New Releases for Sept. 29, 2015
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear, The Heart Goes Last, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom, more new releases, and some spooky favorites.
This episode was sponsored by Me, My Hair, and I: Twenty-seven Women Untangle an Obsession by Elizabeth Benedict and Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta.
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Books discussed on the show:
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park
Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear by Margee Kerr
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
I Remember You: A Ghost Story by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Ghost Summer: Stories by Tananarive Due
The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle
What we’re reading:
The Penny Poet of Portsmouth: A Memoir Of Place, Solitude, and Friendship by Katherine Towler
Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing by Sandra M. Gilbert and Roger J. Porter
More books out this week:
Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins
Imaginary Fred by Eoin Colfer and Oliver Jeffers
Night Blindness by Susan Strecker
A Song of Shadows: A Charlie Parker Thriller by John Connolly
Upside-Down Magic by Sarah Mlynowski and Lauren Myracle
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick
American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America’s Deadliest Drug Epidemic by John Temple
A Slanting of the Sun: Stories by Donal Ryan
Shriver by Chris Belden
Faceless by Alyssa Sheinmel
Lightless by C. A. Higgins
Brother by Ania Ahlborn
Zeroes by Scott Westerfield
Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head by Lauren Oliver and H. C. Chester
Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? by Lemony Snicket
Me, My Hair, and I: Twenty-seven Women Untangle an Obsession by Elizabeth Benedict
Early One Morning by Virginia Baily
The Entropy of Bones by Ayize Jama-Everett
The Doldrums by Nicholas Gannon
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building by David J. Peterson
Forever Your Earl: The Wicked Quills of London by Eva Leigh
Daughters unto Devils by Amy Lukavics
The Witch: And Other Tales Retold by Jean Thompson (paperback)
Little Sister Death by William Gay
A Place We Knew Well by Susan Carol McCarthy
About a Vampire by Lynsay Sands
Untwine by Edwidge Danticat
Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev
I’ll Never Write My Memoirs by Grace Jones
I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975–2014 by Eileen Myles
The Murder House by James Patterson and David Ellis
After You by Jojo Moyes
Christmas in Mustang Creek by Linda Lael Miller
Marry Me at Christmas by Susan Mallery
Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science by Richard Dawkins
A Knights Bridge Christmas by Carla Neggers
I Am a Tool: How to Be a YouTube Kingpin and Dominate the Internet by KSI
Robert Ludlum’s The Patriot Attack by Kyle Mills
Menagerie by Rachel Vincent
A Line of Blood by Ben McPherson
Brunch at Bobby’s: 140 Recipes for the Best Part of the Weekend by Bobby Flay
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner
Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert B. Reich
Chef Next Door: A Pro Chef’s Recipes for Fun, Fearless Home Cooking by Amanda Freitag
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads by Paul Theroux
Better: How I Let Go of Control, Held On to Hope, and Found Joy in My Darkest Hour by Amy Robach
In This Together: My Story by Ann Romney
My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life by Ruth Reichl
Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family by Anne-Marie Slaughter
The Last Midwife by Sandra Dallas
Shadow Play by Iris Johansen
My Exodus: From Fear to Grace by Alan Chambers with Leslie Chambers
The New and Improved Romie Futch by Julia Elliott
When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow by Dan Rhodes
Don’t Suck, Don’t Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt by Kristin Hersh
Everyone Has Their Reasons by Joseph Matthews
Gateway to Paradise: Stories by Matthew Vollmer
Vertigo by Joanna Walsh
How Winter Began by Joy Castro
