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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ep 151New Releases and More for March 27, 2018
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Hurts to Love You, Emergency Contact, Improvement, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by So Delicious, All the Women in My Family Sing, and What the Night Sings by Vesper Stamper. 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: Emergency Contact by Mary H. K. Choi Hurts to Love You: Forbidden Hearts by Alisha Rai Improvement by Joan Silber Killing It: An Education by Camas Davis All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages by Saundra Mitchell Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday Odd Girl Out: My Extraordinary Autistic Life by Laura James What we’re reading this week: Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik Temper by Nicky Drayden Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist by Sarah Hays Coomer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! March 23, 2018
This week, Liberty discusses The Earthquake Bird, The Color Purple, Let the Right One In, and more great older books. This week’s episode was sponsored by Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Odeyemi. 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 Earthquake Bird by Susanna Jones The 25th Hour by David Benioff The Color Purple by Alice Walker A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving Fingersmith by Sarah Waters The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews Edwards Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ep 150New Releases and More for March 20, 2018
This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss The Astonishing Color of After, The Heart Forger, Stray City, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by So Delicious, ThirdLove, and She Caused a Riot by Hannah Jewell. 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 in the first title at the 3:25 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: The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan The Merry Spinster by Mallory Ortberg Stray City by Chelsey Johnson Aetherial Worlds by Tatyana Tolstaya Bury What We Cannot Take by Kirstin Chen No Turning Back by Rania Abouzeid (NPR interview.) Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft The Heart Forger by Rin Chupeco What we’re reading this week: Blood of a Thousand Stars by Rhoda Belleza The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson The Descent of Monsters (The Tensorate Series) by JY Yang Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! March 16, 2018
This week, Liberty discusses Pobby and Dingan, Darling Jim, Eve Out of Her Ruins, and more great older books. This week’s episode was sponsored by The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw. 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: Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie Emmy & the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell Darling Jim by Christian Moerk The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero Waiting for Gertrude by Bill Richardson Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi Will Starling by Ian Weir Chaotic Good by Whitney Gardner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ep 149New Releases and More for March 13, 2018
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Not My White Savior, Anatomy of a Miracle, Let Me Lie, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney and The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Mallory Ortberg. Sign up for Book Riot Insiders 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. Trigger warning for discussion of suicide in the third title at the 12:14 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: Not My White Savior: A Memoir in Poems by Julayne Lee Rock Monster: My Life with Joe Walsh by Kristin Casey Wellmania: Extreme Misadventures in the Search for Wellness by Brigid Delaney Let Me Lie by Clare Mackintosh Anatomy of a Miracle by Jonathan Miles Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele Would You Rather?: A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out by Katie Heaney Awayland: Stories by Ramona Ausubel What we’re reading this week: Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life by Jim Harrison Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! March 9, 2018
This week, Liberty discusses The Hidden Life of Trees, The People in the Trees, The Wild Trees, and more great older books. This week’s episode was sponsored by Bring Out the Dog: Stories by Will Mackin. 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 Gospel of Trees: A Memoir by Apricot Irving The Which Way Tree by Elizabeth Crook The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben and Jane Billinghurst A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver The Juniper Tree by Barbara Comyns The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon Far from the Tree by Robin Benway Song of the Trees by Mildred B. Taylor The Trees by Ali Shaw Sal by Mick Kitson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ep 148New Releases and More for March 6, 2018
This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss Children of Blood and Bone, Whiskey & Ribbons, Girls Burn Brighter, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Beneath the Surface by Lynn Blackburn and Restore Me by Tahereh Mafi. 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: Whiskey & Ribbons: A Novel by Leesa Cross-Smith Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea Speak No Evil: A Novel by Uzodinma Iweala Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life by Laura Thompson A Note of Explanation by Vita Sackville-West What we’re reading this week: Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot The Authorized Al by Al Yankovic and Tino Insana Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! March 2, 2018
This week, Liberty discusses The Black Count, The Noble Hustle, Autobiography of a Face, 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: I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara The Cadaver King and The Country Dentist by Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington Five-Finger Discount by Helene Stapinski The Black Count by Tom Reiss The Noble Hustle by Colson Whitehead Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett Full-Body Burden by Kristen Iversen Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julia Phillips Hammer Head by Nina MacLaughlin Clandestine in Chile by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Skies Belong to Us by Brendan Koerner Dipper and Mabel’s Guide to Mystery by Rob Renzetti and Shane Houghton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ep 147New Releases and More for February 27, 2018
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Don’t Call Me Princess, All the Names They Used for God, Baby Monkey, Private Eye, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Dreadful Young Girls and Other Stories by Kelly Barnhill 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: All the Names They Used for God: Stories by Anjali Sachdeva Don’t Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life by Peggy Orenstein I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara A Girl’s Guide to Joining the Resistance: A Feminist Handbook on Fighting for Good by Emma Gray Baby Monkey, Private Eye by Brian Selznick and David Serlin This Could Hurt by Jillian Medoff The Last Equation of Isaac Severy: A Novel in Clues by Nova Jacobs Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb What we’re reading this week: MEM by Bethany C. Morrow A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! February 23, 2018
This week, Liberty discusses The Bloody Chamber, All Aunt Hagar’s Children, The Three Button Trick, 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: All the Names They Used For God by Anjali Sachdeva The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter Red Spikes by Margo Lanagan Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson Knockemstiff by Donalyd Ray Pollock Things That Fall from the Sky by Kevin Brockmeier Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Delicate Edible Birds by Lauren Groff Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson Thunderstruck by Elizabeth McCracken Sorry Please Thank You by Charles Yu North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud All Aunt Hagar’s Children by Edward P. Jones The Three Button Trick by Nicola Barker The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ep 146New Releases and More for February 20, 2018
This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss Sunburn, Bingo Love, Dreadful Young Ladies, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by The Birthday Girl by Sue Fortin and Oliver Loving by Stefan Merrill Block. 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: Sunburn by Laura Lippman Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover Bingo Love by Tee Franklin, Jenny St. Onge, and Joy San Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories by Kelly Barnhill Black Comix Returns by John Jennings and Damian Duffy The French Girl by Lexie Elliott After the Flare by Deji Bryce Olukotun What we’re reading this week: Buffalo Soldier by Maurice Broaddus Love and Death in the Sunshine State by Cutter Wood Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for February 13, 2018
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, White Houses, Votes for Women, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Libby 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: White Houses by Amy Bloom The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink edited by Kevin Young Votes for Women!: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot by Winifred Conkling The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang We Are Gathered by Jamie Weisman What we’re reading this week: A Game of Thrones (A Song of Fire and Ice) by George R. R. Martin Okay Fine Whatever by Courtenay Hameister The Wonder Down Under by Ellen Støkken Dahl and Nina Brochmann, MD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! February 9, 2018
This week, Liberty discusses The Tiger, The Antelope Wife, Cat Country, 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: Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall Cat Country by Lao She The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for February 6, 2018
This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss An American Marriage, Shadowsong, Back Talk, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by OwlCrate and F You Very Much by Danny Wallace. 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: I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O’Farrell Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved by Kate Bowler An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Wintersong / Shadowsong by S. Jae-Jones Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú Back Talk: Stories by Danielle Lazarin Tempests and Slaughter (The Numair Chronicles, Book One) by Tamora Pierce What we’re reading this week: Bingo Love by Tee Franklin and Jenn St-Onge The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha) by Tomi Adeyemi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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