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Aug 31 TBR and TBD | Books to Read September 2018

New Releases, Published in 2018, TBR & TBD

TBR and TBD | September 2018 | TBR & TBD

Whoo hoo! Another month, another round of new releases. There's a new book from a very controversial author, true crime, a debut, and a book I've been waiting forever for! Here's what's new to my TBR list.

TBR 1 | The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World | Sarah Weinman | Release Date: September 18th, 2018

I've been on a true crime kick recently so this book immediately caught my eye. I think we're all familiar with the premise of the super controversial book, Lolita- Humbert Humbert is obsessed with 12-year-old Dolores Haze, and ultimately gets into a relationship with her after becoming her step-father. Around the same time that this book was being written, real-life Sally Horner was kidnapped and was moved around with her captor for 21 months. It's a terribly sad story, but I'm interested to see how the kidnapping and novel tie in to each other.

TBR 2 | An Absolutely Remarkable Thing | Hank Green | Release Date: September 25th, 2018

I've had my eye on this for awhile. Hank Green is probably best known from YouTube- he's the creator of Crash Course, Sci Show, and Vlog Brothers- his channel with his author brother, John Green. This is a debut and the premise sounds so interesting. He takes his knowledge of social media and has created a story about what it would be like for a character to film an unexplained phenomenon and have a video go viral and gain overnight fame.

TBR 3 | Time's Convert | Deborah Harkness | Release Date: September 18th, 2018

I am SO excited for this! The All Soul's Trilogy is my favorite fantasy trilogy so any chance I get to read more stories about the characters, I'm going to take. Time's Convert is set over two time periods- during the Revolutionary War when Matthew meets Marcus and makes him a vampire, and modern day Paris when Marcus aims to make his love, Phoebe, immortal. Although I don't think it's necessary- it really makes me want to re-read the whole series.

TBD | Katerina | James Frey | Release Date: September 11th, 2018

You guys remember James Frey, right? He of A Million Little Pieces fame? It was picked as an Oprah's book club pick and marketed as a memoir, until it came out that much of it was fabricated. Either way, I remember loving the story, so I'm interested to see how I find his actual fiction. I won't lie- the two main things drawing me into this are the cover and the author, so we'll see how the book itself actually is.

Tell me what you're excited to read!