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New Books for the First Tuesday of September!

Hooray, it’s the first Tuesday of the month—that means LOTS of new books. In the past, I have done a giant megalist. But as fun as it is to share so many titles, I have decided to streamline it a little bit. Now, below, you’ll find titles (loosely) broken up into several categories, to make it easier for your browsing convenience. I hope you have fun with it! And as with each first Tuesday newsletter, I am putting a ❤️ next to the books that I have had the chance to read and loved.

And speaking of today’s great books, for this week’s episode of All the Books! Danika and I discussed some of the wonderful books that we’ve read, such as Matrix, We Are Not Broken, The Girls Are Never Gone, and more.

And now, it’s time for everyone’s favorite gameshow: AHHHHHH MY TBR! Here are today’s contestants:

Biography and memoir:

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Poet Warrior: A Memoir by Joy Harjo

Beautiful Country: A Memoir by Qian Julie Wang ❤️

Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana by Abe Streep 

American Time Bomb: Attica, Sam Melville, and a Son’s Search for Answers by Joshua Melville

Forever Young: A Memoir by Hayley Mills

Code Name Badass: The True Story of Virginia Hall by Heather Demetrios

Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Story of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood by Dawn Turner ❤️

We Are Not Broken by George M Johnson 

Fiction:

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Matrix by Lauren Groff ❤️

The Archer by Shruti Swamy 

Dante’s Indiana by Randy Boyagoda 

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón 

The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All by Josh Ritter ❤️

Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo by Sandra Cisneros and Liliana Valenzuela

Fault Lines by Emily Itami ❤️

The Magician by Colm Toibin

A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti 

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The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova ❤️

Imminence by Mariana Dimópulos, Alice Whitmore (Translator)

The War for Gloria by Atticus Lish ❤️

Inseparable: A Never-Before-Published Novel by Simone de Beauvoir, Sandra Smith  (Translator

How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories by Venita Blackburn ❤️

In Every Mirror She’s Black by Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström

The Royal Correspondent by Alexandra Joel

History:

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Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption by Robert McCrum

People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn

Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution by Elsa Panciroli

Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer

Middle grade:

The Midnight Brigade by Adam Borba ❤️

Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero by Saadia Faruqi

Willodeen by Katherine Applegate

Mystery and thriller:

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Friends Like These by Kimberly McCreight ❤️

Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian 

The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell

Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney

Miss Kopp Investigates by Amy Stewart

The Chuckling Fingers by Mabel Seeley ❤️

The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin

Nonfiction:

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Misfits: A Personal Manifesto by Michaela Coel 

On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson

The Secret Life of Fungi by Aliya Whiteley

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally by Emily Ladau

The Breaks: An Essay by Julietta Singh ❤️

Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity by Jill Louise Busby

Romance:

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun

The Shaadi Set-Up by Lillie Vale

Mom Jeans and Other Mistakes by Alexa Martin

Sci-fi, fantasy, and horror:

Cover of No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull

No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull

Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia ❤️

The Peculiarities by David Liss

Grievers by adrienne maree brown

Among Thieves by M. J. Kuhn

The All-Consuming World by Cassandra Khaw ❤️ 

Young adult:

The Problem with the Other Side by Kwame Ivery

Battle of the Bands edited by Lauren Gibaldi and Eric Smith

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A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix by C.B. Lee

Hello (From Here) by Chandler Baker and Wesley King

Lies Like Wildfire by Jennifer Lynn Alvarez 

Never Saw You Coming by Erin Hahn

So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix by Bethany C. Morrow

Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain

The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh ❤️


orange cat sleeping in a tan bed

This week: I’m currently reading The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas and I’ve set my Stephen King reread aside for now to start the Agent Pendergrast series, because I read Bloodless and it was so bananapants, I must read more! Outside of books, I’m enjoying the latest episodes of The Great Pottery Throw Down, and the song stuck in my head is The Funeral by Band of Horses. And as promised, here is a cat picture! I love how Farrokh looks so absolutely done with everything. Also, I ❤️ his enormous mitts!


Thank you, as always, for joining me each week as I rave about books! I am wishing the best for all of you in whatever situation you find yourself in now. And yay, books! – XO, Liberty ❤️