New Releases and More for March 5, 2019
This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss The Manic Pixie Dream Boy Improvement Project, Survival Math, The Lady from the Black Lagoon, and more great books.
This episode was sponsored by Libro.fm, Blinkist, and FabFitFun.
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.
Books discussed on the show:
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Dealing in Dreams by Lilliam Rivera
A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha Allen
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O’Meara
The Manic Pixie Dream Boy Improvement Project by Lenore Appelhans
Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family by Mitchell Jackson
Lovely War by Julie Berry
What we’re reading:
King of Scars (King of Scars Duology) by Leigh Bardugo
The Reign of the Kingfisher by T.J. Martinson
More books out this week:
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T. Kira Madden
Flashback Hotel by Ivan Vladislavic
Goya: The Terrible Sublime: A Graphic Novel by El Torres and Fran Galán
A Stranger Here Below: A Gideon Stoltz Mystery by Charles Fergus
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
Between the Lies by Michelle Adams
Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story by Jacob Tobia
Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
Topgun: An American Story by Dan Pedersen
The Wall by John Lanchester
The Shadowglass (The Bone Witch) by Rin Chupeco
When All Is Said by Anne Griffin
When I Hit You: Or a Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy
The Wolf and the Watchman: A Novel by Niklas Natt och Dag
She/He/They/Me: For the Sisters, Misters, and Binary Resisters by Robyn Ryle
The Pioneer by Bridget Tyler
Today I Am Carey by Martin L. Shoemaker
The Wrong End of the Table: A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit in by Ayser Salman
Star Wars Queen’s Shadow by E. K. Johnston
Sal and Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez
Famous Men Who Never Lived by K. Chess
So Here’s the Thing . . .: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut by Alyssa Mastromonaco, Lauren Oyler (Contributor)
Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter by Veronica Chambers
Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote by Tina Cassidy
If You’re Out There by Katy Loutzenhiser
The New Me by Halle Butler
The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal. by Evan Ratliff
The Last 8 by Laura Pohl
Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
The Parting Glass by Gina Marie Guadagnino
The Salt Path: A Memoir by Raynor Winn
Alice Payne Rides by Kate Heartfield
Black Souls by Gioacchino Criaco, Hillary Gulley (Translator)
The Age of Disenchantments: The Epic Story of Spain’s Most Notorious Literary Family and the Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War by Aaron Shulman
That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour by Sunita Puri
A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself by William Boyle
Call Me Evie by JP Pomare
The River by Peter Heller
Baby of the Family by Maura Roosevelt
The Silk Road by Kathryn Davis
The Volunteer by Salvatore Scibona
The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz
Instructions for a Funeral: Stories by David Means
The Gardener of Eden by David Downie
Little Faith by Nickolas Butler
The Devil Aspect by Craig Russell
The Story Prize: 15 Years of Great Short Fiction by Larry Dark and Anthony Doerr
Deaf Republic: Poems by Ilya Kaminsky
Labrador by Kathryn Davis
We Were Rich and We Didn’t Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood by Tom Phelan
The Revenge of Magic by James Riley
The Last Woman in the Forest by Diane Les Becquets
The Altruists: A Novel by Andrew Ridker
Ancestral Night (White Space) by Elizabeth Bear
You Asked for Perfect by Laura Silverman
A Question of Holmes by Brittany Cavallaro
Minutes of Glory: And Other Stories by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights by Doug Jones
Death in Ten Minutes: The Forgotten Life of Radical Suffragette Kitty Marion by Fern Riddell
The Necessary Hunger by Nina Revoyr
A Student of History by Nina Revoyr
King of Joy by Richard Chiem
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland
Woman 99 by Greer Macallister
Blood Feud by Anna Smith
Allmen and the Pink Diamond by Martin Suter
When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History by Hugh Ryan
The Women’s War by Jenna Glass
Mahimata by Rati Mehrotra
the mermaid’s voice returns in this one by Amanda Lovelace
Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel by Matti Friedman
Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone by Brian Switek
Smoke and Ashes: A Novel by Abir Mukherjee
Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve
Mitochondrial Night by Ed Bok Lee
Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant by Joel Golby
The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things -― Stories from Science and Observation (The Mysteries of Nature Trilogy) by Peter Wohlleben and Jane Billinghurst
The Everlasting Rose (The Belles) by Dhonielle Clayton
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated “Female Byron” by Lucasta Miller
The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges by Aatish Taseer
Infinite Detail: A Novel by Tim Maughan
Ronan Boyle and the Bridge of Riddles (Ronan Boyle 1) by Thomas Lennon, John Hendrix (Illustrator)
She the People: A Graphic History of Uprisings, Breakdowns, Setbacks, Revolts, and Enduring Hope on the Unfinished Road to Women’s Equality by Jen Deaderick and Rita Sapunor
Homeland by Fernando Aramburu, Alfred Macadam (translator)
Barely Missing Everything by Matt Mendez
Staff Picks: Stories (Yellow Shoe Fiction) by George Singleton and Michael Griffith
City of Jasmine by Olga Grjasnowa, Katy Derbyshire (translator)
