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Ep 176New Releases and More for September 18, 2018

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss There There, Stalking God, The Great Believers, and more of their favorite books of 2018 so far. This episode was sponsored by Google Play, The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman, and The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: There There by Tommy Orange Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O’Farrell Stalking God: My Unorthodox Search for Something to Believe In by Anjali Kumar How To Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine by Edward Lee The Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote Tamirat Florida: Stories by Lauren Groff All the Names They Used for God by Anjali Sachdeva Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai The Which Way Tree by Elizabeth Crook The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory Front Desk by Kelly Yang From the Corner of the Oval: A Memoir by Beck Dorey-Stein What we’re reading: A Dash of Dragon (The Mystic Cooking Chronicles) by Heidi Lang and Kati Bartkowski Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 18, 201826 min

All the Backlist! September 14, 2018

This week, Liberty discusses a few great older books, including The Leavers. This week’s episode was sponsored by Rule by Ellen Goodlett. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. And enter to win a six-month subscription to OwlCrate Jr. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta Nimona by Noelle Stevenson The Leavers by Lisa Ko The Heaven of Mercury by Brad Watson When the Sea Turned To Silver by Grace Lin Mandy by Julie Andrews Edwards Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 14, 20188 min

Ep 175New Releases and More for September 11, 2018

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock, Rage Becomes Her, Dactyl Hill Squad, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Google Play, The Great American Read, and The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle. And enter the OwlCrate Jr. giveaway here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock: A Novel by Imogen Hermes Gowar Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger by Soraya Chemaly The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy by Paige Williams Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most by Steven Johnson Dactyl Hill Squad by Daniel José Older The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre No Place To Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs by Lezlie Lowe Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years by David Litt What we’re reading: The Impossible Girl by Lydia Kang Ordinary People: A Novel by Diana Evans The Governess Game: Girl Meets Duke by Tessa Dare Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 11, 201838 min

All the Backlist! September 7, 2018

This week, Liberty discusses a few great older books, including We the Animals. This week’s episode was sponsored by And the Ocean Was Our Sky by Patrick Ness. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: The Blue Girl by Laurie Foos Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal by Ben Macintyre We the Animals by Justine Torres The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters White Tears by Hari Kunzru Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 7, 201811 min

Ep 174New Releases and More for September 4, 2018

This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss Terra Nullius, Cross Her Heart, Cats vs. Robots, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Google Play, Sheets by Brenna Thummler, and Nobody Real by Steven Camden. And check out the new Read Harder Journal. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs The Boy at the Keyhole by Stephen Giles Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free by Linda Kay Klein Sadie by Courtney Summers DeadEndia: The Watcher’s Test (Book 1) by Hamish Steele Cross Her Heart by Sarah Pinborough Cats vs. Robots 1: This Is War by Margaret Stohl and Lewis Peterson What we’re reading: Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car–And How It Will Reshape Our World by Lawrence D. Burns Miracle Submarine by Angie Kim Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 4, 201840 min

All the Backlist! August 31, 2018

This week, Liberty discusses a few great older books, including The Secret History. This week’s episode was sponsored by Macmillan Audio and Elizabeth Warren: Her Fight. Her Work. Her Life. by Antonia Felix. And don’t forget to enter to win 16 books from the Recommended podcast! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson The Big U by Neal Stephenson The Secret History by Donna Tartt Confessions by Kanae Minato Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach My Education by Susan Choi Seafire by Natalie C. Parker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 31, 201811 min

Ep 173New Releases and More for August 28, 2018

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Darius the Great Is Not Okay, City of Ghosts, Nothing Good Can Come From This, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Google Play, ThirdLove, and Mirage by Somaiya Daud. And don’t forget to enter to win 16 books from the Recommended podcast! And check out the new Read Harder Journal. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram Nothing Good Can Come from This: Essays by Kristi Coulter Tear Me Apart by J.T. Ellison If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi: Stories by Neel Patel City of Ghosts by VE Schwab The Summer of Jordi Perez (And the Best Burger in Los Angeles) by Amy Spalding New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction by James Thomas and Robert Scotellaro Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou What we’re reading: Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs The Best American Food Writing 2018 (The Best American Series) by Silvia Killingsworth and Ruth Reichl Less by Andrew Sean Greer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 28, 201839 min

