go for No Excuses: Growing Up Deaf and Achieving My Super Bowl Dreams by NFLer Derrick Coleman. Other popular choices will be: The Quiet Man: The Indispensable Presidency of George H.W. Bush by John Sununu, Getting Real by journalist Gretchen Carlson, and Happily Ali After, by comedian Ali Wentworth.
Business readers will want to check out Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World, and Who Gets What—And Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design.
It can’t be summer without firing up the barbeque and readers will reach for Feeding the Fire: Recipes and Strategies for Better Barbecue and Grilling, which will fit right in with Modern Homebrew Recipes, and Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream.
A few family and relationship titles always go over well. This month covers the gamut with: First, Kill All the Marriage Counselors, How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success, and The New Single: Finding, Fixing, and Falling Back in Love with Yourself After a Break-Up or Divorce by journalist Fadal Tamsen.
Other titles you shouldn’t miss are: Under the Same Sky: From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America, National Book Award winner, Jonathan Kozol’s The Theft of Memory: Losing My Father, One Day at a Time, a moving memoir by Oliver Sacks, On the Move, and The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams.
Look for these and other notable titles in our June HITS lists on ipage, split into Fiction and Nonfiction. |
