New Releases and More for June 5, 2018
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss There There, Visible Empire, Small Country, and more great books.
This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove and Tonight I’m Someone Else: Essays by Chelsea Hodson.
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Books discussed on the show:
There There by Tommy Orange
Florida by Lauren Groff
Social Creature by Tara Isabella Burton
We Are Gathered by Jamie Weisman
Small Country: A Novel by Gaël Faye
Visible Empire by Hannah Pittard
The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
Half Gods by Akil Kumarasamy
The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime by Ron Stallworth
Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl
Tonight I’m Someone Else: Essays by Chelsea Hodson
Sweet and Low: Stories by Nick White
Invitation to a Bonfire by Adrienne Celt
Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour
Treeborne by Caleb Johnson
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
What we’re reading this week:
The Witch Elm by Tana French
Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump by Dan Pfeiffer
More books out this week:
Little Do We Know by Tamara Ireland Stone
Invisible Ghosts by Robyn Schneider
Kudos: A Novel (Outline Trilogy) by Rachel Cusk
Mariam Sharma Hits the Road by Sheba Karim
Bruce Lee: A Life by Matthew Polly
Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse by Andrea Di Robilant
A People’s History of the Vampire Uprising by Raymond A. Villareal
Mother American Night: My Life in Crazy Times by John Perry Barlow and Robert Greenfield
Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power by Claudia Renton
Take You Wherever You Go by Kenny Leon
Santa Cruz Noir (Akashic Noir Series) by Susie Bright
Ghostbuster’s Daughter: Life with My Dad, Harold Ramis by Violet Ramis Stiel
Rivers by Martin Michael Driessen, Jon Reeder (Translator)
The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution by Ann Travers
Free Chocolate by Amber Royer
The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
The Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir by Yrsa Daley-Ward
Smoke in the Sun by Renée Ahdieh
Here Kitty Kitty by Jardine Libaire
Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity by Arlene Stein
Queen for a Day by Maxine Rosaler
The Good Son: A Novel by You-Jeong Jeong
A Blood Thing by James Hankins
Rough Animals: A Novel by Rae DelBianco
Black Panther: Long Live the King (Marvel Premiere Graphic Novel) by Nnedi Okorafor and Andre Araujo
The Cardboard Kingdom by Chad Sell
The Optickal Illusion: A Novel by Rachel Halliburton
Fat Girl on a Plane by Kelly deVos
Always Forever Maybe by Anica Mrose Rissi
What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson
Lagos Noir (Akashic Noir Series) by Chris Abani
Upstate: A Novel by James Wood
How We Roll by Natasha Friend
What Happened That Night by Sandra Block
Brother in Ice by Alicia Kopf (Author), Mara Faye Lethem (Translator)
A Mask of Shadows: A Novel (A Frey & McGray Mystery) by Oscar de Muriel
Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God: Poems by Tony Hoagland
Side by Side: A Novel of Bonnie and Clyde by Jenni L. Walsh
Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living by Karen Auvinen
Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded by Jason Heller
Save the Date by Morgan Matson
Lincoln’s Last Trial: The Murder Case that Propelled Him to the Presidency by Dan Abrams and David Fisher
Days of Awe by A.M. Homes
Plum Rains by Andromeda Romano-Lax
The Devil’s Half Mile by Paddy Hirsch
Heartseeker by Melinda Beatty
The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon by Chris Feliciano Arnold
Southernmost by Silas House
The Captives: A Novel by Debra Jo Immergut
Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder by Lincoln Michel (Editor), Nadxieli Nieto (Editor)
Cancerland: A Medical Memoir by MD David T. Scadden and Michael D’Antonio
Us Against You: A Novel (Beartown) by Fredrik Backman
Sex and the City and Us: How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live, and Love by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Sweet Black Waves by Kristina Pérez
Dear Rachel Maddow by Adrienne Kisner
How Hitler Was Made: Germany and the Rise of the Perfect Nazi by Cory Taylor
Bruja Born (Brooklyn Brujas) by Zoradia Cordova
The Bird and the Blade by Megan Bannen
Dreams of Falling by Karen White
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal: A Novel by Dorthe Nors
When Life Gives You Lululemons by Lauren Weisberger
The Last Lobster: Boom or Bust for Maine’s Greatest Fishery? by Christopher White
Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival by Kelly Sundberg
Into that Good Night: A Novel by Levis Keltner
Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson
Somebody I Used to Know: A Memoir by Wendy Mitchell
Social Intercourse by Greg Howard
My Girls: A Lifetime with Carrie and Debbie by Todd Fisher
Whisper of the Tide by Sarah Tolcser
Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration by Alfredo Corchado
Something in the Water: A Novel by Catherine Steadman
One Day You’ll Thank Me: Lessons From an Unexpected Fatherhood by David McGlynn
The Maw: A Novel by Taylor Zajonc
São Paulo Noir (Akashic Noir Series) by Tony Bellotto
Brief Cases (Dresden Files) by Jim Butcher
Still Lives: A Novel by Maria Hummel
Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous by Christopher Bonanos
The Lost Family by Jenna Blum
How Hard Can It Be by Alliosn Pearson
North American Stadiums by Grady Chambers
The Answers by Catherine Lacey (paperback)
Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy (paperback)