All the Backlist! August 24, 2018

This week, Liberty discusses a few great older books, including The Queue. This week’s episode was sponsored by Frostblood by Elly Blake. And don’t forget to enter to win 16 books from the Recommended podcast! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, Elisabeth Jaquette (translator) Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, Megan McDowell (translator) The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist, Marlaine Delargy (translator) The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder (translator) The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli, Christina MacSweeney (translator) Heartbreaker by Claudia Dey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 24, 201812 min

Ep 172New Releases and More for August 21, 2018

This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss Small Animals, Tragedy Plus Time, Underbug, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Google Play, Impostor’s Lure, and Bombas. And don’t forget to enter to win 16 books from the Recommended podcast! And check out the new Read Harder Journal. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark Sanpaku by Kate Gavino The Stars Now Unclaimed (The Universe After) by Drew Williams Tragedy Plus Time: A Tragi-comic Memoir by Adam Cayton-Holland Whiskey When We’re Dry by John Larison Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear by Kim Brooks Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu, Joel Martinsen (translator) Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology by Lisa Margonelli What we’re reading: Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters by Anne Boyd Rioux Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 21, 201847 min

All the Backlist! August 17, 2018

This week, Liberty discusses a few great older books, including You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine. This week’s episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders. And don’t forget to enter to win 16 books from the Recommended podcast! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz Zone One by Colson Whitehead Knights vs. Dinosaurs by Matt Phelan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 17, 20188 min

Ep 171New Releases and More for August 14, 2018

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Severance, She Begat This, His Favorites, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Cherry by Nico Walker and Google Play. And don’t forget to enter to win 16 books from the Recommended podcast! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: Severance: A Novel by Ling Ma She Begat This: 20 Years of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Joan Morgan Let Me Be Like Water by S.K. Perry Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine by Edward Lee Sweet Little Lies: A Novel by Caz Frear Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf His Favorites by Kate Walbert Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History by Camille T. Dungy What we’re reading: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 14, 201841 min

All the Backlist! August 10, 2018

This week, Liberty discusses The First Rule of Punk, The Seventh Book of Wonders, and more great older books. This week’s episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders. And don’t forget to enter to win 16 books from the Recommended podcast! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: The Third Hotel by Laura van den Berg The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez Seconds by Bryan Lee O’Malley Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler, Shaun Whiteside (translator) The Fourth Monkey by J.D. Barker Fifth Business by Robertson Davies The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert The Seventh Book of Wonders by Julianna Baggott The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 10, 201814 min

Ep 170New Releases and More for August 7, 2018

This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss Temper, If You Leave Me, The Third Hotel, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders and Rothy’s. And don’t forget to enter to win 16 books from the Recommended podcast! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: Our House by Louise Candlish Temper by Nicky Drayden If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim The Court Dancer by Kyung-Sook Shin The Third Hotel by Laura van den Berg Girls Resist!: A Guide to Activism, Leadership, and Starting a Revolution by Kaelyn Rich and Giulia Sagramola Rogue Protocol: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells Heretics Anonymous by Katie Henry What we’re reading: Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 7, 201840 min

All the Backlist! August 3, 2018

This week, Liberty discusses Eight Hundred Grapes, The Supernatural Enhancements, and more great older books. This week’s episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders. And don’t forget to enter to win 16 books from the Recommended podcast! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: The Shortest Way Home by Miriam Parker Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave This Body’s Not Big Enough for Both of Us by Edgar Cantero The Supernatural Enhancements by Edgar Cantero The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas Dare Me by Megan Abbott The Tensorate Series by JY Yang Dreadful Company (A Dr. Greta Helsing Novel) by Vivian Shaw Strange Practice (A Dr. Greta Helsing Novel) by Vivian Shaw Tropic of Kansas by Christopher Brown Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 3, 201810 min

