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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

Nov 28, 201740 min

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

Nov 24, 201711 min

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

Nov 21, 201739 min

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

Nov 17, 201711 min

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

Nov 14, 201742 min

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

Nov 10, 201712 min

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

Nov 7, 201739 min

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

Nov 3, 201712 min

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

Oct 31, 201742 min

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

Oct 27, 201711 min

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

Oct 24, 201744 min

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

Oct 20, 201711 min

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

Oct 17, 201735 min

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

Oct 13, 201711 min

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

Oct 10, 201739 min

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

Oct 6, 201711 min

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

Oct 3, 201737 min

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

Sep 29, 201713 min

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

Sep 26, 201739 min

All the Backlist! September 22, 2017

This week, Liberty discusses The Moviegoer, The Inheritance of Loss, Fugitive Pieces, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by A Poison Dark and Drowning by Jessica Clues. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: The Moviegoer by Walker Percy The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzrd Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor Something to Answer For by P.H. Newby The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James The Famished Road by Ben Okri Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie Half-Blood Blues by Esu Edugyan Us Conductors by Sean Michaels Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix Vampire$ by John Steakley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 22, 201711 min

New Releases and More for September 19, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Good People, The Book of Separation, One Dark Throne, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Taproot, Lit Chat, and The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: The Good People by Hannah Kent The Book of Separation by Tova Mirvis Solar Bones by Mike McCormack Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years by David Litt The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam One Dark Throne (Three Dark Crowns) by Kendare Blake Null States: A Novel (The Centenal Cycle) by Malka Older Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao What we’re reading: Queen in 3D by Brian May Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time by Andrew Forsthoefel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 19, 201746 min

All the Backlist! September 15, 2017

This week, Liberty discusses The Fire Next Time, The Unit, The Good Lord Bird, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by Swing Time by Zadie Smith. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire by Charles Bukowski Another Fine Mess: Life on Tomorrow’s Moon by Pope Brock The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein Seveneves by Neal Stephenson Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist Children of Men by P.D. James Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler When She Woke by Hillary Jordan Infomacracy by Malka Older Days Without End by Sebastian Barry Grace by Natashia Deón The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead The March by E.L. Doctorow The Good Lord Bird by James McBride The Alligators of Abraham by Robert Kloss The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara Junius and Albert’s Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey by Peter Carlson Civil War Stories by Ambrose Bierce Tailchaser’s Song by Tad Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 15, 201711 min

New Releases and More for September 12, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Little Fires Everywhere, Warcross, What Happened, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Talenti, ThirdLove and Montpelier Parade. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Trigger warning for racialized violence in the book description at the 24:15 mark. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: Warcross by Marie Lu Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brené Brown The Twelve-Mile Straight by Eleanor Henderson Afterglow (a dog memoir) by Eileen Miles Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime by Ben Blum What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton What we’re reading: Mean by Myriam Gurba Curry: Reading, Eating, and Race (Exploded Views) by Naben Ruthnum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 13, 201746 min

All the Backlist! September 8, 2017

This week, Liberty discusses The Cider House Rules, The House of the Spirits, Ash, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by The Thing with Feathers by McCall Hoyle. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: The Golden House by Salman Rushdie The Cider House Rules by John Irving The Turner House by Angela Flournoy The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi The Glass Town Game by Catherynne M. Valente Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente The Melancholy of Mechagirl by Catherynne M. Valente The Bread We Eat in Dreams by Catherynne M. Valente Speak Easy by Catherynne M. Valente The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh A Thousand Nights by E. K. Johnston Ash by Malinda Lo Fairy Tale Detectives (The Sisters Grimm) by Michael Buckley The Salt Line by Holly Goddard Jones A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter J. Miller The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey Kat Kong by Dav Pilkey Dogzilla by Dav Pilkey Dragon Puncher by James Kochalka Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 8, 201712 min

New Releases and More for September 5, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Sourdough, They Both Die at the End, Sing, Unburied Sing, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Talenti, A Conspiracy in Belgravia, and Copycat. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: Sourdough by Robin Sloan Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera Sisters by Lily Tuck The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld The Clancys of Queens: A Memoir by Tara Clancy What we’re reading: More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers by Jonathan Lethem Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brené Brown Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 5, 201732 min

