New Releases and More for May 1, 2018

This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss What You Want To See, A Lucky Man, The Electric Woman, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Reading Women, Warby Parker, and The Black Witch by Laurie Forest. And don’t forget to enter for a chance to to win 15 of the year’s best mysteries! 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: What You Want to See by Kristen Lepionka The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts by Tessa Fontaine The Lonely Witness by William Boyle Song of Blood & Stone: Earthsinger Chronicles, Book One by L. Penelope Mr. Flood’s Last Resort by Jess Kidd The Very Worst Missionary: A Memoir or Whatever by Jamie Wright A Lucky Man: Stories by Jamel Brinkley

Heavy Vinyl by Carly Usdin, Nina Vakueva (Illustrator)

What we’re reading this week: The Leper Spy: The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II by Ben Montgomery East of Eden by John Steinbeck The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker More books out this week: Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo Medusa Uploaded (The Medusa Cycle) by Emily Devenport The Map of Salt and Stars by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar Meet Behind Mars (Made in Michigan Writers Series) by Renee Simms Ivory Pearl (New York Review Books Classics) by Jean-Patrick Manchette, Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translator) The Devil’s Reward by Emmanuelle de Villepin, Christopher Delogu (Translator) All Summer Long by Hope Larson Tradition by Brendan Kiely Black Helicopters by Caitlin R. Kiernan The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land by Connie Willis Phoresis by Greg Egan Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change by Tao Lin Love That Bunch by Aline Kominsky-Crumb Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now by Dana L. Davis The Seasons of My Mother by Marcia Gay Harden Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto by Alan Stern and David Grinspoon Royals by Rachel Hawkins Beautiful Music by Michael Zadoorian The Dead House: A Novel by Billy O’Callaghan Captive Audience: On Love and Reality TV by Lucas Mann It Needs to Look Like We Tried: A Novel by Todd Robert Petersen Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir by Cinelle Barnes Only Human by Sylvain Neuvel Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America’s Founding Father by Peter Stark The Optimistic Decade by Heather Abel Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet by Joan Halifax Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl: Poems by Diane Seuss The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy The Island Dwellers: Stories by Jen Silverman Limelight by Amy Poeppel The Military Science of Star Wars by George Beahm Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty by Jacqueline Rose Ship It by Britta Lundin A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses) by Sarah J. Maas Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture edited by Roxane Gay Motherhood by Shelia Heti Ask a Manager: How to Navigate Clueless Colleagues, Lunch-Stealing Bosses, and the Rest of Your Life at Work by Alison Green Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne Little Fish by Casey Plett The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty The Garbage Times/White Ibis: Two Novellas by Sam Pink Hey Ladies!: The Story of 8 Best Friends, 1 Year, and Way, Way Too Many Emails by Michelle Markowitz  (Author),‎ Caroline Moss (Author),‎ Ms. Carolyn Bahar (Illustrator) The Poppy War by R. Kuang Starting with Goodbye: A Daughter’s Memoir of Love after Loss by Lisa Romeo The Abbot’s Tale: A Novel by Conn Iggulden The Pisces by Melissa Broder Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro by Rachel Slade The Cactus by Sarah Haywood Love and Ruin by Paula McLain Flying Jenny by Theasa Tuohy Miss Subways by David Duchovny The Wooden King: A Novel by Thomas McConnell The Queen’s Embroiderer: A True Story of Paris, Lovers, Swindlers, and the First Stock Market Crisis by Joan DeJean Sorority by Genevieve Sly Crane Freya and the Magic Jewel (Thunder Girls) by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams Slave Old Man: A Novel by Patrick Chamoiseau Kicks: The Great American Story of Sneakers by Nicholas Smith The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis, Michael Lucey (Translator) (paperback) My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues by Pamela Paul (paperback) The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka (paperback) Into the Water by Paula Hawkins (paperback) The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas (paperback)