Category: Book Radar

Hello from my secret volcano lair, where I am currently plotting world domination. JK, I’m reading and petting cats. Being in charge of the world would take up too much precious reading time. In any case, it is Thursday, and I have bookish things to tell you! 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

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Trivia question time! What author’s name was James Oliver Rigney, Jr., before he changed it to his famous pen name? (Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)

Deals, Reals, and Squeals!

Suzanne Collins is releasing a Hunger Games prequel in May of 2020.

Riverhead Books is publishing Lidia Yuknavitch’s first story collection.

Elizabeth Acevedo became the first writer of color to win the Carnegie medal in its 83-year history.

Rosamund Pike will play Moiraine in the Wheel of Time series adaptation.

Joy Harjo is the first Native American U.S. Poet Laureate.

Janet Mock signed a landmark deal with Netflix.

Julie Andrews will voice Lady Whistledown in Shondaland’s Bridgerton series for Netflix, based on Julia Quinn’s novels.

Paramount made a 7-figure film deal for the rights to the upcoming thriller The Chain by Adrian McKinty.

Cover Reveals

Here’s the cover reveal for Madness Blooms by Mackenzi Lee. (And here’s her response to feedback on the jacket copy.) (Flatiron Books, February 4, 2020)

And coincidentally, here’s a similar cover reveal for Splinters of Scarlet by Emily Bain Murphy. (HMH Books for Young Readers, July 21, 2020)

And here’s the cover reveal of Unnatural Magic by C. M. Waggoner. (Ace, November 5)

Sneak Peeks

Here’s the trailer for The Rook, the series adaptation based on the novel by Daniel O’Malley.

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:

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, January 7, 2020)

I’ve been hearing buzz about this debut novel since last year, and we still have six months to go. It’s about a white blogger whose African American babysitter is confronted by a security guard for being with a white child. The whole episode is filmed, and in turn, brings up trouble from the past for the blogger, and harassment for the babysitter. In other words, it sounds 1000% plausible. I can’t wait to read it!

What I’m reading this week.

The Chain by Adrian McKinty

The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean

My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education by Jennine Capó Crucet

And this is funny.

This made me laugh for like 10 minutes.

Trivia answer: Robert Jordan.

You made it to the bottom! High five. Thanks for reading! – xo, L

Welcome to another bookish Monday, friendos. I hope that you were able to read something wonderful over the weekend, and got lots of rest, because there are a bunch of amazing books coming out next week. We’ll never read them all, but we have the best time trying, right? Enjoy the rest of your week and remember to be excellent to each other! I’ll see you again on Thursday. – xoxo, Liberty

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Here’s this week’s trivia question: What actress was a young model for the cover of Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls, a book in the Baby-Sitters Club series? (Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)

Deals, Reals, and Squeals!

The National Theatre announced an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of Lane.

Orphan Black’s storyline will continue with Tatiana Maslany in a new audio series for Serial Box.

All 131 Baby-Sitters Club novels are being turned into audiobooks.

Ciannon Smart announced her upcoming novel about Caribbean witches, called Witches Steeped in Gold.

Bradley Cooper is in early talks to star in Guillermo del Toro’s adaption of Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has postponed Naomi Wolf’s latest book.

Ed Harris will succeed Jeff Daniels as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway, starting in November.

Cover Reveals 

Here’s the first look at the cover of Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles. (HarperTeen, January 21, 2020)

And here’s the first peek at Be Not Far from Me by Mindy McGinnis. (Katherine Tegen Books, March 3, 2020)

Paste has the cover reveal of Rioter Eric Smith’s new YA novel Don’t Read the Comments. (Inkyard Press, January 28, 2020)

Sneak Peeks

Here’s the first trailer for Doctor Sleep, Stephen King’s sequel to The Shining.

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!)

