Yay, new books! You can hear more about some of today's titles on this week's episode of All the Books! as well as sign up for the New Books! newsletter to learn about even more of them! Here's a list of some of the titles out now: Relief Map by Rosalie Knecht Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein The Little Red Chairs by Edna O’Brien Because of Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962–1972 by Alejandra Pizarnik Carpet Sweeper Tales by Julie Doucet The Infidel Stain by … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2016
The Backlist Alphabet Project
FACT: I love books. I love reading them, buying them, selling them, recommending them, writing about them, and collecting them. I love how many books surround me at all times. But sometimes my house begins to look like this: THEY"RE COMING TO GET ME. So to keep from being Collyered, I occasionally cull my library. Which I did this past weekend. And while I was having an epic nerdpurr shuffling books around, I came up with an idea for a reading goal: The Backlist Alphabet Project! In the past years, I usually pick a reading goal that involves re-reading a … [Read more...]
NEW BOOKS: March 21 – 25, 2016
Yay, new books! You can hear more about some of today's titles on this week's episode of All the Books! as well as sign up for the New Books! newsletter to learn about even more of them! Here's a list of some of the titles out now: Rush Oh! By Shirley Barrett The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney No One Knows by J.T. Ellison The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye Confessions by Rabee Jaber, translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid The Study of Seduction by Sabrina … [Read more...]
NEW BOOKS: March 14 – 18, 2016
Yay, new books! You can hear more about some of today's titles on this week's episode of All the Books! as well as sign up for the New Books! newsletter to learn about even more of them! Here's a list of some of the titles out now: Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton The Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar Shelter by Jung Yun The Rope by Kanan Makiya The Penny Poet of Portsmouth: A Memoir of Place, Solitude, and Friendship by Katherine Towler The Girl in the Well is Me by Karen Rivers The Throwback Special by Chris Bachelder The Making of … [Read more...]
NEW BOOKS: March 7 – 11, 2016
Yay, new books! You can hear more about some of today's titles on this week's episode of All the Books! as well as sign up for the New Books! newsletter to learn about even more of them! Here's a list of some of the titles out now: Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens by Steve Olson The King's Bed: Ambition and Intimacy in the Court of Charles II by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh The Rarest Bird in the World: The Search for the Nechisar Nightjar by Vernon R L Head Noonday by Pat … [Read more...]