Your summer reading list heats up with Read This Next! August

Read This Next! highlights new books that are receiving exceptional, and exceptionally enthusiastic, buzz from Southern indie booksellers. Each of the selected books has several enthusiastic cheerleaders among Southern indie booksellers. SIBA always makes a point of putting the store excitement and buzz around these books in front of their publishers, raising store visibility with the industry.

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What SIBA Booksellers have to say:

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett does it again! Tom Lake is so good it’s like eating a favorite dessert. Do you gobble it up quickly, or slowly savor it so that it lasts longer? I would give a million stars to this one.
– Monie Henderson from Square Books in Oxford, MS

The Many Lives of Mama Love : A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin
This is the most "un-put-downable" piece of non-fiction I've ever read. A brash and well-written account that -without being trivial- allows hope and redemption to spring from addiction, incarceration and shame.
– Aimee Keeble from Main Street Books in Davidson, NC

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
It's hard to think of a more compassionate writer than McBride. This story is captivating, funny, exciting and absolutely wonderful.
– Christine Lavigna from Malaprop's in Asheville, NC

Shark Heart : A Love Story by Emily Habeck
In a debut as profound as it is strange, Emily Habek startles the reader awake with the questions we all have living in us: can I survive loss in my life? How do I remain open when I am suffering?
– Julia Paganelli Marin from Pearl's Books in Fayetteville, AR

The Lost Library by Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass
A middle-grade mystery that celebrates the power of a good book. A librarian, a cat, a few ghosts, and a handful of mice put in motion an unraveling of a collective puzzle that may make you gasp!
– Rachel Watkins from Avid Bookshop in Athens, GA

Current Read This Next! books and what SIBA booksellers have to say about them can always be found at The Southern Bookseller Review