Episode 173
New Releases and More for August 28, 2018
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Darius the Great Is Not Okay, City of Ghosts, Nothing Good Can Come From This, and more great books.
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Books discussed on the show:
Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
Nothing Good Can Come from This: Essays by Kristi Coulter
Tear Me Apart by J.T. Ellison
If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi: Stories by Neel Patel
City of Ghosts by VE Schwab
The Summer of Jordi Perez (And the Best Burger in Los Angeles) by Amy Spalding
New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction by James Thomas and Robert Scotellaro
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
What we’re reading:
Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
The Best American Food Writing 2018 (The Best American Series) by Silvia Killingsworth and Ruth Reichl
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
More books out this week:
Everyday People: The Color of Life–a Short Story Anthology by Jennifer Baker
Second Time Sweeter: A Blessings Novel by Beverly Jenkins
That’s Not What Happened by Kody Keplinger
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene Carruthers
Missing Signal by Seb Doubinsky
The Towering Sky (Thousandth Floor) by Katharine McGee
Stygian: A Dark-Hunter Novel (Dark-Hunter Novels) by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sold on a Monday: A Novel by Kristina McMorris
Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft by Tess Sharpe and Jessica Spotswood
Nostrand Avenue by Kenji Jasper
Locked In: The Will to Survive and the Resolve to Live by Victoria Arlen
Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson
Not Quite Not White: Losing and Finding Race in America by Sharmila Sen
Mirage: A Novel by Somaiya Daud
The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves by Eric R. Kandel
French Exit: A Novel by Patrick deWitt
The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How It Will Reshape Our World by Lawrence D Burns and Christopher Shulgan
War Cry by Brian McClellan
Science and Spiritual Practices: Transformative Experiences and Their Effects on Our Bodies, Brains, and Health by Rupert Sheldrake
The Sacrifice Box by Martin Stewart
Dim Sum of All Fears (A Noodle Shop Mystery) by Vivien Chien
Bloody Rose (The Band) by Nicholas Eames
Praise Song for the Butterflies by Bernice L. McFadden
Ozy and Millie by Dana Simpson
Seafire by Natalie C. Parker
We That Are Young: A novel by Preti Taneja
Housegirl: A Novel by Michael Donkor
A Politically Incorrect Feminist: Creating a Movement with Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warriors, and Wonder Women by Phyllis Chesler
Ahab’s Return, or, The Last Voyage by Jeffrey Ford
The Impostor: A True Story by Javier Cercas, Frank Wynne (Translator)
I’m Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya
Dog Symphony by Sam Munson
Resistance by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Sheets by Brenna Thummler
Hollywood Dead: A Sandman Slim Novel by Richard Kadrey
The People’s Republic of Everything by Nick Mamatas
The Fall of Gondolin by J.R.R. Tolkien
