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Happy Tuesday, book lovers! I hope you had a fun Halloween, if you celebrated. I didn’t go out but I did make myself the scariest costume I could think of (the cats were very stingy with the candy, though). Now, the reason we are all here: BOOKS. There are lots of great books today. I am looking forward to picking up Pity the Beast by Robin McLean and Blue-Skinned Gods by SJ Sindu, I am excited for my copy of Bibliophile: Diverse Spines by Jamise Harper and Jane Mount to come in! Oooo, and I want to remind you check out our new podcast, Adaptation Nation, all about TV and film adaptations of your favorite books! You can subscribe to it on your podcatcher of choice. 😀
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 A Marvellous Light, Blue-Skinned Gods, The Collective, and more. Lots of great Halloween-y books for the season!
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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Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West’s Most Notorious Woman Bandit by John Boessenecker
Noël Coward on (and in) Theatre by Noël Coward and Barry Day
Solid Ivory: A Memoir by James Ivory
The Education of Corporal John Musgrave: A Memoir by John Musgrave
You Can’t Be Serious by Kal Penn
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir by Ai Weiwei
Fiction
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New York, My Village by Uwem Akpan
The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom
Brickmakers by Selva Almada
Everything We Didn’t Say by Nicole Baart
Eternal Night at the Nature Museum by Tyler Barton
Suiza by Bénédicte Belpois, Alison Anderson (translator)
Single Black Female by Tracy Brown
Carry the Dog by Stephanie Gangi
Burntcoat by Sarah Hall ❤️
The Surrogate by Toni Halleen
Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine by Klara Hveberg, Alison McCullough (Translator)
The Prince of the Skies by Antonio Iturbe, Lilit Thwaites (translator)
The Pilot’s Daughter by Meredith Jaeger
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The Family by Naomi Krupitsky ❤️
The Making of Incarnation by Tom McCarthy ❤️
The Easy Life in Kamusari by Shion Miura, Juliet Winters Carpenter (translator)
God of Mercy by Okezie Nwoka
The London House by Katherine Reay
Bar Maid by Daniel Roberts
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak ❤️
Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart
Havana Year Zero by Karla Suárez, Christina MacSweeney (translator) ❤️
Still Life by Sarah Winman
Win Me Something by Kyle Lucia Wu
Middle Grade
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Vacancy by K. R. Alexander
Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy by Misty Copeland and Salena Barnes
Mystery and Thriller
The Collective by Alison Gaylin ❤️
Shoot the Moonlight Out by William Boyle ❤️
Under an Outlaw Moon by Dietrich Kalteis
All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris ❤️
Miss Moriarty, I Presume? (The Lady Sherlock Series Book 6) by Sherry Thomas
New Year by Juli Zeh, Alta L. Price (translator)
Nonfiction
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Bibliophile: Diverse Spines by Jamise Harper and Jane Mount ❤️
Rebel Homemaker: Food, Family, Life by Drew Barrymore
The Uninnocent: Notes on Violence and Mercy by Katharine Blake
The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning by Paul Bloom
Frequently Asked Questions about the Universe by Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson
The How: Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself by Yrsa Daley-Ward
Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women’s Football League by Britni de la Cretaz and Lyndsey D’Arcangelo
Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer
Speaking of Race: Why Everybody Needs to Talk About Racism—and How to Do It by Celeste Headlee
Woke Up This Morning: The Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos by Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa
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Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer by Rax King
The Farmer’s Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm by Sarah Vogel
Romance
A Certain Appeal by Vanessa King ❤️
I Hate You More by Lucy Gilmore
How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days by K.M. Jackson
The Donut Trap by Julie Tieu
Sci-fi, Fantasy, and Horror
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A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske ❤️
Blue-Skinned Gods by SJ Sindu
The God of Lost Words (A Novel from Hell’s Library) by A. J. Hackwith ❤️
Pity the Beast by Robin McLean
Something More Than Night by Kim Newman
Brothers of the Wind by Tad Williams
Young Adult
A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome by Ariel Henley ❤️
Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen
Into the Bloodred Woods by Martha Brockenbrough
A Psalm of Storms and Silence by Roseanne A. Brown
Fat Angie: Homecoming by e.E. Charlton-Trujillo
Going Viral: A Socially Distant Love Story by Katie Cicatelli-Kuc
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Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora by Saraciea J. Fennell ❤️
Blame It on the Mistletoe by Beth Garrod
The Ghost Tracks: The San Antonio Supernatural Detective Agency by Celso Hurtado
The Story of More (Adapted for Young Adults): How We Got to Climate Change and Where We Go from Here by Hope Jahren
Gilded by Marissa Meyer
Faith: Greater Heights by Julie Murphy
Cupcake by Cookie O’Gorman
Seven Dirty Secrets by Natalie D. Richards
Dreams Lie Beneath by Rebecca Ross
Tiny Dancer by Siena Cherson Siegel and Mark Siegel
You Can Go Your Own Way by Eric Smith ❤️
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This week: I’m currently reading Dele Weds Destiny by Tomi Obaro. Outside of books, I’m still working my watch through a Succession rewatch, and the song stuck in my head is The Highwayman from Over the Garden Wall. And as promised, here is a cat picture! Same, Farrokh, same.
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 ❤️