New Releases and More for January 14, 2020
This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss Uncanny Valley, We Wish You Luck, and The Missing American, and more great books.
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Books discussed on the show:
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener
You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters by Kate Murphy
The Missing American by Kwei Quartey
Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard by Echo Brown
Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore
We Wish You Luck: A Novel by Caroline Zancan
Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
Saving Savannah by Tonya Bolden
What we’re reading:
Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry
Plain Bad Heroines by emily m. danforth
More books out this week:
Me and Mr. Cigar by Gibby Haynes
Still: Poems by Sandra Meek
The Strange Ones by Jeremy Jusay
Your New Feeling Is the Artifact of a Bygone Era (Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry) by Chad Bennett
Zed: A Novel by Joanna Kavenna
The Great Concert of the Night by Jonathan Buckley
Many Rivers to Cross by Peter Robinson
All the Ways We Said Goodbye: A Novel of the Ritz Paris by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White
You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples by Patricia Marx and Roz Chast
Finding Mr. Better-Than-You by Shani Petroff
The Thief Knot: A Greenglass House Story by Kate Milford
Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997-2019 by James Wood
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance by Zora Neale Hurston
Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream by Blair Imani and Patrisse Cullors
The Poison Garden: A Novel by Alex Marwood
Love Her or Lose Her: A Novel by Tessa Bailey
Virtuoso by Yelena Moskovich
Saltwater: A Novel by Jessica Andrews
The Broken Heavens by Kameron Hurley
Beyond the Shadowed Earth by Joanna Ruth Meyer
Fabulous: Stories by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
The Prized Girl: A Novel by Amy K. Green
Father of Lions: One Man’s Remarkable Quest to Save the Mosul Zoo by Louise Callaghan
The Better Liar: A Novel by Tanen Jones
Little Gods by Meng Jin
The Hollows: A Novel (The Kinship Series) by Jess Montgomery
Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Fremont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War by Steve Inskeep
Adults and Other Children by Miriam Cohen
St. Francis Society for Wayward Pets: A Novel by Annie England Noblin
Light Changes Everything: A Novel by Nancy E. Turner
A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen
A Longer Fall (Gunnie Rose Book 2) by Charlaine Harris
How Quickly She Disappears by Raymond Fleischmann
The Tenant by Katrine Engberg
Track Changes by Sayed Kashua
Burn the Dark: Malus Domestica by S.A. Hunt
Oligarchy: A Novel by Scarlett Thomas
Infinity Son by Adam Silvera
From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks
Race To the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
Lucky Caller by Emma Mills
A Scheme of Heaven: The History of Astrology and the Search for Our Destiny in Data by Alexander Boxer
Parents Under the Influence: Words of Wisdom from a Former Bad Mother by Cécile David-Weill
Brain Wash: Detox Your Mind for Clearer Thinking, Deeper Relationships, and Lasting Happiness by David Perlmutter MD, Austin Perlmutter MD, Kristin Loberg
The Secret Guests: A Novel by Benjamin Black
A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond by Daniel Susskind
The Housing Lark by Sam Selvon
Gender: A Graphic Guide by Meg-John Barker, Jules Scheele (Illustrator)
To the Edge of Sorrow: A Novel by Aharon Appelfeld, Stuart Schoffman (translator)
Followers: A Novel by Megan Angelo
The Conference of the Birds (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children) by Ransom Riggs
A Good Man by Ani Katz
The End of the Ocean: A Novel by Maja Lunde, Diane Oatley (translator)
Imaginary Museums: Stories by Nicolette Polek
The Vanished Birds: A Novel by Simon Jimenez
Go with the Flow by Karen Schneemann and Lily Williams
The Whispers of War by Julia Kelly
Big Lies in a Small Town: A Novel by Diane Chamberlain
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof
Echoes Between Us by Katie McGarry
Strange Exit by Parker Peevyhouse
Stories of the Sahara by Sanmao, Mike Fu (Translator)
The King’s Questioner by Nikki Katz
Kingdomtide by Rye Curtis
Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan
Just After the Wave by Sandrine Collette, Alison Anderson (Translator)
Pixie Pushes On by Tamara Bundy
The Lost Arabs by Omar Sakr
Little Envelope of Earth Conditions by Cori Winrock
Say Her Name by Zeta Elliott
Funny You Should Ask: Serious Questions About the Book Publishing Industry by Barbara Poelle
Stella Diaz Never Gives Up by Angela Dominguez
Grabeland: A Novel by eteam
