New Releases and More for March 3, 2020

This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss Deacon King Kong, We Ride Upon Sticks, The Story of More, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Spirit Run by Noé Álvarez, on sale now from Catapult; ThirdLove; and Bombas. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.

BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW:

We Ride Upon Sticks: A Novel by Quan Barry The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here by Hope Jahren This Town Sleeps: A Novel by Dennis E. Staples Be Not Far from Me by Mindy McGinnis Deacon King Kong: A Novel by James McBride Spirit Run: A 6000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land by Noé Álvarez Writers & Lovers by Lily King Only Mostly Devastated: A Novel by Sophie Gonzales

WHAT WE’RE READING:

We Are The Wildcats by Siobhan Vivian Feast Your Eyes by Myla Goldberg

MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK:

Anger Is My Middle Name: A Memoir by Lisbeth Zornig Andersen, Mark Mussari (translator) Hide Away by Jason Pinter This Terrible Beauty by Katrin Schumann A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir by Jason Diakité and Rachel Willson-Broyles And The Stars Were Burning Brightly by Danielle Jawando Help Wanted, Must Love Books by Janet Sumner Johnson Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel by Julian K. Jarboe Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry by John Murillo The Chaos Curse (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond) by Sayantani DasGupta On the Corner of Hope and Main: A Blessings Novel by Beverly Jenkins Docile by K.M. Szpara The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Illustrated by Gertrude Stein, Maira Kalman (Illustrator) The Magnificent Conman of Cairo: A Novel (Hoopoe Fiction) by Adel Kamel, Waleed Almusharaf (translator) The Back Roads to March: The Unsung, Unheralded, and Unknown Heroes of a College Basketball Season by John Feinstein The Love Story of the Century by Märta Tikkanen, Stina Katchadourian (Translator) How to Be a Pirate by Isaac Fitzgerald and Brigette Barrager Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space (Exploded Views) by Amanda Leduc The Age of Phillis (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers Longing for an Absent God: Faith and Doubt in Great American Fiction by Nick Ripatrazone Sharks in the Time of Saviors: A Novel by Kawai Strong Washburn Trace Elements (A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery Book 29) by Donna Leon Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life by Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez Blame the Dead by Ed Ruggero Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems by Carl Phillips The God Child by Nana Oforiatta Ayim The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism by Katherine Stewart Open Fire by Amber Lough The Rabbit Hunter by Lars Kepler Without Sanction (Matt Drake) by Don Bentley Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit by Eliese Colette Goldbach John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father’s Fight for Justice in the Boston Massacre Murder Trial by Dan Abrams, David Fisher Moment of Truth by Kasie West Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice by Gillen D’Arcy Wood Foreign Bodies: Poems by Kimiko Hahn Beautiful by Massimo Cuomo, Will Schutt (translator) Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen by Dan Heath Manor Black by Cullen Bunn, Brian Hurtt, Tyler Crook The Lonely Heart of Maybelle Lane by Kate O’Shaughnessy The Incredible Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League by Anika Orrock Journey: A Novel by Andrew Zimmerman Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937-May 1942 by Richard B. Frank The Eye You See With: Selected Nonfiction by Robert Stone, edited by Madison Smartt Bell 82 Days on Okinawa: One American’s Unforgettable Firsthand Account of the Pacific War’s Greatest Battle by Art Shaw and Robert L. Wise Somebody’s Gotta Do It: Why Cursing at the News Won’t Save the Nation, But Your Name on a Local Ballot Can by Adrienne Martini Salty, Bitter, Sweet by Mayra Cuevas The First 7 (The Last 8) by Laura Pohl The Vanishing Girl (Daphne and Velma YA Novel) by Josephine Ruby Lost At Sea by Erica Boyce The Light in Hidden Places by Sharon Cameron Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils by David Farrier You Are Not Alone: A Novel by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen Witches of Ash and Ruin by E Latimer Chain of Gold (1) (The Last Hours) by Cassandra Clare The Vanishing Deep by Astrid Scholte House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City) by Sarah J. Maas Stop at Nothing: A Novel by Michael Ledwidge Sting by Cindy R. Wilson Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir by Callum Roberts The Night of Your Life by Lydia Sharp Blossoms and Bones: Drawing a Life Back Together by Kim Krans The Fire Never Goes Out by Noelle Stevenson If These Wings Could Fly by Kyrie McCauley The Winter Duke by Claire Eliza Bartlett Actress by Anne Enright Serenade for Nadia: A Novel by Zülfü Livaneli, Brendan Freely (translator) The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner The Girl Who Speaks Bear by Sophie Anderson The Midnight Hour by Benjamin Read, Laura Trinder The Ice Cream Man and Other Stories by Sam Pink We Are Blood And Thunder by Kesia Lupo All the Invisible Things by Orlagh Collins The Velvet Rope Economy: How Inequality Became Big Business by Nelson D. Schwartz The Forgotten Home Child by Genevieve Graham The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski The Last Taxi Driver by Lee Durkee Show Me a Sign by Ann Clare LeZotte Mañanaland by Pam Muñoz Ryan Eight Perfect Murders: A Novel by Peter Swanson Havenfall by Sara Holland The Phantom Twin by Lisa Brown Lost Autumn by Mary-Rose MacColl Every Reason We Shouldn’t by Sara Fujimura Thin Places: Essays from In Between by Jordan Kisner Otaku by Chris Kluwe Every Drop of Blood: Hatred and Healing at Lincoln’s Second Inauguration Edward Achorn Once Upon a Sunset by Tif Marcelo The Exhibition of Persephone Q: A Novel by Jessi Jezewska Stevens The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are by Libby Copeland Apology to the Young Addict: A Memoir by James Brown In Five Years: A Novel by Rebecca Serle Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom by Louis Sachar, Tim Heitz Please See Us by Caitlin Mullen Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta The Companions by Katie M. Flynn I’ve Been Wrong Before: Essays by Evan James A Pale Light in the Black: A Novel (NeoG Book 1) by K. B. Wagers City of Margins: A Novel by William Boyle Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park Separation Anxiety by Laura Zigman Under the Rainbow: A Novel by Celia Laskey That Left Turn at Albuquerque by Scott Philips Fly Like a Girl: One Woman’s Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front by Mary Jennings Hegar Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist by Celia Stahr Blackwood by Michael Farris Smith They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers by Sarah Scoles Mermaid Moon by Susann Cokal The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu Anna K: A Love Story by Jenny Lee Temporary (Emily Books) by Hilary Leichter The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver Hannah’s War by Jan Eliasberg Wicked As You Wish (A Hundred Names for Magic) by Rin Chupeco Postcolonial Love Poem: Poems by Natalie Diaz The Dragon Egg Princess by Ellen Oh Santa Fe Noir (Akashic Noir Series) by Ariel Gore Re-Coil by J.T. Nicholas Girl at the Edge by Karen Dietrich Columbus Noir (Akashic Noir Series) by Andrew Welsh-Huggins Don’t Overthink It: Make Easier Decisions, Stop Second-Guessing, and Bring More Joy to Your Life by Anne Bogel Everything Is Beautiful, and I’m Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection by Yao Xiao The Grace Kelly Dress: A Novel by Brenda Janowitz The Body Double: A Novel by Emily Beyda The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich These Ghosts Are Family: A Novel by Maisy Card Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women by Lizzie Skurnick The Body Politic: A Novel by Brian Platzer Collected Stories (Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics Series) by Lorrie Moore We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance by Linda Sarsour Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America’s First Humanitarian Mission by Stephen Puleo When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey If We Were Giants by Dave Matthews, Clete Barrett Smith To Fly Among the Stars: The Hidden Story of the Fight for Women Astronauts (Scholastic Focus) by Rebecca Siegel Resistance Reborn (Star Wars): Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker by Rae Carson Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century by John Loughery, Blythe Randolph The Numbers Game: A Novel by Danielle Steel The Sea of Lost Girls: A Novel by Carol Goodman Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor by Ally Carter The Evil Men Do by John McMahon Barn 8: A Novel by Deb Olin Unferth Love Your Body by Jessica Sanders, Carol Rossetti (Illustrator) Coo by Kaela Noel Not to Scale : How the Small Becomes Large, the Large Becomes Unthinkable, and the Unthinkable Becomes Possible by Jamer Hunt Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontës by Isabel Greenberg The Princess and the Prophet: The Secret History of Magic, Race, and Moorish Muslims in America by Jacob S. Dorman Pain Studies by Lisa Olstein Operation Dimwit: A Penelope Lemon Novel by Inman Majors Fiebre Tropical: A Novel by Juliana Delgado Lopera The Love Hypothesis by Laura Steven Dangerous Remedy by Kat Dunn