The Post regularly compiles the best books released in the past month. In the meantime, take a look at our favorite titles released in the last year.
This week’s best new books
Tracy Chevalier (Viking)
The latest from the bestselling author of “The Girl with the Pearl Earring” is set in Venice in 1486. When the patriarch of a Murano glass-blowing clan dies, his eldest daughter takes up craft in secret to support the family, even though women of the time aren’t meant to work with glass.
Lucy Foley (William Morrow)
In this highly anticipated thriller, a swank new wellness retreat opens in the British countryside with a glittering infinity pool, CBD cocktails and guests clad in chic neutrals. But by the end of its first weekend, dark secrets have emerged, there’s been a fire and a body has been discovered.
Joseph Earl Thomas (Grand Central Publishing)
This debut is drawing early raves. A black army veteran struggles after coming home from Iraq as he juggles a job in a hospital emergency department, grad school and complicated family relationships.
Julie McFadden, RN (TarcherPerigee)
McFadden, aka @HospiceNurseJulie, has attracted 1.5M TikTok followers with her warm-but-frank lessons about death and dying. Her book covers a range of topics, from the ins and outs of hospice care to how to get a loved one’s finances in order before their death.
Fawn Weaver (Melcher Media Inc.)
Weaver takes readers on a journey to shed light on the life of Nearest Green, the enslaved man who taught Jack Daniel to make whiskey but was lost to history.
John DeVore (Applause)
This moving memoir recounts DeVore’s life-changing experience having a bit part in a tiny, four-hour production adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel “As I Lay Dying” as he struggled with addiction and grief. The cast and crew were scrappy but passionate as they tried to bring their vision to life in a windowless theater in Brooklyn in post-9/11 New York.
Best new book releases from last week
Griffin Dunne (Penguin Press)
The actor/writer/director — and son of Vanity Fair crime reporter Dominick Dunne — recalls growing up in rarefied circles in Hollywood and Manhattan and getting kicked out of boarding school. Sean Connery rescued him from drowning when he was eight years old. In his early teens, he went to a launch party for Tom Wolfe’s “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” hosted by his aunt Joan Didion — in an attempt to hook up with Janis Joplin. In his twenties, he was roommates and best pals with Carrie Fisher while she was filming “Star Wars.”
Joseph O’Neill (Pantheon)
O’Neill’s first novel, 2008’s Pen/Faulkner-award winning “Netherland,” used cricket as a window into post-9/11 immigrant life in New York City. His latest employs soccer to examine global capitalism and the aftermath of colonialism. A British soccer agent convinces his half-brother, a writer based in Pittsburgh, to go with him to Africa to scout a talented teen whom he thinks could be the next big football phenom.
Claire Kilroy (Scribner)
This bleary portrayal of new motherhood drew big raves when it was released in the UK last year. An unnamed narrator known only as “Soldier” relays truths both hilarious and brutal to an infant son she calls “Sailor.”
Amorina Kingdon (Crown)
We assume the depths of the ocean to be quiet and peaceful, but they’re not. Kingdon, an award-winning science writer, examines the rich underwater soundscape, from whalesongs to aquatic volcanoes, and the unique way sound travels in the ocean, depending on the current, temperature and salinity.
Anna Goldfarb (Sounds True)
A journalist looks at the state of friendships in the modern age — how many of us struggle to find the time to be good friends and yet also struggle with feelings of loneliness — and offers up actionable tips for improving bonds.
Mickey Bergman and Ellis Henican (Center Street)
Bergman, who helped secure the release of Brittney Griner, shares tales of high-level hostage negotiations with foreign adversaries.
Best new book releases from from the week of June 2nd
Michael Richards (Permuted Press)
The “Seinfeld” actor, who played Kramer on the beloved sitcom, dishes on Jason Alexander almost quitting the show because he wanted more screentime and opens up about his prostate cancer diagnosis. He also gets into his anger issues and what led to his 2006 racist rant at a Los Angeles comedy club.
