New Releases and More for June 3, 2025
This week, Liberty and Danika discuss Ten Incarnations of Rebellion, Charlottesville, Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
Charlottesville: An American Story by Deborah Baker
Ten Incarnations of Rebellion by Vaishnavi Patel
Flashlight by Susan Choi
Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon by Annie Mare
A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle
Beast by Richard Van Camp
The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by John Seabrook
Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
Sister, Butcher, Sister by KD Aldyn
Meet Me at the Crossroads by Megan Giddings
The Catch by Yrsa Daley-Ward
Paperback Releases:
The Palace of Eros by Caro De Robertis
Brat by Gabriel Smith
Blood Like Mine by Stuart Neville
Hum by Helen Phillips
The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang
The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei
The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory by Thomas Fuller
Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman
The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani, Sam Bett (translator)
What We’re Reading:
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab
Rumors of My Demise: A Memoir by Evan Dando
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach
More Books Out This Week:
The Two Lies of Faven Sythe by Megan E. O’Keefe
That’s How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor edited by Damon Young
Parallel Lines by Edward St. Aubyn
Strange Houses by Uketsu, Jim Rion (translator)
Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness by Michael Koresky
Gaysians by Michael Curato
Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told by Jeremy Atherton Lin
I’ll Tell You When I’m Home by Hala Alyan
How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter’s Memoir by Molly Jong-Fast
Black Salt Queen by Samantha Bansil
It’s Not the End of the World by Jonathan Parks-Ramage
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse by Alice Bolin
So Gay for You: Friendship, Found Family, and the Show That Started It All by Kate Moennig, Leisha Hailey
Best of All Worlds by Kenneth Oppel
Celestial Banquet by Roselle Lim
The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark
Waterline by Aram Mrjoian
Park Avenue by Renée Ahdieh
The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex by Melissa Febos
Atmosphere: A Love Story by Taylor Jenkins Reid
When Devils Sing by Xan Kaur
The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater
Clam Down: A Metamorphosis by Anelise Chen
Skipshock by Caroline O’Donoghue
The Slip by Lucas Schaefer
Submersed: Wonder, Obsession, and Murder in the World of Amateur Submarines by Matthew Gavin Frank
Songs of No Provenance by Lydi Conklin
When We Ruled: The Rise and Fall of Twelve African Queens and Warriors by Paula Akpan
Alice Chen’s Reality Check by Kara Loo, Jennifer Young
Dining Out: First Dates, Defiant Nights, and Last Call Disco Fries at America’s Gay Restaurants by Erik Piepenburg
