It’s Monday-Monday-Monday! As usual, there are so many great new books being released into the wild this week. And lots of great book-related news! I have lots of that fabulous news today. Enjoy your upcoming week, be kind to yourself as well as others, and remember that I love you and I like you. – xoxo, Liberty
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Here’s this week’s trivia question: Who is the only author to have published a book in 9 of the 10 major categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification? (Answer at the bottom of the newsletter.)
Deals, Reals, and Squeals!
Gal Gadot will star in Kenneth Branagh’s Death On The Nile remake. And Armie Hammer will be joining her.
JAY-Z and Roc Nation to adapt YA novel Noughts & Crosses for TV.
Thomas Harris, creator of The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, is returning with a new novel in 2019.
Shonda Rimes is developing Blake Crouch’s forthcoming novel for Netflix.
Sony Animation is going to make Bad Mermaids.
Jason Diamond is publishing a new book with Coffee House Press.
R.L. Stine is going to write a new graphic novel series called Just Beyond for Boom! Studios.
Amazon has ordered up The Wheel of Time series.
Back to the wardrobe! Netflix to develop series and films based on C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles Of Narnia.
Julie Walters to star in UK adaptation of Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book.
HarperCollins acquired two books by Veronica Roth.
Maggie Gyllenhaal to direct The Lost Daughter, an adaptation of the Elena Ferannte novel.
Sneak Peeks
Here’s the first trailer for Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
And the trailer for the Salt Fat Acid Heat documentary.
Cover Reveals
Elizabeth Gilbert revealed she has a new book on the way called City of Girls and shared the cover. (Riverhead Books, June 4, 2019)
And here’s the beautiful cover for The Candle and the Flame by Nafiza Azad! (Scholatic Press, May 14, 2019)
And the first look at A People’s Future of the United States, a new anthology from editors Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams. (One World, February 5, 2019)
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 learn about a lot of upcoming titles, and I’m delighted to share a couple with you each week so you can add them to your TBR!
Note: Both of these are super early releases, so I apologize, the covers haven’t been revealed yet.
Loved, loved, loved:
Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood by Maureen Stanton (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, July 16, 2019)
Mark this down right now. This is a FANTASTIC memoir about Stanton’s delinquent childhood, growing up in a working-class prison town. It aches with painful truths and bad decisions, and the writing is incredible. I will be mentioning it eleven million more times, at least, between now and its release.
Excited to read:
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com, September 10, 2019)
Ugggggh, I want to read this so bad! All I really know is that it’s about lesbian necromancers. In a haunted gothic house. In space. I don’t need to know anything else, I just want to read it NOW.
What I’m reading this week.
Disoriental by Négar Djavadi, Tina Kover (translator)
Unpunished Murder: Massacre at Colfax and the Quest for Justice by Lawrence Goldstone
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
Giant Days: Extra Credit by John Allison and Jenn St-Onge
The Oyster Thief by Sonia Faruqi
And this is funny.
I love a Carmen Sandiego joke.
Trivia answer: Isaac Asimov.
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