- Mindy Kaling’s book Why Not Me? comes out in September.
When Aimee Levitt made her New Year’s reading list back in January, I was trapped somewhere around page 250 of Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove, with no evident escape route. I was stuck on that book for a solid month. My life at Northwestern University wasn’t allowing me much reading time. I needed a spark, and right on cue, the bathroom strategy emerged.
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee (July) I love when America has a “book everyone’s reading,” and I’m excited to see the country taken by a novel that isn’t full of graphic sex or torture . . . unless this book is full of graphic sex and torture. Wouldn’t that be a surprise.
The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz (September) Stieg Larsson didn’t write this third sequel to Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and while printing numbers are high, the new author is already ducking criticism. Larsson’s longtime partner Eva Gabrielsson called Lagercrantz a “completely idiotic choice”—so we should buy it and find out, right?
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert (September) Yup, the Eat, Pray, Love author is still the life coach you didn’t ask for.
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson (September) Aside from promising to be an honestly raw and honestly humorous look at mental health struggles, the cover features a bug-eyed raccoon standing on two feet and cheesing like he just won the raccoon lottery. I don’t think we need to talk about this any further.
Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (October) J.K. Rowling’s no-nonsense, throwback detective series continues with its third installment, in which Cormoran Strike investigates the mailing of a severed leg. Man, someone must be hopping mad now, amiright? I’ll see myself out.
