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.

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: 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