Get ready for the mega-est of megalists! There are SO many amazing books out today. I had the great fortune of reading several of them, and loving many of them. And there are still a ton more I can’t wait to read. 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 Ayesha at Last, Leaving the Witness, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, 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!)
Sponsored by This Time Will Be Different by Misa Sugiura, from Epic Reads
CJ’s never lived up to her mom’s ambition, and she’s perfectly happy just helping her aunt, Hannah, at their family’s flower shop. She doesn’t buy into Hannah’s ideas about flowers and their hidden meanings, but when it comes to floral arrangement, CJ discovers a skill she can be proud of. Then her mom decides to sell the shop—to the family who swindled CJ’s grandparents when Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps during WWII. Soon a rift threatens to splinter CJ’s family, friends, and their entire community; and for the first time, CJ has found something she wants to fight for.
Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas
The Unbreakables by Lisa Barr
The Milk Hours: Poems by John James
Beyond All Reasonable Doubt: A Novel by Malin Persson Giolito
That Night by Cyn Balog
Assassin of Shadows: A Novel by Lawrence Goldstone
This Might Hurt a Bit by Doogie Horner
Girls of July by Alex Flinn
No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani and Omid Tofighian
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel by Ocean Vuong
Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah
Dual Citizens: A novel by Alix Ohlin
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib
The Reaping (Paperbacks from Hell) by Bernard Taylor
The Ten Loves of Nishino by Hiromi Kawakami and Allison Markin Powell
Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
The Beholder by Anna Bright
The Right Sort of Man by Allison Montclair
The Last Unknowns: Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions About the Universe, the Mind, the Future of Civilization, and the Meaning of Life by John Brockman
Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
The Cat in the Box by Chris Ferrie
The Friends We Keep by Jane Green
Exposed by Jean-Philippe Blondel, Alison Anderson (translator)
Awards for Good Boys: Tales of Dating, Double Standards, and Doom by Shelby Lorman
Murder in Bel-Air (An Aimée Leduc Investigation) by Cara Black
The Chosen (Contender) by Taran Matharu
This Land Is Our Land by Suketu Mehta
The Favorite Daughter by Patti Callahan Henry
Naturally Tan: A Memoir by Tan France
Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall by James Polchin
Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men’s Lives by Walt Odets
The Love Factory by Elaine Proctor
Banshee by Rachel DeWoskin
The Rest of the Story by Sarah Dessen
More News Tomorrow: A Novel by Susan Richards Shreve
The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen
The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World’s Most Expensive Fungus by Ryan Jacobs
The Electric Hotel: A Novel by Dominic Smith
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
The Summer We Lost Her by Tish Cohen
The Great Eastern by Howard Rodman
A Small Zombie Problem (Zombie Problems) by K.G. Campbell
Trace: Who killed Maria James? by Rachael Brown
Unraveling by Karen Lord
I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest
Donna Has Left the Building by Susan Jane Gilman
Fire in the Sky: Cosmic Collisions, Killer Asteroids, and the Race to Defend Earth by Gordon L. Dillow
Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind by Annaka Harris
In at the Deep End by Kate Davies
Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power by Pam Grossman
On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard by Jennifer Pastiloff
The Summer Demands by Deborah Shapiro
Among the Lost by Emiliano Monge, Frank Wynne (translator)
In West Mills by De’Shawn Charles Winslow
Aug 9 – Fog by Kathryn Scanlan
Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age by Robert L. Stone and Alan Andres
The Haunted by Danielle Vega
Oval: A Novel by Elvia Wilk
Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime by Alex Espinoza
All the Greys on Greene Street by Laura Tucker
The Summer Country: A Novel by Lauren Willig
Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson by Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow
1919 by Eve L. Ewing
Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T Fleischmann
Midsummer’s Mayhem by Rajani LaRocca
This Storm by James Ellroy
Ordinary Girls by Blair Thornburgh
Not Your Backup by C.B. Lee
When the Ground Is Hard by Malla Nunn
The Moon: A History for the Future by Oliver Morton
Patsy: A Novel by Nicole Dennis-Benn
All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir by Erin Lee Carr
Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Life and Work by Victoria Ortiz
Out of Place by Jennifer Blecher, Merrillee Liddiard (Illustrator)
Ayesha At Last: A Novel by Uzma Jalaluddin
If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann
Virtually Yours by Sarvenaz Tash
Are You Afraid of the Dark Rum?: and Other Cocktails for ’90s Kids by Sam Slaughter
Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
The Fire Opal Mechanism by Fran Wilde
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel by Neal Stephenson
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Shallows (Nils Shapiro) by Matt Goldman
The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation by Rich Cohen
Why My Cat Is More Impressive Than Your Baby by Matthew Inman and The Oatmeal
Spider-Man: Far From Home: Peter and Ned’s Ultimate Travel Journal by Preeti Chhibber (YAY, PREETI!)
Searching for Sylvie Lee: A Novel by Jean Kwok
This Time Will Be Different by Misa Sugiura
We Were Killers Once: A Thriller (Brigid Quinn Series) by Becky Masterman
Just One Bite by Jack Heath
Five Midnights by Ann Dávila Cardinal
Happy Money: The Japanese Art of Making Peace with Your Money by Ken Honda
Out Stealing Horses: A Novel by Per Petterson, Anne Born (translator)
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