New Releases for Sept. 15, 2015
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Fates and Furies, Dumplin’, The Story of My Teeth, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by The Last September
by Nina de Gramont and Penguin Random House Audio.
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Books discussed on the show:
Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt
Half an Inch of Water: Stories by Percival Everett
The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada, Ross Mackenzie (Translator), Shika Mackenzie (Translator)
Cat is Art Spelled Wrong by Caroline Casey (Editor), Chris Fischbach (Editor), Sarah Schultz (Editor)
Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli, Christine MacSweeney (Translator)
Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer (out 9/29)
What we’re reading:
A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie by Kathryn Harkup
The Longest Night by Andria Williams
More books out this week:
The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free by Alex Perry
The Scribe by Matthew Guinn
The Zig Zag Girl by Elly Griffiths
Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila
One by Sarah Crossan
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America by Wil Haygood
Intro to Alien Invasion by Owen King, Mark Jude Poirier, Nancy Ahn (Illustrator)
The Disappearance of Signora Giulia by Piero Chiara, Jill Foulston (Translator)
Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
The Revelator by Robert Kloss
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf
Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan, Labodalih Sembiring (Translator)
We Are All Weird: The Rise of Tribes and the End of Normal by Seth Godin
The New Sorrows of Young W. by Ulrich Plenzdorf
Sunset Mantle by Alter S. Reiss
One Year After by William R. Forschten
The Marvels by Brian Selznick
Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story by David Maraniss
The Suicide of Claire Bishop by Carmiel Banasky
White Dresses: A Memoir of Love and Secrets, Mothers and Daughters by Mary Pflum Peterson
The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan
So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighborhood by Patrick Modiano, Euan Cameron (Translator)
Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection by Kate Beaton
Where the Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him by T. J. English
Goddess of Love Incarnate: The Life of Stripteuse Lili St. Cyr by Leslie Zemeckis
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
Yes, My Accent Is Real: And Some Other Things I Haven’t Told You by Kunal Nayyar
Sweet Caress by William Boyd
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2015 by Laura Furman
The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys’ Club by Eileen Polllack
Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone by Scott Shane
Tonight the Streets Are Ours by Leila Sales
Beginners by Raymond Carver
The Prize by Jill Bialosky
She Who Was No More by Pierre Boileac and Thomas Narcejac, Geoffrey Sainbury (Translator)
Scrapper by Matt Bell
Hook’s Revenge, Book 2: The Pirate Code by Heidi Schulz, John Hendrix (Illustrator)
The Sergeant’s Cat and Other Stories by Janwillem van de Wetering
I Was Jack Mortimer by Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Ignat Avsey (Translator)
The A-Word by Joy Preble
Vertigo by Pierre Boileac and Thomas Narcejac
Love Love by Sung J. Woo
The Double Life of Liliane by Lily Tuck
The Storms of War by Kate Williams
The Rising: Murder, Heartbreak, and the Power of Human Resilience in an American Town by Ryan D’Agostino
The Last September by Nina de Gramont
Arms: The Culture and Credo of the Gun by A. J. Somerset
Bad Sex by Clancy Martin
Wilberforce by H. S. Cross
SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient–Powered by the Science of Games by Jane McGonigal
The Killing Kind by Chris Holm
The Drowning by Camilla Lackberg
Took: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
Gamelife: A Memoir by Michael W. Clune
Meatspace by Nikesh Shukla
Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running from Madness by Suzy Favor Hamilton
My Pantry: Homemade Ingredients That Make Simple Meals Your Own by Alice Waters and Fanny Singer
The Folly by Ivan Vladislavic
The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray: A Critical Appreciation of the World’s Finest Actor by Robert Schnakenberg
Civil War Nurse Narratives, 1863-1870 by Daneen Wardrop
Things I Want to Punch in the Face by Jennifer Worick
The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr
Minute Zero by Todd Moss
White Matter: A Memoir of Family and Medicine by Janet Sternburg
Saving Sophie by Ronald H. Balson
House of Thieves by Charles Belfoure
Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate
Fake Fruit Factory by Patrick Wensink
Koolaids by Rabih Alameddine
Shanghai Redemption: An Inspector Chen Novel by Qiu Xiaolong
Lock & Mori by Heather W. Petty
Clockwork Lives by Kevin J. Anderson and Neil Peart
The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness by Kyung-Sook Shin
The Appearance of Annie van Sinderen by Katherine B. Howe
A Free State by Tom Piazza
The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich
The Palace of Illusions : Stories by Kim Addonizio
The Monet Murders by Terry Mort
The Constable’s Tale by Donald Smith
The Blue Guitar by John Banville
The Bamboo Sword by Margi Preus
See You in the Morning by Mairead Case
Quicksand by Steve Toltz
The Witch’s Boy by Kelly Barnhill (paperback)
On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss (paperback)
High as the Horses’ Bridles by Scott Cheshire (paperback)