New Releases and More for October 16, 2018
This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss Heavy, A Very Large Expanse of Sea, The Library Book, and more great books.
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Books discussed on the show:
A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
A Portrait of the Self as Nation by Marilyn Chin
In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt
The Cambodian Curse by Gigi Pandian
Costume Quest by Zac Gorman
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
What we’re reading:
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen
Cry Wilderness by Frank Capra
More books out this week:
The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life by Charles J. Shields
Mother India by Tova Reich
How the Dukes Stole Christmas: A Holiday Romance Anthology by Sarah MacLean and Tessa Dare
Tenants and Cobwebs (Middle East Literature In Translation) by Samir Naqqash and Sadok Masliyah
The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency) by John Scalzi
Short & Skinny by Mark Tatulli
Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror by W. Scott Poole
Aquicorn Cove by Katie O’Neill
Glimmer of Hope: How Tragedy Sparked a Movement by The March for Our Lives Founders
The Supreme Orchestra by David Turgeon, Pablo Strauss (Translator)
Ogre Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Girls Write Now: Two Decades of True Stories from Young Female Voices by Girls Write Now
Night Train: New and Selected Stories by Thom Jones
In Your Hands by Inês Pedrosa, Andrea Rosenberg (Translator)
Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay by Phoebe Robinson
One Day in December by Josie Silver
Operation Columba–The Secret Pigeon Service: The Untold Story of World War II Resistance in Europe by Gordon Corera
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron de Hart
Almost Everything: Notes on Hope by Anne Lamott
Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel by Jeff Jackson
I’m Ok by Patti Kim
Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jonny Sun
Monsters of the Week: The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files by Zack Handlen and Todd VanDerWerff
Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners by Gretchen Anthony
She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy by Jill Soloway
Wind Rider: Tales of a New World by P. C. Cast
A Little Tea Book: All the Essentials from Leaf to Cup by Sebastian Beckwith and Caroline Paul
The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created by Jane Leavy
Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History by Blair Imani
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-earth by Ian Nathan
Melmoth: A Novel by Sarah Perry
Riddance: Or: The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children by Shelley Jackson
Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents by Pete Souza
We Can’t Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival by Jabari Asim
The Collector’s Apprentice: A Novel by B. A. Shapiro
I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Famous Adopted People by Alice Stephens
The Black Khan: Book Two of the Khorasan Archives by Ausma Zehanat Khan
8-Bit Apocalypse: The Untold Story of Atari’s Missile Command by Alex Rubens and Jeff Gerstmann
Monstrous Devices by Damien Love
You Were Always Mine: A Novel by Nicole Baart
Children of God: A Novel by Lars Petter Sveen
Cry Wilderness by Frank Capra
A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts by Therese Anne Fowler
The Craftsman by Sharon Bolton
Sanity & Tallulah by Molly Brooks
This Will Only Hurt a Little by Busy Philipps