Best New Books: Week of April 6, 2021

The following books, published this week, received starred reviews in Booklist. Want to read our starred reviews before the books go on sale? Subscribe to Booklist!

Adult Fiction

★ Bobby March Will Live Forever, by Alan Parks

★ Caul Baby, by Morgan Jerkins

★ First Person Singular, by Haruki Murakami and translated by Philip Gabriel

★ Gold Diggers, by Sanjena Sathian

★ Hummingbird Salamander, by Jeff VanderMeer

★ Leonora in the Morning Light, by Michaela Carter

★ Life’s Too Short, by Abby Jimenez

★ Maxwell’s Demon, by Steven Hall

★ Mother May I, by Joshilyn Jackson and read by the author

★ The Last Exiles, by Ann Shin

★ The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano, by Donna Freitas

★ To Love and to Loathe, by Martha Waters

★ You Love Me, by Caroline Kepnes

★ You Made Me Love You: Selected Stories 1981–2018, by John Edgar Wideman

Adult Nonfiction

★ The Age of Decadence: A History of Britain; 1880–1914, by Simon Heffer

★ Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice, 1967-1975, by Richard Thompson and Scott Timberg

★ Broken (in the Best Possible Way), by Jenny Lawson

★ The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000–2020, by Rachel Kushner

★ Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity, by Charles Seife

★ Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour, by Rickie Lee Jones

★ Philip Roth, by Blake Bailey

★ Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance, by Mustafa Akyol

★ Save It for Later: Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of Protest, by Nate Powell

★ Wait, I’m Working With Who?!? The Essential Guide to Deal with Difficult Coworkers, Annoying Managers, and Other Toxic Personalities, by Peter Economy

★ We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy, by Natalie Baszile

★ Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, by Julie Lythcott-Haims

Youth Fiction

★ Billy Miller Makes a Wish, by Kevin Henkes

★ House of Hollow, by Krystal Sutherland

★ Merci Suárez Can’t Dance, by Meg Medina

★ What Beauty There Is, by Cory Anderson

★ Your Mama, by NoNieqa Ramos and illustrated by Jacqueline Alcántara

★ Zara Hossain Is Here, by Sabina Khan

Youth Nonfiction

★ Fungarium: Welcome to the Museum, by Ester Gaya and illustrated by Katie Scott

★ Mars Is: Stark Slopes, Silvery Snow, and Startling Surprises, by Suzanne Slade