#the album of dr. moreau

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Seven Covers in Seven Days: THE ALBUM OF DR. MOREAU by Daryl Gregory.

tagged by @asexualbookbird

Every day post the cover of a book you love and tag someone to do the same!

tagging: @tinynavajoreads

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

I second PIRANESI!!

I also really liked DRIFTWOOD by Marie Brennan (short standalone fantasy, multiple worlds, very neat if melancholy premise).

THE ALBUM OF DR. MOREAU by Daryl Gregory is a SF novella with a murder mystery that I had a lot of fun with! (I don't remember about interpersonal romantic drama, but I don't usually go for that either haha.)

MONGRELS by Stephen Graham Jones is a cool take on modern werewolves, more horror vibes than fantasy vibes but definitely contemporary. It's a coming of age story but not YA--definitely check content warnings on this one, though.

Hello bookblr! I need people to recommend me adult fiction books that aren’t part of a big series, are well written, and have a plot NOT related to interpersonal romantic drama.

I like modern fantasy, some sci-fi, historical fiction, murder mystery, multiple universe/dimension type stuff. I like some thriller/horror.

I’m not really into high fantasy doorstopper novels, i’m not big on really realistic fiction or romance. Not looking for YA.

I really haven’t done much reading in a long time so i’m looking for recs to get me back into reading! Thanks!

[brooklynisher]

HI BROOK ok question first of all do we know who's doing the opera vocals for the intro of "the ballad of delilah morreo" ? if thats how u phrase that. and second of all im a huge fan of that song its probably my most favorite one if im honest and i wonder if there is literally. any other recording than the one on the album😭😭😭cus im guessin its simply hard to perform live but at the end of the day im no good at researching so i was hoping u could help me out with that ..

So, I think it was some sort of vocal synthesizer they used. Not related to SPG, but it sounds a lot like the opera Mermaid in Mermaid Song from Stardew Valley. So chances are it was none of them!

The song is pretty old! Bunny started the song back in 2013! You can hear Bunny humming the melody to her accordion in her mumble tracks on Patreon. The lyrics she sang didn't change, but instead of singing, she was rapping.

"Well the boogeyman fears the wraith Delilah Morreo

And Death and her are friends now no matter where it is she goes

So all the Vampires should hide from this lady This side of the netherworld, she’s the baddest in Hades"

At least for this part ^^

Also I found these things

1. She is not fatherless

Dr. Moreau isn't an original character for those who don't know. He's from a book about a doctor who uses maybe less than ethical methods to try and create a new animal-human-creature hybrid thing or something like that. Idk. He's not actually her father though, as Bunny states. Just like him though.

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2. She goes by "The Wraith" Also werewolf wife lore was going to exist at some point

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[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

COME AND GET SOME OF THESE FINE MALT LYRICS -- THE FINEST IN ALL THE LAND.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a record advertisement for “Fine Malt Lyrics,” the 1992 debut album by American hip-hop group HOUSE OF PAIN. Tommy Boy Records. Produced by DJ Muggs, DJ Lethal and Ralph M, the Funky Mexican, for Soul Assassins.

MINI-OVERVIEW: ""We're animals trying to be men," laughs Everlast, lead rapper of the Irish-American rap act HOUSE OF PAIN. Explaining the inspiration for the group's name, he describes the movie "The Island of Dr. Moreau," "It's about a scientist who tries to turn animals into men, and the place where he took them to punish them was the House of Pain."

Danny Boy and DJ Lethal round out the trio that produced the gold smash single "Jump Around," and a debut album filled with dense, diverse samples and a rap style that recalls the kind of shit-kicking you hear at a party or on a basketball court. "If you get on the basketball court, talking shit is half the game," Everlast says. "I look at the lyrics like a basketball, like I'm bouncing them off the beat.""

-- TOMMY BOY RECORDS, c. 1992

Source: www.hiphopnostalgia.com/2022/07/house-of-pain-fine-malt-lyrics-30th.html.

🇺🇸🎊🍻🍀🌈😋🍀🍺🎉🇮🇪

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Sci-Fi Saturday: Island of Lost Souls

Week 9:

Film(s): Island of Lost Souls (Dir. Erle C. Kenton, 1932, USA)

Viewing Format: Blu-Ray: Criterion Edition

Date Watched: July 9, 2021

Rationale for Inclusion:

Since antiquity humans have been telling stories about humans becoming animals, animals becoming humans, and human-animal hybrids. As humans moved from superstition and religion into scientific methodology for understanding the world around them, it follows that this obsession would inspire science fiction narratives.

