Happy Monday to all you glorious readers. You are going to be so excited when you see how many amazing new books are releasing tomorrow. SO MANY. There is also a bunch of exciting book news to share this week. A BIG BUNCH. I hope everything in your world is marvelous and you have something wonderful to read. Enjoy your upcoming week, and be excellent to each other. – xoxo, Liberty
Sponsored by TarcherPerigee, publisher of F You Very Much by Danny Wallace.
A hilarious look at the rudeness that’s all around us—where it comes from, how it affects us and what we can do about it—from the brilliant comedic mind behind the hit movie Yes Man.
You’re not just imagining it: People are getting more rude – from cutting in line, gabbing on their phones and clipping their nails on public transportation, to hurling epithets on Twitter and in real life (including a certain President who does both). And the worst part is that it’s contagious…
Danny Wallace’s engaging and illuminating new book examines the scourge that’s turning normal people into bullies, tantruming toddlers, trolls, and other types of everyday monsters—and shares what we can do to stop the madness.
Deals, Reals, and Squeals!
Trevor Noah has sold a follow-up memoir to Born a Crime.
Stephen King’s sequel to The Shining, Doctor Sleep, will be a movie.
Kosoko Jackson’s first YA novel will be out in 2019.
Wed Wabbit by Lissa Evans will be an animated feature.
Happy, the SyFy series based on the graphic novel by Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson, has been renewed for a second season.
Twilight author Stephenie Meyer’s The Chemist to be adapted as a TV series.
Sam Raimi to direct the film adaptation of Patrick Rothfuss’ The Name of the Wind.
Game Of Thrones S8 will premiere in April 2019.
Willem Dafoe joins Edward Norton in Motherless Brooklyn.
HBO’s Watchmen TV series hires Leftovers director for pilot.
Tor Teen acquires The Bright Sessions trilogy by Lauren Shippen.
A Gone Baby Gone pilot reboot is in the works.
Leonardo DiCaprio will star in the adaptation of Walter Isaacson’s Leonardo Da Vinci biography.
Hocus Pocus is getting a book sequel!
Superman prequel series Metropolis lands 13 episode order at DC digital service.
Cover Reveals
Here’s the first look at Sister of Mine by Laurie Petrou. (Crooked Lane Books, August 7)
Woohoo! Here’s the first peek at the cover for A Court of Frost and Starlight from Sarah J. Maas! (Bloomsbury YA, May 1)
Here’s the first look at When She Fell by Kaitlin Ward. (Point, October 30)
Sneak Peeks!
TA-DA: First-look photos of Amandla Stenberg and Russell Hornsby in The Hate U Give!
Here’s the brand-new trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp.
Here’s a new teaser for Hulu’s Castle Rock series.
Here’s the first trailer for Disobedience starring Rachel McAdams and Rachel Weisz.
Book Riot Recommends
At Book Riot, I work on the New Books! email, the All the Books! podcast about new releases, and the Book Riot Insiders New Release Index. I am very fortunate to get to read a lot of upcoming titles, and I’m delighted to share a couple with you each week!
The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, March 20)
A daughter deaths with her grief and guilt over her mother’s death in this heart-squeezing novel. Leigh is sure that when her mother died, she turned into a bird. And she is certain she will find her mother-bird in Taiwan, when she visits her mother’s parents. But what she finds instead are family secrets and ghosts, and she must learn to forgive herself and her mother for what happened. You’re going to need tissues.
Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life by Jenny Boully (Coffee House Press, April 3)
Fans of Maggie Nelson and Jenny Offill will love this collection of memoir-essays (messays?) about Boully’s life and relationships, mixed in with her passion for her art and where her creativity comes from. I was really blown away by the writing.
And this is funny.
Daniel José Older on lit fic reviews.