Ep 169New Releases and More for July 31, 2018

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Brother, No One Tells You This, A Gentleman’s Murder, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Google Play, ThirdLove, and Bombas. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: Brother by David Chariandy No One Tells You This: A Memoir by Glynnis MacNicol The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas Hits and Misses: Stories by Simon Rich A Gentleman’s Murder by Christopher Huang Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman–Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual by Yvon Chouinard Okay Fine Whatever: The Year I Went from Being Afraid of Everything to Only Being Afraid of Most Things by Courtenay Hameister The Incendiaries: A Novel by R. O. Kwon What we’re reading: Rosewater by Tade Thompson The Kiss Quotient by Helen Huong Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 31, 201827 min

All the Backlist! July 27, 2018

This week, Liberty discusses Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Hot Milk, and more great older books. This week’s episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders. And don’t forget to enter to win $500 worth of the year’s best YA books! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien Hot Milk by Deborah Levy The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters Half-Blood Blues by Esi Eduygan A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills Ex Machina by Brian K. Vaughan, Tony Harris Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 27, 20189 min

Ep 168New Releases and More for July 24, 2018

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss I Can’t Date Jesus, A Noise Downstairs, Killing It, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Recommended, Bombas, and How To Love a Jamaican: Stories by Alexia Arthurs. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: JELL-O Girls: A Family History by Allie Rowbottom From the Corner of the Oval: A Memoir by Beck Dorey-Stein A Noise Downstairs by Linwood Barclay Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott Women of the Dunes by Sarah Maine My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé by Michael Arceneaux Spinning by Tillie Walden Killing It: An Education by Camas Davis What we’re reading this week: Ordinary People by Diana Evans Severance by Ling Ma Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 24, 201838 min

All the Backlist! July 20, 2018

This week, Liberty discusses A Planet for Rent, Bury Me Deep, and more great older books. This week’s episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard by Paul Collins Banvard’s Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn’t Change the World by Paul Collins The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott Condomnauts by Yoss A Planet for Rent by Yoss Hullmetal Girls by Emily Strutskie Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 20, 201811 min

Ep 167New Releases and More for July 17, 2018

This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss The Mere Wife, What We Were Promised, Bad Blood, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Google Play and Kudos by Rachel Cusk. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: Run Wild by K.I. Zachopoulos, Vincenzo Balzano (Illustrator) Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard by Paul Collins The Mere Wife: A Novel by Maria Dahvana Headley A Sloth’s Guide to Mindfulness by Ton Mak What We Were Promised by Lucy Tan What we’re reading this week: Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution by Mona Eltahawy Brother by David Chariandy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 17, 201839 min

All the Backlist! July 13, 2018

This week, Liberty discusses The Summer Prince, The Summer Book, and more great older books. This week’s episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams The Summer Book by Tove Jansson Ghost Summer: Stories by Tananarive Due Summer Hours at the Robbers Library by Sue Halpern Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 13, 201810 min

Ep 166New Releases and More for July 10, 2018

This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss Spinning Silver, Indianapolis, An Ocean of Minutes, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Bombas and Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: Clock Dance by Anne Tyler Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography by Deborah Levy The Occasional Virgin: A Novel by Hanan al-Shaykh Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man by Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic A Gentleman Never Keeps Score by Cat Sebastian Refuge by Dina Nayeri (paperback) An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim What we’re reading this week: Blood Binds the Pack (The Ghost Wolves) by Alex Wells Comemadre by Roque Larraquy,‎ Heather Cleary (Translator) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 10, 201842 min

