Good morning, readers. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to check out a big list of awesome books coming out in the rest of 2016. As always, should any of the books you already own go unread, the librarian will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This newsletter will start recommending in five seconds. Good luck, readers.
Okay, but seriously, I’ve been traveling for work and I am behind in my reading, so I thought a big sneak peek might be fun. You’re going to want to mark these down now, before next year’s books start getting attention and these get lost in the shuffle. Because I have seen some of the 2017 books in my journeys, and the future is WOW.
And on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about – SPOILER- more books, including A Change of Heart, Big Magic, and The Tale of Shikanoko series.
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The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang
The Trespasser by Tana French
My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine
You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson
I’ll Tell You in Person by Chloe Caldwell
Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives by Tim Harford
Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down by Anne Valente
All That Man Is by David Szalay
Nicotine / Private Novelist by Nell Zink
Ghost Songs by Regina McBride
When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin
The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin / The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Motion of Puppets by Keith Donohue
Brief Histories of Everyday Objects by Andy Warner
The Mortifications by Derek Palacio
Fractured by Catherine McKenzie
We Know It Was You by Maggie Thrash
Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq by Sarah Glidden
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
A City Dreaming by Daniel Polansky
Dog Years (Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize) by Melissa Yancy
The Red Car by Marcy Dermansky
Rani Patel in Full Effect by Sonia Patel
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
Brat Pack America: Visiting Cult Movies of the ’80s by Kevin Smokler
The Hidden Keys by André Alexis
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American by Okey Ndibe
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Him, Me, Muhammad Ali by Randa Jarrar
Still Life with Tornado by A. S. King
The Annie Year by Stephanie Wilbur Ash
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
The Loved Ones by Sonya Chung
IQ by Joe Ide
Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction by Benjamin Percy
A Gambler’s Anatomy by Jonathan Lethem
Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge
Float by Anne Carson
We Show What We Have Learned and Other Stories by Clare Beams
The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave
The Terranauts by T.C. Boyle
Land of Love and Ruins by Oddný Eir (Author), Philip Roughton (Translator)
The Boat Rocker by Ha Jin
Bruja by Wendy C. Ortiz
The Winterlings by Cristina Sánchez-Andrade (Author), Samuel Rutter (Translator)
Thus Bad Begins by Javier Marias (Author), Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
Scratch by Steve Himmer
The Beach at Night by Elena Ferrante
Virgin and Other Stories by April Ayers Lawson
Fish in Exile by Vi Khi Nao
Valiant Gentlemen by Sabina Murray
Pull Me Under by Kelly Luce
Normal by Warren Ellis
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
The Dispossessed by Szilard Borbely
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout by Laura Jane Grace
Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald’s Fortune and the Woman Who Gave It All Away by Lisa Napoli
Hi, Anxiety: Life With a Bad Case of Nerves by Kat Kinsman
Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live by Peter Orner
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky
Culdesac: A Novella by Robert Repino
Absolutely on Music : Conversations with Seiji Ozawa by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
Victoria by Daisy Goodwin
The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
Searching for John Hughes: Or Everything I Thought I Needed to Know about Life I Learned from Watching ’80s Movies by Jason Diamond
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between by Lauren Graham
Slipping: Stories, Essays, & Other Writing by Lauren Beukes
Moranifesto by Caitlin Moran
The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
Island of the Mad by Laurie Sheck
Show Me a Mountain by Kerry Young
Books for Living by Will Schwalbe
Civilianized: A Young Veteran’s Memoir by Michael Anthony
YAY, BOOKS! That’s it for me today – time to get back to reading! If you want to learn more about books (and see lots of pictures of my cats, Millay and Steinbeck), or tell me about books you’re reading, you can find me on Twitter at MissLiberty, on Instagram at FranzenComesAlive, or Litsy under ‘Liberty’!
I’ll be back next week with an October megalist. There are soooooo many good books out next month. MY BODY IS READY.
Liberty