Read This Next! January Titles
Celebrating difficult people and ambiguous situations.
RTNX Bookseller Resources:
Edelweiss Collection | Flyer | Flyer Graphic
What SIBA Booksellers have to say:
Vigil by George Saunders
Vigil explores and exposes the morally grey in all of us, the hungers and fears that drive our actions and inactions, and juxtaposes all of the tiny wonderful things in life with the ways in which we threaten the possibility of those very things by avoiding direct eye contact with this out of control monster we have all had a hand in creating and refer to as society.
–Savannah Laughlin, The Country Bookshop in Southern Pines, North Carolina
Women of a Promiscuous Nature by Donna Everhart
THow have most of us never heard of the American Plan? Donna Everhart's new novel delves deeply into this troubling early-20th-century government program propounded to keep servicemen healthy but used as a way to control women and their bodies. This novel, perfect for book clubs, will start important conversations about the ongoing topic of women's freedom and autonomy.
– Lady Smith, The Snail on the Wall in Huntsville, Alabama
How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder by Nina McConigley
Spend a year in Wyoming in this one sitting read and you might just end up blaming the British, too. Dark, quirky, and complete with all the snarkiness of '80s tween energy, Agatha and Georgie's story is so much more than a murder mystery, it's about saving yourself and creating your own independence.
– Jenny Gilroy, E. Shaver, Bookseller in Savannah, Georgia
Mega Milk: Essays on Family, Fluidity, Whiteness, and Cows by Megan Milks
In a truly brilliant essay collection, Megan Milks takes a few seemingly simple things–a name, a glass of milk–and spirals them outward into a quiet, encompassing portrait of a life. Written with an intimate detail that causes forgotten memories to bubble to the surface, these essays cast a keen and penetrating eye to the small moments that make up a person.
– Charlie Marks, Fountain Bookstore in Richmond, Virginia
The First Time I Saw Him by Laura Dave
While most sequels spend the first 30 pages catching you up on the story, she does not waste our time and we are thrown right into it. Not to worry though, by telling this story on a dual time line you get caught up bit by bit. Just like the first book, The Last Thing He Told Me, you will be racing through the pages.
– Allyn Oliver, The Bluffton Bookshop in Bluffton , South Carolina
Current Read This Next! books and what SIBA booksellers have to say about them can always be found at The Southern Bookseller Review.
About Read This Next!
Based on our booksellers' conviction that you can never have too many good books, Read This Next! is a list of books coming out next month that booksellers are especially excited about. Read This Next! Kids is a bimonthly list of forthcoming Children's and Young Adult Books receiving Southern indie bookseller love. Each list includes resources for booksellers, including an Edelweiss collection, downloadable flyer, and sharable graphic. All the included books are featured in The Southern Bookseller Review newsletter, and promoted as "Weekend Reads" on SIBA's social media channels, along with the bookstore which wrote the review.