@stina_marie@bookstodon@horrorbooks@horror Aaahhh, what a brilliant list! Hailey Piper, Paul Tremblay, Stephen Graham Jones and so many more! Can't wait! :ablobcatbongo:
@bookstodon Notable new book releases in the US for October 24, 2023, (including an unusual number of anthologies).
Organ Meats, K-Ming Chang. [Incredibly imaginative and intense mythological allegory. Like Bestiary, it's very visceral.]
Julia, Sandra Newman. [Amazing feminist retelling of 1984, told from the perspective of Julia, with the full support of the Orwell estate.]
America Fantastica, Tim O'Brien. [Completely bonkers satirical look at America's obsession with lies and liars.]
Let Us Descend, Jesmyn Ward. [The inner spiritual strength that sustains souls trapped in a descent into the horrors of slavery, and their refusal to lose their inner worth.]
I Died, Too, But They Haven't Buried me Yet, Ross Jeffrey. [This is Grief Horror, described as beautifully and utterly heartbreaking.]
What Wild Women Do, Karma Brown. [Intriguing dual timeline mystery connecting a 1970s feminist activist and a modern day screenwriter.]
The Privilege of the Happy Ending: S/M/L Stories, Kij Johnson. [How 'bout a little experimental speculative fic along with an examination of the nature of stories themselves?]
Jewel Box, E. Lily Yu. [Short stories mostly about how we navigate and think about this one weird, crazy, confounding life, and where our imagination can take us.]
When We Become Ours: a YA Adoptee Anthology. [Powerful adoptee short stories written by actual adoptees.]
Christmas and Other Horrors: an Anthology of Solstice Horror, Ellen Datlow, ed. [Winter Solstice horror shorts from around the world, with contributions from Stephen Graham Jones, Alma Katsu, Tananarive Due, and more.]
Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance, Kaveh Akbar, ed. [Contributions from Jo Harjo, Bernard Wade, et al.]
Aster of Ceremonies: Poems, JJJJJerome Ellis. [Neurodivergent poet Ellis advocates for the marginalized, and also imagines what reclamation of our past, and healing for our future, might look like.]
Homeland of my Body: New and Selected Poems, Richard Blanco. [National Humanities medal winner Blanco explores home, identity, and Cuban-American culture in this collection.]
Notable new book releases in the U.S. for September 19, 2023:
Mother, Daughter, Traitor, Spy, Susan Ella MacNeal. [WWII hunt for Nazi sympathizers in L.A.]
Starter Villain, John Scalzi. [I mean, SPY CATS, do you need anything more?]
The Box, Mandy-Suzanne Wong. [ A puzzle box within an expanding and contracting puzzle box.]
Beyond the Door of no Return, David Diop, Sam Taylor. [Senegalese Revenant story.]
Never Whistle at Night: an Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, Shane Hawk, ed.
The World Wasn't Ready for You, Justin C. Key. [If "Get Out" were expressed in short horror stories]
Have You Seen Her? Dea Poirer. [Missing sister psychological thriller.]
Red Rabbit, Alex Grecian. [Western Folk-Horror with a bazillion characters. I'm definitely going to need to read this one.]
Inverse Cowgirl, Alicia Roth Wiegel. [Intersex rights and identity.]
Mr. Texas, Lawrence Wright. [Political parody as big as Texas.]
North Woods, Daniel Mason. [If these walls could talk.]
Black Sheep, Rachel Harrison. [You can't go home again.]
The Golden Gate, Amy Chua. [Historical thriller with everything: politics, racism, sex, and war.]
A Volga Tale, Guzel Yakhina. [Historical fiction as big and bold as the river that separates two peoples.]
Night Watch, Jayne Anne Phillips. [Post-Civil War survival story.]
The Wolves of Eternity, Karl Ove Knausgaard. [Big questions about how we see the world and our place in it, fate, destiny, and what we owe each other along the way.]
Pig: Poems, Sam Sax. [Humanity seen through the lens of everything pig. Brash, intelligent and a bit tawdry.]
The Square of Sevens, Laura Shepherd-Robinson [Dickensian tale of an orphaned fortune teller, who finds that the path to truth is filled with twists and turns.]
