New Releases and More for October 3, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Her Body and Other Parties, We Were Eight Years in Power, Manhattan Beach, and more books.
This episode was sponsored by Lighter Than My Shadow and 27 Hours.
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Books discussed on the show:
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America by Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding (editors)
Malagash by Joey Comeau
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Origin by Dan Brown
Reservoir 13: A Novel by Jon McGregor
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between) by Lauren Graham
Best American Short Stories 2017 edited by Meg Wolitzer
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Glaser
This Is How It Begins: A Novel by Joan Dempsey
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York by Roz Chast
Baking with Kafka by Tom Gauld
The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash
That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston
The Glass Eye: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco
Fresh Complaint: Stories by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Tiger’s Daughter (Their Bright Ascendency) by K Arsenault Rivera
What we’re reading:
The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Mallory Ortberg
Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body by Daniel Goleman and Richard J. Davidson
More books out this week:
27 Hours by Tristina Wright
Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig
Winter Storms (Winter Street) by Elin Hilderbrand
Joni: The Anthology by Barney Hoskyns
Before the Devil Breaks You (The Diviners) by Libba Bray
The Orphan of Florence: A Novel by Jeanne Kalogridis
Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb
From a Certain Point of View: 40 Stories Celebrating 40 Years of Star Wars
Without Merit by Colleen Hoover
Satellite by Nick Lake
Logical Family: A Memoir by Armistead Maupin
The Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson
Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind by Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
the sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur
The Relive Box and Other Stories by T.C. Boyle
The Adventurers Guild by Zack Loran Clark, Nick Eliopulos
Pashmina by Nidhi Chanani
Seven Suspects (The Bobbi Logan Series) by Renee James
Odd Child Out by Gilly Macmillan
Brooding YA Hero: Becoming a Main Character (Almost) as Awesome as Me by Carrie DiRisio, Linnea Gear (Illustrator)
Ahimsa by Supriya Kelkar
Where the Sun Shines Out by Kevin Catalano
Quillifer by Walter Jon Williams
Mixed Up: Cocktail Recipes (and Flash Fiction) for the Discerning Drinker (and Reader) by Nick Mamatas (Compiler), Molly Tanzer (Compiler)
Dunbar (Hogarth Shakespeare) by Edward St. Aubyn
The Witches’ Tree: An Agatha Raisin Mystery (Agatha Raisin Mysteries) by M. C. Beaton
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: The Illustrated Edition by J.K. Rowling, Jim Kay (Illustrator)
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 3 The Ship of the Dead by Rick Riordan
Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin
Things I’m Seeing Without You by Peter Bognanni
The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson
Old Scores: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel by Will Thomas
Earth Hates Me: True Confessions from a Teenage Girl by Ruby Karp
Among the Red Stars by Gwen C. Katz
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
Far From the Tree by Robin Benway
If You Knew My Sister by Michelle Adams
To the Back of Beyond by Peter Stamm, Michael Hofmann (Translator)
Advice from the Lights: Poems by Stephen Burt
Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore
Shai & Emmie Star in Break an Egg! (A Shai & Emmie Story) by Quvenzhané Wallis
Blackwing by Ed McDonald
There Will Be No More Good Nights Without Good Nights by Laura van den Berg
William Shakespeare’s The Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh (William Shakespeare’s Star Wars) by Ian Doescher
Sparked by Helena Echlin and Malena Watrous
Fear by Dirk Kurbjuweit
Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions by Russell Brand
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeanette Ng
Haunting the Deep by Adriana Mather
What the Hell Did I Just Read: A Novel of Cosmic Horror (John Dies at the End) by David Wong
London and the South-East by David Szalay
The Hanging Girl by Eileen Cook
Everyone is Watching by Megan Bradbury
Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits by Tiya Miles
The Last Namsara by Kristen Ciccarelli
Beyond the Rice Fields by Naivo, Allison M. Charette (Translator)
The Secrets on Chicory Lane: A Novel by Raymond Benson
The Trials of Solomon Parker by Eric Scott Fischl
The Bloodprint (The Khorasan Archives) by Ausma Zehanat Khan
The Devils You Know by M.C. Atwood
Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor
Not Your Villain (Sidekick Squad Book 2) by C.B. Lee
All That Man Is by David Szalay (paperback)
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey (paperback)
