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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of their favorite books featuring dysfunctional families, including Father of the Rain, Miss Entropia and the Adam Bomb, and Boy, Snow, Bird.This episode was sponsored by the Book Riot Quarterly Box.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:All Families Are Psychotic by Douglas CouplandMiss Entropia and the Adam Bomb by George RabasaFive-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History by Helene StapinskiGlory O’Brien’s History of the Future by A. S. KingFather of the Rain by Lily KingIn the Language of Miracles by Rajia HassibBoy, Snow, Bird by Helen OyeyemiMaine by J. Courtney SullivanWhat we’re reading:The People in the Trees by Hanya YanagiharaMargaret the First by Danielle Dutton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Our Spoons Came from Woolworths, Dear Mr. You, The Mad Feast, and more new releases. Recorded live at Book Riot Live 2015 in NYC!This episode was sponsored by I Gift YA.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:Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara ComynsDear Mr. You by Mary-Louise ParkerSix-Gun Snow White by Catherynne ValenteThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerYou Have Never Been Here by Mary RickertThe Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour Through America’s Food by Matthew Gavin Frank(Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer by Matthew Gavin Frank)Because She Never Asked by Enrique Vila-Matas, translated by Valerie Miles(Followed by Kevin Brockmeier fangirling. Here’s an amazing place to start.)What we’re reading:My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir by Chris OffuttThe Queen by Tiffany Reisz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Girl Who Could Not Dream, The Heart You Carry Home, Twain and Stanley Enter Paradise, and more new releases.This episode was sponsored by A Blossom of Bright Light by Suzanne Chazin and Penguin Random House Audio and FabFitFun.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 Girl Who Could Not Dream by Sarah Beth DurstThe Heart You Carry Home by Jennifer MillerTwain and Stanley Enter Paradise by Oscar HijuelosMatterhorn by Karl Marlantes(What It Is Like To Go To War by Karl Marlantes)Stoner by John WilliamsBy the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review by Pamela PaulZeroville by Steve Erickson (This is published by Europa Editions, not NYRB Classics. I got confused! – Liberty)Skylight by José SaramagoWhat we’re reading:The Deep Sea Diver’s Syndrome by Serge Brusollos(Rebecca is not sure she’s going to get any reading done this week, so here’s a cat dance party instead.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Witches: Salem 1692, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, Slade House, and more new releases.This episode was sponsored by A Blossom of Bright Light by Suzanne Chazin, Trigger Warning: Short Fiction and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman and FabFitFun.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 Witches: Salem 1692 by Stacy SchiffHunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie BrownsteinSlade House by David MitchellThe Givenness of Things: Essays by Marilynne RobinsonWe Five by Mark Dunn(Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn)Brave Enough by Cheryl StrayedHome by Leila S. Chudori (Author), John H. McGlynn (Translator)2 am at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene BertinoWhat we’re reading:What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours: Stories by Helen OyeyemiThe Witches: Salem 1692 by Stacy Schiff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Mark and the Void, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, Speed Kings, and more new releases.This episode was sponsored by the movie Room and FabFitFun.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:Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah VowellThe Mark and the Void by Paul MurrayWolf by Wolf by Ryan GraudinYou Don’t Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism by Alida NugentSpeed Kings: The 1932 Winter Olympics and the Fastest Men in the World by Andy BullThe Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan EigDeparture by A. G. RiddleClick: When We Knew We Were Feminists by J. Courtney Sullivan and Courtney E. MartinPat the Bunny (Touch and Feel Book) by Dorothy KunhardtWhat we’re reading:The Collected Fiction of Leena Krohn (out in December from Cheeky Frawg Books)Gotham Academy, Survivors’ Club Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Calf, Thirteen Ways of Looking, Mrs. Engels, and more new releases.This episode was sponsored by And West Is West by Ron Childress and FabFitFun.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:Calf by Andrea KleineThirteen Ways of Looking: Stories by Colum McCannMrs. Engels by Gavin McCreaGhostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories edited by Audrey NiffeneggerTwain’s End by Lynn Cullen(Helen Keller in Love by Rosie Sultan)Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki KimMighty, Mighty by Wally RudolphMermaids in Paradise by Lydia MilletWhat we’re reading:The Great & Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms: How One Man Scorched the Twentieth Century But Didn’t Mean To by Ian ThorntonUpright Beasts: Stories by Lincoln Michel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World, Slaughterhouse 90210, Stars Between the Sun and Moon, and more new releases.This episode was sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio and FabFitFun.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:Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories by Bonnie Jo CampbellThe Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World by David JaherSlaughterhouse 90210 by Maris KreizmanDon’t Suck, Don’t Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt by Kristin Hersh100 Years of the Best American Short Stories edited by Lorrie Moore and Heidi PitlorThe Clasp by Sloane CrosleyStars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman’s Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom by Lucia Jang and Susan McClellandFlorynce “Flo” Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical by Sherie M. RandolphWhat we’re reading:American Sweepstakes: How One Small State Bucked the Church, the Feds, and the Mob to Usher in the Lottery Age by Kevin FlynnThe Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A. N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear, The Heart Goes Last, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom, more new releases, and some spooky favorites.This episode was sponsored by Me, My Hair, and I: Twenty-seven Women Untangle an Obsession by Elizabeth Benedict and Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta.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 Heart Goes Last by Margaret AtwoodSmoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin DoughtyIn Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi ParkScream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear by Margee KerrBird Box by Josh MalermanI Remember You: A Ghost Story by Yrsa SigurdardottirGhost Summer: Stories by Tananarive DueThe Hallowed Ones by Laura BickleWhat we’re reading:The Penny Poet of Portsmouth: A Memoir Of Place, Solitude, and Friendship by Katherine TowlerEating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing by Sandra M. Gilbert and Roger J. Porter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss I Crawl Through It, The Social Sex, Walk on Earth a Stranger, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta and Entry Island by Peter May.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:Furiously Happy : A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny LawsonThe Social Sex: A History of Female Friendship by Marilyn Yalom and Theresa Donovan Brown(Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis by Alexis Coe)The Lower Quarter by Elise BlackwellHoneydew: Stories by Edith PearlmanI Crawl Through It by A.S. KingHow We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the World by Steven JohnsonWalk on Earth a Stranger by Rae CarsonMycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna WaterhouseWhat we’re reading:Queen of the Night by Alexander CheeThe Black Tongue by Marko Hautala, Jenni Salmi (Translator) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Fates and Furies, Dumplin’, The Story of My Teeth, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by The Last September by Nina de Gramont 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:Dumplin’ by Julie MurphyFates and Furies by Lauren GroffUndermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWittHalf an Inch of Water: Stories by Percival EverettThe Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada,  Ross Mackenzie (Translator), Shika Mackenzie (Translator)Cat is Art Spelled Wrong by Caroline Casey (Editor), Chris Fischbach (Editor), Sarah Schultz (Editor)Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli, Christine MacSweeney (Translator)Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer (out 9/29)What we’re reading:A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie by Kathryn HarkupThe Longest Night by Andria Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices