Anticipated New Books of 2019 Preview Show

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Nickel Boys, An Orchestra of Minorities, Southern Lady Code, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders and Seal Press, publisher of Faking It: The Lies Women Tell About Sex–and the Truths They Reveal by Lux Alptraum. 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: Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood by Maureen Stanton So Here’s the Thing . . .: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut by Alyssa Mastromonaco, Lauren Oyler (Contributor) Trust Exercise: A Novel by Susan Choi The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray Gingerbread: A Novel by Helen Oyeyemi That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour by Sunita Puri The Memory Police: A Novel by Yoko Ogawa and Stephen Snyder Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski PhD, Amelia Nagoski DMA The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O’Meara Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James Sing to It: New Stories by Amy Hempel The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli Southern Lady Code: Essays by Helen Ellis All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern What we’re reading: I Miss You When I Blink: Essays by Mary Laura Philpott More books out this week: Kingdom of the Blind: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape by Sohaila Abdulali Future Sounds: The Story of Electronic Music from Stockhausen to Skrillex by David Stubbs How Long ’til Black Future Month?: Stories by N. K. Jemisin The Adults by Caroline Hulse Taking the Work Out of Networking: An Introvert’s Guide to Making Connections That Count by Karen Wickre The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose Come with Me: A Novel by Helen Schulman Lord of the Butterflies by Andrea Gibson The Razor by J. Barton Mitchell Amber & Dusk by Lyra Selene The Mortal Word (Invisible Library) by Genevieve Cogman Aladdin: A New Translation by Paulo Lemos Horta, editor; Yasmine Seale, translator Love a la Mode by Stephanie Kate Strohm Being John Lennon: A Restless Life by Ray Connolly Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now by Alan Rusbridger Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and Beyond–The Story of Rock’s Greatest Manager by Mark Blake The Dinosaur Tourist by Caitlin R. Kiernan