Author: Liberty Hardy

Historical Ghostbusters, Historical Germbusters, and More New Books!

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date October 16, 2017

Hello, book lovers! It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for things made from wood…why, I mean books, of course! (That’s how Mr. Rogers sang it, right?) I am extremely excited about a couple sequels out today: Strange Lies by Maggie Thrash and Righteous by Joe Ide. There are also a bunch of other amazing titles out now! I have a few for you below and you can hear about several more great books on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about a few amazing books we loved, including A Line in the Dark, We’re Going to Need More Wine, and The RBG Workout.

Sponsored by A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Sweeney

Through letters and diaries that have never before been published, A Secret Sisterhood resurrects the forgotten friendships between some of our best-loved female authors and their little-known literary collaborators. They were sometimes scandalous and volatile, sometimes supportive and inspiring, but always—until now—tantalizingly consigned to the shadows.

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Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir by Amy Tan

Love the novels of Amy Tan? Then you’ll love to read about her childhood and influences. Love reading books where writers discuss their craft? Then you’ll love learning about Tan’s process and how she brings memory into her work. She’s a wonderful writer, and it’s a delight to have a work of nonfiction from her. It’s a win for everyone, really.

Backlist bump: The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez

Just recently shortlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the wonderful novel is about family, loss, and expectations. After Julia’s sister, Olga, dies in a tragic accident, Julia is expected to fill her shoes as the perfect daughter. But Julia wants to go to college after graduation, not stay home and care for her grieving mother, who likes to point out all the ways in which Julia is not Olga. sweet, sad, and sometimes laugh out loud funny, this story captures what it is to feel guilt and grief and still try to manage your own hopes and dreams.

Backlist bump: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris

When is it a better time to read a gruesome history of medicine than right before Halloween??? Fitzharris spares no details documenting Joseph Lister and his campaign to teach the medical profession that germs really existed. (Before Lister, doctors didn’t wash their hands or their medical instruments all that often. Blergh.) It’s also an illuminating look at a profession one looked upon with skepticism, a profession that often relied on graveyards to supply their knowledge…

Backlist bump: Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius by Colin Dickey

A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge

Really, I just want to type “OH EM GEE FRANCES HARDINGE IS THE BEST” over and over in this space, but I will also add that this is a wildly imaginative dark historical fantasy set during the English Civil War, about ghosts, inheritance, and a dead bear. Hardinge is the empress of delightfully weird and creepy books.

Backlist bump: The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge

The Floating World by C. Morgan Babst

Set in New Orleans around Hurricane Katrina, this is a powerful story about family and resilience in the face of disaster and violence. Cora Boisdorés refuses to evacuate before the storm, leaving her father and stepmother to flee without her and putting a deep strain on their marriage. Cora herself is the victim of violence, and it is her sister, Del, returning to her hometown from NYC, who must solve the mystery of what happened to Cora and come to terms with the city’s avoidable tragedies.

Backlist bump: Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran

That’s it for me today – time to get back to reading! If you want to learn more about books new and old (and see lots of pictures of my cats, Millay and Steinbeck), or tell me about books you’re reading, or books you think I should read (I HEART RECOMMENDATIONS!), you can find me on Twitter at MissLiberty, on Instagram at FranzenComesAlive, or L itsy under ‘Liberty’!

Stay rad,

Liberty

Book Radar

A New Chuck Palahniuk is Coming in 2018 and More News

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date October 13, 2017

Happy Monday, book lovers! Okay, you may not have to like that it’s Monday, but at least there are books, and there is always awesome book-related news to go along with them. I have listed some of the gloriousness below. Hope you’re reading something marvelous! Enjoy your week, and be excellent to each other. – xoxo, Liberty

Sponsored by the University of Iowa Press, publisher of What Counts as Love, 2017 John Simmons Short Fiction Award-winning collection by Marian Crotty.

