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.
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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
