This week, Liberty discusses When Breath Becomes Air, The Soldier’s Scoundrel, Ella Minnow Pea, and more great older books.

This episode was sponsored by Cheater’s Regret by Rachel Van Dyken.

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Books discussed on the show:

Amatka by Karin Tidbeck

Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory

We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory

Afterparty by Daryl Gregory

My Glory Was I Had Such Friends: A Memoir by Amy Silverstein

Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi 

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles

The Day of the Duchess by Sarah MacLean

Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins

The Soldier’s Scoundrel by Cat Sebastian

The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Bronte Wrote Her Masterpiece by John Pfordresher

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

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