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. This episode was sponsored by Google Play, ThirdLove, and Mirage by Somaiya Daud. And don’t forget to enter to win 16 books from the Recommended podcast! And check out the new Read Harder Journal. 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: 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