Category: New Books

November New Books Megalist: The Sequel!

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date November 12, 2017

Look around, look around… SO MANY GREAT NOVEMBER BOOKS. I am in NYC this week on many bookish adventures, but I had the opportunity to read a bunch of amazing titles out today. You can hear about a few of these books on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Jenn and I talked about amazing books we loved, such as The City of Brass, Into the Drowning Deep, and The Wild Book.

SUPERFAIL by Max Brunner, illustrated by Dustin Mackay

Laser vision isn’t so hot when you’re cross-eyed. Just ask Marshall Preston, a twelve-year-old with superhuman abilities that are restricted by some very human setbacks. While other kids are recruited to superhero teams, Marshall’s stuck with a team of young Defectives: super speedy but can’t turn corners, radioactive Hulk allergies, and supersonic flight hindered by motion sickness. They aren’t exactly superhero material, but when Marshall uncovers a plot to destroy one of the greatest superhero teams of all time, he and his less-than-super friends set out to prove that just because you’re defective doesn’t mean you can’t save the day.

(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!)

mean Mean by Myriam Gurba

Hardcore Twenty-Four: A Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich

End Game (Will Robie Series) by David Baldacci

Blackbird by Michael Fiegel

The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty

No Saints in Kansas by Amy Brashear

The Last Sheriff in Texas: A True Tale of Violence and the Vote by James P. McCollom

Don’t Save Anything: Uncollected Essays, Articles, and Profiles by James Salter

Goldeline by Jimmy Cajoleas

Mother of All Pigs by Malu Halasa

The Book of Formation by Ross Simonini

The Inside Out Man by Fred Strydom

The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother’s Suicide by Gayle Brandeis

On Power: My Journey Through the Corridors of Power and How You Can Get More Power by Gene Simmons

Thousands by Lightsey Darst

Fragments of the Lost by Megan Miranda

Runebinder by Alex R. Kahler

Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose by Joe Biden

artemis Artemis by Andy Weir

Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang

Adult Fantasy: searching for true maturity in an age of mortgages, marriages, and other adult milestones by Briohny Doyle

Oathbringer: Book Three of the Stormlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson

I Don’t Want to Know Anyone Too Well: Collected Stories by Norman Levine

The Ghost of Christmas Past (Molly Murphy Mysteries) by Rhys Bowen

The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen

The Book of Resting Places: A Personal History of Where We Lay the Dead by Thomas Mira y Lopez

The Imagined Land by Eduardo Berti, Charlotte Coombe (Translator)

Debriefing: Collected Stories by Susan Sontag

Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by P. D. James

The Savage by Frank Bill

Future Home of the Living God: A Novel by Louise Erdrich

Creatures of Will & Temper by Molly Tanzer

The Night Language by David Rocklin

The Wild Book (Yonder) by Juan Villoro (Author), Lawrence Schimel (Translator)

A Beautiful Young Woman by Julian Lopez

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

Improvement: A Novel by Joan Silber

After the End of the World (Carter & Lovecraft) by Jonathan L. Howard

Strangers in Budapest by Jessica Keener

The Library at the Edge of the World by Felicity Hayes-McCoy

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

Whichwood by Tahereh Mafi

Fates and Traitors by Jennifer Chiaverini (Now in paperback.)

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (Now in paperback.)

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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

New Books

First Tuesday in November New Books Megalist!

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date November 6, 2017

It’s another glorious new release day! It’s a good one! I feel like more and more, publishers are releasing great books closer to the holidays. It used to be a lot harder to find so many amazing books coming out in November and December. 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 Madonna in a Fur Coat, Buzz, and Bonfire.

Sponsored by The Sound Of Rain by Sarah Loudin Thomas

After a tragic mine accident in 1954, Judd Markley thought he had abandoned his Appalachian roots forever by moving to Myrtle Beach. Then he meets the privileged Larkin Heyward, who dreams of moving to Kentucky to help the poor of Appalachia. Drawn together amid a hurricane and swept away by their feelings, are their divergent dreams too great an obstacle to overcome? “Thomas is a master storyteller…The Sound of Rain is a novel readers won’t want to miss.”—RT Book Reviews

(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!)

bonfire Bonfire by Krysten Ritter

The Speaker (Sea of Ink and Gold) by Traci Chee

The Becoming of Noah Shaw by Michelle Hodkin

Written in Blood by Layton Green

Jade City by Fonda Lee

They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

Liars by Steven Gillis

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

Heather, the Totality by Matthew Weiner

Nanoshock (SINless) by KC Alexander

All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault by James Alan Gardner

The Senator’s Children by Nicholas Montemarano

Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement: A Year Inside the Optimization Movement by Carl Cederström and André Spicer

The Revolution of Marina M. by Janet Fitch

Seduced by Mrs. Robinson: How “The Graduate” Became the Touchstone of a Generation by Beverly Gray

Off the Deep End: A History of Madness at Sea by Nic Compton

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 12: The Getaway by Jeff Kinney

Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone by Juli Berwald

The Overneath by Peter S. Beagle

Valiant Dust (Breaker of Empires) by Richard Baker

Mrs. Osmond by John Banville

How Oscar Indigo Broke the Universe (And Put It Back Together Again) by David Teague

I, Parrot: A Graphic Novel by Deb Olin Unferth (Author), Elizabeth Haidle (Illustrator)

The House of Unexpected Sisters: No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (18) by Alexander McCall Smith

Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials by Malcolm Harris

Devil in Ohio by Daria Polatin

Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali (Author), Ureen Freely (Translator), Alexander Dawe (Translator)

This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada

Eight Days on Planet Earth by Cat Jordan

The Closest I’ve Come by Fred Aceves

The Wrong Stars by Tim Pratt

Numenera: The Night Clave by Monte Cook and Shanna Germain

Into English: Poems, Translations, Commentaries by Martha Collins (Author), Kevin Prufer (Author, Editor)

Here We Are Now by Jasmine Warga

Catalina: A Novel by Liska Jacobs

Wonder Valley by Ivy Pochoda

Places in the Darkness by Chris Brookmyre

Someone You Love Is Gone by Gurjinder Basran

The Midnight Line: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child

Buzz: The Stimulating History of the Sex Toy by Hallie Lieberman

Brolliology: A History of the Umbrella in Life and Literature by Marion Rankine

Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance by Bill McKibben

This Book is Not For You by Daniel Hoyt

The Time of Mute Swans by Ece Temelkuran, Kenneth Dakan (Translator)

Hitler, My Neighbor: Memories of a Jewish Childhood, 1929-1939 by Edgar Feuchtwanger (Author), Bertil Scali (Author), Adriana Hunter (Translator)

Retribution Rails by Erin Bowman

Renegades by Marissa Meyer

The End We Start From by Megan Hunter

Kat and Meg Conquer the World by Anna Priemaza

Terminal Alliance (Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse) by Jim C. Hines

Stay rad,

Liberty

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Elvis Fights Monsters, Killer Pets, and More New Books for Halloween!

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date October 30, 2017

Happy Halloween, book lovers! NOW GIMME CANDY. I have a few spooky-ish books out today to tell you about, 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 Beasts Made of Night, Everything is Awful, The Tea Dragon Society, and more.

A True American Hero, Joe Hill’s Latest, and More New Books

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date October 23, 2017

Hello, book lovers! Who’s reading something good this week? I read a bunch of rad things during the Dewey’s Readathon on Saturday, and have a bunch more stuff lined up for this week. I CANNOT GET ENOUGH. I have a few awesome books 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 Long Way Down, River of Consciousness, Ghosts of the Tsunami, and more.

Sponsored by Life Detonated by Kathleen Murray Moran

The gripping true story of Kathleen Murray, a young mother whose life was changed on September 11, 1976 when her husband, a NYPD bomb disposal expert, was killed by a terrorist’s bomb. It details her journey out of poverty, and her own determination to take care of her two young sons as she starts over.

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Strange Weather: Four Short Novels by Joe Hill

What’s better than one new Joe Hill book? Four new Joe Hill books! Okay, they’re more like novellas, but still. Snapshot is about a spooky camera; nails fall from the sky in Rain; a parachute jumper is stranded in the sky in Aloft; and a security guard carries out an unfortunately increasingly common 21st century scene in Loaded. Each of these is a creepy, horrifying delight, sure to upset and surprise you.

The River of Consciousness bump: 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill

An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice by Khizr Khan

You may recognize Khan: He and his wife appeared at the DNC in 2016 to say a few words about the loss of their son, an American soldier. The experience of losing a loved one in service of the country is sadly something a lot of families have been through, but Khan’s appearance brought more attention, both positive and horrible. This is his story, from his family’s immigration from Pakistan to the United States, to his Army captain son and the grief caused by his devastating death. Khan shows what it is to make sacrifices for your country and what it means to be a real patriot.

Backlist bump: The Constitution of the United States by Delegates of the Constitutional Convention

The Tethered Mage (Swords and Fire) by Melissa Caruso

The first in an exciting new fantasy series! Okay, I don’t actually know if the other books will be exciting, but this one certainly is! It’s about magic – and the control of magic. Zaira has lived her whole life on the streets, hiding her abilities away from those who would imprison her. But hers is a dangerous magic, and her seemingly fated meeting with a falconer might be the catalyst that drags them into an all-out war. Lying, and double-crossing, and assassination attempts, oh my! What fun!

Backlist bump: Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

Stay rad,

Liberty

New Books

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

Stay rad,

Liberty

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

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(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)

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

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.

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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

New Books

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

New Books

September New Books Megalist: The Sequel!

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date September 11, 2017

Forgive me, I know it isn’t the first Tuesday of the month, but there were so many wonderful titles out today, I couldn’t resist another big list. There are just so many incredible books to choose from. 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 Little Fires Everywhere, The Twelve-Mile Straight, and Braving the Wilderness.

Sponsored by Lies She Told by USA Today bestselling author Cate Holahan.

Liza Cole has one month to write the thriller that could land her back on the bestseller list. Meanwhile, she’s struggling to start a family, but her husband is distracted by the disappearance of his best friend, Nick. As stresses start to weigh her down, Liza escapes into writing her latest heroine, Beth.

Beth suspects her husband is cheating on her while she’s home caring for their newborn. Angry and betrayed, she aims to catch him in the act and make him pay. But before she realizes what she’s doing, she’s tossing the body of her husband’s mistress into the East River.

Then, the lines between fiction and reality blur. Nick’s body is dragged from the East River, and Liza’s husband is arrested for his murder. Before her deadline is up, Liza will have to face up to the truths about the people around her. If she doesn’t, the end of her heroine’s story could be the end of her own.

(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!)

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng