Ep 409 - Most Anticipated Books for May and June + Cures for Book Hangovers!

Brea and Mallory talk about their most anticipated books for May and June! Plus, they give out book hangover cures. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Recommendations Store Sponsors - Clarion West Steamy in Seattle www.clarionwest.org Ancient Nutrition www.ancientnutrition.com/GLASSES Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Libro.fm To join our Discord channel, email us proof of your Reading-Glasses-supporting Maximum Fun membership! www.maximumfun.org/join Stack the Shelves Spring Readathon May 18th! Books Mentioned -  The Day the World Stopped Shopping by J.B. MacKinnon Why I Love Horror edited by Becky Spratford May Decolonizing Language by Ngugi W. Thiong’o Nonfiction, modern African literature, post colonial literary criticism And the Trees Stare Back by Gigi Griffis YA horror, Soviet Russia, historical, “came back wrong” Eliza, from Scratch by Sophia Lee - YA rom-com, cooking, high school, Korean food The Lost Queen by Aimee Phan - YA fantasy, magic, sisters, Vietnamese lore, past lives Titan of the Stars by E.K. Johnson - YA sci fi horror, space, aliens, Mars, trapped on a spaceship Death in the Cards by Mia P. Manansala - YA mystery, tarot, teen detective, vanished girl You and Me on Repeat by Mary Shyne - YA rom-com graphic novel, time loop, friendship Home Has No Borders by Sona Charaipotra and Samira Ahmed - Short story collection, YA, South Asian writers The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei - Historical fiction, Singapore, family saga, sisters My Name is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende - Historical fiction, 19 century, Chile, San Francisco, female writer sent to cover civil war The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong - Literary fiction, chosen family, friendship between elderly woman and the young man she saves My Friends by Fredrick Backman - Literary fiction, 25 year saga about four friends in a seaside town The Tenant by Freida McFadden - Thriller, man rents a room to a woman who is not what she seems The Man Made of Smoke by Alex North - Thriller, serial killer, criminal profiler solving case he survived as a child The Incandescent by Emily Tesh - Fantasy, dark academia, sapphic romance Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle - Urban fantasy, NYC, chef who can taste ghosts Awake in the Floating City by Susanna Kwan Sci fi, eco-fiction, flooding, artist bonding with elderly woman who remembers the city’s history The Memory Collectors by Dete Meserve - Sci fi, mystery, technology that lets you visit the most pivotal moment of your life for one hour The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling - Historical horror, sapphic erotica, cannibals, medieval, surreal Never Flinch by Stephen King - Horror, next Holly book Can’t Get Enough by Kennedy Ryan - Third in Skyland series The Love Haters by Katherine Center Contemporary romance, swimming, cynicism, Key West The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig Romantasy, divination magic, gothic, hot knight A Fate Forged in Fire by Hazel McBride Romantasy, Celtic inspired, magic, dragon riding, hot prince Bad Friend: How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship by Tiffany Watt Smith Nonfiction Mark Twain by Ron Chernow Nonfiction Immaculate Conception by Ling Ling Huang - Literary horror, friendship, technology that enhances empathy Forest Euphoria by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian - Nonfiction, queerness in wildlife and nature Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect Capitalism is a Joke by Leigh Claire la Berge - Nonfiction So Many Stars: an Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color by Caro de Robertis Nonfiction Disappoint Me by Nicola Dinan Literary fiction, trans protagonist, love, betrayal, “allure of bougie domesticity” And They Were Roommates by Page Powars - Queer YA romance, trans protagonist, boarding school Gay the Pray Away by Natalie Naudus Queer YA romance, cult, small town, secret love Summertime by Yigit Karaahmet, translated by Nicholas Glastonbury Queer thriller, Turkey, “the Birdcage but by Patricia Highsmith” When Devils Sing by Xan Kaur YA horror, Southern gothic, small town, vanished teen Of Earthly Delights by Goldy Moldavsky YA horroromance, contemporary gothic, family secrets, mysterious garden Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson - Literary fiction, funny, family road trip Gingko Season by Naomi Xu Elegant - Literary fiction, finding yourself after a heartbreak, friendship The South by Tash Aw Gay literary fiction, family, summer, small town, secret love The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association by Caitlin Rozakis - Cozy fantasy, magic school in