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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Uprooted, Mislaid, The Gracekeepers, and more new releases. This episode is sponsored by Swoon Reads and Book Riot Live.

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Books discussed on the show:

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Mislaid by Nell Zink

Scarlett Undercover by Jennifer Latham

Lifted by the Great Nothing by Karim Dimechkie

Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight by Margaret Lazarus Dean

The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan

The Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North

Irrationally Yours: On Missing Socks, Pickup Lines, and Other Existential Puzzles by Dan Ariely

What we’re reading:

Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer

Scrapper by Matt Bell

More books out today:

The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker

Conviction by Kelly Loy Gilbert

Bad Kid by David Crabb

The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan

Hold Me Like a Breath by Tiffany Schmidt

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

The Knockoff by Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza

The Mountain Can Wait by Sarah Leipciger

The Choosing by Rachelle Dekker

Made You Up by Francesca Zappia

Six and a Half Deadly Sins by Colin Cotterill

Disclaimer by Renée Knight

Joan of Arc by Helen Castor

The Improbable Theory of Ana and Zak by Brian Katcher

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance

Death Ex Machina by Gary Corby

The Odd Woman and the City by Vivian Gornick

Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab by Steve Inskeep

Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sins by James Runcie

The Ice Twins by S.K. Tremayne

Flick by Abigail Tarttelin

Head Case: My Brain and Other Wonders by Cole Cohen

The Jesus Cow by Michael Perry

Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock’s Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear) by Jon Fine

Hit Count by Chris Lynch

Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation by Dean Jobb

The World is a Wedding by Wendy Jones

Fat Girl Walking: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin…Every Inch of It by Brittany Gibbons

A Sense of the Infinite by Hilary T. Smith

The Ghost Fields by Elly Griffith

From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess by Meg Cabot

I, Ripper by Stephen Hunter

The Well by Catherine Chanter

Illusionarium by Heather Dixon

War of the Encyclopaedists by Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite

The Law of Enclosures by Dale Peck

Why We Die by Mick Herron

Hardcovers now in paperback:

Delicious by Ruth Reichl

Closed Doors by Lisa O’Donnell

Wild Awake by Hilary T. Smith

Rainey Royal by Dylan Landis

Neverhome by Laird Hunt

Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers by Arundhati Roy

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