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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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Jan 5, 2018 • 10min
All the Backlist! January 5, 2018
This week, Liberty discusses Year of Yes, Year of Magical Thinking, Year of Wonders, and more great older books.This week’s episode is sponsored by Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig. Enter here for a chance to win Book Riot’s Top 20 Books of 2017!Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.Books discussed on the show:The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. JacobsThe Know-It-All by A. J. JacobsDrop Dead Healthy by A. J. JacobsYear of Yes by Shonda RhimesThe Year of Magical Thinking by Joan DidionBlue Nights by Joan DidionThe Year of the Dog by Grace LinA Year in the Maine Woods by Bernd HeinrichThe Stranger in the Woods by Michael FinkelThis Year You Write Your Novel by Walter MosleyYear of Wonders by Geraldine BrooksThe Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History by William KlingamanTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Huston Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 2, 2018 • 36min
2018 New Release Preview Show
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, The Third Hotel, That Kind of Mother, and more upcoming books.This episode was sponsored by As You Wish by Chelsea Sedoti and OwlCrate. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.Books discussed on the show:Ambiguity Machines: and Other Stories by Vandana SinghHow to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander CheeRed Clocks by Leni ZumasThe Third Hotel by Laura van den BergBrass by Xhenet AliuThe Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim FuThat Kind of Mother by Rumaan AlamAll the Names They Used for God: Stories by Anjali SachdevaGirls Burn Brighter by Shobha RaoEnlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven PinkerStray City by Chelsey JohnsonDon’t Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life by Peggy OrensteinDread Nation by Justina IrelandThe Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust by Laura SmithThe Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah KrasnosteinWe Are Taking Only What We Need: Stories (Art of the Story) by Stephanie Powell WattsWho is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie KnechtWhen They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandeleSick: A Memoir by Porochista KhakpourFire Sermon by Jamie QuatroWhat we’re reading this week:Invitation to a Bonfire by Adrienne CeltOur Lady of the Prairie by Thisbe NissenThe Art of the Wasted Day by Patricia Hampl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 22, 2017 • 11min
All the Backlist! December 22, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses Silver Sparrow, Every Heart a Doorway, The Cat’s Table, and more great older books.This week’s episode is sponsored by Bookaxe. Enter here for a chance to win Book Riot’s Top 20 Books of 2017!Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.Books discussed on the show:The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel JoyceEvery Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuireSilver Sparrow by Tayari JonesThe Daughters by Adrienne CeltThe Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto UrreaThe Imperfectionists by Tom RachmanThe Last Illusion by Porochista KhakpourThe Cat’s Table by Michael OndaatjeThe 57 Bus by Dashka Slater Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 19, 2017 • 31min
Our Favorite Books of 2017, Part 2
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss White Tears, The Wanderers, Priestdaddy, and more great books.This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, and Breathing Books. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.Books discussed on the show:See What I Have Done by Sarah SchmidtThe Redemption of Galen Pike: Stories by Carys DaviesTears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric DysonWhite Tears by Hari KunzruThe Wanderers by Meg HowreyPriestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia LockwoodThe Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading by Anne GislesonAfter the Eclipse: A Mother’s Murder, a Daughter’s Search by Sarah PerryPerfect Little World by Kevin WilsonThe Widow Nash by Jamie HarrisonGuidebook to Relative Strangers: A Journey into Race, Motherhood, and History by Camille T. DungyWhat we’re reading this week:Fire Sermon by Jamie QuatroMore books out this week:Shadow Girl by Liana Liu Here, There, Everywhere by Julia Durango and Tyler Terrones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 15, 2017 • 10min
All the Backlist! December 15, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses Mister Pip, Ninefox Gambit, The Wedding Date, and more great older books.This week’s episode is sponsored by A Duke in Shining Armor by Loretta Chase. Enter here for a chance to win Book Riot’s Top 20 Books of 2017!Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.Books discussed on the show:The Circus of the Earth and Air by Brooke StevensDare Me by Megan AbbottTepper Isn’t Going Out by Calvin TrillinNinefox Gambit by Yoon Ha LeeEinstein’s Dreams by Alan LightmanMister Pip by Lloyd JonesThe Swan Gondola by Timothy SchaffertThe Devil in Silver by Victor LaValleThe Pink Hotel by Anna StothardArrows of Rain by Okey NdibeThe End of Vandalism by Tom DruryTenth of December: Stories by George SaundersAngels’ Blood by Nalini SinghThe Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 12, 2017 • 34min
