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New Releases for Feb. 2, 2016
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

New Releases for Jan. 26, 2016
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

New Releases for Jan. 19, 2016
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

New Releases for Jan. 12, 2016
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

New Releases for Jan. 5, 2016
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

2016 Preview Show, Dec. 29, 2015
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

Best Fiction of 2015, Dec. 22, 2015
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

Best Fiction of 2015, Dec. 15, 2015
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

Best Debuts of 2015, Dec. 8, 2015
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

December releases, Dec. 1, 2015
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

Books We're Thankful For, Nov. 24, 2015
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

Dysfunctional Families, Nov. 17, 2015
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

New Releases for Nov. 10, 2015
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

New Releases for Nov. 3, 2015
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

New Releases for Oct. 27, 2015
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

New Releases for Oct. 20, 2015
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

New Releases for Oct. 13, 2015
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

New releases, October 6, 2015
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

New releases, September 29, 2015
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

New releases, September 22, 2015
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

New releases, September 15, 2015
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

New releases, September 8, 2015
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

New releases, September 1, 2015
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

New releases, August 25, 2015
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

Introducing: Get Booked!
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

New releases, August 18, 2015
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

New releases, August 11, 2015
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

New releases, August 4, 2015
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

New releases, July 28, 2015
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

New releases, July 21, 2015
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

New releases, July 14, 2015
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

New releases, July 7, 2015
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Invaders, Lucky Us, Speak, 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 Invaders by Karolina Waclawiak Speak by Louisa Hall Secessia by Kent Wascom As If!: The Oral History of Clueless as told by Amy Heckerling and the Cast and Crew by Jen Chaney Among the Ten Thousand Things by Julia Pierpoint A Map of Betrayal by Ha Jin Bell Weather by Dennis Mahoney Lucky Us by Amy Bloom What we’re reading: Darconville’s Cat by Alexander Theroux The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour Through America’s Food by Matthew Gavin Frank Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Best Books of 2015 Halftime Show
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss their favorite books of 2015 so far, including The Fishermen, Sweetland, and A Little Life. This episode is sponsored by 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: Sweetland by Michael Crummey A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Listen, Slowly by Thanhhà Lại Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids edited by Meghan Daum (My Misspent Youth by Meghan Daum) Escape from Baghdad! by Saad Hossain The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma The Ghost Network by Catie Disbato H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald What we’re reading: As If!: The Oral History of Clueless as told by Amy Heckerling and the Cast and Crew by Jen Chaney Speak by Louisa Hall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New releases, June 23, 2015
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Book of Speculation, Music for Wartime, A Planet for Rent, and more new releases. This episode is sponsored by ProjectEd and The Novice by Taran Matharu. 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 Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler Music for Wartime by Rebecca Makkai A Planet for Rent by Yoss Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola The Little Town Where Time Stood Still by Bohumil Hrabal The Cartel by Don Winslow Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older What we’re reading: As If!: The Oral History of Clueless as told by Amy Heckerling and the Cast and Crew by Jen Chaney The Sage of Waterloo by Leona Francombe The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New releases, June 16, 2015
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Modern Romance, Pirate Hunters, Summerlong, and more new releases. This episode is sponsored by ProjectEd and the Book Riot summer reading box. 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 Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship by Robert Kurson Cinnamon & Gunpowder and Eli Brown Summerlong by Dean Bakopoulos In the Country by Mia Alvar Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes Charlie Martz and Other Stories: The Unpublished Stories by Elmore Leonard Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian by E L James What we’re reading: Don’t Suck, Don’t Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt by Kristin Hersh Dear Mr. You by Mary-Louise Parker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New releases, June 9, 2015
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss A Perfect Crime, The Magician’s Land, The Sunken Cathedral, and more new releases. This episode is sponsored by ProjectEd and the Book Riot summer reading box. 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: A Perfect Crime by A Yi People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo–and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up by Richard Lloyd Perry Red : A History of the Redhead by Jacky Colliss Harvey The Sunken Cathedral by Kate Walbert The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman The Girls from Corona del Mar by Rufi Thorpe Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle by Kristen Green Reading Lives #28: Liberty Hardy What we’re reading: The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New releases, June 2, 2015
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Bellweather Rhapsody, Saint Mazie, Land Where I Flee, and more new releases. This episode is sponsored by Scribd 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: Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg Land Where I Flee by Prajwal Parajuly The Vacationers by Emma Straub Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future by A. S. King Naked at Lunch: A Reluctant Nudist’s Adventures in the Clothing-Optional World by Mark Haskell Smith The Nakeds by Lisa Glatt Summer reading recommendations What we’re reading: Topless Cellist: The Improbable Life of Charlotte Moorman by Joan Rothfuss Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New releases, May 26, 2015
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Our Souls at Night, The Water Knife, Tiny Pretty Things, and more new releases. This episode is sponsored by Swoon Reads 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: Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf Extraordinary Means by Robyn Schneider Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers by Nick Offerman Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness by Jennifer Tseng Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage by Molly Wizenberg Kissing in America by Margo Rabb Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi The Amazing Hamweenie Escapes! by Patty Bowman What we’re reading: Nigerians in Space by Deji Bryce Olukotun Rising Strong by Brené Brown Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New releases, May 19, 2015
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Uprooted, Mislaid, The Gracekeepers, and more new releases. This episode is sponsored by Swoon Reads 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: Uprooted by Naomi Novik Mislaid by Nell Zink Scarlett Undercover by Jennifer Latham Lifted by the Great Nothing by Karim Dimechkie Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight by Margaret Lazarus Dean The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan The Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North Irrationally Yours: On Missing Socks, Pickup Lines, and Other Existential Puzzles by Dan Ariely What we’re reading: Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer Scrapper by Matt Bell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New releases, May 12, 2015
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Luckiest Girl Alive, Nimona, The Book of Aron, and more new releases. This episode is sponsored by Audible and Scribd. 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 in the show: Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll Nimona by Noelle Stevenson Almost Crimson by Dasha Kelly Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America’s Whiskey by Reid Mitenbuler How to Start a Fire by Lisa Lutz Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood What we’re reading: Juba! by Walter Dean Meyers Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski Ph.D. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Preview
Liberty and Rebecca introduce Book Riot's newest podcast All the Books!. Hosted by Liberty and guests, All the Books! is a weekly show of recommendations and discussions about the most interesting and exciting new book releases. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices