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Today’s Deal: $12 Totes!
On the second day of Deals Week, Book Riot gives to you $12 totes for storing all your bookish necessities! Use code TUESDAY at checkout.
Wanna stuff your tote with amazing reads? There are fewer than 20 of our Best Books of 2016 box remaining. Snag one now!
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Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio.
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As promised, here is the second part of my list of books published in 2016 that I am thankful for, books that you may not have heard enough about. The end of the year is historically a slow time for grand new releases, so it’s a great time to remember fabulous books we read and share favorites. And you can hear Rebecca and I discuss some of December’s best titles on this week’s new episode of the All the Books! We talked about awesome books such as Kill the Next One, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love, and The Undoing Project.
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Guapa by Saleem Haddad
A fantastic story about Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, as he tries to discover what he wants from life in the middle of his country’s political and social upheaval.
Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard
A wonderful novel about a young woman who wants to escape labels and judgement associated with how she chooses to dress and act and love.
Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South by Beth Macy
The horrifying true story of two African American brothers who were kidnapped in 1899 and forced to perform in a circus, and their mother’s 28-year fight to bring them home.
The Unseen World by Liz Moore
A young woman raised and homeschooled by her brilliant but socially awkward scientist father seeks information about his life and work after his mind falters.
Christodora by Tim Murphy
A wonderful novel set in the iconic Christadora building in NYC, revolving around the AIDS crisis and the lives of the building’s tenants through the decades.
Known and Strange Things: Essays by Teju Cole
Cole’s first collection of essays are powerful, intellegent observations on art, politics, travel, and more. There are over fifty pieces to check out!
The Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar
Four women caught in a violent rebellion struggle to make sure that their part in history will not be forgotten. (It’s also a companion novel to Samatar’s World Fantasy Award-winning debut, A Stranger in Olondria.)
The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis
One of the best dystopian novels of the year, The Wolf Road is about a young girl who is taken in and educated by a dangerous stranger after most of civilization is wiped out.
Rani Patel in Full Effect by Sonia Patel
A young Indian girl living in Hawaii, struggling to fit in with her peers as her parents’ marriage implodes, finds happiness and heartache in the world of underground hip hop.
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
An incredibly well-researched account of the Attica uprising and the cover-ups and lawsuits revolving around the incident that are still going on four decades later.
YAY, BOOKS! That’s it for me today. And if you want to learn more about books (and see lots of pictures of my cats, Millay and Steinbeck), or tell me about books you’re reading, you can find me on Twitter at MissLiberty, on Instagram at FranzenComesAlive, or Litsy under ‘Liberty’!
Stay rad!
Liberty
$20 Tees – 5 Days of Deals
Book the halls and deck out your favorite readers with literary gear. 5 Days of Deals kicks off with adult tees for $20, today only!
And don’t forget – you’ll get free mismatched library card socks with every purchase, while supplies last.
Win $250 to Spend at Amazon!
No need to mince words here: we are giving one lucky Book Riot reader $250 to blow at Amazon. Overstuff those stockings or get a jump on your New Year reading pile–up to you.
To enter, just try one (or more…) of our email lists, designed to help you get more out of your reading life, from finding out about cheap ebooks or keeping up with new releases. If you don’t like what you signed up for, unsubscribing is easy. No worries. (And if you already get these, go ahead and enter. Our email system won’t send duplicates to the same email address)
This giveaway is open internationally, and will be open to entries until midnight Eastern on December 8th, 2016. One entry per email address. I will randomly select a winner and email them for mailing info. The winner will have 48 hours to respond before I pick someone else, so use an email address that you actually check.
Ready? Go here to enter, or just click the image below:
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Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by our very own $250 Amazon gift card giveaway!
No need to mince words here: we are giving one lucky Book Riot reader $250 to blow at Amazon. Overstuff those stockings or get a jump on your New Year reading pile–up to you.
Go here to enter.
From now through January, Book Riot is giving away some of our favorite books of 2016.
Up first is one of our favorite mysteries of 2016: IQ by Joe Ide.
Author Joe Ide used his own history, growing up as an Asian kid in South Central Los Angeles, to create IQ, a new mystery set in a tough L.A. neighborhood about Isaiah Quintabe, nicknamed IQ,who is determined to help find justice and solve unsolved crimes the police don’t care about. Quintabe is inspired by Sherlock Holmes and the book has already been compared to a West Coast version of The Wire, so perhaps it’s not surprising that the television rights to IQ have already sold.
We’ve got three copies to giveaway to U.S. and Canada residents. Go here to enter for a chance to win, or just click the image below. Good luck!
Monroeville, Alabama Plans Harper Lee Tourist Attraction
Harper Lee’s hometown announced last week that it is developing the Harper Lee Trail. The tourist attraction will include a 1909 bank building where Lee’s father–on whom she based Atticus Finch–kept an office, along with replicas of three houses that are featured in To Kill a Mockingbird. Led by Lee’s erstwhile lawyer/advisor Tonja Carter, a coalition of local business owners hopes to bring hundreds of thousands of the legendary author’s fans to town. They also hope to avoid accidentally creating “Disneyland for racists” or drawing in white nationalists with an appetite for nostalgia. As with basically everything else connected to Lee’s legacy, “Whether Harper Lee herself would approve of the plans is open to question.”
Lin-Manuel Miranda to Produce Kingkiller Chronicle Series
If you gave me a hundred chances to guess who would be tapped to adapt Patrick Rothfuss’s monster fantasy trilogy The Kingkiller Chronicles for the big screen, I would never have gotten to Lin-Manuel Miranda. But the world is full of wonders, and that’s exactly what has happened. Miranda will serve as a producer and will compose original songs for both a feature film and TV adaptation. What a delightfully weird and unexpected pairing!
The Girl Gets Back on the Train? (New Paula Hawkins Novel in 2017)
The good folks at Riverhead are no doubt hoping to make lightning strike twice. Paula Hawkins, whose novel The Girl on the Train sold a floppity jillion copies and broke almost as many sales records, will release Into the Water in 2017. It’s another work of suspense that will “interrogate the deceitfulness of memory.” Gonna be fun to watch what happens. Will you be waiting for it?