Madison Books Newsletter 

We send a regular email newsletter, featuring reading recommendations, new releases, events, and any other book- and store-related information we think you might want to know about. (But we'll keep each one pretty short.)

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  • #227: April 12, 2024 (New: Ordinary Bear, New: Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here, New: The Berry Pickers, Old: A Woman in the Polar Night)

  • #226: March 29, 2024 (New: James, New: The Rumor Game, New: Thunder Song, Paperback: Once Upon a Tome)

  • #225: March 15, 2024 (New: The Wharton Plot, New: Good Material, New: A Hitch in Time, Paperback: I Have Some Questions for You)

  • #224: March 1, 2024 (Spring Books Preview)

  • #223: December 1, 2023 (New: The Captain of the Polestar, New: The House by the Poppy Field, New: A Room in the Rectory, New: The 2023 Short Story Advent Calendar, Old: The Mouse and His Child, Old: The Shortest Day)

  • #222: November 24, 2023 (New: Treacle Walker, New: Tone, New: Fishing for the Little Pike, New: The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild, Old: Possession, New: The Golden Gate)

  • #221: November 17, 2023 (New: Mother-Daughter Murder Night, New: Pie School, Kids: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Old: Taste)

  • #220: November 10, 2023 (New: Same Bed, Different Dreams, New: Hell, I Love Everybody, New: Winter Solstice, New: The Fraud)

  • #219: November 3, 2023 (Kids: Tokyo Night Parade, New: The Future Future, New: All One Life)

  • #218: October 27, 2023 (Old: Miss Macintosh, My Darling, New: Not Anywhere, Just Not, New; Super-Infinite, New: Liberation Day)

  • #217: October 20, 2023 (New: The Future, New: Big Fiction, Children’s: Lauren in the Limelight)

  • #216: October 14, 2023 (New: The Children’s Bach, New: The Hero of This Book, New: Ashes in the Snow, New: Magnificent Rebels)

  • #215: October 6, 2023 (New: The MANIAC, New: Company, New: Ladies’ Lunch, New: Our Strangers)

  • #214: September 29, 2023 (New: The Long Form, New: Menewood, New: The Heart-Centered Teacher, New: Mr. Wilder and Me)

  • #213: September 15, 2023 (New: The Vaster Wilds, New: Father and Son, New: Biking Uphill in the Rain, New: Indigenous Continent)

  • #212: September 8, 2023 (New: Dayswork, New: Why We Love Baseball, New: What You Are Looking for Is in the Library, Old: Severed)

  • #211: September 1, 2023 (New: My Weil, New: Wandering Souls, New: Shy, New: Babel)

  • #210: August 25, 2023 (New: The Enemy at Home, New: The Wishing Game, New: Rough Sleepers, New: The Art of Libromancy, New: August Wilson: A Life)

  • #209: August 18, 2023 (New: Evergreen, New: Unnatural Ends, New: The Nightingale Affair)

  • #208: August 11, 2023 (New: Sun House, New: Go As a River, New: Disruptions, New: Hello Beautiful)

  • #207: August 4, 2023 (New: The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicle, New: The Second Murderer, New: A Wild Promise)

  • #206: July 28, 2023 (New: Somebody’s Fool, Kids: Temple Alley Summer, New: The Whalebone Theatre)

  • #205: July 21, 2023 (New: Crook Manifesto, New: Not Even the Dead, New: Café Unfiltered, New: Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book)

  • #204: July 14, 2023 (New: Tabula Rasa, New: Counterweight, New: Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies)

  • #203: July 7, 2023 (New: The Librarianist, New: The Art Thief, Old: The Tragedy of Arthur)

  • #202: June 30, 2023 (New: Kairos, New: Shadowlands, New: Lucky Red, New: The First Ladies)

  • #201: June 23, 2023 (New: I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home, New: The Men, New: Rocky Mountain High, Kids: A Season Most Unfair)

  • #200: June 16, 2023 (Old: Blood Meridian, New: Translation State, New: 100 Places to See After You Die, Old: The Gallows Pole)

