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This week, Liberty discusses The Fire Next Time, The Unit, The Good Lord Bird, and more great older books.This episode was sponsored by Swing Time by Zadie Smith.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:Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste NgThe Fire Next Time by James BaldwinThe Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn WardFire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip ConnorsGirls on Fire by Robin WassermanFire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. BlowTouched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield JamisonWhat Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire by Charles BukowskiAnother Fine Mess: Life on Tomorrow’s Moon by Pope BrockThe Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. HeinleinSeveneves by Neal StephensonLife as We Knew It by Susan Beth PfefferRadiance by Catherynne M. ValenteMaggot Moon by Sally GardnerAn Excess Male by Maggie Shen KingThe Unit by Ninni HolmqvistChildren of Men by P.D. JamesParable of the Sower by Octavia ButlerWhen She Woke by Hillary JordanInfomacracy by Malka OlderDays Without End by Sebastian BarryGrace by Natashia DeónThe Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadThe March by E.L. DoctorowThe Good Lord Bird by James McBrideThe Alligators of Abraham by Robert KlossThe Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraJunius and Albert’s Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey by Peter CarlsonCivil War Stories by Ambrose BierceTailchaser’s Song by Tad Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Little Fires Everywhere, Warcross, What Happened, and more books.This episode was sponsored by Talenti, ThirdLove and Montpelier Parade. 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 racialized violence in the book description at the 24:15 mark.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:Warcross by Marie LuLittle Fires Everywhere by Celeste NgBluebird, Bluebird by Attica LockeBraving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brené BrownThe Twelve-Mile Straight by Eleanor HendersonAfterglow (a dog memoir) by Eileen MilesRanger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime by Ben BlumWhat Happened by Hillary Rodham ClintonWhat we’re reading:Mean by Myriam GurbaCurry: Reading, Eating, and Race (Exploded Views) by Naben Ruthnum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty discusses The Cider House Rules, The House of the Spirits, Ash, and more great older books.This episode was sponsored by The Thing with Feathers by McCall Hoyle.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 Golden House by Salman RushdieThe Cider House Rules by John IrvingThe Turner House by Angela FlournoyThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeTen Days in a Mad-House by Nellie BlyA House Without Windows by Nadia HashimiThe Glass Town Game by Catherynne M. ValenteDeathless by Catherynne M. ValenteThe Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. ValenteThe Melancholy of Mechagirl by Catherynne M. ValenteThe Bread We Eat in Dreams by Catherynne M. ValenteSpeak Easy by Catherynne M. ValenteThe Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve ValentineGirls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa BashardoustBoy, Snow, Bird by Helen OyeyemiA Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. MaasThe Wrath and the Dawn by Renee AhdiehA Thousand Nights by E. K. JohnstonAsh by Malinda LoFairy Tale Detectives (The Sisters Grimm) by Michael BuckleyThe Salt Line by Holly Goddard JonesA Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter J. MillerThe Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav PilkeyKat Kong by Dav PilkeyDogzilla by Dav PilkeyDragon Puncher by James Kochalka Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Sourdough, They Both Die at the End, Sing, Unburied Sing, and more books.This episode was sponsored by Talenti, A Conspiracy in Belgravia, and Copycat. 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:Sourdough by Robin SloanSing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardGirls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa BashardoustDon’t Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez SmithThey Both Die at the End by Adam SilveraSisters by Lily TuckThe Child Finder by Rene DenfeldThe Clancys of Queens: A Memoir by Tara ClancyWhat we’re reading:More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers by Jonathan LethemBraving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brené Brown Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty discusses The Mezzanine, Passing, Transmetropolitan, and more great older books.This episode was sponsored by Libby, Overdrive’s new reading app.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 Tragedy of Brady Sims by Ernest J. GainesThe Mezzanine by Nicholson BakerThe Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel EhrlichA Match to the Heart: One Woman’s Story of Being Struck by Lightning by Gretel EhrlichEverything You and I Could Have Been If We Weren’t You and I by Albert EspinosaSo Long, See You Tomorrow by William MaxwellPassing by Nella LarsenA Jello Horse by Matthew SimmonsThe Black Spider (New York Review Books Classics) by Jeremias Gotthelf, Susan Bernofsky (Translator)Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max PorterNip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo OeThe Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. ChestertonI Await the Devil’s Coming by Mary MacLaneSalsa Nocturna by Daniel José OlderBartleby the Scrivener by Herman MelvilleThe Cat Inside by William S. BurroughsThe Fur Person by May SartonBinti by Nnedi OkoraorThe Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George SaundersToo Loud a Solitude by Bohumil HrabalSpringtime: A Ghost Story by Michelle de KretserFatale by Jean-Patrick ManchetteTransmetropolitan by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson (Artist) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Resurrection of Joan Ashby, The Burning Girl, My Absolute Darling, and more books.This episode was sponsored by Talenti, ThirdLove, and Book of the Month. 