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Happy Tuesday, readers! There are so many great books out today, it’s almost embarrassing. June is showing off, that’s for sure. I’m so glad I started doing these megalists on the first Tuesday of each month, because it’s so hard for me to narrow down my choices. You know how I hate to make decisions! It’s an absolutely gorgeous morning in Maine as I sit here typing this. As soon as I am done, I am going to go outside and read a book. I’ve just started The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris and I’m looking forward to getting back to it. I hope you all have wonderful weather and wonderful reads where you are, too. ❤️
Now, for today’s bonanza of books: I did get a chance to read several of them, but there are still soooo many more on this list that I can’t wait to check out, like The Portrait of a Mirror by A. Natasha Joukovsky, Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon (always excited for a Magnetic Fields reference), and Rememberings: Scenes from My Complicated Life by Sinéad O’Connor. 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 One Last Stop, Somebody’s Daughter, Bewilderness, and more. Okay—everyone buckled in? Get ready to click your little hearts out, because here come the books! – XO, Liberty
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One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston ❤️
Hollow by B. Catling
Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books by Jess McHugh
A Lowcountry Bride by Preslaysa Williams
A Study in Crimson: Sherlock Holmes 1942 by Robert J. Harris
We Are Inevitable by Gayle Forman
Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind by Sue Black
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martínez
Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford ❤️
The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage by Sasha Issenberg
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Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon
Las Biuty Queens: Stories by Iván Monalisa Ojeda, Hannah Kauders (translator) ❤️
The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu
There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness by M. Leona Godin
Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams ❤️
Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice by Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid ❤️
House of Sticks: A Memoir by Ly Tran
Double Blind by Edward St Aubyn
Sunny Song Will Never Be Famous by Suzanne Park ❤️
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A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions by Sheena Boekweg
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin ❤️
The Shape of Darkness by Laura Purcell
Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand
A Chorus Rises (A Song Below Water) by Bethany C. Morrow ❤️
Pure Flame: A Legacy by Michelle Orange
The (Un)Popular Vote by Jasper Sanchez
The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin ❤️
The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons
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With Teeth: A Novel by Kristen Arnett ❤️
Catch the Rabbit by Lana Bastašic
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa ❤️
The Ship of Stolen Words by Fran Wilde
An Emotion of Great Delight by Tahereh Mafi
The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease by Daisy Hernández ❤️
Sisters of the Neversea by Cynthia L. Smith
Future Feeling by Joss Lake ❤️
Field Study by Chet’la Sebree
Girl One by Sara Flannery Murphy ❤️
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Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories by Nana Nkweti
The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag ❤️
Rememberings: Scenes from My Complicated Life by Sinéad O’Connor
Simone Breaks All the Rules by Debbie Rigaud
The Ninth Metal (The Comet Cycle) by Benjamin Percy ❤️
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith III
Trouble Girls by Julia Lynn Rubin ❤️
The Fires of Philadelphia: Citizen-Soldiers, Nativists, and the 1844 Riots Over the Soul of a Nation by Zachary M. Schrag
Buy Me Love by Martha Cooley
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Dead Dead Girls (A Harlem Renaissance Mystery) by Nekesa Afia ❤️
The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture by Grace Perry
Bewilderness by Karen Tucker ❤️
The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol Anderson
The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo ❤️
Anne of Manhattan by Brina Starler
Jay’s Gay Agenda by Jason June ❤️
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization by Edward Slingerland
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Ace Of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé ❤️
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Shoko’s Smile: Stories by Choi Eunyoung, Sung Ryu (translator)
The Portrait of a Mirror: A Novel by A. Natasha Joukovsky
The Ghosts We Keep by Mason Deaver
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