The stories in What Counts as Love often touch on themes of addiction, class, sexuality, and gender. The characters, most often young women, are honest, troubled, and filled with longing. In the title story, a young woman begins a job on a construction site after leaving an abusive marriage. In “Crazy for You,” two girls spy on a neighbor’s sex life, as their own sexuality hovers in the distance. In “The Fourth Fattest Girl at Cutting Horse Ranch,” the daily life of a residential treatment center for eating disorders is disrupted by the arrival of a celebrity.

Deals, Reals, and Squeals!

Ella Purnell will play the lead role in Sweetbitter.

The Weeknd gets his own Marvel comic book, Starboy.

Chuck Palahniuk announced he has a new book coming out in May 2018.

E.L. James will release another Fifty Shades book in November: Darker: Fifty Shades Darker.

Netflix gives series order to Michael B. Jordan’s sci-fi family drama Raising Dion.

Harper Collins will publish Cher’s memoir.

Gambit, starring Channing Tatum, will open Valentine’s Day 2019.

Cover Reveals

Happily Ever After has the first look at Kasie West’s Listen to Your Heart. (Point, May 29, 2018)

From Twinkle, With Love: Preview Sandhya Menon’s new YA novel. (Simon Pulse, June 5, 2018)

Harlequin Teen shared the first look at All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages by Saundra Mitchell. (Harlequin Teen, February 27, 2018)

K. Arsenault Rivera has a sequel to The Tiger’s Daughter coming: The Phoenix Empress! (Tor Books, July 24, 2018)

The first peek at Sloane Crosley’s forthcoming essay collection, Look Alive Out There, has been posted. (MCD, April 3, 2018)

There’s a first look at Pumpkinheads, the collaboration between Rainbow Rowell and cartoonist and animator Faith Erin Hicks.

Crimespree Magazine revealed the cover for Blackout by Alex Segura. (Polis Books, May 8, 2018)

Sneak Peeks!

The official Justice League trailer is out!

Hulu’s Castle Rock will be an anthology show that connects the worlds of Stephen King.

Professor Marston & The Wonder Women gets a comic book treatment, extended trailer ahead of release.

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 I’m delighted to share a couple with you each week!

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, January 2, 2018)

Reading this book this summer kicked off a month-long faerie book binge. But this still might have been my favorite. Fans of Sarah J. Maas and Leigh Bardugo (and Holly Black, of course!) will love this tale of magic, royalty, and treachery about two sisters kidnapped from this world and raised in the High Court of Faerie.

A State of Freedom: A Novel by Neel Mukherjee (W.W. Norton & Company, January 2, 2018)

Set in contemporary India, this is a searing portrait of displacement and migration, featuring five characters in different circumstances trying to find their way in the world. It’s a devastating, gorgeously written story of people seeking to change their lives.

And this is funny.

I am here to help you relive your childhood NeverEnding Story feels.

New Books

October New Books Megalist: The Sequel!

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date October 9, 2017

Somehow, it turns out that I read more new books coming out in October than any other month this year. And so many of them come out today, so I just had to do another big list! (“Oh, no, Liberty, not MORE books. Whatever shall we do?”) Yep, here’s a kitten-ton of great things to read. You can hear about a few of these books on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about amazing books we loved, such as The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao, Code Girls, and Forest of a Thousand Lanterns.

Sponsored by Feminist Icon Cross-Stitch by Anna Fleiss and Lauren Mancuso

FEMINIST ICON CROSS-STITCH puts a new spin on smashing the patriarchy. Featuring inspiring bios and embroidery patterns of empowering sayings and trailblazing women – like Gloria Steinem, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Beyoncé – this book is a celebration of everyone’s favorite lady heroes. With an introduction on modern feminism and instructions on the basics of cross-stitch, FEMINIST ICON CROSS-STITCH is perfect for veteran crafters who have already knit their own pussy hats and those who are new to the craftivism game. As the book says, the future is female – so start cross-stitching and let these powerhouse women inspire you to make herstory!

(And like last time, I’m putting a next to the books that I have read and loved. There are soooo many more on this list that I can’t wait to read!)

sparrow Sparrow by Sarah Moon

The Miranda by Geoff Nicholson

Berserker by Emmy Laybourne

We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America edited by Brando Skyhorse and Lisa Page

Into the Bright Unknown (Gold Seer Trilogy) by Rae Carson

The Gatekeepers by Jen Lancaster

Beneath the Spanish by Victor Hernandez Cruz

The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe, Lilit Thwaites (Translator)

Dare Mighty Things by Heather Kaczynski

Catapult: Stories by Emily Fridlund

Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America’s Greatest Unsolved Murder by Piu Eatwell

Behind You: One-Shot Horror Stories by Brian Coldrick

Heating and Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly

The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha, Eric M. B. Becker (Translator)

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

Lou Reed: A Life by Anthony DeCurtis

A Scattering and Anniversary: Poems by Christopher Reid

A Working Woman by Elvira Navarro, Christina MacSweeney (Translator)

A Long Day in Lychford (Witches of Lychford) by Paul Cornell

Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World by Noah Strycker

Last Star Burning by Caitlin Sangster

Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum

No Picnic on Mount Kenya: The Story of Three P.O.W’s Escape to Adventure by Felice Benuzzi

(ID)entity (Phoenix Horizon) by PJ Manney

Democracy and Its Crisis by A. C. Grayling

The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke

Wolf Season by Helen Benedict

Mr. Lemoncello’s Great Library Race by Chris Grabenstein

Death in St. Petersburg: A Lady Emily Mystery (Lady Emily Mysteries) by Tasha Alexander

The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman

Three Floors Up by Eshkol Nevo, Sondra Silverston (Translator)

Cheer Up, Jay Ritchie by Jay Ritchie

Nightmare in Berlin (Fallada Collection) by Hans Fallada

All the Wind in the World by Samantha Mabry

The Secret Life: Three True Stories of the Digital Age by Andrew O’Hagan

Here in Berlin: A Novel by Cristina Garcia

In the Cage by Kevin Hardcastle

Mirror, Mirror by Cara Delevigne

The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau: A Historical Thriller by Graeme Macrae Burnet

The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed

My Ariel: Poems by Sina Queyras

Unquiet Spirits: Whisky, Ghosts, Murder (A Sherlock Holmes Adventure) by Bonnie MacBird

The Doll’s Alphabet by Camilla Grudova

Tool of War by Paolo Bacigalupi

grant Grant by Ron Chernow

Funeral Platter: Stories by Greg Ames

All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater

Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer

Never Coming Back by Alison McGhee

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy

In the Distance by Hernan Diaz

Echo After Echo by Amy Rose Capetta

The Memory Trees by Kali Wallace

Forest of a Thousand Lanterns (Rise of the Empress) by Julie C. Dao

This Darkness Mine by Mindy McGinnis

Tentacle & Wing by Sarah Porter

Circadian by Chelsey Clammer

The Runaway Species: How human creativity remakes the world by Anthony Brandt and David Eagleman

David Sedaris Diaries: A Visual Compendium by David Sedaris

Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today by Melissa Kwasny

The Power by Naomi Alderman

As Lie Is to Grin by Simeon Marsalis

The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza (Author), Sarah Booker (Translator)

Himself by Jess Kidd (paperback)

The Mothers by Brit Bennett (paperback)

Book Radar

Check Out the New Dumplin’ Sequel and More

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date October 6, 2017

Welcome to October, book fiends! The wonderful word of books continues to hum with exciting adventures, some of which I have listed below. Hope you’re reading something marvelous! Enjoy your week, and be excellent to each other. – xoxo, Liberty

Sponsored by The Bloodprint by Ausma Zehanat Khan, published by Harper Voyager.

