New Releases and More for November 13, 2018

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Crave, Insurrecto, A Ladder to the Sky, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Shades of Wicked by Jeaniene Frost, and Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom by Ariel Burger. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing by Christine S. O’Brien Insurrecto by Gina Apostol Becoming by Michelle Obama American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts by Chris McGreal Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger by Rebecca Traister Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward by Gemma Hartley Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor) by Jessica Townsend And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready by Meaghan O’Connell What we’re reading: When the Irish Invaded Canada: The Incredible True Story of the Civil War Veterans Who Fought for Ireland’s Freedom by Christopher Klein Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb More books out this week: The Three Button Trick and Other Stories by Nicola Barker We Can Save Us All by Adam Nemett Handsome Johnny: The Life and Death of Johnny Rosselli: Gentleman Gangster, Hollywood Producer, CIA Assassin by Lee Server Late-Life Love: A Memoir by Susan Gubar The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again by Brin-Jonathan Butler Voices: How a Great Singer Can Change Your Life by Nick Coleman Alice Payne Arrives by Kate Heartfield Let Her Fly: A Father’s Journey by Ziauddin Yousafzai In/Half by Jasmin B. Frelih, Jason Blake (translator) Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the “Powerless” Woman Who Took On Washington by Patricia Miller Empire of Sand (The Books of Ambha) by Tasha Suri Pulp by Robin Talley Loading Penguin Hugs: Heartwarming Comics from Chibird by Jacqueline Chen Four Three Two One by Courtney Stevens Long Road To Mercy by David Baldacci The Lying Woods by Ashley Elston The Winter Road by Adrian Selby Bedfellow by Jeremy C. Shipp Late Air by Jaclyn Gilbert We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century by Erwin Chemerinsky The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots: Elizabeth I and Her Greatest Rival by Kate Williams The April 3rd Incident: Stories by Yu Hua and Allan H. Barr Nothing Is Lost: Selected Essays by Ingrid Sischy The Incredible True Story of the Making of the Eve of Destruction by Amy Brashear The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey Away! Away! by Jana Beňová, Janet Livingstone (Translator) The End of the End of the Earth: Essays by Jonathan Franzen Norroway Book 1: The Black Bull of Norroway by Cat Seaton, Kit Seaton  (Artist) Seventeen: A Novel by Hideo Yokoyama, Louise Heal Kawai (Translator) Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology by Adrienne Mayor Vita Nostra: A Novel by Sergiy Dyachenko and Maryna Shyrshova-Dyachenko, Julia Meitov Hersey (Translator) Prague Spring: A Novel by Simon Mawer Better You Than Me by Jessica Brody Creatures of Want and Ruin by Molly Tanzer Death and Other Holidays by Marci Vogel A Cat by Leonard Michaels The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand by Matt Gutman It Wasn’t Me by Dana Alison Levy Fox 8: A Story by George Saunders  (Author), Chelsea Cardinal (Illustrator) Bingo Love Volume 1: Jackpot Edition by Tee Franklin and Marguerite Bennett Burning the Sky: Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Tests in Outer Space by Mark Wolverton Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants by H. W. Brands How She Died, How I Lived by Mary Crockett City of Secrets (A Counterfeit Lady Novel) by Victoria Thompson None of This Is Normal: The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer by Benjamin Robertson New Erotica for Feminists: Satirical Fantasies of Love, Lust, and Equal Pay by Caitlin Kunkel and Brooke Preston Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughe’s Hollywood by Karina Longworth The Patch by John McPhee The Lioness Awakens: Poems by Lauren Eden Madame Victoria by Catherine Leroux and Lazer Lederhendler Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc. by Jeff Tweedy Muck: A Novel by Dror Burstein and Gabriel Levin And So We Die, Having First Slept by Jennifer Spiegel Rise Up!: Broadway and American Society from ‘Angels in America’ to ‘Hamilton’ by Chris Jones