  • #199: June 9, 2023 (New: The Mountain in the Sea, New: All the Sinners Bleed, New: Owlish, New: Open Throat)

  • #198: June 2, 2023 (New: Happily, Kids: Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves, New: Born of Lakes and Plains, Old: Moving the Palace)

  • #197: May 26, 2023 (New: Tomás Nevinson, Kids: This Is a Story, New: Life on the Mississippi, New: No Two Persons)

  • #196: May 19, 2023 (New: Plums for Months, New: The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s, New: Fellowship Point, Old: The Dig)

  • #195: May 5, 2023 (New: Journey to the South, New: The Baby on the Fire Escape, New: Trust, New: Big Swiss)

  • #194: April 28, 2023 (New: To Track a Traitor, New: Monsters, New: The Perfect Golden Circle, New: Also a Poet)

  • #193: April 21, 2023 (New: The Wager, New: Nobody Gets Out Alive, New: Grimmish, New: Flint and Mirror)

  • #192: April 14, 2023 (New: The Real Work, Old: The Alteration, Old: Pavane, New: The Dawn of Everything)

  • #191: April 7, 2023 (New: The Language of Trees, New: A Fever in the Heartland, New: Ubi Sunt, New: Crying in H Mart)

  • #190: March 31, 2023 (New: White Cat, Black Dog, New: The Baseball 100, New: The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales)

  • #189: March 24, 2023 (New: Lone Women, New: Brotherless Night, Old: The Best of Everything, New: The Laughter)

  • #188: March 17, 2023 (New: The Bandit Queens, Old: Schooling, New: Signal Fires, New: Fulgentius)

  • #187: March 10, 2023 (New: Just a Mother, New: Birnam Wood, New: I Have Some Questions for You, New: Cary Grant’s Suit)

  • #186: March 3, 2023 (New: Empty Theatre, New: Checkout 19, New: Spillane)

  • #185: February 17, 2023 (Old: Divine Days, New: On Writing and Failure, New: The Wife of Willesden, New: Two Sherpas)

  • #184: February 10, 2023 (New: Extreme Vetting, New: Pirate Enlightenment, New: Pushed, New: Booth)

  • #183: February 3, 2023 (New: The World and All That It Holds, New: Confessions with Keith, New: The Books of Jacob, New: Fight Night)

  • #182: January 27, 2023 (New: This Other Eden, New: After Sappho, New: Mr. Breakfast)

  • #181: January 20, 2023 (New: The Guest Lecture, New: Age of Vice, New: The Deluge, New: (Don’t) Stop Me If You’ve Heard This Before)

  • #180: January 12, 2023 (Kids: Letters to Anyone and Everyone, New: Small World, New: The Wife of Bath: A Biography, New: Hell Bent)

  • #179: January 6, 2023 (Bestsellers of 2022, New: The Next Civil War)

  • #178: December 16, 2022 (New: The Light Pirate, Old: Small Things Like These, Old: The Mouse and His Child, Old: The Shortest Day)

  • #177: December 9, 2022 (New: Stella Maris, New: Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life, New: Tove Jansson: The Illustrators, New: Novelist as a Vocation)

  • #176: December 2, 2022 (New: Black Cake, New: Lost & Found, New: Checkout 19, New: The Final Case)

  • #175: November 25, 2022 (New: Sister Novelists, New: Foster, New: Spadework for a Palace, New: A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East, Old: Shadows on the Rock)

  • #174: November 18, 2022 (New: Get ‘em Young, Treat ‘em Tough, Tell ‘em Nothing, New: Pity the Beast, New: A Burmese Journey, New: My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is)

  • #173: November 11, 2022 (Old: Man or Mango?, New: The World We Make, New: The Everybody Ensemble, New: Bewilderment)

  • #172: November 4, 2022 (New: Case Study, New: Dr. No, New: Ordinary Wonder Tales, New: Inciting Joy, New: The Philosophy of Modern Song, New: Folk Music)

  • #171: October 28, 2022 (New: Solenoid, New: The Passenger, New: The Lascaux Notebooks, New: The Logos)

  • #170: October 21, 2022 (New: Liberation Day, New: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, New: Lady Joker, New: The Power of Story)

