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SHADOW AND BONE Renewed for Season 2: Your YA News and New YA Books

Post author By Tirzah Price
Post date June 9, 2021

Sponsored by The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon

In Asalin, fae rule and witches like Wyatt Croft…don’t. Wyatt’s betrothal to his best friend, fae prince Emyr North, was supposed to change that. But when Wyatt lost control of his magic one devastating night, he fled to the human world. Now a coldly distant Emyr has hunted him down. Despite transgender Wyatt’s newfound identity and troubling past, Emyr has no intention of dissolving their engagement. In fact, he claims they must marry now or risk losing the throne. Now Wyatt must make a choice between his heart and his freedom.

Hey YA friends! It’s a scorcher here in the Midwest, and I’m just doing my best to stay hydrated, stay cool, and chill in the shade with a great book. I have a ton of exciting news and new releases for you, so grab a cold drink (limoncello La Croix all the way!) and let’s dive in!

News

Praise Sankt Milo, Shadow and Bone has been renewed for season two!

Sabaa Tahir announced a new book…and it’s a contemporary YA! It’s already been optioned for screen, too!

And speaking of adaptations, Nicola and David Yoon have signed a first look deal with Anonymous Content for all books and ideas they curate! The Yoons also have their own imprint, Joy Revolution!

The Harry Potter Alliance has relaunched with a new name–Fandom Forward.

Charlie Jane Anders revealed the cover for the sequel to Victories Greater Than Death!

We Need Diverse Books is no longer using the term #ownvoices–here’s why.

Have you watched the adaptation of Panic by Lauren Oliver on Amazon Prime yet? If so, check out this deep dive into the adaptation and what might be in store for another season!

New Books

Continuum by Chella Man and Ashley Lukashevsky

Daughter of Sparta by Claire Andrews

Doughnuts and Other Proclamations of Love by Jared Reck

Fire with Fire by Destiny Soria

Girls at the Edge of the World by Laura Brooke Robson

Heartbreakers and Fakers by Cameron Lund

Love and Other Natural Disasters by Misa Sugiura

The Marvelous by Claire Kann

Of Princes and Promises by Sandhya Menon

The Sea is Salt and So Am I by Cassandra Hart

Seasons of Chaos by Elle Cosimano

Skate for Your Life by Leo Baker and Ashley Lukashevsky

Violet Ghosts by Leah Thomas

When You and I Collide by Kate Norris

New in Paperback

cover image of Agnes at the End of the World

Agnes at the End of the World by Kelly McWilliams

All The Things We Never Knew by Liara Tamani

Chasing Starlight by Teri Bailey Black

Down With This Ship by Katie Kingman

I Killed Zoe Spanos by Kit Frick

If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann

A Love Hate Thing by Whitney D. Grandison

#MurderFunding by Gretchen McNeil

Of Kisses and Curses by Sandhya Menon

Redemption Prep by Samuel Miller

A Sky Painted Gold by Laura Wood

Where Dreams Descend by Janella Angeles

A Wicked Magic by Sasha Laurens

Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas

On Book Riot

Some Cruella de Vil reading for your TBR!

Fake dating, LGBTQ+ edition!

Hannah and I gushed about a ton of amazing YA screen adaptations!

Some great YA comics for your TBR.

Sibling relationships of color in YA are crucial!

That’s it for me this week! I hope you stay cool, and I’ll be back soon with more YA book deals this weekend!

Happy reading!
Tirzah

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Our Queerest Shelves

Queer Fake Dating YA, LGBTQ Book Links, and New Releases OUT This Week!

Post author By Danika Ellis
Post date June 9, 2021

Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar

This one is by a Book Riot contributor! It follows two very different Bengali teenagers living in Ireland. When Humaira (“Hani”) comes out to her friends as bisexual, they insist that she can’t really know that unless she’s dated a girl. She blurts out that she is dating a girl: the prickly and ambitious Ishita (“Ishu”). Ishita reluctantly agrees to go along with this plan, as long as Humaira helps her to get elected head girl, which would look good on her college applications. But will they develop real feelings?? It’s a fake dating romance, so you can probably guess that part, but it’s a great ride.

Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee

Noah runs a popular blog called the Meet Cute Diary, where he collects stories of trans people’s picture-perfect meet cutes… except they’re all fake: he writes them himself. When he gets called out, he decides the only way to save his blog is to prove they’re real by saying that one of the meet cutes is his and faking a relationship worthy of Instagram. But Noah soon learns that scripted romance is a little different from the real thing.

I loved how flawed and realistic Noah was as a main character. He has a lot to learn, but I was rooting for him the whole time. There’s also a side character who is trying out different pronouns who steals the show.

Love and Other Natural Disasters by Misa Sugiura

Nozomi is spending the summer in San Francisco when she meets Willow and immediately starts crushing on her. Willow is still mourning her last relationship, though, so they plan to fake date to make her ex jealous. Meanwhile, Nozomi has a plan to prove to Willow that she’s a perfect match for real–but her lies are starting to spin out of control…

This one is high on my TBR, not least because of that adorable cover!

All the Links Fit to Click

Pride month has begun in earnest, which means that it’s hard to sift through all the queer book news. On the one hand, hooray! On the other hand, about 90% of it is the same titles rehashed over and over again in various “books to read for Pride” lists. I did manage to find some good ones in the haystack, though, and here they are!

Here’s a history of Pride in children’s books, plus a database of 700+ LGBTQ kids’ books.
Autostraddle interviewed Leah Johnson and called her the Toni Morrison of queer YA.
A queer librarian reflects on how she–and her male-partnered relationship–would be categorized in the Dewey Decimal System.
Here’s a reading list on queerness and work.
Want to read sapphic romance but aren’t sure where to start? Try this guide.
The Halifax public library (that’s in Canada) and Halifax Pride are in conflict over the library carrying an anti-trans title.
Here are some LGBTQ books for kids.
These queer books are great poolside or beach reads.
Here are queer 2021 releases by authors of color that you should know about.
If you’re in the U.K., support your queer bookshops.
You had me at “goblin lesbians in the desert comic”.

LGBTQ Book Riot Posts

New Releases This Week

Doubting Thomas by Michael Clark Davison (Gay Fiction)

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri (F/F Epic Fantasy)

The Sea Is Salt and So Am I by Cassandra Hartt (Bi Girl YA Contemporary)

Love and Other Natural Disasters by Misa Sugiura (F/F YA Contemporary)

Fifteen Hundred Miles From The Sun by Jonny Garza Villa (Gay M/M YA Romcom)

The Marvelous by Claire Kann (Sapphic and Questioning YA Thriller)

Monstrous Design (Dangerous Remedy #2) by Kat Dunn (Sapphic YA Fantasy)

Cover of Fire With Fire by Destiny Soria

Queen of All by Anya Leigh Josephs (Sapphic YA Fantasy)

Girls at the Edge of the World by Laura Brooke Robson (F/F YA Fantasy)

Fire with Fire by Destiny Soria (Bi Girl YA Fantasy)

Almost Flying by Jake Maia Arlow (Sapphic Middle Grade)

Both Can Be True by Jules Machias (Genderfluid Middle Grade)

Renegade Rule by Ben Kahn, Rachel Silverstein, Sam Beck (Sapphic Comics)

How Do We Relationship? Vol . 3 by Tamifull (F/F Manga)

Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer (Queer Memoir)

Care of: Letters, Connections, and Cure s by Ivan Coyote (Non-Binary Memoir/Essays)

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi (Non-Binary Memoir)

That’s it for me this week! Until next time, you can find me on Twitter @Lesbrary. You can also hear me on All the Books on the first Tuesday of the month, and I post weekly New Releases videos on the Book Riot Youtube channel. You can bet I sneak in as many queer titles as I can.

