New Releases and More for October 4, 2016

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Wangs vs. the World, You Can’t Touch My Hair, Ghostland, and more books. This show has been sponsored by A Change of Heart by Sonali Dev, The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict and ThirdLove. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: The News of the World by Paulette Jiles

The Wangs vs The World by Jade Chang

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey

I’ll Tell You in Person: Essays by Chloe Caldwell

You Can’t Touch My Hair and Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson

The Ramblers by Aidan Donnelly Rowley

Brief Histories of Everyday Objects by Andy Warner

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

What we’re reading:

Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith

Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album by Ken Caillat

The Mothers by Brit Bennett

We Show What We Have Learned and Other Stories by Clare Beams

More books out this week:

Ashes by Laurie Halse Anderson Patricide by D. Foy Last Look by Charles Burns The Trespasser by Tana French Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven Hamstersaurus Rex by Tom O’Donnell and Tim Miller Crosstalk by Connie Willis The Rift Uprising: The Rift Uprising Trilogy by Amy S. Foster Blood, Bullets, and Bones : The Story of Forensic Science from Sherlock Holmes to DNA by Bridget Heos Replica by Lauren Oliver The Big Book of Jack the Ripper (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original) by Otto Penzler By Gaslight by Steven Price Yesternight by Cat Winters Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig Stranded by Bracken MacLeod My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg The Best American Essays 2016 by edited Jonathan Franzen The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine Angels of Music by Kim Newman Platinum End, Vol. 1 by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata Demon, Vol. 1 by Jason Shiga The Explosion Chronicles by Yan Lianke (Author), Carlos Rojas (Translator) Wonder Woman: The True Amazon by Jill Thompson The Battles of Bridget Lee: Invasion of Farfall by Ethan Young Colonel Lágrimas by Carlos Fonseca Suárez (Author), Megan McDowell (Translator) Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives by Tim Harford Retro Photo: An Obsession: A Personal Selection of Vintage Cameras and the Photographs They Take by David Ellwand Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors: Against the Double Blackmail by Slavoj Zizek There Now: Poems by Eamon Grennan Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down by Anne Valente All That Man Is by David Szalay The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads by Tim Wu Nicotine by Nell Zink Private Novelist by Nell Zink Ghost Songs by Regina McBride When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin Spare and Found Parts by Sarah Maria Griffin The Motion of Puppets by Keith Donohue The Wealthy Renter: How to Choose Housing That Will Make You Rich by Alex Avery The Mortifications by Derek Palacio Something in Between by Melissa de la Cruz Breaking van Gogh : Saint-Rémy, Forgery, and the $95 Million Fake at the Met by James Grundvig Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger’s Life by Sarah Kaminsky Sweetest Taboo by J. Kenner Among the Living by Jonathan Rabb Fractured by Catherine McKenzie The Best American Comics 2016 by edited by Roz Chast and Bill Kartalopoulos We Know It Was You by Maggie Thrash The Secrets of Roscarbury Hall by Ann O’Loughlin Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice by Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. Duncan Our Lady of Greenwich Village by Dermot McEvoy Cruel Beautiful World by Caroline Leavitt Invitation Strictly Personal: 40 Years of Fashion Show Invites by Iain R. Webb Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq by Sarah Glidden A City Dreaming by Daniel Polansky The French Chef in America : Julia Child’s Second Act by Alex Prud’homme Corsets and Codpieces: A History of Outrageous Fashion, from Roman Times to the Modern Era by Karen Bowman Vegas Girls by Heather Skyler This is How You Die by David Jester FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven The Ballroom Café by Ann O’Loughlin Motional Blur by Robert Erringer Dog Years (Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize) by Melissa Yancy How Bad Writing Destroyed the World: Ayn Rand and the Literary Origins of the Financial Crisis by Adam Weiner Smart Partners: Building Successful Relationships in Business and Life by Jim Burba and Bob Hayes