  • #169: October 14, 2022 (New: The Whalebone Theatre, New: The Sleeping Car Porter, New: Solito, New: LaserWriter II)

  • #168: October 7, 2022 (Old: John Aubrey, My Own Life, New: Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat)

  • #167: September 30, 2022 (New: Kick the Latch, New: Mr. Wilder and Me, New: Magnificent Rebels, New: Homewaters)

  • #166: September 23, 2022 (New: Shadowlands, Kids: Beatrice Likes the Dark, Old: O Caledonia)

  • #165: September 16, 2022 (New: Master of Souls, New: Civilizations)

  • #164: September 9, 2022 (New: Super-Infinite, New: The Sentence, New: Matrix, Old: Winter Love)

  • #163: September 2, 2022 (New: Fellowship Point, New: Carrie Soto Is Back, New: The Bell in the Lake, New: The Marriage Portrait)

  • #162: August 26, 2022 (New: Babel, New: Try Not to Be Strange, Old: Perma Red)

  • #161: August 19, 2022 (New: Life on the Mississippi, New: Telluria, New: Sandfuture)

  • #160: August 12, 2022 (New: Querelle of Roberval, New: Harlem Shuffle, Old: Anniversaries)

  • #159: August 5, 2022 (Old: The Art of Drowning, Old: The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories, Old: Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books, Old: How I Wrote Certain of My Books)

  • #158: July 29, 2022 (Old: Vanished Kingdoms)

  • #157: July 22, 2022 (Old: The Mouse That Roared, Old: Venusberg, Old: Caracole, Old: Forgetting Elena, Old: Andorra, Old: Shining at the Bottom of the Sea, New: Try Not to Be Strange, Old: Hav, Old: People in Glass Houses)

  • #156: July 15, 2022 (New: Fire Season, New: If There Are Any Heavens, Old: Annals of the Former World)

  • #155: July 8, 2022 (New: Bad Eminence, New: Invisible Things, New: Diary of a Film, Kids: Lizzy and the Cloud)

  • #154: July 1, 2022 (New: Thrust, New: The Angel of Rome, New: State of Terror)

  • #153: June 24, 2022 (New: Grown Ups, New: The Book of Form and Emptiness, New: God’s Teeth and Other Phenomena, New: In Shakespeare’s Shadow)

  • #152: June 17, 2022 (New: The Splendid City, Old: Queen of Spades, New: Fly Girl)

  • #151: June 9, 2022 (New: Secrets of Happiness, New: One Two Three, New: James Patterson by James Patterson, Old: Sunset Song)

  • #150: June 3, 2022 (New: The Men, New: Also a Poet, New: The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon)

  • #149: May 27, 2022 (New: The Perfect Golden Circle, New: The Scent of Light, Old: The Gallows Pole)

  • #148: May 20, 2022 (New: The Long Corner, New: Siren Queen, New: There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness, New: The High Sierra)

  • #147: May 13, 2022 (New: 2 A.M. in Little America, New: Time Shelter, New: The Netanyahus, New: The Book of Unconformities)

  • #146: May 6, 2022 (New: Trust, New: Poguemahone, New: All the Lovers in the Night, Old: In the Distance)

  • #145: April 29, 2022 (New: Last Letter to a Reader, New: Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs, New: Tamarisk Row, New: Linea Nigra, Old: War Diaries)

  • #144: April 22, 2022 (New: Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary, New: Lessons in Chemistry, Old: Up in the Old Hotel, New: Flint and Mirror)

  • #143: April 15, 2022 (New: Spear, New: Aspects, Old: The Dragon Waiting, New: Blackout)

  • #142: April 8, 2022 (New: Eyes of the Rigel, New: Never Did the Fire, New: Catching Fire)

  • #141: April 1, 2022 (New: The Only Way Is the Steady Way, New: 100 Miles of Baseball, Kids: Much Ado About Baseball, Old: The Celebrant)

  • #140: March 25, 2022 (New: Portrait of an Unknown Lady, New: Hollywood Park, New: Comeuppance Served Cold)

