During this long shadow of ransomware-attack recovery, the rest of the world still turns and books have continued to be published! As our systems finally begin to normalize and the flow of new releases and holds-placing resumes, here are some fiction titles published in July and August that may be of interest. This is Part Two; check out Part One (June and early July) here.
7/9: Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
Screenwriter Misha Byrne has finally gained some Hollywood success, but when he refuses to kill off the queer characters in the season finale of his supernatural/horror TV show, the many movie monsters he has written start to stalk him. Can he stay alive long enough to figure out what is happening?! (horror)
7/9: Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
The 1980 kidnapping-for-ransom (and return) of the family patriarch casts a 40-year shadow over the Fletcher family, culminating in a panic with the news their family fortune is nearly exhausted. By the author of Fleishman Is in Trouble. (general fiction)
7/9: Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel by Yoko Tawada, translated by Susan Bernofksy
Post-COVID lockdowns, literary researcher Patrik, living in Berlin, struggles to return to his normal flow of life until he meets a stranger who appears to already know him. The two enter into a series of conversations on poetry, friendship, connection and more. (general fiction)
7/9: A Thousand Times Before by Asha Thanki
In present-day Brooklyn, Ayukta sits down with her wife to explain her uncertainty about having children, deeply connected to a family secret: the women in her family inherit a tapestry, and with it the ability to experience the lives and memories of those who came before, simultaneously burden and blessing. Through that ability, we see the stories of Ayukta’s grandmother, Amla, during the India/Pakistan partition; and her mother, Arni, during the student protests in 1974 Gujarat, India. (general fiction/historical fiction)
7/23: The Drowning House by Cherie Priest
When a house washes up onto the beach of Marrowstone Island, the sight of it scares to death the one woman who recognizes it; simultaneously, her adult grandson Simon disappears. Simon’s friends Melissa and Leo search for Simon, digging into the sinister history of the house. (horror)
8/6: Hum by Helen Phillips
In a near future with intelligent robots, or “Hums,” recently unemployed May makes a desperate bid for money by signing up for an experiment that renders her face unrecognizable by surveillance. When a three-night family trip into the Botanical Garden goes wrong, May must rely on the help of a Hum. (science fiction)
8/6: The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
Four years after breaking up en route to a European food and wine tour, Kit and Theo have each spontaneously, individually, decided to cash in their voucher to retake the trip. Thrown back together amid beautiful scenery and heightened sexual tension, will they end the trip as friends or something more? (romance)
8/6: A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
Cordelia’s mother is an evil sorceress. When she moves them into the home of her new mark, a rich squire, Cordelia teams up with the squire’s sister, Hester, to stop her mother once and for all. (fantasy)
8/6: The Dead Cat Tail Assassins P. Djèlí Clark
Eveen the Eviscerator is one of the best assassins in the Guild, until someone bends the rules to somehow assign Eveen a contract – unbreakable – to kill her past self. Both iterations of herself will have to work together to figure out who wanted her dead. (fantasy)
8/6: The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey
The first clue humans on the planet Anjiin have of a massive, all-encompassing galactic war is when the alien Carryx arrive in the sky, conquering and enslaving them in a matter of hours. Now on a separate planet, living side-by-side with other captured species, humankind must figure out the rules of their new lives – and how to survive. First in a new series by the authors of The Expanse series
~ posted by Andrea G.
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