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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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Dec 27, 2016 • 37min
Anticipated Books of 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Fever Dream, Always Happy Hour, Salt Houses and more of their anticipated releases of 2017.This episode was sponsored by Book Riot’s $250 Barnes & Noble gift card giveaway.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:Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, (Author), Megan McDowell (Translator)Always Happy Hour: Stories by Mary MillerThe Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead: Stories by Chanelle BenzStorm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life by Helen CzerskiPachinko by Min Jin LeeThe Refugees by Viet Thanh NguyenTell Me Everything You Don’t Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life by Christine Hyung-Oak LeeCannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill SchuttThings We Lost in the Fire: Stories by Mariana EnriquezTemporary People by Deepak UnnikrishnanThe Hate U Give by Angie ThomasSunshine State: Essays by Sarah GerardExit West by Mohsin HamidSalt Houses by Hala AlyanThe Wanderers by Meg HowreyThe Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-LesnevichStartup by Doree ShafrirSip by Brian Allen CarrThe Dinner Party and Other Stories by Joshua FerrisWhat we’re reading:The Axeman of New Orleans: The True Story by Miriam C. DavisHidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 20, 2016 • 41min
Favorite Nonfiction of 2016
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Ghostland, The Gene, Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, and more of their favorite nonfiction books of 2016.This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove and Comic Bento.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:Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin DickeyThe Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha MukherjeeYou Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe RobinsonThe Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks by Terry Tempest WilliamsShirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth FranklinOn Living by Kerry EganBlood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann ThompsonIncarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World by Baz DreisingerEverything is Teeth by Evie Wyld and Joe SumnerInvisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’s Education by Mychal Denzel SmithWhat we’re reading:Over the Plain Houses by Julia FranksWalden by Henry David Thoreau Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 13, 2016 • 45min
Favorite Novels of 2016
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Underground Railroad, Homegoing, Sweetgirl, and more of their favorite novels of 2016.This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, Comic Bento, and the Book Riot store.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:News of the World by Paulette JilesThe Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadGrace by Natashia DeónHomegoing by Yaa GyasiSweetgirl by Travis MulhauserModern Lovers by Emma StraubValiant Gentlemen by Sabina MurrayChildren of the New World: Stories by Alexander WeinstienOne-in-a-Million Boy by Monica WoodA Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLeanWhat we’re reading:Borne by Jeff VanderMeerGirls on Fire by Robin Wasserman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 6, 2016 • 36min
New Releases and More for December 6, 2016
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Undoing Project, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love, Kill the Next One, and more books.This episode was sponsored by Madison Reed, ThirdLove, and Penguin Random House Audio.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 Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds by Michael LewisWhatever Happened to Interracial Love? Stories by Kathleen CollinsKill the Next One by Federico AxatThe Ornatrix by Kate HowardA Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind by Siri HistvedtShow Me a Mountain by Kerry YoungOther Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-SmithBooks for Living by Will SchwalbeWhat we’re reading:The Princess Diarist by Carrie FisherThe Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 29, 2016 • 42min
New Releases and More for November 29, 2016
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Searching for John Hughes, The Book of Unknown Americans, The Borden Murders, and more books.This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, The Novice by Taran Matharu, and Madison Reed.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:Searching for John Hughes: Or Everything I Thought I Needed to Know about Life I Learned from Watching ’80s Movies by Jason DiamondMoranifesto by Caitlin MoranGhost Girl in the Corner by Daniel José OlderBlood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann ThompsonFull Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen IversenThe Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina HenríquezGirl Mans Up by M-E GirardThe Clancys of Queens by Tara ClancyThe Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century by Sarah MillerSee What I Have Done by Sarah SchmidtWhat we’re reading:Marlena by Julie BuntinSweetbitter by Stephanie Danler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 22, 2016 • 42min
