New Releases and More for October 9, 2018
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Witch Elm, All You Can Ever Know, Bitter Orange, and more great books.
This episode was sponsored by Under My Skin by Lisa Unger, What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera, and Good Me Bad Me by Ali Land. And get personalized book recommendations at TBR.
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Books discussed on the show:
The Witch Elm by Tana French
To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret by Jedidiah Jenkins
Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung
Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster by Stephen L. Carter
Interior States: Essays by Meghan O’Gieblyn
The Lies We Told by Camilla Way
The Best American Food Writing 2018 (The Best American Series) by Silvia Killingsworth and Ruth Reichl
What we’re reading:
Maine Roads to Gettysburg: How Joshua Chamberlain, Oliver Howard, and 4,000 Men from the Pine Tree State Helped Win the Civil War’s Bloodiest Battle by Tom Huntington
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. by Brené Brown
More books out this week:
The Corset by Laura Purcell
Coldwater Canyon by Anne-Marie Kinney
Mina by Kim Sagwa, Bruce Fulton (Translator), Ju-Chan Fulton (Translator)
The Collectors by Jacqueline West
Dominion: The History of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee by Peter Ackroyd
My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper
Like a Sword Wound by Ahmet Altan and Brendan Freely
Anything But Okay by Sarah Darer Littman
Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria
November Road: A Novel by Lou Berney
In My Father’s House: A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family by Fox Butterfield
Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel by Val Emmich and Steven Levenson
Questioning Minds: The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner by Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner
The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone by Jaclyn Moriarty
The Anarchist Who Shared My Name by Pablo Martín Sánchez, Jeff Diteman (translator)
Sad Animal Babies by Brooke Barker
Decorating a Room of One’s Own: Conversations on Interior Design with Miss Havisham, Jane Eyre, Victor Frankenstein, Elizabeth Bennet, Ishmael, and Other Literary Notables by Susan Harlan and Becca Stadtlander
Hearth: A Global Conversation on Identity, Community, and Place by Annick Smith and Susan O’Connor
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter by Hazel Gaynor
The Baltimore Book of the Dead by Marion Winik
Man with a Seagull on His Head by Harriet Paige
This Life or the Next: A Novel by Demian Vitanza and Tanya Thresher
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. by Brené Brown
The Popol Vuh by Michael Bazzett (Translator)
A Dirty Word: How a Sex Writer Reclaimed Her Sexuality by Steph Auteri
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
The Isle of Gold by Seven Jane
Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan by Beowulf Sheehan
Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith
White Dancing Elephants by Chaya Bhuvaneswar
Lost Soul, Be at Peace by Maggie Thrash
Samuel Johnson’s Eternal Return by Martin Riker
Einstein’s Shadow: A Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable by Seth Fletcher
One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan, Aniruddhan Vasudevan (Translator)
Adventures in Memory: The Science and Secrets of Remembering and Forgetting by Hilde Østby and Ylva Østby
In the Night Wood by Dale Bailey
The Waiter by Matias Faldbakken
Puro Amor (Quarternote Chapbook Series) by Sandra Cisneros
Holy Ghost (Virgil Flowers) by John Sandford
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen (Translators)
How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart
How to Leave: Quitting the City and Coping with a New Reality by Erin Clune
What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
Odd One Out by Nic Stone
Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore
Wrecked by Joe Ide
Shell by Kristina Olsson
Training School for Negro Girls by Camille Acker
Sketchtasy by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts by Ruth Goodman
The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton
The Reckonings by Lacy M. Johnson
Godsend: A Novel by John Wray
Love Is Blind: A Novel by William Boyd
Enchantments: A Modern Witch’s Guide to Self-Possession by Mya Spalter
Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Mycroft and Sherlock by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse
The Phoenix Empress (Their Bright Ascendency) by K Arsenault Rivera
White: A Novel by Deni Ellis Béchard
