035: Booking It Into the New Year

New year, new reads. Polli and Kate scoped out some upcoming book releases and are here to share their faves! Also, heads up: the 2019 Book Squad Goals Reading Challenge is HEEEEEEEEEEEERE: http://tinyurl.com/LPLBSG2019

Note: We’ve included links to the catalog for the earliest books so you can get on the holds list (marked with *). Otherwise, linked to Good Reads for more info until they’re order-able!

• Currently out: A River of Stars by Vanessa Hua
• An Anonymous Girl* by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen (Jan 8)
• Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America* ed. by Ibi Zoboi (Jan 8)
• An Orchestra of Minorities* by Chigozie Obioma (Jan 8) -- AT LPL 1/21!!!!
• Thick: and Other Essays* by Tressie McMillan Cottom (Jan 8)
• The Water Cure* by Sophie Mackintosh (Jan 8)
• Winter of the Witch* by Katherine Arden (Jan 8, The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
• The Dreamers* by Karen Thompson Walker (Jan 15)
• Being with the Dead: Burial, Ancestral Politics, and the Roots of Historical Consciousness by Hans Ruin (Jan 29)
• 99 Percent Mine* by Sally Thorne (Jan 29)
• Deep Creek* by Pam Houston (Jan 29)
• The Last Romantics* by Tara Conklin (Feb 5)
• A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers* ed. by Victor LaValle, and John Joseph Adams (Feb 5)
• On the Come Up* by Angie Thomas (Feb 5)
• Black Leopard, Red Wolf* by Marlon James (Feb 5)
• The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders (Feb 12)
• The Cassandra by Sharma Shields (Feb 12)
• An Unconditional Freedom by Alyssa Cole (Feb 26)
• Gingerbread* by Helen Oyeyemi (Mar 5)
• The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson (Mar 12)
• A People’s History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian (Mar 19)
• The White Card: A Play by Claudia Rankine (Mar 19)
• kaddish.com by Nathan Englander (March 26)
• Motherland by Lauren Beukes (April 1)
• Fast Cakes: Easy Bakes in Minutes by Mary Berry (April 2)
• What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About ed. by Michele Filgate (April 30)
• A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole (April 30)
• No Walls and the Recurring Dream by Ani DiFranco (May 7)
• The Bride Test by Helen Hoang (May 7)
• Rabbits for Food by Binnie Kirshenbaum  (May 7)
• The Farm by Joanne Ramos (May 7)
• America Was Hard to Find by Kathleen Alcott (May 14)
• The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West (May 28)
• Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn (June 4)
• Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell (June 18)
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (July 16)
• White Flights by Jess Row (Aug 6)
• Inland by Téa Obreht (Aug 13)
• Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat (Aug 27)
• Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout (Sept 3)
• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (Sept 10, Handmaid’s Tale #2)
• Things We Say in the Dark by Kirsty Logan (Oct 31, UK - no other details, sry!)
• Tell the Bees I am Gone by Diana Gabaldon (sometime 2019, Outlander #9)
• SANDOR KATZ! The Art of Fermentation!

We found a lot of our books via lists on TOR.com, Lit Hub, AALBC, and Book Riot. Polli also mentioned the awesome Women of Color in Romance for some fantastic recommendations all across the vast genre!

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