Greetings and salutations, Tuesday friends! I hope you were able to enjoy your weekend and get some reading done. I don’t know what switch has flipped in my brain, maybe it’s the warmer weather, but I am extra-excited to read these days. I spent almost the whole weekend with my nose in a book, and I was able to read a couple wonderful things that you’ll be hearing me talk about a whole bunch in the future!
Now, today’s books: I do these first Tuesday megalists because the first Tuesday of each month has so many new releases, and it’s fun to round some of them up. Below, you’ll find titles (loosely) broken up into several categories, to make it easier for your browsing convenience. I hope you have fun with it! And as with each first Tuesday newsletter, I am putting a ❤️ next to the books that I have had the chance to read and loved.
And speaking of today’s great books, for this week’s episode of All the Books! Danika and I discussed some of the wonderful books that we’ve read, such as Book of Night, I Kissed Shara Wheeler, Trust, and more. And thank you to everyone who has sent us all the adorable pet pictures. 😘
Biography and Memoir
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Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays by Minnie Driver
The Year of the Horses: A Memoir by Courtney Maum ❤️
My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist’s Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole by Will Jawando
Fiction
Trust by Hernan Diaz ❤️
The Change by Kirsten Miller ❤️
Circa by Devi S. Laskar
Here Goes Nothing by Steve Toltz
The Stand-In by Lily Chu
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Poguemahone by Patrick McCabe
Companion Piece by Ali Smith
Vigil Harbor by Julia Glass
The Book Woman’s Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson
Mother Country by Jacinda Townsend
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett and David Boyd (translators)
The Other Mother by Rachel M. Harper
Our Little World by Karen Winn
Acts of Service by Lillian Fishman
We Do What We Do in the Dark by Michelle Hart ❤️
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Little Rabbit by Alyssa Songsiridej
One Day I Shall Astonish the World by Nina Stibbe
The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara ❤️
Patience Is a Subtle Thief by Abi Ishola-Ayodeji
Homesickness by Colin Barrett
Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance by John Waters
Middle Grade
Freddie vs. The Family Curse by Tracy Badua
Seed by Caryl Lewis
Monsters in the Mist by Juliana Brandt
The Prince of Nowhere by Rochelle Hassan
Mystery and Thriller
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The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray
Magpie by Elizabeth Day
Breathless by Amy McCulloch
The Devil Himself by Peter Farris
Nonfiction
Seen and Unseen: Technology, Social Media, and the Fight for Racial Justice by Marc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster
The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings by Geoff Dyer
Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles
The Hawk’s Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty by Sy Montgomery
This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music edited by Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson
The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold by Sam Knight
Poetry
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Inheritance: A Visual Poem by Elizabeth Acevedo and Andrea Pippins
Plans for Sentences by Renee Gladman
Line and Light: Poems by Jeffrey Yang
Romance
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Queerly Beloved by Susie Dumond ❤️
Chef’s Kiss by T.J. Alexander
By the Book by Jasmine Guillory
Never Been Kissed by Timothy Janovsky
Sci-fi, Fantasy, and Horror
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Book of Night by Holly Black ❤️
When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
Seasonal Fears (Alchemical Journeys Book 2) by Seanan McGuire
Elektra by Jennifer Saint
The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas ❤️
Young Adult
The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton
The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson
If You Change Your Mind by Robby Weber
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I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston
Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado
When You Call My Name by Tucker Shaw
Ballad & Dagger by Daniel José Older
Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl by Joya Goffney
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This week: I’m currently reading All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews and The Lifestyle by Taylor Hahn. Outside of books, I started watching Slow Horses and I like it a lot, and the song stuck in my head is Queen of Cans and Jars by Guided by Voices. And here’s a cat picture: Look at these two orange creepers.
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. And yay, books! – XO, Liberty ❤️