Anticipated New Books of 2019 Preview Show
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Nickel Boys, An Orchestra of Minorities, Southern Lady Code, and more great books.
This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders and Seal Press, publisher of Faking It: The Lies Women Tell About Sex–and the Truths They Reveal by Lux Alptraum.
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Books discussed on the show:
Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken
Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma
Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood by Maureen Stanton
So Here’s the Thing . . .: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut by Alyssa Mastromonaco, Lauren Oyler (Contributor)
Trust Exercise: A Novel by Susan Choi
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray
Gingerbread: A Novel by Helen Oyeyemi
That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour by Sunita Puri
The Memory Police: A Novel by Yoko Ogawa and Stephen Snyder
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski PhD, Amelia Nagoski DMA
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O’Meara
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
Sing to It: New Stories by Amy Hempel
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
Southern Lady Code: Essays by Helen Ellis
All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
What we’re reading:
I Miss You When I Blink: Essays by Mary Laura Philpott
More books out this week:
Kingdom of the Blind: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny
What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape by Sohaila Abdulali
Future Sounds: The Story of Electronic Music from Stockhausen to Skrillex by David Stubbs
How Long ’til Black Future Month?: Stories by N. K. Jemisin
The Adults by Caroline Hulse
Taking the Work Out of Networking: An Introvert’s Guide to Making Connections That Count by Karen Wickre
The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose
Come with Me: A Novel by Helen Schulman
Lord of the Butterflies by Andrea Gibson
The Razor by J. Barton Mitchell
Amber & Dusk by Lyra Selene
The Mortal Word (Invisible Library) by Genevieve Cogman
Aladdin: A New Translation by Paulo Lemos Horta, editor; Yasmine Seale, translator
Love a la Mode by Stephanie Kate Strohm
Being John Lennon: A Restless Life by Ray Connolly
Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now by Alan Rusbridger
Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and Beyond–The Story of Rock’s Greatest Manager by Mark Blake
The Dinosaur Tourist by Caitlin R. Kiernan