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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

New Releases and More for May 23, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Black Mad Wheel, Chemistry, Augustown, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Amazon Kindle, 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. 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: Black Mad Wheel by Josh Malerman Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny The Long Drop by Denise Mina Chemistry by Weike Wang Augustown by Kei Miller Careful: A User’s Guide to Our Injury-Prone Minds by Steve Casner The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny by Michael Wallis Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong-and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini What we’re reading: The Fortune Teller by Gwendolyn Womack We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays by Samantha Irby The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 23, 201739 min

New Releases and More for May 16, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Push, York: The Shadow Cipher, An Awkward Age, and more books for dads and grads. This episode was sponsored by Amazon Kindle, The Battlemage, and Grand Central Publishing’s instant book club sweepstakes. 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 Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner The Awkward Age by Francesca Segal York: The Shadow Cipher by Laura Ruby The Push: A Climber’s Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits by Tommy Caldwell Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras, and Elle Morton How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu Exit West by Mohsin Hamid Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes What we’re reading: The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, a Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese by Brad Kessler The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 16, 201739 min

New Releases and More for May 9, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Lives of the Monster Dogs, Ramona Blue, Binti, and more. This episode was sponsored by Talenti, ThirdLove, Woman No. 17 and Grand Central Publishing’s instant book club sweepstakes. 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: Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan Man of the Year: A Memoir by Lou Cove Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy Binti and Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam M. Grant Ph.D. What we’re reading: Fresh Complaint: Stories by Jeffrey Eugenides This Must Be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 9, 201738 min

New Releases and More for May 2, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Priestdaddy, One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, This is Just My Face, and more. This episode was sponsored by Talenti, Adulthood for Beginners, and The Radium Girls. 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: This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays by Scaachi Koul Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood The Dinner Party: Stories by Joshua Ferris My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues by Pamela Paul The Leavers by Lisa Ko Salt Houses by Hala Alyan Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee What we’re reading: Catapult: Stories by Emily Fridlund Saints for All Occassions by J. Courtney Sullivan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 2, 201743 min

New Releases and More for April 25, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Borne, Scienceblind, Startup, and more. This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, I Found You, 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: Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout Startup by Doree Shafrir Borne by Jeff VanderMeer Awkward: The Science of Why We’re Socially Awkward and Why That’s Awesome by Ty Tashiro The Last Neanderthal by Claire Cameron I Know What I’m Doing — and Other Lies I Tell Myself: Dispatches from a Life Under Construction by Jen Kirkman Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong by Andrew Shtulman Spare and Found Parts by Sarah Maria Griffin Nightlights by Lorena Alvarez Company Town by Madeline Ashby Binti and Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson Grave Mercy: His Fair Assassin, Book I (His Fair Assassin Trilogy) by Robin LaFevers Penance by Kanae Minato Dig If You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince by Ben Greenman A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman, Jessica Cohen (translator) Follow Me into the Dark by Felicia C. Sullivan What we’re reading: One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays by Scaachi Koul A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 25, 201741 min

New Releases and More for April 18, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Locking Up Our Own, How to Be Married, Imagine Wanting Only This, and more. This episode was sponsored by Life After, 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: The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Surviving My First (Really Hard) Year of Marriage by Jo Piazza Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke When You Find Out the World Is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments by Kelly Oxford The Last Days of Café Leila by Donia Bijan The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings on Authenticity, Connection and Courage by Brené Brown Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande What we’re reading: The Thief (The Queen’s Thief, Book 1) by Megan Whalen Turner The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 18, 201746 min

New Releases and More for April 11, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Shot-Blue, Double Bind, If We Were Villains, and more books. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, Perfect, and His Alone. 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 Redemption of Galen Pike by Carys Davies Double Bind: Women on Ambition edited by Robin Romm If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio Penance by Kanae Minato Shot-Blue by Jesse Ruddock Make Trouble by John Waters Grace by Natashia Deón Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage by Dani Shapiro What we’re reading: The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman Joy on Demand: The Art of Discovering the Happiness Within by Chade-Meng Tan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 11, 201738 min

New Releases and More for April 4, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss American War, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, Marlena, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Lola and Things I Should Have Known. 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: American War by Omar El Akkad What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories by Lesley Nneka Arimah Marlena by Julie Buntin A Little More Human by Fiona Maazel Ragdoll by Daniel Cole Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear, Get On the Mat, Love Your Body by Jessamyn Stanley My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris Selected Writings (Everyman’s Library) by John Muir The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney (paperback) Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown (paperback) Shrill by Lindy West (paperback) All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (paperback) Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler (paperback) The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp (paperback) White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg (paperback) What we’re reading: The Good People by Hannah Kent The Wisdom of Yoga: A Seeker’s Guide to Extraordinary Living by Stephen Cope Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 4, 201744 min

New Releases and More for March 28, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, Beyond Infinity, and more books, as well as answer listener questions. This episode was sponsored by An Extraordinary Union and My Darling Detective. 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 Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics by Eugenia Cheng The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste Seven Minutes in Heaven (Desperate Duchesses By the Numbers) by Eloisa James What we’re reading: The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World: A Novel of Robert Louis Stevenson by Brian Doyle Nabokov’s Favorite Word Is Mauve: What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing by Ben Blatt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 28, 201749 min

New Releases and More for March 21, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Collapsing Empire, Our Short History, Midnight in America, and more books. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, Penguin Random House Audio, and Caraval. 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 Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi 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 and Lauren Oyler Midnight in America: Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the Civil War by Jonathan W. White Our Short History by Lauren Grodstein The Idiot by Elif Batuman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 21, 201740 min

