New Releases and More for January 15, 2019
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss No Exit, Thick, The Far Field, and more great books.
This episode was sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, Warby Parker, and As Long As We Both Shall Live by JoAnn Cheney.
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Books discussed on the show:
No Exit: A Novel by Taylor Adams
Last Woman Standing by Amy Gentry
The Dreamers: A Novel by Karen Thompson Walker
Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
The Orphan of Salt Winds by Elizabeth Brooks
The Good Food: A Cookbook of Soups, Stews, and Pasta by Daniel Halpern and Julie Strand
The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
What we’re reading:
Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?: (And How to Fix It) by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
More books out this week:
Marked by S. Andrew Swann
Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII’s Most Highly Decorated Spy by Larry Loftis
Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer
The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Li Po) by Ha Jin
The Perfect Liar: A Novel by Thomas Christopher Greene
The Smiling Man: A Novel by Joseph Knox
Unquiet: A Novel by Linn Ullmann
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris B. Hill
The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi
Bluff City: The Secret Life of Photographer Ernest Withers by Preston Lauterbach
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré by Anika Aldamuy Denise and Paola Escobar
Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives by Jane Brox
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely by Andrew S. Curran
When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon by Joshua D Mezrich
Adèle: A Novel by Leila Slimani
Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee
The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock ‘n’ Roll by Ian S. Port
No Mercy (Ellery Hathaway) by Joanna Schaffhausen
Elsey Come Home by Susan Conley
Mothers: Stories by Chris Power
Talk to Me by John Kenney
Annelies: A Novel by David R. Gillham
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro
Oculus: Poems by Sally Wen Mao
Let’s Go Swimming on Doomsday by Natalie C. Anderson
Late in the Day: A Novel by Tessa Hadley
Hark by Sam Lipsyte
Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Love and Life by Kim McLarin
You Know You Want This: “Cat Person” and Other Stories by Kristen Roupenian
Unmarriageable: A Novel by Soniah Kamal
The Liar’s Room by Simon Lelic
Joy Enough: A Memoir by Sarah McColl
The Whispers by Greg Howard
The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, VA, 1843: Annotated From the Library of John C. Calhoun by Percival Everett
None of the Above: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal, Corporate Greed , and the Criminalization of Educators by Shani Robinson and Anna Simonton
Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married by Abby Ellin
Night School: A Reader for Grownups by Zsófia Bán and Jim Tucker
Fearless by Sarah Tarkoff
As Long as We Both Shall Live by JoAnn Cheney
Something Like Breathing by Angeka Readman
Aristotle’s Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life by Edith Hall
The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction by Meghan Cox Gurdon
Downhill from Here: Retirement Insecurity in the Age of Inequality by Katherine S. Newman
Our Year of Maybe by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Why We Fight: One Man’s Search for Meaning Inside the Ring by Josh Rosenblatt
The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown by Nick Barratt
Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age by Mary Pipher
96 Words for Love by Rachel Roy and Ava Dash
Big Bang by David Bowman
Rewrite: Loops in the Timescape by Gregory Benford
Shadow Captain by Alastair Reynolds
