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.
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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
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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
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)
