🎉IT‘S NEW BOOK DAY!🎉 There are a slew of great books out today, star bits. These are physical copies of today‘s books that I have on hand, but there are SO many more amazing books out today that I am excited about or looking forward to reading including The Mask Falling, No Heaven for Good Boys, Patience & Esther, My Brilliant Life, Bride of the Sea, You Are Not American, Written in Starlight, Ida B. the Queen. What are you excited to read?📚❤️

🎉IT‘S NEW BOOK DAY!🎉 These are physical copies that I have on hand, but there are SO many more amazing books out today that I am excited about or looking forward to reading, including Tales From the Hinterland, Concrete Rose, The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry, You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, The House on Vesper Sands, Across the Green Grass Fields. What are you excited to read? 📚❤️📚

🎉IT‘S NEW BOOK DAY!🎉 2021‘s first new book Tuesday hits the ground running! These are physical copies of today‘s books that I have on hand, but there are many more amazing books out today that I am excited about or looking forward to reading, including A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself, To Be Honest, White Feminism, Lore, Unsolaced, Persephone Station, A Crooked Tree, One of the Good Ones, and Be Dazzled. What are you excited to read? 📚❤️

Happy New Year, kittens! January 1st is always my second favorite day of the year (after Daylight Savings in the fall when we turn the clocks back, because we get an extra hour to read.) I love starting a new reading spreadsheet and seeing how many books I can read for the year. I am wishing so hard that we all have an easier year this year. Now enough mushy stuff—it‘s time to read my first book of 2021! What is your first read of 2021? ❤️📚⭐️

Me: Ughh, I can‘t decide what to read next. I guess I‘ll look at Edelweiss one last time before I pick a new book.

Also me: EEEEEEEEEEEE NEW STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES!!!!! (It‘s out August 31.) 🖤🤍🖤

I‘m dipping into a few more 2020 releases this weekend, and I‘m kinda regretting getting hitched a couple months ago, because I would like to marry this book. Seriously, I can‘t even handle how good it is! I had heard that it was amazing a zillion times and it lives up to the hype. 🤩😭😍

You would not be wrong in assuming that books get knocked onto the floor in my house quite frequently. This time it was Farrokh, aka Freddie Purrcury. But it‘s hard to stay mad when he looks so cute. 🐈📚
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Related: This book was amazing, like a queer Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. It comes out November 2, 2021 - mark it down now! (There‘s no entry for it on Litsy yet but you can find a description on Goodreads.🙂)

In December, I don‘t have to read any new titles for episodes of All the Books! because we do wrap-up and preview shows, so it‘s kind of a free reading pass month for me. I usually use the time to get ahead on reading for the next year‘s episodes, but this weekend I am going to spend it revisiting some of my favorites from 2020. What are you reading this weekend? 📚❤️📚

🎉IT‘S NEW BOOK DAY!🎉 I have a few shiny books to show you today, including THE ORCHARD, my favorite book of the year! 🏆 There MANY MORE that I am excited about today, including Rebel Sisters, A Promised Land, Lord The One You Love is Sick, Super Fake Love Song, A Demon-Haunted Land, The Bright and Breaking Sea, and My Life in Lyrics by Dolly Parton. What are you excited to read? 📚❤️📚

🎉IT‘S NEW BOOK DAY!🎉 Here are a few I have with me in my secret volcano lair, and there are many more amazing books out today that I am excited about or looking forward to reading, including The Office of Historical Corrections, We Keep the Dead Close, Somewhere in the Unknown World, Secret Santa, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, What We Didn't Expect, Written in the Stars, and Rent a Boyfriend. What are you excited to read? 📚❤️📚

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Evening reading. 🌊 🏄 ☀️

📚TREAT YOUR SHELF📚: These are my most recent purchases from indie bookstores! I have read many of them and I hope to pick up the rest of them soon. Which ones are you excited about, kittens? (Books model: Pelvis the Ceramic Pig.) 📚❤️📚

🎉IT‘S NEW BOOK DAY!🎉 My supply of physical ARCs is almost completely depleted, not only because of the pandemic, but because since I read books for a living, it‘s fastest and easiest for me to read electronic copies. But there are several books out today I wanted to highlight and celebrate, so I made this image. Congratulations to all the authors publishing books today and YAY BOOKS! What are you excited to read? 📚❤️📚

