New Releases and More for February 18, 2025
This week, Liberty and Emily discuss Hungerstone, I Got Abducted By Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Rom-Com, The Girl You Know, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
I Got Abducted By Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Rom-Com by Kimberly Lemming
Hungerstone by Kat Dunn
Dream State by Eric Puchner
The Girl You Know by Elle Gonzales Rose
Upon a Starlit Tide by Kell Woods
The Garden by Nick Newman
Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them by Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
Yours, Eventually by Nura Maznavi
The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
The Return by Rachel Henderson
The Chain by Adrian McKinty
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
What We’re Reading:
Cross My Heart by Megan Collins
The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by John Seabrook
Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite
More Books Out This Week:
Almost Sunset by Wahab Algarmi
Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary by Victoria Amelina
Rick Kotani’s 400 Million Dollar Summer by Waka T. Brown
Wooing the Witch Queen (Queens of Villainy, #1) by Stephanie Burgis
Snowy Day and Other Stories by Lee Chang-dong, Yoosup Chang and Heinz Insu Fenkl (translators)
Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf: A League of Legends: Arcane Novel by C. L. Clark
Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser
Maya & Natasha by Elyse Durham
Cursebound (The Faebound Trilogy Book 2) by Saara El-Arifi
Skylar and the K-Pop Principal by Luan Goldie
Becoming Spectacular: The Rhythm of Resilience from the First African American Rockette by Jennifer Jones
Disposable: America’s Contempt for the Underclass by Sarah Jones
The National Telepathy by Roque Larraquy, Frank Wynne (translator)
Lucha of the Forgotten Spring by Tehlor Kay Mejia
No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce by Haley Mlotek
Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live by Susan Morrison
TreeNotes: A Year in the Company of Trees by Nalini Nadkarni
The Voices of Adriana by Elvira Navarro, Christina MacSweeney (translator)
Nesting by Roisín O’Donnell
Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman by Mallory O’Meara
Halfway to Somewhere by Jose Pimienta
Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Rebecca Romney
Nothing Serious by Emily J. Smith
The Girl Most Likely To by Julie Tieu
Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts
Poor Girls by Clare Whitfield
Unhallowed Halls by Lili Wilkinson
The Echoes by Evie Wyld