In 1896, author H.G. Wells combined contemporary discourses around Darwinian evolution, Galtonian eugenics, and the anti-vivisection movement with a shipwreck narrative and published The Island of Dr. Moreau. All subsequent science fiction narratives that have involved the creation of animal-human hybrids through surgery or other technological means derive at least some of their inspiration from this book.

The novel was adapted into a silent film twice (once in France, once in Germany) before a sound adaptation was produced in Hollywood by Paramount Studios, Island of Lost Souls (Dir. Erle C. Kenton, 1932, USA). As with Frankenstein (Dir. James Whale, 1931, USA) and Doctor X (Dir. Michael Curtiz, 1932, USA), this film is part of the cycle of Pre-Code horror films produced in the wake of the popularity of Dracula (Dir. Todd Browning, 1931, USA). It also marks the first time a work of H.G. Wells is featured on the survey, which at 9 weeks into this series seems late given that he's one of the authors competing for the title of "Father of Science Fiction."

Aside from its place in the overall scientific genre, Island of Lost Souls would have been worth including for no other reason than its dialogue inspiring Devo's 1978 album Q: Are We Not Men? We are Devo!. The Criterion collection disc release even includes an interview with band members Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh talking about how the film inspired them.

Reactions:

Whilst Doctor X was a horror film with science fiction aesthetics, Island of Lost Souls is more science fiction film with horror aesthetics. The beast-men makeup makes Moreau's creations indeed disquieting and monstrous. The uncredited work of Charles Gemora and Wally Westmore lacks the artistry of Jack Pierce, but is nevertheless quality for the era. Dr. Moreau's laboratory in the House of Pain is minimalist compared to the apparatuses seen in the laboratories of Doctors Xavier and Frankenstein, but he is operating further from concentrated civilizations on a South Seas island, and apparently doesn't require as showy equipment.

As an adaptation of The Island of Dr. Moreau it's fairly accurate in terms of core plot and themes. The accuracy diverges due to including a love interest for the protagonist, Edward Parker (Richard Arlen), in his worried, yet resilient fiancee Ruth Thomas (Leila Hyams) and the retooling of the novel's Half-Finished Puma-Woman into Lota, The Panther Woman (Kathleen Burke). As with adaptations of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Hollywood filmmakers felt compelled to include a sexy, dark woman and a pure, wholesome fiancee counterpoint in what had previously been a homosocial narrative of male psychology and interpersonal dynamics. Apparently, the male filmmakers found it necessary to insert a Madonna-whore complex where there was none, or more likely wanted a "whore" and felt obligated to include a "Madonna" for the sake of propriety, and/or to not alienate the female audience as they perceived it and the censors.

However, the male filmmakers were not just interested in adding sex in Island of Lost Souls, but amping up the original novel's violence. Scenes of abuse, torture and surgery without anesthesia directed at the beast-men were all carryovers from the source material, but the grisly fate of Dr. Moreau (Charles Laughton) was unique to this adaptation. In The Island of Dr. Moreau the Half-Finished Puma-Woman and Moreau battle to the death. In Island of Lost Souls the beast-men rebel and get revenge on Moreau, dissecting him with his own surgical tools in the House of Pain.

To my partner and my 2020s eyes the dispatch of Moreau by his creations was shocking and horrific. We noted it was gruesome even by Pre-Code standards. Apparently to its contemporary audiences it went too far, and this scene, as well as others seen as too explicit, resulted in censored versions circulating or the film being outright banned in various countries. Other Pre-Code films, such as Frankenstein and King Kong (Dir. Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933, USA), suffered similar fates, and like them Island of Lost Souls would not be in circulation in their original theatrical cuts until restorations were performed decades later.

Island of Lost Souls offers more than shock value and a Pre-Code case study, however. Karl Struss' moody cinematography and the emphasis on the characters as much as the narrative situation makes for an engaging film. Bela Lugosi's Sayer of the Law, with make-up like a budget Wolfman, may play more as camp these days, but he is absolutely committed to his character. Similarly, Laughton's impish Moreau steals every scene that he is in. For fans of monster or mad scientist movies it's a necessary watch.

