Are you sitting down? You might want to before you read any further, because this is the most epic new release day of 2019 so far! SO. MANY. BOOKS. (Do I even need to add ‘books’ to that? Like, if I didn’t, would you think, “What does she mean? Cabbages? Cadillacs??”) Seriously, there is an embarrassment of riches today. And because I love you, I made you a big shiny list below, and you can hear about more amazing books on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about Women Talking, The Affairs of the Falcóns, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, and more.
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Oh! Before I show you the list, I have exciting news! For those of you who love to read (or love to give) picture books and chapter books, we’ve got a new podcast, hosted by author and BR contributor Karina Glaser and children’s librarian Matthew Winner! It’s called Kidlit These Days and you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or your favorite podcatcher.
(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!)
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Alison
Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia by Tracey Thorn
Prince of Monkeys by Nnamdi Ehirim
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
Around Harvard Square by C. J. Farley
Baseball Epic: Famous and Forgotten Lives of the Dead Ball Era by Jason Novak
As One Fire Consumes Another by John Sibley Williams
Gatsby’s Oxford: Scott, Zelda, and the Jazz Age Invasion of Britain: 1904-1929 by Christopher A. Snyder
Hold Fast Your Crown: A Novel by Yannick Haenel, Teresa Fagan (translator)
Days by Moonlight by André Alexis
Oscar Wilde and the Return of Jack the Ripper: An Oscar Wilde Mystery (Oscar Wilde Mysteries) by Gyles Brandreth
Ghost Stories: Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense by Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Morton
A Sin by Any Other Name: Reckoning with Racism and the Heritage of the South by Robert W. Lee and Bernice A. King
Beyond the Point: A Novel by Claire Gibson
Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain by Danny Goldberg
Since We Last Spoke by Brenda Rufener
To Stop a Warlord: My Story of Justice, Grace, and the Fight for Peace by Shannon Sedgwick Davis
Woman of Color by LaTonya Yvette
Lights! Camera! Puzzles!: A Puzzle Lady Mystery (Puzzle Lady Mysteries) by Parnell Hall
The Buddha Sat Right Here: A Family Odyssey Through India and Nepal by Dena Moes
Leaving Richard’s Valley by Michael DeForge
Little Lovely Things: A Novel by Maureen Joyce Connolly
Ye by Guilherme Petreca
The Spectators: A Novel by Jennifer duBois
The Deadly Kiss-Off by Paul Di Filippo
Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward by Valerie Jarrett
The Luminous Dead: A Novel by Caitlin Starling
The Editor by Steven Rowley
There’s a Word for That by Sloane Tanen
The Light Years: A Memoir by Chris Rush
We Rule the Night by Claire Eliza Bartlett
Greystone Secrets 1: The Strangers by Margaret Peterson Haddix and Anne Lambelet
Lost and Wanted: A novel by Nell Freudenberger
When a Duchess Says I Do by Grace Burrowes
Orange for the Sunsets by Tina Athaide
A Wonderful Stroke of Luck: A Novel by Ann Beattie
Stay Up with Hugo Best: A Novel by Erin Somers
The Execution of Justice (Pushkin Vertigo) by Friedrich Duerrematt, John E. Woods (Translator)
The Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Garvis Graves
Lights All Night Long: A Novel by Lydia Fitzpatrick
Soft Science by Franny Choi
The Last Last-Day-of-Summer by Lamar Giles
Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
I’m Writing You from Tehran: A Granddaughter’s Search for Her Family’s Past and Their Country’s Future by Delphine Minoui, Emma Ramadan (Translator)
The Gulf by Belle Boggs
The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb
Loch of the Dead: A Novel by Oscar de Muriel
Wicked Saints by Emily Duncan
The Princess and the Fangirl: A Geekerella Fairytale (Once Upon A Con) by Ashley Poston
Brute: Poems by Emily Skaja
Germaine: The Life of Germaine Greer by Elizabeth Kleinhenz
Bluff by Jane Stanton Hitchcock
The Mission of a Lifetime: Lessons from the Men Who Went to the Moon by Basil Hero
Boy Swallows Universe: A Novel by Trent Dalton
A Song for the Stars by Ilima Todd
The Affairs of the Falcóns by Melissa Rivero
Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History by Sarah Knott
American Spirit: Profiles in Resilience, Courage, and Faith by Taya Kyle and Jim DeFelice
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen by Mary Norris
Crossing: A Novel by Pajtim Statovci, David Hackston (translator)
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America by Matt Kracht
The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees by Meredith May
Women’s Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home by Megan K. Stack
The Body Papers by Grace Talusan
The Tradition by Jericho Brown
All Ships Follow Me: A Family Memoir of War Across Three Continents by Mieke Eerkens
Geek Girls Don’t Cry: Real-Life Lessons From Fictional Female Characters by Andrea Towers and Marisha Ray
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl
The Killer in Me: A Novel by Olivia Kiernan
I Miss You When I Blink: Essays by Mary Laura Philpott
Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherríe Moraga
Fifty Things That Aren’t My Fault: Essays from the Grown-up Years by Cathy Guisewite
At Briarwood School for Girls by Michael Knight
Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City by Amanda Kolson Hurley
Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?: A Mother’s Suggestions by Patricia Marx and Roz Chast
You’d Be Mine: A Novel by Erin Hahn
The Becket List: A Blackberry Farm Story by Adele Griffin and LeUyen Pham
Unscripted by Claire Handscombe
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson
The Poison Bed: A Novel by Elizabeth Fremantle
This One Looks Like a Boy: My Gender Journey to Life as a Man by Lorimer Shenher
The October Man by Ben Aaronovitch
Perfunctory Affection by Kim Harrison
That’s it for me today! If you want to learn more about books new and old, or tell me about books you’re reading, or books you think I should read (I HEART RECOMMENDATIONS!), or see pictures of my cats (How do I make them stop growing?!?), you can find me on Twitter at MissLiberty, on Instagram at FranzenComesAlive, or Litsy under ‘Liberty’!
Thanks so much for reading!
Liberty