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This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss Circe, Indian Horse, Anna Karenina, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by So Delicious, ThirdLove, and School for Psychics by K.C. Archer. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Trigger warning for discussion of stalking and abuse at 1:52. Trigger warning for discussion of rape and graphic violence at 11:00. Trigger warning for distressing content at 17:05. Trigger warning for discussion of racism and substance abuse at 25:12. Books discussed on the show: You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession by Piper Weiss Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Circe by Madeline Miller The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Indian Horse: A Novel by Richard Wagamese I Await the Devil’s Coming by Mary MacLane What we’re reading this week:

A Conjuring of Light: A Novel (Shades of Magic) by V. E. Schwab

Rock Manning Goes for Broke by Charlie Jane Anders

More books out this week: Black Swans: Stories by Eve Babitz Macbeth by Jo Nesbo Nothing Forgotten by Jessica Levine Dictionary Stories: Short Fictions and Other Findings by Jez Burrows Though I Get Home by YZ Chin After Anna by Lisa Scottoline A Death of No Importance: A Mystery by Mariah Fredericks Cove by Cynan Jones Vicuña: A Play by Jon Robin Baitz Speakeasy by Alisa Smith Demi-Gods by Eliza Robertson Go Ask Fannie by Elisabeth Hyde Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer by Barbara Ehrenreich Eventide by Therese Bohman (Author), Marlaine Delargy (Translator) Woman of the Ashes: A Novel (Sands of the Emperor) by Mia Couto (Author), David Brookshaw (Translator) Oneiron by Laura Lindstedt,‎ Owen Witesman (Translator) The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity by Sally Kohn Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America by Gregory Pardlo The Teachings of Don B.: Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays by Donald Barthelme Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright The Changeling by Joy Williams Lizzie by Dawn Ius Dreamer by L.E. DeLano Nothing is Forgotten by Peter Golden Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready by Meaghan O’Connell The New Neighbors by Simon Lelic Fire Dance by Ilana C. Myer Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente (Moved from last week.) The Girl of Ink & Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave Oceanic by Aimee Nezhukumatathil The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders by Stuart Kells Country Dark by Chris Offutt Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion by Michelle Dean Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman The Dark Clouds Shining (A Jack McColl Novel) by David Downing Your Art Will Save Your Life by Beth Pickens Lost in the Beehive: A Novel by Michele Young-Stone A Lady’s Guide to Selling Out: A Novel by Sally Franson The Fox Hunt: A Refugee’s Memoir of Coming to America by Mohammed Al Samawi For Every One by Jason Reynolds No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies by William T. Vollmann Beyond Measure: Essays by Rachel Z. Arndt Sophia of Silicon Valley: A Novel by Anna Yen Who’s Who When Everyone is Someone Else by C.D. Rose Flying at Night by Rebecca L. Brown You Go First by Erin Entrada Kelly The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World’s Rarest Species by Carlos Magdalena Cool for You by Eileen Myles The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen Heads of the Colored People: Stories by Nafissa Thompson-Spires Devils Unto Dust by Emma Berquist Feast of Sorrow by Crystal King (paperback)