New Releases and More for January 31, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Animators, Unspeakable Things, The Brand New Catastrophe, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Caraval and Wires & Nerve. 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: The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker It’s All Absolutely Fine: Life Is Complicated So I’ve Drawn It Instead by Ruby Elliot We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly The Brand New Catastrophe: A Memoir by Mike Scalise Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution by Laurie Penny What we’re reading: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka Infomacracy by Malka Older More books out this week: The Edge of Everything by Jeff Giles The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor Wires and Nerve: Volume 1 by Marissa Meyer (Author), Douglas Holgate (Illustrator) The Evenings: A Winter’s Tale by Gerard Reve (Author), Sam Garrett (Translator) Work Pause Thrive: How to Pause for Parenthood Without Killing Your Career by Lisen Stromberg Assisted Living by Gary Lutz Right Behind You by Lisa Gardner On Second Thought by Kristan Higgins My Husband’s Wife by Jane Corry Things We Have in Common by Tasha Kavanagh A Note Yet Unsung by Tamera Alexander Dawn Study by Maria V. Snyder The Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle-Suzanna Barbo Villenueve Live to Eat: Cooking the Mediterranean Way by Michael Psilakis Rather Be the Devil by Ian Rankin Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World by Brad Stone The Prisoner: A John Wells Novel by Alex Berenson Rest in Power by Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin King of the Dancehall by Nick Cannon Road to Enchantment by Kaya McLaren I Liked My Life: A Novel by Abby Fabiaschi Walk Away by Sam Hawken The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson Short by Holly Goldberg Sloan The Actual One: How I Tried, and Failed, to Remain Twenty-Something for Ever by Isy Suttie Killing Kate by Alex Lake Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty How to Murder Your Life: A Memoir by Cat Marnell Worth It: Your Life, Your Money, Your Terms by Amanda Steinberg Caraval by Stephanie Garber Home Sweet Home by April Smith A Cup of Rage by Raduan Nassar (Author), Stefan Tobler (Translator) Breathless by Beverly Jenkins The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping by Aharon Appelfeld 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley The Unraveling of Mercy Louis by Keija Parssinen (paperback)