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Join Us for Read Harder Book Groups in October!

Tis October! We finally get to wear sweaters and celebrate the Pumpkin King and all his various offerings. Latte, beer, pie — as far as I am concerned, the more the merrier. That applies to books as well, of course, and our Read Harder Groups are here to expand your TBR pile and introduce you to your fellow booknerds.

We’re meeting in 11 cities around the world, and we’d love for you to join us!

New York City, NY — 10/15
Los Angeles, CA — 10/15
Glasgow, GB — 10/15
Boston, MA — 11/15
Portland, OR — 10/16
Philadelphia, PA — 10/16
Houston, TX — 10/16
Washington, DC — 10/16
Vancouver, BC — 10/20
Chicago, IL — 10/20
Toronto, ON — 10/22

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Book Riot Live

Book Riot Live Oct 12

We asked our speakers what they wished they had known at the beginnings of their publishing careers, and their answers are gold. Check them out, and get excited for Book Riot Live — which is now literally a month away! If you’ve been waiting on tickets, you can still get them for $20 off using code BOOKNERD.

Want to meet some of your fellow attendees ahead of time? Head over to the Book Riot Live Facebook group, where they’re talking donuts, Broadway shows, and craft swaps (among many other things).

Party Like a Booknerd

Book Riot Live is sponsored by Bookwitty and Unbound Worlds

 

 

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This Week In Books

The National Book Award Finalists: This Week in Books

National Book Foundation Announces Its 2016 Finalists

The 20 finalists for this year’s National Book Awards were announced early last week, five each in Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction, and Young People’s Literature. Based only on buzz, here are my predictions for the winners in each category:

Fiction: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Non-fiction: Nothing Ever Dies by Viet Than Nguyen
Poetry: The Collected Poems by Rita Dove
Young People’s Literature: Ghost by Jason Reynolds

 

New Arundhati Roy Novel Coming in 2017

Next year, Arundhati Roy will publish her second novel, a full twenty years after her debut blockbuster The God of Small Things won the Booker Prize. Her new novel will be called The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and will come out sometime next year. Roy, though, has been extremely productive in the intervening decades since her last novel, writing a range of essays and non-fiction books.

 

Amazon Prime Now Includes 1,000 Free Books and Magazines

Starting on October 5th, Amazon Prime members now have access to a rotating list of 1,000 ebooks and magazines as part of their membership. Some big-time magazines like Cosmopolitan and National Geographic are included, and among the books are a number of best-selling, if not recent, titles, including The Hobbit and the Harry Potter series. Each month, the selection will switch, though it’s not clear if it will be a complete turnover or if some of the included material will always be part of the deal.

This Week in Books is sponsored by The Lovely Reckless by Kami Garcia:

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Frankie Devereux would do anything to forget the past. Haunted by the memory of her boyfriend’s death, she lives her life by one dangerous rule: nothing matters. At least, that’s what Frankie tells herself after a reckless mistake forces her to leave her privileged life in the Heights and transfer to public school in the Downs, where illegal street racing is more popular than football.

Marco Leone is the fastest street racer in the Downs. Tough, sexy, and hypnotic, he makes it impossible for Frankie to ignore him. But the risks Marco takes could have devastating consequences. Will Frankie risk what little she has left to follow her heart?

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October New Books Megalist: The Sequel

The hits just keep on coming! It’s time for another BIG list of great titles out today. Your TBRs are surely groaning, but in another few weeks, it will be a barren desert for books until 2017, so enjoy it while it lasts. SO MANY BOOKS. And you can hear more about some of them on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about a few amazing books we loved, such as The Mothers, Hag-Seed, and A Life in Parts.

book-mail-ya-email-squareThere’s just one week til our new YA Book Mail box drops! Get awesome YA books and bookish goodies for $60, with free shipping all over the world! Join the wait list and watch your email on October 18th — quantities are limited!

 

conspiracy of ravensConspiracy of Ravens by Lila Bowen

The Red Car by Marcy Dermansky

Every Hidden Thing by Kenneth Oppel

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century by Simon Reynolds

Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited by Philip Eade

Rani Patel in Full Effect by Sonia Patel

French Girl with Mother by Norman Ollestad

Seeing As Your Shoes Are Soon to be on Fire: Essays by Liza Monroy

Be Good Be Real Be Crazy by Chelsey Philpot

the home placeThe Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham

Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan Coyote

Brat Pack America: Visiting Cult Movies of the ’80s by Kevin Smokler

The Abandoned Heart: A Bliss House Novel by Laura Benedict

Upstream by Mary Oliver

The Clancys of Queens: A Memoir by Tara Clancy

Around the Way Girl: A Memoir by Taraji P. Henson

Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing by Jennifer Weiner

In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine by Tim Judah

Future Sex by Emily Witt

the hidden keysThe Hidden Keys by André Alexis

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways) by Eliot Weinberger

The Years That Followed by Catherine Dunne

The Blind Astronomer’s Daughter by John Pipkin

Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien

Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood

Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American by Okey Ndibe

Body of Water: A Sage, a Seeker, and the World’s Most Elusive Fish by Chris Dombrowski