Happy Pride, and happy (queer) reading!

The Kids Are All Right

Kidlit Deals for June 9, 2021

Post author By Tirzah Price
Post date June 9, 2021

Sponsored by HarperCollins Children’s Books

Ash and Daniel are no strangers to feeling like outcasts. As someone who cycles through genders, it’s a struggle for Ash to feel in control of how people perceive them. Daniel’s been told he’s overly sensitive more times than he can count. As he and Ash join forces to save a rescue dog, things go from cute to complicated when they start catching feelings for each other—and Daniel thinks Ash is a girl. With so much on the line, they’ll have to decide to go against binaries and embrace the beauty of living in between or forever feel at war with themselves.

Hey kidlit pals! Are you keeping cool this week? It’s been hot and humid where I am, and I spend my time chasing the fan or the breeze. If you need to escape into some good books to distract you from the temperatures, I’ve got some great book deals for you–some summer-themed! Snag them while they’re hot as they won’t last long!

Get ready for a summer adventure with The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon! This hilarious and heartwarming book is just $3.

This Book is Gray by Lindsay Ward is about a color that no one seems to like–and his plan to be included! Grab it for $1.

Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliott is about a kid who discovers his grandmother is a witch! It’s just $3.

Renée Watson is the queen of writing kids’ books about family, connection, and community, and her book Some Places More Than Others is $2.

New Kid by Jerry Craft, the Newbery Award winner, is just $3 for a short time!

The Other Boy by M.G. Hennessy is a great novel about a young transgender kid, and it’s $2.

A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat is still $1, so grab it if you missed it last week!

Peanut Goes for the Gold by Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness and Gillian Reid is a great picture book for just $2!

Spark and the League of Ursus by Robert Repino is only $1!

Need a fun book for a soon-to-be-kindergartener? Pirates Don’t Go to Kindergarten by Lisa Robinson and Eda Caban is $1!

Happy reading!
Tirzah

Riot Rundown

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Post author By Natalia Heroux
Post date June 9, 2021

In the Club 6/9/21

Post author By Vanessa Diaz
Post date June 8, 2021

Nibbles and Sips

Am I plugging a Half Baked Harvest recipe for the umpteenth time? Yes I am, but hear me out. I had serious reservations when my friend said she was bringing a “breakfast salad” to the brunch potluck this weekend, but those worries were quickly put to bed from my very first bite into these dreamy Turkish eggs: wilted greens, avocado, and whipped feta crowned with a fried egg. The runny yoke adds a silky richness while the bright dressing and peppery bite of the greens balance out the salty cloud of feta. It’s just divine, I tell you. Divine! Book club must do brunch, and when you do, make this dish.

Happy Pride!

It’s the second week of Pride and a wonderful time to bring some queer reads into book club. Of course, we do that year round: but here are three to pick up in celebration!

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

Jordan Baker is as set up to win as can be in 1920s America: she has money, education, social clout, even a mean golf handicap. She’s also a queer Vietnamese adoptee who gets treated like an exotic pet by her peers and finds many doors aren’t open to her. Her world isn’t just money and parties though; it’s also full of ghosts, infernal pacts and dazzling illusions. This Gatsby reimagining is full of magic, mystery, and glittering excess—feels perfect not only for Pride, but for delicious summer reading.

All My Mother’s Lovers by Ilana Masad

A queer 20-something returns to her hometown after her homophobic mother dies in a tragic car accident. When she finds five letters to five men in her mother’s will—none of whom is her father—she skips the shiva and goes on a mission to deliver each letter in person. On a road trip that takes her over miles of California highways, she discovers how little she really knew about her mother’s life. She’s also forced to confront her own fears as she navigates a new relationship.

