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All the Backlist! February 2, 2018
This week, Liberty discusses Memento Mori, Uprooted, Six Four, and more great older books. The episode was sponsored by OwlCrate. Enter here for a chance to win your own library cart. 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 Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert Uprooted by Naomi Novik Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders by Julianna Baggott Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires by Shomari Wills The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire by Karl Jacoby Memento Mori by Muriel Spark Lord of California by Andrew Valencia The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory How I Became a Famous Novelist by Steve Hely The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place by Alan Bradley Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for January 30, 2018
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Wedding Date, This Will Be My Undoing, Our Lady of the Prairie, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert and Here We Lie by Paula Treick DeBoard. 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 Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins Force of Nature by Jane Harper Our Lady of the Prairie by Thisbe Nissen Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History by Joel Christian Gill Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I’m Learning to Say by Kelly Corrigan A Good Comb: The Sayings of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark How to Cook a Moose: A Culinary Memoir by Kate Christensen What we’re reading this week: The Which Way Tree by Elizabeth Crook Good Neighbors by Joanne Serling Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! January 26, 2018
This week, Liberty discusses Hard Candy, Koolaids, My Year of Meats, and more great older books. Enter here for a chance to win your own library cart. 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: Ms. Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami, Louise Heal Kawai (Translator) Peach by Emma Glass The Milk Lady of Bangalore by Shoba Narayan Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond Sugar by Bernice McFadden Hard Candy by Andrew Vachss The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley Koolaids by Rabih Alameddine Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for January 23, 2018
This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss Brass, Markswoman, Eternal Life, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Penguin Random House’s buzziest short stories of 2018 and Libby. 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: Brass by Xhenet Aliu Markswoman (Book 1 of Asiana) by Rati Mehrotra In a Cottage in a Wood by Cass Green The Rough Patch by Daphne de Marneffe The Milk Lady of Bangalore: An Unexpected Adventure by Shoba Narayan Eternal Life by Dara Horn Peach by Emma Glass The Juniper Tree by Barbara Comyns What we’re reading this week: Fight Like a Girl by Kate Germano with Kelly Kennedy The White Book by Han Kang Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! January 19, 2018
This week, Liberty discusses The Name of the Star, Lagoon, Kushiel’s Dart, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by The Girl on the Velvet Swing by Simon Baatz. 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: Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson The Name of the Star (Shades of London) by Maureen Johnson Red Clocks by Leni Zumas The Listeners by Leni Zumas Treacherous Curse (A Veronica Speedwell Mystery) by Deanna Raybourn A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories by Denis Johnson Nobody Move by Denis Johnson Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage into Motherhood by Molly Caro May After Birth by Elisa Albert Where the Line Bleeds by Jesmyn Ward Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey The Book of M by Peng Sheperd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for January 16, 2018
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Red Clocks, So You Want to Talk About Race, Truly Devious, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Gnomon by Nick Harkaway and ThirdLove. 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: Love, Hate, and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed Stalking God: My Unorthodox Search for Something to Believe In by Anjali Kumar Red Clocks by Leni Zumas The Listeners by Leni Zumas So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories by Denis Johnson Fire Sermon bu Jamie Quatro Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson Bent: How Yoga Saved My Ass by Anne Clendening What we’re reading this week: Angel Meat: Stories by Laura Lee Bahr Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! January 12, 2018
This week, Liberty discusses My Lady Jane, A Rising Man, Scythe, 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: Nice Try, Jane Sinner by Lianne Oelke My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows Heart Spring Mountain by Robin MacArthur Half Wild: Stories by Robin MacArthur The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee Gnomon by Nick Harkaway Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe) by Neal Shusterman Scythe (Arc of a Scythe) by Neal Shusterman Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro I Want to Show You More: Stories by Jamie Quatro Two Girls Down by Louisa Luna Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for January 9, 2018
This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss The Immortalists, Achtung Baby, Batman: Nightwalker, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Neon in Daylight by Hermione Hoby and Meet Cute from HMH Teen. 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 Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children by Sara Zaske The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani Among the Ruins by Ausma Zehanat Khan The Job of the Wasp by Colin Winette Escape from Aleppo by N.H. Senzai The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu What we’re reading this week: Winston’s War 1940-1945 by Max Hastings Sunshine by Robin McKinley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! January 5, 2018
