Happy Thursday, everyone!
I know I don’t talk about my ~other job~ that often, but I am a Pure Barre teacher (any barre baddies in the house?), and phew, I taught five classes today. Ya girl is sleepy. And so ready to just chill on the couch with you and chat books. Maybe a cat will join us. Who can say? Let’s just start this newsletter and see what happens.
Book Deals and Reveals
Mare of Easttown meets The Outsider in Allison Gunn’s new novel Nowhere, and here’s the cover reveal! The book is available for preorder now. It’s out in March 2025.
Abbi Jacobson, co-creator and star of Broad City and A League of Their Own, has signed on to adapt Isle McElroy’s novel People Collide. Jacobson will serve as writer and showrunner on the project through her Tender Pictures banner.
Clay McLeod Chapman recently announced his first short story collection, Acquired Taste. The horror collection will be out from Titan Books in September 2025.
More new book announcements! Megan Abbott’s El Dorado Drive is expected to hit shelves in summer 2025.
Reese’s Book Club has partnered up with Apple Books to make the platform the book club’s “official audiobook home.” According to a press release, Apple Books will now feature a dedicated page showcasing the book club’s latest monthly picks, previous selections, and “editorial collections curated exclusively by Apple and Reese’s Book Club editors.”
We’re almost halfway through 2024, and here are the most-read books of the year so far, according to Goodreads.
Looking for new queer reads to explore this Pride Month? Here are 43 LGBTQ books coming out the first week of Pride!
Book Riot Recommends
Hi, welcome to everyone’s favorite segment of Book Radar called Book Riot Recommends. This is where I’ll talk to you about all the books I’m reading, the books I’m loving, and the books I can’t wait to read and love in the near future. I think you’re going to love them too!
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Can’t Wait for This One!
When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy (Tor Nightfire, April 22, 2025)
Nat Cassidy is an author I am very curious about. I have heard Mary is amazing, but is it weird to say that I, an avid horror fan, have been too scared to pick it up? Please message me and tell me how good this book is and tell me to get over it. Meanwhile, I read Nestlings earlier this year, and I flipping loved it. It was giving me super depressing, extra bone-chilling, unsettling Rosemary’s Baby vibes. Like, okay yeah, I was really scared. But I was ready for morrrre!
Enter When the Wolf Comes Home, the next book from Nat Cassidy. I’m fully in for another round of scaries. Here’s the deal. Jess is a struggling actress who finds a five-year-old hiding outside of her house one day. The boy, tucked away in the bushes, is clearly upset. And then Jess has a horrifying encounter with the boy’s father, which sends both Jess and the boy on the run. As the boy’s father ruthlessly pursues them, it becomes more and more clear to Jess that this man is more dangerous than anything she’s ever encountered before. Strange, gruesome things keep happening around them, and Jess fears they’re up against much more than an angry, violent man.
I can’t wait for this one to come out. Will I finally bite the bullet and dive into Mary to tide me over while I wait for this one? Only time will tell! But I am ready to hear your thoughts. And I can’t wait to read this one along with everyone else (because, duh, this book is going to be popular) next spring!
Words of Literary Wisdom
“One of the more frequent arguments that Agatha and Robin partook in, especially near the end, was what Agatha considered an unfair assertion: that Agatha didn’t like anything. And sure, there were many things that she did not enjoy. Like zoos. And musicals. And photo booths at weddings. Burlesque was another one. Any type of parade. She hated Little Free Libraries in wealthy neighborhoods. (Just use your public library? Which is also free because that’s the point?) She hated when restaurants and stores offered human food to dogs.”
— Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
And Here’s A Cat Picture!
Well, would you look at that! We did end up getting a cat visit. Murray has been feeling a little under the weather, so keep him in your thoughts. He’s clearly a perfect angel who deserves all the happiness in the world!
And that’s where I leave you today, friends. I’m so happy that we got to spend this time together, and I look forward to checking in with you again on Monday! Peace!