Holy cats, how is it April already??? I am happy that April is here, because there are sooooooo many amazing books out this month – starting with today! It’s an embarrassment of riches.
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Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Negro and Native Reeducation Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn kill the dead. Jane is trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do and although it’s a chance for a better life for Negro girls like Jane, it’s not a life she wants.
But when families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane learns the restless dead are the least of her problems.
I have a few awesome books for you below and you can hear about several more great titles on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Amanda and I talked about a few amazing books we loved, including Dread Nation, Meaty, The Oracle Year, and more.
(And like with each megalist, 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!)
Look Alive Out There: Essays by Sloane Crosley
The Home for Unwanted Girls by Joanna Goodman
Lexington and Concord: The Battle Heard Round the World by George C. Daughan
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
Earthcore by Scott Sigler
The Summer of Jordi Perez (And the Best Burger in Los Angeles) by Amy Spalding
Codename Villanelle by Luke Jennings
The Beginning of Everything: The Year I Lost My Mind and Found Myself by Andrea J. Buchanan
Voices from the Rust Belt edited by Anne Trubek
Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing by Ursula K. Le Guin and David Naimo
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery by Barbara K. Lipska
Waiting for Tomorrow: A Novel by Nathacha Appanah
Paris by the Book: A Novel by Liam Callanan
Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution by Todd S. Purdum
The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic by Benjamin Carter Hett
We Own the Sky by Luke Allnutt
Meaty: Essays by Samantha Irby
Losers Bracket by Chris Crutcher
As She Fades by Abbi Glines
To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice by Michael K. Honey
Wade in the Water: Poems by Tracy K. Smith
In Conclusion, Don’t Worry About It by Lauren Graham
The Oracle Year: A Novel by Charles Soule
The Wolf (Under the Northern Sky) by Leo Carew
All the Beautiful Lies by Peter Swanson
American By Day by Derek B. Miller
Bluff by Michael Kardos
Grey Sister (Book of the Ancestor) by Mark Lawrence
Unwifeable: A Memoir by Mandy Stadtmiller
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon by Robert Kurson
The Invisible Valley: A Novel by Su Wei, Austin Woerner (Translator)
Varina by Charles Frazier
Sodom Road Exit by Amber Dawn
Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead–My Life Story by Cecile Richards
Munmun by Jesse Andrews
America is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo
Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life by Jenny Boully
The Barrow Will Send What It May by Margaret Killjoy
A Necessary Evil: A Novel by Abir Mukherjee
Wonderblood by Julia Whicker
Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
Miss Julia Raises the Roof by Ann B. Ross
First Person by Richard Flanagan
See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary by Lorrie Moore
Gone to Drift by Diana McCaulay
Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison
Evening Primrose by Kopano Matlwa
A Long Way from Home by Cathy Glass
The Very Worst Missionary: A Memoir or Whatever by Jamie Wright
Queens of Fennbirn by Kendare Blake
Folded Notes from High School by Matthew Boren
Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy by Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts
How to Be Safe by Tom McAllister
Hunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World’s Most-Wanted Drug Lord by Andrew Hogan and Douglas Century
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
The Perfume Burned His Eyes by Michael Imperioli
Too Close to Breathe: A Novel by Olivia Kiernan
The Very Marrow of Our Bones: A Novel by Christine Higdon
Animals Eat Each Other by Elle Nash
True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness: A Feminist Coming of Age by Christine Lahti
Eye Level: Poems by Jenny Xie
Stream System: The Collected Short Fiction of Gerald Murnane by Gerald Murnane
School for Psychics: Book One by K.C. Archer
Border Districts: A Fiction by Gerald Murnane
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind by Barbara K. Lipska
Killing King: Racial Terrorists, James Earl Ray, and the Plot to Assassinate Martin Luther King by Stuart Wexler and Larry Hancock
The Runaways: A Novel by Sonya Terjanian
Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution by Menno Schilthuizen
The Window by Amelia Brunskill
Chemistry by Weike Wang (paperback)
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories by Lesley Nneka Arimah (paperback)
Marlena by Julie Buntin (paperback)
The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World: A Novel of Robert Louis Stevenson by Brian Doyle (paperback)
The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy (paperback)
That’s it for me today! 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