The Spirit Bares its Teeth, Andrew Joseph White [Dickensian tale of a spiritual medium, who finds that the path to authenticity and self empowerment is torturous.]
Herc, Phoenicia Rogerson [Instead of centering Hercules, this feminist retelling of the Greek myth tells the stories of those around "Herc."]
Hush Harbor, Anise Vance [No justice, no peace means what it says.]
Phoebe's Diary, Phoebe Wahl [Illustrated story of adolescence. Honest and forthright.]
The Circumference of the World, Lavie Tidhar [Sly SciFi Pulpfic Puzzle.]
The September House, Carissa Orlando [That creepy house is going for cheap. What could go wrong?]
The Trespassers, Stephanie Black [How long can paranormal powers be kept secret?]
Mother-Daughter Murder Night, Nina Simon [Marketed as "Gilmore Girls, but with murder."]
Wednesday's Child: Stories, Yiyun Li [What jolts you out of the mundane, out of your ordinary life? From the author of The Book of Goose.]
Dayswork, Chris Bachelder, Jennifer Habel [Not for everyone, but if you like subtextual metaphors, this introspective novel is for you.]
Dearborn, Ghassan Zeineddine [The complex immigrant experience, told in stories.]
Independent and small press publishers talk about a few of the books they are releasing this fall and early next year, and yes, of course my TBR wishlist has increased again.
@JD_Cunningham@bookstodon This is a great read! So good to see I’m A Fan by Sheena Patel on there - I’ve read it twice! Not for everyone as some have found her character a bit much but I loved it. Also read Hellsans from Angry Robot Books which was about a typeface that makes people ill and that was fantastic!
@queerscifi@lgbtqbookstodon I recently dropped book 3 in my queer supernatural superspy series and have been struggling to make headway on 4 (which should largely conclude things, though I have plans for a fun time-skip in 5), some encouragement would go a long way!
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@bookstodon New and notable books in the U.S. for December 5, 2023.
Dazzling, Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ. [West African mythology collides with modern Nigeria, in this tale centered on two girls who struggle to bend magic to their wills.]
After World, Debbie Urbanski. [AI, one last human on Earth, the recovery of the climate, and the surprising connections that arise.]
A River of Golden Bones, A.K. Mulford. [Sleeping Beauty retelling with queer rep AND Werewolves.]
Five Bad Deeds, Caz Frear. [Perhaps we are all badly-behaved, esp. society's privileged suburban set. This story is suspenseful, vengeful, and super twisty.]
Orbital, Samantha Harvey. [A thoughtful look at ourselves. If we could observe our planet from great remove, how would it change our perspective, our focus, even our priorities?]
Airplane Mode, Shanaz Habib. [Through the lens of travel, the author has a lot to say about our history of racism and ethnocentrism, and about our post-colonial world. Witty, funny, and incisive. Long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medals of Excellence.]
The End of The World is a Cul-de-sac, Louise Kennedy. [Smartly written short stories. Crisp, wry, clarion, and contemporary.]
The Folly, Gemma Amor. [Give me your secluded creepy Gothic mystery!]
Yours For The Taking, Gabrielle Korn. [Climate fiction future. Progress has a dark side.]
@bookstodon Notable new book releases in the U.S. for November 28, 2023:
The Story Collector (originally titled The Voice Collector),Iris Costello. [Dual Timeline WWII and present day. Historical fiction from three POV. Tenderly written, about the secrets we protect and keep for the sake of others.]
Secret Sparrow, Jackie French. [Based on true events, this is the story of a woman who played a vital technical role in WWI and got no credit for it.]
Godly Heathens, H.E. Edgmon.[Contemporary YA fantasy starring an Indigenous enby and a trans friend, who both discover that they're so much more powerful than they thought.]
The Old Gays Guide to The Good Life, Mick Peterson, Bill Myers, et al. [Charming and funny, instructive and celebratory, these stories capture a mood, a time, and a culture.]
The Kingdom of Sweets, Erika Johansen. [Dark and twisted retelling of The Nutcracker. A fresh take in this popular genre.]
We Must Not Think of Ourselves, Lauren Goldstein. [Based on the actual archives on the Warsaw Ghetto, this is a novel of resilience, fortitude, sacrifice, and most of all: defiant determination not to be erased from history. We need their stories.]