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
