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This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss Chilling Effect, Bloodlust & BonnetsRed at the Bone, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by the Hot and Bothered PodcastDear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika and Maritza Moulite; and ThirdLove. 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:

Elevator Pitch: A Novel by Linwood Barclay Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry Chilling Effect: A Novel by Valerie Valdes Bloodlust & Bonnets by Emily McGovern Opioid, Indiana by Brian Allen Carr The Heart and Other Viscera: Stories by Félix J. Palma Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson

What we’re reading:

Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural) by Edith Wharton Weather: A Novel by Jenny Offill

More books out this week:

A Death in Harlem: A Novel by Karla Holloway Snazzy Cat Capers: The Fast and the Furriest by Deanna Kent and Neil Hooson House of Rage and Sorrow: Book Two in the Celestial Trilogy by Sangu Mandanna Strangers She Knows (Cape Charade) by Christina Dodd One Person, No Vote (YA edition): How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally by Carol Anderson and Tonya Bolden Lampedusa: A Novel by Steven Price Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience by Michael S A Graziano Coventry: Essays by Rachel Cusk The Widow of Pale Harbor by Hester Fox Country Will Bring Us No Peace by Matthieu Simard and Pablo Strauss Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera Lies in White Dresses: A Novel by Sofia Grant The Stranger Inside: A Novel by Lisa Unger Art Sparks: Draw, Paint, Make, and Get Creative with 53 Amazing Projects! by Marion Abrams and Hilary Emerson Lay What Rose Forgot by Nevada Barr Against the Wind by Jim Tilley The Undying: Pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care by Anne Boyer Snowflake, AZ by Marcus Sedgwick The Liars of Mariposa Island by Jennifer Mathieu A Mistake: A Novel by Carl Shuker A Hero Born (Legends of the Condor Heroes) by Jin Yong, Anna Holmwood  (Translator) The Umbrella Academy Volume 3: Hotel Oblivion by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba Call Upon the Water: A Novel by Stella Tillyard Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser Space Between: Explorations of Love, Sex, and Fluidity by Nico Tortorella Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results by Josh Gondelman Night Boat to Tangier: A Novel by Kevin Barry Becoming Beatriz by Tami Charles Guts by Raina Telgemeier Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke Pavi Sharma’s Guide to Going Home by Bridget Farr The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue by Karina Yan Glaser On Division: A Novel by Goldie Goldbloom Odes to Lithium by Shira Erlichman The Babysitters Coven by Kate M. Williams A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie Savage Gods by Paul Kingsnorth The Sound of the Hours by Karen Campbell Love on Lexington Avenue (The Central Park Pact) by Lauren Layne The Tea Dragon Festival by Katie O’Neill How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together by Dan Kois Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation by Stuart Gibbs We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer Neon Empire by Drew Minh System Failure (3) (Epic Failure Trilogy) by Joe Zieja On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea by Marc Randolph Hudson’s Kill: A Justice Flanagan Thriller by Paddy Hirsch Land of Wolves (Walt Longmire) by Craig Johnson A Cosmology of Monsters: A Novel by Shaun Hamill The Day It Finally Happens: Alien Contact, Dinosaur Parks, Immortal Humans and Other Possible Phenomena by Mike Pearl A Single Thread: A Novel by Tracy Chevalier The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus Inheritance: A Novel by Evelyn Toynton Steel Tide (Seafire) by Natalie C. Parker A Golden Grave: A Rose Gallagher Mystery by Erin Lindsey Think Black: A Memoir by Clyde W. Ford The Great American Documents: Volume II: 1831-1900 by Ruth Ashby, Russell Motter, et al.