2025 is just getting started and of course we are already reading. We asked around the store to find out what the first books Bookstore1 staff were delving into, and here’s what they told us. We hope these picks inspire you to have a
great year of page-turning too!
Andrea
Lazarus Man by Richard Price
In this electrifying novel, Richard Price, the author of Clockers and a writer on The Wire, gives us razor-sharp anatomy of an ever-changing Harlem.
Bryn
Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson
Sly and suspenseful, Mouth to Mouth masterfully blurs the line between opportunity and exploitation, self-respect and self-delusion, fact and fiction—exposing the myriad ways we deceive each other, and ourselves.
Scattered Snows, To the North by Carl Phillips
An arresting study of memory, perception, and the human condition, from the Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips.
Doug
By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult
An inspiring novel about two women, centuries apart--one of whom is the real author of Shakespeare's plays--who are both forced to hide behind another name.
No True Route by Tim Conway
The title of Tim Conroy's second book, No True Route, asks us to think about journeys in both time and space. Throughout the book, poems take up themes of movement, direction, detour, destination
Georgia
Every Arc Bends Its Radian by Sergio De La Pava
An existential detective novel about a private investigator who flees New York City for Colombia after a personal tragedy and finds himself entangled in a young woman’s strange disappearance—which may be connected to one of the world’s most ruthless criminal organizations.
James
We’ll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida
Discover the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel that has become an international sensation in this utterly charming, vibrant celebration of the healing power of cats.
Melanie
The Message by by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell--and the ones we don't--shape our realities.
Nora
The Emigrant by W. G. Sebald
"W.G. Sebald has written an astonishing masterpiece: it seems perfect while being unlike any book one has ever read. Bewitching in its subtlety, sublime in its directness and in the grandeur of its subject. The Emigrants is an irresistible book." -Susan Sontag
Roxanne
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett’s spellbinding novel about love and opera, and the unifying ways people learn to communicate across cultural barriers in times of crisis.