Dear Book Friends,
Happy Thursday! We’re almost to the end of the week, and I’m hoping for a nice, chill weekend with plenty of reading time. But before we get there, we have today to talk books. So let’s do this.
Book Deals and Reveals
Indiana Jones meets enemies-to-lovers meets supernatural romcom in Rosie Danan’s latest novel Do Your Worst, and here’s a first look at the upcoming book. Do Your Worst is out from Berkley on November 14.
Pascale Lacelle’s Curious Tides is all about dark magic and secret socities, and Tor.com has the cover reveal. This book — the first book in the Drowned Gods Duology— is publishing October 3, 2023 with Margaret K. McElderry Books.
Rick Riordan has unveiled the cover of his upcoming novel titled Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods. This one will be out on September 26.
And here’s the cover of Katee Robert’s new novel Hunt on Dark Waters. This one’s out on November 7.
65 years after Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! was published, the classic Christmas story is getting a sequel. How the Grinch Lost Christmas will hit shelves on September 5.
HBO Max given a straight-to-series order to a drama based on Stephen King’s horror novel It. Andy Muschietti (who made the film adaptations It and It: Chapter Two) will direct multiple episodes of the series, including the first episode.
Juli Min’s debut novel Shanghailanders was sold to Spiegel & Grau at auction. The novel, set for spring 2024, is described by the publisher as a “kaleidoscopic” work that follows a wealthy family in Shanghai, moving back and forth in time between 2014 and 2040.
Nnedi Okorafor has sold three adult fantasy novellas to DAW Books. The first book under contract is entitled She Who Knows and is set for a spring 2024 release.
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!
Can’t Wait for This One
House Woman by Adorah Nworah (The Unnamed Press, June 6)
This debut novel is an exciting and unique thriller set in a Nigerian immigrant community in Sugar Land, TX. So if you enjoy a good domestic thriller but have been getting tired of the same old formula, House Woman will surprise you, and it’s going to be one you’ll want to put on your TBR list for June this year.
When young dancer Ikemefuna leaves her home in Lagos for an arranged marriage to a man she’s never met, her new husband Nna gives her all sorts of promises for what her new life in Houston will mean for her. A life with Nna will mean a chance for an education. A chance for freedom.
Desperate to please, Ikemefuna will do anything to fit in with her new family and her new home with Nna and her in-laws. But Nna’s parents are desperate for something else: grandchildren. And the pressures to give them what they want become increasingly suffocating by the day. Meanwhile, as Nna tries to grapple with his parents’ desires and his own feelings towards his obedient but very strange new wife, family secrets come to the surface.
Words of Literary Wisdom
“Maybe touching someone is the kindest thing you can do; making a person feel like it’s okay to touch them, that they’re touchable and not disgusting, is the easiest and best way to make a person feel good in the world.”
— Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth
And Here’s A Cat Picture!
Oh look! I have my computer back, and so I’m here to share a new picture with you. My husband got our cat Cersei a cute little cat house so she can hide from the other boys. Isn’t she precious? Ok, yeah, she still looks a little scared, but that’s just her vibe.
Anyway, I hope you have a good weekend. Talk to you next week!