Hello, star bits, and happy April! I hope you are ready to add more books to your TBR. I know I say this at least once a year, but I really, really need someone to invent a machine to stop time, so we can all catch up on our reading. I mean, it’s getting ridiculous that this isn’t a thing yet. I want it now! (“I want to lock it all up in my pocket…“) Well, even though we can’t stop time (yet), we can still try and shove as many books in our brains as possible. Starting with new releases. And, hey, wouldja look at that — there are a whole bunch of new releases listed below!
At the top of my list of books to acquire today are The Night in Question by Susan Fletcher, Women! In! Peril! by Jessie Ren Marshall, and Clear by Carys Davies. 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 Husbands, Something Kindred, and The Murder of Mr. Ma.
Today, I am doing a round-up of several exciting books from the first Tuesday of April 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
Move by Move: Life Lessons on and off the Chessboard by Maurice Ashley
Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne, PhD
The Minotaur at Calle Lanza by Zito Madu
We Loved It All: A Memory of Life by Lydia Millet
Rebel Rising: A Memoir by Rebel Wilson
Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World by Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant
Fiction
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio***
Clear by Carys Davies***
The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez
The Sentence by Matthew Baker
The Hollow Beast by Christophe Bernard, Lazer Lederhendler (translator)
Village Weavers by Myriam J.A. Chancy
The Audacity by Ryan Chapman
I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
A Good Happy Girl by Marissa Higgins
American Daughters by Piper Huguley
Orphia and Eurydicius by Elyse John
Relative Strangers by A.H. Kim
The Stone Home by Crystal Hana Kim***
All We Were Promised by Ashton Lattimore
Women! In! Peril! by Jessie Ren Marshall***
Choice by Neel Mukherjee
Beautiful Beautiful by Brandon Reid
The Titanic Survivors’ Book Club by Timothy Schaffert
Habitations by Sheila Sundar
Table for Two: Fictions by Amor Towles
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Middle Grade and Picture Books
Ahoy! by Sophie Blackall
Sky & Ty 1: Howdy, Partner! by Steve Breen***
The Mystery of Locked Rooms by Lindsay Currie
Monkey King and the World of Myths: The Monster and the Maze by Maple Lam***
Timid by Jonathan Todd***
Meet Me on Mercer Street by Booki Vivat***
Mystery and Thriller
The Murder of Mr. Ma by John Shen Yen Nee and SJ Rozan***
I Disappeared Them by Preston L. Allen
Young Rich Widows by Kimberly Belle, Layne Fargo, Cate Holahan, Vanessa Lillie
She’s Not Sorry by Mary Kubica
Ash Dark as Night (A Harry Ingram Mystery Book 2) by Gary Phillips
The Sicilian Inheritance by Jo Piazza
Nosy Neighbors by Freya Sampson
City in Ruins (The Danny Ryan Trilogy) by Don Winslow
Nonfiction
How to Train Your Human: A Cat’s Guide by Babas, Katherine Gregor (translator)
With My Back to the World: Poems by Victoria Chang
Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves by J. Drew Lanham
You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World edited by Ada Limón
Like Love: Essays and Conversations by Maggie Nelson
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld
The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony by Annabelle Tometich
The Lantern and the Night Moths: Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets in Translation edited and translated by Yilin Wang
Romance
Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun
Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
Fate Be Changed by Farrah Rochon
Sci-fi, Fantasy, and Horror
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell***
A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke
Court of Wanderers (Reaper Book 2) by Rin Chupeco
Play of Shadows (Court of Shadows, #1) by Sebastien de Castell
The Monstrous Misses Mai by Van Hoang
This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances by Eric LaRocca
Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction by Ann Leckie
Young Adult
Something Kindred by Ciera Burch
The Black Girl Survives in This One: Horror Stories edited by Desiree S. Evans and Saraciea J. Fennell
Made Glorious by Lindsay Eagar
The Misdirection of Fault Lines by Anna Gracia
Otherworldly by F.T. Lukens
This week: I’m currently reading Model Home by Rivers Solomon and The Sexual Life of Flowers by Simon Klein. Things have been bananas around here in Maine still, so I haven’t had time to start watching a new show yet, but I have a good feeling that this spring is going to yield great things. It was such a mild winter here this year, aside from the random snowstorm we had last weekend. The warm air and little critters everywhere are giving me new life. Moving on: The song stuck in my head (and now in yours) is “Prince Ali” from Aladdin. (You’re welcome!) And here’s a cat photo: Zevon is putting his best foot forward.*
*I don’t actually know if that’s his best foot. He has four of them, and they’re all pretty cute.
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