New Releases and More for February 6, 2018
This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss An American Marriage, Shadowsong, Back Talk, and more great books.
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Books discussed on the show:
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O’Farrell
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved by Kate Bowler
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Wintersong / Shadowsong by S. Jae-Jones
Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú
Back Talk: Stories by Danielle Lazarin
Tempests and Slaughter (The Numair Chronicles, Book One) by Tamora Pierce
What we’re reading this week:
Bingo Love by Tee Franklin and Jenn St-Onge
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha) by Tomi Adeyemi
More books out this week:
Force of Nature by Jane Harper
Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein: Based on a True Story by Jennifer Roy and Ali Fadhil
Fly Girls: The Daring American Women Pilots Who Helped Win WWII by P. O’Connell Pearson
I’ve Got This Round: More Tales of Debauchery by Mamrie Hart
My Name Is Nathan Lucius by Mark Winkler
Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by Kathryn Harkup
The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton
Call Me Zebra by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
The Seabird’s Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet’s Great Ocean Voyagers by Adam Nicolson
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Steve Coll
The Hummingbirds: A Novel by Ross McMeekin
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang
The Last to Let Go by Amber Smith
American Panda by Gloria Chao
Anna by Niccolò Ammaniti, Jonathan Hunt (Translator)
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
Self-Portrait with Boy: A Novel by Rachel Lyon
As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner
Girl Unknown by Karen Perry
The Which Way Tree by Elizabeth Crook
Becoming Madeleine: A Biography of the Author of A Wrinkle in Time by Her Granddaughters by Charlotte Jones Voiklis, Léna Roy (Author)
Searching for the Amazons: The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World by John Man
Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card by Sara Saedi
The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara
Look for Me (D. D. Warren) by Lisa Gardner
The Friend: A Novel by Sigrid Nunez
How To Stop Time by Matt Haig
Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August by Oliver Hilmes, Jefferson Chase (translator)
Only Killers and Thieves: A Novel by Paul Howarth
The Bookworm: A Novel by Mitch Silver
The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson
Only Child: A Novel by Rhiannon Navin
Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck
Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
Broken Beautiful Hearts by Kami Garcia
Semiosis by Sue Burke
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
The Glass Forest by Cynthia Swanson
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: Essays and Reportage, 1994-2017 by Martin Amis
Down and Across by Arvin Ahmadi
A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong
The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust by Laura Smith
Daphne by Will Boast
Virgin: Poems by Analicia Sotelo
The Courage of Hopelessness: A Year of Acting Dangerously by Slavoj Zizek
She Regrets Nothing by Andrea Dunlop
Tarnished City by Vic James
By the Book: A Novel by Julia Sonneborn
We Are Taking Only What We Need: Stories (Art of the Story) by Stephanie Powell Watts
The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures by Antonio Damasio
The Fear Within by J. S. Law
The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance by Anders Rydell
Empty Set by Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Christina MacSweeney (Translator)
Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler’s Defeat by Giles Milton
The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship by Kayleen Schaefer
You Will Be Mine by Natasha Preston
The Immundus by Christina Enquist
Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama (paperback)
Universal Harvester by John Darnielle (paperback)
4321 by Paul Auster (paperback)
White Tears by Hari Kunzru (paperback)
