July Newsletter

Authors Deborah Harkness, Chris Bohjalian, Jacqueline Winspear, Nick Harkaway, and tons of new books! Find your next great read!

View this email in your browser SPONSORED BY Landline is topping Summer Must Read Lists—People + Entertainment Weekly. Read an Excerpt Now. Hi Robert, Here's our monthly newsletter from Goodreads—giving you the latest and greatest in our quest to connect people through reading! You started reading Agenda 21 74 days ago. Update Your Progress EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS Jacqueline Winspear The bestselling mystery writer takes a break from her Maisie Dobbs series to pen a stand-alone historical novel, The Care and Management of Lies, set during World War I. More Nick Harkaway On a radioactive island a middle-aged British sergeant becomes a crime-fighting superhero in Tigerman, a genre-bending adventure from the author of Angelmaker. More BOOK LOOK The Making of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey View Gallery GOOD MINDS SUGGEST Deborah Harkness's Favorite Books with Brainy Heroines Shout-out to all the bookish women! Try these picks from the fantasy author of The Book of Life, last in the All Souls Trilogy. Deborah suggests: More... Gene Luen Yang's Favorite Superheroes Just in time for his revival of the Green Turtle in The Shadow Hero, the comic book creator names his top five iconic characters. Gene suggests: More... Chris Bohjalian's Favorite Narrators Who Will Break Your Heart His new novel, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands, follows the chaos of a nuclear meltdown, and these stirring recs will make you melt down! Chris suggests: More... DEBUT AUTHOR SNAPSHOT Celeste Ng In the literary mystery Everything I Never Told You, a shocked family in 1970s small-town Ohio pieces together clues after Lydia, the favored child, is found dead. More MOVERS & SHAKERS The Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkai (Goodreads Author) Set on a posh, possibly haunted Illinois estate, this family saga reveals secrets as it moves backward from 1999 to 1900, chronicling the old-money Devohr clan in modern times and during the house's years as an artists' colony. More The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee by Marja Mills The famously reclusive To Kill a Mockingbird author has refused interviews for decades, yet in 2001, reporter Marja Mills managed the impossible. She recounts her time spent as Lee's next-door neighbor in this Southern memoir. More California by Edan Lepucki (Goodreads Author) In this postapocalyptic tale, a young couple leaves behind the anarchy of a ravaged Los Angeles and sets off into the relative safety of the wilderness—until an unplanned pregnancy pushes them back toward civilization. More Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman by Robert L. O'Connell Both hailed for his military strategy and infamous for his relentless March to the Sea during the American Civil War, Union general Sherman is profiled in this engrossing biography of his wartime and private lives. More The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob (Goodreads Author) When her neurosurgeon father starts talking to dead relatives, Amina reluctantly returns home to New Mexico to help her mother, stirring up painful memories in this literary exploration of an Indian American family. More Midnight Thief by Livia Blackburne (Goodreads Author) Recruited by the Assassins Guild, nimble thief and orphan Kyra trades life on the streets for a high-stakes new job. She crosses paths with a young knight seeking to avenge his best friend's death in this fantasy for teens. More DO GOOD WITH GOODREADS #Pages4Progress How many pages did you read today? 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