March is continuing to make its case for Best New Release Month Ever by giving us a ton of great books again today! I have read a few of them, but there were so many more I didn’t have a chance to read yet, so I wanted to make sure you knew about them. SO MANY GOOD BOOKS. And you can hear about several of these books on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about a few amazing books we loved, such as White Tears, The Wanderers, and Himself.
This week’s newsletter is sponsored by Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar.
Raised in the Czech countryside, Jakub Procházka [Jacob Pro-chah-z-ka] has gone from small-time scientist to premier national astronaut. When a dangerous solo mission to Venus offers him a chance at heroism, he takes it, leaving behind his devoted wife Lenka, whose love, Jakub realizes too late, he has sacrificed.
Alone in space, Jakub finds a companion in a possibly imaginary alien spider. Over a series of philosophical conversations, the pair form an intense emotional bond. But will it be enough to see Jakub through a clash with secret Russian rivals and return him safely to Earth for a second chance with Lenka?
How We Speak to One Another edited by Ander Monson and Craig Reinbold
Rebel Threads: Vintage Streetwear by Roger Burton
One of the Boys by Daniel Magariel
Open Midnight: Where Ancestors and Wilderness Meet by Brooke Williams
Swimmer Among the Stars: Stories by Kanishk Tharoor
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World by Nell Stevens
Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero by Michael DeForge
New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Middlepause: On Life After Youth by Marina Benjamin
My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew by Abigail Pogrebin
The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories by Jared Shurin (Editor), Mahvesh Murad (Editor)
White Tears by Hari Kunzru
Matilda Empress by Lise Arin
Never Let You Go by Chevy Stevens
The New York Times Book of Crime: More Than 166 Years of Covering the Beat by Kevin Flynn
The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future by Joselin Linder
Follow Me into the Dark by Felicia C. Sullivan
The Fall of Lisa Bellow by Susan Perabo
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell
The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone by Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach
The Road to Ithaca by Ben Pastor
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper
Getting Off On Frank Sinatra: A Copper Black Mystery by Megan Edwards
The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit
The Forgotten Girls by Owen Laukkanen
The Devil’s Triangle (A Brit in the FBI) by Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison
The Vine That Ate the South by J.D. Wilkes
The Doorposts of Your House and on Your Gates by Jacob Bacharach
The Astonishing Mistakes of Dahlia Moss by Max Wirestone
The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir by Ariel Levy
Printer’s Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History by Rebecca Romney and J. P. Romney
A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers) by Becky Chambers
Nabokov’s Favorite Word Is Mauve: What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing by Ben Blatt
More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers by Jonathan Lethem
Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan
The Wanderers by Meg Howrey
Eggshells by Caitriona Lally
The Loving Husband by Christobel Kent
The Principles Behind Flotation by Alexandra Teague
Double Dutch by Laura Trunkey
Himself by Jess Kidd
Mikhail and Margarita by Julie Lekstrom Himes
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Blume (paperback)
The Penny Poet of Portsmouth: A Memoir of Place, Solitude, and Friendship by Katherine Towler (paperback)
That’s it for me today – time to get back to reading! If you want to learn more about books new and old (and see lots of pictures of my cats, Millay and Steinbeck), or tell me about books you’re reading, or books you think I should read (I HEART RECOMMENDATIONS!), you can find me on Twitter at MissLiberty, on Instagram at FranzenComesAlive, or Litsy under ‘Liberty’!
Stay rad,
Liberty