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This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss Trail of Lightning, Salt Lane, Confessions of the Fox, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by Harry’s Trees by Jon Cohen, Those Other Women by Nicola Moriarty, and Book Riot’s Annotated.

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Books discussed on the show:

Salt Lane by William Shaw

Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World) by Rebecca Roanhorse

Bonfire by Krysten Ritter

The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland

The Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote Tamirat

Confessions of the Fox: A Novel by Jordy Rosenberg

Fierce: The History of Leopard Print by Jo Weldon

Starless by Jacqueline Carey

What we’re reading this week:

Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (Flavia de Luce Mystery, Book 4) by Alan Bradley

More books out this week:

A Thousand Beginnings and Endings by Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman

My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows

The Fragile Ordinary by Samantha Young

Three Days Missing by Kimberly Belle

The Boy, the Boat, and the Beast by Samantha M. Clark

The Jamie Drake Equation by Christopher Edge

The Emerald Sea (The Glittering Court) by Richelle Mead

Giant Days: Extra Credit by John Allison and Jenn St-Onge

The Trial and Execution of the Traitor George Washington by Charles Rosenberg

The Summer List: A Novel by Amy Mason Doan

Drum Roll, Please by Lisa Jenn Bigelow

The Lost Books: The Scroll of Kings by Sarah Prineas

Bimini Twist: A Jane Bunker Mystery by Linda Greenlaw

One Small Thing by Erin Watt

Learning to Breathe by Janice Lynn Mather

Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures by Nick Pyenson

The Secrets Between Us: A Novel by Thrity Umrigar

Remind Me Again What Happened by Joanna Luloff

Before and Again by Barbara Delinsky

The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading by Edmund White

The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay

Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America by Alissa Quart

All That Is Left Is All That Matters: Stories by Mark Slouka

Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World’s Strangest Brains by Helen Thomson

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World’s Most Famous Detective Writer by Margalit Fox

The Darkest Time of Night by Jeremy Finley

Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything by Randi Hutter Epstein

I Will Be Complete: A Memoir by Glen David Gold

Midnight Blue: A Novel by Simone van der Vlugt

Any Man by Amber Tamblyn

An Excellent Choice: Panic and Joy on My Solo Path to Motherhood by Emma Brockes

How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People by D. L. Hughley

Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin

Playing with Matches: A Novel by Hannah Orenstein

Buried in Books (Bibliophile Mystery) by Kate Carlisle

The Museum of Us by Tara Wilson Redd

All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin

Red Waters Rising (The Devil’s West) by Laura Anne Gilman

The Hospital by Ahmed Bouanani, Lara Vergnaud (Translator)

Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser (Editor), Katrina Dodson (Translator) (paperback)