Every year, the fall season arrives with an avalanche of books, and so for the next several weeks, Shelf Awareness will be spotlighting as many of our favorites as we can in newsletters delivered on both Tuesdays and Fridays! In today's issue, there's American Rapture by CJ Leede, an adrenaline rush of a horror novel about a virus that unleashes an insatiable--and fatal--lust in its victims; and My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss, a rigorous, innovative memoir that rearranges fairy tale elements in order to better examine the author's experiences with disordered eating and the critical voices that have influenced her. Plus, Zachariah OHora's picture book Whalesong pays tribute to the special connection forged between a flautist and a pair of orcas in a true tale of compassion, animal rights, and the power of music.
For The Writer's Life, sci-fi/horror author Mason Coile discusses the chilling and thrilling books that shaped his imagination, including the "oh-so-many horror novels and thrillers I bought from the spinning drugstore rack in my hometown."