All the Backlist! September 1, 2017

This week, Liberty discusses The Mezzanine, Passing, Transmetropolitan, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by Libby, Overdrive’s new reading app. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: The Tragedy of Brady Sims by Ernest J. Gaines The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich A Match to the Heart: One Woman’s Story of Being Struck by Lightning by Gretel Ehrlich Everything You and I Could Have Been If We Weren’t You and I by Albert Espinosa So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell Passing by Nella Larsen A Jello Horse by Matthew Simmons The Black Spider (New York Review Books Classics) by Jeremias Gotthelf, Susan Bernofsky (Translator) Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton I Await the Devil’s Coming by Mary MacLane Salsa Nocturna by Daniel José Older Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville The Cat Inside by William S. Burroughs The Fur Person by May Sarton Binti by Nnedi Okoraor The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal Springtime: A Ghost Story by Michelle de Kretser Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson (Artist) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 1, 201711 min

New Releases and More for August 29, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Resurrection of Joan Ashby, The Burning Girl, My Absolute Darling, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Talenti, ThirdLove, and Book of the Month. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: Sip by Brian Allen Carr The Burning Girl by Claire Messud The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas Little Boxes by Caroline Casey (Editor) My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World by Reshma Saujani The Tragedy of Brady Sims (Vintage Contemporaries) by Ernest J. Gaines Today Means Amen by Sierra DeMulder What we’re reading: Grist Mill Road by Christopher J. Yates Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 29, 201740 min

All the Backlist! August 25, 2017

This week, Liberty discusses Signal to Noise, Sandman Slim, Audrey Rose, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales Rani Patel in Full Effect by Sonia Patel Glitz by Philana Marie Boles All Our Pretty Songs by Sarah McCarry Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Dire King by William Ritter Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel José Older Procession of the Dead by Darren Shan Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey Who Censored Roger Rabbit by Gary K. Wolf Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore Replay by Ken Grimwood The Memory Painter by Gwendolyn Womack The Incarnations by Susan Barker Life After Life by Kate Atkinson A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin Audrey Rose by Frank De Felitta Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 25, 201714 min

New Releases and More for August 22, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Heart’s Invisible Furies, Stay with Me, Young Jane Young, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Talenti, If the Creek Don’t Rise, and The Duchess Deal. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Purchase the new Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power, through Print Bookstore! They are donating $5 of each sale, through the end of 2017, to the Charlottesville-based non-profit African American Teaching Fellows, an organization working to increase diversity among teaching staff. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading by Anne Gisleson (TW: suicide) The Dire King (Jackaby #4) by William Ritter H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter Heartsick by Chelsea Cain PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017 by Kelly Link (Compiler), Marie-Helene Bertino (Compiler), Nina McConigley (Compiler) What we’re reading: I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O’Farrell The Burning Girl by Claire Messud Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 22, 201741 min

All the Backlist! August 18, 2017

This week, Liberty discusses Salvage the Bones, Then We Came to the End, The Sherlockian, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by Caraval by Stephanie Garber. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice The Witching Hour by Anne Rice A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Winds of the Storm by Beverly Jenkins The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke Hold It Til It Hurts by T. Geronimo Johnson Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite New Orleans, Mon Amour by Andrei Codrescu The Awakening by Kate Chopin Living the Dream by Lauren Berry Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris Domestic Violets by Matthew Norman The Ask by Sam Lipsyte The Assistants by Camille Perri Office Girl by Joe Meno The Regional Office is Under Attack by Manuel Gonzales Radio Iris by Anne-Marie Kinney The Beautiful Beaurocrat by Helen Phillips Severance Package by Duane Swiercyznski The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City’s Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation by Brad Ricca The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession by David Grann The Sherlockian by Graham Moore Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 18, 201711 min

New Releases and More for August 15, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Mountain, Home Fire, You Play the Girl, and more books. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove and Reach Out and Read Colorado. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages by Carina Chocano River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey The Mountain: Stories by Paul Yoon The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson Giant Days by John Allison, Whitney Cogar, Max Sarin Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give by Ada Calhoun What we’re reading: The Lost Boys by Tim Seeley Runtime by S.B. Divya The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading by Anne Gisleson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 15, 201732 min

