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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Butterfly Yellow, Revolution of the Soul, Cold Storage, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Book Riot’s Mystery/Thriller giveaway;  Sourcebooks, publishers of Pretty Guilty Women by Gina LaManna; and Small Silent Things by Robin Page. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSSiTunes, or Spotify 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:

Cold Storage: A Novel by David Koepp The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison The Grammarians: A Novel by Cathleen Schine How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together by Dan Kois Butterfly Yellow by Thanhha Lai Revolution of the Soul: Awaken to Love Through Raw Truth, Radical Healing, and Conscious Action by Seane Corn This Tender Land: A Novel by William Kent Krueger Modern Love, Revised and Updated: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption by Daniel Jones, Andrew Rannells, et al.

What we’re reading:

The Glass Woman: A Novel by Caroline Lea Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

More books out this week:

My Jasper June by Laurel Snyder Laughing with Obama: A Photographic Look Back at the Enduring Wit and Spirit of President Barack Obama by M. Sweeney Scan Artist: How Evelyn Wood Convinced the World That Speed-Reading Worked by Marcia Biederman Kill Monster by Sean Doolittle Taboo by Kim Scott The Stylist Takes Manhattan by Rosie Nixon The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace by Patricia Wiltshire We Speak in Storms by Natalie Lund The Best Horror of the Year Volume Eleven by Ellen Datlow Taina by Ernesto Quiñonez Work for It: A Small Town MM Romance by Talia Hibbert The Mythic Dream by John Chu, Leah Cypess Hope Farm by Peggy Frew Whose Story Is This?: Old Conflicts, New Chapters by Rebecca Solnit Guest: A Changeling Tale by Mary Downing Hahn To the Lions: A Novel by Holly Watt Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac We Are Lost and Found by Helene Dunbar The First Stone by Carsten Jensen, Mark Mussari (translator) The Other’s Gold: A Novel by Elizabeth Ames The Paper Lovers by Gerard Woodward The Words between Us by Erin Bartels This Tilting World by Colette Fellous Nya’s Long Walk: A Step at a Time by Linda Sue Park and Brian Pinkney Some Places More Than Others by Renée Watson The Paris Orphan by Natasha Lester Word to the Wise (A Library Lover’s Mystery Book 10) by Jenn McKinlay Tunnel of Bones (City of Ghosts) by Victoria Schwab Unbreakable: The Woman Who Defied the Nazis in the World’s Most Dangerous Horse Race by Richard Askwith Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore After the Flood: A Novel by Kassandra Montag Quichotte: A Novel by Salman Rushdie Sword and Pen (The Great Library) by Rachel Caine A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib Fly Already: Stories by Etgar Keret Loki: Where Mischief Lies by Mackenzi Lee and Stephanie Hans Missing Person by Sarah Lotz My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education by Jennine Capó Crucet The Sweetest Fruits: A Novel by Monique Truong The Chestnut Man: A Novel by Soren Sveistrup, Caroline Waight (translator) Just Ask: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You by Sonia Sotomayor and Rafael Lopez How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by Dina Nayeri Five Dark Fates (Three Dark Crowns) by Kendare Blake To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers Cantoras: A novel by Carolina De Robertis Caster by Elsie Chapman Small Silent Things: A Novel by Robin Page Three Flames: A Novel by Alan Lightman Dominicana: A Novel by Angie Cruz Little Libraries, Big Heroes by Miranda Paul and John Parra Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite The Unkindest Tide (October Daye Book 13) by Seanan McGuire When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl’s Book by Naja Marie Aidt, Denise Newman (translator) Here All Night by Jill McDonough Pretty Guilty Women by Gina LaManna We, the Survivors: A Novel by Tash Aw Rated by Melissa Grey Baking with Kim-Joy: Cute and Creative Bakes to Make You Smile by Kim-Joy Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin The Girl the Sea Gave Back by Adrienne Young Child of the Dream (A Memoir of 1963) by Sharon Robinson The Harp of Kings (Warrior Bards) by Juliet Marillier I Will Destroy You: Poems by Nick Flynn Permanent Record by Mary H. K. Choi The Glass Woman: A Novel by Caroline Lea Strange Birds: A Field Guide to Ruffling Feathers by Celia C. Pérez Rare Breed: A Guide to Success for the Defiant, Dangerous, and Different by Sunny Bonnell and Ashleigh Hansberger There Will Come a Darkness by Katy Rose Pool Rewind by Catherine Ryan Howard Well Met by Jen DeLuca The Secrets We Kept: A novel Lara Prescott More to the Story by Hena Khan Lalani of the Distant Sea by Erin Entrada Kelly The Okay Witch by Emma Steinkellner The Nobody People: A Novel by Bob Proehl Elements of Fiction by Walter Mosley American Royals by Katharine McGee The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt All the Impossible Things by Lindsay Lackey Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin Today We Go Home: A Novel by Kelli Estes The Third Daughter: A Novel by Talia Carner Kingdom of Souls by Rena Barron The Long Call (The Two Rivers Series) by Ann Cleeves Pretty Guilty Women: A Novel by Gina LaManna All the Better Part of Me by Molly Ringle A Girl Named Anna by Lizzy Barber As a River by Sion Dayson The Devil’s Slave: A Novel (Frances Gorges Historical Trilogy) by Tracy Borman Hurricanes: A Memoir by Rick Ross, Neil Martinez-Belkin The Many Colors of Harpreet Singh by Supriya Kelkar , Alea Marley, et al.