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When Karina Ahmed’s parents go abroad to Bangladesh for four weeks, she expects some peace and quiet. Instead, she gets roped into a fake-dating scheme with her school’s resident bad boy, Ace Clyde. Tutoring him was already crossing a line, but pretending to date him? Out of the question. But Ace does everything right—he brings her coffee in the mornings, impresses her friends without trying, and even promises to buy her a dozen books a week. Though Karina agrees, she can’t help but start counting down the days until her parents come back and things return to normal.
Happy Tuesday, readers! It’s another amazing day in Bookland. There are approximately a zillion new releases out today, give or take a few. And I am so excited for you to read so many of them. Damn it feels good to be a reader! Me, I’m an eeeeeeeeeeeee reader. (Sorry, not sorry.) Why do I make you a megalist each month? Because books are not just my job, they’re my life. They’ve gotten me through many hard times and brought me so much joy, so I like to give you as many options as I can to help you find the books that do that for you, too. (Also, check out this amazing “Books Saved My Life” shirt from Uncle Bobbie’s.)
I did get a chance to read several of today’s books, but there are still soooo many more on this list that I can’t wait to get, like On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed, The Secret Talker by Geling Yan, and Ariadne by Jennifer Saint. And 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 Great Circle, Luck of the Titanic, Sorrowland, and more. Okay—everyone buckled in? Get ready to click your little hearts out, because here come the books! – XO, Liberty
P.S. If you’re not busy tonight, come hear me interview Aidan Truhen about his new book!
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Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard ❤️
Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead ❤️
Last Gate of the Emperor by Prince Joel Dawit Makonnen and Kwame Mbalia
Negative Space (SFWP Literary Awards) by Lilly Dancyger
The Parted Earth by Anjali Enjeti
An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional by Rainesford Stauffer
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
Sacrifice: A Gold Star Widow’s Fight for the Truth by Michelle Black
Billionaires by Darryl Cunningham
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Seven Demons by Aidan Truhen ❤️
Living in Data: A Citizen’s Guide to a Better Information Future by Jer Thorp
Nothing Personal: An Essay by James Baldwin
The Girl Who Died by Ragnar Jonasson
The Hummingbirds’ Gift : Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings by Sy Montgomery
The Glorious Guinness Girls by Emily Hourican
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon ❤️
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard
The Secret Talker by Geling Yan
Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Dürer and How Art Imagines Our World by Philip Hoare
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Luck of the Titanic by Stacey Lee ❤️
Films of Endearment: A Mother, a Son and the 80s Films That Defined Us by Michael Koresky
Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn’t Ours by Sarah Sentilles
Find You First by Linwood Barclay ❤️
Monkey Boy by Francisco Goldman
Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions by Astra Taylor
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
Let’s Talk About Hard Things by Anna Sale
Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry by The Library of Congress, Joy Harjo
My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption by Ian Manuel
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Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery #1) by Mia P. Manansala
Seeing Sideways: A Memoir of Music and Motherhood Part of: American Music by Kristin Hersh ❤️
Mergers and Acquisitions Or, Everything I Know About Love I Learned on the Wedding Pages by Cate Doty
Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter
The Dead Husband by Carter Wilson
Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney
African Europeans: An Untold History by Olivette Otele
The Mysteries by Marisa Silver
The Siren by Katherine St. John
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Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace ❤️
Bad Lawyer: A Memoir of Law and Disorder by Anna Dorn
Sunshine Girl: An Unexpected Life by Julianna Margulies
The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He ❤️
Secrets of Happiness by Joan Silber
The Renunciations: Poems by Donika Kelly
Leda and the Swan by Anna Caritj
Second Place by Rachel Cusk ❤️
A Lonely Man by Chris Power
The Newcomer by Mary Kay Andrews ❤️
Take Me Home Tonight by Morgan Matson
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Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Summer on the Bluffs: A Novel (Oak Bluffs) by Sunny Hostin
When You Get the Chance by Tom Ryan and Robin Stevenson
The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel ❤️
Finding Junie Kim by Ellen Oh
The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel Cleeton
Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy by Larissa Pham
Family Law by Gin Phillips
Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
The Bookshop of Second Chances by Jackie Fraser
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Hurricane Summer by Asha Bromfield
Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey by Erin Entrada Kelly
Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian ❤️
Prom House by Chelsea Mueller
The Black Ghost by Monica Gallagher, Alex Segura, Marco Finnegan
The Woman with the Blue Star by Pam Jenoff
Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
It Had to Be You by Georgia Clark
Everybody: A Book about Freedom by Olivia Laing
Just Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane
Eartha & Kitt: A Daughter’s Love Story in Black and White by Kitt Shapiro with Patricia Levy
Thank you, as always, for joining me each week as I rave about books! I am wishing the best for all of you in whatever situation you find yourself in now. – XO, Liberty