With Teeth by Kristin Arnett

Sammie Lucas works from home in the close quarters of the Florida house she shares with her absent wife Monika where she keeps one eye on her son Samson at all times. He’s a sullen unknowable boy who grows from feral toddler to surly teenager, resisting Sammie’s every attempt at bonding. When Samson’s behavior goes from quiet hostility to physical aggression, their picture-perfect queer family begins to unravel. Sammie is forced to confront her role in the mess—and the chance it’ll never be clean again.

Bonus: I can’t mention Kristin Arnett and not remind everyone her first book Mostly Dead Things. Keywords: queerness, grief, lewd taxidermy.

Suggestion Section

The Book Club of My Dreams Was at the Library All Along (seriously, libraries rock)

Okay, so: the “porch pirate snatches books” part of the headline made me cackle. But the part where books intended for a prison book club were stolen off someone’s porch is terrible. The program relies on donations; if you can, consider dropping a few bucks here.

Thanks for hanging with me today! Shoot me an email at vanessa@riotnewmedia.com with your burning book club questions or find me on Twitter and the gram @buenosdiazsd. Sign up for the Audiobooks newsletter and catch me once a month on the All the Books podcast.

Stay bad & bookish, my friends.
Vanessa

Today In Books

SHADOW AND BONE Has Been Renewed for Season 2: Today in Books

Post author By Emily Martin
Post date June 8, 2021

Sponsored by The Sea Is Salt and So Am I by Cassandra Hartt with Fierce Reads.

Michelle Zauner’s Crying in H Mart Gets a Feature Film Adaptation

Michelle Zauner’s memoir Crying in H Mart is set to get a feature film adaptation from MGM’s Orion pictures. And Zauner, who also heads the indie rock group Japanese Breakfast, will adapt her book and provide the soundtrack. Zauner said, “It is a surreal thrill to have the opportunity to memorialize my mother in film, and I consider it of the highest honor to pursue that task alongside creative luminaries such as Stacey Sher, Jason Kim and Orion Pictures.”

Shadow and Bone Has Been Renewed for a Second Season

Netflix has picked up a second season of Shadow and Bone, which means you can expect to see more of all your favorites from Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse novels very, very soon. The second season will be eight one-hour episodes. Shadow and Bone‘s first season performed very well for the streaming platform. According to Netflix, the series was watched by 55 million member households in its first 28 days. Furthermore, Shadow and Bone made it to the top 10 list in 93 countries around the world, and it got to number 1 in 79 countries, including Australia, Brazil, Germany, Russia, Spain, South Africa, and the U.S. Members of the cast—including Jessie Mei Li, Amita Suman, Ben Barnes, Freddy Carter, and Danielle Galligan—announced the renewal in a video yesterday. Addressing the fans of the show directly, the cast thanked everyone for watching, saying, “We couldn’t have done it without you.”

Power Couple Nicola & David Yoon Sign Deal With Anonymous Content

New York Times best-selling authors and husband-and-wife duo Nicola and David Yoon have signed a deal with production company Anonymous Content. Under this contract, Anonymous content will get exclusive first-look rights to original film and TV ideas both created and curated by the Yoons under their newly launched production banner Yooniverse Media. Nicola Yoon’s novels Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star have already been adapted as feature films, and this year she published her third novel Instructions for Dancing. David Yoon is the author of Frankly in Love, Super Fake Love Song, and for adult readers, Version Zero and City of Orange. About their new deal with Anonymous Content, David Yoon said, “We couldn’t have picked a better partner to present voices that traditionally haven’t gotten time in the spotlight. Combined with our book imprint at Random House Children’s Books we hope to make a substantial impact at increasing representation across all forms of media.”

6 More of the Best Audiobooks by Women for Caribbean Heritage Month

June is Caribbean Heritage month! Here are 6 must-read audiobooks written by Caribbean women.

True Story

New Releases: Pride Month Releases + Memoirs

Post author By Alice Burton
Post date June 8, 2021

Sponsored by Thirteen Lessons That Saved Thirteen Lives by John Volanthen.

