Helloooooooooo! Welcome to another week filled with books and…well, books, because let’s be honest, what else do you need, right? I have a ton of exciting book-related news for you today. I hope everything in your world is marvelous and you’re reading something wonderful. Enjoy your upcoming week, and be excellent to each other. – xoxo, Liberty
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Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg returns to the enchanting world of The Paper Magician.
Here’s this week’s trivia question: What famous author drowned after his boat sank and was later cremated on a beach in Italy?
Deals, Reals, and Squeals!
Riz Ahmed and Mindy Kaling want to write a Ms. Marvel movie together.
There’s a documentary about Ursula K. Le Guin on the way.
Kristen Stewart is adapting Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water.
Sharp Objects gets a premiere date.
Beastie Boys announce massive 600-page book.
Clifford the Big Red Dog returning to TV in 2019.
Elisabeth Moss, Michael Stuhlbarg to star in a Shirley Jackson thriller.
Queer Eye fashion expert Tan France to publish memoir.
Steven Spielberg and Leonardo DiCaprio are talking about reteaming for a Ulysses S. Grant biopic, based on the book by Ron Chernow.
Stephen King & Joe Hill’s In the Tall Grass to become a film at Neflix.
Sarah J. Maas to release her first adult fantasy series.
Cover Reveals
Fest your eyes on Sangu Mandanna’s young adult novel, A Spark of White Fire. (Sky Pony Press, September 4)
Here’s the first peek at Tear Me Apart, a new thriller by J.T. Ellison! (MIRA, August 28)
Scholastic rolled out a preview of the new edition of The Tales of Beedle the Bard. (Scholastic, October 9)
And here’s the new Marissa Meyer’s book, Archenemies, the sequel to Renegades. (Feiwel& Friends, November 6)
Sneak Peeks
Here’s the full trailer for The Passage, based on the trilogy by Justin Cronin.
SyFy released the trailers for Nightflyers and Deadly Class.
Book Riot Recommends
At Book Riot, I work on the New Books! email, the All the Books! podcast about new releases, and the Book Riot Insiders New Release Index. I am very fortunate to get to read a lot of upcoming titles, and I’m delighted to share a couple with you each week!
How to Love a Jamaican: Stories by Alexia Arthurs (Ballentine Books, July 24)
The hot short story collection of July! Featuring vibrant, poignant stories about Jamaican immigrants and their families back home, full of love, identity, resentment, and ghosts. This debut has already had its praises sung by Zadie Smith, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Carmen Maria Machado, Naomi Jackson and more!
The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley (MCD, July 17)
A modern retelling of the literary classic Beowulf, set is suburbia. Willa leads a privileged life in a gated community with her husband and her son, Dylan. Dana is a war veteran living in a cave outside town with her son, Gren. When Gren escapes his home and runs off with Dylan, the women living in two very different worlds meet. This is wildly inventive!
What I’m reading this week.
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Dodging and Burning: A Mystery by John Copenhaver
Riddance: Or: The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children by Shelley Jackson
Useful Phrases for Immigrants by May-lee Chai
Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma & Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge by Becky Aikman
Non-book-related recommendation.
If you listen to All the Books, you know that I have a Red Bull addiction, which is bad, because it is terrible for you. I gave it up in January, and have since been drinking tea (yuck) for my caffeine. But last week, I bought a Hi-Ball Organic Energy Drink at the health food store. IT WAS DELICIOUS. I had the Blood Orange, and it tasted like a mimosa without the buzz but with the BZZZZZZZZ! I have found my new caffeine god.
And this is funny.
One of the cutest/most mortifying bookseller misunderstandings ever.
Trivia answer: Percy Bysshe Shelley.