Hello, my friends, and happy June! I hope you had a wonderful weekend, no matter where you were. Sunday may have been my favorite day in Maine yet. I saw more new birds and critters in our yard, including a cedar waxwing, which I had never seen before. And the weather was perfect. It’s such a joy to be able to read with the windows open, although I have to keep one eye on the cats, because they want to fight the squirrels outside and try to run through the screen like the Kool-Aid Man. And you should hear the terrible language they use!
Now, today’s books: I do these first Tuesday megalists because the first Tuesday of each month has so many new releases, and it’s fun to round some of them up. 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 Counterfeit, Home Field Advantage, After the Lights Go Out, and more.
Biography and Memoir
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Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings edited by Reyna Grande and Sonia Guiñansaca
City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town by Susan Hartman
Raising Raffi: The First Five Years by Keith Gessen
My Life in the Sunshine: Searching for My Father and Discovering My Family by Nabil Ayers
Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto by Edafe Okporo
Fiction
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Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen ❤️
Nuclear Family by Joseph Han ❤️
Greenland by David Santos Donaldson ❤️
Nevada by Imogen Binnie ❤️
The Reservoir by David Duchovny
Now Lila Knows by Elizabeth Nunez
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
So Happy for You by Celia Laskey
Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley ❤️
Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine ❤️
Just by Looking at Him by Ryan O’Connell
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Mother Ocean Father Nation by Nishant Batsha
The Seaplane on Final Approach by Rebecca Rukeyser
These Impossible Things by Salma El-Wardany
The Lifestyle by Taylor Hahn
Exalted by Anna Dorn
More Than You’ll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez ❤️
Tracy Flick Can’t Win by Tom Perrotta
Three by Valérie Perrin, Hildegarde Serle (translator)
The Kingdom of Sand by Andrew Holleran
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A Trail of Crab Tracks by Patrice Nganang, Amy B. Reid (translator)
Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan
The Mutual Friend by Carter Bays
Sleeping Alone: Stories by Ru Freeman
Middle Grade
Unicorn Selfies: Another Phoebe and Her Unicorn Adventure by Dana Simpson ❤️
The Secret Battle of Evan Pao by Wendy Wan-Long Shang
Alice Austen Lived Here by Alex Gino
I Want to Be a Vase by Julio Torres, Julian Glander (Illustrator) ❤️
Mystery and Thriller
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After the Lights Go Out by John Vercher ❤️
The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
Aurora by David Koepp ❤️
Nonfiction
Brown Neon: Essays by Raquel Gutiérrez
Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial by Corban Addison
Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay by Lars Horn
How You Get Famous: Ten Years of Drag Madness in Brooklyn by Nicole Pasulka
The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris
We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power by Caleb Gayle
Romance
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The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian
Sci-fi, Fantasy, and Horror
The City Inside by Samit Basu
Buffalo is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel
Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous by Ellen Datlow
Ordinary Monsters by J. M. Miro
Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane
Young Adult
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Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler ❤️
Slip by Marika McCoola, illustrated by Aatmaja Pandya
Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure: A Graphic Novel by Lewis Hancox
What’s the T?: The no-nonsense guide to all things trans and/or non-binary for teens by Juno Dawson
Forging Silver into Stars by Brigid Kemmerer
TJ Powar Has Something to Prove by Jesmeen Kaur Deo
Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder by Saundra Mitchell
Batter Royale by Leisl Adams
This Place Is Still Beautiful by XiXi Tian
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This week: I’m currently reading Temple Alley Summer by Sachiko Kashiwaba, Miho Satake (illustrator), Avery Fischer Udagawa (translator) and The Last Chairlift by John Irving. Outside of books, I started rewatching Steven Universe, since it has already been two years since I watched it all. And the song stuck in my head is Queen of Cans and Jars by Guided by Voices—again! And here’s a cat picture: It’s hard to work when Farrokh hogs the desk.
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 ❤️