The world held its breath in July 2018 when the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach went missing for 9 days deep underground after being stranded by a rainy-season downpour while exploring a complex of caves after practice. The picture of them alive on a ledge in a flooded cave made front page news worldwide. Thirteen Lessons that Saved Thirteen Lives is diver, John Volanthen’s nail-biting account of the incredible rescue of a Thai youth soccer team who had been trapped in a flooded cave for over a week. Pre-order your copy today: smarturl.it/ThirteenLives

I continue to be in a bit of a reading funk! I blame the humidity (I mean, sure). Makes y’sluggish. I find it best to switch up genres, read a few books at a time, and then pick whatever you’re feeling in the moment. I finally got Sapiens again from the library and the pages are plasticky, which is probably bad for the environment, but tactile-wise, it is splendid? Kind of like reading a textbook in high school, but no one is making you do it, so it’s fun.

We got new releases for your Wednesday! (or whatever day you’re reading this) Pretty psyched about them, and they’re all v different, so something for most everybody here. ENJOY.

Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer

Brammer was first called “Papi” on Grindr. Then, “what started as a racialized moniker given to him on a hookup app soon became the inspiration for his now wildly popular advice column “¡Hola Papi!”” In his memoir, he talks about growing up biracial in Oklahoma, and shares some of the advice he regularly doles out in his column. Not to be all about covers (again), but I love this cover. #HappyPrideMonth

Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty

I hope you’re ready for a teenage Northern Irish naturalist, because here we go. McAnulty is only 16 years old, and is part of the youth climate activist movement. His diary “captures his perspective as a teenager juggling exams, friendships, and a life of campaigning.” McAnulty himself says, “In sharing this journey my hope is that people of all generations will not only understand autism a little more but also appreciate a child’s eye view on our delicate and changing biosphere.” He is the youngest winner of the RSPB Medal (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds).

The Ugly Cry: A Memoir by Danielle Henderson

Ok, if you don’t love this part of this book’s blurb, I don’t know what appeals to you. Henderson grew up “Black, weird, and overwhelmingly uncool in a mostly white neighborhood in upstate New York.” She was left by her mom in the care of her grandparents when she was 10, and her grandmother was tough but hilarious (frequently a winning combo). Henderson now is a TV writer who cohosts the film podcast I Saw What You Did and “reluctantly lives in Los Angeles.”

The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom by James Romm

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH, here’s a gay classics book. This is the story of the Theban Sacred Band, “an elite 300-man corps recruited from pairs of lovers” in the 300s BCE. Plutarch says they made vows to each other at the shrine of Iolaus. When I saw this title, I was very confident that I’d be sharing it here, because how often do you see something like that? Romm is the director of the Classical Studies Program at Bard College.

For more nonfiction new releases, check out the For Real podcast which I co-host with the excellent Kim here at Book Riot. If you have any questions/comments/book suggestions, you can find me on social media @itsalicetime. Until next time, enjoy those facts, fellow nerds.

Read This Book

Read This Book: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia

Post author By Jessica Avery
Post date June 8, 2021

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Mexican Gothic is set in a remote corner of the Mexican countryside, where a crumbling, old mansion sits almost forgotten amid high mountains and jagged ravines. High Place was once a beautiful, English-style Victorian perched above the Doyle family’s prosperous silver mine. But political turmoil in the country spelled the end of the mine a generation ago, and now the house is falling into ruin while the family passes out of existence one violent death at a time.

This is the family into which Noemí’s cousin Catalina marries, falling out of touch with her family until a frantic, barely coherent letter arrives at Noemí’s home, begging for help. Catalina claims that her new husband, Virgil, is trying to poison her. That her life is in danger at High Place. That the house itself, full of death and rot, is trying to do her harm. Convinced that either Catalina’s husband really is hurting her, or that at least her cousin is in need of psychiatric help her new family will not provide, Noemí makes the journey into the mountains to discover the truth. But what she finds behind the aging veneer of High Place is much darker than she could have imagined.

