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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Locking Up Our Own, How to Be Married, Imagine Wanting Only This, and more.

This episode was sponsored by Life After, and Book Riot Insiders.

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Books discussed on the show:

The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Surviving My First (Really Hard) Year of Marriage by Jo Piazza

Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke

When You Find Out the World Is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments by Kelly Oxford

The Last Days of Café Leila by Donia Bijan

The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings on Authenticity, Connection and Courage by Brené Brown

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

What we’re reading:

The Thief (The Queen’s Thief, Book 1) by Megan Whalen Turner

The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams

More books out this week:

The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch

The Fix by David Baldacci

The Outlaw by Jón Gnarr, Lytton Smith (Translator)

Inside V by Paula Priamos

Finding Gideon (Gideon Series) by Eric Jerome Dickey

The Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken

What’s Become of Her by Deb Caletti

My Adventures with God by Stephen Tobolowsky

Beyond the Wild River by Sarah Maine

The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve

Entropy in Bloom: Stories by Jeremy Robert Johnson

Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne du Maurier by Tatiana de Rosnay  (Author), Sam Taylor (Translator)

Ararat by Christopher Golden

Life After by Katie Ganshert

The Executioner Weeps by Frédéric Dard (Author), David Coward (Translator)

DNA Is Not Destiny: The Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship between You and Your Genes by Steven J. Heine

A Moral Tale and Other Moral Tales by Josh Emmons

The Unprotected by Kelly Sokol

Off Rock by Kieran Shea

Beneath the Shine by Sarah Fine

American Originality: Essays on Poetry by Louise Glück

Fallout: A V.I. Warshawski Novel by Sara Paretsky

Blame It on the Duke: The Disgraceful Dukes by Lenora Bell

Giving My All to You (The Grays of Los Angeles) by Sheryl Lister

To Marry a Prince (The Royal Weddings) by A.C. Arthur

Lavish Loving (The Drakes of California) by Zuri Day

Always My Baby (The Kingsleys of Texas) by Martha Kennerson

Underground Fugue by Margot Singer

Stockholm Delete by Jens Lapidus

Falling Darkness by Karen Harper

Spirit Quest (The Legend of Skyco) by Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America’s Middle Class by Elizabeth Warren

Everything is Flammable by Gabrielle Bell

A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry by Grace Paley

Organ Grinder: A Classical Education Gone Astray by Alan Fishbone

Wolf Hunt by Ivailo Petrov (Author), Angela Rodel (Translator)

My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci (Author), David Hackston (Translator)

The Lights by Brian McGreevy

The Golden Legend by Nadeem Aslam

Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes by Anne Elizabeth Moore

Spoils by Brian Van Reet

Gone Without a Trace by Mary Torjussen

Infinite Tuesday: An Autobiographical Riff by Michael Nesmith

Unreliable by Lee Irby

The Color of Our Sky by Amita Trasi

The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For by David McCullough

A Line Made by Walking by Sara Baume

Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul by Clara Bingham (paperback)