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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Buzz, Madonna in a Fur Coat, Bonfire, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Renegades and Pinball Wizard. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: Bonfire by Krysten Ritter Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone by Juli Berwald Wonder Valley by Ivy Pochoda Buzz: The Stimulating History of the Sex Toy by Hallie Lieberman Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali (Author), Ureen Freely (Translator), Alexander Dawe (Translator) Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib Obama: An Intimate Portrait by Pete Souza What we’re reading: The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Kranos

This week, Liberty discusses Glaciers, We the Animals, Tell the Wolves I’m Home, and more great older books. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: Glaciers by Alexis M. Smith We the Animals by Justin Torres The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angélica Gorodischer, Ursula K. LeGuin  (Translator) Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway Tell The Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Oreo by Fran Ross The Last Adventure of Constance Verity by A. Lee Martinez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Beasts Made of Night, Everything is Awful, The Tea Dragon Society, and more books. This episode was sponsored by A Selfie as Big as the Ritz: Stories and Warby Parker. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O’Neill The King Is Always Above the People: Stories by Daniel Alarcón Mudbound by Hillary Jordan Everything Is Awful: And Other Observations by Matt Bellassai Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization by Martin Puchner Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer What we’re reading: How to Write an Autobiographical N

This week, Liberty discusses Cloud Atlas, Here Comes the Sun, The Snow Queen, and more great older books. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: Strange Weather by Joe Hill Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett Brolliology: A History of the Umbrella in Life and Literature by Marion Rankine Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Father of the Rain by Lily King Snowblind by Christopher Golden The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson The Monkey’s Raincoat by Robert Crais The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie How to Survive a

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Long Way Down, The River of Consciousness, Ghosts of the Tsunami, and more books. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove and Turtles All the Way Down. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks Ruby and Olivia by Rachel Hawkins Smitten Kitchen Every Day by Deb Perelman Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry On Living by Kerry Egan An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice by Khizr Khan What we’re reading: Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City by Kate Winkler

This week, Liberty discusses Revenge, Duma Key, Bunnicula, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by Feminist Icon Cross-Stitch. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge Fly by Night by Frances Hardinge The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge The Good House by Yoko Ogawa Ghost Summer by Tananarive Due The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa Revenge by Yoko Ogawa Mongrel by Stephen Graham Jones After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones Duma Key by Stephen King The Troop by Nick Cutter I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery by Deborah and James Howe In Cold Blood by Truman Capote P

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss A Line in the Dark, We’re Going to Need More Wine, The RBG Workout, and more books. This episode was sponsored by A Secret Sisterhood and The Dark Lake. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: Present by Leslie Stein The RBG Workout: How She Stays Strong . . . and You Can Too! by Bryant Johnson A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo We’re Going to Need More Wine: Stories That are Funny, Complicated, and True by Gabrielle Union Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu wd~50: The Cookbook by Wylie Dufresne and Peter Meehan  Motherest by Kristen Iskandrian Undying: A Love Story by Michel Faber What we’re reading: Look Alive Out There: Essays by Sloane Crosley Wilde in Love:

This week, Liberty discusses Pastoralia, The Farming of Bones, Jenny and the Jaws of Life, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nyguen Refugees by Viet Thanh Ngyuen Pastoralia by George Saunders Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy Kindred by Octavia Butler A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead The Fa

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao, Code Girls, Forest of a Thousand Lanterns, and more books. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, Libby, and Life Detonated. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha, Eric M. B. Becker (Translator) Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver The Power by Naomi Alderman Letters to a Young Chef by Daniel Boulud Sparrow by Sarah Moon Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy Forest of a Thousand Lanterns (Rise of the Empress) by Julie C. Dao All the Wind in the World by Samantha Mabry Funeral

This week, Liberty discusses You Can’t Touch My Hair, Meaty, Light House, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore Meaty by Samantha Irby We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson Titmuss Regained by John Mortimer Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae Another Fine Myth by Robert Asprin Is Everyone Hanging Out With Me? by Mindy Kaling Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh You Can’t Touch My Hair and Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson Light House by W

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Her Body and Other Parties, We Were Eight Years in Power, Manhattan Beach, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Lighter Than My Shadow and 27 Hours. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America by Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding (editors) Malagash by Joey Comeau We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan Origin by Dan Brown Reservoir 13: A Novel by Jon McGregor Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between) by Laur

This week, Liberty discusses The Street, Desperate Characters, The Eyes of the Dragon, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by Blackbird of the Gallows by Meg Kassel. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden A City Dreaming by Daniel Polansky The Street by Ann Petry From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins Open City by Teju Cole My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok Desperate Characters by Paula Fox Another Country by James Baldwin Lush Life by Richard Price Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead The Eyes of the Dragon by

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss After the Eclipse, Five-Carat Soul, Starfish, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Talenti, ThirdLove, The Language of Thorns, and Lit Chat. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Trigger warning: graphic violence mentioned in the description starting at 2:40. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: After the Eclipse: A Mother’s Murder, a Daughter’s Search by Sarah Perry Five-Carat Soul by James McBride Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart by Emily Nunn  The Black Tides of Heaven by J.Y. Yang The Red Threads of Fortune by J.Y. Yang Treat! by Christian Vieler Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti

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

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

This week, Liberty discusses The Fire Next Time, The Unit, The Good Lord Bird, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by Swing Time by Zadie Smith. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire by Charles Bukowski Another Fine Mess: Life on Tomorrow’s Moon by Pope Brock The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A.

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

This week, Liberty discusses The Cider House Rules, The House of the Spirits, Ash, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by The Thing with Feathers by McCall Hoyle. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: The Golden House by Salman Rushdie The Cider House Rules by John Irving The Turner House by Angela Flournoy The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi The Glass Town Game by Catherynne M. Valente Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente The Melancholy of Mechagirl by Catherynne M. Valente The Bread We Eat in Dreams by Catherynne M.

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

This week, Liberty discusses The Mezzanine, Passing, Transmetropolitan, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by Libby, Overdrive’s new reading app. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: The Tragedy of Brady Sims by Ernest J. Gaines The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich A Match to the Heart: One Woman’s Story of Being Struck by Lightning by Gretel Ehrlich Everything You and I Could Have Been If We Weren’t You and I by Albert Espinosa So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell Passing by Nella Larsen A Jello Horse by Matthew Simmons The Black Spider (New York Review Books Classics) by Jeremias Gotthelf, Susan Bernofsky (Translator) Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter Nip the Buds, Shoot