New Releases and More for April 22, 2025
This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Great Big Beautiful Life, Down in the Sea of Angels, Change the Recipe, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
Down in the Sea of Angels by Khan Wong
Don’t Cause Trouble by Arree Chung
The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life by Suleika Jaouad
Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin
Change the Recipe: Because You Can’t Build a Better World Without Breaking Some Eggs by José Andrés with Richard Wolffe
On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters by Bonnie Tsui
Accidentally on Purpose by Kristen Kish
Paperback Releases:
Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All by Chanel Miller
Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera
Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo
Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee
Sweetness in the Skin by Ishi Robinson
What We’re Reading:
The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation by Raquel Willis
Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson by Tourmaline
Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition by Munroe Bergdorf
The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
More Books Out This Week:
The Seers by Sulaiman Addonia
The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. Ancrum
The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders by Sarah Aziza
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity by Adam Becker
Perpetual Law by Mario Bellatin, Stephen Beachy (translator)
Gabriële by Anne Berest, Claire Berest, Tina Kover (translator)
Exit Zero: Stories by Marie-Helene Bertino
The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick
The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary by Susannah Cahalan
When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy
Toxic Summer by Derek Charm
The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff
Shelter and Storm: At Home in the Driftless by Tamara Dean
Notes to John by Joan Didion
On Isabella Street by Genevieve Graham
America, América: A New History of the New World by Greg Grandin
Slither: How Nature’s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World by Stephen S. Hall
The Pretender by Jo Harkin
Fair Play by Louise Hegarty
Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson by Claire Hoffman
Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy by Chris Hughes
Voice of the Ocean by Kelsey Impicciche
If We Were a Movie by Zakiya N. Jamal
The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life by Suleika Jaouad
Zeal by Morgan Jerkins
Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put by Annie B. Jones
The Fantasies of Future Things by Doug Jones
The Sundowner’s Dance by Todd Keisling
Matriarch: A Memoir by Tina Knowles
The Shadow Girls by Nina Laurin
Murder Between Friends by Liz Lawson
The Tainted Khan (The Soulbound Saga #2) by Taran Matharu
The Night We Got Stuck in a Story by Ben Miller
Atavists: Stories by Lydia Millet
Anywhere You Go by Bridget Morrissey
The Summer I Ate the Rich by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite
Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools by Mary Annette Pember
Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays by Amie Souza Reilly
The Tontine Caper by Dianne K. Salerni, Matt Schu
A Lethal Engagement by April J. Skelly
The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood by Matthew Specktor
A Living: Working-Class Americans Talk to Their Doctor by Michael D. Stein
Totally and Completely Fine by Elissa Sussman
Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Simon Pleasance (translator)
Everything Is Fine Here by Iryn Tushabe
Eleven Percent by Maren Uthaug
Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future by Alan Weisman
Band Nerd by Sarah Clawson Willis, Emma Cormarie
