Great Books for Giving: November 26, 2019
This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss Magic for Liars, The Beautiful Ones, Cats Are a Liquid, and more great books for giving this holiday season.
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Books discussed on the show:
Forking Good: An Unofficial Cookbook for Fans of The Good Place by Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Stephen H. Segal, Dingding Hu (Illustrator)
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
The Beautiful Ones by Prince
Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal
Cats Are a Liquid by Rebecca Donnelly and Misa Saburi
To Night Owl from Dogfish by Meg Wolitzer and Hilary Goldberg Sloan
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard-Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy by Phil Keith and Tom Clavin
Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado
The Octopus Museum: Poems by Brenda Shaughnessy
The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America (Bird Books, Books for Bird Lovers, Humor Books) by Matt Kracht
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
What we’re reading:
Thunderhead and The Toll by Neal Shusterman
Firewatching by Russ Thomas
More books out this week:
The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky (Montague Siblings) by Mackenzi Lee
The Girl in the Photograph: The True Story of a Native American Child, Lost and Found in America by Byron L. Dorgan
Paw of the Jungle (A Paw Enforcement Novel) by Diane Kelly
Aviva-No by Shimon Adaf, Yael Segalovitz (translator)
Starsight (Skyward) by Brandon Sanderson
Where Winter Finds You: A Caldwell Christmas (The Black Dagger Brotherhood series) by J.R. Ward
Sword of Kings: A Novel (Saxon Tales) by Bernard Cornwell
The Wickerlight by Mary Watson
Stranger Things: SIX (Graphic Novel) by Jody Houser
Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River by Jung Young Moon, Yewon Jung (Translator)
All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal, Paul Wilson (Translator)
Tiny Love: The Complete Stories of Larry Brown by Larry Brown
NVK: A Novel by Temple Drake
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the U.S. by Erika Lee
The Lying House by Rick Mofina
The Last Affair by Margot Hunt
Fleabag: The Scriptures by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
JAY-Z: Made in America by Michael Eric Dyson
AOC: Fighter, Phenom, Changemaker by Prachi Gupta
Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump by Glenn Simpson
David Lazar by Robert Kalich
… And Other Disasters by Malka Older