Loved, loved, loved:

The Swallows: A Novel by Lisa Lutz (Ballantine Books, August 13)

This is an (unfortunately) timely and relevant suspense novel about inappropriate behavior and blackmail at a New England prep school. Alexandra Witt joins the faculty at Stonebridge Academy hoping for a fresh start. But she soon catches wind of a long-standing unofficial tradition: an online document kept by the male students that rates and discusses the sexual activity they have with the girls on campus. Ms. Witt is not alone in her outrage – there is a growing group of girls (and a couple guys) hellbent on taking the website down, literally, along with its users. But breaking traditions is frowned upon, especially when it turns out some of the staff are aware of it too, and several people who have tried to stop it in the past have found themselves on the receiving end of blackmail and job dismissal. Can it be done? This is an infuriating, empowering novel for the #metoo movement.

What I’m reading this week:

The Right Swipe: A Novel by Alisha Rai

Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

Pun of the week: 

Napoleon may not have designed the coat he wore, but he did have a hand in it.

Here’s a kitten picture:

Zevon has never met a mirror he didn’t like.

And this is funny.

It’s funny because it’s true.

Trivia answer: Kirsten Dunst.

You made it to the bottom! Thanks for reading! – xo, L

Happy Thursday! I have a little bit of fun information to share with you today. It was kind of a slow news week, book-wise. Everyone must be busy watching soccer. But there are still some fun things! (And I threw in a bonus kitten picture.) 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

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Trivia question time! What author sold more than 85 million books worldwide, has been translated to 37 languages, and was knighted for services to literature in 2009? (Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)

Deals, Reals, and Squeals!

Mindy Kaling met with Marvel Studios in an effort to bring Ms. Marvel to the screen.

Sandhya Menon shared the title of her Summer 2020 rom-com.

Abdi Nazemian’s YA novel Like A Love Story is being adapted for television.

Terry Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice will be an animated film.

The First Wives Club remake will premiere on the BET streaming service.

Ibi Zoboi announced the first book in a two-book deal.

Dune: The Sisterhood series is planned for WarnerMedia’s new streaming service.

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:

Horror Stories: A Memoir by Liz Phair (Random House, October 8)

Hard to believe that Exile in Guyville has been about for 26 years, but it has, and it’s still as amazing as ever. I am a huge fan of the enigmatic Liz Phair, and I can’t wait to read what she has to say about her life. There’s no way this isn’t going to be filthy, right?

What I’m reading this week.

The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

All of Us with Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil

Bonus kitten picture:

Zevon can’t resist a mirror.

And this is funny.

This is why I have Twitter.

Trivia answer: Terry Pratchett.

You made it to the bottom! High five. Thanks for reading! – xo, L

Hello and happy Monday, my little page eaters! All this lovely weather has lifted my spirits. I have been reading up a storm, and can’t wait to share all the good books with you. (A reminder that you can stay on top of great new releases with the New Books! newsletter and the All the Books! podcast.) Enjoy the rest of your week and remember to be excellent to each other! I’ll see you again on Thursday. – xoxo, Liberty

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Here’s this week’s trivia question: What author had four of his novels featured on the New York Times Best Seller List in the same week in 2004? (Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)

Deals, Reals, and Squeals!

AMC to adapt Mona Awad’s Bunny novel for TV.

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown is being made into a series.

The survivor from the Brock Turner case is writing a memoir. (TW for discussion of sexual assault.)

Picador won the rights to the new novel from Sarah Moss.

Ansel Elgort will start in a series adaptation of Tokyo Vice, based on the book by Jake Adelstein.

The rights have sold to Margaret Atwood’s first novel The Edible Woman.

Cover Reveals 

Here’s the first look at the cover of All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson. (FSG Books for Young Readers, April 28, 2020)

And Paste has the first look at Akemi Dawn Bowman’s Harley in the Sky. (Simon Pulse, March 10, 2020)

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!)

Loved, loved, loved:

Theme Music by T. Marie Vandelly (Dutton, July 23)

(TW for discussion of extreme violence and murder.)