All the Backlist! August 11, 2017

This week, Liberty discusses Pleasantville, The Haunted Bookshop, Cutting for Stone, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by The People at Number 9 by Felicity Everett. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter Pleasantville by Attica Locke Defending Jacob by William Landay The Verdict by Nick Stone Paper Girls, Vol. 3 by Brian K. Vaughan, Ciff Chiang, Matt Wilson Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson It by Stephen King White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi Bibliomysteries: Stories of Crime in the World of Books and Bookstores by Otto Penzler Booked to Die by John Dunning The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabirelle Zevin Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami, Ted Goossen (translator) The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn Anno Dracula by Kim Newman The Diary of Jack the Ripper: The Chilling Confessions of James Maybrick The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in the Jazz Age by Deborah Blum Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 11, 201713 min

Fall Preview Show, August 8, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss upcoming fall books, including Little Fires Everywhere, What Happened, and Sing, Unburied, Sing. This episode was sponsored by Talenti, Genius: The Con, and Reach Out and Read Colorado. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 8, 201738 min

All the Backlist! August 4, 2017

This week, Liberty discusses Come Closer, The Unquiet Dead, Skippy Dies, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by the Godhunter series by Amy Sumida. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: The Lost Ones by Sheena Kamal Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran Dope by Sara Gran Come Closer by Sara Gran The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan A Nest of Vipers by Andrea Camilleri Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia by Dennis Covington A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner Brave Deeds by David Abrams Fobbit by David Abrams Beast by Paul Kingsnorth The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays by Paul Kingsnorth Skippy Dies by Paul Murray The Sellout by Paul Beatty The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles Force of Nature by Jane Harper The Dry by Jane Harper A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson Handling Sin by Michael Malone The Hunter by Julia Leigh Disquiet by Julia Leigh Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 4, 201712 min

New Releases and More for August 1, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss See What I Have Done, Mrs. Fletcher, The Lost Ones, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Talenti, BookPop!, and The Punch Escrow. 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: See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perotta The Blinds by Adam Sternbergh Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults by Laurie Penny The Lost Ones by Sheena Kamal The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen by Kate Fagan The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley Sour Heart: Stories by Jenny Zhang What we’re reading: An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 1, 201739 min

All the Backlist! July 28, 2017

This week, Liberty discusses The Magus, The Housekeeper and the Professor, The Alienist, 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: Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison The Alienist by Caleb Carr Arcadia by Lauren Groff Chronicles of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Elegies for the Brokenhearted by Christine Hodgen The Magus by John Fowles The Housekeeper and The Professor by Yoko Ogawa Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 28, 201712 min

New Releases and More for July 25, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Hate to Want You, Careers for Women, Gather the Daughters, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Talenti, ThirdLove, and The Disappearances. 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: Careers for Women by Joanna Scott Madame Zero: 9 Stories by Sarah Hall Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips Hate to Want You: Forbidden Hearts by Alisha Rai Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed The Inseparables by Stuart Nadler Paper Girls by Brian K Vaughan (Author), Cliff Chiang (Artist), Jared K. Fletcher (Artist), Matthew Wilson (Artist) Giant Days by John Allison (Author), Whitney Cogar (Author), Lissa Treiman (Illustrator) The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey The Free-lance Pallbearers by Ishmael Reed When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon Today Means Amen by Sierra DeMulder Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give by Ada Calhoun What we’re reading: No Time to Spare by Ursula K. Le Guin Don’t Live for Your Obituary by John Scalzi Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachael Khong Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 25, 201741 min

All the Backlist! July 21, 2017

This week, Liberty discusses The Devil’s Teeth, Cinnamon and Gunpowder, Nigerians in Space, 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: Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks by Juliet Eilperin The Devil’s Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America’s Great White Sharks by Susan Casey Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 by Michael Capuzzo In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors by Doug Stanton Pocket Genius: Sharks by DK The Jaws of Death: Shark as Predator, Man as Prey by Xavier Maniguet, David A. Christie (Translator) Jaws by Peter Benchley MEG by Steve Alten Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes The Dust of 100 Dogs by A.S. King Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship by Robert Kurson Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead Orient by Christopher Bollen Djinn City by Saad Hossain Escape from Baghdad by Saad Hossain After the Flare by Deji Bryce Olukotun Nigerians in Space by Deji Bryce Olukotun Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 21, 201710 min

