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All the Books! Podcast, Episode #20: New Releases for Sept. 22, 2015

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Liberty Hardy

Senior Contributing Editor

Liberty Hardy is an unrepentant velocireader, writer, bitey mad lady, and tattoo canvas. Turn-ons include books, books and books. Her favorite exclamation is “Holy cats!” Liberty reads more than should be legal, sleeps very little, frequently writes on her belly with Sharpie markers, and when she dies, she’s leaving her body to library science. Until then, she lives with her three cats, Millay, Farrokh, and Zevon, in Maine. She is also right behind you. Just kidding! She’s too busy reading. Twitter: @MissLiberty

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss I Crawl Through It, The Social Sex, Walk on Earth a Stranger, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta and Entry Island by Peter May.

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Books discussed on the show:

Furiously Happy : A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson

The Social Sex: A History of Female Friendship by Marilyn Yalom and Theresa Donovan Brown

(Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis by Alexis Coe)

The Lower Quarter by Elise Blackwell

Honeydew: Stories by Edith Pearlman

I Crawl Through It by A.S. King

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the World by Steven Johnson

Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson

Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse

What we’re reading:

Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee

The Black Tongue by Marko Hautala, Jenni Salmi (Translator)

More books out this week:

The Unquiet by Mikaela Everett

Lightless by C. A. Higgins

Not On Fire, But Burning by Greg Hrbek

Those We Left Behind by Stuart Neville

1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History by Jay Winik

The Underground by Hamid Ismailov

This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror by Moustafa Baymoui

Vintage by David Baker

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success by Michael D’Antonio

Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency by Bill O’Reilly

The Gilded Life of Matilda Duplaine by Alex Brunkhorst

Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction by Patrick Kennedy

Had I Known: A Memoir of Survival by Joan Lunden

Goldy’s Kitchen Cookbook by Diane Mott Davidson

You First: Journal Your Way to Your Best Life by Lea Michele

Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After by Katherine Woodward Thomas

Come Rain or Come Shine by Jan Karon

Hitler’s Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe’s Treasures by Susan Ronald

The Killing Lessons by Saul Black

The Nixon Tapes: 1973 by Douglas Brinkley and Luke Nichter

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert

This Monstrous Thing by Mackenzi Lee

How to Cook a Moose by Kate Christensen

Beastly Bones by William Ritter

Trans: A Memoir by Juliet Jacques

Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe

After the Parade by Lori Ostlund

Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller

The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell

The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top Secret Military Research Agency by Annie Jacobsen

Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson

The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin

The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries by Jessa Crispin

A Crucible of Souls: Book One of the Sorcery Ascendant Sequence by Mitchell Hogan

The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Lives by Theresa Brown

The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude by Howard Axelrod

Connect the Stars by Marisa de los Santos and David Teague

Hotel by Joanna Walsh

Mesilla by Robert James Russell

Deadlands: Ghostwalkers by Jonathan Maberry

Bits & Pieces by Jonathan Maberry

Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan (paperback)

Blood and Salt by Kim Liggett

Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs