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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Underground Railroad, Homegoing, Sweetgirl, and more of their favorite novels of 2016.

This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, Comic Bento, and the Book Riot store.

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Books discussed on the show:

News of the World by Paulette Jiles

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Grace by Natashia Deón

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Sweetgirl by Travis Mulhauser

Modern Lovers by Emma Straub

Valiant Gentlemen by Sabina Murray

Children of the New World: Stories by Alexander Weinstien

One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood

A Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean

What we’re reading:

Borne by Jeff VanderMeer

Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman

More books out this week:

The Book on the Floor: André Malraux and the Imaginary Museum by Walter Grasskamp

SP4RX by Wren McDonald

The Private Life of Mrs Sharma by Ratika Kapur

Island of the Mad by Laurie Sheck

Spies in Palestine: Love, Betrayal and the Heroic Life of Sarah Aaronsohn by James Srodes

Piano Tide by Kathleen Dean Moore

Kill the Next One by Frederico Axat