Our Favorite Books of 2017, Part 1

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Chemistry, My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Idaho, and more great books.

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Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg Exit West by Mohsin Hamid Pachinko by Min Jin Lee The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne Idaho by Emily Ruskovich My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris The Nature Fix: why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado Chemistry by Weike Wang She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give by Ada Calhoun We Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays by Samantha Irby What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah What we're reading this week: The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison Wrong to Need You by Alisha Rai More books out this week: Witch Wife by Kiki Petrosino We'll Sleep When We're Old: A Novel by Pino Corrias They Know Not What They Do by Jussi Valtonen, Kristian London (Translator) The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir by Maude Julien, Adriana Hunter (Translator) In the Fall They Come Back by Robert Bausch The Love of a Bad Man by Laura Elizabeth Woollett The Mannequin Makers: A Novel by Craig Cliff Wedding Bush Road: A Novel by David Francis Mad Hatters and March Hares edited by Ellen Datlow Freed by Flame and Storm by Becky Allen