Episode 175
New Releases and More for September 11, 2018
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock, Rage Becomes Her, Dactyl Hill Squad, and more great books.
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Books discussed on the show:
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock: A Novel by Imogen Hermes Gowar
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger by Soraya Chemaly
The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy by Paige Williams
Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most by Steven Johnson
Dactyl Hill Squad by Daniel José Older
The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre
No Place To Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs by Lezlie Lowe
Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years by David Litt
What we’re reading:
The Impossible Girl by Lydia Kang
Ordinary People: A Novel by Diana Evans
The Governess Game: Girl Meets Duke by Tessa Dare
More books out this week:
We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time by José Andrés
Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward
Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany by Jane Mount
I Do Not Trust You: A Novel by Laura J. Burns and Melinda Metz
Car Trouble by Robert Rorke
Moderan by David R. Bunch
Dream Country by Shannon Gibney
The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason
Home After Dark: A Novel by David Small
A Spark of White Fire (The Celestial Trilogy) by Sangu Mandanna
Ordinary People: A Novel by Diana Evans
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World by Marcia Bjornerud
Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman
Katerina by James Frey
The Dinner List by Rebecca Searle
CoDex 1962: A Trilogy by Sjón (Author), Victoria Cribb (Translator)
Evolution by Eileen Myles
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman
Splitsville by Howard Akler
Rule by Ellen Goodlett
The Biggerers by Amy Lilwall
Hitting the Books (A Library Lover’s Mystery) by Jenn McKinlay
She Would Be King: A Novel by Wayétu Moore
Nomad (The Marc Dane Series) by James Swallow
Crudo by Olivia Laing
Miss Kopp Just Won’t Quit (A Kopp Sisters Novel) by Amy Stewart
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson
Checkpoint by David Albahari, Ellen Elias-Bursac (Translator)
Sarai and the Meaning of Awesome by Sarai Gonzalez and Monica Brown
The Final Voicemails: Poems by Max Ritvo, Louise Glück (Editor)
The Echo Room by Parker Peevyhouse
Summer Cannibals by Melanie Hobson
Queen Solomon by Tamara Faith Berger
A Fierce Glory: Antietam–The Desperate Battle That Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery by Justin Martin
Letters from Max: A Book of Friendship by Sarah Ruhl and Max Ritvo
Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Tim Mohr
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman
Naomis Too (Two Naomis) by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Audrey Vernick
Perdy Volume 1 by Kickliy
Poughkeepsie Shuffle: A Crime Novel by Dietrich Kalteis
State Tectonics (The Centenal Cycle) by Malka Older
Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation by Imani Perry
Flocks by L. Nichols
All the Stars Denied by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Elizabeth Seton: American Saint by Catherine O’Donnell
