9:00 - 9:30 am ET | Exhibit Hall Opens / Visit the Booths 9:30 - 10:25 am ET | Fiction: Family Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters, Avid Reader Press: Simon & Schuster J.C. Cervantes, The Enchanted Hacienda, Park Row: Harlequin Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Promise, Random House: Penguin Random House Pim Wangtechawat, The Moon Represents My Heart, Blackstone Publishing Jenny Xie, Holding Patterns, Riverhead Books: Penguin Random House Moderator: Julie Kane, Washington & Lee Lib., Lexington, VA Nonfiction: Extraordinary Lives Azzedine T. Downes, The Couscous Chronicles: Stories of Food, Love, and Donkeys from a Life Between Cultures, Disruption Books Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury, Farrar, Straus & Giroux: Macmillan Stephanie Land, Class: A Memoir, One Signal: Simon & Schuster Ed Piskor, The Hip Hop Family Tree Omnibus, Fantagraphics Ruth J. Simmons, Up Home: One Girl’s Journey, Random House: Penguin Random House Moderator: Barrie Olmstead, Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, NV 10:30 - 11:25 am ET | Fiction: Motherhood Rea Frey, The Other Year, Harper Muse: HarperCollins Focus Adele Griffin, The Favor, Sourcebooks Landmark: Sourcebooks Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah, Sourcebooks Landmark: Sourcebooks Jean Kwok, The Leftover Woman, William Morrow: HarperCollins Ann Patchett, Tom Lake, Harper: HarperCollins Jenny Xie, Holding Patterns, Riverhead Books: Penguin Random House Moderator: Kate Merlane, Cuyahoga County Public Library, OH Fiction: On the Job Amanda Cox, He Should Have Told the Bees, Revell Books: Baker Publishing House Molly McGhee, Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind, Astra House Cecilia Rabess, Everything’s Fine, S. & S: Simon & Schuster Ruth P. Watson, A Right Worthy Woman, Atria: Simon & Schuster Michelle Wildgen, Wine People, Zibby Books Moderator: Sonia Reppe, Stickney-Forest View Public Library District, IL 11:30 am - 12:30 pm ET | Fiction: Thrillers Heather Chavez, Before She Find Me, Mulholland Books: Hachette Book Group Mick Herron, The Secret Hours, Soho Crime: Soho Press Laura Lippman, Prom Mom, William Morrow: HarperCollins Gail Lukasik, The Darkness Surrounds Us, Camcat Anna Pitoniak,The Helsinki Affair, S. & S.: Simon & Schuster Riley Sager, The Only One Left, Dutton: Penguin Random House Comoderators: Liz French, Senior Editor, LJ Book Reviews, & Lynnanne Pearson, Skokie P.L., IL Fiction: Touring the United States Jamel Brinkley, Witness: Stories, Farrar, Straus & Giroux: Macmillan Bonnie Jo Campbell,The Waters,W. W. Norton: W. W. Norton & Company Daniel Gumbiner, Fire in the Canyon, Astra House Jonathan Lethem, Brooklyn Crime Novel, Ecco: HarperCollins Tim O’Brien, America Fantastica, Mariner Books: HarperCollins Moderator: Joshua Finnell, Colgate Univ., Hamilton, NY 12:30 - 1:00 pm ET | Break / Visit the Exhibit Hall 1:00 - 1:55 pm ET | Fiction: Books Within Books Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons, St. Martin’s Press: Macmillan Jillian Cantor, The Fiction Writer, Park Row: Harlequin Alice Hoffman, The Invisible Hour, Atria: Simon & Schuster Madeline Martin, The Keeper of Hidden Books, Hanover Square Press: HarlequinJustin Torres, Blackouts, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Macmillan Moderator: Lillian Dabney, The Seattle Athenaeum Nonfiction: Taking the Risk To Bloom Alice Cappelle, Collapse Feminism: How To Reclaim Our Future Online, Repeater: Watkins Media Julia Rockwell, Mothering Earth: The Busy Family's Guide to Saving the Planet, Imagine: Charlesbridge Ashley Shew, Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement, W. W. Norton: W. W. Norton & Company Raquel Willis, The Risk It Takes To Bloom, St. Martin’s Press, Macmillan Moderator: Mattie Cook, Lyons Township District Library, MI 2:00 - 3:00 pm ET | Fiction: Mysteries Ann Cleeves, The Raging Storm, Minotaur: St. Martin’s: Macmillan Amy Chua, The Golden Gate, Minotaur: St. Martin’s: Macmillan Stephen Mack Jones, Deus X, Soho Crime: Soho Press Joe Kenda, All Is Not Forgiven, Blackstone Publishing David Mark, Flesh and Blood, Severn House Moderator: Lesa Holstine, Evansville Vanderburgh P.L., IN Fiction: Stories from the Past Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds, Riverhead Books: Penguin Random House Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story, Algonquin Books: Hachette Book Group Lisa See, Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, Scribner: Simon & Schuster Gail Tsukiyama, The Brightest Star, HarperVia: HarperCollins Jenni L. Walsh, Unsinkable, Harper Muse: HarperCollins Focus Moderator: Andrea Gough, The Seattle Public Library 3:00 - 3:30 pm ET | Break / Visit the Exhibit Hall 3:30 - 4:25 pm ET | Fiction: Finding Oneself Lucy Burdette, The Ingredients of Happiness, Severn House Patrick deWitt, The Librarianist, Ecco: HarperCollins Rachel Hauck, The Best Summer of Our Lives, Bethany House: Baker Publishing Group Sandra A. Miller, Wednesdays at One, Zibby Books Vauhini Vara, This Is Salvaged: Stories, W. W. Norton: W.W. Norton & Company Moderator: Allison Escoto, Center for Fiction, NY Nonfiction: The World Today Azam Ahmed, Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, a Mother's Quest for Vengeance, Random House: Penguin Random House Kendra Coulter, Defending Animals: Finding Hope on the Front Lines of Animal Protection, MIT Press Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions, Avid Reader Press: Simon & Schuster Bettina L. Love, Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal, St. Martin’s: Macmillan Lee McIntyre, On Disinformation: How To Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy, MIT Press Moderator: Michael Rodriguez, University of Connecticut, Storrs 4:30 - 5:30 pm ET | Nonfiction: History Lessons Victor Luckerson, Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street (Random House: Penguin Random House) Shelley Fraser Mickle, White House Wild Child: How Alice Roosevelt Broke All the Rules and Won the Heart of America, Imagine: Charlesbridge Tiya Miles, Wild: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation, W. W. Norton: W. W. Norton & Company Douglas Preston, The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder, Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group Lorissa Rinehart, First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent, St. Martin’s: Macmillan Moderator, Leah Huey, Dekalb, P.L., IL Fiction: What’s Past Is Prologue Isabel Allende, The Wind Knows My Name, Ballantine Books: Penguin Random House Teju Cole, Tremor, Random House, Penguin Random House Daniel Mason, North Woods, Random House: Penguin Random House Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home, Knopf: Penguin Random HousePauls Toutonghi,The Refugee Ocean, S. & S.: Simon & Schuster Moderator: Barbara Hoffert, Editor, Prepub Alert, LJ |