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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Searching for John Hughes, The Book of Unknown Americans, The Borden Murders, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, The Novice by Taran Matharu, and Madison Reed.

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Books discussed on the show:

Searching for John Hughes: Or Everything I Thought I Needed to Know about Life I Learned from Watching ’80s Movies by Jason Diamond

Moranifesto by Caitlin Moran

Ghost Girl in the Corner by Daniel José Older

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson

Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen

The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez

Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard

The Clancys of Queens by Tara Clancy

The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century by Sarah Miller

See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt

What we’re reading:

Marlena by Julie Buntin

Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler

More books out this week:

The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

To Capture What We Cannot Keep by Beatrice Colin

Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between by Lauren Graham

When All The Girls Have Gone by Jayne Ann Krentz

Slipping: Stories, Essays, & Other Writing by Lauren Beukes

How to Survive a Plague : The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France

Naming Thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Elaine Scarry

A Path to Peace: A Brief History of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations and a Way Forward in the Middle East by George J. Mitchell and Alon Sachar

I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh (paperback)

The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred by Greg Egan

Glenn Gould: A Life Off Tempo by Sandrine Revel

Route 66 Roadside Signs and Advertisements by Joe Sonderman, photos by Jim Hinckley

Music for Love or War by Martyn Burke