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Hey there, book nerds! Happy September! I hope your week so far is great, and that you’re reading something excellent. I’m excited for all the new books hitting shelves this month, but a little concerned about my ability to actually read them all. I’m ever the optimist, though!
I’ve got tons of news and excitement, and some new book love below! Here we go!
Trivia question: In what year was the first New York Review of Books published?
Deals and Squeals
I am so thrilled to see Amazon is adapting Kacen Callender’s Felix Ever After into a TV series.
I forgot to mention it earlier this week, but John Green’s next book is coming next year and it’s a work of nonfiction!
Nic Cage is voicing the dragon in the adaptation of Eoin Colfer’s High Fire.
In the category of “awwwwww” Channing Tatum has written a picture book! The One and Only Sparkella will be out next May.
The next LibrariesTransform pick has been chosen!
The Three-Body Problem is being adapted into a Netflix TV series by the same duo who brought Game of Thrones to the small screen.
Emma Roberts has signed a deal with Hulu to adapt books for the streaming service, and her first pick is Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering.
Alyssa Cole talks with the New York Times about her switch from romance to the thriller genre.
Riot Recommendations
At Book Riot, I’m a cohost with Liberty on All the Books!, plus I write a handful of newsletters including the weekly Read This Book newsletter, cohost the Insiders Read Harder podcast, and write content for the site. I’m always drowning in books, so here’s what’s on my radar this week!
Want to read: When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
I just got my copy of Alyssa Cole’s new thriller earlier this week and I am so excited to dive in! When Jamie, our resident mystery expert and Unusual Suspects newsletter writer, says it’s one of the best mystery/thrillers she’s read all year, I pay attention! This is the story of Sydney, a Black woman who lives in Brooklyn and is mad when a local history tour guide offers tours of her neighborhood, but doesn’t acknowledge the contributions of its Black residents. She offers her own counter-tours, and even takes on a research assistant in Theo, a white man, but when she begins noticing that her Black neighbors aren’t just moving to the suburbs, but disappearing, they are on to a chilling case.
Books I’ve Acquired This Week:
Transcendant Kingdom by Yan Gyasi
Premeditated Myrtle by Elizabeth C. Bunce (I love Bunce’s YA novels, and this middle grade book looks so fun!)
A Rogue of One’s Own by Evie Dunmore
Trivia answer: 1963
That’s it for me, book nerds! I leave you with this photo of a sticker that reads “Let’s Taco Bout Books,” which delights me to no end. Do you collect bookish stickers or other swag? You can buy this one here.
Happy reading!
Tirzah