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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

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

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

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