New Releases and More for March 18, 2025

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This week, Liberty and Emily discuss Murder by Memory, I’ll Love You Forever, Animal Instinct, and more great books!

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Books Discussed On the Show:

Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite

Animal Instinct by Amy Shearn

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

I’ll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan by Giaae Kwon

Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One by Kristen Arnett

Counterattacks at Thirty by Won-pyung Sohn, Sean Lin Halbert (translator)

The Story She Left Behind by Patti Callahan Henry

Serial Killer Support Group by Saratoga Schaefer

Paperback Releases:

Goddess of the River by Vaishnavi Patel

The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste

Lucky by Jane Smiley

The Mars House by Natasha Pulley

Memory Piece by Lisa Ko

Bless Your Heart by Lindy Ryan

This Is Salvaged: Stories by Vauhini Vara

The Last Bloodcarver by Vanessa Le

What We’re Reading:

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot (translator)

The Expert of Subtle Revisions by Kirsten Menger-Anderson

The Murmur of Everything Moving: A Memoir by Maureen Stanton

More Books Out This Week:

Till Death (Fear) by Kellan McDaniel

The Fisherman’s Gift by Julia R Kelly 

Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children by Noliwe Rooks

Rooms for Vanishing by Stuart Nadler

Alive: Our Bodies and the Richness and Brevity of Existence by Gabriel Weston

Our Beautiful Boys by Sameer Pandya

Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service by Michael Lewis

Heartbreaker: A Memoir by Mike Campbell

Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Funny Because It’s True: How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire by Christine Wenc

Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance by Laura Delano 

Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa, Polly Barton (translator)

Hot Air by Marcy Dermansky 

The Maverick’s Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream by Blake Gopnik

Nothing Bad Happens Here by Rachel Ekstrom Courage

Everybody Says It’s Everything by Xhenet Aliu

The Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T. Wurth

White Line Fever by K.C. Jones

The Summer Guests (The Martini Club, #2) by Tess Gerritsen

His Mortal Demise (The Last Bloodcarver Duology) by Vanessa Le

Early Thirties by Josh Duboff

Aunt Tigress by Emily Yu-Xuan Qin

Hangry Hearts by Jennifer Chen

Breaking Bread: How Baking Shaped Our World by David Wright

The Prince Without Sorrow (Obsidian Throne, #1) by Maithree Wijesekara

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green 

The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas

The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue 

Fake It Like You Mean It by Megan Murphy

Spellbound: My Life as a Dyslexic Wordsmith by Phil Hanley

Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine by Callie Collins

The House No One Sees by Adina King

Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins 

The Hymn to Dionysus by Natasha Pulley  

O Sinners! by Nicole Cuffy

The Third Rule of Time Travel by Philip Fracassi

Passing Through a Prairie Country by Dennis E. Staples

Killer Potential by Hannah Deitch

Pomona Afton Can So Solve a Murder by Bellamy Rose

Changing My Mind by Julian Barnes

Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, Sophie Hughes (translator)