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This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss The Nickel Boys, Turbulence, Body Leaping Backward, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by the Versify podcast, Ritual, and Libro.fm. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSSiTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.

Books discussed on the show:

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Akissi: More Tales of Mischief by Marguerite Abouet and Mathieu Sapin Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood by Maureen Stanton Her One Mistake by Heidi Perks (paperback) The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter Turbulence: A Novel by David Szalay The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero with Erica Moroz (paperback)

What we’re reading:

Paper Girls by Brian K Vaughan and Cliff Chiang From the Wreck by Jane Rawson

More books out this week:

Stubborn Archivist by Yara Rodrigues Fowler Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution by Jennifer Block The Redemption of Time: A Three-Body Problem Novel by Baoshu and Ken Liu Storm Blown by Nick Courage Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction by Chuck Klosterman The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory The Other Mrs. Miller by Allison Dickson Beirut Hellfire Society by Rawi Hage The Weil Conjectures by Karen Olsson The Oddmire, Book 1: Changeling by William Ritter A Girl Goes Into the Forest by Peg Alford Pursell Family of Origin: A Novel by CJ Hauser They Called Us Enemy by George Takei and Justin Eisinger The Border Keeper by Kerstin Hall Tell Me Everything: A Novel by Cambria Brockman This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone If You Want to Make God Laugh by Bianca Marais Costalegre by Courtney Maum What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal by E. Jean Carroll The Heart Keeper by Alex Dahl Fu Ping: A Novel (Weatherhead Books on Asia) by Anyi Wang, Howard Goldblatt (Translator) The Expectations by Alexander Tilney Sophia, Princess Among Beasts by James Patterson and Emily Raymond Blue Hours: A Novel by Daphne Kalotay