Based on our booksellers' conviction that you can never have too many good books, Read This Next! is a list of books coming out next month that booksellers are especially excited about. Read This Next! Kids is a bimonthly list of forthcoming Children's and Young Adult Books receiving Southern indie bookseller love. Each list includes resources for booksellers, including an Edelweiss collection, downloadable flyer, and sharable graphic. All the included books are featured in The Southern Bookseller Review newsletter, and promoted as "Weekend Reads" on SIBA's social media channels, along with the bookstore which wrote the review.

Mind-bending stories and unnerving narratives weave through the books on the September Read This Next! list. "Vivid," "beautiful," but also "mysterious," "mesmerizing," and "ravenous." As one bookseller says, "Get lost in these stories. I hope you make it back."

RTNext! Bookseller Resources:
Edelweiss Collection | Flyer | Flyer Front (image)

What SIBA Booksellers have to say:

The Examiner by Janice Hallett
After reading The Examiner, you will never complain about having to work on a group project again. A multitextual mystery, narrated through text messages, emails, class notes, and additional forms of media, the book's puzzle-like nature, witty dialogue, and impressive intrigue combine to create a ravenous read.
– Catherine Pabalate, Epilogue Books Chocolate Brews in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Good Night, Sleep Tight by Brian Evenson
This is the power of Evenson's stories: not that he merely tells you about the squishy places in the membrane between our world and worlds beyond, but that he plants within your mind the certainty—which all children feel but adults tend to doubt—that you have already fallen through. Get lost in these stories. I hope you make it back.
– Charlie Monroe, Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez, Megan McDowell (trans.)
Mariana Enriquez is the best short story writer in all of modern horror. Her stories are clever, heartbreakingly honest, disgustingly horrific, and often darkly humorous. Take it from someone who got the cover of Our Share of Night tattooed on their body - this woman knows horror.
– Adam Fall, Underbrush Books in Rogers, Arkansas

The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi
Pick this one up and start reading. You won't want to stop until you have turned the last page, and then you just might want to turn to page one and start reading it all over again. Sanaka Hiiragi has created a magical photo studio that is sure to warm your heart and make you ponder the pivotal moments in your own life.
– Angela Redden, Reading Rock Books in Dickson, Tennessee

The Barn : The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson
This incredible book connects hundreds of dots, centering the murder of Emmett Till in a stream of events, characters and circumstances going all the way back into prehistory. Vivid storytelling, thorough research and interviews, beautiful prose, insights and turns of phrase that I wanted to share with whoever was nearby.
– Amanda Grell, Pearl's Books in Fayetteville, Arkansas

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