New Releases and More for May 6, 2025
This week, Liberty and Danika discuss Sympathy for Wild Girls, Kiss Me, Maybe, Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
Sympathy for Wild Girls: Stories by Demree McGhee
The Names by Florence Knapp
Kiss Me, Maybe by Gabriella Gamez
Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange by Katie Goh
Old School Indian by Aaron John Curtis
The Adventures of Mary Darling by Pat Murphy
The Rebel’s Guide to Pride by Matthew Hubbard
Paperback Releases:
Five-Star Stranger by Kat Tang
I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons by Peter S. Beagle
The Red Grove by Tessa Fontaine
Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers by Abraham Chang
Women and Children First by Alina Grabowski
Woman of Interest: A Memoir by Tracy O’Neill
The Storyteller by Brandon Hobson
Loveless by Alice Oseman
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown
The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Black Bird Oracle (All Souls Series Book 5) by Deborah Harkness
The Stolen Heir: A Novel of Elfhame by Holly Black
Oye by Melissa Mogollon
Swift River by Essie Chambers
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
Monk and Robot: A Psalm for the Wild-Built and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
Warrior Girl Unearthed (Firekeeper’s Daughter) by Angeline Boulley
What We’re Reading:
Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon by Annie Mare
You Weren’t Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White
The Woman Dies by Aoko Matuda, Polly Barton (translator)
More Books Out This Week:
The Devils by Joe Abercrombie
J vs. K by Kwame Alexander, Jerry Craft
Other Worlds: Stories by André Alexis
My Name Is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende, Frances Riddle (translator)
I Can’t Even Think Straight by Dean Atta
Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness by Sir David Attenborough, Colin Butfield
Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind by Nate Bargatze
The Words of Dr. L: & Other Stories by Karen E. Bender
Shopgirls by Jessica Anya Blau
I Will Blossom Anyway by Disha Bose
Return to Sender by Vera Brosgol
The Wanderer’s Curse: A Memoir by Jennifer Hope Choi
Speaking in Tongues by J. M. Coetzee, Mariana Dimópulos
Dirty Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family by Jill Damatac
A Letter from the Lonesome Shore (The Sunken Archive) by Sylvie Cathrall
The Butcher’s Daughter: The Hitherto Untold Story of Mrs. Lovett by David Demchuk and Corinne Leigh Clark
We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life’s 20 Questions by Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Amanda Doyle
Disco Witches of Fire Island by Blair Fell
What My Father and I Don’t Talk About: Sixteen Writers Break the Silence edited by Michele Filgate
The Missing Half by Ashley Flowers
One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune
Silver Elite by Dani Francis
The Night Birds by Christopher Golden
Overgrowth by Mira Grant
A Thousand Natural Shocks by Omar Hussain
Detective Aunty by Uzma Jalaluddin
If I Could Go Back by Briana Johnson
Promises by Goretti Kyomuhendo
Home of the American Circus by Allison Larkin
Time Loops & Meet Cutes by Jackie Lau
Warhol’s Muses: The Artists, Misfits, and Superstars Destroyed by the Factory Fame Machine by Laurence Leamer
The Last Rhee Witch and the Nine-Tailed Fox by Jenna Lee-Yun
The Manor of Dreams by Christina Li
The Birding Dictionary by Rosemary Mosco
El Niño by Pam Muñoz Ryan
The Ones We Loved by Tarisai Ngangura
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Are You Happy?: Stories by Lori Ostlund
Just Making: A Guide for Compassionate Creatives by Mitali Perkins
The Lost Queen by Aimee Phan
The Artist and the Feast by Lucy Steeds
The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman by Niko Stratis
Wake the Wild Creatures by Nova Ren Suma
Twelve Post-War Tales by Graham Swift
Forged by Danielle Teller
Salty, Spiced, and a Little Bit Nice by Cynthia Timoti
Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work by Allison Tyra
The Invisible Wild by Nikki Van De Car
Bad Friend: How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship by Tiffany Watt Smith
The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei
Where There Be Monsters by Alby C. Williams
Audre & Bash Are Just Friends by Tia Williams
Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame by Neon Yang
