
All the Books!
All the Books! is a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases.
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Jun 10, 2025 • 51min
New Releases and More for June 10, 2025
This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, A Murder for Miss Hortense, A Rare Find, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
A Murder for Miss Hortense by Mel Pennant
King of Ashes by S. A. Cosby
A Rare Find by Joanna Lowell
Palm Meridian by Grace Flahive
Latina Superheroes by Kayden Phoenix
The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains by Pria Anand
A Most Puzzling Murder by Bianca Marais
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Jun 6, 2025 • 59min
The Beach Read Episode
Jeff is joined by Book Riot editors Danika Ellis and Erica Ezeifedi to talk about what makes a beach read, beach reads picks, and memorable beach reading moments.
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Discussed in this Episode:
The Book Riot Live at Powell's July 9th: The Best Books of the Year (so far)
The Best Beach Reads of All Time
The Hey YA Podcast
Book Riot's In the Club, In Reading Color, and Our Queerest Shelves Newsletters
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Jun 6, 2025 • 16min
All the (More!) Books! June 6, 2025
This week, Danika talks about five excellent queer beach reads.
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Books Discussed:
The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan
This is What it Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Falling In Love With Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson
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The Best Beach Reads of All Time
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Jun 3, 2025 • 44min
New Releases and More for June 3, 2025
This week, Liberty and Danika discuss Ten Incarnations of Rebellion, Charlottesville, Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
Charlottesville: An American Story by Deborah Baker
Ten Incarnations of Rebellion by Vaishnavi Patel
Flashlight by Susan Choi
Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon by Annie Mare
A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle
Beast by Richard Van Camp
The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by John Seabrook
Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
Sister, Butcher, Sister by KD Aldyn
Meet Me at the Crossroads by Megan Giddings
The Catch by Yrsa Daley-Ward
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May 30, 2025 • 13min
All the (More!) Books! May 30, 2025
This week, Sharifah talks about a couple of excellent recent reads!
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Books Discussed:
Swift River by Essie Chambers
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 27, 2025 • 45min
New Releases and More for May 27, 2025
This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Amplitudes, Lu and Ren’s Guide to Geozoology, Harmattan Season, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association by Caitlin Rozakis
Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity by Lee Mandelo
Lu and Ren’s Guide to Geozoology: A Graphic Novel by Angela Hsieh
Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi
The South by Tash Aw
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
Titan of the Stars by E.K. Johnston
Acception, Vol. 1 by Coco Ouwerkwerk aka Colourbee
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May 23, 2025 • 16min
All the (More!) Books! May 23, 2025
This week, Liberty talks about several books she recently acquired, plus what she's reading now!
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Books Discussed:
L.A. Coroner: Thomas Noguchi and Death in Hollywood by Anne Soon Choi
The Peepshow: The Murders at Rillington Place by Kate Summerscale
Nimona: 10th Anniversary Limited Edition by N.D. Stevenson
The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf by Kathryn Davis
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls
The Crayon Stub by Marcus Cutler
Meowdle: 75 Feline Crime Puzzles to Solve Using Logic, Skill and the Power of Catnip by Dr. Gareth Moore and Laura Jayne Ayres
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May 20, 2025 • 46min
New Releases and More for May 20, 2025
This week, Liberty and Emily discuss Spent, Erased, The Starving Saints, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
Spent: A Comic Novel by Alison Bechdel
The Education of Kia Greer by Alanna Bennett
The True Happiness Company: How a Girl Like Me Falls for a Cult Like That by Veena Dinavahi
Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden From Us by Anna Malaika Tubbs
Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle
The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling
The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien
The Ascent by Allison Buccola
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May 16, 2025 • 15min
All the (More!) Books! May 16, 2025
This week, Trisha recommends some non-fiction that feels...of the moment.
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Books Discussed:
On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder and illustrated by Nora Krug
The Impossible Will Take a Little While edited by Paul Rogat Loeb
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde, edited by Roxane Gay
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May 13, 2025 • 50min
New Releases and More for May 13, 2025
This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss The Emperor of Gladness, Death in the Cards, So Many Stars, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
Death in the Cards by Mia P. Manansala
Portalmania: Stories by Debbie Urbanski
So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color by Caro de Robertis
The Dark Maestro by Brendan Slocumb
The Intermediaries by Brandy Schillace
The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
The Labyrinth House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji, Ho-Ling Wong (translator)
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