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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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Oct 20, 2017 • 12min
All the Backlist! October 20, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses Revenge, Duma Key, Bunnicula, and more great older books.This episode was sponsored by Feminist Icon Cross-Stitch.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:A Skinful of Shadows by Frances HardingeFly by Night by Frances HardingeThe Lie Tree by Frances HardingeCuckoo Song by Frances HardingeThe Good House by Yoko OgawaGhost Summer by Tananarive DueThe Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko OgawaRevenge by Yoko OgawaMongrel by Stephen Graham JonesAfter the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham JonesDuma Key by Stephen KingThe Troop by Nick CutterI Remember You by Yrsa SigurðardóttirThe Little Stranger by Sarah WatersBunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery by Deborah and James HoweIn Cold Blood by Truman CapotePeople Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd ParryAnno Dracula by Kim NewmanThe Other by Thomas TryonSome of Your Blood by Theodore SturgeonThe Wasp Factory by Iain BanksThe Butchering Art by Lindsey FitzsimmonsSpillover by David Quammen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 17, 2017 • 35min
New Releases and More for October 17, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss A Line in the Dark, We’re Going to Need More Wine, The RBG Workout, and more books.This episode was sponsored by A Secret Sisterhood and The Dark Lake.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:Present by Leslie SteinThe RBG Workout: How She Stays Strong . . . and You Can Too! by Bryant JohnsonA Line in the Dark by Malinda LoWe’re Going to Need More Wine: Stories That are Funny, Complicated, and True by Gabrielle UnionMoxie by Jennifer Mathieuwd~50: The Cookbook by Wylie Dufresne and Peter Meehan Motherest by Kristen IskandrianUndying: A Love Story by Michel FaberWhat we’re reading:Look Alive Out There: Essays by Sloane CrosleyWilde in Love: The Wildes of Lindow Castle by Eloisa James Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 13, 2017 • 12min
All the Backlist! October 13, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses Pastoralia, The Farming of Bones, Jenny and the Jaws of Life, and more great older books.This episode was 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:Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn WardSing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardThe Sympathizer by Viet Thanh NyguenRefugees by Viet Thanh NgyuenPastoralia by George SaundersComplications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul GawandeThe Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah EisenbergBlood Meridian by Cormac McCarthyKindred by Octavia ButlerA Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster WallaceInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceShip Fever: Stories by Andrea BarrettThe Intuitionist by Colson WhiteheadThe Farming of Bones by Edwidge DanticatElect Mr. Robinson for a Better World by Donald AntrimAs She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan LethemA Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher UlrichJenny and the Jaws of Life: Short Stories by Jincy Willett Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 10, 2017 • 39min
New Releases and More for October 10, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao, Code Girls, Forest of a Thousand Lanterns, and more books.This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, Libby, and Life Detonated.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:The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha, Eric M. B. Becker (Translator)Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary OliverThe Power by Naomi AldermanLetters to a Young Chef by Daniel BouludSparrow by Sarah MoonCode Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza MundyForest of a Thousand Lanterns (Rise of the Empress) by Julie C. DaoAll the Wind in the World by Samantha MabryFuneral Platter: Stories by Greg AmesCatapult: Stories by Emily FridlundThe Doll’s Alphabet by Camilla GrudovaIn the Distance by Hernan DiazBlack Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America’s Greatest Unsolved Murder by Piu EatwellThe Nowhere Girls by Amy ReedWolf Season by Helen BenedictNightmare in Berlin (Fallada Collection) by Hans FalladaHere in Berlin: A Novel by Cristina GarciaThree Floors Up by Eshkol Nevo, Sondra Silverston (Translator)The Rules of Magic by Alice HoffmanBerserker by Emmy LaybourneLou Reed: A Life by Anthony DeCurtisTurtles All the Way Down by John GreenWhat we’re reading:Wonderland: Poems by Matthew DickmanCruddy by Lynda BarryFire Sermon by Jamie Quatro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 6, 2017 • 11min
All the Backlist! October 6, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses You Can’t Touch My Hair, Meaty, Light House, and more great older books.This episode was 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:Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher MooreMeaty by Samantha IrbyWe Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha IrbyLet’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny LawsonFuriously Happy by Jenny LawsonTitmuss Regained by John MortimerMisadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa RaeAnother Fine Myth by Robert AsprinIs Everyone Hanging Out With Me? by Mindy KalingWhy Not Me? by Mindy KalingHyperbole and a Half by Allie BroshYou Can’t Touch My Hair and Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe RobinsonLight House by William Monahan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 3, 2017 • 38min
