New Releases and More for January 28, 2020
This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Interior Chinatown, Becoming a Man, How to Build a Heart, and more great books.
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Books discussed on the show:
Interior Chinatown: A Novel by Charles Yu
Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Damian Duffy, Octavia E. Butler, John Jennings
How to Build a Heart by Maria Padian
Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage by Laura Huang
Confessions of a Dork Lord by Mike Johnston, Marta Altés
Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition by P. Carl
A Beautiful Crime: A Novel by Christopher Bollen
I Am My Brand: How to Build Your Brand Without Apology by Kubi Springer
What we’re reading:
The Deep & Dark Blue by Niki Smith
Tall Tales and Wee Stories: The Best of Billy Connolly by Billy Connolly
More books out this week:
The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir by Justus Rosenberg
Leave to Remain (American Literature) by Thalia Field and Abigail Lang
Blood Countess (A Lady Slayers Novel) by Lana Popović
Marriage on Madison Avenue (The Central Park Pact Book 3) by Lauren Layne
Hostile Territory by Paul Greci
That’s What Friends Do by Cathleen Barnhart
Twenty by Debra Landwehr Engle
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir by Robin Ha
Losing You: A Novel by Nicci French
Highfire: A Novel by Eoin Colfer
The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler’s Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood by Donna Rifkind
Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty by Jeff Madrick
The Look-Alike: A Novel by Erica Spindler
The Circus: A Novel by Jonas Karlsson
Whiteout by Adriana Anders
Baudelaire Fractal by Lisa Robertson
When You See Me: A Novel by Lisa Gardner
The Other People: A Novel by C. J. Tudor
The Bard’s Blade (The Sorcerer’s Song) by Brian D. Anderson
How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now by Stanislas Dehaene
Prosper’s Demon by K. J. Parker
Blue Flowers: A Novel by Carola Saavedra
Hi Five (An IQ Novel) by Joe Ide
Diamond City: A Novel by Francesca Flores
The Truants by Kate Weinberg
The Man Without Talent by Yoshiharu Tsuge, Ryan Holmberg (translator)
Don’t Read the Comments by Eric Smith
Seven Deadly Shadows by Courtney Alameda and Valynne E. Maetani
The Storm of Life by Amy Rose Capetta
Run Me to Earth by Paul Yoon
Holding Smoke (Judah Cannon) by Steph Post
Cartier’s Hope: A Novel by M. J. Rose
Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World by Jessica Valenti and Jaclyn Friedman
The Girl Who Fell Out of the Sky by Victoria Forester
Show Them a Good Time by Nicole Flattery
Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald
A Castle in the Clouds by Kerstin Gier, Romy Fursland (translator)
Spring Rain: A Graphic Memoir of Love, Madness, and Revolutions by Andy Warner
Into the Fire: An Orphan X Novel by Gregg Hurwitz
A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
The Empty Bed: A Novel (The Burial Society Series) by Nina Sadowsky
Gay Like Me: A Father Writes to His Son by Richie Jackson
Wildfire by Carrie Mac
The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History by Lan Yan, Sam Taylor (translator)
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
An Apartment on Uranus: Chronicles of the Crossing (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents) by Paul B. Preciado
The Best of Elizabeth Bear by Elizabeth Bear
King of the Dogs, Queen of the Cats by James Patrick Kelly
