...even
though my TBR is already the size of Everest and my bookshelves are full. A
list by me.
Basically guys, I am in a reading slump and it’s making me
sad. Seriously, up until yesterday I think I’d read about ten pages in as many
days and I hate when this happens to
me and I have decided to try and get myself out of it by making a list, thanks
to the notes on my phone, of the books I am excited about for the latter part
of this year. Also because this list is generated from said phone notes me of
which are months old, a couple of these books are OUT NOW GO GET THEM.
Jeffrey Euginides who wrote The Virgin Suicides a short story collection out at the start of
October. It sounds like it could be pretty good. It’s called Fresh Complaint and according to the
blurb promises to follow in the footsteps of his novels by looking at crises of adolescence,
sexual identity, self-discovery and family love. Yes. Those are my boxes being
ticked right there thanks Jeffrey, also I liked The Virgin Suicides a whole lot and have been meaning to read more
of his work so this could be my excuse. I don’t read many short story
collections, and then after a massive gap I’ll read one and remember that
actually I totally love the dip in and out-ability of them and want to READ
THEM ALL so I’ll check this out, I think. In real life not on Kindle. Somehow
short stories feel much more accessible as actual books. I wonder why that is. I mean for obvious
reasons (SO HEAVY) longer novels are made for Kindle, but somehow the short
story collection feels like it loses something when it’s an ebook and yes these
are the things I ponder.
Speaking
of short stories, Tom Hanks has a short story collection out now, and you know
what it sounds really good. Whimsical, melancholy and linked, apparently. I am interested.
Also The
Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night which I talked about
right here on this blog last week, so you know, if new and glorious fairytales
are your thing and you want to see what I thought about it, you should go and
check out my review. The book is OUT NEXT WEEK. Woop. YOU WILL LOVE IT.
Another
one which actually came out at the start of October - and maybe I should have
done this post in chronological order but whatever my notes are not
chronological and thus neither am I- is 27
Hours by Tristina Wright which would suggest my unexpected love for the
weird and fantastical and magical and paranormal isn’t going anywhere any time
soon – in a nutshell a boy who loves monsters and a boy who kills monsters.
They fall in love. I AM SO HERE FOR THIS BOOK ALREADY. Gimme.
Dear Martin – October again, last week
actually I think – is about an Ivy League bound student who writes a journal to
Martin Luthor King Jr. It promises to tackle American race relations in a way
that gets under your skin and I’m really interested to read it.
The Wicker King by K Ancrum is another
October release- the 31st-
and it sounds incredible. I’m so excited for it. It’s about two boys -
August and Jack. August is a bit of a misfit and Jack’s on the football team
but they’ve been best friends for all of time and then Jack starts having
hallucinations, really vivid hallucinations that lead him, and August, into a
very real seeming fantasy world. It’s described as vivid micro-fiction with a stream of consciousness feel and multimedia
elements and just YES. Also, that cover.
Nevermoor: The Trials of
Morrigan Crow is a children’s book by Jessica Townsend and it’s published this month
also. It sounds SO GOOD, all mysterious and magical and could be gifted this
Christmas if it’s as good as it sounds and if I manage to read it in time.
Which is unlikely given the aforementioned slump. But I shall try.
Jennifer
Egan who wrote A Visit from the Goon
Squad has a new novel out now. Manhattan
Beach sounds amazing. I loved A Visit
from the Goon Squad and I’m really excited to get stuck into this.
Little Fires Everywhere is the new novel by Celeste
Ng. It’s out in November. I’m reading it right
now which makes me even sadder about the slump because so far I really love
Ng’s style. It’s a super pretty book and it sounds incredible and I’m loving it
. I’m on the blog tour for this one, so keep your eyes peeled for my review in
early November.
Nina
Stibbe has a Christmas book out in November which I have already got on
pre-order because Nina is absolutely an auto buy author for me. It’s
non-fiction, and it’s about Christmas traditions and in my head it’s going to
be kind of like a festive Love, Nina and
it’s going to be my festive book of the season I think. Can’t wait.
La Belle Sauvage. Obviously. OBVIOUSLY. I
have been waiting for The Book of Dust for
my whole adult life. I’ve promised myself it will be my next read when I’ve
finished the 2 books I’m reading now but actually I’m a little bit scared
partly because you don’t even know how much I’ve built this book up in my head
and partly because let’s not lie here: His
Dark Materials broke me. Am I ready for that to happen again? Unlikely.
All the Crooked Saints. I am new to Maggie
Stiefvater. I’ve only read one of her books so far, but I liked it a whole lot
and this new one sounds all kinds of incredible. More magical realism yes
please thank-you very much, in the shape of a family that can perform miracles.
I WANT IT. (I actually have it but hush don’t tell anybody)
I
have an ARC of 36 Questions That Changed
My Mind About You which was published this month which I love mostly
because the cover is cute and covered in text. Give me all the meet-cutes too also, because
sometimes that’s just what the soul needs. It sounds like lots of fun and I’m
looking forward to it.
Let’s
put a thriller on here shall we because I ❤ a thriller. The Innocent Wife is out in December and
is about an English woman who falls in love with a man on Death Row. He’s the
subject of a true life documentary about wrongful imprisonment but is he all he seems? It sounds good and I
do love me a good thriller….
Artemis is the second novel by
Andy Weir. I haven’t read The Martian although
I’ve heard it is excellent and my best guy watched the film whilst we were a
plane once and loved it. It made him almost-cry. Artemis sounds super. It’s set in space – on the moon – which The Book of Strange New Things aside
isn’t usually my thing but this has really got me intrigued. It’s set on the
moon AND THERE IS A HEIST. Yes. I KNOW. A heist, a sci-fi-noir-thriller. ON THE
MOON. I want to read it so bad. & then I might want to buy it for my Dad
for Christmas. A HEIST ON THE MOON. I am so not ready. It’s out in the middle
of November and I don’t know why I am so excited buy I am.
Moxie
was published in September and it’s a book that I am so here for. It’s getting
a lot of hype for being a kick ass YA feminist novel which, well don’t we just
need more of those because girls need to read more books about girls supporting
girls and sticking it to the patriarchy and by all accounts this is one such
book.
Turtles
All the Way Down which I was so excited about because I am totes still a John Green
fangirl, and I’ve read it and I loved it, in fact I think it might be his best.
He’s still got it and I still want to be his pal and I am delighted by the very
existence of this book.
And
that, as they say, is that. Except not really because there’s likely another
hundred books I’m excited about but that I just didn’t make a note of and as
such sadly got missed off this not at all comprehensive list. 17 is an ok
number though for a list isn’t it apart from it being an odd number BUT LET US
NOT DWELL ON EVEN NUMBER DREAMS AND FORGET TO LIVE.