  • #139: March 18, 2022 (New: When I Sing, Mountains Dance, New: Aurelia, Aurélia, New: The Promise)

  • #138: March 11, 2022 (New: Booth, New: Wonderworks, New: One Italian Summer)

  • #137: March 3, 2022 (New: Checkout 19, New: The Strudlhof Steps, New: A Most Remarkable Creature)

  • #136: February 25, 2022 (New: Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, New: Born of Lakes and Plains, New: The Employees)

  • #135: February 18, 2022 (New: Chilean Poet, New: The Bear Woman, Old: Kalpa Imperial)

  • #134: February 11, 2022 (New: The Music Game, New: The Goodbye Coast)

  • #133: February 4, 2022 (New: The Books of Jacob, New: The Pages, New: The Narrowboat Summer)

  • #132: January 28, 2022 (Old: Blinding)

  • #131: January 21, 2022 (New: Lost & Found, New: To Paradise, Kids: Into the Bloodred Woods)

  • #130: January 14, 2022 (New: The Final Case, New: Something to Hide, New: The Apocalypse Factory)

  • #129: January 7, 2022 (Bestsellers of 2021, New: The Next Civil War)

  • #128: December 17, 2021 (New: Light from Uncommon Stars, New: Small Things Like These, New: The City of Mist, New: The Dawn of Everything)

  • #127: December 10, 2021 (New: The Anomaly, New: Strange Beasts of China, New: The Everybody Ensemble)

  • #126: December 3, 2021 (New: The Baseball 100, New: The War for Gloria, Old: The Mouse and His Child)

  • #125: November 26, 2021 (New: Cracked Pots, New: A Marvellous Light, New: Beheld)

  • #124: November 19, 2021 (New: The Sentence, New: Galloway, New: The Oracle of Night)

  • #123: November 12, 2021 (New: The Making of Incarnation, New: A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth, New: Or What You Will)

  • #122: November 5, 2021 (New: Pity the Beast, New: Riccardino, New: State of Terror)

  • #121: October 29, 2021 (Old: Cloud & Ashes, New: World of Literature Puzzles, New: A Corruption of Blood)

  • #120: October 22, 2021 (New: Orwell’s Roses, New: A Certain Hunger, New: When We Cease to Understand the World)

  • #119: October 15, 2021 (New: Jacket Weather, New: The Cold Millions, New: The Good Turn)

  • #118: October 8, 2021 (New: Fight Night, New: Sankofa, New: A Psalm for the Wild-Built)

  • #117: October 1, 2021 (New: Cloud Cuckoo Land, New: The Charm Offensive, New: Things Are Against Us, New: The Dark Remains)

  • #116: September 24, 2021 (New: Bewilderment, New: The Book of Form and Emptiness, New: Midnight Atlanta)

  • #115: September 17, 2021 (New: Harlem Shuffle, New: Civilizations, New: Snow)

  • #114: September 10, 2021 (New: Matrix, New: Dante’s Indiana, New: Insignificance)

  • #113: September 3, 2021 (Old: Young Men and Fire, New: Between Two Kingdoms, Old: Sailing with Vancouver)

  • #112: August 27, 2021 (Old: Fifteen Dogs, New: The Multifarious Mr. Banks, New: Goodbye, Again)

  • #111: August 20, 2021 (New: Mrs. March, New: The Luminous Novel, New: The Archive of Alternate Endings)

  • #110: August 13, 2021 (New: Damnation Spring, New: Once There Were Wolves, New: The Book of Accidents)

  • #109: August 6, 2021 (New: The Manningtree Witches, New: Pessoa: A Biography, New: Filthy Animals)

  • #108: July 30, 2021 (Old: The Jonah Watch, Phantoms, The Off Season)

  • #107: July 23, 2021 (New: Kin, New: Stranger in the Shogun’s City)

  • #106: July 16, 2021 (New: The Stone Loves the World, New: The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream, Old: Mani)

  • #105: July 9, 2021 (Old: The Summer Book, Old: Three Summers)

  • #104: July 2, 2021 (New: One Last Stop, New: The Broken Heart of America, New: The Book of Eels)

  • #103: June 25, 2021 (New: One Two Three, New: The Great Mistake, Kids: Ship in a Bottle, Old: Original Prin)

  • #102: June 18, 2021 (Old: Hild)

  • #101: June 11, 2021 (New/Old/Uncategorizable: Treasure of the Castilian or Spanish Language, Old: To Bless the Space Between Us, Old: The Ice Palace)

  • #100: June 4, 2021 (New: A Ghost in the Throat, New: Animal, New: The Equivalents, New: Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie)

  • #99: May 28, 2021 (New: Malibu Rising, New: Girl One, YA: The Nature of Witches, New: The Promise)

  • #98: May 21, 2021 (New: Mary Jane, New: The Enchanted Night, New: The Daughters of Yalta)

  • #97: May 14, 2021 (New: Leonard and Hungry Paul, New: The Lions of Fifth Avenue, Old: The Gift)

  • #96: May 7, 2021 (New: Secrets of Happiness, Kids: Every Night is Pizza Night, New: Utopia Avenue)

  • #95: April 30, 2021 (New: Great Circle, New: Albert and the Whale, New: Homewaters, New: Quit Like a Woman)

  • #94: April 23, 2021 (New: The Rose Code, New: Wedding Station, New: All Abroad)

  • #93: April 16, 2021 (New: Trafik, New: If I Had Your Face, New: Thinking Inside the Box)

  • #92: April 9, 2021 (New: A Most Remarkable Creature, New: The Absolute Book, New: We Run the Tides, New: ELADATL, New: A Perfect Cemetery)

  • #91: April 2, 2021 (New: White Shadow, Old: Human Voices, New: Theft)

  • #90: March 26, 2021 (New: An Inventory of Losses, New: The Secret Lives of Planets, New: Recollections of My Nonexistence)

  • #89: March 19, 2021 (New: In Five Years, New: We Begin at the End, New: Come Fly the World)

  • #88: March 12, 2021 (New: The Narrowboat Summer, Old: Happy All the Time, New: The Liar’s Dictionary)

  • #87: March 5, 2021 (New: Tom Stoppard: A Life, New: Mike Nichols: A Life)

  • #86: February 26, 2021 (New: We Ride Upon Sticks, New: A Little Devil in America, New: Lot)

  • #85: February 19, 2021 (New: The Conjure-Man Dies, Kids: By Any Means Necessary, New(ish): The Book of Delights)

  • #84: February 12, 2021 (New: Blood Grove, New: Big Friendship, New: Blacktop Wasteland)

  • #83: February 5, 2021 (New: The Four Winds, Old: Mumbo Jumbo, Kids: Ambitious Girl)

  • #82: January 29, 2021 (New: A Thousand Ships, New: The House in the Cerulean Sea, Old: The Iconoclast’s Journal)

  • #81: January 22, 2021 (Old: The Unquiet Dead, Pre-Order: Change Sings, New: A Swim in the Pond in the Rain)

  • #80: January 15, 2021 (New: This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing, New: A Certain Hunger)

  • #79: January 8, 2021 (Anti-Insurrection, New: Wilmington’s Lie, New: Bringing Down the Duke, A Rogue of One’s Own, Kids: We Are Not Free)

  • #78: January 1, 2021 (Bestsellers of 2020, New: Germania)

  • #77: December 18, 2020 (Old: The Paper Garden, Non-Book: Paper Flowers Cards, New: Forgotten Work)

  • #76: December 11, 2020 (New: Fresh Water for Flowers, New: One Long River of Song, Old: The True Deceiver)

  • #75: December 4, 2020 (New: The Devil and the Dark Water, Kids: The Lights and Types of Ships at Night, Old: The Starship and the Canoe)

  • #74: November 27, 2020 (New: The Thursday Murder Club, Old: Hav, Kids: Blades of Freedom)

  • #73: November 20, 2020 (New: Unsettled Ground, Old: Winter Mythologies and Abbots, Kids: The Pig War)

  • #72: November 13, 2020 (New: Troubles in Paradise, New: Dominoes at the Crossroads, New: The Arrest)

