As we head into the holiday season, I keep trying to sort out which books I want to finish before the end of the year. While I have over 50 books on my TBR cart that I’d love to get to, I think I’m going to start having to make some hard choices. #BookLoverProblems
Today in the newsletter, we’re talking about some backlist books to take us through our October to November transition. But first, new books!
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Bookish Goods
Digital Reading Journal by Dot Dot Planner
So far, I’ve featured reading tracking journals that are in physical form. But here is one for tablet fans! I love how detailed this is! And there’s still plenty of creativity and customization. $9
New Releases
The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir by Jami Nakamura Lin
Using ancestral storytelling and mythology, Jami Nakamura Lin writes about her experience growing up with undiagnosed bipolar disorder. Her sister, Cory Nakamura Lin, drew the illustrations throughout the memoir, creating a truly unique reading experience.
Mischievous Creatures by Catherine McNeur
Author Catherine McNeur explores the lives of Margaretta Hare Morris and Elizabeth Carrington Morris, two sisters who were both scientists exploring the natural world. The sisters made vital scientific discoveries in botany and entomology but have been forgotten for far too long.
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Riot Recommendations
November is Indigenous Peoples’ Month, so I have to tell you about a poetry anthology full to the brim with Native poets. But first, let’s give scary season one last gasp before we say goodbye to Halloween for the year.
Ghostland by Colin Dickey
If you love narrative nonfiction, Ghostland will be right in your wheelhouse. In this book, Colin Dickey travels around America to inspect the most haunted places in the nation. Hotels, abandoned hospitals, empty prisons — no location is too creepy or sinister for Dickey. He asks deep questions about how we, the living, relate to these haunted spaces and how these moments and places from our past impact our future.
New Poets of Native Nations, edited by Heid E. Erdrich
Heid E. Erdrich (yes, she’s the sister of Louise Erdrich) edited this anthology of new Indigenous poets. There’s such a range of different kinds of poetry in this collection from poets from many different Native Nations, giving you a broad look at Indigenous poetry in the 21st century. After reading these poems, you’ll be itching to look up each contributor to find more of their work.
That’s it for this week! You can find me over on my substack Winchester Ave, over on Instagram @kdwinchester, or on my podcast Read Appalachia. As always, feel free to drop me a line at kendra.d.winchester@gmail.com. For even MORE bookish content, you can find my articles over on Book Riot.
Happy Reading, Friends!
~ Kendra