New Releases and More for May 15, 2018

This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss Jonny Appleseed, So Lucky, Tin Man, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo and Recommended Season 2. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Trigger warning for discussion of suicide starting around 29:00. Books discussed on the show: So Lucky by Nicola Griffith

Happy Cactus: Cacti, Succulents, and More by DK

Tin Man by Sarah Winman The Crossing by Jason Mott The Storm: A Novel by Arif Anwar

The Queen of Sorrow: Book Three of The Queens of Renthia by Sarah Beth Durst

The Driest Season by Meghan Kenny Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead More books out this week: War Storm (Red Queen) by Victoria Aveyard To Throw Away Unopened: A Memoir by Viv Albertine In the Region of the Summer Stars (Eirlandia Series) by Stephen R. Lawhead Paper Ghosts by Julia Heaberlin A Million Drops by Victor del Árbol (Author), Lisa Dillman (Translator) It’s Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation by Anna Dahlqvist, Alice E. Olsson (Translator) Robin by Dave Itzkoff A Shout in the Ruins by Kevin Powers The Memory of Forgotten Things by Kat Zhang I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation by Maureen Johnson How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan Rome: A History in Seven Sackings by Matthew Kneale My So-Called Bollywood Life by Nisha Sharma Kickflip Boys: A Memoir of Freedom, Rebellion, and the Chaos of Fatherhood by Neal Thompson The Underneath by Melanie Finn Armistice: Book 2 in the Amberlough Dossier by Lara Elena Donnelly The Ensemble by Aja Gabel Do This for Me by Eliza Kennedy Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces by Michael Chabon Last Stories by William Trevor Out of the Blue: A Novel by Sophie Cameron Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood, and Betrayal by Jonathan Green Pretend I’m Dead: A Novel by Jen Beagin The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll The Plastic Magician (The Paper Magician Series) by Charlie N. Holmberg Fall of Angels (An Inspector Redfyre Mystery) by Barbara Cleverly Darker With the Lights On by David Hayden The Accidental Bad Girl by Maxine Kaplan Familiar Things by Hwang Sok-yong (Author),‎ Sora Kim-Russell (Translator) We Are All That’s Left by Carrie Arcos The Oddling Prince by Nancy Springer The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West by John Branch Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York by Stacy Horn The Optimist’s Guide to Letting Go by Amy E. Reichert Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War by Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple In the Hush of Night by Raymond Benson The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison “Promiscuous” Women by Scott W. Stern The Awkward Age by Francesca Segal (paperback)