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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Resurrection of Joan Ashby, The Burning Girl, My Absolute Darling, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by Talenti, ThirdLove, and Book of the Month

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Books discussed on the show:

Sip by Brian Allen Carr

The Burning Girl by Claire Messud

The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas

Little Boxes by Caroline Casey (Editor)

My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent

Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World by Reshma Saujani

The Tragedy of Brady Sims (Vintage Contemporaries) by Ernest J. Gaines

Today Means Amen by Sierra DeMulder

What we’re reading:

Grist Mill Road by Christopher J. Yates

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

More books out this week:

Tumble & Blue by Cassie Beasley

An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors: A Novel (The Risen Kingdoms) by Curtis Craddock

All the Dirty Parts by Daniel Handler

All Rights Reserved: (Word$, Book One) by Gregory Scott Katsoulis

I Know Your Kind: Poems by William Brewer

The Dazzling Heights by Katharine McGee

Patina by Jason Reynolds

Ban This Book by Alan Gratz

Snap Judgment (Samantha Brinkman) by Marcia Clark

To Die in Spring: A Novel by Ralf Rothmann

The Hidden Light of Northern Fires by Daren Wang

Basic Witches: How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven by Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman

Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

Archangel by William Gibson, Butch Guice (artist)

Disorderly Conduct by Tessa Bailey

Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller

Glass Houses: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel) by Louise Penny

Valley of Terror by Zhou Haohui, Bonnie Huie (Translator)

Séance Infernale by Jonathan Skariton

Forest World by Margarita Engle

Supernatural Horror Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) by Flame Tree Studio

Zero Repeat Forever (The Nahx Invasions) by G. S. Prendergast

Dog Man: A Tale of Two Kitties (Dog Man #3) by Dav Pilkey

Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain’s Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War by Ben Macintyre

Golden Age and Other Stories by Naomi Novik

A Drink of One’s Own: Cocktails for Literary Ladies by Laura Becherer and Cameo Marlatt 

Under a Watchful Eye by Adam Nevill

The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke

Phasma (Star Wars): Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi by Delilah S. Dawson