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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, Grace, Before the Feast, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, TryAudioBooks.com, and Read Me Like a Book by Liz Kessler. 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: Before the Feast by Saša Stanišić (author) Anthea Bell (translator) Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty by Ramona Ausubel Grace by Natashia Deón Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies (and Why We Don’t Learn Them from Movies Anymore) by Hadley Freeman Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari What we’re reading: Sabriel by Garth Nix The Bourbon Thief by Tiffany Reisz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge, Homegoing, Marrow Island, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, Audible.com, and Book Riot Live. 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: Romeo and/Or Juliet: A Choosable-Path Adventure by Ryan North Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Marrow Island by Alexis M. Smith Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge by Paul Krueger Rich and Pretty by Rumaan Alam Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter Sex Object: A Memoir by Jessica Valenti What we’re reading: Grace by Natashia Deón The House of Secrets by Brad Meltzer and Tod Goldberg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Hour of Land, Before the Fall, Modern Lovers, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, Rook by Sharon Cameron, and Book Riot Live. 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: Before the Fall by Noah Hawley The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams Some Possible Solutions: Stories by Helen Phillips Modern Lovers by Emma Straub Father’s Day by Simon Van Booy The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance by Jonathan Evison What we’re reading: Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Sweetbitter, How to Make White People Laugh, The Queue, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by Send Me Swooning, Smoke by Dan Vyleta, 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: Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler How to Make White People Laugh by Negin Farsad Dear Fang, with Love by Rufi Thorpe Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship by Isabel Vincent Happy Family by Tracy Barone (R)evolution: The Girls Write Now 2016 Anthology edited by Molly MacDermot The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz (Author), Elisabeth Jaquette (Translator) The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu by Dan Jurafsky What we’re reading: I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Girls on Fire, Shrill, The Fireman, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio and Send Me Swooning. 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: Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee Roses and Rot by Kat Howard Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West The Fireman by Joe Hill 32 Yolks: From My Mother’s Table to Working the Line by Eric Ripert Kevin Kramer Starts on Monday by Debbie Graber Action: A Book about Sex by Amy Rose Spiegel What we’re reading: The Red Car by Marcy Dermansky Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Mongrels, The High Places, The Loney, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by A Robot in the Garden by Deborah Install, The Square Root of Summer by Harriet Reuter Hapgood, 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: Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones Boy Erased: A Memoir by Garrard Conley The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley The High Places: Stories by Fiona McFarlane Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead The Last Day of Night by Graham Moore Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple What we’re reading: An Innocent Fashion by R. J. Hernandez The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Yoga of Max’s Discontent, Sweet Lamb of Heaven, and Imagine Me Gone, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, The Killing Forest by Sara Blaedel, 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: Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet The Yoga of Max’s Discontent by Karan Bajaj Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth What we’re reading: Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Sleeping Giants, Real Artists Have Day Jobs, and Panther, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by Send Me Swooning and the Book Riot store. 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: Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel Real Artists Have Day Jobs (And Other Awesome Things They Don’t Teach You in School) by Sara Benincasa Panther by Brecht Evens (Author), Michele Hutchison (Translator), Laura Watkinson (Translator) The Water Museum: Stories by Luis Alberto Urrea (paperback) What we’re reading: Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel Jerusalem by Alan Moore Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu, Into the Black, and The Lie Tree, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored Open Road Media’s Margery Sharp e-books and Book Riot Live. 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 Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge Before We Visit the Goddess by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Hystopia by David Means The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer Maestra by L. S. Hilton Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own by Kate Bolick Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her by Rowland White What Works: Gender Equality by Design by Iris Bohnet What we’re reading: Ghostly Echoes by William Ritter Heartburn by Nora Ephron (audio) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Regional Office is Under Attack!, A Murder in Time, and Vexation Lullaby, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by the Book of the Month Club, Penguin Random House Audio, and Send Me Swooning. 