Dixie Wheeler was just a baby when her father murdered her mother and three brothers with an axe. The only survivor of the massive tragedy, she becomes known in the papers as “Baby Blue” (because of the song playing over and over while her father slaughtered her family.) Raised away from prying eyes by her aunt. Dixie feels aimless and curious as an adult about the family she doesn’t remember. Maybe that’s why she thinks it’s a good idea to buy her old family home when it goes up on the market. (SPOILER: It isn’t.) From the first day at the murder house, she begins seeing and hearing things. Are they real? Or is Dixie becoming unstable just like her dad? This book is wildly gruesome and spooky and comes completely unhinged at the end. I quite enjoyed it.

What I’m reading this week:

All City: A Novel by Alex DiFrancesco

Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke

Ghosts of Berlin: Stories by Rudolph Herzog and Emma Rault

Lock Every Door: A Novel by Riley Sager

Pun of the week: 

I wasn’t originally going to get a brain transplant, but then I changed my mind.

Here’s a kitten picture:

I do very important work in my office.

And this is funny.

Punctuation humor!

Trivia answer: Dan Brown.

You made it to the bottom! Thanks for reading! – xo, L

Welcome back to another Thursday, book dragons. Is Thursday anyone’s favorite day of the week? Do people have favorite days of the week? I quite like Thursdays. It means I’m one day away from a weekend full of reading! Because yes, everything is book-related with me. And speaking of books, I have some fun things to tell you about today! 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

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Trivia question time! What author graduated from Kenyon College in 2000 with a double major in English and religious studies? (Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)

Deals, Reals, and Squeals!

Sandi Tan will write and direct an adaptation of Elif Batuman’s The Idiot.

The adaptation of Looking for Alaska will be available to stream on Hulu in October.

Mahershala Ali may star in the adaptation of Albert Woodfox’s memoir Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades In Solitary Confinement, My Story of Transformation and Hope.

Barry Jenkins will direct a film based on Jennifer Dunning’s biography Alvin Ailey: A Life In Dance.

Marieke Nijkamp has a graphic novel coming in Spring 2020. It’s part of DC’s Zoom and Ink series, which features several other upcoming titles.

George R.R. Martin is the new Chief World Builder for Meow Wolf, the Santa Fe-based arts and entertainment collective.

A Sammy Davis Jr. miniseries is in the works from Lee Daniels, based on the book In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. by Wil Haygood.

William Boyle announced a new novel for March 2020. (I am a big fan of his stuff.)

The graphic memoir Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home by Nicole J Georges is being adapted for television.

Sarah McCoy announced a new novel for 2021.

Thelma the Unicorn by Aaron Blabey is being made into a musical.

And Jonathan Lee announced a new novel for 2021.

Cover Reveals 

EW has the first look at Crescent City: House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas. (Bloomsbury Publishing, January 28)

Courtney Summers shared the cover for the rerelease of her novel Cracked Up to Be. (Wednesday Books, February 4, 2020)

Catapult shared the covers for Night Theater by Vikram Paralkar (January 14, 2020) and A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Search for Belonging by Nicole Chung and Mensah Demary (February 11, 2020).

And here’s the cover of Oligarchy: A Novel by Scarlett Thomas. (Counterpoint Press, January 14, 2020)

Sneak Peeks

Here’s the trailer for the Netflix adaptation of Trinkets by Kirsten Smith.

And here’s the first trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

And the trailer for season two of Sweetbitter.

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 Reckless Oath We Made by Bryn Greenwood (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, August 20)

The new novel from the author of All the Ugly and Wonderful Things! That book was one long punch in the face, in a good way. I’m excited to see what Greenwood has cooked up next.

What I’m reading this week.

The Paper Wasp by Lauren Acampora

Permanent Record by Mary H. K. Choi

The Doll Factory: A Novel by Elizabeth Macneal

Ghosts of Berlin: Stories by Rudolph Herzog, Emma Rault (translator)

And this is funny.

This is consistently one of my favorite Twitter accounts.

Trivia answer: John Green.

You made it to the bottom! High five. Thanks for reading! – xo, L

Hello, book lovers! As I am writing this, it is Friday and I am typing as fast as I can, so I can get back to watching Good Omens. I am only two episodes in, but so far, it’s great. I hope it lasts. The Deadwood movie also premieres today, and while I don’t have high hopes for it, I am super excited to see it anyway. (I swear I still read books sometimes too.) It was a slow news week, probably because all of publishing was at Book Expo, but I still have a couple cool things to share. Enjoy the rest of your week and remember to be excellent to each other! I’ll see you again on Thursday. – xoxo, Liberty

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For fans of Jodi Picoult and Anna Quindlen, comes The Summer We Lost Her, the new novel by Tish Cohen. An “astonishingly profound…exquisitely written drama” (Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You) about a husband and a wife, a missing child, and the complicated family secrets that can derail even the best of marriages, The Summer We Lost Her is an unforgettable read about a parent’s worst nightmare.

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Here’s this week’s trivia question: Daphne du Maurier’s cousin was Peter Llewellyn Davies, who was the inspiration for what character? (Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)

Deals, Reals, and Squeals!

Hulu is adapting Normal People by Sally Rooney.

The Fifth Season is June’s pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club

Netflix has optioned Sarah Dessen’s YA novels.

Anna North announced that she has written a Western.

Keeley Hawes and Ann Dowd have joined the new Rebecca adaptation.

There’s also a new adaptation of The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe in the the works.

Cover Reveals 

Here’s the first look at The Queen’s Assassin by Melissa de la Cruz. (G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, February 4, 2020)

Sneak Peeks

Here’s the first trailer for The Kitchen with Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elisabeth Moss. It’s based on the graphic novel of the same name by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle.

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!)

Loved, loved, loved:

All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, October 22)

I can’t remember if I already told you how much I loved this book, so I’m going to do it again. It’s about members of a family who have been lorded over by the abusive narcissist patriarch their whole lives. When he suffers a heart attack, they reflect on his past behavior, and contemplate forgiveness. I LOOOOOVED it. And the ending, holy cats! It was the first time I fist-pumped the air and said “YESSSSSS” while reading an ending. I looked like Judd Nelson in The Breakfast Club.

What I’m reading this week:

When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll

Permanent Record by Mary H. K. Choi

Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim

Theme Music: A Novel by T. Marie Vandelly

Pun of the week: 

I’ve just written a song about tortillas. Actually, it’s more of a rap.

Here’s a kitten picture:

“Ask me about my cats.”

And this is funny.

Awwww, adorbs.

Trivia answer: Peter Pan.

You made it to the bottom! Thanks for reading! – xo, L

Hellooooooo! We haven’t seen each other in so long. I completely forgot last week that Monday was a holiday. But we’re back on track now! I have some fun things to tell you about today. 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

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Sponsored by William Morrow Books

Emily Dawson travels to Barbados in 1854 to claim an unexpected inheritance from her grandfather – Peverills, a sugar plantation in Barbados that her grandfather never told anyone he owned. Emily discovers that Peverills is a burned out shell, destroyed in 1816, when an uprising of enslaved people sent the island up in flames. Why would her grandfather leave her a property in ruins? Why are the neighboring plantation owners so eager to acquire Peverillsw? The answers lie in the past–a tangled history of deception, greed, clandestine love, betrayal, and a bold bid for freedom.

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Trivia question time! What writer published a poem in the Mississippi literary review when she was just thirteen years old?(Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)

Deals, Reals, and Squeals!

Exciting adaptation news: Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi is going to be a film!

Kathleen Rooney has a new book coming in the fall of 2020.

The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez is going to be a musical.

Gentleman Jack has been renewed for a second season.

Hulu has ordered an anthology series based on Nathan Ballingrud’s North American Lake Monsters.

The Jonas Brothers are releasing a memoir in the fall.

French Exit by Patrick deWitt is going to be a film with Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges.

Caleb Roerhig announced his new novel, The Fell of Dark, coming in January 2020.

Marsai Martin may star in the adaptation of Amari and the Night Brothers.

Cover Reveals 

Here’s the first look at How to Speak Boy by Tiana Smith. (Swoon Reads, January 7th, 2020)

And the first peek at the cover of The Dead Girls Club by Damien Angelica Walters. (Crooked Lane Books, December 10)

Sneak Peeks

Here’s the first trailer for the adaptation of The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt!

