New Releases and More for March 20, 2018
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.
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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