New Releases and More for May 22, 2018
This week, Liberty, Rebecca, Amanda, and Jenn discuss Anger is a Gift, MEM, and more great books. And answer listener questions!
This episode was sponsored by Campaign Widows by Aimee Agresti and Furyborn by Claire Legrand.
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Books discussed on the show:
Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro
The Ensemble by Aja Gabel
Little Fish by Casey Plett
MEM by Bethany C. Morrow
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Holes by Louis Sachar
Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCracken
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
One Good Earl Deserves A Lover by Sarah MacLean
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
What we’re reading this week:
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture edited by Roxane Gay
Calypso by David Sedaris
Armistice by Lara Elena Donnelly
Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War by Virginia Nicholson
The Wicked King by Holly Black
More books out this week:
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Into? by North Morgan
The Academy by Katie Sise
Aftermath by Kelley Armstrong
The Testament of Loki by Joanne M. Harris
Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist by Franchesca Ramsey
Savage Liberty: A Mystery of Revolutionary America by Eliot Pattison
The Glitch: A Novel by Elisabeth Cohen
American Hippo: River of Teeth, Taste of Marrow, and New Stories by Sarah Gailey
Mother of Invention by Caeli Wolfson Widger
A View of the Empire at Sunset: A Novel by Caryl Phillips
Cult X by Fuminori Nakamura (Author), Kalau Almony (Translator)
The Brightsiders by Jen Wilde
The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik by David Arnold
Little Beast by Julie Demers (Author), Rhonda Mullins (Translator)
The High Season by Judy Blundell
From Twinkle, with Love by Sandhya Menon
All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella’s Stepmother by Danielle Teller
Little Disasters by Randall Klein
Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany Jackson
In the Garden of the Fugitives: A Novel by Ceridwen Dovey
The Outsider by Stephen King
The Mandela Plot by Kenneth Bonert
Best Beach Ever (Ten Beach Road Series) by Wendy Wax
Unworthy: A Novel by Antonio Monda, John Cullen (Translator)
Hard To Do: The Surprising, Feminist History of Breaking Up (Exploded Views) by Kelli María Korducki
Adjacentland by Rabindranath Maharaj
Furyborn (The Empirium Trilogy) by Claire Legrand
Driving by Starlight by Anat Deracine
The Name of Death by Klester Cavalcanti, Nick Caistor (Translator)