More than 140 authors and illustrators will appear at the 2019 Winter Institute over the course of four days of keynotes, education sessions, author receptions, and special events.

This year, booksellers can prepare to meet these authors by reading an excerpt of the books they are promoting. Excerpts are available for download on BookWeb [5]; the list will be updated as new excerpts are received.

Authors appearing at the 14th annual Winter Institute [6], to be held January 22–25, 2019, at the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, include:

• Hanif Abdurraqib, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (University of Texas Press)
• Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things (Tin House)
• Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (The Graphic Novel) (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)
• Heidi Barnes, The Bellman’s Secret (Rare Bird Books)
• Louis Bayard, Courting Mr. Lincoln (Algonquin Books)
• Ali Benjamin, The Next Great Paulie Fink (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• Chaya Bhuvaneswar, White Dancing Elephants (Dzanc Books)
• Sarah Blake, The Guest Book (Flatiron Books)
• Tanya Boteju, Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens (Simon Pulse)
• Randy Boyagoda, Original Prin (Biblioasis)
• Michael P. Branch, How to Cuss in Western: And Other Missives From the High Desert (Roost Books)
• Holly Brochman, A Feel Better Book for Little Tears (Magination Press)
• Jericho Brown, The Tradition (Copper Canyon Press)
• Scott Brown, XL (Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers)
• Marcia Butler, Pickle’s Progress (Central Avenue Publishing, dist. IPG)
• Chelsea Cain, Man-Eaters Vol. 1 (Image Comics)
• Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie (Scout Press)
• Katherine Center, Things You Save in a Fire (St. Martin’s Press)
• Casey Cep, Furious Hours (Knopf)
• Denise Chávez, The King and Queen of Comezón (University of Oklahoma Press)
• Chip Cheek, Cape May (Celadon Books)
• Susan Choi, Trust Exercise (Henry Holt and Co.)
• Harlan Coben, Run Away (Grand Central Publishing)
• Julia Collin Davison, Vegetables Illustrated (America’s Test Kitchen)
• Tara Conklin, The Last Romantics (William Morrow)
• Armando Lucas Correa, The Daughter’s Tale (Atria Books)
• Jerry Craft, New Kid (HarperCollins)
• Jennifer Croft, Homesick (Unnamed Press)
• Michael Croley, Any Other Place: Stories (Blair)
• Dana Czapnik, The Falconer (Atria Books)
• Dana L. Davis, The Voice in My Head (Inkyard Press)
• William deBuys, First Impressions: A Reader’s Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest (Yale University Press)
• Robert DelCampo, Managing the Multi-Generational Workforce (Routledge)
• Nicole Dennis-Benn, Patsy (Liveright)
• Rachel Dewoskin, Banshee (Dottir Press, dist. Consortium)
• Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister (Scholastic Press)
• Catherine Doyle, The Storm Keeper’s Island (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
• Georgia Dunn, Lupin Leaps In (Andrews McMeel)
• Bob Eckstein, The Illustrated History of the Snowman: A Pictorial Celebration (Globe Pequot Press)
• Kim Eisele, The Lightest Object in the Universe (Algonquin Books)
• Marcus Ewert, Mr. Pack Rat Really Wants That (Parallax Press)
• Joshua Ferguson, Me, Myself, They (Anansi)
• Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars (Tor Books)
• Rivka Galchen, The Riddle of the Paper Lantern (Yonder: Restless Books for Young Readers)
• Stephanie Garber, Finale (Flatiron Books)
• Lamar Giles, Spin (Scholastic Press)
• Natalie Goldberg, Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home: A Memoir (Shambhala Publications)
• Holly Goldberg Sloan, To Night Owl From Dogfish (Dial Books for Young Readers/Dutton Children’s Books)
• Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone (Houghton Mifflin)
• Monique Gray Smith, Tilly and the Crazy Eights (Second Story Press)
• Isabella Hammad, The Parisian (Grove Press)
• Georgia Hardstark, Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide (Forge Books)
• Massoud Hayoun, When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History (The New Press)
• Christine Lynn Herman, The Devouring Gray (Disney-Hyperion)
• Carlos Hernandez, Sal and Gabi Break the Universe (Rick Riordan Presents)
• Anne Hillerman, The Tale Teller (Harper)
• Ian Hoffman, Jacob’s Room to Choose (Magination Press)
• Lucy Ives, Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet Or, The Origin of the World (Soft Skull Press)
• Kosoko Jackson, A Place for Wolves (Sourcebooks Fire)
• Pierre Jarawan, The Storyteller (World Editions, dist. Consortium)
• Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris (Park Row Books)
• Erica Jong, The World Began With Yes (Red Hen Press)
• Lloyd Kahn, Driftwood Shacks: Anonymous Architecture Along the California Coast (Shelter Publications, dist. PGW)
• Komal Kapoor, Unfollowing You (Andrews McMeel Publishing)
• Mary Beth Keane, Ask Again, Yes (Scribner)
• Sabina Khan, The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali (Scholastic Press)
• Karen Kilgariff, Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide (Forge Books)
• Austin Kleon, Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Workman)
• Bill Konigsberg, The Music of What Happens (Arthur A. Levine Books)
• Matt Kracht, The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America (Chronicle Books)
• Susan Kuklin, We Are Here to Stay: Voices of Undocumented Young Adults (Candlewick Press)
