In this pilot episode of Dear Literature, Vanessa and Alyssa discuss the books releasing in the second half of 2020 that they're excited for.

Music by Ben Sulzinsky

Books Mentioned:

Food Anatomy: The Curious Parts & Pieces of Our Edible World by Julia Rothman with help from Rachel Wharton (Storey Publishing)

Urban Temple by David McCann (Bo-Leaf Books)

The King of Crows by Libba Bray (Little, Brown and Company)

Or What You Will by Jo Walton (Tor Books)

Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis (St. Martin’s Press)

I Hold a Wolf by the Ears by Laura van de Berg (FSG)

Must I Go by Yiyun Li (Random House)

Finna: Poems by Nate Marshall (One World)

The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays by Elisa Gabbert (FSG Originals)

World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Milkweed Editions)

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen (Beacon Press)

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix (Katherine Tegen Books)

Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie (Dutton)

Skyhunter by Marie Lu (Roaring Book Press)

Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things by Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant (Flatiron Books)

Bestiary by K-Ming Chang (One World)

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (Tor Books)

Eartheater: A Novel by Dolores Reyes, trans. Julia Sanches (HarperVia)

Wound from the Mouth of a Wound by torrin a. greathouse (Milkweed Editions)

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron Books)

Lovely War by Julie Berry (Penguin Young Readers Group) 

Other notes:

Kaveh Akbar

Danez Smith

Clint Smith

Franny Choi

Kundiman