Hello, my bookish friends, and welcome to another splendid Tuesday of book releases! Now, I know many of you are excited about the sequel to Fourth Wing, releasing today, Iron Flame, and/or the Barbra Streisand memoir. But I think you’ll find a lot more to love in this list as well. At the top of my TBR today is Hot Springs Drive by Lindsay Hunter, Upcountry by Chin-Sun Lee, and Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park. You can hear about some more of the fabulous books coming out today on this week’s episode of All the Books! Danika and I talked about some of the books we’re excited about, including Bookshops & Bonedust, Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, and The Liberators.
Today, I am doing a round-up of several exciting books from the first Tuesday of November 2023. 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 asterisks *** next to the books that I have had the chance to read and loved. YAY, BOOKS!
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Biography and Memoir
My Name Is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
Touching the Art by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Remembrance: Selected Correspondence of Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury and Jonathan R. Eller
Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment by Susannah Breslin
American Shield: The Immigrant Sergeant Who Defended Democracy by Aquilino Gonell, Susan Shapiro
Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education by Stephanie Land
Jumpman: The Making and Meaning of Michael Jordan by Johnny Smith***
To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul by Tracy K. Smith
The Autists: Women on the Spectrum by Clara Törnvall, Alice E. Olsson (translator)
The View From Down Here: Life as a Young Disabled Woman by Lucy Webster
Fiction
The Liberators by E. J. Koh***
Hot Springs Drive by Lindsay Hunter
A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter
Baumgartner by Paul Auster
The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook***
Again and Again by Jonathan Evison
A Song over Miskwaa Rapids by Linda LeGarde Grover
The Rainbow (Vintage International) by Yasunari Kawabata
Upcountry by Chin-Sun Lee
The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez
Today Tonight Forever by Madeline Kay Sneed
Middle Grade
The Apartment House on Poppy Hill by Nina LaCour and Sònia Albert
Books Make Good Friends by Jane Mount
Mystery and Thriller
The Future by Naomi Alderman
The Mantis by Kotaro Isaka, Sam Malissa (translator)
Blood Betrayal (Blackwater Falls Series, 2) by Ausma Zehanat Khan
Enchanted Hill by Emily Bain Murphy
Nonfiction
World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music by Jeff Tweedy***
Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change by Ben Austen
Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky (Button Poetry) by Rudy Francisco
Racial Wellness: A Guide to Liberatory Healing for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color by Jacquelyn Ogorchukwu Iyamah
The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food—Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes by Mark Kurlansky
Dolls of Our Lives: Why We Can’t Quit American Girl by Mary Mahoney and Allison Horrocks
On Community by Casey Plett
Romance
Hunt on Dark Waters by Katee Robert
Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood
Never Wager with a Wallflower by Virginia Heath
Sci-fi, Fantasy, and Horror
Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes) by Travis Baldree***
Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders Book 2) by Mur Lafferty
A Power Unbound (The Last Binding Book 3) by Freya Marske
The Tatami Time Machine Blues by Tomihiko Morimi, Emily Balistrieri (translation)
Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park
We Are the Crisis (The Convergence Saga) by Cadwell Turnbull
Iron Flame (The Empyrean) by Rebecca Yarros
Young Adult
Gorgeous Gruesome Faces by Linda Cheng
Atana and the Firebird by Vivian Zhou***
Emmett by L. C. Rosen
With or Without You by Eric Smith
Fancy Meeting You Here by Julie Tieu
This week: I’m currently reading This Great Hemisphere by Mateo Askaripour, Chita: A Memoir by Chita Rivera, and The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne. I’ve been really into celebrity memoirs lately, for some reason! I have Henry Winkler and Babs up next. Outside of books, I watched Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, which was exactly what I wanted it to be, and Quiz Lady, which was pretty good. It’s always amazing to see Sandra Oh and Tony Hale, and there’s a surprise at the end that made me burst into tears. The song stuck in my head right now is “Attitude” by The Replacements. And here’s a cat photo: Here’s my little orange monkey, Zevon, doing his best croissant cosplay.
That’s it for me today, friends. I am sending you love and good wishes for whatever is happening in your life right now. Thank you, as always, for joining me each week as I rave about books! See you next week. – XO, Liberty