  • #71: November 6, 2020 (New: Moonflower Murders, New: Memorial, Old: The Queen’s Gambit)

  • #70: October 30, 2020 (Old: The Dragon Waiting, New: Tecumseh and the Prophet, Kids: The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise)

  • #69: October 23, 2020 (New: The Cold Millions, Old: J R, New: The Book of Unconformities)

  • #68: October 16, 2020 (New: Sleep Donation, New: The Writer’s Library)

  • #67: October 9, 2020 (New: The Lost Spells, New: The Old Drift, New: The Invisible Life of Addie Larue)

  • #66: October 2, 2020 (New: Snow, Old: On Leave)

  • #65: September 25, 2020 (New: The Stationery Shop, New: Real Life, New: A Small Crowd of Strangers)

  • #64: September 19, 2020 (New: Suppose a Sentence, New: Rodham, Kids: The Silver Arrow)

  • #63: September 12, 2020 (New: The Bear, Kids: A Whale of the Wild, New: Piranesi)

  • #62: September 5, 2020 (KIds: Virtual Unicorn Experience, Old: Embassytown, Old: Winter’s Tale)

  • #61: August 29, 2020 (New: Why Fish Don’t Exist, New: Reaganland, New: Flapper Queens)

  • #60: August 22, 2020 (New: Vesper Flights, New: Mexican Gothic, Old: The Complete Orsinia)

  • #59: August 15, 2020 (New: Leonard and Hungry Paul, New: The Finisher, Old: The Black Jacobins)

  • #58: August 8, 2020 (New: The Excessive Waters of the Río de la Plata, New: The Abstainers)

  • #57: August 1, 2020 (New: Intimations, Old: Let Him Go, New: Dead Land)

  • #56: July 25, 2020 (New: A Peculiar Peril, New: The Big Book of Modern Fantasy, New: Subduction, New: Uncanny Valley)

  • #55: July 11, 2020 (New: Utopia Avenue, New: The Vanishing Half, New: Alligator)

  • #54: July 4, 2020 (Old: The Violins of Saint-Jacques)

  • #53: June 27, 2020 (New: The Nickel Boys, New: Deep River, New: Black Sun Rising)

  • #52: June 15, 2020 (Kids: Your Name Is a Song, Old: This Is How It Always Is, New: Death in the East)

  • #51: June 6, 2020 (Old: Death of a Unicorn, The Poison Oracle, A Summer in the Twenties, The Old English Peep-Show, King and Joker)

  • #50: May 29, 2020 (New: Hollywood Park, New Audiobook: Actress, New: Sansei and Sensibility)

  • #49: May 23, 2020 (New: The Broken Heart of America, New: Lanny, New: Houseplants and Hot Sauce)

  • #48: May 16, 2020 (Old: American Decameron)

  • #47: May 8, 2020 (New: Beheld, Kids: Sweep, Old: Everfair)

  • #46: May 1, 2020 (New: The Unseen, New: Good Boy, New: Hammer to Fall)

  • #45: April 24, 2020 (Anniversary Special)

  • #44: April 18, 2020 (Old: Wittgenstein’s Mistress, New: Do No Harm, New: A Good Neighborhood)

  • #43: April 10, 2020 (New: Writers & Lovers, New: Running with Sherman, New: How to Dress an Egg)

  • #42: April 3, 2020 (New: Godshot, New: The Good Killer, Old: Meet Me at the Museum)

  • #41: March 27, 2020 (New: The Glass Hotel, Old: Eruption, New: Stealing Home)

  • #40: March 20, 2020 (New: The Fifth Risk, New: The Splendid and the Vile, Kids: The Phantom Tollbooth)

  • Special Bookselling in the Time of Coronavirus Newsletter: March 16, 2020

  • #39: March 13, 2020 (New: On Shirley Hazzard, Old: Transit of Venus and The Great Fire, Old: People in Glass Houses)

  • #38: March 6, 2020 (New: Nature’s Mutiny, New: Recollections of My Nonexistence, New: Short Life in a Strange World)

  • #37: February 28, 2020 (Old: The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century)

