Reading Glasses - Books We’re Excited About for Summer 2023!
Brea and Mallory discuss books they’re excited about that are coming out in July, August, and September of 2023. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!
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Books:
JULY
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead - 7/18
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - 7/18
The Beast You Are by Paul Tremblay - 7/11
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle - 7/18
Queer horror
A Guide to the Dark by Meriam Metoui - 7/18
Queer YA horror, ghosts, sapphic, haunted motel
The Little Village of Book Lovers by Nina George - 7/25
Literary, historical, love story, books
Someone Like You by Meredith Schorr - 7/25
Enemies to lovers romance
Play to Win by Josie Slaughter - 7/11
Second chance romance
Eight Bears by Gloria Dickie - 7/11
Nonfiction, nature, documenting last 8 species of bears on earth
A Rulebook for Restless Rogues - 7/11
Gay historical romance
Dear Rosie by Meghan Boehman and Rachael Briner - 7/11
Middle grade graphic novel, forest creatures, grief
On an Ebbing Seafoam Tide by Alannah Radburn - 7/11
Queer poetry
The Sea Elephants by Shastri Akella - 7/11
Queer coming of age set in India in the 1990s
The Women in the Castello by Kelsey James - 7/25
Historial horror, 1960s Italy, horror movie
Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter - 7/11
Literary, surreal, corporate world
AUGUST
At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities by Heather Webber
Cozy, magic food
Pet by Catherine Chidgey - 8/8
Thriller, Catholic school, 1980s, New Zealand
Becoming Delilah - 8/15
Literary, Cape Cod, outsider in small town, small town drama
Swim Home to the Vanished by Brendan Shay Basham - 8/22
Native protagonist, literary, grief, small town, seaside village
Nobody Needs to Know by Pidgeon Pagonis - 8/15
Intersex protagonist, coming of age, literary
The Museum of Human History by Rebekah Bergman - 8/1
Literary sci fi, biotech, aging/preservation
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim - 8/29
Literary, family drama, Virgina, Korean American family, family secrets
Kiss the Girl by Zoraida Cordova - 8/1
Romance, real world retelling of Little Mermaid
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas - 8/29
Historical horror, vampires
Delicate Condition by Danielle Valentine - 8/1
Motherhood thriller
The Mystery of Dunvegan Castle by T.L Huchu - 8/29
Third in trilogy, urban fantasy, Edinburgh, magic
The Midnight Kingdom by Tara Sim - 8/22
Magic, murderous gods, fantasy war
Heavy is the Head by Sumaya Enyegue - 8/1
Poetry on Blackness, girlhood, trauma
A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power - 8/8
Literary, Native protagonists, parallel timelines, family saga, racial trauma
Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward - 8/8
Maine, horror, friendship
Mister Magic by Kierstan White - 8/8
TV shows, friendship, horror
A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll - 8/15
Horror graphic novel
SEPTEMBER
Digging Stars by Novuyo Rose Tshuma - 9/12
Astronomy, grad school, drama and satire, anxiety, literary
The Fraud by Zadie Smith - 9/5
The Siren, the Song, and the Spy by Maggie Tokuda Hall - 9/26
South by Bobak Lakghomi - 9/12
Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue by Christine Higdon - 9/12
1920s, love story, chosen family, female friendship
Idlewild by James Frankie - 9/12
Literary, prep school, NYC, queer and trans characters, friendship
And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott - 9/26
Motherhood, thriller, Indigenous protagonist, trauma
The Pomegranate Gate by Ariel Kaplan - 9/26
Adult fantasy, Jewish folklore
The Hexologists by Josiah Bancroft - 9/26
Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor - 9/26
Against Technoablism by Ashley Shew - 9/19
Nonfiction, disability and tech
Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison - 9/19
Horror, cults
Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian - 9/19
Horror western, witches, cowboys
The September House by Carissa Orlando - 9/5
Haunted house, domestic abuse, dry humor
What Kind of Mother by Clay McLeod Chapman - 9/12
Horror, fortune telling, parents, missing children
Your Lonely Nights are Over by Adam Sass - 9/12
Gay YA horror, Scream meets Clueless
What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell - 9/12
YA horror, cornfields, friendship
Every Drop is a Man’s Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto - 9/29
Short stories, Hawaii, weird
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