Our Favorite Books of 2017, Part 1
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Chemistry, My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Idaho, and more great books.This episode was sponsored by Breathing Books, ThirdLove, and A Medieval Tale. First Lessons by Lina J. Potter. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.Books discussed on the show:Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste NgSing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardAll Grown Up by Jami AttenbergExit West by Mohsin HamidPachinko by Min Jin LeeThe Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-LesnevichThe Heart’s Invisible Furies by John BoyneIdaho by Emily RuskovichMy Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil FerrisThe Nature Fix: why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence WilliamsHer Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria MachadoChemistry by Weike WangShe Rides Shotgun by Jordan HarperWedding Toasts I’ll Never Give by Ada CalhounWe Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays by Samantha IrbyWhat It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka ArimahWhat we’re reading this week:The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie JamisonWrong to Need You by Alisha Rai Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 8, 2017 • 9min
All the Backlist! December 8, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses The Music Lesson, An Artist of the Floating World, The Last Nude, and more great older books.This week’s episode is sponsored by The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak.Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.Books discussed on the show:Alive in Shape and Color: 17 Paintings by Great Artists and the Stories They Inspired edited by Lawrence BlockThe Music Lesson by Katharine WeberThe Bird Artist by Howard NormanShadowshaper by Daniel José OlderHow To Be Both by Ali SmithLuncheon of the Boating Party by Susan VreelandThe Painter by Peter HellerAn Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo IshiguroThe Great Man by Kate ChristensenThe Last Nude by Ellis AveryThe Art Forger by B. A. ShapiroSuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 5, 2017 • 39min
New Releases and More for December 5, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Elmet, Roomies, The Last Black Unicorn, and more great books.This episode was sponsored by Breathing Books, ThirdLove, and OwlCrate. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.Trigger warning for discussions of child abuse and sexual assault at 11:28 – skip ahead to 15:55.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.Books discussed on the show:The Vanishing Season by Joanna SchaffhausenMeditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-to Book by Dan Harris and Jeffrey WarrenThe Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany HaddishRoomies by Christina LaurenNo Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le GuinBored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self by Manoush ZomorodiElmet by Fiona MozleyThe Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak What we’re reading this week:Give Me Your Hand by Megan AbbottRich People Problems by Kevin Kwan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 2, 2017 • 12min
All the Backlist! December 1, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses Easter Island, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, City of Thieves, and more great older books.This week’s episode is sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio.Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.Books discussed on the show:Easter Island by Jennifer VanderbesThe Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana MathisUnless by Carol ShieldsThe Hot Rock by Donald E. WestlakeCity of Thieves by David BenioffThe Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi DurrowThe X-Files: Earth Children Are Weird by Kim Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 28, 2017 • 40min
New Releases and More for November 28, 2017
This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss Djinn City, Weave a Circle Round, Oddity, and more great books.This episode was sponsored by Breathing Books, Libby, and The City of Brass by S. A. Chakaborty. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.Books discussed on the show:Oddity by Sarah CannonWeave a Circle Round by Kari MaarenWrong to Need You: Forbidden Hearts by Alisha RaiA Hope Divided (The Loyal League) by Alyssa ColeDjinn City by Saad Z. HossainJade City by Fonda LeeThe Green Hand and Other Stories by Nicole Claveloux, Donald Nicholson Smith (Translator)The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia HandWhat we’re reading this week:Autumn by Ali SmithThe Mannequin Makers by Craig Cliff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices