There are a ton of other great books out today, including Barack Obama’s new memoir AND my favorite book of the year, The Orchard by David Hopen. I have been throwing this book at your brain-walls since I read it in May in the hopes it would stick, because it’s my favorite book of the year and I wanted to make sure it was on all your radars. I hope it worked, and you love it as much as I do, because I L-O-V-E it. And the book I most looking forward to getting my hands on this week is Alright, Alright, Alright: An Oral History of Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused by Melissa Maerz. (Did you know that Matthew McConaughey’s new memoir is currently at the top of the bestseller lists? I had no idea it would be that popular! So of course I got one for myself, and—bonus—it arrived SIGNED.) Backlist bump: War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi Backlist bump: Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock (This one also comes with ALL the trigger warnings.) Backlist bump: Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler, Shaun Whiteside (translator) Can’t get enough new releases? You can hear about more of today’s amazing books on this week’s episode of All the Books! We discussed (what else?) The Orchard, These Violent Delights, Nights When Nothing Happened, and more.
