Hi Book Friends!
It’s a hectic month here in Book Radar land as we get closer to my moving date. I’ve got stacks of books to pack and stacks to give away, and I wish I could share all of them with you because there are so many of them that I love but I just can’t justify taking all these books with me across the country. It’s such a tragedy that I just wrote a huge run-on sentence about it. Anyway, trying to take deep breaths over here. I hope y’all are doing ok! Let’s talk books.
Book Deals and Reveals
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Tordotcom Publishing has got the cover reveal of Lee Mandelo’s upcoming novel Feed Them Silence.
And here’s the cover reveal of Mia Tsai’s Bitter Medicine, releasing on March 14th, 2023.
Another stunning cover reveal: Check out Michelle Barry’s Moongarden, out from Pixel + Ink on November 1st.
Where the Crawdads Sing author Delia Owens is wanted for questioning in murder case.
Frederick Joseph and Porsche Joseph are releasing a book called Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World, featuring interviews with Mehcad Brooks, Nic Stone, Julián Castro, Chelsea Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Anna Paquin, Keah Brown, and many others. Here is the cover reveal.
Random House has acquired North American rights to Ana Marie Cox’s memoir Just Like Your Mother. In the book, Cox, a columnist for The Cut’s “Sober Questioning,” delves into her struggles with alcoholism and her relationship with her mother.
HBO Max and Cartoon Network have greenlit a 2D animated adaptation of Iyanu: Child of Wonder, a Dark Horse Comics/YouNeek Studios graphic novel series influenced by the Yoruba people of Nigeria.
Author Kwame Alexander is hosting the new reality TV show America’s Next Great Author, which will feature six finalists who will each attempt to write their book in a month.
Goodreads has announced its list of the top 36 most popular historical fiction books of 2022 (so far), according to users’ interest.
After rising 18.9% in the first half of 2021 over the comparable period in 2020, unit sales of print books have dropped in the first half of 2022, going down 6.6% compared to 2021 levels. Does this mean the book sales boom is finally over?
Book Riot Recommends
I’m a Contributing Editor at Book Riot, I write the Today in Books newsletter, and I’m a Bibliologist for Book Riot’s Tailored Book Recommendations subscription service. I also have a PhD in English, so I’m basically a doctor of books. Books are my life, in other words, so in this section of the newsletter, let me share with you some upcoming books I’m super excited about. And I think you will be too!
Can’t Wait for This One!
The Fraud Squad by Kyla Zhao (Berkley, January 17, 2023)
It’s hot outside and as I’ve said, all I’m doing all day is packing and cleaning, getting ready for this big cross-country move. So you know what I’m really craving? Fun, fast-paced reads that will make me smile. Books like Kyla Zhao’s The Fraud Squad. And yeah, okay, this book isn’t actually coming out until January next year, but that will be here sooner than we know it (for better and for worse). Also when is it not a good time to read something fun and fast-paced that will make you smile?
The Fraud Squad is the story of Samantha Song, who for as long as she can remember has dreamed of working for a high-society magazine. She’d do pretty much anything to get there. But instead, Sam finds herself working at a drab PR firm, struggling to help her mom try to make ends meet. It seems like the closest Sam will ever get to living her high-society dreams is vicariously through her socialite friend and coworker Anya Chen.
But then Sam meets Timothy Kingston, the disillusioned son of one of Singapore’s elite families, and Tim and Anya agree to help Sam make a name for herself on Singapore’s socialite scene. And while her friends can help her fraud her way into the most elite social circles, it will be up to Sam to impress the editor-in-chief of Singapore’s most fabulous magazine. Will Sam be able to succeed? And how long can she keep up the act?
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Words of Literary Wisdom
“The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do.”
— What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
What I’m Watching this Weekend
It’s adaptations weekend over here in my house, friends. I’m so excited to watch the new Netflix adaptation of Persuasion this weekend. And yes, I’m finally going to start the adaptation of Jenny Han’s The Summer I Turned Pretty. Can’t wait.
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And Here’s A Cat Picture!
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So my husband is already in Seattle, and he’s been asking for tons of cat pictures because he misses them dearly. Meanwhile, I’m over here drowning in cats. Here’s a picture of Cersei I sent Ben earlier today. And yes, she absolutely is getting cat hair all over my office chair. Living her best life. I know no one will possibly enjoy these cat pics as much as Ben does, but I hope you love them all the same! I know I do!
Alright, everyone. Wish me luck. I’m going back to packing now. We will talk again soon! Farewell!
💙 Emily