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11 Books We Can't Wait To Read This Spring

A collection of new books to make you laugh, cry, be more daring or rage against the patriarchy.
11 Books We Can't Wait To Read This Spring

Always Home by Fanny Singer

Fanny Singer’s book about growing up with celeb chef and food activist Alice Waters—her mom—is a refreshing reprieve from sad tales of famous family life. It’s an intimate look at how a woman at the top of her culinary game has kept a close, collaborative relationship with her daughter. (Out now)

11 Books We Can't Wait To Read This Spring

Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear by Eva Holland

There is nothing more terrifying to contemplate than the loss of a loved one. For Yukon-based writer Eva Holland, nightmare became reality when her mother unexpectedly suffered a stroke and died in 2015. In Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear, the grieving writer takes a deeply personal and wide-ranging scientific look at how fear, in its infinite forms and layers, shapes our lives and even our brains. The result is a journey well worth sharing. (Out now)

11 Books We Can't Wait To Read This Spring

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Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb

In 2017 Bess Kalb’s grandmother died. At the funeral, Kalb chose to eulogize her by reading transcripts from voicemails her grandmother left her. That’s the heart of Nobody Will Tell You This But Me, a love letter to the ties that bind women across generations. It’s not easy to make a eulogy funny and meaningful; Kalb, an Emmy-nominated writer for Jimmy Kimmel, strikes that balance with the ease of a pro. (Out now)

11 Books We Can't Wait To Read This Spring

Separation Anxiety by Laura Zigma

Separation Anxiety is about writer Judy Vogel, whose spirit has been irretrievably compressed by sandwich generation living. After caring for her dying parents, one after the other, she’s overwhelmed by writer’s block, marital malaise and her teen son’s eye-rolling indifference. Oh, and her best friend is dying. Seeking comfort where there is none, she starts wearing the family dog in a baby sling. Strap on the Kleenex—Laura Zigman’s absurdist meditation on family and loss is deeply affecting and oddly cathartic. (Out now)

11 Books We Can't Wait To Read This Spring

Wine Girl by Victoria James

“Listen, wine girl,” sniffs a customer in Victoria James’ first gig at a fancy NYC bistro. “I have bottles in my basement older than you.” At 21, she was the youngest sommelier in America. Her memoir recounts almost every type of misogynist BS the restaurant biz has to offer—and that she’s survived. (Out now)

11 Books We Can't Wait To Read This Spring

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Take Back the Tray by Joshna Maharaj

Toronto-based chef Joshna Maharaj wants to change the lifeless food served at prisons, schools and hospitals. Drawing from her experiences running kitchens in universities, food co-ops and hospitals, she offers a new way of thinking about feeding ourselves and one another. (May 5)

11 Books We Can't Wait To Read This Spring

Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner

A fractured female friendship is the prime mover of Big Summer, Jennifer Weiner’s latest sparkler. Two former friends attempt a reconciliation at a disastrous wedding—there will be blood!—in Cape Cod over a long weekend. Rivalries and insecurities abound as plus-size influencer Daphne Berg struggles to find her way in life and online while navigating the “perfect” parameters of her ex-friend’s seemingly charmed existence. (May 19)

11 Books We Can't Wait To Read This Spring

Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health and What We Can Do About It by Alyson J. McGregor

The title of sex and gender expert Dr. Alyson J. McGregor’s book, Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health and What We Can Do About It, says it all. The healthcare status quo results in women, particularly women of colour, being subject to a litany of misdiagnoses and incomplete treatments. It also often sees women’s valid complaints written off as “psychiatric” issues. By informing women so they can become advocates for their own health, however, the doctor aims to foment a grassroots revolution. (May 19)

11 Books We Can't Wait To Read This Spring

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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes takes place in Panem, 60 years before Katniss Everdeen picks up a bow and arrow. This is not the Games of Everdeen’s time; it’s the primitive template from which the spectacle evolves. With this prequel, Suzanne Collins adds a new layer to her blockbuster YA trilogy, The Hunger Games. This time the action centres on 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow and his mentorship of a District 12 girl. Let the Games begin—again. (May 19)

11 Books We Can't Wait To Read This Spring

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Teenage twins Stella and Desiree Vigne run away from their tiny Louisiana town to start new lives in New Orleans. The sisters are Black, and admired for their light skin—both can pass for white, but only one chooses to live as a white woman. The Vanishing Half spans nearly four decades, and Brit Bennett vivifies every external and internal mutation of racism. The result is a lyrical interrogation of how all manage to work their way inside a human brain, making and breaking lives. (June 2)

11 Books We Can't Wait To Read This Spring

Nothing Can Hurt You by Nicola Maye Goldberg

In 1997, Sara Morgan is murdered by her handsome college boyfriend. The consequences of her death reverberate in the lives of the many unique narrators of Nothing Can Hurt You. While endless books, TV shows, films and blockbuster podcasts begin with the murder of a young woman, in Nicola Maye Goldberg’s novel the ubiquity of gendered violence isn’t the sizzle that sells the story—it’s the steak. Let the horror marinate. (June 23)

11 Books We Can't Wait To Read This Spring

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