All the Backlist! July 6, 2018

This week, Liberty discusses Long Division, Lightless, and more great older books. This week’s episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Brooke A Allen (Illustrator) The Last Days of Video by Jeremy Hawkins Long Division by Kiese Laymon Lightless by C.A. Higgins Listen, Slowly by Thanhhà Lại The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 6, 20189 min

Ep 165New Releases and More for July 3, 2018

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Eagle & Crane, Can You Tolerate This, The Bear and the Paving Stone, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove and Bombas. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: Eagle & Crane by Suzanne Rindell Can You Tolerate This? Essays by Ashleigh Young Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls: Stories by Alissa Nutting So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know by Retta The Bear and the Paving Stone (Japanese Novellas) by Toshiyuki Horie and Geraint Howells The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector The City of Brass by SA Chakraborty (paperback) My Glory Was I Had Such Friends by Amy Silverstein (paperback) What we’re reading this week: Kill the Farm Boy by Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne No One Tells You This: A Memoir by Glynnis MacNicol Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 3, 201831 min

All the Backlist! June 29, 2018

This week, Liberty discusses No Word from Gurb, The Quick, and more great older books. This week’s episode was sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley No Word from Gurb by Eduardo Mendoza The Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron Saves the World Again by A.C. Wise Death by Dumpling by Vivien Chien Cold Storage, Alaska by John Straley The President’s Hat by Antoine Laurain The Quick by Lauren Owen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 29, 201811 min

Ep 164New Releases and More for June 26, 2018

This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss Trail of Lightning, Salt Lane, Confessions of the Fox, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Harry’s Trees by Jon Cohen, Those Other Women by Nicola Moriarty, and Book Riot’s Annotated. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: Salt Lane by William Shaw Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World) by Rebecca Roanhorse Bonfire by Krysten Ritter The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland The Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote Tamirat Confessions of the Fox: A Novel by Jordy Rosenberg Fierce: The History of Leopard Print by Jo Weldon Starless by Jacqueline Carey What we’re reading this week: Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (Flavia de Luce Mystery, Book 4) by Alan Bradley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 26, 201838 min

All the Backlist! June 22, 2018

This week, Liberty discusses The Guest Cat, Waiting for Gertrude, and more great older books. This week’s episode was sponsored by Book Riot’s Annotated podcast. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: Cat Flap by Alan S. Cowell Tailchaser’s Song by Tad Williams The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide, Eric Selland (Translator) I Am a Cat by Soseki Natsume, Aiko Ito (Translator) Waiting for Gertrude: A Graveyard Gothic by Bill Richardson Emmy & the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams Dog On It by Spencer Quinn Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Brook A. Allen, and Shannon Watters Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda Saga by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples Passing Strange by Ellen Klages Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 22, 201812 min

Ep 163New Releases and More for June 19, 2018

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Great Believers, Wicked and the Wallflower, Old in Art School, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Harry’s Trees and Me, Myself, and Them. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump by Dan Pfeiffer Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Irvin Painter Wicked and the Wallflower: Bareknuckle Bastards Book 1 by Sarah MacLean Spinning by Tillie Walden Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude by Stephanie Rosenbloom The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory What we’re reading this week: Accidentally Like a Martyr: The Tortured Art of Warren Zevon by James Campion (Liberty’s favorite Zevon song.) Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 19, 201843 min

All the Backlist! June 15, 2018

This week, Liberty discusses Relief Map, A Tale for the Time Being, and more great older books. This week’s episode was sponsored by Flatiron Books and Legendary (A Caraval Novel) by Stephanie Garber. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: Who Is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht Relief Map by Rosalie Knecht Bearskin: A Novel by James A McLaughlin The Painter by Peter Heller A Reaper at the Gates (An Ember in the Ashes) by Sabaa Tahir An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry by Elizabeth McCracken The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCracken Niagara Falls All Over Again by Elizabeth McCracken An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken Thunderstruck & Other Stories by Elizabeth McCracken Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 15, 201812 min