This week, Liberty discusses Year of Yes, Year of Magical Thinking, Year of Wonders, and more great older books. This week’s episode is sponsored by Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig. Enter here for a chance to win Book Riot’s Top 20 Books of 2017! 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 Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs The Know-It-All by A. J. Jacobs Drop Dead Healthy by A. J. Jacobs Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Blue Nights by Joan Didion The Year of the Dog by Grace Lin A Year in the Maine Woods by Bernd Heinrich The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History by William Klingaman Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Huston Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2018 New Release Preview Show
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, The Third Hotel, That Kind of Mother, and more upcoming books. This episode was sponsored by As You Wish by Chelsea Sedoti and OwlCrate. 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: Ambiguity Machines: and Other Stories by Vandana Singh How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee Red Clocks by Leni Zumas The Third Hotel by Laura van den Berg Brass by Xhenet Aliu The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam All the Names They Used for God: Stories by Anjali Sachdeva Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker Stray City by Chelsey Johnson Don’t Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life by Peggy Orenstein Dread Nation by Justina Ireland The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust by Laura Smith The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein We Are Taking Only What We Need: Stories (Art of the Story) by Stephanie Powell Watts Who is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro What we’re reading this week: Invitation to a Bonfire by Adrienne Celt Our Lady of the Prairie by Thisbe Nissen The Art of the Wasted Day by Patricia Hampl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! December 22, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses Silver Sparrow, Every Heart a Doorway, The Cat’s Table, and more great older books. This week’s episode is sponsored by Bookaxe. Enter here for a chance to win Book Riot’s Top 20 Books of 2017! 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. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones The Daughters by Adrienne Celt The Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman The Last Illusion by Porochista Khakpour The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our Favorite Books of 2017, Part 2
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss White Tears, The Wanderers, Priestdaddy, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, and Breathing Books. 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. Books discussed on the show: See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt The Redemption of Galen Pike: Stories by Carys Davies Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson White Tears by Hari Kunzru The Wanderers by Meg Howrey Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading by Anne Gisleson After the Eclipse: A Mother’s Murder, a Daughter’s Search by Sarah Perry Perfect Little World by Kevin Wilson The Widow Nash by Jamie Harrison Guidebook to Relative Strangers: A Journey into Race, Motherhood, and History by Camille T. Dungy What we’re reading this week: Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro More books out this week: Shadow Girl by Liana Liu Here, There, Everywhere by Julia Durango and Tyler Terrones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! December 15, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses Mister Pip, Ninefox Gambit, The Wedding Date, and more great older books. This week’s episode is sponsored by A Duke in Shining Armor by Loretta Chase. Enter here for a chance to win Book Riot’s Top 20 Books of 2017! 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 Circus of the Earth and Air by Brooke Stevens Dare Me by Megan Abbott Tepper Isn’t Going Out by Calvin Trillin Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones The Swan Gondola by Timothy Schaffert The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle The Pink Hotel by Anna Stothard Arrows of Rain by Okey Ndibe The End of Vandalism by Tom Drury Tenth of December: Stories by George Saunders Angels’ Blood by Nalini Singh The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our Favorite Books of 2017, Part 1
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Chemistry, My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Idaho, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Breathing Books, ThirdLove, and A Medieval Tale. First Lessons by Lina J. Potter. 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: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg Exit West by Mohsin Hamid Pachinko by Min Jin Lee The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne Idaho by Emily Ruskovich My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris The Nature Fix: why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado Chemistry by Weike Wang She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give by Ada Calhoun We Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays by Samantha Irby What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah What we’re reading this week: The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison Wrong to Need You by Alisha Rai Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! December 8, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses The Music Lesson, An Artist of the Floating World, The Last Nude, and more great older books. This week’s episode is sponsored by The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak. 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: Alive in Shape and Color: 17 Paintings by Great Artists and the Stories They Inspired edited by Lawrence Block The Music Lesson by Katharine Weber The Bird Artist by Howard Norman Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older How To Be Both by Ali Smith Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland The Painter by Peter Heller An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro The Great Man by Kate Christensen The Last Nude by Ellis Avery The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for December 5, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Elmet, Roomies, The Last Black Unicorn, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Breathing Books, ThirdLove, and OwlCrate. 