Category: New Books

Happy Tuesday, readers! I’m still trying to cram scary books into my brain before Halloween. I’m not entirely sure why I am pretending I don’t read them all year long, lol. I read a few more great ones for the Dewey’s readathon this past weekend, which I will be sure to share when they come out. You can hear about other awesome reads on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Jenn and I discussed Nothing to See Here, The Cheffe, Sisters of the Vast Black, and more great books!

And now, it’s time for everyone’s favorite gameshow: AHHHHHH MY TBR! Here are today’s contestants:

The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna by Mira Ptacin

There have been a lot of books recently where weird things happen in the Maine woods – and with good reason. Weird things DO go on in the Maine woods. In Ptacin’s latest book she investigates Camp Etna, a community in the Maine woods started in 1848 by two sisters who claimed they could speak to the dead. Ptacin explores not only the camp, but she examines both our historic and present-day searches – our need – for signs that something else is out there. Fascinating stuff!

Backlist bump: Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey

Heroine by Gail Scott

Coach House is releasing a reissue of this feminist classic with a new introduction by Eileen Myles. It’s about a woman in a bathtub in a rooming house is Quebec trying to make major transitions in her life as the decade rolls over from the 1970s to the 1980s. She wants to get out of an affair with a left leader, and start taking more control over her own life. It’s an edgy bit of experimental feminist writing.

Backlist bump: Problems by Jade Sharma

The Beautiful Ones by Prince

Okay, I haven’t read this but it’s PRINCE. I cannot wait to get my hands on it. He was in the process of writing it when he died. So at least we know that he intended for us to have it, unlike a lot of works that are published posthumously. It includes never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets. And it’s PRINCE. I miss him so much.

Backlist bump: Prince: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations by Prince

See you next week!

xoxo,

Liberty

Happy Tuesday, readers! I’m so excited about spooky book season. I am desperately trying to fit as many scary books in as I can before Halloween. I’m not entirely sure why, since I read them year-round, but it’s fun so I’m going to keep going. Speaking of scary books, you can hear me talk about my favorite one of 2019, as well as more awesome reads on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Vanessa and I discussed All This Could Be Yours, Last of Her Name, God Save the Queens, and more great books!

And now, it’s time for everyone’s favorite gameshow: AHHHHHH MY TBR! Here are today’s contestants:

The Beadworkers by Beth Piatote 

A beautiful and emotionally complex debut collection of stories of the Native Northwest. Piatote gorgeously renders historic and contemporary Native life in the United States with humor and heartbreak. Stories include the Fish Wars in the 1960s; two young men at college each contemplate a death in the family; and a family torn over the fate of ancestral remains.

Backlist bump: An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (ReVisioning American History) by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

From Hell to Breakfast by Meghan Tifft

If you like your language to be gorgeous and your story to be surreal, this is the Halloween book for you! Lucinda’s boyfriend Dracula eats pigeons, stalks the night, and claims to be a vampire, on top of his job as a UPS driver. Whatever the true story, this small town has a LOT of weird going on, with strange to spare. It’s like David Lynch and Grace Krilanovich collaborated on a vampire novel. It’s sinister, bizarre, and utterly original.

Backlist bump: The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich

Forking Good: An Unofficial Cookbook for Fans of The Good Place by Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Stephen H. Segal, Dingding Hu (Illustrator)

I had to share this because I love The Good Place – it makes the bass drop in my heart! – and I NEED THIS IMMEDIATELY. I kinda don’t even want to look at it until I have exhausted my ideas of what they could include for recipes. Jason’s Molotov Cocktail? Holy Motherforking Meatballs? Tahani’s Tahini Sauce? Whatever they are, it’s going to be hard to beat Megan Amram and the other writers’ food puns from the show, but I am still 100% behind this book.

Backlist bump: Science…For Her!: A politically, scientifically, and anatomically incorrect textbook beautifully tailored for the female brain by Megan Amram

See you next week!

xoxo,

Liberty

Happy Tuesday, my little book squeezers! I’m not going to lie, I could do another whole megalist of new releases today, because there are so many amazing ones coming out. But I will go easy on your TBRs. (Also, you can totally check out the show notes for today’s new episode of All the Books! if you want to learn about more of this week’s new releases.) Today I am most excited to get my hands on Me, Elton John’s very first memoir. I’m also looking forward to getting Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden, The Rosewater Redemption by Tade Thompson, Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout, War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi, Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms by John Hodgman… okay, I’ll stop, because this list could go on and on!

So I have a few great books I enjoyed for you to check out today, and you can hear about more awesome reads on this week’s episode of the All the Books! María Cristina and I discussed Your House Will Pay, The Never Tilting World, Wild Game, and more great books!

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia

Rick Riordan tweeted a few weeks ago that after only a year, his imprint that focuses on #OwnVoices has a million copies in print. It’s because each addition is amazing, and Tristan Strong is no different. Seventh grader Tristan Strong is being sent to his grandmother’s to recover after a bus accident that claimed the life of his best friend, Eddie. But on his first night there, a creature breaks in and tries to steal all Tristan has left of Eddie: his notebook. In the ensuing chase, Tristan punches a tree open. Yep. That just happened. Inside the tree is a portal to a fantasy world, where black American folk heroes fight evil. Tristan and his new friends must convince Anansi to close the hole in the sky if he ever wants to get back home. This is a wildly fun and imaginative new middle grade fantasy, and I can’t wait to hear about more Tristan Strong adventures!

Backlist bump: The Storm Runner (Book 1) by J.C. Cervantes

Dead Girls by Abigail Tarttelin

Thera is an eleven-year-old in the sleepy rural town of Eastcastle, England in the late 1990s. Billie is Thera’s best, true forever friend, the prettiest one of their group who loves laughing and never tires of playing Thera’s pretend games. But then Billie goes missing, and Thera starts seeing ghosts. Thera is worried that what happened to Billie is her fault, because she wanted to pretend-spy on the stranger. And she thinks Billie’s ghost is trying to tell her something. The police have no clues about what happened, so Thera decides to investigate for herself. But a dangerous world where a murderer is on the loose is no place for a young girl, even one as smart as Thera. (TW: There is a small part where Thera wonders about sexual assault and what it means, and it is heartbreaking and tough to read.)

Backlist bump: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

America Is Immigrants by Sara Novic and Alison Kolesar

Novic has written short biographies for immigrants from every country in the world. They include war heroes and fashion designers, Supreme Court justices and pop stars, athletes and civil rights leaders, doctors, scientists, inventors, and more. And the book features full-color illustrations to go along with the stories of the many different people who truly help make America a great place.

Backlist bump: First Generation: 36 Trailblazing Immigrants and Refugees Who Make America Great by Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace

Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o and Vashti Harrison

And this is Academy Award–winning actress Nyong’o’s first picture book. It’s a gorgeously illustrated story about colorism and self-esteem. It’s about a little girl named Sulwe. She has skin the color of midnight, but she wishes she had lighter skin like the rest of her family. But a magical journey through the night sky changes her mind.

Backlist bump: I Am Enough by Grace Byers and Keturah A. Bobo

Liberty

See you next week!

Put on your goggles and open your TBR list, because it’s another AMAZING Tuesday new release day! *Muppet arms* It felt like everything I wanted to read was so far away, and now it’s all coming at me like rapid fire! Though not as hard as the one that got Chidi on The Good Place this week, amirite? (I watched that twenty times and laughed every time.) So, I know this may come as a shock to you, but I have some great books for you to check out today! And you can hear about some of these awesome reads on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Kelly and I discussed Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts, How We Fight for Our Lives, The Grace Year, and more great books!

Liberty

(And like with each megalist, I’m putting a  next to the books that I have had the chance to read and loved. And there are soooo many more on this list that I can’t wait to read!)

Sudden Traveler: Stories by Sarah Hall 

Bat Basics: How to Understand and Help These Amazing Flying Mammals by Karen Krebbs (I NEED THIS.)

Seven Crows by Kate Kessler

What Is Missing: A Novel by Michael Frank

The Best at It by Maulik Pancholy

American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation by Holly Jackson

Before the Devil Fell: A Novel by Neil Olson

What I Lick Before Your Face … and Other Haikus By Dogs by Jamie Coleman

The Girl Who Reads on the Metro by Christine Féret-Fleury

Cats Are a Liquid by Rebecca Donnelly and Misa Saburi (This is #1 on my list of books to buy this week!)

Avidly Reads Making Out by Kathryn Bond Stockton

I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita, Jessica Hagedorn (translator)

Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds

The Story That Cannot Be Told by J. Kasper Kramer

The Girl At the Door by Veronica Raimo, Stash Luczkiw (Translator)

In the Hall with the Knife: A Clue Mystery, Book One by Diana Peterfreund

Confluence: Navigating the Personal & Political on Rivers of the New West by Zak Podmore

A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror by John Hornor Jacobs

Watershed by Mark Barr

The Library of Lost Things by Laura Taylor Namey

Animal (Bagley Wright Lecture Series) by Dorothea Lasky

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

The Remaking: A Novel by Clay Chapman

The Oracle of Cumae by Melissa Hardy

A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma by David Eimer

Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones by Daniel Mendelsohn

The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth (Book of Dust, Volume 2) by Philip Pullman

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

The Forest City Killer: A Serial Murderer, a Cold-Case Sleuth, and a Search for Justice by Vanessa Brown

This Way to Departures by Linda Mannheim

Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church by Megan Phelps-Roper

Dreams from Many Rivers: A Hispanic History of the United States Told in Poems by Margarita Engle and Beatriz Gutierrez Hernandez

Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir by Nikki Grimes

Collateral Damage (Star Trek: The Next Generation) by David Mack

Orpheus Girl by Brynne Rebele-Henry

Faker by Sarah Smith

Erosion: Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams (I did not read the one about the dog because *SOB*)

Rerun Era by Joanna Howard

Symphony No. 3 by Chris Eaton

Remember by Patricia Smith (I have started this and it’s good!)

Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger by Lilly Dancyger

Who Says You’re Dead?: Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned by Jacob M. Appel MD

Love, Heather by Laurie Petrou

Half/Life: New & Selected Poems by Jeffrey Thomson

Rogue Heart by Axie Oh

The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh

Salt Slow by Julia Armfield

Infused: Adventures in Tea by Henrietta Lovell

Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia

Blood Sugar by Daniel Kraus

Marley by Jon Clinch (I enjoyed this even though I detest A Christmas Carol. Sorry not sorry.)

Heart of the Moors: An Original Maleficent: Mistress of Evil Novel by Holly Black

The Furies by Katie Lowe

Warrior of the Altaii by Robert Jordan

False Bingo: Stories by Jac Jemc

How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones

Wham!, George Michael and Me: A Memoir by Andrew Ridgeley

Ghosts of Berlin: Stories by Rudolph Herzog, Emma Rault (translator)

Here Until August: Stories by Josephine Rowe

Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith

Bodega: Poems by Su Hwang

A Punk Rock Future edited by Steve Zisson

The Hadley Academy for the Improbably Gifted: A Novel by Conor Grennan and Alessandro Valdrighi

Metropolitan Stories: A Novel by Christine Coulson

Into the Crooked Place by Alexandra Christo

Horror Stories: A Memoir by Liz Phair

Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another by Matt Taibbi

How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse: Book One of the Thorne Chronicles by K. Eason

The Giver of Stars: A Novel by Jojo Moyes

On Time: A Princely Life in Funk by Morris Day (Author), David Ritz  (Contributor)

The Envious Siblings: and Other Morbid Nursery Rhymes by Landis Blair

Older Brother by Mahir Guven, Tina Kover (translator)

Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011-2019 (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents) by Natasha Stagg

The Penguin Book of Mermaids by Cristina Bacchilega and Marie Alohalani Brown

Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell

25 Days ‘Til Christmas: A Novel by Poppy Alexander

See you next week!

RABBIT, RABBIT. What a week to be alive! A new Susanna Clarke was announced; the cover for the second Gideon the Ninth book was released; I’m going to interview Erin Morgenstern and Tamsyn Muir later this week. This is the happiest I have been on a Monday (which is when I am writing this) in a while! However, I am always happy on Tuesdays, because it’s new release day! That means I have a great big list of titles coming out today, and you can hear about some of these and more amazing books on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about Royal Holiday, The Library of the Unwritten, A Tall History of Sugar, and more.

(And like with each megalist, I’m putting a  next to the books that I have had the chance to read and loved. It has been slow reading for me the last few months, so I haven’t read as many as I wished, but I did get to a few of today’s books. And there are soooo many more on this list that I can’t wait to read!)

The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis  

Redwood and Ponytail by K.A. Holt

Fake Lake (Drawn & Quarterly) by Adrian Norvid

Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity by Felicia Day

Star Trek: The Motion Picture by Gene Roddenberry

The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes by Alya Mooro

Pigs by Johanna Stoberock

Angel Mage by Garth Nix

She Was Like That by Kate Walbert

Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance by Bethany Morrow

White Bird: A Wonder Story by R. J. Palacio

Sarah Jane by James Sallis

Cursed by Thomas Wheeler and Frank Miller

The Shape of Night: A Novel by Tess Gerritsen

Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead: Typhoon by Wesley Chu

What Linnaeus Saw: A Scientist’s Quest to Name Every Living Thing by Karen Magnuson Beil

Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) by Eve Rodsky

I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day

Face It by Debbie Harry

Crossfire: A Litany for Survival by Staceyann Chin

Everything Must Go (BreakBeat Poets) by Kevin Coval and Langston Allston

Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright by Paul Hendrickson

A Human Algorithm: How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are by Flynn Coleman

Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of King Edward Longshanks by Kelcey Wilson-Lee

Baby by Annaleese Jochems

Aphrodite Made Me Do It by Trista Mateer

Into Captivity They Will Go by Noah Milligan

Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco  

Empire of Lies by Raymond Khoury

Me & Other Writing by Marguerite Duras

Rebel: A Legend Novel by Marie Lu

The Closer I Get by Paul Burston

Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby  

Dry County: A Novel by Jake Hinkson

Love and I: Poems by Fanny Howe

Aurora Blazing: A Novel (The Consortium Rebellion) by Jessie Mihalik

The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future by Veronica Roth

You Don’t Know Me: The Incarcerated Women of York Prison Voice Their Truths by Wally Lamb and The Women of York Prison

I’m Not Dying with You Tonight by Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones

Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory

Right after the Weather by Carol Anshaw

Reinhardt’s Garden by Mark Haber

Geometry of Shadows by Giorgio de Chirico, Stefania Heim (translator)

Trolls by Stefan Spjut and Agnes Broome

Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery by Kelley Armstrong , Rachael Caine, et al.

The Topeka School: A Novel by Ben Lerner

Roll with It by Jamie Sumner

The Lying Room: A Novel by Nicci French

Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson

Takes One to Know One: A Novel by Susan Isaacs

One Night Gone: A Novel by Tara Laskowski

Whispers of Shadow & Flame (Earthsinger) by L. Penelope

The Library of the Unwritten (A Novel from Hell’s Library) by A. J. Hackwith  

Animal (Bagley Wright Lecture Series) by Dorothea Lasky

Fake (Point Paperbacks) by Donna Cooner

Creep by Eireann Corrigan

Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky

Dear Sweet Pea by Julie Murphy

The Butterfly Girl: A Novel by Rene Denfeld

Toil & Trouble: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs

The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake

The Book of Daniel by Aaron Smith

The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

Weird Little Robots by Carolyn Crimi, Corinna Luyken (Illustrator)

A Tale of Magic… by Chris Colfer

Full Throttle: Stories by Joe Hill  

The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl by Theodora Goss

A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes  

The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek by Andrea Marcolongo and Will Schutt

A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son by Sergio Troncoso

The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys

I Will Never See the World Again: The Memoir of an Imprisoned Writer by Ahmet Altan and Yasemin Congar

Kitchen Curse: Stories by Eka Kurniawan and Annie Tucker

Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow

Stealing Green Mangoes: Two Brothers, Two Fates, One Indian Childhood by Sunil Dutta

Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares by Aarti Namdev Shahani

Nothing that Is, The: Essays on Art, Literature and Being (Essais Series) by Johanna Skibsrud

Crier’s War by Nina Varela

Radical: The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America by Kate Pickert

Daughters Of Nri by Reni K Amayo

A Pilgrimage of Swords by Anthony Ryan

Houses Under the Sea by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight by Aliette de Bodard

Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee

Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn’s Letters of Love and War 1930-1949 by Janet Somerville

Trinity Sight: A Novel by Jennifer Givhan

Monstress Volume 4 by Marjorie Liu (Author), Sana Takeda (Artist)

Degrees of Difficulty by Julie E. Justicz

Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud by Tom Mueller

Now Entering Addamsville by Francesca Zappia

Cilka’s Journey: A Novel by Heather Morris

The Bootlace Magician by Cassie Beasley

Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow by Charlie Jane Anders, Madeline Ashby

The Hanky of Pippin’s Daughter by Rosmarie Waldrop

Bloody Genius (A Virgil Flowers Novel) by John Sandford

That’s it for me today! If you want to learn more about books new and old, or tell me about books you’re reading, or books you think I should read (I HEART RECOMMENDATIONS!), or see pictures of my cats (How do I make them stop growing?!?), you can find me on Twitter at MissLiberty, on Instagram at FranzenComesAlive, or Litsy under ‘Liberty’!

Thanks so much for reading!

Liberty

Tuesday: it’s not Monday. That’s my new tagline for Tuesday. I expect it will make me a billion dollars. But while I wait for that fat cash to start rolling in, I have some great books for you to check out today! And you can hear about more awesome reads on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Sharifah and I discussed The Water Dancer, The Dutch House, The Shadow King, and more great books!

Liberty

P.S. More fun news: be sure to enter Book Riot’s giveaway of the year’s 10 best mystery/thrillers so far!

The Liar by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

This is a compelling tale of lying. Nofar is a teenage girl working in an ice cream parlor, until she tells a lie that catapults her into the spotlight. Raymonde is an elderly immigrant tells tales of her own. But lies like these have consequences. Gundar-Goshen explores and exposes the liar in us all.

Backlist bump: Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

The Last Seance: Tales of the Supernatural by Agatha Christie

A new collection of Agatha Christie! These are almost all stories published elsewhere, but they are her creepiest. And now they are all together in one place, PLUS there is indeed one story that has never been published in the United States before. That’s a reason to party right there. And reading Agatha Christie is always a comfort.

Backlist bump: Hallowe’en Party: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie

The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones

“In your head, in your head, zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie.” I don’t know about you, but I am not tired of zombie novels. Especially not with Halloween just around the corner. This fun novel is about a family of gravedigger siblings who are trying to scrape together (ha) a living. But it’s hard to finish the job when the dead don’t want to stay in the ground. If Ryn, the oldest, can figure out how to break the curse that brings the “bone houses” back, it will be smooth sailing for all. But that’s easier said that done.

Backlist bump: The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

See you next week!

Happy Tuesday! Welcome to another great day of great new releases. IT’S ALL HAPPENING. I have a few wonderful titles below, and you can hear about more awesome reads on this week’s episode of the All the Books! María Cristina and I discussed Chilling Effect, Bloodlust & Bonnets, Red at the Bone, and more great books. And I am so excited to get my hands on The Tea Dragon Festival by Katie O’Neill!

And a special shout-out to Rioter Karina Yan Glaser, whose new book, The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue, is out today!!!

Thanks so much for reading and enjoy your week! XOXO, Liberty

P.S. More fun news: be sure to enter Book Riot’s giveaway of the year’s 10 best mystery/thrillers so far!

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

How amazing is this book? So amazing that it got picked up by a larger publisher after its initial release for a larger release! It’s an incredible queer coming-of-age story about Juliet Milagros Palante from the Bronx, who flies to Oregon to intern with her favorite feminist writer, and has a summer full of highs and lows, learning all about being comfortable in your skin, and sorting out the complications that arise with her mom.

Backlist bump: Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero

Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry

Two aging criminals reflect on their lives and exploits as they spend a night waiting for one of their estranged daughters to arrive at the dock. Coming or going, they’re not sure. But as they sit and wait, they share their memories of a life of crime, violence, betrayals, and friendship. Barry continues to consistently release incredible novels.

Backlist bump: Beatlebone by Kevin Barry

Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke

How exciting is thisssssss? After the ending of the first one, I have been so excited to get my hands on it. SPOILER: IT’S SO GOOD. This time around, Texas Ranger Darren Matthews gets involved in the case of a missing boy and his white supremacist family. The case appears to have ties to his previous case. Meanwhile, his home life is a mess between trying to save his marriage and his mother…well, I’m not going to mention it in case you haven’t read the first one. Let’s just say she’s difficult, lol.

Backlist bump: Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke

See you next week!

Welcome to another AMAZING new release day, which includes the release of my book obsession: Gideon the Ninth! Fall publishing FTW!

I was lucky enough to read several great books coming out today, and you can hear about more awesome reads on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Kelly and I discussed Gideon the Ninth, Unpregnant, Stargazing, and more great books.

I am doing another big list today because you need to see all these books! And like with each megalist, I’m putting a  next to the books that I have had the chance to read and loved. It has been slow reading for me the last few months, so I haven’t read as many as I wished, but I did get to a few of today’s books. And there are soooo many more on this list that I can’t wait to read!

Thanks so much for reading and enjoy your week! XOXO, Liberty

P.S. More fun news: be sure to enter Book Riot’s giveaway of the year’s 10 best mystery/thrillers so far!

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir 

The Last Train to London: A Novel by Meg Waite Clayton

Free Lunch by Rex Ogle

The Fifth Column: A Novel by Andrew Gross

The Ghost Collector by Allison Mills

Akin by Emma Donoghue 

The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir by Samantha Power

Where the Light Enters by Sara Donati

Unpregnant by Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan

Women in Art: 50 Fearless Creatives Who Inspired the World (Women in Science) by Rachel Ignotofsky

The Sisters of Summit Avenue by Lynn Cullen

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi 

The Truth About Magic: Poems by Atticus

29 Seconds: A Novel by T. M. Logan

A Treason of Thorns by Laura E Weymouth

The Corner That Held Them (New York Review Books Classics) by Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Divers’ Game by Jesse Ball

Live a Little: A Novel by Howard Jacobson

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

Don’t You Forget About Me: A Novel by Mhairi McFarlane 

Bloomland by John Englehardt

What Is A Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar & USA Gymnastics by Rachael Denhollander

Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Pettina Gappah

Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez

Lost in the Spanish Quarter by Heddi Goodrich 

Malamander by Thomas Taylor and Tom Booth

The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff

The Starlet and the Spy: A Novel by Ji-min Lee

The Ticking Heart by Andrew Kaufman

The Siege of Troy: A Novel by Theodor Kallifatides, Marlaine Delargy (Translator)

Animalia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Frank Wynne (translator)

Tinfoil Butterfly: A Novel by Rachel Eve Moulton 

The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan by Sherry Thomas

The Vanished Bride (A Brontë Sisters Mystery) by Bella Ellis

Rebel Girls By Elizabeth Keenan

The Second Chance Supper Club by Nicole Meier

For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity by Liz Plank

How to Be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell

A Choir of Lies by Alexandra Rowland and Drew Willis

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty and Dianné Ruz (Illustrator) 

Hope Is Our Only Wing by Rutendo Tavengerwei

Are You Listening? By Tillie Walden 

Listening to the Wind (Seedbank) by Tim Robinson

When She Reigns (Fallen Isles Book 3) by Jodi Meadows

Three-Fifths by John Vercher

Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann  (I have not finished this 1000-page book, but I love what I have read so far.)

Frankly in Love by David Yoon

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

His Hideous Heart: Thirteen of Edgar Allan Poe’s Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined by Dahlia Adler 

So Much More: A Poignant Memoir about Finding Love, Fighting Adversity, and Defining Life on My Own Terms by Zulema Arroyo Farley

A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker 

The Institute: A Novel by Stephen King

The Nanny: A Novel by Gilly Macmillan

Gun Island: A Novel by Amitav Ghosh

Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers: Poems (National Poetry Series) by Jake Skeets

Mother Knows Best: A Novel of Suspense by Kira Peikoff

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow 

Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream by Nicholas Lemann

Stargazing by Jen Wang

Homesick by Jennifer Croft 

Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS by Azadeh Moaveni

The Light in the Lake by Sarah R. Baughman

A Match Made in Mehendi by Nandini Bajpai

Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief by Doris Payne 

Ruby & Roland: A Novel by Faith Sullivan

Fanny and the Mystery in the Grieving Forest (Literature in Translation Series) by Rune Christiansen and Kari Dickson

See you next week!

Ready your TBR list because – *trumpet sounds* – it’s the first Tuesday of the month! That means I have a great big list of titles coming out today for you to peruse and drool over. And you can hear about some of these and more amazing books on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about Butterfly Yellow, Revolution of the Soul, Cold Storage, and more.

And more fun news: be sure to enter Book Riot’s giveaway of the year’s 10 best mystery/thrillers so far!

(And like with each megalist, I’m putting a  next to the books that I have had the chance to read and loved. It has been slow reading for me the last few months, so I haven’t read as many as I wished, but I did get to a few of today’s books. And there are soooo many more on this list that I can’t wait to read!)

Cantoras: A Novel by Carolina De Robertis 

My Jasper June by Laurel Snyder

Laughing with Obama: A Photographic Look Back at the Enduring Wit and Spirit of President Barack Obama by M. Sweeney

Revolution of the Soul: Awaken to Love Through Raw Truth, Radical Healing, and Conscious Action by Seane Corn

Scan Artist: How Evelyn Wood Convinced the World That Speed-Reading Worked by Marcia Biederman

Kill Monster by Sean Doolittle

The Stylist Takes Manhattan by Rosie Nixon

The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace by Patricia Wiltshire

Taboo by Kim Scott 

We Speak in Storms by Natalie Lund

The Best Horror of the Year Volume Eleven by Ellen Datlow

Taina by Ernesto Quiñonez

Work for It: A Small Town MM Romance by Talia Hibbert

The Mythic Dream by John Chu, Leah Cypess

Hope Farm by Peggy Frew

Whose Story Is This?: Old Conflicts, New Chapters by Rebecca Solnit

Guest: A Changeling Tale by Mary Downing Hahn

To the Lions: A Novel by Holly Watt

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac

Some Places More Than Others by Renée Watson

We Are Lost and Found by Helene Dunbar

The First Stone by Carsten Jensen, Mark Mussari (translator)

The Other’s Gold: A Novel by Elizabeth Ames

The Paper Lovers by Gerard Woodward

The Words between Us by Erin Bartels

This Tilting World by Colette Fellous

Nya’s Long Walk: A Step at a Time by Linda Sue Park and Brian Pinkney

The Paris Orphan by Natasha Lester

Tunnel of Bones (City of Ghosts) by Victoria Schwab

Word to the Wise (A Library Lover’s Mystery Book 10) by Jenn McKinlay

Unbreakable: The Woman Who Defied the Nazis in the World’s Most Dangerous Horse Race by Richard Askwith

Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore

After the Flood: A Novel by Kassandra Montag

Cold Storage: A Novel by David Koepp 

Quichotte: A Novel by Salman Rushdie

Sword and Pen (The Great Library) by Rachel Caine

A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib 

Loki: Where Mischief Lies by Mackenzi Lee and Stephanie Hans

Missing Person by Sarah Lotz 

The Chestnut Man: A Novel by Soren Sveistrup, Caroline Waight (translator)

My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education by Jennine Capó Crucet 

Just Ask: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You by Sonia Sotomayor and Rafael Lopez

The Sweetest Fruits: A Novel by Monique Truong 

How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe

The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by Dina Nayeri 

Five Dark Fates (Three Dark Crowns) by Kendare Blake

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers 

Modern Love, Revised and Updated: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption by Daniel Jones, Andrew Rannells, et al.

Caster by Elsie Chapman

Fly Already: Stories by Etgar Keret 

Small Silent Things: A Novel by Robin Page

Three Flames: A Novel by Alan Lightman

Dominicana: A Novel by Angie Cruz 

Little Libraries, Big Heroes by Miranda Paul and John Parra

Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite 

The Unkindest Tide (October Daye Book 13) by Seanan McGuire

When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl’s Book by Naja Marie Aidt, Denise Newman (translator)

Here All Night by Jill McDonough

We, the Survivors: A Novel by Tash Aw 

Rated by Melissa Grey

The Girl the Sea Gave Back by Adrienne Young

The Grammarians: A Novel by Cathleen Schine 

Baking with Kim-Joy: Cute and Creative Bakes to Make You Smile by Kim-Joy

Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin 

Child of the Dream (A Memoir of 1963) by Sharon Robinson

The Harp of Kings (Warrior Bards) by Juliet Marillier

I Will Destroy You: Poems by Nick Flynn 

Permanent Record by Mary H. K. Choi

This Tender Land: A Novel by William Kent Krueger 

The Glass Woman: A Novel by Caroline Lea

Butterfly Yellow by Thanhha Lai 

There Will Come a Darkness by Katy Rose Pool

Well Met by Jen DeLuca

Rewind by Catherine Ryan Howard

The Secrets We Kept: A novel Lara Prescott

More to the Story by Hena Khan

Lalani of the Distant Sea by Erin Entrada Kelly 

The Okay Witch by Emma Steinkellner 

The Nobody People: A Novel by Bob Proehl

Elements of Fiction by Walter Mosley 

American Royals by Katharine McGee

The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt

All the Impossible Things by Lindsay Lackey

Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin

Today We Go Home: A Novel by Kelli Estes

The Third Daughter: A Novel by Talia Carner

The Long Call (The Two Rivers Series) by Ann Cleeves

Pretty Guilty Women: A Novel by Gina LaManna

All the Better Part of Me by Molly Ringle

A Girl Named Anna by Lizzy Barber

Kingdom of Souls by Rena Barron 

As a River by Sion Dayson

Strange Birds: A Field Guide to Ruffling Feathers by Celia C. Pérez 

Rare Breed: A Guide to Success for the Defiant, Dangerous, and Different by Sunny Bonnell and Ashleigh Hansberger

The Devil’s Slave: A Novel (Frances Gorges Historical Trilogy) by Tracy Borman

Hurricanes: A Memoir by Rick Ross, Neil Martinez-Belkin

The Many Colors of Harpreet Singh by Supriya Kelkar , Alea Marley, et al.

That’s it for me today! If you want to learn more about books new and old, or tell me about books you’re reading, or books you think I should read (I HEART RECOMMENDATIONS!), or see pictures of my cats (How do I make them stop growing?!?), you can find me on Twitter at MissLiberty, on Instagram at FranzenComesAlive, or Litsy under ‘Liberty’!

Thanks so much for reading!

Liberty

Happy Tuesday! I am changing things up today. Fall is almost here, so I thought I would share 30 books being released in the next few months that you should mark down now. There are SO many new releases that sometimes really great books get lost in the shuffle, so you’ll be on top of things! Some of these I have read, and some of them are books I am REALLY excited about. And you can also hear about some of today’s awesome new releases on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Tirzah and I discussed Pumpkinheads, Wonton Terror, Last Ones Left Alive, and more great books.

Thanks so much for reading and enjoy your week! XOXO, Liberty

Cantoras  by Carolina De Robertis (September 3)

Five queer women find a secret sanctuary to claim as their own in Uruguay in 1977, where being gay is punished by the country’s militant government. The novel follows their lives over the next 35 years.