[silenthillmutual]

January round-up;; keeping track of what i've gotten up to so far in 2023

finished reading:

I'm Glad My mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Herbert West Reanimator and Other Tales by HP Lovecraft

The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito

albums listened to in full:

Rebel Yell - Billy Idol

The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters

...And Out Come the Wolves - Rancid

The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

Lanterns - Son Lux

I Love You. - the Neighbourhood

Foxlore - the Crane Wives

Cosmicandy - the Orion Experience

movies watched:

Insidious

Kingsmen: the Secret Service *

Mad God *

Bruce Almighty *

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's "Island of Dr. Moreau"

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

[asterdeer]

3, 9, 13?

i already answered 3, but i will take this opportunity to talk about my aunt is a monster by reimena yee, which is a delightful graphic novel about a blind girl who has a famous adventurer monster aunt, who ends up taking her on an adventure of her own. it's not the gut punch that séance tea party was but very very good.

i also read the album of dr. moreau by daryl gregory, which finally broke my streak of Very Bad Novellas. it's a quick-paced murder mystery about a boy band comprised of animal boys, including a pangolin boy with intense social anxiety, whomst i love.

you dreamed of empires by álvaro enrigue wasn't exactly a favorite, but it was really, really interesting and compelling - it's about the fall of tenochtitlan and plays with time and POV in ways that made the book hard to put down. it'll definitely stick in my memory.

9. Did you get into any new genres?

hmmm not particularly, i don't think? i don't like reading a lot of the same genres at a time anyway, so it's hard to track that kind of thing. i might have read more horror books than i generally do!

13. What were your least favorite books of the year?

oh man this could fill a list. 2024 was not a good reading year for me, i had so many duds. AAAGH prayer circle for 2025 being better.

so you want to be a robot was tragically awful, just a lot of pretentious word salad.

inverse cowgirl made me want to throw tomatoes, tbh.

seducing the sorcerer was by the author of one of my favorite romance novels so the fact that it was quite quite bad made it feel even worse.

the eyes are the best part had the WORST dialogue and took way too long to get to the point, which ruined one of my most anticipated reads of the year.

a crown of terribadness goes to this thing between us by failing on every possible front.

the truth according to ember was another anticipated read - the first Native-led romance by a major publisher, apparently!! - but the main character was INSUFFERABLE and also stupid.

the death i gave him was deeply disappointing as a hamlet retelling in ways that made me kind of angry.

the orc and her bride's main character actually beat out the truth according to ember's in insufferableness and stupidity.

the winter knight by jes battis was the worst take on arthuriana that i've read in a hot minute.

and, finally, hunger pangs: true love bites for being both almost 15 hours long AND having theeeee wooooorst pacing, where 13 hours are slow-paced romance and dubious worldbuilding while the last 2 hours cram in a THIRD romantic interest and also a "save the world" plot that is nothing but a long string of coincidences and authorial intrusion. genuinely hated this one by the end of it and i don't think the story needing to be broken up into two books is any excuse.

"this could fill a list" [proceeds to make a list]

[rhetoricandlogic]

Gary K. Wolfe and Adrienne Martini Review The Album of Dr. Moreau by Daryl Gregory

July 15, 2021Adrienne Martini, Gary K. Wolfe

Already in the public domain for years, H.G. Wells’s The Island of Dr. Moreau has practi­cally spawned a microgenre all its own, with Brian Aldiss, Gwyneth Jones (as Ann Halam), Gene Wolfe, Theodora Goss, the Simpsons, and even Marlon Brando having a whack at the story or its characters and themes. I’m pretty sure, though, that Daryl Gregory is the first to come up with the notion that those human/beast hybrids would make a dandy boy band. It shouldn’t be that much of a surprise; Gregory has been fasci­nated with the plasticity of the body and altered humans throughout his career: the grotesquely transformed residents of a small town in The Devil’s Alphabet, a zombie somehow raised from infancy in Raising Stony Mayhall, the victims of mutilations, cannibals, and cults in We Are All Completely Fine. The idea of mashing up the closest thing Wells wrote to a pure horror story with KPop-style media stardom might sound fatally whimsical, except for two things: the compassion with which Gregory customar­ily treats his most damaged characters, and his decision to cast the whole tale as a locked-room murder mystery with all its formal conventions, even to the point of quoting T.S. Eliot’s “five rules of detective fiction” (which, for the most part, Gregory cheerfully ignores).

