New Releases and More for October 15, 2019
This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss Your House Will Pay, The Never Tilting World, Wild Game, and more great books.
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Books discussed on the show:
Your House Will Pay: A Novel by Steph Cha
The Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
The Year We Fell From Space by Amy Sarig King
Marvel Rising: Heroes of the Round Table by Nilah Magruder, Roberto Di Salvo, Georges Duarte, et al
Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu
Divide Me By Zero by Lara Vapnyar
What we’re reading:
Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt by Anonymous
More books out this week:
Curious Toys by Elizabeth Hand
Things No One Else Can Teach Us by Humble the Poet
Honey, I Killed the Cats by Dorota Maslowska, Benjamin Paloff (Translator)
The Science of Monsters: The Truth about Zombies, Witches, Werewolves, Vampires, and Other Legendary Creatures by Meg Hafdahl, Kelly Florence
The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity by Axton Betz-Hamilton
A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son by Sergio Troncoso
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
Under the Broken Sky by Mariko Nagai
All The Right Circles by John Russell
Rose Coffin by M. P. Kozlowsky
The Consequential Frontier: Challenging the Privatization of Space by Peter Ward
Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People by Ben Crump
Kicksology: The Hype, Science, Culture & Cool of Running Shoes by Brian Metzler
GI Confidential (A Sergeants Sueno and Bascom Novel) by Martin Limon
Girls Who Run the World: 31 CEOs Who Mean Business by Diana Kapp and Bijou Karman
Christmas Shopaholic: A Novel by Sophie Kinsella
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
Let It Snow: A Novel by Nancy Thayer
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
One Blade of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir by Henry Shukman
The Rosewater Redemption (The Wormwood Trilogy Book 3) by Tade Thompson
Elizabeth Webster and the Court of Uncommon Pleas by William Lashner
The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last by Azra Raza
That Was Awkward: The Art and Etiquette of the Awkward Hug by Emily Flake
Dad’s Maybe Book by Tim O’Brien
Keep Scrolling Till You Feel Something: 21 Years of Humor from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency (Mcsweeney’s Quarterly Concern) by Chris Monks, Sam Riley
Dead Girls by Abigail Tarttelin
Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race by Thomas Chatterton Williams
The Absinthe Earl (The Faery Rehistory Series Book 1) by Sharon Lynn Fisher
Salvaged by Madeleine Roux
Soon by Lois Murphy
Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim by Leah Vernon
Fireborne by Rosaria Munda
Wild Words: Rituals, Routines, and Rhythms for Braving the Writer’s Path by Nicole Gulotta
It Would Be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo
The Collector of Leftover Souls: Field Notes on Brazil’s Everyday Insurrections by Eliane Brum and Diane Grosklaus Whitty
Jackpot by Nic Stone
Girl: A Novel by Edna O’Brien
Escaping Exodus: A Novel by Nicky Drayden
Call Down the Thunder: A Crime Novel by Dietrich Kalteis
Good Things Out of Nazareth: The Uncollected Letters of Flannery O’Connor and Friends by Flannery O’Connor and Ben Alexander
The Dollmaker by Nina Allan
How Fires End by Marco Rafalà
A Year Without a Name: A Memoir by Cyrus Grace Dunham
Homesick: Stories by Nino Cipri
Ivory Apples by Lisa Goldstein
Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton
Tarnished Are the Stars by Rosiee Thor
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox
Why, Why, Why? by Quim Monzó, Peter Bush (translator)
Me: Elton John Official Autobiography by Elton John
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
The Dragon Warrior by Katie Zhao
War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi
Like Wings, Your Hands by Elizabeth Earley
Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) by Walter Scheidel
Ormeshadow by Priya Sharma
Our Wayward Fate by Gloria Chao
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, and Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
A Book of Bones: A Thriller (Charlie Parker) by John Connolly
The Art of Theft (The Lady Sherlock Series) by Sherry Thomas
Suicide Woods: Stories by Benjamin Percy
Fishnet by Kirstin Innes
The Infinite Game By Simon Sinek
The Throne of the Five Winds (Hostage of Empire) by S. C. Emmett
Good Husbandry: A Memoir by Kristin Kimball
Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms by John Hodgman
The Guardians: A Novel by John Grisham
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o and Vashti Harrison
Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
A Bright Clean Mind: Veganism for Creative Transformation by Camille DeAngelis
No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History by Gail Collins
Running with Sherman: The Donkey with the Heart of a Hero by Christopher McDougall
Good Things Happen to People You Hate: Essays by Rebecca Fishbein
A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith by Timothy Egan
If Only I Could Tell You by Hannah Beckerman
Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924 by Charles Emmerson
America Is Immigrants by Sara Novic and Alison Kolesar
Our Wayward Fate by Gloria Chao
The Escape of Light by Fred Venturini