Michael Crichton and James Patterson (Little, Brown and Company)
Crichton — the creator of “Jurassic Park,” “ER,” “Westworld” and “Twister” — was working on a new book when he passed away from cancer in 2008. His wife, Sherri Crichton, eventually enlisted the help of another blockbuster author, Patterson, to help finish the manuscript, which centers around a volcanic eruption that’s about to destroy the big island of Hawaii — and a military secret that’s even more explosive.
Darius Rucker (Dey Street Books)
Rucker shares his journey from being raised by a single mom in Charleston, SC, and co-founding Hootie and the Blowfish in college to wild times on the road and becoming a country star.
Brian Preston (Matt Holt)
“The Money Guy” show founder and host offers up a practical, no-nonsense approach for getting your finances in order and planning for the future.
Alan Murrin (HarperVia)
This debut is being hailed as a “perfect book club read” and drawing comparisons to “Big Little Lies” and Colm Tóibín. It’s 1994 in Ireland and divorce is illegal. A woman leaves her family to have an affair with a married man, and when she returns her husband won’t let her see her kids. She must rely on the kindness of a neighbor, who is also trapped in an unhappy marriage, to get access to her children. The arrangement will end up benefiting one woman while proving detrimental to the other.
Kevin Fedarko (Scribner)
Two friends attempt to hike from one end of the canyon to the other and soon realize it’s not a “walk in the park.” They end up taking more than a year to traverse the rugged, dangerous terrain racking up more than 750 miles.
Best new book releases from the week of May 26th
Ruth Ware (Gallery/Scout Press)
It’s Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None” meets “Love Island.” Five couples are set to compete on a TV reality show in a tropical paradise called “Ever After Island.” But soon after they arrive at their remote, romantic destination, things start to go wrong, and the couples find themselves fighting to survive.
Nora Roberts (St. Martin’s Press)
A young woman named Thea has visions that predicted the murder of her parents when she was 12 and helped to send their killer to jail. But the man who destroyed her family is out for revenge — and he has similar psychic gifts.
Gary Vaynerchuk (Harper Business)
The entrepreneur and bestselling author posits that understanding “underpriced attention” on social media is crucial to effectively building a business or following.
Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
The 24th Jack Ryan novel finds President Ryan navigating the unexpected launch of Russia’s deadliest submarine. The circumstances are similar to those four decades earlier when Ryan, then a young CIA analyst, successfully dealt with a Soviet sub named Red October.
Sean Carroll (Dutton)
The second book in “The Biggest Ideas in the Universe” series has the professor and “Mindscape” podcast host breaking down quantum physics and other big ideas for a general audience.
Michael McDonald and Paul Reiser (Dey Street Books)
The Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan keyboardist and vocalist shares his journey from Missouri high school dropout to Rock ‘n’ Roll hall of famer. His buddy, actor-comedian Paul Reiser, comes along for the ride.
Best book releases from the week of May 19th
Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader Press)
This spy romance thriller comedy is already set to be a six-part BBC series from top indie entertainment company A24. In the near future, a millennial civil servant takes on a new job that has her helping with a government time travel experiment — and falling in love with a Victorian explorer who initially died in 1845.
Harlan Coben (Grand Central Publishing)
The latest Myron Bolitar novel finds the temperamental-but-lovable sports agent investigating a longtime client — a star basketball coach-turned-murder suspect who may have faked his own death.
Plum Sykes (Harper)
The “Bergdorf Blondes” author sets her shrewd eyes on the wealthy set in the English countryside. An American divorcee, three wealthy wives and two tycoons mix and mingle in a sprawling Cotswold estate.
Casey Means (Avery)
Means, a medical doctor and the co-founder of the buzzy glucose-monitoring service Levels, posits that metabolic health is the key to feeling better and preventing disease.
Victor David Hanson (Basic Books)
The bestselling military historian and author of “The Case for Trump” looks at conquests through the ages — from Thebes to Tenochtitlán —that have ended in utter obliteration.
Emma Rosenblum
In this satire of corporate culture from the bestselling author of “Bad Summer People,” a group of employees from a buzzy startup head to Miami for a fancy retreat. But, after the first night, a high-level executive vanishes, and everyone scrambles to pretend it’s all OK.