The Talisman, a superstitious patriarchy that suppresses knowledge and subjugates women, is growing in power throughout the land. The only ones who are strong enough to stand up to their darkness are the Companions of Hira, a group of influential women whose power derives from the Claim – the magic inherent in the words of a sacred scripture. Foremost among them is Arian and her fellow warrior, Sinnia. As they search for a miraculous symbol of hope that can destroy the Talisman’s leader, Arian and Sinnia know that this mission may well be their last.

Deals, Reals, and Squeals!

The First Wives Club is getting a television series reboot.

Roxane Gay casually mentioned she has a new novel coming next year. (!!!!)

Amazon announced three new sci-fi shows for its streaming service, including adaptations of Snow Crash and Ringworld.

Nnedi Okorafor is writing a new Black Panther comic.

Danny Glover has been cast in the Locke & Key adaptation.

Jon Hamm has been tapped to play the archangel Gabriel in Good Omens. (My favorite Gabriels will always be Christopher Walken and Tilda Swinton.)

And Netflix is rebooting Shaft for television.

Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli have co-written What If It’s Us, to be published in 2018.

Fox is developing The Dime, based on the novel by Kathleen Kent.

Jill Scott cast as Lady Eve in Black Lightning series.

Starz is moving ahead with its adaptation of Stephanie Danler’s Sweetbitter.

Saladin Ahmed will collaborate with artist Sami Kivelä on an original comic series, Abbott, which will launch in January 2018

Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins are set to star in a version of King Lear.

Garth Books: Country singer Garth Brooks says his forthcoming memoir will be five volumes long.

Cover Reveals

Julie Murphy’s Puddin’ has a cover and it’s marvelous. (Balzer + Bray, May 8, 2018)

Book Riot has the cover reveal for Betsy Cornwell’s feminist Robin Hood retelling, The Forest Queen. (Clarion Books, August 7, 2018)

Entertainment Weekly has a peek at the new Tahereh Mafi, Restore Me. (HarperCollins, March 6, 2018)

Rioter Eric Smith has a new book coming and here’s the first look at the cover: The Girl in the Grove! (North Star Editions, May 8, 2018)

I could not be more excited for the new Laura van den Berg novel! (FSG Books, August 7, 2018)

B&N Teen has the first look at Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson (Katherine Tegen Books, June 5, 2018)

Or for the new Chelsea Hodson essay collection! (Henry Holt, June 5, 2018)

Sneak Peeks!

paddington 2 The sequel to Paddington is coming this holiday season!

The full trailer for How to Talk to Girls at Parties, based on the Neil Gaiman story, is now available to watch.

Tom Hanks made a trailer to share a look at his upcoming story collection.

And the first trailer for Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams series is out.

Book Riot Recommends

Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali (Author), Ureen Freely and Alexander Dawe (Translators) (Other Press, November 7) Available in English for the first time, this is a Turkish classic about a young Turkish man in the 1920s who leaves his home for Berlin. There he finds love with a beautiful artist, and becomes torn between the life he craves and following the tradition of his homeland. It’s gorgeous.

mean Mean by Myriam Gurba (Coffee House Press, November 14)

The story of Gurba’s coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana, told in blistering prose. Gurba tackles several very important, serious subjects such as racism and homophobia, and manages to make the discussions humorous while laying down hard truths and great points. I wish this had been twice as long.

And this is funny.

Okay, maybe less funny, more cool: Cinematic typewriters.

New Books

First Tuesday in October New Books Megalist!

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date October 1, 2017

Happy Giant New Release Day! It’s a good one, because it’s the first Tuesday of the month, which means there are a bunch of new titles out today. I’ve got a big list for you below, and you can hear about a few of these books on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about amazing books we loved, such as Manhattan Beach, Origin, and An Unkindness of Ghosts.

Sponsored by The Dark Lake by Sarah Bailey

Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock is deeply unnerved when a high school classmate is found strangled, her body floating in a lake. And not just any classmate, but Rosalind Ryan, whose beauty and inscrutability exerted a magnetic pull on Smithson High School.

