New Releases for August 9, 2016
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Underground Railroad, I Contain Multitudes, Vow of Celibacy, and more new releases.
This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, Penguin Random House Audio, and Book Riot Live.
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Books discussed on the show:
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
Known and Strange Things: Essays by Teju Cole
I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows
Vow of Celibacy by Erin Judge
Long Division by Kiese Laymon
What we’re reading:
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
Still Life with Tornado by A.S. King
More books out this week:
The Wages of Desire: A World War II Mystery by Stephen Kelly
Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
White Nights in Split Town City by Annie DeWitt
Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency by James Andrew Miller
The Garden Party: And Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
When Watched: Stories by Leopoldine Core
The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
Insidious by Catherine Coulter
War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans (Author), David Mckay (Translator)
The National Parks of the United States: A Photographic Journey by Andrew Thomas
Adnan’s Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial by Rabia Chaudry
Fail U.: The False Promise of Higher Education by Charles J. Sykes
The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood
The Age of Bowie by Paul Morley
Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living by Shauna Niequist
Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
The Altogether Unexpected Disappearance of Atticus Craftsman by Mamen Sánchez
The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon by Rosa Brooks
Three Sisters, Three Queens by Philippa Gregory
A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization by Robert Evans
Moggerhanger by Alan Sillitoe
Lacunae: 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems by Daniel Nadler
Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
The Night Bell by Inger Ash Wolfe
The Grand Tour by Adam O’Fallon Price
I’ll Sell You a Dog by Juan Pablo Villalobos (Author), Rosalind Harvey (Translator)
When the Music’s Over: An Inspector Banks Novel by Peter Robinson
The Collected Stories by Mavis Gallant
The Field of the Cloth of Gold by Magnus Mills
Swear on This Life by Renee Carlino
Killfile by Christopher Farnsworth
The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir by Susan Daitch
The Glamour of Strangeness: Artists and the Last Age of the Exotic by Jamie James
The Hero’s Body: A Memoir by William Giraldi
Results May Vary by Bethany Chase
How to Party With an Infant by Kaui Hart Hemmings
All True Not a Lie in It by Alix Hawley
How to Be a Leader (The School of Life) by Martin Bjergegaard and Cosmina Popa
Mr. Eternity by Aaron Thier
Shining Sea by Anne Korkeakivi
Who Will Catch Us As We Fall by Iman Verjee
Scream: A Memoir of Glamour and Dysfunction by Tama Janowitz
Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World’s Most Famous Human Fossils by Lydia Pyne
The Hanged Man: A Mystery in Fin de Siecle Paris by Gary Inbinder
Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud by Elizabeth Greenwood
The Guns of Empire: Book Four of The Shadow Campaigns by Django Wexler
The Cauliflower by Nicola Barker
Wicked Plants Coloring Book by Amy Stewart
Makoons by Louise Erdrich
Malafemmena by Louisa Ermelino
Origins of the Universe and What It All Means by Carole Firstman
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
Clothed, Female Figure: Stories by Kirstin Allio
The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville
Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
Dr. Fell and the Playground of Doom by David Neilsen
Patient H.M. by Luke Dittrich
Dinosaurs on Other Planets: Stories by Danielle McLaughlin
The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State by William McCants
Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming’s Jamaica by Matthew Parker (paperback)
Vanishing by Gerard Woodward (paperback)
1920: The Year that Made the Decade Roar by Eric Burns (paperback)
Secret Warriors: The Spies, Scientists and Code Breakers of World War I by Taylor Downing (paperback)
Fool Me Once by Harlen Coben (paperback)
Along the Infinite Sea by Beatriz Williams (paperback)
The Drifter by Nicholas Petrie
The Girl Before by Rena Olsen (paperback)
Between Sisters by Cathy Kelly (paperback)
The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown (Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation) by Vaseem Khan (paperback)
Sully: My Search for What Really Matters by Chesley B., III Sullenberger (paperback)
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood (paperback)
The Blue Guitar by John Banville (paperback)
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman (paperback)