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This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss Gideon the Ninth, Unpregnant, Stargazing, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Book Riot’s Mystery/Thriller giveaway;  HMH Books and Media, publishers of The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us by Paul Tough; and Ritual. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSSiTunes, or Spotify 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:

We Speak In Storms by Natalie Lund Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Stargazing by Jen Wang Pet by Akwaeke Emezi Some Places More Than Others by Renée Watson A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker Unpregnant by Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan

What we’re reading:

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado

More books out this week:

The Last Train to London: A Novel by Meg Waite Clayton Free Lunch by Rex Ogle The Fifth Column: A Novel by Andrew Gross The Ghost Collector by Allison Mills The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir by Samantha Power Where the Light Enters by Sara Donati Women in Art: 50 Fearless Creatives Who Inspired the World (Women in Science) by Rachel Ignotofsky The Sisters of Summit Avenue by Lynn Cullen The Truth About Magic: Poems by Atticus 29 Seconds: A Novel by T. M. Logan A Treason of Thorns by Laura E Weymouth The Corner That Held Them (New York Review Books Classics) by Sylvia Townsend Warner The Divers’ Game by Jesse Ball She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey Live a Little: A Novel by Howard Jacobson Don’t You Forget About Me: A Novel by Mhairi McFarlane Bloomland by John Englehardt What Is A Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar & USA Gymnastics by Rachael Denhollander Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Pettina Gappah Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez Lost in the Spanish Quarter by Heddi Goodrich Malamander by Thomas Taylor and Tom Booth The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff The Starlet and the Spy: A Novel by Ji-min Lee The Ticking Heart by Andrew Kaufman The Siege of Troy: A Novel by Theodor Kallifatides, Marlaine Delargy (Translator) Animalia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Frank Wynne (translator) Akin by Emma Donoghue The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan by Sherry Thomas The Vanished Bride (A Brontë Sisters Mystery) by Bella Ellis Rebel Girls By Elizabeth Keenan The Second Chance Supper Club by Nicole Meier For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity by Liz Plank Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty and Dianné Ruz (Illustrator) How to Be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell A Choir of Lies by Alexandra Rowland and Drew Willis Hope Is Our Only Wing by Rutendo Tavengerwei Tinfoil Butterfly: A Novel by Rachel Eve Moulton Are You Listening? By Tillie Walden Listening to the Wind (Seedbank) by Tim Robinson When She Reigns (Fallen Isles Book 3) by Jodi Meadows Three-Fifths by John Vercher Homesick by Jennifer Croft Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann Frankly in Love by David Yoon The Testaments by Margaret Atwood His Hideous Heart: Thirteen of Edgar Allan Poe’s Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined by Dahlia Adler So Much More: A Poignant Memoir about Finding Love, Fighting Adversity, and Defining Life on My Own Terms by Zulema Arroyo Farley The Institute: A Novel by Stephen King The Nanny: A Novel by Gilly Macmillan The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow Gun Island: A Novel by Amitav Ghosh Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers: Poems (National Poetry Series) by Jake Skeets Mother Knows Best: A Novel of Suspense by Kira Peikoff Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream by Nicholas Lemann Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS by Azadeh Moaveni The Light in the Lake by Sarah R. Baughman A Match Made in Mehendi by Nandini Bajpai Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief by Doris Payne Ruby & Roland: A Novel by Faith Sullivan Fanny and the Mystery in the Grieving Forest (Literature in Translation Series) by Rune Christiansen and Kari Dickson