Ep 162New Releases and More for June 12, 2018

This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss Convenience Store Woman, Revenant Gun, What Truth Sounds Like, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Annotated and Penguin Random House Audio. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: Who is Vera Kelly? By Rosalie Knecht What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman Ocean Light by Nalini Singh Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying by Sallie Tisdale What we’re reading this week: Calamity Jane: The Calamitous Life of Martha Jane Cannary, 1852–1903 by Christian Perrissin and Matthieu Blanchin Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 12, 201837 min

All the Backlist! June 8, 2018

This week, Liberty discusses Outline, The Three-Body Problem, and more great older books. This week’s episode was sponsored by Season 2 of Book Riot’s Recommended. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: The Tensorate Series by JY Yang Outline by Rachel Cusk The Passage by Justin Cronin The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 8, 201812 min

Ep 161New Releases and More for June 5, 2018

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss There There, Visible Empire, Small Country, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove and Tonight I’m Someone Else: Essays by Chelsea Hodson. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: There There by Tommy Orange Florida by Lauren Groff Social Creature by Tara Isabella Burton We Are Gathered by Jamie Weisman Small Country: A Novel by Gaël Faye Visible Empire by Hannah Pittard The Book of M by Peng Shepherd Half Gods by Akil Kumarasamy The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime by Ron Stallworth Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl Tonight I’m Someone Else: Essays by Chelsea Hodson Sweet and Low: Stories by Nick White Invitation to a Bonfire by Adrienne Celt Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour Treeborne by Caleb Johnson The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang What we’re reading this week: The Witch Elm by Tana French Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump by Dan Pfeiffer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 5, 201838 min

All the Backlist! June 1, 2018

This week, Liberty discusses The Mothers, The Sisters Brothers, and more great older books. This week’s episode was sponsored by American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer My Brother Moochie: Regaining Dignity in the Face of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South by Issac J. Bailey The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller All Aunt Hagar’s Children: Stories by Edward P. Jones Mother Bruce by Ryan Higgins The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter The Brothers K by David James Duncan The Mothers by Brit Bennett Catstronauts: Mission Moon by Drew Brockington Target Practice (Cleopatra in Space 1) by Mike Maihack Binky the Space Cat by Ashley Spires Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 1, 201810 min

Ep 160New Releases and More for May 29, 2018

This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss Calypso, From Twinkle, with Love, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio and Annotated. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: Calypso by David Sedaris From Twinkle, with Love by Sandhya Menon The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton with Lara Love Hardin Goldie Vance Vol 4 by Hope Larsen and Jackie Ball I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain by Will Walton So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know by Retta American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton (paperback) Valley Girls by Sarah Nicole Lemon What we’re reading this week: Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi Beloved Poison by E. S. Thomson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 29, 201840 min

All the Backlist! May 25, 2018

This week, Liberty discusses The ABC Murders, The Gun, and more great older books. This week’s episode was sponsored by The Optimistic Decade by Heather Abel. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie From Twinkle, with Love by Sandhya Menon When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon American Hippo by Sarah Gailey River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey Cult X by Fuminori Nakamura The Gun by Fuminori Nakamura All the Ever Afters by Danielle Teller The Woodcutter by Kate Danley The Veldt by Ray Bradbury A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner The Man Who Returned by Edmond Hamilton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 25, 201812 min

Ep 159New Releases and More for May 22, 2018

This week, Liberty, Rebecca, Amanda, and Jenn discuss Anger is a Gift, MEM, and more great books. And answer listener questions! This episode was sponsored by Campaign Widows by Aimee Agresti and Furyborn by Claire Legrand. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro The Ensemble by Aja Gabel Little Fish by Casey Plett MEM by Bethany C. Morrow Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Holes by Louis Sachar Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCracken Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee One Good Earl Deserves A Lover by Sarah MacLean The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell What we’re reading this week: Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture edited by Roxane Gay Calypso by David Sedaris Armistice by Lara Elena Donnelly Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War by Virginia Nicholson The Wicked King by Holly Black Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 22, 201857 min

