Bookish Whatever for Aug. 16, 2016
This week, Liberty and Rebecca have a heat-induced bookish discussion about One-in-a-Million Boy, Geek Love, Golden Years, and more.
This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Live, The Edge of the Light by Elizabeth George, and ThirdLove.
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Books discussed on the show:
One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood
A Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’s Education by Mychal Denzel Smith
The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnigan
Golden Years: An Iranian Punk Beat Novel by Ali Eskandarian
Black Rabbit Hall by Eva Chase
Freeman by Leonard Pitts Jr.
The White Devil by Justin Evans
Wolf Whistle by Lewis Nordan
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Perfect Little World by Kevin Wilson
More books out this week:
Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere but Here by Angela Palm
The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin
All at Sea: A Memoir by Decca Aitkenhead
The Greatest of Marlys by Lynda Barry
Poisoned Blade (Court of Fives) by Kate Elliott
The Golden Age by Joan London
Divorce Is in the Air by Gonzalo Torne
Liberty Street by Dianne Warren
Transitory by Tobias Carroll
The Rest I Will Kill: William Tillman and the Unforgettable Story of How a Free Black Man Refused to Become a Slave by Brian McGinty
Rise the Dark by Michael Koryta
Sting by Sandra Brown
Ghost Talkers by Mary Robinette Kowal
Carry On: A Story of Resilience, Redemption, and an Unlikely Family by Lisa Fenn
The Edge of the Light by Elizabeth George
Invasive by Chuck Wendig
Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture by Jace Clayton
The Boy Who Runs: The Odyssey of Julius Achon by John Brant
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism by Kristin Dombek
Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure by Ingrid Burrington
The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
The Bitcoin Guidebook: How to Obtain, Invest, and Spend the World’s First Decentralized Cryptocurrency by Ian DeMartino
A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi
Nothing Short of Dying by Erik Storey
The Gentleman by Forrest Leo
The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Deluxe Edition by Ben Fountain
Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War by Chandra Manning
Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig (paperback)
I Crawl Through It by A. S. King (paperback)