New Releases and More for March 26, 2019
This week, Liberty and Katie discuss My Lovely Wife, Good Talk, Dig, and more great books.
This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders; The Perfect Girlfriend by Karen Hamilton, published by Graydon House Books; and Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, publishers of The Handmaid’s Tale graphic novel.
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Books discussed on the show:
My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing
Unbecoming: A Memoir of Disobedience by Anuradha Bhagwati
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob
Dig by A.S. King
Guestbook: Ghost Stories by Leanne Shapton
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski PhD, Amelia Nagoski DMA
On Cussing: Bad Words and Creative Cursing by Katherine Dunn
The Other Americans by Laila Lalami
What we’re reading:
The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson
The Last Pass: Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End by Gary Pomerantz
More books out this week:
No Happy Endings: A Memoir by Nora McInerny
Chronicles of a Radical Hag (with Recipes): A Novel by Lorna Landvik
Tiamat’s Wrath (The Expanse) by James S. A. Corey (Author)
Sweety by Andrea Zuill
Cilla Lee-Jenkins: The Epic Story by Susan Tan and Dana Wulfekotte
XL by Scott Brown
The Cook: A Novel by Maylis de Kerangal and Sam Taylor
How to Love a Country by Richard Blanco
Kaddish.com: A novel by Nathan Englander
Murder Lo Mein (A Noodle Shop Mystery) by Vivien Chien
Once & Future by Cori McCarthy and Amy Rose Capetta
The Old Drift: A Novel by Namwali Serpell
Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina, Lisa C. Hayden (translator)
Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe: A Novel by Evan James
Dear Ally, How Do You Write a Book by Ally Carter
What Would Maisie Do?: Inspiration from the Pages of Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
The American Agent: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear
Over the Moon by Natalie Lloyd
The Astonishing Maybe by Shaunta Grimes
How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin
Miranda in Milan by Katharine Duckett
The Beast Player by Nahoko Uehashi and Cathy Hirano
White Elephant: A Novel by Julie Langsdorf
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens’s London by Claire Harman
River of Fire by Qurratulain Hyder
Our Super Adventure: Press Start to Begin by Sarah Graley
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young
The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe by Ally Condie
Sing to It: New Stories by Amy Hempel
Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss: A Novel by Rajeev Balasubramanyam
The Workshop and the World: What Ten Thinkers Can Teach Us About Science and Authority by Robert P. Crease
Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything by Tim James
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World by Clive Thompson
One Warm Winter by Jamie Pope
Villanelle: No Tomorrow: The basis for Killing Eve, now a major BBC TV series (Killing Eve series) by Luke Jennings
The Infamous Duchess: Diamonds in the Rough by Sophie Barnes
Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc by David Elliott
American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation by Adam Morris
The Library of Lost and Found: A Novel by Phaedra Patrick
House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo by Allison Levy