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This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss Mary Toft; or the Rabbit Queen, Wyoming, Wake, Siren, and more great books.

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Books discussed on the show:

Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen: A Novel by Dexter Palmer

Wake, Siren by Nina MacLaughlin

Wyoming by JP Gritton

Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden

Snow: A Scientific and Cultural Exploration by Giles Whittell

Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness

Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall

Realm of Ash (The Books of Ambha Book 2) by Tasha Suri

What we’re reading:

If the Fates Allow: A Holiday Anthology from the Authors at interlude Press, an LGBTQ Publisher by Annie Harper

American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI by Kate Winkler Dawson

More books out this week:

Crying Laughing by Lance Rubin

A Warning by Anonymous

Crushing the Red Flowers by Jennifer Voigt Kaplan

Catfishing on CatNet: A Novel by Naomi Kritzer

Dead Heat by Benedek Totth, Ildikó Noémi Nagy (Translator)

The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era by Gareth Russell

Knight of the Silver Circle (The Dragonslayer Book 2) by Duncan M. Hamilton

The Season: A Social History of the Debutante by Kristen Richardson

Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter by Kerri K. Greenidge

Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA’s Graffiti Subculture by Stefano Bloch

Carbon by Andrew Vachss

The Martyrdom of Collins Catch the Bear by Gerry Spence

The Captain and the Glory: An Entertainment by Dave Eggers

Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq, Shaun Whiteside (translator)

The Lights Go Out in Lychford (Witches of Lychford) by Paul Cornell

The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air) by Holly Black

Twenty-one Truths About Love: A Novel by Matthew Dicks

Gwendy’s Magic Feather by Richard Chizmar

Sabbath by Nick Mamatas

Impossible Causes by Julie Mayhew

You Can’t Kill Me Twice (So Please Treat Me Right) by Charlyne Yi

Incidental Inventions by Elena Ferrante, Andrea Ucini (Illustrator), Ann Goldstein (Translator)

User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play by Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant

Broke: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises by Jodie Adams Kirshner

The Second Sleep: A novel by Robert Harris

Labyrinth: A Novel by Burhan Sönmez and Umit Hussein

Upon the Flight of the Queen (The Ring-Sworn Trilogy Book 2) by Howard Andrew Jones

Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century by Sarah Abrevaya Stein