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 Murder in Time by Julie McElwain The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales The Bed Moved: Stories by Rebecca Schiff I Know What I’m Doing — and Other Lies I Tell Myself: Dispatches from a Life Under Construction by Jen Kirkman Vexation Lullaby by Justin Tussing A Fierce and Subtle Poison by Samantha Mabry Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane: A True Story of Victorian Law and Disorder by Paul Thomas Murphy We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out by Annie E. Clark and Andrea L. Pino What we’re reading: The Pilo Family Circus by Will Elliott The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Kill ‘Em and Leave, I Will Find You, Dodgers, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, The Nutmeg Tree by Margery Sharp, and Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly. 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: Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride I Will Find You: A Reporter Investigates the Life of the Man Who Raped Her by Joanna Connors The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City by Laura Tillman The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial by Maggie Nelson Dodgers by Bill Beverly Country of Red Azaleas by Domnica Radulescu The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith Asking for It by Louise O’Neill What we’re reading: ‘A’ is for Alibi by Sue Grafton Political Suicide: Missteps, Peccadilloes, Bad Calls, Backroom Hijinx, Sordid Pasts, Rotten Breaks, and Just Plain Dumb Mistakes in the Annals of American Politics by Erin McHugh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Relief Map, Girls & Sex, The Little Red Chairs, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina, and Audible.com. 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: Relief Map by Rosalie Knecht Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein The Little Red Chairs by Edna O’Brien Because of Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail: Stories by Kelly Luce Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach What we’re reading: The People in the Castle: Selected Strange Stories by Joan Aiken I Will Find You: A Reporter Investigates the Life of the Man Who Raped Her by Joanna Connors Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and special guest Amanda Nelson discuss Rush Oh!, Jane Steele, Confessions, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, Viceland, andFabFitFun. 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: Rush Oh! By Shirley Barrett The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney No One Knows by J.T. Ellison The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye Confessions by Rabee Jaber, translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid The Study of Seduction by Sabrina Jeffries What we’re reading: The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin Commonwealth by Ann Patchett Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and and special guest Jenn Northington discuss Margaret the First, The Winged Histories, The Throwback Special, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by FabFitFun and Viceland, a new channel from Vice. 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: Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton The Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar Shelter by Jung Yun The Rope by Kanan Makiya The Penny Poet of Portsmouth: A Memoir of Place, Solitude, and Friendship by Katherine Towler The Girl in the Well is Me by Karen Rivers The Throwback Special by Chris Bachelder The Making of the American Essay edited by John D’Agata What we’re reading: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss High Dive, Burn Baby Burn, We Love You, Charlie Freeman, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by FabFitFun and Viceland, a new channel from Vice. 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: We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina High Dive by Jonathan Lee Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World by Laura Barcella Guapa by Saleem Haddad The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours: Stories by Helen Oyeyemi Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg What we’re reading: Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Black Apple, The Art of Risk, Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by FabFitFun and Viceland, a new channel from Vice, launching February 29. 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: Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo by Boris Fishman The Art of Risk: The New Science of Courage, Caution, and Chance by Kayt Sukel The Passenger by Lisa Lutz The Turner House by Angela Flournoy Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond Welcome Thieves: Stories by Sean Beaudoin Black Apple by Joan Crate Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett What we’re reading: Piece of Mind by Michelle Adelman The Inseparables by Stuart Nadler Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Version Control, Unicorns vs. Goblins, Flight of Dreams, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by FabFitFun and Viceland, a new channel from Vice, launching February 29. 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: Version Control by Dexter Palmer What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin Flight of Dreams by Ariel Lawhon On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks Dancing in the Baron’s Shadow by Fabienne Josaphat Unicorn vs Goblins: Another Phoebe and Her Unicorn Adventure by Dana Simpson Kill the Boy Band by Goldy Moldavsky A Gathering of Shadows by V. E. Schwab What we’re reading: Some Possible Solutions: Stories by Helen Phillips Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss And After Many Days, The Silence of the Sea, The Widow, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by Third Love and The Daylight Marriage by Heidi Pitlor. 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 Silence of the Sea by Yrsa Sigurdardóttir And After Many Days by Jowhor Ile The Widow by Fiona Barton The Bigness of the World by Lori Ostlund What Lies Between Us by Nayomi Munaweera Hair: A Human History by Kurt Stenn Perfect Days by Raphael Montes We’ve Already Gone This Far: Stories by Patrick Dacey What we’re reading: Barkskins by Annie Proulx What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss My Father, the Pornographer, Incarceration Nations, Private Citizens, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by Third Love and Descent by Tim Johnston. 