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 discussions of child abuse and sexual assault at 11:28 – skip ahead to 15:55. 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 Vanishing Season by Joanna Schaffhausen Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-to Book by Dan Harris and Jeffrey Warren The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish Roomies by Christina Lauren No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self by Manoush Zomorodi Elmet by Fiona Mozley The Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak What we’re reading this week: Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! December 1, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses Easter Island, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, City of Thieves, and more great older books. This week’s episode is 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: Easter Island by Jennifer Vanderbes The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis Unless by Carol Shields The Hot Rock by Donald E. Westlake City of Thieves by David Benioff The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi Durrow The X-Files: Earth Children Are Weird by Kim Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for November 28, 2017
This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss Djinn City, Weave a Circle Round, Oddity, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Breathing Books, Libby, and The City of Brass by S. A. Chakaborty. 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: Oddity by Sarah Cannon Weave a Circle Round by Kari Maaren Wrong to Need You: Forbidden Hearts by Alisha Rai A Hope Divided (The Loyal League) by Alyssa Cole Djinn City by Saad Z. Hossain Jade City by Fonda Lee The Green Hand and Other Stories by Nicole Claveloux, Donald Nicholson Smith (Translator) The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand What we’re reading this week: Autumn by Ali Smith The Mannequin Makers by Craig Cliff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! November 24, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses All Families are Psychotic, Everything I Never Told You, Banvard’s Folly, and more great older books. This week’s episode is sponsored by Tru & Nelle: A Christmas Tale by G. Neri. And don’t forget, we’re giving away $500 to spend at the bookstore of your choice! Click here to enter! 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: All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Vanessa & Her Sister by Priya Pramar The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan Josie & Jack by Kelly Braffett Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng Want Not by Jonathan Miles 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 Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books by Paul Collins Murder of the Century by Paul Collins Duel with the Devil by Paul Collins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for November 21, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss A Kind of Freedom, Altered Traits, Spoils, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader, ThirdLove, and PRH 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: A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body by Daniel Goleman and Richard J. Davidson When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink Spoils by Brian Van Reet Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi I Hear She’s a Real Bitch by Jen Agg You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches by John Hodgman The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty What we’re reading this week: The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! November 17, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses The ABC Murders, A Study in Scarlet Women, The Ice House, and more great older books. This week’s episode is sponsored by The Hanging Girl by Eileen Cook. 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 Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama (Author), Jonathan Lloyd-Davies (Translator) Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott Heartsick by Chelsea Cain A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas Under the Beetle’s Cellar by Mary Willis Walker The Ice House by Minette Walters Affinity by Sarah Waters Confessions by Kanae Minato A Simple Plan by Scott Smith The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for November 14, 2017
This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss The City of Brass, Into the Drowning Deep, The Wild Book, and more books. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader, and Creature of Will & Temper. 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 City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty Future Home of the Living God: A Novel by Louise Erdrich Shirtless Bear-Fighter Volume 1 by by Jody LeHeup (Author), Sebastian Girner (Author), Nil Vendrell (Artist), Mike Spicer (Artist), Andrew Robinson (Artist) Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang The Book of Resting Places: A Personal History of Where We Lay the Dead by Thomas Mira y Lopez Mother of All Pigs by Malu Halasa Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant The Wild Book (Yonder) by Juan Villoro (Author), Lawrence Schimel (Translator) Whichwood by Tahereh Mafi What we’re reading: Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love, and Loss by Stephanie Wittels Wachs Autonomous by Annalee Newitz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! November 10, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses Mycroft Holmes, Curse of the Narrows, Christine Falls, and more great older books. This week’s episode is sponsored by Weregirl and Chimera by C.D. Bell. 