New Releases and More for October 16, 2018

This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss Heavy, A Very Large Expanse of Sea, The Library Book, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by TBR, Fright or Flight, 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: A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon The Library Book by Susan Orlean A Portrait of the Self as Nation by Marilyn Chin In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt The Cambodian Curse by Gigi Pandian Costume Quest by Zac Gorman Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon What we’re reading:

The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen

Cry Wilderness by Frank Capra More books out this week: The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life by Charles J. Shields Mother India by Tova Reich How the Dukes Stole Christmas: A Holiday Romance Anthology by Sarah MacLean and Tessa Dare Tenants and Cobwebs (Middle East Literature In Translation) by Samir Naqqash and Sadok Masliyah The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency) by John Scalzi Trinity by Louisa Hall Short & Skinny by Mark Tatulli Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror by W. Scott Poole Aquicorn Cove by Katie O’Neill Glimmer of Hope: How Tragedy Sparked a Movement by The March for Our Lives Founders The Supreme Orchestra by David Turgeon, Pablo Strauss (Translator) Ogre Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine Girls Write Now: Two Decades of True Stories from Young Female Voices by Girls Write Now Night Train: New and Selected Stories by Thom Jones In Your Hands by Inês Pedrosa, Andrea Rosenberg (Translator) Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay by Phoebe Robinson One Day in December by Josie Silver Operation Columba–The Secret Pigeon Service: The Untold Story of World War II Resistance in Europe by Gordon Corera Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron de Hart Almost Everything: Notes on Hope by Anne Lamott Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel by Jeff Jackson I’m Ok by Patti Kim Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jonny Sun Monsters of the Week: The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files by Zack Handlen and Todd VanDerWerff Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners by Gretchen Anthony She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy by Jill Soloway Wind Rider: Tales of a New World by P. C. Cast A Little Tea Book: All the Essentials from Leaf to Cup by Sebastian Beckwith and Caroline Paul The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created by Jane Leavy Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History by Blair Imani Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-earth by Ian Nathan Melmoth: A Novel by Sarah Perry Riddance: Or: The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children by Shelley Jackson Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents by Pete Souza We Can’t Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival by Jabari Asim The Collector’s Apprentice: A Novel by B. A. Shapiro I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindqvist Famous Adopted People by Alice Stephens The Black Khan: Book Two of the Khorasan Archives by Ausma Zehanat Khan 8-Bit Apocalypse: The Untold Story of Atari’s Missile Command by Alex Rubens and Jeff Gerstmann Monstrous Devices by Damien Love You Were Always Mine: A Novel by Nicole Baart Children of God: A Novel by Lars Petter Sveen Cry Wilderness by Frank Capra A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts by Therese Anne Fowler The Craftsman by Sharon Bolton Sanity & Tallulah by Molly Brooks This Will Only Hurt a Little by Busy Philipps