New Releases and More for July 1, 2025
This week, Liberty and Danika discuss The Original, History Lessons, Tusk Love, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays by Maris Kreizman
The Original by Nell Stevens
History Lessons by Zoe B. Wallbrook
Tusk Love by Thea Guanzon
Wanting by Claire Jia
Hot Girls with Balls by Benedict Nguyen
Blood in the Water by Tiffany D. Jackson
Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe by C.B. Lee
Can You Solve the Murder?: An Interactive Crime Novel by Antony Johnston
Paperback Releases:
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven: Stories by Ruben Reyes Jr.
Mina’s Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa, Stephen B. Snyder
All This and More by Peng Shepherd
Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum
What We’re Reading:
Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin
The Great Museum of the Sea: A Human History of Shipwrecks by James P. Delgado
Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys by Mariana Enriquez, Megan McDowell (translator)
More Books Out This Week:
Tenderly, I Am Devoured by Lyndall Clipstone
The Night Sparrow by Shelly Sanders
Into the Leopard’s Den: A Bangalore Detectives Club Mystery by Harini Nagendra
Wake Up, Pixoto! by Weng Pixin
Bear and the Three Goldilocks by Patrick Horne, Dan Yaccarino
We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate by Michael Grunwald
Thrill of the Chase by Kathryn Nolan
The Other Brother by Tierney Page
Typewriter Beach by Meg Waite Clayton
Etiquette For Lovers And Killers by Anna Fitzgerald Healy
The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature by Charlie English
Let’s Make a Scene by Laura Wood
Our Last Vineyard Summer by Brooke Lea Foster
Overruled by Lana Ferguson
Do Not Disturb by Freida McFadden
Like: A History of the World’s Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word by Megan C. Reynolds
Sunburned by Katherine Wood
Cry for Me, Argentina: My Life As a Failed Child Star by Tamara Yajia
A Forbidden Alchemy by Stacey McEwan
The Letter Carrier by Francesca Giannone, Elettra Pauletto
A Mother Always Knows by Sarah Strohmeyer
The Peculiar Gift of July by Ashley Ream
Crash Test by Amy James
Infinite Archive (The Midsolar Murders Book 3) by Mur Lafferty
My Ex, the Antichrist by Craig DiLouie
Behind Frenemy Lines by Zen Cho
The Satisfaction Café by Kathy Wang
How Freaking Romantic by Emily Harding
The Baby Dragon Cafe by A. T. Qureshi
A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart by Nishant Batsha
The Yomigaeri Tunnel by Kelly Murashige
All the Words We Know by Bruce Nash
My Other Heart by Emma Nanami Strenner
Call Your Boyfriend by Olivia A. Cole and Ashley Woodfolk
Human Rites (Her Majesty’s Royal Coven, #3) by Juno Dawson
The Nightblood Prince by Molly X. Chang
The Art of Vanishing by Morgan Pager
Archive of Unknown Universes by Ruben Reyes Jr.
Oddbody: Stories by Rose Keating
The Namaste Club by Asha Elias
After We Burned by Marieke Nijkamp
This Book Might Be About Zinnia by Brittney Morris
