New Releases for Jan. 12, 2016
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist, My Name Is Lucy Barton, American Housewife, and more new releases.
This episode was sponsored by This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp and Third Love.
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Books discussed on the show:
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist by Sunil Yapa
The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. Lee
American Housewife: Stories by Helen Ellis
Rosalie Lightning by Tom Hart
Hall of Small Mammals: Stories by Thomas Pierce
Eleanor by Jason Gurley
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer
What we’re reading:
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
More books out this week:
Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles by John Mack Faragher
The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination by Richard Mabey
Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary by Geoffrey Cowan
The Lady of Misrule by Suzannah Dunn
All the Conspirators by Christopher Isherwood
The Hundred Days by Joseph Roth
Hunters in the Dark by Lawrence Osborne
The Killing Jar by Jennifer Bosworth
The Shut Eye by Belinda Bauer
Zoroaster’s Children: and Other Travels by Marius Kociejowski
My Time with the Kings: A Reporter’s Recollection of Martin, Coretta and the Civil Rights Movement by Kathryn Johnson
Swallows and Waves by Paula Bohince
Fardwor, Russia!: A Fantastical Tale of Life Under Putin by Oleg Kashin (Author), Will Evans (Translator)
The Longest Night by Andria Williams
Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World by Katherine Zoepf
Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight before NASA by Amy Shira Teitel
Up From the Sea by Leza Lowitz
Fake Missed Connections by Brett Fletcher Lauer
Underwater by Marisa Reichardt
The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet by Justin Peters
Other Broken Things by C. Desir
Beside Myself by Ann Morgan
The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America by Ethan Michaeli
Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship by Anjan Sundaram
The Gilded Razor by Sam Lansky
The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time by Maria Konnikova
Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 1 by Rachel Kramer Bussel
Thief in the Interior by Phillip B. Williams
The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey by Dawn Anahid MacKeen
The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas by Alison Weir
The 8th Circle by Sarah Cain
Even the Dead by Benjamin Black
The Crooked House by Christobel Kent
I Am Your Judge by Nele Neuhaus (Author), Steven T. Murray (Translator)
The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century by Sarah Miller
The Lightkeepers by Abby Geni
Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism by Chris Jennings
Once a Crooked Man by David McCallum
The Happy Marriage by Tahar Ben Jelloun
Dictator by Robert Harris
Fallen Land by Taylor Brown
The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt by Patrick H. Breen
25 Women: Essays on Their Art by Dave Hickey
Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens: Reportage by László Krasznahorkai
The Drifter by Nicholas Petrie
This Census-Taker by China Mieville
Poor Your Soul by Mira Ptacin
The Only Pirate at the Party by Lindsey Stirling
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
The Bitter Season by Tami Hoag
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Good People by Robert Lopez
The Case of Lisandra P. by Helene Gremillon (Author), Alison Anderson (Translator)
The Pirate by Jón Gnarr (Author), Lytton Smith (Translator)
The Other Me by Saskia Sarginson
Supernotes by Agent Kasper (Author), Luigi Carletti (Author), John Cullen (Translator)
And Again by Jessica Chiarella
The Assassin’s Masque (Palace of Spies Book 3) by Sarah Zettel
The Good Goodbye by Carla Buckley
The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Ji Xianlin
The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins by Irvine Welsh (paperback)
Future Crimes: Inside the Digital Underground and the Battle for Our Connected World by Marc Goodman (paperback)
Killer, Come Hither by Louis Begley (paperback)
The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe by Romain Puertolas (paperback)