#NYTIMES BOOKS TO READ 2017 SERIES#

#NYTIMES BOOKS TO READ 2017 SERIES#

(Atheneum, $$16.99.) The second book in Reynolds’ engrossing and big-hearted series about the members of a track team focuses on a speed-demon girl who outruns challenges on the track and at home. (Clarion, $17.99.) In this beguiling graphic novel, a girl befriends and rescues a mermaid who has been held captive and forced to perform in an aquatic show by a sinister impresario. (Candlewick, $16.99.)The great Chinese author’s moving novel-his first to be translated into English-features an unlikely pair of friends, one mute, one orphaned, who help each other through tough times in rural China.įISH GIRL. (Dial, $12.99.) “I dub thee brilliant,” our reviewer, Marjorie Ingall, said of this graphic novel about a girl just starting middle school, whose family works at a Renaissance faire.īRONZE AND SUNFLOWER.

Written and illustrated by Victoria Jamieson.

(Candlewick, $17.99.) The latest from this award-winning team is a darkly funny tale of friendship, escape and making the best of things, set mostly in the belly of a wolf.ĪLL’S FAIRE IN MIDDLE SCHOOL.

(Hyperion, $15.99.) The inimitable Willems’s unclassifiable new book is a funny, profound guide to navigating the highs and lows of being a person on Earth, aimed at everyone from newborns to grandparents. WELCOME: A MO WILLEMS GUIDE FOR NEW ARRIVALS. (Groundwood, $19.95.) With simple, powerful language and stunning art, this quietly devastating book evokes a seaside community of Cape Breton miners and their families through the voice of a boy who knows he will follow his father’s path. (Pajama Press, $17.95.) With lovely, unusual mixed media art and a hopeful story, Del Rizzo finds an approachable way to tell the story of a boy forced to flee his home during war, who finds healing and a new friend through caring for birds. Written and illustrated by Suzanne Del Rizzo. (Little, Brown, $17.99.) It’s an alphabet book, but it’s also much more: a wordless, witty and wonderful story of a runaway cat and his pursuers, including an alligator, a chicken and a dragon. Written and illustrated by Patrick McDonnell. Each piece feels like a distinctly, uniquely perfect snowflake of pain.THE LITTLE RED CAT WHO RAN AWAY AND LEARNED HIS ABC’S (THE HARD WAY). “A Sheltered Woman” finds a traditional Chinese postpartum nanny treated with contempt by her employers, while “When We Were Happy We Had Other Names” centers on a mother trying to quantify grief over a child’s loss. In a collection that has already been awarded the PEN/Malamud Prize, characters live in and move on through loss. The nonfiction hits even harder, covering the stigma of mental illness, the trouble with school reform, the history of a mass-shooting weapon and - in what passes for a palate cleanser these days - an amusing case of mistaken identity that leads to an indictment of our twisted politics. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.Ĭritic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles, fiction and nonfiction, to consider for your September reading list.Īs the seasons turn (or at least so we hope), September’s most anticipated fiction ponders change of all kinds, making us feel deeply about families coping with loss and think hard about choices that have led to conflict.

Nytimes books to read 2017