New Releases and More for February 4, 2025

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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