Kaitlyn Greenidge's spectacular second novel, an eco-thriller from Jeff VanderMeer, a chilling deep dive into a true ghost story, and more spring books we couldn't put down.

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Folklorn by Angela Mi Young Hur

In this fascinating and introspective novel, science and Korean mythology intersect when a scientist grapples with her career, family, mental health, and identity as a Korean immigrant. As a child, particle physicist Elsa Park’s mother told her their family was cursed, doomed to repeat stories from the Korean myths and folktales that make up their heritage. Elsa first sees a ghost in the Antarctic snow while working in an observatory. While ghosts and past traumas haunt Elsa, she studies in Sweden and then returns to her family home in California after her mother’s death. Once there, she discovers secrets in the handwritten pages of her mother’s stories. This novel is deeply moving — a complex tale about repressed grief, myth, and diaspora. Preorder your copy. —Margaret Kingsbury

Virtual book events we highly recommend: March 15-19

⭐️ = on our best spring books list

Monday, March 15

• Jessica Winter discusses The Fourth Child (⭐️) with Rumaan Alam — hosted by Books Are Magic, 7 p.m. ET. More info. 
• Patricia Engel discusses Infinite Country (⭐️) with Ingrid Rojas Contreras — hosted by Changing Hands Bookstore, 7 p.m. MST. More info. 
• Cory McCarthy, A. R. Capetta, Anna-Marie McLemore, and Mark Oshiro discuss reimagining Shakespeare with trans and nonbinary representation, for the launch of their anthology, That Way Madness Lies: Fifteen of Shakespeare’s Most Notable Works Reimagined — hosted by the Strand, 7 p.m. ET. $5. More info

Tuesday, March 16

• Forsyth Harmon discusses Justine (⭐️) with Melissa Broder — hosted by Skylight Books, 6:30 p.m. PT. More info. 
• Editor Jenny Minton Quigley, and contributors Tom Bissell, Susan Choi, Lauren Groff, Morgan Jerkins, and Stacy Schiff discuss their new anthology, Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century — hosted by Harvard Book Store, 7 p.m. ET. More info.
• Rachel True discusses True Heart Intuitive Tarot with Jenna Wortham — hosted by Loyalty Bookstores, 8 p.m. ET. More info.

Wednesday, March 17

• Diane Wilson discusses The Seed Keeper (⭐️) with Heid E. Erdrich — hosted by Books Are Magic, 7 p.m. ET. More info.
• Chanda Prescod-Weinstein discusses The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred with Elissa Washuta — hosted by Powells, 5 p.m. PT. More info.

Thursday, March 18

• Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Committed (⭐️) with Walter Mosley — hosted by Brookline Booksmith, 7 p.m. ET. $5. More info.
• Jess Zimmerman discusses Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology (⭐️) with Helen Rosner — hosted by Books Are Magic, 7 p.m. ET. More info.
• Harlan Coben discusses Win with Michael J. Fox — hosted by Murder by the Book, 7 p.m. CT. $29. More info.

Friday, March 19

• Angeline Boulley discusses Firekeeper's Daughter with Courtney Summers — hosted by Politics & Prose, 7 p.m. ET. More info.
• Carol Edgarian discusses Vera with Amy Bloom — hosted by Books & Books, 7 p.m. ET. More info.

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