Rosalind’s enigmas frustrate and obsess Gemma, who has her own dangerous secrets—an affair with her colleague and past tragedies that may not stay in the past. Brilliantly rendered, THE DARK LAKE has characters as compelling and mysteries as layered as the best thrillers from Gillian Flynn and Sophie Hannah.

(And like last time, I’m putting a next to the books that I have read and loved. There are soooo many more on this list that I can’t wait to read!)

27 Hours by Tristina Wright

Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig

Winter Storms (Winter Street) by Elin Hilderbrand

Joni: The Anthology by Barney Hoskyns

Before the Devil Breaks You (The Diviners) by Libba Bray

The Orphan of Florence: A Novel by Jeanne Kalogridis

Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb

From a Certain Point of View: 40 Stories Celebrating 40 Years of Star Wars

Without Merit by Colleen Hoover

Satellite by Nick Lake

Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America by Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding (editors)

Logical Family: A Memoir by Armistead Maupin

The Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson

Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind by Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

the sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur

Baking with Kafka by Tom Gauld

The Relive Box and Other Stories by T.C. Boyle

The Adventurers Guild by Zack Loran Clark, Nick Eliopulos

Origin by Dan Brown

Pashmina by Nidhi Chanani

Seven Suspects (The Bobbi Logan Series) by Renee James

Odd Child Out by Gilly Macmillan

Brooding YA Hero: Becoming a Main Character (Almost) as Awesome as Me by Carrie DiRisio, Linnea Gear (Illustrator)

Ahimsa by Supriya Kelkar

Where the Sun Shines Out by Kevin Catalano

This Is How It Begins: A Novel by Joan Dempsey

Quillifer by Walter Jon Williams

Reservoir 13: A Novel by Jon McGregor

Mixed Up: Cocktail Recipes (and Flash Fiction) for the Discerning Drinker (and Reader) by Nick Mamatas (Compiler), Molly Tanzer (Compiler)

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

Dunbar (Hogarth Shakespeare) by Edward St. Aubyn

The Witches’ Tree: An Agatha Raisin Mystery (Agatha Raisin Mysteries) by M. C. Beaton

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: The Illustrated Edition by J.K. Rowling, Jim Kay (Illustrator)

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 3 The Ship of the Dead by Rick Riordan

Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin

Things I’m Seeing Without You by Peter Bognanni

The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson

Fresh Complaint: Stories by Jeffrey Eugenides

Old Scores: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel by Will Thomas

Earth Hates Me: True Confessions from a Teenage Girl by Ruby Karp

Among the Red Stars by Gwen C. Katz

The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen

Far From the Tree by Robin Benway

If You Knew My Sister by Michelle Adams

The Glass Eye: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco

To the Back of Beyond by Peter Stamm, Michael Hofmann (Translator)

the tiger's daughter The Tiger’s Daughter (Their Bright Ascendency) by K Arsenault Rivera

Advice from the Lights: Poems by Stephen Burt

Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore

Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York by Roz Chast

Shai & Emmie Star in Break an Egg! (A Shai & Emmie Story) by Quvenzhané Wallis

Blackwing by Ed McDonald

There Will Be No More Good Nights Without Good Nights by Laura van den Berg

William Shakespeare’s The Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh (William Shakespeare’s Star Wars) by Ian Doescher

Sparked by Helena Echlin and Malena Watrous

Fear by Dirk Kurbjuweit

The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash

Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions by Russell Brand

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty

Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeanette Ng

Haunting the Deep by Adriana Mather

That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston

What the Hell Did I Just Read: A Novel of Cosmic Horror (John Dies at the End) by David Wong

London and the South-East by David Szalay

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado

The Hanging Girl by Eileen Cook

Everyone is Watching by Megan Bradbury

Malagash by Joey Comeau

Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits by Tiya Miles

The Last Namsara by Kristen Ciccarelli

Beyond the Rice Fields by Naivo, Allison M. Charette (Translator)

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Secrets on Chicory Lane: A Novel by Raymond Benson

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

The Trials of Solomon Parker by Eric Scott Fischl

The Bloodprint (The Khorasan Archives) by Ausma Zehanat Khan

The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Glaser

The Devils You Know by M.C. Atwood

Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor

All That Man Is by David Szalay (paperback)

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey

Stay rad,

Liberty

Book Radar

The Caraval Sequel Cover Reveal, and More!

