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This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts, The Grace Year, How We Fight for Our Lives, and more great books. This episode was sponsored Book Riot’s Blind Date with a Book; Ritual Essential Vitamins for Women; and The Dark Lord Clementine by Sarah Jean Horwitz, new from Algonquin Young Readers. 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:

Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones The Grace Year by Kim Liggett In the Hall with the Knife: A Clue Mystery, Book One by Diana Peterfreund Jackpot by Nic Stone The Furies by Katie Lowe Orpheus Girl by Brynne Rebele-Henry

What we’re reading:

Birthday by Meredith Russo

The Forgotten Girl by India Hill Brown

More books out this week:

Sudden Traveler: Stories by Sarah Hall Bat Basics: How to Understand and Help These Amazing Flying Mammals by Karen Krebbs Seven Crows by Kate Kessler What Is Missing: A Novel by Michael Frank A Bitter Feast: A Novel by Deborah Crombie The Best at It by Maulik Pancholy American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation by Holly Jackson Before the Devil Fell: A Novel by Neil Olson What I Lick Before Your Face … and Other Haikus By Dogs by Jamie Coleman The Girl Who Reads on the Metro by Christine Féret-Fleury Cats Are a Liquid by Rebecca Donnelly and Misa Saburi Avidly Reads Making Out by Kathryn Bond Stockton I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita, Jessica Hagedorn (translator) Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds A Punk Rock Future edited by Steve Zisson The Story That Cannot Be Told by J. Kasper Kramer The Girl At the Door by Veronica Raimo, Stash Luczkiw (Translator) Confluence: Navigating the Personal & Political on Rivers of the New West by Zak Podmore A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror by John Hornor Jacobs Watershed by Mark Barr The Library of Lost Things by Laura Taylor Namey Animal (Bagley Wright Lecture Series) by Dorothea Lasky Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo The Remaking: A Novel by Clay Chapman The Oracle of Cumae by Melissa Hardy A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma by David Eimer Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones by Daniel Mendelsohn The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth (Book of Dust, Volume 2) by Philip Pullman The Forest City Killer: A Serial Murderer, a Cold-Case Sleuth, and a Search for Justice by Vanessa Brown This Way to Departures by Linda Mannheim Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church by Megan Phelps-Roper Dreams from Many Rivers: A Hispanic History of the United States Told in Poems by Margarita Engle and Beatriz Gutierrez Hernandez Who Says You’re Dead?: Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned by Jacob M. Appel MD Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir by Nikki Grimes Collateral Damage (Star Trek: The Next Generation) by David Mack Faker by Sarah Smith Rerun Era by Joanna Howard Symphony No. 3 by Chris Eaton Remember by Patricia Smith Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger by Lilly Dancyger Love, Heather by Laurie Petrou Half/Life: New & Selected Poems by Jeffrey Thomson Rogue Heart by Axie Oh The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh Salt Slow by Julia Armfield Infused: Adventures in Tea by Henrietta Lovell Blood Sugar by Daniel Kraus Marley by Jon Clinch Heart of the Moors: An Original Maleficent: Mistress of Evil Novel by Holly Black Warrior of the Altaii by Robert Jordan False Bingo: Stories by Jac Jemc Wham!, George Michael and Me: A Memoir by Andrew Ridgeley Ghosts of Berlin: Stories by Rudolph Herzog, Emma Rault (translator) Here Until August: Stories by Josephine Rowe Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith Bodega: Poems by Su Hwang The Hadley Academy for the Improbably Gifted: A Novel by Conor Grennan and Alessandro Valdrighi Metropolitan Stories: A Novel by Christine Coulson Horror Stories: A Memoir by Liz Phair Erosion: Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams Into the Crooked Place by Alexandra Christo Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another by Matt Taibbi How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse: Book One of the Thorne Chronicles by K. Eason The Giver of Stars: A Novel by Jojo Moyes On Time: A Princely Life in Funk by Morris Day (Author), David Ritz  (Contributor) The Envious Siblings: and Other Morbid Nursery Rhymes by Landis Blair Older Brother by Mahir Guven, Tina Kover (translator) Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011–2019 (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents) by Natasha Stagg Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell The Penguin Book of Mermaids by Cristina Bacchilega and Marie Alohalani Brown 25 Days ‘Til Christmas: A Novel by Poppy Alexander