Sensational Summer Selections for Your TBR Pile
and an exciting announcement for our Novel Pairings community
Grab your sunscreen, summer hat, and tote of books. It’s almost time for summer reading! Readers, we had so much fun recording this week’s episode and we hope you enjoy it, too. Summer months are some of publishing’s biggest when it comes to brand new titles, so we were particularly purposeful when curating which titles we wanted to share on the podcast today. There’s a potpourri of choices to speak to our smart, eclectic readers, and we hope you are just as excited for some of these titles as we are.
Make sure to listen to today’s podcast wherever you stream yours!
Preorder Preparation
Want to make sure you’re first in line to read these great new summer books? We’ve got our readers covered with a curated list of titles discussed in today’s episode on our Bookshop.org storefront. Check out some of these great books, and order directly through the website while supporting your favorite bookish podcast.
And don’t forget— we aim to make our anticipated lists immediately accessible with lots of backlists titles. Strolling down to the local library is another way to maximize your summer reading. Partake in digital resources like Libby and Hoopla, borrow titles from the stacks, talk to librarians about great new releases you’d love to see on the shelf, or make use of your library’s interlibrary loan service. There are so many ways to enjoy reading, and we celebrate them all.
Coming Soon
We’ve been hard at work on a super exciting and wearable project, and we are excited to announce Novel Pairings will be offering our first merch drop this early summer! Listens will get a chance to order Novel Pairings branded swag, perfect for hauling books around all year long or to keep the sun glare out of your reading view. More information about how and where you can order merch is forthcoming. Make sure to follow us on Instagram and subscribe here to keep up with updates of when our merch will drop!
Final Words
Readers, we’re already be dreaming of long, languorous summer days (preferably on the Aegean sea), and we can’t wait for our upcoming summer semester at Novel Pairings. Before then, we have one last week of children’s literature in translation with The Wild Book by Juan Villoro. We can’t wait to discuss this Mexican novel in translation with you.
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Chelsey & Sara