Best of 2017 Halftime Show
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of their favorite books of 2017 so far, including Pachinko, Hunger, and Chemistry.
This episode was sponsored by Talenti, A Dark So Deadly, and Harmony.
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Books discussed on the show:
The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker
The Wanderers by Meg Howrey
American War by Omar El Akkad
Chemistry by Weike Wang
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House by Alyssa Mastromonaco
Double Bind: Women on Ambition by edited Robin Romm
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
What we’re reading:
The Power by Naomi Alderman
My Glory Was I Had Such Friends: A Memoir by Amy Silverstein
Books out this week:
Our Little Racket by Angelica Baker
The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
Empire of Glass by Kaitlin Solimine
Indigo: A Novel by Charlene Harris, Christopher Golden, eight more
Perfect Conditions by Vanessa Blakeslee
The Management Style of the Supreme Beings by Tom Holt
Love Like Blood: A Tom Thorne Novel by Mark Billingham
Swimming Home: A Novel by Mary-Rose MacColl
The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan
The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues by Edward Kelsey Moore
Girl on the Leeside by Kathleen Anne Kenney
The Girl In Between by Sarah Carroll
The Asylum of Dr. Caligari by James Morrow
Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating by Charles Spence
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman by Anne Helen Petersen
Trusting You and Other Lies by Nicole Williams
Two Roads from Here by Teddy Steinkellner
Lost and Found Sisters: A Novel by Jill Shalvis
Seek and Destroy (America Rising) by William C. Dietz
Stranger by David Bergen
Kiss Carlo by by Adriana Trigiani
Godblind by Anna Stephens
Such a Good Girl by Amanda K. Morgan
The End of Men by Karen Rinaldi
Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
The Force by Don Winslow
Beach House for Rent by Mary Alice Monroe
The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss
Here and Gone by Haylen Beck
Flesh and Bone and Water by Luiza Sauma
Come to Dust by Bracken MacLeod
