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Our HITS (High Interest Title Selections) list for December includes some great new titles for libraries to consider.
Fiction
December will be a great month for thriller readers. James Rollins continues his Sigma Force series, Jack Higgins presents a Sean Dillon novel, W. E. B. Griffin adds to his Clandestine Operations series, and Lisa Jackson offers an Alvarez and Pescoli thriller. We’ll also see a new Jack Ryan novel by Mark Greaney on behalf of Tom Clancy, and Terry Goodkind steps away from the fantasy genre to deliver a top-notch supernatural thriller.
Paranormal romance standouts this month include the last in the Guardians trilogy by Nora Roberts and a new Black Dagger Legacy novel by J. R. Ward.
In other fiction news, we’re looking forward to some noteworthy collections. Jeanette Winterson presents stories for the holidays, and the final publication by Günter Grass includes a variety of short pieces. Also not to be missed is an anthology edited by Lawrence Block with stories by bestselling authors inspired by Edward Hopper’s paintings.
Nonfiction
December cookbooks are looking pretty delicious. The Whole 30 Cookbook arrives, as well as The Eat Fat, Get Thin Cookbook by Mark Hyman. Other notables include Smashed, Mashed, Boiled and Baked by Raghavan Iyer, The Essential Oyster by Rowan Jacobsen, and The Enchilada Queen Cookbook by Sylvia Casares.
In biographies this month The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis has a lot of expectant readers, Will Schabe follows up The End of Your Life Book Club with Books for Living, Naomi Judd opens up in The River of Time, and Olympian Missy Franklin shows us her Relentless Spirit.
The Case Against Sugar by Gary Taubes and The Secret Life of Fat by Sylvia Tara are highly anticipated titles in health and fitness, along with Goddesses Never Age by Christiane Northrup, and If Our Bodies Could Talk by James Hamblin. Forthcoming history titles of interest include
The Private Lives of the Tudors by Tracy Borman, The Wars of the Roosevelts by William Mann, and Game of Queens by Sarah Gristwood.
Last, but not least, patrons will jump on The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel, Catwise by Pam Johnson-Bennett, and The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: 1920-1963 by NPR’s Ed Ward.
Graphic Novels
The big title coming in December is volume two of Brian K. Vaughan’s Paper Girls, along with another Garfield, the next I Hate Fairyland, the conclusion of Scott Snyder’s Batman, and Frank Miller’s Batman prequel, Dark Knight Returns: The Last Crusade.
In manga, you don’t want to miss the new volumes of Tokyo Ghoul, Monster Musume, Attack on Titan, 12 Beast, Blue Exorcist, Akame Ga Kill! Zero, Food Wars!, and Attack on Titan: Before the Fall.
Visit ipage to see these and other notable titles on our December HITS lists, separated into Fiction, Nonfiction, and Graphic Novels. |
