Best of 2016 Halftime Show
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss their favorite books of 2016 so far, including The Queen of the Night, Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist, and The Hour of Land.
This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, We Were Never Here by Jennifer Gilmore, and Sober Stick Figure: A Memoir by Amber Tozer.
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Books discussed on the show:
Relief Map by Rosalie Knecht
Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapta
The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee
The Unfinished World and Other Stories by Amber Sparks
Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton
The Regional Office is Under Attack by Manuel Gonzales
Sweetgirl by Travis Mulhauser
The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams
What we’re reading:
Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple
All the Rage by Courtney Summers
More books out this week:
So Much for That Winter: Novellas by Dorthe Nors (Author), Misha Hoekstra (Translator)
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
Burn What Will Burn by C. B. McKenzie
New York, 1960 by Barry Gifford
Pathways to Possibility: Transforming Our Relationship with Ourselves, Each Other, and the World by Rosamund Stone Zander
Will & I: A Memoir by Clay Byars
Finding the Flavors We Lost: From Bread to Bourbon, How Artisans Reclaimed American Food by Patric Kuh
We Want Everything by Nanni Balestrini
Eve of a Hundred Midnights: The Star-Crossed Love Story of Two WWII Correspondents and Their Epic Escape Across the Pacific by Bill Lascher
Born of Legend (The League: Nemesis Rising) by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Surprise Me by Deena Goldstone
Bukowski in a Sundress : Confessions from a Writing Life by Kim Addonizio
The Intimidation Game: How the Left Is Silencing Free Speech by Kimberley Strassel
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
The Pursuit: A Fox and O’Hare Novel by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
My Father and Atticus Finch: A Lawyer’s Fight for Justice in 1930s Alabama by Joseph Madison Beck
Death by Video Game: Danger, Pleasure, and Obsession on the Virtual Frontline by Simon Parkin
My Last Continent by Midge Raymond
Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay
As Good as Gone by Larry Watson
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver
We Were Kings by Thomas O’Malley and Douglas Graham Purdy
Man + Table by Nicholas Wadley
A Contrived World by Jung Young-Moon (Author), Jeffrey Karvonen (Translator), Eunji Mah (Translator)
Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt (paperback)
