New Releases and More for January 8, 2019
This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss Mouthful of Birds, Slayer, An Orchestra of Minorities, and more great books.
This episode was sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, Just Once by Lori Handeland, and The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict.
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Books discussed on the show:
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss (tw: physical abuse)
All the Wild Hungers by Karen Babine
Mouthful of Birds: Stories by Samanta Schweblin
Once Ghosted Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole
The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh (tw: sexual assault, self harm)
Slayer by Kiersten White
An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma (tw: suicide, sexual assault)
Pride by Ibi Zoboi
Unmarriageable: A Novel by Soniah Kamal
Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors: A Novel by Sonali Dev
What we’re reading:
Circe by Madeline Miller
Die Hard: The Ultimate Visual History by James Mottram and David S. Cohen
An Orphanage of Dreams by Sam Savage
More books out this week:
The Wicked King by Holly Black
The Similars by Rebecca Hanover
Showtime at the Apollo: The Epic Tale of Harlem’s Legendary Theater by Ted Fox and James Otis Smith
Sugar Run: A Novel by Mesha Maren
Her One Mistake by Heidi Perks
The Widows by Jess Montgomery
The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye
Sydney Noir (Akashic Noir Series) by John Dale
Receptor by Alan Glynn
What Momma Left Me by Renée Watson
Amsterdam Noir (Akashic Noir Series) by René Appel and Josh Pachter
Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 by Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer
The Perilous Adventures of the Cowboy King: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt and His Times by Jerome Charyn
In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children) by Seanan McGuire
Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life by Lucy Worsley
How to Date Men When You Hate Men by Blythe Roberson
The Winter of the Witch: A Novel (Winternight Trilogy) by Katherine Arden
The Light Over London by Julia Kelly
Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States by Tony Platt
Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America by Ibi Zoboi and Tracey Baptiste
Scrublands by Chris Hammer
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington by Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch
A Cathedral of Myth and Bone: Collected Stories by Kat Howard
Bicycle in an Ransacked City: An Elegy by Andrés Cerpa
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America by Jack Kelly
The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Li Po) by Ha Jin
She Lies in Wait: A Novel by Gytha Lodge
Old Newgate Road: A novel by Keith Scribner
The Lost Puzzler: The Tarakan Chronicles by Eyal Kless
An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
The Girl King by Mimi Yu
Lake City: A Novel by Thomas Kohnstamm
Freefall: A Novel by Jessica Barry
The Au Pair by Emma Rous
Still in Love: A Novel by Michael Downing
Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called “Alien” by Jeremy Smith
Match Me If You Can by Tiana Smith
An Indefinite Sentence: A Personal History of Outlawed Love and Sex by Siddharth Dube
Burned: A Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn’t by Edward Humes
Weave the Liminal: Living Modern Traditional Witchcraft by Laura Tempest Zakroff
To Keep the Sun Alive: A Novel by Rabeah Ghaffari
The Martin Chronicles by John Fried
Bicycle in a Ransacked City: An Elegy by Andrés Cerpa
The Red Address Book by Sofia Lundberg
McGlue: A Novella by Ottessa Moshfegh
It Was All A Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America by Reniqua Allen
Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Hollywood’s Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A. by Lili Anolik
A Sky for Us Alone by Kristin Russell
The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe
Wanderer by Sarah Léon and John Cullen
The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After by Julie Yip-Williams
The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America by Jack Kelly
White Stag: A Novel (Permafrost) by Kara Barbieri
Inventing Victoria by Tonya Bolden
Analiese Rising by Brenda Drake
Invasive species by Marwa Helal