New Releases and More for May 20, 2025
This week, Liberty and Emily discuss Spent, Erased, The Starving Saints, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
Spent: A Comic Novel by Alison Bechdel
The Education of Kia Greer by Alanna Bennett
The True Happiness Company: How a Girl Like Me Falls for a Cult Like That by Veena Dinavahi
Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden From Us by Anna Malaika Tubbs
Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle
The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling
The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien
The Ascent by Allison Buccola
Paperback Releases:
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
The Guncle Abroad by Steven Rowley
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue
Evenings and Weekends by Oisín McKenna
The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness by Kenn Kaufman
Shanghailanders by Juli Min
Something Kindred by Ciera Burch
What We’re Reading:
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
Silverborn: The Mystery of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor) by Jessica Townsend
More Books Out This Week:
Green Gold: The Avocado’s Remarkable Journey from Humble Superfood to Toast of a Nation by Sarah Allaback and Monique F Parsons
Murder in the Dollhouse: The Jennifer Dulos Story by Rich Cohen
Clamor: How Noise Took Over the World – and How We Can Take It Back by Chris Berdik
Marked by Moonlight by Sophie Jordan
Gay the Pray Away by Natalie Naudus
The Life-Affirming Magic of Birds by Charlie Bingham
Let Them Stare by Jonathan Van Ness, Julie Murphy
The Doorman by Chris Pavone
Lucky Tomorrow: Stories by Deborah Jiang-Stein
Gingko Season by Naomi Xu Elegant
Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies by Bruce Handy
In Case You Read This by Edward Underhill
Zarina Divided by Reem Faruqi
Feeders by Matt Serafini
Food Person by Adam Roberts
The Allure of Elsewhere: A Memoir of Going Solo by Karen Babine
Sanskari Sweetheart by Ananya Devarajan
The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
The Ghost Lab: How Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums, and Alien Enthusiasts Are Wrecking Science by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson by Tourmaline
The Love Haters by Katherine Center
The Safari by Jaclyn Goldis
We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough
Esperance by Adam Oyebanji
Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li
This Could Be Forever by Ebony LaDelle
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution by Peniel E. Joseph
Run Like a Girl by Amaka Egbe
The Last Ferry Out by Andrea Bartz
