New Releases and More for April 29, 2025
This week, Liberty and Jeff discuss The Road to Tender Hearts, This American Woman, Girl on Girl, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett
This American Woman: A One-In-A-Billion Memoir by Zarna Garg
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert
The Accidentals: Stories by Guadalupe Nettel, Rosalind Harvey (translators)
Exit Zero: Stories by Marie-Helene Bertino
The Sea Gives Up the Dead: Stories by Molly Olguín
Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America by Michael Luo
Paperback Releases:
The Manicurist’s Daughter: A Memoir by Susan Lieu
Briefly Perfectly Human : Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End by Alua Arthur
Village Weavers by Myriam JA Chancy
In Universes by Emet North
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
The Twilight Garden by Sara Nisha Adams
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh
Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell
What We’re Reading:
The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns
King of Ashes by S. A. Cosby
Big Dumb Eyes by Nate Bargatze
More Books Out This Week:
Bad Influence by Claire Ahn
Say Yes: Find Your Passion, Unlock Your Potential, and Transform Your Life by Kwame Alexander
Polybius by Collin Armstrong
Ordinary People Don’t Carry Machine Guns: Thoughts on War by Artem Chapeye
Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing by Lili Taylor
Wish Upon A K-Star by Kat Cho
Mending Bodies by Hon Lai Chu, Jacqueline Leung (translator)
A Change of Habit: Leaving Behind My Husband, Career, and Everything I Owned to Become a Nun by Sister Monica Clare
All Fired Up by M. K. England
The Secret Life of a Cemetery: The Wild Nature and Enchanting Lore of Père-Lachaise by Benoît Gallot, Daniel Casanave, Arielle Aaronson (translator)
Fireweed by Lauren Haddad
Murder Ballads: Illustrated Lyrics & Lore by Katy Horan
Chronicles of Whetherwhy: The Age of Enchantment by Anna James, David Wyatt
Once Upon You and Me by Timothy Janovsky
The Traitor of Sherwood Forest by Amy S. Kaufman
When the Tides Held the Moon by Venessa Vida Kelley
Dreamslinger by Graci Kim
Teacher By Teacher: The People Who Change Our Lives by John B. King Jr.
City of All Seasons by Oliver K. Langmead and Aliya Whiteley
Nav’s Foolproof Guide to Falling in Love by Jessica Lewis
Love at Second Sight by F.T. Lukens
Are You a Friend of Dorothy?: The True Story of an Imaginary Woman and the Real People She Helped by Kyle Lukoff and Levi Hastings
How to Have a Killer Time in DC (Oliver Popp’s Travel Guides to Murder) by Sam Lumley
Maeve Mulvaney Has Had Enough by Kelly Mangan
Questions Without Answers by Sarah Manguso and Liana Finck
The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet by Lindz McLeod
The Summer I Remembered Everything by Catherine Con Morse
The Floating World by Axie Oh
One Way Witch (She Who Knows, #2) by Nnedi Okorafor
The Sea Gives Up the Dead: Stories by Molly Olguín
Awakened by A.E. Osworth
Sleeping Children by Anthony Passeron, Frank Wynne (translator)
The Amalfi Curse by Sarah Penner
How to Seal Your Own Fate (Castle Knoll Files) by Kristen Perrin
Better: A Memoir About Wanting to Die by Arianna Rebolini
Destructively Mine by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie
Best Literary Translations 2025 edited by Cristina Rivera Garza, Noh Anothai, Wendy Call, Oyku Tekten, Kola Tubosun
The Master of Drums: Gene Krupa and the Music He Gave the World by Elizabeth J. Rosenthal
Right Beside You by Tucker Shaw
The Mystery of the Crooked Man by Tom Spencer
Ginseng Roots by Craig Thompson
The Lilac People by Milo Todd
The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig
Dianaworld: An Obsession by Edward White
My Best Friend’s Honeymoon by Meryl Wilsner
The Edge of Yesterday by Rita Woods
Julie Chan Is Dead by Liann Zhang
