New Releases and More for March 20, 2018

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This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss The Astonishing Color of After, The Heart Forger, Stray City, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by So Delicious, ThirdLove, and She Caused a Riot by Hannah Jewell. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Trigger warning for discussion of suicide in the first title at the 3:25 mark. Books discussed on the show:

The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan

The Merry Spinster by Mallory Ortberg

Stray City by Chelsey Johnson

Aetherial Worlds by Tatyana Tolstaya

Bury What We Cannot Take by Kirstin Chen

No Turning Back by Rania Abouzeid (NPR interview.)

Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft

The Heart Forger by Rin Chupeco

What we’re reading this week:

Blood of a Thousand Stars by Rhoda Belleza

The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

The Descent of Monsters (The Tensorate Series) by JY Yang More books out this week: The Linden Tree by César Aira,‎ Chris Andrews (Translator) The Island that Disappeared: The Lost History of the Mayflower’s Sister Ship and its Rival Puritan Colony by Tom Feiling Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles Death Comes in through the Kitchen by Teresa Dovalpage The Gunners by Rebecca Kauffman Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race by Tim Fernholz Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown by Lauren Hilgers American Histories by John Edgar Wideman A Guide for Murdered Children by Sarah Sparrow How to Fall In Love with a Man Who Lives in a Bush: A Novel by Emmy Abrahamson Gods of Howl Mountain by Taylor Brown The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman The Past is Never by Tiffany Quay Tyson From Lone Mountain by John Porcellino Let’s No One Get Hurt: A Novel by Jon Pineda Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions by Alberto Manguel Just the Funny Parts: … And a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking into the Hollywood Boys’ Club by Nell Scovell Sugar Money by Jane Harris Unicorn of Many Hats (Phoebe and Her Unicorn Series Book 7) by Dana Simpson The Fighter by Michael Farris Smith The Punishment She Deserves by Elizabeth George Every Note Played by Lisa Genova The Eight Mountains by Paolo Cognetti Bizarre Romance by Audrey Niffenegger,‎ Eddie Campbell (Illustrator) The Wild Inside by James Bradbury Alternate Side by Anna Quindlen The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History by Aida Edemariam You Were Never Really Here (Movie Tie-In) by Jonathan Ames The Broken Girls by Simone St. James We Play a Game (Yale Series of Younger Poets) by Duy Doan