This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Beasts Made of Night, Everything is Awful, The Tea Dragon Society, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by A Selfie as Big as the Ritz: Stories and Warby Parker.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O’Neill

The King Is Always Above the People: Stories by Daniel Alarcón

Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

Everything Is Awful: And Other Observations by Matt Bellassai

Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi

The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization by Martin Puchner

Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman

The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

What we’re reading:

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee

Teachings on Love by Thich Nhat Hanh

More books out this week:

The Murderer’s Maid by Erika Mailman

Siege Line (Shadow Ops: Gemini Cell) by Myke Cole

My New Crush Gave to Me by Shani Petroff

My Pet Serial Killer by Michael J. Seidlinger

Grace for Amateurs: Field Notes on a Journey Back to Faith by Lily Burana

A Field Guide to the North American Family: An Illustrated Novella by Garth Risk Hallberg

The Fourth Ruby (Section 13) by James R. Hannibal

The Secret of Nightingale Wood by Lucy Strange

Jewish Comedy: A Serious History by Jeremy Dauber

The Wicker King by K. Ancrum

The Empress (The Diabolic) by S.J. Kincaid

In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende

Wilde in Love by Eloisa James

A Selfie as Big as the Ritz: Stories by Lara Williams

The Witch Boy by Molly Know Ostertag

Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker by Gregory Maguire

Two Kinds of Truth (A Harry Bosch Novel) by Michael Connelly

Bubba and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers by Joe R. Lansdale

Polaris by Michael Northrop

Booke of the Hidden by Jeri Westerson