Today in Bookish and Literary History, October 7
1955 Beat poet Allen Ginsberg reads his poem "Howl" for the first time at a poetry reading in San Francisco.
2021 Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet (UK)
Burnet blurs the lines between patient and therapist, fiction and documentation, and reality and dark imagination.
- Shortlisted for the 2022 Gordon Burn Prize
- Shortlisted for the 2022 Ned Kelly Awards
- Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize
- Longlisted for the 2022 HWA Gold Crown Award
- Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award
2025 An Optimism: Poems by Cameron Awkward-Rich
Here is collection of poems about finding oneself in a life―an ordinary life that one could not have imagined―and making the decision to live it.
2025 Ghost Chilli by Nikkitha Bakshani
Muskan has a great life: a creative job in the big city, supportive friends, and no trouble finding first dates. So what if her colleagues don't know she exists, or her friends won't stop lecturing her about the three-year 'situationship' she's in? It's not like she's starving.
- Winner of A Cosmopolitan Book Award For Most Relatable Read 2024
- Shortlisted for The Bookseller's New Adult Fiction Prize
2025 Hole in the Sky by Daniel H. Wilson
A Native American first contact story and gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse
2025 Murder in Constantinople by A.E. Goldin (UK)
A gripping, immersive historical murder mystery in which a wayward boy from London's East End is pulled into the hunt for a serial killer on the eve of the Crimean War
2025 Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind.
2025 The Half-Life of Guilt by Lynn Stegner
A tour de force work of fiction with interweaving themes of environmentalism, past trauma, and redemption. Here is a novel that explores the manner in which Clair and Mason take on guilt where none is warranted and its lasting impact on how they navigate their lives.
2025 The Intruder by Freida McFadden
There's someone at your front door – should you let them in?
2025 The Marionette by Terry Fallis
It introduces readers to a new hero, James Norval: a world-famous thriller writer whose life takes an unexpected turn from the pages of his novels into the perilous world of espionage.
2025 Venetian Vespers by John Banville (UK)
As the new century approaches, struggling English writer Evelyn Dolman—a hack, by his own description—marries Laura Rensselaer, daughter of an American oil tycoon. Evelyn anticipates that he and Laura will inherit a substantial fortune and lead a comfortable, settled life. But his hopes are dashed when a mysterious rift between Laura and her father, just before the patriarch’s death, leads to her disinheritance.2025 Sharp Force by Patricia Cornwell
From a New York Times bestselling author, a serial killer wreaks havoc on Northern Virginia, appearing as a ghostly apparition before striking—and Kay Scarpetta must avoid becoming their next victim, with SCARPETTA soon to be a streaming series starring Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis.
From the “hottest author on the thriller scene today” (The Real Book Spy), #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr brings the worlds of special operations and CIA paramilitary units into direct collision in the jungles of Vietnam with his explosive new thriller introducing young Navy SEAL Tom Reece, a man torn between the blurred lines and allegiances of the military and the increasingly murky world of intelligence. This is how it all began...
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