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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Way Through the Woods, Lock Every Door, Symptoms of a Heartbreak, and more great books.

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Books discussed on the show:

Second Sight: A Novel by Aoife Clifford

I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum

Lock Every Door: A Novel by Riley Sager

The Way Through the Woods: On Mushrooms and Mourning by Litt Woon Long and Barbara J. Haveland

Symptoms of a Heartbreak by Sona Charaipotra

Casting into the Light: Tales of a Fishing Life by Janet Messineo

Girls Like Us by Cristina Alger

In at the Deep End by Kate Davies

What we’re reading:

Erosion: Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams

From Hell to Breakfast by Meghan Tifft

More books out this week:

Sealed by Naomi Booth

Under the Cold Bright Lights by Garry Disher

Layover by David Bell

Surfside Sisters: A Novel by Nancy Thayer

Betrayal in Time: A Novel (Kendra Donovan Mysteries) by Julie McElwain

The Tribe (Paperbacks from Hell) by Bari Wood

The Twelve by Cindy Lin

The Plus One by Sarah Archer

Unsung Heroine (Heroine Complex) by Sarah Kuhn

Whisper Network by Chandler Baker

Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

The Gifted School: A Novel by Bruce Holsinger

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan

Never Look Back by Alison Gaylin

Maggie Brown & Others by Peter Orner

We Went to the Woods: A Novel by Caite Dolan-Leach

The Wind That Lays Waste by Selva Almada

The Ghost Clause by Howard Norman

The Big Book of Classic Fantasy by Ann Vandermeer and Jeff VanderMeer

In Oceans Deep: Courage, Innovation, and Adventure Beneath the Waves by Bill Streever

Pretty Revenge by Emily Liebert

They Could Have Named Her Anything: A Novel by Stephanie Jimenez

Mixed-Race Superman: Keanu, Obama, and Multiracial Experience by Will Harris

Temper by Layne Fargo

Stone Cold Heart: A Novel by Caz Frear

Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay

Deep River by Karl Marlantes

Big Cabin by Ron Padgett

Very Nice: A Novel by Marcy Dermansky

We Came Here to Forget: A Novel by Andrea Dunlop

A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Ann Goldstein (Translator)

Chimes of a Lost Cathedral (Revolution of Marina M.) by Janet Fitch

Tell Me Who We Were by Kate McQuade

Dragonslayer (The Dragonslayer) by Duncan M. Hamilton

In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond: In Search of the Sasquatch by John Zada

The Flight Girls by Noelle Salazar

The Best Lies by Sarah Lyu

Across the Void: A Novel by S.K. Vaughn

Pan’s Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun by Guillermo del Toro,  Cornelia Funke