Because this fall is exciting, I’m doing a joyous meme for you guys! The good people at The Broke and the Bookish have asked everyone to say what books they are looking forward to this fall, and I am looking forward to A LOT of things this fall. Onward!
- The Rest of Us Just Live Here, Patrick Ness – How many years has it been since I had a new Patrick Ness book to scream about? TOO MANY. TOO MANY IS THE ANSWER. This one is about all the high school kids who aren’t Chosen Ones, who are just trying to steer clear of vampires and prophecies and supervillains and get through goddamn high school.
- Carry On, Rainbow Rowell – I admit I gave this book the side-eye when it was first announced. However, Rowell has since mentioned that it has interior illustrations, and YES, the moral of this story is that you can buy me for cheap with interior illustrations. Also Lev Grossman praised it to the skies. Also, it comes out the same weekend as The Rest of Us Just Live Here and is about a Chosen One so that’s going to be some excellent companion reading.
- Speaking of interior illustrations, the new edition of Harry Potter, illustrated by Jim Kay, is going to be my whole life come October. Y’all are going to get sick of me talking about it. At least one person is going to ask me “Don’t you already own the first Harry Potter book?” Yes yes I do and come October I will own two copies of the first Harry Potter book FIGHT ME.
- Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, Salman Rushdie – Okay, this one’s already out. But I haven’t read it yet, and I am excited to! It’s been so long since Salman Rushdie put out a book, and although my success rate with him is not 100%, when I click with one of his books, it’s a hell of a click.
- Under the Udala Trees, Chinelo Okparanto – I’ve never heard of this author before, but two girls falling in love against the backdrop of the Nigerian civil war? YEP.
- Radiance, Cathrynne Valente – Nothing I’ve read by Cathrynne Valente has worked perfectly for me so far. But she seems so right for me as a reader, and I am going to persist until I succeed in loving one of her books. Radiance is about making movies in a science fictional universe, and that sounds awesome.
- The Arab of the Future, Riad Sattouf – A graphic memoir of growing up in France, Libya, and Syria. Yep. All yep all the time.
- Beauty Is a Wound, Eka Kurniawan – I mean basically I don’t think I’ve ever read one single book by an Indonesian author, so that obviously needs to change.
Okay, I didn’t have ten. I only had eight. OH WELL. What are y’all excited about for the fall season? I will steal your ideas and use them for my own.