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This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss LittleMarilla of Green Gables, Friday Black, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by TBR, Me and Me by Alice Kuipers, and The Light Between Worlds by Laura E Weymouth.

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Books discussed on the show:

Little by Edward Carey

Marilla of Green Gables by Sarah McCoy

Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Lumberjanes: The Infernal Compass by Lilah Sturges and illustrated by polterink

Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster by Jonathan Auxier

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, Philip Gabriel (Translator)

Just Kids Illustrated Edition by Patti Smith

Lu by Jason Reynolds

What we’re reading:

Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jonny Sun

Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of ’80s and ’90s Teen Fiction by Gabrielle Moss

More books out this week:

Phoebe and Her Unicorn in Unicorn Theater by Dana Simpson

The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson

Slender Man by Anonymous

Pulse: A Novel by Michael Harvey

That Night by Amy Giles

An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten and Marlaine Delargy

The Christmas Key: A Twilight, Texas Novel by Lori Wilde

Best Canadian Stories 2018 by Russell Smith

Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass) by Sarah J. Maas

Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Reckoning by John Grisham

A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl by Jean Thompson

Thin Air by Richard K. Morgan

Everything Under by Daisy Johnson

Let It Bang: A Young Black Man’s Reluctant Odyssey into Guns by RJ Young

Find Me Gone: A Novel by Sarah Meuleman

Super Chill: A Year of Living Anxiously by Adam Ellis

Useful Phrases for Immigrants by May-lee Chai

The Hope Fault by Tracy Farr

Go to My Grave by Catriona McPherson

Anna and the Apocalypse by Katharine Turner and Barry Waldo

The Light Between Worlds by Laura E Weymouth

An Assassin’s Guide to Love and Treason by Virginia Boecker

Dead Ringer by Kate Kessler

A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland

Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction by Alec Nevala-Lee

University of Nike: How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education by Joshua Hunt

Shelf Life of Happiness by Virginia Pye

How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care by Marlee Grace

Art of Feminism: Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857–2017 by Helena Reckitt

Hark! The Herald Angels Scream by Christopher Golden

Knights vs. Dinosaurs by Matt Phelan

Banana Sunday by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover

Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliott and Geneva B

Snoop Dogg Cookbook by Snoop Dogg

Roger Daltrey: Thanks a Lot Mr. Kibblewhite: My Story by Roger Daltrey

Unfurled by Michelle Bailat-Jones

Texas Hold’em: A Wild Cards novel by George R. R. Martin

I’ll Be There for You: The One about Friends by Kelsey Miller

One Giant Leap by Heather Kaczynski

The Friendship Cure: Reconnecting in the Modern World by Kate Leaver