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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

Richard Dawkins
The renowned evolutionary biologist and vocal atheist reflects on his life in science in Brief Candle in the Dark, his latest memoir and follow-up to An Appetite for Wonder.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1062.Richard_Dawkins?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-09&utm_content=dawkins_text

Wm. Paul Young
A source of inspiration and controversy, his first novel, The Shack, was a Christian fiction phenomenon. Now Young revisits the Garden of Eden in his new book, Eve.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1061.Wm_Paul_Young?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-09&utm_content=young_text


GOOD MINDS SUGGEST

Elizabeth Gilbert's Favorite Books About Creative Inspiration
Find fuel for your passions in these five works of wisdom recommended by the author of the new self-help book Big Magic.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1059.Elizabeth_Gilbert?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-09&utm_content=gilbert_text

Mindy Kaling's Favorite Funny Memoirs
Laugh along with the Hollywood triple threat in her new book of heartfelt essays, Why Not Me?, and in these hilarious recs.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1058.Mindy_Kaling?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-09&utm_content=kaling_text

Salman Rushdie's Favorite Books with Mythical Creatures
The magic realism master picks his top five in honor of Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, his new book about a family of jinn.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1057.Salman_Rushdie?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-09&utm_content=rushdie_text


DEBUT AUTHOR SNAPSHOT

Elsa Hart
Exiled from Beijing, a librarian investigates the murder of an astronomer in Jade Dragon Mountain, a twisting historical mystery set in 18th-century southwest China.
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1060.Elsa_Hart?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-09&utm_content=hart_text


BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH

Undermajordomo Minor
by Patrick deWitt
In this peculiar tale, high jinks ensue when Lucien Minor takes a job at Castle Von Aux as assistant majordomo. There's a crazy missing baron to find, the heart of the winsome Klara to win, and many secrets to uncover.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/227-best-books-of-the-month-september-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-09&utm_content=botm1_text

Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
by Damon Tweedy (Goodreads Author)
As a med student, North Carolina doctor Damon Tweedy learned "being black can be bad for your health." His memoir pairs his personal story with an eye-opening account of the health challenges facing black patients.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/227-best-books-of-the-month-september-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-09&utm_content=botm2_text

Fates and Furies
by Lauren Groff (Goodreads Author)
This he-said, she-said literary exploration of love (complete with Greek chorus!) tells the story of a golden couple—first from the privileged perspective of husband Lotto, and then wife Mathilde unleashes some scorched-earth fury.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/227-best-books-of-the-month-september-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-09&utm_content=botm3_text

Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone
by Scott Shane (Goodreads Author)
This nonfiction account details the life and death of Anwar al-Awlaki, the imam turned al-Qaeda terrorist who was the first American citizen to be killed by a drone strike, and delves into the uncertain legality of Obama's manhunt.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/227-best-books-of-the-month-september-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-09&utm_content=botm4_text

Girl Waits with Gun
by Amy Stewart (Goodreads Author)
When a factory owner rams Constance Kopp's horse-and-buggy in his motor car—and then torments her family instead of paying damages—Constance doggedly pursues justice in this historical novel based on true events.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/227-best-books-of-the-month-september-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-09&utm_content=botm5_text

Six of Crows
by Leigh Bardugo (Goodreads Author)
In this fantasy adventure for teens, young rogue Kaz "Dirtyhands" Brekker assembles a crew of outcasts and thieves to plan a lucrative heist, breaking a man out of a prison that's impossible to breach.
https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/227-best-books-of-the-month-september-2015?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2015-09&utm_content=botm6_text


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Worldreader
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GOODREADS POETRY CONTEST
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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 this month's winner!

Death by Chrysalis
by Dan Simmons

Not everything that dies becomes a moldering rot
like the sticky black ooze of the weeds of ancient seas.

Take that wooly mammoth, for instance, found in a block
of ice on the edge of the middle of some frozen nowhere,
flowers half-chewed in its mouth. What luck to be unlucky
in such a way — in a cold flash just after a little dinner-salad —
so that, all these centuries later, heads wag in disbelief
and grunt smirks at the shaggy once was of him.

And what of the death by chrysalis of the caterpillar —
a voracious, needy, earthy thing that dies from cramp
and forced revision only to be resurrected with two thin
surprises connected lightly to the same center of it all?

With love,
The Goodreads Editorial Team


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