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Happy Monday! It’s February, which means you should give yourself a pat on the back, because we made it through the longest month of the year. January was soooooo long, but now we have February, which has 29 days, so things should go a lot more smoothly. And even though February has something like 5,290 fewer days than January did, it still has just as many great books! For starters, there’s a giant list for you to check out below.
And you can hear about several more great books out today on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about Upright Women Wanted, Black Sunday, The Toni Morrison Book Club, and more.
And like with each megalist, I’m putting a 
next to the books that I have had the chance to read and loved. I am still working on getting my reading superpowers back, so it is still slow reading for me the last few months, but I did get to a few of today’s books. And there are soooo many more on this list that I can’t wait to read!
The King of Crows by Libba Bray (I can’t wait to get my hands on this!)
The Blue Absolute by Aaron Shurin
Things Seen from Above by Shelley Pearsall
My Name Is Why: A Memoir by Lemn Sissay
Noisemakers: 25 Women Who Raised Their Voices & Changed the World – A Graphic Collection from Kazoo by Kazoo Magazine
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era by Jerry Mitchell
A Blight of Blackwings (The Seven Kennings) by Kevin Hearne
The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political by Judith Butler
The Willies by Adam Falkner
A Divided Loyalty: A Novel (Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries Book 22) by Charles Todd
Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Futures by Natasha Marin
Race Man: Selected Works, 1960-2015 by Julian Bond, Michael G. Long
The Toni Morrison Book Club by Juda Bennett, Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Casssandra Jackson, Piper Kendrix Williams
The Convert: A Novel by Stefan Hertmans, David McKay (translator)
Behind Every Lie by Christina McDonald
Three Californias: The Wild Shore, The Gold Coast, and Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson
Parked by Danielle Svetcov
The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood by Naomi McDougall Jones
Belle Revolte by Linsey Miller
Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane by Karen R. Jones
Malice by Pintip Dunn
Itch by Polly Farquhar
The Impossible First: From Fire to Ice-Crossing Antarctica Alone by Colin O’Brady
The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood by Sam Wasson
What Kind of Girl by Alyssa Sheinmel
Open Book by Jessica Simpson
A Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther
Ember Queen (Ash Princess) by Laura Sebastian
Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy by Eilene Zimmerman
Chirp by Kate Messner
Remembered by Yvonne Battle-Felton
Straight On Till Morning: A Twisted Tale by Liz Braswell
How to Overcome Your Childhood by The School of Life by Alain de Botton
The Way Home (Owly 1) Andy Runton
Promises of the Heart: A Novel (Savannah Skies Book 1) by Nan Rossiter
Romance or the End: Poems by Elaine Kahn
Alice By Heart by Steven Sater
Home Games by Benjamin Markovits
What Is Time to a Pig? by John Straley
Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes by Kathleen West
Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More by Stephen Hough
The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage by Mara Hvistendahl
Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women’s Voices from the Gulag by Monika Zgustova, Julie Jones (translator)
The Misfortunes of Family by Meg Little Reilly
Mindy Kim and the Yummy Seaweed Business (1) by Lyla Lee and Dung Ho
Self-Care Down There: From Menstrual Cups and Moisturizers to Body Positivity and Brazilian Wax, a Guide to Your Vagina’s Well-Being by Taq Kaur Bhandal
Crooked River (Agent Pendergast) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader by Vivian Gornick
Alone in the Wild: A Rockton Novel (Casey Duncan Novels Book 5) by Kelley Armstrong
The Resisters: A novel by Gish Jen
A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
The Kissing Game by Marie Harte
We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport (Scholastic Focus) by Deborah Hopkinson
The Museum of Desire: An Alex Delaware Novel by Jonathan Kellerman
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington by Alexis Coe
Mazes of Power (The Broken Trust) by Juliette Wade
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line: A Novel by Deepa Anappara
The Queen V: Everything You Need to Know About Sex, Intimacy, and Down There Health Care by Dr. Jackie Walters
The Cactus League: A Novel by Emily Nemens
Lux by Elizabeth Cook
Half Broke: A Memoir by Ginger Gaffney
Together We Caught Fire by Eva V. Gibson
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space (Exploded Views) by Amanda Leduc
The Freedom Artist by Ben Okri
Yes No Maybe So by Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed
Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
The Killing Tide: A Brittany Mystery (Brittany Mystery Series Book 5) by Jean-Luc Bannalec
Brother & Sister: A Memoir by Diane Keaton
trans(re)lating house one by Poupeh Missaghi
18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb
Nairobi Noir (Akashic Noir Series) by Peter Kimani
Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland
All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace
The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper
Valkyrie: Jane Foster, Vol. 1: The Sacred and the Profane by Jason Aaron and Al Ewing
The Lost Book of Adana Moreau: A Novel by Michael Zapata
A Heart of Blood and Ashes (A Gathering of Dragons) by Milla Vane
The Firmament of Flame (The Universe After Book 3) by Drew Williams
The Queen’s Assassin by Melissa de la Cruz
Cracked Up to Be by Courtney Summers
Heathcliff Redux: A Novella and Stories by Lily Tuck
The Coldest Warrior: A Novel by Paul Vidich
I Will Take the Answer: Essays by Ander Monson
King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender
The Gnome Stories by Ander Monson
The Regrets by Amy Bonnaffons
Black Sunday: A Novel by Tola Rotimi Abraham
Verge: Stories by Lidia Yuknavitch
Snapdragon by Kat Leyh
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Deborah Riley Draper, Blair Underwood, Travis Thrasher
The Third to Die by Allison Brennan
Survival Is a Style: Poems by Christian Wiman
Real Life by Adeline Dieudonne, Roland Glasser (translator)
The Worst Best Man: A Novel by Mia Sosa
The Authenticity Project: A Novel by Clare Pooley
Molly Bit: A Novel by Dan Bevacqua
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Jenn Shapland
The Town by Shaun Prescott
Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street Harassment and How We’re Taking Back Our Power by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit, and Defrocking by Adam Sisman
Here in the Real World by Sara Pennypacker
When My Time Comes: Conversations About Whether Those Who Are Dying Should Have the Right to Determine When Life Should End by Diane Rehm
The Stars We Steal by Alexa Donne
A Woman Like Her: The Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star by Sanam Maher
Perfect Little Children: A Novel by Sophie Hannah
The Light After the War: A Novel by Anita Abriel
The Legend of the Fire Princess (She-Ra Graphic Novel) by Gigi D.G., Noelle Stevenson
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
Vera Violet: A Novel by Melissa Anne Peterson
What I Want You To See by Catherine Linka
Arlo Finch in the Kingdom of Shadows by John August
The Last Day: A Novel by Andrew Hunter Murray
Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
I Am a Promise by Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce, Rachel Moss
The Only Woman in the Photo: Frances Perkins & Her New Deal for America by Kathleen Krull, Alexandra Bye
Toffee by Sarah Crossan
Swimming in the Dark: A Novel by Tomasz Jedrowski
Run, Rebel by Manjeet Mann
Takes One To Know One by Susan Isaacs
Escape Routes by Naomi Ishiguro
Thanks for joining me every Tuesday. Here’s to another amazing month of books. See you next week!
xx,
Liberty