Calling themselves the WyldBoyZ, the band members are all genetic human-animal hybrids, victims of a heinous Moreau-like program on a mysterious barge, which we eventually learn about as their backstory unfolds. Rescued by an Ecuadoran fishing boat after they escape, they become an international tabloid sensation, and then a musical sensation once they come under the management of a sleazy promoter who calls himself Dr. M – who has been ripping them off royally, mostly by taking advantage of their legal status (technically, they entered the country as livestock). As they gain fame, they inevitably adopt the de rigueur roles of boy band members – the romantic one (part bonobo), the shy one (part pangolin), the funny one (a giant bat), the smart one (part elephant), and the cute one (part ocelot). The mystery opens when Bobby O – the cute one – wakes up in his hotel room covered in blood, the butchered corpse of their manager in bed next to him. He has no memory of what happened after a wild party the night before, but he’s not the only suspect: another band member has been sleeping with the manager’s opportu­nistic wife. The detective assigned to the case, Lucia Delgado, also happens to be the mother of a nine-year-old WyldBoyZ superfan, setting up some tension as well as some rather sweet sitcom moments for later in the story.

As usual, Gregory writes with empathy and in­sight about the plight of damaged outsiders, as the unique problems and resentments of each of the band members emerge during the investigation. His neatest trick is keeping the grim backstory balanced with the sort of wacky good humor that teen superstars are expected to display, and with the formal demands of the locked-room proce­dural. The whole thing is structured as an album, with 14 tracks, an introduction, and a “bonus track,” and framed as a letter sent years later to the detective’s grown daughter, now a superstar herself. As with much of Gregory’s fiction, there’s a sentimental edge to the grotesquerie, and a grotesque edge to the comedy (which sometimes edges into James Morrow territory), but it all somehow works, thanks to Gregory’s essentially optimistic humanism and his apparent total lack of concern about recriminations from Wells’s vengeful ghost.

-Gary K. Wolfe

Daryl Gregory’s novella The Album of Dr. Moreau is a wink to the H.G. Wells novel but wholly its own detective story about a murder, an intrepid investigator, and genetic engineering. It’s about a million times more entertaining than both the Wells novel and the Val Kilmer-vehicle that was made from it.

It’s 2001 in Gregory’s Las Vegas. Last night, the WyldBoyZ, a boy band, played their last show. This morning, the band’s Svengali-esque Dr. M is discovered dead, shredded to death by someone or something with big claws. Band member Bobby woke up in the same bed as the dead doctor and, given that he’s part ocelot, happens to have very big claws. Detective Luce Delgado, who has her own very Vegas backstory, is called in to figure out whodunnit. The result is a straight-up detective tale with science fictional tropes about gene splic­ing underpinning the whole world. There are puns a’plenty and colorful characters to keep the tone brisk and engaging. Underneath, however, there are questions about what makes a human human, and that makes Gregory’s sleight-of-hand more meaningful than it first appears.

-Adrienne Martini

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Thank you for tagging me, my loves! @fallingintoyourlilaceyes @schniiipsel ♥

Last song I listened to: Toes by Glass Animals

Fun fact! This song is apparently based on the book The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells, and ever since finding out it's been on my tbr list. I still need to read it! Has anyone else read it!? This is one of the first Glass Animals songs I found and it was love at first listen. This entire album is *chefs kiss*

Currently watching: Dune: Part One! To get ready for Part Two this week!!

Currently obsessed with: The metaphors in Glass Animals' lyrics. Goddddd I just love them so much. Between the lyrics, the music, the vibe, ALL of it, they are just so fucking good and I genuinely don't think they have a bad song

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Last song I listened to:

Currently watching:

The Buccaneers (it's too good and I'm trying to watch it as slowly as I possibly can bec I don't want it to be over 😭)

Our Beloved Summer (kdrama) (rewatching bec why not?)

Currently obsessed with:

Lando Norris, F1, The Buccaneers, Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola (book), Hayden Christensen (The way I've been down for this man for years has to be studied 🫠)

Tagging:

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[puddicure]

one of my favorite kinds of books is when an author comes up with something unhinged like, “what if the animal people from The Island of Dr. Moreau were in a boy band in 2001…and then they got involved in a murder mystery?”