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 King of Crows by Libba Bray (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, February 4, 2020)

It’s the final book in the Diviners series, eeeeeeeeee! I have enjoyed this spooky YA series SO MUCH, and can’t wait for this one. Everything Libba Bray does is amazing, so if you’ve never read this series, or any of her books, I highly recommend correcting that.

What I’m reading this week.

Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim

Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky (Yes, still. Little bits at a time.)

Bunny: A Novel by Mona Awad

And this is funny.

Poor kitty.

Trivia answer: Donna Tartt.

You made it to the bottom! High five. Thanks for reading! – xo, L

Welcome to another book-filled Thursday! I have some fun news and recommendations to share with you today. Also, I don’t know if it’s the warmer weather or what, but I have been reading up a storm lately. (I also started watching Veep and, holy cats, I love it so much!) 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

“Book Radar” is sponsored by Tor Teen.

Maris Brown is a liar. A good one. But even she is unprepared for what a summer in a wealthy beach town with her estranged father and his new family have in store for her. Sinister plots lurk beneath the surface of what should be paradise—and at the heart of everything is the elite Duval family. Maris isn’t sure who she can trust, but she’s drawn to the youngest Duval. Edison is back from college and dating Maris’s stepsister, but he is far more than the golden boy he appears to be. The secrets he harbors are deadly.

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Trivia question time! What is V.C. Andrew’s real name? (Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)

Deals, Reals, and Squeals!

Joshua Jackson is set to star in the adaptation of Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere.

Adriyan Rae will star in a live-action version of the comic Vagrant Queen by Magdalene Visaggio and Jason Smith.

The Mirror & the Light, the third book in Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy, is coming in March of 2020.

Marie Kondo announced that she has two announcements. One of those was an upcoming children’s book!

Berkley has acquired its first queer female romance.

Netflix and Forest Whitaker are teaming up for an adaptation of Erin Entrada Kelly’s Hello, Universe.

There’s a Napoleon Dynamite sequel coming in comic form.

Kacen Callender announced their upcoming book: Felix Ever After.

And Benjamin Dreyer announced a new upcoming book about fiction.

Cover Reveals 

Here’s the first look at Paul Lisicky’s upcoming memoir Later: My Life at the Edge of the World. (Graywolf Press, March 17)

Nina MacLaughlin revealed the cover of her upcoming book Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung. (FSG Originals, November 19)

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 Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hossain (Tor.com, August 13)

I am a HUGE fan of Hossain’s earlier book, Escape from Baghdad! and Djinn City, so I could not be more excited to read this novella about alternate djinn history and the apocalypse. I will hopefully get to it this weekend!

What I’m reading this week.

The Library of the Unwritten (A Novel from Hell’s Library) by A. J. Hackwith

Searching for Sylvie Lee: A Novel by Jean Kwok

Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come: One Introvert’s Year of Saying Yes by Jessica Pan

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky

And this is funny.

Same, same.

Trivia answer: Cleo Virginia Andrews.

You made it to the bottom! High five. Thanks for reading! – xo, L

Welcome to another Monday, my little spine sniffers. Not a whole lot of book news the last few days, but there’s still some great tidbits (and of course a kitten picture.) I hope you had a marvelous weekend and read great books. (And that the Game of Thrones series finale wasn’t too horrible.) Enjoy the rest of your week and remember to be excellent to each other! I’ll see you again on Thursday. – xoxo, Liberty

“Book Radar” is sponsored by Gather the Fortunes by Bryan Camp, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 

Camp returns to his otherworldly New Orleans for a new novel that evokes the magic, mystery, and mythology of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods with a female protagonist that calls to mind the power and personality of Chuck Wendig’s Miriam Black (Blackbirds). Is it one of the storm gods that’s descended on the city? The death god who’s locked the Gates of the Underworld?

Or the manipulative sorcerer who also cheated Death? When she finds the schemer, there’s going to be hell to pay, because there are scarier things than death in the Crescent City. Renaissance Raines is one of them.

Here’s this week’s trivia question: Edward Stratemeyer created what famous character? (Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)

Deals, Reals, and Squeals!

Lucy Hale and Robbie Amell will star in an adaptation of The Hating Game by Sally Thorne.

Queen Latifah and Will Smith are producing a hip-hop adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.

Lauren Oliver’s Panic will be a series on Amazon.

The cast of the remake of High Fidelity with Zoë Kravitz is growing.

Cover Reveals

The Folio Society is releasing new editions of the Game of Thrones books.

Sneak Peeks

The first trailer for His Dark Materials is here!

Here’s the first trailer for Nancy Drew on the CW.

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!)

Loved, loved, loved:

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty (W. W. Norton & Company, September 10)

This was every bit as wonderful as I knew it would be! Doughty takes real questions she has been asked by kids – which she prefers, as adults aren’t as usually as direct when talking about death – and gives funny, fascinating, and completely honest answers. While the questions have been asked by children, the book is not exactly for children. Maybe for older kids, but the graphic descriptions and frankness definitely make this more for adults, something that Doughty warns in the preface. Whoever it is for, she has once again written an informative and conscientious book about mortality. It’s a book most everyone can learn from.

What I’m reading this week:

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky

Prairie Fever by Michael Parker

Pun of the week: 

Need an Ark? I Noah guy.

Here’s a kitten picture:

Signing Farrokh up for America’s Got Talent.

And this is funny.

It’s the circle of life.

Trivia answer: Nancy Drew.

You made it to the bottom! Thanks for reading! – xo, L

Happy Thursday, book fans! It’s another rain-filled week here in Maine. It’s getting exhausting, and I don’t even like to go outside, lol. At least there are books! (And Netflix: marathoned Dead to Me. Loved it.) 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

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Sponsored by Soho Crime

Sujata Massey returns with a new Perveen Mistry historical mystery set in India following 2018’s award-winning The Widows of Malabar Hill. India, 1922: What begins as a trip to mediate a dispute between maharanis in the distant mountain province of Satapur quickly turns sinister when Perveen Mistry, Bombay’s first female lawyer, finds herself caught in a viper’s nest of cold-blooded power players settling ancient scores.

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Trivia question time! In the original TV mini-series of IT, what famous rock legend was in the running to play Pennywise, the role that ending up going to Tim Curry? (Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)

Deals, Reals, and Squeals!

Issa Rae has optioned Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones!

Annette Bening and Michelle Pfeiffer have joined the adaptation of Alice LaPlante’s Turn of Mind.

Emilia Clarke will play poet Elizabeth Barrett in Let Me Count the Ways.

Snowpiercer, with Daveed Diggs and Jennifer Connelly, is moving to TNT ahead of its debut.

Richard Thomas will star as Atticus Finch in the national tour of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Stephen King’s new novel featuring Holly from the Mr. Mercedes trilogy, If You Bleed, will hit shelves in 2020.

Nora Roberts is writing her 50th J.D. Robb book.

FSG will publish Chelsea Manning’s memoir.

Cover Reveals 

Here’s the cover for Nic Stone’s Jackpot! (Crown Books for Young Readers, October 15)

Tor.com revealed the cover for Docile by K.M. Szpara. (Tor.com, March 3, 2020)

And here’s the first look at Marie Lu’s Rebel: Legend 4. (Roaring Brook Press, October 1)

And the first look at the cover of the companion book to Rebel Seoul: Rogue Heart by Axie Oh (Tu Books, October 8)

Sneak Peeks

Here’s the new trailer for Where’d You Go, Bernadette?

And here’s the trailer for Saving Zoë.

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:

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty

THAT TITLE. Do I even need to explain why I want to read it? Well, if I must: Doughty is the amazing human behind Ask a Mortician, and the fabulous books Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and From Here to Eternity. She is hilarious and smart, and I cannot wait to get my paws on this! And it’s ILLUSTRATED.

What I’m reading this week.

Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky

The Toll by Cherie Priest

Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D Jackson

Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

And this is funny.

I laughed because I am eight. (Mildly NSFW. Or bears.)

Trivia answer: Alice Cooper.

You made it to the bottom! High five. Thanks for reading! – xo, L