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date September 29, 2017

Happy fall, book lovers! The air is crisp and so are the pages. Er, unless you have an e-reader. Then I guess they’re byte-size. (Sorry not sorry.) Hope you’re reading something marvelous! Enjoy your week, and be excellent to each other. – xoxo, Liberty

Sponsored by Girls Made of Snow and Glass

Entwining the stories of step-mother Mina and step-daughter Lynet, both in the past and present, Girls Made of Snow and Glass traces the relationship of two young women doomed to be rivals from the start. It’s Frozen meets The Bloody Chamber in this feminist fantasy reimagining of Snow White.

Deals, Reals, and Squeals!

The fired Han Solo directors are taking on Andy Weir’s Artemis.

Insecure director to adapt A Brief History of Seven Killings for Amazon Studios.

Fox is developing a drama series based on the book, Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class.

Elaine Brown’s A Taste Of Power, about the only woman to lead the Black Panther Party, will be a film.

Disney developing Cyrano the Moor musical from Moonlight writer, starring David Oyelowo.

Rin Chupeco has a new book coming, and it’s described as Frozen meets Mad Max. YES PLEASE.

Sherry Thomas, author of A Study in Scarlet Women and its sequel, will publish a young adult novel.

The It film sequel set to hit cinemas in September 2019.

BBC One orders The Dublin Murders, based on the Tana French books.

Julie Taymor will direct an adaptation of My Life on the Road, the memoir by Gloria Steinem.

Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Seprent, announced a new novel!

Cover Reveals

Entertainment Weekly has the first look at Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi, from Rick Riordan’s new imprint. (Rick Riordan Presents, March 27, 2018)

There’s a cover now for the Caraval sequel, Legendary. (Flatiron Books, May 29, 2018)

Twitter account I Read YA had a BUNCH of cover reveals. Here’s round one, round two, and round three.

Mark Oshiro has a book coming out next year! Paste has the first peek at the cover. (Tor Teen, May 22, 2018)

Sneak Peeks!

Leigh Bardugo shared a sneak peek of her next book, King of Scars.

The trailer for Annihilation is out and WOW does it look bananapants. In an awesome way.

Book Riot Recommends

Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi (Razorbill, October 31)

This is an action packed debut! Taj is an indentured servant to a mage. As a young sin-eater, it is his job to slay sin-beasts. It is a terrible task that comes with horrible repercussions. For each beast he kills, he must then wear a tattoo of them and carry their guilt always. Most sin-eaters go mad but when Taj is called to eat the sin of a royal family member, he becomes embroiled in a conspiracy that could destroy the city and cost him his life. This book is imaginative fun!

The King Is Always Above the People: Stories by Daniel Alarcón (Riverhead, October 31)

2017 might be the best year for story collections yet. This stellar book was just longlisted for the National Book Award for fiction, and features ten tales of family secrets, journeys, doomed love, broken dreams, immigration, and more. Alarcón once again proves himself a master storyteller, weaving stories both big and small about humanity.

And this is funny.

It’s funny because it’s true.

New Books

Magic in NYC, Prisons in Space, and More New Books!

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date September 25, 2017

Hello, book lovers! I don’t know about where you are, but here in my secret volcano lair in Maine it is SO HOT again. (It has nothing to do with it being in a volcano, I swear.) I hope you’re having a cooler September with lots of good things to read. Speaking of great things to read – segue achievement unlocked! – I have a few for you below and you can hear about several more great books on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about a few amazing books we loved, including After the Eclipse, Five-Carat Soul, and Starfish.

