It’s time for fall reading, that glorious time of the year where the air gets a bit chilly, the blankets get a bit thicker, and the new book releases become more plentiful! It’s the first Tuesday of the month, which means there are a bunch of new titles out today. I’ve got a big list for you below, and you can hear about a few of these books on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about amazing books we loved, such as Sing, Unburied, Sing, Sourdough, and They Both Die at the End.
Sponsored by Gambler’s Anatomy by Jonathan Lethem, new in paperback.
A devilishly entertaining novel about an international backgammon hustler who thinks he’s psychic–from the author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude. Alexander Bruno travels the world playing high stakes backgammon and hunting for amateur “whales” who think they can challenge him. Lately he’s had a run of bad luck. Out of money and friends, he turns to the only person who can help (and the last person he wants to see): a high-rolling former childhood acquaintance. Forced to confront his uncertain future, he must ask himself: Is he playing the game, or is the game playing him?
(And like last time, I’m putting a 
next to the books that I have read and loved. There are soooo many more on this list that I can’t wait to read!)
Welcome Home: An Anthology on Love and Adoption edited by Eric Smith (I haven’t read this, but congratulations to fellow Rioter Eric Smith!)
A Tale of Two Kitties (Magical Cats) by Sofie Kelly
Saving Sophie by Sam Carrington
Sisters by Lily Tuck
Copycat by Alex Lake
Under a Pole Star by Stef Penney
A Secret History of Witches by Louise Morgan
The Future She Left Behind by Marin Thomas
The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding by Alexandra Bracken
Tales of Falling and Flying by Ben Loory
The Salt Line by Holly Goddard Jones
Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook by Alice Waters
Acadie by Dave Hutchinson
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
To Funk and Die in LA (A D Hunter Mystery) by Nelson George
Sourdough by Robin Sloan
Alan Cole Is Not a Coward by Eric Bell
Liner Notes: On Parents & Children, Exes & Excess, Death & Decay, & a Few of My Other Favorite Things by Loudon Wainwright, III
Friend Request by Laura Marshall
If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir by Ilana Kurshan
The World of Tomorrow by Brendan Mathews
Black Rock White City by A.S. Patric
The Seagull: A Vera Stanhope Mystery by Ann Cleeves
Good Me, Bad Me by Ali Land
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
Feral Youth edited by Shaun David Hutchinson
The Ruin of Angels by Max Gladstone
The End of the World Running Club by Adrian Walker
Dinner at the Center of the Earth by Nathan Englander
I Hate Everyone But You by Gaby Dunn (Author), Allison Raskin (Author)
The Western Star (A Longmire Mystery) by Craig Johnson
Browse: The World in Bookshops by Henry Hitchings
The Glass Town Game by Catherynne M. Valente (Author), Rebecca Green (Illustrator)
Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill
George & Lizzie by Nancy Pearl
Tower of Dawn (Throne of Glass) by Sarah J. Maas
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
Right Where You Left Me by Calla Devlin
Even the Darkest Stars by Heather Fawcett
The Amber Arrow by Tony Daniel
A Legacy of Spies: A Novel by John le Carré
Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith
A Son Called Gabriel by Damian McNicholl
Miss Kopp’s Midnight Confessions (A Kopp Sisters Novel) by Amy Stewart
The Brightest Fell by Seanan McGuire
The Assassin’s Curse by Kevin Sands
Clade by James Bradley
Light Years by Emily Ziff Griffin
Einstein and the Rabbi: Searching for the Soul by Naomi Levy
Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self by Manoush Zomorodi
Poppies of Iraq by Brigitte Findakly, Lewis Trondheim (Illustrator)
A Charm of Goldfinches and Other Wild Gatherings: Quirky Collective Nouns of the Animal Kingdom by Matt Sewell
What It’s Like to Be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience by Gregory Berns
The Cold War: A World History by Odd Arne Westad
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen
The Golden House by Salman Rushdie
A Conspiracy in Belgravia (The Lady Sherlock Series) by Sherry Thomas
Lie to Me by J.T. Ellison
Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate by Zoe Quinn
Literally Show Me a Healthy Person by Darcie Wilder
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation by John Freeman
Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust
Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. by Danielle Allen
The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld
Across the China Sea by Gaute Heivoll
Norma: A Novel by Sofi Oksanen
The Uploaded by Ferrett Steinmetz
Skyfarer by Joseph Brassey
Immortal Architects by Paige Orwin
Anne Bancroft: A Life (Screen Classics) by Douglass K. Daniel
Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart
A Disappearance in Damascus: Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War by Deborah Campbell
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande (paperback)
The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker (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