Orders to Kill by Vince Flynn

“Bad News”: The Turbulent Life of Marvin Barnes, Pro Basketball’s Original Renegade by Mike Carey

the singing bonesThe Singing Bones by Shaun Tan

The Midwife by Katja Kettu (Author), David Hackston (Translator)

French Rhapsody by Antoine Laurain (Author), Emily Boyce (Translator), Jane Aitken (Translator)

Precious and Grace: No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (17) by Alexander McCall Smith

The General vs. the President : MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War by H.W. Brands

Unbearable Splendor by Sun Yung Shin

The Mothers by Brit Bennett

Him, Me, Muhammad Ali by Randa Jarrar

Who Killed These Girls? : Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders by Beverly Lowry

still life with tornadoStill Life with Tornado by A. S. King

Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir by Amy Kurzweil

The Annie Year by Stephanie Wilbur Ash

Scratch by Steve Himmer

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

Little Sister Death by William Gay (paperback)

God’s Kingdom by Howard Frank Mosher (paperback)

Drinking in America: Our Secret History by Susan Cheever (paperback)

YAY, BOOKS! That’s it for me today – time to get back to reading! 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

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Riot Rundown

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Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict.

other-einstein-200wMileva Maric has always been a little different from other girls. Most twenty-year-olds are wives by now, not studying physics at an elite Zurich university with only male students trying to outdo her clever calculations. But Mileva is smart enough to know that, for her, math is an easier path than marriage. And then fellow student Albert Einstein takes an interest in her, and the world turns sideways. Theirs becomes a partnership of the mind and of the heart, but there might not be room for more than one genius in a marriage.

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Giveaways

Weekend Giveaway: 10 Copies of WAY DOWN DARK by JP Smythe

way-down-dark-jp-smythSeventeen-year-old Chan’s ancestors left a dying Earth hundreds of years ago, in search of a new home. Generations later, they are still searching . . . Every day aboard the interstellar ship Australia is hell, where no one is safe. The Australia is filled with murderous gangs and twisted cults, vying for supremacy. Fierce and self-sufficient, Chan has learned to avoid the mayhem but then she makes an extraordinary discovery–there may be a way to return to Earth. But doing so will bring her to the attention of the murderers and fanatics, putting her and everyone she loves in danger.

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We’ve got 10 copies of JP Smythe’s  Way Down Dark to give away to 10 lucky Riot Readers in the US. Giveaway ends October 14, 2016, 11:59 pm Eastern time. Winners will be randomly selected.

Go here to enter the giveaway, or just click the button below:

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Win a Advanced Signed Edition of LINCOLN IN THE BARDO by George Saunders….Plus His Complete Works!

Oh, have we got a good giveaway for you. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders is one of our most anticipated books of 2017 and we have 5 signed editions to give away.

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And that’s not all. Each winner will also receive a complete set of Saunders other books, including:

Tenth of December
Pastoralia
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
In Persuasion Nation
The Braindead Megaphone
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
Congratulations, By the Way.

To enter for your chance to win, sign up for occasional updates from New York Times bestselling author, George Saunders. It’ll keep you up-to-date on George’s latest releases, exclusive giveaways and original content. And keep an eye out for Lincoln in the Bardo, George’s first novel, on sale February 14th.

5 winners will be selected randomly on November 1st, 2016. One entry per email address, U.S. only.

For a chance to win, go here to enter, or just click the button below. Good luck!

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Book Riot Live VIP Update: Sched Invites Are Sent!

Hello, VIP ticket holders! As you know, one of your biggest perks is getting early access to RSVP for panels — and your chance is now. Check your inboxes for a separate invite from Sched, our platform for personalizing your Book Riot Live schedule. There you’ll be able to start adding panels to your list and get your name in for our two limited-seating sessions! Other attendees will be added on October 17, but until then it’s all yours.

The email will look like this (especially if your name is Alex):

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As always, if you have any questions, just let us know. Happy planning, and we’ll see you in 37 days!

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The Stack

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Today’s The Stack is sponsored by our Swords & Spaceships Mailbag Giveaway.

br_mailbaggiveawayscifi_fbTo celebrate the launch of Swords & Spaceships, our SF/F Newsletter, we’re giving away a selection of 10 of this summer’s best new releases in science fiction and fantasy! Enter to win by signing up for Swords & Spaceships. This is open worldwide, so if you have a mailing address located on the planet Earth, we’ll find a way to get these books to you. Enter now!

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Riot Rundown

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Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by our Swords & Spaceships Mailbag Giveaway.

br_mailbaggiveawayscifi_fbTo celebrate the launch of Swords & Spaceships, our SF/F Newsletter, we’re giving away a selection of 10 of this summer’s best new releases in science fiction and fantasy! Enter to win by signing up for Swords & Spaceships. This is open worldwide, so if you have a mailing address located on the planet Earth, we’ll find a way to get these books to you. Enter now!