New Releases and More for February 4, 2025
This week, Liberty and Danika discuss Victorian Psycho, Reading the Waves, The Black Fantastic, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito
Reading the Waves: A Memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch
Pure Innocent Fun: Essays by Ira Madison III
The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories edited by andré m. carrington
Bibliophobia: A Memoir by Sarah Chihaya
A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke by Adriana Herrera
Listen to Your Sister by Neena Viel
The Lamb by Lucy Rose
Mutual Interest by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
What We’re Reading:
Skye Falling by Mia McKenzie
Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us by Jennifer Finney Boylan
One Piece by Eiichiro Oda
More Books Out This Week:
The Ghosts of Bitterfly Bay by Mary Averling
Sea Legs by Jules Bakes, Niki Smith
The Edge of Water by Olufunke Grace Bankole
Diana in Love by Jen Besser and Shana Feste
No One Knows by Osamu Dazai, Ralph McCarthy (translator)
Saint of the Narrows Street by William Boyle
Under the Same Stars by Libba Bray
Memorial Days: A Memoir by Geraldine Brooks
A Forty Year Kiss by Nickolas Butler
The Delicate Beast by Roger Celestin
The Snowbirds by Christina Clancy
Monument Eternal by Alice Coltrane
The Crime Brûlée Bake Off by Rebecca Connolly
On Screen & Off Again by Caitlin Cross
Humans: A Monstrous History by Surekha Davies
Needy Little Things by Channelle Desamours
The Underwood Tapes by Amanda DeWitt
Junie by Erin Crosby Eckstine
The Department by Jacqueline Faber
Red Clay by Charles B. Fancher
The Love Lyric by Kristina Forest
It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished: A Memoir of My Body by Kate Gies
Oromay by Baalu Girma, David DeGusta and Mesfin Felleke Yirgu (translators)
Skylar and the K-Pop Principal by Luan Goldie
Isola by Allegra Goodman
The Meadowbrook Murders by Jessica Goodman
The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI by David Hajdu
Deep End by Ali Hazelwood
A Season of Light by Julie Iromuanya
Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey
Capitana by Cassandra James
Last Twilight in Paris by Pam Jenoff
Saphie the One-Eyed Cat Volume 1 by Joho
From Far Around They Saw Us Burn by Alice Jolly
The Woman in the Wallpaper by Lora Jones
The Bones Beneath My Skin by TJ Klune
Code Noir: Fictions by Canisia Lubrin
A World Worth Saving by Kyle Lukoff
A Killing Cold by Kate Alice Marshall
Land of Mirrors by Maria Medem, Aleshia Jensen and Daniela Ortiz (translators)
These Vengeful Wishes by Vanessa Montalban
Let Us March On by Shara Moon
Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray
Soft Core by Brittany Newell
Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You’d Rather Cancel by Loretta J. Ross
The Matchmaker by Aisha Saeed
Wings of Starlight by Allison Saft
All Better Now by Neal Shusterman
This Is a Love Story by Jessica Soffer
Gliff by Ali Smith
Why on Earth: An Alien Invasion Anthology by Vania Stoyanova and Rosiee Thor
Grave Empire by Richard Swan
Lion by Sonya Walger
All the Blues in the Sky by Renée Watson
Another World is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe by Natasha Hakimi Zapata