EMAIL DETAILS

Sara Gruen, Jon Ronson, the Fug Girls, Dan Simmons, Megan Daum, and tons of new books! Find your next great read!

View this email in your browser:
http://www.goodreads.com/newsletter/show/april2015?utm_campaign=2015-04&utm_content=view_in_browser_text&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

Hi Rob,

Here's our monthly newsletter from Goodreads - giving you the latest and greatest in our quest to help you find your next favorite book!


EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS

Sara Gruen
A Philadelphia socialite and her husband hunt Scotland's Loch Ness monster in At the Water's Edge, a new World War II-era novel from the author of Water for Elephants.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1021.Sara_Gruen?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-04&utm_content=gruen_text

Jon Ronson
He's dallied with psychopaths and extremists—now Ronson tackles our outrage-obsessed social media culture in his latest nonfiction adventure, So You've Been Publicly Shamed.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1022.Jon_Ronson?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-04&utm_content=ronson_text


BOOK LOOK

Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series
https://www.goodreads.com/book_news_posts/166-jacob-lawrence-the-migration-series?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-04&utm_content=booklook_text


GOOD MINDS SUGGEST

The Fug Girls' Favorite Books About Royalty
Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan dish on Windsors, Tudors, and more in time for their new Kate-and-Wills-inspired romp, The Royal We.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1023.Heather_Cocks?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-04&utm_content=cocksmorgan_text

Dan Simmons's Favorite Fiction About Historical Characters
Fact and fiction blend in these recs from the author of the new mystery The Fifth Heart, starring Henry James and Sherlock Holmes.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1024.Dan_Simmons?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-04&utm_content=simmons_text

Meghan Daum's Favorite Books About Living on Your Own Terms
...or what happens when you don't! Try this top list from the editor of Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed, a set of essays exploring the decision not to have children.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1025.Meghan_Daum?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-04&utm_content=daum_text


DEBUT AUTHOR SNAPSHOT
Viet Thanh Nguyen
After the fall of Saigon, a half-Vietnamese spy follows his quarry to Southern California, where he leads a double life in the new literary thriller The Sympathizer.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1026.Viet_Thanh_Nguyen?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-04&utm_content=nguyen_text


BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH
Orhan's Inheritance
by Aline Ohanesian (Goodreads Author)
When his grandfather leaves the family home to a stranger, Orhan must travel from Turkey to Los Angeles to meet the beneficiary. He learns about his dede's past during the final years of the Ottoman Empire in this family saga.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/149-best-books-of-the-month-april-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-04&utm_content=botm1_text

The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly
by Matt McCarthy (Goodreads Author)
Ready to make life or death decisions? This memoir by a young doctor offers a humorous yet blisteringly honest look at what it's really like to go from med school to the terrifying reality of dealing with actual human patients.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/149-best-books-of-the-month-april-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-04&utm_content=botm2_text

Within These Walls
by Ania Ahlborn (Goodreads Author)
In this paranormal horror tale, cult leader Jeffrey Halcomb, a murderer on death row, offers struggling writer Lucas an exclusive interview, but there's a catch: Lucas must go live in the house where Halcomb's followers all died.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/149-best-books-of-the-month-april-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-04&utm_content=botm3_text

Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
by Cynthia Barnett (Goodreads Author)
From billions of years of earth history to rain gods and rainmakers to climate change today, this micro history offers a torrent of curious stories about our dependency on rain and its influence on human civilization.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/149-best-books-of-the-month-april-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-04&utm_content=botm4_text

The Day We Met
by Rowan Coleman (Goodreads Author)
Told in the voice of a woman facing early-onset Alzheimer's, this moving, humorous novel describes how Claire fights to hold on to all she knows and loves about her life—including her husband, whom she's starting to forget.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/149-best-books-of-the-month-april-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-04&utm_content=botm5_text

An Ember in the Ashes
by Sabaa Tahir (Goodreads Author)
An elite soldier forced to compete to the death for the throne. A slave undercover, determined to clear her brother's name. Two rebellious souls meet in this epic fantasy for teens that echoes ancient Rome.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/149-best-books-of-the-month-april-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-04&utm_content=botm6_text


DO GOOD WITH GOODREADS
FunDza Literacy Trust
In a country where school libraries are rare, this South African nonprofit is working to put books in every teen's pocket by creating a free virtual library for cell phones.
https://www.goodreads.com/book_news_posts/165-fundza-literacy-trust?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-04&utm_content=dogood_text


GOODREADS POETRY CONTEST
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/233._POETRY_?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-04&utm_content=poetry_text

Want your words to reach millions of people? Goodreads and the ¡POETRY! group have partnered to host an ongoing poetry contest. Join the POETRY! group and vote each month to pick a winner from among the finalists. You can also submit a poem for consideration. Here is our April winner!

what we mean
by Maya Stein

I took out the trash to apologize. You made dinner to thank me for finishing

our taxes. I stayed on the couch for my bad mood. You went to bed early

for yours. The croissant, a peace offering. Two loads of laundry,

repentance. The sidewalk you shoveled while I slept, something resembling

forgiveness. When the words fail, the house still rings with conversation,

its rooms, wide mouths, the unswept floors, a burgeoning embrace. A kiss waits

inside every spent tube of toothpaste. When the milk sours, we fall in love

all over again. So I am saving the garage for the hard argument.

You are keeping the basement

in your back pocket.


With love,
The Goodreads Editorial Team


To unsubscribe from the Goodreads Newsletter, please click here.
http://www.goodreads.com/user/unsubscribe_email?flag=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-4&utm_content=unsubscribe_text&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

© 2015 Goodreads Inc
188 Spear Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 9410