Charlie Jane Anders is Working on the Y: THE LAST MAN Show and More Book Radar!

Welcome to another week! I hope everyone had a good weekend. I suffered an unfortunate mishap at the end of last week that left me with a swollen eye, so I only read a little to try and rest it. (And by ‘unfortunate mishap’ I mean ‘a cat jumped on my face while I slept’.) But it’s getting better and I’m excited about all the upcoming books and adaptations! And so many cover reveals today! Please enjoy the rest of your week, and remember to be excellent to each other! I’ll see you again on Thursday. – xoxo, Liberty

Here’s Monday’s trivia question: What comic book writer worked on the television series Lost for its third through fifth seasons? (Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)

Deals, Reels, and Squeals! 

Charlie Jane Anders is working on the Y: The Last Man show!

Idris Elba to star in Concrete Cowboys, based on the novel by Greg Neri.

Rioter Eric Smith is a co-editor of an upcoming anthology jam-packed with amazing talent.

Dashka Slater, author of The 57 Bus, will publish a new nonfiction YA book in 2022.

Lady Boss by Jackie Collins is set to become a series.

Cover Reveals

Here’s the first look at the cover of Yes No Maybe So by Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed. (Balzer + Bray, February 4, 2020)

EW has the first look at The Only Good Indians, the upcoming horror novel by Stephen Graham Jones. (Gallery / Saga Press, April 7, 2020)

And here’s the cover reveal of Prosper’s Demon by K. J. Parker. (Tor.com, January 28, 2020)

And here’s the first look at the final book in the Judah Cannon trilogy, Holding Smoke, by Steph Post. (Polis Books, January 28, 2020)

And here’s a peek at Heart of the Moors: An Original Maleficent: Mistress of Evil Novel by Holly Black. (Disney Press, October 8, 2020)

And Unnamed Press revealed The Wanting Life by Mark Rader. (Unnamed Press, February 25, 2020)

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! (It will now be books I loved on Mondays and books I’m excited to read on Thursdays. YAY, BOOKS!)

Loved, loved, loved:

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins (Flatiron Books, January 21, 2020)

If you haven’t heard of this book yet, just wait – you will. I picked it up half a dozen times but had to set it down for work reading, before I finally squeezed it in and WOW. It’s about a bookstore owner named Lydia who lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. When her journalist husband publishes an article about the local cartel, it brings tragedy into their lives. Forced to flee, Lydia takes her eight-year-old son, Luca, and tries to make her way to the United States, away from the cartel. This is a powerful gut punch of a book. It’s timely and so well done, it might as well be nonfiction. Like I said, you’re going to hear a lot about it from everyone soon.

What I’m reading this week:

18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

How Quickly She Disappears by Raymond Fleischmann

My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress by Rachel DeLoache Williams

Pun of the week: 

I was walking through a quarry, and I said to the foreman, “That sure is a big rock!” “Boulder,” he corrected me. So I stuck out my chest and shouted, “THAT SURE IS A BIG ROCK!”

Here’s a kitten picture:

So dramatic.

And this is funny.

Poor doggo.

Trivia answer: Brian K. Vaughan.

You made it to the bottom! Thanks for reading! – xo, L