Hello, my friends! I hope your March is off to a fabulous start. I have been tossing as many books into my brain as I can the last couple of weeks. There are so many good ones coming out, I wish I could read several at the same time! I’m really into horror right now, particularly vampires, so I can’t wait to get my hands on Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk. Danika talked about it on this week’s episode of All the Books! and it sounds amazing. I also predict an Anne Rice marathon in my future, because something about winter makes me want to read vampire novels. I don’t know why!
At the top of my list of books to acquire today are The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft, Ellipses by Vanessa Lawrence, and, of course, Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk. And on this week’s episode of All the Books!, Danika and I talked about great books we loved that are out this week, including The Hunter, Thunder Song, and The Great Divide!
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Today, I am doing a round-up of several exciting books from the first Tuesday of March 2024. 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. YAY, BOOKS!
Biography and Memoir
Thunder Song: Essays by Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe***
Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths About Disability by Melissa Blake
Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin by Andre Dubus III
Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls
Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History by Margaret Juhae Lee
Here After: A Memoir by Amy Lin
Me vs. Brain: An Overthinker’s Guide to Life by Hayley Morris
The Translator’s Daughter by Grace Loh Prasad
The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir by Rupaul
Fiction
The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez***
The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft
Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk, Heather Cleary (translator)
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange***
American Spirits by Russell Banks
The Woman in the Sable Coat by Elizabeth Brooks
The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan
The Tower by Flora Carr
Maktub: An Inspirational Companion to The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Margaret Jull Costa (translator)
Say Hello to My Little Friend by Jennine Capó Crucet
Island Rule: Stories by Katie M. Flynn
The Last Verse by Caroline Frost
Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez***
The Invisible Hotel by Yeji Y. Ham
Ellipses by Vanessa Lawrence
Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon
Pelican Girls by Julia Malye by Hayley Morris
Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
My Heavenly Favorite by Lucas Rijneveld, Michele Hutchison
Never Been Better by Leanne Toshiko Simpson
Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman
Women of Good Fortune by Sophie Wan
But the Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu
Middle Grade and Picture Books
Luigi, the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten by Michelle Knudsen and Kevin Hawkes***
Bunny Should Be Sleeping by Amy Hest and Renata Liwska***
Ferris by Kate DiCamillo
Mystery and Thriller
The Hunter by Tana French***
Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice (The Finlay Donovan Series, 4) by Elle Cosimano
What Grows in the Dark by Jaq Evans
Finding Sophie by Imran Mahmood
Murder Road by Simone St. James
Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera***
The New Couple in 5B by Lisa Unger
Nonfiction
What the Bees See: A Honeybee’s Eye View of the World by Craig P. Burrows by Eliza Barry Callahan
The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice by Alex Hortis
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le
Make Your Own Magic: A Beginner’s Guide to Self-Empowering Witchcraft by Amanda Lovelace
Silver: Poems by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Imagine Freedom: Transforming Pain into Political and Spiritual Power by Rahiel Tesfamariam
Romance
This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan
Lady Charlotte Always Gets Her Man by Violet Marsh
Some Kind of Perfect by Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie
Take Two, Birdie Maxwell by Allison Winn Scotch
Sci-fi and Fantasy
The Meister of Decimen City by Brenna Raney
Three Kinds of Lucky (The Shadow Age) by Kim Harrison
The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste
The Truth of the Aleke (The Forever Desert, 2) by Moses Ose Utomi
Big Time by Ben H. Winters
Young Adult
The Baker and the Bard by Fern Haught
The Prisoner’s Throne (The Stolen Heir) by Holly Black
The Encanto’s Daughter by Melissa de la Cruz
Clever Creatures of the Night by Samantha Mabry
Promchanted by Morgan Matson
The No-Girlfriend Rule by Christen Randall
One Last Breath by Ginny Myers Sain
This week: I’m currently reading Linghun by Ai Jiang and Mother Doll by Katya Apekina. We are a third of the way into the third season of Slow Horses. It continues to be excellent! I will be sad when we finish and have to wait for the fourth season. And the song stuck in my head right now is “Formula One Racing Girls” by Helen Love. And here’s a cat photo: Farrokh says, “Do not speak to me, human, until you are ready to give me food.”
That’s it for me today, friends. I am sending you love and good wishes for whatever is happening in your life right now. Thank you, as always, for joining me each week as I rave about books! See you next week. – XO, Liberty