Fall 2016 Preview Show, August 30, 2016
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss I’m Judging You, The Mothers, Children of the New World, and more books.
This episode was sponsored by Spontaneous by Aaron Harmer and The Call by by Peadar O’Guilin.
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Books discussed on the show:
I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi
Children of the New World: Stories by Alexander Weinstein
Every Kind of Wanting by Gina Frangello
The Wangs vs The World by Jade Chang
The Island by Olivia Levez
The Mothers by Brit Bennet
Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American by Okey Ndibe
Nicotine / Private Novelist by Nell Zink
Am I Alone Here? Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live by Peter Orner
Avid Reader: A Life by Robert Gottleib
A Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston
Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick
Lightning round:
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Nutshell by Ian McEwan
The Trespasser by Tana French
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
The Gambler’s Anatomy by Jonathan Lethem
The Boat Rocker by Ha Jin
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
A Tree or a Person or a Wall by Matt Bell
Nine Island by Jane Alison
Heirlooms: Stories by Rachel Hall
I’ll Tell You In Person: Essays by Chloe Caldwell
The Hidden Keys by André Alexis
Him, Me, Muhammed Ali by Randa Jarrar
The Annie Year by Stephanie Wilbur Ash
Patricide by D. Foy
What we’re reading:
To Be or Not To Be: A Chooseable Path Adventure by Ryan North
Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise by Thich Nhat Han
More books out this week:
Ashes of Fiery Weather by Kathleen Donohoe
A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes) by Sabaa Tahir
The Snurtch by Sean Ferrell and Charles Santoso
We Are Unprepared by Meg Little Reilly
Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown
The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy by Anthony Gottlieb
The Shattered Tree by Charles Todd
A Scot in the Dark: Scandal & Scoundrel, Book II by Sarah MacLean
The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe
A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny
The Jealous Kind by James Lee Burke
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. by Eve Babitz
Where the Jews Aren’t: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region by Masha Gessen
Tell Me Something Real by Calla Devlin
The Anatomy of Inequality: Its Social and Economic Origins- and Solutions by Per Molander
The Fixes by Owen Matthews
Kook by Chris Vick
The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee
A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy by Joel Mokyr
Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint by Mary Jacobus
The Darkest Secret by Alex Marwood
Only the Hunted Run by Neely Tucker
The Nix by Nathan Hill
Rushing Waters by Danielle Steel
Liar’s Key by Carla Neggers
The Jealous Kind by James Lee Burke
Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure by Ingrid Burrington
Sex and Death: Stories by Sarah Hall and Peter Hobbs
The Euro and the Battle of Ideas by Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James, and Jean-Pierre Landau
The Subsidary by Matías Celedoón
Hi, Anxiety: Life With a Bad Case of Nerves by Kat Kinsman
How to Travel without Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America by Andrés Neuman (Author), Jeffrey Lawrence (Author)
The Shepherd’s Crown by Terry Pratchett (paperback)
The Hours Count by Jillian Cantor (paperback)