Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 19hCongratulations and thank you for all your hard work and reading! Excellent list of finalists! 010
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 19hTuesday October 6: "That Drowning Place" by Morgan Thomas. "Driving north on the island road, they were mostly innocent." 000
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 20h🎉 The 2026 National Book Award Finalists! 📚 Several of my favorites! Let’s celebrate the finalists! A high five to the judges for all their hard work and reading! 130
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Recent galley mail from @twolinespress.com. The Good Denis by Marie NDiaye; translated by Jordan Stump. On the cover: "Marie NDiaye will win the Nobel Prize." - The New Yorker Why not this year? The Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced on Thursday October 8. 040
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I'm honored that my quote for The Vanishing Family by Robert Kolker is featured on the October Indie Next list. This is a book written with compassion about a family of high achievers who due to a flawed gene some are predisposed to early onset form of dementia. Out now @doubledaybooks.bsky.social 010
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Paradiso 17 The Disappearsers Beginning Middle End Mad Eden Pretend Your Dead and I Carry You/The Renovation I know I can’t have six the list is just so good! 110
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Monday October 5: "Bubble" by Angie Sijun Lou. "Because I wasn't allowed to have soft drinks when I was growing up, I took to sipping from the Pepto-Bismo bottle my dad kept in the medicine cabinet." 100
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Tomorrow the finalists for the National Book Award will be announced. I've read the entire fiction longlist (I'd read all but one when the longlist was announced) and I could easily recommend any of these books. Yes, I have my favorites. High five to the judges! 190
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I'm reading Pure Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr; translated by Lara Vergnaud. "'Have you seen the video that's been going around the past few days?'" Set in Dakar a young professor is haunted by a viral video. A finalist for The Cercador Prize and on the National Book Award Translation longlist. 020
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Sunday October 4: "Boundless" by Suyi Davies Okungbowa. "Townhouse 44 will be exactly like the two hundred or so others in Levesque Court." 100
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 04/10/2026 I was just in a gas station convenience store and "My Sharona" came on. I nearly did the dance. youtu.be/SQVw58aDt3Y?...youtu.beMy Sharona - Reality Bites (3/10) Movie CLIP (1994) HDYouTube video by Movieclips 020
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Look what's back after an absence of 16 years! Highlighting the great diversity of the south New Stories from the South 2026 is now available. Many thanks to @hubcitypress.bsky.social for bringing back one of my favorite annual collections. 060
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Saturday October 3: "Taylor Johnson's Lightning Man" by Morgan Thomas. "October, 2008. I'm here in the photo booth on Ellis Island, waiting for you, lightning man." 110
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I just read My Dreadful Body by Egana Djabbarova translated by Lisa C. Hayden. A coming of age novel Djabbarova starts with her eyebrows and continues through her body as a mysterious disease takes hold. A finalist for the Cercador Prize and on the NBA longlist for Translation. Highly recommended! 010
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Friday October 2: "Floods" by Scott McClanahan. "We were supposed to go to Rainelle for my birthday." 131
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Thursday October 1: "Spider Web" by Elvira Navarro; translated by Christina MacSweeney. "'I'm Etienne. What's your name?' He asked, coming to stand beside her." 120
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 01/10/2026October! October! October! A short story a day to keep the spooky politicians away. 👻 170
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Red Sox too. There goes my dreams of a Red Sox/Cubs series or an all Chicago series. 020
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Today's excellent galley mail from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social and Astra House! The Statuary Gardens by Jacques Abeille translated; by Alex Andriesse. The finished copy will include an introduction by Brian Evenson. Also, Ackermann by Nicolette Polek. Both will be out in the coming months. 010
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Today is International Translation Day! Here's a stack of some of my favorite translated books published in 2026. Titles, authors, and translators are in the alt text. Many thanks to all the translators out there I really appreciate your work! 1102
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Wednesday September 30: "It Will Come Back to You" by Sigrid Nunez. "Apple and sheep: of the five words the neurologist asked me to remember the first time I saw him I still remember two." 010
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026MPS is down a printer (maybe other publishers use it too?) and they are prioritizing the new SJMaas book. 101
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'm telling customers to think of it like the 2020 holiday Covid. Supply chains, tariffs, it's already a mess. An avoidable mess. 120
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"I want to tell you, simply, joyful we were that summer." I just read and highly recommend Mad Eden by Morgan Thomas. Set in South, trans healthcare, found family, and caregiving. On the National Book Award fiction longlist. Published by @fsgbooks.bsky.social. 021
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Several of my favorite 2026 books made the fiction longlist so thank you to you and your fellow judges. I know the process isn't easy. I'd read all but one (just finished Mad Eden. Excellent!)when the longlist was announced and though I have my favorites I'll be happy with the finalists. 110
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Tuesday September 29: "The Rabbit's Foot" by Sigrid Nunez. "He was a duke, or an earl—he was some sort of nobility—and not the first of his kind to visit the hotel." 110
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026White women of a certain age who think they're being rebellious by buying a book written by a dead white man. 020
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I stopped by @spl.org last night and picked up three National Book Award longlisted books. My Dreadful Body by Egana Djabbarova; translated by Lisa C. Hayden, Promise/Threat by Jonah Mixon-Webster, and Life on the Moon by Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr. 040
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Monday September 28: "The Cascades" by Daniel Saldaña París; translated by Cristóbal Riego. "I'm going to recount what happened as a simple sequence of events. It was the year 2001. Yanieb was eighteen and I was seventeen." 110
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 27/09/2026One of my favorite books of 2026 is here! "After a few months of surviving on pretty small, not overly compelling jobs, I received a commission in my inbox." May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry is published by @transitbooks.bsky.social and a finalist for the @thebookerprizes.com! 0140
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Sunday September 27: "It's All Good" by Sigrid Nunez. "My brother calls like he always does after visiting our mother at Villa New Beginnings." 100
