Happy April! Normally, we’d use this time to recommend the best things to do in Seattle during this new month. But since one of the only things there is left to do is read (aside from these virtual events, of course), we’re instead here to make some book recommendations. Below, we’ve rounded up the best new books by authors whose Seattle book tour stops and events we were excited about, before they were canceled or rescheduled due to coronavirus. We’ve also included a few books from writers whose late-April book tours are, as of April 1, scheduled to take place as planned (fingers crossed).
For bonus points, we’d strongly recommend shopping local and ordering these books from one of the many local bookstores that deliver (think of it as a virtual way to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day, which has also been postponed from its original April date). To help you with that, we’ve linked to independent bookstores’ listings for the books we recommend below. If an event was not originally scheduled to happen at a bookstore, we’ve linked to the IndieBound page, from which you can choose your favorite local bookstore to support. For more book ideas, check out our quarantine book club and daily poem recommendations.
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The City We Became
(Released March 24, by NK Jemisin, who will have a livestreamed Town Hall event on April 1)
African American sci-fi and fantasy author NK Jemisin has earned an impressive number of awards for her works. In fact…
