New Releases and More for January 15, 2019

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss No Exit, Thick, The Far Field, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, Warby Parker, and As Long As We Both Shall Live by JoAnn Cheney. 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: No Exit: A Novel by Taylor Adams Last Woman Standing by Amy Gentry The Dreamers: A Novel by Karen Thompson Walker Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom The Orphan of Salt Winds by Elizabeth Brooks The Good Food: A Cookbook of Soups, Stews, and Pasta by Daniel Halpern and Julie Strand The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris What we're reading: Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?: (And How to Fix It) by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic More books out this week: Marked by S. Andrew Swann Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy by Larry Loftis Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Li Po) by Ha Jin The Perfect Liar: A Novel by Thomas Christopher Greene The Smiling Man: A Novel by Joseph Knox Unquiet: A Novel by Linn Ullmann A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris B. Hill The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi Bluff City: The Secret Life of Photographer Ernest Withers by Preston Lauterbach Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré by Anika Aldamuy Denise and Paola Escobar Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives by Jane Brox Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely by Andrew S. Curran When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon by Joshua D Mezrich Adèle: A Novel by Leila Slimani Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll by Ian S. Port No Mercy (Ellery Hathaway) by Joanna Schaffhausen Elsey Come Home by Susan Conley Mothers: Stories by Chris Power Talk to Me by John Kenney Annelies: A Novel by David R. Gillham Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro Oculus: Poems by Sally Wen Mao Let's Go Swimming on Doomsday by Natalie C. Anderson Late in the Day: A Novel by Tessa Hadley Hark by Sam Lipsyte Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Love and Life by Kim McLarin You Know You Want This: "Cat Person" and Other Stories by Kristen Roupenian Unmarriageable: A Novel by Soniah Kamal The Liar’s Room by Simon Lelic Joy Enough: A Memoir by Sarah McColl The Whispers by Greg Howard The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, VA, 1843: Annotated From the Library of John C. Calhoun by Percival Everett None of the Above: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal, Corporate Greed , and the Criminalization of Educators by Shani Robinson and Anna Simonton Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married by Abby Ellin Night School: A Reader for Grownups by Zsófia Bán and Jim Tucker Fearless by Sarah Tarkoff As Long as We Both Shall Live by JoAnn Cheney Something Like Breathing by Angeka Readman Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life by Edith Hall The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction by Meghan Cox Gurdon Downhill from Here: Retirement Insecurity in the Age of Inequality by Katherine S. Newman Our Year of Maybe by Rachel Lynn Solomon Why We Fight: One Man’s Search for Meaning Inside the Ring by Josh Rosenblatt The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown by Nick Barratt Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age by Mary Pipher 96 Words for Love by Rachel Roy and Ava Dash Big Bang by David Bowman Rewrite: Loops in the Timescape by Gregory Benford Shadow Captain by Alastair Reynolds