Ep 369 - Most Anticipated Books for August and September!
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Brea and Mallory talk about their most anticipated books for August and September, test out coaster bookmarks, and give advice for people who hate hardcovers. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!
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Books Mentioned -
Loneliness and Company by Charlee Dyroff
The Girl Who Slept with God by Val Brelinski
August
There is a Rio Grande in Heaven by Ruben Reyes Jr
SFF short stories
Jellyfish Have No Ears by Adele Rosenfeld, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman
Literary fiction about deafness
There’s Nothing Wrong With Her by Kate Weinburg
Literary fiction, mental health, funny, chronic illness, speculative
Hum by Helen Phillips
Sci fi thriller, dystopian, marriage, motherhood, selfhood
The Axeman’s Carnival by Catherine Chidgey
Literary fiction, funny, bird protagonist
We Were Pretending by Hannah Gersen
Literary fiction, female friendship, mushrooms, Canada
Times Agent by Brenda Peynado
Grief, motherhood, late stage capitalism and pocket worlds (a geographically small world hidden within our reality)
Clickbait by Holly Baxter
Debut literary fiction, hilarious, life falling apart
The Italy Letters by Vi Khi Nao
Queer literary fiction, epistolary, Las Vegas, queer love
Godzilla and the Song Bird by Manzu Islam
Historical fiction, Bangladesh, brothers, cinema
There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
Historical fiction, multiple timelines, Gilgamesh
The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable
Historical fiction, music, violins, Venice, 1700s
Mystery Lights by Lena Valencia
Literary short stories set in the desert
One Hundred Shadows by Hwang Jungeun, translated by Jung Yewon
SFF, magical realism, Seoul, capitalism
The Sunforce by Sascha Stronach
Queer fantasy, sequel to The Dawnhounds
The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
Queer romance, two disaster bisexual exes on a European tour
How to Leave the House by Nathan Newman
Gay literary fiction, small town secrets, quirky characters
The Palace of Eros by Caro de Robertis
Queer Greek myth retelling of Psyche and Eros
Voyage of the Damned by Frances White
Queer romantasy, murder mystery on a magical ship
Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore
Queer spooky romance, ghosts
Wild Failure by Zoe Whitall
Queer feminist short stories
The Other Ones by Fran Hart
YA spooky queer romance
Rise and Divine by Lana Harper
Lesbian witch romance
Prince of the Palisades by Julian Winters
Gay YA romance, Los Angeles
A Bahn Mi for Two by Trinity Nguyen
YA sapphic foodie romance
A Grand Love - Stories for Grandparents of Trans Grandchildren by Janna Barkin
Nonfiction
Queer as Folklore - The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters by Sasha Coward
Nonfiction
Confounding Oaths by Alexis Hall
Gay romantasy, historical
Hers for the Weekend by Helena Greer
Sapphic opposites-attract romance, fake dating
Come Out, Come Out by Natalie C. Parker
Queer YA horror, trans characters, ghosts
Full Shift by Jennifer Dugan and Kit Seaton
Queer YA graphic novel, werewolves
You’re the Problem, It’s You by Emma R. Alban
Gay enemies-to-lovers Victorian romance
The Unmothers by Leslie J. Anderson
Folk horror, small town, female rage
The Dark We Know by Wen-yi Lee-Ya
YA horror, queer, small town, an Entity
Helga by Catherine Yu
YA horror, satire, science experiment makes a girl and she escapes into the world
Sacrificial Animals by Kailee Pedersen
Horror, Chinese mythology, returning to a small town
The Madness by Dawn Kurtagich
Horror, feminist Dracula retelling
The Volcano Daughters by Gina Maria Balibrera
Historical fiction, sisterhood, El Salvador, California, Paris, ghosts
Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson
Fantasy, magical island, witches, demons, polyamory, myths
The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins
Historical fiction, gothic, powerful family, magic silk, 1800s
Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid
Feminist Macbeth retelling
Peggy by Rebecca Godfrey
Imagined life of Peggy Guggenheim
The Story Collector by Evie Woods
Historical fiction, book about books, Ireland, small town, fairies (not horny ones)
The Seventh Veil by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Historical fiction, 1950s Hollywood
The Ghost Cat by Alex Howard
Historical Fantasy, 1910s, cat who becomes a ghost who witnesses history
Truly Madly Magically by Hazel Beck
Book 3 of Witchlore Series
Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud
Horror novella, historical sci fi, hospital experiments
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Sci fi, cat sidekick, veteran protagonist, trapped in a fantasy dungeon video game
Asunder by Kerstin Hall
Fantasy, Sabriel meets Witch King
She Who Knows by Nnedi Okorafor
West African SFF novella in the Who Fears Death universe
The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki, translated by Jesse Kirkwood
Japanese cozy fantasy, talking cats, magic coffee shop
A Werewolf’s Guide to Seducing a Vampire by Sarah Hawley
Supernatural romance, werewolves, vampires
Glass Houses by Madeline Ashby
Sci fi thriller, AI, deserted island, women in tech, near future whodunit
The Phoenix Keeper by S.A. Maclean
Romantasy, cozy, magic zoo
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djeli Clark
Fantasy novella, gods, assassins, magic city
The Coven by Harper L. Woods
Vampire romantasy
Strange Folk by Alli Dyer
Fantasy, Appalachia, magic estranged family, debut
A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
Fantasy, Goose Girl reimagining, Brothers Grimm, magic, murder
Full Speed to a Crash Landing by Beth Revis
Sci fi novella, sexy space heist
The Leap Year Gene of Kit McKinley by Shelley Wood
Historical sci fi, time traveling, genetics
Bite by Bill Schutt
Micro history of teeth
I Want to Die But I Still Want to Eat Tteobokki by Baek Sehee, translated by Anton Hurr
Nonfiction, sequel
Everyday Rituals by Pearl Katz
Nonfiction about the power of routine and ritual
Love and Other Conspiracies by Mallow Marlowe
Debut romance, cryptid hunter and producer learn to fall in love again while looking for Mothman and aliens
Morbidly Yours by Ivy Fairbanks
Opposites attract romance with a mortician and a widow
Dark Restraint by Katee Roberts
Smutty minotaur/Ariadne romance
Second Tide’s The Charm by Chandra Blumberg
Second chance marine biologist romance, sharks!!!
The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava
Workplace Native rom-com
Queen of Dreams by Kit Rocha
Poly romantasy, sexy people fighting ancient evil
House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias
Thriller, coming of age, teens seeking vengeance for a murder
The Antique Store Detective by Clare Chase
Cozy mystery, small town, antiques
Better Left Buried by Mary E. Roach
YA thriller, teen girls solving mysteries in an abandoned amusement park
Eye of the Beholder by Emma Bamford
Thriller, inspired by Vertigo, Scottish highlands, beauty industry
Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson
YA mystery, historical island mansion, queer
Wordhunter by Stella Sands
Mystery, detective with uncanny ability to analyze words and speech patterns
Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown
Thriller, secret society, upper class secrets
Dear Hanna by Zoje Stage
Follow up to Baby Teeth
I Need You to Read This by Jessa Maxwell
Mystery, advice columnist solving her predecessor’s murder
Highway Thirteen by Fiona McFarlane
Interconnected short stories about the same serial killer
Talking to Stranger by Fiona Barton
Thriller, detective and reporter racing each other to a solve a murder
We Love the Nightlife by Rachel Koller Croft
Thriller, vampires, toxic female friendship, 1970s London disco scene
Scrap by Calla Henkel
Thriller, true crime obsessed artist hired by insanely wealthy family with dark secrets
The Naturalist’s Daughter by Tea Cooper
Historical thriller, platypus mystery!!!
September
Babe in the Woods by Julie Heffernan
Graphic novel, literary, motherhood, lost in the woods, memory
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