New Releases and More for November 1, 2016
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Pull Me Under, The Gold Eaters, Virgin and Other Stories, and more books.
This episode was sponsored by No Witness But the Moon by Suzanne Chazin, Penguin Random House Audio, and Prep Dish.
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Books discussed on the show:
Pull Me Under by Kelly Luce
Virgin and Other Stories by April Ayers Lawson
Valiant Gentlemen by Sabina Murray
Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame by Mara Wilson
The Gold Eaters by Ronald Wright
The Queen of the Night / Edinburgh by Alexander Chee
El Paso by Winston Groom
Iron Dawn: The Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War Sea Battle that Changed History by Richard Snow
Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud by Elizabeth Greenwood
Piercing / In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami
Skullcrack City by Jeremy Robert Johnson
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
What we’re reading:
My Darling Detective by Howard Norman
The Loving Husband by Christobel Kent
Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs by Douglas Smith
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
More books out this week:
The Alligators of Abraham by Robert Kloss
Last Train from Perdition (I Travel By Night) by Robert McCammon
A Long December by Richard Chizmar
Bruja by Wendy C. Ortiz
The Book of Endless Sleepovers by Henry Hoke
The In-Betweens by Matthew Simmons
Lady Be Good by Lauren Hilger
Her Nightly Embrace: Book I of the Ravi PI Series by Adi Tantimedha
Iron Dawn: The Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War Sea Battle that Changed History by Richard Snow
The Long Room by Francesca Kay
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962 by Blanche Wiesen Cook
A Portrait of Emily Price by Katherine Reay
The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
By Women Possessed: A Life of Eugene O’Neill by Arthur Gelb and Barbara Gelb
Stay Golden by Lucky Blue Smith
To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History by Lawrence Levy
The Facefaker’s Game by Chandler J. Birch
The Twenty-Three (Promise Falls Trilogy) by Linwood Barclay
The Game Don’t Change by Mazaradi Fox
The Winterlings by Cristina Sánchez-Andrade (Author), Samuel Rutter (Translator)
What the #@&% Is That?: The Saga Anthology of the Monstrous and the Macabre edited by John Joseph Adams and Douglas Cohen
What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars by David Wood
Who Killed Kurt Cobain? The Story of Boddah by Nicolas Otero
The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop by Karen L. Maness and Richard M. Isackes
Author In Progress: A No-Holds-Barred Guide to What It Really Takes to Get Published by Therese Walsh (Editor), Writer Unboxed
Double Down (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #11) by Jeff Kinney
The Weaver by Emmi Itäranta
The Wrong Side of Goodbye (A Harry Bosch Novel) by Michael Connelly
The Beach at Night by Elena Ferrante
American Dreamer: My Life in Fashion & Business by Tommy Hilfiger
Experimental Animals (A Reality Fiction) by Thalia Field
Faithful by Alice Hoffman
Dispossession: A Novel of Few Words by Simon Grennan
Fish in Exile by Vi Khi Nao
Bestiary: Poems by Donika Kelly
Shackleton’s Heroes : The Epic Story of the Men Who Kept the Endurance Expedition Alive by Wilson McOrist
When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep and Stalin Robbed a Bank: History’s Unknown Chapters by Giles Milton
A Death in the Islands : The Unwritten Law and the Last Trial of Clarence Darrow by Mike Farris
Thus Bad Begins by Javier Marias (Author), Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey by Elena Ferrante (Author), Ann Goldstein (Translator)
Cabo de Gata by Eugen Ruge (Author) Anthea Bell (Translator)
The White Road: Journey into an Obsession by Edmund de Waal (paperback)
Submission by Michel Houellebecq (Author), Lorin Stein (Translator) (paperback)
Hemingway in Love: The Untold Story: A Memoir by A. E. Hotchner (paperback)