New Releases and More for August 22, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Heart’s Invisible Furies, Stay with Me, Young Jane Young, and more books.
This episode was sponsored by Talenti, If the Creek Don’t Rise, and The Duchess Deal.
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Books discussed on the show:
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo
Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading by Anne Gisleson (TW: suicide)
The Dire King (Jackaby #4) by William Ritter
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter
Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017 by Kelly Link (Compiler), Marie-Helene Bertino (Compiler), Nina McConigley (Compiler)
What we’re reading:
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O’Farrell
The Burning Girl by Claire Messud
More books out this week:
Letters to His Neighbor by Marcel Proust, Lydia Davis (Translator)
Sulfur Springs: A Novel (Cork O’Connor Mystery Series) by William Kent Krueger
The Duchess Deal: Girl Meets Duke by Tessa Dare
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution by Yuri Slezkine
Y is for Yesterday (A Kinsey Millhone Novel) by Sue Grafton
The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez
Montpelier Parade by Karl Geary
Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore
Suburra by Carlo Bonini (Author), Giancarlo de Cataldo (Author), Antony Shugaar (Translator)
The Sorbonne Affair: A Hugo Marston Novel by Mark Pryor
Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent
The Saboteur by Andrew Gross
Caca Dolce: Essays from a Lowbrow Life by Chelsea Martin
The Big Redhead Book: Inside the Secret Society of Red Hair by Erin La Rosa
The History of Bees by Maja Lunde
Beast & Crown by Joel Ross
Dress Codes for Small Towns by Courtney Stevens
Eastman Was Here by Alex Gilvarry
The Ladies-in-Waiting by Santiago Garcia, Javier Olivares
The Arsonist by Stephanie Oakes
Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty
Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat by Patricia Williams
Queen in 3-D by Brian May