Best of 2016 Halftime Show

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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. 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. 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)