New Releases and More for January 7, 2025

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This week, Liberty and Danika discuss Homeseeking, Single Player, The Three Lives of Cate Kay, and more great books!

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Books Discussed On the Show:

Homeseeking by Karissa Chen

Single Player by Tara Tai

The Last Bookstore on Earth by Lily Braun-Arnold 

The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan

The Capital of Dreams by Heather O’Neill 

Darkmotherland by Samrat Upadhyay

Mothers and Sons by Adam Haslett

The Devourer by Alison Ames

Paperback Releases:

Argylle by Elly Conway

My Friends by Hisham Matar

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round by Jami Attenberg

Kill for Me, Kill for You by Steve Cavanagh

Yellowface by R. F. Kuang

The Fetishist by Katherine Min

The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors by Erika Howsare 

King: A Life by Jonathan Eig

What We’re Reading:

The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri

Meet Me at the Crossroads by Megan Giddings

They Don’t Pay Me To Say No by Dean Goodine

More Books Out This Week:

Beg, Borrow, or Steal by Sarah Adams

The Unbecoming of Margaret Wolf by Isa Arsén

Mother of Rome by Lauren J.A. Bear

Sweet Fury by Sash Bischoff

The Note by Alafair Burke

All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall

The Empress (Towerfall, #1) by Kristin Cast

Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay Chapman

Four Ruined Realms (The Broken Blades) by Mai Corland

The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis

The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne by Kate Winkler Dawson 

Rosarita by Anita Desai

The Heart of Winter by Jonathan Evison 

The Wishless Ones (Dark Ascension, #3) by Hafsah Faizal

You’ll Never Believe Me: A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist by Kari Ferrell

After Life by Gayle Forman 

The House of My Mother: A Daughter’s Quest for Freedom by Shari Franke

How to Sleep at Night by Elizabeth Harris

The Starlight Heir by Amalie Howard

The Life of Herod the Great by Zora Neale Hurston

For One Night Only by Jessica James

As You Wish by Nashae Jones

The Perfect Home by Daniel Kenitz 

The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus by Emma Knight

No Place Left to Hide by Megan Lally

The Afterdark by E. Latimer

Breath of the Dragon (Breathmarked, #1) by Shannon Lee, Fonda Lee

The Inherited Mind: A Story of Family, Hope, and the Genetics of Mental Illness by James Longman

Horse Girl Fever: Stories by Kevin Maloney

This Is the Year by Gloria Muñoz

The Lodge by Kayla Olson

The Assassin’s Guide to Babysitting by Natalie C. Parker

Seeds by Angie Paxton

Lies on the Serpent’s Tongue by Kate Pearsall

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly

Another Man in the Street by Caryl Phillips

Bemused by Farrah Rochon

Playworld by Adam Ross

Temple of Swoon by Jo Segura

Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was) by Colette Shade

Immortal by Sue Lynn Tan

The Unexpected Diva by Tiffany L. Warren

In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space by Irvin Weathersby Jr.

The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 1 by Martha Wells 

A Language of Dragons by S. F. Williamson

Happy to Help: Adventures of a People Pleaser by Amy Wilson

The Lotus Shoes by Jane Yang

A Copycat Conundrum (The Misfits) by Lisa Yee, Dan Santat

A Sea of Unspoken Things by Adrienne Young