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: My Father, the Pornographer by Chris Offutt Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World by Baz Dreisinger Private Citizens by Tony Tulathimutte Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey The Heart by Maylis de Kerangal (Author), Sam Taylor (Translator) Jam on the Vine by LaShonda Katrice Barnett These Vicious Masks by Tarun Shanker and Kelly Zekas Get in Trouble by Kelly Link What we’re reading: Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ All-Time Greatest Hits by Mark Binelli Modern Lovers by Emma Straub Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Queen of the Night, Beasts & Children, The Vegetarian, and more new releases. 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 Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee The Iceberg: A Memoir by Marion Coutts Sweetgirl by Travis Mulhauser Beasts & Children: Stories by Amy Parker The Vegetarian by Han Kang The V-Word: True Stories about First-Time Sex compiled by Amber J. Keyser Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nation’s Leaders by Brady Carlson Find Me by Laura van den Berg What we’re reading: Cat Country by Lao She Exposure: A Sociologist Explores Sex, Society, and Adult Entertainment by Dr. Chauntelle Tibbals Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Unfinished World and Other Stories, All the Birds in the Sky, Good on Paper, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by Feverborn by Karen Marie Moning and Third Love. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders The Unfinished World and Other Stories by Amber Sparks Good on Paper by Rachel Cantor Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins Bookshelf (Object Lessons) by Lydia Pyne Inventology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World by Pagan Kennedy God Help the Child by Toni Morrison Glow by Ned Beauman A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Single, Carefree, Mellow by Katherine Heiny What we’re reading: Weathering by Lucy Wood Flirting with Fire by Kate Meader Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Portable Veblen, The Road to Little Dribbling, The Narrow Door, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by Feverborn by Karen Marie Moning and Third Love. 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 Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain by Bill Bryson The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald Orhan’s Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian The Narrow Door: A Memoir of Friendship by Paul Lisicky Weathering by Lucy Wood What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab What we’re reading: The Book of Flying by Keith Miller Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray by Helen Fisher Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist, My Name Is Lucy Barton, American Housewife, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp and Third Love. 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: My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist by Sunil Yapa The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. Lee American Housewife: Stories by Helen Ellis Rosalie Lightning by Tom Hart Hall of Small Mammals: Stories by Thomas Pierce Eleanor by Jason Gurley Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer What we’re reading: Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Mr. Splitfoot, The Gun, Only Love Can Break Your Heart, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald and FabFitFun. 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 Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back by Kevin Hazzard Mr Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt The Gun by Fuminori Nakamura (Author), and Allison Markin Powell (Translator) Silver Bullets by Elmer Mendoza (Author), Mark Fried (Translator) Shame and Wonder: Essays by David Searcy The Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee’s Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the World by Gulwali Passarlay Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Ed Tarkington Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges by Amy Cuddy What we’re reading: The Great Forgetting by James Renner The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector (Author), Katrina Dodson (Translator) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of the upcoming 2016 releases they are highly anticipating, including Imagine Me Gone, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, and The Bad-ass Librarians of Timbuktu. This episode was sponsored by FabFitFun 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: What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours: Stories by Helen Oyeyemi (March 8) The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales (April 12) Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett (May 3) Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue (August 23) Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel (April 26) The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer (April 19) Shelter by Jung Yun (March 15) The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams (June 7) Dear Fang, With Love by Rufi Thorpe (May 24) The Unfinished World and Other Stories by Amber Sparks (Jan 26) What we’re reading: Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges by Amy Cuddy The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial by Maggie Nelson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of their favorite nonfiction books of 2015, including Between the World and Me, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, and Rain. This episode was sponsored by the DK Holiday Gift Generator and FabFitFun. 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 Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue by Piu Marie Eatwell Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski Ph.D. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein Dear Mr. You by Mary-Louise Parker Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight by Margaret Lazarus Dean Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga by Pamela Newkirk Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald What we’re reading: Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt Three-Martini Lunch by Suzanne Rindell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of their favorite fiction books of 2015, including The Jaguar’s Children, Fates and Furies, and The Fishermen. This episode was sponsored by FabFitFun and the Book Riot Store. 