In this episode, we talk about all the books we got excited about at BookExpo way back in May. Many are already available for you to buy from your local independent bookstore or borrow from your library! (See episodes 48, 64, 75, 88, 89, and 96 for previous Book Buzz content.)
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Diversify Your RA resource list
Bloomsbury
Crescent City: House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas (March 2020)
The Man That Got Away by Lynne Truss (October 2019)
Graywolf Press
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (November 2019)
Hachette
Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years by Julie Andrews (Hachette Books, October 2019)
Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton (Grand Central, Already out)
Akin by Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown, September 2019)
Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky (Already out)
Beautiful on the Outside by Adam Rippon (October 2019)
The Vexations by Caitlin Horrocks (Little, Brown, Already out)
The Witches are Coming by Lindy West (Hachette Books, November 2019)
Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke (Little, Brown, September 2019)
Realm of Ash by Tasha Suri (Orbit, November 2019)
The Rosewater Redemption by Tade Thompson (Orbit, October 2019)
The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter (Orbit, Already out)
Harlequin
Followers by Megan Angelo (Graydon House, January 2020)
The Widow of Pale Harbor by Hester Fox (Graydon House, September 2019)
American Love Story by Adriana Herrera (Carina, October 2019)
Moving Forward:: A Story of Hope, Hard Work, and the Promise of America by Karine Jean-Pierre (Hanover Square, November 2019)
The Ventriloquists by E.R. Ramzipoor (Park Row, Already out)
HarperCollins
The Last Train to London by Meg Waite Clayton (Harper, September 2019)
Africaville by Jeffrey Colvin (Amistad Press, December 2019)
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert (Avon, November 2019)
Full Throttle: Stories by Joe Hill (William Morrow, October 2019)
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson (Ecco Press, October 2019)
Ingram
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom (Grove Press, Already out)
Speaking of Summer by Kalisha Buckhanon (Counterpoint, Already out)
How to Catch a Mole by Marc Hamer (Greystone Books, October 2019)
The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri (Catapult, September 2019)
Deep River by Karl Marlantes (Grove Atlantic, Already out)
Macmillan
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron, October 2019)
Find Me by André Aciman (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, October 2019)
A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler (October 2019)
Me by Elton John (Henry Holt, October 2019)
Dominicana by Angie Cruz (Flatiron, September 2019)
The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz (Tor, September 2019)
High School by Tegan Quin and Sara Quin (MCD, September 2019)
Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares by Aarti Namdev Shahani (Celadon, October 2019)
National Geographic
Almanac 2020 (September 2019)
Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are by Bill Sullivan (Already out)
New York Review Books
Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones by Daniel Mendelsohn (October 2019)
W. W. Norton
About Us: Essays from the New York Times’ Disability Series (September 2019)
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death by Caitlin Doughty (September 2019)
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste (September 2019)
The World Doesn’t Require You by Rion Amilcar Scott (Already out)
The Seine: The River that Made Paris by Elaine Sciolino (November 2019)
Penguin Random
The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America by Karen Abbott (Crown Publishing Group, Already out)
The Other’s Gold by Elizabeth Ames (Viking, Already out)
Not the Girl You Marry by Andie J. Christopher (Berkley, November 2019)
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World, September 2019)
Recursion by Blake Crouch (Crown Publishing Group, Already out)
Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory (Berkley, October 2019)
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri (Ballantine, Already out)
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, January 2020)
Lock Every Door by Riley Sager (Dutton, Already out)
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday, Already out)
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson (Riverhead, September 2019)
Blowout by Rachel Maddow (Crown, October 2019)
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson (Doubleday, October 2019)
Quirk Books
The Remaking by Clay McLeod Chapman (October 2019)
We Are Here Forever by Michelle Gish (Already out)
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson (September 2019)
Hope Rides Again by Andrew Shaffer (Already out)
Simon & Schuster
Right After the Weather by Carol Anshaw (Atria, October 2019)
Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah (Scribner, September 2019)
Tidelands by Philippa Gregory (Atria, Already out)
The Doll Factory by Elizabeth MacNeal (Atria, Already out)
The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall (August 2019)
Soho
Opioid, Indiana by Brian Allen Carr (Soho Press, September 2019)
All of Us With Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil (Soho Teen, Already out) TEEN
Sourcebooks
Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America by Nefertiti Austin (September 2019)
Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict (January 2020)
Pretty Guilty Women by Gina Lamanna (Sourcebooks Landmark, September 2019)
Yale Needs Women by Ann Gardiner Perkins (September 2019)
Sterling
Artificial Intelligence: An Illustrated History by Clifford Pickover (October 2019)
The Complete Whiskey Course: A Comprehensive Tasting School in Ten Classes by Robin Robinson (October 2019)
Workman
Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz (Algonquin, October 2019)
Everywhere You Don’t Belong by Gabriel Bump (February 2020)
Make Noise: A Creator’s Guide to Podcasting and Great Audio Storytelling by Eric Nuzum (December 2019)
Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life by Marta McDowell (October 2019)
Musical Obsessions
Alene: Bach Cello Suites as performed by Yo-Yo Ma
Anna: The fifth movement of Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony
Obsessions
Shared: Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird
Anna: A Little Light Mischief by Cat Sebastian, This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Alene: Frankly In Love by David Yoon
Bellwether Friends 