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First Tuesday of April Megalist!

Happy Tuesday, star bits. Guess what??? I saw my first woodchuck of the season this weekend! And if you think I didn’t whip my shirt off like Brandi Chastain and cheer in my living room when I saw it, you would be wrong. Moving on: It’s an amazing book day! If I had to choose one book to tell you about today, it would be The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade. It’s an incredible multigenerational dysfunctional family saga set in New Mexico, and it is big and substantial and delicious. I could have easily read another 400 pages.

I did also read and love several more of today’s books, but there are still soooo many more on this list that I can’t wait to read, like Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian, Paradise, Nevada by Dario Diofebi, Poison Priestess by Lana Popovic, and Blow Your House Down by Gina Frangello.

As with each first Tuesday megalist, I am putting a ❤️ next to the books that I have had the chance to read and loved. You can also hear about several new releases on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Danika and I discussed The Five Wounds, Zara Hossain Is Here, Caul Baby, and more. Okay—everyone buckled in? Get ready to click your little hearts out, because here come the books! – XO, Liberty

The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade ❤️

Allegorizings by Jan Morris

Zara Hossain Is Here by Sabina Khan

Crowe’s Requiem by Mike McCormack

The Madman’s Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History by Edward Brooke-Hitching

The Night Always Comes by Willy Vlautin ❤️

An Indian among Los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir by Ursula Pike 

Caul Baby by Morgan Jerkins ❤️

Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian

My Good Son by Yang Huang

Pride and Premeditation by Tirzah Price ❤️

The Outdoor Scientist: The Wonder of Observing the Natural World by Temple Grandin, Ph.D.

The Bookstore on the Beach by Brenda Novak

Aru Shah and the City of Gold (Pandava Quartet) by Roshani Chokshi ❤️

Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney 

Merci Suárez Can’t Dance by Meg Medina

Aven Green Sleuthing Machine (Volume 1) by Dusti Bowling ❤️

Whisper Down the Lane: A Novel by Clay McLeod Chapman

First, Become Ashes by K.M. Szpara

Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson ❤️

The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything by Michio Kaku 

Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter’s Story by Mazie K. Hirono 

The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon

The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes by Xio Axelro

Zoe Rosenthal Is Not Lawful Good by Nancy Werlin

Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer ❤️

Tower of Babel by Michael Sears

Getting It in the Head: Stories by Mike McCormack

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos by Judy Batalion

Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi ❤️

Your Mama by NoNieqa Ramos and Jacqueline Alcántara

Maxwell’s Demon by Steven Hall ❤️

The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano: A Novel by Donna Freita

Face: One Square Foot of Skin by Justine Bateman

Cruella: Hello, Cruel Heart by Maureen Johnson ❤️

An Apprenticeship, or The Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector, Stefan Tobler (translator)

The Elephant of Belfast: A Novel by S. Kirk Walsh

Broken Horses: A Memoir by Brandi Carlile

Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour by Rickie Lee Jones

Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet by Laekan Zea Kemp

A River Called Time by Courttia Newland

The Bohemians by Jasmin Darznik

Girl Warriors: How 25 Young Activists Are Saving the Earth by Rachel Sarah

The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II by Madeline Martin  

Lucky by Marissa Stapley

My Broken Language: A Memoir by Quiara Alegría Hudes 

Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance by Syan Rose

The Cost of Knowing by Brittney Morris 

A Better Life: Poems by Randall Mann

Paradise, Nevada by Dario Diofebi

Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975 by Richard Thompson

The Duke Undone by Joanna Lowell

The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner 

Mother May I: A Novel by Joshilyn Jackson

I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust : A Memoir of Autism and Hope by Valerie Gilpeer and Emily Grodin

We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy by Natalie Baszile

From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo

I’m Waiting for You: And Other Stories by Bo-Young Kim

The Infinity Courts by Akemi Dawn Bowman

First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel (translator)

Leonora in the Morning Light by Michaela Carter

Between the Bliss and Me by Lizzy Mason 

Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason by Gina Frangello

Poison Priestess (Lady Slayers) by Lana Popovic

First Responder: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Love on New York City’s Frontlines by Jennifer Murph