Sponsored by Seconds Acts by Teri Emory

An unshakeable rapport among three women takes root in a college dorm in the 1960s. At midlife, they find themselves re-examining choices and compromises they have made over the years. Sustained by their abiding friendship, the three women move to relinquish past regrets and make peace with present circumstances in order to flourish in the second acts of their lives.

P.S. – Have you checked out our newest podcast, Recommended? Each episode features two really interesting people talking about a book that they love! Check out Samantha Irby and Robin Sloan in Episode 1. Because who doesn’t need more book recommendations???

Provenance by Ann Leckie

Eeeeeeeee! Leckie has followed up her record-breaking Imperial Radch series with a fun, fast novel of power and birthright! A young woman must regain status and power to save her world, but she needs the help of a thief to do it. INSERT CAPERS HERE. There’s a prison planet, priceless artifacts, political turmoil, heists, and interstellar conflict. It has all the ingredients needed to make this an amazing book! Not that you needed me to tell you Ann Leckie is amazing. Run, don’t walk, to pick it up!

Backlist bump: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

passage Passage by Khary Lazarre-White

Set in NYC in 1993, Passage is the story of Warrior, a teen trying to navigate the world and the hurdles and dangers he encounters as a young black man. Haunted by the spirits of his ancestors and the demons of oppression, it will take more than the loving support of his family to help him exist in an unfair, yet supposedly post-racial, society. This is a powerful novel that shows just how far America hasn’t come with regards to racism.

Backlist bump: The Liminal People by Ayize Jama-Everett

An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard

Magic + New York City + Kat Howard = HEART EYES. Something is happening to the magic in NYC. No one understands it, except Sydney, a young magician with more power than has been seen in the city in decades. But Sydney doesn’t want to restore the city’s power – she wants to destroy it. This is a fun dark fantasy with a strong protagonist and lots of imagination.

Backlist bump: A City Dreaming by Daniel Polansky

Stay rad,

Liberty

Book Radar

Tom Hanks To Star in a Man Called Ove, and More

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date September 22, 2017

It’s Monday! Time for another round of “Eeeeeee, I can’t wait for that!” I have a few cool book-related bits to share. Hope you’re reading something marvelous! Enjoy your week, and be excellent to each other. – xoxo, Liberty

Submarine Scientist Pirates, a New Toni Morrison, and More New Books!

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date September 18, 2017

Every day is a great day for reading, but fall just has that something extra, don’t you think? Well, we are knee-deep in fall releases now! I have a few fantastic new titles to tell you about here today, and as always, you can also hear about several more great books on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about a few amazing books we loved, including The Good People, The Book of Separation, and One Dark Throne.

This week’s newsletter is sponsored by When I Cast Your Shadow by Sarah Porter.

In this haunting tale of possession Ruby calls her beloved older brother back from the grave, only to find herself in the middle of a nightmare beyond all imagining. Dashiell tells Ruby that he’s returned from the Land of the Dead to tie up loose ends, but he’s actually on the run from forces crueler and more powerful than anything that Ruby has ever encountered. New from the author of the much-loved Vassa in the Night!

Autonomous by Annalee Newitz

Welcome to the future, the year 2144 to be precise, where Jack the scientist-turned-pirate pilots a submarine around Earth writing prescriptions for people who can’t afford a doctor’s visit. But when a rash of her scrips lead to chaos and sets agents on her trail, Jack must shake them off her tail as she works to learn more about her lethal drug hack. Autonomous is a wicked fun ride of robotics, science, and concepts!

Backlist bump: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

moxie Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

Vivian Carter is fed up with her school. She’s tired of the sexism, the double standards, the hallway harassment. So, taking a page from her Riot Grrl mother, she starts a feminist zine. Soon Vivian’s outlet for her frustrations has struck a nerve with other young women, and Vivian learns that for all their differences, there are still things that can bring women together. This book is 100% grrl power!

