New Releases and More for January 21, 2020
This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss Riot Baby, Fight of the Century, The Seep, and more great books.
This episode was sponsored Book Riot’s Read Harder 2020 Challenge, Flatiron Books, publisher of American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, and Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing.
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Books discussed on the show:
The Blaze by Chad Dundas
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World: A Novel by C. A. Fletcher
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
The Sweet Indifference of the World: A Novel by Peter Stamm, Michael Hofmann (translator)
The Seep by Chana Porter
Remembrance by Rita Woods
Homie: Poems by Danez Smith
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman
What we’re reading:
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty and Dianné Ruz
Guess Who is the Happiest Girl in Town by Susi Wyss
More books out this week:
Sunnyside Plaza by Scott Simon
Devil Darling Spy by Matt Killeen
Poison Flowers & Pandemonium by Richard Sala
Year of the Rabbit by Tian Veasna
Abigail by Magda Szabo, Len Rix (translator)
The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine by Donna Jackson Nakazawa
The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism by Kyle Chayka
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish by Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert
The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties by Christopher Caldwell
The Best of Iggy by Annie Barrows, Sam Ricks (Illustrator)
What I Carry by Jennifer Longo
Small Days and Nights: A Novel by Tishani Doshi
Rogue Princess by B.R. Myers
Spellhacker by M. K. England
The Wife and the Widow by Christian White
Off Script by Kate Watson
A Queen in Hiding (The Nine Realms) by Sarah Kozloff
All the F*cking Mistakes: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life by Gigi Engle
Heart of Junk by Luke Geddes
Wardens of Eternity by Courtney Allison Moulton
And in the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Family Torn Apart by War by Elisabeth Åsbrink, Saskia Vogel (translator)
The Majesties: A Novel by Tiffany Tsao
The Iron Will of Genie Lo (A Genie Lo Novel) by F. C. Yee
A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel by Isabel Allende
Recipe for a Perfect Wife: A Novel by Karma Brown
Processed Cheese: A Novel by Stephen Wright
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Universal Love: Stories by Alexander Weinstein
Here I Am! by Pauline Holdstock
Stateway’s Garden: Stories by Jasmon Drain
Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg
Layoverland by Gabby Noone
Murder Your Darlings: And Other Gentle Writing Advice from Aristotle to Zinsser by Roy Peter Clark
The Criminal Child: Selected Essays (New York Review Books Classics) by Jean Genet, Jeffrey Zuckerman (translator), Charlotte Mandell (translator)
Bitter Falls (Stillhouse Lake Book 4) by Rachel Caine
Wife After Wife by Olivia Hayfield
American Queenmaker: How Missy Meloney Brought Women Into Politics by Julie Des Jardins
Agency by William Gibson
The Sweet Indifference of the World: A Novel by Peter Stamm and Michael Hofmann
The Janes: An Alice Vega Novel by Louisa Luna
This Vicious Cure (Mortal Coil) by Emily Suvada
My Red Heaven by Lance Olsen
The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious) by Maureen Johnson
Tweet Cute by Emma Lord
The Vineyards of Champagne by Juliet Blackwell
The Wagers by Sean Michaels
Follow Me to Ground: A Novel by Sue Rainsford
The Teacher by Michal Ben-Naftali, Daniella Zamir (translator)
Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World by Matt Parker
Harvest the Vote: How Democrats Can Win Again in Rural America by Jane Kleeb
Green Lantern: Legacy by Minh Le, Andie Tong (Illustrator)
Gone by Nightfall by Dee Garretson
Amour: How the French Talk About Love by Stefania Rousselle
The Runaway Princess by Johan Troïanowski
Swerve: Poems on Environmentalism, Feminism, and Resistance by Ellery Akers
