New Releases and More for April 1, 2025
This week, Liberty and Danika discuss Gifted & Talented, Messy Perfect, Direct Descendant, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
Gifted & Talented by Olivie Blake
A/S/L by Jeanne Thornton
Small Ceremonies by Kyle Edwards
Messy Perfect by Tanya Boteju
Freakslaw by Jane Flett
Direct Descendant by Tanya Huff
Any Trope but You by Victoria Lavine
The Ephemera Collector by Stacy Nathaniel Jackson
Paperback Releases:
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez
I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
The Sicilian Inheritance by Jo Piazza
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
All We Were Promised by Ashton Lattimore
The Gathering by C. J. Tudor
Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief by Victoria Chang
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
What We’re Reading:
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Scarlet Morning by ND Stevenson
More Books Out This Week:
This Monster of Mine by Shalini Abeysekara
Rebellion 1776 by Laurie Halse Anderson
No Ordinary Love by Myah Ariel
The Last Session by Julia Bartz
A Drop of Corruption: An Ana and Din Mystery (Shadow of the Leviathan Book 2) by Robert Jackson Bennett
Where Shadows Meet by Patrice Caldwell
The Anatomy of Magic by J. C. Cervantes
Coven by Soman Chainani, Joel Gennari
The Chow Maniac: A Noodle Shop Mystery by Vivien Chien
Bad Nature by Ariel Courage
The Last Guy You Kiss by Carla de Guzman
Takes One to Know One by Lissette Decos
Huda F Wants to Know? by Huda Fahmy
Unlikely Neighbors: A Spicy Opposites Attract Romance by Renee Daniel Flagler
The Green Kingdom by Cornelia Funke and Tammi Hartung
Heartwood by Amity Gaige
The Snares by Rav Grewal-Kök
Cat’s People by Tanya Guerrero
Rabbit Moon by Jennifer Haigh
The Sirens by Emilia Hart
Lady Knight by Amalie Howard
The Family Recipe by Carolyn Huynh
Spilling the Tea by Brenda Jackson
Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
Firebred (Storm Dragons, Book 2) by Julie Kagawa
Faithbreaker (Fallen Gods Book 3) by Hannah Kaner
I See You’ve Called in Dead by John Kenney
Sunlight Playing over a Mountain by Selina Li Bi
The Coven Tendency by Zoe Hana Mikuta
Where the Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler
Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth by Maggie Nelson
Swept Away by Beth O’Leary
The Scientist and the Serial Killer: The Search for Houston’s Lost Boys by Lise Olsen
Holy Terrors (Little Thieves, #3) by Margaret Owen
The Museum Detective by Maha Khan Phillips
Fifteen Wild Decembers by Karen Powell
The Railway Conspiracy (A Dee and Lao Mystery Book 2) by SJ Rozan and John Shen Yen Nee
Run Away With Me by Brian Selznick
Our City That Year by Geetanjali Shree, Daisy Rockwell (translator)
Sad Tiger by Neige Sinno, Natasha Lehrer (translator)
Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life by Maggie Smith
Meet Me at Blue Hour by Sarah Suk
Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) by Jesse Q. Sutanto
The Night Trembles by Nadia Terranova, Ann Goldstein (translator)
Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou
My Own Dear People by Dwight Thompson