Backlist bump: The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis

The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Toni Morrison

DISCLAIMER: I have not read this book, which is the transcripts of a series of lectures Morrison gave about the themes that preoccupy her books. But I feel like it’s not getting any press anywhere, and how can that be, when people need to know that there’s a new ToMo book out in the world!!! And even better, with an introduction by Ta-Nehisi Coates! Consider yourself informed now.

Backlist bump: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction by Grady Hendrix

Okay, so this one is for a very select audience, but if horror books and/or cover art are in your wheelhouse, you’re going to love it! Hendrix, author of My Best Friend’s Exorcism and Horrorstör, presents the most outlandish, ghoulish, and creepy covers from old horror paperbacks he can find, complete with wonderfully witty commentary. A perfect gift for the horror lover in your life!

Backlist bump: The Amulet by Michael McDowell

Stay rad,

Liberty

Book Radar

Neil Gaiman Shares a Peek at Good Omens and More!

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date September 15, 2017

Hello, and happy Monday, book lovers! It’s a wonderful day to read a book or eleven. You should totally take the day off from work and read instead. Don’t worry, I’ll write you a note. Enjoy your week, and be excellent to each other. – xoxo, Liberty

Sponsored by The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo

Inspired by myth, folklore, and fairy tale, #1 New York Times-bestselling author Leigh Bardugo has crafted a deliciously atmospheric collection of short stories filled with betrayals, revenge, sacrifice, and love.

Perfect for new readers and dedicated fans, the tales in The Language of Thorns will transport you to lands both familiar and strange—to a fully realized world of dangerous magic that millions have visited through the novels of the Grishaverse.

Deals, Reals, and Squeals!

Margot Lee Shetterly has sold a picture book based on her bestseller (turned Oscar-winning film), Hidden Figures.

Modern Pride And Prejudice drama Eligible, by Curtis Sittenfeld, to be a television series on ABC.

Spike Lee and Jordan Peele are teaming up for a thriller called Black Klansman, based on the memoir by Ron Stallworth.

AMC developing series based on Black Lives Matter book They Can’t Kill Us All.

Ayize Jama-Everett will pen a horror comic, with Eisner award winner John Jennings, set to arrive in summer of 2018.

Selwyn Seyfu Hinds has been tapped to adapt Who Fears Death for HBO.

You by Caroline Kepnes to be a series on Lifetime.

Cover Reveals

Thunderhead, the sequel to Neal Shusterman’s Scythe, has a cover! (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Jan. 9, 2018)

Not exactly the cover, but Victoria Aveyard revealed the title for her next book, the final book in the Red Queen series. (HarperTeen, May 15, 2018.)

The covers for the two new Lady Astronaut of Mars books from Mary Robinette Kowal. (Tor.com, Summer 2018)

Sneak Peeks!

The official trailer for Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace on Netflix.

First trailer for The Red Sparrow by Jennifer Lawrence, based on the novel by Jason Matthews.

Neil Gaiman shared photos of David Tennant and Michael Sheen in character and a script read through for the Good Omens miniseries.

Book Riot Recommends

bunk Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News by Kevin Young

Poet and critic Young examines how hoaxes have moved from sideshow acts to being in the center stage of American culture. From P.T. Barnum to Donald Trump, he discusses famous examples of forgers and fakers, and how we are living now in a post-factual world. This was just listed on the National Book Award longlist for nonfiction! (Graywolf Press, November 14)

That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston

Margaret is set to enter a genetically arranged marriage, but before that happens, she gets one summer of freedom. It’s enough time for her to make new friends, have new experiences, and decide that an arranged marriage is not what she wants. But can she change the law? Set in a near-future British Empire, Johnston has created a unique blend of adventure, science fiction, and etiquette.

And this is funny.

Danielle Steel’s desk is quite something.