Hello, my friends. Another amazing book-filled Tuesday is here to topple our TBRs! I hope you had a chance to get some reading in over the weekend. I read a lot of upcoming comics, mostly collected issues in trade form. My brain was delighted. As for today’s books, at the top of my list of books to buy are The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn, The Storyteller’s Death by Ann Dávila Cardinal, and By the Time You Read This I’ll Be Gone (Murder, She Wrote #1) by Stephanie Kuehn. I haven’t read any of the Murder, She Wrote tie-ins for adults, but for some reason, I am really excited about this YA novel!
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 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 Our Missing Hearts, A Scatter of Light, Such Sharp Teeth, and more.
Biography and Memoir
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The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
David Smith: The Art and Life of a Transformational Sculptor by Michael Brenson
You Are Home by Catana Chetwynd
The Family Outing: A Memoir by Jessi Hempel***
I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton (American Music Series) by Lynn Melnick
Mirror in the Sky: The Life and Music of Stevie Nicks by Simon Morrison
Token Black Girl: A Memoir by Danielle Prescod
When They Tell You To Be Good: A Memoir by Prince Shakur***
Making a Scene by Constance Wu***
Fiction
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Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng***
The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern by Rita Zoey Chin***
The Storyteller’s Death by Ann Dávila Cardinal
Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese
A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt***
A Place to Land by Lauren K. Denton
The Invincible Miss Cust by Penny Haw
Life Is Everywhere by Lucy Ives
The White Hare by Jane Johnson
Billie Starr’s Book of Sorries by Deborah E. Kennedy
The Night Ship by Jess Kidd
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The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken***
Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyamada, David Boyd (translator)
Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk, Ekin Oklap (translator)
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
Blood Red by Gabriela Ponce, Sarah Booker (translator)
It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories (Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize) by Ramona Reeves
Utopia by Heidi Sopinka
Bilbao–New York–Bilbao (Spatial Species) by Kirmen Uribe, Elizabeth Macklin (translator)
Which Side Are You On by Ryan Lee Wong***
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History
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild
Middle Grade
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Sisterhood of Sleuths by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
The Antiracist Kid: A Book About Identity, Justice, and Activism by Tiffany Jewell and Nicole Miles
A Rover’s Story by Jasmine Warga
Mystery and Thriller
Jackal by Erin E. Adams***
Blackmail and Bibingka (A Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery) by Mia P. Manansala
The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra Benedict
Book of Knives by Lise Haines
The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James
Cocoon by Zhang Yueran, Jeremy Tiang (translator)
Nonfiction
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Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions by Francesca T. Royster
Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way by Kieran Setiya
Cooking from the Spirit: Easy, Delicious, and Joyful Plant-Based Inspirations by Tabitha Brown
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America by Cody Keenan
A Lovely Girl: The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of One of California’s Most Notorious Killers by Deborah Holt Larkin
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen
Romance
When Life Gives You Vampires by Gloria Duke
Just Like Magic by Sarah Hogle
Bad Girl Reputation by Elle Kennedy
Once Upon a December by Amy E. Reichert
Sci-fi, Fantasy, and Horror
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Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison***
Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry by David Ly and Daniel Zomparelli
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror edited by Joe Vallese
Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty
The Witch In The Well by Camilla Bruce
Freeway: La Movie by Jorge Enrique Lage, Lourdes Molina (translator)
A Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson***
The Revivalists by Christopher M. Hood
All These Subtle Deceits (Black Wells Book 1) by C. S. Humble
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The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
It Rides a Pale Horse by Andy Marino
Curse of the Reaper by Brian McAuley
Dark Carnivals: Modern Horror and the Origins of American Empire by W. Scott Poole***
Kalyna the Soothsayer by Elijah Kinch Spector
Lute by Jennifer Thorne
Young Adult
A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo
Anne of Greenville by Mariko Tamaki
The Empress of Time (The Keeper of Night, Book 2) by Kylie Lee Baker
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By the Time You Read This I’ll Be Gone (Murder, She Wrote #1) by Stephanie Kuehn
The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera
After Dark with Roxie Clark by Brooke Lauren Davis
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This week: I’m currently reading Laid-Back Camp by Afro (thank you, Danika), The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi, and Witch King by Martha Wells. Outside of books, I have been rewatching the first season of Abbott Elementary for like the third time, and I started Home Economics as well. (And I am waiting for all of Bad Sisters to go up before I start it.) The song stuck in my head is “Goodbye Horses” by Q Lazzarus. (I am sorry to hear that she passed away a few months ago.) And of course, there’s a cat photo: When I see the cats show off all their teeth like this when they yawn, I am glad they are small-ish and (mostly) on my side.
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 ❤️