My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education by Jennine Capó Crucet (September 3)

The author of Make Your Home Among Strangers shares essays about growing up in Miami as the daughter of Cuban refugees in a society that is centered on whiteness.

The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri (September 3)

Nayeri tells the story of her family’s flight from Iran when she was 8, and their eventual asylum in America, as well as stories of other refugees around the world.

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (September 10)

I know I mention this book practically every week, but it is my obsession. A swordswoman of the Ninth House accompanies her necromancer to the First House to participate in a competition for the Emperor. Add lots blood, skeletons, and swordplay, and shake vigorously.

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (September 10)

A new genre-defying young adult novel about monster hunting from the author of Freshwater.

Homesick: A Memoir by Jennifer Croft (September 10)

And this is a genre-defying memoir about sisters Amy and Zoe, who grow up and are homeschooled in Oklahoma, because of Zoe’s debilitating illnesses.

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow (September 10)

A young woman in the early 1900s named January Scaller finds a mysterious book that contains secrets about other worlds.

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson (September 17)

The National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming returns with an adult novel about an unexpected teenage pregnancy and its effects on the families involved.

Night Boat to Tangier: A Novel by Kevin Barry (September 17)

Two aging criminals reflect on their lives and exploits as they spend a night waiting for one of their daughters to arrive at the dock.

Opioid, Indiana by Brian Allen Carr (September 17)

Seventeen-year-old Riggle searches for his missing drug-dependent uncle in impoverished Indiana while out of school on suspension. It is a beautiful novel of ugly truths.

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (September 24)

A debut novel about slavery and its atrocities, and a young man with a magical gift, from the author of Between the World and Me.

Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays by Leslie Jamison (September 24)

The author of The Empathy Exams has a new collection of essays about whales; past-life memories of children; Second Life; the Sri Lankan Civil War; and more.

Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place (A Transgender Memoir) by Jackson Bird (September 24)

A debut memoir about how Bird sorted out his life and came out as a transgender man in his mid-twenties.

A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes (October 1)

A novel of magical realism about a man born without skin in Jamaica, making it impossible to tell his race, and his soul mate who works to protect him from the world.

Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco (October 1)

Vanasco recounts her rape at the hands of a childhood friend, and how she reached out to that man fourteen years later to discuss it. It’s a tough but necessary dialog about sexual assault.

Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia (October 8)

The author of Bellweather Rhapsody is back with a ghostly novel about a dying billionaire, a treasure hunt, and the people hoping to win the prize.

How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones (October 8)

Jones recounts his life as a young, black, gay man from the South and how he fought to find himself, in this coming-of-age memoir.

Erosion: Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams (October 8)

The always-amazing TTW shares essays about time and land, and what happens to a place as it is whittled away by time, whether it is in nature or in life.

Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha (October 15)

A literary thriller about two families caught up in the wake of a police shooting of a black teenager in early 1990s Los Angeles.

Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi, Marilyn Booth (Translator) (October 15)

The winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize, about the lives of three sisters in the village of al-Awafi in Oman.

America Is Immigrants by Sara Novic and Alison Kolesar (Illustrator) (October 15)

A collection of illustrated, inspiring stories of immigrants from every country in the world, and what it means to be an American.

Dead Girls by Abigail Tarttelin (October 15)

A literary horror novel about young BFFs Thera and Billie in Eastcastle, England in the late 1990s, and what happens after Billie goes missing.

All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg (October 22)

Attenberg’s most amazing novel yet, about the ailing patriarch of a dysfunctional family, his toxic effect on everyone in his life, and a final reckoning.

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson (October 29)

Two former boarding school best friends reunite when one agrees to be the nanny for the other’s stepchildren – who literally go up in flames when they’re upset. I love this book so hard.

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (November 5)

Possibly the most highly anticipated novel of 2019, from the author of The Night Circus, about a secret underground world.

The Revisioners: A Novel by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton (November 5)

The author of A Kind of Freedom returns with a new novel about a family over a century, slavery, and freedom.

The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan (November 5)

Cahalan follows up Brain on Fire with the true story of an experiment in the 1970s in which several people went undercover into asylums to study the legitimacy of psychiatric labels.

In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado (November 5)

The author of Her Body and Other Parties is back with a memoir in which she examines a previous relationship with a domestic abuser, told through several different narrative tropes.

Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung by Nina McLaughlin (November 19)

Nina MacLaughlin, the author of Hammer Head, recounts the myths of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and discusses what women’s stories lose when they are told by men.

Malorie: A Novel by Josh Malerman (December 3)

And Bird Box fans rejoice! This is the long-awaited follow-up to the post-apocalyptic novel about the young woman trying to survive the scary things that make people go mad when they see them.

See you next week!