New Releases and More for November 22, 2016
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Scythe, Eating Words, Victoria, and more books.This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, BALLS: It Takes Some to Get Some by Chris Edwards and Madison Reed.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:Scythe by Neal ShustermanBig Little Lies by Liane MoriartyVictoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire by Julia BairdVictoria by Daisy GoodwinThe Clothing of Books by Jhumpa LahiriThe Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. DanforthEating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing by Sandra M. Gilbert and Roger J. PorterThe Princess Diarist by Carrie FisherThe House at Sea’s End by Elly GriffithsThe Infinite by Nick MainieriThe Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina HenríquezA Trail Through Time: Chronicles of St. Mary’s Book Four by Jodi TaylorThe Sun is Also a Star by Nicola YoonSaving Francesca by Melina MarchettaForward: A Memoir by Abby WambachWhat we’re reading:Blood Plagues and Endless Raids: A Hundred Million Lives in the World of Warcraft by Anthony R. PalumbiThe Shadow Land by Elizabeth KostovaSins of a Wicked Duke (The Penwich School for Virtuous Girls) by Sophie Jordan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 16, 2016 • 52min
New Releases and More for November 15, 2016, Live from BRL
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Swing Time, Scrappy Little Nobody, Born a Crime, and more books.This episode was sponsored by Harper Perennial and Welcome to Nightvale.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:Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor NoahWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSwing Time by Zadie SmithFreedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. DavisNineveh by Henrietta Rose-InnesScrappy Little Nobody by Anna KendrickThe Gloaming by Melanie FinnWonderland: How Play Made the Modern World by Steven JohnsonWhat we’re reading:Coin Locker Babies by Ryu MurakamiThe Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 8, 2016 • 39min
New Releases and More for November 8, 2016
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss All Grown Up, Not Just Jane, Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil, and more books.This episode was sponsored by Madison Reed, ThirdLove, and Heartless by Marissa Meyer.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:Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil by Melina MarchettaFirst Bite: How We Learn to Eat by Bee WilsonThe Sport of Kings by C. E. MorganSlice Harvester: A Memoir in Pizza by by Colin Atrophy HagendorfNot Just Jane: Rediscovering Seven Amazing Women Writers Who Transformed British Literature by Shelley DeWeesAll Grown Up by Jami AttenbergThe Man in My Basement by Walter MosleySalsa Nocturna by Daniel José OlderWhat we’re reading:The Leavers by Lisa KoWonderland: How Play Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 1, 2016 • 37min
New Releases and More for November 1, 2016
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Pull Me Under, The Gold Eaters, Virgin and Other Stories, and more books.This episode was sponsored by No Witness But the Moon by Suzanne Chazin, Penguin Random House Audio, and Prep Dish.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:Pull Me Under by Kelly LuceVirgin and Other Stories by April Ayers LawsonValiant Gentlemen by Sabina MurrayWhere Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame by Mara WilsonThe Gold Eaters by Ronald WrightThe Queen of the Night / Edinburgh by Alexander CheeEl Paso by Winston GroomIron Dawn: The Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War Sea Battle that Changed History by Richard SnowPlaying Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud by Elizabeth GreenwoodPiercing / In the Miso Soup by Ryu MurakamiSkullcrack City by Jeremy Robert JohnsonWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithDevil in a Blue Dress by Walter MosleyWhat we’re reading:My Darling Detective by Howard NormanThe Loving Husband by Christobel KentRasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs by Douglas SmithThe Sellout by Paul Beatty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 25, 2016 • 39min
New Releases and More for October 25, 2016
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Am I Alone Here, On Living, Bruja, and more books.This show has been sponsored by FabFitFun and ThirdLove.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:Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live by Peter OrnerOn Living by Kerry EganThe Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog by Adam Gidwitz and Hatem AlyAppetites: A Cookbook by Anthony BourdainThe Sick Bag Song by Nick CaveHunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir by Carrie BrownsteinBruja by Wendy OrtizThe Alligators of Abraham by Robert KlossDeceit and Other Possibilities by Vanessa HuaWhat we’re reading:This is a Book About the Kids in the Hall by John SemleyThe Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria by Carlos HernandezDevil in a Blue Dress by Walter MosleyAmerican Salvage: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices