Other Book Riot New Releases Resources
All the Books, our weekly new book releases podcast, where Liberty and a cast of co-hosts talk about eight books out that week that we’ve read and loved. The New Books Newsletter, where we send you an email of the books out this week that are getting buzz. Finally, if you want the real inside scoop on new releases, you have to check out Book Riot Insiders’ New Releases Index! That’s where I find 90% of new releases, and you can filter by trending books, Rioters’ picks, and even LGBTQ new releases!
Reasons to read it: Cormac McCarthy is a best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, and many readers have been eagerly anticipated his latest book. This is the second in The Passenger series, and it’s also available as a two-book boxed set, if you’re looking for a gift for the lit fic lover in your life! So yeah, my life isn’t the greatest right now, but then it goes straight to the absolute worst hell when I accidentally make my sister’s spell glitch and curse my whole family. And the only person who can help non-magical me break the spell? You guessed it. Gil the super hot jerk. Now we have to work together to save my family and outmaneuver some evil-minded nefarious forces bent on world domination. Oh yeah, and we have to do all that while fighting against the attraction building between us because I may not be magical, but what’s happening between Gil and I sure feels like it. Reasons to read it: If you love rivals/enemies-to-lovers romances with some spice, this is the book for you. It may be December, but that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy a good witchy read. Also, the Publishers Weekly review promises “pun-filled worldbuilding,” which is definitely intriguing. When Razia is accepted to Stuyvesant, a prestigious high school in Manhattan, the gulf between the person she is and the daughter her parents want her to be, widens. At Stuyvesant, Razia meets Angela and is attracted to her in a way that blossoms into a new understanding. When their relationship is discovered by an Aunty in the community, Razia must choose between her family and her own future. Punctuated by both joy and loss, full of ’80s music and beloved novels, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion is a new classic: a fiercely compassionate coming-of-age story of a girl struggling to reconcile her heritage and faith with her desire to be true to herself. Reasons to read it: This is a character-driven story with a vivid setting of 1980s Corona, Queens. It also explores queerness and religion with a lot of nuance. This is one of NPR’s Best Books of the Year, and it’s being compared to On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and My Brilliant Friend. Logan O’Hare doesn’t understand Xavier or why every word out of his mouth is dipped in sarcasm. Unfortunately, he has no choice but to hire him—he needs more help in the kitchen and his tween daughter, Anne, can only mince so many onions. It might be a recipe for disaster, but Logan doesn’t have many options besides Xavier. Stuck between a stove and a hot place, Logan and Xavier discover an unexpected connection. But when the heat between them threatens to top the Scoville scale, they’ll have to decide if they can make their relationship work or if life has seasoned them too differently. Reasons to read it: If you love Hallmark movies but wish they were more diverse, you should definitely pick up this foodie romance. It’s about a big city guy reluctantly returning to his hometown and finding love! It’s also got a sunshine/grumpy dynamic, which is always fun. – the mother octopus who starves herself while watching over her eggs,– the Chinese sturgeon whose migration route has been decimated by pollution and dams,– the bizarre, predatory Bobbitt worm (named after Lorena),– the common goldfish that flourishes in the wild,– and more. Imbler discovers that some of the most radical models of family, community, and care can be found in the sea, from gelatinous chains that are both individual organisms and colonies of clones to deep-sea crabs that have no need for the sun, nourished instead by the chemicals and heat throbbing from the core of the Earth. Exploring themes of adaptation, survival, sexuality, and care, and weaving the wonders of marine biology with stories of their own family, relationships, and coming of age, How Far the Light Reaches is a shimmering, otherworldly debut that attunes us to new visions of our world and its miracles. Reasons to read it: You may think you don’t want to read a marine biology book, but you’d be wrong. This was the surprise hit of my reading year — in fact, it may be my favorite book I’ve read in 2022! It’s gorgeously written and gloriously queer, weaving together scientific facts and personal stories. This is a TIME Must-Read Book of the Year and one of Barnes & Noble’s Best Books of 2022. At the intersection of science, history, and narrative journalism, Pests is not a simple call to look closer at our urban ecosystem. It’s not a natural history of the animals we hate. Instead, this book is about us. It’s about what calling an animal a pest says about people, how we live, and what we want. It’s a story about human nature, and how we categorize the animals in our midst, including bears and coyotes, sparrows and snakes. Pet or pest? In many cases, it’s entirely a question of perspective. Bethany Brookshire’s deeply researched and entirely entertaining book will show readers what there is to venerate in vermin, and help them appreciate how these animals have clawed their way to success as we did everything we could to ensure their failure. In the process, we will learn how the pests that annoy us tell us far more about humanity than they do about the animals themselves. Reasons to read it: This offers a new way to look at the animals around us, and it looks like it’s packed with “Hey, didya know…?” facts that you’ll be reciting every time you see a squirrel. It would also make a great gift for animal lovers on your list.
