Gimme a B! Gimme an OOOOOOOOOOO! Gimme a K! Gimme an S! What’s that spell? That’s right: NEW RELEASE DAY!
Unlike most months, TODAY is the biggest day of the month for new releases (probably because the first Tuesday of this month was a holiday.) And let me tell you, I have read over thirty of the books out today, and loved so many of them. It is a GREAT day for books! You can hear about several of these great titles on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about amazing books we loved, including American Fire, Meddling Kids, and What We Lose.
I’m trying something new today: I’m putting a next to the books that I have read and loved. There are soooo many more I can’t wait to read. (Hello, Monstress sequel!)
This week’s newsletter is sponsored by Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong.
Told in captivating glimpses and drawn from a deep well of insight, humor, and unexpected tenderness, Goodbye, Vitamin pilots through the loss, love, and absurdity of finding one’s footing in this life.
Refuge by Dina Nayeri
A Life of Adventure and Delight by Akhil Sharma
Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man’s Voice from the Silence of Autism by Naoki Higashida and KA Yoshida
Bring Her Home by David Bell
What to Say Next by Julie Buxbaum
Love and Other Alien Experiences by Kerry Winfrey
The Savage Dawn (The Girl at Midnight) by Melissa Grey
Hum If You Don’t Know the Words by Bianca Marais
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment by Angela J. Davis
Domina by L.S. Hilton
Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
Tornado Weather by Deborah E. Kennedy
The Dragons of Nova (Loom Saga) by Elise Kova
The Secrets She Keeps by Michael Robotham
A Catalog of Birds by Laura Harrington
Reckless Years: A Diary of Love and Madness by Heather Chaplin
Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship by Michelle Kuo
The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller
Fitness Junkie by Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza
A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal by Jen Waite
The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan
Ash and Quill (The Great Library) by Rachel Caine
Afterlife by Marcus Sakey
Sex and Rage: A Novel by Eve Babitz
House of Spies: A Novel (Gabriel Allon) by Daniel Silva
Telling the Map: Stories by Christopher Rowe
Secrets of the Tulip Sisters by Susan Mallery
Fucking Innocent: The Early Films of Wes Anderson by John Andrew Fredrick
The Red: An Erotic Fantasy by Tiffany Reisz
Tropic of Kansas by Christopher Brown
Dichronauts by Greg Egan
Found Audio by N.J. Campbell
Who’s That Girl by Blair Thornburgh
Monstress Volume 2: The Blood by Marjorie Liu (Author), Sana Takeda (Artist)
The End by Fernanda Torres (Author), Alison Entrekin (Translator)
Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World by Billy Bragg
The Veneration of Monsters by Suzanne Burns
Bannerless by Carrie Vaughan
The Sound of the World by Heart by Giacomo Bevilacqua
Lessons on Expulsion: Poems by Erika L. Sánchez
Bed-Stuy Is Burning by Brian Platzer
My Sister’s Bones by Nuala Ellwood
Hello, Sunshine by Laura Dave
A Talent for Murder by Andrew Wilson
When the English Fall by David Williams
Moskva by Jack Grimwood
The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson
The Forensic Records Society by Magnus Mills
Infinite Summer by Edoardo Nesi (Author), Alice Kilgarriff (Translator)
A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause by Shawn Wen
Dirt Road by James Kelman
The Velveteen Daughter by Laurel Davis Huber
Revenge of the Nerd: Or . . . The Singular Adventures of the Man Who Would Be Booger by Curtis Armstrong
The Bookshop at Water’s End by Patti Callahan Henry
Hannibal by Patrick N. Hunt
Moving Kings by Joshua Cohen
Knots: Stories by Gunnhild Øyehaug (Author), Kari Dickson (Translator)
Uncle Brucker the Rat Killer by Leslie Peter Wulff
First Watch by Dale Lucas
What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons
Wendigo: A Thriller by Vaughn C. Hardacker
My Heart Hemmed In by Marie NDiaye (Author), Jordan Stump (Translator)
The Delirium Brief: A Laundry Files Novel by Charles Stross
At the Table of Wolves by Kay Kenyon
Gork, the Teenage Dragon by Gabe Hudson
Watch Me Disappear by Janelle Brown
Once Upon a Time in Shaolin: The Untold Story of Wu-Tang Clan’s Million-Dollar Secret Album, the Devaluation of Music, and America’s New Public Enemy No. 1 by Cyrus Bozorgmehr
Hollow by Owen Egerton
Live from Cairo by Ian Bassingthwaighte
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Final Girls by Riley Sager
The Rift by Nina Allan
Night Class: A Downtown Memoir by Victor Corona
The Witches of New York by Ami McKay
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story by Edwidge Danticat
I Hear Your Voice by Young-ha Kim (Author), Krys Lee (Translator)
My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix (paperback)
The Monster’s Daughter by Michelle Pretorius (paperback)
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor (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