New Releases and More for March 14, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss White Tears, The Wanderers, Himself, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Playster and Why We March. 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 Tears by Hari Kunzru The Wanderers by Meg Howrey Himself by Jess Kidd The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir by Ariel Levy Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper Printer’s Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History by Rebecca Romney and J. P. Romney Stressed, Unstressed: Classic Poems to Ease the Mind by Jonathan Bate and Paula Byrne The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui Miranda and Caliban by Jacqueline Carey Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help by Loretta MacFarquhar Swimmer Among the Stars: Stories by Kanishk Tharoor What we’re reading: Midnight in America: Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the Civil War by Jonathan W. White Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear, Get On the Mat, Love Your Body by Jessamyn Stanley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 13, 201742 min

New Releases and More for March 7, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Exit West, All Grown Up, The Hearts of Men, and more books. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove and The Walls Are Closing In. 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 Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg Exit West by Mohsin Hamid Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar The Hearts of Men by Nickolas Butler Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Edgar & Lucy by Victor Lodato The Impossible Fairy Tale by Han Yujoo Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett Ill Will by Dan Chaon Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman’s Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front by Mary Jennings Hegar Celine by Peter Heller The One-Eyed Man by Ron Currie The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Saenz Alone (The Generations Trilogy) by Scott Sigler The Song Rising (The Bone Season) by Samantha Shannon The Erstwhile: The Vorrh by B. Catling The Devil’s Bible by Dana Chamblee Carpenter Eveningland: Stories by Michael Knight What we’re reading: Into the Water by Paula Hawkins 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 (Author), Lauren Oyler (Contributor) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 7, 201739 min

New Releases and More for February 28, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Hate U Give, Everything Belongs To Us, The Beast Is an Animal, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Girl in Disguise and Rough and Tumble. 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 Beast is an Animal by Peternelle van Arsdale The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Everything Belongs to Us by Yoojin Grace Wuertz Abandon Me: Memoirs by Melissa Febos The Fisherman by John Jangan Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond Lab Girl by Hope Jahren Big Lonesome by Joseph Scapellato What we’re reading: The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story by Edwidge Danticat Mink River by Brian Doyle Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 28, 201735 min

New Releases and More for February 21, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss I See You, Traveling with Ghosts, Dead Letters, and more books. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove and Penguin Random House Audio. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: I See You by Clare Mackintosh Traveling with Ghosts: A Memoir by Shannon Leone Fowler Dead Letters by Caite Dolan-Leach A Field Guide to Getting Lost Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah The Elementals by Michael McDowell Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota What we’re reading: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 21, 201737 min

New Releases and More for February 14, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Lincoln in the Bardo, Girls on Fire, American Street, and more books. This episode was sponsored by The Clairvoyants and bookriot.com/curriegiveaway. 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: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders Tell Me Everything You Don’t Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee American Street by Ibi Zoboi Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit The Dime by Kathleen Kent She Matters: A Life in Friendships by Susanna Sonnenberg What we’re reading: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng Howl’s Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Jones Illusion of Justice: Inside Making a Murderer and America’s Broken System by Jerome F. Buting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 14, 201739 min

New Releases and More for February 7, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss What You Don’t Know, A Separation, Pachinko, and more books. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove and A Tragic Kind of Wonderful. 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: Unbound: A Story of Snow and Self-Discovery by Steph Jagger What You Don’t Know by JoAnn Cheney A Separation by Katie Kitamura Pachinko by Min Jin Lee The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neil The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso The Possessions by Sara Flannery Murphy The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance by Anders Rydell (Author), Henning Koch (Translator) 300 Arguments: Essays by Sarah Manguso What we’re reading: Rattle by Fiona Cummins Breathless by Beverly Jenkins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 7, 201740 min

New Releases and More for January 31, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Animators, Unspeakable Things, The Brand New Catastrophe, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Caraval and Wires & Nerve. 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 It’s All Absolutely Fine: Life Is Complicated So I’ve Drawn It Instead by Ruby Elliot We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly The Brand New Catastrophe: A Memoir by Mike Scalise Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution by Laurie Penny What we’re reading: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka Infomacracy by Malka Older Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 31, 201730 min

New Releases and More for January 24, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Days Without End, Here We Are, Tears We Cannot Stop, and more books. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove and Mr. Splitfoot. 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: Days Without End by Sebastian Barry Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World edited by Kelly Jensen City of Saints & Thieves by Natalie C. Anderson Perfect Little World by Kevin Wilson The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria by Carlos Hernandez Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson World, Chase Me Down by Andrew Hilleman Unbound: A Story of Snow and Self-Discovery by Steph Jagger What we’re reading: House of Bathory by Linda Lafferty The Bed Moved: Stories by Rebecca Schiff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 25, 201732 min

New Releases and More for January 17, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead, The Futures, Sirens, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Once We Were Sisters and Penguin Random House Audio. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: O Fallen Angel by Kate Zambreno The Futures by Anna Pitoniak The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead: Stories by Chanelle Benz Homesick for Another World: Stories by Ottessa Moshfegh History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters by Emily Esfahani Smith Sirens: A Memoir by Joshua Mohr New and Selected Poems, Vol 1 by Mary Oliver What we’re reading: Exes by Max Winter Roots to the Earth: Poems and a Story by Wendell Berry and Wesley Bates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 17, 201736 min