Kicking off my afternoon reading with the upcoming novel from the amazing Megan Abbott. I could not be more excited if I swallowed a cat and broke out in kittens! It‘s out June 1, 2021, and I can‘t wait to see the cover when it‘s revealed! 📚❤️📚

🎉IT‘S NEW BOOK DAY!🎉 I‘ve been reading e-galleys almost entirely during the pandemic, so my reserves of physical ARCs are dwindling but there are indeed many more amazing books out today! Several that I am excited about or looking forward to reading include Ring Shout, Black Sun, In the Study with the Wrench, How to Write One Song, This is All Your Fault, The Heartbeat of Iran, Cat Ninja, and The Magic Fish. What are you excited to read? 📚❤️📚

A sunny Sunday afternoon in my office with Zevon and Farrokh. I‘m reading The Redshirt by Corey Sobel. They‘re reading nothing, because cats can‘t read. 🐈🐈📚

🎉IT‘S NEW BOOK DAY!🎉 I have been reading e-galleys almost entirely during the pandemic, but believe me when I tell you this photo only covers a fraction of the amazing books out today! There are SO MANY MORE that I am excited about, including The Searcher, I Hope You're Listening, Spoiler Alert, Earthlings, Magic Lessons, Missionaries, Snow, Return of the Thief, The Hollow Places, A Jedi You Will Be. What are you excited to read?📚❤️📚

HOLY CATS do I love BOOKS. I mean, I always love books, but some days I feel so extra about them that I just want to make a big pile of books and roll around on them like a dog in the grass. Books are everything. 📚❤️📚

Evening reading! 💙

📫Book mail! My latest round of books purchased from indie bookstores arrived today, just in time for the last few days of my summer vacation. (WHAT IS TIME.) For once, I mostly picked titles that I have not read, so I‘ve only read five of these. Now to try and squeeze the rest in before Monday, lol! Which ones do you love/are you excited about? 📚❤️📚

It‘s time for another recommendation for incredible 2021 releases, so go get your TBR list. I‘ll wait here.

Okay, ready? This book ripped the top of my head off! It‘s another one that I immediately read again as soon as I finished it. I‘m pretty sure it‘s already my favorite book of next year. It‘s so freaking brilliant, and I want everyone to read it. 👑❤️👑

I AM SO IN LOVE WITH THIS BOOK. After I read it, I immediately started it over and read it again - that‘s how good it is. 🤩 It‘s a centuries-long story of an immortal young woman doomed by the Devil to be forgotten, and her experiences of love and loss over 300 years. It‘s exciting, funny, sexy, and magical. This is an enchanting book that will help you lose yourself and let the world fall away. It‘s out October 6th and you will love it. ✨🖤💫

The National Book Awards longest is out and, holy cats, what an AMAZING group of books! 🎉 I have read more of the nominees this year than any year before. These are the physical copies I had to photograph, but I also read e-galleys of many more of them. Maybe some day I‘ll get to be a judge - WHAT A DREAM THAT WOULD BE. 🤩 Which nominees are you most excited about? 📚❤️📚

🎉IT‘S NEW BOOK DAY!🎉 It‘s time for more new releases again already! There are a bunch of great books coming out today, including SO MANY MORE that I am excited about but don‘t have physical copies to photograph, such as Once I Was You, Homeland Elegies, The Awkward Black Man, Ace, Cursed Objects, Grown, Horrid, The Vanderbeekers Lost and Found, Three Keys, Each of Us a Desert, Legendborn,and Furia. What are you excited to read? 📚❤️📚

🎉IT‘S NEW BOOK DAY!🎉 It‘s an amazing new release day and there are a TON of great books coming out today! And there are even more that I am excited about but don‘t have physical copies to photograph, including Just Us, Master of Poisons, The Seventh Mansion, The Selected Works of Audre Lorde, A Knock at Midnight, The Bone Shard Daughter, The Canyon's Edge, Prime Deception, Each of Us Killers, and One by One. What are you excited to read?📚❤️📚

This book knocked my brain‘s socks off! @jessicaesquire said “It‘s like if Chaim Potok wrote The Secret History.” And I said, “GIMME.” Y‘all know how much I love The Secret History. And while there have been many books compared to it, this is the first I believe WORTHY. It is a brilliant bildungsroman about a young Jewish man who is moved from ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn to a wealthy Miami suburb. The novel is absolute genius. MARK THIS ONE DOWN NOW.

🎉IT‘S NEW BOOK DAY!🎉 There are a TON of great books coming out today! And there are even more that I am excited about but don‘t have physical copies to photograph, including Before the Ever After, Cemetery Boys, Fangs, Having and Been Had, His Only Wife, The Lying Life of Adults, Night of the Mannequins, Fifty Words for Rain, Punching the Air, Mill Town, Daddy: Stories, Red Pill, and The Bass Rock. What are you excited to read? 📚❤️📚

🎉IT‘S NEW BOOK DAY!🎉 Ready your TBR - there are several great books coming out today! And there are more that I am excited about but don‘t have physical copies to photograph, including Summer, Darius the Great Deserves Better, Vesper Flights, Sisters, Squeeze Me, Deepfakes, The Inugami Curse, Children of Ash and Elm, The Memory of Souls, and Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism. What are you excited to read?📚❤️📚

🎉IT‘S NEW BOOK DAY!🎉 Get your helmet and goggles ready, because a bunch of great books are dropping today! There are more that I am excited about but don‘t have physical copies to photograph, including Ikenga, Vicious Spirits, Northernmost, Body Talk, Loathe at First Sight, The New American, Six Angry Girls, The Switch, Show Them You're Good, Grown Ups, Etiquette for Runaways, and The Less Dead. What are you excited to read? 📚❤️📚

PIRANESI IS ONLY FOUR WEEKS AWAY!!! Personally, I think the less you know about it, the better. If you‘re looking for another JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR. NORRELL, put that out of your mind now. They are both fantastic - and fantastical - but that‘s basically where the comparisons stop. And from the very first page, you have to be willing to go along with what is happening and trust that Clarke will get you where you need to be in the end. 🖤🤎🤍

🎉IT‘S NEW BOOK DAY!🎉 I spent the whole day driving around in the White Mountains playing heavy metal at an unreasonable volume, but I am home now and it‘s time for books! There are a bunch of great books out today, including many that I am excited about but don‘t have physical copies, such as A House Is a Body, Sia Martinez, Veritas, Iron Empires, The Unreality of Memory, A Place at the Table, and Zo. What are you excited to read? 📚❤️📚

It‘s the biggest new release day of 2020 - by default. When publishers began postponing spring releases, so many of them were rescheduled for 8/4. There are a TON of great books out today, including many that I am excited about but don‘t have copies to photograph, such as True Story, Caste, The Weekend, Wandering in Strange Lands, Paloa Santiago, You Had Me at Hola, The Black Kids, and The Eighth Detective. What are you excited to read?📚❤️📚

🎉IT‘S NEW BOOK DAY!🎉 There are a bunch of great books out today, including many that I am excited about but don‘t have physical copies to photograph, such as It Is Wood, It Is Stone, Quintessence, The Five Books of (Robert) Moses, Let's Never Talk About This Again, The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows, The Butterfly Lampshade, A Star Is Bored, His & Hers, This Is My America, and I Kissed Alice. What are you excited to read? 📚❤️📚

🎉IT‘S NEW BOOK DAY!🎉 There are a bunch of great books out today, including many that I am excited about but don‘t have physical copies to photograph, such as 10 Things I Hate about Pinky by Sandhya Menon, The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue, The Big Book of Modern Fantasy edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer, Clean: The New Science of Skin by James Hamblin, and Malorie by Josh Malerman. What are you excited to read?📚❤️📚

📚 BOOK MAIL📚 DO NOT ADJUST YOUR SCREENS. This is really real! I literally dropped everything just now so I can read it. (Okay, I tripped bringing in the groceries and the bags broke, but it totally counts, because I really dropped everything. 😂) BUT HOW EXCITING IS THIS?!? I couldn‘t be more excited if I swallowed a cat and broke out in kittens. Happy early birthday to me! It‘s hitting shelves September 22nd. 📚❤️📚

🎉IT‘S NEW BOOK DAY!🎉 There are a bunch of great books out today, including many that I am excited about but don‘t have physical copies to photograph, such as Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell, A Sweet Mess by Jayci Lee, The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune, Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, Well-Behaved Indian Women by Saumya Dave, Running by Natalia Sylvester, and Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby. What are you excited to read?📚❤️📚

🎉IT‘S NEW BOOK DAY!🎉 My physical galley cupboards are almost bare, but what I do have left is a lot of today‘s new releases! 📚
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There are more out today that I am excited about but don‘t have physical copies to photograph, including The Son of Good Fortune, The Voting Booth, The Color of Air, Cinderella Is Dead, The Cold Vanish, Burn Our Bodies Down, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor, and The Shadows. What are you excited to read? 📚❤️📚

🎉IT‘S NEW BOOK DAY!🎉 A ton of books scheduled for release today have been moved to later in the year. But there are still a lot of great titles to check out now. Here are some more of today‘s new books! 📚
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There are more out today that I am excited about but don‘t have physical copies to photograph, including Saving Ruby King, The Lightness, Tiananmen 1989, A Silent Fury, Lucky Ticket, and I'll Be the One. What are you excited to read? 📚❤️📚

It‘s time for my favorite part of reorganizing: alphabetizing! I have been looking forward to this all week because I think alphabetizing is an epic nerdpurr. I organize my books alphabetically by title, and the last time I did this, it took me about 16 hours to add new titles to my library. This time I am adding fewer books, so maybe I‘ll be done by midnight, lol. TL;DR: YAY, BOOKS! 📚❤️📚

📚BOOK MAIL! 📚 I have a four-day weekend starting tomorrow and I know what I‘m going to read first: THE NEW FREAKING ALIX E. HARROW BOOK. ✨❤️📚
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📚BOOK MAIL! 📚 Almost all the rest of my online purchases from indie bookstores around the country have arrived! I have not read as many of these as the last batch, but I will fix that soon. I am very excited to get my last order, but once it arrives, I will be sad that no more are on the way, lol. (I can never have too many books!) Do you see any favorites here? 📚❤️📚

🎉IT‘S NEW BOOK DAY!🎉 So many books are still getting new release dates. But not the Hunger Games prequel, which is out today for all you fans! Here are some more of today‘s new books! 📚
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There are more out that I am excited about but don‘t have physical copies to photograph, including We Are Not From Here, Stray: A Memoir, The Sunday Girl, Weird but Normal, This Coven Won't Break, Brown Album, and Rodham. What are you excited to read?📚❤️📚

Weekend plans: Time to straighten my library! It has been 18 months since I culled 2600 books from my home, and since then, about 1600 have come in but I haven‘t organized them, so now there are stacks and stacks everywhere. But I ate my spinach this morning and I‘m ready to rumble. *cracks knuckles* 📚❤️📚

🎉IT‘S NEW BOOK DAY!🎉 So many books are getting new release dates. The good news is that there are still a lot of great books out today! There are more out today that I am excited about, including Quotients by Tracy O‘Neill, The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar, A Deadly Inside Scoop by Abby Collette, Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru, and Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta. What are you excited to read? 📚❤️📚

📚BOOK MAIL! 📚Over the last couple weeks, I have made several online purchases from indie bookstores around the country, and the books are starting to arrive now. I have read most of these and loved them, but didn‘t own physical copies, so I took this opportunity to correct that. I am very excited to read the rest. And there are still more to come! Do you see any favorites here? 📚❤️📚

🎉IT‘S NEW BOOK DAY!🎉 Despite many changes in pub dates, there are still a TON of great books out today. Here are some of today‘s new books! 📚
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There are more out today that I am excited about but don‘t have physical copies to photograph, including Lift, Clap When You Land, We Dream of Space, Goldilocks, Who Ate the First Oyster?, Almond, The Dark In-Between, Dirt, Hard Cash Valley, Westside Saints. What are you excited to read? 📚❤️📚

I have spent my lovely Maine weekend relaxing in my hammock, reading great books and staring at our rhododendron, which I think always loses its blossoms too soon. Yesterday I read The Southern Book Club‘s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix, which I thought was great fun. It gave me (old) Fright Night vibes. Now I‘m going to read these, which I just noticed have kinda similar covers. What are you reading today? 🌹📚🍑

It‘s the first of the month - that means it‘s time for new Book of the Month selections! My judge pick this month is A GOOD MARRIAGE by Kimberly McCreight. She weaves tantalizing threads of murder, scandal, and secrets, teasing them out perfectly until the explosive conclusion, when she pulls them all tight around your brain like a corset! I hella enjoyed this one.

🎉IT‘S NEW BOOK DAY!🎉 Despite changes in pub dates, there are still a lot of great books out today. Here are some of today‘s new books! 📚
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There are many more out today that I am excited about but don‘t have physical copies to photograph, including Together by Vivek H. Murthy, Summer Solstice: An Essay by Nina MacLaughlin, Incendiary by Zoraida Cordova, and What Is Color? by Arielle Eckstut and Joann Eckstut. What are you excited to read?📚❤️📚