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GREGORY Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid Hamid’s Exit West dropped this year and absolutely shook me. And it may be the most important book released this year. So, I had to go back to Hamid’s first novel to see just where this great writer came from. Moth Smoke follows Daru Shezad's fall from his … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
Love BookPeople? Love books? Love authors? Come work with us! We are hiring an Events Coordinator to help manage almost 400 events in the store each year. The job includes managing staff, interacting with authors and publishers, and helping with our marketing efforts for events. The complete job description is here. This is a full … Continue reading BookPeople is hiring!
Amelia Gray - Isadora Event Coordinator Matt is currently reading Amelia Gray's new novel and can't stop recommending it! Set in prewar Europe, ISADORA builds upon the real life story of Isadora Duncan, widely considered to be the mother of modern dance, and explores the artist’s tumultuous life following the tragic death of her two children. … Continue reading New Books 5/23!
Our booksellers simply love Samantha Irby, creator of the blog Bitches Gotta Eat and author of the equally amazing essay collection We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. We want to be her best friends on the Internet or, at the very least, hang out with her. And now we get to! We're thrilled to welcome her to … Continue reading We ❤ Samantha Irby!
URIEL It by Stephen King An oldie but a goodie. I’ve been re-reading Stephen King’s 1986 horror classic, It, over the past couple of months in anticipation of the book’s film adaptation coming out later this summer. In case you weren’t already familiar with the story, It follows a group of kids - the … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
Steve Hamilton - Exit Strategy The next thrilling novel in the Nick Mason series! In Exit Strategy, Mason faces the nearly impossible task of infiltrating a top secret federal witness protection program and eliminating the three men who could put his boss behind bars for life. But soon Mason is himself hunted by an assassin and discovers just … Continue reading New Books 5/16!
The third Tuesday of the month is upon us, and the things that go "bump" in the night are starting to bump harder and with greater alacrity. All the cemetery things have begun oozing out of their crypts to turn our fair city into Bummersville, USA - population: us. Luckily, one book club is fighting … Continue reading The Nightmare Factory Has Been Bitten By A Werewolf AND A Vampire in Caitlin R. Kiernan’s BLOOD ORANGES
NATASHA Spill Zone by Scott Westerfield This week I dove into dystopias with Scott Westerfield's new graphic novel, Spill Zone. The novel immediately starts off on a creepy note, with Addison, the protagonist, riding into the restricted "Spill Zone" that used to be the small town of Poughkeepsie to take photographs of the mysterious things … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
Guest post by Cathy Maxwell Disclaimer: I didn’t set out to write just about Austin writers, but the truth is, many of the top ones call this area home. Lucky us! KISSCON TAKES AUSTIN-- BookPeople was proud to host KissCon, the mini romance con sponsored by HarperCollins, last month. Austin proved she is a romance-loving … Continue reading Guest Post: The Romance Bookshelves—Austin Writers Rock!
Colm Tóibín - House of Names We couldn't be more excited--Colm Tóibín's thrilling retelling of Clytemnestra of Mycenae, HOUSE OF NAMES, comes out today and he'll be here tonight at 7PM! A story of vengeance and murder most spectacular, Tóibín dives into ancient Greek legend, breathing new life into an extraordinary character and all her … Continue reading New Books 5/9!
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