All the Backlist! May 18, 2018

This week, Liberty discusses Go with Me, The Story of a Brief Marriage, and more great older books. This week’s episode was sponsored by Geekerella by Ashley Poston. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: So Lucky by Nicola Griffith Tin Man by Sarah Winman The Driest Season by Meghan Kenny Cannery Row by John Steinbeck Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle Prodigies by Angélica Gorodischer Go with Me by Castle Freeman, Jr. The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang The Red Threads of Fortune by JY Yang The Descent of Monsters by JY Yang The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasm There There by Tommy Orange Babyteeth Vol. 1 by Donny Cates and Garry Brown Dark Fang Volume 1: Earth Calling by Miles Gunter and Kelsey Shannon Aquicorn Cove by Kate O’Neill Swing Volume 1 by Matt Hawkins and Jennie Cheung Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 18, 201813 min

Ep 158New Releases and More for May 15, 2018

This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss Jonny Appleseed, So Lucky, Tin Man, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo and Recommended Season 2. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Trigger warning for discussion of suicide starting around 29:00. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: So Lucky by Nicola Griffith Happy Cactus: Cacti, Succulents, and More by DK Tin Man by Sarah Winman The Crossing by Jason Mott The Storm: A Novel by Arif Anwar The Queen of Sorrow: Book Three of The Queens of Renthia by Sarah Beth Durst The Driest Season by Meghan Kenny Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 15, 201837 min

All the Backlist! May 11, 2018

This week, Liberty discusses Almost Crimson, Vow of Celibacy, and more great older books. This week’s episode was sponsored by Flatiron Books and The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: Belly Up: Stories by Rita Bullwinkel Motherfucking Sharks by Brian Allen Carr Almost Crimson by Dasha Kelly Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis by Alexis Coe A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause by Shawn Wen Vow of Celibacy by Erin Judge Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 11, 201810 min

Catch Up With Recommended Season 1!

Recommended is back! Season 2 will start on May 16, so there’s no time like the present to catch up with Season 1. Get more details and subscribe at bookriot.com/recommended or on the podcatcher of your choice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 10, 20182 min

Ep 157New Releases and More for May 8, 2018

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss That Kind of Mother, Undead Girl Gang, Belly Up, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove and Wicked River by Jenny Milchman. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Trigger warning for discussion of suicide starting around 3:45. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: The Girl and the Grove by Eric Smith Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship by Kayleen Schaefer I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing: Star Wars and the Triumph of Geek Culture by A. D. Jameson Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin Belly Up: Stories by Rita Bullwinkel Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy What we’re reading this week: Bad Man by Dathan Auerbach I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 8, 201838 min

All the Backlist! May 4, 2018

This week, Liberty discusses The Age of Miracles, Nevermoor, and more great older books. This week’s episode was sponsored by the Folio Society edition of I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker The Dreamers: A Novel by Karen Thompson Walker Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Purrder She Wrote: A Cat Cafe Mystery by Cate Conte Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 4, 201813 min

Ep 156New Releases and More for May 1, 2018

This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss What You Want To See, A Lucky Man, The Electric Woman, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Reading Women, Warby Parker, and The Black Witch by Laurie Forest. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: What You Want to See by Kristen Lepionka The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts by Tessa Fontaine The Lonely Witness by William Boyle Song of Blood & Stone: Earthsinger Chronicles, Book One by L. Penelope Mr. Flood’s Last Resort by Jess Kidd The Very Worst Missionary: A Memoir or Whatever by Jamie Wright A Lucky Man: Stories by Jamel Brinkley Heavy Vinyl by Carly Usdin, Nina Vakueva (Illustrator) What we’re reading this week: The Leper Spy: The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II by Ben Montgomery East of Eden by John Steinbeck The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 1, 201841 min

