New Releases and More for November 6, 2018

This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss The Best Bad Things, Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix, In Extremis, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Love Like Sky by Leslie C. Youngblood, and ThirdLove. 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: The Best Bad Things by Katrina Carrasco Kingdom of The Blazing Phoenix (Rise of the Empress) by Julie C. Dao Blame This on the Boogie by Rina Ayuyang An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories by Yukiko Motoya and Asa Yoneda What we’re reading: The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson Early Riser by Jasper Fforde More books out this week: Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan The Arrival of Missives by Aliya Whiteley The Feral Detective: A Novel by Jonathan Lethem Why Religion?: A Personal Story by Elaine Pagels How to Fracture a Fairy Tale by Jane Yolen Static Ruin (The Voidwitch Saga) by Corey White Evening in Paradise: More Stories by Lucia Berlin Welcome Home: A Memoir with Selected Photographs and Letters by Lucia Berlin Winter Loon by Susan Bernhard Past Tense: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child No Quarter: A Novel (The Tildon Chronicles) by John Jantunen Those Who Knew by Idra Novey Solace Island by Meg Tilly Breach by W.L. Goodwater Now You See the Sky by Catharine H. Murray Nighttown (A Junior Bender Mystery) by Timothy Hallinan Someone Like Me by M.R. Carey The Subjugate by Amanda Bridgeman Wolves of Eden by Kevin McCarthy How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don’t by Lane Moore Congratulations, Who Are You Again?: A Memoir by Harrison Scott Key The Kinship of Secrets by Eugenia Kim Angel and Bavar by Amy Wilson Vancouver Noir (Akashic Noir Series) by Sam Wiebe Northwood: A Novella by Maryse Meijer Nothing to Devour (Motherless Children Trilogy) by Glen Hirshberg The William H. Gass Reader by William H. Gass The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family by Lindsay Wong The Splendor Before the Dark: A Novel of the Emperor Nero by Margaret George Monument: Poems New and Selected by Natasha Trethewey Archenemies by Marissa Meyer Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty The New Order: Stories by Karen E. Bender An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere by Mikita Brottman Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence by Michael Marshall Smith We Begin in Gladness: How Poets Progress by Craig Morgan Teicher Half-Hazard: Poems by Kristen Tracy The Valley at the Centre of the World by Malachy Tallack Speechless by Adam P. Schmitt Ways to Hide in Winter by Sarah St.Vincent Counting Sheep by Axel Lindén The Latecomers by Helen Klein Ross Mephisto’s Waltz: Selected Short Stories by Sergio Pitol, George Henson (translator) Bittersweet Brooklyn: A Novel by Thelma Adams City of Ash and Red: A Novel by Hye-young Pyun and Sora Kim-Russell Empress of All Seasons by Emiko Jean Inkling by Kenneth Oppel A Dangerous Duet: A Novel by Karen Odden Since When by Bill Berkson The Story of Greece and Rome by Tony Spawforth The Son of Black Thursday by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Megan McDowell A Thousand Doors: An Anthology of Many Lives by J.T. Ellison The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife, 1965-2005 by Zachary Leader