New Releases and More for October 3, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Her Body and Other Parties, We Were Eight Years in Power, Manhattan Beach, and more books.This episode was sponsored by Lighter Than My Shadow and 27 Hours.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:Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria MachadoNasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America by Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding (editors)Malagash by Joey ComeauWe Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi CoatesManhattan Beach by Jennifer EganOrigin by Dan BrownReservoir 13: A Novel by Jon McGregorTalking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between) by Lauren GrahamBest American Short Stories 2017 edited by Meg WolitzerThe Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina GlaserThis Is How It Begins: A Novel by Joan DempseyAn Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers SolomonGoing Into Town: A Love Letter to New York by Roz ChastBaking with Kafka by Tom GauldThe Last Ballad by Wiley CashThat Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. JohnstonThe Glass Eye: A Memoir by Jeannie VanascoFresh Complaint: Stories by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Tiger’s Daughter (Their Bright Ascendency) by K Arsenault RiveraWhat we’re reading:The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Mallory OrtbergAltered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body by Daniel Goleman and Richard J. Davidson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 29, 2017 • 13min
All the Backlist! September 29, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses The Street, Desperate Characters, The Eyes of the Dragon, and more great older books.This episode was sponsored by Blackbird of the Gallows by Meg Kassel.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:An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat HowardThe Cricket in Times Square by George SeldenA City Dreaming by Daniel PolanskyThe Street by Ann PetryFrom the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. KonigsburgMotherless Brooklyn by Jonathan LethemGregor the Overlander by Suzanne CollinsOpen City by Teju ColeMy Name is Asher Lev by Chaim PotokDesperate Characters by Paula FoxAnother Country by James BaldwinLush Life by Richard PriceWinter’s Tale by Mark HelprinWhen You Reach Me by Rebecca SteadThe Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 26, 2017 • 40min
New Releases and More for September 26, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss After the Eclipse, Five-Carat Soul, Starfish, and more books.This episode was sponsored by Talenti, ThirdLove, The Language of Thorns, and Lit Chat.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: graphic violence mentioned in the description starting at 2:40.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:After the Eclipse: A Mother’s Murder, a Daughter’s Search by Sarah PerryFive-Carat Soul by James McBrideStarfish by Akemi Dawn BowmanThe Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart by Emily Nunn The Black Tides of Heaven by J.Y. YangThe Red Threads of Fortune by J.Y. YangTreat! by Christian VielerInsignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti BowlingWelcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North by Blair BravermanWhat we’re reading:Dark at the Crossing by Elliot AckermanNasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America by Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding (editors)This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 22, 2017 • 12min
All the Backlist! September 22, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses The Moviegoer, The Inheritance of Loss, Fugitive Pieces, and more great older books.This episode was sponsored by A Poison Dark and Drowning by Jessica Clues.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 Moviegoer by Walker PercyThe Great Fire by Shirley HazzrdLord of Misrule by Jaimy GordonInside Out and Back Again by Thanhha LaiWhat I Saw and How I Lied by Judy BlundellThe Complete Stories by Flannery O’ConnorSomething to Answer For by P.H. NewbyThe Inheritance of Loss by Kiran DesaiA Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon JamesThe Famished Road by Ben OkriMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieHalf-Blood Blues by Esu EdugyanUs Conductors by Sean MichaelsFugitive Pieces by Anne MichaelsMay We Be Forgiven by A.M. HomesHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiePaperbacks from Hell by Grady HendrixVampire$ by John Steakley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 19, 2017 • 46min
New Releases and More for September 19, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Good People, The Book of Separation, One Dark Throne, and more books.This episode was sponsored by Taproot, Lit Chat, and The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder. 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:The Good People by Hannah KentThe Book of Separation by Tova MirvisSolar Bones by Mike McCormackThanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years by David LittThe Best Kind of People by Zoe WhittallThe Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk ArudpragasamOne Dark Throne (Three Dark Crowns) by Kendare BlakeNull States: A Novel (The Centenal Cycle) by Malka OlderReset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen PaoWhat we’re reading:Queen in 3D by Brian MayForest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. DaoWalking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time by Andrew Forsthoefel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices