Sometimes I wonder why I still have a blog. Anyway, still working on the Read Harder Challenge and also trying to get to more new releases more quickly. I’m aiming for about 3 months after publication, and while I haven’t quite made my self-imposed limit I have read a few things within a few months of publication, which is unusual for me.

Also, guess which month I didn’t travel.

May

• Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
• The Power, Naomi Alderman (A sci-fi novel with a female protagonist by a female author)
• The Dry (Aaron Falk #1), Jane Harper
• Space Opera, Catherynne M. Valente (new release)
• Unseen City, Nathanael Johnson (A book about nature)
• Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore, Matthew Johnson
• The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen
• The Unquiet Dead, (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattack #1), Ausma Zehanat Khan (A mystery by a person of color or LGBTQ+ author)

June

• This Will Be My Undoing, Morgan Jenkins (not-quite-new anymore release)
• Pretty Mess, Erika Jayne
• Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann (A book of true crime)
• Shoal of Time, Gavan Daws (unfinished)
• Lumberjanes, Vol. 5, Noelle Stevenson & Brooke Allen (illustrator)
• Lumberjanes, Vol. 6, Shannon Waters, Kat Leyh, Carey Pietsch (illustrator)
• Parable of the Sower (Earthseed #1), Octavia E. Butler
• Parable of the Talents (Earthseed #2), Octavia E. Butler
• Seveneves, Neal Stephenson

July

• Fever Dream, Samanta Shcweblin (A one-sitting book)
• My Real Children, Jo Walton (A book with a female protagonist over 60)
• The Book of Joan, Lidia Yuknavitch
• Magpie Murders, Anthony Horowitz
• The Girl in the Tower (Winternight #2), Katherine Arden (A book set in or about a BRICS country)

August

• Tangerine, Christine Mangan (not-quite-new anymore release)
• Force of Nature (Aaron Falk #2), Jane Harper
• Bizarre Romance, Audrey Niffenegger & Eddie Campbell (illustrator) (not-quite-new anymore release)
• Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng
• Be Amazing or Go Home, Shep Hyken
• The Effortless Experience, Matthew Dixon
• Among Others, Jo Walton
• The Leavers, Lisa Ko
• Case Histories (Jackson Brodie #1), Kate Atkinson
• Human Acts, Han Kang