New Releases and More for November 5, 2019
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Starless Sea, Know My Name, The Revisioners, and more great books.
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Books discussed on the show:
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller
In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado
For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity by Liz Plank
The Revisioners: A Novel by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
Wake, Siren by Nina MacLaughlin
What we’re reading:
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones
Acid for the Children: A Memoir by Flea
Kingdomtide by Rye Curtis
More books out this week:
Becoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Journey to Justice by Debbie Levy and Whitney Gardner
What Are We For?: The Words and Ideals of Eleanor Roosevelt by Eleanor Roosevelt and Nancy Pelosi
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane
Swimming in Darkness by Lucas Harari and David Homel
Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel by Bernardine Evaristo
A Thousand Fires by Shannon Price
All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard-Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy by Phil Keith, Tom Clavin
Four White Horses and a Brass Band: True Confessions from the World of Medicine Shows, Pitchmen, Chumps, Suckers, Fixers, and Shills by Violet McNeal
The Last to Die by Kelly Garrett
Songs from the Deep by Kelly Powell
The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti: IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War Conspiracy to Shut Down Production of the World’s First Desktop Computer by Meryle Secrest
Sisters of Shadow and Light by Sara B. Larson
I Have No Secrets by Penny Joelson
The Rib Joint: A Memoir In Essays by Julia Koets
Mudlark: In Search of London’s Past Along the River Thames by Lara Maiklem
The Accursed Tower: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades by Roger Crowley
Find Me Their Bones by Sara Wolf
This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving by David J. Silverman
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers by Andy Greenberg
The How & the Why by Cynthia Hand
This Is Pleasure: A Story by Mary Gaitskill
A Constellation of Roses by Miranda Asebedo
Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight for Their Rights by Mikki Kendall and A. D’Amico
Shine of the Ever by Claire Foster
She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
The Forgotten Girl by India Hill Brown
Skein Island by Aliya Whiteley
The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in the Middle by Kent Alexander, Kevin Salwen
Disaster’s Children: A Novel by Emma Sloley
Most of the Better Natural Things in the World by Dave Eggers and Angel Chang
Making Comics by Lynda Barry
The Bishop’s Bedroom by Piero Chiara, Jill Foulston (translator)
The Fowl Twins (Artemis Fowl) by Eoin Colfer
Life and Limb by Jennifer Roberson
Space Struck by Paige Lewis
Anything for You: A Novel by Saul Black
The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts by Karen Armstrong
Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law by Jeffrey Rosen
Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness by Philip Goff
Fate of the Fallen by Kel Kade
Aviva-No by Shimon Adaf, translated from the Hebrew by Yael Segalovitz
The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women by Mo Moulton
The Princess Who Flew with Dragons by Stephanie Burgis
The Little Blue Kite by Mark Z. Danielewski
The New Voices of Science Fiction by Nino Cipri, Little Badger, Darcie, et al.
Oblivion Banjo: The Poetry of Charles Wright by Charles Wright
The Bridge by Enza Gandolfo
Girls of Storm and Shadow (Girls of Paper and Fire) by Natasha Ngan
The Family Upstairs: A Novel by Lisa Jewell
Wrecking Ball (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 14) by Jeff Kinney
The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team by Matthew Goodman
Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community and the Meaning of Generosity by Priya Basil
Quillifer the Knight (2) by Walter Jon Williams
Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights by Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Katie McCabe
Return to the Enchanted Island: A Novel by Johary Ravaloson, Allison M. Charette (translator)
Living in a World that Can’t Be Fixed: Reimagining Counterculture Today by Curtis White
The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West
They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears by Johannes Anyuru, Saskia Vogel (translator)
The Toll (Arc of a Scythe) by Neal Shusterman
Fortuna (The Nova Vita Protocol) by Kristyn Merbeth
The Book of Lost Saints by Daniel José Older
Winterwood by Shea Ernshaw
On Swift Horses: A Novel by Shannon Pufahl
The Other Windsor Girl: A Novel of Princess Margaret, Royal Rebel by Georgie Blalock
Made Things by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Desk 88: Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America by Sherrod Brown
Space Invaders: A Novel by Nona Fernández, Natasha Wimmer (translator)
Jakarta by Rodrigo Márquez Tizano, Thomas Bunstead (translator)
The Poppy Wife: A Novel of the Great War by Caroline Scott
Winterlust: Finding Beauty in the Fiercest Season by Bernd Brunner
Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater
Alta California: From San Diego to San Francisco, A Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State by Nick Neely
Tell Me No Lies: A Lady Dunbridge Novel by Shelley Noble
Parade: A Folktale by Hiromi Kawakami, Allison Markin Powell (translator)
The Deep by Rivers Solomon with Daveed Diggs, et al.
Up in the Main House: and Other Stories by Nadeem Zaman
The Crying Book by Heather Christie
The Ninja Daughter (Lily Wong) by Tori Eldridge
Humiliation: Stories by Paulina Flores, Megan McDowell (translator)
Song of the Crimson Flower by Julie C. Dao
Heed the Hollow: Poems by Malcolm Tariq
Feed by Tommy Pico
Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving by Mo Rocca
We Met in December: A Novel by Rosie Curtis
Supernova by Marissa Meyer
The Guinevere Deception by Kiersten White
Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
Get a Life, Chloe Brown: A Novel by Talia Hibbert
The Accomplice by Joseph Kanon
The Worst Kind of Want: A Novel by Liska Jacobs
Unnatural Magic by C. M. Waggoner
Ghost Train by Stephen Laws
Death and the Seaside by Alison Moore
The First: How to Think About Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump by Stanley Fish
The Returns by Philip Salom
Voyage of the Frostheart by Jamie Littler
The Age of Anxiety by Pete Townshend
Resistance Reborn (Star Wars): Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker by Rebecca Roanhorse
Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay
Pain: A Novel by Zeruya Shalev and Sondra Silverston
Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge by Ethan Sacks and Will Sliney
The Colonel’s Wife: A Novel by Rosa Liksom and Lola Rogers (Translator)
And Go Like This: Stories by John Crowley
Vernon Subutex 1: A Novel by Virginie Despentes, Frank Wynne (Translator)
Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives – and Save Theirs by Richard Louv
Cryptozoology for Beginners (Codex Arcanum) by Matt Harry and Juliane Crump
Shadowscent by P. M. Freestone
