Holy catsssssss! It is a scientific fact (that I just made up) that there are more amazing new releases out this week than any other day this year. HOW LUCKY WE ARE TO BE ALIVE RIGHT NOW. I’m happy to share a BIG list with you right now, 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 Wangs vs. the World, Ghostland, andYou Can’t Touch My Hair.
This week’s newsletter is sponsored by El Paso by Winston Groom.
An episodic novel, El Paso pits the legendary Pancho Villa against a thrill-seeking railroad tycoon known as the Colonel, whose fading fortune is tied up in a colossal ranch in Chihuahua, Mexico. But when Villa kidnaps the Colonel’s grandchildren and absconds into the Sierra Madre, the aging New England patriarch and his adopted son head to El Paso, hoping to find a group of cowboys brave enough to hunt the Generalissimo down. Replete with gunfights, daring escapes, and an unforgettable bullfight, El Paso is an indelible portrait of the American southwest in the waning days of the frontier.
Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith
Ashes by Laurie Halse Anderson
Last Look by Charles Burns
The Trespasser by Tana French
By Gaslight by Steven Price
Yesternight by Cat Winters
Patricide by D. Foy
Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig
Stranded by Bracken MacLeod
My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine
The Best American Essays 2016 by edited Jonathan Franzen
The Ramblers by Aidan Donnelley Rowley
Angels of Music by Kim Newman
You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson
The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang
Wonder Woman: The True Amazon by Jill Thompson
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey
All That Man Is by David Szalay
I’ll Tell You in Person by Chloe Caldwell
Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives by Tim Harford
Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors: Against the Double Blackmail by Slavoj Zizek
There Now: Poems by Eamon Grennan
Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down by Anne Valente
Nicotine by Nell Zink
Private Novelist by Nell Zink
Aerie by Maria Dahvana Headley
When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin
Ghost Songs by Regina McBride
Spare and Found Parts by Sarah Maria Griffin
The Motion of Puppets by Keith Donohue
Brief Histories of Everyday Objects by Andy Warner
The Mortifications by Derek Palacio
Something in Between by Melissa de la Cruz
Breaking van Gogh: Saint-Rémy, Forgery, and the $95 Million Fake at the Met by James Grundvig
Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger’s Life by Sarah Kaminsky
Fractured by Catherine McKenzie
We Know It Was You by Maggie Thrash
The Best American Comics 2016 edited by Roz Chast and Bill Kartalopoulos
The Secrets of Roscarbury Hall by Ann O’Loughlin
Cruel Beautiful World by Caroline Leavitt
Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq by Sarah Glidden
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
A City Dreaming by Daniel Polansky
The French Chef in America: Julia Child’s Second Act by Alex Prud’homme
Corsets and Codpieces : A History of Outrageous Fashion, from Roman Times to the Modern Era by Karen Bowman
Dog Years (Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize) by Melissa Yancy
Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven
Hamstersaurus Rex by Tom O’Donnell and Tim Miller
Crosstalk by Connie Willis
The Rift Uprising: The Rift Uprising Trilogy by Amy S. Foster
Blood, Bullets, and Bones : The Story of Forensic Science from Sherlock Holmes to DNA by Bridget Heos
Replica by Lauren Oliver
The Big Book of Jack the Ripper (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original) by Otto Penzler
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