Happy Tuesday, book lovers!!! It’s time for me to put more books into your brain. (It’s painless, I promise.) I have been on another great reading streak. I read the new Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile, which was great, of course. And I loved My Murder by Katie Williams and Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto, too! YAY, BOOKS! They’re the best.
Today I am doing a round-up several exciting titles from the whole month of December, because there aren’t a lot of new releases compared to other months. But this means I will do some other fun round-ups the rest of the month, which is one of my favorite things to do! 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 The Light Pirate, A Dash of Salt and Pepper, Cursed Bunny, and more.
Biography and Memoir
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Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D’ by Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
Jan Morris: Life From Both Sides by Paul Clements
The Earl and the Pharaoh : From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun by The Countess of Carnarvon
Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul by Evette Dionne
The McCartney Legacy: Volume 1: 1969 – 73 by Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair
Fiction
The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton***
The Splendid Ticket by Bill Cotter
That Dangerous Energy by Aya de León
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How to Turn Into a Bird by María José Ferrada, Elizabeth Bryer (translator)
The Lipstick Bureau: A Novel Inspired by True WWII Events by Michelle Gable
My Soul Twin by Nino Haratischvili, Charlotte Collins (translator)
At Certain Points We Touch by Lauren John Joseph
The Book of Everlasting Things by Aanchal Malhotra
Scatterlings by Resoketswe Martha Manenzhe
Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
The Bird Tattoo by Dunya Mikhail
The Circus Train by Amita Parikh
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Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion by Bushra Rehman
A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley
Things We Found When the Water Went Down by Tegan Nia Swanson
History
The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England’s Most Famous Dynasty by Sarah Gristwood
How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the 19th-Century Innovators Who Forged Our Future by Iwan Rhys Morus
Middle Grade
Ode to a Nobody by Caroline Brooks DuBois
Mystery and Thriller
Little Red House by Liv Andersson
Grime by Sibylle Berg, Tim Mohr (translator)
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Vinyl Resting Place by Olivia Blacke
Someone Had to Do It by Amber and Danielle Brown
My Darkest Prayer by S. A. Cosby***
The Opportunist by Elyse Friedman
A Mother Would Know by Amber Garza
We Knew All Along by Mina Hardy
A Death in Tokyo by Keigo Higashino, Giles Murray (translator)
The Last Invitation by Darby Kane
The Widowmaker by Hannah Morrissey
Nonfiction
Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains by Bethany Brookshire
The Sugar Jar: Create Boundaries, Embrace Self-Healing, and Enjoy the Sweet Things in Life by Yasmine Cheyenne
Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers by Erica Hannickel
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How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler
Hatching: Experiments in Motherhood and Technology by Jenni Quilter
Young Bloomsbury: The Generation That Redefined Love, Freedom, and Self-Expression in 1920s England by Nino Strachey
Bring It On: The Complete Story of the Cheerleading Movie That Changed, Like, Everything (No, Seriously) by Kase Wickman
Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace by Eris Young
Poetry
To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness by Robin Coste Lewis
Grocery Shopping with My Mother by Kevin Powell
This Afterlife: Selected Poems by A. E. Stallings
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World by Pádraig Ó. Tuama
Romance
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In It to Win It by Sharon C. Cooper
Well Traveled by Jen DeLuca
Witcha Gonna Do? by Avery Flynn
The Valentine’s Hate by Sidney Halston
A Dash of Salt and Pepper by Kosoko Jackson
Never Cross a Highlander by Lisa Rayne
Sci-fi, Fantasy, and Horror
Cursed Bunny: Stories by Bora Chung, Anton Hur (translator)***
Where it Rains in Color by Denise Crittendon
The Lost Witch by Paige Crutcher
A History of Fear by Luke Dumas***
Festival by Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon, Peter Bergting (Illustrator)
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The Tatami Galaxy by Tomihiko Morimi, Emily Balistrieri (Translator)
A Fire Endless (Elements of Cadence, 2) by Rebecca Ross
Queen of Myth and Monsters (Adrian X Isolde, 2) by Scarlett St. Clair
A Fractured Infinity by Nathan Tavares
Young Adult
No Accident by Laura Bates
A Million to One by Adiba Jaigirdar
Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson***
Unfamiliar by Haley Newsome***
The Poison Season by Mara Rutherford
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This week: I’m currently reading Goodbye Earl: A Revenge Novel by Leesa Cross-Smith and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s by Kier-La Janisse and Paul Corupe. (I have many layers, lol.) Outside of books, I have been rewatching a lot of Christmas movies, like Elf and Die Hard (yes, Die Hard) while I do work. The song stuck in my head is “Die Young” by Sylvan Esso. And of course, there’s a cat photo: Farrokh is doing his toe touches to stay in shape.
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 ❤️