Steeped in rot and romance, from its beautiful but forbidding landscapes to its moldering aristocratic family, Mexican Gothic is a novel with a deep respect for its literary roots. But Moreno-Garcia’s novel also interrogates its own origins, introducing the Doyle’s as not just a wilting example of European dynasticism but also as a brutal colonizing force preying in more ways than one on the land they have usurped and the people they deem beneath them.

Mexican Gothic is dark and visceral with a gruesome biological twist, and for fans of Gothic fiction it’s a must have for any summer horror TBR.

Happy Reading!
Jessica

Unusual Suspects

Historical Mysteries (History & Mystery It Rhymes!)

Post author By Jamie Canaves
Post date June 8, 2021

Dead Dead Girls (Harlem Renaissance Mystery #1) by Nekesa Afia

If you’re about to skip over this one because you don’t read, or aren’t in the mood, for cozy mysteries (which the cover may make you think it is), come back this is not a cozy!

Set during the Harlem Renaissance, Louise Lloyd has never been able to avoid the spotlight after escaping a kidnapper as a teenager, and setting free the other girls in the process. The press has remembered her, as has the Harlem community. When she’s arrested for assaulting an officer, this comes in handy for the police who recognize her and want to use her. There’s a serial killer, killing young Black girls, and the detective in charge thinks a young Black woman like Louise will make it easier to get people to help with the investigation, rather than white cops asking questions. She doesn’t want to but is backed into a corner, so she goes out asking questions, putting herself in danger…

Louise is a great character who, after being kidnapped as a teen, being forced to raise her younger siblings, and thrown out by her father, wears no rose colored glasses when viewing the world. What she does love is dancing with her girlfriend and friend until the morning hours at a speakeasy, with zero intention of marrying or doing any of the things expected of women.

If you’re looking for a historical mystery, set during the exciting Harlem Renaissance, with a bit of a noir feeling to it, pick up this book. I’m excited that it’s a series starter and look forward to more of Louise and the time period.

(TW attempted rape/ kidnapping/ homophobia/ racism)

Fortune Favors the Dead (Pentecost and Parker #1) by Stephen Spotswood

The characters in this story, with nods to Sherlock and Watson, bring a delightful and fun feel to this mystery. Set in 1940s New York, the most famous woman PI in the country, Lillian Pentecost, has multiple sclerosis and needs help with mundane tasks related to her job so she can continue to focus on the important things. So she offers the job to Willowjean “Will” Parker, who ran away from home and has been working with the circus.

Will narrates the story, bringing us in to see how she met Pentecost and now recounting a major case they took on: after the patriarch of a family died by suicide, the matriarch was found murdered in a locked room on fire. The murder remains unsolved and so the children, twins, and their godfather hire the detective to find out who murdered their mother as society is now gossiping that it must have been the ghost of their father. Toss in family drama, business drama and political contracts, secrets, dating, and a spiritual advisor, and you have a twisty mystery filled with danger.

My favorite part is the voices of Will and Pentecost, complete opposites who bump heads in a loving way. Will has a quick dark humor as she navigates life and her new career, and Pentecost is cranky, smart, and resourceful while navigating life with a slowly progressing, but progressing nonetheless, disease.

(TW recent past suicide, detail/ mentions of past child abuse and domestic abuse, not graphic/ homophobia)

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Giveaways

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Post author By Natalia Heroux
Post date June 8, 2021

We’re giving away five copies of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin to five lucky Riot readers!

Enter here for a chance, or click the cover image below!

Here’s what it’s all about:

Tom Lin’s astounding debut reimagines the classic Western through the eyes of a Chinese American assassin on a quest to rescue his kidnapped wife and exact his revenge on her abductors. Jonathan Letham calls The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu “a fierce new version of the Westward Dream,” and “declares the arrival of an astonishing new voice.” “Beautifully imagined,” raves Booklist. “Lin’s first novel is an extraordinary epic with page-turning, often cinematic action that transcends the parameters of genre fiction.”