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Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by The Summoner Series by Taran Matharu.
Fletcher can summon demons. But can he win a war? The action-packed bestselling Summoner Series continues with The Battlemage. Start reading from the beginning—get The Novice for only $2.99 for a limited time.
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Today’s The Stack is sponsored by Spill Zone, a stunning graphic novel from bestselling author Scott Westerfeld.
Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Uncanny manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone. The Spill claimed Addison’s parents and scarred her little sister, Lexa, who hasn’t spoken since. Addison provides for her sister by photographing the Zone’s twisted attractions on illicit midnight rides. Art collectors pay top dollar for these bizarre images, but getting close enough for the perfect shot can mean death—or worse.
When an eccentric collector makes a million-dollar offer, Addison breaks her own hard-learned rules of survival and ventures farther than she has ever dared. Within the Spill Zone, Hell awaits—and it seems to be calling Addison’s name.
We have a full set of Harry Potter Creature Incredibuilds to giveaway, courtesy of our friends at Insight Editions.
The prize pack includes buildable creature sets for Buckbeak, Niffler, Aragog, and Swooping Evil!
Each buildable 3D wood set also comes with a booklet about the design and backstory of each creature from the Wizarding World.
Go here to enter for a chance to win, or just click on the image of the Buckbeak set below. Good luck!
It’s the first Tuesday of the month, so you know what that means: IT’S A SPECTACULARLY GOOD NEW RELEASE DAY. And the warm weather is finally here, so I can look out my window and see the sun and green grass! (What, you thought I was going to say “read outside?” LOL. That’s where the bugs live, sillies.) There are a kitten-ton of great books out this week, including the last books in the Court of Thorns and Roses and Divine Cities trilogies! And you can hear about several of these books on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about a few amazing books we loved, such as Priestdaddy, One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, and This is Just My Face.
And while we’re talking about book news: Wanna learn about new book deals, adaptation news, and upcoming must-read books? I’m writing the new Book Riot newsletter, Book Radar, which will give you all those things! You can sign up here, and check out the most recent one here.
Now, let’s get down to business.
This week’s newsletter is sponsored by The Nix by Nathan Hill, new in paperback.
Samuel hasn’t seen his mother since she abandoned the family. Now she’s re-appeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news and inflames a politically divided country. To save her, Samuel will have to embark on a journey, uncovering long-buried secrets that stretch back across generations, from 2011 to 1960s America and to WWII Norway, home of the mysterious Nix. As he does so, Samuel will confront not only Faye’s losses but also his own lost love, and will relearn everything he thought he knew about his mother, and himself.
The Dinner Party: Stories by Joshua Ferris
The Storied City: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past by Charlie English
Deep Water (Simon True) by Katherine Nichols
The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey
Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood
The Farm in the Green Mountains (NYRB Classics) by Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer (Author), Ida H. Washington (Translator), Carol E. Washington (Translator)
One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays by Scaachi Koul
The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn
Ugly Prey: An Innocent Woman and the Death Sentence That Scandalized Jazz Age Chicago by Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi
Genevieves by Henry Hoke
Triple Threat (Lois Lane) by Gwenda Bond
This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe
Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
Beach Lawyer by Avery Duff
My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward: A Memoir by Mark Lukach
The Garden of Small Beginnings by Abbi Waxman
Four Weeks, Five People by Jennifer Yu
Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship with Harper Lee by Wayne Flynt
Cutting Back: My Apprenticeship in the Gardens of Kyoto by Leslie Buck
Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab by Shani Mootoo
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The Lost Kingdom of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine
Before We Sleep by Jeffrey Lent
Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig
Fen: Stories by Daisy Johnson
Said Not Said: Poems by Fred Marchant
The History of the Future by Edward McPherson
The One Memory of Flora Banks by Emily Barr
How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don’t Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up by Emilie Wapnick
A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses) by Sarah J. Maas
The Supernormal Sleuthing Service: The Lost Legacy by Gwenda Bond and Christopher Rowe
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton
Hooper’s Revolution by Dennie Wendt
Built on Bones: 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death by Brenna Hassett
Time’s a Thief by B.G. Firmani
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool: A True Love Story by Peter Turner
I’ll Eat When I’m Dead by Barbara Bourland
Firstborn by Tosca Lee
Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han
All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft by Geraldine DeRuiter
Borrowed Souls: A Soul Charmer Novel by Chelsea Mueller
Dreamfall by Amy Plum
Bubble by Stewart Foster
Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times edited by Carolina De Robertis
Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin (Author), Bonnie Huie (Translator)
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
The Trials of Apollo Book Two The Dark Prophecy by Rick Riordan
And We’re Off by Dana Schwartz
Milena, or The Most Beautiful Femur in the World by Jorge Zepeda Patterson (Author), Adrian Nathan West (Translator)
You’re the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women’s Friendships by Deborah Tannen
Mid-Life Ex-Wife: A Diary of Divorce, Online Dating, and Second Chances by Stella Grey
The Scattering (Outliers) by Kimberly McCreight
My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues by Pamela Paul
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
The Gathering Edge by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
The Baker’s Secret by Stephen P. Kiernan
The Weekend Effect: The Life-Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork by Katrina Onstad
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
Trajectory: Stories by Richard Russo
Soupy Leaves Home by Cecil Castellucci (Author), Jose Pimienta (Illustrator)
The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness by Jill Filipovic
The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis (Author), Michael Lucey (Translator)
City of Miracles (The Divine Cities) by Robert Jackson Bennett
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
Inheritance from Mother by Minae Mizumura
He Calls Me By Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty by S Jonathan Bass
No One Can Pronounce My Name by Rakesh Satyal
‘Round Midnight by Laura McBride
Beyond the High Blue Air: A Memoir by Lu Spinney
Confessions of a Domestic Failure by Bunmi Laditan
Hadriana in All My Dreams by René Depestre (Author), Kaiama L. Glover (Translator)
The Nix by Nathan Hill (paperback)
The Assistants by Camille Perri (paperback)
Why We Came to the City by Kristopher Jansma (paperback)
The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan (paperback)
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (paperback)
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee (paperback)
That’s it for me today – time to get back to reading! If you want to learn more about books new and old (and see lots of pictures of my cats, Millay and Steinbeck), or tell me about books you’re reading, or books you think I should read (I HEART RECOMMENDATIONS!), you can find me on Twitter at MissLiberty, on Instagram at FranzenComesAlive, or Litsy under ‘Liberty’!
Stay rad,
Liberty
The Handmaid’s Tale is Feminist, Obviously
At the Tribeca Film Festival, star of Hulu’s Handmaid’s Tale adaptation Elisabeth Moss said the show was “not a feminist story, it’s a human story, because women’s rights are human rights.” The comment irked think piece writers everywhere, as the book and adaptation are very obviously about feminism and reproductive rights. She’s since walked backed her comments, saying “I wanted to say ― and I’ll just say it right here, right now ― OBVIOUSLY, all caps, it is a feminist work. It is a feminist show,” and Margaret Atwood herself has weighed in as well.
You’re Not a Bad Book Person If You Can’t Get Into Book Clubs
I love my book club, probably because there isn’t a book industry person in it at all and it’s refreshing to talk about books with people who have no stake in any aspect of the conversation outside of their love for reading, but book clubs aren’t for everyone. If you’ve found yourself trying and failing to start/join/successfully attend/at all care about the book club scene, you are not alone! Go forth and read in solitary splendor.
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PHRYNE FISHER IS GETTING A MOVIE TRILOGY, REPEAT, PHRYNE FISHER IS GETTING A MOVIE TRILOGY. The excellent TV show Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (based on the Kerry Greenwood books) follow the crime-solving shenanigans of Phryne, a wealthy woman in 1920s Australia who carries a gold-plated gun and refuses to get married. I will watch all these movies until the end of time, forever and ever amen.
Also, Tahereh Mafi is returning to the Shatter Me universe with three new books in the series! Inspired by a recent re-read of the books in preparation for an adaptation, Mafi realized she has more places to take the characters. A+ will read.
This week’s newsletter is sponsored by TarcherPerigee, publisher of Adult-ish by Cristina Vanko and Adulthood for Beginners by Andy Boyle.
Ready for #RealLife?
Whether you’re a newly minted “adult” navigating your first job and paying rent for the first time—or are just about to graduate and join the “sophisticates” in the real world, Adult-ish and Adulthood for Beginners provide the tools and advice for Millennials seeking to ease the transition from dorm room to cubicle life.
Adult-ish, an illustrated, interactive journal encouraging self-reflection, is a celebration (and keepsake) of your first years as an “adult.”
Adulthood for Beginners is the hilarious—yet useful—guide for avoiding years of awkwardness, mistakes, bad dates and more that older Millennials and Gen Xers wish they’d had when they were younger.
We have 10 copies each of Adult-ish by Cristina Vanko and Adulthood for Beginners by Andy Boyle to give away to 10 Riot readers.
Here’s what they are all about:
Ready for #RealLife?
Whether you’re a newly minted “adult” navigating your first job and paying rent for the first time—or are just about to graduate and join the “sophisticates” in the real world, Adult-ish and Adulthood for Beginners provide the tools and advice for Millennials seeking to ease the transition from dorm room to cubicle life.
Adult-ish, an illustrated, interactive journal encouraging self-reflection, is a celebration (and keepsake) of your first years as an “adult.”
Adulthood for Beginners is the hilarious—yet useful—guide for avoiding years of awkwardness, mistakes, bad dates and more that older Millennials and Gen Xers wish they’d had when they were younger.
Go here to enter for a chance to win, or just click the cover image below:
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Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Saint Death, a provocative tour de force from three-time Printz Award honoree Marcus Sedgwick.
On the outskirts of Juarez, Arturo scrapes together a living working odd jobs and staying out of sight. But his friend Faustino is in trouble: he’s stolen money from the narcos to smuggle his girlfriend and her baby into the US, and needs Arturo’s help to get it back. To help his friend, Arturo must face the remorseless world of drug and human traffickers that surrounds him, and contend with a murky past.
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We have 10 copies of Cecelia Ahern’s Flawed to give away to 10 Riot readers.
Here’s what it’s all about:
Celestine North lives a perfect life. She’s a model daughter and sister, she’s well-liked by her classmates and teachers, and she’s dating the impossibly charming Art Crevan. But then Celestine encounters a situation in which she makes an instinctive decision. She breaks a rule and now faces life-changing repercussions. She could be imprisoned. She could be branded. She could be found FLAWED.
In her breathtaking young adult debut, bestselling author Cecelia Ahern depicts a society in which perfection is paramount and flaws are punished. And where one young woman decides to take a stand that could cost her everything.
Go here to enter for a chance to win, or just click the cover image below:
Hello, readers! It’s Liberty, here to tell you about deals and reveals and more upcoming book goodness. Thanks to Swapna for kicking off the Book Radar – I am excited to take the reins. I have so much to tell you!
This week’s newsletter is sponsored by The People We Hate at the Wedding by Grant Ginder.
A bitingly funny, hugely entertaining novel in which a fractured family from the Chicago suburbs must gather in London for their eldest daughter’s marriage to an upper-crust Englishman, proving that the harder we strain against the ties that bind, the tighter they hold us close.
All the Deal News You Can Use
Tahereh Mafi will return to the Shatter Me series with three new books, beginning with Restore Me in early 2018.
Hanover Square Press will publish The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O’Meara, about the life of Milicent Patrick, the first woman to design a movie monster.
Anika Noni Rose and her production company Roaring Virgin Productions have optioned TV and film rights to Shadowshaper, Daniel José Older’s bestselling YA fantasy series.
The Miss Fisher movie is called Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears. There’s also plans for a prequel TV spin-off focused on a younger version of Phryne investigating some of her first mysteries.
Joe Hill has a novella collection called Strange Weather coming Oct. 24 from William Morrow.
Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio & Robert De Niro are considering working on the big screen adaptation of David Grann’s Killers Of The Flower Moon.
A live-action/animated movie version of the 1958 children’s book Danny and the Dinosaur is now in development.
The Night Of star Riz Ahmed has joined Joaquin Phoenix, John C. Reilly, and Jake Gyllenhaal in The Sisters Brothers.
HBO is making a Fahrenheit 451 movie starring Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon!
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, the award-winning book exploring racial injustice in America, will be brought to the Apollo stage next April.
Mystery author Reed Farrel Coleman will help Michael Mann write the prequel to Mann’s 1995 film Heat.
Mindy Kaling has optioned Alyssa Mastromonaco’s White House memoir Who Thought This Was A Good Idea? for television.
Love it or hate it, word is that Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why will be getting a second-season renewal soon.
Rick Riordan Presents, Disney-Hyperion’s newest imprint, will publish Jennifer Cervantes’s Storm Runner, Roshani Chokshi’s Aru Shah and the End of Time, and Yoon Ha Lee’s Dragon Pearl. All are set for release in 2018.
Cover Reveals
Amy Tan’s memoir, Where the Past Began, will be coming out Oct. 17 from Ecco.
Look at the gorgeous cover for A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena, coming Feb. 27, 2018!
Wiley Cash’s latest, The Last Ballad, has a cover and a release date: Out Oct. 3 from William Morrow.
Book Riot Recommends
At Book Riot, I work on the New Books! email, the All the Books! podcast about new releases, and the Book Riot Insiders new release index. I am very fortunate to get to read a lot of upcoming titles, and I’m delighted to share a couple with you each week!
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay (June 13)
Gay pours everything she has into this memoir about her personal experiences with food and weight, examining the physical and psychological aspects of her decisions with regards to both, starting with her childhood and a terrible act of violence. It is a wildly insightful and personal memoir that will both ruin and inspire you. It blew me away.
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard (June 13)
Comedian and actor Izzard is one of my favorite people on the planet, so I dropped everything and read this as soon as I got it! He’s so smart and hilarious. This is a sweet, moving memoir about his life, starting with the death of his mother when he was six, and taking readers through his schooling, street performances, stand-up comedy, marathon running, and screen acting. Izzard is a kind, funny human, with lots of smart things to say about love and gender. I think we’d be great BFFs.
And this is funny.
Epic Reads made a playlist for book nerds.