All the Books! Podcast, Episode #28: Dysfunctional Families, Nov. 17, 2015
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of their favorite books featuring dysfunctional families, including Father of the Rain, Miss Entropia and the Adam Bomb, and Boy, Snow, Bird.
This episode was sponsored by the Book Riot Quarterly Box.
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Books discussed on the show:
All Families Are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
Miss Entropia and the Adam Bomb by George Rabasa
Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History by Helene Stapinski
Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future by A. S. King
Father of the Rain by Lily King
In the Language of Miracles by Rajia Hassib
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
What we’re reading:
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton
Books out this week:
Bohemian Gospel by Dana Chamblee Carpenter
A Different Lie by Derek Haas
Tricky Twenty-Two by Janet Evanovich
The Emperor of Sound: A Memoir by Timbaland
To Hell and Back: Europe 1914–1949 by Ian Kershaw
The Mystery of the Lone Wolf Killer: Anders Behring Breivik and the Threat of Terror in
Plain Sight by Unni Turrettini
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
Skyborn by David Dalglish
Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories by Rob Brotherton
The Shootout Solution: Genrenauts Episode 1 by Michael R. Underwood
The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes by Robert Hughes
Memory Theater by Simon Critchley
American Blood by Ben Sanders
But Enough About Me by Burt Reynolds
Strange Girl by Christopher Pike
Ticket to India by N. H. Senzai
Pillow by Andrew Battershill
Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane by Patrick McGilligan
Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto
The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free by Alex Perry
A School for Fools by Sasha Sokolov
The Emperor of Sound by Timbaland
The Guilty by David Baldacci
Warheart by Terry Goodkind
Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century by Alistair Horne
Bang Bang: My Life in Ink by Bang Bang
This Old Man: All in Pieces by Roger Angell
The Pharaoh’s Secret: A Novel from the NUMA Files by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown
The Furies by Natalie Haynes (paperback)