Start off your summer right with some exciting new book releases, author announcements and books-to-screen adaptations!
A Literary “Eruption”
Michael Crichton, master of the techno-blockbuster world, had a passion project he’d been pursuing for years before his untimely passing in 2008. Now James Patterson, master of the modern thriller, takes up the mantel to finish what Crichton started in the most anticipated mega bestseller in years: Eruption. The Big Island of Hawai’i is about to be destroyed by a history-making eruption — but a secret held for decades by the US military is far more terrifying than any volcano.
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ First Nonfiction in a Decade
Ta-Nehisi Coates, NYT bestselling author of Between the World and Me, originally set out to write a book about writing, but found himself grappling with deeper questions. In The Message, Coates travels to Palestine, Senegal and South Carolina, three resonant sites of conflict, to explore how the stories we tell — and the ones we don’t — shape our realities. The book hits shelves on October 1.
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New Hunger Games Novel Announced
Author Suzanne Collins is returning to the ravaged, post-apocalyptic land of Panem for a new novel. Sunrise on the Reaping, the fifth volume of Collins’ blockbuster dystopian series, will be published on March 18, 2025, and will focus on the Fiftieth Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell.
Celebrity Book Club Picks
Check out the celebrity book club picks for June 2024!
- GMA Book Club: Malasby Marcela Fuentes
- Read with Jenna: Swift River by Essie Chambers
- Reese’s Book Club: The Unwedding by Ally Condie
- Reese’s Summer YA Pick: Twelfth Night by Alexene Farol Follmuth
Check out this month’s book club selections!
Bill Gates’ Upcoming Memoir
Bill Gates has announced his debut memoir, Source Code: My Beginnings, to release next year. Source Code is not about Microsoft or the Gates Foundation or the future of technology. It’s the human, personal story of how Bill Gates became who he is today: his childhood, his early passions and pursuits.
What to Expect from George R.R. Martin’s Latest HBO Series, “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms”
HBO’s latest Game of Thrones spinoff takes place a century before the original series and follows the adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall (played by Peter Claffey) and his young squire, Egg (played by Dexter Sol Ansell). Martin, executive producer and creator of the novels, says the series will be much shorter with a much different tone. Check out more details about the upcoming series here.
“Mirrored Heavens” by Rebecca Roanhorse
This epic tale of celestial prophecies, political intrigue, and forbidden magic that began in the NYT bestseller Black Sun, and the interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian, will come to a stunning conclusion in the final installment of the Between Earth and Sky trilogy.
Comedian Abbi Jacobson to Adapt “People Collide”
Abbi Jacobson, co-creator and star of Broad City and A League of Their Own, will serve as writer and showrunner for a series adaptation of Isle McElroy’s People Collide. The novel is a gender-bending, body-switching story that explores marriage, identity and sex, and raises questions about the nature of true partnership. Learn more about the book and the upcoming series here.
M. Night Shyamalan’s Adaptation of A.M. Shine’s “The Watchers” Hits Theaters
New Releases
Check out some of the highly anticipated books coming out this week!
- Fire Exit by Morgan Talty
- The God and the Gumiho by Sophie Kim
- The Last Song of Penelope by Claire North
- The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston
2023 Bram Stoker Awards Winners Announced
Enter to Win These 6 Book-Club Worthy Titles
The Sagajo Experience by Debbie Berment
Fire in the Hole! by Bob Parsons
Daughters of Shandong by Eve J. Chung
Coded to Kill by Marschall Runge, M.D.
Time Conjurer by Michael Arthur Kennedy
Looking for Legends by Scott & Tarantino
“Life is too short to read a bad book.”
― James Joyce
