Bookish Whatever for Aug. 16, 2016

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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)