Goodness grape juice, I missed you so much! It was weird not doing the newsletter last week. I resorted to telling my cats all the publishing news. (SPOILER: They didn’t care.) But I’m back, baby, and ready to talk books! I held onto a few things from the week before, because they’re still exciting, and also have new news. So please enjoy this newsletter and please enjoy your upcoming week. And be excellent to each other. – xoxo, Liberty
Sponsored by Under My Skin by Lisa Unger, new from Park Row Books.
Bestselling author Lisa Unger delivers an addictive psychological thriller about a woman on the hunt for her husband’s killer.
What if the nightmares are actually memories? It’s been a year since Poppy’s husband, Jack, was brutally murdered. In the immediate aftermath, Poppy spiraled into an oblivion of grief, disappearing for several days only to turn up ragged and confused.
The case was never solved, and those lost days continue to haunt her. As her vivid nightmares intensify into daily blackouts, she starts to lose track of what is real. But her terrible dreams might hold the key to what really happened to Jack…
Oh, and don’t forget that Book Riot wants to hear about the ins-n-outs of your reading life – come share them with us in our Fall Reader Survey!
Here’s this week’s trivia question: Who is the first author ever to win a Hugo award for Best Novel three years in a row? (Answer at the bottom of the newsletter.)
Deals, Reals, and Squeals!
Brother by David Chariandy is being made into a film.
The First Wives Club is going to be a television series.
The cast has been chosen for Guillermo del Toro’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark adaptation.
Susan Swan’s novel The Biggest Modern Woman of the World is being adapted for television.
Lena Waithe acquires rights to Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid.
Alyssa Cole is writing a SFF romance Audible original.
Avatar: The Last Airbender universe to expand with new novels.
Gillian Flynn drops news of another book.
And Daniel José Older is working on a third Shadowshaper book.
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock is going to be made into a film.
Henry Cavill will star in the Netflix adaptation of The Witcher.
The BBC is developing the classic murder mystery novel The Beast Must Die.
Mrs. Doubtfire (which, believe it or not, was a novel first) is being made into a musical.
Black Sails star Luke Arnold is publishing a fantasy series.
Cover Reveals
YAY YAY YAY! Here’s the first look at Aru Shah and the Song of Death (Pandava Series) by Roshani Chokshi (Rick Riordan Presents, April 16, 2019)
Here’s the first peek at the cover of To Night Owl From Dogfish by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer (Dial Books, February 12, 2019)
Here’s the first look at the cover of Glimmer of Hope, the book the March For Our Lives founders wrote. (Razorbill, October 16)
Sneak Peeks
Here’s Emma Thompson and Stanley Tucci in the trailer for The Children Act, based on the novel by Ian McEwan.
And here’s Cate Blanchett and Jack Black in the trailer for The House with the Clock In Its Walls.
Watch the first teaser trailer for HBO’s adaptation of My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante.
And speaking of HBO, here’s the first trailer for Miss Sherlock.
Here’s the first look at Netflix’s adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.
Here’s a look at the cast of 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 learn about a lot of upcoming titles, and I’m delighted to share a couple with you each week so you can add them to your TBR!
Loved, loved, loved:
As Long as We Both Shall Live by JoAnn Chaney
Ohhhhhhhh, this was just as wonderful as I hoped it would be! I am a HUGE fan of her last novel, What You Don’t Know. This one is about two detectives working hard to prove that a man murdered both his wives. Chaney tells you in the first few pages who is going to die and I STILL got all anxious waiting to find out what happened. That’s great storytelling.
Excited to read:
Quotients by Tracy O’Neill
I actually know nothing about this book except that it exists and is coming out in 2019. In the meantime, I may reread her novel The Hopeful, which is fantastic. You should too.
What I’m reading this week.
The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock: A Novel by Imogen Hermes Gowar
Miracle Submarine: A Novel by Angie Kim
Sorry by Zoran Drvenkar, Shaun Whiteside (Translator)
And this is funny.
Meow, meow meow meow, meooooooow.
Trivia answer: N.K. Jemisin.