New Releases and More for October 1, 2019
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Royal Holiday, The Good Luck Girls, A Tall History of Sugar, and more great books.
This episode was sponsored Lost at the Smithsonian with Aasif Mandvi; Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky; and Rebel by Marie Lu, with Fierce Reads.
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Books discussed on the show:
The Library of the Unwritten (A Novel from Hell’s Library) by A. J. Hackwith
Erosion: Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams
Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis
Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory
A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes
The Best American Essays 2019 by Rebecca Solnit and Robert Atwan
The Best American Short Stories 2019 by Anthony Doerr and Heidi Pitlor
The Best American Food Writing 2019 by Samin Nosrat and Silvia Killingsworth
What we’re reading:
Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller
Writers & Lovers by Lily King
More books out this week:
Redwood and Ponytail by K.A. Holt
Fake Lake (Drawn & Quarterly) by Adrian Norvid
Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity by Felicia Day
Star Trek: The Motion Picture by Gene Roddenberry
The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes by Alya Mooro
Pigs by Johanna Stoberock
Angel Mage by Garth Nix
She Was Like That by Kate Walbert
Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance by Bethany Morrow
White Bird: A Wonder Story by R. J. Palacio
Sarah Jane by James Sallis
Cursed by Thomas Wheeler and Frank Miller
The Shape of Night: A Novel by Tess Gerritsen
Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead: Typhoon by Wesley Chu
What Linnaeus Saw: A Scientist’s Quest to Name Every Living Thing by Karen Magnuson Beil
Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) by Eve Rodsky
I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day
Face It by Debbie Harry
Crossfire: A Litany for Survival by Staceyann Chin
Everything Must Go (BreakBeat Poets) by Kevin Coval and Langston Allston
Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright by Paul Hendrickson
A Human Algorithm: How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are by Flynn Coleman
Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of King Edward Longshanks by Kelcey Wilson-Lee
Baby by Annaleese Jochems
Aphrodite Made Me Do It by Trista Mateer
Into Captivity They Will Go by Noah Milligan
Empire of Lies by Raymond Khoury
Me & Other Writing by Marguerite Duras
Rebel: A Legend Novel by Marie Lu
The Closer I Get by Paul Burston
Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby
Dry County: A Novel by Jake Hinkson
Love and I: Poems by Fanny Howe
Aurora Blazing: A Novel (The Consortium Rebellion) by Jessie Mihalik
The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future by Veronica Roth
You Don’t Know Me: The Incarcerated Women of York Prison Voice Their Truths by Wally Lamb and The Women of York Prison
I’m Not Dying with You Tonight by Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones
Right after the Weather by Carol Anshaw
Reinhardt’s Garden by Mark Haber
Geometry of Shadows by Giorgio de Chirico, Stefania Heim (translator)
Trolls by Stefan Spjut and Agnes Broome
Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery by Kelley Armstrong , Rachael Caine, et al.
The Topeka School: A Novel by Ben Lerner
Roll with It by Jamie Sumner
The Lying Room: A Novel by Nicci French
Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
Takes One to Know One: A Novel by Susan Isaacs
One Night Gone: A Novel by Tara Laskowski
Whispers of Shadow & Flame (Earthsinger) by L. Penelope
Animal (Bagley Wright Lecture Series) by Dorothea Lasky
Fake (Point Paperbacks) by Donna Cooner
Creep by Eireann Corrigan
Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
Dear Sweet Pea by Julie Murphy
The Butterfly Girl: A Novel by Rene Denfeld
Toil & Trouble: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake
The Book of Daniel by Aaron Smith
The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
Weird Little Robots by Carolyn Crimi, Corinna Luyken (Illustrator)
A Tale of Magic… by Chris Colfer
Full Throttle: Stories by Joe Hill
The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl by Theodora Goss
The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek by Andrea Marcolongo and Will Schutt
A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son by Sergio Troncoso
The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
I Will Never See the World Again: The Memoir of an Imprisoned Writer by Ahmet Altan and Yasemin Congar
Kitchen Curse: Stories by Eka Kurniawan and Annie Tucker
Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow
Stealing Green Mangoes: Two Brothers, Two Fates, One Indian Childhood by Sunil Dutta
Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares by Aarti Namdev Shahani
Nothing that Is, The: Essays on Art, Literature and Being (Essais Series) by Johanna Skibsrud
Crier’s War by Nina Varela
Radical: The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America by Kate Pickert
Daughters Of Nri by Reni K Amayo
A Pilgrimage of Swords by Anthony Ryan
Houses Under the Sea by Caitlin R. Kiernan
Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight by Aliette de Bodard
Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee
Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn’s Letters of Love and War 1930-1949 by Janet Somerville
Trinity Sight: A Novel by Jennifer Givhan
Monstress Volume 4 by Marjorie Liu (Author), Sana Takeda (Artist)
Degrees of Difficulty by Julie E. Justicz
Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud by Tom Mueller
Now Entering Addamsville by Francesca Zappia
Cilka’s Journey: A Novel by Heather Morris
The Bootlace Magician by Cassie Beasley
Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow by Charlie Jane Anders, Madeline Ashby
The Hanky of Pippin’s Daughter by Rosmarie Waldrop
Bloody Genius (A Virgil Flowers Novel) by John Sandford
