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All the Books! Podcast, Episode #5: New Releases for June 9, 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 A Perfect Crime, The Magician’s Land, The Sunken Cathedral, and more new releases. This episode is sponsored by ProjectEd and the Book Riot summer reading box.

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Books discussed on the show:

A Perfect Crime by A Yi

People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo–and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up by Richard Lloyd Perry

Red : A History of the Redhead by Jacky Colliss Harvey

The Sunken Cathedral by Kate Walbert

The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman

The Girls from Corona del Mar by Rufi Thorpe

Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle by Kristen Green

Reading Lives #28: Liberty Hardy

What we’re reading:

The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

More books out today:

The Truth According to Us by Annie Barrow

The Domino Diaries: My Decade Boxing with Olympic Champions and Chasing Hemingway’s Ghost in the Last Days of Castro’s Cuba by Brin-Jonathan Butler

The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far by Quintan Ana Wikswo

Null Set by Ted Mathys

To Hold the Bridge by Garth Nix

American Meteor by Norman Lock

Alive by Chandler Baker

The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm

Second Life by S.J. Watson

Crazy Mountain Kiss by Keith McCafferty

Beyond the Pale White Women, Racism, and History by Vron Ware

The Sun Gods by Jay Rubin

Moods by Yoel Hoffmann

Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition by Nisid Hajari

We’re Still Here Ya Bastards: How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City by Roberta Brandes Gratz

The Hopeful by Tracy O’Neill

The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall

The Invasion of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

The Clockwork Crown by Beth Cato

That Thing You Do With Your Mouth: The Sexual Autobiography of Samantha Matthews as Told to David Shields by David Shields, Samantha Matthews

Safekeeping by Jessamyn Hope

A Brief History of Portable Literature by Enrique Vila-Matas

Valley Fever by Katherine Taylor

No Harm Can Come to a Good Man by James Smythe

The Middle Notebookes by Nathanaël

I Saw a Man by Owen Sheers

Dead Ice by Laurell K. Hamilton

Amber to Ashes by Gail McHugh

All the Single Ladies by Dorothea Benton Frank

Happily Ali After: And Other Fairly True Tales by Ali Wentworth

Awesome Sh*T My Drill Sergeant Said by Dan Caddy

Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds

Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella

The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America by Colin Quinn

The Ultimate Betrayal by Kimberla Lawson Roby

Breaking Point by Jefferson Bass

Trusting Liam by Molly McAdams

Watch the Lady by Elizabeth Fremantle

Louisa Meets Bear by Lisa Gornick

Third Wife by Lisa Jewell

The Darkling Child: The Defenders of Shannara by Terry Brooks

The Fixer by Joseph Finder

Blueprints by Barbara Delinsky

The Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen

Hardcovers now in paperback:

The Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah

A Girl is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride

Love Me Back by Merritt Tierce

Painted Horses by Malcolm Brooks

John Quincy Adams: American Visionary by Fred Kaplan

 

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