Sponsored by The Big Country Written by Quinton Peeples and Art by Dennis Calero
This is the story of a sheriff, a murder, and the infectious nature of small-town crime. A gritty western crime noir set in the 1970s. Here we follow Grissom Callan, the last in a long line of Texas Sheriffs, as he chases down the person responsible for multiple grisly murders. Grissom’s investigation will start a chain of events that will reshape his life and the world of Texas law enforcement. Written by Quinton Peeples, executive producer on Marvels Runaways and Stephen King’s 11-22-63.
IT’S DECEMBER. Which means publishing is more about pushing books than publishing books at the moment, because of the holidays. So new releases become slower than molasses rolling uphill. For this week, I have a great big list of titles coming out the whole month of December. Next week, I’ll share my favorites of 2019, and the week after that, books I am excited about coming in 2020. It’s going to be an explosion of book awesomeness! You can hear about some of this month’s books on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about Such a Fun Age, Dead Astronauts, This is Going to Hurt, and more.
And like with each megalist, I’m putting a 
next to the books that I have had the chance to read and loved. It has been slow reading for me the last few months, so I haven’t read as many as I wished, but I did get to a few of today’s books. And there are soooo many more on this list that I can’t wait to read! Like, seriously, I want to read most of the books out today. Someone invent a way to stop time, please.
Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer
The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom by Toni Morrison
This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Medical Resident by Adam Kay
Cheaters Always Win: The Story of America by J. M. Fenster
Treachery: A Novel (Giordano Bruno Thriller) by S. J. Parris
Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean
Free Day (New York Review Books Classics) by Inès Cagnati, Liesl Schillinger (translator)
Nine Elms (Kate Marshall) by Robert Bryndza
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (THIS. A MILLION TIMES, THIS.)
The Wilds by Vita Ayala, Emily Pearson (Artist)
One Long River of Song by Brian Doyle
Now You See Them (Magic Men Mysteries) by Elly Griffiths
Just Watch Me: A Novel by Jeff Lindsay
The Attempted Murder of Teddy Roosevelt by Burt Solomon
Plate Tectonics: An Illustrated Memoir by Margaux Motin
Dangerous Alliance: An Austentacious Romance by Jennieke Cohen
The Thank-You Project: Cultivating Happiness One Letter of Gratitude at a Time by Nancy Davis Kho
Meg and Jo by Virginia Kantra
All the Colors of Magic by Valija Zinck
When Old Midnight Comes Along (Amos Walker Novels) by Loren D. Estleman
Scared Little Rabbits by A.V. Geiger
Thin Ice: A Mystery by Paige Shelton
1973: Rock at the Crossroads by Andrew Grant Jackson
Walk the Wild With Me by Rachel Atwood
Reverie by Ryan La Sala
Oppo: A Novel by Tom Rosenstiel
Anyone: A Novel by Charles Soule
Down Among the Dead by K.B. Wagers
Children of Virtue & Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi
Winter Grave (An Embla Nystrom Investigation) by Helene Tursten, Marlaine Delargy (translator)
Scornful Stars (Breaker of Empires Book 3) by Richard Baker
The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast: New and Selected Stories by John L’Heureux
Reputation: A Novel by Sara Shepard
Diamond & Dawn (Amber & Dusk, Book 2) by Lyra Selene
Trace of Evil: A Natalie Lockhart Novel by Alice Blanchard
Elena Ferrante’s Key Words by Tiziana de Rogatis, Will Schutt (translator)
A Madness of Sunshine by Nalini Singh
The Sacrament: A Novel by Olaf Olafsson
Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer by Carol Sklenicka
Heaven on Earth: How Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo Discovered the Modern World by L. S. Fauber
The General Zapped an Angel: Stories (Art of the Story) by Howard Fast
Nietzsche and the Burbs by Lars Iyer
Blitzed (The Playbook) by Alexa Martin
The Revisionaries by A. R. Moxon
A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman’s Harrowing Escape from the Nazis by Françoise Frenkel
This Is Happiness by Niall Williams
From Sea to Stormy Sea: 17 Stories Inspired by Great American Paintings by Lawrence Block
Would Like to Meet by Rachel Winters
The Glittering Hour by Iona Grey
The Road to Delano by John DeSimone
A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy Popkin
The Wonderful by Saskia Sarginson
The Dead Girls Club: A Novel by Damien Angelica Walters
The Story of a Goat by Perumal Murugan, N Kalyan Raman (translator)
Regretting You by Colleen Hoover
The Hills Reply by Tarjei Vesaas, Elizabeth Rokkan (translator)
Africaville by Jeffrey Colvin
The Wicked Redhead: A Wicked City Novel by Beatriz Williams
All That’s Bright and Gone: A Novel by Eliza Nellums
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy Levy
Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke, Christiane Marks (translator)
Gatekeeper: Poems by Patrick Johnson
The German House by Annette Hess, Elisabeth Lauffer (translator)
A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed by Jason Brown
The Kill Club by Wendy Heard
Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things by Jacqueline Firkins
A Trace of Deceit: A Novel by Karen Odden
The Network: A Novel by L. C Shaw
Star Trek: Discovery: Dead Endless (6) by Dave Galanter
Afterwardness by Mimi Khalvati
Karen’s Witch (Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphix) by Ann M. Martin (Author), Katy Farina (Illustrator)
Good Girls Lie by J.T. Ellison
The Wives: A Novel by Tarryn Fisher
Like Sisters on the Homefront by Rita Williams-Garcia
Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn
The Sky Done Ripped (Ned the Seal) by Joe R. Lansdale
Self-Confidence: A Philosophy by Charles Pépin, Willard Wood (translator)
The Guilty Feminist: You Don’t Have to Be Perfect to Overthrow the Patriarchy by Deborah Frances-White (Author)
The Best of Uncanny by Naomi Novik, Hao Jingfang, et al.
Splintegrate by Deborah Teramis Christian
F*ck No!: How to Stop Saying Yes When You Can’t, You Shouldn’t, or You Just Don’t Want To (A No F*cks Given Guide) by Sarah Knight
See you next week!
xx,
Liberty