New Releases and More for August 14, 2018

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Severance, She Begat This, His Favorites, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Cherry by Nico Walker and Google Play. And don’t forget to enter to win 16 books from the Recommended podcast! 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: Severance: A Novel by Ling Ma

She Begat This: 20 Years of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Joan Morgan

Let Me Be Like Water by S.K. Perry

Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine by Edward Lee

Sweet Little Lies: A Novel by Caz Frear

Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf

His Favorites by Kate Walbert

Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History by Camille T. Dungy

What we’re reading:

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel

The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory

More books out this week: Fresh Ink: An Anthology edited by Lamar Giles The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limón Don’t Send Flowers by Martin Solares The Line That Held Us by David Joy Finding Esme by Suzanne Crowley Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago by Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz The Sapphire Widow: A Novel by Dinah Jefferies Believe Me by J.P. Delaney The Constitution Demands It: The Case for the Impeachment of Donald Trump by Ron Fein and John Bonifaz Pinnacle City: A Superhero Noir by Matt Carter and Fiona J.R. Titchenell Poso Wells by Gabriela Alemán, Dick Cluster (Translator) Blind Kiss by Renee Carlino Burden: A Preacher, a Klansman, and a True Story of Redemption in the Modern South by Courtney Hargrave Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee The Eye: An Insider’s Memoir of Masterpieces, Money, and the Magnetism of Art by Philippe Costamagna Bosom Buddies: A Celebration of Female Friendships throughout History by Violet Zhang and Sally Nixon Cherry by Nico Walker Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Our Homesick Songs by Emma Hooper Connect: A Novel by Julian Gough The Dark Vault: Unlock the Archive (The Archived) by Victoria Schwab The Arid Sky by Emiliano Monge,‎ Thomas Bunstead (Translator) You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar feeld by Jos Charles Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu  (Author), Joel Martinsen (Translator) Abandoned by Allison Brennan The Million by Karl Schroeder Mysterium: A Novel by Susan Froderberg My Life Uploaded by Rae Earl Alien Virus Love Disaster: Stories by Abbey Mei Otis A Girl’s Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America’s Secret Desert by Karen Piper A River of Stars by Vanessa Hua Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love by Anna Moschovakis The Story of H: A Novel by Marina Perezagua Stars Uncharted by S. K. Dunstall Wild Hunger (An Heirs of Chicagoland Novel) by Chloe Neill Google It: A History of Google by Anna Crowley Redding So Done by Paula Chase Flights by Olga Tokarczuk,‎ Jennifer Croft (Translator) The Shakespeare Requirement: A Novel by Julie Schumacher Bogotá 39: New Voices from Latin America by Various and Gabriela Jauregui Feared by Lisa Scottoline Relic by Alan Dean Foster Chopin’s Piano: In Search of the Instrument that Transformed Music by Paul Kildea The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen All Happy Families: A Memoir by Jeanne McCulloch Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present by Peter Vronsky Herokiller by Paul Tassi The Point by John Dixon Implanted by Lauren C. Teffeau Penelope Lemon: Game On! (Yellow Shoe Fiction) by Inman Majors The Seventh Function of Language by Laurent Binet, Sam Taylor (translator) (paperback) Eat Only When You’re Hungry by Lindsay Hunter (paperback) The Hidden Light of Northern Fires by Daren Wang (paperback) A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton (paperback) Flying Lessons & Other Stories by Ellen Oh (paperback)