New England, werewolf protagonist June The Mercy Makers by Tessa Gratton - Romantasy, forbidden love, forbidden magic, political intrigue A Far Better Thing by H.G. Parry - Fantasy, fairy revenge, historical, French revolution A Treachery of Swans by A.B. Poranek - Queer YA fantasy, sapphic Swan Lake retelling A Magic Deep and Drowning by Hester Fox - Historical romantasy, Dutch Golden Age, Little Mermaid retelling Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab - Queer spec fic, immortality, romance Wearing the Lion by John Wiswell - Historical fantasy, Hercules retelling, funny and sweet I Think I’m in Love with an Alien by Ann Aguirre - Romantiscifi, space, rom-com The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery by Clarence A. Haynes - Queer fantasy, ghosts, funny, magical past The Lady, The Tiger, and the Girl Who Loved Death by Helen Marshall - Fantasy, circus, mystery, dark magic, revenge The Palace of Illusions by Rowena Miller - Historical fantasy, Paris, 1900s World’s Fair, magical clockmaker The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older - Sapphic cozy space mystery, third in series A Girl Walks into the Forest by Madeleine Roux - Fantasy, journey through evil forest, monsters The Beautiful Maddening by Shea Ernshaw - YA contemporary romantasy, family love curse, magic tulips The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King - Queer fantasy, magic, memories contained in pencils, lost connections across time and space Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon by Annie Mare Queer romantiscifi, sapphic, two women in different worlds trying to find the right timeline to be together Meet Me at the Crossroads by Megan Giddings - Sci fi, mysterious doors to new worlds, sisters Best of all Worlds by Kenneth Oppel YA spec fi thriller, survival story The Two Lives of Faven Sythe by Megan O’Keefe - Sci fi, missing person search uncovers galaxy-wide conspiracy, space opera Pearly Gates by Bonnie Solomon - Queer cozy funny fantasy, drag queen protagonist in after life, found family Ecstasy by Ivy Pochoda - Horror, Greek tragedy retelling, female empowerment Strange Houses by Uketsu, translated by Jim Rion Japanese mystery horror, disturbing architecture This Princess Kills Monsters by Ry Herman - Queer fantasy, high fantasy, magic princess on a quest, fairytale satire Work Nights by Erica Peplin - Queer literary fiction, young woman in love triangle, NYC Girls Girls Girls by Shoshana von Blanckensee Queer Jewish new adult literary fiction, 1990s road trip from NYC to San Francisco These Heathens by Mia McKenzie Queer new adult historical fiction, 1960s Atlanta, queer Black community, civil rights movement If I Told You I’d Have to Kiss You by Mae Marvel - Sapphic romance, if Mr. and Ms. Smith was gay Ordinary Love by Marie Rutkoski - Queer literary fiction, bisexual protagonist, woman risking it all for a second chance at first love A Rare Find by Joanna Lowell - Sapphic historical romance, archaeologist teaming up with childhood enemy Ready to Score by Jodie Slaughter - Sapphic contemporary romance, spicy, small town, Texas football It’s Not the End of the World by Jonathan Parks-Ramage Cli-fi thriller, queer, family saga, near future sci fi What is Queer Food? How We Served a Revolution by John Birdsall Nonfiction El Dorado Drive by Megan Abbott - Thriller, all woman pyramid scheme, Detroit, crime, female friendship, power The Dark Library by Mary Anna Evans Gothic historical thriller, family secrets, dark academia The Farmhouse by Chelsea Conradt - Horror, family moves to a creepy house in the middle of nowhere, corn!!!!! Worth Fighting For by Jesse Q. Sutanto - Mulan reimagined as a contemporary romance Someone Knows by Vi Keeland - Thriller, sexy, English professor has a dark past come back to haunt her, murder, affair The Compound by Aisling Rawle - Dystopian thriller, Lord of the Flies meets Love Island, reality TV Battle of the Bookstores by Ali Brady Contemporary romance, rivalry between two managers at the same bookstore Murder Takes a Vacation by Laura Lippman Cozy mystery, murder on a Parisian river cruise The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick Spec fic, what if there was a scientific cure for heartbreak King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby Crime thriller, family drama, Southern, inspired by The Godfather The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater - Historical romantasy, 1940s Appalachia, luxury hotel, magic With a Vengeance by Riley Sager Historical horror, trains, murder, 1940s midwest America The Primal of Blood and Bone by Jennifer L. Armentrout Sixth in the Blood and Ash series Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid - Historical romance, 1980s, NASA, astronauts The Dry Season by Melissa Febos - Celibacy memoir