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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Exit West, All Grown Up, The Hearts of Men, and more books. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove and The Walls Are Closing In. 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: The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg Exit West by Mohsin Hamid Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar The Hearts of Men by Nickolas Butler Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Edgar & Lucy by Victor Lodato The Impossible Fairy Tale by Han Yujoo Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett Ill Will by Dan Chaon Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman’s Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front by Mary Jennings Hegar Celine by Peter Heller The One-Eyed Man by Ron Currie The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Saenz Alone (The Generations Trilogy) by Scott Sigler The Song Rising (The Bone Season) by Samantha Shannon The Erstwhile: The Vorrh by B. Catling The Devil’s Bible by Dana Chamblee Carpenter Eveningland: Stories by Michael Knight What we’re reading: Into the Water by Paula Hawkins Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House by Alyssa Mastromonaco (Author), Lauren Oyler (Contributor) More books out this week: Camanchaca by Diego Zúñiga (Author), Megan McDowell (Translator) Witchy Eye by D.J. Butler The Confessions of Young Nero by Margaret George The Wages of Sin by Kaite Welsh Hekla’s Children by James Brigden Down City: A Daughter’s Story of Love, Memory, and Murder by Leah Carroll The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui Havana: A Subtropical Delirium by Mark Kurlansky The Lost Daughter Collective by Lindsey Drager The Lucky Ones by Julianne Pachico Ties by Domenico Starnone (Author), Jhumpa Lahiri (Translator) The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes by Lyndsay Faye How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett Lotus Blue by Cat Sparks Taduno’s Song by Odafe Atogun Next Year, for Sure by Zoey Leigh Peterson Mister Memory by Marcus Sedgwick The Violated by Bill Pronzini Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked by Adam Alter Big Mushy Happy Lump: A Sarah’s Scribbles Collection by Sarah Andersen Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea by Bandi The Barrowfields by Phillip Lewis Turkish Delight by Jan Wolkers (Author), Sam Garrett (Translator) The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge South and West: From a Notebook by Joan Didion Cut to the Bone by Alex Maan Lenin’s Roller Coaster (A Jack McColl Novel) by David Downing The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco The Girl from Rawblood by Catriona Ward The Third Squad by V. Sanjay Kumar The Painted Gun by Bradley Spinelli Quicksand by Malin Persson Giolito Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World by Benjamin Reiss Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of History’s Greatest Buildings by James Crawford The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan The Underworld by Kevin Canty WHEREAS: Poems by Layli Long Soldier You Are Here: An Owner’s Manual for Dangerous Minds by Jenny Lawson You’re Welcome, Universe by Whitney Gardner Hunger Makes the Wolf by Alex Wells The Widow’s House by Carol Goodman The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel WE: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere by Gillian Anderson and Jennifer Nadel What Is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi (paperback) The Weight of This World by David Joy (paperback) Earth (Object Lessons) by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Linda T. Elkins-Tanton Tree (Object Lessons) by Matthew Battles Egg (Object Lessons) by Nicole Walker Traffic (Object Lessons) by Paul Josephson Book of Mutter (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents) by Kate Zambreno