Welcome, Gothamites! 🛁📚🦇🕯️ Finished reading Emily Hughes’s new book HORROR FOR WEENIES! (Quirk Books/Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚) A fun introduction to lead us into a deep dive of Octobers! What scary things are you planning on reading/watching this month? 👻 🧙🏻 🧛🏻‍♂️ 🧟‍♂️ 🦇 🕯️ 🛁

Welcome, Gothamites! 🛁📚🦇🕯️ Finished reading Jeremy Dauber’s new history, AMERICAN SCARY! 🫣(Algonquin Books) A deeper dive into horror history this week, covering on lit as well as film. Preordered based on Dauber’s books on Jewish comedy & on comic books. ♥️ Dig in! 🎃

Welcome, Gothamites! 🛁📚🦇🕯️ Finished reading Islam Issa’s terrific new history, ALEXANDRIA: THE CITY THAT CHANGED THE WORLD! (Pegasus Books/Sceptre Books) What books are you reading this week?

Welcome, Gothamites! 🛁📚🦇🕯️ Finished reading Ferdia Lennon’s new novel, GLORIOUS EXPLOITS! (Henry Holt & Company/Fig Tree) What’s books are sitting near your 🛁 this weekend? 📚🦇🕯️

Welcome, Gothamites! 🛁📚🦇🕯️ Really enjoyed Rita Bullwinkel’s new novel, HEADSHOT! (Viking Books/@DauntBooksPub) 🥊 🔔 📸 I’d recommend that you check the description. What books are you looking forward this weekend? 🕯️

Welcome, Gothamites! 🛁📚🦇🕯️ Finished reading Katherine Bucknell’s new biography of CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD INSIDE OUT! (Farrar,Straus&Giroux/Chatto&Windus) Lovely and moving to read, though perhaps too hefty to recommend reading in the tub. What’s on your list? 🛁📚🦇🕯️

Welcome, Gothamites! 🛁📚🦇🕯️ This has been a very efficient reading week! Finished reading DavaSobel’s new THE ELEMENTS OF MARIE CURIE! (Grove Atlantic/4th Estate Books) Curie and her fam were among the coolest humans ever, and it’s impossible to learn more. Read more! 🧪

Welcome, Gothamites! 🛁📚🦇🕯️ Finished reading Dominique Grange’s and Jacques Tardi’s new ELISE AND THE NEW RESISTENCE, newly translated by Jenna Allen! (Fantagraphics) Remember, friends: Despots can do whatever they want sometimes, but none of them read any fucking books.

Welcome, Gothamites! 🛁📚🦇🕯️ Finished reading Janice Hallett’s new novel, THE EXAMINER! (Atria Books/Viper Books) Her novels are delightful and I recommend her books to anyone who’ll listen. Don’t let me down! What are you all reading this weekend? 📖

Welcome back, Gothamites! 🛁📚🦇🕯️ Finished reading Philippa Langley’s new THE PRINCES IN THE TOWER! (Pegasus Books/The History Press) This is a story that’s been keeping me up for decades, since seeing reruns of IN SEARCH OF… 😱 What books have been keeping you up at night?

Welcome, Gothamites! 🛁📚🦇🕯️ Finished reading Bartle Bull’s new history, LAND BETWEEN TWO RIVERS! (Grove Atlantic/Atlantic Books) Yes, of course, it’s a story as epic as any of them. But one of its positive surprises is that it does not feel hefty, and proved a comfy bath read.

Welcome, Gothamites! 🛁📚🦇🕯️ Finished reading James Shapiro’s new THE PLAYBOOK! (penguinpress/Faber Books) What books have helped you get through this soul-crushing disappointment of a November? 💔📚

Welcome, Gothamites! 🛁📚🦇🕯️ Finished reading June Thomas’s new book, A PLACE OF OUR OWN! (Seal Press/Virago Press) What books are sitting on your bedside table for December? 📚🕯️

Welcome, Gothamites! 🛁📚🦇🕯️ Finished reading M. T. Anderson’s new NICKED! (Pantheon Books) Recommended novel and there’s a lot to like about it: the writing, its surprises & delights, and perfect for December’s cold long nights. What’re you reading? 🕯️

Welcome, Gothamites! 🛁📚🦇🕯️ Finished reading Steven Mithen’s recent book, THE LANGUAGE PUZZLE! (Basic Books/Profile Books) What will you be reading through the Holidays? 🛁 🎉📖

Happy Solstice, everyone! 🌀🛰️ Don’t be a Druid; read a book. 📚 — The Bathman

The Bathman Returns! 🛁📚🦇🕯️ I’ve finished reading Yii-Jan Lin’s IMMIGRATION + APOCALYPSE: HOW THE BOOK OF REVELATION SHAPED AMERICAN IMMIGRATION! (Yale University Press) It’s every bit as bleak as its might suggest, and that’s why you should probably read it. So read it.

Welcome! 🛁📚🦇🕯️ Finished reading Agnes Callard’s new INSIDE SOCRATES! (W. W. Norton & Company) If you can’t attend Callard’s classes (or if you’re busy, y’know, fighting crime), I’d suggest that you give this your consideration. Better read than plenty of UGotham lectures. 🛁📚🦇🕯️