The Docket 11.09.23 Future Book Club

The Richer They Are… cover detail

EB and SDB take a look at Bookriot’s upcoming-releases list, and discuss bookselling shoulds versus dids; how true-crime stories get classified; publisher timelines; hostage cacti; alternate Grann titles; and when to bother with the paperback edition. (Scroll down for an Exhibit B. discount code!)

show notes

• the Best Evidence RSS feed

• Book Riot

• a review of Ben Austen’s Correction by an incarcerated person (named, gorgeously, John J. Lennon)

• The Deaths of Sybil Bolton

• and if you click this link (and/or enter code “ExDock” at checkout), you’ll get 15% off #hotoffthepress titles at Exhibit B. Books; Exhibit B. titles/authors we talked about include

  • Margaret A. Burnham’s By Hands Now Known

  • Harry N. MacLean’s In Broad Daylight

    • (Al Lowe Huff and SDB talked about the docuseries on TBP)

  • Starkweather

    • (SDB reviewed The 12th Victim earlier this year)

  • When The Moon Turns To Blood

    • (SDB’s review)

  • Susan Orlean

  • James L. Swanson

  • The Jameses’ The Man from the Train

  • David Grann

  • and everything with the #compellingcovers tag

  • need a hand/have a question/want to delegate your Secret Santa assignment? SDB’s got you

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