Hello, star bits! I hope you got lots of rest last night, because you’re going to use all your energy spending the rest of the day looking at all the titles out today! At the top of my list of books to buy are Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley (surprise, surprise), What We Fed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri, and Plagues and Pencils: A Year of Pandemic Sketches by Edward Carey. This is shaping up to be my busiest month yet, with events and work meetings, so I hope I can find time to read them!
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 asterisks *** 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 Killers of a Certain Age, The Weight of Blood, Year of the Tiger, and more.
Biography and Memoir
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Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life by Alice Wong
Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley
Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora
On the Ledge: A Memoir by Amy Turner
They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl’s Fight for Freedom by Ahed Tamimi, Dena Takruri
All the Women in My Brain: And Other Concerns by Betty Gilpin
Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York by Ron Goldberg
A Visible Man: A Memoir by Edward Enninful
Fiction
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The Two Lives of Sara by Catherine Adel West ***
The Bad Angel Brothers by Paul Theroux
On the Rooftop by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton ***
Sacrificio by Ernesto Mestre-Reed
Ithaca by Claire North
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell***
Book of Extraordinary Tragedies by Joe Meno
What We Fed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
The Attic Child by Lola Jaye
No Windmills in Basra by Diaa Jubaili, Chip Rossetti (translator)
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The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh ***
The Unfolding by A.M. Homes
The Most Likely Club by Elyssa Friedland
The Means by Amy Fusselman
Unleashed by Cai Emmons
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery***
The Family Izquierdo by Rubén Degollado***
The Deceptions by Jill Bialosky
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History
American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America’s Jack the Ripper by Daniel Stashower
The Red Widow: The Scandal that Shook Paris and the Woman Behind it All by Sarah Horowitz
Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power by Eleanor Herman
Middle Grade
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The Curse on Spectacle Key by Chantel Acevedo
1-2-3-4, I Declare a Thumb War by Lisi Harrison and Daniel Kraus
Lotus Bloom and the Afro Revolution by Sherri Winston
Eden’s Everdark by Karen Strong
A Pocket Full of Posies by Shawn Sarles
Attack of the Black Rectangles by A. S. King***
What We Saw by Mary Downing Hahn
My Buddy, Killer Croc by Sara Farizan and Nicoletta Baldari
Sweet and Sour by Debbi Michiko Florence
The Replacement by Lindsey Duga
Shot Clock by Caron Butler and Justin A. Reynolds
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Moonflower by Kacen Callender
Mystery and Thriller
Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn***
Back to the Garden by Laurie R. King
Nonfiction
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher
Plagues and Pencils: A Year of Pandemic Sketches by Edward Carey***
Romance
The Decoy Girlfriend by Lillie Vale
Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match by Sally Thorne
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The Holiday Trap by Roan Parrish
Lizzie Blake’s Best Mistake by Mazey Eddings
The American Roommate Experiment by Elena Armas
Sci-fi, Fantasy, and Horror
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes by Eric LaRocca***
Fairy Tale by Stephen King
Young Adult
The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology) by Aiden Thomas***
Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories by Yamile Saied Méndez (Editor), Amparo Ortiz (Editor), Ricardo López Ortiz (Illustrator)
Daughters of the Dawn by Sasha Nanua and Sarena Nanua
Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix (Remixed Classics, 5) by Anna-Marie McLemore***
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Destination Unknown by Bill Konigsberg
Meet Me in Mumbai by Sabina Khan
The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson***
Monsters Born and Made by Tanvi Berwah
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This week: I’m currently reading The God of Endings by Jacqueline Holland, Cat + Gamer Volume 2 by Wataru Nadatani, and Community Board by Tara Conklin. Outside of books, I’m back to watching Over the Garden Wall again (over and over and over) while I do data entry. And the song stuck in my head is this amazing cover of Cher’s “Believe” by Lucy Dacus. (She is the best. THE. BEST.) And because it was Ginger Cat Appreciation Day lately, here’s a throwback to my orange monsters when they were just wee monsters.
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 ❤️