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This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss Bangkok Wakes to Rain, The White Book, The Study of Animal Languages, and more great books.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray

The Source of Self Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison

Bangkok Wakes to Rain: A Novel by Pitchaya Sudbanthad

The Study of Animal Languages: A Novel by Lindsay Stern

The White Book by Han Kang

Darwin: An Exceptional Voyage by Fabien Grolleau and Jéremie Royer

Death Prefers Blondes by Caleb Roehrig

The City In the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

What we’re reading:

Wanderers by Chuck Wendig

The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker

More books out this week:

Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation by Ken Liu

Trump Sky Alpha: A Novel by Mark Doten

Nobody’s Looking at You: Essays by Janet Malcolm

For the Killing of Kings (The Ring-Sworn Trilogy) by Howard Andrew Jones

Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II by Adam Makos

The Moon Sister: A Novel (The Seven Sisters) by Lucinda Riley

The (Half) Truth by Leddy Harper

Letter to Survivors by Gebe and Edward Gauvin

The Elegant Lie by Sam Eastland

The Familiars: A Novel by Stacey Halls

Aerialists: Stories by Mark Mayer

Hunting LeRoux: The Inside Story of the DEA Takedown of a Criminal Genius and His Empire by Elaine Shannon

Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives by Mark Miodownik

The Nocilla Trilogy: Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Experience, Nocilla Lab by Agustín Fernández Mallo, Thomas Bunstead (Translator)

Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism New Edition by Daisy Hernandez, Bushra Rehman

Arturo’s Island: A Novel by Elsa Morante, Ann Goldstein (translator)

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr

Tarot by Marissa Kennerson

The Afterward by E.K. Johnston

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark

The Art of Losing by Lizzy Mason

The Secrets of Clouds by Alyson Richman

The Next to Die: A Novel by Sophie Hannah

The Birds That Stay by Ann Lambert

The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman

Immoral Code by Lillian Clark

American Heroin by Melissa Scrivner Love

Earth-Shattering: Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, Biological Mayhem, Nuclear Meltdowns, and Other Hazards to Life in Our Universe by Bob Berman

Chamber Music: Wu-Tang and America (in 36 Pieces) by Will Ashon

Death in Provence: A Novel by Serena Kent

The Vanishing Man: A Prequel to the Charles Lenox Series by Charles Finch

The Stranger from the Sea: A Novel by Paul Binding

Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce

Where Oblivion Lives (Los Nefilim Book 1) by T. Frohock