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This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss The Mere Wife, What We Were Promised, Bad Blood, and more great books.

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Books discussed on the show:

Run Wild by K.I. Zachopoulos, Vincenzo Balzano (Illustrator)

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard by Paul Collins

The Mere Wife: A Novel by Maria Dahvana Headley

A Sloth’s Guide to Mindfulness by Ton Mak

What We Were Promised by Lucy Tan

What we’re reading this week:

Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution by Mona Eltahawy

Brother by David Chariandy

More books out this week:

Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott

All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover

Criminals: Essays by Robert Anthony Siegel

The Family Tabor by Cherise Wolas

From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan

The Wild Dead by Carrie Vaughn

Lilith, But Dark by Nicole Perkins

Wrong in All the Right Ways by Tiffany Brownlee

OK, Mr. Field: A Novel by Katharine Kilalea

The Wrong Heaven by Amy Bonnaffons

Bad Call: A Summer Job on a New York Ambulance by Mike Scardino

Cottage by the Sea: A Novel by Debbie Macomber

The Dead: A Novel by Christian Kracht,‎ Daniel Bowles (Translator)

The Secret Habit of Sorrow: Stories by Victoria Patterson

Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard by Paul Collins

Tacky Goblin by T. Sean Steele

Hullmetal Girls by Emily Skrutskie

Gods of Wood and Stone by Mark Di Ionno

In the Vines by Shannon Kirk

The Expert System’s Brother by Adrian Tchaikovsky

When Life Gives You Demons by Jennifer Honeybourn

Kill the Farm Boy: The Tales of Pell by Kevin Hearne and Delilah S. Dawson

Apocalypse Nyx by Kameron Hurley

The Girl in the Green Silk Gown (Ghost Roads) by Seanan McGuire

We’re Doomed. Now What?: Essays on War and Climate Change by Roy Scranton

The Sacco Gang by Andrea Camilleri  (Author), Stephen Sartarelli (Translator)

Homeplace: A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-Tonk by John Lingan

The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump by Michiko Kakutani

The Other Woman by Daniel Silva

Cloven: The Vorrh (3) by Brian Catling

One of Us by Craig DiLouie

Campfire by Shawn Sarles and James Patterson

Maze Master: A Thriller by Kathleen O’Neal Gear

Condomnauts by Yoss (Author),‎ David Frye (Translator)