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: Bonfire by Krysten Ritter The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabar Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher The Great Halifax Explosion by John Bacon Curse of the Narrows by Laura Macdonald Spineless by Julie Berwald Preparing the Ghost by Matthew Frank Mrs. Osmond by John Banville Christine Falls by Benjamin Black All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault by James Alan Gardner Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman Jade City by Fonda Lee Prizzi’s Honor by Richard Condon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for November 7, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Buzz, Madonna in a Fur Coat, Bonfire, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Renegades and Pinball Wizard. 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: Bonfire by Krysten Ritter Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone by Juli Berwald Wonder Valley by Ivy Pochoda Buzz: The Stimulating History of the Sex Toy by Hallie Lieberman Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali (Author), Ureen Freely (Translator), Alexander Dawe (Translator) Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib Obama: An Intimate Portrait by Pete Souza What we’re reading: The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Kranostein Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics by Dan Harris Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! November 3, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses Glaciers, We the Animals, Tell the Wolves I’m Home, 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: Glaciers by Alexis M. Smith We the Animals by Justin Torres The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angélica Gorodischer, Ursula K. LeGuin (Translator) Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway Tell The Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Oreo by Fran Ross The Last Adventure of Constance Verity by A. Lee Martinez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for October 31, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Beasts Made of Night, Everything is Awful, The Tea Dragon Society, and more books. This episode was sponsored by A Selfie as Big as the Ritz: Stories and Warby Parker. 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 Tea Dragon Society by Katie O’Neill The King Is Always Above the People: Stories by Daniel Alarcón Mudbound by Hillary Jordan Everything Is Awful: And Other Observations by Matt Bellassai Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization by Martin Puchner Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer What we’re reading: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee Teachings on Love by Thich Nhat Hanh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! October 27, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses Cloud Atlas, Here Comes the Sun, The Snow Queen, 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: Strange Weather by Joe Hill Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett Brolliology: A History of the Umbrella in Life and Literature by Marion Rankine Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Father of the Rain by Lily King Snowblind by Christopher Golden The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson The Monkey’s Raincoat by Robert Crais The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie How to Survive a Sharknado by Andrew Shaffer The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for October 24, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Long Way Down, The River of Consciousness, Ghosts of the Tsunami, and more books. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove and Turtles All the Way Down. 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: Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks Ruby and Olivia by Rachel Hawkins Smitten Kitchen Every Day by Deb Perelman Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry On Living by Kerry Egan An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice by Khizr Khan What we’re reading: Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City by Kate Winkler Dawson Silence: In the Age of Noise by Erling Kagge, Becky L. Crook (Translator) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! October 20, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses Revenge, Duma Key, Bunnicula, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by Feminist Icon Cross-Stitch. 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: A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge Fly by Night by Frances Hardinge The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge The Good House by Yoko Ogawa Ghost Summer by Tananarive Due The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa Revenge by Yoko Ogawa Mongrel by Stephen Graham Jones After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones Duma Key by Stephen King The Troop by Nick Cutter I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery by Deborah and James Howe In Cold Blood by Truman Capote People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry Anno Dracula by Kim Newman The Other by Thomas Tryon Some of Your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzsimmons Spillover by David Quammen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for October 17, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss A Line in the Dark, We’re Going to Need More Wine, The RBG Workout, and more books. This episode was sponsored by A Secret Sisterhood and The Dark Lake. 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: Present by Leslie Stein The RBG Workout: How She Stays Strong . . . and You Can Too! by Bryant Johnson A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo We’re Going to Need More Wine: Stories That are Funny, Complicated, and True by Gabrielle Union Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu wd~50: The Cookbook by Wylie Dufresne and Peter Meehan Motherest by Kristen Iskandrian Undying: A Love Story by Michel Faber What we’re reading: Look Alive Out There: Essays by Sloane Crosley Wilde in Love: The Wildes of Lindow Castle by Eloisa James Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! October 13, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses Pastoralia, The Farming of Bones, Jenny and the Jaws of Life, and more great older books. This 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: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nyguen Refugees by Viet Thanh Ngyuen Pastoralia by George Saunders Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy Kindred by Octavia Butler A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World by Donald Antrim As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Jenny and the Jaws of Life: Short Stories by Jincy Willett Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for October 10, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao, Code Girls, Forest of a Thousand Lanterns, and more books. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, Libby, and Life Detonated. 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 Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha, Eric M. B. Becker (Translator) Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver The Power by Naomi Alderman Letters to a Young Chef by Daniel Boulud Sparrow by Sarah Moon Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy Forest of a Thousand Lanterns (Rise of the Empress) by Julie C. Dao All the Wind in the World by Samantha Mabry Funeral Platter: Stories by Greg Ames Catapult: Stories by Emily Fridlund The Doll’s Alphabet by Camilla Grudova In the Distance by Hernan Diaz Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America’s Greatest Unsolved Murder by Piu Eatwell The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed Wolf Season by Helen Benedict Nightmare in Berlin (Fallada Collection) by Hans Fallada Here in Berlin: A Novel by Cristina Garcia Three Floors Up by Eshkol Nevo, Sondra Silverston (Translator) The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman Berserker by Emmy Laybourne Lou Reed: A Life by Anthony DeCurtis Turtles All the Way Down by John Green What we’re reading: Wonderland: Poems by Matthew Dickman Cruddy by Lynda Barry Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! October 6, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses You Can’t Touch My Hair, Meaty, Light House, and more great older books. This 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: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore Meaty by Samantha Irby We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson Titmuss Regained by John Mortimer Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae Another Fine Myth by Robert Asprin Is Everyone Hanging Out With Me? by Mindy Kaling Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh You Can’t Touch My Hair and Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson Light House by William Monahan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for October 3, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Her Body and Other Parties, We Were Eight Years in Power, Manhattan Beach, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Lighter Than My Shadow and 27 Hours. 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: Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America by Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding (editors) Malagash by Joey Comeau We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan Origin by Dan Brown Reservoir 13: A Novel by Jon McGregor Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between) by Lauren Graham Best American Short Stories 2017 edited by Meg Wolitzer The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Glaser This Is How It Begins: A Novel by Joan Dempsey An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York by Roz Chast Baking with Kafka by Tom Gauld The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston The Glass Eye: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco Fresh Complaint: Stories by Jeffrey Eugenides The Tiger’s Daughter (Their Bright Ascendency) by K Arsenault Rivera What we’re reading: The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Mallory Ortberg Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body by Daniel Goleman and Richard J. Davidson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! September 29, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses The Street, Desperate Characters, The Eyes of the Dragon, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by Blackbird of the Gallows by Meg Kassel. 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: An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden A City Dreaming by Daniel Polansky The Street by Ann Petry From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins Open City by Teju Cole My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok Desperate Characters by Paula Fox Another Country by James Baldwin Lush Life by Richard Price Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for September 26, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss After the Eclipse, Five-Carat Soul, Starfish, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Talenti, ThirdLove, The Language of Thorns, and Lit Chat. 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: graphic violence mentioned in the description starting at 2:40. 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: After the Eclipse: A Mother’s Murder, a Daughter’s Search by Sarah Perry Five-Carat Soul by James McBride Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart by Emily Nunn The Black Tides of Heaven by J.Y. Yang The Red Threads of Fortune by J.Y. Yang Treat! by Christian Vieler Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North by Blair Braverman What we’re reading: Dark at the Crossing by Elliot Ackerman Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America by Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding (editors) This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! September 22, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses The Moviegoer, The Inheritance of Loss, Fugitive Pieces, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by A Poison Dark and Drowning by Jessica Clues. 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 Moviegoer by Walker Percy The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzrd Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor Something to Answer For by P.H. Newby The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James The Famished Road by Ben Okri Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie Half-Blood Blues by Esu Edugyan Us Conductors by Sean Michaels Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix Vampire$ by John Steakley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for September 19, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Good People, The Book of Separation, One Dark Throne, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Taproot, Lit Chat, and The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder. 