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: Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders by Julianna Baggott Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff The Jaguar’s Children by John Vaillant A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara The Incarnations by Susan Barker The Fishermen by Chigoze Obioma Escape from Baghdad! by Saad Hossain Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson What we’re reading: Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of their favorite debut books of 2015, including Lightless, Bright Lines, and The Shore. This episode was sponsored by Mack Weldon, the DK Holiday Gift Generator, and the Book Riot Store. And sign up here for notifications about Book Riot Live 2016! 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: Lightless by C. A. Higgins Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam Dryland by Sara Jaffe Single, Carefree, Mellow: Stories by Katherine Heiny The Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson Speak by Louisa Hall The Shore by Sara Taylor Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho The Last Days of Video by Jeremy Hawkins Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter by Nina MacLaughlin What we’re reading: American Housewife: Stories by Helen Ellis If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of December’s new releases, including The Verdict, The Rogue Not Taken, and Drawing Blood. This episode was sponsored by Coal River by Ellen Marie Wiseman, Penguin Random House Audio, and the Book Riot Store. And sign up here for notifications about Book Riot Live 2016! 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 Verdict by Nick Stone The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah Maclean Drawing Blood by Molly Crabapple The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don’t Have with People You Don’t Like Doing Things You Don’t Want to Do by Sarah Knight Bryant & May and the Burning Man: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery by Christopher May Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World by Aja Raden Sophia by Michael Bible Descent by Tim Johnston What we’re reading: Year of the Goose by Carly J. Hallman Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories by China Miéville Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of the books they are thankful for, including The Giant’s House, When Women Were Birds, and The Known World. This episode was sponsored by Book Riot’s Best of 2015 box. 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 Westing Game by Ellen Raskin The Babysitter’s Club by Ann M. Martin The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCracken Sula by Toni Morrison My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams The Known World by Edward P. Jones Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen Zazen by Vanessa Veselka The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho What we’re reading: The Cowboy Bible and Other Stories by Carlos Velázquez (Author), Achy Obejas (Translator) Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of their favorite books featuring dysfunctional families, including Father of the Rain, Miss Entropia and the Adam Bomb, and Boy, Snow, Bird. This episode was sponsored by the Book Riot Quarterly Box. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: All Families Are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland Miss Entropia and the Adam Bomb by George Rabasa Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History by Helene Stapinski Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future by A. S. King Father of the Rain by Lily King In the Language of Miracles by Rajia Hassib Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan What we’re reading: The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Our Spoons Came from Woolworths, Dear Mr. You, The Mad Feast, and more new releases. Recorded live at Book Riot Live 2015 in NYC! This episode was sponsored by I Gift YA. 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: Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns Dear Mr. You by Mary-Louise Parker Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne Valente The Color Purple by Alice Walker You Have Never Been Here by Mary Rickert The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour Through America’s Food by Matthew Gavin Frank (Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer by Matthew Gavin Frank) Because She Never Asked by Enrique Vila-Matas, translated by Valerie Miles (Followed by Kevin Brockmeier fangirling. Here’s an amazing place to start.) What we’re reading: My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir by Chris Offutt The Queen by Tiffany Reisz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Girl Who Could Not Dream, The Heart You Carry Home, Twain and Stanley Enter Paradise, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by A Blossom of Bright Light by Suzanne Chazin and Penguin Random House Audio and FabFitFun. 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 Girl Who Could Not Dream by Sarah Beth Durst The Heart You Carry Home by Jennifer Miller Twain and Stanley Enter Paradise by Oscar Hijuelos Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes (What It Is Like To Go To War by Karl Marlantes) Stoner by John Williams By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review by Pamela Paul Zeroville by Steve Erickson (This is published by Europa Editions, not NYRB Classics. I got confused! – Liberty) Skylight by José Saramago What we’re reading: The Deep Sea Diver’s Syndrome by Serge Brusollos (Rebecca is not sure she’s going to get any reading done this week, so here’s a cat dance party instead.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Witches: Salem 1692, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, Slade House, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by A Blossom of Bright Light by Suzanne Chazin, Trigger Warning: Short Fiction and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman and FabFitFun. 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 Witches: Salem 1692 by Stacy Schiff Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein Slade House by David Mitchell The Givenness of Things: Essays by Marilynne Robinson We Five by Mark Dunn (Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn) Brave Enough by Cheryl Strayed Home by Leila S. Chudori (Author), John H. McGlynn (Translator) 2 am at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino What we’re reading: What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours: Stories by Helen Oyeyemi The Witches: Salem 1692 by Stacy Schiff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Mark and the Void, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, Speed Kings, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by the movie Room and FabFitFun. 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: Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin You Don’t Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism by Alida Nugent Speed Kings: The 1932 Winter Olympics and the Fastest Men in the World by Andy Bull The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan Eig Departure by A. G. Riddle Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists by J. Courtney Sullivan and Courtney E. Martin Pat the Bunny (Touch and Feel Book) by Dorothy Kunhardt What we’re reading: The Collected Fiction of Leena Krohn (out in December from Cheeky Frawg Books) Gotham Academy, Survivors’ Club Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Calf, Thirteen Ways of Looking, Mrs. Engels, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by And West Is West by Ron Childress and FabFitFun. 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: Calf by Andrea Kleine Thirteen Ways of Looking: Stories by Colum McCann Mrs. Engels by Gavin McCrea Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories edited by Audrey Niffenegger Twain’s End by Lynn Cullen (Helen Keller in Love by Rosie Sultan) Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim Mighty, Mighty by Wally Rudolph Mermaids in Paradise by Lydia Millet What we’re reading: The Great & Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms: How One Man Scorched the Twentieth Century But Didn’t Mean To by Ian Thornton Upright Beasts: Stories by Lincoln Michel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World, Slaughterhouse 90210, Stars Between the Sun and Moon, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio and FabFitFun. 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: Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World by David Jaher Slaughterhouse 90210 by Maris Kreizman Don’t Suck, Don’t Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt by Kristin Hersh 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories edited by Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor The Clasp by Sloane Crosley Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman’s Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom by Lucia Jang and Susan McClelland Florynce “Flo” Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical by Sherie M. Randolph What we’re reading: American Sweepstakes: How One Small State Bucked the Church, the Feds, and the Mob to Usher in the Lottery Age by Kevin Flynn The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A. N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear, The Heart Goes Last, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom, more new releases, and some spooky favorites. This episode was sponsored by Me, My Hair, and I: Twenty-seven Women Untangle an Obsession by Elizabeth Benedict and Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta. 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 Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear by Margee Kerr Bird Box by Josh Malerman I Remember You: A Ghost Story by Yrsa Sigurdardottir Ghost Summer: Stories by Tananarive Due The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle What we’re reading: The Penny Poet of Portsmouth: A Memoir Of Place, Solitude, and Friendship by Katherine Towler Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing by Sandra M. Gilbert and Roger J. Porter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss I Crawl Through It, The Social Sex, Walk on Earth a Stranger, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta and Entry Island by Peter May. 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: Furiously Happy : A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson The Social Sex: A History of Female Friendship by Marilyn Yalom and Theresa Donovan Brown (Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis by Alexis Coe) The Lower Quarter by Elise Blackwell Honeydew: Stories by Edith Pearlman I Crawl Through It by A.S. King How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the World by Steven Johnson Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse What we’re reading: Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee The Black Tongue by Marko Hautala, Jenni Salmi (Translator) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Fates and Furies, Dumplin’, The Story of My Teeth, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by The Last September by Nina de Gramont 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: Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt Half an Inch of Water: Stories by Percival Everett The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada, Ross Mackenzie (Translator), Shika Mackenzie (Translator) Cat is Art Spelled Wrong by Caroline Casey (Editor), Chris Fischbach (Editor), Sarah Schultz (Editor) Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli, Christine MacSweeney (Translator) Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer (out 9/29) What we’re reading: A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie by Kathryn Harkup The Longest Night by Andria Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss This is Your Life, Harriet Chance, Negroland: A Memoir, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz, Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash, and Baba Yaga’s Assistant by Marika McCoola and Emily Carroll. 