It’s time for another big first Tuesday of the month list! There are SO many books on this list I want to read. And there are more coming in the next few weeks – August has an amazing number of great new releases this year. Let’s hear it for August!
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You can hear about several of today’s new books on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Jenn and I talked about a few amazing books we loved, including Temper, If You Leave Me, The Third Hotel, and more.
(And like with each megalist, I’m putting a 
next to the books that I have read and loved. But there are soooo many more on this list that I can’t wait to read!)
PS – Don’t forget we’re giving away 16 of the great books mentioned on the Recommended podcast! Enter here by August 31st for a chance to win.
If You Leave Me: A Novel by Crystal Hana Kim
Heretics Anonymous by Katie Henry
Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine: Stories by Kevin Wilson
Tiffany Blues by MJ Rose
The Last Hours by Minette Walters
Dance of Thieves by Mary E. Pearson
Open Me by Lisa Locascio
The Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker
The Fifth Woman by Nona Caspers
Smothered: A Novel by Autumn Chiklis
Temper by Nicky Drayden
Becoming Belle by Nuala O’Connor
Absinthe: A Thriller by Guido Eekhaut
The Third Hotel: A Novel by Laura van den Berg
Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon
This Mournable Body: A Novel by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Before She Sleeps by Bina Shah
The Drama Teacher: A Novel by Koren Zailckas
If They Come for Us: Poems by Fatimah Asghar
The Reservoir Tapes by Jon McGregor
A Short Film About Disappointment by Joshua Mattson
Our House by Louise Candlish
Good Luck with That by Kristan Higgins
The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis
These Rebel Waves (Stream Raiders) by Sara Raasch
The Court Dancer: A Novel by Kyung-Sook Shin
Rust and Stardust by T. Greenwood
Marrakech Noir (Akashic Noir Series) by Yassin Adnan
This Story Is a Lie by Tom Pollock
Rogue Protocol: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History by Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken
Bad Man by Dathan Auerbach
She Begat This: 20 Years of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Joan Morgan
Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson
Certain American States: Stories by Catherine Lacey
Ernestine, Catastrophe Queen by Merrill Wyatt
Nothing Good Can Come from This: Essays by Kristi Coulter
Be Everything at Once: Tales of a Cartoonist Lady Person by Dami Lee
Under a Dark Sky: A Novel by Lori Rader-Day
Sister of Mine by Laurie Petrou
The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization by Vince Beiser
99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown
The Bucket List by Georgia Clark
The Forest Queen by Betsy Cornwell
Catwoman: Soulstealer (DC Icons Series) by Sarah J. Maas
Goodbye, Paris by Anstey Harris
Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart by Mimi Swartz
Terrarium: New and Selected Stories by Valerie Trueblood
So Much Life Left Over: A Novel by Louis de Bernieres
Perennial by Kelly Forsythe
Baghdad Noir (Akashic Noir Series) by Samuel Shimon
Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert
Improper Cross-Stitch: 35+ Properly Naughty Patterns by Haley Pierson-Cox
#MurderTrending by Gretchen McNeil
Star-Touched Stories by Roshani Chokshi
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy
Babylon by Yasmina Reza, Linda Asher (Translator)
Smoking Kills by Antoine Laurain, Louise Lalaurie Rogers (Translator)
Girls Resist!: A Guide to Activism, Leadership, and Starting a Revolution by Kaelyn Rich and Giulia Sagramola
Judas: How a Sister’s Testimony Brought Down a Criminal Mastermind by Astrid Holleeder
The Victorian and the Romantic: A Memoir, a Love Story, and a Friendship Across Time by Nell Stevens
With You Always by Rena Olsen
Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf
The Dark Beneath the Ice by Amelinda Bérubé
The Distance Home by Paula Saunders
The Middleman by Olen Steinhauer
Alternate Routes by Tim Powers
Mr. & Mrs. American Pie by Juliet McDaniel
The Crescent Stone (The Sunlit Lands) by Matt Mikalatos
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser (paperback)
How Fiction Works (Tenth Anniversary Edition): Updated and Expanded by James Wood (paperback)
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology by Ellen Ullman (paperback)
Safe by Ryan Gattis (paperback)
Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution by Jonathan B. Losos (paperback)
That’s it for me today! If you want to learn more about books new and old (and see lots of pictures of my cats, Millay and Steinbeck), or tell me about books you’re reading, or books you think I should read (I HEART RECOMMENDATIONS!), you can find me on Twitter at MissLiberty, on Instagram at FranzenComesAlive, or Litsy under ‘Liberty’!
Stay rad,
Liberty