New Releases and More for April 2, 2019

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Women Talking, The Affairs of the Falcóns, Finding My Voice, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!; Once and Future by Cori McCarthy and Amy Rose Capetta from JIMMY Patterson Books; and The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer from Graydon House Books. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. And check out our new podcast: KidLit These Days. 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. Books discussed on the show: I Miss You When I Blink: Essays by Mary Laura Philpott Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb The Affairs of the Falcóns by Melissa Rivero No Happy Endings: A Memoir by Nora McInerny Women Talking by Miriam Toews Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward by Valerie Jarrett The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World by Clive Thompson Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow What we’re reading: Calvin: A Novel by Martine Leavitt Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer At Briarwood School for Girls by Michael Knight More books out this week: Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Alison Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia by Tracey Thorn Prince of Monkeys by Nnamdi Ehirim Around Harvard Square by C. J. Farley Baseball Epic: Famous and Forgotten Lives of the Dead Ball Era by Jason Novak As One Fire Consumes Another by John Sibley Williams Gatsby’s Oxford: Scott, Zelda, and the Jazz Age Invasion of Britain: 1904-1929 by Christopher A. Snyder Hold Fast Your Crown: A Novel by Yannick Haenel, Teresa Fagan (translator) Days by Moonlight by André Alexis Oscar Wilde and the Return of Jack the Ripper: An Oscar Wilde Mystery (Oscar Wilde Mysteries) by Gyles Brandreth Ghost Stories: Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense by Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Morton A Sin by Any Other Name: Reckoning with Racism and the Heritage of the South by Robert W. Lee and Bernice A. King Beyond the Point: A Novel by Claire Gibson Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain by Danny Goldberg Since We Last Spoke by Brenda Rufener To Stop a Warlord: My Story of Justice, Grace, and the Fight for Peace by Shannon Sedgwick Davis Woman of Color by LaTonya Yvette Lights! Camera! Puzzles!: A Puzzle Lady Mystery (Puzzle Lady Mysteries) by Parnell Hall The Buddha Sat Right Here: A Family Odyssey Through India and Nepal by Dena Moes Leaving Richard’s Valley by Michael DeForge Little Lovely Things: A Novel by Maureen Joyce Connolly Ye by Guilherme Petreca The Spectators: A Novel by Jennifer duBois The Deadly Kiss-Off by Paul Di Filippo The Luminous Dead: A Novel by Caitlin Starling The Editor by Steven Rowley There’s a Word for That by Sloane Tanen The Light Years: A Memoir by Chris Rush We Rule the Night by Claire Eliza Bartlett Greystone Secrets 1: The Strangers by Margaret Peterson Haddix and Anne Lambelet Lost and Wanted: A novel by Nell Freudenberger When a Duchess Says I Do by Grace Burrowes Orange for the Sunsets by Tina Athaide A Wonderful Stroke of Luck: A Novel by Ann Beattie Stay Up with Hugo Best: A Novel by Erin Somers The Execution of Justice (Pushkin Vertigo) by Friedrich Duerrematt, John E. Woods (Translator) The Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Garvis Graves Lights All Night Long: A Novel by Lydia Fitzpatrick Soft Science by Franny Choi The Last Last-Day-of-Summer by Lamar Giles Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine I’m Writing You from Tehran: A Granddaughter’s Search for Her Family’s Past and Their Country’s Future by Delphine Minoui, Emma Ramadan (Translator) The Gulf by Belle Boggs Loch of the Dead: A Novel by Oscar de Muriel Wicked Saints by Emily Duncan The Princess and the Fangirl: A Geekerella Fairytale (Once Upon A Con) by Ashley Poston Brute: Poems by Emily Skaja Germaine: The Life of Germaine Greer by Elizabeth Kleinhenz Bluff by Jane Stanton Hitchcock The Mission of a Lifetime: Lessons from the Men Who Went to the Moon by Basil Hero Boy Swallows Universe: A Novel by Trent Dalton A Song for the Stars by Ilima Todd Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History by Sarah Knott American Spirit: Profiles in Resilience, Courage, and Faith by Taya Kyle and Jim DeFelice Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen by Mary Norris Crossing: A Novel by Pajtim Statovci, David Hackston (translator) The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America by Matt Kracht The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees by Meredith May Women’s Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home by Megan K. Stack The Body Papers by Grace Talusan The Tradition by Jericho Brown All Ships Follow Me: A Family Memoir of War Across Three Continents by Mieke Eerkens Geek Girls Don’t Cry: Real-Life Lessons From Fictional Female Characters by Andrea Towers and Marisha Ray Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl The Killer in Me: A Novel by Olivia Kiernan Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherríe Moraga Fifty Things That Aren’t My Fault: Essays from the Grown-up Years by Cathy Guisewite Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City by Amanda Kolson Hurley Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?: A Mother’s Suggestions by Patricia Marx and Roz Chast You’d Be Mine: A Novel by Erin Hahn The Becket List: A Blackberry Farm Story by Adele Griffin and LeUyen Pham Unscripted by Claire Handscombe The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson The Poison Bed: A Novel by Elizabeth Fremantle This One Looks Like a Boy: My Gender Journey to Life as a Man by Lorimer Shenher The October Man by Ben Aaronovitch Perfunctory Affection by Kim Harrison