Reader's Forecast

Feeling caught between a rock and an alternative reality? Don't we all?! As a blustery noreaster barrels down on the east coast, so is a confusing combo of alterantive reality, scifi, historical fic, and history literature exploring heavy topics of immigration, ancestry, war, first contact, dual timeline mysteries, and death, including … a potential mixup of a couple going to Cloud 6 instead of 9? This episode has books for everyone and anyone who is willing to strap on hiker boots and wage into this cosmic alterantive reality mess! Will we resolve the dual timelines? WIll first contact go off without a hitch? Will afterlife schenanigans prove to be reality or mythology? Stay tuned for 1 debut author and 9 books to review cover to cover in this week's Reader's Forecast!

Publishing Week: 22 Sep 2026

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Batten down the hatches as a hurricane is whirling through with this nightmarish and apocalytic collection of literature, featuring 3 debut authors and a collection of horror, alternative reality, end times, mystery, and humorous satire. Fear not, however, as clear skies eventually arrive with a cross-country road trip and the comedy of an actress trying not to write the memoire she previously promised. Tune in for this episode exploring books diving into the dark side of literature!

Publishing Week: 15 Sep 2026

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Blustery stormy weather breaks in the week with a part-history, part-business novel exploring economics from the Great Depression to the 2008 FInancial Crisis. Two psyops — one a lit fic and the other a sci fi thriller featuring a self-driving car — explore death, grief, and loss before diving into a WWI historical fic involving an unlikely spy setting: your local library. With one debut author and a Black British Romcom worthy of the Bridget Jones' Diaries legacy, we'll explore 8 books cover to cover in this week's Reader's Forecast!

Publishing Week: 8 Sep 2026

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Pack your umbrellas for a week practically full of rain and storms, ranging from animal dark fantasy and scifi novels reflecting on humans and our humanity to three women's fiction exploring love, loss, and family. Three debut authors balance the inclusion of three war era historical fiction novels — one following a Jewish barman in Nazi-occupied Paris (based on a true story), one featuring two Japanese teens interned in Arizona in WW2, and the last following two academics turned spy to trace a Russian conspiracy at Oxford University. This forecast is packed full of 9 books sure to catch your ears off guard. Tune in for new reading delights as we get back on track after prolonged techical difficulties!

Week: 1 Sep 2026

Time travelers break out through time in showers of time-wimey storms from time traveling agencies that promised safe trips to the past as we explore generational stories of farming through the Great Recession and scientific breakthroughs in farming. We will have fun with a satirical dinner party and see the rainbow through a murder mystery. And if that doesn’t scratch your reading itch, there is also some fantasy and fantastical beasts lurking around the road a war dog takes to find a home. Stick with me for this variety show of just released novels in this week’s Reader’s Forecast!

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Publishing Week: 04 August 2026

Here we go: exploring tangled histories and where to fantasize them. Should history be fantasized in Hong Kong, Japan, the USA, Afghanistan, Italy, a fictional land, or elsewhere? Wherever we go, we’re sure to run into stormy weather with dark high fantasy in fictional land, a paranormal murder mystery in the USA, and a historical fiction in Hong Kong. Lest you believe the lies that our skies are dark and in shadow, bring out the sun with an African American historical fiction and a satirical but funny murder mystery solved by a shrink. Catch me if you can in this cover-to-cover review of 9 new books and 1 debut author in this week’s Reader’s Forecast!

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Publishing Week: 28 July 2026

Choose: a mystery crime writer who must solve a murder with an imaginary detective, a historical fantasy involving magic and the queens of Henry VIII, or romantic sci fi graphic novel of a teen who finds ancient fashion clothes in the depths of the submerged NYC that grant access to the rich upriver? Either way, you’re guaranteed a fun time as we explore new worlds and new civilizations to boldly read where no one has read before…

Tune in with the host to review 9 new novels cover to cover in this week’s Reader’s Forecast!

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Publishing Week: 21 July 2026

Cloud heists getting you down in this era of the data empire? What does an astronaut have to do with an authoritarian Romanian regime in 1989? Don’t want to “make nice” with the Cloak and Dagger Club? Don’t worry! All of this hot and humid weather’s got nothing on this forecast’s selection of books, featuring a cloud heist thriller, a golden age murder mystery club, pioneering women, an assassin with sing magic in a romantasy while an immortal chases a time traveler in a romascifi, and more! The Reader’s Forecast has you covered for this week’s exciting new publishing finds and two humorous and curious debut authors.

This podcast was not sponsored nor elicited. All books were selected by the host for inclusion in this podcast.

Publishing Week: 14 July 2026

Heat domes, thunderstorms, and sunshine — oh gee wiz! What is coming of this world? It’s almost apocalyptically cozy! Travel with the host through apocalyptic African American sci fi topping off a trilogy to a romantasy starting a new one like Throne of Glass. We explore the dramas of Death living and loving among us before escaping into the cool summer nights of the Disco era. Come with the Reader’s Forecast and you’ll see a world full of reading possibilities!

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Publishing Week: 7 July 2026

Ever wonder what happens when a classic literary hero becomes a time traveler? Are you curious what sentient moss would think and do? What would it be like to live forever and watch each of your romances end in the ever eventual death of each mortal suitor? This week’s forecast examines multiple genre-bending story scenarios, including a time traveling Jane Eyre, a smart moss serving as the brain of a space ship with a need for revenge, and an immortal who seeks love but outlives every love interest. It’s hot and humid this week and these books may be able to take your mind off it. Tune in to learn more in this week’s Reader’s Forecast!

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Publishing Week: 30 June 2026