Where has the year gone? It feels like the new year just started! Alas, we have come to the end of 2023, and there is no better way to cap off the year than with a selection of fantastic reads!
US Releases: bit.ly/3GGnzsg
UK & Irish Releases: bit.ly/3TifwcH
@bookstodon Notable new book releases in the US for September 12, 2023:
The Free People's Village, Sim Kern. [Alt history where Al Gore won and we combatted Climate Change.]
Rouge, Mona Awad. [The author of BUNNY has created a gothic horror fairy tale? Yes, please.]
This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America (GN), Navied Mahdavian. [Creating cultural identity via that delicate dance of learning to belong]
The Vaster Wilds, Lauren Groff. [What if the power to break settler colonialism, and to learn to live in a new way, were simply a matter of inspiration?]
A Market of Dreams and Destiny, Trip Galey. [What if granting each of your desires were merely a matter of price, at a very special underground market?]
Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women, Molly Llewellyn, ed. [Honestly, the title sold me.]
The Death I Gave Him, Em X. Liu. [Queer retelling of Hamlet.]
The Best Short Stories 2023: The O. Henry Prize Winners, Lauren Groff, ed.
Normal Rules Don't Apply, Kate Atkinson. [The rule should be that we always read Kate Atkinson. Eleven interconnected stories.]
Rez Ball, Byron Graves. [I'm hearing rave reviews about this heart-tugging YA tale of a First Nations teen trying to live up to legendary dreams.]
Those Pink Mountain Nights, Jen Ferguson. [Stand-out contemporary YA author gives us a lesson in how we all need each other.]
Hemlock Island, Kelley Armstrong. [Locked room mystery, the island version, with a bit of paranormal thrown in.]