New Releases and More for March 25, 2025
This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss When the Moon Hits Your Eye, Blazing Eye Sees All, The Portable Feminist Reader, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi
Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age by Leah Sottile
Garbage Town by Ravi Gupta
The Portable Feminist Reader edited by Roxane Gay
The Keeper of Lonely Spirits by E.M. Anderson
Black. Fat. Femme: Revealing the Power of Visibly Queer Voices in Media and Learning to Love Yourself by Jonathan P. Higgins, Ed.D
Tilt by Emma Pattee
Bearsuit Turtle Makes a Friend by Bob Shea
Elphie: A Wicked Childhood by Gregory Maguire
There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
Paperback Releases:
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
She Who Knows by Nnedi Okorafor
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
Real Americans by Rachel Khong
Diavola by Jennifer Thorne
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
Escape Velocity by Victor Manibo
What We’re Reading:
Love Letter to a Garden by Debbie Millman with recipes by Roxane Gay
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
Play Nice by Rachel Harrison
The Unveiling by Quan Barry
More Books Out This Week:
Dissolution by Nicholas Binge
The Church of Living Dangerously: Tales of a Drug-Running Megachurch Pastor by John Lee Bishop
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen
Lovely Dark and Deep by Elisa A. Bonnin
Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America by Jane Borden
We Are Villains by Kacen Callender
How to Survive a Bear Attack: A Memoir by Claire Cameron
Gothictown by Emily Carpenter
Tideborn (Drowned World, #2) by Eliza Chan
A Lesson in Dying: The First Inspector Ramsay Novel by Ann Cleeves
The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie
Psychopomp by Maria Dong
The Other People by C.B. Everett
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone
rekt by Alex Gonzalez
Nowhere by Allison Gunn
The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree by India Hayford
Saltwater by Katy Hays
Trauma Plot: A Life by Jamie Hood
Paradise Logic by Sophie Kemp
Lucky Night by Eliza Kennedy
Counting Backwards by Binnie Kirshenbaum
Cover Story by Celia Laskey
The Serpent Called Mercy by Roanne Lau
Behind the Waterline by Kionna Walker LeMalle
To Steal from Thieves by M.K. Lobb
The Evening Shades by Lee Martin
Root Rot by Saskia Nislow
The Colony by Annika Norlin, Alice E. Olsson (translator)
Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin’s Strangest Idea by Matt Ridley
Retreat by Krysten Ritter
Space Brooms! by A.G. Rodriguez
The Girl And The Robot by Oz Rodriguez and Claribel A. Ortega
Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen by Hallie Rubenhold
A Better Ending: A Brother’s Twenty-Year Quest to Uncover the Truth About His Sister’s Death by James Whitfield Thomson
Thrilled to Death: New and Selected Stories by Lynne Tillman
Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna van Veen
This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead
Sister Europe by Nell Zink