Tuesday New Release Day: St. Aubyn; Dyer; Nelson; Lane; O’Donnell; Zeh; Tolkien

May 20, 2014 | 7 books mentioned

Out this week: Lost for Words by Edward St. Aubyn; Another Great Day at Sea by Year in Reading alum Geoff Dyer; Funny Once by Antonya Nelson; Black Lake by Johanna Lane; Closed Doors by Lisa O’DonnellDecompression by the German writer Juli Zeh; and J.R.R. Tolkien’s translation of Beowulfpublished now for the first time. For more on these and other new titles, check out our Great 2014 Book Preview.

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