New Releases and More for March 5, 2024

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This week, Liberty and Danika discuss The Hunter, Thunder Song, The Great Divide, and more great books!

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Books Discussed On the Show:

The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez

Thunder Song: Essays by Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

The Hunter by Tana French

The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft

The Meister of Decimen City by Brenna Raney

Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk, Heather Cleary (translator)

Luigi, the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten by Michelle Knudsen and Kevin Hawkes

Bunny Should Be Sleeping by Amy Hest and Renata Liwska

The Baker and the Bard by Fern Haught

Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange

What We’re Reading:

42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams edited by Kevin Jon Davies

God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer by Joseph Earl Thomas

More Books Out This Week:

American Spirits by Russell Banks 

The Prisoner’s Throne (The Stolen Heir) by Holly Black

Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths About Disability by Melissa Blake

The Woman in the Sable Coat by Elizabeth Brooks

What the Bees See: A Honeybee’s Eye View of the World by Craig P. Burrows

The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan

The Tower by Flora Carr

Maktub: An Inspirational Companion to The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Margaret Jull Costa (translator)

Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice (The Finlay Donovan Series, 4) by Elle Cosimano

Say Hello to My Little Friend by Jennine Capó Crucet

Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin by Andre Dubus III 

What Grows in the Dark by Jaq Evans

Island Rule: Stories by Katie M. Flynn 

The Last Verse by Caroline Frost

Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez

Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch

The Invisible Hotel by Yeji Y. Ham

Three Kinds of Lucky (The Shadow Age) by Kim Harrison 

The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice by Alex Hortis

Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls

The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste 

Ellipses by Vanessa Lawrence

36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le

Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History by Margaret Juhae Lee

Here After: A Memoir by Amy Lin

Make Your Own Magic: A Beginner’s Guide to Self-Empowering Witchcraft by Amanda Lovelace

Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon

Clever Creatures of the Night by Samantha Mabry

Finding Sophie by Imran Mahmood 

Pelican Girls by Julia Malye

Promchanted by Morgan Matson

Me vs. Brain: An Overthinker’s Guide to Life by Hayley Morris 

Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi

Silver: Poems by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

The Translator’s Daughter by Grace Loh Prasad

The No-Girlfriend Rule by Christen Randall

My Heavenly Favorite by Lucas Rijneveld, Michele Hutchison

The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir by Rupaul

This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan

One Last Breath by Ginny Myers Sain

Never Been Better by Leanne Toshiko Simpson

Murder Road by Simone St. James

Imagine Freedom: Transforming Pain into Political and Spiritual Power by Rahiel Tesfamariam

Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

The Truth of the Aleke (The Forever Desert, 2) by Moses Ose Utomi

Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman 

Women of Good Fortune by Sophie Wan

Big Time by Ben H. Winters

But the Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu