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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. 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 Books out today: Bone Labyrinth by James Rollins When You’re Back by Abbi Glines Falling for June by Ryan Winfield I Am Charlie Wilson by Charlie Wilson Ana of California by Andi Teran Weightless by Sarah Bannan Stilletto by Daniel O’Malley A Thorn Among the Lilies by Michael Hiebert Run Away by Laura Salters The Dragons of Heaven by Alyc Helms The Singular & Extraordinary Tale of Mirror & Goliath: From the Peculiar Adventures of John Lovehart, Esq., Volume 1 by Ishbelle Bee The English Spy by Daniel Silva Against All Enemies by John Gilstrap Murder, D.C. by Neely Tucker The Mask by Taylor Stevens As Night Falls by Jenny Milchman Follow You Home by Mark Edwards Fatal Deception by Marie Force Run You Down by Julia Dahl The Tide Watchers by Lisa Chaplin Minutes to Kill by Melinda Leigh The Philosopher Kings by Jo Walton New Frontiers by Ben Bova Severed Souls by Terry Goodkind Margaret Truman’s Undiplomatic Murder by Donald Bain Dead Out by Jon McGoran A House Made of Stars by Tawnysha Greene The Hollow Queen by Elizabeth Haydon The House of Four Winds by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory Artemis Invaded by Jane Lindskold American Craftsmen by Tom Doyle Alien Hunter: Underworld by Whitley Streiber Kill Again by Neal Baer and Jonathan Greene The Insider Threat by Brad Taylor The Bones of You by Debbie Howells The Assassins by Gayle Lynds Exit Strategy by Kena Diaz The Book of James by Ellen J. Green The Little Town Where Time Stood Still by Bohumil Hrabal The Flemish House by Georges Simenon Death at Tammany Hall by Charles O'Brien What Doesn’t Kill Her by Carla Norton A Less Perfect Union by Adam Freedman Viral: Stories by Emily Mitchell Matt Helm - The Terminators by Donald Hamilton The Mountain Story by Lori Lansens Black Valley by Charlotte Williams A Time for Truth: Reigniting the Promise of America by Ted Cruz The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck Tommy: The Gun That Changed America by Karen Blumenthal Flame Tree Road by Shona Patel Little Girls by Ronald Malfi I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career: The Selected Correspondence of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg, 1955-1997 edited by Bill Morgan Ghost Fleet by P. W. Singer and August Cole White Crocodile by K. T. Medina The Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson Local Girls by Caroline Zancan Under the Lights by Dahlia Adler Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older The Map of Chaos by Félix J. Palma To Hold the Bridge by Garth Nix Sweet Forgiveness by Lori Nelson Spielman Death in Brittany by Jean-Luc Bannalec Finding Love, Self, and Home on the Far Side of the World by Tracy Slater How Did I Get Here?: Making Peace with the Road Not Taken by Jesse Browner The Mountain and the Wall by Alisa Ganieva Kitty Peck and the Child of Ill-Fortune by Kate Griffin Hardcovers now in paperback: The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran The Happiest People in the World by Brock Clarke The Remedy for Love by Bill Roorbach The Care and Management of Lies by Jacqueline Winspear The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber ____________________ Expand your literary horizons with New Books!, a weekly newsletter spotlighting 3-5 exciting new releases, hand-picked by our very own Liberty Hardy. Sign up now! new books