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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Three Dark Crowns, The Bestseller Code, Mooncop, and more books.

This show has been sponsored by ThirdLove and The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis.

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Books discussed on the show:

Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake

The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of a Blockbuster by Jodie Archer and Matthew L. Jockers

Mooncop by Tom Gauld

Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Leah Remini

Dead Loudmouth by Victoria Houston

Fates & Furies by Lauren Groff

Dolly City by Orly Castel-Bloom

The Masked City by Genevieve Cogman

Swan Song by Robert McCammon

The Tumbling Turner Sisters by Juliette Fay

The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty

Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill

How to Sit by Thich Nhat Hanh

What we’re reading:

The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill

The Sellout by Paul Beatty

More books out this week:

Incarnations: India in Fifty Lives by Sunil Khilnani

The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride

A Woman on the Edge of Time: A Son Investigates His Trailblazing Mother’s Young Suicide by Jeremy Gavron

Marrow: A Love Story by Elizabeth Lesser

The Warren by Brian Evenson

Kids of Appetite by David Arnold

The Family Plot by Cherie Priest

The Fortress: A Love Story by Danielle Trussoni

The Yelp: A Heartbreak in Reviews by Chase Compton

The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline by Jonathan Tepperman

Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter

Based on a True Story: A Memoir by Norm Macdonald

Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips

A Shadow Bright and Burning (Kingdom on Fire, Book One) by Jessica Cluess

The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century by Ryan Avent

Power Your Happy: Work Hard, Play Nice, and Build Your Dream Life by Lisa Sugar

Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture by Mabel O. Wilson
Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy by Sadhguru
Mooncop by Tom Gauld
Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness by Craig Nelson
The Gloaming by Melanie Finn
The Perfect Pass by S.G. Gwynne
The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
That Continuous Thing: Artists and the Ceramics Studio, 1920–Today, edited by Sam Thorne and Sara Matson
Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois by Robert Storr
Trainwreck: The women we love to hate, mock, and fear, and why by Sady Doyle
A Kingdom of Their Own : The Family Karzai and the Afghan Disaster by Joshua Partlow
Hero of the Empire : The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard
Home by Harlen Coben
The Fix Volume 1 by Nick Spencer and Steve Lieber
Only Daughter by Anna Snoekstra
The Arab of the Future 2: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1984–1985: A Graphic Memoir by Riad Sattouf
The Apostle Killer by Richard Beard
A Truck Full of Money by Tracy Kidder
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
The Jane Austen Writers’ Club: Inspiration and Advice from the World’s Best-loved Novelist by Rebecca Smith
Eyes on the Street : The Life of Jane Jacobs by Robert Kanigel
Odes by Sharon Olds
Vassa in the Night by Sarah Porter
Reputations by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Die Young with Me by Rob Rufus
The Queen of Blood (Queens of Renthia) by Sarah Beth Durst
The Pinch by Steve Stern (paperback)
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Leah Remini (paperback)