  • #36: February 21, 2020 (Old: Women in Black, Old: Kingdoms of Elfin, New: The King at the Edge of the World)

  • #35: February 14, 2020 (New: The Imaginaries, New: Such a Fun Age, New: Such Good Work)

  • #34: January 31, 2020 (Kids: New Kid, New: Verge, New: Ninth House)

  • #33: January 17, 2020 (New: American Dirt, New: Make It Scream, Make It Burn, New: The Decent Inn of Death)

  • #32: January 11, 2020 (New: Judenstaat, Old: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, New: Wilmington’s Lie)

  • #31: January 4, 2020 (Bestsellers of 2019, New: The Revisionaries)

  • #30: December 20, 2019 (New: Marley, Old: Autonauts of the Cosmoroute)

  • #29: December 6, 2019 (Best of 2019 Lists from the Madison Books Staff)

  • #28: November 29, 2019 (Kids: The Mouse and His Child, Old: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Kids: Wally the Wordworm)

  • #27: November 22, 2019 (Old: Solar Bones)

  • #26: November 15, 2019 (New: The Heavens, New: Animalia, Old: The Mirror Thief)

  • #25: November 8, 2019 (New: The Best Bad Things, New: The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols, Old: The Gift)

  • #24: November 1, 2019 (New: The Man Who Saw Everything, New: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Old: The Ashes of London)

  • #23: October 25, 2019 (New: Agent Running in the Field, New: Gallows Court, Kids: Half-Witch)

  • #22: October 18, 2019 (New: Palimpsests, New: Chances Are…, New: Stay and Fight)

  • #21: October 4, 2019 (New: Thunder and Light, Old: The Plover, Old: The Hunters)

  • #20: September 27, 2019 (Kids: The Many Reflections of Miss Jane Deming, Kids: Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea, Kids: Grumplets and Pests: Zoey & Sassafras #7)

  • #19: September 20, 2019 (Old: The Car Thief, New: The Red Thread: 20 Years of NYRB Classics)

  • #18: September 13, 2019 (Old: The Corner That Held Them, Kids: Warhead, New: The Line Becomes a River)

  • #17: September 6, 2019 (New: Ducks, Newburyport, New: The Testaments, New: The Red Thread: 20 Years of NYRB Classics)

  • #16: August 30, 2019 (New: Terrarium, New: Orange World, Old: The Monkey’s Wedding)

  • #15: August 23, 2019 (New: The Nickel Boys, New: History: A Mess, New: The Ghosts of Eden Park)

  • #14: August 16, 2019 (New: Lady of the Lake, Old: Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead, Audio: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous)

  • #13: August 9, 2019 (New/Old: Mitz, New: Hollow Kingdom, New: Original Prin)

  • #12: August 2, 2019 (New: The Salt Path, New: The Road to Grantchester, Kids: The Poison Jungle: Wings of Fire #13)

  • #11: July 26, 2019 (New: Edgar: An Autobiography, Old: The Transylvanian Trilogy, Old: Human Voices)

  • #10: July 19, 2019 (New: Joe Country, Old: The Iconoclast’s Journal, Kids: A Ticket to the Pennant)

  • #9: July 12, 2019 (New: Feast Your Eyes, New: The Need, New: Three Summers)

  • #8: July 5, 2019 (New: Deep River, Old: The Dig, Old: Rock ‘n’ Roll Soccer)

  • #7: June 28, 2019 (New: Late Migrations, New: The Five, Kids: Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire)

  • #6: June 21, 2019 (New: The Night Tiger, New: The Darwin Affair, Kids: This Was Our Pact)

  • #5: June 14, 2019 (New: Time After Time, New: Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, Old: Wild Life and Sarah Canary)

  • #4: June 6, 2019 (New: The Great Eastern, New: Siege, New: Underland)

  • #3: May 23, 2019 (New: Lanny, New: The Old Drift, Old: Us&Them)

  • #2: May 7, 2019 (New: The Heavens, New: The Book of Delights, Kids: The First Rule of Punk)

  • #1: April 16, 2019 (Grand Opening/Independent Bookstore Day announcement)

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