Today in Bookish and Literary History, July 23



1975 Absent Friends by Alan Ayckbourn | United Kingdom | 96 |

2019 The Last Astronaut by David Wellington | United States | 364 | 🏆🏆

2013 The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi Appelt | United States | 336 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆

2024 The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves & China Miéville | United States / United Kingdom | 352 |

2024 Feh: A Memoir by Shalom Auslander | United States | 368 |

2024 Liars by Sarah Manguso | United States | 272 | 🏆🏆🏆

2024 The Faculty Lounge by Jennifer Mathieu | United States | 304 |

2026 Tell Tale by Claire Parkin | United Kingdom | 448 |

💡 Did you know?

⭕ In Keanu Reeves and China Miéville’s genre-defying contemporary epic The Book of Elsewhere, the narrative follows an immortal warrior traversing millennia of combat to unpack the burdens of eternal life, blending high-octane sci-fi mythos with deep philosophical inquiry.

⭕ Sarah Manguso’s fiercely structured novel Liars utilizes razor-sharp, hyper-focused prose to map the slow, systemic degradation of a marriage under the weight of domestic expectations, demonstrating that our most profound literary landscapes thrive when dismantling everyday structural precarities.

⭕ David Wellington’s hard-sci-fi horror novel The Last Astronaut returns to the vast isolation of deep space to deliver an intensely claustrophobic first-contact nightmare.

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