New Releases and More for July 18, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Less, Nuclear Family, The Dark Dark, and more books. This episode was sponsored by It All Comes Down to This. And check out Annotated, Book Riot’s new podcast series. 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: Less by Andrew Sean Greer Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home by Nicole J. Georges The Dark Dark: Stories by Samantha Hunt Nuclear Family: A Tragicomic Novel in Letters by Susanna Fogel The Stars in Our Eyes : The Famous, the Infamous, and Why We Care Way Too Much About Them by Julie Klam Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda A Negro and an Ofay by Danny Gardner The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan Cottonmouths by Kelly Ford The Sorcerer of Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey Dreadnought by April Daniels Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Losing It by Emma Rathbone What we’re reading: The Black Book by James Patterson Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 18, 201738 min

All the Backlist! July 14, 2017

This week, Liberty discusses The Restraint of Beasts, We Eat Our Own, The Known World, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by The Folio Society editions of Margaret Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale and Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. 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: American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse Fire Lover: A True Story by Joseph Wambaugh The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh The Choirboys by Joseph Wambaugh The Force by Don Winslow A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger The Forensic Records Society by Magnus Mills The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills A Talent for Murder by Andrew Wilson Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days by Jared Cade Gork, the Teenage Dragon by Gabe Hudson 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moer The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moer Final Girls by Riley Sager Night Film by Marisha Pessl We Eat Our Own by Kea Wilson Security by Gina Wohlsdorf A Catalog of Birds by Laura Harrington Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine Margherita Dolce Vita by Stefano Benni, Antony Shugaar (Translator) Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness by Jennifer Tseng The Known World by Edward P. Jones Binky the Space Cat by Ashley Spires Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 14, 201711 min

New Releases and More for July 11, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss American Fire, Meddling Kids, What We Lose, and more books. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, Goodbye, Vitamin, and LeVar Burton Reads. 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: Final Girls by Riley Sager American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story by Edwidge Danticat Tropic of Kansas by Christopher Brown Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship by Michelle Kuo Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang Revenge of the Nerd: Or . . . The Singular Adventures of the Man Who Would Be Booger by Curtis Armstrong A Catalog of Birds by Laura Harrington Gork, the Teenage Dragon by Gabe Hudson Refuge by Dina Nayeri A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause by Shawn Wen Telling the Map: Stories by Christopher Rowe The Forensic Records Society by Magnus Mills The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller Monstress Volume 2: The Blood by Marjorie Liu (Author), Sana Takeda (Artist) What we’re reading: The Push: A Climber’s Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits by Tommy Caldwell Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor Truly, Madly, Guilty by Liane Moriarty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 11, 201740 min

All the Backlist! July 7, 2017

This week, Liberty discusses The Moor’s Account, The Dog Stars, Saint Maybe, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by The Widow Nash by Jamie Harrison. 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: Made for Love by Alissa Nutting Tampa by Alissa Nutting Florida Frenzy by Harry Crews The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean LaBrava by Elmore Leonard Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami An Oath of Dogs by Wendy Wagner Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kristin Bakis The Dog Stars by Peter Heller White Dog Fell From the Sky by Eleanor Morse Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov, Mirra Ginsburg (Translator) Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughn by Elaine M. Hayes Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography by Jimmy McDonough Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer by Chris Salewicz Queen in 3D by Brian May Rat Girl: A Memoir by Kristin Hersh The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo by Ian Stansel The Untold by Courtney Collins Warlock by Oakley Hall True Grit by Charles Portis The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 7, 201713 min

New Releases and More for July 4, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Made for Love, In the Days of Rain, Thank You for Arguing, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Book of the Month, Who is Rich?, 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: Made for Love by Alissa Nutting In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult by Rebecca Stott Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu Thank You for Arguing, Third Edition: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion by Jay Heinrichs The Disappearances by Emily Bain Murphy Around the Way Girl: A Memoir by Taraji P. Henson South Pole Station by Ashley Shelby The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams On Trails: An Exploration by Robert Moor What we’re reading: The Glass Town Game by Catherynne M. Valente Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years by David Litt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 4, 201748 min

