This week, Liberty discusses Pleasantville, The Haunted Bookshop, Cutting for Stone, and more great older books.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter

Pleasantville by Attica Locke

Defending Jacob by William Landay

The Verdict by Nick Stone

Paper Girls, Vol. 3 by Brian K. Vaughan, Ciff Chiang, Matt Wilson

Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon

Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson

It by Stephen King

White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

Bibliomysteries: Stories of Crime in the World of Books and Bookstores by Otto Penzler

Booked to Die by John Dunning

The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabirelle Zevin

Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley

The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley

The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami, Ted Goossen (translator)

The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee

Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn

Anno Dracula by Kim Newman

The Diary of Jack the Ripper: The Chilling Confessions of James Maybrick 

The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in the Jazz Age by Deborah Blum

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

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