New Curiosities – week of August 27th
New Curiosities features new books being published in the current week or month, and that I am curious to investigate. While it isn’t a complete list of the week’s new books, I do hope you’ll make some interesting discoveries with me! Click on the titles to learn more about each book by visiting Goodreads!
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New books coming out for the week of August 27th
Something for Adults
- Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
- The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
I have to admit that I have a lot of catching up to do before I can read Louise Penny’s newest novel, The Beautiful Mystery, the eight in her Gamache series, but that doesn’t stop me from being excited about this new one (though I haven’t read its summary yet!) It only means I have more fun reading ahead of me!
As for Sweet Tooth, I am also excited about it. It’s been a few years since I have read Ian McEwan, but Atonement was a favorite book of mine and I have been planning, ever since, to read more from him. It takes place in London in 1972, and the story sounds amazing. Here’s an excerpt from the summary :
MI5 sends Serena, a compulsive reader of novels, on a secret mission that brings her to Tom Healy, a promising young writer. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? What is deception and who is deceiving whom? To answer these questions, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage — trust no one.
Espionage? A compulsive reader and a writer falling for each other? London? There is no way I can resist this!
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Something with Disappearing Children
- Kept in the Dark by Penny Hancock
- Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
These books are both about disappeared children, but they are both very different. Kept in the Dark is about a woman kidnapping a young man, a story that sounds dark and unsettling. Splendors and Glooms is a middle grade Victorian thriller, a horror story where a young girl disappears after her birthday’s puppet show. Creepy!
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Something for Young Adults
- The Lost Girl by Sangu Mandanna
- Every Day by David Levithan
- Erasing Time by C. J. Hill
- Defiance by C. J. Redwine
Where to start? These books all have intriguing premises! The Lost Girl features a girl who has been created as a copy of someone else, to replace her if she ever died. Every Day has a character waking up in a different body every morning. Erasing Time takes place 400 years in the future, where twins wake up to a world of destruction. Finally, Defiance seems to be somewhere between sci-fi, dystopia and paranormal. I’m on love with cool concepts, let’s just hope they can live up to our expectations!
Again, a great bookish week ahead of us! Which book are you the most looking forward to reading?
I’ve got to get with it and try one of Penny’s books!
So many splendid covers. It’s hard to choose!
Ooh, I didn’t know that McEwan was coming out with a new one, and I am very excited about it, and have to read it! Great new picks today, Kay!
I discovered it at the last minute, really. I can’t wait to read it!
I read Every Day and thought it was very good. Right now I’m reading The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman. It’s intriguing so far, and I really wonder if it’s going to be touching and sad or if it will somehow have a happy ending.
I have seen The Light Between Oceans everywhere in the past week, on the blogs, at the bookstore, I can’t escape it! I’m really intrigued by it. I’ll be looking for your review!