Fall is a big season for new books by your favorite and soon-to-be-favorite authors. Read This Next! October is no exception, with books from Erica Waters, Bryan Washington, Margaret Renkl, Jesmyn Ward, and Jason Reynolds. If you start reading now, you may finish in time for Read This Next! November!

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:

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl
Margaret Renkl has given us a remarkable gift. With keen observations of nature in her backyard, she helps us become better observers in our world.
– Lia Lent from Wordsworth Books in Little Rock, AR

Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
History, family, community, and the all encompassing power of life in the face of brutality are abundant in Ward's work, no less here in Let Us Descend. Jesmyn Ward has delivered another amazing novel and gift to readers.
– Michelle Cavalier from Cavalier House Books in Denham Springs, LA

All That Consumes Us by Erica Waters
Erica Waters never disappoints with her dark and queer tales. I loved every bit of this dark academia story.
– Katlin Kerrison from Story on the Square in McDonough, GA

Family Meal by Bryan Washington
There are two things I expect from a Bryan Washington narrative: food rendered so exquisitely I could lick the page and an emotional excavation so expansive it swallows the book and me with it. Family Meal delivered.
– Miranda Sanchez from Epilogue Books Chocolate Brews in Chapel Hill, NC

There Was a Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds, Jerome Pumphrey (Illus.)
This is a stunning picture book -- Jason Reynolds has a way with words that maybe no one has had SINCE Langston Hughes. Poetic yet approachable; his style is unique.
– Jamie Southern from Bookmarks in Winston-Salem, NC

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