All the Backlist! September 15, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses The Fire Next Time, The Unit, The Good Lord Bird, and more great older books.
This episode was sponsored by Swing Time by Zadie Smith.
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Books discussed on the show:
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors
Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman
Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow
Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison
What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire by Charles Bukowski
Another Fine Mess: Life on Tomorrow’s Moon by Pope Brock
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente
Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner
An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King
The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist
Children of Men by P.D. James
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
Infomacracy by Malka Older
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
Grace by Natashia Deón
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The March by E.L. Doctorow
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
The Alligators of Abraham by Robert Kloss
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Junius and Albert’s Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey by Peter Carlson
Civil War Stories by Ambrose Bierce
Tailchaser’s Song by Tad Williams