That’s literally what the Album of Doctor Moreau is about. and it’s amazing.

[wakizashisteahouse]

The Album of Dr. Moreau (2021) by Daryl Gregory

The Album of Dr. Moreau (2021) by Daryl Gregory

‘Tusk filled the doorway across the hall. His gigantic gray head, made larger by those fanlike ears, sat atop an imposing body. He would have been terrifying if it weren’t for the fact that he was wearing a well-tailored suit.’-Daryl Gregory Publisher’s Synopsis ‘It’s 2001, and the WyldBoyZ are the world’s hottest boy band, and definitely the world’s only genetically engineered human-animal…

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oh, no: the new book i started reading after midnight on a work night is Delightful

[forthegothicheroine]

Favorite books: The Album of Dr. Moreau by Daryl Gregory

[frankendavis]

It’s December 14th, so it’s time for my annual “Advent” calendar of sorts. This is Number 14 in a series of bits of holiday nonsense that I’ve put together over the years. If I have time, I may try to come up with a few more this year. 

[disgruntleddemon]

Toes

And all I ever want Is just a little love I said in purrs under the palms And all I ever want, is breaking me apart I said to the thing that I once was

I'm a man, I'm a twisted fool My hands are twisted too Five fingers to black hooves I'm a man, don't spin me a lie Got toes and I can smile I'm crooked but upright

i’ve been listening to the island of Dr. Moreau audio book so it seemed only fitting to draw some art of it to toes by glass animals. i mean, that's why i listened to the book in the first place lol.

seems a ironic to draw Moreau as a anthro wolf but like, i can't draw humans lmao. i copied the color of the jaguar in the toes video for his fur color. i gave him a leopard print too. it fit with the normal/animal theme.

i also considered putting “toes” instead of “zaba” but i did not think most ppl would get that. the book itself has been funny so far. the same way dracula was funny. edward shows up and sees all the animal ppl and just goes “dam, everyone is so fucking ugly here” amazing, 10/10 dumbass lol.

anyways, listen to glass animals

[ninja-muse]

My 2021 Release TBR

As usual, there are too many good books coming out and I need to read them all right now. What’s on your list for the year? Do we share any? Have I added any to your list? (All titles are adult unless stated otherwise.)

First Light - Casey Berger - January 1 (space opera)

Persephone Station - Stina Leicht - January 5 (space opera)

Padoskoks - Joseph Bruchac - January 7 (mystery)

Across the Green Grass Fields - Seanan McGuire - January 12 (portal fantasy)

The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry - C.M. Waggoner - January 12 (fantasy)

Last Night at the Telegraph Club - Malinda Lo - January 19 (YA historical)

The Mask of Mirrors - M.A. Carrick - January 19 (fantasy)

We Could be Heroes - Mike Chen - January 26 (superheroes)

The Fabulous Zed Watson! - Basil and Kevin Sylvester - January 26 (middle grade)

The Paris Library - Janet Skeslien Charles - February 2 (historical)

The Ratline - Phillip Sands - February 2 (history)

The Memory Theater - Karin Tidbeck - February 16 (fantasy)

We Had a Little Real Estate Problem - Kliph Nesteroff - February 16 (history)

Calculated Risks - Seanan McGuire - February 23 (contemporary fantasy)

A Dark and Hollow Star - Ashley Shuttleworth - February 23 (YA fantasy)

Satellite Love - Genki Ferguson - March 2 (literary)

Return of the Trickster - Eden Robinson - March 2 (literary/contemporary)

The Lost Apothecary - Sarah Penner - March 2 (historical)

The Conductors - Nicole Glover - March 2 (historical fantasy)

Accidentally Engaged - Farah Heron - March 2 (contemporary romance)

The Rose Code - Kate Quinn - March 3 (historical fiction)

Fatal Fried Rice - Vivien Chien - March 9 (cozy mystery)

A Fatal Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum - Emma Southon - March 9 (history)

Birds of Paradise - Oliver K. Langmead - March 16 (contemporary fantasy)

Raft of Stars - Andrew J. Graff - March 23 (historical fiction)

Nöthin’ But a Good Time - Richard Bienstock and Tom Beaujour - March 30 (music history)

A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib - March 30 (sociology)

What Abigail Did That Summer - Ben Aaronovitch - March 18 (contemporary fantasy)

The Fall of Koli - M.R. Carey - March 23 (post-apocalypse)

Wild Women and the Blues - Denny S. Bryce - March 30 (historical fiction)

Zoe Rosenthal Is Not Lawful Good - Nancy Werlin - April 6 (YA contemporary)

First, Become Ashes - K.M. Szpara - April 6 (contemporary fantasy)

The Last Bookshop in London - Madeleine Martin - April 6 (historical fiction)

Broken (in the Best Way Possible) - Jenny Lawson - April 6 (memoir)

The Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams - April 6 (historical fiction)

Hana Khan Carries On - Uzma Jalaluddin - April 6 (romance)

When the Stars Go Dark - Paula McLain - April 13 (mystery)

Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe-April 13 (current events/true crime)

Between Perfect and Real - Ray Stoeve - April 27 (YA contemporary)

Angel of the Overpass - Seanan McGuire - May 11 (fantasy)

The Hellion’s Waltz - Olivia Waite - May 11 (historical romance)

People We Meet on Vacation - Emily Henry - May 11 (contemporary romance)

A Master of Djinn - P. Djèlí Clark - May 11 (alternate history/fantasy)

Son of the Storm - Suyi Davies Okungbowa - May 11 (fantasy)

The Album of Dr. Moreau - Daryl Gregory - May 18 (horror)

Pumpkin - Julie Murphy - May 25 (YA contemporary)

Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating - Adiba Jaigirdar - May 25 (YA contemporary)

The Kingdoms - Natasha Pulley - May 25 (alternate history)

The Blacktongue Thief - Christopher Buehlman - May 25 (fantasy)

The Lights of Prague - Nicole Jarvis - May 25 (historical fantasy)

How to Find a Princess - Alyssa Cole - May 25 (contemporary romance)

The Ship of Stolen Words - Fran Wilde - June 1 (middle grade fantasy)

One Last Stop - Casey McQuiston - June 1 (romance)

The Hidden Palace - Helene Wecker - June 8 (historical fantasy)

The Witness for the Dead - Katherine Addison - June 22 (fantasy)

The All-Consuming World - Cassandra Khaw - June 22 (space opera)

Dead Dead Girls - Nekesa Afia - June 1 (historical mystery)

The Library of the Dead - T. L. Huchu - June 1 (contemporary fantasy)

Jay’s Gay Agenda - Jason June - June 1 (YA contemporary)

This Poison Heart - Kalynn Bayron - July 6 (YA fantasy)

Lake Crescent - J. J. Dupuis - July 6 (mystery)

A Radical Act of Free Magic - H.G. Parry - July 20 (historical fantasy)

The Middle Ages: a Graphic History - Eleanor Janega - July 23 (graphic non-fiction)

Small Favors - Erin A. Craig - July 27 (YA fantasy)

Summer Fun - Jeanne Thornton - July 27 (contemporary)

The Rocky Road to Ruin - Meri Allen - July 27 (cozy mystery)

All’s Well - Mona Awad - August 3 (contemporary)

Clark and Division - Naomi Hirahara - August 3 (historical mystery)

Sisters in Arms - Kaia Alderson - August 3 (historical fiction)

The Bookseller’s Secret - Michelle Gable - August 17 (historical)

A Snake Falls to Earth - Darcie Little Badger - August 17 (YA contemporary fantasy)

Hot and Sour Suspects - Vivien Chien - August 24 (cozy mystery) moved to 2022

My Heart is a Chainsaw - Stephen Graham Jones - August 31 (horror)

No Gods, No Monsters - Cadwell Turnbull - September 7 (contemporary fantasy)

When Sorrows Come - Seanan McGuire - September 14 (contemporary fantasy)

Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr - September 28 (literary fiction)

Along the Saltwise Sea - Seanan McGuire - October 12 (portal fantasy)

The Haunting Season - October 21 (ghost stories)

A Marvellous Light - Freya Marske - November 2 (historical fantasy)

The Nobleman’s Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks - Mackenzi Lee - November 16 (YA historical)

Rivers of London, Vol. 9 - Ben Aaronovitch - November 16 (graphic novel, urban fantasy)

Tread of Angels - Rebecca Roanhorse - possibly? (historical fiction)