Watch the Trailer for NIGHTBITCH Starring Amy Adams and More Book News!
Wow, everyone, I really did say I would talk to you again on Monday, totally forgetting that it was a holiday and, in fact, I would not get to share good book news with you until Thursday. So wow. Wow. It’s been a whole week since we last saw each other. How the heck have you been? Did you enjoy your holiday weekend? We let the book news build up in our absence, so let’s get this show on the road.
Book Deals and Reveals
Here’s the cover of The Traitor of Sherwood Forest, the debut novel from Medieval scholar Amy S. Kaufman. The cover was designed by Micaela Alcaino. This reimagining of the Robin Hood ballads is out from Penguin Books in April 2025.
Okay, horror comedy besties, the trailer for Nightbitch, based on the novel by Rachel Yoder, has dropped. The film stars Amy Adams, who has already won an award for her performance. Okay! You can see it in theaters this December.
We’re getting a new historical fiction novel from Emma Donoghue in 2025! People has got the cover reveal and an excerpt of the upcoming novel The Paris Express. It’s out on March 18!
Reese Witherspoon has announced her 100th book club pick! It’s The Comfort of Crows by Margaret Renkl. In a video announcement, Witherspoon calls the book “a beautiful love letter to nature and the world around us.”
Greta Gerwig’s The Chronicles of Narnia adaptation has some casting news! Louis Partridge has reportedly been cast in an unknown role.
Here’s the trailer for the upcoming Netflix limited series The Perfect Couple, based on a best-selling novel by Elin Hilderbrand. This series stars Nicole Kidman and Liev Schrieber and premieres on Netflix today!
Curious about what Book Riot readers are reading? These are the most popular books on Book Riot in August!
Book Riot Recommends
Hi, welcome to everyone’s favorite segment of Book Radar called Book Riot Recommends. This is where I’ll talk to you about all the books I’m reading, the books I’m loving, and the books I can’t wait to read and love in the near future. I think you’re going to love them too!
Can’t Wait for This One
Too Soon by Betty Shamieh (Avid Reader, January 28, 2025)
What exciting new voices in literary fiction are we going to get in 2025? Here’s one to look forward to reading this January. Too Soon is the debut novel from award-winning playwright Betty Shamieh. This novel follows three generations of Palestinian-American women and is the perfect read for lit fic readers who loved Pachinko and Queenie.
Arabella is 35 years old and struggling to make it as a theatre director in New York. Unlucky in both her career and in love, Arabella agrees to take on a buzzy reinterpretation of a Shakespearean classic in the West Bank right around the same time she allows her grandmother, Zoya, to set her up with Aziz, a doctor volunteering in Gaza. Meanwhile, Arabella secretly pines for Israeli American theatre designer Yoav, but she knows that relationship is going nowhere.
For Zoya, seeing Arabella and Aziz together takes her back to her own romantic past and her love for Arabella’s grandfather, a man who was not the one her parents arranged for her to marry. Meanwhile, Arabella’s mother, Naya, was married off at a young age and became a mother when she was only 16. Now that her children are grown up, Naya finds herself able to reevaluate her life for the first time as a fully grown adult.
Words of Literary Wisdom
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
— Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
And Here’s A Cat Picture!
Here’s my beautiful angel Murray! Doesn’t he look like a perfect little angel in this picture with the hazy lighting? I know, I’m a photographer genius.
Anyway! I’m leaving you here with this orange cat. I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Have a wonderful time with your weekend reading, everyone! Stay safe! Enjoy the September weather! And I will see you on Monday!
