New Book Releases: February 16, 2021

Each week, I’ll catalog the biggest and most exciting adult and YA fiction — and the occasional nonfiction — coming out that Tuesday.

COWBOY GRAVES, Roberto Bolaño, Natasha Wimmer (translator). The latest collection of novellas from the Chilean-Mexican genius (yes, I’m biased). “These drafts reveal Bolaño (1953–2003) perfecting the literary obsessions that became his emblems,” writes Publisher’s Weekly. Bookshop.

DO NO HARM, Christina McDonald. A desperate mother resorts to selling opioids to afford her young son’s cancer treatment, but her inexperience with the drugs causes people to die. Bookshop.

AMELIA UNABRIDGED, Ashley Schumacher. After her best friend is killed in a car accident, a teenager unexpectedly meets the young, enigmatic author of the book series she and her friend had bonded over. Bookshop.

THE MEMORY THEATER, Karin Tidbeck. Two teenagers attempt to escape The Gardens, a world where where unwanted young servants are punished for growing up. “An exciting, sometimes wrenching tale of friendship and time travel… Expansive and wildly imaginative,” writes Publisher’s Weekly. Bookshop.