Thousands of books are published each month. And as much as we’d like to, we can’t read (or review) them all. But what we can do is point out a few we think you might enjoy. In that spirit, here’s a rundown of forthcoming titles that caught our eye and may catch yours, too.

Covid Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope Disco by Karen Finley (City Lights Books). The chaos, uncertainty, fear, frustration, horror, and hope of the pandemic years ignite this suite of poems originally performed live in New York City.

Off the Ground: Paul McCartney in the 1990s by JR Moores (Reaktion Books). Massive world tours, unusual collaborations, experiments with classical music, and even a few “new” Beatles songs make a strong case for the 1990s as Sir Paul’s best decade since the 1960s.

Hoodwinked: How Marketers Use the Same Tactics as Cults by Mara Einstein (Prometheus Books). The online-sales playbook often relies on trickery — including the scarcity doctrine and celebrity endorsements — to create an endless anxiety/purchase loop.

The Edge of Water: A Novel by Olufunke Grace Bankole (Tin House Books). A mother in Nigeria has a premonition about the peril awaiting her daughter in the U.S. but allows her to travel there anyway. What ensues will echo through the family for generations.

The Forgotten Sense: The New Science of Smell and the Extraordinary Power of the Nose by Jonas Olofsson (Mariner Books). Is this wine good? Is someone baking bread? Does the dog need a bath? The nose knows these things and much, much more (which makes the “loss of smell” covid-19 symptom especially unfortunate).

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly (Atria/One Signal Publishers). A look at how renting music — with cash or loss of privacy — rather than buying and owning it affects listeners and musicians.

Elita: A Novel by Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum (TriQuarterly Books). It’s winter 1951. When prison guards on a remote island in Puget Sound discover a mute, feral girl alone in the woods, child-development expert Bernadette Baston is brought in to make sense of the case.

Out of Your Mind: The Biggest Mysteries of the Human Brain by Jorge Cham & Dwayne Godwin (Pantheon). What IS going on in our pointy little heads? An author/cartoonist and a neuroscientist playfully explore the control center that makes us all tick.

Tsunami: Women’s Voices from Mexico, edited by Heather Cleary and Gabriela Jauregui (Feminist Press). Provocative writers address some of the most urgent patriarchy- and Eurocentrism-fueled issues — from sexual violence to the rights of Indigenous peoples — plaguing Mexico today.

Whiteout: A Thriller by R.S. Burnett (Crooked Lane Books). A remote research outpost in Antarctica might be the last place you’d want to be alone when nuclear war destroys all other life on Earth, but what if you’re not really there by yourself?

Comics Art in Korea by John A. Lent (University Press of Mississippi). This deep dive into popular and historical imagery — from posters and cartoons to graphic novels — from North and South Korea will fascinate lovers of the artform and students of Asian lore alike.

Tilda Is Visible: A Novel by Jane Tara (Crown). It’s not unusual for middle-aged people to feel invisible, but an Aussie woman is literally disappearing one body part at a time — until, that is, she meets someone who sees what she doesn’t.

Stronger: The Untold Story of Muscle in Our Lives by Michael Joseph Gross (Dutton). No less than Arnold Schwarzenegger himself says, “Even if you’ve never picked up a weight, Stronger is for you.” The book combines history, humor, and health and is 480 pages long, so just toting it around might be a good start to your fitness program.