New Releases and More for May 2, 2017

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Priestdaddy, One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, This is Just My Face, and more. This episode was sponsored by Talenti, Adulthood for Beginners, and The Radium Girls. 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: This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays by Scaachi Koul Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood The Dinner Party: Stories by Joshua Ferris My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues by Pamela Paul The Leavers by Lisa Ko Salt Houses by Hala Alyan Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee 

What we’re reading: Catapult: Stories by Emily Fridlund Saints for All Occassions by J. Courtney Sullivan More books out this week: The Storied City: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past by Charlie English Deep Water (Simon True) by Katherine Nichols The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey The Farm in the Green Mountains (NYRB Classics) by Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer (Author), Ida H. Washington (Translator), Carol E. Washington (Translator) The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn Ugly Prey: An Innocent Woman and the Death Sentence That Scandalized Jazz Age Chicago by Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi Genevieves by Henry Hoke Triple Threat (Lois Lane) by Gwenda Bond Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan Beach Lawyer by Avery Duff My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward: A Memoir by Mark Lukach The Garden of Small Beginnings by Abbi Waxman Four Weeks, Five People by Jennifer Yu Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship with Harper Lee by Wayne Flynt Cutting Back: My Apprenticeship in the Gardens of Kyoto by Leslie Buck Posted by John David Anderson The Lost Kingdom of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab by Shani Mootoo Before We Sleep by Jeffrey Lent Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig   Fen: Stories by Daisy Johnson Said Not Said: Poems by Fred Marchant The History of the Future by Edward McPherson The One Memory of Flora Banks by Emily Barr How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don’t Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up by Emilie Wapnick The Supernormal Sleuthing Service: The Lost Legacy by Gwenda Bond and Christopher Rowe A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses) by Sarah J. Maas American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6′ 4″, African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama’s Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian by W. Kamau Bell Hooper’s Revolution by Dennie Wendt Built on Bones: 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death by Brenna Hassett Time’s a Thief by B.G. Firmani Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool: A True Love Story by Peter Turner I’ll Eat When I’m Dead by Barbara Bourland Firstborn by Tosca Lee Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft by Geraldine DeRuiter Borrowed Souls: A Soul Charmer Novel by Chelsea Mueller Dreamfall by Amy Plum Bubble by Stewart Foster Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times edited by Carolina De Robertis Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin (Author), Bonnie Huie  (Translator) The Trials of Apollo Book Two The Dark Prophecy by Rick Riordan And We’re Off by Dana Schwartz Milena, or The Most Beautiful Femur in the World by Jorge Zepeda Patterson (Author), Adrian Nathan West (Translator) You’re the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women’s Friendships by Deborah Tannen Mid-Life Ex-Wife: A Diary of Divorce, Online Dating, and Second Chances by Stella Grey The Scattering (Outliers) by Kimberly McCreight Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore The Gathering Edge by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller The Baker’s Secret by Stephen P. Kiernan The Weekend Effect: The Life-Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork by Katrina Onstad Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky Trajectory: Stories by Richard Russo Soupy Leaves Home by Cecil Castellucci  (Author), Jose Pimienta (Illustrator) The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness by Jill Filipovic The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis (Author), Michael Lucey (Translator) City of Miracles (The Divine Cities) by Robert Jackson Bennett Into the Water by Paula Hawkins Inheritance from Mother by Minae Mizumura He Calls Me By Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty by S Jonathan Bass No One Can Pronounce My Name by Rakesh Satyal ‘Round Midnight by Laura McBride Beyond the High Blue Air: A Memoir by Lu Spinney Confessions of a Domestic Failure by Bunmi Laditan The Nix by Nathan Hill (paperback) The Assistants by Camille Perri (paperback) Why We Came to the City by Kristopher Jansma (paperback) The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan (paperback)