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 Your Life, Harriet Chance by Jonathan Evison Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson Sweetland by Michael Crummey Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity–What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves by Christian Rudder As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem Skippy Dies by Paul Murray The Secret History by Donna Tartt What we’re reading: Ghost Summer: Stories by Tananarive Due Lum by Libby Ware Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Sorcerer to the Crown, Prodigies, Girl Waits with Gun, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Macmillan Audio and Book Riot Live. 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: Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Héctor Tobar Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho Prodigies by Angélica Gorodischer Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World by Linda Hirshman Paulina and Fran by Rachel B. Glaser Yes Please by Amy Poehler What we’re reading: Killer on the Road: Violence and the American Interstate by Ginger Strand When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century by Carolyn Marvin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, Rising Strong, George, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Macmillan Audio and Book Riot Live. 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: You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman Rising Strong by Brené Brown George by Alex Gino Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer by Sydney Padua Ally Hughes Has Sex Sometimes by Jules Moulin Ghostman by Roger Hobbs Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere by André Aciman What we’re reading: Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rebecca and Book Riot Managing Editor Amanda Nelson preview Amanda's new podcast Get Booked, a bi-weekly show of personalized book recommendations. Get Booked launches September 10th. Subscribe now! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Smaller and Smaller Circles, I Was a Revolutionary, The Incarnations, and more new releases. 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: Smaller and Smaller Circles by F. H. Batacan I Was a Revolutionary: Stories by Andrew Malan Milward Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock The Incarnations by Susan Barker Forgetting to Be Afraid: A Memoir by Wendy Davis Thunderstruck & Other Stories by Elizabeth McCracken The Girl from the Garden by Parnaz Foroutan What we’re reading: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness by Kyung-Sook Shin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Beautiful Bureaucrat, Bright Lines, Slice Harvester, and more new releases. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Live and the Book Riot Store. 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 Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam The Oyster War: The True Story of a Small Farm, Big Politics, and the Future of Wilderness in America by Summer Brennan In the Language of Miracles by Rajia Hassib Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson Slice Harvester: A Memoir in Pizza by Colin Atrophy Hagendorf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Crooked Heart, Skeleton Crew, What Pet Should I Get? and more new releases. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Live and the Book Riot Quarterly Box. 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: Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings by Shirley Jackson The Girl Who Slept with God by Val Brelinski Barbara the Slut and Other People by Lauren Holmes Single, Carefree, Mellow: Stories by Katherine Heiny Man-Eater: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal by Harold Schechter Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories by China Miéville Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead Pointe by Brandy Colbert What we’re reading: The Best Horror of the Year Volume Seven edited by Ellen Datlow Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Crooked Heart, Skeleton Crew, What Pet Should I Get? and more new releases. This episode is sponsored by Mãn by Kim Thúy and Book Riot Live. 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: Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements by Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, and Astrid Henry Crooked by Austin Grossman The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America’s Coldest Cases by Deborah Halber Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word by Matthew Battles The Story Hour by Thrity Umrigar Dancing with the Devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro on the Brink by Juliana Barbassa What Pet Should I Get? by Dr. Seuss What we’re reading: The Strangest by Michael Seidlinger In the Language of Miracles by Rajia Hassib Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Foulsham, Lovers on All Saints’ Day, Barbarian Days, and more new releases. This episode is sponsored by Mãn by Kim Thúy and Book Riot Live. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. 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: Foulsham (The Iremonger Trilogy) by Edward Carey Lovers on All Saints’ Day: Stories by Juan Gabriel Vasquez Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee (and the countdown clock!) Feminist Ryan Gosling: Feminist Theory (as Imagined) from Your Favorite Sensitive Movie Dude by Danielle Henderson Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson A Rogue by Any Other Name: The First Rule of Scoundrels by Sarah MacLean Cat’s Eye and The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood What we’re reading: Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear by Margee Kerr The Social Sex: A History of Female Friendship by Marilyn Yalom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Between the World and Me, The Blue Girl, Go Set a Watchman, and more new releases. This episode is sponsored by Scribd and Mãn by Kim Thúy. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. 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 Blue Girl by Laurie Foos Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee All This Life by Joshua Mohr Almost Famous Women by Meghan Mayhew Bergman Show and Prove by Sofia Quintero Smokejumper: A Memoir by One of America’s Most Select Airborne Firefighters by Jason A. Ramos What we’re reading: Dancer by Colum McCann The Prophets of Eternal Fjord by Kim Leine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices