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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of their favorite debut books of 2015, including Lightless, Bright Lines, and The Shore.This episode was sponsored by Mack Weldon, the DK Holiday Gift Generator, and the Book Riot Store. And sign up here for notifications about Book Riot Live 2016!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:Lightless by C. A. HigginsBright Lines by Tanwi Nandini IslamDryland by Sara JaffeSingle, Carefree, Mellow: Stories by Katherine HeinyThe Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi JacksonSpeak by Louisa HallThe Shore by Sara TaylorSorcerer to the Crown by Zen ChoThe Last Days of Video by Jeremy HawkinsHammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter by Nina MacLaughlinWhat we’re reading:American Housewife: Stories by Helen EllisIf I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of December’s new releases, including The Verdict, The Rogue Not Taken, and Drawing Blood.This episode was sponsored by Coal River by Ellen Marie Wiseman, Penguin Random House Audio, and the Book Riot Store. And sign up here for notifications about Book Riot Live 2016!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 Verdict by Nick StoneThe Rogue Not Taken by Sarah MacleanDrawing Blood by Molly CrabappleThe Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don’t Have with People You Don’t Like Doing Things You Don’t Want to Do by Sarah KnightBryant & May and the Burning Man: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery by Christopher MayStoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World by Aja RadenSophia by Michael BibleDescent by Tim JohnstonWhat we’re reading:Year of the Goose by Carly J. HallmanThree Moments of an Explosion: Stories by China Miéville Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of the books they are thankful for, including The Giant’s House, When Women Were Birds, and The Known World.This episode was sponsored by Book Riot’s Best of 2015 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:The Westing Game by Ellen RaskinThe Babysitter’s Club by Ann M. MartinThe Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCrackenSula by Toni MorrisonMy Name is Asher Lev by Chaim PotokWhen Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest WilliamsThe Known World by Edward P. JonesGetting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David AllenZazen by Vanessa VeselkaThe Sparrow by Mary Doria RussellSorcerer to the Crown by Zen ChoWhat we’re reading:The Cowboy Bible and Other Stories by Carlos Velázquez (Author), Achy Obejas (Translator)Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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