• Mark Kurlansky, Salmon and the Earth: The History of a Common Fate (Patagonia, dist. PGW)
• Remy Lai, Pie in the Sky (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers)
• Wally Lamb, You Don’t Know Me: Incarcerated Women Reveal Their Truths (Counterpoint Press)
• Thomas Lennon, Ronan Boyle and the Bridge of Riddles (Amulet Books)
• Jody J. Little, Mostly the Honest Truth (HarperCollins)
• Layli Long Soldier, WHEREAS (Graywolf Press)
• HSH Prince Alexi Lubomirski, And Thank You for My Dreams: Bedtime Prayers of Gratitude (Andrews McMeel Publishing)
• Benjamin Markovits, A Weekend in New York (Faber & Faber)
• Karl Marlantes, Deep River (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Meredith May, The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees (Park Row Books)
• Elizabeth McCracken, Bowlaway (Ecco)
• Gillian McDunn, Caterpillar Summer (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
• Mindy McGinnis, Heroine (Katherine Tegen Books)
• Karen McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret (Delacorte Press for Young Readers)
• Dylan Meconis, Queen of the Sea (Candlewick Press)
• Matt Mendez, Barely Missing Everything (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books)
• Alden Mills, Unstoppable Teams (HarperBusiness)
• Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea (Doubleday)
• Maya Motayne, Nocturna (Balzer + Bray)
• Lauren Myracle, Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale (DC Ink)
• Mary Norris, Greek to Me (WW Norton)
• Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing (Melville House)
• Mary Oishi, Rock Paper Scissors (Swimming With Elephants Publications)
• Ana Pacheco, Early Santa Fe (Arcadia Publishing)
• Roseanne Parry, A Wolf Called Wander (Greenwillow Books)
• Sheryl Paul, The Wisdom of Anxiety (Sounds True Publishing)
• Helen Phillips, The Need (Simon & Schuster)
• Mary Laura Philpott, I Miss You When I Blink (Touchstone)
• Leonard Pitts Jr., The Last Thing You Surrender (Agate/Bolden, dist. PGW)
• Max Porter, Lanny (Graywolf Press)
• Douglas Preston, The Lost City of the Monkey God (Grand Central Publishing)
• Laura Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic: Riding the World’s Loneliest Horse Race (Catapult)
• Ruth Reichl, Save Me the Plums (Random House)
• Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss (Milkweed Editions)
• Nina Revoyr, A Student of History (Akashic Books)
• Justin A. Reynolds, Opposite of Always (Katherine Tegen Books)
• Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• Matt Richtel, An Elegant Defense (William Morrow)
• James Riley, The Revenge of Magic (Aladdin)
• Holly Ringland, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Anansi)
• Leslie Carol Roberts, Here Is Where I Walk (University of Nevada Press)
• Christian Robinson, Another (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
• Howard Rodman, The Great Eastern (Melville House)
• Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns (Margaret K. McElderry)
• Abbigail N. Rosewood, If I Had Two Lives (Europa Editions)
• Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man (Harper)
• Robert Sabuda, Believe: A Pop-Up Book of Possibilities (Candlewick Press)
• Lisa Sandlin, The Bird Boys (Cinco Puntos Press)
• Tammi Sauer, A Little Chicken (Sterling Children’s Books)
• Reshma Saujani, Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder (Currency)
• Stephen Savage, The Babysitter From Another Planet (Neal Porter Books)
• Whitney Scharer, The Age of Light (Little, Brown and Company)
• Paul R. Secord, Albuquerque Deco and Pueblo (Arcadia Publishing)
• William Sirls, The Crown Lord (Rare Bird Books, A Vireo Book)
• Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems (Graywolf Press)
• A.K. Small, Bright Burning Stars (Algonquin Young Readers)
• Crystal Smith, Bloodleaf (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers)
• Dominic Smith, The Electric Hotel (Sarah Crichton Books)
• Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy (Sounds True Publishing)
• Allen Steele, Santa Fe 1880: Chronicles From the Year of the Railroad (Arcadia Publishing)
• Jonathan Stutzman, Tiny T. Rex and the Impossible Hug (Chronicle Books)
• Erika Swyler, Light From Other Stars (Bloomsbury Publishing)
• Paula Taylor, How to Produce a Fashion Show From A to Z (Pearson)
• Michelle Tea, Astro Baby (Dottir Press, dist. Consortium)
• Teri Turner, No Crumbs Left: Recipes for Everyday Food Made Marvelous (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Samantha Vamos, The Piñata That the Farm Maiden Hung (Charlesbridge)
• Madhuri Vijay, The Far Field (Grove Press)
• Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press)
• Annie Ward, Beautiful Bad (Park Row Books)
• Bryan Washington, Lot: Stories (Riverhead)
• Kip Wilson, White Rose (Versify, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers)
• Steven Wingate, Of Fathers and Fire (University of Nebraska Press)
• De’Shawn Charles Winslow, In West Mills (Bloomsbury Publishing)
• Skottie Young, Bully Wars (Image Comics)
• LaTonya Yvette, A Woman of Color (Abrams Image)
• Roger Zimmerman, A History Lover’s Guide to Albuquerque (Arcadia Publishing)

Learn more about the authors appearing at Winter Institute [7] and check out the full lineup of educational programs, keynote speeches, and meet-and-greet events on BookWeb [8].

Winter Institute 14 is made possible by the generous support of lead sponsor Ingram Content Group [9] and from publishers large and small.

Winter Institute is a professional development conference open to registered attendees only; it is not a public event.