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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 F

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 Scorche

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

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 Mal

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 Car

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 Wolitze

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 Mu

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

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 b

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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

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 Vo

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 Sho

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 W

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

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

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 me

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 abo

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