New Releases and More for January 7, 2025
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