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The world just keeps spinning, doesn’t it, Book Friends? Did you have a good weekend? I certainly did. It’s summer now, despite what the calendar might say. You know how I know? Love Island is back on my TV. Will watching Love Island every day all summer affect my reading schedule? Only time will tell. Just know this whole time I’m talking about books, I’m secretly thinking about Love Island. I hope this doesn’t make you think less of me. I have always been honest about who I am. Anyway, here’s the hot book goss.

Book Deals and Reveals

Zoe Hana Mikuta has revealed the cover for her upcoming novel Off With Their Heads, a new fantasy horror Alice in Wonderland retelling. The cover features art from Tran Nguyen and a design from Zareen Johnson. It’s out from Disney Hyperion on April 23, 2024!

A gamer boy and a theater girl fake dating? Yes please! Here’s the cover of Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce. It’s out on January 9, 2024.

Oscar-winning actor Michael Caine has announced his debut novel, Deadly Game, will be published in November.

And here’s the beautiful cover of Splinters, a memoir by Leslie Jamison. The book is out from Little, Brown on February 20, 2024.

SJ Sindu has a new short story collection coming out this October! It’s called The Goth House Experiment, and here’s the cover reveal.

Clarkson’s Farm producer Expectation will be adapting comedian Pope Lonergan’s memoir I’ll Die After Bingo for TV.

Crime Reads has the exclusive cover reveal and an excerpt from the upcoming novel The Graveyard Shift by Maria Lewis. It’s coming in September from Datura Books.

The Biden Administration announced it will be appointing a new anti-book ban coordinator to address the rise in censorship across the country.

Book Riot Recommends

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Prepare Your Shelves!

Little Monsters by Adrienne Brodeur (Avid Reader Press, June 27)

This might seem like hyperbole, but I am being 100% real. Adrienne Brodeur’s 2019 memoir Wild Game is one of the best memoirs I have ever read. And so yes, when I found out she had a new novel coming out, I was really, really excited. Well, friends, it lives up to the hype. I’m so excited that this book will soon be out in the world for everyone to read, so prepare your shelves now!

Set in the summer of 2016, Little Monsters is a family saga that follows the story of the Gardners. Ken and Abby lost their mother when they were young and have been haunted by the loss of her ever since. The siblings were raised by their brilliant oceanographer father, Adam, in a remote home on Cape Cod. Now that they’re older, their relationships with their father are complicated and strained, to say the least.

As Adam nears his 70th birthday, he decides to stop taking his bipolar medication in the hopes of making one last scientific discovery before his death. Adam chooses to keep this decision a secret, but he’s not the only member of his family who’s hiding something.

Little Monsters is a beautifully told story full of imagination and heart. Just like with her memoir, Brodeur tackles complicated family dynamics with nuance and compassion. This is the perfect summer book for readers who want something a bit meatier to dig into this season. It’s one you won’t forget.