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.
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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)
