Hello, all you cats and kittens! Welcome to another Thursday of bookish news and excitement. Are you excited about the Booker Prize longlist? There are a couple books I am DYING to read. Now, on to the newsletter, so I can get back to reading! I hope whatever you’re doing, you have a great rest of your week, and remember to be kind to yourself and others. I’ll see you again on Monday. – xoxo, Liberty
Sponsored by a few of the summer and fall picks of the Class of 2k19 books, 20 authors, 20 MG and YA novels debuting in 2019.
THE GRIEF KEEPER: “A tender tale that explores the heartbreak and consequences of when both love and human beings are branded illegal.” – Fall JLG Selection
THE BEST LIES: “A gripping story of love, obsession, and the space in between.” – Kirkus Reviews
THE TENTH GIRL: “Faring’s exquisite prose weaves a tale that is both seductively eerie and wildly original.” —April Genevieve Tucholke, author of The Boneless Mercies
THE STORY THAT CANNOT BE TOLD: “By turns surprising, poetic, and stark, The Story That Cannot Be Told is one that should most certainly be read.”—Alan Gratz, NYT bestselling author of Refugee
Trivia question time! Who was born Frederick August Kittel in 1945? (Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)
Deals, Reals, and Squeals!
Hulu is getting ready for a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series.
Here’s the first look at The Witcher with Henry Cavill.
And speaking of Netflix adaptations, here’s the first peek at Dracula.
And Viola Davis will star in Netflix’s adaptation of August Wilson’s play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
And the first trailer for HBO’s Watchmen series.
Marvel is relaunching the X-Men series. (Here’s a great Twitter thread of all the Marvel news that came out of the SDCC.)
Here’s the first look at the cover of The Unwilling by Kelly Braffet, coming next year. (I AM SO EXCITED.)
There’s an Ursula K. Le Guin documentary coming to PBS in August.
Lois Lowry is publishing her first book in verse.
An adaptation of the Heathen comic is on the way!
And so is a series adaptation of Barkskins by Annie Proulx.
Book Riot Recommends
At Book Riot, I work on the New Books! email, the All the Books! podcast about new releases, and the Book Riot Insiders New Release Index. I am very fortunate to get to read a lot of upcoming titles, and learn about a lot of upcoming titles, and I’m delighted to share a couple with you each week so you can add them to your TBR! (It will now be books I loved on Mondays and books I’m excited to read on Thursdays. YAY, BOOKS!)
Excited to read:
The Glass Hotel: A Novel by Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf, March 24, 2020)
I mean, who isn’t excited about this??? This is her first novel since Station Eleven, which is still talked about all the time. This one says it is “a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it.” I CANNOT WAIT.
What I’m reading this week.
The Vexations by Caitlin Horrocks
The Last Stone: A Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation by Mark Bowden
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg
Speaking of Summer: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
And this is funny.
I have watched this 1000 times and I am still laughing.
Trivia answer: August Wilson.
You made it to the bottom! High five. Thanks for reading! – xo, L