Dear Book Friends,
Happy Monday, and welcome to another round of Book Radar! I feel like I need a weekend from my weekend, but it’s going to be okay! We’ve made it through Monday before, and we’ll do it again. With the help of memes, book chat, and a good cat pic or two. Let’s do this, book friends.
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Book Deals and Reveals
We Need Diverse Books has shared the cover of Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé and Adiba Jaigirdar’s Four Eids and a Funeral. The romantic YA novel will be out on June 4.
Paramount Animation and Temple Hill is adapting Superworld, created and illustrated by Yarrow and Carrie Cheney, into an animated movie.
Author Jane Riordan has unveiled a new Winnie the Pooh character for her upcoming authorized sequel, Winnie-the-Pooh: Tales From the Forest.
Tomi Adeyemi is sharing the cover of Children of Anguish, the third and final book in her Legacy of Orïsha series. The highly-anticipated book will be published on June 25, 2024, through Macmillan’s imprint Henry Holt Books for Young Readers.
The 2023 Booker Prize shortlist has been announced! It is comprised of six novels that span the globe and the decades, all from authors new to the Booker Prize.
Reading advocate and icon Levar Burton will serve as the first actor to lead Banned Books Week as the honorary chair.
More than 150 artists, musicians, actors, and writers have signed an open letter decrying book bans across the country.
Lionsgate has dropped a full-length trailer for The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, a feature film based on the novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins.
Book Riot Recommends
Hi, welcome to everyone’s favorite segment of Book Radar called Book Riot Recommends. This is where I’ll talk to you about all the books I’m reading, the books I’m loving, and the books I can’t wait to read and love in the near future. I think you’re going to love them too!
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Prepare Your Shelves!
The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young (Delacorte Press, October 17)
The Unmaking of June Farrow has a little bit of something for everyone. Mystery. Romance. Magic. Family drama. And if you love reading about all of those things (like most people do), then you’re in for a treat. This book from Adrienne Young, the author of Spells for Forgetting, is hitting shelves in just a few short weeks!
This book is set in Jasper, North Carolina, a small mountain town where the Farrow women have a thriving family farm…and a family curse that has followed them through several generations. But more than anything, the Farrow family is known for the rumors surrounding June Farrow’s mother and her strange disappearance. What happened to Susanna Farrow?
June is tired of the mysteries surrounding her family, and she’s determined to end the Farrow curse once and for all. In search of answers, June embarks on a strange magical journey and puts everything — even her own heart — on the line.
What I’m Reading This Week
Lunar Love by Lauren Kung Jessen
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
You, Again by Kate Goldbeck
Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong
The Beast You Are by Paul Tremblay
People Collide by Isle McElroy
Monday Memes
Love the celeb auction memes? Here are some literary ones!
And Here’s A Cat Picture!
I love writing this newsletter for all of you, but you know what slows me down sometimes? Cats who hop into my lap and use my arms (the arms I need to write) as a little cradle.
But it’s cute, so at least I got a good pic out of it. I hope you enjoy.
And…you know what time it is. It’s time to wrap up Monday’s Book Radar! I wish you the best throughout your week.