Episode 156
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.
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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)
