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This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss Queenie, Internment, Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea, and more great books.

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Books discussed on the show:

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Internment by Samira Ahmed

Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker

The Dragonfly Sea by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

The Word for Woman is Wilderness by Abi Andrews

The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson

Lot: Stories by Bryan Washington

The Witch’s Kind by Louisa Morgan

What we’re reading:

Lumberjanes: To The Max Vol. 5 by Kat Leyh, Shannon Watters, et al.

Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat by Johnny Marciano, Emily Chenoweth

Terminal Alliance (Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse Book 1) by Jim C. Hines

More books out this week:

The White Card: A Play by Claudia Rankine

In the Blink of an Eye by Jesse Blackadder

The Parade by Dave Eggers

Surviving Global Warming: Why Eliminating Greenhouse Gases Isn’t Enough by Roger A. Sedjo

Murder Once Removed (Ancestry Detective) by S. C. Perkins

Pagan Light: Dreams of Freedom and Beauty in Capri by Jamie James

The Perfect Assassin: Book 1 in the Chronicles of Ghadid by K. A. Doore

The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds by Caroline Van Hemert

Little Boy: A Novel by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

What Makes Girls Sick and Tired by Lucile De Pesloüan and Geneviève Darling

Make Me a City: A Novel by Jonathan Carr

What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir Of Witness And Resistance by Carolyn Forché

Redemption Point by Candice Fox

The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley

The Good Detective by John McMahon

The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book’s Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey by Margaret Leslie Davis

Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies by Edward O. Wilson

The Deepest Blue by Sarah Beth Durst

The Invisible Killer: The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution-and How We Can Fight Back by Gary Fuller

The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner

Let Me Out Here: Stories by Emily W. Pease

Can’t Escape Love: A Reluctant Royals Novella by Alyssa Cole

Never-Contented Things by Sarah Porter

Meet Me in Outer Space by Melinda Grace

Memories of the Future by Siri Hustvedt

Sherwood by Meagan Spooner

Tangled In Time: The Portal by Kathryn Lasky

Look How Happy I’m Making You: Stories by Polly Rosenwaike

The Municipalists: A Novel by Seth Fried

Horizon by Barry Lopez

Run Away by Harlen Coben

Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds

Rising Water: The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue by Marc Aronson

The Chaos Function by Jack Skillingstead

A People’s History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian

The Fifth Doctrine (The Guardian) by Karen Robards

Night Music by Jenn Marie Thorne

Save Me from Dangerous Men: A Novel (Nikki Griffin) by S. A. Lelchuk

Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature―A New Evolutionary History by Adam Rutherford

Einstein’s Wife: The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Maric by Allen Esterson and David C. Cassidy

First: Sandra Day O’Connor by Evan Thomas

The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer

Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature―A New Evolutionary History

The Goose Fritz by Sergei Lebedev

The Octopus Museum: Poems by Brenda Shaughnessy

The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father by Janny Scott

All the Fierce Tethers by Lia Purpura

Inspection by Josh Malerman

High Heel (Object Lessons) by Summer Brennan

A Vintage Year by Rosie Howard