All the Backlist! June 30, 2017

This week, Liberty discusses When Breath Becomes Air, The Soldier’s Scoundrel, Ella Minnow Pea, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by Cheater’s Regret by Rachel Van Dyken. 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: Amatka by Karin Tidbeck Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory Afterparty by Daryl Gregory My Glory Was I Had Such Friends: A Memoir by Amy Silverstein Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles The Day of the Duchess by Sarah MacLean Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins The Soldier’s Scoundrel by Cat Sebastian The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Bronte Wrote Her Masterpiece by John Pfordresher The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 30, 201712 min

New Releases and More for June 27, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Windfall, My Glory Was I Had Such Friends, The Sisters Chase, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Talenti, ThirdLove, and The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue. 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 Windfall by Diksha Basu Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman by Anne Helen Petersen The Sisters Chase by Sarah Healy My Glory Was I Had Such Friends: A Memoir by Amy Silverstein The Birdwatcher by William Shaw The Day of the Duchess: Scandal & Scoundrel, Book III by Sarah MacLean Dry Bones in the Valley /Fateful Mornings: A Henry Farrell Novel by Tom Bouman Infomocracy by Malka Older What we’re reading: Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone by Juli Berwald In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult by Rebecca Stott Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 27, 201743 min

All the Backlist! June 23, 2017

This week, Liberty discusses The Good House, Ada’s Algorithm, Getting Mother’s Body, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by Grace from Counterpoint Press. 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: Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones The Elementals by Michael McDowell The Good House by Tananarive Due House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell Wieland: or, The Transformation by Charles Brockden Brown The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua Ada’s Algorithm: How Lord Byron’s Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age by James Essinger The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey Getting Mother’s Body by Suzan Lori-Parks A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas Basbanes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 23, 201710 min

Best of 2017 Halftime Show

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of their favorite books of 2017 so far, including Pachinko, Hunger, and Chemistry. This episode was sponsored by Talenti, A Dark So Deadly, and Harmony. 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 Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker The Wanderers by Meg Howrey American War by Omar El Akkad Chemistry by Weike Wang The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Idaho by Emily Ruskovich The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House by Alyssa Mastromonaco Double Bind: Women on Ambition by edited Robin Romm Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay What we’re reading: The Power by Naomi Alderman My Glory Was I Had Such Friends: A Memoir by Amy Silverstein Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 20, 201743 min

New Releases and More for June 13, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Prey of Gods, Hunger, The Widow Nash, and more books. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, Blackout, and The Possible. 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 Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History by Camille T. Dungy The Widow Nash by Jamie Harrison Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me by Janet Mock Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir by Sherman Alexie What we’re reading: Rise of the Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste The Day of the Duchess: Scandal & Scoundrel, Book III by Sarah MacLean Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 13, 201741 min

New Releases and More for June 6, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss She Rides Shotgun, The Art of Living, Magpie Murders, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Amazon Kindle, Violet Grenade, and Book Riot Insiders. 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: She Rides Shotgun: A Novel Jordan Harper Perennials by Mandy Berman The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente, Annie Wu (Illustrator) Disasters in the First World: Stories by Olivia Clare Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now by Thich Nhat Hanh Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy The Gypsy Moth Summer by Julia Fierro Dear Cyborgs by Eugene Lim Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee The Long Haul: A Trucker’s Tales of Life on the Road by Finn Murphy The Answers by Catherine Lacey Vulgar Tongues: An Alternative History of English Slang by Max Décharné What we’re reading: The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 6, 201734 min

New Releases and More for May 30, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss When Dimple Met Rishi, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, The White Road, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Amazon Kindle, OwlCrate, and Violet Grenade. 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: When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays by Samantha Irby Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia The Girl With the Make-Believe Husband by Julia Quinn The White Road by Sarah Lotz Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002) by David Sedaris Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson Modern Lovers by Emma Straub In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero What we’re reading: Dune by Frank Herbert The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now by Thich Nhat Hahn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 30, 201740 min