New Releases and More for October 1, 2019

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Royal Holiday, The Good Luck Girls, A Tall History of Sugar, and more great books. This episode was sponsored Lost at the Smithsonian with Aasif Mandvi; Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky; and Rebel by Marie Lu, with Fierce Reads. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.

Books discussed on the show:

The Library of the Unwritten (A Novel from Hell’s Library) by A. J. Hackwith Erosion: Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes The Best American Essays 2019 by Rebecca Solnit and Robert Atwan The Best American Short Stories 2019 by Anthony Doerr and Heidi Pitlor The Best American Food Writing 2019 by Samin Nosrat and Silvia Killingsworth

What we’re reading:

Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller Writers & Lovers by Lily King

More books out this week:

Redwood and Ponytail by K.A. Holt Fake Lake (Drawn & Quarterly) by Adrian Norvid Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity by Felicia Day Star Trek: The Motion Picture by Gene Roddenberry The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes by Alya Mooro Pigs by Johanna Stoberock Angel Mage by Garth Nix She Was Like That by Kate Walbert Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance by Bethany Morrow White Bird: A Wonder Story by R. J. Palacio Sarah Jane by James Sallis Cursed by Thomas Wheeler and Frank Miller The Shape of Night: A Novel by Tess Gerritsen Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead: Typhoon by Wesley Chu What Linnaeus Saw: A Scientist’s Quest to Name Every Living Thing by Karen Magnuson Beil Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) by Eve Rodsky I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day Face It by Debbie Harry Crossfire: A Litany for Survival by Staceyann Chin Everything Must Go (BreakBeat Poets) by Kevin Coval and Langston Allston Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright by Paul Hendrickson A Human Algorithm: How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are by Flynn Coleman Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of King Edward Longshanks by Kelcey Wilson-Lee Baby by Annaleese Jochems Aphrodite Made Me Do It by Trista Mateer Into Captivity They Will Go by Noah Milligan Empire of Lies by Raymond Khoury Me & Other Writing by Marguerite Duras Rebel: A Legend Novel by Marie Lu The Closer I Get by Paul Burston Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby Dry County: A Novel by Jake Hinkson Love and I: Poems by Fanny Howe Aurora Blazing: A Novel (The Consortium Rebellion) by Jessie Mihalik The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future by Veronica Roth You Don’t Know Me: The Incarcerated Women of York Prison Voice Their Truths by Wally Lamb and The Women of York Prison I’m Not Dying with You Tonight by Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones Right after the Weather by Carol Anshaw Reinhardt’s Garden by Mark Haber Geometry of Shadows by Giorgio de Chirico, Stefania Heim (translator) Trolls by Stefan Spjut and Agnes Broome Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery by Kelley Armstrong , Rachael Caine, et al. The Topeka School: A Novel by Ben Lerner Roll with It by Jamie Sumner The Lying Room: A Novel by Nicci French Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson Takes One to Know One: A Novel by Susan Isaacs One Night Gone: A Novel by Tara Laskowski Whispers of Shadow & Flame (Earthsinger) by L. Penelope Animal (Bagley Wright Lecture Series) by Dorothea Lasky Fake (Point Paperbacks) by Donna Cooner Creep by Eireann Corrigan Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky Dear Sweet Pea by Julie Murphy The Butterfly Girl: A Novel by Rene Denfeld Toil & Trouble: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake The Book of Daniel by Aaron Smith The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher Weird Little Robots by Carolyn Crimi, Corinna Luyken (Illustrator) A Tale of Magic… by Chris Colfer Full Throttle: Stories by Joe Hill The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl by Theodora Goss The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek by Andrea Marcolongo and Will Schutt A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son by Sergio Troncoso The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys I Will Never See the World Again: The Memoir of an Imprisoned Writer by Ahmet Altan and Yasemin Congar Kitchen Curse: Stories by Eka Kurniawan and Annie Tucker Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow Stealing Green Mangoes: Two Brothers, Two Fates, One Indian Childhood by Sunil Dutta Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares by Aarti Namdev Shahani Nothing that Is, The: Essays on Art, Literature and Being (Essais Series) by Johanna Skibsrud Crier’s War by Nina Varela Radical: The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America by Kate Pickert Daughters Of Nri by Reni K Amayo A Pilgrimage of Swords by Anthony Ryan Houses Under the Sea by Caitlin R. Kiernan Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight by Aliette de Bodard Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn’s Letters of Love and War 1930-1949 by Janet Somerville Trinity Sight: A Novel by Jennifer Givhan Monstress Volume 4 by Marjorie Liu (Author), Sana Takeda (Artist) Degrees of Difficulty by Julie E. Justicz Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud by Tom Mueller Now Entering Addamsville by Francesca Zappia Cilka’s Journey: A Novel by Heather Morris The Bootlace Magician by Cassie Beasley Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow by Charlie Jane Anders, Madeline Ashby The Hanky of Pippin’s Daughter by Rosmarie Waldrop Bloody Genius (A Virgil Flowers Novel) by John Sandford