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All the Books! is a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases.
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Sep 26, 2025 • 16min
All the (More!) Books! September 26, 2025
This week, Danika talks about queernorm sci-fi and fantasy books.
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Books Discussed:
The Unbroken by CL Clark
Of Fire and Stars Duology by Audrey Coulthurst
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
Always Human by Ari North
Links Discussed:
Queernorm Universes: Sci-Fi Books Where Homophobia and Transphobia Don’t Exist
Queernorm Worlds: 35 Fantasy Books With No Homophobia or Transphobia
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Sep 23, 2025 • 43min
New Releases and More for September 23, 2025
This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Scarlet Morning, In Defense of Dabbling, Flip, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
Scarlet Morning by ND Stevenson
In Defense of Dabbling: The Brilliance of Being a Total Amateur by Karen Walrond
The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us by John J. Lennon
Flip by Ngozi Ukazu
We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad
Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance by Gary Younge
The Second Death of Locke by V. L. Bovalino
Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti
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Sep 19, 2025 • 13min
All the (More!) Books! September 19, 2025
This week, Sharifah talks about a couple haunted house books!
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Books Discussed:
The Good House by Tananarive Due
The Spite House by Johnny Compton
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
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Sep 16, 2025 • 43min
New Releases and More for September 16, 2025
This week, Liberty and Emily discuss Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave, The Wilderness, Fiend, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave by Ally Russell
The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy
Fiend by Alma Katsu
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach
Who’s All Going (to Die)? by Lisa Springer
The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli by Karina Yan Glaser
Teenage Girls Can Be Demons by Hailey Piper
Good and Evil and Other Stories by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell
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Sep 12, 2025 • 14min
All the (More!) Books! September 12, 2025
This week, Liberty talks about several books that are in her orbit right now!
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Books Discussed:
Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson
Anatomy of an Alibi by Ashley Elston
The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy
The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
Ms. Mebel Goes Back to the Chopping Block by Jesse Q. Sutanto
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: The Worst Best Ideas You've Never Heard Of by Duncan McKenzie
Tantrum by Rachel Eve Moulton
Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir
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Sep 9, 2025 • 46min
New Releases and More for September 9, 2025
This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss Play Nice, The Macabre, Grave Flowers, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
Play Nice by Rachel Harrison
The Macabre by Kosoko Jackson
Middle Spoon by Alejandro Varela
Grave Flowers by Autumn Krause
You Weren't Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White
The Most Unusual Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy by Roan Parrish
Detective Beans: Adventures in Cat Town by Li Chen
The People's Project: Poems, Essays, and Art for Looking Forward by Saeed Jones, Maggie Smith
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Sep 5, 2025 • 13min
All the (More) Books! September 5, 2025
This week, Trisha talks about a couple of mostly whimsical, slightly magical books to close out the summer.
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Books Discussed:
The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong
The Wishing Game and The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 2, 2025 • 48min
New Releases and More for September 2, 2025
This week, Liberty and Danika discuss Edenglassie, To the Moon and Back, Every Step She Takes, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko
To the Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage
Discontent by Beatriz Serrano, Mara Faye Lethem (translator)
Every Step She Takes by Alison Cochrun
Ghosted: A History of Ghost Hunting, and Why We Keep Looking by Alice Vernon
Of Floating Isles: On Growing Pains and Video Games by Kawika Guillermo
Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive!: Stories by Melissa Lozada-Oliva
Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley
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Aug 29, 2025 • 13min
All the (More!) Books! August 29, 2025
This week, Vanessa recommends two books set in academia: a sapphic work of gothic meta fiction and a story about a fixer and the one problem she just can't fix.
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Books Discussed:
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
My Flawless Life by Yvonne Woon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 26, 2025 • 41min
New Releases and More for August 26, 2025
This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Katabasis, The Entanglement of Rival Wizards, Destroy This House, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
Katabasis by R. F. Kuang
The Entanglement of Rival Wizards by Sara Raasch
The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America by David Baron
Destroy This House: A Memoir by Amanda Uhle
If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You by Leigh Stein
Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-Possession by Austin Channing Brown, forward by Ashley C. Ford
The Forest of a Thousand Eyes by Frances Hardinge, Emily Gravett
A Steady Brightness of Being: Truths, Wisdom, and Love from Celebrated Indigenous Voices edited by Sara Sinclair and Stephanie Sinclair
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