New Releases and More for May 25, 2021
This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss The Guncle, Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating, Impostor Syndrome, and more great books.
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BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW:
The Guncle by Steven Rowley
Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar
Impostor Syndrome by Kathy Wang
Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend: Notes From the Other Side of the Fist Bump by Ben Philippe
Version Zero by David Yoon
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience edited by Tarana Burke and Brene Brown
Mental Floss: The Curious Reader: A Literary Miscellany of Novels & Novelists by Erin McCarthy & the team at Mental Floss
Let’s Talk About Hard Things by Anna Sale
WHAT WE’RE READING:
Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person by Anna Mehler Paperny
Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK:
Little Victories: Autism Through a Father’s Eyes by Yvon Roy
Cheat Day by Liv Stratman
Beth and Amy (The March Sisters) by Virginia Kantra
Arcadia by Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam, Ruth Diver (translator)
The Lost Boys of Montauk: The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind by Amanda M. Fairbanks
The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji, Hong-Li Wong (translator)
Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America by Gigi Georges
Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea by Ashley Herring Blake
The Dead Girls’ Class Trip: Selected Stories by Anna Seghers, Margot Bettauer Dembo (translator)
The Hollow Inside by Brooke Lauren Davis
The Stepsisters by Susan Mallery
Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way by Caseen Gaines
The Rooftop Party by Ellen Meister
Revival Season by Monica West
Day for Night by Jean McNeil
Period. End of Sentence.: A New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual Justice by Anita Diamant
A Sitting in St. James by Rita Williams-Garcia
How to Find a Princess: Runaway Royals by Alyssa Cole
Hang the Moon by Alexandria Bellefleur
You Will Remember Me by Hannah Mary McKinnon
Playing the Palace by Paul Rudnick
Not My Problem by Ciara Smyth
Elizabeth and Monty: The Untold Story of Their Intimate Friendship by Charles Casillo
My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir by Katherine Johnson with Joylette Hylick and Katherine Moore
Surviving Southampton African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community by Vanessa M. Holden
Heaven by Mieko Kawakami , Sam Bett and David Boyd (translators)
Bamboozled by Jesus: How God Tricked Me into the Life of My Dreams by Yvonne Orji
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
Talk Bookish to Me by Kate Bromley
Misfit in Love by S. K. Ali
Aetherbound by E.K. Johnston
Seconds Out: Women and Fighting by Alison Dean
Heart and Seoul by Jen Frederick
Sister of the Bollywood Bride by Nandini Bajpai
The Ivies by Alexa Donne
Da Vinci’s Cat by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie
The Photographer by Mary Dixie Carter
The Cave Dwellers by Christina McDowell
Scorpion by Christian Cantrell
No One Returns From the Enchanted Forest by Robin Robinson
The Apocalypse Seven by Gene Doucette
The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley
Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World’s Most Successful Insects by Jonathan Balcombe
X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II by Leah Garrett
Spells Trouble (Sisters of Salem 1) by Kristin Cast and P. C. Cast
Bacchanal by Veronica Henry
Hard Reboot by Django Wexler
Sixteen Scandals by Sophie Jordan
The Immortal Game by Talia Rothschild and A. C. Harvey
Burn It All Down by Nicolas DiDomizio
Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft by Samantha Silva
The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman
The Invisible Husband of Frick Island by Colleen Oakley
How to Mars by David Ebenbach
Above the Rain by Victor del Árbol, Lisa Dillman