All the Backlist! April 27, 2018

This week, Liberty discusses a few great nonfiction books. This week’s episode was sponsored by American Street by Ibi Zoboi. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman The Poet and the Murderer by Simon Worrall Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga by Pamela Newkirk The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner The Mixtape of My Life: A Do-It-Yourself Music Memoir by Robert K. Elder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 27, 201813 min

Ep 155New Releases and More for April 24, 2018

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Sky in the Deep, The Girl Who Smiled Beads, An American Marriage, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by How To Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee and So Delicious. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: Be Prepared by Vera Brosgol West Winging It: An Un-presidential Memoir by Pat Cunnane West by Carys Davies The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young Forest Bathing: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness by Dr. Qing Li What we’re reading this week: Belly Up by Rita Bullwinkel Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 24, 201841 min

Ep 154New Releases and More for April 17, 2018

This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss How To Write an Autobiographical Novel, Before Mars, Acid West, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by So Delicious, Circe by Madeline Miller, and We Own the Sky by Luke Allnutt. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee Not So Stories edited by David Thomas Moore Acid West: Essays by Joshua Wheeler Disoriental by Négar Djavadi,‎ Tina Kover (Translator) Every Other Weekend by Zulema Renee Summerfield Pearls on a Branch: Oral Tales by Najla Jraissaty Khoury, Inea Bushnaq (Translator) Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America by Gregory Pardlo Before Mars (A Planetfall Novel) by Emma Newman What we’re reading this week: Little by Edward Carey The Sky is Yours by Chandler Klang Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 17, 201842 min

All the Backlist! April 13, 2018

This week, Liberty discusses The Prey of Gods, The Color of Magic, Red Dwarf, and more great older books. This week’s episode was sponsored by Bas Bleu: Books & Gifts for Avid Readers. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis How To Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett Another Fine Myth by Robert Asprin Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 13, 201811 min

Ep 153New Releases and More for April 10, 2018

This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss Circe, Indian Horse, Anna Karenina, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by So Delicious, ThirdLove, and School for Psychics by K.C. Archer. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Trigger warning for discussion of stalking and abuse at 1:52. Trigger warning for discussion of rape and graphic violence at 11:00. Trigger warning for distressing content at 17:05. Trigger warning for discussion of racism and substance abuse at 25:12. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession by Piper Weiss Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Circe by Madeline Miller The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Indian Horse: A Novel by Richard Wagamese I Await the Devil’s Coming by Mary MacLane What we’re reading this week: A Conjuring of Light: A Novel (Shades of Magic) by V. E. Schwab Rock Manning Goes for Broke by Charlie Jane Anders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 10, 201834 min

All the Backlist! April 6, 2018

This week, Liberty discusses The Bluest Eye, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, The Eyes of the Dragon, and more great older books. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: Eye Level: Poems by Jenny Xie Wade In the Water: Poems by Tracy K. Smith Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Baby Monkey, Private Eye by Brian Selznick and David Serlin Little by Edward Carey The Iremonger Trilogy by Edward Carey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 6, 201811 min

Ep 152New Releases and More for April 3, 2018

This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss Dread Nation, Meaty, The Oracle Year, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by So Delicious, Munmun by Jesse Andrews, and The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind by Barbara K. Lipska. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: Meaty: Essays by Samantha Irby Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead–My Life Story by Cecile Richards The Oracle Year: A Novel by Charles Soule Waiting for Tomorrow: A Novel by Nathacha Appanah Dread Nation by Justina Ireland The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison What we’re reading this week: Hot and Badgered by Shelley Laurenston The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 3, 201836 min

All the Backlist! March 30, 2018

This week, Liberty discusses Untwine, Hausfrau, Pym, and more great older books. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: Improvement by Joan Silber Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday Seraphina by Rachel Hartman Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum Pym by Mat Johnson Christodora by Tim Murphy Duplex by Kathryn Davis Untwine by Edwidge Danticat Twins by Marcy Dermansky Half Life by Shelley Jackson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 30, 201810 min