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This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss Djinn City, Weave a Circle Round, Oddity, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Breathing Books, Libby, and The City of Brass by S. A. Chakaborty. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: Oddity by Sarah Cannon Weave a Circle Round by Kari Maaren Wrong to Need You: Forbidden Hearts by Alisha Rai A Hope Divided (The Loyal League) by Alyssa Cole Djinn City by Saad Z. Hossain Jade City by Fonda Lee The Green Hand and Other Stories by Nicole Claveloux, Donald Nicholson Smith (Translator) The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand What we’re reading this week: Autumn by Ali Smith The Mannequin Makers by Craig Cliff Learn more about your ad ch

This week, Liberty discusses All Families are Psychotic, Everything I Never Told You, Banvard’s Folly, and more great older books. This week’s episode is sponsored by Tru & Nelle: A Christmas Tale by G. Neri. And don’t forget, we’re giving away $500 to spend at the bookstore of your choice! Click here to enter! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Vanessa & Her Sister by Priya Pramar The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan Josie & Jack by Kelly Braffett Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng Want Not by Jonathan Miles Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard by Paul Collins Banvard’s Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn’t Change the World by

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss A Kind of Freedom, Altered Traits, Spoils, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader, ThirdLove, and PRH Audio. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body by Daniel Goleman and Richard J. Davidson When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink Spoils by Brian Van Reet Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi I Hear She’s a Real Bitch by Jen Agg You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches by Joh

This week, Liberty discusses The ABC Murders, A Study in Scarlet Women, The Ice House, and more great older books. This week’s episode is sponsored by The Hanging Girl by Eileen Cook. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama  (Author),‎ Jonathan Lloyd-Davies (Translator) Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott Heartsick by Chelsea Cain A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas Under the Beetle’s Cellar by Mary Willis Walker The Ice House by Minette Walters Affinity by Sarah Waters Confessions by Kanae Minato A Simple Plan by Scott Smith The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss The City of Brass, Into the Drowning Deep, The Wild Book, and more books. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader, and Creature of Will & Temper. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty Future Home of the Living God: A Novel by Louise Erdrich Shirtless Bear-Fighter Volume 1 by by Jody LeHeup  (Author),‎ Sebastian Girner (Author),‎ Nil Vendrell (Artist),‎ Mike Spicer (Artist),‎ Andrew Robinson (Artist) Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang The Book of Resting Places: A Personal History of Where We Lay the Dead by Thomas Mira y Lopez Mother of All Pigs by Malu Halasa Into

This week, Liberty discusses Mycroft Holmes, Curse of the Narrows, Christine Falls, and more great older books. This week’s episode is sponsored by Weregirl and Chimera by C.D. Bell. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: Bonfire by Krysten Ritter The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabar Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher The Great Halifax Explosion by John Bacon Curse of the Narrows by Laura Macdonald Spineless by Julie Berwald Preparing the Ghost by Matthew Frank Mrs. Osmond by John Banville Christine Falls by Benjamin Black All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault by James Alan Gardner Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman Jade City by Fonda Lee Prizzi’s Honor by Richard Condon Learn more about your ad choic

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