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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss What You Don’t Know, A Separation, Pachinko, and more books. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove and Tragic Kind of Wonderful. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes 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: Unbound: A Story of Snow and Self-Discovery by Steph Jagger What You Don’t Know by JoAnn Cheney A Separation by Katie Kitamura Pachinko by Min Jin Lee The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neil The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso The Possessions by Sara Flannery Murphy The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance by Anders Rydell (Author), Henning Koch (Translator) 300 Arguments: Essays by Sarah Manguso What we’re reading: Rattle by Fiona Cummins Breathless by Beverly Jenkins More books out this week: Universal Harvester by John Darnielle The Evening Road by Laird Hunt The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones I’ll Be Damned: How My Young and Restless Life Led Me to America’s #1 Daytime Drama by Eric Braeden What You Break (A Gus Murphy Novel) by Reed Farrel Coleman Cinder: New and Selected Poems by Susan Stewart Know This: Today’s Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments by John Brockman All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai Pretending is Lying by Dominique Goblet (Author), Sophie Yanow (Translator) The Devil Crept In by Ania Ahlborn Get Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller Autumn by Ali Smith Amiable with Big Teeth by Claude McKay A Tragic Kind of Wonderful by Eric Lindstrom The Stolen Child by Lisa Carey The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory, and Love by Michael D. Lemonick The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio De Maria (Author), Ramon Glazov (Translator) Desperation Road by Michael Farris Smith Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama (Author), Jonathan Lloyd-Davies (Translator) The Unseeing by Anna Mazzola Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 – A World on the Edge by Helen Rappaport Schadenfreude, A Love Story: Me, the Germans, and 20 Years of Attempted Transformations, Unfortunate Miscommunications, and Humiliating Situations That Only They Have Words For by Rebecca Schuman Darling, I’m Going to Charlie: A Memoir by Maryse Wolinski Can’t Just Stop: An Investigation of Compulsions by Sharon Begley Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction by Derek Thompson All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers by Alana Massey The Coming by David Osborne The Nightwalker by by Sebastian Fitzek (Author), Jaime Lee Searle (Translator) Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra Hungry Ghosts by Stephen Blackmoore The Freedom Broker by K.J. Howe Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler’s Defeat by Giles Milton Forever is the Worst Long Time by Camille Pagán Zodiac by Sam Wilson This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression by Daphne Merkin Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street by Sheelah Kolhatkar Dance of the Jakaranda by Peter Kimani The Burning World: A Warm Bodies Novel (The Warm Bodies Series) by Isaac Marion A Book of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol Oates The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales: An Anthology by Ellen Datlow King’s Cage (Red Queen) by Victoria Aveyard A Perfect Machine by Brett Savory Nowhere Near You by Leah Thomas The Clairvoyants by Karen Brown The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets World by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale Into Oblivion: An Icelandic Thriller (An Inspector Erlendur Series) by Arnaldur Indridason (paperback) The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing (paperback) Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue (Author), Natasha Wimmer (Translator) (paperback) The Bed Moved: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Rebecca Schiff (paperback) High Dive by Jonathan Lee (paperback)