New Releases and More for May 21, 2019
This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss The Confessions of Frannie Langton, Vessel, Star-Crossed, and more great books.
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Books discussed on the show:
The Confessions of Frannie Langton: A Novel by Sara Collins
How to Forget: A Daughter’s Memoir by Kate Mulgrew
Star-Crossed: A Novel by Minnie Darke
Vessel: A Novel by Lisa A. Nichols
The Things She’s Seen by Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina
Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression by Teresa Wong
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love by Keith S. Wilson
What we’re reading:
Eileen Gray: A House Under the Sun by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes and Zosia Dzierszawska
Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
More books out this week:
The Royal Secret: A Novel by Lucinda Riley
The Naked Truth: A Memoir by Leslie Morgan
The Missing Season by Gillian French
Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker
Where We Come From: A Novel by Oscar Cásares
Talking to Strangers: Selected Essays, Prefaces, and Other Writings, 1967-2017 by Paul Auster
The Organs of Sense: A Novel by Adam Ehrlich Sachs
The Summer of Ellen by Agnete Friis and Sinead Quirke Kongerskov
Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder by John Waters
Biloxi: A Novel by Mary Miller
The Usual Suspects by Maurice Broaddus
Missing, Presumed Dead by Emma Berquist
Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water by Vylar Kaftan
Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption by Ben Mezrich
Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D Jackson
An Illusion of Thieves by Cate Glass
Birthday: A Novel by Meredith Russo
The Edge of Every Day: Sketches of Schizophrenia by Marin Sardy
The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California by Mark Arax
White Peak: A Thriller by Ronan Frost
Keep This To Yourself by Tom Ryan
It’s Hot in the Hamptons: A Novel by Holly Peterson
Bright Burning Stars by A.K. Small
Prairie Fever by Michael Parker
The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games (Postmillennial Pop) by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Kingsbane (The Empirium Trilogy) by Claire Legrand
The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth by Josh Levin
Cari Mora by Thomas Harris
Have You Seen Luis Velez? by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Waisted: A Novel by Randy Susan Meyers
Into the Jungle by Erica Ferencik
Riots I Have Known by Ryan Chapman
Little Glass Planet: Poems by Dobby Gibson
Nima by Adam Popescu
Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini
Necessary People by Anna Pitoniak
Amelia Westlake Was Never Here by Erin Gough
Empty Words by Mario Levrero, Annie McDermott (translator)
The Vinyl Frontier: The Story of the Voyager Golden Record by Jonathan Scott
Going Off Script by Jen Wilde
The Pursuit of Miss Heartbreak Hotel by Moe Bonneau
Hold My Hand by Michael Barakiva
The Favorite Daughter by Kaira Rouda
America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan and Elaine Castillo
The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World by Mason Funk
