09/23/2026
🏆And the winner of "best title of the week" goes too. . .
HAPPY SNACKING, DON'T DIE! by Alexis Nikole Nelson, best known to millions of fans as Black Forager!
🍄Part foraging guide, part plant-based cookbook, Alexis shows you (with joyful enthusiasm) how to turn common plants, flowers, and fungi into yummy, vegan meals during each season--no wilderness survival skills required.
As far as other new titles this week, you will notice a definite trend towards darker themes and chilling thrillers, as well as autumn inspired cozy reading. 🍂
OUR CUT OF SALT by Deena Helm is a lyrical debut about three generations of Palestinian women who must put the haunting of their ancestral home to rest, before the secrets of the past drown them all.
THE STRANGERS by Naomi Alderman is a transcendent novel about a writer who wrestles with grief even as a new species is discovered, forcing humans to reconsider what it means to share our planet.
MAZYWOOD by Tananarive Due is a literary thriller following the grandson of a famous Black actress who returns to his grandmother's cabin retreat in the California mountains only to encounter the legacy of her rage born in Old Hollywood.
CALL OFF THE DARK by Hallie Shepherd is a haunting, atmospheric debut thriller about true love and the aftermath of loss.
CRONE by Keith Rosson is a haunting, fearsome story of a father searching for his missing daughter and finding darkness--both human and not--at every turn.
THE MUSEUM OF LOST THINGS by Sam Kean is full of mysteries spanning a million years of history, including fabled relics, legendary cities, mythical species, and undeciphered languages that have bedeviled seekers for centuries.
MURDER AT THE GRAND ALPINE HOTEL by Lucy Foley is a brand new Miss Marple mystery in which Foley channels the one-and-only Agatha Christie with precision and flair.
CHRISTMAS IN AUSTENLAND by Shannon Hale is the festive third book in this utterly delightful series that gives readers the chance to relish all the fun of Regency romance, from the comfort of their modern lives.
In HOLLYWOOD, ENDING, John Green makes his much-anticipated return to fiction with a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story about finding someone to trust in an untrustworthy world.
AN UNEXPECTED LIFE by Gloria Steinem is her final memoir, offering a candid, inspiring portrait of her early life and journey as an activist, while looking ahead to the next chapters of the fight for equality--a rare opportunity to learn directly from one of feminism's most enduring voices.
GO AND DO LIKEWISE by Andy Beshear is compelling and insightful book that reclaims faith as a force for good in the age of Trump and rebukes those who use it to harm and discriminate.
RACIST BY DESIGN by Kelly Lytle Hernandez is a revolutionary new history that exposes the "whites-only" roots of the American immigration regime.
Whew! That was a lot of new book news to share! Which title interests you?
