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This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss The City of Brass, Into the Drowning Deep, The Wild Book, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader, and Creature of Will & Temper.

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Books discussed on the show:

The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty

Future Home of the Living God: A Novel by Louise Erdrich

Shirtless Bear-Fighter Volume 1 by by Jody LeHeup  (Author),‎ Sebastian Girner (Author),‎ Nil Vendrell (Artist),‎ Mike Spicer (Artist),‎ Andrew Robinson (Artist)

Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang

The Book of Resting Places: A Personal History of Where We Lay the Dead by Thomas Mira y Lopez

Mother of All Pigs by Malu Halasa

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

The Wild Book (Yonder) by Juan Villoro (Author), Lawrence Schimel (Translator)

Whichwood by Tahereh Mafi

What we’re reading:

Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love, and Loss by Stephanie Wittels Wachs 

Autonomous by Annalee Newitz

More books out this week:

Mean by Myriam Gurba

Hardcore Twenty-Four: A Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich

End Game (Will Robie Series) by David Baldacci

Blackbird by Michael Fiegel

No Saints in Kansas by Amy Brashear

The Last Sheriff in Texas: A True Tale of Violence and the Vote by James P. McCollom

Don’t Save Anything: Uncollected Essays, Articles, and Profiles by James Salter

Goldeline by Jimmy Cajoleas

The Book of Formation by Ross Simonini

The Inside Out Man by Fred Strydom

The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother’s Suicide by Gayle Brandeis

On Power: My Journey Through the Corridors of Power and How You Can Get More Power by Gene Simmons

Thousands by Lightsey Darst

Fragments of the Lost by Megan Miranda

Runebinder by Alex R. Kahler

Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose by Joe Biden

Artemis by Andy Weir

Adult Fantasy: searching for true maturity in an age of mortgages, marriages, and other adult milestones by Briohny Doyle

Oathbringer: Book Three of the Stormlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson

I Don’t Want to Know Anyone Too Well: Collected Stories by Norman Levine

The Ghost of Christmas Past (Molly Murphy Mysteries) by Rhys Bowen

The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen

The Imagined Land by Eduardo Berti, Charlotte Coombe (Translator)

Debriefing: Collected Stories by Susan Sontag

Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by P. D. James

The Savage by Frank Bill

Creatures of Will & Temper by Molly Tanzer

The Night Language by David Rocklin

A Beautiful Young Woman by Julian Lopez

Improvement: A Novel by Joan Silber

After the End of the World (Carter & Lovecraft) by Jonathan L. Howard

Strangers in Budapest by Jessica Keener

The Library at the Edge of the World by Felicity Hayes-McCoy

Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News by Kevin Young

Fates and Traitors by Jennifer Chiaverini (Now in paperback.)

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (Now in paperback.)