Live from Book Riot Live: New Releases and More for November 15, 2016
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Swing Time, Scrappy Little Nobody, Born a Crime, and more books.
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Books discussed on the show:
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
Nineveh by Henrietta Rose-Innes
Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick
The Gloaming by Melanie Finn
Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson
What we’re reading:
Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
More books out this week:
Normal by Warren Ellis
Trish Trash #1: Rollergirl on Mars by Jessica Abel
Turbo Twenty-Three: A Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich
Chaos: A Scarpetta Novel (Kay Scarpetta) by Patricia Cornwell
Last Girl Before Freeway: The Life, Loves, Losses, and Liberation of Joan Rivers by Leslie Bennetts
The Sleeping Beauty Killer by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke
Dork Diaries 11: Tales from a Not-So-Friendly Frenemy by Rachel Renée Russell
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy by Cassandra Clare (Author), Sarah Rees Brennan (Author), Maureen Johnson (Author), Robin Wasserman (Author)
Beyond Earth : Our Path to a New Home in the Planets by Charles Wohlforth, Amanda R. Hendrix, Ph.D.
Coast Range: A Collection from the Pacific Edge by Nick Neely
Discworld Diary 2017 Diary by Terry Pratchett (Author), The Discworld Emporium
My Sister Rosa by Justine Larbalestier
Rethink: The Surprising History of New Ideas by Steven Poole
The Dispossessed by Szilard Borbely
Eat Live Love Die: Selected Essays by Betty Fussell
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout by Laura Jane Grace
Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald’s Fortune and the Woman Who Gave It All Away by Lisa Napoli
Hi, Anxiety: Life With a Bad Case of Nerves by Kat Kinsman
Lucky Bastard: My Life, My Dad, and the Things I’m Not Allowed to Say on TV by Joe Buck
La Femme de Gilles (Neversink) by Madeleine Bourdouxhe (author), Faith Evans (translator)
How to Survive in the North by Luke Healy
Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In by Bernie Sanders
The Can Opener’s Daughter by Rob Davis
Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker and Julia Scheele
Aleister & Adolf by Douglas Rushkoff and Michael Avon Oeming
Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs by Douglas Smith
The Infinite by Nicholas Mainieri
Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It by Larrie D. Ferreiro
No Man’s Land (John Puller Series) by David Baldacci
The Great American Songbook by Sam Allingham
Writing to Save a Life by John Edgar Wideman
The Social Organism: A Radical Understanding of Social Media to Transform Your Business and Life by Oliver Luckett and Michael J. Casey
The Return of the Young Prince by A. G. Roemmers (Author), Ollie Brock (Translator)
Island People: The Caribbean and the World by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky
Absolutely on Music : Conversations with Seiji Ozawa by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
Culdesac: A Novella by Robert Repino