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:Sip by Brian Allen CarrThe Burning Girl by Claire MessudThe Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise WolasLittle Boxes by Caroline Casey (Editor)My Absolute Darling by Gabriel TallentGirls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World by Reshma SaujaniThe Tragedy of Brady Sims (Vintage Contemporaries) by Ernest J. GainesToday Means Amen by Sierra DeMulderWhat we’re reading:Grist Mill Road by Christopher J. YatesSing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty discusses Signal to Noise, Sandman Slim, Audrey Rose, 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:The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. PérezThis Song Will Save Your Life by Leila SalesRani Patel in Full Effect by Sonia PatelGlitz by Philana Marie BolesAll Our Pretty Songs by Sarah McCarrySignal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-GarciaCertain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-GarciaThe Dire King by William RitterRosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuireDirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas AdamsHalf-Resurrection Blues by Daniel José OlderProcession of the Dead by Darren ShanSandman Slim by Richard KadreyWho Censored Roger Rabbit by Gary K. WolfReincarnation Blues by Michael PooreReplay by Ken GrimwoodThe Memory Painter by Gwendolyn WomackThe Incarnations by Susan BarkerLife After Life by Kate AtkinsonA God in Ruins by Kate AtkinsonThe First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire NorthThe Forgetting Time by Sharon GuskinAudrey Rose by Frank De FelittaY is for Yesterday by Sue GraftonThe Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Heart’s Invisible Furies, Stay with Me, Young Jane Young, and more books.This episode was sponsored by Talenti, If the Creek Don’t Rise, and The Duchess Deal. 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.Purchase the new Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power, through Print Bookstore! They are donating $5 of each sale, through the end of 2017, to the Charlottesville-based non-profit African American Teaching Fellows, an organization working to increase diversity among teaching staff.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 Heart’s Invisible Furies by John BoyneStay with Me by Ayobami AdebayoYoung Jane Young by Gabrielle ZevinThe Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading by Anne Gisleson (TW: suicide)The Dire King (Jackaby #4) by William RitterH is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldThe Good Daughter by Karin SlaughterHeartsick by Chelsea CainPEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017 by Kelly Link (Compiler), Marie-Helene Bertino (Compiler), Nina McConigley (Compiler)What we’re reading:I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O’FarrellThe Burning Girl by Claire Messud Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty discusses Salvage the Bones, Then We Came to the End, The Sherlockian, and more great older books.This episode was sponsored by Caraval by Stephanie Garber.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 Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson SextonSalvage the Bones by Jesmyn WardInterview with the Vampire by Anne RiceThe Witching Hour by Anne RiceA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleWinds of the Storm by Beverly JenkinsThe Neon Rain by James Lee BurkeHold It Til It Hurts by T. Geronimo JohnsonExquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. BriteNew Orleans, Mon Amour by Andrei CodrescuThe Awakening by Kate ChopinLiving the Dream by Lauren BerryThen We Came to the End by Joshua FerrisDomestic Violets by Matthew NormanThe Ask by Sam LipsyteThe Assistants by Camille PerriOffice Girl by Joe MenoThe Regional Office is Under Attack by Manuel GonzalesRadio Iris by Anne-Marie KinneyThe Beautiful Beaurocrat by Helen PhillipsSeverance Package by Duane SwiercyznskiThe Devil Wears Prada by Lauren WeisbergerMrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City’s Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation by Brad RiccaThe Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession by David GrannThe Sherlockian by Graham Moore Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Mountain, Home Fire, You Play the Girl, and more books.This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove and Reach Out and Read Colorado. 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:Home Fire by Kamila ShamsieYou Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages by Carina ChocanoRiver of Teeth by Sarah GaileyThe Mountain: Stories by Paul YoonThe Last Place You Look by Kristen LepionkaTears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric DysonGiant Days by John Allison, Whitney Cogar, Max SarinWedding Toasts I’ll Never Give by Ada CalhounWhat we’re reading:The Lost Boys by Tim SeeleyRuntime by S.B. DivyaThe Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading by Anne Gisleson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices