New Releases and More for August 13, 2019

This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss gods with a little g, The Memory Police, The Yellow House, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Flatiron Books, publishers of Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh, and Ritual. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify 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:

gods with a little g by Tupelo Hassman The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa and Stephen Snyder The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom Start Here by Trish Doller Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A Novel by Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator) The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me by Keah Brown Play with Fire (A Breen and Tozer Mystery) by William Shaw The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee

What we’re reading:

Don’t Date Rosa Santos by Nina Moreno

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, and Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong

The Last Stone by Mark Bowden

More books out this week:

Nobody’s Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls by Carrie Goldberg Below the Line: A Charlie Waldo Novel by Howard Michael Gould An American Sunrise: Poems by Joy Harjo The Mage-Fire War (Saga of Recluce) by  L. E. Modesitt Jr. The Perfect Son by Lauren North The Blessing: A Memoir by Gregory Orr We Are the Ghosts by Vicky Skinner The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall Cherry on Top: Flirty, Forty-Something, and Funny as F**k by Bobbie Brown and Caroline Ryder The Catholic School: A Novel by Edoardo Albinati, Antony Shugaar (translator) The Swallows: A Novel by Lisa Lutz Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson Knock Wood: A Memoir in Essays by Jennifer Militello The Oysterville Sewing Circle by Susan Wiggs The Hidden Things by Jamie Mason The Heart of the Circle by Keren Landsman Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive Outside the Lines by Jonathan Mooney When the Plums Are Ripe by Patrice Nganang, Amy B. Reid (translator) Rule of Capture by Christopher Brown Have You Eaten Grandma?: Or, the Life-Saving Importance of Correct Punctuation, Grammar, and Good English by Gyles Brandreth Set the Controls for the Heart of Sharon Tate by Gary Lippman The Retreat by Sherri Smith Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Sady Doyle 21 | 19: Contemporary Poets in the Nineteenth-Century Archive by Alexandra Manglis, Kristen Case, et al. Socialist Realism (Emily Books) by Trisha Low Miami Midnight (Pete Fernandez) by Alex Segura A Killer Edition (A Booktown Mystery) by Lorna Barrett The Doll Factory: A Novel by Elizabeth Macneal Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh (Halfway through this, but so far, so good.) First You Write a Sentence: The Elements of Reading, Writing . . . and Life by Joe Moran A Keeper by Graham Norton Campusland by Scott Johnston The Plateau by Maggie Paxson I Heart Oklahoma! by Roy Scranton Hard Mouth by Amanda Goldblatt The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hossain Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention by Donna Freitas Inland by Téa Obreht Black Light: Stories by Kimberly King Parsons The Bells of Old Tokyo: Meditations on Time and a City by Anna Sherman The Winemaker’s Wife by Kristin Harmel Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center Black Card by Chris L. Terry Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh (I haven’t read all of this, but I like what I’ve read so far!) The Accidentals by Minrose Gwin Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders by Billy Jensen White Noise by Suzan-Lori Parks The Bitterroots by C.J. Box Heaven’s Breath: A Natural History of the Wind (New York Review Books Classics) by Lyall Watson Dahlia Black by Keith Thomas How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi Devotion by Madeline Stevens Blood Truth (4) (Black Dagger Legacy) by J.R. Ward Science Comics: Cats: Nature and Nurture by Andy Hirsch