40Books to Savor This Spring
THIS SEASON’S BOOKS HAVE IT ALL in both fact and fiction—astronauts and airforce pilots, tales from the opioid epidemic, dos and don’t of dating, graduate seminars, cults and murders. The Newsweek staff has selected some of the very best to entertain and excite your imagination. Here are our top picks in new fiction and nonfiction to keep you company from the blustery days of late winter until the sun shines in the spring.
Fiction
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
By Deepa Anappara
FEBRUARY | RANDOM HOUSE | $27
Three young friends navigate their way through an Indian city in search of a missing classmate. Anappara builds a world that is at once tender and hostile, and brings us characters that are as real as can be.
Happy & You Know It
By Laura Hankin
MAY | BERKLEY | $26
Inspired by Hankin’s real-life experiences as a playgroup musician, Happy & You Know It centers on a former band-member-turned-musician for infants who gets swept up in a group of uber-mommies in New York City.
The Everlasting
By Katy Simpson Smith
MARCH | HARPER | $28.99
Multiple storylines spanning two
