New Releases and More for April 3, 2018
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Dread Nation, Meaty, The Oracle Year, and more great books.
This episode was sponsored by So Delicious, Munmun by Jesse Andrews, and The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind by Barbara K. Lipska.
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Books discussed on the show:
Meaty: Essays by Samantha Irby
Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead–My Life Story by Cecile Richards
The Oracle Year: A Novel by Charles Soule
Waiting for Tomorrow: A Novel by Nathacha Appanah
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
What we’re reading this week:
This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss Hot and Badgered by Shelley Laurenston
The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley
Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour
More books out this week: Look Alive Out There: Essays by Sloane Crosley The Home for Unwanted Girls by Joanna Goodman Lexington and Concord: The Battle Heard Round the World by George C. Daughan Earthcore by Scott Sigler The Summer of Jordi Perez (And the Best Burger in Los Angeles) by Amy Spalding Codename Villanelle by Luke Jennings The Beginning of Everything: The Year I Lost My Mind and Found Myself by Andrea J. Buchanan Voices from the Rust Belt edited by Anne Trubek Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing by Ursula K. Le Guin and David Naimo The Overstory by Richard Powers Munmun by Jesse Andrews The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery by Barbara K. Lipska Paris by the Book: A Novel by Liam Callanan The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind by Barbara K. Lipska Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution by Todd S. Purdum The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic by Benjamin Carter Hett We Own the Sky by Luke Allnutt Losers Bracket by Chris Crutcher As She Fades by Abbi Glines To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice by Michael K. Honey Wade in the Water: Poems by Tracy K. Smith In Conclusion, Don’t Worry About It by Lauren Graham The Wolf (Under the Northern Sky) by Leo Carew All the Beautiful Lies by Peter Swanson American By Day by Derek B. Miller Bluff by Michael Kardos Grey Sister (Book of the Ancestor) by Mark Lawrence Unwifeable: A Memoir by Mandy Stadtmiller Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon by Robert Kurson The Invisible Valley: A Novel by Su Wei, Austin Woerner (Translator) Varina by Charles Frazier Sodom Road Exit by Amber Dawn America is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life by Jenny Boully The Barrow Will Send What It May by Margaret Killjoy A Necessary Evil: A Novel by Abir Mukherjee Wonderblood by Julia Whicker Miss Julia Raises the Roof by Ann B. Ross First Person by Richard Flanagan See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary by Lorrie Moore Gone to Drift by Diana McCaulay Evening Primrose by Kopano Matlwa A Long Way from Home by Cathy Glass The Very Worst Missionary: A Memoir or Whatever by Jamie Wright Queens of Fennbirn by Kendare Blake Folded Notes from High School by Matthew Boren Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy by Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts How to Be Safe by Tom McAllisterHunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World’s Most-Wanted Drug Lord by Andrew Hogan and Douglas Century
The Perfume Burned His Eyes by Michael Imperioli Too Close to Breathe: A Novel by Olivia Kiernan The Very Marrow of Our Bones: A Novel by Christine Higdon Animals Eat Each Other by Elle Nash True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness: A Feminist Coming of Age by Christine Lahti Eye Level: Poems by Jenny Xie Stream System: The Collected Short Fiction of Gerald Murnane by Gerald Murnane School for Psychics: Book One by K.C. Archer Border Districts: A Fiction by Gerald Murnane Killing King: Racial Terrorists, James Earl Ray, and the Plot to Assassinate Martin Luther King by Stuart Wexler and Larry Hancock The Runaways: A Novel by Sonya Terjanian Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution by Menno Schilthuizen The Window by Amelia Brunskill Chemistry by Weike Wang (paperback) What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories by Lesley Nneka Arimah (paperback) Marlena by Julie Buntin (paperback) The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World: A Novel of Robert Louis Stevenson by Brian Doyle (paperback) The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy (paperback)