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From Jodi Picoult to Karin Slaughter (and zebras!), we’ve got them all.

The 22 Best New Book Releases This Week: August 20-26, 2024

Elif Shafak’s There Are Rivers in the Sky, Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, and Moon Unit Zapa’s Earth to Moon all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home...

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

It’s a new week, so it’s time to take a look at the bestsellers lists! The titles that appear on all five of the biggest lists will be familiar to you: two are by Colleen Hoover and one is by Sarah J. Maas. We do have some new appearances furhter down the list, though, including Shameless: Republicans’ Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy by YouTuber and podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen and Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir by artist Anna Marie Tendler. The other new release is Born of Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout, the fourth and final book in the Flesh and Fire series, which started with A Shadow in the Ember.

The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to All the Lists

How do you pick which book to read next? I don’t know about you, but it’s a problem I run into frequently. I’m a mood reader with an extensive TBR, so there’s never any shortage of books to choose from—especially considering how frequently my fellow Boot Riot writers or bookish friends recommend even more great books for me to read. That often leaves me with an embarrassment of book titles to choose from—and that can be overwhelming. I know it is for me! When there are so many good books to choose from, how do you decide which book to read next?

How To Pick Which Historical Fiction Book To Read Next

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August can be a bittersweet month, the point at which summer begins to wind down even as the weather turns ever more dank. With that in mind, our August book recommendations cover a lot of potential reactions to the month at hand. Looking for a gripping thriller to page through at the beach? We can help you there. In search of the perfect read for a new European soccer season? There’s something for that as well. Throw in memoir, cultural history and a retrospective of a beloved television show, and you have a reading list that should keep you busy this month.

The 10 Books You Should Be Reading This August

This post may contains affiliate links. If you click and buy we may make a commission, at no additional charge to you. Please see our disclosure policy for more details. The literary world is constantly evolving, with new voices emerging to challenge, inspire, and captivate readers. As we step into 2024, a fresh crop of debut novelists is set to make their mark on the literary landscape, each bringing their unique perspective and storytelling prowess to the forefront.

10 Must-Read Debut Novels Coming in 2024

Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. “[A] palm-sweat-inducing psychological thriller.”. “[The Snap] buzzes with all-too-familiar frustration at injustices. In the doubts and thrills of her story, Staple echoes the moment in a game when a bone-crunching collision has a player carted off the field. Are we allowed to enjoy this? Should the game still go on? An endorphin-fueled, heart-hammering sprint.”

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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The faces of "Harry Potter" characters have been reimagined by AI-generated images to align with their book descriptions.

AI Reveals What Harry Potter Characters Should Look Like Based On The Books

Earlier this month, I highlighted a host of YA books by women in translation in honor of Women in Translation Month. The response to that particular newsletter was great, and more, I learned about a bunch more titles that made revisiting this topic for the final newsletter of August more than worthwhile. A big thank you goes out to writer and translator Sawad Hussain who shared several YA titles in translation by women of color specifically.

Even More YA Women in Translation: August 29, 2024

This week’s most read books on Goodreads have some familiar author names — in fact, they’re all titles that have been on the most read list many times before. The order is shuffled a bit from last week, but to add a more variety, I’ve included the top five most read books on Goodreads last week in three countries around the world. This time: Denmark, Malaysia, and Portugal. Denmark’s and Portugal’s most read titles this week are both not (yet?) available in English.

The Most Read Books on Goodreads This Week

Here are all the literary links librarians should know about this week!. How the push to diversify publishing fell short. Amanda Gorman has announced a new picture book. Naomi Watts is publishing a book about menopause. Tahereh Mafi announces a Shatter Me spinoff series. George R.R. Martin shares another non-update...

THE ONION Back in Print, and Other Literary Library News

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Former President Barack Obama selected Liz Moore's 'The God of the Woods' as one of his favorite books of the summer. Here's my honest review.

Barack Obama Named This New Novel One of His Favorite Books of the Summer—& I Couldn’t Agree More

Woman's World

There’s nothing like getting lost in a long book. No matter the genre, from historical fiction to fantasy, romance and more, a book over 500 pages gives you the chance to immerse yourself in stories with richly drawn characters, intriguing plots, detailed settings and more. These novels may seem intimidating because of their high page ...

10 Long Books That Will Keep You Entertained for Hours (or Days!): Our Title Recommendations

Hawaii State

The Hawaiian archipelago consists of 137 islands with over seven hundred miles of coastline and eight main islands, seven of which are inhabited. Hawai’i has a long and storied history, from the earliest days of human settlement via Polynesia to its current status as the 50th U.S. state. Hawai’i is believed to have first been settled sometime around 1000 CE and independent chiefdoms on various islands developed over the next several centuries along with population growth and a spiritual, social, and economic culture centered around connections to the land, ocean, and heavens. The first documented contact with Europeans occurred in 1778 with the arrival of British explorer Captain James Cook, which started conflict between European nations and the United States over access to the islands. These interactions also brought new diseases, and by the mid-1800s, over half of the Native Hawaiian population had been wiped out.

10 Must-Read Historical Fiction Books Set in Hawai’i

And just like that, after a summer that felt like it was entirely made up of heat waves and tropical storms, we are preparing for fall. I’m going to be real and say that, at first, I was scoffing a bit at the fall book lists I started seeing about a week ago. Weather forecasts still had a lot of us firmly in the 80s and 90s, temperature-wise, and outside was giving more iced tea than pumpkin spice.

The Biggest Book Club Books Coming Out This Fall

As fall-ready reading lists are amping up, I’m getting more and more into the upcoming season. Even if I feel like summer is still turning us every which way but loose. I’ve already looked at books I think will be big this year for book clubs, and I’ve since narrowed my focus to BIPOC books that I think will be big this year. There are a few people—like Ta-Nehisi Coates, Haruki Murakami, Louise Erdrich, Sabaa Tahir, and Robin Wall Kimmerer—who are auto buys for a lot of people, as well as a few exciting debuts.

The Most Anticipated BIPOC Books of the Fall

It’s honestly ridiculous — in a good way! — how many noteworthy books are coming out in the next few months. Below is just a sampling, including quite a few with wonderful older characters, which is always refreshing. Of the 10 or so I’ve read so far,...

Fall 2024 Books Preview: 37 of the Season’s Top Reads

A wargame with warships, super weapons, and high-speed drones is afoot in this lightning-fast, high-powered thriller from Mike Maden, who continues to breathe new life into Clive Cussler’s #1 New York Times bestselling Oregon Files series with his strongest outing to date. Opening in 1945, readers meet an American...

A Book Spy Review: ‘Clive Cussler Ghost Solider’ by Mike Maden

Before I dive into your biweekly mystery goodness of new releases, paperback releases, and news, I wanted to let you know that fans of the delightful murder mystery show Only Murders In the Building can now new stream the season four premiere on Hulu/Disney+!. Bookish Goods. School Librarian Notepad by...

New Fear Unlocked Mystery, Culinary Cozy, Paperback Releases, + News!

We are in the last week of August, and in my mind, it’s the last week of summer. September is when I let myself pull out all of my pumpkins and fall leaf decor. BUT, we’re not there yet. This is the week that I catch up on reading, often diving into my favorite genres. And I’m a huge fan of memoir. So for this week, we’re going to be looking at some top-tier memoirs you won’t want to miss. But first, let’s jump into bookish goods and new books!

Say Goodbye to Summer with These Must-Read Memoirs

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Let’s Get Meta: Nine Books that Break the Fourth Wall

And just like that it’s Thursday. Read about reading with us. Let’s Get Meta: 9 Books that Break the Fourth Wall. While it’s not exactly a...

Let’s Get Meta: Nine Books that Break the Fourth Wall

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