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 Good People by Hannah Kent The Book of Separation by Tova Mirvis Solar Bones by Mike McCormack Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years by David Litt The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam One Dark Throne (Three Dark Crowns) by Kendare Blake Null States: A Novel (The Centenal Cycle) by Malka Older Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao What we’re reading: Queen in 3D by Brian May Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time by Andrew Forsthoefel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! September 15, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses The Fire Next Time, The Unit, The Good Lord Bird, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by Swing Time by Zadie Smith. 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: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire by Charles Bukowski Another Fine Mess: Life on Tomorrow’s Moon by Pope Brock The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein Seveneves by Neal Stephenson Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist Children of Men by P.D. James Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler When She Woke by Hillary Jordan Infomacracy by Malka Older Days Without End by Sebastian Barry Grace by Natashia Deón The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead The March by E.L. Doctorow The Good Lord Bird by James McBride The Alligators of Abraham by Robert Kloss The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara Junius and Albert’s Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey by Peter Carlson Civil War Stories by Ambrose Bierce Tailchaser’s Song by Tad Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for September 12, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Little Fires Everywhere, Warcross, What Happened, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Talenti, ThirdLove and Montpelier Parade. 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 racialized violence in the book description at the 24:15 mark. 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: Warcross by Marie Lu Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brené Brown The Twelve-Mile Straight by Eleanor Henderson Afterglow (a dog memoir) by Eileen Miles Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime by Ben Blum What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton What we’re reading: Mean by Myriam Gurba Curry: Reading, Eating, and Race (Exploded Views) by Naben Ruthnum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! September 8, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses The Cider House Rules, The House of the Spirits, Ash, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by The Thing with Feathers by McCall Hoyle. 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 Golden House by Salman Rushdie The Cider House Rules by John Irving The Turner House by Angela Flournoy The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi The Glass Town Game by Catherynne M. Valente Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente The Melancholy of Mechagirl by Catherynne M. Valente The Bread We Eat in Dreams by Catherynne M. Valente Speak Easy by Catherynne M. Valente The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh A Thousand Nights by E. K. Johnston Ash by Malinda Lo Fairy Tale Detectives (The Sisters Grimm) by Michael Buckley The Salt Line by Holly Goddard Jones A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter J. Miller The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey Kat Kong by Dav Pilkey Dogzilla by Dav Pilkey Dragon Puncher by James Kochalka Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for September 5, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Sourdough, They Both Die at the End, Sing, Unburied Sing, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Talenti, A Conspiracy in Belgravia, and Copycat. 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: Sourdough by Robin Sloan Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera Sisters by Lily Tuck The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld The Clancys of Queens: A Memoir by Tara Clancy What we’re reading: More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers by Jonathan Lethem Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brené Brown Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! September 1, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses The Mezzanine, Passing, Transmetropolitan, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by Libby, Overdrive’s new reading app. 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 Tragedy of Brady Sims by Ernest J. Gaines The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich A Match to the Heart: One Woman’s Story of Being Struck by Lightning by Gretel Ehrlich Everything You and I Could Have Been If We Weren’t You and I by Albert Espinosa So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell Passing by Nella Larsen A Jello Horse by Matthew Simmons The Black Spider (New York Review Books Classics) by Jeremias Gotthelf, Susan Bernofsky (Translator) Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton I Await the Devil’s Coming by Mary MacLane Salsa Nocturna by Daniel José Older Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville The Cat Inside by William S. Burroughs The Fur Person by May Sarton Binti by Nnedi Okoraor The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal Springtime: A Ghost Story by Michelle de Kretser Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson (Artist) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for August 29, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Resurrection of Joan Ashby, The Burning Girl, My Absolute Darling, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Talenti, ThirdLove, and Book of the Month. 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: Sip by Brian Allen Carr The Burning Girl by Claire Messud The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas Little Boxes by Caroline Casey (Editor) My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World by Reshma Saujani The Tragedy of Brady Sims (Vintage Contemporaries) by Ernest J. Gaines Today Means Amen by Sierra DeMulder What we’re reading: Grist Mill Road by Christopher J. Yates Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! August 25, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses Signal to Noise, Sandman Slim, Audrey Rose, and more great older books. This 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 First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales Rani Patel in Full Effect by Sonia Patel Glitz by Philana Marie Boles All Our Pretty Songs by Sarah McCarry Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Dire King by William Ritter Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel José Older Procession of the Dead by Darren Shan Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey Who Censored Roger Rabbit by Gary K. Wolf Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore Replay by Ken Grimwood The Memory Painter by Gwendolyn Womack The Incarnations by Susan Barker Life After Life by Kate Atkinson A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin Audrey Rose by Frank De Felitta Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for August 22, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Heart’s Invisible Furies, Stay with Me, Young Jane Young, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Talenti, If the Creek Don’t Rise, and The Duchess Deal. 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. Purchase the new Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power, through Print Bookstore! They are donating $5 of each sale, through the end of 2017, to the Charlottesville-based non-profit African American Teaching Fellows, an organization working to increase diversity among teaching staff. 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 Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading by Anne Gisleson (TW: suicide) The Dire King (Jackaby #4) by William Ritter H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter Heartsick by Chelsea Cain PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017 by Kelly Link (Compiler), Marie-Helene Bertino (Compiler), Nina McConigley (Compiler) What we’re reading: I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O’Farrell The Burning Girl by Claire Messud Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! August 18, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses Salvage the Bones, Then We Came to the End, The Sherlockian, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by Caraval 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: A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice The Witching Hour by Anne Rice A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Winds of the Storm by Beverly Jenkins The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke Hold It Til It Hurts by T. Geronimo Johnson Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite New Orleans, Mon Amour by Andrei Codrescu The Awakening by Kate Chopin Living the Dream by Lauren Berry Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris Domestic Violets by Matthew Norman The Ask by Sam Lipsyte The Assistants by Camille Perri Office Girl by Joe Meno The Regional Office is Under Attack by Manuel Gonzales Radio Iris by Anne-Marie Kinney The Beautiful Beaurocrat by Helen Phillips Severance Package by Duane Swiercyznski The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City’s Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation by Brad Ricca The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession by David Grann The Sherlockian by Graham Moore Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for August 15, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Mountain, Home Fire, You Play the Girl, and more books. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove and Reach Out and Read Colorado. 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: Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages by Carina Chocano River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey The Mountain: Stories by Paul Yoon The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson Giant Days by John Allison, Whitney Cogar, Max Sarin Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give by Ada Calhoun What we’re reading: The Lost Boys by Tim Seeley Runtime by S.B. Divya The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading by Anne Gisleson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! August 11, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses Pleasantville, The Haunted Bookshop, Cutting for Stone, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by The People at Number 9 by Felicity Everett. 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 Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter Pleasantville by Attica Locke Defending Jacob by William Landay The Verdict by Nick Stone Paper Girls, Vol. 3 by Brian K. Vaughan, Ciff Chiang, Matt Wilson Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson It by Stephen King White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi Bibliomysteries: Stories of Crime in the World of Books and Bookstores by Otto Penzler Booked to Die by John Dunning The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabirelle Zevin Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami, Ted Goossen (translator) The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn Anno Dracula by Kim Newman The Diary of Jack the Ripper: The Chilling Confessions of James Maybrick The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in the Jazz Age by Deborah Blum Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fall Preview Show, August 8, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss upcoming fall books, including Little Fires Everywhere, What Happened, and Sing, Unburied, Sing. This episode was sponsored by Talenti, Genius: The Con, and Reach Out and Read Colorado. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices