Fiction
Behind the Scenes
Karelia Stetz-Waters ’99
Forever, January 2023
The Fog Ladies: Date With Death
Susan McCormick (Susan Jacobs McCormick ’84)
The Wild Rose Press, October 2023
How to Be Sane: A Groundbreaking Mental Wellness Guide from a Gorgeous Female Doctor
Emily Altman ’00
Andrews McNeel Publishing, November 2023
Killingly: A Novel
Katharine Beutner ’03
Soho Press, June 2023
Knockout
Sarah MacLean (Sarah Trabucchi ’00)
Avon, August 2023
The Long March Home: A World War II Novel of the Pacific
Marcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee ’92
Revell, May 2023
A Long Time Dead
Samara Breger ’12
Bywater Books, May 2023
A Noble Cunning: The Countess and the Tower
Patricia Bernstein (Patricia Hoffman Bernstein ’66)
History Through Fiction, March 2023
One Knife, One Fork, One Spoon
Patty Friedmann ’68
Atmosphere Press, September 2023
The Vanishing Hour
Seraphina Nova Glass (Seraphina Richardson, MFA ’05)
Graydon House, May 2023
Nonfiction
Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation
Amanda Kennell ’06
University of Hawaii Press, July 2023
Authentic Selves: Celebrating Trans and Nonbinary People and Their Families
Peggy Gillespie (Peggy Elman Gillespie ’69)
Skinner House Books, May 2023
A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes
Alexa Griffith Winton ’90 and Susan Brown, eds.
Yale University Press, June 2023
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
Judith Tick ’64
W. W. Norton & Company, December 2023
Changing the Game: William G. Bowen and the Challenges of American Higher Education
Nancy Weiss Malkiel ’65
Princeton University Press, November 2023
The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance
Rebecca Clarren ’97
Viking, October 2023
Furnishing the White House: The Decorative Arts Collection
Melissa Naulin ’97, Betty Monkman, William Allman, and Lydia Tederick
The White House Historical Association, September 2023
The Defiant Optimist: Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women
Durreen Shahnaz ’89
Broadleaf Books, June 2023
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary
Hana Videen ’07
Profile Books, November 2023
The End of Family Court: How Abolishing the Court Brings Justice to Children and Families
Jane M. Spinak ’74
NYU Press, August 2023
The French Chef Cookbook
Julia Child (Julia McWilliams Child ’34)
Knopf, November 2023
The Guide to Earned Media: How to Use PR Strategies to Enhance Your Brand
Annie Pace Scranton ’02
Kogan Page, August 2023
If We Were Kin: Race, Identification, and Intimate Political Appeals
Lisa Beard ’03
Oxford University Press, March 2023
Impact Investing for a Sustainable Planet: Insights from EcoEnterprises Fund
Tammy E. Newmark ’84 and Michele A. Pena
Routledge, December 2023
Imperiled Whiteness: How Hollywood and Media Make Race in “Postracial” America
Penelope Ingram ’92
University Press of Mississippi, June 2023
Left in the Midwest: St. Louis Progressive Activism in the 1960s and 1970s
Amanda L. Izzo ’99 and Benjamin Looker, eds.
University of Missouri Press, March 2023
Life B: Overcoming Double Depression
Bethanne Patrick (Bethanne Kelly Patrick ’85)
Counterpoint, May 2023
Literacy Moves Outdoors: Learning Approaches for Any Environment
Valerie Bang-Jensen (Valerie Fischer Bang-Jensen ’77)
Heinemann, April 2023
Madame Fromage’s Adventures in Cheese
Tenaya Darlington ’94
Workman, September 2023
The Nature of Kyoto: Writers in Kyoto Anthology 5
Lisa Twaronite Sone ’87 and Robert Weis, eds.
Independently published, May 2023
Oregon Wine + Food: The Cookbook
Danielle Centoni ’97 and Kerry Newberry
Figure 1 Publishing, May 2023
Pandemic Teaching: Notes from the Classroom
Jennifer Smith ’91
Independently published, February 2023
Philadelphia’s Strawbridge & Clothier, From Our Family to Yours
Meg Butterworth (Margaret Strawbridge Butterworth ’97)
The History Press, May 2023
The Princess Guide to Rome
Belinda Darcey AC ’00
Princess Guide Books, January 2023
The Princess Guide to Venice
Belinda Darcey AC ’00
Princess Guide Books, February 2023
Radiant Wildheart: A Guide to Awaken Your Inner Artist and Live Your Creative Mission
Shereen Sun (Shereen Choudhury ’11)
Hay House, March 2023
Radical Health: Unwellness, Care, and Latinx Expressive Culture
Julie Avril Minich ’99
Duke University Press, October 2023
Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore
Kiki Smith ’71
Rizzoli Electa, September 2023
A Schizoid at Smith: How Overparenting Leads to Underachieving
Blair Sorrel ’77
Atmosphere Press, August 2023
Slow Wine USA Guide 2024: A Year in the Life of the Vineyards and Wines of the USA
Deborah Parker Wong and Pam Strayer ’77
Slow Food Promozione, November 2023
Speak for Me, Mom: A Murder, a Trial, and a Mother’s Enduring Love
Christine Wolf (Christine Dresp, MSW ’84)
Androscoggin Press, October 2023
Superlative City: The MOST, the BIGGEST, the FIRST, the OLDEST, and the BEST of NEW YORK in 52 PICTURES
Cynthia M. Pigott (Cynthia Moekle Pigott ’81)
Scout’s Press, July 2023
Woman in Action: Autobiography of a Global African Feminist
Filomina Steady ’65
Mereo Books, January 2023
Poetry
A Belief in Cosmic Dailiness
Angela Acosta ’17
Independently published, September 2023
The Body Problem
Margaret Wack ’15
Orison Books, March 2023
The Body’s Owner Speaks
Leo Smith ’22
Black Sunflowers Poetry Press, July 2023
Diving at the Lip of the Water
Karen Poppy (Karen Kramer Poppy ’98)
Beltway Editions, May 2023
Children/Young Adult
America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History
Ariel Aberg-Riger ’03
Balzer + Bray, May 2023
April & Mae and the Animal Shelter
Megan Dowd Lambert ’96; illustrated by Briana Dengoue
Charlesbridge, March 2023
April & Mae and the Movie Night
Megan Dowd Lambert ’96; illustrated by Briana Dengoue
Charlesbridge, March 2023
April & Mae and the Sleepover
Megan Dowd Lambert ’96; illustrated by Briana Dengoue
Charlesbridge, March 2023
Banana
Zoey Abbott ’96
Tundra Books, March 2023
Discovering Life’s Story: Biology’s Beginnings
Joy Hakim (Joy Frisch Hakim ’51)
MITeen Press, September 2023
The Dog Snatcher: Guardians of Time, Book 1
Phyllis Wheeler (Phyllis Hough Wheeler ’73)
Independently published, September 2023
Letters to My Grandfather
Joanna Maneckji ’94 (author and illustrator)
Switow Media and Sunny Acres, November 2023
Maddie and Mabel Know They Can
Kari Allen (Kari Diederich Allen ’02); illustrated by Tatjana Mai-Wyss
Kind World Publishing, June 2023
Molly’s Tuxedo
Vicki Johnson ’87; illustrated by Gillian Reid
Little Bee Books, June 2023
Secret of the Lost Dragons: Guardians of Time, Book 2
Phyllis Wheeler (Phyllis Hough Wheeler ’73)
Independently published, November 2023
Tasiawelanu and the Healing Blanket
Laurah Morningstar (Laurah Winder AC ’04); illustrated by Larysa Fedorchenko
Honey Flower, June 2023
Whose Prints?
Kari Allen (Kari Diederich Allen ’02); illustrated by Kim Smith
Little Simon, September 2023