IT’S HERE. Today is the biggest new book day of 2018…so far. (There’s usually another really big one in the fall.) There are sooooo many great books out today. It’s a perfect way to head into summer reading!
You can hear about several of today’s new books on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about a few amazing books we loved, including There There, Visible Empire, Small Country, and more.
Sponsored by Visible Empire by Hannah Pittard
Visible Empire is an epic novel—based on true events—of love, grief, race, and wealth, charting a single sweltering summer in Atlanta, and a plane crash that left no one unchanged.
“Hannah Pittard is fast becoming one of the best writers of her generation. Read her now, and thank me later.”—Tom Franklin, author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
“Visible Empire is Hannah Pittard’s best book to date. Compelling, shocking, strong and brave. Who should read this? Everyone, everyone.”—Helen Ellis, author of American Housewife
(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!)
PS – Don’t forget we’re giving away $500 to the bookstore of your choice! Enter here by June 21st!
Florida by Lauren Groff
Visible Empire by Hannah Pittard
Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. Fieseler
Little Do We Know by Tamara Ireland Stone
Invisible Ghosts by Robyn Schneider
Kudos: A Novel (Outline Trilogy) by Rachel Cusk
The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
Mariam Sharma Hits the Road by Sheba Karim
Bruce Lee: A Life by Matthew Polly
Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse by Andrea Di Robilant
A People’s History of the Vampire Uprising by Raymond A. Villareal
Mother American Night: My Life in Crazy Times by John Perry Barlow and Robert Greenfield
Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power by Claudia Renton
Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime by Ron Stallworth
Take You Wherever You Go by Kenny Leon
We Are Gathered by Jamie Weisman
Santa Cruz Noir (Akashic Noir Series) by Susie Bright
Ghostbuster’s Daughter: Life with My Dad, Harold Ramis by Violet Ramis Stiel
Rivers by Martin Michael Driessen, Jon Reeder (Translator)
The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution by Ann Travers
Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl
Free Chocolate by Amber Royer
The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
The Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir by Yrsa Daley-Ward
Smoke in the Sun by Renée Ahdieh
Here Kitty Kitty by Jardine Libaire
Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity by Arlene Stein
Queen for a Day by Maxine Rosaler
The Good Son: A Novel by You-Jeong Jeong
The Book of M by Peng Shepard
A Blood Thing by James Hankins
Rough Animals: A Novel by Rae DelBianco
Black Panther: Long Live the King (Marvel Premiere Graphic Novel) by Nnedi Okorafor and Andre Araujo
The Cardboard Kingdom by Chad Sell
The Optickal Illusion: A Novel by Rachel Halliburton
Fat Girl on a Plane by Kelly deVos
Always Forever Maybe by Anica Mrose Rissi
What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson
Lagos Noir (Akashic Noir Series) by Chris Abani
Small Country: A Novel by Gaël Faye
Upstate: A Novel by James Wood
How We Roll by Natasha Friend
What Happened That Night by Sandra Block
Brother in Ice by Alicia Kopf (Author), Mara Faye Lethem (Translator)
A Mask of Shadows: A Novel (A Frey & McGray Mystery) by Oscar de Muriel
Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God: Poems by Tony Hoagland
Side by Side: A Novel of Bonnie and Clyde by Jenni L. Walsh
Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living by Karen Auvinen
Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded by Jason Heller
Save the Date by Morgan Matson
Lincoln’s Last Trial: The Murder Case that Propelled Him to the Presidency by Dan Abrams and David Fisher
Days of Awe by A.M. Homes
Plum Rains by Andromeda Romano-Lax
The Devil’s Half Mile by Paddy Hirsch
Heartseeker by Melinda Beatty
The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon by Chris Feliciano Arnold
Southernmost by Silas House
The Captives: A Novel by Debra Jo Immergut
Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder by Lincoln Michel (Editor), Nadxieli Nieto (Editor)
Cancerland: A Medical Memoir by MD David T. Scadden and Michael D’Antonio
Tonight I’m Someone Else: Essays by Chelsea Hodson
Sweet and Low: Stories by Nick White
Us Against You: A Novel (Beartown) by Fredrik Backman
Sex and the City and Us: How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live, and Love by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Sweet Black Waves by Kristina Pérez
Invitation to a Bonfire by Adrienne Celt
Dear Rachel Maddow by Adrienne Kisner
Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour
How Hitler Was Made: Germany and the Rise of the Perfect Nazi by Cory Taylor
Bruja Born (Brooklyn Brujas) by Zoradia Cordova
The Bird and the Blade by Megan Bannen
Dreams of Falling by Karen White
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal: A Novel by Dorthe Nors
When Life Gives You Lululemons by Lauren Weisberger
There There by Tommy Orange
The Last Lobster: Boom or Bust for Maine’s Greatest Fishery? by Christopher White
Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival by Kelly Sundberg
Into that Good Night: A Novel by Levis Keltner
Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson
Somebody I Used to Know: A Memoir by Wendy Mitchell
Social Intercourse by Greg Howard
My Girls: A Lifetime with Carrie and Debbie by Todd Fisher
Whisper of the Tide by Sarah Tolcser
Social Creature by Tara Isabella Burton
Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration by Alfredo Corchado
Something in the Water: A Novel by Catherine Steadman
One Day You’ll Thank Me: Lessons From an Unexpected Fatherhood by David McGlynn
The Maw: A Novel by Taylor Zajonc
São Paulo Noir (Akashic Noir Series) by Tony Bellotto
Treeborne by Caleb Johnson
Brief Cases (Dresden Files) by Jim Butcher
Still Lives: A Novel by Maria Hummel
Half Gods by Akil Kumarasamy
Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous by Christopher Bonanos
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
The Lost Family by Jenna Blum
How Hard Can It Be by Alliosn Pearson
North American Stadiums by Grady Chambers
The Answers by Catherine Lacey (paperback)
Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy (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