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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

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