New Book Releases: May 12, 2020

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

CATHERINE HOUSE, Elisabeth Thomas. A riveting, unsettling novel about a traumatized young woman who attends an elite university where students aren’t allowed to leave, and a secretive department appears to be performing experiments on students. “Fans of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History will devour this philosophical fever dream,” writes Publisher’s Weekly in a starred review. Bookshop.

THE TROUBLE WITH HATING YOU, Sajni Patel. A successful engineer is chagrined when she falls in love with a lawyer her parents tried to set her up with. Bookshop.

THE LIBRARY OF LEGENDS, Janie Chang. A teenage university student is tasked alongside her classmates to protect a 500-year-old book of legends as they flee the bombing of Nanking. Bookshop.

A CHILDREN’S BIBLE, Lydia Millet. From the Pulitzer Prize finalist author of Love in Infant Monkeys. As a massive storm approaches the lakeside mansion where several families are spending their vacation, the children decide to run away. But when events begin to mimic those in the Bible…