New Releases and More for February 25, 2025
This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Greenteeth, On Her Terms, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
Greenteeth by Molly O’Neill
On Her Terms by Amy Spalding
Soma by Fernando Llor and Carles Dalmau
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza, Robin Myers and Sarah Booker (translators)
When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution’s Greatest Romance by Riley Black
The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Thompson Walker
All the Parts We Exile by Roza Nozari
Paperback Releases:
A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal
The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann, Anthea Bell (translator)
Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes
Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley
What We’re Reading:
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen
I’m Not Your Muse: Uncovering the Overshadowed Brilliance of Women Artists & Visionaries by Lori Zimmer, Maria Krasinski
Digger by Ursula Vernon
Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi
King Sorrow by Joe Hill
More Books Out This Week:
The Boyhood of Cain by Michael Amherst
The Fourth Consort by Edward Ashton
Shark Girl by Kate Beaton
Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley
Crush by Ada Calhoun
The Talent by Daniel D’Addario
Fagin the Thief by Allison Epstein
Boy by Nicole Galland
True Failure by Alex Higley
Back After This by Linda Holmes
Mornings Without Mii by Mayumi Inaba, Ginny Tapley Takemori (translator)
Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell by Paul Lisicky
A House for Miss Pauline by Diana McCaulay
Notes on Surviving the Fire by Christine Murphy
A Touch of Blood by Sajni Patel
Something in the Walls by Daisy Pearce
The Magpie at Night: The Complete Poems of Li Qingzhao (1084–1151) by Li Qingzhao and Wendy Chen
The Café with No Name by Robert Seethaler, Katy Derbyshire (translator)
The Dark Mirror (The Bone Season Book 5) by Samantha Shannon
The Blanket Cats by Kiyoshi Shigematsu, Jesse Kirkwood (translator)
Show Don’t Tell: Stories by Curtis Sittenfeld
Momo Arashima Duels the Queen of Death by Misa Sugiura
The Otherwhere Post by Emily J. Taylor
Creep: A Love Story by Emma van Straaten
Book Boyfriend by Emily Wibberley, Austin Siegemund-Broka
Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis